Preliminary plans for today for Ashleigh and I: Quite a few interviews today. We'll be talking with a professor from Tulane who evacuated to Houston, then to Dallas, then up to Massachusetts to continue his research. He's back at Tulane now, but what does his program's funding look like? We'll find out.
We'll also be talking to a Loyola student whose contact info we were given yesterday from Bob. (He's the student VP at Loyola, which was also a surprise interview for us.) This student attended SMU last fall and then returned to Loyola. She was a little under the weather yesterday when we called, but hopefully she'll feel better today.
Also on the docket, the President of Tulane. We'll be talking education in the city, what the surroundings mean for that type of education, and the University's role, as the largest employer in the entire city, in recovery efforts. We're really fortunate we were able to schedule this interview and we're looking forward to it.
Lastly, we discovered yesterday that visiting and having elements from Dillard is going to be imperative. Everyone we've talked to has said they are having the hardest time recovering. Stories seem inconsistent...some say there's no phones there, some say no email. We're not sure, but we figure out the best thing to do is make a house call and see for ourselves.
One last thought from yesterday...the kind folk at Loyola reserved us a parking space. Ashleigh and I couldn't but help remember all those times we've seen reserved parking places at SMU. So we took a picture of our cone:
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