Tag Archives: new orleans
Clever Website Tells Story of New Orleans Flood of 2005
We think everyone should check out this handy-dandy website that gives an excellent ‘short take’ on New Orleans and the Great Flood of 2005. Professor Stephen Nelson, Assoc Professor in Earth & Env Sciences at Tulane University created the site for his students. Appropriately so, it starts out with a Myth Buster section and a […]
President of LSU Faculty Senate speaks on expenses relating to Ivor van Heerden lawsuit
Louisiana State University spent nearly $1 million in a legal fight over the firing of coastal scientist and New Orleans hero, Professor Ivor van Heerden. Click here for story by Mark Schleifstein, New Orleans Times Picayune. Upon request from Levees.org, Kevin Cope, President of the Faculty Senate at LSU submitted commentary regarding the expenditures by […]
LSU spent nearly $1 million fighting New Orleans hero Ivor van Heerden
Documents obtained in response to Levees.org’s Public Records Request reveal that LSU paid a Baton Rouge law firm nearly a half million dollars to defend the flagship university in Dr. Ivor van Heerden’s wrongful dismissal lawsuit filed in 2010. The law firm Kantrow Spaht Weaver and Blitzer received more than $457,000 over a course of […]
