|
it's 8 pm.
|
1 |
|
the multi-million dollar
|
2 |
|
campus is deserted.
|
3 |
|
the students have retired
|
4 |
|
to their individual caves,
|
5 |
|
to their computers and video games.
|
6 |
|
|
|
|
a few have ventured to the
|
7 |
|
multi-floor student union
|
8 |
|
complete with food court
|
9 |
|
to hear a panel of the university's
|
10 |
|
professors discuss darfur
|
11 |
|
for extra credit in that
|
12 |
|
8 am pre-requisite class they
|
13 |
|
neglect to attend on
|
14 |
|
a weekly basis.
|
15 |
|
|
|
|
"it's a rather complicated
|
16 |
|
issue. but, yes, that's correct:
|
17 |
|
2.5 million have been displaced.
|
18 |
|
many are without sufficient
|
19 |
|
food or shelter,"
|
20 |
|
explains an aging history prof,
|
21 |
|
as he points to the computer-
|
22 |
|
generated map projected across
|
23 |
|
his grey hair and wrinkled face.
|
24 |
|
|
|
|
in his british accent,
|
25 |
|
a poli sci prof carefully states,
|
26 |
|
"well i hesitate to
|
27 |
|
call it a genocide,"
|
28 |
|
as he shrugs his shoulders
|
29 |
|
and slowly exposes his palms.
|
30 |
|
|
|
|
"thanks for coming everyone.
|
31 |
|
you can help yourselves
|
32 |
|
|
|
|
to cookies in the back."
|
33 |