GeauxTo
09-01-2005, 12:40 PM
To LSU Faculty and Staff:
We are hopeful that you and all of your family members are safe. The
magnitude of the disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina has yet to be fully
understood and its impacts will persist for years.
We wanted to communicate to you a few things about campus and ask for
your help. LSU is rapidly becoming the central base for federal and state
recovery efforts. The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals has set
up a Special Needs Shelter in the Field House, converted the Pete Maravich
Assembly Center into a treatment facility and hospital, and established a
temporary 400-bed hospital next to the Assembly Center. Several federal
agencies are setting up bases of operation around campus. Emergency
vehicles and buses are shuttling refugees to the Assembly Center and there
will be heavy traffic and restrictions to vehicular traffic along North
Stadium.
Volunteers who wish to assist these efforts are asked to log onto
http://www.lsu.edu/volunteer and complete the volunteer form online or call
225.578.7688. Please DO NOT go to either medical assistance location as
this could deter ongoing efforts. You will be contacted once the form is
processed.
The LSU family has also asked for and received our help. UNO and LSU
Medical School are relocating their administrative offices (and faculty and
some students) to campus. Administrators are facing decisions about what
to do for the remainder of the semester and how to rebuild.
Each day the scale of the LSU's role in this disaster is changing.
We will continue to keep you posted.
The outpouring of public concern and desire to help is overwhelming,
both inside and outside of the LSU family. We now ask for your assistance
in helping us house those of the LSU family who do not have a place to
stay. Families of many of our students have come to campus to seek
shelter. UNO and LSU Medical School faculty and staff are in desperate
need of short-term and longer-term accommodations.
If you have an extra bedroom or two and would like to open your home
to part of the LSU family here, please fill out the appropriate part of the
form referenced above.
Many thanks and we will continue to keep you posted.
President William Jenkins and Chancellor Sean O'Keefe
We are hopeful that you and all of your family members are safe. The
magnitude of the disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina has yet to be fully
understood and its impacts will persist for years.
We wanted to communicate to you a few things about campus and ask for
your help. LSU is rapidly becoming the central base for federal and state
recovery efforts. The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals has set
up a Special Needs Shelter in the Field House, converted the Pete Maravich
Assembly Center into a treatment facility and hospital, and established a
temporary 400-bed hospital next to the Assembly Center. Several federal
agencies are setting up bases of operation around campus. Emergency
vehicles and buses are shuttling refugees to the Assembly Center and there
will be heavy traffic and restrictions to vehicular traffic along North
Stadium.
Volunteers who wish to assist these efforts are asked to log onto
http://www.lsu.edu/volunteer and complete the volunteer form online or call
225.578.7688. Please DO NOT go to either medical assistance location as
this could deter ongoing efforts. You will be contacted once the form is
processed.
The LSU family has also asked for and received our help. UNO and LSU
Medical School are relocating their administrative offices (and faculty and
some students) to campus. Administrators are facing decisions about what
to do for the remainder of the semester and how to rebuild.
Each day the scale of the LSU's role in this disaster is changing.
We will continue to keep you posted.
The outpouring of public concern and desire to help is overwhelming,
both inside and outside of the LSU family. We now ask for your assistance
in helping us house those of the LSU family who do not have a place to
stay. Families of many of our students have come to campus to seek
shelter. UNO and LSU Medical School faculty and staff are in desperate
need of short-term and longer-term accommodations.
If you have an extra bedroom or two and would like to open your home
to part of the LSU family here, please fill out the appropriate part of the
form referenced above.
Many thanks and we will continue to keep you posted.
President William Jenkins and Chancellor Sean O'Keefe