The Daily Reveille 10-26-2016

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Volume 122 · No. 42

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

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Political science senior opens butcher shop RAYKAEL MORRIS | @raykael_morris

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rom a barnhouse to a slaughterhouse, Iverstine Family Farms turned its quaint farm into a thriving local business. Since the butcher shop opened its doors on Perkins Rowe Friday, political science senior and owner Galen Iverstine said business has been booming. The small business began more than six years ago as a family-owned farm in Kentwood, Louisiana. It began selling fresh homegrown produce to the Red Stick Farmers Market and several local restaurants, including Magpie Cafe, Blend Restaurant and Wine Bar and City Club. The shop is open Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m.−7 p.m., Saturdays from 8 a.m.−3 p.m. and Sundays from 11 a.m.−3 p.m. Iverstine said the employees need Mondays off to rest after a long weekend of work. “A lot of our existing customers, as well as people just passing by, stopped in our store to see what was going on,” Iverstine said. Designed like a grocery store, all cuts and produce are visible in the shop. The meat sits enclosed in a glass casing, which Iverstine calls the “fresh beef case.” Customers can also watch butchers prepare the meat behind a glass wall. After raising hogs on the shop’s namesake farm for seven months, Iverstine Family Farms Butcher shop offers a variety of meats, including grass-fed beef and lamb and pastured poultry. A smokehouse behind the shop helps create some of the business’ signature

photos by MICHAEL PALMER / The Daily Reveille

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the football coach, the tiger dies and it just never seems to end,” he said. The city’s main focus moving University faculty and staff discussed the city’s next steps dur- forward will be the community ing the Office of Diversity’s new response to the Department of Chat and Chew initiative Tuesday. Justice investigation into Alton Vice Provost for Diversity Sterling’s death, he said. The DeDereck Rovaris said the initiative partment of Justice and local law enforcement representaallows faculty and staff tives have indicated the deto interact across discision will be announced beciplines and engage in tween the end of November challenging discussions and early January, in a safe space. Taking Rovaris said. a moment to reflect on The University’s promicommunity issues is esnent role in the city means pecially important after the summer and fall the ROVARIS it has an important role in shaping how the commucommunity has endured, nity responds to the findings. The he said. “Things seemed a little bit normal for a while, and then they fire see CHEW, page 2

BY CJ CARVER @CWCarver_

see BUTCHER, page 2

University takes steps to ensure online safety BY EVAN SAACKS @evansaacks University email accounts have been under siege from spam emails asking students and faculty for personal information. As part of National Cyber Securities Awareness Month, the University is taking steps to counter these online threats and educate students about how to discern between spam and legitimate mail. National Cyber Securities Awareness Month is described by the Department of Homeland Security as “designed to engage and educate public and private sector partners through events and initiatives to raise awareness about cybersecurity.” The event coincides with University broadcast emails about phishing. In addition to attacks on the University, hackers disrupted major websites across the United States Friday. Throughout Friday afternoon, websites such as Twitter, Netflix, Spotify, Reddit and SoundCloud were sporadically inaccessible, primarily on the East Coast, according to the New York Times. The University Information Technology Services

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Office of Diversity creates Charles D’Agostino appointed to new faculty initiative AURP 2017 executive committee

KATIE GAGLIANO @katie_gagliano

The University’s Innovation Park is being recognized yet again as its executive director, Charles D’Agostino, was appointed to the Association of University Research Parks executive committee for 2017. After serving as president of AURP for 2015-2016, D’Agostino now joins a board of directors from research parks nationwide. Those with AURP membership make up 380,000 direct jobs and have a $9.4 billion impact on their local economies. “The purpose of the innovation park is to literally commercialize LSU technology to actually help faculty [and] students

develop businesses based on their studies or their research at the University,” D’Agostino said. The idea for the Innovation Park began in 2005. The goal is to help faculty and students use their research to create businesses. According to the Innovation Park’s website, “by helping researchers bring new technology to market, the LSU Innovation Park creates highquality jobs, benefits the community, and enhances the image of Louisiana.” Innovation Park helps develop these businesses through access to capital and business planning. It can also possibly bring in attorneys or accountants, as

see PARK, page 2

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The LSU Innovation Park helps faculty and students develop businesses.


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