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Volume 120 · No. 23 BOARD OF REGENTS

Hearing addresses LSU’s fiscal future BY CAITIE BURKES @BurkesTDR

SWIMMING THROUGH THE SPILL Read about the ‘LSU plankton lab’ on page 4.

photos by SAM KARLIN / The Daily Reveille

Coastal Fisheries Institute Assistant Professor Malinda Sutor has a ‘plankton lab’ dedicated to researching offshore ecosystems.

The affordable public flagship system will cease to exist in 12 years, according to a personal metrics study presented by LSU President F. King Alexander at a Louisiana Board of Regents hearing Wednesday. LSU’s future has a 2027 expiration date, Alexander said. The Board sought to address this problem when it crowded in the Claiborne Building on North Third Street to review and approve the LSU System’s current year budgets. The LSU system with campuses in Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Eunice and Alexandria experienced a jolt in enrollment this semester with an increase of about 1,000 students. Approximately 600 students enrolled at the main campus, which includes the Paul M. Hebert Law Center. With student growth system-wide, Alexander said proper funding for various academic programming was crucial for the success of the flagship system.

see BUDGET, page 4

STATE

LSU students Knepper, Mann recount Lafayette shooting

BY RANDEE ILES MANSHIP NEWS SERVICE When John Russell Houser opened fire July 23 about 20 minutes into a showing of “Trainwreck” at The Grand 16 movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana, construction management senior Lucas Knepper and biology senior Emily Mann were about six seats away. Knepper, who was sitting in the back of the theater, said he did not know what happened after the initial shots and turned to look at the projector behind him. “I was looking back and I saw

the shooter standing up, and then to crawl her way out. Being more he fired the next six shots,” Knep- than 6 feet tall, Knepper said he per said. knew that was not an option for The image of Houser shooting him. He jumped the half wall played in Knepper’s at the edge of the head for two weeks ‘I was looking back stairs, hurting his following the event. and I saw the shooter arm in the 18-foot Knepper said but making standing up, and then drop there was chaos in it to safety with he fired the next six Mann. the theater. He saw shots.’ the exit congesting For a few days with fleeing moviefollowing the LUCAS KNEPPER goers and said he shooting, Knepper knew he would be construction management senior said his phone died one of the last people multiple times to exit — making him an easy a day from people texting and target. Mann dropped to the ground see SHOOTING, page 4

Heather Hamilton outside the still-closed theater where John Russell Houser opened fire July 23 during the film ‘Trainwreck.’

courtesy of RANDEE ILES


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