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                                                       Southeastern Louisiana University
                                           Public Information Office
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    Date: 3/15/00
      Contact:                           Christina Chapple   24

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JINDAL TO PRESENT LIVINGSTON LECTURE MARCH 30
     HAMMOND -- Bobby Jindal, president of the University of Louisiana System, will
present Southeastern Louisiana University's annual James Livingston Memorial Lecture on
Business Ethics at  7 p.m., March 30, in the War Memorial Student Union Ballroom. 
     The lecture is free and the public is invited to attend.
     As president of the University of Louisiana System, Jindal heads one of the largest public
university systems in the United States. The University of Louisiana System includes eight four-
year universities, including Southeastern, enrolls more than 80,000 students, and employs more
than 4,000 faculty and staff.
     Jindal was only 26 years old in 1996 when Louisiana Governor Mike Foster named him
to head the Department of Health and Hospitals. Jindal is widely recognized for his successful
efforts to rescue Louisiana's ailing Medicaid program from bankruptcy while reducing annual
spending by $1 billion. He later served as director of the national Medicare Commission, where
his decisions now impact 40 million older and disabled Americans and will continue to affect
more than 77 million baby boomers. Jindal has served as a consultant to Fortune 500 firms and
federal and state agencies.
     "Scholastic Update" identified Jindal as "one of America's Top 10 Extraordinary Young
People for the Next Millennium." "USA Today" recognized him as one of 20 young persons in
the United States to be named to the All-USA First Academic Team. "Modern Healthcare"
described him as "one of the rising young stars in the United States."
     The Livingston lecture series, founded by Hammond businessman John O. Batson in
1984 in memory of his long-time friend and associate James Livingston.
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