Better Than Ever
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Burke-Hawthorne Hall on Hebrard Boulevard has been transformed from ceiling to floor, inside and out. The renovations were 14 years coming. Now, the campus radio station KRVS has new facilities along with the Departments of Communication, Theater and Communicative Disorders. See the newest issue of LaLouisiane magazine for photos of the transformation. |
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Ragin Cajun Giving
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| Athletes pictured from left: Thomas Petts (golf), Joey Wynn (track) and Mark Brockhurst (golf). |
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| UL Lafayette student-athletes and coaches pitched in during the holidays to help some Acadiana residents in need. The group collected and donated about 1,160 canned goods to the KLFY-TV 10 "Food for Families" FoodNet Food Drive. |
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| Music to his Ears |
| Dr. Barry Ancelet has been described as a champion of Cajun and Creole music. For decades, the professor and folklorist has been a leader in efforts to keep the French language and culture alive in Acadiana. OffBeat magazine recently presented him with its Lifetime Achievement Award in Music Education. |
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| Among the Best |
A book coauthored by Dr. Judy Gentry, a UL Lafayette history professor, is included in the Times Picayune’s Top 10 local books of 2009. Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times chronicles the lives of more than a dozen remarkable women from the colonial period to the present.
An overview by Google Books notes that the 17 biographical essays “provide a window into the social, cultural and geographical milieu of women's lives in the state.” Contributors include two UL Lafayette faculty members, Dr. Mary Farmer-Kaiser, an associate professor of history and geography, and Dr. Mary Ann Wilson, a professor of English. |
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Basketball Great |
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Andrew Toney, who played in the NBA for the Philadelphia 76ers, had his priorities straight when he was a student-athlete at UL Lafayette in the late 1970s. He managed to earn a bachelor’s degree in three and a half years.
"My parents couldn't afford to send me to college, so since I was getting a free education, I wanted to make sure I took advantage of it. My sisters went on to grad school, and our parents always told us to better ourselves," Toney said in a recent interview for the Athletic Network. |
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