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SG aids students with ticket debacle LAWRENCE BARRECA • Staff Writer
A number of students who believed their final season in Tiger Stadium slipped away have gotten a second chance, thanks to an online appeal form provided by Student Government. The ticket ordering notification emails, which would normally be found in students’ inboxes weeks before their respective ordering windows, were missed by a number of upperclassmen because their emails were being sent to spam. Last week, social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter exploded with irate LSU students who missed their football ticket ordering windows. Once students began voicing their displeasure on Facebook, SG
took notice. “I sent it to our Chief of Staff and told him that we needed to jump on this, because if it happened to a couple of people, then it likely happened to a lot, and it turns out it did,” said SG Senate Director of Communications David Holley. “That’s what prompted [SG jumping on the issue] was just seeing a couple people posting on social media ticked off about it.” After enough students complained, SG set up a form for students to appeal their missed tickets. The appeal form was made available at 5:30 p.m.
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10 percent of whom were juniors
CONSTRUCTION
‘Easy Streets II’ begins on campus Trey Labat Staff Writer
Construction has begun on phase one of the Easy Streets II program, designed to ease traffic around campus. The bulk of the construction will occur around Dalrymple Drive, Infirmary Road and Cypress Drive. A major feature of the first phase includes new “sharrows” — shared roadway bicycle markings — designed to encourage more students to bike to campus. Parking in the Tower Drive area will be closed to B Plan parkers. Traffic will be allowed, but will be limited to one lane with flagmen managing the flow of cars during construction. Parking on Tower Drive from South Stadium Drive will also be eliminated in order to create a safer corridor for CONSTRUCTION, see page 4
REORGANIZATION
Transition Advisory Team addresses tenure, recruiting Taylor Schoen Staff Writer
The Transition Advisory Team discussed increasing research faculty funding, tenure evaluations and maintaining faculty retention on Monday afternoon. To keep faculty at the University, TAT has recommended increasing faculty funding from $12 million to $55 million, adding graduate students to the research process and expanding undergraduate research to build a globally competitive research enterprise. Lee Griffin, co-chair of the Finance and Revenue Subcommittee and president and CEO of the LSU Foundation said the way qualifications for tenure are measured for research faculty members need to be changed.
“Some professor’s research or a professor that’s doing a lot of good in terms of research and bringing things out of the lab whether it be commerce, or a license, a patent or a start up, that doesn’t really count toward tenure,” Griffin said. Griffin said the qualifications for tenure need to be updated and especially include technological transfer and discoveries. Jim Firnberg, chair of the Research and Discovery Subcommittee, addressed the declining rate of faculty retention and the need to stabilize the faculty. “Our faculties have not received raises in four years or five. This will be the fifth if they don’t get a raise this year, and we’ve been picked off by the best universities in the country,” Firnberg said.
TAT also suggested the University needs to implement aggressive student recruiting processes on a state, national and international level. Carroll Suggs, co-chair of the Student Experience Subcommittee, said a higher recruitment level would increase the graduate and undergraduate populations consistently, attract top students nationally and internationally, increase graduate rates and increase revenues from out of state tuition. Suggs said the University has a recruiting team of “maybe” six while Alabama has a team of 45. Suggs suggested improving the student experience by increasing the availability of TRANSITION, see page 4
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Lee Griffin speaks Monday at a Transition Advisory Team meeting in the LSU Energy, Coast and Environment Building.