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Students balance schoolwork and modeling careers BY MEG RYAN mryan@lsureveille.com
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ith Southern Design Week coming this weekend and New Orleans Fashion Week on its heels, designers put final touches on garments and coordinators secure itineraries. But there’s another crucial aspect to these events: the models. Many of the models who walk in the fashion weeks are also University students. Model coordinator for Southern Design Week Erica Sage Johnson said she organizes open model calls for new potential models. She takes the models’ pictures, records measurements and makes cuts for the final try-out or gosee. Johnson said she offers her guidance to the models on and off the runway about work etiquette. During the offseason, she helps models continue their careers by suggesting job opportunities. French and film and media arts freshman Jane Ledford and finance sophomore Kelsey Anderson are both Baton Rouge natives and models. Ledford said she got into modeling on a whim. She said she regularly shops at the vintage boutique Time Warp and noticed the store sought merchandise models. She also found a flier for last
spring’s fashion show by Hemline@ LSU, now known as Fashion Association at LSU. After walking in the Fashion Association’s show, Ledford made connections with other University students who now provide her with modeling opportunities. She walked for fellow student Bonnie Campbell for Southern Design Week in November. Anderson said she was inspired to pursue modeling by a family friend and comments about her freckles. “In high school ... a lot of people were saying, ‘Oh you’re so unique looking, nobody else looks like you,’” Anderson said. She said people still stop her, saying they “never see people with freckles anymore.” While casting calls are imperative for Ledford and Anderson to stay relevant in the industry, they also need to focus on school. “It’s kind of hard because I can’t do as much as I want to do. I can’t accept every opportunity,” Anderson said. “For instance, I wanted to go to casting for New Orleans Fashion Week, but I couldn’t because I had obligations to school.” Ledford agreed the balance is difficult, but she takes advantage of a lighter school schedule for more
see STUDENT MODELS, page 11 JAVIER FERNÁNDEZ / The Daily Reveille
French and film and media arts freshman Jane Ledford stands outside the Studio Arts Building.
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Tigers face Auburn in Kristallnacht survivor visits LSU SEC quarterfinal game BY CAITIE BURKES cburkes@lsureveille.com
BY DAVID GRAY dgray@lsureveille.com The LSU men’s basketball team finished the regular season with the program’s best record in six years. But regular season records don’t matter to the Tigers, who will begin their postseason journey in the Southeastern Conference Tournament this afternoon. The games will be more intense and the stakes will be higher with NCAA Tournament résumés on the line. “It’s postseason play now,” said
LSU sophomore guard Tim Quarterman. “Every game counts. We just have to go out there and play every game like it’s the last.” After earning a double bye, the No. 4-seeded Tigers (22-9) will battle No. 13 seed Auburn (14-19) in the quarterfinals of the SEC Tournament today at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. LSU and Auburn will play approximately 25 minutes after the conclusion of the noon game between No. 1 seed Kentucky and No. 8 seed Florida.
see BASKETBALL, page 4
Though it sits in a New York synagogue, Ruth Oppenheim remembers every day the Torah that changed her life. The soft-spoken 87-year-old holds onto the Hebrew bible as a reminder of her childhood in Nazi Germany. Her father rescued that Torah from the hands of SS officers on Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, in November 1938. He endured public beatings and incarceration so it could be preserved rather than burned. Oppenheim shared her experiences growing up in a small town
in northern Germany to a packed event room Thursday afternoon. The Women’s and Gender Studies program sponsored the event at the University’s Barnes and Noble. “There are already people who deny [the Holocaust] ever happened,” Oppenheim said. “I feel that, when I speak to young people, I’d like for them to remember they met someone who experienced part of the Holocaust.” She said her family was one of 10 Jewish families in a town with a population of 20,000. Hers was the only family with children. The family had lived there since 1784 and was regarded as a well-
see KRISTALLNACHT, page 11
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Ruth Oppenheim speaks Thursday about growing up in Nazi Germany.