HAITI: EARTHQUAKE SHATTERS AN ALREADY WEAK UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
January 1st, 2010
BY GARRY PIERRE-PIERRE
Astride Auguste was late for an exam at Port-au-Prince's Quiskeya University on that fateful Tuesday January 12, when the earthquake, or 'the event', as Haitians have come to call it happened.
Auguste, an undergraduate student in international affairs and management was nearby the campus when she felt the earth shook beneath her. She bounced a few times and eventually regained her composure. A few miles away, many of her fellow students had died after most of the buildings collapsed.
Full report on the University World News site
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Astride Auguste was late for an exam at Port-au-Prince's Quiskeya University on that fateful Tuesday January 12, when the earthquake, or 'the event', as Haitians have come to call it happened.
Auguste, an undergraduate student in international affairs and management was nearby the campus when she felt the earth shook beneath her. She bounced a few times and eventually regained her composure. A few miles away, many of her fellow students had died after most of the buildings collapsed.
Full report on the University World News site
ENDS
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