April 21, 2006

Be Prepared

By SCOTT S. COWEN

AFTER KATRINA: TWO PRESIDENTS REFLECT

On a recent afternoon, I stood before an assembly of first-year students and their parents, and delivered my annual convocation address as president of Tulane University. It was a poignant moment for me. At the end of last August, Hurricane Katrina had forced the university to cancel its fall semester, and there had been times since then that the prospect of recovery seemed nearly impossible.

We had experienced the trauma of a major

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