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Bill could increase student voting
down the RABBIT HOLE
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LSU Museum of Art honors prolific painter with ‘Hunt Slonem: Antebellum Pop!’ BY LAUREN HEFFKER | @laurheffker photos by GRETA JINES / The Daily Reveille
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ven the wackiest and quirkiest of art fans will not be expecting the LSU Museum of Art’s newest exhibit, “Hunt Slonem: Antebellum Pop!” The show is the first full-scale museum exhibition to display not only Slonem’s work, but a recreation of his home, which is characterized by bright colors and classic Antebellum style. Slonem’s expressionist work is displayed throughout the walls, curtains, upholstery and wallpaper of the galleries. The exhibition opens April 22 and will be on display until August 5.
The exhibition curator, Sarah Clunis, also curated the museum’s contemporary gallery in the recent reinstallation of “Art in Louisiana: Views into the Collection,” and the Haitian exhibit, “The Carnival, the City and the Sea.” “The idea was to recreate a home of his,” Clunis said. “Every inch of this exposition is really him — it’s not just the paintings on the walls, it’s the wallpaper and the upholstery.” Slonem’s style of painting is based largely off of his colorful imagination. Repetition is a common theme in his work, especially of
birds, butterflies and rabbits. Slonem has two estates in Louisiana. After the exhibit was planned last summer, Clunis spent the season with the prolific painter in order to better understand his state of mind when she was curating the exhibit. “That was really important for me, because I was able to get a real feel for his style,” she said. Clunis said acquiring the featured aspects of the exhibit was a collaboration from a number of different entities. Many of the pieces in the exhibit are loans from Louisiana
Students on Louisiana’s college campuses — historically some of the least engaged in the voting process — may soon be able to vote using student IDs if a bill that sailed through a House panel Wednesday becomes law. Louisiana Secretary of State Tom Schedler, who supports the measure, said 85 percent of eligible voters are registered, but only around 60 percent of young adults are. “There’s a reason why candidates aren’t coming to campus,” LSU President F. King Alexander said in an interview. “Students don’t give money to campaigns. They can’t. They don’t have any money. And they don’t vote in large numbers. If we can change the latter we’ll get more attention from the candidates.” Alexander suggested the reason education funding is cut perennially in the state is due in part to students’ lack of engagement with the political process, and said he’s working on getting voting precincts in the Student Union before the elections this fall. The idea for the eligible ID
see VOTING, page 2
Read one columnist’s take on a proposed voting bill, page 5
see ANTEBELLUM, page 2 STUDENT LIFE
Military officers visit Law Center, discuss national security BY KATIE GAGLIANO @katie_gagliano Four military officers gathered in the Paul M. Hebert Law Center Wednesday to discuss national security issues with an audience of roughly twenty students, professors and members of the public. The officers are members of the U.S. Army War College’s Eisenhower Series College Program, an outreach program aimed at increasing public awareness of
the military and its role in national security. The program began in 1969 and is offered at no cost as an educational outreach program, according to information from the Law Center. For the past six years, the program has visited the University and area high schools to connect with the Louisiana public. Harry J. “Skip” Philips, an adjunct professor at the Law Center and Army War College graduate, said the program is a learning opportunity for both the officers and
the public. While the public gains insight into complex national security issues, the officers are able to assess public sentiment and incorporate their findings into their approaches to leadership, he said. “It’s important to understand that we’ve got people leading our military who are thinking about these things,” Philips said. “We’re training our military leaders to think very broadly and think very strategically. These
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Military officers discuss national security and other topics at the U.S. Army War College Eisenhower Series College Program presentation on Wednesday.