Reader Daniel Solzman has asked us to urgently post this information:
This was just sent to me from the Dillard SID:
I need to get the message out. There are over 200 students still at Dillard University, 2601 Gentilly Boulevard New Orleans. They are on the second floor of the Camphor Hall Cafeteria. I know that approx 600 students were evacuated earlier but as of yesterday morning their were still slightly over 200 students still there. Also the cell phone connection was bad but I believe that have little water to drink. I don’t know who to report this info to. Please help send this message out.
Note that in comments it’s pointed out that this is NOT confirmed. We normally would not run an individual piece of info like this from an email but felt in this case it was worth the risk.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.