The News & Observer ran an op-ed piece by Meredith's Study Abroad Director Betty Webb about her recent return to describing her return to tsunami-devastated areas of Sri Lanka. The point of view article, "On the tsunami beach, life struggles to go on," ran in the paper's Sunday, April 3 edition.

Webb and six others from Meredith College returned from Sri Lanka on April 2. Journals from their trip can be seen at www.meredith.edu/tsunamirelief/sri-lanka/default.htm.