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LSU STUDENT MEDIAThe Office of Student Media is home to LSU's four student-produced media outlets, which provide news, information and entertainment to the campus and hands-on learning opportunities for students. The Office of Student Media strives to encourage its students to produce excellent products, with student control over content and process in order to maximize learning. As an essential part of fulfilling this philosophy, the Office of Student Media staff ensures sound fiscal policies and cares for resources for the long term. The main mission of the Office of Student Media is to provide the campus with news and information, an exchange of ideas and entertainment. While doing all of this, Student Media also provides hands-on experience for hundreds of students each year in writing/reporting, marketing/promotions, graphic design, photography, Radio production, TV production, as well as in leadership, management and fiscal responsibility. Each medium has its own adviser who has no control over content but trains, critiques, and advocates for the staff as necessary and helps make sure the staff has the resources it needs to get the job done. The training and coaching come first, then the advisers step back and let the students work, without editing or censoring. Generally, the advisers do not see content before publication or broadcast, but rather do critiques afterwards. It is the student editors and station managers, chosen by an independent Media Board, who hire their staffs and decide on all editorial content and programming. This model separates the students from administrative control, allowing them to be a true and independent voice of the students, and places them in a real-world context where they make decisions for which they must then take responsibility. The business, advertising and technical areas are run by permanent University staff members.
Get involvedYour time at LSU will go by fast. Whether it’s exploring your interests, helping out in the community or getting a head start on your career, there are plenty of ways you can get involved at the Manship School. Looking for a way to get involved in the Manship School? Check out our student organizations! Advertising Federation at LSU (AdFed) For more information, email Dr. Soojin Kim at sjkim@lsu.edu.
Bateman Case Study Competition For more information, email Prof. Sadie Wilks at sadiewilks@lsu.edu.
Geaux Vote For more information, email Prof. Len Apcar at lenapcar@lsu.edu.
ImPRint Communications For more information, email Dr. Nihar Sreepada at nsreepada@lsu.edu.
Kappa Tau Alpha Honor Society For more information, email masscomm@lsu.edu.
LSU Mock Trial For more information, email Prof. Len Apcar at lenapcar@lsu.edu.
Manship School College Council For more information, email Dr. Jenee Slocum at jenee@lsu.edu.
National Association of Black Journalists at LSU (LSU NABJ) For more information, email Prof. Lisa Page at lpage@lsu.edu.
Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) For more information, email Prof. Sadie Wilks at sadiewilks@lsu.edu.
Society of Politics, Communication and Law For more information, email Dr. Ruth Moon at rmoonmari1@lsu.edu.
Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) For more information, email Prof. Freda Yarbrough Dunne at fyarbroughdunne@lsu.edu. LSU has four student media organizations: The Reveille, Tiger TV, KLSU radio and Gumbo, the university yearbook. The LSU Office of Student Media hires nearly 200 paid students each semester from any major and concentration. Student Media also has its own Advertising and Marketing department.
The Reveille Of the 100-person team, The Reveille student-led editorial staff hires writers for the news, sports, entertainment and opinion sections. Photographers, videographers, radio reporters and copydesk designers are also part of the newsroom. The Reveille has won numerous awards, including being named the Best All-Around Daily Student Newspaper in the nation by the Society of Professional Journalists. Reveille alumni now work at The Washington Post, The Times-Picayune and Entertainment Weekly.
Tiger TV For nearly 30 years, Tiger TV has been equipping students with real-world experience to prepare them for life after graduation. About 60 students each semester work in front of and behind the camera as reporters, anchors, videographers, producers and managers. The daily newscast, “Newsbeat,” is broadcast from LSU’s $1 million state-of-the-art studio. For “Tiger TV Tailgate,” students broadcast a live show in front of Tiger Stadium before every home football game. Tiger TV reporters break news, host political debates and interview sources from Coach Ed Orgeron to Gov. John Bel Edwards. Our alumni work at news stations across the nation. One former station manager is now the director of communications at CBS Evening News. Check out the Tiger TV YouTube channel for more!
KLSU KLSU disc jockeys describe the overall theme of the station as “alternative,” but students host specialty shows at night and on the weekends. These shows include genres like underground hip-hop, folk and contemporary funk. The station plays music from student-curated computer playlists, but also has the capability to still spin vinyl, cd’s or from our live studio. KLSU reports the news, sports and entertainment on air as well. You can stream the station live on the free Radio FX app, available for both iOS and Android mobile devices. Check it out at www.radiofx.co.
Gumbo Yearbook In 2015, Gumbo created “Humans of LSU” mirrored off the popular “Humans of New York” photoblog, in which the photographer not only takes a portrait of the subject, but also captures insightful quotes. Follow LSU Gumbo Yearbook and Humans of LSU on Facebook, Instagram and X.
Advertising and Marketing Manship Statehouse Bureau Our students have written more than 1,000 stories over three years of legislative sessions. Students also have prepared audio reports for a National Public Radio station and video stories for broadcast sites. Our team includes both undergraduates majoring in journalism or political communication and graduate students. The students say the program provides a rare chance to build their skills in a professional setting and see how politics really works. Only a few top journalism schools–like Maryland, Missouri, Northwestern, Arizona State and Texas–offer similar programs, which help fill the gaps in coverage left by staff cuts at news organizations. We do much of the work through our Field Experience course, MC 4151, and distribute our stories through the Manship School News Service. Christopher Drew, a former New York Times investigative reporter, teaches the course and directs the news service. You can reach him at 225-578-3984 or manshipxgr@gmail.com. You can follow us on X and Facebook.
History In case you’re wondering, the Statehouse Bureau’s website, Twitter and Facebook names all include “XGR” because that is an old wire-service term that flags stories involving legislatures. The LSU Cold Case Project, the unsolved civil rights murders project at the Manship School of Mass Communication, is part of a Field Experience class for advanced students that provides stories, photos and investigative research to newspapers, TV stations and digital news sites in Louisiana and Mississippi. Since 2009, students have pored over 175,000 pages of FBI files obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and interviewed witnesses and family members of African Americans killed by the Ku Klux Klan from the 1950s through the early 1970s. The students also have met with FBI officials in Washington, all with the goal of bringing out more facts about the cases and helping provide closure for the families. In addition to thanks from family members, our stories have earned regional and national praise. Five students won the top prize in feature writing in a multistate contest for a series on the Deacons for Defense and Justice, the only armed Black group to oppose the Klan in Louisiana. The four-part narrative traced how the Deacons began in Jonesboro, battled segregationists in Bogalusa, expanded to Homer, and patrolled the “outlaw town” of Ferriday, protecting white civil-rights workers and Black residents alike. Judges from the Society for Professional Journalists wrote in June 2021 that the stories “demonstrated excellent narrative storytelling techniques grounded by in-depth archival/document research and interviews. Each story in the series was compelling to read, and the cold-case subject at the center of the project was both riveting and revealing–and incredibly relevant as our nation grapples with its history of racial prejudice, discrimination and injustices.” The Field Experience class, MC 4151, is taught by Christopher Drew, a former investigative reporter and editor for The New York Times who now holds the Fred Jones Greer Jr. Endowed Chair at the Manship School. Students also work closely with adjunct professor Stanley Nelson, the former editor of the Concordia Sentinel in Ferriday, Louisiana, who was a 2011 runner-up for a Pulitzer Prize for resolving one of these cases. Nelson has written two books about the Klan. Most of the students who take the Field Experience course are majoring in journalism or political communication. Journalism students may take the class as an alternative long-form capstone. To learn more about the LSU Cold Case Project, visit https://lsucoldcaseproject.com/ or contact Christopher Drew at 225-578-3984 or cdrew2@lsu.edu. Study abroad programs are the perfect catalyst for individual growth. Studies also show that students who study abroad have higher graduation rates and higher GPA's than those who do not. Students who participate in our programs have a great opportunity to increase their self-reliance and confidence. Despite a wide range of classroom courses on-campus, LSU doesn't offer everything. An exchange at a foreign or domestic university allows for experiential learning that you just can't get on our Baton Rouge campus. Additionally, LSU students repeatedly have made lifelong friends worldwide while participating in study abroad programs and exchanges. Not only do these friends offer new perspectives on life, but often offer an attractive place to stay/visit when traveling in the future: lifelong travel buddies! The Manship School offers its students various programs to study mass communication abroad. Financial aid is available for students seeking assistance through the Manship School's scholarships and LSU's Academics Programs Abroad's scholarships.
LSU in D.C. The two-week program features guest speaker presentations from important professionals and LSU alumni working in politics, journalism, public relations and advertising. The program also includes field trips to Capitol Hill, the Supreme Court, the White House, the Holocaust Museum, the Newseum and the Smithsonian. Students take six hours of course credit:
To apply for the program or learn more about costs and payment of fees, visit the course brochure on the LSU’s Academic Programs Abroad website or email Hayley Booth at hbooth6@lsu.edu.
LSU at Cannes The passes students receive to the Festival entitles them to access the cabanas and beach events set up by companies, such as YouTube, Spotify, Havas, IPG, Girls Lounge, Facebook, Oracle, Twitter, Pinterest, Shutterstock, Haymarket, Open X, the United Nations, NBC Universal, Unilever and Hulu. Students take one course during this program:
To apply for the program or learn more about costs and payment of fees, visit the course brochure on the LSU’s Academic Programs Abroad website or email Lance Porter at lporter@lsu.edu.
LSU in Salzburg Students will explore how digital media technologies shape civic engagement, activism and innovation in a global media age. Working with students from many different universities, LSU students will build digital stories, business plans and content that helps provide innovative insights into the role of media, technology and activism in changing societies across borders, cultures and divides. Students take one course during this program:
To apply for the program or learn more about costs and payment of fees, visit the course brochure on the LSU’s Academic Programs Abroad website.
The Olympics Project The purpose of this course is to teach students how to produce written, visual and digital stories about people, places, food, culture and history via an immersive experience in three distinct regions in France during the Paris Olympic Games. The course will have a few phases to it:
To apply for the program, submit an application by Nov. 30, 2023, at 4:30 p.m. The application is open to all Manship School undergraduate and graduate students.
Don't see a program you're interested in? Check out the nearly 400 domestic and international programs offered by LSU's Academic Programs Abroad! Earn Course Credit While Working for LSU Athletics! These three-semester positions provide internship credits the first two semesters and a field experience credit the third semester. Positions are available for Manship School juniors and seniors, and the program will take applicants on a rolling basis each semester. These positions offer Manship School juniors and seniors the ability to work on projects such as social media, writing, video production, marketing and more in the following positions during the 2020-21 school year: Sports Information
Editorial
Television Production
Video Production
Creative Digital Content
For more information, contact masscomm@lsu.edu. MC 3005 In-Depth Reporting MC 3005 is a journalism class where students learn strategies for gathering and analyzing information and data that include traditional and digital public records, databases, and government documents to produce in-depth and investigative reporting projects. The following stories from the class have been published by professional news outlets across Louisiana.
Our Stories ‘We’re not done yet’: Businesses key in preserving Cajun culture By Jillian Elliott, Layne Miller and Taegen Heck - 07.12.2023 When Alex Cook stumbled on a flyer for a local juke joint, he was confused about how he, a member of the Baton Rouge music scene, was unfamiliar with a spot just minutes away in Zachary.
This first visit sparked dozens of features in Cook’s 2012 book, “Louisiana Saturday Night: Looking for a Good Time in South Louisiana’s Juke Joints, Honkey-Tonks and Dancehalls.” But what he intended to be a travel guide is now a last look at places on a growing list of family-owned Cajun businesses that have closed. Read more at Lafourche Gazette.
Louisianans have sought to tame the Mississippi River for decades. Now they may set it free. By Oscar Tickle - 10.26.2022 POINT À LA HACHE – Don Beshel walks out of his office and looks out on his marina. Where once were dozens of boats now sit only a few. The levee has more boats washed up from flooding than line his docks.
The air here used to have salty undertones. Now fresh water from the Mississippi River has mixed with salty water from the Gulf. The air is now stale – along with Beshel’s business. He blames a breach in the levee downriver back in 2011. Before the breach, oysters and saltwater fish like mullet thrived around his marina. Now the water brims with different kinds of fish. The old marsh is gone, replaced by a nearly unrecognizable landscape lined with rows of black-willow trees. Boats cannot find their way out of the marsh due to silt dumped by fresh water from the breach. Read more at LA Illuminator.
These Louisiana cities saw a surge in murders as police struggle to close cases. By Lara Nicholson, Zane Piontek, Brea Rougeau and Jada Hemsley - 01.03.2022 Chlanda Gibson was in her bed last April when she heard loud pops outside her window. She had fallen asleep while waiting for her son, 17-year-old Roddrick Cook, to come home after going out with friends. When she went to check on the noise, his friends knocked on the back door for help — one with a gunshot wound in his leg. Cook was nowhere to be found, and as police investigated, Gibson sat in the back of a police cruiser, where she spent five dark hours wondering what had happened to him. Then she was given the devastating news: Her son, the 6-foot 4-inch, 250-pound high school football player who dreamed of going to the NFL, had been killed that night. Read more at WWNO.
LSU students uneasy as robberies, car burglaries increase By Alaina A. Alfred, Alejandro Burgos and Taylar R. Green - 12.27.2021 Living in an LSU dorm, Jack Tomeny is used to leaving his car unattended in a campus lot for a few days at a time. One day Tomeny noticed that someone had stolen his backpack from the backseat along with the loose change he had in the car. Tomeny fell victim to a recurring theme that is making students uneasy not only on campus but at popular student apartment complexes near the LSU campus. The number of car break-ins reported on campus jumped to 22 during this fall semester alone after falling to just two while students were studying remotely in 2020 and averaging 10 a year in the three years before that. Read more at HoumaToday.
Pros and cons: How Louisiana college students were impacted by online learning By Masie O'Toole, Kirby Koch, Donald Fountain - 12.23.2021 Bryce Trum sat up in his twin-sized bed at 6:55 a.m. His day of classes at LSU was about to start at 7 a.m., and his classroom was only five feet away. But as he signed onto the Zoom meeting on his computer, his attention was immediately drawn to his guitar. Six strings were all it took to draw his eyes away from the task at hand. Six strings on his acoustic guitar leaning up against his eggshell white walls became more enticing than listening to the voice coming through the Alienware laptop on his desk. The instrument created an easy distraction for Trum, and avoiding his online computer science class became second nature. Read more at the dailycomet.
As industries decline and storms intensify, Louisiana's small towns shrink By Caden Lim, Joe Kehrli, Logan Puissegur and Alexander Sobel - 12.22.2021 Every morning, Floyd Dupre and his son, Mike, button up their denim shirts, throw on some jeans and slip into their boots. It’s another day on the farm tending to their cattle. Meanwhile, 60 miles east in the state’s capital, Floyd’s grandson and Mike’s nephew Joseph Dupre hits the gym near his apartment and heads to class at the state-of-the-art engineering building on LSU’s campus. Joey Dupre is a chemical engineering student who wants to focus on sustainable energy sources. He aspires to live in Houston rather than take over his grandfather’s farm, and his story is typical for rural Louisiana, where younger generations are leaving for more opportunities in urban areas and other states. Read more at the Gonzales Weekly Citizen.
'It's very discouraging': Louisiana teachers grapple with challenges of ongoing pandemic In fourth-grade teacher Laura Spurgeon’s class, the students who attended school in person during the pandemic sit in one area, and those who were online last year sit in another. A third group, the students still working from home, join on a screen. “It’s like I’m teaching three different levels instead of one,” Spurgeon said. “The students who still stay at home ‘sick' and have to join via Zoom, the ones that opted for online last year and didn’t learn as much, and the kiddos who have been in person the entire time.” Teachers, administrators and counselors are trying to figure out how to help many students catch up and get K-12 education back on track. However, they must determine how to reach students who are now performing at different levels while also dealing with the psychological fallout on children who had limited social contact during the shutdowns. Read more at the Shreveport Times.
Stay or go? Louisiana residents are being forced to face climate crisis threats As Hurricane Ida rapidly grew in strength, crabbers Stacia Johnson and Justin Smith were left with just three days to relocate their $100,000 supply of crab traps. Knowing the traps could be severely damaged or stolen if left on land, the siblings dropped their traps in the Biloxi Marsh, said a prayer and evacuated to Arkansas. Days later, unsure how many traps would be left, they found that not only were all of the traps intact, but they were also filled to the brim with crabs. Johnson called the event a miracle in a string of unfortunate events due to the worsening effects of climate change. Rising water temperatures, disappearing islands and rapidly changing salinity levels have severely altered their fishing routes and the migration patterns of the crustaceans they catch. These changes have significantly hindered their success as commercial fishers. The Johnson-Smith family is not alone. As ocean temperatures rise, hurricane seasons become longer and more intense, and residents across the state are being forced to face the existential threats of the climate crisis. Read more at the Shreveport Times.
Segregated customs remain in some Louisiana cemeteries BATON ROUGE — Jessica Tilson spent many Sunday mornings in the early 1980s playing outside with her white friends under the shady oak trees in front of the fleur-de-lis stained glass windows of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Maringouin. But as soon as the church bells rang, they parted. “When it was time to go into the church, it was time to split up,” Tilson said. The church has a main entrance with double doors, but members typically enter through separate doors on the sides of the building — to the left for Black members, to the right for white members. Once inside, Black and white members sit on opposite sides of the sanctuary to worship in front of one altar — even though Tilson said the church abandoned formal segregation in the 1980s. Immaculate Heart of Mary Cemetery also divides graves by skin color on the left and right sides of the main pathway mirroring the church practices. The right side presents a spacious, organized pattern of granite and marble tombstones. The left side is crowded and scattered as many present-day graves are layered on top of people who, in life, were enslaved. Read more at the Daily Advertiser.
'I couldn’t move my legs' The concussion danger in Louisiana youth football Lance Garafola lay on the turf of a high school football field wondering what had happened and where the feeling in his lower body had gone. The crowd and both sidelines fell silent as trainers rushed onto the field. Garafola was a sophomore at St. Michael the Archangel High School in 2016 when a Loranger High player blind-sided him on an onside kick. Paramedics were brought in when Garafola said he couldn’t feel his legs, but they were hesitant to move him because of the possible severity of his injury. Silence and fear hung in the air for over an hour before they raised him onto a stretcher and Garafola threw up his thumb to let his teammates and fans know he was conscious. He was taken to a local hospital and diagnosed with a concussion. The loss of feeling in the lower half of his body, which lasted for a little over 5 minutes, was created by the concussion and the shock from the hit to his head. Nearly every football fan knows that concussions are a serious problem in the NFL and in college games, but less attention has been paid to the dangers facing younger athletes. Experts say high school players also face some degree of risk every time they step on the field. Read more at WWLTV.
'Russian roulette of drugs': Fentanyl-related deaths on the rise in Louisiana Graham Jordan, a 21-year-old LSU student, did not wake up one morning after partying at a bar in the Tigerland area near campus in 2017. The autopsy showed that Xanax had been in his system, but a deeper observation showed something much worse — traces of fentanyl, a dangerous compound that street dealers mix into other drugs to increase the high. Fentanyl is an opioid that doctors use to treat severe pain. But it is so powerful, and it is becoming so common as an added ingredient in street drugs, that it is responsible for more than half of all opioid overdose deaths in some parishes. Jordan, the LSU student, died after taking Xanax laced with a lethal amount of fentanyl. Mary Ellen Jordan knows fentanyl was not a drug her son sought out. “I had never even heard of it before we got his autopsy report,” she said. “I don’t really think most people take that on purpose.” Read more at the Town Talk.
'It is so dangerous': Vaping epidemic leaving students concerned for their health BATON ROUGE — One LSU student walked through security and ID checks to purchase a legal vape cartridge filled with cannabis oil in Los Angeles. Another walked up to the back of a van off a dimly lit road somewhere in Louisiana to buy one illegally; no ID checks, no security and no certainty that the purchase was safe. This is the reality of the so-called THC black market in Louisiana, the local part of the nationwide scare over deaths and illnesses related to vaping. THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, is the psychoactive chemical in marijuana that causes users to get high. The Louisiana Health Department reported that the state now has more than 30 cases of lung injury — and one death — associated with vaping a combination of THC and nicotine. The combination of both substances contributed to 55% of the illnesses, more than the reported illnesses caused from both nicotine and THC independently. Read more at the Daily Advertiser.
Letter to the editor: 'Racist' Tigerland dress code unlikely to change unless call to action taken By Ashlon Lusk and Walter Miller - 12.06.2019 The bars on the edge of LSU’s campus have been accused of having a racist dress code and enforcing it on mostly men and people of color. This strip of bars is called Tigerland. It is a popular spot for college students to go to and attending is part of University tradition. They are like any other college bar: dirty, sloppy and full of drunk college-aged patrons. Almost no one would call these bars upscale, so why do they enforce a dress code? In 2003 the NAACP encouraged a boycott of Tigerland, located on the corner of Nicholson Drive and Jennifer Jean Drive. The bars were still full the day of the boycott. I don’t think things would be different today. The usual patrons of the bar are white fraternity and sorority members. The dress codes don’t affect this demographic. Read more at the Reveille.
College football brings many families together, but takes its toll on families of coaches By Tanner Craft, Tyler Eschette, Grayson Miller and Kristen Payne - 11.25.2019 NATCHITOCHES - Northwestern State had the Bears on their heels on Oct. 19, looking to erase an 0-6 start to the season. Just nine yards separated the Demons from potential overtime with No. 13 Central Arkansas. Demons quarterback Shelton Eppler took the snap, dropped back and found a receiver in the back of the end zone. Now the decision: Go for two and the win, or play it safe and go to overtime? Easy choice for a coach who is trying to turn his program around – go for two. At the 50-yard line, six rows up in the stands, Renee Laird, the wife of head coach Brad Laird, waits, hands clasped nervously around her face, for the most dramatic moment of the season to unfold. Eppler drops back again and sees his receiver with a step on his defender. But the pass gets knocked away, and Renee Laird collapses in disappointment, undoubtedly feeling the same raw emotion as her husband. Coaches and their families go through many stresses, no matter the sport, and Renee Laird’s reaction illustrates how difficult it can be to weather the ups and downs. Whether it be the never-ending pressure of building a program or the time that coaches spend away from home, the impact is the same. And in recent interviews, Mrs. Laird and Northwestern State coaches described the emotional roller-coaster that they and their families are often on. Read more at the News Star.
In light of #MeToo movement, more students seeking support By Claire Bermudez, Caroline Fenton and Payton Ibos - 12.04.2018 Following the #MeToo movement and the hearings on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, more women are coming forward on Louisiana college campuses with complaints of sexual assault and relationship violence. LSU’s Lighthouse counseling program received 91 requests for support last year, up from 53 in 2016. During the September showdown between Kavanaugh and a woman who accused him of having assaulted her when they were teenagers, requests by LSU students for counseling increased to two a day. “When the #MeToo initially came out, a lot of our accredited sexual assault centers throughout Louisiana did see a surge in hotline calls,” Josef Canaria, LaFASA’s campus sexual violence coordinator, said. “Statewide, our rape crisis centers phone lines were off the hook.” Read more at the Daily World.
41 pedestrians have been hit on LSU's campus in five years By Britt Lofaso and Kennedi Walker - 11.28.2018 Mari Dehrab was standing near a crosswalk on her way to class at LSU when everything went black. A car had careened onto the sidewalk and smashed into her and three other pedestrians before slamming into a light pole. Screams filled the air as she landed several feet away. Dehrab, 23, suffered a brain tear, causing memory loss so severe that at one point, she could not remember some of her family members. One of her ankles was broken and the other sprained, confining her to wheelchair for six weeks. She had to drop out of school this semester, making it impossible for her to graduate in the spring. “I went through such a big depression, and I still have depression,” she said, adding that “my life has been put on pause because of this accident.” “I feel like I’m not as whole as I used to be,” she said. Read more at the Daily Advertiser.
Mind and body: How do Louisiana colleges help athletes maintain their mental health? By Dylan Alvarez, Brennen Normand and Jace Mallory - 11.28.2018 As a former collegiate gymnast, Lauren Li, found comfort at LSU after experiencing emotional distress at Penn State. “Anxiety, depression, eating disorders: It was tough just talking about it because being used to suppressing those emotions,” said Li, who was on LSU’s highly ranked team over the last three seasons. "I had to, like, learn how to be comfortable talking about it and seeking help for it if I wanted to help myself." It is no secret that expectations are high for athletes at universities across the country. These pressures take a toll, emotionally and physically, on athletes in all sports. And there has long been a stigma that discourages many of them from seeking mental and psychological help. But now schools in Louisiana and elsewhere are doing more to address the problem, thanks in part to guidelines that the National Collegiate Athletic Association created in 2016 to encourage them to address the problem. Read more at the Town Talk. |
Manship Ambassadors
The Manship Ambassadors are a select group of students in the Manship School of Mass Communication who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in academics and student leadership. This team of mass communication majors will present a positive image of the school and its students through internal and external events and activities. They will receive training and many other opportunities to develop their leadership and communication skills. Being selected as a Manship Ambassador is an honor and a distinction in the Manship School.
Purpose and Objectives
As a Manship Ambassador, you have the opportunity to lead student recruitment tours,
promote the Manship School to parents, alumni and friends, and network with distinguished
alumni at special events and offer prospective students an inside look into life as
a Manship School student. Below is a list of a variety of activities you will be completing
as an ambassador:
- Assist in the recruitment and retention process of prospective students
- Lead tours of the Manship School’s facilities and the Offices of LSU Student Media
- Be knowledgeable about the Manship School and general LSU information
- Participate in outreach (Tiger Calls) during both fall and spring semesters
- Represent and serve the student body, faculty, staff and alumni of the Manship School
- Facilitate programs to welcome and educate prospective students
- Promote relationships among students, alumni and friends of the school
- Encourage students to continue their affiliation with the Manship School after graduation
- Promote and uphold the academic standards and excellence of the Manship School
- Benefits to Being a Manship Ambassador
- Networking opportunity with Manship alumni
- Develop strong relationships with the faculty and staff of the Manship School
- Build connections to professionals in the media
- Leadership training and the opportunity to build leadership skills and experience
- Grow personally and professionally with fellow Manship students
- Meet with professional media practitioners
Experience with events, including public speaking and participation in panels - Monthly meetings/activities designed to expose ambassadors to all facets of media
Request a Manship Ambassador
The Manship Ambassadors assist with college outreach, recruitment and engagement events and activities. If you are interested in requesting the Manship Ambassadors to assist with your event, please complete the information form. The request must be submitted at least 2 weeks in advance of your event in order to provide time to adequately recruit and schedule Ambassadors.
Note: Ambassadors must coordinate volunteer obligations around their school and work schedules, so availability is not guaranteed.
Interested in Applying?
The Manship Ambassadors application for 2024-2025 is now closed. Thank you for your
interest. Please contact Mr. Kyrin Lewis (klewi96@lsu.edu) and/or Professor Roxanne Dill (rdill1@lsu.edu) with any concerns.
You must meet all applicant criteria below to be eligible to apply.
Applicant Criteria:
- Must be classified as a sophomore, junior or senior mass communication major in fall 2024 (sophomore membership is contingent upon acceptance into the Manship School)
- Must maintain at least a 3.0 overall GPAMust be available to attend an on-campus retreat on Sunday, April 28, 2024, from 12:30 to 5 p.m.
- Must have membership in at least one student organization at LSU or have work experience in Student Media
- Must have a sincere desire to represent the Manship School
- Must demonstrate effective speaking ability
- Must show ability to work well with others and to serve as a leader
- Must have dedication to group and time commitment
Questions?
If you have any questions, please email Kyrin Lewis at klewi96@lsu.edu.