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Thursday, September 26, 2013
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Volume 61, Issue 8
A cut above University Hall of Fame awaits barbers Aristide Phillips
The Southern Digest The Southern University Hall of Fame will induct SU’s most notable barbers, Robert Irvin Sr. and Roland Irvin Jr. Friday for their many years of service to faculty, students and staff. Nearly 50 years of service to the university, the once trio has cut the hair of many legends that has come through SU. Robert Irvin Sr. is the oldest of the brothers, and he has cut hair at SU for more than 50 years and said that he is a Southernite all the way. “Coming here as a young man 18-19 years old everything that I have accomplished over the years is because of Southern University,” Robert Irvin said. Roland Irvin Jr. has cut hair on SU’s campus for more than 40 years, and with all of the experience, comes all of the stories. “People like to come to our barber shop because they know they get genuine information; however, blunt, it is because they get the truth and they appreciate that,” Roland Irvin Jr. said. Their brother Donald passed away earlier this year. The Irvin brothers have cut the hairs of Ace Mumford, Bob “Butterbean” Love, Mel Blount, Avery Johnson, and countless other SU legends. The Irvin brothers have witnessed many generations of families who have matriculated through Southern. Between the three, there are more than
130 years of combined hair cutting that has occured in the Smith-Brown Memorial Union. Charlie Granger, chairman of the SU Hall of Fame, came to Robert and Roland and asked Robert Irvin Sr. and Roland Irvin Jr. how long have they been there and which athlete’s hair have they cut. As Robert Irvin Sr. began to name a few of the now legends, Granger stopped Robert Irvin Sr. in mid sentence realizing that the Irvin brothers should be recommended for the SU Hall of Fame. “It made me feel good to know that bringing them in as legends was a really beautiful thing,” Granger said. Granger said it amazed him to see the interaction the brothers had with their clients and he knew by just sitting in their barbershop that he had to get them in the hall of fame. A week later Granger called Robert Irvin Sr. and said that the brothers were voted in unanimously and for Robert Irvin Sr. and Roland Irvin Jr. what was once a possibility is now their reality. “I was kind of shocked and surprised,” Robert Irvin said. “I never envisioned being inducted into the hall of fame.” When asked why they stayed so long, the brothers simply said they love what they do, and that love for what they do has gotten them into the Hall of Fame. Friday not far from the same place they cut hair, the Irvin brothers will be enshrined into SU’s History.
(Ariana Triggs/ DIGEST)
Roland, Robert and Donald (Not Pictured) Irvins have more than 130 years of combined experience as barbers at Southern University. The barbers have served in areas of problem solving, counseling and outreach and will be inducted into Southern University’s Hall of Fame.
“Metacognition: The Key to Acing Courses” touted at SU Ariana Triggs
The Southern Digest The Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence and the Center for Student Success hosted “Metacognition: The Key to Acing Courses” to help students learn cognitive learning strategies that could help them achieve higher grades. The seminar created an interactive environment for the students and showed them some of the problems that they have when they are studying. Michelle Taylor junior elementary education major from New Orleans said she came for bonus points for one of her courses but left with an overflow of information. “I didn’t know that it would be so informative and I learned good reading strategies and study strategies,” Taylor said. Taylor said some of the things she learned at the seminar, helped her understand how to incorporate new study tips in her reading and studying. “It was interesting because it helped us think outside of the box,” Taylor said. Bryan Bowman, Jr. senior music education major from New Orleans said he came to the seminar to gain the resources needed to ace courses.
“I came today to hopefully gain some extra knowledge on studying,” said Bowman. Bowman said one of his problems was procrastination and that was one of the topics discussed in the seminar. “Hopefully I can take the knowledge that I’ve learned today and apply it in the future,” Bowman said. Sandra McGuire SU alum and former Assistant Vice Chancellor for Learning and Teaching was the guest speaker for the seminar, which discussed cognitive learning strategies for students to achieve higher grades.“The strategies that I talk about now, I developed some of them at LSU but they were doing a lot of this at LSU already and I didn’t know it,” McGuire said. McGuire discussed problems that students have with procrastination and time management. She demonstrated how students could tailor studying to their schedules. She did an activity with the students to show them some of the problems that they have when they are studying, such as memorization and concentration. “They don’t really do presentations like this, but they do talk about learning strategies, and time management,” McGuire said.
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McGuire said she does not take credit for a lot of things that are online because the information has already been there. After the presentation of information, McGuire gave the students a challenge to put the tools that she taught to them to action and to maintain at least a 3.0 grade point average.McGuire was invited to speak to the Southern University students by Cynthia D. Bryant director of the Center for Learning and Teaching Excellence. According to Bryant, CTLE is required to have four speakers per semester to come and speak to the students for exposure to different resources outside the university. “We want our students, faculty and staff to be exposed to all of the different resources out there so that we can be an institution of excellence,” Bryant said. Bryant said it’s her job to try to go out and bring people to the university. “We want to enhance what we already know and develop us as staff and faculty so that we can give students more,” Bryant said. Raymond Clarke of the Division of Student Success closed the program with thanking McGuire for coming to speak to the students and asking that the students in attendance share what they had learned with their classmates.
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Kayla Foster/DIGEST Sandra Y. McGuire, former assistant vice chancellor for Learning and Teaching, Professor of Chemistry and Director Emeritas of the Center for Academic Success at LSU, creates an interactive learning environment.
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