FOOTBALL: Tigers continue to rack up penalties under Miles, p. 5
FASHION: Dress clothes should fit well and coordinate, p. 10
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012 • Volume 117, Issue 42
Barnes & Noble at LSU opens to the public
Jacy Baggett
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tudents flooded across Highland Road on Monday to take their first looks at the new Barnes & Noble at LSU. Paul Stevenson, LSU Bookstore general manager, said Monday was scheduled for what management considers a “soft opening” to make sure systems were in check and everything was running smoothly. Stevenson said everything went off without fail. “It’s been fun for me to see everybody’s faces as they come in; their jaws are dropping,” Stevenson said. Valarie Hunt, secondary English education senior, called the new store gorgeous and said she plans to utilize the space as a study area.
Hunt said the location is convenient, especially for students who live in the East Campus Apartments like she does. Jacqueline Johnson, mechanical engineering sophomore, said she was “in love” with the store. “It’s huge, and it’s beautiful. Oh, I’m in love,” she said. Johnson said she liked the high ceilings on the first floor and the fighter plane suspended above the escalator stood out. Despite the glamour of the new store, Johnson said its location may be an inconvenience for some. “You are going to have students walking across Highland all day long and cars having to stop,” she said. “It will be interesting to see how it works out.” Psychology junior Shametria Hunter said students need to be
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ACADEMICS
Students lose free $5 of printing Funds will buy new equipment Olivia McClure
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the group of people who crossed in front of her. Taylor Smith, biological sciences junior, said he likes the second story with the LSU Tech Store, which will provide students with computer and
University Information Technology Services and the Office of Assessment and Evaluation will receive nearly $300,000 of Student Technology Fee funds for projects and equipment updates. At a meeting of the Student Technology Fee Oversight Committee on Monday, members voted to open up $489,785 of leftover funds for use by ITS and OAE. Originally, only about $350,000 was unallocated, but members voted to suspend a $140,000 program that allots $5 of free printing to each University student. David O’Brien, assistant director of computing, said OAE requested $148,000 of tech fee money to replace computers in its testing center. One-fourth of
BOOKSTORE, see page 15
TECH FEE, see page 15
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[Top] Students bustle around the University’s new bookstore Monday. [Bottom] LSU baseball caps line a wall of Barnes & Noble at LSU on Monday. View more photos of Barnes & Noble at LSU at lsureveille.com.
more attentive to the pedestrian traffic signals. “They don’t [pay attention], they just walk; they don’t care,” Hunter said. Hunter acknowledged she didn’t obey the traffic signals Monday when crossing Highland Road. She said she just followed
POLITICS
Obama, Romney face off on foreign policy in final debate Megan Dunbar Staff Writer
President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney listed strategies for dealing with Israel as well solutions for solving the economic problems at home during Monday night’s foreign policy presidential debate at Lynn University in Florida. During the final debate between the two, Romney emphasized a lack of American strength through foreign policy — citing Obama’s “apology tour” — and said sanctions in Iran are not strong enough and debt reductions are not large enough. Obama responded with accusations against Romney, calling him
“all over the map” with his policies, and accusing him of not being a stable possible leader. Kyle Aycock, president of Young Americans for Liberty at the University, said this debate, as well as the last three, gave the candidates the chance to discuss issues facing America in a substantive way. “What we really got was political theater,” Aycock said. In an example of this theater, Twitter and other social media channels became outlets for people wondering about the discussion of education in the middle of a foreign policy debate. Though the debate was focused on foreign policy, both candidates shifted the discussion toward domestic issues as well, such as
education. Moderator Bob Schieffer cut Romney off and elicited some laughs by saying, “I think we all love teachers.” Mass communication sophomore Camille Stelly said this was the best debate of all four due to Schieffer’s moderation. She said she didn’t hear many jabs during the spirited discussion. Aycock said he wasn’t sure what Romney and Obama would come to blows about because he believes the candidates’ views are similar. “Between the two of them, there’s not going to be a substantive change in foreign policy,” he said. He said Obama came out of this DEBATE, see page 15
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Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama shake hands Monday after the third presidential debate in Boca Raton, Fla. Who was the overall winner in the series of presidential debates? Vote at lsureveille.com.