THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE
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January 14, 2013
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CALENDAR
Thursday, 1-17 District High School Honor Bands from 7:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. at Brown Auditorium. Free and open to the public.
Friday, 1-18 Friday is the final date for students to add a class for credit or to make changes for their spring schedules.
BRIEF
ULM and LDCC ask for help during food drive The University of Louisiana at Monroe and Louisiana Delta Community College invite the community to participate in the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service. Community members, students, faculty, and employees from LDCC and ULM are asked to deliver donated items to Stubbs Hall Rooms 123 or 246 on the ULM campus during the week of Jan. 14-18. On Jan. 21, the items will be organized and delivered to the Community Soup Kitchen, located at 219 Plum St. in Monroe. The goal is to assist the United League of Churches Organization and stock the Community Soup Kitchen The Community Soup Kitchen serves hot meals three days a week to the homeless, seniors who live alone and cannot cook, and those who have a disability or are physically challenged. The kitchen also provides clothing and food bags. Items can be donated and delivered to Stubbs Hall, Rooms 123 or 246 at ULM. Participants may also come to Stubbs Hall, Room 246, at 10 a.m., on Monday, Jan. 21, and assist in the packaging and delivering of the collected items. The university is asking that people bring canned goods or toiletry items such as deoderent and tooth paste. Those who wish to participate should contact Dr. Pamela Saulsberry at 318-3421445 or e-mail her at saulsberry@ulm.edu
STATE
LOCAL
Obama picks Lew as new Treasury Secy
Jindal wants income, corp taxes cut out
Professor, students help local seniors
Washington, D.C.— President Barack Obama announced Jacob “Jack” Lew as his pick to become the new Secretary of the Treasury. Lew served as the president’s chief of staff and in the State Department as well as the President’s budget director. The previous secretary, Timothy Geitner, said he has the greatest respect for Lew and that he was a man of “exceptional judgment.” If confirmed, Lew will come into his new office just in time to deal with many fiscal matters such as the raising of the debt ceiling and the nation’s growing national debt. Lew is just one of the changes the White House plans to make to the cabinet for the new term. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will also not be returning.
BATON ROUGE— Gov. Bobby Jindal said he wants the state income and corportate taxes eliminated. He released a statement on Friday giving details for his plans to work with the legislature in its upcoming session on cutting out these taxes. The governor said he wants to do it in a “revenue neutral” way that would keep sales taxes as flat and low as possible. In order to protect low-income groups, the plan will keep exemptions for food, medicine, and residential utilities intact. The plan will also set aside funding to operate an Earned Income Tax Credit or something similar to help low income groups. Jindal also said the 468 tax exemptions need to be changed to balance the revenue lost from the cut.
During the 2013 Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Annual Enrollment Period, students and faculty from the University of Louisiana at Monroe College of Pharmacy helped 71 local seniors save $91,930.27 in Medicare prescription costs. This year’s savings nearly tripled those from last year, in which 47 beneficiaries saved a total of $32,294. Michelle Zagar, ULM clinical associate professor and a certified geriatric pharmacist, has been assisting Medicare beneficiaries with plan selection and enrollment at the Ouachita Council on Aging since the Medicare Part D program began in 2006. This is the second year she has provided her expertise with the assistance of her students.
Museum sticks to plan; remains on schedule by Shelby DeSoto
Since the announcement of renovations to Sandel Hall, the question if ULM’s Museum of Natural History would have a home was still in the air last semester. Now that renovations will be underway later this spring, the museum can rest easy knowing its exhibit will stay on campus and Hanna Hall will eventually be the home of the museum. After the Walker Hall fire that occurred in June 2012, all classroom and office space relocated the museum’s previous plans, moving displays to the second floor of Hanna Hall and research collections to Brown Stadium. “Everything is on schedule. We started moving some of the research materials to Brown,” said Thomas Sasek, director of the Museum of Natural History and professor of biology. According to Sasek, the research collections will be moved this semester and will be moving to Hanna when the renovations to Sandel are complete. Sandel Hall is still on schedule for its renovations, but the museum will have a temporary space in Hanna later this spring. Along with the museum, the bookstore will also be moving into Hanna during the renovations. “Once Sandel is finished in a couple of years, the bookstore will move back to Sandel,” said Sasek.
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SNEAK PEEK
No timeline has been announced for the dates on renovation and completion. Sasek said he has not heard of any timeline for the renovations of Hanna for the displays and renovations to the bookstore will be done at the same time.
“Everything is on schedule.” Thomas Sasek Museum Director
The Museum of Natural History has been a prized feature at ULM. It has the largest herbarium in the state along with thousands of preserved specimens. The museum is also listed on the Louisiana “Heroes and Heritage Trail,” a list of the best places to visit in the state, according to the secretary of state’s office. Eventually, the first and second floors of Hanna will be the museum’s home, the first being for the exhibits and the second for the research collections. According to Sasek, everything with the museum is going as planned.
contact Shelby DeSotoat desotosl@warhawks.ulm.edu
photo by Emi McIntyre
Samantha Vaughn and the ULM Hawkline give a preview of their routine for the upcoming national competition at Disney World this Saturday.