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Yahoo
22-06-2025
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- Yahoo
Service for WW2 British soldier killed in Alderney
A memorial service has been held for the only British serviceman to die on active duty in Alderney during World War Two, 80 years on. About 40 people attended the service on Saturday, at Sapper George Onions' grave in St Anne's church cemetery, on the island. The Royal Engineer died on his 22nd birthday on 21 June 1945 while clearing the island of mines after the German Occupation. The service, led by Reverend David Stretton, included wreath laying by States of Alderney president William Tate, schoolchildren and reservists from the Guernsey section of the Jersey Field Squadron. A simple service is held annually to remember Sapper Onions, who was born in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent. It is believed he died while unloading a lorry carrying supposedly decommissioned mines and detonators, one of which accidentally exploded. The organisers, Alderney Churches Together said Sapper Onions is remembered with affection for both his service and his engagement with the local community. More news stories for Guernsey Listen to the latest news for Guernsey Alderney Churches Together Follow BBC Guernsey on X and Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to
BBC News
22-06-2025
- General
- BBC News
Service held for WW2 British soldier killed in Alderney
A memorial service has been held for the only British serviceman to die on active duty in Alderney during World War Two, 80 years 40 people attended the service on Saturday, at Sapper George Onions' grave in St Anne's church cemetery, on the island. The Royal Engineer died on his 22nd birthday on 21 June 1945 while clearing the island of mines after the German Occupation. The service, led by Reverend David Stretton, included wreath laying by States of Alderney president William Tate, schoolchildren and reservists from the Guernsey section of the Jersey Field Squadron. A simple service is held annually to remember Sapper Onions, who was born in Tunstall, is believed he died while unloading a lorry carrying supposedly decommissioned mines and detonators, one of which accidentally organisers, Alderney Churches Together said Sapper Onions is remembered with affection for both his service and his engagement with the local community.
Yahoo
21-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
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
Yahoo
08-06-2025
- Business
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Outgoing LSU president calls for more investment in Southern University
A. O. Williams Hall on the campus of the Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Baton Rouge. (Photo courtesy Southern University) Outgoing LSU President William Tate, the first Black president of any SEC school, is calling for more investment in Southern University in a new paper analyzing the financial disparities between Louisiana's two land-grant universities. The analysis was written by Tate and Keena Arbuthnot, dean of LSU's Graduate School, who is also Black, and published in the William & Mary Law Review. 'Our financial risk analysis suggests that Southern University's financial situation warrants monitoring and more importantly, investment,' the authors write. Tate and Arbuthnot's article builds on a 2023 letter from former President Joe Biden's administration to 16 states with both predominantly white and historically Black land-grant universities, informing the states they have not lived up to their federal funding requirements and asking them to find ways to ease the disparity. The letter to then Gov. John Bel Edwards alleged Louisiana had shortchanged Southern University $1.2 billion over 30 years. Land grant universities were established in the 19th century by states that received federal property to create schools with a focus on teaching agriculture, science, engineering and military science. The first round of land grant universities, including LSU, were created in 1862. States that would not admit Black students to their land grant universities were required in 1890 to set up separate schools, which in theory should have been funded at an equal level. Louisiana did not want to integrate LSU, so Southern University was designated as a land grant institution. The schools receive additional federal benefits, but states must match certain funds with state dollars — a requirement that has not always been met. LSU's endowment at the end of the 2020-21 school year was over $700 million, while Southern's was around $12 million, a difference of more than $20,000 per student. LSU's total research expenditures in 2020-21 were around $230 million, while Southern's were just over $7 million. Between 2018-21, six of the 19 historically Black land-grant universities have received state matching money for federal dollars, as required by federal law. One of these schools was Southern. No predominantly white land-grant university had a problem getting the matching state funds they were owed. Tate and Arbuthnot's analysis take into account not just the requirements put to the states under the Morrill Acts, which created the land grant university system, but also the defunding of higher education during former Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration. From 2008-18, Louisiana's per student spending for higher education dropped 38%, with only Arizona having a more extreme funding reduction during that period. 'The disinvestment in higher education impacted LSU's financial health over the time horizon of our analysis, and the university experienced increased financial risk,' the two wrote. 'The financial risk status of both universities is inconsistent with the expansive opportunity agenda associated with the Morrill Acts and the hopes aligned with Brown-related litigation,' referencing the landmark Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court decision, which desegregated public schools. The analysis commends legislation from U.S. Rep. Cleo Fields, D-Baton Rouge, who as a state senator sponsored legislation to create an economic development district for Southern University. The authors also praised state Rep. Chris Turner, R-Ruston, who created a dedicated fund for deferred maintenance that is allowing Southern and other Louisiana schools to address their infrastructure needs. 'It is the current generation of leaders' moment to commit to a robust opportunity compact in support of 1890 institutions,' Tate and Arbuthnot conclude. SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX SUPPORT: YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE
Yahoo
08-06-2025
- Business
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Outgoing LSU president calls for more investment in Southern University
A. O. Williams Hall on the campus of the Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Baton Rouge. (Photo courtesy Southern University) Outgoing LSU President William Tate, the first Black president of any SEC school, is calling for more investment in Southern University in a new paper analyzing the financial disparities between Louisiana's two land-grant universities. The analysis was written by Tate and Keena Arbuthnot, dean of LSU's Graduate School, who is also Black, and published in the William & Mary Law Review. 'Our financial risk analysis suggests that Southern University's financial situation warrants monitoring and more importantly, investment,' the authors write. Tate and Arbuthnot's article builds on a 2023 letter from former President Joe Biden's administration to 16 states with both predominantly white and historically Black land-grant universities, informing the states they have not lived up to their federal funding requirements and asking them to find ways to ease the disparity. The letter to then Gov. John Bel Edwards alleged Louisiana had shortchanged Southern University $1.2 billion over 30 years. Land grant universities were established in the 19th century by states that received federal property to create schools with a focus on teaching agriculture, science, engineering and military science. The first round of land grant universities, including LSU, were created in 1862. States that would not admit Black students to their land grant universities were required in 1890 to set up separate schools, which in theory should have been funded at an equal level. Louisiana did not want to integrate LSU, so Southern University was designated as a land grant institution. The schools receive additional federal benefits, but states must match certain funds with state dollars — a requirement that has not always been met. LSU's endowment at the end of the 2020-21 school year was over $700 million, while Southern's was around $12 million, a difference of more than $20,000 per student. LSU's total research expenditures in 2020-21 were around $230 million, while Southern's were just over $7 million. Between 2018-21, six of the 19 historically Black land-grant universities have received state matching money for federal dollars, as required by federal law. One of these schools was Southern. No predominantly white land-grant university had a problem getting the matching state funds they were owed. Tate and Arbuthnot's analysis take into account not just the requirements put to the states under the Morrill Acts, which created the land grant university system, but also the defunding of higher education during former Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration. From 2008-18, Louisiana's per student spending for higher education dropped 38%, with only Arizona having a more extreme funding reduction during that period. 'The disinvestment in higher education impacted LSU's financial health over the time horizon of our analysis, and the university experienced increased financial risk,' the two wrote. 'The financial risk status of both universities is inconsistent with the expansive opportunity agenda associated with the Morrill Acts and the hopes aligned with Brown-related litigation,' referencing the landmark Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court decision, which desegregated public schools. The analysis commends legislation from U.S. Rep. Cleo Fields, D-Baton Rouge, who as a state senator sponsored legislation to create an economic development district for Southern University. The authors also praised state Rep. Chris Turner, R-Ruston, who created a dedicated fund for deferred maintenance that is allowing Southern and other Louisiana schools to address their infrastructure needs. 'It is the current generation of leaders' moment to commit to a robust opportunity compact in support of 1890 institutions,' Tate and Arbuthnot conclude. SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX SUPPORT: YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE
