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Desperate times call for fresh prespective
Texas Southern 2-steps past Jaguars
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Students, faculty views vary on SUBR’s image James teaGue
The Southern Digest
Southern University has taken its fair share of black eyes in the media. From financial aid to student and faculty issues, Southern has always been involved in some type of controversy. The most recent news making headlines was the university declaring financial exigency at the Baton Rouge campus. Many students and faculty members all have their different views and takes on the current situations of Southern and how people outside of the Jaguar Nation talk down about the university. “I feel that I’m being represented by Southern University very well through the advancements and upbringing of the ranks of my major”, said junior mass communications major, Alvin J. Mouton. “All the amenities that I need to get
the job done, I have. Southern is highly resourceful for me, to conquer the outside world with the knowledge I’ve obtained through my representation.” Some students and faculty of
is being treated by Southern in a “a fairly good way.” She speaks about how the school is treating her as far as her skills in the classroom, but also as well as the representation of the whole
that needs to be done in order to represent me as a student in a better light”, Bryant said. Gregory Spann from the business department says that the faculty senate president has
“The president of the system and the Board of Supervisors should be fundraisers and they should have access to the $1.7 million that they have raised, but they don’t because they didn’t raise the money for the school.”
Eva Baham assistant professor, history department
which may not feel real affected by the exigency of the school and that they continue to contribute and move on through the trials and tribulations of Southern. Krystal Bryant, a junior accounting major said that she
student body and faculty. “As far as the College of Business, there are many opportunities and plenty of preparation for my area of study. As far as the university as a whole, there is some work
been keeping the staff updated with what’s going on with the financial emergency. With the major construction happening around campus some students credits the university for their efforts in improving the
campus, however, others don’t see any progress being made. “I feel like Southern is not representing me in a positive,” said Peace Scott, senior architecture major. “I had to deal so much such as getting into school, dealing with the financial aid process. Instead of me enjoying my college years, I have to stress about what else will happen that will affect me since SU is going through these hardships.” Lee Henry, senior business management major, has a similar perspective towards the situations that have come about with the university. “I feel as though Southern University is not representing me to its full potential,” Henry said. “I think that we get very little of no representation from administration to faculty”, said See subr image page 3
Woman accuses Cain of bold sexual advance beth FouhY & JaCk Gillum
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Leaving little to the imagination, a Chicagoarea woman on Monday accused Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain of making a crude sexual advance more than a decade ago when she was seeking his help finding a job. “Come clean,” Sharon Bialek challenged Cain at a news conference in New York at which she described herself as “a face and a voice” to support other accusers who have so far remained anonymous. Cain’s campaign swiftly denied Bialek’s account. “All allegations of harassment against Mr. Cain are completely false,” it said in a written statement. Even so, Bialek’s nationally broadcast appearance on cable television marked a new and — for Cain — dangerous turn in a controversy that he has struggled for more than a week to shed. An upstart in the presidential race, Cain shot to the top of public opinion polls in recent weeks and emerged, however temporarily, as the main conservative challenger to Mitt Romney. Accompanied by her prominent lawyer, Gloria Allred,
Bialek accused Cain of making a sexual advance one night in mid-July 1997, when she had travelled to Washington to have dinner with him in hopes he could help her find work. She said the two had finished dinner and were in a car for what she thought was a ride to an office building. “Instead of going into the offices he suddenly reached over and he put his hand on my leg, under my skirt toward my genitals,” she said. “He also pushed my head toward his crotch,” she added. Bialek said she told her boyfriend, an unidentified pediatrician, as well as a longtime male friend of the episode. Allred, a sex discrimination attorney with Democratic ties, moved preemptively to blunt any attacks on Bialek’s motives. She described her client as a registered Republican, a single mother and a woman with a long and successful work history. Some of Cain’s allies immediately made a target of Allred, a Democratic campaign donor, rather than focusing any anger on Cain’s accuser. Georgia state Sen. Joshua McKoon, who has endorsed Cain, accused Allred of “carnival theatrics” fueled by a partisan
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Sharon Bialek, left, a Chicago-area woman, prepares to addresses a news conference at the Friars Club, with her attorney Gloria Allred, in New york Monday. Bialek accused Republican presidential contender Herman Cain of making an unwanted sexual advance against her more than a decade ago, saying she wanted to provide “a face and a voice” to support other accusers who have so far remained anonymous.
agenda. “Her involvement makes it clear that it’s a political smear job orchestrated by those on the left because there is nothing more terrifying than Herman Cain as
the Republican nominee,” the Republican lawmaker said. But Doug Heye, a political consultant who is unaligned in the GOP race, said Bialek’s allegations “are different because
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they involve a name and specific details.” He said Allred’s involvement See CaiN page 3