World: Stop Kony 2012 campaign gains supports, opposition, p. 3
Baseball: Freshman pitcher Aaron Nola to start tonight, p. 6
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LSU’s first female student. In 1905, she became the first woman to receive a graduate degree from the University.
FACULTY SENATE
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First female Reveille staffers
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Football: Mo Isom won’t kick for Tigers next year, p. 5
Associated Women students struggled to abolish dormitory rules.
LSU’s first female freshman class, consisting of 17 C.C. was the first women’s student Baton Rouge High organization, and the acronym was a graduates, registers. secret until 1907, when they revealed “the sole object of [C.C.] was to prove that a woman can keep a secret and that a man has curiosity.”
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Renee Boutte First AfricanAmerican Homecoming Queen
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Rachel Warren
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First women’s varisty basketball team
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LSU co-eds were not allowed to ‘linger’ on campus after class and could only take ‘suitable’ subjects in classical or literary fields.
First female students
1943 join the band.
Clift Martin First female law school graduate. Before her dooropening role, departments like law, chemistry and agriculture were off-limits to female students, who mostly studied home economics, education or social work.
Pleasant Hall
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Claudreira Minor
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First African-American Golden Girl
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Originally called Smith Hall, Pleasant Hall was the first female dormitory on campus. Previously, female students photos courtesy of LSU WOMEN’S CENTER lived in the old barracks downtown and information compiled by FERRIS commuted to campus. MCDANIEL / The Daily Reveille
Michelle Masse
The ‘half-time ballet corps’ made its debut in Tiger Stadium in the 1950s.
Celebrating women Women’s History Month elicits storied history of University females
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rom full-time homemakers to potential presidential candidates, women have made leaps and bounds for themselves in the last century.
Attendance resolution to come to vote
For one month of the year, the history of man’s better half is celebrated. March marks Women’s History Month, a time to reflect on the ever-changing role women have played in the past and will
play in the future. The standings of women and men in society are as equal as they’ve ever been today, but that wasn’t always the case. “Men used to be the primary breadwinner, and women were
Women’s Studies Alcove is unveiled.
Ferris McDaniel Contributing Writer
expected to stay at home with the kids,” said Catherine Hopkins, director of the University’s Women’s Center. The stay-at-home-mom role WOMEN, see page 11
The University’s Faculty Senate will decide today the fate of a resolution that would allow professors to grade students based on class attendance. The senate first read and debated the resolution last month, when several professors spoke both in support of and opposition to the bill. The resolution wouldn’t require professors to include attendance in their grading criteria but will give them the option to do so. “The most effective means of fostering student responsibility for class attendance is a University policy permitting instructors to include attendance among their grading criteria,” the resolution states. Many professors already grade students on areas like in-class participation to skirt around the rule. Mass communication professor Louis Day, who presented the resolution last month, said the new policy makes more sense. “We just thought this was a more intellectually honest way,” Day said. “This would be a step forward.”
See a video of student opinions at lsureveille.com/multimedia, and read a columnist’s take on page 8. Contact Rachel Warren at rwarren@lsureveille.com
POLITICS
Rick Santorum visits Lafayette Pres. candidate nearly two hours late Rachel Warren Staff Writer
Hundreds of Louisianans gathered in Lafayette on Tuesday to hear from presidential hopeful Rick Santorum, but they had to wait quite some time. Santorum, who won the Alabama and Mississippi primaries Tuesday, stopped in Louisiana on his tour through the country and stepped up to the podium in a ballroom of the Lafayette
Hilton more than two hours after his speech was scheduled to begin. While waiting, audience members chanted “we want Rick,” sang patriotic songs like “America the Beautiful” and prayed for Santorum’s victory. But as time passed, the crowd became less friendly. False alarms and assurances by campaign workers that Santorum would be out shortly brought on jeers, and many audience members left because they felt too much time had passed. Erin Romero of New Iberia said she would have left the event if her husband hadn’t wanted to stay. “I’ve been ready to go,” she
said. “If you’re going to be late, at least send someone out to tell us why. It’s rude.” Romero said she wouldn’t let her aggravation color her view of Santorum, but waiting for so long left a bitter taste in her mouth for much of the evening. Others, like Nulvia Daigrepont from Pineville, said Santorum was worth the wait. “I’d stay up until 2 a.m. to hear him,” she said. “I’d do anything to get a good president.” When Santorum finally took the stage, he didn’t address his tardiness, but began describing his
SANTORUM, see page 4
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Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum speaks Tuesday night at a rally in Lafayette. Shortly before speaking, Santorum took home primary victories in Alabama and Mississippi.