www.thenichollsworth.com Please Recycle Lagniappe | page 11 A Nicholls State University Student Publication Sports | page 7 Editorial | page 15 NICHOLLS WORTH THE Thursday, April 25, 2013 Volume 58 Issue 25 GRAPHIC BY HILARY DUGAS NICHOLLS’ NEXT LEADER First search committee meeting to be held May 3 Pauline Wilson Staff Writer Following President Hulbert’s retirement announcement on April 15, the search is on for the next president of Nicholls State Univer- sity. The selection process for the next University president began with the selection of the search committee on Tuesday. According to the University of Louisiana System, the search com- mittee consists of nine members from the UL system board and one member from the University, voted on by the faculty senate on campus. The president of the UL system will serve as the chair of the search committee, but he will not vote. The system board members who will serve on the committee will be the board members who have the strongest ties to the University. The search committee consists of fifteen members. The nine mem- bers from the board are: Andre Coudrain of Hammond Student Member: William Dearmon of Ruston David Guidry of Harvey Board vice-chair: E. Gerald “T-Boy” Herbert of Kenner Jimmie “Beau” Martin Jr. of Cut Off Board of Supervisors Chair: Wayne Parker of Choudrant Robert Shreve of Baton Rouge Gary Solomon of New Orleans Winfred Sibille of Sunset The faculty member from the University that was voted on by the faculty senate and who will also serve on the committee is Stephen Michot, faculty senate president. Each of the nine members from the board and the one member from the University will be able to vote for the presidential candidates. These selections will then be sent to the full UL board. The other five members on the committee will have no voting rights. They are as follows: Community member: Donald T. “Boysie” Bollinger Former University Student Gov- ernment Association President: Matthew Jewell Fletcher Technical Community College Chancellor: F. Travis Lavigne Jr. Nicholls Director Emeritus of Alumni Affairs: Deborah “Raz” Raziano UL System President: Sandra Woodley Following the senate committee appointments, the group will have their first meeting on May 3. The search committee will meet at 10:30 a.m. and the public forum will be at 1 p.m. The public forum is hosted to gather input from the campus community on desired qualifica- tions for the new president. The committee meeting and the forum are open to the public. Following the meeting, the posi- tion will be advertised, and candi- dates can then send in their appli- cations. The search committee will then select semifinal candidates. “I am giving applying for the presidency a serious consideration,” Laynie Barrilleaux, vice president of academic affairs, said. “I have been here for a while and feel like I know the University, but I think it is im- portant that I listen to the open fo- rum where the community will state what they are looking for.” Eugene Dial, vice president for student affairs, said he is not sure if he is applying for the presidency, but agrees that he will wait until the Crawfish Day is tomorrow Pauline Wilson Staff Writer The Student Programming Asso- ciation is hosting the annual Crawfish Day on Friday, April 26. Crawfish Day will take place from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the field next to the John L. Guidry stadium. The day will begin with entertainment at 12:30, which will consist of Jenn Grinels, the 21st Century Brass Band and DJ Ace, a local DJ. Jenn Grinels’ genre of music falls into the category of indie rock, acous- tic rock and folk rock. According to Grinels website, “she has released two full-length albums, toured the country extensively, and won a number of awards for her amazing set of pipes.” The 21st Century Brass Band’s sound is known as the street sound of the Crescent City, as stated on the New Orleans Jazz Festival website. Food and beverages that will be offered other than crawfish are ham- burgers, jambalaya, nachos, cotton candy, soft drinks, water and beer. Stu- dents will need their Colonel Card to receive their crawfish. Students will be able to participate in a variety of events such as inflat- able skee ball, high striker, an inflatable sports cage and a photo booth. “There will also be several student organizations that will have informa- tion booths and small activities for students,” Emilie Ulicsni, SPA special events committee head, said. Last year, Crawfish Day attendance reached approximately 1,500 people. This year SPA spent approximately $16,000 on crawfish, Ulicsni said. “A lot of hard work has been put into Crawfish Day that students do not realize. Since I know I was in charge of it again this year, I have been brainstorming, following up with peo- ple and organizing Crawfish Day 2013 since Crawfish Day 2012. I submitted my final proposal for this year in Feb- ruary.” “Crawfish Day is the last opportuni- ty that students have to relax and have fun before finals,” Ulicsni said. see SEARCH page 5 Search committee is selected 1 Search committee has first meeting & sets the time table for the selection process 2 Advertising begins for position 3 4 5 6 Committee selects semi-finalists to be interviewed on campus Committee votes on semi-finalists to send to full UL System Board UL Board will interview finalists Process to Pick the Next University President 7 A new president will be selected
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Thursday, April 25, 2013 Volume 58 Issue 25
GRAPHIC BY HILARY DUGAS
NICHOLLS’ NEXT LEADERFirst search committee meeting to be held May 3
Pauline WilsonStaff Writer
Following President Hulbert’s retirement announcement on April 15, the search is on for the next president of Nicholls State Univer-sity.
The selection process for the next University president began with the selection of the search committee on Tuesday.
According to the University of Louisiana System, the search com-mittee consists of nine members from the UL system board and one member from the University, voted on by the faculty senate on campus. The president of the UL system will serve as the chair of the search committee, but he will not vote. The system board members who will serve on the committee will be the board members who have the strongest ties to the University.
The search committee consists of fi fteen members. The nine mem-bers from the board are:
Andre Coudrain of HammondStudent Member:
William Dearmon of RustonDavid Guidry of Harvey
Board vice-chair: E. Gerald “T-Boy” Herbert of
KennerJimmie “Beau” Martin Jr. of Cut
OffBoard of Supervisors Chair:
Wayne Parker of ChoudrantRobert Shreve of Baton Rouge Gary Solomon of New Orleans
Winfred Sibille of Sunset
The faculty member from the University that was voted on by the faculty senate and who will also serve on the committee is Stephen Michot, faculty senate president.
Each of the nine members from the board and the one member
from the University will be able to vote for the presidential candidates. These selections will then be sent to the full UL board.
The other fi ve members on the committee will have no voting rights. They are as follows:
Community member: Donald T. “Boysie” Bollinger
Former University Student Gov-ernment Association President:
Matthew JewellFletcher Technical Community
College Chancellor: F. Travis Lavigne Jr.
Nicholls Director Emeritus of Alumni Affairs:
Deborah “Raz” RazianoUL System President:
Sandra Woodley
Following the senate committee appointments, the group will have their fi rst meeting on May 3. The search committee will meet at 10:30
a.m. and the public forum will be at 1 p.m. The public forum is hosted to gather input from the campus community on desired qualifi ca-tions for the new president. The committee meeting and the forum are open to the public.
Following the meeting, the posi-tion will be advertised, and candi-dates can then send in their appli-cations. The search committee will then select semifi nal candidates.
“I am giving applying for the presidency a serious consideration,” Laynie Barrilleaux, vice president of academic affairs, said. “I have been here for a while and feel like I know the University, but I think it is im-portant that I listen to the open fo-rum where the community will state what they are looking for.”
Eugene Dial, vice president for student affairs, said he is not sure if he is applying for the presidency, but agrees that he will wait until the
Crawfi sh Dayis tomorrow
Pauline WilsonStaff Writer
The Student Programming Asso-ciation is hosting the annual Crawfi sh Day on Friday, April 26.
Crawfi sh Day will take place from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the fi eld next to the John L. Guidry stadium. The day will begin with entertainment at 12:30, which will consist of Jenn Grinels, the 21st Century Brass Band and DJ Ace, a local DJ.
Jenn Grinels’ genre of music falls into the category of indie rock, acous-tic rock and folk rock.
According to Grinels website, “she has released two full-length albums, toured the country extensively, and won a number of awards for her amazing set of pipes.”
The 21st Century Brass Band’s sound is known as the street sound of the Crescent City, as stated on the New Orleans Jazz Festival website.
Food and beverages that will be offered other than crawfi sh are ham-burgers, jambalaya, nachos, cotton candy, soft drinks, water and beer. Stu-dents will need their Colonel Card to receive their crawfi sh.
Students will be able to participate in a variety of events such as infl at-able skee ball, high striker, an infl atable sports cage and a photo booth.
“There will also be several student organizations that will have informa-tion booths and small activities for students,” Emilie Ulicsni, SPA special events committee head, said.
Last year, Crawfi sh Day attendance reached approximately 1,500 people.
This year SPA spent approximately $16,000 on crawfi sh, Ulicsni said.
“A lot of hard work has been put into Crawfi sh Day that students do not realize. Since I know I was in charge of it again this year, I have been brainstorming, following up with peo-ple and organizing Crawfi sh Day 2013 since Crawfi sh Day 2012. I submitted my fi nal proposal for this year in Feb-ruary.”
“Crawfi sh Day is the last opportuni-ty that students have to relax and have fun before fi nals,” Ulicsni said.
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Search committee is selected 1 Search committee has first
meeting & sets the time table for the selection process
2 Advertising begins for position3
456Committee selects semi-finalists to be interviewed on campus
Committee votes on semi-finalists to send to full UL System Board
UL Board will interview finalists
Process to Pick the Next University President
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1 Search committee has first meeting & sets the time table for the selection process
6UL Board will interview finalists
7A new president
will be selected
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APRIL 15The Maintenance Department reported that one of the glass entrance
doors in the front of Talbot Hall was damaged. An offi cer observed that the glass of the door was cracked and it also appeared that someone at-tempted to remove the door hinges. The offi cer photographed the damage and check the areas to make sure that there was no more damage to the building or any other attempts to force entry into the building.
APRIL 16An offi cer responed to the area of Polk Hall relative to a stray dog. The
offi cer located the dog. The dog did not have a collar or tag identifying the owner. The dog was transported to the Lafourche Parish Animal Shelter.
APRIL 17An offi cer responded to the parking area behind Elkins Hall relative to
an employee wanting to report that their vehicle was damaged while load-ing supplies from an offi ce. The employee had volunteered to trasmport items in their personal vehicle and bring them to Baton Rouge. His vehicle’s windshield was damaged while the items were being loaded. The offi cer documented the incident in a report and photographed the damage.
The BIG Crawfi sh Crawl for Higher Education
The Bayou Industrial Group will sponsor the BIG Crawfi sh Crawl for Higher Education to be held on April 27 from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. in Peltier Park. The event will raise money for local college scholarships. Race registration begins at 3 p.m. The Family Fun Run will begin at 4 p.m. and the 5K Race will begin at 4:30 p.m. Boiled crawfi sh will be for sale beginning at 5 p.m. For more information and registration forms visit www.bayouindustrialgroup.com
2013 Capital Semester Program
Students can now apply for the 2013 Capital Semester Program in Washington, D.C. Participants will earn 12 credit hours from George Mason University, live in furnished apartments, and are guaranteed in-ternships with federal agencies, think tanks, government affairs offi ces, policy groups, embassies, NGO’s, congressional offi ces, media outlets, and nonprofi ts.
To apply, visit DCinternships.org/CS Deadline to apply is June 1.
Jazz Ensemble Performance
The Nicholls Jazz Ensemble will host a concert tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in Danos Theater. The concert will include performances from the South Louisiana Jazz Orchestra and Nicholls State Jazz Ensemble. Both groups will perform the swing music of Count Basie and Duke Elington. The concert will also fea-ture vocalist Kami Ellender and trombone player Andy Pizzo.
Rape Aggression Defense Class
A rape aggression defense class is available to Nicholls female students, faculty and staff and will take place May 1-3 in the Rec Center. The class will be from 2 p.m. – 5 p.m. on May 1, 3 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. on May 2, and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on May 3. The class is free of charge and participants must attend all three sessions. For more information or to register call 448-4080.
RELATE to Practice
The fi nal RELATE event of the semester will be tonight at 7 p.m. in the Plantation Suite. All perfor-mances/sharing will be reference to the word “practice.” Stephen Duy Pham, marketing senior from Houma, will be the featured guest. Anyone wishing to perform must arrive by 6:45 p.m. to sign the Open-Mic performance list.
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Nicholls State community remembers one of its ownChanning Parfait
News Editor
Ross Mullooly had a distinct pas-sion for everything in life.
The former Nicholls student reached the end of his battle with colorectal cancer on Sunday when he passed away at his family’s home in Houma.
He arrived at Nicholls in the fall of 2009 and made a commit-ment to get involved with campus
life. Along with his dedication to schoolwork, he was involved with Nicholls athletics, the Student Government Association, Orienta-tion Team, the University Honors Program and Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity.
“Ross loved Nicholls,” James Mullooly, Ross’s father, said. “He wanted to be involved in campus life and show people what Nicholls had to offer.”
Laurie LaRose, assistant director of admissions, said Mullooly was an amazing orientation leader who
brought humor to the orientation program.
“He touched a ton of lives in his time here,” LaRose said. “He really did care about helping students as an orientation leader.”
Ross also joined the Nicholls men’s cross-country team during his freshman year and achieved a career-best 8K time of 28:50 in the Southland Conference Champion-ships.
Casey Keiser, history senior from
Metairie, said Ross was more than a teammate; he was also a caring friend. Keiser said he had the hon-or of being Ross’ teammate during his time at Vandebilt Catholic High School in Houma and at Nicholls.
“Ross was one of the first to wel-come me onto the team. Being his teammate at both schools, we put in a lot of miles when it came to training. While on those long runs, you tend to turn from teammates to friends,” Keiser said. “He had such a strong heart. He was always
willing to drop what he was doing to help someone out.”
Tyler Folse, 2012 University graduate, said Mullooly was self-less, and it is apparent by what he has done for people over the past few years.
“He always had a special way of dealing with people and situations; he always knew how to make people laugh, especially providing some much needed comic relief during cross country practice,” Folse said
of his teammate and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity brother. “It is difficult to lose someone so close to you and so young, but the truth is that Ross has done more in his brief time than most people do in their entire life.”
Ross’ father said Mullooly re-mained optimistic, but several sur-geries and the progression of his disease prevented him from return-ing to the track and classroom at Nicholls.
In the Fall 2012 issue of Voila! Cross Country runner Ross Mullooly competes in a meet on Sept. 1, 2010.
photo by Misty McElroy
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Ross loved Nicholls and Nicholls showed him love back.
— James Mullooly
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President Hulbert discusses his retirement plans with NWof the academy says that presi-dents and their spouses don’t have friends. You have a lot of people you are acquainted with and that you do business with, but you don’t have friends. Here we have count-less friends and it’s just because of the nature of the people here.
It will be incredibly diffi cult to leave here and I genuinely say that we will cry a lot of times in leav-ing. We’ve had ten years invested here, and we’ve seen the campus change in so many ways. I’ve seen at least 300 faculty and staff who have gone through the campus to retire or move on and I’ve seen all these new people come. I sit in functions like the Arts and Scienc-es banquet and I wonder, “When did the faculty become so young? They’re a bunch of kids.” I know I hired them during my presidency, but the university has transitioned and changed so dramatically that it’s exciting and it will be very hard to pull away from.
I have great pride in this campus and what we have done together. The faculty, staff and students. When you do that, it’s just hard to break away from it, which is why going 1500 miles across the coun-try is the best thing to do. There’s nothing more sorrowful than a re-tired president hanging around the
point, I’ve worked full time in uni-versity administration. Within that period from 1977 on, I’ve been a vice president or above at a univer-sity. My life has been the calendar of a university. I refer to retirement and say I’m fi nally graduating.
When I get to Prescott I’m going to be taking conversational Span-ish at Yavapai Community College, and I’m going to be taking some courses like environmental stud-ies at Prescott College. I’m looking forward to it. I honestly have no idea what life will be like. Becky and I have measured the time of the year by what’s going on on campus. In the fall it’s soccer, volleyball and football; certain recitals and awards dinners at different times of the year and homecoming. My friends say to me, “What do you do? Why don’t you fi sh or hunt?” Every-thing I do is right here in these 300 acres. It is nice not to be obligated. People will invite us to things and we try to get to as much as possible and from year to year we have to rotate because sometimes they’re competing.
Q: Overall, how would you say you feel about leaving?
It’s extraordinarily diffi cult. If you’re from here, you really have no way to appreciate how warm gre-garious and welcoming people are from this area. They say that they don’t like or welcome outsiders, but that’s ridiculous. Once you get acquainted with somebody, you’re trying to fi gure out if you’re re-lated or have a mutual friend. This is such an extraordinarily welcom-ing and social part of the country. We came in here, and the history
Q: What are you doing next?We have built a home in Prescott,
Ariz. Many people have asked why we aren’t going to build and stay here. As I say to everyone who asks me, “why do you live here?” They say well my parents, kids, grandkids and everybody I know is here. I say, well, everybody I know is in Ari-zona. My son, Scott, and his wife, Kate, and our grandson, Roland are in Phoenix. We have nieces and nephews in Sedona. My wife’s par-ents retired from the air force to Flagstaff in the 70’s and we have been going there ever since. It’s home, so we’re going home.
It’s going to be nice to be close again. I want to see my grandson play t-ball. That’s the simple state-ment. I want to enjoy myself. I have worked 43 years and the last 17 have been as a president. I am ready to not be on the job, 24/7.
Q: Do you plan to continue working part-time?
I have no idea how I am going to adjust because I am used to the pace of a campus. My wife and I fi nished our undergraduate years, went on and got a master’s degree in higher education administration, and then I worked two years in a small private school as the director of student activities, housing and placement. Depending on the time of the day I had a different hat on and it was a great job. We went back and got a doctorate at SUNY (State University of New York) Albany for two years and from 1972 when I fi nished my doctorate to this
campus. That’s not going to be me. Q: What would you say are
some of the biggest cultural dif-ferences you noticed in Louisi-ana?
We have travelled all over the world, from Istanbul, Turkey to St. Petersburg to the tip of South America. We’ve been everywhere. The people of the bayou region are extraordinary. They are very self-suffi cient.
Look at us after Katrina. State government was fl oundering in trying to get its act together. The federal government was nowhere to be found. How did we pull our-selves together and provide evacu-ation center services to upwards of 12,000 people over about 50 days? We did it because of the people in this area. As people’s freezers be-gan to defrost without electricity and their shrimp, crab and sausage thawed, they made gumbo and jambalaya, and came here to feed people.
We are a heavily catholic popu-lation. One of the things that is absolutely extraordinary in a crisis in particular is the organizations of the church. The catholic churched stepped forward to provide the heart of the services from used clothing to washing and ironing clothes for evacuees, to staffi ng the
centers and the services of feeding people. It was amazing. St. Thomas Aquanus took in the dogs, cats, rabbits, turtles and everything.
I ran into [Bishop] Sam Jacobs in St. Thomas and there was a rabbit sitting on the main alter and I was chuckling because it was such an example of how genuine and how helpful people are. When people came off those busses, they of-ten had nothing but a pet in their hands, and they were forced out of their houses. The initial reaction of authorities was to say that the pets couldn’t go into the evacuation centers and the church stepped in with some pet organizations and provided cages and food. This is just one of hundreds of examples of how gracious people are in this region.
That’s what is special about be-ing here, and that’s what attracts people about being here. That’s why people come to teach for two years and spend 30 years here. We came for fi ve years and we’re fi n-ishing ten. We would stay on ex-cept the clock is ticking and we’re 69 and there’s something else in life to do.
Q: What do you feel your big-gest accomplishment has been here?
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open forum to see what are the desired characteristics. “There will be several days where presidential candi-
dates will be on campus meeting with different groups. Following the meetings the search committee will in-terview the candidates, with the interviews being public on campus,” Jackie Tisdell, assistant vice president for communications in the UL system, said.
The search committee will then vote on the few fi nal-ists they want to send to the full UL system board. The board will then hold interviews in Baton Rouge and will make the fi nal selection for the position.
“The University of Louisiana System has a thorough and open presidential search process that calls for cam-pus representation on the committee and gathering in-put early in the process to help frame the committee’s work,” Sandra Woodley, UL system president and com-mittee chair, said in a press release on Tuesday.
The UL system requires that each candidate for the
presidency possess a doctorate from an accredited in-stitution and successful experience in an institution of higher education. These are the basic requirements, with other characteristics to be decided when the com-mittee meets.
When the search began for a new University presi-dent following Donald Ayo’s retirement in 2003, the search committee was appointed on Oct. 25, 2002, and selected President Stephen Hulbert on March 28, 2003. It took only fi ve months to make a decision.
In the fi rst meeting, the committee will employ a time table that will be followed throughout the process.
The UL system website has a special section, ulsys-tem.edu/NichollsSearch, that is devoted to the search for the new University president. The website has information on the University and will also include information on the search and the search committee meetings.
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Students participate in a ‘rock, paper, sissors’ tournament put on by the Student Government Association on April 18.
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Rock, Paper, ScissorsMagazine, Mullooly said, “I want to go as far as I can. I plan on join-ing as much as possible at Nicholls because I want to repay them for what they’ve done for me.”
James said the support from Mullooly’s friends and people at Nicholls created a caring atmo-sphere to help his family through this diffi cult time.
“If anybody wants to know why to go to Nicholls State University, I can tell them why,” James said. “Because Ross loved Nicholls and Nicholls showed him love back.”
Mullooly was fi rst diagnosed on Nov. 10, 2010 and underwent his fi rst of many surgeries in April
2011. On Wednesday, April 17, 2013,
Mullooly’s oncologist told his fam-ily there was no solution to his re-current fevers. They also learned the tumor pressed against his spi-nal cord had grown so much that it was only a matter of time. On Friday, April 19, Mullooly’s family brought him home from the hos-pital where James said dozens of his friends stopped by to visit.
He added his son did not feel any pain at the time of his passing at 5:40 p.m. on Sunday and that he was surrounded by the love of his family at their home.
Visitation for Ross will be from
5 p.m. to 9 p.m. tonight at Chauvin Funeral Home in Houma. Anoth-er visitation will be held on Friday from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., with a mass and burial at St. Gregory Barbari-go Church in Houma.
In lieu of fl owers, his family requests donations made to orga-nizations Ross loved such as the American Cancer Society’s Pat-rick F. Taylor Hope Lodge in New Orleans, St. Matthew’s Episcopal School and Vandebilt Catholic High School in the name of his organization, The Ross Mullooly Project, Out Running Cancer.
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I feel my biggest accomplishment was empowering people on this campus to do what they thought was right for Nicholls. Faculty, staff and students. I didn’t tell them how to do their jobs. I empowered them to do their jobs on behalf of the campus. Nothing came easy out of every-thing we’ve accomplished in the last ten years, from all of the resident hall renovations, the cafeteria, the park-ing lots, the roadways, the landscap-ing, the signage, the rec center.
Nothing comes easy at Nicholls. We’re a small college and nothing comes easy in a rural area like this. We’ve worked hard to get it. All of those things were accomplished be-cause people were empowered to do their jobs and we have extraordinary talent on this campus. People were able to design these projects, plan them and deliver them. We didn’t use outside expertise. We did it ourselves for the most part and I’m very proud of what people have accomplished.
Q: Besides Phoenix, do you have any travel plans in mind?
We have one practice in travelling: we don’t tend to go back. We go one place, and then move on to the next. However, we took a tour in the mid 90’s when we flew to Istanbul, Tur-key and spent three days in Istanbul and got on a cruise ship to go down the Turkish coast to Ephesus, which is Troy, and through the Greek Is-lands to the Peloponnesian Penin-
sula and into Athens. In the process we ended up in Istanbul, and the two of us have never been in a more ex-traordinary place on earth. The mix-ing of the millenniums of history. The sites, the sounds, the smells, the culture, the foods, the people. We can’t wait to go back to Turkey to see it again.
We’ll continue to travel. We’ve done 18 or 19 cruises, plus many other trips. We will continue to do that as our hobby, but it will no lon-ger be Thanksgiving, Easter, Christ-mas or the other Nicholls breaks. That’s when we’ve travelled. We look forward to that change.
Q: What is your greatest fear about leaving the University?
I grew up in a family of finance people. Bankers, accountants, and all of that. They taught me financial stewardship. Our years in Colorado and Montana we learned about stew-ardship of the land through ranching and agriculture. I’ve always really felt strongly about having a responsibil-ity in whatever I do to show steward-ship and making something better than it was.
When we arrived at Nicholls it was a great academic institution, but it needed a lot of encouragement to become the university it is today. I’m proud of that.
If I have a fear, it is that we have a government that doesn’t care about education and a governor that
HULBERT continued from page 4doesn’t care about education. They all speak well at the Baton Rouge level, especially when they’re getting prepared for 5 o’clock news feeds, but when it comes down to what’s going on in schools, colleges and universities and the damage that five years of budget cuts have not been planned, and simply executed, the damage is long-term.
I’ve been very vocal. I would honestly tell you, if I have a frustra-tion, it is that my presidential col-leagues across the state have been so silent. Now, some have spoken up and they’re no longer here. Oth-ers have chosen not to speak up, but if you are a steward of your insti-tution you have a responsibility to speak up.
Q: What will you miss the least about the Louisiana?
Being rather frank, state govern-ment. If I was joking I would say the humidity in the summer, but that’s part of life in the deep south and I don’t mind it. What I will miss least is the government that doesn’t seem to care.
Q: What has been your most gratifying experience as presi-dent?
I think it’s seeing close to 10,000 students pass through this campus and complete a degree. There’s nothing more gratifying than see-ing that accomplishment because
62 percent of our students are first generation and many are working multiple jobs to afford schooling. It doesn’t come easy. To see so many of them get degrees and be wanted in the professional fields, it’s won-derful.
Q: Do you have advice for the University as we continue to fight for Nicholls?
I want people to continue to be proud of what they do and what Nicholls accomplishes. We’re going to get through this and continue to
mature as a University. I like to say that we survive and even thrive on occasion in spite of state govern-ment. Folks up there don’t like that statement, but it’s accurate for ru-ral regions and we are going to get through this. I want to encourage people to continue to do what they do so well on behalf of the students and we’ll get through it together. I may not be on this campus, but my heart will still be here. Our hearts will still be here. Continued on
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NICHOLLS ATHLETICS
Jaimee Springer, sophomore from Lloydminster, Alberta, Canada, throws javelin during a meet at Louisiana State University.
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Track sets more records at LSU Alumni Gold EventJacob WilliamsSports Writer
The Nicholls women’s track and field team had another record-set-ting day this weekend at the LSU Alumni Gold event. Junior Jaimee Springer earned the top spot in javelin Saturday, her fifth title in the last six meets.
Springer has not placed lower than second in any meet this sea-son, steadily improving through the season to throw a personal best of 152 feet and one inch last weekend, after setting a new facil-ity record at Ole Miss the previ-ous week.
“My consistency in practice is showing up at each meet,” Spring-er said. “If I’m not improving on my overall distance I always make
sure to focus on one part of my technique at each meet. I may have not thrown what I would’ve liked, but if I can walk away from it knowing I improved even slight-ly on my technique then I consid-er that a good day on the runway.”
Even with her string of success, Springer insists that anyone could beat her at any time.
“This streak is most certainly better than my freshman and sophomore year, so it feels awe-some,” Springer said. “I don’t consider myself to be on a roll though because there can always be a girl that could out throw me. Javelin is very tricky that way. It only takes one throw to win it all.”
The win in Baton Rouge puts Springer in position to qualify for the NCAA East Preliminary meet
this summer, though the Alberta, Canada native has bigger aspira-tions.
“My goal this year is not only to qualify for regionals, but to make the Final 16 there,” Springer said. “From there I’d like to make the top 12 to qualify for NCAA Na-tionals in Eugene, Oregon.”
While Springer has been bring-ing in titles, sophomore Tessni Carruthers and junior Jackie White have found success on the track. Carruthers set a new Colonel re-cord in the 1500 meter at LSU with a time of 4.29.92, a record set a week earlier by White. The time marked the first ever time un-der four and a half minutes for a Nicholls runner in the event.
White finished eighth in the event Saturday, while also placing
fifth in the 800 meter at the event. White and Carruthers hold the no. 1 and no. 2 in the Southland Con-ference in the event, respectively. The pair hold the top spots in the 1500 meter as well.
Additionally, sophomore Kryshell Rolle, who sits at third in conference in the event, brought the team a top 10 performance with a fifth place finish in the 400 meter hurdles, while senior Aja Scott finished 10th in the javelin. Both Scott and Springer rank in the top 10 in the Southland Con-ference, Springer in third and Scott in seventh.
“The team is on pace to do won-ders this season,” Springer said. “We have a lot of versatility on this team, which is beneficial going into conference.”
The squad’s success has come hours away from campus, though Nicholls has not hosted a meet. Springer and her teammates had to rely on motivating each other while constantly competing on the road. Still, the team plans to go out and try to break more records when the conference meet comes around.
“It’s tough for our team since we don’t have a fan base that comes and watches us each week, let alone a facility for them to watch us,” Springer said. “It’s our job to put up the distances and times to let people know that we’re a group of girls that need to be taken seriously here at Nicholls.”
The Colonels will head to Lake Charles, Louisiana on May 10 to compete in the Southland Out-door Championships.
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Marcet overcomes injury to become offensive producerJake Martin
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Nicholls State junior catcher Brit-tany Marcet is a quiet leader. This is visible within seconds of meeting her.
She is uneasy, and the site of a re-corder makes her extremely nervous. However, it does not make Marcet any less of a leader. With a shy demeanor, Marcet likes to lead by
example, rather than gathering her teammates and giving them direc-tion vocally.
“I’m trying,” Marcet said with a grin. “I’m not the oldest, but I try to (assume the role) because I’m a catcher. I’m not the most talkative, but I try to lead by example.”
Leading by example is exactly what Marcet has done this season. Marcet is currently second on the team in batting average with a .336
average, and she is second on the team in home runs with two.
Marcet’s batting average jumped from .237 in 2011 to .345 in 2013. She credits her coaches for her im-proving, steady bat.
“I think it has a lot to do with our hitting coaches,” she said. “We have two coaches watching us and helping us, instead of just having one. I think that it’s really helping everybody out, not just me.”
One of those coaches that helped her is head coach Angel Santiago. Marcet believes that he has done wonders for her collegiate career by adding a system that compliments her both on the fi eld and off. Simple tasks like watching fi lm of her hitting help her see what she’s doing wrong and what she needs to improve.
“He helps me not just with hitting, but he helps me with catching. He re-ally bring structure to the team, and
we’ve never really had that before.”Her career-high batting average
and offensive production has helped her team amass 19 wins this season. Marcet enjoys being a contributor because she likes helping. In fact, her career ambition is to become a fi re-fi ghter. It’s been her goal “ever since 9/11.”
“I didn’t want to join the army or anything, so I thought that would be best to help people here.”
Brittany Marcet, junior catcher from Texas, catches during the fi rst inning at the March 28 game.PHOTO BY CHELSEA CHAUVIN
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Brandon Jackson, junior from Ft. Gibson, Oklahoma, takes posi-tion at third base during the game against University of Louisiana at Lafayette April 23.
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Junior Brandon Jackson has been playing his first season for the Colonels after transferring from Labette Community College in Kansas. Jackson has played on both sides of the ball, pitching and hitting for Nicholls, and has two wins with no losses this season on the mound. He took some time to answer a few questions after pitch-ing a shutout against McNeese.
Q: What is the difference in pitching the opening game of a series compared to trying to close out the last game of a se-ries?
A: To me, I’ve had to do it a lot, and it all comes down to pitching. It is just pitching. I just try to throw
strikes no matter where I come in.
Q: What got you here to Nich-olls?
A: It was a long, drawn-out pro-cess, but I’m glad to be here.
Q: How has the transition been from a junior college to here?
A: It has been different. One thing has been the weather. Being from Oklahoma, the weather is definitely different. It has been fun.
Q: How is it being on the bay-
ou?
A: It is a lot warmer. It is a lot better baseball weather.
Q: You played a few different sports. Did that help you with baseball?
A: Yeah, any sport helps you. We play ping pong in the locker room. Any competitive sport helps you with baseball.
Q: You hit, pitch, and play in the field. How did you develop all those skills?
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A: All through high school and junior college, I just had to do it, so now it has become second nature to me.
Q: What is your favorite thing to do?
A: I love to hit, but pitching is up there, too.
Q: What was it like not being from around here and pitching against LSU, knowing how big that is here?
A: It was a good experience. I wish we could have come out on top in that one. It really prepared us well coming into conference weekends.
Q: Is it a heavy workload pitch-ing and hitting?
A: It is, especially being a two-way guy. It is a really heavy workload. You really have to buy in, have fun and enjoy it. There are a couple of other guys on our team who do the same thing. You just have to put your head
down and get it done.
Q: Do you feel like the secret weapon?
A: I just come whenever they need me. We have a lot of secret weapons on this team.
Q: How did you get the number one? Did you pick it?
A: I did not. It was just given to me by the coaching staff.
Fighting fi res is something Marcet wants to do after college. Right here, right now, she’s busy being one of the Colonels best offensive weapons on the team. She’s enjoying her time because she knows it can all go away in the blink of an eye, just like last season. Marcet received a redshirt in 2012 for tearing her ACL, an injury that put her out of action for the en-tire season. This wasn’t unchartered territory for the catcher from Pear-land, Texas.
“It wasn’t a new thing because I did it my senior year of high school, and I came back,” Marcet said.
Marcet admits that it is hard start-ing all over and coming back from such a detrimental injury, but she has done it. After sitting for an entire season and cheering on her team-mates from the bench, she has now assumed a leadership position on the team and has transformed herself into one of the best hitting catchers in the Southland Conference.
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Chrystal Lachney, communicative disorders junior from St. Francisville, and Rusty Bruce, history senior from Cut Off, practice promenading during a Phi Mu and Kappa Alpha Order square dance mixer on April 17.
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Becky Hulbert talks about life in the president’s houseKami Ellender
Lagniappe Editor
(Above:) A view of the formal living room is shown during the tour that Becky Hulbert gave of her home that she and President Hulbert have lived in for the last ten years.
(Right:) Becky Hulbert sat down with The Nicholls Worth on Monday to talk about her last ten years at Nicholls State University. The 40-year-old chair in the photo is her “famous Amish rocker,” which she got during her time living in Penn. “We take something special from each palce that we live, so this chair to me is very special.”
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Q: How do you feel about leaving Nicholls?
It was time. We’ve been here ten years. I think Steve has probably done everything that he can for the University to progress. It’s time for us to go home and be with our family.
This is a very family-oriented place and everybody knows that. Not that we don’t have some of the best family and friends we’ve ever had in our moves and the places we’ve gone to. It will be sad. I can’t even talk about it. It’s hard, but we need to go home.
Q: How did you end up here?I was born in Texas. My dad was
a pilot, but he was also a Certified Public Accountant.
One of the most fun places
we’ve been was to Goose Bay, Labrador. They put us on a cargo plane, my mom, my brother and me, with all these weird things like sardines.
We got to Labrador, went to French-Canadian schools, and rode a Sno-Cat vehicle across runways to get there. There were only seventeen American kids there, but there were over 10,000 American military personnel.
Sometimes we had snow up to the second story of the house and they would have to dig tunnels out so we could get to school. The Sno-Cats with the treads and all, those were basically our busses.
I got to have lunch with Prince Philip, Bob Hope. I just found my autograph book with Jerry Col-onna’s autograph.
Then we came back and went to Nebraska. He decided he wanted to fly again, so he wanted to fly B36’s.
He never could do that because he was a senior controller. You know the infamous red phone? Well, we lived with it in our house at all times. We had a plane and friends with a ranch in Wyoming, and dad would take us there to spend a few weeks. It was a very different life, but it was a very stable life.
From there we went to New York. I moved the middle of my junior year of high school, and everyone has to take New York Regents Exams. I royally flunked them because it wasn’t something you could catch up to. I hadn’t had the experiments they had.
Then I went to boarding school in Boston and repeated my junior year, which I probably needed because I was always really young. Then I went to a private women’s college in New York. Then gradu-ate school, which is where Steve and I met in class.
Q: What do you see yourself doing when you both move Arizona?
I don’t know. I think we’re just going to have to kind of explore and figure that out.
I’m sure he’s going to do some interim work. I give him about one year before he goes, “Hmm, I think I need to do more than this.” Maybe he will not be that way, but I can settle much easier than he can because I have a lot of outside interests.
I doubt he’s just going to work on his stamp collection. He’s going to get restless sitting at home, so I joke with him that he better have a part time job saying that he could go and work a Lowes or some-thing. He says, “I don’t know any-thing about carpentry” and I laugh and tell him, “No, but you could be the greeter.” We’re being silly, but I don’t know what he’s going to do.
Q: What will you miss the most about Louisiana?
My friends. I can’t even talk about it without crying. I think the pace is pretty laid back here. Yes, we do a lot, but that’s just in our nature. I hope the next president doesn’t feel like they need to “fol-low” us because they don’t. We just do things. Other people have their own style and mode.
Q: What do you think are some of the biggest cultural ex-periences you have seen here?
Everything here is often based on the past, not what something can be in the future. I think that’s a mentality. Everyone has always been here and not many people have travelled, so the community sometimes becomes stagnant and close. We’re very fortunate that people have let us in. I don’t think that’s necessarily bad, I just think that’s reality.
Like most people, I cringe at the four letter word “diet.” Not because diets seem hard or unappealing, but because I just don’t have any desire to follow them. I’ve always believed that you can eat anything you want; you just have to be smart about pro-portions or and indulgences. How-ever, I’ve found a diet that has led to success for me.
Early last week I was browsing through my Pinterest and I noticed a picture of a girl showing off her fl at abs with the words “The Military Diet, in three days you should lose up to 10 pounds.” Right away I was skeptical for a few of reasons. First, I’m not naïve enough to think the girl in the picture got her abs and toned legs from following a three-day diet. Second, you don’t gain weight over-night, so you won’t lose it overnight either. Still, I was curious about what exactly the diet involved, so I opened the link. The next thing I knew, I was at the grocery store buying my menu items for the next three days.
This diet goes by either the “3-day Diet” or the “Military Diet,” and ac-cording to the blog that originally posted it, blessedmommy.hubpages.com, it is used in the military when personnel need to get in shape quick-
ly. It is a short-term diet and should only be used for a month at most. If followed properly, you could lose up to ten pounds a week, or forty pounds in a month. Key words be-ing “up to.” In my case, I lost eight pounds within the fi rst three days of the diet, but gained four back by the end of the “off days.”
The diet provides a strict three-day plan followed by four days of healthy, but non-restricted eating.
While I was ecstatic to see that the
diet seemed to be working, I kept track of my calorie intake to make sure I wasn’t starving myself. The meals seemed small, but I always felt full after eating them.
I’m currently on my second week of the diet and while I’m still not completely sold, I’m going to stick it out for the entire month. I’m not using this as some miracle diet that will make me skinny in a month, but as a jump-start to keep me motivated towards my goal.
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Along with the coming of Spring enters the excitement of music through the many music festivals happening across the south.
The Nicholls radio station, KNSU 91.5 FM, has sponsored giveaways throughout the month of March for music festivals such as the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, and the Hangout Music Festival.
Today, KNSU will sponsor the Bonnaroo Music Festival trivia con-test at 7pm live on air. The fi rst stu-dent to e-mail the radio station all of the correct answers to the trivia questions will receive a pair of tick-ets to the festival.
The Hangout Music Festival, lo-cated in Gulf Shores, AL. will be from May 17 through 19. Musical performances include Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Stevie Wonder, Kings of Leon, Kendrick Lamar and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. General admission for this three-day music festival is $229. Children accompanied by an adult get in free. Matthew Fryou, mass communica-tion junior from Morgan City and
DJ for KNSU, said he would enjoy going to this festival because of its great atmosphere.
“This festival is the closest thing to Woodstock as this generation is going to get,” Fryou said.
On April 11, KNSU also held a trivia contest for the Hangout Mu-sic Festival. The person who sent in all of the correct answers via email to the station within the 7 O’clock hour won a pair of weekend passes to the Gulf Shores music festival.
Along with sponsoring a giveaway to the festival, KNSU plans to send DJ Cindy Rivet to Gulf Shores to cover the three-day festival for the radio station.
Nick Gremillion, KNSU station manager, said this festival will prob-ably be a student favorite because it is full of great music on a white sand beach the weekend after fi nals.
On April 18, KNSU sponsored an identical trivia contest to the Bonnaroo and Hangout Festivals in which they gave away a pair of tickets for the concert held at the Fairground Race Course in New Orleans.
The New Orleans Jazz and Heri-tage Festival, commonly known as the Jazz Fest, will be held from April 26 to May 5. Jazz Fest began in
April 1970. Jazz Fest highlights the culture and music of the birthplace of jazz. This year’s musical line-up includes Billy Joel, Fleetwood Mac, Dave Matthews Band, Maroon 5, Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly, B.B. King, Frank Ocean and many more. Along with great music, Jazz Fest has a host of local vendors sell-ing popular Louisiana dishes includ-ing crawfi sh bread, po-boys, boudin and more. General Admission for Jazz Fest is $65 at the gate and $10 for children under the age of ten.
The Bonnaroo Music Festival, located in Manchester, TN, will be held on June 13 to June 16 and will feature live performances from Paul McCartney, Mumford and Sons, R. Kelly, Kendrick Lamar, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Mackl-emore & Ryan Lewis and many more. Entertainment for the audi-ence to enjoy include The Academy, which is a collection of arts and crafts that involve much participa-tion from festivalgoers. These in-teractive workshops include break dancing, instrument building and theatre.
General Admission for this four day-festival is $269.50. For a VIP package for two people, the cost is $1449.50.
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Upcoming festivals to check outIf you could be a �ictional character,
whom would you choose?
“Rapunzel from Tangled”-Jessica Law-rence, educa-tion sophomore from New Orleans
“Katness Ever-deen from The Hunger Games”-Kayla Pel-legrin, nursing senior from Bourg
“Buddy the Elf, even though I’m a girl”-Meagan Parra, education grad-uate student from Cut-Off
“Dory from Find-ing Nemo”-Michaela Balli, mass communi-cation freshman from Morgan
“Mulan”-Allie Falgout, biology pre-med fresh-man from Thibodaux
“Ted the Bear”-Shea Sonnier, culinary senior from Delcambre
“The male equiv-alent to Herm-ione Granger”-Nicholas Mar-tin, accounting sophomore from Cut-Off
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Q: Do you have any fears about leaving?
No. I’m not ready, but I don’t have any fears. I feel like we’re going home. Do I have to know a ton of people to do that? No, it’s still home.
Q: What are you most excited to do after this?
Steve and I want to go back to some of the places we love. We’ve travelled all over the world, so this will give us that opportunity. I’m pretty sure Steve will do some interims at different places. I think he has so much to offer.
I love to go to new places and do new things. I’m a military brat so that’s something I’ve done all my life. After about four years in one place, I’m ready to go or I need something new to do.
Q: Are there any travel desti-nations you have wanted to go to and just haven’t made it yet?
Australia. I don’t think that’s Steve’s favorite. Our son spent his junior year of high school in Australia so he has a lot of family friends there.
My uncle left the United States and immigrated to Australia. Our son Scott was the only one who ever went to Australia to visit him. Because of Scott’s visit and the wonderful care people gave him, I would love to go there.
So that’s on my bucket list, but just about every place else in the world is.
Q: What are some of your hobbies?
I went to a Restore or Retreat, which is about saving the coast and I’ve been involved with the organization since about the fi rst year after we arrived here. I’m re-ally into that.
I also love to play bridge. I have two bridge clubs that I play with. It’s not cut-throat but it’s for a dollar. If you win you get fi ve and second place gets three. Big stakes.
I love them. They are all ages. For example, Bobbi Olivier is in her 80’s, but boy is she a wiz at cards. She takes me on adventures because she paints. I have friends that I visit down the bayou to play bridge.
Q: What ‘souvenirs’ are you taking from Louisiana?
A lot of things, but my favor-ite is in our new house. I wanted something that is cypress. We have friends that have some old cypress, like 1850’s. The cypress in our piece was probably cut in the late 1860’s, like literally cut. It’s been curing and everything else.
We had a carpenter or artist, he really is both, give me an idea of what I wanted and how big it needed to be and everything else. It’s a sort of entertainment center for the television, etc. It has to cure though. It’s coming in right after graduation. We’re going to put it in this house until we move, but then we can’t do anything else with
it until we can acclimate it to the altitude, which is 5,300 feet in the mountains. So that cypress piece is my piece from Louisiana, like my chair from Pennsylvania.
This is my famous Amish rocker. We lived in Pennsylvania. There were Amish with their buggies and they would tie them up to go to the grocery store.
In Pennsylvania we had a big turn of the century English Tudor house. It was gorgeous and there was a planter. Steve has always been obsessed with plants. Well anyway, this beautiful ceramic pot fell and when it broke, it also broke this chair.
We needed someone to fi x it, but the Amish do not have telephones, so we went to this cheese place where the Amish sell their cheeses and told them we had a problem. The group we knew also knew of the man who had made the chair and they said they knew someone who would probably like to work on one of his pieces.
We went into the middle of the woods with this chair and the man said “I see it now” meaning “May I see the piece now?” We took the chair out so he could look at it and he said, “When she does the wash, I think I can fi x it.”
He fi xed it and when we asked how much he said, “fi ve dollars.” We take something special from each place that we live, so this chair to me is very special.
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President Hulbert, Congratulations on your retirement, and
thank you for all the benefits that you have orchestrated at Nicholls State University. As a 2004 non-traditional student, I arrived to an unkempt and unsightly campus. I constantly remarked about the ill-kept property, and my first classroom in Beauregard was like being in a third-world classroom with large patches of peeling paint and moldy windows. The dining hall experience was only what can be
described as dismal and was to be avoided at all costs. The long-promised recreation cen-ter was the butt of many jokes and referred to as Dorothy’s Rainbow; somewhere, some-time, we will see the rec. center that we have paid for how many years? Returning to the campus in 2011 was and continues to be a pleasant experience with manicured lawns and clean edifices. Beauregard Hall is fabu-lous; there is an up-scale dining environment, a magnificent recreation center, and new dorms (just to name a few gains). Yes, we may be a little leaner and meaner (ACT 21
entrance), but we are greener and preened for new growth; and better for your coming and now departure.
Au revoir mon ami! You have been a good friend to NSU.
Tina Granger, Instructor Gov’t & Social Sciences NSU
instructor sends best wishes to hulbert
The end is near.As students come closer and closer to see-
ing the end of the semester, last-minute pa-pers, assignments, exams and projects are un-doubtedly piling up. The added stresses of planning for summer situations or future se-mesters, worrying about graduation arrange-ments, or looking to begin the search for a career don’t help either.
Though it seems like there is no end to the misery in sight, even though we are speeding toward the last day of finals, putting work off to the last minute and whining about all there is to do will ruin what little academic liveli-hoods some of us have left.
Taking the rest of the semester one day at a time can break the stress down into manage-able pieces. Making a list or schedule of up-coming responsibilities and due dates can or-ganize a student’s thoughts and insure against compensation. Just because the out-of-class stresses are building, students would do well also to not lose energy with in-class respon-sibilities. Don’t start skipping now, and don’t start skimping on the attention paid in class or the quality of discussion that takes place there.
According to premedhell.com there are a few steps to take to make it through these last few weeks. First, exercise. As Reese Wither-spoon said in Legally Blonde, “Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy.
Happy people just don’t shoot their husbands, they just don’t.” This is true of finals week as well. Exercise makes you feel a lot better and less sleepy so that you can get done what needs to be done. In the case of end of semester projects and finals, happy people equals bet-ter grades, less anxiety, and a more free time because you will work more efficiently when you do sit down to study.
Next, keep a list. To-do lists work won-ders. Keep a going list of everything that needs to be done from now until the end of the semester. It feels great to cross things off and once you finish the whole list it’s summer!
Step three: work smart. Use your time wisely and make the most of it. There are only a few weeks left in the semester which leaves even less time to procrastinate. Get things done quickly and you will feel much more at ease over the next few weeks. This may mean having to stay home instead of go-ing to that fun party you had planned to at-tend this weekend, but in the end it will all pay off.
Next, work with a group. Whether you are studying or working on a major term paper it is always good to work in groups. The library is a good place to meet up since there are few things that can distract the group there. Use each other’s resources and feed off of each other for more information. Two brains are always better than just one.
Finally, remember your goals. Setting real-istic goals for yourself and making sure that you reach them is of utmost importance. If goals are not set, you have no motivation to complete the things that need to be com-pleted. When making goals, think short-term and realistic. If you know you can’t pass the class with an A, don’t set that goal. Make a promise to make a B or some grade you are happy with. Also, take goals day-by-day. Every time you scratch something off of that list of things to accomplish, you will feel a little bet-ter and more motivated to continue on.
Stressed-out students need only to look back at past end-of-the-semester periods of woe and worry, where it didn’t seem like suc-cess was possible. Everyone (for the most part) made it through in one way or another, and it can be done again. The victory of free-dom, the light at the end of the tunnel that is this semester will be much sweeter after a hard-fought end. Keep the ultimate goal in sight, but don’t let your anxiety and excite-ment ruin everything at the finish line.
The end is near, but your attitude in the final stretch will affect whether you stumble out at the end or finish with a smile and a sigh of relief.
