Comments on: Hurricane Katrina efforts at UC Berkeley

by: RepBast1984

Thu, 08 Sep 2005 18:47:50 +0100

The university also banned UNLIT candles from the dorms. That means if you have a piece of wax with a string in it it’s dangerous.

by: smashT

Thu, 08 Sep 2005 15:12:55 +0100

i hope da ASUC doesnt turn dis into anotha tsunami political ting like dey did last year. on a bunch of candidate literature “OH LOOK AT ME I PUT TOGETHER DA TSUNAMI RELIEF” ya u put together a measly 10k in relief daT was like 6 months late. grats on being insignificant. da sad part is da students bought it as a serious accomplishment. what a fukin jokeT. =(

“-smashT”

by: anon54

Thu, 08 Sep 2005 09:14:36 +0100

PS Did anyone read this article and think that these people are insane? Academic credit for going to New Orleans? Um, yeah, I guess they want Berkeley to turn into one of those places where “you can get a PhD based on your life experiences, no courses or studying required”.

http://www.dailycal.org/article.php?id=19367

by: anon54

Thu, 08 Sep 2005 09:13:18 +0100

I reccommend Catholic Charities.

by: anon

Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:49:58 +0100

I kind of feel bad for the displaced students who end up living at a co-op. They probably would have been better off at the superdome.

by: mano

Wed, 07 Sep 2005 23:43:11 +0100

“the university banned”. fuck them, who cares what they ban. chalk. candles. up theirs. people should ignore the university and its stupid “bans”.

by: N

Wed, 07 Sep 2005 19:10:11 +0100

This is a tangent, but interesting. Re Vigil thingie - after the Sept 11 candlelight vigil on Sproul, the univiersity banned all use of candles on campus because of the amount of wax that was left on the plaza (liability issues?). If any student group wishes to use candles or any open flame for that matter, they must get prior approval.

by: Ben N.

Wed, 07 Sep 2005 14:55:42 +0100

Personally, I recommend: American Humane Association - helping lost animals and children in the affected areas. International Medical Corps - supplying emergency medical staff and resources to the region. Go to give.org for more info.

by: yami

Wed, 07 Sep 2005 12:50:05 +0100

It’s common to give 3-figure salaries to top officials at many fundraising organizations, with the understanding that the money will be used to maintain a kind of schmoozing cred that increases donations in the long run. Whether this is actually a good idea or not is a whole ‘nother question, of course, but it’s a cultural issue encountered in many charitable organizations, colleges and universities, etc., and is in no way specific to the Red Cross.

Do you have links to more information about donations going to the military? Is that a problem with the American Red Cross, the International Red Cross, or foreign IRC affiliates?

by: c

Wed, 07 Sep 2005 12:29:50 +0100

no - look into that further. Red Cross has a lot of problems, worse than Salvation ARmy’s. They pay their top symbolic officials including Elizabeth Dole $400,000/yr +, and there are some articles around detailing how many of their donations collected during disasters for foreign countries have been turned over for military purposes. My mother, who isn’t very political, was the first one to tell me to avoid the Red Cross.
I would pick a separate general purpose charity, a local group that you know who are doing relocation, or pick a better religious group, such as the mennonites.