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days since oil spill began.
Read the latest oil spill briefs, page 2.
TECHNOLOGY
BASEBALL
LSU application for iPhone to be Mahtook selected by USA released in August, page 3. Collegiate National Team, page 5.
The Daily Reveille
Volume 114, Issue 153 – Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Summer Edition – see www.lsureveille.com for more
‘Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn’ to film in Baton Rouge Ryan Buxton Staff Writer
Baton Rouge’s film industry will gain some fresh blood this fall as the next installment of the
“Twilight” saga comes to shoot in the capital city. Summit Entertainment has announced it will be filming parts of “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn” in Baton Rouge and
Vancouver, Canada, beginning in the fall. Amy Mitchell-Smith, executive director of the Baton Rouge Film Commission, said Summit has been scouting locations
and researching Baton Rouge for “well over a month.” Summit is still deliberating what will specifically be filmed in Baton Rouge, Mitchell-Smith said, but the production will
See You Later, Gator
begin sometime this fall. Mitchell-Smith said she couldn’t confirm specific dates, but she expects the project will TWILIGHT, see page 4
Lsu.edu email accounts blocked Ryan Buxton Staff Writer
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A seven-foot-long alligator crawled Thursday from the Mississippi River to a landscaping building on campus, behind the old Alex Box Stadium and across the street from the football practice field. It is believed heat caused the alligator to seek cooler temperatures inside. The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries sent a nuisance alligator handler to remove the gator, which will soon be relocated to the Joyce Wildlife Management area south of Ponchatoula.
Everyone with an “@lsu. edu” email address was unable to send messages for a 24-hour period this weekend because of account hackings causing email carriers to block the addresses. The incident, which happened over Saturday and Sunday, was due to an influx of spam being sent out after lsu.edu accounts were hacked, said Sheri Thompson, IT planning and communications officer. “Our ability to send out emails completely died because we got blacklisted,” Thompson said. “No one from lsu.edu could send an email to anyone else.” Hacking into the accounts was a result of phishing scams, or an online scam to get users to enter personal information SCAM, see page 4
LITERATURE
‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ celebrates 50th anniversary Iconic novel remains educational tool Nicholas Persac Staff Writer
The fictional “tired old town” of Maycomb, Ala., has captured the imaginations of high school students across the globe during the last 50 years as the setting of the iconic Southern novel that instilled in American culture that “it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” “It’s a powerful book, and it
captures a moment in time,” said Steven Bickmore, a University professor who teaches secondary English education. “It gives you a lot to think about, and it’s had quite an impact. Even 10 years after first being published, it was considered a type of classic and was entrenched in both American culture and the education system.” The 1961 fiction Pulitzer Prize winner “To Kill a Mockingbird” is translated into more than 40 languages, has sold more than 30 million copies and was adapted into a 1962 movie version that won three Oscars, according to
the Smithsonian. The landmark piece of literature celebrated its 50th publication anniversary July 11, and readers today are still taking from the novel relevant social commentary, including themes of race relations, gender issues and life in the South. “As an adult, students can pull different things from the book,” Bickmore said. “Adolescents will quickly identify with characters like Scout and Jem, who face adolescent issues, but college students can start to look at Atticus and see these big-time
NOVEL, see page 4
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A display at the LSU Union bookstore Monday celebrates the 50th publication anniversary of the iconic novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee.