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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014 [Left] LSU sophomore linebacker Kendell Beckwith (52) prepares to tackle Ole Miss wide receiver Larguon Treadwell on Oct. 25 during the Tigers’ 10-7 victory in Tiger Stadium.

[Inset] Kendell, 4, and the Beckwiths stand with their horse.

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Alexander issues initiative to combat Ebola

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gifted athlete on the football field.

The oldest of the three, Wendell Jr., was a two-year letterman at Tulane University. The youngest, Justin, is a junior wide receiver at East Feliciana High School. Kendell is different because he’s the only Beckwith brother with this love for horses.

“I don’t even know why I like

LSU President F. King Alexander has set guidelines regarding personal travel by University employees and students to and from Ebola-affected nations.

Permanent Memorandum 13 explains general regulations for travel at University expense in compliance with the World Health Organization’s declaration that the Ebola virus outbreak is now an international public health emergency.

D’Ann Morris, executive director of the Student Health Center, said the provisions are a campus-wide collaboration to make this health initiative as efficient as possible.

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BACK IN THE SADDLE Sophomore linebacker Beckwith sticks to country roots

BY michael haarala mhaarala@lsureveille.com

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t the end of the day, LSU sophomore linebacker Kendell Beckwith would rather be in the woods than on the field.

“I’m not like a lot of other college football players,” Beckwith said. “I’m a country boy.”

The 6-foot-2-inch, 245-pound linebacker has always had a love

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for the outdoors. He grew up on 50 acres of land just outside of Clinton, Louisiana, a small town near the state’s border with Mississippi.

As children, his brothers Justin and Wendell Jr. enjoyed playing football in the small pasture next to their house, but Kendell had his eyes on something else: horses.

“Before he could even walk, Kendell loved horses,” said

Kendell’s mother, Urhonda. “He started riding horses when he was around 4 years old. He didn’t get into football until middle school, and even then, he spent most of his time with his horses.”

When Kendell was 7 years old, he got his own horse. Since then, his childhood interest for horses has budded into a full-on passion.

Each of the three brothers is a

academics

Spring course mixes food and religious traditions

BY ROSE VELAZQUEZ rvelazquez@lsureveille.com Religious studies professor Gail Sutherland is plating a delicious new spin on some traditional ideas in one of her spring religious studies courses.

Because life’s most important events revolve around food, Sutherland’s course — Food, Culture, and Religion — explores religious identity in everyday life through food.

“There are all kinds of ethical issues, of course, that have to do with food,” Sutherland said. “There are political issues,

economic issues, and in my class, we kind of touch on all of that as sort of a total picture of the role of food in our culture.”

Many people see religion as an individual’s beliefs or the religious knowledge gained by reading certain religious texts, Sutherland said. However, religious experiences vary among people, and her course looks at everyday life as an extension of religious identity manifesting through religious practices and disciplines, particularly disciplines of the body.

“I think that food is part of a whole sector of our cultural life that is not just overlooked, but

deemed to be lesser,” Sutherland said.

This is the second time in recent years Sutherland has taught this course, the first being last spring. She taught it several years ago but let it go due to prior obligations.

Sutherland said she decided to bring the course back because she feels it’s still a relevant topic students will relate to and be interested in.

Whether the decision is conscious or reflective, people make choices everyday about what to

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Religious studies professor Gail Sutherland will teach Food, Culture and Religion next spring. She said the course will explore religious identity through the foods of different cultures.

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U.S., France cite concerns about Iran nuclear talks THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — With time running out on the latest round of negotiations, France and the United States on Wednesday stepped up demands for Iran to prove that its nuclear program is peaceful — or risk scuttling the closest chance for a deal in years and losing a chance to ease crippling sanctions on Tehran’s economy.

The entreaty to Iran comes days before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is to meet with top diplomats to Iran and the European Union to discuss how to break the yearslong deadlock before a Nov. 24 deadline.

Iran is seeking global recognition for its right to generate nuclear power — which it says it will use for energy, medical and other benign purposes — and the removal of at least some Western penalties against its oil and financial sectors.

But much of the rest of the world fears that Tehran, which has hindered fully transparent inspections of its reactors over the years, wants to build an atomic weapon.

“We have presented to them

a framework that would allow them to meet their peaceful energy needs,” President Barack Obama said Wednesday.

“Whether they can manage to say yes to what clearly would be better for Iran, better for the region, and better for the world, is an open question.”

In Paris, Kerry met with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and placed the burden to complete a deal on Iran.

“They have a right to a peaceful program but not a track to a bomb,” Kerry said after his meeting. “We believe it is pretty easy to prove to the world that a plan is peaceful.”

Fabius called it “very important” for the U.S. and France to keep a united front as the negotiations enter the final stretch.

The French diplomat’s comments underscored concerns that Washington could change course on its diplomacy with Iran after Jan. 1, when Republicans will control both houses of Congress. Many Republican leaders have criticized the Obama administration’s desire to ease sanctions on Iran while the talks are underway, or to

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If that’s the case, the November deadline may represent the last shot the White House will get at securing a deal with Iran — a major foreign policy legacy issue for Obama. But Obama also said that internal politics in Iran could also affect

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South Fla. men arrested last week for handing out food THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — To Arnold Abbot, feeding the homeless in a public park in South Florida was an act of charity.

But to the city of in Fort Lauderdale, the 90-year-old man was committing a crime.

Arnold and two South Florida ministers were arrested last weekend as they handed out food. They were charged with breaking a new ordinance restricting public feeding of the homeless, and each faces up to 60 days in jail and a $500 fine.

“One of the police officers said, ‘Drop that plate right now,’ as if I were carrying a weapon,”

Abbott told South Florida television station WPLG. The arrests haven’t deterred the group. Ministers Dwayne Black and Mark Sims were back at church Wednesday preparing meals for a feeding at a public park later that night.

“I don’t do things to purposefully aggravate the situation,” Abbott, an advocate for the homeless, said. “I’m trying to work with the city. Any human has the right to help his fellow man.”

Police said that the men were not taken into custody and that they were given notices to appear in court, where the matter will ultimately be decided by a judge.

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Homeless advocate Arnold Abbott prepares a salad in the kitchen of The Sanctuary Church on Wednesday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

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Administration

University uses WISE money to expand departments College of Engineering, School of Kinesiology to hire new faculty

BY Deanna Narveson dnarveson@lsureveille.com The University will bring on new faculty members with funds from the Workforce and Innovation for a Stronger Economy Fund.

The WISE Fund, signed into action by Gov. Bobby Jindal last June, provides $40 million for the state’s higher education systems to be used to funnel graduates into high-demand jobs. The LSU System’s piece of the WISE Fund was about $14 million.

The University submitted a document for approval of its uses for WISE fund-

ing to the Louisiana Board of Regents’ WISE Council in October.

Listed on the implementation plan was the addition of 26 tenure track faculty members, subsidization of the Pelican Promise financial aid program and the purchase of equipment in the same areas as the faculty hires.

Bijaya Karki, department chair of the division of computer science and engineering, said the department was hiring new faculty in part because of the WISE Fund, but he said they would have been looking for more people regardless of the funding. He said he believed the department of computer engineering was enabled to begin hiring searches by the WISE funding.

The College of Engineering

saw a 15 percent increase in enrollment this semester and, according to the implementation plan, will be home to 11 of the new hires according to the implementation plan.

The School of Kinesiology is hiring faculty members to fill two new positions using funding provided by the WISE Fund.

Kinesiology professor Melinda Solmon said each year the University’s provost requests hiring information from colleges and schools.

“We were given the opportunity to make a proposal to get new positions, we’ve gone through the process,” Solmon said. She said the schools plans were approved by the Board of Regents.

The department placed advertisements for new fac-

ulty and is accepting applications until Dec. 1 and hopes to bring them on by next fall, Solmon said.

“The kinesiology major has grown dramatically,” Solmon said. “We have a high demand for our classes. We prepare people to work in many fields.”

The WISE Fund requires a 20 percent match from a private partner. For the LSU System’s about $14 million in funding they have certified matches equaling about $4 million dollars, the largest portion of funding coming from the LSU Foundation, according to the implementation plan.

The LSU Foundation contributed about $1.4 million in matching dollars. The foundation was founded about 50 years ago with the purpose of advancing the academics

of the University.

As the University moves forward, using the funding for new faculty, equipment and financial aid, the Board of Regents will have to approve the implementation. The Board will meet next in December.

The WISE Fund is a part of an initiative to align higher education with the state economy, said Tom Guarisco, Louisiana Workforce Commission communications director.

In August, LSU President F. King Alexander likened the alignment to the production of graduates to fill specific jobs. Alexander said work on the WISE Fund began more than a year ago, and initially asked for a larger sum of money. He said there is pressure to show results by next legislative session.

Student Union

U.S. Army field band to perform tonight at Union Theater

BY Jayce Genco jgenco@lsureveille.com Many Americans enlist in the armed forces to serve their country, but others choose to couple this with another goal — playing music.

Master Sergeant Erica Russo, member of the Soldiers’ Chorus, is one person who has chosen to do both.

“It’s what we enlisted in the Army to do,” Russo said.

The United States Army Field Band and Soldiers’ Chorus is set to perform at 6 p.m. today at the Union Theater.

The Army Field Band was

founded toward the end of World War II by Chief Warrant Officer Chester E. Whiting.

The band was composed of combat veterans and began to drum up moral and monetary support for their fellow soldiers fighting the war.

According to its website, the band raised more than $1 million for the war effort.

Due to the war bonds sold, the band earned the nickname of “The Million Dollar Band,” not to be confused with the University of Alabama’s “Million Dollar Band.”

In the late ’40s, a general saw the need for a main-

tained relationship between the soldiers of the Army and the American people after the war. After many changes, the band found its current name and began touring the country.

The band consists of four performing groups: the Concert Band, Soldiers’ Chorus, the Jazz Ambassadors and The Volunteers.

The Field Band currently is stationed in Fort Meade, Maryland, and is composed of 65 members in the concert band along with the 29 members of the Soldiers’ Chorus.

Russo said the band travels

and performs 100 to 120 days of the year.

Russo said she gets to enjoy her favorite experience every night when performing.

“It’s an amazing experience to do something to represent soldiers,” she said.

“When we sing those songs, and I look into the audience and see veterans standing, and sometimes we see chil-

dren of service members, it helps the connection to the men and women we are privileged to represent,” Russo said.

“What a great experience this is as musicians and soldiers to represent our country.”

The event is free and open to the public, but tickets must be reserved at the Union Theater in advance of the performance.

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Master Sergeant Erica Russo serves as alto section leader and is a founding member of Recess, the Field Band’s vocal and instrumental elementary outreach ensemble.

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page 4 beckwith, from page 1 horses so much,” Kendell said.

“My parents used to do a lot of trail rides and stuff, but I’m the only one of my brothers like that. My older brother isn’t really into them, my younger brother doesn’t have interest in them, but me, for some reason, I’ve always had a love for horses. It’s how I was born.”

Kendell is in a breakout year at middle linebacker for the Tigers.

Through eight games, he’s third in total tackles on the Tigers’ roster with 52. Four of the 52 tackles have been tackles for loss, and 1.5 have been sacks. He also had a 29-yard interception return for a touchdown against New Mexico State University.

Although Kendell has made a statement on the field, it wasn’t until the end of his high school career that he began seriously watching football.

“I started watching football on TV when I started getting recruited — probably like my junior or senior year of high school,” Kendell said. “I always liked playing football. When I was getting recruited, I started watching the teams that were looking at me, but I was always a fan of playing football. I wasn’t really a big fan of watching football, just playing it.”

Even amid the whirlwind that stems from being an LSU football

food, from page 1 consume, Sutherland said. In the last few years, the relationship of food, culture and religion has taken a more prominent role in Sutherland’s life with her decision to become a vegan.

As young adults, students begin to make their own dietary decisions as opposed to when they were younger and adults made those choices for them, Sutherland said.

“It’s one of the first moral, ethical and health kinds of concerns

player, Kendell always finds time to step away from the bustle of the city and recharge.

Every Sunday, Kendell makes the drive back to Clinton to spend time with his family and his horses. Only about 30 miles away, the proximity to home and what he loves was a big reason he chose to play football in Baton Rouge.

“My family and my horses being close by were a big draw for me to come to LSU,” Kendell said.

“I don’t know what I would have done if I was far away. My dad would have probably ended up selling them or something. I didn’t want that.”

Urhonda said although Kendell’s horses were a part of his decision to be a Tiger, there also was a focus on education that set LSU apart from Alabama, Ole Miss and Mississippi State, other schools from which he received offers.

“I really think that LSU’s academic program drew him to the school more than anything,” Urhonda said. “Initially, he wanted to become a veterinarian, so he was really focused on that aspect of LSU. On top of that, his horses still being at home was a big influence.”

During his bye weekend before LSU’s matchup against No. 4 Alabama, Kendell was home riding and caring for his horses. He has three horses of his own: Spirit, that people begin to realize,” Sutherland said.

In anthropology and religious studies, Sutherland said there is a distinction between what are known as great traditions and little traditions. While great traditions, such as philosophy and scholarship, are male-dominated, little traditions — like folklore, food and clothing — are femaledominated.

As part of the integration of women and their everyday practices into the study and understanding of religion, Sutherland

The Daily Reveille an 8-year-old quarter horse mare, and her colts Rambo and Rosé.

Kendell said his two favorites are Rambo and Rosé, which are each a year old. By staying in Louisiana for college, Kendell was able to be close to Spirit when she gave birth to Rambo this year. The Beckwiths keep Spirit in the pasture next to their house and keep the younger horses down the road at Kendell’s great-grandmother’s house.

“I haven’t been able to see which one is faster, but I think Rambo is,” Kendell said. “Rosé is a little more muscular, so he’s not too fast, but Rambo is slimmer and built to run.”

One weekend, Kendell was able to bring two of his good friends on the team, sophomore defensive end Lewis Neal and sophomore defensive back Tre’Davious White, home to Clinton to meet his family and his horses.

“It was quite the experience — it was my second time riding a horse,” Neal said. “When we got up there, I was like, ‘Man, I can’t believe you’ve got me doing this.’

My ride was good, but when that horse started nodding his head, I was ready to get off.”

Neal was able to get his horse moving for a ride, but White had a little more trouble getting his horse to do what he wanted.

“Kendell’s horse was

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stubborn,” White said. “I got on, and she’d want to ride for a minute, then she’d just stop. I was kicking her, and she just wouldn’t go anywhere. But when Kendell got on, she just rode off. I won’t ride that horse anymore.”

Hailing from Wilson, North Carolina, Neal said he was used to Carolina barbecue but wasn’t ready for the Beckwith style of Louisiana cooking.

When Urhonda made dinner for the boys, Neal said he was surprised by how spicy the food was.

“When I went down there, they cooked for us. His mom made some gumbo — that was my first time ever having gumbo,” Neal said. “They do a lot of cooking. It was great gumbo, but it was hot. I had to drink three bottles of water.

My mouth was burning.”

When they began school at LSU, Kendell and Neal were roommates. They became close, and their similar appearances have even led some to think the two are brothers.

Neal said Kendell’s country attitude isn’t just an act — he’s been that way since they met freshman year.

“He’s a country boy because that’s all he likes, horses. That’s all he talks about,” Neal said. “And he watches History Channel. He likes watching Animal Planet and all that. He doesn’t watch much

football or anything. He just watches Discovery Channel and Animal Planet and stuff about horses.”

When he isn’t riding his horses in the pasture next to his house, Kendell is in the acres of woods behind his house doing another activity he loves: hunting.

“He’s got videos of him shooting his hunting guns,” Neal said.

“He’s actually got some videos on his iPad of him getting some hogs.”

Although he loves to hunt anything, including hogs, Kendell focuses on hunting deer. He said he loves spending hours deep in the woods with his 7 mm Remington Magnum rifle, but he’s hoping to learn how to hunt in other ways as well.

“I like going out with my 7 Mag, but I need to know how to bow hunt,” Kendell said. “I think I’m going to learn how sometime soon.”

With the season more than halfway over, Kendell said he hopes to continue to play at his current level and make a difference on the Tigers’ defense. Although he loves football and playing for LSU is a point of pride for him, he said he’s anxious to hang up his cleats and get home to his family and his country way of life.

“After football season is over, I’ll be able to go home and ride my horses more and do some hunting,” Kendell said. “I can’t wait.”

said she chooses to she will engage focus on food. students in discus‘Food is a way of sampling different cultures, and then “Food is just sion with readings when you deepen that by actually reading something one of those very and writing asabout it and thinking about it, it’s just another way to attractive ways signments to bring open up the world.’ to open up the the material full world,” Sutherland circle. said.

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Nelson Perret, chief of medical staff at the Student Health Center, briefs an audience on the Ebola virus Wednesday in the Student Health Center.

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“We’re viewing this as a very serious health initiative because this campus is so close knit,” Morris said.

The University has been in communication with all students native to an Ebola-affected area since before the fall semester.

The students are updated by the Student Health Center, which asks students to contact the International Student Office should any symptoms or concerns arise.

For instance, if a student plans to travel home, and their home country is affected with Ebola, they must contact and work with the University for the health and safety of both the student and the University.

Though the Student Health Center’s chief of medical staff Nelson Perret said categories of risk levels should be considered, Morris said even low-risk students are to be handled with severity.

“We don’t want to ostracize them, but we want them to know their risk factors and resources offered, and the University needs to know what our risk factors

are,” Morris said.

Perret said the Student Health Center has strict protocols for handling affected individuals.

“Actions are to be taken based on risk factor,” Perret said.

High-risk factors include exposure to the blood or body fluids of a person with Ebola while the person was symptomatic, while low-risk factors include having been in a country with a widespread Ebola outbreak or brief contact with a person with Ebola while the person was symptomatic.

Perret said if an individual shows concern for the disease, they should call the Student Health Center for an assessment rather than risking contamination of the center by walking in.

Depending on the diagnosis given, the Student Health Center is prepared to arrange transportation to the hospital for appropriate care but is also equipped with the proper protective gear should the need arise.

The Student Health Center already has precautions in place.

Should a person carrying the

virus walk in and affect others or the environment, the waiting room will go on lockdown. The Student Health Center then can determine who was present and where they were in relation to the affected individual.

The Student Health Center is not the only proactive unit on campus. University Chief of Police Lawrence Rabalais said LSUPD is preparing for all outcomes.

“Typically our responses will be after hours, but our guys are working on training now,” Rabalais said.

Facility Services is also recognizing the call to provide thorough sanitation throughout all of campus, proving the health initiative to be a University-wide collaboration for efficiency.

University employee Jason Krause returned from Liberia in October, completed his quarantine and has not shown reason for concern since.

There have only been two persons in the U.S. who have contracted Ebola outside of Africa since the epidemic began in September.

Sports

Thursday, November 6, 2014

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Mainieri unafraid of all-freshman rotation

BY Jack Chascin jchascin@lsureveille.com

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Inspiration Boyle returns to lineup following injury

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BY Brian Pellerin • bpellerin@lsureveille.com While the LSU volleyball team has become one of the hottest teams in the Southeastern Conference, senior outside hitter Helen Boyle has had to watch from the sidelines.

On Oct. 5, the LSU volleyball team won the first of its current nine-game win streak, but it was also the last time Boyle played for the Tigers for more than three weeks. Shoulder soreness stemming from a surgery more than a year and a half ago flared up in the second set and forced her out of the match.

Boyle said her time on one of the U.S. Women’s Collegiate National Teams led to her swinging too much over the summer and caused the soreness.

Overall, Boyle missed six games, including one of the most important to her, LSU’s trip to

Missouri. The Eureka, Missouri, native said it was tough to miss such a personally important game but was proud of how her teammates played.

“That was very hard, but I mean we won so that’s all that really matters,” Boyle said.

Boyle said missing six games was nothing compared to when she previously missed six months.LSU coach Fran Flory said her commitment to the team and positive attitude is exactly what makes Boyle so valuable to the team.

“I’m proud of her with how her response has been to this because it’s got to be frustrating as heck,” Flory said. “But she’s never allowed her individual struggles to affect the outcome of anything this team has done or the morale.”

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LSU freshman infielder Bryce Jordan will likely miss this weekend’s Purple and Gold World Series with a bone bruise in his knee, coach Paul Mainieri said.

The injury is not serious, Mainieri said, and Jordan should be fine in a couple of days, but the team is ruling him out for now.

“He was running a ground ball down, and when he lunged at first base, his leg was kind of extended when he hit the bag,” Mainieri said. “He may be able to come back and play, but for now, we’re counting him out.”

Mainieri said Jordan has seen ample playing time at first base over the fall and has impressed him and the coaching staff in his short time with the Tigers.

The Lake Charles, Louisiana, native out of Barbe High School was a 2014 Louisville Slugger All-American and a two-time Class 5A All-State selection while in high school.

Thursday night pitching matchup will be pivotal When the LSU baseball team takes the field at Alex Box Stadium for the first time on Thursday, Tiger fans will get their first look at highly touted freshmen pitchers Alex Lange and Jake Godfrey.

Mainieri said the two pitchers are key to the

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men’s basketball

Ronald Dupree brings NBA experience to Tigers

BY Michael Haarala mhaarala@lsureveille.com

For LSU basketball student assistant coach Ronald Dupree, it took a journey around the world to end up right where he started.

After a career that took him through the NBA and overseas to Europe and Asia, Dupree announced his retirement from the Hapoel Jerusalem Basketball Club and departure from professional basketball.

On Sept. 10, he revealed his return to Baton Rouge in hopes of jump-starting his coaching career and finishing his degree in electrical engineering.

“This will be a learning experience for me during my first year coaching,” Dupree said. “I’ll just be more of a

sponge at this point. I’ll be focusing on learning from [head coach Johnny] Jones, how he does things and how the staff does things. I’m more in just a servitude type role.”

Dupree played basketball for LSU from 1999 to 2003, winning a Southeastern Conference regular season championship and advancing to the Sweet 16 in the 2000 season.

He then played professional basketball for 11 years, cycling through the NBA, the NBA’s developmental league and multiple leagues overseas.

“He played in the NBA, so he has a lot of knowledge and knows what it takes to get there,” said LSU freshman guard Jalyn Patterson. “Every day in practice, he’s a high-energy guy, talking to us all of the time,

telling us what to do and things like that. He gives us a lot of great information.”

Joining the LSU coaching staff as a student assistant puts Dupree on the same path Jones took. Jones served as a student assistant in the 1984-85 season as he completed the final coursework for his degree after playing at LSU for four years.

Dupree cemented himself in the LSU record books during his career with the Tigers.

He’s ninth in career scoring with 1,726 points, averaging 13.4 points per game over his 129 game career. He’s also ninth in career rebounding with 907 rebounds.

When Dupree played for LSU, the SEC was a dominant

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Ronald Dupree returns to the LSU after retiring from professional basketball. His career spanned the NBA, the NBA’s developmental league and multiple leagues overseas.

page 6 boyle, from page 6 One of Boyle’s fellow seniors, setter Malorie Pardo said she feels bad for Boyle having to miss a few weeks during her senior season, but Boyle isn’t ready to give up on her final year yet.

“It’s definitely been very hard since my volleyball career will be over in a month and a half, but, you know, it happens,” Boyle said.

Her attitude and focus on what’s ahead instead of dwelling on the past has been influential on the entire team. Pardo said she has been a major part to the Tigers’ current winning streak without even stepping foot on the court.

“The impact that she has had on this team vocally these last couple weeks is what we really needed, what we were missing,” Pardo said. “I think the only person that really led that was her. She’s been a huge part of our success.”

Pardo also said Boyle has always been a vocal leader, but more so than usual these past few weeks.

Flory taught Boyle everybody has a role on the team and can impact the game whether they play or not. A lesson Boyle didn’t take lightly.

“Since my freshman year, Fran has always said that you have to try to earn your points,” Boyle said. “Even if you’re on or off the court, you earn points for the team ... I’m off yelling positivity to them if they’re negative. Just to get them to earn the points, but indirectly it’s through me. You just got to try to earn your points anyway you can.”

Boyle finally got her chance to get back to earning those points on the court last Friday in LSU’s match against South

Carolina. The senior got the start for the Tigers and played in all four sets, totaling eight digs and one assist playing only in the backline.

Though she is a killer by position, Boyle said staying in the backline doesn’t bother her.

“I really love defense,” Boyle said. “I like it more than front row, so I don’t mind only playing back row.”

But she couldn’t stop herself from taking at least one swing in the match.

During a rally, chaos ensued on the Tigers’ side after a dig and a diving assist left the ball for Boyle to make the third hit, and the senior couldn’t resist taking a swing at it with her sore shoulder.

“I wasn’t supposed to swing,” Boyle said after the game. “It was fun. I hadn’t swung at a ball in four weeks, so I didn’t know what was going to happen … I was going to go with my left hand, but I don’t know, last second, I decided to go to my right.”

In the Tigers second match on Sunday, Boyle didn’t take any swings and totaled one dig, playing in only one set. Flory said the pace of the match called for freshman outside hitter Mimi Eugene’s ability to swing rather than Boyle’s defense.

Flory said she will remain cautious with Boyle through the rest of the season, but they will continue to try to increase her workload as much as her shoulder will allow.

“Helen’s going to come on and be a defender for us now until we get her arm back to where it is,” Flory said. “The key is if we can get her onto the court and get her into the tempo and the speed of play playing backcourt, then we feel like she has better chance to contribute in more ways later.”

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LSU senior outside hitter Helen Boyle (8) jumps to spike the ball during Tigers’ 3-2 victory against Arkansas on Oct. 5 in the PMAC.

The Daily Reveille notebook, from page 5 Tigers’ staff, and Thursday night will go a long way in further developing the two young pitchers.

“Those two guys are going to be main players for us,” Mainieri said. “There’s no question about that. That became very clear a long time ago. We’ve got the best arms on our staff. They’re very poised, they’re competitors, they have a repertoire of pitches, they’re coachable, they’ve improved since they’ve gotten here.

They’ll adapt quickly, and experiences like Thursday night will help.”

The rotation is still up in the air heading into the break with sophomores Jared Poche’ and Russell Reynolds along with freshmen newcomers Jake Latz and Doug Norman all in the mix.

Mainieri said the coaching staff will spend the break after the series deciding each pitcher’s potential roles heading into the 2015 season. The scenarios include a potential all-freshman rotation with Poche’ potentially sliding in as closer.

The last time the Tigers had an all-freshman staff was in 2011 when Kevin Gausman, Kurt McCune and Ryan Eades led the Tigers to a 36-20 season.

Mainieri said the rotation is still far from settled, but he’s confident in what he has at his disposal going into the spring.

The possibility of Poche’ stepping into the closing role for the Tigers is an interesting move, but Mainieri said he knows what he’s got in Poche’ and is confident in whatever role the sophomore plays in the staff.

dupree, from page 5 conference in college basketball. Although this is no longer the case, Dupree said he hopes he can help both LSU and the conference become elite again.

“The image and perception of the SEC has changed. It’s not as strong as it was when I was here, and that’s part of it,” Dupree said. “Every conference goes through its cycles. But our hope is that this year we can build on making LSU a formidable program, and hopefully the other schools will pick up as well.”

At 33, Dupree bridges the gap between player and coach.

Players said they feel comfortable asking him questions but also respect him as they would any other coach.

“He knows the conference so well,” said sophomore center Darcy Malone. “And because he just got out of playing professionally, he can give us advice and come to us on a player-toplayer level. It’s definitely very advantageous for us. A lot of us are utilizing him.”

Dupree connects with different players and works with them on specific skills he picked up in the NBA. He’s instilling the importance of defense in Patterson and is helping sophomore forward Jordan Mickey with ball handling and crashing the boards.

Thursday, November 6, 2014 “Poche’ throws 87-88 mph typically. You’d like a Friday night starter to throw 93-94 in the SEC,” Mainieri said. “Jared does a phenomenal job with what he has to work with. I love the kid, and he’s going to have a significant role. I don’t know if it’s going to be Friday night, Saturday, or Sunday, or our closer role,

but he’s going to be a mainstay on our staff without a doubt.”

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LSU then-freshman pitcher Jared Poche’ (16) winds up to pitch May 30 during the Tigers’ 8-4 victory against Southeastern Louisiana in Alex Box Stadium.

“He’s got that NBA experience, so it’s good to have him back coaching for us and give us pointers,” Mickey said.

“He’s told me to stay spaced, and when you have an open shot, you just have to shoot the ball.”

These skills brought from the NBA could be crucial for the young squad as they work on becoming an SEC power in the 2014-15 season.

“It’s really the little things that can separate a good player from a great player at the NBA level,” Dupree said. “We have to focus on taking care of the hard stuff, the stuff that isn’t pretty but you still have to get right early on in the season.”

Although basketball takes the limelight, Dupree’s return emphasizes another aspect about being an athlete in college.

Dupree said he promised himself he would complete school and get a degree. After following his dream of playing professional basketball, he is finally fulfilling his other dream.

“I made a commitment to myself to graduate in my major,” Dupree said. “Even when I left originally, I felt there was always something hanging over my head and that I needed to finish my education. I want to have that plaque, that degree on the wall for my kids and for myself.”

In a sport that is often a revolving door to the NBA for student-athletes, Dupree coming

back and completing his degree in electrical engineering highlights the importance of school and classes to the players.

“He definitely stresses education. It’s great seeing him come back and get his degree and try to do something new with his life,” Mickey said. “He had a great career, but the basketball has to stop bouncing some day for everybody.”

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Give foreign movies a fair shot

Entertainment Gone Country

There’s a whole world of films to experience cat’s got his tongue will kallenborn Entertainment Columnist One of the few things that seem to be universal for the general public is we like to watch movies. Between theaters, DVDs and On Demand viewing, we have thousands of movies to choose from every time we sit down.

Because movies in general are so popular, it’s always surprising to hear someone say they don’t like foreign language films. Those who don’t prefer foreign language films always have a lot of reasons as to why they don’t watch them.

The main problem people seem to have with foreign language films are subtitles. While the argument they distract from the actual watching of the film makes some sense, subtitles often have the opposite effect.

They force viewers to pay more attention — with subtitles, there’s no looking down at your phone unless you want to miss some great dialogue, and daydreaming while you should be watching could lead to missing a major plot point. Instead of hampering the viewing, viewers can often find that subtitles lead to a more immersive experience.

More and more, foreign directors are making their way into American markets and meeting with great success. Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro and

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University student is working on a biology degree and country music career

Biology freshman Billy Wallace spends his days studying biology notes, but in his free time, he taps into his country roots to create a sound true to the genre.

For Wallace, country and music came hand and hand from a young age. He grew up in St. Rose, Louisiana, and said that while the area is close to New Orleans, it’s incredibly rural.

For him, country music was a heavy influence growing up, and while he can remember singing in choirs from second grade, country is what always fit.

“Even when I do try to sing other music, it always comes off as country, so it kind of just fell in place,” Wallace said.

In high school, Wallace said he realized he wanted to write

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process and lets things come together slowly.

As for the music aspect, Wallace makes sure to have that definitive country sound.

“Especially today, country is getting a little poppy, and my music sounds a little bit older, and that’s what a lot of people like about it,” Wallace said.

While Duhon produced “The Way I Am” about six months ago, Wallace said he is hoping to release a full, 10-track record sometime in 2015.

“If everything works out the way it should, within the next year having a full album and doing maybe a little tour,” Wallace said.

Recently, Wallace played for a crowd of 300 at the Esplanade mall in Kenner, Louisiana, and on Nov. 22 will be playing at

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his own music.

His EP, “The Way I Am,” started as a senior project. Wallace decided to make an EP, but needed help doing it. He said he googled Andrew Duhon, a New Orleans singer-songwriter who’s been Grammy nominated for his own work.

After meeting with him, Wallace said he utilized Duhon’s music composition skills while he writes the lyrics to his songs.

“Most of my music is just about life and living in Louisiana and life experiences,” Wallace said.

Wallace said his music writing process is unregulated. He will be driving or doing homework, and a lyric will come to him. He’ll stop, record it and come back to it at a later time to create a whole song. He said he doesn’t force the songwriting

Artists should respect music, not own it The ultimate goal for any musician is to “make it big” by signing with an established label to produce original work that can be heard by the masses.

That’s the dream. Or at least it used to be.

Nowadays, it seems as though the entire music industry revolves around money. The dream of performing, making a social statement or even just being famous doesn’t matter anymore.

It’s all about the dollars and cents.

Taylor Swift, with her new album “1989,” is the most recent example of this apparent greed epidemic. Swift decided to not only refrain from releasing her album on Spotify last week, but also remove her entire back catalogue from the growingly popular music-streaming site.

Why would the supposedly sweet, “girl next door” of the music industry do such a thing? The money, of course. She wants to boost record sales, even though “1989” is projected to sell a little over 1.3 million copies, the most since Eminem’s release of “The Eminem Show” in 2002.

While there is nothing wrong with an artist getting paid for his or her work, this is just a slight slap in the face to Swift followers everywhere. Not to say that “1989” is not a good album, but it is clear that she has no respect

Biology freshman Billy Wallace released a country music EP ‘The Way I Am’ earlier this year.

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Film

Live documentary on inventor coming to New Orleans

BY Gerald ducote gducote@lsureveille.com Science class isn’t always for everybody. For some, it can be a complex subject that tries to inform about human life and the laws of nature. To others, it’s an interesting, enjoyable topic that can be thrown around to move conversation and express understanding of difficult concepts.

Sam Green, a documentary filmmaker, sees the subject of science as a melding of both hard facts and historical narrative.

Since 2012, Green has performed his live documentary, “The Love

Song of R. Buckminster Fuller,” for audiences around the country.

The documentary is performed live with Green narrating over photographs and video of Fuller, while popular indie band Yo La Tengo performs live accompaniment. Green’s decision to make “Love Song” was born out a previous exhibit about Fuller from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The museum approached Green with interest in moving the architect’s story further out to audiences.

The show’s subject, R. Buckminster Fuller, was a prominent

theorist and architect whose work in the 20th century helped to establish concepts in architecture and design that remain in use today. Fuller was also the namesake to the buckminsterfullerene, which is used to describe carbon molecules with a specific shape.

Personally, Green has memories of Fuller from the 1970s as “the guy who made the domes.”

His colleagues at the SFMOMA suggested exploring Fuller’s vast collection of work at Stanford for research on the show.

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Buckminster Fuller stands before his geode dome at the Montreal World Fair.

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Thursday, November 6, 2014 “His archive is the biggest collection of papers for one person anywhere,” Green said. “His papers are like a piece of conceptual art ... but also, his ideas are more relevant now than they’ve ever been. A combination of those two things really hooked me.”

Yo La Tengo, who serves musical accessory to “Love Song,” has long held a reputation for covering popular songs and being an admired choice for writing soundtracks. Green’s decision to employ Yo La Tengo came out of his own experience listening to the band as well as a mutual connection.

“I’ve been a fan for a long time,” Green said. “The more I learned about Buckminster Fuller, the more I thought their

music really fit. There’s a lot of sweetness to their music, but there’s also a little bit of melancholy and a kind of yearning quality.”

In the two years since beginning this project, Green and Yo La Tengo have toured “Love Song” in numerous states, making it a special event for each venue. Unlike touring bands and authors with lecture series, Green’s pacing allows the performance to be fresh and particularly special to each setting.

Green has taken “Love Story” all over the U.S., the most recent being in Burlington, Vermont. This loose schedule makes for a much less hectic environment for both Green and the members of Yo La Tengo.

Because “Love Song” combines the intrigue of live performances with a prominent figure

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Ang Lee are just a few examples of foreign directors who have taken Hollywood by storm. It’s not because they are foreign; it’s because they’re all incredible artists whose immense talent is just now being rightfully recognized.

The Oscars are a great example of people discriminating against foreign language films.

Last year’s Best Foreign Language Film winner “The Great Beauty” was a universally loved film by critics and could have easily competed with any of the American films in the Best Picture category. “Amour” is the only foreign language film to receive a nomination in the past several years, and though it’s an incredible film, for some reason, it stands alone as a foreign language film getting major American recognition. On the other hand, British films are frequently nominated and frequently win the Best Picture award, showing that it’s non-English films that receive discrimination.

Honestly, a savvy film fan could keep exploring American cinema for the rest of his or her life. American cinema is incredibly varied and has as much depth as any other nation’s film history.

I also would never say that just because a film is in a different language does it mean that the film is inherently good. There are a lot of really horrible movies being made all over the world. But the fact remains that there are an entire world of movies out there, and so many incredible films are lost on those who would not experience them just because they are somewhat outside of their comfort zone.

Many people will read this article and find it hard to believe that there are many people out there who either will not or prefer not to watch foreign language films. My hope is that those people will test my theory by suggesting a foreign film next time they sit to watch a movie with friends. Ideally, they all agree, and the group gets to experience a great movie that they normally would not see otherwise.

for one of the major sources of her success: the fans.

Famous artists make enough money as it is, and they should not take for granted the position that they are lucky enough to find themselves in. Being an artist is a privilege, and being able to share art to millions of people around the world is a gift that other unknown artists would kill for.

Swift seems to think that her music is an example of such incredible art that it is worth all the money she is trying to squeeze from it, and the only way to measure art is in its monetary value.

“Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important rare things are valuable.

Valuable things should be paid for,” Swift said in a Wall Street Journal opinion article. “It’s my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an album’s price point is. I hope they don’t underestimate themselves or undervalue their art.”

She’s right. Music is art, and it is rare and beautiful. But, there

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Will Kallenborn is a 21-year-old English senior from Metairie, Louisiana.

The Daily Reveille like Fuller, Green sees his audiences containing people interested in both theater and science. The show is able to draw in even more spectators due to its implementation of Yo La Tengo. For some attendants, “Love Story” comes as a Yo La Tengo concert with an even more artistic twist. Often, Green comes across members of the science community who have attended lectures with Fuller.

Green’s decision to create this documentary in a live format was born out of a want to break away from the typical movie-watching experience.

The show’s live aspect removes audiences from their personal obligations and forces them to pay attention to what is being presented.

“There’s something about the form that really intrigued

are other ways to measure the power of music besides by the “price point.” Tide laundry detergent, for example, is around $20, but Tide doesn’t make you feel genuine emotions.

Music, and any art for that matter, should be respected for its true worth and not cheapened by a price value.

According to David Holmes, an editor for tech publication PandoDaily, Swift removing her content from Spotify will not even have any significant impact on her record sales.

The nature of the music business is changing, and artists should learn to change with it instead of pouting over the minute decrease in their otherwise colossal good fortune. In fact, CDs are evolving into collector’s items for a younger, streaming generation.

“We’ve passed the tipping point. We’re moving to a streaming economy,” said Joe Levy, editor of Billboard magazine, in a “Today” interview. “The actions of one artist aren’t going to change that for the overall picture.”

The simple fact of the matter is not everyone can afford to buy an album every month, so

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LIVE DOCUMENTARY PERFORMANCE Who: Sam Green What: “The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller” When: 7:30 p.m.

Where: Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans me,” Green said. “If you’re making movies these days, people are watching your stuff on their laptops while they’re checking Facebook. There is a magic in cinema, and I don’t want my work to exist in that context.”

This sentiment of wanting to separate the documentary from negative experiences was reinforced when Green transformed the show into a documentary film. Even with his narrative, visual material and Yo La Tengo’s score, Green found the movie to be lacking in effect.

“The truth is there’s something missing,” Green said. “I honestly think with this, there’s just a secret ingredient. The liveness, the fact that we’re traveling all the way there. You’re going to come to the theater, turn your phone off. It’ll never be the same way twice. There’s a charge to that gets lost if you put it on DVD.” You can reach Gerald Ducote on Twitter @GeraldDucote_ TDR.

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Taylor Swift performs Oct. 30 on ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ in Times Square in New York. streaming allows everyone an equal opportunity to consume new music.

So should art be only for those who can afford it?

While this is not the case for all, some musicians need to humble themselves and recall the days they spent building callus from hours of guitar picking or singing their sure-to-be brilliant work to an audience made

up of various shampoos and conditioners in an arena that resides in the bathroom.

Great music is a rare gift that should not be owned but rather celebrated.

Michael Tarver is a 20-yearold mass communication junior from Houma, Louisiana.

You can reach him on Twitter @michael_T16.

country, from page 9 Skinney’s Restaurant in Kentwood, Louisiana, for a similarly sized crowd.

Wallace said he hopes to book shows in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. He said he knows the venues he’s performing at now are a bit far for University students and would like to bring his performances closer since he knows a lot of people in the area. “[That’s] one of my reachable goals right now,” Wallace said.

Currently, Baton Rouge is a place for Wallace to study his biology notes. He said he knows the music industry is a risky business, and if it works out, that would be the dream, but he’ll have a biology degree as another option.

“Music is kind of just a fun thing for me right now,” Wallace said.

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Biology freshman Billy Wallace released a country music EP ‘The Way I Am’ earlier this year.

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A Personal Choice

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

In the dining hall several days ago, a group of students were looking at my significant other and me. They whispered. Then the whole table burst into laughter. “Is that a boy or a girl?” they loudly asked each other. “That cannot be a guy,” one declared.

“No, no it has to be. Look at… it.”

Once again, roaring laughter.

I tried to ignore them, I tried to choke down my food and pretend like they weren’t targeting the one I care about. But something inside of me snapped. I rose from the table, walked over to the table and simply asked: “You’re trying to figure out if she’s a boy or girl?”

“Yes,” came the attitude-filled reply.

“It shouldn’t matter,” I fought through tears.

“Bye,” she waved me away from the table like I was a peasant begging for food. The table, again, erupted in laughter. They didn’t care.

But there is so much more I want to say.

“What’s it to you that she is transgendered and feels more comfortable in dude clothes? Are you so shocked at someone who dresses differently than you that you have to loudly make fun of her? You don’t know her story, or how much time it took her to overcome societal expectations and feel comfortable in her own skin. You don’t know our story, or the hell we faced just to be able to walk hand-in-hand.

Who are you to call her “it”?

Does your inability to determine someone’s gender give you the right to strip them of their human identity altogether? I hope you feel really cool. I hope the laugh you got over the appearance of another was worth the tears I cried while recalling the situation that night. College is supposed to be a diverse place with a safe atmosphere, and you’re contributing to quite the opposite environment.

I’m sorry you never grew out of you role as a middle school bully. I’m sorry you are so blind to the real world. I’m sorry that you’ve gotten this far in life without being exposed to diversity. I’m truly sorry you haven’t learned how to treat people. Your words are more powerful than you think.”

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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Brittany Maynard recorded a message to her friends in a video before she legally ended her life Saturday under the Death with Dignity Act.

Physician-assisted suicide should be regulated but more accessible NO WAY JOSE JOSE BASTIDAS Columnist Our lives are made up of a series of choices.

What should I have for dinner? Who should I ask to GRUB? Should I go to class today?

We ask ourselves questions like this on a regular basis because we get to decide how we want our lives to go.

But sadly, this reality is not the same for our deaths.

In a perfect life, we’re born, go to school, go to college, graduate, get a job, get married, have kids, retire, then our kids send us to Florida and we die at an old age.

But this perfect scenario doesn’t happen to all of us, as was evidenced with the case of 29-year-old Brittany Maynard.

A few months after getting married, as she enjoyed a New Year’s vacation with her husband, Maynard was diagnosed with brain cancer.

After attempting to fight the disease and finding out in April that her cancer was too strong, Maynard researched her options until she came to the conclusion that the best thing for her was to die with dignity.

Maynard and her husband relocated to Oregon, one of the five states in the U.S. where physician-assisted suicide is legal, and qualified under the state’s Death with Dignity Act to end her life legally.

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The states of Washington, Montana, Vermont and New Mexico also have legalized death with dignity laws.

Maynard, who ended her life Saturday, spent the remainder of her life traveling, living as much as she could before her illness completely took over and advocating for Americans’ rights to decide when enough is enough.

Maynard released a video on YouTube that currently has more than 11 million views and wrote opinion pieces for media outlets like CNN, speaking up about the issue and making sure no one who watched her testimonies would ever doubt her state of mind.

We like to think about suicide and dying with dignity as similar concepts, but they’re not.

Suicide is not preventable by law.

When individuals make the decision to end their own life, whatever the circumstance, it’s almost impossible to stop it.

Someone can choose to end their life and do it, simply by going to Wal-Mart and buying a gun or by sitting in their garage with the car engine running.

But that’s not what Maynard did.

To qualify for the Death with Dignity Act in Oregon, a person has to be 18 years of age or older, a resident of the state of Oregon, able to make and communicate health care decisions for themselves and be diagnosed with a terminal illness that will lead to death within six months.

Once a licensed physician determines these criteria have been met, the person must undergo an arduous process to

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get the prescribed medication that, when taken, can be used to end their life.

Suicide means giving up; dying with dignity means taking control of the inevitable.

In 1997, the Supreme Court decided in their unanimous ruling of Vacco v. Quill that bans on physician-assisted suicide were constitutional, and states have the authority to regulate and prevent doctors from assisting patients in their deaths, even those terminally ill and/or in great pain.

While I agree that regulating physicianassisted suicide is essential to prevent individuals in the wrong state of mind from taking advantage of this choice, the lack of accessibility to this option is wrong.

Dying is unavoidable. Some of us will get to live our final days in Boca Raton with other elderly people, and others will leave us prematurely because of illness or circumstance.

Life is made up of choices, but circumstance deviates our course into a shorter life filled with pain. Shouldn’t we get to decide to die with dignity early, rather than wounded and unrecognizable later?

Maynard leaves behind a story that, while it may not change the laws now, has brought the issue back to the spotlight and created conversation that could bring necessary change in the future.

Jose Bastidas is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from Caracas, Venezuela. You can reach him on Twitter @jabastidas.

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GOP plagued by inefficiency and lack of legislative action OUR LADY OF ANGST SIDNEYROSE REYNEN Columnist After all the fuss, Election Day is officially over. Hopefully all of you exercised your right to vote, even if it was just to say you exercised at all this year. As predicted, the GOP dominated the midterm elections, taking seats previously held by Democrats in several states — and that’s not a good sign.

Some might think I’m saying this because I personally disagree with the vast majority of stances held by Republicans, but that’s not what this is about.

The entire goal of voting politicians into and out of power is to enact change and assist in the country’s government. Republicans want to do neither of those things — govern or change.

To the Republican Party, the words “progress” and “change” are as heinous as “cannibalism” and “animal abuse.” In their native tongue, “small government” translates to “no government at all.” And as the people behind every government shutdown since 1995, voters are in for

disappointment when they realize that the Republican Party will get absolutely nothing done.

In August, Politico interviewed the recently re-elected and soonto-be Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, who made it very clear he’s not scared of getting what he wants from President Obama by taking America hostage. McConnell said he would force the President to “move to the center” if he wanted to get any legislation passed through Congress.

This proves leading Republican politicians aren’t really interested in governing the country or even maintaining any sense of democracy or compromise. Politicians like McConnell are more adept at political blackmail than running America.

Salon.com’s Simon Maloy calls this the Republican Party’s “fatal do-nothing problem,” and it will be fatal to our country indeed.

As a political party, the GOP’s fundamental belief is that the government should be as small and inefficient as possible. They are practically shouting from the rooftops that they really don’t want to be doing what their jobs entail them to.

Their refusal to compromise with President Obama, the

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Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-La., will face Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., in the U.S. Senate runoff election on Dec. 6.

Democrats and even other Republicans is childish. It reminds me of those kids who don’t really make their dolls play with each other, so much as they just smash them together until they get bored or, in this context, ask for another government shutdown.

After the 2012 presidential election saw Mitt Romney constantly embarrassing himself with numerous flubs, and even a not-so-successful maneuver that involved brownface, many GOP

members advised others in the party to simply stay quiet and useless in order to prove to the American people they were effective politicians.

One such GOP member was Louisiana’s beloved Gov. Bobby Jindal. Only a few weeks after President Obama’s re-election, Jindal went on “Fox News Sunday,” saying the Republican Party should stop “saying stupid things.” He specifically pointed out Rep. Todd “Legitimate Rape”

Akin and Senate candidate Richard “God Intended for Rape Victims to Get Pregnant” Mourdock as responsible for the loss of potential Republican Senate seats.

But why were these such controversial and “stupid” things to say as Republicans? It clearly didn’t prevent them from taking the majority of seats in Congress, and one could say that these heinous comments even encouraged people to vote for them.

The only legislation the GOP and their followers seem to be interested in enforcing are those that make it nearly impossible for American women to procure safe and legal abortions. With a Republican majority, who knows how many anti-abortion policies will be able to pass before Roe v.

Wade becomes irrelevant?

For Louisiana, however, we still have a chance to let our voices be heard in the Dec. 6 runoff between the Democratic incumbent Mary Landrieu and Republican Bill Cassidy.

Let’s hope we make the right decision.

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

You can reach her on Twitter @sidneyrose_TDR.

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Last week, McDonald’s announced their new slogan they’ll be using alongside “I’m Lovin’ it.” The new companion slogan is “Lovin’ is greater than hatin” or “Lovin > hatin.” Here are some of our columnists’ suggestions on better slogans: TAMING OF THE SHIRIN

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“No Big Mac is too big if you try hard and believe in yourself!

Chase your dreams, kids.”

“Would you like salt with those lies?”

NO WAY JOSE

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“Hate how much you Love us”

“Love, like our french fries, has no expiration date.”

OUR LADY OF ANGST SIDNEYROSE REYNEN Columnist

“Lovin’ beats hatin’, but nothing beats diabetes!”

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Amid a slew of larger studios amassing film credits left and right, many of Louisiana’s burgeoning film studios are carving their own profiles.

Jason Hewitt and Films in Motion aim to change all of that.

Films in Motion, Hewitt’s most recent entertainment venture, has been compiling its own laundry list of credits in Baton Rouge — horror films “Oculus” and “Devil’s Due,” literary adaptations “Hedda Gabler” and “The Sound and the Fury” and more recently, New Orleans Film Festival selection “Elsa and Fred” have all come to find a home with the studio within the last two years.

Earlier this year, the film “Left Behind,” starring Nicolas Cage and based on the widely popular Christian novel series of the same name, concluded its filming after taking over different parts of the city, including the Mall of Louisiana.

Films in Motion offers a variety of services to filmmakers, including visual effects, production and post-production services. Its sister company, Indie Stages, which is also owned by Hewitt, offers sound stage space for rent, usually to the same clients who work with Films in Motion.

Hewitt, 41, attributes his interest in entertainment to a high school variety show he participated in Sulphur, Louisiana, saying it “planted the seeds of where I am now.”

When the Louisiana State Legislature passed a bill meant to incentivize filmmaking in the state by offering generous tax

breaks, Hewitt jumped at the chance. His first films started out with budgets of $20,000 or $30,000.

“I couldn’t have predicted the impact, but I think anytime you incentivize any industry, more than likely there’s going to be an opportunity for growth,”

Hewitt said.

Now, Hewitt has nearly 40 film credits to his name and has worked with actors like Mickey Rourke and Jeff Bridges. Hewitt also oversaw the sale of tax credits for events like the Voodoo Music + Arts Experience.

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yearly growth in profit and had been able to gradually expand their number of employees.

For “Left Behind,” about 90 percent of the studio’s crew came from New Orleans and other towns outside of Baton Rouge, a figure Hewitt would like to see decrease.

“Baton Rouge doesn’t have the continuous work that New Orleans does, so it’s harder to build up a steady workforce. More work means more experience, which is essential if you want to work in film or television.”

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have claimed relative success over their respective life spans, Hewitt warned of a fickle film industry in which many studios do well for themselves but an equal if not larger number are left without work.

“It’s a lot like migrant farm work. There’s going to be either feast or famine,” Hewitt said.

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