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8 OPINION Believe it or n o t 000 myths and 7 le g e n d s a t LSU When the chips By Brian Bordelon Spring 1 - 1993 a r e d o w n Volume 4, Issue 3 Guest Editorial by 2 8 ©Gumbo M agazine Harvill Eaton Creating an image Louisiana Slat* University ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Gumbo Magazine and By Brian Bordebn the Gumbo Yearbook 3 0 Merged Into One Bright, M arijuana: the Timely Publication Issued 1 7 4 3 3 B Four Times A Year forbidden fruit H e's still Beauty is in M ore than just a By Brian Bordelon standing...Elton the eye o! gam e... Homecoming John review the beholder highlights By LaTisha Strickland By Ben Walsh By Ben Walsh

o N E c T 1 9 SPOTLIGHT T h a t's 4 0 entertainment! 5 6 COVER H o m e c o m in g 5 4 By Randy Psenicka leave your Q u e e n s U n d e r th e inhibitions at 3 3 By Wendy McMahon sea...D r. John 2 4 t h e d o o r The tradition M . L a rk e n S e a s o n 's By LaTisha Strickland continues... 4 1 By April Redmond P la y s By Randy Psenicka Homecoming By April Redmond K in g s By Usa West Cover photographs by Salem Chenafi. Pictured on the 6 0 cover is senior design student Reggie's reign Brian Boesdt on the steps of o f te r r o r the state capitol. Boesdt was one of about 3,000 people By Brian Bordebn who showed up downtown for the November 17 rally to pro­ 6 7 test higher education budget Getting through cuts. On the back cover, th e n ig h t swarms of augry protestors ex­ ercisedtheirright to free speech By Darren Wexler in front of the capitol STAFF

Publisher Office of Student Media

Editor Jennifer L. Green

Managing Editor La T Is ha A. Strickland NEWS Design Editor CAMPUS Richard Valadie GALLERY 4 EVENTS 46-53 A new era 69-71 Design Assistant begins... 1992 Manyue Chi eh Presidential Photo Editor Election follow-up Paul Houghton

Photographers Tess Bruney Salem Chenafi Steve Franz s Audra Holden lisa Hollister T ORGANIZ­ Richard Knight

13 ATIONS Advertising Representative N Troubled 84-96 Kellie Schnebelen times...crimes FICTION on campus Organizations Editor Roosevelt Flanagan By Randy Psenicka SPORTS 72 Writers "Tel" 80 Brian Bordelon By Robert Aucoin Research notes 66 Randy Psenicka Compiledfrom LSU The rest of the Circulation Manager News Service Briefs story...football season wrap-up Mike Drago By Brian Bordelon Adviser and LSU Sports Pat Parish Information briefs

Gumbo Magazine is written, edited and designed by LSU 78 students. The opinions expressedherein are thoseofthe writers Sports update and do not necessarily represent the views o f the editor, the Compiledfrom LSU magazine, the Office o f Student Media o r the University. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the consent Sports Information briefs o f the Office o f Student Media. NEWS ANew Era Begins... hts orwy f the of Press AssociatedPhotos Courtwey

“It’s good to see the Democrats After 12 years of Republican blowing something other than the rule, a Democratic presidential election,” was Arsenio Hall’s com­ ment when Bill Clinton appeared in candidate breaks the mold the musical opening of the Arsenio Hall Show in June 1992. Clinton’s and emerges victorious on “one-of-the-guys” persona helped him secure first the Democratic election day. nomination, then the November 3 election.

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The last-minute fire in George Bush’s campaign did not stop the Democrats from capturing and sus­ taining their lead in the polls right through election day, taking tradi­ tional Republican strongholds like Louisiana. An anti-incumbent sen­ timent and an economy that re­ mained in recession contributed to Bush’s plummeting popularity rat­ ings that had been high only a year before.

The 1992 elections drew more than 100 million people to the polls, an all-time record in the United States. Fifty-five percent of eligible voters cast their ballots that Tuesday in an election that gave Texas bil­ lionaire Ross Perot the best showing of a third-party candidate since 1912. The combined popular vote of 19 percent for Perot and 43 per­ cent for Clinton indicated that America was ready for change.

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The combined Bill Clinton-Al Gore ticket marked the rise to power of the Baby Boomer generation. Both men grew up with the Cuban Missile Crisis, then saw the end of the Cold War. A New World Or­ der is emerging, and these two young, Southern leaders are ready to lead the way into the next century.

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When the Chips are Down Higher Education Can Make or Break the Economy of a State. By Harvill Eaton

During the recent presidential chips, which are now more valuable Photo Courtesy Public of ISU Relatfc campaign, one candidate said that in than silver or even gold. an economic sense, potato chips are The chip has changed our bank­ as important as computer chips, ing industry. If you don’t believe it, which is true in a sense. A dollar is a try to make a withdrawal from your dollar... but is it really? savings account when the bank’s Over time, economic develop­ computer is down. ment proceeds in “spurts ‘n steps,” New cars depend on chips to each marked by the exploitation of a manage fuel injection. Planes virtu­ natural resource and new technolo­ ally fly themselves because of chips. gies associated with that resource. At home, the microwave, television, The challenge is to recognize when security system and clock all work these new spurts and steps are on the because of the chip. Thirty years horizon and to take advantage of the ago, you couldn’t find a single chip opportunities they hold. in any gadget in your home. Today, Oil and gas, discovered in the you might spend your whole day off 1800s, have driven the economy of just counting them. Harvill Eaton is the Vice Chancellor for our state for nearly a century. Tech­ The chip has arguably become Research and Economic Development at nology, not only that associated with the most important invention of Louisiana State University. the oil industry, has also been an in­ modem society. In fact, chips are tegral part of our economic develop­ the gunpowder for global economic gies, in which Louisiana is already a ment. Shipbuilding became a major war in the 21st century. So many of leader, will become important in­ industry soon after the founding of them are used that they have become dustries worldwide. New Orleans, which depended on commodity items, manufactured These new technologies and new the development of advanced tech­ annually in quantities exceeding industries will come from our uni­ nology to keep it from becoming a even the number of hamburgers sold versity and industrial research labo­ city below the sea. worldwide under the golden arches. ratories; therefore, we must invest in The economic and strategic secu­ Twenty years ago, 90 percent of all our colleges and universities and re­ rity of our nation has always been chips bore the label “Made in new our attempts to attract research tied to key products. During the America.” Today, 90 percent are and development business and in­ American Civil War, Union and made by foreign countries on for­ dustry to Louisiana. Confederate troops expended enor­ eign soil. High quality colleges and univer­ mous energies protecting the saltpe­ America—and Louisiana—must sities are vital to attracting new tech­ ter industries which were necessary commit to developing strength in nology companies and providing for the production of gunpowder. certain new technologies and indus­ them with both manpower and In the South, factories were hidden tries, and the chip may be the key to ideas. The investment to capitalize deep in the caves of eastern Tennes­ this. We must invest in industries these industies must come from see. During World War II, copper that are vital to the economic, strate­ partnerships between industry, gov­ was one of the most important stra­ gic and social welfare of our future. ernment and our universities. Gov- tegic metals. In the same Tennessee The chemical industry will emment-industry partnerships such hills, at the super-secret Oak Ridge manufacture value-added chemicals as SEMATECH in the electronics plant, copper wiring was replaced by using processes developed to both High quality industry are necessary to develop silver, which was less valuable at the generate profit and preserve the en­ colleges ana new markets for products never be­ moment vironment. Agriculture will pay fore imagined, but will soon be on Today, the battlefield is global more attention to developing new Universities are store shelves and inseparably linked and economic Caves have been re­ genetic varieties of rice, com, and vital to to our lives. placed by secured industrial labora­ soybeans with greater yields, en­ attracting new In the past, industry often se­ lected manufacturing sites near riv- tories where new products are devel­ hanced pest resistance and higher technology oped; strategic metals like copper nutritional value. Environmental have been replaced by computer preservation and cleanup technolo­ companies. -CONTINUED ON PAGE 77

SPRING 1 1993 7 FEATURE

8 GUMBO MAGAZINE FEATURE ihr Knigaht Richard

Believe it T r u e o r u n t r u e , t h e MYTHS AND LEGENDS AT LSU HAVE ESTABLISHED A STRONGHOLD IN THE FOLKLORE ON CAMPUS. or Not..

In 1860, the first president of what later became Louisi­ ana State University took of­ fice. A few years later, he burned Atlanta for the glory of the Union. His name? Wil­ liam Tecumseh Sherman, a commander of Union forces during the Civil War. S ince its founding as the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy, LSU has been the stuff of legends.

By Brian Bordelon

The Indian mounds have long been considered the most mystical site on LSU's campus. It is said that the ominous-looking trees on the mounds are haunted by the ghosts of the Indians from ages past.

SPRING 1 1993 9 FEATURE ub File Gumbo Even after Sherman lit the torches in Atlanta, the school he had presided over was continuing as a legend. Although the school mascot was not the Tiger at the time, the legend of how the Tigers got their name dates back to the Civil War. A regiment from Louisiana known as the “Louisiana Tigers” was known for its aggressive, never-say- die fervor and was known so well that even fellow troops stationed with this regiment requested to be separated from the boys from Loui­ Colonel David E. siana. If these Tigers weren’t fighting Boyd, two-time those damn Yankees, they were president of the fighting among themselves or other Confederate troops. Years later, uni­ university, versity officials found this motley stated...that the crew’s toughness to be admirable school colors enough to name the football team were officially after them. The Tigers have always been blue and white. mysterious in one way or another. Just take the legend of the school Mike IV meets his successor, Mike V. LSU got its mascot in the late 19th century, at a lime when many other colleges were adopting ferocious animals for team inspiration. (Photo from Gumbo Files ihr Knight Richard

The swimming pool, located in the Huey Lonp Fieldhouse, was built by then- govemor Long and was designed to be the biggest outdoor swimming pool in the country. W hile the size was impressive, the pool was not functional for the swimming teams, as it was too long for NCAA regulation meets.

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motto. Embedded in the tiles be­ Ever wonder how LSU arrived at the gold for the jersey numbers. yond the entrance door of the old purple and gold as the school colors? Several years later, Colonel Huey Long Fieldhouse, across from Accounts indicate that in 1893, Dr. David E. Boyd, two-time the Indian Mounds, is a picture of a Charles Coates and Dr. H A Mor­ presidentof the university, stated on dger mascot. The picture was re­ gan worked together to start a foot­ his second term that the school col­ membered by one university official ball team at LSU. There were only ors were officially blue and white. in the early days of LSU when the eleven players who participated and Fortunately, the old colors were so administration was searching for a the team had no uniforms, only well established, they stayed. motto. The snarling tigerhead figure white shirts. The swimming pool itself at the has a Latin quote around it, which Dr. Coates and Russ Pleasant, old Huey Long Fieldhouse has a leg­ translates roughly into, “A sound who later became governor of the end attached to it, as well. The pool mind in a sound body.” Oddly, no state, were determined to have some used to be a few feet deeper than it is one knows precisely who the artist of sort of uniform for the first game today. The original filtration system the tiger was. that was to be played against ex-col- was not sophisticated enough to ad­ Inl948, the tiger became even lege men from Tulane and the New equately deal with the sand and silt more of a legend when the artist was Hie brick was Orleans Athletic Club. The two build-up in the pool, and lifeguards given a name and life story — Pfc. painted green men searched downtown New Or­ were unable to even see the bottom Jim Armory, a mysterious long-lost leans for ribbons to make the num­ surface of the pool. Visibility was so fourth-semester freshman and a because the bers stand out on the white shirts. muddled, it became necessary to fill hero. Armory was credited with be­ bloodstain The department store they visited in the pool with more concrete to ing the tactician who routed the in­ could not be was stocking up for Mardi Gras fes­ make things safer. vading Texas Aggie hoards in 1946. washed out of tivities, so purple, green, and gold According to the legend, when He is said to have then disappeared, materials were abundant. Since the pool was drained for this modifi­ leaving only his tiger and his story as the concrete. Tulane already had green and white cation, a body was found in the silt a reminder. uniforms, they chose the purple and at the bottom. Apparendy, someone LSU LSU Public Relations

Caught kissing in the shadow of the bell tower, couples are said to be destined for marriage soon after.

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Rumor has it that their feathers turn into dark brown polyester, they grow fingers, and eventually roam campus, writing tickets.

The lakes around campus are only a few feet deep, even in the middle. The scenic lakes are so polluted these days, there are "N o Swimming' signs around their perimeters. Even the ducks inhabiting the lakes show telltale signs of tfie contamina­ tion. dove into the pool without realizing dent walks on this brick, bad luck of equipped with monitoring cameras how shallow it really was, and broke some sort will befall him or her. and electronic eyes that, when his neck when he struck the bottom. Such misfortune may range from tripped, alert the campus police, For some unknown reason, the body doing poorly on a test, failing out of who immediately drop their donuts stayed on the bottom of the pool for school and even dying. and coffee and call someone to check quite some time, not to be discov­ Ever wonder why the Pentagon things out. ered until the pool was drained. dormatory has only four sides? It is said that if students are The Memorial Tower, too, has There has been a great deal of mys­ caught in these tunnels, they are im­ its share of tall tales. It is said that the tery regarding the absence of mediately expelled from the univer­ tower was closed off by school offi­ Pentagons fifth side for many years. sity and face criminal charges of tres­ cials in the .1960s after a Texas Uni­ Many people believe it might have passing. This seems believable versity student shot and killed several been swept into the Mississippi years enough, but the most unbelievable students from his perch at the top of ago. part of the tale concerns the Parade the Texas University tower. Suppos­ What about the geese in the Grounds. The stories I’ve heard tell edly, the LSU Tower and towers at Campus Lakes? Ever wondered of a huge nuclear fallout shelter built many other schools were closed in where they got such deformed faces? underneath the Grounds that is ca­ order to keep similar violence from The tale of these twisted geese is that Some Stories pable of housing and feeding up to happening again. pollution in the lake is so bad, it I've heard tell 1000 people for three years. The Have you ever kissed your love causes the grotesque growths on of a huge tunnels are supposed to lead to this under the bell tower? Well, I’ve their faces. If the geese survive with shelter. The possibility of this being heard tell that if you kissed your these inflictions long enough, rumor nuclear fallout true is made easier to believe because sweede in the shadow of the tower has it that their feathers turn into shelter built of the rumblings of the Cold War in on a bright day, you are destined to dark brown polyester, they grow fin­ berneafh the the 1950s. soon marry them. gers, and eventually roam the cam­ Although many of the tales about Conversely, if you step on the pus writing tickets. Parade LSU are not proveably true, their green-painted brick in front of the There is also a story about a net­ Grounds,., powers do not hinge on mere facts. Law School Building, terrible things work of tunnels running under the that is capable A legend is something meant to be might happen to you. entire campus. The tunnels do exist; wondered about, told, and some­ Legend has it that a young coed they were installed for maintenance of housing and times believed. 0 was run over on Highland Road at purposes and are off limits. Dare­ feeding up to that very spot years ago, and that the devil students, however, have found 1,000 people brick was painted green because the it imperative to explore this laby­ blood stain could not be washed out rinth and see what may be seen. for three years. of the concrete. It is said that if a stu­ Supposedly, the tunnels are

12 GUMBO MAGAZINE NEWS Troubled Times Law enforcement efforts intensified in reaction to increased crime on campus.

By Randy Psenicka Salem Chenafl Throughout the country, crime is a problem— and not just in the big metropolitan areas such as Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta and New York anymore. It’s everywhere, and Baton Rouge is no exception. In 1991 .there was a record num­ ber o f murders here in Baton Rouge. The number o f robberies and as­ saults in the community rose as well. This trend seemed to have spilled over onto the LSU campus this past semester. Lt. Mark Shaw o f the LSU po­ "Although no lice deparment noticed a dramatic one we know increase in the number o f armed and strong-arm (use o f physical force or of has been threats) robberies occurring in the struck with a Highland and Dalrymple areas o f bullet yet (on campus, especially around the music school and law center. He also was campus), an alarmed at the number o f shootings LSU student that took place on campus. “Al­ was shot at the though no one we know o f has been Taco Bell off struck with a bullet yet (on campus), an LSU student was shot at the Taco campus, Bell o ff campus, apparently related apparently to the on campus happenings.” related to the The outbreak o f criminal activity last fall included the abduction and on campus murder o f freshman Kipp Earl happenings/' Gullett. Gullett was taken from A woman walking alone at night on campus, an easy victim.

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Kirby-Smith parking lot by four “I originally took my Tae Kwon young men who were apparently Do class because I thought it was a looking to “steal a car.” The discov­ good way to keep in shape,” said ery of his body was just a prelude to Kendra Hamilton, a graduate stu­ the rash of crime on and around dent in the Creative Writing pro­ campus. gram. “It also teaches discipline. Several rapes reported in apart­ But I suppose the real benefit comes ment complexes off campus and one in that I’m learning how to take care on Chimes Street indicated an in­ of myself.” crease of that offense, as well. As For the more self-defense-orien- Shaw explained, however, “A great tated, a martial arts class is offered at number of these crimes are the new recreational center through committed by people who have abso­ instructional sports. It is an eight lutely nothing to do with LSU, week course and should cost be­ people who come here for easy vic­ tween $30 and $40 this semester. tims or to support a habit.” We still For more information call 388- must take steps in order to keep our­ 8601. selves safe. Salem Chenafi Salem

Call boxes installed across campus were designed to help control crime on campus.

"A great number of these crimes are committed by people who have absolutely nothing to do with LSU, people who come here for easy victims or to support a habit."

< Miller Hall hosted a Juko Kai self-defense exhibition where Jennifer Tyson demonstrated techniques specially designed for women.

LSU Police Lt. Mark Shaw speaks to a crowd at a similar demonstration, explaining other ways to keep safe.> NEWS

' 4;- Salem Chenafl Salem Sgt. Dickerson kikes a statement from senior journalism student, Lionel Smith Jr., whose car had been damaged in a hitand-run incident. SAFETYtips:

The outbreak of criminal activity last fall > Lock doors and windows, included the abduction and murder of even H you're just going out freshman Kipp Earl Gullett. far dinner. > Go out with a friend * Salem Chenafi not done- espeddly ff you're headed for a late night snack or a study break.

> Walk puiposefuly. Look confident. Watch where you are going. Be alert to your surroundings.

> - Use w ei-ighted, w el- traveled routes end try to walk with friends.

> Avoid shortcuts through isolated or wooded areas. > - Avoid isolated areas Eke library stacks late at nidit and laboratories after doss hours. If you must be in these places, work with a friend, let someone know where you are, and be aiert.

SPRING 1 1993 IS NEWS Salem Chenafi Salem Sgt. Sherman Dickerson, who has been with tie LSU Police Deparment since 1981, catches up on some paper work.

Jady Mitchell, the president of crime. It allows people who witness To report any wrongdoing on Louise Garig Hall, has also had to criminal activity on campus to re­ campus, call the LSU police depart­ deal with the problem of campus port their information, anony­ ment at 388-3231. crime. “An Oriental rug and a cable mously, to the police by calling 388- When asked to comment on the was stolen from our study room in CRIME or 334-CRIME between problem of campus crime, Ernie the spring,” said Mitchell. “Nothing the hours of 6:30 a.m. and 2:30 Seals, graduate student in English, has been stolen this year, but we’ve p.m., or by leaving a message. If ar­ had this to say: “I believe the major had some vandalism in the study rests are made, and the informants problem with security on our cam­ room, perpetrated by a drunken come forward, they are given cash pus is that students fail to take com­ freshman. In the past, we’ve had rewards ranging from $25 to mon sense precautions to be safer. bums come up and sleep in the $1,000. Even though there has been a rash of "A little halls.. .We’ve had new locks in­ Another program called Campus crimes on campus, on any given common sense stalled this past summer and it’s T ransit (formerly Women’s T ransit) night you can still see women walk­ safely... will worked out pretty well.” offers LSU students rides Sunday ing alone. Granted, lighting has Measures are being taken, how­ through Thursday, between 6 p.m. been improved on campus and call improve ever, on the LSU campus to keep and 10 p.m., to any campus loca­ boxes have been installed, but a little greatly your those statistics under control. tion. This prevents students from common sense safety, not paranoia, chances of not LSU CrimeStoppers is a program walking alone at night, to classes, but safety, such as not walking by becoming a that has been set up by the university friends’ dorms, or the library. The yourself at night, will improve to aid police in the fight against number to call is 388-5555. greatly your chances of not becom­ statistic" ing a statistic.”

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The house lights dimmed and I can remember hearing Elton had more raw energy in his songs the few remaining unsettled people Jon’s songs on the radio back in the than I’ve seen from many heavy hurried to their seats. Blackness— a 1970s, and thinking how talented he metal bands, and best of all he hush of expectancy swept over the seemed, especially on the piano. sounded just as he sounds on his crowd. Then, from high above a Nothing, however, could have pre­ tape — polished. That’s what made single light flashed down upon a pared me for the incredible showing the show for me — to hear that he man in blue lycra pants and a black of what a high caliber musician was truly as good in person as he is double breasted jacket. It followed Elton John is as seeing him on stage on tape. him to the keyboard as the hush be­ that night showed me. From his latest album, The One, came a wave of cheers and screaming From the first chord to the last, John played the dedication to Brian adulation. He bowed to his fans and Elm John performed. He didn’t just White, “The Last Song,” and his to his band, and when his fingers come and sing, he came and put 1992 hit, “The One.” As he began He didn't just struck the first chord, the legend was power into his songs and into the these songs the raised stage on which come and sing, relived. This was Elton John. crowd. When he sang “Candle in he sat began to swivel It angled him he came and “I can’t light, no more of your the Wind” (Goodbye Yellow Brick first toward the far right and then the darkness...,” were the first words Road), the women in the row across far left sections of the Center, and put power into Elton John sang to the crowd at the from me began to cry, and the black­ when it returned to the center it rose his songs and sold out Pete Maravich Assembly ness of the Center turned to glowing on a hydraulic arm to about fifteen into the crowd. Center October 24. But these words orange as people raised lighters into fret above the main stage for the cli­ were far from true to his crazed fans the air. During “Bennie and the Jets” max of the song “The One.” who swayed and sang along to songs ( Goodbye Yellow Brick Road) people Back on the main stage again, like “Don’t Let The Sun Go Down crowded to the front of the stage and Jon changed into a red jacket (com­ On Me” (Caribou), “I’m Still held their arms out to him, while plete with a “Just for the Taste of It” Standin’" (Too Low For Zero) and others sat in their chairs and clapped pose,) and picked up the pace of the hung on eyery note he played. Teen­ with the rhythm. Here was a man of concert. He grabbed a mike and age girls wearing paisleys and peace ageless talent. took the stage, swinging his hips and symbols, couples with grey hair and Other than a few posed sips fro a shaking his hair. His three female Polo sweaters, people in jeans and Diet Coke can between songs and back-up singers, clad in matching people in business suits — all stand­ short pauses to bow to the band now black leather and gold chains, each ing and cheering. Everyone knew and again, Elton John’s smooth sang a jazzy solo and the band mem­ the words to his songs, everyone was voice sang and his fingers floated bers had their turn at solo riffs as affected by his gende power on the across the keys effortlessly for the well. The talent meter was at it’s keys, including me. entire two hours of the concert. He highest that night.

W ith a career spanning alm ost three decades,

E lton Jo h n can still energize a crow d like no one else. By LaTisha Strickland

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Teen-age girls wearing paisleys and peace symbols, couples with grey hair and Polo sweaters, people in jeans and people in business suits— all standing and cheering.

From his first chords to his last note, Elton John electrified the stage in the Maravich Assembly Center.

In the beginning o f the show the His best performance o f the “Daniel” (Don t Shoot M e I ’m Only lights and smoke effects were too night, however, was the encore. He the Piano 'Played . subdued and conservative. How­ returned to the stage with ruffed up One dedicated fan named Jack, ever, the laser light show during hair, a hot-pink T-shirt and black whom I sat next to, summed things “Tiny Dancer” (M adman Across the and white lycra shorts. With the up perfectly: “Elton John is a fine W ater), — and, o f course, his change hype o f special lighting gone, as well human being and a talented musi­ into a blue jacket — made up for the as his singers and band, Elton John cian. His songs have spirit — they lack o f pizzaz in the beginning and sat at the keyboard and sank himself capture you and don’t let you go.” resembled that o f a metal show. and the crowd deep into the song

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Diversions Diversions are an important By Randy P s e n i c k a reading, bar-hopping, movie go­ bar-hopping, movie reading, ing, working -out, or anyother a a look at the opportunities af­ forded us on or near the LSU activity that takes one’s oft one’s mind that activity takes at the hand. task all group Let’s part of every student’s life, be it fall. this past campus call call it “entertainment” and have of these diings into a word. a into diings Let’s ofthese SPRING SPRING 1 1993 17, was sponsored by the LSU Union Freshman Kevin Bell casts an admiring eye on KurtVonnegut as thefamed shakes someauthor hands and signs graphssome auto­ after his discussion, "How to Get a Job Like M ine,"atre. in the The LSU Unionprogram, The­ held onIdeas Novemberand Issues Committee.

Vonnegut, therewas something for everyone in thefa ll’sentertainment

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from then on is lost, only popping up on occasion with such devices as a revolving camera, and the patented Lee allusion that gives the impres­ sion that a character is floating along the street Instead of tying back into the first half of the movie these scenes just seemed out of place in the flatness and eventual moralism of Keanu Reaves the rest of the film. couldn't act his I got the sense that I was seeing way out of a the two main options Lee had in ap­ proaching this project and his inabil­ cardboard box, ity to choose between the two. much less a Movie or documentary. Artist or dark castle in historian. Despite this feeling I must say Transylvania. that the film was in fact a great achievement. With all the pressure placed on Lee, he was still able to give the public an extremely close look at the emergence and life of one of the most important men in this country’s history. Look for Acad­ made the release date gready antici­ emy Award nominations for Denzel — Television — pated, as the public wanted to see Washington and A1 Freeman Jr. Closest to home: the television. how well the production was actu­ Next on the agenda— Francis Ren drStimpy, a force to be reckoned ally handled by Lee and Warner Ford Coppola’s Dracula. with on Nickelodeon, and The Brothers. The previews began last Spring. Simpsons from Fox are both As is custom in his films, Spike The blood gathering on the grey sur­ intergral parts of a good college cast himself in an important sup­ face like liquid mercury. The eerie student’s weekly repertoire. Social porting role, one which suited him. music. Then the flash of a person’s commentary as well as the domesdc He played a sort of diminutive, face across the screen who looked a dynamics of Small Town, USA are street-wise friend to Malcolm X whole lot like Glenn Close, laughing importaht things to be gleaned from named Shorty. The film opens with hysterically with a huge pair of hot- these two fine animated series. Shorty strutting down the streets of crossed buns strapped to her head. On the sit-com scene, in my eyes Harlem in his zuit suit. Stylistically, Hello. the top three are NBC’s Seinfeld, and the scene was trds Lee: the camera Francis, oh, Francis! Didn’t any­ Cheers and CBS’s Brooklyn Bridge. angles, the use of color, the immedi­ one ever tell you that it is wrong to Each is wonderfiilly written and is ate sense of setting through charac­ mislead the public? Glenn Close graced with fine actors. For longer ter as opposed to simply scenery. never once graced the screen (It was series, my pick is CBS’s Northern That mood or sense of style per­ really Gary Oldman as Dracula). Exposure, a vivacious hodge-podge vaded the first half of this three- Didn’t anyone ever tell you that of modern philosophy. hour-plus movie. I felt the sense of a Keanu Reaves couldn’t act his way story being told with great enthusi­ out of a cardboard box, much less ~Movies ~ asm and zeal. out of a dark castle in Transylvania Movies, movies, movies— This In the middle of the film, which with a bad, bad accent? My Oum past fall was a veritable barrage of loosely followed The Autobiography I have not Private Idaho is the only possible ex­ possible blockbusters. We’ll look at o f Malcolm X, X has started to really been delta ception. three. Let’s start with Spike “It must become a national presence through more crushing Couple Reaves’ inevitably bad be the shoes” Lee and his film his work with The Nation of Islam, performance in any role he was cast Malcolm X and it was at this point that the film blow to my -He was almost cast as Drac himself, Controversy surrounded the began to slip into somewhat of a zeal for movie puhlease—"I’d like to bite your project from its inception: the pos­ documentary. There were clips of going since neck, dude. Excellent.” Couple sibility of a white director, Denzel old-looking footage interspersed Batman that, with a screenplay that has so Washington’s being cast as the lead, that resembled Oliver Stone’s JFKxo many holes in it that the movie money and much more. All of this an extent, and much of the style Returns. could have been at least an hour

20 GUMBO MAGAZINE of that. It’s simply a story about a few regular schmozes trying to make it in this world. It’s a story that any other writer/director currently mak­ ing movies in America would prob­ ably never touch. But we’re talking about David Mamet, the unequivocal master of screen dialogue. The movie was probably made on a budget of about $8 million, most of which, no doubt, went into Pacino’s pocket. The point is that Mamet made a movie many times more enjoyable than Dracula, with a whole lot less money. It was more enjoyable because H ave you seen m e? the characters were real. They did real things. They talked like real people do. I’m not saying that’s the only way movies should be made; I am perfectly able and happy to sus­ pend my disbelief while watching a film. In the case of GlenGarry Glen longer (Yikes!), and you are doomed Controversy truly extraordinary performance was Ross, however, it wasn’t necessary. I from the get-go, Francis. Holes like Sadie Frost, who played the charac­ liked the characters who were like­ surrounded the the doctor shooting up in his office, ter of Lucy. She was fresh, alive, and able. I felt sorry for the characters Mina and Lucy kissing in the gar- project from its held a real presence on the screen. who deserved pity, and I hated the den, VanHelsing being able to van­ inception: the She came very close to saving, by characters who pissed me off. I felt ish,. Keanu’s hair changing from herself, some of the scenes that she as if I knew them. possibility of a black to white to gray in about was in with the rest of the cast, nota­ Because I cannot possibly do the twenty seconds of screen time. I re­ white director, bly the scenes with Anthony “I want film justice and because I really liked alize that you were trying to be true Denzel to eat your liver” Hopkins. all aspects of it from directing to act­ to Stoker’s novel, Francis, but let’s Washington's The bottom line is, the movie ing, I’ll stop talking about it with a face it, some things just don’t play sucked a whole lot more than blood. huge recommendation for renting on screen and Dracula is not a flaw­ being cast in On the other side of the spec­ GlenGarry Glen Ross when it comes less book by any stretch of the imagi­ the lead, trum are films that, instead of rely­ out on video. nation. money... ing on heartthrobs and blood and I have not been dealt a more sex, rely on really good actors and a crushing blow to my zeal for movie wonderfiil script. If you looked on going since Batman Returns. I ex­ that side of the spectrum at the end pected to be enthralled. I expected of last year, you might have been to be amazed. And, excuse me, but I lucky enough to see David Mamet’s expected to be scared. I expected GlenGarry Glenn Ross, starring A1 way too much. Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec I liked the Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Alan Arldn Although this film is an utter characters who failure, it does have a few things go­ and Ed Harris. ing for it worth mentioning. A me­ Since most of you probably were likable. I diocre performance by Winona didn’t see it, I’ll give you a brief syn­ felt sorry for Ryder, who no doubt was limited by opsis. The story follows about the characters the script, is one thing deserving twelve hours in the lives of some who deserved credit. Some occasionally stunning people who work in a real-estate of­ visual effects, the majority of which fice, all of whom are men. That’s it. pity, and I will no doubt be lost in the transition That’s the whole story. No sex. No hated the from big screen to video tape, are violence. No undead creature flying characters who also included in this movie’s saving around trying to find his wife who graces. The only actor who gave a died four hundred years ago. None pissed me off.

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The LSU Union Theatre was host of the Gospel Choir's fall concert on November 15. The concert featured the LSU Ebony Renaissance Select Choir and the LSU Ebony Dancers. "Inspirations," a male quartet, and "Women in Christ," a female quartet, were also in tie presentation.

-LSU Ja zz- Now, to more local interests. by Thelonious Monk. It was per­ The LSU School of Music concert formed by the Lab Band featuring series, which has been in existence new member, Harry Watters on for 75 years, was in full swing this trombone and Conductor Bill past Fall. Unfortunately, I only saw Grimes on bass. two of these concerts. The Sunday after the Jazz En­ The LSU Jazz Ensemble took the semble played, the LSU Gospel Union Theatre stage on November Choir had its fall concert in the 13 along with the LSU Jazz Lab Union Theatre. The theme of the Band. With senior members John concert was “Focus on Glory,” in Harden, Saxophonist, and trum­ which the 180 member choir per­ peter Graham Breedlove, the bands formed current hits by kading gos­ performed contemporary as well as pel artists, featuring many student mainstream jazz selections. The soloists. The concert was directed by highlight of the evening was a piece Everrett G. Parker, a music faculty

Tes Tes Bfuney called “Straight No Chaser” written member. The LSU Jazz Ensemble, featuring two returning members and one new addition from the professional world, presented its concert November 13 in ihe LSU Union Theatre. LSU seniors John Harden and Graham Breedlove recently completed a tour with one of the few remaining travelling big bands in the United States, the Glen Miller Orchestra. The concert also featured a former member of the Dukes of Dixieland Band, Harry Walters, who is now a doctoral student in trombone at LSU.

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— — — — Literary Vonnegut I must say, I Also on the cultural scene, there To round out this sample of the were a few literary events that took semester’s entertainment opportuni­ was just place over the fall semester worth ties, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., acclaimed fantastic. being mentioned. critic, short story writer and novelist, On October 28, the LSU Cre­ was brought to the LSU Theatre by ative Writing Program held a read­ The Ideas and Issues Committee. ing called, “Vices and Visions: A Some of Vonnegut’s novels such as Night of the Macabre.” The first of Cat’s Cradle and Siren’s o fTitan are its kind, the event was held at the now required reading at universities, Cabaret Theatre in celebration of and his best seller Slaughter House Halloween as well as to raise money F iv e was made into a film. for the waning writing program. The title of his speech, "How to Participants included many students Get a Job Like Mine,” was a bit of a and faculty members, including na­ misnomer. The only thing he really tionally noted novelist, Vance said along those lines was something Hie title of Bourjaily. It was a wonderful like don’t hold your breath. “There (Vonnegufs) evening’s entertainment. are only three hundred of us,” he Another reading was given at the said of people who make their livings speech, "How bar, Church, on November 10. exclusively through writing. to Get a Job Titled “Fresh Voices,” the program Instead, the audience was given a Like Mine," was held to benefit The New Delta light-hearted, topical explanation of R eview , a literary magazine based on Vonnegut’s humanistic views per­ was a bit of a campus. The readers were all first taining to the world, recollections of misnomer. year students in the MFA in Creative his time spent in World War II, and Writing program, with me among a general discussion of successful lit­ them. I must say, I was just fantas­ erature. His speech was both amus­ tic. ing and insightful, and was not un­ like reading one of his novels. Tess Tess Barney

The LSU Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Akira M ori, presented a concert in the LSU Union Theatre on October 18. Mori is a visiting assistant professor at LSU and conductor of both the LSU Symphony Orchestra and the LSU Philharmonic.

SPRING 1 1993 23 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Season's Plays By April Redmond

...being so close to the action gave people an idea of what it would be like to be stranded in the Louie's Cafe of Hell.

Kay, played by Donna Allen, sat in the same place at the cafe for the entire play. She had very few lines, but stole the show with her realistic and humorous portrayal of a drug addict lost in a world of intangible dreams.

Have you ever gone into a cafe in a bad part o f New York City. The to be somebody when they arrived in just to sip your cappudno and ob­ characters, ranging from hookers, New York, but resorted to illegal serve the people around you? It’s a drug dealers and street people con­ means in order to survive. One o f bit like eavs dropping, but a lot can verge to have a cup o f coffee and a the major characters, Joe, a nice sen­ be learned about people from their safe haven from the streets. The set­ sitive guy, got caught in the trap o f little conversations around the table. Almost all of ting was made extremely realistic, selling drugs for a mafia-type sup­ This feeling o f eavs dropping was the characters with the actors all talking at once and plier named Chuckles. Ann, who what the audience had at the LSU wanted to screaming out orders to the cook wanted to be an elemerftary school­ Theatre’s Second Season production above the din. The people in the au­ teacher, became a prostitute after her o f Lanford Wilson’s “Balm In be somebody dience gleaned what they could from job fell through. Nearly every char­ Gilead.” when they all o f the conversations being .held, acter had a story to tell about a With the front row seats creating arrived in hoping they were listening in on the dream he or she was forced to give the walls o f the cafe, the audience more important ones. Some audi­ up. For the most part these stories was virtualy a part o f the set. And, New York, but ence members were notably frus­ were interesting and brief, except for being so close to the action gave resorted to trated in having to sort out all o f the Darlene the-good-girl’s final mono­ people an idea o f what it would be illegal means conversations, while others found logue, which lasted nearly ten min­ like to be stranded in the Louie’s the realism exciting. utes. Cafe o f Hell. in order to The plot was easily understood. With a few exceptions, most o f The play is set at an all-night cafe survive. Almost all o f the characters wanted the characters held the audience’s

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LSU T heatre put on a blockbuster second season w ith plays that captured the im aginations of th eir audiences.

attention fully and went all-out to make their characters interesting. Balm In Gilead was definitely not your typical play. Erik Pawellek- Persons, who played the roles of Martin and the Stranger, related that the audience may not have appreci­ ated the medium. “Most of the people who saw this play were ex­ pecting to sit there and not think,” he said. Although unusual in format, Balm In Gilead offered comic mo­ ments filled with dark humor, as well as a fast-moving storyline and climactic, but somewhat confusing, ending.

"Balm in Gilead," a mirror of life on the streets, drew the audience into the setting, as well as into the action of the play.

Ever wonder what it would be like to live in the year 2021? C.C. Courtney has and he showed people his vision in “Ripped: A Rock Mythical.” As director and writer of this LSU Theatre production, Courtney gave the myth of Rip Van Winkle a new twist, incorporating live music, special effects and video into this hour and a half spectacle. The play began with Rip Van Winkle, great-grandson of the fabled 20-year sleeper who lived in the Rip had all the 1700s, living it up in the 1990s. Rip had all the girls, all the booze and all girls, all the the opportunities for fun that one booze and all can imagine. What he didn’t have the opportuni­ was a happy marriage, a stable job and a clear future. ties for fun that Rip discovers he is a loser in the one can rat race because he is a dreamer, a Rip puts the moves on Morylin at a bus stop in the year 2012. imagine. man of creativity not of 9 to 5 activ-

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"Ripped,* a look into the chaotic fiiure of humanity, mixed modem idols with ancient ones.

ity. He wishes he could have a new killed by a robber, but he comes back “Ripped” is actually three medi­ life. The Frog Prince of Sadness be­ to life beneath a talking tree in the ums of art compressed into one play comes troubled about Rip’s prob­ year 2012. When he awakes he has a — concert, play, and visual art. This lems and delivers him to the King— whole new outlook on life. post-modern play was not easy to Elvis — for help. Dwarves, servants “This play dealt a lot with want­ take in, especially with all the hidden of the King, give Rip a magic potion. ing to be something you’re not,” said references to historical literature and The King then grants Rip’s wish of a Courtney. The gradual dehuman­ art. new life, and Rip falls into a deep ized of humanity was also a strong Although “Ripped” is a new art sleep. theme in the production. form, much of it’s newness was not Rip awakes in a bizarre world “This isn’t just artistic fluff. "Ripped" is appreciated or understood because it completely different from his own. There’s real meaning to it,” said breaks the comfortable Theatre Gene splicing, depicted as the sci­ Jeanne Sanders, who played the definitely much mold. “’Ripped’ is one of those plays ence of chaos, and other futuristic parts of Marilyn Monroe and Mary, more than where it is very hard to ‘get it’ the ideas made Rip’s wife. “Ripped” is definitely fluff. It is a first time around,” Courtney related. real, surround Rip. He meets much more than fluff. It is a new new form of “It could be very difficult to follow Marilyn Monroe, whom he seems to form of Theatre that is emerging because the order is buried under idolize, and becomes friends with from post-modern literary influ­ Theatre that is such chaos,” Courtney said. Even so, the creatures created from the gene- ences. “Theatre doesn’t change mu­ emerging from “Ripped” boldly broke new ground splicing gone awry. Rip is unaware sic over time. This is different from post-modern in the Theatre world and made for of how violent this new world is un­ Chekhov’s new forms. This is en­ an exciting show. til robbers come and kill the people tirely new to the Theatre world,” literary on the street around him. He, too, is explained Sanders. influences.

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Turn of the century Russia col­ the end none found solace and the the despondent Masha, an admirer Packed with lided with The Young and the Rest­ main character, young playwright of Konstantine, said that the play less during LSU Theatre’s produc­ Konstantine, shoots himself when didn’t need a plot. “There is no plot unrequited tion of Anton Chekhov’s “The he realizes his life is no more mean­ — it wasn’t really message oriented. lovers, an Seagull.” ingful than that of a seagull. It was more of a human commen­ alcoholic, an Although the story itself is Not everything in the play was tary. It presented more questions simple, it is not easy to follow. Every bitter, though. Humor was infused than answers,” she said. “Seagull” aspiring artist character has a personal problem in the tragedy, especially between definitely had the audience ques­ who sees and is entangled in one or more of Masha and her bumbling suitor. tioning what the play was all about himself as a the love triangles involving everyone Masha’s perturbed expression and and Hilliard agreed that the audi­ in the play. Keeping up with who sarcastic tones in the dialogue gave ence might have had a hard time failure, and loved who and who hated who made the audience a chance to breathe be­ “catching” the underlying meaning vain and selfish for some fun in watching this deeply tween the serious scenes. This bit of of the play. mother, serious play. humor made up for the feeling of “The Seagull,” although a cel­ "Seagull" had Packed with unrequited lovers, impending doom for Konstantine ebrated masterpiece, fell short of my an alcoholic, an aspiring artist who that was threaded throughout the expectations. Chekhov tried to cram all the makings sees himself as a failure, and vain and play. too many things into this two-and- of a modern selfish mother, “Seagull” had all the Although the play was packed a-half hour play — love, sex, war, soap opera. makings of a modern soap opera. with subtle statements on society money, greed — which made The characters tumbled in internal and life, it didn’t seem to have much Chekhov’s opinions tiresome and turmoil throughout the play, yet in of a plot. Kelly Hilliard, who played his statements muddled.

"There is no plot— it wasn't really message oriented. It was more of a human commentary. It presented more questions than answers."

After awakening from a 20 year slumber, Rip encounters hostility from a futuristic street dweller.

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C reating an Im age...

The im aging program in Hill M em orial Library has m any positive effects on the LSU com m unity. By Brian Bordelon

Hundreds of years ago, in the Time had taken its toll on these either hand or foot controls. The dark recesses of morbid sanctuaries, books: they suffered more damage print processor can also be set to au­ monks sat by silent candlelight, dili­ each time they were used. tomatically scan a document at vari­ gently recopying old texts page by Now, with the aid of computers, able speeds. Students with limited page, line by line. Their job was to the five-volume set can overcome upper-body mobility will also use a keep the text alive by keeping it read­ the effects of aging by being repro­ point- and-shoot headset, which ac­ able. As they worked, they created duced electronically. Library users tivates particular keys by a breath. more and more copies of books on will be able to dial up the documents Blind students will have, at their dis­ history, philosophy and religion. As in the existing library network, make posal, a Braille translator that reads the human mind continued an at­ copies of specific passages and sift from the electronic memory banks, tempt at immortalizing its ideas and through the information quickly, a Braille printer and a voice program thoughts, the monks’ hands never without damaging frail pages. Soon, that reads recorded text through a stopped. the network will be expanded to the voice synthesizer. Last fall, in a not quite so gloomy Middleton Library as well as other Users with spastic motor disabili­ room on the first floor of Hill Me­ participating Louisiana libraries and ties will be provided an enlarged, ex­ morial Library, a similar task was archives. panded key board. A miniature key­ being replicated. Although the light The main objective of the project board is provided for students with a burned fluorescent and the tunes is to preserve the state’s written limited range of motion or those these workers hummed could possi­ records found in printed materials, who have the use of only one hand. bly be a Zeppelin chorus instead of manuscripts and archives. An addi­ All training manuals and instruc­ Gregorian chants, the quest to re­ tional benefit is the fact that the sys­ tion booklets for these terminals, store old texts in a usable format was tem is able to update and enhance adapted equipment and computer being accomplished. these old images and prints through programs will be available in large The shorter robes and the an Optical Character Recognition print, Braille and on audio cassette. straighter teeth were not the most Format, which is 97 percent accu­ Two immediate, positive aspects striking difference, though. Rather, rate. of this equipment can be seen. First, the silent worker is computer tech­ The project is based on similar handicapped students will find nology at its finest. systems established by the Library of themselves more independent while The Hill Memorial Library Im­ Congress’ American Memory using the lab, and second, fewer aging Laboratory is an impressive Project and the National Medical people will be needed to serve as collection of some of the most ad­ Library. LSU, however, is taking readers for the blind, increasing the vanced computer technology avail­ things a bit further by making the efficiency of the readers services staff. able on the market. The project, system accessible to handicapped Middleton library is planning to undertaken last fall, was initially set persons. create space for an Adaptive Com­ up to create an electronically repro­ Hie main The present Imaging Lab is set puter Center on the first floor. The duced image of B.F. French’s His­ objective of the up to facilitate students with visual Center would work in conjunction torical Collection of Louisiana. The and motor handicap. Once a text with LSU’s Office of Services for books, which date back to the late project is to has been scanned and recorded in Students with Disabilities. The 19 th century, were scanned to create preserve the the computer, visually impaired stu­ planned lab will be able to access any electronic copies, which will be avail­ state's written dents may more easily read them document from Hill Memorial that able to Louisiana’s colleges and uni­ with the help of a large-print proces­ has already been scanned. records found versities this spring. sor. The processor is a huge televi­ The project started out with Before the books were scanned in printed sion that magnifies written and elec­ funding from the Louisiana Educa­ using this technology, they were materials, tronic text to the user’s specifica­ tion Quality Support Fund. The available to only one person at a tions. Individuals with impaired fund was put together by the state manuscripts time and only under the strict secu­ motor skills will be able to control government under the Constitution rity of the Hill Memorial library. and archives. the text movement with the aid of to support higher education through

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equipment grants. All money from Since there are department of Middleton is sched­ or translated. Indexing is an ex­ this grant can be used only to pur­ so many uled to have some of its works tremely important aspect in making chase equipment. LSU received scanned and historical photographs old documents more available. $285,00 for the project. B.F. documents, the of the Louisiana and Lower Missis­ Searching through the digital/opti­ French’s works, which now sell for non-paper sippi Valley Collections are sched­ cal reproductions can be productive $1,000 a set, can be reproduced on format of uled to be scanned also, primarily for for research, but big business de­ a $30 CD-ROM (Compact Disk- indexing purposes. mands will require more. The per­ Read Only Memory). From this preservation is Professor Jim Springer Borck, son or firm that can produce a ma­ master copy, the works can be cop­ favored. who works in the Department of trix for the information to be utilized ied onto a $4 compact disk. Microfilm is too English, is attempting to establish a as more than merely stored material Several projects are expected to Center for works of international will undoubtedly be the stimulus for stem from the new technology avail­ laborious and significance. larger business to show interest in able in the LSU libraries. The previ­ expensive. The Environmental Protection the project. Information that can be ously mentioned ACC Lab in agency has expressed some interest recorded, indexed and then manipu­ Middleton is just one of these. As in developing a project to scan and lated to produce viable, flexible data the technology becomes more index literature pertaining to the is essential to an industry that tries to readily available to LSU and the sur­ Gulf of Mexico. keep up with the ever-changing rounding community, more infor­ A local computer company, Key times. mation will be requested, which Systems Incorporated is using the The Electronic Imaging Lab has means more texts to be scanned. Electronic Imaging Lab as a Beta test the potential to create jobs for LSU Interest in scanning the congres­ site for new computer hardware and students and the surrounding com­ sional correspondence of Senator J. software they are developing. The munity. The interest it has gener­ Bennett Johnston with Louisiana capital this firm generates is expected ated so far attests to the relevance of constituents has been expressed. to bring business and jobs to Louisi­ such a project. Several people asso­ Many of these letters, which were ana. ciated with LSU are working hard, previously determined to be “non- Although the educational and re­ trying to secure additional grants archival,” are being sought by schol­ search benefits are extraordinary, and optimize the lab. If successful, ars and since there are so many docu­ KSI may be on to the biggest devel­ the Imaging project could help LSU ments, the non-paper format of opment the Imaging Lab could as a research institute in becoming preservation is favored. Microfilm is yield. Now, the lab is only able to an even more formidable challenger too laborious and expensive. reproduce old texts in new form, in the nation’s pursuit of higher edu­ The Government Documents whether it be updated, refurbished, cation. e Bruney Tea

Hill Memorial Library's imaging program attracts people who want to view antique literary works without the aggravation of going through the necessary security. Benefits of the program indude making many library materials accessible to sight, hearing, or motor skills-impaired persons.

SPRIN6 1 1993 29 30 Audra Hold«n 6 UMA M B 0 G A Z I N E : a n a u j i r a M OPINION change. subtlethe introductionof patience and demands drug legalizing the processof the marijuana, allrepeal to bans onbans of reformers isof ultimate goal Although the indulgence. nurse their hangover,their nurse let’s examine another possiblecause forthis drug cgrte n tk a aprn to aspirin an take cigarette and a other scoop of NutraSweet, stub out cu n uh bnac. o as So, abundance. such in occur significant reasons drug indulgences they sweeten their coffeean­ sweetenthey their with metal music, pornography and a de­ cline religious in stature as the most heavy and rock to points finger radical The legalillegal and sorts. trs Teeoe tee prior these Therefore, starts. the problem drugswith of the both deviances are the cause, not effect, of deviances are present before drug use in ae ad ht te social other that said have tion ponentsmarijuanaof lawreforma­ drugs legal with so moresociety, American in problemways a been why why wouldanyone legalize to want than with illegal ones.Yet many op­ marijuana thein first place? gal ramifications?Where would law flagrandy to continue Americans eomto efrs ed s And us? lead efforts reformation to its policy of deference through le­ ational drug in America. Why do Why America. in ational drug recre­ widely-used most the hol, the government continue to hold on defy the law thisin way?does Why marijuana remains,aside from alco­ j uana use these mari-days. The research in indulging areAmericans to osset bt ept ti fact, this despite but consistent, thebody on isinconclusive in­and date surrounding marijuana’s effects post-60sneo-hippies destroy to out the very fabric of American values. “get high” all the time, a or flock of group of people who a merely aswish themselves stereotypedto find of marijuana lawreformation often ment ment with some Advocates people. destroyallavenues logicalof argu­ utteringthese words caneffectively eaiigmrjaa Merely Legalizingmarijuana. Our society’sOur infatuation with Infatuation with drugs has al­ y ra Bordelon Brian By The fact is that millions of millions of that isfact The OPINION The Forbidden Fruit

legal drugs can easily be blamed for the fight against the stigma of mari­ Once a law, of problems. However, prohibition the wider popularity of illicit drugs. juana use as being “bad;” but their however of alcohol failed miserably, mainly Every day the media bombard us greatest challenge is fighting a reluc­ because so many people wanted al­ with information on legal drugs, and tant legislative system set in its ar­ monstrously cohol that the government could do boast that drugs can cure nearly ev­ chaic ways. misconceived, nothing to stop its illegal manufac­ erything. Today ethical drug treat­ In light of slow judicial and has found a turing and distribution. Alcohol was ments can cure more diseases and ills legislative procedures, criminal pro­ so well established in society, the than can surgery or radiation. Drugs hibition is much easier to enact than stronghold in government decided no alternative are also less expensive than these repeal. Once a law, however mon­ society, it remained but to regulate it Today, other treatments, which require spe­ strously misconceived, has found a carries with it a society has responded to the prob­ cially skilled doctors, expensive stronghold in society, it carries with lems surrounding alcohol by joining equipment, and a large labor input it a presumption of wisdom and presumption of together in groups to deal with ad­ per patient. The soaring costs of righteousness. It is extraordinarily wisdom and diction (AA), to soften loss through hospital and medical treatments ad­ difficult to battle such bias. If the righteousness. negligence (MADD), and to evoke vocate and seem to push the use of legislative bodies already have their awareness (SADD). Society has comparatively inexpensive drugs. jaws set about outlawing marijuana, shown that it can act responsibly as a The atmosphere conducive to soci­ how can they effectively assess the whole when dealing with a drug. etal dependence on drugs of any type ways that new legislation might be The apathetic attitudes from could exist more so because of these used to put reformation policy in ef­ the legislative and executive (en­ factors than because of any decline in fect? Our lawmakers should be in­ forcement) bodies have already de­ moral or family values. telligent, fiexibk and able to analyze termined that if not now, then The American public is strug­ the law and its effects without letting soon, marijuana use will be firmly gling with the marijuana issue, but personal biases hinder their judg­ established. Regulations could cre­ they are not finding any answers. ment ate a new tax base, ensure the safety Our society seems rather Although the ultimate goal of of available marijuana, and begin to unperturbed by the fact that millions reformers is to repeal all bans on decentralize drug trafficking. of adults continue to smoke mari­ marijuana, the process of legalizing For the most part, marijuana juana in defiance of the law. This the drug demands patience and the is used privately as a social drug and indecision has led many people to subtle introduction of change. Re­ has not been associated with anti­ feel the same way as most lawmak­ peal efforts are replaced by slower social behavior. Marijuana directs its ers, who seem to think, “We don’t reformation of the laws. This allows users inward, a stress-reliever in a know exactly how we feel about the legislators the chance to build sup­ highly competitive society. If health issue, so just leave it alone.” port in themselves and in their re­ concerns are a reason to keep the use The issue took on a new spective bodies of legislation. illegal, weigh the public health bur­ meaning when an increase in mari­ The first level would be an at­ den of current use against those ex­ juana use by teenagers emerged. tempt to decriminalize consump­ pectations of regulatory control. Unsure of how to deal with this, tion-related offenses only. This Regulations With government regulations would many people clutched the present would allow individuals to have a could create a come safety and health standards, as law to their chest and decided to certain amount of marijuana for new tax base, well as an increased emphasis on fight the growing popularity of mari­ their private use only. Enacting this educating the public. The funds for juana. type of legislature would not increase ensure the this education could come from the Efforts to deter the influx of the availability because it would not safety of money saved on the wasted enforce­ marijuana on the streets, as well as allow harvesting or distribution. available ment efforts of the current laws. efforts to deter its use by young This first step would allow marijuana, and One of the largest problems in adults, have failed. The popularity marijuana users to demonstrate to legalization efforts is trying to fight of the drug has overwhelmed the the government that marijuana can begin to the two-generation stigma of mari­ fight against it. Legalization efforts be used responsibly. Consider the decentralize juana being an illicit drug. Public have taken root in nearly every state, legal drug alcohol. It is the most drug and legislative reluctance of modify­ and unfortunately, the battle that popular recreational drug in ing prohibition is rooted in this atti­ reform advocates face is not so much America, and it has caused its share trafficking. tude that it was outlawed at one

SPRING 1 1993 31 Audio Holden 32 lem of social govern­priorities. The illegal is to re-emphasize it as a prob­ nomic nomic world. many so because Simply Why? become a formidable part of the eco­ alcohol producershave managed to peopleindustrialalcoholandwant remainslong-term useandlegal.it hud e icuae. However, discouraged. use be should all so uncertain, sufficiently justified by the apparent effects of its h mn ad h bd through body the and mind the alcoholprovenhasdestroybeen to are use chronic long-term of fects ef­ the feeling that supporteda by use. Government bans arebansfurther Government use. diction,crime,andinsanity are un­ ad­ felonious conduct, attached to conscious. public the in morality Presumptiveideas that marijuana is Marijuana’sillegal classifica­ form. tion has given root to impliedim­ to hasgiven root tion fuldrug isgrowing. peopleof number the but outcast, accepting marijuana as a non-harm- “proper”morals sur­ The it. with in hs mrl fn themselves find morals these tion to accept that Those them.do ques­ generalthethem, tion consensus is ques­decadesthan rather and ago decided were marijuana rounding time, so somethingtime,sowrong must be The main reasonThe marijuana is Fearalso barsthe wayre­ to Abusersshould punishedbe theby what you canand cannot do. you allow the government to decide Your right to do so is violated when e rtce fo du abusers. drug from protected be rne pn noe les rights. else’s anyone upon fringe ownbody, provided does in­it not the right to protect or abuseyour or protect to right the consequences f marijuanao legaliza­ with worse, violent,and more dam­ aging problems. isincreasingly This damaging law. passivevocating the disrespect for tion is the individual user. You have to a governmenta alreadyto burdened agement policy, it isunwittingly ad­ thetically enforce its current discour­ thegovernment’s not placecon­ to laws become rather archaic, thensome that it ismuch change so norms h gvrmn cnius o apa­ to government continuesthe tinue enforcement those If of laws. social If change. radical enforce laws must be flexible the and changes, societyfor that that change. fact It is not the government’sthe dutyto not is It government must alsorecognize the we as preserve society to sibility lution and outlaws marijuana. know it. With that resposibility With know it. the therefore,ment, takes the easiest so­ It It isthe government’srespon­ Peoplealso have righttheto What ultimately What defines the UB MAGAZINE GUMBO OPINION the law. the disrespect for disrespect for passive advocating unwittingly is ment policy, it it policy, ment discourage­ current its enforce apathetically to ment continues continues ment If the govern­ the If ject to unsafeunhealthyto and trans­ ject hs-aetc xsec, o be somewhat to foretelling.0 existence, oh-so-majestic problems before they It isbegin. the oenets uy froc i its in once government’s for duty, these prevent could now it lating less by — than port,as — well asreliable being tampered with distributors in the production of marijuana. Regu­ Health marijuana: with problem Eventually, agency. enforcement aad. ContrabandHazards. hempis sub­ h gvrmn wl hv a real a have will government the however, tion attempts f o an already continue, burdened will lace unabated by the ineffective interven­ Marijuana useby the general popu­ hard-pressed to consider the produc­ marijuana, of ment industry willbe governmentfacetof main manage­ hog poiiin ean the remains prohibition through pollution.and cutdown on tives of the plant and its by-products.tive, environmentally sound alterna­ produce four times more paper pulp agricultural giant, an as America, than wood, which couldsavewhichwood,trees than home, and the country would countrynot the and home, tions for Acreoil. for acre, hemp na­ foreigncan on dependent remain at stay would Jobs country. the could use rain. itsabundant farming land add causes which phur, discharge sul­ not does it burning wouldallow us toend our madad­ environmentally beneficial. It en­ It environmentallybeneficial. isrenewable,hemp oil, Unlike and to producethe hempneeded to fuel ihs n rvtlzs h si, and revitalizes soil, and riches the dictionisfossil Hempto also fuels. planet. the on source fuel living asafuel Hemp pro­can purposes. xrce, hn ee recreational mere than extracted, drugis marijuana the which from sider moreuses for thehemp plant, industrycon­ for door theto open than com, which isthethancom, second-best duce up to ten times more methanol another’srights. punishthose whoabuse their rights bility toeducate the individual, and the not is It users. sponsible o h pit f nrnig on infringing of point the to thelegislativeis Rather, it responsi­ dividualeveryperceivedfrom evil. government’s each to protea job in­ re­ punish now which laws same Legalizingmarijuana would s oga discouragementas long As COVER STORY The Tradition Continues,.. Story by R | l l | Psenicka, photos by Salem Chenafi

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threatening cuts A *Sea of Signs' waves at the capitol. With the proposed budget cuts for the fall to the 1993 budget, 1993 semester, whole departments, the LSU community Sbeh as the Master's in Creative Writing curriculum, could be ' finds its voice eliminated. but is anybody listening?

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The possible end of higher edu­ checks, effectively enveloping the friends and relatives, amounting to a cation reared its ugly head and made monster in our minds. $700 Million Shortfall for n ext y ear. itself known to the LSU community It worked for a couple of weeks. This brings to one’s mind the last semester. The Shortfall vanished and all was question ,”What exactly is a ‘Short­ From nowhere came The $93 well. The students and employees at fall?” Does this money just disap­ Million Budget Shortfall, a creature LSU walked around grumbling a pear into the air, slipping out from that had gone unnoticed by Gov. bit, but were sort of happy and : under the governor’s nose when he Edwin Edwards and Chancellor proud that the situation had been is not looking? Does it get lost in William Davis until it was much too dealt with so quickly and valiandy by other programs? In potholes? In late to deal with reasonably. After it their appointed protectors. After all, pockets? Where does this money go? had eaten up $9.3 million supposed $200, paid one time and one time Seriously. How do you tell a whole to go to this university, Bud (Davis) only, was a small price to pay to con­ state that it will be short $700 mil­ came to the rescue and conjured up tinue being schooled in the higher lion in the near future? More im­ the idea of the students paying a education system of Louisiana. portantly, how do you tell that state “one-time surcharge of $200 ” in the Then, however, came the news that the first place you are going to spring, as well as snipping a little that The Shortfall had only stepped compensate for the missing money is money from LSU employee pay out for a moment to gather a few in its education system, which is al­ ready on its way to being dead last in the nation? Speculation on how Bud is going . to enact his cuts is just that- specula- 5 tion. The mere thought of having one half of the employees eliminated and between 12,000 and 15,000 students asked to leave LSU is al­ ready too much to deal with. But cut Bud must. He tells us that’s how many heads will roll if something isn’t done to plug the holes in the state budget. He will be forced to draw up his plan for next year with 40 percent or about $51 million less than he was budgeted for th is year, and cutting the sudent body and the LSU staff in half is the only feasible means of implementing that sort of drastic cut in LSUs state funds. There are not only a few who see the short-sightedness of all of this, who know that cutting education in this state is the absolute worst move that can be made. This will force students, Louisiana’s future tax pay­ ers, do leave the state. It will prevent For Louisiana those students who are future doc­ to stop being tors, engineers and business men from establishing themselves in the "laughing Louisiana, thus stagnating this state’s stock of economy. One could go on and on America.^ about the ill effects. got to start Sp we: could have the opportu­ nity to do just that, Bud organized a with the rally, held on November 17 at the magical word State Capitol. Approximately 3,000 called educa­ LSU Supporters gathered to wave signs and scream their support for A common sentiment of the day: tie money is going somewhere... tion." higher education, while a small

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group of lawmakers took turns at a microphone trying to whip the crowd into a frenzy. The speeches kicked off with a little unintentional comic relief sup­ plied by our Student Government President, Jimmy Lalonde. A few badly phrased and poorly orches­ trated remarks about some of the ef- S; fects of the cuts were enough to send a wave of laughter through the crowd. The rest of the speakers mostly took turns talking about how to ap­ proach this crisis. It all reeked of politics: “We have to do this, in or­ der to do this...but we Have to think Signs reflect ihe catch phrase for the rally- N O MORE CUTS! about this, before we can do this...and if you let me, I can do it aU!” Dale Brown, LSU head basket­ ball coach, stressed the main idea behind the rally saying “I think it’s time to quit hollering, ‘Go Tigers,’; How do you The crowd was then marched to he was, his absence led the public to and tell some of the legislators that tell a whole the governor’s mansion. F.dwin was believe that he had little interest in do not understand . . . Louisiana’s state that it will elsewhere. His press secretary, Kim what they thought and felt about the last in everything.” Hunter said, “It’s nothing you can budget cuts, whether he actually did For Louisiana to stop being the be short $700 publish. He’s out o f town. That’s care or not. “laughing stock of America,” Brown million in the all I can tell you.” One would like to think that the said, “it’s got to start with the magi­ near future? Rumor has it that he went hunt­ rally was a legitimate attempt at aiding cal word called education.” ing in Mexico. Regardless of where the Louisiana’s state schools and not just some elaborate plot to goad the people of the state into excepting tax increases which won’t even end up going towards helping our waning higher education system. One would like to think that the rally was a serious attempt by Bud Davis to show the governor and the legislators that the people here at LSU and around the state will nor stand for haying their higher education system on the chopping block. One would like to think it has worked, that the Shortfall will be dealt with, without destroying the remaining pieces of our higher education system. One would like to think all of this; but the present, as well as the future, is very uncertain. H

A surge in the Recall '9 2 movement sparked these students to share their attitude towards politicians in general.

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The ISU Fighting Tigers Marching Band led the w ay to the Governor's Mansion to confront a conspicuously absent Edwards.

“...It’s time to quit hollering, ‘Go Tigers,’ and tell some of the legislators... Louisiana’s last in everything.”

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Rolliers march back to the capitol after discovering Edwards was 'Out of town.'

Approximately 3,000 faculty, students, and staff gathered at the state capitol to call for an end to cuts in higher education. Tuesday classes before 1:30 p.m. were A little girl protests cancelled by on her mommy's behalf. The Chancellor Bud student and Davis to faculty population : might be cut in encourage half due to the participation in budget cuts projected for fall, the rally. 1993.

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Have you ever wanted to stuff marshmallows in your mouth, just for the glory of your team? What about staying up until 5 a.m. stuffing colored pieces of paper into a mesh of wire that was intended to keep By Ben Walsh chickens in their place, in trying to win a prize? If you have wanted, or even better, done any sort of these things then you know what the 1992 Homecoming theme “The Tradition Continues” was all about.

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? aCD 4 The Purple and Gold Games featured such odd challenges as marshmallow stuffing and mummywrapping. The overall Homecoming Sweepstakes winners were Pi Beta Phi and Delta Sigma Pi. ihr Knight Richard Homecoming week 1992 began The Friday activities were a tad on November 16 with fun and bit dampened by rain and not many games on the Parade Grounds. Dor­ people came to watch the floats, mitories, sororities and fraternities decorated cars and trucks, and ban­ participated in the Purple and Gold ners in the parade that went along Games, a series of increasingly silly, Lakeshore Drive. Even fewer people but enjoyable competitive events. In stood to watch (about ten in all) the one relay game, contestants had to band Ten-Gone-Six that played in cram six marshmallows into their the Gym Armory, but the day ended mouths and keep them there while well with the traditional spectacular they scampered back to their team­ fireworks display over the lakes. mates to make the relay exchange. The finale of the festivities came Fun eh? Saturday with a grand and elaborate The Games ended in an erratic, exhibition of floats, decorations, au­ yet intermittently brilliant Up- tomobiles and banners at Tiger sta­ synching contest. Miller and Kirby- dium. The icing on the Homecom­ Smith’s version of a Beastie Boys ing cake was made sweeter by the song “License to 111,” was so funky LSU Tigers 24-12 stomping of the that it did not fail to catch the eye. Tulane Green Wave. And so, the On Wednesday, November 18, past lives on. the traditional scavenger hunt, Run Homecoming was sponsored by Around, was stormed home to first th LSU Homecoming Committee, by Zeta Tau Alpha in the residential Pi Gamma Epsilon and the Student division, and the Catholic Student Governing Association, to raise Union in the non — residential divi­ money for an LSU beautification sion. project.

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More Than Just a Title By Wendy “The Tradition Continues” - Their families also attended the re- McMahon Most LSU students recognize this as ception, where each Queen and the Homecoming theme for 1992, Darling was introduced and the but how many students are aware of 1992 court was presented. Randy just how long the selection of a Gurie of General College was the Homecoming Queen has been part guest speaker, of the tradition of LSU festivities? The Queens and Darlings were To show the importance and also given roses and was welcomed long standing tradition of Home- back to the LSU campus during the coming Queens at LSU, Queens ceremonies at half-time of the LSU- and Darlings from the past 60 years Tulane game, were gathered together and pre- The reunion of past Queens and sented during halftime of the Darlings gave significance to Homecoming game to LSU stu- Homecoming by defining what a dents and fans. tradition really is. A tradition is “We wanted to tie in the old tra- something we do in reverence of the dition of queens with the new selec- past and out of the desire to use the tion of a Homecoming King. Also, past to create a better future. A tra- getting the former Queens and Dar- dition is something that is an impor- lings together fit in well with the tant part of LSU history. A tradition Homecoming ‘tradition’ theme,” is LSU Homecoming and the selec- Serena Conosciani of the Student tion of a Homecoming Queen. Alumni Association said. The time As Elizabeth Harris accepted her span of the court members ranged title as 1992 Homecoming Queen, from 1926 to 1991. LSU students and fans were assured Queens and darlings were invited that the LSU Homecoming tradi- to a wine and cheese reception on tion had continued for yet another November 21 at the French House, year. ui Holden Audio

LSU Beauty from 1941, Margaret Landry Moore, attend the Queen’s Tea, surrounded by her family and friends. Former Queens and Darlings of LSU from the past 6 0 years came to the Tea, held in the French House the afternoon of the big game.

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1992 LSU Homecoming Queen and her King, Elizabeth Harris and Matthew Chamberlain begin their reign as the skies emptied over Tiger Stadium. M ore Than Just Tradition By Lisa West

Once a year, LSU chooses her After the top ten interviewing queen. At half-time of the Home­ candidates had been selected, video coming football game, she takes her tapes were made of the would-be scepter and crown, waving to her Kings telling what LSU traditions cheering subjects in the stands who mean to them. chose her from many to represent The final cut, which determined the pride of the Tigers. Yet, as the which of the ten finalists would cameras Hash and music plays, she compose the court and which would takes her place of honor on the field become LSU’s first Homecoming alone. She has no one with whom to King, was made based on student share her glory — until now. votes. Only full-time LSU under­ Homecoming 1992 marked the graduates were eligible to vote. beginning of a new tradition for As Homecoming Queen Eliza­ LSU, with the selection of the first beth Harris stepped to her place of Homecoming King in LSU’s his­ honor in Tiger Stadium, her joy and tory. glory was shared by King Matthew The selection process for King Chamberlain. was long and involved. After being interviewed by the Homecoming committee, ten candidates out of 25 applicants were chosen to go onto the final round.

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Fireworks lit up the night sky over the campus lakes on Homecoming Eve.

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B eauty is in

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Story by Ben Walsh

Photos by Tess Bruney

The U nion A rt G allery exhibits a variety of w orks, appealing to al­ m ost everyone's tastes. This is a review of one s u c h s h o w .

To criticize or not to criticize? That was my question. Being a not- so in-the-know person about art and art galleries, I found it difficult to approach my task of writing about the “1992 Drawings and Prints” ex­ hibition put on by the LSU Union’s Art Advisory Board from November 6 through December 11, especially since I have limited knowledge on such things. I just know what I like when I see it. A gallery pamphlet informed me that the different works in the exhi­ bition were “on the cutting edge of contemporary art,” but, to be hon­ est, I couldn’t see why. I decided it would be improper and imprudent of me to criticize these works, so I asked for help from someone who

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knows ail about cutting edges and so forth. She told me she would tell me all about such edges if I would pay her for said information. So much for lending a total art philistine a helping hand. It was all up to me then, expert un-extra ordinaire versus a collection of cutting edges. It took me about five minutes (well, maybe ten) to inspect the en­ tire gallery. It would be hard for me to say that I was moved. In order to get a feel for the overall reaction to the gallery, I stationed myself outside to observe others who went in. I watched to see if the others were more touched by the beauty I had failed to grasp. After half an hour a man entered the gallery. He lingered much longer than I had and told me afterward that he found the photo­ graphs immensely beautiful, but was not too keen on the mixed media pieces. He said he quite liked the gallery. ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

With this in mind, I went in again, determined to adopt a more open-minded stance. This time, I browsed and took my time with each composition. After that, I pur­ chased a stiff drink. Even though I failed to be im­ pressed by this collection, many other people were. To many, the gal­ lery was a varied and bold success, with artists primarily representing Louisiana, Texas and California. These are “people from graduate stu­ dents to people who have been working for thirty years,” Gallery Director Judi Stahl said of the fea­ tured artists. Linda Konheim Kramer, curator of the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York, was the judge of the competition, and said that the 37 selected works, “ran the full gamut of media from acrylic to pencil, from etching to monoprint, from gelatine silver pho­ tographs to cibachromes.” Over 5,500 visitors took the opportunity to see the exhibit, and everyone in­ volved hoped that the works from the exhibit stimulated the public’s interest in art works done on paper. Heather Kelly of Lake Charles won first place and $500 with her mixed media composition, “Gulf Court Motel.” Polly Chu of Los Angeles placed second with her pas­ tel, “In the Under,” and Allison Petit of Baton Rouge placed third with her photograph, “Untitled #3.” Stahl said that receiving money was secondary for these artists, because the exposure was more important. She said the artists wanted the op­ portunity to display their talents in a well-publicized gallery competition, and put on their resumes that they had participated in such an event. All in all, I learned that one per­ son cannot accurately judge art for I browsed and others. Art must be judged accord­ took my time ing to an individual’s tastes and taken for what it is— expression and with each creativity. H composition. After that, I purchased a stiff drink.

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"Just another Day" [Senegal) Salem Chennafi

'Wall of Woman" [Senegal] Salem Chennafi

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SPRING 1 1993 47 "Moons' Market" Salem Chennafi Dakar, Senegal "I Have a D ream " Ajit Pendse

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SPRING 1 1993 S3 U Microbiology professor Dr. John Larkin found new life on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. nder the nder some of his research at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. of Gulf the of bottom the at research his of some Dr. John M . Larkin, professor of microbiology at LSU conducts at microbiology of professor Larkin, . M John Dr. hts by Photos tr by Story Redmond Holden Audra April

ered ecosystem. Yet here also is a man, undaunted by other things, for his 25 years at LSU. the Gulf the Gulf of Mexico where hydrocar- andgeologists, Larkin visitsareas in studiesthat and thisnewly discov­ Gulf to research new life forms there ogy professor. Here is a man who has that journeys to the bottom of the of bottom thethat journeysto the prospect f o becoming shark bait, among taughtMicrobiology1001, Here is a mild-mannered microbiol­ andinterestsmind to come not do and unusual species...theseactivities investigating Mexico, of new Gulf upon first meetingLarkin. M. John Along with a team of scientiststeamof a withAlong Voyaging to the depths of the of depths the to Voyaging UB MAGAZINE GUMBO T H G I L T O P S the deepest the species discovered in discovered Tubeworms, Gulf of of Mexico Gulf of the parts new the of few a just are bacteria giant usl and mussels

ny rwn i srns n rice and springs in growing only floor, ocean the on growingwas he said.Larkin’s research has shown my specialty, so I was invited along,”gate.bacteria“This happenedtobe in group the proved invaluable to Tubeworms, mussels and giant bac­ htte hoyaotti bacteriathis about theory the that investi­ to hesitate not did Larkin heheard beggjitoa When the Gulf. been researching has this particular he bac­ Because beggiatoa.called speciesexcited Larkin, prefershe to deep as go can which ALVIN, Johnson Sea-Link, which can handle ei o mn yas hs expertise his years, many for teria bacteria of type certain research a Mexico.Gulf of discovered in the deepest parts f o the environment.teria are a just few of the new species light-free cold, newspecies, aswellas existing spe­ ever,disproved thishypothesis. He cies that had specially adapted to the discoveredan enormous number of ocean. Larkin’s the researcharea,this how­in of levels deeper and and fewer life forms existed at deeper this ecosystem. teaminvestigatesthefeet, asl2,000 the or feet, 3,000 to up depthsof the either Using study. later for samples f o soil, water, and organisms umrils eind o “grab” called to designedsubmersibles “pods,” submarine-type several oil companies. teamThe goes National the Association,spheric down to the ocean floor in specialin floor ocean the down to and Program Research Undersea National Oceanographic and the providedAtmo­ by is project the for n aua a eois Funding naturalandgas deposits. compoundsthat areused organic as are indica­ Hydrocarbons floor. seepbonscracksocean thefrom in tors of the presence of petroleum presenceof the of tors Sea Although the discoverytheAlthough theseof twsoc believedfewerthat wasonce It SPOTLIGHT

His findings could prove to be invaluable to companies that use such natural resources as oil and gas. Simply put, this is because the fila­ mentous sulphur bacteria is needed in petroleum refining. His findings could also aid geologists because the bacteria are responsible for some of the geological formations found on the ocean floor. The discovery of this unique eco­ system, as well as its unique life forms, could prove to be very impor­ tant to future well-drilling and min­ eral extraction in the Gulf of Mexico. Larkin says he plans to con­ tinue his research and hopes to And out more about the boogiatoa Instead of bacteria’s “lifestyle.” being micro­ scopic like its ancestors, this particular strain of beggiatoa (bacteria) was huge, being up to one inch thick in some strands.

Larken views slides of the bacteria through a microscope, observing the structure and makeup of each.

fields is false. He has been to Florida investigating springs and to Louisi­ ana rice fields gathering information on the beggiatoa bacteria. Larkin said he was particularly interested in the evolutionary changes this bacteria made in order to adapt to its environment. Instead of being microscopic like its ances­ tors, this particular strain of beggiatoa was huge, being up to one inch thick in some strands. “This bacteria changed its cellular structure in order to support itself,” Larkin explained. Many samples of microscopic bacteria must be collected for study.

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Nothing con prepare you for what you'll find behind the doors of the Video Bor Leave Your Inhibitions at the Door

Multiple screens around the bar flash disturbing and provocative images, each designed to get a reaction.

Shiii M LaTisha Strichland Photos M Salem Chenafi

Sheets of corrugated aluminum Black lights reflected off fluores­ played. This was the world of the crackled and squeaked under my feet cent painted hubcaps that hung Video Bar. as I walked the path to the door of from the ceiling by fishing line. A The Video Bar is a traveling mu­ the bar. In the parking lot, two ragged-edged car door dangled from sic and video show put on by S&M women dressed in black lace and lines too, a few feet above the floor. I Productions, a local company run by army boots foofed their hair next to stepped to the center of the dance Scott Whitfield and Matt Castille. a Jeep full of men wearing long- floor and found myself surrounded Scott, a sophomore in the General sleeved shirts and Levis. They, too, by six or seven video screens around College at LSU, and Matt, who winced at the sound of bending the room, flashing with specks of graduated with a degree in history metal and gawked at the odd pieces moving white and black. A man from LSU last August, began S&M of orange and green fluorescent with bleached hair and streaks of or­ about a year ago and since that time painted junk lying next to the metal ange and purple paint on his bare they have put on more than 27 pro­ along the walkway. I could hear chest walked past me to a sound ductions at bars throughout Louisi­ strange hollow sounds leaking room. The music changed from ana and the South. The name S&M, through the cracks of the door as I resonating scraping sounds to hard­ unlike what one might think, does entered Argon and the chilly night core thumping and thrashing. not stand for sadomasochism,Scott air added to my feeling of mystery, A few minutes later, the screens says, it stands for Scott and Matt. Inside, a woman with bobbed flashed and went black, and then Each time they put on a produc­ brown hair and dark eyes What are — the videos. Hand puppets tion at a bar, Scott and Matt choose stamped my wrist, directed with sledge hammers bashed a theme and decorate the bar accord­ me toward the music behind you gonna do, go to each other on the head, ingly. They also acquire music and double doors and mentioned the Varsity and the weird footage showed hu­ videos, usually from Europe, that that the videos would start Chimes and the man corpses laying in emphasize the theme at hand. Scott, around ten. I pushed open Bayou for the rest of puddles of mud, twisting in charge of the decor, takes pieces of the doors, stepped inside and computer-generated shapes “junk” — old washing machines, began my journey through the your life? grew and died on the screens, tricycles, window blinds — paints night of the Video Bar. and all the while the eerie music them and decorates the bar with

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them. Matt is in charge of the music and videos and comes up with some The name really “out there” stuff, like S&M, unlike what one sadomasochistic clips of men clad in might think, does not leather, with their hands and ankles ded and their bare butts being stand for sadomasochism., smacked with a whip, and some dips it stands for Scott of hard-core pom that I won’t even and Matt. attempt to describe. They also present local “obscure artists” from time to time, such as the 7th Street Side Show group, which did self-in- flicted torture at a couple of produc­ tions. “The most bizarre thing about it was this guy (from 7th Street Side Show) that I went to high school with put a skewer through his tongue, his eyelids, his nipples,” Matt said. “I was like, man, is this Baton Rouge? Do these people live in Baton Rouge?” he said. But, even though their shows contain controversial material, they have definitely gained in popularity. “Either you like it or you don’t,” Scott said. Scott and Matt met while they were in high school in Louisiana and attribute much of their ideas for the Video Bar from their experiences at that time and from a New Orleans bar called Deja-vu. “You could get any kind of drug you wanted there, you could meet any kind of person there, and new musicians came there. It was very open. It was very cool,” Matt said. “It inspired our ideas, which lead up to the Video Bar,” Scott said. Both men came back to Baton Rouge in 1989 to complete school at LSU during a time they call the King Fish Movement in music. “From 1980 to 1985 was a period of change. A lot of bands were coming to (Baton Rouge), alot more people were being creative with music. From 1985 to 1990 was a stagnant period. It was full of people who looked back on 1985,” Matt said. When they returned to Baton Rouge, Scott and Matt say they found that music and art had be­ come too retrospective. “Things went very stagnant as far as the punk movement, the progressive move­ Scott W hitfield (standing) and M att Castille started putting together their unique blend of audio and visual effects, called the Video Bar, about a year ago. ment,” Matt said. “There was

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nothin’ and it sucked. There wasn’t had a crowd of 750 people,” Matt table. “We said we weren’t being sex­ even cheese — there wasn’t even said. He then describes some very Either ist because before we had had a man people doing cheesy things,” he said. sexually graphic videos that were you like it or with balls the size of church bells on To show their friends how music shown. a flier,” Matt said. Scott said their fli­ and art could be done differently, “People got a little wild at the you don't. ers aren’t meant to offend any par­ they set up a party, much like the party. Women were taking their ticular group, they are simply bizarre Video Bar as it is now, in the back shirts off, men were running around pictures. yard of Scott’s home. Everyone at the bar in only their underwear,” They also say they have received the party was said to be thoroughly Scott said. They remember the next criticism from their fans because entertained and thoroughly im­ day, as they were tearing their set they have diversified their music. pressed. “The back yard party was down, the local Channel 3 News “We play rap, progressive, all kinds, very significant, it was the begin­ came. Then the police came and ar­ even country,” Scott says. “We can’t ning,” Scott said. rested them. “They finger printed make everybody happy. It’s like a From there Scott and Matt de­ us and everything,” Scott said. They band that starts out hard-core under­ cided to go public with their ideas were taken to jail, but no charges ground,” he said. “When the crowd and held their first Video Bar at the were filed, he said. “Since then we starts to diversify, we diversify our Thirsty Tiger bar in Baton Rouge. have had three shows in Lafayette. It music and the hard-core fans say, “We took a bunch of things we was the original shock value that ‘Yuck. Why the hell did they get so found in an alley, painted them made all that happen.” main stream?’” white and put them up in the bar. Another time all of their fliers “Everything we play is so f—ed We called it The White FKN Trash kept getting tom down in one area up that there’s no way people can say Bar,” Scott said. “It really stood for of town. They staked-out the area to it’s main stream,” Matt said. White F— ing Trash Bar, but when see who was tearing the fliers down, They say they’ve also had prob­ people got upset with us, we told and discovered it was a woman who lems with people copying the name them it stood for White Funky said she was from a feminist group. Video Bar as well as people copying Kinky Nasty Trash Bar,” he said. She said the group found the flier their ideas, but say the attempts “We had a bunch of racists come offensive and sexist. The flier was of haven’t been successful. “We’re not in and say, ‘Where’s the white trash?’ a woman who had enormous de­ getting mad at these people, we just and I would point and say, ‘Well, formed breasts. In the picture her want them to be original,” Scott ex­ there’s a white banana peel over bare breasts were shown lying on a plained. there in the comer and some white tricycles,” Matt said. “The music was really loud. It was really hot and smokey. It was fun as shit. It was very raw, very vio­ lent,” Matt said, emphasizing that it was not physically violent. “People were spitting and slam dancing. It was like walking a razorblade, man, where you keep trippin’ on it.” “We have never had any physical violence. We have skin heads, cow­ boys, frat guys — all kinds of people — and everybody meshes. Nobody gets on anybody else. Since then, Scott and Matt have put on more than 27 productions at bars including The Varsity, Bengal, Argon, Metro, Church and other lo­ cal bars, and have taken the Video Bar on tour through several southern states. Although they have done well with the bar, they have had a few rough spots, like first time they took the Video Bar to Lafayette. “We went to a small bible-belt town and Expect the unexpected at any S&M production.

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The crowd that goes to the Video Bar varies from those in tight black lace to those “The only thing that we’re mad wearing 501 's, some are diehard fans, others are just curious. at is that they don’t come up with their own stuff. Don’t copy us, go stick your head in an encyclopedia and do some research. Do some­ thing original. That’s cool,” Matt added. “People can walk into our bar and say, This would be easy.’ It’s not, it’s a lot of hard work,” Scott said. With all of the time and energy they put into the Video Bar, Scott and Matt say they make just enough money from it to live on. Most of their money goes into buying the 700 stamps and envelopes and cop­ ies of letters and video lists that they send to the people on their mailing list. Another big chunk of the profits goes into buying new videos, and into fliers and posters. Even though the profits aren’t huge, Scott and Matt say they enjoy putting on the shows. “What would we be doing if we weren’t doing this? What are you gonna do, go to The Varsity and the Chimes and the Bayou for the rest of your life? We really respect The Var­ sity and the Chimes and those guys. We really appreciate the music they bring in. We just wanted to give people something new,” Matt said. An East Coast tour of S&M Pro­ ductions was planned for December, Scott said, which included the Video Bar, along with Scott and Matt’s band Lailt, and two torture people. The highlight of the tour was New York City. Now, Scott and Matt say that the original Video Bar is coming to an end because their fans now know what to expea. “We’re gonna be here, but we’re going back to our roots,” Scott said. Scott: and Matt are working on other projects for S&M productions for their fans. Women were taking “It’s gonna make the Video Bar their shifts off, men look like the romper room,” Matt says. were running around If there’s one thing that Scott and the bar in only their Matt can do, it’s throw one hell of a underwear. weird party. Romp away, fellahs. 0

SPRING 1 1993 59 FEATURE

Every single class you’ve managed to get into is taught by professors you've been warned to stay aw ay from.

iO 6UMB0 MAGAZINE FEATURE Reggie's Reign o f T e r r o r Each semester thousands of students fight with the phone registration system- Is there a better w ay? By Brian Bordelon

Twice each semester Reggie If only 97% of the classes you want oh-one, section three is full (you comes out of hibernation to offer are full, you are doing well. prick). No other sections are avail­ students firsthand experience in So you finish scheduling your able.” dealing with the impersonal com­ classes. You survey your schedule. When I schedule my classes, I puterized world. O f course, the Two night classes, two 7:30 a.m. want someone on the other end who phone registration system is much classes, one class during lunchtime. I can talk to- someone who cares. preferred to the old system of pull­ Not only that, but every single dass What about those girls who work for ing cards for classes. At least the con­ you’ve managed to get into is taught the 1-900 numbers? Aren’t a few of cept is better. Unfortunately, the by professors you’ve been warned to them looking for more respectable phone registration system can be just stay away from. Consider yourself work? Wouldn’t it be great to have as frustrating. lucky. a soft, sultry voice greet you on the Consider this: you are a fresh­ In today’s fast-paced world of phone as you schedule? “Oh, yes! man, about to schedule classes for immediate news, sports and enter­ Psych 4040. Theory in SEXuality. your second semester in the spring. tainment that pummel the brain 24 When would you like to take it, You pick up the phone. You dial the hours a day, we at LSU are lucky in­ honey?” Talk me through it, get me number. Busy signal. You press re­ deed to have Reggie. Now, you excited about the whole scheduling dial. don’t have to wait until you get into process. Everyone trying to get through at a class to see how you’ll progress on And Reggie’s no sexist. He’s got that moment is doing the exact same your carefully laid-out four-year class all your personal information right thing. Dial. Busy signal. Hangup. schedule. No, now you can watch at his digital fingertips. You girls can Redial. Busy signal. Hangup. Re­ that plan vanish right before your have the man of your dreams recite dial. The phone lines stay tied up eyes as class after class is denied to your schedule back to you all night because of the overuse. you. What’s that? You need Phi­ long. You finally get through to the losophy 1000 this semester so you Reggie could even show interest system. It informs you that you are can take other classes which apply to in your specific major, adding that caller number six and you are put on your major in the fall? Sorry. It’s much-needed personal touch to our hold. After waiting several minutes, full. You need a specific dass as a career decisions. You’ve just entered the system hangs up on you. You prerequisite? It’s full? Oh well, the engineering curriculum, and keep trying. there’s always summer school. you’re feeling a little nervous about You finally get through to Reggie Don’t worry. Next year you’ll be in the course load. As you try to sched­ himself. He allows you to enter your your college and then you can sched­ ule Dynamics, the voice of Scottie of codes. You are about to make your ule those freshmen courses before vintage Star Trek fame comes over first class selection. Suddenly the the incoming freshmen can. Isn’t the line. “Three engineering courses system informs you that the com­ that comforting? on Thursday? I don’t think your puter system is not available at this I think that if we have to deal schedule can take much more!” Po­ with Reggie, we should at least enjoy litical Saence students would have Thousands of time. It hangs up. wires permit the After you get through once again, the experience. Whose voice is that statistical polls of student success Reggie system to the computer allows you to get even anyway? Have you ever heard a read back to them. handle up to 5 9 further: you begin class selection. more condescending tone? You can And, of course, if you didn’t get calls before giving Now’s your chance to see if you pos­ almost hear him laughing at you. the classes you wanted during the caller number 6 0 What’s he thinking? “English ten- regular registration period, there is a busy signal. sess some type of cosmic good luck.

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I want students, but they can hardly be someone on blamed. Other than during finals, Richard Richard Knight phone registration is perhaps the one the other end time when students show a real exu­ who I can talk berance and enthusiasm for their to... what academic careers. Expectations soar, catalogue descriptions make classes about those sound interesting, and for some, the girls who work end peaks over the horizon. It’s hard for the 1-900 to keep things in perspective when Reggie allows you a chance to fulfill numbers? all your academic dreams. Of course, he can then shoot them down with a mere click and a dial tone. Students realize just how vul­ nerable their schedules are, and want to protect them in any way possible, even if that means trying to schedule twenty-one hours when you have two jobs. Reggie can be as addictive as the lottery. But when used cor- rectly and wisely, it can be much more rewarding

This is the Infamous Reggie? The voice you hear over the telephone lines is generated from this Voice Pac, located in David Boyd.

that telephone marathon free-for-all “W ” up to a week afterward that. known as the add/ drop period the Plenty of vacancies become avail­ first week of classes. A nine-day long able, but too late. ray of hope shines feebly on thou­ One solution to this problem sands of students determined to get could be that students who are really out of that early morning class with serious about getting into a certain the four-page syllabus. Desperation class should be allowed to enter that reaches a new level here. There have class even ifit is full. As seats become actually been ads in the Daily Reveille available, they could take them, even Classifieds where students offer to after the add period If no seat be­ pay money to anyone dropping par­ comes available throughout the en­ ticular courses so they can get in. tire semester, the student should get Nothing could be more dishearten­ credit for auditing the course. It is ing than having to remain in a dass little compensation, but at least you tried so hard to get out of for 14 dedication is rewarded in some way. more weeks. Besides, more often than not, a seat Why are classes so hard to get will become available. Which is bet­ into? One reason is that students ter for a student on a tight academic planning to take only 12 hours will schedule, anyway? Auditing a dass schedule 18 anyway, so they can he/she will need later or taking noth­ choose which courses they want to ing at all? Or even worse, being keep. Another problem is that stu­ forced to take some draining, time- dents who decide to drop a course consuming elective that the student wait until the last possible day to do does not need for their require­ so. The add period only lasts about ments. nine days, but students may drop The old way of registering for classes... the old pull-card The main problems with system. Reggie is definitely more high-tech, but do we miss classes without receiving a dreaded Reggie occur through its misuse by that human contact?

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6 S C i f a n e Ch m e l a S SPORTS

October lOtlv Ben Hill Stadium at Florida Field

▲Jamie Howard threw for 339 yards, sixth most ever in a game by an LSU QB. He also threw for two touchdowns. ▲Scott Ray broke two personal career records with 8 catches in one game for 125 yards. ▼The Gators passed for tv Franz Stove 285 yards against the Tiger defense. Bo Davis tackles a Florida Gator from behind.

October 17th Tiger Stadium

▼Kentucky held the ball for over 40 minutes of the game. ▼The Tiger defense allowed 226 yards of rushing by the Wildcats. ▲Jamie Howard threw for 218 yards and one touchdown. ▲Scott Ray caught six passes for 99 yards. ▲Wes Jacobs caught four passes for 51 yards, including one touchdown reception of 33 yards. He Jamie Howard improved his streak of just gets off his catching passes to 15 pass before Kentucky's Dean games. W ells doses in.

it GUMBO MAGAZINE Gumbo file With the disastrous 1992season behind them, Head Coach Curley Hallman and Offensive Coordinator MikeBugar is tolook aheadto the 1993season. ▲Quarterback Jamie ▲LSU's fourth-down ▲Free safety Ivory ▲Free safety Hilliard ▼TheRebels had drives of ▲TheHalloween Night straight straight game. beingsacked thirdfor the hisoffensive line, avoided convertedtheagainst conversion ratio increased Howard with the help the with ofHoward Rebels. 11 with one ofoftwo 9 to season.ofthe interceptedhis secondpass as a 41 yard pass against yard pass 41 a as touchdowns. the Tiger defense for 47 and 93 yards, as well as yards, and93 47 schools continues. traditionrival the between Mississippi Memorial October31 Stadium Alabama's AntonioLondon, JohnCopeland and Eric Curry bringdown LSU's Robert Davisin thebackfield. prs nomto Sas opld y ra Bordelon Brian by Compiled Stats Information Sports P I G 1993 SPRING 1 igers worst season ever at 2-9 - 2 t a r e v e n o s a e s t s r o w r i e h t d e d r o c e r s r e g Ti SPORTS

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CAMPUS EVENTS

Critic and author Louis D. Rubin Jr. (left) spoke at November 20 ceremonies marking the acquisi­ tion of the two-millionth book by the LSU Libraries. The symbolic volume is a rare 15 th century illumi­ nated medieval prayer book, con­ taining the canonical offices of the Romaan Catholic liturgy. LSU Li­ braries originated in the 1860’s with the establishment of the seminary of learning and military academy that would later become LSU. (Photo by Lisa Hollister)

PREVIOUS PAGE A sold-out stage perfor­ mance of Fiddler on the Roof played to LSU audiences in the LSU Union Theatre October 24. The musical was presented by the LSU Union Lively Arts Commit­ The Fourth Annimadon Celebration was presented tee as part of the Great on November 12-15 in the LSU Union Colonnade. Performances Series. Films like this are chosen each semester by the LSU (Photo Courtesey of Martin Photography) Union Films Committee. (Photo Courtesey of Ex­ panded Entertainment)

On November 30, the unlikely political couple of Mary Matalin and Jim Carville made their first public appearance together since the presi­ dential election in the LSU Union Colonnade. Matalin was political director of President George Bush’s campaign while Carville was a key strategist in Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton’s bid for the presidency. The reunited couple’s visit was spon­ sored by the LSU Department of Political Science. (Photo by Salem Chenefi)

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"Tales From the Chocolate City," was presented by the Union Black Cul­ ture Committee October 25. The one-day-only performance in the Union Cotillion Room was a play about life in the city starring Liz Holden, Dameckus George, Julian West and Ladada Mouton.

The 1992 International Expo, “The Rythym of Nations,” was held Novem­ ber 1 at the LSU Maravich Assembly Center. The Expo featured the music, food, art, costumes and heritage of over 40 countries. The 1992 Expo was sponsored by the LSU Union Interna­ tional Committee and the Student Government Association. (Photo by Tess Bruney)

The Student Government Association presented the third annual LSU Jazz Festival on November 7 at the LSU Greek Theatre. For his third con­ secutive year, Mark Cohn, “Dr. Jazz” to his KLSU radio audience, hosted the event. Canned goods were collected from participants and the audience alike, to give to the Baton Rouge Food Bank. The event was designed as a “tail gate party” before the LSU vs. Alabama football game at Tiger Stadium. (Photo by Tess Bruney)

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Something in the room coaxed Another first. quick run to the corner store for a Kurt back to consciousness. It “I’m too old for this shit,” he cold one, but once outside he ran might have been the light streaming murmured as he stood shaking and into a slight problem. His car was in through the naked window or the sweating from the strain. “God, why gone. He checked behind the garage heat radiating from his body. What­ do I do this to myself? Don’t answer and looked both ways up and down ever the culprit, it made his left eye that.” the street-no car. pop open and then squint shut He listened to the house sounds Just then, the resident asshole against the brightness. At first he for a moment and realized what had from next door stepped out on his was unable to turn his head away woke him-the silence. He checked porch and called to him. “Lose from the intrusion and when he fi­ the rooms as he went down the hall. something, Kurt?” nally moved, the pain and light were They were empty, but more than “No man, just checking the unrelenting. Next, the heat became empty the rooms appeared to have weather.” a major factor in his discomfort. been quickly abandoned. An army The annoyance walked a little The reem was cool but the head ra­ in flight, all had been left in great closer and leaned on the rusting diating from his body formed a thin haste: beds unmade, lights on in the chain-link fence. “I thought maybe field around him. When he moved bathroom, toys scattered on the liv­ you were looking for your car. You out of the field, the drop in tempera­ ing room floor, dishes in the sink. know, the one the wrecker dragged ture sent a chill through him. With­ Kurt saw the empty scotch bottle away after you smashed it up. Man, out trying to open his eyes, he did a on the kitchen table and the attached I ain’t never seen so much smoke progressive body check. Starting note. pouring out of a car that was still with his toes, he checked as many “You’ve made your choice. I running.” joints, limbs and muscle groups as he wish you misery together.” “Thanks, Mady. I hope your could without actually moving It wasn’t signed. Maria didn’t children grow up queer.” He turned them. He knew his neck was not have to, Kurt recognized the hand­ to go back inside. The sunlight hurt broken but the degree of throbbing writing, and if not the hand, the in­ and he really needed to remember and the waves of nausea pointed to­ tent of the note. He sat heavily in what had happened to his car. wards a possible concussion. A the kitchen chair and tried to focus “Maria took the kids with her, steady stream of sweat rolled down on the little spot between the bottle didn’t she,” said Mady. He just his brow and pooled on the sticky and infinity. would not let up. “I saw her and her vinyl of the couch. It was already 11:30 a.m., but sister loading the car. No wife, no Several minutes dragged into an Kurt had no place to hurry off to. kids, no car. Tough life, eh sport?” hour. With a slow, unsteady motion He had been laid off from his most Kurt flipped him off without Kurt swung his feet to the floor and recent engineering job several days looking back. The whole exchange once again surveyed the damage he before; ‘Due to a significant reap­ made him feel nauseated again. He had inflicted upon himself. His pale portionment in staffing require­ really could not remember about the bare feet stuck out from the legs of ments to meet the changing market car, but at least now he knew where his once gray slacks, now stained and conditions.’ He wasn’t sure how his wife and kids were. streaked with darker shades of gray many days it had been since he had He found his last-resort bottle and brown of unknown origin. His gotten the news. He was the only camouflaged in an old, dirty sock best, yet slightly frayed, t-shirt clung member of his team to be released behind the washing machine. The to his damp skin, the collar dis­ and it had been totally unexpected. pint bottle was three-quarters tended as though he had been rough The anger started to grow even as he empty. Kurt poured the remaining housing with his sons. From the began to think of his boss. That fat, liquid into a clean tumbler filled coffee table he fished a cigarette out An army in greasy, son of a bitch. That’s O.K., with ice. He hoped there was of the pile of papers, plastic cups and flight, all had when I’m done with him, he’ll regret enough to keep the Dragon at bay the day he ever decided to screw with while he decided what to do next. overflowing ashtrays. His attempt to been left in light the thing was interrupted by a me. Kurt let the coldness of the glass pen­ coughing fit that forced him back great haste: The anger rose in him and dis­ etrate his hands. For a brief mo­ into the couch, grasping his knees beds unmade, placed all other emotions and feel­ ment, he thought about his wife and and assuming the fetal position as lights on in the ings, save one. He wanted a drink. children, but the howeling Dragon the pain crushed his chest. Nausea The bar in the den was empty, it had came in and forced the sentimental gripped him and he ran to the bath­ bathroom, toys been empty for some time now, but thoughts to flee. In one quick mo­ room where he retched a small quan­ scattered on he always checked there first on the tion he tossed the drink down his tity of bile and blood into the sink. the living room outside chance that he had missed a throat and swallowed twice. The The bright red blood frightened him botde stashed away for hard times. first spasm forced the liquor back as floor, disnes and he quickly washed it down the He slipped on an old pair of yard fast as it had gone down. The spittle, drain. It had never been this bad. in the sink. shoes and walked outside to make a booze and associated fluids covered

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the table and facing chairs. Kurt like a disillusioned revolutionary ex­ pushed away from the table in a fit pounding the stale rhetoric of a of uncontrollable coughing. He failed cause. Pain had the upper clutched his throat and slid off the hand at the moment and it was only chair to his knees. Recovering when Kurt expressed Kurt that Pain slowly, he rose till his eyes were level took a tentative step back, though it with the table top where he stopped was only half the distance from and eyed the glass suspiciously. It where it had come. stood motionless, waiting for his With room to breathe, Kurt fi­ next assault. The beaded humidity nally struggled back into the chair. clung to the clear, crystalline wall of He sat for a long time with his hands glass. Kurt rose to his knees and dangling between his knees. A long pulled the glass closer. He hovered time ago, buried in his past, some­ over its rim sniffing lightly, afraid to one had told him that in situations take too big a whiff. In a moment, like these, it was his job to do the the smell of ether came through. next right thing. The thought Kurt exploded into a primordial, flashed across once and then lodged guttural scream. “ The bitch! She’s in his mind. The only trouble was, trying to poison me!” He heaved the he did not know what the next right conspiratorial glass against the far thing was. He sat some more. His wall and saw it disintegrate into a mind made a valiant attempt to clear million shards of leaded sand. The and function. After several false effort sent him into another cough­ starts, it produced what it believed to ing fit. be the next right thing, the sugges­ When the haze cleared, he was tion of a shower. still on the kitchen floor, on his The water was hot, the soap hands and knees. The tears caused burned his eyes and felt good. Kurt by the coughing refused to stop even scrubbed his body gendy. There after the spasms had subsided. His were slight bruises here and there heavy breathing turned to sobs and that, like the stains on his pants, were he rolled onto his side. The tears of unknown origin. He needed a kept coming and his mind locked shave and managed a once—around up, refusing to proceed on any other lightly, scraping away the thick track but the one it had chosen. stubble with a dull razor and thin Kurt felt the intruder slowly take foam. His throat was spared. over his body. He felt it cover him A steady stream of thoughts ran and seep into his being. Then it circles in his head. The Little Bitty spoke its name. Pain. Committee was called into session. Pain owned him body and soul. They presented evidence of his de­ Pain was a part of him. Pain was the bauchery and gave hints to the thread that held him together. Pain events of the past seventy-two hours. was what filled all of the empty Nothing was clearly noted and only spaces where Love and Hope had fragments came forward to testify. For a brief been. Pain numbed him to the out­ Pain was kept in the wings while the moment, he side world and overshadowed his in­ Committee held court. The litany thought about terior self. Pain showed him no ran on as such: the fight with his quarter and demanded total accep­ wife, the terrible things said, the his wife and tance in return. Pain spoke to him curses exchanged, the long dead re­ children, but in whispers-the muted whispers of a sentments revived... He could not the howeling scorned lover. Pain promised him recall the exact points of disagree­ relief and offered him a way out-the ment His 16-year-old daughter was Dragon came whispered promises of a good whore present and more awful things were in and forced gone bad. said, accusations were tossed the sentimental Kurt’s Self spoke loudly and about..Again his memory failed brashly in his defense, railing against thoughts to him. His little boys were crying and Pain’s way out. But Self fell short. pleading, frightened. The Commit­ flee. Self lacked conviction. Self sounded tee issued the verdict: remorse and

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an overwhelming sense of impend­ You gotta get a grip, buddy, said see Maria. I have to talk to her.” ing doom. Self. This shit is going to kill us one “I don’t think that’s a good idea After the shower and another of these days. right now.” quiet time thinking, Kurt held true What do you know? answered “Man, I can’t believe this stuff is to the only piece of advice that the Committee. happening. When that fat son-of-a- seemed sound. The next right thing The phone rang, sending Kurt bitch canned me, well, I just lost it.” was to clean up the mess he had crawling for the night table. He an­ “Aw shit, I don’t like the way this made in the kitchen. The effort swered slowly, afraid of who it was is going, this is like the guy with the made him sweat and tremble. A and praying it was the one he feared. dog and the bam and the horse and quick look in the refrigerator and the He sat in the dark with the phone in all that. What else?” sight of food sent him back to the his lap waiting for his senses to adjust “Maria filed for a court bathroom. Every few minutes, he to the darkness. inujunction to keep you away. took a break and waited for Sanity to The voice was strong and spoke George did up those papers today, » tell him what to do next. The con­ in hushed tones. “Kurt? Hello, too. stant reply was that he stay the Kurt? You there?” “Shit man, what else can hap­ course. “Yeah, Ray. What’s going on?” pen?” He cleaned the den and put his “Hey, I just wanted to let you “I don’t know, Bud, but if Maria soiled clothes in the wash. The smell know Maria and the kids are over finds out I squealed, she’s gonna tell of himself on the clothes triggered here.” Sue and that’s my ass, so keep it the shakes and nausea. Periodic dry “Yeah, my asshole neighbor told quiet.” heaves interrupted the work flow. me...Can I talk to her?” “Ray, I don’t want to cause any He finished the bathroom and put “No, I don’t think that’s too trouble between you and your wife. away the last toys before moving to good an idea right now. She’s done Can you talk to Sue? Ask her to talk his room. He changed the fedd in.” some sense into her sister. I have to sheets on his bed, perhaps she would “Does she know you’re calling?” see Maria and apologize.” come home. The thought was “Hell no, Maria and Sue would “Kurt, I don’t think that’s going dashed by Pain, seconded by the both have my ass,” he said, a litde to work. Sue dialed George’s num­ Committee. Distraught, Kurt col­ too loudly. “Look, Kurt, I thinkyou ber for Maria. Look, I gotta go. lapsed in the coolness of his covers need to know something. Maria Why don’t you get a good night’s and covered his head for protection. called George Fulton this afternoon. sleep. I’ll call you tomorrow.” Sleep came quickly and with it, She’s getting him to draw up the “Thanks, Ray. I appreciate the the dreams. The Committee was papers.” help” still at work, distorting the real and “Crap. I have to talk to her. I “Kurt, you have to do something teasing what litde sanity dared creep have to explain.” about the booze. Man, you did so in. Kurt tossed and turned, sweated “Kurt, she’s sleeping. She was up good when you weren’t drinking. and drooled. No position was com­ all night last night. Dr. Stringer gave You were almost a pleasure to be fortable. Time inched forward, in her something to calm her down. around. Why don’t you get back due course he climbed deeper into Do you understand what I’m say­ with them fellas. Maybe they can sleep and was still at last. ing?” help you out again. We love you, Much too soon he woke again to “Yeah, I understand. How are Bud, take care.” the silence. It was dark outside and the kids?” The phone went dead in his in. Starded, he lunged from the bed “The litde guys are all right, but hand. and fell flat on the floor, terrified, Elly is real upset. You know you Kurt leaned back against the bed. hurt and disoriented. He was soak­ broke that boy’s nose.” He closed his eyes and waited, but ing wet with sweat and the Commit­ “Nose? What are you talking after all their activity, the Commit­ tee was having a head-banging ses­ about?” tee, Pain, and Self nad all fallen si­ sion for laughs. He stripped to his “You don’t remember?” lent, leaving Kurt to his own designs. boxers and sat on the floor wonder­ “Hell, Ray. I don’t remember Kurt’s brain shifted into action ing how he had gotten this far. Kurt rose to his shit from last night. Whose nose did before his body did. He was hungry. No, he had an empty feeling in his Slowly the events of the partial day knees and I break? Not that litde shit Elly righted themselves in his mind. hangs around with?” stomach and he wanted fbod-it The next right thing did not pulled the glass “Yeah, that’s the one. You wasn’t the same. The food in the seem like the right thing to do just closer. ..In a knocked the crap out of him for refrigerator was less repulsive this then. He needed a drink. A shower moment, the some reason or other. Kurt, do you time around. There was ham and was out of the question, it would understand what I’m telling you?” cheese, mustard and mayo, all the smell of ether only reminded him of how broken “Ray, I ain’t drunk. I’m sick as fixings for a good sandwich. He he was. came through. shit, but I ain’t drunk. Ray, I gotta washed it all down with cold milk.

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At first his stomach rebelled, but the himself to tell her. He had never uprising was quelled by the liquid. learned to love or to trust. How The gang in his head had not re­ could he? He grew up and lived in a appeared, but had sent a capable world surrounded by people j ust like emissary, Fatigue. Fatigue was as him. He could not give what he intrusive as Pain, but more subde. It didn’t have and he could not do always prepared the way for the rest what he had never been taught to do. of the boys without appearing to do He sat in bed holding his knees to so. Fatigue lulled him into believing his chest, gendy rocking back and he could rest. It made his bones and forth. Pain had a father, too. When joints hurt. It made everything else Pain was put in his place the father seem postponable. came in to carry on. The father’s Kurt slept for a couple of hours name was Fear, Self-Centered Fear. before springing to life again. His The Committee worked for Fear, heart hammered against his chest Pain adored him, and Self was no wall. He was soaked in sweat and his match for his power. Now Fear had whole body twitched in alternating Kurt, and all he could do was sit and phases. The dreams had come back watch his life turn to shit. truer than before: He was driving, Two Bishops were buried be­ there was an accident, his wife and tween the Cathedral and the Parish children were left dying all around Hall, buried among azaleas and yel­ him. There were lights and sirens. low roses. The twin buildings and The next thing he saw was the inside several small crepe myrtles shaded of a cell. He knew what cells looked the benches around the grave sites. like, he had been there before. Be­ A light wind constandy swept the fore all of the really bad things area. Kurt sat on one of the benches, started happening, he had been staring at the raised marble tombs thrown in jail for a D.U.I. that was and the simple inscriptions. He was not his fault. The judge had sen­ tired and longed for the Bishop’s tenced him to time in AA He had tranquility. The walk from home stayed with it far longer than he had had taken longer that he had ex­ to. Then he quit the program. pected. He had stopped once for There was no good reason, he just cigarettes, but the cold beer in the quit. Not long after, he started cooler had driven him away without drinking again. He started slowly at his other addiction. His mind was first, but then things quickly snow­ locked up again, the brood silent, balled and he found himself far leaving him to fend for himself. worse than before. He had seen the “Long time no see,” said the inside of several cells since the ride sofdy cheerful voice. had started again. Kurt looked up into the sun­ The digital clock told him that he framed face of Jimmy the Rose. He EDITOR'S n o te : had at least three-and-a-half hours blinked several times and said, “Yeah before daylight Then what? How well, it’s taken a litde while to get me Thanks to all who submit* could he explain to Maria what he back.” The sun hurt his eyes and he ted entries. was going through. How could he looked away. The winning story was explain to Maria what he was going Every few Jimmy sat next to him without judged on the basis o f original­ through. How could he tell her minutes, he invitation. He hummed sofdy for a ity, style and content. about all of the people in his head. minute then said, “I like coming Gumbo Magazine wel­ Maria wanted something the he took a break early. It gives me a chance to idle comes submissions for publica­ could not give. Everyone in his life and waited for down, clear out the trash,"Jimmy tion from students. wanted something that he was inca­ Sanity to tell waved his hand across the scene, pable of delivering. How could he him what to do “and smell the flowers.” They just Send entries to: give what he did not possess? how sat. Gumbo Magazine do could he tell her that he did not next. The The church bells chimed five Office o f Student Media know how to give, how to love, how constant reply minutes before the hour and Jimmy B -39 Hodges Hall to feel anything but bad. She would was that he got up. Kurt looked up into his now LSU never understand about the Pain serious face. “You coming inside?” Baton Rouge, LA 70803 and Fear, and he could never bring stay the course. asked Jimmy.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 R e a c h o u t ers where vital water freely flowed. Southern University, UNO, New tech companies now are locat­ McNeese, SLU, Louisiana Tech, and other state universities are ing near good universities where t o h e l p ideas freely flow. Louisiana must sources of ideas and research that can recognize that these “new Tech” become job-producing industries companies want to locate near re- and attract new businesses, if we t h e search-active universities. continue to support higher educa­ The crisis we face today in Loui­ tion. siana is not just in education. It is a Our universities are important to h u n g r y crisis for the future as we prepare for our future because they prepare us a spurt‘n step into the new economy for the spurts ‘n steps of a new of the 21st century. economy. As in the past, we will rely on a I like potato chips and I’m thank­ natural resource and new technolo­ ful for every job they create. But gies. But we must build future in­ chips aren’t just chips. GREATER BATON dustries that rely on Louisiana’s ROUGE most important natural resource, its people and their intellectual capa­ bilities and creative energies. F o o d LSU, the Pennington Biomedi­ cal Research Center, the center for B a n k Microstructure and Devices, USL,

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Some seasons are over, while others are just getting started.

Compiled from LSU Sports Information Briefs Sports Information

Tess Sulatycki hits the ball over the net past her misjudging opponent.

Moore, and Katherine Signorelli, Their next game, against Florida LSU volleyball coach J. Scott were named to the SEC All-Aca­ State, the Lady Tigers lost the cham­ Luster is on the verge of establishing demic team. pionship game in the Dial Classic at a dynasty. His three SEC tides in the Tallahassee, Florida, by a score of last four years and his two consecu­ 79-59. tive NCAA Final Four appearances Cornelia Gayden and Roberta have the Tigers ranked among the The Lady Tigers won their LaCaze were both named to the Dial volleyball elite. .fourth straight and 10 out of last 11 Classic All-Tournament team. Angie Miller and Dani Reis season openers with a 100-55 win Gayden averaged 23.5 points and picked up All-SEC and All-Tourna­ over Southeastern Louisiana De­ 10.5 rebounds for the tournament, ment awards. Venessa Hackett and cember 1. while LaCaze averaged 13.5 points Tess Sulatycki were chosen to be on “It was the kind of game we and 2.5 rebounds. the second team All-SEC. Sulatycki, needed to start ofFwith,” said coach along with Bonnie Gaudin, Joanne Sue Gunter.

78 GUMBO MAGAZINE at 5-0 while the men are 4-1. With the appearance of freshman Craig Ford and Lucy Findlay and the steady foundation of Tiger veterans, the LSU aquatics program has a strong start to finishing with an over­ all winning season. GOLF The. LSU men’s golf team fin­ ished sixth in the Tennessee Touma- ment of Champions on October 5. The tournament was shortened on account of rain. In other action this year, the Ti­ gers finished second at the USA/Ja­ pan Friendship Tournament and second once again in the Jack Nicklaus Intercollegiate. 0 prs Information Sports

Geert Hammink looks to scoop a loose ball away from Mercer's Mike Kennedy. ur Holden Audra

MEN'S BASKETBALL The Tigers won the 15 th open­ ing game in Dale Brown’s 21 years as LSU scored an 83-72 victory over McNeese State on December 1 in the Maravich Assembly Center. The team went on to score two more wins in the opening week of their season: 92-65 over Southeast­ ern Louisiana on December 3, and 82-48 over Mercer December 5. After their win over Mercer, the Tigers raised their Points off Steals average with 13 points for the 12 steals against Mercer. For the season so far, the Tigers have scored 28 points off 31 steals, an average of 0.90 points per steal. The goal for the P.O. S. is 1.00 points per steal, with 1.5 considered excellent. S W IM M ING AND DIVING Through the first half of the sea­ LSU Rugby, a little4;nown sport on oampus, plays tough against the defense of the son, the Lady Tigers are undefeated U NO rugby team.

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R e s e a r c h Louisiana State University holds a

prominent position in American higher

n o t e s . . . education. In 1978, LSU was named a Compiled from LSU News Service Briefs sea-grant college. There are only 25 Divorce and W omen Phosphogypsum is created dur­ Today’s divorrcing young ing the manufacturing of wet-pro- universities in the country recognized as women should not expect to be cess phosphoric acid, the basic mate­ much better off economically than rial in the production of multi-nutri- both land and sea-grant institutions. In their counterparts from 25 years ago, ent fertilizers. according to an LSU sociologist. Some alternatives uses for the 1987, LSU was designated a Research Pamela Smock’s research is otherwise-stockpiled by-product are unique in that she has traced the eco­ as a fertilizer, a road-base material, an University I, which puts it in the top two nomic consequences of divorce for additive for concrete, and in the con­ women in their 20’s over the years. struction of artificial reefs, said Ron percent o f the nations colleges and “We’ve been hearing that Malone, LSU civil engineering asso­ women are better off in general, that ciate professor. universities. There are only 70 universi­ they have more economic indepen­ Malone, the principal researcher dence,” said Smock. “If that is true, in one of the university’s ties in America that hold this honor. then the costs of divorce should have phosphogypsum recycling studies, decreased over time, but I’m disap­ Chuck Wilson of LSU oceanogra­ pointed to say that they haven’t.” phy and coastal sciences and John Two groups were compared in Fleeger of zoology and physiology the study. One group consisted of are focusing on the uses of the by­ men and women who seperated or product in artificial reefs. They hope divorced between the late 1960’s to help solve several of Louisiana’s and mid-1970’s. The other had problems if they can prove that the people who split up during the material is safe in the production of 1980’s. The results were the same in aquatic environments. both groups: while the men’s eco­ nomic status improved or stayed Decontam inating Soils about the same, women lost almost LSU-based Electrokinetics Inc. half of their family income after the was awarded a Small Business Inno­ divorce. vative Research grant from the U.S. “However prepared women may Department of Defense to enhance increasingly be for marital disrup­ the company’s research in decon­ tion, it is not in ways sufficient to taminating soil. cushion its economic costs,” Smock Electricity is used to force water says. Professional working women through soils, even clay, to help rinse who delay marriage may not fit into away contaminants. This electricity, this catagory, but Smock still be­ however, causes metal contaminants lieves there are universal implica­ to clog the soil in some places. This tions in her research. can be remedied with the use of a weak acid, say researchers. Recycling Phosphogypsum “This project could have a major LSU researchers, with funding impact on the growing waste from Freeport McMoRan Corp., are remediation industry,” said Charles John Echols (plaid shirt), Director of ihe LSU Basin Research studying possible alternative uses for D’Agostino, executive director of Instifcjte, keeps a watchful eye on his crew as they take a 500- foot research core in an old field for reservoir characterization. the industrial waste by-product the Louisiana Business and Technol­ The institute's researchers recently found sands in the ground phosphogypsum. ogy Center at LSU. H that indicate the potential for oil reservoirs in the area.

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T h e G u m b o M a g a z i n e s t a f f t h a n k s a l l o f OUR CONTRIBUTORS. WE COULDN’T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT YOU! GumboNTRIBUTORS

ROBERT AUCOIN APRIL REDMOND Robert is a nonmatriculating Grad April, a freshman, is an aspiring student at LSU, with his B.S. in novelist who hopes to make a lot of pharmacy from LSU, as well. “Yet” is money someday. Robert’s first contribution to the Gumbo. Robert says that he wishes L IS A W E S T he’d been as dedicated to his classes as Lisa is a freshman who is a member of an undergraduate as he is now. Sigma Kappa sorority. Lisa was a staff writer for the Gumbo last fall, but WENDY MCMAHON decided she’d rather have fame and Wendy is a second-semester freshman glory on this page than our measly at LSU. This is Wendy’s second time paycheck. as a Gumbo Magazine contributor. DARREN WEXLER B E N W A L S H Darren is a professional exister doing Ben is a charming-sounding Brit who the “English thang.” He fakes playing took off for a week with his fellow keyboards with a Blues band around chum from England, Richard, to see town. Always check under the couch the sights and sounds o fAmerica - in for him. Darren is brought to you by Chicago. the letter “J.”

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S om ething for E veryone

P h o t oh o r nG u m b oF i l m Live Downstream,” in the Union. The organization held elections and continued their recycling program efforts in the Department of Geog­ raphy and Anthropology.

German Club The German Club held its first annual Oktoberfest last semester. Many dubs sign This event featured traditional and up to dean the contemporary German music, stadium the Bratwurst, German potato salad, morning after home football sauerkraut, homemade pretzels, and, games to raise of course, beer. money for their organizations. Kappa Alpha Theta During the month of October, Kappa Alpha Theta was an active Alpha lam bda Delta Saturday, November 14. Armed participant in the Charity Mara­ The LSU Alpha Lambda Delta with cleaning supplies donated by thon. The Marathon week ended freshman academic honor society Facility Services, the volunteers were with a huge Pantry Raid, a food was nationally recognized in Octo­ able to wipe out most of the offend­ drive for the Baton Rouge Food ber for its outstanding activities in ing words, phrases, and drawings. Bank. Also in October, Theta held the 1991-92 academic year. The a Halloween party for abused chil­ group had demonstrated excellence Delta Sigma Pi dren from Parker House. The chil­ in the areas of internal communica­ The Beta Zeta Chapter of Delta dren came to the sorority house to tion, programming and campus vis­ Sigma Pi initiated 14 new members carve pumpkins and trick-or-treat to ibility. This allowed the honor soci­ on November 15. The following individual rooms. ety to be one of two chapters week was Homecoming. Members Theta actively participated in awarded the Order of the Torch by worked hard all week preparing their Homecoming week festivities, its national organization. Homecoming banner entitled, “The which included and extensive scav­ Tradition Might Continue.” Mem­ enger hunt and decorating for Baptist Student Union bers also participated in the Home­ Homecoming weekend. Last semester, the Baptist Stu­ coming Games, LSU Runaround, In December, Theta held their dent Union sponsored many activi­ and the best Male Golden Girl Big Sister/Little Sister Christmas ties to promote Christian growth Contest. Delta Sigma Pi finished party and another party for the chil­ and fellowship. One such event was first place overall in the non-residen- dren of Parker House. the Revival held November 3-5- tial group in Homecoming. The BSU also continued to have Kappa Omicron Nu weekly Bible Studies, T-N-T (A Geography and The LSU chapter of Kappa Omi­ time of fellowship, singing, skits and Anthropology Society cron Nu, an honorary home eco­ worship), and lunch on Mondays The Geography and Anthropol­ nomics organization, held its initia­ and Thursdays. ogy Society began Geography tion for new members in October. Awareness Week (November 15-21) The organization continues to fur­ Circle K International by co-sponsoring a lecture by Profes­ ther its orientation on research by LSU Circle K organized an effort sor Steven Jett entitled, “Before Co­ sponsoring a research project/ paper to clean the tables, desks and carrels lumbus: The Question of Early contest. of Middleton Library of graffiti. Transoceanic Interinfluences.” The Members of the dub, along with group also provided information L o u is ia n a representatives from other campus about Mississippi River pollution, Home Economics organizations and students from the distributed a geography quiz, Association Student Holocaust class, met at the library showed slides, and the film, “We All M ember Section

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LSU organizations offer a variety of activities to suit anyone’s tastes.

ht b Ada Holden Audra by Photo of Veterinary Medicine sponsored Last semester, Sigma Alpha dog washes every other week last fall. members held a Trick-or-Treat for The cost varied according to the size students at the Louisiana School for of the dog. In December, the group the Deaf. Members also cleaned the sponsored Pet Photos with Santa. two mile stretch of Jefferson High­ All proceeds of SCAVMA’s way that had been adopted by the Anchor Splash is fundraisers go toward the School of organization. The dean-up efforts an activity that brings together Veterinary Medicine’s end-of-the- in Middleton Library were also par­ members of the year scholarship awards. ticipated in by Sigma Alpha mem­ Greek system to bers. raise money for Scotch Guard Della Gamma's Scotch Guard celebrated the Sigma Kappa local philan­ thropy, the 30th anniversary of its founding on Sigma Kappa sorority celebrated Louisiana School November 27. Through the 118 years of tradition with the an­ for the Visually months of October and November, nual Week of Giving. Held from Impaired. members volunteered at the Our November 2-7, the week sported Lady of the Lake Medical Center in spedal activities each day promoting the pediatric unit. On Veteran’s sisterhood and Greek unity. Activi­ The Louisiana Home Economics Day, Scotch Guard participated in ties induded a picnic in the quad for Association Student Member Sec­ the program honoring U.S. veterans all sisters, a Panhellenic/IFC Ice tion, held three meetings during the in the Union and contributed the Cream Sodal, and lunch at the fall semester. Two guest speakers annual wreath to the Memorial Oak house for Sigma Kappa’s and their participated in the fall meetings: a Grove behind the Union. Members favorite teachers. Money generated Gayle House representative, who also helped out on Tiger Day, show­ by selling gumbo dinners and gour­ spoke on the topic of adoption; and ing prospective students around met lollipops was donated to the Diane Mayer, of Mayer Company campus and answering questions Sigma Kappa philanthropy, Clothiers, who spoke about career about LSU. Alzheimer’s Disease Research. dressing and the fashion market. These two speakers helped fulfill the Sigma Alpha Zeta Tau Alpha state’s Program ofWork topics: Di­ Sigma Alpha celebrated their The sisters of Zeta Tau alpha verse Families and Investment in third year anniversary at LSU on worked hard to complete the 8th Youth. A group service project con­ October 29. As a birthday celebra­ annual Men of LSU calendar. All sisting of a stuffed animal sale raised tion, a dinner was held for chapter proceeds from the project benefit $2567.50 to benefit the women of members, who toasted to many their philanthropy, the Susan G. St. Gabriel’s correctional facility.' more successful years at LSU. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. LSU Sailing Club

It’s a breezy afternoon and several Houghton Paul byPhoto sailboats can be seen on University Lake. The LSU Sailing Club is out practicing for one of its many up­ coming regattas, where members travel around the South, competing against some of the best schools in the nation. Blood drives are Student Chapter just one w ay American Veterinary organizations can Medical Association give back to the community. The Student Chapter American Here, a volunteer Veterinary Medical Association is testing a Spouse Auxiliary at the LSU School patient's blood.

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Row 1: Miguel Martinez, Jose Noe Martinez, Joaquin Atoche. Row 2: Guillermo A. Morales, Vidor M . Rosas, Alfonso Davila, Jesus Sancf»ez- Begona Gutierrez, Juan Pablo Lazo, Laura Spurrier, Armando Beltran, Barrera.

The Mexican Student Association aims to serve as a link between Mexican students and the LSU community. It fa­ cilitates the increasing cultural exchanges between its mem­ bers and the LSU and Baton Rouge public. Also, it promotes the awareness of Mexican traditions and current cultural trends. Formed by Mexican students, this association provides support to incoming students adapting to a different society and enhances friendship and social activities among its mem­ bers.

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The LSU Student Alumni Association serves as a vital link between the LSU alumni and LSU students. Its primary goal is to make students, past and present, realize that their com­ mitment to LSU does not end at graduation. Each year the SAA sponsors a wide array of activities de­ signed to help students recognize the importance of support­ ing the University. The Senior Gift Program raises money from graduating seniors which is used to purchase the school a tangible, lasting gift. Other SAA activities include the disbursement of Survival Kits during exam time, which is the organization's most im­ portant program, the yearly Homecoming Celebration, and various service projects throughout the community. This year SAA has also planned a Run Around the Lakes as well as a Mud Volleyball Tournament. 1992-93 officers: President, Serena Conosciani; vice presi­ dent, Chris Adams; treasurer/historian, Hunter Guidry; sec- retaiy/Survival Kits chairperson, Ashley Engerran; public re­ lations, Kevin Richards; Homecoming chairperson, Rochelle Gerstner, special events chairperson, Joe Placer; adviser, Laurie White-Adams.

St GUMBO MAGAZINE Salem Chenafi Row 1: Crisly Tierney,Melinda Zabritski, KK Peolen, Stephanie leger. Row 2: Paul Becnel, Tim Black, Eddie Brossette. olg o At ad Sciences and isIt the spring. in awards banquet Arts of College the hosting and audits degree ing read­ boards, appeal grade on ing college. be­ link the forms It Sciences. and Arts of College the in ment student depart­ each from representatives and council executive elected an of iscomposed ciation Asso­ Government ences Student n h Clee fAt ad Sci­ and ences. Arts of College the in students the benefit will that ties activi­ sponsor and unity college promote to job association's the the in faculty and students tween Yearly activities include serv­ include activities Yearly Sci­ and Arts of College The n o i t a i c o s s A t n e m n r e v o G t n e d u t S s e c n e i c S d n a s t r A f o e g e l l o C ORGANIZATIONS P I G 1993 SPRING 1 87 ORGANIZATIONS

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Union G overning Board Row 1: Maura Scully, Belinda Cambre, Michelle Webb, Vera Sirait. Jr., Edward Henderson, Richard Dunn. Row 2: Tom Hile, Shirley Plakidas, Christopher J. Gray, Donald Cravins

Fashion Com m ittee

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International C om m ittee Row 1: Fusayo Hosomi, Roopali Desai, Yuko Kikkawa, Glenn S. LeRoy, Nadine Ghosn, Carrie Schmidt, Tran Nguyen. Quintanilla, Vera Sirait. Row 2: Renu Garg, Kip Queenan, Rowena I. Alinea, DanaJ. Harvey, Kristy Laborde. Row 3: Varuna de Silva, Richard

Pop E ntertainm ent and Lively A rts C om m ittee Row 1: Jeremy White, Margaret Scarborough, Lillian Elders, D.C. Brittney Tate, Kristy Zeringue, Lan Hoang. Row 2: Amy Weinstein, Wesley Dion, Doris Mejia, Shane Landry, Ashley Tate, Tiffany Stanley. Row 3: Nolan Huguet, Beth Hughes, Jacob Brumfield, Clark Remedies, Tricia R. Pierre.

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Films/Ideas and Issues Committees Row 1: Daphne Pinsonat, Christy Devellier, lojen Yin, Lillian Elders. Row 2: Jill Cacciabando, Lan Hoang, Lara Weigard, Elizabeth Mair, Matt Peneguy. Row 3: Christian Heauloer. Richard Knight

Black Culture Committee Row 1: Troy A. Williams, Thyra Buchanan, Deedra Cowart, Jada Lewis. Row 2: Nathan P. Franklin, Tricia Pierre, Anissa Hall, Ivory Toldson. es Bruney Tess

Advisory/Recreation Committees Row 1: Tammy Vieira, Sara M. Needham, Peter Criscione, Darys Reyes, Saucier, Todd Lariolet, Christopher A. Brown. Belinda Cambre. Row 2: Alicia Solis, Rose L. Swindell, Eleanor Cho, Lan Hoang, Stephanie Smith. Row 3: R.D. Liddell, Denise Geraci, Bert

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E ckankar a t LSU A u d r aH o l d e n Eckankar at LSU is a student organization which makes avail­ able the teachings of Eckankar (Religion of the Light and Sound of God), through workshops, seminars and discussion meetings. It offers a forum for discussion of spiritual principles and how they apply to the individual's day-to-day life. Officers are: Sunday Ogwu-Chinawa, president; A1 Manint IV, vice president; and Bill Ruffin, secretary/treasurer.

Bill Ruffin, secretary/treasurer, and Sunday Ogwu-Chinuwa, president.

The simple teaching of Eckankar is this: how to contact the Light and Sound of God, which have the power to give spiritual liberation in this lifetime. Eckankar offers a large variety of spiri­ tual exercises. They work through dreams, Soul Travel, and sing­ ing an ancient name for God. Similar to prayer, these exercises can bring you spiritual protection and strength.

Eckankar means “Co-worker with God.” As a Co-worker you are a conscious participant in creating your own spiritual life. Each person can learn, through practicing the Spiritual Exercises of Eckankar, how to have experiences with the Light and Sound of God, which is the Holy Spirit in expression. The soul who is able to see and hear them is in conscious communication with God.

For more information, write Eckankar at LSU, P. O. Box 18832, Baton Rouge, La. 70893, or call 387-2589.

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Row 1: Suzann Segura, information management; W endy Turner, Middleton, Maria Boyce, Ingrid Lorenz, Shirelle Hebert, Angelyn chaplain, Kathy Hebert, comptroller, Jenny Henderson, commander; Griffing, Amy Louque, Aimee Guillote. Row 4: Debra Bailey, Katherine Brooke Bingham, rush chairman; Rebecca McCarthy, vice commander; Scobey, Erin Hymel, Kimberly Ide, Teri Bourgaux, Kelli Langlois, Andree Braud, public affairs; Ruth Davidson, director of operations. Row Catherine Spirros, Michele Callaway, Dyanne Clement, Cherie Tosh, 2: Tami Kelley, Lucy Ann Schiller, Lauren Ellender, W endy Ober, Serena Joanna Brady, Carol Ann Vorholt, Nicole Lawson. Conosciani, Mimi Landry, Missy Battle, Evelyn Camet, Julie Compagno, Allison Brown. Row 3: Tricia Englande, Jennifer Waguespack, Tammie

Angel Flight is a national, honorary, service organization af­ and visit with them every week. filiated with the United States Air Force. We are sponsored by We are also very active here on campus. SGA elections, ush­ the Air Force Association and work closely with the Arnold Air ering concerts (such as the Elton John Concerd!), portal guard­ Society, which is an honorary service organization for cadets. ing at the football games, Wellness Program tablesits, Thus, we strive to support the Air Force and all of its ideals. Chancellor's Day parade, graduation ushering, and much, much Angel Flight is organized into regions to reinforce communi­ more. cations throughout the nation. All of these regions compose the However, Angel Flight is something more. We are a family. National Organization of Angel Flight. Our motto is “Knowl­ If an Angel needs a favor, no matter how monstrous, she knows edge, Wisdom and the Courage to Serve.” there will be at least one Arnie willing to help without a single One of the main focuses of Angel Flight is service. We work complaint or second thought. And being Angels, of course we closely with the Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired, par­ are always ready to return the favor. This is something special that ticipating and supporting them in everything they do. We help cannot be found in many organizations. the children with their fundraisers, attend their social functions Rush for Angel Flight is February 7.

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A r m y R O T C A u d rHo a l d e n

Robert Rodriguez, Ben Bourgoyne, Jules Borghardt, Fred Collier, Arthur Swanson. Roche, Jonas Braud, Ryan Lynch, Eric Pulin. Not pictured is Justin

The LSU Army ROTC program has been in service for more 1330hrs, one can find a multitude of cadets giving and receiving than 130. When Jefferson Davis called upon Louisiana to supply intensive training on those skills that will turn an ordinary person troops to the Confederate Army, the majority of officers came from into a capable and qualified soldier. LSU. The Civil War is where LSU received the nickname “The So if you have some free time and are wondering if you would Ol' War Skule” (pronounced The Old War School) in recogni­ like to join the military, you can see for yourwelf and find out how tion of the number of officers it turned out. much the Army has to offer. Join LSU Army ROTC, and BE ALL 1992 was no less a proud year for LSU Army ROTC. This YOU CAN BE! year's seniors distinguished themselves while attending 4th Region ROTC Advance Camp. Advance Camp is a six-week-long inten­ sive training course which tests and evaluates a cadet's ability to lead under stressful situations. Within its class, LSU Army ROTC ranked first in the nation. LSU Army ROTC also received top honors for being the overall training school in the nation. This year, LSU Army ROTC has nine seniors who help train the underclassmen. These nine seniors assist Active Duty instruc­ tors in preparing a very large class of nineteen juniors for when these cadets go to represent LSU Army ROTC at Advance Camp 1993. With training inmarksmanship, rappelling, land navigation, field exercises, ar common soldier skills, these junior cadets are promising to meet the challenge and surpass last year's perfor­ mance. Freshman and sophomore classes also receiving training in these common soldier skills. On any Thursday from 1200hrs to

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Row 1: Katly Biscone, Geoffrey Caruso, Doug Beridon. Row 2: Margaret Cummings, Stephen Myers, Rich Loup, Kathleen Gregory, Lara W eigand, Jennifer Hayden. Row 3 Jo e l Manuel, Paul Vercelloti, Ansley McBryde, Philip Simon, Christy DeVillier, Daphne Pinsonat. Row 4: M att Peneguy, M ary W ilson, Julie Hsu, Carol Bennett. Row 5 : Joel Dicharry, Jeremy Woolsey, Stan Richardson, Gary LeBlanc.

N ot pictured are Gary Govemale, Lizette Matens, Andrew Nackley, Jennifer Albaum, Eric Babin, O a ig Baldenhofer, Brian Betz, Lonny Blanchard, Eric Brady, Griffin Campbell, Manyue Chieh, M arc Cohn, Carlos Colomer, Mike Gilbert, Rashaneka Goodman, John Guerin, Poomi Iyer, Bryon Justice, M ike Klopf, Dan Mitchum, Joe Nunn, George Reis, David Rush, Heather Rush, Michael Seymour, Keith Smith, Kalhryn Stutts, Zia Tamami, Richard Valadie, Jennifer Whitworth, Monique Wheeler.

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