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Online resources available for University students BY RILEY KATZ rkatz@lsureveille.com If you are an incoming student, retaining information you receive at orientation and the beginning of every semester can be overwhelming. The good news is LSU offers many online resources that can be accessed with a click of a mouse or the touch of an app. All of these resources have dedicated websites, social network feeds and some even have apps that make answering questions and staying up to date easy. As easy as those resources are to access, the sheer amount of them can be overwhelming as well.
FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE For incoming freshmen,
the best service LSU offers for students to acclimate to school is the First Year Experience office. The department is dedicated to making sure students take advantage of their first year at the university. Chances are if there are any events created specifically for freshman, they have something to do with it. Keeping up with their upcoming events is made easy by checking their calendar at students. lsu.edu/fye/events. The list of events is constantly updated, but if you want to be on the cutting edge of news at FYE, the office can be found on Twitter at @LSU_FYE.
UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR FRESHMAN YEAR (UCFY) One resource First Year Experience recommends students fully utilize is the University Center for Freshman Year. All students start their college careers in UCFY, and if you have any
questions about majors or scheduling, the site has contact information for counselors that can help. You also can schedule appointments with them if your question is too big to answer over email, or, if you are around Allen Hall, walk in and schedule one in person at Room 150.
TIGER MAIL One of the best tips I can give you is to unlink your LSU Gmail address from your forwarding address. Teachers do not like poring over a bunch of emails that come from various domains. Play it safe and use your @tigers.lsu.edu email address to contact teachers.
FACEBOOK GROUPS Facebook is still a great way to connect with others. Each graduate year has an official Facebook page that is perfect for getting your name out there and meeting new people. Whether it be
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looking for a roommate or selling football tickets, Facebook groups are the perfect place to get things done with people in your class. For incoming freshmen this year, just search Louisiana State University Class of 2019, unless you were already added. While you are at it, be sure to like the official LSU page as well to stay up to date on the University.
ASKLSU If you have a question about anything that confuses you at LSU, do not worry. Chances are someone already had the same question you do. AskLSU is a student-run community website that has answers to almost every question you may have. The best part is those who answer are students, people who have already been through the situation you are in. If you cannot find the answer to the question you have, make a new thread
see RESOURCES, page 7
POLITICS
Lawmakers respond to SG report card
BY RILEY KATZ rkatz@lsureveille.com
After experiencing backlash due to posting a legislative report card, Student Government President Andrew Mahtook and his Chief Advisor Zack Faircloth spoke out about how the methodology and math of the report card achieved its final results. The SG report card was an attempt to grade legislators based on their votes for and against larger bills that SG deemed most important for higher education. “This wasn’t an intention to rank any senators and representatives and say what person is better than another,” Faircloth said. “That wasn’t the intention at all.”
Read a state representative’s response to SG’s report card on page 4. see REPORT CARD, page 7
STATE
Government funding for University restored to current year levels BY ZOE GEAUTHREAUX zgeauthreaux@lsureveille.com With the passage of HB1, among multiple other legislative bills, LSU’s higher education leaders are optimistic about the changes the University will see in the upcoming school year. At the beginning of the legislative session, a $1.6 billion shortfall in the state’s $24 billion budget threatened to cut higher education funding by 82 percent. Talk of this critical cut stirred up students and faculty, who feared the possibility of course cancellations, accreditation issues or an overall school shutdown. Now, as certain legislative bills receive their respective
gubernatorial signature of approval, the LSU community can breathe a temporary sigh of relief. The University will be receiving nearly the same amount of funding it had this past year, University senior vice provost Jane Cassidy said. “There’s no reason to think that there would be any changes to any of the programs around campus, except for positive changes and things that are moving forward,” Cassidy said. “Students shouldn’t have anything to worry about this year.” Additionally, the Health Sciences Center, Pennington Biomedical Research Center and the AgCenter will receive varying increases in funding based on their
needs, according to Jason Droddy, University executive director of policy and external affairs. Cassidy also noted that new programs were approved by the Board of Regents and said, “We’re looking forward to expanding opportunities for students in the degree programs.” The budget, which was signed on Friday by Gov. Bobby Jindal, allocated $2.36 billion in funds towards higher education throughout the state. TOPS received $265 million in funding and will continue to automatically increase money awarded to students as tuition goes up. Several potential tuition
Gov. Bobby Jindal discusses the end of the legislative session on June 11. Jindal declared the session a success after lawmakers passed a budget that met the governor’s criteria on taxes.
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