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Rebuilding a 3-step process. Pg. 7
EIC says good-bye. Pg. 11
storms kill an estimated 250
Banks lays out plans
A final open letter
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VOL. 53, ISSUE 18
DIGEST COVER STORY
2010-11 YEAR IN REVIEW
American Heart Association with their “Red” Fashion show held in the Cotillion Ballroom in Smith-Brown Memorial Union. A group of concerned residents of the University Park subdivision gathered to march in protest around Southern University. 9. Following tHe crime
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his year has presented its ups and downs, exposed the right and wrong, remembered situations and circumstance, and pursued progression. From August 2010 to April 2011 the Southern University Community has depended on the Southern Digest to keep them informed, entertained, and aware of the movements the university has been making Whether it’s been the transition
to SUS system office for the new president to the transition from paper refund checks to the Jaguar Blue cards; The Southern Digest has provided pictures and detailed information to enlighten the Southern University Community. 10. common causes grassroots organiZation
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Students bonded together through common causes to remember, motivate, and
educate through grassroots organization. As a part National AIDS awareness month, the psychology department and the school of social work held a HIV/ AIDs seminar in the Cotillion Ballroom of Smith-Brown Memorial union. The Association of Women’s students hosted their Big Buddy Thanksgiving Luncheon and donated an estimated figure of $1,620 worth of Thanksgiving dinner baskets to fifty Big Buddy
participants. A sense of community was honored on behalf of three unsung heroes at local universities during the unsung Hero Awards in recognition of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy. Students from various organizations were among the 12,000 people at the 15th annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure held at LSU old front nine. The College of Engineering raised $525 to benefit the
Through communication with the Southern University Police department the DIGEST has followed the uprisings and declines in crime on campus. A joint effort of the Southern University Police Department, Louisiana State Police, and other local law enforcement agencies netted five arrests in connection with the theft of televisions from A.W. Mumford Stadium. Southern University students made awkward glances at obscene graffiti drawn on the northern face of W.W. Stewart Hall’s Lawless auditorium. The Southern University police department released its annual crime statistics report. According to the report, crime on campus has dropped by eight percent over the last year. 8. enligHtenment and motivation
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NASA chief to speak at commencement digest news service
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nasa administrator charles Bolden speaks to employees and guests prior to announcing the final destinations of the three remaining space shuttles at the Kennedy space center in cape canaveral, Fla.
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Until recently, the best-known Marine Corps Astronaut-turned public servant was John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth. Not anymore. The Marines can once again claim a certain history in space. Charles F. Bolden Jr. is the first African American and the second exastronaut to lead NASA. He will speak in Southern’s F. G. Clark Activity Center at 10:30 a.m., May 13. With his Marine Corps background, and his experience as an astronaut, he is uniquely equipped to lead NASA into the 21st Century and some hope, into the era of manned space flight to the moon and beyond. And for Bolden, the role is another opportunity to inspire the children of those who serve in our nation’s military. A long-time alumnus of the Space Agency, Bolden left NASA in 1994 to resume his career in the Marine Corps. In 2002, then-President George W.
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GRADUATES Bolden stayed with NASA during its Find out who’s walking across painful recovery after Challenger and the stage at the Spring 2011 commencement for another historic event. He was a pilot ceremony. for the 1990 mission that launched the telescope into orbit. Ironically, SEE PG 8 Hubble the news of his appointment was made Friday, May 13 on the completion of the final shuttle 10:30 a.m. mission to Hubble in late May. F.G. Clark Activity Center Finally, he also commanded a 1992 shuttle atmospheric research Bush unsuccessfully tried to appoint flight and in 1994 led a mission that Bolden as the space agency’s deputy included the first Russian cosmonaut administrator. The Pentagon said as a member of a shuttle crew. The exchange it needed to keep Bolden in his role astronaut/cosmonaut as a Marine general and pilot who program culminated in a partnership had flown more than 100 sorties in to operate the International Space Vietnam and the start of the Gulf War Station, as it continues to thrive today. During this recent Shuttle/Hubble in 1991. Bolden, 62, received confirmation mission, Mission Control radioed the last summer from the senate, where news of Bolden’s nomination to Atlantis he has several supporters, including commander Scott Altman, so he could Florida Senator Bill Nelson, who flew alert his crew. Altman and his crew then as a guest during Bolden’s first shuttle spoke with President Obama during a mission in January 1986, just two weeks private call between Washington and before the deadly Challenger accident. the Shuttle Flight Deck.
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