PAUL SCHRAG: GOVERNMENT HAS A TENDENCY TO TURN ON IMMIGRANTS DURING TOUGH TIMES >>>

Ronald Magden isn’t so sure we’ve turned the corner when it comes to racism and what amounts to terrible treatment of immigrants in America. Those were among topics at a recent panel discussion about Japanese-American internment camps at the University of Puget Sound, where Magden was accompanied by author David Patneaude, and author and former internment camp prisoner Hiroshi Kashiwagi.

“Talking about this is difficult,” Kashiwagi told the audience, who packed the Wheelock Student Center Rotunda during the second week of March.

Read what he did say on the Weekly Volcano Web site.