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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...
Monica Clark, a senior and the UNO student body president, was handed a piece of paper with a scrawled number—4212—to set her apart from the thousand or so students taking refuge at LSU from colleges throughout New Orleans. They would all leave with LSU ID’s, their passports for a semester’s study...
...getting thrills from driving on the wrong side of I-10 during the harried weekend evacuation. She stopped at her parents’ home in Baton Rouge; other students checked into refugee shelters or found shelter with relatives across the country. Days later she was seeking an application at LSU, a sprawling public school far larger than UNO, which hosted only 1,700 students, 80 percent from New Orleans...
...professors had also come calling at LSU. Between 20,000 and 25,000 faculty and staff members at institutions throughout New Orleans have been displaced, said Tony Pals, director of public information for the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. Harvard Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby wrote in an e-mail last week that Harvard libraries and other facilities are open to faculty and staff members from affected schools...
Wandering past LSU’s monumental class halls and pink bougainvillea blossoms, Clark was optimistic about her coming semester at LSU...