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This Week in Pictures | 09/15/2012 - 09/21/2012

LSU held a press conference on Wednesday, Sept. 19, in the Lod Cook Alumni Center regarding the arrest of a suspect following a bomb threat made to the university on Monday, Sept. 17, which prompted the evacuation of campus. On Wednesday, Sept. 19, LSU received a $300,000 donation from AT&T supporting the LSYOU program in the College of Human Sciences & Education. This money will be used to support a dropout prevention program for at-risk students utilizing strategies designed to cultivate academic achievement and workforce readiness. The LSU Department of Sociology hosted a conference, titled "Southern Sociology in the 21st Century," on Friday, Sept. 21, celebrating 75 years of graduate education.
On Thursday, Sept. 20, LSU Information Technology Services, the LSU Career Services, NetApp and Advanced System Group held the Women in Technology Careers fall forum in the Student Union to increase the number of women who participate in technology careers. On Sept. 14, LSU listened to the Golden Band from Tigerland during Fall Fest, the chancellor’s welcome back celebration. Fall Fest is made possible by its sponsors: Baker Hughes, Baton Rouge Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Campus Federal Credit Union, Entergy, ExxonMobil, Raising Cane’s, Schlumberger and Shell. A packed Quad turned out to see the brothers in blue and white from Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity who performed during the Love Purple Live Gold Yard Show at Fall Fest.
Prospective students and their parents can get better acquainted with LSU and what it has to offer at Kickoff LSU, a day-long, on-campus open house offered for the fourth year in a row. Kickoff LSU events will be held on the Friday before home football games on Sept. 28, Oct. 12, Nov. 9 and Nov. 16. This fall, LSU added a new sign marking the entrance to campus next to Campus Lake at the intersection of West Lakeshore Drive, Stadium Drive and East Parker Blvd. A view of the west side of Tiger Stadium with the new 10-foot tall illuminated "Tiger Stadium" letters facing Nicholson Drive.

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