Baylor Responds to Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts
August 31, 2005

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Baylor University is currently working on a number of responses to Hurricane Katrina and its devastating impact on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

As of today (Aug. 31), here is the current response from Baylor:

• Baylor's McLane Student Life Center at Speight and Bagby avenues is providing showers and towels to displaced persons who are sheltered at Seventh and James Baptist Church in Waco.
  
• Baylor's Student Government has set up a means by which students, faculty, staff and alumni can contribute to hurricane relief efforts. For information on "Paws for a Cause" click on www.baylor.edu/paws4cause.
  
• Baylor is working to accommodate college and university students from higher education institutions in the hurricane-affected areas to assimilate them into the university so they can continue their studies on a temporary basis.
  
• Baylor's George W. Truett Theological Seminary has offered to accommodate students at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary for a semester while the Louisiana school recovers from the hurricane.
  
• Baylor's School of Law has offered to work with the law schools at Tulane and Loyola to accommodate their law students as visiting law students while the Louisiana schools recover from the hurricane.
  
• Baylor's Student Life division is working on assembling student teams to help with the cleanup efforts over Baylor's fall break (Oct. 21-23).

Check back frequently for the latest updates on Baylor's Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.