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BREAST CANCER

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Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women — regardless of race or ethnicity.

Dean of Students K.C. White is a survivor of breast cancer.

LSUHSC receives $2.2M grant for breast cancer education

BY kaci cazenave kcazenave@lsureveille.com When K.C. White, associate vice chancellor and dean of students, discovered a lump in her breast in March 2009, she asked herself: Where do I go from here?

She knew little about combatting breast cancer except what she observed first-hand from her mother and grandmother, who

both suffered from the same type of cancer.

Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is answering White’s question — along with education for breast cancers survivors — more accessible to the Gulf Coast public.

According to a news release from the LSU Health Sciences Center, the CDC is awarding a five-year, $2.2 million grant to the

School of Public Health to increase the availability of health information and support services for young breast cancer survivors in the Gulf South.

The grant funds a new threestate coalition — the Gulf States Young Breast Cancer Survivors Network — among Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama that Donna

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Louisiana was No. 2 in the nation for breast cancercaused deaths from 2006-10.

11 percent of new cases occur in women younger than 45 years old. source: center for disease control and prevention

SERVICE

Honors College sells bracelets for veterans

Semester-long service project focuses on veterans BY deanna narveson dnarveson@lsureveille.com Honors College students braved wet, chilly weather for hours Wednesday to sell rubber, camouflage-print bracelets and honor the nation’s veterans.

The college’s students complete a service project each fall, and this year’s supported those who have served in the U.S. military since 9/11 by selling bracelets. All of the proceeds from the bracelets will go to Hope For The Warriors, an organization offering support to service members and their families.

LSU is home to more than 400 veterans, active duty military, men and women in the military reserves and National Guard members, according to University Veteran and Military Student Services.

Granger Babcock, Honors College associate dean, said the students’ weeklong service

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RESEARCH

Professor, undergraduates work to create alligator brain map BY rose velazquez rvelazquez@lsureveille.com Biology professor Ryoichi Teruyama may be in charge of the lab, but he’s not the brains behind this research operation.

Teruyama and his undergraduate researchers, biochemistry senior Katie Huang and Baton Rouge Community College biology sophomore Ryan LeBlanc, are becoming the first researchers to map the brain of an alligator.

After receiving a research stipend through the Louisiana Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Research Scholars Program, Huang began working with Teruyama in summer

2012. When the alligator brainmapping project began a year ago, she was the first undergraduate student to get involved.

Through the LSU-HHMI Undergraduate Research Program, LeBlanc began working with Teruyama on the project at the beginning of June. While he is currently a BRCC student, LeBlanc said he plans to transfer to the University in the future.

“Working here kind of eventually helped me to decide specifically what my career path would be, which is neuroscience,” LeBlanc said.

Teruyama serves as a supervisor and mentor to his undergraduate students, but much of

the research is conducted by the students.

Using a device called a stereotaxic apparatus, Teruyama and his students measure millimetersized sections of the brain, starting at the ear canal. Teruyama said the stereotaxic apparatus he and his students use was modified for the alligator from the original apparatus used for monkeys.

Once these sections are measured, the alligator brain is sliced into segments, and photographs of each piece are taken, which LeBlanc uses to create precise drawings of the different areas of the brain. The segments are then

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Baton Rouge Community College biology sophomore Ryan LeBlanc holds an alligator head Wednesday in the Life Sciences Building.

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Father, son want Jeb Bush run for White House THE ASSOCIATED PRESS COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Former President George W. Bush said Tuesday that he and his father believe Jeb Bush should run for president but ultimately the former Florida governor must make a decision regardless of any pressure from the family.

“I can tell you I can speak for 41,” Bush said, referring to the 41st president, George H.W. Bush, during the official launch of the 43rd president’s book at his dad’s presidential library center at Texas A&M University. “He ought to run for president. He would make a great president.”

“We can pressure him all we want, but it’s not going to matter. ... You can’t pressure somebody on such an important decision. It’s not going to cause him to think positively or negatively if we all continue to harass him.

Only he can decide.”

With his father and mother a few feet from him in the front row of an auditorium filled with a friendly audience of several hundred people, Bush was responding to questions from Andrew Card, his father’s transportation secretary and his own White House chief of staff, primarily

about his personal book “41: A Portrait of My Father.” The older Bush, seated in a wheelchair, smiled and waved but did not speak at the event.

George W. Bush said he didn’t know of any timetable for a decision but said from speaking with his brother he knows Jeb Bush “doesn’t like the idea of a political class.”

“The idea of ‘Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Bush’ troubles him, which speaks to his great integrity,” George W. Bush said of the succession of recent presidents. “So I said: ‘How does this sound? Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Clinton,’” George W. Bush added, referring to the potential presidential run of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

“The point is you don’t get to pick the environment in which you run.”

The comments were his most detailed to date about the possibility of continuing the Bush political dynasty. George W. Bush said Sunday on CBS that there was a 50-50 chance Jeb would run. Jeb Bush was not in attendance at the book event Tuesday.

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Former President George H.W. Bush waves to the crowd Tuesday at his presidential library. father, 90 and in fragile health, was still alive and able to “see how much I care for him” and how much other people care for him. He also said a favorable reassessment of George H.W. Bush’s presidency is emerging, despite it being a single term and being “overshadowed” by the two terms of predecessor Ronald Reagan.

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Sales, sightings of drones increase dramatically THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — More than a million small drone aircraft have been sold in the past few years, and a growing number of them are turning up in the skies near airports and airliners, posing a risk of collision. Reports of drone sightings near other planes, helicopters and airfields are reaching the government almost daily, say federal and industry officials.

It’s a sharp increase from just two years ago when such reports were still unusual.

Many of the reports are filed with the Federal Aviation Administration by airline pilots.

But other pilots, airport officials and local authorities often file reports as well, said the officials, who agreed to discuss the matter only on the condition that they not be named because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly. Michael Toscano, president of a drone industry trade group, said FAA officials also have verified the increase to him.

While many of the reports are unconfirmed, raising the possibility that pilots may have mistaken a bird or another plane in the distance for a drone, the officials

said other reports appear to be credible.

The reports underscore the difficulty the FAA faces trying to control drones, which could cause a crash if one collided with a plane or was sucked into an engine. Small drones usually aren’t visible on radar to air traffic controllers, particularly if they’re made of plastic or other composites.

The agency’s near-total ban on their use has been ignored by operators ranging from real estate agents to farmers who use them to monitor crops.

Rules to allow broader use of commercial drones are expected to be proposed before year’s end.

“It should not be a matter of luck that keeps an airplane and a drone apart,” said Rory Kay, a training captain at a major airline and a former Air Line Pilots Association safety committee chairman. “So far we’ve been lucky.”

The FAA requires that drone and model aircraft operators keep flights to under 400 feet in altitude, keep the aircraft within sight of the operator and stay at least 5 miles away from an airport. Small drones are often indistinguishable from model aircraft, which have grown in sophistication.

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Thursday, November 13, 2014 FOOD

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Smashburger chain to open on Corporate Blvd. in 2015 other businesses like Vitamin Shoppe, Chipotle and Charles Schwab were interested Burgersmith, Fat Cow and in the space, but now it’s settled Five Guys will not be the only with the landlord — we have a places students can buy burg- deal.” ers in 2015.

Sports administration juSmashburger, a Denver- nior Denver McLendon is excitbased company named one of ed for Smashburger’s arrival America’s most promising com- despite the number of burger panies by Forbes places already in 2014, will bein Baton Rouge.

‘Smashburger is going gin construction to be a great addition to He is even more on its first Baton to be able Baton Rouge and will fit in excited Rouge location to chow down on in March. When perfectly with the young Sm a shbu rger ’s college vibe that Baton Haystack it opens, the resOnRouge provides.’ taurant chain ions, his favorite will have four menu item, on Louisiana locaa more regular DENVER MCLENDON, tions — joining basis.

LSU sports administration junior the other three “Smashburgin New Orleans, er is going to be Shreveport and a great addition Bossier City. to Baton Rouge and will fit in Mark Hebert, leasing agent perfectly with the young colfor Kurz & Hebert Commercial lege vibe that Baton Rouge Real Estate, Inc., said Smash- provides,” McLendon said. “It burger signed a lease for a offers cheap food options and space on Corporate Blvd. for- a place to chill between classes merly occupied by Louisiana with friends.”

Pizza Kitchen. Smashburger Smashburger menu items will replace Trios Mexican Bar include “smashed-to-order” and Grill, which is currently Angus burgers, chicken sandsub-leasing the space. wiches and entrees, salads, Hebert said Trios will va- signature side fries and milkcate the space by the end of shakes.

February.

Communication studies “It’s taken us a while to se- sophomore Lauren Grosscure this deal,” Hebert said. man said Smashburger is “Smashburger looked all a place she used to visit over Baton Rouge, and many often before moving from

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Arlington, Texas, to attend the University because there was one located 10 minutes from her house.

Grossman expects to feel a little more at home now that Smashburger is making its way to Baton Rouge.

“Smashburger is going to be a hit because it has a different style and atmosphere than in the other burger places around here, in my opinion,” she said. “Plus, they have the best milkshakes.”

Hebert said the landlord hopes the new restaurant will be a “smashing” success.

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Smashburger will begin construction on its Baton Rouge location in March 2015. This will be the fourth Louisiana location.

UNIVERSITY

New course challenges ethics of war weapon technology

BY KELSEY BORDELON kbordelon@lsureveille.com Imagine a United States whose soldiers are biologically enhanced for efficiency and whose wars are fought with drones and lethal autonomous robots.

College students today have never lived in a country not in conflict.

Psychology professor Charles Pence recognized the significance of warfare education and is offering a new course for the spring, “Ethics of Emerging Weapons Technologies” that evaluates and challenges the morals surrounding the forthcoming realm of warfare technologies.

Offering this course at the University this spring makes it the second class on ethics of emerging weapons technology in the U.S. as of yet. Pence created the course with retired Air Force Major General Robert Latiff while teaching at the University of Notre Dame.

Key topics in this course include types of emerging weapons such as drones, robotic systems, non-lethal weapons,

cyberwarfare, bioenhancement, and data mining, positions on ethics of peace and war, the Law of Armed Conflict and normative ethical theories.

Pence said students should take this course regardless of their fields of study because of the societal implications.

“These are topics that I think are relevant to anyone who’s a member of contemporary society,” Pence said. “As Michael Walzer once wrote, parodying Trotsky, ‘You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.’”

The intent for the class, Pence said, is to expose the students and challenge the current mindset.

“There’s no settled philosophical dogma about these questions — they’re too recent and too complicated,” Pence said.

“Rather, what we learn are the tools that you need to be able to decide for yourself how to approach these issues.”

Though ethical guidelines for warfare have remained useful through various wars in the past, such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, wars of the present already look dramati-

cally different. The class will encourage a focus on which ethical frameworks may need to change and how.

“We’re dropping more bombs on Pakistan — who we’re not at war with — than we did in the initial phases of the Kosovo conflict,” Pence said. “Why doesn’t Pakistan count as a war? What does that shift in perspective say about our perceptions of war?”

Pence said the questions and challenges evaluated in the class are not only central to the direction and future of the military, but to American society.

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. PHIL 3020 Ethics & New Weapons . 1-3 credit hours . 12:00 p.m. to 1:20 p.m. . Tuesdays and Thursdays . Coates 218

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page 4 brains, from page 1 placed on slides and stained.

Teruyama said alligators are ideal for this project because they are a native species prevalent in Louisiana.

“Not so many people are working on the alligator neuroanatomy, so someone has to do it, and we’ve got a pretty good location to do so,” Teruyama said.

Huang and LeBlanc are responsible for sectioning the brain, staining each segment as it’s placed on a slide and producing drawings of the areas of the brain, Teruyama said.

“I’m basically handling the alligators from beginning to end by removing the brains, sectioning them, mounting them on slides and staining them,” LeBlanc said.

“From there, I use imaging to draw them out so that we can start mapping them.”

Teruyama said the students are also expected to do additional research about existing information on the neuroanatomy of various avian and mammalian species.

“We are taking our samples and comparing them to avian

veterans, from page 1 project goes along with the college’s summer reading assignment this year, David Finkel’s “Thank You for Your Service,” which explores the challenges faced by military combat veterans and their families.

“We chose to work with Hope For The Warriors, which is founded by military wives specifically for military families in June of 2006,” Babcock said.

breast cancer, from page 1 Williams, associate professor and director of LSUHSC’s Cancer Prevention and Control Program, will lead.

According to the release, the grant will also sponsor a social media campaign to disseminate this information via Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and a website called “SurviveDAT.” SurviveDAT is an online resource LSUHSC and the Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center launched in 2011 for young breast cancer patients and caregivers.

Patients can access local support groups and health information tailored to their specific needs.

The social media campaign will build on the services SurviveDAT provides and empower young breast cancer survivors to advocate for care and access to services.

Posts on the site will address family history and genetic risks, psychosocial health and support, reproductive health, fertility, family support, health monitoring and evidence-based preventative lifestyle behaviors. These messages will be spread across the LSUHSC website and other state platforms.

White believes the grant and campaign will affect lives like hers.

“There is absolutely a direct

species, birds and their brain atlases — which have been mapped — and identifying structures because they’re similar,” Huang said.

In addition to simple observations, Teruyama said he and his students are also applying some more-molecular techniques to identify and confirm the parts of the alligator brain in relation to existing brain maps.

Teruyama’s research expertise is in electrophysiology, the study of the electrical properties of the body and its functions. Because of the years of training required to conduct research in that area, Teruyama decided a project focusing on neuroanatomy would be a more appropriate challenge for undergraduate students.

The goal of the project is to one day have the alligator brain mapped and labeled and create computer-generated 3D reconstructions of the brain from the photographs and drawings produced by the students, Teruyama said.

The project is a year old, and Teruyama said this is just the beginning of what he and his students can accomplish.

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At this time, the funding for the project comes from the state-allocated funds Teruyama receives.

He said he hopes the project will eventually receive funding from either the Board of Regents or the National Science Foundation.

“He will put everything down to help his undergraduate students, and you don’t find that in a lot of professors,” Huang said.

This weekend, Teruyama and his students will travel to Washington, D.C., for the Society for Neuroscience’s annual international conference, where Huang will be presenting their research.

“Every undergraduate dreams of going to a national conference or getting a paper published,” Huang said. “It’s having that on your résumé that looks really great for graduate school.”

The Society for Neuroscience holds the largest neuroscience conference in the nation, with more than 15,000 scientific presentations and 30,000 attendees from all over the world.

“The people at this conference are going to grill me so hard, but it will be such a great learning experience,” Huang said.

LSU biochemistry senior Katie Huang and BRCC biology sophomore Ryan LeBlanc look at microscopic sections of an alligator brain Wednesday.

Babcock said it seemed appropriate to do the bracelet sales during the week of Veterans Day. Former congressional candidate and doctoral candidate Norm Clark, who ran on a platform to improve conditions for veterans, said he wholeheartedly approves of the service project.

“One of the things to keep in mind is some of these military service people come back with post-traumatic stress disorder,”

Clark said. “These groups explain to the family what’s going on and can help them decompress.”

Clark said the goal of veteran support organizations is informing the families of military service members what they can do to help make the transition back to civilian life easier for veterans.

He said veterans can also be honored more lightheartedly.

A celebration honoring veterans will be held at the USS Kidd

on Sunday with music and other festivities, Clark said. He said support for veterans as they are coming back to the U.S. after serving is important because of the challenges they face.

Hope For The Warriors offers programs to help with career transitions and educate military families on how to care for wounded veterans.

The University has its own support system for student veterans with Veteran and Military Student Services.

correlation between the research that’s being conducted, the education being sought out and the number of those who survive,” White said.

Without research, White said the prescription drug Herceptin — which treats breast cancer by interfering with the HER2 receptor that causes cancer cells to reproduce uncontrollably — may have never been found so quickly.

“I think resources and early innovation and leading healthy lives are what’s helping us to continue to live longer and longer,” White said.

White said the Susan G. Komen non-profit organization played a major role in motivating her to fight the disease and make her way through chemotherapy in 2009 after her lumpectomy. The faces of the survivors inspired her “I want to do this” mentality.

“What I love most is women — who are often known for keeping to themselves — aren’t staying silent about this,” White said. “You can put a name to a face, and sometimes that’s important for us to see whether or not we have breast cancer.”

White agreed, saying education is an obvious key to many of life’s challenges.

“I think everyone will win, having this social media campaign as an extra tool to our teaching,” White said. “They’re just so powerful, so I say yeah, let’s do it.”

Disaster science management junior Bailee Stewart said she supports more breast cancer education, as it hits close to home.

“My mom was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer when I was in high school, and thankfully, we caught the disease earlier so doctors could effectively treat it,” Stewart said. “Now, my mom has been cancer-free for three years, and her survival story is why I believe in the importance of community education about breast cancer. That way, everyone can better fight it.”

White, like Stewart’s mother, is now cancer-free. Every three weeks, she undergoes treatment because of the gene and type of breast cancer she had five years ago.

“When you get done with the disease, it’s a little odd,” White said. “For so long, you’re so closely monitored, and then you’re like, ‘Okay, now what do I do?’ because you’re not checking in every day or week like you used to.”

White said she does the best she can to continue exercising and making healthy choices, keeping her family history in mind.

“That’s all you can do — you’ve got to be strong,” White said. “I don’t have a guarantee of not getting this again, but I am going to do all that I can to try to control it from coming back.”

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Coordinator Adam Jennings said he supports the Honors College’s project.

Earlier this year, student veterans got a place on campus of their own in Hatcher Hall.

Jennings said the organization helps make the transition easier for veterans who don’t have the same experiences as their peers prior to coming to the University.

“I actually stopped by yesterday and picked up one of the bracelets,” Jennings said.

Thursday, November 13, 2014 Recruiting

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Simmons signing can improve Tigers THE CUBAN CANNON

Five-star recruit Simmons commits to LSU

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BY marcus rodrigue mrodrigue@lsureveille.com Consensus five-star recruit Ben Simmons signed his National Letter of Intent with the LSU men’s basketball team Wednesday afternoon on the first day of the early signing period.

The 6-foot-10, 225-pound forward tweeted a photo of himself signing the official paperwork around 1:30 p.m. Several recruiting websites have pegged Simmons as the No. 1 overall recruit in the nation.

Simmons led Montverde Academy to a 28-0 record and a prep national championship last season while posting 18.5 points, 9.8 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game.

“We are thrilled to have Ben Simmons and his wonderful family officially join the LSU basketball family,” said LSU coach Johnny Jones in a news release. “His talent level, hard work and passion for the game will allow him to make an immediate impact on the program.”

The Australian native gave a verbal commitment to LSU last fall, and he will now officially join the Tigers for the 2015-16 season.

Simmons has family ties at LSU — his godfather, David Patrick, is assistant head coach for the Tigers.

Gymnastics pulls in elite class The LSU gymnastics team inked four prospects Wednesday afternoon, all of whom have experience at level 10 or elite competition.

Lexie Priessman, McKenna Kelley, Julianna Cannamela and Kaitlyn Szafranski comprised the Tigers’ 2015 recruiting class.

LSU’s current senior class notched a program-high No. 3 finish last season, and coach D-D Breaux already has high expectations for the group.

“They’re going to have to step into some pretty big shoes,” Breaux said. “This class is replacing probably the most accomplished group of individuals we’ve ever put together. We’re going to expect a lot out of these freshmen.

They’ll have to step in and compete in the all-around right away.”

Kelley, daughter of former Olympic gold-medalist Mary Lou Retton, won the all-around title at the 2014 Nastia Liukin Cup and captured all five titles at the California Classic.

While Kelley has Olympic pedigree, Breaux said Priessman is

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LSU then-junior offensive tackle La’el Collins (70), enthusiastically interacts with fans after the Tigers’ 37-27 victory against TCU on Aug. 31, 2013, in the Cowboys Classic at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

no regrets Tigers view Collins as elite player, leader after staying for senior year

BY Tyler Nunez • tnunez@lsureveille.com LSU offensive tackle La’el Collins faced the biggest decision of his life following the 2013 season.

After starting all 12 games he played in his sophomore season at left guard and earning secondteam All-Southeastern Conference honors after his first season starting left tackle in 2013, Collins had proven to be a versatile prospect for NFL scouts and was widely projected to be selected in the second or third round of the 2014 NFL Draft, should he enter.

In a program that has seen 18 players leave early to enter the draft in the past two seasons, Collins went against the grain, opting to stay in Baton Rouge for one more season to improve his draft stock.

Ten months later, Collins said he doesn’t even think about his decision.

“I’ve been just overwhelmed with falling in love with this place,” Collins said. “Ever since I got here, it was always a great place for me.

LSU’s been nothing but good to me.

I love the program. I love my coaches. I’ve learned a lot this year. Me learning so much this year really made me realize I wasn’t ready to move onto the next level.”

Even with his time at LSU dwindling and his chances of playing football on Sundays improving, Collins doesn’t concern himself with the future. Instead, he’d rather enjoy the short time he has left on

the campus he’s called home the last four years.

“I just take it one week at a time, especially now,” Collins said. “I definitely know in the future I’m going to have to take on everything that’s coming my way, but I’m just trying to embrace my last couple weeks I have here and just enjoy it with my teammates. You can always make money and play and do those things, but you can’t always make memories. I just want to make the best of what I have left here.”

Collins’ coaches agree he made the right choice.

LSU running backs coach Frank Wilson half-jokingly told foxsports. com he’d “kiss his own ass” if a team did not pick Collins in the top five of the 2015 NFL Draft.

Head coach Les Miles wasn’t as fervent, but he expressed admiration of Collins’ decision to return from both an athletic and academic standpoint.

“He’s putting himself in position to have his degree,” Miles said. “He is a leader of our team. He’s a guy that has improved, is a dominant player on Saturdays and eventually, when the back end of this thing is all said and done, I think he’ll have an opportunity to be a first‑round draft pick.”

Collins makes a point to not concern himself with draft projections and early scouting reports, but he does appreciate the compliments

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Put down your footballs and repent, LSU fans. Basketball phenom Ben Simmons is coming to Baton Rouge, and nobody is worthy of his talents.

Simmons signed his letter of intent today to play at LSU next season, a decision that’s been a foregone conclusion ever since Simmons verbally committed to the Tigers more than a year ago. But now the move is official, and fans can truly begin ogling over what they have for the 2015 season.

Before I go further, let me point out I recognize the risk in talking about a player and a team a year in advance. It’s actually something I despise.

But signing Simmons changes things a little. Getting a player of his caliber is not just rare, it’s almost unprecedented for this program.

Those who have never heard of Simmons or have never seen him play should jump onto YouTube right now and search his name.

The Australian small forward from Florida’s Monteverde Academy can jump out of the building, shoot with range, pass well and possess a lethal crossover.

He’s the type of talent LSU hasn’t seen since the 2006 Final Four team, and most analysts believe he has the potential to be better. Soon, fans aren’t going to have to be asked and begged to come to games. Either they’ll be there or NBA scouts will take their seats.

Some think the football team grabbing Leonard Fournette was a big impact, but signing Simmons may be twice as important.

Simmons will help the team on offense and defense, and playing a sport with only 10 guys on the floor makes one great player far more influential.

The one change in basketball in the last decade has been a move from big men to athletic guys with long wingspans and good shooting range. Simmons has all of those skills, making it easy to spread the floor and play in an offense full of movement and passing.

Coach Johnny Jones has been scratching and reaching for two years to get the Tigers to the NCAA Tournament, and Simmons could take things to another level.

However, basketball is still a team game, and Simmons will need great teammates if LSU wants to be more than relevant.

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Freshmen adjust to college-level strength, conditioning

BY MORGAN PREWITT mprewitt@lsureveille.com “Get on the line.”

Players of all sports dread those words because only one thing follows them — running.

While strength and conditioning are crucial in all sports, in collegiate soccer, a team’s overall conditioning level can determine the outcome of a season from the first pre-season fitness test.

The LSU soccer team, which finished (5-13-2, 1-9-1 SEC), learned this lesson in 2014 when the Tigers’ lineup, featuring five or six freshmen a game, could not compete against the seniorladen upper echelon of the Southeastern Conference.

One major reason for LSU’s inability to compete with the top SEC teams stems from the freshmen’s fitness level and their battle with fatigue during their first college season.

“My biggest thing is it’s always the number of games in such a short number of days and the different physicality of those games,” said LSU coach Brian Lee. “[The freshman are] used to playing three games in three days on a weekend and thinking it’s fine. Now all of a sudden, playing two games in three days is much more physically taxing

than those three games in three days.”

Preparing freshman for this jump in the physical nature of the game is difficult. Freshmen have a limited amount of time to train with LSU strength and conditioning coach Ryan Filo.

Unlike returning players, who have the entire spring and summer to train with Filo, freshmen have only have the preseason, or the summer if they enroll early, to adjust to the intensity of collegiate conditioning.

This summer, freshman defender Alexis Urch enrolled in summer classes and began training with Filo.

“In the beginning, it was definitely rough,” Urch said. “In the summer, we came in early.

Thank God we did. We ran three times a week and lifted twice a week, and that definitely got us into a routine.”

One of the biggest adjustments to collegiate fitness training for freshman is the focus on weight training.

Even though fitness training in high school does include time in the weight room, the main focus in high school is running. This ensures players have a combination of stamina and speed to compete at the high school level.

“Coming in, I never knew how to do a hang clean or anything whatsoever in the weight room because I was like, ‘I am never going to lift weights. I’m not going to do this ever,’” said freshman forward Jorian Baucom. “I didn’t realize how important weights are, and I guess that was kind of difficult to get into. Now that I know it, it’s really helped.”

Strength training is crucial to prepare players for the physicality of the SEC. Through establishing a routine of running and weight training, freshmen gradually adjust the fitness needed to reach a baseline, and then the training narrows according to position.

“A center midfielder is going to run four to five and half miles in a typical game,” Lee said.

“A center back might run two and a quarter or two and a half.

The forwards are a little more sprinters.”

Most of the fitness training is completed during the preseason because the training in conjunction with games would be too hard on players, Lee said.

But the work put into fitness during the offseason helps make the grind of the season much easier to handle.

“At first it was extreme-

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LSU freshman forward Jorian Baucom (5) makes a dash for the ball Sept. 8 during the Tigers’ game against Stephen F. Austin in LSU Soccer Stadium. ly hard, but I just feel like I have a strong mindset to push myself through it,” Urch said.

“Toward the end, after games I’d be tired, but not like I used

to be. I think the game situations we really helped.”

You can reach Morgan Prewitt on Twitter @kmprewitt_TDR.

SWIMMING AND DIVING

Greeff plans to pursue business career after college

BY WILL COTCHERY II wcotchery@lsureveille.com Back in his hometown of Uitenhage, South Africa, LSU senior swimmer Frank Greeff spent his Saturdays and Sundays watching business documentaries.

He was interested in how big corporations operated, how the money circulated through the economy and how certain materials were established.

Whether he was earning pocket change from doing chores, or turning a profit from washing friend’s dishes, Greeff remained fixed on “cashing out” in any and every opportunity.

“Everyone wants to make money,” Greeff said. “As a kid, you always want to have that extra money. For me, I always liked spending money and going on spending sprees. I love buying new stuff. I think it was just that desire to have money in [my] pocket.”

Dating to his time back at home, Greeff owned and operated an ice cream business, a magazine delivery business and even a rabbit farm.

Greeff began his rabbit farm business after he frequently found stray garden rabbits on his lawn. Completing easy tasks like cleaning cages and refilling feeders,

Greeff groomed the animals to ensure they would be ready to be claimed by aspiring owners.

His continued success led him into his favorite business of the three, the magazine venture.

Greeff’s friend, who was affiliated with South Africa’s top magazine brand, Huisgenoot, asked him to take over his position with the company because he was going away for college.

Every Monday for two to three hours, Greeff would deliver 200 to 300 magazines to 150 clients who subscribed to publications like Sports Illustrated, People Magazine and Men’s Health.

Greeff said he enjoyed his time delivering magazines, extensively learning the specifics of handling money and keeping track of records. He also recalled several instances where customers would reward his services by inviting him into their homes for drinks and Christmas presents.

Though his teammates know little about Greeff’s business aspirations, he keeps his fellow LSU schoolmates in mind.

“I was talking with my friends [recently] about starting a golf cart system on campus,” Greeff said. “The buses only take you to a certain bus stop, [whereas] the golf carts can take you to from your Class A to the front door of your next class. I spend a lot of

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LSU swimmer Frank Greeff, a South African native, hopes his passion for business will allow him to pursue a career as a general or finance manager of a major sports franchise. time studying and reading my books, and sometimes I bounce ideas off the wall.”

For Greeff, business is the idea of taking something and making it profitable. He said people can become billionaires by taking a small idea and expanding on it.

Having such a businessoriented mind has motivated

Greeff to be creative, proactive and assertive obtaining the things he wants. He said he hopes his drive and determination, along with the steady support from family and close friends, will ultimately place him in his dream job as a general or finance manager of a major sports franchise.

“I think the biggest thing

[I learned] was ‘If you have a goal, go for it,’” Greeff said.

“What this mindset has taught me is to never be afraid to go out and do what you want to do. I always had that passion to do something. It doesn’t have to be a new bright idea, [but] something small you enjoy doing because it’s definitely easier.”

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Defense creating chemistry with increased energy at practice BY jack chascin jchascin@lsureveille.com The LSU football team’s defense could be summed up in a line from a classic Beatles lyric: “I get by with a little help from my friends.”

The Tigers’ defense has a bond many others across the country may not see, and it has strengthened throughout the course of their up-and-down 2014 season.

“After our first two losses, we got our goals refocused and everything back on track,” said junior defensive back Jalen Collins. “We’re just going out and having fun, joking around with each other. The energy is a lot higher than it was before, and we’re just loving what we’re doing.”

The LSU defense turned things around after a 41-7 beat down by then-No. 5 Auburn on Oct. 4.

The turnaround is due to the fun-loving crew the Tigers have leading the way.

“When you’re down on yourself, have a lot of pressure on yourself, that’s when things start to fall apart as you start keying in on one thing when you should be worrying about another,” said junior linebacker Lamar Louis. “[Defensive Coordinator John Chavis] comes out [during practice], hypes us up.

“We have a couple of the defensive players, a couple defensive backs, a couple defensive linemen get hype, and then the whole defense is getting hype and making plays.”

The Tigers have found their

niche on defense because of their new, fun approach at practice.

LSU allowed more than 1,100 yards of total offense in its first two Southeastern Conference contests. Since then, the Tigers have played the type of defense fans in Baton Rouge expect when their team takes the field in Tiger Stadium on Saturday nights.

The Tigers have won three of their last four SEC games, including an upset against then-No. 3 Ole Miss. LSU held the Rebels to 313 yards of total offense while visibly frustrating senior quarterback Bo Wallace.

And while an overtime loss to No. 4 Alabama cast a shadow over the team, the defense still appears to be on its way up.

Sophomore linebacker Kendell Beckwith said a key to the Tigers’ newfound identity is their ability to enjoy themselves out on the practice field.

“We try to go out there and lighten practice up as a defense. We don’t all be so serious,” Beckwith said. “We try to have fun practices where everyone just clowns around a little bit and just flying around, making plays, doing our assignments and trying to do everything right.”

Players are bringing increased energy when stepping out onto the practice field. Veterans such as junior defensive back Jalen Mills and junior linebacker Kwon Alexander have brought an intensity to practice that was missing early in the year, which has made a difference.

“Those guys are always pumped up, so whenever you’re down at practice, you know they can pretty much get you pumped up all day,” said sophomore defensive back Tre’Davious White.

Louis said both Mills and Alexander will come out of nowhere and start yelling to get the defense pumped up, and they respond with hard-hitting plays.

The increase of energy and friendship during practice has led to improved confidence and chemistry during games. “[Junior defensive end] Danielle Hunter said something that really caught my attention two or three games ago,” Louis said. “We were in our stadium, and he was like ‘Y’all hear that?’ It was the crowd hollering, and he was like ‘That’s our energy.’ I took that to heart and every time I see him and every time the crowd is loud I look at him and nod our heads that that’s our energy.”

The Tigers’ defense has become a band of brothers, and that has made all of the difference during a season that was seemingly ruined a month ago.

“We’re just gathering around each other, rallying around each other and just clowning,” said senior safety Ronald Martin. “We’ll clown with each other before we hit the field, tell a few jokes. Then when we hit the field it’s time to work. Just making it more of a fun atmosphere.”

You can reach Jack Chascin on Twitter @Chascin_TDR.

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LSU senior offensive tackle La’el Collins (70) gets in the face of Alabama senior linebacker Xzavier Dickson (47) on Nov. 8 during the Tigers’ 20-13 loss against the Crimson Tide in Tiger Stadium.

collins, from page 5 from his coaches and takes their praises and criticisms to heart.

“I definitely appreciate that because coaches see how hard you work and the time and effort you put into different things,” Collins said. “Them being able to see the way you’ve progressed because of the hard work you’ve done and compliment you for it, it definitely feels good.”

Collins’ dedication to LSU and improvement has not gone unnoticed by his teammates, either.

Sophomore quarterback Anthony Jennings said Collins’ leadership and experience have been invaluable for LSU’s young offense.

“He’s one of the best leaders I’ve been around,” Jennings said. “Having him on the offensive line is a huge confidence boost for me. Knowing that

you have somebody like that, it’s a physical presence on the offensive line.”

Jennings said he has little doubt Collins’ accomplished his goal of improving his draft status this season, calling him one of the best offensive tackles in the nation.

Collins has received praise from his coaches and teammates, won All-SEC honors and already received invites for multiple senior bowls. It would seem he’s impressed everybody he can.

Well, everybody but himself.

“I have a mindset that everybody’s better than me,” Collins said. “I feel like I’m the underdog, so I continue to work hard and be the best player that I can be and let everything else sort itself out.”

You can reach Tyler Nunez on Twitter @Nunez_TDR.

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page 8 simmons, from page 5 Junior guards Josh Gray and Keith Hornsby will probably stay, and if Jones can keep two of his three best post players, LSU can be special.

The first comparison one might have is when Glenn Davis came to LSU in 2004, but this is a different situation. Since the “oneand-done” rule was introduced, freshman prodigies have become the sport’s greatest resource. Simmons is the first one to choose the Tigers.

He will almost certainly be leaving after one season, and it’s something fans will just have to get used to. NBA money is too good to turn down, and playing against the most elite players in the world beats dead week.

It’s understandable if one doesn’t want to believe in bold declarations yet. Johnny O’Bryant III was a McDonald’s All-American in high school but never seemed to put it together in college. Then again, nobody ever projected O’Bryant to be a top-5 NBA draft pick before he even enrolled at LSU. So get familiar with the LSU basketball team if you haven’t already, fellow students.

The best athlete in school could be playing in the PMAC instead of Tiger Stadium next season, and watching him is an opportunity no one should miss.

Tommy Romanach is a 22-year-old mass communication senior from Dallas, Texas. You can reach him on Twitter @troman_92.

The Daily Reveille signing day, from page 5 “probably the No. 1 recruit” in the nation. The Cincinnati, Ohio, native is a senior international elite gymnast and participated with the U.S. National team in 2012.

Cannamela and Szafranski round out the Tigers’ class as level 10 gymnasts with Junior Olympic Nationals experience.

Volleyball adds two players to 2015 class The LSU volleyball team signed middle blocker Olivia Beyer and outside hitter Katie Kampen to its 2015 class Wednesday afternoon.

Beyer recorded more than 1,000 kills and 200 blocks during her time at Plymouth High School in Canton, Michigan. The 6-foot-1 prospect also won the 2013 AAU National Championship with the Legacy Volleyball Club.

Kampen, who hails from Metairie, Louisiana, earned Louisiana Gatorade Player of the Year recog-

Thursday, November 13, 2014 nition during her junior season.

“While this class may be small in number, it is large in talent,” said LSU volleyball coach Fran Flory in a news release. “We are very excited to have both Olivia and Katie join our LSU volleyball family. This will be a special class for our program.”

Women’s golf signs secondgeneration golfer Kathleen Gallagher and Marina Hedlund signed their National Letters of Intent to join the LSU women’s golf team for the 2015-16 season.

Kathleen’s mother, Cissye Meeks Gallagher, competed for the Lady Tigers from 1985-88 under current coach Karen Bahnsen. Her father, Jim, won five PGA Tour titles throughout his career.

The Greenwood, Mississippi, native won the Mississippi State Amateur Championship in 2013.

Hedlund, a member of the Swedish National team, placed

second and third at the last two Irish Girls U18 Championships, respectively. She also finished eighth in the 2013 French Ladies Championship.

SOFTBALL GRABS SIX RECRUITS The LSU softball team got the biggest haul on Wednesday, inking half a dozen prospects for its 2016 class.

The Tigers inked infielder Shemiah Sanchez, pitcher Sydney Smith, shortstop Amber Serrett, infielder Elyse Thornhill, left fielder Akiyah Thymes and infielder Taylor Satchell.

“We couldn’t be more excited about this class, as not only are we signing six outstanding athletes that will continue to grow the rich tradition of this program, but outstanding people who we will be proud to have wear the purple and gold,” said LSU coach Beth Torina in a news release.

You can reach Marcus Rodrigue on Twitter @rodrigue_TDR.

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BR studio to go local for next film

BY Logan keen lkeen@lsureveille.com

colors and fabrics he should look for to match the occasion, he said. For instance, there are certain patterns and color schemes that are appropriate to wear on a cruise but not necessarily at a wedding, Martinez explained.

Therefore, when he takes on a new client, Martinez has an informal interview process during which he gets to know the personality and needs of the client.

Upload Films, a film production and post-production company with numerous credits to its name, plans on bringing something entirely new to Louisiana, as it has several times in the past.

With offices in both Hong Kong and California, and a subsequently expanding global market, the Baton Rouge sector of Upload Films will be making its own film, entitled “Showing Roots,” in Baton Rouge from Dec. 1-20. The film is expected to be released sometime next year.

“Showing Roots,” though under wraps for the most part as it undergoes pre-production, is generating a reasonable amount of hype for a film from a relatively new and smaller studio.

This is partly due to the fact that it is the studio’s first full-production feature film.

Williams couldn’t say much about the specific nature of the film, but said the story hits close to home, and it would be something that makes a lot of people in the area feel the same way.

“It’s a story that, right when I saw it, I knew it was something I’d always wanted to make but just couldn’t quite put my finger on it,” said local Upload Films producer Todd Williams.

Almost exclusively known for its work assisting other

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[Above] Martinez Custom Clothier displays accessories. [Right] Owner Manuel Martinez displays products at his shop, located at 7280 Corporate Blvd. on Monday.

Suit up Local clothier uses personality as ingredient for design

BY Michael tarver mtarver@lsureveille.com For Manuel Martinez, clothes are more than just drapes of fabric designed to cloak the body — they are instruments of human nature that should be taken seriously and respected.

Growing up in Mexico, Martinez, like his father and grandfather, didn’t visit the nearby Sears or Dillards to buy a ready-made suit. They went to the local tailor to

make each stitch and seam individualized for their bodies.

The idea of “one size fits all” clothes was foreign to them.

When Martinez opened his own store, Martinez Custom Clothier, he brought this ideology to his work and eventually his clients. His clientele has included former LSU football coach and current Alabama coach Nick Saban and famed American lawyer Johnnie Cochran Jr, known for his role of leadership in the defense and acquittal of O.J. Simpson.

Though he has no problem acquiring new clients, Martinez said he has recognized a lack of appreciation from the average male shopper for custom-fit clothes. But this may not be the fault of either party in the shopping experience, he said.

Martinez said part of the problem in today’s clothing industry is a lack of education on both the part of the consumer and salesperson.

Often, a man will buy a new suit and not realize what

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LSU Museum of Art to open ‘Dwelling’ exhibit Saturday Louisiana artists bring past into present BY joshua jackson jjackson@lsureveille.com Louisiana has a complicated relationship with its plantation past. To bring a bit of the past into the present, the LSU Museum of Art presents “Dwelling,” an installation based on the state’s homestead affair.

Earlier this year, the Museum of Art held the Love Local Art contest. It encouraged local artists to create an installation as a part of Prospect New Orleans, the largest biennial exhibition of contemporary art in America. The museum received submissions of ideas for photographs, found objects, paintings and other

art media.

The museum used Kickstarter to fund the creation of the winner’s work. Of the $2,000 raised, half went to the winner as a prize and the other half toward materials for the installation.

Contest winner and “Dwelling” creator Silas Breaux traveled back to the home of his late great-grandfather in Thibodaux, Louisiana. The Melodia Plantation — now abandoned and dilapidated — served as the inspiration for Breaux’s installation. He took photographs of his greatgrandfather’s home and printed on Japanese rice paper and coated with a thick wax to create texture and replicate the condition of the plantation on a small scale.

“Dwelling” is Breaux’s first attempt at a three-

dimensional sculpture piece.

He wanted to create a piece that showed Louisiana’s present is heavily influenced by its past.

Museum of Art curator Katie Pfohl said she was initially skeptical of taking a chance on featuring an unknown artist in the museum. After hearing Breaux’s idea and viewing the pieces, she is confident “Dwelling” will stir up a necessary conversation.

“Our society is somewhat haunted by the events of the people before us,” Pfohl said.

“We try to forget a part of us that shapes our society.”

The exhibit will sit in the museum’s grand entrance in an unconventional way.

Instead of the normal gallery setup where pieces flow

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Local artist Silas Breaux works on his new installation, ‘Dwelling, ‘ on Wednesday at the LSU Museum of Art.

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‘Cadillactica’ a cohesive musical experience jackson square joshua jackson Entertainment Writer Take the aggressiveness of Underground Kingz, include the lyricism of Outkast and throw in a bit of a country touch, and you have Big K.R.I.T. The King Remembered in Time has held a solid following during the early years of his career, but with his sophomore effort, “Cadillactica,” K.R.I.T. begins to live up to his name.

The album’s intro, “Kreation,” has clear inspiration from the slow pace of Texas rap with an underlying layer of metaphors that are rarely found in mainstream radio.

Following the intro is “Life,” which sets the tone of “Cadillactica,” a concept album about a planet far from Earth. A place where K.R.I.T.’s mind comfortably rests instead of trying to escape and become something he’s not.

The album then transitions into a series of heavy hitters, including the title track and the third installment of the “My Sub” series.

There is a massive amount of bass utilized on the album, but it’s used in good taste through the deluxe edition of the record’s 17 tracks. Even some blues elements find their way onto Big K.R.I.T.’s sophomore effort in “Standby.”

It takes a few listens to get past the well-crafted instrumentals K.R.I.T has produced and

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truly listen to the lyrics. Once that layer is uncovered, “Cadillactica” can be appreciated for is cohesive musical experience.

In one of the most controversial songs of the year, “Mt. Olympus” calls out K.R.I.T.’s doubters who have only started listening to him after being called out by Kendrick Lamar on “Control.” He clearly states he’s been around for years, but people have been too occupied listening to mainstream rap to hear him or other conscious Southern artists, such as Jay Electronica.

Confidence radiates through “Cadillactica,” and rightfully so.

Instead of the limited potential heard on his first album, “Live from the Underground,” listeners get a full dosage of one of Mississippi’s top hip-hop artists.

He has stayed true to his South-

ern roots as opposed to straying from them, and with that comes a price.

By releasing an album so innovative for today’s culture, K.R.I.T. may push himself further away from the mainstream, but album sales now dictate popularity instead of talent. There are no radio hits on “Cadillactica” forcing listeners to find more than a catchy beat and actually connect with the music.

In a world full of songs about money, cars and other tangible possessions, Big K.R.I.T. has created an album the industry has long forgotten about. Although it may not receive the award nominations it deserves because of its lack of popularity, the daunting challenge of creating an album more complete than “Cadillactica” should reinvigorate hip-hop.

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Thursday, November 13, 2014 MARTINEZ, from page 9 “When I meet a client, I sit down with them and just try to find out what is it they do, their lifestyle [and] what they want to dress for,” Martinez said. “That’s what’s important about making or designing something for the individual.”

Then Martinez can match the client’s personality to a specific set of colors, patterns and fabrics best suited for him. He also has a book providing examples of various complexions and hair colors, corresponding to a list of colors that would look best on an individual.

Martinez said he encourages his clients to develop their own approach to fashion and set the trends, rather than follow the masses. In this way, custom clothing offers more opportunities to be distinctive.

“The beauty of having your clothes made is to help you define your own style,” Martinez

ROOTS, from page 9 companies with the use of its post-production facilities on Brookline Avenue, this marks the first time Upload Films will produce their own feature film, from shooting to sound to promotion.

“We’ll be contracting certain services out that we wouldn’t be able to provide otherwise, like professional casting directors and that sort of thing,” Williams said.

Williams, committed to showcasing fresh faces and upcoming talent in the industry, has an extensive background in producing films, some of which have appeared as full features and others that are still on television. Under his guidance, Upload Films has done production work for films like Quentin Tarantino’s “Man with the Iron Fists” and Oscar-winner Martin McDonagh’s “Seven Psychopaths.” “‘Showing Roots’ is a big thing for us,” Williams said. “It’s something we’ve really looked forward to doing for some time.”

In addition to Louisiana’s well-known tax incentives given to both local and foreign filmmakers who choose to shoot in the area, Louisiana has been said by several local filmmakers to have a sort of ethereal quality about it that makes for great storytelling.

“Not only have there been great stories made here in Louisiana, but we feel like there’s still a lot more the state has to offer as well,” Williams said.

“It’s a great place to make films and a lot of people are starting to see that.”

Résumés are still being accepted by the company, and they acknowledge the effect local hirings will have on the community.

“We know the movie has a good chance to turn out well, because there’s just a lot of great, great people in the film industry,” Williams said. “We’re really starting to live up to that ‘Hollywood South’ nickname.”

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page 11 planning the next local artist exhibition through Kickstartfrom one to another, the er. Usually, museums plan installations are placed all their exhibits one to three around the entryway, includ- years in advance but “Dwelling above ing” was the exit sign created in and protrudless than two ing from the months with walls.

Pfohl When: Saturday, Nov. 15 at a minimal characterizes budget. this exhibit as 4 p.m.

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T Bird and the Breaks to return to Baton Rouge Austin-based band to perform at Chelsea’s BY meg ryan mryan@lsureveille.com Austin, Texas, is a city known for its art scene with music overflowing from every club door and garage studio. “[Austin has a] good music scene where I thought I could make some moves,” Tim “T Bird” Crane said.

Crane moved to Austin six years ago with the idea of forming a band. He spent time going out to clubs and searching online to find the right musicians for his band. In 2007, Crane made his dream a reality and formed the band T Bird and the Breaks.

Crane said out of the eight band members, about half of them are original members.

“It’s not hard to meet

musicians in a town like Austin,” Crane said.

The band produces a sound that can only be described as a “soul-funk collective with a fondness for hip-hop beats.”

T Bird and the Breaks credits Sly and the Family Stone, James Brown and Philly Soul Band as influences. The band’s sound is influenced by the ’60s and ’70s funk and soul eras. Crane’s lyrics are inspired by Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell.

Along with the ’60s and ’70s aspect, T Bird and the Breaks uses hip-hop groups like WuTang Clan and A Tribe Called Quest as another element to add to its sound.

As an eight piece band, T Bird and the Breaks can produce a show that includes a multitude of singers and a booming instrumental section.

Armed with a combina-

tion of vocals, vox, keys, percussion, guitar, drums, bass, saxophone and trombone the band brings a new rhythm to traditional funk and soul music. Crane said T Bird and the Breaks plays a show with a lot of horns and rhythm.

The band will return to the stage in Baton Rouge when it performs at Chelsea’s Cafe on Nov. 14 at 10 p.m. Crane said the band has performed at Chelsea’s before and enjoys coming back because of the cafe’s atmosphere.

The band will release a new album, “HARMONIZM,” in January 2015 and will perform some of its new tracks on Friday.

Crane said the record stays true to the band’s distinct sound with the big band and funk influences. While the band will be performing new tracks, he said, it also plans to play fan favorites.

For Crane, performing for college students allows for a fun crowd because of the high energy they bring to a set.

He said college students love to dance, and T Bird and the Breaks can produce exactly that with its combination of genres. “[After] hitting the books all week, it’s a way to blow off some steam,” Crane said.

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T Bird and the Breaks will return to Baton Rouge to perform at Chelsea’s Cafe on Nov. 14 at 10 p.m.

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When I met with a counselor from my senior college earlier this week and she asked me why I made the appointment, I was embarrassed to admit I made a mess of things, academically.

The fact that I made it to my junior year of college without ever seeing her before is a clue to how well I’m doing. But she laughed and told me that she sees students every day who have made mistakes along the way.

Her laughter put me at ease, but knowing other University students have made mistakes didn’t help.

This semester alone, I have faced financial struggles, been in my first car accident and missed an important exam in a class I will now barely pass.

Each mistake came with an initial feeling of being punched in the gut, accompanied with the knowledge that there was something I could have done to prevent it.

But as with the grieving process, the process of fixing a mistake begins with denial.

When I got a D on an exam, I directed my anger toward the professor. I complained to my friends that I had been unfairly graded, but the truth was I didn’t attend class.

The low grade was a result of not sleeping the night before because I had to cram four weeks of notes into my stressed brain. Denying responsibility allowed me to deny that I had made a mistake.

It also allowed me to keep making those same mistakes.

The second stage of fixing a mistake is anger. Once I admitted to myself my exam grade was more telling of my poor attendance habits than having a poor professor, I became angry with myself for developing those bad habits.

I allowed myself to prioritize work over class, leading to that bad grade.

I’m angry with myself for going from an honor roll student in high school to one who gives professors the feeling I couldn’t care less about my education. I also got angry that I didn’t hold myself accountable for my actions.

Next came the most crucial step of fixing the mess I made: I accepted responsibility, but I had to be honest with myself.

I’m not a self-motivated student anymore. My roommate’s parents are heavily involved in her academic life. My mother isn’t, but mostly because in the past she never had to be. I didn’t need a potential grounding to make me study. Now I find myself struggling with self-accountability.

So I’ve taken on a few accountability partners.

These are people with whom I’ve been completely honest about my situation and asked them for encouragement — and occasionally a stern lecture — to keep me on track. While we aren’t children who need parents to look over our shoulders, college is a stressful time, and it’s important now for us to have a solid support system.

The final stage of fixing these mistakes was to accept the fact that while I’m working each day to do better, I will no doubt fail again.

We’re human, and we shouldn’t try to be anything other than that.

But the difference between a failure and a mistake is whether we learn from it.

College is stressful and every mistake has the potential to make you feel like your life is over. But taking each day, task or mistake one at a time will help you to keep breathing. Because even though seeing a projected final grade of an F feels like a monumental failure, I’ve scheduled a winter intersession class and won’t lose any of my financial aid.

I’ve worked through my mistake, and at the risk of sounding cliche, I’m going to be better for it.

Jana King is a 20-year-old communication studies junior from Ponchatoula, Louisiana.

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Oprah’s ‘Favorite Things’ list is too pricey, out-of-touch Oprah doesn’t appeal to the deomgraphic of her audience our lady of angst Sidneyrose reynen Columnist If you pay close attention to your surroundings, you’ll notice a few changes. Peppermint mochas have replaced pumpkin spice lattes. Crazy suburbanite women everywhere are having aneurysms just looking at Macy’s advertisements.

These signs can only mean one thing — it’s Christmas season.

Oprah Winfrey, perfect human and supreme leader of all things jolly, released her annual “Favorite Things” list just in time for Christmas shopping. Some of this year’s “Favorite Things” aren’t out of the ordinary — a nail polish set, a sweater and even a copy of her own book made the list.

What is out of the ordinary is how much this list will run you.

If you were to buy every item on the list, it would cost $13,054. While the list is fairly long (there are 77 “Favorite Things”) most of the entries have price tags that will make the average American shopper gasp.

The first item on the list is one of the priciest. Oprah recommends a pair of golden Beats headphones with their equally overpriced companion, the

gold Pill speaker. This duo is a whopping $700. Hmm, should I save up to buy textbooks for next semester or buy headphones and speakers that audiophiles say have “extraordinarily bad” audio quality?

One of the more ridiculous recommendations on Oprah’s list is a loaf of bread (insert joke about the double meaning of the word “dough” here). The Eli Zabar Happy Holiday Loaf costs $150, weighs 15 pounds, and measures 2 feet around.

Sorry, but I’ll just stick to my $2 loaf of Bunny bread.

It’s lists like these, which often come around Christmas time, that show just how out of touch the media is with reality.

According to the Catalyst Knowledge Center, the median annual income of fulltime working women was only $37,791 in 2012. And even though many married women share incomes with their higher-earning husbands, I highly doubt the average American woman will spend over one-third of her yearly income on all 77 of Oprah’s favorite things.

I used to read quite a few women’s magazines before coming to college. When I was younger, I’d read Seventeen magazine and dream of the day I’d become an independent working woman who could buy all of the crap they were being paid to peddle. Once I graduated to other magazines like Glamour and Allure, I was older, wiser, and aware that spending nearly $100 on one cosmetic item was not going to be something I’d be able to do in this economy.

I understand many Oprah fans will simply glance over this list and maybe jot down an item or two to consider buying for Christmas. Although it certainly seems like she has the power to do so, Oprah isn’t mandating everyone purchase all 77 items.

Earlier this year, New York Magazine published a listicle called, “White Album,” in which they named the best women’s white T-shirts. One of their top picks was a $250 Escada T-shirt, the price of which made my eyes bulge out of my skull.

They do, however, include a basic pack of Hanes T-shirts on their list — which range at about $8 for a pack of two — but they give it the snarkiest review I’ve ever seen. I really didn’t think a white T-shirt could warrant such a meanspirited evaluation , but I guess rich people are looking for that kind of stuff in New York Magazine.

Because I work at The Daily Reveille, I realize that my target audience is college kids.

The demographic that Oprah panders to, however, is the average middle-class American woman.

And just like I would never advise a broke LSU student to bring red wine to a keg party in Tigerland, Oprah shouldn’t be peddling $700 headphones to her middle-class fans.

SidneyRose Reynen is a 19-year-old film and media arts sophomore from New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Millennials should recognize the high cost of city lifestyle Small towns prove ideal for recent college grads blue collar scholar justin stafford Columnist Sitting at my usual spot near CC’s in Middleton Library, I overheard a peculiar conversation between two female students sitting close by.

One of them said she would love to live in New York because it beats “this place.” The other then asked her why she would want to live somewhere with a mortgage she couldn’t afford or an overpriced apartment.

Conversations like this are becoming ones I hear more and more often. What is it that has our generation so ready to pack their suitcases

and venture off to the land of billboards, bright lights and big prices?

Brookings Institution demographer William H. Frey said, “At this point, the prognosis does not look good for much of small-town America.”

Millennials are stuffing their cars with their clothes, Macbook and likely a latte and heading down the highway to some of the largest and most expensive cities in the U.S. The hottest spot for these youngsters is in the D.C. suburb of Arlington, Va., according to a study by Realtytrac, a real estate information company. In the last six years, the number of millennials in Arlington has risen by 82 percent.

This might seem all hunkydory until you consider the current state of the economy and the fact the median sales price of a home in Arlington

is $557,250, and the cheapest one-bedroom apartment there will run a person about $1,200 a month according to Zillow.

At this point, it would be a wise decision for those millennial city mice to cut back on pricey CC’s brew and settle for Circle K coffee.

Robert Lang, a professor of urban growth and population dynamics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas said millennials continue a multigenerational pattern of young adults preferring more expensive urban areas over cheaper rural ones because of the lifestyle in such places makes it worth the extra cost.

The “lifestyle” my generation is craving seems to be one of imitation and pretend.

It’s a facade. It’s kind of like when that one aunt shows up in pearls to Thanksgiving dinner all dolled up and sipping wine as she casually brags on herself over a serving of yams.

The American Planning Association is prompting small town planners to create city-like atmosphere by creating density, which means keeping the cramped neighborhoods and shopping centers in one part of town because that’s what millennials like.

It’d be like a bigger Northgate area in the middle of the sticks.

These “cities,” or millennial corrals, are apparently what the sleepy American towns need to do to draw in this demographic.

Let’s face it, millennials are all primarily well educated and work ready and generate a some positive things. By flocking to a single location, the population boom has economical benefits like increasing property value and home prices.

Contrary to what some of my generation may think, there

are rewarding careers in smaller towns and lower costs of living. You’d imagine this would appeal to anyone drowning in student loan debt.

I suppose the best bet for a small town with a shrinking population is to throw up a few internet cafés, more traffic lights and get its current occupants to start sporting Armani suits and carrying a briefcase.

I don’t understand what about traffic and lack of elbow room draw my generation to large cities with such urgency.

Perhaps it is the notion that success lives in these places.

Whatever the cause may be, I’ll stick with my wide-open spaces and banjo tunes.

Justin Stafford is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from Walker, Louisiana. You can reach him on Twitter @j_w_stafford.

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University Block and Bridle Club to host annual rodeo

BY Gerald Ducote gducote@lsureveille.com Louisiana has long been known as a hub of agriculture.

The state’s focus on crops like rice and sugarcane, coupled with livestock, has made it an ideal region to study the science and history of the field hand way of living.

With an extensive history of farming comes the development of different clubs and societies devoted to the education in and tradition of agricultural practices. Future Farmers of America and 4-H are the most prominent examples of organizations targeted toward young people wanting to learn about agriculture as well its applications.

One of these many groups found at the University is the Block and Bridle Club, which has been an educational aid to many students of the College of Agriculture.

The club’s largest event, an annual rodeo at the John M. Parker Agricultural Coliseum, returns to campus on Nov. 14.

Rodeo manager Ashely Allemand sees the rodeo as an occasion for students and the general public to enjoy the more recreational aspects of farming. A member of Block and Bridle Club since enrolling at the University, Allemand cites the rodeo as a major funding opportunity for the club’s service initiatives.

“It benefits our club,” Allemand said. “The funds we raise at the rodeo go on to help us go to national convention and [pay

for] our banquet. We also benefit Brave Heart Children In Need, which is our charity which we give a portion of our funds to.”

The Block and Bridle Club, though open to all majors, is sourced out of the College of Agriculture, with its membership containing mostly animal sciences students.

For members like Allemand, an animal sciences junior, the club’s on-campus presence means making connections in both the college and the surrounding animal science community.

“We go to national convention, and there’s a lot of networking,” Allemand said. “We get to work with national corporations that are in agriculture.”

Allemand sees the club’s annual rodeo as a way to get community members back to their roots, literally. In a state once heavily shaped by its agriculture industries, Allemand said the University is

losing real focus on the business of agronomy.

In comparison to the Block and Bridle Club, the shift of other clubs away from agriculture becomes even more apparent. Louisiana 4-H, which originated as the Corn Club in Avoyelles Parish, has evolved in the last few decades to encompass interests outside of farming, including modern technology, fashion and fitness.

“If you come to our meetings … you’ll see that all of the stuff that we focus on is really ag-related,” Allemand said. “We do a lot of petting zoos and stuff like that for the general public.

I think the rodeo shows others … what the ag department still has to offer.”

Friday is the rodeo’s student night and will feature bull and bronc riding, roping and barrel races for the public, with competition entry fees ranging from $10 to $40. The club will also offer activities for less-ex-

Block and Bridle at LSU 77th Annual Rodeo General Admission: $8

Student Admission: $5

Student Rodeo Friday November 14 7:00 p.m.

Event participation prices range from $10 to $40

Open Rodeo Saturday November 15 7:00 p.m.

Event participation prices range from $45 to $90

perienced students, including a goat chase and live cow milking.

Winners of the events on student night will receive prize buckles from the club.

“We also have some fun events that don’t really require any rodeo experience,” Allemand said. “We really want our students to come and enter. The entry fees are really affordable.

We have all the materials they need supplied for them.”

Saturday’s rodeo is presented as an open rodeo to the public. Since the rodeo’s events will be more competitive, and therefore more intense, the competition entry fees are marked up for competitors, with riding events costing $75 and roping events at $45.

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