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October 2009 Delgado Community College
Volume 40: Number 5
Voodoo it like that
Ten years later, it’s an experience, not a festival
By Jessica P. Franklin
[email protected]
The end of the year is
quickly approaching and
with that comes the infamous Voodoo Experience.
The Voodoo Experience,
formerly called Voodoo Musical Festival, takes place at
City Park Halloween weekend: Oct. 30- Nov 1 and
consists of musical acts of
every genre.
This year marks the
10th anniversary of the concert series. It was first held
at City Park’s Tad Gormley
Stadium on Oct. 30, 1999.
Unlike the Voodoo we are
accustomed to, the festival
only lasted one day. The
headliners, Wyclef Jean and
the Fugees performed in
front of a crowd of 8,000.
The other headliners were
Third Eye Blind, Moby,
The Roots, Dr. John, Train,
Ben Folds Five and George
Clinton and the ParliamentFunkadelic (who are also
performing this year).
Tickets are being sold as
3-day passes for $180 and
$75 for one night. When
you do the math, the tickets
are cheaper than many other
concerts that only last a few
hours.
The 3-day festival may
seem like it costs a pretty
penny to attend but is worth
buying for any music lover.
If you are debating on if the
festival is worth attending
you may want to consider
the following.
• If you buy Voodoo’s
3-day pass you are only
paying $60 per night. According to nola.com, the
average price for a ticket to
Britney Spears’ latest tour,
“The Circus Starring: Britney Spears” was $98.53. Lil
Wayne’s concert tickets sold
for an average of $61.76
and Fleetwood Mac’s were
$98.95. These concerts only
last one night, Voodoo lasts
three.
• There are over 50 performers including Grammy
award winners Eminem
(Oct. 30), The Flaming Lips
(Oct. 30), Lenny Kravitz
(Nov. 1).
Voodoo is currently
Eminem’s only full-length
concert supporting his most
recent album, Relapse. The
album, which includes the
singles “We Made You” and
“Beautiful”, was released on
May 15, 2009 and debuted
at #1 on the U.S. Billboard
200 albums. The highly anticipated performance will
be his first complete concert
since 2005’s Anger Management Tour. This will be
Eminem’s 2nd Voodoo performance. His 1st appearance was in 1999 in support
of his 1st mainstream album
“The Slim Shady LP.” After
10 years and 4 non-compilation albums later, he is
making return to the Voo-
doo stage.
Rock
sensations
Kiss
and
Jane’s Addiction (both
Oct. 31) will
be performing as well
as P-Funk
legends George Clinton
and Parliament Funkadelic
(Oct. 31) and New Orleans’
own Rebirth Brass Band
(Oct. 31) and New Orleans
Jazz Vipers (Nov.1). Some
of the other performers include Alejandro Escovedo,
All-Time Low, D12, Eric
Church, Janelle Monae,
Justice, Katey Red & DJ
Papa, K’naan The Knux,
the March Fourth Marching
Band, Meat Puppets, Sissy
Nobby, Q-Tip, Widespread
Panic and many more.
• It is the last big New
Orleans event of the year,
AND it is Halloween week-
end. It takes place during a time of year where
the weather isn’t too cold.
It is a New Orleans event
so you are guaranteed to
eat trademark dishes such
as po-boys, crawfish and
snowballs. It is far enough
before Christmas so that
you won’t have to feel
guilty about buying tickets
for yourself and not using
the money to buy gifts. And
more importantly to Delgado students; it is in between mid-terms and finals
and would be a great way
to have stress-free fun!
Sweet, Fiya, and Ice
College-wide homecoming events, elections set for this month
By J.C. Romero
[email protected]
This year’s homecoming will be different, according to SGA Presidents Ivy
Poree-Marco from the West
Bank and Marc Guichard
from City Park.
“We wanted to be more
efficient and spend less
money,” Guichard said.
“We tried to figure out why
people weren’t coming, and
make it easier for them to
come.”
This year’s college-wide
homecoming is themed
“Sweet, Fiya, and Ice.”
Homecoming
week
will be from Monday Nov.
9 to Friday Nov. 13, 2009.
Throughout the week, there
will many activities taking
place, such as spirit week’s
fashion police and best
dressed contest; all depending on each campus’s SGA.
Spirit week will begin
with “I’d Rather Be Sleeping-Pajama Day” Monday, followed by “Rolling Through the Decades”
Tuesday. On Wednesday,
Veteran’s Day, students are
encouraged to commemorate U.S. Veterans by wearing red, white, and/or blue.
Thursday is typically one of
the most anticipated days!
Students are to show their
Delgado pride by wearing
Delgado gear and/or green
and gold.
On Thursday, students
are invited to watch the
homecoming
basketball
game. This year, Delgado
will be playing against Pearl
River Community College.
The women’s game begins
at 4 p.m. and the men’s game
begins at 7 p.m. Both games
will be held in the Delgado
City Park gym in Building
11.
The 2009 Homecoming
King and Queen of each campus will also be introduced
during the men’s half-time.
As a reminder, students are
encouraged to vote for homecoming king and queen on
Oct. 19. There will be many
informational flyers through-
out each campus indicating
the specifics of when and
where you can vote.
Immediately after the
game, the “Sweet, Fiya, and
Ice” after-party will be taking place in the student life
center at City Park, which
will last until midnight.
SGA has many surprises
planned for students, so in
order for them to find out all
of the exciting things that
will be taking place, they
must attend the after-party.
Students are encouraged to
come dressed as they are.
Homecoming week will
be wrapped up with “Delgado Night at the Hive!”
Come and join Delgado stu-
dents, faculty, and staff at
the Hornets vs. Denver Nuggets basketball game. There
will be a students vs. faculty
basketball game at the arena
at 2:30 p.m. Anyone interested in signing up for the
game can do so at www.dcc.
edu/studentlife/hornets.
The overall homecoming event chairpersons are
Ivy Poree-Marco (SGA
president-West Bank) and
J.C. Romero (SGA VP-City
Park). Committee chairpersons include: over elections
and half time, Willar Nash;
theme and advertising, Nicole Joseph; after party,
Reba Fields; and spirit
week, Tayisha Green.
The Dolphin Campus News
News at a Glance…
Decals only
Parking on campus
By Shekeda Williams
• Delgado faculty art show opening Thursday Oct. 8, 6-8 p.m.,
Delgado Fine Arts Gallery
• Poetry Slam, Wednesday Oct.
7, 11:30 a.m. in the Dolphin Den
• Last day to apply for December
graduation, Friday Oct. 16 ($40
late fee)
• Delgado Animal Expo, Saturday
Oct. 17, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., Delgado
City Park campus
• New Orleans Film Festival,
Oct. 9-15, Prytania, Canal Place,
and the CAC
• Saturday Oct. 10 - Tuesday Oct.
13, Fall Holiday (no classes)
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Dolphin Sink or Swim
Sink to
Swim to
• Ragged roads in New
orleans
• No recycling at Delgado
• Midterms
• Cooler weather
• Voodoo Festival
• Saints winning three
games in a row
October 2009
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Students who parked
for free between the baseball field and Navarre Ave.
during the summer semester
were surprised to have tickets on their cars when they
parked there this fall.
At one time the city of
New Orleans owned this
parking lot next to the City
Park campus, which made
it free, but now the city has
given Delgado control of
the baseball field parking,
according to Chief Ronald
Doucette, Sr.
As a result, parking that
was once free is now Delgado student decal-only parking. Over the course of the
summer semester, warnings were issued by campus
police to put the word out
that after summer semester,
tickets will be given out to
student who parked without decals by the baseball
field. Now, however faded
the signage may be, maintenance has put out signs stating what is now Delgado
parking.
“Once maintenance put
the signs out, there was no
need for any other notices,”
Chief Doucette said. In
response to student questions about why weren’t
any emails sent out about
the change in parking when
emails were sent out warning students to place their
valuables out of sight in
their cars, Chief Doucette
said “Emails are sent by request from campus police
to public affairs, then they
send the emails to students
about safety information,not
about parking regulations.”
“Everyone has limitations of their resources
(money), but all Delgado
parking should be decal
only,” Chief Doucette said.
“There should not be any
parking for students without
decals.”
If students receive tickets they feel they shouldn’t
have, there is an appeals
process available, and more
appeals are granted rather
than rejected.
The first week of school
is ticket-free, but that is
an appropriate amount of
time for students to learn
the rules and regulations of
Delgado parking, according
to the chief.
Chief Doucette has no
problem with meeting with
students. “I’m here to serve
the students, not to harm
them or ticket them,” he
said.
The funds collected
from the parking tickets go
back into Delgado’s general
fund.
“In my opinion it should
go to the police to improve
parking lots, lighting, bikes,
scooters, signage, striping,
and so forth,” said Chief
Doucette. Though the prices
for decals will be going up
in the future to help create
more parking by Bldg. 10,
Doucette said, the funds
will still go back to the general fund.
Students need to research and find out what
options they have as far as
ticketing goes. For example, if you total your car,
you can bring some sort of
paperwork, whether it is
from your insurance company or a police report, and
temporary decals are available. Bring your paperwork
proving you had a student
decal and your car was totaled, and you will be issued
another decal for free when
you get your new car.
Additional information
about the rules and regulations are available on the
Delgado website.
Walk it like a duck
Students, faculty exercise every Friday
By KC White
[email protected]
The Delgado Fitness
The Duck Walk takes
Center, leads the Duck
Center kicked off their Fall Walk and plans the weekly place every Friday at noon,
Wellness Series this month, route.
and is open to the local
with their very first ‘Duck
Walk.’
The Wellness Series takes
place at least
once a week during fall semester.
Each week a
different Allied
Health Department has a
special presentation dealing with
a certain aspect
A flock of walkers showed up for the first one-miler scheduled for every
of health. The
Friday on campus.
students make
displays for each
“As manager of the
topic, and pass out valuable fitness center, I want to
community, students, facinformation that may help
ulty, and staff. This weekly
help raise awareness of
others learn the best ways
walk will take faculty and
the importance of living a
to live a healthier lifestyle.
staff on a one-mile course
healthy and fit lifestyle,”
Michael Ricca, manaround the historic Delgado
Ricca said.
ager of the Delgado Fitness
City Park campus.
Photo couretesy of Delgado Fitness Center
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The Dolphin
In my
opinIoN
I’M JUST
SAYING
By Kimberly Gaines
[email protected]
For all those who may
be going through the single
phase, you may agree that
the dating cycle is like a
circle.
It starts off with initiation. He sees you, you see
him; he looks away; you
look back. Then finally,
the initiator approaches the
other.
The typical small talk
of your name, how old are
you, and what do you do for
a living goes back and forth.
You exchange numbers and
the cycle begins. How many
times have you accepted a
number and never used it?
If that happens, the execution of avoidance and termination happens early.
Here comes the communication process. Women,
have you ever been told by
a guy, “I don’t talk on the
phone?” Yeahh for technology- let’s get to know each
other through impersonal
texting! Once this begins
you try to get a “feel” of
who this person is and is he
worth your time.
Here comes the challenge: the brief moments
you may talk, do you get
any emotions to feed off of?
The text messages: are they
conversational so you can
get to know this person or
are they along the lines of:
“How are you today? What
are you doing? What’s up?
Can I come over? You want
to come over?”
Does anyone want to
really get to know people
these days?
Maybe you can get past
the awkward “getting to
know each other” stage and
Page progress to…
The big date! Which
really isn’t a date, since no
one seems to know the definition of that. So you chill.
Not surprisingly, this person
has a little more going on
than you:
• How many kids?
• Oh, so you’re not
looking for anything serious?
• How old are you and
you live with whom?
• How many baby
mamas do you have?
If you play your cards
right, you can get through
these questions within that
first meeting so the deal
breakers can shine through.
What it will do is possibly
break the circle early on.
But now it’s time for
Avoidance and Termination! Avoidance and Termination happen when that
person turns you “off” and
you can only hope that they
stop contacting you. You
may even give excuses constantly to avoid them like;
“I’m busy, I have to work,”
or “I’m tired so no, you
can’t come over.”
If none of these seem to
be working, especially for
those persistent drones, it’s
time to execute and terminate. You may tell them this
isn’t working out, you don’t
have chemistry, you got
back with your ex, you’ve
taken an interest in someone else, and don’t forget
the most popular cliché of
all time, “It’s not you, it’s
me,”(or more likely, it’s not
me, it’s you).
After going through this
for a few weeks, the cycle
then repeats itself (lather,
rinse, repeat…). Finding
that person to keep the circle going can be difficult.
Don’t give up; one day
the cycle may end and the
circle could turn into a heart.
But be careful; hearts can
be broken, and rebuilding a
heart is harder than restarting a circle.
Garden District Nursery
2544 Government St.
Baton Rouge, La. 70806
(225) 383-3514
–should a parent be going
out at the age of 38 looking
for “a lil juvie?”
not show kissing or hitting
or anything improper (married couples slept in sepaParents need to know that rate beds). Now television
it is their duty to be their has to go above and beyond
child’s parent and stop put- to keep people interested in
ting that responsibility on watching, thus making rattheir teachers or even their ings go up. This is the reaBy Shekeda Williams
grandparents. Teach your son for cursing, kissing, [email protected]
children to be respectful of ality shows, and even sex on
themselves and to others. television.
Being able to have chil- This world is filled with
Although children need
dren is a blessing that some enough chaos and violence. to learn about life, is this the
people wish for, but being If we teach our children bet- way that they need to learn?
a parent is a responsibil- ter than what they see in so- Television reality coarsens
ity some people should not ciety, then the world could public discourse to a point
have. Children are having be a better place. Where are where society can no longer
children these days and lack the morals, traditions, val- differentiate between televithe maturity and responsibil- ues in children today?
sion and normalcy.
ity necessary for themselves
Look at the appearance
What can we do as parfirst, and parenting second .
of children today; everyone ents? Think beyond televiParents want to be their is trying to be what they see sion and do more activities
children’s friends more than on television, the babysitter with your children. Teach
their parent. It is okay to for many “busy” parents. your children right from
be your child’s friend, but Do not fret over the econo- wrong. Parents need to try
you need to draw a line and my; teach your children to harder to be a better role
know when it is time to be believe in themselves and model for your children or
the parent. You cannot call to be determined to do their children in your community
yourself responsible when best at everything they do.
for those that do not have
it is a must for you to find
One of the obstacles to parents. You never know
a babysitter every weekend
teaching your children can who is admiring you. Start
just so you can go out.
be the messages they get at home and set your child
Parents do deserve some from television today. Does to be ready for all that life
free, fun time, but mature society reflect television or has to offer. People, we all
parents know that does not does television reflect soci- need to get it together and
have to be every day or ev- ety? Back in great- grand- stop polluting the world, inery weekend. Think about it ma’s times, television did cluding our own children.
In your
opINion
A Westbank reader sounds off
To all Delgado students:
My car was towed on
Wednesday, [Sept. 23]and
I was not aware that [West
Bank] Delgado students
could not park by the
field [next to O.P Walker
school].
The thing that really
bothers me the most is the
fact that one of Delgado’s
police officers was standing
outside, looked me right in
the face, and did not have
the moral decency to say to
me, “Do not park there.”
He watched me as I got
out of my car and go into
the building. I entered the
building at 9:00 a.m.
The lady I spoke with at
the car pound told me that
they were called around
9:15 a.m.
There are signs posted
around campus, but those
signs are not really clear
about where not to park.
Those signs should say,
“DO NOT PARK BY THE
FIELD.” The sign only refers to parking in the FIRE
LANE and “DO NOT PARK
BY O.P. WALKER.” I not
only had to miss class yesterday, but I also was unable
to start my new work-study
position on Wednesday.
In my opinion, I believe
that the campus police that
work here and the towing
company are working together. We are in a recession and times are extremely
hard for a lot of people, but
I believe that people should
still have some morals
about them or a conscience
to speak up and say something to the next fellow man
or woman when things are
wrong. We should look out
for one another and speak
for those who can’t. Well,
I am the one for the job and
I will be speaking to every-
one.
I will do my part to make
sure that everyone who is
within earshot of my voice
hears about this immoral
act and let everyone know
“DO NOT PARK BY THE
FIELD.” It is a $110.00
dollar fine, $14.00 a day
for every day that your car
is there in the pound. Oh,
let’s not forget. The place is
located at 8300 Chef Hwy,
which is clear across the
other side of the river.
Someone has to speak
up. I will be the one.
Thank you for your
time,
Sincerely,
Natasha N. Manning
Delgado Westbank
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“Candide” set to open
The best of all possible worlds on stage Oct. 22
Compiled from
staff reports
[email protected]
trophe after catastrophe.
With soaring music by
Leonard Bernstein, a biting
script by Hugh Wheeler, and
brilliant lyrics by Richard
Wilbur, Stephen Sondheim,
and John LaTouche, Candide reminds us of our modern world and the struggles
each of us must face.
Timothy K. Baker directs Candide, with musical
direction by Karl Harrod.
The student cast features
Greg Nacozy, Bill Mader,
Alexa Fitzpatrick, Elderidge
Stephens, Megan Whittle,
and Rhonda Wilkinson.
Performances are Oct.
22, 23, 24 and November 4,
5, 6, 7 at 8 p.m. Sunday performances on Oct. 25 and
Nov. 8 are at 7 p.m. There
will be no performances
during the Halloween weekend.
All performances are
held in the third floor Drama Hall at the City Park
Campus.
General Admission is
$14, Senior Citizens $12,
and Delgado Faculty and
Students $10. Call (504)
671-6360 for information
and reservations.
photo by Tom Dawson
Delgado
Community
College is pleased to present the musical “Candide.”
Based on the novel by Voltaire, “Candide” is a satirical commentary on the ironies and paradoxes of 18th
Century “optimism,” a topic
still as current as today’s
news headlines.
The hero, Candide, travels through a world filled
with misery and suffering,
seeking the “best of all possible worlds,” discovering
that the only road to happiness is through work and
individual accomplishment.
Yet the creators of “Candide” keep us laughing as
our hero encounters catas-
Students of Dr. Pangloss (Greg Nacozy, far right) line up for
a lesson (Megan Whittle as Paquette, Eldridge Stephens as
Maximillian, Alexa Fitzpatrick as Cunegonde, and Bill Mader
as Candide. The show opens Thursday Oct. 22 at 8 p.m.
“I Can Do Bad All By Myself ”
Movie review
By shekeda williams
[email protected]
it clear that her self-centeredness will not allow her
to care for her relatives. The
church asks that April allow
Sandino (Adam Rodriguez)
to live with her in return
for fixing up her home. He
takes a big interest in these
suffering children that no
ones seems to care about.
Because he pays the bills,
April’s married boyfriend
Randy (Brian White) makes
it clear that she needs to get
rid of the children and Sandino.
Devastation is a
door-opener to redemption in this movie. This is another hit
for Tyler Perry. Some
say it is his best yet,
but I think Tyler Perry
is in competition with
himself to ensure that
he exceeds his own
expectations. Every
one of his movies
and plays show moral value, tradition,
strength, growth, and
April (Taraji Henson and Tanya (Mary J. Blige) with Sandino
individuality.
Like
his other work, this is
(Adam Rodriguez) in Tyler Perry’s latest play made into a movie.
a movie worth seeing
more than once.
Tyler Perry has done
it again with his outstanding feature movie, “I Can
Do Bad All by Myself.”
All-star casting includes
Brian White, Taraji P. Henson, Mary J. Blige, Gladys
Knight, and Marvin Winans,
just to name a few, and of
course, Perry as Madea and
Joe. The play starts off in a
chaotic ruckus when Madea
awakes to someone attempting to rob her. To her
surprise, it is three children
who live in the neighbor-
hood. They are hungry and
stealing in order to get food.
Madea then feeds the children, lets them sleep and
drives them around to find
a relative the next morning.
That relative is their aunt,
April (Taraji P. Henson).
April is the aunt
who hates children and has
none of her own. She had
been singing at the club all
night long and answers the
door with attitude. As the
movie goes on, April makes
Opening reception Thursday Oct. 8, 6-8 p.m.,
Delgado Fine Arts Gallery. Show runs through
Nov. 5, 2009
October 2009
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Page Fall into festivals
Part II looks at the rest of the season
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By Ashley Young
By Olivia Boykin
[email protected]
Named for a pirate famous for his hidden treasures, the town of Jean
Lafitte is a hidden treasure
in its own right, with the
best seafood that nature
can provide and the hardest
working people who love
farming.
The town has struggled
from damages left from
recent hurricane seasons.
Lafitte was one of the less
fortunate communities in
the paths of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Ike, and Gustav.
“A year ago this place
looked like a war zone,”
Lafitte Mayor Kerner said.
Now, after four long
years of rebuilding, the town
held its annual Seafood Festival during the weekend
of Sept. 12, 2009, the first
since Hurricane Katrina in
2005.
Despite all of the rain
that weekend, the festival
went on. Children had their
faces painted and took boat
rides up and down Bayou
Barataria. There was plenty
of music and Cajun food.
Whether you had on your
white shrimp boots or your
good ol’ dancing shoes, the
Molly Ringwalds really
brought the fest to life.
To keep getting your fest
on, you should check out
the Gumbo Festival Oct. 910 (1701 Bridge City Ave.)
Bridge City, La. There will
be carnival rides for all ages
and entertainment by local
musical acts. Bridge City’s
world-famous gumbo will
be affordably available in
addition to native Louisiana cooking for your eating
pleasure.
As you journey through
the “Fall of Festivals,” you
can enjoy the Crescent City
Blues and BBQ Festival in
downtown New Orleans,
Oct. 17-18 at Lafayette
Square (600 S. Maestri Pl.)
from 10-7 p.m. This is a free
celebration of soul, with lo-
cal arts and crafts, and
some of the best barbeque
in the South. For more info
go to www.jazzandheritage.org/blues-fest.
Other notable regional
festivals (within a days
drive) that celebrate Louisiana crops and heritage
include the Crowley Rice
Festival (Crowley, La.)
Oct. 15-17, which will
have a rice and Creole
cookery contest. The Rice
Fest will have live Country, Cajun, and Zydeco
acts featuring local musician Wayne Toups.
Louisiana Cotton Festival (Ville Platte, La.)
Oct. 16-18, which is a
family event that will includes authentic Acadian
music, a carnival, FaisDo-Do dancing, harvest
mass, pageant, and an ancient jousting game known
as Le Tourni.
The Louisiana Pecan
Festival (Colfax, La.) will
be held Nov. 6-8, and it celebrates the crop of pecans,
which was a staple food of
early Native American settlers.
The Orange Festival
(Belle Chasse, La.) Dec. 35, will have a 5K run/walk,
helicopter rides, a citrus
dessert cooking contest,
shrimp peeling and oyster
shucking contests, a carnival, and entertainment
from local musical acts.
Also known for the
making of the movie “Steel
Magnolias,” the town of
Natchitoches, La. will
hold its Festival of Lights
in December, similar to
City Park’s Celebration in
the Oaks which opens in
November.
For more information
on these and other festivals visit www.laffnet.org
and www.sellinglouisiana.
com/festivals.
Libra: (Sept. 24 - Oct. 23)
Aries: (March 21 - April 20)
Scorpio: (Oct. 24 - Nov. 22)
Taurus: (April 21 - May 21)
Try your best to trust your gut today.
You probably have to move beyond
your comfort zone in order to make
the most of the situation
Your deepest emotions are coming out, and that could mean
that you need to set aside some
time for you --or your sweetie.
Sagittarius: (Nov. 23 - Dec. 22)
Gemini: (May 22 - June 22) )
Capricorn: (Dec. 23 - Jan. 19)
Cancer: (June 23 - July 23)
Things just don’t seem workable right
now, but it’s time for you step up your
efforts and see if you can’t pull off a
miracle ending.
You need to reconcile an issue
that is dividing your private
from your social life. Do your
best to stay balanced!
Aquarius: (Jan. 20 - Feb. 19)
Leo: (July 24 - Aug. 23)
Your emotional side may be having an
effect on your job, schooling or other
important business, and that may be a
good thing.
You aren’t in the mood for people who’ve got nothing better
to do than complain, but that’s
what you’re facing anyway.
Pisces: (Feb. 20 - March 20)
Virgo: (Aug. 24 - Sept. 23)
You’re in the midst of some sweet intellectual activity, but you may need
to incorporate some ideas from people
you don’t usually get along with.
Your affinity for cultural events
is quite strong today, but you
may find that your people aren’t
as ready as you are.
Your sense of self makes you feel
more confident than ever, and now is
the perfect time to go for that new job
or ask out the new hottie next door.
Do something positive to take
care of your health today -- it’s
the best time to make a real difference!
The deeper you look into today’s
big mystery, the weirder it gets -If you keep at it, you should find
an answer to your questions.
You’ve got to appease someone of
some importance, and it might take
most of your emotional energy to do
so.
New zodiac art by Danny Nicholas
Southern Rep Theatre presents
“OPUS”
“Sex, drugs and chamber music”--New York Times
Through Oct. 11
Thurs. - Sat., 8 p.m., Sun. matinee 3 p.m.
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Obesity
Rollin’ on the river
Not good for you or your pet
Big Easy Rollergirls play Oct. 10
By Jonquil Relyveld
By Joy Weroha
[email protected]
“It’s a melding of athleticism, showmanship, and
sisterhood,” said Tulane
Law School Graduate Lacy
Smith, 25, aka Lacy Underalls. “Roller Derby makes
athletics available to everyone. You’ll find women
who come in and have never done anything athletic
in their lives and all of the
sudden they are motivated
to think about nutrition, fitness, and push to challenge
their bodies and I think it’s a
neat door opening.”
“Derby is attractive to
women because it doesn’t
matter if you can or can’t
skate, what you look like
or who you are, you can
just strap on skates and go
and kick ass,” said Heather
Goodwin, 34, aka Vieux
Carren.
The Big Easy Rollergirls
bout on a professional level
in the Women’s Flat Track
Derby Association (www.
wftda.com).
The 2010 season starts
after Mardi Gras but you
can whet your palate on
Saturday Oct. 10 – the start
of their Langiappe season.
Langiappe season runs
through November. The
Big Easy Rollergirls battle
it out against non-WFTDA
Southern Misfits of Hattiesburg.
The bout is at UNO’s
Human
Performance
Center (on the corner of
Leon C. Simon & Elysian
Fields). Doors will open at
6 p.m. with action starting
at 7 p.m. Advance tickets
are $12 and can be purchased at www.bigeasyrollergirls.com or
www.brownpapertickets.com., $15 at
the door, kids 12 and
under $6. B97 radio
will be broadcasting
a live remote.
photo by Kimberly Gaines
Craig Blackburn, Stephen Monnerjahn, Patricia Ehrle and Olantha Scott at Delgado’s Health Fair in
front of DSAGNO’s booth, one of many community partners at the event. To promote awareness of
individuals with Down Syndrome or other special needs, the “Buddy Walk” is set for Oct. 24, 2 p.m.,
Zephyr parking lot.
Our pets, especially as they
age, can get overweight and have
health problems,
too. Obese animals
can develop diabetes as well as heart
problems. Most of
all, it can create an
expensive medical
bill!
How do you know if
your animal is obese? In
an obese animal, you cannot easily find the ribs by
touch, and there is a lot of
visible fat that covers the
base of the tail, or swings
when the animal walks; the
waist line can’t be seen. In
an ideal healthy cat or dog,
you would be able to feel the
ribs, see the waist from the
side as well as the abdomen
tucked up under. (If your
animal has a “little” muscle
tissue, and the ribs and bone
are very noticeable with no
body fat, your animal would
be considered too thin).
Because we love and
would like to keep our
animal(s) around for as long
as possible, to help your animal lose weight, you should
gradually decrease the daily
amount given over a seven
to ten day period and try to
feed them on a schedule.
You should feed your
photo by KC White
Booty blocks,
Whips, Can openers, Vag Cams – all
terms for various
hits and plays in the
sport of flat track
roller derby. Nationally, its popularity has surged over
the past 5 years
– even catching
Hollywood’s eye in
“Whip It,” directed
by Drew Barrymore
and starring Ellen
Page now in theatres.
Roller
Derby
matches – called
bouts – are played
in two 30 minutehalves. There are two teams
each with a pivot, 3 blockers and a jammer whose job
it is to lap the pack (group
of blockers from each team)
on an oval flat track to score
points.
Offensive and defensive
plays occur simultaneously,
making team work essential. Within the pack, a team
must play cohesively to get
their jammer through while
preventing the other team’s
jammer from penetrating
the pack. Most hits, blocks,
and bruises occur in pack
play, although jammer on
jammer action can be strategically employed anywhere
on the track.
Athletes are women of
various ages, sizes, backgrounds, and ethnicities.
Unique to roller derby, all
players choose a moniker to
skate under.
photo by Scott Suntz
[email protected]
animal an adjusted amount
of nutritional food daily.
Check with your veterinarian for the proper amount.
Increasing your pet(s) protein may help in your animal’s weight loss goals.
When decreasing the
amount of intake, try not
to give treats when they are
in the weaning-off process.
Feeding your animal table
scraps can play a role in
increasing their obesity, so
this is a no-no.
Walking your dog to
simply playing with your
animal can create a longer
and happy life for the both
you. You may lose weight as
well, depending on how active you are with you pet(s).
Your animal will always be
ready for an activity and
never let you down.
Healthy portions of food
+ exercise = longer happier
life
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poll
October 2009
How do you think television exposure affects the children in our society
today compared to past generations?
Compiled by
Ashley Young
Beth Dowell
Cindy Marlbrough
Christy Twickler
Communications major
General Studies Major
Radiology major
“Children today watch television a lot more than in the
past. They seem to repeat
all of the bad things seen on
TV.”
“It affects our children in
such a way that we have
to filter the cartoons that
we let our children watch
today. Even Spongebob
has crude adult humor
in it.”
“Edgy television exposure
leads people to become
more desensitized to the
extremities that they are
watching.”
Staycation
Be a tourist in your own home
By Kimberly Gaines
[email protected]
Fall break for all Delgado campuses is Oct.
10-13. Saturday, Monday,
and Tuesday classes are
cancelled. It’s a four-day
weekend, extra time to run
errands, work, or just staycation.
In case you’re wondering, “staycation” is a vacation at home. With just a
couple of extra days off, it
may be difficult to squeeze
a getaway in.
When that’s the case, it
may be best to plan the best
staycation possible.
Here are some possibilities:
Staycation
with
friends: Women – you
can never be too old to
get with your girlfriends,
put on music, and do
each other’s hair and toes.
Maybe you could even
have a girl’s night out,
one that’s long overdue
because of school.
Staycation
with
friends: Guys – the
weather’s been nice, so
get with your friends and
have a bonding game of
flag football or basketball
outdoors. October is perfect
for outdoor fun.
Staycation: Guys/girls
--“Cuddlebuddy” time. It’s
that time of year when the
weather’s changing and it’s
perfect if you want to stay
in and cuddle up this fall
break.
Prepare a nice dinner,
have a little wine (if age permits), and rent a few movies to have a quiet, intimate
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staycation.
Delgado Westbank student Rashad Washington
shared his plans for the fall
holiday.
“I have time on my
hands now, I think I might
go see a movie,” he said.
Keyondra Young, medical coding major at City
Park campus expressed that
she doesn’t let school get
to her. She will spend her
break having fun, as well as
studying.
“The only thing that
will be different is that I can
sleep a little later,” Keyondra said.
One of the strong points
of a staycation is that you
can decide what you want
to do last minute, unlike a
planned vacation.
Make the most out of
your fall break and take the
time to relax if you don’t
have plans or the money to
go on a vacation away from
home.
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If you weren’t there, you missed it.......
Nationally-known comics Drew Thomas and Ron G. performed in the Dolphin Den Wednesday Sept. 30
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