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Unnatural Disaster Day is a co-curricular event involving students
from several disciplines in a public policy forum about a disaster--one
in which human actions and policies make the destruction far worse than
it might have been even if the disaster is portrayed by the media as
"natural." Prior to the event, each participating faculty
member guides students in his or her class through a study of the
disaster from the faculty member’s disciplinary
perspective. Then, on a given day, all classes meet for a two-hour
event in which tables are organized to sit one student from each
discipline. Students begin by sharing their disciplinary perspective
on the disaster and then model democratic decision-making by creating a
plan to avoid similar kinds of disasters in the future.
Fall 2010: The Gulf Oil Spill, Friday, November 19th, from 10am-12pm in the Student Pavilion
Past Unnatural Disaster events
Spring 2010: Earthquake in
Haiti, March 26, 2010, 10am-12pm in the Student Pavilion
Fall 2009, Ogallala Aquifer, Tuesday, November 17 from 3:30-5:30 pm
in the Student Pavilion. Geology, History, English and Biology participated.
Spring 2009: Uranium Mining in the Southwest
Oil in Ecuador
Love Canal
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