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BY FERNANDA ZAMUDIO-SUAREZ @FernandaZamudio After an LSU emergency alert misreported an armed robbery, students were advised to avoid the Union Square Parking Garage and LSU Barnes and Noble Bookstore Tuesday night. The emergency notification to students included the subject line “INCIDENT 03: Armed Robbery” and urged students to stay clear of the area and said police secured the premises around 8:30 p.m. Later, LSU Media Relations director Ernie Ballard said the incident was not an armed robbery. “That was a glitch in the text message and was not intended to be the message,” Ballard said. Ballard said LSUPD received information from West Baton Rouge Parish 911 about a threat on campus. Later an unidentifed suspect was taken into custody by LSUPD officers. The investigation is still ongoing. The emergency alert email following the text messages failed to clear the subject line and restated incorrect information from the previous message.
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Organization advocates for disabled students Members to work on accessibility, education
Disability Student Organization’s biggest goal for this semester is to bring awareness to students, professors and faculty.
BY CARRIE GRACE HENDERSON @carriegraceh When interdisciplinary studies senior Sean Thompson treks to class every day, he takes special care to look for cracks in the sidewalk that might tear up the wheels on his chair. Though Thompson saw improvements this semester — “The sidewalks are wider and smoother” — he wants to make sure he leaves his alma mater in better shape than he found it, which is why he and economics senior Michael Panther Mayen started the Disability Student Organization.
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Cassidy chairs U.S. Senate committee hearing on campus BY SAM KARLIN @samkarlin_TDR U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., chaired a U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee hearing on dyslexia at LSU Tuesday afternoon. The hearing aimed to raise awareness for dyslexia, identify problems in the U.S. education system about dyslexic students and discuss potential solutions. Cassidy chaired another hearing at the University
of New Orleans Tuesday morning on the same topic. The meetings followed Cassidy’s bipartisan Senate resolution passed Oct. 8, prompting discussion on dyslexia’s educational implications and designating October 2015 as “National Dyslexia Awareness Month.” Cassidy, whose youngest daughter is dyslexic, said dyslexia is important to him as a parent and as a senator. “I read once that you can look at core reading rates in third grade and predict how
many prison cells you need 20 years later,” Cassidy said. He said although 20 percent of people have dyslexia, including 80 to 90 percent of children diagnosed with mental disabilities, information is not spread through public policy, and those affected are seldom provided accommodations. Schools with accommodations for dyslexic students are often too expensive for many to afford, Cassidy added. He
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U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy chairs a U.S. Senate committee hearing on dyslexia Tuesday in the Dalton Woods Auditorium.
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New LSU Foundation center under construction BY TIA BANERJEE @tiabanerjee_TDR Construction on the LSU Foundation Center for Philanthropy is projected to be finished by summer 2016. The space now occupies the undeveloped lot across from Tiger Stadium. A local architecture firm, Holden Architects, and an international firm, HKS, are the architects behind the project, said Sara Crow, senior director of Communications and donor relations for the LSU Foundation. Milton J. Womack, Inc. is the project’s contractor. Construction began in May 2015. Crow said the new center will allow Foundation staffers to operate in one facility. The philanthropy group carries out its work from four separate buildings on campus: Thomas Boyd Hall, the Lod Cook Alumni Center, the Louisiana Emerging Technology Center and the TigerTalk Call Center. The Foundation pays rent to use these spaces, Crow said, limiting the ability to hire new staff since the staff is so spread out. The new center will keep the Foundation better organized, Crow said. “That would enable [us] to bring the team together,” Crow said. “That allows [us] to achieve some efficiency and collaboration and development work on behalf of LSU.” Crow said the project costs $10 million and is privately funded by donations from former and current members of the LSU Foundation Board of Directors. Any remaining costs will be covered by a low-interest mortgage and money previously used to rent out office space, according to the Center for Philanthropy Fact Sheet. The new building is parallel to Nicholson Drive and adjacent to Tiger Stadium. After learning that peer universities, such as Texas A&M University and
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STF committee decides equipment proposal criteria The Student Technology Fee Oversight Committee decided on evaluation criteria for ranking the upcoming discipline-specific equipment proposals at its Tuesday meeting. The STF Committee has $1 million to appropriate toward specific proposals made by faculty members for their respective colleges, The Daily Reveille previously reported. These proposals will be submitted on a Community Moodle page Nov. 1, and reviewed and ranked by the STF Committee’s 10 voting members. There are eight criteria determining the number of points each
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voting member can give. With 100 possible points for each of the 10 voting members, the total scores of each proposal will be out of 1000 points. “We had four or five years where we didn’t have any of the $1 million because of the budget cuts,” Vice Provost for Human Resources and Facilities Management Jane Cassidy said. “Last year was its first year back, and we kept the criteria the same.” Proposals range from computer labs to new equipment for various departments. In one part of the criteria, the dean of the college the proposal comes from is required to rank all of the proposals coming from
his or her college. Those rankings will then be sent to committee voting members to help determine how they will eventually award points. Cassidy said the committee will take the number of proposals from each college into account when approving proposals during their next meeting. “Let’s say that six proposals from [the Department of] Humanities and Social Sciences were the top six, and they added up to $1 million,” Cassidy said. “Would we award the full amount to that one department? Probably not, but we would fund the top two or three.” Throughout the next meeting progresses, the approved proposals’ costs will be deducted
from the $1 million total, to keep tabs on how much money the committee has left to give, said John Duplantis, STF Committee member and Administrative Analyst for the Office of Budget and Planning. Last year, the committee funded the top nine proposals — all of which had a total of more than 900 points. Cassidy said the committee will not partially fund any proposal, and there is a slight amount of wiggle room in the $1 million budget in case approved proposals total more than the intended amount. “We went maybe $15,000 or so over last year but nothing too high — like $200,000 over,” Duplantis said.
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Arden Key hits stride mid-season for LSU defense
The No. 6 LSU football team earned an extra home game when Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, South Carolina, couldn’t host the Tigers’ third-scheduled away game of the season. Now, the Tigers (5-0, 3-0 Southeastern Conference) have two road games remaining — none of which are in October. LSU’s next trip away from Baton Rouge is scheduled for Nov. 7 — more than a month removed from its last road game against Syracuse University on Sept. 26 — in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, against University of Alabama. But that’s looking too far ahead. First, the Tigers are thinking about their matchup with No. 8 Florida on Saturday. LSU will face a different Gator team than the one that upset then-No. 3 University of Mississippi in the nation, 38-10, as Florida announced it will be without its starting quarterback for the remainder of the season. Freshman quarterback Will Grier was suspended for the calendar year on Monday after testing positive for performanceenhancing drugs. The drug Grier consumed is unknown, but Grier is set to appeal the NCAA’s ruling because he did not know he was taking an illegal substance. The Gators are the only undefeated SEC East team
BY C.J. RUCKER @Ruckmatic He warned us. At LSU Media Day on Aug. 16, freshman defensive linemen Arden Key said things would get interesting midseason. “When I become an every-down guy, it’s going to be scary,” Key said. Key, a four-star recruit from Atlanta, Georgia, saw increased playing throughout in his first five games as a Tiger. He started each of the team’s last two games against Eastern Michigan University and the University of South Carolina. The 6-foot-6-inch Under Armour All-American has 15 total tackles, five quarterback hurries, one sack and one pass-breakup. However, some of the things Key does aren’t always depicted on the statsheet. Although he is a true freshman, Key is already starting to draw double teams, allowing his teammates to put pressure on the quarterback and make plays of their own. Senior linebacker Deion Jones said he felt the Key effect when the Tigers played Eastern Michigan on Oct. 3. Jones intercepted a pass and returned it for a touchdown after Key pressured the quarterback into making an errant throw. Key recorded an impressive 15 sacks in his senior season at Hapeville Charter Academy. He wasn’t able to participate in summer workouts with the LSU (5-0, 3-0 Southeastern Conference) football program because of academic issues that kept him from enrolling until early August. Key said not being able to join the rest of his teammates in June took a toll on him mentally. “I gave myself a week and a half,” Key said. “I was like, ‘Man, do I still want to play football?’” When Key arrived on campus, he played as if he
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LSU freshman defensive end Arden Key (49) stands on the field during the Tigers’ 45-24 victory against the University of South Carolina on Oct. 10 at Tiger Stadium.
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Levreault-Lopez passionate about LSU swim experience BY HEATHER ALLEN @hallen_lsu
Two months into the school year, LSU freshman swimmer Alarii Levreault-Lopez still can’t believe he’s an athlete at LSU. Levreault-Lopez said he sometimes wakes up confused because his room is still unfamiliar, but that confusion quickly turns into happiness when he realizes where he is. “Every day I’m still getting used to it,” Levreault-Lopez said. “I can wake up with a smile on my face, whether I’m waking up at five in the morning or 12 in the afternoon on Sundays. It’s just being happy and knowing that I made the right choice.” Levreault-Lopez was born in
Boston, Massachusetts, but his family moved to the Atlanta, Georgia, area when he was 5-years-old. Despite being surrounded by University of Georgia fans, Levreault-Lopez said he was never a big college football fan, so he had no preference. Not only was he not a big college fan, he was also not a big fan of swimming. “I hated swimming until I was 12 or 13,” Levreault-Lopez said. “I realized from a really young age how time consuming the sport was going to be, and how hard it was going to be to juggle an academic and social life while trying to be successful in swimming at the same time. I wasn’t very serious about club swimming, but I still got really good training and I was really fortunate to have the
coaches I had on my club team.” Levreault-Lopez’s feelings about swimming changed when he broke the club record in the 200-yard butterfly at 13 years old. As he got older, he continued to fall in love with the sport and realized swimming was what he wanted to pursue. When it came time to start thinking about colleges, Levreault-Lopez explored his options, even visiting Yale University and Columbia University. However, junior swimmer Hannah Martin, who was in a club with Levreault-Lopez as children, told him to get in contact with the coaches at LSU. He soon found himself on an official visit.
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LSU freshman swimmer Alarii Levreault-Lopez swims in the mens’ 100-yard butterfly Sept. 25 during the LSU Swimming and Diving meet in the Natatorium.
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5 GAMES TO WATCH INTO THE WOODS JACK WOODS Sports Columnist
@ No. 17 Iowa 6-0, 2-0 Big Ten
No. 20 Northwestern 5-1, 1-1 Big Ten
Saturday, October 17, 11 a.m., ABC
@ No. 2 Baylor
West Virginia 3-2, 0-2 Big 12
5-0, 2-0 Big 12
Saturday, October 17, 11 a.m., FOX
@ No. 10 Alabama
No. 9 Texas A&M 5-0, 2-0 SEC
5-1, 2-1 SEC
Saturday, October 17, 2:30 p.m., CBS
@ No. 7 Michigan State 6-0, 2-0 Big Ten
No. 12 Michigan 5-1, 2-0 Big Ten
Saturday, October 17, 2:30 p.m., ESPN
@ No. 8 Florida 6-0, 4-0 SEC
No. 6 LSU 5-0, 3-0 SEC
Saturday, October 17, 6 p.m., ESPN
Guys, there is a lot of good to great college football going on this weekend. If you turn your TV on, you’ll probably stumble across a great game between elite teams. I’m so excited for this weekend, I’ve got the lineup ready a few days early. If you haven’t been keeping up, here are five games you need to watch this weekend: The University of Iowa and Northwestern University are meeting in a high-stakes matchup. The winner of this game is in the driver’s seat to play in the Big Ten Football Championship Game. What a time to be alive. Northwestern is coming off its only loss of the season, an embarrassing 38-0 loss to the University of Michigan at The Big House. There isn’t really anything redeeming Northwestern can take from the demolition it suffered, but the Wildcats didn’t make it to 5-0 by being a bad football team. Through six games, Northwestern is only allowing 12.2 points per game, the eighth best scoring defense in the nation. The Wildcats rushing attack isn’t eye-popping, but 213.7 rushing yards per game, the 26th best rushing offense in the nation, is no joke. Y’all, if Iowa wins Saturday, it has a good chance to finish the regular season undefeated. Seriously. The Hawkeyes could have tricky games against Indiana University (4-2, 0-2 Big Ten) and the University of Minnesota (4-2, 1-1 Big Ten), but their other three opponents, the University of Maryland (2-4, 0-2 Big Ten), Purdue University (1-5, 0-2 Big Ten) and the University of Nebraska (2-4, 0-2 Big Ten), all have losing records. This isn’t your usual 11 a.m. Big Ten matchup.
Two 11 a.m. games made it on my list. I honestly don’t know what’s happening anymore. These teams will not stop scoring. The over/under for total points in this game was at 78 the last time I looked. That is a lot of points, but I am honestly not even afraid to take the over. If you take both teams’ average point totals, West Virginia’s is 36 and Baylor’s is 64.2, that is a cool 100.2 points. Sign me up. I foresee Baylor winning comfortably, but I see West Virginia scoring its share of touchdowns. If not, Baylor might score 100 by itself. The Bears have 6’7,” 410-pound tight end LaQuan McGowan scoring touchdowns. Their offense can do anything.
Oh. My. Goodness. Is this an appetizing game or what? It looks like Alabama bounced back from its loss to Ole Miss. Since the defeat, the Crimson Tide shutout the University of Louisiana at Monroe, dismantled the University of Georgia and defeated the University of Arkansas. Senior quarterback Jake Coker seems to be settling in. Since the Ole Miss loss, his completion percentage has improved each game. He also has six touchdowns compared to three interceptions in that same time period. Junior running back Derrick Henry is averaging more than 100 yards per game and he has scored at least one touchdown in every single game this season. Texas A&M is led by sophomore quarterback Kyle Allen, who is impressive thus far. He has thrown for 1,274 yards and 13 touchdowns against just two interceptions. The Aggies haven’t had trouble scoring in the last few seasons. Their defense failed them. This season appears to be changing under former LSU defensive coordinator John Chavis. The Aggies are allowing just 21 points per game which allows their high-powered offense to win them games. Both teams need a win in a highly competitive SEC West, so this one is definitely worth a watch. The battle for the Paul Bunyan Trophy is a big game once again, thanks to a man who wears $8 dad pants. Thank you, Jim Harbaugh. Michigan State University’s win against Oregon looks less impressive every week. The Ducks collapsed since then, and the Spartans are struggling to beat bad teams. Close calls against Purdue University and Rutgers University in consecutive weeks have me questioning Sparty’s credentials. However, Michigan State is undefeated, which means something. Senior quarterback Connor Cook is top draft prospect for a reason, and he’ll need to be at his best for Michigan State to have any chance. Michigan lost its opening game of the season at Utah, but that loss looks better every week. The Utes keep winning. In fact, Utah might just be the best team in the Pac-12. Michigan won every game since the opening weekend. The Wolverines have the stingiest scoring defense in the nation, allowing just 6.3 points per game. Michigan shut out its last three opponents, which included BYU and Northwestern. I knew Harbaugh would turn it around in Ann Arbor, but I didn’t see it coming this quickly. The Big Ten’s East Division is a logjam near the top. A win here is vital for both teams as they pursue a chance to play for the Big Ten title. To say I’m excited for this game would be an understatement. The rivalry between LSU and the University of Florida is one of my favorites in all of sports. LSU’s season is weird to say the least. A canceled game, a player leading the Heisman Trophy race, playing more backup quarterbacks than starters and an away game at Tiger Stadium that turned out to be Steve Spurrier’s last game. And October isn’t even halfway finished. Despite all the oddities, the Tigers are impressive this year. I’m pretty sure, but not positive, that defenses would have a better chance of stopping a runaway Mack Truck than Leonard Fournette at the moment. Sophomore quarterback Brandon Harris looked the best he has all season during last weekend’s win against South Carolina. LSU’s defense should get a massive boost from the Tiger Stadium crowd this weekend, who will surely act as a 12th man when the Gators offense is on the field. The Gators are another team that managed to turn it around quickly. Last season was not pretty to watch, but head coach Jim McElwain has the Gators rolling in his first season. Losing freshman quarterback Will Grier to suspension is a huge loss. Grier boosted Gators’ fans confidence after they were forced to watch Jeff Driskel for most of last season. Even without Grier, I expect Florida to stay in the game because the Gators’ defense is good. I don’t know if it’s good enough to hold LSU out forever, though. Florida will have to find a way to manufacture some points if it wants to win at Death Valley.
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Clinton emerges victorious in first 2016 Dem. presidential debate ENTITLED MILLENIAL CODY SIBLEY Columnist The first Democratic presidential debate of the 2016 season was a passive-aggressive spit-fire show and a stark contrast to the Republican circus with Donald Trump for a ring-leader. The most iconic moment was when Bernie Sanders said what we were all thinking regarding Hillary Clinton’s bogus email controversy: “The American people are sick and tired of reading about your damn emails,” Sanders said. He and Clinton shook hands, and the audience ate it up. Clinton seemed dominated the debate last night, rising far above her falling approval ratings. She lived up to her role as the Democrat frontrunner and made her opponents look like
children. As a Sanders-supporting socialist, that’s one of the hardest statements for me to admit. Anderson Cooper, the moderator, asked Clinton if Sanders was tough enough on gun control. “No,” Clinton said. Then, Clinton’s momentum evaporated on college affordability. Sanders wants to make college tuition-free for all students to erode America’s classist society. Clinton’s plan wants a debt-free college, making tuition more expensive for the wealthy students and cheaper for those less-fortunate. Her plan isn’t necessarily bad. If Clinton’s college plan were implemented today, I’d be jumping for joy and celebrating at Tigerland tonight. But her plan isn’t as good as Sanders’. For starters, she wants students to have to work at least 10 hours a week to help pay the cost of school. I have philosophical problems with this. Clinton’s
plan treats education as an end product rather than what it should be, a human right. We all have more education and technology than at any point in history. Saying everyone is not worthy of free education is inhumane. People shouldn’t have to work for what others can get without working. Also, Clinton’s plan makes students rely on their parents for an education. This can be problematic for students with unhealthy or abusive relationships with their parents. We shouldn’t be at the mercy of other people for an education. Sanders’ plan cuts the financial ties between students and parents by making higher education a human right. Parents wouldn’t be able to hold education as leverage against their children. For LGBT students, this means they could come out sooner without fearing parents would cut them off financially. For women in more traditional households, this means
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they could go to school despite their fathers’ efforts to convince them that school is for men only. Clinton came out victorious in last night’s debate despite her college plan, but I still
#FeelTheBern. Cody Sibley is a 19-year-old mass communication sophomore from Opelousas, Louisiana. You can reach him on Twitter at @CodySibley.
Traditional, nontraditional families offer same values NOT MARIAH CAREY
MARIAH MANUEL Columnist We know the romanticized image of the All-American family: two parents with two kids, a dog and a minivan behind a white picket fence, mom cooking dinner when dad returns home from a day at the office, and the kids playing baseball in the front yard. This image of the family is all but, gone and nostalgia of the typical ’50s family faded. Americans no longer marry as young, more mothers are in the workforce and non-traditional families are the new normal. Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson condemns these non-traditional types of families, suggesting not all families have the same value, in a Sirius XM radio interview last Wednesday. In his interview, Carson disparaged non-nuclear families by arguing Americans need to stop paying attention to the “PC police.” Like many of his campaign trail comments, Carson has again put his foot in his mouth and
refuses to back down from his statement. “Let’s stop pretending everything is of equal value,” Carson said. He continues by arguing some “lifestyles” are more valuable than others, claiming “traditional, intact families” are the only ones that can produce stable members of society. Society no longer vilifies single parent households and divorce. These days, it’s rarer to come from a nuclear family. The institution of marriage changed with the times: Americans are delaying marriage or choosing not to marry at all, and same-sex marriage is legal in all states. Families can be made up of stepparents, teen parents, grandparents or foster parents, making the notion of a traditional family highly idealistic and impractical. While there are studies showing a modest advantage of having a traditional, two-parent household, less than half of kids under 18 actually have this advantage. Pew Research Center conducted a study finding 46 percent of children in the United States come from two married heterosexual
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parents in their first marriage. Non-traditional families are fast becoming the new traditional families, and according to Carson, non-traditional families will bring about the death of moral society. Carson says we should ignore the PC police, but this has nothing to do with political correctness. There are some “traditional” twoparent households who procreate when they don’t have the means or the desire to raise children. Abusive two-parent households by no means foster proper growth and development for a child. If two homosexuals adopt a child, at least it is because they both are willing and able to care for the child. Several studies, such as the one conducted at Boston University by Benjamin Siegel of the American Academy of Pediatrics, show LGBT families are just as likely to produce a loving and supportive family environment as families. “Many studies have demonstrated that children’s well-being is much more by their relationships with their parents, their parents’ sense of competence and security, and the presence of
social and economic support for the family than by the gender or the sexual orientation of their parents,” Siegel wrote with coauthor Ellen Perrin. Maybe traditional family values evolved, but it isn’t necessarily a bad thing. We cannot expect families to operate the same way they did before the ’50s, when divorce was social suicide. We can’t idealize the past. Arguing for every family to be the picture-perfect image in our heads isn’t realistic. In 1960, 5 percent of all births were to unmarried mothers. By 2014, the percentage of births to unmarried mothers has risen to 41 percent. Carson is acting as if we can go back to a time where everyone stayed married, but was that any better? Many of those couples are now divorced was considered because they married too early or weren’t compatible. He also claims Americans have lost their values and that we must find a way to reinstill them. However, Americans haven’t lost their values — they have just evolved to represent different lifestyles.
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While traditional families can foster a loving and supportive environment to raise children, there is no reason these new types of families cannot do the same. The structure of the family is not nearly as important as the quality of the relationships between members of the family. The best environment to raise a child in is where the child is loved and supported unconditionally — it has nothing to do with the makeup of the family. Conservatives need to lose the unrealistic mentality that a woman who gives birth has to have a ring on her finger and stay married forever. It simply won’t happen. Uncompromising conservative values need to change with the times and recognize that the past isn’t as picture-perfect as they think. The new normal isn’t necessarily a bad thing. To keep the world spinning, it takes all kinds of kinds. Mariah Manuel is a 22-yearold mass communication senior from Lake Charles, Louisiana. You can reach her on Twitter @mariah_manuel.
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participated in every summer workout. Defensive line coach Ed Orgeron said Key was his first target when he accepted the position as LSU’s defensive line coach, but he didn’t know just how gifted Key was. “Coach O[rgeron] said he didn’t realize how good I was,” Key said. “That wasn’t a knock on me. I went to train with Chuck Smith, so he taught me a lot of things that a lot of people didn’t see until camp started.” Before he was Key’s mentor, Smith played in the NFL for nine seasons and earned 58.5 sacks over the course of his career. Since retiring, he’s worked with some of the premier pass rushers in the game, including former New York Giants defensive end Michael Strahan, former Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis and Ravens linebacker C.J. Mosley. Smith said Key has a few traits that don’t come from coaching or studying film. “He’s a great competitor — he’s got that dog in him,” Smith said. “He’s a guy that’s never going to quit.” Smith got Key ready for SEC football by adding a variety of moves to his repertoire. Key said Orgeron also equipped him with a few techniques since arriving in Baton Rouge. “[Orgeron] worked on different techniques for me to beat [offensive tackles],” Key said. “It’s a lot of techniques, and that’s what I love. I love to learn new things and try them.” Key made the decision to attend LSU after the Tigers added defensive coordinator Kevin Steele and Orgeron to the coaching staff. Steele’s base defense involves a four-man-front that allows pass rushers to develop their skills, Smith said. Last year, LSU finished the season with 19 total sacks. This year, the Tigers brought the quarterback down 12 times in their first five games. “Arden Key wouldn’t have been at LSU last year,” Smith said. “There was no pass rush. The best decision LSU ever made was bringing Kevin Steele and Orgeron in and letting them run a four-man-front.” Key is starting to draw comparisons to an LSU great, defensive end Barkevious Mingo. Many of the comparisons might stem from the two sharing the same number, but Orgeron said the two share the same speed as well “Athletically, he looks like [Mingo] but obviously you got to produce,” Orgeron said. “That’s a good comparison, and hopefully he can become as good or better.” Smith said Key can play both defensive linemen and linebacker at a high level, and Key showed that versatility against the Gamecocks, staying in the game as a stand-up defensive lineman when LSU opted for its nickel package. “People haven’t seen Arden scratch the surface of what he’s going to be,” Smith said. “If he stays healthy, he has a chance to be the number one pick in the NFL draft one day.”
remaining, and Florida and LSU are two of the three undefeated SEC teams remaining. For senior linebacker Lamar Louis, there’s an added excitement to the game beyond the rivalry that has formed between the Tigers and Gators. “You know, it’s going to be two SEC teams that are undefeated,” Louis said. “I think that does add a little something.” After their game against Florida, the Tigers will take on Western Kentucky University at home before a bye week, after which LSU will head to Alabama
SWIMMER, from page 3 “The environment here was just completely different from anywhere else I’d been, vastly different,” Levreault-Lopez said. “How much the surrounding area adorns LSU, how adorned LSU is not only in Baton Rouge but in New Orleans as well and different areas around Louisiana, all of the die-hard LSU fans. The team itself had a bond that I hadn’t seen anywhere else. It was really special. I loved it.” Levreault-Lopez said the coaches were welcoming and enthusiastic, but also serious about finding a spot for him on the team. His visit ended up being a success, and he committed to LSU two days later. The coaches aren’t the only welcoming ones on the team, he said. The upperclassmen are supportive, and he already has a close bond with his teammates. They even cheered him on while he competed against them in the Purple and Gold Intrasquad meet, where he took first place in the 200-yard fly and the 1000-yard freestyle. “As freshmen, we all thought we kind of had a chip on our shoulders,” Levreault-Lopez
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for its first road game in 42 days. The Alabama versus LSU game is one many circle on their calendars, but to junior linebacker Kendell Beckwith, it’s just a stepping-stone. “It’s just some more grass we have to play on,” Beckwith said. “Just another opponent we have to face to get to where we want to go.” The game will be played in Bryant-Denny Stadium, but the Tigers said the venue doesn’t affect them; they would be prepared if a game was played in the stadium’s parking lot. “Coaches really tell us
whether it’s a parking lot, 11 a.m., 4 p.m., that we’re going to play,” said junior defensive tackle Christian LaCouture. “We love playing in Tiger Stadium. But, wherever we have to play, we’re going to play.” After playing four-straight games at home before traveling to Tuscaloosa, junior defensive end Lewis Neal said the Tigers must treat Bryant-Denny Stadium the same as they do Tiger Stadium. “It does matter where you play, when you play or what weather you play in,” Neal said. “If we go somewhere, we’ve got to make it our home.”
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said. “Hopefully we could try to swim well and prove to the older guys and the coaches that we weren’t afraid to try to get in there and show off and see what we can do as freshman. I just wanted to let loose and have fun with it, which is easy when you’re racing next to your teammates and basically your brothers that you live with every single day.” Levreault-Lopez’s goals for his freshman season are to get as close to the 200-yard fly team record as possible and go to the Southeastern Conference Championships. He also wants to create a positive energy on the team that shocks people going into championship meets. “I think we as a family are just going to have a really good year, and I just want to keep the momentum going as a teammate, and as a unit as a whole,” LevreaultLopez said. He has one more personal goal — a goal that perhaps could be considered vengeance. Levreault-Lopez holds dual citizenship in the U.S. and Mexico. Last December, he competed in Mexico in the short course national meet, where he got second
place in the 200-yard fly behind Angel Martinez. Because of his competitive nature, when he had another chance this past summer to earn a victory, he took it. However, despite earning a first-place finish this time around, Martinez, who now swims for Texas A&M University, was not there. “I have unfinished business with him,” Levreault-Lopez said. “Right now, he’s swimming for Texas A&M, so I think we’re going to be meeting a couple more times before our swimming careers are over. Texas A&M is a big rival to LSU, so I would like to settle the score against Angel this year. Also, I think we’ll definitely
be competing in Mexico this year to see how the Mexican Olympic trials go.” LSU swimming coach Dave Geyer is supportive of LevreaultLopez’s plan of trying out for the Olympics. “At the beginning of the year, I sit with the athletes and just go over the year plan, and obviously with an Olympic year there’s a focus on that, too,” Geyer said. “So we’re just figuring out the right path and the right balance we’re trying to keep with the NCAAs. It’s fun. It’s great for our program when that does happen and if it does happen, to get that international recognition and having Olympians be a part of our program.”
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page 8 DISABILITY, from page 1 “We were surprised there was nothing like it on campus, so we decided to do it ourselves,” Thompson said. “We wouldn’t want to leave without having it started.” Though DSO is less than two weeks old, its members already aim to amplify the individual concerns of disabled students while also providing a place for them to socialize and vent. “Our biggest goal for this semester is to bring awareness to students, professors and faculty,” Mayen said. “We want to get students with disabilities together and say, ‘What are your concerns?’” Thompson, like many disabled students, sees campus in terms of accessibility.
CASSIDY, from page 1 praised two Louisiana charter schools currently extending a free curriculum to dyslexic students. Dr. Bennett Shaywitz, codirector of the Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity, offered a comprehensive illustration of the disability and its implications in a slideshow. Half of African-American fourth graders are reading below basic levels, compared to 21 percent of white students, Shaywitz said. “Children of color” and other disadvantaged individuals are more apt to have dyslexia and more likely to go undiagnosed, he said. “What we have is not a knowledge gap — we have plenty of knowledge — but an action gap,” he said. Rev. Derrius Montgomery, associate minister at Greater King David Baptist Church, said he grew up with dyslexia in Louisiana, where his disability went undiagnosed until he moved to Atlanta in the sixth grade. He had already been held back twice. Seventy-one percent of fourth graders and 78 percent of eighth graders are
He leaves early on days when he’ll have to enter buildings that have two sets of doors and memorized which buildings don’t have elevators and which ones are likely out of order. In Himes Hall, for example, there is no elevator, and students in wheelchairs must make appointments to visit professors in that building instead of taking advantage of their office hours. “It’s inconvenient for both of us,” Mayen said. “I can’t just zoom right in there. It doesn’t give us equal opportunity for everyone.” Members hope to raise awareness for these logistical issues and advocate for their improvement, while also promoting social understanding and compassion. unable to read at grade level — something Montgomery said he found “horrific.” “When I looked at all the studies and saw some of the main symptoms, the reading, and comprehension piece, that disturbed me,” he said. Montgomery added most children cannot afford to “pack up and go on to another state” to find the accommodations they need. Mass communication senior Allyce Trapp sat on the panel to share her successes as a student with dyslexia. Trapp was diagnosed in the first grade, and Cassidy said he was interested in how she flourished in school. At Trapp’s high school, a program called Project Read taught students with dyslexia, attention deficit disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder special study habits. Because she was diagnosed early on in her academic career, Trapp said she caught up to her classmates in reading comprehension by the fifth grade. “I remember not even learning how to tell time on a watch until the eighth grade, when I was learning Spanish, because I just didn’t learn that,” she said.
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Thompson recalled an incident during his freshman year when a professor did not want to let him make up a midterm. He missed the exam after his chair broke and could not be repaired for two weeks. “He was just very belittling and … rude to me and to the disability department,” Thompson said. “We believe a lot of professors don’t understand.” DSO President Amanda Swenson, an English PhD student, said she wants to educate the campus community on what it means to be a good ally for a disabled student. Swenson, who is epileptic and has a heart condition, said it is important for others to look past her disability and see her as a human being. “We are all marked by our
Mass communication senior Allyce Trapp discusses her personal experiences with dyslexia during a U.S. Senate committee hearing Tuesday in the Dalton Woods Auditorium.
disability. If you’re in school you’re ‘courageous,’ or people like to say things like, ‘despite her disability,’” Swenson said. “I do so many things, but people can’t see beyond our identifier.” DSO plans to act as a liaison between the administration and the students while working closely with Disability Services. Though many members praised the help they got from the department, they said they hope to expand Disability Services’ role beyond what people see — rescheduling tests and providing notes. DSO co-publicity chair Sarah Webb, an English PhD student, began instructing her first class this semester and said she became aware of several programs she did not know about before. The Disability Services
website provides information for faculty and staff on strategies and tips, sample syllabus statements and “Things to Say and Not to Say.” “They do seem helpful,” Webb said. “If an instructor wants to learn how to interact with their students, there are many resources.” Even though he graduates this semester, Mayen said he wants to make sure nothing deters future students, disabled or not, from considering LSU for higher education. He said as the Louisiana flagship school, LSU has a duty to go above and beyond. “We don’t want to operate at the minimum level,” Mayen said. “We want to come together socially and support each other.”
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