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The Spring 2013 Bangladeshi Garment Factories Loomis Chaffee Vietnam’s Brain Drain Football in Africa World Bulletin Iranian Election Remembering Margaret Thatcher Bringing the World to the Island Immigrant Stories Spring 2013 / Volume 4, Number 3 From the Editor-in-Chief Contents To Our Readers: From Treasure Hunting to Story Hunting: A Meditation on History Asia Europe 5 | Safety vs. Profits: The Tragedy of 18 | A Guesthouse-Living, Bus-Boarding Pope When I was five, about stories – it’s about his story, and her story; it’s Bangladeshi Garment Factories - Catherine Choi ’16 my grandfather about a people’s story, a nation’s story, a culture’s story. -Leah Rubin ’14 would take me on History is not just a textual rendition, it is not just 18 | Sauna Summit: The Nordic Solution to the wild explorations the chapters of Foner or the theses of McPherson – it 6 | Miniskirts and Prostitutes: Global Economic Crisis through the Italian is the influences and reasons behind a nuclear threat, The Sex Trade in South Korea -Paul Nguyen ’14 countryside. I behind the Ba’ath Party; it is the dreams, hopes, -Caroline Dodson ’14 would pretend and feelings of the people involved; it is the delicate 19 | Remembering the “Iron Lady” that I was Indiana complexity of a decision, of a life. 7 | Tension on the Korean Peninsula -Pim Senanarong ’13 Jones, an agile Stories have the power to change us, to kindle -Seyun Kim ’14 and Jungyeon Lim ’14 a r c h a e o l o g i s t , an intense curiosity, a deep empathy, and an acute 21 | An Immigrant’s Story: Interviews with searching for awareness of the magnitude of a single moment. The 8 | Vietnam’s Brain Drain Aramark’s Khayriya, Fatime, Selvira, and Enver forgotten tombs voices and stories we hear can serve as our mentors, -Linh Tran ’15 -Arianna Calabrese ’13 and lost treasures, teaching us from their triumphs and their mistakes, fearing snakes, and battling off the occasional bad guy reminding us to carry on in the face of hardship, 9 | Chechnya, the Tsarnaevs, – or, in my case, the occasional stray dog. Instead of urging us to stand up for what we believe in. and a Secret Network reading about the agricultural history of Salento, we At Loomis, I have been able to explore all of these -Bobby Turner ’14 The Americas would trek through rough, summer grasses to discover stories with the same wonder and fascination as my 24 | things for ourselves. We would rummage through five-year-old self. At Loomis, I have been able to take 10 | An Interview with Dr. Long Nguyen, the Nicolás Maduro: abandoned farms to look for crumbling mosaics; we a hands-on approach to history. While I might not be Elusive and Easy-Going Vietnamese Math Teacher Son of Chávez, or Savior of Venezuela? would descend into musky crypts to look for open wearing my Indiana Jones-style hat, and while I might -Thomas Lam ’14 -Paige Mickel ’14 graves; and we would check everywhere and anywhere not be sifting through the dirt with a trowel, I have 25 | for the lost Templar treasure. been wearing a sturdy pair of glasses and a perceptive Heated Topics on the Docket: Decisions Now, take a moment to imagine (or remember) set of ears and I have been sifting through original texts of the 2013 United States Supreme Court the wonder of a five-year-old. Endless curiosity that with a curious mind. In Civil War, we dive into original Africa -Kath Kryuchkova ’13 leads to, well, endless lines of questioning. A passion texts, passionately comparing Lincoln’s very own 12 | to explore, to discover. A desire to understand, like eloquent words to Jefferson Davis’s (in my opinion) Passion and Politics at Play: Football in Africa big kids do. Those explorations with my grandfather sub-par speeches; in Art History, we learned about -Krishna Kulkarni ’13 and Ji Hee Yoon ’13 Global were unbelievably fascinating for me, and I looked Michelangelo and Caravaggio, analyzing color choice, 14 | forward to every summer when I could don my Indie angle, and subject, and then we took a trip to the Met Malian Refugee Camps - Catherine Choi ’16 27 | Challenges Still Facing hat, grab my magnifying glass, and sink my trowel into to see those paintings first hand; we research complex Women Around the World the packed dirt. situations from all angles, interviewing students, -Natasia Nabila ’16 With each outing, we took some memento to help faculty, and staff, to write and edit comprehensive us remember the experience, to add to our growing articles about intricate issues for the World Bulletin; in Middle East 28 | An Interview with Mrs. Marley Matlack, collection of antiques and artifacts. We took some U.S. History, we become our own historians – endlessly Associate Director of the Center for Global Studies memento to help truly connect us to the site and researching, investigating, probing, and analyzing to 15 | The Iranian Election -Paige Mickel ’14 to its history, because honestly, what better human write our very own – lengthy– theses. - Sam Verney ’14 connection than running the pad of your thumb At Loomis, we live steeped in history. It pervades — along the soft ridge of a 3rd century BC, handcrafted our discussion; it inspires our common goal of the 16 | A Walk in Time: The Ba’ath Party (Part II) 30 | Image Sources terracotta face? Well, as I got older, I realized that we school, our mission to “advance the development in -Yusuf Alnawakhtha ’14 were – to be blunt – grave robbers, although I still like spirit, mind and body of boys and girls drawn from 31 | Also in the News to refer to ourselves as “treasure hunters,” or rather, diverse cultural and social backgrounds and to inspire 17 | Preventing a Second Syria “history hunters.” But when I was five, history was in them a commitment to the best self and the -Cherie Yin ’15 Spring 2013 / Volume 4, Number 3 the gold ring we had uncovered, the broken indigo tile common good.” We live surrounded by our artifacts we had pocketed. It was an unchronological history of and treasures from the past, our perfectly-shined EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Arianna Calabrese ’13 things – time told by its artifacts, by its leftovers. relief sculpture of Taylor’s nose, our amalgamation My five-year-old desire to explore and to connect of brick designs on the senior path. Stories change ASSISTANT EDITORS: Kath Kryuchkova ’13 to the past never waned. But my understanding of us. But even more so do our stories define us, do our Krishna Kulkarni ’13 history has matured. Now, in its most basic definition, histories define us - they shape our characters, they Thomas Lam ’14 Sam Verney ’14 history, noun, is the study of past events. But in my inspire us to do better, to be better. definition, it is so much more than that. History is all Faculty Adviser / Copy & Layout: Rachel M. Engelke 2 3 About the Writers asia YUSUF ALNAWAKHTHA ’14 (“A Walk in Time: The Ba’ath Party, captain of the JV Soccer team, plays lacrosse, is a tour guide, and she Part 2”), born in Manama and raised in Tubli, is the resident Bahraini in traveled to the Dominican Republic with fellow Loomis Chaffee students Batchelder Dormitory. A new junior, Yusuf is a member of the Arab World in March as part of the Global Studies program. Paige has previously Safety vs. Profits: The Tragedy of Affiliation, the Math Team, Robotics Team, Model United Nations, and written about Scottish independence (Spring 2012), the reelection of Hugo the Debate Society. Previous World Bulletin articles include “Finding Peace Chávez (Fall 2012), and Kenyan democracy (Winter 2013). Paige will be the Bangladeshi Garment Factories by Leah Rubin ’14 in Nuclear Weapons” (Fall 2012) and “A Walk in Time: The Ba’ath Party, Editor-in-Chief of the 2013-14 World Bulletin. Part 1” (Winter 2013). NATASIA NABILA ’16 (“Challenges Still Facing Women Around On Wednesday, April 24, a building housing Western clients, such as Wal-Mart, Mango, and United ARIANNA CALABRESE ’13 (“An Immigrant’s Story: Interviews with the World”), is a Southeast Asian from Indonesia. The 1998 revolt in the Aramark Employees”), Bulletin Editor-in-Chief, lives in Mason Dormitory. country forced her family to escape to Singapore; hence, Nat is determined multiple garment factories in Dhaka, Bangladesh Colors of Benetton. By then, his company had moved From Vernon, Connecticut, Arianna is also a Head Tour Guide and a Peer to make a difference in eradicating prejudice and gender inequality. She collapsed, killing at least 1,100 workers. Only five into the sixth and seventh floors of the Rana Plaza, Counselor, and she serves on the student advisory committee for the is interested in reading, writing, and linguistic exploration, as well as in months after a horrendous fire at the Tazreen a new multi-use complex built by a local politician, Center for Global Studies. This is Arianna’s tenth, and final, article for playing badminton or tennis under the lazy sun. Nat made her World the Bulletin, having written about everything from Islam in America and Bulletin debut in the Winter 2013 issue with an article entitled “Loomis Fashions factory last November that killed more Sohel Rana. Occupy Wall Street to Silvio Berlusconi and Burma. Arianna will attend Makes Me ‘Whole’: Perspectives from an International Student.” than 100 people, the recent catastrophe has brought According to Dhaka city officials, Mr. Rana Georgetown University in the fall. international attention to foreign retailers’ failure to constructed the complex without first seeking PAUL NGUYEN ’14 (“Sauna Summit: The Nordic Solution to the CATHERINE CHOI ’16 (“Malian Refugee Camps” and “A Guesthouse- Global Economic Crisis”), from Hanoi, Vietnam, is a new junior at LC and improve the hazardous working conditions, as well mandatory permits from a municipal safety compliance Living, Bus-Boarding Pope”), from Seoul, South Korea lives in Harman a resident of Batchelder Dormitory.