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Students Answer the Call for WXXI, Rwanda Tonight


Nineteen students from MCC and Brighton High School will be answering calls to WXXI-TV tonight, Oct. 24 from 8:30 – 11:30 pm. Tune in to watch the PBS documentary “Ghosts of Rwanda” which will air at 9 pm in honor of United Nations Day. To support WXXI’s fundraising efforts and promote the 2005 Human Rights Series, students will be taking pledges to WXXI in exchange for tickets to Romeo Dallaire’s Nov. 9 evening presentation—the final event in the 2005 Human Rights Series at MCC sponsored by the Holocaust Genocide Studies Project and Brighton Campus Activities Board.

Student volunteers include Danielle Akins, Owen Arthur, Sam Bradley, Nico Calabrese, Claire Coombs, Sarah Drew, Jeremy Konar, Hadar Koter, Eric Lyman, Jose Mitaynes, Jenelle Mocniak, James Reeves, Carl Ross, David Schneeberger, Tammy Seidberg, Laura Seidberg, Shannon Stewart, Stephanie Tobin and Amanda Wood.

PBS FRONTLINE
Ghosts of Rwanda
Monday, October 24, 9:00pm
FRONTLINE marked the 10th anniversary of the 1994 Rwandan genocide with a documentary chronicling one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century. In addition to interviews with key government officials and diplomats, the two-hour program presents groundbreaking, eyewitness accounts of the genocide from those who experienced it firsthand: from Tutsi survivors who recount the horror of seeing their family members and friends slaughtered by neighbors and co-workers; to the diplomats on the scene who struggled to convey the severity of the crisis to the superiors in Washington; to the UN peacekeepers who were ordered not to intervene. Through these accounts, FRONTLINE illustrates the social, political and diplomatic failures that enabled the slaughter of 800,000 people to occur unabated and unchallenged by the global community.

Rosanna Condello
Public Affairs
10/24/2005