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use English translations of the dialogue, but students struggled with the Shakespearean style. The cast sings the musical acts in the original French. “Not only are our singers learning better and better how to sing in French, they’re also learning how to be Shakespearean actors at the same time,” McDonough said. “So everybody wins,
The LSU men’s basketball team recently concluded its best season in six years. Now, the Tigers are losing key ingredients to their success. LSU sophomore forward Jarell Martin announced Wednesday that he will forgo his final two years of eligibility and enter the 2015 NBA Draft. But Martin isn’t the only person leaving LSU on the heels of its best season since 2009. Men’s basketball assistant coach Eric Musselman, who was hired last summer, accepted the head coaching job at the University of Nevada-Reno, the school announced Wednesday morning. Musselman, who was brought on coach Johnny Jones’ staff in June 2014, will take over a Wolfpack program that went 9-22 last season and 5-13 in the Mountain West Conference. The more impactful on-court
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Opera students embrace Shakespeare and French in ‘Beatrice et Benedict’ BY EMILIE HEBERT emiliehebert@lsureveille.com For most students, performing opera is hard enough. But performing opera in French, speaking Shakespearean dialogue and running around the stage all at once may seem impossible. University opera students will embrace this challenge during their four showings of Hector Berlioz’s “Béatrice
et Bénédict” from March 26 to 29 at the Shaver Theatre. The comedic opera, based on Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” follows Béatrice and Bénédict as they deny their love for one other. In the tradition of a French “opéra comique,” the characters speak between musical numbers instead of singing the entire script. Director of Opera Dugg McDonough said the University’s performances
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Student Government to sponsor 30 additional seats in Union
BY CAITIE BURKES cburkes@lsureveille.com Every weekday from 10:30 a.m. until noon, the Student Union resembles Grand Central Station during rush hour. With Tetris-like lines behind food vendors and not enough available seating, students are discouraged from making a lunchtime stop at the Union. Newly elected Student Government President Andrew Mahtook and student senator Alex de Gravelle said this predicament will change next fall. De Gravelle recently passed
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a $7,757.93 bill from SG’s contingency account to fund 30 additional seats in the Union. The seats will be located on the third floor near the Magnolia Room, de Gravelle said. SG will remove the jagged benches and replace them with three round tables. The two outer tables will each have four chairs. The middle table will have two chairs. “If you just add a bunch of big tables, it ends up being one or two students per table,” Mahtook said. Kinesiology freshman Colton Wilson said she agreed with
Mahtook. “There’s a lot of students who go here, and it crowds up pretty easily,” Wilson said. Mahtook also said SG will rework the space next to On the Geaux to provide more seating by adding more individualized and high-top tables. De Gravelle started drafting a proposal for more seating in the Union in October 2014. She then passed a resolution urging students to take a closer look at the issue at the end of last semester.
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