Louisiana State University - Gumbo Yearbook (Baton Rouge, LA)

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as We Saw it in 1965-66 was filled with excitement and action from the beginning of the school year with Hurri- cane Betsy, to the completion of sorority houses, victory in the Cotton Bowl on January 1, initiation of the Union Quiz. Bowl, and a rousing weekend with the annual spring Jazz Festival. Our first Chancellor, Dr. Cecil G. Taylor, guided LSU through a dynamic, reverberating year. 7965-66 witnessed the lifting of the sunken chlorine barge after Betsy, confis- cating of Playboy magazines in men ' s dormitories, enlarg- ing of closed circuit T.V. instruction, beginning of classes on the half-hour, including 7:30 a.m.; and the opening of Her get Hall, another woman ' s dormitory on the lake. Louisiana State University today is a state-wide system of higher education fanning out from the main campus in Baton Rouge to LSU-NO and the Medical Center in New Orleans, LSU at Alexandria, and fourteen agricultural experiment branch stations located in various parts of the state. Indicative of this University ' s growth was the increase in enrollment, over 16,000 students on t he Baton Rouge campus alone; the construction of the Institute of Insurance Market- ing, one of two such places in the U.S.; and continued advances in the Audubon Sugar Factory, the largest and most complete non-commercial sugar factory in the world. In addition LSU was chosen as one of the Centers of Excellence by the National Science Foundation, thus receiving a $3,787,000 grant to strengthen its program in physics, chemistry, geology, and math. The new look in Tiger Stadium this fall was the 8,200 bright gold fiberglass seats in South Stadium, with three sections in deep purple forming the letters LSU . Mike the Tiger ' s Cage was painted in the traditional colors and restored to beaming newness as in ' 37. Stemming from our mushrooming campus population and accompanying communication needs, Centrex a new twenty-four hour telephone system went into operation. WLSU, a student-planned and student-operated radio sta- tion, began operations at 660 KC on the radio dial. In trans- portation, the service of covered walkways to the Library now extend from Allen Hall and Himes Hall and the Greek Special transports girls daily from the sorority houses to the academic area. Indeed this was a year of expansions and initiations in the complex of the LSU System.

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LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY BATON ROUGE, LA.

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