Digital Commons Network^™

S18rs Sgr No. 6 (Solar Power), John Green, Edouard D'Espalungue

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A RESOLUTION

To urge and request LSU Facility and Property Oversight to pursue and sign a solar purchase power agreement with a solar technology developer

S18rs Sgr No. 8 (Verizon Service), Grey Bianca

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A RESOLUTION

To Urge and Request Verizon Communications to prioritize a material solution to the coverage gap on West Lakeshore Drive on the campus of Louisiana State University.

S18rs Sgr No. 4 (Experience Lsu), Monet Lacour, Kevin Ellis

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A RESOLUTION

TO URGE AND REQUEST EXPERIENCE LSU TO REVIEW THE CURRENT FUNDRAISING METHODS FOR ORGNANZATIONS AND INVESTIGATE ALTERNATE METHODS OF FUNDRAISING

S18rs Sgr No. 11 (Grad School Fees), Wokil Bam

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A RESOLUTION

TO URGE AND REQUEST ALL THE ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS AT LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY TO CLEARLY STATE EXPECTED FEES FOR GRADUATE SCHOOL IN THE GRADUATE ASSISTANTSHIP OFFER LETTER

S18rs Sgr No. 10 (Sanitizer Stations), Cameron Burris, Andrew Grashoff

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A RESOLUTION

TO URGE AND REQUEST DINING SERVICES TO FUND AND IMPLEMENT HANDS-FREE HAND SANITIZER STATIONS IN VARIOUS LOCATIONS ON CAMPUS THAT PROVIDE FOOD SERVICES

S18rs Sgr No. 13 (Grad School Fees), Sepideh Kavousi, Jordan Landry, Wokil Bam

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A RESOLUTION

To Urge and Request Exemption of Graduate Students from the Student Excellence Fee and Academic Excellence Fee

S18rs Sgb No. 5 (Amend Rules Of Order), James Mickler

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Bill

To amend the LSU Student Government Legislative Branch Rules of Order

S18rs Sgfb No. 8 (Rentable Chargers), Taylor Stirling, Sarah Oliver

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A FINANCE BILL

To allocate a maximum of two hundred fifty-nine dollars and eighty cents ($259.80) from the Student Government Initiatives Account to fund rentable chargers for the LSU Student Union Information Desk

S18rs Sgr No. 14 (Campus Transit), Edouard D'Espalungue

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A RESOLUTION

To urge and request LSU Parking and Transportation to modify the LSU Tiger Trail Night A operations and the LSU Campus Transit system webpage and operational hours

S18rs Sgb No. 3 (Amend Bylaws), Sarah Perkins

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Bill

To Amend the Student Government Bylaws.

S18rs Sgr No. 15 (Std Lab Tests), Edouard D'Espalungue

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A RESOLUTION

TO URGE AND REQUEST THE LSU STUDENT HEALTH CENTER TO consider providing A PACKAGE FOR COMMON SEXUALLY TRANSMISSITED DISEASE (STD) LABORATORY TESTS at a fair price

S18rs Sgfb No. 9 (Security Guards), Ahmad El-Rachidi

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A FINANCE BILL

to allocate a maximum of five hundred twenty-nine dollars and twenty cents ($529.20) from the Student Government Legislative Contingency Account to fund the security costs for the LSU Student Union from 11pm to 3am from April 29^th to May 3^rd

S18rs Sgr No. 18 (Student Athlete Survey), Jordyn Warren

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To urge and request the LSU Athletic Department to distribute the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) survey to student athletes.

S18rs Sgr No. 19 (Asl Class), Jordyn Warren

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To urge and request the College of Humanities and Social Sciences to recognize and offer American Sign Language (ASL) as a language course.

S18rs Sgr No. 16 (Sexual Health Tab), Bailey Allmon

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A RESOLUTION

To Urge and Request the LSU Student Health Center to make a sexual Health tab on their online patient portal

S18rs Sgcr No. 15 (Student Media Fees), John Green

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

To place a referendum before the Louisiana State University student body in the Fall 2018 elections to urge and request the LSU Board of Supervisors to reconsider, restructure, and reduce the Student Media associated fees

S18rs Sgr No. 20 (Physical Triggers), Jordyn Warren

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To urge and request the LSU Student Health Center (SHC) to offer the documentation of physical triggers on the SHC patient portal.

S18rs Sgcr No. 16 (Performance Arts Fee), John Green

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

To place a referendum before the Louisiana State University student body in the Fall 2018 Elections to urge and request the LSU Board of Supervisors to reconsider the Performing Arts Fee

S18rs Sgb No. 6 (Amend Governing Documents), Cassidy Riley, Tyler Porche, Samuel Cupp

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Bill

To amend the Student Government Governing Documents

S18rs Sgb No. 7 (Amend Psif Bylaws), Austin Grashoff

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Bill

To Amend the Program, Support, and Initiatives Fund Committee bylaws

Holocene Vegetation And Climate Evolution Of Corpus Christi And Trinity Bays: Implications On Coastal Texas Source-To-Sink Deposition, Shannon Ferguson, Sophie Warny, John B. Anderson, Alexander R. Simms, Gilles Escarguel

Faculty Publications

© 2018 The Texas coastline stretches 595 km across almost 4° of latitude and is home to diverse coastal vegetation assemblages, yet only a handful of studies have documented the climate and vegetative change of this region through the Holocene. We provide a detailed palynological record of Holocene climate for coastal Texas, based upon three subaqueous sediment cores from Corpus Christi Bay and Trinity Bay. Cluster analysis and correspondence analysis were used to investigate changes in palynological assemblages through time within each core. Common to both bays are nonarboreal taxa including Asteraceae (mainly Ambrosia and Helianthus), Chenopodium, Poaceae, and arboreal …

Percepción Y Periodismo: Bohemia In 1950s Cuba, Jeffrey E. O'Brien

LSU Master's Theses

Bohemia is perhaps one of the most popularly used sources among Cuban historians because of its array of content. For the vast majority of scholars, the use of Bohemia’s content is utilized to put the nature of the Cuban Revolution in perspective. Rarely have historians ever analyzed Bohemia itself, as a publication. What is intriguing is that historians who analyze the Cuban Revolution usually conclude the leit motif of the insurrection evolved around—and was prompted by—the rupture of the constitutional order. Bohemia, as a magazine committed to democracy—free speech, transparency, fair elections, and so on—provides an important way to see …

Unterstützung Oder Dienstleistung: German Exchange Students’ Perceptions Of Student Support Services After Studying Abroad In The United States, Matthew Todd Dean

LSU Master's Theses

As Germany seeks to compete in the international higher education market, German universities are rethinking their approach to the services provided to students. As predicted by the theory of academic capitalism, this competition is poised to force universities to consider student services as both a marketing tool and alternate stream of revenue. This study explores German students’ perceptions of student support services. Through qualitative interviews with German students who have studied abroad in the United States, the author examines their perceptions of the services offered to them by universities and third party affiliates. Emergent themes are illustrative of understaffing and …

Using Teacher Prompts To Increase Leadership Skills In Preschool Children, Sarah Elizabeth West

LSU Master's Theses

The purpose of the present study was to determine if teacher prompting could increase the frequency of leadership behaviors exhibited by preschool children during play and if teachers increased their level of prompting of leadership behaviors. Parten’s original 1933 framework defined the categories both directing and following; reciprocally directing or sharing leadership with another child; or directing the group in which the preschool children’s leadership behaviors were recorded. A review of the literature revealed prompts teachers could use to promote leadership skills in young children, which included modeling, helping others, completing tasks, praise, decision-making, and problem solving. …

Pressure Transient Techniques For Continuous Monitoring Of Co2 Storage/Eor, Nam Hoang Tran

LSU Master's Theses

Pressure well testing has been widely used in the oil and gas industry for determining reservoir properties and well conditions. More recently, studies have been done to show the applicability of well testing for the continuous monitoring of CO₂ storage projects. In the current thesis, we study a diverse range of pressure transient techniques with the same goal of characterizing CO₂. The thesis finds that the use of pressure transient analysis is a strong tool for CO₂ monitoring. Each method discussed within the paper has its advantages and disadvantages. The first technique is able to determine …

The Medium Is The Movement: The Internet's Influence On Feminist Rhetorical Strategies, Christine Nicole Jeansonne

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

In The Medium Is the Movement: The Internet’s Influence on Feminist Rhetorical Strategies, I assert that recent scholarship on online feminism identifies feminist approaches to using the Internet as a tool to achieve activist causes but does not fully consider the active role of the Internet, itself, in changing feminist rhetoric. In response to this oversight, each of my chapters first attends to a popular critique of online feminism and then illuminates the digital framework’s influence in prompting distinct changes to feminist rhetorical practices. In Chapter I, entitled, “Hashtag ‘Slacktivism’: Posturing and Positioning in #OnlineFeminism,” I explore the productive …

A Turning Point In The Life Course: A Comparative Analysis Of Influences Of Military Service On Mental Health And Deviance, Ugur Orak

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Military service is an important school of training and one of the largest employers in the U.S., functioning as a major turning point in the lives of millions of American individuals. Whether serving in the military has a beneficial or a detrimental impact on individuals’ tendencies to engage in deviant behaviors has long been discussed and empirical studies have presented inconsistent results. In addition, research examining the interplay between military service, deviance, and mental health has generally focused on the service in a combat zone or during wartime and centered upon certain types of deviance and mental health problems. Addressing …

An Exploration Of Adolescents' Attitude Toward, Intention To Consume, And Self-Reported Consumption Of Whole Grain Foods, Amy Lynn Queret-Mitchell

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The primary purpose of this study was to examine Louisiana high school students’ perceptions towards consuming whole grain food products. The findings of this study are presented by objectives in the following sections. There is an obesity epidemic in America. Despite the wealth of information, this issue continues to have a negative impact on many adolescents particularly those of low socio-economic status in America. A possible cause for this problem is that adolescents may not have been taught to select the proper foods for consumption. However, this research shows that adolescents who consume whole grain food products have significantly lower …

Plasmonic Structures For Subwavelength Guiding And Enhanced Light-Matter Interactions, Amirreza Mahigir

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

In this dissertation we design and analyze nanostructures for subwavelength guiding and enhanced light-matter interactions.

We first investigate three-dimensional plasmonic waveguide-cavity structures, built by side-coupling stub resonators that consist of plasmonic coaxial waveguides of finite length, to a plasmonic coaxial waveguide. These structures are capable of guiding and manipulating light in deep-subwavelength volumes. We show that three-dimensional plasmonic coaxial waveguides offer a platform for practical realization of deep-subwavelength optical waveguides.

We then introduce compact wavelength-scale slit-based structures for coupling free space light into the fundamental mode of plasmonic coaxial waveguides. We consider single-, double-, and triple-slit structures optimized at the …

She Must Be Crazy: Alternative Realities In Contemporary Francophone Literature, Emily Barclay Spriggs, Emily Barclay Spriggs

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Globally and historically, madness appears as a prominent socio-medical concern that also occupies a significant space in literary tradition. There has been an increase in the number of scholars who study madness and literature in postcolonial works. However, the predominant view and treatment of madness – both socially and medically – adheres to the European, white male construct that has informed a more or less universal regard of those who suffer from mental woes: they are deranged, sick, ill. This poses a problem for postcolonial works when we consider the sexist and racist implications in psychology that were enhanced through …