In just one month, NU Stands with Haiti has raised more than $18,500.
The students’ campaign to support relief efforts on the island nation surpassed its own expectations. The original fundraising goal was $8,000, or one dollar from every undergraduate student. SESP senior Megha Agrawal, one of the campaign’s organizers, said that the large sum is unexpected, but fantastic.
By Letters
To the Northwestern Community:
On January 12, 2010, the world watched as a massive earthquake struck the island nation of Haiti, resulting in unimaginable destruction. As a community of Northwestern students, we felt an urgent duty to respond.
Drawn together by this sense of responsibility, representatives from over forty student groups met and organized a school-wide campaign to support the relief efforts. NU STANDS WITH HAITI was formed, with a modest goal of $8,000 — $1 for each undergraduate student.
Performing arts groups and professors, students and social action groups, religious groups and residence halls united, planning fundraisers overnight and dedicating their annual events to the cause. The result was staggering: over $18,500 were raised, more than twice our initial goal.
By Kirsten Salyer
Northwestern began sending doctors and health care workers to provide medical relief to earthquake victims in Haiti Monday.
NU medical workers from the Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Hospital will volunteer in collaboration with the University of Chicago Medical Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Medicine and Rush Medical College.
Dr. Martin Lucenti, an assistant professor of emergency medicine and a physician at Northwestern Memorial, was the first of the group of 45 volunteers to leave for Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
By Roshan Nebhrajani
Over the weekend, The Keg of Evanston housed a crowd rivaling the busiest of Mondays.
The bar, 810 Grove St., played host to NU Cares at the Keg on Saturday. A $5 entry fee was applied to raise funds for the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund.
“It was a great way to raise money,” Weinberg freshman Aleah Papessaid on her way to the dance floor. “A lot of people came out.”
The fundraiser was open to guests 18 and older until midnight. Event organizers said the night was put together in a little more than a week.
By Sara Grossbarth
Produced by Dan Hill
Professor leads yoga class for Haiti from Daily Northwestern.
The devastating earthquake that hit Haiti on January 12, 2010 has had an impact around the world. Those living in Haiti and those bringing aid will be dealing with the effects of directly experiencing a trauma, as will those who lost someone they loved. However, there are effects for everyone who has witnessed the events on the news, especially those who have family and friends in Haiti. For anyone who feels the impact or knows someone who has, there are a variety of resources available to you, including Counseling at Psychological Services. CAPS has also created a webpage listing a variety of resources at:
http://www.northwestern.edu/
If you wish to talk with someone at CAPS about how you are feeling, please call 847-491-2151.
Meeting at Northwestern
Counseling and Psychological Services is also offering a debriefing meeting for anyone impacted by the earthquake. It will be Wednesday, January 27, 2010. It will be held from 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm at African American Student Affairs in the first floor conference room at 1914 Sheridan Road. If you have any questions about this, please contact Paulette Stronczek at 847491-2151 or p-stronczek@northwestern.edu.
More than 30 student groups organized a week of fundraising and events
By Zoe Fox
As a child growing up in Los Angeles, Katherine Sierra was alarmed with the poverty she witnessed during regular family trips to Tijuana, Mexico.
“I always saw that visual of a mom bathing her kid in a bin,” said Sierra, Vice President of Sustainable Development for the World Bank. “What you see as a child sticks with you. It drove all my studies.”
Sierra addressed Northwestern students as well as 40 delegates from 27 other universities in Leverone Hall on Thursday. Her keynote address, “Empowering Hope: Cities, Slums and Human Rights,” marked the opening of the seventh annual Northwestern University Conference on Human Rights.
As a Chinese-American graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and an Army Chaplain in Guantanamo Bay, James Yusuf Yee is not the typical person one may envision as a Muslim.
On Thursday night, Yee was brought to campus by the Northwestern Muslim-cultural Students Association for the event “Against Islamophobia.”
“Islamophobia is a kind of xenophobia that’s going on in the United States and throughout the world,” said Dulce Acosta-Licea, external relations vice president for McSA.. “It is a lack of understanding for Muslims, this population which some people think is foreign or strange, and as a result there are many misconceptions.”
By Maria LaMagna
Arriving on the tails of one of the most devastating tragedies in history, a somber mood set the tone of the seventh annual Northwestern University Conference on Human Rights Thursday night.
About 200 students gathered in Owen L. Coon Forum in Leverone Hall for the kick-off event entitled “Urban Slums: The Shadow of the Humanitarian Generation.” The weekend-long conference will include speakers, panel discussions and hands-on activities for invited participants.
Please refrain from printing this flyer as dates and times are tentative and likely to change
Northwestern Students 'Stand With Haiti'.
Handmade bracelets are being sold for $5 each and go towards the American Red Cross. Bracelets will be sold throughout the week at Norris.
For more information contact Alyssa Petersel.
Hi, everyone.
A fantastic group of NU students has organized a week of events they're calling "NU Stands with Haiti." As part of an effort to raise both consciousness and money, they asked me to teach a donation-only yoga class this Sunday, the proceeds of which will benefit the relief effort. Of course, I said yes!
The class is this Sunday, Jan. 24, at 3:00 in Parkes Hall (1870 Sheridan Road, adjacent to Alice Millar Chapel). Although the address is Sheridan Road, the entrance is actually on Chicago Avenue. It's donation-only, but we're suggesting that students pay at least $15 and non-students as much as they're able.
PLEASE help publicize the event! And PLEASE attend yourself! And bring/tell friends! This is yoga as yoga should be practiced. It would be fantastic if the room were so full our mats were literally right next to each other. (Please ask people to bring mats if they own them, otherwise we'll provide mats until we run out.)
Thanks, and namaste!
Lane
7th Annual Northwestern University
Conference on Human Rights
"Urban Slums: The Shadow of the Humanitarian Generation"
When: Jan. 21-24
What: Undergraduates, nonprofit workers, policy makers and academics will gather at the 2010 Northwestern University Conference on Human Rights to examine the problems slum dwellers face and, while focusing on the factors that maintain slum life, explore different motivations and approaches in addressing the human rights violations of slum dwellers.
First Event!!!: Thursday January 21 8pm: Opening Keynote: Empowering Hope: Cities, Slums, and Human Rights—Katherine Sierra, Vice President for Sustainable Development at the World Bank
**NU Stands with Haiti Fundraising Kick-Off**
Owen L. Coon Forum, Leverone Hall, Northwestern University
Please See the Schedule at www.nuchr.net
***Events are free and open to the public! Please contribute to our donation boxes to support Partners in Health in Haiti***
Click here for recent images from the Partners In Health hospital in Cange that has been treating an endless stream of earthquake victims.
Paul Farmer is the Presley Professor of Social Medicine at the Harvard Medical School, the co-founder of Partners In Health, and the deputy to Bill Clinton, United Nations Special Envoy for Haiti.
A few months ago, I joined President Clinton as a volunteer to, in his words, help Haiti ``build back better'' after a series of storms in 2008 destroyed an estimated 15 percent of already beleaguered Haiti's GDP. We had just been meeting about these efforts and a series of upcoming forums to be held in Port-au-Prince, and I was then going to join colleagues from Partners In Health in central Haiti, where I have had the good fortune to work with remarkable Haitian medical colleagues for many years. The day before our New York meeting, Port-au-Prince was flattened by an earthquake. There is not a lot left to be said, but having just returned from Port-au-Prince, there are some points worth underlining.
By Lilia Hargis
A week has passed since the magnitude-7.0 earthquake devastated Haiti, and its impacts are still fresh in the minds of the Northwestern students who met Monday night to coordinate a campus-wide response to the tragedy.
Student group leaders made tentative plans for a week of events on campus beginning Thursday Jan. 21 to both raise money for relief and educate students about the politics, history and culture of Haiti. It remains undecided which relief organizations will benefit from the fundraising, but the Red Cross and Partners In Health were two popular choices.
NORTHWESTERN / Jan. 18, 2010 at 11:26 pm
Letters
The immediate toll of the earthquake in Haiti is unfathomable. Fifty thousand dead (so far) with an additional three million homeless or injured. Horrifying images illustrate these statistics – a bulldozer scooping away piles of bodies, a dead child being tossed out the back door of a hospital, a foot poking out of a mountain of concrete. Tens of thousands of people gather at the central park in Port-au-Prince, searching for family, food, and water. And this is to say nothing of long-term cost of fallen schools, ruptured roads and ports, and the enormous gaps left in the Haitian government after many of their occupied buildings collapsed.
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