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...were all sitting in the UHS waiting room throwing up every few minutes for about two hours," said Lydia C. Johnson '98. "It was the greatest freshman bonding event...
...children miss out on something essential? They don't seem to think so. "Sometimes I like playing school," confides Lydia Kiefer, 6. "I'll get up in the morning, get my backpack, put some books in it, come downstairs, and sit down at my little brown table and pretend I have a teacher and other kids next to me." She pauses to think. "But I'm not so sure it would be so fun in real life...
...appalled that the U.S. Immigration Service sought to deport a Nigerian woman, Lydia Oluloro, to a country where she would not be able to protect her young daughters from a "tradition" requiring part of the children's genitalia to be sliced away ((LAW, March 21)). The U.S. government and the United Nations should mount a worldwide campaign against every form of culturally sanctioned violence involving women and girls, including genital mutilation, forced prostitution and ritual starvation, all of which are practiced by countries that receive huge amounts of aid. At the same time, we must begin to take gender violence...
...Nigerian American with daughters, I find Lydia Oluloro's assertion that deportation to Nigeria would have resulted in the inevitable circumcision of her daughters absolutely ridiculous. In Africa, the individual's wish with regard to matters affecting his or her immediate family is still supreme and is always respected, regardless of cultural and traditional pressures. Oluloro, as the mother and guardian of her children, would still have been the person to make the final decision concerning their welfare...
That does little to clarify the case. Oluloro traveled to Oregon to marry a fellow Nigerian who had a U.S. residency permit. Over the years, she says, she and the children endured beatings by her husband Emmanuel, leading to a divorce last year. Lydia, who works as a janitor and has custody of the girls, lost the right to stay in the country because Emmanuel never completed the paperwork necessary to give her legal-residency status. She says she cannot leave her children to an abusive father -- but how can she take them home to an abusive culture? Emmanuel contests...