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Volume 114, Issue 122
Monday, April 12, 2010
OUR VIEW
SG disqualifications reflect shortcomings of process
The results of the Student Government spring elections were announced before students left campus for spring break. The results ignited controversy that has continued largely unabated during spring break.
StudentsFirst presidential and vice-presidential candidates J Hudson and Dani Borel pulled out a narrow victory in a runoff against Brooksie Bonvillian and Chris Sellers of the Leading the Way ticket. Bonvillian and Sell-
ers were early favorites in the runoff, having earned 40 percent of the votes in the general election, as opposed to Hudson and Borel’s 27.9 percent. But the real controversy arose about the disqualification
of 22 StudentsFirst candidates. Many of these candidates had the most votes, but their election filing paperwork indicated they had spent too much money, taking them out of the race. These candidates have loudly
University may need to cut $11 million Band hall construction faces postponement By Xerxes A. Wilson Senior Staff Writer
Hill to access the library’s unique collections. The three main collections are the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collection, the Rare Book Collection and the E.A. McIlhenny Natural History Collection. “They all have different focuses,” Smyth said. The LLMV Collection includes books, periodicals, maps, prints, state documents and newspapers documenting the history and culture of the region. The collection is the largest accumulation of materials on Louisiana and the lower Mississippi Valley in existence, Smyth said. “Anyone interested in Louisiana is going
The University could be forced to indefinitely postpone construction of the new band hall or implement widespread furloughs because of further midyear budget cuts. Chancellor Michael Martin recently weighed the possibility of utilizing these options for the last two months of the fiscal year in a savings assessment preempting announcements of budget cuts for the remainder of the fiscal year. An income tax revenue shortage could force the state to implement further funding cuts before the end of June. The University’s share of the cut could be about $11 million, said Jason Droddy, assisDownload tant vice chancellor the chancellor’s of Legislative and budget savings External Affairs. assessment at The State Rev- lsureveille.com. enue Estimating Conference is scheduled to meet Wednesday to issue a revised forecast for the fiscal year revealing the severity of the cut, said James Richardson, University economics professor who sits on the estimating council. In the saving assessment, Martin said indefinitely postponing construction of the new band hall — which would yield $4.5 million in savings — is preferred to implementing furloughs.
COLLECTIONS, see page 15
ASSESSMENT, see page 15
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Mary Ann Frenzel shows and explains the photographs and documents she is donating to the Hill Memorial Library as part of the “Gebelin-Walsh-HynesFrenzel family papers” collection. Frenzel said the collection serves as a visual record of five generations of her family, dating back to the 1860s.
Funded by donations, the Hill Memorial Library preserves Lousiana history Staff Writer
The Hill Memorial Library has been part of the University for 85 years, but many students still don’t know the history in its stacks. Funded completely by donations, the Hill — also known as Special Collections — stores a wide array of rare and valuable historical materials, ranging from a first edition of Samuel Johnson’s “History of the English Language” to the manuscripts of Louisiana natives. The library requires a certain amount of security because the items are rare, said Elaine Smyth, head of Special Collections. Visitors must sign in at the front and wear an ID badge at all times. Personal belongings
are stored in a locker, and no materials can be taken outside the building. People aren’t allowed to roam the stacks. Visitors instead request certain items the staff retrieves and brings back to the Reading Room. The temperature must remain at 70 degrees, and the humidity levels are kept between 50 and 55 percent. Lighting is also highly regulated to protect the materials. “A lot of people might get turned off by our security,” said Tara Laver, curator of manuscripts. “But if they knew what was in here, I think they’d understand.” WHAT’S INSIDE People from all over the world visit the
PAPERWORK, see page 12
BUDGET
History at the Hill By Sarah Eddington
protested their disqualifications, claiming the paperwork does not accurately reflect the money they spent. “As president of the