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wckirby



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:54 pm    Post subject: Urban Land Institute Report Reply with quote

Here's an interesting excerpt from ULI's report on New Orleans:

"...Together they employed approximately 8,000 people and served over 40,000 students in community college, undergraduate and graduate education. Only two of the nine schools were able to hold classes in Fall 2005. All of the schools expect to reopen for at least some classes by January 2006. The University of New Orleans, which had emerged as an mportant economic driver, has partially reopened. Tulane and Loyola suffered relatively less damage, while Southern, Dillard and Xavier suffered extensive damage. In order to accommodate most of the
students, Tulane and Loyola are teaming up with Xavier and Dillard to share classroom space in January and allow all four schools to re-open. While the schools will reopen in January, it is not known how many students will return in January, nor the potential fall-off in enrollment for Fall 2006. There has been some loss of faculty and researchers as well. Clearly, housing for students and employees will be major issue."

Notice that UNO is the major economic engine, not Tulane. Also, Tulane, when compared to UNO and Xavier, had "relatively less damage." For the record, UNO had $103 million in damages and they're located in Lakeview. Tulane, a smaller school located in Uptown, says they took much more damage.

Hmmm. Wonder if we should start calling the congressmen and demand the $330 million (100= Bush/Clinton Katrina, 30= Department of Education, 200= 62 billion package via DOE) that's been pumped into the area Universities be investigated? Hmm. That sounds like a nice thread. Maybe I should put in a tip on the corruption hotline, too.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 1:36 am    Post subject: Corruption Reply with quote

Corruption? That should be interesting.

On a similar note, I was the tech director at the Tulane College Democrats and took down the webpage I own and administer for them (http://www.tulanedems.org) for thinking we were out of line in criticizing this administration. We now have the "Bull Moose Party" who is putting political science majors in their place until engineers, programmers, and science research programs get the respect they need.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 9:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice! I like your website.
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