As invited in my previous e-mail, several Indian students and some student services staff met yesterday afternoon to plan the coordination of responses folks might want to make to the earthquake tragedy. The Indian Students Association has already begun collecting money donations. We encourage anyone in the University community to contribute to that effort.
Preference is for donations to be in the form of checks.
The money will be deposited into the Indian Students Association account with the Office of Student Activities and one check for the relief effort will be written by Student Activities. It will go to the People Science Institute in India, a non-Government disaster relief agency with which one of the graduate students present at our meeting has worked for a year prior to coming here. It will be updated with relevant information. We will send the first check sometime immediately after Feb. 16, though will also forward money that comes in after that date. If any other group is doing such fund raising and wishes to give it in cash, that can be also taken to the Student Activities Office and designated for this fund.