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...approved charities up to $100 per person. The effort raised over $500,000, with Harvard contributing $245,877 in matching funds. After Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi, the University again matched donations to eight charities up to $100 per person. All Harvard schools took in displaced students from Loyola and Tulane universities, with the College eventually accepting 36 undergraduates. When compared to the responses of other schools, Harvard’s generosity outpaces almost every one. None of our peer Ivy institutions matched donations for the tsunami, and only Yale did so for Katrina. President Summers should continue...
...universities hit by Hurricane Rita will resume classes in the next two weeks, while universities hit by Hurricane Katrina, including Tulane and Loyola, will stay closed until next semester. At Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, fallen trees have been cleared away but restoration teams are still working across campus to dry out waterlogged carpets and floors, fix Internet servers and phone systems, and repair buildings before students return to campus next Monday, according to the school’s website and an administrator there.Many Lamar students were scheduled to graduate in December, and thus the school had to create...
Confidence in Tulane’s response to Katrina began to falter after students spent four days waiting for the school to release a plan of action. Across town, Loyola had already informed its students to look into other schools and was helping them apply to other Jesuit colleges. Though Tulane has tried to keep members of the community up to date through its makeshift website and weekly online chats, parents of students have been frustrated by busy signals at Tulane’s temporary office in Houston...
Gross also noted that students have organized peer advising for the visiting students from Tulane, Loyola, and Xavier Universities and that Phillips Brooks House Association will expand its “alternative Spring Break” to include travelling to the Gulf Coast to help with reconstruction...
...said they would restrict entry to students at Tulane and Loyola Universities, while the College will process applications “on an expedited basis,” according to Kirby’s letter. SPH will accept displaced students from Tulane only...