The Daily Reveille - November 4, 2014

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Volume 119 · No. 48

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diversity

Racial slurs not a Law Center honor code violation

BY Brittany Clark bclark@lsureveille.com

open Capital City Records for the last four months, fine-tuning the shop’s interior and conducting feasibility studies on its potential success as Baton Rouge’s third major record store. “I had about a year left to work at my real job, and I kind of put it on the backburner,” Labat said. Labat has always been interested in music. Like many enthusiasts, he can recall his

LSU Law Center chancellor Jack Weiss appointed a diversity task force for the Law Center via email Oct. 23. The task force was a response to a letter issued by Robert Kyle Alagood addressing the clear lack of diversity at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center. Darrel Papillion, chair of the Baton Rouge Bar Association, Student Bar Association president Kenneth Barnes, LSU Legal Association of Women president Molly Brannon, LSU National Black Law Students Association president Andrew Hairston and other faculty members will serve on the diversity task force. According to American Bar Association numbers, AfricanAmericans represent about 15 percent of student enrollment at the Law Center. Barnes’ appointment hits home after an incident during his first year of law school when the Law Center’s ethics committee decided

see record store, page 15

see honor code, page 15

spin city

New Baton Rouge record store acts as retirement project for LaPlace native

BY gerald ducote gducote@lsureveille.com

Music can be seen as a universal language. It can cross borders between cultures and allow people to connect on an internal level. It’s music’s power over people that moved Dana Labat to start Capital City Records, Baton Rouge’s newest record store. Labat, a native of LaPlace, Louisiana, decided to open the shop before his recent retirement from Shell Oil Company after 35 years. The store has been a labor of love for Labat, who’s been

working on getting it open for nearly two years. “I figured it would be a good little thing to do after retirement,” Labat said. “One of my passions and loves has always been music, records and things like that. I thought it was better than sitting around playing golf. I can have a little record store and hang out, listen to music and beef up my own collection at the same time. The more record stores, the better.” Labat has been working to

government

High stakes Election Day welcomes jungle primary BY quint forgey qforgey@lsureveille.com Despite the months of votecourting, door-knocking and ad-buying leading up to today’s midterm election, Louisiana’s nationally recognized U.S. Senate race is expected to yield few surprises before the Dec. 6 runoff. Today’s Senate race is a nonpartisan blanket primary, also known as jungle primary, mandating that all candidates run at once for the same office on Election Day. If no candidate secures more than 50 percent of the vote, the two top candidates advance to a runoff regardless of political party.

University political science professor James Garand predicted there would be no outright winner after polls close tonight and said Democratic incumbent U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu’s campaign could be on the decline if it does not beat Republican U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy in primary voter turnout. “If Cassidy wins but doesn’t

Read an editorial on the responsibilities of voting, page 12.

win outright tomorrow, that’s a pretty strong signal to Landrieu that she’s in deep, deep trouble,” Garand said. Cassidy and Landrieu are facing off against Republican Robert Maness, a former Air Force colonel expected to steal conservative votes from Cassidy in the primary. Real Clear Politics’ average of six recent polls shows Landrieu outpacing Cassidy and Maness in the primary, with Landrieu gaining about 40 percent of the vote to Cassidy’s roughly 34 percent and Maness’ roughly 11 percent. In a hypothetical runoff

see election day, page 15

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Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., greet each other in the last U.S. Senate debate Oct. 29 in the Holliday Forum.


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