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...ORLEANS—At the end of the week, they could say this: they had helped to lay the foundations of five homes here in the Ninth Ward. To the 10 students from Mather who worked during spring break at the construction site, that didn’t seem quite enough...
...final Sunday of their trip, they took a tour of the Lower Ninth Ward and parts of the city that had been all but destroyed. Many said the tour overturned their optimism...
Bourbon Street’s siren’s call was hard to ignore. If the students needed to witness the widely-reported destruction in the Ninth Ward, they also needed to see the legendary lane...
...night, Bunagan’s Mather House group went to Rock ‘n’ Bowl, a club with cult popularity. Alongside fellow volunteers from other schools, they bowled right next to the bar. The following morning, as usual, they worked on homes in the Ninth Ward, helping to bring hope to a place that needed it too much...
...city where you drive block after block after block, and it’s all the same. And if you drive out of the city, you drive into Mississippi and Alabama and back down to the bayou.”Morgan trailed off, as if seeing the destruction.In the Ninth Ward, a heavily flooded, poor neighborhood where several undergraduate teams worked over spring break, rusty cars had been turned upside down and rugs flung over tree branches. One porch was missing its house. On it sat a single folding chair. And the debris lay piled into mounds like primitive graves...