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This Week in Pictures | 11/24/2011 - 12/02/2011

Mike the Tiger enjoyed No. 1 LSU's victory over No. 3 Arkansas to clinch a berth in the SEC Championship Game. During LSU's game against Arkansas, Prosanta Chakrabarty, curator of fishes at LSU’s Museum of Natural Science, was honored for his discovery of the Louisiana pancake batfish, which was recognized as one of the top 10 new species for 2010 by the International Institute for Species Exploration. During the LSU game against Arkansas, Roger Ogden (center), a 1968 graduate of LSU in business, was honored as the Peoples Health “Illustrious Alumnus of the Game” by Warren Murrell (left) of People's Health and Cliff Vannoy (right) of the LSU Alumni Association.
On Wednesday, Nov. 30, LSU held the 43rd annual Staff Outstanding Service Awards ceremony. The Staff Outstanding Service Awards are sponsored by the LSU Foundation and are presented to staff members from LSU, the LSU AgCenter and the LSU Law Center. LSU Chancellor Michael Martin met with students at the 459 Commons during the Chancellor's Late Night Pancake Breakfast on Tuesday, Nov. 29. Photo by Jay High. LSU recruiters Ryan Landry and Olivia Jolet helped serve students at The 5 during the Chancellor's Late Night Pancake Breakfast. Photo by Jay High.
LSU Chancellor Michael Martin and Mike the Tiger welcomed the audience at LSU's annual Candlelight Celebration on Tuesday, Nov. 29. The annual Candlelight Celebration honored holiday traditions in front of a standing-room only audience at the Claude L. Shaver Theatre in the Music & Dramatic Arts Building. The LSU Christmas tree and Candlelight Celebration are sponsored by Campus Federal Credit Union, Coca-Cola Bottling Co., ExxonMobil, Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers, Ricoh, Shell and LSU Dining, in cooperation with Community Coffee and Kleinpeter Farms Dairy.
In addition to celebrating Christmas, the LSU Candlelight Celebration also honors the holiday traditions of Kwanzaa and Hanukkah. Members of Hillel at LSU discussed the traditions of Hanukkah (pictured above) while the African-American Cultural Center discussed the traditions of Kwanzaa. Mike the Tiger joined Santa Claus on stage as Santa read "The Cajun Night Before Christmas." LSU’s Schola Cantorum performed five Christmas selections, including "Deck the Halls"; "Angels We Have Hard on High"; "What is this Lovely Fragrance?"; "Ding Dong, Merrily on High"; and "We Wish You A Merry Christmas."
The LSU Gospel Choir performed "Apologize," featuring soloist Lemetria Dillon. LSU’s Cantabile String Quartet performed "Santa's Symphony," a medley of classical pieces mixed with Christmas Carols Members of the Ballroom Dance Club at LSU performed a dance to “All I Want for Christmas is You.”
Future LSU students from the Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre perform a scene from Act II of “The Nutcracker: A Tale From the Bayou,” which will be performed at the River Center Theatre for the Performing Arts on Saturday, Dec. 17, and Sunday, Dec. 18. Members of the LSU Ambassadors helped lead the crowd from the Claude L. Shaver Theatre across the street to Memorial Tower for the official lighting of the Christmas tree. Members of the LSU Ambassadors, LSU Cheerleaders, Mike the Tiger and Miss LSU led the crowd in the singing of the LSU alma mater following the official lighting of the LSU Christmas tree by Chancellor Michael Martin.
Eli Jones, dean of LSU’s E. J. Ourso College of Business, with his wife, Fern, and his grandson, Ean, enjoying the Candlelight Celebration. This year's LSU Christmas tree, which arrived on campus on Monday, Nov. 14, was hand chosen by LSU and purchased locally from Windy Hills Farm in Ethel, La. LSU's 2011 Christmas tree is a 32-foot cypress tree and is lit with white lights and decorated with purple ornaments, glittering with sequins and sparkles. The star that goes on top of the tree measures almost two feet in diameter.

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