GULF OIL SPILL
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FOOTBALL
Freshmen hope for spot at OL, FB, page 5.
The Daily Reveille University Lafayette plans for PR DEFUL PUP LS to hold budget concert for Volume 114, Issue 155 – Tuesday, July 20, 2010
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Catherine Threlkeld
Katherine Terrell
Staff Writer
Contributing Writer
Every university in the LSU System is preparing for a 23-percent budget reduction for the 201112 fiscal year. Before its meeting Friday, the Board of Supervisors members listened to each chancellor from the system give a detailed plan of how a budget cut this great would affect that particular university. “These projections are all the result of our discussion with the legislature,” LSU System President John Lombardi said. “We’re trying to be very clear to ourselves and our constituents about the consequence of the reduction of state revenues.” Of the $133 million deficit for the entire system, $46 million will come from LSU. Chancellor Michael Martin presented his three-level outline of how cuts of such magnitude will directly affect students. Level One reductions, about $9 million, are those indirectly related to the core functions of teaching and research. Level Two reductions, about $16.6 million, are those directly supporting teaching and research but not actively engaged in delivering those core functions. Level Three reductions, about $20 million, are the units
Fundraising efforts for the Murphy family are still going strong in Lafayette. Sammy Kershaw will headline a benefit concert tonight at Parc International in Lafayette from 6 to 10 p.m. Popeyes, Burgersmith, Pizza Hut and Coyote Blues locations in Baton Rouge and Lafayette sold the tickets for the concert. “We’re still collecting data on the ticket sales from various locations,” said Angie Doyle, director of marketing for TMC foods. “We’re also going to sell tickets at the gate.” Brian Murphy was brought home in time for his sister Nicole’s funeral, held Friday. “Brian is improving,” said LSU soccer coach Brian Lee. “Getting home seems to have been a real positive in helping him get better.” Lee said Louisiana’s Ochsner Health System donated the use of medical staff for the medevac plane used to bring Brian home from South Africa, where he, Nicole and their sister Kellie were struck by a drunk driver. Another benefit, “Soccer Midnight Madness,” will be held July 24 at Moore Park in Lafayette.
REDUCTIONS, see page 7
photos by HALEY PLAUCHE / The Daily Reveille
[Left] Lanier Elementary students race Saturday to be the first ones to see their newly remodeled school. [Above] “School Pride” hosts Susie Castillo, Jacob Soboroff, Kym Whitley and Tom Stroup prepare for the ribbon cutting before the students enter the school. The upcoming NBC series “School Pride” remodeled the Baton Rouge school last week.
NBC series ‘School Pride’ renovates Baton Rouge elementary school Matthew Jacobs Senior Staff Writer
Six yellow school buses pulled in front of Lanier Elementary Charter School in north Baton Rouge on Saturday afternoon, and an outpour of grade-school students and their families exited the doors of the buses, simultaneously chanting, “Lion Pride! Lion Pride!
Cheryl Hines,
executive producer
Lion Pride!” An estimated 300 “Lion Pride” chanters had been attending a school with no air conditioning, mold on the walls and technology more readily found in the Stone Age. But the Lanier Elementary students witnessed a bit of a transformation Saturday as NBC wrapped up its weekl ong Baton Rouge
“...As a human being, you want your community to thrive. We’re working with communities ... to make this happen.”
filming of fall reality show “School Pride.” Baton Rouge was selected as one of seven cities across the country — including Nashville, Detroit and Los Angeles — to be featured on the show, which selects rundown schools to renovate over the course of a week. PRIDE, see page 7
“The show is not really about makeovers ... It shouldn’t take a TV show to come in and turn this around.”
Jacob Soboroff, host
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Second annual BR Irish Film Festival held Saturday Irish Film Institute partnership planned Ryan Buxton Staff Writer
A sea of green flooded the Manship Theatre on Saturday as lovers of Celtic culture gathered for the second annual Baton Rouge Irish Film Festival. Traditional dancers, bagpipers and a batch of Irish films were on hand to entertain attendees to the festival, held by the Baton Rouge Irish Club.
The presence of the Irish Film Festival in Baton Rouge puts the city in league with only four others in the nation with similar festivals, said Laura McDavitt, president of the Baton Rouge Irish Club. “Baton Rouge has stepped up,” McDavitt said. “There’s Boston, Chicago, New York, San Francisco and us.” Three movies and one short film were shown at the festival, each piece chosen for its significance to a different part of Irish culture, McDavitt said. The films included “War of the Buttons,” a family film about rivaling Irish children, “The Nephew,”
the story of a part-Irish man who discovers his family, and “Peacefire,” a film about Irish political conflicts. The films showed various sides of Irish culture, including both political unrest and the lighter aspects of Ireland, said Rex Fortenberry, a member of the Irish Club who works with technical parts of the festival. “When a lot of people think of Ireland, the first thing they think of is the troubles, like conflict in Northern Ireland,” he said. “But the Irish people are also known for their sense of humor. We are showing varied aspects of Irish life.” FESTIVAL, see page 7
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Members of Na Cait Dubh play classic Irish music Saturday in front of the Shaw Center for the Arts during the second annual Irish Film Festival.