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A&M Hopefully others will step up and do the same.
http://www.aggienetwork.com/katrinasupport/
TO: All Faculty, Students and Staff
SUBJECT: Assistance to Hurricane Katrina Victims
We are announcing today (see statement below) that Texas A&M, including the Galveston campus, will accept up to 1,000 students for as long as one year from universities and colleges unable to offer classes this fall due to Hurricane Katrina. This is a significantly higher number of students than any other university has offered to take in (as far as we are aware), but entirely in keeping with our culture, our traditions and our Spirit. We also have offered to provide – to the extent we can -- a temporary home for faculty to continue their research while their own campuses are unavailable. We are, again as far as we know, the only university to extend the offer of assistance to all colleges and universities affected by the tragedy. The statement includes a number of other actions we have taken and are taking. I am confident that other initiatives, likely thought up by students, faculty and/or staff, will be forthcoming. I know that the Aggie family will respond with warmth, sympathy and support to those displaced by this disaster. A significant number of students from the affected states would clearly have an impact on class sizes and more, but I am confident that faculty and students will make the best of the situation in order to help our neighbors. Also, I request that all faculty and staff be especially sensitive to the feelings and emotional state of students who are directly affected by this tragedy—certainly including those who have lost family members or else do not know the fate of some of them, in addition to having significant property losses in some cases. Significant help to friends and neighbors in trouble is what Aggies do best.
Robert M. Gates
Statement by Robert M. Gates, President of Texas A&M University
The hearts of the entire Texas A&M University community go out to all victims of Hurricane Katrina. Service to others is a core value of this University, and we feel a special obligation to do all we can to help college students and faculty in the affected area continue uninterrupted with their education and their work. I have formed a special university task force, which will continuously update our ability to assist in this very difficult period. Our current activities are summarized below.
ACADEMICS
Texas A&M will welcome up to 1,000 students for as long as one year from all four-year colleges and universities unable to offer classes this fall because of the hurricane, including schools such as Tulane, Dillard, Southern, Xavier, Loyola and the University of New Orleans. These students will be charged the minimum tuition allowed by state law.
Students from impacted universities who are interested in attending Texas A&M this fall should contact Ms. Mary Jane Baldwin in the Office of Admissions and Records at (979) 845-1064 or by e-mail at [email protected] .
Texas A&M will make available for students from impacted schools approximately 140 campus housing assignments and provide assistance in arranging off-campus housing as needed.
Texas A&M will make available classroom and laboratory space after hours to ins utions that want temporarily to re-locate their programs here. We also are prepared, with available facilities, to host faculty from these universities wishing to continue their research for the next few months.
FINANCIAL AID
Texas A&M has set aside $200,000 to provide students resources for immediate needs while arrangements are being made for longer-term financial assistance.
We also will provide assistance to Texas A&M students whose homes are in the ravaged areas and whose families have been forced to migrate to the local area and are now in need of housing and other daily necessities.
Student Body President Jim Carlson is urging Texas A&M faculty, staff and students and other members of the local community to donate canned goods and clothing during the Memorial Student Center (MSC) Open House MSC on Sunday, September 4 from 1-6 p.m. Additional student-led activities will be announced subsequently.
OUTREACH
The College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences is sheltering animals displaced by the hurricane and subsequent flooding.
We can all take pride in the work of one of our sister agencies based here on campus. Texas Task Force One, operated by the Texas Engineering Extension Service, has 126 personnel providing search and rescue service in Louisiana.
THe black man who lost his wife and was telling the reporter about her saying goodbye - they found his wife's body today.
Actually one National Guard bombing run solves that oneThat could get pretty hairy when they try to get control of that prison back.
If this was already posted, I'm sorry...
Damn, Bush called FEMA's work unacceptable so far. So long, Mark Brown.
THe black man who lost his wife and was telling the reporter about her saying goodbye - they found his wife's body today.
^^^^ Way to go President Gates (A&M). Methinks if he were in charge in NO things would be running much better.
I agree with y'all now, the mayor has copped out. How can you leave your city in this time, then expect the cops to stick around? Total BS.
"Unacceptable" is manager-speak for "your ass is so fired."Actually one National Guard bombing run solves that one
Damn, Bush called FEMA's work unacceptable so far. So long, Mark Brown.
THe black man who lost his wife and was telling the reporter about her saying goodbye - they found his wife's body today.
At least they found her, though....if it could have been any worse, he could have spent the rest of his life wondering....
Yep, Brown may as well start cleaning out his office. For the President of the US (and your boss) to say that the federal coordination and recovery efforts have been unacceptable so far (when usually we get to hear politik speak) means his ass is toast."Unacceptable" is manager-speak for "your ass is so fired."
I saw that on CNN this morning with that man who lost his life, they said people were calling in from all over the country offering to help out him and his kids.
"Unacceptable" is manager-speak for "your ass is so fired."
"We fixed the 'glich' "!
Other news, Entergy already has crews in fixing electricity, but had to pull them because assholes were shooting at them.Jeff Parish Emergency Operations Center Director Walter Maestri: 17th Street Canal Levee breach is now under control...not fixed...but under control.
6:59 A.M. - Jeff Parish Emergency Operations Center Director Walter Maestri: Civil unrest is basically under control in Orleans and Jefferson.
Damn, send in the Marines and wax all this trash.
Your fired.
Shoot To Kill Orders Issued
Shoot 'em in the head, spray paint looter on their forehead, and leave them in the street.NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The National Guard wants hurricane-ravaged New Orleans to know, the cavalry is coming. Lieutenant General Steven Blum of the National Guard says seven-thousand National Guardsmen are arriving in Louisiana today to "to save Louisiana citizens."
He says the only thing they'll be attacking is "the effects of the hurricane," but adds they are prepared to "put down" the violence "in a quick and efficient manner."
I wish I had the room to help out myself.
It's so great that ya'll are willign to open up your home!
Scientist had allready estimated (beofre Katrina) that this year alone LA would loose 35 square miles of coastline.
they were saying that in another decade the entire city of NO would've been exposed to the ocean.
Louisiana loses aprox. the size of the island of Manhatten every year from the delta area.
I didn't know it lost that much land every year.
Would it make sense to rebuild that city? Even better levees might not be able to withstand another Category 5 hurricane.
They will rebuild. But if they are smart, they will fill in the bowl to at least make the land sea level, so the water doesn't stay in there.
Ya, they do lose a lot of land. That is why they were trying to fix the coastline, to help prevent land erosion.
No insurance company would insure a new building built below sea level. They will have to raise NO to above sea level.Would it make sense to rebuild that city? Even better levees might not be able to withstand another Category 5 hurricane.
You can fight city hall more effectively than you can fight a wall of water.
The coastline was eroding in the delta because they have the Mississippi confined within levees. Confined in a narrow channel, the water doesn't slow down enough to replenish the silt that has been constantly deposited over the ages to offset the sinking of the land under its own weight.
There was a great article about this in National Geographic about a year ago.
They'll have an opportunity to engineer the Louisiana coast correctly this time.
The same levees that allowed cities to exist down there also have been the doom of south Louisiana. Without floods to deposit new river silt on the delta, the Gulf of Mexico slowly reclaims the land.
10:33 A.M. - (AP) A large fire erupted today in an old retail building in a dry section of Canal Street. There's no immediate reports of injuries.Earlier today, an explosion at a chemical depot rocked an area of New Orleans east of the French Quarter.
10:16 A.M. - HOUSTON (AP) -- The U.S. Postal Service is making arrangements to get mail to evacuees from Hurricane Katrina. Officials are urging the evacuees to file change-of-address cards listing their shelter's address. The plan could help reunite familiy members sent to shelters in various cities.
A change of address can be filed by telephone at 1-800 ASK-USPS.
People who believe they may have family members at the Houston Astrodome can address their mail to the named individual at " General Delivery Houston, Texas 77230." Similar arrangements are being made for major shelters set up for people evacuated to other areas of the U.S.
10:03 A.M. - An untold number of vacationers remain trapped by Hurricane Katrina. Dozens of them from places like Tennessee, Arkansas, even Canada, have banded together to stay alive.
Their hotel tried to get them out yesterday, hiring ten buses for them. But federal authorities commandeered the buses. They were told to go the convention center. There, they found no food or water, only an angry crowd.
9:59 A.M. - DENVER (AP) -- The Dave Matthews Band will perform a Sept. 12 concert at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, with all profits to go to charities supporting victims of Hurricane Katrina. "The amount of generosity from around the country I'm sure is staggering right now from people just giving what they can," Matthews told The Associated Press in a phone interview Thursday.
"We're just getting in line behind those people, getting in line a long way behind the Red Cross or National Guard, but we all have to do a little bit."
9:53 A.M. - LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Hilary Duff has pledged to donate $250,000 to help Hurricane Katrina victims on the Gulf Coast. The 17-year-old singer-actress will give $200,000 to the American Red Cross and $50,000 to USA Harvest, which is supplying food to shelters, according to a statement released Thursday by publicist Cece Yorke. The latter donation will amount to more than 300,000 cans of food being provided to victims.
Duff encouraged fans to bring canned food donations to her concerts and to give money to charities.
The first busses have arrived at Kelly USA. Its live on KSAT. Might be on other local stations as well.
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