Student-volunteers show big love to Lafayette community
KATIE GAGLIANO, The Advocate
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LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) Grey-shirted Ragin’ Cajuns fanned through campus and neighborhoods surrounding the University of Louisiana at Lafayette last Saturday for a “big” day of community service.
Around 600 UL Lafayette students, faculty and alumni turned out to collect litter, plant trees, garden and assist local nonprofits, including the United Way of Acadiana and Second Harvest Food Bank, for The Big Event at UL Lafayette.
March 27 was UL’s eighth Big Event. The service project came to campus in 2013, an off-shoot of the longtime service project of the same name at Texas A&M University. The Big Event service events are now held annually at more than 100 university campuses in the United States and internationally, per The Big Event’s website.
Several Acadiana principals in running for state Principal of the Year
The Acadiana region boasts several principals in the running for state Principal of the Year, with five of the 24 semifinalists for 2022 Louisiana Principal of the Year hailing from the eight-parish region.
Lafayette, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Mary and Vermilion parishes all are represented in the list of principal semifinalists released by the Louisiana Department of Education this week.
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Ginger Richard, principal of Green T. Lindon Elementary School in Youngsville, was named the district Elementary Principal of the Year before moving on to the state competition.
Richard has been an educator in the Lafayette Parish School System for 17 years, starting as a teacher at Ridge Elementary where she was voted Teacher of the Year in 2008-09.
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Debate is a fast-paced academic sport that is not for the faint of heart. It pushes debaters beyond their perceived abilities. They have to think on their feet, control their emotions, withstand pressure, and balance time constraints. Critical thinking skills are sharpened, wits are tested, and debaters finish the year as stronger thinkers and better orators than when they began.
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The University of the Cumberlands debate team has too many trophies to fit in the office where they usually practice. As it turns out, the team comes out swinging just as hard in virtual competitions as theyâve done in person. For example, they placed third in the nation (out of 25 schools in attendance) in debate sweepstakes overall in Division II sweeps at the National Christian College Forensics Association tournament held online March 25-28. And now, the team has its sights set on Rwanda.
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ArtWalk features work of Alex Mack, student artist with Down Syndrome
ArtWalk features work of Alex Mack, student artist with Down Syndrome By Arthur Clayborn and Christian Terry | April 1, 2021 at 8:32 PM CDT - Updated April 1 at 8:48 PM
LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - To some, art is in the eye of the beholder, bur for one East Texas artist, art itself is talking for her.
Alex Mack, 20, who was born with Down Syndrome, has been drawing since she was two years old.
She started out drawing unique stick figures in journals and on paper. Then, when she started to talk, she called them âmy people.â