I have decided to respond to one issue. I will …

Comment on LSU’s public relations man calls Educate Truth ‘attack website’ by Larry Blackmer.

I have decided to respond to one issue. I will not bother trying to correct the other misinformation.

I want to respond to the issues involving WASC accreditation. I was given information that, after investigation was not totally accurate. As I stated at the meeting, WASC as an accrediting agency holds schools accountable to their own mission and standards, as well as the agencies standards. My comments about “playing hard ball” with WASC was ill-advised and I apologize for them. LSU has received no threats from WASC, actually WASC had already, unknown to me, evaluated the school before my comments, and given the school a good report. The person I referred to in my comments has no direct connection to LSU accreditation, and the person who does have direct contact has made no statements in this nature at all. NAD and LSU have, and will continue to have, positive relationships with WASC. WASC has well established policies and procedures that are followed to ensure a consistent and fair evaluations of any institution. I am hoping that this will end any insinuations, even though they were begun from my own comments, about any, any, any threats toward LSU from WASC.