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Thursday, November 17, 2011 • Volume 116, Issue 61
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INVESTIGATION
Sergeant allegedly involved with cadet Non-LSU officials taking closer look Brian Sibille
Movies: Students amped for ‘Breaking Dawn’ midnight premiere, p. 13
STEEPED IN HISTORY
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A University ROTC officer is being investigated following reports of a prohibited relationship with a female cadet. Battalion Commander Lt. Col. John Wright confirmed the ongoing investigation but said he LAWRENCE could not identify anyone involved. He said an individual outside the ROTC program made the allegations. The anonymous individual who made the accusations told The Daily Reveille that the officer in question is Sgt. Wayne Lawrence, military sciences instructor and battalion sergeant major, and the cadet is Sheena SERGEANT, see page 6
[Top] Tiger Stadium was a residence hall until the early 1990s. [Right] The Pentagon Barracks are still located by the State Capitol.
Former, current residence halls reflect LSU’s history Countless students have called the Univer- metal doors. The whole place was bulletproof.” sity home over the years, with many living in the Though Naquin attended most of the footsame inspiring halls of the past. ball games, he said the one he University archivist Barry did not attend while living in Paul Braun Cowan detailed the history of the stadium was a unique exContributing Writer on-campus residence halls and perience. how they have evolved since their construction. “It was like an earthquake while the game was going on, even though the whole thing TIGER STADIUM was built out of cement,” Naquin said. For Adrian Naquin, Saturday nights in Cowan cast doubt on the myth associDeath Valley during his undergraduate years ated with Huey P. Long’s involvement in the were rattling — literally. Naquin, who lived creation of Tiger Stadium as a residence hall, in the Tiger Stadium North residence hall as a which says Long used it as a ploy to build freshman in 1971, described the rooms as “in- the arena. destructible.” “Their construction wasn’t necessar“Almost everything in the room was con- ily because Huey Long had anything to do crete,” he said. “The walls, the floor, the desk HISTORY, see page 6 you studied at. The two closets in the room had
OBITUARY
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STUDENT LIFE
Prof. Miles Richardson Students donate for ‘Be the Match’ dies, service set for Sat. Kate Mabry Staff Writer
Andrea Gallo Staff Writer
University professor and anthropologist Miles Richardson died on Monday at age 79 after a battle with brain cancer, according to a news release and his colleagues in the Department of Geography and Anthropology. Richardson was an original above all else, according to Linda Strain, assistant to the chair of the Department of Geography and Anthropology. She said she knew him for about 12 years. “There won’t be another like him. He believed in doing what he
was doing,” Strain said. “What impressed me most was his determination to never give up.” Strain said Richardson adored country music legend Hank Williams and folk music. Richardson was always worrying RICHARDSON her, she said with a smirk. “He used to get on his threewheel bicycle and ride on Perkins [Road],” she laughed. “He couldn’t drive, but he insisted on riding that RICHARDSON, see page 6
About 300 students crowded in Free Speech Plaza on Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and participated in the “Be The Match” campaign. Event volunteers for Be The Match, the first campus-wide event to accumulate cheek swabs for cancer patients, collected samples from faculty and students who would like to become a member for the bone marrow registry. Robert Bostick, senator for the College of Agriculture, said the event’s mission is to increase the number of people on the bone marrow registry, a list of volunteers eligible to donate bone marrow. MARROW, see page 6
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Philosophy junior Ellen Lacroix and psychology senior Claire Swinney swab their cheeks Wednesday as part of the “Be the Match” bone marrow registry.