My ASS!!!!
Sorry, bear with me.
Okay, so I already knew that TWO ex-presidents were showing up at Tulane's graduation. Everyone did. Especially considering the speaker at OUR graduation next Friday (the head of HUD) backed out at the last minute so we have a professor from Houston coming in instead (no one else could make it, but I think we should have stuck a puppy out in the middle of the canal then kidnapped Anderson Cooper when he showed up for the rescue shot.)
So now it's all over the news EVERYWHERE and just as a final kick in the pants, Ellen Degeneres made a surprise visit.
It's not just the celebrity that bothers me (...okay, maybe a little...) It's the fact that the media is completely ignoring the fact that if there IS a real "miracle" here, its' the fact that LOYOLA got up and running with over 92% of its student body and only had to fire FIFTEEN people, whereas Tulane had to shut down most of their accessory schools (I think their law school is the only one open right now) and they had to fire the majority of the faculty associated with those schools.
Tulane and Loyola are next door to each other. Literally. They are ten feet apart at the most. Tulane did not have more damage, Loyola just had better planning. And Tulane gets the press because of a football team and a fund-raising drive.
So...yeah...don't know where I was going with this. I'm just a teensy bit angry at all the back patting going on.
Oh well....at least the Katrina Bar class at Loyola had a 90% passage rate. Tulane's was 30%
Just having enough intestinal fortitude to go back after all that happened to you, and to stick with it through what I know from personal experience is one of the most rugged, demanding, and competitive of academic programs (even at little old U. of Maine it was eat or be eaten) IN SPITE OF everything around you is just... Huge.
This is great!!!! 
unless you're the one defending me when I'm caught breaking into houses and "borrowing" everyone's cel collection 
, but I'm getting old and I can only go down hill from here 
Although I am VERY relieved (and scared sh*tless) to be getting out of there. 
Like Kymaera said, Loyola really does give a better education. There's a saying (and I've heard people who didn't go to either school say it) "Tulane grads become lawyers, Loyola grads become judges." I'm just irritated because the pervading notion being given by the press is 1) There is only one university in New Orleans (no, there are five but only two are open.) 2) Tulane did something awesome (no, they're actually in second place for hurricane preparedness) and 3) Everything's okay as long as they can fund their 3.2 million dollar football program (but they shut down the med school!!!)
