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Intolerance on CampusLee A. DanielsAfter taping the poster announcing the spring activities of the black student association to his door in Wright Hall, Timothy Rey had gone to sleep around one o’clock that Saturday morning, his freshman year at the University of Indiana at Bloomington.When he opened his dormitory-room door at nine o’clock, heading for breakfast, only charred fragments of the poster remained.
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Faces of the Anguished Middle EastA photo essay by James LukoskiAPF Fellow James Lukoski has made several trips to the Middle East, focusing on Israeli-Palestinian issues. These photographs illustrate some of the tensions in the West Bank and Jerusalem and were taken before the U.S. declared war on Iraq.
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Importing Girls to Integrate a Connecticut Public SchoolCharlise LylesRidgefield, CT-The cute Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx perched atop her bunk bed in a boarding house and pondered her ambivalence toward this affluent, mostly white town where she attends school.
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Forging Controversy: Polluting the Amazon Rain Forest with Factories, Old and NewMac MargolisAcailandia, Brazil-On an August day in the Amazon, when the earth is brown and parched, you can smell this sprawling frontier settlement long before you arrive. Even as the train heaves towards the distant stop, the acrid aroma of charcoal is every where, invading nostrils, clinging to clothing, and even impregnating the clapboard hulls of the shops and homes that flank the main road to town. The skyline is smudged in a permanent dusk of wood smoke and dust, lit only by a ruby moon and the winking blue neon sign of the Santa Maria hotel.
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The New Enemy in GuatemalaMichael MassingThe signs are visible everywhere in Guatemala. Newspapers carry frequent accounts of grisly execution-style murders. Immigration authorities report a surge in the entry of Colombian nationals. Deluxe apartment buildings and office complexes rise dramatically on the outskirts of Guatemala City. A newly chartered bank in Coban, 70 miles north of the capital, is doing a brisk business despite not having formally opened its doors to the public.
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Forcing the Young into Nursing HomesJoseph P. ShapiroJeff Gunderson’s voice is choked with worry. He is about to reenter the place he calls "the concentration camp." It is a nursing home, one of two where Gunderson, who has cerebral palsy, was sent from the time he was 18 until he turned 27.
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