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Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Volume 125 · No. 2
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STUDENT GOVERNMENT
SG plans Union lactation room
BY CJ CARVER @CWCarver_
photos by AURIANNA CORDERO / The Daily Reveille
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Mother-daughter duo forge successful leather works business in Mid-City BY KATIE GAGLIANO
It all started with a leather bracelet. The simple clasp kind, etched with the name of the wearer or a loved one, that teenagers in the 80s brandished on their wrists as a right of adolescent passage. Arts educator and muralist Denise Kerr, nostalgic for her own childhood bracelet, wanted to give her daughter, Danielle, her own token of initiation into young adulthood and decided to take up leather work. Roughly seven years later, the hobby has transformed into a successful
@katie_gagliano business, Sweet Leather Goods, in the Circa 1857 complex in mid-city Baton Rouge. The business is co-owned and operated by 50-year-old Denise and her daughter Danielle, now a 22-year-old senior in the University’s graphic design program. The women’s labor of love emerged seemingly overnight through a combination of happenstance and gritty determination, the duo said. Sweet Leather initially operated as a booth at the Baton Rouge Arts Market in fall 2016,
New mothers in the LSU community will now have a private room dedicated to breastfeeding on campus, scheduled to open during this semester. Thanks to a University-wide policy introduced by LSU Staff Senate in June, a room within the LSU Student Union, previously used for security purposes, is receiving a face-lift to function as a lactation room. Almost five million undergraduate students were reported raising children that depend on the parent, according to a 2014 study done by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. “We were getting calls occasionally, not only from our students, faculty and staff but occasionally from someone who was going to be visiting campus who wanted to know if there were lactation rooms available on campus for their use,” Staff Senate President-Elect Tammy Millican said. Through research, Millican found that while the University does have a few lactation centers, such as in the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine building and the LSU Women’s Center, there were not many in central locations on campus.
see LACTATION, page 6
see SWEET LEATHER, page 6 LITERATURE
LSU alumna publishes design book, features overheard quotes
BY KAYLEE POCHE @pochecanyousee Everyone knows the feeling of overhearing a stranger’s conversation that lies somewhere between comically odd and flatout strange. University alumna Carlin Mumphrey takes this simple human experience and brings it to life in her recent work. While Mumphrey was originally intent on studying science when she started college, that quickly changed once she took a digital art class. “I got sucked into graphic design,” Mumphrey said. “It became my life.” Although everything is designed in some way, a lot of people take graphic design for granted, the Baton Rouge
native said. This “behind-the-scenes” aspect of design paired well with Mumphrey’s introverted nature, a nature reflected in the concept for her book, “Fly on the Wall.” The book, which features quotes she overheard during her time at the University, was her senior thesis when she graduated in May. The concept for the book transpired from notes she would jot in the margins of her notebooks of funny comments her classmates would make. She combined the list she had compiled with her design background to create a visually pleasing memento of her time at the University. She originally had over 100 quotes to use but narrowed it
down to about 65 due to time and space constraints. She specifically picked quotes she heard around campus as a way to reflect on her college years, she said. Quotes included in the book range from her personal favorite, “I bet Beyonce has gold flakes in her boogers, and when she sneezes, angels sing,” to the shocking “Every time I pick up my dog’s poop, I think of you,” which she admits was taken out of context. The fun, light-hearted tone of the quotes is mirrored in the book’s vibrant colors which include hot pinks, yellows, oranges and blues. The bright colors contrast
see MUMPHREY, page 6
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LSU alumna Carlin Mumphrey reads from her senior thesis “Fly on the Wall,” a hand-lettered book containing her favorite quotes she overheard during her time at the University.