2008 Woodie Awards
Darfur: A Genocide We Can Stop
Brittany Lacey
Issue date: 4/19/07 Section: News
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With the Darfur conflict still a major issue in the world, the SHU community is joining the fight to put a stop to this ongoing genocide.
In the past few weeks on campus, there have been lectures and cookouts with the goal of raising money for Darfur refugees and spreading awareness to the uniformed community.
Recruiting students for the fight against genocide, Dr. Lauren Kempton of the History Department enlightened her Multi-Cultural Education class about the conflicts that were defined as genocide by the United Nations a year ago. She not only informed her students about the continuing armed conflict of Darfur and the brutal plan of three men in the Sudanese national Government, but also educated students on what people are doing to try to stop it.
In addition to the 500,000 people that have been killed, 2.5 million refugees have been displaced in neighboring camps, she said.
Kempton said that her goal was to get the point across to her class that the conflict at Darfur is genocide and that the world has basically been sitting back and doing.
"The world has just not learned its lesson," said Kempton when referring to the Rwandan Genocide.
At her class, Kempton passed out pieces of colorful oak tags that held newspaper clippings and pictures on it that showed the devastation that is occurring in Darfur today.
Nicole Brewer, senior, Fairfield, said that she wasn't aware of this genocide before Dr. Kempton's class and will take more interest in the issue.
"Dr. Kempton made this class fun by having us wear pajamas and joking around with us, but also informed us of the important urgency of this issue," said Brewer. "She knew how to get us to really understand why this is such an important issue, by saying things like; 'when rape is the weapon, the wounds never heal."
Brewer said she thought her lecture was very powerful.
Along with making the students wear pajamas to class, Kempton also had her students bring $6 each.
In the past few weeks on campus, there have been lectures and cookouts with the goal of raising money for Darfur refugees and spreading awareness to the uniformed community.
Recruiting students for the fight against genocide, Dr. Lauren Kempton of the History Department enlightened her Multi-Cultural Education class about the conflicts that were defined as genocide by the United Nations a year ago. She not only informed her students about the continuing armed conflict of Darfur and the brutal plan of three men in the Sudanese national Government, but also educated students on what people are doing to try to stop it.
In addition to the 500,000 people that have been killed, 2.5 million refugees have been displaced in neighboring camps, she said.
Kempton said that her goal was to get the point across to her class that the conflict at Darfur is genocide and that the world has basically been sitting back and doing.
"The world has just not learned its lesson," said Kempton when referring to the Rwandan Genocide.
At her class, Kempton passed out pieces of colorful oak tags that held newspaper clippings and pictures on it that showed the devastation that is occurring in Darfur today.
Nicole Brewer, senior, Fairfield, said that she wasn't aware of this genocide before Dr. Kempton's class and will take more interest in the issue.
"Dr. Kempton made this class fun by having us wear pajamas and joking around with us, but also informed us of the important urgency of this issue," said Brewer. "She knew how to get us to really understand why this is such an important issue, by saying things like; 'when rape is the weapon, the wounds never heal."
Brewer said she thought her lecture was very powerful.
Along with making the students wear pajamas to class, Kempton also had her students bring $6 each.
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