UF has been accepting students from Louisiana universities, such as Tulane and Loyola, in certain fields, so that these students won't have to interrupt their studies. I met one of those students today. He sits next to me in my Jewish studies class. It was interesting to see his perspective. Basically, the class focuses on genocide and displaced persons, so my professor has been relating the present situation to the past where people were "displaced." The situations are a lot more similar than you would think. We were discussing the hurricane in class and this one girl brought up the issue of the delayed response to the situation. She said that she believed it was racially motivated. I'm not sure if that's the reason, but I was wondering that myself: why did it take so long? I think the evacuation plan was shitty and that more could have been done to get those people out who were left in the Superdome. But why is it that the hurricane hit on Monday and nothing really started happening until Friday? It's not like it was a tsunami, where they didn't know that it was going to happen. We knew for a week. They saw the devastation from Hurricane Andrew, and they knew the levees weren't sound. Louisiana is right by the Gulf of Mexico. They could have been better prepared. I think the government screwed up. Big time.