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March 1, 2006
HURRICANE RELIEF EFFORTS
The Southwestern University community continues its outreach to persons affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita:
 APPROVED ABSENSES FOR VOLUNTEERING
In order to support faculty, staff and students in their efforts to provide assistance through various organizations offering relief support, Southwestern University is authorizing up to two days of paid leave for staff members and up to two days of approved absences from classes for faculty and students. Staff members must schedule their leave time through their supervisors. Faculty should coordinate their absences with their respective department chairs. Finally, students should work with their respective faculty members to ensure that all work missed during their absence is completed in a satisfactory manner. Students should not plan to be absent from classes on days when exams are scheduled.
CAMPUS SUPPORT
SOUTHWESTERN STUDENTS TO HELP REBUILD GULF COAST DURING SPRING BREAK
Students from Southwestern University will be joining hundreds of college students from across the country who plan to spend their spring break helping rebuild areas along the Gulf Coast that were destroyed by hurricanes last fall.
Eleven Southwestern students and two staff members will be going to Long Beach, Miss., March 11-18 to assist with the Episcopal/Lutheran Relief Effort (see campcoastcare.com). The students will spend the week rebuilding houses. This service opportunity was presented to Southwestern by 2002 graduate Lee Livingston, whose parents live in Mississippi and have been involved with the relief effort. "It was great to hear from a former student who was aware of Southwestern's commitment to volunteerism," said University Chaplain Beverly Jones, who coordinates the spring break program known as Destination: Service.
Read more about this story.
TECH REVIVAL: PROGRAM HELPS DILLARD U. PROFESSORS REBUILD COURSE MATERIALS AND RAISE SPIRITS
When Hurricane Katrina's storm surge overwhelmed New Orleans's broken levees, the murky waters of Lake Pontchartrain swallowed up Gloria C. Love's ground-floor office at Dillard University, ruining her computers, books, research notes, and syllabi.
Three months later, with no home, no electricity in her recently installed government-issued trailer, and a shuttered campus, she was hard-pressed to begin planning for spring-semester classes, which are scheduled to begin on January 9 at a downtown hotel and various campuses around New Orleans.
But for two weeks ending today, she and a dozen colleagues were invited here to Southwestern University to begin resurrecting their course materials and creating new ones so they would have something to teach with when classes resume. The program was established by the Texas university and its regional technology laboratory, with the help of a $160,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Read more from this 12/16/05 feature in The Chronicle of Higher Education
MULTICULTURAL COORDINATING COMMITTEE CONDUCTING UNDERWEAR DRIVE
The Multicultural Coordinating Committee is conducting an underwear drive to provide new underwear for hurricane refugees in the San Antonio area. For more information on this project, contact .
APO TRIP TO AID DILLARD UNIVERSITY
Alphi Pi Omega service fraternity is planning a three or four-day trip to New Orleans to assist Dillard University's recovery efforts. A goods drive will be held on campus before the trip. For more information, contact .
DONATION UPDATE
The Southwestern University Library collected more than 1,200 books to be distributed to Katrina evacuees who are attending schools in Georgetown and Austin. Students in Sharon Johnson's spring 2006 Children's Literature course are assisting with the distribution.
Southwestern students, faculty and staff have donated more than $1,000 in cash to the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) and have also donated more than 40 health kits for hurricane victims. UMCOR is still collecting health kits, flood buckets and school kits. Collection boxes are located in the residence halls as well as the chapel lounge. For more information on how to make kits, follow this link.
In a separate drive, students collected nearly $1,500 from the Southwestern community to support the American Red Cross. They also sent three carloads of food, blankets and clothing to the Houston Astrodome.
Studio art students headed by April Mosher collected $500 to purchase art supplies for the victims of Katrina. The supplies were packaged in sets for elementary, high school and university students and sent to Louisiana State University, which is coordinating distribution to students who relocated to Baton Rouge.
SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS
RELIEF, REBUILD, RENEW: LIFE AFTER KATRINA FOR SOUTHWESTERN AND DILLARD UNIVERSITY
By Ramona-Jean Perkins.
FINDING THE COURAGE TO BEGIN AGAIN
Amy Wink '87 offers inspiration to those who find themselves starting over again.
A MATTER OF HEART
President Jake Schrum shares his thoughts on Hurricane Katrina in a brief essay titled "A Matter of Heart."
To share your thoughts on the hurricane, please send them to .
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