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TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2012

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Mikes leave paw prints, legacy on University By EMILY HERRINGTON

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The first Mike the Tiger shares a moment with his trainer in 1936.

A. P. Tureaud, others reflect on race relations By CLAIRE CAILLIER When A. P. Tureaud Jr. came to LSU as the school’s first black undergraduate student, he didn’t anticipate the misery that awaited him. The first day of the fall 1953 semester, Tureaud and his parents were met by LSU’s president, TUREAUD vice president, chancellor and police officers, who told them he had to go back home because they needed more paperwork to allow him to enter campus. The following day, his family returned with the required documents and University officials escorted Tureaud to Tiger Stadium, where his dorm was located. “It was a room for three,” Tureaud said. “But I had no roommates.” Upperclassmen met Tureaud with scissors in the dormitory because it was a tradition to cut underclassmen’s hair, he said. Tureaud thought the ritual was a sign he’d be accepted among his peers. “I thought ‘Wow, this is great, I’m going to have a good time here,’” Tureaud said. After the upperclassmen’s trim, Tureaud went to a black barbershop for a proper haircut and headed back to an empty dormitory. “From that point on, I was shunned and isolated,” Tureaud said. “The idea was if they made me unhappy enough, I would leave.”

The boys in the dormitory put various offensive materials on his door knob and at all hours of the night, his neighbors would play loud music and bang on Tureaud’s walls. No one would sit with him or acknowledge his presence. “I was totally isolated on such a large campus,” he said. “It was a very unfortunate experience for a 17-year-old.” Professors would not answer his questions and some wouldn’t touch his papers, Tureaud said. “One professor in particular said in my presence that she didn’t know how she was going to get through this semester because she

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Violations that would result in automatic expulsion from the University in the early 1960s - Possession of “intoxicating liquor,” including beer or wine - Drunkenness or disorderly conduct - Gambling - Dishonesty in any form - Unchaperoned overnight trips of men and women - Hazing - Possession of ﬁrearms, ammunition, explosives, or ﬁreworks - Unauthorized entrance into the womenʼs dormitory - Participation in student riots Source: The 1961 to 1963 “L-Book”

Nation & World

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1882

1955

1973

Robert Ford shoots, kills infamous American outlaw Jesse James

ACLU steps in amid contentious ‘Howl’ obscenity trial, defends valuable poem

Inventor of cell phone makes first hand-held call on clunky prototype

Infamous American outlaw Jesse James was killed April 3, 1882, at the hand of Robert Ford. James was famous for committing murders and robberies. He and his brother Frank served as Confederate guerillas during the Civil War. James became a legendary ﬁgure of the Wild West after his death. James’ trusted friend Robert Ford was secretly negotiating with Missouri Gov. Thomas Crittenden to capture James. The Ford brothers openly acknowledged killing James and were pardoned by Crittenden.

On April 3, 1955, The American Civil Liberties Union announced it would defend Allen Ginsberg’s controversial poem “Howl.” The poem was brought under ﬁre for references to homosexuality, drugs and the counterculture revolution broiling in the 1950s with the Beat generation. With ACLU support, the obscenity trail resulted in the poem’s favor, with literary experts testifying and the judge ultimately ruling that “Howl” contains enough “redeeming social importance” to be distributed.

The ﬁrst hand-held cell phone call occurred on April 3, 1973, when Motorola’s Martin Cooper called Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs. A far cry from today’s popular mobile devices, the phone Cooper called from weighed more than two pounds, permitted 30 minutes of talk time and took 10 hours to charge. Despite the breakthrough, 10 more years passed until a similar phone was commercially released.

1922 Joseph Stalin named general secretary of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party After establishing himself as a Bolshevik revolutionary, Joseph Stalin was named general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s Central Committee. Stalin held the position from April 3, 1922, until shortly before his death in 1953. During his reign, Stalin gradually accrued more power within the Soviet Union, particularly following the 1924 death of Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin.

FAMOUS BIRTHS

1968 Civil rights leader King delivers final speech one day before assassination Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his ﬁnal speech, popularly titled “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” on April 3, 1968, the day before he was assassinated. King’s speech focused primarily on the aftermath of the Memphis Sanitation Strike, in which more than 1,000 black sanitation workers walked off the job to protest discrimination and poor working conditions. The speech’s ﬁnal sentence became the opening line of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.”

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Motorola executive and cell phone inventor Martin Cooper holds a Motorola DynaTAC, a prototype of the first handheld cellular telephone. Cooper completed the first cell phone call April 3, 1973.

• 1151: Igor Svyatoslavich, Ukranian prince • 1367: King Henry IV of England • 1783: Washington Irving, American author • 1893: Leslie Howard, English actor • 1904: Sally Rand, model • 1916: Herb Caen, columnist • 1924: Marlon Brando, American actor • 1924: Doris Day, American actress, singer, animal rights activist • 1926: Gus Grissom, second American to ﬂy in space • 1934: Jane Goodall, considered the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees • 1934: Jim Parker, NFL guard • 1939: Paul Craig Roberts, American economist • 1942: Wayne Newton, American singer • 1958: Alec Baldwin, American actor • 1959: David Hyde Pierce, American actor • 1961: Eddie Murphy, American comedian and actor • 1982: Jared Allen, American football player • 1985: Leona Lewis, English singer • 1986: Amanda Bynes, American actress • 1987: Jay Bruce, American baseball player

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Campus housing changes drastically By KEVIN THIBODEAUX Football games used to be a little rowdier, 1979 business graduate Jeff Albright recalls. But it wasn’t because of a lower drinking age. Albright said the dorms in Tiger Stadium added to the character and atmosphere of game days. “There were guys hanging out of windows with no shirt on, drinking beer and hollering at people,” he said. Albright, who lived on campus all four years of college and was a resident assistant at KirbySmith Hall from 1978 to 1979, said like current housing, the Tiger Stadium dorms had respective stereotypes. “Tiger Stadium was where all the crazy people lived,” he said. Though off-campus student housing existed at the time, Albright said not many options were available and the prices were often higher than on-campus housing. “They were old when we were there,” Albright said. He also said off-campus housing wasn’t as nice as today’s options. After World War II and with the implementation of the GI Bill, which paid for soldiers’ college tuition, the University faced severe housing shortages, University archivist Barry Cowan said. At that time, any student who didn’t live at home or who was under 21 was required to live on campus. To compensate, the University built dorms like Hodges, Hatcher, Johnson and Laville halls, as well as Power Hall, which no longer exists. Cowan said Hodges, Hatcher and Johnson, which are all used as offices today, were used as dorms up until the ‘90s. He said few students lived there past the ‘80s. The war also allowed the

University to acquire “temporary” housing options that ended up more permanent. Power Hall, which stood where the East Campus Apartments are now, was a set of giant steel-framed buildings, purchased from the Navy, that included assembly instructions. Married housing on campus was in “hutments,” a group of military huts, on Nicholson Drive. Cowan said these two-person shelters were purchased from the Army in 1947 and used until 1963. Cowan said the area where Miller Hall stands today was formerly a collection of trailers that housed excess students. Sorority houses weren’t allowed on campus until 1962, though fraternity houses were allowed much earlier. Off-campus housing looked different as well, largely because students were required to live on campus until the 1970s, Cowan said. State Street was different from the eccentric area students have come to know today. When it was first built, professors lived in the State Street and Chimes Street area because the houses were new and within walking distance of campus. Cowan said the area down Nicholson Drive was entirely fields. In the ‘80s, he said student housing off campus was primarily to the north of campus, around State Street, where housing was cheap as the area started to deteriorate. He said it was also around this time apartments in Tigerland began being built. Kelly Merriman, a 1984 business administration graduate of the University, said she lived in Herget Hall after it was first built. “It was the only dorm that

photo courtesy of BARRY COWAN

Tiger Stadium, which once housed dorms, is pictured in 1936. Tiger Stadium residents were notorious “crazy people.”

had air conditioning,” she said. Herget was an all-girls dorm. Dorms at the time were either allgirls or all-boys, she said. Merriman said dorms came equipped with dorm moms, who ensured students followed the rules and obeyed curfew. As for off-campus living, Merriman said the major apartment complexes available today weren’t present then. She lived in

both El Cid and Highland Plantation apartments. “It still wasn’t too nice at the time,” Merriman said of

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Past chancellors recall highs, lows By BRIAN SIBILLE

Since its first chancellor took office in 1965, LSU has seen nine different men lead the University through the civil rights movement, wars, rapidly evolving technology and budget cuts. Four former chancellors recounted their past achievements and biggest struggles to The Daily Reveille. THE 1970s Paul Murrill became the University’s chancellor in 1974 after a stint as provost. Murrill, the oldest-living LSU chancellor, said developments made during his 12 years of leadership are still important parts of the

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Women governed female students. “Rules for the girls were a lot more strict than they were for boys,” Cowan said. This inequity was evident in archived “L-Books,” which list the Student Code of Conduct. The 1950 to 1951 code of conduct forbade women from wearing shorts on campus unless they were participating in physical education classes, and women were restricted

University today. More than a million square feet of academic space was added during the late ’60s and ’70s, including the Vet School, Choppin Hall and Patrick F. Taylor Hall, then known as CEBA, he said. The University also became the 13th sea grant institution during that time. The expansion was in response to a growing student population, which reached as high as 27,500, Murrill said. But the time of academic prosperity was not unaffected by budget cuts. “The University always has a budget struggle,” he said. Murrill said his time at the

University was an “era of low tuition,” noting skyrocketing tuition in the decades since. “More and more of the burden shifted from the state to students,” he said. Much of the conflict during that era was on a social level, he said, citing civil rights struggles and the Vietnam War as only a few. Murrill recalled an active student population, fresh with drive from a lowered voting age from 21 to 18. But the change also brought something new for students to

worry about: the draft. The University was still adjusting to integration as a result of the Civil Rights Movement, and women were also gaining ground as the University saw the first women’s sports teams. “We called it the 21 Plan — 10 sports for men, 10 for women and football to pay for it all,” Murrill said. He said the budget for athletics was $5 million in 1980, compared to $85 million today. Murrill said relationships

across campus changed throughout his era. Both the Faculty and Staff senates were formed during that time, and students started seeing themselves as adults more than before.

to certain areas of campus between dark and daylight. The 1961 to 1963 “L-Book” dedicated seven pages to regulations specific to women and only one page specific to men. All of that started to change in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Cowan said. “After the age of majority was lowered, most of the students on campus were 18 to 20 years old,” he said. “They wanted more say in how they lived their lives, so that

is when a lot of rules broke down.” Cowan observed an “overnight change” in the attire and hairstyles of students as he looked back at that era’s editions of the Gumbo. One of the biggest changes was the relaxation of rules in student housing, Cowan said. Some dormitories began to house male and female students, and students were not as closely monitored in their rooms, he said. Adrian Naquin lived in the Tiger Stadium North residence

halls as a freshman in 1971. He described an “‘Animal House’ environment” that was a far cry from the regimented dormitory lifestyle enforced just a few years earlier. “Hall proctors used to keep an eye on students, but this place was so bulletproof that you did not have to have hall proctors,” Naquin said. Cowan looked back at his own time as a student at the University starting in 1985. He said by the time he arrived, the University had evolved into the commuter school

it is today. He said he believed the tight restrictions placed on students in the past helped foster a tighter-knit campus community than could be found in his time, or today. “Students had more fun back then than they do now,” he said. “They had to stay on campus and invent things to do. Now it is just, ‘Hey let’s go out.’”

Smith said. “They felt it was an opportunity to celebrate LSU and to show how far we’ve come.” Students elected Smith as speaker of Student Government Senate, but he didn’t find out he was the first black student to be elected to the position until he returned to the University five years later. “It is nice it wasn’t breaking news that a black student won speaker,” Smith said. “It speaks for acceptance of all people at the University. LSU was and still is becoming a much more vibrant place where students from all walks of life can feel at home.” The LSU student body is 10 percent African-American, according to Katrice Albert, vice provost for Equity, Diversity and Community Outreach. The fall 2011 freshman class showed a significant increase in African-American enrollment, Albert said. “It was the most diversity the University has ever seen,” she said.

The University has the highest graduation rate of African-Americans in the state, including historically black colleges, Albert said. Albert has been at the University for 10 years and said the push for diversity is not complete. “Race relations have improved over time, but we are not where we need to be in a campus climate free from bias,” she said.

PAUL MURRILL 1974-1981

JAMES WHARTON 1981-1988

“Through it all, it didn’t sour RACE continued, from page 1 me on LSU,” Hamilton said. “I’m

never taught a nigra before,” Tureaud said. “I had no framework for support.” Tureaud said he did not come to LSU as a test case. “I could have gone to any school in the country, but I chose LSU because I thought it was a good school,” Tureaud said. “I wouldn’t have gone if I knew it would have gone the way it did. I had a terrible experience.” Tureaud left the University after only 55 days. Leo Hamilton, a black 1973 University alumnus and 1977 University law school alumnus, said he had a better experience at the University, but racial tensions between white and black students were still prevalent. “There were hostile white students, particularly the fraternity boys,” Hamilton said. Hamilton attended a predominantly white high school that taught him how to deal with racial issues. “It didn’t bother me that not everyone wanted me there,” Hamilton said. There were fewer than 200 black students at LSU, Hamilton said. “We were a close-knit group,” Hamilton said. “There were about two classes I was in where I wasn’t the only black student.” Hamilton said he conducted a survey on bars and restaurants to show which establishments did not serve blacks, and “that was the closest time I came to going to jail.” But the controversy didn’t taint his view of the University.

still a Tiger. I bleed purple and gold.” By the ’80s, race relations had improved drastically, according to Todd Schexnayder, a black 1981 University alumnus. The big racial divide still existed in the Greek system, Schexnayder said. “Racism existed in Greek organizations,” Schexnayder said. “They were institutions of racism because the legacies of their organizations were very segregated.” There was a small number of black students on campus, and half of them were athletes, Schexnayder recalled. “We were trailblazers in a sense,” Schexnayder said. “We were a novelty, not a threat.” Black students knew each other well, which provided the students with a big support system. “Most of us didn’t have cars, and most of us lived on campus,” Schexnayder said. “The dorms and cafeteria were the social hot spots on campus.” Racism still lingered in the ’90s, according to Brandi Roberts, a black 1996 University alumna and associate director of finance at University Auxiliary Services. “The first time I encountered racism was sophomore year,” Roberts said. “We had to get into groups, and an older white lady in my group told me, ‘Now I’m going to need you to do your part. We’re going to give you a small part. If you get a bad grade, I get a bad grade. Do you understand?’” After that, she never felt comfortable talking in class.

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A group of black students wait for class to begin in Allen Hall in 1978.

“I was the only black person in 80 percent of my classes,” Roberts said. “In a sense, I always felt inferior.” Roberts worked in Junior Division, which is now University College. When the department needed a picture depicting diversity, they always chose her. “The good times I had were with my black friends,” Roberts said. “There weren’t many of us, so we were a close-knit group.” Brandon Smith, a black 2005 University alumnus and community affairs liaison for the Office of Equity, Diversity and Community Outreach, said by the 2000s, talk of diversity in higher education gained momentum. “Black students felt empowered to celebrate who they were, but not from a separating standpoint,”

“BUD” DAVIS 1989-1996

SEAN O’KEEFE 2005-2008

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Taking a look at the

Top 10 greatest moments in LSU sports history

It was tough to pick 10 of the most iconic moments in LSU sports lore, let alone rank them. So many players, teams and coaches have contributed to the legacy of LSU athletics. Here’s how I ranked them.

By Micah Bedard

PETE MARAVICH SETS NCAA SCORING RECORD: JAN. 31, 1970 Going into the game, Pete Maravich BILLY CANNON’S RUN ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT: OCT. 31, 1959 When you think of Saturday night in Death Valley, you think of Billy Cannon’s 89-yard punt trailed Oscar Robertson by 40 points for the NCAA career scoring mark. With 4:43 left return for a touchdown. Cannon ﬁelded the punt, eluded a multitude of defenders and scored what would be the only touchdown in the second half, the Pistol sank a jump in the Tigers’ 7-3 victory over bitter rival Ole Miss. The run won him the Heisman Trophy and helped deﬁne shot, giving him the record. Maravich went on to score 3,667 points, LSU football. averaging 44.2 a game, in his three-year career at LSU. No one will ever come close to breaking his record, even with a three-point line. Pistol Pete is without question the best athlete in LSU history.

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Former LSU halfback Billy Cannon (20) slips by Ole Miss tacklers Oct. 31, 1959, during an 89-yard punt return for a touchdown to help the Tigers to a 7-3 victory in Tiger Stadium.

Bertman transformed baseball program into national power By LUKE JOHNSON Firmly posted in Alex Box Stadium’s right-ﬁeld bleachers, a gigantic snarling tiger draws the eye toward LSU baseball’s long list of accomplishments on a billboard aptly named “the Intimidator.” Listed are six College World Series championships, all of which came in a 19-year span. It’s hard to BERTMAN fathom there once was a time before the domination that inspired “the Intimidator.” Before the 1984 season, LSU baseball was just simply there, existing, and not doing much else. Former LSU baseball coach and athletic director Skip Bertman transformed the baseball program from a campus afterthought into one of the premier institutions in the nation. Before Bertman’s arrival in 1984 from the University of Miami, LSU more closely resembled an intramural team than the Southeastern Conference powerhouse it has become today. In its entire history that dates back to the ﬁrst team in 1893, LSU had just one regional appearance in college baseball’s postseason, a 1975

berth that culminated in an 8-1 loss to Bertman’s alma mater, Miami. “They were mired in mediocrity,” Bertman said. “They played almost .500 baseball and they were happy with that. They didn’t think they could compete, they had limited facilities, staff and budgets.” The main hurdle the team had trouble clearing was the attitude toward the sport from the institutional level, where there was almost no commitment to the baseball team, ﬁnancial or otherwise. “When I started [at LSU], there were two sports,” Bertman said. “Football and spring football.” From 1966 to 1978, LSU coach Jim Smith couldn’t even direct his full attention to his squad. “Our baseball coach was Jimmy Smith, a wonderful man, but his main job was the equipment manager for football,” said LSU coach Paul Mainieri, who spent one season as an LSU player in 1976. “That’s how he earned his salary. ... Isn’t that bizarre?” Mainieri said Smith could only show up for one day of fall practices per week — Sunday, football’s off day. LSU couldn’t hire a full-time coach and could barely supply the team with baseballs.

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Iconic dining locations laid claim on the Baton Rouge area long before any current University students were born. Some of these restaurants shut down, while some lasted through generations and don’t show signs of closing anytime soon. Right at the door of the University on State Street is a 24-7 diner that has been open since 1941. But since then, Louie’s has changed locations, operations and names. The restaurant experienced signiﬁcant changes in 1986, according to general manager Fred Simonson. “We went from being a 12seat restaurant facing Chimes Street that only served breakfast, open from 8 to 3, to being a 24-hour restaurant, and we went from 12 seats to roughly 60 seats,” he said. While some of the restaurant’s features seem like traditional staples, parts of Louie’s menu and dining choices proved experimental when the diner conceived them. The establishment was non-smoking before that became the norm in most restaurants, and some of the food proved avant-garde for the times, Simonson said.

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Louie’s restaurant has been open and serving the LSU community since 1941.

“The veggie omelet — there wasn’t anything like that on other menus,” Simonson explained. “We had some menu items that were absolutely unique for a casual American-style diner.” With a local IHOP shutting down in the early ’90s, Louie’s offered the only late-night dining option in the area. Nearby bars right off of Highland Road helped business as well. “In the late ’80s, early ’90s,

we were busier than we are now — largely due to the amount of drinking activities near campus,” Simonson said. After a student died in one of these bars in 1997, nearby drinking activities slowed to a halt, when campus and community coalitions geared up to raise awareness of alcohol abuse and underage drinking, Simonson said. In addition to this change, late-night fast food options crept up to compete with Louie’s. But other late-night food destinations existed long before Louie’s began opening 24 hours a day. Before serving up awardwinning pizza and nationally popular roast beef poboys, Pastime Restaurant on South Boulevard also offered late-night dining to LSU fans after football games and other nearby events. This was before owners named the restaurant Pastime 65 years ago, said general manager and owner Randy Wesley. The location began as a small grocery store, lined with dirt and gravel roads. Wesley explained how, from these beginnings, the store developed into a bar-like venue, serving beer, alcohol and offering a dance ﬂoor. “LSU students would come Read more DINING, see page 11

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Co-op Bookstore founder W.A. Prescott (left) stands outside his store’s original location on West Chimes Street.

North Gate Nostalgia By JOSH NAQUIN New face, same soul. That’s the motto for the businesses in the North Gate area’s North Gate Fest, but the mantra holds true for the West Chimes Street businesses’ day-to-day and year-to-year operations. Clarke Cadzow, owner of Highland Coffees and North Gate area historian, said the commercial district situated just outside of the North Gates of campus has a colorful and storied history. “The North Gate area is the second-oldest commercial district in Baton Rouge after downtown,” Cadzow said. Cadzow said the area was ﬁrst established in the late 1920s and, while most of the original businesses have since turned over or moved, the area still retains a certain charm. One business that got its start on West Chimes Street was the Co-Op Bookstore. “My father [W.A. Prescott] started the Co-Op as a branch of his family’s college bookstores when he moved to Baton Rouge from Alabama in 1933,” said Bobby Prescott, son of W.A. and current president of the Co-Op Bookstore. Prescott said the now-iconic 1920s black-and-white photo of a young man with a slick middle part and a knowing smirk, displayed on Co-op billboards and advertisements throughout Baton Rouge, is a photo of his father. “The photo is my father’s senior portrait from his school days

at the University of Alabama,” Prescott said. “We wanted to get a photo that was taken as close to when he opened the store as possible.” Prescott said his father opened the original Co-Op just a few years after his graduation. The store, which sold razor blades, shoes and other convenience items in addition to books, was located on the corner of West Chimes Street and Highland Road, where Bengals & Bandits currently resides. Prescott said the store was a fixture in the North Gate area for years and expanded over time to encompass real estate occupied by Highland Coffees today. The store moved from its original location out of necessity rather than desire, according to Prescott. “The store on Chimes burned in 1973 when a neighboring laundromat caught fire,” Prescott said. The police report filed at the time did not cite the fire as intentional, but popular belief held that the fire was arson. Prescott said the Co-Op moved locations several times before settling on its current home off Burbank Drive in January 2004. “We went from 12,000 square feet to 28,000 now,” Prescott said. “We are happy here and don’t plan on moving again any time soon.” Cadzow said although West Chimes Street has weathered several fires — including a 2002 fire which burned his own shop — many of the structures on the historic street are original. Businesses on West Chimes

like Chinese Combo King, Studio 126 Hair Salon, Chimes Textbook Exchange, Eutopia Salon and North Gate Tavern all occupy buildings originally constructed in the late 1920s and ‘30s. “The makeup of the neighborhood has changed over time,” Cadzow said. “It has moved from a family-centered area to an area predominantly occupied by University students.” Cadzow said there are no longer fraternity houses or churches situated in the area, but the street’s businesses have evolved with the wants and needs of the neighborhood. The layout of the commercial district is undergoing changes with the construction of a new cobblestone pathway. The resurfaced walkway will provide a more easily navigable path for pedestrian foot and bike trafﬁc, an issue Cadzow said he’d like to see further improved in the future. “I’d like to see our area enhance accessibility through improved sidewalks, better lighting and additional parking,” Cadzow said. He said he feels the North Gate area today has a quintessential college town atmosphere, which many University students and faculty ﬁnd alluring. “I’d hate to use the word vibe,” Cadzow laughed. “But that’s the best word to describe its unique blend of energy and history.” Contact Josh Naquin at jnaquin@lsureveille.com

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First black homecoming queen had impact on LSU By RAYLEA BARROW It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until years later that Reneeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Boutte Myer, assistant director for the School of Social Work, realized the signiďŹ cance of being crowned as the Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ rst African-American homecoming queen. Since then, Myer said the University has become more welcoming and embraced diversity. But during Myerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collegiate career, the University still lacked a large AfricanAmerican population and prejudice was more prevalent. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being a student at LSU then, you didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see many African-Americans in the faculty or staff,â&#x20AC;? Myer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I remember how important it was to see someone with a smiling face that looked like me.â&#x20AC;? Tiger Stadium fell silent the night Myerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name was called during halftime of the football game between LSU and Mississippi State on November 16, 1991. Myer said not everyone paid attention to halftime that night because they were getting concessions, but the section behind the end zone, where most AfricanAmericans were sitting, stayed to watch. As Myer accepted the crown, the section went wild. â&#x20AC;&#x153;After the serenade, a little while later I went to sit in the area where the majority of African-American students were,â&#x20AC;? Myer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The applause, hugs and congratulatory wishes was overwhelming.â&#x20AC;? Linda Smith GrifďŹ n, associate

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from LSU down the gravel road here to celebrate LSU ball games,â&#x20AC;? Wesley said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There used to be a one-mile exclusion law around campus. You couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t open up anything that had alcohol within one mile.â&#x20AC;? But non-restaurant venues like this were required to close at midnight, so Pastime began serving food to extend its hours. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So they started cooking sausage for sausage plates, sausage poboys. They started cooking little small odds and ends all on little two-burner stoves,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For a while, the place had a nickname of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Two Burners.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; People would come out and dance and have cocktails.â&#x20AC;? This snack bar evolved into a full-ďŹ&#x201A;edged restaurant and a historical landmark after Wesleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father, Bob Wesley, and a business partner bought the location. Pastime now serves food until 11 p.m. But Pastime isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only long-lasting restaurant to serve up unique grub. Fleur de Lis Pizza on Government Street opened before 1946 as a cocktail lounge and began operating as a restaurant in the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s, serving its traditional rectangular pizza. General manager Pam Rushing said she thinks a large part of the restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s long run is directly linked to customersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; love for a consistently great product. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been trying not to change much,â&#x20AC;? Rushing said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Had it not been something the people liked, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think it would have made it through all these years. The pizza, the dough

librarian, said in an e-mail that she has known Myer for a number of years, but more as a colleague rather than when Myer was a student. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was on campus in 1991, and I recall the excitement, surprise and elation of many at LSU and in the surrounding community at large [for homecoming],â&#x20AC;? GrifďŹ n said. As Myer walked off the ďŹ eld, she was greeted by her sorority sisters of Delta Sigma Theta of the Iota Theta Chapter, and they sang their sorority song together. Myer said the moment is most memorable to her because it elevated her awareness of what actually happened. On the same night, David Duke, University alumnus and former grand wizard for the Ku Klux Klan, lost to Edwin Edwards in Louisianaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gubernatorial election. Myer said she couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t process the result of her homecoming court win, given that the election was also on the same night. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With LSU seen as a predominantly white university and Edwin Edwardsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; win over David Duke ... [it was] a signiďŹ cant step with Louisiana moving forward from past injustices and discrimination issues,â&#x20AC;? Myer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It really brought it home.â&#x20AC;? She had been nominated to serve on the homecoming court the previous year and was selected as one the ďŹ ve ďŹ nalists from a group of 10 semi-ďŹ nalists. Both years, Myer was not the only African-American

female candidate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was nominated again, and I initially declined,â&#x20AC;? Myer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of my sorority sisters worked in admissions and called me to her ofďŹ ce. She said that the fact that I was on the court was signiďŹ cant. Had the conversation not happened, I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have done it.â&#x20AC;? Myer said the biggest impact of her crowning was that it enabled a little more dialogue about diversity. The University had already made steps to change and had initiated many ďŹ rsts with the ďŹ rst black basketball player, Collis Temple Jr., and the ďŹ rst black Student Government president, Kerry Pourciau. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Barbie doll stigma was shaken up,â&#x20AC;? Myer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[The crowning] has enabled individuals who would not be inclined to partake in other activities on campus to take a risk and get involved in terms of leadership and Student Government ... to have further diversity, inclusion and a progressive university.â&#x20AC;? Today, Myer sees the pride her 12-year-old daughter has in her motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s achievement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At her school, she didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see color, although she is a minority,â&#x20AC;? Myer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I give her the same sorts of encouragements and tell her that she can do anything. You are a leader within and you can express yourself that way.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; being made fresh every day ... all of that is the key. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had a good product.â&#x20AC;? Despite the unique elements that continue to draw in old and new customers, both Rushing and Wesley said some older familyrun restaurants tend to fall out because many canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t maintain their familiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; presence. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The families are running out of people,â&#x20AC;? Rushing said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People get old, they die, they move away â&#x20AC;&#x201D; different things. Luckily so far, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been able to have someone here to keep it going.â&#x20AC;? Wesley echoed this. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As you spend time in the restaurant, your children sometimes donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to take over the restaurant,â&#x20AC;? Wesley said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It comes to a point where you either have to sell or close down because thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nobody to pass it on to.â&#x20AC;? But a large part of what maintains iconic, long-lasting restaurants like these is not only making great food, but also developing an entrenched multi-generational customer base as well, Wesley said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our customers are the same, which is part of why weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been around so long,â&#x20AC;? Wesley said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With each generation of customers, their kids, the following kids and the following kids â&#x20AC;&#x201D; they all come in because previous generations have told them you can trust the food, you can trust the quality.â&#x20AC;?

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[Top] Renee Myer was LSUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first AfricanAmerican homecoming queen. She is now the assistant director for the LSU School of Social Work. [Left] Renee Myer with former LSU basketball star Shaquille Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neal.

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LSU Alumni Association memory book and blog. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was just after suppertime at the sorority house on the lakes when a sister yelled out, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The streak is coming down the road! Everyone to the front yard,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Taylor wrote. Taylor rushed outside, along with 50 of her sisters, to watch as a herd of scantily clad men ran full speed down the street. She said she and her sisters stood in awe as they gazed at the fully exposed men. Taylor, who â&#x20AC;&#x153;had never seen such a sight,â&#x20AC;? marveled at the crowd, noticing the diversity of the naked members. She recalled â&#x20AC;&#x153;big

onesâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;little ones,â&#x20AC;? but the most shocking thing she saw was a woman on a chair held up by two poles. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She was like the Roman goddess with a wreath of ďŹ&#x201A;owers on her head and totally naked, ďŹ&#x201A;opping her Northern Hemisphere while the men were ďŹ&#x201A;opping their Southern Hemisphere,â&#x20AC;? she wrote. University students get their own dose of bare-thread revelry each year during the Undie Run, where underwear-clad students run across campus before ďŹ nals week. After, participants donate clothes to the battered womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shelter. Nick Romero, chemical engineering junior, ran in seven of the nine Undie Runs in his college

career. He said the event is a good way to forget about the woes of college. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You pretty much forget about whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on in school and have a good time before ďŹ nals,â&#x20AC;? Romero said. Romero said he is amused but not surprised by the prevalence of streaking in the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s and said a resurgence of the fad isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t unlikely. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not so sure if anybody would streak [now], but you never know, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s college,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It may happen eventually.â&#x20AC;? Contact David Jones at djones@lsureveille.com

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Opinion From the Editor’s Desk MATTHEW JACOBS

The Reveille looks back on LSU history

As we admire the stately oaks and broad magnolias that populate the University’s campus, it’s easy to ignore the history that’s shrouded amid the well-regarded landmarks. LSU is known for a handful of distinct hotspots, with Tiger Stadium, Mike the Tiger’s habitat and the 5,000-year-old Indian Mounds marking some of the more

distinguished relics. These University landmarks are fairly typical, though. They constantly appear among shortlists enumerating LSU’s most illustrious offerings, and the throng of visitors who traverse campus each year lend awestruck eyes to their enchantment. What these monuments alone

The Philibuster PHIL SWEENEY

Culture of cigarette acceptance different Once upon a time, one could light up a Joe in an airplane. One could blow a butt in a bar or kill a cancer stick in a restaurant. Once, one could Don Draper a cig in a boardroom. But that was a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. These days, one can’t even smoke outdoors without enduring a smug non-smoker’s bothered hacking and a typical “those are bad for you, you know.” But Draper, of course, is the madman in this day and age. Sufﬁce it to say, a lot’s changed since the ’60s. A lot has changed since the ’90’s. In 1993, the average retail price of a pack of cigarettes was $1.69, including federal and state excise taxes. In 2010, that same pack of cigs ran $4.80, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Then, the rootin’-tootin’ Marlboro Man was still take-no-messing across America’s billboards and magazine pages, driving Americans like cattle to “Marlboro Country,” where the “ﬂavor is.” Now, three of the knight-inshining-armor Marlboro Men depicted in such advertisements — Wayne McLaren, David McLean and Dick Hammer — have died of lung cancer, and Marlboro Reds

have been knighted “Cowboy Killers,” in turn. Ah, Flavor Country! Marlboro, produced by Philip Morris USA, now makes the world’s best-selling cancer sticks. But the Lucky Strike brand, or “Luckies,” now produced by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and British American Tobacco, was the world’s most popular cigarettes for much of the 20th century, famous for the slogan “It’s Toasted” — that its tobacco wasn’t sun-dried. Tobacco ads are scarce these days, as it were, but there was a time when a Camel advertisement could shamelessly proclaim that “more doctors smoke camels than any other cigarette.” These days, the doctors have their own advertisements, themselves indicative of one of our era’s most substantial tobacco-related about-faces. Anti-smoking zealotry. The surgeon general’s warnings on cigarette packages — advertisements, by all means — have hitherto been limited to inconspicuous black-and-white text: “Cigarette Smoke Contains Carbon Monoxide,” for instance. But the FDA proposed last year the mandatory printing of graphic warning labels on cigarette packages, which Big Tobacco subsequently ﬁled suit against, asserting it was a

Tuesday, April 3, 2012 don’t offer, however, is insight into the rich place each one has in the University’s overarching social history. This issue of The Daily Reveille attempts to delve into that history. Our goal is to shed light on the often forgotten social impacts various campus movements and facilities have provided. Amid these vintagestyle pages, you will find answers to what our campus looked and felt like throughout the days of yore. How does Tigerland compare now to its setup in the counterculture-heavy 1960s? What really happened during the famous debacle that found Mike the Tiger strolling through campus? How have gender inequality, civil rights and fashion revolutions impacted campus culture? These questions and more are answered within these pages, constitutional infringement — an argument I supported in a column last semester. Then, I confessed that I smoked “like a burning pile of tires,” that I’ve smoked “more than the Orient Express” and “ashed more than Mount Vesuvius.” But even I’ve changed since then. Changed brands. Admittedly, I’m still among the CDC-estimated 19.3 percent of Americans who smoke cigarettes — though I now smoke the “100% Additive-Free Tobacco” of Natural American Spirit cigarettes. But even as the company itself concedes: “No additives in our tobacco does NOT mean a safer cigarette.” There are no safe cigarettes, by all accounts. In fact, according to Judith Sylvester, mass communication professor and anti-smoking zealot, tobacco consumption is the single most preventable cause of death, disease and disability in Louisiana. In 2000, Sylvester founded SmokingWords, a “program advocating tobacco-free living” and “a tobacco-free [LSU] campus,” according to the campaign’s website. “We’ve come a long way,” she said. Whereas “smoking was allowed in offices” when Sylvester first came to LSU in 1994, it’s now prohibited within 25 feet of public buildings’ entrances. Cough. Nearly 30 percent of University undergraduates are among the smokers of 7,777 cigarettes on campus daily, according to Sylvester. “It’s a health and safety issue,” she said. “We have an obligation to educate and reform people.” Sylvester — bless her heart — is the quintessential anti-smoking zealot, blessed with a holier-thanthou evangelistic idealism and the sort of sanctimonious faith that

but they’re all explored with one particular value augmented above any other: what life at LSU was like for the students who endured these happenings. Throughout the process of answering this question for today’s retrospective edition, reporters constantly wondered how students of today would handle similar instances, thus providing a clear portrait of this issue’s ultimate intent. As students ourselves, The Daily Reveille’s editors constantly strive to focus the paper’s content on issues that impact students. Every day we ask ourselves what students are buzzing about the most. Here, we’re able to explore how students of yesteryear were impacted by the topics that Reveille editors of long ago would have dissected. As you peruse this issue of The Reveille, ask yourself these

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purports to move mountains. She’s mindful, at any rate, of the Kilimanjaro before her, formed of rocky budgetary constraints and crumbling student indifference. But she cares, ultimately. “I don’t care if students don’t care about [smoking] — I care for them,” she said. And therein lies the problem: Sylvester cares too much. The prevalence of tobacco consumption steadily declined for decades vis-à-vis the emergence of scientiﬁc data documenting the hazardous risks of such consumption — and for no reason more than that one. The implications of such data are moronically obvious: Smoking kills. The facts speak for themselves. One need not speak on their behalf. And to do so is, quite plainly, an affront to Americans’ freedom of choice.

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critical questions. What would students do today if Mike the Tiger escaped his habitat? Are there still contentious gender or race relations permeating the modern-day college campus? Is Louie’s still the best late-night eatery? If today’s Reveille is viewed as a sociological portrait of rapidly changing trends and world views, I think you’ll ﬁnd answers are more readily accessible than expected. For anything left unanswered, we encourage students to open their eyes to the rich societal history that surrounds us. You’ll probably learn more than you imagined. In the meantime, enjoy what The Reveille has done to answer such questions.

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Americans have been educated. Americans have been informed. Butt out, in other words. Let Americans choose for themselves. Whereas the decades-long decline in American tobacco consumption has leveled since 2007, the percentage of University undergraduate smokers has actually increased, according to Sylvester. Given Americans’ — and Louisianians’ — notorious aversion to arm-twisting and coercion, antismoking zealotry might thus be the problem, not the solution. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it. Phil Sweeney is 25-year-old English senior from New Orleans. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_PhilSweeney. Contact Phil Sweeney at psweeney@lsureveille.com

Quote of the Day “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

George Orwell

English novelist June 25, 1903 — Jan. 21, 1950

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Positively Carnal KRISTI CARNAHAN

Sexual, social issues from 1950s, 1960s linger today “I wish we could go back to simpler days” is a statement I hear frequently. Whether it’s related to politics, technology or relationships, it seems many long to jump in the DeLorean, fire up the flux capacitor and return to 1955. Memories of this time are often misleading images of family stability, easier political times and uncomplicated means of communication. I’ll admit parts of our lives have improved dramatically from the 1950s. Just within the college realm, we have less administrative oversight in our day-to-day lives, increased personal freedoms and a larger variety of studies to choose from. While there’s still a long way to go in some regards, I’d much rather be here than back in time. Colleges in the 1950s “worked under the framework of ‘in loco parentis,’” according to Carolyn Lewis, assistant professor of history and women’s and gender studies. College administrations essentially took the place of your

parents, giving students dress codes, curfews and even doing checks of housing on and off campus. College is a place for learning not just book knowledge, but how to be responsible for yourself and dealing with the consequences of your actions. It’s hard to learn from your mistakes if you aren’t allowed to make them. You never get to find yourself if someone else always tells you who you should be and how you should dress and act. Everyday occurrences on college campuses today, like not shaving or wearing sweatpants to class, were punishable offenses in the 1950s, according to Lewis. A few busybodies on campus today would love for us to go back to the days of strict dress codes, but as long as you’re covering what is legally mandated to be covered and you’re comfortable, I won’t condemn anyone. Our clothing choices are personal — a way to display our individuality and uniqueness as we choose. No one should

take this away, especially it it’s only because it makes someone else uncomfortable. If you don’t like it, don’t look. From the ’50s and into the ’60s, the U.S. saw a political uprising among young adults demanding the right to self-determination, according to Lewis. They recognized the negative effects of the political climate of the ’50s, and these feelings rolled over into their beliefs about the social structures as well. The demands were extensive, from freedom from propaganda in politics to the major movements like civil rights and the second wave of feminism. With this we saw what has come to be known as the “Free Love” movement — the “sexual liberation of a generation,” according to some. But this movement did nothing to revolutionize sex, Lewis said. True revolution would appear in the ’70s with later parts of the women’s liberation movement. The right to sexual self-determination is an argument we’re still entrenched in today, with discussions around birth control, abortions and sex education. It started in the ’60s, yet 50 years later people still don’t comprehend these issues or allow a person to determine what is best without interference. Despite all of the improvements I see, I can’t say we’ve moved too far away from the ’50s and ’60s. We still fight the same oppressions people in the ’50s and ’60s fought. Poverty, sexism, racism, homophobia, slut-shaming and more are still rampant

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despite the progress we have made in other areas. We can’t lose sight of the progress when looking at all that still remains to be done. It might not be as much as we want, but true change comes slowly. We’re making progress. Sixty years changed our world in more ways than I can count, but

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Press X to Not Die ADAM ARINDER

Digital distribution the obvious next step for tech Working in a video game store, I have a wide variety of customer interactions. One of the most interesting came from a young boy, no older than 6, who walked up to our classic gaming section filled with games from the original Nintendo, Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis and simply asked, “What are these for?” His question really got me thinking about how today’s kids will never experience adjusting the tracking to get better picture on a VCR or flipping a cassette tape over when one side is finished. Hell, I don’t even think some freshmen here at the University experienced either of those. But I digress. Technology is constantly changing, and it’s always nice to take a look back at where we came from before looking forward to where we’re going. The history of technology’s past — cassette tapes, 8-tracks, Betamax, VHS tapes, video game cartridges — is being overtaken by iPods, CDs and Blu-ray discs. However, even these popular forms of physical entertainment will soon be joining the likes of the VCR, looking into the digital future of technology. Digital distribution particularly has been slowly increasing in popularity over the past decade. The first big push came in 2001 when Apple released the first iPod, forever changing the music industry. Instead of spinning records or carrying around those bulky Walkman players, thousands of songs were now available on one simple device. Looking forward, the digital revolution isn’t as far away as you may think. Streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Video Player are the main causes of Blockbuster’s demise. It’s more convenient to scroll through a list of movies on your couch than drive all the way to a store. Speaking of failing brick-andmortar shops, Borders recently closed all of its stores. Not because reading isn’t cool anymore, but thanks to the surge in popularity of eReaders. With this recent surge of devices backing digital distribution, we’re in a weird transitional period

between the “then” and the “now,” and many people are having trouble accepting what is to come. Like many others, I like to own physical copies of my things. As an avid gamer, I take pride in showing off my collection of video games much like people fill entire rooms with books to display for guests. While consuming things digitally is far more convenient, it takes away that sense of entitlement owners feel when they break the seal on a new game or crack open a new book. Publishers also can’t seem to understand a fair pricing structure. A digital version of something should not cost the same as a physical copy. However, it’s because of this pricing dynamic that retail giants such as Walmart have threatened not to carry a specific title if a digital counterpart is cheaper, because it would cut into their bottom line. These companies are only fighting the inevitable. We live in a society where people want things here and now, and online retailers will soon drive away nearly all of their brick-and-mortar counterparts. Just look at what Amazon is doing to retailers. The same goes for video games. Valve’s online client Steam has been highly successful for PC gamers to get the latest and greatest game for a fraction of the price. Even Sony, who’s known for overpriced, proprietary accessories, is making a big push in digital distribution with its new handheld device, the PlayStation Vita. The company is releasing games digitally the same day they are released in stores — with many titles being cheaper digitally. The past decade introduced the world to the concept of digital distribution, and the next decade will see it take over. It won’t be long before our kids see an old Blu-ray disc and ask what those things were for. Adam Arinder is a 22-year-old communication studies senior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_aarinder. Contact Adam Arinder at aarinder@lsureveille.com

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while holding signs bearing phrases like “No profs no school.” Before Mike’s arrival, an alumnus gave the University a small South American cat — which the book dubbed similar to a bobcat — named “Little Eat’em-up” in 1924. Cowan said Little Eat-’em-up was supposed to serve as a good luck charm, but instead led to a losing football season and was no longer welcome at the University. “I don’t know what they did with him,” Cowan said of the cat’s expulsion. While six total Mikes have come and gone, Mike IV may have left the biggest impression behind. On Nov. 28, 1981, “Roar of LSU” co-author W. Sheldon Bivin got a 1 a.m. phone call from the LSU Police Department, according to Mike’s official website. “Mike’s out,” LSUPD told him. “Mike who?” Bivin said. “Mike the Tiger,” the officer answered. “He’s out in the middle of North Stadium Drive.” Guttner said Mike had been released by pranksters who cut the chain on the outer door of his cage and the lock on his inner door. Mike didn’t do much while on the loose, she said, but the situation was remedied when Mike’s veterinarian shot him with a tranquilizer gun in the Bernie Moore Track Stadium. He awoke in his cage with no ill effects the next day. Mike VI is the current king of the University’s campus.

T HE DAI LY RE VE I L LE The Great Cats of Indiana donated him in 2007. Guttner said Mikes I, II and III were purchased, and IV, V and VI have been donations. The University will never purchase another tiger because there are too many that need to be rescued, she said. Mike’s current habitat was completed in 2005. The 13,000-square-foot facility includes a pool, waterfall, stream, live oak tree and indoor house, among other amenities. He eats about 20 pounds of a formulated zoo carnivore diet each day, Guttner said. She said he’s a friendly tiger who enjoys frequent napping. Guttner said having Mike on campus is meaningful to people all over the country. “I always knew Mike was important to the University, but I didn’t realize how much [until Mike V died],” she said. “People would constantly call the Vet School just wanting to share how upset they were about his death.” Hundreds of people — including ones living out of state — came to see Mike VI’s debut in 2007, she said. “It’s still amazing to me how important he is to so many people,” Guttner said. Accounting sophomore Ashlynn Buras said having a live tiger on campus gives the University an extra sense of uniqueness. She said she’s visited him on a few occasions, but she’s always caught him during a nap. Contact Emily Herrington at eherrington@lsureveille.com

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Georgia Branch, who attended the University from 1973 to 1976, said Thursdays were a popular night to go out even when she was in school. Often, students would cut classes on Fridays to go out the night before, she said. While many University students have cars today, Branch said a significant number of students didn’t have a means of transportation in the ’70s. “People didn’t have vehicles, and everybody lived on campus a lot longer than they do today,” she said. Branch said she often walked to bars on Highland Road. First, her friends would stop at the White Horse Tavern before heading to the Brass Rail across the street, she said. Branch recalled the mixed crowd of college students and bikers at the Brass Rail, known for its pool tables and happy hours. “When people wanted to have a cheap drink, you could go in there with a dollar and drink for two or three hours,” she said. The Bengal, a bar on the outskirts of campus, was another hotspot for students, while the Cotton Club was a popular location for older students and faculty to eat and have a drink, she said. As students got older and moved to off-campus apartments, Branch said they would go out to the Tigerland bars. “Rock’s Place was a holein-the-wall, but everyone went there,” she said.

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Tiger Town, the area of shops and venues formerly outside the North Gates of campus, seen here in 1976, provided entertainment for past University students.

While many current students rave about the nightlife downtown, Branch said students hardly visited the downtown area when she was in school. “You didn’t go downtown,” Branch said. “Those places that we have today didn’t exist. Those areas were empty storefronts, and it wasn’t a good place to be at night.” During the ’90s, the bars near the University began to resemble the nightlife around campus today. John Blancher Jr., owner of Rock ‘N’ Bowl, Straight Stick

Ranch Burger Company and Ye Olde College Inn Restaurant and Bar in New Orleans, attended LSU from 1995 to 1998 and played for the LSU baseball team. “We were a tight-knit group,” he said about his fellow baseball players. “My fondest memories were just hanging out with all the guys I played ball with. The bars closed at 2 in the morning, and after going out, we’d head to the cages at Alex Box for batting practice.” Blancher said The Station on College Drive and the Tigerland bars were very popular in the ’90s. “Reggie’s brought in a younger crowd, and Fred’s brought in upper-class, graduate students,” he said. “Back then, a lot of athletes hung out a lot at the Stadium Club in Tigerland. It was the athletic hangout.” The Stadium Club was a bar where The House is now located. “I think I spent a few nights there hanging from the speaker,” Blancher joked. “We were a funloving bunch, but we stayed out of trouble for the most part.” Today, many students go out on Thursday nights, but Blancher said the baseball team often went out on Sunday nights. “I can’t say the whole school was out, but our baseball schedule had us off on Mondays, so Sundays were a big night for us,” he said. Even today, Tigerland remains to be a popular nightlife location for students. Contact Kate Mabry at kmabry@lsureveille.com

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