The debate continues: Faculty Senate postpones vote on smoking ban, p. 3
In memoriam: International Cultural Center to erect fountain for deceased students, p. 5
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Hudson, Borel reflect on tenure Completed initiatives: • Advocate against budget cuts • Assess fee bill thoroughly • Add a Redbox kiosk on campus • Extend add/drop time frame • Extend library hours • Create online test bank • Strengthen Dead Week violation system • Improve Student Organization Fair • Establish baseball bus trip • Increase Priority Points per event • Increase seating in Student Union • Ensure correctly labeled recycling bins are in every classroom • Institute service-learning in every college • Increase communication with other Louisiana colleges and universities
In progress:
• Establish covered bus stops • Reform international student orientation • Publish results of teacher evaluations • Extend Wi-Fi throughout campus • Host baseball pep rallies • Research solutions to traffic conditions on Burbank and Nicholson drives • Continue to make North Gate area safer
Not complete:
positions than his own. While Hudson and Borel have worked closely with Chancellor Michael Martin and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Jack Hamilton, they acknowledged they disagree on some of their positions regarding budget cuts. Borel said she disagrees with prorated tuition, which would make students pay more per credit hour taken, while Hudson said he disagrees with
Strengthening laws regarding sex offenders on college campuses will be debated in the coming legislative session. Prefiled House Bill 13 would require faculty and student sex offenders to register with campus police departments. Current law requires sex offenders to register with law enforcement in the city and parish where they live, work, or go to school, according to the bill. Currently, the University runs background checks on staff members when they are hired but has no way of keeping up with students or faculty who may be registered, according to LSU Police Department Det. Kevin Scott. “The problem is LSU is a city within a city,” Scott said. “LSU
INITIATIVES, see page 15
OFFENDERS, see page 15
• Decrease restrictions for on-campus events • Decrease receipt printing from LSU Dining • Advocate LSU to purchase renewable energy • Donate funding from unused meal plans
After their administration made national headlines for questioning Gov. Bobby Jindal’s dedication to funding Louisiana’s higher education, Student Government President and Vice President J Hudson and Dani Borel are leaving office Wednesday. But say they will maintain relationships with administrators and legislators and advocate
for the University. “There was once an SG president who said, ‘There’s a life after Student Government, and I’m going to live it,’” Hudson said. “We’re Of Hudson and Borel’s going to live it, but 32 pushcard initiatives, we’re going to be fight21 are complete. ing for LSU.” Hudson said he learned to emphasize “the student is the customer of higher education” while dealing with those in higher-powered
LSUPD unable to harbor costs Staff Writer
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College sex offender laws may be toughened Xerxes A. Wilson
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Social work students learn value of helping others grieve Attendees gather at Indian Mounds for music, poetry Andrea Gallo Staff Writer
Bagpipes sounded from the top of the Indian Mounds on Monday afternoon as affiliates with the University’s School of Social Work gathered for an “Honoring and Remembering Ceremony.” Participants listened to music, read poetry and gazed at candles, carnations and American flags. Sherry Smelley, social work instructor, has been hosting the ceremony as part of her “Grief and Bereavement” class since Sept. 11, 2001. Smelley said the ceremony partially serves as a way for graduate students to learn the value of helping others grieve.
“We understand that nothing can lessen the pain of grief, but somehow ceremonies such as this seem to comfort,” Smelley said. The ceremony stressed three main themes — supporting those with loss and grief, honoring those who serve in the military, as firefighters and elsewhere, and coping with the loss of a loved one. “We understand that only when one loves does one grieve. ... That loss could be from death, from deployment, from disaster and many other forms,” Smelley said. The Corps of Cadets and Pershing Rifles presented the colors, and within each theme was a poetry reading and a musical selection. At the end of the ceremony, Stanley Masinter, a licensed clinical social worker, played “Amazing Grace” on the bagpipes as attendees released a bundle of balloons, each representing a different kind of loss with notes CEREMONY, see page 15
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The Corps of Cadets and Pershing Rifles present the colors Monday during the Honoring and Remembering Ceremony. People affiliated with the School of Social Work gathered for the event.