"As President Bush hustled through town Thursday morning, the proper young ladies of the Academy of the Sacred Heart were in Jackson Square, wearing life jackets over their plaid-skirt uniforms, and politely but firmly demanding better levees."

So begins an article in the New York Times on Friday, January 13, about a demonstration in New Orleans' French Quarter by more than 200 students from Academy of the Sacred Heart ("the Rosary"). The students, some sporting masking tape on their foreheads to indicate water lines during post-Katrina flooding, all urging that the city be rebuilt and fortified with strong levees, chanted, "Do what it takes, do what it takes."

Here is a link to the Times article about the demonstration, "New Orleans Schoolgirls Have a Message for the President: Click here for the article

Here is a link to a larger article about Bush's visit to the city, which takes note of the students' action. It carried the headline, "In New Orleans, Bush Speaks with Optimism but Sees Little of Ruin." Click here for the article.