PAKISTANI JOURNALIST ZAFARYAB AHMED, WHO ESCAPED THE NOOSE IN HIS NATIVE COUNTRY TO COME TO COLBY, REMINDS STUDENTS THAT THE STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IS FAR FROM WON.
 Zafaryab Ahmed
 To see children working at a brick kiln, 'It's not a human situation. It's people living in caves. Children do not know what love is, they do not know what paternal affection is. It's inexplicable. Children are naked, barefooted, foul mouthed. I do not know what more to tell. And in the carpet industry--my God. You are put to sit on this weaving loom at an age when your bones are not fully grown. You become physically incapacitated. Your legs do not develop normally. All that they want are those tender, nimble fingers. -Zafaryab Ahmed in his first address at Colby, January 11.
TROUBLEMAKER, by Stephen Collins '74
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