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                                                       Southeastern Louisiana University
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    Date: 6/28/99
      Contact:                           Carol Dotson 24

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SOUTHEASTERN STUDENTS TAKE SECOND PLACE AT SIFE EXPOSITION
     HAMMOND -- Southeastern Louisiana University's Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE)
took second runner up honors in the Sales & Marketing Group League at the SIFE International
Exposition in Kansas City, Mo., in May.  
     Representing Southeastern were Julie Renee Andries (English major, Covington), Julie
Adel Babin (management, Gonzales), Shannon Beverly (management, Robert), Roshanda
Johnson (management, Independence, treasurer elect), Holly M. Knieper (communication
education, Metairie, vice president elect), Glenn Michael Rhodes (marketing, Thibodaux,
president elect), Romalise "Mel" Robertson (general business economics, Pine Grove), Jeremy
Villere (accounting, Mandeville), and Stephanie Wascom (marketing, Covington, outgoing SIFE
president).
     Southeastern's SIFE team won the championship  in April at the regional competition in
New Orleans. They then advanced to the International Exposition, where they also won first
place in a special competition category called "Success 2000."  The Success 2000 award was
based on Southeastern's numerous SIFE projects on literacy awareness and the damaging effects
of illiteracy. In another project Southeastern's team raised funds for the Lallie Kemp Foundation,
the private fundraising arm for Lallie Kemp Regional Medical Center in Independence.  
     In October 1998 Southeastern's SIFE program was cited as one of 15 national finalists for
the team's project on Make A Difference Day (October 24). SIFE students taught disadvantaged
children how to use Internet search engines on the computers at Southeastern's Covington
Center. The award got Southeastern mentioned in news media across the United States.
     Counting the $750 for the runner-up status in the International Exposition, for this
academic year the SIFE team has won $4,700 for the Southeastern Development Foundation.

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SIFE-Kansas City/ADD ONE 

     SIFE seeks to educate the community, university students, and kindergarten-high school
pupils in the dynamics of a free enterprise economy. Students participate in projects to help the
economy and to involve the University in community improvement.  Team members receive
training and experience in teamwork, audiovisual presentation skills before America's corporate
elite, and methods of relating business issues to people's needs in the community.
     Since 1988, Southeastern's SIFE Program has garnered 25 trophies and over $30,000, in
addition to helping team members attract excellent job offers and making Southeastern Louisiana
University well known in the corporate boardrooms of many of America's companies.  
     SIFE is open to all majors and is coordinated by the College of Business. Academic credit
is available for participation, and inquiries are welcome at the Department of General Business,
(504) 549-2086.



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