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Article: City looks to students for economic boost and help building the "new" New Orleans.(After Katrina: Starting Over in New Orleans; SPECIAL FEATURE IN COLLABORATION WITH BLACK COLLEGE WIRE AND IMDIVERSITY.COM)(New Orleans)
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- The Black Collegian
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
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Drive down Canal Street, New Orleans' premier thoroughfare, and you can see wrecked buildings, trash bins filled to the brim with debris, and other vestiges of the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina. Look closer and you will also see positive omens, like the "help wanted" sign hanging in the Radio Shack store.
"Don't get me wrong, business is good, but it'll get better when the college kids get back," said store manager Joe Pomfrey, in between programming cell phones and answering questions from bustling shoppers.
With tourism crippled and other industries still on the mend from the flood, the nearly 34,000 students that resumed classes at Dillard, ...