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Discuss “Students aid in Katrina relief over break”

Hurricane Katrina’s wrath hit land so hard that non-profit organizations and government officials still have a massive rebuilding effort going on. At the beginning of January, nine CMU students flew south to help the effort along.

This trip was the first venture of a new student organization called Alternative Break. Nuveen Marwah, a fifth-year student majoring in business administration, international relations, and Spanish, organized the expedition because he felt the area needed the group’s efforts badly. “So many do not realize the extent of the damage,” he said.

On January 3, Alternative Break sent its members to Bay St. Louis, a coastal Mississippi town with a population of about 8000. “I’m sure that no one who went had...

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