PHAST Satellite for Katrina - On March 23rd, a handful of PHAST trip participants and other SPH students met to discuss student-led sustainable efforts focused on long-term reconstruction of the hurricane-affected Gulf Coast.

I'm not quite sure where the meeting ended. Mainly, we decided that there are LOTS of directions we could take with this initiative, and we didn't get anywhere close to a mission for this group. Political activism, volunteerism, grant writing, etc. LOTS. We ended with one person aiming to put the group in as an official organization for the new year, and the idea that we'd recruit heavily in the fall, especially with the one year anniversary of Katrina. I like that idea very much.

I was so passionate when I returned a month ago, but my predictions of growing apathy with time and busy-ness have unfortunately come to pass. That end of the year student crunch has certainly placed Katrina and the Gulf Coast in a faraway place.