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LSU, UL System announce they will not require students to get vaccinated to return to campus in fall The Advocate Posted at 6:55 PM, Apr 19, 2021 and last updated 2021-04-19 21:06:56-04 BATON ROUGE, La. â Louisianaâs higher education officials are encouraging tens of thousands of students to get COVID-19 vaccines before returning for in-person instruction next fall, but they do not plan to require it. LSU Interim President Tom Galligan released a statement late Monday saying that the school could not require vaccinations given that federal regulators approved the vaccines for emergency use without completing full safety investigations. Dr. Jim Henderson, president of the University of Louisiana System, cited the same reason in saying that he did not plan to require vaccinations before students return in the fall. ....
Current law allows for survivors of domestic violence to abandon a lease early. But if a survivor of sexual assault who is not in a relationship with the abuser asks to be released from his or her rental agreement, and a landlord refuses, the survivor has no choice but to continue paying rent until the lease ends. Freeman’s bill would extend the right to abandon the lease to include survivors of abuse who are not in an intimate relationship with their abuser. Freeman said that it is not only necessary for the safety of many survivors to terminate a lease early, as their abusers often know where they live, but also for their healing. ....
Bill allowing survivors of sexual assault to terminate housing leases early moved forward Wednesday April 14, 2021 LSU student Isabella Rovere, left, shared a personal experience with sexual assault as she sat alongside fellow LSU student Angelina Cantelli, Co-President of Tigers Against Sexual Assault. Photo credit: Kathleen Peppo/LSU Manship School News Service By Kathleen Peppo, LSU Manship School News Service
BATON ROUGE–A bill to allow survivors of sexual assault to terminate housing leases early moved forward Wednesday.
Rep. Aimee Freeman (D-New Orleans), who brought the bill, said that she did so for the sake of all sexual assault survivors, but especially for college students who are victims of sexual assault. ....