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The Thanksgiving holiday will begin earlier this year.
The University will close at 12:30 p.m. today for the holiday. Last year, the University was open the entire day on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving .
“[The new closing time] came from the students,” said Robert Doolos , University registrar. “It
was part of a package of recom-mendations that went through Stu-dent Government, Student Senate and Faculty Senate.”
Doolos said the recommenda-tions made changes to the Thanks-giving, Mardi Gras and spring break holidays.
Doolos said in order to meet the minimum requirement of class days this year, the resolution passed required the University calendar to have a half-day this Wednesday and a half-day on Ash Wednesday , the day after Mardi Gras, with classes starting at 12:30 p.m. and later.
“That was the only way we could make this work,” Doolos
said. Doolos said the decision to
move spring break to the week after Easter Sunday was more of a faculty initiative than a student initiative.
He said having spring break the week of Good Friday caused hardships for faculty with respect to daycare, since the East Baton Rouge Parish school system’s spring break started a week after the University’s spring break .
Doolos said the University will still close on Good Friday because it is a state holiday.
Students now havea new way to appeal violations of the University’s dead week period committed by pro-fessors.
Student Government created a form so students can appeal the transgressions.
“Doing something about dead week was one of Stuart and Mar-tina’s main initiatives as far as aca-demics go,” said SG Assistant Di-rector of Academics Krista Allen . “This is because at the end of every
semester the SG e-mail account is fl ooded with students complaining of dead week violations.”
Allen said she received more than 150 e-mails in a matter of hours last semester complaining about vio-lations.
“The biggest complaint is teach-ers are doing tests and projects dur-ing the period,” Allen said. “So in-stead of being able to settle down and study, students are having to complete major assignments right before fi nals week.”
HOME AWAY FROM HOMEAlexis Starr, mechanical engineering freshman,
said she’s decided to stay in her dorm, away from her family and friends in Alexandria, Va. , this Thanksgiving because travel expenses are not worth the short holiday.
“It’s weird,” Starr said. “It’d be the fi rst time I’d get to see them [since coming to the University], but it’s not terrible. I miss them, but I’m not going to die.”
Whether students are skipping Thanksgiving dinner with their families because of cost, time and studies or because they’ve never celebrated the holiday before, the University offers opportunities for students to receive a warm meal and a Thanksgiving experience.
Every year, the International Cultural Center and the International Hospitality Foundation organize a Thanks-giving meal for all students who don’t have Thanksgiving
Day plans.“Thanksgiving is a big holiday in the United States,
and many of our students won’t have a chance to go back home to see their families over Thanks-giving,” said Harold Leder , Academic Programs Abroad director. “We fi gured it’s a rather sad day for students if they
don’t have an invitation to go to Thanksgiving dinner, so why not do a Thanksgiving dinner for them.”
This is the tenth year the ICC and IHF have held the Thanksgiving meal, Leder said in an e-mail to The Daily Reveille . He said 160 students have RSVPed to come this year, which is the maximum number the ICC can have .
The Thanksgiving meal, provided by Piccadilly
University celebrates Thanksgiving despite being closed
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Zane Konvicka, accounting senior, right, grabs a piece of Cajun-fried turkey Tuesday during the Faculty Club’s annual Thanksgiving Buffet.
By Mary Walker BausStaff Writer
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University closing at 12:30 p.m.SG lets students appeal dead week violationsBy Xerxes A. WilsonStaff Writer
By Mary Walker BausStaff Writer
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Icebergs split from Antarctica, head to New Zealand
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A fl otilla of hundreds of icebergs that split off Antarctic ice shelves is drifting toward New Zealand and could pose a risk to ships in the south Pacifi c Ocean, offi cials said Tuesday. The near-est one was 160 miles southeast of New Zealand’s Stewart Island.
Iran’s leader gets backing in Bolivia during goodwill visist
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Iran’s pres-ident inaugurated an Iranian-funded hospital and two milk-processing plants Tuesday in a goodwill visit in which his leftist host defended Iran’s “peaceful” nuclear aspirations.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Bolivian President Evo Morales also signed an agreement in which Iran committed itself to help Bolivia in-vestigate industrializing lithium, the lightweight metal used in electric car and other batteries.
Obama to unveil plan to add troops in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON (AP) — War-weary Americans will support more fi ght-ing in Afghanistan once they under-stand the perils of losing, President Obama declared Tuesday, announc-ing he was ready to spell out war plans virtually sure to include tens of thousands more U.S. troops.
Eight years after the Sept. 11 at-tacks led the U.S. into Afghanistan, Obama said it is still in America’s vital national interest to “dismantle and destroy” al-Qaida terrorists and extremist allies. “I intend to fi nish the job,” he said.South Carolina governor’s lawyer: Impeachment standard not met
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s law-yer says the events surrounding the Republican’s June absence from the state to meet with an Argentine lover don’t warrant impeachment.
Attorney Ross Garber said
Tuesday impeachments are ex-tremely rare and only eight gov-ernors in the nation’s history have been removed from offi ce. Garber said the only two removed in the last 80 years had also been indicted on felony charges.
He says Sanford’s fi ve-day ab-sence does not meet the high stan-dard for impeachment.
Palin’s book tour stops in Florida town that feted her in 2008
THE VILLAGES, Fla. (AP) — Sarah Palin, who says the 2012 presidential election isn’t on her radar, took her “Going Rogue” book tour to the big-gest of the battleground states Tues-day, including a stop in the retirement community where tens of thousands of people gave her star treatment in the 2008 presidential election.
The crowd was far smaller than when she made a September 2008 campaign stop as Republican John McCain’s running mate, but no less passionate for the former Alaska governor.
Federal judge clears Perkins Rowe property foreclosure
(AP) — An Ohio bank is permitted to pursue its $165 million foreclo-sure action against developer Tommy Spinosa and his Perkins Rowe multi-use property in Baton Rouge federal court, U.S. District Judge James J. Brady ruled.
KeyBank National Association of Cleveland, sued Spinosa and his multiuse development in July, al-leging no payments on the debt had been received since October 2008.
Attorneys for Spinosa and Per-kins Rowe asked Brady to kick the case out of federal court, because KeyBank sold loan participations to eight other lenders. Spinosa’s attor-neys argued there could be no guar-antee the other banks would not fi le separate suits against Perkins Rowe.
Brady rejected that argument in a ruling he signed late last week.
“The loan agreement expressly contemplates that the loan would be parceled out to other lenders,” Brady wrote.
State Representative Juan LaFonta launches bid for Congress
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — State Rep. Juan LaFonta has formally launched his bid for the 2nd Con-gressional District seat now held by Anh “Joseph” Cao (GOW).
Cao is a Republican and the fi rst Vietnamese member of Con-gress. He defeated Rep. William Jefferson last year after Jefferson was indicted on corruption charges.
Former dean of Louisiana school for blind named interim director
(AP) — A former dean of students at the Louisiana School for the Vi-sually Impaired has been named interim director at the school.
The Louisiana Special School District announced Bobby Simp-son’s appointment Tuesday. He has been working as chief operations offi cer for a Realty company; be-fore that, he was mayor/president of East Baton Rouge Parish and mayor of Baker.
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Though Black Friday is no-torious for starting the Christmas spending season, another day may have consumers in Louisi-ana reaching for their wallets — Thanksgiving.
While an American Farm Bu-reau Federation survey indicates the price for a traditional Thanks-giving feast decreased since 2008, estimates suggest the national av-erage for preparing Thanksgiving dinner will be $42.91 — a price Jeanette Tucker, human ecology professor, said can sometimes be higher in Louisiana.
Tucker has been working with the AFBF for more than fi ve years to conduct the Louisiana portion of the survey.
“Typically, the cost of food in Louisiana — particularly in Baton Rouge — is less than the national average,” Tucker said. “[But] the market basket that we’re collecting data on is the traditional Thanksgiving dinner
and not the Louisiana Thanksgiv-ing dinner.”
Louisiana Thanksgiving din-ners are often more “bountiful” feasts, which Tucker said some-times includes gumbo and oyster-laden stuffi ng.
More than 200 shoppers in 30 states work with the AFBF to compile an informal survey of the prices of a traditional Thanksgiv-ing meal for 10 people, including a 16-pound turkey, three pounds of sweet potatoes, fresh cranber-ries and pumpkin pie mix, ac-cording Stefphanie Gambrell, domestic policy economist for the AFBF.
The national average cost for a 10-person meal is down from $44.61 in 2008, according to AF-BF’s Web site.
The 2009 national average is higher than the 2007 average, which saw one of the highest in-creases since the survey’s begin-ning. And the 2009 numbers mark the largest year-to-year price de-crease seen in this survey since before 2000, Gambrell said.
The stores surveyed in Loui-siana included national big-brand discount stores, national chains and independent grocers, Tucker said.
The total price is based on the lowest-priced Thanksgiving items, not including sale prices.
“Whenever our shoppers do the survey, we don’t have them use any coupon prices,” Gam-brell said. “There’s still a defi -nite possibility for prices to be even lower ... Whenever you’re preparing the meal yourself, you putting the labor into it just save a lot of money.”
Traditional Louisiana Thanks -giving feasts also includes pot-luck dinners which typically fea-ture each family member or at-tendee bringing a couple of dishes to Thanksgiving dinner, which Tucker said can also signifi cantly decrease the cost per person.
Before the turkey hits the table this Thanksgiving, about 600 people are expected to “trot” downtown for a good cause.
T h u r s d a y will mark the March of Dimes’ 23rd annual Tur-key Trot in Baton Rouge — a walk-ing and running event that raises money for prema-ture babies.
The Turkey Trot will start on 3rd Street at North Boulevard near the Old State Capitol. Registration begins at 6:30 a.m. for the 1-mile walk/run at 7:30 a.m. and the 5K walk/run at 8 a.m.
People can also register be-
forehand at marchofdimes.com/louisiana . Registration costs $22 before the event and $25 the day of the event.
“The Turkey Trot has grown throughout the years to include more local and out-of-town fami-lies that come in for Thanksgiv-ing,” said Stacey Parker , com-munity director for the Louisiana branch of March of Dimes. “Not
only is it a local race — we have people from all over the nation.”
Parker said the event typi-cally raises about $20,000 for March of Dimes.
The organiza-tion’s mission is “to improve the health of babies
by preventing birth defects, pre-mature birth and infant mortal-ity,” according to its Web site.
Parker said one in every eight babies in the U.S. is born prema-ture, and in Louisiana, one in ev-ery six babies is born premature.
Former President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the nation-al organization in 1938 . He called for Americans to donate their dimes and other spare change to help fi ght polio, a disease from which he suffered.
Since then, the group has evolved to help support prema-ture babies and their mothers.
Parker said the Turkey Trot has such a large turn out because people are interested in support-ing March of Dimes, and it’s easy
for them to do so because they are off school and work.
“We do it in enough time so everybody can get back home to enjoy their Thanksgiving lunch,” Parker said. “You can run off your turkey before you eat it.”
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CampusCrime Briefs
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Average Thanksgiving dinner cost decreases
Turkey Trot to be held on Thanksgiving
La. price could be higher than nation
Event to raise funds for March of Dimes
By Lindsey MeauxContributing Writer
By Kyle BoveSenior Staff Writer
Contact Kyle Bove at [email protected]
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graphic by J.J. ALCANTARA / The Daily Reveille
STUDENT CAUGHT WITH BAG OF GARDEN SUPPLIES
Offi cers patrolling East Campus Apartments at about 10 p.m . Nov. 22 arrested 20 -year-old student Kevin Shudes for misdemeanor theft of supplies from the University Gardens.
Shude s, of 3475 Claiborne St ., Sulfur , was stopped by cam-pus police after they saw him hide a garbage bag in the bushes outside ECA, according to Capt.
Russell Rogé , LSU Police D e p a r t m e n t spokesman.
W h e n q u e s t i o n e d , Shudes told offi cers he was a horticulture student look-ing for insects, Rogé said.
Rogé said offi cers dis-covered the garbage bag in
the bushes fi lled with peat moss, half a bag of fertilizer and as-sorted gardening tools. He said Shudes denied knowledge of the goods.
After LSUPD started inves-tigating the incident, Rogé said Shudes admitted to stealing the items. He was issued a misde-meanor summons and released.
HERGET RESIDENT CAUGHT WITH MARIJUANA
Alexander Roeling , an 18 -year-old student of 21 Spin-naker Lane, New Orleans, was arrested Nov. 18 at about 1:30 a.m. for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
Roeling was arrested after LSUPD searched his room and discovered a bag and pill bottle containing .14 grams of mari-juana and a modifi ed humidifi er used for smoking.
Roeling was issued a misde-meanor summons and released.
MAN FOUND WITH MARIJUA-NA, ANABOLIC STEROIDS
Jacob Lennox , a 23 -year-old man unaffi liated with the Uni-versity from 8825 Eagle Drive, Denham Springs , was arrested Nov. 19 at about 5:40 a.m. for possession of marijuana, drug paraphernalia and a Schedule III substance.
LSUPD found and ap-proached Lennox when he was in the Alaska Street parking lot by West Campus Apartments.
When asked to empty his pockets, offi cers found a glass pipe and a bag of marijuana, ac-cording to Rogé . They also dis-covered a bottle of Winstrol , an anabolic steroid, in his vehicle.
Lennox was later booked in East Baton Rouge Parish Pris-on.
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‘‘‘Not only is it a local race — we
have people from all over the nation.’
Stacey Parkercommunity director for the Lousiana
branch of March of Dimes
Katelyn O’Quinn strolls down the banks of the Seine chatting quietly with friends on a Sunday afternoon. She heads toward Paris’ bustling Jewish business district in Le Marais to visit the few open shops and bakeries in town. She stops on the way home to watch the famed street performers.
These are just a few experi-ences O’Quinn would like to re-live if she wins a contest for a free trip to Paris for New Year’s.
“I love the culture,” O’Quinn said. “I love the people. And I have some friends I’d love to visit.”
The Yves Saint Laurent Expe-rience Parisienne contest promotes the company’s new fragrance, Pa-risienne, and rewards the winner with round-trip airfare and three nights in a hotel for two.
O’Quinn is one of 10 fi nalists selected by “a panel of fashion and beauty experts” to compete for the
trip, according to the contest Web site. The contestant with the most votes by 11:59 p.m. on Monday will win.
O’Quinn, a 24-year-old French senior, said she entered the contest a few weeks ago on a whim at the suggestion of a long-time friend, who will accompany her to Paris if she wins. She was notifi ed by e-mail she was a fi nal-ist less than two weeks ago, she said.
“I thought it was a joke, so I just put something,” O’Quinn said. “I’m surprised I even typed something up.”
But O’Quinn started taking the contest more seriously when she became a fi nalist. She now has about 5,000 votes — more than any other contestant.
O’Quinn’s main competi-tor studies journalism at West-ern Washington University. As of Tuesday, “Leah S.” was trail-ing closely behind O’Quinn with 4,409 votes. All the other contes-tants have fewer than 800 votes.
The playground at Brusly El-ementary School in Brusly will get a major overhaul by the LSU Community Playground Proj-ect , and the University students’ design could be the winner of a $10,000 grant.
The new Brusly playground, designed by the Community Play-ground Project, is a national fi nal-ist for a grant from KaBOOM , a non-profi t organization dedicated to building playgrounds.
The Community Playground Project was founded in 1998 by Marybeth Lima , biological en-gineering professor, who wanted to develop a project for a fresh-man-level biological engineering
course with a real-world compo-nent.
Lima chose playgrounds and partnered with a local public school to design and build one. The idea took off, and Lima was inundated with requests for partner-ships, she said. More than 10 years later, the project is busi-er than ever.
“We part-ner with public schools in the Baton Rouge area and work with kids at the school to get them to develop their dream playground ideas,” Lima said. “My students take those ideas and translate them to an actual techni-cal design.”
The student designers are all biological engineering majors, and they keep biology in mind
during the design process.“Kids are little biological be-
ings, so you think about how you design an environment to meet their basic biological needs,”
Lima said.The students ap-
proach the design from a biological viewpoint, said Ni-cole Walker , bio-logical engineering senior and lead de-signer for the Brusly project.
“We’re thinking about how to get the
kids to think and be able to use their physical attributes to the best of their abilities,” Walker said.
Brusly Elementary assistant principle Sheila Goins said she heard about Lima’s work and thought a partnership would be perfect for Brusly as the school’s population was growing and the playground became ineffi cient.
But Brusly lacked funding, so Goins knew she would have to work hard for the new play-ground, she said.
She teamed up with faculty members and parents of her stu-dents on a number of fundrais-ers, including teachers staffi ng a Burger King for a day and raffl ing off New Orleans Saints memora-bilia, which includes tickets to an upcoming game and autographed merchandise, donated by New Or-leans Saints cornerback Randall “Blue” Gay , former LSU football player and father of a Brusly stu-dent.
So far, Brusly has raised about $15,000 , Goins said. The additional $10,000 from Ka-BOOM would allow the school to build its dream playground.
Because the funding is still uncertain, Lima and her students have created several different de-signs for various funding levels, she said.
Once the funding is secured, members of the Community Play-ground Project, and the Brusly community will volunteer to as-semble the playground under pro-fessional supervision, Lima said.
Walker said constructing the playground with volunteers makes a big fi nancial difference.
“We can knock off about $10,000 from the cost with volun-teers,” she said.
Brusly is one of fi ve fi nalists for the KaBOOM grant. The win-ners of the award will be deter-mined by Internet vote. The two fi nalists with the most votes will each receive $10,000.
Anyone can vote for the Brusly playground once per day at kaboom.org/playday. Voting closes Dec. 1 .
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University students design elementary school playgroundProject becomes fi nalist for a grantBy Ryan BuxtonStaff Writer
FASHION
Student competes for free tripContest sponsored by fashion designerBy Emily HoldenContributing Writer
Contact Emily Holden at [email protected]
‘‘‘My students take those ideas and
translate them to an actual technical
design.’Marybeth Lima
biological engineering professor
Contact Ryan Buxton at [email protected]
The LSU football team would do well to ignore recent history of its series against the Ar-kansas Razorbacks as the teams prepare for the Battle for the Golden Boot on Saturday in Tiger Stadium.
The last two times the teams met on the grid-iron, Arkansas, in dramatic fashion, won the two games by a combined three points .
In 2007, a game that many thought the Tigers needed to secure a spot in the national champion-ship game, a heavily favored LSU squad allowed Arkansas to amass 513 yards of offense , 385 of which came on the ground .
The game resulted in a triple-overtime, 50-48 shocker that only ended when Arkansas corner back Matterral Richardson intercepted an LSU
two-point conversion to seal the game.Last season, the Tigers came into the game
trying to end their late-season swoon and stabilize what had become a rocky second half of their sea-son.
But the Razorbacks had different plans. Facing a fourth-and-one from the LSU 24-
yard line , then-Arkansas quarterback Casey Dick fi red a game-winning touchdown pass with 21 sec-onds remaining on the clock .
Arkansas averaged nearly 100 more yards of
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LSU’s volleyball team won’t be play-ing tonight, but its focus will be just as intense as a game night, as the Tigers will have a chance to capture the Southeastern Conference title outright when Kentucky travels to Tennessee.
A Kentucky loss means LSU will be
the outright SEC Champions. “We will all be gathered around Sun-
shine’s [sophomore libero Lauren Waclaw-czyk] computer keeping track of the match,” said senior middle blocker Brittnee Cooper.
LSU has not won the SEC regular sea-son championship outright since 1990. The Tigers shared the title in 1991 with Florida.
The Tigers will return to work tomor-row morning when they travel to Houston for a Friday night match against Rice .
There is good news for many of the
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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
LSU to start road schedule at TulaneBy Rachel WhittakerChief Sports Writer
Tigers to play UConn at the Garden
MEN’S BASKETBALL
By David HelmanSports Writer
Contact Rachel Whittaker at [email protected]
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LSU senior outside hitter Marina Skender (12) hits the ball against two Alabama players during the Tigers’ 3-0 win Sunday.
VOLLEYBALL
Tigers may be lone SEC champs with Ky. lossBy Andy SchwehmSports Writer
RICE, see page 7
The LSU men’s basketball team is indeed in an “Empire State of Mind.”
If New York is “a concrete jun-gle that dreams are made of,” and “there’s nothing you can’t do,” then the Tigers (3-0) should have no prob-lem conquering No. 13 Connecti-cut (3-0) in the hallowed Madison Square Garden tonight.
If only it were as easy as Jay-Z and Alicia Keys would have us be-lieve.
“They are probably as quick a team as we will face all year in terms of their ability at all fi ve positions to get up and down the fl oor,” said LSU coach Trent Johnson . “It’s a good challenge for us, and I think the guys are looking forward to it.”
Johnson is probably hoping the lights of the Big Apple will inspire the Tigers, who successfully navi-gated the fi rst two games of the NIT Season Tip-Off despite returning only two starters from last season and losing senior guard Alex Farrer to a knee injury before this season’s start.
“We’ve got some guys step-ping up,” said senior forward Tasmin Mitchell . “Everybody’s been step-ping up. This is what team basketball is.”
The trip itself is a thrill for LSU’s young roster. Only a few play-ers have ever made the trip to New York, let alone played on the fl oor of such a famous venue.
“We’re going to a Mecca of bas-ketball. Playing in the Garden — it’s a college basketball player’s dream come true,” Mitchell said. “There’s not a great basketball player that hasn’t played at MSG.”
GARDEN, see page 7
ALEX BOND / The Daily Reveille
LSU junior cornerback Patrick Peterson is blocked as her tries to tackle Arkansas sophomore wide receiver Jarius Wright during the Tigers’ 31-30 loss Nov. 28, 2008, to the Razorbacks in Little Rock, Ark. LSU faces Arkansas on Saturday as the Tigers look to regain “The Golden Boot” in Tiger Stadium after losing to the Razorbacks in the past two years.
LSU to travel to Houston to face Rice
MADE FOR WALKINGLSU to ‘Battle for the Golden Boot’ against Arkansas duringfi rst Saturday night game between the two teams since 1996
BOOT, see page 7
By Luke JohnsonSports Contributor
The LSU women’s basketball team has won 75 percent of its road games in coach Van Chancellor’s coaching career at LSU.
The No. 7 Lady Tigers (4-0) will try to continue winning away from the PMAC as they open their 2009 road schedule tonight at Tulane (2-1) after starting the season 4-0 for the fi rst time since 2006-07.
Chancellor has never started 4-0 in his previous two seasons at LSU.
He said Tulane is a tough team to beat on the road.
“LSU has really struggled with Tulane on the road,” Chancellor said. “We have to come out realizing this is going to be a battle. [Tulane] does a great job of dribble-driving execution and shooting the ball very well.”
LSU has not dropped a game against Tulane since a 76-72 road loss on Dec. 31, 1999, a streak of seven consecutive games. Despite LSU’s dominance, Chancellor said two particular things worry him about the Green Wave.
“They are a very athletic team. An athletic team is always going to bother me,” Chancellor said. “They run the ball good, and they press it more than they’ve ever pressed. That style of play really bothers me.”
One Lady Tiger displayed some athleticism of her own in setting a personal milestone Sunday.
Senior guard Allison Hightower reached the 1,000 point plateau in LSU’s 86-49 victory against Nich-olls State , and Chancellor said High-tower has always been “a leader by example.”
“[Hightower] plays so hard and so tough that you have to respect what she says on the court,” Chan-cellor said.
Another group Chancellor has enjoyed this season is two freshman guards Adrienne Webb and Bianca Lutley. Webb led the team with 17 points in LSU’s 72-54 win against Houston.
“I just met with them after prac-tice and told them how much I like how they play,” Chancellor said. “Sometimes when freshmen play on the road, they struggle. I don’t think these two will — they play so much AAU ball in the summer, so they’re much more used to it.”
LSU rose four spots to No. 11 in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches Top 25 poll, the league offi ce announced Tuesday.
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Aside from just a few days out of class, the Thanksgiving holiday is a time when students get to return home to families and enjoy time to-gether.
But some students won’t have such an oppor-tunity.
Members of LSU’s various athletic teams are fi nding ways to celebrate the holidays despite busy schedules.
LSU senior defensive line-man Charles Alexander and senior lineback-er Jacob Cutrera said the football
team is having a little meal together then practicing on Thanksgiving Day.
Both Cutrera’s and Alexander’s families are not too far away from Baton Rouge, and they both said they’re looking forward to seeing their families.
“We are trying to convince coach [Les] Miles to let us go home early,” Cutrera said with a laugh. “He said he’d look into it.”
The LSU men’s basketball team is in New York for the Preseason NIT Tip-Off and will play games Wednes-day and Friday. Team spokesman Kent Lowe said the teams at the NIT will celebrate Thanksgiving to-gether.
“There will be a brunch for all four teams at the Marriott where we are staying where people can watch the parade,” Lowe said. “Then there will be a traditional Thanksgiving meal for all four teams that night.”
The LSU volleyball team will travel to Houston on Thursday for Friday’s match versus Rice.
Sophomore libero Lauren Waclawczyk said the team is go-ing to senior middle blocker Britt-nee Cooper’s home in Houston for Thanksgiving dinner.
“Her family has been so gener-ous,” Waclawczyk said. “[They’re] offering a really good Thanksgiving, we are hearing, so we are going to
head there for dinner and then play Rice on Friday.”
Many of the athletes on the LSU swimming and diving team are from other countries, meaning they don’t celebrate the U.S. form of Thanks-giving.
LSU freshman swimmer Craig Hamilton is from Edinburgh, Scot-land. He said he is going to Missis-sippi with his roommate, freshman swimmer Timmy Dasinger.
Hamilton said Thanksgiving is not celebrated where he is from and is excited because this Thanksgiving is his fi rst.
Other international swimmers are joining their teammates for the celebrations as well.
LSU junior swimmer Kannon Betzen said a few of her international teammates are going to her mother’s house in Dallas for the holiday.
“There’s three other people on the team from Dallas, and we’re tak-ing four international students,” Bet-zon said. “It’s going to be fun.”
Tradition in sports is a thing of the past, and the main culprit for kill-ing it is television.
The Chicago Cubs played all their home games in the afternoon until 1989 , when television networks encouraged them to get lights to show games in prime time.
For a long time, Alabama and Ten-nessee faced off on the gridiron on the third Saturday in October , until it was decided by the athletic directors and television executives that the matchup would get higher ratings if it were played later in the season.
LSU and Arkansas have played each other the Friday after Thanks-giving since 1996 . But this season, because CBS preferred to put the Alabama-Auburn game in the Fri-day afternoon slot, The Battle for the Golden Boot will be played Saturday night.
Students seem to have varying opinions on the date change.
Jonathan Adair, general educa-tion junior , said he would rather the
game be on Friday, but the Saturday time slot does provide an upside.
“At least with a Saturday game, we’ll get more tailgating time,” Adair said.
Another issue is the attempt to increase student attendance.
Roben West, po-litical science fresh-man, said playing the game on Saturday gives students a better chance to get back to Baton Rouge for the game.
“[Playing the game on Saturday] is better for peo-ple who have to travel long distances to come back,” West said. “Because of Thanksgiving and Black Friday and all of that, it can get very hec-tic.”
But Adair disagrees, saying he believes attendance will actually drop because of the change.
“People are going to want to go spend time with their families,” Adair said. “They’re not going to want to interrupt the weekend. With [the game being played on] Friday, people will still have Saturday and Sunday to spend with their family, but the ball game on Saturday will interrupt everyone’s family time.”
Since Arkansas joined the Southeastern Conference in 1992 , 14 out of the 17 games between LSU and Arkansas have been played on a Friday . LSU holds an 8-6 advantage in those Friday games.
LSU has also won fi ve of the last eight games despite dropping the last two.
The Tigers lead the all-time se-ries, 33-19-2 , though the two teams did not play from 1966 until 1992 .
Saturday will also mark the fi rst time the Golden Boot trophy, which resembles the Louisiana and Arkan-sas state borders, will be awarded on a Saturday . The inaugural trophy was given in 1996 following LSU’s 17-7 victory on a Friday.
Another change for the game will be LSU’s new uniforms.
The Tigers are one of 10 teams taking part in Nike’s Pro Combat line. The alternate regalia drew mixed reactions from students.
“I like the colors and the way it stands out,” said Ryan Early, psy-chology freshman.
Adair is not a fan of the change.“I’d rather stick with tradition
on [the uniforms],” Adair said.
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Johnson acknowledged the ex-citement around the Tigers’ locker room but said the team shouldn’t have a problem performing under such a bright spotlight.
“It’s competition,” he said. “Yeah, you enjoy Broadway for a day ... But when the ball goes up, it’s competition.”
UConn is off to a similarly fast start under long-time coach Jim Cal-houn , though the Huskies have yet to look remotely like the group that reached the Final Four in Detroit last spring. The team’s resumé so far in-cludes wins against William & Mary , Colgate and Hofstra by an average margin of just 10 points per game.
“Knowing coach [Calhoun] like I know him, I don’t think he’s very pleased with the way they’ve been playing, so we’re going to get a max-imum effort,” Johnson said.
A big reason for the Huskies’ struggles could be a frontcourt with some major holes to fi ll. UConn lost dynamic center Hasheem Thabeet to the NBA Draft in June and graduated forward Jeff Adrien , who took his career average of 12 points and eight boards per game with him.
UConn has been outrebounded in two of its three games, which must be encouraging for a surprisingly productive LSU post game. Sopho-more forward Storm Warren has achieved a double-double in all three games to start the season and could frustrate the Huskies if he maintains his level of play.
“I’m just going to take the in-formation my coaches give me and try to be prepared,” Warren said. “[UConn] knows what it’s like to be there. For us, it’s a new experience, and we have to be ready to step up.”
Tigers — seven players on LSU’s roster hail from the Lone Star State , two of whom are from Houston, where Rice’s campus is located.
That means many of the Ti-gers will get to spend Turkey Day with their fami-lies.
All it took was the mere mention of Texas for Waclawczyk’s face to light up.
“Texas! I’m so excited,” the San Antonio na-tive said. “It feels good to have your family around you. I love Texas, so it’s fun to be playing in Houston.”
The No. 17 Tigers (23-5, 18-5 SEC) will have to watch out how much tryptophan they ingest though, as Rice isn’t a team for LSU to sleep on.
The Owls (22-8, 11-5 C-USA) fi nished fourth in Confer-ence USA’s regular season with an 11-5 record.
As a No. 4 seed in the confer-ence tournament, Rice knocked off No. 1 seed Southern Mississippi, 3-1, in the semifi nal round before defeating No. 2 seeded Tulsa, 3-1, to take home the tournament title.
Just like in collegiate basket-ball, a volleyball tournament title
earns an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Because the pairings for the tournament are based on geog-raphy, there is an outside chance Friday’s match may be a preview of things to come
in the NCAA postseason.“Rice is a very good team,”
said LSU coach Fran Flory . “They are a team that is going to chal-lenge us defensively because they keep a lot of balls off the fl oor. I would put them on the category of a South Carolina or Tennessee in terms of backcourt defense.”
total offense than LSU in those two games and converted fi ve of six fourth down plays .
“It gives you some confi -dence. When you watch the video, you’re watching the same guys you played against last year.” said Ar-kansas coach Bobby Petrino at his Monday news conference. “You look at their defense, and most of those guys are the exact same guys that were there last year with the exception of a great defensive end and really good linebacker.”
The 2009 Arkansas squad will enter Death Valley riding a four-game win streak and one of the hottest quarterbacks in the nation.
Sophomore quarterback Ryan Mallett was named Southeastern Conference Offensive Player of the Week for the second time in three weeks after his 313-yard fi ve-touchdown effort against Mis-sissippi State last weekend.
Mallett has embraced the pass-happy offense implemented by Petrino for the 2008 season. In his lone season as the Arkansas starting quarterback, Mallett has set or matched 12 different school records .
“We’ve got to put pressure on Mallett ,” said senior defensive tackle Charles Alexander . “We’ve got to go out there and put pressure on him and get him uncomfortable in the pocket.”
Mallett has thrown for 3,195 yards and 28 touchdowns this sea-son and leads the SEC in every category for quarterbacks .
“We’ve won four in a row, and we are going into a tough game,” Mallett said Monday at a news conference. “This week, we are going to have to play our best football. We are going to have to go in there and play physical and tough.”
With Mallett leading the way, Arkansas is ranked as the No. 1 offense in the SEC , both in total offense and scoring offense.
“Coach Petrino has done a great job there,” said LSU coach Les Miles at his weekly Monday news conference. “They have a high-powered offense and a good defense.”
The Razorbacks have had their troubles on the defensive side this season, giving up an average of 25.1 points per game . Arkansas is the ninth-ranked scoring defense and is ranked last in total defense in the SEC .
Opponents have been able to fi nd a way to move the ball through the air against the Razorbacks’ de-fense, amassing 2,842 yards this season.
The matchup should be an intriguing one for the Tigers, who haven’t been able pass the ball consistently this season.
The Tigers have lacked con-sistency at the quarterback posi-tion this season. Sophomores Jor-dan Jefferson and Jarrett Lee have combined to throw for 1,982 yards this season, which ranks 100th in the NCAA.
LSU will have to rely heavily on the passing game after losing their top three running backs to in-jury throughout the season.
With seniors Charles Scott and Keiland Williams and junior Richard Murphy all lost for the game, the LSU ground attack will rely on sophomore Stevan Ridley , freshman Russell Shepard and se-nior Trindon Holliday to stabilize a rushing attack that has been stag-nant for most of the season.
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Students should learn not to be obnoxious in classroomsEDITOR’S NOTE: This is the fourth and final column in a series about good behavior on and around campus. To see Sara’s previous columns, check out our Web site, lsureveille.com.
My mother spent a lot of her time trying to raise a good South-ern belle. Seeing how I’m as much my father’s daughter as I am hers, she definitely had her work cut out for her. I didn’t quite turn out a prim debutante who loves to host teas and never raises her voice, but Mama managed to at least instill a good sense of how to act in public and a respect for other people.
My November columns are dedicated to those classmates who weren’t quite so lucky.
Speaking of classmates, here’s a brief guide for how to behave dur-ing those classes we share. Granted,
there are many different kinds of classes, each with its own unwritten rules of conduct, but consider these general guidelines for classroom behavior in gen-eral.
1. Put your phone on si-lent. This rule goes for you, too, teachers. It’s telling that I have to list this in every single “manners” col-umn I write, no matter the setting.
2. Learn the difference be-tween “answering a question” and “telling a long story that is only funny to you and vaguely related to a topic briefly mentioned in class.” However compelled you feel to brag about yourself, 200 people do not need to hear about the time you
fashioned solar panels from your toenail clippings and used them to heat your indoor pool.
3. If you’re late for class, sit as close to the door as you possibly can. Try not to walk all around the classroom searching for the perfect spot like a dog that needs to pee.
4. Being the first to turn in your test/paper/project doesn’t mean you’re a genius. It means you’re a nerd, so wipe that smug grin off your face, nerd.
5. If you didn’t have time to shower during the last three days, that means you also don’t have time to come to class, OK? Take a per-sonal hygiene day, please.
6. Coming to class wearing last night’s makeup, a wristband and a bar stamp doesn’t make you cool. It makes you a dirty skank. I don’t care how hungover you are. Wash your face and hands before you give
anyone else mono.7. Pajama pants are for your
house, not my school. High heels are for places where you might get a job or get laid. Or jobs where you get laid, if that’s your style.
8. Why did you come to class to play “World of Warcraft” or chat with your friends on Facebook? You know you can do that at home and be naked at the same time, right?
9. In the same vein, there’s no reason to come to class still drunk or high. You’re not going to get anything done and really, it’s just unseemly.
10. Talking with your neigh-bor/friend during a lecture is rude and obnoxious. People don’t hear you talking during class and think, “Oh, so-and-so must be so smart and interesting and popular!” They think, “I wish so-and-so would shut the hell up. I hate that guy.”
It’s generally pretty easy to be polite at school. Show up clean, on time and mind your own business during class. Try to be considerate of the people around you no matter where you are.
I hope you’ve enjoyed my ideas on etiquette and you think of me next time you’re at a movie, a bar, on a date, or in class — whether fondly because you agreed or with malice because I called you out on your rude, obnoxious behavior.
Sara Boyd is a 22-year-old general studies junior from Baton Rouge. Follow her on Twitter @TDR_sboyd.
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A tale of two subsidies: Athletic vs. academic fundingIt was the best of times. It was
the worst of times. It was the football season of
hope. It was the academic season of despair. It was the purple and golden age of athletic conquest and victory. It was the dark ages of budgetary constraints and academic defeat.
All told, the aura at LSU today is quite mixed. On one hand, the University has a thriving athletic department. On the other hand, our academic department has been sink-ing beneath the depths of budgetary debacles.
One can interpret these condi-tions in many ways. But it all comes down to the tale of two separate departments — the athletic and the academic — and how they are sub-sidized.
First, there’s the Athletic De-partment.
For years — the past decade specifically — our athletic program has provided fans with a successful and competitive product. The foot-ball team won two BCS titles in five years. The baseball team just earned its sixth national championship. The basketball team won the SEC cham-pionship coach Trent Johnson’s first season at LSU. The list goes on.
All sports considered, the Uni-versity placed ninth in the 2009 Learfield’s Directors Cup rankings, according to LSUsports.net.
The success of all the sports — the top three especially — has
helped make LSU one of the na-tion’s premier athletic venues, at-tracting the best athletes from both Louisiana and around the country.
Thanks to the high quality of the Athletic Department’s product, funding hasn’t been nearly as much of a problem. Leading Athletic De-partment officials don’t have to sole-ly rely on public grants or the benev-
olence of a few wealthy alumni to attain their financial objec-tives. Instead, they’re able to capitalize on the success of their product and the willingness of the University’s
fans to voluntarily support their bur-geoning athletic program.
But then there’s the other side of the equation — the academic branch of the University — funded in large part by state subsidies.
For years — the past decade specifically — the academic depart-ment has made a concerted effort to enhance the University’s rank-ing and attract Louisiana’s best and brightest.
The University has certainly taken some strides in the right direc-tion. But the University’s progress has been relatively limited when you consider the massive amount of money that has been tossed toward
enhancing our higher education system.
In all fairness, the athletic ad-ministrators aren’t totally at fault. Many of the problems plaguing the state’s academic system stem from state-sponsored grants that have flooded four-year universities and consequently bolstered the cost of higher education.
The end effect of these initia-tives is simple. By trying to make access to higher education more ac-cessible, state programs have actu-ally made the entire point of getting a college degree — attaining a better
job — more costly and undesirable.And with the recession-induced
higher education cuts, the public funding system has backfired on the University.
In short, the University’s aca-demic system is anchored to the state’s budget. And thanks to the massive budget cuts the state has issued to higher education, the Uni-versity has been forced to make even more drastic cuts.
Perhaps Chancellor Michael Martin is right. Maybe he could run the University better if it were more like the privately funded athletic
department. Perhaps collectivism and redistribution aren’t such great long-term solutions after all.
Hey, I’m sure there’s a big-pic-ture lesson in there somewhere.
Scott Burns is a 20-year-old economics and history junior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_sburns.
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No matter how great, no sale is worth killing overThe semester is winding down,
students are pulling all-nighters wrapping up end-of-the-year proj-ects and tests, and this week’s Thanksgiving break will give stu-dents that little pit stop needed be-fore tackling the beasts that are final exams.
With around 30,000 students enrolled in the University, everyone will celebrate this holiday differ-ently.
If you’re like me, your Thanks-giving consists of family, eating tur-key, watching football, eating more turkey, naps on the couch and finally complaining about how full you are of all the turkey you just ate.
But some people like to spend Thanksgiving in other ways — such as inside a tent camped outside of their favorite retail store.
The Friday after Thanksgiving, known as “Black Friday,” is a day when most retail stores have large sales and discounts for consumers
to kick off the holiday shopping season.
The exact origin of the term “Black Friday” is a tad fuzzy, but this shopping holiday has gained notoriety among consumers and re-tailers alike since 2000.
Many believe the term originat-ed as an accounting phrase. People believe most retail stores are finan-cially in the “red” (or losing money) for a majority of the year, and the big sales numbers brought in on this particular Friday help push those numbers into the “black” (or posi-tive profits).
Many stores open at 5 a.m. or earlier, running special “doorbuster” deals for those dedicated enough to camp outside in the cold (or here in Louisiana, somewhat warm) weath-er.
I have always refused to leave my couch — or, most recently, Tiger Stadium — on “Black Friday” be-cause of the LSU-Arkansas football
game every year played that after-noon. Also, no sale is worth fighting off the horde of crazed consumers.
But this year, I get to experience my first “Black Friday” — ex-cept I won’t be spending it as a shopper. I will be spending the holiday as an employee.
That said, I strongly urge those who will participate in this frenzy of a shop-ping experience to remember where your head is.
A Long Island Wal-Mart em-ployee was trampled to death last year as customers broke through the glass doors minutes upon the store’s 5 a.m. opening. Many workers were trampled by the mob, but it was 34-year-old Jdimytai Damour who lost his life that day.
I realize the holiday season can be a stressful time for people, and that $200 laptop or $450 HDTV might make your mouth water, but it’s not worth someone’s life so you can save a few bucks.
Every year, there are numerous stories of store tramplings, fights and even gun shots over items dur-ing a one-day sale.
If you’re determined enough to save money on that laptop or TV you’ve always wanted, then by all means pitch your tent outside your favorite store and wait until those doors officially open.
But the one thing everyone in that line needs to remember is there are many other tents in front of or behind yours, and many of your parking-lot campers are running on short tempers and little sleep.
Be considerate not only to your fellow shoppers but also the stores’ employees — they are there to as-sist the customers and also keep
everyone under control.If you’re in line early enough,
you’ll get what you’ve been waiting to buy. If you end up at the end of the line, don’t push or fight because someone got there earlier than you — use this as a lesson for next year.
This Friday will be a new expe-rience for me. I hope my customers aren’t too rowdy of a group and I’ll survive to write next week’s col-umn.
But you never know — some people will kill to get that shiny new PSPgo for Little Jimmy.
Adam Arinder is a 20-year-old electrical engineering junior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_aarinder.
‘New Moon’ loses fun side, needs director reboot
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Midnight opening tickets sold out weeks in advance. Mati-nee events quickly filled to ca-pacity, giddy teenagers hugged pails of popcorn in one hand and their moms in the other. Every-one was out to see the most an-ticipated movie event of 2009, “New Moon.”
Featuring heartthrobs Rob-ert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and additional young stud Taylor Lautner, “New Moon” is the se-quel to “Twilight,” both adapta-tions of the best-selling books by Stephenie Meyer.
In this installment, Bella has just had her 18th birthday. She hangs with her friends in high school, but remains smitten with Edward, her vampire boyfriend. Fearing for her safety, Edward leaves town and swears he won’t come back to see her, lest she be taken from him forever.
Depressed, Bella sits on a couch as a revolving camera shot — digitally spliced — denotes the passage of time: November, December and on. When she gets tired of being alone, Bella decides to hook up with childhood friend Jacob. He plays the rebound guy, the one-month, romantic squat-ter who keeps the apartment oc-cupied until the original tenant returns. The relationship between Bella, Jacob and Edward turns to a love triangle, which, lacking in sex, seems less subversive than geometric.
“New Moon” is a meditation on growing old and the strength of familial ties. Bella’s devotion to Edward might seem evident and her insistence on going un-der the fang appears a form of self-sacrifice. However, several
scenes point to a despair of aging, a fascination with skin devoid of wrinkles. One scene has Bella staring apprehensively at an older image of herself, an aged woman who mimics all her motions and speaks in her voice. Another has Bella boasting to Edward she’s technically a year older than he is. It’s curious she only dates wolves
and vampires, creatures with the elixir of life, boys who revel in their naturally en-dowed armor-plated breast plates.
We see the tension within
the wolf and vampire communi-ties and anticipate the conflict between these communities and a world unaware of their existence. It is through membership in these groups that Jacob, Edward and their families get their identities. Hence, the mutual animosity.
I doubt anyone expects the “New Moon” to be a cinematic marvel. The books by Meyer, af-ter all, are a cultural phenomena, a literary curiosity less J.R.R. Tol-kien and more Dan Brown. The “Twilight” series lack the pedi-gree of the “Lord of the Rings” or “Harry Potter.” Absent major character actors, the assurance of a distinguished director or a pro-vocative theme, our expectations are modest.
Nevertheless, the audience deserves a spectacle. Catherine Hardwicke directed “Twilight” which exuded a sense of fun. For instance, there were the scenes of a vampire baseball game and
Edward taking Bella tree climb-ing. Both contributed next to nothing to the overall story, but their addition in the film showed the director winking to the audi-ence.
But with the newest film, we have director Chris Weitz. Channeling an inner ineptitude displayed previously in “The Golden Compass,” Weitz has transformed a mildly fascinating vampire romance into a flaccid exercise in overwrought melo-drama. Weitz smoothed the pro-
vocative atheistic bent of “The Golden Compass” and tacked on tons of CGI, finally releasing of-fal barely recognizable from the source material — an example of the anti-Midas touch. “New Moon” bears the same signature.
Here we get two fight scenes shot in slow-motion — Guy Ritchie’s technique without the exuberance — and a general lack of imagination. Weitz as-sumes shooting Stewart moping into space somehow illustrates the loneliness of her character. It
could be argued the long stares were the effect the author strove for in her book; even if true, it doesn’t give the filmmaker the license to be literal.
Freke Ette is a political theory graduate student from Uyo, Nigeria. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_fette.
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Cafeteria and other donors and vol-unteers, will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the ICC and is free for students, faculty, staff and other guests.
“It’s very festive,” Leder said. “We decorate the ICC, and then we have volunteers who come in the morning and start working in the kitchen. Everybody is asked to bring something [like dessert or drinks], which is also part of Thanksgiv-ing.”
Leder said before Piccadilly got involved, the International Hospital-ity Foundation donated money to buy turkeys. He said when Piccadil-ly learned what the IHF and ICC do for students who remain on campus, they decided to provide all the food.
Last year’s Thanksgiving din-
ner was at Piccadilly because dam-age from Hurricane Gustav cause building closures, Virginia Grenier, IHF executive director, said in an e-mail to The Daily Reveille. She said this year the dinner will serve as a celebration for Thanksgiving and the restoration of the ICC.
David Heidke, LSU Dining di-rector, said the dining facilities on campus will be closed for the holi-day.
During the month of November, LSU Dining provided Thanksgiving meals at the 459 Commons, the Fac-ulty Club and the Magnolia Room. The Faculty Club and the Magnolia Room both served Thanksgiving-style menus this past week, while the 459 Commons had its Thanks-giving meal during the first week of November to “spread out the tur-
key,” Heidke said.All LSU Dining facilities will
remain open today, but they will be closed Nov. 26 and 27. Limited service will be available Nov. 28 and 29 in the LSU Student Union, the 459 Commons and the UREC Smoothie King.
Jay High, Residential Life communications manager, said even though the University is closed Thursday and Friday, the residence halls will remain open.
“Most of our students are going home [for Thanksgiving], but we do have a staff here for those staying behind,” High said. “Some RAs are going home, but other RAs are stay-ing. They will have two RAs on call for 24 hours a day.”
Starr said she and other friends staying behind for the holiday will
“attempt to cook a turkey” at one of her friend’s off-campus apartments.
Starr said she feels good know-ing the University is providing both international and American stu-dents the opportunity to experience Thanksgiving away from home.
“I could [go to the ICC and] eat turkey instead of Ramen noodles, which would suck on Thanksgiv-ing,” she said.
Leder said the Thanksgiving meal at the ICC provides interna-tional students with a truly Ameri-can experience.
“It’s a very important holiday because it reflects what the Ameri-can society and community stand for,” Leder said.
Doolos said this half-day will help students who live outside Louisiana have enough time to travel without skipping class.
Patrick Evans, STA Travel marketing communications coordi-nator, said the day before Thanks-giving is the biggest travel day of the year.
“We’re focused on student-use travel,” Evans said. “We see a lot of domestic travel during the Thanksgiving break from our audi-ence because they’re younger and they go home. From a travel per-spective, it’s difficult for students during Thanksgiving because they only get the day before and the day of Thanksgiving off [to travel].”
Evans said the earlier people can travel to their destinations, the less complications their journey will have.
Jon Bjorling, business admin-istration junior, said he is flying home to New Jersey tomorrow afternoon and is glad he won’t be missing any class since the Univer-sity will be closed.
Darienne Nicholas, English sophomore, said she’s more in-clined to go to her morning classes because of the half-day, but her professors canceled class anyway.
Sam Stevens, English fresh-man, said she doesn’t get the point of having a half-day this Wednes-day or the Wednesday after Mardi Gras. She said the University should “do all or nothing.”
“A half-day after Mardi Gras is just asking for no one to show up [to class],” Stevens said.
Dead week — officially called “concentrated study period” — stretches from Wednesday, Dec. 2 to Sunday, Dec. 6, according to the University academic calendar.
During this period, required course work, which includes exams, quizzes and homework, may at most count for 10 percent of a student’s fi-nal grade in the course, according to the University general catalog.
Assignments scheduled on the syllabus within the first two weeks of the semester are exempt from the 10 percent limit assuming the work on the project will be done throughout the semester, according to the cata-log.
Laboratory courses are also ex-empt from the policy.
If students feel that their profes-sors have violated the policy, they can fill out an appeal form on the SG Web site or at the SG Executive Of-fices on the first floor of the Student Union, Allen said.
Allen said SG will help students find solutions to alleged violations with the forms.
Allen said along with helping in-dividual students with their concerns, the overarching goal of the new ap-peals form is to give the provost a better idea of which departments are responsible for the violations to establish a more refined process of dealing with future issues.
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