{"id":147,"date":"2010-02-02T06:50:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T10:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/?p=147"},"modified":"2010-02-03T00:34:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T04:34:14","slug":"a-few-notes-from-understanding-the-haiti-crisis-12610","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/2010\/02\/a-few-notes-from-understanding-the-haiti-crisis-12610\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few Notes from &#8220;Understanding the Haiti Crisis&#8221; (1\/26\/10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 26<sup>th<\/sup>, the panel discussion \u201cUnderstanding the Haiti Crisis,\u201d helped a roomful of Vassar community members to grapple with the implications of the Haitian earthquake, and to think more critically about the disaster.\u00a0 Vassar professors Brian McAdoo and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, organized the program, bringing in Haitian community member Marc Coq and student panelists Nicole Krenitsky \u201911 and Jared Augenstein \u201910, both of whom were in the country during the quake.<\/p>\n<p>The program\u2019s overall tone was hopeful yet honest.\u00a0 A cleverly titled Powerpoint presentation, \u201cNot the Earthquake\u2019s Fault: Understanding the Haitian Earthquake,\u201d explained the deceptiveness of the term \u201cnatural disaster,\u201d and discussed why a 7.0 quake killed a staggering 200,000 + individuals in Haiti, but just 63 Californians when an earthquake of the same magnitude hit them a few years earlier.\u00a0 \u201cEarthquakes don\u2019t kill people,\u201d said McAdoo, \u201cBuildings falling on people kill people.\u201d\u00a0 Therefore, Haiti\u2019s disaster is a lesson in recognizing natural hazards where they exist and being prepared for them.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the panel discussion was a call to action, but also an optimistic look at an overwhelming tragedy.\u00a0 Speakers put forth examples of joy found in such a dire, upsetting situation: the sense of community fostered, and the great spirit and solidarity of survivors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 26th, the panel discussion \u201cUnderstanding the Haiti Crisis,\u201d helped a roomful of Vassar community members to grapple with the implications of the Haitian earthquake, and to think more critically about the disaster.\u00a0 Vassar professors Brian McAdoo and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, organized the program, bringing in Haitian community member Marc Coq and student panelists Nicole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-voices-from-vhp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}