F21RS SGB No. 10 (Fall Fest)

A Bill to appropriate a maximum of $2,000.00 from the Legislative Contingency for food at the Student Government table at Fall Fes

S21RS SGFB No. 4 (Menstrual product dispensers)

A Finance Bill To allocate a maximum of $500.00 to fund the installation of menstrual product dispenser

S22RS SGR No. 9 (Front Yard Bikes)

A Resolution To support the Front Yard Bikes agreement in regard to abandoned bikes and to urge and request LSU Administration to prioritize the completion of the agreemen

The effects of corporate social responsibility as market signals on consumer purchase intention and advertising skepticism in the fast fashion industry

Objectives Consumers who are becoming increasingly aware of a firm’s general practices tend to buy products that are environmentally friendly. Thus, the main objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of CSR perception on purchase intention and skepticism in relation to the market signals in the fast-fashion industry. In addition, the conceptualization of the signaling theory and belief in a just-world theory was presented through the creation of an advertisement that allowed the respondents to contribute to local producers through a charitable donation. Summary A quantitative survey was conducted where two sets of H&M advertisements were presented to the respondents (N= 233); one pertaining to verbal information related to the product and the other with numerical information either 67% or 70% recycled content and 20% or 50% contribution amount attempting to engage the consumer in the firm’s CSR activities. The participants’ purchase intention and advertising skepticism were measured both after the first and second advertisements. Conclusions Results indicated that CSR perception is a significant predictor of purchase intention and skepticism towards advertising (p0.05)

S22RS SGR No. 3 (Sarah Temple)

A Resolution To thank LSU Sustainability Director, Sarah Temple, for her dedicated service to LSU Campus Sustainability and cooperative with LSU Student Governmen

TEACHING FACTORS THAT AFFECT STUDENTS’ LEARNING MOTIVATION: BANGLADESHI EFL STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS

Research literature consistently suggests that EFL (English as a foreign language) students’ motivation is affected by some teaching factors (Falout et al., 2009; Kim et al., 2018; Lamb, 2017). The main purpose of this study is to identify exactly which teaching factors adversely affect students’ motivation to study English at higher secondary (HS) level (grade 11 and 12) in Bangladeshi EFL context. To collect qualitative data an interview protocol was developed based on the teaching factors identified in some selected studies conducted in Asian EFL contexts (Kikuchi, 2009; Sakai & Kikuchi, 2009; Trang & Baldauf, 2007; Quadir, 2017). A total number of 40 grade 12 completers were interviewed to collect students’ perceptions. Miles and Huberman’s (1994) qualitative data analysis procedure was applied to analyze the data. From the analysis five distinct factors, which adversely affect students’ motivation, are identified in descending order: teachers’ instructional styles and teaching method, private tutoring, teachers’ personality and behavior, teachers’ competence and classroom management, and teachers’ attitude and commitment. Most of these factors comprise further sub-components which detect the underlying sources of students’ disinterest. For amelioration of the situations some feasible implications are discussed addressing the identified factors

F21RS SGB No. 6 (SG Budget)

A Bill To establish the 2021-2022 Fiscal year Student Government Budget (Mislabeled SGB #, correct number SGB 6

F21RS SGB No. 21 (Spending Limits)

A Bill To amend the Student Government Code regarding General Election Spending limit

Multimodal cue integration in balance and spatial orientation

The global objective of this thesis was to make a significant contribution to our understanding of how the human brain integrates multisensory, multimodal information to inform our motion through space. The primary objectives were to discern whether visual system differentially encodes visual motion coherence and how both allocentric visual cues interact with vestibular system to tell us where and when we are in physical space. A secondary objective was to develop current techniques for the recording and analysis of visuo-vestibular sensory information for the purpose of multisensory, multimodal integration. I studied the response of cortical visual motion area V5/MT+ to random dot kinematograms (RDK) of varying motion coherence, from complete coherence to random. I used the probability of observing TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation) evoked phosphenes before and after the RDK as a measure of cortical excitability change. I could not show what I had hypothesised: that coherent and random motion elicited a similar net effect upon V5/MT+ excitability, with intermediary coherences of motion having comparatively less effect. However, I argue that a large factor was insufficient sample size to find the effects given the analyses used. The results do show trends consistent with coherent and random net effects being achieved by different modes of cortical activation, and the study will inform future investigation with the paradigm used. I also measured cortical excitability change at a range of relative TMS intensities. This elicited a significant differential effect consistent with the theory that TMS facilitates neurons as a function of the amount of signal they carry. In a separate TMS evoked phosphene study, I show an interaction between whole body rotation in yaw and the ability to observe phosphenes in V5/MT+; as a function of the TMS intensity used and the velocity of whole body rotation used, relative to perceptual thresholds. As I found no main effects, I could not show whether the findings were consistent with a model of reciprocal visual and vestibular cortical inhibition. My work can be considered a feasibility study to inform further investigation. I also used a visual-vestibular mismatch paradigm to probe how erroneous visual landmark cues update veridical vestibular estimates of angular position and motion duration. I used visual masking to reduce the reliability of the visual landmark cues, prevent visual capture and to also elicit subliminal encodement. I found that reversion to vestibular estimates of angular position was made as a function of the noise inherent in the masked visual landmark cues. I found that it was possible to subliminally encode visual landmarks to update vestibularly derived estimates of motion duration. Lastly, I investigated the combination of a two-interval forced choice technique to record estimates of vestibularly derived angular position and a Bayesian Inference technique to parameterize the characteristics of the angular position estimates. I show this combination provides accurate estimates at the subject level and is suitable for incorporation in a Bayesian inference model of multimodal integration. The hypothesis I aim to test in the future is that if visual landmark and vestibular cues of angular position operate within different spatial reference frames, they cannot be optimally integrated in the brain analogous to a Bayesian Inference model of the multimodal integration.Open Acces