Opinion
By Adam Keith
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September 5, 2005
WHILE New Orleans lies under a column of water and much of costal Mississippi has been blown to rubble, students of the University have a chance to make a significant contribution to helping people put their lives together after the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina.Although most of the attention in the aftermath of Katrina has been deservedly focused on the events occurring in New Orleans and Mississippi, at the same time hundreds of thousands of evacuated residents, including 100,000 students from colleges in the affected regions have been stranded as their homes and livelihoods have been washed away in the deluge of water.
In response to this crisis, the University has agreed to allow as many as hundreds of students from affected colleges to continue their education here while their schools rebuild.