Foreign Students Hustle to Find New Academic Homes.

The article focuses on the problems of visa violation faced by the foreign students due to disruptions caused by the hurricane Katrina. While the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has loosened some of its rules for foreign students, other cumbersome regulations remain. The students must enroll at another college within 30 days of the originally scheduled start of their classes, or else leave the country. While many of the colleges in Katrina's path provided buses to evacuate students in the day or two before the hurricane hit, most international students, like their American classmates, scattered in an unorganized exodus from the Gulf Coast. Colleges accepting foreign students have had the double burden of finding appropriate classes for them and hunting down advisers from their stricken institutions.