September 30, 2005

Bursting at the Seams

By KATHERINE S. MANGAN

Texas Southern U. adjusts as it takes in 500 students displaced by Hurricane Katrina

Admissions officers at Texas Southern University here had just finished registering a record number of students for the fall semester when the first of the "Katrina students" began trickling in. Tired and disoriented, the students rode in on buses from city shelters or were dropped off by friends. One young woman cried as her mother hugged her and headed back to Louisiana to start looking for a new

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