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NEWS

SPORTS LSU professor’s app pinpoints Baton Rouge crime, page 3 LSU women’s center, SG bringing more Period Project locations to campus, page 4

ENTERTAINMENT LSU volleyball community welcomes freshman Paige Hilliard from Hawaii, page 7

Book collection shows history of horror, fantasy, page 13

OPINION “With much-needed open-mindedness, little black girls like Faith won’t have to worry about being dismissed from learning because of their hairstyle,” page 18

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COVER STORY

Graduate students disappointed in closing of LSU Student Health Center pharmacy

BY SHERIDAN WALL @slwall7 Several cubicles and a conference room sit in the LSU Student Health Center where University students once could fill their prescriptions.

The Pharmacy at LSU was a full-service pharmacy that offered over-the-counter and prescription drugs, vaccines and more. Many students were not aware of the Student Health Center’s on-campus pharmacy before it closed in the spring of 2018. The pharmacy closure is due to financial instability, but the students who depended on it worry about the decision to close.

Graduate student Sydney Epps said she is concerned about the pharmacy’s closure because of the new on-campus living requirement for all freshman students starting this year. “[These students] should be able to access all the facets of health and wellness on campus,” Epps said.

Although students new to campus this year don’t know about the pharmacy, Epps said

there’s a “remarkably large populous” of graduate, nontraditional and international students who were especially dependent on on-campus medical resources like the Student Health Center’s pharmacy.

Before the pharmacy closed, students could see a doctor, get a prescription and immediately have it filled in-house, Epps said.

“It was a one-stop shop,” Epps said. “It was amazing. It was a great idea, and I think it was very well-celebrated when it first opened.”

Keystone Pharmacy Services, the private company operating the on-campus pharmacy, closed the business and ended their lease early due to a lack of usage, according to Student Health Center executive director D’Ann Morris.

The company took over the pharmacy in 2016 after the Student Health Center determined the 25-year-old selfoperating pharmacy wasn’t financially stable enough to remain open.

“The LSU community is opting to use pharmacies off-campus rather than on-campus,”

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Morris said in an email. “It is as simple as that. That’s why the self-op closed. The private venture failed because there wasn’t enough business to keep it open.”

Morris said the self-operating pharmacy began losing money around 2011-12 due to low usage and issues with health insurance.

“In the Student Health Center, we believed in the value of the pharmacy, but could not sustain the cost by using student fee money to subsidize it,” Morris said in an email. “We need to be good stewards of [students’] money.”

The Student Health Center converted the space previously occupied by the pharmacy to a cubicle-style office space for six employees and a conference room, Morris said.

Now, the lack of a pharmacy slows the process of students’ access to medical resources, especially those who might have transportation and language barriers that already make medical care difficult, Epps said.

“It was much more convenient to just walk across campus than having to drive to a CVS or another pharmacy,” Epps said.

Morris said most doctor’s offices and clinics don’t have an in-house pharmacy and that pharmacies are not necessary for medical diagnoses.

After the pharmacy announced its closure, Epps began collecting notecards with student feedback about the pharmacy’s closure. She posted a box outside of her office door for students to leave comments,

and she received about 120 student opinions that she passed on to LSU Student Government.

SG also received feedback from about 50 to 100 students toward the end of the spring 2018 semester, according to SG executive press secretary CJ Carver. After receiving emails from students asking SG to intervene in the pharmacy’s closure, Carver said he reached out to the previous administration, but they didn’t have any involvement with the decision to close the pharmacy. SG president Stewart Lockett then contacted Morris.

“Following the Student Health Center’s decision to close the in-house pharmacy, Student Government received concern from students over the closure and our involvement in it,” Carver said in a press release. “After discussing the closure with the executive director of the Student Health Center, D’Ann Morris, the timeline shows Student Government had no involvement in this decision.”

Speaker of the student senate Christina Black said she hasn’t heard much from students directly because several students didn’t know the pharmacy existed. She said several of the students she asked about the pharmacy said they prefer to use the CVS and Walgreens pharmacies off-campus.

Moving forward, Carver said SG will continue to work with the Student Health Center to provide students with the necessary resources. Black also said the student senate is open to working with the Student Health Center.

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News

FIGHTING CRIME LSU professor creates app to view crimes in Baton Rouge

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University making progress diversifying faculty

BY CALEB GREENE @cgreene_24

very user-friendly,” Davis said. “[With BTR Crime,] you get a quick bird’s eye view of everything in a format and on a platform that I think we as a society are comfortable with.”

The app has also caused a bit of concern among users who did not previously know the extent of crime in the city.

For instance, as of Sept. 4, there have been 262 homicides already reported in 2018, which

The University’s faculty is continually changing. Year after year, the University attracts and hires new talent to fill open positions. Lost within the constant upheaval are the changing demographics of overall instructional faculty body.

Since 2008, the University’s instructional faculty increasingly has become more ethnically diverse in addition to the hiring of more entry-level professors.

The number of Latino faculty instructors doubled between 2008 and 2017, an increase from 25 to 52. Additionally, the number of Asian and African-American instructional faculty increased substantially. These increases come despite the minimal change in the University’s total instructional faculty, a net change of six instructional faculty members since 2008.

Despite the gains made in the last 10 years, Senior Vice Provost of the Office of Academic Affairs Jane Cassidy acknowledges the University still has work to do.

“Anybody who’s not white is underrepresented in our faculty,” Cassidy said. “We would love for our faculty to be a closer mirror to the population of Louisiana, and we are not there.”

Cassidy specifically cited Hispanics and African-Americans as underrepresented in the faculty. African-Americans comprised roughly 12 percent of the

see CRIME APP, page 6

see DIVERSITY, page 6

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BY BEN HOLDEN @benjaminholde10 LSU Technology and Entrepreneurship Professor James Davis hopes to make Baton Rouge residents and University students aware of potential dangers through an app that reports where and when crimes happen each day.

The free app, BTR Crime, was first released in 2015. It opens a map of Baton Rouge on the user’s iPhone and drops pins

where a crime has been committed. Upon clicking a pin, users can find out what type of crime was committed, whether it be a robbery, assault or homicide.

The app also gives the incident number with each pin so users can seek out more information on a specific crime.

“I built [the app] for me and the types of the things I would want to know,” Davis said. “If you ask me what I hope [anyone else] can get out of it, [I’d say] something similar. How safe is

my community?”

The app helps residents gain a sense of how safe their areas are, and future residents can find out which neighborhoods are the safest to live.

The only other way a resident can get this information is directly through the Open Data Portal from the Baton Rouge Police Department, but it can be time-consuming and not as efficient.

“If you go out and look at the Open Data Portal, it’s just not

WEATHER

LSU EOC utilizes campus resources for potential emergencies

BY MATTHEW BENNETT @mcbennett4

The LSU Emergency Operations Center said communication is the most important kill to use when dealing with a hurricane. When the University was potentially going to be hit by Tropical Storn Gordon, they did everything they could to keep students informed and to take all precautionary measures.

Manager of the Emergency Operations Center Jake Palmer said students should always be watching the weather for updates on a potential storm, paying attention to updates from the EOC and keeping in contact

with family and friends.

“Communicate with your parents,” Palmer said. “One of the things we get a lot of [is] the students are fine, but the parents up in Chicago don’t understand what we’re facing here, [and] they’re the ones that get spun up.”

There are no mandatory evacuations when it comes to University protocol. The EOC closely follows the recommendations of the parish and state government, but is always prepared to feed and shelter students and local residents in need.

Typically, the University is used as an evacuation center for Louisiana residents further

south. This was complicated when Hurricane Gustav directly hit LSU’s campus in 2008.

There was extensive damage and power was lost for more than 24 hours.

If needed, all residential halls, apartments and dining halls have supplies ready and protocol in place to deal with major storms hitting campus. The PMAC and Carl Maddox Field House are also on-campus buildings that are run by the state for safe shelter.

Executive Director of the Student Health Center D’Ann Morris, who previously worked

see EMERGENCY PREP, page 6

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HEALTH

LSU’s Period Project expanding across campus

BY RACHEL MIPRO @remroc15 Ten little red baskets make the difference between a normal day and public humiliation. At least, that’s the idea behind the Period Project, which started with over 500 feminine products and a goal to save the University’s menstruating population. So far, it seems to be working.

The Period Project, which started in March, provides emergency feminine hygiene products for students who need them. To date, it operates at 10 on-campus locations, with around 15-20 tampons and pads in each spot. The products are kept in bright red baskets, usually with a sign to mark it as a station.

In addition to the Women’s Center, some of the most used baskets are located at the main information desk in the Student Union, at the access services front desk on the second floor of the middleton library and in the second floor bathroom of Patrick F. Taylor hall.

You won’t find any of the baskets in the bathroom, though. The project’s coordinators found that leaving

baskets filled with free supplies in the bathrooms was just too tempting. Summer Steib, the director of the LSU Women’s Center, said they had to change plans because of this.

“We’ve got to move it out of the bathroom, because it was appearing that folks were just seeing them there and were like, ‘Oh, free tampons, pads, let me stock up,’” Steib said. “Once we did that, it’s really cut down on the usage, which is good, because that’s then reflective at the end, really, of students using them because they’re in an emergency situation.”

The project also keeps the baskets out of the bathroom for menstruating students that don’t identify as female, hoping to keep the initiative inclusive for everyone.

Just one month after the project began, almost all of the supplies had been used.

The current supply of products was bought with money from the Women’s Center’s Kendra Scott fundraiser, which got around 1,700 tampons and 1,600 pads. The project started out with about $79 in seed money from the LSU Student Government, which bought

288 tampons and 288 pads.

Steib wants to work with SG to create more financial legislation for the project, hoping to get more funds and awareness.

The project also intends to add 10 to 15 new locations and offer more supplies, including pain relievers, wipes and a change of clothes. Women’s Center graduate assistant Jordyn Warren said the goal was to keep students on campus and comfortable, and leggings would help.

“By expanding it that way, we think we’ll reach more people,” Warren said. “You have some cases where people are having an emergency, but they feel like it’s just too much of a mess for them to just go get a pad or a tampon and head to class. Now you have the pad and tampon, but then you’re also able to change into something that you can get to class in real quick and then when class is over, you can head home and clean yourself up.”

SG senator Sarah Perkins, a political science senior, was involved in the initiative when it was passed in Nov. 2017, and said SG will continue to support the project.

“This initiative is a pilot program,” Perkins said. “We

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The LSU Women’s Center provides feminine products as part of their “Period Project” in Troy H. Middleton Library on Aug. 31. would like it to expand into other things. People actually use the products, and we do have to refill them so they know it has been useful.”

Possible expansions would include working with campus facilities to get plastic receptacles for bathrooms stalls, or at least trash cans in all bathrooms so feminine products can be disposed of easily, and to get departments to donate

t-shirts for period packs. While they have big plans for the future, project coordinators are happy with what they’ve accomplished so far.

“It’s been very successful,” Warren said. “I think it’s much needed, not just here but everywhere because there’s really not an inclusive culture for women and especially for women and their periods anywhere.”

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

LSU Student Government to offer free printing in offices

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Forgetting to print a research paper is an example of one issue LSU Student Government hopes to alleviate with its free printing service soon being offered to students in the SG office in the Student Union, according to SG president Stewart Lockett.

SG plans to launch the free printing initiative in about one to two weeks, according to SG executive press secretary CJ Carver. Carver said SG executives began discussing the free printing initiative about three weeks ago as an effort to not only help the students but also encourage them to actively be around SG. Students can print up to 10 pages in black and white per day, Lockett said. SG will set up a printing kiosk at the front of their office where students can swipe their Tiger Cards to use the printers. A student worker will also be at the front desk if students need assistance.

SG vice president Rachel Campbell also agreed that the free printing initiative is part of an effort to engage students in SG, similar to providing testing materials like blue books and scantrons. Campbell said they also set out a feedback

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LSU Student Government office operates during normal hours in the LSU Student Union on Sept. 4. box for students to leave comments or suggestions.

Speaker of the student senate Christina Black said since the start of Lockett and Campbell’s term, she’s seen the two extend a significant effort to talk with students directly.

“We’re really trying to make sure that we’re very accessible and very transparent with what’s going on,” Black said. “We want students to feel like they can come to us.”

Carver said Lockett, Campbell and other SG representatives are always in the SG office, so students utilizing the free printing will be able to ask questions and interact with them.

“I think it’s a great way for students to really feel like Student Government is more than just people that send out press releases and plan these events,” Carver said. “They can put a face to a name.”

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page 6 DIVERSITY, from page 3 University’s student body, according to the Office of Budget and Planning’s 2017 Fall Facts report. African-Americans only accounted for 56 of the University’s 1,345 instructional faculty, equating to a little more than 4 percent.

Among the significant strides made by the University to diversify its staff, Cassidy notes more women have entered the STEM fields as instructors.

“It is incredibly important that we have diverse faculty,” Cassidy said. “Students should be able to see people who look like them on campus for support.”

EMERGENCY PREP, from page 3 in the EOC, wants to reassure everyone that students living on campus will be taken care of and safe.

“We work very close with Residential Life to make sure they know the protocols,” Morris said. “They’re one of the best partners the EOC can have. They have some of the best emergency planning, hands-down.”

The EOC prepares enough food and water to last for weeks in case a big enough disaster occurs. Tiger Stadium is stocked with more than 100,000 water bottles at all times dur-

Another emerging trend in the University faculty is the large number of instructional faculty hires. The University alone had 157 new faculty members in 2018, according to Cassidy. These hires stand in stark contrast to hiring freezes earlier this decade amidst the state’s budgetary crisis. As a result, many of the new faculty members are new to the world of higher education.

Former Faculty Senate President Kevin Cope explains this is not a push within the University, but an outcome of the University’s economic situation. According to Cope, the newer faculty reflects nationwide trends of universities hiring cheaper faculty.

“This is not something the University is setting out on, such as a quest,” Cope said. “Rather, this is a result of economic circumstance. Within its means, the University is doing quite well at diversifying its faculty and staff.”

The University has made undeniable progress to diversify its instructional faculty. Administrators, like Cassidy, remain optimistic the progress will continue into the near future and the new faculty and develop and grow alongside the University.

“You bring people in to let them grow, so that their name becomes associated with your university over time,” Cassidy said.

ing hurricane season. The dining halls are stocked with non-perishables and, in a rare scenario when needed, ReadyTo-Eat Meals made by the U.S. Department of Defense.

“It’s one of those things [where] you walk into a room and flip the switch and you expect that light to come on,” Palmer said. “But what happens when it doesn’t? When those minor everyday assumptions we make go away, that’s when we start to panic.”

CRIME APP, from page 3

*A version of this story on lsunow.com is updated to feature the status of Tropical Storm Gordon.

averages about one homicide every day, according to the app.

“I’m not naive,” Davis said. I know there’s evil in the world. If you asked me to guess how many homicides there were [this year] in Baton Rouge, I would not have guessed [262].”

BTR Crime is free in the iPhone app store, but is not available on other devices.

“I made [BTR Crime] for myself,” Davis said. “I have an iPhone. No one has asked me to [make an Android version].

When I first released it onto the app store, I thought maybe [BTR Crime] would get some

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While LSU’s share of minority teachers is on the rise, the number of white teachers still vastly outnumbers the number of minority teachers.

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OPINION

COLE FASHIONED

Cole Tracy brings consistency to LSU’s kicking game

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BY BRANDON ADAM @badam___ When Cole Tracy heard the letters “L-S-U” over a phone call, he didn’t think it was true.

“Louisiana State University,” LSU special teams coach Greg McMahon said over the phone.

“Like the Tigers?” asked Tracy, who was trying to think of any other LSU’s that he knew of.

“Yes, like the Tigers,” McMahon replied.

It was the two’s first ever conversation, and for Tracy, playing at a school like LSU was unfath-

omable around this time last year.

The 5-foot-11, 188-pound kicker played for Assumption College, a private college whose enrollment is just over 2,000 undergraduate students, in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Tracy’s road to Assumption is unique. He had placed in the top 12 in an elite camp during his junior year of high school, but little came of it.

“I ranked fairly up there, but the recruiting process doesn’t always work the way it does for others,” Tracy said. “I’m glad that it worked out the way it did for me.”

He spent four years at Assumption, a Division II school a part of the Northeast 10 Conference. After redshirting his first year, Tracy started the next three years and went a combined 68-of-84 on field goals with a long of 53 and 169-of174 on extra points.

During his redshirt junior season, Tracy went 27-of-29 on field goals and 67-of-67 on extra points and was given the Fred Mitchell Award, which goes to the top kicker across the five classifications below the FBS level.

His accuracy made him the perfect target for LSU coach Ed

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Sometimes the most important takeaways from a sporting event are intangibles that cannot be quantified in a stat line.

Toughness, work ethic and poise are cornerstone attributes, which athletes must possess in order to be successful in football. But all of these characteristics transcend the finite scoreboards that tower above stadiums.

While having a well-rounded repertoire of intangibles is important, some abilities are more pertinent to certain positions.

Leadership is one of the most important skills a quarterback should possess. It’s the quality that boosts the morale of a team down by 10 in the fourth quarter, and it’s the mentality that keeps a team focused after an exciting win.

When LSU arrived at AT&T Stadium Sept. 2, against Miami, Tiger quarterback Joe Burrow established himself as a leader well before kickoff.

After players from both

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VOLLEYBALL

Freshman Paige Hilliard finds a second home in LSU volleyball

BY KENNEDI LANDRY @landryyy14 4,489 — That’s how many miles are between Baton Rouge and Ka’a’awa, Hawaii, the hometown of freshman outside hitter Paige Hilliard.

And no two places could be more different from each other.

From the population — (Baton Rouge’s 227,715 to Ka’a’awa’s 1,379) to food to the temperature, the two are polar opposites.

“The weather [is so different],” Hilliard said. “It is hot in Hawaii, but there’s a lot of trade winds. It’s really tropical.

Here, it’s hot, humid, stagnant.

It’s nothing too terrible, but it’s definitely been a change.”

After joking about destroying

the pronunciation, Hilliard said she always heard from her parents about how good the “downhome Southern food” was, but it was amazing to finally experience it herself. She tried everything from crawfish etóuffée and beignets to her personal favorite: shrimp and grits.

Despite all the differences, Hilliard said one distinct similarity drew her to continue her volleyball career at LSU. “Coming from Hawaii, I had a really close-knit community, and a lot of people that I depended on,” Hilliard said. “Whenever we came to LSU on my unofficial visit, I had a chance to meet the players, meet the coaches and see the community around LSU. I fell in love. It’s a commu-

nity very similar to Hawaii, very family-oriented, very team-forteam. It’s something that I definitely knew that I could transition to.”

That transition was made easier by the community and family-like atmosphere around the team. Senior defensive specialist Katie Kampen said the entire team knows that moving away from home can be tough, but everybody is available to confide in each other.

“I think anyone coming from that far, not just Hawaii but even California, and for some people far is like Mississippi or Florida, but I think it takes a certain level of maturity,” Kampen said.

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LSU freshman outside hitter Paige Hilliard (23) cheers on her team from the sidelines during the Lady Tigers’ 1-3 loss in the PMAC against Duke.

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VOLLEYBALL

Volleyball coach Sarah Rumely’s tenacity is key to LSU’s offense

BY MYLES KUSS @kussmyles LSU has a history of aggressive play on the volleyball court.

Second-year assistant coach Sarah Rumely is looking to continue to make the LSU offense more dynamic with explosive play at the net. By using every weapon available to her, she believes that she can achieve this goal.

“We have special athletes that can get high above the net,” Rumely said. “Last year, we played a faster offensive tempo to make it dynamic, but this year we want to make that dynamic piece comes from being able to play high above the net.”

Even though the Tigers dropped two of their first three games, they showed a lot of offensive success against Baylor, Marquette and Texas State.

Despite the slow start to the season, Rumely isn’t worried about the Tigers’ play.

“I believe the offense is in a good position,” Rumely said.

“We wanted to kill the ball at 40 percent, and we killed around 38 percent.”

The numbers favored the offense in the opening weekend, but the success started from the defensive side.

“The ability is to direct a dig to a setter and kill the dig is the goal,” Rumely said. “We did this better against Texas State, and are heading in the right direction.”

While the offense is booming, one person received high praise from Rumely. Recently moved outside hitter Taylor Bannister has shown improvement in the first few weeks of the season, totaling double digit stats in all games. “[Bannister] is a special player,” Rumely said. “She can play above anyone, which makes her very difficult to defend. She was our biggest offensive threat over the weekend.”

Bannister led the Tigers in the first three matches of the season, using the dynamic strategy that Rumely preaches. She can play above the net and hit the ball hard anywhere on the court — exactly what her coaches want.

While Rumely is happy with her offense, she still sees ways in which the team as a whole can improve, from the setters to the outside hitters and everybody in between.

“Setters are the quarterbacks of any offense,” Rumely said. “Their job is to find the open attacker and put them into

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Volleyball coach Sarah Rumely watches her team from the sidelines during the Tigers’ 1-3 loss in the PMAC against Duke on Aug. 31. a position to be successful. If we can achieve that, our offense will keep improving.”

Even though it is early in the season, Rumely took notice of the sharp defensive play supporting the offense to convert

kills. She also is looking forward to the offense becoming more forceful.

But above all, she is looking for passion to put them over the hump.

“I am looking for tenac-

ity to finish plays on the court,” Rumely said. “I am also looking for players to take pride in the offensive part of the game, and see what edge we can bring to the game that we have not brought before.”

VOLLEYBALL

Trey Cruz brings defensive expertise to LSU volleyball

BY MATTISON ALLEN @mattisonlsu Trey Cruz is no stranger to avolleyball.

After two seasons as an assistant coach for LSU’s beach volleyball team, Cruz is returning to the hardwood. In May, head coach Fran Flory announced he would replace Ethan Pheister, who is now an assistant at South Carolina.

Even though Cruz’s past two seasons were with the beach volleyball team, Cruz has prior experience with indoor volleyball. Cruz served as the lead video analyst and exchange at Louisiana-Lafayette in 2015 and 2016. There, he helped strengthen the passers and outside hitters, which is different from what he does with LSU. “For indoor, there’s a lot more matches, a longer season, longer planning period of where you’re trying to go as a team,” Cruz said.

“The progress takes a little longer, so the duration of things is a little long. It’s a little more a grind, honestly. But in terms of what it is, it’s the same. You’re still planning practice, you’re still doing technical training, getting kids better and building up team building by the end of the week.”

Cruz is in charge of the Tigers’ defensive side of the team, working with the players on their defensive training and blocking techniques.

However, he still interacts with the team as the whole, giving advice and being a coach to all.

Sophomore outside hitter Taylor Bannister has had a great start to her season, producing double-digit stats in each game so far.

“He actually helps out, especially with the outside hitters, especially, with our approaches and acceleration. He really helps out with that, especially me being the baby of the outside hitters,” Bannister said.

This is also not his first time working with LSU volleyball or Flory, either. Cruz worked as a manager for the volleyball team from 2008-14 during his time as a student.

“It is pretty fun to come full-circle,” Cruz said. “I always said when I left here, originally from being a student to actually get into the workforce, I’ve gotta find a way to get back here. Fran is my family. She did so much for me personally in building my career, I just feel like I owe it to her to come back and work and see how good we can get.”

Flory emphasized the family aspect of the program and how her relationship with Cruz has developed since his time as a manager.

She was very confident in Cruz’s ability to bring more to this team as part of her coaching staff.

“When you’re family, you’re

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Volleyball coach Trey Cruz trains his players during practice in the PMAC on Aug. 22. family. Once a tiger, always a tiger.” Flory said.

Cruz is well on his way to earning his credibility from the players, staff and LSU volleyball fans.

He continues to work hard with the defense, building stamina and making great players.

“He knows how I work. He knows how to drive a team that I’m coaching. He’s been part of a high-level of success here, and he just understands the system, and he understands LSU and what it means to put that jersey on and represent it. I think all of those are intangibles that maybe you don’t get from any other hire,” Flory said.

“I’m thrilled that an opportunity presented itself, and I’m thrilled he said yes.”

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So, when McMahon told Orgeron he found the best graduate transfer kicker available, there was no hesitation to begin the pursuit and bring him to campus on scholarship despite having only one year of eligibility left.

“It was a mutual connection that set up the phone call,”

BURROW, from page 7 Miami and LSU began shoving each other at the end of warm-

ups, Burrow found himself on the front lines of the skirmish, shouting and clapping his hands with the rest of his teammates.

“If I’m in trouble outside a bar somewhere, I’m bringing Joe,” Tigers’ receiver Jonathan Giles told Nola.com writer Brody Miller.

Giles’ endorsement of Burrow, as well as the rest of the team’s confidence in their new quarterback, speaks volumes to the leadership role that Burrow has tried to assume in a brief amount of time.

Sure, fans will nitpick Burrow for completing less than half his passes and his mea-

HILLIARD, from page 7 “Paige certainly has that [maturity], but the rest of our team is

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said Tracy, who also heard from Oklahoma State, UMass and a few other schools. “I was sitting in my dorm room and it was a 225 [area code].”

Tracy said the phone call with McMahon lasted about 30 minutes, and that afterward they spoke almost everyday leading up to his official visit.

The final hurdle for Tracy was McMahon having a conversation with then-Assumption coach Bob Chesney, who has since taken the head job at Holy Cross College.

Chesney got in touch with McMahon and called Tracy into his office soon after.

“I just remember we were

jumping up and down,” Tracy said. “We were real excited because we knew it was legit.

Everything was the way we thought it was.”

Tracy came up huge for LSU against Miami, converting all four field goal attempts and all three extra points. The 15 points he scored is the fourth-highest in school history, and his final field goal of 54 yards tied an LSU record.

Tracy was so dialed into the game and focused on his technique that he wasn’t even aware of what hash his first kick was or how far it was.

“My routine is the biggest thing,” said Tracy, who added

that he hasn’t had much technical coaching and that he is usually working on things by himself. “I want to make sure that every single part of that routine is the exact same no matter if I’m kicking at Assumption College, [LSU’s indoor facility], or AT&T Stadium. I want to make sure I focus on the little things.”

“That’s something I pride myself on, is my technique and ability to stay smooth, calm, and consistent,” Tracy said. “I’ve never been the big- ball type of guy. There’s plenty of guys in college football with bigger legs than me, but what I try to focus on is being as consistent

ger 140 passing yards because people love to complain.

Even I think Burrow could’ve played sharper on several plays, but his performance was enough to win the game.

Heck, he played well enough for the Tigers to throttle Miami for three quarters and pull off a solid 16-point upset in week one.

Throughout the game, Burrow showed poise and consistency in the face of a defensive line that finished 13th in the NCAA havoc rating last year.

Perhaps my favorite Burrow accomplishment was his ability to make Miami’s turnover chain a useless paperweight.

The graduate-transfer didn’t force the ball to his play-mak-

ers and methodically cycled through his progressions.

His biggest areas of improvement will have to be efficiency in his pass attempts and pre-snap adjustments, and he’ll have little time to make these changes as LSU opens SEC play against Auburn in two weeks.

Fortunately, there will be no question about Burrow’s ability to lead his team into the rest of LSU’s grueling schedule.

He has earned his team’s respect in record-time and proven his ability to run the LSU offense.

Burrow and the Tigers surprised the nation after a week one victory, and chances are high that there will be a few more surprises as the season continues.

LSU junior quarterback Joe Burrow (9) paces the field throws the ball during the Tigers’ 33-17 victory to Miami in the AdvoCare Classic on Sept. 2, in AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

so family-oriented, we’re like a bunch of sisters.”

Hilliard echoed that sentiment, emphasizing Kampen’s

leadership abilities on and off the court.

“I could not have asked for a more welcoming community,”

as I can and hitting a really good ball.”

He has begun readying himself for Southeastern and playing in Tiger Stadium. Tracy said he had started preparation for the Miami game since the day he signed, and that there is no way to prepare for a game mentally a few hours prior or the day before.

“This has been a once in a lifetime opportunity, and each week is going to be a new experience,” Tracy said. “I’m really looking forward to this Saturday home-opener, playing in Tiger Stadium, playing in front of these fans. It’ll be a good time.”

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Hilliard said. “For a better group of people to be around, and for better leaders. I mean we have Katie Kampen. There is no one better to be surrounded with than the girls that I have.”

Hilliard not only went through cultural adjustments off the court, but also important volleyball adjustments as she’s become acquainted to Baton Rouge.

In Hawaii, average people and volleyball players alike are much shorter than in mainland America. At 5-foot-10-inches, Hilliard was one of the tallest on both her club and high school teams. At LSU, she is solidly in the middle of the pack.

“Whenever I came here and I see teammates that I have are 6-5 I’m just like ‘Wow, that’s what height looks like,’” Hilliard joked.

“In a way, we’re very defenseoriented [in Hawaii] because we know whenever we go to play mainland team they’re going to be bigger, they’re going to be more physical, so we have to defend our side of the court. It’s been really interesting being able to get on the more offensive side of the ball and stop people at the net rather than having to defend in the back row.”

As with any freshman adapting to the college game in any sport, there was a learning curve for Hilliard around the pace of the game at the collegiate level.

Coach Fran Flory has always had high expectations for every recruiting class and throws them into the deep end as soon as they step on campus. She pushes them

as far as they can go to understand if they can be successful and impactful in their freshman season.

“I think Coach Fran has really been a helping hand in making me understand college volleyball,” Hilliard said. “You have to be able to get into a tempo with your program very quickly. She’s been very vocal, trying to help me understand the new tempos, how to connect with setters, how to get the tempo on digs and stuff.

It’s almost as if I’m relearning the entire sport.”

Flory’s desire for her players to succeed both in volleyball and outside of the sport, illustrates the familial culture around LSU. Her personal motto for the volleyball program is that “people are the product.” She works to make sure each player is a better person when they walk out of the PMAC at the end of their senior season.

“I think the end goals is similar to a normal family would be ,and that drives the culture,” Flory said.

While being away from the people that have been a part of her life for 17 years was a huge decision to make, she has no doubt she made the right one. Sometimes it still doesn’t even seem real.

“I think the true excitement started at the Purple and Gold Scrimmage because that was our first time being able to play on the LSU home court and get our faces up on the screen and have our families out in the crowd,” Hilliard said. “That was probably the moment I realized that this was all real.”

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Vida Pura Spa offers therapy for stressed students

BY AMAYA LYNCH @maya09172

Book collection marks historic importance of fantasy, horror genres

BY ASHLEI GOSHA @yungjemisin PHOTOS BY LAUREN WATSON

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here once was a man more eager than any other to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known, and knowing in turn.

In life he collected thousands of artifacts to help him, and in death he bestowed them on the University so others might take that same journey.

The exhibition, titled Seeing and “The Eye of the Imagination”: Fantasy, Surrealism and Horror in the Clarence John Laughlin Book Collection,” will be presented on the first and second floors of Hill Memorial Library until Sept. 21.

Laughlin was a photog-

rapher from Lake Charles, Louisiana, and is largely considered to be the first true surrealist photographer in the U.S. He thought of himself as more of a collector than artist.

The exhibition features art and novels pertaining to science fiction, fantasy and the occult and writings from surrealist author and collector Laughlin himself. Exhibitions Coordinator Leah Wood Jewett and co-curators Kristina Sutherland and Michelle Melancon put together the exhibition to highlight the collection.

“You will see that the collection is very, very broad,”

Jewett said. “The common thread is visual, imagination, and his purpose was to build a collection that would be an inspiration to artists and other people. By maintaining that collection, and then by exhibiting examples from it, that’s what we’re trying to do.

We’re trying to help fulfill his original purpose.”

Sutherland and Melancon said in addition to providing inspiration for artists, the collection tracks the evolution and lineage of horror, science fiction and fantasy due to

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Vida Pura Spa offers customers a full-body release without the gimmicks. The workers at the spa gear their treatments toward bettering the body and not succumbing to the latest fads and trends you see in the media for the sake of business.

The owner of Vida Pura Spa, Rebecca Brumfield, has been a massage therapist since 2008 and has legally worked for herself under Vida Pura Spa since 2011. The spa now offers facials, body wax, scrubs and specializes in cupping therapy. Brumfield describes cupping as an inverse massage, meaning that instead of pushing down on the muscles, the cups provide a suction like a vacuum and pull up the muscle. This, in turn, loosens the muscles and promotes the body’s healing.

Vida Pura Spa offers not only massage therapy but also natural skin care. There are a lot of things that are legal to use in skincare products that Brumfield doesn’t feel comfortable using, and in using these products, Brumfield is able to label her practice as a “holistic spa.”

By putting the “holistic” stamp on its services, the spa shows that they are taking the steps needed to bring something pure to the Baton Rouge area and stressed out students searching for a healthy release.

“The holistic definition would really be ‘whole body approach,’” Brumfield said. “A

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MUSIC

Neutral Snap develops original songs, rises in party music scene

BY CLAIRE BERMUDEZ @claireebermudez

In 2004, The Killers wrote “Mr. Brightside”. Who would have thought that 14 years later, bands like Neutral Snap would use it as a go-to hype song for college students around the SEC. Neutral Snap is self proclaimed as “The No. 1 party band in the SEC,” where they play songs such as “Mr. Brightside,” and many other ones guaranteed to pump-up the crowd.

The band is currently on their “Hot n’ Rowdy” Tour, traveling from Arkansas, to The Hangout in Alabama and ending it

at Bloomfest in Baton Rouge on Oct. 6. They made one of their stops in Baton Rouge at Varsity Theatre Aug. 28. Their energetic stage presence makes them the perfect band for students looking for a good time and good music.

The five members of Neutral Snap were all University students at one point, but decided to unenroll to focus more on the band.

“Other commitments started falling out, but we weren’t really concerned about it,” said Joshua Latham, lead singer of the group. “Our main concern was making the band a priority.”

Combining covers and originals with its high-energy performances, Neutral Snap creates the perfect scene for college students looking to have a fun night out. The group takes nostalgia from their childhoods and gives it to college students looking for a more old-school kind of party.

“We play the songs we all grew up listening to … It’s also the songs our fans grew up listening to,” guitarist J.P. Brown said.

The band has five original songs. They don’t have one set songwriter. Instead, everyone

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Neutral Snap vocalist Joshua Latham performs in concert at the Varsity Theatre on Aug. 28.

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Dress for Success teaches how dress like a professional

BY MICHELLE GAUCHET @michelleg_0115 Job interviews are important, especially for college students looking to start out in their dream career. With all the preparation you’ve done with school and building your resume, the last thing you want is to lose out on a great opportunity because you didn’t dress properly for the interview.

The Dress for Success Fashion Show hosted by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion within the E.J. Ourso College of Business prepares students for the professional world by showing them the do’s and don’ts of professional attire so they can make a great first impression.

The fall 2018 event marked the fourth Dress for Success show since it started in 2014. It is an annual event held in the Business Education Complex Rotunda, but the 2016 show was canceled because of the flooding in Baton Rouge that summer.

Diversity and Inclusion Director for the Office of Business Student Success Angela Guidry came up with the idea for a fashion show featuring business clothes following a discussion with an accounting student on

the difference between business casual and business professional clothing.

“We also wanted to make sure the students were prepared and were able to make that great first impression for their job interview, because that’s a big part of it,” Guidry said. “The moment you walk in, people are looking at you and your appearance.”

The outfits are pulled from either department stores or stores that specialize in workwear. In the past, stores like Talbot’s, Jos. A. Bank and Banana Republic have provided clothes for the Dress for Success Show. This year’s show included clothes from White House Black Market, Dillard’s and JC Penney.

Guidry said it’s important for them to feature a good balance of options for men and women in the show.

The show highlights the variety of options for students to make the task of shopping for a professional outfit less daunting.

Models walked down the runway in purple, yellow, pink and bright blue, proving there’s more than just the plain black, gray and blue clothes that may come to mind when you think of businesswear. Even in the more conservative business professional outfits,

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An LSU student models business attire at the Dress for Success fashion show in the LSU Business Education Complex on Aug. 29. a pop of color or a faint pattern on a shirt or tie can make the look more interesting and well-

put together.

The models for the show are mostly students from the College

of Business, so they get to put their Dress for Success skills to use. Guidry said the models get to have some input on what they wear in the show because it’s important they feel confident and can exude that confidence when they’re walking in the show.

“I look for a lot of really simple things, like right now I have on just a navy dress, but with something kind of funky about it,” said marketing senior and Dress for Success model Symone Lacour. “I like to be daring sometimes with color but keep it simple at the same time.”

Guidry said the difference between dressing business casual and business professional can all come down to how the outfit is layered. A business jacket like a blazer can take almost any business look from casual to professional. She said it’s important for students to go into any interview dressed in a business professional style, even if the day-to-day wear for employees is more casual.

“Get the dress for success part done and out of the way,” Guidry said, “so you can focus on doing the research on the company and preparing yourself for those interview questions that are going to come your way.”

ART

LSU student produces vibrancy, surrealism in portraiture work

BY KELLY SWIFT @kellbell237 In the growing age of technology and social media, everyone can be an Instagram photographer. However, it takes something special to stand out among the masses — screen arts sophomore Zach Ochinko works hard to bring his photography to life.

When Ochinko graduated from East Ascension High School in 2017, he received his first camera, a Pentax k1000, from his mom. She gave him the camera she got upon her college graduation, which kickstarted Ochinko’s photography career in a way different from most modern photographers. The Pentax

k1000 was only manufactured from 1976 to 1997, so Ochinko began working in photography for a past generation.

Ochinko continues to develop his photography since he got his start roughly two years ago, and he spends most of his time practicing on his friends to create his perfect style of portraiture work. He said he’s done some requested mother-daughter shoots, but he focuses most of his energy on working with his friends.

“I would have an idea or find the perfect location to shoot, and my friends were kind enough to help me bring it to life,” Ochinko said.

Ochinko’s sense of color and preference for bright, vibrant

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photoshoots makes his images resemble more of a watercolor painting than everyday photography. His blending of light and color blurs his images in all the right places, making his work exempt from being put into any one artistic box.

“I guess you could say that I have a niche for a lot of different types of photography.” Ochinko said. “I am constantly thinking about ideas for my next shoot.”

As a screen arts major, Ochinko said he wants to learn as much about film as he can. He got a lot of training behind the camera while working at actress Ashton Leigh’s “The Broken Leg Acting Studio” during his first semester at the University. Though the studio is now closed since

Leigh moved to Georgia, the lessons he learned while working for her will last a lifetime.

Ochinko started as a student in the studio, but Leigh saw his potential and asked him to assist her in training students.

He helped film auditions as well as prepare the actors for their audition tapes. He hopes to work with her and her studio again in the future.

As far as photography is concerned, Ochinko is currently working on curating his portfolio to show to potential clients. He plans on gaining all the experience that he can while he is still in school.

“I have always loved how photography can change the reality of certain moments,” Ochinko said. “Your perception of reality is whatever you want it to be.”

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If you’ve ever watched something you only half-understood, you’ve felt what I did watching “Ghoul.” The threeepisode miniseries was somewhere between scathing Indian social commentary and a slasher. Though the series added confusion to my life, it was undoubtedly horror. I recommend that you round up the gang, turn out the lights and dive into “Ghoul.” Everything’s better with friends.

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‘Crazy Rich Asians’ gives needed complexity to characters

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Netflix Kathleen Peterson either fell or was pushed down her stairs on Dec. 9, 2001, and Netflix’s new series, “The Staircase,” lets you decide. The 13-part documentary series is chilling and can be an introspective experience if you let it. It won’t do the work for you, as many murder enthusiasts expect. You have to be willing to pay attention to every episode and understand that we just may never know what really happened on that strange night in 2001.

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BY MICHELLE GAUCHET @michelleg_0115

FLORIBAMA SHORE MTV “Floribama Shore” is the perfect resurrection of the very specific genre of television that was created when “Jersey Shore” was released in late 2009. While shows like this have undoubtedly prospered since then, this version hardly provides any of the content that keeps the audience interested. There are hookups in the house, friendship fights and even pregnancy scares, but it all seems so unoriginal.

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Romantic comedies are having a comeback, and the recent additions to the genre from streaming platforms like Netflix and theaters are proving it’s not just the same, stale, stereotypical stories we’ve seen over and over. “Crazy Rich Asians” leads the way for today’s rom-com, standing apart from the rest for its complex characters and storyline, in addition to its contribution to Asian representation in Hollywood.

Our rom-com heroine in this story is Rachel Chu (Constance Wu), who travels to Singapore with her boyfriend Nick Young (Henry Golding) to meet his family and friends. Nick’s large, incredibly wealthy family is far different from how Rachel grew up. Living in the U.S. with just her mom, Rachel had no idea what was in store when she agreed to go on this trip with Nick — she had not realized just

how rich Nick’s family was, or just how much drama she’d have to deal with.

Rachel is such a relatable character. She is strong and intelligent and just as charming as her male counterpart. The audience sees this world through her eyes, and they are just as in awe of it as she is and just as blindsided and hurt thanks to the emotion Wu brings to her performance.

The supporting characters like Oliver (Nico Santos) and Peik Lin (Awkwafina) provide the perfect amount of comic relief while still holding their own place in the story. Peik Lin is just as supportive and caring of her friend Rachel as she is hilarious.

“Crazy Rich Asians” is stunning and extravagant, perfectly reflecting the crazy rich lifestyle of the Singaporean families the movie follows. Everything, from the outfits to the sets and locations, is extraordinarily beautiful.

The movie starts slowly and does feel a bit rushed near the

end, which takes some of the impact away from a few of the bigger reveals in the story. It would have to be a much longer movie to fully delve into every character and storyline it follows, and given that it’s an adaptation of a novel, it makes sense for some things to be left out and condensed.

“Crazy Rich Asians” also has an incredible soundtrack, featuring beautiful and heartbreaking covers of songs like “Yellow” by Coldplay and Elvis Presley’s “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” both of which are pretty much guaranteed to make you cry, especially when paired with some of the film’s most emotional scenes.

Definitely take the time to go see this movie while it’s still in theaters, even if you don’t consider yourself a romantic comedy fan. The cast is fantastic in the roles they play, and there’s more than enough drama and excitement to keep you entertained.

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Wednesday, September 5, 2018 VIDA PURA, from page 13 natural approach from the earth using natural ingredients. I’ve been doing cupping therapy since I started doing massage –– I didn’t do it just because Michael Phelps was doing it. I’ve been doing cupping therapy for almost 10 years now because I love it and it works.”

Brumfield had firsthand experience to show her the lasting benefits of cupping therapy.

When she suffered from an injury, she was referred to an acupuncturist that introduced her to the newly popular, ancient form of therapy that has been used by the Chinese, Aztecs, Egyptians and Mayans.

“The acupuncturist did cupping on me and I thought ‘This is strange,’” Brumfield said. “It kind of feels like being hugged by an octopus. It’s

tight and it feels awkward, but it doesn’t hurt. After he did cupping on me … I didn’t have any pain after that.”

Not only does Brumfield offer the service in her spa, she travels around the city and the country to teach others how to practice cupping therapy.

Brumfield said she finds it important to go out and educate people of the public about what cupping therapy is because it’s not painful, it doesn’t hurt and it is actually good for you.

While anyone could benefit from Vida’s services, Brumfield said students and athletes are two of the largest groups of people that could really benefit from the spa’s stress-relieving techniques.

“Students are the most stressed out people that we see,” Brumfield said. “They’re bent over a desk all day, or their

postures aren’t good and they’re always on their phone or on a computer or writing something.

I’ve seen students with more muscle tension than I have in people who are engineers or athletes. I really love working on them because when your body is not holding all this weight, stress and tension, it just feels like a sigh of relief.”

Vida Pura Spa is a great treat for people who want a break from stress and want to better their body. Brumfield thinks people should really take the time out of their day to take care of themselves because it’s what any overworked, overstressed person deserves.

“Taking care of yourself as a full-time job and one thing I tell my clients all the time is self-care is not selfish,” Brumfield said. “It’s OK to take care of yourself.”

page 17 LAUGHLIN, from page 13 Laughlin’s attention to detail during the process of building up the collection.

“When you’re reading some of our descriptions you’ll see that some things are cross referenced and we’re pointing you other places, but then those places are pointing you back,” Sutherland said. “It’s like a never-ending circle.”

The collection was originally exhibited in 1998 and has been available in the LSU reading room since the ‘80s. It’s being emphasized now due to developments in current events and the arts.

“This stuff may be older, but it’s still relevant now, and it’s becoming more and more relevant as we advance technology, as we consider what it is to be human all over again with things like elections or other things,” Sutherland said. “It’s just one of those things that you can revisit every now and then and find something new, especially because it’s such a large library.”

The collection features various editions and fine art books of traditional fairy tales in addition to the more modern

genres featured. Sutherland said some pieces in the exhibition can’t be fully appreciated within their cases because it’s not possible to display all of the pages of a book at once.

Sutherland and Melancon emphasized the potential influence of the collection as tools of research and personal enrichment.

“I’ve been digging in this collection for probably two years now, and I can say that more than half the books that I’ve bought in that time have been from this collection, because I’ll find something and then it’ll be like ‘I have to have this,’ because just looking at it at work is not enough,” Melancon said.

Melancon said Laughlin was interested in trying to explain his ideas to people, and wanted to be understood. His personal notebooks and collection can potentially provide insight into the mind of Laughlin.

Jonathan Williams said it best in his intro to “Clarence John Laughlin: The Personal Eye”: “CJL’s worry is that nobody in life sees what he’s up to. He, being All Eyes, is surrounded by sightless, pathetic materialists and abstractionists who do not understand.”

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NEUTRAL SNAP, from page 13 contributes to piecing together a song, Latham said.

The Varsity was packed with college-aged students, which is the band’s typical demographic.

Self-described as “white boy rave music,” the band plays cover songs from popular artists like Paramore, Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Killers, along with some original songs.

“There’s a big difference between playing at SEC bars

and SEC venues,” Latham said.

“At bars, people are there anyways and you just happen to be playing. At a venue, your set is the event.”

Feeding off the crowd’s energy, Neutral Snap kept the Varsity venue lively with a rowdy audience dancing throughout the entire performance. Each band member built upon the others’ vitality, making the show feel more like a vibe session than an everyday setlist.

Latham showed off his wide

vocal range in songs like “Still Into You” by Paramore, and Brown and bassist Dominick Conforte jammed out while dancing around the stage with drummer George Neyrey slamming away in the back.

“We act a lot differently when we’re at a place like Fred’s then when we’re at a place like The Hangout,” Latham said.

“We’re a little more put together when we’re at an actual venue ...

All around, it’s not less fun, it’s just different.”

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Louisiana school dress code racist, regressive regulation DEAR SOCIETY

JASMINE EDMONSON @Jasmine_twt1 It’s not a secret that school dress code in America is targeted toward females, but some citizens don’t acknowledge the overt discrimination black women experience when it comes to these prejudicial rules.

On Aug. 20, 11-year-old Faith Fennidy was sent home from Christ the King Elementary School in Gretna, Louisiana for her hair extensions.

The sixth-grader was wearing box braids, a protective hairstyle worn by black girls and women in which hair extensions are braided with the natural hair, which violates the Roman Catholic school’s dress code policy.

Faith had worn the hairstyle in the past at the school without any trouble. However, Christ the King decided to change ts policy this summer, making it mandatory for students to wear their natural hair. Steven Evergreen Fennidy, Faith’s brother, posted a video of the incident on Facebook. The clip garnered over two million views and gained attention from celebrities like rapper T.I. and writer Shaun King, who denounced the school’s policy.

In the footage, Faith is seen bawling while a man says, “There’s nothing wrong with her hair,” in which a woman replies, “I don’t want this to

happen.” More words are exchanged between Faith’s family and the school’s administration before the sixth-grader and her family leave the building. ”My sister Faith and many little black girls wear extensions,” Faith’s brother wrote when he posted the video. “ Faith got a notice on the first day of class and it’s ridiculous that these schools that we are PAYING for, will go in and make policies without consulting or trying to figure out how this will affect your life or your child’s life. How do you make a policy without even having a discussion. It’s because you don’t care and it’s just one more barrier to entry for black people.

This decision is going to affect black children more than white children.”

As a black woman, I identify with Faith’s story, and know what it’s like to be discriminated against when I wear hair extensions instead of my natural hair. For decades, black females have been belittled for wearing synthetic hair when other ethnicities do the same without criticism. It’s frustrating for black girls to be treated like criminals at school for not wearing their natural hair because it’s seen as ghetto, when Kim Kardashian receives over a million likes on Instagram for flaunting her box braids or what she calls “Bo Derek braids.”

The reason black women wear braiding hairstyles is to stimulate hair growth, keep the hair neat, and protect the hair from becoming tangled when

we don’t want to tend to it for a while. The beautiful and intricate braiding patterns we’ve created is just a plus to the hairstyle, not a fashion statement.

Why is a black woman degraded immediately when she decides to show her cultural pride, but a non-black woman who appropriates black culture is seen as a trend-setter?

Some black females are selfconscious about wearing their natural hair because it’s seen as “nappy” or undesirable due to its kinky, coily or coarse texture.

This causes us to get perms, a chemical process that makes the hair straight and is known to damage hair follicles, hindering hair growth. Some black women wear synthetic hair with the intention of resembling white women’s hair texture to meet society’s distorted and outdated beauty standards. It’s appalling that predominantly-white religious schools view weave, clipins, hair extensions and wigs as inappropriate for black women to wear but treat us like exotic zoo animals when we rock our natural hair.

Prohibiting black girls from expressing black culture in school by wearing braids and other black hairstyles can lower their self-esteem, as they’re repeatedly told they aren’t worthy of learning because their hair is a distraction. We believe it’s useful to wear synthetic hair for styling because we don’t have to tame our natural hair constantly, which is very time-consuming and takes special hair care products to maintain. Further,

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our hair is damaged easily, so we wear colored synthetic hair as a healthy replacement for a desired color. Non-black celebrities like Kylie Jenner are known to perform this same method but aren’t ostracized because their natural hair is of a similar texture.

School boards need to effectively reform these disgusting policies so black girls don’t feel problematic for wearing hairstyles that protect their natural hair and allow them to express themselves and black culture.

This issue has been swept under the rug continuously, but the pile is now too big to hide.

We have been bullied for our physical features and told we are quick to victimize ourselves when derogatory behavior toward us is exposed. Enough is

enough. When will it stop being a crime to be unapologetically black?

Our black girl magic isn’t a recipe to be stolen for a fashion show, social media post or music video. It’s hurtful when people wear our culture like costumes to make money or gain fame, while altering the material and shaming the original.

With much-needed open-mindedness, little black girls like Faith won’t have to worry about being dismissed from learning because of their hairstyle and can feel socially accepted by non-black faculty members and schoolmates.

Jasmine Edmonson is a 20-yearold mass communication sophomore from Denham Springs, Louisiana.

Millennials stray from religion, value progressivism ALLOW ME TO DIEFENRENTIATE BRITANY DIEFENDERFER @back_in_a_dief

It’s no secret the importance of following a religion has diminished in the millennial generation. Is being an atheist a new fad? The reason could stem from the fact that religion and culture are subject matters not taught in public schools.

Undergraduates tend to follow their parents’ choice of religion because they are ignorant of other traditions.

Young students learn about history, language arts, science and mathematics. Religion plays a part in each of these categories, but schools do not value the importance of learning it.

Going into universities, students can spit out the dates they have memorized for important historical events, but cannot explain the culture and religion of the nation the event involves. This is a factor in the

growing rate of millennials who identify as atheist or agnostic.

“Many Millennials have parents who are Baby Boomers, and Boomers expressed to their children that it’s important to think for themselves — that they find their own moral compass,” said Michael Hout, a sociology professor at New York University.

The ideals of the millennial generation differentiate from those of older generations. Going out on your own, creating your own path, believing what makes you happy and doing what you want are just some of the principles millennials practice that older generations struggle to understand.

Japanese citizens’ main objective is to be a good citizen: to not object society and to refrain from actions that cause suffering. America’s older generations share this ideal — to do what they think society wants them to do. They follow traditions, not questioning if they actually believe or understand

them, but because it is tradition.

The millennial generation does not think in this way — they follow their own principles, even if it differs from what they’ve been taught or brainwashed into thinking. Millennials are straying from religion because the religions they were raised on do not follow these same principles.

“And more than any other group, Millennials have been and are still being formed in this cultural context,” Hout said. “As a result, they are more likely to have a ‘do-it-yourself’ attitude toward religion.”

Millennials are accepting of different communities like the LGBTQ community. This differentiates from the lack of acceptance these communities get from religious institutions in America. If a church discriminates instead of loving all, how can millennials support that?

The loving and accepting attitude of the millennial generation, often mocked as the “snowflake” generation, differs from the attitude of churches.

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Thousands of Catholics gather each year for World Youth Day, established by Pope John Paul II in 1985 Millennials are finding religion in their own way. Some find it in music by attending music festivals and dressing freely.

Some find it in knowledge, becoming well-read individuals and striving to obtain higher levels of education. Spirituality is attractive for all ages, though the definition of spirituality

differs. If the older generations want religion to remain important for the millennial generation, then it should be progressive and change with the times.

Britany Diefenderfer is a 20-year-old English literature junior from Thibodaux, Louisiana.

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Male body shaming unacceptable, damaging to self esteem SMITT’S TEA JAMES SMITH @itssmitt I’m 6 feet tall and weigh roughly 135 pounds. It’s no secret I’m a skinny guy. I’m slightly underweight according to some BMI scales. That’s OK. That’s not considered unhealthy.

I’ve spent the majority of my life being reminded how skinny I am.

That’s not OK. “Put some meat on those bones.” “Your parents must be starving you.” “Are you eating enough?” I’m sick and tired of hearing those phrases.

I’ve tried to gain weight since I was in high school. I forced myself to eat 2,500 calories a day, stopped running and started lifting weights. Maybe I’m an awful nutritionist, but I only made it up to 140 pounds.

Companies have launched campaigns promoting women’s body confidence. That’s great. Young women need to know that they’re beautiful in all shapes, colors and sizes.

Our young men need a similar reminder.

Even more so, young people need a reminder that body shaming isn’t acceptable, no matter what gender you are. I was taught throughout my childhood to never make a comment about another girl’s weight or appearance. It’s ingrained in my mind much like saying “please” and “thank you.” It’s nothing more than common decency. So when I hear things like, “You need to eat some more, James,” my blood boils.

Some of us have health conditions that make it incredibly difficult to gain or lose weight.

Some of us have issues with food such as eating disorders. Some

of us just weren’t taught how to eat healthy. Some of us weren’t taught how to take care of our bodies. Whatever the case, it isn’t your business. Don’t make it your business unless you’re asked — it isn’t that difficult of a concept to grasp.

I have ridiculous eating habits. I can be starving one minute, eat a few bites and feel full. An hour later I’ll be starving again, eat a few bites and feel full again.

Repeat. That’s how I’ve been for the last few years. I don’t know why. That’s just how I am. Please, don’t make a comment about it.

Like I said before, I’m not asking anything more than basic human decency. Respect my body like you would want yours to be respected. I’m not asking you to do anything. I’m asking you to refrain from comments where they aren’t welcome.

Like boys are taught to never make a comment about a girl’s

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weight, everybody should be taught to never make a comment about anyone’s weight. It’s basic human decency.

James Smith is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from Grand Coteau, Louisiana.

LSU must value pedestrian safety, hire crossing guards FRANKLY SPEAKING

JUSTIN FRANKLIN @justinifranklin In the first two weeks of campus occupation since move-in day, six pedestrians were hit by cars on the University’s campus with injuries ranging from critical condition to bruises and broken bones.

The Governors Highway Safety Association shows that

nearly 6,000 pedestrians were killed in traffic in 2016, up 11 percent from the previous year.

The safety of the students and faculty is of the utmost importance and the University must insure inhabiting the campus is safe. With more people biking and walking and distraction always high, the University should have forecasted this increased danger and had safety procedures and inhibitors already in place.

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the accidents, but there is definitely more that can be done to prevent tragedy in the future.

With the largest freshman classes in history this fall, the number of people circulating this campus today is outstanding. If we pair the creation of the new 1,531-room Nicholson Gateway Apartments on the west side of campus with the commuter lots on Skip Bertman Drive, more and more students have to cross busy Nicholson Drive just to get to class every day. And, Nicholson is just one of the many busy crossings on campus I have heard the idea of creating a land bridge over Nicholson Drive to prevent students from having to engage with motor traffic at all. The cost of creating a land bridge is outlandish when there is a much simpler solution: crossing guards.

College students are not too old for crossing guards. Ensuring safety has no age. The presence of crossing guards or officers at crossings would definitely slow traffic down, deter drivers from dangerous driving and force cooperation with traffic laws in the area. Crossing guards would help provide a safer environment for walking pedestrians all over the campus.

The LSU Police Department is huge, they can afford to assign 10 officers to direct traffic in high volume areas every day.

Let’s be honest — the way some people drive in Baton Rouge, this

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A two-vehicle collision involving pedestrians occurred on the intersection of Nicholson Drive and S. Stadium Drive on Aug. 24. is necessary anyway. The use of crossing guards is useful for pedestrians, but also for drivers. It was a multi-vehicle accident that resulted in four pedestrians being struck on campus the first week of school. The more officers we have at intersections the less likely car accidents will occur.

The LSU Police Department already does an amazing job of patrolling the campus and trying to prevent crime. Adding crossing guards to the force or assigning some officers to crossings solidifies their call to safety at the Uni-

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Frankly speaking, the University is a very walkable campus, but safety measures are necessary in keeping it that way. The semester is not too far spent and six people have already been struck while trying to get around the campus on foot. We need crossing guards to make sure that number doesn’t increase any time soon.

Justin Franklin is a 19-yearold political communication sophomore from Memphis, Tennessee.

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