Tulane student from HMB relocates to Cal

Katherine Pettit, a Tulane Law School Student from Half Moon Bay, is now a student a at Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley. Twenty law students and fifty undergraduates from Tulane, which has been devasted by the flooding in New Orleans, have been offered positions at Berkeley, according to the Daily Cal.

When second-year Tulane Law School student Katherine Pettit relocated to Houston last Saturday with a backpack full of clothes, she was sure she would return within the next few days.

But Pettit’s expectations were swiftly swept away as flood waters from Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans last week, wiping out parts of Tulane and most of the city.

“It was really a shock,” Pettit said. “You know at the back of your head that it could be real, but it has never happened before. I woke up one morning (in Houston) and turned on the news, and all of a sudden the city was underwater and we couldn’t go back.”