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Art Therapy Psychiatrist uses art to educate public about HIV and AIDS

BY Joshua Jackson jjackson@lsureveille.com Art tells a story. May it be the story of a person, a group of people or a specific location, art recounts someone’s thoughts or emotions.

For HIV psychiatrist Eric Avery, art is an opportunity to tell the story of his experiences and his patients in his new Glassell Gallery exhibit “HIV and AIDS: Witness, Healer, Survivor.”

Avery began making art at a young age and found himself specifically interested in printmaking art. He decided to pursue a career as an artist at the University of Arizona. Unsure of what to do after graduation, Avery’s print teacher suggested he follow another one of his passions by going to medical school to become a doctor.

After being accepted to the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) with an art degree, Avery went on

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to receive his M.D. in psychiatry. He moved to New York to practice psychology, still making art in his spare time. Despite living a life he’d always wanted, Avery found himself unsatisfied.

In the late ’70s, Avery volunteered with humanitarian aid organization World Vision to assist with Vietnamese refugees who were leaving Vietnam and moving to Indonesia. He worked on a ship for years with the Vietnamese refugees until World Vision asked him to travel to Somalia, where there was a drought and famine.

To combat the depression and harshness of the area, Avery began creating wood carvings, depicting what he saw during his travels.

“This was the first time I had truly made something that connected my life and what I’d seen around me,” Avery said.

He returned to the United States a changed man. After seeing the struggles of living in a third-world country, Avery began

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There are only three African-American, full-time law professors at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center.

Segregated until 1950, the Law Center is making efforts to combat the apparent lack of diversity. Jack Weiss, chancellor of the Law Center, appointed a diversity task force on Oct. 23, in a broadcast email to produce results by early 2015.

The discussion on the Law Center’s diversity was sparked after a third-year law student, Robert Kyle Alagood, made a Facebook post about the issue. Andrew Hairston, president of the LSU National Black Law Students Association, saw the post, and the pair contacted administration.

Alagood issued a letter via email on Oct. 20 to Weiss, carbon-copying LSU President F. King Alexander, Executive Vice Chancellor, Provost Stuart Bell, Vice Provost for Diversity Dereck Rovaris Sr. and Law Center faculty.

According to the letter, Alagood’s call to action was to make a public and active stand for racial diversity. The coalition of students proposed in the letter to increase diversity among staff, establish structural cultural resources and implement policies and education concerning diversity.

“It has been an observation of mine that there is a clear lack of cultural competency at the Law Center,” Alagood said. “The law’s school history of being segregated contributes to the wrong-headed idea that

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environment

Water conservation campaign asks students to pee in shower

BY Jayce genco jgenco@lsureveille.com Water is the single most important resource on earth. Without it, there would be no life.

With extreme droughts in California this year and water shortages across the world, two students in the United Kingdom have started a campaign to conserve water at their university.

The campaign, named “Go With the Flow,” urges students to “Wake up. Pee in the Shower.

Save Water. Save the Planet.” The campaign asks students to urinate in their morning shower instead of wasting water flushing the toilet.

In Slate.com’s report, the students from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, estimated they could save around 26 Olympic sized swimming pools

worth of water in a year if students urinate in their morning showers.

Some University students seem to be open in doing their part to save the environment.

Riley Katz, computer science sophomore, said students have to be open minded about urinating in the shower when looking at the numbers.

“If you’re comfortable doing it, I guess it’s OK,” Katz said. “It is obviously environmentally forward to do that, but obviously not everybody is going to want to do that where they get clean.”

Katz said he may occasionally urinate in the shower — but only to save the environment.

“I’m not going to plan my showers around going to the bathroom,” Katz added.

Psychology sophomore Thomas Wisecarver, said he urinates in the shower and would not be opposed to

doing it during his morning shower. Wisecarver assured he’s been “doing his part for a while now.”

“Well I’m in here and I don’t want to get the ground all wet, so I’ll just go pee in the shower,” Wisecarver said. “It’s all going down the drain anyway.”

Vincent Wilson, professor in the department of environmental studies, said conserving water in this approach may not pose an environmental risk.

Wilson said via email that shower water is considered “gray water, not black water,” like sewage. He said gray water generally contains soaps and other substances.

“Urine does not normally harbor microorganisms and thus does not present the same problems that fecal matter carries,” Wilson said in his email. “However, the

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The ‘Go With the Flow’ campaigns promotes urinating during morning showers to conserve water.

Nation & World

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Va. court examines death row isolation policy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia’s practice of automatically holding death row inmates in solitary confinement will be reviewed by a federal appeals court in a case that experts say could have repercussions beyond the state’s borders.

U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria ruled last year that around-the-clock isolation of condemned inmates is so onerous that the Virginia Department of Corrections must assess its necessity on a case-by-case basis. Failure to do so, she said, violates the inmates’ due process rights.

The state appealed, arguing that the courts should defer to the judgment of prison officials on safety issues. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments Tuesday.

The lawsuit was filed by Alfredo Prieto, who was on California’s death row for raping and murdering a 15-year-old girl when a DNA sample connected him to the 1988 slayings of George Washington University students Rachel Raver and Warren Fulton III in Reston. He also was sentenced to death in Virginia, where he has

spent most of the last six years alone in a 71-square-foot cell at the Sussex I State Prison.

Some capital punishment experts say a victory by Prieto could prompt similar lawsuits by death row inmates elsewhere.

“It gives them a road map,” said northern Virginia defense attorney Jonathan Sheldon, who noted that the due process claim succeeded where allegations of cruel and unusual punishment have routinely failed. “It’s not that common to challenge conditions of confinement on due process grounds.”

Even the state says in court papers that Brinkema’s ruling “would do away with death row as it is currently operated in Virginia and numerous other states.”

Andrea Lyon, a death penalty lawyer and dean of the Valparaiso University Law School in Indiana, agreed that the case could have a ripple effect nationally but said prisons would not become more dangerous as a result.

“This is not stepping on the right of prisons to make their own determination of whether or not someone needs this level of confinement,” she said. “Just don’t do it if there’s no reason.”

Lyon, who has represented 138 murder defendants, co-authored a

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2005 report on Missouri’s policy of “mainstreaming” death row inmates into the general prison population. She said a study of 11 years of data from that state’s prison system disproves the “mythology” that death row inmates are more dangerous than other prisoners.

But where Lyon sees mythology, Virginia prison officials see

sound judgment rooted in common sense and years of experience dealing with death row inmates.

“They’re segregated because we see those individuals as potentially the most desperate of all offenders,” state prisons chief Harold C. Clarke said in a deposition in the Prieto lawsuit. “Again, they have been sentenced to die. They have nothing to lose.”

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Cuba builds first new church in 55 years THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAVANA — Cuba has allowed construction of the country’s first new Catholic church in 55 years, the church said Monday. Experts said it’s a sign of improving relations between the Vatican and Cuba’s communist government.

The church, funded by donations from Catholics in Tampa, Florida, will be built in Sandino, a citrus and coffee-growing town in the far-western province of Pinar del Rio. The church publication “Christian Life” said it will have space for 200 people.

“The construction of a church is a clear demonstration of a new

phase, of an improvement, in relations between the church and the state,” said Enrique Lopez Oliva, a professor the history of religions at the University of Havana.

The Catholic Church had tense relations with what was long an officially atheist government for many years after the 1959 revolution, but they began to improve ahead of Pope John Paul II’s visit in 1998.

The government revived observance of a Christmas holiday and began allowing masses or homilies to be broadcast on official media.

It also dropped a ban on church membership for Communist Party members that had been adopted in the years after the 1959 revolution.

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East Baton Rouge EMS staff prepares for potential Ebola outbreak BY savanah Dickinson sdickinson@lsureveille.com East Baton Rouge EMS personnel took refresher courses at its headquarters last week detailing how to protect themselves and others in case there is an Ebola patient in Baton Rouge.

Communicable disease specialists conducted the threehour course. The personnel then were instructed to properly put on the protective gear and take it off as if it were an emergency situation.

Emergency preparedness training is not new, but EMS Public Information Officer Mike Chustz said the Ebola scare in the U.S. prompted the in-service.

Nearly 275 employees attended, including some from outside agencies such as local fire and police departments. Chustz said some LSUPD officers came to the course.

Some personnel have worked for years without putting on the protective gear showcased, and Chustz said it was time to refresh their memories in case of an emergency.

“People always think about suiting up for this, but when you take it off, it’s just as easy to get exposed as when you put it on,” Chustz said.

The “suiting up” process includes double gloving and taping the gloves shut to seal the suit completely — no skin can be exposed. Once completely suited, the personnel must take off the uniform with every precaution.

“Whenever we put [a suit] on them, we douse them in a little bit of chocolate syrup and make them take it off without getting it anywhere else on their body,” Chustz said.

The chocolate syrup stands in the place of infected bodily fluids the medics would be avoiding if they encountered an ill patient.

Once taken off, the suit is triple bagged, sealed tight and disposed in a biohazard box.

Although Chustz said a case of Ebola in Baton Rouge is not expected, EMS must be ready.

University employee Jason Krause was quarantined for 21 days upon his arrival from training police forces to deal with Ebola in Liberia.

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A health worker shows the proper way to wear an ‘Ebola suit’ during a media tour of the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine facility on Oct. 21 at Alabang, Muntinlupa City, Philippines.

Chustz said there is a series of questions medics ask potential Ebola patients, including: Have you been in contact with someone who had Ebola? Have you been to West Africa? Have you been near someone who has been to West Africa?

If EMS gets a call of a suspected Ebola patient, they will take 10 to 15 minutes to drape their ambulances and cover the inside to protect future patients in the vehicle.

The medics will arrive in their protective gear with an

extra suit for the patient if he or she were conscious and able to put on the suit and mask.

Protective gear also is used when EMS is responding to patients with meningitis, hepatitis or excessive bleeding to protect the medics from exposure to deadly or contagious diseases, Chustz said.

Kinesiology senior Mary Marquette said she is not concerned for her own health, but she’s glad the EMS is preparing.

“If they’re more prepared, then we have a better chance if something does happen here in Louisiana,” Marquette said. “It’s more reassuring that we’re preparing and not putting off the issue.”

Chustz said EMS is prepared for an emergency Ebola situation. EMS has met with other agencies that would be responding to an Ebola call, including hospital staff and fire departments.

Every medic has read the Ebola guidelines and each ambulance has protective gear already on it. There is also extra gear for police officers that may respond to the Ebola call.

Academics

New Manship social media course offered next semester

BY Brittany Clark bclark@lsureveille.com With the influence of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, digital journalists are always looking for the next storytelling tool.

Now, Manship School of Mass Communication students have the opportunity to learn about interactive storytelling tools in a new course taught by Lamar Visiting Scholar Steve Buttry.

Buttry said students will gain exposure to storytelling tools, experience how to use the tools in digital journalism and “learn how to learn.”

“The point of the class is to tell good stories, whether for an ad, political campaign or news story,” Buttry said. “The result needs to be something that the audience can relate to and will want to share.”

Buttry said he is not teaching students how to use a specific media tool, and students will learn by trial and error rather than typical instruction. He said the goal is for students to effectively apply the tools to storytelling.

The course will focus on live coverage, mobile apps, mapping, timelines, multi-media, data visualization, curation, animation and autofeed.

“Journalists use Storify, telling tools and how their which is simple to use if you thinking process is applied. know how to drag and drop,” But- Buttry said he also will intry said. “I want the students to vite the developers of media know how to tell the story them- tools to come and make guest selves first and only use tools appearances. such as Storify to make their For the class, students will original ideas better.” be required to gather and verify Buttry said facts, produce he is concerned “The point of the class strong visuabout teaching als and write is to tell good stories, outdated tools, whether for an ad, political well. Buttry exwhich is why his campaign or news story. pects students class is geared to know the The result needs to toward innovabasics of jourbe something that the tive thinking. nalism before audience can relate to Mass comtaking the munication juand will want to share.” course. nior Jonathan Ac c ord Steve Buttry, Brown said he ing to Buttry’s Lamar Visiting Scholar would be interblog, “The Butested in taking try Diary,” the the course to learn how social interactive storytelling tools media tools can provide him with taught do not substitute for jourfaster results in storytelling. nalism basics, but they showcase “I already like using pro- journalistic talent. grams like Adobe InDesign and “I will assign the jourPhotoshop because I can express nalists’ stories to those stumy creativity,” Brown said. dents to read and review,” Brown, who has a public Buttry said. “I am looking forrelations concentration, said ward to learning about some that social media tools and in- tools from students that I teractive storytelling tools may not be familiar with.” would be useful both in the Brown said he would confield and in his personal life. sider taking the course next Students can look forward semester because the informato guest speakers and pro- tion being taught is valuable fessional journalists sharing to any mass communication how they use certain story- student.

MC 4971 — Special Topics in Mass Communication: Interactive Storytelling — will be offered Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:00 to 1:20. The course is open to Manship School of Mass Communication students and will be taught by Lamar Visiting Scholar Steve Buttry.

“Google, Facebook and social media are a big part of mass communication and helps with telling stories,” Brown said.

“It’s important to know how to combine social media and digital storytelling tools because the

world is a digital one.”

The course is now open for spring scheduling and available to all Manship students. The course has 28 slot available and will count as a mass communication elective.

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Krewe of Hermes: The Diamond Jubilee - Louisiana State Museum/Capitol Museum Accalia and the Swamp Monster - LSU Museum of Art LeRoy Neiman: Action! - LSU Museum of Art Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn - Louisiana State Museum/Capitol Museum Associated Women in the Arts - Louisiana State Archives LSU Leisure Classes - LSU Student Union

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Eligible University instructors to receive extended contracts Three-year extensions to begin fall 2015 BY deanna narveson dnarveson@lsureveille.com University instructors who have worked here for six consecutive years are now eligible for greater job security and better options for retirement plans: Extended three-year contracts starting in fall 2015 were approved at September’s Board of Supervisors meeting.

Instructors are non-tenure-track, full-time faculty members who teach the same classes as professors but are not required to do research at the University. Until now, all instructors had annual contracts; their jobs were up in the air every year.

With the new approval, instructors who have been at the University for six years or more and have good evaluations are eligible for threeyear contracts. Instructors who have been at the University for 12 years can earn the higher ranking title of “Senior Instructor,” said Jane Cassidy, vice provost for human resources and facilities management.

Sharon Andrews, an instructor in the English department, said there are still problems with the new system of three-year job contracts for instructors.

If the University has a financial crisis, the instructors

who are at the end of the threeyear cycle would be the first to be let go over instructors who may have worked for fewer years at the University but are in the middle of their cycle, Andrews said.

During the University’s last financial crisis in 2010-11, Andrews, who has been at the University for 15 years and teaches English composition and poetry courses, received two termination notices, each followed by a rehiring notice.

She still keeps them in her office.

“I believe three-year contracts are a step in the right direction,” Andrews said in an email. “It’s important to note, however, that many nontenure-track instructors are equally, if not more concerned about earning a fair salary that recognizes our worth and expertise.”

Andrews said many veteran instructors, including herself, earn less than the starting salaries of instructors at the University’s peer institutions.

She said many instructors have the same qualifications as tenure-track faculty members, but they primarily are focused on teaching. Instructors aren’t required to do research at the University, although many do work on research.

Andrews said instructors are focused on students’ education and nurture students who want to go into research or the realm of academia as well as

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University English instructor Sharon Andrews says there are still problems with the new three-year job contracts for instructors. students who want to pursue careers in other fields.

English instructor Nolde Alexius, who has been at the University for more than 10 years, said the new contract system gives instructors more flexibility when choosing retirement plans because they are less likely to have to leave

after only one year.

University faculty members have a choice between two retirement plans — the optional retirement plan (ORP), which is similar to a 401(k) where money is put into the stock market, and the defined benefits plan, which is similar to Social Security.

Alexius said it made more sense for instructors to put money into the ORP than the defined benefits plan because they cannot take money out of the other plan if they were to be terminated after a year.

Andrews said extended contracts for instructors are also important because instructors often teach general education courses and are critical to retaining freshman students.

“One of my colleagues said we are the face of retention,” Andrews said. “Everyone has to take ENGL 2000, so we see every student who comes in.”

Alexius also said the greater stability longer contracts provide feeds into greater stability with student retention.

“Maybe it still doesn’t have as much of an impact because you still have to teach for six years,” Alexius said. “But it’s a little more hopeful.”

Andrews said many students may not even know the difference between professors who are on the tenure track and instructors.

Mass communication sophomore Chloe Huff said she appreciates the work experience her instructors bring to their teaching because some of them come to the University from other fields of work.

“Like my writing teacher, she has a lot of hands on experience,” Huff said.

“I think its very good [instructors] can have longer contracts.”

Sports

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hitting his stride Jennings’ confidence helps LSU offense find identity

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The No. 16 LSU football team’s offense has finally found its identity, and its discovery stems from the increased confidence sophomore quarterback Anthony Jennings has found.

The Tigers’ offense sputtered early in Southeastern Conference play, struggling to find a smooth game plan that could move the offense down the field at a consistent rate.

But over the last three SEC games, Jennings’ growing ability to control the game and to have confidence in his check-down targets have made all the difference.

“Every game we get more and more comfortable with the offense and the guys around you,” Jennings said after a 41-3 win against Kentucky on Oct. 18. “This game was a building step to getting better each week. Just going out and executing and having those guys around you is a big confidence boost.”

Jennings was in desperate need of a confidence boost a month ago.

ESPN color commentator Kirk Herbstreit noted during the network’s broadcast of LSU’s 10-7 upset of No. 7 Ole Miss on Saturday that Jennings appeared anxious in the pocket if his primary target wasn’t open. He elected to throw the ball away, or in some cases, get sacked instead of furthering

see CONFIDENCE, page 8 Raegan Labat / The Daily Reveille

LSU sophomore quarterback Anthony Jennings (10) runs the ball down the field Saturday the Tigers’ 10-7 win against Ole Miss in Tiger Stadium.

There’s an old NCAA commercial that ends with the line, “There are over 400,000 NCAA student-athletes, and just about all of us will be going pro in something other than sports.”

If this statement is true, the last thing an athlete should be doing is going to fake classes.

Last week, a scathing 131page report was released accusing the University of North Carolina of academic fraud, claiming 3,100 students were enrolled at the school in fake classes over 18 years. Reports say about half of those students were athletes.

The immediate victims of the scandal are fans of the school, who will forever see the championships and success during the 18-year run in a bad light. They will see the athletes they went to school with and view them as cheaters — kids who avoided the weekly grind only because they could jump higher.

The fans’ hate will eventually blow over. What doesn’t change is the path down which

see ACADEMICS, page 8

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Lady Tigers will rely on Ballard in upcoming season Ballard looks to improve on strong NCAA outing

BY Brian Pellerin bpellerin@lsureveille.com In each of the past two seasons, the LSU women’s basketball team has advanced to the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA tournament.

This would be considered a major success for most teams or players, but not for junior guard Danielle Ballard and the Lady Tigers.

After watching many of her teammates fall to injury in the Southeastern Conference and NCAA tournaments, Ballard knew she needed to step up for her team, but her performances exceeded coach Nikki Caldwell’s expectations.

Ballard averaged 23.3 points, 14 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game in the Lady Tigers three tournament games, including a 17-rebound performance against Georgia Tech in the first round that gave her a new career-high.

Three of Ballard’s top seven career-scoring performances came in LSU’s three NCAA tournament games last season, pouring in 24 against Georgia Tech, 22 against West Virginia and 24 against Louisville.

The last LSU player to score 20 or more points in three consecutive games was Theresa Plaisance early in the 2012-13 season.

Caldwell said Ballard was extraordinary in her effort to keep the Lady Tigers’ NCAA tournament run alive.

“Danielle did a phenomenal

job last year in really stepping up her game in postseason,” Caldwell said. “She did a nice job of carrying the load, if you will, from the point guard position especially when Jeanne Kenney went out and Raigyne Moncrief went down.”

Stepping up for big games is nothing new to Ballard.

Six of her top eight careerscoring performances are against top-25 teams.

Ballard said she takes those top-25 games as an opportunity to prove she belongs on that large of a stage.

Senior forward Sheila Boykin said Ballard’s toughness helps her play at the top of her game against top opponents.

“Danielle is just that player

see BALLARD, page 8

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LSU then-sophomore guard Danielle Ballard (32) dribbles past a West Virginia defender March 25 during the Lady Tigers’ 76-67 win against the Mountaineers in the PMAC.

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soccer

Tigers experience difference in college and international styles BY morgan prewitt mprewitt@lsureveille.com At a glance, international soccer and college soccer look the same.

Players in brightly colored jerseys flash across the field, the crowd gasps at perfectly executed moves and beautiful shots right over outstretched goalies hands.

Despite the similarities in appearance, the international and collegiate game are entirely different in the style of play with different rules that govern the match and the way the game flows.

For the Tigers who also represent their countries at the international level, the transition to college soccer can be a rough one, especially playing in Southeastern Conference games.

“Soccer overall is very different,” said junior midfielder Natalia Gomez-Junco. “[In college] it is more based on effort, on toughness and physical intensity. Whereas in Mexico, I was more used to technical

possession and more [tactics].”

One reason for the physical nature of the college game comes from the difference between the international and collegiate rules for substitution.

According to the official rules of FIFA, international teams are allowed up to three substitutions per match.

“In international soccer, substitutions are limited, so you get a much slower paced game,” said LSU coach Brian Lee. “Some would probably say [it’s a] better game at the international level because there is more tempo to it, and you can pace the game. Players know that they probably got to at least have a plan to go 90 minutes.”

Limited subs in the international game, create a style of play focused on possession.

The team that controls the ball establishes the tempo of each match.

International teams track their players’ number of passes per game and their passing completion percentage, which are used in

players’ evaluations.

The substitution rules in college soccer do not limit the overall number of substitution in a match. Instead the rules focus on when a player is allowed to re-enter the game after being subbed out.

According to official NCAA rules, a player cannot re-enter the game after being substituted out in the first half. In the second half, a player can reenter once after being taken out of the match.

These rules allow coaches to frequently rotate players, creating a higher-paced game.

Bench players play an influential role in the college game because they can raise the level of play for 10 or 20 minutes then be taken out.

“Teams can take a philosophy of just running, running, running and bring players in and out,” Lee said. “It changes things a little and the college game becomes much more direct.”

The rotation of players allows players to play more physical because the players have

time to rest.

Another major difference between the international and college games is the amount of time national teams and college teams have to develop chemistry within the team.

College teams have a defined season in the fall, giving players the opportunity to build chemistry on the field and relationships with each other off the field.

“I think the chemistry we have right now is so good,” Gomez-Junco said. “I think everyone just gives everything for each other. I think that is helping in the games.”

While college teams have a regular season to build chemistry, international teams depend on concentrated training before tournaments to establish connections on the field.

Gomez-Junco competed in two FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cups for Mexico and has earned a spot on the senior team in 2013 and 2014. “[For U-20 World Cups] I basically stay in Mexico City for

the whole summer [for] like one or two months before the World Cup,” Gomez-Junco said. “Before that we kind of practice for one week, then we are off for two weeks.”

The short amount of time national teams have to train together creates a more intense training environment by putting the emphasis on perfection.

Junior midfielder Fernanda Piña, who competed in the 2010 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in Trinidad & Tobago, said when training with the national team there is more pressure to be perfect than in practices for LSU. “I’ve learned things here that make me a better player to play for my country and in my country I’ve learned things that make me a different soccer player here,” Gomez-Junco said. “I think those two things complement each other.”

You can reach Morgan Prewitt on Twitter @kmprewitt_TDR.

Gibbs provides energetic, effective play off the bench BY morgan prewitt mprewitt@lsureveille.com While the minutes tick down in the first half, LSU junior forward Lexi Gibbs jogs up and down the sideline before giving her substitution assignment to the assistant referee at midfield.

As she stands at midfield awaiting a break in play, she remembers how she used to admire the girls who played at the LSU Soccer Stadium when she was a little girl watching from the stands.

“I’ve played in Baton Rouge since I was little,” Gibbs said.

“Coming to LSU games ... I did that every Sunday. When I was little, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, these girls — they’re big, they’re cool. Maybe if I could do that one day, that would be fun.’ I got the opportunity.”

Gibbs’ journey to LSU was a short move from Prairieville, Louisiana, but a long-awaited one. Playing for the Tigers has helped her grow in unexpected ways both on and off the pitch.

“I was very shy when I got here, so I think I’ve grown to have more of a voice,” Gibbs said. “I give a lot of credit to the coaches. They have morphed me into the person I am today, and I’m glad of that.”

Gibbs came to LSU in 2011 as the top-ranked recruit in Louisiana after a record-breaking four year prep career at Dutchtown High School, where she set the school record for goals scored with 159.

However, Gibbs didn’t see the field for the Tigers until her sophomore season in 2013. She

appeared in 12 matches with one start against Kentucky.

On the field, Gibbs has developed into a spark off the bench.

She plays a few minutes with a large impact on the tempo of the game and inspires her teammates with her effort.

“I kind of view myself as when I come on, I give a little spark to the rhythm of the game,” Gibbs said. “I take pride in coming off the bench. I love that role. When I do get on for 20 minutes a game, I add something to that half. I really enjoy what I do. If I knock a goal in, that’s great too. I just kind of come on and get our team on the energy level it should be on.”

Gibbs’ energy off the bench is particularly important this season, because it helps keep up the tempo along LSU’s young front line.

She adds a physical presence to the wings of the forward line, complementing freshman center forward Jorian Baucom.

“She’s very, very strong, so she goes strong into tackles, which is one of the reasons that [LSU soccer coach] Brian [Lee] has her play off the side because she goes in a little too hard sometimes,” said sophomore defender Megan Lee. “She changes the tempo, gets it a little more upbeat than usual.”

Although Gibbs’ physicality brings strength to the front line, her ability to hold the ball allows a break from chasing the ball and defending opponents for the players in the midfield and the back line.

Brian said Gibbs has improved on keeping possession

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LSU forward Lexi Gibbs takes the ball from a Stephen F. Austin player at the LSU Soccer Stadium Sept. 8. since arriving at LSU. “She holds the ball very well,” said junior midfielder Natalia Gomez-Junco. “She plays amazing blind lateral balls ... It makes me, as a midfielder, take a break, because she can hold the ball up top, and she will work and give us a breather for everyone in the back.”

The improvement and effort Gibbs puts into her minutes

lifts her teammates and helps them raise their level of play on the field.

“I love when Lexi goes in,” Gomez-Junco said. “She brings a different dynamic to the team ... I think it is fun watching her go in.

Sometimes she is almost scoring or scores and I think, ‘She just got in and I’m playing all game.’”

Gibbs’ growth on the field is a reflection of how she has become

more confident off the field.

“I think Lexi is better at everything she does,” Brian said.

“She is probably more comfortable academically and socially.

Athletically, she has just grown up a lot. She’s had to work hard at it to make that happen for herself.”

You can reach Morgan Prewitt on Twitter @kmprewitt_TDR.

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Primeaux helps mold underclassmen with experience BY jacob hamilton jhamilton@lsureveille.com Cross country runner Philip Primeaux has been a major contributor for the LSU men’s team in his senior season and has managed to run away with his most accomplished individual season as a Tiger.

Although Primeaux has been the top finisher for the men’s team in five of six meets this season, one of his most significant contributions to the program is his willingness to help the underclassmen and his ability to set a positive example for them.

“This year we had a group of older guys finally coming into their running careers and a talented group of freshmen,” Primeaux said. “The more we could bridge the gap, it would help us get better.”

Primeaux opened the 2014 season by finishing in second place at the McNeese Relay with junior teammate Travis Pope.

When the team traveled to the Rice Invitational, Primeaux also led it to a fifth-place finish after an individual finish of seventh place.

Primeaux’s best performances of the season came at the LSU Invitational and the McNeese Cowboy Stampede. At the LSU

Invitational, he secured his first victory as a Tiger. Primeaux went for his second consecutive individual victory at the McNeese Cowboy Stampede, but he finished one spot off the lead after Tulane freshman Moses Aloiloi edged him out.

Freshman runner Jack Wilkes said Primeaux took him and his fellow freshmen under his wing in the first week of workouts and taught them the ins and outs of the sport at the collegiate level.

An important lesson Primeaux taught the underclassmen is that they should be hurting after one of coach Khadevis Robinson’s rigorous workouts, or they are doing them incorrectly.

“One of the biggest things it helps to know as a freshman is that you’re going to be tired, hurting and sore, but that is OK” Primeaux said. “When I was a freshman, I couldn’t believe what the upperclassmen could do as far as work load. So I told the younger guys, ‘Hey, don’t be worried if you’re tired or hurting.’ I think that helped them out.”

Wilkes said he saw Primeaux’s improvement from freshman to senior year and hopes following in Primeaux’s footsteps will render him the same results.

Wilkes gets the most out of

workouts by emulating Primeaux and trying to keep up with him in the meets to ensure a top finish. “[Primeaux] is the person that I know is always going to do what needs to be done,” Wilkes said. “If I’m anywhere near him, I know I’m doing the right thing.”

Senior runner Andria Aguilar said a portion of the team’s success this season can be accredited to its cohesion, and Primeaux’s relationship with the freshmen is a large proponent of the newfound unity.

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[Left] Philip Primeaux (519), leads the team in the LSU Cross Country Invitational. [Right] Primeaux (left) and Blair Henderson (right) take the lead in the LSU Cross Country Invitational on Sept. 20.

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LSU sophomore quarterback Anthony Jennings (10) runs a play Saturday during the Tigers’ 10-7 victory against Ole Miss in Tiger Stadium.

CONFIDENCE, from page 5 his progressions.

Jennings’ lack of confidence lent itself to LSU’s rough start in the SEC, and the Tigers lost to Mississippi State in a game not nearly as close as the 34-29 final might indicate.

The Bulldogs sacked Jennings three times and held him to a 50 percent completion percentage. Jennings was benched late in the game in favor of freshman Brandon Harris, who threw two touchdown passes on nine attempts to put the Tigers within striking distance.

Harris’ strong outing eventually earned him the start two weeks later against Auburn. But after the freshman’s shaky outing against the SEC West rival, Jennings got a second chance to be the leader of what had been a less-than-impressive offense up to that point.

Jennings didn’t waste his opportunity, and the offense found its groove.

LSU put the bulk of the offense on its running backs’ shoulders, asking the quarterback to manage the game to the best of his ability.

And that’s what Jennings did.

Jennings has begun to do the things coach Les Miles and offensive coordinator Cam Cameron have been looking for, and it’s apparent in Jennings’ progressions.

Through two SEC contests, the Tigers had a total of 85 receiving yards from their running backs and tight ends, with most of those yards coming late in a failed come-from-behind attempt against Mississippi State.

The lack of progression in the passing game led LSU to a 0-2 start in the SEC. But since then, the Tigers are 3-0 against SEC opponents due to Jennings’ improvement in his progressions.

LSU has gained 162 yards through the air from running backs and tight ends during the three-game span.

Sophomore wide receiver Travin Dural said Jennings’ ability to check the ball down in the backfield has helped the offense spread out opposing defenses.

“It lets us know that we’re not

the only one who’s going to make plays in the passing game,” Dural said. “We know our running backs can catch and that’s going to help us out a lot — being that sometimes we split them out wide, and they’re a threat to catch the ball.”

Jennings’ ability to utilize the running backs in recent weeks has helped open up the Tigers’ run game. LSU rushed for 762 yards during its three-game SEC winning streak, getting the offense back to its roots.

Miles said Jennings is starting to understand the quarterback position better and is becoming more accurate with his throws and decision-making.

“He continues to do the things that we want him to do more,” Miles said. “He’s becoming more accurate. He understands the style of throws better. His leadership in those things that are not necessarily his plays allow him to make ten other players better, so that needs to continue.

Senior running back Terrence Magee has been Jennings’ favorite check down target in recent weeks. The Franklinton, Louisiana, native has gained 89 yards receiving in the past two games, with each reception gaining at least 12 yards.

Magee said the running backs have become a safety valve for Jennings late in his progressions, and they have become wiser in reading the defense.

“A lot of times us as tailbacks, we want to stay and protect because we don’t want to give up a sack,” Magee said. “We have to be wise and see what’s going on with the defense and what blitz they’re sending, and know that we have the ability to get out and let Anthony check it down to us.”

Jennings hasn’t looked back since regaining his starting role in the offense, and it’s apparent he’s becoming more confident with each passing week.

“I think he’s gaining confidence,” Magee said. “With every practice he’s going out there and he’s improving and getting better.”

You can reach Jack Chascin on Twitter @Chascin_TDR.

that I can’t explain what she does,” Boykin said. “She has a bit of a street ball knack to her.”

Ballard said carrying over her success from the NCAA tournament is important to the team, but she remains focused on doing what’s best for her teammates.

Junior guard Akilah Bethel said the speed of the backcourt will help Ballard carry her game over to this season because when they run, the game flows better for her talents.

“Bringing the fire [Ballard] had from last season to this season with all the new players and all the returning guards, we’re going to be faster,” Bethel said.

“I think it’ll be easier for her to transition that over to this year because we’re going to be so much faster.”

But even though the Lady Tigers are returning a large number of guards, they did lose their offensive leader in point guard Jeanne Kenney. Ballard said she isn’t a very outspoken leader on the court, but she isn’t afraid to pump up the team

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LSU then-sophomore guard Danielle Ballard (32) shoots for a goal Oct. 30, 2013, during the Lady Tigers’ 95-24 victory against Tennessee Temple in the PMAC. before a game and lead the team through her actions.

Caldwell said Ballard’s NCAA tournament experience

will make her a better leader this season.

“We’re expecting [Ballard’s] leadership to carry over,” Caldwell said. “She did a nice job for us over the summer in working out and being that leader who led by example.”

While Ballard dominated offensively through the tournament, the biggest contribution of her LSU career has been her ability to force turnovers.

In her freshman season, she recorded 100 steals and became the first LSU player — man or woman — to record 100 steals in a season.

Ballard took a dip in the steals category last season, recording only 42 steals. Ballard said she will get back to her top defensive form this season to help fill the void of her departed teammates — something she has gotten used to at this point.

“From a freshman to sophomore to now being a junior, I have developed more as a player,” Ballard said. “I think you will see someone who was better than they were and someone who wants to do what’s best for the team.”

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North Carolina basketball coach Roy Williams reacts to questions regarding the release of a report on academic fraud at the university, following the team’s NCAA college basketball exhibition game against Fayetteville State on Friday.

ACADEMICS, from page 5 UNC has sent some of its athletes, leaving them without the proper education they were once promised.

UNC academic counselors steered athletes into the fake courses. The athletes shouldn’t be withheld from all blame in the scandal, but we should recognize the influence they were under.

One former UNC football player, Mike McAdoo, said earlier this year that his adviser told him to major in AfricanAmerican Studies — the subject where the fake classes took place. McAdoo was then put in several paper classes, even though he was interested in majoring in something else.

But McAdoo did not come to UNC to choose his major — at least not in the eyes of those running the school. He came to play football and get the

Tar Heels to a couple of bowl games. The classes he took in school were meaningless as long as he passed.

Once players like McAdoo realize this, they can finally see how UNC viewed them when they first stepped on campus — as objects.

Without any schooling, those kids become tools colleges use for free to generate buzz about their athletic teams. The buzz turns into copious amounts of revenue, none of which goes to the athletes.

For most student-athletes, a college scholarship is their opportunity at a promising career, and getting a degree at a prestigious university like UNC could change their life. But these are still 18- to 22-year-old students, and they can be swayed to make poor decisions if authorities look the other way.

A larger fear is that the

scandal does not stop at Chapel Hill, and similar “fake class” programs are going on around the country. The UNC program lasted 18 years, and who’s to say someone who had a hand in it didn’t go to another school and attempt to start something similar?

Somewhere, there’s a former UNC athlete who is unemployed and struggling to make ends meet. Maybe with the proper guidance from the school, he could have a career in any field he wanted, rather than being taken advantage of by people who just wanted fatter pockets.

That player lost a chance at an education, and no final score makes up for that.

Tommy Romanach is a 22-yearold mass communication senior from Dallas, Texas. You can reach him on Twitter @troman_98.

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Three years in, student-owned bakery sees success BY gerald ducote gducote@lsureveille.com

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hree years ago, management senior Kyle Anderman sought to fill a hole in Baton Rouge’s gastronomic culture. In a city filled with new restaurants and adventurous culinary endeavors by young, upcoming chefs from New Orleans, he found there was no place where people could find baked goods outside of seasonal king cakes and cakes made for special occasions.

To resolve this issue, Anderman developed the concept of a gourmet bakery specializing in cupcakes in a variety of flavors and collaborated with a law professor to make his dream a reality. The result: Frosted Gourmet Bakery, located on the corner of Nicholson and West Lee drives.

“In one class, we were discussing different ideas for Baton Rouge,” Anderman said. “I noticed that there wasn’t really a big cupcake scene here yet. I thought the LSU area is perfect because there’s a ton of college students.

We could put it right in the middle of there and they would eat it up.”

Since starting the enterprise in February 2012, Anderman has seen steady business

growth in his shop. Frosted employs mostly student workers as counter clerks and bakers to concoct the signature treats. All of the shop’s cupcakes come from original recipes that Anderman created with the help of a team of food professionals.

“I actually didn’t have any experience baking coming into it,” Anderman said. “My biggest thing was just the business aspect of it all.

I had good ideas for marketing, good ideas for what the logo should look like, all of that kind of stuff. The baking part was all after that. We hired a team of culinary experts around Baton Rouge to help us design our menu.”

Anderman decided to add the popular flashfrozen ice cream Dippin’ Dots to the menu.

Though not an original idea, the snack’s recognition helps get customers in the door. From there, Frosted caters to the baked goods side of decadence. In a stroke of marketing sense, Anderman figured the ice cream would conjure feelings of nostalgia to his younger clientele.

“I knew that Dippin’ Dots was going to be

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Pop culture, past eras create the best Halloween costumes Pull inspiration from favorite things THE REAL MEG RYAN meg ryan Entertainment Writer Halloween is the one day of the year your outfit can be as scary, stupid or revealing as possible, and no one will judge you for it.

There’s just one tricky part: deciding what to be.

Some people spend weeks coming up with ideas and planning their costumes. Or maybe you’re like me and wait until the last minute to decide. Having to set aside time to think up and then put together a frivolous outfit I’ll only wear for one night is something I constantly push back until the week of Halloween.

However, planning a costume is easy if you pull your

idea from what you already know or have tucked away in your closet.

Pop culture references are easily recognizable and easily recreated. Most costumes that are based on celebrities, television shows and movies can start with items you already have in your wardrobe.

For example, “The Addams Family” is a classic television and movie franchise that’s still relevant today. One of the easiest characters to recreate is Wednesday Addams, whose consistent wardrobe is a black dress with a peter pan collar, tights and black shoes. This can be recreated with items from your closet and paired with simple accessories. Braid your hair in pigtails and make your makeup pale with dark eyeshadow, and you’re Wednesday.

Other popular television shows like “American Horror Story: Coven,” “Breaking Bad” and “Scandal” are easily recreated because all three

show’s wardrobes are made of clothing items people keep handy in their closets.

While these costume ideas are simple, some are more difficult, but still attainable. For a show like “Game of Thrones,” you can make the base and accessories with what you have, and then go out and get all the extra necessities, like medieval-style clothing and props.

You don’t necessarily need to get specific with your Halloween costume references. Another easy option is channeling a specific era for your outfit.

While many people don’t have ’80s prom dresses and ’70s fringed vests in their closets, a quick trip to a local thrift store can buy a whole costume for a little money.

Pick an era that speaks to you, and then do a bit of research.

What were the biggest trends?

What were popular patterns, colors and silhouettes? Then

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An easy costume consisting of clothing already in your wardrobe is Wednesday Addams.

A dress with a peter pan collar, tights and black shoes bring the look together.

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Students experiment with clothing dyes Class focuses on natural dyeing techniques

blueberries, chamomile tea and coffee.

McRoberts said Louisianians are “blessed” with natural fruits BY michael tarver and berries that can be used in mtarver@lsureveille.com fabric dyeing. Louisiana red camellias, for example, produce a In her class last Thurs- dark pink color.

Some natural dyes are day, University assistant professor Lisa McRoberts also representative of Louisirolled in a cart loaded with ana culture. For example, safvarious fruits and spices for fron starts out as a vibrant red color, but it dyes fabric a communal class use.

However, this isn’t a cu- bright gold color, McRoberts linary class — it’s a fashion said.

Historically, this gold color design class.

Students in the department of was reserved for the clothes textiles, apparel design and mer- of royalty or upper class memchandising are experimenting bers of society. Paired with with eco-friendly dyes in their a bold purple, LSU’s color clothing designs in addition to scheme represents the more unnatural dyes such as the popu- regal shades in the dyeing spectrum. lar brand Rit. Along with the process of natWhile the unnatural dyes might often yield more vibrant urally applying color to fabric, primary colors, according to McRoberts said there are mulThe Rit Studio website, the dyes tiple ways to restrict or control are made from “a combination the dye to make certain patterns of various acids and direct dyes or shapes emerge. Four types of dyeing methods she teaches along with sodium chloride.” are using McRobresist dyes, erts said she doesn’t The Cotton Project is a grant from b l e a c h i n g , thread with prohibit her Cotton Incorporated that was and wax students awarded to McRoberts, associate wax dyeing. from using professor of merchandising, Resist unnatural dyes, but she Chuanlan Liu and human ecology dyeing is a that encourages instructor Debbie Welker to promote method prevents or them to use the use of cotton products. resists the more ecodye from friendly alreaching evternatives.

“I want to teach them ecologi- ery piece of the fabric, so a patcal methods of dying,” McRob- tern emerges.

Bleaching is the process of erts said. “Like using natural fruits, flora and fauna that is na- lightening or whitening fabric to yield a more flushed version tive to Baton Rouge.”

This promotion of natu- of color. For example, a piece of ral dyes is part of a larger at- fabric can be placed in the sun tempt to convince student with a flower resting on it, and designers to use more eco- the natural dye will soak into the logical materials, specifically fabric.

Thread with wax or traLouisiana cotton, called the ditional wax dyeing refers to Cotton Project.

The Cotton Project is a grant using wax as a type of resisfrom Cotton Incorporated that tor to create a distinctive patwas awarded to McRoberts, asso- tern, then removing the wax by ciate professor of merchandising rewarming it.

Natural dyeing is slightly Chuanlan Liu and human ecology instructor Debbie Welker to pro- more difficult because certain mote the use of cotton products. fabrics, like cotton, absorb the McRoberts said this extends dye better than others.

McRoberts said hydrophilto the natural dyeing of cotton and use of other eco-friendly ic fabric, or fabric that “likes water,” is the best when worktechniques.

McRoberts said the grant ing with natural products, covers the cost of fabrics for while non-natural dyes will dye the students, and their gar- anything.

The Cotton Project is a way to ments are put into a cotton competition with three categories: promote the state’s agricultural fabric design, cotton illustrat- products because Louisiana proing and creative use of cotton duces a vast amount of cotton as garments. Monetary awards well as many other agricultural up to $1,500 have been given items such as various fruits and to students as prizes for the flowers, McRoberts said. This project also exposes the stucompetition finalists.

In her design class, McRob- dents to non-traditional metherts uses examples of natural ods in the wide range of fashion products found in Louisiana’s design. ecosystem or are distinctive to the state. These include saf- You can reach Michael Tarver fron, strawberries, beets, on Twitter @michael_T16.

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Assistant professor Lisa McRoberts shows her design students how to use natural dyes as an eco-friendly alternative Thursday.

Tuesday, October 28, 2014 cupcakes, from page 9 a huge thing,” Anderman said.

“People our age, it kind of brings back memories from our childhood. When you go to fairs or whatever, there were always Dippin’ Dots everywhere. I knew it would be a big hit in the college age range, especially since there’s nothing in Baton Rouge that sells Dippin’ Dots.”

With Halloween landing on Friday, Frosted has seen its annual spike in sales of themed cupcakes. The same goes for the other holidays, like Christmas and Valentine’s Day. Anderman has taken a page from American marketing, releasing pumpkin-flavored cupcakes in concurrence with the fall season.

“The store will change,” Anderman said. “We’ll put little ghosts up on the screen [digital menu], and then we’ll put little ghosts on the cupcakes and decorate them for Halloween. The

same thing for Christmas. We always like to be very festive as the seasons come along.”

Unlike most bakeries and confectioneries, the shop is open seven days a week with closing times ranging between 9 and 10 p.m. These late hours mean more nighttime customers, specifically students, can still enjoy the gourmet treats after a long day at school.

“Coming into it, I knew that everybody would come here for dessert,” Anderman said. “I used to go get ice cream and yogurt late at night. That’s kind of what college kids do. I wanted go grab that attention and apply it to a cupcake store.”

Frosted provides large-order options for occasions like birthdays, weddings and corporate meetings as well as typical in-store business. Along with the cupcakes and Dippin’ Dots, Anderman recently partnered with popular New Orleans dessert boutique Sucré to offer a

The Daily Reveille selection of petite macarons.

As far as Frosted’s future is concerned, Anderman has some ideas about expanding into the chocolate market. Currently in talks with Baton Rouge chocolatiers Chocollage, Anderman hopes to bring his customers more sweets with a cocoa character. Specifically, he sees a rise in male customers coming for more chocolate-oriented gifts around Valentine’s Day. “I don’t want to confirm it yet, but our next thing we’re going to do is deal with Chocollage,” Anderman said. “We’re going to bring custom, chocolate-type desserts to add to our menu.

What I mean by that is chocolatedipped Oreos, pretzels dipped in chocolate with M&Ms wrapped on. I think that will draw in a different crowd.”

One of Anderman’s biggest aspirations is to one day find a place for Frosted closer to the University’s campus. Currently situated on the far end of Nich-

page 11 olson Drive, Anderman hopes to move from America’s cupcake fad to its food truck obsession.

“One of the biggest things is getting onto LSU’s campus,” Anderman said. “Right now, we have really no relation with LSU. I really want to talk to the guys in charge over there and get our cupcakes or cake balls or something on the campus. Something I’ve thought would be really cool would be a little stack of them in the dining halls.”

Under the direction of Anderman, Frosted Gourmet Bakery brings an assortment of original recipes and twists on old favorites.

Two of the shop’s biggest sellers are “Proposal,” a wedding cake cupcake and “Royale Rouge,” Frosted’s take on red velvet. Anderman’s personal favorite is his cookies and cream flavor, which features an entire Oreo cookie at the bottom.

You can reach Gerald Ducote on Twitter @geraldducoteTDR.

costumes, from page 9 head to a thrift store or an older relative’s closet and start digging.

Don’t be afraid to be daring. If you choose an era like the ’70s, there was a large trend of flowy silhouettes and psychedelic patterns. Mix patterns and fabrics to create a costume that shows you’re distinctly channeling another decade.

One final note: Your worst nightmare on Halloween is showing up to a party where no one can guess what you are. If this is the case, ditch the costume. Go for something a little more obvious.

While people will appreciate your hard work and attempt to be different, it’ll still be an awkward conversation.

Meg Ryan is a 20-year-old mass communication sophomore from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

You can reach her on Twitter @The_MegRyan.

food and drink

Halloween can be healthy holiday with moderation kept in mind BY paige fary pfary@lsureveille.com

ages, as it is additional calories without nutritional benefits.”

If a person does have alcoWhile Halloween involves vis- holic beverages, Holston advised iting haunted attractions and find- opting for light beers, wine and ing a suitable costume, it also in- alcohol in its most natural form, volves a lot of alcohol, candy and meaning without sugary mixers baked goods. that add a copious amount of caloFor any health-conscious per- ries. son, this holiday can be an obsta“For example, a 12-ounce cle course. light beer is around 100 calories,” Sociology professor Yoshi- Holston said. “And a 4-ounce marnori Kamo said garita is about Halloween is so- ‘One of the worst decisions 170 calories.” ciologically like Forensic a student can make during sociology Thanksgiving. and “With Thanks- Halloween is treating it as p s y c h o l o g y giving and Hallow- though it will be your last freshman Jaiopportunity to ever eat mie Gallagher een, we have a good excuse to eat a lot,” said she treats candy again.’

Kamo said. “We Halloween like need something fun any other day, Denise holston, to have a reason to and she doesn’t Smart Bodies program director load up on sugar and drink. carbs to do some“Drinking thing unusual.” leads to horrible eating,” GallaKamo said that while Hal- gher said. “People will drink and loween parties aren’t neces- then start craving Taco Bell. It sarily different from other adds up.” holidays, this one gives people an excuse to go overboard because Halloween isn’t like every other day of the year.

Denise Holston, Smart Bodies program director and instructor in the University’s School of Nutrition and Food Sciences, offered advice and warnings for this year’s health nightmare.

“One of the worst decisions a student can make during Halloween is treating it as though it will be your last opportunity to ever eat candy again, meaning overindulging just because it is Halloween,” Holston said.

Holston also said to avoid sticky candies because they can easily attach to teeth, promoting bacteria and dental cavities.

The party atmosphere also presents several challenges for those cautious about their health and weight. Holston said if anyone is dedicated to weight watching, they “should probably avoid alcoholic bever-

Holston said those who want to eat candy on Halloween should opt for dark chocolate as a healthier option. For those aiming to avoid sweets entirely, she said nuts and regular or dried fruit are alternatives.

However, students don’t need to excessively worry about weight gain, Holston said. A person would have to consume 3,500 more calories than what his body burns to gain one pound.

“A person can easily eat two to three pieces of candy on some days and not gain any weight as long as they balance the rest of their food choices and engage in physical activity,” Holston said. “Go for two to three pieces and savor them.”

She also said a person could have one to two alcoholic drinks without experiencing weight gain.

Regardless, Holston said students should treat Halloween as a typical day complete with sufficient physical activity.

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With Halloween quickly approaching, students face issues with consuming candy in moderation.

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Always Low Wages Walmart’s minimal pay leads to negative effects on economy blue collar scholar justin stafford Columnist There are more reasons to be angry at Walmart than not being able to find a parking spot or the endless line that winds around the store from the customer service desk.

Walmart remains one of the most successful and powerful corporations in the world simply because of its low prices.

But they come at a high cost.

For years, labor activists have criticized and targeted Walmart for employing a plethora of part-time workers for low wages. It’s time bigbox retailers rethink the way they treat workers, among other things too.

The superstore damages communities by crushing local businesses and paying low wages, as well as hindering the decrease of crime and contributing to obesity.

Earlier this month, a group of organizers called Our Walmart crowded the streets of Washington, D.C., Phoenix and New York to raise awareness for their cause to change the labor practices in lowwage fields like fast food and retail. Protestors demanded $15 wage and full-time status.

By not paying employees adequately or offering fulltime positions, Walmart and similar retailers are hurting workers and themselves in an already hard economy. Without providing a proper living wage that allows for disposable income to employees, who are also consumers, Walmart loses the business of the same people they aim to sell to.

Other detrimental consequences occur when Wally World rolls into town. Local businesses suffer and are often forced to shut their doors.

On average, as many as 14 retail businesses close within 15 months following the opening of a new Walmart, according to research published this year in Social Science Quarterly.

This trend is nothing new, though. In 2008, a study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found the vast expansion of Walmart in the ’80s and ’90s was at fault for anywhere between 40 and 50 percent of the decline of smaller stores.

When there are no jobs, there is no money and without funds, there is poverty.

The link between crime and poverty is evident. How does this pertain to the superstore?

Well, a strange, but interesting, correlation between the placement of a Walmart store and crime exists.

Criminology and Criminal Justice professors Scott Wolfe of the University of South Carolina and David C. Pyrooz of Sam Houston State University call it the “Walmart Effect.”

In their study, Wolfe and Pyrooz concluded while Walmart doesn’t necessarily increase crime, the store’s presence makes it more difficult for U.S. counties to experience crime rate declines, and Walmart increases poverty in communities by reducing the overall number of employment opportunities.

The research implied Walmart is linked to unfavorable changes in crime rates because of the negative structural conditions brought on by the displacement of local businesses and the creation of a weak labor market.

This financial instability and diminished social capital are strong factors contributing to crime because it’s hard to be poor and happy. People get some kind of happy feeling when they are in that small town “everybody-knows-everybody” atmosphere.

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Walmart’s lower wages has been linked to criminal activity, obesity and the harm of local businesses.

Another finding was Walmart functions as a crime attractor and generator. It draws offenders to a single location that provides potential for various criminal activities.

A one-stop shop also brings a lot of people into one concentrated area, which essentially makes customers fish in a barrel for those with ill intent. Bad things happen in a Walmart parking lot. Trust me.

With low pay and the threat of being mugged walking to your car, it would be easy to get depressed and eat your feelings. Walmart’s low priced

food is ideal at this point, but be warned, the store can be attributed to obesity.

The results of a 2011 study in the Journal of Urban Economics, “Supersizing Supercenters? The Impact of Walmart Supercenters on Body Mass Index and Obesity” implied that Walmart contributed 10.5 percent to the rise in obesity since the late ’80s.

Walmart’s savvy retail logistics have made way for reductions in the price of food, which leads to over indulging.

This way, after you’ve bought all the junk food, you’ll go back to buy diet supplements.

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For a store whose mascot was once a bouncing smiley face, employees and shoppers have little reason to grin about the practices of Walmart and similar businesses. The public should think twice before walking through those sliding doors simply for convenience and the employee to employer relationship within these big stores is in dire need of reworking.

Justin Stafford is a 21-yearold mass communication major from Walker, Louisiana.

You can reach him on Twitter @j_w_stafford.

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Conservatives unsuccessfully urge young women not to vote our lady of angst Sidneyrose reynen Columnist With only one week until Election Day, things are getting pretty hectic. Campaigns are still running strong, people are rushing to get their votes in early and countless cable news networks are reporting on anything and everything election-related.

Thankfully, amid all the chaos, Fox News was there to comfort the young women who are confused by all this voting business.

On Tuesday, “The Five,” one of many Fox News talk shows, delved into the gloriously titled segment, “Will The War On Women Backfire Against Democrats In Midterms?”

Co-host Greg Gutfeld implied that young women aren’t smart enough to vote conservative and therefore, shouldn’t vote at all.

Kimberly Guilfoyle, another co-host, even suggested that young women be excused from jury duty because of our apparent lack of life experiences. Or, more simply, because we just “don’t get it.” Instead of utilizing our rights as citizens, Guilfoyle said we should all “go back on Tinder or Match.com.”

This segment was just one of

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The National Review’s Kevin Williamson blames creator and star of HBO’s ‘Girls’ Lena Dunham and her view on politics as one reason he believes women are too dumb to vote. many efforts to discourage women from voting in the upcoming elections.

To put the bitter icing on top of this ipecac-filled, Fox Newsthemed cake, Bill O’Reilly also gave his two cents about the dangers of female voters last week.

After declaring that America is “a much weaker country” since President Obama has taken office, he soliloquized about why exactly women vote Democrat.

Because women are too gullible and dumb to know what we want, we just go ahead and vote

Democrat, which, in turn, is ruining the nation.

Before Fox News jumped on this hot issue, Kevin D. Williamson covered this topic on the National Review website. You might recognize Williamson from Salon.com’s “Can you tell the difference between National Review’s Kevin Williamson and a 4chan troll?” quiz, which immediately gives you a sense of perspective on his writing.

Williamson’s handy guide, titled “Five Reasons Why You’re Too Dumb to Vote,” actually

only gives one reason — young women “get [our] politics from Lena Dunham.”

In a sentence that can only be described with an eyeroll, Williamson argues, “Our national commitment to permanent, asinine, incontinent juvenility, which results in, among other things, a million or so abortions a year, is not entirely unrelated to the cultural debasement that is the only possible explanation for the career of Lena Dunham.”

I’ll give you a minute to pop your eyeballs back in place.

Let me start off by saying the “War on Women” that Fox-News types think is imaginary is indeed very real. Abortion clinics are closing left and right, poverty has been increasingly feminized, and rape culture is seeping into our legal system. The mindset that this war is simply made up by hysterical feminazis is almost as bad as the war itself.

While Democrats are certainly not getting a pass for their part in America’s oppression of women, it goes without saying that conservatives have nearly erased 50 years of feminist progress. Beginning with everyone’s favorite actor-turnedpolitician, Ronald Reagan, Republicans have been inching closer and closer to the rightwing and have regularly imposed fascist restrictions on women and their bodies.

After most of the year is devoted to badmouthing women, people of color, the LGBT community and pretty much everyone else, conservatives often struggle during election season when they realize they actually have to get people like us to vote for them. When they realize that they have narrowed down their target demographic so much that it’s practically nonexistent, conservatives panic — hence the numerous urgings of women not to vote by conservative media right before Election Day. Women were granted the right to vote in America less than 100 years ago, and it’s a relatively new concept to the entirety of Western civilization. Comparing us to Lena Dunham and deeming us Tinder-obsessed fools will not discourage us from enacting our rights. Women will fill up voting booths nationwide on Nov. 4 regardless of Bill O’Reilly’s incessant bullying.

I lost hope with the Republican party a long time ago. I foresee that conservatives will continue to trash-talk young women year after year in an effort to get us not to vote, but I haven’t lost hope in my fellow women.

SidneyRose Reynen is a 19year-old film and media arts sophomore from New Orleans.

You can reach her on Twitter @sidneyrose_TDR.

Black celebrities should be aware of social issues in community say it loud taylor simien Columnist At the 2014 BET Hip Hop Awards, entertainment website Bossip.com interviewed rapper Young Thug and asked him, in the midst of Mike Brown’s death, what should be changed in the way black men are policed in America?

“Leave that up with the critics and the laws,” he said. “We having fun, we iced out. We having money, that’s how we doing it.”

He then said it’s not an artist’s place to speak on social issues.

Young Thug’s response is all that is wrong with how many black youths are raised in America — blind to what’s happening in their own community.

Should we blame the 22-yearold rapper for not being as socially conscious as rappers like KRS-One or Yasiin Bey? No. He is a product of his environment.

Being socially aware of issues affecting your community is not something we are born with; it has to naturally pique our interest or be taught to us.

Many black homes lack the positive guidance needed during critical periods in a child’s life. It is important for adults in black communities to be positive mentors for youth who don’t have enough guidance or attention at home, because it takes a village to raise a child.

Being a mentor to black youth doesn’t just mean replacing the mother or father they don’t have.

It means opening their eyes to social issues surrounding black America. It means teaching them ways to not become another negative black statistic. It means not only guiding them in a direction to become a productive member of society, but also teaching them how to lead the generation to come.

Members of the black community turn to rap and hip-hop as a way out of their rough everyday lives. Making music and writing lyrics are ways to express yourself when you feel like no one else can relate or no one else cares.

Because rap and hip-hop sit at the core of black culture, when it comes to issues in the black community, black celebrities should always have something to say about it. They are who the youth look up to.

Rap and hip-hop are versa-

tile genres of music. They cater to a variety of different musical styles and lyrics. Of course there will always be the group of ratchet, turn-up songs, but rap and hiphop have always lent themselves to songs about keeping your head up, waking up to what’s going on and fighting the power.

If you have time to rap about money, cars, clothes, women, sex and drugs, then you should have time to talk about even more pressing issues like racism or the harsh policing of blacks in America.

It is important for artists to realize that once they’re in the spotlight, everything they say will be analyzed. Whether they are your biggest fans or they are waiting for you to slip up, people are watching them like a hawk. It is important for celebrities to be prepared for any relevant question that may come their way.

People are so easily influenced by what they see celebrities doing. Having a nonchalant attitude and an iced out mentality is detrimental to the millions of people who actually try to imitate the lifestyle of rappers like Young Thug. Serious questions deserve serious answers.

When people see rappers they respect stepping up to the plate and establishing a

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It is important for black youths to be socially aware of issues affecting their community, such as rapper Yasiin Bey. stance on issues affecting their community, they will be more inclined to follow suit.

So, no, I do not blame Young Thug for his ignorant answer, but I do hope black celebrities will take note and learn from

his mistake.

Taylor Simien is a 20-year-old mass communication junior from Lafayette, Louisiana.

You can reach her on Twitter @TSimien_TDR.

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Tuesday, October 28, 2014 law center, from page 1 race is touchy and we shouldn’t talk about it.”

The Law Center will host Apprenticeship Week from Jan. 5 to 9, a one-week course taught by practicing lawyers — two of the 17 lawyers are African-American, Alagood said. The selection committee didn’t think to ask if the lack of diversity was a problem and a reflection of the diverse numbers the law school is trying to see, he said.

“I made a conscious decision during my second year to take courses with nontraditional professors,” Hairston said. “The fact that the law school only had three black professors drew me to come here.”

First-year law students are divided into three sections for scheduling purposes. According to the law school website, only one section has the opportunity to take a course with an African-American

Avery, from page 1 creating darker art focusing on death and epidemics.

During his time in Texas, Avery’s friends began to die from AIDS. He returned to UTMB as the head psychiatrist of the HIV clinic. For 20 years, he continued to practice art and treat HIV patients.

Since his retirement from professional medicine, Avery has gathered a few of his works for an exhibit, which will be displayed at the Glassell Gallery.

“This exhibit is a chance for me to practice medicine in the aesthetic dimension,” Avery said. “Now that I’m fully in the art world, it’s time to develop a clinical practice within it.”

As a homosexual man, Avery said he empathized with many of the patients he encountered during his years at UTMB. He understands that HIV can change

conservation, from page 1 plumbing in most of our homes, buildings and residential housing combines gray water with the black water outflow so that it all ends up in the same place.”

Wilson said “Go With the Flow” may work by reducing toilet flushing and conserving water.

Steven Waller, executive director of Residential Life, called the campaign creative but said he feels it’s not effective.

“I prefer the more conventional approaches,” Waller said. “If we’re going to do a campaign, instead of standing there and doing what they’re advocating, maybe we just turn the water off and shower a minute less.”

Waller said Residential Life has been proactive in reducing its energy costs. He said in the past 10 years, the department has reduced water consumption by 17 percent per resident.

Waller said his calculations show that 10 years ago, each resident used 24,000 gallons of water a year. That number is down to 20,000 gallons of water a year per resident for the past year.

professor unless an elective is scheduled.

“No one is more anxious to find a solution the faculty and staff at the Law Center,” Weiss said.

In Alagood’s letter, he calls for a vice chancellor for student affairs and diversity. The LSU Board of Supervisors voted for the Law Center to merge with the main University in March, although Alagood said he is unsure if Bell would handle diversity issues at the Law School.

“Everything the Law Center does is due to financial constraints and priority basis,” Weiss said. “I can’t commit to hiring a new administrator, but I will give it serious consideration if the task forces proposes it.”

Other southern universities, like the University of Mississippi School of Law and Florida State University College of Law, have a separate vice chancellor for diversity or student affairs. LSU’s Law Center currently has a chancellor the way a person views the world around them and tries to encompass that in his artwork.

Topics like Avery’s first blood test and the process the HIV virus takes to infect a cell can be seen through his work. He has created wooden replicas of HIV cells with condoms inside as an installation piece. On one wall, Avery uses toilet paper to show the steps of using male and female condoms.

Along with screenprints and paintings, Avery created a small book about being tested for and noticing signs of depression. He said he hopes it can become a useful tool in clinics across America and not a “simple throw away brochure.”

While Avery wants patrons to appreciate the art for its beauty, he said what he wants more is for every person who enters the gallery to understand the gravity of safe sex and HIV’s affect on

The Daily Reveille for business and financial affairs, academic affairs, institutional assessment and faculty development — but not one for diversity.

Darrel J. Papillion, chair of the Baton Rouge Bar Association, will spearhead the diversity task force.

Student Bar Association President Kenneth Barnes, LSU Legal Association of Women president Molly Brannon, Hairston and other faculty members will serve on the task force.

Eight of the 36 full-time professors are women. According to Alagood’s letter, the diversity numbers show the assumption that older white men are the only “masters lawyers and judges.”

“Southern, Loyola and Tulane are in the top rankings regarding to female enrollment,” Alagood said. “There’s not a problem with getting women going to school in Louisiana. The problem is getting them to attend LSU.” Alagood addressed the lack of diversity, but acknowledged the

the world.

Avery said he believes through this gallery, more people will join the combined effort to finding a cure for HIV and AIDS. “Doctors have told me before they would rather have HIV than have diabetes,” Avery said. “Nobody wants HIV, but by working together, we’re slowly finding ways to take it down.”

The exhibit’s name stems from Avery’s experiences in the medical field. He has witnessed countless deaths during his time practicing medicine. Avery has helped heal many, including himself, through his psychiatry and art. Most importantly, he has survived seeing more than what he believes any person should have to.

“The way I survived was by making art of what I’ve seen,” Avery said. “It has helped me sublimate and continue to live and grow.”

page 15 diversity in the student body has grown.

According to the American Bar Association, African-Americans represent about 15 percent of enrollment, Asians represent about 1.5 percent and Caucasians represent about 82 percent of student enrollment.

Compared to the Southern University Law Center, it leads in terms of diversity with minority numbers as 35 percent of the

historically black university’s enrollment numbers.

The Law Center’s website states that the African-American student population has seen a 12 percent increase since 2004.

Alagood said the Law Center needs to overcome its current image as the “white people law school.” As a member of the diversity task force, Hairston said it’s a step in the right direction.

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