Students say NO to N.O.

AP ^ | 11/28/2005 | AP

[HawaiianGecko]

	"I really believe, if students come back for a semester they won't leave again," he said. "New Orleans really gets into their DNA." I wonder if he is talking about Toxic Sludge getting into their DNA?

 

 

[SteveMcKing]

"New Orleans really gets into their DNA."

How very well reasoned. Irrefutable, really....

[ncountylee]

Welcome to the party, pal.

[kinghorse]

No worries dear. The panicked democrat machine down in those parts doesn't want you back. But they would like in absentia voting for their base. Can you believe that sh^^$t?

[Daus]

Neither she nor McClendon had applied to Harvard out of high school.

Hmmm.. Let me guess why... Possibly because the only way they could have gotten into Harvard was if a Hurricane destorying New Orleans? :)

[ClearCase_guy]

"I should have the right to go where I want."

Is that how College Admissions work? I wanted to go to MIT. But I didn't. I think my rights were violated.

[sam_paine]

Are your clunky frame graphics really necessary to highlight your point? Does FR really need to look more like DU?

[CSM]

The situation has placed college administrators in a bind.

"We're sort of in this moral, ethical dilemma here," said Esther Gulli, chief of staff to the vice chancellor for student affairs at Berkeley,

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Yep, morals and ethics are always something that puts Berkely staffers in a bind.

[Redbob]

Having visited New Orleans over the Thanksgiving weekend, that was one of my greatest fears - that some of it would get into my DNA, or my respiratory system...

The place is an absolute PIT! The devastation must be seen to be believed - the TV reports can't begin to give a picture of the absolute wasteland that large portions of N.O. have become. Yes, Tulane is in one of the few remaining nice areas, but why would ANYone bother?
It's like saying the Green Zone is a nice area of Baghdad!

Driving around New Orleans at night, you're struck by how little of the city yet has electricity.
Friends who live in Fauberg Marigny ("Marigny neighborhood") are constantly dealing with power outages of several hours duration even now, and trash is piled 6 feet high along the sidewalks even in the "good" areas! Even in the supposedly "cleaned-up" downtown!

Meanwhile, back in Jamaica, Mayor Nagin is holding press conferences...

[Sthitch]

I always thought that NOLA was a pit before the hurricane hit. But I can understand why someone would want to attend UVa over Tulane, it is a better school that is harder to get into.

[Steely Tom]

Same story posted yesterday. Different source and headline, admittedly.

(steely)

[HawaiianGecko]

	I imagine Jim provided the use of html for purposes different than you humoring yourself with with attacks on Freepers. BTW: it's not frame graphics ;)

 

 

[TXBSAFH]

"I really believe, if students come back for a semester they won't leave again," he said. "New Orleans really gets into their DNA."

So do many deadly diseases.

[NonValueAdded]

Still, he still wants other colleges to stick by their promises not to poach.

RICO conspiracy? What is that monopoly term, "combination?" Does that apply? In a "right to work" state, two or more individuals cannot conspire to prevent a person from getting a job ... would this apply in a "right to study" situation? I can understand the schools requiring these students to properly apply for transfer in, but to deny admission solely on the basis of a "promise" should be actionable.

[Redbob]

"But they would like in absentia voting for their base."

Hah!
Their greatest fear - and it's openly expressed! - is that a White will be elected mayor in the upcoming elections!

New Orleans has gone from a 66% black population to 20%, literally overnight.

Oh, and my guess is the unemployment has gone from 12 - 15% down to the single digits - NEGATIVE!
"Help Wanted" signs are everywhere - on the tube, on lampposts, on shop windows.
(Interspersed with signs saying "Store relocating after being looted")

[Redbob]

(The silly formatting IS a waste of bandwidth; you can take the advice offered, or ignore it and become a legend in your own mind...)

[alloysteel]

There is still no viable reason to rebuild New Orleans, certainly not as it existed before August 2005.

Like Pompeii and Herculaneum after the eruptions of Mt. Vesuvius, the city of New Orleans lies buried and uninhabitable. A new city may arise there, IF there is a reason for one to exist.

There is a need for a terminal and port facility there, because of the enormous amount of traffic up and down the Mississippi. Barges and freight cars have to be loaded and unloaded when exchanging cargos with ocean-going vessels, petroleum supplies are received and either refined there, or are sent by pipeline elsewhere. Somebody has to be there running the port. They need housing. They need community support for themselves and their families. Other amenities of the community will grow OUT of these basic facts of life.

But you can't just build slum housing, and put in casinos, and have a reckless, wide-open, free-wheeling 24/7 Mardi Gras going on year around. And still call it a city.

Even Las Vegas has to maintain the streets and make sure the lights go on.

[wyattearp]

Right now they are getting a Harvard or University of Virginia education, while paying Tulane tuition. I suspect that THAT is what they are trying to keep.

[clintonh8r]

As a Tulane alumnus I'm saddened that it seems the university will never fully recover from Katrina. The school's endowment is not large and it depends on current revenues (tuitions and research) to operate. Regardless of some remarks here, New Orleans was a great place to go to college, and Tulane was once a great university.

[pepperhead]

I agree his formatting sucks. I usually just skip whatever he says because of it.