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(Lt. Zachary West/Army)</h4> </figcaption> </figure> </header> </div> <div class="thinline"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="wrapper clearfix col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12 pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-article-mco-body" id="f0bfPTcsCyHEJq"> <div id="article-body" class="article-body article-body-elements"> <article itemprop="articleBody"> <div id="article-content"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> Last Wednesday, the Student Veterans of America chapter at the University Houston hosted a back-to-school breakfast for its members. A week later, school would be cancelled and their city would be under water.</p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> Now, instead of sitting in classes, many of them are treading through flooded streets to help with Hurricane Harvey relief efforts.</p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> “Most of our student veterans are out and about in the Houston area, either volunteering at shelters or helping rescue folks with their own boats,” Edwin Mascorro, vice president of the university’s SVA chapter, said in a Facebook message.</p> </div> </div> <div class="pb-ad-container"> <div id="300x250-1-in-story" class="pb-ad-container 300x250-1-in-story pb-ad pb-ad-prod ad-300X250" data-slot-name="300x250-1-in-story" data-mobile-display="true" data-desktop-display="true"></div> </div> <div class="border-bottom-"></div> <script>window.dfpAdHelper.appendAd("300x250-1-in-story","/114235265/MilitaryTimes/education/rectangle",[300,250],"in-story","pos","atf","sizeMappingRectangle");</script> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> Chapter president and University of Houston senior, Anthony Armendariz, said he’s seen people lining up to volunteer. His family packed up donation bags filled with children’s clothes and toys, and other SVA members helped deliver them to people in need.</p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> Emergency officials have reported more than 1,000 homes in Texas were destroyed and close to 50,000 damaged since Harvey first came ashore last Friday. Over 32,000 people were in shelters across the state, and 911 centers in the Houston area are getting more than 1,000 calls an hour from people seeking help.</p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> Armendariz, reached by phone Wednesday, said his house took in water through the drainage system, and the floodwaters outside came up to his chest.</p> </div> </div> <div class="pb-ad-container"> <div id="300x250-2-in-story" class="pb-ad-container 300x250-2-in-story pb-ad pb-ad-prod ad-300X250" data-slot-name="300x250-2-in-story" data-mobile-display="true" data-desktop-display="true"></div> </div> <div class="border-bottom-"></div> <script>window.dfpAdHelper.appendAd("300x250-2-in-story","/114235265/MilitaryTimes/education/rectangle",[300,250],"in-story","pos","btf","sizeMappingRectangle");</script> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> “If the rain would have gone on for five more minutes, it would have been in the house,” he said.</p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> Meanwhile, classes at the University of Houston were suspended, and other campuses hit by Harvey, including Texas A&amp;M’s Galveston and Corpus Christi campuses, largely halted operations.</p> </div> </div> <style>.newsletter-subscribe-button{background-color:#4f497a}.newsletter-subscribe-more{color:#4f497a}</style> <script src='https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js'></script> <script>window.onload=function(){var recaptcha=document.forms["emailsignup"]["g-recaptcha-response"];recaptcha.required=true;recaptcha.oninvalid=function(e){alert("Please complete the captcha")}};</script> <div class="container signup newsletter"> <div class="newsletter-subscribe"> <div class="newsletter-subscribe-signup subtitle col-xs-12 col-sm-8"> <span class="title">Sign up for the Education Report</span> <br>Each month, find out about tuition, scholarships, schools and other benefits available to you</div> <div class="newsletter-subscribe-signup col-xs-12 col-sm-4"> <button class="newsletter-subscribe-button subscribe">Subscribe</button> </div> <form id="newsletterForm" name="emailsignup" target="subscribeFrame" method="POST" action="https://link.militarytimes.com/s/Editorial+-+Military+-+Education"> <input type="hidden" name="vars[source]" value="Website - Module"> <div class="newsletter-subscribe-submit col-xs-12 col-sm-5 hide"> <input type="email" required title="Enter a valid email address" id="email" name="email" class="form-signup" placeholder="Enter your email address"> </div> <div class="newsletter-subscribe-submit form-captcha col-xs-12 col-sm-7 hide"> <div class="form-captcha col-xs-12 col-sm-6"> <div class="form-captcha-container"> <div class="g-recaptcha" data-sitekey="6Le5nwkUAAAAAIykVCuKd4Fn7Dlf_h7DTNpw6Ixj"></div> </div> </div> <div class="form-button col-xs-12 col-sm-6"> <button id="signup" class="newsletter-subscribe-button subscribe">Subscribe</button> <iframe name="subscribeFrame" class="hide"></iframe> </div> </div> </form> <div class="newsletter-confirmation col-xs-12 col-sm-6 hide">Thanks for signing up!</div> <div class="newsletter-confirmation newsletter-subscribe-more col-xs-12 col-sm-6 hide"> <a href="http://link.militarytimes.com/join/5b9/sign-up" target="_blank">For more newsletters click here</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> This won’t stop GI Bill payments, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs assured students on its website and social media channels this week. The VA will still consider students’ attendance active and continuous, regardless of whether their school is closed, as long as their enrollment was submitted prior to the natural disaster.</p> </div> </div> <div class="pb-ad-container"> <div id="300x250-3-in-story" class="pb-ad-container 300x250-3-in-story pb-ad pb-ad-prod ad-300X250" data-slot-name="300x250-3-in-story" data-mobile-display="true" data-desktop-display="true"></div> </div> <div class="border-bottom-"></div> <script>window.dfpAdHelper.appendAd("300x250-3-in-story","/114235265/MilitaryTimes/education/rectangle",[300,250],"in-story","pos","btf","sizeMappingRectangle");</script> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> Ricci Stevens, a veteran certification officer at Texas A&amp;M University-Corpus Christi, said his office has received several worried calls from veteran students regarding their GI Bill and other education benefits.</p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> “The Office of Veterans Affairs is focusing our efforts on ensuring that each veteran and their dependents who are using Department of Affairs benefits like the Post-9/11 GI Bill and the State of Texas’ Hazlewood Act exemptions are taken care of,” he said in an email.</p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> Stevens said many students and staff members have been helping with the rescue, relief and recovery efforts.</p> </div> </div> <div class="pb-ad-container"> <div id="300x250-4-in-story" class="pb-ad-container 300x250-4-in-story pb-ad pb-ad-prod ad-300X250" data-slot-name="300x250-4-in-story" data-mobile-display="true" data-desktop-display="true"></div> </div> <div class="border-bottom-"></div> <script>window.dfpAdHelper.appendAd("300x250-4-in-story","/114235265/MilitaryTimes/education/rectangle",[300,250],"in-story","pos","btf","sizeMappingRectangle");</script> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> Students from unaffected parts of Texas are pitching in, too. Retired Col. Lou Ortiz, director of military and veterans programs at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas — more than 500 miles from Houston — said a number of students have been activated with the Texas State and National Guards to help with relief efforts.</p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> “Our first day of class at Texas Tech was on Monday, and my office and others on campus starting receiving notice that afternoon from students that they were being deployed and would not be starting class. More deployment notices came out on Tuesday,” he said in an email. “The faculty and staff of Texas Tech University will do all we can to provide assistance for these students and to accommodate their return to campus once their mission is complete.”</p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> Armendariz said the University of Houston has been sending students daily updates. Deadlines to add and drop classes have already been extended, he said, and the school has done a good job of supporting veterans and other students.</p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> For now, he’s concentrating on relief efforts and has opened his home to a fellow Marine veteran he saw on the news and others who have been stranded.</p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> “I mean, that’s what we do down here in Texas,” he said. “We help each other out.”</p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-print-12"> <p class="element element-paragraph"> <i>The Associated Press contributed to this report.</i></p> </div> </div> </div> <div></div> <br> <div class="addthis_inline_share_toolbox"></div> </article> </div> </div> <div class="wrapper clearfix col-lg-12 col-md-12 pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-article-mco-byline col-sm-12 col-xs-12" id="ffAgg72sCyHEJq"> <div class="byline"> <div class="about col-sm-1"> <header class="byline author-about-label"> About<br>this<br>Author </header> </div> <div class="col-sm-2 "> <img src="https://www.armytimes.com/resizer/lW-asUrtcWSXv-Cdfa_mEWdjXOM=/0x200/filters:quality(100)/s3.amazonaws.com/arc-authors/mco/4137aa14-2db5-4da1-9887-a2173584276d.jpg"/> </div> <div class="col-sm-9"> <div class="author-text clearfix"> About <a class="author-name" href="/author/natalie-gross" rel="author">Natalie Gross</a> <p class="excerpt author-description">Natalie Gross covers higher education and employment for Military Times. </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="wrapper clearfix pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-global-mco-recommend" id="f0bG9XZsCyHEJq"> <div id="recommendations-marker"></div> <div id="recommendations" style="display:block"> <div class="col-md-12 col-xs-12"> <header> <h5 class="header-label">Recommended for you</h5> </header> </div> <script data-template-id="recommendation" type="text/template">
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