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TEST ME New testing center policy that aims to increase seats confuses students

BY CARRIE GRACE HENDERSON | @carriegraceh

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his semester’s new Testing Center scheduling policy aims to open more spots for students on days that best fit their schedule but has many last minute studiers outside Himes Hall stressed and confused.

“The reason behind it, for several semesters we’ve had a lot of students complaining to us and to instructors that they were having trouble getting seats for tests,” said manager of the Testing Center Derek Wilson.

The new policy restricts students to day-of schedule changes once they enter their testing window, and attempts to cut down on the number of students who schedule and reschedule everyday before finally taking their exam at the end of the testing period.

Wilson said students with a smaller testing

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Students wait in line to enter the Center for Assessment and Evaluation on Wednesday in Himes Hall.

Student arrested for shooting comments

BY QUINT FORGEY and FERNANDA ZAMUDIO-SUAREZ @QuintForgey, @FernandaZamudio A 21-yearold university student was arrested after discussing a potential school shooting and gun use over a CB radio BEE Tuesday night.

Richard Aron Bee was then arrested on charges of terrorizing, according to the affidavit of probable cause.

Bee was sitting on top of the LSU Union Square Parking Garage communicating with truckers over channel 19 of a CB radio.

According to the affidavit, Bee “was rambling about ammunition and ‘he was going to do some things.’”

Bee allegedly boasted he was equipped with two high caliber rifles and special ammunition over the radio, according to the affidavit. Bee allegedly said, though he didn’t have his binoculars, he could still see trucks on the bridge, leading the listener to

see ARREST, page 4 STUDENT SERVICES

Union barbershop closes doors after 50 years STAFF REPORTS @lsureveille After more than half a century in operation, the LSU Student Union Barbershop will close today. The shop along with the Union first opened in 1964.

Lawrence Cutrone, the barbershop’s manager, went to Assistant Vice President of Auxiliary Services Margot Carroll to deliver his resignation, said Communications Coordinator for Auxiliary Services Heather Gulino.

“He decided he was going

in a different direction with his life,” Gulino said. “At that point, [Caroll] decided to close the shop down and possibly make it [a] space that can fit more than just the male demographic.”

There are no decisions made concerning what to do with the barbershop’s space, but Gulino said many LSU faculty and staff members expressed an interest in a hair salon for both men and women. The Daily Reveille previously reported the shop was looking to increase diversity in its clients, but budgeting made it difficult for Cutrone to hire

new barbers.

Gulino said many LSU ROTC candidates would get haircuts at the shop after registering for classes and were a consistent part of the clientele.

Britton Mapes is a barber in the shop who worked under Cutrone for three years. Now that the shop is closing, Mapes said he’ll follow Cutrone to his next venture — Cutrone’s own barber shop on Jefferson Highway. Remembering his valuable experiences in the shop makes leaving a bit easier.

“I met a lot of people here,

a lot of students,” Mapes said.

“My time here has been good.”

Mapes and Cutrone attended the same barber school at different times. After the death of a mutual friend and fellow barber, Mapes discovered that Cutrone needed help and came to the shop.

“He’s a great boss, the best,” Mapes said. “I couldn’t ask for someone better to work for.”

Cutrone always had at least one assistant in the shop to help him with clients. Gulino said

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The Student Union Barber Shop located on the first floor of the Union is closing after servicing students for decades.

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[Left] Women’s and gender studies and history professor Catherine Jacquet and adjunct professor Liam Lair present at a Spectrum meeting on the issue of handling trans topics in the school and public systems on Wednesday.

Faculty couple lead Spectrum workshop on trans issues

BY TRENT PARKER @TrentParker_TDR A workshop hosted by Spectrum on Wednesday evening featured a presentation by LSU women’s and gender studies and history professor Catherine Jacquet and adjunct instructor Liam Lair on ways students and faculty can work in unison with transgender and non-gender conforming students.

Lair said he lived as a cisgendered woman until the age of 28 — someone whose personal gender perception aligns with their perceived sex. He identifies as transmasculine, and works with Jacquet to raise awareness and promote affirmation of trans and other non-gender conforming

individuals.

“When we’re giving this presentation to other faculty or administrators, we’re trying to give them a sense of where our students are coming from,” Jacquet said.

Jacquet and Lair used a visual aid in their presentation called the “Gender Unicorn” — a model with sliding scales ranging from sexual attraction to gender expression.

“We usually think about gender, about being a man or woman, and that is synonymous with genitals, with bodies, etcetera,” Lair said. “But it’s useful to be able to separate those, to talk about sex as far as chromosomes, hormones, genitals, etcetera — and then gender as something that you grow into, something that you learn. As

RuPaul said, we’re born naked, and the rest is drag.”

Jacquet and Lair work to spread information such as basic definitions of everyday phrases used discussing these topics. The pair also educate people on the realities of discrimination against trans and non-gender conforming people. In K-12 schools, 26 percent of such students are physically attacked because of their gender expression, and more than 87 percent are verbally harassed, Jacquet and Lair said.

A lack of available resources and assistance compound these issues for young trans and nongender conforming people, and students play a key role in making LSU a more supportive environment, Lair said.

“We talk about being inclusive, but I think being affirming is really important because I don’t ever want to be [just] tolerated,” Lair said. “I want to affirm people and celebrate what they are.”

Another issue Jacquet and Lair discussed is the unfair handling of trans people’s choices and transitions, with treatments such as hormonal therapy and plastic surgery requiring more evaluation and psychological tests than they would for non-trans patients.

Acquiring hormone therapy as a non-trans person is a simpler affair than for a trans person, Lair said, and the chest masculinization operations he underwent in Chicago during his transition would have been more difficult to receive in many parts of the U.S.

“Why are some people’s choices and transitions seen as a normal part of life and others as a psychological condition?” Jacquet said. “If I wanted breast augmentations … I don’t have to go to a psychologist, I can walk into a plastic surgeon’s office and it’s a done deal. No questions of my mental status.”

While Lair said in his presentation that some trans people are simply “Born This Way,” it is not true in all circumstances, and the members of the trans community that change later in life are no less legitimate.

“I don’t feel like I was born a man. I didn’t know I was trans or that I wanted to be trans until I was 28.” Lair said. “I really did enjoy identifying as a woman.”

STUDENT LIFE

New student organization promotes healthy lifestyles

BY TRENT PARKER @TrentParker_TDR Many students’ high stress levels and everyday distractions can negatively affect both their academic and personal lives. Computer science graduate Dipak Singh, president of the Bhakti Yoga Club, he said believes Bhakti yoga can help improve concentration and time management skills, all while reducing common stressors.

“The whole purpose of Bhakti Yoga Club is to anchor the students, [and teach] how to deal with these problems through the process of Bhakti Yoga,” Singh said.

The group has had one

meeting so far.

The Bhakti Yoga Club practices yoga in a form different than commonly seen in American gyms, focusing on meditation rather than movement.

Singh said that yoga is actually a series of different activities delineated into stages, and the stage the Bhakti Yoga Club practices is much more mentally relaxing than physically strenuous.

“That is the yoga for the body, and Bhakti yoga is the yoga for the heart,” he said.

The club plans to play soft, calming music during its meetings as attendees sit quietly and chant while meditating to an old Sanskrit language mantra

called “Hare Krishna,” which to all students.

The Bhakti Yoga Club also translates to “the energy” and “the God.” Afterward, partici- advocates vegan and vegetarpants will discuss the experi- ian diets because of its health ence and relevant texts such as benefits and respect for living “Bhagavad-Gita creatures. To help as It Is.” students transiThe club is ‘Bhakti yoga is the yoga tion to such diets, the club prioritizes unaffiliated with for the heart.’ education on fruits the International Society for and vegetables.

Krishna Con“We also have a DIPAK SINGH sciousness, a plan to start a cookBhakti yoga club president ing class, where religious movement whose adwe’re going to teach herents are often called “Hare students some of the vegetarian Krishnas,” practice a form of and vegan recipes because genBhakti yoga, and proselytize ex- erally people … [think] that vegtensively in the U.S. Singh said etarian or vegan foods are not the Bhakti Yoga Club is not a re- really tasty,” Singh said. ligious organization and is open After Singh and other

like-minded students noticed a lack of vegetarian or vegan organizations available to students, they decided the lifestyle needed further promotion on campus. They also thought introducing students to Bhakti yoga would “promote pure love” and help them make better decisions, such as concentrating on their studies instead of using intoxicating substances.

To Singh’s knowledge, his is the first organization dedicated to Bhakti yoga to be formed at LSU. The club plans to set up a table in Free Speech Plaza to promote vegetarian and vegan diets’ health benefits and hold weekly Bhakti yoga sessions as the club grows.

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THE CHANGES • Students can change their test date as much as they want before their testing window • Once the window opens, students can change their appointment to an earlier date or anytime on their scheduled date • To move a test back students must: wait until the day of to reschedule with an excuse, or ask an instructor to schedule their exam • Students can walk in at the time they want to take the test to see if there are early seats available ZOE GEAUTHREAUX / The Daily Reveille

Students wait in line to enter the Center for Assessment and Evaluation on Wednesday in Himes Hall.

HIMES, from page 1 window, just Thursday and Friday for example, fought for seats with students with larger testing windows, who pushed their exams back each day.

“With the old policy, someone with five days could schedule on Tuesday, and then once it got time for their exam say, ‘My test is in half an hour, and I’m not ready. Let me reschedule for tomorrow,’” Wilson said. “Then a Wednesday spot is taken, and the Tuesday spot is useless.”

This practice took away open seats from students who may only be able to take their tests on a specific day, he said.

Students then called their

ARREST, from page 1 believe Bee was looking through a rifle scope.

“The way he was talking he is going to set off ammunition nitrate at the Louis Dreyfus,” the caller reported after hearing Bee over the radio. The Louis Dreyfus Holding Co. is a facility in the Port of Baton Rouge containing a high amount of the substance, according to the affidavit.

The facility was shut down briefly after the incident, according to the affidavit.

Shortly after the call, LSUPD officers found Bee, dressed in camouflage on the top floor of the garage with long wires wrapped around him, according to the affidavit. Bee later told officers that his conversation over CB radio touched on the recent shooting at Umpqua Community College

professor, who asked the Testing Center to open more seats.

But as the Testing Center opened more spots, testers would still reschedule to fill them, Wilson said.

“Our numbers kept growing toward the end of the week, but the people that didn’t have a seat at all still didn’t have a seat,” Wilson said.

Though testers can change their exam date an unlimited number of times before their testing window opens, many students were caught off guard by the change.

Student Government Senator Gabby Triche, chair of the academic affairs committee, said many students contacted her

with questions about the change.

“They didn’t advertise it really well, and I think because it is new it is surprising to students,” Triche said. “I think that it is something students will get used to and it will become the norm.”

Triche said she asked the Testing Center during a meeting to post its new policies to Twitter and explicitly state the policy on the website to make it easily accessible to students.

But some students are still adjusting.

“Teachers ask you to schedule three weeks in advance so it doesn’t fill up, and so you schedule three weeks ahead of time,” mass communication senior Kelly Glueck said. “But when the

in Oregon.

He admitted that he described how he would shoot a potential LSU campus shooter, but denied making any threatening statements, according to the affidavit.

LSUPD was contacted about Bee on Sept. 24 for printing targets for firearm practice in the LSU Student Union, according to the affidavit.

A Facebook post from Bee on Feb. 14 of last year contained an alarming paragraph with a link to a Wikipedia article on Chicago’s 1929 Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre.

“Valentines may be a day a love to most, however, we should also know this day of love has a dark side as well,” Bee wrote, “and the only way you were probably happy in Chicago 85 years ago, on this very day, is if you were one of Capone’s men mowing down seven people in a Chicago warehouse…”

mornings were especially busy for the shop.

“The shop opens at 8:30 a.m., and you’ll see people there, especially the ROTC candidates,” Gulino said.

The plan is for the space to be closed for a short time, Gulino said. Auxiliary Services is looking into options for making the space as functional as possible for the largest number of students and faculty.

Whatever happens to the space where the shop once stood will be put to good use, she said.

“We’re just hoping that this leads to positive changes,” Gulino said. “Nobody is on negative terms, so it’s very amicable.”

The doors to the LSU Student Union Barbershop will officially close at 4 p.m.

week actually comes down to it and you have two other tests, you don’t know what would be the best time to do it until the day of.”

Students also worry that same day rescheduling will keep them from booking an opportune time because spots will already be filled.

Kinesiology freshman Ashlyn Treese said people usually reschedule because of unexpected circumstances, and not knowing whether there are available seats adds complications to an already stressful time.

“If you have to wait until the day of the test, a lot of the slots fill up,” Treese said. “One of my friends had to take a test during a class because there weren’t

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any available.”

Some took to Twitter to voice their questions and criticism, many of which the @LSU_TestingLab account responded to.

A lack of awareness of the new policy was the most common complaint.

Wilson said his office sent each instructor who uses the testing center an email explaining the new policy at the beginning of the semester, but that word did not spread like they hoped.

“It’s definitely a double-edged sword,” Triche said. “One of the best things about the testing center was being able to push it back, but at the same time you have to make spots available for those with a smaller testing window.”

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Student Union Barber Shop, located on the first floor of the LSU Student Union, is closing after servicing students for decades.

Sports

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LSU developing rhythm in SEC play

BY CHRISTIAN BOUTWELL @CBoutwell_TDR

LSU junior safety Rickey Jefferson (29) and junior defensive back Dwayne Thomas (13) celebrate a defensive play during the Tigers’ 44-22 victory against Eastern Michigan University on Oct. 3 at Tiger Stadium.

a team-leading four pass breakups through five games in 2015.

In the Tigers’ three Southeastern Conference games, Thomas tallied 15 tackles, tied for third-most on the team.

“In the beginning of the season, I started playing a little slow, so I’ve started to pick it up,” Thomas said. “I’ve started to get my groove back, trying to fly around and make some plays.”

Thomas’ ability to overcome adversity on and off the field bolsters his ability to lead.

After starting the season at 4-7 in nonconference play, the LSU volleyball team is seemingly turning the season around.

In the last five games, the Tigers are 3-2 in Southeastern Conference play. LSU (7-9, 3-2 SEC) had a chance to win as the two losses were five-set, marathon matches.

It was a below-average start to the season, but as in-conference play rolls on, the Tigers seem to be figuring it out.

“We’re finally getting comfortable with each other on the court,” said senior middle blocker Emily Ehrle. “It’s flowing better. We’re getting positive outcomes. It’s all coming together and looking to go in a positive direction.”

The Tigers’ offense was a problem in the beginning of the season, but the team strived to develop “offensive rhythm” — the key phrase for their offensive production this season.

LSU coach Fran Flory credits the season’s turn-around to one player specifically.

“The biggest thing that has turned around is [sophomore outside hitter] Gina Tillis,” Flory said. “Her rhythm for sure.

Once one person gets it, it kind of becomes contagious.”

Tillis leads LSU with three-straight double-doubles in the past three matches.

Tillis’ move to outside hitter

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see RHYTHM, page 8

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Junior defensive back Thomas finding groove after knee injury

BY MORGAN PREWITT @kmprewitt_TDR In a star-studded LSU secondary, junior defensive back Dwayne Thomas is often overlooked.

He doesn’t share the accolades of former five-star status with freshman cornerback Kevin Toliver II or 2014 Freshman All-American with sophomore safety Jamal Adams. His name isn’t instantly recognizable like junior safety Rickey Jefferson, younger brother of former Tiger starting quarterback

Jordan Jefferson.

But when he dons his No. 13 jersey and steps on the field at Tiger Stadium, Thomas has everything he needs — the respect of his teammates and a clean bill of health.

“He’s coming along,” Jefferson said. “He’s getting back to his old self … Just being more comfortable out there on the field, coming off an injury like that. It can mess with your mentality. It’s just hard. He’s taking strides.”

A year and 17 days ago, Thomas’ promising sophomore campaign ended with a season-ending knee

injury in the Tigers’ fifth game of the season against New Mexico State University.

Before he was sidelined, Thomas doubled his career tackle mark with 24, including 2.5 tackles for a loss, and notched 1.5 sacks, leading the secondary.

After earning the Alvin Roy Fourth Quarter Award for oustanding performance in the LSU offseason program during spring practice, Thomas regained his confidence and energetic play style through his first five games as LSU’s starting nickelback.

Thomas posted 19 tackles and

SOCCER

Florida State transfer Hahn becomes key player for Tigers

BY MARIO JEREZ @MJerezIII_TDR LSU sophomore midfielder Debbie Hahn is used to winning.

Hahn won five state championships in high school-one for every season during her prep career at Fivay High School in Port Richey, Florida, including the eighth grade. The winning streak didn’t change for Hahn in her freshman year at Florida State University, where she appeared in 11 soccer games for the national champion Seminoles.

However, Hahn saw a better opportunity in Baton

Rouge on the LSU soccer team and made the city her new home in 2015. A player would usually have to sit out a season after transferring, but Hahn was eligible right away because of a lack of playing time during her freshman year.

“I just wanted a better opportunity to get more minutes and see the field more,” Hahn said.

Hahn made the most of the opportunity, becoming a key player for the Tigers in her first year with the program.

She’s started all 15 games this season and is the third-leading goal scorer on the team behind

sophomore forward Jorian Baucom and junior forward Summer Clarke.

On the field, Hahn stood out right away, and the Tigers benefited from her play from the beginning. However, it’s never easy being on a new team, attending a new school and living in a completely different state.

“At first, she was shy in social aspects, but on the field she got to work right away,” Clarke said. “From the first day of preseason, you could tell she was going to be a big part of the team.”

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LSU sophomore forward Debbie Hahn (31) dribbles the ball during the Tigers’ 5-1 win against Marquette University on Sept. 20 at the LSU Soccer Stadium.

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Tigers travel to Arkansas for critical SEC matchup

it to the SEC tournament,” sophomore forward Jorian Baucom said. “Coming into ArThe Tigers have four games kansas we’re feeling good, and left in the season, and after we’re definitely not trying to that, it’s the Southeastern lose two [games] in a row.”

Although LSU is ranked No. Conference tournament. At 46 in the NCAA’s least, that’s what Ratings they’re hoping ‘Coming into Arkansas latest for. we’re feeling good, and Percentage Index on MonThe LSU socwe’re definitely not trying released day, its hopes for cer team travto lose two [games] an at-large bid to eled to Fayettein a row.’ the NCAA tourville, Arkansas, nament could be for a critical SEC JORIAN BAUCOM in jeopardy if matchup at 6 p.m.

LSU sophomore forward the Tigers fail tonight against to qualify for the University of Arkansas. After rallying to the conference tournament in defeat the University of Mis- November.

The Razorbacks (5-8-1, 1-5souri last Friday for a muchneeded win, the Tigers fell 1 SEC) are also desperate for on the road to the Univer- points and can pull even with sity of Florida on Sunday, LSU in the standings with a vicplummeting to 11th place in the tory. However, LSU dominated in Fayetteville as of late with the SEC. For LSU (8-4-3, 2-4-1 SEC), last Razorback victory coming a primary goal was to qualify in 2003.

The Tigers saw a 10-game for the SEC tournament to compete for the SEC title and winning streak against Arkanearn an automatic berth to the sas snapped last season in a 3-3 NCAA tournament. However, tie last year at the LSU Soccer the Tigers must secure one of Stadium. Although the team the top 10 win-loss records in owns a 10-1 record against the Razorbacks since 2004, LSU the league to do so.

As of now, they’re on the coach Brian Lee said it won’t take them lightly. outside looking in.

“SEC road games, “We definitely want to make

BY MARIO JEREZ @MJerezIII_TDR

HASKELL WHITTINGTON / The Daily Reveille

LSU sophomore forward Jorian Baucom (5) battles for ball control against Vanderbilt University sophomore defender/ midfielder Christina De Zeeuw (17) during the Tigers’ game against the Commodores on Oct. 2 at the LSU Soccer Stadium. particularly Arkansas, will be a difficult challenge,” Lee said. “They’re a tough, physical team, and they have a great home crowd. We’ve had some tough challenges, and Arkansas is another one” Road games challenged LSU as it hasn’t won away from Baton Rouge since the season opener against Oregon in

August. LSU will also be without its second-leading goal scorer, junior forward Summer Clarke, as she recovers from an ankle injury suffered in the game against the University of Florida.

The Tigers’ 7-0-3 record at home has kept them in national contention, but Baucom said they have to learn to win on the

road if they want to make it to the postseason.

“It’s unfortunate we’ve lost [almost] every away game,” Baucom said. “But our minds are at the right place at this point, and we’ve cleaned up on everything we possibly needed to work on this week.

We feel confident going into Arkansas.”

TENNIS

LSU men’s, women’s teams to compete in ITA Southern Regionals

BY HEATHER ALLEN @Hallen_TDR The LSU men’s and women’s tennis teams will compete in the ITA Southern Regional tournament in Alabama this week. The men will play in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, from Oct. 15-19, while the women will play in Auburn, Alabama, from Oct. 16-19.

For the Lady Tigers, in the opening round of prequalifying at the ITA All-American tournament, junior Abby Owens was defeated by Texas Christian University’s Marie Norris. Owens also played doubles, teaming up with senior Skylar Kuykendall.

The duo was eliminated by Laura Gulbe and Dzina Milovanovic of Oklahoma State University in their opening match.

Kuykendall found success in singles, earning two wins in qualifying. However, she ultimately fell to Pepperdine University’s Luisa Stefani.

Junior Joana Vale Costa was defeated by Ellen Perez of the University of Georgia in the opening round of the main draw.

She was sent to the consolation bracket and defeated Vanderbilt University’s Frances Altick in the opening round. Vale Costa was forced to retire due to “feeling very sick and light headed,” co-head coach Julia Sells said in a news release.

The Tigers earned victories in the ITA All-American,

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LSU then-junior Tam Trinh celebrates a doubles match win during the Tigers’ 6-1 victory against Arkansas on March 29 in the W.T. ‘Dub’ Robinson Stadium. including standout wins from sophomore Gabor Csonka, sophomore Simon Freund and junior Justin Butsch. Junior Jordan Daigle and senior Boris Arias also had success in doubles.

In the opening round of prequalifying, Csonka defeated Clemson University’s Luke Johnson, while Freund earned wins over Nick Wood of Georgia, the University of Oklahoma’s Florin

Bragusi and TJ Pura of Duke University.

Freund was defeated by Julian Childers of the University of Illinois in the second round.

Csonka earned the victory over the University of Florida’s Joshua Wardell but fell in the next match against Matt Mendez of Ohio State University.

Freund and Csonka teamed up in doubles, earning a win against

the University of Virginia’s Luca Corinteli and J.C. Aragone in the first round of qualifying.

Butsch defeated Alex Gornet of the University of Louisville and Jerry Lopez of TCU in the first and second rounds of qualifying. He also teamed up with senior Tam Trinh to defeat Indiana University’s Sam Monette and Daniel Bednarczyk. During the final round of qualifying, Butsch

was forced to retire from both singles and doubles play due to injury.

Daigle and Arias defeated Charlie Emhardt and Jeffery Schorsch of Valparaiso University in the opening round of the doubles main draw but ultimately fell in the next round to the University of New Mexico’s Bart Van Leijsen and Hayden Sabatka.

Trinh, who played singles in the ITA All-American for the first time this preseason, will look to use his experience to get his first win.

“I’m more comfortable now that I’ve got one tournament under my belt in the fall,” Trinh said. “I’m looking forward to improving and getting more wins.”

The Tigers will try to continue the momentum they’ve gained from the first three tournaments.

LSU tennis head coach Jeff Brown said the team has a lot of spots in the lineup he feels good about.

“We’re taking Justin, Tam, Gabor, Simon and Cameron [Andry] to the regional tournament,” Brown said. “To watch all those guys continue, like Simon and Gabor had two more breakthrough wins. Justin is playing very well and has been picking up some big wins. Cameron just needed experience. Tam needs to play some more matches, and he’s due for some big wins. We’re looking to grow and continue with some of them.”

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page 8 RHYTHM, from page 5 bumped senior Katie Lindelow to the back line. A switch that has proved beneficial for the Tigers ever since.

Tillis along with other underclassmen, were thrown into a big-time role after the Tigers dealt with injuries at the start of the 2015 season.

“We’ve had a ton of freshmen and underclassmen step up,” Ehrlesaid. “All props go to them.

They’ve had to carry a heavy load and have done nothing but good things for us.”

The freshmen and underclassmen not only have to step up and play big roles, but they are also called upon to be leaders of the team.

“People have had to step up and take leadership roles,” said sophomore setter Cheyenne Wood. “The team dynamic is way

better. You can tell we are more together and smoother on the court. It’s a lot easier now.”

LSU faces Mississippi State University (13-6, 3-3 SEC) and the University of Alabama (8-10, 2-2 SEC) on Friday and Sunday, respectively.

The Tigers believe this weekend will be another big turning point for what was a bad opening to a bright season.

“We want to get a win and take care of business,” Wood said. “Everyone is going to need to take care of their job. It’s going to be fast-paced.”

Other than earning two wins, Flory said she believes good defense, patience and passing are keys to achieving two wins this weekend.

“We are a team that is going to play good defense,” Flory said.

“Patience and passing on offense are huge for our progression.”

The Daily Reveille THOMAS, from page 5 Along with coming off a season-ending injury in 2014, Thomas entered this season with questions surrounding his decision-making ability after he was arrested and booked for unauthorized entry into an inhabited dwelling and simple burglary on June 18. After the charges were dropped and he was reinstated in August, Thomas had something to prove to the Tiger faithful — if he could make the right choices and stay out of trouble. So far in 2015, Thomas has succeeded, leading LSU with his own quiet touch.

“He’s a little quiet,” Jefferson said. “He doesn’t really say much.

He’s a veteran. He’s got some experience.”

His quiet demeanor resembles

Wednesday, October 15, 2015 junior cornerback Tre’Davious White more than the Tigers’ electrifying vocal leaders like junior linebacker Kendell Beckwith, Jefferson and Adams, but Thomas adds to the confidence of LSU’s tradition of “Defensive Back University” by playing whatever role he needs to.

Although he enjoys dropping back in coverage, Thomas said he loves blitzing as a change of pace and a way for him to create pressure on the quarterback, helping his teammates in coverage.

“Blitzing is so much fun,” Thomas said. “You don’t have to run and cover, but you have an opportunity to sack the quarterback and make a big play.”

Thomas’ leadership extends beyond the secondary, which he subtly demonstrated during

LSU’s 45-24 victory against the University of South Carolina on Saturday.

When freshman running back Nick Brossette was pulled after fumbling inside the Tigers’ 10-yard line during the fourth quarter, Thomas was the first teammate to approach the frustrated rookie as he threw his helmet and sat down on the bench.

Seconds later, the cameras immediately panned to catch sophomore running back Leonard Fournette’s much-publicized comforting of Brossette, epitomizing how Thomas’ leadership, much like his play, operates under the radar of the media.

“He’s a leader,” Beckwith said. “He’s an older cat. He’s been around for a while now. He’s a veteran for us.”

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HAHN, from page 5 Clarke and other team members helped Hahn transition to her new team, her new school and her new home.

“At first it was difficult being new, making friends and all the typical stuff you go through when you’re new,” Hahn said. “The team has introduced me to people and showed me around. They made it a lot easier.”

Much like she’s acclimated to Baton Rouge off the field, Hahn also adapted to a new position on the field and looks more comfortable as time goes on. After playing forward throughout high school and at Florida State, Hahn played center midfield for LSU throughout her first season with the team.

She showed a playmaking ability at her new position, hustling back on defense and creating space for her teammates on the attacking side of the field.

Hahn’s hard work culminated in LSU’s last win against the University of Missouri when she scored the goahead goal, giving the Tigers a 2-1 victory and a critical three points in the Southeastern Conference standings.

LSU failed to win its three previous games and was on a 217-minute goal-scoring drought. To make matters worse, LSU was without a suspended Baucom due to an excess of yellow cards.

Hahn stepped up in Baucom’s absence and scored arguably the biggest goal of the season for LSU. “She’s been phenomenal,” Baucom said. “She had to adjust to a new position on this team, and she’s done really well. She’s been taking direction from everyone, both players and coaches, and she’s done a really nice job.”

Hahn left a comfortable environment in Tallahassee, Florida, to become a key player for LSU in its quest for its first postseason appearance since 2011. She said she envisions her winning ways to continue throughout her LSU career.

“When everyone puts their mind to it, there’s no limit,” Hahn said. “I think we’re all championship caliber players. The coaches show all the confidence in the world in me, which is all I’ve ever wanted, and it’s been a dream come true. I’m really happy I transferred.”

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FALL FOODS

Move over Starbucks. Magpie Cafe offers its own pumpkin spice latte with a syrup made in-house using pumpkin and seasonal spices.

Director of coffee at Magpie Cafe Wallis Watkins said it’s the perfect balance of sweet and spicy. The drink is topped with the shop’s signature microfoam art, a staple for local Instagrammers.

But the shop offers more than PSLs. Though the menu changes daily, Magpie Cafe previously served items like pumpkin chocolate chip muffins and pumpkin paleo bars.

To concoct your own seasonal dishes, stop by Trader Joe’s for fall ingredients. The grocery store offers pumpkin in nearly every form.

Some items to add to your grocery list are hot drinks like pumpkin spice coffee single serve cups, which are perfect for Keurig coffee makers, or pumpkin spice chai mix, which you simply add to water, according to the store’s Fearless Flyer.

You can make breakfast with pumpkin bagels and pumpkin cream cheese as well.

Honey roasted pumpkin ravioli can be served alone or with autumnal harvest pasta sauce, according to the Fearless Flyer.

The flyer suggests making pumpkin bread pudding for dessert and using pumpkin tortilla chips for snacking.

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Nothing Bundt Cakes offers a pumpkin spice cake in their signature, moist, bundt-shapes topped with buttercream cheese frosting, manager of Baton Rouge’s Nothing Bundt Cakes Allison Ward said. The pumpkin spice bundt cake is their most popular featured flavor. You can buy it in the form of “bundtinis,” which are bite-size cakes, “bundtlets,” which are single-serving cakes, and normal-sized cakes, which range from 8 to 10 inches and can be tiered, she said.

For a rich, chocolate experience, try Zocalisa’s candies and gelato.

Zocalisa owner Jeff Dickey uses real pumpkin, pureed, cooked and spiced, for the base of its pumpkin truffle and pumpkin pie gelato, he said.

His pecan pie truffles are locally harvested pecans toasted and chopped, molasses caramel, vanilla and bourbon.

Start your day with one of Tiger Deaux-nuts’ gourmet donut flavors this season.

The orange cranberry pecan flavor is a yeast-raised donut with an orange glaze, a cranberry drizzle and chopped pecans on top, owner Jeff Herman said.

The shop offers a pumpkin spice flavor, which is a pumpkin-yeast raised donut made with real pumpkin, tossed in cinnamon sugar and topped with a honey glaze drizzle.

The pumpkin raisin cream flavor finishes off Tiger Deaux-nuts’ fall lineup with a pumpkin-yeast raised donut topped with a cinnamon cream cheese frosting, brandied raisins and sprinkled cinnamon sugar, Herman said.

FASHION

Local beauty studio offers on-site hair, makeup services

BY KAYLA RANDALL @kay_ran21 Tina Rodosta is always in motion.

The artist has just enough time to pour a cup of coffee in the morning before she and her team are out on the road, tending to a bride’s every need.

Rodosta is the owner of Verde Beauty Studio, an onlocation hair and makeup salon.

The studio is classified as a Baton Rouge-based special event hair and makeup team available for travel nationally and internationally. However, Verde is much more than that.

Along with on-the-go hair and makeup for weddings and

other special occasions, the team offers lash extensions, skin and waxing services, body wraps, tanning, makeup lessons and will soon teach hair classes.

“We are a full service event studio, so we specialize in onlocation airbrush makeup and hair services,” Rodosta said.

“We’re not a regular salon that happens to do events. We’re an event company that happens to do salon services.”

Rodosta has a background in fine art and photography, which she utilizes on the job. She said her love of art led her to owning Verde.

“I got into it because I was a fine art major, and I didn’t like

being told how to do art,” Rodosta said. “That transferred into being a business major and running my own business.”

Verde wasn’t always part of Rodosta’s vision for the future.

When she first started, she was in makeup direct sales while in school. Rodosta said people would make deals with her to purchase products if she did their makeup, which surprised her.

Then, Rodosta saw a gaping hole in the industry. She said everyone she talked to wanted to have someone come to them for event hair and makeup instead of having to go to them.

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Verde Beauty Studio makeup artist Tina Rodosta works on bride Kalynn Chumney’s wedding day makeup.

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RANKS THE WALK TriStar Pictures “The Walk” is an incredibly well done film that trims the fat on excess drama and makes for a triumphant film about the true story of a man chasing his seemingly impossible dream.

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PAN Warner Brothers “Pan,” directed by Joe Wright, was about as pleasant as being hit in the face with a frying pan. ... While it gives viewers a slight trip down memory lane, it ends up as more of a face plant into the pavement than a magical stroll through our favorite far away land.

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BLACK LINES Mayday Parade Instead of Mayday Parade naming this album “Black Lines”, it should’ve been named blue print. Featuring a new sound, this album tends to sound more experimental than anything they released before.

Selena Gomez finds style in new album RANDALL RAMBLES KAYLA RANDALL Entertainment Writer Selena Gomez has been through a lot, but her latest return to the spotlight proves to fans and haters alike the starlet may be able to do it all.

These past few years were hectic, from her relationship with Justin Bieber to ugly incidents of fat-shaming that led to emotional turmoil.

After releasing her first three studio albums as Selena Gomez and the Scene, her second solo studio album, “Revival,” sees Gomez take back control of herself and become a more mature artist.

Disney alums seem to be going the overtly sexual route with their image and music lately, and it seems forced at times. Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato are prime examples. While that may work for them, Gomez hasn’t necessarily gone down the same path.

Though Gomez is more sexually mature with this era of her music, she doesn’t appear to be going that route, which is refreshing.

With “Revival” Gomez is finding her style, her signature pop-R&B blend, and it all comes together nicely.

But “Revival” is by no means perfect.

Gomez is no vocal powerhouse, and the lyrics are nothing revolutionary. However, none of that matters while listening to the album, which, when it works, is irresistible.

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“Revival” works best with its singles. “Good For You” featuring A$AP Rocky is probably the most well-known single and is one of the best tracks of the album.

Gomez expertly utilizes her sultry voice on the song and exudes a sensual energy that pulsates throughout. She almost sounds nonchalant, but it works for the song. “Good For You” is smooth and a pleasant listen.

“Same Old Love” is more of a pop single compared to the R&B style of “Good For You” and is another album standout. The track sounds like a personal memoir that everyone can relate to.

It will be interpreted that every song on “Revival” is about Bieber, and “Same Old Love” is no exception. Though she denies it, “Same Old Love” certainly

sounds like it could be about her relationship with him, and it’s fun to speculate.

The title track “Revival” is a great album opener, setting the album’s tone. When artists have a track with the same name as the album, it need not be forgettable or it’s a disappointment.

Luckily, the song is worthy of sharing the album’s name. On “Revival,” Gomez sings about being restored and reinvigorated in life, summing up the album’s subject matter. The song is simple, slower with drumming synths, but still powerful as it can elicit a listener’s own revival.

For Gomez fans and nonfans, “Revival” is a good listen.

It’s more interesting and introspective than anything she has done before.

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VERDE, from page 9 “There was a niche market that wasn’t being filled, so I started doing on-location makeup for events, weddings and commercials, then added hair about seven years later,” Rodosta said.

Rodosta and her team of makeup artists travel across the state, but that wasn’t always what she envisioned.

Rodosta said she liked doing makeup and was excited people were paying her to do it. She never wanted to work in a regular office setting doing regular salon services, so she began doing on-site services. Then, the studio parlayed into what she does now.

Everything can be traced back to art, Rodosta said.

“This really is an application of what I learned in art,” Rodosta said. “All that highlighting and contouring is, is highlighting and shadowing like you would on a canvas. In art, I can paint, which is makeup, and I can sculpt, which is hair.”

For Rodosta and her team, there are no typical days on the job. Rodosta said the month of October is one of the busiest months for events in southern Louisiana. Currently, Rodosta said she and her crew are in wedding season.

Just last Saturday, she did the hair and makeup for an LSU alumna bride and her bridal party.

The bride, Kalynn Chumney, who graduated last year, had her makeup done at her parents’ house.

Chumney said having onlocation makeup done for her wedding was a blessing.

“I think that it really made the day a lot easier but also a lot more fun,” Chumney said.

“We were at my parents’ house so we had a lot of room, and people were able to watch TV while others were getting hair and makeup done.”

Chumney said it wouldn’t have been the same experience if she and her bridal party had to travel to a salon for their hair and makeup. Verde providing on-site services allowed Chumney to enjoy the day and relax with her family while she awaited her impending nuptials.

“I don’t wear a lot of makeup, so I feel like she’s the first person who really listened to me and didn’t just cake it on,” Chumney said.

Rodosta did Chumney’s sister’s makeup for senior pictures a couple years ago, and Chumney has used her ever since. Chumney said she didn’t consider anyone else do her wedding day makeup.

She plans on utilizing Rodosta’s services in the future as well.

“I wish I could have her do my hair and makeup all the time. I’m not good with that kind of thing at all,” Chumney said. “She does airbrush makeup. I was a little worried about it at first because with airbrush makeup, I was like, ‘How is that going to work?’ But it looks really good, especially

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Tina Rodosta is the head of Verde Beauty, a beauty studio that does on location hair and makeup. in pictures.”

Rodosta said weddings take the cake for her as far as services go. She said Verde is big on making brides look like themselves, just the wedding day version.

Doing bridal makeup allows her to experience brides’ most private moments, in which they get a moment to relax from all the chaos of the wedding day and finally soak everything in, Rodosta said.

“We’re there and a part of the most exciting day of a person’s life,” Rodosta said. “You can’t beat that.”

Along with intimate, personal on-site makeup like brides and bridal parties, Verde has accrued some high profile clientele through the years. In addition to boudoir makeup, which is intimate portraiture, Mardi Gras balls and sorority events, Verde does commercial work.

Rodosta is no stranger to big ad campaigns.

“All the billboards you see for Walk-Ons right now and Happy’s, we did all the hair and makeup for that,” Rodosta said.

“All the buses in New Orleans with the Happy’s and Walk-Ons girls, we did that. Pretty cool to see your work 10-feet tall.”

Verde has done commercial work with Nestea, Louisiana Lottery and Women’s Hospital.

The studio is also the Miss Louisiana sponsor for Miss Louisiana USA. Rodosta and her crew work backstage at the Miss Louisiana USA pageants doing touch ups on the contestants as well as photoshoots.

Verde recently did a couple photoshoots with current Miss Teen USA Katherine Haik.

Rodosta and her team also do makeup for the Miss LSU pageants. Next year, Verde will be doing on-location makeup for the wedding of Hilary Tuttle, the 2013 Miss LSU pageant winner.

Everything about Verde represents Rodosta’s art and what she stands for, right down to the name.

“I wanted a name that was memorable and based in color,” Rodosta said. “We are a green studio, so we do our part to recycle and use environment friendly products as well as donate to animal shelters.”

Social media takes up the majority of the public’s attention.

Now, the creators and developers of the most well-known site names are asking for more.

In the past year, various social networks have pushed “exclusive” content to the forefront as their focus has shifted from gaining new users to keeping current users returning to their feeds each day.

Major networks, such as Snapchat, Twitter and Facebook, added new sections and algorithms to bring special content to users.

Networks should take a cue from Instagram and streamline what users see without compromising the content they care about.

First up is Snapchat.

The app started its content monetization trend earlier this year when it launched the Discover tab.

The tab changed the way Snapchat users consume content by bringing major news networks like CNN, Fox News, Comedy Central and ESPN to the app.

These different channels provide videos, news and articles curated daily from the provider.

Part of the problem with Discover is it changes why people

come to Snapchat entirely. What started as a service to send photos to friends, now provides news and videos. It seems unnecessary.

From snaps to tweets, Twitter has jumped on the increased consumer interaction bandwagon recently.

Much like Snapchat, Twitter needed to figure out how to use its own strengths to appeal to users already on the social network.

Twitter released the Moments section in its app last week in order to help users figure out how to use Twitter.

The Moments feature was an attempt to bring breaking news to one convenient location, while crediting those who started the news.

For users that already have a self-curated feed and would prefer not to use the Moments feature, Twitter recently released Highlights, a short list of the most noteworthy tweets the user missed while away from the network.

The new features give guidance to Twitter to capture and keep users’ attention.

On to the holy grail of social networking — Facebook.

One of the biggest additions to Facebook is Instant Articles which attempts to streamline news and entertainment consumption by embedding these articles directly into Facebook.

These stories are designed to

speed up how quickly a user can engage.

These articles have strong launch partners, including National Geographic and BuzzFeed.

With Facebook full of these controversial topics and adorable animal videos, the company decided users needed to be able to do more than “like” or comment.

The introduction of the emoticon buttons that accompany the “like” button have already started being tested in Spain and Ireland and will hopefully roll out to the United States very soon.

The new engagement system includes a heart, a smiley face and an angry face among others.

While Facebook is trying to engage more with users, some feel it should engage less.

“Facebook is full of spam and advertising that I do not want to see,” biochemistry junior Kelsey Renard said.

And finally, Instagram, which seems to be following the “if it’s broke, don’t fix it” ideology of its social media siblings.

The only major change in the past year has been the addition of portrait and landscape photos last month.

“There isn’t anything I would add or remove to Instagram,” Renard said. “I like Instagram because the feed is only things I choose to see, without many ads or people posting things I don’t like.”

Opinion

Wednesday, October 15, 2015

YOUR VOTE MATTERS THE CERULEAN CONCILIATOR

JUSTIN DICHARIA Chief Columnist In the spring, many Louisiana state legislators risked their future political careers by voting for revenue-raising legislation that cut several business tax exemptions and incentives. Their gamble, angering big businesses in the state, saved higher education from an 82 percent budget cut. They preserved countless faculty jobs, academic programs and scholarships.

Without the fiscal measures, English 2000 classes may have been 300 students instead of 30. The business and engineering programs may have lost accreditation.

Students would have found foreign language classes nearly impossible to get into.

With legislative elections only weeks away, higher education supporters in certain districts are at risk of losing their seats. If opponents defeat them, higher education will lose tried and true allies. Their races are in districts home to thousands of LSU students.

For some competitive races, our votes could be the deciding factor, and if we fail to turn out on Election Day, we may seal the doomed fate of our own university’s budget.

Higher education supporters in competitive races:

Senator Dan Claitor, R-Baton Rouge Senator Conrad Appel, R-Metairie Sen. Appel co-authored a TOPS reform bill that uncoupled TOPS with tuition, for the program to remain available for future generations. Appel voted for a majority of the proposed higher education fiscal measures and all of the tuition and fee autonomy legislation.

Sen. Claitor authored legislation and amendments fighting against budget cuts to higher education. Claitor supported a majority of the previous session’s revenue-raising measures and tuition and fee autonomy bills. The senator stood on the steps of the State Capitol with LSU students in protest last April and is a constant ally for the university.*

Rep. Carter chairs the House Education Committee and authored tuition autonomy legislation. He voted for a majority of revenue-raising measures and tuition and fee autonomy legislation. Carter is a former LSU assistant athletic director. His position on the Education Committee is paramount for higher education’s future.

Representative Darrell P. Ourso, R-Baton Rouge Rep. Ourso’s district covers The Cottages of Baton Rouge and The Exchange at Baton Rouge apartment complexes, which house thousands of LSU students. Ourso voted to support higher education in almost all cases and is in a competitive race with multiple opponents. For students registered in Baton Rouge, voting for Ourso is a vote supporting LSU.

Sen. Brown authored multiple amendments to legislation in favor of raising revenue for higher education. Brown voted for a majority of revenue-raising measures and tuition and fee autonomy bills. He faces two opponents in his district, covering most of the river parishes.

Senator Troy E. Brown, D-Napoleonville

Representative Steve Carter, R-Baton Rouge

*All candidate information pulled from the LSU Student Government 2015 Louisiana Legislature Higher Education Report Card and Louisiana State Legislature websites

Gubernatorial candidates Vitter, Dardenne court racist votes BEYER’S REMORSE MICHAEL BEYER Columnist Two Louisiana gubernatorial candidates want to throw your money into a dumpster fire. When our state has a budget deficit, Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne, R-La., and U. S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., want to waste public money and resources drug testing welfare recipients.

States began to drug test welfare recipients to raise money. Arizona, Kansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Utah spent thousands each year on drug tests hoping to kick any recipients who test positive off the welfare rolls.

Now, Dardenne and Vitter propose drug testing welfare

recipients, or those who receive support from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. Vitter introduced the Drug Free Families Act in Congress this year, and Dardenne released an ad claiming he would drug test welfare recipients if elected governor.

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, TANF funds services like income assistance, child care, education and job training, transportation, aid to at-risk children and other services for low-income families.

Drug testing TANF recipients is as good of an investment as Gov. Bobby Jindal’s presidential campaign.

In 2011, Missouri enacted a law requiring TANF applicants to be screened and tested for drugs. ThinkProgress reported, “In 2014, 446 of the state’s 38,970

applicantsweretested.Just48tested positive.” In Florida, the law was enforced for four months . During that time only 108 out of 4,086 welfare applicants tested positive for drugs.

It’s not only wasteful, but drug testing welfare recipients is also unconstitutional.

A Michigan court threw out the state’s 2003 law, which allowed the drug testing of all welfare recipients, finding it violated the constitutional ban against unreasonable search and seizure.

In 2014, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals found Florida’s drug testing law for welfare applicants unconstitutional, arguing the mandatory drug test offended the Fourth Amendment.

Public benefits should not constitute unreasonable searches like drug testing.

These standards don’t apply to other groups receiving government benefits.

Imagine if every college student using TOPS were subject to drug testing. Or if every Wall Street banker who received bailout money were subject to drug testing. Or if every Congressperson were subject to a drug test to receive their salary and pension.

We wouldn’t target college students, bankers or legislators.

The difference between these groups and TANF recipients is their income level. It’s a Republican scheme to target low-income people.

According to Bloomberg Politics, in 1989, a certain Louisiana state legislator said a urinalysis would “clean out some of the projects, the public housing.” This idea has the support of David Duke,

a young leader in the Ku Klux Klan, white supremacist and 1991 gubernatorial candidate.

Republicans should be alarmed when two credible candidates for governor cheer the idea of a white supremacist. It’s clear the ghost of Duke still looms over your party.

Those who champion drug testing welfare recipients should sort out their budget priorities. Shaming those on welfare by fantasizing they’re more likely to use drugs doesn’t help low-income people out of poverty but further stigmatizes those receiving public assistance.

Degrading those on welfare wins racist votes, and for that Vittera and Dardenne should be ashamed.

Michael Beyer is a 21-year-old political science senior from New Orleans. You can reach him on Twitter at @michbeyer.

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Tigers’ Leonard Fournette comparable to Taylor Swift INFRANGIBLE ICON JOHN GAVIN HARP Columnist As he lands the cover of Sports Illustrated, LSU running back Leonard Fournette is beginning to relate less with the average LSU student and more with Taylor Swift.

Fournette’s meteoric rise to fame this football season is taking the nation by storm. It goes without saying, LSU is reaping the benefits of Fournette’s popularity — as it should.

From featuring him in this summer’s recent campaign to push ticket sales, to the endless onslaught of press, Fournette has quickly become the face of LSU. With him being an all-around swell guy too, LSU would be hardpressed to find a better posterboy.

Last weekend’s game against the University of South Carolina was the perfect opportunity to showcase Fournette’s persona as the everyman champion. With

Fournette receiving NCAA approval to auction off his jersey for South Carolina flood victims and another A+ performance at the game, it’s safe to say he’s killing it.

At the rate he’s going, analysts and pundits are expecting Fournette to sign a $20 million, 4-year deal when he’s drafted by the NFL. Until then, LSU will continue to showcase him as its favorite son.

By representing LSU, Fournette is representing the Baton Rouge community — and in a sense, Louisiana. Fournette serves the same purpose for LSU as Swift does for Nashville — he’s an ambassador of unprecedented proportions.

It’s remarkable Fournette seems to be so nonchalant about his role in the LSU machine and the pressures that accompany it. Despite landing the cover of Sports Illustrated, Fournette still maintains his casual, 20-year-old college student identity.

But Fournette’s situation is anything but normal.

He is a vehicle to push LSU’s

brand to new audiences — namely potential recruits and students.

He’s funny, likable and immensely talented, and LSU is using it to its advantage.

Similarly, Swift was a vehicle to push country music and Nashville to people who previously weren’t fans. But, as with Swift’s case, there will come a time when Fournette has to rise above his current position and university branding.

How Fournette expects to do so remains to be seen. Though he doesn’t strike me as the type to don a crop top in order to rebrand himself.

With the amount of rightfullyearned attention Fournette is receiving, I can’t help but wish LSU showed off some of the other athletes here on campus, especially the female ones.

Football obviously gets the most attention here, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Football is part of LSU’s DNA. Many athletes are role models for children. Fournette has done a stand-up job thus far being a

proper role model for his fans too.

But what about the kids who don’t relate to Fournette? Who do they look up to?

Junior softball pitcher Baylee Corbello has consistently performed well. Why not showcase athletes like her as well?

As the season’s winning streak, hopefully, continues, Fournette’s celebrity status will likely grow. It’s unfortunate NCAA bylaws prevent him from being in control of it at the moment, but one can only hope he maintains his popularity when he moves on to other things.

Nevertheless, LSU will keep flaunting him like a golden child until he does.

I may not know a lot about sports, but I do know a bit about public relations. I understand why LSU is managing Fournette in the manner it currently is.

But there’s plenty of room for more than one person in the spotlight. Even Taylor knows that. #SquadUp John Gavin Harp is a 20-year-

old mass communication junior from St. Francisville, Louisiana.

You can reach him on Twitter @SirJohnGavin.

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Taylor Swift moved to Nashville, TN at the age of 14 to pursue a career in music. She is now a national icon.

Louisiana should turn to Rep. John Bel Edwards for leadership BURNT TO A CRISP GARRETT HINES Columnist More than 225,000 disadvantaged Louisianians do not have access to federally-funded health insurance.

Gov. Bobby Jindal’s abuse of power and outright refusal to buck the conservative base in favor of pragmatic solutions to jumpstart Louisiana’s ascent in the 21st century has led to many of his citizens without access to lifesaving services.

Jindal’s abdication and dereliction of his duties as the caretaker of our great state is criminal. A recent poll conducted by The Advocate/WWL-TV found his wrongdoings so overwhelming that, in a head-to-head match up with Democratic frontrunner and former Secreatary of State Hillary Clinton, she would defeat him 45 percent to 42 percent.

To lose in his home state to Clinton, a supporter of Planned Parenthood and gleeful overseer of every abortion they perform, is a striking critique of how awful his tenure has been.

As he has floundered the last six years, articles referencing another Jindal debacle appear and

he is slammed in comment sections by Jeaux Q. Public and descriptions of how much better the state could be “if only he left” run rampant.

The time has arrived to stop Jindal bashing in comment sections, run to the ballot box and put some political action behind such big talk.

State Rep. John Bel Edwards is not just big talk but big action.

He has made it the hallmark of his campaign that on day one, he will seek approval from the federal government to expand Medicaid in our state.

The issues outside health care are monumentally important as well.

People on this campus claim to respect our veterans and the elderly. This upcoming Election Day will prove if these sentiments are true. If elected, Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne has promised to elevate the Office of Elderly Affairs and make it a cabinet level position. This is a good thing, as the Office has not had a director in three years because Jindal fired the previous director for speaking out on his disastrous plans for the Office’s future.

Dardenne, however, plans to do this by combining it with the Department of Veteran’s Affairs.

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This will force both populations to fight over allocated funds and create a system where the needs of one group will compete against the needs of another.

Voters did not think through the vote to create a Department of Elderly Affairs and only took it as expanding government, which would, in their eyes, increase spending. When the op-

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portunity to vote on creating the Department rises again, which it will if Public Service Commissioner Scott Angelle or Edwards becomes governor, it should pass with flying colors. The care and concern for the “900,000 people in Louisiana over the age of 60” must be paramount, and these people need a person whose one job, every day, is to make sure they can age in peace.

On higher education, each of the candidates is clear on their plans for TOPS and protecting funding for these institutions.

NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune reported that Sen. David Vitter has openly trumpeted his willingness to explore “reforms to the TOPS program.” This reform is allowing the Legislature to cap the amount of money it allocates for spending in the program and making sure as tuition goes up, TOPS does not match the increase.

Edwards has a plan that will rebalance state budget priorities and attempt to make both students and the state each cover half of the cost of attendance, increasing funding from the drastic $700 million cuts enacted during Jindal’s tenure. This balanced approach to the problem inspires confidence in his sound leadership abilities.

Angelle is the only candidate

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who has promised not to tackle the issue head on and has instead pandered to voters by saying he thinks no changes need to occur.

When TOPS began, this state was seeing record oil revenue and had experienced a stable line of governorship, which while colorful, was also effective in managing the state in a practical manner.

The reality is, things have changed and voters should expect the candidates to be real about the speed bumps ahead.

Edwards supports raising the minimum wage, passing legislation for equal pay for equal work and forcing businesses to hire legal, tax-paying Louisianians to do the work so desperately needed in our state. He has been a tireless advocate for teachers and has consistently been against Jindal’s catastrophic policies, long before it became political popular.

Oct. 24 is the first chance we the people will have an actual shot of ridding Jindal and his horrible crop of cronies. Supporting Edwards will be the first step in a long marathon to correct Jindal’s misguided path.

Garrett Hines is 21-year-old political science major from Monroe, Louisiana. You can reach him on Twitter @garrettH_TDR.

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DANCE

‘So You Think You Can Dance’ stars reveal tour secrets

BY KIMBERLY GAGNET @kgagnet Traveling from one big city to the next, “So You Think You Can Dance” selects the strongest and most talented performers to dance their way to the top.

Season 12 upped the competition by pitting stage-trained dancers against street dancers.

The show selected 20 dancers, 10 from Team Stage and ten from Team Street. Each week, one member from both teams were eliminated.

The last dancer standing, Gaby Diaz, was a member of Team Stage. Though she holds the title of America’s Favorite Dancer, nine of her fellow contestants will join the stage with her on the So You Think You Can Dance Season 12 Tour. The top 10 hit the road to 65-plus cities this fall. Performing dances from the show mixed in with a couple new dances, the tour will make its fifth stop at the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans on Oct. 19th.

The Daily Reveille caught up with Hailee Payne and Jim Nowakowski, two members of Team Stage, as they prepare to start the tour.

The Daily Reveille: What inspired you to start dancing?

Jim Nowakowski: I started dancing with the influence of my older sister at the age of two and a half.

I was very rambunctious and outgoing as a child, so my parents just put me in a dance class because I copied everything my sister did. I was asked every year if I wanted to continue and I said yeah, so it just kept happening that way.

Hailee Payne: I started dancing actually because I was watching the Macy’s [Thanksgiving] Day Parade with my dad. I saw the Radio City Rockettes on the screen, and I absolutely had to do that. I was like “ahh!” I said to my dad right there, “I have to dance!” My dad was so excited because he always wanted me to dance. That’s just what I’ve been doing since and I haven’t stopped. Obviously, my dream has changed a little bit from the Rockettes. I’m not tall enough. But that’s what really influenced me to start dancing.

TDR: So what is your preferred dance style?

HP: For me, I love doing hiphop, actually. On the show, I was a jazz dancer. I love every style, but if I could dance any style it would be hip-hop, jazz or jazz funk.

JN: Mine would be classical ballet. I started at a formal ballet school at age 11, and I did that all the way until I was 18 and went to a professional ballet company.

TDR: What made you want to try out for SYTYCD? JN: I was looking for a change.

I wanted to dive into and explore more forms of dance. I’ve been a part of the classical ballet world for a really long time. It all

seemed really interesting to me, so I decided it was now or never.

HP: I have always wanted to audition for the show. Ever since I was 8 years old that was the first season, I saw Nick Lazzarini win. I was like “I have to do that!” What a great way to start your career. For me, I was living in Utah, and it was the best way to get my name out and do what I wanted to do. I want to be a professional dancer, so what better way to get your name out in front of all these choreographers and the show? It was just such a great opportunity that I couldn’t pass it up.

TDR: How excited and relieved were you when you found out you made the top 20?

HP: Oh my gosh, when I found out I was in the top 20, I was almost in disbelief because I had auditioned two other times. Season 11, I got cut right before the live show. To actually hear the words, “You’re in the top 20,” was like, no, it’s not real! It was disbelief, and then it was a lot of different emotions ran [running] through my body. I was nervous.

I was excited. It was just a whirlwind, but it was just the coolest experience ever.

JN: For me, I was actually in rehearsal hell when they called me. I was so excited that I wanted to tell everyone … but we were in disclosure and couldn’t tell anyone, so that was really hard. But I was so excited for the adventure and new chapter that was beginning. It was really surreal and overwhelming at the same time.

TDR: What was the funniest moment on the season for you?

HP: I know the funniest moment for me. It was the very first week, and we were still getting to know each other. I mean, we knew [each other] from Vegas, but this was really getting to know [each other]. We were in the rehearsal for our Broadway number, which was the very first group stage number; so all 10 of us were in there. We had these canes [as props] and we were doing this cane section. The choreographer, Warren Carlyle, says, “You just have to squeeze, you’ve got to squeeze,” as we were like flipping these canes. So the next time we did it, our friend, Darion, squeezed so hard that he tooted.

We all just lost it. I will remember that moment forever. It was the funniest ever.

JN: Yeah, I have to agree, that was pretty special.

TDR: So how excited are you guys for the tour?

HP: I am so excited. Coming on the show, this is what you look forward to. You want to try to get on that tour. To know that I’m going is so cool, especially because this is going to help me prepare for what I want to do on my career. I want to go on tour with music artists. It’s such a great experience. I am over the

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[Left] Hailee Payne and Jim Nowakowski strike a pose . moon about it. I’m always texting my mom like, “I’m just so excited. There’s only like seven days left.” She’s like, “Hailee, I know.

I understand.” I’m just so excited about it.

JN: Yeah, I’m excited as well.

Especially being able to meet all of the fans. They write to you.

You get fan mail. You get messages, but you don’t actually get to meet them. So I think that’s going to be a really special time for all of us to actually interact with all of them.

TDR: How different is prepping for the tour versus prepping for the show?

JN: ...Now that we’re familiar with the routines, it’s a little easier in terms of what we are expected to do. It’s a big stamina, endurance show. It’s more a taste of the professional world rather than a competition. So the tables are turned a little bit and the pressure is not as high.

HP: We’re doing 70 [shows] and it’s going to be a lot, but I think we can do it. And like Jim was saying, it’s very different from the show because stamina wise, there are 15 numbers and each number runs into the next so we don’t have commercial break.

We don’t have talking to the judges. So it’s definitely a full-blown showcase, which is really cool cause as dancers, most of the time in performances, at least for commercial dancers, you’re behind an artist or you’re selling a product. So it’s cool that we get to do a show that’s all about dance and all about the artistry.

So hopefully people come and appreciate some of their favorite numbers from the show.

TDR: Speaking of dance numbers, are there any special

surprises in store for the tour?

HP: You know what, there are a couple new numbers that people will have to come to the show and see. We have a couple of them so everyone will have to come out.

TDR: Lastly, what do you guys think is next for you after the tour?

HP: For me, I’m actually moving to Los Angeles. I’m taking the big step moving to L.A. and trying to take on the job as being a dancer. I know it’s going to be tough and difficult as anything

is, but I’m just ready to go for it and dive in headfirst. I already have an agent, and so now I’m just ready to go out and audition for whatever comes my way. I hope it’s a music tour, you know, maybe with Lady Gaga or something if she makes a new CD. I’m just ready to do whatever comes my way. I’m super excited, and Los Angeles is where I’ll be.

JN: I may be out in L.A., I may be in New York, I may be in Europe. I’m not sure. I’m going to take it day by day.

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