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...Harvard ended up matching $245,877 of donations to a variety of charities. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the University again offered to match donations. Although the exact numbers have yet to be released, preliminary indications suggest that donations will exceed the amount for the tsunami relief effort. Offering a donation matching program after these two catastrophes was the right thing for the University to do. Although Harvard’s primary mission is educational and academic, Harvard is also a community of nearly 35,000 and an employer of over 15,000, making it the fifth largest employer...
...federal government cannot afford to foot the entire bill for reconstruction and relocation projects related to disaster relief. I propose that all federal funding for the war in Iraq be diverted to the hurricane-recovery effort. Then the money needed to pay for the war would come from members of the Bush Administration, Congress, private citizens and corporations who supported (and in many cases profited from) the invasion of Iraq. Paying for the continuing occupation of Iraq with private funds would allow the hawks to support a cause they believe in and at the same time free up more federal...
...know what it means to miss New Orleans,” Vinson said in opening remarks. “Most of us don’t know how it feels to be forced to your rooftop and be stranded for days....Though the initial disaster has passed, the real relief work has yet to begin.” Perry Tsai ’07, whose home in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie was badly damaged, led the Harvard LowKeys in an a capella arrangement of Des’ree’s “You Gotta...
...wide after an extended period of rain,” Bleszynski wrote. “They said there is nothing that can be done to fix the problem at this point.” She wrote that UOS promised to send people with mops and buckets to provide temporary relief, but that more serious building repair problems would be fixed after the rain subsided. Bleszynski, who has lived in Kirkland for more than three years, wrote that she could not recall that leaking had ever been a problem before. Hopkins, who has lived in Currier for 16 months, wrote that...
...chance to win the game at the end of regulation, but Mroz was picked off in the endzone by defensive back Julian Ahye to send the game into overtime.Borda threw for 333 yards and two touchdowns before leaving the game and Threatt completed all five passes he attempted in relief. Rath had 65 yards rushing for Lehigh.Mroz finished 34-for-52 for 309 yards and three touchdowns—two to Todd Feiereisen—but also threw two interceptions...