OLOL College Officials announced the appointment of Tina Holland, Ph.D., as

President of the College, effective April 22, 2014. Dr. Holland currently is the

Executive Vice President and Provost at Holy Cross College in Notre Dame,

Indiana. She has also served as vice president of student affairs,

mathematics professor and the director of the Conditional Acceptance

Program at Holy Cross.

Dr. Holland earned her doctorate in higher education from Indiana State

University and received her master’s degree in international relations

from the University of San Diego. Before attending graduate school, she

graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy and served

as an officer in the U. S. Marine Corps.

She and her husband, Peter, have four children, and

they are looking forward to moving to the South and

leaving those harsh winters.

Welcome Aboard, Dr. Holland. We look forward to

your being a part of our College!

Submitted by:

Ashlyn Comeaux, SGA President

I N S I D E T H I S

I S S U E :

Welcome Dr. Tina Holland, 1

Payday Loans Civic

Engagement Project 2

MFHA Workshop 2

ICE and SGA Restore Haiti

Fundraiser 2

Fresh Campus Coalition &

Kick Butts Day 3

Playground Build at White

Hills Elementary 3

Student ORG’s Updates 4

Catholic Higher Education

Week 5

For Brags 5

Letters from the Lake 5

Calendar of Events 6

Latest at the Lake

April 2014 Volume XI, Issue V

WELCOME DR. TINA HOLLAND

Volume XI, Issue V

Our Intensive Care Earth partnered with SGA for a joint fundraiser this month for one of the part-time staff at Respire Haiti. Phoebe Michel is attending Nursing School to help with the children at Respire Haiti led by former OLOLRMC employee, Megan Boudreaux. Phoebe is attending Quisqueya University and desperately needs assistance with her tuition so that she can graduate. Through various events such as gift basket raffles and bake sales, ICE and SGA were able to help Phoebe with her spring tuition. Phoebe is doing really well at school; if you want to check out the university that she is attending, go to www.uniq.edu.ht Thanks to all who helped with this fundraiser –

especially Mr. Bird, Advisor for ICE.

Submitted by:

Sally Moon, SGA Senator

ICE and SGA Respire Haiti Fundraiser

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On February 24, 2014 several OLOL College students and staff

participated in a Mental Health First Aid Workshop conducted by

AmeriCorps Student Member, Dre Drummer. The interactive, active

learning workshop featured several scenarios of college student

incidents that the students/staff discussed and talked about with

possible solutions throughout the interesting presentation. Dre

received initial training at a weeklong instructional seminar in

Denver, Colorado. This program is sponsored by the Central

Louisiana AHEC and AmeriCorps to help foster relationships with

community mental health agencies as partners and resources.

“Dre did a great job, and we learned how better to listen to our

fellow students – as well as what to do for resources – when our

friends are feeling overwhelmed or just down in the dumps,” said

one of the attendees, Kyleigh

LeBlanc. The YOUTH MHFA

program is a groundbreaking

public education program

that helps communities iden-

tify, understand, and re-

spond to youth or college

students showing signs of a

mental illness or substance

use disorder. Dre Drummer

also serves as an SGA Senator at OLOLC.

Submitted by: Kayleigh Hull, Student Ambassador Liaison and

Fresh Campus Student Coordinator

MFHA WORKSHOP HELD FOR STUDENTS

Several students attended an Assembly for Payday Lending Reform held at Elm Grove Baptist Church on Tuesday, March 18, 2014 at 6:30 PM, a re-

cent Civic Engagement Project launched by the SGA Senators. Some key facts that the OLOL College students learned included:

Current La. law allows payday lenders to charge more than 700% in annual interest and fees on payday loans.

Louisiana has the 6th highest rate of predatory lending in the nation.

There are 4 times as many payday lending shops as there are McDonalds in Louisiana (936 vs. 230).

To pay back a $300 loan, the average payday borrower pays $848 in a given year – 280% of the amount borrowed.

More than $196 million is extracted from Louisiana families every year in payday fees and interest.

Payday lending causes a job loss of 671 jobs in Louisiana per year.

Senate Bill 84 is authored by Senators Ben Nevers (D), Robert Adley (R), and Sharon Weston Broome (D), along with House Bill 239 authored by Rep-

resentative Ted James (D). Both bills would limit the annual interest rate payday lenders can charge to 36%.

SGA Advisor, Phyllis Simpson, has been encouraged by the enthusiasm and energy-level for work on this project by the college students.

“Unfortunately, some of our own OLOL College students facing apartment eviction have become victims of the predatory lending by Payday Loans, so

we need to make our students aware of the consequences of these atrocious interest rates,” she reported.

Students attending the Assembly included President Ashlyn Comeaux and Vice President Gannon Brandt as well as Senators Melanie Burke, Danielle

Delaune, Kyleigh LeBlanc, Angela Authement, and Dre Drummer.

Submitted by:

Melanie Burke, SGA Senator

Payday Loan Civic Engagement Project

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Campus Coalition Team will

encourage their peers to stay

tobacco-free and educate them

about the tobacco industry’s

harmful marketing practices –

which they will also do at an

advocacy event on March 31st on

Campus – the annual Crawfish Boil

at the Library Commons.

In Louisiana alone, tobacco use

claims 6,200 lives and costs $1.9

billion in health care bills each year.

Currently, 21.8% of Louisiana’s high

school students smoke.

Kudos to Kayleigh Hull, Fresh Cam-

Parkview, Twin Oaks,

Audubon, Villa del Rey, How-

ell Park, Merrydale, Sharon

Hills, White Hills, Brownfields,

and Crestworth.

It was lots of hard work – but

lots of fun, too. “Meeting

other students who love to

give up their Saturdays for

little kids to have great

playgrounds was a real treat,”

said Anna Nguyen , one of the

OLOL College students at the

build in Baker.

Submitted by:

Michelle Do, SGA Treasurer

SGA partnered with LSU once

again to do more work on the

White Hills Elementary School

Playground in Baker, Louisiana

on Saturday, March 22nd. OLOL

College Students, Staff and

Faculty joined with 12 students

from LSU to help with the play-

ground surface material as part

of the LSU GEAUX BIG SERVICE

DAY FOR 2014.

Other playground builds on the

same day involved over 140

volunteers for projects directed

by Dr. Marybeth Lima of LSU.

Those schools included the

following: University Terrace,

Westminister, Jefferson Terrace,

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Members of the OLOL College Fresh

Campus Coalition Team and

Advisor, Dr. Lynn Browning, joined

in with the 19th Annual KICK BUTTS

DAY at the Louisiana State Capitol in

Baton Rouge on Wednesday, March

19th – to join the Rally sponsored by

the Louisiana Campaign for Tobacco

-Free-Living (TFL ) and the DEFY

anti-tobacco youth leaders of the

state. KICK BUTTS DAY is an annual

celebration of youth leadership and

activists with the fight against

tobacco. On KICK BUTTS DAY,

members of the OLOL College Fresh

Fresh Campus Coalition Team and KICK BUTTS DAY

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pus Student Coordinator, for her

outstanding work with the Our

Lady of the Lake College Coalition

Team this year! Special thanks also

extended to Quanda Charles, the

TFL Manager for Region 2

representing the Louisiana Public

Health Institute located in New

Orleans.

Submitted by:

Dre Drummer,

SGA Senator

Playground Build at White Hills Elementary

UPDATES

The Clinical Lab Science Student Organization is currently getting ready to go to our CLS convention in Biloxi, Mississippi at the end of April. We have heard many wonderful things about this experience from older classmates and cannot wait to go. A few things we will be doing at this conven-tion include: attending infor-mational sessions (to fresh-en our knowledge), partici-pating in Quiz Bowl, and some of us will be pre-senting our papers on medi-cal genetics and molecular diagnostic applications con-cerning particular diseases. We are all so very thankful for this opportunity and would like to personally thank our professors for doing such an outstanding job taking care of us and preparing us for what the future may hold.

Submitted by: Kali Vicknair, CLS President

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Student Nurses Association recently had 13 members volunteer at the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. We are now preparing to send three members to attend NSNA’s annual conven-tion in Nashville, TN April 9-13th; attendees will be able to network with nursing students across the country and learn about new topics in healthcare and nursing.

Submitted by:

Bridget Jones, SNA President

March has been an awesome month for the OLOL College Student Ambassadors! We were given two great opportunities to repre-sent the college during

the Job Fair on March 21st, and Open House on March 22nd. Both of these events were a huge success and a great time! The Job Fair gave students who are approaching graduation a chance to perfect their résumés and network with several health care employers around the community. Open House was another awesome

experience where the Student Ambassadors gave tours of the college to prospective stu-dents and did an

awesome job of representing what it means to be a student at OLOL College. We are looking forward to the American Heart Walk, during

the month of April! March has involved a lot of fun opportunities for the Student Ambassadors to make a difference!

Submitted by:

Kirsten Brown, Student Am-bassador

Six members of Beta Sigma Mu attended the 2014 American Medical Student Association convention in New Orleans this March. This AMSA convention is an opportunity for pre-medical and current medical school stu-dents to attend various semi-nars, listen to inspirational guest speakers, participate in skills labs, and interact with their peers from around the world. A variety of other benefits are made available to the attending students like mock interviews with members from medical school admissions boards, an exposition hall with a variety of venders offering discounts on essentials for medical students, and different socials at night to allow for networking among students, admissions staff, and the like. The experience is always an unforgettable one, and this year’s convention was no excep-tion to the rule for these six biology majors.

Submitted by: Virginia Fontenot, BSM President/Student Ambas-sador Coordinator

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Beta Epsilon Fraternity of

Radiologic Technology is

having a very busy Spring!

We recently participated in

the 2014 Spring Open

House for the College. We

gave demonstrations of

our x-ray lab and talked

about the program from a

student’s perspective. We

are currently preparing

for the American Heart

Walk on April 26th. We

have been recruiting walk-

ers for the OLOL College

Team. We are also helping

to raise money by selling t-

shirts and American

Hearts.

Submitted by:

Randi Amato, Beta Epsilon

President

Phi Theta Alpha recently

participated in the 2014

Spring Open House at

OLOL College. We had a

great turn out and are

always excited to help

spread the world about

the College as well as our

PTA program.

We will also be hosting a

Massage-A-Thon on

Thursday, May 8th from 1

to 4 PM. All proceeds will

be donated to the Baton

Rouge Hospice Butterfly

Wing. So come on over to

the Health and Science

Annex (on Didesse) for a

$5 massage and help up

support a great cause!

Submitted by:

Emma McClelland, PTA

President

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Catholic Higher Education Week For Brags !!!

Dear College Family, Please, let me introduce myself. I think of myself as a “small town girl” from Southeastern Oklahoma, but upon reflection, I realize I have become quite the traveler through the years. I earned an undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Oklahoma and worked for a number of years as an educa-tion counselor for the United States Air Force at installations from Oklahoma to Okinawa, Japan, to San Antonio, TX. Next, I made my way to Baton Rouge, where I earned a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Louisiana State Uni-versity. I then spent a number of years as a military spouse moving from Mont-gomery, AL, to Ramstein, Germany, where I had my wonderful twin daughters, to Los Angeles, CA, Falls Church, VA, and New Orleans. I finally began my career two years ago as a full-time psychology faculty member at a small, regional uni-versity in Oklahoma. I was blessed with the opportunity to move back to Baton Rouge and continue my career with Our Lady of the Lake College, where I teach Introductory Psychol-ogy as well as all of the Developmental Psychology courses, including Psychology Across the Lifespan, Child Psychology, and Psychology of Aging. My research emphasis is cognitive aging and understanding normative, age-related memory changes in healthy older adults. Although I am a researcher at heart, teaching is my passion, and the reason I pursued an advanced degree in psychology and a position at OLOL College. I am so happy to be back in Baton Rouge again and look forward to getting to know my new college family. Sincerely, Susan Brigman

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During the week of March 17 – 22, OLOL College celebrated Catholic

Higher Education Week on Campus. Several different activities for

students, staff, faculty and administration were held throughout the

week including a Prayer Breakfast, a Blessing of the St. Joseph’s Altar,

Guest Speakers, and a Soup and Substance Presentation.

At the Prayer Breakfast, Student Ambassador Coordinator, Virginia

Fontenot, shared some of her thoughts about Living the Mission at

OLOL College. At Thursday’s event, Sister Martha Ann Abshire shared

some personal thoughts via video about her experiences at the Col-

lege as Campus Minister, while SGA Senator Melanie Burke related

facts about various service groups that she discovered as an attendee

at this year’s Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in Washington DC in

February.

Also, during the week-long activities, the Student Org Group ICE

(Intensive Care Earth) sponsored a canned food drive for the Greater

Baton Rouge Area Food Bank. Advisor, Larry Bird, thanked all of the

students, staff and faculty for their contributions and for making the

2014 spring drive such a success.

Submitted by:

Gannon Brandt, SGA Vice President

Dear College Family,

My name is Latondra Crear for those of you that I have yet to meet and get to know. I have been with the college family for five years. I currently work in the Financial Aid department as a financial aid counselor. I have really en-joyed my work here at Our Lady of the Lake College the past five years. My experience has been both a challenge and a blessing as I have gotten a chance to meet and get to know some of the most interesting and hard work-ing students. My college background is in the field of counseling/ social work and that has served me well as I continue to serve the stu-dents here at Our Lady of the Lake College.

Sincerely,

Latondra Crear

Congratulations to Dr. Natalie Lenard for her recent co-authorship of the following article:

Dietary Quercetin Supplementation in Mice In-

creases Skeletal Muscle PGC1α Expression, Im-

proves Mitochondrial Function and Attenuates

Insulin Resistance in a Time-Specific Manner

Henagan TM, Lenard NR, Gettys TW, Stewart

LK (2014) Dietary Quercetin Supplementation in Mice

Increases Skeletal Muscle PGC1α Expression,

Improves Mitochondrial Function and Attenuates Insulin

Resistance in a Time-Specific Manner. PLoS ONE 9

(2): e89365. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089365

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Domestic Violence Awareness

A guest speaker from the IRIS Domestic Violence Program will discuss domestic vio-lence, the role of alcohol in domestic violence, and services available to those who

need assistance. Monday, April 7th

4:30 p.m. Multipurpose Room in the Administration Bldg.