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SUNY Maritime's Dr. Richard Burke & UNO Dr.

Bahadir Inozu

Dr. Bahadir "Baha" Inozu looks like your typical, distinguished college pro- fessor: introspective, intelligent and congenial. Except for the fact that he bought a new suit out of dire need, he arrived at SUNY Maritime College last month with only three days of survival supplies-the most he could gather, as he evacuated from New Orleans during

Hurricane Katrina.

Dr. Inozu heads the University of New

Orleans (UNO)'s School of Naval

Architecture and Marine Engineering, but, because of Katrina, is a visiting pro- fessor at Maritime. He describes the waterfront campus as "a quiet and friendly place," and the support he receives from Dr. Richard Burke,

Chairman of Maritime's Department of

Engineering and other faculty "helps make the unknown less difficult."

Dr. Inozu's journey to Maritime first began by way of a flight to Houston, then to stay with friends in Goshen,

Indiana. "Once the flooding took place, it became shockingly apparent that it would be awhile until I could return."

Dr. Inozu, still disheartened by the dam- age to his condo complex, especially "the irreplaceable and beautiful bayou trees," is grateful to be alive and knows of countless other painful losses of life, property and upheaval among his fellow

Louisianans.

Inozu found his way to friends in New

York and solicited the aid of Dr. Bulent

Yener, associate professor, Department of Computer Science at Rensselaer

Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Dr. Yener and his team helped Inozu set up an emergency website for UNO's Naval

Architecture students at the Computer

Science Department of RPI, so that they could get in contact with him.

Many UNO faculty members lost everything, while Inozu fortunately had his laptop with him. With the generosi- ty of RPI's servers and resources, he began immediately to communicate online in an effort to find his displaced students. UNO set up a "war room" at

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Rouge campus, employing a web site, phone bank, laptops and cell phones in a furious bid to keep UNO alive. About one-third of UNO's Lakefront campus was damaged by Katrina. UNO officials hope to offer a mini-session of classes by December. UNO is offering about 80 percent of its courses online. About 800 displaced students showed up for a rally

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