Friday’s “snow day” won’t cause class days to be added to the academic calendar, University administrators said.
University Registrar Robert Doolos said LSU requires 42 classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and 28 classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
That allows for one day of classes to be canceled.
If LSU has to cancel two days, however, the University will have to make up both of those days, Doolos said.
That would mean the University would either call for Saturday classes or chop two days off spring break.
Doolos said there are further provisions for making up class if more than two days are missed.
The University canceled class late Thursday afternoon as potentially dangerous winter weather conditions approached.
D’Ann Morris, executive assistant to the chancellor and interim director of the Emergency Operations Center, said Chancellor Michael Martin decided to close campus after the LSU EOC Core Committee warned icy conditions might make commuting dangerous.
The National Weather Service issued a severe winter-weather warning Thursday, forecasting freezing rain and as much as an inch of ice on the roads.
Gov. Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency Wednesday because of the storm.
State offices and public K-12 schools were closed Thursday and Friday. Private schools and other universities in the area, including Southern University and Baton Rouge Community College, were closed Friday.
 
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