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THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA MONROE

September 19, 2016

BRIEFS CALENDAR Monday, September 19 Mid-term grading for 1st 8-week classes

Spirit Day, 11 AM-1 PM, The Quad Men’s golf at Jim Rivers Intercollegiate, time TBA

Tuesday, September 20 Mid-term grading for 1st 8-week classes

Wednesday, September 21 Mid-term grading for 1st 8-week classes

Thursday, September 22 Movie Showing: Molière, 6:30 PM, Stubbs Hall 100

Friday, September Soccer vs Little Rock, 4 PM, Soccer Complex

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Volleyball vs Georgia Southern, 6:30 PM, Fant-Ewing Coliseum

Saturday, September 24 Volleyball vs Georgia State, 6:30 PM, Fant-Ewing Coliseum

Sunday, September

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Women’s Golf at Chris Banister Golf Classic, time and location TBS Soccer at Arkansas State, 1 PM

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1 Monroe Secretary of Education visits

2 Baton Rouge 3 Los Angeles Budget quarrel Students trash 9/11 memorial at the capitol

4 Russia Polar bears trap scientists

U.S. Secretary of Education John King visited Sallie Humble Elementary School Thursday and participated in a roundtable discussion of Louisiana’s work under its $17.5 million Race to the Top grant. The stop is part of the annual Back-to-School Bus Tour, which is a tour by King across the South.

The discussion largely focused on the Believe and Prepare Teacher Residency Program that several Louisiana Tech students are currently a part of. Three Louisiana Tech students are residents at Sallie Humble, and they participated in the discussion along with thier mentors, Louisiana Department of Education staff, Louisiana Tech faculty, Sallie Humble’s principal and Monroe City Schools Superintendent Brent Vidrine. It is unclear whether the University of Louisiana Monroe was represented.

This is not the first budget dispute between Governor John Bel Edwards’ administration and Attorney General Jeff Landry, and it probably won’t be the last. This time, however, lawmakers aren’t getting involved.

Members of the joint House and Senate budget committee heard of the disagreement between Edwards and Landry Friday and refused to intervene. They told the two sides to “go work it out on their own,” said the Associated Press.

Landry has complained to lawmakers that two of his budget requests have been stalled by the Edwards administration instead of being sent along to the joint budget committee for consideration.

Landry’s requests include heightening his office’s spending on Medicaid fraud investigations. He is also seeking state money to defend Louisiana’s new abortion laws.

(MCT) - Five Russian scientists trapped by more than a dozen polar bears for two weeks used a shipment of flares and air horns to free themselves this week, according to Russian and European news reports.

The researchers were on Troynoy Island, north of eastern Russia and inside the Arctic Circle, when on Aug. 31, one of the many bears known to live on the island killed a dog at a meteorological station. After that, the bear decided to stick around, and was joined by nine other adult polar bears, and as many as four cubs.

In addition to being in danger of being eaten if they left the research hut, a scientist noted that: “We had to stop some of the meteorological observations.”

According to a spokesperson for the group of scientists, the bears had no food. That’s why they went to the station.

(MCT) - Nearly 3,000 flags planted around Occidental College to remember the victims of the Sept.

11 terrorist attacks were trashed and crushed early Sunday, a group says.

Members of the Occidental College Republican Club discovered the destruction early Sunday on the Eagle Rock campus as well as fliers, they said, that “shamed the victims of 9/11.” The flier, which displayed the image of the two World Trade Center towers, included the message: “R.I.P. The 2,996 Americans who died in 9/11. R.I.P. the 1,455,590 innocent Iraqis who died during the U.S. invasion for something they didn’t do.”

“This is beyond politics, this is about those lives that were so tragically taken,” the club said in the statement on Facebook.

The College does not yet know who is responsible for the incident.

TODAY IN HISTORY

NEVER FORGET

September 19

“Conventionality is not morality.

Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.”

1692: Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials.

1796: George Washington’s Farewell Address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.

1881:

Charlotte Brontë English Novelist Front page photo credits: Main story photo by: Olivia Barfield Top photo by: Brea Joyner Top sidebar photo by: Cory Thaxton Bottom sidebar photo by: Savannah Payne’s Facebook

photo by Sara Janet

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. hosts a candlelight vigil Sunday in remembrance of those lost in 9/11.

U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting. Vice President Chester A. Arthur beimage cour tesy comes President upon MCT Campus Garfield’s death.

1952: The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.

1982: Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board .

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NEWS

ULM included in national universities list

by Olivia Barfield

For the first time ever, ULM has been included on the U.S. News and World Report list of national universities. The university is listed under “rank not published” (RNP).

U.S. News & World Report defines a national university as an institution which offers a full range of undergraduate majors as well as master’s and doctoral degrees. Universities included on U.S. News’ “National Universities Rankings” list qualify based on whether or not they fit this definition.

Not all universities that qualify to be on the list are given a ranking. ULM was not ranked.

Schools marked as RNP are referred to as “unranked,” according to U.S. News. Unranked schools are not assigned a numerical rank

because they did not qualify for a high enough ranking.

“Schools marked as unranked are listed alphabetically and are listed below those marked as Rank Not Published,” says the site.

Joining ULM on the list as an national RNP school is the University of Louisiana Lafayette.

Nationally ranked Louisiana schools include Louisiana Tech University in a tie for number 202, Louisiana State University tied for number 135 and Tulane University with a tie for number 39. Tulane is the highest ranking Louisiana university.

Graduation and retention rates, alumni giving, faculty resources, academic reputation, student selectivity and financial resources are some of the categories that U.S. News bases it’s university rankings on. ULM was not assigned

an overall score, although the university does tie for number 372 in U.S. News’ ranking of business programs.

Despite not ranking, this is still ULM’s first time to be included on U.S. News’ national list.

For the last two years, U.S. News included the university on its “Regional Universities Ranking” list, so this new classification is a step up.

ULM President Nick Bruno called ULM’s inclusion on the list a “landmark achievement for ULM,” and, “a clear indication of our progress as an institution of higher learning.”

“ULM has made the national stage more than once and this ranking certainly increases our visibility on that stage,” said Bruno.

“With all of our recent success, we must continue to be forward-moving. We are no longer merely a regional university. The nation

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is paying attention to what we are doing here in northeast Louisiana.”

ULM News Center has credited ULM’s upgrade to a national university to the university’s reclassification in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. This classification is the most widely accepted classification system of U.S. higher education institutions and the basis for U.S. News rankings, according to ULM News Center.

The Carnegie Classification recognized ULM as an R3 (“moderate research”) doctoralgranting institution of higher education in February, bumping it up from its classification of Master’s College and Universities – Larger programs (M1). contact Olivia Barfield at barfieldor@warhawks.ulm.edu

AngioScreens on Enrollment tops last year, campus for students 9,000 students reached

Alpha Kappa Alpha holds vigil remembering 9/11 victims

Glenwood Regional Medical Center and ULM teamed up last week to give students and faculty an AngioScreen for $30.

The screenings took place at Warhawk Circle in their Glenwood Mobile Unit.

According to the Angiology Corporation of America, an AngioScreen “provides a snapshot of a persons’ vascular health,” screening for the three proximate or immediate causes of stroke, abdominal aortic aneurysms and peripheral vascular disease.

The screenings took only 15 minutes and included carotid stroke screening, ankle brachial index, 5-lead EKG screening for atrial fibrillation, abdominal aortic aneurysm, blood pressure, pulse and body mass index.

The Theta Zeta Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated held their annual Never Forget candle light service Sunday in honor of those who were lost and those who survived the 9/11 terrorist attack.

The event was held in the Quad, where they decorated the area with mini flags, formed a circle as they sang the national anthem, prayed in unison and gave guest their candles and a goodie bag for attending the event.

According to member Jo Hilliard, the program was brief and intimate.

“We feel its important we take out time to reflect on the resilience of this country and remember those that lost their lives and remind the family of those loved ones that we haven’t forgotten about them,” Hilliard said.

“It’s a big deal to us to observe special days/occasions such as this because by reminding ourselves of the events that unfolded on that tragic day we gently serve as a reminder to others.”

Jazmine Walton, president of Alpha Kappa Alpha, said their job as Alpha Kappa Alpha women is to serve, lead and observe was is going on in our community.

Enrollment is up 261 students, making the total enrollment number 9,115 – a number that tops last year’s 8,854.

“Despite concerns of TOPS funding and the flooding in southern Louisiana, our numbers have not just remained stable, but have grown,” President Nick Bruno said.

According to the university website, “a large amount of growth was evident in higher student retention rates with an increase of 58 percent to 66 percent in the first to third years.”

Bruno said the dedication of faculty and staff keeping students engaged in and outside of the classroom attributed to the high retention rates.

The growth of the enrollment isn’t the only thing that’s increased. eULM, the university’s online program for non-traditional students, saw the largest enrollment since the program began, bringing in a five percent increase. Last year, the program had 1,167 students.

This year, 1,225 students are in the program.