FALL 2005 ISSUE 
University students aid Gulf Coast evacuees
By Stacy Schultz
When Carly Levy decided to help people affected by Hurricane Katrina, the University of Texas anthropology junior found the victims needed someone to listen to them more than anything else. Spending nearly 50 hours at the Austin Convention Center, Levy played games with the children, answered victims' questions and was there for moral support. One man she met spent much of his time in the family-reunion center, a room packed with victims who were searching databases and making phone calls trying to locate their lost family members.
Displaced students start temporary lives at UT
By Emily Breunig
All of Helen Hollyman's personal belongings were ruined by Hurricane Katrina, so her current wardrobe source is her 14-year-old sister's closet.
"I look like an awkward middle-schooler wearing all of my little sister's clothes," said Hollyman, 20, a Tulane University student who moved back home to Austin to temporarily attend the University of Texas. "It hasn't been the most dynamic social time for me, but worse things have happened."
Mayor proud of response
By Zachary Warmbrodt
As mayor of the landlocked, active fault-line-free, just-outside-Tornado-Alley city of Austin, it is likely that Will Wynn never expected to come face to face with a massive natural disaster in his daily duties. He certainly didn't expect to deal with two.
Disaster provides hands-on experience
By Lorraine Branham
This issue of the Texas Journalist was supposed to be about Austin's ban on smoking in public places. The law went into effect on Sept. 1., and I thought it was a good topic for our students to explore in the fall edition of our newspaper.
Then Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on Aug. 29 and the levees broke.
Empathetic outpouring of aid in face of disaster
By Karin Melrose
A distant cousin of mine lives in New Orleans with her husband, two young daughters, a dog and a cat. When the whole brood visited my parents' house in Houston several years ago, we were all sure it would be the last time, because my mother was inconvenienced. Then came Katrina.