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...disrupted education is all too often a terminated education, and so Harvard is helping to ensure that well over a hundred students receive their diplomas on time. The Extension School is also offering tuition-free, AP-level courses to displaced high school students who relocated to the Boston area. Katrina??s curse should not follow any student through the coming years, as it would if they were forced to forgo education this fall...
Various parts of Harvard are also looking for other ways to help Hurricane Katrina??s victims. Harvard School of Public Health’s Harvard Humanitarian Initiative is formulating plans to deploy some of Harvard’s public health specialists to areas threatened by every manner of disease. The Graduate School of Education may try to find solutions to the problems raised by Katrina??s destruction of K-12 education facilities. These efforts are also incredibly heartwarming. Any chance for Harvard’s crème de la crème collection of experts...
...responsibility for our proximate care and service is the responsibility of our elected local government, not George W. Bush. Even in an emergency, the immediate responsibility for civilian lives rests with local governments which are supposed to “hold the line” until help arrives. In Katrina??s case the local and state officials were completely, entirely, and irreversibly overwhelmed from the very start of the disaster, creating the power vacuum that was quickly filled by all of the darkest elements of human nature...
While a final body count may not be available for months—if ever—experts predict that Katrina??s greatest human and economic toll will be on members of the lower-income black community...
...says he remains doubtful, though, as to whether the media coverage has portrayed accurately the racial aspect of Katrina??s impact...