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(Left) The current view of the Baton Rouge Lakes will be revived and replenished once the Master Plan presented by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation is completed. (Bottom) A rendering of the Master Plan for the Baton Rouge Lakes
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Volume 119 · No. 152 ACADEMICS
Number of LSU Online programs triples since inception
BY RILEY KATZ rkatz@lsureveille.com
The lakes are popular for student recreation and recruiting assets to the University. Shallow water and invisible tree stumps are unsafe for students who want to get out on the water, Spain said. The last time the lakes were dredged, which was 20 years ago, Spain said, a hydraulic hose was used to suck sediment up without draining the lake. While this method avoidedthesmellsandunattractive
LSU Online’s degree paths allow students across the world to get a degree through the University without having to step foot in Baton Rouge. The department is in charge of the online classes offered to students during the fall and spring semesters, but LSU Online mainly focuses on offering online-only degree paths for national and international students. The online program started in March of 2013 with three different programs available to students, but since its inception, the program has tripled in size to nine programs, said Amanda Major, interim director of LSU Online. “LSU wanted to stay competitive in online programs, so we have progressed lightning quickly in the past two years to keep in competition with other universi-
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Master Plan aims to revitalize, replenish BR lakes BY DAVID LAPLANTE dlaplante@lsureveille.com After revisions at a series of community meetings, the Master Plan, presented by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation on July 16, to revive and replenish the Baton Rouge Lakes has been completed. The Master Plan comprises two phases of construction including several projects focused on the health and practical use of the lakes, according to BRAF’s executive vice president
John Spain. “Historically, they weren’t lakes,” Spain said. According to the website set up by BRAF for the Lakes project, the land the lakes occupy was donated to the University in the mid-’30s on the condition that the swamp be turned into public lakes and parks and kept that way. “If someone doesn’t step in, they will revert to swampland,” Spain said. The plan published on the organization’s website involves two phases. The first is focused on the
health of the lakes, including the dredging and sculpting of the lake bottoms. The phase comes from an Army Corps of Engineers 2008 study that found the lakes’ health and depth to be in danger. Dredging is the process by which sediment is removed from the bottom of the lakes. Sediment accumulates in the lakes from runoff and erosion and threatens the health of the lakes by reducing its depth, Spain said, noting University and Campus lakes are only two feet deep on average.
ART
Exhibit shows dynamic nature of modern origami BY MORGAN PREWITT mprewitt@lsureveille.com Many people around the world have heard the story of Sadako Sasaki, the Japanese atomic bombing victim who folded a thousand paper cranes with the hope of being granted a wish for a cure to her leukemia. Although paper cranes are a staple of origami, the Louisiana Art and Science Museum’s exhibit “Folding Paper: The Infinite Possibilities of Origami” shows the dynamic nature of the evolving art form and its applications in modern day science. “You think of origami and you think of folded paper cranes,” said Douglas Kennedy, the museum’s communication coordinator. “But
it’s a whole lot more than that. It’s become its own art form. You wouldn’t think that origami would be used in airbags, heart stents, space telescopes, but it has been.” The exhibit is divided into four sections with each focusing on a specific aspect of origami: its history, forms and figures, mathematical elements and modern applications. Beginning with a historical approach, the first pieces represent the traditional approach to origami, which originated in Japan as “gift decor” or “paper wrappings” said the museum’s collections manager Lexi Guillory. One of the early stars of the exhibit is one of Sasaki’s own cranes, which is incredibly small and a representation of the variation
necessary in her situation. “She did [it] with whatever she could — candy wrappers, regular size sheets of paper,” Guillory said. “When you need to fold a thousand cranes in a hospital, you just fold with what you’ve got.” After Sasaki’s crane, the exhibit moves into a portrayal of the complexity of modern origami with the work of Akira Yoshizawa, who is considered the father of modern day origami, by pushing the limits of the art beyond its traditional symbolism. “He made big strides,” Guillory said. “He gave us a way to say, ‘Can I fold an origami brain, a velociraptor or a moose?’ To think of origami as a more versatile art.”
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The exhibit ‘Folding Paper: The Infinite Possibilities of Origami’ is being held at the Louisiana Art and Science Museum until Sept. 27.