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New Orleans Students Decide Stay or Go

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Sixty-four students displaced by Hurricane Katrina enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A dozen of them will stay to study next semester.Other college students say they’re looking forward to going back to the Big Easy.Shamane Mills reports…

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