The University Student Union hosted a blood drive benefiting the Red Cross throughout November and December of 1956.
A monument to free speech was erected at the Downtown Mall, created and maintained by the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, which was founded by former University President Robert O’Neil.
From The Purple Shadows breaking into the Dean of Students’s office to multiple student athletes accused of honor code violations, the graduating class’s four years were a wild ride.
A faculty jazz quintet performed songs representing New Orleans’s influence on the jazz world and music at large. Bassist Pete Spaar, whose family hailed from New Orleans, urged students to remember the city and its people after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
The University Police’s first female captain, Sylvia Bailey, discusses the impact of her gender on her ability to do police work.
