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Call 388-5131 for Birthday Party and Bowling information. 33>cover 6 24>opinion What's Next? A Neutered World graduation uncertainties Campus Playback 16 > reviews everyday speech can Jay Casey the fall semester in good food, good discriminate against review readings, and good women movies are recom­ Les Lane 36>Somewhere SPRING 1 -1994 mended on Campus Volume 5, Issue 3 Lisa Cowling/Tiffany interesting shots of LSU ©Gumbo Magazine Jennings Louisiana Stale University The Gumbo Magazine and 12 >features the Gumbo Yearbook 28>news Merged Into One Bright, Take Note Big Cityitis 38>sports Timely Publication Issued resolutions fall by the 18 > sports Four Times A Year crack and crime bring Football is Serious wayside Changing of the big city menace to Baton Renee Ellender Guards Business Rouge the Athletic Department new talent Melissa Webster Paul Poteet leans heavily on football revenue Lisa Cowling o N E 40 T Campus Tidbits c 22>news fun facts of LSU life Heading South Andrew Wong LSU is an important part of the National Student 30 > entertainment 14>features Exchange Program Healthy Competition! Quest 4 Food Paige Bowers 42 > Music finding meal deals on the Rec Center and local A Music Lover's fitness clubs attract campus Cover photograph Heaven student clientele Angela Wingate by Salem Chenafi. Paradise appeals to LSU On the cover is Scott Ginger Smith students Houghton, who gradu­ Andrew Smiley ated from LSU in De­ cember. Like many re­ cent or soon-to-be graduates, Scott is wor­ ried what the future holds fo r him. Our 44>music cover story examines Meantree the options available to a local band's future students when they fi­ plans nally come to the end o f the road. Dax Lowery STAFF

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Photographers s Salem Chenafi Miranda Kombert T 64>news Gang Lu Better Believe It Sammy Potera 58>news the casinos are coming Ashley Vorhoff N Exploring the Pete Tattersall 49 Possibilities Advertising Representatives YOU SAID IT unique research projects Corrinne Schroeder students speak out on at LSU Vivian V. Timm LSU's recycling effort Tiffany Jennings 72 Circulation Manager CONTRIBUTORS Mike Drago 50>features 60> research Wrong in the notes Adviser Middle compiled from LSU Pat Parish the quad's history News Service Brief and 73 Kristine Calongne the Agricultural Center Creative Writing poems and short stories Magazine Gumbo Magazine is written, edited and designed by LSU students. The opinions expressed herein are those of the writers 54>entertainment and do not necessarily represent the views of the editor, the magazine, the Office of Student Media or the University. No Culturally Yours 62>features part of this publication may be reproduced without the consent a peek at Baton Rouge's of the Office of Student Media. World's Apart 82 funky theatre scene ORGANIZATION ethnic groups stick Virgil LeJeune NEWS together for support Demis Knop The LSU University Baptist Church 203 Leeward Dr. Campus Hotel (1.5 miles south of LSU off Highland) Comfortable, Student Worship at “9:30” spacious guest Family Worship at 10:45 rooms, recently Counseling Center-College Minister—766-9474 remodeled and “9:30” \nin thir-ty\n. 1: a unique student worship reasonably priced. experience 2: provides creative worship, Deluxe services contemporary music, drama, and relevant available, including topics 3: begins at 9:30 am sharp each Sunday. continental breakfast, evening refreshments, and shuttle service to the Baton Rouge Metro 'Y our Church Home Away From Hom e' airport. Sundays For reservations 8:30 Worship call 9:30 Coffee Time 387-0297 11:00 Worship 9:45 University Fellowship Class/Rm. 203/Trice Bldg. (Beginning September 12) PLEASANT HALL 3350 Dalrymple 344-0343

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SPRING 1 1994 5 PLAYBAC!

By |ennifer G oundas

SUBSTANCE ABUSE AW ARENESS W EEK The Substance Abuse Aware- fun and not get smashed. yearly program that the Wellness nesfweek (SAAW), held Oct. 18- Sigma Pi provided mock grave­ Education Center provides for the 22, 1993, was sponsored by the stones which were placed on the students. Each month brings a dif­ LSU Wellness Education Depart­ Parade Ground. The tombstones ferent awareness week. Sexually ment. The aim was to inform stu­ gave mostly fictitious accounts of Updated Week is scheduled for dents of the dangers of substance the dangers of alcohol abuse and February and Nutrition Awareness abuse. where it can lead. Week is scheduled for March. “We stay away from telling the Throughout the week, as well Hong said that though the tra­ students not to drink,” Luoluo as during other awareness weeks ditional organizations seemed to Hong, coordinator of the Wellness during the year, the LSU Wellness really get into these week-long Education Department, said. “We Education Department provided projects, she was concerned about want them to know that if they do statistics and other information getting more sectors of the student choose to drink there is a way to do which aid in the education of stu­ body as a whole to be aware of it that is healthy and free of risk.” dents concerning the abuse of sub­ these efforts. The Wellness Education Cen­ stances. According to Hong, however, ter is an arm of the Student Health Summer Green, a member of an answer to this problem may Center which encourages healthy Angel Flight, one of the sponsor­ have just arrived. The United living among students. ing organizations, helped hand out States Department of Education “We are constantly trying to some of this information via flyers, recently awarded a federal grant to promote a certain type of lifestyle bookmarks and pamphlets. the Director of Student Services, to maintain good health. Some of “I feel like this is an uplifting and the Alliance for the Prevention these include the prevention of experience. You read the statistics of Substance Abuse, of which the drinking and driving, and practis­ and its overwhelming. I am glad Wellness Department is a member, ing safe sex,” Joel Gremillion, a that I know some of this informa­ will benefit greatly from it. The graduate student who serves as an tion now. It has really opened my new programs that will be provided adviser for the Wellness Education eyes where substance abuse is con­ for by the grant will try to involve Department, said. cerned,” she said. everyone in the prevention of sub­ Every day of SAAW had social SAAW is one segment of a stance abuse effort. events geared especially toward student body response. “What becomes vitally impor­ tant during this week is getting stu­ dents to open up. A lot of people do not want to talk about this sub­ ject [and we] find it very difficult to get voluntary responses from them. Either they don’t want to be in the spotlight or they don’t want to give any information about their concerns or feelings concerning substance abuse,” Hong said. The week gave the students a chance to think about this topic and discuss it either with other stu­ dents or the sponsoring organiza­ tions. For example, IFC, Panhellenic and Delta Tau Delta Fraternity sponsored “Playing the Game.” Students there were re­ photo by Sammy Potera Sammy by photo minded that it is possible to have Joel Gremillion helped coordinate Substance Abuse Awareness Week.

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SHORT AND SWEET By Hester Johnson

Matthew Sweet played an en­ tertaining but short set at The Varsity on Oct. 19, 1993. Roger vorites from Sweet’s , Girl­ Manning, a solo act from New friend. “War” stood out as an ex­ York, and Hollyfaith, a band out cellent number, as well as “I Don’t of Athens, opened the show. Like Knowing People,” which Sweet started with “Dinosaur Sweet said was for “those days Act,” a song from his new album, when you just hate everybody.” Altered Beast. It was obvious from even his first song that he was not After only nine songs, Sweet feeling up to par. His throat was thanked the crowd and left the scratchy so his demanding vocals stage. He returned for a two-song lacked the driving quality found encore which included a touching on his . He just didn’t look rendition of “I’ve Been Waiting.” like he was having a very good time. Yet he persisted for a full 55 Despite Sweet’s low spirits, he Matthew Sweet played at The Varsity Oct. 19, 1993. Other minutes to try to satisfy his enthu­ still managed to deliver an enjoy­ top acts at The Varsity for the fall semester included Living siastic crowd. able show that was well worth the Colour and 311. The set included many old fa­ cover.

Andree Braud, of Delta Zeta H o m e c o m in g Sorority, was declared Home­ By Paul Poteet coming Queen and Todd Near-freezing temperatures Monroe, of Lambda Chi Alpha were not enough to deter faithful Fraternity, was elected Home­ Tiger fans or Tiger players when coming King. LSU clashed with Ole Miss on The football victory resulted Homecoming Night, Oct. 31, in jubilation and relief among 1993. It was a special night as the the 60,000 Tiger faithful. It LSU football team played up to its was also a cause for joy for the photo photo Chenafi by Salem potential and beat Ole Miss 19- players, as the seniors made an 17. Homecoming Queen and King, Andree Braud and encore appearance on the field Todd Monroe after the game, graciously thanking the remaining tiger fans for their loyalty. The sig­ nificance of the victory as a turning point in contemporary LSU football history remains uncertain. Unquestionably, however, the victory brought renewed hope to Tiger Town.

This year's annual Homecoming W eek was Oct. 25-29, 1993. The theme was " 100 years and counting ... a centennial celebration." Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority's decorations featured Billy Cannon and the motto, "The Tradition Continues."

SPRING 1 1994 PLAYBACK

HAUNTED HOUSE

The Residential Halls Associa­ tion held its Haunted House from Oct. 26-31,1993. About 75 RHA members worked on this transfor­ mation of the first floor of Hodges Hall. Ten percent of the profits went to cancer research.

LSU ’95 By Jennifer Goundas

Green grass, blue skies, hand­ committees constitute the LSU Bolz said. “We need to stop the some buildings, impeccable decor, Campus Service Council. apathy that exists. We want every­ ancient oaks and smiling faces sur­ Among the goals of LSU ’95 are one to get fired up and take pride round. Our university has always improvements to campus struc­ in LSU.” been thought of as one of the most tures, classroom renovations and An Adopt-the-Campus series, beautiful, unique and traditional litter pick up. similar to the federal highway campuses in the South and in the Beginning on Oct. 14, 1993, adoption program, will coincide nation. students, faculty and staff worked with the painting project. Tradi­ Despite this tradition, many for three hours every Thursday tional organizations as well as pri­ people, including the university through Saturday painting several vate groups are being urged to chancellor himself, thought that classrooms around the campus. keep designated areas of the cam- improvements were necessary if The committee’s goal was to have the campus was to uphold its 40 classrooms completed. reputation. On Nov. 5, 1993, Kevin The consensus was that a slight LeCount, president of College drop in campus maintenance had Democrats, had his group trans­ lowered student morale. This form a few rooms in Audubon prompted students, faculty and Hall from a dull mustard yellow administrators to ask, “Where do color to a pleasant off-white. we go from here?” As a result, LSU “We’re just trying to give some­ ’95 was created. thing back to the LSU community The brainchild of Chancellor and LSU itself. We aim to help out Davis, this three year program is as much as we can and we feel that geared toward rekindling the cam­ this is a really good project to be a pus spirit through a series of revi­ part of,” he said. talization projects. During the fall, several rooms In order to get the ball rolling in Audubon Hall and Coates were Davis appointed Randy Gurie of completed, and the painting will the Chancellor’s Office as the offi­ continue during the spring, Gurie cial campaign director. Gurie en­ said. listed a steering committee and Amanda Bolz, chairman of the several subcommittees to head up Campus Service Council said the plans for LSU ’95. project should boost student mo­ The subcommittees are com­ rale. posed of presidents or representa­ “Our main objective is to get tive from organizations within the back some of the lost spirit that Alison by photo Goolee student body. As a whole, these LSU had back in the glory days,” Tracy Smith, speaker of the student senate, participates in the LSU '9 5 program by helping paint a classroom

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pus litter-free and attend to their general upkeep. The Office of Public Relations was the first organization to for­ mally join, adopting their back Beaux Arts parking lot adjacent to the old Alumni Center. They pledged to keep the area inviting at all times. In addition, informal bids have been given thus far by the Arts and Sciences Student Council as well as the staff and administration in Allen Hall. In hopes of attracting students, the committee thought up a scheme called “Trash and Trea­ sure,” held on Oct. 28, 1993, as part of the Homecoming week. Students were rewarded for pick­ ing up and bringing in litter around the campus. Bags of trash were good for prizes, such as din­ ners for two donated by sponsor restaurants and autographed base­ balls from LSU’s 1992 National Championship team. The highlight of this project was a $1,000 scholarship for one semester’s tuition given away by the Chancellor’s Office. Greg Gilmore, a graduate student, was the recipient. “The reason we did this is that, first of all, there is trash out there; we see it every day. Secondly, it doesn’t take much to get LSU back to what it used to be,” Gurie said. “Trash and Treasure” is ex­ pected to become an annual event. An additional way people may get together to revitalize the LSU spirit by adopting one of the fa­ mous oak trees on campus. An oak may be sponsored by an individual or an organization for $5,000 in the heart of campus, or $1,500 on the outer areas. Proceeds will go toward life-time maintenance of Ashley by Vorhoffphoto the oak and the sponsor’s name will be placed on a plaque near the tree. Gurie said the overall objective of LSU ’95 was to reestablish a Shane Allen and Christopher Brumfield .joined in the Halloween festivities at the Beaux Arts Ball sense of pride and ownership in on Oct. 30, 1993, at the Baton Rouge Gallery. Sponsored by the LSU Sculpture Department, the university. proceeds benefited the Association of Sculpture Students.

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STUART SMALLEY

Al Franken of “” presented his show, “An Evening with , Stuart Smalley, and Others,” at the LSU Union Theater on Nov. 4, 1993. The LSU Union Ideas and Issues Committee/Perspective Speaker Series sponsored the performance.

OLIVER NORTH photo LSU photo provided Union by Ideas the and Committee Issues

Oliver North spoke at the Union Theater Nov. 5, 1993. He asked citizens to follow “the three Ps: to pray, to pledge support, and INTERNATIONAL EXPO to participate in government.” College Republicans sponsored Hassan Osman manned the the event. African Student Organization’s booth. The International Expo ’93, “Walkin’ the World,” was held Nov. 7, 1993, at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center. Sponsored by the LSU Union In­ ternational Committee, this cul­ tural extravaganza featured food, fashion, dance and other arts from more than 30 countries. photo by photo Gang Lu

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photo provided by The Advocate 11 FEATURE

T A K E N O T E

By Renee Ellender

or many stu­ “Every semester I try and keep “If people attend on a regular dents, a new se­ neat notebooks so that it is easy to basis, they are more likely to real­ mester means a study, but last semester I got very ize their potential and do well in "This semes­ chance at a new be­ lax about it and they were a disas­ the class,” Moore said, noting a ginning. Spring ter. So this semester I am going to direct correlation between atten­ resolutions swing try again.” dance and success. into high gear and ter I am It seems that every semester ayne those promises of students resolve to go to class and Parent, "not getting behind,” “going to take better notes, but this rarely associate class everyday” and even “reading happens. professor ahead” abound. Those very plans going to try David Davenport of The Note in the De­ seem slightly reminiscent of some Depot said that business definitely partment of made last fall, but that botched picks up at a faster pace Political Sci­ agenda has long since been justi­ midsemester. and take 18 ence, said attendance goes down in fied. “Business is slower for the first the period following midterm ex­ Now, however, this is really it. month but that is when we are try­ aminations, but the difference is You are finally going to do it. This ing to get all of our classes to­ more noticeable on a day-to-day spring, you’ll follow through with hours and gether. After that it is a roller basis. every goal you set. Yeah. Right. coaster. We get really busy when “Attendance is higher on Andy Dupre, a freshman in our classes have tests,” Davenport Wednesdays than on Mondays or junior division who hopes to fin­ said. Fridays. On Mondays, people are ish with an engineering degree, pass them all Botany professor Thomas recovering from the weekend and said that for his second semester he Moore said, “Particularly in the on Fridays they are looking for­ will try and do what everyone tries fall semester, attendance drops ward to it. to do after their first semester in from the first day of class until the so that I can “Wednesday seems to be the college. end of the first week. After that it only day people take school seri­ “I will go to class, study, and levels out then begins to fall ously so I know that if I have take better notes,” he said. again.” something important to say, I bet­ Brian McNeill, a junior in zo­ graduate. ' Moore said midsemester atten­ ter say it on Wednesday,” Parent ology, is resetting an old goal for dance picks up as finals begin to said. himself this semester. approach. Seth, a senior in quantitative

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business analysis, said he is going Driving through a crowded to finally yell back at the holy roll­ to use the loans he has taken out as Tigerland on Thursday night and ers in free speech alley. I also want an incentive to do well in school. a deserted parking lot on to try and find a girlfriend,” he “This semester I am going to morning makes it almost apparent "Every said. try and take 18 hours and pass that many students agree with rahan also them all so that I can graduate. I Cobb’s Thursday night exception. said he wants to know I have to graduate soon but Judging from the lack of cars on semester I try make sure that then I think about all the fun I’m Friday mornings and reduced traf­ his roommate, having in school and I want to stay fic flow, it seems that many stu­ who is making a in and avoid the real world,” Seth dents opt to stay in bed for an career out of be­ said. early start on the weekend, rather to keep neat ing a student, fi­ ames Deshotels, a than drag themselves out for that nally makes it to third-year architec­ 8:30 class. graduation. ture student, said he Some students seem to have notebooks so Trahan’s roommate, Chad normally spends all concerns that are more pressing Shelton, has other ideas. of his time on a stu­ than their academic performance. “My goal this semester is to go dio class and not Dana Head, a junior in vocal that it is around the world at the Chimes enough time on his performance, said this semester — again.” secondary classes. she is going to try and do what Yes, unfortunately, it sounds all “This semester I am going to many LSU students strive to ac­ easier to too familiar. Those goals are all set try not to blow off my secondary complish. with genuine determination, but classes and also try to stay awake in “This semester I am going to inevitably the plans go awry and class,” Deshotels said. try and make a payment on my study." you stray onto that wayward path. “The first day, I’ll go to class Visa bill,” Head said. But who can tell? Perhaps, this and see what classes I can skip and orey Trahan, semester will be the one when you which ones I have to go to, Tiffany a sophomore in make that final turn-around and McGuire, a market senior said. vocal perfor­ actually fulfill those pre-semester “The only thing new I am go­ mance, has set resolutions. ing to try and do this semester is to several goals for try to read daily instead of waiting the spring se­ until the night before the test and mester. trying to read and memorize 400 “I am going pages in one night,” she said. Aimee Ellender, a sophomore in junior division, said she is going to try and not do as much this se­ "Wednesday seems mester so that she has more time for school and a social life. to be the only day “I go to school in the mornings, work in the afternoons and dance people take school at night. I have absolutely no free time. I’m going to give up some­ thing, I just haven’t decided what seriously so I know yet,” she said. achel Cobb, a that if I have sophomore in voice, said she is going to set the something impor­ same goal this se­ mester that she sets tant to say, I better * every semester. “I am going to try and go to class every day. But I always say say it on Wednes­ that and I never do,” she said. “Last semester I did stop going out day." during the week — except for Thursday at Fred’s, of course.”

SPRING 1 1994 13 HEALTHY

COMPETITION Area health clubs adjust to the arrival of the LSU Rec Center. B y Ginger Smith Photos by Ashlev tTbrhoff FEATURES

Keeping fit has become a pas­ though it is covered in their tu­ “I already still holding out, hopeful things sion of the ’90s. ition. And some choose to have will get better. Since staying in shape is im­ their fitness needs met by other paid John Whitney, a junior in portant to many LSU students, health clubs. criminology looked at the situa­ they form a large part of the clien­ Charlie Fitzgerald, a sophomore enough out tion in a practical light. tele of many area health clubs. in biology, said he preferred a local “I already paid enough out of But the opening of the Student health club and complained the of my my tuition for the Rec Center to Recreation Center on August 24, Rec Center was too crowded. go somewhere else. Plus, it’s con­ 1992, added a new competitor to “I get a better workout at my tuition for venient for me,” he said. the fitness market. club,” he said. “There’s better Without students, the Rec Before long, Baton Rouge equipment and more of it.” the Rec Center would be a near empty health club owners found them­ Speedy Gonzales, manager of building. But in reality, the Rec selves wondering what impact Don’s Family Fitness Center, said Center to Center wouldn’t be affected by re­ this rival would have on their his club has remained relatively un­ duced attendance since it gets its business. scathed by this new competition. go some­ share of funds from tuition According to Elaine Bird, as­ “At first we did feel some ef­ whether or not students opt to go. sistant director of the Rec Center, fects, but now we feel we’re actu­ where As part of a generation that 200,000 persons used the facility ally having some increase in stu­ constantly bombards one’s mind in its first year. These figures were dent memberships,” Speedy said. else. Plus, with images of “the perfect bod,” derived from sign-in sheets placed “We don’t have the overcrowding. many young adults are most likely at the entrance. We keep our facility up to par.” it’s conve­ fighting to shed the “freshman “We hope to go over that His remarks are not unlike 15.” number by ’94,” Bird said. those of Didi Rozas, manager of Their decisions as to where to It’s not surprising that the cen­ Goudeau’s Health and Aerobix nient for do so could have a serious effect on ter draws so many students, given Club for Ladies Only. any health club that depends upon the variety of recreational options “We lost a good bit when (the me.” student membership for survival. available. It houses an indoor Rec Center) first opened, but many swimming pool, stair-steppers, are coming back complaining treadmills, a training/rehabilita­ about the overcrowding,” she said. tion room for the injured ( with a Rido also said her facility is rehab trainer and an emergency popular because it is small and ex­ medical technician), 12 racquet- clusively for women. ball courts, five basketball courts, Buz Blanchard of Foxy’s Health a three-lane indoor track (one and Racquet Club said when the lane reserved for walkers), three fall semester started some student weight rooms (one for women members froze their memberships, only), two squash courts, two vol­ but estimated that 99 percent came leyball nets, and a snack bar. back after about 30 days. There are seven aerobics classes Freshman Jeremy Murphy said held daily. he tried the Rec Center a few times The center opens at 6:30 a.m. this summer and found “it was like Monday through Friday, closing working out in a closet with a hun­ at 11:00 p.m. Monday through dred people.” Thursday and 9:00 p.m. on Fri­ But one health club owner said day. On Saturday it opens at he is feeling the effects of the Rec 10:30 a.m. and closes at 9:00 p.m. Center. Sunday’s hours are from 1:00 “The Rec Center took about 90 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. percent of all my business,” Gary Sounds wonderful, doesn’t it? Hail, owner of Gary Hail’s The convenient hours, the range Lifestyles, said. of facilities — everything you’d He said of the almost 300 stu­ look for in a health club. dent members that attended his “Everything I need is here,” club before the Rec Center opened, Kara Elfert, a junior in veterinary only about 25 still come on a regu­ studies, said. lar basis. Yet, many students choose not “I almost had to file for bank­ Freida Bradsha works out in the Women's W eight Room to make use of the center even ruptcy,” he said, adding that he’s at the LSU Rec Center.

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deep-fried jalapenos stuffed with shrimp and monterey jack cheese FO O D FARE were hot enough to be appreciated By Lisa Cowling by any Louisianian. My guest or­ dered the traditional Mexican Fernando Cuellar, the manager three different types of sauce, all chicken soup, a savory broth with of Ninfa’s, a Mexican restaurant from “Mama Ninfa’s” original chunks of chicken, which came on Constitution Ave., told me to recipe. Ninfa’s menu also prom­ with enough relishes to make it a come hungry. I did just that. ised fresh, hand-made tortillas. As light meal in itself. Cuellar’s motto is simply put: if in support of this claim, a small As a main dish, I had chicken “good food, good service.” My window to the kitchen, just off a breast enchiladas topped with own philosophy of dining out in­ dining room to the rear, offered melted baby swiss cheese, sliced cludes two more words - “reason­ glimpses of cooks busy with torti­ avocados, creamy green sauce and able prices.” Ninfa’s met all of llas. sour cream. My guest had the half- these expectations. The menu provided consider­ pound fajita plate with three At 7:30 on a Wednesday able choices. They varied from the The ceiling meats. His meal was brought to evening, there was a half-hour wait more traditional Mexican fare, was heavily the table steaming and he could for a table. However, the bar next such as fajitas and enchiladas, to festooned only express his delight by nod­ to the waiting area provided steak, pork, shrimp and chicken. ding between mouthfuls. drinks, appetizers and a pleasant The menu included many other with pinatas, For dessert, my guest had the place to mingle or watch TV. unusual dishes such as traditional and the walls traditional Mexican flan, a custard The Ninfaritas, Ninfa’s version Mexican chicken soup, and deep- were covered topped with melted caramel. I had of a margarita, were potent fried jalapeno peppers stuffed with the chocolate banana, a fried with colorful enough to be sent back every so shrimp and monterey jack cheese. pastry containing bananas and often. In spite of the wide choice, how­ Mexican chocolate chips, topped with va­ The ceiling was heavily fes­ ever, vegetarians whose diets do blankets and nilla ice cream and more chocolate tooned with pinatas, and the walls not include seafood might be put chips. Both were sumptuous. posters of were covered with colorful Mexi­ out. At present, there are some can blankets and posters of bull­ Most appetizers were priced at bullfighters in parking problems as space is lim­ fighters in action. Mexican music $5.95. The main dishes ranged action. ited. This is likely to be the case for completed the relaxed, casual am­ from $5.95 for a cheese and bean a while, but Ninfa’s customers are bience. The end wall of the bar burrito to $14.95 for the ribeye allowed to use the Sheraton’s rear was all glass and could be raised in steak platter. The highest-priced parking lot. good weather to let diners out desserts were $3.95. Ninfa’s takes the idea of Tex- onto the open patio. The food was delicious. Serv­ Mex cuisine in a new, more tradi­ A quick study of the menu pro­ ings were huge but that didn’t stop tional direction. It is a delicious vided a few interesting facts. The me from gorging. The Raton Plate and refreshing change from the complimentary nachos came with was the perfect appetizer. The normal fare offered at manv Tex- Mex restaurants

DECLARED W AR AGAINST W OM EN By Tiffany Jennings

When I first picked up Susan tions the print media’s view of fe­ The cliched “fatal-attraction-fe- Faludi’s latest book, Backlash: The males. Faludi gives example after male” is taken as the norm, and Undeclared W ar A gainst Women, I fig­ example of male arrogance in the the wife/mother/homemaker type ured I wouldn’t like it. I thought, oh news. L ife magazine, U.S. News & is hailed as the “perfect woman.” boy, another feminist coming to grips W orld Report, the New York D aily with life in the ’90s. Wrong. This is N e w s and T im e magazine are The second part of the book not your regular, shove-my-opinion- among the media outlets targeted nails the coffin shut on movies and down-your-throat type of book. by Faludi for their backing of false, television. She mercilessly attacks Faludi starts off with a brief his­ anti-female reports. blockbuster movies that portray tory of the feminist movement and What really irritates Faludi is single women as crazy killers who leads into a discussion of the media’s the media’s acceptance that the can’t get along in life without a BACKLASH: THE anti-feminist role. working-woman character has man holding their hand. Faludi The first part of her book ques­ monstrous behavioral problems. goes into great detail about how continued p. 71

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PICTURE By Lisa Cowling

THEBIG

Older movies get two thumbs up from the home audience.

When was the last time you saw Highlander a movie in a movie theater? Do Three movie store clerks and you even remember what movie it all my male friends love it. So, here was? If you have to think to an­ goes... swer either of these questions, The high-action story line in chances are that you’re part of a this movie is a plus. Directed by big group of people who choose to unknown Russell Mulchay, this bypass the cinemas and bring the film was criticized for its mix of movies straight home. genres when it was released. We decided to jog some Connor MacLeod is an immor­ memories out there and review a tal. He does not know this, and few of the favorites — movies that neither does anyone else in his get rented again and again. 16th century Scottish village. That is, of course, until he survives what When Harry Met Sally should have been fatal stab While I was skeptical about the wounds, and is driven from of this late-‘80s classic —— village because he is believed to (Do guys really watch this?) — I have the devil in him. In the High­ was assured that “guys” not only Meg Ryan, as land wilderness MacLeod meets watch it, but they enjoy it as well. Sally, also has his mentor Ramirez, another im­ mortal. Ramirez introduces Written by Nora Ephron and di­ some classic rected by Rob Reiner, this film MacLeod to the dangerous world asks one of the big questions of life moments — and ultimate purpose of all im­ — namely, is anything worse that the most mortals. They can be good or evil, falling in love? Falling in like, of notorious and at the time of “the quicken­ course. ing,” all must fight until only one The film starts when Harry and being when is left alive. In this final battle, Sally share a ride from college to she fakes an good must triumph. Christopher Lambert gives a “the big city.” In New York, Harry orgasm in the knights go to find the Holy Grail gets out of the car... and in the real hum-drum performance as they run across a variety of adven­ world that would be the end of middle of a Connor MacLeod. Sean Connery tures, most way beyond the norm things. But this is the movies, and New York gives the most outstanding perfor­ of England — either today or back during their years in New York diner. mance as Ramirez. All the actors then. Harry and Sally keep having these are limited by the script, which Classic moments in this film chance meetings until finally a provides little development of any include the French taunter heav­ friendship is formed. Only this of the intermingled story lines. ing a cow over the castle wall. And friendship is very carefully crafted who can forget the brave, brave, in order to avoid one horrific out­ Monty Python, and the Holy Grail Sir Robin continually running come: Sex. What happens when A movie that definitely has uni­ away from trouble? Also, at the the inevitable occurs provides a versal appeal (I hope). This funny end of the movie, as Arthur and humorous commentary on life, movie, released in 1975, proves his men are beginning their final love and sex. the comedy troupe of Eric Idle, glorious charge to recapture the Billy Crystal is genuinely funny Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, grail, police troops pull up to ar­ as Harry, a man who can deal with Michael Palin, and John Cleese rest them for the random murder sex, but gets thrown for a loop still works. This spoof on the ad­ of a historian. when deeper emotions are in­ ventures of King Arthur and his This movie certainly does not volved. Meg Ryan, as Sally, also knights contains many of the hu­ fit into today’s regime of political has some classic moments — the morous moments embedded in correctness. Stereotypes — na­ most notorious being when she our collective movie conscious­ tional, racial, social, political and fakes an orgasm in the middle of a ness. sexual —are not only in there, but New York diner. When King Arthur and his they’re amusing as well

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SPORTS

1993-94 HERALDS THE ARRIVAL OF PREP SUPER TR AD LVNSO AD ONE HENDERSON RONNIE AND LIVINGSTON STARS RANDY

reshmen phenoms. The Dy­ aged 30.7 points, 8.8 rebounds over the summer. The injury was namic Duo. and 5.7 assists per game while so severe that Livingston required Head Basketball Coach Dale leading Newman to three consecu­ total reconstructive knee surgery, Brown describes them as “phe­ tive Class 2A state championships. which was performed by Dr. nomenal athletes” and “talented Livingston was also selected James Andrews in Birmingham, basketball players who are even Most Valuable Player of the Bos­ Ala. Livingston has worked hard better human beings.” ton Shootout in 1991 on a Louisi­ to get back to his old form, spend­ Before the start of the 1993-94 ana team that included LSU play­ ing seven hours a day in rehabili­ basketball season, Brown set out to ers Clarence Ceasar and Doug tation prior to the start of the sea­ find a few basketball players ca­ Annison. MVPs are nothing new son. pable of replacing past Tiger su­ to Livingston. He was selected In an October Daily Reveille perstars such as Chris Jackson and MVP of the national AAU Tour­ article, Livingston said of Shaquille O’ Neal. He wanted nament at age 12, 13, 14 and 15. Henderson, “The time we played players who were unselfish and Livingston topped off his awards together [at the McDonald’s high hardworking. In short, he didn’t by garnering the Gatorade Circle school All-Star game] was great. just want athletes, he wanted qual­ of Champions National Player of We get along good because we ity human beings. the Year for 1993. both have similar goals.” What Brown found in Randy Livingston’s success as a tiger Henderson, a 6’5” 190-pound Livingston and Ronnie was seriously jeopardized when he guard from Jackson, Miss., led Henderson were two players who tore his anterior cruciate ligament Murrah High School to two state fit the mold perfectly. Of course, while working at a Converse camp Class 5A championships, in the it didn’t hurt that they were both high school All-Americans who had led their teams to state cham­ pionships. “These are two of the greatest freshmen both as people and as players. I love to coach guys like these two,” Brown said of Livingston and Henderson. After coaching a number of great players over his 21-year-ten- ure at LSU, Brown is not a man who is easily impressed. However, Brown is not the only one gloating over LSU’s dynamic freshmen duo. He noted that former Los Angeles Laker-great Magic Johnson has called Livingston and Henderson the kind of players who have the ability to make their teammates better. And if their past accomplishments are any indica­ tion of the future, it will be LSU basketball fans who will be gloat­ ing over these promising young players. Livingston, a 6’4” 195-pound guard, played high school ball at Newman High in New Orleans. At Newman, Livingston scored Jamie Brandon throws the ball past new team member David Bosley more than 3,000 points. He aver­ during an exhibition game

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process receiving All-American with guys like Clarence (Ceasar) can play defense, then it will bring and All-State honors. In his senior and Jamie (Brandon) and the guys your offensive game to you.” season at Murrah, Henderson av­ who have more experience. I The eyes of Tiger fans may be eraged 32.9 points, 16.5 re­ don’t think that it will be anything on Livingston and Henderson, but bounds, 3 assists, 3 steals and 2 "These are that we can’t handle or deal with.” the success of this year’s team will blocked shots per game even two of the “Sometimes freshmen don’t largely depend on the performance though he was forced to sit out greatest make big contributions but I ex­ of the returning players. Eight much of the season with a shoul­ pect to make the biggest contribu­ lettermen return from the 1992- der injury. Throughout his high freshmen tion to this year’s team as I possi­ 93 team that ended 22-11. Re­ school career, Henderson averaged both as bly can,” Henderson said. turning from that team are Doug 29.3 points and 11 rebounds. people and as According to Brown, the Annison; leading scorer and sec­ Despite his impressive high strong points of this year’s team ond leading rebounder Jamie players. I school credentials, Henderson un­ are attitude, talent, chemistry and Brandon; steals leader and outside derstands that the transition from love to coach work ethic. He characterized the scorer Clarence Ceasar; forward high school to college may be dif­ guys like team as “very compatible.” Lenear Bums; guard Sean Gipson; ficult for Livingston and himself. Henderson echoed this senti­ these two." guard Andre Owens; sophomore “It may or may not be hard be­ ment saying, “Coach Brown and guard Brandon Titus; and cause we’ve never played against the coaching staff have done a Ukraninian Ro man this level of competition. I think great job making the team play to­ Roubtchenko. it will be to our advantage playing gether.” Henderson also credits Other new team members are his continued improvement to the 6’10” center/forward Glover Jack­ coaching staff. son and 6’0” point guard David “They have made me realize Bosley. that if I study how the game Jackson came to LSU by way of works, it can make me a much bet­ Pensacola junior college where he ter player with the athleticism I averaged 10.5 points and 5.1 re­ have,” he said. bounds per game while shooting Brown is no doubt pleased to 58 percent with 102 blocked see compatibility and chemistry in shots. Brown described Jackson as a team with so many new mem­ “one of the most mobile big men I bers. However, unfamiliar faces in have ever seen.” the lineup isn’t the only new twist Bosley was a Class A All-West to this year’s Tiger team. Without Virginia selection at Paden City the benefit of a true center, the Ti­ High School. At Paden City, gers are forced to rely more on Bosley averaged 29.2 points, 7 re­ speed and quickness. The “flex of­ bounds, and 7.8 assists per game. fense” has been relegated in favor Brown sees Bosley as a “tough, of a “single post motion offense.” hard-nosed, aggressive kid.” This offense allows for a lot of mo­ Bosley had originally been ex­ tion as well as only one post player pected to walk-on but he earned a on the court. Brown said that scholarship when signee James through the course of the offense, Bristow of Montgomery, Ala., almost anyone might find them­ elected not to attend LSU. selves at the post position. The Like Brown, the veteran players new offense reflects the versatility understand the importance of the of the team. incoming freshmen. “They “We really have five guards out [Livingston and Henderson] are on the court,” Henderson joked. both incredible freshmen. Ronnie Defensively, Brown expects can jump out the gym and shoot this year’s team to utilize more off the dribble. He’s one of the full-court and half-court presses. best freshmen I’ve ever seen and Henderson views the team as Randy is a leader who sees the equally strong, both offensively court real well,” guard Brandon and defensively. Titus said. “Everyone on this team has Junior Clarence Ceasar added, quick hands and quick feet,” he “They’re great high school players Henderson slam dunks the ball during an exhibition game. said. “The coaches say that if you who will be great college players.

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Whatever they do here is going to control what they do in the fu- ture." Brown is one of the few coaches who has been able to con­ sistently mold talent and potential into winning Tiger teams. Enter­ ing his 22nd year at the helm of the Tigers, Brown has led LSU to 10 straight NCAA Tournaments and two Final Fours. Brown knows talent, so it is especially impressive when he observes, “This looks like the best young team I’ve ever had.” If Brown is right, 1993-94 could signal a new era in LSU basketball history

UPDATE:

As this magazine went to press, Head Coach Dale of Information Courtesy Sports Photo Brown said Livingston will not be playing this season Randy Livingston, out of uniform, will not be playing this season. because of his knee injury. Brown and Livingston agree that he should fully recover before playing again so he will not hinder his future career.

Where former LSU basketball players are n o w

Dawn Tonkovich (1975) — head basket­ Lennie Breda (1981) — doctor, Lake ball coach at Redemptorist High School, Charles Baton Rouge Donald Green (1983) — head basketball John Brethwit (1977) — lawyer, Okla­ coach at Bethany High School, Baker homa City Derrick Taylor (1986) — professional Ed Leblance (1977) — civil engineer for basketball player, Germany Barnard & Burke, Baton Rouge Bernard Woodside (1986) — minister in Ernie Brown (1980) — head basketball New York, runs Woodside Group coach at Ellender High, Houma Oliver Brown (1991) — engineer, Houston Jordy Hultberg (1980) — sportscaster, WBRZ, Baker

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Junior nursing major Colleen Harrington found in spite of LSU s favored position in the program, herself in limbo. The nursing program at her school, however, Cooffer said University of was Southern Oregon University, was being streamlined the most popular choice. and would not be accepting students for, a year. Junior psychology major Sharon Mesarick, on ex­ “Since I had a year, I decided that I would rather change from Trenton State College in New Jersey, fulfill some more general education requirements and decided to come to LSU because she wanted a change experience a different area of the country than just pace. work,” she said. “I heard about, the pride and spirit of LSU from So along with 55 students from-across the nation, my brother, who was a former student at A & Harrington headed south to Louisiana and LSU last M. The size and atmosphere are completely different fall to participate in the National Student Exchange from what I’m used to at Trenton,” she said. (NSE) program. Mesarick said although people are generally LSU is one of 107 host colleges from 47 states that friendlier and more laid back in the South! she sees a participate in the NSE network, according to an NSE lot of racial tension. information pamphlet. Since it was started in 1968, “It’s rare to see a group of white and black guys the NSE has hosted 30,000 students. playing basketball together or to see a mixed couple. Stephen Cooper, director of Academic Programs Where I’m from, it’s not so unusual,” she said. Abroad, advised that to participate in the NSE, a stu-S Senior political science major Jeremy Cloward, on dent must be in good standing at his or her home exchange from State University at Chico, college, have a minimum grade point average of 2.5 has felt racial segregation as wel l . on a 4.0 scale, and be a full-time student. Once on “Here people of different races keep their distance the exchange, the student pays resident tuition rates. from each other and I’m not used to that. My suite Cooper said the NSE is not as popular as the in­ mates are black and it was hard getting to know them ternational program because the network is not as ex­ at first because they were so distant. Now I've all get tensive. along and I think they’re a bunch of great guys,” he “The international network consists of 2,000 said. schools while the national network consists of 107. Junior elementary education major Allison An­ However, the national program is growing, and next drew, an exchange student from Buffalo State Col­ year Texas will be added to the network,” he said. lege, NY, said LSU wasn’t as big as she had imagined Cooper said since joining the network three years even though it is twice as large as her other school. ago, the number of national exchange students com­ Mesarick said LSU’s size has forced her to become ing to LSU has increased. more outgoing. “Part of the reason for the LSU increase could be “If you’re not outgoing and don’t ask questions\ Mardi Gras, New Orleans and the fact that Louisiana you’ll get lost in the crowd here. At my other school, is such an exotic place,” Cooper said. He added that I already had my group of friends and never really warm weather is another big attraction and that stu­ needed to venture outside my little circle,” she said. dents who come from the Northeast are especially Harrington said everything is going exactly the delighted with it. way she expected and though meeting people is hard, Then there are those, he said, who join the pro­ she is getting involved in order to make the best of a gram “to pursue their major and find stronger pro­ new situation. grams here.”

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• I love what the So uth has to offer and I love how laid back people are. Some are kind of slow,'bu t I actually like it since I don’t like moving at a fast pace myself.” -Alison Andrew • "We don t have humidity in Oregon, so it could be 100 de­ grees there and not be as miserable as it is here. That’s the only thing that shocked me about the place, other than not having to use a fake ID." - Colleen Harrington • The warm weather changes your whole outlook on things. When it’s sunny you actually feel like walking to class.” -Alison Andrew • Drinking seems to be a way of life down here. Besides the college scene, people having drinks with meals is normal. I’m not used to having drinks offered to me since I’m under 21 and I know I’d never have them offered to me at home.” -Sharon Mesarick

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Try to conjure up what it this to win women’s favor. A governor port from national statistics or the would be like if society judged you Another article swears most news media. Just ask around. You primarily by your maleness or, men can achieve a second erec­ runs a will be amazed at how many work­ more specifically, in terms of tion within 20 minutes. By the ing women have had a personal women’s sexual reaction to you. time you get through this do-it- political state experience of sexual harassment at It’s a difficult thing for most men yourself story, you feel better. the workplace, or have had trouble to do, but an eye opener if it can There is hope for you yet. moving ahead in a “boys club” while a be managed. Here are a few sce­ And just think of those articles working environment. narios to help you. that feature househusbands, male To add insult to injury, women Imagine that you are expected florists, and hairdressers. Oh, governess frequently become the victims of to wear a jockstrap 12 hours a day, how they go out of their way to sexual assaults. According to at every day, because that’s what say these men do their jobs as well takes care of least one survey funded by the Na­ “nice boys” do. After all if you as any woman, but aren’t at all ef­ tional Institute of Mental Health, didn’t wear a jockstrap, you could feminate. children. The as many as one in four college find yourself in some embarrass­ And what if you were never women have had an experience ing situations. This athletic sup­ thought of, referred to, or dealt master takes that met the legal definition of porter protects you physically as with by women or society with­ rape or attempted rape. well as ensures you are socially ac­ out some reference to your male­ care of Women have grown tired of ceptable. ness? this victimization and are con­ Consider what it would be like Could you tolerate this obses­ business stantly apprehensive about pro­ if women were constantly assess­ sion with your sex for long? tecting their person and their self­ ing your physical attributes and More than likely you couldn’t. matters; the esteem. There are varied reactions were not the slightest bit abashed Yet, women experience this un­ to these outright forms of hostility about scrutinizing your pects or fair attention to their gender day mistress toward women. However, one your buns. in and day out. Over the centu­ growing concern today takes issue Imagine constantly seeing ries, women have largely endured looks after with a less-obvious, though long­ magazines near the grocery store the prejudices of a male world, standing form of discrimination register -—ones with cover spreads and there has been little change the affairs of — the use of sexist language. of young, half-naked studs wear­ Women are still second-class citi­ Language matters. It shapes our ing “come and get me” looks ­ zens. thought; thought shapes our un­ the house­ which contain articles that not Because of sexism and sexist derstanding; and understanding only tell you how to rearrange stereotypes, women continue to shapes our actions. It is mind-bog­ hold or is a your derriere, but give you tips on be handicapped in their careers gling to think of the power lan­ how to keep the skin on your face and harassed at the workplace. guage exerts over culture, society taut and your chest muscular. All This is a fact that needs no sup- kept woman. and our personal lives. Four thousand years ago the Hebrews recognized the power of language when they described the creation in the book of Genesis. The world was made manifest by a few simple commands, such as “Let there be light!” Two hundred years ago Lincoln’s three-minute speech at Gettysburg called up a new nation from the blood of The Civil War and made “equality” a principle of the Constitution. Thirty years ago Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech rang like a trumpet call through the social battlefield of the civil rights movement. It still echoes in the hearts of millions of Ameri­ photos photos by Salem Chenafi cans. Today, language is loaded with obvious sex difference euphemisms.

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For example, downsizing looks after the affairs of the house­ Language A sexist word is easy to spot makes a much better impression hold or is a kept woman. with a little practice, but sexist than losing money and firing a lot Words that diminish roles matters. It language is not limited to words. of people. played by women help to perpetu­ Maggio points out that our lan­ Full-figured or pleasantly ate the sexist myth that women are shapes our guage fuels sexism in more subtle plump takes the sting out of the ranked below men. ways. There are, for instance, at word fat. The tendency toward using thought; least 220 terms which describe a Gender-specific language is the gender-biased expressions is less­ promiscuous woman. There are result of sexist attitudes, and its ening to some degree as speech thought far fewer which describe a promis­ habitual use sustains these harmful patterns and concepts change and shapes our cuous man. One researcher, Julia attitudes. become gender-neutral, rather Penelope Stanley only found 22. According to The Nonsexist than masculine or feminine. understand­ This doesn’t make sense unless: Word Finder: A Dictionary o f Gen- Nowadays, both men and 1. There are 10 times as der-Free Usage by Rosalie Maggio, women may be called buddy, and ing; and many promiscuous women as there are many words which sim­ women are often described as there are men. ply exclude women. “masters” at whatever they do. understanding 2. Women have sex with Businessman conjures up an Still, raving about these break­ 10 times as many partners. image of a man in an expensive throughs is like congratulating a shapes our 3. Sex lasts 10 times as suit, not a woman. For a long time 400-pound heart patient for losing its frequent use helped keep 30 pounds. actions. continued page 70 women out of important business positions. Anchorman, councilman, chairman and policeman call to mind male-only images, and these words also affect women’s ability to rise through the ranks of certain professions. These gender-biased words are now giving way to gender-neutral terms like news anchor, council member and chair. However, there are many words which still exclude women. Sportsman, fisherman, average man, cameraman, cave man, re­ pairman and manmade are just a few. Perhaps the most blatant ex­ amples of words which exclude women are two terms widely used to describe the human race: man­ kind and man. There are also some words de­ noting masculine gender, for which the female ‘opposites’ have devalued connotations. For ex­ ample, the female equivalent of buddy, slang for friend or brother, is sissy, meaning a coward. A showman displays his talents with confidence; a showgirl might eas­ ily be described as vulgar. A governor runs a political state while a governess takes care of photos by Salem Chenafi children. The master takes care of business matters; the mistress taking over the man's job

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BIGCITYITIS

Personal safety is threatened by rising crim e. By Melissa Webster These days, crime fix. Robbery is the fastest route to could think to myself is that I across Baton Rouge is getting a high, Miles explained. don’t want to die a horrible TV no more surprising than “With the increase of drugs and death and be on tomorrow’s potholes around campus. violence, it is safe to say that Baton news,” Anderson said. Increasingly one hears of Rouge suffers from a definite case “The police told us that the victimizations on the street, of ‘Big Cityitis’,” Shaw said. same man had robbed two other in a car or at a convenience In September, The Daily Rev­ groups of students at the Circle K store. Citizens are not just wary of eille reported an on-campus rob­ in Tigerland that night,” Adrienne burglars breaking into their homes bery of three students near the Martin, an LSU graduate who was at night, but also of being out of Greek Theater. The two armed also in the car, said. their house after dark. One popu­ robbers were caught by campus “I can’t understand why some­ lar theory is that the availability of police who frequently patrol that The fastest one would take the risk of armed quick drug hits might be an under­ area. and easiest robbery for only a few bucks,” she lying reason for many armed rob­ According to one of the vic­ way to get said. beries. tims, who wishes to remain anony­ “This year armed robbery is money is to “The availability of crack co­ mous, the suspects would have going through the roof and much caine to Baton Rouge has had a gotten away with “practically pull a gun on of the problem is due to drugs,” major effect on the city’s crime nothing even if they had escaped,” someone. Steve Wheeler, senior reporter in rate,” said Capt. Mark Shaw, spe­ reported Doug Ortego, a Reveille police matters for The Advocate, cial operations commander of staff writer. said. LSU Police. Leah Anderson, a sociology The fastest and easiest way to Shaw explained that Baton major, was accosted at the Taco get money is to pull a gun on Rouge was regarded as safe and al­ Bell on Highland Road late one someone. For a drug user, burglary most rural until crack cocaine, night this summer. Anderson, in is too much trouble because the weapons and gangs became preva­ the back seat of the car, was at the thieves must merchandise lent. drive-through with two other girl and then sell the hot goods in or­ “Baton Rouge is developing friends when the robber appeared der to make money. Although rob­ ‘big city’ problems suffered by cit­ at the half-opened window with a bery is a much more serious of­ ies nationwide,” Shaw said. gun. fense, it is instant money for cheap “Crack is condensed cocaine “We threw a dollar out the win­ drugs, Wheeler explained. that is cut with either flour, baking dow and drove off as fast as we “Robberies increased this year soda or corn meal. Dealers sell hits could to the campus police sta­ compared to last year but so has which are the size of a thumbnail tion,” she said. “A robber must everything else,” Don Kelly, pub­ for $5 to $10,” Keelus Miles, an know he’s not going to get much lic information officer of the Ba­ accounting/pre-law major who has money from students going to ton Rouge City Police, said. studied the topic, said. Taco Bell — the home of the 59 As of October 1993 there had These cheap, easily obtainable, cent taco — after a night of buy­ been 71 murders, which exceeded highly addictive drugs lead users to ing drinks.” the 1991 record by nine — a 41 do just about anything for another “When I saw the gun, all I NEWS

percent increase in homicide since Four assaults occurred on cam­ to be assaulted in their own ve­ 1992. pus between July and October hicles. There has been an 11 percent 1993. Though the figure is low, “People must remain aware,” increase in robbery; a 14 percent Shaw said it was four too many. Kelly said. increase in assault; a 12 percent Shaw said the area north of LSU Police is working on a increase in burglary; a 7 percent campus which includes Chimes Community Policing program and increase in thefts and a 13 percent Street and Highland Road com­ Shaw said its main function was to increase in auto theft since 1992. pares with the worst areas in Baton reestablish a sense of community Kelly said, however, that rape fig­ Rouge for criminal activities. He involvement so people would be­ ures over the same period have de­ explained that this area, once a safe gin to look out for each other creased by .9 percent. place to live, is now regarded as a again. “There is no doubt that there is problem neighborhood. With The city police is also engaged a strong correlation between crime LSU residential housing just on in a program called “Operation and drugs, but drugs are not the the fringe of this neighborhood, Take-Down,” Shaw said. base of the problem,” sociology students have become targets. “Operation Take-Down” bull­ professor Thomas Durant said. Campus areas bordering this dozes abandoned properties Like everything else, “drugs are part of town are under constant owned by people who have been learned,” Durant said, adding that supervision by the campus police. Everyone is a charged with tax evasion. More of­ a breakdown in family values and Still, poorly lit areas, such as the potential ten than not, these houses are societal influences contributed to Enchanted Forest, should be taken over by drug addicts and victim, crime. avoided at night. gangs. When the police destroy Clyde McDaniel, chairman of Shaw explained crime is more especially them, they cripple the drug culture the Department of Sociology and prominent during the holiday sea­ now that and help keep neighborhoods safe. On- and off-campus, students Law Enforcement at Southern sons, summers and from Wednes­ random University said in The Times-Pica- day through Saturday. He said this need to remember to use “plain yune (September 13,1993) that “a isn’t because more criminals are crimes are common sense,” Kelly said. slowing in job growth, and layoffs out, but because more people are being re­ He said students need to re­ in the oil refinery petrochemical out. ported in main alert and fully aware of their industries in the Baton Rouge Durant said that during holi­ surroundings at all times. They areas where area” was linked to disintegrating days and summers, people become should attempt, at all times, to family structures. more vulnerable because they are they were move about with someone else and McDaniel said that eroding more likely to be preoccupied and previously to avoid run-down areas. family values were in turn con­ less alert than usual. He said more Shaw said, “It is also important unknown. nected to higher crime rates. murders occur on weekends, more for students to always inform Shaw said that in the ’50s and rapes after dark, and robberies oc­ someone of where they are going.” ’60s, families could afford to have cur at anytime. Students need to take advan­ Mom at home with the kids and Everyone is a potential victim, tage of the LSU Transit system neighbors looked out for each especially now that random crimes which runs from 8 p.m. to mid­ other. He said that now, the com­ are being reported in areas where night on weekdays, he said. bination of dual income house­ they were previously unknown. Shaw’s final warning was about holds, absence of neighborhood For example, people used to feel the importance of checking the car involvement and the “lack of re­ safe in their cars, but the recent before entering. He said once in­ spect for human life” cause an in­ spate of car-jacking incidents have side, the doors ought to be kept crease in crime. made it increasingly likely for folks locked and the windows up. There is a possibility that car window will deflect a bullet so it is wise to keep them up, even in a fast food drive- through ENTERTAINMENT

B Y ANGELA WINGATE Photos by Sa le m Che n afi

There are 15 eternal minutes go by, wasted. To prevent this under $3, these large sandwiches left of class. With every rumble of time crunch, save nerves and are made to order and served your stomach you check your money, and stave off hunger, why warm, with cheese melted over watch again. Frantically, you dig not check out some of the campus your choice of ham, turkey, roast around in your pockets for cash. food spots suggested here. beef, or barbecue. The Cafe’s daily You find a couple of crumpled up Foster Cafe is found behind soups are delicious and come in a bucks left over from last night and Middleton library in the basement bowl for under $2. Soup and weigh this against the time you’ll of Foster Hall. Their menu in­ baked potato supplies are, how­ have until your next class. A fren­ cludes a variety of snacks, yogurts, ever, limited at Foster’s and may zied indecisiveness as to what and salads, baked potatoes and soup. not be available if you go to lunch where to eat ensues. The minutes But their specialty is po-boys. For after 1 p.m.

Centrally The Tiger

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Foster Cafe has both outdoor and indoor seating

Across Highland Road and be­ you can take as much as you can $2.50. They also sell simple gro­ hind Acadian Hall, you’ll find afford without worrying about cery items such as medicine, ciga­ Laville Food Emporium. Laville chintzy portions. The Dairy rettes and condoms. offers a la carte pricing and do-it- If you’ve never noticed the Union West Mini-Market, yourself deli sandwich, potato, and huge tiger and bold letters Store on the across Cypress Drive from the In­ salad bars which come complete painted on the outside wall of Ti­ dian Mounds, is another on-cam- with a variety of toppings and in­ ger stadium, you’re probably not South pus grocery locale. Although they gredients. The potato bar includes alone. Just up the ramp by this don’t have much in the way of pre­ all the usuals plus mushrooms, sign you’ll find East Stadium Con­ Stadium pared meals, you can pick up one salsa, black or green olives and cession, which is partially hidden of their various microwavable jalapenos. At 13 cents an ounce, by Hodges Hall. The shop occu­ Road special­ snacks and lunches. my loaded potato sold for $2.52. pies a cozy little room on the The Dairy Science Dairy Store Other Laville highlights are fried ground floor of the stadium. Cus­ izes in on the South Stadium Road spe­ cheese, egg rolls, homemade pizzas tomers can enjoy Tiger cializes in homemade ice-cream on white or wheat crust and un­ Cablevision on the TV, study at homemade and yogurt made by LSU students. limited drink refills. Laville also the tables, or relax with one of the They are always trying new and has hot entrees prepared from 11 house magazines ice-cream delicious flavors. You’ll probably a.m. to 9 p.m The selection in­ During the hours of 7:30 a.m. want to try two at once, but be cludes one meat, one chicken, a to 4 p.m., Monday through Fri­ and yogurt warned: scoops come in heaps. couple of veggies, and rice and day. Quarter-pound hamburgers Centrally located on campus, gravy. There’s usually a vegetarian served on loaded-down five inch made by LSU the Union is home to several eat­ dish too, such as veggie lasagna or hamburger buns sell for a tax free ing options. The Side Pocket, lo­ baked eggplant. Customers are $2. Hot sausage po-boys, with students. cated on the first floor, sells on- charged by the scoop or ounce. So, more meat than bread, go for the-go meals at concession prices.

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Selections include burgers, hot salad and burritos, all for under dogs and nachos. From 11:30 a.m. $3. Mini pizzas in pepperoni or to 2:00 p.m., the Side Pocket also vegetarian are also on the menu offers sandwich specialties of hot for $2 and $2.10 respectively, sausage, chicken, and roast beef but these are rarely available af­ with swiss, all priced around $2. ter noon. Just across from the Side If this type of fast food din­ Pocket is Swensen’s ice-cream par­ ing isn’t your speed, or you’re lor. Fat-free ice-cream has been just in the mood for some good added to the selection of ice-cream stick-to-the-ribs cooking, there and yogurt, so you can choose a are other choices. At the guilt-free or indulgent treat. If Union’s Cafeteria dining unit, you’re lucky enough to like the fla­ $3.35 will get you a Union vors, this could be the perfect plate of a selected entree plus compromise. your choice of a starch, veg­ Ayman Al Bahsoss, a waitor at the The Tiger Lair Snack Bar, on etable and bread. There are usually Faculty Club, offers diners a wide range of desserts. the second floor of the Union, of­ four other entrees to choose from fers a broader range of choices and and vegetables can be sold sepa­ more spacious seating than the rately. If you prefer to forgo the The Faculty Side Pocket. Food selections are meat all together, the $2 veggie Club could be divided into categories: soup, plate consists of two choice veggies you. The dress code is casual and salad, a la carte hot items and and a starch. The health conscious perfect place students are welcome. Prices are south-of-the-border. The Tiger may select a deli sandwich, made to treat only moderately higher. The Su­ Lair is a popular spot during lunch to order right before your eyes. visiting per Salad Bar is a good value at hours so watch out for long lines. However, this personalized feature $4.50, and all other menu items Queues are particularly long in may prove time-consuming if the parents to go for about $5. On Wednesdays, front of the south-of-the-border line is long. Nevertheless, $3 is a lunch the Plantation Room also features section, which covers tacos, taco good deal for a ham, turkey, a special vegetarian menu includ­ chicken salad, tuna salad or ing local foods and heart-healthy cheese sandwich on white, choices. wheat, rye or an onion roll, with Despite it’s name, The Faculty chips and a pickle. Club’s clientele does not exclude Although students with a students. This campus restaurant meal plan may instinctively is a good choice if you’re looking head for Highland or Pentagon to impress someone or simply dining units, walk-ins are also want to treat yourself. Its elegant welcome. These cafeterias could atmosphere is combined nicely be a solution for students who with a modest price range that tend to neglect their four food stays within a student budget. The groups. A well-balanced, filling menu changes every fall and meal costs $5 for lunch and spring, but entrees never exceed $5.80 for dinner. One of the $10. Last fall, the most expensive two to three daily entrees comes item on the menu was the petite with all-you-can-eat from the filet mignon. At $7.50 it came pasta, salad, and dessert bars. A with mushroom caps and a stuffed vegetarian dish is available at baked potato. The Faculty Club least three times a week. Lunch could be the perfect place to treat hours are from 11 a.m. to 2 visiting parents to lunch. They’d p.m., reopening for dinner at be impressed with your selection 4:15 p.m. and closing at 6:45 and you’d be pleased with the bill. p.m. Operating hours are from 11:30 If time permits, you might a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The dress code try the Plantation Room on the is neat, but casual. Union’s third floor for a real sit- Whether you’re looking for a down, full-service lunch. Don’t steal or a deal on your next lunch let the formal atmosphere and break, LSU’s eateries can accom­ East Stadium Concession is partially hidden by Hodges Hall. waiters in tuxedos intimidate modate.

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Source of Job Lead at Graduation

o now you can see that ployed graduates will be forced to light at the end of the settle for will ... make it difficult tunnel, though you’re for them to venture far from s not sure what you’ll home. Because living costs are so find once you emerge. high and their earnings so low, it’s Well, you’re not alone. hard for graduates to get along Each year more than a million without assistance from their fami­ college graduates face this un­ lies.” certainty. Among the nation’s 12 million Despite indications that students enrolled in higher educa­ 1994 graduates will enter a tion programs, the growing feeling brighter job market than those is that a college degree isn’t as from last year, most will still worthwhile as it once was. At one discover a working environ­ time considered the “be-all and ment alive with special end-all” of financial security and Employer Type aft Graduation problems and chal­ success, the four-year degree today lenges. seems little more than a glorified Many experts considered high school diploma. 1992 one of the worst years for More and more, prospective college graduates since the end employers are requiring advanced of World War II. But the situ­ degrees for positions that offer up­ ation was no less daunting for ward mobility. Only a short while those in the class of 1993. All back those same jobs were being they had to look forward to was taken by those with bachelor’s. a job market damaged by a re­ “I’m hoping to get into the hu­ cession and glutted with laid- man resource field, but I’m not off workers as companies con­ sure how the market is right now,” tinued their down-sizing trend. said Mark Couvillion, a 21-year- While many companies ex­ old majoring in Human Resource pect to hire more college Management. graduates this year than they “It seems like nearly everyone is did in 1993, they are hiring people with master’s de­ CPPC Registrants By College still bent on contain- grees. So I’m not real sure right ing the size of their now if I’ll go for a master’s or just staffs and cutting costs. trust my luck out there with a Graduates, whatever their bachelor’s degree,” Couvillion disciplines, can therefore ex­ said. pect lowered starting salaries. While unsure whether busi­ Others will find themselves nesses actually preferred second forced to take jobs for which degrees as entry level qualifica­ they are overqualified or to tions, Couvillion said that he work outside areas in which hasn’t heard of anyone with only a they majored. bachelor’s degree receiving a good College graduates will also position. have to reckon with competi­ New graduates will also lose tion from experienced people out to temps and experienced already in the work force. workers hired on a short-term ba­ These factors threaten the sis. There are numerous firms college graduate’s ability to across the country which operate maintain the standard of living as placement services for tempo­ he perhaps grew up with. In­ rary workers. evitably, realities of the ’90s job But new graduates don’t just market crush aspirations of im­ compete with these two groups. mediate success. College graduates are aware The June 24, 1993 USA To­ that they are fast becoming an day reported, “The entry-level overproduced commodity and salaries that most underem­ that they make up the human re-

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source glut, which leads ultimately results of attempts to improve re­ to job shortages. In other words, muneration after an abysmal America may be turning out more 1992 recruitment season. college graduates than there are And in the current dubious jobs to fill. economic climate it isn’t just the According to the Bureau of Na­ graduates of comparatively low- 1 Raleigh/Durham tional Affairs Daily Labor Report paying disciplines who suffer. for May 5 1993, the Even the sacred cows of engineer­ sent a record 63 percent of all high ing and business, fields which 2 New York school graduates to college in have traditionally posted high 1992. In fact, the United States, in rates of employment as well as turning out a crop of college pay, have experienced some set­ 3 Boston graduates proportionately higher backs. than its overall population, the In July 1993, the Bureau of 4 S eatt 1e United States exceeded any other Labor Statistics reported that the industrial power in the west. unemployment rate for engineers An October 4, 1993 article in the second quarter was up from 5 Austin from U.S. News & World Report, 3.4 percent to 4.4 percent from said “[T]he sad fact is that for the the previous year. This was the foreseeable future, college gradu­ highest rate since 1982. But even 6 Chicago ates will be in considerable surplus, with downsizing, a snail’s pace enabling employers to require a U.S. economy, and significant degree even for jobs for which a drops in military spending, engi­ 7 Houston college education is really unneces- neers still enjoy a favorable job sary. n market. The Labor Department backed Melissa Seymour, a 23-year- 8 $ an Jose these predictions with its own old petroleum engineering major, troubling estimates: 30 percent of who expects to graduate in May, college graduates expected to enter believes the job market for engi­ 9 Philadelphia the labor force between 1993 and neers from LSU is as good as it has 2005 will either be unemployed or ever been. Minneapolis working at jobs for which they are “We usually end up getting 1 0 overqualified. our jobs pretty easily because we Out of this dilemma comes a have so few graduates, though this new class of college graduate, one year we’ve got a class of 15 gradu­ referred to by some economists as ating in May. Last year we had the “educationally underutilized”. about four, so its stiff competition 1 Raleigh/Durham This begs the larger and more but its still not as bad as, say, complex question of how much Texas A&M, which has about 60 higher education is too much and people graduating.” Population 1993 925,448 in how large a percentage of the She said she hasn’t heard of en­ Research centers 248 population should education be gineering graduates having too Education (people 25+) stressed. many negative experiences in the BA or higher 31.7% Once graduates get hired they job market over the last few years grad, degree 11.6% “The May before last, one guy may find salary levels less than they Patents issued 1988-92 1,745 expected. In the last two years was cleaning cars until he got a starting salaries in many disciplines job but that was an exception. Innovative firms rank 7 have dropped and are only now ris­ Just about everyone else I’ve Pro-business attitude rank 16 ing. talked to has been really happy According to the College Place­ and they’re still working with the Source: The Best Cities ment Council Salary Survey for people that hired them when they FORTUNE, Nov. 15, 1993 September 1993, increases in start­ got out,” Seymour said. ing salaries for that year were the For the past 50 years North continued on page 68 Even the sacred cows of engineering and business, fields which have traditionally posted high rates of employment as well as pay. have experienced some setbacks FEATURES

Test your observation skills by seeing how good you are at recognizing various campus spots. GUMBO MAGAZINE fter watching the LSU spring sports. Last spring this came were actually sold. Another uncer­ football team suffer their to $118,995. Considering that the tain factor the department has to worst loss ever at the entire Athletic Department has a track is sales of football tickets to A hands of State break-even budget of over $20 students. And, when overall ticket last fall, Tiger fans didn’t have a lot million, this amount seems minus­ sales are low, concession sales are to cheer about. cule by comparison. hurt. What many might not realize, Up to 75 percent of the Football revenue also comes however, is the extent of the department’s $20 million budget from television appearances. Tele­ games’ importance, and the eco­ is dependent on football revenue. vision networks pay each of the nomic impact of LSU football on And, like any business, the Athletic opposing teams to air a game. the rest of the campus. Department needs to make a profit LSU is part of the Southeastern Over the past four years, LSU’s as well as save for the unpredict­ Conference. Whenever a team in Athletic Department has given the able. the zone has a game that is tele­ university more than $4 million, In the first three years of that vised, that school, as well as each much of which benefited LSU stu­ Over the past four-year period when the depart­ team in the conference, receives a dents in one way or another. ment gave the university over $4 share. If LSU plays poorly, how­ The Athletic Department has four years, million, their total profit did not ever, their games are less likely to funded the Minority Summer Pro­ LSU's Athletic exceed $6 million. As of Septem­ be aired. In such cases, the team gram at a cost which ranged from Department ber 1993 the department had al­ gets no extra publicity, and the $79,000 to $100,000. ready given the university over Athletic Department gets no extra The department has given Fi­ has given the $200,000, and this year it expected revenue. The sale of memorabilia nancial Aid some $10,000 and has university to make no profit. also suffers from the team’s lack of created a scholarship for both the more than $4 “We don’t anticipate any popularity. According to LSU Today, Tiger Science Fair and Spring Testing. It million. [profit]...we could make a hun­ has also contributed to the dred thousand dollars, we could Vision discontinued broadcasts of Chancellor’s discretionary fund, lose a million dollars, it’s according LSU football games two-thirds of which gives aid to smaller campus to how the tickets run. We’re hop­ the way through the season be­ projects. ing to break even, or pretty close to cause of low sales in the Baton All these projects were under­ it,” said Ken Lavespere, assistant Rouge and New Orleans markets. written by the Athletic athletic director. About 1,000 subscriptions were Department’s fund balance, which The $ 15 million of the budget sold for an October 16 game, is composed entirely of all previous which comes in from football rev­ whereas 1988 sales averaged profits. enue can be put in four categories 11,000 per game. The Athletic Department oper­ of returns: season and student tick­ It’s easy to regard Tiger football ates like a business and is totally ets, TV and radio appearances, gift as relevant only to a Saturday self-supporting. Its funds cover ev­ sales and game concessions. night’s activity. Yet the issue stops erything from coaches’ salaries to When preparing the budget, being all fun and games when one typing paper. The only outside the Athletic Department tries to realizes how important the team’s funding comes from the $6 LSU predict how many season tickets success is to the size of LSU’s cof­ students pay during the January will be sold. This year was a good fers, registration for free access to all year, as 400 more than predicted By Lisa Cowling Tower pizzazz They say hardly anything is carved in stone, and the ’s snazzy look last fall was sure proof. Your buddy and mine The purple and gold lights which People use the term “affectionately framed its walls added a splash of called” almost mindlessly, but in the color to campus nights. case of your chancellor, "Bud" Davis, Press Relations said the tower glitz wouldn’t you like to know the real story was part of the “LSU '95” beautifica­ behind the nickname? tion campaign. As a child in Kansas, Davis went to the movies with his grandparents every Saturday evening. Walking down the streets of their small town, locals would Thought for food greet him with a friendly "Hi Buddy." You always see them when you’re driv- One day someone asked young Davis ing through the South Gates of LSU. So what his name was, and he answered, let’s get it straight once and for all just "Buddy." what those ostriches are used for. These birds, which were donated to LSU, are re- search specimens for the Poultry Science Over the counter Department which is studying their suit Were you aware that our very own Union stocks beer? The Side ability as a meat product. Ostriches are Pocket sells Budweiser, Bud Lite, Miller and other beers after 3:30 high in protein and low in cholesterol, an p.m. A can goes for $1.25. Side Pocket’s manager Gary Bradley says each bird may provide as much as 12 he is catering chiefly to the adult bowling crowd, and the returns from pounds of meat. beer sales are low. The Coffee Bar, in the Tiger Lair, sells Heineken for $1.75 in addition to various domestic beers.

Company for the band Did you know the LSU Marching Band gets a police escort when they drive to out of state

photo by Miranda Kombert games? Two LSU Police cars travel with the band’s seven buses. Police also escort the LSU football team to the airport on away games and to the stadium from their dormitory on home games. This is part of a vast overall plan for traffic and crowd control on football days. Also, less crime is usually reported on these days.

Roadwork realities Remember if you can the beginning of the fall semester. Do you recall wondering why they always seem to begin roadwork at such inopportune times? Joel Aber of Facility Services said they were ready to roll as early as last spring, but had to wait for the legislature to allocate funding to the project. After that, there was more red tape. First, the job request had to be processed through the Purchasing Office and then the contract had to be opened for bids. Direct link is lor your safety If you fear for your safety on campus after dark, you’ll probably move about more confidently knowing an emergency line to the LSU Police is within reach. Once a receiver is picked up, a phone in the campus police department rings. The phones were installed through the combined efforts of Campus Safety, the Student Government As­ sociation, Telecommunications and the LSU Police P hones are lo­ cated in places such as the Quad, outside the Union, CEBA, the Greek Theater, Miller Hall, on the South Stadium Lot, and by Highland Road on South Stadium Road. photo by Ashley Vorhoff Ashley by photo

The gift of gab You hear them screaming before you see them. O n certain days they lodge themselves outside the Union, preaching brimstone and fire. Ever wondered what these lay preach­ ers major in? In a quick, impromptu survey GUMBO learnt that one was an English major and the other two didn’t actually study at LSU.

Paradise CDs, Records and west wall and spills over to the the New Orleans Music Hall. Tapes has been serving LSU stu­ racks in the center of the store. However, The Varsity and the dents and other music enthusi­ Rap music also takes up a large Music Hall are not the only places asts for eight and a half years. section of the store. One can to catch your favorite acts in per­ It is easy to spot the original choose from artists such as Ice-T son. In order to promote an al­ location of Paradise — the park­ or Cypress Hill to Salt-N-Peppa. bum or tour, some entertainers ing lot for Pizza Hut on High­ Blues, jazz and Louisiana mu­ play right in the store. Local acts land Road. Paradise survived the sic like Zydeco also have their like Func Haus and Dash Rip competition from New Genera­ place among the stacks and racks. Rock have made appearances in tion and Kadair’s, and when Paradise has extensive selections Paradise. Poi Dog Pondering is both stores moved from the LSU of reggae, soul, and R & B. among the nationally known area, it was in an excellent posi­ The newly created Cultured groups that have played in-store tion to take control of the music Room, as long time employee and gigs to promote themselves dur­ market. For the past three years music expert Kevin Brashear has ing tours. Some celebrity shop­ in its present location in the Uni­ dubbed it, holds classical jazz and pers have been spotted in Para­ versity Shopping Center, Para­ easy-listening CDs and tapes for dise, also, including Fresh Kid Ice dise has established itself as the the more subdued music fens. from 2-Live Crew, Peter Buck premier music outlet in the area. Besides these popular styles, from R.E.M., and Corey Glover Sam Irwin, manager of Para­ the store contains many hard-to- of Living Colour. dise, has been with the store for find records and some outdated Paradise has a wide selection five years and could not be hap­ material that one might not see of posters, T-shirts and stickers. pier about the progress that has elsewhere. Used CDs are very Novelty post cards and music been made in terms of selection popular now because of their lon­ magazines are on shelves around and customers. With about 150 gevity and cheaper prices. Para­ the store, too. purchasing customers per day dise is willing to trade used discs If you enter the store and de­ and several more coming in to tect a slight scent of sandalwood browse or plan future purchases, or pine forest, then you have it is evident that business is great. sniffed out the biggest non-music All eight employees are used to seller in the building. Many dif­ handling the crowds, though, ferent fragrances and incense since they have worked there for holders are available. The colorful at least two years. sticks and cones of sweet, sooth­ The busiest times are during -or sell any ot their secondhand ing scents have become a red hot the lunch breaks of nearby busi­ CDs. item. nesses and from 2:00 p.m. on­ Paradise uses mosdy radio ad­ Some improvements have ward when most students are out vertising to gain new customers. been made at the present location of school. When LSU fall and Ads that emphasize its wide selec­ to enhance the music shopping spring semesters are in session tion and specialty items can be experience. The store has in­ business is good since Paradise, heard on area radio stations like stalled a video monitor that specializing in progressive alter­ KLSU, WBRH and 100.7 The shows music videos from VH-1 native music, caters to college Tiger. This combination of col­ and MTV in order to remind the students. Business slacks off dur­ lege, high school and professional customers of what’s hot these ing the summer, and the store stations reaches a broad range of days. There are also plans to ex­ also felt the effects of Hurricane listeners. pand the magazine section and Andrew. Paradise employees do more rearrange the CD racks to make it Paradise offers a huge selec­ than just sell music. They work in easier to find albums and make tion of music styles and formats. close conjunction with The Var­ room for the growing number of The ever-popular compact disc sity by supplying much of the alternative artists. (CD) is king, but there are also music used for the Retro Nights, Irwin even spoke of opening cassettes, 45s and 12-inch vinyl Hip-Hop Nights and Industrial new stores in Baton Rouge and records. Video Bars. Many spin discs and possibly New Orleans. With Alternative music, such as vinyl for these theme nights. these plans for the future it is Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam Paradise also helps advertise live clear that Paradise has definite in­ and Nirvana, is the biggest seller performances at The Varsity by tentions on being around to serve at Paradise. There are numerous posting their bills. the community’s music needs for CDs on display in the alternative Occasionally the store sells many years to come. section, which fills the entire tickets for a live performance at after teeing the band perform. He was ap­ A recent showcase in New Or le as not proached by Hunsinger, who was in hit only got the band closer to a major record psychology class, and joined the group in deal — Garrison said they “hare a couple of January 1992. things in die works” — but also to one of “It was weird because they called me their idols. on a Tuesday night to play for this thing “I was at the bar getting a glass of water on Thursday and I had to learn 10 songs,” ... and I looked up and Michael Stipe (of Mooney said. R.E.M.) was sitting right next to me,” "We just got up there and played and Mooney said. “We think he caught just die we didn’t even have a name. We were like last part of our set.” Thank You very much. See ya\” The fact that Sdpe might have seen Hunsinger said. Meantree per­ The band’s trip form was not lost to Pensacola was on the group’s seen as a turning lead singer. point of sorts by “It could have some of the mem­ made my whole bers of Mean tree. musical career,” “WeJ kind of Garrison admit­ stepped up the pace ted. “He’s my a little bit,” god. At one point Hunsinger said. “It in time I’ve was our first show owned every al­ after the summer ... we were pretty fired bum that they’ve (R.E.M.) put out.” up.” The favorite album for the members of "Because I can get pessimistic at t imes, Meantree these days, however, is their m i l I didn’t think it was going to go over as Garrison wrote the lyrics for almost every well as it did,” Mooney said “[But] they song on the CD and has enjoyed the com were really entranced by the way we were ments he received from followers o f the playing. It was -kind of a different group. Meantree deal.” “I tend to think that if you write about a; “Every show is as good as the other one personal experience too much, in a way,, it in the sense that that’s what I enjoy doing. insults die listener,” Garrison said. “It’s too Every show is as important to me whether presumptuous to say, ‘Hey, listen to how in­ there’s 50 people there, 10 people there, teresting my life is.’ 1.000 people there. I have fun all the “For instance, for ‘Weatherman,’ I’ve had same. It’s real exciting wheg you’ve never like four different people give me four differ­ seen somebody before and they’re up in ent interpretations of the song,” Garrison the: front row and they know every word said. “Which is fine because that’s what I try to ,” Hunsinger said. to do. That’s what make music the greatest.” “I used to beat on little things like Mooney said the band had been com­ Tupperware and coffee cans. (I’d) set pared to Ned’s Atomic Dustbin and the Re­ them up in my room and do that. When I placements but to him Meantree sounded was a little kid I had the ole’ Bugs Bunny unique. drums set on the stairs,* lie said. “Drums “But I’m in the band and I can’t really tell were cool, you know. This guy in my you anything that’s objective,” he added. neighborhood had a set and I was messing “We try to sound new and different and around with them one day and I was like, exciting. O f course, granted, there’s only so wow, that’s what I want to do.” many chords on the guitar,” Blye said. “We try to sound like Meantree.” D

nd then there was a cardboard boxes, glass, newspa­ The only thi ng we had to do to get recycling movement pers, envelopes, telephone books, everyone involved was advertise, that fell upon the plastic materials, and plain, col­ so we talked it up and started our _ land. ored or glossy paper are all suitable Recycling Hotline,” Dillemuth , Yes, the famous for recycling. said. little label that is seen on every­ In September 1993 telephone This hotline has become an in­ thing from cardboard boxes to books constituted 10 percent of tegral part of the university’s effort shampoo bottles has become a part the total books collected o f the American way and, slowly, in East Baton Rouge Par­ the LSU way too. ish. The university finally caught About 10,000 tele­ up with the “reuse it or lose it” phone books are deliv­ drive, but barring this past year its ered yearly to campus. recycling efforts have been quite This year, half of those sluggish. phone books were sent The recycling of aluminum for recycling. cans has been left up to employees “We are a major con­ and student groups because the ef­ tributor,” said Robert fort needed for a successful collec­ Dillemuth, assistant di­ tion campaign does not justify the rector of Facility Services minimal profits, said a Facility and head of the Campus A newspaper recycling bin across from the side of the Union Services employee who wished to Recycling Committee. remain anonymous. “It began with the However a group of Facility desk-side boxes being set out by to recycle. The School o f Music, Services employees banded to­ the custodial staff,” he said. These for instance, called the hotline to gether in the spring of 1993 to boxes are seen in every department report that they had thousands of promote recycling within various on campus now, sporting the slo­ old concert programs. campus departments. The group gan, “I’m a Recycler.” Ordinarily the programs would has since been recognized by LSU “It just grew from there. Now have gone to a landfill but, after as the Campus Recycling Com­ we have the cafeterias, dormitories, , the programs became part mittee. This Committee heads the residential housing and each de­ o f the daily pick-up for recycle. Campus Recycling Program, partment at the university in on it. “When that phone rings,” which issues flyers and doorhangers to departments. The flyers, printed on recycled paper, are designed to raise awareness about recycling and energy conser­ vation. The Campus Recycling Com­ mittee, which meets weekly, con­ sists of a representative from each academic department. The group combined efforts with East Baton Rouge Parish and helped to collect some®* 4,000 pounds of recyclable material. There is no shortage o f recy­ clable material on campus. Cans, Redeeming cans for cash T h e r e

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I think the effort made is really poor, although ins of course a great idea. The big problem is that people don't really Anne Cook— junior, psychology and seem to care, and therefore they don't do general studies anything about it.

I do see boxes around campus for Rachel Epstein — sophomore, recycling but they are not known around campus. I think people would communications disorders recycle more if it were a more publicized thing on campus, but on the whole, it is a poor effort.

I fe e l that the university has made an effort to recycle but Gaurang Patel — junior, students haven't made the chemical engineering effort to use the bins provided.

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S u n l i g h t filters down more and more faults with how like went so deep he planted a through the trees, fall­ the area was being changed. One cluster of spruce pines in front of ing on the students big flaw pointed out was the en­ it, to hide it from view. milling about to and trance to Atkinson Hall was not in Eventually, Chancellor Paul from classes. There are line with the library’s. Whitfield Murrill called for some tall men in warm-up suits, women While this discrepancy might outside help. He hired the land­ in flowered dresses with matching have gone unnoticed by students, scape architecture firm of hair adornments, guys in sandals, architects and design artists found Henslee-Thompson-Cox to help girls with spiked hair. Whatever it troubling. What students back solve the space problems and ap­ their style, whatever their interests, then most frequently remarked on pease the quad’s pedestrians. Out they all come here to of this effort came study, lounge and greet the idea to create an their friends. Here is 1 9 3 0 s Q U A D area for students to where they gather: the congregate which quad. looked out onto the Although the quad is library and had a a big attraction for LSU special campus per­ students, few are aware sonality. of its history or its color­ LSU landscape ful and controversial architecture Profes­ background. For this sor Van Cox, then a reason, commemorating partner in the firm the quadrangle’s begin­ that was to design ning goes beyond mere the new quad,” re­ campus nostalgia. called the public at­ Originally, the quad­ tention the project rangle was T-shaped. received. Foster Hall occupied the “There were lots northernmost point, of opinions about A view from the m em orial tower. Atkinson Hall the south­ the big quad,” Cox ernmost point, with Hill said. “There was a lot Memorial Library to the of politics involved. west and the Memorial We had to try to Tower to the east. please a lot of But in the late 1950s, people, including all this layout was disturbed of the students.” by the erection of Cox said at least Middleton Library. two design proposals When' the library’s con­ for today’s quad had struction first started, no already been turned one objected to it. Once down, including one Middleton was com­ by a landscape archi­ pleted and people took a tecture professor and good look, the contro­ one by a landscape versy began, for its Aerial view of the historic quad architecture student, modern look was out of was the diminished walking space Alice Rowland Franklin. How­ ' sync with LSU’s once the library went up. Another ever, Franklin’s designs for the Italianate architecture. complaint was the lack of side­ three other minor quads were ac­ Set down in the center walks which made the quad little cepted and implemented. of the quad, Middleton di­ more than a mudbowl. Cox said the design was tricky vided the shape into four By the late ’60s, the contro­ because they had to consider separate sections and ruined versy had heightened. The many physical factors. Knowing its original cruciform effect. university’s administration was the steam, gas, water, electric and With the quad dis- proud of its new learning center. telephone lines all ran underneath Vsected in four, people But LSU’s landscape architect, the quad, the architects designed gradually began to find Steele Burden, hated it. His dis­ the sidewalks in angular patterns

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to make them easier to replace if repeated vandalism, the fountain A group of current fourth-year they had to be pulled up for repairs is not in use today. architecture students said on the lines. At that time, chemis­ There were plans for a large Middleton should have been placed try and engineering classes were fountain in what is now the grassy elsewhere. held in the quad, but plans for the area in the very center of the quad. “The building interrupts the ac­ Center for Engineering and Busi­ There was also to be a spot near cess that was supposed to be be­ ness Administration (CEBA) were Atkinson Hall for the display of tween Foster and Atkinson Halls,” underway. Therefore the firm had sculptures done by students. Both Jeanne Hezeau said. to take future pedestrian and park­ ventures were put off for budget­ “Middleton is inappropriately ing patterns into account, even ary reasons. placed. It disturbs the quad’s circu­ though they were lation flow,” Sara not yet established. Richardson said. Cox said they also There are still people had to try to prevent who refuse to forget that drainage problems. Middleton destroyed the The project had to quad’s original T-design, be done in phases be­ but Cox prefers the cause the entire quad present arrangement. area could not be “We have one of the shut down at once, most beautiful quads in nor were there suffi­ the country,” he said. “I cient funds to carry think it is more spatially the plan out immedi­ beautiful than the quad at ately. the University of Vir­ Cox said the place ginia, which is re­ had great potential. nowned.” “It was interesting Cox said doing the de­ because there’s so sign for the quad was little there, but it’s something very special. The tree that was struck by lightning in front of Prescot Hall such a beautiful As an LSU alumni, he re­ space,” he said. “The members all the hypo­ huge oak trees and thetical designs that were the Italian arches on proposed and is pleased all the buildings are that he had a hand in the great. Our job was to final choice. tie it all together. We In 1984, - Henslee- didn’t add a whole Thompson-Cox lot, we just used the were presented the space efficiently.” American Society of Cox also said his Landscape Architects firm made some de­ Professional Awards cisions that people Program for the within the LSU com­ LSU Quadrangle munity were afraid Landscape Develop­ to make. “There was Spruce pines were planted to hide Middleton Library. ment project. one old oak tree that had been Cox said the firm tried to dis­ “l enjoyed doing the de­ struck by lightning,” he said. “It guise the problem of the library’s sign,” he said. “I have was just about dead and it looked off-center entrance, as well as pro­ pictures of the. quad in terrible, but nobody wanted to be vide seating areas, by putting the all phases before we the one to cut it down.” Cox said webwork of benches off to the designed it. It was re­ they removed the tree, along with sides. Once again, the oaks were ally fun. It was a dream the pine grove which hid the li­ useful. for me.’ brary from view. “We take a lot of credit for photos provided by The landscape architects also what nature does for us,” he said. Van Cox renovated an old fountain outside “We just tried to make it so people Dodson Auditorium. Because of would experience that beauty.”

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With Produc­ do theater for people my age and tions to house itself in the Live­ younger ... plays that I find inter­ stock Judging Pavilion, esting that deal with issues the kids Playmakers Troupe in area el­ can relate to.” ementary schools, Baton Rouge Noma said “the idea of guerilla Alternative Theatre (BRAT) per­ theater is a lot like communism — forming in warehouses and coffee it looks good on paper but isn’t shops, and the Angola Drama very practical.” Maybe so, but Club performing original works BRAT finds that small audiences as guests of the LSU Theatre De­ allow them a great deal of freedom partment, dramatic arts in Baton to choose pieces from the fringes. Rouge is proving to be as funky and diverse as Louisiana itself. According to Chris, gifted Charlotte Nordyke, now ad­ playwrights like Joe Orton have ministrator of Swine Palace Pro­ produced a great deal of “amaz­ ductions, started Playmakers of ing” work. Orton wrote “Enter­ Baton Rouge, Inc., over 13 years taining Mr. Sloane” which is ago. LSU alumni Morrey scheduled to be performed by McElroy is Playmakers’ artistic BRAT this spring. director. Doing contemporary shows in In addition to its regular pro­ a conservative town is difficult but duction season, the Playmakers not impossible. BRAT has been Troupe goes into area elementary fairly successful with the ‘Chipped schools to introduce children to Cups’ variety shows. They go the theater experience. around to the coffee shops with “That’s our main purpose,” poetry, music, short scenes, mono­ McElroy said. “We want them to logues and films and try to involve experience live theater and its the crowd. various styles. These children “Sometimes you can’t tell the don’t attend our regular season difference between audience and performances, so we try to involve cast member,” Chris said. “In our them a little more.” McElroy last show we set up an art gallery added that they aim for just one and everyone roamed around, led show to keep the energy level by a ‘critic’.” high. BRAT plans to produce Jean- An outreach program of sorts, Paul Sartre’s “No Exit,” a play that the program offers different re­ received its share of attention at wards for the crew and cast mem­ LSU last April. bers. “We’re still working it out,” “The season members have Chris said, “but it will be set in the been very supportive of us over future, with music and video Third year MFA acting students Jackie Cabe, seated, and Rick the past 13 years and we appreci­ monitors facing both the actors Plaisance, in the LSU Theatre production of "Woyzeck." ate them. But there’s something special about seeing the children’s reaction to our troupe perfor­ mances,” McElroy said. The alternative crowd hasn’t been left out of the Baton Rouge theater scene. Chris and Noma Fowler-Sandlin began BRAT in the summer of 1992 when they became frustrated with the more conservative theater companies in Baton Rouge. “Culture needn’t always be spelled with a capital ‘C’,” 30- year-old Chris said. “I wanted to

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and the audience.” Like many other companies, BRAT doesn’t have its own play­ house. Currently they are renting warehouses and historic mansions on a per-performance basis. Chris said they didn’t set out to be a major company when they started. “We just wanted to do stuff that we thought would be interest­ ing and inexpensive for the kids to come see. We found out that we do have a market, so we’ll see where it takes us,” he said. “But its really about exposing works that are off the beaten path.” Chris is currently working on a Ph.D. from the Theatre Depart­ ment at LSU. When Swine Palace renovates

The Music and Dramatic Arts building which houses the LSU Theatre is also Swine Palace Production's temporary location.

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the Livestock Judging Pavilion on a second sold-out run. They will find that there’s no competition Tower Drive, those thinking the join the LSU Theatre for a between the companies,” Harbin only “culture” in Baton Rouge is coproduction in April. said. If anything, their varied ap­ agri-culture will have a field day. The LSU Theatre will stage peals are complementary. Let ’em. two productions of its own this se­ The LSU Theatre’s outreach Swine Palace, with its emphasis mester: “Once in a Lifetime,” to be doesn’t end with statewide tours on Southern literature, tours the directed by John Dennis in Febru­ by Swine Palace. Last spring, the state with its productions. With ary, and “’Tis a Pity She’s a department hosted the Angola architectural plans already in the Whore,” to be directed by C. C. Drama Club, which performed works, Founding Artistic Director Courtney in March. There will original works for students, faculty Barry Kyle and the company are also be a second season of student and community members. Since gearing up for a fund drive to raise plays. the fall of 1992, Barry Kyle and di­ the money needed to renovate the Bill J. Harbin was appointed recting student C.C. Courtney, Livestock Judging Pavilion. chair of the Department of The­ among others, have been working That permanent space will al­ atre this past fall. In his 20 years of with the group from the Louisiana low the professional company to teaching at LSU, he has seen the State Penitentiary. bring in touring groups from program blossom. Baton Rouge, with a variety of around the nation. Swine Palace “Whether you talk to Henry companies and performances, is not only took “A Confederacy of Avery of Baton Rouge Little The­ proving itself diverse enough to Dunces” across the state last fall, ater, Morrey McElroy, Barry Kyle, satisfy theater goers of all ages and but returned to the LSU stage for or Chris Fowler-Sandlin, you’ll preferences. Photo by Miranda Kombert Miranda by Photo The cast from BRAT's November production, "Waiting for Godot," were, clockwise from right, Chris Fowler- Sandlin, Kimberly Thomas, Stephanie Williams, Dannielle Rester, and Lori Jefferson.

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By Tiffany Jennings

Back in corner offices and tucked away in various labs, LSU researchers are working away. All LSU graduate students and most faculty members have con­ tinuing research projects. Often these projects confront similar questions but are treated differ­ ently by any one of the depart­ ments or investigators. One of the major issues today is environmental health. But there’s more to the ecology than saving the whales and otter scrubbing. In fact, various aspects of the envi­ ronment are being examined by departments ranging from Bio­ chemistry to Zoology to Electrical Engineering. photo photo provided by Dr. John Lynn A common California shrimp, one of many being studied at LSU, spawning into a beaker. LSU researchers examine different dimensions of the environmental issue.

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Dr. John Lynn, associate pro­ “We smell pollution in the air cent,” Thomas said. fessor of zoology and physiology, and see pollution in the water. But The blue-green algae species has spent six of his eight years at not in electricity,” Czarnecki said. make up 70 percent of the photo­ LSU doing experiments on shrimp The problem of electrical pollu­ synthetic activity in the oceans. egg coats. tion has been an ongoing research Thomas found that one particular What makes shrimp so unusual, project of the Poland native for 25 amino acid, called asparagine, had according to Lynn, is the number years. an extra component (the methyl of extra coats the egg makes after Electrical pollution manifests group) added to it. This extra in­ fertilization. While one or two itself as poor television reception, gredient affects the rate of sunlight coats are common in other aquatic errors in computer programs and absorption by the algae. Sunlight animals, shrimp have four. By general electrical breakdowns. is the main ingredient for plants manipulating the coats, Lynn According to Czarnecki, and other sun absorbers, such as aims to find out their purpose. electrical power is supposed to these organisms, that can make O ne of the Lynn’s research could have flow in smooth, even waves. their own food. a direct result on one of m a j o r But that isn’t always the case. The findings of her study “rep­ Louisiana’s favorite cash A perfect wave is repre­ resent a large percentage of total crops. I s s u e s sented by a sine curve. photosynthetic output. It en­ “Countries around the For some reason, different hances huge amounts of photo­ world and states in this coun­ t o d a y Is electrical components in the synthetic capabilities in ecosys­ try are interested in shrimp re­ television set or computer emit tems,” she said. e n v i r o n ­ production on a commercial waves of varying frequency, Though Thomas did not set basis,” Lynn said. m e n t a l amplitude and period. These out to find a possible economic “Eggs rely on coastal components ultimately change advantage, an increase in plant marshland for the early stages health. But the wave length and create dis­ photosynthetic rates could have a of growth. With more wetland sonance. large impact on commercial plants being wiped out, man be­ t h e r e 's Eventually, imperfect such as corn, peas and cotton. Ac­ curves, or waves that are not cording to Thomas, other univer­ comes more responsible for re­ m ore to the production outside the smooth, meet and multiply to sity labs have investigated this pos­ shrimp’s natural environ­ e c o l o g y create electrical pollution. sibility. ment,” he said. “The wave is usually not so If these plants have the muta­ Artificial shrimp reproduc­ than saving smooth,” Czarnecki explained. tion, or if it could be applied to tion could become a valuable “TVs, computers and other them, this could lead to more asset for commercial shrimp the whales such devices each have an im­ commercial output. But while the mutation has reproduction, and for species a n d o t t e r perfect wave. One piece of survival. equipment disturbs and magni­ been invested on other organisms, “The first step in fully un­ s c r u b b i n g . fies the wave of the other.” Thomas said that derstanding the genetic back­ Czarnecki has conducted to date the muta­ ground is through breeding,” math analysis of systems, physi­ tion has not been he said. Lynn takes the coats off by cal experiments and computer found. mechanical and chemical means to modeling of the problem equip­ “It doesn’t see what the egg does. ment. With this data, he is trying mean the muta­ “It looks like one of the pur­ to find ways to filter the problem tion is not there, it poses of the coats is purely me­ waves out of the environment. just hasn’t been chanical,” Lynn said. “A specula­ Another environment-related found,” she said. [Zl tive reason for the coats includes topic being researched at LSU bacteria protection.” could unintentionally have an ef­ Associating mechanical engi­ fect on the agricultural industry. neering and the environment may Beth Thomas, who recently re­ be hard to imagine, but Dr. Leszek ceived her Ph.D. in biochemistry, Czarnecki’s research shows a defi­ researched an amino acid muta­ nite correlation. tion in blue-green algae and how Everybody knows about pollu­ this mutation affected energy out­ tion. It’s in the news almost daily. put. Air and water pollution are two of “What we’ve found is that most the common topics, but have you algae contain this mutation. It im­ ever heard about electrical pollu­ proves the photosynthetic effi­ tion? ciency of the organism by 15 per­

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Space Forensics Louisiana State SU professor Oscar Huh set seawater evaporators providing the up his NOAA satellite earth University holds a nation’s fresh water or into impor­ station in 1989 and has been tant fishing grounds. Using gov­ using it ever since to help solve prom inent position ernment satellite data, Huh was problems in places both close to able to reassure them that the oil home and as far away as the Per­ in American higher was extending away from Kuwaiti sian Gulf. waters. Although initiated for oceano­ education. In 1978, Another investigation the graphic research, the $200,000 Earth Station helped to solve in­ Earth Station, at one time the first LSU was named a volved the claim of an offshore of its kind in the nation, has pio­ platform worker. He maintained neered forensic imagery. sea-grant college. he was injured when hit by 10- to “The more we learn about it, 12-foot waves, but weather data the more we find we can do with There are only 25 for the period indicated only it. The forensic application is par­ three- to four-foot seas. Huh veri­ ticularly exciting,” said Huh, a re­ universities in the fied localized weather had indeed searcher with LSU’s Coastal Stud­ increased wave action. ies Institute. country recognized Another study was commis­ Huh is often called upon by sioned by U.S. Customs who were others to help solve puzzling cases. as both land and investigating two cases of possible Currently, the LSU Earth Lab misuse of federal aircraft. The air­ is involved in research against the sea-grant institu­ craft had been diverted from au­ deadly liver fluke, a parasite that thorized destinations by flight seriously affects the population of tions. In 1987, LSU crews claiming they were avoiding Egypt’s Nile Delta. Huh and Jack bad flying weather. In both cases, Malone, professor at the LSU was designated a the crews had personal interests in School of Veterinary Medicine, the revised destinations. Examina­ are mapping high-risk areas Research University tion of the satellite imagery and through the Delta’s temperature the weather radar archives of the and moisture domains. I, which puts it in Southern Regional Climate Cen­ Laboratory personnel are also ter at LSU verified one claim and participating in an international the top two percent disproved the other. space program aimed at surveying Huh was also called upon by global land masses. LSU’s role in of the nation's col­ the Louisiana Department of En­ the three-year project is mapping vironmental Quality to help inves­ Central American, Mexico, the leges and universi­ tigate a smoke plume affecting the United States and Southern ties. There are only air quality of an area between Lake Canada. Charles and Houston. By zooming Scientists with the Kuwaiti In­ in on the small area, it was deter­ stitute for Scientific Research 70 universities that mined the smoke was coming commissioned Huh to track an oil hold this honor. from a controlled burn on Marsh slick in the Persian Gulf that was Island, La. The annual burn, a caused by the 1983 Iraqi bombing routine wildlife management prac­ o f two Iranian oil platforms. tice, had become a problem be­ Kuwaiti scientists were con­ cause Hurricane Andrew had cerned the oil might move into the killed much of the plant material,

60 thus causing a buildup of plant materials and equipment so stu­ 1993 mission of the space shuttle fuel. In addition, the north wind dents can actually learn by doing. Endeavour, was one of a series of that would have blown the smoke Pirkle said a major problem shuttle experiments to see how plume seaward had shifted to the with science and math education is plants react to the lack of gravity east, on a direct path to Houston. that teachers lack materials and in space flight. Her project was The LSU facility receives a supplies for hands-on opportuni­ under way in the Experiment Sta­ stream of digital measurements ties for children. tion in July 1989 and will con­ from the earth-orbiting “eyes in The center’s objectives are to tinue to January 1994 in order to the sky” satellites six to 12 times a provide a foundation for basic re­ give scientists a chance to assess day. Wall-to-wall electronic search in science and mathematics data, publish and present find­ equipment in a tiny LSU office re­ education; conduct research and ings. ceives some 3.5 billion measure­ development in curriculum, “The ultimate purpose of this ments a day from each satellite and teaching and the role of new tech­ kind of research is to discover converts them into a countless nologies in school science and plants capable of growth in range of images of the earth. mathematics; provide support for space,” Agriculture Chancellor H. initiatives at the local, state, and Rouse Caffey said. “To do this, national levels; and create a forum obviously they must be capable of Improving Science Skills for debate on critical issues that reproducing themselves if they are will include parents, the business to be of use as a food supply on community, and all levels and ar­ long manned flights in space.” SU ’s Center for Mathemati­ eas of academic study in educa­ Musgrave and her fellow scien­ cal & Scientific Literacy, be­ tion. tists are operating under a grant Lgun in 1992 with funds from The center received $289,000 from the National Aeronautics Louisiana Systemic Initiative Pro­ from Exxon Education Founda­ and Space Administration gram (LaSIP), attracted more than tion to improve environmental (NASA). $400,000 for its second year of op­ and health curricula for 5th and eration. 6th grade chemistry classes in the The center was established to state during 1993-94. It received Values of Rice Bran increase math and science compe­ $114,000 in 8g funds from the tence among Louisiana students. state Board of Regents for a diverse Sheila Pirkle, curriculum and program that includes professional instruction coordinator and direc­ development for science teachers gricultural Center scien­ tor of the new center, said the and free materials for classroom tists are burning rice program’s success is a result of use. The National Science Foun­ A hulls, rice bran and bran growing national concern that dation gave $9,000 for a 12- oil, by-products of processing American students are scoring month LSU-East Baton Rouge rice, for fuel. Louisiana is a leader lower than students of other devel­ Parish partnership to enhance 9th in using them to generate electric­ oped nations in science testing. grade science. LaSIP also gave ity. Louisiana students are even more $15,000 to collaborate with A team of scientists that in­ at risk, because “compared with in providing cludes a food engineer, a nutri­ other children in the nation, Loui­ an information network for state tionist, a food scientist and two siana students are at the bottom of schools. agricultural engineers aim to pro­ virtually every indicator.” duce rice bran-based products ac­ The poor track record of U.S. ceptable to consumers. They are students in the hard sciences has Space Plants investigating the benefits of rice caused educators to rethink what bran and bran oil in the diet, par­ should be taught and how, and the ticularly its value in reducing LSU program is at the forefront of r. Mary Musgrave, associ­ blood cholesterol levels. a move to reform math and science ate professor in Plant Pa­ Another project being investi­ education, she said. D thology and Crop Physiol­ gated by the team is the use of The LSU center provides ogy, is conducting experiments on rice bran oil to produce a highly teachers — and students who are crop growth in space. refined food product to lower about to become teachers — with Her experiment, aboard the cholesterol levels. new techniques for making the This rice bran research is hard sciences easier and more in­ funded by the Louisiana Educa­ teresting for elementary and sec­ tion Quality Support Fund, often ondary students. It also provides called “8g money.”

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For the m ajority of foreign students, LSU’s variety of cultures

The subculture of international speak by speaking,” she said. make it impossible for foreign stu­ students at LSU is more complex Masui’s concern about integra­ dents to socialize with them. They than it first appears to Americans tion is shared by many interna­ build invisible barriers between on campus. tional students. However, some them and the foreign students,” he A subculture is any group hav­ students contend that there is said. ing ethnic, social or economic nothing wrong with birds of a Cho said he was happy about traits that distinguish it from oth­ feather flocking together. In fact, one thing: that foreign students ers in the same society. there are those who even say so­ were peace-loving people and The diverse interests and cul­ cializing within one’s own ethnic "Nobody great ambassadors of their respec­ tural behavior patterns of interna­ group is healthy. tive countries. tional students usually encourage Young S. Cho, a Chinese talks to you “What foreign students are do­ the formation of cliques. graduate student in computer sci­ ing socially is a blessing in dis­ Invariably, these small social ence, said the LSU campus is “al­ because you guise.” That was the view shared circles greatly influence the lives of ready fixed on cultural division, by two Indian students, Sathish the international students who and you cannot blame foreign stu­ look different Gopalrao and Krishna Sai, both participate in them. dents for it. Computer Science majors. and sound A young Japanese student, “Look around this quadrangle They agreed that having a sub­ Eiko Masui, said having a subcul­ and what do you find?” he asked, different. The culture brought some degree of ture at LSU is essential to any stu­ pointing to one corner where beauty and harmony to the cam­ dent who needs to assert his iden­ Asians normally congregate after American pus, and a lot could be learned by tity through a group that shares his classes. merely observing these nationali­ particular cultural interests. “At the extreme end of the students ties and different cultural groups. “But a ... subculture has its own quadrangle you find white stu­ Gopalrao and Sai described In­ drawback. I cannot improve my dents, at the right-hand side you make it dian students as perhaps the most spoken English because the people see a group of blacks. Back here close-knit of ethnic groups on impossible for who talk to me and keep me com­ you find Koreans, Chinese, Japa­ campus. pany are people who look like me nese. And you can see every coun­ foreign “We are doing same thing here and speak like me — Japanese. try in their identical groups,” Cho we are used to doing back home: And chances of improvement in said. students to informal get-togethers, cultural my English proves abortive,” He said the campus has been dances, formal and informal din­ Masui said. structured in such a way that socialize with ner parties,” Sai said. Masui, who is presently doing multicultural groupings can never “We have one great organiza­ her English language courses, said flourish. them ." tion on campus (Indian Students she is serious about learning and Foreign students are sometimes Association) which makes it pos­ wants to soon be able to speak En­ said to be reluctant to adapt. But, sible for us to feature our cultural glish fluently. conversely, some feel the fault may dances and sports which is indeed Yet she feels that the learning lie with a long established social very healthy to Indian students,” process, especially of foreign lan­ network on campus. Gopalrao said. guages, takes more than the class­ Cho mentioned parties he at­ Sai expressed some concern room set-up. tended when he first came to LSU about how the International Expo “You ought to have an environ­ and recalled how distressed, disap­ was organized. He said local stu­ ment where you are opportuned to pointed and lonely he felt. dents should also be able to show­ mix up, especially with the native “Nobody talks to you because case their culture in an event of speakers of the language to be able you look different and sound dif­ that magnitude. Their participa­ to learn — Because you learn to ferent. The American students tion would create a common

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By Dennis Nkop leads m ore to separatism than integration. meeting place for the American buildings ‘Oriental Village’ with­ out the intricacies of the program. and foreign cultures, he said. out trying to see in the students’ There is a desire for both Shenid Bhayroo, a South Afri­ perspective.” Bhayroo said. American and foreign students to can graduate student majoring in Bhayroo added that those stu­ Cho men­ socialize, but “American students Broadcasting, considered subcul­ dents were more comfortable liv­ tioned have other things that distract them. They have sororities and ture on campus a healthy phenom­ ing together and socializing with parties he enon, especially since it allowed in­ people of their culture and that fraternities to attend, and some of ternational students to socialize gave them enormous strength to attended them have to visit their parents at with people in their own ethnic carry on with their studies. when he first the weekends and holidays. This Other foreign students tend to leaves them with no time to social­ and cultural groups. came to LSU He said, however, that the so­ feel that the University representa­ ize with international students,” cial sets on campus forced interna­ tives rarely reach out to them, thus and recalled Groat said. tional students to stay together they rely on each other for advice how dis­ Mary Ann Kelly, assistant di­ rather than seek integration. on everything from their academic rector of the International Student tressed, “Foreign students stick to their schedules to learning about Office, said her office was respon­ kind in an effort to seek to main­ American culture. disappointed sible for orientation of the interna­ tain the support network and as a They even complained of expe­ tional students. and lonely he result maintain cultural ties with riencing both a sense of alienation “Apart from the orientation, each other,” Bhayroo said. and culture shock in classrooms felt. we meet and sort out their prob­ According to Bhayroo, many and dormitories which sometimes lems on an individual basis,” Kelly different organizations on campus continued to their senior years. said. existed because people have a Bobbie Groat, coordinator of strong need to belong to groups in the International Cultural Center which they feel at home. The (ICC), said her department is re­ group then becomes a tool of iden­ sponsible for the entire planning tification. period that precedes a foreign Bhayroo said this tendency led student’s arrival. students of similar cultural back­ “We pick them up at the air­ grounds to choose apartments in port or the bus station and bring the same vicinities or complexes. them to the campus and receive He said Varsity Village apartments, them, and in addition to that ar­ with an occupancy that is 80 per­ range for temporary housing for cent Indian, was one good ex­ them,” Groat said. ample. However, he noted that Groat said the ICC administra­ people who did not understand tion recognized the fact that a lot found the practice queer and nick­ needed to be done in the area of named the apartment “Bombay helping foreign students under­ stand the American culture. Village.” p h o tby o G a n gL u “The same thing applies in the Under the “New Friendship” case of Nicholson and Edward program which starts this spring, (Gay) apartment buildings where foreign and American students you find a concentration of Chi­ will be paired so the two can learn nese, Japanese and all other Asians about each other. Krishna Sai said American students should be able to of similar cultural background. According to Groat, a commit­ showcase their culture at the International Expo. This event, People tend to call these apartment tee has already been set up to work held Nov. 7, 1993, featured displays from over 30 countries such as the Vietnam folk dance, above.

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By Pete Tattersall photos provided by Star Casino Public Relations THE STAKES ARE HIGH AS LOUISIANA VAULTS INTO THE GAMING INDUSTRY.

With Louisiana poised for con­ to move elsewhere because of casino. The two groups merged to struction of the world’s largest ca­ dwindling patronage. With plans to seek final approval from the Ca­ sino, it seems near incredible that Aside from the question of di­ sino Board and the New Orleans just four years ago only people liv­ minishing returns, the casino busi­ City Council. The state will re­ ing near Nevada or Atlantic City open a ness is also affected by the public’s ceive a $125 million bonus from could conveniently visit a casino. perception that social decay rou­ the signing of a contract with the Excitement levels are high as riverboat tinely accompanies its industry’s casino operator. plans advance for the erection of growth. These concerns have not, Harrah’s plans to have a tem­ this gaming house in New Or­ casino and however, slowed Louisiana’s pace. porary casino operating in the leans. To be built in the Rivergate In fact, the Louisiana Riverboat New Orleans Municipal Audito­ location, this casino will have over hotel near Gaming Commission has granted rium by March 31,1994. Harrah’s 200,000 square feet of gaming licenses to 15 floating casinos will hire and train 2,300 people to space. Catfish Town, statewide, the full amount allowed work in the temporary casino and In 1989 South Dakota opened by law. later at the permanent location. a casino with a $5 maximum bet The arrival of casino gambling Jazz Enter­ According to the October 23 in the small town of Deadwood. in Louisiana has triggered both edition of The Times-Picayune, The Deadwood opening cata­ positive and negative reactions. prise Inc. said Harrah’s is using electronic job pulted a national interest in casino Some people maintain that casino fairs and an application WATS gambling. Today, 16 states either gambling will be the downfall of they will be line for the thousands of calls it have or are planning to have some the state; others insist it will pull expects daily. The line logged type of casino. Louisiana out of its economic dol­ paying $16 5,000 calls within five hours of According to a June 13, 1993 drums. opening. Harrah’s is scheduling article in the New York Times, One of the projects expected to million in some 12,500 job interviews for the there are currently 15 riverboat significantly bolster the state’s positions of dealers, casino booth casinos on the economy is the construction of a payrolls a cashiers, housekeepers and bar­ and the Gulf Coast, with at least land-based casino. tenders. In addition, 10 centers another 30 being planned. The management firm throughout the New Orleans area Gaming states are convinced year and Harrah’s was chosen over that of have been set up specifically to that casinos will create jobs, ben­ developer Christopher Hemmeter process job applications. No ap­ efit tourism, increase tax revenues employing to build and operate this casino. pointments are necessary; appli­ and, generally, boost the However, in a move that does cants are being dealt with on a economy. This, however, is not al­ over 1,000 not seem entirely logical, “walk-in” basis. ways the case. Hemmeter’s group got the rights “We learned dealing tech­ O f the five original Iowa casino people. to the lease at the Rivergate, the niques, casino management and riverboats, three have been forced only site allocated for a land-based game protection,” said Seth

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Gravolet one of many young Majority owner Louie Roussel to complete background and suit­ people taking advantage of em­ opened the Star Casino for busi­ ability checks by December 20, ployment opportunities in the ca­ ness on November 8, 1993. Casinos in 1993, for most of the 13 riverboat sino industry. Gravolet recently Hillary Taylor, a first year casinos awaiting gambling li­ returned from Dealer School in graduate student from Shreveport, cities like Las censes. Two riverboat casinos, the Las Vegas. For three and a half said she did not care for casinos. Star Casino and the Hilton-New months he attended classes by day, “I think they’re a bit decadent Vegas and Orleans Paddlewheel, have already and worked as a dealer at the ... they are dangerous from a civic been granted approval. The Times- Showboat casino and hotel by standpoint,” Taylor said. Still, she New Orleans Picayune of October 22,1993 re­ felt the two riverboat casinos in ported that the State Police De­ night. are expected Game protection is strict super­ Shreveport would be good for partment did not think the De­ cember 20th deadline would keep vision of both dealers and players business despite the risk of in­ to prosper to ensure fairness, and Gravolet is creased criminal activity. them from doing extensive and one of several persons in the gam­ Tod Tournillon, a senior his­ because they thorough background checks and ing industry now providing in­ tory major from New Orleans, that more time would be taken if struction on this and other aspects said he had no qualms about are located in needed. In addition, the .State Po­ of the casino business. Gravolet working at a casino after gradua­ lice planned to hire some 130 exciting cities gaming agents who would moni­ will start work as a dealer for the tion. “If the money is good, it would tor riverboat gambling on a full­ new riverboat casino. that attract There was a private opening of be no problem,” Tournillon said. time basis. Robert Ratcliff, a developer the Star Casino on October 24, Tournillon said that one large tourists from Alexandria, is building one 1993, but unfavorable weather land-based casino could be good of the casinos that was awaiting and lake conditions kept it docked for the state but that the gaming anyway. approval. He was hired by the at South Shore Harbor until No­ concept is already out of control. Minneapolis-based Grand Casinos vember 17, when it made its In November 1993, the Louisi­ to build a casino on the Tunica- maiden voyage. ana State Police said they expected

The Star Casino Terminal

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Biloxi tribal lands near Marksville, Excitement Louisiana. Louisiana Casino Cruises will La. The Economist of June 20, open their vessel near the new state “It’s going to be 105,000 levels are 1993, reported that when it came capitol. Operated by Carnival square feet in the first phase, and high as plans time for legislators to vote on the Cruise Line, Louisiana Casino later it may be doubled to include casino issue, “opponents weren’t advance for Cruises will spend over $62 mil­ a hotel, theater and recreational allowed to speak and the voting lion on vessel and shoreside im­ vehicle parking facilities,” Ratcliff the erection machine was turned off early. provements and employ over 800 said. That casino is scheduled to of another Huey Long would have been people, Fluhr said. open in May or June, 1994. proud.” Jazz Enterprise Inc. will open Louisiana Governor Edwin gaming house According to Jeff Fluhr, assis­ their casino in the Catfish Town Edwards, known to enjoy gam­ in New tant director of the Downtown area. As an extra incentive to the bling is widely believed to be re­ Orleans. Development District, Louisiana city, Jazz Enterprise Inc. plans to sponsible for bringing casinos to Casino Cruises and Jazz Enterprise build a convention-type hotel near Inc. both plan to have riverboats the centroplex. In addition, $40- operating in Baton Rouge by May 45 million will be spent on reno­ or June this year. vating Catfish Town and con­ structing the boat. “We’ll be paying $16 million a year in payrolls and we’ll employ over 1,000 people. Nine million

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The Star Casino Riverboat in New Orleans made its maiden voyage November 17, 1993.

dollars in gaming tax payments Louisiana’s problems but as these public is concerned, however, that will go to the state, as well as three gaming houses multiply competi­ unfavorable spin-offs of the indus­ million in fees,” said Paula Brad­ tion will become a pressing con­ try are just as certain. ley, spokesperson for Jazz Enter­ Gaming states cern. Though casinos on the Mis­ Still, whether the positives will prise Inc. sissippi Gulf Coast are bringing in outweigh the negatives is purely a Neither company expects any are convinced big bucks, there is fear that when question of time. problems with getting state ap­ Louisiana casinos open their doors proval. that casinos they may pull gamesters and their “The two projects combined dollars toward them. will create will bring over $100 million in in­ With intense competition in vestments to the downtown area,” jobs, benefit the gaming industry, some casinos Fluhr said. will fail. Chad Landry, manager of The tourism, Casinos in cities like Las Vegas Varsity, is one financier who be­ and New Orleans are expected to lieves casinos in the Baton Rouge increase tax prosper because they are located in area will adversely affect most busi­ exciting cities that attract tourists ness operators. Still, he does not revenues and, anyway. expect his own establishment to be Other casinos in more rural ar­ touched by the competition. generally, eas may be forced to rely on local “I think that in the overall pic­ patrons and the occasional out-of- boost the ture they are going to affect busi­ town motorist with a yen for new nesses, but we’re live music and a economy. gaming adventures. bar and the casinos aren’t going to Financial gurus say casino gam­ concentrate on that,” Landry said. bling will definitely strengthen Casinos may be the answer to Louisiana’s budget. The general

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source open to students seeking terviews sponsored by the CPPC. GRADUATION jobs. The services provided by ca­ “There are a lot of students continued from page 35 reer and placement offices are usu­ who can’t find jobs through on- western University’s annual ally free or offered at a nominal campus interviewing for one rea­ Lindquist-Endicott Reporthas been charge. son or another. For many of them measuring economic and job pros­ Placement programs stu­ it’s because they don’t come and pects for graduates. Each year the dents with choosing majors, iden­ Thirty percent use our services,” de la Houssaye university, located in Evanston, tifying career options and setting of college said. 111., surveys approximately 250 up interviews with prospective em­ She said the CPPC also labors medium- to large-size companies. ployers. Students often get good graduates under the misconception that Last year the report cited increases leads from their professors and de­ expected to their services are designed to basi­ for a few fields. Computer science velop contacts after an internship. enter the cally complement only business and engineering were each ex­ Unfortunately, many students and engineering students in their pected to have a five percent in­ are either unaware that placement labor force job search. In-house placement crease in hiring overall — a figure services exist on their campus, or between center statistics refute this. Inter­ that matched job opportunities for they simply decide against using 1993 and views with all education majors graduates with bachelor’s degrees. them. 2005 will numbered 101, and next in line The report reminded future Just eight to eleven percent of was chemical engineering with 70 graduates that changes in the job students across the country use either be requests. market make the need to aggres­ placement and career services to unemployed “Forty five companies came last sively sell themselves most impor­ find jobs. or working at year and said ‘We don’t care what tant. However, 20 percent of LSU major it is we just want college Students need to market their students use the campus career and jobs for graduates and we can train them’ skills more effectively to compete placement services. which they and this is where arts and sciences, in a dynamic and often hostile job Mary de la Houssaye, an assis­ are over- general studies and many other market. Those in the know stress tant director at the LSU Career majors would fit in,” de la that to find a good job graduates Planning and Placement Center, qualified. Houssaye said. must begin their search early. said 20 percent of the students who De la Houssaye emphasized Placement services on campus are are employed at graduation found that whether students participate perhaps the most immediate re­ those jobs through on-campus in- in career planning and placement

Early morning at the unemployment claims office

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or not, the three things prospective em­ By Sharon McNab ployers look for are Dream Cities job-related experience, a good grade point av­ FORTUNE began its annual survey of facilities, they are popular tourist and busi­ erage and demon­ America’s best cities in 1989, and since that ness hubs. Atlanta is the base for at least 19 strated participation time relocation consultants Moran, Stahl FORTUNE 500 and Service 500 compa­ in extracurricular ac­ & Boyer (MS&B) have been part of its ef­ nies, including Turner Broadcasting and tivities. fort. Home Depot; Dallas is home to more than The CPPC recom­ In 1993, the New York-based firm 30. Exxon and J.C. Penney are among the mends that with the MS&B surveyed some $1,000 corporate corporate headquarters in Dallas. job market being what executives in America’s 60 largest metropo­ Though both cities got high ratings as it is, new graduates lis. Each year the cities that make the Top vibrant business markets, they did not must take every op­ Ten ranking reflect a particular business make the 1993 Top Ten which stressed portunity to stay a step trend. For its 1992 listing FORTUNE em­ education and a quality work force. Atlanta ahead of prospective phasized global competitiveness; for 1991 and Dallas suffer from poor public educa­ employers it focused on cities that offered the best tion systems and prevalent crime. value for business. Atlanta has a population of 3,198,048. Using its own reporting information Only 8.1 percent of its people above age 25 and MS&B’s analyses, FORTUNE usually have graduate degrees. Manufacturing determines a city’s value by counterbalanc­ competitiveness and export potential are ing its assets against the cost of doing busi­ low but among America’s major cities At­ KNOWLEDGE WORKERS ness there. Cities are surveyed according to lanta sets the pace for economic success. As LOOK FOR THESE: their infrastructure, local industries, re­ the venue for the 1996 Summer Olympics, search expenditure, patents issued, labor Atlanta can look forward to an exciting pe­ costs, taxes and quality of work force. No riod of capital inflow and public recogni­ Dynamic, high-quality single factor, however, will determine the tion. Rated the 15th least-expensive city labor force choices FORTUNE makes. among America’s 50 largest, Atlanta * Healthy local business Sunbelt cities have appeared in FOR­ emerged the best city for business value in attitude TUNE magazine’s ranking of the top ten 1991. Dallas was second in the 1991 list­ * Air service to major cit­ cities for business over the past five years. ing, being the 16th least-expensive. In 1992 ies But FORTUNEs 1993 Top Ten showed Atlanta ranked 4th among the top ten for * Efficient highway sys­ business markets of the North matching up global competitiveness. tems handsomely with Sunbelt centers. Metro­ Big D ’s airport is one of the best in the * Presence of topnotch politan areas listed for 1993 not only flaunt United States and this, with inexpensive research universities and skilled pools of technical workers, but also real estate and low business costs, supports centers demonstrate business innovation and the city’s market. Its population is strong local interest in education and re­ 2,854,359 but only 8.2 percent have search. master’s degrees. In spite of a poor work The value of such cities is the ability of force Dallas got a number 4 ranking in the TRAITS INFLUENCING their labor force to find novel solutions to 1993 survey for pro-business attitude. At­ RELOCATION: problems and survive in the ’90s high-tech lanta ranked 6th. climate. Employers know that remaining Atlanta and Dallas have been called up­ competitive today demands brainpower start cities lacking the traditional flavor of * Affordable housing and technical skill. College graduates are metropolis like New York, Los Angeles and * Low crime rates considered the core group from which these Chicago. Some say these cities’ rapid * Support for the arts knowledge workers will be plucked. growth have made them pretentious and * Clean air The boom period for many top rankers ugly. * Mild weather in FORTUNEs survey since 1989 has Liabilities aside, however, Atlanta and * Exciting nightlife slowed, but their economies are holding Dallas have the Midas lure. their own. Two good examples are Atlanta Atlanta and Dallas stand for success and and Dallas. energy. These two trade centers may look Dallas and Atlanta are perhaps two of like nouveau riche cities but their magic is the best known convention centers in the in this very newness and the promise of United States. Supported by large airport making big money fast.

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GENDER continued from page 27 long for women as it does for men. 4. Promiscuous women are 10 times more “wrong” than promis­ cuous men. Most people would agree that these statements are illogical and silly, and 1, 2 and 3 are indeed offered tongue-in-cheek. But maybe we should take another look at 4. A body of language, like the human body, tends to grow and strengthen where it is used the most. The Eskimos have 22 terms for snow. Snow is a major factor in their lives, and they constantly refer to it in their conversations. The discrepancy between the number of words found to de­ scribe promiscuity in males and females indicates that in women the behavior attracts more atten­ tion, and is written or talked about more. This makes sense in view of certain sexist stereotypes, of which The American College Health Association offered a few examples, that still cripple our so­ ciety: 1. A man should be forceful, ready to conquer and “score.” 2. A man should always want as much sex as he can get. 3. A man becomes uncontrol­ lable when aroused. 4. A man should not have to ask what gives his partner plea­ sure. 5. A woman should not say on equal footing

“yes” to sex. photo by Salen Chenofi 6. A woman should resist a man’s advances until she is over­ male promiscuity would naturally it there would be no problem. come by his power and desire. be a more frequent topic of con­ Women should just tolerate ha­ 7. A woman should take re­ versation than male promiscuity. rassment and rape as their lot in sponsibility for knowing how far When sexist language harps on the life. Even this would not be neces­ to go. promiscuity of women and plays sary if expectations 1 through 7 According to these expecta­ down the promiscuity of men, it were counterbalanced by other ex­ tions, especially 2, 5 and 7, a reminds the user and listener that pectations such as: woman who seeks out or enjoys promiscuity is to be expected in 8. nice girls stay virgins until sex is more wrong than a man. men, but not in women. . they marry, and Since what is wrong is more news­ The system, in itself, is not nec­ 9. nice boys conduct them­ worthy than what is not wrong, fe­ essarily bad. If everyone agreed to selves as gentlemen with nice girls.

GUMBO MAGAZINE Rape could be largely avoided their opinions too far. words themselves which matter, by staying away from bad boys. Certainly, the line must be but the attitude behind the words. Nice girls would be tested by nice drawn somewhere. If the world Change the attitude and, in time, boys (see 2), but they would not followed strict PC guidelines, the the words will change or denote in really be expected to give in; and English language would lose a neutral terms. harassment would be viewed as at­ great deal of its color and punch. This notion may be tested sim­ tention. Expressions like bull market, lazy ply by punctuating the phrase, Not everyone agrees with this susan, charley horse, cock-and- “woman without her man is noth- communication pattern however. Remaining bull story, knight in shining ar­ mg. For one thing, remaining virginal mor, Dutch treat, French kiss and Is it more correct to say, no longer has the lure it once did. virginal no Russian roulette would all have to “Woman! Without her, man is Studies reported by The National go. Euphemisms would reign su­ nothing.” or “Woman, without longer has Institute of Health suggest that preme. The homeless would be­ her man, is nothing.” 74.4 percent of girls 18 and 19 the lure it come the underhoused, the poor But might you not rephrase it years old, and 85 percent of boys the economically marginalized, “Humans, without each other, are those ages, have had sexual inter­ once did. the stoned the chemically incon­ nothing.” course at least once. In the 1950s, venienced, and a lie would be an only about a third of teen-age girls inoperative statement. experienced sex. In the 1930s, only In the PC environment verbal a quarter did. communication would become Ironically, however, the greater increasingly more complicated. sexual freedom of the last three Cautionary Words and Phrases, a decades seems to have reinforced pamphlet issued by the University the different gender roles. of Missouri’s Multicultural Man­ If the air were suddenly cleared agement Program, warns that us­ of all sexual stereotypes, men and ing the word “articulate,” for ex­ women might discover both what ample, to describe members of a they are and what they really want minority group can suggest the from each other. The bad news is opposite, that “those people” are that this is unlikely. The good not normally considered articu­ news is that sexist attitudes may be late. identified and adjusted. Maggio warns against substi­ It is indulgent to think things Slut is a tuting battered spouse for bat­ will change any time soon. tered wife, because it implies in­ Mark Twain said, “Habit is colorful term correctly that men and women are habit and not to be thrown out of equally battered. the window, but coaxed down­ The 1991 edition of the Ran­ stairs one step at a time.” which could dom House Webster’s College Dic­ REVIEWS Sexist language has been in use tionary includes such mutations as Continued, from page 16 for a long time, and it isn’t going easily refer to womyn (women) which might be Misery highlight the stereotype to disappear overnight. “used as an alternative spelling to of the single woman who does not Women deserve to be treated as avoid the suggestion of sexism in take kindly to rejection. equals right now, but a compli­ either a man the sequence “m-e-n.” Faludi continues her discussion cated society will never dance to There is nothing wrong with by drawing on recent feminist that tune. Moreover, American so­ or a woman. referring to firemen as firefighters, writings. She speaks out against ciety will hardly bend in cases or policemen as police officers. writers like George Gilder and where the right to free speech is in The meaning of the word man­ Michael Levin who support a Why not keep any way affected. kind will not change if human­ male-centered society. While it is unlikely that gender- kind is instead used. Slut is a col­ Backlash is fairly interesting. neutral language would ever be it? orful term which could easily refer However, the slew of examples forced on American citizens, coali­ to either a man or a woman. Why Faludi uses adds some tedium to tions condemning the use of sexist not keep it? On the other hand, the work. Still, the cases demon­ language are part of a national slang expressions like bimbos, strate Faludi’s own thoroughness movement insisting on political broads, chicks or the weaker sex and attention to details — charac­ correctness (PC). could be easily removed from our teristics she found lacking in many However, PC proponents are language. of the people she criticized in her sometimes criticized for taking In the final analysis, it isn’t the book.

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Kristine Calongne is a senior in Les Lane is a mass communica­ Jennifer L. Goundas, from news-editorial mass communica­ tions graduate student, the father Biloxi, Miss., is a sophomore with tions. She is a member of the LSU of a glorious one-year-old ... who a double major in English and Union Fashion Committee, and is happy about a legal and bind­ news-editorial journalism. She this is the second edition of the ing contract entered into with the plans to attend Loyola Law School Gumbo Magazine she has written mother of the previously men­ in New Orleans, become a corpo­ for. tioned child - who wasn't the rate attorney, and then go into mother of the child when the con­ politics. She wants to wipe out yel­ tract was signed — not that it low journalism. would have been bad necessarily is a junior ma­ Tiffany Jennings if she had been. joring in Biochemistry, with a dual Pete Tattersall, a native of New minor in zoology and journalism. Orleans, would rather be any­ Which field of journalism she'll where in the Caribbean (except settle with is still unknown. She Jay Casey, a Texas native, is a Haiti) sipping on a cold beer. yearns to attend medical school, first year graduate student in mass but if that plan doesn't pan out, communications. He graduated Hester Johnson, researcher "then maybe National Geographic from Lamar University in Beau­ extraordinaire, spends her- free will take me." mont, Texas, in 1991. time watching soaps with her roommate Jenny. GUMBO CONTRIBUTORS The Gumbo Magazine Angela Wingate, upon graduating in May, will move to staff thanks all of our California to take up body surf­ Lisa Cowling is a senior in ing and open her own tattoo contributors. We couldn't Mass Comm, and currently parlor. holds the world's record for have done it without getting sick during finals. Guinesses anyone? Andrew W. Smiley is a junior you! studying political science and an­ cient Greece. He views education Virgil LeJeune is a senior in the Renee Ellender is graduating in as the most important part of his General Studies program. May with a degree in news-editorial life right now, but believes that a journalism and in December with a person should never stop learning. degree in political science. Then she Paul Poteet is a freshman who will probably stay in school to seek a plans to major in business. He hopes masters in marketing. that writing for the Gumbo Maga­ Andrew Wong, on exchange zine will expand his literary hori­ from the United Kingdom for one zons and be a "growing experi­ Melissa Webster, better known year, is finding Baton Rouge a very ence." He plans to continue his re­ as Missy, is a senior in news-edito­ interesting place. "All I need to do search in animal psychotherapy rial journalism. Her main future goal now is find a car." while yodeling in the Swiss Alps dur­ is to pay rent and eat at the same ing the summer. time ... preferably name brands. Dennis D. Nkop is a graduate student in mass communications. "I Ginger Leigh Smith is a freshman love this (The Earth), and all God's currently majoring in mass communi­ Special thanks to Dr. Jack creation, but I am depressed and cations/new-editorial journalism. Windhauser's Fall '93 2151 worried about hatred, conflicts and This is her first article in the Gumbo wars." Magazine. media writing class.

72 GUMBO MAGAZINE Skyscraper (dedicated to Christina Rossetti)

For men who never loveth me, I lie in shattered shards. Grope the earth in trembling fear, The veins, they heave with sorrow’s tears. How banal or recherche to blow the talc of hope and muse its aimless flight. A shiver through the soul, to sow the heck­ ling woe, Fingertip, in sanguine salve, lightly caress the vacant flesh... Prickly touch, so cold. Once vision wore the cape of light now blinded by nocturnal webs, I remit my soul to bleak death’s plight, I fly. anon, my sin condoned.

By B.N. Belton

SPRING 1 1)994 73 Cam el On My Back

Ahh, there’s the feeling of being slightly stoned and m aybe a little sick. Early m ornin’ sunrise stretch, air s t i c k i n g to my lungs. R i g h t n o w I love you like nothin’ e l s e , b u t w hen you call a g a i n - and you will- I k n o w I’m g o n n a H a t e y o u s t i l l .

By Peace Marvel Love is No Angel

fall not easily into the tem ptation of love’s open arms rather, beware for her smile but masks the gift of pain she longs to bring you and the sweet sounds of her laughter shall become the sinister music endlessly echoing in your head in your heart in your soul her sweet nothing whispers shall blow the cutting winds of loneliness and her gentle caress shall be the chains of bondage holding you fast to her memory lo n g a f t e r she has departed your unworthy company... love is no angel GALLERY

had his own place in the world to contend with. He cleared his thoughts and realized, disap­ pointingly, that this was his life, that his situation was real and not the bad dream he briefly hoped for every morning. The second thing he did every morning was reach for his cane to get out of bed. He hated that cane; he hated his dependence on it and he hated the United States government for giving it to him at age 19. As far as Charlie was con­ cerned they were to blame, not the Soviet manufacturer of the land mine nor the North Viet­ namese soldier who planted it. They weren’t the ones who, under threat of incarceration, forced him to leave, and later lose, his beauti­ ful fiance, to leave, and later lose, all dreams he had for the future and in return leave him with a miserable life that someone else was supposed to live and a right leg that served purely cosmetic purposes. Charlie (With special thanks to Bob Dylan pulled himself out of bed and stood up. This was al­ ways the worst part, for being off his leg all night for “Positively 4th Street”) made it very numb and relaxed so putting weight on it first thing was quite painful. He made his way to BY JASON A. GRAHAM what was supposed to be a kitchen even though he knew there was nothing to eat. All he had was one Awakened by screams, Charlie Maxwell beer and it would have to do. His kitchen — it was quickly pushed up the top half of his body onto his really only a kitchen area due to the fact that his apart­ hands. Covered in sweat, with his heart pounding, it ment was only one room — consisted of one cup­ took a moment for his head to clear enough to dis­ board, a small refrigerator, a Sink and a hot plate. The cover the screams weren’t his. They came from the rest of the place had a small bed with a mattress cov­ wife of the couple next door. She often gave those ered in stains which smelled of years of filth and screams. They were the unsettling kind that for an urine; the carpet matched. The one window was cov­ instant made everything around you a confusing blur, ered with a sheet and the walls were a dingy white. sort of a brief insanity. The couple were young, in They were probably once stark white but now had an their early twenties Charlie thought. They had one outer coating of years of neglect and cigarette smoke. son, Joshua, about five or six. He always accompanied Charlie didn’t care though; it concerned him as much his mother’s screams. Charlie never knew what the as most everything else in his life. Besides, it wasn’t fights were about but guessed they were brought on the mission and it wasn’t the VA hospital and it was by a combination of poverty and the misery and frus­ cheap enough to have enough of his disability check tration of being forced to marry as teenagers. Not left for whiskey, cigarettes and the only thing that much time was spent on their story though, Charlie seemed to be concerned for him: his habit. Turning

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on his second-hand black and white TV he thought his apartment to get a full view of himself in the about his habit, the third thing he did every morn­ mirror. While looking, the husband next door ing. He knew he had to get well. began to finish where he left off this morning For some reason Charlie felt good today. It with wife and Joshua not far behind. But they seemed a special day and, since today was check ar­ weren’t going to spoil this day for Charlie. rival day, he knew he’d have to celebrate. Taking With one swift kick Charlie’s makeshift what little money he had with him he put his cane hardware store noose tightened and in across the handlebars of his bike and peddled, with­ an instant both Charlie and his cane out evidence of a bum leg, on his way to Harry dropped. The cane fell to the floor Simon’s. Charlie hated Harry but he was the best while his shined shoes rocked place to get well. He was always carrying. He was a back and forth only inches dirty little swine as far as Charlie was concerned. His from it. The couple contin­ parents were rich, but they had nothing to do with ued screaming and the ra­ him. All of 19, he chose to drop out, chose to deal dio continued to play smack and chose to live dirty. There seemed an air of but not for Charlie. fake in everything Harry did and for this Charlie It truly was a spe­ hated him. Harry’s place was crowded as usual. A lot cial day. of people stayed there to fix up. Charlie wasn’t crazy about shooting galleries or the clientele so he was quick about his business and made his way home to do his shooting. When the mail finally came Charlie went back out to the grocery store a few blocks from his house. He was known there only by the fact that he came in so often. He never spoke to anyone there, or anywhere for that matter, he didn’t give a damn about their lives; they had it good. Charlie cashed his check and bought cigarettes, a bottle of whis­ key and a celebratory steak. Next, after a brief trip to the hardware store for some items to make the day complete, he rode for home On his way through the crowded, con­ gested, filthy city streets he felt removed from it all. After ’73 he had never felt as though he belonged but this was differ­ ent, not as if he were watching a film go on around him, that was too simple. He felt as if this special day had given him a certain understanding that no one else seemed to have. Once home Charlie turned on his radio, opened his bottle and sat back . to think about the rest of his day. He knew just how to spend it. He started his space heater to shake off some of the cold while he ate his steak. When he finished he took a long, hot bath, put on his best and only suit, combed his hair and shined his shoes. After a last whiskey and cigarette he climbed atop the one chair in

SPRING 1 1994 77 Banapple Gasp

Where have all the rainbow snowballs rollerskates and dandelions we picked for our m other’s g o n e ?

They’ve been replaced by disconnect notices tim e c lo c k s a n d c a rs that won’t run.

I picture us in the belly of our responsibility tic k lin g its g u ts into throwing u s u p about as high as a ferris wheel so we can reach t h e s t a r s and eat candy apples.

By D anette S. Irvine GALLERY

By Shane Derek Goleman

It was always difficult to sleep well the first night in a mother, and I spent every holiday and many weekends at her strange bed even in the home of someone you loved. The house. second and third night were usually better but I could not They lived across the street from the town’s little league sleep well the first night. Robert and I were once very close baseball field and we would play there on Saturday morn­ and I stayed with him and his pretty wife many times be­ ings. Other kids would join us and we would throw the base­ fore the birth of their daughter. I always loved him and his ball around in the diamond or play football in the outfield. family. We were once very close. When there was only a few of us, we would climb the steel The spare bedroom was close to the kitchen and since I frame of the wooden bleachers or the chain-link fences that could not sleep on the lumpy mattress I went into the surrounded the dugouts and the press box. Robert liked to kitchen. The light came on over the stove and disturbed a climb the high fence that angled out over home plate. He like small roach that was crawling around the sink. I killed it and to pretend that he was Spiderman. rinsed it down the drain. Sitting at the kitchen table and I remember a quarrel he and I had at a family reunion one staring out of the window I could see the First Assembly of Christmas. I must have been six or seven. All the children God Church across the road. The yellow light in front of were given one gift to open. I opened mine and had received the church was always on. I had never been inside the small a small remote-operated Corvette, the kind popular at the white-washed building but I had walked the bayou that ran time. I thanked whoever had given me the gift shyly before along the right side and I had hunted the length of trees that Robert tore the car from my hands and yelled at me. His face stood on the bayou’s bank. The wood between the First was flushed and he ran screaming to his mother. I did not Assembly of God Church parking area and the small bayou cry but I was scared. I had always liked my cousin, and I liked was about twenty yards in width but it widened behind the him liking me. My mother came to me and Robert’s mother church and if you crossed the water on the drainage pipe came and apologized for him. Robert had asked his mother there was another hundred yards before the clearing that for the same gift that I received and he thought that I had was Mr. Clifford’s land. opened his present by mistake. After our mothers calmed us The road that Robert lived on was the boundary for the down he was given his toy and I was given mine and we spent city limits so it was legal to hunt the wood on the other side. the rest of the day racing them up and down the tiled hall. We would walk the bayou in the hot afternoons with our When Robert was older he took eagerly to hunting and as .22’s on our shoulders and take turns shooting at the fast I grew I was eager to go with him. He was a fine hunter. He running squirrels we would see. I was a better shot than took it very seriously and read books on hunting to improve Robert was but he was the better hunter. his skill. On the weekends that I would visit we stayed up late O ur families were close and Robert and I were raised as and he would tell me hunting stories. He was well liked by brothers. I had no brothers or sisters of my own. He was his father’s older friends who were also serious hunters and four years older but he used to let me follow him around they all tried to teach him. He liked to hunt alone but when the neighborhood, introducing me to his friends as his I hunted with him we stayed together. He said he did not “little cousin” even after I began to pass him in height. His hunt with anyone like he did with me. When we had walked mother was my father’s oldest sister and my father, my a while and not seen anything he would teach me what he

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had learned from the older men. He taught me how to recog­ long gravel drive. The wood on the church’s side seemed nize the bark of the different trees. As we walked he would sparse and thin. Thinner than I remembered. The trees were point to different trees and ask me to identify them. Some­ not as green and thick and did not reach so high into the times I knew and would tell him Beech Gum or White Oak. clear sky. But sometimes I did not remember and I would be nervous There were no clocks on this end of the trailer so I stud­ and he would see and would tell me the answer so I would ied the night sky and tried to guess the time. I knew my remember. We would walk up to the trees together. On the cousin wanted to get up early. I had no idea what time I had ground beneath the trees we would find the nuts and pine gone to bed or how long I had slept and I could not guess cones that were scarred and torn by squirrel teeth. the time. I wondered how it would be tomorrow with Rob­ I enjoyed our hunting. But when Robert met Christine he ert. He had not said much when I came in the afternoon. I started hunting less. He was dating before I was and he would wished it was hunting season and that we were going in the tell me about the girls he had met and about the dates he went morning. on. He told me about Christine. I used to go with him to her W hen I was tired of the tiny kitchen and the white­ house when they were dating and sit with them on the front washed church through the window I went back into the porch. She was a small girl with small white hands and her spare bedroom. I left the kitchen dark and the sound of my eyes were wide and green with a splash of gold around the footsteps seemed to echo through the hall. I hated the pupils. Her hair was blonde and dark and fell in long, tight thought of waking them. I slept a little on the lumpy mat­ curves around her face which was pretty and serious like the tress and woke many times before morning. When I woke face of a porcelain doll. She would sit on the porch listening last I heard someone in the kitchen. It was not yet dawn. to a radio station that Robert did not like to listen to and sing I knew it was Robert and I knew that he was making hot along with the chorus of “Hotel California.” I do not remem­ chocolate like he did every morning even when the summer ber how I felt when I met her but when I went home and I mornings were so hot. I dressed and went into the kitchen heard the song again I felt something that was like homesick­ to have a cup of chocolate with him. His two fishing rods ness but was something else. I had never been to California looked old and dirty leaning against the wall near the front but when I heard the song it reminded me of Christine and door. He handed me the chipped porcelain mug. she was like I imagined California to be and I missed her. “Good morning,” I said quietly. When I visited Robert again we went to see her. I smiled and “You ready this morning?” wanted her to like me. She did like me but not in the same “Yea. How do you think it’ll be?” way that she liked Robert and Robert eventually married her. “I think it’ll be good. Were you up pretty late last night?” They were married by the Justice of the Peace and not by “N ot too late,” I said. the church so I did not get to be the best man. At the recep­ “I don’t know about you but I’m anxious to get out tion Robert was hustled away by older friends and family and there.” by the time I spoke to him there was a distant, drunken look “I’m ready.” in his dull eyes. I congratulated him. He thanked me and took “Let’s get going.” my hand in a limp handshake. I tried to speak to Christine Robert picked up the two rods and stepped out the door but she was too beautiful, and I was too shy. onto the wooden porch. I finished the chocolate and left the After the marriage they bought a trailer across the high­ cup in the sink next to Robert’s. I stepped out onto the porch way and on the other side of town from Robert’s parents. after him. The stars shone clear in the black sky and I but­ When I stayed with them I slept in the spare bedroom that toned the flannel shirt I had pulled over my T-shirt. It was a was next to the kitchen. Robert usually slept late but I would cool morning. Robert stretched and turned to close the door wake when I heard Christine in the hall. Sometimes she quietly behind me. would fix breakfast for me. I told her that I liked my eggs fried “Make sure you got everything,” he said and his low voice hard but she did not know how to do that and they always fell heavily in the air. came out soft and runny. I ate them and thanked her anyway. There was a soft grey layer of dew on the hood of the I called her “ma’am” because she was married and I thought truck and the top of the cab. Everything had been loaded the it showed respect, but we were the same age. She would get night before but I checked the back of the truck for my rods mad because she said it made her feel old and she was not old. and tackle. The fishing rods that Robert carried made a ter­ She would have fixed Robert breakfast when he got up if he rible scraping sound when he dropped them into the back had wanted it, but he usually did not. She loved Robert more with the others. Robert sat behind the wheel and the truck than anything. She and I became good friends. roared hoarsely to a start. I climbed in on the passenger’s I did not stay with Robert and Christine very often any­ side. more. I was the first in the family to move away and go to The town was sleeping quietly. There were dark shadows college. But when I did stay and I could not sleep I sat at the across the scattered trees around Robert’s house and the same place where I used to sit and eat the runny eggs that brick buildings downtown cast heavy shadows on the streets. Christine would make for me and I stared out of the window The red and green traffic lights sparkled through the dew on at the First Assembly of God Church that was across the the windshield. Robert turned the wipers on and the lights street. The church looked lonely and still at the end of the were blurred by the streaks of dirt left behind the wipers.

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There was no one on the streets. The little town was still ex­ Robert slowed the truck and trailer and turned left onto a cept for the bustling around the all night convenience stores. dirt road that joined the highway at an angle. We drove I leaned my head on the passenger window and was sleepier down the road and past a few pastel houses. The small man- than I had been all night. We were almost out of town be­ made lake that was the fish hatchery was on the right and was fore Robert spoke. surrounded by a high fence. The mainlake was further down “It’s been a while since we’ve been fishing hasn’t it?” the road and we had to cross a small bridge to get to the pub­ “Yea, we just went once last year. I haven’t come down lic boat launch. Robert backed up to the edge of the lake then since Christmas.” I got behind the wheel. I backed the trailer into the water and “You know Charlston, that old man I work with, me and Robert eased the boat onto the lake. him went out to Miller’s Creek a couple of weeks back. Fingers of fog curled up from the still surface of the lake Didn’t me and you go there one time?” that was covered by bunches of floating water lilies. The boat “Yea, I think so,” I said. eased across the surface of the lake slowly. The cove we were “It was nice but we messed around and didn’t get out in was small and it was cut off from the rest of the lake by the there till late. We just started trolling and BAM! I got a strike. bridge we had crossed in the truck. We would have to cross Then BAM! I got another one. Next thing you know under the bridge to get to the rest of the lake. I followed the Charlston gets him one. We both had two lines but we bank with the little boat and made occasional casts at the couldn’t keep them both in the water. You wouldn’t believe shore. Robert was sitting in the front of the boat with his how they was biting, Shep. I mean, I wasn’t even putting the fishing rod pointed out in front of him. The lilies were thick fish in the ice chest. I was just throwing them in the bottom and I cast my line into them. Robert did not cast out his line. of the boat. As fast as you could reel them in that’s how we “What’s the matter?” I asked. “Do you want to go out was catching them.” onto the lake?” “Damn that sounds good.” “No, this is fine.” Our conversation faded behind the big noise of the en­ He made a few loose casts and reeled the line in fast and gine and I listened to the tires as they whisded over the black­ steady. The sky was dark but the horizon was fading from top. On the side of the highway there was an open field and deep navy to a lighter blue. The sun could be seen on its way the dark oudine of cattle could be seen walking or laying in up over the trees. The splash of a jumping fish left a ripple the grass in the distance. I wondered how far it was to the on the surface of the water behind the boat. I turned the boat farthest tree line and if the wood behind it was thick with and headed for the bridge. pine trees and green and if heavy fox squirrels were shaking “Me and Christine are getting a divorce.” Robert’s voice the topmost limbs as they jumped from tree to tree. was harsh in the cool morning air. “How’s school?” he asked me finally. I had been waiting An owl took off noisily from a tree on shore and circled for the question. to the other side of the cove.

"Fine." “Why?” I asked but did not really want or expect an an­ “What’s your, what is it ... your major? What are you swer. studying?” “It’s hard to say,” he said. “It’s ju st... I don’t know. It’s “I’m a history major,” I said without turning my eyes hard to say.” away from the far tree line. We lowered our heads as we crossed under the bridge and “What’er you going to do when you get out?” I looked up to see the little bird nests that were stuck in the “I don’t know. Teach I guess.” corners of the bridge’s wooden support beams. Robert was There was a railroad track raised high on a levee along the not looking at me. He was looking deep into the dark water side of the highway that I noticed for the first time as I an­ of the lake. I tried but could not think of anything to say. I swered his question. I wondered how long we had been trav­ wanted to ask about his daughter. I did not. He wanted me eling beside it. to. He wanted me to say something. I could feel him wait­ “I hope we do good today,” he said. ing, breathing slow and heavy. I could not say anything. I “Yea.” thought that if it was like before, then maybe I could. But “It might be good. Course me and you always had bad not now. luck. You ever noticed that. I can go one day and catch fish I steered the boat towards the near cove where the fish like crazy and then me and you go and they don’t hardly bite. were always biting but I did not feel much like fishing. Rob­ You ever noticed.” ert cast his line near a tree stump and got a strike. The fish “I don’t care if we catch anything. It’s nice just to be out put up a little fight but when Robert had it near the boat he there.” saw it was a small pike and cursed it. I caught a White Perch “That’s true,” he said. “That’s true.” but it was not big enough to keep. The water was cold when I recognized the old sugar mill that was on the right. Rob­ I put my hand down into it to let the fish go. I was very tired ert pointed to it as we passed. and wished the day was over. I thought about school. Finals “I think Mom said that Grandpa used to work there. Did were coming up. I really wanted to get back. Robert looked your dad ever say anything about that?” hard at his fishing line cutting sharply through the water. We “I don’t think so.” were once very close.

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ACACIA FRATERNITY ini­ Last fall the club held its annual ORGANIZATIONS ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SO­ tiated 19 new members into the Progressive Halloween Party and RORITY tutors children at the brotherhood last fall. This new took a field trip to a sugar cane Baranco-Clark YMCA, hosts Hal­ class of initiates will bring the mill. loween and Christmas parties for number of active members to 95 “Many people have a miscon­ children at the Louisiana School and will represent the 1,128th ception about who we are, we are for the Deaf, and works in the member since Acacia was estab­ not a bunch o f‘Farmer Teds,’ we soup kitchen at the Scott Gilcrist lished in 1956. are regular college students,” Presi­ Center for Life throughout the Benjamin Dart, newly ap­ dent Robert Judice said. school year. During the fall, mem­ pointed Philanthropy Chairman, Funds are raised through the bers raised $250 for the Sickle Cell promises to resurrect “Vein $5 club fee, from working the back Anemia Foundation. Drain.” booth at the Louisiana State Live­ The sorority also ranks #2 aca­ “Vein Drain” is a blood drive stock Show and from operating demically among sororities and sponsored by Our Lady of the concessions at the spring rodeo. fraternities on campus. During Lake Hospital that gives a trophy -Tommy Moore the 1992-93 school year, member to the organization which donates Kenyatta Shamlin received the the most blood. ALPHA EPSILON DELTA, W.E.B. DuBois Award for the “In the past charitable works an honorary pre-med club, spon­ highest GPA among African- have been neglected. Hopefully, I sored a blood drive at the Union Americans on the LSU campus. can change things around,” Dart last fall. They also held a Hallow­ - Tiffany Welcome said. een party with the children's ward - Tommy Moore at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital ALPHA PHI OMEGA puts in and a Christmas tree decorating between 2-3,000 hours of service ACCOUNTING SOCIETY party there. to the Baton Rouge community OF LSU will take on the team of This spring they plan to hold a each semester. Some of the various associates from the “Big Six” law seminar course with Baton Rouge activities include: tutoring at the firms in a spring volleyball match. General Hospital. They also want Baton Rouge Sports Academy, The match gives members a to sponsor another blood drive planting trees for the Baton Rouge chance to personally become ac­ and attend a regional convention Green and helping out with their quainted with professionals. in Houston in March. golf tournament, painting at City AS has about 150 members and is geared toward freshmen and sophomores who are majoring in accounting We give them a chance to at­ tend monthly meetings and hear professionals speak at a level un­ derclassmen can understand, President Theresa Hambrick said. It gives them an idea of what to ex­ pect from a career in accounting. - Wayne St. Pierre

AGRIBUSINESS AND AG­ RICULTURAL ECONOMICS CLUB recently received the Out­ standing Club Award from the Southern Region of the Collegian Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Association. The club, with more than 40 members, often hosts guest speak­ ers, who have included Bob Odom, commissioner of agricul­

ture, and Dean William B. photo provided by Missy G o ff Richardson of the College of Agri­ Herb Ginn, vice president of the Karate Club at LSU, practising with Raye culture. Daniels, Black belt.

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Park and ushering for the Baton neering majors. budget and allows for activities Rouge Symphony. - Todd Campbell and guest speakers. A representa­ APO is a National Service fra­ tive from Dow Chemicals spoke of ternity open to all LSU students AMERICAN LIBRARY AS­ job opportunities at a meeting last regardless of race, gender or ethnic SOCIATION - STUDENT fall. background. CHAPTER holds open forums The only requirement for The 50 members put in three- every month on current issues of membership is being a mechanical six hours a day on an average of interest to professional librarians. engineering major. three days a week. They also hold annual meetings of - Tommy Moore - Gabriela Chinchilla the Louisiana Library Association every spring. ANGEL FLIGHT, an honor­ AMERICAN INSTITUTE “The American Library Asso- ary service organization, cel­

OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS ciation-Student Chapter provides ORGANIZATIONS ebrated its 35th anniversary in held its annual tail-gate party with an opportunity to display poten­ November. the AICE of Tulane University tial for professional leadership in The organization works closely this fall, before the Tigers took on the Library and Information Sci­ with the Air Force community on the Wave. ences,” said Michael Carpenter, their national Project-Children “We usually have guest speak­ the advisor. and wants to increase participation ers from the chemical industry at -Sharie Richard with the Air Force group. They are ORGANIZATIONS our meetings, and our special ac­ planning to help an effort to re­ tivities include trips to various THE AMERICAN SOCIETY build schools in Jackson, provide chemical plants,” said Dr. OF MECHANICAL ENGI­ food for the Baton Rouge Food Geoffrey Price, advisor. NEERING held its annual fishing Bank and improve alumni rela­ The AICE, with about 55 trip last fall. It will hold its Golf tions. members, holds one meeting per Tournament this spring. Members are ushers for various month. It is open to all students Each of the 60 members pays concerts on campus and help with

who are declared chemical engi­ $25 a year which provides for the ORGANIZATIONS Student Government Elections. photo photo by Sammy Portera Student Government members, from left to right, A m anda Bolz, Stephen AAoret, Kevin LeCount, Jim Purgerson, ond Jennifer Porker at the G o Hawaiian party given by the Student Advisory Board.

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LSU’s Angel Flight won the Purdue Cup at the Regional Level for having 88 members at a con­ vention in Shreveport. - Tiffany Welcome

ARNOLD AIR SOCIETY, celebrating its 35th anniversary, continued forwarding its goal of creating strong Air Force Officers and compassionate men for the community in the image of World War II four-star General Hap Arnold. As one of 150 Arnold Air Soci­ eties in the US, the members look forward to their National Conven­ tion in Phoenix, Ariz., as well as to helping LSU in its clean-up projects, blood and food drives, and soup kitchens. Chenafi Salem by photo The ROTC cadets helped set up and run the Lakeshore Event Duathalon, Student Government Elections and a majority of the Homecoming events. M em bers of Phi M u studying outside of their sorority house - Bemd Linhart Ranger Challenge, a competition tend the national convention in AUDUBON SUGAR CLUB, against other schools in the South January, and they will help run the with 10 members, strives to make that have ROTC programs. This professional rodeo held at LSU. students aware of Louisiana’s year they placed fourth in this In March, members will teach sugar industry. The club was es­ competition and last year they basic horsemanship to local Boy tablished in 1989. placed second. Scouts, and they will present ani­ - Bemd Linhart The areas of competition in the mals in the “Little International ROTC Ranger Challenge include Showmanship Show” at LSU in THE BAPTIST STUDENT field training exercises (FTX), a April. UNION has free lunches for ruk run, weapon assembly of M- -Misty Elliott members on Mondays, informal 16 and M-60 guns and also physi­ worship service on Tuesdays, and cal training exercises such as sit- CERAMIC ART STUDENT $1 lunch specials for members on ups, push-ups and a two-mile run. ASSOCIATION strives to pro­ Thursdays. They are a ranger-type unit mote ceramic fine arts, provide an During Spring Break, they will which applies infantry skills and outside educational experience to go on their “Mexico Mission ranger operations. By definition, a publicize the ceramics program at Trip” to preach the Christian faith Raider is a highly motivated, dedi­ LSU and to improve, obtain and to poverty-stricken Mexicans in cated and skilled member. upgrade ceramic equipment four different regions. -Gabriella Chinchilla within the Department of Fine Backed by the Judson and Arts. Southern Baptist Convention, the THE BLOCK AND BRIDLE This spring, students can see BSU “brings the youth of Louisi­ CLUB OF LSU hosted its annual the first ever showing of Chinese ana to the parade grounds for rodeo last fall, which about 250 pottery from every major dynasty some fellowship and games,” students entered. The rodeo is in a Union Gallery exhibit spon­ member Crystal Clark said. held as a major fund raiser for sored by the Ceramic Arts Stu­ - Robert Fogleman scholarships for members and for dents Association. Every semester sponsorship of the statewide Live­ the organization hosts sales of the BENGAL RAIDERS partici­ stock Judging T earn. members’ works to raise funds for pated last fall in the ROTC This spring, members will at­ its projects. ORGANIZATIONS

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“We are trying to raise $3,000 The group holds meetings - Misty Elliott for a pre-conference we are hosting twice a month, often with guest DELTA CHI plans to have an this spring. The three-day event speakers such as State Treasurer Alumni Parent Day and a formal will consist of four nationally Mary Landrieu, State Rep. Cleo in Florida this spring. They will known artists,” President Thomas Fields and Governor Edwin also unveil a major philanthropic Rohr said. “The sales also help the Edwards. athletic event in April, said fall organization fix broken equip­ “We promote voter registration president, Alan Harrell. ment, and provide attendance fees among students, hopefully per­ Last fall they held two for the National Conference for suading them to register as a semiformals. The 82 active mem­ Education in Ceramic Arts.” Democrat,” Pierce said. bers and 16 pledges will continue

A showing of students’ work - Todd Campbell taking care of part of Perkins will be exhibited in Foster Gallery Road, under an Adopt a Mile pro­ this spring. COLLEGE REPUBLICANS gram.

- Tiffany Welcome OF LSU sponsored Oliver Harrell said they also help their North’s presentation last fall. philanthropy, Red Cross, every CHI ALPHA is a Christian or­ They were also cosponsors of the other week with little projects, ganization dedicated to making a Bush/Quayle campaign in Louisi­ such as assisting at garage sales.

stand for Christ. They hold Bible ana last year, attending the - Eimear O’Connell studies on campus on various days president’s speech at the Baton of the week. They also hold at least Rouge Airport. DELTA SIGMA PI, organized one campus outreach each semes­ The group also promotes voter at LSU in 1929, caters to students ter which is open to all. registration and usually has a table majoring in the various business The phrase “Chi Alpha” stands in front of the Union where stu­ curriculums. for Christ’s ambassadors, and the dents can register and pick up lit­ With 60 active members, the group is very dedicated to living erature. group cleans up a stretch of land up to this name. This organization, with 1,500 that runs along River Road at least - Gabriela Chinchilla members, “serves the purpose of once a semester. promoting the ideas of the Repub­ “There is an invitation to all CHI OMEGA received the lican party here on LSU’s cam­ 236 chapters around the country “1993 National Award of Excel­ pus,” Adviser Dr. Robert to participate in a road trip to New lence” at the national convention Edgeworth said. Orleans for Mardi Gras during fes­ last summer. They also stand out - Todd Campbell tival season in February,” presi­ as the largest sorority with the dent Chris Langlois said. highest grade point average at COLLEGIATE 4-H CLUB - Robert Fogleman LSU. OF LSU received a grant of The Chi Omegas continued $1,000 from the National 4-H DELTA ZETAS sponsored a their involvement in community Council sponsored by Metropoli­ Halloween party for their philan­ service with activities including a tan Life. They used the grant to thropy, the Louisiana School for Christmas party for the handi­ hold a one-day conference for the Deaf. Last fall, they also held a capped. Throughout the year they about 40 area high school stu­ volleyball tournament and a pizza sponsor a tutoring program, dents. party as fundraisers. “Hooter-tutors,” with Polk El­ The conference, “Teens as Spring activities include “St. ementary and Highland Elemen­ Partners,” focused on awarding Patti’s Daddy’s Day,” a father/ tary schools. youth in areas such as decision­ daughter activity, and an Easter This spring they will hold the making, self-esteem and environ­ egg hunt for the deaf children. annual “Chi-O-Open” tennis mental stewardship. All active members, Chirelle tournament to raise money to fur­ This fall, 4-H members at­ Hebert was crowned Miss Louisi­ ther higher education for women. tended the Southern Region Con­ ana, B.J. Hall was crowned Miss - Misty Elliot ference in Lake Charles in which Baton Rouge and Andree Braud they taught a program, “Dare to was crowned LSU’s Homecoming COLLEGE DEMOCRATS be You.” Queen.

OF LSU are “a youth arm of the This spring, members will at­ - Misty Elliott Democratic part,” president Eric tend the national conference in Pierce said. Ohio. They will also teach a ses­ FELLOWSHIP OF CHRIS­ They gathered support from sion at the Junior Leadership Con­ ORGANIZATIONS TIAN ATHLETES holds various students for last year’s Clinton/ ference, a statewide program for Bible studies and hosts guest Gore campus campaign. high school students. speakers, such as Jerry Clower.

86 GUMBO MAGAZINE photo by Miranda Kombert schools across the state and is open is open and state the across schools sports. un­ falls members, 27 with LSU, to any full-time student, not just just not athletes. student, full-time any to lot of historical significance, I find find I significance, historical of lot recreational of umbrella the der place in the Epee Division. Epee the in place Natasha President said. Quivadeaux it,” about trying leery are people many that fundraisers, such as car washes. car as such fundraisers, as as well dues player $15 through Houston and captured second second captured and Houston really addictive,” member Bart Bart said. member Kemper addictive,” really mbr o Dla Faent eert drn Hmeo n week. ing ecom Hom during celebrate Fraternity i h C Delta of bers em M The chapter shares with high high with shares chapter The T H E FENCING CLUB AT AT CLUB FENCING E H T This fall the club traveled to to traveled club the fall This a has sport our though “Even Money to travel is amassed amassed is travel to Money - Te at s ht hs pr is sport this that is fact “The Gabriel Northern Gabriel Tennessee for a competition in in competition a for Tennessee March. Adelaide Russo said. Russo Adelaide speaking French, enjoying French French enjoying French, under­ in speaking of interest an have group who a graduates is month, a twice meets which Bouteille, Dive Theatre last fall. last Theatre Dr. in Adviser lectures, participating French and movies et les Trois Massieurs” at the LSU LSU the at Massieurs” lesTrois et Sonate “La play, Tardieus’ of Jean COA ASCAIN is ASSOCIATION SCHOLAR one of the highest number of of nation, the number in Scholars highest Fulbright the of one boasts LSU Scholars. Fulbright for The club hopes to travel to to travel to hopes club The TH E FRENCH CLUB — La — CLUB FRENCH E TH The club performed an extract extract an performed club The - HE FULBRIGHT E TH - - Tommy Tommy Moore Todd Campbell Todd RAIAIN NEWS ORGANIZATION PIG 1994 1 SPRING ORGANIZATIONS ORGANIZATIONS ORGANIZATIONS ORGANIZATIONS ORGANIZATIONS ORGANIZATIONS ORGANIZATIONS ORGANIZATIONS ORGANIZATIONS ORGANIZATIONS ORGANIZATIONS ORGANIZATIONS ORGANIZATIONS ORGANIZATIONS ORGANIZATIONS with over 40 students from many many from students 40 over with world who are gifted in their re­ their in gifted are who world countries. ships. scholar­ these offered are them of fraction A study. of fields the spective around has students Agency evaluated Information States abroad. study to awards these receive also students in the college. They have have They college. the in students recog­ which Banquet, semiannual Honors the holds 14 with members, COUNCIL, STUDENT pahaig n nen program intern an spearheading sales. endar cal­ and as T-shirt such fundraisers excellent of performances nizes the Since the 1940s, the United United the 1940s, the Since T H E GENERAL COLLEGE COLLEGE GENERAL E H T Qualified American students students American Qualified - - rsdn Aa Rcad is Richard Alan President Wayne St. Pierre Wayne St. 87 ORGANIZATION NEWS

for all students enrolled in the col­ lege. “The purpose of this program will be to integrate our students with real work experience while gaining college credit,” Richard said. “Although this program has received positive feedback from many alumni, it is still in the early developmental stage.” - Tommy Moore

THE GEOGRAPHY AND ANTHROPOLOGY SOCIETY is planning a statewide conference this spring. According to Eric Perramond, ht b Ashley byphoto Vorhoff president, the conference will in­ clude colleges from all over Loui­ siana and will deal with geographi­ cal and anthropological aspects that occur within the state. Members will attend middle Alpha Epsilon Delta members helped out at the blood drive the club sponsored at the Union. and high school social science fairs to serve as judges. They also lec­ ture at area schools and attend dents to get involved in the com­ nights in February. workshops on new approaches to munity,” President Melissa Her­ Nationally recognized graphic their studies, such as the Global ring said. designers are scheduled to attend a Positioning System, a precise way - Mary Stevens graphic design student exhibition of deriving maps from the field. at LSU this spring. - Scott Berardi THE GRADUATE LIBRARY David Carson, designer for Ray AND INFORMATION SCI­ Gun Magazine, and Jackson THE GERMAN CLUB at­ ENCE STUDENTS ASSOCIA­ Boelts of Boelts Brothers Design­ tended the Oktoberfest in New TION held its graduation cer­ ing Firm, will serve as juror for the Orleans for two weekends in Oc­ emony last December. Dean of Li­ Foster Hall Gallery exhibition tober, enjoying German music, braries, Jennifer Cargill, spoke. sponsored by the GDSA. dancing and food. GLISSA will attend the Ameri­ - Scott Berardi The club also holds a social can Library Association Conven­ gathering, “Stammtisch,” every tion in New Orleans this January. HELPING OTHER PEOPLE Wednesday at Highland Coffees. “We serve as a liaison between EVERYWHERE is a student “We sit around speaking Ger­ the students and faculty,” Presi­ branch of a worldwide, nonde- man and enjoying coffee and past­ dent Joyce Phillips said. GLISSA nominational christian organiza­ ries,” Adviser Kurt Goblirsch said. also sends out literature across the tion that focuses on benevolent - Todd Campbell country to those students inter­ projects throughout the world. ested in LSU’s Graduate School of HOPE holds weekly Bible T H E GOLDEN KEY NA­ LIS. studies for students and volunteers TIONAL HONOR SOCIETY GLISSA, with 80 members, with the Literacy Education held inductions last November for holds parties to welcome new LIS Project, through the College of juniors and seniors ranked in the students, to celebrate comprehen­ Education, to provide vocational top 15 percent. sive finals and to celebrate holi­ training and child-care services to This spring, members will hold days. people living in temporary hous­ a party in alliance with the Sub­ - Darren Cooper ing. stance Abuse Prevention Council. Last fall, members held a “In the spring, we plan to hold THE GRAPHIC DESIGN walkathon to raise money to sup­ a fair in which we will sponsor STUDENT ASSOCIATION ORGANIZATIONS port worldwide services such as Career Placement Co-op. Our will host speakers from the graphic free AIDS clinics, free leprosy care goal for the fair is to teach the stu­ design industry on Thursday clinics, and feeding and clothing

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the underpriviledged. plant sale in the parking lot of the der the guidance of Greek Affairs. - Misty Elliott Horticulture building every year. “The main goal of the IFC is to They will have a flowering improve the image of the system THE HILLEL FOUNDA­ plant sale in March, and a straw­ and strengthen the relations be­ TION OF LSU collected for berry and peaches sale in May. tween fraternities,” President Mazon, meaning “good deed,” Members grow their own flow­ Mike Johnson said. The council is which feeds starving S children N O in I ering T plants, A Z vegetables I N and A fruits G R O hoping that “Leadership Lab,” a the United States. They have also to sell. The money raised is used to workshop for chapter officers collected for the lost families of pay for Horticulture field trips, scheduled for this spring, will fur­ Somalia in the Habitat for Hu­ scholarships, experiments and fu­ ther integration efforts between manity Fund. ture plant sales. fraternities. They aim to help Jewish stu­ - Sharie Richard - Tommy Moore dents by pointing out where weekly services are held and intro­ THE INSTITUTE OF THE INTERSORORITY ducing them to other students of ELECTRICAL AND ELEC­ ATHLETIC COUNCIL, com­ their faith. TRONICS ENGINEERING will posed of one member of each so­ - Bemd Linhart hold its annual small-car race this rority, oversees all intramural ac­ spring. tivities of the sororities throughout THE HOME BUILDERS AS­ President Thomas Harrison the year. SOCIATION OF LSU will send said members have been devoting Last fall, the sororities com­ 10 members to Las Vegas this their time to planning and build­ peted in football and volleyball. spring for a convention to keep in ing small cars that actually work The council has also added a swim touch with innovations in home based on knowledge learned from meet and tennis tournament to the construction and design. school as well as from the group. schedule. Spring sports include The HA is linked with the They will also hold various basketball and softball. Construction Student Associa­ fund-raising events, such as T- - Mary Stevens tion, which does community ser­ shirt sales and membership drives, vice. In the past year, they have to raise money. T H E JU N IO R constructed a limestone road in - Scott Berardi PANHELLENIC COUNCIL, a Zachary, shingled the roofs of branch of Panhellenic Council houses and poured cement slabs THE INSTITUTE OF IN­ that consists entirely of sorority for local construction sights. DUSTRIAL ENGINEERS is pledges, raised over 1,500 pounds “People let us do small projects planning the Engineering Olym­ of nonperishable food items for for them because it’s cheaper than pics which will be held this spring. Baton Rouge food shelters. hiring contractors,” member The Olympics will involve high President Andrea Leblanc said Linke Mixon said. school students participating in the food drive was a coordinated - Wayne St. Pierre various engineering games, such as project with the Interfraternity an egg drop contest in which stu­ Council pledges and local televi­ THE HONDURAN STU­ dents try to design a container sion station, Channel Two, in the DENT ASSOCIATION partici­ which will protect an egg from “2 On Your Side” program. pated in the International Expo breaking. The council is looking for an­ last fall. The IIE, which is partially re­ other charitable cause to support Though meetings are held sponsible for the recruitment of as a major project this spring. mostly in spanish, students from high school students into the in­ - Misty Elliot all backgrounds are welcome to dustrial engineering program, will learn about the Honduran culture. continue with bimonthly meetings KAPPA ALPHA PSI fraternity Samantha Croisdale, president, and robot projects this spring. holds dances, holiday food drives said the group is interested in be­ - Scott Berardi and other fund raisers to benefit coming a lot more involved in ac­ the area. tivities than they have been in the THE INTERFRATERNITY They host a Health Awareness past. COUNCIL spearheaded a Char­ Week on campus and also volun­ - Gabriela Chinchilla ity Marathon last fall to benefit teer at the Baton Rouge Soup charities such as the School for the Kitchen. THE HORTICULTURE Blind and the School for the deaf. Some members also tutor stu­ CLUB OF LSU does landscaping The IFC, which meets every dents. for many organizations on cam­ two weeks, is the governing body - Gabriel Northern pus. They also have a Christmas for the fraternity system and is un-

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KAPPA KAPPA PSI band fra­ THE MATERIALS SOCI­ “Every fall we hold a ceremony ternity held a Band Olympics last ETY AT LSU will hold a crawfish to honor the top 10 freshmen fall to commemorate the centen­ boil this spring to entice electrical from the previous class, which we nial season of the Tiger Band. and chemical engineer majors into chose based on academics, leader­ This spring, they will hold a joining their club. ship and service,” President Jimmy convention with other chapters of Advisor Dr. E.I. Meletis said Lalonde said. KKP and its sister sorority, Tau the group will engage in projects MB plans on beginning a new Beta Sigma. Participants will come this spring that deal with the mi­ project in which they will honor to Baton Rouge from Texas, Ar­ crostructure of material properties. the top athletes with the highest kansas and Mississippi, and the The group will also attend con­ GPA. other Louisiana universities. ferences and give seminars to - Mary Stevens - Robert Fogleman people interested in the materials industry. THE NAACP AT LSU, with THE KARATE CLUB contin­ - Scott Berardi 149 members, tutors children at ued its legacy as the oldest club the Duane Apartment for Chil­ sport on campus. Formed in 1965, THE MEN’S SOCCER dren and participates in activities it has a solid group of participants. CLUB AT LSU ended the season at Teen Club, a branch of the They sponsor belt tests and re­ with a 10-2-1 record. Their only Baranco Clark YMCA. gional tournaments. They also put losses came at the hands of West The group, whose logo is on clinics to further their skill and Florida and Tulane. “United We Stand,” exists to deal knowledge of the sport. For the third straight year the with racial problems on the LSU - Darren Cooper team made the national tourna­ campus and also to provide sup­ ment, which took place in Ari­ port and service for African- THE LACROSSE CLUB AT zona. American students,” Vice Presi­ LSU only played one game last fall ORGANIZATIONS Although there is no official dent Shona Adams said. since spring is the regular season. league for the spring semester, the - Tiffany Welcome They hope to play in a tournament club hopes to hold another Mardi in Shreveport this semester. Gras Soccer Tournament, as it did THE NATIONAL ASSO­ There will be lots of teams last year. CIATION OF BLACK JOUR­ coming down for Mardi Gras who - Bemd Linhart NALISTS, the largest media orga­ will stop and call us, President nization of people of color in the Charles Hanler said. THE MINORITY SCIENCE world, exists to maintain contact The club is open to all, even PREPROFESSIONAL SOCI­ with black LSU journalism gradu­ beginners. ETY, which has been in existence ates and to increase the network Hanler said the equipment is three years, serves as an outlet to system among minority journal­ expensive, but they are “trying to high-achieving minority students ists. hang in there.” in the sciences. The underlying goals of NABJ - Eimear O ’Connell The society has medical doc­ are to become an exemplary group tors, engineers and professors of professionals that honors excel­ THE LATIN AMERICAN speak to members about their lence and outstanding achieve­ STUDENT ASSOCIATION fields. ments by black journalists, to ex­ teaches others about the Latin This spring, they will be pre­ pand job opportunities for black American culture and tries to abol­ paring to begin a mentor program journalists and to assist in recruit­ ish any misconceptions people for freshmen and sophomores. ing activities. may have. The group also plans to take a trip “Currently we are striving to Events, such as honoring a dif­ to a medical school in Louisiana. maintain and enhance member­ ferent country each month and Last fall, three members of ship, increase awareness of NABJ holding cooking lesson, are being MSPPS were admitted to medical within the LSU and Baton Rouge planned for the spring. school. community, and maintain rela­ They also want to hold special - Tiffany Welcome tions with black alumni journal­ events to correspond with impor­ ist,” President Anita Anderson tant dates in Latin American MORTAR BOARD held a said. countries, such as “The Day of the drive for the Women’s Homeless - Tiffany Welcome Dead” celebration in Mexico. Shelter in Baton Rouge last fall. - Gabriela Chinchilla They also traveled to Bishop O tt’s TH E NATIONAL SOCIETY homeless shelter for men and OF BLACK ENGINEERS exists served dinner. to recruit, retain and successfully

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The Sailing Club of LSU competing S N IO T A IZ N against A G R O the University of Texas at Austin, on Lake Travis. ZATI S N IO T A IZ N A G R O graduate its members. South Conference this spring. through Leadership LSU gained Though the society is a profes­ “Speakers from all over the experience by speaking to govern­ sional organization that promotes U.S. come and speak about com­ ment officials and congressmen. engine ering and its related fields, munication disorders and speech - Mary Stevens it also strives to help high school pathology,” President Debbie students interested in science. Summers said. THE ORGANIZATION OF ZATI S N IO T A IZ N A G R O Last fall, the organization pro­ STUDENTS CONCERNED

Members go to different Baton S N IO T A IZ N A G R O ZATI S N IO T A IZ N A G R O Rouge high schools to encourage vided headstart screening for hear­ ABOUT RESOURCES exists as a students to get interested in engi­ ing problems to children in low network for students to interact neering. poverty areas in Baton Rouge. and express concerns about the en­ Members form study groups - Tiffany Welcome vironment. within the society. Its main goals are to keep an “It’s an organization that helps OMICRON DELTA KAPPA active membership and encourage ZATI S N IO T A IZ N A G R O minority students become aware is celebrating its 60th anniversary students to take advantage of its this year. recycling program. The group has of the challenges on campus,” S N IO T A IZ N A G R O In conjunction with Mortar placed bins in several places

Luther Hill, vice president of fi­ S N IO T A IZ N A G R O ZATI S N IO T A IZ N A G R O nances, said. Board, they sponsor Leadership around the LSU campus including - Tiffany Welcome LSU throughout the year. Ceba, Williams Hall, Life Sciences “Leadership LSU is probably and the Design Building so stu­ THE NATIONAL STU­ one of the most prestigious dents can help preserve the envi­ DENT SPEECH, LANGUAGE projects going on in LSU. This re­ ronment. & HEARING ASSOCIATION, ally helps students get their start in OSCAR has speakers from which helps students gain insight the real world,” Vice President around the state talk to students about the different aspects of com­ Staci Rogillio said. about what they can do to protect munications, will host the Deep The top 25 seniors sponsored and help the environment. Willie

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Fontenot, who works in the Pub­ won the Club of the Year honors THE PSYCHOLOGY CLUB lic Protection Division of the at the trade show two years ago. holds biweekly meetings in which Louisiana Department of Justice, “The LSU Poultry Club usu­ they host a guest speaker from the came to campus to voice his con­ ally gets at least half of the scholar­ field of psychology. cerns about environmental issues. ships offered by related corpora­ Two major social events held, - Tiffany Welcome tions,” President Edith Zeringue usually in conjunction with PSI said. CHI, are a barbecue in the fall and THE PANHELLENIC - Bemd Linhart and Tommy a crawfish boil in the spring. COUNCIL oversees all greek af­ Moore - Mary Stevens fairs on campus. It is composed of one representative from each greek THE PRE-LAW SOCIETY THE RESERVE OFFICER organization. has rewritten its constitution to TRAINING CORP was estab­ Members meet weekly and encourage students interested in lished to provide the army with a later inform their respective orga­ law school to get involved. pool of potential officers. nization what is going on in “greek “In the spring, we will be bring­ The 65 members help at the life.” ing in a representative of the annual Veteran Day Celebration, “This fall we organized a Franklin Company to instruct serve as portal guards at LSU foot­ panhellenic retreat in which we members and other interested pre­ ball games, and participate in cam­ really came up with some great law students in LSAT strategies to pus clean ups. ideas for the year,” Vice President follow while taking the six hour They are closely related to Clare Chachere said. test. This is of no charge to the stu­ Scotch Guard, a female service or­ - Mary Stevens dents,” President Benjamin Fox ganization, and have numerous said. social events, such as T.G.I.T par­ PHI MU sorority will sponsor - Robert Fogleman ties on Thursdays and Reverse Box the Miss LSU Pageant in February Supper. to benefit the Children’s Miracle THE PRE-VETERINARY - Tommy Moore Network. CLUB AT LSU participates in the The contestants will be evalu­ annual rodeo at the John M. THE RESIDENCE HALL ated on appearance, talent and in­ Parker Coliseum by helping to ASSOCIATION will have its an­ tellect. Any female LSU student collect tickets. nual Mardi Gras Mambo this sponsored by a business or campus “I really enjoy helping out with spring, following the Mardi Gras organization can enter. the rodeo. I really seem to learn a parade on campus. “I know the pageant will be a lot,” said Jennifer Hendrick, a se­ RHA, along with the National success, just as it has been in the nior in veterinary science. Residence Hall Honorarium, pro­ past. We really hope to raise a lot The club will be traveling to vides a Big Buddy Picnic for of money for the Children’s Oklahoma State University to par­ abused children in the fall and Miracle Network,” said Bonnie ticipate in the National Sympo­ spring semesters. Horne, who is in charge of the sium this spring. Last fall, RHA held its second event. - Mary Stevens annual Haunted Mansion, to - Mary Stevens which they brought underprivi­ PSI CHI, the honorary psy­ leged children from the America THE POULTRY SCIENCE chology club on campus, initiated House and the Parker House, and CLUB participated in the Louisi­ 18 new members last fall. they sponsored the annual Christ­ ana Poultry Convention last fall. The club held a barbecue in mas Semi-Formal, held at East and They also started a beautification conjunction with the Psychology West Laville Residence Hall but program for the grounds sur­ Club and parties were held for open to all students. rounding Ingram Hall. And the 36 members at Mr. Gatti’s. “RHA enhances the lives of the members worked to benefit char­ Guest speakers attend meetings residents in the halls,” President ity with their annual Thanksgiving biweekly to advise members on Bobby Grant said. and Christmas food drives. career opportunities. - Sharie Richard This spring, the club plans to “Psi Chi has really grown lately, travel to Atlanta for a trade show, and I believe it really offers several THE ROWING TEAM OF where students may be inter­ opportunities to the psychology LSU successfully tested the waters viewed for jobs and also hold an major,” President Serena in their three regattas last fall. easter egg hunt for disadvantaged ORGANIZATIONSConosciani said. At the States in Madisonville it children. - Mary Stevens took one first-place and three The club prides itself on having

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third-place trophies home. joining their club and helping the THE STUDENT DIETETIC In Adanta, at the Head of the LSU community. A SSO C IA T IO N is a professional Hooch Regatta, LSU’s best oaring - Bemd Linhart and academic society that invites ORGANIZATIONS team placed 25th out o f 121 all qualified members of the di­ teams. THE SOCIAL WORK STU­ ORGANIZATIONS etetics curriculum. At the Marathon Rowing DENT ASSOCIATION strives “This spring SDA will have a Championships in Natchitoches to interact with people of similar ORGANIZATIONS booth at the Wellness Fair in the Tigers took home two first- interests to network with impor­ which all LSU students can drop ORGANIZATIONS place trophies and also set a new tant contacts. by and learn ‘How to Eat-Out course record for the Caine River Last fall, the 110 members fo­ ORGANIZATIONS Healthily’,” President-Elect Amie Lake at 3:22:00. cused on raising money for various Stagg said. This spring, they will partici­ charities and also integrating first ORGANIZATIONS The group will also take a trip pate in five regattas. year students into the association. to Tureaud Hospital in New Or­ ORGANIZATIONS - Bemd Linhart This spring, members plan to leans to view the dietetic depart­ continue to donate funds and time ORGANIZATIONS ment. This is designed to give stu­ THE RUGBY FOOTBALL to charities. They also plan to dents an idea of what the intern­ CLUB OF LSU won the Deep sponsor several sessions to help ORGANIZATIONS ships they are all required to do South Championship for the third students write resumes and im­ will be like, Adviser JoAnn Puls ORGANIZATIONS year in a row and ended the regu­ prove their overall writing skills. said. lar season undefeated. The organization is open to all ORGANIZATIONS - Robert Fogleman The 35-member team raised majors. $2,000 by parking cars at the - Tiffany Welcome ORGANIZATIONS STUDENT GOVERN­ Greater Baton Rouge State Fair. MENT passed the Dead Week ORGANIZATIONS That money, as well as $40 from THE SOCIETY OF AMERI­ and Finals Policy last fall, which player dues, allowed the club to CAN FORESTERS hosts a Lum­ ORGANIZATIONS said there should be no tests dur­ meet its expenses for 1993. berjack Conclave every spring that ing dead week and finals week According to team coach and includes sawing and tree-type ORGANIZATIONS should be shortened. former player, Steve Triche, “This identification contests. Twelve Its program, LSU Campus Ser­ year’s team has definitely lived up other colleges participate in the vice Council, which consists of to the rich LSU tradition and is as event. representatives of service organiza­ good as any that I have been affili­ The 40 members raise money tions, contributed to LSU ’95 by ated with.” for the competition from an an­ ORGANIZATIONS painting 40 classrooms. - Tommy Moore nual Christmas tree sale at Parker SG provided funds to buy a sat­ Coliseum. ORGANIZATIONS ellite dish for the ICC so students THE SAILING CLUB OF SAF also has a “Fall Smoker” can view programs from home. ORGANIZATIONS LSU is one of the newer clubs every year where faculty and ma­ They also held the LSU Jazz Fest making an impact at LSU. jors in forestry get acquainted at an ORGANIZATIONS in conjunction with KLSU. They were runners-up at a dis­ outdoor cookout. This spring, they will start pub­ trict regatta and race for the Na­ The SAF is a subunit of the ORGANIZATIONS lishing teacher evaluations for stu­ tional Collegiate Sailing Champi­ National SAF. dent review. They also plan to do­ ORGANIZATIONS onship. - Wayne St. Pierre nate ten $250 awards based on ex­ The members, both alumni ORGANIZATIONS cellence, scholarship, leadership, and students, range from all-out- THE SOCIETY OF PHYS­ service, and some on financial racers to those who have never ICS STUDENTS attended a local ORGANIZATIONS need. been aboard a vessel. SPS conference in Mississippi last President Stephen Moret said, ORGANIZATIONS - Gabriel Northern fall. “We are trying to get people in­ SPS holds one meeting per ORGANIZATIONS volved in Student Government, SCOTCH GUARD instituted month to get the students ac­ let them know what it is, why it’s the first annual Walk Around the quainted with new ideas and tech­ ORGANIZATIONS here, and why they should get in­ Lake last fall and celebrated Hal­ nologies in the field of physics. volved and vote.” ORGANIZATIONS loween with the School for the Professors usually speak at the - Eimear O ’Connell Deaf. They also support ROTC meetings. ORGANIZATIONS and Tiger Athletics. SPS, with 25 members, offers STUDENTS MANAGING This spring, they plan to hold a free tutorial services in physics. ORGANIZATIONS ALCOHOL RESPONSIBILITY Crawfish Boil as well as have a - Todd Campbell TOGETHER was devised to help ORGANIZATIONS rush for all women interested in college students understand and

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take action on drunk driving and COUNCIL is divided into nine IZATIONS ORGAN Presently the station, which substance abuse. different committees: Art Advi­ broadcasts on campus channel 25, Members also speak at high sory Board, Black Culture Com­ has about four hours of program­ schools with Mothers Against mittee, Ideas and Issues ming Monday through Friday. Drunk Driving to educate young­ Commitee, Fashion Committee, - Misty Elliott sters about abuse. Film Committee, International SMART sponsored a Red Rib­ Committee, Recreation Commit­ WOMEN ORGANIZING bon Day to show its opposition to tee, Pop Arts Committee and W O M EN helps women deal with drinking and driving. They also Lively Arts Committee. situations and problems that may held Contract For Life Signings, They coordinate activities for affect them. to which local restaurant owner the LSU community and are sup­ They have several support and LSU alumni Mike Anderson ported only by student fees and groups, one of which helps women donated concessions and money. the Union. cope with rape. They also provide - Gabriel Northern - Gabriela Chinchilla women with the opportunity to discuss sexual discrimination. TIGERS FOR CHRIST spon­ THE WATERSKI CLUB OF They will sponsor Interna­ sored a “hunger strike” which LSU competes in the slalom, jump tional Women’s Day in March raised over $4,000 for the needy and trick categories with 31 other - Gabriel Northern people in Yugoslavia. Participants universities in the South Central went for 30 hours without food Region. THE WOMEN’S SOCCER and instead donated the money Presidents Sean Kirby said they CLUB AT LSU ended the regular that would have been spent on claim to be more of a team than a season with a 4-6 record, but they food. club at LSU since all members showed great improvement at the They plan to hold a similar must go through tryouts. end of the season. “hunger strike” this spring. Two national competitors, In the early stages of the season Members actively participate in Christy Sullivan and Mindy Hos­ the team lost to a tough South Ala­ prison ministries and have a teler, returned to the club this bama team. However, the team christian group that meets there year. got a second chance and defeated on Sunday nights. - Wayne St. Pierre South Alabama. TFC is a nondenominational This spring they will partici­ christian group sponsored by the THE WILDLIFE SOCIETY pate in the annual Mardi Gras South Baton Rouge Church of will send five of its 20 members to Tournament, but these young la­ Christ. They hold various meet­ the annual Southeastern Conclave dies’ real hopes are in the fall of ings throughout the week, such as at Auburn University this spring. 1994 or 1995 when they may be­ an informal Bible discussion on They will compete in the Quiz come an actual varsity team (rather Tuesday nights at the Union, and Bowl and answer questions in the than just a club). a time of fellowship and praise on Wildlife and Fisheries categories. - Bemd Linhart Friday afternoons. It will be the first time in four - Gabriela Chinchilla years the club will be represented YOUNG LIFE IN BATON at the Conclave. ROUGE volunteers gather with THE ULTIMATE FRISBEE The society’s objective is to students and hold fellowship con­ CLUB, with hopes of hitting top- train members through educa­ ferences weekly. two at Regionals, is training for tional activities such as bird watch­ These college students go to the Spring College Tournaments. ing and deer herding. four different local campuses: Lee The top-two teams at Regionals go - Wayne St. Pierre High, Broadmoor High, Baton on to compete at Nationals. Rouge High and McKinley The three-year-old team placed WLSU-TV has nearly qua­ Middle. fourth at Regionals of 1993. drupled its staff in the last three The objectives are to build re­ “W hen you get used to the run­ years. lationships and have christian ning it’s a lot of fun,” player This spring, the staff hopes to ministry. Zachary DeRouen said. “If every­ continue expanding its hours of They go on various retreats on one showed up for practice, we’d programming, as it is trying to certain weekends, but the biggest have the best team around,” he gain public access on a Baton event is the Weeklong Summer said, smiling. Rouge Cable channel. To gain ac­ Camp trips to Colorado or North - Wayne St. Pierre cess, the station would need to Carolina. have a full 24 hours of program­ - Gabriel Northern THE UNION PROGRAM ming daily.

94 GUMBO MAGAZINE Q. “W hen w ill our yearbook be ba ck?"

A. The Gumbo yearbook in its hardbound form will return in the 1994/1995 school year. Until then, the five issues of Gumbo Magazine together give you a permanent record of your 1993/1994 school year.

A fee increase for a hardbound yearbook was approved in a Spring 1993 student government election. The increase, however, was not given final approval by university officials until that summer. A traditional hardbound yearbook for the 1993/94 school year could not be arranged at that late date; bids must be taken in the spring and staff hiring must be done in the spring.

To fill the gap, Gumbo Magazine was held over for another year. The magazine’s award-winning campus coverage will be packaged in four regular issues this year (there's one more issue after this one), plus a special “keepsake edition.”

The keepsake edition, new this year, will be a mini-yearbook, featuring news and photographic summaries of the year plus organization photos. It will be published in May. Watch for it!

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