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Weather poses danger to homeless community
Letter to the Editor | Monday, January 28, 2019
Dear President Jenkins,
Temperatures in South Bend will drop to fatally dangerous levels this week — negative 30 to 40 with wind chill. The city’s homeless shelters, even the emergency shelters, are already full beyond capacity and are turning people away. Many of these people will die of the cold as a result.
We call on the University to use its resources to respond to this imminent humanitarian emergency. This could take the form of subsidizing extra beds in the downtown shelters, or temporarily opening buildings on campus to accommodate those who are turned away. The South Bend Police Department will certainly liaise with the university to facilitate transport, and the university community will not be short of volunteers to help prevent our neighbors from freezing to death on our doorstep.
Yours, in Notre Dame,
Barry McCrea
Department of English
Zyg Baranski
Professor of Dante and Italian Studies
Susan D Blum
Department of Anthropology
Tobias Boes
Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures
Cat Bolten
Kroc Institute and Department of Anthropology
Katie Boyle
Department of Romance Languages & Literatures
Pam Butler
Gender Studies Program
Elizabeth Capdevielle
University Writing Program
Geoff Cebula
Law Student, Class of 2021
Aedín Clements
Hesburgh Libraries
Brian S Collier
IEI
Mary R. D’Angelo
Theology
Margaret Doody
Department of English
John Duffy
Department of English
Amitava Dutt
Professor of Economics and Political Science
Carsten Dutt
Department of German and Russian Languages and Literature
Elizabeth Evans
Department of English
Steve Fallon
Cavanaugh Professor of the Humanities
Mary Frandsen
Department of Music
Stephen Fredman
Department of English
Agustin Fuentes
Department of Anthropology
Sonia Gernes
Professor Emerita, Department of English
Jill Godmilow
Professor Emerita, Department of Film, Television & Theatre
Karen Graubart
Department of History
Johannes Göransson
English and Creative Writing
Eugene Halton
Department of Sociology
Marius Hauknes
Department of Art, Art History, and Design
Peter Holland
Film, Television and Theatre
Vittorio Hosle
German and Russian Languages and Literatures
Romana Huk
Department of English
Frances Jacobus-Parker
Snite Museum of Art
Katie Jarvis
Department of History
Lionel M. Jensen
East Asian Languages & Cultures
Claire Taylor Jones
German and Russian Languages and Literatures
Michelle Karnes
Department of English
Steffen Kaupp
Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures
Mary Celeste Kearney
Department of Film, Television & Theatre; Gender Studies Program
Janet Kourany
Department of Philosophy
Catherine Kupiec
Department of Art, Art History & Design
Jesse M. Lander
Department of English
Sonja Mapes
Department of Mathematics
Sara Marcus
Department of English
Kate Marshall
Department of English
Sara L. Maurer
Department of English
Mary Ann McDowell
Department of Biological Sciences
Sarah McKibben
Department of Irish Language and Literature
Margaret Meserve
Department of History
Melissa Miller
Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures
Marisel Moreno
Rev. John A. O’Brien Associate Professor
Bríona Nic Dhiarmada
Department of Irish Language and Literature
Robert Norton
Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures
Mary O’Callaghan
Department of Irish Language and Literature
Diarmuid Ó Giolláin
Department of Irish Language and Literature
Catherine Perry
Emerita, Romance Languages and Literatures
Clark Power
Program of Liberal Studies
Sarah Quesada
Department of English
Francisco Robles
Department of English
Charles Rosenberg
Professor Emeritus, Department of Art, Art History & Design
Ingrid Rowland
Department of History and School of Architecture
Valerie Sayers
Department of English
Tiziana Serafini
Associate SPF, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
John Sitter
Department of English
Sarah Snider
Writing and Rhetoric
Jim Sterba
Department of Philosophy
Maria Tomasula
Department of Art, Art History & Design
Steve Tomasula
Department of English
Laura D. Walls
Department of English
Robert Walls
Department of American Studies
Emily Wang
Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures
Hannelore Weber
Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures
Henry Weinfield
Program of Liberal Studies
Matthew Wilkens
Ruth and Paul Idzik Associate Professor in Digital Studies
Marty Wolfson
Professor of Economics Emeritus
Victoria Woodard
ACMS
Jan. 27
The views expressed in this Letter to the Editor are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
