SPORTS: Football players discuss their favorite Thanksgiving meals, p. 5
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Reveille The Daily
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 • Volume 118, Issue 65
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THANKSGIVING
Dinner costs rise 9 percent this year Higher turkey prices main cause
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Olivia McClure Contributing Writer
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As many University students travel home this week for Thanksgiving, their families will be paying 9 percent more to prepare the traditional holiday meal. LSU AgCenter family economist Jeanette Tucker, who annually conducts a survey of Thanksgiving food costs, said a typical Thanksgiving meal will cost about $48 this year, which is about $4 more expensive than in 2012. The survey checked prices in three Baton Rouge stores earlier this month, and the shopping list included items such as turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, cranberries and pumpkin pie mix. The largest price increase this year is turkey, which costs 23 cents per pound more than last year. A 16-pound turkey costs nearly $4 more. Tucker said high turkey COST, see page 4
LGBT
Spectrum hosts Fall Feast Group serves as ‘surrogate family’ William Morris Contributing Writer
For many University students, Thanksgiving is a time to recharge before finals and spend time with family and friends. Some students, however, may not have a family to go home to — or at least family supportive of who they are. For these students, the Progressive Student Alliance, Spectrum and the Association of University Women hosted a
Thanksgiving themed “Fall Feast” on Tuesday night. The event was complete with turkey and other Thanksgiving specialties and gave students a place to be themselves and to celebrate with their surrogate family at school. Blair Brown, communication studies sophomore and co-organizer of the event, said students need a place at school to feel like they are part of a family that supports them. “Many students in the LGBT community are free to be who they are here at school, but at home, they may not be out yet,” Brown said. “We want to be a surrogate family for those who may not be able to be who they are at home
with their own family.” Brown said in the LGBT community, there are many who have not come out to their families. This can leave them feeling left out of festivities, she said. “I spoke to one of my friends who is not out to his family and he is just staying here because he doesn’t want to go back and deal with any problems,” Brown said. “That is why we want to make this event special to those dealing with that issue.” Nichole Fusilier, psychology sophomore, said when students come to the University, they are FEAST, see page 11
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Students sit around tables and enjoy an early Thanksgiving meal Tuesday as a part of Spectrum’s Fall Feast in the Women’s Center.