In this instance, the many storm stories of "glow in the dark" students serve as testament to their resiliency potential.
The auditorium, which was beautiful in its heyday, is now decrepit and dark; students were locked out after the music and theatre departments, who once managed the space, were cut.
Through explorations involving oxygen and carbon dioxide sensors, with plants in the light and plants in the dark, students consider how plants acquire the materials for growth and energy and use these ideas to construct their own definitions for food.
The police also arrested two dark-skinned students who were outside the fenced-in field.
The Web site of the Yonkers Public Schools neatly sums up a two-decade battle over desegregation here with a drawing of light- and dark-skinned students standing beside a tree of knowledge.
Temporary floodlighting will turn the raw, stained concrete into something ethereal after dark, while students record every crumbling pillar and the rust on steel rods which have started to protrude from the flat decks.
It's like he's on the side where everything's all light and happy, and then you look where the Devil is, on the other side, and it's darker," a student named Erica Crump ("all over the place"; surgery), who was wearing polka-dotted high heels, said.
As we listened, the woman who was showing the videos interjected, in heavily accented English, "It was very dark, even the students couldn't see who was shooting.
"Put simply, today is another dark day for students under the coalition government," said the union's president, Simon Renton.
How do I express the complexity of the emotions I feel when I'm huddling in the dark with my students, thinking about what it would take for all of us to make it out of the building alive in a real version of the same situation?
I sat in my four-berth compartment with a soldier in a dark uniform, a student of about twenty-two, and an old man with a long chin beard, wearing traditional Turkmen dress — a cylindrical black lambskin hat and a long brown cloak over a smock, one of those national costumes which seem eternal and comfortable everywhere, in all seasons.
