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The DolphinApril 2009 Delgado Community College Volume 39: Number 3
“Act Like A Lady, Think Like Man”
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Day of Community Service set for Saturday, April 4
Horticulture students landscaped houses at the Musicians Village as part of a community service learning project.
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Save our pond
Delgado’s Big Event
“Mr. Delgado”
By Shantrell A. [email protected]
By Shantrell A. [email protected]
Delgado makes prepa-rations to join 71 other colleges and universities across the nation for “the largest one-day communi-ty service project Delgado has ever embarked upon,” according to the Delgado Student Affairs Office.
Saturday, April 4, the volunteers will meet at various locations that in-clude the zoo, The Green Project, the Cochon Cotil-lion, and Sydney and Wal-da Besthoff’s sculpture garden at NOMA to lend a helping hand.
According to Michelle Greco, the Director of Stu-dent Life, this is the first time Delgado will host an event of this magnitude.
“The idea is taken from Texas A&M,” said Greco. “There is a similar
community service project that Xavier, Loyola, and Tulane hold in the fall se-mester.”
Delgado’s Big Event will begin at 9 a.m. and continue until 1 p.m. with an appreciation party scheduled from 1-3 p.m.
“The Volunteer Ap-preciation Party will be held at City Park Campus and was funded, in part, by Delgado’s Foundation and, in part, by SGA,” said Greco.
Greco also said that The Big Event is strictly voluntary, and unlike ser-vice learning projects, it has no specific learning objectives.
“However,” Greco added, “[there will be] an activity at the Volunteer Appreciation Party that will encourage participants to reflect on their experi-
ence and how it re-lates to be-ing a good citizen.”
O r g a -nizers like Greco are looking for as much help as they can get in the form of volunteers or sugges-tions of more loca-tions that could use the help.
G r e c o also said that volun-teers must be able to com-mitt to the full four hours.
Tasks that volunteers may be asked to do include cleaning, painting, garden-ing and other housekeep-
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Tickets $1 donation, 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. and 5-6 p.m.DRAWING FRIDAY APRIL 3, 1 p.m.
THE POND
It’s not an April Fool joke. Starting Wednes-day April 1, students from the biology, horticulture and business classes will conduct a “SAVE OUR POND” campaign to beau-tify Delgado’s City Park Campus pond.
This service learning project includes classes from the biology, horticul-ture, marketing, manag-ment and business depart-ments whose students will work together to put plants and fish into the pond. Tuhro said that the more money they raise, the more they can do in the way of
landscaping and technical repairs.
“Everybody’s in on this,” said Fred Tuhro, B u s i -n e s s a n d Tech-n o l -o g y D i v i -s i o n , i n -struc-tor of m a r -keting a n d the coordinator of the proj-ect. “People see the pond every day and realize it’s a mess.”
As for the population of campus ducks, there are plans to relocate most of them to farms north of the
lake, where they will have a safe home and balanced diet.
Currently, many stu-dents feed the ducks un-healthy foods like bread and popcorn. Though fun
for students, such foods contribute to the develop-ment of a condition known as “angel wing.”
Service learning project involves biology, business, horticulture students
In such cases, the wings do not develop properly when the ducks are young.
As a result, the wings stick out and are unable to fold down as they should.
If left untreated, a duck in this state may not be able to fly at all, according to liveducks.com.
The project to save the pond will be held on April 1 and 2 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. and again from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Bldg. 1 and the Student Life Center, City Park campus.
“In a few semesters,” Tuhro said, “we could have a pristine pond with beau-tiful fish.”
ing chores. Volunteers can sign up individually or as groups. Individuals can sign up at www.dcc.edu/studentlife/bigevent/.
Sign-up forms are re-
quired for groups and are available at their local Student Life Office. They can also be requested by emailing [email protected] for the form.
“Act Like A Lady, Think Like Man”
Book Review
Page 2 The Dolphin April 2009
C a m p u s N e w s
News at a Glance…
• Transfer Fair, April 1-2
• The Big Event, Delgado SL Proj-
ect, April 4
• Spring Break, April 9-10
• Crawfest, Wed. April 15, 11 a.m.-
2:30 p.m. and 4-6 p.m., City Park
campus
• French Quarter Festival , April 17-
19
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Kendall George, J.C. Romero, K.C. White, Shekeda Williams Faculty adviser.............................................................Susan Hague
Dolphin Sink or Swim
Sink to
• Higher ed budget cuts• Late fees for gradua-tion• Prices going back up
Although some students
may call it the Career Coun-seling Center, its official name is the Office of Advising and Testing, (O.A.T). There are many different offices under this one office, directed by Ms. Tania Carradine.
The O.A.T. at City Park is in Building 10, Room 117 or call (504) 671-5155. Office hours are Monday through Thursday 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Tuesday and Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. On Wednes-day the office closes at 2 p.m. and opens again at 4 p.m.
Brian Simon and Amy Trainor serve as advisers for career counseling. They assist students in finding a career path pre- and post-graduation. They handle job placement, give interview tips, advise, help find work study, and help write resumes.
They also offer a career inventory, a computer program that uses your personality to direct you to your desired ca-reer field. The O.A.T. does not have a connection with mon-ster.com for job placement be-cause monster.com no longer deals with colleges anymore, but O.A.T. can assist in finding
Swim to
• Spring break• End of midterms• French Quarter Fest
By Shekeda [email protected]
The O.A.T.Office of Advising and Testing serves as umbrella for students
Corrections and Clarifications:
The article in issue two, “Employment 101,” page 2, called the Office of Advising and Testing the Career Counseling Center, and stated that the connection to monster.com would be restored, but it will not. Please see the article on page 2 of this issue, “The O.A.T.”.
Delgado’s Theatre Department has won three Big Easy awards for its productions, not two (page 5, “‘Courage’ onstage”).
The Mardi Gras Indians marched on March 22, not March 15 (“Super Sunday,” page 1).
The Dolphin regrets the errors.
internships for pay or practical experience; you need to bring an up-to-date resume.
“In career services, we can help you get moving in the right direction,” Brian Simon said.
Gretchen Peoples serves as the adviser for the popula-tion of students with disabili-ties. Disability is defined as physical and/or mental chal-lenges that have been medi-cally documented.
Peoples assists students who may need a sign language interpreter in class, or someone to help them take notes.Peo-ples will issue a confidential letter to the student’s instruc-tors regarding the student’s special need for instruction.
Jim Newchurch is the adviser who assists students interested in transferring to a four-year college. He also assists with admission to the college of your choice. The O.A.T. offers help with re-searching four-year colleges.
Dorian Nelson is the ad-viser who handles students on academic probation (to be placed on academic probation, a student must have failed all classes for at least two consec-utive semesters). He also helps
students on probation make schedules.
Dustin Pigg is the ad-viser for all Special Popula-tions/ Veteran’s Affairs, (VA). He assists students in using their benefits from the GI bill, whether the student is a vet-eran or a dependent of a vet-eran. He also helps students in the National Guard get their tuition exemption.
Mike Toussaint is one of the advisers in the testing cen-ter of The O.A.T., located in Building 10, Room 131. Stu-dents can take placement tests for English and math. The O.A.T. also administers the ACT, GED, any many more, even testing out of certain classes.
The O.A.T. also provides orientation for new students (OARS), and assists students who, under certain circum-stances, need to officially withdraw from school.
Whether you need help with job placement, first-year scheduling, transferring, or testing, O.A.T. is the one place to get assistance in many ar-eas.
“All these offices are brought together under one umbrella,” Toussaint said.
Exit Stage Left cartoon by Nicole Joseph
April 2009 The Dolphin Page 3
By K.C. WHITE
I’M JUSTSAYING
I am surrounded by boxes. Writing this column is merely an excuse to get away from something that I can’t stand. Something that we all dread and fear deep down in our hearts: Mov-ing.
Ah, Moving: when you realize that you have entire-ly too much crap, and yet you still can’t bear to give it up. I find that not only do I have more hair products than I do tools; I don’t even OWN any tools. Sad, yet true.
I find myself rooting through the bins at work, looking for boxes of all shapes and sizes, all the more to haul my crap to the new place in. I have collected a bunch, and to my horror, they are still not enough. I love to walk to the bus stop with them, and there is always one per-son who shakes their head sympathetically, and says: ”Moving?”
Yes, indeed. It is a pain that we all feel.
Moving: an event that proves who your friends re-ally are. All the ones who promise they will be there on
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the big day, and then one by one, they bombard you with calls telling you that they won’t make it, and offer-ing up reasons why they fail at life: car troubles, work-ing late, the flu, whooping cough, ill-tempered raccoon attacks, syphilitic pets, etc.
The big day arrives, and nothing goes as planned. Someone is late, people don’t show up, and there’s the commute. No one looks forward to driving back and forth across town all day, just to unload a bunch of junk, and go back to the ori-gin and do it again.
It’s like Groundhog’s Day, with a lot of heavy lift-ing.
As a way of saying Thank You, I sweeten the deal from my friends that make it to me, by buying beer, and cooking dinner. Yes, we have all worked hard, and there’s nothing better than a case of Abita to make everything better. [Especially since the Straw-berry Harvest is out this week!]
Once I am alone, I will be relieved that it’s over, and that I have a new home to look forward to. It’s like a new start, one that I can’t wait for. Then comes the best part: Unpacking!
…oh, no! I can’t stand unpacking. Once the boxes arrive, I will put everything where it belongs, and con-tinue to not use them.
Moving: it’s a vicious cycle, but someone has to do it.
Dear President Obama,
We, the students of Delgado Community Col-lege, invite you to learn more about our school and through doing so, better understand our needs and the needs of other schools across the nation.
Community colleges hold a special place of value in the American educational system. They enable many students of varied back-grounds an opportunity to get a college degree, either at the community college level, or by transferring to another institution. Many of these students would have been unable to do so other-wise.
It is a struggle for many to afford the cost of tuition as well as paying for books and supplies. Books are a weight that could be lifted with the implementation of a book rental system. This
would enable students to rent textbooks for the se-mester for a small deposit. Southeastern Louisiana University has already im-plemented such a system.
Eating healthy is some-times hard to balance with the demands put upon stu-dent schedules. Healthier students are better perform-ing students, and investment into school food services would help with this. This could also be an opportunity to support local businesses, by purchasing produce lo-cally.
Changes in the way fi-nancial aid is determined would greatly aid commu-nity college students. Many students who live indepen-dently, but are still being claimed as a dependent on their parents tax returns, have a harder time getting financial aid, and there are many such students in com-munity college.
In this time of economic recession, it is harder and harder to find a job, particu-larly when you have to also schedule around school.
Increasing the potential for financial aid through work-study and on-campus jobs would create jobs for students, and lessen overall cost for running the school.
These are but a few of the challenges we face as students in today’s world. Many of us are trying to bal-ance advancing our educa-tion with a job or two, some of us are raising children.
All of us want to bet-ter ourselves. In this time of change and restructuring of the American landscape, hopefully we can use this opportunity to strengthen America’s educational sys-tem.
Sincerely, BUSG 178 Business
Communication students, Spring 09, Yarborough
An open letter to Obama
Deadline for SGA candidacy nearsApplications due by 4:30 p.m. Friday, April 3
By Kendell [email protected]
If you want to run for SGA office, qualifying is now open but ends Friday April 3 at 4:30 p.m.
Offices available are president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer.
Applications should be turned in to: City Park Building 11, Room 111; Westbank, La Rocca, Room 147; Northshore/Coving-ton, front desk; and Charity, Room 619.
There will be a manda-tory meeting for candidates. At City Park, candidates will meet April 6 and 7 in
the SGA office at 1:00 pm. Candidates at the West
Bank will meet April 7 and 8 in the SGA office at 1:00 pm.
Qualified candidates at Covington will meet April 6, 207 E. Lockwood St.,2:00 pm.; Slidell, April 7, 320 Howze Beach Rd. at 2 p.m.
For Charity School of Nursing, candidates will meet April 6 at 1:00 p.m., Room 619.
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arts & eNtertaiNmeNt
By Shantrell A. [email protected]
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man Book review
Comedian-turned-actor and radio talk show host, Steve Harvey turns a new leaf by writing a book-- Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man-- to help women un-derstand the men in their lives.
“It never ceases to amaze me how much people talk about relationships, think about them, read about them, ask about them—even get in them without a clue how to move them forward,” Har-vey said in his book.
“Back when my show was based in Los Angeles, I created a segment called ‘Ask Steve,’ during which women could call and ask anything they wanted to about relationships. Any-thing,” he said.
“At the very least, I thought ‘Ask Steve’ would lead to some good com-edy…but it didn’t take me
long to realize that what my listeners, mostly women, were going through wasn’t really a laughing matter.”
“Try as they might, women just don’t get us,” Harvey said. “With this in mind, I stopped joking around and got very real with my audience.”
It wasn’t long before, members from his audi-ence, both male and female, started asking him when he would write a book on rela-tionships. He wondered if he could pull it off. Would he even be taken seriously?
“I figured I could be that guy to wave over the fence and say, ‘I’m going to tell you the secrets—the real deal about men, the things we wish you knew about us, but that we really don’t want you to now lest we lose the game.’”
According to Harvey, a man’s ability to get away with “stuff” is a direct result of women’s naïveté about how men think.
This is the first issue he
addresses in the first sec-tion of his book titled “The Mind-Set of a Man.” He outlines the most likely in-fluences on a man’s ability and willingness to build a meaningful relationship, by systematically breaking down the minimum “needs” and drives every man will have.
The book addresses the dos and don’ts that women should be aware of, as well as offering insight on how men and women think and process information differ-ently.
For example, a woman wants to share her feelings. She will talk about every-thing. A man, on the other hand, who has been taught since chilhood to “shake it off” will do just that and hold his emotions inside, while using his actions to show you how he feels.
Furthermore, Harvey tells his female audience what to look for in a man’s behavior and how a woman should handle herself from
one situation to the next. He shows women how
they can stay in control of a situation until they get what they need or find out if a man is worth her time.
Essentially, his message is that there is a man for ev-ery woman out there. If one man can’t be what a woman needs him to be, it’s in her best interest to move on.
He tells you what you want to hear and some things you don’t, especially when he lists the reasons why a man would cheat. (ie: because he can.)
Harvey also discusses
The Delgado Theatre Department presents “The Shakespeare Project” as its second production.
“Some people hear ‘Shakespeare’ and they think it means a long, boring night of theatre,” said theatre instruc-tor and director Kris LaMorte. “That is definitely not the case.”
There was a lot to consider when choosing a play for their audience. According to LaMorte, this was an opportunity “to give our actors ex-perience in playing for young audi-ences.”
He said that though he believes this project will relate to students in a fun and new way, the task of mak-ing Shakespeare understandable for a young audience would not be easy.
“Our actors will have to have a deeper understanding of the material and relay that understanding in a sim-ple yet not dumbed-down way to their audience,” LaMorte said.
“The other thing about younger audiences,” he continued, “is that they will let you know immediately
By Shantrell A. [email protected]
whether or not they are into it.”According to LaMorte, “The text is the same, but the
scenes have been altered to contemporary settings.”The production will include scenes from “Romeo and
Juliet,” with the famous balcony scene presented as a late night phone call. The play depicts the three witches of “Mac-beth” as bag ladies, and “Taming of the Shrew,” has its own contemporary twist.
The cast consists of 14 actors select-ed from Delgado and the community. This includes familiar faces like Brian Rosenthal (“Betrayal”), Emily Bou-dreaux (“God of Hell”) and Marguerite White (“Mother Courage”).
Other actors include John Gore, Chanta Braud, Kevin Songy and Carol (Red) Quigley.
“Michael Santos directed “Measure for Measure” last year and did a great job of updating and presenting it to the DCC audience,” LaMorte said. “It was well received, and we feel that ‘The Shakespeare Project’ will do the same thing.”
The play opens Friday April 17 at 8 p.m. on the third floor of Building One , Room 300E. It will run from April 17 to April 26 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and on Sundays at 3 p.m.
Tickets are $10 for general admis-sion, $9 for seniors and $8 for faculty, staff and students.
The Shakespeare Project Three plays get a contemporary make-over aimed at today’s audience
how men and women love differently, and he encour-ages women to set standards and stick to them. He even provides a how-to guide for laying down the “rules” and getting respect.
Though straight-for-ward and empowering, Har-vey makes no guarantees that his book is a guarantee to solve all of a woman’s problems.
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man is an easy read, simple and logical, with the touches of humor you would expect from the stand-up comedy pro.
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Black History Month winning contest entries
Aries: (March 21 - April 20) A big promotion is right around the cor-ner. There’s only one problem. It’s going to the brown-nosing co0worker you can’t stand.
Taurus: (April 21 - May 21) Sure, your friends like you, but do you like you?
Gemini: (May 22 - June 22) ) Treat this day as if it were you last. You never know.
Cancer: (June 23 - July 23)
Treat this day as if it were your last. You never knw.
Leo: (July 24 - Aug. 23) Your magnetic personality attracts people to you. Today a stranger will approach you in the park. RUN!!!
Virgo: (Aug. 24 - Sept. 23)
You are sympathetic and understanding to other people’s feelings
Libra: (Sept. 24 - Oct. 23)
If you are serious about organizing your life, start with cleaning up your room.
Scorpio: (Oct. 24 - Nov. 22) Stop being so serious all the time. Life is full of surprises. It’s okay to let go and enjoy it.
Sagittarius: (Nov. 23 - Dec. 22)You can have anything you want in life as long as you have a MasterCard, or a rich uncle.
Capricorn: (Dec. 23 - Jan. 19) This is you lucky day. buy a lottery ticket, and when you win be sure to donate ten percent to The Dolphin for the tip.
Aquarius: (Jan. 20 - Feb. 19)
You consider yourself a born leader, but remember that leaders are made, not born.
Pisces: (Feb. 20 - March 20) You will be attacked by a wild animal when you least expect it. Be on the lookout, and don’t trust any animal with two or four legs.
She sits in repose on her porch at dusk,
Shelling peas with her weathered black hands.
A small hailstorm of shells lies at her feet.
I read the map lines on her palms:
Storm-tossed roads, dark as her hair.
Lightning cracks as sharp as a slap.
She endures, softly singing,
Bent back broke, but chin high,
Picking cotton washing clothes shelling peas.
Even now the lines on the map are still clear.
She knows them by heart: painful paths
She walked on blistered, burning bare feet,
And still singing! Back when songs were roads
And her people traveled them. They are etched
Into the flesh of her palms, indelible –
Windswept ways when the skies spat hail
But she walked free.
Now she sits in repose, shelling peas at dusk.
There have been no more storms.
The night is clear.
Kathryn Johnson, general studies
1st Place, poetry, “Shelling Peas”
Lajoan Willis, criminal justice
1st Place, essay, “Prisoner within Yourself”People today like to
give excuses for not achiev-ing their goals. They would like to blame what they did not accomplish on someone else, as if it’s everyone’s fault but their own. They give excuses: “If! I was rich, then I would have gone to college. I didn’t live on the bus route, so I couldn’t go to the library. Since I was abused as an infant, it messed me up for the rest of my life.” But none of these excuses is acceptable. The reality is that people can achieve whatever they want in life as long as they per-severe.
To begin, people can overcome any obstacle in their lives if they are deter-mined and follow a plan. Take Frederick Douglass, for example. He was a slave
with dreams and ambitions and was not going to let any-one or anything stand in his way of accomplishing his dreams. Douglass couldn’t read or write, but he had many techniques that led to his learning to read or write. He would go to the shipyard and recite the letters on the boats. He also would chal-lenge the little boys in the neighborhood, by telling them he could write better than they could. Frederick Douglass was very smart. Even though he couldn’t read or write, he basically taught himself and did a very good job at it. He was motivated and did what he had to do in order to learn. Douglass would have never become literate if he had just accepted his circumstances. He could have let his goals
go, but, instead, he accepted the challenge and ran with it.
In addition, even people who are in actual prison can escape their surroundings to make their lives better. For instance, just because you are in jail doesn’t mean you have to be in prison in your mind. Malcolm X served a prison sentence, but was he really in prison? Mal-colm X had what he called a “homemade education.” He was determined to get the knowledge he needed in order to excel in life. Even though he was in prison, he didn’t let that hold him back. Malcolm X requested a dictionary, notebooks, and pencils. When he received those items, he did the only thing he felt he could do. He started copying everything on the first page, every word and punctuation mark. Malcolm X then went on to copy the whole diction-ary. He became articulate all on his own. Listening to the way he spoke, or read-ing what he had written, you never would have thought
he didn’t complete school past the eighth grade. While in prison, he did not allow himself to become a pris-oner of his own mind.
Finally, if you were to blame everything that went wrong in your life on the neighborhood and environ-ment you grew up in, you would never live up to your full potential. For example, look at President Barrack Obama. President Obama grew up in a neighborhood full of poverty, but he did not let his surroundings hin-der him from achieving his goals. He escaped the pris-on around him by focusing on his dreams. He overcame many difficulties that came his way in life. President Obama could have said, be-cause he had a white mother and a black father from Ke-nya, he had to deal with a lot more hardships than he could handle, and he could have given up on his dreams. But President Obama never gave up on what might have seemed an unattain-able goal, that he would be the first African Ameri-
can president of the United States. Since he has become our president, he has prom-ised to make it possible for every American child to es-cape the “prison” of poverty and poor schools, so that ev-ery child will have the same chance to pursue his or her own dreams. Think about this: if President Obama would have given up on his dreams, goals, and ambi-tions, then who would be president today?
In conclusion, your will power to learn and succeed in life is all up to you. If you really want to accom-plish your goals, no one can prevent you from achieving them. Determination is the key to success. If you are de-termined to learn and strive hard enough, there isn’t anything anyone can say or do to stop you. If Fred-erick Douglas, Malcolm X, and President Barrack Obama would have given up on what they believed in, where would this world be today? So with that in mind, I ask you: can we overcome our surroundings and be all we can be? In the words of President Barrack Obama, “Yes We Can, Yes We Can, Yes We Can.”
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By Shekeda Williams
Most people know “Lucky” Johnson on Delga-do’s City Park campus. He is a Performance and Media Arts major, Homecoming King and this year’s Mr. Delgado.
Each fall, Delgado stu-dents elect a homecoming king and queen. They reign for the home coming dance. Their duties continue to the next semester as they take on the titles of Mr. and Ms. Delgado.
The responsibility of a Mr. Delgado is to assist with student life and be able to help with promotion and publicity for the school. Once a person is crowned Mr. Delgado, he reigns for a year and receives a one-time stipend.
The perfect person to hold the title Mr. Delgado, Kevin “Lucky” Johnson is from uptown, a New Or-leans native who commutes from Baton Rouge to City Park campus daily.
He is an enthusiastic person who loves to help others. He likes to make people smile. He is always filled with energy and wants to share his positive attitude just to make someone’s day go a little better.
One word that describes Johnson is “hustler.” He hustles, he says, “to shed better light on Delgado
C o m m u n i t y College and en-lighten younger people that you can be smart and still be cool.”
“God is first and foremost in my life, but my cousin Tyler Per-ry also inspired me,” Johnson said. “Perry told me to do whatev-er I can to get my degree and better myself.”
Delgado is where John-son chose to further his education and use his pro-motion skills to bring the community and Delgado closer together.
Students can expect more events on campus from Mr. Delgado; DJs, talent shows and a free back-to-school dance. Off-campus, you can see Johnson’s play, “Catch Dat’ Beat,” the first-ever bounce-musical. He is writer and director of this production (he also plays two characters, Pimpin and Paw Paw Poppa) which opens at the ASHE Cultural Center Thursday April 2, 7 p.m.
In the play, bounce-mu-sician Freedia puts together a block party for his cousin Michelle from Michigan who doesn’t know what it means to “Catch Dat’ Beat.” The play runs for three
nights, through Saturday April 4, with advance tick-ets available for $15 and tickets at the door for $20.
Johnson is a business man who owns Big Face Records, Lucky’s Cleaners, Big Face Beauty Salon, and a host of other businesses.
Just as he hustles to shed a light on Delgado, he does the same in his own life. Just as he has promoted himself in the community, he now puts that effort into promoting Delgado. He is a go-getter. There is a lot of money in this world, but he says, “You got to go get it in a positive way.”
Johnson is proof that be-ing smart is being cool, and that an education will get you far in life. Every day is an opportunity for him.
“I feel that if He wakes me up in the morning, then God has a purpose for me,” Johnson said.
Mr. Delgado“Lucky” Johnson promotes talent, hard work
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La. Bucket Brigade hosts Earth Day Fest
By Tanja [email protected]
Free event has solar-powered stage
To bring environmen-tally unsafe issues to light, and to thank all the envi-ronmental groups in Loui-siana for their work, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade is hosting the New Orleans Earth Day Festival.
This free event will take place on Sunday April 5, 2009 from 10am until 6pm. Head over to Bayou St. John at Orleans across from the post office to join in the fun.
There will be a vari-ety of musical acts on the Coastal Lines of Defense stage, which will be the first-ever solar-powered stage used in Louisiana.
A kid’s tent will be
set up with events to en-tertain the children, along with stilt walkers, and a recycling relay. Food and drink can be purchased at the event.
Two tents will be set up that feature speakers discussing environmental issues. One of the tents is Our Green Future, which will inform the public about green jobs, green en-ergy, and healthy, sustain-able foods.
The second tent is De-fending Louisiana which will discuss wetlands loss, as well as oil and refinery pollution that threaten the health and safety of Loui-siana’s citizens.
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If you could ask the chancellor one question, what would you ask?
Mike H.
culinary arts major
Samantha S.
biology major
Nette H.
nursing major
Turquoise B.
mass communication major
“Why does the Stu-dent Life Center smell bad, and what can be
done about it?”
“What’s going to happen to faculty
and students whose classes have a
possibility of being cut due to the new
budget?”
“Why do the Bursar’s Office as-sistants have nasty attitudes and what can we do about this situation?”
“Why are all the clocks in the school
wrong?”
See BUCKET, page 7
Rabbits belong to the order of animals called lagomorphs. Both lago-morphs and rodents have open rooted teeth therefore their teeth grow continu-ously. Proper diet will help keep the teeth at a healthy length. Rabbits are ex-tremely sensitive to chang-
Rabbits as pets...or notBy Natalie [email protected]
es in their diet, housing, and exercise routines. Such changes can be very stress-ful and can lead to illness. Their diet should consist of many different components considering the complexity of their digestive system. Pellets should be offered at
See RABBITS, page 7
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Coach Scheurman with his team. The next home game is against Baton Rouge, saturday, April 4, 1 p.m. at Kirsch-Rooney Stadium.
Dolphins outscore, outplay opponents
In the last seven games, Delgado has outscored its opponents 80-22. On Mon-day, March 23, the run pro-duction continued as well as the victories.
The Dolphins (20-9) got their largest single game hits production (20) and runs scored in a game (20) en route to a 20-10 victory over McHenry Community College at Kirsch-Rooney Stadium on Monday.
Max Ledet was 3-for-4 with four RBIs as 15 differ-ent players got hits for Del-gado.
Chandler Laurent, who leads Delgado with a .426 batting average, and Dustin Wambsgans, who has a .333 average, both finished 2-for-4 with two RBIs.
Both Ledet and Laurent are tied for the RBI lead with 26 as the Dolphins have now won eight con-
secutive games.On Tuesday March
24, the LSU-Eunice Ben-gals scored two runs in the top of the 10th inning and snapped the Dol-phin’s eight game win-ning streak in the first game at Kirsch Rooney Stadium. Delgado had 12 hits and numerous chances to score, but left 16 runners on base.
In the second game, Ryan Scott had a three-run triple as Delgado (21-10) rebounded with six runs in the fourth inning and went on to defeat Eunice (27-5)to gain the split.
Chandler Laurent and Max Ledet finished with three hits and two RBIs each in both games. Fresh-men Stephen Lukinovich (4-3), who pitched a com-plete game in the second game, allowed five hits and
struckout six. On the NJCAA Division
I statistical leaders web-site; Freshmen righthander Steven Lukinovich is rated # 36 in ERA with a 1.607 average. That average does not take into account his 7-1 victory over LSU-Eunice on Tuesday March 24. His record is now 4-3.
The entire list can be
viewed at www.njcaa.org (go to division I baseball pitching stats)
Delgado concluded its sixth consecutive day of play with a 10-4 victory over McHenry County College, Il. on Wednesday, March 25 at Kirsch-Rooney Stadium.
A.J. Delauneville led the Dolphins (23-10) with three hits and an RBI.
Chandler Laurent, Max Ledet, Ryan Scott, Dustin Wambsgans and Cory Guidry all finished with two hits.
Laurent, who leads the team in batting with a .430 average, was 15-of-30 with 14 RBIs in the six games. Scott, who has a .367 aver-age, was 10-of-19 with nine RBIs during the week.
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The Louisiana Bucket Brigade is an organization that works with people who live next to polluting indus-tries, such as oil refineries and chemical plants, and
gives those people a voice in the world.
Louisiana refines 15 percent of the oil being refined in the U.S.; the result of this refine-ment is pollution. The LBB are a voice for the voiceless, through education and community activ-ism.
¼ cup per 5 lbs. of body weight, 3 to 5 days a week.
Timothy hay, not alfalfa, should be offered daily. Certain veggies should be available daily for rab-bits 6 months of age and older.
The suggested vegetables in-clude: carrots, carrot tops, kale, spinach, cabbage, broccoli, cauli-flower, red leaf lettuce, bok choy, and romaine lettuce. These should only comprise 10 percent of the daily intake 2-3 days a week.
The housing is very important to the health and well being of a rabbit. Rabbits have sensitive feet so the proper cage set up is impor-tant.
There should be an area in the cage where the rabbit can get off of the wire flooring. Litter box train-ing is an option because rabbits catch on quickly. The litter box should contain either bedding or hay and placed in a corner of the cage.
Pine or aspen bedding is rec-ommended for substrate whereas cedar should never be used.
Rabbits are physically delicate animals and can be easily hurt by children picking them up and mis-handling.
Rabbits that are not schooled early in life about human com-panionship prefer not to be han-dled hence the reason they kick and scramble when they are picked up.
It is unreasonable to expect a child to take full responsibility for the proper care of a rabbit.
Contrary to Easter time hype, rabbits are not good gifts for children.
Rabbits are ground loving creatures and children typically want a companion that they can hold and cuddle with.
Rabbits should see a veteri-narian annually for a wellness checkup. Dr. Gregory Rich is an Exotics Veterinarian and has seen rabbits for over 22 years at the West Esplanade Veterinary Clinic.
If you have general questions about rabbits or having them as pets you can contact Mrs. June Booth, House Rabbits Society’s educator and fosterer at www.rabbit.org.
Natalie Floyd is a Vet-Tech major at Delgado Community College.
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