May 26, 2006

Still Without a Campus, Southern U. at New Orleans Struggles to Stay in Business

By KATHERINE MANGAN

Working in one set of trailers and living in another, students and faculty members at Southern University at New Orleans are looking forward to the day when their campus — one of the hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina — will reopen.

But as life slowly returns to normal at most Gulf-area campuses, the 11 buildings of this historically black public university have yet to be gutted and decontaminated. The ground floors, which were flooded with up to 11 feet of water,

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