Louisiana State University Student Government Records Record Group A5500 Inventory Compiled by Barry Cowan Revised by Michelle Melancon University Archives Hill Memorial Library Louisiana State University Libraries Baton Rouge, Louisiana 2006, 2008, 2016 STUDENT GOVERNMENT RECORDS A5500 1927-2006 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, LSU LIBRARIES CONTENTS OF INVENTORY CONTENTS OF INVENTORY ......................................................................................... 2 SUMMARY ........................................................................................................................ 3 BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL NOTE .......................................................................... 4 SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE ....................................................................................... 4 LIST OF SUB-GROUPS, SERIES, AND SUBSERIES .................................................... 4 SERIES DESCRIPTIONS .................................................................................................. 5 INDEX TERMS ................................................................................................................ 13 CONTAINER LIST .......................................................................................................... 14 Use of manuscript materials. 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Summary Planning documents, correspondence, memoranda, petitions, meeting minutes, constitutions and bylaws, reports, resolutions and legislation, and printed items created by past Student Government Association presidents, Assembly members, and executive staff pertaining to issues of special interest to students on the Baton Rouge campus of Louisiana State University. Access Restrictions No restrictions on access. Copyright Physical rights are retained by the LSU Libraries. Examination and reproduction are governed by state and federal public records laws. Related Collections Office of Academic Affairs Records, A0100 Dean of Students Records, A0302 Office of the Chancellor Records, A0001 Board of Supervisors Records A0003 Citation Louisiana State University Student Government Records, A5500, Louisiana State University Archives, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, La. Stack Location Ranges A:11; A:73-83; 43; 78, 83, LSU MISC Page 3 of 51 STUDENT GOVERNMENT RECORDS A5500 1927-2006 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, LSU LIBRARIES HISTORICAL NOTE The Student Government Association was formed in 1926 from two rival groups that were vying for control of student affairs. Student government is made up of three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial. In addition, college councils exist to represent the interests of students to deans and department chairs of academic units. SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE Planning documents, reports, correspondence, memoranda, petitions, financial records, meeting minutes, constitutions and bylaws, reports, resolutions and legislation, and printed items created by past Student Government Association presidents and executive staff pertaining to issues of special interest to students on the Baton Rouge campus of Louisiana State University. These include the United States’ bicentennial, race relations, campus safety, elections, bus trips to out-of-town football games, assessment of a technology fee, Program Support and Initiatives Fee, search committee for a new chancellor, Council of Student Body Presidents, Personal Access Web Service (PAWS), financial statements, end-of-year-reports, and student alcohol use and abuse. LIST OF SERIES Series I: Correspondence, 1967-1992 Range A: Box 1 Series II: Cabinet and Staff Meeting Records, 1966-1988 Range A: Box 1 Series III: Assembly Agendas and Minutes, 1932-1992 Range A: Box 2, 10 Series IV: Constitutions, 1927-1991 Range A: Box 2 Series V: Bylaws, 1970-1988 Range A: Box 2 Series VI: Rules of Order, 1973-1988 Range A: Box 3 Series VII: Charters, 1980-1987 Range A: Box 3 Series VIII: Handbooks, 1966-1975 Range A: Box 3 Series IX: Committee Records, 1966-1990 Range A: Box 3 Series X: Reports, 1976-1990 Range A: Box 4 Series XI: Topical Files, 1965-2006 Range A: Box 4, 11 Range 43: Box 12 Range78: Box 13-15 Page 4 of 51 STUDENT GOVERNMENT RECORDS A5500 1927-2006 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, LSU LIBRARIES Series XII: Legislation, 1964-1993 Range A: Box 4-6 Series XIII: Election Records, 1966-1991 Range A: Box 6-8 LSU MISC: Box 1, 3 Series XIV: Homecoming Records, 1972-1979 Range A: Box 7 Series XV: Surveys and Questionnaires, 1974-1984 Range A: Box 8 Series XVI: Course Guide Records, 1980-1982 Range A: Box 8-9 Series XVII: SGA Publications, 1966-1988 Range A: Box 9 Range 83: OS Folder 1 LSU MISC: Box 3 Series XVIII: Newspaper Clippings, 1970-1989 Range A: Box 9-10 SERIES DESCRIPTIONS I. Correspondence, 1967-1992. Arranged chronologically, this series consists of letters between student government (SG) presidents, staff, and members of the Student Government Association (SGA) Student Assembly and the University administration concerning the SG budget, fee and tuition increases, proposed legislation affecting higher education, and other issues; new SGA constitutions and amendments; a proposed Black Cultural Center; student fees and salaries for the SG presidents; sexual discrimination, the elimination of policies, procedures, and practices based on sex that were thought to be discriminatory; Title IX funding for women’s athletics; student housing, including fraternities, sororities, and dormitories; textbook shortages at the bookstore; funding for a traffic appeals board; campus parking and traffic problems; concerts, “beer busts,” and other events sponsored by SG; reserved seating at football games for fraternities and medical and law students; student athletic ticket allocations; revisions to the Bill of Student Rights and Code of Student Conduct; fraternity and sorority rush; correspondence with SG presidents at other universities such as the University of Alabama, LSU-Alexandria, the University of Kentucky, and Auburn relating to student conduct at sporting events, comparisons of student rules and rights, and congratulatory notes; and correspondence between SG leadership and state and national politicians on issues related to higher education; the establishment of a leisure sports complex for students. Of note is correspondence regarding plans for dealing with civil disorder in the wake of student shootings at Southern University in 1973, the establishment of mass transit and bicycle routes on campus, the creation of a campus child care facility, the attempted impeachment of SG president Paul Benoist in 1976, the Registration Blues Festival fundraiser begun in 1976 and the handling of the funds generated by the festival, the invalidation of the election of the 1976 Homecoming queen and court due to voting irregularities and the resulting withholding of SG funds to help defray Homecoming costs, fundraising for an addition to Mike the Tiger’s habitat in 1978-1979, LSU’s designation as a sea grant Page 5 of 51 STUDENT GOVERNMENT RECORDS A5500 1927-2006 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, LSU LIBRARIES college in 1978, whether or not University administration had a right to involve itself in internal SG issues, correspondence in support of giving student members of higher education boards the right to vote on issues before the boards and placing a student member on the Board of Regents in 1980, the formation in 1982 of the Special Commission on Campus Life to study various aspects of student life such as the library, food service, student health center, campus housing, and recreational facilities and the administration’s responses to the subsequent report; Courtenay Smoak’s death on the Indian Mounds in 1986 and a proposed monument; and the controversy over Mike Archer becoming the head football coach in 1986. II. Cabinet and Staff Meeting Records, 1966-1988. Arranged chronologically, this series consists of minutes and agendas for the SGA president’s cabinet and SG staff