CRIME: Student arrested for battery in Engineering Residential College, p. 6
FOOTBALL: The Tigers make the top 5 for 18 weeks. Will history repeat itself? p. 7
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012 • Volume 117, Issue 14
FOOD
Swamp Seeds are ‘all about Cajun’
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The LSU FACES Lab uses forensic anthropology to help law enforcement agencies identify human remains.
persons throughout the state and nation. As of Tuesday, there were more than 300 cases in the database. Additionally, the lab does digital and plaster facial reconstructions from skulls, placing images of faces online and on Crimestoppers billboards in an effort to identify remains. The dirty work of dealing with human FACES, see page 6
SWAMP SEEDS, see page 15
FACES Lab recreates faces of the dead, ID’d Shunick Staff Writer
Buried in a fold of the Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex is a tiny building alive with faces of the dead. The LSU FACES — Forensic Anthropology and Computer Enhancement Services — Laboratory is not only filled with desks for its seven employees but hundreds of pictures
and molds of recreated faces of missing and unidentified persons. “We work with law enforcement throughout the state and nation to identify the dead,” said Lab Director Mary Manhein, summing up the lab’s duties. The lab essentially collects DNA and bone samples from decomposed bodies or unidentifiable bodies and builds an online database for all the missing and unidentified
Staff Writer
Less than a year ago, then-unemployed Cathy Bryant never imagined that she would be the owner of a company producing one of the “hottest” new snacks in Louisiana. The 55-year-old blue-eyed, curly-haired Southern belle is the owner of Louisiana Swamp House, the producer of Swamp Seeds — a spicy Cajun concoction that spawned from Bryant’s kitchen. “We drink cajun boil for breakfast in Louisiana, and the state is known for its wonderful Cajun food around the world,” Bryant said. “This is a Louisiana product and Baton Rouge-based company. We wanted it to be all about Cajun and Louisiana.” After working in the construction business for 30 years, Bryant’s hips were shot, calling for a
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POLITICS
Roemer speaks at University, grim on Nov. election Former governor chides both parties Joshua Bergeron Staff Writer
Former presidential candidate and former Louisiana governor Buddy Roemer predicted a November election that will bring no change to America to a fullcapacity crowd in the Manship School of Mass Communication’s Holliday Forum on Tuesday. Roemer spoke about the
failing economy as well as corruption in President Barack Obama’s and Mitt Romney’s campaigns, relating the country’s current state to someone treading water. “The nation is in trouble,” Roemer said. “Eight million Americans have quit looking for jobs and are no longer counted in the unemployment rate. Many people have to take part-time jobs because they cannot find anything else.” He placed a large amount of the blame for the current economic state on the Obama administration.
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“Obama came in promising change. But, we are in a great recession,” Roemer said. His optimism for the future was limited, saying there is no end in sight. The debt will shrink the nation, Roemer said. He used Napoleon’s decision to sell the Louisiana territories as an example. “After finishing three wars, Napoleon was in a lot of debt,” he said. “After the sale, France disappeared from the new world.” Roemer reserved his final ROEMER, see page 15
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Former presidential candidate and former Louisiana governor Buddy Roemer speaks to University students Tuesday afternoon in the Holliday Forum of the Journalism Building.