Latin America at the Tipping Point This young man is one of the 21.2 million people who live in Mexico City, the largest metropolis in the Western hemisphere. Today, Latin America is the most highly urbanized region in the world. Now it must find a way to curb the gaping inequalities that exist within its cities. The photo was taken in 2011 by Chris Cavaliere, a freelance photographer in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Read more about Chris and his work on page 19. p. 3 Schoolcraft College International Institute International Agenda Vol. 11, No. 2 September 2012 International Institute (SCII) Published once per semester by Schoolcraft College the International Institute (SCII) 18600 Haggerty Road Livonia, MI 48152-2696 Editorial Committee: http://www.schoolcraft.edu/scii Chair: Randy K. Schwartz (Mathematics Dept.) Sumita Chaudhery (English Dept.) The mission of the Schoolcraft College International Helen Ditouras Gordy (English Dept.) Institute is to coordinate cross-cultural learning Wayne Glass (Director of Grants) opportunities for students, faculty, staff, and the Linda Vesely-Gutierrez (Sociology Dept.) community. The Institute strives to enhance the Josselyn Moore (Anthropology/ Sociology Depts.) international content of coursework, programs, and other Padmaja Nandigama (Psychology Dept.) College activities so participants better appreciate both the Sandy Roney-Hays (Anthropology/ Sociology Depts.) diversities and commonalities among world cultures, and better understand the global forces shaping people’s lives. Karen Schaumann-Beltrán (Sociology Dept.) Anita Süess Kaushik (French/ German/ Italian Depts.) SCII Administrative Director: Cheryl Hawkins (Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences) e-mail: [email protected] voice: 734-462-4400 ext. 5290 SCII Faculty Co-Chairs: fax: 734-462-4531 Josselyn Moore (Anthropology/ Sociology Depts.) Helen Ditouras Gordy (English Dept.) 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She has been writing and publishing Chinese-language poems, short stories, and The two poems here were inspired by the popular revolt in Egypt essays for more than 40 years, some of them under the pen-name Si Li. In 1998, she began writing poetry in that toppled Pres. Hosni Mubarak on February 11, 2011, an English, some of which has appeared in two chapbooks important part of the broader “Arab Spring”. Both poems appeared in Duck Prints in the April Snow. from March Street Press (Greensboro, NC): One Tenth of a Rainbow by the Setting Sun (2005) and Duck Prints in the Born and raised in the harbor city of Keelung, Taiwan, Sarolina April Snow (2012). Sarolina is also the facilitator for a completed a B.A. and M.A. in history and U.S. history at Fu Jen poetry writing group, Your Poetry Group, which meets University (Taipei), then came to the U.S. in 1973 and earned an regularly at the Plymouth, MI, District Library. M.A. in U.S. history at the University of Notre Dame. After moving to Michigan in 1980, she and her husband raised two daughters, and she later taught for more than a decade at Wayne County Chinese Language School.