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Alabama State University officials sent a bus to pick up 55 college students from ASU and a number of other institutions who were stranded in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
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When Ayanna Jordan and her fellow classmates went to New York for the 12th Annual Leadership Institute and Recruitment Fair sponsored by the Thurgood Marshall College Fund and Wells Fargo, they never would have imagined that they would be stranded due to one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.
Hurricane Sandy hammered the Eastern shore with wind and water, leaving millions of people without homes, power and transportation. New Jersey and New York were two of the hardest hit areas.
Five ASU students flew to the four-day conference on Friday, Oct. 26, and by Monday, they faced the largest Atlantic hurricane (in diameter) on record, and their flight home was postponed.
When ASU officials received word of the students stranded in New York in Sandy’s aftermath, they responded quickly in an effort to not only return the five ASU students, but also to return 50 students from other HBCUs who also attended the conference, including Tuskegee University, Fort Valley State University, Savannah State University and Albany State University. ASU arranged for a bus to travel to New York and pick up the 55 stranded students.
Alabama State University officials sent a bus to pick up 55 college students from ASU and a number of other institutions who were stranded in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
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When Ayanna Jordan and her fellow classmates went to New York for the 12th Annual Leadership Institute and Recruitment Fair sponsored by the Thurgood Marshall College Fund and Wells Fargo, they never would have imagined that they would be stranded due to one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.
Hurricane Sandy hammered the Eastern shore with wind and water, leaving millions of people without homes, power and transportation. New Jersey and New York were two of the hardest hit areas.
Five ASU students flew to the four-day conference on Friday, Oct. 26, and by Monday, they faced the largest Atlantic hurricane (in diameter) on record, and their flight home was postponed.
When ASU officials received word of the students stranded in New York in Sandy’s aftermath, they responded quickly in an effort to not only return the five ASU students, but also to return 50 students from other HBCUs who also attended the conference, including Tuskegee University, Fort Valley State University, Savannah State University and Albany State University. ASU arranged for a bus to travel to New York and pick up the 55 stranded students.
