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By Jonathan Specht

Board of Supervisors approves new Athletic Director, basketball coach

Louisiana State University’s Board of Supervisors gave their official approval for three new contracts for LSU Athletics. Joe Alleva, previously Athletic Director for Duke University, was officially hired as LSU’s new Athletic Director with a five-year contract of $550,000 per year.

The board also approved a contract for new men’s basketball coach Trent Johnson, who will receive a base salary of $1.2 million, with up to an additional $600,000 for post-season play and $200,000 in academic incentives. The board also amended the contract of head football coach Les Miles.

LSU Day held at State Capitol

Wednesday, April 30, was dubbed LSU Day at the Louisiana State Capitol. Representing LSU were Acting Chancellor William Jenkins; LSU’s Truman Scholar Claire Kendig of Shreveport; LSU’s Goldwater Scholars: Brian Goh of Denham Springs, Leah Muller of Hammond, Nabil Thalji of Baton Rouge and Michael Parent of Brandon, Mississippi; LSU accounting major Trista Sanders of Iowa, Louisiana, who received the highest score on the Certified Internal Auditor Exam; and other LSU officials.

LSU athletics was represented by, among others, LSU Football Head Coach Les Miles and mascot Mike the Tiger. The group visited the Louisiana State Senate and House of Representatives.

Registration now open for summer 2008 leisure classes

Registration is now available for LSU’s Summer 2008 Student Union Leisure Classes. Eighty two non-credit courses will be available for the LSU and Baton Rouge communities for the summer semester. The seventeen new classes for this summer include “Furniture Repair and Refinishing,” “Interior Decorating with Feng Shui,” and “German: Introduction to Reading and Grammar.”

Classes begin June 2 and end August 7. Registration is available online at www.lsu.edu/leisureclasses, and continues until a class is full or until class begins, whichever comes first. Registration can be completed by phone, mail, fax, walk-in or online. Visa/Mastercard, American Express, personal checks and cash are accepted, and those interested are encouraged to sign up soon, as classes fill quickly.

College of Basic Sciences inducts new Hall of Distinction members

On May 2, LSU’s College of Basic Sciences held a gala ceremony at the Lod Cook Alumni Center honoring its new inductees into the Hall of Distinction. The four inductees were Dr. James Andrews, Dr. Eugene St. Martin and Boyd Professors Emeritus William A. Pryor and Joseph Callaway (who died in 1994).

Andrews is credited with pioneering new surgical technologies and rehabilitation techniques at his sports medicine center in Birmingham, Alabama. St. Martin is a member of the LSU Health Sciences Center Foundation Board of Directors and is a past president of the Louisiana State Urological Society. Pryor was the founding director of both the LSU Biodynamics Institute and the Pennington Biomedical Research Center. Callaway was a noted expert in solid-state physics, particularly the calculation of band structures.

Originally Published: Issue 607 - May 6, 2008

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