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January 11, 2006
Uhh
Talk about price gouging! These poor people are trying to flee a hurricane, and the limo company charges $3,700! Scumbags!
Illinoisan who fled in limo returns
By Jodi S. Cohen
Tribune higher education reporter
Published January 11, 2006
NEW ORLEANS -- Tulane University freshman Kyle Kogan, the New Trier High School graduate who escaped Hurricane Katrina by taking a well-publicized, $3,700 limo ride to Chicago, is coming back to Tulane this semester.
Kogan had been on Tulane's campus only seven hours when he fled north in the limo with his parents and another family after unsuccessfully trying to rent a car.
"Ever since after the storm, my mom said, `Where are you going to go now?'" he said. "I always said I was going back."
Kogan, who spent the fall quarter at DePaul University in Chicago, plans to move back into his Tulane dorm Thursday. Two months ago, he saw the hurricane's destruction for the first time when he drove to Tulane to pick up belongings left in his dorm room.
"It was disappointing, but not disappointing enough to push me in a different direction," he said. "I was still intent on going to Tulane.
"They have a pre-med program. And it's ridiculously fun. It's in New Orleans."
Posted by oz115 at January 11, 2006 10:20 AM
Comments
He's North Shore, and pre-med. He can afford it. I'm not getting too choked up over his plight.
Posted by: Pete at January 11, 2006 10:48 AM
Well I was trying to be sarcastic there. When you can afford a $3700 limo ride I don't entirely know how important one's college major actually is!
Posted by: tim at January 11, 2006 11:51 AM