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days since oil spill began.
Read the latest oil spill briefs, page 2.
Oil spill research delayed until funds arrive, page 3.
BASEBALL
Team faces challenge of replacing Gibbs, page 5.
The Daily Reveille
Volume 114, Issue 147 – Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Student hit by drunk driver in South Africa
Summer Edition – see www.lsureveille.com for more
Don’t ice me, bro
STEP 1: HIDE
Matthew Jacobs Senior Staff Writer
A University student is in critical condition in South Africa after being struck by a vehicle last week while attending the World Cup. Brian Murphy, psychology sophomore, and two siblings were hit by a drunk driver while walking along a road, according to a report from KATC, a news station in Lafayette, where the family lives. Murphy’s sister Nicole was killed in the accident. Brian Murphy is currently in critical condition with a major head injury, but high-priced medical bills are preventing the family from being able to have him returned to the United States. While Nicole Murphy’s body will be transported back to the U.S. this week, a medical plane for Brian would cost the family more than $300,000. Insurance will not cover the medical expenses because Murphy is hospitalized on foreign lands, according to KATC. Harrison Breaud, business sophomore and Brian Murphy’s roommate, said Brian is in a medically-induced coma and suffering from a hematoma, or a clotting of blood, on his brain and a broken pelvis. INJURY, see page 4
STEP 2: FIND
STEP 3: CHUG
photo illustration by KRISTEN M’LISSA ROWLETT / The Daily Reveille
‘Bros Icing Bros’ game gains popularity on campus, is denounced by Smirnoff Ryan Buxton Staff Writer
As a new drinking game gains viral popularity, University students are packing heat by packing Ice — Smirnoff Ice. The game, called “Bros Icing Bros,” is one of sly creativity in which bottles of
Smirnoff Ice are hidden where one would least expect. When someone finds the bottle, he has been “iced” and must kneel on one knee, put one hand behind his back and chug the entire bottle. Participating in the game is a permanent state of being, said Tipton Pearce, a landscape architecture junior who plays the game.
Players can never deny a bottle when they are iced. “Denial equals expulsion from the game,” Pearce said. The game’s goal is finding the most creative places to hide the bottles. Pearce said his GAME, see page 4
POLITICS
Demonstration protests BP oil spill, calls for clean energy Protestors urge coastal restoration Catherine Threlkeld Staff Writer
ERIN ARLEDGE / The Daily Reveille
Peaceful protestors gather Friday at the State Capitol downtown to speak out against the BP oil spill and to urge the use of clean, alternative energy sources.
Armed with signs and music, peaceful protestors gathered Thursday and Friday at the Louisiana State Capitol to speak out against the Gulf of Mexico oil spill
and urge for cleaner energy in Louisiana. Students, citizens, children and even dogs congregated on the steps of the State Capitol to listen to live music, voice their opinions and speak to legislators. Ward Reilly, a Vietnam War veteran and Baton Rouge native, held a sign saying “greed spills, greed kills!! Got Greed?” “I am here to try to tie the oil spill in with the current state of our
nation, from everything including our troops dying in Iraq for oil, while the same oil is pouring on our shores and killing our wildlife and our economy,” Reilly said. But Reilly said the legislators can’t do anything to help. “What they did before to cause this was deregulating and not holding companies to the standards that are there in other countries,” Reilly PROTEST, see page 4