Stories about "Hurricane Katrina students"
At Bates, ‘everyone’s been great’ to students sent by Katrina

Tuesday, September 13, 2005 11:39 am

The school year wasn't supposed to start this way. Instead of easing into her New Orleans apartment and her Tulane University course work, Maddy O'Brien of Winthrop, Maine, found herself spending school's first week as an evacuee 125 miles away in Lafayette, La. — one of the hundreds of thousands unsure of what Hurricane Katrina had done to their lives.

Bates offers free tuition to Maine students displaced by Katrina

Thursday, September 1, 2005 1:16 pm

Bates College has announced that any Maine undergraduates enrolled at colleges or universities in the New Orleans and Mississippi Gulf Coast area devastated by Hurricane Katrina will be welcome to take courses for credit without charge at Bates College this fall semester.