  {"id":299132,"date":"2018-02-19T14:20:50","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T19:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=299132"},"modified":"2018-02-22T11:25:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T16:25:16","slug":"students-puerto-rican-colleges-hurricane-maria-enjoying-guest-semester-university-299132","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/students-puerto-rican-colleges-hurricane-maria-enjoying-guest-semester-university-299132\/","title":{"rendered":"Students from Puerto Rican colleges enjoying guest semester in Rochester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven students displaced from Puerto Rican colleges have quickly settled in to life at the University, where they are enrolled for a \u201cguest semester.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Syanis Vargas-Gonzalez landed a role in the <a href=\"https:\/\/ccc.rochester.edu\/organization\/rocplayers\">ROC Players<\/a> musical <em>Spring Awakening <\/em>and is taking voice lessons at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/\">Eastman School of Music<em>.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mariana Ortiz and Adriana Santiago are playing club volleyball. Claudine Daneri has joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/college\/rccl\/leadership\/medallion\/leadership-society.html\">Medallion Leadership Society<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/ccc.rochester.edu\/organization\/undergraduatefinanceandeconomicscouncil\">Undergraduate Finance and Economics Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And Brian Basu belongs to <a href=\"https:\/\/ccc.rochester.edu\/organization\/URModelUN\">Model United Nations<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/rochester.edu\/debate\/\">UR Debate Union<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ccc.rochester.edu\/organization\/collegedemocrats\">College Democrats<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ccc.rochester.edu\/organization\/melioracapitalmanagement\">Meliora Capital Management<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/ccc.rochester.edu\/organization\/waterpolo\">UR club water polo<\/a>. He\u2019s also in the running to oversee this spring\u2019s Students\u2019 Association elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a privilege being here and being involved,\u201d Basu says. \u201cI love everything about this school.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_299882\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-299882\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-299882\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2018-01-31_Brian_Basu_242.jpg\" alt=\"young man walking through a snowy quad\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2018-01-31_Brian_Basu_242.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2018-01-31_Brian_Basu_242-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2018-01-31_Brian_Basu_242-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-299882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian Basu, a Puerto Rican college student displaced by Hurricane Maria, traverses an unfamiliar snowscape at Eastman Quad. (Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ photo \/ J. Adam Fenster)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><strong>An \u2018easy decision\u2019 to welcome students<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The students are all in their first or second year of college, and all are Puerto Rican natives except for Daneri, who was born in the Dominican Republic. All seven are taking classes at Rochester while their colleges in Puerto Rico were damaged or closed following the devastation left by Hurricane Maria last fall.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Latimer, assistant dean for enrollment diversity and outreach, says the guest semester is a way for the University to help the students to keep their academic programs on track.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re all top quality students who applied for the guest semester and were chosen by Admissions on merit,\u201d says Latimer, who reviewed the applications. \u201cThey\u2019re here because they deserve to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The students are: Ortiz (pre-law), Basu (political science), Gonzalez (music), Santiago (biology), Daneri (economics), Andrea Rosado-Quinones (biology), and Joshua Rosario (psychology). They arrived in mid-January, and are staying in residence halls on campus. All credit hours they earn this semester will be transferrable to their regular colleges.<\/p>\n<p>Dawn Bruner, Rochester\u2019s director of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/parents\/\">Parent and Family Relations<\/a>, is their advisor and meets regularly with them to answer any answer any questions. She helped plan their class schedule to match their majors back home.<\/p>\n<p>Latimer says several departments across the University worked together, and University alumni raised money for living expenses such as books, supplies, and meal plans.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Runner, dean of the College, says it was \u201can easy decision\u201d to offer the guest program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans (in 2006), Rochester opened its doors to Tulane students to give them an opportunity to come here,\u201d Runner says. \u201cWe wanted to do the same for the Puerto Rican students, at a time when there was so much damage from the hurricane. Our students were galvanized and wanted to help, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The students from Puerto Rico tell harrowing stories of when Maria, a Category 4 hurricane, crippled the island in September, leaving hundreds dead and more than a million homes without power. Ortiz and Santiago, San Juan natives and friends since childhood, were students at Universidad del Sagrado Corazon at the time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_299862\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-299862\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-299862\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2018-02-05_PR_students_class_040.jpg\" alt=\"women with books in a college classroom\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2018-02-05_PR_students_class_040.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2018-02-05_PR_students_class_040-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2018-02-05_PR_students_class_040-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-299862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Estephanie Cintron, Mariana Ortiz, and Adriana Santiago attend Sharon Willis\u2019 visual arts class in Morey Hall. (Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ photo \/ J. Adam Fenster)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAfter the hurricane, we were taking classes in tents outside in the heat, with mosquitos biting, and studying by flashlight at night,\u201d Ortiz says. \u201cIt was terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The students talk of \u201churricane-proof\u201d windows exploding, houses without roofs, mudslides, trees splitting and shedding all their leaves, and people running out of gas while waiting hours in line to refill their tanks.<\/p>\n<p>The University\u2019s offer was a chance to escape\u2014and continue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a breathtaking campus and a challenging school,\u201d Ortiz says. \u201cI know I\u2019m going to leave even more prepared for what\u2019s to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Feeling right at home<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Gonzalez, like Basu a student at Universidad de Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, is thrilled to be taking voice lessons at Eastman after passing her audition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s one of the best music schools in the country,\u201d the mezzo soprano says. \u201cThis is an amazing opportunity that could open doors for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_299872\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-299872\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-299872\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2018-01-31_Syanis_Gonzalez_072.jpg\" alt=\"two women looking at smartphones and singing\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2018-01-31_Syanis_Gonzalez_072.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2018-01-31_Syanis_Gonzalez_072-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2018-01-31_Syanis_Gonzalez_072-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-299872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Syanis Gonzalez, right, and Emily Tworek &#8217;20 sing in Lattimore Hall during rehearsal for the musical <em>Spring Awakening.<\/em> (Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ photo \/ J. Adam Fenster)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The first-year student has joined a gaming\/computer club and a linguistics club.<\/p>\n<p>Some of their experiences at Rochester are entirely new. Three students, for example, had never seen snow before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love it,\u201d Rosado-Quinones says. \u201cIt\u2019s like powdered sugar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The effects of Hurricane Maria won\u2019t soon be forgotten by these students. Neither will their time at Rochester.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince Day 1, the University staff has been attentive and helped me settle in perfectly fine,\u201d Daneri says. \u201cAnd the people I\u2019ve met from around the world are awesome. It\u2019s definitely something I\u2019ll always remember.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Maria crippled Puerto Rico last September, leaving hundreds dead and more than a million homes without power. 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