Rector at Haitian University Describes Life in Earthquake’s Aftermath

A blog at the Web site of Foreign Policy magazine relays a statement from the rector of the University of Quisqueya, a private institution in Port-au-Prince, about how it fared in the earthquake two weeks ago. According to the rector, Jacky Lumarque, all buildings at Quisqueya were destroyed, like other Haitian universities, and the dead include five students, a lecturer, an engineer, and two gardeners. About 20 survivors were pulled from the rubble. Mr. Lumarque reports that university efforts are now devoted to providing food, water, and basic health care to people who have set up camps, known as colonias, in surrounding neighborhoods. Foreign aid, he writes, is “abundant but poorly coordinated.”