Yabbering updates and other disappointments
There�s footage on CNN showing the pumps online and dewatering the city, which I find particularly encouraging. It also looks like the more significant levee breach is nearly repaired. Reports this morning estimate less than 10,000 people left living in Orleans Parish. I�ve heard second-hand accounts that there were bodies in the street near Magazine and Jackson Avenues that were not from the storm, but rather, murder victims from the days of lawlessness that followed the storm.
Jefferson Parish is allowing people to return, temporarily, to check things out and see what can be salvaged. I believe they can only stay until Thursday but that�s unclear. Which brings me to a comment that may not be very popular: I feel communication of information out of New Orleans, even now, is very disappointing. The politicians, for the most part, are being vague and uninformative. George II is the best (or the worst) at this and I keep expecting him to write the Department of Homeland Security a blank check and direct them to wage a �Ware on Nature� by developing a way to control the weather. Some sort of ray gun or other such ridiculous thing I�m sure. But the big debate of the day was the whole flag at half mast thing � whatever.
Everyone keeps saying Universities are cooperating to keep students in school, but I�ve heard a different story. Apparently, the University of Minnesota is not among these universities. They have made no attempt to assist dislocated Minnesota natives continue their education. A student from the University of New Orleans with a 4.0 GPA in Marketing was told she could go to the University of Minnesota if she could come up with $20,000 in three weeks with no financial aid and having already paid for a semester at UNO and purchased a couple of hundred dollars in text books that were lost in the flood. I find it very disappointing that they couldn�t at least waived the out of state fees or do something to help someone who spent the first 24 years of 26 years living in Minneapolis.
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Tell her to come to the University of Memphis - we will take her and waive fees since she paid already. We are also waiving class limits and late add dates.
http://memphis.edu
I am an instructor at Panola College in Carthage, TX. We are located approximately 50 miles from Shreveport. We are a two-year college offering the first two years of under graduate study in the liberal and fine arts.
It is my understanding that we have 100 beds available for college students displaced by Katrina. Please contact our admissions office for more information.
By the way, I am the director of instrumental music at Panola College, and I would encourage all music majors (as well as college musicians) to contact me directly.
I have played jazz all my life, and New Orleans is a VERY special place for me!
Mike McGowan
Director of Instrumental Music
Panola College
According to my previous post the only -active- aid that I know of has been directed towards Tulane students (undergrad, grad, and law) and Loyola law students. The posts above indicate that there are some options out there for UNO students and I’d be sure that there are other people opening their doors if not with such active publicity.
I almost have a tinge of jealousy for those people that are going to be able to study at Cornell.
Bush may decide to destroy the moon. I hear that it is responsible for periodic coastal flooding in many parts of the world.
I’m in Texas and Texas A&M will accept up to 1,000 students from ANY school in NOLA. Just go to http://www.tamu.edu for help. Also, this applies to any school affliated with Texas A&M in the state of Texas. There are at least 10 schools scattered across the state. Tuition will be paid for up to one year, I think (don’t quote me).
Somehow, I’m not surprised. I’ve experienced my share of similar displays of *kindness and consideration* from certain businesses and institutions and heard as many stories. It’s sickening.
I teach marketing at UNO and I’d love to know who the aforementioned student is. I’ve been quite worried about my students and I’d be relieved to know about those who are safe and delighted to help with a letter or phone call, if it would help with the university situation. I’m in Charlottesville, VA and will be talking to folks at UVA this week as well and will report the disposition of the powers that be at this institution. (The president of UVA lives down the street from the people with whom we are staying.)
Please have your marketing student friend visit this website:
http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/mb/jbrentzel?forum=29347
where there is a message board with lots of colleges offering waived tuition for ALL students, not just Tulane students. I saw Harvard on this message board and my jaw dropped-
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/home/news_and_events/releases/katrina_09022005.html
I would tell your friend screw U of Minn and get on this message board pronto. This may end up being the greatest lagniappe of all for these students.
I don’t know if this is the right place to post the following, but you all have kept me and my staff (3rd shifters) informed with the truth of what’s happening in NOLA. We are keeping good thoughts for you all and sending anything we can to help.
Thanks to all those of you for keeping us informed. Hang in there.
The University of Memphis is accepting displaced students. You can reach them @ Phone: 901/678-2111 or 800/669-2678 for details. It ain’t Harvard, but it works. Memphis has several shelters with available space and the Memphis City School System is welcoming all displaced children into the schools. They are waiving all shot and grade records, too. We also have several businesses and temporary employment services that are looking to assist anyone who was displaced by Katrina. Please come on up the river - we’d love to make y’all feel at home.
Actually, according to an article this morning, the Uof MN is going through the requests on a case by case basis, giving priority to Minnesota residents.
Lisa:
Please send me an email at jack@monkeywithabutcherknife.com and I’ll reply with her name since I’m nost sure she’d appreciate a good flaming.
Cat:
That may be a new development but there is something contradictory about trying to help people from another state and then qualifying with them having to be a MN resident. For example, the person in quest grew up there, has a bunch of family there, but spent the last 2 years or so living in New Orleans so techinically, she isn’t a MN resident any more. In this case I’m starting to think the student and the university may be in a difficult situation over what to do.
I’d like to point out a small group of people are taking advantages as a result of Katrina. And let us all stop them. If you are the stockholder and enjoying windfall profit. You should feel shame and raise your voice to those petroleum industries.
THE REAL LOOTERS ARE THOSE WHO JACK UP THE PRICES KATRINA
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We’re refugees from a foreign country remember.
We aren’t United State citizens.
Ask George Bush.
He wants to declare Louisiana a territory so he can
get the oil without any one in his way.
He sent troops to shoot at a class four hurricane-a mental case.
I say we suceed, shut the rigs down, clean the
pipes out good, and drop the rigs
horizontally let ‘em turn into reefs.
Alternate energy is every where.
Let’s do it.
Laurie
Tantra yoga works bettre’!
If I think of it as a train I can see the engineer
waving from the engine, and the man waving back at me from the red caboose.
Laurie