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Fashion: Locals start Indianinspired clothing line, p. 6 Monday, August 29, 2011 • Volume 116, Issue 6
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It Takes a Village
Student communities become popular housing option
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Teased with images of sparkling swimming pools toward more compact single-family homes to rent or and laughing swimsuit-clad scholars, students have own. begun taking note of alternative housing options apRyan Holcomb, planning project coordinator for pearing around campus. the City-Parish Planning Commission, said The CotCommunities like The Cottages, tages was approved as a Planned Unit Development Aspen Heights and before construction, which is held to a Morgan Searles the under-construction higher design standard and allowed a Woodlands are buildgreater amount of flexibility to develStaff Writer ing a reputation for ameop amenities that wouldn’t be permitnities not commonly offered by traditional apart- ted under traditional zoning categories. ments, houses or dorms. “The PUD ordinance in the unified development But these communities require more land than code requires 18 percent open space,” Holcomb said. most complexes and are located outside of comfort- “It gives people more options to develop a different vaable walking distance from the University. riety of housing for students that offer different ameniThe popularity of single-family freestanding ties than would normally be allowed.” houses in Baton Rouge leaves a gap for more townJosey Young, property manager for The Cottaghomes, condos and cottage-style complexes, accord- es, said the community offers housing in lodge units, ing to the FUTUREBR plan by the City-Parish Plan- duplexes and standalone cottages ranging from about ning Commission. Trends show the city is looking $550 to $1,050 per month. All bedrooms measure about 130 square feet. Young said many students who are interested in the community are most concerned with the cost, roommates and amenities. “People select housing based on budget,” she said. “That derives what options work for them. We also provide the amenities for students, HOUSING, see page 19
The Cottages 2.6 miles from LSU
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NATION
Bush reveals his side of 9/11 Attacks brought ‘new kind of enemy’ Clayton Crockett Staff Writer
Although the MTV Video Music Awards took control of Twitter feeds everywhere Sunday night, another topic was making an impression on social media sites as well — President George W. Bush’s most in-depth on-camera interview yet on the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Bush looked back on the events that would shape the start of his presidency in an exclusive interview with National Geogaphic that aired Sunday. “This is what war is like in the 21st century,” Bush said in the interview, which aired as an opener to National Geographic’s Remembering 9/11 week. It will include programs focusing on the attacks, the terrorists involved and our war against them leading up to the event’s tenth anniversary. Bush described not only his
transformation as a person but also the transformation of war that occurred as a result of the attacks. “It became apparent we were facing a new kind of enemy,” he told National Geographic. Bush said as each consecutive plane hit its target, the president’s attitude shifted dramatically. “I thought the first was an BUSH, see page 19
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Former President George W. Bush greets Sept. 11 firefighters on Ground Zero. Bush gave an exclusive interview about the attacks, which aired Sunday on National Geographic.