Life after Katrina

Mallory Richardson | News Writer

Tears and blank stares were just a few of the reactions to the film "Still Waiting: Life after Katrina” Monday in the Campus Cinema. The viewing of this film was a part of Delta Sigma Theta Week and was co-sponsored with the Center for Student Leadership, Ethics and Public Service along with the Union Activities Board. The film was a reflection of Hurricane Katrina and how it is still affecting a family in 2007, two years after the storm. 

Connie Tipado, a registered nurse, was a member of the family who spoke throughout the film. This documentary was purely based on her family’s experience with the storm, the government and life after the disaster. At one point Tipado housed 48 people in her Texas home. Her family was deeply impacted by the storm, losing their homes and all of their possessions in a small community known as St. Bernard Parrish, New Orleans. Her sister Katie Williams, 63, a retired deputy sheriff was one of the many family members that were housed in Texas away from her birth place, childhood home and community.

According to the film, St. Bernard Parrish was the first location overtaken by Hurricane Katrina, August 29, 2005 where 27,000 homes were destroyed and 67,000 people were displaced. Dr. Raphael Cassimere of the University of New Orleans commented that, “sometimes things can’t be replaced.” This was response to the family’s ongoing struggle to cope with the aftermath of the storm. Janie, a cousin of Katie then reported a recount of her history and emotional attachment to the home she lost in the storm. She purchased the home when she was 18, grew attached, started a family with her husband and never left. Janie was just one of the 150 family members that were displaced during the storm. One of the biggest struggles for the family was finding a way to keep one another comforted, trying to look beyond material things and striving to overcome by adjusting to a new environment. 

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Election 2008

Election 2008
Democrats               Needed to Win 2,025
Total Delegates
 Obama                                  1,262
 Clinton                                  1,213

Republicans                        Needed to Win1,191
Total Delegates
McCain                                   830
Huckabee                               217

Results from past Primaries and Caucuses                                                                

District of Columbia              Obama                  McCain

Maryland                              Obama                  McCain

Virginia                                 Obama                  McCain

Maine                                    Obama                      --

Recent and Up Coming Primaries and Caucuses February 19th: Hawaii caucuses (Democrats), Washington and Wisconsin

 March 4th:  Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont

 

ACC Rankings

Mens Basketball (As Of February 16)

TEAM                 ACC
Duke                  10-0
North Carolina      9-2   
Clemson              7-4
Maryland             7-4   
Wake Forest        5-5   
Virginia Tech        5-6   
Georgia Tech       4-5   
Boston College    4-6   
NC State             4-7   
Miami                 3-6   
Florida State       3-8   
Virginia               1-9   

Womens Basketball (As Of February 16)

TEAM                 ACC
North Carolina      10-0
Maryland             10-1
Duke                     8-2   
Virginia                  6-3  
Florida State          5-4   
Georgia Tech         5-5   
Boston College      5-5   
NC State               4-6   
Clemson               3-7  
Miami                   2-8   
Virginia Tech         1-9   
Wake Forest        1-10

Inspirational Quote of the Week

February 20, 2008

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

-Bernard Mannes Baruch

February 13, 2008

Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

- Charles Caleb Colton

February 6, 2008

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

January 30, 2008

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitessimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

November 14, 2007

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

- John Kenneth Galbraith, U.S. economist “The Age of Uncertainty”

October 31, 2007

The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.

-Confucius

October 24, 2007

Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be so much more the grateful.

-Horace

October 3, 2007

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

-Harry Emerson Fosdic

September 26, 2007

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

September 12, 2007

"Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences."

-Susan B. Anthony