"Katrina make for a rough start to college" Albany Times Union story

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<p>This article starts off with a poignant story of a young woman from Albany who had just gone down to start grad school at UNO and then got stuck in the Superdome, barely able to get in cell contact with her mother back home…also interesting descrptions of local upstate NY colleges which have been extending helping hands to students unable to carry out previously made plans to attend NO schools.</p>

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It was a call that was happy and sad; hopeful yet frightening. Gretchen Heiserman managed to get a cell phone signal, if only for a couple of minutes, from the New Orleans Superdome.</p>

<p>"She said, ‘Mom, it’s like a prison in here!’ " said Denise Heiserman, who received the call Thursday morning at her Albany home. “Now I’m really worried.”</p>

<p>Gretchen Heiserman, 24, graduated from UAlbany and was just beginning her master’s degree studies at the University of New Orleans. Her major: city planning…

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<p>full story linked below</p>

<p><a href=“http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=394713&category=REGIONOTHER&BCCode=HOME&newsdate=9/2/2005[/url]”>http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=394713&category=REGIONOTHER&BCCode=HOME&newsdate=9/2/2005&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;