Fresh Voices

Cindy Lange-Kubick passed along this piece from Cory Golden: Lako Tongun turned cold when he spotted the name.

It took him back to the early 1980s, when Tongun was part of a large group of Sudanese students at UC Davis.

There were maybe 60, some with families. They held parties in the game room of the Anderson Place Apartments, eating, laughing, now and then talking politics.

Sometimes an agriculture major drove up with other Sudanese students attending UC Riverside. Unlike many the other Muslims who bent the rules at the get-togethers, the ag major always waved off alcohol.

He sat in the corner. He watched. He said little, until the subject turned to Sudan.