LSU decided to cancel classes on Monday, September 26.

However, the LSU football game will be held in Tiger Stadium on Monday night, as scheduled.

I am glad and proud that LSU contributes to the hurricane relief efforts by providing shelter to the evacuees on its campus and would gladly accept rescheduling of classes to facilitate those efforts. But I cannot fathom how, in the light of the quoted announcement, the LSU officials can justify having a football game on campus. So, having 30,000 students attend classes is too much of a disruption, but having 90,000 football fans descend on campus, practically paralyzing all traffic in the radius of a couple of miles, is no problem. More and more, I feel that the educational mission of the university is to provide eligibility to football players, and feel powerless to do anything about it. Later in the semester, Tiger Stadium is scheduled to host not only LSU games, but also some games of New Orleans Saints, and of the Tulane University team. All of those games would tremendously disrupt university weekend activities, some of which, like music concerts and recitals, are part of the curriculum. Departments such as Music, Theater, and others that may have planned research conferences on campus, are desperately trying to adjust their schedules around the additional sport events. They know that their appeals to the university administration wouldn't be heard: all they provide is education, which, obviously, has no chance competing with the money generated by the football games. At LSU, the game between football and education is a blowout.