The Daily Reveille 11-10-15

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• Soccer team earns first NCAA bid in four years, page 3 • California jewelry company creates jobs for students, Ugandan women, page 5

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• One writer’s predictions of Album of the Year Grammy, page 5 • OPINION: Missouri President’s resignation shows power of race relations in sports page 9

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CUTS Former manager of Student Union Barbershop highlights Union cuts BY JOSHUA JACKSON @Joshua_Jackson_ Former manager of the LSU Student Union Barbershop Lawrence Cutrone said his resignation and the shop’s subsequent Oct. 15 closure weren’t as amicable as Auxiliary Services portrayed them to be. The Daily Reveille previously reported Auxiliary Services Communications Coordinator Heather Gulino said the closing was a result of Cutrone’s decision to pursue another career. However, Cutrone, a barber at LSU for 16 years, said the resignation was almost forced upon him after he refused to accept a 25 percent pay cut. The proposed pay cut was the most recent reduction in a series of cuts throughout the Student Union.

see BARBERSHOP, page 11 KAREN WELSH / The Daily Reveille

The Student Union Barbershop located on the first floor of the Union closed last month after servicing students for decades.

2011 Former LSU Student Union director Shirley Plakidas retires, Auxiliary Services takes over management of Student Union

August 2013

October 2014

Margot Carroll begins working as Auxiliary Services assistant vice president

Tiger Pause Billiards leaves Student Union

Feb. 28, 2015 Auxiliary Services informs former LSU Student Union Barbershop manager Lawrence Cutrone he will have to take a 25 percent pay cut

July 2015 LSU Continuing Education takes over leisure classes

Volume 120 · No. 54

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Oct. 15, 2015

Student Union Barbershop closes

STUDENT LIFE

Club unites nontraditional students

BY CAITIE BURKES @caitie1221 Twenty-five years ago, Jan LaNasa left her year’s worth of studies at LSU and boarded a plane to Germany with her new husband, who was in the military. Now, the 46-year-old cardiovascular stress technician returns to her undergraduate education as one of the oldest freshmen in the Class of 2019. She said she felt isolated and intimidated by the technological advancements made since the late-1980s when she was first here. Surpassing her classmates — and most of her instructors — in age, LaNasa also felt out-of-place as a non-traditional student. “Everyone calls you ma’am. ... They kind of treat you like you’re their mom,” LaNasa said. After enrolling for the fall 2015 academic year, she reached out to First Year Experience for guidance and jumped on board as one of the founding members of a new student organization. FYE Assistant Director Ramon Lopez created the Non-Traditional Student Organization to help students like LaNasa feel more at home on campus. He arranged

see NON-TRADITIONAL, page 11

BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY

LSU mom starts cookie delivery service from home BY CARRIE GRACE HENDERSON @carriegraceh

LSU mom Marcia Barton doesn’t think a box of cookies can fix everything, but she believes wholeheartedly in the power of encouragement. This is what she thought for three years, before her impromptu cake pop delivery service bloomed into a fullfledged campus delivery service. “It’s really a parent’s business,” Barton said of her new company, Love in a Box, which

delivers homemade sweets and just about anything else a parent can suggest. “They named it. They were the ones who set the prices. I just happen to be the minion who is doing it.” Barton, an LSU alumna and former University Laboratory School teacher, sold cake pops for parties and events for several years before a Facebook post by a mom of a lonely student prompted her to make a campus delivery. Three years — and several deliveries — later, that mom

decided to post a picture of the gift on the LSU Parents Facebook page. “On the parents page on Sept. 19, someone posted a picture of the gift she sent her daughter, and everybody was like, ‘Wait a minute. How do I get in on this?’” Barton said. Thus, Love in a Box was born. Barton has two children at LSU — a senior and a freshman — who sometimes help her with sales and deliveries. Barton said she can relate to parents who want to do something special

for their children’s birthdays or during exams. It was Barton’s daughter who suggested the Birthday Box — a cake box filled with a parent’s order, as well as several other goodies to help a student “feel eight years old again.” “It’s a lot of fun for me because now I have an empty nest,” Barton said. “It has been just wonderful to talk to parents and try to make a difference.” But more than anything, Barton said she tries to emphasize the personalization of each

delivery, whether that’s brainstorming ideas with parents over the phone or scanning their handwriting onto a birthday card. “It’s a lot of fun to get a recipe from somebody who says, ‘These are my son’s favorite cookies. Can you take him a dozen?’” Barton said. “Anything they want.” As a cottage industry, the bakery is run entirely from Barton’s home and must follow a list of state regulations dictating what she can and cannot cook and sell.

see COOKIES, page 11


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