The Daily Reveille - September 15, 2015

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• Editors share the courses they’ve dropped, page 2

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Most withdrawn classes over past four semesters

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40.4

25.5 22.6

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21.7 PERCENT “W” GRADES AWARDED

DROP IT LIKE IT’S HOT

• OPINION: Cargo shorts are practical, fashionable, page 8

PERCENT “W” GRADES AWARDED

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

• Student athlete balances football and architecture curriculum, page 5

MUS 1740

PHYS 1208

PHYS 1201

BIOL 4093

CHEM 2262

CSC 3102

FALL 2013

26.7

26.3

26.2

25.0

ME 3133

CHEM 2261

EE 3950

ARCH 3006

SPRING 2014

BY JOSHUA JACKSON • @Joshua_Jackson_

47.2

37.6

29.0 24.4

CSC 1254

CHE 2171

ARTH 1440

ME 3834

FALL 2014

23.5

ME 2334

35.9

PERCENT “W” GRADES AWARDED

PERCENT “W” GRADES AWARDED

Data provided by the Office of Budget and Planning shows the classes with the greatest percentages of student withdrawals in the past four semesters. The data represents the percentage of students enrolled in the class who withdrew from the courses after the final date to add or drop a course without a withdrawal, or W, listed on their transcripts. Because each class is a different size, the percentages represent the ratio of students who withdrew to the number of students first enrolled in the class. According to the LSU W Grade Policy, students are allowed to withdraw from three courses when they have less than 60 credit hours and are allowed another three Ws when they are between 60 and 119 hours. After 119 credit hours, students are allowed one W. The Ws do not rollover. Withdrawals listed on transcripts do not affect students’ overall grade point average.

54.4

ME 2334

ECON 4720

27.2

26.9

PETE 2032

EE 3150

24.1

CE 2460

SPRING 2015 Charts are not to scale

STATE

Law professor Chris Tyson seeks Secretary of State office BY SAM KARLIN @samkarlin_TDR In the late ‘80s, Chris Tyson, a young LSU Laboratory School student, could be found roaming the halls of the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center, though he was often kicked out and sent back to the high school campus. In the span of more than

30 years, Tyson has come full circle, gracing the doors of the Law Center as a professor rather than a wandering student and expanding his career beyond the LSU campus into a campaign for Louisiana Secretary of State this fall. He described the position as the intersection of democracy, economy and culture, touting

his past involvement in leader- architecture, master’s degree in ship roles for small public policy and a Jubusiness ventures, conris Doctor, Tyson came tributions to political back to Louisiana in campaigns and mentorresponse to Hurricane ship programs as his Katrina’s devastaqualifications. tion, finding work with After spending 12 Sen. Mary Landrieu’s Elections 2015: Sec. ofRACE State 2015 MAYORAL years away from his office in Washinghome state in pursuit ton D.C. and later reof an undergraduate degree in turning to the state as an LSU

law professor. “I can’t think of a more powerful experience to draw you back than playing some bit part in the post-Katrina process,” he said. “It really emboldened my desire to come back to Louisiana.” Tyson joined Landrieu’s

see SECRETARY, page 4


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