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Volume 119 · No. 43
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Law Center appoints diversity task force
BY brittany clark bclark@lsureveille.com
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
“HIV and AIDS: Witness, Healer, Survivor” When: Today - Dec. 7 Price: free Where: Glassell Gallery
100 Lafayette St., Baton Rouge, LA 70801
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
see avery, page 15
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
see law center, page 15
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
see conservation, page 15
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The ‘Go With the Flow’ campaigns promotes urinating during morning showers to conserve water.