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David Johnson

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Ole Miss is accepting students from any affected university in LA, AL, and MS as visiting students for this semester. (Web link below). Not sure how to read this. I suppose one could read it as extending a helping hand. Others may read it as capitalizing on a bad situation. I'm not taking a position on it.

I got this info from a student whose father said that the USM website was directing people to the Ole Miss website, but I still get a "site not found" error when I try www.usm.edu.

Anyone got any info on this?

Here's the link: Ole Miss Accepting Students from Katrina-affected Universities

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schooler

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I can't speculate on UM's motives, but I do know that Rice (and likely other schools in the Houston and San Antonio areas) are making similar offers.



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Alan Thompson

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Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA is accepting students as well.

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Razoredged Razorback

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So are all the campuses in the U. of Arkansas system.

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truth4usm/AH

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Vanderbilt is also offering classes to visiting students. See the link here.

Truth

PS--I actually met a Divinity grad student today from Loyola U that came to Vanderbilt to take classes. He asked me if I'd ever been to New Orleans, and I said that I had. He smiled and said that he was glad I had seen it before the hurricane, because it may never be the same again. It was a bittersweet moment.

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Outside Observer

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New Orleans has always been one of my favorite cities...as I'm sure it is for many...the history...restaurants...etc.  It is difficult to grasp the damage done to that city.  Enjoyed the Mississippi Gulf Coast on several occasions...the videos I've seen of the damage their are unbelievable.

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Curt Yeomans

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I saw aerial photographs of New ORleans the other day and the flood waters were no where near the two schools. It appearred that much of the Garden District, downtown and the French Quarter were spared the flooding that afflicted much of the city. I'm assuming the Garden District avoided it because it didn't look like the flood waters were anywhere near that area late on Tuesday and the water is beginning to recede at a rate of .5" per hour now. Metarie also looked like it avoided much of the serious flooding. My guess is that the closer something was the river, the safer it was from the flood waters.


Everything north of I-10 is a lost cause though. They  are currently bringing in sandbags and concrete barriers to stop the flow of water into the city and will begin pumping water out of the city once the breach is patched up. They are also planning on strategically puncturing the levees in certain places along the lake to let the water out.



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Outside Observer

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Thanks for the update!  That's at least a little bit of good news.

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Tamara Harvey

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The provost at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA has said that he is willing to try to provide working space for displaced faculty.  Other universities may also be willing to help out in this way.


 



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foot soldier

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I know that at this stage people need the essentials of life, but I've been thinking of some sort of book drive for scholars in the future. I'm sure, like Will Watson and his 10,000 books, people lost the stuff of their life's work, which breaks my heart. I would happily donate things off my shelves so that people could work.

By the way, Let Freedom Ring, a long-time poster, was, last I heard, living in the New Orleans area. Prayers for LFR and family.

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Emma

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foot soldier wrote:

I know that at this stage people need the essentials of life, but I've been thinking of some sort of book drive for scholars in the future. I'm sure, like Will Watson and his 10,000 books, people lost the stuff of their life's work, which breaks my heart. I would happily donate things off my shelves so that people could work. By the way, Let Freedom Ring, a long-time poster, was, last I heard, living in the New Orleans area. Prayers for LFR and family.
I echo that FS, LFR - we need to hear from you.

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Anne Wallace

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The UNC system is also accepting displaced students, as is Bennett College--specifically from Xavier, I believe, in the latter case? I may have garbled that.

I've just spoken with my dean and there is some discussion underway at UNCG about what kinds of resources we might be able to offer displaced faculty. We don't yet know what we might be able to provide, or indeed what might be most needed--but if you all know of colleagues wiped out by the storm, whose universities are months from recovery, perhaps we can think together about how to help them.

I also heard from Lori Cohoon, a USM English graduate now on faculty at Memphis, and she too was asking about what they might do to help displaced faculty or TAs, including possible temporary positions. I suggested that she post here to gather info.

Anne

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David Johnson

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President Faulkner at UT-Austin issued an announcement today that we will admit undergrad students for undergrad level courses or grad students for grad level courses who graduated from a Texas High School or College with fast-track status. All libraries and research facilities are open to those students not needing courses but needing such facilities. Displaced faculty are being offered office space and use of facilities but I don't know of any compensation beyond that.

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