The Daily Reveille - January 30, 2015

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Potential budget cuts threaten academic programs

BY JOSE alejandro bastidas jbastidas@lsureveille.com

Student counselors find solace in crisis center Galvan began training Thursday for a nine-week commitment to the crisis center. Her training includes 30 hours in an online course and 30 hours in a classroom, working with instructors to simulate actual calls and situations. “We’re doing hands-on

With talk of dark clouds and uncertainty looming over the state’s higher education budget, one thing is certain: The University is running out of fat. With budget cuts of the expected magnitude, University students could face an array of changes from raises in tuition and fees, larger classrooms and postponed renovation projects to eliminated degree programs and college closures, said Jane Cassidy, vice provost for human resources and facilities management. “We’ve had so many budget cuts over the past five years that all the low-hanging fruit is already gone,” Cassidy said. “Right now, we’re in a place where we can provide the type of education that we want to provide our students. There’s not much left before we start cutting into that.” While the state’s budget is still

see crisis center, page 4

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Volunteers at the Baton Rouge Crisis Intervention Center attend training to become active counselors on the crisis hotline. BY carrie grace henderson chenderson@lsureveille.com When she was 15, communication studies and political science senior Allie Galvan lost her 17-year-old brother to suicide. In 1970, the University lost six students to suicide, one of whom was then-Student Government President Art Ensminger.

Out of that tragedy came The PHONE, a student-run crisis hotline headquartered on the University’s campus. And out of Galvan’s loss came a desire to help people like her brother and their grieving loved ones. “I know what it’s like to go through something like that,” Galvan said. “If I can help at least one person in any way to feel like

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they don’t have to do that, or so their family doesn’t have to go through that, that would mean a lot.” Since the ’70s, The PHONE has evolved into the nationally certified Baton Rouge Crisis Intervention Center, which still utilizes students as its main source of phone-line and crisis chat operators.

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Billiard hall now houses exercise classes BY julian schardt jschardt@lsureveille.com The Student Union and UREC have partnered together to bring a part of the UREC closer to campus. The UREC began exercise classes Jan. 20 in the Union, utilizing the space that housed Tiger Pause Billiards on the first floor. Tiger Pause Billiards did not renew its lease for the 2014-15 academic year, and as a result, the space remained empty for

the fall semester. Auxiliary Services communications coordinator Heather Bilodeau said many businesses, such as an optometrist and multiple food vendors, vied for the space, but it was decided the UREC would be the best fit. “We thought the UREC would be a good alternative,” Bilodeau said. “It will bring more people into the Union, and it will be more of a communal space. It’s not just for students — it’s for students, faculty and staff.” Not all students agreed on

whether Auxiliary Services made the right move. Chemical engineering junior Leo Grizzaffy said UREC exercise classes are a good idea but out of place in the Union. “There is a better place they could put it than right in the middle of the Union,” Grizzaffy said. Anthropology sophomore Isabella Mallow disagreed with the idea and said the Union should have tried to keep the space communal, like the space in front of

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The former billiard hall in the Student Union now functions as an exercise class space, offering classes provided by the UREC to students, faculty and staff.


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