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...Barb Vogel's fifth-graders had just been through the Civil War. She had led her 27 pupils through tales of slavery and oppression, struggle and emancipation and how all of it changed America so long ago. But on a February day earlier this year, the class at Highline Community School in Aurora, Colo., listened in shock as their teacher read a newspaper story about a country in Africa called Sudan and the thousands and thousands of people, mostly women and children, who were being traded as slaves there. Recalls Vogel: "There was terror and disbelief in their little eyes...
...Vogel had also got her kids to explore the issue on the Internet. They found the American Anti-Slavery Group and through it the website of a Swiss-based human-rights group, Christian Solidarity International, which specializes in redeeming victims of religious oppression held in bondage. The children learned that for $50 to $100, they could, through Christian Solidarity, buy the freedom of a Sudanese slave. The group has kept meticulous records and case histories of the 4,016 people, mostly of the Dinka tribe, it has rescued so far. It takes advantage of the market to free the people...
...other members of the group's Steering Committee are Tobias B. Jacoby '00, vice president of communications and finance; S. Joon Pahk '00, vice president of spirituality; Nina S. Sawyer '01, vice president of community development and Matthew S. Vogel '01, vice president of social justice...
Matthew S. Vogel's "Family: Another Option" (Opinion, Dec. 7) argues that Harvard students are becoming too focused on careers and success to pursue the more traditional option of marriage and family. But what he does not realize is that getting married and having a family is as much a predetermined, programmed lifestyle as a nine-to-five job at a consulting firm. He describes raising children to be the finest, most meaningful way to live, but that description only disguises how typical and uninspired such a lifestyle tends...
...should be concerned entirely with making the most of our lives, finding the careers we can enjoy and securing a financial base so that if we do have families in the end, we can live with them comfortably. If Vogel is in such a rush to have kids, perhaps he should step back and realize all that he might be missing. JOSEPH N. JOHNSON