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Tuesday, October 8, 2013 • Volume 118, Issue 31
Baby Food
ACADEMICS
Priority scheduling to change for 2014 Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez Staff Writer
Pediatric Feeding Clinic aims to help children eat
Michael Tarver
Contributing Writer
University graduate students are helping young children enjoy one of the most basic necessities of life: eating. The University’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders has opened the LSU Pediatric Feeding Clinic this semester, which helps children and their parents develop a healthy family eating plan. Speech-Language Pathologist Courtney Gonsoulin is the instructor who oversees the work the graduate students do with the children. Because the clinic is so new, only three children are currently being cared for, Gonsoulin said. The children are usually referred by a doctor or FEEDING CLINIC, see page 15
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Speech Pathology graduate student Morgan Soike encourages 3-year-old Kate Worthington to move her tongue Monday in Hatcher Hall as part of the pediatric feeding clinic.
Honors College students hoping to take part in priority scheduling, which begins Oct. 20, may have to wait a bit longer than they have in the past. Last week at a Faculty Senate meeting, University Registrar Robert Doolos addressed a change in scheduling procedures: Honors students will no longer have priority scheduling. While group 1A — student athletes, Honors College and disabled students — previously scheduled first, now degree candidates for the following semester will have first priority. Student athletes, Honors College and disabled students will schedule afterward in category 1B. The number of students registering for courses was slowing down the computer system, prompting the change. SCHEDULING, see page 15
STUDY ABROAD
Business students to spend semester in Hong Kong New program welcomes foreigners Jonathan Olivier Contributing Writer
Four University students will spend next semester in China as part of the E.J. Ourso College of Business’s new study abroad program at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. International trade and finance juniors Lauren Johnson and John Preston, ISDS junior Leah Wong and economics sophomore Michael Panther Mayen were selected to participate in the program after an application and interview process. The program, the first of its kind within the College of
Business, focuses on undergradu- logical choice, White said, conate students and a semester-long sidering the emerging markets curriculum that concentrates and rich cultural diversity in the mainly on business courses, said area, which will be an easier tranAshley Junek, assition because of ‘It’s a wonderful sistant dean for the wide array of u n d e r g r a d u a t e opportunity. It’s going English speakers programs in the in the area. to change their lives.’ business college. P o l y U ’s The students business school will receive a received an InRichard White scholarship to dean, E. J. Ourso College of Business ternational achelp with expenscreditation from es, and Dean Richard White will The Association to Advance Colvisit Hong Kong during the se- legiate Schools of Business in mester to ensure a smooth transi- 2010, which also aided White’s tion for the students, Junek said. decision. White paired his extensive “It’s a wonderful opportunibackground of world traveling ty,” he said. “It’s going to change with a mission to immerse stu- their lives.” dents in another culture when The allure of living in Asia he made the decision to team up attracted Preston to apply for the with PolyU for the program. Hong Kong was the most HONG KONG, see page 15
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From left to right: ISDS junior Leah Wong, international trade and finance junior Lauren Johnson, economics sophomore Michael Panther Mayen and international trade and finance junior John Preston will be traveling to China as a part of a new study abroad program.