FOOTBALL: LSU, Texas A&M rekindle a rivalry, p.7
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012 • Volume 117, Issue 38
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Can you spot the difference? Students Should the University have airbrushed the crosses out of the photo of the Painted Posse? Vote at lsureveille.com.
ACADEMICS
allowed to repeat 12 hours Grade Exclusion Policy approved
Joshua Bergeron Staff Writer
didn’t want to offend anyone by showing the crosses, but he was curious why the photo wasn’t edited on the University’s Sports website or Facebook page. The first time D’Aubin saw the edited photo was in the mass email. The picture has already been picked up by multiple news outlets that didn’t edit it, D’Aubin said. It was within the University’s legal
The negative results of classes blown off in freshman year may soon nearly disappear. Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Stuart Bell officially approved the Grade Exclusion Policy on Monday, which allows students to replace classes in which they received a grade lower than a C. The policy takes effect at the start of the fall 2013 semester. Under the policy, students may repeat a maximum of three classes, equaling no more than 12 hours. The new grades will replace old “Ds” or “Fs,” but the low grades will continue to appear on transcripts. Students must file a petition with their college’s dean in order to invoke the policy. “So let’s say a student gets a ‘D’ or ‘F’ in a class,” said Thomas
PHOTO, see page 6
POLICY, see page 19
photos courtesy of LSU ATHLETICS
[Left] The original photo of the Painted Posse at the Tigers’ game against South Carolina on Saturday. [Right] The edited photo was emailed to those who attended the game through LSU Geaux-Mail. The crosses on the students’ chests were airbrushed out of the photo.
University broadcasts airbrushed photo, upsets religious students Alyson Gaharan Contributing Writer
Mass communication junior Joel D’Aubin was thrilled to see his picture in a broadcast email to the entire student body Tuesday afternoon, until he noticed it had been edited to cover the cross painted on his shoulder. The photo depicted four football fans — D’Aubin, Ben Wallace and University seniors Cameron Cooke and AJ
Fagan — in body paint with crosses emblazoned on their shoulders. The group, called “The Painted Posse,” has passed on the tradition of body paint and crosses on the heart for seven football seasons. “Those crosses were airbrushed out. ... We don’t want to convey any religious or political message,” said Associate Vice Chancellor for University Relations and Senior Associate Athletics Director Herb Vincent. D’Aubin suspected the University
BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY
West Coast grocery store chain to open in BR Trader Joe’s to open in Acadian Village
Ferris McDaniel Staff Writer
By this time next year, Baton Rouge will join the list of cities partaking in the Trader Joe’s phenomenon that started in 1958 with a small chain of Pasadenafounded convenience stores called Pronto Markets. The store was reborn as Trader Joe’s in 1967 and now spans the country with more than 300 stores, with one of its most recent
developments in Baton Rouge’s Acadian Village Shopping Center near Acme Oyster House and the soon-to-open Galatoire’s Bistro near Perkins Road and Acadian Thruway. Trader Joe’s had been debating over what city — New Orleans or Baton Rouge — a Louisiana location should be placed in, said Tina Rance, marketing director of Commercial Properties Realty Trust, the company that owns Acadian Village. “We don’t have many national grocery stores here, and I think the fact that they chose Baton Rouge over other cities in Louisiana is key to show the
progress here,” Rance said. “That particular location — being close to LSU, older neighborhoods and the interstate — will be a regional draw as well.” But Trader Joe’s doesn’t treat itself like a run-of-the-mill grocery store. According to Trader Joe’s website, the store has branded “innovative, hard-to-find, greattasting foods” with its own name, which cuts costs and saves the customer money. Trader Joe’s buys directly from suppliers whenever possible and is constantly shifting TRADER JOE’S, see page 19
rendering courtesy of TINA RANCE
Construction on the first Louisiana Trader Joe’s location in Baton Rouge’s Acadian Village Shopping Center is set to begin later this year.