A cleared financial status, new personnel, and new positions greeted the Southern University community this fall in the pursuit of a new Southern University.

One of the major changes discussed by the Chancellor at Southern University post exigency status.

“The hardest part of financial exigency was reducing the workforce at the faculty and staff level,” Southern University Baton Rouge Chancellor James Llorens said.

Recognizing that staff members had families, and noticing the administrative problems exigency presented in customer service and service to the students, Llorens had to make the final decisions.

Student Government Association President Willie McCorkle III talked about SUBR’s exigency trial period.

“Southern University is truly moving forward, accepting the challenges, and making a difference,” McCorkle said.

While finally alleviating exigency was important, implementing new programs and new initiatives was on Llorens’ to-do list.

“Implementing the Interdisciplinary studies program, it will be at the advantage of students who don’t know what they want to major in right away,” Llorens said. Llorens looks to academic reorganization because of the next few

years are critical years in planning and organization.

Llorens discussed the changes in admissions and the possible adaptations the university may make to address the GRAD act and new state mandates.

“Our bigger challenge is the cost of education because of increases in tuition, changes in financial aid guidelines, and changes in pell grant guidelines it is becoming harder for our students to identify the resources necessary to continue their education,” Llorens said.

New goals for the university according to Llorens include, “ grow enrollment, increase retention, and placing graduates.”

New changes are not only present in admissions, but also in personnel according to Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Brandon Dumas.

“There is no longer a director of Smith Brown Memorial union or a scheduling planner,” Dumas said.

Dumas said, Mrs. Angold Askew now serves as Program Advisor, in order to help streamline operations and re-align the focus of Southern.

Two more officials were brought in to assist in improving the student experience.

“Ja’el Gordon is now the Coordinator of Student Organizations, and Heather Freeman as Director of Student Media,” Dumas said.

Although personnel changes were important McCorkle said, mentioned the

long anticipated new physical changes to Southern University.

“Further construction of intramural complex is to be complete in 2013, a complete face-lift to the basketball courts in residential area, major remodeling to housing facilities on campus, state of the art renovations to the academic facilities,

the beautification of Lake Kernan and last, but not least the re-pavement of mini-dome parking lot,” McCorkle said.

Transparency of information from administrators to students is one of the main focuses that the Chancellor and SGA are making the extra effort to get communicated as it is available.

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Chancellor Llorens discussed in an interview with the Digest about Exigency decisions and the future of the New Southern University adn we rebuild and reorganize. The Chancellor’s office plans to focus on restructuring and reorganizing the academic structure carefully this fiscal year.

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Southern officials and the Southern University Police Department have noticed a major decrease in code of conduct violations across campus by students.

Officials believe students should be congratulated for their improvement in behavior from past years filled with an influx of violations.

“I mentioned in a previous interview that students should have been commended because of the way they have been conducting themselves,” SUPD Chief of Police Ronald Stevens said.

Stevens encourages students to continue their improved behavior.

Stevens discussed the better behavior while Kelwin Williams, Judicial officer for student affairs on the numbers of the situation.

“The spring 2012, was tremendously better than 2011,” Williams said.

The incidents of code 1 and code 2 violations were down in the spring 60-65% according to Williams.

Willie McCorkle, Student Government Association President emphasized the high priority placed on addressing issues on campus.

“My job as president is to make

sure students are treated fairly and in a respectable manner,” McCorkle said.

However, he believes the rules in the code of conduct were put in place to protect the general wellbeing of the student body.

Officials both in student governance and administrative roles agree that the policies are fair to the students.

“Rights of everyday citizens in due process are pretty much standard as what you would expect as a student,” Stevens said concerning the fairness of the Student Code of Conduct.

Although both Southern officials agreed on the rules being fair, Williams believed there are three major topics that

students should be aware of.“The big three; drugs,

weapons, and hazing,” Williams said.

“The Big Three” can be identified as important because of major incidents that occurred such as the Florida A&M band hazing death, Southern University band investigations and even fraternity and sorority allegations.

Although the three Williams mentioned are important, Stevens brought up the importance of the appeals process for those who may find themselves on the other side of the code.

“It kind of lines itself to appeal process as with issues,” Stevens

said. It is similar to laws and

statutes that apply to everyday citizens.

Williams discussed how the code of conduct hasn’t changed within in the last three years.

“It has not been changed since the old edition, however when those changes are made we will be sure every member of student body will informed,” Associate Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Brandon Dumas said.

Students interested in learning more about the rules in the Code of Conduct can purchase a student handbook in the bookstore or view the information on Southern University website.

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pool tournament Smith-Brown Memorial

Union Registration until September 7, 2012. Lacumba’s Playpen (Game Room) Registration Fee $5.00 Tournament September 12. 6:00pm-9:00pm With Awards And Prizes For First, Second & Third. Come Out And Test Your Skills Against The Best!!

freshman ConvoCationMandatory Freshman

Convocation September 6, 2012 At 11:00 a.m. Clifford T. Seymour Gym. Judge John Michael Guidry will be speaking. Dress For The Convocation And Induction Ceremony will be White Tops And Black pants/skirts Or Dark colored pants or skirts.

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The Last Day For Refunds Has Been Extended Until Friday, September 7th. For Any Questions About Textbooks Or Vouchers Please Contact The Bookstore At 771-4330 Or Www.Facebook.Com/Southernuniversitybookstore. Vouchers Are Processed At The Bookstore From 9am - 4pm Daily. Bookstore Hours This Week Are Monday - Thursday 8am- 6pm And Friday 8am - 5pm.

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Casting CallSGA will be hosting a Casting

Call On Friday, September 7th From 1:00pm-5:00pm In The Royal Cotillion Ballroom For The Homecoming Fashion Show. Required attire: Females - Light Make-Up, Form Fitted T-Shirts/Jeans And High Heels and Males - Form-Fitted T-Shirt And Jeans For More Information, Contact SGA Office for more at 225.771.2585.

Campus parkingAttention: Effective Monday,

September 10, 2012 All Student Vehicles Operated On The Southern University Campus Must Be Registered And Parked In Their Designated Areas As Follows: Commuter Students: East And West Side Of Mumford Football Stadium (Excluding The Field House). Ballentine RV Lot, Rows 2, 3 And 4 (Between School Of Nursing And Laboratory School). Zone

110, Northeast Corner Of B.A. Little And Jesse N. Stone Avenue. North Campus Residential Area (Beyond North Checkpoint). This Is Temporary Parking Only, Until The Activity Center Parking Lot Opens. Law School Students: Must Park In Lot Next To The Su Museum And ROTC. Residential Students: Must Park In The Area Of Their Residence Hall. Thank You, Su Police Effective Immediately.

stuDent union aCtivitiesSmith-Brown Memorial

Union Is Open On Fridays In The Game Room, Bowling Alley And Burger King. On Fridays The Bowling Alley And Game Room Are Half Off.

Design a t-shirt ContestJunior Class T-Shirt Contest

the winner gets their design on the Junior class shirts and a $50 Gift Card. Contest Ends September 12, 2012. Turn In Creations To the SGA Office Or Email To Sujrclass@gmail.com.

play auDitionsDepartment Of Speech And

Theatre Will Hold Auditions For “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen, Sept. 12 - 13 From 2-Pm-4pm In Hayden Hall. E-mail Lacumbaplayers@gmail.com or contact Dr. Hendricks For More Info.

CoB sCholarshipGala On The Bluff Scholarship

Contest Opened: September 1, 2012, The Submission Deadline Is: September 17, 2012 Please Read The Entire Packet For Full Details! Failure To Adhere To The Rules And Guidelines Will Result In Immediate DQ!

Good Luck Cob Scholarship Committee Course Link /Scholarship Apps/College Of Business/Gotb Scholarship/Fall 2012 Gala Scholarship

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Interns Next Week. If You Are Interested And Want To Sign Up, Inbox Me! Deadline To Register Is Tuesday, Sept 4, 2012 | 5 Pm Ideal Candidate Profile: . Business Marketing Major (Speech And Mass Comm. Majors Welcomed) . Junior Status . Possess Great Communication, Critical Thinking, And Presentation Skills . Be Creative, Outgoing, And Able To Handle Impromptu Speaking . Possess Strong Attention To Detail And Are Proficient

In Microsoft Powerpoint . Have A Flexible Schedule . Want To Gain Experience In Marketing An International Product Be Enrolled At Subr For The Entire 2012-2013 Academic Year. So What’s Next???---The Next Step Is For You To Get Ready For Your Presentation!!! Assignment: Must Be Presented Friday, Sept 7, 2012 Develop A Mini Plan To Promote The Tabasco Family Of Flavors To The Subr Community The Presentation Should Be No More Than 10 Minutes Long It Should Be Neat And Professional Remember This Internship Focuses On Marketing, However A Great Deal Of Sales, Critical Thinking, And Management Is Involved Note: While You Are Not Required You Utilize Powerpoint, It His Highly Encouraged. Remember You Will Be Presenting Before Individuals Who Have An Infinity For The Tabasco Family Of Flavors, So Put Your Best Foot Forward. For More Information, Please Contact: Miss Toni Jackson- Advisor Office: 235b T. T. Allain Hall | P: 225.771.5883 |

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Ambassadors, Resident Assistants, Men Of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. And Members Of The Freshmen Class #Su16 Collaborated With The Office Of Student Orientation/Outreach And Leadership Development (S.O.L.D.) To Perform A “Campus Clean Up After Isaac” Friday, August 31. The Students Gathered In The Residential Life Circle Removing Fallen Branches And Debris Until The Rain Returned. If You Would Like To Participate With Any Community Service Events Please E-Mail S.O.L.D. At Su@subr.edu.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In an impassioned speech that rocked the Democratic National Convention, former President Bill Clinton proclaimed Wednesday night, “I know we’re coming back” from the worst economic mess in generations and appealed to hard-pressed Americans to stick with Barack Obama for a second term in the White House.

Obama strode onstage as Clinton concluded his speech. The 42nd president bowed, and was pulled into an embrace by the 44th as thousands of delegates jammed into the convention hall roared their approval.

Clinton, conceding that many struggling in a slow-recovery economy don’t yet feel improvement, said circumstances are indeed getting better, “and if you’ll renew the president’s contract you will feel it.”

To more cheers, he said of Obama, “I want to nominate a man who is cool on the outside but who burns for America on the inside.”

Not long afterward, the delegates formally awarded Obama their nomination to a second term in a post-midnight roll call of the states.

Clinton spoke as Obama’s high command worked to control the political fallout from an embarrassing retreat on the party platform, just two months from Election Day in the tight race with Republican challenger Mitt Romney.

Under criticism from Romney, the Obama camp abruptly rewrote the day-old document to insert a reference to God and to declare that Jerusalem “is and will remain the capital of Israel.” Some delegates objected loudly, but Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, presiding in the largely-empty hall, ruled them outvoted. White House aides said Obama had personally ordered the changes, but they did not disclose whether he had approved the earlier version.

The convention concludes Thursday with Obama’s acceptance speech before a prime- time national TV audience. Aides announced he would speak in the convention hall rather than a nearby 74,000-seat football stadium as originally planned. They cited weather concerns as the reason for the switch in a city that has been hit by

heavy rains in recent days.Romney, nominated at his own

convention last week, spent his second straight day in Vermont preparing for next month’s debates with Obama.

Clinton’s speech was deemed so important by Obama’s campaign aides that they delayed the president’s formal nomination to a second term until it was over. The familiar roll call of the states began well after television prime time in the eastern part of the country, and the hall was emptying out rapidly as it dragged on past midnight.

Obama’s campaign hoped the former president would prove especially persuasive in an era of sluggish economic growth and 8.3 percent unemployment. Clinton is exceptionally popular 12 years after he left office, particularly among white men, a group among whom Obama polls poorly.

The speech was vintage Clinton, overlong for sure, insults delivered with a folksy grin, references to his own time in office and his wife Hillary, all designed to improve Obama’s shaky re-election prospects.

The convention hall rocked with delegates’ applause and cheers the former president strode onstage to sounds of “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow,” his 1992 campaign theme song.

He sought to rebut every major criticism Republicans leveled against the president at their own convention last week in Tampa, and said that in fact, since 1961, far more jobs have been created under Democratic presidents than when Republicans sat in the White House, by a margin of 42 million to 24 million.

Clinton accused Republicans of proposing “the same old policies that got us into trouble in the first place” and led to a near financial meltdown. Those, he said, include efforts to provide “tax cuts for higher-income Americans, more money for defense than the Pentagon wants and ... deep cuts on programs that help the middle class and poor children.”

“As another president once said, ‘There they go again,’” he said, quoting Ronald Reagan, who often uttered the remark as a rebuke to Democrats.

There was another reference to Reagan, whom Democrats routinely accused of advocating “trickle down economics” that

favored the rich.“ We simply cannot afford to

turn the reins of government over to someone who will double down on trickle-down,” Clinton said.

He shared prime time with Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic candidate for a Republican-held Senate seat in Romney’s Massachusetts. For many years “our middle class has been chipped, squeezed and hammered,” she said.

In a tight race for the White House and with control of the Senate at stake, Democrats signaled unmistakable concern about the growing financial disadvantage they confront. Officials said Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who was Obama’s first White House chief of staff, was resigning as national co-chair of the president’s campaign to help raise money for a super PAC that supports the his re-election.

Unlike candidates, outside groups can solicit donations of unlimited size from donors. At the same time, federal law bars coordination with the campaigns.

Inside the hall, a parade of speakers praised Obama and criticized the Republicans, sometimes harshly.

Sandra Fluke, a law student whom congressional Republicans would not let testify at a hearing on contraceptives, said if Republicans win in the fall, women will wake up to “an America in which access to birth control is controlled by people

who will never use it, in which politicians redefine rape.”

Clinton’s speech marked the seventh consecutive convention he has spoken to party delegates, and the latest twist in a relationship with Obama that has veered from frosty to friendly. The two men clashed in 2008, when Obama outran Hillary Rodham Clinton’s wife for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Clinton, then a New York senator, now Obama’s Secretary of State, was in East Timor as the party met half a world away. She made a cameo appearance on the huge screens inside the Time Warner Cable Arena, though, turning up in a video that celebrated the 12 Democratic women senators currently in office.

Republicans have suddenly discovered a lot to like about Clinton — a man they impeached in late 1998 when they ran the House and he sat in the Oval Office.

Ryan made no mention of those unpleasantries when he told a campaign audience in Iowa, “Under President Clinton we got welfare reform. President Obama is rolling back welfare reform.

“President Clinton worked with Republicans in Congress to have a budget agreement to cut spending. President Obama, a gusher of new spending.”

Independent fact checkers have repeatedly debunked the

claim about Obama’s welfare proposals. Nor did the Wisconsin lawmaker mention that under a balanced budget compromise with Clinton to rein in federal spending, Republicans agreed to create a new benefit program that provides health care for lower-income children and others ineligible for Medicaid.

The changes in the platform came after the Republicans criticized an earlier decision to strip out a reference to God.

Romney said that “suggests a party that is increasingly out of touch with the mainstream of the American people. ... I think this party is veering further and further away into an extreme wing that Americans don’t recognize.”

Romney had declared in a summertime trip there that Jerusalem was the country’s capital. U.S. policy for years has held that the city’s status is a matter for negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis, and Democrats said at the time he was pandering to Jewish voters in the United States.

The switch puts the platform in line with what advisers say is the president’s personal view, if not the policy of his administration. “Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel,” it says. “The parties have agreed that Jerusalem is a matter for final status negotiations. It should remain an undivided city accessible to people of all faiths.”

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After suffering key injuries in the Sheraton Airport/LA Boxing Lobo Classic, the Southern volleyball team will have their hands full in the Tangi Tourism Lion Classic against Southeastern Louisiana in Hammond.

The Jaguars (0-4) will be going into tonight’s match against the Lady Lions (1-3) without three juniors who were contributed to last year’s roster. Southern and Southeastern are joined in the four-day round-robin by Louisiana Tech, Texas-Pan American and Weber State.

The Jaguars take the court at 7 p.m. tonight against the Lady Lions at the University Center. Southern continues play Friday with an 11 a.m. match against Weber State and a 3 p.m. tilt against Louisiana Tech. The Lady Jaguars conclude play Saturday at 8 a.m. against Texas-Pan American.

Junior middle blocker and outside hitter Payton Mitchell, who is a very experienced player and a standout, will be out along with junior setter Chanda Journet, who is out nursing

a shoulder injury, and junior middle blocker and outside hitter Jacquia Bell with a knee injury.

“Those are three juniors right now who can really help us, and we are going to have to put some freshman in their places to help us,” said head volleyball coach Nathaniel Denu.

Denu discussed how the team will be reorganized to compensate.

“Once you have an injury you have to make some adjustments, and it becomes very cumbersome when you’re not as deep as we should be,”Denu said.

Freshman players like setter Keya Bennett, outside hitter Bre’dona Taylor, and middle blocker Jaquel Watts could all see signifi cant playing time in Hammond,

with redshirt sophomore outside hitter and middle blocker Amber Shelby, out with a knee injury.

“It’s really diffi cult when you have key people down, if these are people who performed for us and played in the semi fi nals last year and they are not going to be 100 percent for us so far,” said Denu.

Last year the Lady Jaguars

had a subpar year fi nishing the regular season 12-21 (4-4 Southwestern Athletic Conference) but took advantage in the postseason, beating

Mississippi Valley State and Alabama A&M reaching the semifi nals in the process.

Although the Jaguars have all of these injuries it can possibly

give the young freshman some valuable playing time and also develop experience that is something the Jaguars will lack going into tonight’s contest.

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Southern’s Payton Mitchell, at right, is one of several veteran Jaguars out with injuries as SU travels to Hammond to play in the four-day, five-team Tangi Tourism Lion Classic at Southeastern Louisiana.

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LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson’s estate and a businessman working with the singer’s mother settled a copyright infringement lawsuit for $2.5 million on Tuesday, shortly before a trial in the case was scheduled to begin.

The settlement also restricts Howard Mann and his companies from using Jackson’s likeness without permission in the future. It ends a year and a half of legal fighting over Mann’s use of Jackson’s name and likeness on a website

used to promote unreleased songs, photographs and a book written by Katherine Jackson filled with recollections of her superstar son.

Mann is the CEO of Vintage Pop Media, which operated the website www.michaeljacksonsecretvault.com until it was ordered shut down last month by a federal judge who ruled the site violated copyrights controlled by the singer’s estate.

Under the terms of the settlement, announced in court by estate attorney Zia Modabber, Vintage Pop Media Group is responsible for $2

million of the judgment, while the entity Vintage Associates LLC is responsible for the remainder. Vintage Associates is the custodian of the items that were at issue in the case.

Mann’s attorney, Lee Durst, declined comment after the hearing. “The estate is delighted this matter is behind us,” estate attorney Howard Weitzman said.

Among the items that had been improperly used were images from Jackson’s posthumous film “This Is It” and a silhouette of the singer dancing in “Smooth Criminal.” The settlement also blocks

the usage of materials from “Thriller” that had appeared on Mann’s website.

A jury trial on how much Mann owes the estate had been scheduled to begin Tuesday, with an expert estimating a license for the works is worth between $5 million and $12 million.

Mann’s attorneys rejected a settlement offer last week of $2 million. They sought to introduce evidence that they were given bad legal advice about having to license the works and have considered calling Katherine Jackson as a witness.

Students were able to get insight of the opportunities student organizations can offer to Southern University students at the Organizational Fair Wednesday.

With nearly 60 organizations were present, equipped with information, sign-up sheets and light refreshments.

Darnell Pledger, HIV and AIDS coordinator representing the SU HIV/AIDS Prevention Program said the program visits classrooms, dormitories and administers free testing three times a semester.

“We don’t wait for them to come to us, we go to them,” Pledger said.

The prevention program was designed to increase awareness, provide connections to essential resources, conduct HIV/AIDS related education and build sustainable community relationships to affiliates on the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

“We want SU students to know the damages of unprotected sex and to successfully prevent the spread of HIV and not only the African American community, but ethnicities across the board,” Pledger said.

The Student Government Association was present in hopes to fill some of the vacant seats in the organization.

Timothy Pickett, SGA chief of staff, said some students think that it’s all about homecoming, SGA is doing a lot more of things to help students.

The National Society of Leadership and Success (Sigma

Alpha Pi) was providing students with information about their organization.

Cosette Richard, president of the SU Chapter, said that she was chosen by the national advisory among 200 other applicants across the country.

“Leaders come from all walks of life. We are open to everyone, ” Richard said.

Sigma Alpha Pi was responsible for the slave narrative display in John B. Cade Library.

Ebonee West, senior business management major of Baton Rouge, was at the fair sharing information about the Alpha Chi Chapter of Phi Beta Lambda where she serves as vice president.

According to a brochure distributed at the fair, the Alpha Chi chapter aims to develop competent, aggressive business leadership, strengthen the confidence of students in themselves and their work, create more interest in and understanding of American business enterprise and encourage members in the development of individual projects that contribute to the

improvement of home, business and the community.

West said, that all college students, non-traditional and traditional, should join organizations to find out about job opportunities and to aid in becoming a well-rounded individual.

“Students can gain from great professionals on how to dress for success, how to interview and how to network in your possible career path,” she said.

Upsilon Phi Upsilon Service Fraternity shared a similar message in promoting principle, friendship, excellence and united vision.

Jared Guidry, junior nursing major of New Orleans, president of the Upsilon Phi Upsilon Service Fraternity Inc. helped shed light on the goals, services and ambitions of the fraternity.

According to Guidry, his fraternity is tutoring students at Southern Laboratory School and working on tutoring students at Glen Oaks High School.

Leonard Brumfield, a junior criminal justice major from New Orleans and Upsilon Phi Upsilon member, discussed the fraternity’s vision toward

community service.“We can have a line of seven

people and fix a whole building and we’re not looking for nothing in return,” Brumfield said.

Deborah Muhammad, a senior physics major of Baton Rouge, was one of the students representing Nation of Islam Student Association.

She said students that are in organizations are given a sense of community and it keeps them involved and active.

“Students that venture in organizations will have a greater retention rate,” Muhammad said.

Alvonte Sample, a political science major from Chicago, was giving students information about The Bluff radio station and the opportunities that it offers to them.

“The power to be heard gives you an unlimited range on the mind. This is the students’ opportunity to live their hearts’ desire,” Sample said.

He said that it does not matter what a student’s major is, they still have a voice. He also said the Bluff broadcasts on a broad spectrum.

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Southern University’s chapter of Delta Sigma Theta was one of nearly 60 organizations participating in Wednesday’s Organizational Fair. Various student groups provided information for students while discussing various aspects of their respective organizations.

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Student groups share info NEW YORK — The only worry

on Michael Strahan’s mind when he made his entrance Tuesday as the new co-host of “Live!”: “Don’t trip,” he summed up after the show.

He didn’t.When Kelly Ripa introduced

him, the gap-toothed former football player jogged onto the morning show set and gathered her up in a bear hug, lifting her off her feet.

“When I was hugging Kelly, that’s when I was calming down,” Strahan explained.

The rest of the hour was clearly a snap for him and for Ripa, who was getting a permanent partner nine months after Regis Philbin retired from the show and after having welcomed Strahan and 58 other guests in the chair beside her.

Taking his seat on Tuesday, the former New York Giant joked that it felt “comfy, like it was molded for my body.”

Strahan was relaxed, amiable and playful, and drew “ahhhs” from women in the studio audience when he presented Ripa with a dozen red roses.

“It’s so nice to have a co-host literally sweep you off your feet,” Ripa told viewers, “and I know that he can bench press me if he wanted to.”

Maybe his arrival was fulfilling a prophecy. Ripa played a clip of Strahan’s first appearance on the show in 2008, shortly after the Giants had won the Super Bowl. Philbin asked Strahan what he would want to do after retiring from football, and Strahan said that Philbin’s job looked pretty good.

“I was joking,” Strahan said on Tuesday, “and I’m glad the joke came true.”

Strahan’s hiring has been an open secret for the past two weeks. His selection was made official a couple of minutes into what, since November, had gone by the stripped-down title “Live! With Kelly” and now rechristened “Live! With Kelly and Michael.”

Or rather, “live! with kelly and michael.” Eyeing the brand-new all-lowercase logo during a commercial break, the co-hosts pondered whether the first letters of their names would look better capitalized.

During their breezy first “host chat,” Strahan amusedly shared from a list of obnoxious pet names for women (“babe” and “sweet cheeks” among them). The pair discussed parenting policies, in particular how much money the Tooth Fairy should award for a lost tooth.

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I always feel humiliated when I hear about another student degrade my university. People are always quick to say what SU is not, but are never quick to say what it is.

SU is the university that we chose to invest our money and ultimately our futures into. The same students who constantly verbally degrade SU are the same ones who are trying to walk across the stage and graduate.

These same people who devalue SU are the same hypocrites that wear SU apparel and attend all the home football games.

I ask this, why would you want a degree from a school that you frequently demote?

Isn’t it the same university that you denounced when you were in undergrad?

It makes absolutely no sense to attend an establishment that you have absolutely no faith in. It makes you look more than unintelligent to degrade an institution that you’re currently enrolled in.

Like I stated before, SU may not be

a lot of things, but it’s my university. I take pride in my choice of higher

education. A person could receive a degree

from any university but the choice of university also says a lot about that person.

When I graduate from here I will be proud to tell my employer that I got a quality education, and even though my university isn’t an Ivy League school, it’s still prestigious.

Dear complaining student, I understand that you feel that

complaining is the only resort, but I promise there are other ways. The first and best way to fix the things that are wrong with SU is to stop complaining and participate. You’d be amazed at how much you can accomplish with some effort and resilience. No one will ever be aware of your issues if you keep them to yourself or if you convey them in an off-putting manner.

Another option is, and this is for the extremist out there, TRANSFER!

It is very unfortunate if any student takes this route, but I don’t want imposters at my school.

If all you do is complain then you obviously shouldn’t be here. I would love to say that you’ll be missed, but the sad truth is that you wont.

I do mean to be harsh. SU is a university filled with

productive, motivated and prideful students. For you to degrade our university in such a way then receive a degree from it is the ultimate insult. At least for me it is.

Signed, proud prospective graduate.

Charles hawkins ii

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Has anyone been catching the new episodes of Love and Politics? The yelling matches in the first two episodes were something to see.

People always give long autobiographies before they fight, these episodes were full of those situations.

Ann Romney was defending her man talking about how he never fails and how he is a self made boss that runs things. Talking about how people continuously hate on his success because he has money in the bank.

She really thinks he can win the campaign for President of the United States of America.

I wonder was she counting his money he has stashed away overseas that can’t be taxed though?

Then she reminisced about the times back in the day with Mitt, how they met and how he loved being alone with her.

Ann really is a trip. The next episode had first lady,

Michelle Obama in it talking about her man too, President Barack Obama.

Barack must really have her in love similar to Scrappy and Erica.

Michelle was going off about the love her family gets in the streets of America everywhere they travel. Basically their street credibility is sky

high. She was almost in tears about how

everybody worked hard and looked out for each other. Loyalty really does come before royalty.

Michelle talked about half of her motivation coming from the grinding of her people while the other half comes from all their haters who just complain, but only want to try old stuff that is played out.

Man, she really boasted about her man handling business when he did not have anything.

Most people could never know their struggle of having to ride in Barack’s rust bucket car because he turned down high paying jobs to chase his passions of helping people.

Ann’s man Mitt, is even more of a trip, and is always in the news.

Mitt was really talking trash about

how everything Barack has failed at and how his plans would work better because he is already paid.

This guy wants to cut taxes for everyone, and leave states in charge of maintaining their bread the right way.

He believes the state’s can handle themselves in healthcare and other laws without the feds getting involved.

Michelle’s man, Barack, he ‘s been on the news all the time trying to help.

This guy put up a nice package deal with the feds to help out the regular man. He thinks everyone should help everyone out.

He really seems to only care about helping people with the position he has. including increasing the taxes on the rich, while still spending more government money to get out of debt.

Barack’s trying to get major players to bring jobs to the jobless with a twenty on the dollar tax break for businesses that move jobs back to America.

Definitely will keep my eyes open for this show, and make sure to fill out the survey Nov. 6 on who’s plan I agree with most, Ann’s or Michelle’s.

By the season finale I can tell someone will be putting paws on someone.

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