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Discuss “Displaced students settle in”

Three weeks after Hurricane Katrina forced the closing of several universities in and around the city of New Orleans, displaced students from those institutions have resumed their studies elsewhere, including here at Carnegie Mellon.

Prashant Sastry was an incoming freshman when he arrived on the campus of Tulane University; now he is one of 26 students from the affected area whom CMU is hosting. ?As an incoming freshman, you?re looking forward to coming to New Orleans for the two months beforehand,? he said. ?Then all of a sudden, after being there for a matter of hours, we had to evacuate.?

Tulane freshman Kate Frankola, whose parents had already left New Orleans when Katrina struck, spent four days in a gymnasium in Jackson, Miss., with...

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