Bradwells MiaLAW QUADRANGLE NOTES, Winter 2010: Mary Ellen (“Mia”) Porter (JD ’82) won an International Women’s Media Foundation Courage in Reporting Award for her article “Acid Girls,” about the gritty determination with which Afghan girls who were splashed with acid on their way to school returned to their classes. Even her Law School roommate, Professor Elsbieta (“Betts”) Zhukovski (JD ’82), can find nothing funny in this.TO BE HONEST, Betts and I were glad Ginger went hunting that Saturday morning, we were relieved to be rid of her for a bit. “She was thirteen?” we whispered to each other after she left, while Laney slept. What twenty-year-old man seducing a thirteen-year-old was well intentioned? What decent person thought that wasn’t sick? Young children were so often vulnerable, so eager to please, and you could see that in Ginger, in the way she adored her big brothers, breaking her arm in a boat and not blinking at the pain because she wanted to keep up with them, she wanted to belong.At the same time, we couldn’t much believe it.
