If you have been reading the news for the past, say, 100 days, you know that the world is going to hell at any moment. Students have been caught in crises in Egypt and Japan, and while the U.S. government has been pretty good about getting people out, that doesn’t limit the amount of danger they were in at any one time.

In the wake of the disaster in Japan, it is clear that the citizens of the United States are not giving monetary support as generously as they did for other natural disasters in the past several years. Philanthropic donations from the U.S. one week after the earthquake and tsunami amounted to approximately 25 percent of what was given to Haiti in the same time frame.

Washington University community members are coming together to raise money to help those in Japan. A magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck the northeast coast of Japan March 11 and caused a tsunami that also hit the nation. Thousands perished in the disaster, and there were two partial nuclear meltdowns.

Washington University students studying in Japan are all safe after an earthquake, a tsunami, and nuclear disaster hit the country. The Chancellor released an email to the student body on Thursday announcing that all students and faculty who were in Japan are safe. He urged any affected students to seek help from the University.

Washington University students studying in Japan are all safe, according to an e-mail from Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton to the University community on Thursday afternoon.

According to an e-mail, the University has assembled an Emerging Infectious Disease Task Force to monitor the flu outbreak and keep the community informed and updated.