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illustrations by ANNE LIPSCOMB
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Volume 119 · No. 46
Halloweens
Past
compiled by the daily reveille sports staff
briana holman LSU volleyball middle blocker
keith hornsby LSU men’s basketball guard
jordan mickey LSU men’s basketball forward
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Though most LSU studentathletes won’t be able to partake in this year’s Halloween festivities, here are some of the best costumes they wore as kids.
environment
Phase one for Water Campus approved by CPPC BY Kaci Cazenave kcazenave@lsureveille.com
Beginning in 2016, some coastal and environmental science and engineering students will have the opportunity to experiment outside the classroom and inside the recently approved Water Campus on Oklahoma Street. The Water Campus was designed to be a 35-acre, riverfront coastal education and research center. The Baton Rouge City-Parish Planning Commission approved phase one of the campus project, a headquarters for the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority on Oct. 27. Mukul Verma, director of communications for the Baton Rouge Area Foundation, said
the foundation is working in conjunction with the University on the project to replicate a large-scale model of the lower Mississippi River Delta, which the University Modeling Lab — one of the Water Campus’ buildings — will house. The lab is one of three buildings, alongside the CPRA Headquarters and an office for the nonprofit organization The Water Institute, where scientists and researchers can test the effectiveness of current river management strategies, Verma said. In addition, the lab will serve as an educational tool to students. “The goal of this project is to bring together scientists and engineers who are working on the double peril of rising seas and vanishing wetlands that
are threatening coasts in Louisiana and around the world,” Verma said. Clinton Willson, University civil and environmental engineering professor and director of engineering design and innovation at The Water Institute, said this project is allowing the University to turn its talk into action. It is evidence of the University’s efforts to reach out to the nontraditional student who learns more through interactivity, he said. “This is an opportunity for our students to experiment with hydraulics and sediment transportation without actually having to go to the river,” Willson said. “It is also one that allows conduction of miracle
see water campus, page 15
courtesy of city parish planning commission
Renderings display the new Water Campus on Oklahoma Street, which will be built by 2016.