After writing about global activism, first-hand work proves struggling.
For the past three years as I’ve studied journalism, my focus has always leaned toward foreign news and humanitarian aid. As I found out this week, it is much harder to go out and try and fix one of the infinite problems that exist in the Third World.
One family’s personal connection to adoption offers insight into Haitian controversy
It was winter break, and my mother had just gotten home from work. She sat down on the couch and let out a large sigh. My father and I both looked at her rather puzzled and figured she had a hard day at work. She went on and spoke, “So, how would you guys feel if we fostered a Haitian child?” My mother, a social worker at the adoption agency Children’s Choice, received a mass e-mail a few days after the earthquake.
With retrial, Newark continues to remember Lindsey
James Cooke who was previously found guilty of Lindsey Bonistall’s murder, was granted a retrial for February 2011. The legal proceedings that have been going on since the original case in 2007 have taken a great financial and emotional toll on the Bonistall family.
Participation a must if university is to make changes
The third annual Blue Hen Poll will begin this month. Faced with another opportunity to voice our opinions democratically as a student body, the importance of participation and honest response is greater than ever. Until the creation of the poll, students did not have the opportunity to share their feelings in such an organized manner.