The Daily Reveille - December 2, 2015

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Volume 120 · No. 67 RESIDENTIAL LIFE

Edwards’ transition team sets up in Kirby Smith Hall BY CAITIE BURKES @caitie1221

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SEASON Read about the university’s annual Holiday Spectacular on page 7.

photos by EMILY BRAUNER / The Daily Reveille

LSU held its annual Holiday Spectacular on Tuesday, a free series of seasonal events across campus.

Students scrambling to math class in their pajamas might bump into the state’s future governor on their way, as a campus residential hall becomes his temporary office space. As Gov. Bobby Jindal prepares to vacate the Governor’s Mansion, governor-elect John Bel Edwards’ transition team is setting up camp on the 12th floor of LSU’s Kirby Smith Hall, LSU Media Relations Director Ernie Ballard said. The campus-central transition location is no new phenomenon — Ballard said Jindal and former Gov. Mike Foster both utilized campus for their transitions. “We didn’t choose this location,” state Sen. Ben Nevers said. “I guess precedent has been set.” As Edwards’ newly appointed chief of staff, Nevers will spearhead transitional operations on

see TRANSITION, page 7

BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY

North La. Funeral home offers purple and gold LSU casket BY SAM KARLIN @samkarlin_TDR Die-hard LSU football fans can now swear their eternal allegiance to the team, taking their Tiger loyalty to the grave in an LSU-branded casket from a northern Louisiana funeral home. Boone Funeral Home and Crematory in Bossier City offers the purple casket with gold hardware, which features the official LSU logo and tiger eye and is the only LSU casket on the market, said manager Ginger Hartman. A portion of the cost of each casket goes to the university, and the specific amount is worked out once the casket is purchased. If cremation is more their

flavor, customers can also have their ashes reside in an LSU urn, which also has a purple and gold color scheme and the official LSU logo. The casket costs $4,395 — a bit pricier than the home’s average casket of $3,995. The LSU urn goes at the average price of $450. Hartman said the idea for LSU-branded caskets, which went on the market in the past month, are about a year in the making — the “brain child” of Jim Ford and Justin Baxley of Foundation Partners Group, which helped bring the idea to customers through a third party manufacturer. “To most customers,

see CASKET, page 7

Boone Funeral Home and Crematory in Bossier City is offering officially licensed LSU Tigers caskets and cremation urns.

courtesy of BOONE FUNERAL HOME


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