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Chemistry professor has a collection of 1,720 pocket protectors

BY Carrie grace henderson chenderson@lsureveille.com From Little Debbie to NASA to Chilean beer, chemistry professor John Pojman’s wife is just glad his collection is not of cars.

Pojman has 1,720 different pocket protectors from four different countries, collected over 13 years. One of his items has even made it to the International Space Station.

“I kind of slipped one to a guy who gave it to a Russian cosmonaut to take up there,” Pojman said. “I like the NASA ones, but those can be kind of expensive.”

The collection began at an American Chemical Society meeting about 15 years ago. At

that time, Pojman had not seen a pocket protector in several years.

Now he is an expert in that field.

“There aren’t other people that I know that are collectors,” Pojman said. “I’m king of the valley of the blind.”

Though he may be the only collector of his kind, there are others interested in the same items. Pojman said those collecting a certain brand could sometimes drive up the price of potential collectables.

“There are people who collect advertising stuff,” he said.

“People may collect everything related to Ford Motor

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Polymers and nonlinear chemical dynamics professor John A. Pojman has collected pocket protectors for 15 years.

Incoming students may find a new resource available for information about the value of a University education.

During his college affordability bus tour in August, President Barack Obama announced a plan to develop a federal ratings system based on a comprehensive inventory of higher education data — an initiative LSU President F. King Alexander said he adamantly supports.

Alexander said the Postsecondary Institution Ratings System would be an expansion of the U.S. Department of Education’s College Affordability and Transparency Center College Scorecards, which displays data like a college or university’s graduation rate and loan default rate.

College rankings usually are made available by magazines like U.S. News & World Report, but Alexander said the ratings system used by those publications fails to include valuable information like post-graduation employment and average student debt.

“I’m firmly behind the federal

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‘Bone Lady’ Mary Manhein to retire, work on writing career

BY william taylor potter wpotter@lsureveille.com Though the famed “Bone Lady” is retiring, she hopes to dig out new ground for her career as a fiction writer.

Mary Manhein, director of the FACES Laboratory at the University, is retiring April 30.

She authored “Floating Souls: The Canal Murders,” the first of a fiction series set in New Orleans and is working on the second book in the series.

According to a news release,

Manhein also serves as director of the Louisiana Repository for Unidentified and Missing Persons Information Program, and she has assisted law enforcement agencies for more than 30 years.

Manhein consulted on hundreds of forensic cases dealing with human remains throughout her career. She has dealt with mass disaster sites, explosions and serial killers.

The longtime faculty member is a Fellow in the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, a former deputy coroner

and former member of the Louisiana Sentencing Commission. Manhein is also a member of the national disaster recovery team and aided with the Columbia space shuttle crash.

“We’ve worked on some very high-profile forensic cases,” Manhein said. “We’ve worked I don’t know how many hurricanes.”

Manhein helped develop a 2006 bill creating a database for unidentified and missing persons in Louisiana. Hers is the most comprehensive state

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LSU FACES Laboratory Director Mary Manhein speaks to a crowd June 21, 2014, at Bluebonnet Library.

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Mayor pushes for Chicago parkland for Obama library THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel introduced an ordinance Wednesday aimed at substantially improving the city’s chances of hosting the Obama presidential library by setting aside space for the project in one of two parks on the city’s South Side.

The ordinance would allow the Chicago Park District to transfer about 20 acres of land in either Jackson Park or Washington Park to the city to use for the library.

The ordinance, which must be approved by the City Council, would greatly strengthen the University of Chicago’s bid to place the library in one of the nearby parks.

The president and first lady both worked at the school and the president launched his community organizer career in that part of Chicago.

After reports that the Barack Obama Foundation, which is overseeing the selection process, expressed reservations about the university’s bid because of the uncertainty about the land, city officials and the school set out to address the issue before the foundation selects from four competing bids, including another from a different part of Chicago. That

announcement is expected in March.

Last week, the park district held two public hearings. While some people urged the city not to allow the parkland to be used for the library, several speakers, including area residents and aldermen, urged the park district to support the land transfer for the library that supporters say would generate hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of jobs to an economically struggling part of the city.

The Emanuel administration said that “based on the strong support heard” at the meetings for the transfer, he was introducing the ordinance — a move that was hardly a surprise given the mayor’s recent comments that he would do whatever he could to convince the president to select Chicago over bids made by Columbia University in New York and the University of Hawaii. Although the mayor has said he would do what he could to help both the University of Chicago’s bid and that of the University of Illinois at Chicago, which is pushing for the library to be built on the city’s West Side, the new ordinance would clearly strengthen the University of Chicago’s bid.

The proposed ordinance would

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The remaining acreage would, according to the ordinance, be maintained as parkland. It also calls for the appointment of a committee to identify land that would replace the green space taken by a library, and it would only transfer the land if either park is selected as the site

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Whether or not the land transfer triggers a lawsuit remains to be seen. But an ordinance that affects parks designed by famed architect Frederick Law Olmsted in a city that has a long history of protecting its parkland, observers say a lawsuit is likely if the Obamas select either park to build the library.

MOSCOW — Separatist forces deployed more arms and manpower Wednesday to an emerging flashpoint in eastern Ukraine, undermining hopes for a new peace initiative taking shape.

Responding to the developments, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko cut short a visit to the economic summit in Davos, Switzerland, where he courted European support in the worsening crisis.

The events unfolded ahead of a meeting in Berlin of the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany aimed at laying the groundwork for a long-lasting settlement.

In advance of the talks, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov proposed both sides in the conflict pull their heavy weapons back from a previously agreed-upon dividing line to help defuse hostilities. Lavrov’s remarks were greeted with cautious approval by his Ukrainian counterpart, Pavlo Klimkin.

“Russia needs to confirm [peace deals] through deed not word,” Klimkin said on his Twitter account.

While Lavrov urged measures to contain the unfolding unrest, he said nothing about the

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rebels surrendering territory they acquired in violation of a peace deal concluded in September in Minsk, Belarus. Ukraine says separatist forces that are backed by Russia have overstepped agreed-upon front-line boundaries between the warring sides by 500 square kilometers (190 square miles).

A fresh separatist advance is under way in an area northwest of Luhansk, the second-largest rebel-held city. The fighting is centered on two checkpoints along a strategic highway.

Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said one of those positions, Checkpoint 31, had been abandoned but that operations were underway to retake it.

The separatist forces appear well-poised to take the upper hand, however.

An Associated Press reporter saw nine Gvozdika self-propelled howitzers and six anti-tank cannons moving near the town of Perevalsk around midday. A rebel militiaman with the convoy who declined to give his name said the armament was heading in the direction of Checkpoint 31.

Along the same road, the AP saw four Grad multiple rocket launchers accompanied by four trucks carrying ammunition and 15 pristine-looking tanks, also heading toward the checkpoint.

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CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS In the Jan. 21 story “LSU junior guard Josh Gray overcomes obstacles on and off the court,” The Daily Reveille incorrectly reported Gray’s grandmother died when he was 16.

Gray’s mother died when he was 16.

The Daily Reveille regrets the error.

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LGBTQ minor expands options in its second semester

BY hayley franklin hfranklin@lsureveille.com

The LGBTQ minor remains available to University students, and it will possibly offer more course options in the near future.

The minor, started by social work professor Elaine Maccio in fall 2014, requires students take Social Work 2500 and 15 hours chosen from a pool of designated courses.

“I’m in the process of adding four new courses this semester.

I need to have them signed off by the core student curriculum committee,” Maccio said.

“It will be a history course, an English course, an art history course and a law course that’s cross-listed through WGS.” The large pool of choices creates an interdisciplinary minor, applicable in real world situations.

The Introduction to LGBTQ studies course teaches the social justice side of the LGBT community, focusing

on historical, social and economic factors. According to Maccio’s syllabus, students are intended to come to an understanding of the LGBT community’s impact and how the community is impacted by society.

The course was not created to make an impact on the LGBT community but to bring an educated understanding to all University students, Maccio said.

“I developed it to help our students to better understand this particular culture since LSU wasn’t already doing it,” Maccio said. “We didn’t have the minor, and many other universities do.

So this was an opportunity to add to our curriculum and offer students a new culture to explore.”

A general understanding requires learning about specific problems within and toward the LGBT culture.

Mass communication freshman Kenny Vo took the class last semester and said he learned about discrimination

According to the College Equality Index, more than 27 colleges in the United States offer an LGBTQ minor. Last semester 19 students enrolled in the introductory course, SW 2500. within LGBT communities.

“Intersectionality is a problem where issues occur within a community. Something more prevalent is that the media focuses more on gay men and not enough on lesbians or transsexuals,” Vo said. “That’s a community issue because a lot of people that see gay communities think, ‘Oh, gay people are the best, but only gay men,’ or ‘lesbians, but not transsexuals.’ That becomes a problem because people become segregated.”

Intersectionality was a memorable concept for Vo,

and it’s an example of just one day out of the introduction course. By the end of the course, students have a broad understanding of the LGBT community.

The remaining courses available in the minor allow students to choose areas they wish to explore. Some course sections available to choose from for the remaining 15 hours are women and gender studies, theatre, and sociology.

The minor is growing new branches. New courses possibly will be added to this pool during this spring semester,

Maccio said.

The minor can be useful because it helps one understand LGBT people in a work environment.

Vo said it can be used in a more career-focused way.

“Let’s say you were running for a political career, and you had wanted to try to campaign on an issue in an LGBT community,” Vo said.

“You would have more credentials and more knowledge if you were to have a minor or major in it, and it would serve you better because you would know more than you originally had versus not having had an education on it.”

The new minor is similar to most humanities, like English or history.

“It contributes to an individual’s well-roundedness much like any of the humanities do because it opens up their world to understand a little bit better how people are different and what different cultures have to offer in our own lives,” Maccio said.

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Construction begins on luxury apartments near University Lakes EVENT CALENDAR

BY amanda capritto acapritto@lsureveille.com

University students, young professionals and weekend tailgaters will soon have more housing options near campus to choose from.

Wampold Companies owner Mike Wampold began his latest housing development project in Baton Rouge, luxury apartments Bayonne at Southshore. The complex sits at the 900th block of Stanford Avenue near the LSU Lakes.

Wampold said he sees University faculty, some students, downtown professionals and people who look to downsize homes as potential tenants.

Amenities planned for the development include a fitness center, clubhouse, business center and two courtyards — one with a resort-style pool and one with a dog park and sitting area.

The complex will also have a five-story parking garage allowing tenants to park on the level of the unit where they live.

Bayonne at Southshore will be a gated community of 240 one, two, and three-bedroom units, with rent starting around $1,100 for a 750 square foot one-bedroom, one-bathroom unit and $1,400 for a two-bed, two-bathroom unit.

The total cost of the project is about $42 million.

Construction of the fourthfloor building is projected to be completed by summer 2016, and Wampold expects to begin leasing in January 2016.

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Owner Wampold expects Bayonne at Southshore to begin leasing in January 2016. on the site of the old One Lakeshore Place apartments, which Wampold Companies bought in 1985. His company leased and operated those until the end of 2013, at which point it demolished them to make room for Bayonne at Southshore.

Wampold Companies started out by developing smaller housing projects in southern Louisiana around Lafayette, Morgan City and New Iberia, Wampold said. The company has since renovated or constructed about 4,000 housing units, including the Crescent at University Lakes Condominiums.

Wampold Companies also builds and leases commercial office space, but housing is the main focus, Wampold said. The company owns approximately double the amount of square feet in housing development projects than it does in commercial space.

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construction was originally slated to begin in early 2014 but was delayed due to multiple factors.

“We had some delays in the permitting process, and we made some changes in the design that enhanced the property but pushed the process back a few months. It wasn’t anything too serious,” Wampold said.

Mass communication freshman David Wroten thinks Bayonne at Southshore will attract many residents but not students in particular.

“I think that it will attract some students,” Wroten said.

“But for the most part, I think young professionals will be more likely to move in there, mostly because the majority of students don’t have the money to live somewhere that nice. I think it could attract other residents of the area, though, and maybe graduates who want to stay near campus.”

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Thursday, January 22, 2015

RESEARCH

Professors connect global warming to politics BY deanna narveson dnarveson@lsureveille.com Last year was the ninth coldest year in recorded Louisiana history, but it was ranked as the hottest year in global history, said Louisiana State climatologist Barry Keim.

Keim, along with University political science professor James Garand, recently published a study drawing correlations between trends in people’s local climate, their political affiliations and their perceptions of whether global warming or climate change is real and caused by human actions.

The scientific consensus is that the world is getting hotter and humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions have a hand in it, but the public is divided on this topic, Garand said.

People who experience warmer summers are more likely to be on board with scientists’ views of climate change than those who do not, and people who are are more conservative politically are less likely to be on board, the study titled “Weather, Climate, and the Economy: Explaining Risk Perceptions of Global Warming, 2001-2010,” found.

“We were interested in how Americans think about climate change,” Garand said. “Scientists are interested in climate, but people’s experience with weather might affect how they think of climate change.”

Garand and Keim, along with then doctoral student Wanyun Shao and University of New Hampshire professor of sociology Lawrence Hamilton, collected data from surveys about Americans’ views on climate change and then paired it with climate data from the hometowns of survey subjects.

“We have short memories, and we’re very myopic in view,” Keim said about people’s perception of climate. “We see

only what’s happening right here.”

The most shocking thing about the findings, Keim said, was political affiliation was a better predictor of people’s perceptions about climate change than the weather near them.

Garand said the study found the percentage of people who aligned themselves as firm Democrats and believed climate change to be true increased with years of education beyond high school. However, the percentage of people who aligned themselves as firm Republicans perception of climate change did not change with additional education.

College Democrats president Josh Turner said he thinks Republicans’ responses may be influenced by more conservatives of the party.

“What I really think it is is the information that the Republican Party is really built up over the years, like Rush Limbaugh, and it kind of moved to FOX News.”

Turner said. “It’s like they take a stance on an issue, and regardless of new findings, they continue to back it. They are going to believe party leaders over scientists.”

Garand said he thinks it reveals how each party’s members might respond to additional information about a topic.

“How Democrats respond to additional information is very different from how Republicans respond,” he said.

Keim said in another study about climate change perception he worked on in the past, he found, as firm Republicans and Democrats gained years of education, their views of climate change grew more polarized.

“Essentially, as Republicans’ education increased, they were even more skeptical, and as Democrats’ education increased, they grew to trust scientists’ views more,” Keim said.

Chemistry professor’s discovery could contribute to CO2 reduction Method turns CO2 into organic compound

BY jose alejandro bastidas jbastidas@lsureveille.com Like many scientific discoveries, chemistry professor Andrew Maverick’s latest contribution to the field of chemistry happened by accident.

Maverick, along with research associate Frank Fronczek and post-doctoral researcher Uttam Pokharel discovered a method to turn carbon dioxide into oxalic acid, an organic compound found in fertilizers.

The team, however, did not envision this reaction as a possibility when they began their experiment.

“One of the things we’ve been doing in our lab for a long time is making molecules that have holes in the middle,” Maverick said. “We were interested in seeing if we could fit a certain molecule inside the holes and cause a reaction. For many years, my team has been working on testing different combinations, but we never got anything to react while it was in the hole, until we got the reaction with carbon dioxide.”

Maverick’s team started testing different compounds in 2010.

Pokharel, who did most of the experiments, noticed the reaction in January 2013, Maverick said. “[Pokharel] brought in a compound to the X-ray lab, not really sure what he had,” Fronczek said. “We found out what it was in the lab and, to our surprise, it was a compound with carbon dioxide.”

Maverick considers the team’s finding an accidental discovery because exposure to carbon dioxide in the environment caused the original reaction with a copper compound.

Once the team discovered carbon dioxide’s ability to react to the compound, they developed a three-step reaction sequence to make the gas substance into a more useful compound.

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The team used sodium ascorbate — vitamin C — to make the copper compound and carbon dioxide transform into oxalate.

Because using solely vitamin C for this experiment would be an expensive method to produce a not-so-useful product, the team took it a step forward by using acid to convert the oxalate into oxalic acid.

Their research was published in Nature Communications in December 2014.

“This paper was published in a pretty high-ranking journal, so it was graded as a world-class study,” Maverick said. “It’s great to work in a place where you get to do high quality work, and that’s thanks to the support we get, not only from outside agencies, but from the state of Louisiana, which allows us to have research facilities at LSU and people like [Fronczek] here.”

Despite the magnitude discovery, Maverick considers these findings the first step toward the age old problem — too much carbon dioxide in the environment.

“The reaction takes four to five days to work, so we can’t just go out and say we solved the carbon dioxide problem,” Maverick said. “The next step is to figure out how to speed up the process.”

Maverick will also work on ways to convert the oxalic acid

into more useful substances like vinegar or ethanol.

“If you believe these things, it’s important to remove carbon dioxide from the air. One could argue that’s a good thing.

To be able to make something organic out of it, something that can be used to make other reactions may be important,” Fronczek said.

For environmental management systems senior Brittany Dupre, research like Maverick’s is beneficial because it looks to help the environment.

While scientists come up with a way to speed up the reaction, Dupre thinks educating others on the effects of carbon dioxide is the best way to contribute.

Maverick is applying for grants to continue his research on these compounds and encourages students to get involved with research opportunities.

“In the world of chemistry, and any other science for that matter, it’s not just so that you learn all the cool chemistry stuff that’s already out there,” Maverick said. “Employers are going to want someone who can apply what they’ve learned to solve new problems. You need to be able to not just understand the material but also be able to apply it to make new discoveries.”

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Louisiana Friday Night

Curry, Davis collect midseason awards

Gymnast Lloimincia Hall’s floor routine a tribute to Louisiana

BY Jacob Hamilton jhamilton@lsureveille.com

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Brian Pellerin Sports Columnist With many teams in the NBA having reached the midway point of the year, here are my awards for the first half of the season.

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When the anchor spot on floor routine comes up, every fan in the PMAC is on their feet in anticipation of the upcoming performance. Everyone in the building knows LSU senior gymnast Lloimincia Hall is on the mat.

Tiger fans know Hall has the potential to do something special every time she steps on the floor, and her school-record five perfect scores can attest to that.

Every year, Hall’s routines have a theme special to her at the time, and this year’s is a tribute to Louisiana.

Most Valuable Player: Stephen Curry, Golden State Warriors The MVP has been a battle of LeBron James and a new rising challenger for the last few seasons, but not this year. James has missed nine of the season’s first 42 games, which is too many to stay in contention, especially when the Cavaliers aren’t playing up to their potential.

So, keeping in line with what seems to be a recent tradition, I’m giving the midseason MVP to the best player on the best team. That’s Stephen Curry.

With Curry as their leader, the Warriors have the NBA’s best record at 33-6 in a strong Western Conference.

The Davidson product sits at top ten in the league in both points and assists per game and leads the NBA in steals per game. He’s shooting the lowest percentage of his career from behind the arc but still ranks third in the league in 3-pointers made.

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Transition from club programs to collegiate level vital to LSU

BY Christian Boutwell cboutwell@lsureveille.com Collegiate gymnasts come to LSU with successful backgrounds. They start their careers doing backflips on their trampolines when they are six years old, hoping to becoming Junior Olympic National Champions.

These gymnasts are all trained the same way, through club gyms.

Making the transition from club gymnastics to collegiate competition is a difficult task, but that doesn’t mean it’s not feasible.

“When I first came to college I realized that college is a lot different from club [gymnastics],” said LSU freshman all-arounder Erin Macadaeg. “[Club] taught me how to be an elite athlete

and how to train in front of a lot of people.”

Incoming Tiger gymnasts come in with high levels of experience, with the competition in club gymnastics similar to collegiate meets.

Macadaeg and freshman allarounder Myia Hambrick both ended their successful club careers as level 10 gymnasts. Macadaeg finished 2014 as a member of the Junior Olympic National Team and also acquired a firstplace floor title and second place on vault at the 2014 Region 1 Championships.

Hambrick, a six-time Junior Olympic National Championships qualifier, ended her club career as a national runner-up on beam from 2012 to 2014. She nearly had a full sweep at the 2014 Region 8 Championships, finishing first in

bars, vault, floor and all-around.

Having this grounded gymnastics foundation benefits the Tigers. Because of their involvement with club gyms, gymnast already excel in many basic areas of the sport.

“We find that the kids that come from those type of programs have a lot of longevity,” said LSU coach D-D Breaux.

“Their performances are the same week in and week out. And they make mistakes, but they have a great foundation that we are not having to coach around their problems.”

Club gymnastics is all an individual effort. During the early stages of the gymnast’s career, they gain attributes to be successful in a high level of

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LSU freshman all-arounder Erin Macadaeg balances on the beam Jan. 9 during the Tigers’ win 197.125-193.300 against Iowa State at the PMAC.

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Lady Tigers look for 3rd consecutive upset against Tennessee

BY Stanton Vignes svignes@lsureveille.com The LSU women’s basketball team continues its brutal conference schedule when it challenges No. 5 Tennessee in Knoxville, at 6 p.m. tonight on the SEC Network.

The Lady Tigers (10-8, 4-2 Southeastern Conference) face their fifth ranked opponent in six games in Tennessee (15-3, 5-0 SEC), which has yet to lose at home this season.

After a slow start to the year, LSU has turned things around with back-to-back wins against top-15 teams. The Lady Tigers look to get another important victory under their belt to make a run at the NCAA Tournament.

LSU coach Nikki Caldwell, a former player and assistant coach for former Tennessee head coach Pat Summitt, acknowledged her ties to the program. However, she said she still considers this a business trip.

“In playing Tennessee, obviously there is a personal feeling that I have toward that program with the relationship I have, not only with the staff, but obviously Coach Summitt. What she has meant, not only to many of us as former players, but just what she has meant to the women’s game,”

Caldwell said. “We are playing extremely hard, and we are playing this game with togetherness and unity. It’s going to be a hard-fought game, like any SEC opponent.”

Though LSU has lost five of its last six matchups against Tennessee during Caldwell’s tenure, the Lady Tigers prevailed over then-No. 5 Tennessee last year when they traveled to Thompson-Boling Arena.

Sophomore guard Raigyne Moncrief said the Lady Tigers are a different team this year, but that they can still learn from last season’s victory.

“I remember [junior guard] Danielle [Ballard] just going crazy, also Theresa Plaisance and Jeanne Kenney,” Moncrief said. “You know that it’s possible.

Some people say its hard to win in there, and it is. But it’s definitely possible, and we’ve shown a lot of people that it’s possible. I think that boosts our confidence up a little more.”

The return of Ballard has improved the LSU offense and played a significant role in the team’s recent upsets of then-No. 15 Mississippi State and then-No. 10 Kentucky. She averaged 24.5 points, 7 rebounds and 3 steals in the two wins.

Nevertheless, Caldwell said

LSU needs to be more aggressive near the basket if it wants to pull a third upset.

“Their strength is their ability to rebound the basketball.

We’re going to have to step our level of toughness up because that’s all board play is about,” Caldwell said. “They’re really looking to get the ball inside whether it’s off the dribble drive and an extra pass. If we can control or really eliminate those second and third opportunities, that’s going to be an advantage for us.”

If LSU wins, it will be the first time an SEC team has won backto-back games in Knoxville in consecutive seasons.

Sophomore guard Jasmine Rhodes said if LSU enters the game with the same approach it had against Mississippi State, the Lady Tigers will earn the much-needed victory for their tournament.

“We’re hungry, and were ready to win. So I think were gonna go in with the same mentality or an even bigger mentality,” Rhodes said. “We have to beat this team. We’re on their home court, and we have to go in confident and ready.”

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LSU sophomore guard Raigyne Moncrief (11) dribbles the ball down the court on Dec. 3, 2014, during the Lady Tigers’ 73-59 win against the Lady Techsters at the PMAC.

Ballard brings resurgence to once-stalling point guard rotation

BY Morgan Prewitt mprewitt@lsureveille.com Throughout the season, the point guard position for the LSU women’s basketball team has been a revolving door filled with expectation and pressure.

The responsibility of filling the hole left by former guard Jeanne Kenney has proven difficult. It’s required the rotation of senior guard DaShawn Harden, junior guard Danielle Ballard and sophomore guards Rina Hill and Raigyne Moncrief.

“We’re going to have to share that responsibility of running the basketball team,” said LSU coach Nikki Caldwell. “[Harden, Hill and Moncrief have] only been in our system for a year and a half. Even though DaShawn is a senior by eligibility standards, by our standards in our system, she’s in her sophomore year.

I’ve got three sophomores really taking over that responsibility and not just hoisting that on one person’s shoulders.”

Despite the shared responsibility, the rotation has struggled to command the offense like Kenney did a year ago until the return of Ballard. The junior’s presence took pressure off Harden and Moncrief to be the main ball-handlers in late-game situations.

Last season, Kenney and former forward Theresa

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LSU then-sophomore guard Danielle Ballard (32) dribbles around a West Virginia defender March 25, 2014, during the Lady Tigers’ 76-67 win against the Mountaineers at the PMAC. Plaisance would step up in big games situations and take over.

The lack of a definitive offensive threat cost the Lady Tigers in multiple games when Ballard was suspended.

Against then-No. 1 South Carolina on Jan. 4, the Lady Tigers managed to put only 51 points on the board, their second worst mark in Southeastern Conference play. Hill, Moncrief and Harden combined for 21 points, one assist and

six turnovers.

Since Ballard’s return against Vanderbilt on Jan. 8, her ability to take over in pressure situations led the Lady Tigers to twostraight wins against ranked opponents.

Against then-No. 15 Mississippi State last Thursday, Ballard became the Lady Tigers go-to scorer, scoring all of the team’s eight points in overtime. Ballard pushed the game into double overtime with a 3-pointer with

three seconds remaining and sealed the game with a jumper with 56 seconds remaining in the period.

“There is a lot [of] pressure released knowing that you have another scorer and another good player that’s there,” Moncrief said. “[Harden and Hill] before Danielle Ballard tried to release a lot of that pressure, but it is great having Danielle back. It’s just great.”

Before Ballard’s return,

Harden and Moncrief carried the burden offensively and combined for an average of 22.3 points and four assists per game.

With Ballard, the rotation averages a combined 25.3 points, 5.8 assists and nine turnovers per game. The addition of Ballard to the rotation has added a dynamic scorer, allowing Hill, Moncrief and Harden to settle into their strengths.

Harden came into her senior year shooting 27.8 percent from the 3-point line. This season, she has developed into one of the team’s best 3-point shooters, shooting 32.5 percent from 3-point range.

Moncrief has become a more consistent rebounder, averaging 6.9 boards per game after tallying only 5.1 per game last season. Hill has earned a starting spot for 14-of-18 games, which outnumbers her appearances last season.

“Rina starts at point [guard], and we rotate. Then I go give her a break,” Moncrief said.

“We go back and forth. It happens the same way in practice. Even Danielle Ballard is playing the point too. It’s been good, actually. I think we are giving each other a break. It’s great that we have Danielle Ballard in because she gives us a break too.”

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Thursday, January 22, 2015 men’s tennis

Underclassmen depended on for solid performances

BY Jack Woods jwoods@lsureveille.com The LSU men’s tennis team is comprised of one senior, four juniors, four sophomores and two freshmen. While many coaches have the luxury of a roster loaded with older players, coach Jeff Brown depends on his underclassmen to consistently deliver solid performances.

Brown knows he can count on his younger players because they’ve been tested well beyond their years.

“We had all underclassmen last year,” Brown said.

“It’s been very important for us that people play beyond their years, and this year is no exception.”

The Tigers struggled at times last spring with their young roster, finishing 14-14 (210 Southeastern Conference).

But the trials provided valuable experience, which the players will take advantage of this season.

“Last year, everyone was forced to step up,” sophomore John Michael Busch said. “I think that’s going to help this year because everyone is so much more experienced than they would have been had they not been forced in that position.”

This experience was on display Sunday in the Tigers’ matches against Lamar and Nicholls State.

Sophomore Jordan Butsch won both of his singles matches Sunday, picking up a 6-4, 7-5

win in the morning and following it up with a 6-1, 6-2 win in the evening. Butsch also picked up victories in both of his doubles matches alongside senior Chris Simpson.

Freshman Simon Freund picked up two singles victories to start his season positively, and sophomore Eric Perez won both of his doubles matches playing alongside junior Tam Trinh.

The underclassmen are eager for the step up in competition the ITA Kickoff in College Station will provide this weekend. Playing San Diego and either Texas A&M or TCU will be a much sterner test for the underclassmen.

“A&M, TCU and San Diego are all top-25 teams I think at the end of this year,” Busch said.

The level of play this weekend means the matches could provide a preview of how the young members of LSU’s team will fare at the business end of its schedule, playing in a competitive SEC. Butsch said every SEC match is tough, making everyone keen to get tested early on in the season.

Not everyone had the chance to play last weekend, but each of the young players who missed out will be looking to get involved soon.

“Everyone’s really eager, and it’s obvious in practice because everyone is pushing each other in practice,” Busch said. “The guys that weren’t in are trying to get in, and it makes it a really competitive environment.”

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gymnast and volunteer coach Ashleigh Clare-Kearney, fea“With the years in the tures three difficult tumbles past, I tried to have a differ- and dance moves unorthodox ent theme every to the sport, a time,” Hall said. ‘The first song is “Neck,” tribute to her “The theme this on the which I have grown to power year is to thank floor.

Louisiana for ac- love in my time here. The Hall’s style cepting someone next song is the [LSU] is far from the from Texas.

I Fight Song, and that is traditional balwant to show that followed by “Stand Up let dancing that yes, I am a Texas is preferred in girl, but I have re- and Get Crunk.” The last Olympic persong is my signature formances, but ally grown to love Louisiana.” song — it is something college judgShe became embrace that everyone calls “The es a national sensaher different Lloimincia.”’ tion when a video approach. of her perfect “[Hall’s] cholloimincia hall, score against reography is LSU senior gymnast Alabama on Jan. different than 31, 2014 went vi[senior Rhearal. The video climbed up to gan Courville’s] or [senior Jesmore than a million views and sie Jordan’s] in the sense that still grows daily. Her success I have to think outside of the isn’t just superficial — she has box because she has a different three Southeastern Confer- kind of presence,” Clare-Kearence floor championships and ney said. “I tried to downplay it the status as being one of the and was subtle with the moves elite floor performers in the she makes because she makes nation. them so big.”

This year, the Dallas naAlthough Hall has counttive’s routine is set to a com- less repetitions in the gym, it pilation of four songs unique is still a relatively new routo Louisiana that have forged tine for her, receiving the a special meaning to Hall during her time in Baton Rouge.

“The first song is ‘Neck,’ which I have grown to love in my time here,” Hall said.

“The next song is the [LSU] Fight Song, and that is followed by ‘Stand Up and Get Crunk.’ The last song is my signature song — it is something that everyone calls ‘The Lloimincia.’”

The new routine, choreographed by former LSU

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choreography in November. It has been performed only twice, and it will get better with time, Hall said.

The season will culminate in April with the Super Six Championships, where Hall has a chance to perform her Louisiana-themed routine in Fort Worth, Texas, less than 50 miles from her hometown.

Hall said performing not only in front of a home crowd but also in front of a crowd supporting the LSU gymnastics team will help the team focus on winning.

Then, she will focus on the individual side. “[Hall] has some unfinished business,” said LSU coach D-D Breaux. “I think [the video] put pressure on her during the championships [last year] to do better than she had done all year long. Better than she had done all year long isn’t what she needed — competing with enthusiasm, excitement and the tremendous amount of power she has [is what she needs].”

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page 8 awards, from page 5 The only other contender in the MVP race is the Rockets’ James Harden. It was a tough call, but ultimately, the 33-6 mark was too much to pass up.

Defensive Player of the Year: Anthony Davis, New Orleans Pelicans I’m sure many of you are upset Davis isn’t holding down the MVP award. Sorry, but the Pelicans just aren’t good enough for Davis to be considered.

The Brow leads the league in blocks per game by half a block and player efficiency rating by about three points. He has four of the league’s 25 highest block totals in a game with nine once and six three other times. Davis also turned in the season’s second highest steal total in a game against Oklahoma City on Dec. 2, 2014.

He deserved the award last year, and he’s been playing too well not to win it this year — as long as he can stay healthy.

Rookie of the Year: Andrew Wiggins, Minnesota Timberwolves Hey Cleveland, I found the wing-defender you’ve been looking for.

The Cavaliers drafted

Wiggins No. 1 overall, and once they got LeBron James, they shipped him to Minnesota to play with Kevin Love.

Since the Canadian has gone to South Canada, he’s been decent, averaging 15 points, four rebounds, two assists and a steal.

While those numbers won’t set the box score on fire, they are the best out of this year’s rookie class.

As a whole, it’s been an underwhelming group of youngsters, but someone deserving of this award will step up in the second half. Wiggins’ only real competition is the Magic’s Elfrid Payton and the Sixers’ Nerlens Noel, who still counts as rookie after sitting out all of last season.

Coach of the Year: Mike Budenholzer, Atlanta Hawks Let’s be honest with each other for a minute: I did not know his name before I started writing this, but he has done an incredible job making the Hawks not only a playoff contender but the leader in the Eastern Conference.

Before taking over the Hawks, Budenholzer spent 17 years as an assistant coach for the San Antonio Spurs, golden child of the NBA. He saw the Spurs win four titles, and he has

The Daily Reveille Atlanta looking like San Antonio with ball movement, defense and impressive win totals.

Last season, Budenholzer and the Hawks snagged the eight seed in the East and gave the No. 1 seeded Pacers a run for their money in a seven-game series.

They only won 38 games last season, but they’re on pace for nearly double that total this season thanks to tough defense and heart.

The Hawks are nowhere near as talented as many teams in the league and have no

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But Budenholzer has them believing they are good enough and their opinion is the only one that matters.

Most Improved Player: Jimmy Butler, Chicago Bulls Welcome to the world of superstardom, Jimmy Butler.

Make no mistake about it — the Bulls are Derek Rose’s team, but they wouldn’t be where they are without the play of Butler.

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club, from page 5 competitive gymnastics. Club gymnastics teaches these gymnast more than just technique when performing.

“It really teaches you how to work with a team,” said LSU senior all-arounder Rheagan Courville. “You are really more by yourself in a club. It is truly amazing to get to college and have this team behind you. It’s like a sisterhood. You have support from everyone. Coming from a [club] background really teaches you to manage how to take care of yourself, but it is just really great to get on a team like here at LSU.” LSU gymnastics seeks to become a better team each and every year. Breaux said

she believes that the team she has this year could be a very special group.

The most recent club gymnast on the LSU roster are Macadaeg and Hambrick. Each gymnast seems to be battle-tested and prepared for the tough competition faced early this season.

“They come in with so much power, knowledge, and it is just really great to be able to teach them how to be a part of this team,” Courville said. “They really see just how amazing it is. They adapt so fast. They also bring a lot of energy and high spirit to the team.”

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Textile museum offers rich history BY michael tarver mtarver@lsureveille.com

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SURREAL SALON SOIREE Surreal Salon Soiree brings art, music, costume together for one night BY meg ryan mryan@lsureveille.com Seven years ago, the staff of Baton Rouge Gallery organized a one-night event of surrealist art for Louisiana artists at an off-site location.

The event was small but welcoming to surrealist artists who didn’t have an exhibit opportunity elsewhere. A year later, BRG decided to give the Surreal Salon Soiree another shot and make it a national submission exhibit. The event received more positive response and solidified the Surreal

Salon’s existence.

BRG opened its seventh annual Surreal Salon on Jan. 4, showcasing 58 works from 58 artists representing 25 different states. On Jan. 24 from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m., BRG will become a hub of art, costumes and music to celebrate this year’s exhibit with the Surreal Salon Soiree’s selections from this year’s juror, Josh Agle known as Shag.

Executive director Jason Andreasen said

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Tucked away in a small room in the Human Ecology building lies a well-kept campus secret.

The University’s Textile and Costume Museum circulates textile pieces of historical and cultural value multiple times each semester, and it has been doing so for nearly 25 years.

Pamela Vinci, museum curator and instructor in the department of textiles, apparel design and merchandising, has compiled the pieces necessary for each exhibit since 1992, though the collection of pieces was started in the early ’30s.

Vinci said the original funding for the museum came from a Board of Regents grant applied for by herself and Jenna Kuttruff, a professor and head of the TAM department, to establish a gallery and story area.

Most of the pieces displayed in the museum are chosen from TAM’s vast collection of textiles, which are stored in a protected room adjacent to the museum gallery, Vinci said. However, numerous donors have offered pieces over the years to fill the museum’s exhibits including the inaugural attire of Gov. Bobby Jindal and family from his first inauguration in 2008, she said.

“I think that the topic is of interest and popular among the general public,” Vinci said.

Each semester, Vinci chooses which exhibits will be featured in

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Annual symposium to discuss history of plant design BY gerald ducote gducote@lsureveille.com In Louisiana, the word “heritage” can mean any one of the state’s many culturally legacies, be it food, music or language. With so much to look back on and admire, one may be surprised to see focus on another Louisiana tradition — gardening.

Since its implementation into the University in 1981, the LSU Hilltop Arboretum has made the most of its 14-acre landscape as an isolated study sight for students and a picturesque nature escape for weekenders. Arboretum director Peggy Coates makes sure visitors are up to date with all of the facility’s public events.

Coates’ latest occasion is the arboretum’s annual symposium. This year’s topic, titled “Louisiana Garden Heritage,” comes in preparation of an April tour of Chêne Vert, a large-scale historical garden revived by avid Louisiana restorers Wayne and Cheryl Stromeyer. Described as “a lavish hodgepodge of design and plants,” this year’s symposium will feature discussions of 19th century gardening and planning.

“The design itself, [Stromeyer] took from the New Orleans book of the Notarial Archives,” Coates said.

The symposium will feature six speakers who will each discuss different aspects of Louisiana gardening.

The day’s first presenter, Lake Douglas, is a University associate professor and will review the techniques used in historic French Quarter gardening. Douglas plans to draw information from his two gardening publications, focusing on the works of 19th century horticulturist Thomas Affleck.

“When we saw the garden, we became so inspired by it,” Coates said. “We would use different parts to put together topics and speakers for the symposium. Lake is carrying forth [Affleck’s] tradition of studying that history.”

One prominent feature of the Stromeyer garden is its

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LSU Hilltop Arboretum symposium ‘Louisiana Garden Heritage: A Lavish Hodgepodge of Design and Plants’ will be held on Jan. 29 in the LSU Design building.

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RANKS ‘Tetsuo and youth’ Lupe Fiasco (Atlantic Records) Lupe Fiasco’s ‘Tetsuo and Youth’ is an example of what rap used to be and what it should become again. The album is 16 tracks thick with Lupe doing what he does best,— rapping controversial and meaningful verses.

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Bada$$ creates refreshing, inspired rap The Stylin’ Peacock michael tarver Entertainment writer In his new album “B4.DA.$$” (read as “Before the Money”), Joey Bada$$ combines future and past musical elements to create a hip-hop album unlike most made in recent years.

This album could have been made 20 years ago and would have fit perfectly in the mix of rap styles of the early ’90s. The various musical compositions throughout “B4” contains hints from the decade’s artists such as Outkast and Wu Tang Clan.

Bada$$ incorporates many different jazz elements throughout the album, which makes his songs even more distinct.

For example, the track “O.C.B.” (“Only Child Blues”) features a smooth jazz orchestral sounding background music with a piano accompaniment as well as what sounds like a tuba and saxophone solo.

Unlike the somewhat shallow use of these elements that seem to pop up in every Jason Derulo song, Bada$$ takes a genuine approach to infuse jazz and blues into his rap that is refreshing for today’s music industry.

His lyrical and rhythmic style is almost a perfect combination of Chance the Rapper.

An intense yet controlled flow is kept throughout the record that does not bore the listener from

cinematic music

track-to-track.

“Belly of the Beast” featuring Chronixx is probably the best track on the album and could rival Jay Z’s “Empire State of Mind” as far as describing his life and the culture of New York.

One of the most interesting aspects of this album is the way Bada$$ tells an ongoing story of his life and upbringing. Through multiple samples of voice recordings by his family and friends talking to him about life, he infuses his biography into the flow from song to song.

Early in the album, a radio interview with Bada$$ is tacked onto the end of a song where he explains his Caribbean influences from his parents, his mother from Saint Lucia and father

from Jamaica.

Though the quality of each song is arguably above par, the album starts to drone on a little bit after around the tenth track. A closer attention to song organization would have done this album well, and honestly a few songs could have been cut from the list to create a more solidified record.

It is obvious that Bada$$ pays great attention to detail in his work, and he surrounds himself with artists that complement his style and add depth to his tracks.

He is sure to be a bigger name in the hip-hop community with every new release.

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Thursday, January 22, 2015 salon, from page 9 Shag is an artist based out of California.

“He is easily one of the biggest artists working out of this area of art or contemporary art,” Andreasen said.

Shag had 550 submissions to judge — three per artist.

Andreasen said Shag’s criteria involved looking at the quality of work along with what it was trying to say. He said Shag chose some works that were more focused on the message than the technicality while others focused on the latter.

Surreal Salon gives artists with a surrealist bend an exhibit where their work feels at home. The art can be described as pop-surrealism and lowbrow art with a surrealist and pop culture influence.

Andreasen said all the pieces have an emphasis on technical skill, actual drawing and various public icons — a different form of art from a fine art setting, or a typical Southern exhibit.

“A lot of the art that you find in the South tends to be pastoral scenes, or with our proximity to New Orleans,” said artist Carl Jacobson. “You see a lot of people portraying music in some fashion or musicians. There isn’t really much attention on this scale to surrealism.”

Jacobson is a Baton Rouge resident and a returning artist to the Surreal Salon. He said he’s humbled by the talent his work is displayed beside,

especially with how high the bar is to place in the showcase.

Jacobson isn’t the only artist representing Louisiana in the nation-wide exhibit.

Andreasen said while Shag didn’t know what pieces belonged to which artist while judging, there’s numerous artists from Louisiana — something he finds interesting coming from a state that doesn’t focus on surrealist art.

“Once the works are selected, you can see that there are certainly a number of strong artists in Louisiana who are doing this kind of work,” Andreasen said.

Some artists have come from farther distances to have their pieces displayed in the Surreal Salon.

Eric Euler, a Baton Rouge resident and University graduate student, is originally from Canada. He said his only chance of displaying a piece in the show would be while he’s finishing his studies here, and he didn’t want to let the chance pass by. He said the exhibits prestige has him excited for the opportunity.

Matthew Burrows, New York native and artist in Surreal Salon, is another returner to the showcase and finds it beneficial to have his work appear in the exhibit — for not only for the stature but the overall similar aesthetic to his own work. “[My] work itself is...often social commentary about very real things, but the aesthetic that I go for is sort of a surreal

Rose Emporium in Brenham, Texas. The eight-acre gardenancient camellias, a moniker ing complex serves as a home given to camellias that pre- to wide array of roses of both date the 20th century. These old and new varieties.

As the emporium’s owner, camellias tie into the talk to be given by Tom Johnson of Shoup will explain the usefulness of roses, specifically South Carolina.

Johnson is an employee antique roses, for amateur gardening. His of South Caronewest book, lina’s Magnolia titled “EmPlantation and The annual LSU Hilltop press of the will discuss the estate’s note- Arboretum symposium will Garden,” furworthy contri- be held at the LSU Design ther discusses and their bution to the Auditorium on Saturday, roses utilitarian asintroduction of Jan. 24. The symposium will pects. ancient camelT h e s e lias to the Unit- begin at 8:30 a.m. and end ed States. at 1 p.m. Attendees will be s p e a k e r s , with C ov i ng ton, able to have their books along other figures Louisiana, resisigned by the symposium’s from the gardent Marc Passpeakers. dening and torek has made hor ticulture a name for himc o m m u n i t y, self in the garwill be present dening world as a proponent for meadow at the symposium to educate restoration. Pastorek’s inter- attendees on technique, layout ests dovetail with the pas- design and general gardening tures found in Chêne Vert. His history in Louisiana and other company, Pastorek Habitats, southern regions.

The annual LSU Hilltop works to rejuvenate and generate meadows and grasslands Arboretum symposium will held at the LSU Design Audiin Mississippi and Louisiana.

His work with grass seed- torium on Saturday, Jan. 24. ing and landscape reconstruc- The symposium will begin at tion will be applied in his 8:30 a.m. and end at 1 p.m. Attalk concerning the natural tendees will be able to have their books signed by the beautification of cities.

Speakers G. Mike Shoup symposium’s speakers. and Robbi Will will be present at the symposium as rep- You can reach Gerald Ducote resentatives of the Antique on Twitter @geraldducoteTDR.

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aesthetic,” Burrows said.

While the walls and podiums of BRG are already holding works of art, the Surreal Salon Soiree will include multiple other artistic elements for the night.

The event will include music headliners Quintron and Miss Pussycat, artist collective, Elevator Projects and many guests dressed in costume.

Andreasen said all these other elements add to the event’s overall experience.

“You take a show that has 58 works of art in it and all of a sudden, for one night only, you infuse you know, 500 more works of art,” Andreasen said.

He said many of the guests’ costumes are made by hand and some attendees come view the exhibit early to get inspiration for his or her evening ensemble. Past costumes include a homemade cockroach outfit and an apple core headpiece with sunglass lenses acting as the seeds or eyepieces.

“One of the things you will notice is we’ll have somebody who has $10 to their name and they’re in full costume and then you’ll have a wealthy person from the community who has an equally wonderful costume,” Andreasen said. “But for that night it’s kind of hard to tell who is who, so as a result everybody is on the same playing field.”

He said Surreal Salon is also happy to welcome Quintron and Miss Pussycat back as the event’s headliners. The

husband and wife duo performed in 2011 and will return to the Surreal Salon Soiree to perform at the show’s biggest year to date.

Andreasen said the couple fits well with the exhibit and are artists in their own right.

Quintron creates his own instruments, including one called the “drum buddy” that uses light to make sound. Miss Pussycat performs using a handmade puppet theatre she pulls from her purse. “[They’re] entertainers that are well versed in artistry,” Andreasen said.

The Elevator Projects, outdoor installations that are constructed throughout the event,

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This semester the museum will feature an exhibit based around lingerie from the 1900s to the ‘20s called “Iconic Yet Overlooked Everyday Fashions.”

Though the gallery is currently under renovation, the exhibit is set to open sometime during the spring semester.

The focus of the exhibit will be on women’s dresses that mimicked lingerie at the time in that they were white, embroidered and often incorporated lace but was meant for daywear.

“We’re tracing it from its frilliest to the 1920s, its least frilly, [to a time] when that kind of fashion is ebbing and women are in favor of shorter lengths, less frilly and easier to wear,” Vinci said.

The University’s collection of these “lingerie dresses” is large because most of them were made from cotton, which is more durable than wool or silk, so many of the fabrics have survived the last hundred years.

TAM doctoral student Dina Smith is aiding Vinci in preparing and displaying the pieces featured in the upcoming exhibit.

She said the exhibit’s main purpose is to educate viewers about a particular type of fashion that was rather common among women in the South in the early 20th century.

Whether from the ’20s or 2015, Vinci said the garments and textiles presented in the LSU Textile and Costume Museum are a valuable resource for design students

the museum and is charged with the task of compiling the necessary outfits, garments or textile pieces to fill the gallery.

Thomas Boyd’s mortar board and Charles Coates’ top hat are among some of the more University-centric pieces in the collection, Vinci said.

Though students can more easily relate to pieces they can somewhat localize, there are many exhibits featuring textiles that paint a picture of historical context or climate hundreds of years ago.

“Our faculty encourages our design students to use this resource,” Vinci said. “We have examples of when design students have used pieces from the museum as inspiration.”

Despite the more common display of historical pieces, the museum is used as a way to showcase student work in various circumstances.

In 2014, the museum supported the work of student organization Hemline@LSU by displaying a few students work in an exhibit entitled “Students Promoting Fashion and Philanthropy.”

The designs were part of the American Heart Association’s campaign “Go Red for Women,” and were constructed out of red paper hearts signed by people who had made donations at the Mall of Louisiana last spring.

The event will take place again this Saturday, Vinci said.

have expanded this year with one being structured out front and out back of BRG. Seven years ago, BRG staff never planned to have the Surreal Salon become what it is today, but Andreasen said he’s happy with how receptive the community, along with Baton Rouge visitors, have been to the exhibit. He said he’s also thankful to Baton Rouge Recreation and Park Commission who’s allowed the event to keep expanding in size and number.

“Hopefully it’ll only get bigger,” Andreasen said.

You can reach Meg Ryan on Twitter @The_MegRyan.

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A 1920s ‘lingerie dress’ will be featured in an upcoming exhibit at the LSU Textile and Costume Museum.

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Thursday, January 22, 2015

Head to Head

Should abortion remain legal in the U.S.?

No, life begins at conception.

The Cerulean Conciliator Justin DiCharia Columnist As Ferguson, Staten Island, Sandy Hook and other tragedies have rocked the United States the past few years, one universal truth has emerged: all lives matter.

No matter the race, nationality, gender, sexual orientation or age, every human life is precious and holds tremendous potential in making the world a better place. This includes ones who haven’t been born yet.

Abortion results in the killing of an innocent person — a precious life.

Peter Kreeft, a philosophy professor at Boston College, offers two points on why abortion should be illegal. The first is that deliberately killing an innocent person is morally wrong.

Most pro-abortion supporters agree with this, but the two sides disagree on Kreeft’s second point: A human being becomes a person at conception.

Pro-abortion supporters deny that abortion kills an innocent person. So at what point does a person become a person?

As Kreeft argues, it’s either a sudden or a gradual occurrence. Some pro-abortion supporters believe it’s a sudden occurrence: When the doctor delivers you from your mother’s womb and cuts the umbilical cord, you become a person.

But science would disagree that a pair of scissors cutting an umbilical cord makes you a person.

Science proves we become people in another sudden occurrence: conception. Fertilization creates the diploid embryo, cells replicate and organs develop. We are literally growing from the point of fertilization, just as we grow through the rest of our lives.

Other pro-abortion supporters may disagree with both sudden occurrence arguments and support a gradual occurrence theory.

“In that case, it’s not so bad to kill somebody who doesn’t have all their systems in place, like a child whose reproductive systems are still immature, as it is to kill an adult,” Kreeft said in a recorded lecture at Georgetown University in 2006. “Does anybody seriously believe that it’s not as bad to kill an eight-year-old as an eighteen-yearold? Of course not.”

Human beings start their development at conception, not birth. That is when they become a person. That is when their lives begin to matter, and that is when the law should begin protecting them.

If you haven’t noticed yet, I refrain from using the politically charged words

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Yes, women’s reproductive rights must be protected.

“pro-life” and “pro-choice.” They are prime examples of hypocritical politics.

How can you be “pro-life” but support the death penalty or oppose bans on extended magazines for assault rifles? A weapon that can mow down a room full of kindergartners in under a minute is not “pro-life.”

How can you be “pro-choice” if you do not give the person maturing in its mother’s womb the choice of life or death?

Many far-right conservatives tout their “pro-life” stances while going on a witchhunt to cut welfare benefits like food stamps and Women, Infants and Children program benefits. How can you legally stop abortion while cutting the programs that allow mothers to financially care for their children?

A 2004 study published in Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health shows 74 percent of women had abortions because the child would interfere with their education or work; 73 percent of women also stated they could not afford the child.

While adoption is a current answer for these women, it isn’t a long-term solution.

Women should have the right to keep their children. If they cannot afford it, we as a society are morally responsible for providing a livable environment for the child. Leaving children and single mothers to starve and suffer is immoral.

Aborting an unborn baby because it will have disabilities is immoral as well. A child with disabilities may face difficulties in life, but his or her contributions to this world after birth make the innocent life worth protecting. Every child has a purpose on Earth, and no life should be discriminated against and killed because of a disability.

When it comes to abortion after a woman is raped, I admit I am morally uncertain on the issue. I recognize the possible psychological trauma from carrying a baby conceived through rape, but according to my argument, the unborn baby is still a person. In all honesty, I just don’t know what to think.

While I am being transparent — I am Catholic. My religion has helped guide my moral compass throughout life. However, I am not a blind follower of the Catholic Church. My moral compass directs me to oppose the Church (and Peter Kreeft, who I quoted earlier) on gay marriage and contraception. A child should have the right to be born and grow up to marry the person he or she loves, no matter the gender.

My morality shaped by my religion directs my beliefs. That morality, combined with science, directs me to oppose abortion.

The protection of innocent life is paramount for our society’s well being.

Justin DiCharia is a 20-year-old mass communication junior from Slidell, Louisiana.

You can reach him on Twitter @JDiCharia.

LSYOU, BUT DEFINITELY NOT ME Logan Anderson Columnist Despite the best efforts of the pro-life movement, the right to safe and legal abortions turns 42 today.

In response, anti-abortion fighters are ramping up their efforts to make abortions illegal and life threatening again.

An estimated 500,000 people have descended on Washington, D.C. to march against a person’s right to control their own reproductive health.

The 42nd annual March for Life takes place today, the 42nd anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision.

Roe v. Wade, a landmark Supreme Court decision, granted citizens the right to have safe and legal abortions, ending decades of dangerous black market procedures and DIY wire hanger operations.

The main mission of the March for Life is to repeal that right, sending the country back into the unsafe territory that criminalizing abortions creates — and the vast majority of the people marching will be young adults, thanks to the organization’s heavy recruitment of youth groups.

In addition to marching to repeal a person’s right to privacy (the crux of Roe v. Wade), the group is extending a special dedication this year to birth control, calling on leaders to take action against what they consider abortifacients — forms of birth control that cause an abortion.

But the types of birth control the group wants to outlaw are not considered abortifacients by the medical community. They prevent a fertilized egg, which March for Life views as a person, from implanting in a uterus, therefore causing an abortion to take place in the eyes of the organization.

And while abortion clinics state and nationwide are fighting just to stay open, government officials are constantly pushing to impose more and more restrictions on abortion.

Meanwhile, pro-life centers that masquerade as abortion clinics and disseminate false information, known as crisis pregnancy centers, are thriving. These centers knowingly lie to patients, telling them, for example, that abortions increase their chance of contracting breast cancer, which has

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been proven false by Planned Parenthood, the National Cancer Institute and Guttmacher Institute. They are under no regulations.

It’s now more important than ever for students to pay attention to the actions of the March for Life movement and their goals in the wake of these challenges to reproductive health care.

A common argument of pro-life advocates is if someone does not want to have children, they should refrain from having sex.

While it may seem sound, this argument is incredibly flawed. Multiple studies have proved abstinenceonly sex education does not work, and people who are not prepared to raise children still want to have sex.

All forms of birth control are fallible, sans abstinence, which should really not be discussed as a form of birth control because it’s not a viable option for anyone wanting to have safe sex.

Sex is not a shameful act and is not something that anyone should be “forced to face the consequences of,” as pro-life rhetoric often states.

The Roe v. Wade decision has a contentious year ahead of it. Congress already has promised to pass a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks — and President Obama has promised to veto said bill.

More and more, people are fighting to take away a right that was declared inalienable 42 years ago today. As hundreds of thousands march toward the Supreme Court today, students should take the time to research the narratives of the pro-life movement and the harm it has caused and is continuing to cause nationwide.

Following the Roe v. Wade decision, the pro-choice movement rejoiced.

“No More Wire Hangers!” became a celebratory chant. It has since become a cautionary reminder to prolifers of the darkness of a pre-Roe v. Wade world.

The decision has stood strong for 42 years, despite desperate fights to reduce it — and it’s going to take more than 500,000 people to block the reproductive rights of millions of women.

Logan Anderson is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from Houston, Texas. Follow her on Twitter @LoganD_Anderson.

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Quote of the Day

‘No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body.

No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.’

Margaret Sanger founder of Planned Parenthood Sept. 14, 1879 — Sept. 6, 1966

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Media coverage of sexual assault cases shows racial bias My Black is Beautiful

Clarke Perkins Columnist Sexual assault is a heinous crime no matter which race the perpetrator belongs to, but it seems as though African-American athletes accused of rape receive more negative media attention than white athletes.

Indianapolis Colts linebacker Josh McNary, 26, recently was charged with a rape that allegedly took place Dec. 1, 2014. A 29-yearold woman accused McNary of taking her back to an apartment after a long night of drinking and raping her.

She said after they began kissing, McNary became aggressive when she refused to go any further. She claims after the assault, she was able to sneak out of the apartment when McNary went to the bathroom. She left scratches on his body and took his cellphone along with her.

You probably just shook your head in disbelief thinking, “Not again.”

Unfortunately, this is becoming a never-ending cycle, and it seems like there is another famous athlete in the media fighting sexual assault allegations every other day.

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Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning warms up prior to an NFL divisional playoff football game against the Indianapolis Colts on Jan. 11 in Denver.

But how many white athletes have you seen in the media for sexual assault? Not that many.

It’s peculiar that the majority of sexual assaults broadcast by the media are committed by African-Americans.

So much for a post-racial American society, right?

Even though this is no surprise, it doesn’t mean it’s fair.

All athletes, no matter their race, should be shamed and punished for their wrongdoings.

The list of African-Ameri-

cans who have been condemned by the media for sexual assault goes on and on: Darren Sharper, O. J. Simpson, Ray McDonald, Mike Tyson, Jameis Winston, Lance Stephenson, Ray Lewis, etc.

While these athletes should be ashamed for what they’ve done, there’s a good chance you had no idea that Peyton Manning also has been accused of sexual assault.

Yes, you read that correctly.

America’s hero, Peyton Man-

ning, was accused of assaulting a woman. Manning allegedly sexually assaulted his female trainer in 1996 at the University of Tennessee. He claims he dropped his pants to “moon” a cross-country athlete, and it “just so happened” the trainer’s face was right in front of him when he went to sit his nude body down.

However, the trainer has a completely different side of the story. She claims that she was checking Manning’s foot for pain, and as soon as she bent over, he pulled his pants down unprovoked and put his testicles in her face.

Her case landed her a $300,000 settlement.

Not only did the media not cover it, but the University of Tennessee referred to it as a “mooning” incident to downplay the sickening event.

As disturbing as it is, that’s how the media works. AfricanAmericans always seem to receive more negativwe attention.

There hasn’t been any recent attention on sexual assaults committed by African-American LSU athletes, hopefully because there haven’t been any, but there has been attention on other assaults.

Jalen Mills, Jeremy Hill and Tyrann Mathieu are all AfricanAmerican LSU athletes who have been in the media for assaults relatively recently. What about

everyone else?

Most people on campus know Zach Mettenberger as LSU’s former quarterback and now as a player for the Tennessee Titans.

But many people aren’t aware that he was accused of sexual assault in 2010.

White America seems to love African-American athletes when they are bringing their teams to another win. But as soon as they see the “thug” in them, black athletes’ reputations are close to ruined.

The roles are reversed when someone white is accused, and the excuses start rolling in. “He must have a mental illness” or “he had a really rough childhood” get thrown around often.

There is no valid reason why anyone could make a mile-long list of African-American college and professional athletes who have been accused of sexual assault, yet know so little about Manning’s and many other white athletes’ dirty pasts.

If you’re going to rip apart African-American athletes’ reputations, you should make sure white athletes are treated the same way.

Clarke Perkins is a 19-yearold political science freshman from New Orleans. You can reach her on Twitter @ClarkePerkins.

Abstinence-only education increases teen pregnancy rates Entitled Millennial Cody Sibley Columnist Today is the 42nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, and abortion rates are at their lowest point in 42 years.

According to the Guttmacher Institute, with 16.9 abortions per 1,000 women, abortion rates are almost as low as they were in 1973 at 16.3 per 1,000 women.

Researchers at Guttmacher Institute suggested the lower abortion rates were due to an increase in birth control access.

Comprehensive sexual education also may be an important factor in low abortion rates.

Unfortunately, however, there are 28 states, including Louisiana, that don’t currently mandate sexual education.

States like Louisiana prefer to promote abstinence instead of teaching teenagers about birth control or condoms.

Yes, the most effective way to avoid pregnancy is by not having sex, but abstinence-only education doesn’t work. A lack of exhaustive sex ed could increase teen pregnancy rates and reverse the current downward trend in abortion if we don’t change our laws.

At 69 pregnancies per 1,000 women, Louisiana already has the fifth-highest teen pregnancy rate in America.

Why is it that a state like Louisiana, arguably one of the most religious states in the country, also has an incredibly high pregnancy rate for teenagers?

It’s because Christian fundamentalists like our Gov. Bobby Jindal don’t like to teach teenagers about safe sex. He even signed a bill last year that limited the types of information Planned Parenthood can give students.

Because Louisiana’s leaders think it is inappropriate, students stay ignorant about safe sex.

Fundamentalists, have you ever heard of the Internet? It is filled with porn, and everyone watches it. Even your 14-year-old sons and daughters.

Your children know what sex is. When you’re not looking, they try out the acts they see in porn.

They talk about it, they read about it and they’re probably doing it right now. But because the Internet isn’t always reliable, they’re most likely having sex that isn’t safe.

They’re having sex without condoms because they think pulling out will work just as well.

They’re not on birth control because they don’t want their parents to know they’re having sex, and they can’t afford the pill on

their own.

This risky behavior increases their chances of STDs, AIDS and getting pregnant.

Teaching abstinence doesn’t make the urges go away. It just makes teenagers ashamed to ask for birth control or condoms.

They’ll still have sex, and it’ll be unprotected. And they’ll still feel guilty for doing it.

When teenagers inevitably have sex, people like our governor want to blame them for getting pregnant in the first place.

Yes, having sex can lead to a baby, but should we really blame them for doing something everyone does?

By that logic, we should force everyone to adopt a baby every time they have sex. Sex creates life, after all, so they were obviously trying to get pregnant.

Maybe abortion isn’t the right answer, or maybe it is. But we wouldn’t even need to talk about that if we would make birth control and sex education available to everyone. Students have a right to know how to use a condom properly or the different methods of birth control. That’s what our sex ed programs should be teaching.

Cody Sibley is a 19-year-old mass communication freshman from Opelousas, Louisiana.

You can reach him on Twitter @CodySibley.

Top 10 states for teen pregnancy Data courtesy of Guttmacher Institute

1. New Mexico 80 pregnancies per 1,000 women

• Mandatory sexual education • Does not have to be medically accurate • Abstinence covered

2. Mississippi 76 pregnancies per 1,000 women

• Mandatory sexual education • Does not have to be medically accurate • Abstinence stressed

3. Texas 73 pregnancies per 1,000 women

• No mandatory sexual education • Does not have to be medically accurate • Abstinence stressed

4. Arkansas 73 pregnancies per 1,000 women

• No mandatory sexual education • Does not have to be medically accurate • Abstinence stressed

5. Louisiana 69 pregnancies per 1,000 women

• No mandatory sexual education • Does not have to be medically accurate • Abstinence stressed

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database in the U.S. She credits the success of her database to DNA assistance from Louisiana State Police Crime Laboratory.

“That’s my baby,” Manhein said. “Because of the funding from the state, we have a comprehensive database of unidentified and missing from the entire country. It’s pretty impressive.”

Though Manhein spent several hours in the lab working, she still thinks about her job off the clock when writing about her field of expertise.

Manhein has written three works of non-fiction: “The Bone Lady,” “Trail of Bones” and “Bone Remains.”

“The forensic scientist is the protagonist,” Manhein said. “She’s a young version of myself, but she gets in a lot more trouble than I did. It’s fun.”

After retirement, Manhein plans to write, travel and visit family while she contemplates a new career.

“I’m going to be travelling all over Europe this summer,” Manhein said. “Once I get that travel out of me, I’m going to settle back down and work on my writing a lot.

There’s a lot of things I want to do.”

Manhein said it’s time for a new generation to take over.

“It has been the greatest ride,” Manhein said.

“It’s time to get off the trolley, and I’ll pick up another bus somewhere.”

government doing a rating system that gets parents and students and taxpayers better information, a lot better than those stupid magazines do,” Alexander said.

While information like student loan default rates and post-graduation earnings is known, Alexander said many of the high-ranking institutions do not want the information widely dispersed.

“A lot of these schools are so adamant about not making it available that we’ve had to get it written into previous reauthorization acts that they have to cough up this data,” Alexander said.

Wealthier institutions don’t want this information shared because it will more effectively show whether a student is really getting the most out of an education costing more than $50,000, Alexander said.

He said these institutions have 11 percent of the students, 30 percent of the Federal Pell Grant money and 48 percent of all student loan defaults.

Prior to 2007, Alexander said much of the information included in the College Scorecard was not available. Many wealthy institutions prefer college ratings remain under the current system used by publications like U.S. News & World Report.

“You rank higher by turning away more students, so 20 percent of the score is based on selectivity. So the more students you turn away, the higher they rank,” Alexander said. “About 48 percent of the score is based on how much money you have, so how much money you’re able to spend on the fewest amount of students.”

Kinesiology sophomore Layne Becnel said if colleges and universities have the data, they should make it available as a resource to parents and students.

“I think that it’s something that people would really look at,” Becnel said. “I mean, that’s why we’re

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going to college.”

University students can benefit from PIRS because it will display the true value of their education, Alexander said.

Since the last recession, he said parents ask more questions about the value of higher education.

“When I’m at orientation, and I’m speaking to a room full of a 1,000 to 1,200 parents, and I tell them where our institution ranks in starting salaries and mid-career earnings and how much lower the debt is upon graduation, they eat this stuff up,” Alexander said.

“They really want to know that, and they haven’t been told that, and they can’t find it anywhere.”

Though psychology sophomore Caroline Stradley said she did not consider college rankings in her decision to attend the University, she does believe having a federal ratings system will give incoming students valuable information.

“I think it’s kind of interesting,” Stradley said. “It could be helpful for people that are really looking for, like, a program that’s better than others.”

Alexander said much of the opposition to PIRS comes from those institutions who don’t want data like average student debt and loan default rates widely dispersed.

“I’ve got a lot of opposition out there, and it’s coming from, as I point out in D.C., it’s coming from 80 percent of the universities that only represent 20 percent of the students,” Alexander said. “It’s all the high-cost, private, full-profits and not-for-profit institutions that hate this idea.”

The other half of the opposition to PIRS comes from those who don’t want to see the federal government in charge of a higher education ratings system, Alexander said.

“I don’t care who does it,” Alexander said. “I just want somebody doing it and not U.S. News and these other magazines that claim to be legitimately rating institutions.”

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