The LSU Presidential Search Committee invited six potential candidates to be the university system's next president, including interim President Matt Lee and McNeese State University President Wade Rousse.

Search firm SSA Consultants presented the committee with a list of 30 interested people, and arranged them into different levels of qualification. At the end of Thursday's meeting, the committee voted 11-4 to invite a half-dozen to apply, including Lee; Rousse; Julius Fridriksson, vice president of research at the University of South Carolina; Giovanni Piedimonte, vice president of research at Tulane, and Dr. Robert Robbins, former president of the University of Arizona.

A sixth person on the list whose name and background information remained confidential was invited to apply, should

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