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A Historic Academic Year
Dear MSU Community,
Spring is here, Bobcats, and we are at the conclusion of an academic year like no other in the last hundred springs.
We inaugurated this year in early August, treading into the new and ever-changing territory of a pandemic where innovation and adaptation were daily necessities. It was a time of uncertainty and anxiety for all of us.
And yet, on the morning of the first day of classes, I heard the roar of our heating plant s steam whistle and knew then that everything was going to be well.
The tradition of blowing the campus whistle at the start and the end of each semester
Architects Samuel G. and William B. Wiener s work made Shreveport an early hub of International Modernist design in the United States.
The story behind the residential, institutional, and commercial buildings the siblings designed from the 1930s through the 1960s unfolds in Unexpected Modernism: The Wiener Brothers Story, a new documentary on Louisiana Public Broadcasting. The program premieres at 7 p.m. Thursday. Unexpected Modernism brings to life the work and wonder of two brothers, considered by many experts to be the most prolific and celebrated architects in not only Shreveport, but also the South, a news release says. They were among the first to bring postmodern architecture to the United States, making Shreveport one of the first places in the country to have a collection of designs to reflect the spirit of optimism and community building represented by postmodernism.