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STRIPPER, from page 1 out,” Jasmine said. “And so I was all by myself. I actually had to drop out of school so I could get everything together.” She’s now living in her own apartment, enrolled at the University and saving money to renovate her room. However, she was quick to dispel the myth that strippers are always flush with cash. “[People think] strippers make a lot of money all day, every day,” she said. “They never, ever run out of money. That’s totally not true because if it’s a bad night and you didn’t make any money, you didn’t make any money.” Unlike other service industry workers, Jasmine said dancers don’t make any kind of consistent salary. All of their income is tip-based. Tips can be unpredictable, according to Jasmine. The average weekend can pull in about $1,300 but a slow weekend may only yield about half of that. She explained October through St. Patrick’s Day is the “on-season” for the club, with Mardi Gras being the peak of business. During Mardi Gras, Hustler may hire up to 100 dancers for the season and patrons have spent as much as $35,000 on Carnival debauchery. However, during a typical weekend shift, Jasmine said there are usually only about 20 dancers. She said her shift begins with an hour’s commute to New Orleans. Hair and makeup are the next steps as dancers don full-face makeup, fake eyelashes and tanner. Then she checks in with a club manager and DJ to let them know
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LSU is not a smoke-free campus. I’m not sure where you all started getting that idea from. The world isn’t smoke free, so get over it. It’s not like we walk up to you and blow smoke in your face.
she’s arrived for her shift. She then gets added to the rotation and waits to be called on stage. While waiting for their turn to perform, many dancers offer lap dances and champagne room rentals. Champagne rooms are private areas where customers can have one-onone time with the dancers. But Jasmine emphasized there is no sex in the Champagne rooms. Champagne rooms and classrooms intertwine sometimes when Jasmine has to work late with homework due the next morning. She recalled studying for a 7:30 a.m. economics test during downtime at the club. But because she has free time during the week, Jasmine tries to finish up any assignments before the weekend arrives. While she said only working on weekends is one of the biggest perks of her job, it comes with some social drawbacks. “The worst part for me isn’t the creepy customers, because I have a no B.S. rule,” Jasmine said, explaining dancers are able to deny customers service. “But the worst part for me is that I’m completely isolated from college society. Like on weekends instead of going out to Bogie’s, I’m going to work and my party environment is my job.” Jasmine said she sometimes regrets her job choice because it hinders her from having a normal social life. Judgment is commonplace from both genders, according to Jasmine. She said women often project their insecurities on strippers by becoming possessive of their boyfriends or husbands. “We don’t want your man,” she said. “We want his and your money.” She said men often think dancers are easy and will look at her differently after finding out how she pays the bills. “Strippers are not whores,” she said emphatically. Overall, Jasmine said she believes no one has the right to judge another person until they’ve been through the same experiences. “You don’t know what it’s really like to be a dancer unless you’ve put the shoes on,” she said. Contact Taylor Schoen at tschoen@lsureveille.com
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While the $192,383 request was granted in September, OAE couldn’t implement it in time. They’ve spent the fall semester “working out all the bugs” so the new technology will work with the University’s system. It will be implemented for the spring 2014 semester. Tuesday’s problem was entirely due to the obsolete program, Wilson said. When trying to enter new data, the software didn’t comprehend the change. “The software should have been able to handle a null function without shutting down,” Wilson said. “Once we rebooted the server [when it first went down], it kept doing the same thing and locking up. When we finally identified the problem, we had to rewrite the function.” Fortunately, Wilson said, the
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Computer Testing Center was able to reschedule all of Tuesday’s tests for that evening or during the day Wednesday. Though the center was tightly packed, he said making sure everyone tested was more about having enough proctors to monitor students than having enough seats. Of the 150 students in B52 Himes Hall when the server failed, none lost their work. Wilson said grades for students taking ISDS and math tests — about 30 percent — were recorded because those testing programs aren’t actually tied to the OAE system. As for the others, OAE physically backed up each test so no work was lost.
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