The LSU President is defending the university’s decision to adopt a holistic admission policy. Matt Doyle has more.
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About four thousand Entergy customers in southeast Louisiana may be experiencing some sticker shock at their latest bill. Kevin Barnhart has the story.
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LSU President F. King Alexander is defending the university’s decision to use a holistic admission standards, in the wake of reports that 7.5 percent of the freshman class did not meet traditional GPA or ACT requirements. On Talk Louisiana with Jim Engster, Alexander said sometimes scores don’t tell the full story about a prospective student’s aptitude.
previously the board of regents allowed for four percent of students to fall below the 3.0 GPA and 22 ACT requirement.
Alexander says the process benefits not only those who’ve had family hardship, but also out of state students who excelled academically, but did not have a high school curriculum that included all of the classes necessary to attend LSU.
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All but three SEC schools use the holistic approach, those schools being Bama, Arkansas, and Ole Miss, who is about to change to the policy in the near the future. Alexander says while the new policy will help high out of state achievers make it to Baton Rouge, it won’t keep out locals.
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A meter reader for Entergy has been fired after falsifying meter readings and now about four-thousand Entergy customers in southeast Louisiana are experiencing sticker shock with their latest bills. Entergy Vice President of Distribution Melonie Stewart…
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Stewart says after a rereading of the meters, they have the most accurate measure of the energy used by customers.
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Stewart says they are giving customers many months to pay the heavy bill.
Stewart says there is no word on the meter readers motivation in the falsified readings.
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The Office of State Procurement voids a multi-million dollar contract that would have replaced the state’s aging voting machines. Louisiana’s chief procurement officer found flaws in how interim Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin selected Dominion Voting Systems. Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat says this could hurt Ardoin’s chances in the Secretary of State race…
Ardoin is one of nine candidates seeking election to the Secretary of State’s post. The election is November sixth. But Pinsonat says the candidates in the race will bring this up on why Ardoin shouldn’t be elected…
The Secretary of State’s office is appealing the decision and Ardoin says the Edwards administration rejected the contract, because a lobbyist for a losing bidder is a supporter of the governor. Pinsonat says name recognition is lacking in the Secretary of State’s race, so the candidates are taking a risk by paying for commercial spots to attack Ardoin…
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For the first time in a long time, much of the state will see low temperatures into the 50s tomorrow morning. Rob Megnia, with the National Weather Service in Lake Charles, says the summer heat has finally dissipated…
Megnia says the cool air will remain in place for the rest of the week, with a slight warm-up beginning on Saturday….
Megnia says another cold front is expected early next week…