MESA, Ariz.
Nearly 100 Tulane University students who spent their fall semester in the desert after Hurricane Katrina flooded their campus are heading back to New Orleans.
The emergency arrangement between Arizona State University and Tulane allowed the students to continue their course work in Tempe after Katrina ripped up the Gulf Coast in August.
So much of the campus was flooded that it forced the university to close. The evacuation displaced students and prompted colleges around the country to temporarily enroll some Tulane students.
ASU officials arranged for housing, putting some students up in apartments and others as guests at faculty members’ homes.
An especially unusual arrangement was made for Tulane’s fifth-year architecture class. Wellington Reiter, ASU’s College of Design dean and a Tulane alumnus, moved Tulane’s entire architecture class and five of its faculty members into a studio near the ASU Foundation offices in Tempe.
Even though they were miles from their home campus, the students attended their Tulane courses as planned.
