Week+-+8

Select an article under any section and critically analyze it using FAIR’s FAQ. Follow the questions and make an assessment. Decide as a pair whether you consider this specific news article objective. Explain why or why not.
 * __Week 8:__**

http://www.theprovince.com/news/todays-paper/Alta+students+turned+Mexico+exchanges/2213459/story.html =Alta. students turned off Mexico exchanges= =U of A numbers unbalanced= By Cigdem Iltan, Canwest News Service
 * The article from 'The Province' BC:**

An exchange program between the University of Guadalajara and the University of Alberta is at risk because Edmonton students are hesitant to study in Mexico given the ongoing drug wars in parts of the country. The University of Guadalajara will not be able to send more students to Edmonton unless students from the U of A attend Guadalajara on exchange, said Guadalajara spokeswoman Claudia Balpuesta Leon. "I will not be able to promote the exchange nor send more students," she said in an email. "I will have to reject future candidates until the number is back to balance." People have the misconception that all of Mexico is dangerous, said computer engineering student Rogelio Rodriguez, who is at the U of A. "Only states along the border are dangerous -- that doesn't mean the whole country is dangerous," he said. Exchange students pay tuition to their home schools, and that money in turn funds incoming exchange students, said Zhi Jones, of the U of A's Education Abroad program. When the U of A accepts more students than it sends to other universities, as it has in the case of U of G, it has to use other resources to receive the international students, she said. "When the numbers are significantly out of balance, the exchanges are deemed unsustainable," Jones said. Out of the U of A's eight active exchanges with Mexican institutions, the U of G is the only school where the U of A receives more students than it sends, Jones said. "Maybe the solution would be to promote the agreement . . . to allow students from U of A to know a little bit more about Guadalajara and its university," said exchange student Luis Fernando Gutierrez Urzua. Many people Urzua encounters in Alberta don't know anything about the University of Guadalajara and some have stereotypical ideas of what life in Mexico is like, he said. "Many Canadians have asked me if I wear a big hat." © Copyright (c) The Province

**RESPONSE:**
In this news article it involves FAIR's FAQ like, -**Do stereotypes skew coverage**, the article contains that people (university student or generals) have misconception about Mexican (Mexico), people have stereotype thinking that Mexico is a dangerous place to go. Which involves some race and stereotype issues. -**There a lack of diversity**, again, the race issues.

I dont think this article is objective, because sounds like U of Alberta doesnt really put much effort on the exchange program for the U of Guadalajara, becuase lack of students from U of A attend to exchange in U of G, so they can not accept anymore student from U of G to U of A. Then if this is an issue, U of A should do something about it. In the article, one student was saying that becuase of poeple's stereotyping that Mexico is a dangerous place, therefore, that might be a reason why so lack of student do the exchange program at U of G in Mexico. Therefore, U of G students wont have chance to come to U of A because of the unbalance amount of students which is a shame and U of G students lost their chance to be in Canada. This article surely contain some race and stereotype issues.