March 21, 2003 |
VOL. 19, NO. 24 |
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| People at LSU |
Four members of the LSU Board of Supervisors were recently reappointed by Gov. Mike Foster, while one new member was added – Marty J. Chabert, who will represent the 3rd Congressional District, replacing Perry Segura.
Segura, in turn, will continue to represent the 3rd Congressional District but replaces Bernard Boudreaux, who will now serve as Member-at-Large. Boudreaux replaces Stanley Jacobs. Completing the appointments, Charles S. Weems and Kent Anderson, both of the 5th Congressional District, were reappointed through June 1, 2008.
Chabert is president of Prospect Land Inc. and a former state senator representing Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes. He also served as assistant secretary for the Department of Transportation and Development, and was a member of the University of Louisiana System Board of Supervisors.
Segura was appointed to the Board on Jan. 12, 1994, and his term runs through June 1, 2004. Segura is an architect in New Iberia.
Boudreaux was appointed to the Board on Sept. 23, 1998, and his term runs through June 1, 2008. He also serves as executive counsel to the governor.
Weems was appointed to the Board on Oct. 25, 1991. He is an attorney in private practice in Alexandria.
Anderson was appointed to the Board on July 12, 2000. He is vice chairman of the Advisory Board for the Regions Banks of Northeast Louisiana and lives in Monroe.
The LSU Board of Supervisors serves as the management board for the LSU System, and is composed of 16 members who serve overlapping terms of up to six years.
Two members are appointed from each congressional district and one member
from the state at large. The Board also has a student member who serves a one-year
term, as provided by the Louisiana Constitution.
LSU is joining in a weekend of events centering on the Great American Cleanup. LSU employees, students and LSU’s Community-University Partnership, or CUP, will work with the city-parish and residents of the Old South Baton Rouge neighborhood on Friday, March 28, in a day-long clean-up effort called “Pick Up with CUP.” The day will include the dedication of a new playground at Polk Elementary School, built with help from CUP and LSU students.
On Friday, March 28, employees from LSU’s Office of Facility Services will hit the streets to work with residents who live on Roosevelt and Garfield Streets, between Highland Road and Alaska Street. From 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. that day, they will help residents move unwanted items, furniture, old appliances and other trash to the curb for a special pick-up by the city-parish.
From 1-3 p.m. on Friday, there will be a special dedication of a new playground at Polk Elementary School, 408 Polk St., which was built with funding from CUP and in partnership with LSU’s School of Landscape Architecture, Baton Rouge Green and community members. LSU Chancellor Mark Emmert is scheduled to be on hand for the dedication, as is East Baton Rouge Parish Superintendent of Schools Clayton Wilcox. Ground was broken for the playground in December and work was completed with the help of LSU students and LSU Associate Professor Marybeth Lima, who teaches biological and agricultural engineering.
From 3-6 p.m. on the 28th, members of LSU’s Rotaract student organization will join members of the Sunrise Rotary Club to clean up Chimes Street and State Street at the North Gates of LSU and dedicate new trash cans for the area. The cans will be placed throughout the neighborhood and the volunteers, called the “Krewe of Cans,” will gather in the parking lot of the Bank One branch at the corner of the University Shopping Center property.
Finally, on Saturday the 29th, members of various LSU student organizations have volunteered to take part in CUP efforts to fix up homes in the Old South Baton Rouge area. These homes were selected by the city-parish’s Office of Community Development.
The events are scheduled around the Great American Cleanup on March 29, which is being coordinated locally by Keep Baton Rouge Beautiful.
The Community-University Partnership, or CUP, sprang from a $400,000 Community Outreach Partnership Centers grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The grant, awarded to LSU and various community partners, marked the first COPC grant to any institution in Louisiana.
The Community Outreach Partnership Centers program is administered by HUD's Office of University Partnerships. Established in 1994, the Office of University Partnerships is a catalyst for joining colleges and universities with their communities in a shared effort to work on solving pressing urban problems
For more information on the “Pick Up With CUP” events, contact
Victoria Porter at 225-268-3385 or vporter@lsu.edu.
For more information about CUP and its activities, contact Judy Bethly, CUP
coordinator, at 225-389-8566 or jbethly@lsu.edu.
Charles F. D'Agostino, executive director of the Louisiana Business & Technology Center at LSU, has been invited by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Office of Technology Policy to be a panelist at a Washington, D.C., conference titled “Tech-Led Economic Development in a Tough Economy.”
“We are bringing national leaders together with hope of developing a list of 20-30 zero-budget solutions for regional economic development leaders and governors that can promote technology-led economic development without spending money,” said Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Technology Policy Bruce P. Mehlman.
D'Agostino will represent the National Business Incubation Association and the incubator industry in the United States.
“We will be looking at ideas to support state-funded business incubators, developing networks with regional angel investors and venture capital firms, and seeking ideas to streamline and fast-track university technology transfer and licensing policy,” said D’Agostino.
The findings will be presented at the Economic Development Administration's National Conference in May 2003.
The LBTC at LSU was selected by the National Business Incubation Association and the Office of Technology Policy as the nation’s No. 3 incubator for job creation.
Founded in 1988, the LBTC is a department of LSU’s E.J. Ourso College of Business Administration. It is composed of three units: the Small Business Incubator, the Small Business Development Center and the Louisiana Technology Transfer Office.
For more information on the LBTC and any of its components, contact D’Agostino
at 225-578-7555 or visit the Web site www.bus.lsu.edu/lbtc.
LSU’s School of Veterinary Medicine will host the 10th annual Great Rover Road Run Saturday, March 29, at 8 a.m. The pre-registration deadline for the 5K run and one-mile Fun Run with Rover is Wednesday, March 26.
The Great Rover Road Run, hosted by the Student Chapter of the American Veterinary Medical Association, will begin with the 5K race for humans at 8 a.m. The one-mile Fun Run with Rover will follow at 9 a.m. The course begins at the veterinary school on Skip Bertman Drive and winds through the LSU campus.
Race winners will be recognized in a variety of categories including Overall Winners, Wheelchair, Slowest Pet, Best Owner/Pet Look Alike, Youngest Pet and more. Participants can also register for the Doggy Olympics and a low-cost dog wash after the races.
Water and refreshments will be provided for all participants. T-shirts and “doggy bags” are available for the first 500 race registrants. Pre-registration for either the 5K race or the one-mile Fun Run is $15, and race-day registration is $17. Registrants can participate in both races for a $17 pre-registration fee and a $20 race-day fee. The Doggy Olympics requires a $1 entry fee for non-race participants.
Pre-race packet pick-up is Friday, March 28, from noon to 1 p.m. and 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the lobby of the veterinary school.
Registration forms and event details are available at www.vetmed.lsu.edu,
or by contacting the School of Veterinary Medicine at 225 578-9900.
Swine Palace Productions will hold open auditions for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” by August Wilson in both Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
Baton Rouge auditions will take place Saturday, March 29, from 4 - 6 p.m. and Sunday, March 30, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Room 168 of the LSU Music and Dramatic Arts Building. Call backs will be held Monday, March 31, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the lobby of the Reilly Theatre.
New Orleans auditions will take place Sunday, March 30, from 6 - 10 p.m. at Southern Repertory Theatre, and call backs will be Monday, March 31, from 5 - 9 p.m. at the Southern Repertory Theatre. The theater is located on the third floor of the Canal Place Shopping Center, located two blocks from the river on the French Quarter side of Canal Street.
Adult, male and female, black and white, actors/musicians ages 25-55 are being sought for roles.
A complete character breakdown is available at www.swinepalace.org.
Actors should prepare one contemporary monologue. No audition appointment is necessary. Rehearsals begin August 29.
“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” will be performed Sept. 26 through Oct. 12 at the Reilly Theatre on LSU’s campus.
For more information, call Swine Palace at 225-578-9276 or visit www.swinepalace.org.
He’s turned down Quentin Tarantino and Jerry Seinfeld. He’s acted with John Travolta and Sean Penn, and now, he’s coming to LSU.
Award-winning Danny Hoch will perform “Jails, Hospitals and Hip-Hop,” an off-Broadway show, at the LSU Union Theater on Saturday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets range from $9-$21 and are on sale at the LSU Union Box Office, 225-578-5128, or Ticketmaster, 225-761-8400 and www.ticketmaster.com.
Hoch, “a white boy from Brooklyn, N.Y.,” uses filing cabinets as a dressing room in his one-man show to become eight street characters, who are anything but black and white. With the aid of hats, shirts and shades, Hoch presents realistic people that one would find in a New York jail cell, waiting room or fast-food restaurant.
Audiences are invited to meet Flip Dog, a white, teenage, “wannabe” rapper, and M.C. Enuff, a millionaire rapper recounting his career with David Letterman. Over the course of the production, he will also become a Yankee fan, a Jamaican disc jockey and a Harlem street vendor in sketches directed at young audiences.
“Jails, Hospitals and Hip-Hop” entertains and educates, as Hoch uses hip-hop themes and dynamic characters to break down boundaries and dispel stereotypes. The sketches are based on Hoch’s childhood experiences in Queens and his work in New York City’s Creative Arts Team, a group that taught conflict resolution in jails and high schools.
The show has become so successful that Stratosphere Entertainment is releasing “Jails, Hospitals and Hip-Hop” on film, and Villard Books/Random House is publishing it in paperback.
Hoch has written and acted for television and films, including HBO’s “Subway Stories,” “Thin Red Line” and “Prison Song.” His articles have appeared in Village Voice and the New York Times, and he has received numerous awards for his work including a Cable Ace Award for his HBO special, “Some People.”
Hoch’s performance is sponsored by the LSU Performing Arts Series, which is made possible by the support of all university students. The Performing Arts Series was approved by the student body in 1997 and provides for the cultural enrichment of three major university performing arts “engines” – the LSU School of Music, the Department of Theatre and the LSU Union.
The student fee also allows these units to offer students and the community performances, clinics and master classes at the highest level of quality at reasonable prices.
For information regarding interviews with the artist, contact Rhonda Dunaway
at 225-578-5964 or rdunaw1@lsu.edu.
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| STAY SAFE—Ronald Brown (right), University Relations, handed out Stay Safe information to students, faculty and staff in front of the Union. For more information, visit LSU's Campus Safety and Health Resources Web page at www.lsu.edu/safety. |
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| Kevin Reilly (left) and John Breaux (right) attended the fourth annual John Breaux Symposium on March 15. This year’s day-long session discussed issues surrounding freedom of the press and its public policy implications in a democratic society. |