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Winter/Spring 2001 issue of Universitas: the magazine of Saint Louis UniversityT H E M AG A Z I N E O F S A I N T L O U I S U N I V E R S I T Y WII N T EE R // SS PP R II N G 22 00 00 11 By Lawrence Biondi, SJ Saint Louis University President As you can read on pages 6 to 10 of this magazine, I recently took a trip to Columbus, Ga., to join the protest of the School of the Americas, a government-run program that trains Latin American soldiers, some of whom have been implicated in severe human rights abuses. The following is an excerpt from my remarks before the main vigil of 10,000 people at the gates of Fort Benning. We live in an interesting time. The economy is soaring, yet the divide between the haves and the have-nots grows deeper and wider every day. The explosion of tech-nology is changing every facet of our culture. The American people are a divided populace who are increas-ingly cynical and apathetic about our leaders and the bitter partisan nature of governance. Do we respond by closing in, or do we open up? Do we hide and ignore, or do we seek and act? Do we shut our minds and our hearts and leave it to others to live, speak and profess the truth? It is always easier to ignore or to turn away. It is simpler...
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