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Fundraising efforts to begin for Memorial Tower military museum, Veteran and Military Student Services offices BY CARRIE GRACE HENDERSON @carriegraceh
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LSU President F. King Alexander announced a fundraising campaign Friday to transform the Memorial Tower into a military museum. [Right] LSU ROTC members hold the American flag Saturday before LSU’s game against the University of Arkansas. [Above] LSU Golden Girls wave the American Flag during halftime at Saturday’s game.
Drawing on its rich military history, LSU will begin fundraising to turn its iconic Memorial Tower into a full-fledged military museum. LSU President F. King Alexander announced the project Friday at LSU Salutes, an annual event established in 1998 by the LSU Board of Supervisors, honoring both alumni and current student veterans. The LSU community also recognized these individuals during the halftime show of LSU’s game against the University of Arkansas this weekend. The Memorial Tower was donated to LSU in 1926 by American Legion posts throughout the state as a memorial to Louisiana natives who fought in WWI. The names of each Louisiana veteran who died in service to their country are inscribed on plaques inside the tower’s rotunda. It is the home of the Cadets of the Ole War Skule, an organization that preserves and promotes the contributions of LSU’s military alumni and supports the LSU Corps of Cadets. The Cadets of the Ole War Skule will run the museum after its establishment. The LSU Military Excellence Fund Commission, co-chaired by former LSU Board of Supervisors member Laura Leach and U.S.
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‘We have a responsibility to honor the military history and heritage of LSU. It is dignified, and it is great. We need to make sure that story is told, and it will be told through the LSU Military Museum.’
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Air Force Lt. Gen. Lee Levy, will spearhead the fundraising efforts. “We have a responsibility to honor the military history and heritage of LSU,” said Executive Director of the Cadets of the Old War Skule Randy Gurie. “It is dignified, and it is great. We need to make sure that story is told, and it will be told through the LSU Military Museum.” The money raised will also go toward moving the Veteran and Military Student Services offices from their temporary home on third floor of Hatcher Hall. “We’ll have a little more room, and it won’t be a hodgepodge up in the transient spacing in the third floor of Hatcher Hall,” VMSS Coordinator Adam Jennings said. “It will be the same thing with a little more expanding services and better location.” After the commission raises the needed funds, VMSS will move to Raphael Semmes Road between the Women’s Center and the
The two candidates battling to become Louisiana’s next governor ramped up their attacks at the final debate Monday night, five days before Saturday’s runoff election. More than 400 people attended the event at the Dunham School in Baton Rouge. Democratic state Rep. John Bel Edwards continued to attack his opponent, RepubREAD INSIDE lican U.S. OPINION: Sen. David Debate fails to Vitter, over a talk about prostitution important coastal issues, scandal that page 8 has marred Vitter’s campaign throughout the past year. Vitter again drew contrasts between his and Edwards’ voting records attempting to dispel notions Edwards is a conservative or moderate, harping on the Democrat’s support for President Barack Obama and “liberal” policies. The first question of the debate dealt with how the candidates would handle the presence
see MUSEUM, page 11
see DEBATE, page 11
RANDY GURIE
executive director of Cadets of the Old War Skule
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Senate passes bill appropriating funds for satsuma trees on campus BY WILLIAM TAYLOR POTTER @wmtaylorpotter Instead of scrambling for change at the vending machines, LSU students might soon be able to pluck their afternoon snack from a tree. The LSU Student Senate passed legislation during its Nov. 11 meeting appropriating $3,300 to provide and maintain 50 satsuma trees throughout campus.
Senators Lily LaGrange and Hayden Pizzolato wrote the legislation, Student Government Finance Bill No. 7, and it passed with 79 percent favor. LaGrange said the idea for the bill originated from a TED Talk called “How we can eat our landscapes,” which describes how a woman transformed a city without landscape into one with numerous fruit trees and other plants. The idea from the
TED Talk was called an “edible sustainable landscape.” “I really liked that,” LaGrange said. “I thought that was something that would really be possible here on campus because we have so much space and so many plants already.” When presenting the bill to the Senate, LaGrange said there were three main reasons to plant
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The LSU Student Senate passed a bill Nov. 11 appropriating funds to plant 50 satsuma trees around campus.
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