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With the Flow
‘I want all PHILANTHROPY the planning ... out of the way so we can just really enjoy the trip.’
David Bonnoitt • LSU senior
‘We’re so encouraged by the support we’ve had from our friends.’ Max Zoghbi • LSU senior
‘I’m most excited about a chance to share our faith nationwide.’
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Business administration senior Max Zoghbi kayaks on the LSU Lakes on March 16. Zoghbi plans to kayak the Mississippi River.
2 LSU, 2 Ole Miss students to kayak Miss. River to raise money Catherine Threlkeld Contributing Writer
Sixty days, 2,300 miles and a whole lot of paddling. That’s what awaits two LSU students — business administration senior Max Zoghbi and finance senior David Bonnoitt — and two University of Mississippi students — real estate senior Rob Treppendahl and religion and history senior Bowman Hitchens. Their plan, dubbed “A Wake in the Current,” is to kayak the entire length of the Mississippi River in
less than two months this summer. From the river’s origin in Lake Itasca, Minn., the quartet will set their oars into the water on June 21, hoping to reach Jackson Square in New Orleans less than 60 days later. Camping on riverbanks and traveling 10 to 16 miles per day, the group’s goal is to raise money for two ministries, the Gardere Christian Community School in Baton Rouge and Interfaith Compassion Ministry in Oxford, Miss. “Gardere Community Christian School gives kids from
low-income backgrounds or children at risk a top-notch education for little to nothing,” Zoghbi said. “The parents of these kids pay $30 a month, but it costs about $7,500 to sponsor them.” Zoghbi said they hope to raise $50,000 to sponsor seven or eight kids for a year at the school. Nancy Zito, director of Gardere Community Christian School, said she was stunned when the students first contacted her. “I’m a little older, and they’re KAYAK, see page 15
Rob Treppendahl • Ole Miss senior
‘I wanted to do something huge to help homeless in Oxford.’ Bowman Hitchens • Ole Miss senior photos courtesy of MAX ZOGHBI
Bogie’s to host Japan relief event tonight Celeste Ansley Staff Writer
Bogie’s Bar will host “Bogie’s Japan Relief Palooza” tonight to benefit relief efforts in Japan. The $5 cover charge for the event, one bartender’s tips and a few hundred dollars from the bar’s owner will be donated to undecided disaster relief organizations, said Shota Kamo, Bogie’s bartender and University alumnus. Kamo said his parents emigrated from Japan, and he still has relatives and friends living in Tokyo. The bar will offer $1 call drinks from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., $2.50 Coors Light and Miller Lite from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. and may extend drink specials to include $1 Kamikaze shots, Kamo said. The benefit is a last-minute event organized about a week ago, Kamo said. Kamo said he decided to donate his tips after Aaron Saulnier, Bogie’s owner, decided to make a donation. “If the owner is donating that much money, I need to, too,” Kamo said. BENEFIT, see page 15
STUDY
Millennials value effective parenting over successful marriages Young adults open to alternative families Brian Sibille Contributing Writer
The Millennial Generation, or Generation Y, values effective parenting over a successful marriage even more than past generations, a March 9 study by the Pew Research Center said. The study showed 52 percent of Millennials polled — those aged 18-29 in 2010 — thought being a good parent was of utmost
The March study also said 36 importance in life, while 30 perpercent of Millennicent thought als are parents, but the same of only 22 percent of having a successful marthe generation is curriage. rently married. The 22 Craig Poche, percent differhistory junior, is part of the married Milence between lennial minority and parenting and disagrees with the marriage has increased since Heather Johnston Durham study’s findings. education graduate student He said indithe last time viduals may value the poll was conducted in 1997. The survey parenting more because of bad of Generation X indicated only 7 relationships with their own percent of Generation X valued FAMILIES, see page 15 parenting more than marriage.
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‘I think raising physically and emotionally healthy children trumps a lot of things.’
graphic by CAITLYN CONDON / The Daily Reveille