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LSU Olinde Career Center opens in Union

BY deanna narveson dnarveson@lsureveille.com

course credit for their roles in the production, but were required to see other shows to get the full six hours of credit. The trip was funded by the program fee, with students staying in University of Edinburgh dorms.

Students can now interview with their future employers, receive advice on what to wear to an interview or get help with money management and résumé writing while enjoying comfortable leather chairs, wood-paneled walls and plush carpets in the new, two-story LSU Olinde Career Center.

The Career Center, formerly Career Services, was christened Tuesday with a ribbon cutting ceremony and reception eight days after the new facilities opened in the heart of the Student Union.

The center was built without state or University funding and without an immediate increase in student fees, said Career Center Director Mary Feduccia. A large donation from the Olinde family, the center’s namesake since January, made its construction possible.

The Career Center was previously housed in Coates Hall and Patrick F. Taylor Hall. Now, after two years of construction, it resides on the bottom floor of the

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see CAREER CENTER, page 4

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LSU physical theater production goes to 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe

BY JAMES RICHARDS jrichards@lsureveille.com University theatre students took a 10-foot-tall aluminum soccer ball-like structure and massive aerial performance silks to Edinburgh, Scotland, this summerfor the largest arts festival in the

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The students performed their production of ORIGIN, a physical theater production, amid more than 3,000 other plays spanning nearly the entire month of August.

According to the play’s website,

ORIGIN is an allegorical production about a fictional species on a far away planet. The story draws inspiration from “string theory, cell biology, evolution and cultural myths.”

Director and associate theatre professor Nick Erickson said students received three hours of

FOOD

Hanley’s Foods moves up from LSU AgCenter Food Incubator

BY BRITTANY CLARK bclark@lsureveille.com Gaining the “freshman 15” is a fear for anyone starting college, and eating healthy is a common solution.

Hanley’s Foods wants to give students an easier way to do it.

Hanley’s Foods has upgraded from being a tenant of the LSU AgCenter Food Incubator to working with a copacker to produce its product.

Once a business grows to a certain level, it “graduates” from the incubator, and the responsibility of producing the product falls upon a “copacker,” or a contract company that produces an item in bulk for a business.

The copacker can produce as much salad dressing as Hanley’s

Foods can sell.

The incubator opened in July 2013, and it helps business owners jump start their businesses with the assistance of food science faculty and students. LSU AgCenter Food Incubator director Gaye Sandoz said 18 tenants are currently involved with the incubator.

Hanley’s Foods owner Richard Hanley said he got the idea for his business after starting a 30-day abstinence from fast-food with his brother-in-law.

“Sensation salad dressing is a staple salad dressing only offered in stores and restaraunts,” Hanley said. “I went to the store and wondered why was it not on the shelf and I had the vision that I could put it there.”

Hanley quit his job to focus on his new business. He said he

remembered telling his wife that he quit, and she thought he was crazy.

Hanley met Sandoz at Norco, another food incubator. The two developed a friendship, and Hanley said Sandoz gave him advice and became a mentor.

Sandoz said the incubator assisted Hanley with marketing and even donated a booth. The AgCenter is the distributor and helped with making contact with stores to get them to pick up the products.

“Hanley’s Foods started in 30 stores,” Sandoz said. “Richard is really proficient in marketing. He hustled and bustled and made the business grow.”

Though none of the ingredients used in Hanley’s salad dressing

see SALAD DRESSING, page 4

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Hanley’s Foods founder Richard Hanley poses Tuesday with his original Sensation salad dressing.

Nation & World

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Extremists distribute footage of beheading THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIRUT — Islamic State extremists released a video Tuesday purportedly showing the beheading of a second American journalist, Steven Sotloff, and warning President Barack Obama that as long as U.S. airstrikes against the militant group continue, “Our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people.”

The footage, depicting what the U.S. called “a sickening act of brutality,” was posted two weeks after the release of video showing the killing of James Foley and just days after Sotloff’s mother pleaded for his life.

Barak Barfi, a spokesman for the family, said that the Sotloffs had seen the video but that authorities have not established its authenticity.

Sotloff, a 31-year-old Miamiarea native who freelanced for Time and Foreign Policy magazines, vanished in Syria in August 2013 and was not seen again until he appeared in a video released last month that showed Foley’s beheading.

Dressed in an orange jumpsuit against an arid Syrian landscape, Sotloff was threatened

in with death unless the U.S. stopped airstrikes on the Islamic State.

In the video distributed Tuesday and titled “A Second Message to America,” Sotloff appears in a similar jumpsuit before he is apparently beheaded by a fighter with the Islamic State, the extremist group that has conquered wide swaths of territory across Syria and Iraq and declared itself a caliphate.

In the video, the organization threatens to kill another hostage, this one identified as British citizen David Cawthorne Haines. It was not immediately clear who Haines was.

Britain and France called the killing “barbaric.” British Prime Minister David Cameron said in a statement that he would chair an emergency response meeting with his Cabinet early Wednesday to review the latest developments.

In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said U.S. intelligence analysts will work as quickly as possible to determine if the video is authentic.

Psaki said it is believed that a few Americans are still being held by the Islamic State.

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Texas voter registration laws fall under scrutiny THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A federal judge on Tuesday began reviewing tough new Texas voter ID rules challenged by the Obama administration in a trial that could threaten the polarizing law, although a decision isn’t expected before the November election.

Minority rights groups, voters and Democratic lawmakers are among a coalition of plaintiffs suing Texas, and they say their experts have estimated 787,000 registered voters lacking any of seven acceptable forms of ID to cast a ballot under the law.

They say Blacks and Hispanics make up a disproportionate slice of those voters.

Texas is the first test by the Justice Department to wring protections from a weaker Voting Rights Act after the U.S. Supreme Court last year gutted the heart of the landmark 1965 civil rights law.

In two Texas elections since that ruling, voters have been required to show an approved ID. Lawyers for Republican Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, the favorite to become governor in January, told a judge that both took place without glitches or disenfranchising voters.

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A federal trial opens Tuesday that will decide the fate of one of the nation’s most stringent voter ID laws.

Americans comply with every day to engage in mundane activities like cashing a check, opening a bank account or boarding a plane,” said Reed Clay, a special assistant under Abbott.

The trial in front of U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos in Corpus Christi is expected to last two weeks, but a ruling isn’t expected until after Election Day. That means roughly 13.6 million registered voters in Texas would still need to produce a photo ID this fall.

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Wednesday, September 3, 2014 environment

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Professor finds life in ice sheets AgCenter buys state-ofBY Rose Velazquez rvelazquez@lsureveille.com

Associate Professor of Biology Brent Christner and his colleagues aren’t going under the sea — they’re going under the ice.

Christner and his co-authors published a paper in Nature, a prominent scientific journal, documenting their discovery of microbial life in the waters 800 meters beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet.

Christner and his colleagues are researchers with the Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling project, or WISSARD project, an ongoing multi-university collaboration funded by the National Science Foundation.

Graduate student and coauthor of the paper Amanda Achberger said their research focuses on understanding what microorganisms are present in Lake Whillans and how those microorganisms are obtaining energy.

“We know there’s water beneath the ice sheet, and life needs water, but that’s not all it needs,” Christner said. “It needs a source of energy just like your car needs a source of energy to run.”

Achberger said this paper is just scratching the surface of what the WISSARD project can discover. Achberger said researchers in the University’s lab have identified the organisms in Lake Whillans but do not understand how those organisms function and what adaptations they have that allow them to live in an extreme environment.

Christner said researchers have speculated about the existence of life beneath the ice sheets for decades, but the traditional theory has been the coldest

place on the planet cannot support life.

“If we were sitting here 20 years ago talking about life underneath the Antarctic ice sheet, you know, you’d get laughed out of the room,” Christner said.

One of WISSARD’s major obstacles was finding an appropriate drilling method. When samples were presented in 1999 as the first evidence of microbial life beneath the Antarctic ice sheets, studies citing the evidence were called into question because of the drilling methods employed in retrieving the samples.

“We’re talking about microbial life in a place that we’ve never been able to access,” Christner said. “The breakthrough in this project is literally the breakthrough in that we drilled through the ice sheet for the first time, specifically to look for life underneath the ice sheet.”

The team spent years planning the drilling and cleaning methods that would be used in the Antarctic to protect the environment and prevent contamination of the extracted samples.

The equipment was tested in the U.S. as well as Antarctica multiple times before the team actually penetrated the ice sheet.

“The last thing you want to do is contaminate this environment that’s been hidden away for hundreds of thousands of years,” Achberger said.

Christner said the team will return to Antarctica in January to continue studying Lake Whillans and its microbiological ecosystem by drilling into an area of the ice sheet where researchers suspect the lake floods over into the ocean.

“Within the next two years, there’s going to be a number of articles that come out from our

group and others that describe in more detail the biology of this system and the physiology of the organisms,” Christner said.

The WISSARD project’s findings have implications for the stability of ice in Antarctica that could affect even Baton Rouge, Christner said. Achberger said researchers are still trying to understand how the microbes interact with each other and with the oceans Lake Whillans feeds into.

“Now, that means that a bit of thinning or instability of that ice sheet means it could be floated, and what that would mean is that us, sitting here in Baton Rouge, we’d have beach front property because that ice sheet alone would raise sea levels about seven meters,” Christner said.

While Christner acknowledged this is an important implication of the study, he said as microbiologists, Baton Rougebased researchers are primarily concerned with the presence of microbes beneath the ice.

“Part of it is understanding Earth ... We don’t have a very good understanding of the microbial ecosystems that are here under our feet,” Achberger said.

The study also raises the questions of whether organisms that can survive in the harsh environment beneath the Antarctic ice sheets might also be able to survive in the harsh environments on other planets.

“I don’t know that Louisiana State University is going to be a center of polar research, but what I’d like to see us be is a university that is recognized for its microbiology-based research whether that be in Antarctica or that be in the high atmosphere or in coastal regions or deep in the Gulf,” Christner said.

the-art body scanner

BY anna roy aroy@lsureveille.com The LSU AgCenter’s newly purchased 3-D and 4-D Size Stream body scanner does more than just measure waistlines and hemlines — it helps the people wearing the clothes.

Seconds after someone steps into the scanner, the machine projects a 3-D body image onto the computer screen attached on the side and 400 body measurements are ready to use.

Instead of measuring by hand, it’s possible to get more measurements in about six seconds by using the body scanner, said AgCenter Associate Communications Specialist Tobie Blanchard.

“The machine has software to make patterns — it takes away the need for a human to measure you,” Blanchard said.

According to the Size Stream website, the body scanner stands a little more than 7 feet tall, almost 5 and a half feet wide and 3 and a half feet deep. Pennington Biomedical Center has owned a similar device for several years.

The website says the scanner can detect 100 landmark points on a body. Included in its measurements are height, length, volume, surface area, and more.

It uses infrared depth sensor technology, similar to that used in video games, the website says. The sensors are positioned at six different angles and seven different heights within the scanner.

The body scanner can be used in making custom-sized clothing, but has the potential to be used for different measurement studies on the size of Americans today, something that has not been done since the 1940s, Blanchard said.

Blanchard said the 4-D part of the scanner will be used to study how Americans move in their clothes and how designers can accommodate movement, especially for developing uniforms for firefighters police officesr as well as outfits for dancers.

“This kind of technology is just really cool for the AgCenter to have,” said dietetics sophomore Sarah Brauns.

She said that even though she won’t use it, it brings a new perspective for her friends majoring in fashion.

As of right now, the fashion students will not be using the body scanner. Instead, AgCenter faculty will use it while students watch and work alongside.

Blanchard said that within the next five to seven years, students will be required to know how to use the scanner because it will “eventually become a mandate in the fashion industry.”

In addition to its many uses at the University, the AgCenter hopes that the body scanner will also play a part in the ever-growing Louisiana film industry.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2014 3:00 PM 5:30 PM

Yu-Gi-Oh! Wednesdays - New Orleans Public Library- Main

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Solo Jazz Piano - City Club at River Ranch Open Mic Night - Buffa's Bar & Restaurant

6:30 PM 7:30 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM Emily Brauner / The Daily Reveille

LSU’s Brent Christner, who recently published a paper documenting a lake beneath Antarctic ice sheets, stands Tuesday inside the freezer room of the Life Sciences Building.

Zumba N Bands Class - Robicheaux Recreation Center

A Week in Ireland - New Iberia Public Library Alien Ant Farm - Southport Hall Comedy Night - The Station Sports Bar and Grill Band Karaoke - Boudreaux & Thibodeaux's Free BLT's & Grammy - Banks Street Bar & Grill Karaoke - The Spanish Moon

For more information on LSU events or to place your own event you can visit www.lsureveille.com/calendar

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Students intern for Garret Graves

BY SAVANAH DICKINSON sdickinson@lsureveille.com

Public administration graduate student, Andrew David, and animal science junior, Holly Hendrix, double as political players for the Garret Graves 6th Congressional District campaign as interns.

David first took notice of Graves’ campaign in March 2014 when Graves spoke to his public administration class about his coastal plans, including maritime commerce and offshore energy. David reached out to Graves’ campaign manager, Kevin Roig, to learn more about how to get involved.

Two months later, David began interning with the Graves campaign.

As an intern and LSU First Year Experience marketing and communication assistant, David said finding time outside of school and work is a struggle.

“You just don’t sleep,” David said.

In his internship, David said he makes phone calls to identify voters and goes door to door with his team.

“Our big push right now is voter contact and grassroots outreach,” David said.

Hendrix, David’s coworker, began interning for the Graves campaign three weeks ago after receiving an email from a fellow student government senator asking students to apply for the campaign as volunteers.

Hendrix said she researched each candidate and found she

SALAD DRESSING, from page 1 were raised at the University, Hanley, a Baton Rouge native, said he strives to buy from local vendors.

Sandoz said Hanley has used strawberries from Louisiana producers and purchased local bottles and labels.

Hanley said the incubator supplied him with superior food science knowledge, interns, bigger kitchens and additional staff.

He said he excelled here and the incubator is responsible for putting his products on the shelf.

“I truly developed a product that I am proud of here,” Hanley said. “The LSU AgCenter Food Incubator has managed to meet my ridiculously high standards.

Money can’t buy that. I also work with a talented food science staff that challenges food science.”

Hanley said Hanley’s Foods plans to expand by heading west into the Dallas market. Hanley’s Foods is now in 150 stores.

Though expansion is a goal, Hanley said the biggest game changer for the company is the next project. Hanley’s Foods is producing an avocado dressing the company is dubbing as the “next ranch.”

“My goal is to create the world’s healthiest, non-dairy salad dressing by using avocado and white balsamic,” Hanley said.

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Andrew David, left, and Holly Hendrix, right, are interns with Garret Graves’ 2014 campaign for La.’s 6th congressional district. shared similar views with Graves on agriculture, including coastal conservation and preservation of the wetlands.

“Opposed to all the other candidates out there, I felt more connected to [Graves],” Hendrix said.

Hendrix said she always wanted to get involved in politics and the timing of this election was just right. She said interning with the campaign has improved her communication skills and given her the chance to reach out to the community.

“It’s a way to get in touch with kids that don’t want to pick up a newspaper or turn on the television,” Hendrix said.

David said the Graves campaign is pushing for student participation in the election but

admits it is a tough goal. The Graves campaign utilizes on campus organizations that network with students, parents and campus visitors in Free Speech Plaza to improve participation.

David and other Graves interns are forming a Students for Graves organization on campus to raise student awareness for the Graves campaign. David said Graves will speak at their first event on Sept. 7 about his plans for Louisiana.

Hendrix said in the next 10 years, college students will be the ones making America’s important decisions.

“If you’re not informed, you’re not going to be prepared for the future,” Hendrix said.

Wednesday, September 3, 2014 CAREER CENTER, from page 1 Student Union. The Career Center also contains the Cale P. Smith Student Financial Management Center and a University Recruiting Center, said Vice Chancellor for Student Life and Enrollment Services Kurt Keppler.

Spanning two floors and 17,000 square feet, the redesigned center houses staff offices and student services on the first floor. The second floor contains the recruitment and financial management centers.

There are 22 interview rooms for employers to meet with students, according to the center’s website.

The financial management center will counsel students on matters like budgeting their money and staying out of debt, Keppler said. Students can schedule appointments to meet with staff members to get career tips or stop by for walk-in appointments.

Keppler said the Career Center’s new location in the “living room of campus” will make it more available to students so they can learn about the opportunities they have in their fields of study.

LSU President F. King Alexander said the center has more than 500 corporate partners who will meet with students at the new facilities and keep thousands of University graduates from having to return home to their parents without jobs.

The facility will also hold a passport center so students can leave the University with both a diploma and a passport, Alexander said. He mentioned the trip to Dublin, Ireland, that Tiger Band took earlier this year, where a majority of the 325 students had never a passport before traveling with the band.

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LSU President F. King Alexander addresses the crowd Tuesday at the Olinde Career Center ribbon cutting ceremony.

Clay Tufts said the center helped him sharpen his résumé editing skills, interview etiquette and public speaking skills. He said not many student services on campus operate without using student fees, and 20 to 25 percent of the students who use the center go to graduate school.

The center’s partners include the Reily Foundation and the BASF Corporation, who donated $100,000 to the center.

The Career Center holds regular office hours from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and has 10-minute walkin appointments available from 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Monday, Thursday and Friday, and from 1:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

CAMPUS CRIME BRIEFS Student booked for DWI, traffic light violation Police pulled over 19-yearold Amanda Lafleur of Lafayette on Tuesday, Aug. 26, after she failed to stop at the red light at the Highland Road and South Stadium Drive intersection.

Officers, upon initiating a traffic stop, said Lafleur showed signs of intoxication.

They performed a field sobriety test, which she failed.

LSUPD spokesman Capt.

Cory Lalonde said Lafleur was taken to LSUPD, where she took a breathalyzer test for intoxication and officers determined her Blood Alcohol Content was over the legal limit.

She was then transported and booked into East Baton Rouge Prison, Lalonde said.

LSUPD releases East Laville resident who stole clothes out of community dryer LSUPD charged University student Peter Heausler with theft Monday, Aug. 25, after responding to a report from a student who claimed his clothes had been stolen from the East Laville laundry room.

Lalonde said officers located and identified Heausler

with surveillance of a suspect getting into an elevator who fit the victim’s description.

After police interrogation, Heausler admitted to stealing the victim’s articles of clothing from the dryer and was issued a misdemeanor summons prior to his release, Lalonde said.

University student sets off fire alarm in Herget hall and is released On Friday, 18-year-old University student Grant Garrison set off the Herget Hall fire alarm.

Witnesses reported seeing Garrison grab a fire extinguisher and set it off in the hallway, which caused the alarm to sound.

During the investigation, LSUPD officers saw white fire extinguisher powder on the floor at the given location, Lalonde said.

Upon locating Garrison, who admitted to discharging the fire extinguisher, police arrested and issued him a misdemeanor summons for criminal mischief.

He was later released from East Baton Rouge Prison, Lalonde said.

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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

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Players’ notebook

Thomas makes recovery after torn bicep

IMPRESSIONS compiled BY tyler nunez tnunez@lsureveille.com

words BY tommy romanach tromanach@lsureveille.com

BY Michael Haarala mhaarala@lsureveille.com

John Diarse

Cameron Gamble

2 receptions 48 yards 1 touchdown

5 kickoffs 319 yards 3 touchbacks 1 out-of-bounds

(WR)

(K)

Diarse only made two catches, but one of them was the most important play of the game.

Turning a third-and-long into a 36-yard touchdown not only closed the lead, but it gave LSU the momentum it needed to complete the comeback.

Gamble was better than expected, getting touchbacks on more than half of his kickoffs. His performance was a pleasant surprise after the transfer of James Hairston.

trey quinn (wr)

Leonard Fournette (RB)

8 carries 18 rushing yards 5 kickoff returns 117 return yards

Brandon Harris

8 carries 18 rushing yards 5 kickoff returns 117 return yards

(qb)

2 carries

The comparisons to Adrian Peterson can be put on hold for now, with Fournette never breaking out for a big run. To be fair, he didn’t get tons of help from his offensive line, and he did have a few good kickoff returns.

-11 yards

1 sack

Nobody can analyze too much from one series, but Harris looked shaky and timid in his limited action against Wisconsin. He should get more playing time against Sam Houston on Saturday, and that’s when better opinions of Harris can be formed.

Don’t be fooled and believe that Quinn’s less-than-stellar stats means he didn’t have an impact.

Quinn was instrumental in blocking for other receivers and leading to yards after the catch. Quinn’s performance earned him a top spot on the LSU depth chart for the Sam Houston game.

After tearing his bicep in fall camp and finding out he may be out for the season, junior defensive tackle Quentin Thomas made a speedy recovery that allowed him to start against Wisconsin.

“I believed in my heart that I wasn’t going to be out for the season,” Thomas said. “I didn’t expect to be back so soon, but I’ll take that. People ask me every day if I am hurting, and I just tell them I’m good, and they don’t expect that.”

Typically, a bicep injury similar to his would require surgery and months of rehabilitation. After conducting strength tests on the injured arm, however, trainers were surprised at his drastic improvement and left it up to him to decide if he wanted the surgery.

“All the team doctors looked at me — they must have each looked at me three times — and they had no explanation for it,” Thomas said. “I told [athletic trainer] Andy Barker, I told him in the past that I heal fast, and I was just joking, but apparently I do.”

Although Thomas didn’t believe he would be out the entire season, even he was surprised by his return to the field in such a short timeframe.

“The week before, I was out for the season,” Thomas said. “And then the next week, it was I might be back at some point during the season. And then come game time, I’m out here for the first game of the year. Being out there was something special.”

see notebook, page 11

Soccer

Invigorated offense powers LSU to 3-0 victory over Nicholls BY morgan prewitt mprewitt@lsureveille.com After suffering its first defeat of the season Sunday against Rice, the LSU soccer team rebounded with a 3-0 win against Nicholls State on Tuesday night.

The Tigers’ offense looked dynamic with more combination passing, which was a focus for LSU coach Brian Lee in the team’s preparation.

“For the first time this fall, I thought we started getting the pass-and-move idea,” Lee said.

“And trusting each other and playing more attractive soccer.”

From the beginning, the Nicholls’ defensive line played high up the field to catch the

Tigers’ forwards offsides. This strategy seemed to work in the first half, which included six offsides calls against the Tigers.

“I thought [the forwards] did okay,” Lee said. “We want to be close to the line. We want to be offsides, but the most concerning [calls] are when it is the widest player who can see all the way across the line. We’ve just got to be paying attention.”

Offensively, LSU continues to find different ways to score.

All three goals scored Tuesday were assisted by at least one Tiger.

In the eighth minute, junior midfielder Fernanda Piña put LSU on the board with a onetouch shot off a cross by sophomore forward Summer Clarke.

Although Piña has recorded two assists in 2014, this goal marked her first score this season.

Clarke extended the Tigers’ lead to two goals in the 19th minute. After junior midfielder Natalia Gomez-Junco’s free kick bounced off of the crossbar, Clarke headed in her third goal, which is tied for the most on the team in 2014.

“That was a great goal,” Clarke said. “I don’t score many headers, so for me, that was fun.”

Gomez-Junco was close to scoring on free kicks all night, yet she wasn’t able to put one in the back of the net like she did against Northwestern `State.

see soccer, page 7

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LSU junior midfielder Fernanda Piña (7) celebrates after scoring the first goal during the Tigers’ 3-0 victory against Nicholls on Tuesday in the LSU Soccer Stadium.

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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

sec power rankings

LSU moves to No. 4 in this week’s power rankings

BY Tommy Romanach tromanach@lsureveille.com

College football came back in the only way it knew how: the way nobody predicted.

After weeks of speculation, analysts were fooled this weekend with top teams experiencing close calls or getting upset. The first week usually yields these surprises, yet fans fall for it each season.

This week’s power rankings feature some big risers and some who suddenly have their work cut out for them after embarrassing performances.

1. Alabama (1-0, 0-0 Southeastern Conference) Prev. 1 Part of me doesn’t know why I’m putting them here.

Alabama’s 33-23 win against West Virginia seemed lackluster, especially compared to some of Nick Saban’s other season-opening victories. Quarterback Blake Sims’ performance gave hope to Jacob Coker, even if the job mostly entails handing it off to T.J. Yeldon.

The worrisome part is the defense, which showed weakness against a Mountaineers team that only won four games last season. Saban defenses don’t allow more than 20 points the first week, so after last season’s Sugar Bowl debacle, the threat level is rising in Tuscaloosa.

2. Georgia (1-0, 0-0 SEC) Prev. 2 Todd Gurley is a cheat code. There’s no way someone can be that big and fast.

By now, most have seen Gurley’s performance Saturday when he scored four touchdowns en route to a 45-21 win against Clemson. Gurley is the leading Heisman Trophy candidate in the clubhouse, and if he can give 80 percent of what he gave Saturday he’ll run away with the award.

The Bulldogs are beyond one player, however, with quarterback Hutson Mason and a revamped defense making smart plays to help Georgia pull away.

In a few weeks, Georgia will face a tougher test when it goes to Columbia in a huge SEC East showdown. If it wins that game, it might find itself at the top of the rankings.

3. Auburn (1-0, 1-0 SEC) Prev. 3 The defending champions took a while in their home opener against Arkansas, but once the defense got started, Gus Malzahn’s madman offense couldn’t be stopped.

Quarterback Nick Marshall was suspended for the first half, but nobody could tell. Backup Jeremy Johnson threw for more than 240 yards in the first two quarters, and Marshall kept the train going in the second half.

Auburn’s gameplan looks similar to the one they had last season: get a few stops on defense and let Malzahn’s offense

gain 500 rushing yards to blow the opposing defense away.

4. LSU (1-0, 0-0 SEC) Prev. 5 The Tigers had major positives and negatives to take away from Saturday’s win against Wisconsin.

There’s no need to make any absurd assumptions about the team’s impending doom or success.

Aside from Georgia, LSU’s performance didn’t differ from the teams ranked above them. If they can figure out the quarterback situation, the Tigers may be able to make moves in the rankings.

5. Texas A&M (1-0, 1-0 SEC) Prev. 6 People keep leaving, but things just stay the same.

Kevin Sumlin is proving he is worth all the money A&M pays. The Aggies annihilated South Carolina in Columbia on Thursday, laying 52 points on a defense that allowed more than 30 last season. New quarterback Kenny Hill broke Johnny Manziel’s single game passing record, and the offense looked almost identical to Sumlin’s first two seasons.

Kliff Kingsbury left in 2012, and Johnny Manziel left last season, but the system is still in motion. A&M is officially the dark horse of the conference.

6. South Carolina (0-1, 0-1 SEC) Prev. 4 The Gamecocks were embarrassed Thursday, but one game does not define them. The season can still be salvaged by putting the blowout behind them.

Quaterback Dylan Thompson showed signs of life, throwing for more than 300 yards and four touchdowns. There needs to be more balance between run and pass for South Carolina to thrive, and the defense needs to improve after getting torched by Hill.

7. Ole Miss (1-0, 0-0 SEC) Prev. 7 Who cares if they won? The Rebels’ performance for the majority of their win against Boise State shouldn’t move them any higher than where they previously were.

Bo Wallace may have caught fire late, but what he did for three quarters would result in a loss against an SEC team. Credit defensive back Cody Prewitt and the Rebels’ defense for shutting down Boise’s offense, but they have to become more stable offensively to maintain success.

8. Mississippi State (1-0, 0-0 SEC) Prev. 9 The big question for Mississippi State coming into the season was Dak Prescott’s accuracy. He took a small step into answering that question on Saturday.

It was against Southern Miss, but Prescott threw for a careerhigh in passing touchdowns and yards and was less reliant on

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Georgia’s Todd Gurley, center, runs the ball against the Clemson defense in the second half of an NCAA college football game. scrambling. He’s beginning to develop into a more natural quarterback, making State’s meeting with LSU on Sept. 20 all the more interesting.

9. Florida (0-0, 0-0 SEC) Prev. 10 The Gators’ game against Idaho was canceled due to weather, but I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt that they would’ve beaten the Vandals.

Whatever happened, it still doesn’t tell me much about the team.

For now, Gator fans will wait patiently until the team travels to Tuscaloosa to play Alabama in three weeks. It isn’t exactly fair that it’s Florida’s first big test, but it’s the type of thing that happens when you’re in the SEC. 10. Tennessee (1-0, 0-0 SEC) Prev. 13 The Vols looked impressive in their 38-7 win against Utah State on Sunday, with new quarterback

Justin Worley throwing three touchdowns. The offense was led by youth, as the top three wide receivers were sophomores.

The defense played aggressively, forcing three turnovers and keeping Utah St. scoreless for three quarters. Assertive play is essential if Tennessee wants to make some upsets this season.

11. Missouri (1-0, 0-0 SEC) Prev. 8 Missouri’s first game back after losing nearly all of its skill players from last season wasn’t great. Mizzou struggled for most of the game against FCS opponent South Dakota State before quarterback Maty Mauk and runningback Russell Hansbrough put the game out of reach in the fourth quarter.

Struggling with a team nicknamed the “Jackrabbits” is never a good sign. Missouri has to get its act together before SEC play begins.

12. Arkansas (0-1, 0-1 SEC) Prev. 12 Give credit to the Hogs.

They kept up with Auburn for two quarters until they fell behind double digits and had to rely on quarterback Brandon Allen. Stay patient Arkansas fans. I promise that SEC win is coming.

13. Kentucky (1-0, 0-0 SEC) Prev. 14 Somehow a team that hasn’t won an SEC game since 2011 has moved up in the rankings.

Kentucky did exactly what any other FBS team should do to Tennessee-Martin, winning by 45. But The Wildcats’ meeting against Vanderbilt on Sept. 27 should be a doozy.

14. Vanderbilt (0-1, 0-0 SEC) Prev. 11 A 30-point loss. At home.

Against Temple. I’m not wasting any more words on this team.

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VOLLEYBALL

Holman named SEC Offensive Player of the Week

BY Mike gegenheimer mgegenheimer@lsureveille.com LSU volleyball’s Briana Holman was named the Southeastern Conference Offensive Player of the Week following her performance at the Mortar Board Premier this weekend.

The sophomore middle blocker earned the distinction after knocking 47 kills during the three-match stint in West Lafayette, Indiana, for a .409 hitting clip.

Tuesday marks the fifth weekly award the DeSoto, Texas, native has earned in her career and the first of the 2014 season.

Holman was named Offensive Player of the Week just once during her freshman campaign, but garnered SEC Freshman of the Week on three more occasions.

Holman is only the second Tiger since 1996 to earn the distinction on the first week of the season, following Ivana Kuzmic, who achieved the feat in 2005.

soccer, from page 5 “Yeah, I was close,” GomezJunco said. “It was one of those days that the ball just refused to get in the goal. It happens, and I’m just glad that we won 3-0.”

Freshman forward Jorian Baucom capped off the Tigers’ night with the third goal in the 29th minute. Set up by a header from freshman midfielder Christyna Pitre, Baucom cut around the keeper to snake a strike into the back of the net, her third of the season.

The development of the offense was clear in the way the Tigers communicated and moved with each other.

“I think one of our goals was to take less touches on the ball and just take one or two touches and try to find someone’s feet,” Clarke said. “I think we were doing that a lot better this game.”

Despite putting only one shot on frame against Rice, the Tigers managed 10 shots on goal, forcing Nicholls’ sophomore keeper Taylor Mosley to work all night.

Although LSU did not score in the second half, the Tigers threatened the net throughout the last 45 with 11 shots.

Fears’ injury creates hole at middle blocker BY mike gegenheimer mgegenheimer@lsureveille.com

LSU volleyball lost one of its key players for the season before the school year even started.

Junior middle hitter Khourtni Fears is out for the season with a torn ACL after landing wrong in practice the week before move-in day.

At first, LSU coach Fran Flory and team trainers were hopeful the injury wasn’t serious and Fears could return for part of the season, but doctors later confirmed her left knee would need surgery.

Fears was not made available for comment, but Flory said though Fears took the news that she wouldn’t play this season hard, she’s been able to handle the situation well.

Despite the injury, Fears remains as active she can be with the team in practice, and her positive attitude has made the loss easier for her teammates. “[Fears] has overcome a lot in her life,” Flory said. “This is just another road bump for her, and she knows she’s going to come out of it stronger. There’s nothing that’s been put in Khourtni’s pathway that she hasn’t overcome.”

Now the Tigers are forced to cope without Fears on the court after she produced 121 kills on a .273 hitting percentage during her sophomore campaign. She was also responsible for 55 total blocks last season and was expected to be a major contributor for LSU

alongside sophomore middle hitter Briana Holman.

Holman previously told The Daily Reveille she’s used to playing with new and different people next to her.

“We’re all family here,” Holman said. “[Fears] played a big role on our team, but everyone is just going to have to step up. It was a big spot to fill, and nobody can fill that special place that she had.

We’re just going to play for her this season and be there for her.”

Flory said the most immediate hit to the team on the court with Fears’ absence will be the loss of depth at middle hitter.

Flory said senior Madi Mahaffey is the front runner to take over at the middle blocker spot, which leaves a hole on the right side. Flory said she thinks junior Emily Ehrle or freshman Gina Tillis could step into the position.

“Our system is still our system,” Flory said. “We’re still going to set our middles first, we’re still going to run the same thing. One person doesn’t make our system.

Our system is built and these kids are recruited into it.”

Flory said while the injury does hurt the team this season, it possibly puts the Tigers in a better position for future years by giving Fears an extra year of maturity.

Fears has not yet received a medical redshirt from the NCAA, but Flory said she has no doubt she will, considering she was hurt before the season began and never played a game.

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WEB COMMENTS In response to Gordon Brillon’s column, “#Gamergate is a misogynistic embarrassment for gamers,” “I personally believe you’re incorrect, this isn’t an embarrassment for ‘gamers’.

Why? Because I feel you’ve missed the point behind the #GamerGate movement.

I self identify as a ‘gamer’, I believe that Anita Sarkisian has the right to make any video she wants, and she, like the rest of us should be free to do so without harassment. Hell, I agree with the problems with sexism in the gaming industry that she’s trying to shed light on. I just disagree with the evidence and methods she uses to do so, but that’s irrelevant to #GamerGate. Anita, or even Zoe Quinn are not the reason gamers are angry.

Gamers are angry with a niche corner of the Journalism industry that, when questioned on potential breaches of professional ethics, first, ignored the issue, then attempts were made (by Reddit admins, others) to silence those trying to bring up the issue. When there was a response from these journalists, it was in the form of several articles published by several different outlets, on the same day, with the same message. “Gamers are dead.”, “Gamers are over.”, “Gamers are mysoginistic neckbeards who should be ashamed of themselves.” ... This is the point at which I took notice, and I got angry, not because of Zoe Quinn, not because of Anita Sarkesian, but because of a concerted attempt to paint me as a woman hating bigot, and that I should be ashamed and embarrassed for the crime of identifying with a subculture that exists for the sole purpose of celebrating the enjoyment of a form of media. Furthermore, this message was coming from an industry that was supposedly supposed to keep me informed and cater to my interests, not because I belonged to a privileged race or gender, but because I was interested in video games. I don’t know how much, if any of the evidence of corruption in the gaming media, is credible. But the fact that said media responded to accusations of corruption by trying to shame, marginalize and slander (with a broad brush) their entire consumer base into submission speaks volumes. We’re angry, we’re offended (for being labeled as bigots), and we want the TRUTH from these people.”

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Everyone has good, bad sides to them OFF WITH HER HEAD Jana king Columnist Aug. 25 was a solemn day for the citizens of Ferguson, Missouri, as the Brown family buried their son, Michael. The burial took place amid civil unrest and protest of police brutality following policeman Darren Wilson’s fatal shooting of Brown.

Aug. 25 was also the day The New York Times published a front-page story stating that “Michael Brown was no angel.”

The article, written by John Eligon, included one paragraph describing the rough community Brown grew up in, how he “dabbled in drugs and alcohol” and claimed Brown’s venture in writing music was contemplative but vulgar.

Critics of the article claimed it unfairly defamed Brown’s character.

Many took to social media, admitting to having committed these same “crimes” as Brown — some confessing to worse.

Growing up in southern Louisiana, I’ve always been told the day I die will

be judgment day. But I didn’t realize in Sunday school that the judgment doesn’t come at the pearly gates, it takes place on Earth.

Our world view forms on the basis of good and bad, reward and punishment. Parents teach us that bad children refuse vegetables and don’t get Christmas presents, and good children clean their plates and collect their reward on Christmas morning.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found in its 2013 survey of high school students 41 percent of those surveyed acknowledged using marijuana at least once in their lifetime. Two-thirds of responses acknowledged consuming alcohol underage.

But I’m willing to bet most, if not all, of those students still recieve presents on Christmas morning.

Of course, this could be the slight of St. Nicholas getting old and not being able to clearly read his “Naughty or Nice” list. Or we could admit that we are all capable of both good and evil and will commit acts of terror and kindness throughout our lives.

In the early days of the Ferguson unrest, a Twitter campaign developed under the hashtag #IfTheyGunnedMeDown. Twitter users posted pictures of themselves doing something socially

acceptable alongside a picture of them doing something socially unacceptable.

The juxtaposition of the two photos attempted to criticize the media slant that allows victims of violent, sometimes deadly, attacks to be painted in an unfavorable light. Most clearly, it showed the people posting them were capable of being both angels on their graduation day, smiling with family, and unsavory delinquents, drinking with their underage friends.

This isn’t just another issue to be tossed atop the mountain of ways the events in Ferguson are problematic.

It’s an issue we face every time the public discusses a death.

It’s important to think critically about the problems of the world that the victim grew up in, not individual actions prior to their death.

My Southern Baptist Sunday school class had another popular saying I think everyone could learn from: “Leave the judgment to the big man upstairs, because no one is an angel.”

Jana King is a 20-year-old communication studies junior from Ponchatoula, Louisiana. You can reach her on Twitter @Jking_TDR.

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‘We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t f--- them.’

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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Bookstore overpriced, employees incompetent SAY IT LOUD...

Taylor simien Columnist The beginning of each semester is filled with the hustle and bustle of students moving into new housing, reuniting with friends after a long break and starting new classes.

With new classes comes new books, and with new books comes empty wallets.

During my first semester, I was surprised at the amount of money I had to spend on books. $600 was gone within one transaction and access codes I would only use for one, maybe two, semesters.

Being a naïve freshman, I bought all of my books at the LSU Bookstore.

I was clueless. I didn’t have anyone older than me to borrow or buy old books from, I didn’t explore online options like Chegg or Amazon and I had no clue about off-campus bookstores.

The LSU Bookstore was my first option because it was brand new, had a convenient location and was spoken so highly of at freshman orientation.

Shopping at the LSU Bookstore for anything is the worst idea anyone can ever make. Everything in the bookstore is horribly overpriced, from textbooks to school supplies to clothes.

A flimsy, 1-inch binder, with no pockets on the outside, that has LSU and a tiger printed on it costs around $8. A more durable binder at Walmart costs half this price.

A pack of four AAA batteries is around $9. You could get a decent brand of batteries at Walmart for almost a third of that.

So, when my calculator died the day of a stats test, I had to take that lick.

A towel is around $17. I’m not sure why

anyone would buy bathroom accessories at the bookstore, but for $17, I can buy a Walmart brand, six-piece bath towel set or groceries to last me two weeks.

With all the people who shop at the LSU Bookstore on a daily basis, is it really necessary to jack up prices that much? It should be illegal.

Not to mention, the people who work there are poorly trained. Of the three workers I overheard helping customers the other day, not one of them seemed to know what they were doing. No one could answer simple questions about books. If you asked them about a book you couldn’t find, instead of looking into it and checking to see if they actually had it, they just said, “Oh, it’s probably out of stock or we don’t have it.”

Well, could you go look first? How can you tell me you don’t have a book when you didn’t even move to go check? And shouldn’t the bookstore supply books for every class anyway? That would only make sense.

The LSU Bookstore ain’t loyal.

Before you sell your soul to the bookstore, exhaust all other options first. Odds are, you’ll find better deals elsewhere. My favorite places to shop for books include Amazon, Chegg, Valore Books and the official Facebook groups for each graduating class. Amazon also has a discount on Prime for students that includes the first six months free and free, two-day shipping.

Taylor Simien is a 20-year-old mass communication junior from Lafayette, Louisiana. You can reach her on Twitter @ TSimien_TDR.

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Burning textbooks alternative to selling back THE AMAZING CYNIC ryan monk Columnist School’s back in, and we’re all getting ready to be shown how stupid we are in terms of numbers between zero and 100. Unfortunately, we also have to face a few other numbers: the red ones in our bank statements after the bookstore refuses to accept our souls for books.

A few months, hundreds of gallons of coffee and several mental breakdowns later, we’re left with these large clumps of paper that no longer do anything but remind us how much better we should have done in our courses.

Where do I get off calling them useless?

Last night, I was flipping through my $100 unit operations textbook, and I noticed entire chapters matched up with those in my similarly-priced fluid mechanics book from last year.

I would have grabbed that text to double-check, but guess what? I don’t have it anymore, because everything I needed to know from it is obtainable online or in my current textbooks.

But, you may ask, can’t I still sell my books when I’m done with them?

Let’s do a quick case study: Last semester, I bought a textbook for heat and mass transfer off Amazon for $68.32, which was actually a pretty darn good deal. But I just checked its current value on Chegg, and I got a quote to sell it back for $14.78.

Also noteworthy: It now costs $64.49 to buy a used copy of the book from Chegg and $194.99 for a new one.

Now, I know that’s a bit short of absolutely terrible, but it’s still pretty bad. The return on that book wouldn’t cover an appreciable fraction of the medical bill I’ll have to pay to cover the heart attack I’ll have after seeing my final grades in a few months.

But fear not, friends. I have a plan.

First, we need to make it through the semester. Milk those books for what they’re worth, not for what they’ll be worth at the end of the courses.

Second, we need to designate a meeting time and place after the end of the semester — ­ somewhere with a flame-resistant floor.

Once the fall semester ends, figure out which of your books have any remaining value. Keep those. Throw the rest in a duffle bag and head over to our predetermined spot for the party.

What will we actually be doing?

We’ll have booths set up, organized alphabetically by major: A-H, I-P and Q-Z, or something like that. Get in line and we’ll collect your unwanted books. Then we can get started.

Trumpets will bellow some popular, upbeat tune for a few minutes to set the mood (anyone from Tiger Band reading?), and then I’ll jump out with a microphone shouting, “Let there be light!”

Someone will pull up a curtain, revealing a pile of all our ex-books, covered in what everyone will shortly thereafter realize is gasoline — and we’ll just burn them.

Very symbolic, huh?

We can have tons of barbecued food, bands playing live music and even some of those awesome inflatable slides for those of us who never quite grew up. There will be stands giving temporary tattoos of the ISBNs of our flaming books and we’ll gather in circles to chant our favorite lines and equations from them.

If the stars are really aligning in our favor, the publishing gods might see our fire from above. Please have mercy on us.

Sounds like a phenomenal time, right?

I’m now accepting donations in the forms of textbook receipts with annotations listing what you would have done with the money otherwise. If you see me on campus, just crumple them up and throw them at me. I’ll really appreciate it.

So if you’re part of the leagues of students currently crying over spilled textbook money, please consider joining us for the celebration. You’re one of us.

Ryan Monk is a 21-year-old chemical engineering senior from Lake Charles, Louisiana. You can reach him on Twitter @RyanMonkTDR.

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DeSean Smith and the tight ends have a rough outing LSU’s tight ends had a difficult performance against Wisconsin.

Senior Travis Dickson caught a seven-yard pass that ended in an early fumble, and sophomore DeSean Smith dropped a wide-open pass in the second quarter.

“Right after I did it, I was like, ‘I don’t drop this,’” Smith said.

“This isn’t me. I’m not going to let that affect me for next week’s game, I’m just going to keep preparing myself and come out here and work extra and catch more balls.”

Smith played all 13 games his freshman season but only managed to make one catch. In an offense that isn’t heavy on passing to tight ends, the lack of production by the unit against Wisconsin was disappointing to Smith.

“We ask for the ball, and we finally get it,” Smith said. “Me and Travis both need to make those plays and prove to them that we can make those catches and help the team.”

Although the performance was disappointing, Smith isn’t letting it get to him.

“The best drop balls,” Smith said. “Nobody’s perfect. I’ve just got to let it go and move on.”

Jalen Collins already showing improvement from 2013 Junior cornerback Jalen Collins made himself known against Wisconsin as he begins to rebound from a disappointing 2013 season.

“I guess I had a pretty good game, that’s what everyone is saying,” Collins said. “I just went out there and did what I’ve been doing since camp started, and just went hard.”

In his redshirt freshman year, Collins was named to the Freshman All-SEC team and had 30 tackles, six pass breakups and two interceptions. His sophomore year yielded more lackluster results, with 22 tackles, two pass break-

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LSU junior defensive tackle Quentin Thomas (95) squares off against a Wisconsin player Saturday during the Tigers’ 28-24 victory against the Badgers. ups, no interceptions and him falling behind in the pecking order.

“I refocused myself. Last year wasn’t good for me, and I had to improve on it,” Collins said. “Since I came into this offseason with a little bit more focus and a little more experience under my belt, I knew what to expect and how to

play and practice.”

Collins made six tackles against Wisconsin, his fourth career start. He chased down Wisconsin running back Melvin Gordon and turned what seemed like a sure 75-yard touchdown run into a 63-yard gain.

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page 12 ORIGIN, from page 1 Erickson said ORIGIN came from a grant co-written by recent University graduate and teaching assistant Mark Gibson.

According to the production’s website, the soccer ball structure, called a truncated icosahedron, is based on a naturally occurring carbon C60 fullerene molecule, also known as a buckyball, detected in deep space.

The structure is made of hundreds of interlocking aluminum pieces and required five checkedluggage bags to transport to Scotland.

Erickson said the show is

based in physical theater, where performers use their bodies as the primary means of communicating with the audience; combining aerial and grounded movement.

The structure is essential to the theme of rebirth in the play, Gibson said. At the beginning, characters are born in the structure. They leave the structure during the play but eventually return, showing the cyclical nature of life.

Edinburgh, which Erickson said triples in population during the festival, was alive with activity. Street performers worked in between shows to keep crowds

The Daily Reveille mystified. Gibson joined in for a large group of attendees.

“I taught myself how to breathe fire,” he said. “I’d never done it for a crowd like that for money before.”

Erickson recalled one show on a moving double decker bus with three women from New Zealand who would encourage audience members sitting in the seats to put on their makeup while the bus went around Edinburgh. Other shows featured performers from places as diverse as Samoa, Macau and Wales.

During the trip, students made valuable connections with

Wednesday, September 3, 2014 a Cirque du Soleil representative and Fest Magazine reviewer in attendance at ORIGIN’s closing show. Students were also required to interview an international performer as one of their assignments.

Gibson said his favorite part of the trip was connecting with fellow artists and performers on both a personal and professional level.

“I’m auditioning for Cirque du Soleil next week,” Gibson said.

Erickson said he’d love to continue developing the show to bring physical theater to other schools and elsewhere.

Angola State Penitentiary, retirement homes and cancer wards are just a few of the places he thinks would benefit from the unique production.

“Experiences are limited with typical plays and musicals,” Erickson said. “I want to bring new views and cultures to people.”

A central theme of the play is continuity and development, Gibson said, so the natural next move is to bring the production to other schools.

“The dream is to collaborate on the production with other students,” he said. “To make it new.”

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University graduate and teaching assistant Mark Gibson performs using aerial silks and a truncated icosahedron. Gibson accompanied University theatre students to the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August.