Here is another non-religious initiative. See
https://secure.ga3.org/08/UCF_Katrina_Relief
Bruce R
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Peg Griffin" <Peg.Griffin@worldnet.att.net>
To: "'eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity'" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 2:58 PM
Subject: RE: [xmca] Hurricane Katrina-LSU Student Relief Fund
> Thanks for that info, bb.
> I add that to Ayhan Aytes' concern and the fed gov responsibility: The
> "faith based initiative" move of the last half dozen years have become the
> normal. The call for volunteers by the Alabama state government directed
> people to a government sponsored site to sign up under faith based
> initiative groups. Maybe an indictment for malfeasance or criminal
> negligence will show that "privatization" into "faith based initiatives"
> added layers and mazes to the government response, making a second assault
> on people in duress.
> Along those lines, A CBS reporter, asked by the anchor why Bush's trip to
> the gulf did not include a landing in the major disaster points in New
> Orleans, says, "They'll tell us its security but you never know what it
> really is." Right on network TV, a staid reporter speaking from DC said
> it
> out loud.
> Peg
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On
> Behalf Of bb
> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 6:25 AM
> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> Subject: RE: [xmca] Hurricane Katrina-LSU Student Relief Fund
>
> Not to distract from immediate responses to Katrina, but to indicate the
> need to think and act over multiple timescales, through multiple avenues,
> here's acouple of links, indicating that (1) these kinds of storms were
> not
> only predicted, but are expected to continue, and that (2) the white house
> won't do anything about the underlaying cause.
>
> The links between hurricanes and climate change
> http://www.ucsusa.org/global_environment/global_warming/page.cfm?pageID=1529
>
> Global Warming Negotiations Must Move Forward Without the United States
> http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release.cfm?newsID=443
>
> bb
>
>
>> Peg,
>>
>> The MIT opened in its home page the following web page:
>>
>> Contribute Ideas for Hurricane Katrina Recovery
>>
>> https://alum.mit.edu/comments/View.dyn?id=363
>>
>> There, 2 people wrote:
>>
>> Darcy 1991 Thursday September 1, 2005 7:17pm
>>
>> MIT should consider letting students from Xaxier, Tulane and other
>> schools
>
>> in for a term while New Orleans is underwater.
>>
>> Other schools including Penn and Georgia State are making such offers.
>>
>>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>> ----
>> Tiffany Kosolcharoen 2006 Thursday September 1, 2005 6:47pm
>>
>> At the University of Pennsylvania, my sister said qualified
>> Philadelphia-area students enrolled in universities at the hurricane
>> stricken areas have the opportunity to take fall semester classes at
>> Penn.
>
>> Faculty will also be offered a paid leave to volunteer.
>>
>> Penn's leadership in extending admission to displaced students, whose
>> tuition will go towards rebuilding their New Orleans universities, is a
>> paragon to follow.
>>
>> _____________________________________________________
>>
>> Tulane's president keeps an ongoing diary on the webpage of Tulane
>> www.tulane.edu
>>
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>> David D. Preiss
>> home page: http://pantheon.yale.edu/~ddp6/
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