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House of Shock brings terror back to New Orleans

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he House of Shock resurrects the dead as it revamps a historic New Orleans haunted house planned to be closed forever last year.

After shutting the doors in 2014, the New Orleans community banded together to show its support for House of Shock’s reopening this October.

“We’re beyond excited about The Resurrection, as there was strong chance that the House of Shock was dead for good,” Co-founder Ross Karpelman said. “The love and support we received from the community

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WEATHER

Students embrace weekend storms, resume classes Monday STAFF REPORTS @lsurevielle Kinesiology junior Connie Stokes slowly coasted through the waters flooding State Street on Sunday night while en route to a friend’s house.

“I thought my car was going to go under,” Stokes said.

After enduring the nightmare that the storm left on the streets near LSU’s campus, Stokes woke up and trudged in her rain boots from Campus Crossings to class Monday

morning.

Stokes, along with many other LSU students, said she thought classes would be cancelled Monday because of the local record-breaking 2.12 inches of rainfall the previous evening, brought on by the remnants of Hurricane Patricia.

LSU Media Relations confirmed around 8 p.m. classes and events would go on as scheduled, but the Emergency Operations Center closely monitored the situation.

BRPD closed 11 streets near

campus around 8:30 p.m. Sunday because of heavy flooding, but Tiger Trails was up and running at 7:30 a.m. Monday, save a few route changes because of road closures.

“The only stops that [the buses] are not able to reach are the ones off Burbank-Ben Hur and Highland-Burbank by the Co-op Bookstore,” said a Tiger Trails representative.

Though students dreaded the commute to class, campus ZOE GEAUTHREAUX / The Daily Reveille

see FLOOD, page 4

Students return to campus Monday following a weekend of stormy weather.

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BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY

United Houma Nation women visit LSU on trip to trace heritage

BY TRENT PARKER @TrentParker_TDR Prominent women from the United Houma Nation ate dinner between the Indian Mounds located near the Manship School of Mass Communication on Monday night. Their visit to LSU was the third stop in the seven-day “Returning to Our Roots” project — a trip to promote health and visit various sites with significance to the United Houma Nation’s history.

On each day of the journey, which began Oct. 24, the women visited a site and discussed different topics and issues together.

“We’re a matriarchal tribe.

Our women have always been strong leaders, very vocal,” said Lanor Curole, director and member of the United Houma Nation. “They are the voice and the decision-makers for a lot of families.”

The “Returning to Our Roots” project’s participants stopped

in Baton Rouge, the city named after the red boundary markers distinguishing Houma territory from neighboring tribes. The women met with representatives from the LSU Office of Diversity to discuss issues like educational opportunities, then proceeded to visit the Indian Mounds.

A similar journey following the path of Choctaw people on the Trail of Tears helped inspire the project, said Michelle JohnsonJennings, an assistant professor at University of Minnesota and clinical health psychologist.

Johnson-Jennings, who identifies as Choctaw, said she believes the high rates of diabetes and obesity experienced by the Houma may be a legacy of past strife.

“Any time you have a group of people that have been historically traumatized you have higher stress levels,” said JohnsonJennings.

Research into epigenetics shows environmental factors like stressful experiences can

have negative health effects on multiple generations to follow, resulting in greater rates of diabetes and stress-related medical problems, Johnson-Jennings said. By promoting healthier lifestyles the damage can be reduced.

Despite consisting of more than 17,000 members and being recognized as a tribe by Louisiana, the United Houma Nation has yet to be acknowledged by the federal government, said Jessi Parfait, the United Houma Nation Archivist.

The government must consult with federally recognized tribes before making some decisions that affect them, and that status provides access to health care programs, development grants and tribal land rights, geography assistant professor Brian Marks said.

To be federally recognized a tribe must meet criteria such as demonstration of a continuity of historical existence. This has proved difficult for the

Houma because of the group’s tumultuous past.

Accepted evidence for federal recognition includes newspaper records, yet the only Houma newspaper’s offices were burned and the printing-press thrown into a nearby bayou as punishment for attacks on Union soldiers right after the Civil War, Parfait said.

Parfait, an LSU graduate, works to gather and sort information for a digital database on the history of the Houma to preserve their past and solidify their status in the eyes of the federal government. Parfait is optimistic that data proving the Houma’s claim is out there.

“I think if I pick through enough things I’m going to eventually find something,” Parfait said.

The isolated nature of many Houma communities made documentation difficult.

“They hid out. They went into these coastal marshes and swamps and remote areas to

live because of discrimination because they were forced off the lands they lived on.” Marks said.

Severe hurricanes, including one believed to have wiped an entire coastal Houma community off the map, further compounded the challenges associated with establishing an unbroken continuity, Parfait said.

In segregation-era Louisiana, the existence of living Native American populations in Louisiana was denied, as they did not fit into the binary racial worldview of white and black. They were barred from educational opportunities at white- and black-only schools, Marks said.

As a result, promoting education is a major focus of modern Houma leaders. The United Houma Nation’s lack of government acknowledgement also inhibits certain educational opportunities for it’s people, with many scholarships for Native Americans tied to federal recognition.

BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY

Couple hosts lively neighborhood concerts in backyard

BY SAM KARLIN @samkarlin_TDR Dozens of people — college professors, young musicians, poets and retirees — poured into a backyard in a Mid-City Baton Rouge neighborhood on a warm Friday night in October.

The eclectic bunch of friends and strangers milled about the yard, drinking out of mason jars and basking in the warm sepia glow of Christmas lights that were strung from tree to tree, left over from a wedding this summer.

As the sun set and the neighborhood quieted, people took turns stepping on a wooden stage in the middle of the lot, with a hand-painted “Bee Nice” sign as the backdrop, to read and recite poems and prose. Bands graced the stage to play acoustic sets for the intimate crowd.

This is a normal Friday night at Penni Guidry and David Mooney’s “Bee Nice Concert Series,” a plot of land turned into a concert space in the middle of a Capital Heights Avenue residential area. The venue is filled with Guidry’s decorations—mostly rusted, discarded items she finds and repurposes.

Guidry calls these items FOSTR — “found on the side of the road” — and her venue is filled with them — rainbow colored pianos, disco balls, repurposed windows and assortments of chairs, which accommodate her growing Friday night crowd.

Growing up in a small town west of Monroe, Guidry said she was not exposed to artistic communities but fell in love with a jazz musician at 16.

The pair had three children — who are all musicians now — and moved in with Mooney in Baton Rouge in 2009 eager to invite local musicians over to hang out, talk and jam.

“I don’t care if it’s bad, as long as it’s live,” Guidry said. “I’m not real wild about canned music, but the live stuff, yeah, because it just makes people have fun.”

When the couple bought a turquoise and white trailer for Airbnb rentals, they were reminded of a vacation they took in Key West, Florida. The two wanted a space where they could relive their time on the island, and the seeds for the venue were planted.

Since June, Mooney and Guidry hosted 12 concerts, three weddings and are preparing for a Halloween festival for children.

Guidry said her decorations often make people do a double take while driving or walking by.

Giant sheets of rusted tin form a fence around the yard, which Guidry and Mooney bought from a neighbor, and inside the yard are countless items they collected through the years and revitalized.

She said once a collected item becomes unusable, she often throws it into her brick fire pit to roast marshmallows over it.

Guidry’s philosophy of “never throw anything away,” informs her decorating habits and culminates in a multi-colored “hippie yard,” Mooney said.

He said the church across the street from their house put on live music for years, but stopped before last summer.

“We usually had 50 or 100 people wandering around in our yard,” he said, “and picnic tables and stuff and they’d bring the kids over here to play while the music was loud. So instead of playing over there, we just opened. I put a roof over, and we put the porch down for a wedding, put a roof over it and bought a little used PA [system] from a church.”

Since then, Mooney said their venue is well received, with musicians calling the couple to ask if they can come play. He said the venue is popular with local bands, who can play from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., make a few hundred bucks from “passing the hat,” and get to another gig by 10.

He said the venue is also popular with neighbors who want to bring their kids, have fun and are home by a reasonable hour.

Guidry said she comes up with ideas for “Bee Nice,” and Mooney has the tools to bring

Penni Guidry and David Mooney host Friday night Bee Nice concerts in their backyard.

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them to fruition.

“She’s more eclectic than I am,” Mooney said. “I’m more of a button down and khakis kind of guy.”

Stephen Dixon, ACLU representative, hosted the “Freedom of Expression Festival” at the venue Oct. 16.

He arranged for local artists to read, recite and perform formerly banned or threatened works of art, an annual event in conjunction with the American Libraries Association “Banned Books Week.”

While different artists and educators gave wide-ranging opinions, from Walt Whitman

to an obscure article titled “Liberty and LSD,” read by a local lawyer, Mooney and Guidry bustled about behind the scenes — Mooney working the impromptu sound-booth, and Guidry passing out wooden fans and entertaining guests in between acts.

“David and Penni embody the spirit of freedom of expression,” Dixon said The couple will stop the concerts in November, Guidry said, but will continue to provide the space for neighborhood gatherings, parties and weddings.

Guidry said she has only three rules — no smoking, no pets and be nice.

OCTOBER

EVENT CALENDAR

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2015 2:00 PM 5:00 PM

Rodgers & Hammersteins Cinderella - Saenger Theatre New Orleans

7:00 PM

Wine Glass Painting Class - Painting and Pinot

7:30 PM

UL Symphony Halloween Concert - Angelle Hall University of Louisiana at Lafayette

8:00 PM

The Supernaturalists - Baton Rouge River Center Theatre

ALL DAY

Celtic Woman - Heymann Performing Arts Center

Science Cafe - Chelsea's Cafe

For more information on LSU events or to place your own event you can visit www.lsureveille.com/calendar

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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Irrigation system’s new hours help prevent erosion

BY TIA BANERJEE @tiabanerjee_TDR While the irrigation system on the Parade Ground has operated for approximately a year, students may notice it this semester because of its newly extended hours.

Last year, the sprinklers only operated from 9 p.m. until 5 a.m. or 6 a.m. However, the Parade Ground upgrade, which happened over the summer, made it necessary for the sprinklers to run more extensively to allow the new turf to grow in, said Assistant Director of Landscape Services Fred Fellner.

English junior Garrett Baringer, who spends most mornings on the Parade Ground for

ultimate frisbee practice, said while practice has not been delayed because of the sprinklers, they can pose a personal inconvenience.

“Since you don’t know when they’re coming on, yeah, you can get caught by them randomly as I have been,” Baringer said.

While Landscape Services tries to operate the sprinklers as often as possible to help set the new turf, factors like rainfall are taken into account when determining when to run the irrigation system.

The irrigation system was installed over the course of three years and completed in 2014. The system was installed for the upkeep of the area, Fellner said.

“The [Parade Ground is]

really an icon of LSU, and [it was] woefully under-maintained,” Fellner said. “I like to joke that when I first came here, the Parade Ground was 70 percent weeds and 30 percent dirt.”

During the summer, sand, sod and grass were harvested from two LSU football practice fields and laser-leveled on the Parade Ground. The leveling was done with a GPS system, making the field perfectly flat with a drainage system running south, Fellner said.

It is important for the Parade Ground to have a good turf to prevent erosion, Fellner said.

“Erosion on campus is one of the main problems that we have,” he said.

Fellner said the campus lake

KIMBERLY GAGNET / The Daily Reveille

Bordello of Freaks is one of House of Shock’s newest attractions.

SHOCK, from page 1 is both humbling and inspiring.”

With new life comes new opportunities for heart-stopping scares. House of Shock introduced two new exhibits for the 2015 season, one of which, Bordello of Freaks, is an old school carnival freak show paying homage to the fourth season of “American Horror Story: Freak Show.”

“We got a lot of inspiration from American Horror Story,” co-founder Steve Joseph said.

“They came out last year and were guests of the place. They thought it was phenomenal.”

The second exhibit, Laff in the Dark, a 3-D clown experience with “more scares per square foot than any other event of its kind,” according to House of Shock’s Oct. 19 news release.

“We decided to do a 3-D maze with clowns [because] people hate clowns,” Joseph said. “It’s something we’ve never done before. It’s bright, vivid, bold color.”

The House of Shock this year pays tribute to a classic Louisiana haunt, the infamous Arabi, Louisiana, LeBeau Mansion that burned down in 2013.

The vacant home the community once aspired of turn into a museum, he said. Instead, the house was burnt to the ground when area-residents broke and attempted a séance.

“So the way our minds work was like, ‘We’ll let the LeBeau Mansion live. We rebuilt the interior to sort of mock what our version of the LeBeau Mansion is,” Joseph said.

The idea behind the LeBeau Mansion attraction is the House of Shock closed last season, the children conjured up the characters who died with the 2014 season. Now with the reopening, guests will see the children conjure the devil.

The House of Shock’s trademark room, the church, however is still instilling fear into attendees.

“When we started, again as adult males, we thought the devil and Satanism … was more entertaining and more [scary] to us than old school Dracula, mummies, [and] werewolves,” Joseph said.

Joseph said during Halloween and other “evil” times, the devil is “pulling the strings,” so they want him to be a big

component of the exhibit. Though they are sometimes criticized for the involvement of the devil, “Everybody knows [that] good will always overpower evil.”

Compared to the 13th Gate, the House of Shock offers a rock ’n’ roll vibe, packed with a full concession stand, a bar and live bands outside for the guests, Joseph said.

“For LSU kids in particular, you’ve got to go to the French Quarter Halloween week,” Joseph said. “You’ve got to check it out. You’ve got to stop by here and the Mortuary, if you can afford both.”

The House of Shock has four more nights left this season.

“We can’t wait for New Orleans to experience The Resurrection,” Karpelman said.

“We’re going big. Fans should prep themselves for major coronary failures!”

Experience the fear yourself October 28 - 31.

is filled with soil because of runoff from Highland Road and previously from the Parade Ground.

The irrigation system will allow the turf to set in and prevent nonpoint source pollution, indirectly caused water pollution.

Fellner, who started working in landscape services in 1995, said this is the first proper irrigation system operating during his time here.

The system is set on a clock with the Parade Ground divided into timed zones three to four zones are watered at a time on three-to-four minute intervals.

The system is automated and programmable, allowing the sprinklers to be controlled from devices like iPhones or iPads, Fellner said. From the device,

water usage can be monitored and the times and zones can be modified.

The precise control of the sprinklers prevents water from being wasted, Fellner said.

“The tighter we can control the irrigation system, then the least amount of water and greatest effectiveness we [have],” he said.

Mathematics senior Amanda Mayhall said she thinks the sprinklers are necessary to compensate for damage done during football season.

“We beat up the Parade Ground pretty badly on gamedays with tailgating and stuff like that, so they need all the water they can get,” Mayhall said.

FLOOD, from page 1

While restaurants remained busy, delivery services such as those provided by Tapingo were temporarily halted.

Criminology junior Roy Eberlan was working his late night shift as a Pita Pit delivery driver when the storm hit.

He said the only places he was able to deliver to were on campus.

Eberlan said the area around Tiger Manor Apartments was “completely flooded” so he could not deliver. Despite the complications, he said he managed to deliver all of his orders.

“It’s my job,” Eberlan said.

According to a National Weather Service map, Baton Rouge can expect scattered showers until Tuesday . The seven-day forecast projected a 50 percent chance of rain on Monday, which falls to 40 percent during the evening.

The forecast also calls for thunderstorms throughout the weekend.

residents enjoyed an impromptu night of storm surfing, swimming and sledding. Students living in University House Baton Rouge, formerly The Standard at Baton Rouge, and Residential College One Complex embraced the weather, sliding down the Indian Mounds or swimming down the waist-high water on Alaska Street.

Students took to Twitter and launched a makeshift social media weather campaign, providing snapshots of different campus locations with memes.

But students weren’t the only ones to show up to school waterlogged.

Facility Services set out early Monday morning to identify affected buildings and parking lots, Assistant Director of Facility Services Tammy Millican said.

“Now that we’ve had some time to dry out, that’s what we’re out there doing — making sure the drains are cleaned out so that we don’t have any flooding, checking to see if we have anything that needs to be cleaned up,” Millican said. “We did have some minor roof leaks, and we also had basements that flooded.”

Millican said storm clean up is routine for Facility Services, who always addresses “the usual suspects,” like Pleasant, Francioni and Foster Halls which receive minimal damage during such strong storms.

LSU tweeted Monday morning, “water has subsided in commuter lots.” The nearly three inches of water standing in residential lots near RCC on Sunday evening drained before morning.

The constellation of popular restaurants lining East and West Chimes streets were unaffected by the power outages and panic caused by the storm. Representatives from The Chimes Restaurant, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Highland Coffees and Raising Cane’s said working hours were smooth-sailing as business operated as usual.

Caitie Burkes, Carrie Grace Henderson and William Taylor Potter contributed to this report.

ZOE GEAUTHREAUX / The Daily Reveille

Students take precautions against additional showers following storms this weekend.

Sports

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STARTING IN THE

SPOTLIGHT Jones, basketball team not concerned about distractions associated with hype

BY JAMES BEWERS @JamesBewers_TDR

Sporting News speculated whether preseason scouting combines organized by college basketball programs would become a trend after the University of Kentucky held its own prior to the 2014 season last November.

“Probably this year, Duke could, but I don’t think anybody besides Duke and Kentucky could get that many pro scouts there for a combine,” said University of Louisville coach Rick Pitino when the publication asked him about the possibility.

What a difference a year makes.

With the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, taking its cue last week, No. 19 LSU became one of three programs in the country to host NBA scouts for two open practices.

see HYPE, page 8

‘[The hype]’s important because you want those seats filled. You want people coming out. You want them anxiously awaiting an opportunity for us to tip it off, and they can come out and support really what we’re doing.

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LSU freshman forward Ben Simmons (25) dunks Oct. 17 in the PMAC.

JOHNNY JONES LSU basketball coach

Jones takes over ‘Lunch with Les’ Excitement continues to build as season nears

BY MORGAN PREWITT @kmprewitt_TDR With the No. 4 LSU football team on a bye week before its showdown against the University of Alabama, LSU men’s basketball took center stage Monday when basketball coach Johnny Jones subbed in for football coach Les Miles during his usual media luncheon.

Jones praised the talent on the Tigers’ roster while looking forward to LSU’s first exhibition against Southwest Baptist University on Nov. 6. The Tigers landed at No. 19 in the USA Today’s preseason Coaches Poll.

“Our practices have really been spirited over the last few weeks, and I know these guys are looking forward to challenges against another opponent here in the near future — Nov. 6 with the exhibition game prior to Nov. 13, our opening date against McNeese State University,” Jones said. “I know that they’re looking forward to it.“ APPROACHING THE HYPE With the Tigers picking up preseason accolades left and right during the last few weeks, Jones took an unusual approach to tackling the hype around the Tigers’ talent — opening practice to NBA scouts to reduce distractions.

“Wanted to make sure that we lessen any distractions that we may have over the period of

see JONES, page 8

Senior guard Gray wants consistency from himself in final year

BY MORGAN PREWITT @kmprewitt_TDR LSU senior guard Josh Gray’s 2014-15 season can be summed up in one word: inconsistent.

The good: Gray’s creative finishes in the paint reflected his knack for scoring as a junior college AllAmerican at Odessa College in 2014, leading the nation with 34.7 points per game.

The bad: After starting 20-straight games, Gray’s inability to translate his talent into reliable production cost him his spot in the starting lineup, averaging

just 16.6 minutes per game after moving to the bench.

The ugly: The Lake Charles, Louisiana, native’s 81 turnovers trailed only former LSU forward Jordan Mickey’s team-leading 101 turnovers despite Mickey tallying 311 more minutes in 2014.

Despite his rollercoaster first season with the Tigers, Gray heads into his last year of eligibility determined to showcase consistent play on the court through hard work and renewed focus.

“To be honest with you, I just need be more consistent,” Gray said at LSU

Media Day. “From day one since I’ve been back on campus, I’ve been really consistent. I’ve been taking my job very seriously, and I feel like it’s going to lead to great things for me.”

Gray’s performance in the Tigers’ marquee regular season matchup against then-No.1 Kentucky acted as a microcosm of his season — complete with its own highs and lows.

Coming off the bench, Gray’s layup gave LSU the lead with less than nine minutes left in the second

see GRAY, page 8

Then-junior guard Josh Gray (5) defends an Auburn basketball player during the Tiger’s 81-77 loss against Auburn on Feb. 5 in the PMAC. Gray said he looks to be more consistent this season as LSU hopes to make a deep postseason run.

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FOOTBALL

Freshman wideout turns corner after tough transition to LSU Tyron Johnson scores first touchdown Saturday

BY CHRISTIAN BOUTWELL @CBoutwell_TDR For freshman wide receiver Tyron Johnson, the game of football came easy to him for most of his life, but the transition from high school football to college was far from simple.

It overwhelmed a 19-year-old Johnson so much, he began to doubt himself, a fellow wideout said.

“I know what it is like to have that doubt in your mind as a freshman,” sophomore wide receiver Malachi Dupre said. “I try to help him make the transition as smoothly as I can.”

After the Tigers 48-20 win against Western Kentucky University on Saturday, the doubt may have subsided.

Johnson looked confident as he reeled in his best catch of the season, a 61-yard touchdown bomb from sophomore quarterback Brandon Harris in the third quarter.

As an agile 6-foot-1, 189-pound receiver, Johnson has all the physical tools. But the mental transition initially limited him to play like the electric receiver he was recruited to be.

“It’s completely different from high school,” said sophomore wide receiver John Diarse prior to the start of the season. “Mom is not here to tell you to go to school anymore.

Then he has to come here and learn a playbook as big as the Bible. It’s a lot to take in as a freshman.”

Fortunately for Johnson, he had help figuring out how it all works, dating back to his teenage years in New Orleans.

‘[Freshman wide receiver Tyron Johnson]’s adjusting really well. At first, you can’t play as fast as you would want to because you are learning. He’s learning, which is allowing him to play faster, which makes him play better.’

MALACHI DUPRE, wide receiver “[Sophomore running back] Leonard Fournette has mentored me before I even thought about coming to LSU,” Johnson said at LSU Media Day on Aug. 16. “We were [friends] in New Orleans.”

Fournette’s tutoring helped mold Johnson into a viable slot receiver, earning 67 yards this season — most of which came from what could to be Johnson’s breakout play against Western Kentucky.

Johnson is one of the featured freshman playing for LSU this season, so the rest of the core group knows how it felt to be in his shoes.

It’s a growing pain all freshman footballers experience — some taking more time to nurture than others, Dupre said.

“He’s adjusting really well,” Dupre said. “At first, you can’t play as fast as you would want to because you are learning. He’s learning, which is allowing him to play faster, which makes him play better.”

Johnson’s athletic ability and speed is an ingredient to a moredeveloped passing game for LSU this season.

The Warren Easton Charter High School product leaped to catch the under-thrown ball

in the facemask of a Hilltopper cornerback on Saturday, snatching it away as he glided into the endzone to put LSU up 34-13.

Tiger Stadium erupted, a possible sign of things to come for Louisiana’s No. 1 overall prospect in 2014.

“He finally got in the endzone,” junior wide receiver Travin Dural said. “He was extremely happy.

“He’s a guy who came very highly recruited. He’s raw. He’s getting better. His routes are getting better. He’s catching better.”

With Johnson finally finding his footing, Dupre summed up the surging LSU wide receiving group in a few words.

“We’re going to be hard to beat,” he said.

photos by JAVIER FERNÁNDEZ / The Daily Reveille

[Top] LSU freshman wide receiver Tyron Johnson (3) catches a touchdown pass Saturday during the Tigers’ 48-20 victory against Western Kentucky University at Tiger Stadium. [Bottom] Johnson (3) celebrates scoring the same touchdown with sophomore wide receiver Malachi Dupre (15).

MEN’S GOLF

Juniors Pierce, Ricard aid Tigers’ improvement during fall season

BY MARC STEVENS @Marc_TDR The LSU men’s golf team is off to a sluggish start to the 2015 season, but with the help of the junior golfers Brandon Pierce and Eric Ricard, the squad hopes to turn the season around.

Pierce returned to the lineup at the David Toms Intercollegiate after he was sidelined the first two months of the season with a neck injury, which he suffered days after LSU won the 2015 national championship in June.

The third team All-American’s return will change the Tigers’ lineup moving forward for the better as he was the highestranked returning golfer from a season ago, said LSU coach Chuck Winstead.

Pierce was rusty in his first competitive round back as he shot an 11-over par 83, including 8 bogeys, one double bogey and one triple bogey. But he returned

to form in the remaining rounds, shooting a 3-over 74 and a 1-under 71 in the second and third rounds, respectively.

The Shreveport, Louisiana, native earned a 28th-place finish in the intercollegiate meet.

Winstead said given the circumstances, the result was a great start for Pierce’s 2015-2016 campaign.

“I thought he did fantastic,” Winstead said of Pierce. “For a guy who hadn’t played a competitive round of golf since June 3 to start the way he did is not uncommon. But the way he finished shows the type of player that he is.”

Pierce will be added to LSU’s lineup, solidifying one more spot in starting five. In addition to Pierce, senior Zach Wright, junior Eric Ricard and freshman Sam Burns are Winstead’s top options with the final spot still up for debate.

Ricard is one of three LSU golfers to start in every

competition this season and is an integral part of the Tigers’ starting lineup.

His best start came at the David Toms Intercollegiate, when he won the tournament in dominant fashion, blowing by the field with a seven-stroke advantage.

Ricard’s performance helped lead the Tigers to their first team tournament win of the year.

His performance at the intercollegiate solidified his spot in the starting lineup for the immediate future.

Winstead said he was impressed by Ricard’s performance in his win and ability to overcome a golf course, which can prove daunting for some.

“Terrific golf, really tremendous,” Winstead said of Ricard’s play. “The University Club [golf course] is challenging, and for him to perform the way he did the last two rounds in particular and overall in the event shows his ability.”

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LSU junior golfer Brandon Pierce lines up his putt Oct. 11 during the David Toms Intercollegiate tournament at the University Club golf course.

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SOCCER

Tigers return to national contention as improvements continue Veterans lead LSU to best season in four years

and keep grinding until we get there.”

Senior midfielder Natalia Gomez-Junco, the only other

BY Mario Jerez fifth-year player on the team, @MJerezIII_TDR is as important for the Tigers’ attack as Arlitt is on defense.

Gomez-Junco had success After coming up short of qualifying for the NCAA Tour- during her first two years of nament in three consecutive NCAA soccer at the University seasons, the LSU soccer team is of Memphis as a forward. in position to break the drought But she has converted into a playmaker with the ball and this year.

The Tigers (10-4-4, 4-4-2 a set piece specialist in her Southeastern Conference) used transition to a midfielder after a combination of veteran lead- transferring to LSU. She has proven this at mulership and emerging young talent to become one of the tiple points this season, but most improved soccer teams never more decisively than she the country and a postseason did in LSU’s first SEC victory this season against Georgia threat.

LSU has already doubled on Sept. 17.

After the Tigers trailed its win total from last year, and its 33 goals with one game 3-2 with less than 25 minutes remaining this season eclips- left in regulation, Gomezes last year’s season total Junco scored twice to give the Tigers a big victory and of 26.

Freshman forward Gabri- extend their unbeaten seaela Maldonado and freshman son at home. She curled home defender Alex Thomas brought a free kick from 25 yards then intercepted athletic ability a Georgia clearand speed that ‘It’s just fun to ance and put in the team lacked be a part of that game winner last season, and tournament. I think it’s the 10 minutes later. they adapted She leads the to coach Brian something we deserve, Lee’s system so we just have to put team and is tied early in this seaour heads down and for third in the with seven son. Thomas, a keep grinding until SEC assists. former two-time we get there.’

“Having a Louisiana Gatoplayer that works rade Player of Alex Arlitt so hard and is so the Year, started senior defender invested in the every game and program and in Maldonado startthe team in the middle of the ed all but two games thus far.

But it was LSU’s veterans field brings an energy to everywho led the way for the team’s body on the team,” Lee said. best season in four years, “Her leadership has been outcaptained by senior defender standing.”

Arlitt and Gomez-Junco Alex Arlitt. “[Arlitt] is SEC Player of have been instrumental to the the Year material,” Lee said. Tigers’ ascension back to na“Our team just hasn’t had tional contention, and sophothat success for her to be a more forward and leading goal big enough name over the last scorer Jorian Baucom hopes to couple of years. I’m happy keep the Tigers there.

Baucom missed three she can experience a season like this and play such a big games this year due to injury role before she’s done playing and another due to a suspension from an excess of yellow cards. at LSU.” After suffering an ankle She’s still managed 13 goals, injury in her senior season five more than she scored last year, Arlitt received a last year and the second most medical redshirt and the in the SEC. Alongside junior forward ability to play as a fifth-year Summer Clarke, Baucom has senior.

The Tigers improved dras- helped make up one of the tically with a healthy Arlitt in most potent scoring combinathe back line this year. With tions in the country. The duo one game remaining, LSU’s op- scored 18 goals in 15 games ponents have scored 20 goals together this season, comon the Tigers, compared to 36 pared to 15 goals in 20 games last season. last season.

Baucom topped the national Arlitt, the only player who has postseason experience with scoring charts at various times the Tigers, said she wanted during the 2015 season and to make the most of her extra has burst on to the scene for the Tigers. year of eligibility.

“She’s been really consistent “I’m grateful to have the opportunity to play another for us this year,” Arlitt said. season,” Arlitt said “We just “Even when she’s not scoring have to push and get to the goals, she’s still a solid presNCAA [tournament]. It’s just ence. I think she’ll only get fun to be a part of that tour- better from here, and I can’t nament. I think it’s some- wait to watch and see what thing we deserve, so we just she does.”

The Tigers can lock up an have to put our heads down

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LSU senior midfielder Alex Arlitt (14) walks off the field during the Tigers’ 1-1 draw against University of South Carolina on Sunday at the LSU Soccer Stadium.

SEC Tournament berth with a win or tie against the University of Kentucky on Thursday at 5:30 p.m., the last game of the season.

LSU leads 11th-placed Vanderbilt University by two points in the SEC standings.

The Tigers would still make the tournament with a loss as long as the unranked Commodores

don’t the No. 13 University of Mississippi on Thursday.

If LSU wins the 10-team SEC Tournament in Orange Beach, Alabama, it will automatically qualify for its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2011. The Tigers can also qualify via an atlarge bid if they don’t win the SEC Championship.

The Tigers’ at-large bid résumé includes wins against several ranked teams in the NCAA Women’s Soccer RPI, defeating No 25. University of Minnesota and then-No. 15 Duke University. The Tigers also posted an undefeated record at home for the first time since 2007 with an 8-0-4 record.

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page 8 HYPE, from page 5 LSU coach Johnny Jones said representatives from 28 of 30 NBA teams showed up for at least the first of two sessions Oct. 13-14, watching potential 2016 first round picks like freshman forward Ben Simmons and junior guard Tim Quarterman.

More Tigers, such as freshmen guard Antonio Blakeney, had an opportunity to raise their stocks in front of professional organizations before the 2015 team has played a meaningful minute this season.

If one thing from the LSU’s combine was evident, it’s the amount of eyes on the basketball squad in Baton Rouge — as many as there have ever been.

“I thought yesterday the guys did a good job, especially playing under — I guess you could say — the lights and the type of pressure and the eyes on them,” Jones said at LSU Media Day. “Because all these guys have great ambitions to hopefully one day be playing at the level and for possibly one of those 30 organization.”

Even at Media Day, which coincided with the second open practice, Jones noted how many reporters arrived for the Tigers’ second media appearance of fall practice. In his mind, all this extra attention is good because the opposite wouldn’t be a

positive sign.

It’s a different position than Jones has ever held, even when he was an assistant on former LSU coach Dale Brown’s staff.

Brown’s teams in the early 1990s, which included future NBA Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal, had as much attention as any other basketball team in school history, but Jones was more focused on recruiting.

So the promotions aspect, particularly with this year’s roster, is new but very enjoyable for him.

“It’s important because you want those seats filled,” Jones said. “You want people coming out. You want them anxiously awaiting an opportunity for us to tip it off, and they can come out and support really what we’re doing. I welcome really being on this side of it than the other side where there’s no excitement around the program or it’s going the other way.”

For Jones, this year is the culmination of something he started in spring 2012 when he assumed the job at his alma mater. Under his direction, the Tigers have recorded 19-, 20- and 22-win seasons, achieving their first NCAA Tournament bid since 2009.

But with Simmons, the preseason SEC Player of the Year, Blakeney and Sampson to go along with the returners, the

preseason expectations are clearly inflated. Jones wanted to do the combine as soon as possible to eliminate the distractions, but he saw how the Wildcats, a 2015 Final Four participant, were able to hold the event last season without it hindering their success once the season started.

Senior guard Keith Hornsby, one of the most experienced players on the roster, said he realizes the talent of this team needs to be met with the appropriate effort every day, especially when the regular season begins.

“That was one of our issues last year,” Hornsby said. “Some of the beginning games, with lesser Division I teams, we underestimated them. We had to realize that everyone can play in there, especially now that we have all of this hype. They’re going to want to kick our butt.

They are going to want to come in and teach us a lesson. If we don’t let that get to us, we should be fine. We have a lot of potential here.”

Blakeney said early practices prove how competitive this year’s team can be, especially after LSU’s preseason tour of Australia in August.

No better example of that competitiveness was shown when the freshman guard accidentally butted heads with Quarterman in one-on-one drills, causing a

Tuesday, October 27, 2015 ‘I don’t really get nervous when I step on the court.

It’s something I’ve been doing since I was four years old, so I enjoy it.’

BEN SIMMONS freshman forward small cut on Blakeney’s forehead.

In the Oct. 14 open practice, the elder guard, again by accident in one-on-one drills, knocked a piece of Blakeney’s tooth out.

But Blakeney literally tossed the chipped tooth to side and kept participating in drills.

“I don’t know if I would have done that,” Quarterman said with a laugh at a media session Tuesday. “He was just thinking off emotion. That just shows the type player he is, the type of guy he is, on the court.”

When Blakeney, Quarterman and the rest of the Tigers step on the PMAC court for first official collegiate contest, the view from fans will be different than in recent memory. But Jones and his team expect to match those expectations, including the player who brought much of the hype with him.

“I don’t really get nervous when I step on the court,” Simmons said. “It’s something I’ve been doing since I was four years old, so I enjoy it.”

JONES, from page 5

GRAY, from page 5

time,” Jones said. “And to be able to bring those guys in early, to be able to close the doors, to get our guys focused to attention to detail, to be able to coach them in the private of our own practices to try to get them better.”

Jones called opening up practices to NBA scouts this season “needed” because of the interest surrounding the program and, in particular, LSU freshman forward and preseason SEC Player of the Year Ben Simmons.

Jones said he plans to evaluate opening practices to scouts on a year-to-year basis.

Although questions swirled regarding the ability of LSU’s highly-touted recruiting class to adjust to the team mentality of the collegiate game, senior guard Keith Hornsby quelled any fear of young guys playing selfish.

“I think the way we’ve been merging our chemistry is outstanding right now, especially with the new guys,” Hornsby said. “A lot of these highly-talented guys may come in and still have that selfish, single-minded high-school standout mindset. I think they’ve really given in to the team concept, and that’s only benefited us so far.”

half, aiding a 21-2 run that erased a 13-point deficit.

But Gray’s seven-point outing against Kentucky ended with a costly turnover with under a minute remaining.

With the Tigers trailing Kentucky by one with 50 ticks left, Gray caught the inbound pass, beat a defender one-on-one and drove into the lane. But his wild pass out-of-bounds, trying to avoid defenders in the paint, cost LSU a chance to take the lead.

Although Gray’s turnover didn’t end the Tigers’ shot at an upset, if Gray converted on that drive, the entire dynamic of the game would have changed.

Disappointing moments like this fuel Gray’s desire to improve through hard work.

Working throughout the offseason, Gray said he devoted himself to becoming a consistent player in all parts of the game, from limiting his turnovers to improving the technique of his jump shot.

“I took my worth ethic more serious,” Gray said. “I’ve been working since the day we came back from that North Carolina State loss. I got right back in the gym. I didn’t take any days off. I feel like the hard work is finally paying off for me. I just need to stay consistent.”

The combination of Gray’s determination and the Tigers depth at guard promises a different season for the veteran guard, stemming from an entirely different perspective and role.

Part of Gray’s struggles last season started from the lingering pressure he put on himself to make plays, which will not be a problem in 2015 on a roster filled

VETERANS EXCITED FOR SCRIMMAGE After competitive practices against one another, the Tigers eagerly await the opportunity to take the court against another team during a closed-door scrimmage Saturday.

“Just can’t wait to get out there,” said junior guard Tim Quarterman. “Just play against somebody else to take it to them.”

Jones would not specify the

ZOE GEAUTHREAUX / The Daily Reveille

LSU basketball coach Johnny Jones discusses the upcoming season with members of the media on Monday in the Athletic Administration Building. opponent, but LSU players later confirmed the Tigers will face Texas Christian University in a media session following Jones’ news conference.

Although he is practicing with the team, redshirt sophomore forward Craig Victor II will not be eligible to play until the end of the fall semester after transferring from the University of Arizona in January 2015.

VICTOR REFLECTS ON GROWING UP WITH FOURNETTE For the majority of the college football universe, LSU sophomore running back Leonard Fournette is a superhuman.

But to Victor, Fournette is a childhood friend, who happens to be talented on the football field.

“I recall one time in P.E., we were punished, and he had to

run sprints,” Victor said. “Just to see how fast he was in the eighth grade was unbelievable. He just continues to get better.”

Despite Fournette’s weekly feats of bulldozing through defenders, Victor said he isn’t surprised after watching him during his first three years at St. Augustine High School in New Orleans.

The 6-foot-9 forward finished his high school basketball career at Findlay Prep in Henderson, Nevada.

However, one play did stick out for Victor this season — Fournette throwing an Auburn University defender over his back on his way to the end zone.

“That was a first for me,” Victor said. “The guy trying to jump on his back that was kind of funny. I guess he didn’t tackle him, but he had to give his coach something, like ‘Coach, I tried.’”

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Freshman guard Brandon Sampson (0) dunks Oct. 17 in the PMAC.

‘It grounded me. It made me grow up. I’m more experienced, not on the court, but just in life. People in my situation aren’t going to take plays for granted.’

JOSH GRAY senior guard with talented guards.

Freshmen guards Brandon Sampson, a former Mr. Basketball of Louisiana, and Antonio Blakeney add depth to already stacked guard rotation, featuring senior Keith Hornsby and junior Tim Quarterman.

The competition among the guards during practice generates improvement on a daily basis and gives the Tigers confidence heading into the season, allowing Gray to relax and simplify his role.

“To me, he’s simplified the game a good bit,” Hornsby said at a media session Tuesday.

“Just going out there, and really just playing basketball. I think honestly, he’s playing his best basketball right now, as far as being comfortable within what we do.”

Along with his individual work, Gray’s experience bolsters his ability to lead.

Gray’s positive outlook extends to the NCAA violation that ruled him ineligible to participate in the Tigers’ preseason tour of Australia, giving him a one-game suspension to start the season.

“It grounded me,” Gray said.

“It made me grow up. I’m more experienced, not on the court, but just in life. People in my situation aren’t going to take plays for granted.”

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Festival Finds

YEEZY TAUGHT ME SARAH LEBOEUF Entertainment Writer

Festivals provide a venue to show off your makeup skills with fun, colorful looks. Try out some of these ideas to step outside of the usual smokey eye.

THE BOLD LIP

CRAZY EYES

THE LOOK: A dark, bold lip is something anyone can try out to transition makeup from day to night.

THE LOOK: Wear colorful eye makeup with a neutral lip and to keep all eyes on you.

TIPS: Wear a deep, berry color on your lips with bronzed cheeks and copper-colored eyelids to make the dark color pop. Draw more attention to the dramatic color choice with a dust of highlighter on the Cupid’s bow

cream eyeliner or face paint below your eye. A triangle shape going toward your cheek highlights cheekbones. Draw a sliver of eyeliner on your upper lashline and finish the look with a swipe of mascara.

above your lip.

PRODUCTS: MAC Cosmetics’ Satin Lipstick in Rebel is the perfect

plum hue for layering, depending on how dark of a shade you’d like.

Any of Urban Decay’s Naked palettes offer a multitude of shadows in brown, copper and gold to create a neutral look for the eye. Too Faced’s Soleil Matte Bronzer can be used to contour.

GILDED BROWS

TIPS: Use a Q-tip to dot colorful cream shadow,

PRODUCTS: Make Up For Ever’s 12 Flash Color Case is highly pigment-

ed with a creamy texture that’s great for the sensitive eye area. Stila’s Smudge Stick Waterproof Eyeliner in Bluefin applies softly as well, but it has the power to stay on for an extended amount of time. Its shimmery, blue color perfectly complements the technicolor dots. Urban Decay’s Perversion Mascara creates bold, defined lashes.

SET TO GO

THE LOOK: Get your eyebrows “on fleek” by applying a color to them. Gold or silver eyebrows complement every hair color.

THE LOOK: A weekend of long hours dancing could mean disaster for makeup.

Thankfully, setting spray can prevent runny makeup woes.

TIPS: Trace your natural eyebrow shape with a colorful eyeliner or cream shadow.

Then, fill it in. Highlight just under the arch of your eyebrow and the inner corner of your eyes to further accentuate the area.

TIPS: Once your makeup is finished, spritz your favorite setting spray a few inches away from your face to keep it in place.

PRODUCTS: Use Make Up For Ever’s gold and silver Flash Colors for the eyebrow. Highlight with MAC Cosmetics’ Pigment in Vanilla. Apply a metallic eyeshadow, like Urban Decay’s Verve, all over the eyelid.

FACE PAINT PALOOZA THE LOOK: Get playful with face paint to create a colorful look.

TIPS: Apply face paint with brushes to blend the colors and create different shapes. Use darker colors where you would normally contour and lighter colors where you would normally highlight. Don’t be shy — have fun with it.

PRODUCTS: Make Up For Ever’s 12 Flash Color Case has every color you need and applies smoothly, making it easy to blend. It feels comfortable on your face, which makes it easy to wear all day and night.

PRODUCTS: Mario Badescu’s Facial Spray with Aloe, Herb and Rosewater is a great option for its hydrating and soothing skincare benefits. At $7 for four ounces, it’s a beauty steal without sacrificing quality.

HAIR TATTOOS THE LOOK: Just when flash tattoos became boring, Kylie Jenner updated the look by wearing one in her hair. Just like that, the celebrity trendsetter brought the tatts back.

TIPS: Brush hair and smooth it down.

Then, spray the desired area with hairspray to keep it in place. Apply the tattoo as per instructions and gently peel it off.

PRODUCTS: Flash Tattoos, hairspray and a wet washcloth are all you need, making this the easiest look to try on-the-go. photos by OLIVIA RAMIREZ / The Daily Reveille

Themes simplify Halloween costumes TALKING BRITT BRITTANY HAGOORT Columnist With Halloween arriving this weekend, there is only one question on everyone’s minds: What will this year’s costume be?

First, you have to narrow down your choices, and the easiest way is to pick a category.

There are the sexy costumes, the scary costumes, the homemade costumes and the funny costumes.

Going with the homemade approach can get you a variety of costumes in the cheapest and quickest way. If you have a black shirt and pants, you just need to add accessories. Want to be a cat? Add a tail, ears and some whiskers. Want to be a cop? Add a hat and some handcuffs. There’s no going wrong with a simple costume put together from your own closet.

Another trend that seems to be getting increasingly popular is decorative makeup. If you have a plain outfit and don’t think it’s quite right, head to YouTube. A werewolf can go from rookie to expert with a little makeup help from the online gurus.

If you’ve updated your iPhone to the newest software, you may find some digital costume inspiration. There are a variety of new emojis to choose from. Now instead of typing them, try wearing them. Everyone uses emojis.

Try painting them on your face, or even grab a friend and dress up as those dancing twins.

You can also go the Halloween store route if you have no time to make your own.

As for sexy costumes, there are plenty you can choose from

see COSTUMES, page 11

EXHIBIT

Louisiana Art and Science Museum houses Egyptian mummy

BY KAYLA RANDALL @kay_ran21 It was the ancient Egyptians’ belief they would live forever, and now that belief is fulfilled for one man at the Louisiana Art and Science Museum.

The museum is in the midst of celebrating 51 years of having a mummy from the Ptolemaic period, which lasted from 323 BC to 30 BC, on

permanent display.

Museum curator Elizabeth Weinstein said it’s arguably the most popular attraction at the museum and has been throughout its history there.

The mummy was brought to the museum in 1964 and has remained a fixture ever since.

After extensive research, confirms the mummy is male, about 124 to 132 pounds, between 5-feet-7 inches and 5-feet-8

inches tall and was around 25 to 30 years old at the time of death.

In the ’80s, after doing CT scans and other research, the mummy was thought to be a female Egyptian priestess. However, with new technology, more recent scans prove the mummy to be male.

The reason for the confusion about the mummy’s gender is the way his hands are positioned. His hands are crossed

over his pelvis, and in the ’80s, the CT scan technology couldn’t oversee that. After the ’80s, more extensive research was done with better technology.

“We partnered with Mary Manhein at the LSU FACES Lab and an Egyptologist with the Akhmim Mummy Studies Consortium near Philadelphia, and we learned a great deal about our mummy,” Weinstein said.

The museum learned the

mummy was naturally mummified in the sand and then given a traditional burial.

The research also confirmed the mummy has about seven broken ribs, which were broken at or near the time of death.

Weinstein said she imagines this is most likely what killed him.

This particular mummy also

see MUMMY, page 11

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BAND SPOTLIGHT

New Orleans rock band performs for the first time at Voodoo called “Hotwax,” and none of the lyrics make sense on purpose. One of the lines had “silver foxes looking for romance,” and Sam’s like, “Oh, let’s name it Silver Foxes.” I’m like, “Yeah, that sounds cool.” We threw that at Jared, and he said, “Guys there are seven million dad bands that are named Silver Foxes.”

There are tons of bands that are named that, so we Googled it, and it’s true. Jared really likes boxing, and we’re all short, so all three of us fit the bantamweight class in boxing. So we went with that.

BY KAYLA RANDALL @kay_ran21 Bantam Foxes, a three-piece group composed of twins Sam and Collin McCabe and Jared Marcell, is no typical rock band.

The group is touring the country in Collin’s car as it continues to gain exposure. On Oct. 30, Bantam Foxes will perform for the first time at the Voodoo Music and Arts Experience.

Though they describe themselves as New Orleans-based, the McCabe twins hail from St. Louis, Missouri. After coming to New Orleans to attend Loyola University, they met Marcell, a New Orleans native who attended Loyola.

The three were floundering in bands that didn’t work out and gave a new three-piece band a try.

The Daily Reveille sat down with Collin to chat about the group’s upcoming Voodoo performance.

The Daily Reveille: So how is the tour so far?

Collin McCabe: It’s really good, actually. We did St. Louis, Milwaukee, [Wisconsin], Chicago, then St. Louis again. Louisville, [Kentucky on Oct. 21], Tuscaloosa, [Alabama on Oct. 23], Atlanta on Saturday. All in a week.

My poor car, my poor, poor car.

We’re back in New Orleans Sunday night and then we hit it hard to get the set for Voodoo prepped up.

TDR: You’re performing at Voodoo in New Orleans, how excited are you for that?

CM: It’s especially a big deal to me because I’ve worked for the festival since I moved down here. It’s not like I was working in parking I was carting artists around and that sort of thing.

That sort of thing was always fun, but this year is kind of a big

photo courtesy of CHERIE LEJEUNE

Bantam Foxes is tours the country and will perform for the first time at the Voodoo Music and Arts Experience. deal to me because I’ve worked there for so long. I made a joke with my interns last year that next year they were going to be carting me around, and lo and behold. It’s just really exciting. I mean Florence and the Machine’s playing and Ozzy Osbourne. I’m more excited about it feeling like this next logical step for us to start taking.

TDR: This is your first time playing at Voodoo as a band, right? What are you looking forward to most?

CM: Yes, where we’re playing it. It’s a big stage, and I’m just stoked it’s a huge festival. I get to go see people that I love and play for people I love. It’s going to be rad. Festivals are cool, I’ve been going to festivals for a long time.

We’re taking that next step and that makes it feel huge.

TDR: What’s your favorite thing about New Orleans?

CM: I just love New Orleans.

It’s a great city to be a part of.

There’s so much there to influence you, whether it’s the other bands that are within the scene that we’re in or it’s the other music that’s happening. It’s a beautiful city and it’s fun to be a part of and to be able to play music in what is a town known for it, sort of feels like a privilege. It’s not just a city, it’s New Orleans. People come down to New Orleans to see live music and I get to be a part of that.

TDR: What’s your favorite part of performing live?

CM: All three of us really know how to read off of each other. I know how Jared plays I know how Sam plays. It’s almost like an ESP kind of thing. The three of us are like brothers, and it’s like getting up there with your two best friends and knowing exactly what they’re going to do before they do it. We’re one thing that’s

HALLOWEEN 2015

Oct. 30

City Bar Downtown Baton Rouge Heaven vs Hell at 10 p.m.

Spanish Moon 80s Night Halloween at 9 p.m.

L’Auberge Casino and Hotel Ghouls’ Night Out with costume contest and a performance by The Chee-Weez. Doors open at 8 p.m.

TDR: How do you incorporate your influences into your music?

CM: Well, Sam and I grew up listening to a ton of Nirvana and all of the stuff that really hit in the ’90s. What’s so cool about a lot of that stuff is that there’s like real meat to the instrumentation for a lot of that music, but there’s also really great melody. There’s a lot of really great pop songs. A lot of Nirvana’s stuff, those are pop songs. Most of the [alternative] rock that came out in the ’90s had pop influence. That’s a huge influence on all three of us.

TDR: I have to ask you about the band name and how you came up with it.

CM: This story’s great, actually. Sam wanted to use “Foxes,” and we were listening to Beck a lot at the time. He has this song

BY KIMBERLY GAGNET @kgagnet

Looking for a way to spend your Halloween weekend?

Check out these events in Baton Rouge on Friday and Saturday.

Each event takes on its own theme, all including costumes and music.

Varsity Theatre Halloween Party presented by Baton Rouge Latin Nights at 9 p.m.

happening, and we can make a lot of noise with just the three of us.

Oct. 31

TDR: Craziest tour story so far?

CM: I could tell you tons of crazy tour experiences, but you can’t print any of them. They’re all that bad. We sleep on floors, we meet weird people all the time. Here’s a safe for work one.

Over the summer, we were going to New York. We played in Columbus, and we were supposed to play in the lower east side of Manhattan. That is a 10 hour drive. It was not something that we could feasibly do in one day. After the show in Columbus, we went and got White Castle and coffee, and we drove all night. We were driving through Pennsylvania and doing just fine for a long time. It hit about 4:30 in the morning and there is no gas anywhere, and our gas light comes on. It was terrifying. We get off at this exit, and all of the gas stations are closed, and one of our tires is losing air quickly. We stopped a trucker, and he said there was one a couple miles from there. We managed to actually get there without running out of gas at 4:30 in the morning in the middle of Pennsylvania, somewhere I’ve never been, I know no one. We got gas, pumped up the tire and drove for another four hours on it before we got to New Jersey where we could change it.

2015 Baton Rouge Halloween Parade

the parade begins at 2 p.m. on St. Phillip and Government Street by the River Center.

Texas Club 35th Halloween Spookapalooza at 11 p.m., doors open at 8 p.m.

City Bar Downtown Baton Rouge Open Dress Halloween Costume Party and Contest at 10 p.m.

Spanish Moon Spanish Moon Halloween with BOOTY WERK at 9 p.m.

Fred’s Bar in Tigerland Fred’s 34th Annual Halloween Party with free drinks from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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MUMMY, from page 9 has unusual features, such as hair and an open mouth.

“Mummies don’t have hair, that’s the most distinguishing feature about our mummy,” Weinstein said. “The reason they don’t have hair is that the natron salts naturally dry out the hair follicles and the hair falls out.”

Not only does the mummy have hair, but it also is preserved in its entirety, in small brown ringlets. Weinstein said the Egyptologist who oversaw the new CT scans believes he may have had dreadlocks.

Weinstein said the only mummies who have hair are royal mummies, as ancient Egyptians went through a great deal of effort at the time of mummification to treat the hair so it wouldn’t fall out.

However, Weinstein insists the mummy wasn’t royal, making the fact he has hair even more unusual.

Weinstein said his open mouth could be because of the agony of his death. She said it was also sometimes customary for Egyptians to do an opening of the mouth ceremony right before they entombed them, in which they ritually gave them food and drink to prepare them for their journey to the afterlife.

Research also confirmed the mummy to have been an extremely healthy resident of Thebes, Egypt.

“What we conjecture happened, was that this was a healthy young man who was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Weinstein said.

There was civil unrest at that time in Thebes, so Weinstein said this individual may have gotten in the middle of a battle or skirmish. It’s also possible

COSTUMES, from page 9 at the store. There’s anything from hot Hermione Granger to an attractive Patrick Star. These costumes have been around for a while, so there is a reason for their popularity. These costumes also update as pop culture progress. You’ll easily find a sexy Miley Cyrus or Donald Trump costume at the top of the bin.

Embracing the meaning of Halloween can be a fun way to choose a costume as well. The truly scary costumes create almost as much attention as the sexy ones. People enjoy being scared, especially when there’s a time and place. Halloween is your time to safely scare your friends out of their socks.

The costumes that tend to make Halloween more than just a scary time are the funny ones.

You’ve always wanted to be a giant hotdog or banana? Great, this costume choice is the one for you. People love a great laugh when they see a giant piece of food walking down the street.

Taking the funny costume a step further, you can grab someone you love and create a couple’s costume. They can be the Princess Leia to your Han Solo or maybe even the Mario

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The Ancient Egyptian exhibit in the Louisiana Art and Sciences Museum houses a 2,300 year-old male mummy. he was run over by a chariot, receiving some sort of crushing blow to the chest.

But he was left behind.

“He was left long enough for rigor mortis to set in, which we

know because inside his bandages is a stretcher or brace of some sort that runs along his back,” Weinstein said. “Which means that when they found him, they wanted to be careful

about moving him, so they used the brace.”

Weinstein said they did the best they could to wrap him and give him a professional, typical Egyptian burial.

Though the museum may never know his name, Weinstein said the purpose of doing such extensive research to find out about the mummy and his identity is to humanize him so people don’t think of him as an object, but a real person.

“It was his belief that he would have an eternal life and, in a sense, he is,” Weinstein said.

“He’s not here, he’s not alive, but he’s a presence and his presence is still in our world.”

Operations manager at Louisiana Art and Science Museum Ashley Freeman said children have the hardest time grasping that the mummy was a human being and not just an object.

“Their reactions are really wide: Some of them are scared at first, some of them are really excited to see it,” Freeman said.

“A lot of them don’t believe that it’s real.”

Freeman said the younger visitors are excited to see it, and they’re trying to understand and grasp the whole process of mummification, what a mummy means and what the cultural, religious process was to the ancient Egyptians.

“They see movies and cartoons, and they’ll ask if it comes alive,” Freeman said. “That’s the most fun part of giving the tour — bringing them into the tomb and getting their reactions and explaining the realities versus the myths and what they see on TV.” Freeman said the ancient Egypt exhibit is one of the only ones in the Gulf Coast region, so it’s something different than what people are used to seeing and learning about. Because it’s so rare, Freeman said she tries her best to explain to both children and adults what the culture is all about.

to your Princess Peach. Apart, you’re just one simple costume, but together you’re a power team.

No matter what you go out as on Halloween, the most important part is to have fun with it. There are always people who wear the simplest costumes but are having such a great time with it no one even notices.

Brittany Hagoort is an 18-year-old English sophomore from Tucson, Arizona.

You can reach her on Twitter @Brittanyhagoort.

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Combine novelty items like cat ears or animal fur with articles of clothing already available in your wardrobe for a Voodoo-ready look.

Opinion

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

What Could Have Been If budget cuts continue, LSU can’t compete The Cerulean Conciliator Justin DiCharia Chief Columnist

Plans to renovate and expand the math labs in Pleasant Hall, forgotten. Plans to centralize supplemental instruction through the Center for Academic Success, thrown aside.

The writing program within the English Department, cut and never reopened. A campaign to update all of the LSU’s signage from the brown and white signs on the south end of campus to the purple and white signs on the north side, over.

LSU cut nearly 350 positions, both in faculty and staff since 2008, Tommy Smith, the associate vice president for the Office of Budget and Planning and vice provost for finance at LSU, said.

You can’t buy a Cadillac with the budget of a used Honda Civic.

That’s the attitude state government had with LSU’s performance ratings and state funding for the past eight years.

When Gov. Bobby Jindal took office in 2008, the state funded 58 percent of the LSU’s overall budget. Today the number decreased by nearly 33 percent, a loss of $145.7 million.

To make up for the loss in state funding, the University

raised tuition and fees from 42 percent of the total budget in 2008 to 74 percent of the total budget this year.

LSU survived these cuts for the past two terms of Jindal’s governorship. But that’s all we have done: survive.

You can’t see many tangible cuts to academia during that time, but that comes from the decision of the University to simply not grow. To remain at a 2008 level of higher education while our peer institutions continued to rise.

Faculty Senate President Kevin Cope said, “We have a very large number of unfunded professorships that exist, but we can’t make the match. We have constant troubles with the acquisition of equipment that is necessary for research.”

Our one-year retention rate and six year graduation rate sit at 85 percent and 65 percent, respectively. Texas A&M University’s percentages are at 90 percent and 81 percent. We’re behind the curve, and it shows.

If funding remained at its level in 2008 while tuition and fees rose to their current rates, the university would top most comparisons to peer institutions.

According to D’Ann Morris, director of the Student Health Center and director of Emergency Operations (she has been the interim director for the past

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eight years, if that says anything about our budget woes), LSU halted a lot of future projects when the first major budget cuts hit.

Faculty positions opened, but weren’t filled, and the student to teacher ratio reflects this. Currently, at 22 students per faculty member, Smith said the University would need to hire approximately 260 new faculty members to bring the ratio down to our peer’s average ratio of 18 to one.

“We have buildings that are still falling apart,” Morris said.

“You walk over to Atkinson Hall and go into any one of those offices and the ceiling tiles are falling on you. That’s not facility’s fault. That’s a lack of funding.”

Besides the offices where our professors and administrators work, keeping and attracting faculty is a problem, with faculty salaries 30 to 40 percent

behind the national average.

Faculty benefits and retirement packages are far behind our peer institutions’ abilities.

We’ve staggered, to say the least, but kept afloat by LSU leadership that was able to redirect and cut funds so our education means something when we graduate.

The problem lies within the future, though. Will our state Legislature fund us in the long term? Will our next governor find solutions to the eight-year funding problem by taking on big business tax exemptions and special interest constitutional restrictions?

Cope projects it would take the University a minimum of five years get on the same level as its peers and another four to five years to become competitive within that group of institutions.

We can’t afford the cuts to continue. Not if we want to remain competitive in the national marketplace. Not if we want our degrees to matter.

The unofficial turnout of this past Saturday’s Election Day was 38.5 percent statewide. The runoff election is in under a month. Don’t complain about your building falling apart or your class size being too big if you don’t bother to vote.

The politicians who take office in January will be the deciding factors of whether LSU can fix the ceiling tiles in Atkinson Hall and hire another professor so you aren’t just one student among 1,000.

Justin DiCharia is a 21-yearold mass communication junior from Slidell, Louisiana.

You can reach him on Twitter @JDiCharia.

How far will Kris Jenner go to maintain her family’s empire?

Jenner under investigation for drugging of Lamar Odom Infrangible Icon John Gavin Harp Columnist Editor’s note: This is a weekly satirical news column lampooning pop culture. Nothing in this column should be construed as fact.

The Nye County Police Department is launching a glamorous investigation to look into Kris Jenner’s involvement in Lamar Odom’s overdose last week, as well as allegations Jenner is

involved in the Momager Mafia.

“We knew something was up when [Kris] Jenner showed up with the camera and lighting crew to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in Las Vegas,” a spokesperson for Nye County Police Department said at a news conference Monday morning.

“She was rubbing onions into the big pregnant one’s [Kim’s] eyes. She just kept yelling about the ratings,” the spokesperson said.

When asked what grounds Nye County had for conducting an investigation, the spokesperson said they were working on it.

“Those Kardashians just rub me the wrong way. Especially that Kris. She just looks like a

Disney villain. If she was handing out apples, you bet I would never take one,” the spokesperson said when asked what led to the investigation being opened.

Jenner is expected to meet with detectives in the next week to give an affidavit. Nye County officials say there are currently conflicts between the availability of the detectives and Kim Kardashian’s rescheduled baby shower.

Sources are reporting Kim Kardashian’s baby shower theme to be “Baby Yeezus in a Manger.”

The Kardashian family and the E! network have yet to issue an official statement on Jenner’s pending investigation.

The youngest family member, Kylie Jenner, reportedly caused

a scene outside of her plastic surgeon’s office this past weekend.

“We never gave Lammy [Lamar Odom] Horny Goat Weed,” Kylie shouted at paparazzi outside a Los Angeles plastic surgery clinic.

Kylie allegedly received lip reductions because thin, natural lips are apparently popular again.

Viewers can expect the investigation to be heavily featured throughout the upcoming season of the recently revived “Khloe & Lamar.”

John Gavin Harp is a 20-yearold mass communication Junior from St. Francisville, Louisiana.

You can reach him on Twitter @SirJohnGavin.

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Kim Kardashian-West, Kris Jenner and Kourtney Kardashian arrive at Cosmopolitan magazine’s 50th birthday celebration at Ysabel on Oct. 12 in West Hollywood, Calif.

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Defense budget controversey illustrates government dysfunction Not Mariah Carey Mariah Manuel Columnist The acrimonious relationship between the executive and legislative branches inflamed yet again last week concerning the 2016 defense authorization bill, indicating the bitter and relentless gridlock between Congressional Republicans and the president is far from over.

Last Thursday, President Obama vetoed the $612 billion defense bill, the latest performance in the political circus we know as the U.S. government.

In defense of the veto, Obama said the defense budget undermines the strict spending caps imposed on other government agencies, relying on an unregulated fund to pay for items necessary for defense.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest spoke in support of the veto, arguing the passing of the bill would be “utterly irresponsible.”

“The concerns that we’ve expressed about it is it advocates,

essentially, the use of a slush fund for funding critically important national security priorities,” Earnest said.

The war fund Obama referred to is an unlimited supply of money reserved for fighting wars abroad. The proposed budget allocated approximately $25 billion more to defense spending than in 2015, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.

The bill still employs the unreasonable provisions hindering the White House’s plan to shut down the military prison in Guantanamo Bay. According to the bill, any release from the prison will require the Secretary of Defense to testify to Congress that the transfer is of national interest, and the country to which the prisoner is transferred will ensure the prisoner will not join terrorist groups.

The extension of these provisions hurts Obama’s 2008 campaign promise to transfer detainees out of the military prison in Cuba.

Another point of contention regarded increases to defense spending without first increasing domestic spending. Republicans

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White House press secretary Josh Earnest answers questions about the budget and defense spending, the earthquake in Afghanistan and other topics during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Monday. criticize the use of the president’s most powerful executive tool because it furthers his domestic agenda. This is Obama’s third veto this year and the fifth of his presidency.

House Republicans need about 17 votes by Nov. 5 in order to override the veto. The

Senate has enough votes to override the veto, but it is rumored many Democrats will switch their vote in order to avoid conflict with the president.

This is yet another example of our legislative body playing political games with national security. As if seven years of

budget gridlock isn’t enough, if the veto override prevails, a new budget would be delayed for at least a year.

Obama did praise the bill for ensuring the military stayed funded, as well as for its improvements in military retirement plans. Despite positive attributes, Obama said the bill simply wasn’t good enough.

Republicans will have little more than a week to rally support for an override. If Democrats and Republicans can compromise on the budget, the president will likely sign it. A compromise is unlikely with this batch of legislators, however, and budget talks could cause the government to shut down in December.

We don’t have a crystal ball to see what the future will hold for the military or the government. One thing is for sure: An uncertain future is now the only certainty in American politics.

Mariah Manuel is a 22-year-old mass communication senior from Lake Charles, Louisiana.

You can reach her on Twitter @mariah_manuel.

Ebony cover story renews questions about ‘Cosby’ legacy Burnt to a Crisp Garrett Hines Columnist The November cover of Ebony magazine features an iconic photo of the Huxtable family shattered with the apex rooted over Bill Cosby’s face. Ebony’s feature story was an exposition of the Cosby rape scandal, whether the show should re-air and how divisive the issue is among the black community.

Earlier in the semester I wrote why I was still pro-Cosby’s legacy and less in support of the person he was.

The writer of this story, Goldie Taylor, asks a pertinent question in the beginning: “If Bill Cosby is finished, what does that mean for Cliff, and the rest of the tribe called Huxtable?”

Phylicia Rashad, MalcolmJamal Warner, Tempestt Bledsoe and the rest of “The Cosby Show” family do not need to be dragged in the muck left behind Cosby’s actions.

Taylor goes on to examine the socio-economic constructs of the mid-’80s for blacks and why the refuge found in the Huxtable household was so appealing.

The crack epidemic was raging, and for 30 minutes every night, blacks could see “what we believe was the best in us.” For “white Americans, it said implicitly that the American dream was alive and that it was available to everyone who worked for it, who played by the rules.”

“The Cosby Show” is a beacon of light in a media landscape, which often disparages the black face.

Warner, who portrayed Theo Huxtable, noted that “The Cosby Show” can no longer be held against “images that perpetuate the negative stereotype of people of color.” Until last fall when “Black-ish” premiered, a critically acclaimed show portraying a black family in a positive light since “The Cosby Show” had not been created.

Public pressure forced TV Land to stop re-airing “The Cosby Show,” and for their politically correct bottom-line, this can be understood. BET as a network, whose sole purpose is to speak to black people, needs to be courageous, buck the scorn from social justice warrior Twitter fingers’ and air the show.

Those who worked on the show deserve their royalties because they did not rape, assault

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or violate anyone.

Some feel the Cosby debacle is too raw to be discussed negatively by Ebony magazine, an important voice of the black community.

While I understand touchy subjects, we need to discuss this and every issue affecting the black community frankly. This is why I will never stop advocating for the responsible application of respectability politics, like the morals taught on “The Cosby Show.”

The dual threads of the values taught on “The Cosby Show” and Cosby’s actions do not intertwine.

“The Cosby Show” remains a shining example of what can happen when people put their noses to the grindstone, put their success above all and focus on creating a better situation for themselves.

As time goes on and the hype around the issue subsides, I feel confident “The Cosby Show” will once again become the preeminent home for black familial success portrayed on the small screen.

Garrett Hines is a 21-year-old political science senior from Monroe, Louisiana. You can reach him on Twitter @garretH_TDR.

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Ebony magazine’s November issue addresses the legacy of ‘The Cosby Show’ in the wake of Bill Cosby’s sexual assault scandal.

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Girl Talk details upcoming performance, hints at future projects

BY SARAH LEBOEUF @sleboeuf23 Gregg Gillis, known by his stage name Girl Talk, hits Voodoo Music and Arts Experience on Friday night. The Daily Reveille talked with Gillis about his shows and projects, as well as the music industry and digital music sampling. Read the interview in its entirety online at lsureveille.com/ daily/entertainment.

The Daily Reveille: You’ve played at Voodoo before. Is there any significant thing about the festival that’s bringing you back to New Orleans for Halloween weekend?

Gregg Gillis: It’s definitely a unique festival based on the time of year, and I feel like people typically associate festival season more with summer. I do a lot of the summer festivals, and it kind of winds down around this time of year. There’s not so many of them. It’s nice to be able to still do this sort of thing and be outdoors.

I’m a big fan of Halloween, as are a lot of people, so it’s a good festival based on the atmosphere and the time of the year.

TDR: I’ve noticed with your previous shows you’ll sometimes have fans join you on stage and surprise appearances from other musicians. What can fans anticipate at this performance?

GG: I don’t think there will be any surprise appearances at this, but I am constantly working on the show and touring and playing shows. It’s something where I just never really stop working on it. ... Something like this, I try to definitely acknowledge the festival to a degree and occasionally will sample some of the artists playing or definitely for the time of the year for Halloween putting some things in the mix that kind of relate to that. I feel like at any given moment, the show that happens has kind of been introduced as a new recantation both in terms of music production, lights, all that. It’s always growing and evolving, so I’m excited to do a lot of new stuff.

TDR: Since you’ve been a mascot or advocate for digital music sampling, how do you manage to sample so many songs and maintain the legality of copyright law?

GG: That’s the ultimate question. There’s really no formula for it or anything. I think with my work, you’re allowed to sample without asking for permission if it’s under fair use, which is in basic copyright law. But figuring out whether it qualifies under fair use or not is something where I don’t know of any way to go about that unless you’re actually challenged by someone — so unless you’re actually sued. So with my work, it’s something where both creatively what I’m trying to do goes hand in hand with what would work legally, meaning that in order for it to be published you take something that previously exists and try to make something new out of it. In order for it to fall under fair

use, your work has to be transformative and have no negative impact on the potential sales of the artists you’re sampling. Those are all goals of mine creatively, completely outside of the arena of copyrighting where that’s something that I actually want to do with my work, so you know that’s always been the goal. The intention is to take these songs and make something new out of them, and whether that falls under fair use or not, you just can’t be 100 percent on that. It’s just if you believe in what you’re doing — like I do — then I feel confident putting that out. If we were challenged, then I would have to go to court and have to fight that. But it’s definitely in a gray area and something we’re never 100 percent until it’s in the clear.

TDR: Have you ever felt restricted from that?

GG: I try not to think about it just because I just feel like if you believe in what you’re doing, then you should believe in it across the board. I think that question kind of relates specifically to it definitely crosses my mind sometimes that there are certain artists who have histories with being a little bit more aggressive with how most people sampling their works, and certain artists have similar implications. I tried to not have that impact on what I do. I don’t think it should on terms of how I feel about fair use and what I’m doing, and I think that artists and their histories shouldn’t necessarily impact that. In a quick answer, no, it hasn’t really impacted. It has crossed my mind absolutely, but it’s something, like I said before, that if you believe in what you’re doing, then I feel like you should stay committed to that regardless of who the is artist you’re sampling and when you

put out an album or anything like that.

TDR: As a mashup artist who uses such varying genres and artists, is there a particular genre or influence you identify with?

GG: I’ve always felt like my work and my personal taste has always skewed heavily toward hip-hop. In general, it’s something where I, personally, when I’m listening to music, I’m listening to everything. But I guess I grew up on hip-hop, and from the start of this project — even though it’s kind of been all over the place in terms of where it’s evolved and where it came from and where it’s going — there’s really always kind of been a hiphop base. I always work with a lot of rap vocals, and that’s kind of the foundation of it. Especially in the earlier work, I always kind of imagined myself as producing like an imaginary hip-hop album sort of thing. I grew up in the ’90s, so I’m always sort of skewed toward ’90s music in general. I’m kind of all over the map, but I always felt the foundation of this is sort of hip-hop.

TDR: Do you have any projects you’re working on?

GG: Yeah, but not nothing I can officially announce yet. ...

There’s a few seeds planted right now, a few different people I’m talking to and sending files back and forth so with. That sort of thing you never know whether it’s going to happen, so it’s not like you’re actually there working on music with people. I’m definitely working constantly — both on new show material but also on the next release. I’m hoping by the end of the year, I won’t be able to put anything out, but I’ll have an idea of if it’s going to officially happen...

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Girl Talk will play at the Voodoo Music and Arts Experience in New Orleans on Oct. 30.

TDR: When was the moment feeling kind of crazy and surreal, that you really felt like you made and I couldn’t believe it. All those it? When did you feel the most people coming out to shows, espesuccessful? cially after six or seven years of GG: I think that’s when I quit playing shows to basically nobody my day job, which was 2007. I’ve and other people having very been doing this project as Girl little interest in what I do. I think Talk since 2000, and I really nev- when I ended up quitting my job er intended it to be a career, and I that was a big moment where, didn’t intend to ever make money again, it was just never a dream off of it. It was just a hobby and or goal of mine because it’s just so something I loved doing. Then, far fetched in terms of what I do I put out an album in 2006, and and for that to become something it kind of caught on. That year that you live off of. That moment from 2006-2007 was the first was both intimidating because I time I felt like there was some- had worked my whole life to get thing big happening here — the that job, and everything was gofirst time I started playing shows ing well. A very weird feeling that were selling out. I had a day to have your life seemingly gojob — a nine-to-five in a cubicle ing okay and then throwing that sort of thing — and every week- out of the window to pursue this end, I would fly out and do shows. other thing just because it was So that whole year FOR there was really 27, happening.

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