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Fiscal stability is a priority of the school, Hebert says
Doc shares Lafayette’s key post-Katrina role Volunteers provided services as evacuees came to Cajundome
BY JOANNA BROWN | Staff writer When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans 20 years ago, it created the largest evacuation crisis in the nation’s history. It is estimated that up to 150,000 people remained in the city when the storm hit and the levees broke. Around 30,000 people sheltered in the Superdome before and after the storm, while some 20,000 also sought help at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, which had not been set up as a shelter at all. The scale of the disaster created unprecedented challenges in emergency response. There was a lack of everything, no way to get supplies, people or buses in or out of the city, and the Superdome’s roof had been damaged in the storm. Shelter conditions deteriorated rapidly, exacerbated by fear that gripped evacuees and responders as rumors spread about looters, snipers, rapists and other criminals roaming the streets of New Orleans. Later, many of those rumors would prove to be unsubstantiated. However,
BY ASHLEY WHITE | Staff writer In his first address to University of Louisiana at Lafayette stakeholders, interim President Jaimie Hebert said the administration’s top two priorities are fiscal stability and process efficiency. “We have to take this opportunity at this time of transition to get our house in order,” he told faculty, staff and local leaders during the state of the univer- Hebert sity speech Thursday. “We understand our destination, but we need to get our course plotted properly.” Hebert was named interim last month after President Joseph Savoie announced he was stepping down after leading the school for 17 years. Savoie now serves as the university’s president emeritus. During the state of the university address, Hebert spoke about the school’s finances. He said the school has been spending more than its revenues, an issue that can’t be blamed on any one person. It’s an issue that affects virtually any organization or company “that moves at the pace we’ve been moving,” Hebert said. He shared a pie chart that showed university revenues next to a chart with expenditures. Those charts did not include capital
ä See FINANCES, page 4A
TOP: The Cajundome is the subject of a PBS documentary, ‘Cajundome City.’ STAFF FILE PHOTO By LESLIE WESTBROOK
ABOVE: The film has been described as one of the most uplifting stories to come out of Hurricane Katrina and depicts the staff, Lafayette medical personnel, law enforcement and volunteers who mobilized to help the 900 evacuees who arrived at the Cajundome in 2005 after the storm. STAFF FILE PHOTO By BRyAN TUCK BELOW: Hurricane Katrina evacuees take refuge in the Cajundome on Sept. 19, ä See DOC, DOC page 4A 2005 2005. STAFF FILE PHOTO By BRyAN TUCK
Fest poster’s use of AI sparks divide
Artist touts usefulness; critics pan its lack of soul BY JOANNA BROWN | Staff writer Louisiana festivals are merchandising bonanzas. People like to hold onto their memories of good times, and pin and poster sales are hot at events like Festival International de Louisiane or the Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival. Everybody loves a piece of art that both celebrates Louisiana and commemorates a great weekend. The International Rice Festival, held each October in Crowley, is one of Louisiana’s oldest agricultural festivals. This Oct. 16-19, the festival will celebrate its 88th year with the theme “Rice Reigns” — and on Aug. 17, the festival committee revealed this year’s poster to an eager community. The work was created by Crowley-based artist and photographer Zeppix, and it
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