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...neighborhood of Gentilly, Smith, looking down at the remains of her home, remembered what it had looked like before.“It was so nice,” she said.Few of the student volunteers had known New Orleans before the storm, though, and they were left to reconstruct mental images of what the Big Easy once had been.ANOTHER KIND OF TRAUMAResearch suggests that trauma is not confined to the immediate victims of a disaster. Relief workers and volunteers—the second wave of people on the scene——are often shaken as well.Professor...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Affected By Relief | 4/5/2006 | See Source »

...dance community at last night’s meeting declared its support for a plan that would reconstruct their dance floor anew. Philip Burling, a tango dancer, said that dancers are fond of the floor but understand that it may have to be renovated. “The reason we love it so much is that it’s got this give—it bounces a little, but that also makes it structurally unstable,” he said...

Author: By Virginia A. Fisher and Brendan R. Linn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: City Dancers Search for Space | 2/14/2006 | See Source »

...congressional delegation, state and local leaders, Mayor Ray Nagin and parish officials to rebuild the Gulf Coast communities in a way that will give people the confidence to return. That will require a strong hurricane-protection system of safe levees and coastal wetlands, updated building codes so people can reconstruct with a sense of security, business incentives that will create opportunity, and school reforms that will draw people home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Give In to Katrina Fatigue | 11/20/2005 | See Source »

...this veritas to come alive. It is our chance to challenge “the truth” as given to us by our professors, engage with it, relate it to our own academic work, or even (gasp!) our personal experience. Through dialogue we have the opportunity to reconstruct our own understandings and piece them together with classmates into a fuller perception of reality.But instead of resuscitating veritas, too many of our sections seem to drain even more life from it. I do not mean to attack the sizeable portion of section leaders who already do a wonderful...

Author: By Henry Seton, | Title: Reviving Veritas | 11/10/2005 | See Source »

...have that love within us somewhere—otherwise, we probably couldn’t have made it here.5. Teach to learn and re-learn: In order to design a coherent and engaging curriculum, a teacher must literally take up the role of historian, physicist, etc. Teachers have to reconstruct and expand their own understanding of what they already know in order to convey it to their students. As Orin Gutlerner, director of the Undergraduate Teacher Education Program (UTEP), puts it, “A lot of people perceive K-12 teaching as an intellectually deadening experience, something that?...

Author: By Henry Seton, | Title: Taste the Apple | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

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