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levee breach and alternative
closure procedures.
The storm surge caused
a 465-foot levee breach,
which the Army Corps of
Engineers worked to fix by
using sandbags.
“It took six days to
completely close the breach,
which caused extensive
flooding,” Kassem said.
The group made a
scaled-down version of the
canal and surrounding area
including use of concrete to
recreate the topography of
the canal.
Kassem showed videos of
the attempts with simulated
sandbags weighing up to
15,000 pounds. Kassem
said during the initial levee
breach, 50,000-pound
sandbags would have been
needed to close the breach
without being washed away.
Andrew Billingsley led a
team in studying the impact
of the hurricane on the
African-American church
community.
The team interviewed 18
church leaders of mostly
Protestant and Catholic
faiths, Billingsley said, adding
that most were strongholds
in the community, providing
schools, housing and
spiritual guidance.
Billingsley said Katrina
survivors will deal with
problems much like soldiers
affected by war.
“Psychologists believe
along with other challenges,
New Orleans and other
places victimized by
Hurricane Katrina will need
to be prepared to deal with
a kind of post-traumatic
stress syndrome often seen
by people victimized at war,”
he said.
Billingsley said the
number of churches will
need to be reduced because
of the number of evacuees
who will not return. Some
churches will combine, and
many church leaders will
find new ways of “doing
church.”
Mike Tidwell, author of
“Bayou Farewell: The Rich
life and Tragic Death of
Louisiana’s Cajun Coast,”
was the keynote speaker and
touched on the reasons why
Katrina happened and why
coastal South Carolinians
should be worried.
Tidwell argued that
Katrina happened in 2005
because of the absence of
natural sediment deposits
caused by levee building.
“Human beings had
created through land use
and levees ... this watery
flight path that allowed this
hurricane to slam into the
city,” Tidwell said.
Tidwell said researchers
are observing record
breaking hurricane systems
because of global warming.
“If you take the six most
powerful hurricanes ever
recorded in North America,
three of them occurred
within 52 days in 2005,” he
said.
Tidwell said Katrina was
the most predicted natural
disaster ever.
“The warning signs were
so obvious,” he said. “The
paper trail of warnings ...
went to the moon and back.
The most predicted and
completely foreseen disaster
natural disaster ever and still
it happened.”
Tidwell urged the
audience to do something {
about global warming or
be faced with their own
Katrina.
“We all are New
Orleanians now,” he said.
“We all live in coastal
Louisiana. We’re all going
to be affected by sea level
rise. We all are going to
be clobbered by hurricanes
and we all are doing nothing
about it.”
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capacity” has access to
student information
provided they sign a database
security file and have a valid
reason for accessing the
information.
Until the new system is
implemented, professors
have been advised to
minimize their use of such
databases and keep only
the most necessary files in a
secure location.
“Our dean has asked us
to remove databases from
over the years,” Stowe said.
“All our levels of conscious
have been heightened by
this. ID theft is all over the
papers and TVs. The best
prevention will be everyone’s
raised awareness.”
Student Government Vice
President Ryan Holt said he
believes the issue could have
been avoided had legislation
barring the use of students’
Social Security numbers
been implemented earlier.
“This is exactly the kind
of thing we were warning
against when we pursued
this legislation,” said Holt,
a third-year political science
student.
Holt said he first
attempted to lobby the
university to change the
policy, but when that path
was exhausted he turned to
the State Legislature.
“In January 2005, I
realized lobbying the
university wouldn’t work,
so I decided to take it
somewhere else,” he said.
Holt prepared a bill for
Sen. Ronnie Cromer of
Newberry, and it was first
introduced on the Senate
floor on April 14, 2005.
The bill was referred to a
committee on education and
then to a subcommittee on
higher education. On May
24, 2005, the committee
issued a favorable report, but
also issued an amendment
that would alter the
compliance date of the bill.
“The original compliance
date was July 1, 2006, but
their amendment changed
that to no later than Jan.
1, 2009, so they moved it
back two and a half years,”
Holt said. “This is where
the controversy came into
play because of the USC
influence in the General
Assembly.”
Holt said USC was the
only school unable to alter
its student identification
system by the compliance
date.
“It turned out the school
holding it back was us,”
Holt said.
SG President Tommy
Preston said the changes
would protect student’s
privacy in the future.
“We’re moving in the
right direction at Carolina;
we are getting new software
that will change IT forever,”
said Preston, a third-year
political science student.
“We want to take all the *
precautions.”
Holt said he got the idea
to enact the change when he
served as a student senator
in 2004.
“I was a student senator,
and it was a great concern I
saw that students were using
their Social Security number
all over the place,” Holt said.
“I worked on a council that
issued a report on identity
fraud and learned what a
serious issue it was.”
The bill would change
the ID number to a random ,
number “that wouldn’t have
any huge value other than as
identification.”
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exercise science student,
said it is good that students
promote taking care of
campus.
“It is encouraging to see
the student body getting
involved to help keep our
campus clean,” Hartley said.
“It helps make me more
conscious of recycling and
keeping the campus clean.”
Although participation
numbers are not ^s high as
Vegas would like them to
be, she said she hopes the
project will continue for
years.
“The committee is really
excited about the program
and know it will continue to
be successful,” Vegas said.
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