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LSU System supports University land annexation into Baton Rouge BY deanna narveson dnarveson@lsureveille.com

The LSU Board of Supervisors issued a signed petition Wednesday supporting the annexation of unincorporated land southwest of campus into Baton Rouge proper.

The land now resides within borders of the proposed city of St. George and contains Innovation Park and the LSU AgCenter’s Ben

Hur Farm, both part of the flagship campus.

If St. George incorporates, the University could operate in two cities under separate city zoning, building codes and other ordinances if the land is not annexed.

“We prefer to remain part of this city, where we have been since 1869,” said LSU President F. King Alexander in a statement issued Wednesday. “We find no

justification to merit having our land divided between two jurisdictions and have concerns that such division could adversely impact services critical to our students.”

The land in question straddles Baton Rouge’s corporate limits.

The Ben Hur Farm takes up 114.96 acres of land in East Baton Rouge Parish. Innovation Park is a research complex located about five miles from the flagship campus.

The petition acknowledged its assent to the enlargement of the boundaries of Baton Rouge, and was filed with and presented to the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Council.

The petition also stated the board wants University land that would be incorporated to be under the same ordinances and regulations as University-owned land already within city limits.

Mayor-President Kip Holden

intervened on the petition to acknowledge that, if the annexation were approved by the Metro Council, the University land annexed would receive the same treatment as the existing incorporated land.

Should St. George become a city, it would take up the southern portion of East Baton Rouge Parish, a tract of land about eight square miles larger than the City of Baton Rouge’s.

Board of Supervisors

blood moon rising

Board approves hospital privatization changes

BY Lauren Guillot lguillot@lsureveille.com

monthly solar viewings with hopes of generating intrigue and appreciation in community members and students like Louis.

“My goal since I started full time here in 2006 has been to teach others, especially our younger generation, that there is entertainment to be had,” Kersey said. “Entertainment that doesn’t come in the form of television, cell phones or radio.”

HRPO partnered with the University, BREC and the Baton Rouge Astronomical Society to provide interactive entertainment every Friday and Saturday.

The LSU Board of Supervisors approved amendments to contracts between the University’s hospitals and their private partners at a special meeting Oct. 1 to satisfy the requirements for federal funding from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The LSU System made the move to privatize the management of seven charity hospitals in 2012 because of the cost of operating the facilities. The number of hospitals involved in the plan has since been reduced to six. Under the new system, the University owns the hospitals, but the state pays private partners to run them, said Doreen Brasseaux, University assistant vice president of public policy.

The privatization of the six state-owned hospitals, which provide care for the uninsured, were completed through no-bid contracts called Cooperative Endeavor Agreements, or CEAs, with nearby hospitals or research facilities.

CEAs aim to enhance medical education for students, improve Louisiana’s health care workforce and, based on available financing, provide essential clinical services to the state’s uninsured and highrisk Medicaid populations.

The state government reported at the end of the 2014 fiscal year that the privatization deals were $52 million under budget. The

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The moon sets Wednesday over Thomas Boyd Hall. The total lunar eclipse was the first since April 15.

Wednesday’s total lunar eclipse draws large audience

BY kaci cazenave kcazenave@lsureveille.com Some Baton Rouge residents didn’t need numerous cups of coffee to wake them up Wednesday morning — the anticipation of the “blood moon” observation at Highland Road Park Observatory was enough to get them out of bed.

The observatory welcomed community visitors and University students at 3:30 a.m. to view the first total lunar eclipse of Earth’s moon since April 15.

HRPO manager Christopher Kersey said he enjoyed seeing people in the community find time and sacrifice a little sleep to watch

one of the universe’s natural phenomena. The turnout for the viewing was large, which surprised Kersey.

“The number of people who generally come out to the observatory often depends on the weather quality and community happenings,” Kersey said. “Although we didn’t have these factors working against us today, I’m still pleasantly surprised at the number of people who came out.”

Vocal performance senior Kayla Louis said she was shocked to see a wide range of community members — from students to grandparents and children — in attendance. She chose to participate

in the viewing at HRPO because it earned her bonus points for her astronomy class.

“I am fascinated with this kind of stuff, though,” Louis said.

“That’s why I took the class — because I find it interesting how the solar system works.”

Although Kersey had seen a number of eclipses before, he said this particular blood moon had him awestruck because it was darker than he expected.

The lack of clouds and extreme moisture may have had something to do with the coloration, he said.

Kersey said HRPO hosts these types of special events alongside

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DALLAS — The first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States died in a Dallas hospital Wednesday, a little more than a week after his illness exposed gaps in the nation’s defenses against the disease and set off a scramble to track down anyone exposed to him.

Thomas Eric Duncan, 42, was pronounced dead at 7:51 a.m. at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, where he had been kept in isolation since Sept. 28.

“Mr. Duncan succumbed to an insidious disease,” hospital spokesman Wendell Watson said in a statement.

Duncan carried the deadly virus with him from his home in Liberia, though he showed no symptoms when he left for the United States. He arrived in Dallas on Sept. 20 and fell ill several days later. His condition worsened during the weekend from serious to critical.

Others in Dallas still are being monitored as health officials try to contain the virus that has ravaged West Africa, with more than 3,400 people reported dead.

They also are trying to tamp down anxiety among residents frightened of contracting Ebola, though the disease can be spread only through direct contact with the bodily fluids of an already sick person.

Health officials have identified 10 people, including seven health workers, who had direct contact with Duncan while he was contagious. Another 38 people also may have come into contact with him. The four people living in the Dallas apartment where Duncan

stayed were moved to another home and are in isolation.

“The past week has been an enormous test of our health system, but for one family it has been far more personal ... They have our sincere condolences, and we are keeping them in our thoughts,” Dr. David Lakey, commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services, said in statement. “We’ll continue every effort to contain the spread of the virus and protect people from this threat.”

Of the six Ebola patients treated so far in the U.S., Duncan was the only one not cared for in one of the special hospital units set up to deal with highly dangerous germs. That’s because health officials knew the others had Ebola at the time they decided where the patients should go, whereas Duncan sought care at the Texas hospital on his own.

Health officials also have said that any hospital with isolation capabilities can treat Ebola patients, but Duncan’s death is sure to renew attention on the Texas hospital’s response, especially missing the chance to treat him sooner, when he first sought care.

There is no way to know whether any specific treatment or step might have saved his life, just as whether any experimental drug he did or did not receive helped. He was getting advanced care — dialysis to treat kidney failure, a breathing machine and an experimental antiviral drug — when he died.

Officials have said everyone who potentially had contact with Duncan is being monitored for 21 days, the normal incubation

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A sign points to the entrance to the emergency room at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, where U.S. Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan was being treated. period for the disease.

Duncan passed an airport health screening in Liberia, where his temperature registered as normal and he showed no signs of Ebola symptoms. But a few days after he arrived, he began to have a fever, headache and abdominal pain.

He went to the emergency room of Texas Health Presbyterian in Dallas on Sept. 25, but was sent home. By Sept. 28, his condition had worsened and an ambulance took him back to the hospital where he stayed in isolation.

Duncan’s family visited Texas Health Presbyterian earlier this week and glimpsed Duncan using a camera system, but said Tuesday they had declined to view him again because the first time had been too upsetting.

“What we saw was very

painful. It didn’t look good,” Duncan’s nephew, Josephus Weeks, said Tuesday.

The hospital has changed its explanation several times about when Duncan arrived and what he said about his travel history.

The hospital staff did not initially suspect Ebola, even though Duncan told them on his first visit that he came from West Africa.

The Dallas County medical examiner’s office will not be receiving Duncan’s body, but investigator Steven Kurtz said he did not know Wednesday what the alternate arrangements would be.

The Centers for Disease Control recommends that bodies of Ebola victims not be embalmed and instead suggests they be cremated or promptly buried in a hermetically sealed casket.

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CAIRO — At Cairo University’s campus, new, black steel walls have gone up. A private security firm has put up surveillance cameras.

Guards have bomb-detection devices.

Just outside, heavily armed riot police have permanent positions.

Summer vacation ends this weekend, and universities across Egypt are preparing for the return of students with a heavy, preemptive security clampdown. The aim is to prevent a resurgence of protests by supporters of Mohammed Morsi, the Islamist president who was removed by the military just over a year ago.

Last school year, universities became the focus of pro-Morsi protests and campuses turned to war zones as police tried to

suppress them. But the clampdown now is going beyond supporters of Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists and threatens to silence all political activism in the universities.

It reflects what rights activists have warned is happening nationwide under President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi: Dissent in general is being snuffed out in the name of fighting Islamists.

University presidents have been given new, unquestioned powers to expel students or fire professors suspected of involvement in protests or any political activities, without independent review of the cases.

In one of his first moves after his inauguration in June, el-Sissi halted the election of university presidents by professors and deans, a practice begun after the 2011 uprising that ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak.

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University class teaches English as a second language at McKinley

BY Kelsey Bordelon kbordelon@lsureveille.com It’s time for class — the teacher enters the classroom, students’ conversations fall to a murmur and the day’s lesson begins in a language you can only speak efficiently enough to state your name and find the restroom.

These were the daily troubles non-native, English-speaking students at McKinley High School in Baton Rouge faced before Mina Posey, McKinley English as a Second Language Instructional specialist, and Irina Shport, University assistant professor in second language acquisition, created an LSU service-learning class where University students teach English Language Learning students at McKinley.

In June 2013, McKinley had 21 ELL students. Now there are 55 students, 41 whose native language is Spanish and the rest spanning Arabic, French, Farsi, Swahili and others.

Shport’s ENGL 3720 “Methods for Teaching English as a Second Language,” works with McKinley’s ELL students on a weekly basis.

“Some students want to travel, and they think the best way to travel and get some income is

to teach English in these countries they travel to,” Shport said.

“These students learn how to teach English grammar and culture in my class, then apply those techniques as their coursework in the second-hour ESL class at McKinley High.”

The University students are not paid, and their work at McKinley is in the course description for their class, yet they continue to push themselves and their ELL students for reasons beyond currency or class credits.

“I think it’s the motivation of anyone going into education,” said curriculum instruction education doctoral student Deliana Wilson.

“There’s a certain fulfillment you get out of giving someone else this zeal to learn. It’s one thing to memorize, but one of the wonderful things about teaching English is you’re teaching someone to think critically for themselves.”

Each day, there are two to three student teams responsible for the special ESL class. They take full responsibility for what happens in the classroom, which means they deal with the challenges as well as the triumphs. They are teaching high school freshmen, not to mention students that have been in the country for less than a year.

Wilson said one of the

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University professor Irina Shport’s English Language Learning class aims to teach English to non-native speakers at McKinley High. greatest challenges the University students face is getting the ELL students interested in what they’re learning.

“There’s such a large Hispanic community at McKinley, so they can focus on only each other and they’ll communicate fine,” Wilson

said. “So you’ve got the language barrier and you have to show them the value in what they’re learning.”

English and French studies senior Von de Leigh Hatcher said one of her students is not only learning English as a second

language, but also is illiterate in her native language. It’s difficult to convey and teach an idea if you can’t convey it in a student’s native language, Hatcher said.

The University students continue to work past these obstacles for ELL students’ development.

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Researchers aim to build adobe homes Study attempts to find feasibility of alternative, sustainable materials

make adobe homes suitable for Louisiana.

“In Louisiana, there’s a hot, wet climate,” Holton said, “Earth blocks have traditionally been used in BY james richards arid climates like the west jrichards@lsureveille.com [Southwest U.S.].”

Living in coastal LouisiDoctoral student Mirsardar ana is no easy task. Hurri- Esmaeili said the earth blocks canes have drowned and de- can be fortified with concrete stroyed houses in areas like to combat the humidity and Venice and Empire, creating improve wind and flood resisa desire for hurricane-proof tance. Adding too much conhomes. crete isn’t optimal, though, as A multidisit increases the ciplinary study ‘Architects often work with building costs from the Uni“The less conpeople in engineering, versity’s Coast- acoustics, environmental crete needed, the al SustainEsmaeili systems and lighting.’ better,” ability Studio said. looks to find out The study has ROBERT HOLTON, whether that’s three focal points possible with assistant professor of home architecture for the houses: aes“earth block,” thetics, structural or adobe-style houses. integrity and economic feasiAssociate professor of civil bility. The focal points correand environmental engineer- spond to the three departments ing Michele Barbato said the working together on the study: researchers plan to use soil architecture, engineering and from around Louisiana as con- agribusiness. struction material to make the Working with other disecological footprint as small as ciplines is nothing new to possible.

Holton. He said architects For example, cooling and working with other specialheating in adobe houses has the ties is the nature of their potential to be 15 percent more job. energy efficient than standard “Architects often work houses, he said. with people in engineerAssistant professor of ing, acoustics, environmenhomes architecture Rob- tal systems and lighting,” ert Holton said the study’s Holton said. “More people ofmain challenge is to see if it’s fer different perspectives on feasible and sustainable to the work.”

Barbato agreed, saying big issues like global warming and coastal sustainability require many perspectives.

“No single approach can tackle these issues,” Barbato said.

Multidisciplinary studies bring more than just different perspectives, Barbato said.

Funding agencies are putting more money into multidepartmental studies.

Despite the benefits of multidisciplinary research, Barbato said it brings some unique challenges.

He said the word “design” means different things to engineers and architects. Design for engineers means safety coefficients, stresses and dimensions of the structure. For an architect, it’s about how the space is organized for aesthetic purposes in addition to structural concerns.

Barbato said the study is still in its early stages, with data collection as the primary aim. Esmaeili and fellow doctoral student Nitin Kumar have mapped out and tested various soils around Baton Rouge to find the right balance of sand, silt and clay.

“If there is too much expandable clay, cracks propagate in the blocks,” Esmaeili said.

So far, they’ve found soil in the sweet spot of sand, silt and clay around riverbanks.

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Smokey Joe's Cafe - Baton Rouge River Center Frankenstein - Claude L. Shaver Theatre Chicago - Saenger Theatre Based On A Totally True Story - Claude L. Shaver Theatre A Pigment of Your Imagination - HopKins Black Box Theatre

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Cat's Ass Karaoke - George's Place From Barbed Wire to Battlefields - U.S. Freedom Pavilion - The National WWII Museum Krewe of Hermes: The Diamond Jubilee - Louisiana State Museum/Capitol Museum Accalia and the Swamp Monster - LSU Museum of Art Ancestors Are Watching Series - Southern University Visual Arts Gallery Children, Youth and Civil Rights, 1951-1968 - Dillard University Creole World: Photographs of New Orleans - The Historic New Orleans Collection Williams Research Center From Cameo to Close-up: Lousiana in Film - The Historic New Orleans Collection Williams Research Center LeRoy Neiman: Action! - LSU Museum of Art Shout, Sister, Shout! - The Historic New Orleans Collection Williams Research Center Art of the Cup Exhibition - The Ogden Museum of Southern Art Associated Women in the Arts - Louisiana State Archives

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Thursday, October 9, 2014 Campus life

Proposed $1.8M transit system would SG approves lighted connect Nicholson corridor to downtown crosswalks around campus

BY Malori Bezet mbezet@lsureveille.com The Nicholson Drive corridor may see changes from downtown Baton Rouge to campus in the coming years.

Last month, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) secured $1.8 million of funding for a proposed plan to update Nicholson Drive.

The Nicholson Corridor Plan, proposed by the City of Baton Rouge, intends to link the University’s campus to downtown Baton Rouge, while creating an estimated 2 million square feet of commercial buildings, 3,200 multi-family housing units and thousands of new jobs for the area, according to a Landrieu Senate office news release. The plan also includes a high-capacity transit system that resembles streetcars.

The grant Landrieu secured with a letter of support is part of the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery Grant Program, according to the news release.

The TIGER grants are provided by the U.S. Department of Transportation to invest in road, rail, transit and port projects to improve national infrastructure.

The University plans to update Nicholson Drive inside the campus gates with the Nicholson Development Project.

Steve Waller, executive director of Residential Life and the Nicholson Development Project, said Baton Rouge’s plan connects campus to downtown, but the construction plans stop outside the campus gates.

The Nicholson Development Project wants to put a “mixed-use” area on the northern segment of Nicholson Drive with amenities

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A new transit system could help traffic congestion along Nicholson Drive. targeted to the University population, said Waller. Plans include retail stores, upperclassmen and graduate housing, a parking garage and facilities that are part of the athletic department’s initiatives.

The area would create a town center environment to attract students, sports fans and the surrounding community, according to the project’s website.

Waller said plans are on hold until the University Board of Supervisors approves.

“I’ve got my fingers crossed every time they meet,” Waller said.

Kinesiology junior Sabrina Sosa expressed interest in the University’s plan.

“It sounds awesome, because I feel like there’s not that much around here by LSU entertainment-wise,” Sosa said. “You normally have to go to Perkins Rowe or downtown.”

Mike Bruce, a principal at Stantec Consulting Services, has a contract with Baton Rouge and said

the competitive grant was a major achievement.

Bruce said the grant is for planning and will be used to conduct studies on the proposed streetcar aimed to transport people from Tiger Stadium to the Louisiana State Capitol.

“Work should be started in the next few months,” Bruce said. “It will study benefits of the streetcar, what would happen, how it would be designed, and where the stops would be.”

Bruce said if the study is successful, the city hopes the federal government will help fund the rest of the $100 million project.

Mathematics junior Justin Clemmons was more skeptical of the new streetcar plan.

“Initially, it sounds like it would create more congestion, but if they have a good plan for it, it would be kind of cool and create transportation,” Clemmons said. “I don’t go downtown a whole lot, but I don’t have a problem driving there.”

or there.”

Another proposed feature would cause lights to flash Crosswalks around cam- along the crosswalk as a pedespus may soon undergo major trian is crossing at the push of a button. Madden said they are improvements.

Student Government passed looking into an audio feature a resolution at their Oct. 1 for the visually impaired.

LSUPD spokesman Capt. meeting calling to install lightCory Lalonde said it’s safer ed crosswalks around campus.

SG Senator Seth Mad- when the driver’s and pedesden, the bill’s sponsor, said he trian’s attention is drawn to the wants to work with Parking crosswalk’s location.

“We always try to remind and Transportation Services on getting the crosswalks people that even though we have the easy streets, and it installed one at a time.

“I’d really like to work with limits the amount of vehicuthem, getting them done one lar traffic on the interior of by one,” Madden said. “I think campus, it doesn’t eliminate that’d be a better way to do it,” Lalonde said. “You have less amount of traffic on the things.”

Madden said some early interior of campus, but that options for lighted crosswalk doesn’t mean that it is a pedestrian campus — locations include a pedesthe crosswalk ‘We always try to remind it’s leading from the people that even though t r i a n - f r i e n d ly Indian Mounds we have the easy streets campus.”

Lalonde said to the Business tends Residential Col- and it limits the amount LSUPD of vehicular traffic on to see spikes in lege and Pentagon and one of the interior of campus, it traffic accidents involving pedesthe crosswalks doesn’t eliminate it,’ trians from time leading to the Capt. Cory Lalonde, to time.

UREC and soLSUPD spokesman “I think over rority row from the last year to Miller Hall. He year and a half, said they are also looking into one behind I think we have seen less of the Union Square Parking Ga- those types of incidents.” rage going to the East Campus Lalonde said.

Students said the crossApartments. will be a good However, some current stu- walks dents may not see the proposed improvement to campus.

Brit Willie, sociology senior, lighted crosswalks.

“It’s something that we’d said the lighted crosswalks like to see implemented by can’t be a bad idea.

“I’d feel a lot better if I’m the end of the year, at least,” Madden said. “Not necessarily walking late here at night,” like a full scale system, but at Willie said. “It’d make other least one or two or three here people feel safer, too.”

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Trio of big men ready to replace O’Bryant

BY MICHAEL HAARALA mhaarala@lsureveille.com Whenever an All-Southeastern Conference player like LSU forward Johnny O’Bryant III is lost to the professional ranks, a major role on the low block opens up.

Luckily for LSU, three of its biggest guys are excited about stepping up and taking the reins in improving on a 20-14 season that ended in a second-round loss to Southern Methodist University in the National Invitation Tournament.

When practice began Wednesday, sophomore forwards Jarell Martin and Jordan Mickey and freshman center Elbert Robinson began their quest not only for a berth in the NCAA Tournament, but also to fill the O’Bryant-sized hole in the Tigers’ squad. “[LSU] coach [Johnny] Jones has been telling me I have to step up and be a leader,” Martin said.

“He feels like I can lead this

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team like I led my team to a state championship in high school.

I feel like I can do that here and take responsibility for this team.”

Martin, who was widely regarded as one of the top high school basketball players in the country when he was recruited, looks at improving on a 20132014 season that saw him average 10.3 points, 4.6 rebounds and 26.2 minutes per game.

Over the summer, Martin dropped to 233 pounds through a mix of yoga and running with a conditioning coach. The weight loss could be the catalyst for a big season, according to Jones.

“I think with one year under his belt, he’s continuing to grow,” Jones said. “He’s shed several pounds, he’s become quicker out there on the floor and become more explosive. He’s continued developing, and we look forward to some great things from Jarell in his sophomore campaign.”

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‘We have different matchups we can do this year, and it’ll be fun to see what we’re able to do.’

Jordan Mickey, sophomore forward

Fans’ high expectations hinder passion

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LSU sophomore forward Jarell Martin (1) dunks the ball Wednesday during practice at the Basketball Practice Facility.

LSU students should hold back a little on the complaints after their team’s 41-7 loss to Auburn last Saturday. Auburn students embarrassed them.

Auburn students packed their section Saturday night and stayed the entire game.

And when I say “entire game,” I mean the full four quarters.

There seems to be some LSU students who don’t even know the fourth quarter exists.

Anybody from LSU who saw Auburn’s student section’s performance had to be perplexed. It was a student section that stayed loud the entire game, didn’t throw drinks after big plays and stayed in rhythm during the singing of the alma mater.

The question of whether LSU students would have stayed in a similar situation isn’t hypothetical — the answer came in 2013 against Auburn. Up 21 points at halftime against the eventual Southeastern Conference champion, most LSU students left the stadium in favor of their apartments or some righteous romp through Tigerland.

Some fans will claim they left because of the rain, but it’s

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SOCCER

LSU looks for much-needed conference win against Alabama

BY DAVID GRAY dgray@lsureveille.com With six games remaining in the season, the LSU soccer team desperately needs to string together Southeastern Conference wins if it hopes to reach the postseason.

LSU (5-7-2, 1-3-1 SEC) is currently tied with Tennessee (6-61, 1-3-1 SEC) for 10th in the SEC standings, and only 10 teams will be invited to the conference tournament following the conclusion of the regular season.

The Tigers will get an opportunity to start a muchneeded winning streak when they square off against SEC West foe Alabama (7-4-2, 2-2-1 SEC) at 6 p.m. tonight at LSU Soccer Stadium.

Tonight’s match will also be televised on the SEC Network.

Despite watching his club

collect just one win in its past seven games, LSU soccer coach Brian Lee said making the SEC and NCAA tournaments are still reasonable possibilities.

“I think at any point, if we get to .500, we’re going to have a great chance,” Lee said. “The teams we have left are all top 83, and a bunch of them are in the top 50. So I think it’s a real possibility. We just have to get on a little run of wins.”

Winning tonight against Alabama would be a good start — the Crimson Tide is currently sixth in the SEC entering tonight’s match but is only one game ahead of LSU. A win tonight would catapult the Tigers into that slot with five games remaining and give them the tie breaker if both teams finish with identical records.

However, victories have been few and far between for the

Tigers for much of the 2014 season. LSU has won only twice in the past 10 games after starting the season with a 3-1 record, notching two ties and six defeats in that span.

But the Tigers haven’t been completely dominated on the pitch this season. Four of LSU’s seven losses this season were decided by one goal. Three of those one-goal defeats came against teams currently ranked in the top 60 of the Rating Percentage Index standings, including Sunday’s 1-0 loss to No. 13 South Carolina.

The defeat quickly erased the momentum the Tigers had built following their 2-0 victory against Mississippi State two days prior. LSU pressured the Bulldogs throughout the night and fired off 16 shots with 10 on

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LSU junior midfielder Fernanda Piña (7) centers the ball Sept. 26 during the Tigers’ 4-1 defeat against Texas A&M at the LSU Soccer Stadium.

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Pair of transfers set to lead LSU’s backcourt this season Hornsby, Gray ready to contribute at guard BY jack chascin jchascin@lsureveille.com The LSU basketball season is on the horizon, and much has changed for the Tigers’ backcourt since the conclusion of their 2013-14 campaign.

The Tigers finished last season with a 80-67 defeat at the hands of SMU in the second round of the National Invitation Tournament, sending them home with a 20-14 record. The loss to the Mustangs was the first of a few losses for LSU heading into the offseason.

On May 13, the Tigers announced three-year starter Anthony Hickey would not return to the team for the 201415 season, parting ways with the point guard in an effort to comply with the NCAA’s scholarship limit. Hickey averaged 9.4 points per game and 3.3 rebounds during his career.

Losing Hickey, who ultimately transferred to Oklahoma State, wasn’t the only substantial casualty for the Tigers’ backcourt. The team also lost four-year veteran guard Andre Stringer to graduation.

Stringer became one of the most successful guards in LSU history over his fouryear career, finishing 20th on LSU’s all-time scoring list with 1,365 points.

The loss of both Hickey and Stringer leaves the Tigers with gaping holes to fill coming into the season. But sophomore forward Jordan Mickey said he believes the new faces in the backcourt can be just as productive, especially with the addition

of junior UNC-Asheville transfer Keith Hornsby.

“Keith brings a whole other dimension, just being that fast and shooting the ball well,” Mickey said. “He’s able to go by a lot of guys. He’s able to stretch the defense out with his shooting ability. So he can fill the spot Andre Stringer left and possibly do better than he did. He can shoot the ball that good.”

Hornsby transferred to LSU after a successful sophomore season at UNC-Asheville in which he averaged 15 points, 4.2 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game. After the 2012-13 season, bigger schools began showing interest in Hornsby, and he ultimately decided to take an opportunity with the Tigers that forced him to sit out last season due to NCAA transfer rules.

Hornsby said it was difficult for him to sit out the season, but his ability to practice with the team taught him a lot about the kind of competition he will face during the upcoming season.

“I’m one year older now than I would have been last year as a junior, still having the junior eligibility,” Hornsby said. “I got a whole year to practice and learn how [LSU] coach [Johnny] Jones likes things to get done, and also play against some great people in practice.

I was guarding Andre or [former Tiger forward] Shavon [Coleman] last year every day and that definitely helped me out because those are experienced guys in the Southeastern Conference, [like the] guys that I’ll be playing against.”

The biggest change the Tigers’ backcourt has experienced is their shift in height.

Both Stringer and Hickey were less than 6 feet tall when playing for LSU, while the backcourt this season has an average height of 6-foot-1.

“Hickey and Stringer were both smaller guards, but just having [junior guard Josh Gray] and Keith and some bigger guards will definitely help us out on the defensive end,” Mickey said. “It definitely allows us to do more this year … We can switch a lot more screens this year just because they’re bigger guards, so I’m excited to see what we’ll be able to do.”

Gray, a transfer from Odessa College, came to LSU after leading all junior college players in scoring with 34.7 points per game. The 6-foot-1 junior is expected to start at point guard for the Tigers, and Jones said he’s the purest point guard on the Tigers’ roster.

While the Tigers added many new pieces to the puzzle in their backcourt in the offseason, LSU is now faced with the task of finding a new leader for this revamped squad after losing both Hickey and Stringer. But Hornsby said the backcourt will be just fine.

“We have so many weapons,” Hornsby said. “Josh has tremendous speed while also having an ability to shoot. There’s just so many ways [the guards] can attack … I think we have a lot of weapons.”

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Clarke, Baucom spearhead Tigers’ offense with versatile play BY morgan prewitt mprewitt@lsureveille.com After leading the LSU soccer team with 10 goals in 2013, then-freshman forward Summer Clarke cemented herself as a rising star in the Southeastern Conference.

But the addition of highlyrecruited freshman forward Jorian Baucom brought another talented forward to the Tigers’ roster this season.

The combination of Baucom and Clarke up top has produced results for the Tigers. Both players have developed a role within the offense and scored goals in a variety of ways, forcing defenses to cover the entire last third of the field.

Baucom showed her ability to control the ball in the air from the first minute of collegiate play. Just 48 seconds into the season opener against Troy, Baucom headed her first goal off a cross from junior midfielder Fernanda Piña. “[Baucom] has a good physical presence up there,” Clarke said. “She is showing that to a lot of different teams, so I think that is good for her. She’s using her physicality.”

Baucom has added a physical presence to LSU’s offense that’s been missing for the last

few seasons. Two of her goals her physical presence in the have come in the box off of box to get scoring opportuniheaders. ties, and it gives Clarke the “Last year, I was crossing chance to work the entire field and crossing, and I feel like to create chances. no one hit it,” Piña said. “I felt In the last four games, like I wasn’t productive or Clarke has scored twice and something. But now, it is work- assisted Baucom for the first ing.” time against Arkansas.

Although Clarke did record Despite their different a goal off a header against styles of play, both Baucom and Nicholls State, Clarke have come one of Clarke’s ‘We have very talented through for the strengths is her forwards and attacking Tigers in some ability to beat the most critiplayers, so it comes to of defenders with cal points of key if we play, if we tackle games this seathe ball at her in the back and in the son. feet. midfield.

The creativity For two of her In LSU’s congoals this season, up top and the talent is ference-opening Clarke has beaten there. If they get the ball, loss against Misgoalies one-onsouri on Sept. they are a threat.’ one after break19, Missouri’s Natalia gomez-junco ing free from the junior midfielder/ LSU junior midfielder defensive line. forward Reagan “Technically, Russell broke the she’s very good,” deadlock in the said LSU coach Brian Lee. 50th minute. Just 12 seconds “She’s two-footed. She can do a later, Baucom took advantage lot of different things.” of a miscommunication by Despite playing most of the a Missouri defender and season in a 4-4-2 formation, the slammed in an equalizer.

Tigers have opened up their Against Arkansas on Sept. offense in the last four games 28, Clarke scored on a breakby playing in a 4-3-3 formation. away just 24 seconds after the In this scheme, Baucom plays Razorbacks tied the game at high at center forward and 2-2.

Clarke plays wide. “[Junior forward Lexi Gibbs This allows Baucom to use and Piña] made the runs across

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LSU freshman forward Jorian Baucom (5) runs to defend the ball during the Tigers’ 4-1 defeat against Texas A&M on Sept. 26 in the LSU Soccer Stadium. me, and cleared the space,” Clarke said. “Then it was one-on-one with the keeper.

It was amazing.”

Although LSU did not win either of those matches, both of these goals changed the momentum of the contest and got the Tigers right back in the game. Having both Baucom and Clarke up top gives the

Tigers confidence that they can score at any moment.

“We have very talented forwards and attacking players, so it comes to if we play, if we tackle in the back and in the midfield.” said junior midfielder Natalia Gomez-Junco.

“The creativity up top and the talent is there. If they get the ball, they are a threat.”

page 8 NEW KIDS, from page 5 Robinson is another player who got rid of extra weight during the offseason. When his senior season of high school ended, the 7-foot-1-inch Robinson weighed a hefty 330 pounds, the same as senior football offensive guard Hoko Fanaika.

He came to campus weighing 301 pounds but has slimmed down to 265 pounds, losing 36 pounds since his arrival at LSU. “They had me doing a lot of conditioning, working out and just eating right,” Robinson said.

“I cut down on sweets and I ate healthier with more vegetables and everything.”

As a junior at Lakeview Centennial High School in Garland, Texas, Robinson averaged 14 points, 12.5 rebounds and six blocks per game. As a senior, he averaged 11.7 points, 10.9 rebounds and 4.1 blocks per game. Although his production dropped, he still earned District MVP and Defensive Player of the Year accolades, along with being named Class 5A All-State .

Coming into the 2014-2015 season, Robinson said he hopes the improvements he made in the summer will help prepare him for college basketball and the SEC. “I feel like I’m mid-way [to where he wants to be skillwise]—the hardest adjustment is learning the plays,” Robinson said. “I have to make sure to keep getting my arms wider and sealing my man off. Those are the biggest things.”

The player facing the highest expectations of any returning Tiger may be Mickey.

EXPECTATIONS, from page 5 because they didn’t care. LSU was blowing out a team that wasn’t supposed to do well that season. LSU fans didn’t need to spend all night in the stadium during garbage time when it could be spent back at a tailgate.

It’s not that LSU fans lack the passion of Auburn fans. Their teams just provided them with different expectations. LSU hasn’t recorded a losing season this millennium, and eventually, that type of dominance influences fans.

It’s a gradual process, but LSU has been at or near the top of college football for a few seasons. With constant excellence comes constant expectations, and it’s almost instinctive for LSU fans to want so much.

It’s almost like playing a video game — once you play the game enough and become dominant, it becomes boring. After 14 straight winning seasons, beating an unranked team wasn’t worth some fans’ undivided attention.

The excitement fans don’t show for wins is transformed into disappointment and vitriol for the losses. Some fans talk about their teams’ 10-win seasons like they’re cornerstones for the program. LSU fans typically talk about how it could have been an 11-win season.

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His freshman season resulted in All-SEC Freshman Team, AllSEC Defensive Team and AllSEC Second Team honors, and he joined Shaquille O’Neal as the second player in LSU men’s basketball history to block at least 100 shots in a season.

Mickey is seventh in career blocks at LSU after his freshman campaign, where he averaged 12.7 points, 7.9 rebounds and 3.1 blocks per game. He made 53.3 percent of his shots, putting him second in the SEC for shot percentage. Even after a statistically stellar season, Mickey said he wasn’t satisfied and put in more work to get better.

“I went to the Nike camps and the Adidas camps [this summer], so I definitely tried to improve my game,” Mickey said. “I worked on my shooting and ball handling, being able to take it out to the perimeter on bigger guys and post up and work up on my close game more to be a better all-around player.”

Mickey decided against joining O’Bryant in the NBA Draft in hopes of coming back and improving his game further. He said he’s happy with his decision, and he hopes it will be a big year for the Tigers.

“We have some different things we can do with this team this year,” Mickey said. “We can go small and put four guards in and have me out there, or we can go big with Elbert, myself and Jarell. We have different matchups we can do this year, and it’ll be fun to see what we’re able to do.”

You can reach Michael Haarala on Twitter @haarala_TDR. is to hit the reset button and experience a losing season, possibly an 0-8 season in conference. No LSU fan is hoping for this, but it is a necessary trauma to bring Tiger Stadium back to the days where fans filled the stands and had fervor for every win.

In the early 2000s, when LSU was still recovering from the Gerry DiNardo era and welcoming coach Nick Saban, there was more fervor in each of the Tigers’ victories. Fans were desperate to win again and had an unwavering need to be at the top.

That same desperation and need was seen in Auburn fans on Saturday. Before winning the SEC title last season, Auburn had gone 0-8 in the SEC in 2012.

It was the program’s worst season in 60 years, and coach Gene Chizik was fired along with all of his assistants.

So maybe the losses that are expected to come this season can be seen in some positive light.

Fans will temper their expectations if LSU loses enough, and they may stop acting spoiled.

Tiger Stadium has a reputation to uphold, and it’s time to stop being disgraced by other fan bases.

Tommy Romanach is a 22-yearold mass communication senior from Dallas, Texas.

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struggles against the Gamecocks, LSU’s young back line target, which was the most since held firm on Sunday. The TiSept. 8 against Stephen F. Austin. gers’ defense — which starts “We definitely got a lot of two freshmen, a sophomore and chances on goal junior — limited [against Mis- ‘Teams five through 12 in the South Carolina sissippi State],” SEC are relatively equal in to only three said junior midon target strength. Alabama is in that shots fielder Natalia off of 16 shots.

G omez - Ju nc o. mix with all of us, and we’ll LSU sophosee who emerges.’

“Some were kind more forward of unfortunate to Summer Clarke not go in, but the said it was the BRIAN LEE, thing is, we were unit’s best colLSU soccer coach there. We got the lective perforcrosses and got mance to date, shots, and that’s important. We which could bode well for the rejust have to put those chances maining six matches left on the off in the next game, because slate. we might not get that many “The back line was really chances.” strong [against South Carolina], Despite its offensive and it was one of the best games

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they’ve played,” Clarke said.

“There were a lot of balls kicked in back there, and they kept heading them out. South Carolina never really played balls through our defense. Our back line was really solid.”

The back line’s progression will be key in shutting down an Alabama attack that has poured in 29 goals this season, a mark that ranks second in the conference. But Lee said he doesn’t believe much separates the two squads.

“Teams five through 12 in the SEC are relatively equal in strength,” Lee said. “Alabama is in that mix with all of us, and we’ll see who emerges.”

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BY meg ryan mryan@lsureveille.com Hemline will be swapping and styling the latest fall trends for its next club event.

The LSU fashion club is hosting its first styling event for members at Swap Boutique on Perkins Road on Oct. 9.

Kristin Ament, Hemline’s public relations officer, said Hemline will be going to Swap to give members the chance to Remember to learn about styldress for your ing while incorbody type porating the fall season’s trends.

Consider Ament said Swap, a consignpersonal tastes ment shop, is the perfect loUse transitional cation because pieces to switch of its collection from summer to of high-end deautumn signer merchandise mixed with trendy, medium Use accessories price-point clothto accent an outfit ing. Swap employees will show club members what season’s fall trends and what to look and dress for. Members will use what they learn to style store mannequins with fall’s best looks.

Kimberly Evans, Swap’s senior sales associate, said the members will first take an outfit quiz to learn more about their personal styles and style an outfit based on that, similar to StyleMint and JustFab’s style quizzes. She said they also will use other members’ styling results to make outfits for different preferences

because it applies to everyone. Whether the club members attending are design majors, merchandising majors or fashion enthusiasts, they’ll learn what’s current in the fashion industry.

“Them learning to style and seeing what’s coming up really does apply to everyone and everyone can use it, so it’s something that the whole club can do together,” Ament said.

Architecture majors usually spend years sketching, drafting designs and creating small models for buildings and other physical structures. But University students in one section of professor William Doran’s ARCH 4001 class will venture out of the classroom to turn their ideas into realities.

The class works with professional clients to create work that not only shows its knowledge of architecture techniques, but also to make a change in Baton Rouge.

On Oct. 10, one section of the class will launch the first phase of its project to help the Mid City area of Baton Rouge, appropriately titled “#iammidcity.”

The goal of “#iammidcity” is to create a rotating art wall that will capture Mid City’s personality and change its image every six months to a year. Before constructing the wall, the students will poll Mid City residents using six wooden panels with six different mediums for feedback, such as a photo booth, to take pictures of interesting people or a board of words relevant to the area.

Doran calls the project an “urban intervention.” In his syllabus, he says “the process of creating something new is infinitely preserved in the cyclical removal and installation of the work.” The class is using that definition as its

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[Top] Clothes hang on a rack in Swap Boutique. The boutique will host LSU Hemline’s first styling event and teach members about fall trends.

[Bottom] Highheeled shoes sit along a shelf at Swap Boutique. and body types.

“If they are going to go into this industry ... they are going to be able to ... outfit [a person] based by sight,” Evans said.

Evans said the event will be teaching Hemline members how to include transitional pieces from summer to fall, and it will end with mannequin judging. Evans said the top five mannequins will be showcased in Swap’s window for the next week.

Ament said the styling event is useful

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University graduate brings color to HopKins Black Box BY gerald ducote gducote@lsureveille.com

Stimulus is a key factor in a child’s development.

Aspects from a child’s environment are crucial to the growth of their cognitive proficiency and emotional stability. Numerous inputs like color, sound and smell help shape parts of the human experience such as language and social consciousness.

For the past nine months, Emily Mistrzak has been working to get her production “A Pigment of Your Imagination,” off the ground and ready to premiere at the HopKins Black Box Theatre. Based on the children’s book “The Day the Crayons Quit” by Drew Daywalt, “Pigment” follows crayons that go on strike against their child owner

Duncan. After picketing and airing their grievances, the crayons discover there are repercussions to leaving the comfort of home.

“The show kind of explores what happens when a box of crayons quit,” Mistrzak said. “What happens when they leave the box and where they go? It follows them on their emotional journeys of what to do when they’re no longer safe inside the box.”

Mistrzak, University communication studies alumna, sees the role of sensory input as extremely important in the world of theater, and her contribution to the plot is a variety of provocative sensory sequences.

“It explores the idea of synesthesia, which is a neurological thing where more than one sense react at the same time when triggered,” Mistrzak said. “So you

can see music. You can smell color. You can taste sound. The show takes that and explores how we deal with this world of color.”

Coupling with the psychological factor of synesthesia, Mistrzak said she hoped to implement the social aspect of color perception. People experience a type of social synesthesia, wherein colors have the power to produce different responses from different people.

“There’s a small undertone of trying to figure out what color really means to us as human beings,” Mistrzak said. “Do we all react differently to color? In different cultures, different colors mean different things. What does color really have to do and what does it mean?”

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Aldean’s ‘Old Boots, New Dirt’ creates country music magic THE REAL MEG RYAN meg ryan Entertainment Writer While many argue all country music sounds the same, Jason Aldean stands out from the crowd.

Aldean has a distinct, deep voice with a heavy twang that draws in the listener. The guitars and drums make a large appearance in every song, making every track a true, well-made production. And with every song, he produces an image fitting for deep, country storytelling.

Aldean’s distinct qualities stay intact with his newest record, “Old Boots, New Dirt.”

As Aldean says in “Burnin’ It Down,” “You love it when I sing.” Yes, I do.

The country singer’s lyrics have a way of creating various scenes. A simple song can take listeners into Aldean’s drive down dirt roads, lovestruck relationship or night out with the guys.

With every word, he creates

the epitome of a country song.

It’s what everyone expects a day in the South to be like or wishes it was like.

Aldean’s love songs are normally the best out of every record. He puts together a track showing how much he loves a woman and how he’ll do anything for her. One example on this album is “Show You Off.” Aldean sings about making other men jealous and showing how the girl he’s with makes him a lucky man.

However, “Old Boots, New Dirt” also has its share of breakup songs and moving-on tracks.

The title track specifically is a moving-on track. Aldean is trying to forget about an old girl in a new town but in the same “old boots.”

“Don’t Change Gone” and “Miss That Girl” are two songs on the record that add to the breakup tone and bring a slower element.

Aldean’s sad songs evoke a storytelling factor just like his upbeat tracks. Every song has the possibility of creating a personal connection between himself and

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While this album’s songs are flawlessly put together, completely cohesive and feel like an Aldean record, the album is still a bit long.

There are a total of 15 tracks, and while all of them are worth a listen, hearing all of them in one sitting is difficult.

It’s easier to split the album up into two listening sessions, so every song can get the proper appreciation.

Nevertheless, “Old Boots, New Dirt” is worth adding to a country collection.

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Thursday, October 9, 2014 swap, from page 9 Evans said it’s important to learn to “break out of the box” and create an outfit that fits different styles, bodies and trends.

She said the benefit of using Swap’s designer and casual brands is also a positive.

“I think it’s really good to mix those. I think it’s better for styling purposes to have some higher-end staples and then, if you want to get something that’s more like in the moment and whimsical, it’s better not to spend a lot of money on that go with more casual brands,” said Brenna Phares, Swap’s assistant manager.

Along with personal styling, putting together an outfit benefits members who are going into the

pigment, from page 9 “Pigment” carries its own values and themes suitable for a more mature audience, despite being built from a children’s story. One overarching theme is the concept of groupthink and its resulting consequences.

“I think one of the major things we kind of explore is how different people react when the crisis situation is ‘everybody quits,’” Mistrzak said. “We explore what happens in a group dynamic when not everybody wants to quit, but they feel like they’re forced to for solidarity.

There’s an element where we kind of get down to race and how race and skin color go together. How are they opposing? How do we use color to define how we look at the world?”

The production’s plot sticks closely to Daywalt’s original book, but Mistrzak inserted several musical numbers to break the play into manageable acts.

The songs are not originals by Mistrzak, but their popularity adds to the humor of “Pigment” when executed in her

design field.

“For a designer, knowing what’s popular is all about what your business is because you want to sell something and make something that people are going to want,” Ament said.

The same applies to merchandising.

“As, for instance, a merchandiser, knowing how to display the product is all about what’s important,” Ament said. “And so them being able to realize and grasp, ‘Well, these things will look good together, this will make more money if we put it together,’ so someone can walk in and be like, ‘Oh I want that whole outfit instead of just a piece.’”

You can reach Meg Ryan on Twitter @The_MegRyan. specific manner.

“When I was conceiving the idea of the show, I wanted it to be true to the story, but I wanted it to be a lot of fun,” Mistrzak said.

“I grew up doing theater. In the Black Box, we do a lot of things that are very experimental, a lot of avant-garde things, and I wanted to go back to my more traditional theater roots and say, ‘What happens when we paint backdrops and everybody has really colorful costumes and there are dance numbers and singing?’”

Mistrzak wanted to weave her own thread of individuality into “Pigment.” In the play, she focuses on audience response, which is fitting with her intent to provoke the senses and the conscience.

“As a director, I always like to have everyone who’s watching to just stop for a second and, at the end of the performance, they say, ‘Hmm, that’s something that I didn’t expect, and that’s something that I want to think about more.’ Then I feel like it’s been successful,” Mistrzak said.

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The Daily Reveille mid cIty, from page 9 platform to create a potentially impactful piece.

The rotating art wall will not physically rotate. Instead, Doran and his class will create the first work of art that will be placed on the wall. After the first few months, the art displayed is expected to change with contributions from the Mid City art community and sponsors.

The class has partnered with Letterman’s Blue Print and Supply Online on Government Street, The Walls Project and a few other sponsors to hold the open artistic forum in front of Letterman’s in Mid City. There also will be a map displaying places in Mid City that residents consider the liveliest.

“Mid City has a lot of old infrastructure and an art community that we felt should be highlighted,” Doran said.

He said after the project is completed, he and the class will hand the rotating wall over to Mid City residents. He said he hopes Mid City businesses will sponsor the creation of new works of art by its residents so the wall can become a permanent part of the area’s culture.

This project is the third time Doran’s class has worked with a Mid City project, but it’s the first time the students have built anything. He said working with clients and receiving a community perspective is an important part of understanding how to build the class’ piece.

Doran said students are

working in such a large group because teamwork is a pivotal part of the architectural profession.

“We can’t do anything alone in architecture, and we wanted this project to represent what the students will encounter after graduation,” Doran said.

After Oct. 10, students will take the input gathered from the event and plan the exhibit’s grand design. The reveal of the rotating wall’s first installation is set for Nov. 21 during White Light Night in Mid City.

“This project is a grade for the students, but it’s much greater than that,” Doran said. “We want this to be for Mid City and all of Baton Rouge.”

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In response to Quint Forgey’s article, “Graves sends unsolicited emails to students,” readers had this to say: “This is not news. If you want to write about the Congressional race then write about the issues affecting Louisiana voters, not some shoddy attack on a candidate who’s reaching out to students. I don’t asked to be called at my home by campaigns, but it happens every election season, what’s the difference?”

– lrtheriot

Thursday, October 9, 2014

Doors wide shut for non-car owners THE AMAZING CYNIC Ryan Monk Columnist Do you like being stranded? Being severely limited in terms of job opportunities? Being a second-rate citizen?

Then I have the perfect thing for you — not having a vehicle!

You can save your time trying.

Just go ahead and knock this. Seriously, you don’t need to learn this the hard way.

I had a car from my senior year in high school to my junior year in college. Those were the simple days.

I knew that regardless of how late I was going to be to wherever I was going, I had the opportunity to get there in time. Because, as I always say in response to my own failures, it most certainly is the thought that counts.

But then, due to an absolutely conscious decision that I now refuse to believe was my own fault, I didn’t have a car. Immobilized in the blink of an eye. Left in the dust. Stuck in a cliché.

When you don’t have a vehicle, you’d better get used to the bus

system, which, as you probably know, I think is phenomenal. But when you’ve been on campus 40 minutes after getting out of your late class, that doesn’t seem to matter much anymore. There are only so many times you can count the number of pages you’re supposed to study when you get home (because of course it would just be totally unreasonable to read and sit at a bus stop at the same time) before you memorize it.

Another problem is: As humans, every once in a while we require food. Without a car, you typically have about two or three options at which to obtain this annoying necessity.

And trust me, even Chinese food gets old after the 700th time.

And finally, people might like you, but you’ll quickly find out they don’t like you enough to drive 5 miles to pick you up. Hope you like being alone on a Friday night, because there’s a good chance you’ll be doing a lot of it.

Alright, just to be fair and pedantic, I’ll point out that there are a few advantages to not driving: 1. There is no such thing as “being pulled over” in my life.

2. I now get to text while moving 50 miles per hour down the road.

Sometimes. Realistically though, I usually can’t afford to take my hand off whatever you call that thing people hold on to on buses for much longer than a millisecond unless I’m particularly willing to fall on someone that day.

3. Not only do I get to use the traffic excuse for being late to things; I can even say that TransLoc was malfunctioning and caused me to miss the last bus for 20 minutes.

4. If I ever do happen to be in a wreck, it won’t be my fault. Because we all know that the only thing worse than crippling injury is even the slightest shred of responsibility.

5. I’m never the designated driver anywhere I go. That’s not to say I’ve forgotten how to drive, but I can always rattle off, “No dude, it’s like riding a bike. If you don’t use it, you lose it,” and then grab a beer before they have the chance to question my paraphrasing of the saying.

Jokes and optimism aside, you get the point: Not having a car is dumb and no one should ever do it if given a choice in the matter.

But I’m done complaining here.

Ryan Monk is a 21-year-old chemical engineering senior from Lake Charles, Louisiana. You can reach him on Twitter @RyanMonkTDR.

“‘All campaigns should follow our example’ - J Hudson. Is that a joke?

Kudos to Paul for jumping in this race 2 years before anyone else, but the Dietzel campaign mismanaged its budget and ran out of money, now Paul is parading around at the sorority houses. It looks more like he’s running for SG president than Congress, and last time he got disqualified.”

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Head to Head

Is our generation unpatriotic?

Yes. Patriotism is much more than simply being an American.

BLUE COLLAR SCHOLAR JUSTIN STAFFORD Columnist Comprised heavily of the millennial generation, U.S. college students enjoy one of the greatest freedoms one can have access to: education. These students have an opportunity many outside of this country do not.

The latest generation of Americans is so caught up in the privileges provided by “the land of opportunity” that they seem to have forgotten how those freedoms came to be, as well as how to be thankful for them. To be ungrateful is to be unpatriotic.

Acknowledging and being thankful for the rights that provide such amazing opportunities is being patriotic. American patriotism is not an allegiance to a piece of dirt or even a steadfast ideology. It’s based on the ever-developing values that make this country the greatest — like progress in human rights or the multitude of opportunities.

Although we live in a time in U.S. history with more freedoms than any other generation, getting more millennials to wave Old Glory is as difficult as prying the iPhone from their hands.

Millennials are less likely than their elders to express patriotism. The percentage of this generation that said they were patriotic is lower than any preceding generation. In total, 91 percent of baby boomers claimed to be patriotic in contrast to only 70 percent of millennials, according to a 2011 Pew Research report on the generational gap in American patriotism.

The report found that just 32 percent of my generation believes the U.S. is the greatest country in the world and are also the most likely to voice that.

Millennials do however have the highest hopes for America’s future despite being the least patriotic. In each generation, including millenials, more than 90 percent agreed the country’s freedoms have been very important in America’s success above any other factor.

Some in my generation love wallowing in the country’s freedoms, yet complain that the Promised Land’s milk isn’t low-fat and the honey isn’t in one of those bearshaped jars.

No one in my family has ever graduated from a university. Not because they weren’t smart, but because they were too poor. However, as hardworking Americans do, they managed to put food on the table and a flag in the yard no matter who was president or what war was going on because, by the grace of God, we lived in America.

I’ll be the first college graduate in my family. I’m a full-time student, and also work full time as a small-engine mechanic. I know hardship. But just like most of my parent’s generation, I have never once put down on my country because things were tough.

I was taught that when someone does or gives you something, it’s proper to say “thank you.” Sadly, if one of my fellow mil-

lenials is given anything, hardly will they say “thank you.” More than likely, they’ll ask for more.

Late President John F. Kennedy said, “My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

This nation has done quite a lot for previous generations and even more for the current one. Obviously, there is room for progress to create a more perfect union.

But the progress made thus far didn’t come from those who mumbled under their breath when they were asked to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

The contributions of proud Americans like former president Abraham Lincoln or Eleanor Roosevelt, even in some of the nation’s darkest and most divided days, led to great progress. This was not achieved because they disliked their country, but because they disliked a problem in it and, because they loved it so much, took action to make this land better.

In 1969, country music artist Merle Haggard released a track called “Fightin’ Side of Me.” Haggard’s lyrics sum up my own thoughts about the ungratefulness and the lack of patriotism in some of my generation.

“Runnin’ down the way of life, our fightin’ men have fought and died to keep.

If you don’t love it, leave it. Let this song I’m singin’ be a warnin’. If you’re runnin’ down my country, man, then you’re walkin’ on the fightin’ side of me,” he wrote.

Cuss at whatever politician you want or advocate for whatever cause — that’s the joy of the First Amendment — just do it all with your hand over your heart. You owe at least that much.

Justin Stafford is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from Walker, Louisiana. You can reach him on Twitter @j_w_stafford.

No. Being critical of traditional ideas is not un-American.

OFF WITH HER HEAD JANA KING Columnist In high school, I had a friend who refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance, and it was one of the more scandalous events to strike my small-town Louisiana high school.

I’d been saying it every morning in my public school classroom, hand half-heartedly raised to my heart and monotone recitation. But when the class stood before morning announcements, he stood there, hands at his sides, respectfully declining to take part as we droned on.

“I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands; one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

It wasn’t until a 10th grade civics class that I started to think about what those words meant.

I consider myself to be American.

I come from a middle-class, modest, small-town Louisiana family. I worked hard in school and at my minimumwage, after-school job. I get my taxes deducted from my paycheck, and I get my tax return in the mail every spring.

But I also recognize a handful of problems in America. Specifically, in how the day-to-day lives of its citizens are affected by political and religious forces that seem to have a neverending army of people and financial contributors.

Today, I do not recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Instead, I will stand silently and respectfully while others around me do. I do not feel comfortable

saying the phrase “with liberty and justice for all” because of my views on several social, racial, economic and gender-related issues. But one of the things I have learned to love about my nation is that we have the potential for change.

It is not American — nor is it patriotic — to blindly recite words without questioning their credibility. I would not consider myself American if I did not have hope for a better country, nor would I consider myself patriotic if I believed the rules written by men who didn’t know what a germ was could be wholly applicable to a country 200 years later.

In a 2011 Pew Research Report on the Views of the Nation by generation, it was found that only 32 percent of our generation says the United States of America is the greatest country in the world.

America isn’t a table in the cafeteria where all the popular, smart and successful kids sit. It’s a country founded by the people, for the people.

So why are we in any rush to be “the greatest country in the world?”

And why are we assuming that a generation of youth aware of its countries faults is a negative thing? If you look at the criteria that would make a country “the greatest country in the world,” we aren’t exactly dominating each category.

According to country profiling site Index Mundi’s 2012 comparison of 183 countries across several demographics, America is 22nd in literacy, 18th in HIV/AIDS related deaths, 6th in adult obesity and 50th in life expectancy.

We are second worldwide in health expenditures and first in oil consumption. So if you asked me, a member of the millennial generation, if I believed America was the greatest country in the world, I would have to say no.

I will give us credit for being one of the most influential. Somehow, America has accomplished what every punk kid of average intelligence has done in class — getting on everyone’s nerves and affecting their days.

Sure, we sometimes use our coolkid status to keep the bullies from picking on the smaller students, but if we’re voted class president, it’s probably going to be because of that military power, not intelligence.

It should be concerning that my generation doesn’t consider itself patriotic. But instead of asking why your cleverly packaged American dream isn’t being bought up by millennials for the highest price, ask what older generations are doing to keep us from molding the country into our own.

Jana King is a 20-year-old communication studies junior from Ponchatoula, Louisiana. You can reach her on Twitter @jking_TDR.

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Thursday, October 9, 2014 hospitals, from page 1 Daily Reveille previously reported that Jeff Reynolds, Department of Health and Hospitals undersecretary, said it was unclear whether the $52 million would be combined with other programs or if the excess funds carry over to the next year.

CMS rejected federal financing plans for the hospitals in May, saying CEAs could not be approved until the state’s “required funding” commitments to private partners were deleted. Revised CEAs removed all state funding requirements for patient care, and DHH is no longer named as an obligational party.

A University document titled “Revised and Restated Cooperative Endeavor Agreements” states that LSU’s private partners are confident in these new agreements.

“They have insisted that they are ‘all in’ to the extent that they maintain [their] own business integrity and it is not degraded by

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a lack of funding from the state,” according to the document. “As long as their balance sheets remain solid and are not harmed by these agreements, they will do whatever they are able to do with their expertise to contribute to LSU in a cooperative agreement to assist LSU in its obligations to the public purpose.”

Revised CEAs allow private partners to terminate the CEA, with or without cause, on 60 days’ written notice. According to “Summary of Proposed Changes to Amended and Restated Cooperative Endeavor Agreements,” the University sought a similar right to terminate the agreements at its convenience, but none of the private partners agreed.

Changes have also been made to the private partners’ requirement to continue providing core services, defined as significant services previously provided by the University, and key service lines, services necessary to support the University’s graduate medical education programs. The changes limit these obligations.

“When there’s no money to provide the care, you have to make decisions about what to do,” said Patrick Seiter, an attorney who worked on the agreements. “It’d follow the same process LSU follows with budget cuts.”

Ann Duplessis, chairwoman of the Board of Supervisors, said while the amended CEAs are not perfect, they are a step in the right direction.

“I think we are pleased that we have gotten to the point we’re at now, that we can now consider the CEAs that are before us,” Duplessis said. “Is it a perfect world? No, but I do believe that we are well aware our mission hasn’t ended now, that this gives us an opportunity to begin to develop those additional partnerships to continuously have options B and C, and so that it serves to protect LSU and so that our core purpose is served.”

Board member Jim McCrery was not as positive about the

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“We only have two months to find a new partner — it’s almost impossible to find a new partner in two months,” McCrery said. “I’m not as confident as you are that the shell that remains if a partner leaves will have sufficient personnel to carry on, because a partner could take personnel with it.”

Robert Yarborough, chairman of the board’s health care committee, is confident LSU students would not be affected in the unlikely case a partner pulls out of the CEA. “The government has always found a way to provide that type of personal care and to support their medical training of students around the country,” Yarborough said. “I think the important thing is that the organization would still be present through the structure that we have set up to where we could find another partner in a relatively quick fashion.”

Yarborough emphasized the importance of medical programs and their students in the new CEAs. “What I’d like to focus on is how it ensures the continuation of the graduate medical students’ education,” Yarborough said. “Many of those hospitals that we have these partnerships with were teaching our future doctors, so it was very important that the funding screen that goes and comes through the federal government remained intact so that these hospitals could be viable. And then the result of that, obviously, is that the students studying medicine would continue to gain the experiences in areas and types of activities that go on in the hospital.”

Public commenters at the board meeting expressed concern about the changed CEAs. Brad Ott, with Advocates for Louisiana Healthcare, said the board should deter the vote on the amendments until the regularly scheduled meeting on Oct. 24.

“The website did not have any of the schedules or the exhibits,”

page 15 Ott said. “I encourage you to defer this vote today to your regularly scheduled meeting so that we can see all the schedules, all the exhibits, and make a decision, because this is undoing everything, from what I can see.”

Ott said the Huey P. Long Medical Center in Pineville, which closed June 30 as a part of the state’s privatization plan, was not mentioned in these new deals.

Janet Hayes, the second public commenter, questioned if the board was taking the lives of the poor into account.

“I’m just wondering how much value you place on human life,” Hayes said. “I’m not sure about any of you, if any of you are a paycheck away from homelessness because you’re working for a corporation that doesn’t pay you a living wage. I mean, I’m interested in the public purpose, but when can we get that?”

Duplessis responded to Hayes’ comments, reiterating the board’s commitment to the poor and uninsured.

“I can assure you that the members of this board are very in tune and very sensitive to the issues of all of our people in Louisiana,” Duplessis said.

According to the “Revised and Restated Cooperative Endeavor Agreements,” the state government plans to continue pushing for federal approval.

Moon, from page 1 Together, BREC and the observatory host a free lecture series and weekly sky viewings until 10 p.m., using two telescopes owned by the University that BRAS helps operate.

Mt. Everest Homeschool Coop teacher Stacey Jones said she brought her students and children to the observatory Wednesday morning because it provided a teachable moment, although her curriculum does not focus on astronomy.

“The observatory is a place where we can all meet and learn together,” Jones said. “Seeing the phenomenon was an added bonus, because we can’t just do this in our backyards.”

Jones said her favorite part about the viewing experience was watching visitors act accordingly with the sunrise.

“I found it cool to have everyone in the field here just sitting quiet, then all of a sudden talking and interacting more as the light presented itself, almost like they were waking up with the sun,” Jones said.

Kersey said both the experience and subject matter are never disappointing.

“People just have to remember there’s a ready-made show and laboratory right down the road,” Kersey said, “All they have to do is let it into their lives.”

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