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Arthur, Bertha, Douglas, Edouard, Fay, Gustav, Hanna, Ike, Josephine … no, we’re not reading off the role sheet for your mom’s fifth grade class. If you’ve been following the news, you’ll know this is a list of just a few hurricanes to strike in 2008. But with all these new names to remember, maybe you forgot about our ol’ girl Hurricane Katrina.
That’s right. It’s been three years since the storm, but that doesn’t mean we can forget her name yet, like so many classmates we meet during Welcome Week.
Wednesday Sept. 3, The Magnolia Project, a student-run group on campus which has led an expedition to New Orleans every summer for the past few years to help with recovery, sponsored an event commemorating the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
The event took place in Heller Lounge and included a performance by jazz poet “N-Side” (yeah, we didn’t know jazz poets existed either), a couple emotionally-charged and rather bitter anecdotes by Katrina survivors currently residing in the Bay Area, poems by student volunteers, and a heaping stack of beignets (a fancy French name for the donut of New Orleans).
The group boasts as its motto, “Never Forget.” Well, looks like they’re right about that, even if they’re the only ones.
Image Source: Tidewater Muse under Creative Commons
Hurricane Katrina [Wikipedia]
Comments:
Sep 9, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Great post, squirrelly fiend!