The Class Nerd

As the situation in Iran extends beyond the attention span of the U.S. Media, it is important to remember that people are suffering greatly for things that we take for granted.

A devastating read:

It was on one such night. A 19-year-old boy was sitting in a dormitory room, quietly poring over those same books, the way he did most nights away from home, the way he did every night during exam season. Earlier, at around 10:30 p.m., an officer had come knocking on their doors. The police would only protect them if they kept quiet, he had said. If the students said as much as a word, he warned, they would do nothing to help them.