The Daily Reveille 2-2-16

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Volume 121 · No. 14

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LSU System initiative to showcase research BY KACI CAZENAVE @kacicaz

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MODEL STUDENTS Architecture students create life-size versions of themselves from recycled materials

BY LILY AGUILLARD @lilyaguillard On Monday morning, the Art and Design Building’s architecture studio was filled with 76 human figures. Only 38 were alive. Architecture students sat beside life-size cardboard clones of themselves they constructed for an assignment in Architectural Design II. When displayed around the Design Building Commons for a critique, it resembled a scene from a sci-fi movie. Architecture professor Kris Palagi assigned students to create one-to-one clones of

themselves using recycled cardboard, a hot-glue gun, permanent markers and box cutters. The clones were constructed in positions associated with gameday, and resembled fans in the bleachers communicating everything from excitement to boredom. “It was a way of engaging students in designing something that was supposed to communicate some emotion to the viewer,” Palagi said. First-year architecture student Courtney Crane designed

see CARDBOARD, page 2

As of 2016, the pages of academic journals and outdated laboratories won’t be the only homes to University faculty research, thanks to a newly proposed LSU System initiative nicknamed “Research Works.” University publications and social media accounts will join the traditional research media in an effort to share with the general public — not just subject matter experts and scholars — the socioeconomic benefits of faculty-driven research. LSU President F. King Alexander said one of the primary challenges higher education in Louisiana faces, in addition to budget cuts, is educating people about the value and daily impact of research, which is partly why each of the system’s campuses have adopted the initiative. Not to mention, roughly 75 percent of Louisiana’s research dollars flow through the LSU System, Alexander said. “Research Works is about defining what our problems are

see RESEARCH, page 2 THEATER

‘Black Enough’ aims to spark racial, cultural discussion on campus BY LAUREN HEFFKER @laurheffker “Black Enough,” which focuses on bringing racial and cultural themes to the surface opens this Wednesday in HopKins Black Box Theatre. English senior Akeem Muhammad serves as the play’s writer and director. Muhammad is also editor in chief of LEGACY Magazine. He said the inspiration for “Black Enough” originated from Rod Sterling’s “The Obsolete Man” episode of “The Twilight Zone.” Muhammad instantly noticed parallels between the episode and recent events in the black community and wrote a theatrical adaptation as his senior thesis project. Sociology and communication studies senior Stephanie

Rodgers, who plays the secretary and the new chancellor, said the play’s work is meant to have a visual effect on campus concerning cultural awareness. “It gives them the opportunity to see us reach out to the black community in a different way,” Rodgers said. “You see lectures, discussions, panels, but have you ever just sat and watched a show on campus? We don’t ever see that type of performance on LSU’s campus. It’ll give people a different perspective to just sit and watch and see how somebody can create something that embodies these issues in the black community.” The play is set in a dystopian society where martial law, or “the state,” governs. It centers on Amaan Black, a millennial student who wants to attend

college in a world where books are prohibited. She gets put on trial for her “crimes,” which are punishable by death. Unknown to the governing baby boomer generation, Black has a plan to provoke a movement and expose the state’s hypocrisy to dissemble the totalitarian regime. The play inspects major themes like the effects of society’s impact on culture and humanity’s perception of the world. Muhammad’s writing delves into the psychology behind actions based on W.E.B. Du Bois’ theory of double consciousness. This leads to the pinnacle revelation in the play, revealing its’ underlying theme. Higher education administration graduate student Marlon

see BLACK ENOUGH, page 2

Interdisciplinary studies senior Jasmine Herndon (top) and higher education administration graduate student Marlon Greene (left) rehearse for the play “Black Enough,” which was written and directed by English senior Akeem Muhammad (far left). photos by ANJANA NAIR / The Daily Reveille


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