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From Nora: This past weekend I was able, along with any other interested ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ies, to get an up close look at the issues, music, and people of a country not often discussed: Iceland.

I admit, freely, that I’m not generally up on my Icelandic culture, news, and happenings… although I was totally aware when, this past fall, they entered a state of extreme economic crisis. But, it was just Iceland, right? Well, in the growing state of economic concern that the United States now resides, I find it refreshing to be able to really understand the issues and results of Iceland’s economic troubles. And how did I do this, you ask? My four favorite letters : W-R-B-C

The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Radio station, WRBC, brought Icelandic band FM Belfast to perform a free concert this past Saturday night for the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ community. A totally great band that I would never have discovered were it not for the WRBC, the four fashionable Icelandic rockers also participated in a symposium on Saturday, similarly open to the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ community, in which they discussed what’s ACTUALLY going on in Iceland ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½â€™ own Associate Politics Professor Aslaug Asgeirsdottir, also of Iceland, providing two contrasting but informed points of views.