S00RS SGB No. 27 (Amend Bylaws)

A BILL To amend Article VI, Section 7 of the LSU A&M Student Government Bylaws as it pertains to the budget and salary cap of the LSU A&M Student Government

F99RS SGB No. 8 (Bio Engr Design)

A BILL To appropriate one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) to the LSU Department of Biological Engineering Senior Design Project Team to help defray the cost of purchasing hardware and chemicals to be used in the fabrication and testing of a prototype for a student-designed fluoride removal water treatment system that will then be installed in an underpriveleged community in Bananera, Guatemala

S00RS SGB No. 20 (Abroad Photos)

A BILL To appropriate one thousand six hundred seventy-three dollars and four cents ($1,673.04) to the Department of Academic Programs Abroad to defray the cost of a photographic exhibit of the work of LSU students who have participated in overseas study

F98RS SGR No. 6 (Tiger Express)

A RESOLUTION To encourage Campus Card Operations, Computing Services, and Vending Operations to maintain the Tiger Express payment option on all vending, copy, and laundry machines so that they remain in operational status and to recommend that a maintenance phone number be placed on each machine

Aesthetics in the Ecotheology of Sallie McFague: A Critique and a Proposal for a Theological Aesthetics of Nature

This dissertation focuses on the ecological theology of Sallie McFague, who, as part of her work, employs the use of aesthetics. This study recognizes her contribution and then seeks to build upon it. In aim of this goal, a limited history of aesthetics in the Western tradition is surveyed and attention is given to three significant contemporary scholars in the field of aesthetics and nature/environment (Emily Brady, Allen Carlson, and Arnold Berleant). While this work intended to propose the rudiments of a Theological Aesthetics of Nature, we find that nature and culture are so intertwined that what is initially called for is a framework for a Theological Aesthetics of the Environment that supports approaching the environment of nature and culture with a sense of the unknown and with questions

F99RS SGR No. 4 (Confederate Flag)

A RESOLUTION to state that the LSU A&M Student Senate supports the administration’s decision not to endorse the display of the purple and gold Confederate battle flag

Stability of Root Reinforced Streambanks: Numerical Modeling and Laboratory Experiments

The scope of this study includes the effects of vegetation and root reinforcement on seepage erosion and undercutting as they regard streambank stability. An in-depth analysis of the effects of vegetation used in a current streambank stability software package, the Bank Stability and Toe Erosion Model, developed by the USDA-ARS National Sedimentation Laboratory was performed on previously studied streambanks. Laboratory experiments were then performed in a three-dimensional soil block in which steady heads were induced to cause subsurface flow events and seepage out of the simulated bank face. The laboratory experiments were performed with and without switchgrass (Panicum virgatum), after which the shape and properties of the seepage undercutting wereanalyzed.Findings and Conclusions: The Bank Stability and Toe Erosion Model revealed, as expected, significant increases in streambank stability when all forms of vegetation were added to the streambank; however, this software is more significantly influenced by pore-water pressure distribution than root cohesion and seepage undercutting. Undercut formations of the seepage blocks varied between the unvegetated and vegetated three-dimensional soil block experiments. This can be explained by soil weathering patterns which may have occurred over the vegetation growth period; however, future replications of the vegetation experiments should be performed for a more in-depth analysis. Modeling of the vegetated soil block experiments revealed the need for the incorporation of both seepage undercutting and seepage force in future streambank stability software.Biosystems and Agricultural Engineerin

All-American Boys, The Hate U Give, and The Great Gatsby: The Process and Product of Multi-Genre in a High School English Methods Course

“All-American Boys, The Hate U Give, and The Great Gatsby: The Process and Product of Multi-Genre in a High School English Methods Course” explains the process of teaching an eight-week multi-genre project to a high school English methods class and within the process highlights student’s representative examples. The cumulative assignment in the course aims to have a digital multi-genre project that they can serve as an exemplar to support their writing instruction as first-year teachers the following year. Bridging the author\u27s voice with the student\u27s voice, the MGP enhances student writing by showing that reading and writing can be relevant to their own lives and a powerful tool for self-expression