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...Whoosh and Bong” can make up for dragging your suitcase into the Littauer parking lot at 4 a.m. to go to the airport. I’m not sure what higher force decreed for our freshman Alternative Spring Break (ASB) trip to leave for Biloxi, Miss.—which had been in the direct path of Hurricane Katrina—before dawn on Housing Day. But sharing housing assignments in Chicago’s O’Hare Airport—“I’m in Eliot...
...pocket the profits. He's also teaming up this summer with Brad Guy, a researcher at the Hamer Center for Community Design at Pennsylvania State University and co-author of the new book Unbuilding: Salvaging the Architectural Treasures of Unwanted Houses, to launch a home rebuilding program in East Biloxi and Pearlington, Mississippi, that will use recycled yellow pine, heart pine and cypress to create stylish, middle-income houses. Once Palleroni's recycled furniture finds a home in those and other rebuilt homes, then maybe the only waste left will be those ugly FEMA trailers...
...despite our considerable progress, my recent experience volunteering along the Mississippi Gulf Coast has confirmed for me that our work on the racial front is hardly complete. In Biloxi, Gulfport, and throughout the entire Gulf Coast, the differences between racial groups in terms of outlook, opportunities, and outcomes are striking and dramatic. Throughout the month of January, I spent time volunteering in Biloxi, Mississippi, modestly helping this devastated Gulf Coast community redevelop, a year and a half after Hurricane Katrina...
...members of Harvard University—should volunteer our time and energy to local causes. I have witnessed firsthand the awe that the name Harvard University inspires in communities and community leaders. The name and mystique of Harvard invokes thoughts of what was previously unthinkable. For example, in Biloxi, organizations that had given up on "impossible" projects suddenly became much more invigorated about the project’s prospects just knowing that Harvard students would be volunteering their time. By offering our services, we can empower these communities and make a lasting imprint...
...Jason P. Mehta is a third-year student at Harvard Law School. In January, he volunteered at the Mississippi Center for Justice in Biloxi, Mississippi...