Higher ed: Jindal proposes amendment to fund TOPS, p. 3
City life: Downtown area named national historic district, p. 4
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RESLIFE
Campus housing standby list grows Emily Herrington Contributing Writer
time trial Saturday morning in the men’s B division, and Percy placed eighth in the men’s A division in the criterium race. Riders met at the Memorial Tower and prepared to make their way through campus. Elliot Minick, a member of the University of North Texas Cycling Club, said he was excited to be racing at LSU. Minick said when other schools host races, the courses are set up in small areas on or near their
Some students hoping to live in residence halls next semester are uncertain about the status of their living situations, as the undergraduate on-campus housing standby list implemented March 5 continues to expand. As of Friday afternoon, 222 students are on the standby list — 117 female and 105 male, said Jay High, Residential Life communications manager. The list has continued to grow, as there were only 82 students on it as of March 10, Renee Snider, ResLife associate director of operations, said in an e-mail. Students on the standby list will be placed into rooms as cancellations are made throughout the summer, High said. ResLife has no way of knowing the number of additional applications or cancellations it will receive, but High said based on last year he does not expect to be able to find housing for everyone on the list. High said ResLife will accept applications throughout the summer and continue making room assignments even after classes begin.
RACES, see page 6
STANDBY, see page 6
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Pedal for the Medal
Various college cycling teams race along a course winding through LSU’s campus Saturday afternoon. LSU Cycling hosted a total of three races during the weekend.
LSU Cycling Club hosts collegiate cycling teams for races on campus, in Baton Rouge Rachel Warren Staff Writer
Racers line up at the starting line, adrenaline pumping through their veins. Next to the group, there’s a pit stocked with spare tires and volunteers, waiting for any sign of a crash. A crowd gathers at the checkered flag, anticipating the announcer’s magic word— “Go.” This isn’t NASCAR. It’s collegiate cycling. The LSU Cycling Club hosted races Saturday and Sunday on
campus and in the Baton Rouge area for members of the South Central Collegiate Cycling Conference. Dustin Drewes, kinesiology junior and race director, said it was the first cycling event held at the University in more than 10 years. Drewes said racers were divided into groups according to skill levels, from the men’s and women’s A, the most skilled, to Men’s D — the least skilled. Brennan Percy, philosophy and religious studies senior, was the only LSU Cycling member to race in the Men’s A division.
Percy said LSU Cycling hosted three races total during the weekend. He said the first was a team time trial, in which individual riders raced against the clock. The second was the criterium, which is usually a short race on a flat course. The criterium was the race held on campus. The last race, a road race, was held Sunday in St. Francisville. The distances in Sunday’s road race varied from 79.3 miles for the men’s A division to 35.9 miles for the men’s D division. Drewes placed first in the team
STUDENT LIFE
Students pack Parade Ground tent for silent dance party Sydni Dunn Staff Writer
Nearly 450 University students packed into a tent Friday night on the Parade Ground, bouncing to the rhythm of electronic beats and bass lines as flashing colored lights twirled around them. But it was completely silent. The event, which was sponsored by the Student Activities Board, was a “silent disco,” a dance party where live music can only be heard by guests through wireless headphones.
Randall Head, SAB music committee chair and mass communication sophomore, said instead of blasting music through a speaker system, sounds are broadcast via an FM-transmitter and the signal is picked up by wireless headphone receivers provided to the participants. Without the headphones, the only sound that can be heard is the faint rumble of bass and the laughter of participants, making the event a unique and comical sight. “It’s interesting to watch everyone flailing around,” laughed
Dylan Purvis, art freshman. “It’s entertaining.” Purvis, along with several of his friends, stayed around the outside rim of the tent, dancing and hula-hooping with light-up, flashing hoops to the beat. “It’s funny to think about whether the people around you are listening to the same music,” said Taylor Simon, philosophy and economics freshman. “It’s fun without the volume.” Head said the idea for the silent disco came from DISCO, see page 6
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Mass communication freshman Nick Lutz (left) and sociology freshman Allen Hunt (right) dance Friday during LSU’s Silent Disco. Participants wore wireless headphones.