EGO MAGAZINE Fall/Winter 2014

E G O

MAGAZINE Fall/Winter 2014

EGO Staff Ariana Triggs Acting Editor-In-Chief Diamond Bright Writer Preston Castille Writer Marchandrea Seals Writer Keyaira Franklin Writer Courtney Jacobs Writer/Photographer

From The

Editor

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appy New Year Jaguars! Now that our centennial year is behind us, we would like to thank the faculty and administration of this great university for an amazing 100th year celebration! Although we may face challenges in the months to come, we are Southern! We set the precedent for the next 100 years of academic excellence from our university!

I would like to encourage students, faculty, and staff to continue the celebration by doing the work that needs to be done in our community; whether it be volunteering or taking a younger student under your wing. It is my firm belief that we all have a part to play! Take advantage of the opportunity to teach someone and share your knowledge and experience. You never know, you may be saving a life, or turning one around.

In closing, thank you for taking time to explore this wonderful publication that our student staffers have worked diligently on to complete. Enjoy!

Astavven Cotton Photographer Joshua McKnight Photographer Alliyah Moore Photographer

Ariana Triggs Acting Editor-In-Chief

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he EGO Magazine is the official student magazine of Southern University and A&M College, located in Baton Rouge. It is written, edited and published by members of Southern University and A&M College’s student body and is published five times a year: twice in the fall, twice in the spring and once in the summer with a run count of 2,000 copies per issue.

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Cover STORY >>

Haymer time: the beginning of a new era

S I H T e d i ins ISSUE

8 - Getting to know the acting

Chancellor: Flandus McClinton

14 - Interview series: Q&A

with Roame Lowrey of Frankie Beverly & Maze

16 - Interview Series:

reintroducing Jazmine Sullivan

Contents 24 - Haymer Time: The

beginning of a new era

30 - Culture change is central

to stopping campus sexual assault

32 - A portrait of Southern

University: 1880-2012

34 - Clinical trial seeks

Test your knowledge

52 - interview series: Q&A

with Jeremih

56 - Death Linked to

Synthetic Marijuana

62 - Race relations arguably worse in ‘Age of Obama’

answers to sudden deaths of healthy young people

72 - Ego Magazine’s Top 10 Must-grab Albums from 2014

37 - Presenting A.R.:

74 - Hookah smoking: a hot trend for young adults, clouded by health concerns

Wordsmith of the semester 38 - Ego Magazine: Winter Fashion Trends

42 - Tailor Game: The Perfect Suit

46 - Latest fashion in faux jewelry: Metallic tattoos

48 - The Ultimate Fashion Quiz

86 - Fall 2014 Centennial Graduates

100 FACES O

OF SOUTHERN

Getting to know Acting Chancellor Flandus McClinton After Chancellor James Lloren’s contract came to an end, the Southern University Board of Supervisors appointed Flandus McClinton as acting chancellor for Southern University at the June 30, 2014 Board of Supervisors meeting.

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Story: Marchandrea Seals

n acting chancellor is a temporary position that assumes the role and responsibilities of the chancellor until a search for a new chancellor comes to an end and the Board of Supervisors appoints someone else to the position.

Another way to describe the acting chancellor is as the Chief Executive Officer on the campus.

Upon accepting the position as Acting Chancellor, Flandis McClinton said, “This was an opportunity to serve my Alma Mater in this capacity and to give back to the Southern University that has given me so much these past 47 years.”

When making his decision, McClinton was inspired

by Maya Angelou who quoted, “When you learn,

teach; when you get, give.” While taking on his new position, McClinton still holds his previous position as Vice-Chancellor for Finance and Administration.

In that position, he gives oversight on the planning and management of Southern University’s finances.

His position also includes leadership over administrative functions such as the facilities operations, motor pool, ADA compliance, institutional payment plans, travel management, safety and risk management, SU Police, and traffic and parking.

McClinton explains he is able to balance these two powerful positions, but it can be tough at times. “I am able to perform in both positions by the grace

of God and with support of my family, the Southern University students, faculty and staff, alumni, community supporters, and the commitment and support for a strong dedicated leadership team,” said McClinton. “Teamwork and shared governance in any organizations is the key to successfully balancing these dual responsibilities,” added McClinton.

There are projects that McClinton is currently working on while in both positions. One of these projects is the 2015-2016 Operating Budget that includes an appointed standing budget committee to provide input and recommendations on presenting a balanced operating budget. Another project is SACS Fifth Year Reporting visit that also includes appointing committees to ensure that Southern University of Baton Rouge will be fully prepared.

The third project is the GRAD Act, that is a remediation to develop and improve this act. This also ensures that Southern University meets the remediated plans outlined in this act.

The last project is creating appointed committees and appointed sub-communities to update Southern

University’s Strategic Plan. “We have been working aggressively to address the challenges of declining enrollment, stabilizing, and increasing retention, recruitment, and graduation,” he said.

McClinton collaborated with Llorens on transitional issues whom also provided professional and helpful advice. McClinton said through his tenure, he experienced his share of the good, and sometimes difficult times. “One of my good experiences was having the opportunity to serve my alma mater,” said McClinton. “Also, the overwhelming support and vote of confidence that I have received from the students, faculty, staff, community supporters, alumni, and other University constituents.”

McClinton said another positive experience is the privilege to serve as acting chancellor during the celebration of Southern University Centennial.

“I had have not had any bad experiences so far, only challenges,” said McClinton.

“Some of the most notable challenges are the budgetary constraints, declining enrollment, retention Continued on Page 10.

Photo: SU Media Relations

from on Page 9.

and recruitment, NCAA Compliance, the Grad Act, graduation rates, preparing for SACS reaccreditation, updating the University’s strategic plan and facilities maintenance and upgrades.”

McClinton values the rich tradition, history, and legacy of the institution of Southern University and it has inspired him to use his power and influence to make the university better. McClinton also values the role Southern plays in helping students of all races and nations reach their full potential.

Chancellor position, but will fully support the next appointed Chancellor for Southern University.

There is now a search committee appointed by the Board of Supervisors for the new chancellor and McClinton is not a part of this committee.

In regards to McClinton keeping his position as Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administrations after the candidate fulfill the Chancellors position, the decision would be up to Board of Supervisors.

When it comes to the students of Southern University, McClinton has one simple message.

Southern University first employed McClinton more than 43 years. During that time McClinton worked “As your Acting Chancellor, I pledge to lead with his way up through the ranks. integrity, accountability and transparency. My doors are always open to each of you. I appreciate Some of those experiences include progressive and solicit your continued support and vote management, administrative, and executive level of confidence. May God bless each of you and positions in finance and administration. McClinton may God bless the Jaguar Nation. GO Jaguars!”, also served as a senior member of the chancellor’s McClinton said. executive leadership team for the past eight chancellors.

Currently, McClinton has no plans to apply for the

Obama opens relations with Cuba, easing half-century standoff

By Lesley Clark

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he United States will restore diplomatic relations with Cuba in the most sweeping changes to U.S.-Cuba policy since President Dwight Eisenhower severed ties with its communist rulers and the two countries faced each other in the most dangerous flashpoint of the Cold War. President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he's scrapping an "outdated approach" to opening the island to democracy after reaching a deal with Cuban leader Raul Castro to release an American jailed in Cuba and three Cubans convicted of spying on the U.S. "These 50 years have shown that isolation has not worked," Obama said from the White House, announcing the changes as Alan Gross, imprisoned on the island for five years, arrived in the U.S. "It's time for a new approach."

The deal reached after months of secret negotiations in Canada and at the Vatican, also involved the release from prison of a Cuban man Obama described as "one of the most important intelligence agents" that the U.S. ever had in Cuba.

As a result, the United States will set up an embassy in Havana and

Photo: Al Diaz/Miami Herald/TNS

possibly remove Cuba from the list of states that sponsor terrorism.

The thaw comes decades after the U.S. drew a bright line in response to the revolution on the island 90 miles from Florida, ordering an embargo in 1960 after the government nationalized all American-owned property, cutting off official contact with the Cuban government in January 1961, backing a failed invasion later that same year, and then going to the brink of nuclear war with the Soviet Union over missiles in Cuba in 1962.

Now, in addition to opening an embassy, the U.S. will loosen restrictions on travel and trade with the country, making it easier for more Americans to travel there and allowing them to bring back as much as $400, including $100 worth of alcohol and tobacco.

It will permit the export of certain goods, including building materials for private housing and goods for use by private-sector Cuban entrepreneurs, and allow U.S. credit and debit cards to be used by travelers to Cuba.

The moves are a nearly complete repudiation of the economic stranglehold the U.S. sought to

impose soon after Fidel Castro came to power in 1959. Obama said the effort to secure openness and democracy on the island by tightening the economic screws has "failed to advance our interests" and should be replaced.

"I do not expect the changes I am announcing today to bring about a transformation of Cuban society overnight," Obama said. "But I am convinced that through a policy of engagement, we can more effectively stand up for our values and help the Cuban people help themselves as they move into the 21st century."

The moves stop short of lifting the decades-old economic embargo against Cuba, which only Congress can do. But Obama said he would look forward to an "honest and serious debate" about the possibility.

That could prove more difficult than a presidential move. The changes drew backing from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and agricultural interests that have long eyed Cuba as a lucrative market, but were met with sharp and immediate opposition from some of the staunchest anti-Castro lawmakers in Congress. They said the loosening of the restrictions will only enrich

the Castro regime and embolden its efforts to crack down on its critics.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., the CubanAmerican incoming chair of a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee, pledged to use his post to block what he called a "dangerous and desperate attempt by the president to burnish his legacy at the Cuban people's expense."

Obama said he spoke Tuesday with Raul Castro to review the deal and "made clear my strong belief that Cuban society is constrained by restrictions on its citizens."

Obama promised on the campaign trail in 2008 to seek improved relations with Cuba and loosened some travel restrictions in 2011. But Gross's arrest in December 2009 for smuggling satellite communications equipment to Cuba as part of a U.S. pro-democracy program was a major stumbling block.

Obama sought a review of U.S.-Cuba policy after his 2012 re-election, with talks among high-level U.S. and Cuban officials beginning in June 2013. The result was a swap that involved Wednesday's return to Cuba of three Cubans who were convicted in 2001 in Miami on charges including conspiracy and failure to register as foreign agents.

In exchange, Cuba released the unidentified intelligence asset who Obama said aided in the convictions of the three Cuban spies as well as the convictions of three other Americans who spied for Cuba.

White House officials said the ailing Gross was not an intelligence agent and was not part of the prisoner swap but was released on humanitarian grounds. He had lost weight, teeth and was "wasting away," his wife, Judy said earlier this month.

Gross was flown to Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington aboard one of the jets used for the

president and other high-ranking government officials.

"It was crucial to my survival knowing that I was not forgotten," he said.

Gross endorsed the changes Obama announced, saying he hoped the countries "can now get beyond those mutually belligerent policies."

The Cuban government also agreed to release 53 political prisoners, increase Internet connectivity to Cubans and increase engagement, and potentially monitoring, with the United Nations and the International Red Cross.

White House officials said the loosening of restrictions was not in response to a Cuban request but are in the U.S. national interest and will aid Cuba's dissidents.

Cuba wanted the U.S. to end its democracy programs, like the one Gross was engaged in, and return use of the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, but the U.S. refused, said a administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity as a matter of administration policy.

"We'll continue to have strong differences," the official said.

Obama and Raul Castro now will attend the 2015 Summit of the Americas in Panama.

White House officials said the easing of relations with Cuba could improve U.S. dealings with other Latin American countries, which have long opposed the U.S. embargo.

"That policy often became an irritant and a block in our being able to cooperate," said one administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity as a matter of administration policy.

White House officials said normalizing relations could also help both countries coordinate on issues, including response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and

counterterrorism.

The high-level talks, nine in all, began in June 2013 but were given considerable "confidence and momentum" by Pope Francis, White House officials said. The pope, after talking about Cuba with Obama at a Vatican meeting last March, wrote letters to Obama and Castro, calling on them to resolve the issues of the prisoners "in order to initiate a new phase in relations between the two parties." A senior administration official said the first Latin American pope was a key factor.

The U.S. and Cuban delegations met in October at the Vatican where they reviewed the agreement, officials said. Senior Vatican officials sat in on the meetings and "served as something of a guarantor that we would get this done," said the senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity as a matter of administration policy.

He said the talks were kept to a small number of officials to avoid "any wrench to be thrown in the gears."

The Vatican on Wednesday expressed Francis' "warm congratulations" for what it called a "historic decision" and said the Holy See would continue to support U.S. and Cuban moves that "promote the well being of their respective citizens."

Obama has no trip to Cuba planned but is open to the idea.

"I don't have any current plans, but let's see how things evolve," Obama told ABC's David Muir.

No American president has visited Cuba since Calvin Coolidge in 1928. ___ (Anita Kumar and Maria Recio contributed to this report.) (c)2014 McClatchy Washington Bureau Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC

Ego Magazine Interview Series

Q&A with Roame Lowry of

Maze Feat.

Frankie Beverly

Photo: Phil Bray, onyxmagazine.com

Interview by: Ariana Triggs Ego: So, tell me about MAZE and tell me about your journey. How have you managed to stay so successful all of these years?

Lowry: We’re originally from Philadelphia, PA and moved to California in ‘72. We kind of struggled for some years. In 1975, we connected with Marvin Gaye. He was in a nightclub where we played and Marvin loved the band; we ended up signing with Capitol Records due to Marvin just loving the band.

From there, 1976 was the first album, which were “Happy Feelings” and those songs. Since then, we’ve been so blessed and fortunate. In the last 25 years we haven’t had an album out, but in spite of that, we sell out everywhere we go. When you have a fan base like we have which is unbelie-amazing, and have been out as long as we have been out and still sell out without having a product out, that is a true testament of the love that our fans have for us.

Ego: So what types of struggles did you all see in your early years? I know musicians usually have a rough patch in the beginning.

Lowry: From 1972, which [is when] we moved to the Bay area, we struggled from ‘72 to ‘76. We played in nightclubs and it was a struggle, but we are blessed that we were able to bring in all of the accolades,

Frankie Beverly. Photo: Grownfolksmusic.com

love and appreciation we have from our friends. It another and the love that you have for your fans.

That’s what keeps you alive, what keeps you strong. all goes back to our fans.

Ego: Over the years, how do you manage to keep yourselves relevant? How do you manage to keep the younger fan base? Because a lot of younger people listen to you, so how do you manage to keep pulling them in?

Ego: So what do you think is your highest point and your biggest hits?

Lowry: Highest point is now because we are surviving and showing out. Our biggest hits were “Joy and Pain”, “Self-Experience”, “Happy Feelings”, Lowry: The same thing you said, you grew up which is a testament of who we are. listening to Maze--generations--good music is “Happy Feelings” is a true testament of Maze. good music. I mean, we have some timeless hits and the music is timeless, so naturally when you Ego: How is that? grow up listening to Maze, the appreciation have is from your parents. Your parents aren’t going to Lowry: Well, when you think about the lyrics, and steer you wrong. Whatever they are going to tell you know that it’s all about your faith--if you think you, you may not like their music, but your still about the lyrics, everything that “Happy Feelings” hear it. Then the choice is yours. Fortunately, they is saying is what everybody would really want in listened to us and liked our music, so we have at their lives. Think about it. I can’t really get into the song and sing it, but “Happy Feelings”, “Joy and least three generations.

Pain”, “Before I Let Go” is a Maze anthem. Any Ego: How do you think some of the younger R&B barbeque you go to, you’re going to hear “Before I artists maintain the type of longevity the band has? Let Go”. And I don’t care how old you are, you’re going to get up and dance. So, that’s timeless hits.

Lowry: It would be difficult because we’re a band. When you have hits like that, timeless songs that We’ve been together for some-40 years and you have everybody loves, your longevity--you’re going to to take, at least, into consideration the camaraderie have that. With any artist, if you have hits, you’re and not all bands have that because there are a lot going to stay strong. Fortunately, where we are, and of egos involved now. I mean, you think about how at our age, and our name in the game--we’ve been many bands are out now as opposed to when I was out for 40years. We’re so blessed. We’re so fortunate coming up in the sixties and seventies, very few. to have what we have. I can’t think of another band But, the bands that are out now, all I can say is it’s that have what we have. about the camaraderie, the love you have for one

Ego: Thank you so much! It was great meeting you!

Ego Magazine Interview Series

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Reintroducing

azmine Written By: Ariana Triggs Photos by: Joshua McKnight

After a three-year hiatus, R&B sensation Jazmine Sullivan sits down with the Ego Magazine to talk about her latest album ‘Reality Show’, her abrupt departure from music and her explosive return back into the music industry.

When the sultry voice of soultress Jazmine Sullivan is heard, it can make a person’s ears cry out for joy. The 27-year-old singer emerged into the R&B scene in 2008 with her first single ‘Need U Bad’, which peaked at number one on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop airplay chart. She showed the world her incredible talent and continued to crank out hits like ‘Bust Your Windows’, ‘Lions, Tigers, and Bears’, and ‘Holding You Down (Goin’ in Circles)’ through 2011.

Then, out of nowhere, the music stopped coming.

Jazmine decided that she no longer wanted to be in the entertainment industry out of the blue and informed fans via Twitter in January 2011. She left fans with two albums and wondering why would she deliver such a powerful and soulful voice, then leave fans hanging and thirsty for more.

Sullivan said during her off-time, she used some of time feeding her reality show addiction. She said her love for reality shows inspired her new album.

“I named my album Reality Show for a couple of reasons: one, I’m addicted to reality TV. [Inaudible] Love & Hip-Hop Atlanta is my favorite. Then, I also named it that because a lot of the album is just talking about what I’ve been through, my reality, just reality period. I feel like people seem to get into what I do because I just talk about real life situations”, said Sullivan.

Coinciding with her return, Jazmine wanted to show the world who she was. She began filming a Youtube docu-series also titled “Reality Show” to reintroduce herself to her fans.

“I just wanted to show people a little more about myself.

I’ve been gone for about three years now, maybe four.

I don’t know, I just wanted to show people who I am without necessarily going and doing the reality show route. I just wanted to let people in.”

In episode two of her Youtube series, Jazmine describes everything from her upbringing to her decision to exit the music industry and how a broken spirit almost influenced a choice that could have delayed her career even further. She revealed that she hit the lowest point in her life during her break and considered drug use.

“Honestly, I think I just came to my senses and it wasn’t something that I feel like was going to make my life any better and I think -I can’t say this--but I really feel like with anybody who do try drugs, I feel like they are kind of searching for a way to make things better. Some people go that route and thank God I realized that

Let’s fast forward to 2014.

The 11-time Grammy nominee realized that music was what she wanted to do and reentered the industry harder than before. Fresh off of a close to three-year hiatus, she released two brand new singles: ‘Dumb’ featuring Meek Mill and ‘Forever Don’t Last’ as an introduction to her third LP Reality Show. “‘Dumb’ was the first single that I released because I feel like it had a Hip-Hop edge to it and a little bit of a bang coming out. ‘Forever Don’t Last’, I feel like is a really strong ballad and it’s another one of [those] songs that so relatable [that] people just want to listen to the lyrics and it’s something that a lot of people go through.

A lot of people, I feel like, struggle with letting go of relationships that aren’t good for them, but they have to come to that conclusion after a while”, she said.

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was going to make nothing better. I’m here to stay. I needed that break, I feel like, just to grow and learn, and just learn things about myself. Now I’m back and I love what I do, so I’m happy now,” Jazmine said.

Now that Jazmine Sullivan is back in the R&B game, fans are expecting those soulful, sassy runs and range that makes her a classic musician and extraordinary singer-songwriter. Jazmine’s album consists of only one collaboration--fellow Philadelphia native and Maybach Music rapper Meek Mill.

“It was cool [working with Meek Mill]. Me and Meek are both from Philly so we ran into each other a lot over the years, we just never worked together. We were in the same studio one time and he just came over to the room and was like ‘hey, if you have anything, I would love to get on’ and I was like ‘you know what I do have something’.

So it was cool, he’s a Philly boy.”

Sullivan said even though she enjoyed working with Meek Mill, there are still more collaborations that she wants to do, even though she isn’t known for them.

“I’m not really known for collabs. When I make an album, --not that I don’t want to--I just be so focused on making the music that I don’t be thinking ‘Oh I need this collab to make the album hot’ or something like that. There is some people that I would like to work with eventually like Pharrell, Frank Ocean--its a lot of people actually,” she said.

Jazmine Sullivan’s performance rocked the F.G. Clark Activity Center at Southern University for the Centennial Homecoming and gave her fans just a little of what’s to come next.

KNOW CROSSWORD YOUR PUZZLE BUILDINGS Across

3. School Of Nursing 4. Stadium and Field House 5. Art Musuem 6. Student Union 11. Library 14. Gym and Pool 15. High School 16. Baseball Complex 17. Art Department, Gallery and Theater 18. Administration Building

Down

1. Intramural Complex 2. Honors College 7. Registration, CTLE, Career Services, Graduate School, Student Media 8. Student Health Center 9. Reserve Office Training Corp.

10. Minidome/Activity Center 12. Law Center 13. Dining Hall

HEY JAGS!!

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE ON THE OFFICIAL NAMES OF THE BUILDINGS WE USE EVERYDAY! ANSWERS ON PAGE 97

HAYMER TIME! The Beginning of a

NEW era Written By: Diamond Bright Photos By: Joshua McKnight and Astavven Cotton

The future of The Southern University Marching Band, also known as the “Human Jukebox”, is looking mighty bright under the new leadership of head director, Nathan Haymer and his assistant directors: Brian Simmons, Kedric Taylor, and Lorenzo Hart. As former members of the band, all four men exude a youthful, yet powerful blend of the skills, personas, and experience in order to produce the infamous, dynamic sound of the Southern University Marching Band.

After the surprising retirement of the band’s former leader, Lawrence Jackson, he and the university swiftly passed on the position to the charismatic 36-year old Haymer, a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Haymer began preparing for his current position in 1997 due to his passion for music and his hope to become the head of the wellrecognized and uncompromised Human Jukebox. It all started when he knew without a shadow of a doubt that he wanted to be a member of the

band when he was a little boy who basically grew up around Southern University’s campus. “I was raised on this campus. I played soccer; they used to have a peewee league and our mom kept us involved...

The band field was right next to the soccer field. Instead of me playing soccer as a little boy, a 5 (or) 6 year old kid, I would just try to march like the band,” said Haymer, who played the trombone as a Human Jukebox band member. “If I had not seen Southern’s band, then I

probably wouldn’t have been excited about music”.

Surprisingly, Haymer initially wanted to be a lawyer prior to attending SU, but after observing how passionate the late Dr. Isaac Greggs was about his job, he reconsidered. “Band taught me that I wanted to be a band director because I wanted to be a lawyer. A man or woman who does what he or she loves will never work a day of their life and all I ever wanted to do was band,” said Haymer.

According to Mr. Haymer, being director of bands can be a handful; fortunately he has his assistant directors to help him along the way: Brian Simmons, an energetic 22 year-old New Orleans native and recent Southern grad; Kedric Taylor, the 30 year-old former director of the award-winning Baker High School Marching Band, and Lorenzo Hart: a laid-back, 34 year-old percussionist

who has worked with the band for nine years.

“I played baritone. I played the trombone at first. I started off in middle school, my arms were too short and they needed more baritones, so I had to man up and play the baritone”, said Mr. Simmons, the former section leader, “… that was my claim to fame: the baritone”. Simmons is responsible for arranging the music, directing the pep band, helping with travel, and handling attendance and rehearsal. Simmons was swayed into joining the band after attending a Southern University football game when he was a junior in high school.

“I went to Southern vs. Jackson state in 2008 in Jackson state. Southern put a whooping on those boys so bad- I saw it for myself. And I said ‘this is where I have to go,” Simmons exclaimed. By being the youngest of the staff, Simmons stems youthfulness and an undeniable

streak of energy amongst the band and his colleagues.

Along with Brian, Kedric Taylor is also responsible for composing tunes for the band. “I arrange for the band, rehearse the band, and (conduct the) symphonic band”, stated Taylor, an Alabama native who arranged songs for the band such as New Edition’s “Can You Stand the Rain” and Rich Gang’s “Life Style”. Mr. Taylor was convinced that being a part of the Human Jukebox was a family that he wanted to be part of after his brother, who attended SU in the late 90’s, arranged one of the most infamous songs performed by the band to date. “My brother came to Southern in 1996…Looking at what my brother was able to accomplish… to be a student arranger. He wrote “Neck” and we still play it today.

The first time they play it was the Jackson State game when he was a junior in the band in ‘98”, Taylor, a former trumpet player in the band,

explained, “My brother started something here, I say he kind of paved the way for me to be here”.

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Mr. Lorenzo Hart, a former snare drum section leader, has a firm responsibility when it comes to the sound of the percussion section. “I teach the drum section, I write drum parts to the songs and cadences”, Mr. Hart stated. Hart cited that he has been playing the drums since he was 9 year-old. “I had a brother who played drums; he was in middle school. I saw him doing it and I thought it looked pretty cool”. Hart knew immediately at that moment that he wanted to play the drums.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association ranked The Southern University Marching Band number two in the country and is one

of the most well-known marching bands in the nation. However, like most organizations, the band did face some setbacks.

Back in 2008, seven band members allegedly critically injured two fellow band mates with a 2x4 wooden board as part of a hazing ritual in order to be accepted into the band’s french horn section. The story shadowed the integrity and everything that the band stood for due to the story making it to the news, as well as the staff being blamed for the occurrence of the incident. “You’re a man before anything, if you don’t want to do something--then don’t do it. I think that it’s messed up that you would blame the staff for something someone did off of campus during their own time”, Mr. Taylor

commented regarding the incident.

Mr. Haymer also expresses how he didn’t support how the finger was pointed at the staff. “When people see leadership, especially with this band, by it being so visible, everybody knows the band director before they know the president, the chancellor or any other administrator, they see the prestige, they see the position, they see the power, they don’t see the flipside of the coin: persecution, prowls, and pressure…A lot of that I have to face. So, I don’t need that on my plate”, Haymer stated, “How could I be responsible when I dismiss you and something happens? I might as well be responsible if I dismiss you from practice and you decide to drive down the interstate and get in a wreck.”

Since the occurrence of the event, hazing prevention

measures has been set up. “Today, we just don’t condone hazing,” Mr. Taylor expressed. “ In the beginning of the year everybody has to have a session on hazing… we give them a package to take home saying that there’s no hazing in the Southern University Band and it’s saying that ‘I will not be hazed’ and ‘I will not be a hazer’. So, on both parts they sign”. Haymer said that he will try to bring back the band organizations Tau Beta Sigma Band Sorority and Kappa Kappa Psi Band Fraternity , but have no plans on formally recognizing Nu Phi Omicron Music Organization Incorporated, a band organization that consist solely of musicians from New Orleans that formed at Southern in 1993 and has since spread to at least 10 HBCUs. “Right now the chapters have been

suspended by nationals.

[Kappa Kappa Psi] been suspended as of 2008; it was a five year suspension and now the suspension period is over so what I’ll have to do is reorganize, apply and get with nationals to prove that we’re worthy.”

The Human Jukebox bounced back and achieved many accomplishments with the plans of continuing to move forward and to soar beyond the limits.

“Expanding on our brand.

This band has a big name.”, Mr. Haymer cited amongst his plans for the future of the marching band, “ I want to provide bigger scholarship packages for our students. I want to be in commercials; I want to do bigger things and this band has achieved a lot so that’s a tall lot to fill”.

Haymer’s assistants couldn’t agree with him more.

Mr. Simmons exclaimed, “It’s going to be live action.

I want us to be on every TV in America, every

computer screen--we just can’t be a regular marching band; we’re a brand. We want to be in commercials, you know, movies.” While Mr. Hart expressed how he believed that the band is in good hands, “The future is very bright. I know we are going to get in”.

Not only do the staff see the future of the band being an ambiance of a practical existence, the band members can see it as well.

Brandon Washington, a senior percussionist and New Orleans native who was initially drawn to Southern’s band due to its musical impact on his hometown, sees the band’s future as a positive occurrence to look forward to. “Honestly I think [the band] is going to exceed any expectation anyone has for it”, Washington said.

Darrell Morris, a junior tuba player, feels just the same. “The band is going in a whole (different) level.

In the next three years the

band is going to be crazy”, said Morris.

Keith Morgan, the junior from New Orleans, LA with the most prestige band position, said he was convinced to become a member of the Human Jukebox after seeing the band perform at the 2010 Battle of the Bands during the annual Bayou Classic weekend. The drum major said believes the future of the band is going to be nothing less than successful. Morgan stated, “The future of the band is going to be amazing.”

Fredricka Redd, a senior clarinet player, believes that the band is and will continue to advance under the new staff. “As long as Mr. Haymer keeps running stuff the way he does, I think the future of the band will be much brighter,” she said.

Outside prospects who frequently listen to the band are very smitten of the band’s new version

of their signature powerhouse sound.

Marvin Price, a 21 yearold New Orleans native, is a dedicated fan of the Human Jukebox. Price states that “The Human Jukebox is the standard that every HBCU marching band tries to measure up to”.

After the positions were assigned over the past summer, the staff felt as if they could handle the job and so far has proven nothing less.

Under the new leaders, The Southern University Marching Band became the ultimate victor in the infamous Boombox Classic against Jackson State University, bringing back the bragging rights to Jaguar Land.

Mr. Haymer couldn’t have been more proud, “This is the best band I’ve ever stood before, the best band in the world. I wouldn’t want to stand in front of any other band, this all I want to do”.

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Culture change is central to stopping campus sexual assault

By Samantha Ehlinger

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he University of Virginia is now at the center of the engage all students,--men, in particular--in an attempt to end sexual assault. growing debate over campus sexual assault.

At the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, A searing account in Rolling Stone of the gang rape of programs such as the school's "One Act" bystander a freshman at a fraternity party in 2012 has triggered intervention and "Men's Project" are identifying and a firestorm of criticism at officials at the prestigious working with different groups on campus.

Charlottesville school founded by Thomas Jefferson.

"The Men's Project is a group that actively explores University President Teresa Sullivan might have been issues related to masculinity, privilege, and how that all speaking for many of her peers when she said, "This plays into creating a community that is violence-free," will require institutional change, cultural change and said Christi Hurt, assistant vice chancellor and chief of staff in the student affairs office. legislative change, and it will not be easy."

In the debate over campus sexual assault, the roles UNC-Chapel Hill is one of many schools that the U.S. are pretty well defined and the loudest voices belong Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights is to women. The numbers tell the story: Nearly 1 in 5 investigating for potential violations of Title IX, a law women have been raped in their lifetimes, according to that prevents sex discrimination in schools. a January White House report; among men, nearly 1 in Recruiting men to join a campus anti-sexual-assault group isn't always easy. Concerned students at the 71.

"Most victims know their assailants," according to the George Washington University in the nation's capital are finding that not everyone is receptive to the kind of report, and 98 percent of perpetrators are men.

Some colleges and universities are working to change training that could help fight the problem. the culture that Sullivan refers to, by finding new ways to "It's not an easy conversation to have," said junior

Ross Berry, the head of finance for the campus group Students Against Sexual Assault. "But just by being here we're trying to keep asserting that this conversation needs to be had."

In September, President Barack Obama announced "It's On Us," a national campaign to end campus sexual assault. It came as schools across the country said they were trying to reach out to their campus communities and spread the responsibility to others, such as athletic groups, fraternities and LGBT organizations.

Texas State University student Elliot Ives is part of a group that trains men to lead discussions on topics related to violence, including sexual assault. Ives said it is sometimes a tough job.

"Especially if we're doing a presentation for a fraternity or a sports team, there can sometimes be some active resistance," Ives said. "And yet even in those groups you can have a lot of people who are very receptive, even if they're quieter because they feel like they've got to appeal to to their peers."

Texas State, in San Marcos, is one of many universities using techniques to try to get men involved in the movement to end the problem. But sexual-assault prevention doesn't come in a one-size-fits-all solution for the vastly different colleges and universities around the country.

At Kansas State University in Manhattan, which also is being scrutinized for Title IX violations, school officials hope that men in student government will lead the effort to persuade members of their gender to get involved, said Jessica Haymaker, one of the coordinators of the school's Center for Advocacy, Response and Education office.

"We're kind of using that positive role-model stance of there are men who will be active and visible on our campaign, and hoping that helps bridge some barriers and perceptions about who can be a part of this conversation," Haymaker said.

The university has even changed the name of the organization responsible for handling sexual-assaultprevention education and services, from the Women's Center to the Center for Advocacy, Response and Education. The Women's Center had received feedback that the name made some think they couldn't access the office, said Jenna Tripodi, another of the center's

coordinators.

Like many universities that agreed to join the It's On Us campaign, Kansas State also plans to highlight and expand its bystander-intervention training, Haymaker said, a strategy touted by the Obama administration and some students as a way to get men to talk about the sensitive subject.

One international fraternity, Delta Chi, found a way to engage its men-only group in the conversation about sexual assault when the director of Student Organizations and Leadership at Sacramento State University decided to draft the legislation for the fraternity, to which he used to belong.

"We took it a step forward and really clarified how we felt about these issues," said Tom Carroll, who also volunteers for Delta Chi. Carroll worked with an administrator from the University of Miami on the legislation, and then Delta Chi chapters across the country discussed the resolution.

The president of the Sacramento State chapter, Prestley Ateh, said he thought the resolution would help the members talk about preventing sexual assault.

"I think it makes it easier, because we know how our fraternity stands against the issue," Ateh said.

Other schools have tried to implement men-centered groups in order to encourage them to get involved, with varying degrees of success.

At Texas State University, the group Men Against Violence was created in 1997, said Ives, a junior who's the organization's treasurer. It offers presentations on various topics to campus groups and classes and during freshman orientation. While it's inclusive of all genders, Ives said male presenters were able to relate to other men and help them feel more comfortable.

"When it's presented by women, male students can often not pay as much attention, or be more disrespectful or just be more aggressive against it," Ives said. "Whereas if men are presenting, it doesn't so much seem like they are being attacked." ___ (c)2014 McClatchy Washington Bureau Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC

A Portrait of Southern University: 1880-2012 By: Marchandrea Seals Southern University graduate, former Mathematics professor and currently Southern’s Football Historian Everett D. Gibson authored a book entitled “A Portrait of Southern University.” The book is about Southern University’s history from 1880 to 2012. The 508-page book was released on June 30, 2014.

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ne of Everett D. Gibson’s main inspirations to write a book on the history of Southern University was so it could be told correctly and to provide record of the outstanding history of Southern University and what their graduates have done.

Gibson said “when other people write your history, they write what they want it be and we write who we are.”

Gibson also wanted to tell Southern history in great detail, in today’s context.

Gibson was born in Heflin, LA and is United States Air Force and Korean veteran. Gibson received his Bachelors degree from Southern University, Master Degree from the University of Southern California

and his Doctorate degree from the University of Illinois. Gibson co-authored one mathematics book and several articles in professional journals. Also, Gibson created the Gibson Method of Teaching Mathematics, which is a studentcentered method that aides students especially disadvantaged students in learning advanced mathematics.

Gibson researched Southern for a 12-year period and has devoted the last five years to finishing the book.

Gibson said he began researching Southern’s history as a Football Historian.

“Upon researching football, I ran across other material about Southern University,” said Gibson.

“I studied materials from Tulane

University, Louisiana State University, and Howard University, etc.”

Mr. Gibson separated Southern University’s history in this book into three parts: A Comprehensive History of Southern University, The momentous achievements of Southern, and Southern University and its great football traditions, which includes a section on Bayou Classic, Human Jukebox, and Dancing Dolls history.

In part one, “A Comprehensive History of Southern University”, Gibson talks about the reconstruction of Southern University in Baton Rouge. This section discusses the beginning phases of Southern University of

Baton Rouge and how the Southern became nationally recognized.

In “The Momentous Achievements of Southern”, he elaborates on the achievements of 46 graduates, more than 500 terminal degree holders, 90 CPA’s and six different families.

Part Three: “Southern University and Its Great Football Traditions”, speaks in detail about the football programs and focuses on the history of 18 head coaches including Brice Union Taylor, A. W. Mumford, and Pete Richardson during the most iconic games Southern played and as well as some of the most historical Southern wins. Southern University’s football program has been in existence of 95 years and has won more than 558 games and 9 bowl games. One noable bowl victory is the 1948 Fruit Bowl, which was their first bowl game and second game between all-black and all-white team in history, Southern

won 30-0. With 246 victories, A.W. Mumford is second to Eddie Robinson of Grambling State University among black coaches with the most wins.

The book also includes the complete history of Bayou Classic and the Jaguar nation which includes the Human Jukebox and the highlights of Dancing Dolls.

Gibson also discusses the four pillars of Southern University foundation. “The first pillar is P. B. S. Pinchback, without him there is no SU. The second pillar is J. S. Clark who became president of Southern University in 1912. The third pillar is Felton G. Clark, Clark’s son ,who was an outstanding educator, put Southern education on a national level. Fourth Pillar is A. W. Mumford who soared the Jaguars football standards at national levels and credibility at Southern University.”

“I wanted to show how SU is the Soul

Black Mother of the Black Middle Class in the State Of Louisiana and how black middle class came out of Southern,” said Gibson. “It is important our community know Southern’s written history.”

Kiwanni Gibson Ash, Gibson’s daughter and Southern graduate, helped designed the book and a website about the book including an excerpt of the book, blog, contact information, author’s note, and a download tab that offers the book cover as wallpaper.

“A Portrait of Southern University” book can be found at any national bookstore including Southern University’s Bookstores and online at sujagsnation.com. The cost of the book is $28.95. There are also three available copies at the John B. Cade Library.

A Centennial edition of this book at the present time is being worked on.

Clinical trial seeks answers to sudden deaths to healthy young people

By Eryn Brown Photo: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times/TNS

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ason Lappies woke in his San Diego apartment on the morning of June 26. Not needing to report to work right away, he settled onto his couch to watch a World Cup soccer match. He teased his roommate, who had to rush off to a job.

When the friend returned later in the day, Lappies, 31, was still on the couch, positioned exactly as he had been in the morning.

He had died, mysteriously and unexpectedly.

An autopsy left as many questions as it answered. The medical examiner thought Lappies' death probably stemmed from cardiac arrhythmia, an irregular heartbeat, but couldn't determine the underlying cause.

Lappies, an all-star lacrosse player in college, had not been using drugs and didn't suffer from heart disease.

He had been planning to leave soon

for a repeat stint teaching English in South Korea, a job he adored.

"No health issues, phenomenal athlete, traveled globally, just as healthy as can be," said his mother, Mary Lappies, of Oceanside, Calif.

Sudden deaths such as Jason Lappies' often go unexplained because standard autopsies cannot detect arrhythmias that cause the heart to stop in otherwise healthy young people. But a new clinical trial being announced Wednesday by the Scripps Translational Science Institute in La Jolla, Calif., may someday provide answers for San Diego County residents and eventually others across California.

By performing "molecular autopsies" --taking tissue samples from sudden-death victims over coming months and sequencing their DNA --the county medical examiner and

area researchers hope to ferret out the root cause when a young person dies inexplicably.

Jason Lappies' death is one of five being examined with the permission of family members. The hope is to study 100 deaths over the next three years.

"Someday, the reason why people die suddenly will not be a mystery," said Dr. Eric Topol, director of the Scripps institute, which is heading up the Molecular Autopsy Study.

Genomics "can jump in and fill a big hole here."

Nearly 400,000 cardiac arrests occur out of hospitals in the U.S. each year, according to the American Heart Association.

The number of those that are "youthful sudden deaths" , occurring before middle age and before coronary artery disease is more

likely to be a trigger, is unclear but believed to be 1,000 to 5,000, said Dr. Michael Ackerman, director of the Mayo Clinic Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory in Rochester, Minn., and an early proponent of the molecular autopsy approach.

San Diego County has a dozen or more such sudden unexplained deaths in young people each year, according to the medical examiner, whose office is responsible for investigating the cause and manner of death in mysterious cases, as well as homicides, suicides and accidents. Last year, it conducted 1,955 autopsies.

The typical autopsy includes external and internal exams, during which a pathologist examines the body for injury or signs of disease, and tests blood and tissue to rule out drug use or infection.

In many cases, the cause is obvious: a gunshot wound, a blood clot, a drug overdose. But sometimes, answers are elusive.

"We're left with this handful of people whose cause of death is beyond the current abilities of the autopsy to find," said Dr. Jonathan Lucas, chief deputy medical examiner for the county. "The individual was healthy yesterday and is dead today, and we don't know why."

That is where the molecular autopsy approach would come in, Topol said.

Working off a daily report from the medical examiner, Scripps researchers identify unexplained deaths occurring in people ages 45 or younger who do not have histories of substance abuse, obesity or heart disease and other serious illnesses.

Using a process called whole exome sequencing to analyze DNA from blood and heart tissue samples,

the team looks for certain genetic variations known to be associated with heart problems. The analysis also helps build a data repository that could help reveal new genetic variants associated with disease, Topol said.

The researchers will also analyze DNA found in the saliva of two relatives (the parents of the deceased, ideally) to help home in on key genes. Topol said he expected some of the investigations would reveal genetic variants that could be "strong candidates" to explain what happened, while others would remain difficult to interpret.

Ackerman, whose laboratory has performed more than 250 postmortem genetic analyses on victims of sudden death from around the country, including 50 to 100 whole exome studies like the ones conducted by Scripps, cautioned that interpreting the results of DNA sequencing can be tricky.

Often, he said, results are written in "shades of gray," pointing to genetic variants that might or might not be implicated in the death.

"You have to be a serious, serious detective and be skeptical and turn over every stone," he said. "The worst thing you can do is tell the person who's left behind that you found it when you haven't."

Genome sequencing in medical examiners' offices is not widespread, he said, in part because many don't have proper facilities or procedures in place to archive tissues for DNA analysis.

Expense is an issue too. Although the price of sequencing is falling rapidly, Topol said it can take $4,000 to $5,000 to sequence subjects and their family members. For the San Diego effort, that cost is shouldered

by Scripps, not by the county.

"We don't have the budget to do a

$1,000 test on everyone who could benefit from it ...gosh, I wish we could," said Lucas, the chief deputy medical examiner.

Lucas said he thought genetic analysis would often be appropriate when a young person dies and the cause isn't evident, adding that "if it comes down to one or two families a year that we have an answer for, the whole thing is worth it."

If the study goes well, the Scripps team hopes to expand its reach to other parts of California and beyond.

Mary Lappies said she was excited to cooperate with the researchers because Jason had "been adamant" about being an organ donor. The circumstances of his death made that impossible because his organs were deprived of blood for so long.

But giving tissue samples for genetic testing provided a way to honor his wish to help others, Lappies said, calling her son "an amazing, amazing man" whose "mission in life was to take care of people when they were down or hurting."

She hopes his contribution will help prevent similar deaths by improving early detection and treatment.

She doesn't worry about herself, she said, but is concerned for her older son, Justin.

"Obviously it's too late for Jason, but if they can find something that will prevent this happening in the future to other people's children, that means a lot to me," she said. "You hear people say, 'Parents should never bury a child.' There's a reason for that." ___ (c)2014 Los Angeles Times Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC

Presenting A.R.

su’s Wordsmith of the semester By: Diamond Bright

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mongst many of the robust, eclectic rappers to have ever hit the yard, Alvin “A.R.” Washington is a notable force of his own. With five mixtapes under his belt, Washington, a 24 year-old Baton Rouge native, displays the drive, creativity, and the undeniable talent required to reach his ultimate goal: making it.

Washington started rapping at the age of eleven while attending a summer enrichment program at Southern University and A&M College; he had written his very first rap ever while sitting in class. That moment spawned start of Washington’s pursuit to make it in the music industry, but it wasn’t until he was in his early teens when he released his first mixtape entitled, “Out the Gate.” “ (I was) 14 or 15 and I recorded all (of) the songs in my room in like three days … me and D. Jackson … and we burned a lot of copies on a single CD drive burner. It took us all night to burn them and we probably went to school with like eighty (or) eightthree and I signed all of them … we gave them out and that was tight”, he quotes, “My mom saw that it was something that I really wanted to do and she liked the music. My mom, she was like one of my biggest supporters and still is… she got me like six (or) seven hundred CDs …. she was on her lunch break putting CDs on the cars at the other high schools …. People who listen to my music now listened to that (“Out the Gate”)…those people have stuck with me since that

first CD.” Following the debut of “Out the Gate”, Alvin dropped four other mixtapes: “Out the Gate, Part 2”, “Tree House”, “The Formula”, and his latest work entitled, “Foot Work Phenomenon”.

Washington, a broadcast journalism major, cites that the aspect of rap that inspires him the most would be self-expression; he raps not only to entertain, but to inspire. “…I rap about how I feel…I rap to inspire…I rap to say something to make someone think…”, he states, “If I can motivate my people or anybody who cares to listen to do better, then I feel like I’ve done something.”

However, Washington dedicates his spare time to other activities apart from being a rapper and a student at Southern. “…I just try and get it up there every day.

I got a couple jobs; I’m an editor at WBRZ. …I do recreational writing,” he states, “… I’m a licensed realestate agent in Louisiana … I’m an avid hunter, I go fishing sometimes.”

Alvin “A.R.” Washington is destined for greatness in the rap community with his ambition and clever demeanor; he couldn’t agree anymore. “ I’m going (to) make it. When I say I’m going (to) make it, I hustle my music just like I hustle (in) everything I got going on.

We (are) going (to) get it out there… we (are) going (to) take it to the moon”, he states, “…You can’t stop hustle…if you go hustle, you could make it anywhere.”

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Fashion Trends

By: Keyaira Franklin

The Fedora is HOT item and a timeless classic. It can elevate a teeshirt or add an extra flawre to a suit.

This item can be purchased at many shops such as Aldo, Forever 21, and H&M.

Next is the Winter Florals. Men florals aren’t just for women or the summer. Winter Bold colors are IN! Florals are an essential that will add a blaze of color and print to your wardrobe. Florals can be a great find at Vintage thrift shops or department stores such as: Dillards and Macys.

OOOHHH … FAUX LEATHER is defintely the it factor of the season. With an extra accent of a zipper you will defintely turn heads. Faux Leather may not be real leather but it will give off the edgy top notche look every man is looking for. These jackets can be purchased at Express, JC Penney, and even Forever21.

Sweatpants in the work place?!

Some may call it crazy, but if worn the right way, it can be pulled off! Sweatpants are being worn with blazers and loafers--trendy, sporty and casual. Lets imbrace the comfort. Since comfort is the main goal of a college male student the sweatpant is the number 1 item that is needed for the winter.

The brogue boot! Who doen’t want a great boot. Guys brown is one of the most popular colors of the season. Add a pair of denim to this shoe to make a edgy- dapper look. Shop for this look at shoe stores such as Aldo and Stever Madden.

Army Green. This is one of the best color palettes of the season.

Just think of Money as the powerful influence. The powerful color looks great with a colored, patterned, or basic denim.

Big Bags are here and here to stay. The runways were full of this trend. Big bags are the IT factor for traveling and going to the gym.

The black and white phase. It’s like Ying and Yang in one assemble.

Once textures get applied to black and white you have excellence.

The puffer is not the same as the original puffer. It’s the ultimate sporty look of the season. Remember texture is the best factor of winter.

Biker Denim is the denim of the season.

These denim are definitely the rocker chic look that you want. By picking this trend you can boldly capture the eye of anyone.

This classic trend has went unisex. Fedoras are back and it is the chic-est look you will have. With a pair of hoop earrings and bold lip you will have the look of the season.

Fur has been on the scene for a very long time, but there’s something about the way furs emphasis an entire outfit. Try a long fur or a short fur. Don’t just stick with solid textures try out a prints.

Leather leather leather is it hot in here? This never ending trend will last forever. Whether its leather with cotton, leather with zippers, or leather with pleats there’s no such thing as wrong leather.

Single sole heels need to be the key item to purchase for the season. Single sole heels are the shoes for the IT girl. Sexy, elegant, and dramatic are all what this shoe gives off. All eyes will be on you as you walk in this footwear.

Lastly, a nice patterned, quilted bag. The trend of the mock channel has been on going. There’s just something about that form of bag. It’s the ultimate definition of modish and elegance.

Winter has arrived and is taking over.

It starts off with a dark lip. The dark shade of lip color bring out a dramatic bold statement. Ladies this bold statement can dress up anything you wear. Check Sephora, Mac, and the local pharmacy locations (Walgreens or CVS) for the bold lip colors.

Chunky knit sweaters and sweater dresses. Whether it’s being layered with a scarf or jacket; this trend of sweaters have the best sophisticated yet comfortable look.

Every Girl should own the perfect pair of boots. Thigh high boots are the top trend of the season for women.

They can bring out your inner sexy or your inner confidence. There’s just something about boot that can make you look longer and thinner.

Okay ladies, the season of layers is here. Blazers are the best piece to have, but the velvet textured blazer are better. Try a bold, textured blazer and pair it with simple pieces. JC Penney and Sears are some of the best places to find these items.

The perfect item to have in your closet is a pair of biker faux leather leggings. You can pair them with a denim shirt, timberland boots, or even a graphic tee.

Tailor Game:

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TheBy:Perfect Suit Keyaira Franklin

h, the suit--what separates the boys from the men. The men of the English Court used suits to uniform and distinguish themselves. Years later, the ensemble became the go-to for the business man. Black and white were once the only colors that could be worn until the 1900s when the use of suits became more than just formal wear.

Grey and Navy became the new, prevalent colors. During the 1920s, the idea of the suit changed dramatically; suits became shorter. These short suits contained straight-legged trousers, high-waisted and a wide-legged variety. The most fashionable men would put on double-breasted waistcoats with single breasted suit jackets. Until the 1950s when the suit became more simplified, with straighter cut styles, smaller jacket lapels and less defined waistlines.

However, the 1970s, inspired by the hit film Saturday Night Fever, the more tailored suit coat returned became Continued on next page...

“How to dress dapper in the modern age” Infographic by CustomMade.com popular once again, along with the three-piece suit.

When the 1980s arrived, so did looser suit styles of double-breasted suits and two-piece single breasted suits. Now, more modern and sophisticated threebutton and two-button suits are trending. The perfect suit has changed into a straight legged, patterned, and vibrant colored masterpiece. The suit is no longer the uniform which distinguished only one group of men, but a certain type of man; it’s now the ensemble that sets apart the men from the boys. The trend of putting a twist to everything has changed the dynamics of a normal suit to a perfectly tailored one. However, it all goes back to the basic, with original key elements that need to be taken into consideration when purchasing a suit. The main two elements are:

The quality of the fabric and the quality of the fit.

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Suits are commonly made from polyester, cotton, and wool. A suit should be ‘breathable. This means that during hot or cold weather it will keep you at a constant temperature Polyester suits are synthetic materials that are easy wrinkled. Also some polyester fabrics have a glossy shine which makes them stand out. Cotton is natural fiber and is a better alternative to polyester, and is sometimes preferred over wool in tropical region. Cottons tend to crease easily. Wool suits are the top of the class and are the fabric of choice for high end, expensive suits. Wool suits are normally lighter and feels baggier around your body.

“How to dress dapper in the modern age” Infographic by CustomMade.com

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Many places offer suits and great tailored suits at that.

It is stated that five percent of the time a man will find a suit that fits perfectly off of the rack. When selecting a suit there are many elements one must observe. Below are 10 key elements to use when purchasing a perfect suit: Slim vs. relaxed fit Lapel size (70-90 degree angle) Peak and Notch lapel Number of buttons (3) Number of vents on the jacket (1 or 2) Pleats Pick stitching

Ticket pockets Slanted vs. straight pockets Inner lining choices While on the search Baton Rouge has many places that can assist. Try Express, Men’s Warehouse, Johnson and Murphy; also department locations such as: JcPenneys, Macys, and Dillard’s. A tip to remember is that accessories makes the ensemble. Accessories add the individuality that every man is looking for. The main accessories that are needed are pocket square, watch, cufflinks, belt, and tie.

Latest fashion in faux jewelry: Metallic tattoos

By Lisa Liddane

Photos: sheebani metallic tattoos from mooreaseal.com

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rom across the room, they appear to be gold and silver bracelets that fit snugly on a wrist or necklaces that rest against the collarbone. But up close, you realize you're looking at optical illusions: The jewelry is actually a stack of temporary metallic tattoos, one of the biggest accessory trends of the year.

The designs include feathers, twisted ropes, Greek keys, geometric shapes, Egyptian and Native American motifs and words in cursive. They come in a small sheet and are fairly easy to apply: Cut the design from the sheet, peel the plastic cover, place carefully on the skin, dab the sheet with a wet cloth, hold sheet in place from 30 seconds to a minute, remove sheet gently and voila, instant skin jewelry.

Photos of celebrities adorned with faux jewelry tattoos, from Beyonce to Sarah Jessica Parker to Vanessa Hudgens, and the surge of new brands are pushing the trend into mainstream America.

But the most influential factor that makes women want to try one is seeing the jewelry tattoo on someone.

"One of our customers came in wearing one," said Nomi Channapragada-Bui, owner of One Stop Beauty Supply & Salon in Huntington Beach, Ca. "It caught our eye instantly. Also, Pinterest provided a wealth of images of people using the metallic tattoos. ...

Social media has played a large role in the sharing of this trend."

Channapragada-Bui has been wearing tattoos on her wrist, arms, neck, back and ankles everywhere she goes, and she began selling the tattoos by the sheet at all three locations of her shop recently. She gets stopped and asked about them a lot.

"Men and women alike are fascinated by the look of metallic tattoos," she said. "They cause a commotion and are great attention-getters," she said. "Be ready to explain what it is because people are very intrigued

and confused about how it is worn and stays on the skin and tend to ask questions like, 'Where did you get that?' 'Did you put that on yourself?'

'How long does it stay on?' and 'Can I touch it?'"

The origin of jewelry-inspired faux tattoos is not clear, but in February 2010, Chanel offered limited-edition Les Trompe L'Oeil de Chanel Temporary Skin Art designed by former global creative director Peter Philips. They were based on the fake tattoos of necklaces, chain bracelets and chain garters that models wore on the runway during the Paris spring collections preview in late 2009. The group of 55 designs was priced at $75.

In late 2010, Beyonce's company, House of Dereon, and Temptu launched their collection of jewelryinspired black temporary tattoos for $16-$34.

But both collections were predominantly in matte black and definitely looked like body art rather than jewelry.

Lulu DK La Femme Jewelry Metallic Temporary Tattoos from Neiman Marcus Maybe it's Dior that truly gave the trend a big boost. In 2012, the French maison launched its Les Ors de Peau, a decadent ninepiece collection designed by Dior's costume jewelry designer, Camille Miceli. The limited-edition tattoos were made of 24-karat gold microparticles and cost $120.

The current crop of faux jewelry tattoos is far more affordable and usually priced from $5 to $10 per sheet of designs.

Flash Tattoos, one of the earliest brands on the market, has seven collections, ranging from $22 to $30. Each usually has four sets of designs.

"The idea sparked while I was creating mood boards for inspiration on some new furniture projects that I was working on at the time," said Miranda Burnet, founder and designer of Flash Tattoos. "I came across an image of beautiful women applying intricate patterns of 24K gold leaf on their bodies in a magazine. ... I wanted to put a fun

spin on couture jewelry."

The majority of the collections are named according to the mood and style of the designs, Burnet said.

"Others are inspired by travel or inspirational people," she added. e One of the collections is a collaboration with jewelry company Child of Wild; another was guestdesigned by Los Angeles-based fashion blogger Rebekah Steen.

For Lulu deKwiatkowski, founder and creative director of Lulu DK fabrics and wallcoverings, a tattoo line was a natural extension of her lifestyle lines that include bags, furnishings and T-shirts.

"Lulu's sister came home from Italy with a gold tattoo that she had found overseas," said Natalie Costantino, spokeswoman for Lulu DK. "Lulu jumped on the idea and did her own version of bold fashionable designer tattoos that double as jewelry. ...

Our Love Story and La Femme collections are directly taken from her original artwork."

Other brands have popped up,

including Hot Jewels and Core.

The tattoos appear to appeal to a wide age range. Some women, especially those in their late teens and 20s, wear the jewelry more like body art, while women older than 40 are more likely to wear the tattoos as though they were bracelets and necklaces, Channapragada-Bui said.

Some men are giving the skin jewelry a try, but usually for events and concerts. "Surprisingly enough, we saw a lot of guys wearing them at (the Austin City Limits music festival) this year," Burnet said.

The best thing about the jewelry tattoos, Channapragada-Bui said, is that they last only four to six days and can be removed with baby oil or olive oil and a cotton ball.

"It's not a permanent commitment," she said. ___ (c)2014 The Orange County Register (Santa Ana, Calif.)

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Interview by: Ariana Triggs Photos by: Joshua McKnight and Courtney Jacobs

Ego:

How is it being at Southern University for homecoming?

Jeremih: It was great; this is my week kind of, off

so we just flew out here this morning. I had a blast on stage, I ain’t gon’ lie. It seemed like the crowd was hot, I performed “Don’t Tell Em’”, that was crazy and a lot of my old record they knew so I had a good a** time.

Ego: So speaking about “Don’t Tell Em’. Everyone has

done a remix from Migos, G-Unit, even Pitbull did a hispanic remix. How are you loving that?

Jeremih:

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I mean, it’s love. It’s all love. You know, 50 is my homeboy, I talk to that man for hours, I don’t talk to no man for hours so it’s like he hopped on it originally, then Migos, we reached out to them. Had another one with French [Montana] and Ty Dolla [Sign] and then I just did on with Pitbull, for the top 100, so it’s love for everybody to really embrace the record and even for it to be doing what it’s doing without no video, I still ain’t dropped that yet so I can’t wait til’ I do that.

Ego:

So tell me about your new album and your mixtape.

Jeremih:

and I feel like the time is now. At first, you know, my homie Chance [The Rapper], he got a version to it too as well and we’re going to put that out but J. Cole is on the official. It’s just to cater, once again we cater to our ladies out here and I think ya’ll going to be surprised at this J. Cole verse on it because I don’t think he ever came on anything like this.

The only mixtape I did was called “Late Nights” and I dropped that about two years ago. Since then, I haven’t released nothing until I dropped this last one called “NOMA” or “Not On My Album,” so my new album drops called “Late Nights:” The Album for Ego: So tell me about “Not On My Album.” the people who got Late Nights: The Mixtape, it’s like the best of Jeremih on that so Don’t Tell Em’ was the Jeremih: “Not On My Album” was a collection of first single on that one, the next one is featuring J. Cole records that I knew I wasn’t going to use on my album. called “Planes.”

So I just threw them out there at the top of last month.

So far, it’s been good feedback. I actually performed a record off of there tonight called “Already”. I don’t know Ego: Ok, so tell me about Planes. if anybody really rock with it like that or knew it, but I’m just having fun.

Jeremih: Man, I’ve been sitting on that record for about two years Ego: Ok, so tell me what’s next for you? You say you’ve been working hard and this is your first weekend Ego: Why? off, so what have you been doing? What’s next for you?

Jeremih: It is what is—I mean it’s all about timing

from previous page Jeremih: Man, this is my personal week. You know, I have a two-year-old son so I really been trying to do everything at the crib, get things right, get my crib back right because I’ve been on the road, you know, out in L.A. and back and forth to New York, so, man I just look forward to more music, more collaborations. I’ve got a new joint with Nicki [Minaj]...Trey Songz and Fab [Fabolous] and a couple more.

Ego:

So, tell me about your process. I know you write, you produce, tell me a little about your process.

Jeremih: I just don’t think any more about it.

I just go in there and whatever I feel , that’s what ya’’ll are going

to hear.

Ego:

Ok Great! So thank you for coming to Southern University for Homecoming. You know we really enjoyed

you…

Jeremih: I appreciate ya’ll for hollering at me too man, already.

Ego: ... and we hope you liked us enough to come back.

Jeremih:

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Mojo: A danger to society By: Preston Castille

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t’s no secret that many college students partake in recreational marijuana use, even though it isn’t legal.

In order to avoid the consequences of using an illegal drug, some take to using a substitute. Why would you want to take a substance that would harm you to the point of death? Is it the high? Is it the price?

Is it because it’s available? Taking a synthetic is the same as taking Heroin, LSD, and methamphetamines.

Synthetic cannabis also known as Mojo, K2, and Spice is a which is an alternative to marijuana deadly substance that is being sold around today is cheaper and is ten times more potent than Marijuana.

One hit can get a person more than high, two hits can send a person to the hospital, and three hits can put a person in the cemetery.

People who don’t want marijuana detected in their systems might think it’s a great alternative to using real marijuana, but many people actually describe it as the most terrifying experience.

Imagine this: a person take a hit, eventually it hits them.

The first thing they feel is a soothing sensation, they think it’s all right until they hear their own heartbeat,

they feel like it its pumping out of their chest, then they feel a hot sensation in their chest.

From then they begin to panic from the sound of their heart. That sound and feeling of sporadic gives that person thoughts of possible death.

They look around but their vision begins to blur and it becomes harder to focus.

Their focal points begin to warp. That person can’t think straight and all they hear is their own thoughts.

When that person tries to listen, they can hear but can’t comprehend.

The person’s words begin to slur and the first thing they think is to get out of there or sober up.

Then they begin to hallucinate they see things that aren’t there, they hear things that aren’t there, and wish the high to go away, but they had hit it too hard and/ or too many times.

So then everything that person knows that is there, isn’t reality, it is nonexistent. Their body tries to reject it, but they can’t get up to the bathroom because they lost most of their motor skills. So they vomit all over themselves or onto the floor, their brain can’t comprehend what’s going on so it begins to shut down or

“reboot”.

So that person’s body puts itself into a seizure, their muscles tense and convulse.

Now if no one is there to help, that person may be there helplessly and choke on their vomit, they may die of a heart attack, they may die from overdose, and it varies from person to person.

Will you take that chance, will you become another guinea pig for a substance that was created?

A man by the name of John William Huffman, who studies under organic chemistry at Clemson University who was the first who synthesized many wellknown cannabinoids. In 1984 Huffman and his team of scientist constructed multiple cannabinoid compounds. Cannabinoids are a class of assorted chemical compounds that react on cannabinoid receptors on cells that inhibit neurotransmitters in the brain. These receptors are known as endocannabinoids which are produced naturally in the body by all animals. The known active compound that is in synthetics is JWH018 initialed after him from making a new unknown molecule. While constructing new synthetics he and his the researchers developed 450 compounds which were used to test the effects of cannabinoid receptors.

Two of which are used today known as K2 and Spice which first originated in Germany (which is illegal of January 22, 2009) in the late 2000’s as alternatives. He quotes “I think this was something that was more or less inevitable. It bothers me that people are so stupid as to use this stuff ”. If the man himself who created the substance says it’s not logical for people to take these substances that he made “in his basement”. Why would you put it in your system? Keep in mind synthetics are illegal worldwide except in the most parts of US. Alex, a college junior, said using the sythetic substance was a horrible mistake and one of the worst experiences he’s had.

“Well, when I went to smoke with my homeboy and some girls I didn’t know they were smoking mojo, so I hit it hard like two times and I instantly got high but it felt like a fake high and then everybody started laughing and tripping and everybody got hot. Then they started looking like witches so I left and went to my

room and went to pray to GOD so he could take the high away from me. I started crying and everything, tripping out. People had panic attacks and one girl had got a seizure and almost died”, he said.

Intake of synthetics may cause severe to none of hypertension (unusually high blood pressure), tachycardia (an excessively rapid heartbeat, typically regarded as a heart rate exceeding 100 beats per minute), infarction (where blood cannot get to an area of tissue so that the tissue dies), agitation, vomiting, hallucinations, psychoses(a psychiatric disorder such as schizophrenia or mania that is marked by delusions, hallucinations, incoherence, and distorted perceptions of reality) seizures, convulsions, panic attacks, accelerated heartbeat, high blood pressure, nausea, blurred vision, and heart attacks.

Troy Rogers, a Correctional officer from Harvey, Louisiana said he’s seen inmates suffer from hallunciantions and even attack each other while on the drug.

“Only thing I know about synthetic marijuana is that they smuggle it in the penitentiary. It messes them up, we had a guy that uhh, see what they do is they take mojo and boost their high with round-up and they have it where they hallucinate, or get schizophrenic, hearing things they started hallucinating and they started hearing voices in their heads, one guy took it and he heard voices in his head telling him to kill himself, not himself but kill, kill, kill, so we brought him to the hospital. He was there for seven days, messed him up for good, cost about 2,000 dollars in damages.” he said.

The problem with synthetic marijuana use is a growing and dangerous one. If one values their health and their life, they wouldn’t even think of touching any uncontrolled substances. Many people have died, don’t let that be in vain. Amongst the many that had suffered from the hallucinogen can tell you that they would “never touch the stuff again” and tell anyone to stray away from any unknown synthetic chemical substance that was created in a lab for specifically research purposes. This substance is no joke nor is its side effects, be aware what goes into your system.

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Race relations arguably worse in ‘Age of Obama’

By Anita Kumar

W

hen President Barack Obama was elected the nation’s first black president in 2008, it suggested a move toward a post-racial America, the kind of society that Martin Luther King Jr. envisioned in his “I Have a Dream” speech nearly a half-century before.

No doubt, the votes of a majority of U.S. voters for an African-American was a watershed of monumental proportion. But six years into the Age of Obama, relations between blacks and whites are arguably worse in communities across the nation.

As protesters take to the streets after a pair of grand juries decided not to indict white police officers for killing unarmed black men in Missouri and New York, it’s clear that America’s long-standing racial divide not only remains but has deepened.

“We are more racially fractured and fragmented,” said James Peterson, director of Africana Studies at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.

“It has exposed more wounds than it has healed,” he said of Obama’s election. “It has exposed how racist our society still is.”

Obama has pushed for a slew of policies to boost blacks, with some success: increasing access to health

Photo: Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS care, making college more affordable and changing sentencing guidelines. And he launched My Brother’s Keeper, a program designed to empower young minority men.

Yet vast disparities between blacks and whites remain.

Blacks earn less money, graduate from college at lower rates and are imprisoned at disproportionately higher rates than whites. The unemployment rate for blacks is more than double the national average, 11.1 percent, while it’s 4.9 percent for whites, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Improving African-Americans’ qualify of life may help empower them and narrow the quantifiable gap between black and white. But ultimately race relations comes down to what’s in a person’s head. And even the first black president can’t change how people feel about each other.

“You have to separate steps that can be done that level the playing field and ensure justice from how people feel in their hearts,” senior Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett said in an interview. “We have been evolving for generations now. ... That’s not something you can just simply change in six years, but we can certainly make

Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS progress and move in the right direction.”

A new McClatchy-Marist Poll finds voters divided over whether Obama’s race helped or set back race relations.

By 43 percent to 34 percent, voters think the fact that the country has an African-American president has helped rather than hurt.

Whites and Latinos think it’s helped, by percentages of 44-35 and 46-25, respectively. But African-Americans think it’s hurt race relations rather than helped, by 42 percent to 33 percent.

The number of people who think blacks and whites do not get along has increased throughout Obama’s presidency, from 19 percent in late 2009 to 28 percent in 2014, according to polls conducted by the Pew Research Center and USA Today.

In 2013, just before the 50th anniversary of King’s speech, fewer than half --45 percent --of Americans said the country had made substantial progress toward racial equality. About the same share --49 percent-- said

that “a lot more” remains to be done.

Shawn Alexander, a professor of African and AfricanAmerican studies and director of Langston Hughes Center at the University of Kansas, said the nation’s systemic racial problem will not dissipate until Americans talk about race and policies are changed to level the playing field.

“America is not honest about race,” he said. “We failed to confront race.”

Obama’s election brought race to the forefront. And some say it led Obama to face an increased number of death threats and less cooperation in Washington.

“I think racial issues have really gotten worse,” said Colette Flanagan, an African-American who founded the group Mothers Against Police Brutality after her 25-year-old son was killed last year by a white police officer in Dallas. A grand jury declined to indict the officer.

Still, Obama says Americans should not discount the

progress that has been made.

“If you look at the history of race in America, it’s usually not a single moment when suddenly everything gets solved. It’s a process,” Obama said this week on the Spanish-language network Univision. “We have to recognize that issues of racial prejudice and discrimination, they’re embedded deeply in society, and they don’t transform overnight, but each successive generation, what we’ve seen in America is we’ve seen improvement.”

Obama rose to national prominence with a stirring speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in which he envisioned a post-racial America. “There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America _ there’s the United States of America,” he said.

Obama’s election was a source of pride for many blacks, especially for older people who never thought they would see a president that looked like them in their lifetime. It remains of tremendous symbolic significance to many.

“It showed enormous progress in our country that he was able to be elected not once, but twice,” Jarrett said. “ ... But I think that he looks at it as a larger arc than just over his presidency and would certainly say we have made progress but we still have a ways to go.”

But Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, noted that while Obama may have carried the majority of white voters in some states, none were in the Deep South. An often overlooked deep geographical divide remains in the country, he said.

“From the very beginning many people misread the president’s election,” he said. “The white community is not of one mind. ... It’s not that simple.”

Presidents often get blamed for the nation’s problems.

But when it comes to race, Obama has faced more criticism than his predecessors from people who say that he should be contributing to a greater dialogue on race in America.

Obama’s rating for handling race relations has declined this year.

Voters by 47 percent to 44 percent disapprove of the way Obama’s handling race relations, according to the new McClatchy-Marist Poll being released Friday.

In August, shortly after the shooting in Ferguson, a plurality approved of the way he was handling race, 48 percent to 42 percent, according to Pew. Robert Doar, who studies how federal policies can provide opportunities for vulnerable Americans at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative-leaning

Washington think tank, said that Obama’s record is disappointing, because poverty is up and median household income is down. He stressed, though, that Obama’s significance will eventually outweigh that.

“We’ve had some difficulties with his presidency ... but in the long run of history, his election will be more positive than negative,” he said.

Obama reluctantly dives into the national debate over race, usually only after a high-profile incident, and he has not made it a central focus of his presidency.

In 2009, Obama admitted that he hadn’t helped calm a racially charged debate when he said police acted “stupidly” for arresting a prominent African-American professor in his own home and holding what later became known as a “beer summit” between the professor, the arresting police officer and the president at the White House.

In 2012, after black Florida teenager Trayvon Martin was shot to death by a white neighborhood watch volunteer, Obama spoke in personal terms about race, saying, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.”

This year, Obama has spoken numerous times after the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, but in much less personal terms. He held several meetings on the issue and unveiled a spending request, including $75 million, to buy 50,000 body-worn cameras for local law enforcement.

He told a group of young activists that change is “hard” and “incremental,” but that he was redoubling his efforts on the issue, according to a senior administration official who is knowledgeable about the meetings but not authorized to speak as a matter of White House practice.

Obama told the activists about his own experiences with discrimination, when keys were tossed to him because someone thought he was a valet and when he was asked to bring tea to someone because someone thought he was a waiter.

“I don’t think he ever said that we have become race neutral as a society, but we certainly have made an enormous amount of progress,” Jarrett said. “If there are people who are frustrated with his efforts so far, he would encourage them to join that fight. It will be a lot easier to achieve that goal with the kind of support that we are seeing around the country.” ___ (c)2014 McClatchy Washington Bureau Visit the McClatchy Washington Bureau at www. mcclatchydc.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC

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Hookah smoking: a hot trend for young adults but clouded by health concerns

By Lizzie Johnson

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louds of sickly sweet blackberry smoke are billowing out of Isaac Doss' mouth. He takes a long draw from the bubbling hookah and passes the pipe to Kara Brick.

They are sprawled on cushioned wicker chairs on the patio at Kush, a hookah bar on Greenville Avenue in Dallas. It's a muggy Thursday and the two are celebrating the return of Kara's sister, Savannah Brick, from an au pair job in Europe.

"This is kind of cheating," Kara Brick, 28, says. "We are all ex-smokers. With cigarettes, you really have to push through smoking it the first time. They taste terrible and smell terrible. Hookah is actually enjoyable. This has a social feel and is something we can do together."

Hookah bars are a relaxed gathering place for customers to socialize as they smoke tobacco through water pipes.

It's a hot trend among young adults. Nearly one in five U.S. students smoked hookah in the last year, according to a study published in the journal Pediatrics. About 10 businesses sell hookah within a five-mile radius of the University of Texas at Dallas.

But hookah, which comes with few warning labels or health notices, can be more dangerous than smoking cigarettes. A study funded by the National Institutes of Health notes that a single hookah session delivers 1.7

times the nicotine, 6.5 times the carbon monoxide and 46.4 times the tar of a single cigarette.

"There is no reason to believe that a water pipe is less dangerous than a cigarette," says Dr. Thomas Eissenberg, a Virginia Commonwealth University professor who has conducted numerous studies on water pipe smoking. "In fact, depending on some of the toxins, there is reason to believe it is more dangerous."

Doss, 25, smoked hookah regularly at the University of the Ozarks in Clarksville, Ark., without realizing the health risks.

"I was 18 the first time I smoked," he says. "I smoked every weekend. I never considered how bad it would be for me. Now I smoke occasionally enough that it really can't affect me. It's something I consider before I go to the hookah bar."

State law prohibits the sale and smoking of hookahs to anyone younger than 18. Kevin Perlich, a spokesman at the Richardson, Tex., Police Department, says that anyone caught smoking under 18 will be issued a citation for the use of tobacco, a Class C misdemeanor similar to a speeding ticket.

Richardson has adopted ordinances that ban the use of tobacco products, including water pipes, in most public

Photo: hookahshisha.com places. But the law does not restrict young patrons from entering the lounge, so teenagers are legally able to be in the environment.

"Hookah seems like it is on the upswing," says Dr. Gary Weinstein, a pulmonologist at Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas. "There are hookah bars in many young areas, and it's a cool thing to do. It seems cooler than smoking a cigarette."

Data from the University of Michigan's Monitoring the Future survey suggests hookah usage among high school seniors in the past year rose 21 percent.

Eissenberg says this is an issue because many young people do not realize they are inhaling tobacco, charcoal smoke and other carcinogens with each breath.

"The problem is, if you go into a water pipe bar and look at the pipe you are being served, there is nothing on that pipe or on the tobacco or in that charcoal that tells you it's dangerous," Eissenberg says. "I have gotten this outlook from kids: 'It doesn't say it's dangerous, so it must be safe.'"

When smoking a cigarette, the user lights the tobacco with a fire and inhales the smoke. With hookah, the smoke passes from a head containing tobacco and charcoal, through a water bowl and into a hose for inhalation. The tobacco comes in many flavors, ranging from chocolate to fruit to alcoholic varieties.

Hookah smoke is known to contain higher levels of lead, nickel and arsenic, 36 times more tar and 15 times more carbon monoxide than cigarettes, research in the Journal of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention shows.

This is because smoking a hookah requires taking harder and longer drags, increasing the levels of inhaled carcinogens and nicotine in the lungs.

"When they take a puff, the smoke is very cool and the draw resistance is very low, so it is easy to inhale and it tastes good," Eissenberg says. "They take dramatically larger puffs, about 500 milliliters per puff. We are talking about an entire cigarette's worth of smoke in a single puff."

The longer the hookah session, the more nicotine and toxins a person takes in.

A 45- to 60-minute hookah session can expose the smoker to about the same amount of nicotine and tar as one pack of cigarettes, Eissenberg says.

"If you aren't a cigarette smoker because you know cigarettes are dangerous and lethal, then there is absolutely no reason to be smoking a water pipe and every reason to avoid it for the same reason," he says.

"Water pipe smoking will kill you also."

Dr. Mark Millard, a medical director at Baylor Martha Foster Lung Care Center, has practiced medicine in the Middle East, an area where water pipe smoking has been prevalent for more than 400 years. On one trip, he treated a woman from Saudi Arabia with a hacking cough.

"She was smoking every night for an hour," he says.

"That is quite a lot of inhalants. I told her to get rid of her hubbly bubbly (hookah). It's nicotine that is the addictive factor. It makes people want to come back for more. People can get addicted to hookahs, and it does affect your health."

Five years ago, Farhad Ata opened Kush Hookah Lounge.

Ata has smoked hookah his entire life. He says he likes the nicotine buzz and the chill environment. He knows smoking is not healthy, but he has accepted the risks.

It's something he says he hopes clients are aware of, too.

"I don't really sit down and talk with them about the health risks," Ata says. "I think some people are already schooled, and they just accept it. Other people don't care.

It is still tobacco, no matter what, even if it is flavored.

Your lungs are meant for air. Any type of smoke is not good for you, whether it's cigarettes or hookah."

Eissenberg says: Know the risks.

"As a package deal, it's a dangerous thing to do," he says.

"Educate yourself. Then make the decision." ___ (c)2014 The Dallas Morning News Distributed by MCT Information Services

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SPRING 2015 ACADEMIC CALENDAR December 19 (F) | First Priority Payment Date January 5-21 (M-W) | Book Vouchers January 5 (M) | First Time Freshmen and Transfer Students Report for Campus Housing January 6 and 7 (T-W) | Orientation for First-time Freshmen and Transfer Students January 6-9 (T-F) | Welcome Week Mandatory for all First Time Freshmen and Transfer Students January 7 (W) | Faculty Reports/Convocation January 7 (W) | Returning Students Report for Campus Housing January 7-9 (W-F) | Registration January 9 (F) | Classes Purged for Non-Payment of Tuition and Fees (All Students) January 10 (Sa) | Late Fees Begin ($100) January 12 (M) | CLASSES BEGIN January 12-29 (M-Th) | Attendance Reporting Period (NS/SH)—Students who do not report to classes during this period will have their classes removed and financial aid reduced or cancelled.

January 16 (F) | Deadline for Adding Courses for Credit January 19 (M) | Martin Luther King’s Birthday Celebration January 20 (T) | Classes Resume at 8:00 A.M. January 23 (F) | Last Day to Drop Courses without receiving a Grade of “W” February 2 (M) | Spring 2015 Fee Payment Deadline February 6 (F) | Deadline for Receipt of Graduation Applications for Spring 2015 Commencement and Commencement Ceremony Participation Intent Forms February 6 (F) | University Convocation, 11:00 a.m. ( Mandatory for all Freshmen and Transfer Students) February 12 (Th) | Student Refunds Begin February 16-17 (M-T) | Mardi Gras Holiday February 18 (W) | Classes Resume at 8:00 A.M. March 9 (M) | Founders Day (Freshmen Attendance at the Convocation is Mandatory.)

March 10-16 (Tu-M) | Mid-Semester Examination Period March 18 (W) | Mid-Semester Grades Posted by 8:00 a.m.

March 30 (M) | Pre-Registration for Summer and Fall Semesters Begins April 3-12 (F-Su) | Spring Break April 13 (M) | Classes Resume at 8:00 A.M. April 20 (M) | Last day to withdraw from courses or from the University April 24 (F) | Academic Honors Convocation April 30 (Th) | Last Day of Classes May 1 - 5 (F – Tu) | Final Examination Period May 6 (W) | Graduation Check-Out May 7 (Th) | Final Grades for All Students Posted to the Web by 11:59 p.m.

May 8 (F) | Commencement

Softball schedule 2014.2015 Sat, Jan 31 | Bishop State | Baton Rouge, LA | TBA Fri, Feb 06 | Nicholls State | Hammond | TBA Wed, Feb 11 | Nicholls State |Thibodaux | 7 p.m.

Sat, Feb 28 | Louisiana Tech Tourney | Ruston | TBA Wed, Mar 04 | Holy Cross | Baton Rouge, La. | 1 p.m.

Wed, Mar 04 | Holy Cross Baton Rouge | 3 p.m.

Fri, Mar 06 | HBCU Tourney | Irondale, Ala. | TBA Wed, Mar 11 | Nicholls State | Baton Rouge | 3 p.m.

Sat, Mar 14 | Cleveland State | Baton Rouge | 3 p.m.

Tue, Mar 17 | Langston (DH) | Baton Rouge | 12 p.m.

Tue, Mar 17 | Langston (DH) | Baton Rouge | 2 p.m.

Fri, Mar 20 | SWAC Round-up * | Longview, TX | TBA Fri, Mar 27 | Texas Southern * | Baton Rouge | 3 p.m.

Sat, Mar 28 | Texas Southern * | Baton Rouge | 12 p.m.

Sat, Mar 28 | Texas Southern * | Baton Rouge | 2 p.m.

Fri, Apr 03 | Grambling State * | Baton Rouge | 3 p.m.

Sat, Apr 04 | Grambling State * | Baton Rouge | 12 p.m.

Sat, Apr 04 | Grambling State * | Baton Rouge | 2 p.m.

Fri, Apr 10 | UAPB * | Pine Bluff, Ark. | TBA Fri, Apr 17 | Prairie View A&M * | Prairie View, TX | TBA Tue, Apr 21 | Southeastern | Baton Rouge | 12 p.m.

Tue, Apr 21 | Southeastern | Baton Rouge | 2 p.m.

Thu, Apr 23 | Jackson State * | Baton Rouge | 1 p.m.

Thu, Apr 23 | Jackson State * | Baton Rouge | 3 p.m.

Wed, May 06 | SWAC Tournament * | Decatur, Ala. TBA * Conference Games

Baseball schedule 2014.2015 Fri, Feb 13 | Baton Rouge CC | Baton Rouge | 6 p.m.

Tue, Feb 17 | Nicholls State | Thibadeaux | 6 p.m.

Fri, Feb 20 | Grambling State | New Orleans | 2:30 p.m.

Sat, Feb 21 | University of New Orleans | New Orleans | 2 p.m.

Sun, Feb 22 | Alcorn State | New Orleans | 1:00 p.m.

Tue, Feb 24 | Nicholls State | Baton Rouge | 6 p.m.

Sat, Feb 28 | Prairie View A&M | Baton Rouge | 12 p.m.

Sun, Mar 01 | Prairie View A&M | Baton Rouge | 1 p.m.

Tue, Mar 03 | McNeese State University | Lake Charles | 6 p.m.

Fri, Mar 06 | South Dakota State | Baton Rouge | 6 p.m.

Sat, Mar 07 | South Dakota State | Baton Rouge | 1 p.m.

Sun, Mar 08 | South Dakota State | Baton Rouge | 1 p.m.

Wed, Mar 11 | ULL | Baton Rouge | 6 p.m.

Sat, Mar 14 | Arkansas Pine Bluff * | Arkansas-Pine Bluff | 12 p.m.

Sun, Mar 15 | Arkansas Pine Bluff * | Arkansas-Pine Bluff | 1 p.m.

Tue, Mar 17 | LSU | Baton Rouge | 6 p.m.

Sat, Mar 21 | Texas Southern * | Baton Rouge| 12 p.m.

Sun, Mar 22 | Texas Southern * | Baton Rouge 1 p.m.

Tue, Mar 24 | Jackson State * | Jackson, MS | 6 p.m.

Sat, Mar 28 | Grambling * | Baton Rouge | 12 p.m.

Sun, Mar 29 | Grambling * | Baton Rouge | 1 p.m.

Tue, Mar 31 | Southeastern | Hammond | 6 p.m.

Sat, Apr 04 | Prairie View A&M * | Prairie View,TX | 12 p.m.

Sun, Apr 05 | Prairie View A&M * | Prairie View,TX | 1 p.m.

Tue, Apr 07 | Jackson State * | Baton Rouge | 6 p.m.

Wed, Apr 08 | Baton Rouge CC | Baton Rouge | 6 p.m.

Sat, Apr 11 | Loyola University | Baton Rouge | 12 p.m.

Sun, Apr 12 | Loyola University | New Orleans | 1 p.m.

Tue, Apr 14 | Baton Rouge CC (Exh.) | Baton Rouge | 6 p.m.

Wed, Apr 15 | University of New Orleans | Baton Rouge | 6 p.m.

Sat, Apr 18 | Arkansas Pine Bluff * | Baton Rouge | 12 p.m.

Sun, Apr 19 | Arkansas Pine Bluff * | Baton Rouge | 1 p.m.

Wed, Apr 22 | University of Louisiana-Lafayette | Lafayette | 6 p.m.

Sat, Apr 25 | Texas Southern (DH) * Houston, Texas 1 p.m.

Sun, Apr 26 | Texas Southern * | Houston, Texas | 1 p.m.

Tue, Apr 28 | McNeese State University | Baton Rouge | 6 p.m.

Sat, May 02 | Grambling State (DH) * | Grambling, LA | 12 p.m.

Sun, May 03 | Grambling State * | Grambling, LA | 1 p.m.

Wed, May 06 | Southeastern | Baton Rouge | 6 p.m.

Fri, May 08 | BRCC or Delgado (Exh.) | Baton Rouge | 6 p.m.

Sat, May 09 | BRCC or Delgado (Exh.) | Baton Rouge | 6 p.m. * Conference Games

woMen's Basketball schedule 2014.2015 Sat, Jan 03 | Prairie View A&M | Baton Rouge | 3 p.m.

Mon, Jan 05 | Texas Southern University * | Baton Rouge | 5:30 p.m.

Sat, Jan 10 | Grambling State * | Grambling, La. | 3 p.m.

Mon, Jan 12 | Jackson State * | Jackson, Miss. | 5:30 p.m.

Sat, Jan 17 | UAPB * | 3 p.m.

Mon, Jan 19 | Mississippi Valley State * | Baton Rouge | 5:30 p.m.

Sat, Jan 24 | Alabama A&M * | Huntsville, Ala. | 4 p.m.

Mon, Jan 26 | Alabama State * | Montgomery, Ala. | 5:30 p.m.

Sat, Jan 31 | Alcorn State * | Alcorn, Miss. | TBA Sat, Feb 07 | Grambling State * | Baton Rouge | 3 p.m.

Mon, Feb 09 | Jackson State * | Baton Rouge | 5:30 p.m.

Sat, Feb 14 | UAPB * | Pine Bluff, Ark. | 5 p.m.

Mon, Feb 16 | Mississippi Valley State * | TBA | 6 p.m.

Sat, Feb 21 | Alabama A&M * | Baton Rouge | 3 p.m.

Mon, Feb 23 | Alabama State * | Baton Rouge | 5:30 p.m.

Sat, Feb 28 | Alcorn State * | Baton Rouge | 3 p.m.

Thu, Mar 05 | Prairie View A&M * | Praire View, Texas | 5:30 p.m.

Sat, Mar 07 | Texas Southern * | Houston, Texas | 5:30 p.m.

Tue, Mar 10 | 2015 Toyota SWAC Basketball Tournament | Houston, Texas | TBA * Conference Games (Fall 2014 games are not included)

Men's Basketball schedule 2014.2015 Sat, Jan 03 | Prairie View A&M * |Baton Rouge | 5:30 p.m.

Mon, Jan 05 | Texas Southern * | Baton Rouge | 8 p.m.

Sat, Jan 10 | Grambling State * | Grambling, La. | 7:30 p.m.

Mon, Jan 12 | Jackson State * | Jackson, Miss. | TBA Sat, Jan 17 | Arkansas-Pine Bluff * | Baton Rouge | 5:30 p.m.

Mon, Jan 19 | Mississippi Valley State * | Baton Rouge | 8 p.m.

Sat, Jan 24 | Alabama A&M * | Huntsville, Ala. | TBA Mon, Jan 26 | Alabama State * | Montgomery, Ala. | 7:30 p.m.

Sat, Jan 31 | Alcorn State * | Lorman, Miss. | TBA Sat, Feb 07 | Grambling State * | Baton Rouge | 5:30 p.m.

Mon, Feb 09 | Jackson State * | Baton Rouge | 8 p.m.

Sat, Feb 14 | Arkansas-Pine Bluff * | Pine Bluff, Ark. | TBA Mon, Feb 16 | Mississippi Valley State * | Itta Bena, Miss. | 8 p.m.

Sat, Feb 21 | Alabama A&M * | Baton Rouge | 5:30 p.m.

Mon, Feb 23 | Alabama State * | Baton Rouge | 8 p.m.

Sat, Feb 28 | Alcorn State * | Baton Rouge | 5:30 p.m.

Thu, Mar 05 | Prairie View A&M * | Prairie View, Texas | 7:30 p.m.

Sat, Mar 07 | Texas Southern * | Houston, Texas | 7:30 p.m Tue, Mar 10 | 2015 Toyota SWAC Tournament * | Houston, Texas | Toyota Center | TBA * Conference Games

SUBR FALL 2014

Centennial COLLEGE OF BUSINESS

Donald Andrews, Ph.D., Dean Kyle Pallas Snedecor, Student Marshal Bachelor of Science in Accounting Jasmine Baskin, Montz Tiarra L Blanchard, Grosse Tete Ashley Marie Dewey, Houston, TX. Meldrekia L. Foster, Baton Rouge Jason Marcus Holliday, Baton Rouge Tiffany Lucille Jefferson, Port Allen Melanie Lange, Baton Rouge Rhondalette L Mack, Baton Rouge Brittney Rochelle Oti, Baton Rouge Kali Lanee’ Perry, New Iberia * Tyrah Phillips, Baton Rouge Randale Scott, Bossier City Alexis B Skidmore, Addis Idasha Nichole Thomas, Opelousas Brent Darien Washington, New Orleans Michelle Laura Williams, Zachary

Bachelor of Science in Finance Monique Latricia Aron, Baton Rouge Tyrah Phillips, Baton Rouge Kyle Pallas Snedecor, Ann Arbor, MI Michelle Laura Williams, Zachary

Bachelor of Science in Business Management Johnathan T Brown, Baton Rouge Jasmine N Cofield, Baton Rouge Samantha J Flemming, Baton Rouge

Jeffrey William Henry, Oakland, CA Cade Thomas Leblanc, Zachary Alliesha LaQuadra LeGarde, Hammond Lyen A. Martinez, Baton Rouge Connie J Parker, Baton Rouge Krystal D Rheams, Baton Rouge Bryan James Rowry, Birmingham, AL Kelan C Woods, Amite

Bachelor of Science in Marketing Anthony J Bias, Baton Rouge Megan M Clay, Slidell Joseph Corey Coleman, Alexandria Jonnika S. Lofton, New Orleans Theron A McGhee, Baton Rouge Jazmin Christine Raymond, Los Angeles, CA Adrian Sanders, Jackson, TN Genesis Spears, Baton Rouge * Posthumously

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION ARTS AND HUMANITIES

Luria Young, Ph.D., Dean Karla L Washington, Student Marshal Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education Delky L. Arbuckle, Rosedale Crystal Briscoe, Lake Charles Chayla Rae-Kel Price, Zachary Danielle Brittany Shelton, Baton Rouge Kiersten N Victorian, Baton Rouge

Graduates Undergraduates

Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education Karla L Washington, Baton Rouge

Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies Mychal Dewayne Bell, Jena Kyiesha Matthews Campbell, Clinton Airian J Collins, New Orleans Sasha U Ezeh, Pearl River Gwendolyn Michelle Foster, Marrero Tyra Jerene Guthrie, Baton Rouge Ashley N Justice, Baton Rouge Jacquinn L Lee, Baton Rouge Roeshay Patrick, Baton Rouge Eric Rogers, LaPlace Harley M Roller, Whiteland, IN Daleonne O Smith, Meliville Tiera Smith, Baton Rouge Ayanna Celeste Spivey, Baton Rouge Ashaki M Tobias, Baton Rouge Greg W Whitfield, Gulfport, MS

Bachelor of Arts Dwayne Adrian Bell, Baker Travis A Harris, Harvey Freddie Lee Hollins, Oakland, CA Tyrus W. Lawson, Baton Rouge Ryan Parker Lawrence, Hammond Jessica Nottingham, Baton Rouge Jonathan A Phillips, Houston, TX Charcie J Robins, Baton Rouge Imani Robinson, Shorewood, IL Savannah L Teekel, Baton Rouge

Alexis R Washington, Prairieville Ebony E. Yarbrough, Baton Rouge

Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications Nicole Derwann Ayers, Zachary Brandi Rene Bailey, Baton Rouge Alexandria R Burks, Baton Rouge Sherral Franklin, Baton Rouge Janniece A Gilliams, Northridge, CA Mica A. Guillory, Baton Rouge Talor Danielle Kinzy, Kentwood Torrance Gregory Latham, Baton Rouge Terrance M. Moon, Decatur, GA Joshua C Sylvester, Napoleonville Cynthia D. Thomas, Monroe Alvin Ray Washington, II, Prairieville

Bachelor of Music

Dominique Trinette Gibbs, New Orleans Corey Douglas Hill, Baton Rouge

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE Habib P. Mohamadian, PhD, Dean Breanna Danielle Lewis, Student Marshal

Architecture Shannon Gipson, West Monroe

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Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Leah Celeste Connor, Student Marshal

Ryan Jerel Guillory, Baton Rouge Mahan K. Moghaddam, Baton Rouge Jerell Pernell Smith, Baton Rouge Dandre J Woodland, Baton Rouge

Bachelor of Science in Nursing

Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering Megan L. Barthelemy, Port Sulphur Randon Dwayne Green, Baton Rouge

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Darius Tre’Shay Brooks, Baton Rouge Jazmine S. Crockett, Baton Rouge Kenneth Reginald Davis, Baker Christopher Shane Dixson, Opelousas Gilleon U Gillis, Plaquemine Vernard William Henley, Baton Rouge Ryan Daniel Kyle, Baton Rouge Joshua R. Simms, Baton Rouge Michael Eugene Thomas, Missouri City, TX Randy J Tyson, Kenner

Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering Technology Rodney Blake, Shreveport Brittany S Jones, Baton Rouge

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Taleb Mohammed Al Haddad, Mobile, AL Irving Jamel Alexander, Lake Charles Myles J Floyd, Detroit, MI Breanna Danielle Lewis, Brusly Brandon C Lockett, Port Allen Timothy Otis Matthews, Baton Rouge Chiedu Uche Odita, Shreveport Justin Larenzo Prime, Baton Rouge Kirklun Jude Pugh, Baton Rouge Kyle James Ward, Opelousas

COLLEGE OF NURSING AND ALLIED HEALTH Janet Rami, RN., Ph.D. Dean

Asheena Adams, Shreveport Janie L Allen, Baton Rouge Gabrielle Bessix, Modeste Trameka M.L Bolds, New Orleans Amanda Bossom, Gonzales Brennan Jasper Brown, New Orleans Yulia Marian Calderon, Prairieville Andrea Rashawn Collins, Zachary Leah Celeste Connor, Central

Ashanti Ash Davis, Kenner Ashley Davis, Slaughter Eliza Natasha Davis, St Francisville Brandon N Doss, New Orleans Marcus Luther Doss, New Orleans Carla Latrice Dunn, Port Allen Darchell D. Fisher, Houston, TX Kiona R Foulcard, Franklin Kimberly Q Frank, Alexandria Deshay Grace, Saint Gabriel Darrielle L Gray, Gretna Aschtun Rechell Hallett, Tyler, TX Kayla Kermecheia Harris, Plaquemine Reva C Hill, St Martin Sparkle Jenkins, West Monroe Kimberly R Jones, Crowley Natasha Danielle Jones, Zachary Earlisha Lazetta Kendrick, Baton Rouge Barbara N Lacour, New Roads Allen J Lands, Baton Rouge Passionate Sharnay Larry, Tallulah Natasha Nichole Leteff, Denham Springs Britney Andrea Lewis, Rowlett, TX Jasmine C Lewis, Independence Steffen R. Lewis, Shreveport

Lashawna R Lindsey, Baton Rouge Deyonna Lockett, Erwinville Courtney Nicole Matthews, Bogalusa Angelica Jenee Miller, Jonesville Latoya D Moore, Baton Rouge Ryan Mossey, Zachary Brittany Kiara Myles, Dallas, TX Ashley A Narcisse, Vacherie Dagne Jerona Nelson, Dublin, GA Theleisha Elaine Nelson, New Iberia Dominique Owens, Chicago, IL Iesha Palmer, Baton Rouge

Raven A Pitre, Lake Charles Chantel N Porter, Baton Rouge Nicole Robertson-Searcy, Lakewood, CA Zephan Michael Rochelle, Destrahan Melanie Ann Roy-Alexander, Prairieville Ryan Cody Runnels, Baker Emily Marie Seamon, Zachary Aqua Corriente Shaw, Baton Rouge Courtney Spring, Zachary Terrica Lache Stanwood, Woodville, MS

Melissa Stephenson, Vineland, NJ Ameesha M Sterling, St Francisvle Jaszmone Thomas, Baton Rouge Na Quetta Thompson, Prairieville Christopher Angelo Urti, Hammond Kinsha Howell Walker, Baton Rouge Ann M Watkins, Zachary Crystal Harrison West, Zachary Kevin Gerard Williams, Baton Rouge Michael Evan Williams, Zachary Michael C Williams Jr., New Orleans

Bachelor of Science

Kersha Broussard, New Iberia Stephen D Castello, St Francisville Remi Crittenden, Marrero Derek Dennis, Columbia Tristan A Fox, Kentwood Daniel Garcia, Harvey, IL Heidi Godchaux, Plaquemine Kaisley Joseph, Breaux Bridge Chanda Journet, Breaux Bridge Sasha Leday, Opelousas India Manuel, New Orleans Lynella McCray, Baker Shanteria E Onyemem, Baton Rouge Jasmine Mechel Payne, Mobile, AL Raquel Ross, Baker Charne’ A Thomas, Baton Rouge Jayde Washington, Marrietta Ryan A Watterson, Bogalusa Diondre Williams, Baton Rouge Dorian C Williams, Baton Rouge Julie D Wilson, Baton Rouge Keisha L York, Prairieville

Bachelor of Science in Speech Pathology and Audiology

Tia Shardae Ayo, Port Allen Courtney Michelle Figures, Missouri City, TX Deshunna Quiniceia McFarlin, Houston, TX

COLLEGE OF SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURE Robert H. Miller, Jr., Ph. D., Dean Cathy L Baker, Student Marshal

Bachelor of Science Beatrice Kiairra Alexander, Zachary Cathy L Baker, Kentwood Tia M Burden, Baton Rouge Kimberly Nicole Butler, Monroe Albreian L Cornish, La Place Terrance A Ezekiel, Semmes, AL Ferrin B Francis, Baton Rouge Jasmine J Gibbs, Baker Nicollette Goree, Baton Rouge Krystin D Harris, Baker Sabrina Rose Harris, Belle Rose Robert Curley Hobbs, Collinston Javonica Termecia Holmes, Hammond Hailey A Hudson, Prairieville Lorraine M. James, St. Joseph Ramon J Johnson, Baton Rouge Donna Jane Jones, Opelousas Lashanta Lashaee Lemons, Alexandria Darius R Lewis, Baton Rouge Tanyatta T Mayo, Opelousas Artesha La’Trice Murray, Hammond Gicanda L Muse, Greensburg Patience Quanta Muse , Greensburg Paige C Northern, Baton Rouge Joy Kristina Sims, Tallulah Rashawn Ella Thompson, New Orleans Chardonne O Turner, Baton Rouge Ashley Williams, Zachary Yolanda Williams, Baton Rouge LeSeana Magdelean Wilson, Clinton

COLLEGE OF SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE

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Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Science

Dontrey Barber, Baton Rouge Deantre’ D. Bryant, Baton Rouge Roneisha King, New Orleans Hillary S. Pierce, Breaux Bridge Ricky Robinson, Bogalusa Monterre’ Thompson, Jonesboro Richard Weaver, Baton Rouge

Dhiyaauddeen Abdullah, Baton Rouge Shenesha L Allen, Jeanerette Jamal Akil Bell, Lake Charles Shabanese Brown, Dade City, FL Whitney K Bennett, Zachary Meli’Sa Jade Cade, Jennings Terence Renard Clayton, Baton Rouge Emelda Anise Collins, Baton Rouge Feneshia J Dorsey, Gonzales Chelsea Eames, St. Francisville Ebonee C. Givens, Arlington, TX Trittney R Gray, Baton Rouge Adrian Maurice Greenhouse, Baton Rouge Carneta Ivory Henderson, Desoto, TX Deja Diamond Henderson, Salida, CA Karlissea Sierra Hives, Zachary Melanie L Jackson, Baton Rouge Mikeshia Taynaya Joseph, Opelousas Jamel J Kinchen, Baton Rouge Linda Huggins Kilbourne, Wilson Latoya Latiker, Baton Rouge Shamyra Elizabeth Lavigne, Saint James April J. Lucas, Lake Providence Meagan L Maile, Oakland, CA Kendra Martin, Gretna Jamikka D McNabb, Baton Rouge Chichi Veronica Okpalobi, Prairieville Ebony Ashley Ozenne, Maurice Tiffany M Paul, Vidalia Annalisa M Perrodin, Lake Charles Kristian D Randell, Carencro Tobias Anthony Robertson, Baton Rouge Elaina Paige Robinson, Jeanerette Melvonty R Small, Baton Rouge Gail Stansberry, Port Allen Joy Marie Thomas, Baton Rouge

Kristin N Thomas, Baton Rouge Ebenge N Umana, Baton Rouge Jonathon Joseph Wilson, Baton Rouge Basheba Williams, Plaquemine

Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice Samuel Loren Altman, Chicago, IL Ashley Bell, Baton Rouge Alexandra Bertrand, Harvey Carolyn Marie Blevins, Baton Rouge Travis R. Bonaventure, Baton Rouge Juanisha K Boyd, Torbert La’Keisha K Brown, Baton Rouge Chandra M Burks, Port Allen Kristy Lewan Ceasar, Brusly Reshonda L. Crockett, Baton Rouge Lachika Tieara George, Baton Rouge Courtney D. Gibson, Cedar Hill, TX Britainy C Holmes, Gonzales Edmond Ray Johnson, Monroe Carroll J Joseph, Breaux Bridge Jennifer Denise Leblanc, Baton Rouge Gabrielle A Lewis, Winnsboro Jamaal A Martin, N Las Vegas, NV Jasmine M Matthews, New Iberia Jade M. Moore, Baton Rouge N’Kyia Joray Offord Moten, Washington Nicholas J Murray, Baton Rouge Brandy L Norwood, Baton Rouge Myarah Laquanta Powell, Bogalusa Brittney Lenea Robinson, Baton Rouge Kinyata D Smith, Alexandria Bertha Smith Thibodeaux, Wilson Kaneshia S Thomas, Jackson Eugene R. Williams, Baton Rouge Rene A Yost, New Orleans Shanelle Marie Zenon, Lafayette

Honors Graduates Magna Cum Laude Gabrielle A Lewis Jamaal A Martin

Cum Laude Cathy L Baker Deja Diamond Henderson

Honorable Mention Asheena Adams Samuel Loren Altman Delky L. Arbuckle Jasmine Baskin Gabrielle Bessix Juanisha K Boyd Crystal Briscoe Brennan Jasper Brown Stephen D Castello Andrea Rashawn Collins Leah Celeste Connor Yolanda Patrice Davenport Samantha J Flemming Myles J Floyd Daniel James Garcia Janniece A Gilliams Ramon J Johnson Kaisley Maria Joseph Passionate Sharnay Larry Torrance Gregory Latham Cade Thomas Leblanc Breanna Danielle Lewis Steffen R. Lewis Lashawna R Lindsey

Rhondalette L Mack Courtney Nicole Matthews Tanyatta T Mayo Mahan K. Moghaddam Jade Mone`T Moore N Kyia Joray Moten Paige C Northern Jessica Nottingham Brittney Rochelle Oti Connie J Parker Jasmine Mechel Payne Zephan Michael Rochelle Bryan James Rowry Kyle Pallas Snedecor Emily Marie Seamon Kinyata D Smith Savannah L Teekel Bertha Smith Thibodeaux Christopher Angelo Urti Kiersten N Victorian Brent Darien Washington Karla L Washington Keisha L York

SUBR Fall 2014

Centennial SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL Damien D. Ejigiri, Ph.D., Dean

MASTER OF ARTS SCHOOL COUNSELING Joshulan Caprice Allen, Plaquemine, LA Keyana DeShawn Benjamin Jackson, Baton Rouge, LA Cherae Lynn James, Gonzales, LA Melissa Deon Hollins Williams, Baton Rouge, LA

MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING Samuel Maurrice Chesterfield, Baton Rouge, LA Demetrice Marie Clark, Gonzales, LA Brandy Octavia Fulton, Baton Rouge, LA Beant’e Ya’Toie Beverly –Homes, Baton Rouge, LA Alisha Tennille Massey, Geismar, LA Sheila Michelle Minor, Baton Rouge, LA Brittany Janay Robinson, Baton Rouge, LA Karris Kenyon Story, Baton Rouge, LA Tracie Nicole Thibodeaux, Baton Rouge, LA

SOCIAL SCIENCES History Tracy S. Batieste. Alsen, LA

Thesis: Existence and Survival: A History of the Alsen, Louisiana Community

Faculty Advisor: Peter Breaux, Ph.D. Patrizia Turner Malbrue, Baton Rouge, LA Kathering Denise Slatten Smiles, Zachary, LA Political Science Kayonna Kimberly Armstrong, Baton Rouge, LA Ebony Antoinette Autry, Jacksonville, FL John Edward Guerin, III, Baton Rouge, LA Valencia LaTrice Johnson, Baton Rouge, LA

MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Ebony Kenyatta Benton, Baton Rouge, LA Demetrius Gartrell Bently, Baton Rouge, LA Christopher Michael Bester, Baton Rouge, LA Crystal LaNae’ Patrice Bobb, Baton Rouge, LA Ingrid Nichelle Plain Cook, Baker, LA

Graduates Graduate School

Ronald Johnson, Jr., Addis, LA Theodore Questal Major, Baton Rouge, LA Jessica Ashley Matthews, Denham Springs, LA David Rashad Minnick, Baton Rouge, LA Leroy Paul Montreuil, Baker, LA Brittany Deshay Pitcher, Baton Rouge, LA Morkeith Eric Phillips, Baton Rouge, LA Tiara Purnell, Baton Rouge, LA Trencia Maraina Richardson, Brusly, LA Thomas Edwin Roque, Jr., Baton Rouge, LA Byron Joseph Washington, Port Allen, LA Quanna Shailendra Williams, Baton Rouge, LA Radaja Jeree Williams, Baton Rouge, LA Tenoa Vessel Williams, Plaquemine, LA Lakeisha Deon Womack, Baton Rouge, LA MASTER OF EDUCATION Educational Leadership Bianca Nicole Cambre, Laplace, LA Charlishia Dishae Coates, Baton Rouge, LA LaQuisha Chantell Comeaux, Baton Rouge, LA Henry Lee Forsythe, Jr., Baker, LA Kinya L. Heard, Baton Rouge, LA Russell Deloy Hutchinson, Baton Rouge, LA

Melisha Jenkins, Zachary, LA India Snowden LeBlanc, Zachary, LA Shakema Olivia Washington Mathes, Baton Rouge, LA Diana Lee Steller, Baton Rouge, LA Tonette Marie Washington, Baton Rouge, LA Jamie Dionne Thomas Woolfolk, Maringouin, LA MASTER OF ENGINEERING Blessing Chiogbu Amadi, Baton Rouge, LA Olakunle Charles Amusan, Baton Rouge, LA

Thesis: “An Investigation for a Practical Regeneration Efficiency During Water Softening”

Thesis Advisor: Chukwu Onu, Ph.D. Michael Olusola Arowolo , Baton Rouge, LA

Thesis: Tolerant Lightweight Steel Millitube Reinforced Aluminum Matrix Composite Materials

Thesis Advisor: Samuel Ibekwe, Ph.D. Angela Davis, Baton Rouge, LA

Thesis: Thermo-Mechanical Characterization of a Shape Memory Polymer

Faculty Advisor: Guoquiang Li, Ph.D.

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Courtney Demontray Gordon, Greensburg, LA Dana R. Kendall, Denham Springs, LA Redeemer Nutsugah, Baton Rouge, LA

Thesis: Exp’tal Investigation of Effect of High Pressure on Thermal Conductivity of Porous Insulators

Thesis Advisor: Patrick F. Mensah, Ph.D. Babatunde Akinola Egbuniwe Ogunmekan, Baton Rouge, LA

Thesis: Healing Efficiency of Shape Memory Polymer Fiber Reinforced Syntactic Foam Under Load

Thesis Advisor: Samuel Ibekwe, Ph.D. Myleka Mignon Stewart, Baton Rouge, LA Calvin Tate, Baton Rouge, LA

MASTER OF MASS COMMUNICATION Kye J. Lewis, Baton Rouge, LA MASTER OF NURSING Danielle Rae Guidry Alfortish, New Orleans, LA Earl Anthony, New Orleans, LA Michelle L. Blazek, Prairieville, LA Norshern Dyvonne Battiste Bruce, Baton Rouge, LA Angelle Domonique Bush, Baton Rouge, LA Alisa Monique Butler, New Iberia, LA Chastity Dannette Crain, Baton Rouge, LA Megan Claire Mayers D’Amico, Baton Rouge, LA Martha Marie Landry Edwards, Baton Rouge, LA Johnette H. Hay, Baton Rouge, LA Michael Louis Hebert, Baton Rouge, LA Sharon Cecile Holley Hughes, Baton Rouge, LA Chastity T. James, New Orleans, LA Danish Robertson Lang, Baton Rouge, LA Jacklyn Lee Lemoine, Baton Rouge, LA Corie Annette Miller, Amite, LA Jarrod Murphy Nero, New Orleans, LA Marilyn Louise Bovie Pearley, Baton Rouge, LA Tywanda C. Ridley, Baton Rouge, LA Frances Virginia Durden Smith, Baton Rouge, LA Katasha Taylor, New Orleans, LA Alisha Nicole Thomas, Baker, LA Shandra Trenise Thomas, Baton Rouge, LA Shirleen Martha Watson, New Orleans, LA Tyra Johnson Welsh, Baton Rouge, LA Colby Lee Winborn. Baton Rouge, LA

MASTER OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION LaToyia Marie Beard, Baton Rouge, LA Michelle Danyelle Dennis, Baton Rouge, LA Silvette Blanka Ennis, Baton Rouge, LA Brock A. Facione, Baton Rouge, LA Quintrell Alyce Griffin, LA Bianca Phillice Growe, LA Joshua Dennis Cleotha Howard, Baton Rouge, LA Tiffany Jane Howard, Youngsville, LA Ashley Chanell Lewis, Baton Rouge, LA Chad Rochon Morton, Baton Rouge, LA Frankie George-Robertson, Baton Rouge, LA Brittnei Collette Shelling, Baton Rouge, LA Shalonda T. Lewis, Baton Rouge, LA Kenya Bernice Warren, Baton Rouge, LA EXECUTIVE MASTER OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Kenneth R. Mackie, Baker, LA Arlanda J. Williams, Terrebonne, LA MASTER OF SCIENCE Biology Dominique Sherrie Townsend, New Orleans, LA

Computer Science Mukungu Lukman Balunywa, Baton Rouge, LA

Thesis Title: Bringing the Human in Computer Science: The Case of Mobile Devices and Poverty Eradication in Developing Countries

Thesis Advisor: Mohammad Abdus Salam, Ph.D. Mounika S. Bareed, Baton Rouge, LA

Thesis Title: “Combining of Design Patterns: The Different Ways Design Patterns Produce Composites”

Thesis Advisor: Nigel Gwee, Ph.D. Carla Raelyn Buckner, Baton Rouge, LA

Thesis Title: Using Robotics Education to Increase and Enhance STEM Interest in Middle and High School Students

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Chaitany Reedy Chowdary, Baton Rouge, LA Bindu Gundameedi, Baton Rouge, LA Deepa Nandanoor, Baton Rouge, LA Mounika Goud Puli, Baton Rouge, LA Dubbaka Shruthi, Baton Rouge, LA

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Thesis: Quaternions, Octonions and Involutions

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Thesis Title: “An Investigation of Various Support Materials for Energy-Related Applications using Computational and Experimental Methods”

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Jean Marie Koll Biernbaum, Sioux City, IA Reginald Carl Burrell, Jr. Sharon Davis, Louisville, MS Briany Gutierrez, Jersey City, NJ Rosemarie Faye Sweeney Long, Dummer , NH Tony Ned, Jr., Houston, TX Ryan E. Love, Smithdale, MS Raquel Denise Ready-Abram, Columbia, MS Nancy Clydia Bates Sager, Foxworth, MS Ashley Nicole Whitmore, Denham Springs, LA

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Maybella Jackson, Natchez, MS

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Desmond Earl Rideau, Palmetto, LA

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Brittany Cierra Martin, Baton Rouge, LA

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Thelma Lynnette Thompson, Slidell, LA

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