GEAUX Get Started

Various resources to help you “get GEAUX-ing!”

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Download LSU's mobile app, which includes campus maps, LSU sports news, and routes and live tracking for LSU's bus system, Tiger Trails. Links for iOS and Android devices.
See the GEAUX Apartment Advice page for info on finding a place to live.
Campus Federal Credit Union: (located in the Union)
COX Communications: Local Cable, Internet, and Phone -- Use this link to get your internet service at a student discount.
Entergy: Local energy supplier.
Student Health Insurance
Register to Vote in Baton Rouge: check here or wait for registration cards to come to campus
LSU suggests you program the following numbers into your phone:
- LSU Police Department: 225-578-3231 (Report Suspicious Activity)
- BR Police Department: 225-389-2000
- Campus Transit: 225-578-5555
- Report Outdoor Lighting Problems: 225-578-3186 or workcon@lsu.edu

Visit the Departmental Computing Services page for software and information on computing.
Accessing LSU's wireless network: extensive instructions from LSU.
Information Technology Services: LSU's computer support.
TigerWare: Free and discounted software available to all students at LSU. Includes Mathematica 8, Microsoft Word, and other useful software.
User support: Information Technology Services staffs a walk-up help desk in the LSU Library, room 141.

LSU Office of Parking, Traffic, and Transportation: Get your campus parking pass and find info on bus routes and the campus transit door-to-door shuttle

You can see which bus routes are running and where each bus is on its route here.

Official Baton Rouge Government Website
Dial 3-1-1 locally (even from any cell phone) during business hours to speak with a live person.
The Advocate: Local newspaper.