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Columbia U janitor, 52, graduates with honors

NEW YORK — For years, Gac Fil­i­paj mopped floors, cleaned toi­lets and took out trash at Colum­bia Uni­ver­sity. A refugee from war-torn Yugoslavia, he eked out a liv­ing work­ing for the elite Ivy League school. But Sun­day was pay­back time: The 52-year-old jan­i­tor donned a cap and gown to grad­u­ate with a bachelor’s degree in classics.

May 13 2012 | Posted in AP News | Read More »

The Nittany Nightmare

Just one week ago I used this space to note a BBC report on the epi­demic of child abuse in Amer­ica which stressed the fact that only vig­i­lance and report­ing by the pub­lic can help stop the cycle of vio­lence against chil­dren. Our child pro­tec­tion ser­vices case­work­ers and police inves­ti­ga­tors do a spec­tac­u­lar job of inves­ti­gat­ing abuse after it has occurred but we per­pet­u­ate that abuse if we see the signs of it and fail to report it.

Nov 10 2011 | Posted in David Hejmanowski | Read More »

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