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Some had gutted homes over spring break. Others had worked with New Orleans natives to create a rebuilding plan for the rest of the community. Twenty-eight students from across the University who had spent breaks volunteering in Louisiana and Mississippi gathered for the first time yesterday night for “Rebuilding The Gulf Cost: What Can We Do To Help?” Their ideas reflected the differences in their volunteer experiences. Some undergraduates who had helped film oral histories laid out plans for a policy group at the Institute of Politics. S. Margaret Spivey...
...Horowitz will direct a year-long project to scan the Milky Way for light signals sent by extraterrestrial life using a new optical telescope at the Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Mass. The telescope, which was dedicated in a ceremony Tuesday, is the largest optical telescope east of the Mississippi, and is the first of its kind to be devoted entirely to the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), according to the Planetary Society. “It’s overwhelmingly likely—a certainty—that there’s other life in our galaxy...
...Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, though, quickly took a turn for the worse. Two white volunteers from New York and one black Mississippian were shot and killed inside of their car near Philadelphia, Miss...
Ellen Lake ’66 and her boyfriend Peter Cummings ’66, both Crimson editors and reporters, were also volunteering in Mississippi that summer. While she says she was shaken by the news of the murders, Lake still felt that danger was distant. It was only when she and a few friends, both black and white, drove down to a civil rights advocacy conference in Atlanta, Ga. the following spring that she began to sense how hostile things had become in the south...
...brought to him by friends.Those items are the casualties of the hurricane. Though Katrina came and left seven months ago, the aftermath is still apparent. In this neighborhood, homes sag in the middle, inside mold climbs up the walls, spreading outward in black splotches. The waters from the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain pooled in the nooks of cabinets and other hidden places. Worse are the silent, empty homes filling so many neighborhoods. Sometimes, from the skeleton of a house, a homeowner wearing a surgical mask quietly appears. But more often than not there is no one at all.The city...