Louisiana Polytechnic Institute - Lagniappe Yearbook (Ruston, LA)

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n The Move Head football coach A.L. Williams and trainer escort a player off the field during the Northeast game. ESfEy'iien2SQ if the Racquetball Club and the watenskiing team. Some older teams chose this year to come into their own. The Lady Techsters softball team found their place in the sun last summer with a fifth- place national ranking. Academically, Tech never stopped moving, but maybe now we've shifted directions a little. Although our College of Engineering is as strong as ever, no longer is that the only department deserving of national recognition. Now we can be as easily noticed for our College of Administration and Business, one of the few fully accredited in the nation. Or we can be cited for our aviation department which has the only university-owned planes in the state. Researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences have kept the labs in Carson-Taylor Hall scurrying with activity as Drs. Lenore Kelly and Leslie Holladay worked toward helping insulin-dependent diabetics become able to administer their medication more accurately. And our school kept its head up academically, proudly noting that we had the second- highest average American college Testing scores - 19.0-- among state schools for entering freshmen. At the end of the fall quarter, we were hit with the biggest change we would have to undergo: the budget cuts. Taking a quiet walk at Hideaway park is one of many ways students spend warm spring afternoons. The park is equipped with barbeque pits. picnic tables, and exercise bars. Financially, we became a runner trying to make our laps with a severe gash in our sides. At first the wound seemed fatal when the state promised a 51.5 million dollar cut. But it turned out to be only a flesh wound when the state reduced the cut to S500,000. Although it left a sharp pain in our side, it's nothing compared to the scream of agony that would have been heard if faculty or staff had had to be cut. The S500,000 nick is not necessarily a move backwardg it's more like we're an athlete who's been taken off sweets and put on a lean diet. We're fitter, trimmer, and still on the move. l Even in our most important' and fundamental element -

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movementg into and out of the dorms, home for break and back for registration. But one group of students challenged their right to move. The American Civil Liberties Union, acting on behalf of many of Tech's international students, filed a discrimination suit against the university during the summer. Specifically the students were protesting a housing policy requiring all male international students to live in Jenkins gM..t..-s 5 . X ' 'x 1- L its 40-as...,......,k. Q 2 . xw... yn, Residence Hall - the international dorm. And when it all washes and a final decision is made, this may change or not. Some things will continue as always. And still we move. Students move all over the world via Tech Rome, a program allowing students to combine travel to a campus in Rome and earn up to 13 hours of credit. Or we can travel on the Home Economics International tour which takes as gf kv Z g. Nha if fs E3 ,,,., W 'hs LL, f .... W fir in-9-if 5 .M ....t . , H e a t M... T .' .W .M-.dau usual imw 3 Q A . E f v 5 55' 'X' T' .Mi il E 'Z' fs? . 1,1 ,156 M-gkzv' fi? f ' w 't 'Q gx'M..,,:,. K 7 6 T gif 'if '51 fashion design majors to all the major world capitals to see top- notch designs and merchandising techniques first hand. Or we simply move in quiet ways, familiar ways: a walk beside Tech pond, a jog through Hideaway park, a quiet stroll. But in everyway, we are that athlete pushing our capabilities, straining for more, reaching a little higher . . . We are . . . on the move. 'il -l we , s -:ss 1 Q V gg?