Nick Clooney urges Lexington Catholic students to do something about Darfur
By Raviya H. Ismail
HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER 

Speaking to about 200 students at Lexington Catholic High School on Thursday, Nick Clooney implored them to get involved in stopping the genocide in Sudan's Darfur region. He encouraged them to contact their representatives in Congress. "But don't call them once. Bug them," Clooney said. He then asked what the students were doing for Darfur. The former Cincinnati television news anchor and his son, actor and director George Clooney, visited the region for five days in April. A group of Lexington students contacted Nick Clooney in September and asked him to talk about the issue at their school. "It was going to take someone very influential to get their attention," said one of the students, Michelle Payne, 17, a senior. Clooney said Lexington Catholic was the 48th university or school at which he has spoken about Darfur. Hundreds of thousands have been killed in the conflict between Africans and Arabs in the Darfur region. (kentucky.com)