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This Week in Pictures | 04/20/2013 - 04/26/2013

Greek Week consisted of an eight-day blitz build of two homes on Elvin Drive for deserving families in the Baton Rouge area. Members of the Greek community worked alongside a volunteer construction team to build the houses’ structures and landscapes. On April 25, ExxonMobil presented a check for $886,774 to the LSU Foundation as part of the ExxonMobil Foundation’s Educational Matching Gift Program. The gift represents ExxonMobil's match of the 2012 donations from its employees, retirees and surviving spouses to LSU, the AgCenter and the Law Center. Interim President and Interim Chancellor William Jenkins (far left) and Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost Stuart Bell (far right) met with (from left to right) Corey Landry and Bruno Beltran, LSU's 2013 Goldwater Scholars, and Jonathan Lambert, LSU's 2013 Udall Scholar.
The LSU Corps of Cadets held its annual Chancellor’s Day Parade, sponsored by the Cadets of the Ole War Skule, on Thursday, April 25, at the LSU War Memorial on the LSU Parade Ground. The Chancellor’s Day Parade was an opportunity for LSU Interim System President and Chancellor William Jenkins to re-assert the university's commitment to a military presence at LSU and express support for ongoing efforts to strengthen the Corps of the Cadets. Greek Week consisted of an eight-day blitz build of two homes on Elvin Drive for deserving families in the Baton Rouge area. Members of the Greek community worked alongside a volunteer construction team to build the houses’ structures and landscapes.
As part of Volunteer Week, students bagged 25,000 pounds of “ugly” potatoes on the Parade Ground that were then donated to the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank. As part of Volunteer Week, students bagged 25,000 pounds of donated “ugly” potatoes on the Parade Ground. "Ugly" potatoes cannot be sold by grocers but are otherwise good to eat. As part of Volunteer Week, students visiting Free Speech Plaza were asked to make paper cranes inscribed with a wish for children battling cancer. Drawing inspiration from a Japanese tradition that a wish will be granted for every 1,000 cranes folded, the cranes will be sent to local cancer centers to brighten the patients’ day.

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