Manhattan ? The hurricane that struck the island Sept. 7 left buildings at St. George’s University with missing roofs and water damage. The Trinidad army and American Red Cross are using the campus as a base of relief operations to help island residents left homeless.

Though classes resumed Tuesday for about 200 undergraduate students, the university facilities were too badly damaged to accommodate the remaining 2,200 students from the schools of medicine and veterinary medicine, said Bob Ryan, associate dean of enrollment planniSixty-four veterinary students from the West Indies island of Grenada will attend classes at Kansas State University after Hurricane Ivan damaged the students’ school.ng for St. George’s.

The displaced students — most of them U.S. citizens — will spend the next three months at universities throughout the United States. The third-year veterinary students have started to arrive at K-State, the alma mater of Ray Sis, dean of St. George’s University veterinary school.

The St. George’s students will resume classes Monday at the Manhattan campus under the direction of their usual instructors. K-State and St. George’s students and teachers will share lecture halls, laboratories and classrooms.

“I am so happy to be here,” said Sharon Schrama, 48, a student who arrived Tuesday in Manhattan with her two dogs. “I just can’t believe that Kansas has done this for us.”