Volume 123 · No. 8
Thursday, March 2, 2017
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CC&E to offer accelerated master’s program
BY KATIE GAGLIANO @katie_gagliano
making room LGBTQ Resource Room opens in Women’s center STORY BY DENA WINEGEART | @DenaWinegeart PHOTOS BY CHUNFENG LU Nestled behind Barnes and Noble in the University Women’s Center lies a room faculty and students have been pushing to establish. The LGBTQ Resource Room, which opened Feb. 22, acts as a safe space for students to come together, be themselves and seek support on campus, said graduate assistant and coordinator of the LGBTQ Project Karie Holton.
see LGBTQ, page 7
Beginning in fall 2017, the University’s College of the Coast and Environment and the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans’ School of Public Health will offer a “3+2” fasttrack program for a master’s degree in public health. Students participating in the program will be able to earn a bachelor’s degree in coastal environmental science with a new concentration in environmental health in the first three years. Students will then move to the New Orleans campus to complete a master’s in public health for the final two years of the program. Environmental sciences professor Vincent Wilson said he began developing the program with James Diaz, a professor in the School of Public Health, in 2010. Wilson said he noticed a trend of CC&E graduates entering the public health field or pursuing public health degrees after graduation and wanted to encourage their efforts. Wilson said the main drive behind the idea was supporting his students’ interests and
see CC&E, page 7
STUDENT LIFE
UREC offers yoga classes in new Mind & Body Studio BY KATHERINE ROBERTS @krobe844 With the new 3,268 square foot Mind & Body Studio in the University’s UREC, students and other participants will have the opportunity to experience and practice yoga in new ways. This semester, the UREC is offering yoga workshop classes to help participants focus on certain yoga practices. There are four classes — Crow, Meditation 101, Pranayama and Hand Stands — which people can take to learn how to build up to these practices or to perfect them. Fitness and Wellness
Assistant Director Jennifer Mills said the workshops will give “yogis,” or regular yoga participants, something different and specific to delve into. “Yes, we have UREC, and yes, we have yoga classes, but now that we have a designated space for mind/body classes, we are really able to expand what we offer in that space,” Mills said. Fitness and Wellness Coordinator Melissa Mapson said the workshop participants do not have to be masters in yoga because the workshops allow everyone to work at their
see YOGA, page 7
A student performs yoga on the Parade Ground on Feb. 24.
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