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Working Together

We best exemplify the unity of the SLU community at the beginning of the school year. Friends and acquaintances who were apart during the summer gather after classes and on weekends to reconnect. SLU students show their school pride at soccer games, mass and other welcome-back events. We come together to show our collective strength as a group.

Hurricane Katrina tore apart the communities of the gulf coast this week, leaving thousands of people without homes, work or regular lives. In New Orleans, two levees broke, and the entire city is now below water.

At this time, when our own community is so strong, we come together too to help those who are displaced by these disasters.

SLU gathers together its energy to welcome members of the displaced gulf-coast community.

This week, we begin collecting food, toiletries, clothing and even toys to give to these communities. The next two weeks’ will bring collections from Mass to benefit this same cause. And as universities such as Tulane and Loyola University of New Orleans close for the remainder of the semester, we welcome students from these schools.

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Evan Krauss, the Executive Vice President of the Student Government Association has been chosen to coordinate the relief efforts at SLU. And we wish him luck and offer him our support as part of this community.

The situation on the coast is dire, and there is a lot to do. We have a lot to do-we have been called to serve.

To get involved with the relief effort as an individual or an organization, e-mail Krauss and the relief efforts at [email protected].

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