From Deseret News archives:
Journey of the mind
How Socrates, Bernini and Sartre enriched 16 lives
She had 19 classmates that first night, including a woman who had spent four years in prison, a single mother who was once homeless and a Baha'i refugee from Iran. They had all signed on for the first-ever Venture Course in the Humanities, a program of the Utah Humanities Council. Funded by two foundations, it offered free books, tuition, child care, bus passes, college professors and eight hours of college credit. The only requirements were that the students be low-income, be able to read newspaper-level English and have a hunger to learn.
One day you finally knew/what you had to do, and began/though the voices around you/ kept shouting their bad advice /though the whole house/began to tremble/and you felt the old tug at your ankles./"Mend my life!"/each voice cried./But you didn't stop/You knew what you had to do.
And then the ending: determined to do/the only thing you could do/determined to save/ the only life that you could save.
Judy Fuwell heard those words and wept.
A decade ago, New York author and poverty activist Earl Shorris dreamed up the idea that led to Venture and 14 similar courses across the United States. Shorris, in turn, got the idea from a conversation he had at a maximum-security prison, with a prisoner named Viniece Walker.
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