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LSU picks search committee members to find its next president
LSU's Memorial Tower on Monday, March 20, 2023, on Tower Drive in Baton Rouge. (Matthew Perschall for Louisiana Illuminator) A search committee has been assembled to find LSU's next president. LSU is searching for a replacement for William Tate, who led both its Baton Rouge flagship campus and the LSU System that also includes medical schools in New Orleans and Shreveport, a New Orleans dental school and satellite institutions in Shreveport, Alexandria and Eunice. Tate departed Baton Rouge to become the leader of Rutgers University in New Jersey. Earlier this year, two board members confirmed to the Illuminator there is ongoing discussion over whether LSU will hire a system president and a separate chancellor for the its main campus. The school's news release announcing search committee members did not indicate whether there would be a separate search for a chancellor. LSU combined the two roles in 2012. Matt Lee, the dean of LSU's College of Agriculture, is serving as interim president. LSU Board of Supervisors chairman Scott Ballard announced the following list of individuals have been appointed to the 2025 LSU Presidential Search Committee, including himself as a member: Lee Mallett, LSU Board of Supervisors vice chairman Valencia Sarpy Jones, LSU Board of Supervisors past chair Rémy Voisin Starns, LSU Board of Supervisors past chair James Williams, LSU Board of Supervisors past chair John Carmouche, LSU Board of Supervisors Blaise Zuschlag, LSU Board of Supervisors Ben Bordelon, Bollinger Shipyards president and CEO Clarence Cazalot, LSU Foundation Board of Directors Paul Coreil, LSU Alexandria chancellor Greg Feirn, LCMC Health CEO E.J. Kuiper, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System president & CEO Pete November, Ochsner Health CEO Roger Odgen, LSU Foundation Board of Directors Emily Otken, LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport student, former LSU Board of Supervisors student member Kenneth Schafer, LSU Boyd professor and Ball Family distinguished professor Ryan Theriot, Former LSU baseball player Daniel Tirone, LSU A&M Faculty Senate president, associate professor Bill Windham, Shreveport-Bossier businessman Ballard told the Illuminator recently the board he predicts would work over the next six months or so to conduct a nationwide search for Tate's replacement. SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
Otago Daily Times
28-05-2025
- Otago Daily Times
Stolen 1980s luxury car taken on a cruise from Christchurch
A 1980s luxury car stolen in Christchurch has turned up hundreds of kilometres away in Dunedin. Sergeant Matt Lee, of Dunedin said police recovered a stolen 1986 Toyota Cresta from Napier St, Belleknowes, at about 11.30pm yesterday. It had been taken from a Christchurch address earlier in the month and would be returned to its owner. A 33-year-old male suspect found at a nearby address has been summonsed to appear in the Dunedin District Court at a later date, Sgt Lee said. Officers valued the retrieved vehicle at $40,000. However, online listings value the same model from as low as between $16,000 and $26,000.
Otago Daily Times
27-05-2025
- Otago Daily Times
Stolen Cresta's cruise from Christchurch
A 1980s luxury car stolen in Christchurch has turned up hundreds of kilometres away in Dunedin. Sergeant Matt Lee, of Dunedin said police recovered a stolen 1986 Toyota Cresta from Napier St, Belleknowes, at about 11.30pm yesterday. It had been taken from a Christchurch address earlier in the month and would be returned to its owner. A 33-year-old male suspect found at a nearby address has been summonsed to appear in the Dunedin District Court at a later date, Sgt Lee said. Officers valued the retrieved vehicle at $40,000. However, online listings value the same model from as low as between $16,000 and $26,000.
Otago Daily Times
27-05-2025
- Otago Daily Times
Speeding ute driver earns court date
A man will appear in court after he was caught allegedly speeding at nearly 160km/h south of Dunedin. A Ford Ranger ute was stopped by police after being clocked at 158km/h in the passing lanes near Henley, Sergeant Matt Lee, of Dunedin, said. The 31-year-old driver was summonsed to appear in the Dunedin District Court at a later date, charged with exceeding the posted 100km/h speed limit. His driver's licence was also suspended for 28 days, Sgt Lee said.
Otago Daily Times
26-05-2025
- Otago Daily Times
Man claims he was being 'chased' after fleeing crash
A man driving his son's car claimed to Dunedin police he was "being chased" when he fled the scene of a crash in Māori Hill. Sergeant Matt Lee, of Dunedin, said police were called after the driver crashed into a parked car in Drivers Rd, Māori Hill at 5.25am this morning. When they arrived, the person that caused the crash had fled the scene. They went to the registered address of the vehicle and found the car had been driven by a Dunedin resident's father who was in New Zealand visiting from overseas. The man's father told officers he was being "chased", Sgt Lee said. He underwent breath testing procedures and passed. On Saturday at 10.22pm, a 28-year-old woman allegedly high on MDMA attempted to swerve around a vehicle in Highgate, but in doing so she crashed into another vehicle on the other side of the road. When police arrived, she failed a compulsory impairment test, during which she admitted to officers she had recently taken MDMA. A blood specimen was taken from the woman and the results were pending, Sgt Lee said. Ten minutes earlier, a 24-year-old man approached a police checkpoint in Great King St, but allegedly turned down a nearby side street in a bid to avoid being breath tested. Eventually, he was stopped in nearby Neville St and police had the man undergo breath testing procedures. He recorded a breath alcohol level of 600mcg — the legal limit is 250mcg. The man was charged with drink driving and he would appear in Dunedin District Court at a later date.
