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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Forwarded;</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">From: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">Stokes, Rebecca </FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">Sent: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">Friday, September 02, 2005 4:15 PM</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">Subject: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">Oklahoma Higher Education Responds to Students Affected by Hurricane Katrina (State Regents News Release)</FONT></P>
<P><B><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Times New Roman">NEWS RELEASE</FONT></B>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">For Immediate Release</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">September 2, 2005</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Media Contact: Ben Hardcastle</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Office: 1.405.225.9346</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Cell: 1.405.640.9672</FONT>
<BR><A HREF="mailto:bhardcastle@osrhe.edu"><U><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman">bhardcastle@osrhe.edu</FONT></U></A>
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<P ALIGN=CENTER><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Oklahoma Higher Education Responds to Students Affected by Hurricane Katrina</FONT></B></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Oklahoma’s public colleges and universities are stepping up to help students displaced as a result of Hurricane Katrina.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">College officials met via video conference this morning to discuss their responses to the disaster, especially to the thousands of college students along the Gulf Coast whose fall semester was interrupted by the hurricane...</FONT></P>
<P><B><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman">View the entire release at</FONT> </B><A HREF="http://www.okhighered.org/news-center/katrina-response.html"><B></B><B><U></U><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">http://www.okhighered.org/news-center/katrina-response.html</FONT></U></B><B></B></A><B></B>
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