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But it's not just physicists whose work provokes strong and often irrational fear, according to Robin Williams, director of the Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation at the University of Edinburgh. He points out that the millennial anxiety about scientific and technological breakthroughs predates particle physics...
"This is unequal, institutional discrimination and a denial of government protection at its clearest," Williams added.
As for actions that the government could take to make New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf safer, Williams asked why the government wasn't doing more to improve the levees.
"I visited the Lower 9th Ward a couple of months ago with some friends," Williams said. "It is despicable and a shame to see that in the Lower Ninth Ward, an area with predominantly poor African-Americans, there are weak, seven-foot levees."
Both Martin and Williams called for students to make donations to national organizations like Salvation Army and the American Red Cross, as well as local New Orleans organizations like the Lower Ninth Ward Homeowners Association and the Lower Ninth Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development.