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BREC: CAMP FOR CHILDREN, ADULTSThis summer, BREC will offer Camp Sunshine for children and adults with disabilities from June 3-July 26 from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. The fee is $85 per week and extended hours are available from 7-8 a.m. and 5-6 p.m...See Page 2
WELLS FARGO TO LEND $55 BILLIONWells Fargo & Company, Ameri-ca’s No. 1 small business lender to women- and diverse-owned busi-nesses, announced a commitment to lend a cumulative total of $55 billion to women-owned businesses in the U.S....See Page 5
MAYOR’S HEALTHY CITY INITIATIVEThe Healthy Corner Store program is one of five projects partially funded through the Fresh Beginnings food access and fitness education grant project, developed through Mayor-President Kip Holden’s Healthy City Initiative...See Page 7
Recently, the Southern University College of Agricultural, Family and Consumer Sciences, in collaboration with the Agricultural Research and Extension Center, hosted a workshop for 30 High School counselors to encourage student enroll in the food and agricultural sciences at Southern....See Page 3
SU AG CENTER HOST WORKSHOP RELIGION NEWSHinton Battle’s Love Lies, the musical “dramedy” about three women who arrive at a funeral, only to discover they were all engaged to the same dead man, kicks off a national tour schedule on April 2-7 in Washington, D.C...See Page 6
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Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The Congressional Black Caucus opposes a proposed House Re-publican budget for fiscal 2014 and instead offered an alternative budget that it said is faired to the voters the CBC represents.
Referring to the Republican plan CBC Chair Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) said in a state-ment, “It claims to put communi-ties first. But instead prioritizes tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy over funding for the programs that many Americans rely on, such as Medicare and Medicaid, Pell grants, job train-ing initiatives and much needed investments in transportation and
infrastructure.”Under the House Budget
plan, the deficit would be reduced by $4.6 trillion over 10 years, with $1.8 trillion of the reduction com-ing from the repeal of President Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act.
The GOP budget also pro-poses reforming Medicaid and food stamp programs by shift-ing most of that care to the states. Even if it passes the Republican-dominated House, it is expected to stall in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
The CBC’s alternative bud-get, subtitled “Pro Growth, Pro People, Pro America,” was sub-mitted just days after the Repub-lican– controlled House Budget Committee released their budget last week.
Not surprisingly, the GOP budget plan also falls in line with most Republicans pledging not raise taxes by calling for a reduc-tion in the corporate tax rate to 25 percent, as well as lowering the top income tax rate to 25 percent.
Instead of increasing revenue through taxes, the GOP budget proposal calls for a major reduc-tion in federal funding to depart-ments and projects they deem wasteful.
Taking the opposite ap-proach, the CBC drafted a plan it says can too reduce the deficit without cutting funds to areas that will help reduce poverty and preserve jobs.
“We believe investing in edu-
CBC Issues Offers Budget Plan
See BUDGET PLAN, on page 3The Congressional Black Caucus opposes a proposed House Republican budget for fiscal 2014 and instead offered an
alternative budget that it said is faired to the voters the CBC represents.
BATON ROUGE, LA - “Doing more with less” is not just words at the State Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Con-trol; it’s a reality. ATC is turn-ing in 20 of its State owned vehicles (40% of fleet), giv-ing up 15 positions (21% of
workforce), and will run a $1.4 million dollar surplus (1/4 of state budget) this fiscal year. These reductions are a result of the implementation of nu-merous efficiencies and cost saving mechanisms, such as performance based minimum
work standards for employees, new computer technologies, GPS devices, cutting positions, not filling vacancies, and fo-cusing on private sector style business practices aimed at
ATC Turning in 20 State Vehicles, 15 Positions and $1.4 Million Dollars
ATC Vehicles returned to the state.
See ATC, on page 2
BATON ROUGE, LA – The second annual Terracon Golf Benefit for Capital Area CASA Association was held Monday, March 11 at University Club Golf Course in Baton Rouge. The four-person scramble raised approximately $9,000 to support CASA’s advocacy work on behalf of abused and neglected children in East Baton Rouge Parish.
Forty-eight additional sponsors took part in the event, which attracted 80 golfers. Firms participating included contrac-tors, engineering firms, compa-nies associated with solid waste and analytical testing laboratory services. The event was a fun- Visiting at a golf benefit for CASA are, from left, Capital Area CASA Board
Chairwoman Michelle St. Martin, Lisa Smith, Robert Lacinak of Terracon, and
Capital Area CASA Executive Director Liz Betz.
Golf Benefit Supports for CASA
See CASA, on page 3
BY MIKE HASTEN
BATON ROUGE — A rul-ing issued Monday that the Jindal administration’s teacher tenure legislation adopted last year is unconstitutional could be used to challenge another education law that has been ruled uncon-stitutional.
Steve Monaghan, president of the Louisiana Federation of Teachers, which challenged the constitutionality of Act 1, said teachers across the state cel-ebrated Baton Rouge Judge Mi-chael Caldwell’s decision Mon-day throwing out the legislation because it violates a provision in the state Constitution that bills can have only one object.
The federation will defend that ruling against the adminis-tration’s planned appeal to the Louisiana Supreme Court, he said.
He also said the ruling could help the organization’s contention that Act 2, a school voucher bill that has been ruled unconstitutional for other reasons, also has multiple objects that make it unconstitutional.
Act 2 established a statewide voucher system and a method for creating numerous charter schools and a system to allow private or public education providers to offer courses for credit.
“When the bill was filed, we knew it was unconstitutional. It’s very affirming to have that expressed from the bench,” Mon-aghan said, but he recognizes how Caldwell’s ruling, “affects the in-terpretation at the highest court
Ruling On Teacher Tenure Changes Could Be Applied to School Voucher Fight
See VOUCHER, on page 2
Since it’s founding in 1946, the National MS Soci-ety has been the leader in the fight against MS. The National MS Society supports more MS research, offers more services for people with MS, provides more professional educational programs, and furthers more MS advocacy efforts than any other MS organization in the world.
The Louisiana office is one of a 50-state network of chapters and branches that represent the Society. The office is headquar-tered in Metairie and we serve the entire state. We provide local programs and services to more than 4,000 Louisianans affected by MS.
Programs provided in-
clude information and referral services, self-help groups, finan-cial aid, equipment assistance, wellness programs, education programs, youth programs, national teleconferences on research and treatment, care-giver relief, a lending library and professional counseling.
Other fundraising events include Bike MS and Renais-sance Party.
WALK MS DEMOGRAPHICS
are female, 30% are male -
ticipants is 35 years old
are married
2013 MS Walk to be Held in Baton Rouge
See MS WALK, on page 2
DENVER - Gov. John Hick-enlooper signed bills Wednes-day that place new restrictions on firearms and signaled a change for Democrats who traditionally shied away from gun control debate in Colorado - a state with a moderate streak and pioneer tradition of gun ownership and self-reliance.
Hickenlooper’s signature of the bills comes exactly eight months after dozens of people were shot in a movie theater in suburban Denver, the day after the executive director of the state’s Corrections Depart-ment was shot and killed at his home.
Police were searching for the person who killed Tom Cle-ments, and trying to figure out
if the attack was related to his job.
The bills require back-ground checks for private and online gun sales and ban am-munition magazines that hold more than 15 rounds.
Hickenlooper was sur-rounded by lawmakers who sponsored the bills at the sign-ing ceremony. Before signing the first bill, which requires purchasers to pay fees for background checks, he looked around with a solemn look on his face and then began sign-ing it.
Every time he signed a bill, applause erupted from lawmakers and their guests,
Landmark Gun Bills Signed in Colorado
See GUN BILL, on page 2
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which included families of the victims of last year’s mass shootings in Aurora and Con-necticut. They included Jane Dougherty, whose sister was killed in a deadly attack at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., and Sandy Phillips, whose daughter was killed in theater shooting in Aurora.
Phillips, who lost her daughter Jessica Ghawi, re-minded Hickenlooper that it was the eight month anniver-sary of the rampage.
“You’ve given us a real gift today,” she told the gov-ernor.
Later, Phillips added: “Thank you so much. You’re leading the entire country.”
Dougherty also went up to Hickenlooper to thank him with tears in her eyes. After signing the bills, Hickenlooper hugged various lawmakers and victims.
The bills thrust Colorado into the national spotlight as a potential test of how far the country might be willing to go on new restrictions after the horror of the Newtown and Aurora shootings.
“I am happy the gover-nor is signing common-sense legislation that reduces gun violence in our communities by keeping guns out of the hands of criminals, domes-tic violence offenders and the seriously mentally ill,” said Democratic Rep. Rhonda Fields, who represents the district where an assailant opened fire July 20 during a midnight showing of “Dark Knight Rises.”
The shootings led Hick-enlooper and other state Democrats to take on gun control, and they have suc-ceeded where their party has not in most other states.
This month, Washing-
ton State’s Democrat-controlled House couldn’t advance a univer-sal background check bill. A bill requiring background checks at gun shows in New Mexico also failed in the Democrat-led Leg-islature.
The bills getting Hickenloop-er’s signature are centerpieces of a package of Democratic gun bills introduced this session. With his signature, gun sales and transfers between private parties and purchases conducted online will be subjected to background checks. Ammunition magazines that hold more than 15 rounds will be banned and subject to criminal penalties. Both bills take effect July 1.
Lawmakers debated fire-arms proposals after the Col-umbine High School shootings in Colorado in 1999, and began requiring background checks for buyers at gun shows. But nothing they did then was as sweeping as the proposals they took up this year.
Republicans have warned that voters will punish Hicken-looper and other Democrats who voted in favor of the measures.
“I’m telling you, they have overreached, and there are going to be electoral consequences,” said Republican Sen. Greg Bro-phy.
A Colorado-based manu-facturer of magazines plans to relocate because of the new restrictions. Republicans have bashed Democrats, saying their proposal to limit magazine sizes will drive jobs from the state, and ultimately won’t prevent crimi-nals from getting larger maga-zines in other states.
Some county sheriffs also opposed the new background checks, arguing they’re unen-forceable and endanger people’s Second Amendment rights. Two ballot measures have already been proposed to try to undo the gun restrictions.
GUN BILL from page 1
is unknown.”Caldwell said in an earlier
ruling that the portion of Act 1 that makes it harder for teachers to gain tenure and easier to lose it could survive. But portions that stripped school boards of some powers and required state review of local superintendents’ contracts were unconstitutional because they made the bill have multiple objects.
The judge acknowledged Monday that he had misinter-preted the intent of the legis-lation and that the entire law, not just a portion, was uncon-stitutionally constructed.
Monaghan said that al-though it was good for teach-ers “It’s a better day for de-mocracy than for teachers,” the head of the teachers union said.
He said he hopes that the Jindal administration realizes that putting multiple pieces of legislation into one bill is not the proper way to handle new laws, but he doubts it from the administration’s reactions.
VOUCHER from page 1
have children
a college degree or completed some college work
have a household income of $50,000 or greater
employed in professional or technical fields
make purchases online
a personal connection to MS
The MS walk in BATON ROUGE will be Saturday, April 13 on Perkins Rowe. It will be on the 1mile route. Registration
walk will at 8 a.m.
MS WALK from page 1
maximizing productivity and eliminating waste.
“It’s amazing what can happen in only two years by demanding that people work harder and smarter. The tough-est part is transforming the cul-ture of doing things just because “that’s the way they have always been done” to a culture focused on exceptional and efficient cus-
tomer service,” said Commis-sioner Troy Hebert.
Some examples of ATC “doing more with less”:
to receive a permit from 35 days to 10 days.
a month.
increased by 400 percent. -
fices to bring point of service closer to our customers.
businesses with clean records. For more information,
please contact: Troy Hebert, Commissioner of Alcohol and Tobacco Control at (225) 925-4041 or [email protected].
ATC from page 1
BATON ROUGE, LA - Mu Sigma Chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Incorporated cele-brated eighteen years of introduc-ing young women to the Baton Rouge community on Saturday, recently at Stage One. “Mu Sig-ma’s Expressions of Opal Beau-ties” was the theme of this year’s debutante cotillion as five young ladies were presented during the gala affair.
Sorority member and Chaplain Tia Sibley delivered the invocation followed by the welcome from Sorority Presi-dent Deborah Daniels. Sorority member Melissa Chavis served as the Mistresses of Ceremonies along with Master of Ceremo-nies, Darryl Charles. They were introduced by sorority member, Rochelle Howard. The official presentation was kicked off by the final promenade of 2012 Cotillion Queen Ronnice’ Danielle Wash-ington. This was followed by the traditional Cotillion Grand March performed by the parents of the debutantes and the debutantes’ escorts to the accompaniment of the Leroy Pero Band.
As the 2013 debutantes were presented, Chavis and Charles invited the audience to
view the unfolding of five rare and esteemed beauties. The debutantes were spotlighted as a representation of the unique qual-ities of the many varieties and colors of opals. Their academic and social accomplishments were accentuated as positive indicators of the future growth of five pre-cious young ladies. Carrying a bouquet of royal blue and gold roses, accentuated with gold and royal blue ribbons, the debutantes were escorted by their fathers or a significant male figure in their lives.
Introduced was Queen Da’Jiaron Rochelle Houston, daughter of Jacqueline and Ro-land Houston, III and her father presented her. First Princess Ty’Nisha La’Sha Lodge, daugther of Tonya Lands and Frank Lodge, was presented by her grandfather, Samuel Lands. Second Princess Nyla Thomas Hall, daughter of Kim and Byron Hall, Sr., was pre-sented by her father. Debutante Chelsea Mariah Maple, daughter of Charlotte and Dwayne Maple, Sr., was presented by her father. Debutante De’Leon Domineek Williams, daughter of Jacqueline and Rev. Anthony Burton, was presented by her father.
Debutante escorts for the evening were Roland Houston, IV, Bobby Duncan, Jr., Byron Dwayne Hall, Jr., Dwayne Maple, Jr., and Breon Williams.
Washington crowned
Houston who was also pre-sented a rhinestone scepter and a dozen yellow tea roses, the so-rority’s official flower. During the Queen’s promenade, Houston greeted cotillion guests and her royal subjects. Roland Houston, III serenaded his daugther and her court with a special song in his daugther’s honor.
Daniels and Deirdre Har-
ris Stepter, First Vice-President, recognized sorority members who had provided extraordi-nary assistance to the success of the debutante cotillion. Spe-cial awards were presented to Tobrina Jackson, Susan Wash-ington, Tynette Hawkins, April Parkman and Heather Lewis.
Mu Sigma’s Expressions of Opal Beauties by Mu Sigma Chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority
(left to right) Queen Da’Jiaron Houston in front. Second Row - De’leaon Domineek Williams, First Princess Ty’Nisha La’Sha
Lodge, Second Princess Nyla Thomas Hall and Chelsea Mariah Maple.
(left to right) front row - President Deborah Daniels, Aislinn Herrera, Deirdre Harris
Stepter, Rochelle Howard. Second row - Charis Carey and Jacqueline Hunt.
See MU SIGMA, on page 3
EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH – This summer, BREC will offer Camp Sunshine for children and adults with dis-abilities from June 3-July 26 from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. The fee is $85 per week and ex-tended hours are available
for an additional fee of $12 per week.
Camp Sunshine is a summer camp designed for individuals with mental and developmental disabilities, ages 6-25. Camp Sunshine is for individuals who need to function within a staff ratio of 1:5. This staff is specialized, has experience in the field work-ing with children with mental and developmental disabilities and is a very passionate for the work that they do with these children. BREC offers Camp Sunshine at different locations across the parish t his year at inclusive recreation camps to ensure that these children do participate in inclusive activi-ties. Even though they will be with inclusive camps, they will remain with Camp Sunshine staff following the same recre-ation curriculum, recreational games, arts and crafts, music, outdoor adventures and field trips as the other camp.
BREC conducts recre-ation assessments to determine if Camp Sunshine is the right choice for each child or if they should be at a typical, inclu-sive camp. These assessments begin April 9-11 from 2-6 p.m. in the BREC Interactive Room; 6201 Florida Blvd. Every child with a disability must have an
assessment performed. BREC will screen each child’s ability and needs in order for him/her to function to its fullest ability at camp. Children who require any of the following: bathroom assistance, feeding assistance and negative behav-iors are required to have an aide provided by the parents/guardians.
To schedule an assess-ment appointment, call 225-
[email protected] Sunshine Loca-
tions:
(6-12 years old):
per week)
1801 Kathy Dr. (limit 15 per week)
19550 Plank Road (limit 5 per week)
14024 Highland Road (limit 5 per week)
Camp Sunshine sites (13-16 years old):
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Blvd. (limit 2 0 per week)
6850 Pettit Road (limit 20 per week)
25 years old):
Florida Blvd. (limit 20 per week)
It is the BREC mission to provide parks and recreational opportunities for all residents of East Baton Rouge Parish.
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cation, saving the jobs of teach-ers and first responders, and rebuilding our neighborhoods while eliminating corporate tax loopholes and ensuring the wealthiest pay their fair share is the balanced way to put America back on the road to prosperity,” Rep. Fudge said.
In a telephone conversation Friday with the media, Fudge said. ““We do not believe Con-gress needs to sacrifice our com-munities in order to balance our budget.”
The CBC budget noted Con-gress and President Obama have already passed and signed into law $2.4 billion in deficit reduction for 2013-2022. It suggested that Congress only has to reduce the deficit by $1.6 billion keep with Obama’s goal of reducing the defi-cit by $4 billion in 10 years.
The Congressional Black Caucus’s budget tracks a Senate
Democrats budget proposal since 2009 that proposes $1 trillion in tax revenue increases over the next 10 years through an “across the board limit on tax expenditures” claimed by the top 2 percent of earners.
Under the budget outline by the CBC,$4.2 trillion in rev-enue would be raised as a result of closing tax loopholes, ending corporate subsidies, and gut-ting preferential tax rates for the wealthy.
The budget also calls for the cancellation of the seques-ter which is set to cut spending across the board by $1.2 trillion dollars over the next 10 years. The Congressional Budget Office
this year alone.Other reports, including the
one conducted by Stephen Fuller, an economist at George Mason University in Virginia, suggest
the cuts could cost 2.14 million jobs and raise the unemployment rate by 1.5 percent over the next year.
Add that on top of the cuts to unemployment benefits,( Blacks are unemployed at a rate of 13.8 percent); early childhood educa-tion programs, which benefit low-income students; and the overall impact on jobs in the public sector, of which Blacks comprise over 20 percent of the work force; and sequestration’s impact on African Americans is all the more real.
“Opposition to the seques-ter is nearly unanimous across the country, yet the Republican majority has refused to take se-questration off the table,” the CBC budget states. “Sequestration was delayed until March 1, 2013 by the American Taxpayer Relief Act, but it should be outright cancelled so that it does not continue to loom over our economy.”
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Sibley presented trophies and special awards to each debu-tante including recognition as honorary mayors and keys to the city from Mayor-President Kip Holden. Sorority member Melissa Smith Noel presented debutante scholarships to Hous-ton, Lodge and Hall. Stepter and Cotillion Co-Chairperson, Ais-linn Herrera, presented the cov-eted “Miss Congeniality” award to De’Leon Williams, an honor bestowed upon Williams by her fellow debutantes.
The debutantes and their
escorts performed the traditional Cotillion Waltz. Parents were invited to join in the Dedicatory Waltz to conclude the presen-tation program. Afterwards, guests enjoyed a buffet reception with general dancing wrapping up the evening.
Sorority member, Charis Carey, served as cotillion co-chairperson with Herrera. The 2013 debutante cotillion committee included Daniels, Howard, Jacqueline Hunt, En-joli Reynolds and Trudy Segars, now deceased. Stepter served
as the Debutante Program Co-ordinator.
Sigma Gamma Rho Soror-ity’s mission is to enhance the quality of life within the com-munity. Public service, leader-ship development and educa-tion of youth are the hallmark of the sorority’s programs and activities. Sigma Gamma Rho addresses concerns that impact the society educationally, eco-nomically and civically. Con-gruent with our mission, Mu Sigma’s debutante program was designed to cultivate fine character, promote leadership development and prepare young ladies for a productive future.
MU SIGMA from page 2
BATON ROUGE, LA – Re-cently, the Southern University College of Agricultural, Family and Consumer Sciences, in col-laboration with the Agricultural Research and Extension Center, hosted a workshop for 30 High
School counselors to encourage student enroll in the food and agricultural sciences at Southern. The workshop was sponsored by USDA/NIFA grant entitled “JAGS in AG: Recruitment, Ex-ploration, and Retention.”
For further detail, please contact Renita Marshall at 225-
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Chancellor Leofrey Williams welcomed counselors.
The president of Xavier University of New Orleans, Dr. Norman Francis, will be the featured speaker at the Annual Scholarship Jazz Brunch to be hosted by the Baton Rouge Chapter of the Xavier University Alumni Association from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sunday, March 24, 2013, at the Lod Cook Alumni Conference Center, 3838 West Lakeshore Drive on the LSU Campus in Baton Rouge.
According to Vivian Guillory, president of the local Xavier University Alumni Chapter and newly elected president of the National Xavier University Alumni Association, all proceeds from this event help to provide scholarships and financial assistance to deserving Xavier University students. Tickets are on sale for a fee and are available by contacting Guil-lory at 225-205-1544 or by e-mail at [email protected]; or by contacting the chapter treasurer Karen Yarbrough at
mail at [email protected]. Tickets will also be available at the door. Guill-lory said, “a silent auction will also be conducted at the activ-ity which is officially called the Frank Hayden Memorial Scholarship Jazz Brunch and Silent Auction in honor of the deceased sculptor Frank Hayden who was a Xavier graduate.
Dr. Norman Francis, who is also an alumnus of Xavier, is the university’s first and only lay president and has been guiding its destiny for 45 years. Today
he is considered America’s longest serving university president and a respected leader in higher education circles. In fact, his peers have ranked him as one of the 100 most effective college and university leaders. As president of the nation’s only historically Black and Catho-lic university, Francis has seen Xavier more than double its enrollment, broaden its cur-riculum, expand its campus and strengthen its financial base and has helped to foster Xavier’s tradition of academic excellence. Francis’ tenure has also witnessed the suc-cessful completion of sev-eral capital campaigns and a dramatic increase in alumni giving. Xavier’s paltry 1968 endowment of $2.2 million has grown to more than $144 million.
In 2005 when Hurricane Katrina devastated its cam-pus, Francis led the recovery of Xavier, making good his pledge to reopen in less the five months. In addition to
that challenge, he accepted the role as chairman of the Louisiana Recovery Author-ity following Katrina. For his visionary leadership, he was awarded the United States’ Presidential Medal of Freedom in December 2006. More recently, Francis and the Xavier campus were privi-leged to host President Barack Obama who chose the Xavier campus as the site to deliver his major address on the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
In addition to his efforts on behalf of the University, Francis had done much to dis-tinguish himself as a family man and a community leader. Moreover, during his career, Francis has served as an advi-sor to seven presidential ad-ministrations, as president of the American Association of Higher Education and as president of the United Negro College Fund. He has also been chairman of the Edu-cational Testing Service and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, to name a few.
He has been awarded 40 honorary degrees and a host of other awards and cita-tions. Just last year, Diverse Issues in Higher Education magazine devoted an entire special issue to Dr. Francis, entitled “Living Legend.” He and his wife Blanche have been married more than 50 years and have reared six children.
The Brian Murray Quartet will provide musi-cal entertainment during the brunch.
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filled day with plenty of door prizes, contest hole prizes, food and drinks.
CASA is fortunate to have the support of Terracon – an en-gineering and consulting firm providing geotechnical, envi-ronmental, construction materi-als and facilities services with a local office in Baton Rouge.
All proceeds from the golf tournament support Cap-ital Area CASA Association,
a nonprofit organization that recruits, trains and supports community volunteers who advocate on behalf of abused and neglected children in need of safe and permanent homes. The fundraiser enables Capi-tal Area CASA Association to continue its efforts to provide a CASA volunteer for every child who needs one in East Baton Rouge Parish.
Photo information: Visiting
at a golf benefit for CASA are, from left, Capital Area CASA Board Chairwoman Michelle St. Martin, Lisa Smith and Robert Lacinak of Terracon, and Capital Area CASA Executive Director Liz Betz.
CASA stands for Court Appointed Special Advocates. Capital Area CASA Association’s mission is to advocate for timely placement of children in perma-nent, safe and stable homes.
CASA from page 1
BY MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMANNNPA Columnist
“It will not be sufficient for
Morehouse College, for any college,
for that matter, to produce clever
graduates, men fluent in speech and
able to argue their way through; but
rather honest men, men who can
be trusted in public and private—
who are sensitive to the wrongs,
the sufferings, and the injustices
of society and who are willing to
accept responsibility for correcting
the ills.”
– Benjamin E. Mays
President, Morehouse Col-
lege
Benjamin E. Mays, More-house College’s president from
kind of men and leaders he ex-pected Morehouse to produce. As a student at neighboring Spelman College, I heard and saw President Mays often and had the privilege of singing in Morehouse’s Sunday morning chapel choir and hearing this great man’s wisdom. Of the six college presidents in the Atlanta University academic complex, Mays was the one students looked up to most. He inspired and taught us by example and stood by us when we challenged Atlanta’s Jim Crow laws in the sit-in movement to open up
public accommodations to all citizens.
President Mays taught us that “not failure, but low aim is sin” and warned that “the trag-edy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our com-placency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our liv-ing below our capacities.” As students we hungrily internal-ized his unerring belief that we were God’s instruments for help-ing transform the world, and like many others who heard him frequently, I often repeated his words. One of the many More-house students President Mays helped shape was Martin Luther King, Jr. whom he lovingly eu-logized on that campus after his 1968 assassination.
Who are our Benjamin May-ses today – our moral compasses in crucial sectors of American life? What a contrast the Mays example is to that of a college president in the headlines re-cently, James Wagner of Emory University. He was criticized for
declaring that every slave would be counted as three-fifths of a person for purposes of state representation in Congress as an example of “noble achieve-ment” that allowed Northern
and Southern White congress-men to “continue working to-ward the highest aspiration they both shared—the aspiration to form a more perfect union.”
We have struggled for over two centuries to overcome the crippling birth defects and glar-ing hypocrisies between the eloquent words that “all men are created equal with certain inalienable rights” in our Decla-ration of Independence belied by slavery, Native American geno-cide, and exclusion of women and non-propertied White men in our founders’ deeds. That tragic hypocrisy resulted in a bloody Civil War that took more than 530,000 American lives and a post-Reconstruction era with Jim Crow laws, decades of struggle, and many lost lives, countless marches, lawsuits, and legislative efforts to achieve major civil rights legislation. And we must still be vigilant and fight to protect the hard earned social and racial prog-ress over the last half century from being undermined by voter suppression, the cradle to prison pipeline, mass incarceration, and pervasive economic and educa-tional inequalities. What kind of message did President Wagner’s words send to Emory’s Black students, who were quickly joined by some White students,
faculty members, and others in denouncing his endorsement of the decision that codified less-than-fully-human status as “5/5ths outrageous”?
And what message did it send to students and citizens of every color when Mary Jane Saunders, the president of Flor-ida Atlantic University, sold the naming rights to its stadium for $6 million to the private prison company GEO Group? At a pro-test rally on campus, an attorney for the American Civil Liber-ties Union cited GEO Group’s “well-publicized record of abuse and neglect,” and quoted from an order of U.S. Judge Carlton Reeves describing one of their correctional facilities for minors and older teenage prisoners in Mississippi as “a cesspool of unconstitutional and inhuman acts and conditions” and “a pic-ture of such horror as should be unrealized anywhere in the civilized world.”
I do not believe this is the ideal of universities producing leaders “who are sensitive to the wrongs, the sufferings, and the injustices of society and who are willing to accept responsibility for correcting the ills” that Presi-dent Mays sought and taught. Who are the successor leaders
BY MAURINE BEASLEY As we celebrate Women’s
History month, we should pay homage to a resolute group of women who deserve recognition during Sunshine Week, another March event. Sunshine Week calls attention to journalists who courageously brought to light in-formation that governmental and other authorities prefer to keep hidden. Their notable ranks in-clude women who have insisted for nearly two centuries on their right to cover the nation’s capital in spite of prejudice against their gender.
Three decades before the Civil War, Anne Royall, an impoverished widow, started her own newspaper, Paul Pry, in Washington. As the name im-plied, she had no hesitancy in exposing abuses of power such as unauthorized use of government horses and carriages by public officials.
Ridiculed as unwomanly and argumentative, Royall eked out a meager living as a Washing-ton journalist for nearly a quarter-century, ending her career in 1854 with a prayer that “the Union of these States may be eternal.” She had only fifty-four cents when she died at the age of 85.
Her successors also en-countered hostility on grounds they had no place in the man’s world of political reporting. In 1850, Jane G. Swisshelm, the first woman journalist to insist on sit-ting beside men in the Capitol
press galleries, had to give up her seat because she dared publish unseemly details of the private life of Daniel Webster, one of the most
famous senators of his day.
Women did not actually find a place in the press galleries until the suffrage campaign that culminated in women getting the vote in 1920, but even then they were not always welcome.
Although women replaced men in Washington journalism during World War II, when it ended editors resumed hiring practices that relegated many women journalists to social re-porting.
Relatively few women had access to news that told the public about the activities of its officials. In the 1950s, however, Maxine Cheshire, a social reporter for The Washington Post, investigated Mamie Eisenhower’s acceptance of gifts from foreign govern-ments. Cheshire was among 10 Washington women journalists
article headlined “The Witches of Washington,” which pictured its subjects as competitive and unfeminine in their pursuit of news. Women were refused membership in the prestigious
and allowed to cover speeches of officials there only by sitting in a hot, crowded balcony, while men reporters took notes and dined
Dear Governor Jindal,
We, the undersigned mem-bers of the Louisiana Clergy, are writing to express our deep con-cern about the tax proposal you are proposing for the upcoming legislative session.
We serve in many different faith traditions, across a broad spectrum of people and commu-nities in this State. As diverse as these traditions may be, we find unity around a few fundamen-tal ethical principles: fairness, a concern for the least of these and an obligation to make our voices heard when matters of justice are at stake.
Our concerns about the pro-posed tax plan are as follows.
First, we are concerned that Louisiana already has one of the most regressive tax systems in the nation, putting a dispro-portionately high burden on low and moderate income families. Currently, families earning mini-mum wage (less than $16,000 per year) pay 10.6% of their income in state and local taxes; the aver-age Louisiana family pays 10.1% of its income in taxes; while the wealthiest Louisiana families
(earning over $1 million per year) pay only 4.6% of their income in state and local taxes. That is unac-ceptable, as a starting point.
Second, we are concerned that the reason we have such an unfair and regressive tax struc-ture is our State’s heavy reliance on the sales tax. It is universally recognized that sales taxes cre-ate a disproportionate burden on poor and moderate-income families, who spend nearly all they earn. Louisiana already has the 3rd highest sales tax rate in the nation.
Third, we are concerned that your tax plan seeks to in-crease our state’s sales tax rates even further. Any increase in the sales tax would deepen the root causes behind the unfair and re-gressive nature of our state’s tax structure and worsen the burden for poor and moderate income families in our community.
Fourth, we are concerned that your plan proposes to use the increased revenue generated by a heavier burden on poor and moderate income families, not to fund any of the important needs
Washington, D.C. - Con-gressman Cedric Richmond (LA-02) released the following statement on the budget intro-duced by House Budget Com-mittee Chairman Paul Ryan:
“I am absolutely disgusted by the “new” Ryan budget be-cause once again, it confirms that House Republicans have chosen to neglect the most vulnerable among us and en-danger hard-won health care gains, said Congressman Cedric Richmond.”
“This budget is full of stale and dangerous proposals that gut programs that invest in health care, education and infra-structure, programs that Loui-
siana’s working families need. My Republican colleagues are focused solely on cutting spend-ing when the best way to reduce the deficit and pay down the debt includes making smart in-vestments. Infrastructure, edu-cation, dredging and innovation are all smart investments that would ultimately pay down the debt. This is how we take active steps towards investing in the American people.
We need to prioritize those who look to our leader-ship to provide critical invest-ments for their future and that of their families. The Ryan Bud-get completely discounts the importance of this.”
BY GEORGE E. CURRYNNPA Columnist
There are some painful things from my childhood in segregated Tuscaloosa, Ala., that I will never forget. At the top of the list is Gov. George C. Wallace’s June 11, 1963 “Stand in the School House Door” at the University of Alabama. I had just completed my soph-omore year at Druid High School when Wallace came to my hometown to prevent two African Americans – Viv-ian Malone and James Hood – from registering for classes at Foster Auditorium.
In his inaugural address as governor, Wallace had promised, “segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever.” In an attempt to maintain segrega-tion, Wallace showboated at the university with a state’s rights speech in which he had the gall to mention that the federal government was formed on the premise that “individuals are endowed with the rights of life, liberty, and property…” Of course, he was referring to White individuals, not people who looked like me.
Deputy U.S. Attorney
General Nicholas Katzenbach asked Wallace to step aside and allow Malone and Hood to reg-ister. After Wallace refused, Katzenbach left and placed a call to President John F. Ken-nedy. The president federalized the Alabama National Guard and Katzenbach returned later in the day with Gen. Henry Graham, who was now under federal command.
Graham told Wallace, “Sir, it is my sad duty to ask you to step aside under the orders of the president of the United States.” After a few more com-ments, Wallace stepped aside and Vivian Malone and James Hood registered as students.
That was a joyous day on the west side of town, where most Blacks lived.
A year earlier, riots erupted in the state immediately west of us when James Meredith de-segregated the University of Mississippi at Oxford. Another segregationist governor, Ross Barnett, led the opposition to Meredith’s enrollment. U.S. Marshals and Army military police were called in to restore order. Two people were killed during the riots – a French journalist on assignment and a jukebox repairman. Mere-
dith graduated with a political science degree on August 18, 1963, about two months after Wallace’s Stand in the School House Door in neighboring Alabama.
In 1966, Meredith returned to Mississippi to embark on what he called the “March Against Fear,” an effort to en-courage Blacks in Mississippi to vote. Thirty miles into his 220-mile march from Memphis to Jackson, he was shot sev-eral times by a White sniper. Meredith survived the bullet wounds.
On the east side of Ala-bama, Lester Maddox was elected governor of Georgia in 1966, largely on his reputation as a staunch segregationist. When Blacks tried to integrate his restaurant in 1964, Maddox confronted them with an ax handle. He sold his restaurant rather than comply with the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
North Carolina Gov. Bev-erly Perdue broke with that racist past when she made the bold decision to pardon the Wilmington Ten just before completing her term. Upon issuing the pardons – the only ones she signed in office – Perdue said, “I believe the
Wilmington Ten were victims of the times, and victims of a deep-seeded prejudice and racism that circumvented any kind of likelihood that their trial was fair.”
A federal appeals court reached the same conclusion in 1980 when it overturned their conviction on arson and conspiracy charges in connec-tion with the firebombing of a White-owned grocery store. Although an earlier governor had commuted the sentences of the Wilmington Ten, only Perdue would issue pardons of innocence, which had the same effect of their never having been convicted of a crime.
At a luncheon last week sponsored by the National Newspaper Publishers Asso-ciation Foundation, Perdue has honored for her courage.
For all the talk of a New South, nothing symbolized a changed region more than Per-due sharing a stage with Ben Chavis, the leader of the Wilm-ington Ten, and Mary Alice Thatch, whose activist father preceded her as publisher of the Wilmington Journal.
Mary Alice Thatch said, “I
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Rep. Richmond Responds to Ryan Budget Proposal
Women and Sunshine WeekSee THE PAST, on page 5
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Fifth, we are concerned that your proposed tax plan will be unsustainable over the long term. Historically, sales have grown much more slowly than personal income, in our State and across the country. Swap-ping income taxes for sales taxes replaces a faster-growing revenue source with a slower-growing revenue source. We worry that your proposal would
be “revenue neutral” in its first year, but “revenue negative” over the longer term. If our State begins to rely even more heavily upon a slower-growing portion of our economy for revenue, we will face deficits and service cuts down the road that make our current ones seem small.
We believe that any pro-posed law that would increase the tax burden on low- and moderate- income families in order to decrease it for wealthy families must be judged an un-just law.
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examples of harassment on Capitol Hill in an oral history interview. She cited an instance in which a senator directed her to his “hideaway” office to get an important economics report and “actually tore a button off my blouse trying to get at me.” She fought him off, but remem-bered to pick up the report as she left.
Today, women are esti-mated to represent about half of the Washington press corps and have proved themselves capable of carrying on the highest traditions of journal-ism. For example, Dana Priest
of the Washington Post is a two-time Pulitzer Prize win-ner. Along with Anne Hull, she exposed the degraded living conditions for wounded sol-diers at Walter Reed Medical Center, which led to the res-ignation of top officials and improvements in health care for veterans.
She previously uncov-ered secret overseas prisons that the Central Intelligence Agency used for interrogation of suspected terrorists.
Somewhat akin to Anne Royall nearly two centuries ear-lier, Priest is motivated to bring an abuse to light as a way of ensuring that democracy con-tinues. In a television interview on secret prisons, Priest said, “We tried to figure out a way to get as [much] information to the public as we could without damaging national security.”
Women have fought hard and responsibly for the oppor-tunity to report significant news from Washington.
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don’t know if you remember Michelle Obama saying, ‘For once in my life, I’m proud of my country.’ I want to say to Gov. Perdue, for once in my life, I am proud of North Caro-lina. Thank you so much.”
Perdue said she was only doing what was right.
As we have seen, doing the right thing has not al-ways been the hallmark of White governors in the South.
The sight of the former governor standing beside Chavis and Thatch was an-other memory I will always cherish. I’l l never forget
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BATON ROUGE, LA – Verizon Wireless has named Norma Moreno-Bernal associate director – Indirect Sales for the Houston/Gulf Coast Region of Verizon Wireless.
Moreno-Bernal brings to this position more than four-teen years of wireless industry sales experience. She joined Verizon Wireless as field rep-resentative – Indirect Sales in
-tion as district manager – In-direct Sales for the Houston/Gulf Coast Region’s Houston district, she led her region to achieve record-breaking pro-ductivity results.
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SAN FRANCISCO – Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC), America’s No. 1 small business lender1 and a leading lender to women- and diverse-owned businesses, today an-nounced a commitment to lend a cumulative total of $55 billion to women-owned businesses in the U.S. by the year 2020, up-dating its lending commitment first established in 1995. The an-nouncement will be made by Lisa Stevens, Wells Fargo lead executive for Small Business and West Coast Regional Banking president, at the Hispanas Or-ganized for Political Equality (HOPE) 22nd Annual Latina History Day conference in Los Angeles.
March is National Wom-en’s History Month, and Wells Fargo has a rich history of work-ing with women business own-ers and providing them access to capital and financial services. Since introducing the women’s lending commitment 18 years ago, Wells Fargo has provided more than $38 billion in capital to women business owners, a group that grew in size by more than 20 percent from 2002 to
Census data. Today, women, according to the National Wom-en’s Business Council, own ap-proximately 30 percent of busi-nesses in the U.S.
“Women-owned busi-nesses are among America’s fastest growing segments, and we are honored to sup-port their role in shaping the future of small business,” said Stevens. “As a leader in lend-ing to women, Wells Fargo is dedicated to helping women succeed financially — in busi-ness and personally.”
Wells Fargo’s first lend-ing commitment in 1995 estab-lished a goal to lend $1 billion to women business owners over three years. Fueled by the contin-ued growth of women business owners, the goal was increased, most recently in 2003.
In addition to the cumula-tive lending goal, Wells Fargo
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The dollar remained lower against the euro after the Federal Reserve signaled gains in employ-ment aren’t yet sufficient for policy makers to move closer to reducing stimulus measures.
The Fed said the nation’s un-employment rate will hit the cen-tral bank’s threshold for raising interest rates sometime in 2015. The Fed under Chairman Ben S. Bernanke will continue buying
$85 billion of bond per month, known as quantitative easing, or QE, as it seeks to reduce the un-employment rate that hasn’t fallen
2008. The euro strengthened from a four-month low against the dol-lar as Cyprus sought alternatives to the European Union plan to help the nation avoid a banking collapse.
“I don’t see anything in
the statement that would talk about any difference for QE,” said Dan Dorrow, the head of research at Faros Trading LLC in Stamford, Connecticut, said in a telephone interview. “We’ll get the nuances for that in the press conference.”
The dollar fell 0.6 percent to $1.2958 as of 2:04 p.m. in New York. It strengthened 0.4 percent to 95.52 yen.
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NEW YORK, NY -- Hinton Battle’s Love Lies, the musical “dramedy” about three women who arrive at a funeral, only to discover they were all engaged to the same dead man, kicks off a national tour schedule on April
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Choir Search will be launched in key cities beginning in Washing-ton D.C. on March 23rd. Choirs large and small, including high school and college choirs will be asked to select one of two gospel songs to perform, prior to coming before the panel of local celebrity judges, including popular radio personalities.
The cast of Hinton Bat-tle’s Love Lies includes 16-time
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LOS ANGELES -- What many are hailing as the pos-sible scariest Rapture movie ever, ‘Final’ is set to release in theaters in August 2013.
“We wanted to show an extremely realistic version of the Rapture,” says director Tim Chey. “What would the Rapture be like in Tokyo or Buenos Aires?”
Based on the ground-breaking novel, ‘Final’ was shot in six countries and captures the lives of four characters whose lives spin out of con-trol in the days immediately following the Rapture.
“This film is extremely violent, yet extremely evangeli-cal,” says Chey. “It’s for adults only. The film will hopefully scare the living daylights out
of this lost world in these final days.”
An ‘Adults Only’ warning is issued to those viewing the trailer.
In the film, Colin Nelson desperately attempts to flee to Bora Bora. Keenly aware that he’s in the Tribulation period, his only hope is in a mysteri-ous man named Frankie. In Tokyo, a prize-winning jour-nalist, Masashi, tries to unravel the disappearance of millions of people as the government closes in on him. In Buenos Aires, Marie searches for her final relative as time runs out. And on a deserted island in the South Pacific, Tom Wiseman, an avowed atheist professor, attempts to be rescued after his plane goes down.
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The best path to a healthy weight may be a good night’s sleep.
For years researchers have known that adults who sleep less than five or six hours a night are at higher risk of being overweight. Among children, sleeping less than 10 hours a night is associ-ated with weight gain.
Now a fascinating new study suggests that the link may be even more insidious than previously thought. Losing just a few hours of sleep a few nights in a row can lead to almost immediate weight gain.
Sleep researchers from the University of Colorado recruited 16 healthy men and women for
a two-week experiment tracking sleep, metabolism and eating hab-its. Nothing was left to chance: the subjects stayed in a special room that allowed researchers to track their metabolism by mea-suring the amount of oxygen they used and carbon dioxide they produced. Every bite of food was recorded, and strict sleep sched-ules were imposed.
The goal was to determine how inadequate sleep over just one week — similar to what might occur when students cram for exams or when office workers stay up late to meet a looming deadline — affects a person’s weight, behavior and physiology.
During the first week of the study, half the people were al-lowed to sleep nine hours a night while the other half stayed up until about midnight and then could sleep up to five hours. Ev-eryone was given unlimited ac-cess to food. In the second week, the nine-hour sleepers were then restricted to five hours of sleep a night, while the sleep-deprived participants were allowed an extra four hours.
Notably, the researchers found that staying up late and getting just five hours of sleep increased a person’s metabolism. Sleep-deprived participants actu-ally burned an extra 111 calories a day, according to the findings
published last week in The Pro-ceedings of the National Acad-emy of Sciences.
But even though we burn more calories when we stay awake, losing sleep is not a good way to lose weight. The light sleepers ended up eating far more than those who got nine hours of sleep, and by the end of the first week the sleep-deprived subjects had gained an average of about two pounds.
During the second week, members of the group that had originally slept nine hours also gained weight when they were restricted to just five hours. And
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Prostate and ColorectalCancer ScreeningsWednesday, March 2610am –2pm
Ed Price Building Materials7835 Airline HighwayBaton Rouge
In Partnership With:
Our Lady of the LakeWoman’s HospitalYWCA Encore Plus
LSU Hospitals Health Care Services Division
Breast Cancer ScreeningFriday, March 1410am – 12pm & 1pm – 4pm
Leo S. Butler Community Center950 E. Washington StreetBaton Rouge
Colorectal Cancer ScreeningMonday, March 1710am –2pm
Brusly Town Hall601 S. Vaughan StreetBrusly
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today to Mays? Where are to-day’s moral leaders in other critical sectors who challenge and set the example for the rest of us? Where are today’s Abraham Joshua Heschels or Reinhold Niebuhrs or Eleanor Roosevelts or Dorothy Days? Where are Senators like Phil Hart and Wayne Morse who helped set a tone of political dis-course too missing today in our legislative bodies? Where will the next leaders we can look up to as courageous and sacrificial champions of justice like Dr. King, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, Medgar Evers, Andrew Good-man, Mickey Schwerner, and James Chaney come from?
At the same time that we have a crisis in visible servant leadership examples, we have a crisis in core values. Are we content to be a society where virtually anything is available for profit or for sale, including the sale over the counter at Wal-Mart and other stores of deadly assault weapons capable of gruesome and senseless mass destruction like that which rav-aged 20 small Newtown, Conn. children and their teachers? Are we content to have deadly as-sault weapons treated as normal consumer products like toasters or vacuum cleaners? How have we come to normalize violence and unbridled commercializa-tion unmoored from common and moral sense and public safety?
Is this the best we have to pass on to our children and grandchildren and the next generation of leaders the na-tion and world need today and tomorrow? Do corporate profits from dangerous prod-ucts or harmful practices trump children’s security and safety in our nation? Is compromise that allows gross or some sig-nificant human injustice the best we can expect from American democracy? Isn’t it time to engage in a fuller discussion about the breakdown of core values in America and the val-ues we do agree on and need and want to instill in the next generation? What does it mean to be an American? What does it mean to be a human being? Robert Kennedy said this to students at the University of Kansas in 1968 about the need to rethink how we measure suc-cess in America:
“Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and com-munity values in the mere ac-cumulation of material things. Our gross national product … if we should judge America by that—counts air pollution and cigarette advertising,
and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for those who break them. It counts the destruction of our redwoods and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and the cost of a nuclear warhead, and armored cars for police who fight riots in our streets. It counts Whitman’s rifle and Speck’s knife, and the televi-sion programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children.”
Senator Kennedy contin-ued: “Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the qual-ity of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage; neither our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it tells us ev-erything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans.”
I hope and pray we will not raise a new generation of children with high intellectual quotients and low caring and compassion quotients; with sharp competitive edges but dull cooperative instincts; with highly developed computer skills but poorly developed consciences; with a gigantic commitment to the big “I” but little sense of responsibility to the bigger “we”; with mounds of disconnected information without a moral context to de-termine its worth; with more and more knowledge and less and less imagination and ap-preciation for the magic of life that cannot be quantified or computerized; and with more and more worldliness and less and less wonder and awe for the sacred and everyday miracles of life. I hope as parents, edu-cators, and faith, community, public and private sector lead-ers that we will raise children who care and work for justice and freedom for all.
Marian Wright Edelman is
president of the Children’s Defense
Fund whose Leave No Child Be-
hind® mission is to ensure every
child a Healthy Start, a Head Start,
a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a
Moral Start in life and successful
passage to adulthood with the help
of caring families and communities.
For more information go to www.
childrensdefense.org.
LEADERSHIP from page 4
LOPVE LIES from page 6
We believe that any pro-posed law that would threaten the long-term fiscal soundness of our State must be judged an unwise law.
Therefore, we ask you, in the full spirit of humility and faith, to develop a fundamen-tally different framework for tax reform.
To that end, we submit the following basic principles
as guidelines for the kind of tax reform that would be just and in accord with the ethical frame-works of our faith traditions:
Principle #1) Tax reform should not increase the sales tax rate or take any other steps that make our tax structure more regressive than it is already;
Principle #2) New sources of revenue should be used, not merely to redistribute the tax bur-
den from one group to another, but to invest in high priorities for our state, such as healthcare, education, human services and infrastructure, which have seen significant and far-reaching cuts in recent years; and
Principle #3) Tax reform should not replace a faster-growing revenue source with a slower- growing revenue source, thereby threatening our State’s ability to afford important ser-vices and investments in the future.
We thank you for your serious consideration of these concerns. We would welcome the opportunity for a delegation of our leadership to meet with you to discuss these matters in more detail. We can be reached at [email protected] to schedule that meeting.
We pray that you, and all of us, may be blessed with the judg-ment to move forward in a spirit of wisdom and fairness on such an important matter to the lives and well-being of so many.
JINDAL from page 5
The Healthy Corner Store program is one of five excit-ing projects partially funded through the Fresh Beginnings food access and fitness educa-tion grant project, developed through Mayor-President Kip Holden’s Healthy City Initiative. The Mayor’s Healthy City Initia-tive was awarded a $1 million grant from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Founda-tion’s Challenge for a Healthier Louisiana Grant Program to implement Fresh Beginnings. The East Baton Rouge Redevel-opment Authority’s Healthy Cor-ner Store program will provide grants, technical assistance, and marketing advice to operators of small, existing corner stores to increase shelf space and square footage dedicated to selling fresh, healthy foods.
Through its Fresh Food Programs, the Redevelopment Authority (RDA) is committed to bringing fresh and healthy food options to food deserts in underserved neighborhoods in North and Old South Baton Rouge. The goal of the pro-gram is to transform selected neighborhood corner stores into Healthy Corner Stores – stores that promote the sale of healthy foods through stocking and marketing items such as fresh produce.
Target areas of this pro-gram are the food deserts in zip
which have been identified by
the USDA and Dr. Stephanie Broyles at Pennington Biomedi-cal Research Center as having limited access to grocery stores or other healthy food outlets.
The Healthy Corner Store program builds on successful national models with programs in San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, and Los Angeles that are showing strong customer de-mand. In fact, the NYC Healthy
Bodegas Initiative showed that, with marketing and consumer education, healthier food pur-
-cent!
Grants up to $20,000 will assist with small exterior im-provements, such as painting, new doors, and interior fixtures, refrigeration equipment and other needs as determined. Mar-keting and product handling
assistance will be provided to help with the new or expanded product line. A 10% match will be required from awarded ap-plicants. Interested applicants may contact the RDA for a copy of program guidelines and an
[email protected]. The RDA will receive written applications for consideration until April 15, 2013.
Mayor’s Healthy City Initiative and East Baton Rouge Redevelopment Authority Announce “Healthy Corner Store Initiatives” Grant OpportunityFunds will enable existing neighborhood stores to obtain grants to add fresh produce and vegetables for sale
Healthy Bodegas
BATON ROUGE, LA – The Healing Hearts Grief Support Group would like to invite the public to their 6th year “Chad’s Day” on March 23,
God has blessed them to be here to celebrate our love one’s
that have gone on before them and be great-ful for it.
For additional informa-tion about Chad’s Day please contact Carolyn Williams-Zeno at (225) 505-0015 or by e-mail at [email protected].
Chad’s Day at Healing Hearts Grief Support Group
BATON ROUGE, LA - A phlebotomy technician will draw blood from patients in a hospital, clinical labora-tory, doctor’s office or clinic. Phlebotomy technicians are in demand as one of the fast-est growing occupations in
healthcare. This program is designed to prepare par-ticipants for a new career in healthcare.
Classes will be held from Mar. 26- June 4 on Tues-days and Thursdays from 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Baton Rouge Community College Offer Classes in Phlebotomy
Lost Sleep Can Lead to Weight Gain
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the other group began to lose some (but not all) of the weight gained in that first sleep-deprived week.
Kenneth Wrightdirector of the university’s sleep and chro-nobiology laboratory, said part of the change was behavioral. Staying up late and skimping on sleep led to not only more eating, but a shift in the type of foods a person consumed.
“We found that when people weren’t getting enough sleep they overate carbohydrates,” he said. “They ate more food, and when they ate food also changed. They ate a smaller breakfast and they ate a lot more after dinner.”
In fact, sleep-deprived eaters ended up eating more calories during after-dinner snacking than in any other meal during the day. Over all, people consumed 6 percent more calories when they got too little sleep. Once they started sleeping more, they began eating more healthfully, consuming fewer carbohydrates and fats. Dr. Wright noted that the effect of sleep deprivation on weight would likely be similar in the real world although it might
not be as pronounced as in the controlled environment. The researchers found that insuffi-cient sleep changed the timing of a person’s internal clock, and that in turn appeared to influ-ence the changes in eating habits. “They were awake three hours before their internal nighttime had ended,” Dr. Wright said. “Being awakened during their biological night is probably why they ate smaller breakfasts.”
The effect was similar to the jet lag that occurs when a person travels from California to New York.
Last fall, The Annals of In-ternal Medicine reported on a study by University of Chicago researchers, who found that lack of sleep alters the biology of fat cells. In the small study — just seven healthy volunteers — the researchers tracked the changes that occurred when subjects moved from 8.5 hours of sleep to just 4.5 hours. After four nights of less sleep, their fat cells were less sensitive to insulin, a metabolic change as-sociated with both diabetes and obesity.
SLEEP from page 7
BATON ROUGE, LA - The LSU men’s basketball team Sun-day night was not selected for the 2013 National Invitation Tourna-ment, thus putting the wrap on the 2012-13 LSU season.
The Tigers finished with a 19-11 overall record and 9-9 in the SEC. It was the second con-secutive overall winning record and the non-losing record in the expanded 18-game league season was just the seventh for LSU since the start of the 1993-94 season.
The Tigers finished the season with a 1-1 mark in the Southeastern Conference Tour-nament, defeating Georgia in the second round and losing in the quarterfinals to Florida.
“Like a lot of other teams this time of year,” said first year Coach Johnny Jones, “we are certainly disappointed that our season has come to an end and that our seniors have played their last game. But this will serve as a motivator for our returning play-ers who will start preparing for next season immediately. We look forward to continuing to build the LSU Basketball program to be able to compete in the future at the highest level.”
Jones’ 19 wins this season
marked the second most victories by a first-year LSU coach in the last 60 years. LSU won three road games in the SEC, had eight vic-tories in games of five points or fewer and won three games com-ing from double figure deficits to turn the game around in the Tigers favor. The Tigers started 0-4 in the SEC and won 9-of-the-last-14 games to get back to .500 for the league season.
Information provided by LSU Athletics.
LSU’s Men Basketball Season Ends As Tigers Not Chosen For NIT
Coach Johnny Jones
BY TYLER NUNEZ
The LSU women’s basketball team celebrated with fans Mon-day night in the PMAC as it was announced as the No. 6 seed in the Spokane region of the NCAA Tournament.
The Lady Tigers will take on 11th-seeded Green Bay, which enters the tournament on a 24-game winning streak, at 6:30 p.m. Sunday in the PMAC.
“Seeing that sixth seed up there; it is a great place to be,” said LSU junior forward Theresa Plaisance. “We are in a great spot. We are going to come out, do our best and have a great run in the tournament. ... It’s do-or-die now, and we are ready to go.”
It’s a familiar matchup for LSU fans, as a sixth-seeded LSU took on an 11th-seeded Green Bay in the first round of the 2009 NCAA Tournament. LSU won, 69-59.
Also familiar is LSU’s likely second-round matchup against third-seeded Penn State if it gets past Green Bay. LSU was ousted from the NCAA Tournament by Penn State, 90-80, in the second round last season.
The Lady Tigers are excited about the opportunity to exact revenge on the Lady Lions, but they are not yet ready to look that far ahead.
“I am not saying anything [about a potential match against Penn State] until we get past that first game,” said LSU junior guard Jeanne Kenney. “I’m not jinxing
anything, but we are going to be ready.”
The Lady Tigers look for-ward to having the opportunity to play their first two games of the tournament in their home venue, a luxury most teams are not allotted.
LSU has fared well in home games this season, going 13-3 in the PMAC.
“They’re coming to our house, and this is a big [South-eastern Conference] house,” Ken-ney said. “We look to take care of our home court. It is going to be a fight. I am glad it is at home, and I am excited.”
LSU is one of an impressive group of seven teams representing the SEC in the tournament.
Tennessee and Kentucky were both selected as the second-seeded team in the Oklahoma City and Bridgeport regions, respec-tively. Georgia will join LSU in the Spokane region as the fourth seed.
LSU coach Nikki Caldwell said having faced all of those teams at some point this would likely help them succeed in the tournament.
“The SEC really does a great job of preparing you for differ-ent types of teams that you may face in NCAA Tournament play,” Caldwell said.
Still, Caldwell does not want her team to expect anything but the best performance out of any team they play, saying each team enters the tournament “zero-and-zero.”
Women’s Basketball: LSU Selected As Sixth Seed In NCAA Tournament
Courtesy Southern U.
Athletic Media Relations
Twenty year after Southern men’s basketball posted its lone NCAA tournament win, the Jag-uars will venture west looking to conjure up a historic, bracket-busting win.
The Jaguars learned Sunday they are Salt Lake City bound as the No. 16 seed in the West Region to face No. 1 seed Gonzaga Thursday at EnergySo-lutions Arena.
Tipoff for Thursday’s game is slated for 3:10 pm Mountain time and will air live on TBS.
Southern (23-9) escaped a spot in the First Four game in Dayton, Ohio and will face a Gonzaga (31-2) team that finished ranked first in the As-sociated Press and USA Today Coaches polls.
Southern will be making its first tournament appearance since 2006 and only the second appearance since 1993.
An intimate crowd of fans and booster greeted head coach Roman Banks and the Jaguars, who pulled into TJ Ribs straight from their Garland hotel after defeating Prairie View A&M 45-44 Saturday to claim the SWACs automatic bid.
Many in attendance viv-idly remember Southern’s his-toric run in the NCAA Tourna-ment in 1993 in Tucson, Ariz.
After stunning top-seeded Jackson State in the SWAC tour-nament final, Southern, which received a favorable No. 14 seed, turned the NCAA tournament upside down with an impres-
Georgia Tech. The Jaguars, coached by
Ben Jobe, fell short of a Sweet 16 berth after losing 90-80 to George
Washington. The University of Utah
will serve as the host site for NCAA Men’s Basketball sec-ond- and third-round games on Thursday and Saturday at EnergySolutions Arena.
Four second-round West Region games will take place on Thursday, two in the afternoon session and two in the evening session. The winners will meet in a pair of third-round games on Saturday at times to be de-termined.
No. 8 Pittsburgh (24-8), out of the Big East Conference, will face No. 9 Wichita State (26-8) in Thursday’s opening game at 11:40 a.m. MDT on TBS. Pitt is one of only seven programs nationally to advance to the NCAA Tournament in 11 of the last 12 seasons. Wichita State fell to Creighton, 68-65, in
the Missouri Valley Conference tournament final.
No. 6 Arizona faces No. 11 Belmont in the first game of the Thursday evening ses-sion at 5:20 p.m. MDT on TNT. The Wildcats finished in a three-way tie for second in the Pac-12 Conference during the regular season. The Bruins, who won the Ohio Valley Con-ference tournament in their first year in the league, join Kansas and Memphis as the only three NCAA Division I programs to earn NCAA Tournament auto-matic bids six of the last eight years.
New Mexico, the No. 3 seed in the West, will take on No. 14 Harvard in the final game of the day at approxi-
The Lobos won both the Moun-tain West Conference regular
season and tournament titles for the second consecutive year. Harvard earned an automatic bid by winning the Ivy League regular season championship for a second straight year.
The third round games will take place on Saturday. Game times and television information are still to be de-termined. All of the tourna-ment games will be televised nationally on CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV. The announcers for Salt Lake City are Spero Dedes (play-by-play), Doug Gottlieb (analyst) and Jamie Maggio (reporter).
All-session and single-session tickets are available at the EnergySolutions Arena box office. Fans can also log on to http://www.ncaa.com/final-
800-888-8499.
Southern Set To Face No. 1 Seed Gonzaga Thursday
Courtesy of: AP
