by Christine Fernando | 12 Dec 2019 | Contest winners, Indiana University, Student Posts, United States, Youth Voices
Immigrants can struggle to work as professionals in the U.S. But there’s no quick fix to “brain waste,” which can punish the economy and migrants. (Photo provided by Uthpala Amarasinghe) This piece tied for first prize in News-Decoder’s...
by Evan Wright | 1 Apr 2019 | Asia, Human Rights, Indiana University, Student Posts, Youth Voices
Philippine President Duterte’s war on drugs has killed thousands of citizens extra-judicially. Can the country still be called a democracy? Filipino Dennis David (center) holds a picture of his son, who was a victim of a drug-related killing, as he attends a...
by William Mulloy | 13 Feb 2019 | Americas, Indiana University, Student Posts, United States
The plight of these “Lost Boys” didn’t stop after they escaped danger. They’re U.S. citizens today but wrestle with what it means to succeed in America. Sudanese refugee Kuol Deng laughs as he explains how he watches Western movies with his...
by Elaine Monaghan | 21 Dec 2018 | Indiana University, Journalism, Media Literacy, Personal Reflections
Journalists practice a dangerous craft and now are accused of peddling fake news. With the world facing annihilation, is it worth plying that trade? Photographer Shah Marai, among several Afghan journalists killed in a suicide bombing, is buried in Afghanistan, 30...
by News Decoder | 6 Dec 2018 | Environment, Friends Seminary, Indiana University, King's Academy, Thacher School
By Joey Bowling Green roofs, sea walls, electric cars, new shower heads, solar panels — schools and local authorities are resorting to a vast range of strategies to reduce greenhouse emissions and brace for the potentially devastating effects of climate change....
by Austin Faulds | 16 Nov 2018 | Indiana University, Student Posts, United States
Two survivors of a mass shooting at a U.S. high school in Parkland, Florida urge youth to work for change, saying journalism can make a difference. Throughout the last century, American journalist and activist Marjory Stoneman Douglas fought for conservation, civil...
by Alex Hardgrave | 10 Oct 2018 | Indiana University, Student Posts
Key U.S. elections take place next month. This week university students scrambled to boost participation of young voters, which is historically low. (Video by Austin Faulds) Students criss-crossed Indiana University’s campus in the United States this week, clipboards...
by Christine Fernando | 2 Jul 2018 | Americas, Asia, China, Education, Indiana University, Personal Reflections, Student Posts, United States, Youth Voices
Chinese students flaunting luxury cars and designer clothes fuel a stereotype that ignores the harsh reality for many compatriots on U.S. campuses. Chinese high school exchange students act out skits during their orientation near Ann Arbor, Michigan, 29 August 2017...
by News Decoder | 21 Jun 2018 | Americas, Education, Indiana University, Student Posts, United States, Youth Voices
By Emily Isaacman After the 2016 presidential election, Tom Lewis, interim director of the Intensive English Program at Indiana University, said his class of foreign students felt amused, not concerned. “I think they feel that their experience here has been very...
by News Decoder | 31 May 2018 | Europe, Indiana University
(This story has been corrected to make clear, in the fourth paragraph, that it was Shushkevich who fell victim to an anti-corruption drive, and not Lukashenko, who was a former state farm boss.) By Elaine Monaghan Twenty-one years ago, I learned the true meaning of...