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S21rs Sgcr No. 25 (Black Caucus Constitution), Javin Bowman

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Concurrent Resolution

To establish the LSU Student Government Black Caucus

S21rs Sgcr No. 15 (Assistant Director Of Communications), Alexandra Basse

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Concurrent Resolution

To Appoint Isabella Rovere as Assistant Director Communications

S21rs Sgr No. 18 (Indian Mounds Boundaries), John Griswold, Taylor Perrodin, Harris Quadir, Karissa Chen, Nicole Nguyen

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To Urge and Request Louisiana State University Planning and Design, Facility Services, and Administrators to prioritize the protection and redesign of the historic "Indian Mounds' " area on the LSU campus, and implement temporary boundaries until the planned redesign occurs.

S21rs Sgcr No. 16 (Assistant Director Of Student Outreach), Alexandra Basse

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Concurrent Resolution

To Appoint Emma Booker as Assistant Director of Student Outreach

S21rs Sgr No. 23 (Ems Services), Judy Vu, Olivia Taylor

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To urge and request LSU Procurement to adopt similar bylaws like Tulane to allow student-run, volunteer-based EMS services to receive funding and be added under the public safety department.

S21rs Lo No. 17 (Committees), Marina Cole

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Legislative Order

To Appoint the Standing Committees of the Fifty Third Student Senate of Louisiana State University

S21rs Sgr No. 21 (Greek Recruitment), Mclendon, Antie, Belanger, Cain, Chen, Fralick, Griswold, Isa, Loy, Macdowell, Meche, Pallotta, Petrie, Raby, Rife, Staggs, Strong

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To Urge and Request Louisiana State University to keep Greek Recruitment week scheduled for the week prior to the first week of classes

S21rs Sgfb No. 3 (Speakers' Forum), Adam Dohrenwend

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Finance Bill

To Allocate One Thousand and Ten Dollars and Zero Cents ($1,5010.00) from the Surplus Account to Fund AV Equipment and Services for the The Speakers' Forum

S21rs Sgr No. 19 (Indian Mounds Public Statement), Miles Mclendon, Jack Griswold, Evan Antie, Julius Pallotta

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To urge and request Louisiana State University to make public statements discouraging people from going onto the LSU Indian Mounds

Review Of The Night Always Comes, Michael F. Russo

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

S21rs Sgr No. 29 (Atkinson Desks), Harris Quadir, Matt Mcclure

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To Urge and Request the LSU Administration to prioritize and strongly consider new desks for Atkinson Hall

S21rs Sgr No. 28 (Minimum Wage), Dohrenwend, Griswold, Meche, Nguyen, Pallotta, Perrodin, Quadir, Staggs

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To Urge and Request Louisiana State University to enact a campus-wide minimum wage of fifteen dollars per hour for all directly-employed, contracted, and student workers.

S21rs Lo No. 14 (Committees), Marina Cole

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Legislative Order

To Appoint the Standing Committees of the Fifty Third Student Senate of Louisiana State University

S21rs Sgr No. 25 (Tigerland Buses), Olivia Devall, Everett Craddock

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To Urge and Request LSU Parking and Transportation to start running the night service routes to Tigerland on Thursday and Friday nights

S21rs Sgfb No. 2 (Flc Banquet), Aria Rife, Olivia Taylor

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Finance Bill

To appropriate a maximum of three hundred and forty dollars and zero cents ($340.00) from the Legislative Contingency account to purchase food and drink for the the FLC portion of the Student Government Banquet

S21rs Sgr No. 26 (Union Signage), Nicole Nguyen, Javin Bowman, Karissa Chen, Everett Craddock

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To Urge and Request LSU Administration and the Office of Facility Services to implement multilingual signage in the LSU Student Union

S21rs Sgr No. 27 (Lsu Pd Social Media), Alex Foreman, Sam Staggs

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To Urge and Request the Louisiana State University Police Department to utilize social media platforms such as Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter

S21rs Sgr No. 19 (Discouraging Going On The Indian Mounds), Miles Mclendon, Jack Griswold, Evan Antie, Julius Pallotta

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To Urge and Request Louisiana State University to make public statements discouraging people from going onto the LSU Indian Mounds

Decay Of Information For The Kac Evolution, F. Bonetto, R. Han, M. Loss

Faculty Publications

We consider a system of M particles in contact with a heat reservoir of N≫ M particles. The evolution in the system and the reservoir, together with their interaction, is modeled via the Kac’s master equation. We chose the initial distribution with total energy N+ M and show that if the reservoir is initially in equilibrium, that is, if the initial distribution depends only on the energy of the particle in the reservoir, then the entropy of the system decays exponentially to a very small value. We base our proof on a similar property for the Information. A similar argument …

Weyl Sums And The Lyapunov Exponent For The Skew-Shift Schrödinger Cocycle, Rui Han, Marius Lemm, Wilhelm Schlag

Faculty Publications

We study the one-dimensional discrete Schrödinger operator with the skew-shift potential 2λ cos (2π((j/2)ω + jy C x)). This potential is long conjectured to behave like a random one, i.e., it is expected to produce Anderson localization for arbitrarily small coupling constants λ > 0. In this paper, we introduce a novel perturbative approach for studying the zero-energy Lyapunov exponent L(λ) at small λ. Our main results establish that, to second order in perturbation theory, a natural upper bound on L(λ) is fully consistent with L(λ) being positive and satisfying the usual Figotin–Pastur type asymptotics L.λ/ ~ C λ2 as λ …

Sailing To Freedom: Maritime Dimensions Of The Underground Railroad, Kate Clifford Larson

Civil War Book Review

Editor Timothy Walker and the chapters’ authors challenge the “20^th century fakelore featuring the use of quilt codes, lawn jockeys and other physical devices as signs and signals.” What their collection shows is “that escape by water, through a vast network of maritime links, was far more common,” as escapees often hid in plain sight, posing as dockworkers, and seamen, on their way to freedom.

Civil War Treasures: Black Soldiers In The Civil War And Elite White Union-Sympathizing Women, Melissa Smith

Civil War Book Review

These new sources present new avenues of study for diverse subjects in the Civil War, including Black Civil War Soldiers and elite white women who sympathized with the Union cause.

The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History Of Conflict And Citizenship., Maurice Wallace

Civil War Book Review

Deborah Willis presents “the handsomest picture book,” as well as an “elegantly hybrid” and nuanced portrayal of the Black Civil War soldier’s experience—“he was figured as property as often as he was a person . . . he was a martyr and a deserter, an enlisted man, and rarely an officer.”

Fighting For Citizenship: Black Northerners And The Debate Over Military Service In The Civil War, Jonathan Lande

Civil War Book Review

"Taylor broadens the focus of scholarship on Black Northerners during the war from the most prominent leaders to newspaper editors and other local trailblazers, showing that not all Black Northerners trusted military service would garner citizenship," and in doing so, “Taylor’s Fighting for Citizenship hits its mark.”

Black Freedom In The Age Of Slavery: Race, Status, And Identity In The Urban Americas, Takkara Brunson

Civil War Book Review

Marks shows that when Black people attempted to better their lives, they challenged extant racialized practices and the ideology of white supremacy that dominated both Charleston, South Carolina and Cartahena, Colombia. Still, white leaders in both cities approached Black freedom in distinct ways. Marks’s work opens the door for further exploration, which is a testament “to the successes of Marks’s comparative approach for examining local histories of race and slavery.”

Economy Hall: The Hidden History Of A Free Black Brotherhood, Ariane Mary Liazos

Civil War Book Review

While Shaik eschews some conventions of academic histories, such as historiographical debate, she stays faithful to her primary documents, ledgers from Economy Hall’s long history, which her “father rescued . . . from the back of a pickup truck” in the 1950s. What Shaik does best, “is the recovery of much of this once hidden history.”

Educated For Freedom: The Incredible Story Of Two Fugitive Schoolboys Who Grew Up To Change A Nation, Jane E. Dabel

Civil War Book Review

Duane traces the lives of James McCune Smith and Henry Highland Garnet, both born into slavery, and both graduates of the New York African Free School, to show that despite their common background, they both approached Black liberation in divergent ways.

In The Service Of God And Humanity: Conscience, Reason, And The Mind Of Martin R. Delany, Philip Yaure

Civil War Book Review

Adeleke shows that Delaney was alternatively a separatist, integrationist, militarist, and accommodationist before returning to his previous belief in emigration. Despite his changing methods, a puzzling belief in the power of moral suasion animated all of Delaney’s emancipationist efforts. This puzzlement is indicative of “the success of Adeleke’s project.”

The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing In The Nineteenth Century, Samantha De Vera

Civil War Book Review

A product of the groundbreaking, collaborative work of the Colored Convention Project (CCP), a series of essays edited by Gabrielle P. Foreman, Jim Casey, and Sarah Lynn Patterson, in concert with the book’s “digital components . . . is a unique and inventive contribution to the field of digital humanities and the current scholarship on the long nineteenth century.” The Colored Conventions Movement gives insight into how these conventions reflected and shaped Black political consciousness and illustrates the fact that emancipation activism was led by Black Americans while white allies followed.

Editorial: Investigating Black Activism In The Civil War Era, Jeffery Hardin Hobson

Civil War Book Review

This special thematic issue of the Civil War Book Review is dedicated to recent works that uncover, reveal, and recast the history of Black Americans’ emancipation activism in the Civil War Era. The concept of emancipation carried myriad meanings among nineteenth-century Black Americans, which the scholarship reviewed below reflects. These authors have catalogued nineteenth-century Black Americans’ vibrant and dynamic efforts to emancipate themselves from slavery, to achieve citizenship and its attendant rights, to secure personal safety, to gain social standing, and to attain economic stability. These books emphasize nineteenth-century African Americans possessed a complex political consciousness that was finely tuned …