Evacuees inspire professor’s study
By Rebecca Fontenot
Kansas native Loretta Pyles had been working as a new assistant social work professor at Tulane University just six weeks when it became clear that she was not in Kansas anymore — she was experiencing her first hurricane.
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Displaced students adjust to new schools
By Kathy Adams
When Janine Sacco and her three children left their home after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, what she saw while driving through their hometown of Covington, La., was disheartening.
"Our neighborhood looked like a war zone and was not even recognizable," Sacco said. "Trees that were hundreds of years old were snapped like toothpicks."
Displaced students start temporary lives at UT
By Emily Breunig
All of Helen Hollyman's personal belongings were ruined by Hurricane Katrina, so her current wardrobe source is her 14-year-old sister's closet.
"I look like an awkward middle-schooler wearing all of my little sister's clothes," said Hollyman, 20, a Tulane University student who moved back home to Austin to temporarily attend the University of Texas. "It hasn't been the most dynamic social time for me, but worse things have happened."
Louisiana law students quickly become Longhorns
By Amy Casteen
and Rosanna Flores
For Meredith Byars and other students who organize their lives around their law studies, Hurricane Katrina only changed their plans temporarily.
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Students must adjust to campus relocation
By Lindsay Meeks
First-year students at Tulane University arrived on campus on Sept. 23, unloaded their belongings, met new friends and hugged their parents goodbye.
Then they got back in their cars to go back home after Tulane President Scott S. Cowen announced an immediate evacuation. Then Hurricane Katrina hit.