Resonant Information - Football trumps education and hurricane relief - Comments

I got in anyway

Zed — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:42:00 -0400

Security appears to be nonexistent. A few grad students are also drifting about. This is just as well, because it's the day before testing, and there was a server emergency I had to take care of.

Probability Seminar in exile

Bogdan — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:10:14 -0400

It seems that the Mathematics Department Probability Seminar was unable to meet on campus today.

Quote:

PROBABILITY SEMINAR
4pm-4:50pm Monday September 26, 2005
1030 Magnolia Wood Avenue (Kuo Residence)

Some Aspects of Poisson Noise

Speaker: Si Si
Aichi Prefectural University, Japan

Locked out of the office

Zed — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 01:34:38 -0400

Dryly amusing to me is the note I received that employees won't even be let into their own offices:

Quote:

Lockett Hall will be open to the public from 10:00 A.M. until 12:00 MIDNIGHT. A security guard will be on duty. To be on the safe side MAKE SURE YOUR OFFICE DOOR, ALL LAB DOORS, etc. ARE LOCKED. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ENTER YOUR OFFICE ON MONDAY ONLY. IT WILL BE DIFFICULT TO COME ON CAMPUS SINCE YOUR REGULAR PARKING PERMIT IS INVALID ON FOOTBALL GAME DAYS.

So the university will be open to the public... but not students, faculty, or staff. I'm not entirely certain how that's supposed to work. I'm tempted to show up tomorrow to find out.

Football trumps education and hurricane relief

Bogdan — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 23:34:04 -0400

LSU decided to cancel classes on Monday, September 26.

Quoting the LSU web page:

Due to the expected effects of Hurricane Rita on the LSU campus, all classes and operations at the university will be cancelled on Monday, Sept. 26. The class make-up date will be Thursday, Oct. 6.

In addition, LSU had been notified by state emergency officials to expect the arrival of special-needs evacuees at the Maddox Fieldhouse. Contingency operations are also under way to begin resumption of acute-care activity in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.

However, the LSU football game will be held in Tiger Stadium on Monday night, as scheduled.