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According to the American Council of Education, 175,000 students are enrolled in colleges in the storm-ravaged areas of Southern Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama...
...devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina have stunned us all,” Kirby wrote in his letter. “The loss of life, destruction of property, and unimaginably severe conditions that remain in parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, are profoundly saddening. Our thoughts, prayers, and sympathies are with all those who have suffered from the storm and its aftermath, and naturally we want to do what we can as a university to help...
BATON ROUGE, La.—The line stretched along the hallway, up the stairs, and around the corner in Pleasant Hall, a Louisiana State University (LSU) building commandeered to process the thousands of students who, some without homes and all without colleges, would join LSU for a semester...
...should take the federal government to task for being somewhat slow and disorganized in its response, but even more we should demand a wholesale restructuring of the obviously dysfunctional governments of Louisiana and New Orleans. How, in a city almost entirely surrounded by water and built below sea level, there were not clear and unambiguous evacuation routes is a complete mystery. Why did the city not use its substantial public transit assets to aid in the mandatory evacuation of the city, instead of letting them sit idle only to be flooded and destroyed? According to one blog?...
...period of unrestrained pork barrel spending. Ask why FEMA head Michael Brown seemed to know less about the unfolding disaster than the average viewer of Fox News or CNN. But, please, spare the outlandish rhetoric, demagoguery, unsubstantiated speculation, and race-based bile. It is true that the Louisiana National Guard does have troops in Iraq, but the Mississippi National Guard has an even larger percentage of its forces overseas, and looting was virtually non-existent in the latter state while epidemic in the former. It is true that the funding for levy projects in New Orleans...