Xavier University ...400 students sill trapped ... one dead

[RedEarth]

1:35 P.M. - Xavier University spokesperson: 400 students still trapped at the university. One person is already dead.

[mshasta]

1. what??

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Oh no!

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[Spazito]

3. Oh God, we need to keep this kicked!

*

[smbolisnch]

4. I'm sorry what is going on??

:shrug:

[davidinalameda]

5. sad

[MnFats]

6. Tell an outsider: Where is Xavier? Why can't they rescue them?

after all this time? Holy fuck. This is shameful..

[smbolisnch]

9. College in OH.

nt

[RedEarth]

12. There is one in OH, but also one in NO...

I tried to access their web site, however it's down.

[KamaAina]

16. It's in mid-city N.O., miles from the ** photo op

so not much chance of them seeing NG for a while... :(

Edit: I remember going to a rally at Xavier against Poppy Bush's original oil war. I lived kind of midway between Tulane (which also had one) and Xavier, and chose to go across racial lines and go to the latter. It is one of the few (only) historically black Catholic colleges in the country.

[rodeodance]

7. isn't that were Jessie jackson went?

[itzamirakul]

8. Wasn't this the same university where students were denied the right

to vote if they were from out of state?

[gp]

10. we'll be hearing a lot more situations like these...

masses of people trapped in buildings around NO...
if it weren't for some of the reporters on the ground, FEMA wouldnt have known jack shit

[mshasta]

11. ....

[The Backlash Cometh]

13. kick

[mshasta]

14. where is the help for them??? what is going on???????

[halobeam]

15. This was on one of the blogs as of late......

telling the true stories about what is going on. This is a massive nightmare, boy.. although we suspected how much of one it might be, it has surpassed our own imaginations.

[RedEarth]

17. This is an article I googled...it appears to have been posted 13 hrs ago..

so it sounds as if they haven't been rescued yet. Xavier is primarily a black college located in NO.


More assistance offered to college students from New Orleans
by Roland S. Martin, Staff Writer
September 2, 2005

As Louisiana officials figure out how to move upwards of 100,000 from the city to refugee camps across the state and to Texas, university administrators, parents and alumni are doing their part to come to the aid of stranded students.

Warren Bell, a vice president at Xavier University, sent the Defender an email Thursday, stating that the Catholic university's students were being evacuated.



"As of this afternoon, all dormitory students who were unable to evacuate before the storm, along with university staff who stayed with them, have already been safely removed from the campus and relocated to a staging area next to the campus. They remain under the protection of campus police, as well as members of the New Orleans Police Department," he wrote.

"The students and staff members are scheduled to be transported in buses this evening (Thursday); either to the Southern University main campus in Baton Rouge, La., or further north to Grambling State University in Grambling, La. Meanwhile, the Xavier campus remains closed until further notice, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, while the university can assess prospects for reopening the campus. Normal campus communications, including the web site server systems, will remain shut down until power has been restored on the campus and residents are allowed to return safely."


He said for anyone seeking information about Xavier, they can call
866-520-X-U-L-A or www.xulaemergency.com.

more......


http://www.chicagodefender.com/page/local.cfm?ArticleID=2121

[wtbymark]

18. so they moved them from dorms to a different building

and left them there - nice

[RedEarth]

19. Looks like there are students still trapped a UNO also...

Daughter needs rescue from UNO

3:23 pm

Name: Linda Croom-Roberts

Home:

Email: [e-mail]

Subject: My Hurricane Story -- Several UNO students and others are trapped

Story: I received a brief cell phone call at 7:30AM this morning from my daughter, who is trapped and waiting to be rescued, along with several other peolpe by the lake behind the UNO campus.
Someone please send HELP!!! My daughter's name is Amber Croom.