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More than 30 colleges and universities have been damaged by Hurricane Katrina, with as many as 100,000 students displaced, according to a Sept. 2 statement by the American Council on Education. Many of the affected schools, including Tulane University, the University of New Orleans (UNO), Xavier University, and Dillard University, have closed for at least the fall semester, though UNO plans to offer electronic classes in October, according to the school’s website. Hundreds of colleges and universities across the country have opened their doors to the displaced students, letting them enroll with visiting status until their...
Monica Clark, a senior and the UNO student body president, was handed a piece of paper with a scrawled number—4212—to set her apart from the thousand or so students taking refuge at LSU from colleges throughout New Orleans. They would all leave with LSU ID’s, their passports for a semester’s study...
...Clark weaved through the line, another UNO student nodded to her. Clark had completed one week at UNO before she left the city with a friend, getting thrills from driving on the wrong side of I-10 during the harried weekend evacuation. She stopped at her parents’ home in Baton Rouge; other students checked into refugee shelters or found shelter with relatives across the country. Days later she was seeking an application at LSU, a sprawling public school far larger than UNO, which hosted only 1,700 students, 80 percent from New Orleans...
...Pero su trabajo no la llenaba. "Hab?a llegado a los 40 y no ten?a ni idea de lo que quer?a hacer con mi vida?, recuerda. De manera que se acogi? a un retiro temprano y prob? su suerte en una docena de proyectos sin fines de lucro. Uno de ellos fue el Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF), que en aquel tiempo distribu?a $3 millones de d?lares al a?o entre estudiantes latinos necesitados. Y como descubri? desde su puesto en aquel trabajo, esta cantidad no era ni cercanamente suficiente para lidiar con la creciente crisis de la educaci?n. Para...
...rascacielos de renombre, incluido el famoso L?piz Labial de Philip Johnson; el Trump World Tower, considerado como el edificio de apartamentos m?s alto del hemisferio y la torre angular Hearst, de Norman Foster, todav?a en construcci?n. Pionero en el complejo mundo de la ingenier?a de edificios altos, Seinuk fue uno de los precursores del uso de un concreto m?s fuerte en Nueva York, un avance que ha ayudado a subsecuentes generaciones de ingenieros a construir m?s alto sin tener que hacer bases m?s anchas. "Mi trabajo?, dice Seinuk, ?siempre ha estado relacionado con ampliar el horizonte?. Cuando lleg? a Estados...