OUR LIBRARY

Our library

I’m of the generation who started with the opening of this university, and in the beginning we had to accept all the problems that a new university had. One of these problems is not have a good library, I thought that when the university grew up the problems with the library would be solved, but the problems continue. We don’t have any book for our major, but the others majors like medicine have a lot of books for them without saying that the teacher have to bring their own books or we have to get it in others universities like the Unap.

The university is worried about having all the things that the medicine department needs, and this is undeniable. They always say that they’re going to bring new books for everybody, but is not true, the only thing that we have is access to a poor virtual library and this is not possible for a university that is applying for accreditation.

The problem brigs as a consequence that the students have to pay for everything that they have to read, because they have to photocopy the book that they need that are brought by their own teacher, and it raises a question… How can I get a book if my teacher doesn’t have it?

Now you can see it is not a simple issue, we always have to go to others universities to get the books that we need or just buy it. It is not possible that all the people that work here don’t worry about it and tell us lies, how the university bought books but they were stolen.

I know this problem is not going to be solved for us, but new generations deserve a good library and all the materials and books that they need for academic development.

Grapes are Great

Nature gives us a wide variety of fruits with many differents flavors, textures, and properties. I like a lot of fruits, but I strongly believe that grapes are “the gift” of nature. They are made of 90% of water, sugars, minerals, innumerable vitamins and fibers. They are one of the most helpful fruits for our health and beauty.

Grapes improve our health. Consumption of grapes activates and improves the operation of the liver and kidneys. It also prevents cancer, thanks to Resveratrol, a component of the purple grape skin. It is thought that this component can avoid the development of carcinogenic cells. The extract of seeds is helpful to avoid breast cancer and reduce cholesterol.

This fruit will also make you look gorgeous, and it can help you to mantain young skin and a beautiful body. If you have problems with wrinkles, you can mash some grapes and apply it on your skin for twenty minutes; your skin will be soft and moisturized. If you didn’t sleep well or you look tired and have bags under the eyes, you boil the leaves of the grapevine and apply this water, when cool, on your eyes. The Romans already knew about grapes’ properties and they invented “The cure of Grapes” which consists of eating only grapes during seven to nine days. It is ideal to detoxify, to lose weight, and to rejuvenate.

The last and the best characteristic of grapes is their awsome taste. You can enjoy the sweetness of the purple grapes or the little bit more acid taste of the green ones.

As you may see grapes are great. I think a lot of you will be fan of them from now on, since they help you to obtain good health and a good body, not to mention their awesome taste.

UrBaN TrIbEs

Have you ever gone downtown or to the mall during an afternoon? Probably the answer be yes, but what do you see? Yes, I knew it! A lot of groups of young people with many differents names that only they know, and the most scientific explanation is that they are Urban tribes. We can hear about it on TV or in a brother/sister conversationor even in the bus. But What do they have to do to belong to this groups? We have at some possible answers and I am suyou would like to know more about that.

Changes affect everybody, but obody realizes that is what happened with this new generation of teenagers. They are changing their physical appearances, doing some incredible things to be accepted in a group like mutilating -piercings, tatoos- some parts of their bodies, but is this sane? Some psychologists have said it's just part of their lives and some day it must be overcome by themselves.

In fact, body mutilation is not the only change that teenagers make , for example they also change their clothes, looking, in some cases, very ridiculous or funny. In some urban tribes the main objective is looking like a woman in a man's case and man in a woman 's case, being interpretated by society like homosexual movements when in some cases that has nothing to do with it.

Moreover, one of the main characteristcs of urban tribes is the music that they listen to. The other day when I was watching TV, I saw how friendships were rejected because of the music they listened to.

That was really freaky for mebut is something that is happening in our society. I know that this kind of tendency or fasion in a few years will disappear. we are asking to ourselves what is happening with our children when we did the same when we were teenagers. As I said before tendancies change with the time, affecting everyone, even us.

Paris in Iquique.

One of the richest women in the whole world is absent from searching for all the magazines. Everybody wonder what happened with this woman But nobody knew about her until now, because in an exclusive article for this newspaper we are going to tell you about the real story of Paris the richest woman in the world who went missing a few months ago.
She was a rich girl, she had everything and was one of the major celebrities of the United State, but something happened in the last weeks because she suddenly disappeared from the magazines and nobody knew about her and her family does not want talk with the journalists about her.
A few days ago a journalist from this newspaper found a mysterious blond girl in downtown asking for money and wearing a lot of clothes, but she was a peculiar girl she was almost crazy and just said a few words in Spanish.
According to her version she came to Iquique because she did not have a happy life before to arrive here. She decided to live here now after learning from her past.
After a discussion with her parents who were tired of her bad behavior, she learned the truth: she was not their biological daughter and they disinherited her after that discussion. She was sad due to all of that and decided to live by herself, far away from that environment. She took the first airplane and finally got here in this small but beautiful city.
Just a few days ago her parents were looking for her but after some days she called them and said that she wanted to live this new experience apart for them. They understood and left her alone. They stopped the searching, but nobody in the whole world knows about her and what happened during this special day.
She actually says that she likes this new life and does not want to go back to her country because here she is happy, although she has to ask for money everyday to feed herself and her new boyfriend who is drunk man. Besides that she said that for first time she has fallen in love and they already have plans to marry and have a lot of children.
A few days after of this meeting she was sent to the psychiatric in the hospital after a fight with her boyfriend in the street. Doctors said that she has a serious mental problem but she refuses to go back to her country because she said that it is better to live here than there.

Eileen Llanes.

Why is Sudoku addictive?.

Do you want to increase your mental ability? That is one of the reason that followers of this mental game have to begin to understand and learn about.
The origin of this mathematical game was in Japan and means “single number” it is similar to the traditional crossword but instead of words it use numbers. Sudoku become famous in Japan in the early 80 but just in 2005 did id begin to appear in the newspaper and from that period on Americans knew about it. The objective of this game is to fill all of the empty grid with the numbers from one to nine, but you can not repeat the numbers in the same square, row (horizontal) or column (vertical), therefore you must to be patient and use logic.
One of the reasons that people begin to play this game it is because is entertaining. This must to be the most important thought when you start with this game, the rest is just logic that you can acquired with time and patience. You do not need to be and expert in and it is for all ages.
It is prove that games like this help you to acquire ability and knowledge because you do not realize that are doing that, it is important too that children use Sudoku to learn numbers and practice mathematics in a fun way. All you need is your brain and concentration.
Sudoku is easy to get and it is simple to understand. You just need to know the numbers from one to nine. You do not need a special ability with math to be an expert in the game. Actually you can increase your abilities solving these kind of games. On the other hand, you can take with it you to any place and can start to play during the day and finish when you want.

This phenomenon now became famous in many countries through the newspaper, magazines, books and internet in the entire world. Many of the followers of different age and cultures become addicted to this mental game Sudoku stimulates your brain and math abilities.

Histories and Myths of Pampas

Histories and myths of the Pampas

There are myths, mysteries, and legends that happen in the north of Chile over the years in its desert ground. There are famous stories that the people of the north know, specially the older people. In Iquique the grandparents tell different stories about strange events that have happened throughout the years.
There is a very special story that the people of the north know the story of a woman named Alis “La Novia,” who lived in a nitrate mine called Humberstone located one and a half hour from Iquique. She was a woman from a good family and she fell in love with a man who worked for her father. In those times it was impossible for a woman of high society to fall in love with a worker, but nothing or nobody could destroy this relationship and they secretly continued their relationship for years, until the day her family discovered this romance.
After many fights the family accepted the relationship and accepted their marriage. But the family doesn’t know that Alis hid a secret, that only her better friend knew. Alis was pregnant. The wedding day arrived and everybody by waited for the bride in the church and her be loved.
When the carriage arrived with Alis at the church, she had a great smile and she looked at her future husband and she crossed the street. But lamentably a vehicle run her over in front of the church. Since then her soul cannot rest and until today she roams the highways of Pampas, causing serious automobile accidents. In front of appears any automobile dressed in her dress of bride full of blood and crying. Her image at night causes fear and an impact on the drivers.
This is one of the typical stories of the north of Chile. Some people say these stories are real and others think the opposite, but the truth is that several accidents in the desert of Iquique have ocurred, and most of the survivors say that one woman with a bridal gown, stops the car and she requests them to please they take her house because she is lost. When she gets into to the car the driver crashes and then she goes away.

Anahy Kuhnow.

Aliens in Iquique!!!

On September 19th there were calls reported to the police station. These calls were unusual because some people told the police they had seen strange objects flying over the coast of Iquique. The police didn’t publish these rare calls because they thought it was a prank. Also, this news didn’t reach the public because people were celebrating September 18th, so they thought some people just had too much to drink. So was it real? Did people see strange objects flying in the sky? Was Iquique visited by these rare beings?

The first sightings of these strange creatures were reported in Mexico. In the ‘50s, an object, like the form of a plate, crashed in a place known as Area 51. Aliens are feared because we do not know anything about them, and also because they do not look like us. They are different in a weird, creepy way. So, did these extraterrestrial beings visit Iquique the night of September 19th? They did and not only flew over the city, but landed.

These flying objects were seen by Juan de la Fuente, an old inhabitant of the city. He has pictures of these beings walking on the beach and a video tape of the UFO flying over Playa Brava beach. So it is true, Iquique was visited by these mysterious beings.

Only a few people had the privilege to see these spaceships up close. They said it was a wonderful experience because it is something that had never happened in Iquique. Now they have a fantastic story to tell to their grandchildren.

So it is real, extraterrestrial beings came and were seen in Iquique. Scientists and investigators came from all over the world and stated this event as a true extraterrestrial case. Now Iquique is officially a city visited by Aliens. So, you have to open your mind, because your home might be their next stop.

Searching for Chupacabras!!!!

Inhabitants from a little town named Camiña, located three hours from Iquique (Chile), are so surprised and spooked because they have found many dead animals and don’t know the cause of death.

During the last few weeks people have known these facts and days pass while land animals and birds continue dying. Different and strange hypotheses have arisen about the cause of death because on all the dead animals, when they have been examined, the specialists have found two little holes on their necks. Supposedly through these holes the predator sucks up all the blood leaving their inner bodies so dry. For that reason farm owners and inhabitants have different hypotheses, but the most renamed hypothesis is about an Alien named “chupacabras” who is the culprit of all the deaths.

This hypothesis emerged because some people say that they have seen an strange animal roaming this town, and one night one of these people saw the “Alien” so close and could see specifically its physical characteristics. The man said that this strange “animal” has big red eyes, a big mouth with two long fangs, four legs which are used to jump to trees and roves. It was a mixture between a big fox and dog but without tail.

In order to halt these deaths a large group of inhabitants go out at night waiting for the predator to catch it, confine it, maybe kill it, finally end the deaths of these innocent animals, and also discover if the inhabitants’ hypotheses are true.

Regretfully so far these people have not been able to catch the strange creature, who still continues killing innocent animals. Even some owners of these animals say that they have offered a big reward for people who catch, hunt, or kill this strange animal, creature, or alien.

Amazing Disappearance of Dragon’s Hill

Iquique, Chile – On the morning of October 4^th, 2007 the city of Iquique woke up without one of its biggest symbols, the amazing Dragon’s Hill. This surprising and inexplicable disappearance has caused great commotion among the community and huge chaos since the entire area has been evacuated and hundreds of families were left without their homes. There is no doubt that this day will forever remain in the mind of every citizen.

Every morning Mrs. Rosa Ramos, who lives at the foot of the Dragon’s Hill, leaves home for her work in Alto Hospicio. But the morning of October 4^th, 2007 was a different morning, “I couldn’t believe it. I thought that I was looking in the wrong direction, but then I realized that it was not there.” These are the words of maybe the first person to witness the event.

The Center of Archeology and Seismology of Mexico was called by Chilean authorities to investigate the strange phenomenon. Until now the possible causes that are being discussed aim at a weakness of the soil that supports the hill due to an underground water formation or possibly by an accumulation of energy because of prior earthquakes that have affected the northern part of Chile. In any case, it is certain that the hill was completely swallowed without leaving any evidence.

The group of specialists arrived at Diego Aracena Airport yesterday at noon and talked to us in an exclusive interview. Dr. Miguel Fuentealba, archeologist, affirms that this event has never occurred before in any other place in the world, “There is no doubt that the Dragon’s Hill has been a central character in the history of the city because it has been in Iquique for more than a hundred years. It’s a place where generations have enjoyed and lived a comfortable life. We will certainly find out what really happened.”

Dr. Guadalupe Ferreira, seismologist, also spoke to us and emphasized the fact that “citizens must be calm because this is an isolated phenomenon possibly caused by a weakness of the subterranean plates in that specific zone. Therefore, it is impossible for the weakness to expand and cause other areas of the city to collapse.”

The city mayor spoke last night and banned the access to the Dragon’s Hill and its surrounding areas until the investigation ends, “The experts will be in Iquique as long as necessary to establish the cause of the event and they will also attend a conference that will take place tomorrow at 10am in the Terrado Suites Hotel to clarify doubts and to explain important aspects related to the investigation process.” Before finishing the interview, the mayor also talked about families who lost their houses and are asking for help, “I am very concerned about the people who lost everything; I promise that there will be a solution for all of them. All I ask them is patience.”

By Rose Marie Kuschel R.

Woman gives birth to three children in public places

I will tell you this story that began in October of 1994 in Rome, Europe. Laura went there because of her work as a chef. One day a guy came into her restaurant only because they wanted to meet the great chef that this restaurant had so when she saw him she fell in love immediately. The next week he came again and asked her if she wanted to go on a date with him. At first she told him that she have a boyfriend but that was not true so the week after she told him yes. I want to tell her story because the most important thing that happened after that date is that now she is married, living in Valparaíso, and she have three children that she want you to know the strange way they came to the world. This is her weird story.
Sofia was born in 2001 in a place called “Molina” near to Curicó, Chile. When Laura knew that she was pregnant the only thing that she thought was: “what am I going to do with a kid?” because she like travel all over the places and her husband is like a little boy too. But as time passed her thoughts changed. She told her husband that they would be parents and he just smiled. As I said before, she likes to travel so they went to the south of Chile with some friends because they wanted to make a video surrounded by nature and the doctor told her that her first baby would born a month later so she decided to go. When Sofia was born she was taking a bath in a lake, she felt a little pain and she thought that the pain that she felt was because she had eaten a lot of chocolate, she decided to get out and she realized that her little baby was coming. Her friends called an ambulance and they waited and waited and the ambulance never get there, her little girl was born there without any doctor or any medicine, just imagine how that was.
Her second child, Felipe, also was born in a place without any doctors, nurses, or medicine, he was born in a helicopter. She was in France because she wanted to see the Eiffel tower, a friend of them who has six helicopters took them and they went there. She doesn’t know what happened to her but her son just was born there and her daughter told her: “Mom why did you have a baby?” she didn’t know what to tell her. She never saw the Eiffel tower because of Felipe.
Then came her third boy, Benjamin, and guess what? He also was born in a strange place. Her husband, Sofia, Felipe, and Laura decided to move to Chile so the place that they chose was Valparaiso. They bought the tickets and took the plane to Santiago de Chile. She was playing with Sofia when she started to feel really strange and she thought, “please Benjamin don’t born here!”. Later the pain went away and nothing happened. They arrived in Santiago and they stayed there for one week because her husband wanted to see the city because he is Australian. Three weeks later they went to Valparaiso and one day they decided to make some pizzas. They went to a supermarket and when she was buying cheese she had her third baby there because the supermarket is located far away from the hospital.
I write her story because I just want you to know how her three babies were born and she doesn’t know were her fourth child is going to born because she is pregnant again. She is 8 months pregnant and next month she has planned a trip to Nicaragua Falls and nobody knows what is going to happen. The only thing that she is sure of is that she is really happy with her family.