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| The Observer - Brains, Not Brawn, for Katrina AidOver spring break, several students at the University of Hartford traveled to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in a novel approach to dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The Special Center on Emergency Preparedness and Relief, a project of the Roosevelt Institution, brought students together for a three-day symposium to discuss creative policy proposals for rebuilding New Orleans. Five members of the University's chapter of the Roosevelt Institution - Tiana Notice '06, Alissa Rauch '09, Edward Westwood '09, Paije Moormann '09, and Michelle Tafur '09 - gave their presentation, titled "Reconstructing New Orleans with the Use of Organic Architecture." Dane Coonery '09 helped draft the initial proposal. Their proposal was selected from those submitted by Roosevelt Institution chapters around the country. "It was a great accomplishment as well as an enlightening experience for the University of Hartford chapter to meet students from other universities and share our work," says chapter president Notice about attending the symposium. The Hartford chapter's presentation calls for the use of natural, recycled materials, like bricks and scrap metal, to rebuild houses and other structures and as insulation. The Roosevelt Institution is a student-run, nonpartisan think tank founded in 2004 at Stanford University that now has chapters at more than 120 campuses across the country. It is devoted to bringing the policy research of college students to the attention of academia, the media, and the government. Click here to read the article from The Observer's website.
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