{"id":1592,"date":"2010-02-25T20:35:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T01:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brocknews\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2010-02-25T20:38:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T01:38:02","slug":"staff-and-students-helping-new-orleans-rebuild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/02\/staff-and-students-helping-new-orleans-rebuild\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff and students helping New Orleans rebuild"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1594\" style=\"width: 394px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1594\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1594 \" title=\"nolatrip2\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/nolatrip2.jpg\" alt=\"nolatrip2\" width=\"384\" height=\"216\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1594\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gadula and Ryrie<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Two staff members from the Department of Residences and about 53 students are in New Orleans this week helping Habitat for Humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Colin Ryrie and Curtis Gadula, two residence life co-ordinators, took a bus to Louisiana with student volunteers living in residence as part of a Service Learning project. \u00a0The team will help build houses in parts of New Orleans still damaged by Hurricane Katrina.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted something that would be enticing to students,\u201d Ryrie said. \u201cNew Orleans is something that isn\u2019t as much on people\u2019s radars, but still something we all recognize needs attention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The alternate reading week program has been so successful that more than 80 students applied to participate, which created a waiting list. In addition to Habitat for Humanity work, the students will participate in various cultural programs and events and learn more about how the hurricane has impacted residents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith 53 people, (the students) have the potential to take away something huge from this,\u201d Gadula said.<\/p>\n<p>The group is in New Orleans from Feb. 19 to 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two staff members and about 53 students are in New Orleans this week helping Habitat for Humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1596,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions\/1596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}