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Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons Gumbo Yearbook University Archives Spring 1993 Gumbo Magazine, Spring 1993 Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gumbo Recommended Citation Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, "Gumbo Magazine, Spring 1993" (1993). Gumbo Yearbook. 118. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gumbo/118 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Gumbo Yearbook by an authorized administrator of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Home of the Attitude Adjustment ® Come and Enjoy all LSU Basketball games! (NO COVERj Great During the Semester Specials 8635 HIGHLAND ROAD, BATON ROUGE, LA 70808 (504) 766-7650 Monday. 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Two convenient locations to help you with all of your basketball needs. • Next door to Mike the Tiger • Tiger Stadium,Gate 5 Store Hours: 9am-5pm, Monday-Friday New store is also open Saturday from 10am-2pm Phone: 388-6974 Editorial by Jennifer Green As the new editor of the Gumbo more your game, then the election fol- From such hot topics as the budget Magazine, I am proud to present the low-up may interest you. crisis to the escalation of crime on LSU community with the first issue of For more leisurely reading, try our campus, we’re trying to keep on top of the 1993 spring semester. fiction contest winner, “Yet, by Rob things that interest you. We have tried to provide some ert Aucoin. Give our “Believe it or Whatever else you find in our thing for everyone. Ifyoulikephotog- Not” story a try for some legendary magazine, I hope you also find the in raphy, we have the Gumbo Gallery, a tales about the Huey Lone pool, ana terest to keep the Gumbo around for compilation of photographs taken by why one brick in the Law School steps years to come, as an historical account you, the students. Or, if politics is is painted green. ofyourtimeatLSU. Enjoy! H THE TIGER GIFT CENTER—PAGE 1 SAMMYS GRILL-PAGE 1 STUDENT HEALTH CENTER—THIS PAGE DAIQUIRI CAFE-PAGE 1 L.S.U. JUKO KAI—THIS PAGE PARADISE CDs,LPs,AND TAPES-THIS PAGE THE LSU UNION BOWLING CENTER—INSIDE BACK COVER STUDENT HEALTH CENTER Wellness Education Program: 3 8 8 - 5 7 1 8 Health Promotion ‘Events Individual Consultations and Resource L ibrary Student tHeaCth Advocates Medical Health Services: H o u r s ; Mental Health Services: 3 8 8 - 6 7 1 6 M-F 8:00-5:00 3 8 8 - 8 7 7 4 Primary and Specialty Care Clinics Sat 8:00-11:30 Individual and Group Counseling All visits and inquiries Pharmacy/La b ratory/X-ray are confidential Special Issue Groups Accredited by Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, Inc. We are Here fo r You! L.S.U. Juko Kai PflRRDISE IS H LOT CLOSER IHRN VOU THINK Traditional, Combative, Martial Arts for Real Self-Defense. Instruction in: • Jujutsu • Shorin-Ryu Karate • laijutsu Introduction Thurs. Jan 28th 226 West State Street Class begins Tuos. Fob. 3rd In The University Shopping Center 344-2324 Call Paul Houghton lor more Hours 10-9 Monday thru Saturday information at 12-6 Sunday 7 6 7 - 6 5 2 6 . FEATURES 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 Compiled from 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... Photos Courtwey Photos Associated Press of the “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. 4 GUMBO MAGAZINE NEWS 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. SPRING 1 1993 5 NEWS 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. 6 GUMBO MAGAZINE GUEST EDITORIAL 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 Relatfc ISU of Public Courtesy Photo 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.