On Jan. 12 Miriam Camara ’10 was surfing the Web when she stumbled upon news of the Haiti earthquake on Professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell’s Twitter account. Although Camara was raised in New York, her mother is from Haiti and has strong ties to the many members of her family in Port-au-Prince. “I called my mother immediately and she was in tears,” Camara said.
Camara, who lost two uncles in the disaster, worked with two other Haitian-American students, Astrid Rousseau ’10 and Emmanuelle Pierre ’10, to help plan a series of campus activities in support of Haitian relief efforts. A bake sale in Frist Campus Center raised $1,200 in three days immediately following the earthquake, and fundraising by the Undergraduate Student Government to support Partners in Health reached nearly $8,000.
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In a 2003 interview for the documentary Noam Chomsky: Rebel Without a Pause, Chomsky said: “I’m a boring speaker and I like it that way.” The swarm of people who flooded McCosh 50 (and the simulcast room in McCosh 46) to hear Chomsky speak tonight might attest to the contrary. During his speech entitled “I am Kinda: Reflections on the Culture of Imperialism” Chomsky ruminated on how the media “manufactures consent” and how historical memory is often lost.
With the announcement of his death, fans of The Catcher in the Rye anxiously await the fate of J.D. Salinger’s literary estate. Firestone’s Department of Rare Books holds a small portion of the writer’s unpublished works:
In his NYT 
