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Reveille The Daily
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2015
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IN THIS ISSUE • Junior point guard Tim Quarterman leads Tigers, page 3 • Opinion: Women’s voices undervalued in society, page 4
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LSU AgCenter Botanic Gardens cultivates fun at annual corn maze BY CARRIE GRACE HENDERSON @carriegraceh Long before most swap their swim suits for sweaters, the LSU Burden Museum and Gardens begins work on a fall tradition as hotly anticipated as pumpkin spice lattes — the corn maze. Research associate and farm manager Keith Lewis kicks off designing the maze in July, sticking to a Louisiana or LSU theme. This year, the almost four-acre plot features a huge Brown Pelican and the words “LSU AgCenter Botanic Gardens.” “This is our fifth year, and this is the third year that we’ve really put a lot of effort into the design,” said LSU AgCenter Botanic Gardens Director Jeff Kuehny. “We had a drone come out and take photos of it from overhead, and that turned out really great.” The process is a long one, Kuehny said. Burden employees plant the corn in August, and after Lewis finishes with the design, an outside company plots the maze’s GPS coordinates. Unlike some of the larger corn mazes around the country with GPS-guided tractors, Kuehny said Burden takes a more old-fashioned approach. “We are probably a little less technical than some of the bigger mazes, in that we simply have somebody with a handheld GPS unit in their hand that goes in front of the lawn mower and guides them on how to cut the shape,” Kuehny said. “Ours is on a much smaller scale.” The cutting started in September and finished before photos by EMILY BRAUNER / The Daily Reveille
LSU AgCenter Botanic Gardens hosts its fifth annual corn maze at the LSU Burden Museum & Gardens, with events lasting until Oct. 31.
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The LSU student email system is changing Nov. 2, and students who don’t make the transition will lose access to emails sent to their old accounts next semester. Current Google Mail-based TigerMail accounts will change to the new Microsoft Outlook-based LSUMail. TigerMail accounts will remain active until Feb. 2, 2016. Students have until then to make the transition, a decision made by LSU Information Technology Services. Email addresses do not have to be changed, so students can keep their current @ tigers.lsu.edu domain. The new mailboxes are automatically created for students, but ITS encourages making the switch before the final date to ease the transition. The decision to make the transition date Nov. 2 was based on the low amount of emails sent during this time of year, said Senior Vice Provost Jane Cassidy. Early in the semester, students receive emails about financial aid and football tickets, which could potentially not come through if students were not to make the transition by then. Sheri Thompson, IT communications and planning officer, said the decision to move from one email provider to another was a plan in the works for years. She said teachers and faculty have used Microsoft Outlook for a while now, and it was more cost efficient to bring students to Outlook as well. “Due to our Microsoft contract, students will now have the ability to have Microsoft Office on their phones and tablets for that mobile access they didn’t have before,” Thompson said. “The way we do that is by giving the students their own email accounts.” LSU faculty and staff who
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