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BY chandler rome editor@lsureveille.com Jim Hawthorne, the radio play-by-play man for LSU football, baseball and basketball for the last 35 seasons, will retire after the 2015-16 basketball season, the school announced Wednesday. “I want to sincerely thank the LSU administration, all of the coaches I have had the pleasure to hawthorne work with and the entire Fighting Tiger nation for their support,” Hawthorne said in a news release. “It has meant more to me than I could possibly describe.” Hawthorne, 71, joined LSU in 1979 to call Tiger basketball games and has been with the school since, calling six baseball national titles, two football national championships and three Final Four appearances. He joined the football broadcast alongside John Ferguson in 1983 and took over the playby-play duties the following season when Ferguson moved to TigerVision. “Jim is a true LSU legend and one of the very best in the broadcast business,” LSU Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics Joe Alleva said in a statement. “When you hear Jim’s voice, you immediately think LSU. That’s the mark of a great play-by-play man. His passion and enthusiasm for LSU
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home, where she makes each costume by hand. The costumes represent the history of Courir and its ties to carnival season and Louisiana’s French history. Runners in Courir wear hats resembling a bishop’s mitre, royal hennins and graduates’ mortarboards. This headgear, first worn by the
Gov. Bobby Jindal, LSU President F. King Alexander, Baton Rouge Mayor-President Kip Holden and representatives from several public and private agencies gathered Wednesday in a sunny field beside the Mississippi riverbank to break ground on the new Center for River Studies. The center is the first of three buildings to make up The Water Campus. It will house a state-ofthe-art model of the Mississippi river for researchers. The Water Campus is a $45 million, 33-acre development funded through a partnership between the State of Louisiana, the City of Baton Rouge and the Baton Rouge Area Foundation. The center is part of the state’s 2012 Coastal Master Plan and is one of the University’s core research initiatives. Alexander said researchers from around the world will use the center to work toward solving environmental problems along the globe’s coastlines. “This is not just what we are doing at LSU,” Alexander said. “There will be international faculty, from the Maldives to the Netherlands, who will be coming together here to solve these coastal problems in unpredictable ways.” BRAF purchased the plot of land along the levee from the East Baton Rouge Parish Housing Authority and donated it to the University to be used as a
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Louisiana Mardi Gras tradition kept alive with costumes BY gerald ducote gducote@lsureveille.com Mardi Gras is fast approaching, and many people, both local and visiting, will soon flock to New Orleans. These crowds will clog the city streets, drinking copious amounts of alcohol. While the season dominates New Orleans and the remaining lower portion of Louisiana, a different way of life dictates how people party in the central and southwestern areas of the state. These regions of open farmland are home to the Cajun tradition of Courir de Mardi Gras, which translates to “Mardi Gras Run.” Typical Courir involves drinking, horse-riding and dancing. A notable feature of Courir is the participants, known as “Les Mardi Gras,” who disguise themselves in colorful costumes and perform dances in exchange
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Police: Parking dispute sparks 3 North Carolina killings THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — A long-running parking dispute between neighbors motivated a man to kill a woman, her newlywed husband and her sister at a quiet condominium complex near the University of North Carolina, police said Wednesday. A Muslim advocacy organization asked authorities to address speculation — much of it on social media — about possible religious bias in Tuesday’s shooting of the three Muslims. “We understand the concerns about the possibility that this was hate-motivated, and we will exhaust every lead to determine if that is the case,” Chapel Hill police Chief Chris Blue said in an email. The couple had graduated from North Carolina State, and one was studying to be a dentist at UNC. The sister was an undergraduate at N.C. State. UNC’s chancellor called it a loss for both campus communities, and the school planned a vigil Wednesday evening. “This was like the power couple of our community,” said Ali Sajjad, president of N.C. State’s Muslim Student Association. Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, was charged with three counts of first-
degree murder in the shooting of Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, and wife Yusor Mohammad, 21, both of Chapel Hill, and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, of Raleigh. Hicks appeared briefly in court Wednesday. He is being held without bond and will be appointed a public defender. A probable cause hearing is scheduled for March 4. Police said Hicks turned himself in and was cooperating. They said the preliminary investigation showed the parking dispute was the motive. Hicks’ wife, Karen Hicks, and a former roommate of Barakat confirmed that Craig Hicks had been part of a long-running parking dispute. “I can say that it is my absolute belief that this incident had nothing up do with religion or the victims’ faith, but in fact was related to long-standing parking disputes my husband had with various neighbors regardless of their race, religion or creed,” Karen Hicks said. One of her attorneys, Robert Maitland, said Hicks had tried to resolve the parking dispute with the homeowners association several times without success. Imad Ahmad, who said he lived with Barakat for more than a year,
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Construction on Cypress Hall, scheduled for completion fall 2015, will be the University’s first LEED-certified residence hall.
Res halls to see major change BY JULIAN SCHARDT jschardt@lsureveille.com Big changes are in store for University housing when the newest residential hall, Cypress Hall, opens in fall 2015. Construction on another new residential hall, Spruce Hall, will begin this semester. Upgrades to Evangeline Hall will start in summer 2015, and renovations to Highland Hall and Louise Garig Hall will begin once the Evangeline Hall project is completed. Director of Residential Life Steven Waller said construction of the new residence halls is a response to the demand for more student housing on campus. “Three years ago, we turned away 1,000 students,” Waller said. “Two years ago, we turned away 500 students. We’re still turning away students.” The 20 residential halls on campus house a total of 6,000 students. The opening of Cypress Hall will add an additional 330 beds, Waller said. Located on the west side of campus near the Enchanted Forest and Greek Amphitheatre, Cypresss Hall will be the first residence hall on campus to be Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design-certified by the U.S. Green Building Council. The building will house many eco-friendly features, Waller said. Cypress Hall will house indoor bike racks, a solar panel and light-reflecting roof tiles. The hall will be made partly of renewable materials, Waller said. Cypress Hall will be available to students majoring in the schools of education, kinesiology and social work, according to the Department of Residential Life’s website. Spruce Hall will begin construction this semester and is scheduled to be completed in 2017, making an additional 421 beds available to freshmen, Waller said. Providing housing to freshmen is a top priority for the University, Waller said. About 65 percent of incoming freshmen choose to live on campus. The goal is for the University to eventually house 85 percent of freshmen. Plans are also underway to improve current residential housing conditions. Evangeline Hall will be the first to see major renovations, said Roger Husser, director of Planning, Design and
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Construction. Husser said the renovations will upgrade the interior of Evangeline Hall. The outer structure will remain mostly intact. Renovations will start during summer 2015, and Evangeline Hall will remained closed until fall 2017, Waller said. Biology freshman Claire Stansberry said Evangeline Hall could use major upgrades, and she’s glad to see plans are in the works to make the residential hall more appealing to future students. “My air conditioning goes out all the time, and that’s a big issue,” Stansberry said. “Everything is really old. Besides the new furniture in the lobby, the building itself is really old and you can tell it hasn’t been updated in a long time. Even though I won’t be living here to see the upgrades, I think it’s good and will get more people to live here.” Following the renovations to Evangeline Hall, upgrades to Highland Hall and Louise Garig Hall will begin in 2017 and last until 2019. The goal is to remove greenhouses on campus, freeing up space for the new buildings, Waller said. Waller said the future plans call for the removal of six buildings built in the ’60s: Miller Hall, Herget Hall, McVoy Hall, Acadian Hall, Broussard Hall and Kirby Smith Hall. The removal of these buildings and the construction of additional residence halls should be completed within 10 years, Waller said.
Tiger-striped rugs and fiberglass Mike the Tiger statues can instill LSU spirit within anyone — especially prospective students. At least, that’s what Associate Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Management David Kurpius hopes. The Geaux Center, located on the first floor of the Student Union, is the culmination of a three-year project for University Enrollment. The room will serve as the new starting point for campus tours. Tours used to begin in Memorial Tower, but chipped paint and a rodent problem led to the Office of Enrollment Management to search for a new location. “We had a pet rat in Memorial Tower that had a tendency to attend events,” Kurpius said. “I think the tour guides even named it.” After a consulting group hired by the University to assess campus tours said the Memorial Tower space was “dark, dingy and inappropriate” and did not put the school’s best foot forward, the recruitment team decided to start from scratch. Associate Director of Enrollment Management Mandy Hoffman and assistant director Anthony Ranatza toured college campuses with Kurpius to see what the University could improve. They realized the importance of a strong first impression. “We’ve gone from the worst in the SEC ... to one of the top nationally,” Kurpius said of the new starting point. The University hired Grace and Hebert Architects and FortyNine Degrees, the group that designed the football locker room’s graphics, to create a space that embodied the Tiger spirit. Kurpius, Hoffman and Ranatza want the Geaux Center to welcome prospective students to the University. “This facility now says, ‘We care a lot about you, and we want
to help you at a very high level,’” Kurpius said. Though the Office of Enrollment Management looks forward to what the new addition has to offer, it still anticipates changes, ranging from simple decorations to technological advances. Kurpius said a promotional “Love Purple, Live Gold” sign, purple and gold umbrellas outside and a life-size bronze Mike the Tiger statue are in the works. He said he hopes these small details will inspire potential students to become part of the University. Hoffman said interactive screens are important features allowing visitors to post about their experiences at the University via social media and encourage their friends to tour the campus as well. “We’re going to add some interactive technology that allows guests who are waiting for the tour to begin to do some different searches of some different areas on campus, both academic
and student life, working on social media connections,” Hoffman said. Current students agree that the Geaux Center is both a novelty and a necessity. International trade and finance senior Shannon Blood said it’s the ideal location for prospective students to start. “It’s a good place to corral them together,” Blood said. Mass communication freshman Abby-Lynn Gary says the Geaux Center will be a clearer place to begin than where her first tour at the University started, the Union Theater. “When I came, [the tour] was kind of everywhere and I got lost, so I think a clear central meeting point would be perfect,” Gary said. The University has a little more than $500,000 to raise to finish the facility before the recruitment process begins. A formal ribbon cutting ceremony is expected sometime in March.
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STUDENT LIFE
Artist influenced by experiences in Communist East Germany BY EMILIE HEBERT emiliehebert@lsureveille.com Unable to voice his opinions or travel beyond political borders during East Germany’s Communist regime, Michael Triegel was forced to discover freedom in a different way. He found what little freedom he could have in art. Triegel’s “A Freedom of a Different Kind: The Art of Michael Triegel” exhibit, on display at the Glassell Gallery until March 1, showcases his resistance to the Communist ideology thrust upon him in school. Professor and co-curator of the exhibit Darius Spieth said hosting Triegel at the University gives students the opportunity to widen their views of art and its meaning. “To interact with an artist internationally known first-hand, it’s very important,” Spieth said. “It’s exciting really to interact with somebody whose art is different but nevertheless has this feel of these Old Masters.” His portraits, still life, landscapes and graphic art are in the style of the Old Masters, European artists who worked before the 1800s with exceptional tech-
nical skill. Painters like Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael are considered part of this group. During his schooling, Triegel felt confined both physically from the Berlin Wall and internally from the Communist propaganda around him. His opposition to the unrest in Germany influenced the questions he asked of himself and the world on canvas. After the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, Triegel travelled across western Europe to Rome. There, he viewed art in a Jesuit church and experienced a moment of reflection that influenced the purpose of his paintings. “Everything forces me to fall down on my knees ... I did not believe it, but the form has such a strong power,” Triegel said. “When the form has such a power, isn’t there content which is also alive? And if not — if there’s only the form — I must ask myself, have I gotten the possibility to fill this empty form with new contents? Maybe this is what I want to do with my art.” He said his art deals with his longing, the idea of God and deep loneliness. He said the doubts he feels today are the
same he faced 20 years ago. Triegel is a representative of the second wave of “Leipzig School” painters, a modern German movement in painting characterized by a lack of clear messages. He said there is no central message he wants to portray in his art. Instead, Triegel hopes his paintings encourage viewers to ask themselves questions about life, loneliness and the world. “I have no message,” Triegal said. “No, no, no. I’m not Jesus Christ. I have only my own questions, and the most important thing for me in art is not to say, ‘I have got answers to everything.’ Art is, for me, the possibility to have a dialogue.” Triegel’s most famous painting is an official portrait of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, commissioned in 2010. After he sent a picture of the finished product, the pope’s private secretary told Triegel to fix the painting and make the pope more youthful. Triegel refused. He said he would not paint a ruler, he would paint what he saw — an old man. With more than 400 paintings completed, Triegel said he is tired of the attention the
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Michael Triegel’s exhibit ‘A Freedom of a Different Kind’ will be on display at the Glassell Gallery until March 1. portrait brings him and wishes the public’s focus would shift to other works. “Now I must say, it’s enough with this. I am not only a painter of the pope. Everywhere is with ‘Michael Triegel — the painter of the pope,’” Triegal said. Art history junior Madilyn Etheridge said she was blown away by Triegel’s exhibit and has viewed it more than once. She said viewers should not just focus on the classics, but on
modern-day artists like Triegel who are shaping the future. “The style is just beautiful. It kind of reminded me of Leonardo da Vinci,” Etheridge said. “The only way I can describe how his work felt, like the essence almost, was it had the emotional breath of Rembrandt’s etchings. Triegel lives with his wife and 14-year-old daughter in Leipzig, Germany. He travels worldwide to talk about his art.
BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY
University students volunteer to mentor at-risk youth BY ROSE VELAZQUEZ rvelazquez@lsureveille.com Helping Children THRIVE is a new volunteer opportunity offered by Volunteer LSU, allowing University students to serve as mentors to students from THRIVE, a Baton Rouge boarding school for at-risk youth. Biological sciences sophomore Haley Knight, Volunteer LSU youth and education focus area chair, is the project leader. She said Helping Children THRIVE will be a new branch of an existing service project called Tigers Tutoring. Tigers Tutoring is a University volunteer initiative coordinated through Volunteer LSU pairing University students with students through the Volunteers in Public Schools and the Baton Rouge Youth Coalition. Volunteer LSU’s former youth and education focus area chair reached out to THRIVE, but nothing came from the initial contact because the school did not have anyone to coordinate volunteer opportunities, Knight said. “THRIVE does not have a giant budget because it’s federally funded, and it works on a lot of volunteering and stuff like that,” Knight said. “None of the kids that go there pay tuition, so they didn’t have someone to really ... bridge that relationship with volunteer organizations until they hired Channing a couple of months ago.” When Knight took over the
chair position this semester, she reached out to THRIVE’s newly appointed director of external affairs, Channing Johnson, to establish a working relationship and build a service project benefiting both University and THRIVE students. “I went over to the school with Channing, and she ... gave me a tour of THRIVE, and I totally fell in love with the place,” Knight said. “It’s so amazing what they’re doing there, and it just has such a potential with LSU’s help.” THRIVE was founded in 2011 by Sarah Broome, an alumna of the Teach for America program who came to Louisiana to teach in local public schools. Teach for America is a national organization that recruits recent college graduates to teach in low-income rural and urban public schools throughout the country. “She worked in a failing Baton Rouge school for a couple of years, and she had a lot of different challenging situations, and it all culminated with a student’s death,” Johnson said. “So that just got her thinking what if I could take these students home with me, and what if the students could live with me, and that’s kind of the brain child for THRIVE.” Knight described THRIVE as a second-chance program helping at-risk Baton Rouge students reset their lives and get the support they need to move forward.
Johnson said 100 percent of the students come from minority groups and receive free or reduced lunch, 34 percent are homeless, 32 percent have had severe truancy issues and 78 percent are recommended to attend THRIVE by a teacher or guidance counselor. “Most of us here at LSU come from better situations than these kids, and even if you don’t come from a good situation, you come from a better one than these kids,” Knight said. Registration for the program has ended, Knight said, and University volunteers are encouraged to visit with THRIVE students as often as they would like during appropriate hours to work on homework, engage in conversations and cook dinner together. “I mean, this is a campus of 30,000,” Knight said. “If I could get 30 people period to commit to go once a month, like, the impact that it would make on this place is ridiculous.” Tigers Tutoring pairs University volunteers with students as math and reading buddies during specified hours every week, but Knight said this new branch of the program will be lessstructured, allowing University students to serve more as mentors and share with THRIVE students the things they are passionate about. “I love to cook, and they learn how to cook and do their own laundry there, so every single night you can go ... and
you can, like, cook dinner with them, or they recently wanted to have a cook-off between the dorms at different age levels, and you could help with that,” Knight said. Knight said this is the program’s first semester, and she plans to expand the project in the future by recruiting University students to assist THRIVE in establishing and running various clubs and organized sports including cooking, cosmetology and running. The school day is designed to keep students occupied in the classroom and engaged in extracurricular activities, Johnson
said. THRIVE students have allotted times each day dedicated to clubs and sports, but Knight said they don’t have the support necessary to run many of these clubs. Helping to coordinate clubs and sports will give University students a chance to find their niche as volunteers. Knight said she plans to have students from Upward Bound, a college preparatory program for high school students, assist University volunteers in improving THRIVE’s rewards closet, which provides incentives for students to complete tasks such as homework and cleaning.
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Helping Children THRIVE is a new volunteer opportunity that allows University students to mentor at-risk youth in Baton Rouge.
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Fielding the Hype
Women’s Basketball
Lady Tigers shooting for fifth straight win LSU to face top-ranked South Carolina team BY Stanton Vignes svignes@lsureveille.com
to the Tigers’ talented but inexperienced pitching staff. With the possibility of multiple freshmen starting on the mound this season, Mainieri said having reliable players backing them up provides an extra boost of confidence to the young pitchers. “If you’re a pitcher, and you’re not afraid to throw the ball over the plate because if it’s hit and you feel like you’re players have a good chance of catching the ball, then you’re not going to hesitate to throw the ball over the plate,” Mainieri said.
The LSU women’s basketball team looks to extend its winning streak to five games when it travels to No. 1 South Carolina on Thursday at the Colonial Life Arena in Columbia, South Carolina. LSU (14-9, 8-3 Southeastern Conference) is in its longest win streak of the season and looks to upset the top-ranked team in the country for what would be its most substantial win of the year. South Carolina (22-1, 10-0 SEC) saw its 22-game win streak snapped Monday, suffering its first loss of the season to No. 2 UConn. Now, the Gamecocks try to rebound at home against the surging Lady Tigers. It will be LSU’s second matchup of the season against the No. 1 team. The Lady Tigers fell short the first time around, losing 75-51 on Jan. 4 at the PMAC. LSU coach Nikki Caldwell said her team is excited to play against such staunch competition. “We’re excited about the challenge that we will be facing,” Caldwell said. “South Carolina is one of the best teams in the country. This gives us a chance to see how far we’ve grown from the first time we’ve played them in early January to now. I do feel as though we’re a better basketball team. We’ve been playing very tough on the defensive end.” Both LSU and South Carolina
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Outfielders junior Andrew Stevenson (6), sophomore Jake Fraley (23) and junior Mark Laird (9) look to anchor the 2015 LSU baseball team.
Outfielders look to deliver on lofty expectations BY David Gray dgray@lsureveille.com When the lights go on at Alex Box Stadium, it’s a competition between teams. When the sun shines on the LSU baseball team during practice, it’s a competition between the Tigers’ outfielders. “We try to show up each other every day and see who can make the better catches,” said LSU junior center fielder Andrew Stevenson. “Everybody’s trying to outdo each other out here. It pushes me to be better, and I’m sure it pushes the other guys when we’re all getting after it and having fun out there.” Every day is a competition between Stevenson and his fellow outfielders, who
are two days from their season-opener against Kansas on Friday. For an outfield being hailed as one of the best in the nation, routine catches are the norm, but diving catches are expected. At least that’s how LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri sees it. “I expect them to make those kind of plays,” Mainieri said. “I want them to make extraordinary plays in the outfield. I think it’s the way to play. It’s an approach and a mentality. When you need to make that play in a game, you can’t make it if you haven’t already practiced it.” A key reason for Mainieri’s insistence on big plays in the outfield is connected
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Bianka Bell provides power, leadership to Tigers BY Morgan Prewitt mprewitt@lsureveille.com
Junior shortstop Bianka Bell takes a deep breath and steps into the batter’s box — her sanctuary. The world becomes simple: just read and react. Countless people have told Bell how great of a player she is or could be for years, but until this season she never seemed to believe them. After posting two collegiate seasons with more than 10 home runs, Bell enters 2015 as one of the most explosive hitters on LSU’s roster. Through the Tigers’ first five games, Bell showed the power that strikes fear in every pitcher she
faces, hitting a team-leading three home runs. Although Bell has struggled with errors in her first two seasons, her ability to turn around a game with a single swing gives LSU a chance no matter the score. “She’s in a different spot mentally than she’s ever been before,” said LSU coach Beth Torina. “She looks really comfortable. She looks relaxed. We’ve all known the type of hitter that she is since the day she got here, but it’s time that she’s finally starting to understand what she’s capable of. I’ve proud of how she started out this weekend.” Bell has come through with key hits on some of the biggest stages throughout her career.
In her freshman year, Bell hit her first Southeastern Conference home run against Mississippi State on March 10, 2013, sparking LSU to a 9-2 victory and securing the top spot in the SEC West. Last season, the Tigers were trailing then-No. 2 Tennessee, 4-3, on April 4, when Bell came to the plate in the bottom of the seventh. Bell struck a three-run walk off homer, her seventh of the season, giving LSU its first SEC series win. Bell showed she hasn’t lost her touch in the 2015 Tiger Classic. In the 2015 opener against Memphis, Memphis (1-3) led by one run when Bell came to the
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LSU junior shortstop Bianka Bell throws the ball to first base on Saturday during the Tigers’ 10-0 victory against Tennessee State in Tiger Park.
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Former LSU golfers transition into professional career BY christian boutwell cboutwell@lsureveille.com After a combined 63 tournaments in purple and gold, two of the most distinguished LSU golfers began their professional golf careers in January. Curtis Thompson and Smylie Kaufman both played sublime roles for LSU golf last season. They were driving forces in their senior seasons, helping the team to an appearance in the Final Four of match play in the NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships. “I learned things from LSU that I would not of learned anywhere else,” Kaufman said. Kaufman stressed his game is as good as it has ever been going into his professional career. One of the biggest changes he’s made is controlling his body and keeping it physically fit and healthy. “One thing that has been different is I am working out a lot now with Kolby Tullier from the Baton Rouge area,” Kaufman said. “He has been helping me a ton.” Tullier, a Titleist Performance Institute certified expert, has been known to help golfers better their games by improving their mechanics. He focuses his training to professional athletes who need
training specifically correlated to their respective sports, as he has previously worked with former LSU-turned-PGA golfers John Peterson and Andrew Loupe. Thompson and Kaufman competed in their inaugural tournament for the Web. com Tour at the Panama Claro Championship in Panama City, Panama on Jan. 29. Thompson, a three-time collegiate All-American, shot 4-under par for a 72-hole score of 276 (68,69,70,69). The score was low enough to push Thompson into a sixth-place finish and bring the 22-yearold alumnus a smidgen under $20,000. He recently competed in his first PGA Tour event at the Sony Open in Hawaii where he did not make the cut into the weekend with a score of 1-over par. In his next expedition on the Web.com tour at the Columbia Championship, he shot a first and second round score of 148. After Panama, Kaufman went straight to Los Angeles where he shot a 70 (2-under par) in a qualifying round for the PGA Tour’s Farmers Insurance Open. Kaufman said there is a slight chance he may compete
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Former Tiger Smylie Kaufman takes a shot Oct. 5, 2013 at the fifth-annual David Toms Intercollegiate at the University Club. in some international Web.com events soon but looks to gain qualification to upcoming PGA Tour events. The next Web.com event he may take part in will be the Chitimacha Louisiana Open beginning on March 26 in Lafayette. While traveling the globe,
Kaufman said he will always hold on to what he learned from LSU. “I learned a lot from [LSU men’s golf] coach [Chuck] Winstead,” Kaufman said. “He was very helpful.” Kaufman knows his golf game is now about himself and
not a team as he had at LSU. “I know that I just have to keep getting better, developing my game and the results will keep coming.” You can reach Boutwell on @CBoutwell_TDR.
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Lady Tigers finding multiple ways to win on home court BY morgan prewitt mprewitt@lsureveille.com During Nikki Caldwell’s tenure, the LSU women’s basketball has excelled at defending home court against Southeastern Conference opponents, notching a career 21-9 record at the PMAC. This season, the Lady Tigers’ (14-9, 8-3 SEC) dominance at home has come in every way possible. In Caldwell’s fourth season, LSU opened league play at home with a 75-51 loss to then-No. 1 South Carolina on Jan. 4. The 24-point loss marked the worst conference loss at home since 2012. Since the South Carolina loss, the Lady Tigers have turned their season around by winning five-straight conference games at the PMAC in a multitude of ways. “It was definitely a tough loss for us, especially the range of points that happened,” said sophomore guard Jasmine Rhodes. “It kind of hit our pride a little hard, so we wanted to keep it like, ‘This is our home, you can’t beat us here. This is our sanctuary. You can’t come into our house and take over.’” After trailing for more than 36 minutes against South Carolina, the Lady Tigers led fore more than a combined 74 minutes against Vanderbilt and Ole Miss.
Although junior guard Danielle Ballard returned from a 14-game suspension against Vanderbilt, senior guard DaShawn Harden led the Lady Tigers with 18 points and shot 7-for-11 from the floor, and 2-for-5 from behind the 3-point line. Against Ole Miss, freshman guard Jenna Deemer caught fire, shooting 7-for-10 from the field and tallying a career-high 22 points. “I think my teammates gave me that spark,” Deemer said following the Ole Miss win. “They looked for me. It’s energy, I feel their confidence in me. That just gives me more confidence to shoot the ball. When Coach [Caldwell] says ‘Light ‘em up,’ I feel like I can’t miss, and I’m going to light ‘em up.” Despite dominating Ole Miss and Vanderbilt, the Lady Tigers notched their only home win of the season against a ranked opponent against then-No.10 Kentucky in a close 84-79 victory on Jan. 18. After almost single-handedly leading LSU to a 71-69 upset at then-No.15 Mississippi State on Jan. 15, Ballard returned to the PMAC with a shot to notch a second-straight win against a ranked opponent. The Lady Tigers’ offense exploded for a season-high 84 points against Kentucky. Ballard tallied her second consecutive game with more than 20 points and combined with senior forward Sheila Boykin
and sophomore guard Raigyne Moncrief to score 54 points. Against Alabama on Sunday, the Tide cut LSU’s lead to four points with seven minutes remaining in the second half. But, Ballard and Moncrief took over by scoring eight of the Tigers’ last 12 points and led LSU to a 51-39 victory. “It’s a big weight off our shoulders,” Rhodes said. “The person who has the ball might not have the shot. We dribble in and make the extra pass to Danielle or [Moncrief], and we know they’re just going to take over. They both are fearless, so they attack really hard.” Despite winning the majority of their conference home games with lights-out offense, the Lady Tigers dominated Alabama with a stifling defense. The Lady Tigers forced 22 turnovers and allowed the Tide to shoot only 31.3 percent from the floor, including a dismal 5.9 percent from 3-point range. “You want to make sure, especially in SEC play as competitive as it is, you want to make sure you’re taking care of business at home and have a great home record,” Caldwell said. “We’ve been able to really play off of the crowd. We’ve been able to generate energy from the support that we’re getting from our fans.” Raegan Labat / The Daily Reveille
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LSU sophomore guard Raigyne Moncrief (11) shoots the ball during the Tigers’ 5139 victory against Alabama on Feb. 8 at the PMAC.
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Tigers expecting another season with loaded backfield Signees add depth joining Fournette, Williams BY STANTON VIGNES svignes@lsureveille.com With another year and another question mark at quarterback for the LSU football team, the Tigers looked to its backfield this recruiting season to improve their offense. LSU’s recruiting class was highlighted by its two top-20 running back signees, Nick Brossette and Derrius Guice, who will add depth to a committee including last year’s talented freshmen Leonard Fournette and Darrel Williams. The young and deep backfield will be complemented by an offensive line that could be one of the best in the country. LSU’s newest additions will try to fill the void left by senior running backs Terrence Magee and Kenny Hilliard, who will be entering the NFL Draft this April. LSU coach Les Miles said
the depth at the position will allow LSU’s backfield to get necessary rest and keep it from skipping a beat if an injury occurs. “I think we’re a team that allows for the fact that you want to stay fresh, you want to stay healthy,” Miles said. “I think that if you look at the backfield from last season, you lost Kenny Hilliard for some time, and we were very fortunate to have three backs that could all play. I think that is a very quality recipe for us. I think we’re a very talented group of backs.” With Fournette maturing toward the end of last season, culminating in a 264 all-purpose yard performance against Notre Dame, the Tigers appear to be in great shape to develop the young backs they added to the roster. Miles said the variety they possess at the position will solidify the Tigers’ offense and allow them to attack from various fronts. “I think the contrast of styles
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is good,” Miles said. “I think certainly both backs will be very productive. You take Guice, and he makes a suggestion in a national all-star game that he can go off and show you his versatility. And Nick Brossette is as steady and productive as there is. So I’m very optimistic about both.” Guice, a four-star recruit and No. 5 ranked running back in the nation according to 247sports. com, officially committed on National Signing Day and brings his U.S. Army All-American Bowl game MVP award with him. In his senior season at Catholic High School in Baton Rouge, the dualthreat back tallied 1,958 total yards along with 29 touchdowns. Meanwhile, Brossette has had an especially close relationship with Miles since first attending the University Laboratory School on LSU’s campus. In his four years in school, he totaled 8,190 yards for an average of eight yards per rush and scored 141 rushing touchdowns. Brossette said he is looking forward to staying close to home
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University High’s running back Nick Brosette signed with LSU on Feb. 4 to play football in the upcoming season. and is excited to play with such talented teammates. “It’s home. I couldn’t pass that up with everything, and I feel like LSU has given me a better opportunity,” Brossette said. “[Running backs coach] Frank Wilson made me a promise and said he’s going to make me successful on
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page 8 OUTFIELD, from page 5 Mainieri’s outfield should give the young pitching staff plenty of confidence. The trio of Stevenson, junior outfielder Mark Laird and sophomore outfielder Jake Fraley started a combined 144 games last season. In 360 chances, the three committed just four errors for a .988 fielding percentage. Individually, Stevenson earned 2014 Southeastern Conference All-Defensive Team recognition for his play in centerfield last season before being named to a Preseason Third-Team All-American by D1Baseball.com in 2015. Though Laird didn’t receive the same level of recognition as Stevenson, the right fielder has played in 122 games during his two-year career without ever making an error. As a freshman, Fraley’s playing time wasn’t as extensive as the more veteran Laird and Stevenson’s, but in 49 games the Delaware native made only one error in 59 chances. Fraley’s defensive effort coupled with his .372 batting average resulted in him being named a 2014 Second-Team Freshman All-American. The trio has played numerous games together, but it all begins with the competitions in practice. “We always joke around with each other in practice saying, ‘Nothing hits the grass,’” Laird said. “We hold ourselves to a high standard, and that goes for everybody on the team.”
However, there probably isn’t a group on the team that’s played as much together as the Tigers’ outfield, making life easier for Fraley, Stevenson and Laird. Fraley said just knowing each other’s range in the outfield can be the difference between an out and an extra-base hit. “When a ball’s hit, we don’t have to say anything,” Fraley said. “We already just click because we already understand each other’s games, how well we play and how fast we are, too. All that matters.” LSU sophomore southpaw Jared Poche’ will likely start the Tigers’ season-opener against Kansas on Friday. But for the Saturday and Sunday games, it may be one or two of LSU’s freshmen pitchers taking the mound. Fraley doesn’t want them to worry about what happens behind them. He just wants them to throw strikes. “We mess with the pitchers all the time, telling them to throw the ball down the middle and let them hit the ball because we’ll catch everything that comes out there,” Fraley said. “All three of us, we 110 percent believe in that. There’s no doubt in our mind that whenever a ball’s hit out there, no matter where it is, we’re going to have a great shot at catching it.” You can reach David Gray on Twitter @dgray_TDR.
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STREAK, from page 5 played well on the defensive side of the ball throughout the year. Each team is holding its opponents to less than 60 points per game, with South Carolina ranked fifth in points allowed per game at 51.6. During the Lady Tigers’ win streak they have allowed 48.5 points per game and have broken into the top 15 teams nationally in steals per game with 11.6 per contest. Regardless of how they’ve played recently, sophomore guard Jasmine Rhodes said the Lady Tigers will have to do things differently if they want to upset the best team in the country. “I think we’re going to have to play our game,” Rhodes said. “They had us playing their game close to the end of the last game. They sped us up, they slowed us down. We have to play at our pace the whole game.” When the Lady Tigers lost to the Gamecocks in early January, they were without star junior guard Danielle Ballard, who was still serving a suspension. With Ballard back in the lineup, LSU has won seven of its last nine games. Caldwell said the addition of Ballard gives South Carolina more to look out for, come game time. “[Ballard] makes a huge difference because that’s one more person that you’ve got to put on your scouting report,” Caldwell said. “You’ve got to recognize how good she is as a basketball player. More importantly, she’s a player that gives us calmness where certain teammates are now in their respective positions. They are not feeling that they have to carry the load. Obviously [sophomore
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LSU junior guard Danielle Ballard takes the ball down the court Jan. 29 during the Lady Tigers’ 79-41 victory against Ole Miss at the PMAC. guard] Raigyne Moncrief and [senior guard] DaShawn Harden in particular.” Moncrief was named SEC Player of the Week on Feb. 9, after posting 14.3 points, seven rebounds, two steals and 1.7 assists per game in three games. She said for LSU to prevail, it will have to increase their intensity while challenging the inside of the court. “We have to outplay them and get hustle plays,” Moncrief said.
“We’re not going to outjump them, so we have to box out. We have to put a body on somebody. We have to pursue the ball. We have to out work them. That’s the only way we are going to be able to come out with the win.” The Gamecocks are tied for first in the SEC standings and LSU is tied for third with No. 13 Mississippi State.
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the second-most errors in the SEC. Her fielding percentage declined to .923 as a sophomore after earning a .932 fielding percentage in her freshman year. Coming into her junior season, Bell changed her approach by not placing as much pressure on herself as an individual to make every play. “This offseason and in the fall, I just worked on being myself and staying within myself and not trying to do more than I should be trying to do,” Bell said. “It definitely helped, so hopefully I’ll be a lot better this spring.” Bell has been able to settle into her role as a leader on the field. After the graduation of former Tigers’ third baseman Tammy Wray and second baseman Allison Falcon, Bell and junior first baseman Sandra Simmons have stepped up to take leadership of the infield. Although Bell said she is more of a leader by example, her teammates see her as a vocal leader. “Bianka is a born leader,” said sophomore catcher/infielder Sahvanna Jaquish. “She may act shy in front of the camera, but on the field she is loud. She’s just a little ball of energy and having her in the lineup will change a team’s view on how they see power in our lineup.”
plate in the bottom of the sixth inning. Bell sparked the Tigers with a two-run homer, which was LSU’s first home run of the season. The Tigers’ lineup caught fire after the home run, scoring four runs on six hits and leading LSU to a 7-2 victory in its opener. Through LSU’s first five games, Bell has hit a .563, a 1.313 slugging percentage and 10 RBIs, which is the most among players who have participated in all five games this season. Despite her offensive contributions, Bell struggled during her sophomore year with errors. This lead to Torina benching her from fielding duties for three games and starting her at designated player. After being named 2013 SEC Co-Freshman of the Year, Bell came into her sophomore year with immense pressure on her shoulders to repeat the success of her freshman campaign. “Last year, I got into my head a little bit much and it affected me in practice and definitely transformed into the games,” Bell said. “I was trying to beat my numbers and try to [do] better, and that definitely affected me a lot on the field.” Bell led the Tigers with 15 errors last season and was tied for
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Valentine’s Day an unnecessary holiday THE REAL MEG RYAN MEG RYAN Entertainment Writer
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New Orleans-based Fraques aims to create a personal shopping experience by combining art and fashion.
MESSIEURS DéBONNAIRES New Orleans outfitter combines art and fashion BY michael tarver | mtarver@lsureveille.com The goal of creating a “Renaissance man” in the current men’s fashion industry drives New Orleans store owners Frank D’Amico and Jacques Couvillon to provide a distinctive shopping experience in their men’s outfitter Fraques. A small boutique tucked away in the Warehouse District of New Orleans, Fraques is the culmination of two men’s love for fashion and art, which has sprouted into a men’s clothing store aimed at helping men become more cultured while dressing accordingly. Fraque’s mission is “to empower individuals to create their own concept of life and liberty
while in pursuit of their happiness,” according to its website. Couvillon said the general motto is to “create you,” meaning the store will use experience and expertise to help guide men into a style they want to convey, but it is ultimately up to them how they choose to do that. Most of the clothes sold in the store, at least this season, are typically lightweight, high-end men’s casual clothes as well as a number of blazers and accessories combining to create a stylish but comfortable ensemble. Couvillon said most of the accessories are encouraged to be bought in a package so they fit in a certain
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Before I start this, I want to clarify: I’m a romantic to a fault. “The Notebook” is one of my favorite films about undying love. I’m the cheesy person who believes in commitment and soul mates no matter how many frogs you have to kiss before you meet your prince. However, the one day of the year that is supposed to be for love, Valentine’s Day, is the most irrelevant holiday out there. The history of Valentine’s Day is a little fuzzy, but the consensus is the holiday started as a religious one. Catholics recognize three different saints with the names Valentine or Valentinus. All were martyred for trying to make things right in the sense of love, either by granting secret marriages or helping Christians escape Roman prisons. In the terms of the holiday, history says it was celebrated in February to remember Saint Valentine’s death. Other theories say the Christian church created the day to create a heavier presence of the pagan holiday of Lupercalia. Lupercalia was a festival for Faunus, the god of agriculture for Romans, along with celebrating the Roman founders Romulus
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Local race offers 126.2-mile run from Baton Rouge to New Orleans BY greta jines gjines@lsureveille.com It’s not uncommon for Baton Rouge residents to enjoy a jog around the lakes or a run along the levee, but it’s not often that run lasts for 126.2 miles. For ambitious runners, Denver Benton co-created the perfect event for those up to the challenge. The Rouge-Orleans team relay and ultramarathon is a three-day race from Baton Rouge to New Orleans. Benton started the race after running a similar 200-mile course from Maryland to Washington, D.C., but he has designed
this race’s route to follow along the levee from one city to the next. “There’s almost no other 100-plus mile course anywhere in the country where that’s even possible,” Benton said. “It’s a really cool thing that we’ve got.” This year’s race begins on Feb. 13 with the first wave of runners beginning at 8 p.m. and will end on Feb. 15 around 2 p.m., which means runners will power through the cursed Friday the 13th, Valentine’s Day and straight into New Orleans’ Mardi Gras festivities in Audubon Park on Sunday. When registration opens, participants have
two different options to choose from — the team relay or the ultramarathon. Team relay runners can put together a group of two, three or six runners to take turns running over the three-day event, while ultramarathon runners tackle the entire route solo. “They don’t stop,” Benton said. “One of the sins of running that kind of distance is you just don’t stop because as soon as you do, there’s no way that you’ll start back up again.” Out of the 340 runners registered, 40 chose to run solo, which means
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Participants cheer during the Rouge-Orleans team relay and ultramarathon in 2012.
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STUDIO SPOTLIGHT
RANKS face the fire Michelle Chamuel (The End) Chamuel attempted to produce an album that encouraged individuality, but unfortunately, the result isn’t nearly as well put together as it could have been.
— Ashlyn Rollins
seventh son Universal Pictures Everything in this movie comes from other, better movies. It’s a very poor hybrid of the “Harry Potter” series, “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy and every other fantasy movie or TV show of the last decade.
— Kayla Randall
happy people Peace (Columbia) Peace fell victim to a second album slump, and “Happy People” just could not stand up to the grandeur of the previous album. Perhaps with stronger lyrics or more original beats this album would have gained more acclaim.
— Sadie McDade
jupiter ascending Warner Bros. Pictures A ridiculous tale of intergalactic royalty and love can be summed up by the first 20 minutes of the movie. An overly obvious plot partnered with a mediocre script provides a laughable viewer experience as forgettable as a bland scone.
— michael tarver
live from crush palace Karen O (Interscope) “Live From Crush Palace” brings the feel of the originally studio recorded album but with refreshing added elements. The music keeps its soft rock sound but adds talking and audience elements making the listening experience more intimate.
‘50 Shades of Grey’ soundtrack features vintage and new songs Album has wide variety of songs for listeners UNFORGRETABLE greta jines Entertainment Writer The much talked about “Fifty Shades of Grey” will finally hit the silver screen tomorrow, just in time for Valentine’s Day, but will it live up to all the hype? Even if the risqué E. L. James novel turned major motion picture is a flop, there may be some hope for the soundtrack. The 16-song album features names like Ellie Goulding and The Weeknd, but that’s not all. Annie Lennox, Frank Sinatra and even The Rolling Stones find there places among the tracks. There’s room for both old and new on the album, but how much room is unknown. The soundtrack’s older songs are clever additions and shouldn’t be overshadowed by the newer material. While some of the more recent pieces are successful choices, others are a bit more questionable. The album opens with Annie Lennox’s version of “I Put a Spell On You,” and it’s good. Maybe it’s because it’s Annie Lennox, maybe because it’s just good. Either way, an excellent choice to accompany the film. The Weeknd’s “Earned It” and Ellie Goulding’s “Love Me Like You Do” were both singles released earlier in the year, and standout even with the album’s complete tracklist. And if it sounded like Beyoncé’s voice in the background of several of the film’s
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trailers, that’s because it did. Queen B performs two songs on the album, including a relatively stripped down version of her 2003 hit, “Crazy In Love.” While it’s a popular song, the original version proves itself to be much better. The clip from the film’s trailer was the best part. Beyoncé’s “Haunted” remains true to its original form and is the more successful of the two. AWOLNATION also makes an appearance with a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m On Fire.” It has the airy “Fifty Shades” feel, but Springsteen’s All-American version wouldn’t have been half bad in its place. As for the album’s classics, The Rolling Stones’ “Beast of Burden” and Frank
Sinatra’s “Witchcraft” are scattered throughout but add a mature feel mirroring the main characters, Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele’s, relationship — edgy but still mature. Overall, there’s a variety of decent songs on the soundtrack, but The Weeknd takes the cake here with “Earned It” and “Where You Belong.” Both tracks are the perfect match for the film’s mood and are catchy yet seductive. No, the film won’t be everyone’s personal taste, but the album is decent. With the wide variety of songs, listeners should be able to appreciate a few numbers. You can reach Greta Jines on Twitter @TheGretaJines.
— meg ryan
i love you, honeybear Father John Misty (Sub Pop) “I Love You, Honeybear” shows promise for the progress of folk music. Tillman gives his listeners insight into his own life along with what may come as a result of his continuous rise to popularity, something that will only grow with this album.
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and Remus. Basically, Valentine’s Day was supposed to be a celebration of love and feasting — as a community. Groups of people would celebrate with each other from a religious standpoint. Today, it’s become a commercialized excuse to buy frilly pink gifts or cry about how lonely you are on Twitter. Stores are packed with giant bears, pink candy and heart jewelry forcing boyfriends or girlfriends to feel the heat to buy their significant others something shiny with a bow on top. Even better, there’s a need to create this elaborate date night plan with a candlelight dinner and a kiss in the rain. While it’s nice to take your significant other out on romantic dates and to occasionally buy them something to show your love (I actually recommend it if you want your relationship to last) why do we need a day looming over our heads forcing us to do these loving things? None of the commercialization is necessary. Giving into the holiday means letting the cheesy holiday win. It means seeing more lonely tweets on Twitter. Instagram feeds are flooded with posts including captions that are too long and too full of emojis. Basically, it means you’re an instigator of a holiday that’s nothing more than plastic gifts and sugar-coated feelings. You might as well hand that chocolate over with a card saying, “I only bought you this because there’s a holiday that says I have to.” Wow, romantic. Plus, this day no longer makes people who aren’t in relationships feel good. What if you just broke up with your boyfriend, your girlfriend is overseas in the military or your grandmother is sitting at home because her husband of 20 years passed away in July? None of those people want
running, from page 9 they will potentially run 42 hours only stopping to rehydrate and eat. They are allowed to run with a crew to aid them along the way, but 11 individuals are running uncrewed and will carry everything they plan to use on their backs. “You start to hallucinate at certain miles,” Benton said. “It’s bizarre to watch these people go through that. They are a different breed of humans.” The run may be taxing, but the view makes up for it. The first 55 miles of the route are more rural with the occasional factory or chemical plant. Farther ahead are plantation homes and eventually, a residential area. The race will take runners all the way to Magazine Street in New Orleans, where they will have about half a mile to the finish line. “In the first half of the race, you are way out in the middle of nowhere,” Benton said. “It’s
to walk into CVS and see a giant bear holding an “I love you” heart when they’re just trying to pick up paper towels. But these people don’t say anything because they don’t want to become the other end of the Valentine’s Day spectrum — bitter. No one wants to be the single friend who’s sat down by his or her’s coupled friends and asked to tone down the sadness and put on a smile. However, those people shouldn’t be penalized for feeling some type of way. If he or she wants to forget everything and go party in Tigerland or stay at home and cry into a pint of Ben and Jerry’s, let them. Don’t allow the commercialization of Valentine’s Day to make you do or think anything. If you’re in a relationship and want to celebrate, go for it. But don’t feel the need to buy everything covered in hearts and go out on a life-changing date. Another option is not to celebrate at all and just remember you care about each other as much on the holiday as you do every
other day. As for those who are single, you should follow the same rules. Go out with a group of friends and celebrate the platonic love in your life. Also, give your family relatives a call. Remember, they have been and will be around much longer than any relationship you’ll ever be involved in. Singles should also feel no shame in taking the day for themselves. Don’t worry about being single, and just take the holiday to sleep in late and bingewatch Netflix. Keep in mind being alone and being lonely are two different concepts. When it comes down to it, it’s always good to remember Valentine’s Day is only 24 hours of commercialized, superficial caring. Real love, whether it’s romantic, platonic or family, is endless. Meg Ryan is a 20-year-old mass communication sophomore from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. You can reach her on Twitter @The_MegRyan.
style and pattern group. Fraques is currently partnering with designers in its month-long event “Marché aux Fraques,” offering limited-time products such as women’s jewelry and apparel as well as used books, art and recycled fashion items. The store is also selling women’s black and white shirt dresses inspired and adapted from men’s button-up shirts. Couvillon said the event is based off the theme of a French flea market in Paris, usually containing little booths of antiques, clothing and home goods. “Marché aux Fraques” also features pieces by New Orleans based jewelry supplier Jess Leigh Jewels that takes recycled pieces of jewelry to make new, original pieces, he said. This event is part of a larger strategy to create a more personalized experience, and monthly events are one way they accomplish that goal, he said. Other aspects of customer relations are much simpler like offering a shopper a glass of wine and a comfortable place to sit and discuss fashion or art. Part of its website includes “Fraques Tips” to may help coordinate accessories or describe the new silhouette for spring. “This is not just a clothing store,” Couvillon said. “It’s just a store to help build a Renaissance man ... a well-rounded man that knows about art, architecture, design or travel, and it doesn’t necessarily have to be highbrow.” Though he and his partner D’Amico are sometimes radically different in their ideas and vision, Couvillon said their distinct personalities combine to offer an interesting collaboration in the store. While most of D’Amico’s experience is based in management, real estate and law, Couvillon said he is also extremely artistic and brings a more
nice to have the River Road right there next to you, but you’re out there. There’s nothing but you and that levee — the road and the river.” One runner who will experience all the effects of the ultramarathon is child and family studies junior Alissa Draper. She moved to Baton Rouge after serving in the military for the past six years to be closer to her family and eventually earn her degree. But Draper isn’t running the race solo. Starting at mile 55, Draper will be pushing a little girl with a sensory processing disorder in honor of Ainsley’s Angels of America. Ainsley’s Angels’ mission, as said in its mission statement, is “to build awareness about America’s special needs community through inclusion in all aspects of life.” The organization was founded because of Ainsley herself, who suffers from a disorder affecting her nervous system. The organization doesn’t
have a chapter in Baton Rouge yet, but they recently established an ambassador in the area. “I asked if I could have the privilege of taking her for her first marathon,” Draper said. “She’ll be riding in the marathon until mile 80. Her family will come out this Saturday, and hopefully, we’ll get more people involved in this organization.” The Rouge-Orleans was also recently mentioned on an episode of “NCIS: New Orleans.”
This mention was exciting for Benton said he hopes to involve celebrities in the race one day. “Louisiana has the movie scene going on right now,” Benton said. “That’s something we’re going to try to do for next year, whether it’s a documentary or a team of celebs.” He said the event takes months of planning and navigating red tape, but it’s worth it in the end. “It really highlights some of the most important features of
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“everyday man” aesthetic to the shop. While on a slightly opposite end, Couvillon offers his experience in high fashion as well as European influences to the table. At the end of the day, it never comes down to one man’s opinion or view reigning supreme because Fraques is a combination of the both of them, and they are equal in position and ownership, Couvillon said. Couvillon and D’Amico met in college in Lafayette and, after going their separate ways for several years, they finally ended up working again in Louisiana where they ultimately decided to become business partners and share ideas. “We don’t want to just sell clothes, we want to help make you the best man you can be,” Couvillon said. “We want to create you.” Perhaps the best way to describe their relationship as business partners is exemplified in the story of how the Fraques logo was created. Growing up on a farm in Cow Island, Louisiana, Couvillon said there was a large cow skull in the back of the house that he decided to bring back to D’Amico, who covered the skull in moss and inserted fake eyes that light up when plugged in. After experimenting with light painting, the two adopted the cow skull as the logo. It was a significant moment because the skull project was representative of the two different cultures and backgrounds coming together to create art. Fraques has become something more than just two individuals, and D’Amico said it is now an attempt to facilitate more out of life for everyone that walks in the door. “I think what we’re trying to bring is individuality and giving people the confidence to wear something and feel good about it,” D’Amico said. You can reach Michael Tarver on Twitter @michael_T16. this part of our state,” Benton said. “Next year will be a year where we get a lot of community involvement from everybody in Baton Rouge on down because it’s a cool thing to watch.” You can reach Greta Jines on Twitter @TheGretaJines.
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Plus/minus grading system creates unwanted stress MY BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL CLARKE PERKINS Columnist Just when we thought school couldn’t get anymore stressful, LSU drops a big one on us. It’s switching over from the current traditional grading system to a plus/minus grading system that will go into effect fall 2015. We can all thank the LSU Faculty Senate for approving this resolution that will show just how borderline our A is to a B. Members of the Faculty Senate didn’t seem to take into consideration the opposition from Student Government, the representation of the student
body, because the votes ended 26-14. According to the final report of LSU’s plus/minus task force, the transition between the two grading scales will cost anywhere from $15,000 to $20,000. The University could honestly stick with the traditional grading scale and save its money and my stress. Not to mention that, because of the ridiculous budget cuts coming our way, we really shouldn’t be wasting money on an expensive, unwanted grading system. This new grading system won’t affect you if you score a perfect 100 on everything. But because the majority of us don’t, this has the capability to be one of those nightmares that makes you wake up screaming. Contrary to the traditional
grading system (A = 4.0, B = 3.0, C = 2.0, D = 1.0, F = 0.0), the plus/minus system allows faculty to assign plus (+) and minus (-) grades. Faculty Senate believes that using 12 grading increments instead of the 5 will reflect students’ academic performance more accurately. So, if you’re a “borderline” 4.0 student (meaning you live for 90 percents), if you make the same grades next semester, your GPA could drop. And if you’re an average student who’s just passing by, good luck. With the new grading scale, all C’s will earn you 1.7 quality points as opposed to 2.0. Can you imagine getting all Cs and still not reaching a 2.0? This can be disastrous because 2.0 is the minimum grade point average for most
on-campus jobs, clubs and countless other school-related activities. While that may not seem like a big deal to you now, it could determine what graduate schools you get into in the future. Those tenths of quality points make a huge difference. The senate compares us to all the other universities that use the plus/minus grading system, attempting to prove “if they can do it, we can do it.” Well, we’re not Harvard or Yale, and we’re sure not the University of Alabama, so why does it matter what grading system they use? And is the faculty really trying to have a more accurate grading scale? Or could it be that they are tired of desperate students begging them on their
hands and knees to give them that tiny tenth of a point at the end of the semester. Thankfully, the University is leaving it up to the professors’ discretion on whether he or she will enforce the new grading scale. When the fall rolls around, we will then know who our new favorite teachers are. SG hasn’t given up hope and still wants to hear everyone’s voice on the issue. I’m crossing my fingers extremely tight hoping this drastic new system can be overturned because at the end of the day, an A is an A. Clarke Perkins is a 19-yearold political science freshman from New Orleans. You can reach her on Twitter @ClarkePerkins.
Responsibility needs to be taken to fight anti-Semitism acts COLLEGE CANDY JEN BLATE Columnist My first experience with anti-Semitism was in middle school. I thought name-calling was as bad as it could get. But I was incredibly wrong. In March 2009, I woke up one morning and saw my parents talking to a cop in a police car. Still half asleep, I turned around and behind me I saw what I thought I would never witness — Swastikas, “Hail Hitler” and “F--- the Jews,” graffitied on my home. Everywhere I looked, I saw more hate and slander towards the Jews. At that moment, I felt personally attacked because of my religious identity, and I was unfortunately able to understand what other Jews before me have suffered. But even after speeches, constant re-education to classmates, peers and members of the community, I still saw acts of hate. And I still do to this day, not just toward the Jewish community, but also people of different races, ethnicities and disabilities. Last week at the University of California-Davis, an off-campus Jewish
fraternity house was hit with graffiti similar to what I found on my own home years ago. Alpha Epsilon Pi Vice President Nathaniel Bernhard told The Sacramento Bee that the hate crime threatened to rekindle race tensions at UC Davis. “Jewish people still can’t feel safe on their own campuses and in their own houses,” Bernhard told The Sacramento Bee. “Anti-Semitism still exists today. It’s not a fairy tale.” And boy, is he right. It is scary how blind we are to even the smallest acts of hate toward the Jews and other individuals who are part of a minority group. Nothing rivals a Swastika — a repugnant symbol of antiSemitism and a horrific representation of hatred toward the Jews. And to make matters worse, this incident had to happen just after the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. If you ask any Jewish individual whether he or she had relatives in the Holocaust, I can bet they will somehow identify with the Holocaust as an attack on our people. Hate crimes like these just perpetuate the ideology that caused this genocide, and it is our responsibility as the millennial generation to help educate others about the truth behind the Holocaust.
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If we don’t make it our responsibility, who will? The definition of a survivor differs between every individual. In fact, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, a survivor is any person, Jewish or nonJewish, who was persecuted or discriminated against due to racial, religious, ethnic and political policies of the Nazis as well as any prisoners or refugees. The number of Holocaust survivors we know of unfortunately keeps growing day by day. But USHMM has on file approximately 195,000 survivors. And this is by no means a comprehensive or complete list. This is a voluntary list, and there are so many undocumented survivors that we are not even aware of today. We may never be aware of them. The Anti-Defamation League is a nonprofit organization that helps victims of antiSemitism and all forms of bigotry, and protects civil rights for all. Yesterday, the ADL even reached out to Urban Outfitters, urging them to remove a tapestry resembling the uniforms gay male prisoners wore in Nazi concentration camps. It is no surprise that Urban Outfitters has pushed the boundaries yet again. And the ADL has no shame
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Members of the Jewish Federations of North America visit the site in Paris on Sunday, where four people were killed in a terror attack. in calling out Urban Outfitters on its offensive idea of fashion trends. In 2012, the ADL criticized Urban Outfitters for selling a T-shirt with the yellow Star of David symbol Jews were forced to wear in Nazi Europe. But I guess it is about time Urban Outfitters pulls its head out of its butt and finally sees the light about what “true fashion” really is. Unfortunately for the Jewish community, this bigotry
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is something we are all too familiar with. And we aren’t the only minority that consistently deals with these acts of hate. It is about time that people screw their heads on straight and realize all of this hate is not causing anything but turmoil and distress. Jen Blate is a 24-year-old sociology junior from Miami, Florida. You can reach her on Twitter @jblate_TDR.
Quote of the Day ‘I abhor grades — if a child does his best, that’s all that should be asked.’
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U.S. involvement in Middle East must be carefully calculated THE CERULEAN CONCILIATOR JUSTIN DICHARIA Columnist The public relations department of the Islamic State failed to inform the terrorist media gurus that burning captives alive incites increased opposition rather than fear and cowering. The age-old mantra “history repeats itself” must have been hidden in a footnote on one of the social media memos sent out to the Sunni Muslim terrorist organization In 1555, Queen Mary I of England attempted burning “heretics” alive to incite fear, cowering and conversion to Catholicism among her largely Protestant populace. The gruesome, public burnings incited anger and opposition toward the Queen, essentially killing any chance of Catholicism’s return to England. Mary eventually lost her religious crusade, and Protestants laid Catholicism to rest with the Queen’s tombstone. In response to the IS’s disgustingly Hollywood-like burning of Jordanian Lt. Muath alKaseasbeh, Jordan’s military laid hundreds of IS terrorists and several commanders to rest under tombstones of rubble. The Jordan air force claims that
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President Barack Obama, with Vice President Joe Biden, left, Secretary of State John Kerry, and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, speaks about the Islamic State group in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Wednesday. the 56 airstrikes unleashed on IS territory are only the beginning of their vengeful military campaign. Fox News was the only major American news outlet to air the gruesome execution. The video showed Americans the evil capabilities of the IS and inflamed an already blistering hatred for the terrorist group. However, Fox News’ decision to air the video played into the IS’s hands. The terrorists wanted the world to see their professionally made propaganda, and the news channel obliged. Whether Fox News’ decision
was ethical does not change the fact that millions of Americans saw the video, and as a result, the American war drums are sounding louder and louder. The political rhetoric resembles that of former President George W. Bush in the lead up to the invasion of Iraq — the enemy is evil. And I agree. The IS is undoubtedly evil. Those who stand for good in this world must fight and vanquish this evil, but is America the primary force of good intentions to stop them? I am hesitant to advocate for boots on the ground after our
previous war in Iraq. The IS does not pose an immediate and realistic threat to the U.S. I don’t buy an argument for sending troops on those terms. The IS is committing genocide, though. And if I can condemn American politicians for not sending troops to stop the Rwandan genocide in 1994, then I would be a hypocrite to argue against increased military involvement against the IS. The Sunni terrorists are murdering thousands of Shiites and Christians. Religious identity in IS-controlled territories in Iraq and Syria can be the difference
between life and death. The world needs to eradicate the IS, and America should have a hand in ending its genocide. But if we can defeat the IS with unmanned aircrafts and covert operations, we should keep American invasion forces on domestic soil. If drones and special forces are not enough, then the next step of increased military involvement should be finding allies in the Middle East willing to aid the U.S. in defeating the IS. Jordan is willing to commit military forces to defeating the IS, and we need to find other countries like them. A military invasion by western forces without help from neighboring Arab countries will only leave a void for new extremist groups to swoop in immediately after we pull our troops out. An alliance with Arab countries will increase the chances of a successful nation state post-IS. America can’t stand by and watch religious genocide, but we can’t successfully defeat the IS without the help of other Arab countries. Our actions today can prevent future genocides in the Middle East. Every decision we make is truly monumental. Justin DiCharia is a 20-yearold mass communication junior from Slidell, Louisiana. You can reach him on Twitter @JDiCharia.
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lower class, parodied the educated elite, the clergy and British royalty. Guillory learned her craft from a coworker while working as fabric and crafts department manager at Wal-Mart in Eunice, Louisiana. Before moving her business into her home, she operated out of a shop in Eunice, but closed due to the building’s costs. Despite growing up in rural Louisiana, Guillory only has one memory of Courir de Mardi Gras. A krewe approached her grandfather for a chicken, and she remembers the men riding horses while wearing their costumes. “I remember [the krewe] chasing a [guineafowl],” Guillory said. “I didn’t follow them, but I stood there and listened to grandpa and the [krewe’s] captain talk.” The costumes are fairly simple, consisting of a shirt and a pair of pants, both adorned with cloth fringes. Guillory also makes capuchon hats, which mimic the tall spires of princess’ hennins. “[Our tradition] started with the old Cajuns who were the poor of the poorest,” Guillory said. The original costumes of Courir de Mardi Gras were created out of recycled working attire. Colorful fringes today were once raggedy patches of fabric sewn onto clothes to cover holes and worn spots. Guillory cites tradition as motivation to continue her hobby. An important sentiment she carries is a sense of independence from New Orleans’ manner of celebrating Mardi Gras. Guillory sees the standard combination of purple, green and gold as out of place. She also acknowledges the demand her work has created in and around her community. “There’s a need,” Guillory
research land. BRAF president John Davies said The Water Campus will become a sort of United Nations of river and coastline research and “the center of the universe in deltaic affairs.” The University currently houses a center for river research, where a new model of the river is under construction and will be placed in the center. Civil engineering professor Clint Willson said University researchers are piecing together the more than 200 panels comprising the newest river model — a process which will take more than a year to complete. “[The old model has] already been dismantled. We took it apart because we are using that building for equipment and things about the new model, so we’re already starting testing,” Willson said. He said the University is unsure how the current river research facility will be used after the model is moved to the location by the highway. Executive director of the Office of Facility Services Tony Lombardo said the College of Engineering likely will continue to use the current river research facility in some capacity. The other buildings to be constructed after the Center for River Studies will house offices for the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority and a building for the Water Institute of the Gulf, according to a release from the Governor’s Office. After officials from the Water
hawthorne, from page 1 translates into his broadcast, and he has the innate ability to paint a picture about what’s happening on each play that makes the listener feel as if they are part of the action. “Our fans have grown up listening to him call LSU sports. We congratulate him on a great career and thank him for all that he’s done for LSU. We are going to miss him.” In the school’s news release, Hawthorne said it is time to step into a new phase in his life — spending more time visiting with family and traveling with his wife, Carol. His career highlights include 22 bowl games, all 57 games LSU baseball has played in the College World Series and five Southeastern Conference basketball championships. He has never missed a football game, broadcasting 380 consecutive Tiger matchups. LSU said a nationwide search for Hawthorne’s replacement will begin immediately.
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Courir de Mardi Gras costumes step outside of the green-purple-and-gold color spectrum, and they often have fringes made out of fabric scraps. said. “There’s not that many people that make the traditional Mardi Gras suits.” Orders for the costumes begin in January, but Guillory begins her production in May in preparation for the following year. Though she makes a certain amount of costumes ahead of time, Guillory accepts special orders with custom designs. With these two order types combined, Guillory makes roughly 100-250 costumes each year. The materials Guillory uses range from old bedding to clothing scraps to Crown Royal bags. Though she’s been too busy to make them in recent years, Guillory used to construct masks to be worn with the costumes. The masks are made from metal screen material and are decorated with large foam noses. Since creating a Facebook page for her business, named “Mardi Gras Creations by Susana,” Guillory said the word has spread quickly about her work. Her costumes have supplied a number of areas in the state, including St. Martinville and Ville Platte. Guillory recently mailed a costume to a customer in Colorado as well. Though the service Guillory
provides may seem hobby-like, she considers it a self-sufficient job. The profits Guillory makes from selling her costumes are used to pay for supplies for the following year of production. Guillory has no plans to move her business back into a brickand-mortar operation. With business at its highest for only six weeks of the year, she sees no way of keeping a shop open. “I really couldn’t move it from this position again,” Guillory said. “Too many people know I’m [at home] so they just show up. I always have to stay in the house.” Much like the Cajun French language in Louisiana, Guillory sees the tradition of Courir as a way of preserving Louisiana’s heritage and culture. She’s been approached by some people interested in learning how to make costumes and masks for themselves. Her own grandson has already participated in Courir in full costume. “I got my grandson into running [Courir] at 4,” Guillory said. “He just enjoys it, and he’s picked all his fabric.” Guillory provides costumes in sizes ranging from newborn to adult XXXL.
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Gov. Bobby Jindal answers questions about potential budget cuts Wednesday. Institute, BRAF, Alexander and the CPRA delivered opening remarks, Jindal was asked about potential budget cuts for the upcoming fiscal year. Jindal said he is concerned with the way health care and higher education are generally the first to be cut, and the governor’s office is working to minimize damages and cut expenses in other areas to balance costs. “We’ve been working on solutions to help protect higher education and healthcare. At the end of the day, we know we will have a balanced budget but will not raise taxes,” Jindal said. The state budget is set to be released Feb. 27, Jindal said. He reiterated taxes would not be raised. Budget cuts for higher education for the next fiscal year are set to range between $300 and $400 million.
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‘Yoga in the Galleries’ event extended for Valentine’s Day BY sadie mcdade smcdade@lsureveille.com Setting up the perfect Valentine’s Day date can be stressful. From picking out the best restaurant to finding the perfect gift, it’s safe to say one will be in need of a little rest and relaxation once the day is over. The LSU Museum of Art is offering the opportunity to do that as a couple as it wraps up the “Yoga in the Galleries” program with a special Valentine’s Day partners yoga event tonight. This event series is a combined effort between the nonprofit organization Red Stick Peacemakers and the LSU Museum of Art which has allowed residents to participate in yoga classes in the museum. This is not Red Stick Peacemakers’ first foray into community outreach. The group dedicates its time to helping the city discover the advantages of spiritual medicine and yoga practice. Annual festivals and various events are held to bring vendors and healers together in an effort to expose Baton Rouge residents to the benefits of these practices. “We form relationships with yoga studios and different places of healing modality,” said Beth Zagurski, president of Red Stick Peacemakers. “Then we create community events where these people volunteer, and the events serve as a way for these people to learn
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The LSU Museum of Art and Red Stick Peacemakers have partnered to offer ‘Yoga in the Galleries’ — a special Valentine’s Day partners yoga event. The event is not limited only to couples. about these different methods of healing and relaxation,” said In December 2014, Zagurski joined forces with coordinator of school and community programs at the Museum of Art Lucy Perera to develop a way to combine art and yoga while also raising money for further Peacemakers endeavors. The pieces in the “LeRoy Neiman: Action!” exhibit — which features illustrations and paintings of dancers, athletes and musicians — are used to provide inspiration for the yoga sessions. “The intention behind the
series was to take yoga and art and put it together as a community offering to raise some money for yoga mats and other things so we can go into the community and do an outreach program during the summer,” Zagurski said. “We lucked out because it just so happened that the exhibit that’s going on now is about movement and the human body.” Despite the connection to Valentine’s Day, partners yoga does not require participants to have a significant other. The exercise will focus on connection, relaxation and stretching.
It does help to have a bond with a partner, but a sister or a best friend will do just as well. “You’ll not only assist each other in stretching but … relaxing as well so you’re able to get into spaces and poses that maybe you normally couldn’t do alone,” Zagurski said. Perera said the Museum of Art hopes to continue partnering with Red Stick Peacemakers for future programs in the museum as well as out in the community. Both parties have benefitted from the partnership as has the community.
She said 100 percent of the proceeds raised from Yoga in the Galleries goes toward bringing yoga to the youth that the LSU Museum of Art works with in the Neighborhood Arts Project and Artworks Programs. Admission is $30 per couple and will take place tonight at 6 p.m. on the fifth floor of the Shaw Center for the Arts at 100 Lafayette Street. Wine and chocolate will be served after the event. You can reach Sadie McDade on Twitter @sadoemcdadie.
LSUHSC enters partnership with CVS, Walgreens BY carrie grace henderson chenderson@lsureveille.com The LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans wants to remedy the condition of its primary care availability. In an attempt to expand the reach of their primary care, the LSU Healthcare Network has entered into partnerships with Walgreens and CVS walk-in clinics across New Orleans. The announcement came in a Jan. 28 news release. Patients will now be able to use the CVS Minute Clinics and Walgreens equivalents after hours and on weekends when network doctors are not available. “It’s a much lower cost way of providing care after regular office hours rather than going to an emergency room,” said LSU Healthcare Network CEO Cathi Fontenot. Health Sciences Center Chancellor Larry Hollier said part of its goal is to increase primary care for all community members. “Part of our strategic study has shown that LSU Health in New Orleans is not really recog-
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F. King Alexander said an LSU branding partnership with the CVS Minute Clinic is possible because it would be beneficial to the University and CVS. nized as taking care of the general population. We take care of the poor folks,” Hollier said at the January Board of Supervisors meeting. “We need to expand in primary care because we don’t have a large base in that.” Keeping their offices open for longer hours was not feasible,
Hollier said, because of the inability to recruit physicians as well as the overhead costs. At the clinics, patients will have access to a licensed nurse practitioner seven days a week and will be charged a flat rate, Hollier said. The pharmacies will collaborate with the health network so
a patient’s data from an after hours visit can be shared with his or her primary care physician. “We have this relationship with CVS where our patients will be told that they can go and be seen there if they have an issue on the weekend because their data will then be transferred to our physicians, our medical records,” Hollier said. “We will have an interface with their electronic health records.” From the clinics, patients will also be referred to network specialists if the need arises. The network includes specialists in fields ranging from allergy to cardiology to orthopedics. Hollier said the partnerships with Walgreens and CVS will help the center meet its goal of becoming a “medical home” for patients, while also bringing foot traffic into the pharmacies. Hollier said he hopes the partnerships will not only help expand services for existing patients but also connect community members without a primary care physician to their network. About 25 percent of people who visit walk-in clinics do not have a doctor they see regularly,
Hollier said. And while overall office visits have increased, Hollier sees the partnerships as an opportunity to connect with a new sector of the community. Fontenot said the partnerships were in the first stages, but talks could expand to offer services in the Baton Rouge area. “This is the beginning. This is a toe in the water,” Fontenot said. “The beginning of the relationship is primarily here in New Orleans, but it may be expanded.” The relationship could also be expanded to offer discounts or special services for students, Fontenot said. The co-branding will be beneficial from a business aspect as well, LSU President F. King Alexander said at the January Board of Supervisors meeting. “Don’t be alarmed if you see the LSU logo at the Minute Clinics in CVS,” Alexander said. “That’s a partnership that we have with them, and I have been reassured that we don’t have any liability associated with that, but we do get the marketing value of it and the partnership certainly helps CVS and it helps LSU.”