Football: Mathieu gives first interview since suspension, p. 5
Food: Get step-by-step directions on how to roll your own sushi, p. 11
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Holidays: Stores get into Christmas spirit early, p. 12
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 • Volume 116, Issue 59
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Paul Mainieri
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Professors, coaches reflect on their favorite college memories, greatest college struggles
When James Hardy went to college more than 50 years ago, the penalty for failing wasn’t losing TOPS or moving back in with his parents. If Hardy failed, he would be sent to Korea to fight in the war that drafted thousands of people every month. Hardy, now a history professor at LSU, described his time at Cornell University from 1951 to 1955 as “grinding, hard, tough, scary years, where the penalties for failure were absolutely gigantic, and it had to be done. I had
to get through that.” Despite the grueling work, Hardy was Unlike the college stereotypes today, captivated by one of his professors — VladiHardy did not spend all of his mir Nabokov, the famed free time partying. novelist who wrote “Lolita.” Andrea Gallo “Cornell was tough, and “He was magisterial, Staff Writer it’s isolated, so the struggle to awe-inspiring, aristocratic, survive and then to prevail academically con- and his English was magnificent,” Hardy said. sumed the four years, and they were not fun,” “I was totally taken in. It was just wonderful Hardy said. “But in the end, I made it out of and sensational.” there, got in the 98th percentile on the GraduWhile Hardy much preferred his years ate Record Exam and got into grad school.” in graduate school at the University of
Pennsylvania, he said his “real college” spanned from 1981 to 2000, when he taught in LSU’s Honors College. Paul Mainieri, LSU head baseball coach, said he jumped from college to college as a baseball player. Mainieri started his university path at LSU, though his father was the head baseball coach at Miami-Dade North Community College. COLLEGE, see page 10
STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
CONSTRUCTION
Pottery, ceramics available this week
built on Lee, Highland
Group raises funds with art sale New Walgreens to be Store to comprise two floors, open by May
Josh Naquin Staff Writer
Students are selling guns, flasks and skulls in front of the Student Union. They’re part of the University’s Ceramics Artist Student Association’s biannual pottery and ceramics sale held this week, where the items for sale are not limited to the dinner table. The outdoor sale, held under white tents near Free Speech Plaza, started Monday and will run through Friday from CERAMICS, see page 10
Morgan Searles Staff Writer
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Bottles, along with other pottery and ceramic works, are sold as part of the Ceramics Artist Student Association’s biannual sale held this week near Free Speech Plaza.
Preliminary work has begun at the site of a new Walgreens drug store on the corner of Highland Road and Lee Drive. Jonathan Lanza, vice president of Landco Construction, said construction on the building should begin in a month. “Right now we’re getting the site up to grade so we can build,” he said.
Lanza said Walgreens stores are normally close to 15,000 square feet, and the building should be complete by May at the latest. “This one is going to have a second-story mezzanine for pharmacy and management offices,” he said. “On small sites like this where they’re compressed, they do a second floor in the rear of the store.” A Walgreens representative said further information about the new location won’t be available until after the building is constructed. Contact Morgan Searles at msearles@lsureveille.com