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Read the latest oil spill briefs, page 2.
BASEBALL
Tigers take to summer Intersection at Stanford Avenue and Perkins Road closed, page 3. leagues, improve pitching, page 7.
The Daily Reveille
Volume 114, Issue 152 – Thursday, July 8, 2010
Summer Edition – see www.lsureveille.com for more
Can’t play NO more?
University to change W policy in fall
Catherine Threlkeld Staff Writer
photos courtesy of SAM JASPER and LISA PALUMBO
New Orleans law enforcement ordering French Quarter street musicians to honor 8 p.m. curfew
[Left] Members of To Be Continued Brass Band play on a sidewalk in the French Quarter. [Right] Musicians play on the streets of the French Quarter while onlookers support them with signs. An 8 p.m. curfew for street musicians is being enforced in New Orleans.
Matthew Jacobs Senior Staff Writer
When the members of To Be Continued Brass Band took to the streets of the infamous New Orleans French Quarter on June 15, they didn’t expect to be ordered to stop playing their jazz tunes. But that night, as the brass band roared through its catalog of soulful New Orleans-esque tunes, a police officer handed the band members an ordinance citing an 8 p.m. curfew
for street musicians. The curfew, which is being put into effect amid an abundance of protest, makes it unlawful for street entertainment to be performed between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. from the entertainment district of Bourbon Street to Canal and St. Ann streets. Another ordinance brought to the musicians’ attention makes it unlawful for any person to play a musical instrument on any public right-of-way in the city between 8 p.m. and 9 a.m. unless granted a permit.
Now, in addition to their trumpets and saxophones, the members of To Be Continued and other musical staples of the French Quarter can often be seen holding signs reading “Please Don’t Stop the Music” and other marks of protest. “[Bourbon Street] is the birthplace of what we do,” said Sean Roberts, a trumpet player in To Be Continued. “It’s the most famous street for people to come and see what you invented, and MUSICIANS, see page 11
Student Government has been tackling many changes in academics this summer, including revising the W grade policy. Students receive a W when they drop a course after the established drop date. The new policy does not change the number of W grades allowed, but it does change how many are allowed per hours earned. The original policy allowed 3 W’s during the first 30 hours of classes, and 1 W for each 30 hours after that. The new policy allows 3 W’s during the first 60 hours of classes, 3 W’s in the next 60 hours of classes, and only 1 W for any hours past that. “At the request of Student Government, the University revised the W Grade policy,” said University Registrar Robert Doolos in an email to undergraduate students. “The revised policy goes into effect with the 2010 fall semester.” Students cannot exceed their number of W’s unless allowed by the dean of their college, and W’s cannot be carried forward. POLICY, see page 11
LSU Libraries compiles oil spill information Website intended to inform community Nicholas Persac Staff Writer
A pair of workers wearing hard hats examine field samples in a photograph on the cover of BP’s 2009 Sustainability Review. The year-old report’s title would now provoke either a laugh or a disgusted look from Gulf Coast residents — “Operating at the energy frontiers: How a revitalized BP is driving innovative, efficient and responsible operations.”
The book is on display in and the librarians wanted to have Middleton Library as part of LSU something people could see and Libraries’ efforts to make available touch in addition to the website,” any resources related to the wors- said Nancy Colyar, assistant dean ening oil spill of Libraries. in the Gulf of The display Mexico. The deuses graphics to partment recentshow students ly launched an “what happened, “Oil Spill Subwhat’s next [and] ject Guide” on where are more reits website and sources” and lists set up the display the call number Jorie Porter in Middleton’s ranges for topassistant librarian lobby last week ics in the library to help students like coasts, mafind oil spill resources both online rine pollution, environmental and in the library. sciences, water pollution and “We know it’s a topic we’re REPORT, see page 11 getting a lot of questions about,
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“We’re trying to get as much information as we can in one centralized place.”
GRANT GUTIERREZ / The Daily Reveille
Oil spill information sits atop a table in Middleton Library. LSU Libraries has begun an effort to compile resources related to the environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.