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BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY
Mall annexation, school system scandal reveal problems Renee Barrow Staff Writer
Small signs reading “I’m in” advertising the City of St. George incorporation cluster outside many Baton Rouge-area homes and businesses and represent the frustrations of the community. A grievance of the Committee for the Incorporation of St. George is the Baton Rouge Metro Council’s recent effort to officially annex the Mall of Louisiana into Baton Rouge proper. “They were trying to put a roadblock in front of us,” said committee volunteer and local insurance agent Darnell Browning. “But we’ve overcome every roadblock so far.” St. George supporter, former state senator and U.S. Senate candidate Woody Jenkins filed a suit
against the City of Baton Rouge and the Metro Council for not following proper incorporation procedure. “The City of St. George isn’t about a mall,” said committee spokesperson Lionel Rainey III. “It’s about 107,000 people wanting a voice in their future.” A deeper issue driving the movement, Rainey said, is the poor performance of the East Baton Rouge Parish School System. “The schools are deplorable,” Browning said. “Nobody’s done anything to improve [the system] in the past ten or fifteen years.” According to Rainey, EBRPSS has consistently been one of the worst performing public school systems in the nation. Rainey said some individuals with children in the parish’s magnet school programs are apprehensive
about creating a new school system, but families privileged enough to be in the magnet system do not outweigh the need for changes. “Middle-class people in Baton Rouge can’t afford to send their children to private schools and may not make it through the magnet school lottery,” Rainey said. “I’m talking about families where mom and dad work and have about three kids, and the median household income is $90,000.” While some may disagree, EBRPSS is under scrutiny for graderecording errors and other issues with academic records. According to the Louisiana Department of Education audit in March, the state is in the process of reviewing the transcripts of EBRPSS high school graduates ST. GEORGE, see page 4
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Signs encouraging citizens to sign a petition incorporating the city of St. George are arranged outside of Megan’s Dress 2 the 9’s on Wednesday.
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TODAY’S FORECAST
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New Mexico firefighters battle blazes Troubled police department funded The Associated Press
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — As summer approaches, relief is in sight for drought-stricken New Mexico and many other parts of the West as Mother Nature appears ready to ease up on her back-to-back blows of stifling heat and gusty winds. A break in the unfavorable weather can’t come soon enough for the hundreds of firefighters battling a blaze on the Navajo Nation that has consumed more than 20 square miles of pinon and juniper forest along with grazing lands that tribal livestock owners have used for centuries. The Assayii Lake Fire has destroyed at least four structures. Another 50 homes near the rural communities of Naschitti and Sheep Springs were threatened, with some in Naschitti evacuated. Forecasters with the National Weather Service said storms moving across the Southwest have helped raise humidity levels, and the winds are expected to die down by Thursday, giving firefighters the window needed to directly attack the flames.
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A U.S. flag whips in the wind Tuesday in Naschitti, N.M., as the Assayii Lake Fire continues to burn in the background. The fire has burned more than 12,000 acres.
“What we saw over the past three or four days will basically end tomorrow. No more wind,” meteorologist Chuck Maxwell said Wednesday. Despite the variability in the weather and drought, the fire season has been relatively slow across the U.S., according to the National Interagency Fire Center in Idaho. The number
of acres burned so far this year is half of the 10-year average, and there have been fewer large fires. In the Southwest, the acreage burned is only 46 percent of average. “The reason the Southwest is below average is because it had a late start to its fire season,” said Robyn Broyles with the interagency fire center.
SORRENTO, La. (AP) — A divided Sorrento Town Council narrowly approved a $1.14 million budget for the new 2014-15 fiscal year Tuesday night, but was stymied in a bid to defund parts of the town’s troubled police department. The attempt to leave the department with no provisions to pay for an officer, a police chief or other expenses failed over public notice concerns raised by Councilman Randy Anny and shared by Town Attorney Matthew Percy. Had the council majority succeeded, The Advocate reports the department could not have funded any officers four months ahead of a possible Nov. 4 ballot measure asking Sorrento voters to abolish the department and the town’s elected chief.
INTERNATIONAL
Polish police attempt magazine raid The Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish police and state prosecutors on Wednesday raided the headquarters of a magazine that recently published compromising information about the government, in a failed attempt to seize its computers. In scenes broadcast live on Polish TV, Sylwester Latkowski, the editor of the weekly Wprost, said he resisted demands of authorities to hand over his laptop and pen drive and would only
do so if he received a court order first. He said agents twisted his arm in order to get the laptop, and they left after a few hours without the materials they sought. A lawyer for the magazine, Jacek Kondracki, said the magazine would sue the authorities for violating press freedoms. In Poland, journalists are obliged to protect their sources if they request anonymity, and only a court order can waive that.
CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS In our June 17 issue, in the story titled, “New program allows students to ship items before move-in,” we incorrectly stated that Greek residents would benefit from the Ship to Your Room program. Residence halls, residential colleges and on-campus apartments are the only buildings eligible for the program. Greek housing is not under the LSU Residential Life division. We regret this error.
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk defends his government’s behavior Monday in a wiretapping scandal.
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Governor signs bill blocking levee board lawsuit SB 469 stops suit filed by SLFPA-E
Lauren Guillot Contributing Writer
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal signed Senate Bill 469 on June 6 prohibiting state government entities from filing lawsuits to enforce environmental protection laws. This bill effectively blocks a lawsuit brought by the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East against 97 oil and gas companies. The SLFPA-East is an independent government authority responsible for flood protection for the New Orleans area east of the Mississippi River. The authority, which consists of geology, engineering and environmental experts, was created in 2006 to be independent of
political pressure. The authority filed a lawsuit last summer against oil and gas companies for the destruction of coastal wetlands protecting the city. According to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement, canal dredging and levee construction due to oil and gas activity accounts for 8 to 17 percent of coastal wetlands loss in Louisiana. Though the authority didn’t specify the amount it sought for damages, the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority estimated the cost of restoring and protecting the coastal wetlands in its 2012 Coastal Master Plan to be $250 billion. SB 469 states that only government entities listed in the federal Coastal Zone Management Act can bring legal claims about management of Louisiana’s coastal zones. Individual parishes
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The Visual Blues - LSU Mueseum of Art FestiGals - French Quarter
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Lourdes Blood Center Blood Drive - Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center
10:00 AM
Fishing Wednesday - Longfellow Evangeline State Park
5:00 PM
Andre Bohren - The Little Gem Saloon Paul Longstreth - Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse
6:00 PM
Joint Replacement Seminar - Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center
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Chase Tyler Band - Superior Grill
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New Orleans Zephyrs vs. Fresno Grizzlies - Zephyr Field Domenic - Checkpoint Charlie Brother Dege - Chelsea’s Cafe
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Annie - Baton Rouge Little Theater She Still Dreams Benefit Performance and Po-Boy Sale - Burk Hall Theater
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Playing for Change - Tipitina’s Uptown Johnny Angels and the Swinging Demons - The Little Gem Salon Wess Anderson Quintet - Snug Harbor - New Orleans Politics with a Punch - Eiffel Society The James Rivers Movement - Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse Grayson Capps - Chickie Wah Wah
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DJ Mike Larry - The Spanish Moon Cedric Burnside and Brother Dege - Mud and Water The Easter See - Gasa Gasa 484 South Band - Lava Cantina Dave Ruffner & Richard Scott - Fritzels Jazz Club DJ 2EZ - The Roux House Quiet Morning and the Calamity - The Blue Moon Dolo Jazz Suite - The Spanish Moon
10:00 PM
Niko Night Life - Eiffel Society Wess Anderson Quintet - Snug Harbor - New Orleans Ryan Less Hansson - The Blue Moon
11:00 PM
Vanishing Race - The Blue Moon
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with a plan to manage resources under the Coastal Zone Management Act will be allowed to file for damages. Supporters of this bill say the lawsuit brought by the SLFPA-East is a needless attack on a valuable industry and contrary to the state’s public policy. According to the bill’s supporters, these “legacy lawsuits” undermine Louisiana’s coastal restoration work, which includes cooperating with oil and gas companies. “This bill will help stop frivolous lawsuits and create a more fair and predictable legal environment, and I am proud to sign it into law. It further improves Louisiana’s legal environment by reducing unnecessary claims that burden businesses so that we can bring even more jobs into our state,” Jindal said in a June 6 news release. The bill’s opponents say the legislation will allow oil and gas companies to avoid any responsibility for the restoration of the coast and wetlands. They worry that the bill will prevent Louisiana citizens from getting reparations for the destroyed land. Mark Davis, director of the Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law and Policy, said the bill “reaches beyond what it needed to do.” “We ought not to be giving away public rights without
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Senate Bil 469’s opponents say that the legislation will allow oil and gas companies to avoid any responsibility for the restoration of the coast and wetlands.
having a more detailed discussion first,” he said. Robert Twilley, professor at the LSU School of the Coast and Environment, said neither SB 469 nor the SLFPA-East lawsuit will be the solution to Louisiana’s problems. “You have to think big,” he said. “Whatever we are doing needs to be more comprehensive. We need to look at the Mississippi River and oil and gas.” Shortly after Jindal signed
SB 469, he announced the appointment of Tyrone Ben to replace SLFPA-East President Tim Doody for the board seat representing St. Bernard Parish. Ben said that he has not yet decided if he supports or opposes the lawsuit.
Contact Lauren Guillot at lguillot@lsureveille.com
FOOD
Popeyes reunites with recipes The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Atlanta-based company that franchises Popeyes fried chicken restaurants has purchased the recipes for many of its dishes for $43 million from a Louisiana-based seasoning company owned by the estate of Popeyes’ founder. Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen Inc. said in a statement that the deal eliminates the $3.1 million annual royalty the company was previously scheduled to pay Diversified Foods and Seasonings until 2029. Al Copeland Sr. founded what became the Popeyes chain in 1972 in a New Orleans suburb. He lost the company in a 1990s bankruptcy case after his ill-fated acquisition of the competing Church’s chicken
chain in 1989. However, he retained the exclusive contract to supply spices to Popeyes through Diversified Foods and Seasonings. Copeland family businesses also include casual dining restaurants in the Southeast. Copeland died in 2008. “With the cooperation of the Copeland family, this transaction now brings important intellectual property — Popeyes’ core recipes — under brand ownership for the first time in our company’s history,” Popeyes CEO Cheryl Bachelder said Monday evening in the news release. Diversified Foods and Seasonings, based in Madisonville, will continue to supply Popeyes with products. “Reuniting the recipe with
Popeyes strengthens the relationship between the Copeland family and Popeyes. The transaction will allow DFS to focus on what we do best for Popeyes, producing and innovating the highest quality products, including cooked foods, spices, and breading systems,” Al Copeland Jr., chairman of the board of Diversified and of Al Copeland Investments, said in a statement. In New Orleans, Copeland was as well known for a flamboyant lifestyle — speedboat racing, a lavish annual Christmas light display at his home and multiple marriages — as for his businesses. He died of cancer at age 64. Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at news@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @TDR_news
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handling specific situations on campus. While training, the police officers also speak at freshman orientations and answers questions from parents. Lalonde said the summer is different than the regular semesters, but not slower. Once the spring sports like baseball come to an end, officers focus more on planning for events, such as the upcoming football season. “Football is the University’s largest event,” Lalonde said. “As soon as last football season started, we were already planning for this upcoming season.” Lalonde said LSUPD is aware of the issues people have had exiting campus after game days and is working with other agencies to fix the problems using new
contraflow methods. Lalonde said the department relies heavily on the LSU community to call and report strange occurrences on campus. LSUPD started the “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign in January 2011. In the first year of the program, the police department averaged 14,000 to 15,000 calls for service, including officer-initiated events, medical emergencies and community calls. In 2012, the number of calls increased to between 18,000 and 19,000 calls for service, and in 2013, LSUPD received almost 23,000 calls. Lalonde said reports of even small crimes can make a difference. He explained that one crime may give LSUPD the DNA needed to catch a suspected serial criminal.
The Daily Reveille “If we’re seeing a spike in crime in a certain area, we’ll send more patrol to that area without sacrificing the safety of the rest of the campus,” Lalonde said. LSUPD receives significantly fewer calls for service and makes fewer arrests during the summer semesters, but there is still a focus on campus safety. “Students, faculty, staff, tourists and anyone else who comes onto our campus are our responsibility, and we do everything we can to protect them, no matter what semester it is,” Lalonde said.
Contact Joshua Jackson at jjackson@lsureveille.com
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from 2009 to 2013. LDOE has produced evidence of possible errors in 29 student transcripts from the Glen Oaks High School class of 2013, including six students not earning the proper credits to graduate and 11 students being awarded the incorrect type of diploma. “There are samples across the system that expose an epidemic problem,” Rainey said. Rainey said St. George supporters were told they could not create their own school district, as St. George was a not a city. “All this group has ever wanted was to have people be able to vote on it,” Rainey said. Aside from the school system problems, Rainey said legislation like the Local Services Agreement
allows the government to take millions in excess tax revenue but not always return city services. “They treat [citizens] like an ATM,” Rainey said. “That doesn’t happen anywhere else in the country.” The Local Services Agreement has no expiration date. Article 5 of the act states it shall remain as is unless the parish and the city agree upon termination. Rainey and Browning said the committee is close to its goal of physically collecting signatures from 25 percent of all registered voters in the City of St. George areas and should be able to get on the November or December run-off ballot.
Contact Renee Barrow at rbarrow@lsureveille.com
STATE
Jindal denounces Common Core The Associated Press (AP) — In his efforts to remove the Common Core education standards from Louisiana’s public schools, Gov. Bobby Jindal announced several actions Wednesday, saying he: —Issued an executive order that requires the state education department to conduct a competitive bid process to purchase new standardized tests, an effort that Jindal said will keep the department from using its planned test tied to Common Core. —Sent a letter to the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, seeking state withdrawal from the consortium and saying the state “is no longer committed” to use its standardized tests, which are linked to Common Core. —Suspended rules adopted by the state Board of Elementary
and Secondary Education in May involving the implementation of the PARCC testing. —Notified the Council for Chief State School Officers and the National Governor’s Association that Louisiana was ending its participation in the Common Core State Standards. The Department of Education said the governor’s efforts won’t derail Louisiana’s use of the Common Core standards or the PARCC tests and issued a point-by-point rebuttal of the governor’s actions. The department says: —It doesn’t need to do a new bid for standardized tests and can use an existing contract to purchase the PARCC test questions and answers. (But the Jindal administration replied by saying it intends to suspend that contract, and the education department was researching its legal options.) —Jindal can’t withdraw
Louisiana from the PARCC consortium without agreement from the education superintendent and the chairman of the state education board, both of whom support Common Core. —Jindal’s suspension of the rules passed by BESE has no effect on the state’s ability to implement the Common Core standards or the PARCC tests. —The governor doesn’t have the authority to unilaterally end Louisiana’s participation in the Common Core standards, because state law gives that authority to the education department and the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.
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RICHARD ALAN HANNON / The Associated Press
Gov. Bobby Jindal announces his administration’s move to pull out of Common Core during a press conference Wednesday at the Louisiana State Capitol.
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Sports
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Kickin’ It
MEN’s basketball
Musselman to join basketball staff
Tigers compete for spots on national teams
Coach brings pro experience to team David Gray Staff Writer
LSU ASSEMBLING CHALLENGING NON-CONFERENCE SCHEDULE While most soccer fans have had their eyes fixed on the World Cup, the LSU soccer team has continued preparing for the 2014 season. The Tigers scheduled nonconference matches at BYU, Duke and Marquette, though a kick-off time has yet to be established for the Sept. 11 tilt at BYU. LSU is still finalizing its
Eric Musselman had many intriguing job offers to choose from before he reached his decision. The recent Arizona State assistant coach could have returned to the NBA where he was a head coach for three seasons in the early 2000s. He also had an option to work on televised college basketball games on the West Coast. Or Musselman could have stayed put in the college ranks. But he didn’t want the sole responsibility of deciding the immediate future of his family. On June 12, Musselman sat with his wife and two sons at their kitchen table in Danville, Calif., to put the family’s fate to a vote. The result was unanimous. “Everybody voted 4-0 to come to LSU and be a part of the Tiger family,” Musselman said. On Tuesday, LSU coach Johnny Jones announced Musselman as the newest member of the men’s basketball program. The hiring is subject to a standard background check by the athletics department and approval by the LSU Board of Supervisors. Given the recent departure of former assistant coach Korey McCray, the addition of
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MUSSELMAN, see page 11
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[Left] Sophomore midfielder Emma Fletcher, right, steals the ball from Mississippi State defenders Sept. 29, 2013. [Right] Junior midfielder Fernanda Piña, left, shrugs off a tackle from a University of Louisiana-Monroe opponent during a game Aug. 27, 2013. Fletcher and Piña participated in their national teams’ camps this summer.
Marcus Rodrigue Staff Writer
Some Tigers are spending the offseason trying to stay conditioned. Others are vying for a chance to represent their country. Four LSU players were called up to their respective national teams’ training camps in preparation for the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup, which will run from Aug. 5 to Aug. 24. Sophomore defender Megan
Lee and freshman goalkeeper Lily Alfeld will represent New Zealand, and sophomore midfielder Emma Fletcher and freshman defender Jordane Carvery will play for Canada. Lee earned Second Team All-SEC honors during her freshman season despite missing two games while participating in a pair of friendlies with the New Zealand team. Alfeld also boasts extensive experience with 11 international caps in the Junior Football Ferns’ system.
Fletcher, who led LSU with 12 assists and garnered SEC AllFreshman Team recognition last season, has frequented Canadian training camps and looks to be a shoo-in for a spot on the national team. Carvery has received three invitations to train with the U-20 team since signing with the Tigers in February. Junior midfielders Fernanda Piña and Natalia Gomez-Junco also participated in a training camp with the Mexican senior team last week.
Redskins trademark loss step in right direction CURLY HAIR DON’T CARE Tommy Romanach Staff Writer The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office canceled the Washington Redskins trademark Wednesday morning on the basis that it is “disparaging to Native Americans.” It’s been a long time coming. The ruling does not force Redskins owner Dan Snyder to change the name, but trademarks will no longer be protected under federal law if the NFL and Redskins lose an appeal to the U.S. District Court. It is the first major step in getting rid of the most obviously
racist nickname in all of sports. The process may take a few more years, but Snyder will eventually end his stubbornness and find a more appropriate name. Many claim the ruling is a sign of political correctness taking over the country, and some wonder why nicknames such as “Cleveland Indians” and “Chicago Blackhawks” are not similarly condemned. Let’s tackle the former argument first. I agree that our country sometimes acts too PC, but the patent office’s ruling is a sign of progress. Remember, there was a time when actors wearing blackface were completely accepted by the public. When things began to change then, many found it to be “too PC,” like the issue today. In reality, these
people are afraid of change. Snyder has been steadfast about keeping the name, saying “Redskins” is a part of the tradition of the franchise. I wonder how many Native Americans have been employed during the fine “Redskins” tradition. Something tells me they haven’t gotten many job applications. The truth is, when Snyder said “tradition,” he was not referring to nostalgia – he was talking about dollar signs. It is all about the money he is going to lose once he changes the name to whatever new nickname he is forced to come up with. There are many Redskins fans who grew up with the name and feel REDSKINS, see page 11
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The Washington Redskins name is displayed on a building Wednesday at their training facility at Redskins Park during NFL football minicamp in Ashburn, Va.
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music
Entertainment
Thursday, June 19, 2014
festival
Jazz quartet ending AgCenter to host 4th Garden Fest summer series Ryan Rogers
Contributing Writer
Jennifer Vance Contributing Writer
Hot summer nights of cool jazz are coming to a close this week. The Hot Summer Nights quartet is finishing the last half of its summer concert series today and Friday. The quartet features music professors Bill Grimes, Brian Shaw and Willis Delony on bass, trumpet and piano, respectively, along with Baton Rouge native Troy Davis on drums. Grimes said the idea for the quartet came about in the ’90s when a faculty recital needed an event to fill the concert schedule, spawning the group Bill Grimes and Friends. As the years went by, more members were added to the group — now, the Hot Summer Nights quartet — and the concerts have become a popular summer series. This year’s series kicked off with vocalist Phillip Manuel and saxophonist Wessell “Warmdaddy” Anderson accompanying HSN on the first night. Manuel returned to the concert series by popular demand and has become a fixture in the New Orleans scene, performing with some of the city’s top musicians. The following night featured LSU professors Tony Dagradi on saxophone and Steve Masakowski on guitar, both professors of Jazz studies at the University and members of the New Orleans quintet Astral Project. Grimes said the group usually starts brainstorming early in the spring semester on what music it will play and what guests it will bring in. Artists that join the summer series are considered based on their own schedules. However, Grimes said the group picks artists it wants to collaborate with — artists that have styles and traits
similar to the group. “We opt for those who have an artistic appeal to our audience,” Grimes said. The second half of the concert series, which kicks off today, is titled, “Just Us.” The quartet will be joined by LSU alumnus Brad Walker on saxophone. Walker was the first LSU student to receive a master’s in music and jazz studies and continues to perform in New Orleans and across the country. The finale on Friday will see the return of Anderson in a tribute to Julian “Cannonball” Adderly. Grimes said he has known Anderson for years and describes him as a warm, engaging and funny man. Anderson’s style is similar to Adderly’s, and Grimes said it only made sense to bring him in to do a tribute. “He has complete technical command of his instrument, something we all want,” Grimes said. “But in addition to that, he has a lyrical quality in his solos that is more than appealing.” Anderson also loves to collaborate musically, Grimes said, and get involved with other artists instead of being a “me monster” or a solo hog. “[Anderson] knows how to listen and respond, just as any great conversationalist,” Grimes said. The final shows will be held tonight and Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the LSU School of Music Recital Hall, and tickets can be bought for $25 each.
LSU AgCenter will be hosting its fourth annual Garden Fest this Saturday at the AgCenter Botanic Gardens at Burden. Festival Organizer Jeff Kuehny summarized the festival as an “outdoor educational experience for the whole family.” The festival’s main focus is to provide the Baton Rouge community with the opportunity to learn about products grown in Louisiana, including organic fruits and vegetables, and about the local preparation of these foods. A slew of new and untested peppers and tomatoes will be available to try for the first time. Garden Fest is allowed to test these vegetables this year because the botanic gardens at LSU are officially recognized as an All-America Selections Trial Garden. In the morning, there will be a hayride circling the botanic gardens, and festival goers will be able to sample a wide variety
of fruits and vegetables prepared individually. According to the news release on the AgCenter’s website, the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry and the Louisiana Egg Commission will prepare and serve omelets from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. After the omelets, attendees can grab a Bloody Mary prepared by Mason’s Grill from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Chefs from the Louisiana Culinary Institute will be cooking five separate dishes for lunch, including a meat dish, a dessert and different types of salsa. Last year, the festival’s attendance reached more than 2000 people. Kuehny said some of the new major draws of this year’s festival include the singer/songwriter showcase, an antique tractor show and the Garden Fest Cocktail Contest. The cocktail contest requires contestants to use one Louisiana spirit and one Louisiana-grown food to submit their cocktail to a
board of judges, which includes several Louisiana-based distillers, bartenders and cocktail experts. Attendees who are 21 and older will be allowed to taste the cocktails after the contest is finished. Kuehny said Baton Rouge Music Studios will be showcasing local singer/songwriters in the latter part of the festival, but the artists will play for fun, not competitively. The overall message of the festival is to encourage Louisianians “to use and eat local foods and products,” said Kuehney. “Unlike other festivals, it is a great opportunity to see food grown, harvested and prepared all in one place.” The festival begins this Saturday at 7:30 a.m. and tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for ages 4 to 21 and children under 3 will be admitted free of charge. Burden is located on Essen Lane off of I-10. Contact Ryan Rogers at rrogers@lsureveille.com
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A festival-goer speaks to a vendor at Garden Fest. LSU AgCenter will host its fourth annual Garden Fest this Saturday featuring Louisiana-grown products like organic fruits and vegetables and a cocktail contest.
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A film crew has set up in preparation for a movie being filmed on campus. The movie, being referred to as “Henry,” is rumored to be a sequel to the 2005 “Fantastic Four” film.
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Most LSU students are familiar with Snoman Snowballs and its two blue locations on Burbank Drive and Perkins Road. Snoman displays a syrup color-coordinated menu with more than 70 flavors for its customers. There are always two people working inside of the stands with positive attitudes. The stands offer ice cream, milkshakes, candy, nachos, chips, pickles and hot dogs to complement their spread of snowballs. Snoman offers five sizes of snowballs and milkshakes ranging from 12 ounces to 32 ounces. The best features of Snoman Snowballs are its soft ice and fresh syrup. The snowballs are well-crafted and arguably the best in the LSU area.
Tiger Balls Sno Balls
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Sitting in front of Brightside Bar and Grill on Brightside Drive is the tiny white Tiger Balls Sno Ball shack. The one-man snowball stand offers 60 flavors, including a few sour syrups and seven clear-colored flavors for those who fear an unsightly colored mouth. The prompt service and smiles at Tiger Balls were not enough to disguise the garbage-like odor coming from around the stand, however. Tiger Balls does offer sample cups for customers to cycle through their desired flavors. The snowballs at Tiger Balls are fairly inexpensive but only come in three sizes, which may be a problem for some snowball fanatics. The ice can be a little hard at some points, and the surplus of syrup can result in messy situations, but for the price and location, Tiger Balls isn’t a bad place to go.
Shiver Shack Snoball [ D] Shiver Shack Snoball located just over the I-10 bridge in Port Allen, is the largest snowball stand of the three reviewed. The shack offers 68 flavors in five sizes, including an extra small size for a dollar. The service at Shiver Shack leaves a lot to be desired. The lack of eye contact or upbeat voices from the workers creates a distance between them and the customer. The Shiver Shack had the hardest ice of the reviewed snowball stands, which also melted the fastest. The syrup used in the snowballs was bitter, rendering them unfinishable.
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Musselman and the pro-level experience he will bring couldn’t have come at a better time for Jones. But that wasn’t the only reason Jones selected Musselman. “We were just looking and hoping for a good fit for the program that would complement the coaching staff that we have in place here now,” Jones said. For Musselman, coming to LSU was a chance to reunite with close friend David Patrick, who has been an assistant coach on Jones’ staff since 2012. The two met when Patrick became a member of the Saint Mary’s basketball program in 2006. “David Patrick is a really good friend of mine, and he was the conduit that put Johnny and I in touch,” Musselman said. “When he worked at Saint Mary’s, my son would go to the camp up there because that was the closest college to my house in the Bay Area, and that’s how we became so close.” Beside the immediate chemistry between the coaching staff, Musselman brings a wealth of experience to an LSU program that has failed to make the NCAA Tournament since 2009. Musselman served as the head
coach of the Golden State Warriors from 2002-2004. In his rookie season at the helm, Musselman led the Warriors to a 38-44 record, which was a league-best 17 more wins than the previous season. His squad also scored 102.4 points per game, which was the secondhighest average in the league. For his efforts, Musselman finished second in the NBA Coach of the Year voting to San Antonio Spurs’ coach Gregg Popovich. Musselman also had a one-year stint with the Sacramento Kings in 2006. Not only has Musselman showed the ability to coach the best players in the world, he also has an innate skill at developing young talent. Musselman has coached basketball at all professional levels. He’s made stops in the Continental Basketball Association, the United States Basketball League and the NBA D-League, where he was named 2012 Coach of the Year after his team, the Los Angeles DFenders, won the league’s regular season title with a 38-12 record. Eight members of that team eventually signed with NBA franchises. It may seem odd for a coach with Musselman’s pedigree to
The Daily Reveille choose an LSU program with only two 20-win seasons since 2006, but Jones said he believes his newest assistant’s desire to join his staff shows the growth of the program. “We talked to several people that were extremely qualified for the position, and we’re just glad the program is at the stage where we have the interest of people of [Musselman’s] magnitude,” Jones said. Musselman is coming to LSU at perhaps the most ideal time of Jones’ tenure in Baton Rouge. According to rivals.com, LSU has received commitments from three four-star recruits from the 2014 and 2016 classes. But perhaps the future of Tiger basketball is five-star commitment Ben Simmons, a 6-foot-8-inch small forward from Montverde, Fla., who is rated as the fifth overall player of the 2015 class. With the program going in the right direction, Musselman said it seemed like a natural fit for him to come to LSU.
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pre-Southeastern Conference slate, but coach Brian Lee doesn’t mind the stiff competition. “It says a lot about the players we’ve accumulated in these last couple of years,” Lee said. “Recruiting has gone very well. We’re going to have a very young team for the next few seasons, but the Dukes and the Marquettes recognize we have a chance to be quite good.” Atlantic Coast Conference powerhouse Duke reached the quarterfinals of the past two NCAA Tournaments after claiming national runner-up in 2011. Marquette brings a similar prestige following its 2013 campaign, during which it won the Big East Tournament and earned a No. 2 seed in the national tournament. The Tigers will visit BYU as part of a home-and-home series with the Cougars. LSU lost last year’s home match against BYU, which went on to claim a share of the West Coast Conference title and advance to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Those three matches should boost LSU’s Rating Percentage Index, which determines which teams qualify for the national tournament. “The players certainly want to play the very best teams we can find to schedule,” Lee said. “A win over Marquette, Duke or BYU goes a long way toward getting into the NCAA Tournament.” WILLIAMS COMPLETES 2014 CLASS English defender Ella Williams signed her National Letter of Intent with LSU on June 5 to further increase the Tigers’ international flair. Williams picked up six international caps with the U-15
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LSU sophomore defender Megan Lee drives down the field Oct. 11, 2013 during the 1-0 victory against Mizzou at LSU Soccer Stadium.
and U-17 teams and has already spent time training with the U-19 squad. The Leatherhead, Surrey, native joined Alfeld and Carvery as LSU’s international recruits one year after Brian Lee brought in five players from outside the United States. “International women’s soccer has expanded so quickly,” Brian Lee said. “The rest of the world is getting so much better so fast that we just wanted to be on the front end of it.” Williams strengthens the Tigers’ recruiting class, which was ranked No. 7 in the nation by TopDrawerSoccer.com on National Signing Day in February. LSU’s recruiting class features three of the top 150 American prospects, with forward Jorian Baucom checking in at No. 13, defender Alexis Urch at No. 55 and
midfielder Christyna Pitre at No. 104. Midfielder Madeline Ramsey, the younger sister of former LSU defender Alex Ramsey, rounds out the Tigers’ 2014 class. All six of LSU’s departing seniors played in either midfield or the defending third, and Brian Lee addressed those vacancies on the recruiting trail. “We’ve upgraded our talent level in those spots,” Brian Lee said. “It’s just going to be finding the right mix between young and old players and who’s fit and ready to go.”
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a certain attachment to it. A change in nicknames will bring criticism, and that group of fans may refuse to buy new merchandise, bringing a loss of sales. Florida State has actually worked hard to make sure the Seminole community is okay with their name, and Indians is now accepted by many tribes. I could break down how terrible the word “Redskins” is, but I’m just a half-Cuban, half-Caucasian college student. I’ll leave it to Tekakwitha Webb, a Cherokee who routinely attends Native American gatherings protesting the nickname. “Think about it in the context
of other cultures,” Webb said during a gathering in May. “The Redskins name is ridiculous. You wouldn’t say ‘Washington whities’ or ‘Washington n-word.’” It wouldn’t surprise me if that is how most Native Americans feel about the subject. I couldn’t say for sure, because honestly, I don’t know many Native Americans. They’ve become an invisible minority in America. And when that’s the case, a racial slur can be a team nickname for a long time.
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