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Volume 121 · No. 25
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STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Committee financially supports clubs
BY BETH CARTER @bethie_carter
Gavels & Gridiron
Annual Law Center football game raises money to honor late professor, dean Cheney Joseph BY TIA BANERJEE | @tiabanerjee_TDR Students from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center swapped out their briefcases and suits on Saturday for helmets, football jerseys and cheerleading uniforms. Barristers Bowl XII was held at Memorial Stadium. In the past, proceeds from the annual event have gone to charities such as St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the Make-A-Wish Foundation. This year, the proceeds went to the American Cancer Society in honor of late dean and professor Cheney Joseph and his legacy. Before kickoff, Joseph’s wife, Mary Terrell Joseph, was honored on the field.
see BOWL, page 4
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The Paul M. Herbert Law Center hosts an annual charity event, Barristers Bowl XII, to raise money for the American Cancer Society.
For student organizations looking for help with funding their activities, Student Government can be a valuable resource. The Programming, Support and Initiative Fund committee, one of three SG committees responsible for distributing funds, assists campus organizations with funding events and supports new student organizations financially through the use of student fees. PSIF is a committee made up of eight students, four from SG and four from the general student body. The committee allots money from student fees to student clubs and associations. The five accounts that make up PSIF fund campus events like the Homecoming concert in the fall, Groovin’ in the spring and various University occasions. To qualify for PSIF funding, the student organization must be registered with Campus Life or the UREC. If the organization requests funding for a certain event, it must be on campus or less than 10 miles away. SG director of finance Wesley Davis said PSIF is a useful tool that student organizations sometimes do not utilize. Depending on
see PSIF, page 2
BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY
Student enters politics with bid for Metro Council seat BY CAITIE BURKES @caitie1221
At 18, not only can marketing freshman Malcolm Dunn register to vote, he can also run for local political office — and he plans to do just that. Dunn hopes to run for the vacant District 12 seat on the Baton Rouge Metro Council. The Luling, Louisiana native said his platform involves everything from the halting of price inflation to the legalization of marijuana. While working at a grocery store during the summer, Dunn said he was shocked to learn how
many people in his community were on food stamps. “I just feel like [the] government doesn’t help people enough,” he said. “I feel like they need more programs to help out people like that.” Dunn said one of his ideas is the Reaux Plan, an initiative that would promote compromise within the bipartisan Council. The art of compromise has been lost over time, he said. Through the Reaux Plan, Dunn said he would implement measures to solve “the inflation problem” plaguing the state. He said the Council needs to work together to cure the economic ills
causing prices to rise constantly. “Once something’s too big, it pops,” Dunn said. Other than inflation, the Metro Council hopeful places another priority at the top of his agenda: the legalization and taxation of marijuana. Citing the usual price drop that comes with marijuana legalization, Dunn said he would create a 25 percent sales tax on the product. He said he does not think customers would mind the sizable tax because it balances out with what its original price would have been. Dunn said he thinks providing governmental access to the
drug would “calm the world out a lot.” While he conceded recreational marijuana use might make citizens lazier, he said he believes it would significantly decrease the crime rate. He said he hopes to defy the stereotype of marijuana as a “gateway drug.” “You could say the same thing about alcohol being a gateway drug,” Dunn said. “Any drug is a gateway drug.” Since he first heard news of Dunn’s interest in membership, District 11 Council member Ryan Heck said he thinks it is
see DUNN, page 4
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Marketing freshman, Malcolm Dunn, plans to run for Metro Council to jumpstart his political career.