Capitol Hill Blue
Clinton Snubs Colorado Students Who Helped Free Sudanese Slaves
Friday, June 09, 2000
By MICHAEL ROMANO
A Colorado teacher whose students have helped to free slaves in
the Sudan denounced President Clinton on Thursday for ignoring
the group's long-standing request for a face-to-face meeting.
Barb Vogel accused the president of disregarding the plight of
the Sudanese, who have been enslaved by the thousands during a
decades-long civil war that has claimed as many as 2 million
lives.
"The whole world has given its attention to this issue," Vogel
said after a press conference that featured two dozen of her
students from Highline Elementary School in Aurora, a Denver
suburb. "But not the president. Where has he been?"
Meantime, she said, it is children like her fifth-graders who
have tried to focus the world's attention on the woeful
conditions in the impoverished African nation.
The Aurora students have raised more than $50,000, beginning
three years ago with a single penny in a collection jar. The
money has been given to organizations that go to Sudan and ransom
slaves to set them free.
Vogel's students, who formed an organization called S.T.O.P.
(Slavery That Oppresses People) Club, hoped to meet with Clinton
and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to press their
concerns. She said the students sent about 1,000 letters to the
White House requesting a meeting with the president.
"We got back a mimeographed letter and a picture of his cat and
dog," said Vogel. "The president has turned his back on America's
best these children."
Clinton has been to Europe, Russia and Japan in the past week and
a half.
White House spokeswoman Elizabeth Newman said the president will
be in town Friday, when he is scheduled to meet with the
president of Mexico.
"He's been gone," she said of the president. "With regards to the
schedule, it would have been very difficult."
She said that "obviously, the president lauds the children and
their teacher for their work in promoting freedom around the
world."
The crusade has caught on with students around the world.
"We want to bring slavery to an end," said Jacob Wagner, 13, an
eighth-grader who was among the students who launched the
S.T.O.P. Club. "If we keep asking for help, maybe these people
(in Congress) won't just ignore us."
Rep. Tom Tancredo, the Colorado Republican who traveled to the
Sudan last year and has become something of a congressional
sponsor for the students, said he believes the president decided
not to meet with Vogel's group because "he'd be embarrassed by
the questions they'd ask him."
Noting that Clinton has met twice since last summer with students
from Columbine High School, adopting gun control as one of his
top priorities, Tancredo claimed the president wasn't focusing on
the Sudan crisis because it is not "politically expedient."
At a press conference, Tancredo delivered a personal appeal to
Clinton.
"The administration has repeatedly ignored this catastrophe in
Africa," Tancredo said. "So today, with the help of these
students, we bring the tragedy to Washington and America. I hope
you are listening, Mr. President."
© 2000 Scripps Howard News Service
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