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BLONDE AMBITION

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Musical Theatre Club’s “Legally Blonde” to open Friday University students and Elle Woods fans alike will be bending and snapping their way to the LSU Student Union Theater this weekend.

The LSU Musical Theatre Club presents “Legally Blonde: The Musical” on Feb. 12 and Feb. 13 at 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 14 at 2 p.m. Admission is free to all shows.

Along with the MTC cast, “Legally Blonde” will also feature two live dogs to play the roles of Woods’ and Paulette Bonafonté’s dogs, Bruiser and Rufus. There will be an 11-piece live orchestra under the musical direction of Brian Breen.

The movie musical is based on the story of Elle Woods, a sorority member who attempts to win back her exboyfriend by applying to Harvard Law School. After being admitted, Woods is ridiculed by fellow students for her femininity. With determination and hard work, she becomes successful and is regarded as a considerable threat by her peers.

The narrative addresses cultural stereotypes and feminism within the workplace.

Director and theatre junior John Michael Moore said “Legally Blonde” was chosen by the MTC for its’ relevance in campus life, including heavy sorority references early in the play and for its popularity and likeability.

“This musical will have a positive influence and effect on every single person in that audience, and I feel like people will leave this show happier than they’ve ever left any other show

at LSU,” he said.

Moore considers this musical the best on-campus musical production in the past eight years and one of the grandest shows to be produced.

Marketing freshman Camille Nolan plays Elle Woods. Although unusual for a first-year student to land a lead role, Nolan said her similarity to Woods made her an easy casting decision.

“It’s really easy to connect with her because I go through the same things she goes through, and people think that’s not a thing,” she said. “I think that’s another message of this musical: people don’t realize that there are so many different stereotypes that are going on now, and people don’t think it happens, but it does.”

Woods’ best friend, Paulette Bonafonté is played by university Law Student Alaina Richard.

Richard said the message “Legally Blonde” wants to reinforce to audiences is accepting others for who they are.

“You’re more than you look like on the outside,” she said.

Moore stressed the positive attitude of the show.

“The thing I feel almost every time after rehearsal, especially a full run, is that I’m uplifted,” he said.

“There’s something about the message of this show that lifts people out of their seats. I think it’s really going to inspire people to open their eyes. Not everyone is as open minded as they could be. This show

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Fiscal crisis could close public universities

BY SAM KARLIN AND JUSTIN DICHARIA Manship News Service

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LSU Musical Theatre Club will host a production of Legally Blonde which will be showing on Feb. 12-14 in the Union Theater.

The Louisiana Revenue Estimating Conference Wednesday predicted the state’s shortfalls are greater than anticipated, a scenario that was called the start of a new Louisiana recession and prompted LSU President F. King Alexander to warn that schools would be forced to close by April 30.

State economists Greg Albrecht and Manfred Dix delivered their financial forebodings to the four-person conference, with Albrecht expecting an $870 million budget shortage for the current fiscal year and more than $2 billion for the next.

“We’re entering what amounts to a state recession,” Albrecht said at the meeting, warning that the state’s revenue is experiencing a “dramatic slowdown.”

These figures will serve as the baseline for lawmakers who convene Sunday in a special three-week session dedicated to finding a path out of the fiscal crisis.

“If they don’t [raise taxes] and they rely strictly upon the rainy day money and the BP

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BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY

LA Technology Park to release five new video games

BY CAITIE BURKES @caitie1221

The Louisiana Technology Park, a shopping mall-turnedresearch facility, plans to break a personal record by releasing five new video games from its incubator for the first half of this year.

Games include the musicallyinspired “Tadpole Treble,” the dating simulator “Cyberpunk Casanova,” the arcade-style throwback “Quest of Souls,” the science fiction procedural “Limit Theory”

and the drag racing-themed “Road Redemption.” While created by different studios, all five video games were developed under the same roof.

Four of the five developers work in the park’s Level Up Lab, which “aims to create and bring new digital media companies to Louisiana,” according to the park’s website. Louisiana Technology Park Executive Director Stephen Loy said the lab was made possible by a two-year, $75,000 grant from Delta Regional Authority.

“What we’ve found is it’s a different model,” Loy said. “While there are crossovers, the video game industry is a little bit more creative.”

Though he expected only two or three companies to use the lab at a time, he said the lab now houses five: After Hours Lab, King Crow, Star Blade, Jetstreame and Bit Finity. He said some of the developers visit the workspace three or four times each week.

Loy said Pixel Dash Studios, a Baton Rouge-based custom

software and video game development company, provides mentorship for the Level Up Lab. Physics and computer science senior Craig Jones, who created After Hours Lab, expects the group’s video game, “Space Shrimp,” to also hit the market in 2016. The group’s puzzle platformer follows the misadventures of Grub, a shrimp searching for his significant other in outer space.

Jones said the game does not

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The Louisiana Technology Park offers many resources to the start-up companies it hosts.

page 2 PLAY, from page 1 really harps down on the important parts of that.”

Woods’ colleague and love interest, Emmett Forrest, is played by theatre junior Trey Tycer.

“It’s such a real show, and everything is so genuine,” Tycer said. “It allows you to be in the moment and give your fullest performance even though you are singing.”

With the film “Legally Blonde” still as quotable in pop culture

VIDEO GAMES, from page 1 include any sort of violence or death, a rarity in today’s video game repertoire. He said it appeals to all ages and offers a relaxing break for all players.

“It’s meant to be sort of artsy and all in all an enjoyable experience,” Jones said.

Inspired by a University video game design course, Jones started the After Hours Lab last summer when he gathered a group of University students who wanted to know what professional game development was like. He said the group wanted to learn how to effectively market video games.

Loy said he believes Baton Rouge offers a creative environment conducive to success in the video game market.

“I think video games allow the

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today as it was during its 2001 release, audiences are arriving with preconceived notions of what each character is supposed to be like.

“People are going to expect a certain essence about each role,” Moore said. “There’s a matter of bringing them justice and bringing what the audience wants to see from each character, then allowing and trusting my actors to bring their own spin to it and make it real for themselves.”

While the School of Theatre produces musicals approximately

once every other year, the MTC spends its other time performing cabarets, staged readings and its annual revue, “Singo de Mayo.”

MTC has been officially established at the University for the last three years.

MTC membership is open to all years and majors.

Moore said the end objective for “Legally Blonde” was for the show’s success to gain traction and attention in order to make musical theatre an actual concentration within the School of Theatre.

MTC Board Chair Curran Latas secured the $10,000 grant from LSU Student Government, in exchange for making admission to the production for free.

“There really is this gap between the theatre program and the music program, and neither really does the musical theatre realm justice,” Richard said.

Moore said his hopes for the production’s success is to expose musical theatre as a serious contender for a concentration of study in the School of Theatre.

creatives to make products for their passion,” he said. “So I think it’s a natural fit for something like video games to be popular and do well in Baton Rouge.”

From crowdfunding to social media campaigns, Loy said marketing strategies vary. The most successful developers target niche groups, such as cosplay groups, he said.

He said most of the new releases will be sold virtually — some via Steam, an online platform, and others through the iTunes store.

However, he said the Bit Finity team will sell through Nintendo.

Space Shrimp is designed for mobile devices, a trend Jones said is skyrocketing. Another trend he sees involves more immersive virtual realities.

“The more you play a game and the more involved and invested you can get into a game, the more value it has to you,” Jones said.

REVENUE, from page 1

beginning in 2008, higher education received substantial cuts which continued for eight years.

Last year was the first time in former Gov. Bobby Jindal’s tenure that higher education received a net increase in funding.

Higher education leaders have worked closely with Gov. John Bel Edwards who ran on the promise of keeping higher education a top priority. But the current deficit is greater than last year’s and recent forecasts.

The budget deficits were widely thought to be $750 million and $1.9 billion for the current and upcoming fiscal years respectively, but some state leaders were skeptical of the numbers before Wednesday’s meeting.

“I hope it’s a wake up call for those who are continuing to live in a fictional world that we don’t have a problem,” Dardenne said.

“And I hope those people that are saying you don’t need to raise any revenue recognize that it’s not that easy of an answer.”

Members noted the toll of oil’s low price on the state’s energy, which hurt corporate, income and sales taxes. Albrecht said he has never seen corporate numbers “this weak.”

The few revenues that didn’t take as big of a dive included alcohol and beer taxes, which Albrecht noted are not as sensitive to price.

money, my guess is some of the universities and medical schools will probably close their doors by the first of May,” said former Sen. Robert Adley, R-Benton.

Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne, the governor’s appointee to the conference, said the gap won’t be solved by current tax proposals alone.

Higher education, for example, will face cuts “no question,” he added.

“This means shutting down institutions,” Alexander said outside of the meeting. “This means some institutions not being able to finish this semester.

This means ineligible sports student athletes in fall, and even our medical schools potentially going under in a couple months if they don’t take this issue seriously.”

He indicated major cuts to higher education’s budget would force the University to increase student fees mid-semester by around $1,400 per student.

Higher education faced the potential for cuts last year but narrowly avoided “devastating” reductions in funding.

Under former governors Mike Foster and Kathleen Blanco, the Louisiana Board of Regents’ financial requests were fully funded. However,

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TIED TOP Tigers lose sole possession of first place in SEC

BY CHRISTIAN BOUTWELL @CBoutwell_TDR The LSU men’s basketball team missed 11 free throws against South Carolina on Wednesday.

Coincidentally, LSU (15-9, 8-3 Southeastern Conference) lost by 11 points, 94-83, against the Gamecocks (21-3, 8-3 SEC), who remain undefeated in Colonial Life Arena after Wednesday’s controlled, well-delivered trouncing.

With the victory, South Carolina captured possession of the top seed in the SEC — along with Kentucky and LSU at 8-3 — as No. 15 Texas A&M lost against Alabama on Wednesday.

In LSU’s case, free-throw shooting and defense were the Tigers’ catalysts toward their demise in Columbia, South Carolina, allowing 94 points to the Gamecocks who average approximately 72 points per game this season.

“Scoring 83 points, that’s a lot of points,” said LSU coach Johnny Jones in a postgame interview. “But, you can’t give up 94 and expect to win.”

After 14 team fouls from both parties in the first half, LSU made an abysmal 5-of-14 free throws through the first 20 minutes, and South Carolina led 39-35 at the halfway point.

The four-point spread at intermission, though, was a win for the Tigers, Jones said.

LSU rallied to shoot 16-for-28 — 57.1 percent — from the stripe, which Jones said was the “difference” in the result.

“When you get to the line early, you’ve got to make sure you do a good job taking advantage of that. We missed too many. That was a big difference,” Jones said. “If we hit free throws in the first half, we go into the half not only with a deficit but with the lead.”

After a back-and-forth second half featuring ties and small deficits, the Tigers never grabbed the lead in the latter half from the Gamecocks.

Jones said LSU mishandled the game “down the stretch” and said the Tigers did a poor job getting freshman stars Antonio Blakeney, Ben Simmons and senior guard Keith Hornsby the ball when the trio was scoring with ease.

“We had ample opportunities to make plays down the stretch,” Jones said. “We had guys taking too many chances, trying to make plays, when all they had to do was manage it and get it to their hot guys. We didn’t manage it like we needed to down the stretch against a good team.”

Blakeney led the Tigers’ scorers with 22 points. Simmons trailed him with 20 of his own, and Hornsby finished with 14.

After a short stint of coming off the bench and following a 31-point outing against Mississippi State on Saturday, Blakeney found himself back in the starting lineup on Wednesday.

He got “hot” again, Jones said.

“You got to recognize it,” Jones said.

“You got to recognize when he’s got it going on, and playing off with Hornsby, you’ve got to play off of him. We’ve got to feed him, feed him, feed him.”

SOFTBALL

Tigers chase national title in 2016 season

BY MARC STEVENS @Marc_TDR

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Freshman forward Ben Simmons shoots during the first half of LSU’s 80-68 victory against Auburn in Auburn Arena on Feb. 2.

The LSU softball team spent the 2015 season rewriting the record books.

The team notched the best start to a season in LSU athletic history, 25-0, the first 50-win season for the program since 2007 and reached the Women’s College World Series for the fourth time, finishing third.

Even with all the accolades, the 2015 season wasn’t good enough for coach Beth Torina and her team.

They want to win it all.

The Tigers posted their highestever preseason ranking when they were voted No. 3 in both USA Today and NFCA Division I Softball Coaches Poll.

Two-time defending national champions Florida topped both polls with Michigan taking the second spot. Southeastern Conference rivals Auburn and Alabama rounded out the preseason top-five.

The SEC coaches selected LSU to finish second in the league behind the Gators in their annual preseason poll. The Tigers earned three first-place votes and 128 points, and Florida received 10 firstplace votes with 142 overall points.

“We had the potential to finish first, so it was a little bittersweet,” said senior first baseman Sandra Simmons on the Tigers’ WCWS third-place finish. “Finishing third is awesome, but it’s not what we worked for. We worked to be No. 1 at the end of the year.”

Despite their record-breaking 2015 campaign, Simmons said the team came right back and began working to finish the job this season with its veteran-laden roster.

Torina, who is entering her fifth season, said this is the most talent she has had on one team at LSU. “This is the deepest roster we’ve ever had,” Torina said. “We did return a strong core, but we also added six extremely talented freshmen.”

Seven daily starters and three pitchers return for the Tigers, which combined for over 80 percent of the team’s defense, pitching statistics and offense, according to LSUsports.net. Infielder Bianka Bell and Simmons headline an accomplished senior class.

Bell led the team in home runs, setting an LSU single-season record with 18 home runs. She finished second in RBIs with 73 and batting average with .415 last season.

Bell has started all but two games during her LSU career, serving primarily at shortstop.

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SOLE CANDIDATE Local sneaker store offers variety of standout shoes

BY HAYDEN ROBERT @hashtagbyhayden

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Sneaker Politics opens its third location on Bluebonnet Blvd.

If Cinderella wore sneakers instead of glass slippers, she’d find the right fit at Sneaker Politics.

The sneaker and clothing store located on Bluebonnet carries popular streetwear brand names like Billionaire Boys Club, Publish, Stüssy, Stance and Zanerobe. From Jordans to Adidas, the shop offers men’s and women’s sizes.

Its Baton Rouge location is the third store to open under the Louisianian sneaker store franchise. Owner Dereck Curry opened up the original Lafayette location in 2005. After four years in Lafayette, Politics opened up a second location in Metairie in 2009. Following the success of both of stores, the decision to open the Baton Rouge location was made in 2011.

With the business doing well and sneaker culture on the rise, the store has opened up a second location in Lafayette. Baton Rouge store manager Fletcher Sanders has worked with the

company since its opening in 2005.

“We don’t want to outgrow ourselves, but of course we wanna get bigger,” he said. “In Lafayette we currently have two stores. One is a higher end store called Regime, and we’re still going to do the streetwear with Politics.”

Regime has higher price points and represents the expansion of the always changing sneaker culture.

“If Regime works out in Lafayette, we plan to expand that idea to both Baton Rouge and New Orleans,” Sanders said.

Sanders mentioned that certain brands have evolved from graphic tees to longline extended tees. Sneakers themselves have also changed; Nike and Jordan Brand were once unstoppable forces in the sneaker game. While those brands still are dominant in sneaker culture today Adidas, with the help of Kanye West and his Yeezy line, has proven to be up to the challenge.

“I think it’s awesome to see Adidas compete with Nike on a larger basis,” Sanders said.

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Beyoncé solidifies her power and impact at Super Bowl RANDALL RAMBLES KAYLA RANDALL @kay_ran21 Only Beyoncé could do this.

Use the Super Bowl, consistently the most watched television program in the country every year, as a platform to make the statement she wants and needs to make. Yes, only Beyoncé.

Not only did she surprise fans with her single “Formation” and its stunning video on Feb. 6, she also attended a high profile Warriors-Thunder NBA game the

same night like nothing happened, and then performed the song at the Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show the next day. The show that was supposedly Coldplay’s, but we all know which star shone brightest.

Let’s get into the song itself.

“Formation” is a certified black power anthem, a celebration of black southern culture and Beyoncé’s own heritage. The track features lines like “I like my negro nose with Jackson 5 nostrils.”

The song is by far the most exclusively, celebratorily black work Beyoncé has ever done, and she cemented that with the video.

Set in New Orleans during

Hurricane Katrina, voice overs from Messy Mya and Big Freedia can be heard, and they make the video feel authentic for New Orleans natives and bounce music enthusiasts alike.

In the visual, a young hooded black boy dances in front of a lineup of police as the words “Stop Shooting Us” are shown graffitied on a wall. Then, when the boy makes his final move, the police raise their hands up, surrendering as if to say don’t shoot.

The video ends with Beyoncé

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Beyoncé performs her new single “Formation” at the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday night.

Opinion

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Head to Head Should the government fund abortions?

Yes, income level shouldn’t determine abortion access BEYER’S REMORSE michael beyer @michbeyer

women and their doctors who attempt to perform an abortion can receive up to 40 years in jail, according to Slate.

Religious beliefs about sex vary, but if the government were to impose the Catholic Church’s beliefs on every citizen, goodbye to birth control, regardless of your reason for being on the pill.

Boys, you are free to use your right hand. Just kidding. You actually aren’t if you care about your soul.

Adoption isn’t a universal solution for women either. In 2010, a study conducted by the Child Welfare Information Gateway found approximately three-quarters of women still experienced feelings of grief or loss 12 to 20 years after placing their child up for adoption.

Compare this to the number of anti-choice activists who claim abortion causes post-traumatic stress, a claim former president of the American Psychiatric Association Dr. Stotland, said is “a medical condition that does not exist” in a 1992 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The government should fund abortion because every person deserves access to reproductive medical care regardless of their income.

People are smart enough to determine how they plan their own families.

Keep your archaic beliefs out of our bedrooms, conservatives. In addition to hot meat on Lenten Fridays, you should abstain from these harmful beliefs too.

No, abortions go against people’s religious beliefs MADE YOU THINK charlie bonacquisti @Charlie_Bonac2

Public funding for abortion is desperately Funding organizations like Planned Parenthood forces taxpayers to pay for acneeded and essential. tivities that go against their religious or Currently, public funding for abortion is ilmoral beliefs. legal because of the Hyde Amendment — priAs of right now, 17 states fund all or most marily hurting low-income Medicaid recipients. medically necessary abortions. In a country Former Senator Henry Hyde’s intention was to where an estimated 55 percent of people opprevent access to abortion, but he sadly found he pose all or most abortions, the fact that these could only prevent poor women from planning states give to abortions regardless of the peofamilies how they see fit. ple’s beliefs is unethical and undemocratic.

“I certainly would like to prevent, if I could The funds that go into specific abortionlegally, anybody having an abortion — a rich performing organizations should instead woman, a middle-class woman, or a poor womsolely fund contraceptive and adoption opan. Unfortunately, the only vehicle available is tions for women. Countless families across the … Medicaid bill,” Hyde said during the 1977 the nation are looking to adopt children, so debate on his amendment. let’s help them out. If given the choice, I’d Even though the Supreme Court ruled in faprefer my money to go toward contracepvor of a fundamental right to abortion in Roe v. tives and proactive healthcare for women Wade, somehow conservatives believe this stanrather than toward ending the lives of countdard need not apply to poor women. less babies before they have a chance.

When legislators restrict abortion funding, Pregnancy impacts a woman’s body relow-income and minority women are hurt the gardless of how long she’s been with child. most. Most often, poor and undocumented imMany women who go through the abortion migrants in the Rio Grande Valley have “clanprocess are left with a form of posttraumatic destino” abortions because they are “unable to stress disorder called post-abortion stress afford having more children or legal yet pricier syndrome, which may not show up for a few options,” according to community health inyears. According to a five-year study, 25 perstructor Paula Saldana.

Women in the region’s four counties are Michael Beyer is a 22-year-old political science cent of women who had an abortion sought out psychiatric care. disproportionately poor, with more than a third senior from New Orleans, Louisiana. of its residents living in poverty, according to Bloomberg.

Restricting access to abortion isn’t decreasing the number of women having abortions. Instead of doctors performing them, these poor women are taking their health into their own hands. According to Bloomberg, health-care providers in the region have seen “an increasing number of women suffering from incomplete abortions and bleeding after taking drugs unsupervised.”

After all, nothing says “pro-life” more than risking a woman’s life by forcing your beliefs on her.

Funny how conservatives say taxpayers shouldn’t fund organizations who don’t support their right-wing Christian morality.

Privileging the religious and moral beliefs of one religion over another is dangerous for public health.

In El Salvador, government officials are calling for a two-year moratorium on pregnancy to stop the spread of the Zika virus, according to The Associated Press. The Catholic Church’s influence in El Salvador is felt in its incredibly the Associated Press restrictive reproductive health policies.

The country’s policies are so restrictive that Anti-abortion activists rally on the steps of the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas on July 28.

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A personal friend of mine had a miscarriage after 13 weeks of pregnancy. During the process of miscarrying her child, she went through labor pains in order to pass the growing human fetus in her uterus. She also experienced post-pregnancy bodily changes because her body had been preparing to care for a child. A miscarriage may not be exactly the same as an abortion, but the effects they have on a woman’s body are synonymous to each other.

After the Super Bowl, complaints from NARAL Pro-Choice America exploded across Twitter claiming that the Doritos commercial showing a child in the womb reaching for its father’s Dorito chip was “anti-choice.”

The tweet said, “#NotBuyingIt - that @ Doritos ad using #antichoice tactic of humanizing fetuses & sexist tropes of dads as clueless & moms as uptight. #SB50.”

Women need an ultrasound in order to make an informed choice. “Pro-choice” should mean that women get a choice, and women can’t make informed decisions if they don’t have all the important information. Ultrasounds allow women to see what is growing within their body and hear their baby’s heartbeat.

If she is determined to have the procedure, then the ultrasound shouldn’t change her decision. But the woman needs to see the baby’s life she’s ending. Otherwise, the act of aborting a child isn’t “pro-choice.”

Regardless, the opposite of life is not choice. It’s death, and we shouldn’t determine when life begins if countless medical professionals cannot make that determination.

According to the 2014-2015 Annual Report, Planned Parenthood performed 323,999 abortions for every 2,024 adoption referrals.

If Planned Parenthood is worried about money, adoption brings in far greater profits.

Adoptionhelp.org states that “attorney adoptions of newborns generally run from $20,000 to $30,000.” Compare that number to the abortion cost, which is a maximum of $1,700. Getting into the adoption business brings in more money and saves the lives of innumerable children.

Like most, I am pro-women’s health, but I don’t want to wait until a woman is pregnant to start caring. If you really want to help women who are not ready for pregnancy or are not looking to become pregnant, don’t put them through the horrendous process of an abortion, and don’t choose to end a life simply because a woman didn’t have access to contraceptives.

Let’s be pro-women, let’s be proactive and let’s be pro-life for both women and children.

Charlie Bonacquisti is a 20-year-old mass communication sophomore from Dallas, Texas.

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with an hourly rate of $14.00 hour plus benefits. Although this is an entry level position there is room for advancement at BIG. Must have completed or be presently pursuing a degree in Psychology, Education, Special Education, or a related field (preferred but not required). Previous experience with autism/ABA is helpful but not necessary, No past criminal history,Reliable transportation, Strong interpersonal skills, and a genuine passion for working with children. Please send resume to admin@big-br.com. _______________________________ Louie’s Cafe is hiring cooks, servers & dish staff. Apply in person, online or via email. louiescafe.com 3322 Lake St. _______________________________ Fat Cow is now hiring for cooks, cashiers, and dishwashers.

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Jason’s Deli is Now Hiring Delivery Drivers & Cashiers in CitiPlace Baton Rouge! Location: Jason’s Deli 2531 Citiplace Ct. Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Why do our employees love their jobs? http://bit.ly/1PScPqK DELIVERY DRIVER REQUIREMENTS: We will run a motor vehicle report on all hired drivers!You must have an active driver’s license.You must use your own vehicle.Valid proof of insurance in your name. Apply online: https:// jasonsdelijobs.clickandhire. net/ and select our Baton Rouge (BTR) location For more information about Jason’s Deli, visit us online at www.jasonsdeli. com EOE _______________________________ Part-time help wanted walking around upscale community passing out literature. $14/hour.

Must have vehicle. Contact Beverly at 225-387-5931 _______________________________ Anthony’s Italian Deli is looking for general, reliable help. We can work with school schedules.

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Thursday, February 11, 2016 FORMATION, from page 4 gracefully lying atop a sinking NOPD cop car. Yes, Beyoncé sank a cop car.

This is a visual anthem of epic proportions, and the most politically and socially conscious statement Beyoncé has ever made with her music. Not to mention that for much of the black community, it’s the most fun and relatable she’s been.

Beyoncé only furthered the cultural impact of “Formation” when she performed the song at Super Bowl 50 and paid tribute to the Black Panther Party. It’s worth noting that Super Bowl 50 was hosted in the San Francisco Bay Area, the birthplace of the Black Panthers, and it happened to be their 50th anniversary. Perfect timing for Beyoncé, as usual.

I don’t know if she’ll ever be invited back, but the fact that

SOFTBALL, from page 3 Simmons is a three-year starter heading into her final season and has only missed one game in her career. She finished 2015 with a .331 batting average, was named to the SEC All-Defensive Team last season and was the NCAA Baton Rouge Super Regional MVP. Sophomore pitcher Carley Hoover will likely be the LSU pitching staff’s ace. She led the team in wins with 18, earned run average with 1.78, strikeouts with 174 and secured five saves to tie former-LSU standout Rachele Fico for the program’s single-season record.

“I’ll use last year as fuel for this season,” Hoover said. “This year I can take that experience and now go off with two full years of hard work under coach Torina … I’m going to make huge personal strides this year in my pitching.”

Behind Hoover is fellow sophomore Allie Walljasper. She was second to Hoover in wins with 16,

Beyoncé performed a black power anthem featuring the lyrics “I like my negro nose with Jackson 5 nostrils” at the Super Bowl on the biggest stage is the stuff of legends.

If you don’t understand the lyrics of “Formation,” or don’t get the symbolism in the video, it’s quite possibly because, as writer Kate Forristall eloquently puts it in her article, “Formation doesn’t include me — and that’s just fine,” it wasn’t made for you. Beyoncé didn’t make this song and video for you to understand, she made it to uplift herself and show love for black culture.

To the critics and naysayers, Beyoncé has a message for you: she doesn’t care. With “Formation” she preaches self-love and openly supports the Black Lives Matter movement, to which her husband Jay Z recently donated $1.5 million. She’s here and riding ERA with 1.83, strikeouts with 97, but led the team in fewest earned runs allowed with 34.

Junior Baylee Corbello enters her third year as the Tigers’ most experienced pitcher with 28 career wins after going 9-2 a season ago.

Freshman Sydney Smith will battle for time in the circle as lone rookie in LSU’s talent rotation.

The two-time Minnesota Gatorade Softball Player of The Year finished her senior campaign 20-1 overall with an ERA below 0.20.

The Tigers depth presents a challenge for Torina and company as they decide which players to start and sit.

Torina said early on there will be plenty of changes in the lineup but hopes to have a stable, everyday lineup set by the time SEC play starts. Even then, she said some lineups might change game-bygame based on matchups.

“We have a team that can compete at the highest level,” Torina said. “It’s a special time to be a part of LSU softball.”

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After her Super Bowl performance, she announced the Formation World Tour, to which Twitter collectively had to ask itself what expenses weren’t important, like kids, cars, food and clothing, and what expenses were essential, like Beyoncé tour tickets.

She’s the beginning, middle and end; the opening act, headliner and closer. Knowing that she’s in this unpredictable, devil-maycare stage in her career, there’s no telling what her upcoming album will sound like.

But, if she continues on her revolutionary path, we can only imagine its greatness. We’ll be waiting impatiently for that album, Bey. *goes to Red Lobster*

page 7 SNEAKERS, from page 4 No matter how what sneakerheads prefer, whether it be Nike or Adidas, Politics carries it all.

The store has done collaborations with other brands like Saucony, Reebok and New Balance.

Many of Politics collaborations are done with a Louisiana theme as well. A pair completed in 2015 was a collaboration between New Balance and Sneaker Politics based on the first season of HBO’s “True Detective” called “the Case 999’s” which is set in Louisiana.

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With Sneaker Politics able to adapt with the dramatic changes in streetwear and sneaker culture in recent years, the company hopes to expand outside Louisiana. But no matter where the company goes, it will always cherish its Louisiana roots.

“Louisiana is home, it’s what made us,” Sanders said.

“Of course we want to grow.

But Louisiana will always be home. We want to bring sneaker culture to the south and make the south cool again.

That’s why we do the Louisiana themed collabs.”