The Daily Reveille 11-7-2016

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vote Volume 122 · No. 51

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

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STUDENT LIFE

CONSTRUCTION

Student veterans to receive new center

Building begins on Spruce Hall

BY ALLISON BRUHL @albruhl_

BY LAUREN HEFFKER @laurheffker University student veterans will soon have a dedicated space on campus in the forthcoming Brookshire Military and Veterans Student Center. Thanks to a donation from University alumnus William Brookshire, the new student center will increase the University’s ability to support student veterans, as well as its recruiting efforts, according to a University Relations news release. The center will house the LSU Veteran and Military Student Services and will include a computer lab, conference rooms and office space. Student veterans, active military, reservists, guardsmen and their dependents will be able to use the center. “Previously, we took pride in the number of students we saw go into the armed forces. Now, we can also be proud of how we serve them after they have served our country,” LSU President F. King Alexander said in the release. “These brave men and women, as well as their families, deserve all the

see VETERANS, page 2

GALLANTLY STREAMING

HASKELL WHITTINGTON / The Daily Reveille

U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Rick Walls displays the American flag behind him as he parachutes from five thousand feet above campus as a part of the Silver Wings, who perform live aerial demonstrations in support of the United States Army on Monday on the LSU Parade Grounds as part of Ole War Skule Week.

FACULTY

TECHNOLOGY

Faculty Senate to revisit graduate stipend resolution BY KATIE GAGLIANO @katie_gagliano A faculty push for increased graduate student stipends may be on the horizon after the LSU Faculty Senate meets Tuesday. The Faculty Senate is scheduled for a final reading of a resolution focused on increasing graduate student stipends. The resolution, sponsored by kinesiology professor Arend Van Gemmert, was tabled Oct. 11 after the meeting ran short on copies of the legislation. The tabling followed faculty criticism of language comparing graduate students’ needs to those of traditional single-person households. Other faculty members raised concerns about reviewing graduate student finances and the possibility of graduate students possessing income from outside sources.

Construction began Monday on Spruce Hall — the University’s newest residence hall, set to be built in Hart Lot adjacent to Cypress Hall. A contractor began installing construction fencing Monday. LSU Residential Life asks that all vehicles move from the construction zone in Hart Lot or risk being towed on a daily basis at the owner’s expense. Vehicles may be moved into one of the several residential parking lots surrounding west campus residence halls and apartments, including: resident lots across Aster Street from Cypress Hall and West Campus Apartments, resident zones surrounding WCA, resident zones between WCA and Broussard Hall and the resident lot in front of Kirby Smith Hall. Cypress Hall is the College of Human Sciences & Education’s eco-friendly undergraduate living facility that opened in fall 2015. Residents of the CHSE Residential College include freshman and firstyear students entering the School of Education, School of Kinesiology and School of Social Work. Two years in the making, Cypress Hall is a leader in energy-efficiency, complete with indoor-outdoor learning spaces and energy-efficient mechanical systems.

Under PS-21 — the University’s current graduate student employment policy — graduate students are contractually obligated to devote full-time work to their studies and graduate assistantship. If a graduate student wishes to take on outside employment, the student’s graduate adviser or the dean of the Graduate School is required to give express permission. The policy also states graduate students’ workload should be limited to 20 hours per week, although several professors noted students routinely exceed that limit. Graduate School Dean Michelle Massé said academia typically equates the lifestyles of graduate students to those of starving artists — students go through several lean years while working an assistantship before graduating and beginning

see STIPENDS, page 2

University’s e-textbook library service wins state award BY CJ CARVER CWCarver_ Last month, the Louisiana Online University Information System gave an award to a little-known, money-saving service provided by the University’s libraries to students. At a conference in early October, LOUIS honored Web Development Librarian David Comeaux and the University’s Libraries Technology Initiatives Department with the Best Customized System Award. The focus of the award was for the e-textbook platform that allows faculty members to choose from titles that the University’s Libraries have then purchase course materials, said Sigrid Kelsey, Director of Library Communications and Publications. “[The platform] allows faculty to be able to go in and search for books that they might be able to assign for their class,” said

Kelsey. “They can search for the titles even if [the University doesn’t] own them, and then if [the University doesn’t] own them, we will get them.” For students, the e-textbook web pages provided by the University offer digital textbooks for use in their assigned course work. LOUIS was created by the Louisiana Library Network and is made up of more than 45 libraries from public and private colleges and universities across the state. According to its website, LOUIS “combines the collective resources of all members to produce a dynamic library consortium.” LOUIS’s network of libraries uses methods including an integrated library system, an interlibrary loan system, electronic scholarly resources and

see EBOOKS, page 2


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