Bound for glory: The LSU E. J. Ourso College of Business today announced the members of its 2013 Hall of Distinction: William Balhoff, Toni Stephenson and Robert Stuart. This year’s class will be inducted at the Hall of Distinction Banquet, which the college will host at the Business Education Complex on Friday, March 22. Balhoff is managing director and chief executive officer of Postlethwaite & Netterville; Stephenson is president of Domain.com Inc.; and Stuart is head of Middle Market Commercial Banking for Capital One Bank and the Louisiana State President for Capital One Bank. More details on all of them can be found here.
Live and in person: Meetings of the LSU Transition Advisory Team and one of its subcommittees on Tuesday will be live-streamed online. The Transition Advisory Team will meet from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and the Student Experience Subcommittee will meet from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. It will be the third meeting of the 10-member Transition Advisory Team, which was formed to provide information to the LSU Board of Supervisors as it continues to look at ways of reshaping the LSU System. Both meetings can be watched online here. All users may enter as guests but must have the latest version of Adobe Flash player for access. More info on the team can be found here.
Off the ropes: Wrestling fans can be expected to pour into New Orleans beginning April 6, 2014, when WrestleMania XXX arrives at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. The four-day event ends with a pay-per-view event at the Superdome. The official announcement came at a news conference today in New Orleans by civic, sports and tourism leaders and by executives from the media company, World Wrestling Entertainment, which organizes WrestleMania. In a news release, the WWE says the event will be televised in more than 100 countries. Read more about the announcement here.
