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Six years later: ‘It won’t ever be the same’ Hurricane Katrina uprooted Jackie Landry, worker in Talley food court, from her home six years ago. Andrew Branch Senior Staff Writer
is what we used to call ourselves.” New Orleans was a vibrant city full of friends, family and music, according to Landry. “It’s a musical town,” she said. “If you go shopping you’re going to hear the steam boats ridin’ up and down the Mississippi river and you can hear ‘em playing music.” That all changed when Katrina came, making landfall just to the east of New Orleans and bringing winds exceeding 100 mph—and lots of water.
Jackie Landry said the roaring wind was like the voice of God as the Category 3 storm ripped through New Orleans, uprooting trees and destroying homes and lives. “The thunder was like a 747 flying The storm over your head, you know, right over Landry had ridden out storms beyour apartment, on military jets,” she fore, she said, and decided to stay said. “There was so much noise.” at her upstairs Six years afapartment and ter she survived ride it out afHurricane Kater sending her trina on Aug. daughter towards 29, 2005, Landry safety. lives in Raleigh L a nd r y s a id and works at Lil’ she slept through Dino’s in Talley Jackie Landry, much of the storm Student Center. Hurricane Katrina survivor until her cat woke Even as Hurriher up. cane Irene blew “Oh my God—I couldn’t believe it. through the state so close to the anniversary of Katrina, Landry’s mind I couldn’t believe what I see and what was brought back, with memories as I heard,” she said. She described “big old rain, long vivid as ever, to the event that changed rain drops,” and wind that astounded her life. her. “At first the wind sounded like a “Graveyard Posses” Landry, 60, said her family had lived wolf, then it sounded like a train, and in New Orleans all their lives, 54 years the roaring of the wind—it soundfor Landry. She and her daughter Italy, ed like God was walking the earth, then 11, lived in the 17th Ward in a the roaring sound,” she said. “You know—roar,” she growled with her small, close-knit neighborhood. “My neighborhood was called deeply resonating voice. Landry’s cat, Graveyard, needed to Graveyard because it was in between two graveyards,” Landry said. “We use the bathroom. “My cat looked at me, I looked at were the GYP: Graveyard Posses. That
“The thunder was like a 747 flying over your head.”
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Jackie Landry, survivor of Hurricane Katrina and staff for University Dining in Talley food court, sits in the kitchen behind Lil’ Dino’s Aug. 26. Landry is a New Orleans native who was separated from her 11-year-old daughter during Katrina and its aftermath and was reunited in Raleigh by the Red Cross where they’ve been together since.
her, and then we looked at each other. I said, ‘What are you going to do?’ And the cat actually spoke to me. The voice said ‘Naaawwww.’ She wasn’t going out there.” 29 days without her daughter When Landry woke up the next morning, she said Katrina had done what she had to do. The storm decimated the Gulf Coast, bringing 20-30
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foot storm surge to places in Mississippi, washing miles inland. According to the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, the death toll would rise to more than 1400 in Louisiana alone because the storm surge, wind and rain overwhelmed New Orleans’ levees, flooding 80 percent of the city with as much as 20 feet of water which lingered for weeks.
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Raising their guns above their heads, the humans join in a battle cry with their leader Charlie Brooks. The humans prevailed in the final stand of the Humans vs. Zombies weeklong event when they killed the zombie leader at Tucker Beach on Saturday.
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In its 18th year, the Jimmy V. Celebrity Golf Classic was held over the weekend at the Lonnie Poole Golf Course. The event brought out celebrities such as NBA superstars Charles Barkley and Shaquille O’Neal. The event is a small part of the Jimmy V. Foundation, which has raised over $100 million for cancer research since its inception. Jim Valvano was head coach of the
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Entrepreneurship professor takes home global honor Ted Baker receives Research Impact Award for paper on bricolage.
The eighteenth annual Jimmy V. Celebrity Golf Classic hits Lonnie Poole Golf Course.
Not knowing if her daughter had made it out of the city, Landry said she was forced to flee the rising water with those who remained in her neighborhood. “Oh, man,” she said. “[There was] a lot of crying—and praying—because I didn’t know if they had made it.”
men’s basketball team when it won the 1983 NCAA national championship. He died of bone cancer in 1993 shortly after he delivered his speech containing “Don’t give up… don’t ever give up.” Valvano gave his famous speech on the ESPY’s, an award show for athletes held annually on ESPN. Stuart Scott, an ESPN anchor and reporter, received the Spirit of Jimmy V. award at a gala Saturday night. ESPN has been heavily involved in the foundation, and helped provide funding to get it off the ground in 1993. Scott is also battling cancer and has presented the Jimmy V. award at the ESPYs, according to a Huffington Post article. Cameron Nicholson, a senior in civil
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engineering, has worked at the golf course since it opened three years ago. The event has been held at the course for all three years. He got to meet and work up-close with visiting celebrities. “It’s getting bigger and better every year. It was fun getting to meet and hang out with everybody,” Nicholson said. Former N.C. State and ACC players came out to participate in the pro-am event. “Each group got a celebrity. Celebrities that do all sorts of sports related charities showed up. They all just want to have a good time,” Nicholson said.
Ted Baker is focused on making do with what is at hand. He is so focused on this topic, in fact, that he received the 2011 Grief Research Impact Award for his research into bricolage at the August 2011 Academy of Management meeting in San Antonio, Texas. Baker, an associate professor of management, innovation, and entrepreneurship, defined bricolage as ‘making do by applying combinations of the resources at hand to new problems and opportunities.’ Specifically, his research is focused on entrepreneurs in North Carolina, South Africa and India who do ‘remarkable’ things while having limited resources. “I try to understand how they do this, what problems and pitfalls they run into and what differentiates their behavior from the patterns of behavior of those entrepreneurs who are less resourceful,” Baker said. According to a press release from the Poole College of Management, the award is given to “researchers who published the most impactful entrepreneurship article six years ago in the top management and entrepreneurship journals.” For this award, the magnitude of the impact is measured by the number of times the paper was cited in the five years following publication. Baker’s paper had 347 citations as of mid-August 2011, making it the front-runner. Roger Debo, director of The Entrepreneurship Collaborative, said that he thinks the strict criteria for this award makes it extra meaningful for
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Baker. “This is one of the few awards given that is not in any way political,” Debo said. “They just look at how many citations there are for a journal article. In my mind, that makes it more impressive.” Debo, who teaches alongside Dr. Baker in the masters in business administration program, went on to say that this award is also special because it measures the impact that Baker’s research has had on fellow researchers. “It’s about how much the research community has cited your article and included your research in their own,”Debo said. “That’s pretty impressive.” Ira Weiss, dean of the Poole College of Management, also said that the criteria on which the award was given speaks to the impact of Baker’s work. “Dr. Baker’s work has been cited more times in the last five years than any other researcher in his field,” Weiss said. “That means more research as to how companies get started are based on his work than any other researcher in the world over the last five years.” The topic of bricolage is not restricted to entrepreneurial studies, according to Baker. “The concept of bricolage has been applied across a wide variety of disciplines, from evolutionary biology, to legal studies, to elementary education,” said Baker. “Some of my other work explores bricolage and a related concept – organizational improvisation – among university scientists at and around the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Baker also does research does other entrepreneurial topics, including venture capital and entrepreneurship pedagogy.
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