The Daily Reveille - September 30, 2014

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ENTERTAINMENT There’s still plenty to do during the fall break page 9

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR SG President says students should support their team page 12 @lsureveille

GROUND to a HALT

GOLF

University to review LSU Golf Course

BY JOE MALLETTE jmallette@lsureveille.com

Petition circulates as Highland Coffees’ closure shocks students BY CARRIE GRACE HENDERSON chenderson@lsureveille.com Avid coffee drinkers could see their routine come to a grinding halt when Highland Coffees closes its Northgate location at the end of the semester. Students and faculty are reacting and adjusting to the loss of the off-campus staple. A petition on Change.org by MPA candidate Peter Jenkins asks students and faculty who will miss the camaraderie and convenience of the 25-yearold coffee shop to show their support and petition for the real estate company to keep the business open. “I guess you could call me a passionate customer,” Jenkins said. “I’m really just trying to see what the feel of the support is.”

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LSU students and faculty members who play at the LSU Golf Course may soon have to find a new place to tee up. According to Assistant Director of Facility Services Tammy Millican, a review board is considering closure as part of LSU revisiting its campus master plan. The par-72 layout sits on 127 acres of University land alongside Nicholson Drive, between Gourrier Avenue and Bob Petit Boulevard. “There are a lot of public golf courses in the United States, in that same green-fee price range as the LSU golf course, and they’re struggling,” Millican said. “We’re just not sure how long the course can continue to operate on such a razor-thin profit margin. So we need to look and see what is the best thing for the University.” The LSU golf course is currently run by the LSU’s Department of Facility Services,

The petition is targeted at Saurage/Rotenberg Real Estate. Saurage is a member of the family that owns the prominent Louisiana Coffee empire Community Coffee, according to the Saurage/Rotenberg website. Jenkins said the petition is seeing the support of customers from Highland Coffees’ 25-year existence. At the time of print the petition had 3,300 signatures. Monday, students in the School of Music expressed their dismay over the coffee shop’s closing; the short walk makes it the perfect place to meet with friends and professors, said music performance junior Laura DeMouy. DeMouy said it’s a Tiger Band trumpet section EMILY BRAUNER / The Daily Reveille

see HIGHLAND, page 16

Highland Coffee, located at 3350 Highland Rd., is set to close on Dec. 24.

GOLF, see page 15

STUDENT LIFE

Prospective law school students worried for future careers

BY SAVANAH DICKINSON sdickinson@lsureveille.com The rising cost of school and low job prospects upon graduation put law school students in a difficult situation, according to “Generation of Debt” by Reporting Texas. The starting median salary for law school graduates was $61,245 in 2012 while the average debt of public law school students was $84,600, according to the report. The nation’s law schools produced 46,000 graduates in 2013, the largest graduation class in history. Yet, the Bureau of Labor Statics reported there would be 73,600 new jobs for lawyers between 2010

and 2020. The American Bar Association reported 11 percent of 2013 graduates are unemployed. This leaves prospective law student and interdisciplinary studies junior Bonnie Rees worried. “This news makes me have to think more seriously earlier on about whether I really want to go through with that, paying all that money to go to law school,” Rees said. “I have to be more sure about what I want to be doing with my future.” Political science sophomore Catherine Smith said the facts and figures don’t affect her decision because she believes getting a job relies more on a person’s qualities.

“You have to be a go-getter,” Smith said. “I feel like so many people, especially today’s generation, we all want instant gratification. You’re not always going to get that.” Stacia Haynie, Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Science, is working to develop a University pre-law program to assist students who are interested in entering the legal profession. “We imagine that this would provide students opportunities to connect with the law school, maybe visit a lecture, bring individuals who have careers in the legal profession to the campus to talk with the EMILY BRAUNER / The Daily Reveille

see LAW SCHOOL, page 15

The American Bar Association reported 11 percent of 2013 graduates are unemployed.


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