President's Page

Abstract

I moved to the United States from Russia half of my lifetime ago and became a naturalized citizen 15 years later. The naturalization ceremony was a moving experience. The largest auditorium of Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, was filled with a thousand people from 90 different countries. I could not help admiring my newly adopted country, which was opening its doors to people of so many diverse backgrounds while asking them for allegiance not to the ruling party or the ethnic majority but to the Constitution, which equally protects the rights of everyone.