Students displaced by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina are seeking the opportunity to continue their education at the UA.

Administrators are working with displaced students to enroll them in classes two weeks after the start of the semester and find them housing, a process President Peter Likins said will not be easy.

"It will take an enormous effort to ease this transition," Likins said. "This has been a traumatic experience for everyone." [Read article]

UA- and Tucson-area organizations are seeking ways to raise money, collect clothes and donate blood to the people suffering through the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Whether students have friends and family affected by the hurricane or are victims firsthand, help can be seen all across the UA campus.

The women's lacrosse team raised more than $600 Saturday in a three-hour car wash at the Circle K on East Speedway Boulevard and North Park Avenue, said Dannah G. Raz, team president. [Read article]

Hurricane donation table

The Arizona Daily Wildcat student staff will be on the UA Mall every day this week from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. collecting cash donations to be donated to the American Red Cross Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.

Credit card donations accepted by United Way

Students without cash who wish to contribute to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort can donate funds via credit card to the United Way Hurricane Katrina Response Fund. Log on to www.unitedwaytucson.org and or call 1-800-272-4630. [Read article]

Labor Day weekend and bid night celebrations collided, bringing parties, police and minor-in-possession citations to campus Friday and Saturday.

An extra police squad was on hand to help keep an eye on campus partygoers, and the fraternities will be footing the bill for the security squad, said UAPD spokesman Sgt. Eugene Mejia.

Mejia said there were about 20 citations given out for underage drinking between Friday night and early Saturday morning. [Read article]

Victims from Hurricane Katrina will begin staying in the Tucson Convention Center as early as today, officials said.

Gov. Janet Napolitano announced Friday evening that Arizona would temporarily house victims from the storm, according to a press release from the governor's office.

"We have already deployed state, local and volunteer agency resources to assist with the response operations," Napolitano said. "Right now, the greatest need for these individuals, now that they have nothing left, is to have access to safe shelter where they can begin to heal emotionally and physically from the incredible trauma they have just suffered." [Read article]

Some UA students from the New Orleans area are feeling the devastation of Hurricane Katrina personally. Some have lost almost everything they own, and others are saying goodbye to memories of the Big Easy.

Hal Miller, an undeclared freshman, was in Texas when the hurricane hit. He and his parents left New Orleans a day before the storm and went to Houston in 16 hours, a drive that normally takes about six, Miller said. [Read article]

Six students drove more than 24 hours to Utah over the weekend to support the UA football team in its first game of the season.

The students left Tucson in a Suburban at 8 p.m. Thursday for Salt Lake City, and after seeing the city and attending the game, returned to Tucson at 6 a.m. Saturday morning, said Amber Harryman, a classics junior who went on the trip.

"In hindsight, driving over 24 hours (for a road game) is a little crazy," Harryman said. "But we're all in college and it's experiences like that that you're going to remember." [Read article]

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