Volume 25, No. 18, February 9, 2001
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Community investment brings mutual benefit to neighborhoods, WUBy Betsy RogersWhile the St. Louis region wrestles with downtown redevelopment, community improvement, containing suburban sprawl and other urban issues, some of the area's major institutions are quietly working at their own front steps to revitalize their neighborhoods. Washington University is prominent among them. Both at the medical school and around Hilltop Campus, the University is committing substantial funds to upgrades in the housing it owns, street improvements, enhanced security, community facilities and other investments to make life in these areas more livable. Its investments, in turn, ripple out through the area in the form of construction wages, neighborhood improvement, reduced crime and rising property values. |
 Helping Indian earthquake victims From left, Olin School of Business students Nisha Primlani, MBA '01; Amit Anand, MBA '01; and Deven Somaya, MBA '02, help the Olin Indian Club raise funds to aid victims of India's recent earthquake. Of the 21 Indian MBA students at the school, most have family or friends in the affected area. Donating toward the $3,000 raised during the club's fund-raising drive Jan. 31 through Feb. 2 in Simon Hall is Ken Willis, MBA '02. The entire donation was sent directly to the Prime Minister's Relief Fund in India. Also conducting fund-raising drives are student groups Atma, a Hindu group; Ashoka, an Indian group; and MSA, a Muslim group. Fund-raising events include donation tables in Mallinckrodt Center; a dinner of Indian and Pakistani food from 6:30-9:30 p.m. today in the formal lounge of the Women's Building; and a Raas (a traditional Indian dance) for Relief from 7-10 p.m. Saturday in the Recreational Gym of the Athletic Complex.
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 Senior Sarah Johnson, co-coordinator of the Natural Ties program, hands out candy to the group as they prepare for a game of charades during a recent meeting. |
Natural Ties bonds students, disabled childrenBy Neil Schoenherr A group of friends was sitting at a table in the bowling alley, discussing where to go next. Some people were eating pizza. Others just sat and talked. It was a typical night on the town. But what makes this group of friends special is half of them have disabilities. The rest are University students. Together, they constitute a relatively new campus organization called Natural Ties. Natural Ties is a national nonprofit organization that works to create and support friendships between people with and without disabilities. Its goal is that through their friends, people with disabilities will become integral parts of community groups from which they may have been excluded.
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International students welcomed by campus programsBy Neil SchoenherrThe University is the educational home to more than 1,100 international students from over 100 different nations. Many of these students come to St. Louis with very little firsthand knowledge of American customs and culture. Fortunately, two campus programs have been established to make international students feel more comfortable and to help acclimate them to the St. Louis area. The first, the Host Family Program, is a cultural exchange program between the University's international students and local families who are interested in developing friendships and fur-thering cross-cultural awareness. |
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