Digest Publication Schedule2007-2008
The Southern Digest
Newspaper - 2007-08
PUBLICATION DATES
AUGUST 2007
Friday, Aug. 24
Friday, Aug. 31
SEPTEMBER 2007
Friday, Sept. 7
Tuesday, Sept. 11
Friday, Sept. 14
Tuesday, Sept 18
Friday, Sept. 21
Tuesday, Sept. 25
OCTOBER 2007
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To the victor, goes the spoilJamal Taylor, Mhykeisha Evans win spring SGA elections' top posts
In the crowded halls of the Smith-Brown Memorial Union, it was announced that Jamal Taylor will be Student Government Association President and Mhykeisha Evans will be Miss Southern University for the 2008-09 school term.
Taylor beat junior marketing major from Manteca, Calif.…
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McFadden, Taylor Face Off in Run-off For SGA PresidentMhykeisha Evans, Jennifer Taylor vie for the title of Miss Southern
MONDAY, 4.14.08 - 9:40 p.m.
Results for the Student Government Association and Miss Southern elections were announced this afternoon outside the Cotillion Ballroom of the Smith-Brown Memorial Union.
Junior marketing major from Manteca, Calif. and current activities coordinator for SGA, Elyse McFadden is straggling behind junior history major from Lafayette Jamal Taylor who has 547 to Taylor's 685 votes but is still in high hopes.…
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SU hosts Spring 2008 Wellness Fair
The Spring 2008 Wellness Fair will be held tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Smith-Brown Memorial Union.
The fair is being coordinated by the Division of Student Affairs, the Baranco-Hill Student Health Center and the Southern University School of Nursing.…
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SU president responds to budget cut letter
No amendment has actually been filed, but President Ralph Slaughter of the Southern University System responded to a letter sent from the Louisiana Legislative Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Education regarding what would happen if Southern experienced a five percent budget cut said Slaughter.…
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Dancing Doll tryouts approachingTryouts will be held June 21-22 in the rehearsal hall of Greggs Hall
Southern University will hold its annual Dancing Dolls tryouts June 21 - 22 in the rehearsal hall of the Issac Greggs Band Hall.
There will be an estimated 100 ladies with aspirations of becoming Dancing Dolls attending this year's tryout, but there are only 12 slots available; "you have to bring your 'A' game," said Lawrence Jackson, Southern University graduate and the director of Southern's Human Jukebox marching band.…
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Jindal to speak at SU commencement
Louisiana governor, Bobby Jindal, will be the keynote speaker at Southern University during its Spring 2008 commencement that will be held Friday, May 9 at 10:30 a.m. in the F. G. Clark Activity Center, according to a media release.
Southern officials are expecting almost 700 undergraduate and graduate students to receive their respective degrees.…
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Construction of long awaited stadium project begins
What seems to have been a ghost jobsite has suddenly emerged as the beginning of major construction, as heavy machinery and contractors frequent the area, readying themselves for the upcoming A.W. Mumford Stadium project, that has been ongoing since Fall 2007.…
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Annual Greek Show ticket sale to face changes
The annual springfest Greek Show, sponsored by the Pan Hellenic Council, will be held Friday, April 25 at 7:30 p.m. in the F. G. Clark Activity Center announced Twyana Cain, interim director of student programs. Cain said that the admission is $10 per person and the event is open to the public.…
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SU professor releases book
Southern University English professor Kendric Coleman released his first book, Webs of Masculinity: Power, Money and Sex(uality) last February.
The book, which steams from Coleman's doctorate of English dissertation gained from Louisiana State University, delves into how some African-American males are trapped in environments that keep them from developing an identity.…
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Students unhappy with campus handicap accessibility
The lack of availability of handicap structures and facilities on Southern University's campus has become a concern to both the faculty and the students attending the university.
Disabled students attending the university must attend classes in buildings unsuitable for those students'; such as the T.…
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Alumni offers scholarships for community service
Southern University students seeking extra financial aid are in luck.
The John B. Cade Library has information that may help students looking for extra scholarship funding in the upcoming years.
One such scholarship, the Leo and Emma Amar Will Scholarship, has awarded over $10,000 to deserving college students since its establishment.…
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SpringFest excitement not halted by budget cuts
While the annual end-of-the-year SpringFest has undergone a few changes, outgoing Student Government Association, assures the student body that budgeting problems will not deter the festivities.
With a recent budgeting cut of $13,500, the usually three-day event has been cut down to a two-day activity, a fact that SGA Public Relations Director Anthony Monroe says will not matter come April 26.…
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SU administration addresses disability accommodations
A sit-down meeting was conducted on Thursday, April 24 to discuss the status on the disability accommodation efforts for the T.T. Allain facility.
Flandus McClinton, vice chancellor for finance and administration, coordinated the meeting between Interim Chancellor Margaret Ambrose and representative from the System Office of Facility Planning.…
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Southern's academic quiz bowl team wins $16,000
The Southern University Academic All-Star Team placed fourth in the 19th Annual Honda Campus All-Star Challenge National Championship held March 27-31 in Orlando, Fla.
"We hope this victory will help us to gain new members for the team," said Coach William Moore of the chemistry department.…
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SU's Psi Chi holds annual domestic violence seminar
Over 80 students attended the fifth annual "Hands R 4 Hugging, Not Hitting Seminar" last Thursday, which was hosted by Psi Chi, the National Honor Society in Psychology.
Brittani Ware, a member of Psi Chi, said that the purpose of the seminar was to "educate and give awareness to domestic violence on campus.…
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Smith named president of the SULC Student Bar Association
A Southern University Law School students and Louisiana State University at Shreveport Graduate was elected Student Bar Association President on Monday, April 14 in the Southern University Law Center Atrium.
Dwazendra Smith a second year law school student from Shreveport was elected president and sworn in by Judge John Michael Guidry of the First Circuit Court of Appeal.…
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DIGEST NEWS SHORTSFaculty Senate elections scheduled
The Southern University's Faculty Senate will hold their elections this coming Monday, April 21 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Blue and Gold Room located in the Smith Brown Memorial Student Union, said Albert Samuels, president of Faculty Senate elections committee.…
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NCAA accuses Alabama State of 668 rules violations
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The NCAA has accused Alabama State University of 24 rules violations in four sports and charged the school with lack of institutional control.
The university received a notice of allegations last week after an NCAA investigation of nearly five years.…
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SUBR Chancellor search narrows to six candidates
The six semi-finalists for the Southern University chancellor search who will be on campus Monday, April 28 to interact with the students, faculty, staff and community are Drs. Ray Belton (Southern University at Shreveport), Wynetta Lee (Jackson State University), Kofi Lomotey (Fisk University), Napoleon Moses (Alcorn State University, Joseph M.…
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Top 10 Year-In-ReviewGas Prices, Obama, chancellor search headline DIGEST top stories
The memories of the 2007-08 school term will be etched into the hearts of those students who have reached the end of their undergraduate career and will embark on their life's journey. From Louisiana's gubernatorial election to the presidential election to the launch of the Office of Student Media's podcasts and blogs, Southern University students have seen and experienced it all.…
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Wade deems SU's Spring 2008 Wellness Fair a successful event
The 2008 Wellness Fair was held Wednesday, April 23 at the Southern University Smith-Brown Memorial Union. According to Shirley Wade, clinic administrator and nurse practitioner for the Baranco-Hill Student Health Center, there were 362 participants in the fair.…
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Economy sends signals of more weakness to come
NEW YORK -- Higher unemployment claims and weak readings from two economic indexes reinforced recession worries Thursday.
The Labor Department said Thursday that applications for unemployment benefits rose to 372,000, an increase of 17,000 from the previous week.…
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Obama predicts Clinton win in Pa. but says it will be close
Barack Obama predicted Monday that Democratic presidential rival Hillary Rodham Clinton would get the critical victory she needs in Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary, but said his goal is to keep it close.
"I'm not predicting a win," he told Pittsburgh radio station KDKA.…
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Federal loans not an option for many junior college students
For students who need to borrow for college, federal loans are almost always the best deal. But a new study finds that more than 1 million community college students - a disproportionate number of them minorities - can't get such loans because their schools decline to participate in the federal loan program.…
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Economy the top worry, but barely affecting votes
WASHINGTON - The economy has soared past Iraq as the top problem on the minds of voters.
But do the growing economic worries give a particular edge to any presidential candidate? Not so far, according to an Associated Press-Yahoo News poll released Monday.…
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Obama's ex-pastor doesn't mention controversy in Va. appearance
NORFOLK, Va.- (Barack Obama's retired pastor made his first public speaking appearance since the beginning of the furor over his remarks criticizing the United States, delivering a sermon Sunday at a Virginia church.
The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. said nothing about the Democratic presidential candidate or the uproar as he preached for 40 minutes at one of the oldest black Baptist churches in Norfolk.…
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McCain, in New Orleans, says Katrina response 'disgraceful'
NEW ORLEANS - Republican presidential candidate John McCain took stock of still-hurricane-damaged areas of New Orleans on Thursday and declared that if the disaster had happened on his watch, he would have immediately landed at the nearest Air Force base, drawing a sharp contrast to President Bush's handling of the tragedy.…
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Five arrested after shots fired at Grambling State11:21 a.m.
GRAMBLING - Five people have been arrested in conjunction with a shooting at Grambling State University Friday, according to campus police.
No one was injured when shots rang out Friday afternoon. The suspects were taken to the Lincoln Parish Detention Center.…
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