OPINION: Society should be more open to the idea of talking to strangers, p. 13
FOOTBALL: Former lineman assists scout team, p. 5
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013 • Volume 118, Issue 37
LOOKING FOR A LEADER Similar controversy surrounds Alexander’s replacement search
Hit and run driver comes forward Zach Carline Contributing Writer
Andrea Gallo
Senior Reporter
LSU’s secret search for President F. King Alexander resulted in multiple lawsuits, a “no confidence” resolution from the Faculty Senate and a storm of publicity that’s only now beginning to die down. But nearly 2,000 miles away, the search for Alexander’s replacement at his former university has begun, and similar questions are only beginning to brew. The hunt to find California State University, Long Beach’s new president shares many controversial characteristics that LSU’s search for Alexander featured: a private search firm, committees that will privately make a recommendation to the Board of Trustees about who to hire and no policy insisiting finalists visit campus or be named publicly before being selected. The administrative side of the search isn’t the only part that looks familiar to LSU’s — a movement of faculty, staff and students demanding a more transparent search has already formed. Professors have held town hall meetings to stress the importance of an open search, and the student newspaper has pled with administrators for transparency
CRIME
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The search for LSU President F. King Alexander’s replacement at California State University, Long Beach is proving similar to LSU’s own presidential search that resulted in the hiring of Alexander earlier this year.
as well. Alexander still defends LSU’s closed search that resulted in his selection. He said closed searches are better for job-seeking chancellors and presidents because the candidates could lose support from constituents and hamper their fundraising abilities if it looks as though they want to leave their university. He also said he supports CSULB having a closed search for his replacement. But Alexander didn’t always feel that way. In 2005, when he left
his position as president of Murray State University, he advised the school to hold an open search for his replacement. “It’s important that the faculty talk to these people,” he said then, according to the written minutes from a Murray State University Board of Regents meeting. “It’s important that the students get to know these people and it’s important that the administrative staff gets to hear the philosophy these candidates may have about higher education.”
THE BACKLASH BEGINS The CSU System used to have a policy requiring finalists for president jobs to visit the campus before securing the title. The Board of Trustees eliminated that requirement in 2011, shortly after the Director of CSULB’s Center for First Amendment Studies Craig Smith stepped down from the board. “The faculty and students really need to rattle some cages over this,” LONG BEACH, see page 15
The driver of the car that struck Matt Tugwell on Saturday evening turned himself in to the Baton Rouge Police Department’s Traffic Investigators around 10:15 a.m. Tuesday. Tugwell was hit as he was crossing Dalrymple Drive. John Baus III, 24, of 4441 Burbank Drive, Apt. 408, was charged with felony hit and run, careless operation and red light violation and booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, according to a news release. Crime Stoppers received a tip Monday that the suspected vehicle, a white Toyota Prius, was located at a local body shop and investigators determined the damage was consistent with evidence found at the scene, said BRPD spokesman Cpl. Don Coppola Jr. A Facebook group named “Who Hurt Matt” was set up after the accident. The page’s moderators published that Tugwell had surgery after suffering head injuries, which doctors said were not expected to leave lasting neurological problems. The site states he is “in a lot of pain, but he’s doing well.” Contact Zach Carline at zcarline@lsureveille.com
FACULTY
Professor edits book of letters by Ernest Hemingway Michael Tarver Contributing Writer
University Boyd professor J. Gerald Kennedy has helped unveil part of the personality of a famous American author by being the senior advisory editor for the second volume of “The Letters of Ernest Hemingway.” The book, released this month, compiles personal and professional
letters written by Ernest Hemingway between 1923 and 1925. Kennedy said the compilation of these letters is unique because they display a lighter side of Hemingway while, at the same time, showing the deep, personal connections he had with other writers in Paris and with his father. While reading through these letters, Kennedy said he often came across crude, even lucrative
laguage and a few accounts of writer rivalry. Additionally, many of the letters to Hemingway’s father collected in the book were dated only a few years before his father’s suicide, Kennedy said. Kennedy also wrote the introduction for the book and has served as a member of the Hemingway Foundation and Society Board for HEMINGWAY, see page 4
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Professor Gerald Kennedy is one of the editors for “The Letters of Ernest Hemingway.”