Gail Peshel, Assistant Dean for Students at Notre Dame Law School, sent out the following e-mail this afternoon:
I know that the thoughts and prayers of the entire Notre Dame Law School community are with all those affected by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Together with many other law schools, Dean O’Hara, the associate deans and I have been working since Tuesday on the logistics of how we might offer concrete assistance to students from Tulane Law School and Loyola, New Orleans, while still respecting the wishes of those schools and their efforts to regroup and reopen.The American Association of Law Schools has created a master web site of the many law schools that are offering to accept some visiting students from Tulane and Loyola. The emergency web sites for Tulane and Loyola contain links to this master web site. We are included on the AALS list, and we have also posted information for students from Loyola and Tulane on our home page.
We have offered to accept up to 15 students from these two institutions as visiting students for fall semester. While we are accepting requests to visit from 1L, 2L or 3L students, we have indicated a preference for 2L and 3L students. The dean of Tulane has just asked deans nationally to give Tulane another day to respond before granting visitor status, not to take 1L’s and to give priority to 3L students.
We will be reviewing requests for visiting student status as expeditiously as possible. We hope that any students whom we accept will join us as soon as possible, but in any event by next Friday, September 9th.
We look forward to helping students who join us feel fully part of our community during their time with us, as well as to helping them transition back to their home institution. Consistent with our normal policy regarding visitors, students admitted to visiting status will not be eligible to transfer.
We know that we can count on your tremendous spirit, your wonderful tradition of hospitality and your sense of compassion to welcome our visitors when they arrive. In the meantime, if you have questions or comments, please contact Peter Horvath (horvath.50@nd.edu) or me.
There was a meeting of interested students at 5:00 PM tonight “to discuss how we can best help these students settle in at Notre Dame.” Unfortunately, I didn’t become aware of this until just now, so I didn’t go. But if anyone was there, please leave a comment or e-mail me and let me know what happened! Thanks!
UPDATE: Christian has a report.
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Categories: Hurricane Katrina
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September 2nd, 2005 at 8:45:15 pm
Speaking of refugees, I’m making a very specific plea on my blog–a chance for people to donate actual items to specific shelters in a specific parish rather than just cash. And since you seem to be the big kid on the block in these trying times, I’m begging you for a link.
Pretty please. Thanks.
September 2nd, 2005 at 9:10:16 pm
So much to do, so little time for so many, and the idiots, I agree with you about the mayor now by the way, and I was NOT impressed by the police chief either, …..the idiots mostly in the highest jobs, they have neither accepted responsiblity nor
really made an immediate committment to do ALL that can be done. But in time, hopefully this will be a learning experience. Just that it will be too late for many people unfortunately.
It is good to hear about the airlines
all coming in to evac people, and to hear the repairs on the levees continue and to see the food and water finally reaching the convention center. Now I hope the planning is going on for what to do with all the people who get out, and how to give them a chance to work for their restoration, if there is going to be one, of New Orleans.
And I cannot emphasize enough, health issues, health issues, health issues, not only in NO but anywhere the evacuaees are going and have gone.
And Please President and Mrs. Bush,
go home we are NOT impressed by your grandstanding, nor that of the other politicians, the only place for a governemnt official is at their desk or performing useful duties. GET OUT OF THE WAY and that goes for Anderson Cooper and all the other media heads,
news is news, and facts, not your endless personal reactions.
We need clarity and charity not
performances. Personal opinion, and I am getting weary of the unreality of this all. Several generations ago, even 10 years ago this all would have been handled very very diferently.
I continue to pray and hope for the best. And thanks Brendan, for all your work and for the great story on the busses, very good point indeed.
September 2nd, 2005 at 9:10:20 pm
Tufts is doing the same thing for medical students and undergrads.
September 2nd, 2005 at 9:12:47 pm
If anyone still thinks the mayor is doing a good job they should remind themselves of 911 and the heroic leadership of Guliani. Nagin isn’t even comparable.
September 2nd, 2005 at 9:32:07 pm
jm.. guliani and nagin are two names that never should be in the same sentence together except for ones that fit this formula .. “guliani was (insert really large number) times more (insert complementary words such as competent, resourceful, dedicated, heroic, selfless, etc..) than the horribly (insert words such as crappy) nagin”… man i just felt like i did a mad lib
September 2nd, 2005 at 9:38:59 pm
Brendan.. this may be of note too..
The University of Pennsylvania is offering 100 spaces.. and also 3 weeks of paid time off for faculty to go help in New Orleans.. two very respectable decisions..
http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/hurricane2.php
September 2nd, 2005 at 9:41:11 pm
Here’s a link to all the law schools that are opening their doors to Tulane and Loyola, New Orleans law students:
http://www.aals.org/neworleans/schoolsbystate.html
September 2nd, 2005 at 11:43:18 pm
The main focus of the meeting was ensuring that those students who do arrive are able to integrate with us as best as possible, given the trauma that many of them have endured. The last thing we want is to stick them in some isolated hotel while they are here. To help embrace them into our community, we are trying to look for people to host them and to ask volunteers to help show them around, catch them up with studies, etc… so as to at minimum ensure that they do not lose a years worth of education. There was talk of the various manners in which students can contribute towards worthy causes helping to alleviate the pain and suffering in affected areas. Many of us went to the grotto afterwards and prayed that our lady of the lake not only quench their thirst for water but their thirst of spirit in this very trying time.
September 3rd, 2005 at 5:03:11 pm
I’ll lead them to the Backer where we’ll quench the rest of their thirsts :)