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Wednesday, May 1, 2013 • Volume 117, Issue 133
CRIME
Judge rules in favor of Board of Supervisors Videos Kelley: 35 names Reveille Radio show Hill aren’t applicants 91.1 KLSU ‘f launted’ after fight Alyson Gaharan Staff Writer
District Judge Timothy Kelley ruled in favor of the Board of Supervisors in Daily Reveille Editor in Chief Andrea Gallo’s public records lawsuit against the University on Tuesday, creating a split decision between his and District Judge Janice Clark’s ruling last Thursday that the Board must “immediately produce” the names of presidential candidates. Both lawsuits brought forth
similar allegations that the Board of Supervisors’ presidential search committee broke public records laws by failing to produce the names of the “35 or so” active candidates considered for the new LSU president position. The two separate trials called into question the word “applicant” and its different interpretations. In his ruling, Kelley said he did not believe there were any actual applicants for the position aside from newly appointed LSU President F. King Alexander and 10 others who wrote to the search firm R. William Funk and Associates but did not make it to the final round of potential picks. Clark presided over The Advocate’s and NOLA.com | The
Times-Picayune’s lawsuit regarding the same issue last week, and she did not issue an explanation alongside her ruling that ordered LSU to release the names. Despite Kelley’s ruling and Board of Supervisors Chairman Hank Danos’ plans to appeal Clark’s ruling, Gallo’s attorney Scott Sternberg said after Tuesday’s trial he still felt confident the records would ultimately be released. Gallo said she and Sternberg should make a decision by today about whether they will appeal their ruling from Kelley. “I’m disappointed with Judge COURT CASE, see page 6
Pipe Dreams
(Top) Glass artist Nick Oldenburg, known as Nicko, starts off a new piece Monday in his workshop outside his home in Baton Rouge. (Right) Multiple hand-crafted glass tobacco pipes sit on display April 25 inside The Lotus, a glass gallery and smoke shop on College Drive. These pipes range in price from $10 to thousands of dollars. Go to lsureveille. com to view more photos.
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Other suspect still on the loose Chandler Rome Sports Writer
by FERRIS MCDANIEL · Senior Investigative Reporter Nick Oldenburg sat at his workstation inside a white wooden shack on the side of his house. A 3,700-degree Fahrenheit jet of flame hissed inches from his face. His hands — one twisting a glass tube, the other gripping a granite reamer — hovered on each side of the burning orange stream. Just minutes earlier, this glass blower known as Nicko sipped a Dixie beer on his patio with his cat, Woods. Now he was entirely fixated on his artform: glass blowing, originally known as lampworking. What started as a thin clear glass cylinder, enclosed at one end by incredibly high temperatures and connected at the other end to a rubber tube that ran to Nicko’s mouth, was shaped and blown into a gumball-sized marble called an “implosion.” It contained a mesmerizing starburst of color at its core. Using more heat, he melded the marble to a black tube. Nicko, unsure what the piece would become, improvised as the fragile material morphed to a manipulatable putty that he worked into something resembling an upright cobra. “What makes something art is you get an emotional response out of it when you look at it or see it or touch it, whatever it might be,” Nicko said. “I like glass because it kind of controls itself to some degree. It wants to be something, so you have to work with it.” Eventually, the unfinished figurine will become a pipe, or perhaps a water pipe for “tobacco use only.” Legal disclaimers aside, it will
LSU sophomore running back Jeremy Hill and an accomplice were recorded “giving each other high fives and flaunting” after allegedly attacking a 20-yearold fight victim Saturday morning, according to the police report obtained by The Daily Reveille on Tuesday. Hill was charged with one count of HILL simple battery in connection with the tussle that took place outside of Reggie’s Bar at 1100 Bob Pettit Blvd., while another suspect remains at large. Baton Rouge police were dispatched to the scene at approximately 2:13 a.m., according to the report, where Officer Clifford Crouch was able to locate the victim. According to the report, the victim told Crouch he was struck in the head “two or three times” and told the officer he only remembers waking up on the ground after absorbing the second blow – but he did provide officers with a license plate number of the suspect. “I observed [the victim’s] hands to have minor cuts, his clothes to be in disarray, a sway while he stood and a lump on the back of his head,” Crouch wrote in the report. After initially refusing medical attention, the victim told Crouch he would get a ride and go to the hospital. Crouch wrote that several witnesses came forward with videos of the altercation as officers arrived at the scene.
GLASS BLOWING, see page 6
HILL, see page 15
New glass art gallery showcases local artists