Law professor explains poverty
Andy Foust / The Dartmouth Mari Matsuda, the first tenured Asian-American law professor in the country, used personal anecdotes to illustrate the unfavorable conditions of America's poor, citing numerous problematic experiences with the public school system, in a speech given in Dartmouth 105 on Wednesday afternoon. At public schools across the country, Matsuda said that everyday children go to school hungry because their parents are sleeping "in a haze of drug or alcohol abuse." She insisted that not enough is being done to fix this issue. Matsuda, who is a professor at Georgetown University's law school, referred to her child's public school in Washington D.C., where, after five years of petitioning for new windows, the school received windows that were too small. "These things don't happen at Dartmouth," Matsuda said.
