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COVER STORY

PETA claims professor ‘torments, kills’ birds

BY BRITTNEY FORBES @ itsbritforbes An LSU science professor is under fire from PETA for experiments that have resulted in “tormenting and killing” hundreds of house sparrows.

Biological sciences professor Christine Lattin caught PETA’s attention several years ago when they discovered she had been placing trapping nets near bird feeders to study how stressful environments affect house sparrows. The organization said she punches holes into their legs, blasts loud music in their ears and places them into a cart to shake them.

Lattin was appointed to conduct research at the University in May. The stress levels of birds, which is why her experiments involve placing them in stressful environments. Other experiments have involved plucking birds’ feathers, putting small doses of oil in their food, placing them in cloth bags to increase stress and even euthanizing them in some cases.

“Animals feel pain, have interests, suffer, and therefore, we should take those facts into consideration whenever we are with them,” said PETA Senior Laboratory Oversight Specialist Alka Chadna. “She’s only answering questions that can give her the ability to publish more papers, maybe get tenure, making her way through academia.

If she thinks she’s answering any bigger questions, she’s dead wrong.”

Lattin is studying house sparrow birds because they’re an invasive species, and can eventually have a negative effect on native bird species competing for food and nesting cavities.

Some of her work involves euthanizing animals to study their neurotransmitters and recep-

For all the pain and suffering involved, we feel that Christine Lattin’s experiments need to be stopped.

ALKA CHADNA

PETA Senior Laboratory Oversight Specialist tors in the brain, which she said is good because they’re not a rare species. Euthanizing birds is required for her research by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, she said.

Lattin isn’t surprised by PETA’s criticism of her studies, but she believes the experiments are necessary to help the animals survive. “[PETA is a] very extremist animal rights organization that is against all animal research, eating animals and even against pet ownership,” Lattin said. “We can only take action to help wildlife survive when we can understand what the negative effects of wildlife are, which is why my research on stress is necessary.”

Although hundreds of birds die as a result of her experiments, she said the number hasn’t reached into the thousands. She emphasized adhering to the “three R’s principle” when conducting research: reduce, refine and replace.

Lattin said she is an animal lover and took an early interest in nature and the environment.

She used her allowance to make donations to the nature conservancy and spent a majority of her time outdoors. She also broughtnew pets into her home. She was the first in her family to go to college and eventually majored in linguistics and minored in biology at Swarthmore College

in Pennsylvania.

Lattin said that her research lab has received both public and private funding from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the American Ornithologists’ Union.

Understanding the threats and stress wild animals face are some of the most critical things Lattin spends her career on.

Besides studying neurotransmitters and hormones in animals, Lattin has also studied the oil impact on habitats. She designed a test to discover if a small amount of oil has negative effects on animals’ health and survival in an attempt to see if a disruptive stress response would occur. She mixed small amounts of oil into the food of house sparrows, and has concluded there are no behavioral effects while looking at potential biomarkers in the exposure in the blood.

“When animals are exposed [to] diets with a really, really small amount of oil, they are no longer able to mount a normal stress response,” Lattin said.

“Stress is something that can be harmful, but it’s also something that can help animals survive and to be able to cope successfully with stressors.”

That experiment was heavily criticized by PETA. “She force-fed birds crude oil,

saying how it’s supposed to represent the BP Oil Spill,” Chadna said. “For all the pain and suffering involved, we feel that Christine Lattin’s experiments need to be stopped.”

When Chadna and her team learned in March that Lattin would be working at the University, PETA sent LSU President F. King Alexander a letter, expressing concern for Lattin’s lab. PETA held a protest on the University’s campus on Aug. 21.

The University released a statement saying Lattin’s research complies with the Ornithological Council’s Guidelines for the Use of Wild Birds in Research.

“New LSU Assistant Professor Christine Lattin studies the physiological effects of stress on wildlife,” the statement said.

“Wild animals become stressed from a variety of sources including predators, rivals and severe storms, and Dr. Lattin studies how wild animals respond to these stressors. Specifically, she looks at the hormones and neurotransmitters that respond to stress in order to see how they change from being helpful to harmful.”

PETA created a petition on their website for people to express their concern about Lattin’s experiments to University officials. Yale University received more than 140,000 emails from the organization when Lattin was employed there. The petition urges readers to notify LSU of how Lattin is “tormenting” the birds, and how many of the birds are “killed” when the experiments are completed.

“Her saying [we are extremists] is name-calling. It’s weak [and] cowardly,” Chadna said. “[Lattin] can do all the namecalling she wants and tell all the lies she wants like this business of us being anti-pet, but that doesn’t address the fact that her research is useless, worthless and cruel.”

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LSU to increase faculty raise pool

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telling his congregation the accused priests and bishops were not living like Christians. He also extended the opportunity to speak privately with anyone who had his or her faith shaken by the recent revelations.

“I have had a number of conversations with students in passing,” Merrick said. “I think everybody is angry on some level.

Some people are embarrassed to be part of the Church.”

The U.S. population of Catholics has declined since the dawn of the 21st Century. Catholics made up 23.9 percent of the U.S. population in 2007, but only 20.8 percent in 2014, according to Pew Research Center. Scandals and divisions within the

LSU President F. King Alexander announced on Aug. 17 that the University will receive a 3 percent increase to the faculty raise pool for the second consecutive year.

The raise will be awarded as a result of a fully-funded Louisiana higher education budget, announced by the Louisiana Legislature in June after three special legislative sessions.

The raises go into effect on Sept. 1 for hourly employees and on Sept. 15 for employees paid on academic-year basis.

The increase is on average for University faculty and staff, with actual merit raise amounts varying above and below the 3 percent threshold. Staff and faculty previously received raise pool increases of 4 and 3 percent in 2013 and 2014, respectively. The merit-raise pool allocates money for each campus college. Deans and department heads within the colleges then decide merit-raise amounts for individual faculty members based on annual performance reviews and total career output.

“The political consideration is that the public does not like across-the-board raises,” said former Faculty Senate President Kevin Cope. “With the hostility we have seen toward public servants in recent years, there is a suspicion of simply giving a blanket increase to everyone. Administrations — not just at LSU, but at

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Christ the King struggles to continue preaching its message amid worldwide child-sexual abuse scandals

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he conviction of Louisiana Rev. Gilbert J. Gauthe first publicized the issue of child-sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in 1985. While a priest in New Iberia and Vermilion Parish, he was accused of molesting hundreds of children.

Gauthe eventually plead guilty to 11 counts of aggravated crime against nature and served 10 years in prison.

Thirty-three years later, the systemic issue of child sexual abuse and its coverup continue to shake the Catholic Church. On Aug. 14, a Pennsylvania grand jury report detailed more than 1000 identifiable victims of sexual abuse in only six of the state’s eight Catholic dioceses. Calls for resignation from within the Vatican overshadowed Pope

Francis’ visit to Ireland over the weekend.

The international childsexual abuse scandals compile across the globe in nations such as Argentina, Canada, Australia and the United States. The turbulence from these scandals threaten to damage the Church for generations to come, bringing pain and shame to Catholics everywhere.

The pain from these international scandals resonates deeply at the local level. Christ the King Catholic Church at LSU, like many other institutions throughout the nation, faces the struggle of continuing to preach its message.

The Rev. Andrew Merrick of CTK attended the University for three years before going to

seminary school. Now, he must confront the situation facing his Catholic church on campus.

“When these things broke, there were a couple of days I was just processing this,” Merrick said. “I thought I might just leave. This is ridiculous. If I’d run away from this scandal, if I would run away from the church, then I would be running away from myself.”

After processing the scope and depth of the issue, Merrick felt a renewed desire to follow the Church and preach its message. His Aug. 19 sermon focused entirely on the issue of child-sexual abuse in the Catholic church.

Merrick expressed his anger and embarrassment to his parishioners with a heavy heart,

FACULTY

University professor embraces South’s complicated history

BY MATTHEW BENNETT @mcbennett4

The American South has a controversial history of polarizing issues, but for LSU history professor Gaines Foster, the South is a part of who he is and what he’s made a living talking about.

Foster is entering his 37th year of teaching at the University and continues to impress a complete picture of Southern history on students by embracing the good, the bad and the ugly.

“There’s so much that you have to confront that’s wrong about the South,” Foster said.

“We were wrong about race. We

were wrong about a lot of other things. [But] the South is not at all unique in its response on race or many of the other things we may look at. [For example], the South may be an exaggerated form of the American police system, [but] it’s not a unique look.”

Foster was born in Alexandria, Louisiana, but moved to South Carolina when he was 4 years old. This mix of Southern heritage has had a big influence on who he is today.

Foster said he is proud to call himself a Southerner, but does not fail to address the region’s troubled past. The professor attributes many of the South’s tragic issues to white supremacy. While

he acknowledges there is much Southerners have to be ashamed of when looking through history, he also embraces the rich culture and good habits of the region.

“I grew up a very traditional Southerner,” Foster said. “I love the food. I went through life with an inordinate love of rice and strong coffee. I think there is a friendliness in the South and an openness to other people that’s admirable.”

The professor has a passion for history and believes all Americans need to understand the country’s past in order to fully understand today’s issues.

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History professor Gaines M. Foster sits for coffee in the LSU Bookstore on Aug. 26.

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RESEARCH

Piggin’ out: LSU Ag Center sees birth of all 11 piglets

BY BRITTNEY FORBES @itsbritforbes While 5,800 freshmen made LSU their new home this month, so did 11 piglets born to Irma, a pig at the LSU AgCenter Central Research Station.

Irma is a 3-year-old female Hampshire cross sow who was acquired in September 2017 from a local producer in Zachary. There are five sows and one boar at the research station used for teaching in the LSU School of Animal Sciences.

The piglets, however, do not have specific names. Instead, they are given a unique ID by ear notching. The number in the pig’s right ear is its litter number (1), and itsleft ear is the individual animal’s number (1-11). This system is used on swine operations across the country. Several students came out to help with the ear notching.

One of professors in the department jokingly calls the piglets “the bacon bits,” and so

the animal science department calls the swine family “Irma and the Bacon Bits.”

Animal science professor Tyler Braud’s students had the opportunity to assist with breeding two of the University’s pigs on April 17. Irma was the only one that conceived, and gave birth to her litter on Aug. 10. The traditional gestation period of a pig is about 114 days.

The piglets were given iron injections two days after their birth to prevent iron deficiency, which can develop rapidly due to low iron reserves. Shots have to be given because they are born in a barn and cannot obtain iron from soil.

Braud said the pigs are not used for research.

“We decided to bring a few pigs back to enhance our teaching program and allow our students to have a hands-on experience in class,” Braud said.

The daily care for the animals on the farm consists of feeding them, turning fans on during

the hot months and hosing them down to keep them cool. Braud, the farm unit staff and students take care of all of these.

“Animal comfort — we pay close attention to that,” Braud says.

The LSU AgCenter Central Research Station also has horse, beef, sheep and goat units, and each has a manager responsible for taking care of their unit.

The center also employs students of all majors, but a majority are in the animal science department.

“Pigs are very smart animals,” Braud said. “Our sows are very tame [and] very docile animals. They’re really curious, so they get excited when they see us coming into the barn.”

Each semester there are two to three classes that meet once a week where students have the opportunity to interact with all of the animals and can rotate animal species.

Braud’s swine production class is “totally about pigs.” His

students go to the farm every day for feeding and making sure everything is taken care of.

When the class is not in session, the work falls on the farm staff and himself.

The goal of the animal sciences department is to be able to produce litters of pigs to be used for teaching farm animal management, swine production, live animal and carcass evaluation and meat science.

“Our students learn all aspects of animal science including nutrition, genetics, reproduction and management,” Braud said. “We also have courses related to meat science. Some of the animals that we raise on this farm, we harvest in our meat lab on campus.”

The meat from animals raised on the farm can be purchased at the LSU AgCenter Dairy Store.

Animal science junior Kristy Trahan said her experience with the piglets has definitely helped her a lot because she didn’t really

have a lot of experience with pig production.

“It’s a really good thing that we have animals at the research units because it gives that overall foundation to animal science,” Trahan said.

Animal science junior Nick Uzee said working with the piglets has been a rewarding experience.

“This research station and other supporting research stations allow us to gain further experience in all aspects of animal agriculture,” Uzee said. “It’s been quite rewarding seeing the piglets grow up, even though it’s only been two weeks.”

Agricultural and extension education junior Kevin Chanove said it was interesting to see Irma go through artificial insemination, since he’s only ever seen it in cattle.

“It’s rewarding seeing a sow, and then many months later, you see all of her piglets,” Chanove said “You can’t learn agriculture in a book. You just have to do it.”

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Piglets play in a pen at the LSU AgCenter Central Research Station on Aug. 24. The 11 piglets were born on Aug. 10.

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(left to right) Animal science junior Kristy Trahan, extension education junior Kevin Chanove, animal science junior Nick Uzee and animal science sophomore Emma Brown hold piglets at the LSU AgCenter Central Research Station on Aug. 24.

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4-H livestock specialist Tyler Braud, holds a newborn piglet at the LSU AgCenter Central Research Station on Aug. 24.

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FACULTY

LSU professor highlights problems with Louisiana’s flood preparedness

BY BEN HOLDEN @benjaminholde10 Heavy rainfall and flooding devastated Louisiana in August 2016, causing 13 deaths and an estimated $8.7 billion in property damage. LSU geography professor Craig Colten believes the state is still not prepared should a similar event happen again.

Louisiana is assured to be over-prepared for another flood with the vast amount of money the state spends on emergency preparedness and the abundance of volunteers after disasters such as the Cajun Navy. But Colten said Louisiana needs to invest more in mitigations, which are the ways states lessen damage of storms through good drainage, land use and levees.

“We tend to invest more in emergency preparedness than in mitigation,” Colten said. “There’s huge investment [in hurricane levees]... but for these smaller floods like the 2016 flood we’re woefully unprepared.”

After the 2016 floods, there was a spike in public concern and demand for storm mitigation. In April, Louisiana received the $343 million necessary to complete a long-awaited project, the Comite River Diversion

Canal. Bureaucratic red tape has delayed funding for the project since 1984. The project would divert flood waters from populated areas, but Colten said there is still much more to be done.

“I’d like [the government] to emphasize safety in terms of zoning and land-use planning and not just economic development,” Colten said.

State officials, city officials and parish leaders have allowed suburbs to be built in areas with histories of flooding. For example, over 80 percent of the homes in central Louisiana were in the 100-year floodplain flooded in 2016. Many homes that flooded in 2016 were rebuilt in the same place as before. “[Parish leaders in East Baton Rouge, Ascension and Livingston] wanted people to rebuild their houses the same way in an area that had just flooded, because they didn’t want to lose tax base,” Colten said.

Colten’s research also looks into the history of Louisiana and how early settlers responded to floods. He found that whenever early settlers’ homes flooded, they learned from their mistakes and moved to high ground.

Spanishtown, for example, is the oldest neighborhood in Baton Rouge with one building dating

back to 1823. It is also located on some of Baton Rouge’s highest ground.

“The basic gist of the story is that people avoided the floodplain until the ‘60s and ‘70s,” Colten said. “There were no major historic sites severely damaged by the 2016 flood because people avoided those areas historically.

Colten emphasized that there was so much damage in 2016 because Baton Rouge allowed people to move east into floodprone areas in recent decades.

“Most of the areas that flooded in 2016 had been built since 1980,” Colten said. “The city really didn’t put any restrictions on development.”

With rising sea levels and changing climate, Colten expects even worse floods in the future. Hurricane Harvey was only one year after the 2016 flood and brought 60 inches of rain to Houston. Baton Rouge only experienced 25 inches of rain in the 2016 storm. Colten said it was also possible for areas along the Gulf, including Baton Rouge, to experience 40 inches of rain.

“We could easily have a Harvey,” Colten said. “If Harvey had been here… we would’ve seen far worse flooding than we did [in 2016].”

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LSU Carol O. Sauer professor of geology Craig E. Colton works in his office in the Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex on Aug. 24.

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LSU Dining, SG to offer six catering packages for tailgates

BY SHERIDAN WALL @slwall7 LSU Dining will offer tailgate catering packages to the public during home football games this season.

The catering menu includes six different packages: the Classic Breakfast, the Build-yourown Breakfast Taco Bar, the Tiger Grill, the Tiger Taco, the Taste of Da Bayou and the Smokehouse BBQ. Prices range from $15.99 to $22.95 per person for a minimum of 20 people.

Package sizes can be increased in increments of 10 people.

Several packages come with optional add-ons like assorted breakfast pastries, assorted juices, fresh veggie burgers, guacamole and meat pies, from $1 to $3 per person. There is also an option to add CocaCola canned beverages, Tiger Water and homemade chili to any package for $2 per person, $1.50 per can and $2 per bottle.

Sternos and heating equipment are also available for $16 per 20 people.

Student Government President Stewart Lockett pitched the idea of tailgate catering packages to Auxiliary Services Assistant Vice President Margot Carroll on Aug. 22. Lockett said

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Tailgate catering packages will now be available during home football games courtesy of LSU Dining.

Carroll was immediately receptive to the idea.

Lockett said SG vice president Rachel Campbell approached him with the idea after speaking with student government members at other SEC universities at SEC Exchange last summer.

Lockett said in the past, LSU Dining offered catering packages to University departments, but not to the general public.

Now, LSU football tailgaters can order a catering package and bring it right to their tailgate.

The packages can be picked up behind the LSU Faculty Club at a pre-arranged time.

“Now you can just skip the line and bring it to your tailgate,” Lockett said. “It’s probably something that we’re going to use SG-wise as well.”

Lockett said SG plans to host a tailgate on the Parade Ground for Southeastern University during the football game on Sept.

8. He expects SG will order the catering packages for the tailgate.

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STUDENT LIFE

LSU Physical Theatre club spinning to new heights

BY RACHEL MIPRO @remroc15

In the little-known depths of the Music & Dramatic Arts building, open the right door and one may find people spinning around more than 20 feet above the ground, tangled in silk ropes. It’s the Physical Theatre Club, an almost completely unknown student organization.

But it’s always on the lookout for new members.

The club focuses on anything in theater that is more than just acting. Along with aerialists, they regularly have people practice stage craft, movements and even improv. They meet every week in the afternoon, Monday through Thursday, to practice and help each other learn new moves.

The club president, Allyson Huval, a public relations and religious studies junior, said her most rewarding moments are helping novices learn the craft.

“It’s not someone who comes in here and is just dropping from the ceiling,” Huval

said. “It’s the people who come in dedicated [and] who work hard. They want to succeed.

They want to perform and they show it.”

The members really do work hard. The average member usually spends about 11 hours per week practicing his or her moves. Aerialists stop using rosin coating on their hands to strengthen their grips once they move from beginner to intermediate status, often climbing more than 20 feet of silk using nothing but their grasp on the rope.

Members have only crash pads for a safety net. Despite this, there have been no injuries in the club’s history. Huval attributes this to hands-on teaching, and making sure no one goes beyond his or her experience level.

By the time members finally get into the air, they can handle it.

“I actually love going up there,” said phyical theatre junior and club member Chase Bell. “The higher it is, the more fun I have. It’s like an adrenaline rush.”

For Bell, one of the best things about physical theatre is the challenge and the thrill of scaling the silk ropes.

Huval has been an aerial yoga teacher since high school.

However, most club members do not start with much experience. Bell had no experience with physical theatre before he took a class and became hooked.

“I gave it a try and I just fell in love with it instantly,” Bell said. “I started from a beginner, worked my way up and then after advance, I decided I wanted to teach instead of learn more.”

Bell was not the only member to discover a passion for physical theatre. It is fairly common for club members to pick up a physical theatre minor or majors. Huval said one member switched from biology to physical theatre. She said she was not surprised by this.

“There’s nothing really like it anywhere,” Huval said.

“There’s no classes even close to this. There’s no real clubs that are close to this, so it’s very unique.”

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LSU theatre junior Chase Bell practices aeriel silks as part of the Physical Theatre Club in the Music and Dramatic Arts building on Aug. 27.

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Stewart Lockett breaks trend as first black SG president in 28 years

BY MATTHEW BENNETT @mcbennett4 It’s been nearly 30 years since the University elected a black Student Government president.

Stewart Lockett is the third black SG president since the first black president, Kerry Pourciau, took office in 1972.

Of the previous 93 SG presidents, 83 were white men. Since 2009, 17 of the 20 SG presidents and vice presidents have been involved in Greek Life.

The first woman to become SG president was Evelyn Norman, who took unelected office after the current president stepped down to enlist in the military during the 1944-45 school year. Seven women have served as SG president since.

Lockett is not only excited for SG’s progression in diversity, but for the University’s progression across the board. He says this year’s freshman class is the most diverse yet.

“I think it’s a cultural shift,” Lockett said. “It’s a good progress for us and for Louisiana as a whole. It’s really significant for me because I think a lot of minority students now feel like they have a voice.”

Now that Lockett has officially started his 2018-19 service as SG president, he looks back on his trip to Budapest, Hungary when he decided to run for SG president.

Lockett recalls making phone calls and sending countless messages from across the world to fellow University students, laying the groundwork for his campaign and trying to find a running mate. He did all of these

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LSU Student Government president and biological engineering senior Stewart Lockett speaks to students at the Bengal Bound concert in the PMAC on Aug. 18. things while completing his medical fellowship in Budapest to continue his trajectory into medical school after graduation.

“If you would’ve asked me in high school, ‘Would you do student government in college?’ I would’ve said no,” Lockett said.

“I have a different story because some people say, ‘Oh, I’ve always wanted to do politics. My parents did it.’ Mine is just that I really like to serve, and I really like LSU. That combination found me being here.”

Once he put himself out there and began participating in events and programs, the leaders around campus recognized his potential and began cultivating it.

Lockett specifically expressed his appreciation of his

role-models during his time at the University, former LSU SG president Zack Faircloth and vice president Lindsey Landry, who both served in the 2016-17 school year. They included Lockett on their ticket and allowed him to gain more experience serving in SG. “One thing about me is that I really like to observe and soak things in,” Lockett said. “I participated, [but] was also a fly on the wall. I wanted to see how they presented information, how they planned [and] how they organized.”

By the summer of 2017, Lockett was ready to enter his junior year and continue serving LSU, but did not realize how big his year could be.

“Before I even thought about

running, people were coming up to me and saying, ‘If you do it, I’m behind you,” Lockett said.

It did not take long for Lockett to decide on his running mate and current SG vice president: mass communication senior Rachel Campbel. He says Campbell complements him well and has been a good friend since their freshman year at the University.

They share similar goals and see things the same way.

“Me and Rachel are really close,” Lockett said. “We have a good, long-standing relationship. For the first two weeks [of service] without an executive staff, it was me and Rachel against the world, but it has done nothing more than help us grow closer together.”

Lockett and Campbell have

spent much of the first weeks in office interviewing and hiring 60 executive staff positions from a pool of around 80 candidates.

With these executive positions now filled and ready to work, the president believes SG is ready to soar.

Some of the biggest early initiatives Lockett is spearheading during his term include: providing LSU’s WIFI “eduroam” to the International Cultural Center and the Greek Houses on campus and launching the “Degree Works” auditing program, which would make the degree audit for each student much easier to read and navigate, including a “what if” feature.

Lockett and Campbell are meeting with the Student Tech Fee Committee soon to discuss details on the WIFI initiative.

They also met with University IT services over the summer to push forward the “Degree Works” initiative, which will be included in a full revamp of the University’s online services in 2020.

When talking about his future in politics, Lockett was doubtful, as he sets his sights on attending LSU medical school.

However, the New Iberia native did not hold back on the pride he has for Louisiana and still wants to publicly serve in improving the state.

“We have a lot of history and culture that makes us really good and so unique,” Lockett said. “But we have a lot of progress that we have to make for it to be the best state. Louisiana is far behind the curve in higher education, taxes, on the health spectrum, and really everything.

I would like to see us grow.”

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page 8 CHRIST THE KING, from page 3 Church would seem to further exacerbate the decline of Catholics in the U.S., but CTK has enjoyed full masses this semester, with many even struggling to find seats.

Merrick is unaware of any history of abuse scandals at CTK but urges students to follow the Diocese of Baton Rouge’s process for reporting the abuse of a minor. The process, last updated in March 2014, lists steps for handling abuse-type situations.

The first step involves contacting civil authorities, followed by alerting the Diocesan Victim Assistance Coordinator. The time frame of the Coordinator’s process of review varies by the severity of the accusation.

The Diocese of Baton Rouge is no stranger to sexual abuse.

In 2004, the Diocese settled a lawsuit with a man who accused Bishop Joseph Sullivan of sexual abuse in 1975. Sullivan served as a bishop in Baton Rouge from ‘74 until his death in ‘82. Bishop Sullivan High

RAISES, from page 3 every university in the nation — tend to present raises as merit.”

Available funds for the raise pool are often a direct result of state appropriations or greaterthan-expected tuition collection.

The University budgeted $270.1 million in 2017-18 for staff salary expenditures, which is $12.9 million more than the 2016-17 academic year.

Timothy Chandler, the associate dean of the Rucks Department of Management, saw the raise pool increases as essential for the University to attract new talent.

“You want LSU to be considered a destination job for people,” Chandler said. “I think signaling that you reward people appropriately and routinely is an important part of that.”

Given the volatility of Louisiana’s higher education budget, University faculty do not see

FOSTER, from page 3 However, growing up, Foster did not think history would become his life’s focus, especially not history of the South.

“My first-grade teacher believed that the South should’ve

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School in Baton Rouge changed its name to St. Michael the Archangel High School because of the lawsuit.

Merrick believes the Catholic Church has made significant changes since 2002 in dealing with child sexual abuse, such as increased screening of the clergy and efforts for a more transparent church. Despite the efforts, Merrick believes more action would lift the dark cloud surrounding his church.

“I’ve been very angry and very hurt,” Merrick said. “Not only [because] of the abuse that has happened, but [also because] of the coverups that [were] done and the lack of accountability.

My own hurt and my own anger is [in] no way comparable to the victims and their families who have experienced the abuse. It’s unimaginable what they are feeling and what they are thinking.”

Philosophy senior Michael Vu, a frequent CTK churchgoer, sees the recent events as troubling, but not enough to shake his personal faith.

“Obviously this is a deeply

saddening event,” Vu said. “It’s troubling to say the least, but I wouldn’t say my personal faith has been affected or my faith within the church.”

Merrick hopes his parishioners recognize their faith is in Jesus, not in the bishops or priests that make up the human institution. These messages reverberate well among the University students at CTK. Communication studies junior Cassidy Phillips is one of the students appreciative of Merrick and CTK’s efforts to address the issues plaguing the Catholic Church.

“I really loved Father Merrick’s homily about it,” Phillips said. “I appreciated that the issue was recognized and talked about. We’re not hiding from it — we are confronting it and the reality that it’s horrible.”

The undeniable pain brought forth by child sexual abuse scandals still looms over the Vatican and Catholic churches around the globe. The succession of scandals turns some away from the church and its services. Through

the dark cloud encapsulating his church, Merrick and the CTK community continue preaching their message of steadfast faith and hope others will listen.

“Many people, including myself, are grateful that this is

merit raises on a consistent basis, which itself compounds the issues of a merit-raise pool, according to Cope and Chandler.

“When merit-raise money comes along, it is useful for rewarding people who have been productive,” Chandler said. “It doesn’t address the bigger problem of the years when there were no raises. We end up with a salary structure that looks different in some respects than the competitive marketplace. Merit raises, though helpful, don’t always address that problem.”

Inflation and cost-of-living increases consume a significant portion of the merit raises. The U.S. inflation rate is 2.9 percent for 2018, while the cost of living continues to rise, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And Cope sees the merit raises as a cost-of-living adjustment.

“Even though it’s called a merit increase, it is de facto a cost-of-

living increase,” Cope said. “If we had a merit pool that’s very large, say 15 percent, then you would see some distinction between merit and a cost-of-living adjustment.”

But even with increases in the merit-raise pool, the University still falls below regional and national benchmarks for averagesalaries of full-time instructors at public universities. Louisiana’s full-time instructors earned an average of $85,021, which is well below the national average of $95,521, according to the Southern Regional Education Board’s 2016 study.

“It’s definitely necessary to retain talent,” said College of Agriculture Communications Coordinator Tobie Blanchard. “We have lost some talented faculty in the last few years. I think keeping up with what other universities are paying and their rates is very important for LSU.”

LSU will increase the money in the faculty raise pool by 3 percent for the second c consecutive year.

won the Civil War [and] that Robert E. Lee was the greatest man ever, except for Jesus Christ,” Foster said. “The civil rights movement came along, and I watched the crisis over desegregation. I was appalled by the South’s response to that,

and so one of the first responses was to say ‘there’s nothing worth studying about the South.’”

This is sometimes what Foster finds difficult when teaching history to University students.

Foster said he has to work harder to teach every side of Southern

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Christ the King Catholic Church stands just a short walk from the Parade Grounds on LSU’s campus.

history to certain students, because the region is still associated with ideas like segregation and slavery.

He thinks everything should be put into context. This is why he decided to look deeper into the history of both the South and America as a whole, finding that the two distinctions, who once appeared at odds as the Confederacy and the Union in the Civil War, were not dissimilar.

“The South is this prototypically American [and] prototypically human experience,” Foster said. “To understand Southern history is to study all the questions that shaped American and human history. There’s a part of me that has always wanted to teach Southern history in the North. They start with assumptions that I think are fundamentally wrong.”

Foster has published three historical books and written several articles to appear in journals, covering the South, Civil

coming to light,” Merrick said.

“You can’t deal with an issue if it stays in the dark. While there is hurt, pain, confusion, sorrow and some struggling with trust, there is also hope. If we cling to the Lord, there is great hope.”

War, and religion. He currently teaches U.S. History survey, The New South, U.S. Historiography, and Southern Identity in an Age of Diversity at the University.

Foster is happy he has been able to call LSU his home for so long.

“I’ve loved being at LSU and I’ve never wanted to be anywhere else,” Foster said. “I felt like I won the lottery when I got [the job]. It is a very friendly campus. I cough all the time when I walk across the LSU campus and I’m amazed at how many students ask if I’m okay. One crazy kid even offered me his water bottle.”

Foster said he is blessed to be able to live out his passion by teaching and impacting students.

His lectures are often filled with humor. Admittedly, he hates to grade.

“I think if you’re not enjoying yourself, then you’re not learning,” Foster said. “I used to joke that I teach for free, and they pay me to grade.”

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“As we went through practice that day, Alleva came up to me and gave me some words of encouragement,” Fulton said. “At the time I didn’t know what Coach O was talking about after practice (news regarding a teammate), but I got the call that I was reinstated in the car.”

Moments after learning of Fulton’s reinstatement, a number of LSU players voiced their exuberance, and starting cornerback Greedy Williams even posted a video from the locker room.

Fulton said he was unable to

In the inaugural year of the College Football Playoff format, Ohio State pulled off a shocking upset.

The Buckeyes earned a spot as the No. 4 seed and entered the Sugar Bowl against No. 1 Alabama.

It was a match-up the country was eager to watch, and the national media was abuzz with what was sure to be a battle between two of college football’s greatest coaches. For the first time since Urban Meyer and Nick Saban squared off in two unforgettable SEC championship games in 2008 and 2009, the two would once again be patrolling opposite sidelines.

In fact, the previous SEC title games were so unforgettable, Meyer claimed to remember “every snap.”

That quote should come as no surprise to anyone who follows football. To be a successful head coach at a high level of the collegiate game, one should be armed with an impressive memory and outstanding analytical skills.

Being a head football coach is simply not a job for

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With Fulton back in the mix, secondary gets added depth, playmaking ability to defense

BY GLEN WEST @glenwest21 Kristian Fulton was in the backseat of junior linebacker Devin White’s car when he got the call.

It had been a hellish two weeks for the LSU football program, with the arrests and suspensions of multiple players sending a negative wave throughout the Tiger fanbase. To make matters worse, the news broke that Fulton’s two-year suspension for falsifying a urine sample his freshman year was upheld by the NCAA.

Enter Joe Alleva.

In a four-page letter, Alleva brought attention to the NCAA that Fulton had actually committed “urine substitution” which is only a one-year suspension, as opposed to “tampering,” which is a two-year suspension.

It was Alleva who approached Fulton after practice on Aug. 23. He put his arm around him and told him everything was “going to be OK.” Orgeron hinted to the team after practice that good news regarding a teammate would be released soon.

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Battle, Paris ready for final season at LSU after redshirt years

BY BRANDON ADAM @badam___ John Battle still thinks about what might have happened if he declared for the 2018 NFL draft this past winter.

The fifth-year senior gave it much consideration after totaling 61 tackles, one interception and five pass breakups in 12 games as the Tigers’ starting strong safety. It was solid follow-up to his 2016 season when he stepped in for an injured Rickey Jefferson halfway through the season and started the last seven games of the year at free safety.

The 6-foot-2, 206-pound Florida-native would not even be in Baton Rouge if not for the NCAA granting him an ex-

tra year of eligibility after he received a medical hardship for his freshman year last summer. The decision to leave was something he had thought about strongly last year, and he had brought it up to the media after the Tigers’ game against Texas A&M. “When I go on Instagram and I see [former defensive backs] Donte [Jackson] and I see Kevin [Toliver] on Instagram, I say, ‘Man, that’d have been kind of cool, you know, to be like that this year,’” Battle said last week. “But I am here now, and I’m happy about it.

I’m excited for the season. I’m just happy to be back one more year because when I talk to [Jackson and Toliver] they all wish they were back here for one more year.”

Battle’s fellow fifth-year senior safety Ed Paris would most likely be taking part in a NFL camp right now if not for a devastating knee injury in practice leading up to LSU’s game against Syracuse. Originally a cornerback during his first three seasons at LSU before moving to free safety in 2017, Paris was tied with Greedy Williams for teamhigh four passes defended through the first three games of last season and came close to catching his first career interception against BYU last September.

Players on the team — Battle included — wrote “Ed” across their wristbands against Syracuse to show their support

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LSU junior safety John Battle (26) celebrates after taking out Alabama freshman widereceiver Henry Ruggs III (11) during the Tigers’ 24-10 loss against Alabama on Nov. 4, 2017, at Bryant-Denny Stadium.

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Tigers will have to battle grueling SEC schedule in 2018

BY BRANDON DECAREAUX @BrandonDec77

With LSU football kicking off the season against Miami, questions surrounding the team’s positional battles are still undecided.

One definite for everyone in the LSU locker room is that they will be faced with an arduous schedule that will test the mental and physical strength of everyone on the team.

The Tigers face off against the No. 8 ranked Miami Hurricanes in the 2018 AdvoCare Classic on Sept. 2 in AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The Tigers come into the game as the No. 25 ranked team in the AP National Top 25, making the Week One matchup one of the marquee games in the nation.

“We’re looking forward to this game,” coach Ed Orgeron said.

“I know our kids are gonna be excited to play. It’s huge for us in recruiting. It’s huge for us in our season. It’s huge for us in momentum to start the season on the right foot.”

What separates LSU from most teams in the country is not the strength of its non-conference slate. After Miami, LSU faces Southeastern Louisiana, Louisiana Tech, and Rice. What

separates LSU from the rest of its SEC counterparts is its grueling Southeastern Conference schedule.

According to CBSsports, the Tigers have the SEC’s toughest schedule with games against five teams ranked in the pre-season Top 25, four of which are ranked in the top 10.

After LSU’s home opener against Southeastern Louisiana, LSU opens up conference play against the No. 9 ranked Auburn Tigers. Auburn will test the LSU defense with Heisman-hopeful Jarrett Stidham returning at quarterback.

Coming into the game with added motivation after last season’s 20-point come-from-behind loss against LSU, Auburn will be looking to avenge last season’s meltdown in Baton Rouge.

With home games against Louisiana Tech and Ole Miss to close out the month of September, LSU enters possibly its most pivotal month of the season with a game at Florida and home games against Georgia and Mississippi State in October.

The Tigers face off against arguably the SEC East’s toughest competition in Florida and the No. 3 ranked Georgia Bulldogs.

The back-to-back weeks in Octo-

ber figure to be the hardest twoweek span of the season for LSU. With new coach Dan Mullen at the helm for the Gators, it will be a formidable task for the Tigers as they enter The Swamp in Gainesville. The following week will only test the Tigers more as Georgia makes its way to Baton Rouge for the first time since 2008, led by Heisman-hopeful sophomore quarterback Jake Fromm.

If that wasn’t enough for the Tigers, the No. 18 ranked Mississippi State Bulldogs will come to Death Valley with much of its 2017 talent still on the roster.

The month of October may be the point where the LSU season is either made or broken.

Following the matchup against the Bulldogs, the Tigers will have a bye week before their biggest rival comes to town, looking for its seventh straight victory against the Tigers.

The No. 1 ranked Alabama Crimson Tide enter Death Valley Nov. 3 poised for another championship season. The Tigers have not beaten the Tide since the famous 9-6 game in Tuscaloosa in 2011, and with another No. 1 ranked recruiting class, the Tide will once again be vying for a spot in the College Football Playoff.

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LSU football coach Ed Orgeron leads the team onto the field before the Tigers’ 3526 victory against Syracuse on Sept. 23, 2017, in Tiger Stadium.

The remainder of the LSU schedule is no walk in the park as the Tigers travel to Arkansas, host Rice, and then travel to Texas A&M where the Aggies hope to defeat the Tigers for the first time in seven years under new head coach Jimbo Fisher.

Life in the SEC is never easy.

The Tigers are faced with a monumental task this season as they enter week one with new starters

at the quarterback and running back positions. The good news for the Tigers is that three of its potentially hardest games will be at home in Death Valley.

LSU will be tested to its limit from week to week as they traverse their grueling schedule.

The only thing left to do is watch as the Tigers face-off on the gridiron against the country’s toughest competitors.

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Gagne posted the secondlowest stroke average in a season at LSU with a score of 71.16, and had 22 rounds of even par or better.

“It’s been a great experience over the last few years I’ve definitely become a better player and I think coming here was a really good fit for me. I can’t wait to see what the next year holds,” Gagne said.

But what really stands out besides all of the achievements is that Gagne committed to playing four years at LSU while getting his degree, rather than turning pro.

Just last season, LSU freshman Jacob Bergeron decided to turn pro after one season.

This is becoming more and more common as young amateurs find that they can have more time to develop their game as professionals rather than as studentathletes.

Gagne has a different approach from most of the young amateurs today.

“I want to finish school, get that degree, and I just feel like there’s no rush to turn pro. It’s always going to be there,” Gagne said.

Gagne, who just turned 21, still has the prime of his career ahead of him, and while it’s become the norm to either skip college or only go for a few years, some of the greatest golfers of all time played college golf. Tiger Woods spent two years at

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LSU men’s golf practices at the University Club golf course on Aug. 27.

Stanford, Phil Mickelson stayed all four ears at Arizona State and won three NCAA Championships and Jack Nicklaus played four years at Ohio State.

Gagne was born in Costa Rica but moved to the U.S. when he was 4 and grew up, like many aspiring golfers do, following the career of Tiger Woods.

“In golf, it has to be Tiger. I’m a big Tiger fan,” Gagne said.

But he had another influence, who also dominated the sport he played.

“In other sports, definitely Michael Jordan, I’m a big basketball guy and I liked Jordan a lot growing up,” Gagne said.

As for his goals this season, Gagne thinks he and the rest of the team have a great shot at making it to the NCAA champi-

onships. Last season, the Tigers made it to the Spokane Regional as the No. 1 seed but fizzled out in the final round of qualifying, finishing in sixth, just one place out from moving on to the NCAA Championships.

“I thought we had a really good team last year, and it was disappointing when we didn’t make to the (NCAA) Championships… I think we’re even better this year and we certainly want to make it past regionals this year,” Gagne said.

After he finishes his final year as a Tiger, Gagne plans to go pro, and what exactly that means, Gagne isn’t sure.

“I’m going to see what doors are open, whether it’s going to Europe or the Web.com. We’ll see,” Gagne said.

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Wednesday, August 29, 2018 BATTLE, from page 9 for Paris when he saw his true senior season cut short, carving out a key spot in the team after waiting three years in a deep and talented secondary.

The safety duo along with guard Garrett Brumfield, and tight end Jacory Washington were referred to as “the grandparents of the team” by Battle, and are the only remaining members of the much-heralded 2014 recruiting class that included Leonard Fournette, Jamal Adams, Davon Godchaux, Malachi Dupre and DJ Chark.

“We did have the trying to win the national championship with our class, and we fell short of that mission,” Battle said.

“But, luckily, I’m here, Ed’s still here, Brumfield’s still here, we can still complete that mission. That’s our goal this year — to definitely win a national championship.”

While Battle’s announcement regarding his decision involved a video of his highlights followed up by Ben Affleck’s Batman lighting up the bat signal, Paris quietly waited for the NCAA to approve his medical redshirt.

Don’t expect Paris to be labeled as Battle’s Robin in 2018, however. He has another nickname.

“We call Ed ‘uncle,’” Battle said.

Paris’ bald head and nickname may fool some, but he’s still only 23 years old,— a prime age to come back from a knee injury.

He’ll get a chance to test out his rehabilitated knee against Miami on Sept. 2 in Arlington, Texas, the place where he and his family relocated to after his home in New Orleans was devastated by Hurricane Katrina during final week of August in 2005.

“It’s great to have him back,” Battle said. “Glad he’s 100 percent healthy, I just want to see him excel.”

How much Paris plays is still up in the air. He has been in-and-out of practice and is currently listed as third on the depth chart at strong safety behind sophomores Grant Delpit and Jacoby Stevens.

Either way, Paris has been making an impact off the field along with Battle.

“Great leadership, great guys, teaching [younger players] how we do it at LSU, tremendous,” LSU coach Ed Orgeron said. “Making the calls back there, being the quarterback of the defense.”

Those qualities are inline with what defensive coordinator Dave Aranda wants to see out of the Tigers defense in 2018.

“He had three things,” Battle said. “Tough, dependable, smart.”

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FULTON, from page 9 contact his parents right away because his phone was consistently buzzing of congratulations and support.

“When I did get a hold of them, it was just a sigh of relief,” Fulton said. “Just hearing their voices and being so happy for me, it makes me really want to go out on the field and play for them now.”

Senior safety John Battle said the group didn’t do anything too flashy with Fulton. They just celebrated in the locker room with tears of joy and excitement that the secondary would have more depth.

“We all celebrated in the locker room after he got the news,” Battle said. “He gives us more depth in our secondary, more playmaking ability on our defense and we’re just happy to have him back.”

Fulton and his case were even a topic of discussion in his sports communications class the day after he was reinstated by the NCAA. Sports Illustrated’s Ross Dellenger broke the news and visited the class the next day as a guest speaker.

The junior cornerback said it was a little “weird” to be the topic of such a long discussion but couldn’t help but smile through the entire class.

“It was good to see everybody that reached out and was keeping up with the situation,” Fulton

Alleva came up and gave me some words of encouragement.

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said. “I’m sure everybody could see there’s a different energy in the room when I go into the team meeting.”

Fulton hasn’t played a down of football since the 2016 Citrus Bowl, when LSU knocked off Heisman winner Lamar Jackson and Louisville 29-9. Regardless, Fulton doesn’t believe there will be any physical rust in his game. The emotions of being out on the field are what really excites him.

The most prominent life lesson that Fulton has taken away from this entire experience is to learn from your mistakes and that actions have consequences. Now it’s up to Fulton to prove he’s the fivestar player LSU recruited in 2015 to be the next great defensive back of DBU. It won’t come without challenges, though, as Fulton will have to fend off freshman Kelvin Joseph, sophomore Kary Vincent Jr. and senior graduate transfer Terrence Alexander for the number two

cornerback slot.

Vincent and Alexander are expected to fight for the nickel spot, leaving Fulton and Joseph as the two primary candidates for the starting cornerback slot opposite Williams.

Orgeron said in a press conference Monday that the position is still wide open and that a decision will become clear later this week in practice.

Joseph has been lauded by Orgeron and the coaching staff ,and that wasn’t any different this week with Orgeron stating he’d be “more than OK” with Joseph being the starter against the Canes on Saturday.

“He has had an outstanding camp and he is going to be an outstanding player for the LSU Tigers and we’re excited to have him,” Orgeron said.

With Fulton now back in the mix, the LSU secondary has the added depth and playmaking skills to be a truly dominant defense.

OHIO STATE, from page 9 a forgetful man.

However, maybe it’s possible to forget important details every now and then. That’s the argument Ohio State’s Board of Trustees recently made in their summary of the investigation into former Buckeye wide receiver coach Zach Smith’s alleged domestic abuse.

The Board found “a pattern of troubling behavior” by Smith including “promiscuous and embarrassing sexual behavior, drug abuse, truancy, dishonesty, financial irresponsibility, a possible NCAA violation and a lengthy police investigation into allegations of criminal domestic violence and cyber crimes.”

When he’s not fulfilling his duty as a role model and steward of the community, Smith coaches football on the weekends.

Reports of misbehavior go as far back as 2009 when Smith, an assistant coach for Meyer’s Florida team at the time, was arrested on suspicion of aggravated battery against his wife.

Smith brought his detestable conduct with him to Ohio State when Meyer once again hired the embattled coach in 2012.

During the Big 10’s recent media days, Meyer was asked about his knowledge of a specific incident of abuse reported by Smith’s wife Courtney in 2015. Meyer responded saying, “There was nothing, I don’t know who creates a story like that.”

After Brett McMurphy revealed texts between Meyer and his wife contradicting Meyer’s media day statement, the Buckeye coach admitted to knowledge of Smith’s 2015 incident during a recent press conference.

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So, what was Meyer’s explanation for his dishonesty during media days?

According to the Board’s report, Meyer apparently “has significant memory issues” and “has periodically taken medicine that can negatively impair his memory, concentration, and focus.”

So much for that sharp memory Meyer claimed he had.

Interestingly enough, Meyer’s memory seems to work every now and then. He seemed to have no issue remembering the problematic texts his wife sent him regarding Smith’s domestic abuse.

According to the Board’s investigation, Meyer even went so far as to meet with Ohio State football operations director Brian Voltolini to discuss how to adjust the setting on Meyer’s phone so that text messages older than one year would be deleted.

While your physics teacher may not buy the “I forgot” excuse come the day of the final,

Ohio State’s Board of Trustees certainly bought Meyer’s excuse.

For his failure to adequately report his knowledge of Smith’s trouble with the law, Meyer will be suspended for the first three games of the year. After all, there is nothing worse than derailing a storied football program’s chances at winning a national title, including knowledge of allegations that your assistant coach was abusing his spouse.

As Buckeye fans flocked to the defense of Meyer, it would be wise for us all to take a step back and realize the dangerous effects of the cult-like mentality that consumes modern sports.

Football is a religion and the mentality to win at any means necessary is its god. All that’s asked of disciples as they march into their cathedral-like stadiums is to leave alcoholic beverages, items that don’t fit in a small, clear tote bag and basic human decency at home.

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Matherne’s Market opened for business on Aug. 24 and is located on the ground level of Riverbend Hall in the Nicholson Gateway Apartments.

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In addition to groceries, Matherne’s also offers a variety of prepared foods, including fresh sushi made in-house.

Matherne’s is conveniently located near Tiger Stadium, making it easy to pick up any last-minute tailgating supplies.

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Feminists in Action to host drag show

BY MICHELLE GAUCHET @michelleg_0115

JUNKIE FOOD Cupcake Junkie offers variety of original flavors, celebrates one-year anniversary

BY AMAYA LYNCH @maya09172 Cupcake Junkie offers a sweet escape to the Baton Rouge community by providing sweet treats made in-house every day.

Owner and baker Robyn Selders has single-handedly run Cupcake Junkie for an entire year as of Aug. 25, and will be visiting the campus on Nov. 2 for an event at the Honors College.

Previously a teacher, Selders found her passion for baking and decided to pursue it in the Baton Rouge area by opening her very own bakery on Coursey Boulevard.

“We are a full service bakery,” Selders said. “I make wedding cakes, birthday cakes, sheet cakes, cookies, cupcakes and mini cupcakes. I have some signature items I make. Junkie Jar is one with cake and lots of different filling in the jar. It might be cake, it might be a chocolate ganache with maybe some fresh cut strawberries and some vanilla buttercream. It’s like a layered jar desert. Kind of like a trifle in a jar.”

While Selders runs a full service bakery, she is mostly

known for her out-of-the-box cupcake flavors, junkie jar and junkie juice. A few cupcake flavors offered at the bakery include the Lemon Meringue Pie cupcake, the Gateway cupcake, a Strawberry cupcake and another by the name of Denial, which consists of a classic chocolate cake with a vanilla buttercream frosting.

“My signature flavor is called Gateway, and that is vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream and vanilla bean sugar,” Selders said.

“You have to taste it. It is the

see CUPCAKE page 19

most popular cupcake we have and people do get upset when we run out. I think the true test of a bakery is making a vanilla cupcake taste like something outstanding.”

Other cupcakes include the Butter Pecan cupcake with butter pecan cake and a caramel drizzle, the King Cake cupcake topped with Mardi Gras tri-color sanding sugar and the Nutty Drunk cupcake with AlmondAmaretto cake. There’s a little celebration in all the cupcakes offered at Cupcake Junkie.

Splash Nightclub’s drag show nights aren’t the only options near the University to see fabulous and fun performances from local queens. In fact, you only need to go as far as the LSU Student Union.

Feminists in Action at LSU will host a drag show in the LSU Student Union’s Royal Cotillion Ballroom on Sept. 7 at 9 p.m.

“DRAG Me Out of This Political Climate” intends to provide its audience with an escape from the current state of politics in the U.S. The event will be the first drag show put on by FIA. Hosted by drag queens Carina Von Tuna and Scarlett Diore, the show will feature performances by five local Baton Rouge queens, including Justin Betweener, Laveau Contraire and Reia Mars.

English junior Nick Beason, who performs as Scarlett Diore, approached FIA president Carson Richman and mass communication senior Jack Stallard, who performs as Carina Von Tuna, with the idea to do a drag show as a satirical escape from today’s politics. The show will open with Carina Von Tuna performing as former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and the performers will touch on political issues throughout

see DRAG, page 19

LITERATURE

Yellow Shoe Fiction series gives platform for unorthodox works

BY ASHLEI GOSHA @yungjemisin John Kennedy Toole’s Pulitzer prize-winning novel “A Confederacy of Dunces” was published in 1980 by LSU Press, and with the Aug. 15 release of Inman Majors’ “Penelope Lemon: Game On!” the press’s Yellow Shoe Fiction series continues the tradition of publishing books deemed too “idiosyncratic” for New York presses.

The series is currently presided over by editor Michael Griffith, who reads through around 100 manuscripts a year in search of the lucky two the press will publish. He worked at the Southern Review while attending graduate school at the University, and was invited to edit the then-new Yellow Shoe Fiction series after moving to Cincinnati.

“From the beginning, my idea and the press’ idea about the series was that we would go after things that fell through the cracks in New York, things that we thought were delightful in one way or another but that New York had deemed not blockbustery enough for them,” Griffith said.

There is no theme or unifying thread to the works published in the series besides all being works of fiction.

“I don’t want us to have a house style,” Griffith said. “I’m looking for excellence of whatever variety I can find,“ Griffith said.

Majors and “Visitations” author Lee Upton emphasized how collaborative the series and LSU Press are in their treatment of authors and the books they bring with them.

“It takes a lot of people to create a book, to edit, design, to bring it into the world, to publicize it,” Upton said. “So Michael Griffith and all the people working there at LSU who are part of the series — all of us who are readers and writers owe them a great debt.”

“Penelope Lemon: Game On!” is Majors’ fifth book, and his second to be published by a university press. He laid out a few of the differences between his past experiences, and the most recent with LSU Press.

“At a New York press, you get paid more,” Majors said. “You know they’re there for profit and it’s maybe a little easier to get national publicity, but they also have a lot more titles to turn out, a lot more authors to deal with.

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Friday, December 2, 2016 CUPCAKE, from page 14 All of the cupcakes include elements made from scratch. The Lemon Meringue Pie cupcake offers a homemade graham cracker crust and lemon curd filling, and Gateway includes some of the best aspects of a vanilla cupcake.

“All of our cakes here at Cupcake Junkie, our cookies, our cupcakes down to the junkie juice is made from scratch,”

Selders said. “Our cake, our icing, our lemon curd, our caramel drizzle is all made from scratch. We don’t cut corners at Cupcake Junkie.”

To celebrate its first birthday, Cupcake Junkie held a Cupcake Junkie Carnival on Aug. 25 where they offered face paint, live screen T-shirt printing, gourmet cotton candy from a mobile cotton candy stand and giveaways, all free to the public. That day, Selders also revealed brand new cupcake flavors: Cakie Chip and Southern Hospitality.

“Cakie Chip is a combination of a cupcake and a cookie,” Selders said. “The bottom of the cupcake is an actual chocolate chip cookie made from my homemade chocolate chip cookie dough, and I baked chocolate

chips into the cake layer above that. I’m calling the other one Southern Hospitality, and basically it’s a peach cobbler cupcake... it’s everything you would put inside a peach cobbler, except it’s a cupcake.”

The carnival was a way to say thank you to the Baton Rouge community for being so welcoming, Selders said. She wanted to thank all of her supporters and “cupcake junkies” for allowing her to successfully run her business and do what she loves for the past year.

Selders said that while she does love running her business the way she does, she is still looking for people to join her team. Selders needs people who fit the image of Cupcake Junkie because this is not “just your everyday bakery.”

page 19 FICTION, from page 14 At LSU, you get that personal touch. You send an email to somebody in marketing or somebody in design and we hear back the same day.”

Upton had nothing but praise for the series and the people who work on it.

“I very much admired the work that had already been published by Yellow Shoe,” Upton said. “The terrific books, the production values that they bring to them. I’m so impressed with Michael Griffith, who is the editor.

He’s a brilliant and daring fiction writer, so a chance to work with him was just such such a wonderful opportunity.”

Majors said his new release is a better book for having gone through Griffith and LSU Press, and Upton said Griffith is an editor who is devoted to the task.

“There was hardly a page of the entire book that the book

DRAG, from page 14

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Cupcakes, among other treats, sit on display at the one year anniversary of Cupcake Junkie on Coursey Blvd. on Aug. 25.

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the show.

Stallard and Beason said they wanted to make sure to include different types of drag performers, not just the skinny, white, cis male drag queens that Stallard says are usually showcased in shows like this one.

“People should expect to see subversive drag performance that’s meant to make the audience kind of uncomfortable,” Stallard said. “But also, we’re going to be a bunch of people presenting genders opposite our own to the 10th degree, so it’ll also be just plain funny.”

FIA organizes events like this drag show to promote feminist awareness and activism to the University and local community. They invite people of all backgrounds to get involved and learn more about issues related to women and gender. If a student wants to get involved

manuscript that he didn’t have some idea — particularly about ways to tighten sentences and clarify elements in the manuscript,” Upton said. “I couldn’t have asked for an editor who is more discerning and so inspiring as an editor because he himself is a foremost fiction writer. “ Upton and Majors said they believe LSU Press gives a great service to the literary community with the series, which is made possible by the people who work there.

“I hope the LSU people know how special they are in the publishing industry, which is often so hurried and so cutthroat,” Majors said. “The people that I’ve worked with in the past have been nice, but no one had made quite the effort to make me feel at home and to solicit my opinion on things. They wanted me to like it. They wanted me to have a good time along the way.” with FIA, they can attend its Wednesday meetings at 4:30 p.m. in the LSU Women’s Center.

The FIA event is not the first drag show to be held on the University’s campus. Last spring, the Louisiana Queer Conference put on its first drag show as a “Queer After Party” to the conference itself. Carina Von Tuna hosted the show, and Scarlett Diore performed along with other drag queens, including Chanell La’Sha, Sasha Vanguard and London Manchester, who are also University students.

The LAQC is an annual event held by on-campus organizations Spectrum, Queer Students of Color (Qroma) and the LSU Office of Multicultural Affairs.

The conference started in 2011 to provide leadership development, networking opportunities and social support to LGBTQ college students and their allies in Louisiana.

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Scarlett Diore (top left, bottom) and London Manchester (top right) perform at LAQC’s Queer After Party on LSU’s campus on April 14.

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THE SEPTEMBER SERIES

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SEPTEMBER 7 Bag of Donuts is performing at L’Auberge Casino and Hotel.

The upbeat, New Orleans-based band covers popular songs from every decade with a little twist.

Tickets are available at Ticketmaster.com.

With August coming to a close, Baton Rouge residents can expect to see the weather cooling down, while the events are just heatin’ up. Here’s everything you need to get up to speed on what September has to offer.

BY CLAIRE BERMUDEZ @claireebermudez

SEPTEMBER 22

SEPTEMBER 14 Varsity Theatre is presenting Borgore and GG Magree. Borgore, an EDM producer, is known for highenergy sets with heavy-metal influences. GG Magree is an up-and-coming producer and singer. Tickets are $24 in advance and $27 at the door.

SEPTEMBER 21 Country music lovers are invited to watch Dylan Scott at The Texas Club. The native Louisianian is known for chart-topping hits such as “Makin’ This Boy Go Crazy,” “Hooked” and “My Girl.” Tickets are available for $20 to $25. You must be 18 years old or older to attend.

LSU students, alumni and fans are gearing up for the first football game of the season. LSU is hosting Louisiana Tech at Tiger Stadium. The game will (hopefully) kick off a long strand of wins for our fighting tigers.

SEPTEMBER 27 Driftwood Cask and Barrel is hosting Deaf Focus’ third annual EatDrinkSign! The event is held on National Deaf Awareness Week. It promotes Deaf-friendliness by offering a unique dining experience where all the servers are Deaf and guests are encouraged to use sign language when ordering. For more information, visit the organization’s website deaffocus.com

SEPTEMBER 29 Spanish Moon is hosting Hinds, a Madrid-based garage rock band.

Tickets are $15 and can be purchased on ticketweb.com. Spanish Moon is a bar, so you must be 18 years old or older to attend.

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Almaza All American Food works if you’re with friends who might not be in the mood for the same kind of food. Racked with both Mediterranean and American options, customers can go to Almaza and get anything from a burger or fish to my personal favorite, the Cholo Kabob Koubideh. Almaza is the best option if you’re looking for a Mediterranean fix close to campus.

Albasha Greek & Lebanese Restaurant is one of the better known options for customers, and has three different locations in Baton Rouge. Albasha is the best option if you’re looking for a gyro, chicken shawarma or souvlaki (shish kabob) sandwich. Even though Albasha is a chain, walk into any of its locations and you’ll immediately feel as though you’re in an authentic Greek restaurant.

Zoroona Mediterranean Grill is the place for you if you enjoy a little edge to your Mediterranean experience.

In addition to its food options, Zoroona also hosts a Hookah lounge from 5 p.m. to midnight Sunday through Thursday, and 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday.

Zoroona seems like it’s mastered the Baton Rouge college scene, even though it’s located down Siegen Lane.

Serop’s Café is the place to go for cheap and consistently fresh Greek and Lebanese food. Think high-quality Mediterranean fast food. It claims to have pioneered the chicken shwarma, its most popular menu item, in Baton Rouge. With seven locations across Baton Rouge, including some drive-thru locations, Serop’s is your best bet for quick Mediterranean food.

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INSATIABLE

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If you’re looking for an attempt at a cult classic gone terribly wrong, the Netflix original “Insatiable” has you covered. Debby Ryan stars in “Insatiable” as Patty, an overweight teen that loses over 70 pounds after getting punched in the face by a homeless man and having her jaw wired shut, causing her to go on a liquid diet for three months. “Insatiable” somehow finds a way to intrigue the audience while confusing and aggravating them all at the same time. The show is an acquired taste, and the only way to know if it’s yours is to give it the chance to shock you the way it did so many others.

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‘Gringo’ full of twists, perfect for casual viewing

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ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK

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“Orange Is the New Black” follows the lives of prison inmates at an all-women’s correctional facility. The season picks up right where season five left off, with characters being moved to a maximum security facility after starting a riot. “Orange Is the New Black” has a pattern in which every other season’s sole purpose is to set up a juicy plot for its successor, and season six was a perfect example of this. Being in a new prison means new characters, so while the backbone of this season was the investigation surrounding last season’s riot, the real plot was just introducing new characters who will probably have major roles in season seven.

Claire Bermudez @claireebermudez

ALEX STRANGELOVE

Netflix If you’re looking for the hardest cringe of your life, then this movie is it. “Alex Strangelove” depicts the life of clearly gay Alex Truelove who needs the help of Elliot, a graduated openly gay man, to figure out he’s gay. The acting was too bad and the plot was too unrealistic for one sitting. I ended up watching it with a gay friend of mine who solidified my uneasy feelings toward the representation of what it’s like to actually be gay. He told me coming out isn’t as easy as they portrayed it and that they almost glorified the hard and scary experience of coming out. They made coming out look easy. And though it should be, it usually isn’t.

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BY ASHLEI GOSHA @yungjemisin “Gringo” took me and its main character on a trip, though it was more unforgettable for him than me. From the first moment, we had a character to hate, and Richard Rusk (Joel Edgerton) did not disappoint. He’s a generous scoundrel, though that’s me also being generous.

There were two concurrent storylines that met, but not in a way that really justified both existing. While the story mainly follows Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo) during his reverse “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” downward spiral, we also see Sunny (Amanda Seyfried) suffer through an unsatisfactory trip to Mexico while her minor scoundrel of a boyfriend obtains pills for a cartel.

I love Amanda Seyfried — I really do. She lights up my screen when I’m not expecting to see her, but the fact of the matter is all that Sunny and Butthead B-plot added to “Gringo” is about 20 minutes of extra runtime. Her brief interactions with Harold were sweet, but the movie could have ended the exact same way without them.

It’s a happy ending, which

Harold has absolutely earned when she looks at me through by the end of his two-hour the screen while I’m mindmisadventure. The whole ing my own business. This time he just gets one bit of was absolutely no exception, bad news after the other- and never mind how ruthlessly I mean the whole time. At efficient she is during the minute five, we already know film. It’s still a tired trope he’s the reason the old “easy though, and a great actress come, easy go” adage exists. can’t change that.

More easy go, though. He’s “Gringo” had an atmotrying, but nothing he does sphere. It was a dark comis good enough for anyone. edy, and there was certainly At the heart of nearly all a bit more dark than comof Harold’s misedy.

You’d fortune is his best think the friend Richard, current culI can’t say I didn’t enoy tural hardwho he trusts absolutely. This is the ride. It was full of wild on for neon twists...(but) it’s not a wouldn’t be the good ole “U.S. of A,” so I think too prevamust watch. you know how narlent in some ratives centered random Amaround people who azon film, treat that trust. and you’d This still being that same be absolutely incorrect. I’m “U.S. of A,” corporations not tired of it yet, but by the and the people who run them time I am, we’ll have enough must be “oh-so-sexy,” and screengrabs with cyberpunk the big bosses always get noir vibes to build an entirewhat they want. Business ly new film from it. people are exactly as terriOverall, I can’t say I didn’t ble as we think they are, and enjoy the ride. It was full of it barely matters. wild twists, and it got me to Did I mention the big exclaim things incredulousboss’ sidekick is a femme fa- ly as I watched alone, which tale who uses sex to swindle we all know is worse than her way into what she wants? saying nothing at all. It’s not Charlize Theron plays a must-watch, but if you’re the part well, and pretty hanging out with some folks aggressively to boot. I’ve and need something to get the seen her play evil too many conversation going, this is a times not to be intimidated good option.

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sidewalks to screaming car crashes. In the King Krule is a 23-year-old, red-headed, and violent in his language as he pushes fourth line he shouts, “Skunk and onion misanthropic singer-songwriter, guitarist, boundaries in what is usually a clean-cut RATING: 9/10 gravy, as my brain’s potato mash,” displaying producer, and poet hailing from London. His indie scene. his quirky, unusual wit. newest album, “The OOZ,” shows us that “The OOZ” packs an attitude that is “Cadet Limbo” is a heart-dropping numsometimes, life hurts. more sophisticated than Marshall’s previous Host of More than Noise, Wednesday Nights 9-11p.m.

(Punk) DJ Woodstock King Krule is the primary creative outlet work. His sound is mature and developed. ber in which Marshall sings about a woman, of the mysterious Archy Marshall, who has The songs are more polished and technically mesmerizing beauty to the New York based alternative mance, Wide Awake! is no excep-comparing show her more maturity in the songalso released music under his real name, as impressive. The guitar sounds are cleaner deepness of outer space. He repeats, “Has outfit Parquet Courts have continu- tion to that trend, pushing for more writing department. “Almost Had well as Zoo Kid. Marshall has a particularly and less messy, but his temper has stayed it been this long since I’ve had this bond?” ously proven themselves to be one accessible tracks, while respecting to Start A Fight” is a classic Courts strong and distinctive working-class English the same.

What these songs have in common is a of the more long-time fans. has maintained track, showing offHis a constantly shiftaccent and uses British slang thatunique breaksand consistent In his career, King Krule deep-seated intensity. songs sprout from bands of the past decade, fusing Kicking off the album is “Total ing song structure.

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Feminists in Action to host drag show

BY MICHELLE GAUCHET @michelleg_0115

JUNKIE FOOD Cupcake Junkie offers variety of original flavors, celebrates one-year anniversary

BY AMAYA LYNCH @maya09172 Cupcake Junkie offers a sweet escape to the Baton Rouge community by providing sweet treats made in-house every day.

Owner and baker Robyn Selders has single-handedly run Cupcake Junkie for an entire year as of Aug. 25, and will be visiting the campus on Nov. 2 for an event at the Honors College.

Previously a teacher, Selders found her passion for baking and decided to pursue it in the Baton Rouge area by opening her very own bakery on Coursey Boulevard.

“We are a full service bakery,” Selders said. “I make wedding cakes, birthday cakes, sheet cakes, cookies, cupcakes and mini cupcakes. I have some signature items I make. Junkie Jar is one with cake and lots of different filling in the jar. It might be cake, it might be a chocolate ganache with maybe some fresh cut strawberries and some vanilla buttercream. It’s like a layered jar desert. Kind of like a trifle in a jar.”

While Selders runs a full service bakery, she is mostly

known for her out-of-the-box cupcake flavors, junkie jar and junkie juice. A few cupcake flavors offered at the bakery include the Lemon Meringue Pie cupcake, the Gateway cupcake, a Strawberry cupcake and another by the name of Denial, which consists of a classic chocolate cake with a vanilla buttercream frosting.

“My signature flavor is called Gateway, and that is vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream and vanilla bean sugar,” Selders said.

“You have to taste it. It is the

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most popular cupcake we have and people do get upset when we run out. I think the true test of a bakery is making a vanilla cupcake taste like something outstanding.”

Other cupcakes include the Butter Pecan cupcake with butter pecan cake and a caramel drizzle, the King Cake cupcake topped with Mardi Gras tri-color sanding sugar and the Nutty Drunk cupcake with AlmondAmaretto cake. There’s a little celebration in all the cupcakes offered at Cupcake Junkie.

Splash Nightclub’s drag show nights aren’t the only options near the University to see fabulous and fun performances from local queens. In fact, you only need to go as far as the LSU Student Union.

Feminists in Action at LSU will host a drag show in the LSU Student Union’s Royal Cotillion Ballroom on Sept. 7 at 9 p.m.

“DRAG Me Out of This Political Climate” intends to provide its audience with an escape from the current state of politics in the U.S. The event will be the first drag show put on by FIA. Hosted by drag queens Carina Von Tuna and Scarlett Diore, the show will feature performances by five local Baton Rouge queens, including Justin Betweener, Laveau Contraire and Reia Mars.

English junior Nick Beason, who performs as Scarlett Diore, approached FIA president Carson Richman and mass communication senior Jack Stallard, who performs as Carina Von Tuna, with the idea to do a drag show as a satirical escape from today’s politics. The show will open with Carina Von Tuna performing as former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and the performers will touch on political issues throughout

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LITERATURE

Yellow Shoe Fiction series gives platform for unorthodox works

BY ASHLEI GOSHA @yungjemisin John Kennedy Toole’s Pulitzer prize-winning novel “A Confederacy of Dunces” was published in 1980 by LSU Press, and with the Aug. 15 release of Inman Majors’ “Penelope Lemon: Game On!” the press’s Yellow Shoe Fiction series continues the tradition of publishing books deemed too “idiosyncratic” for New York presses.

The series is currently presided over by editor Michael Griffith, who reads through around 100 manuscripts a year in search of the lucky two the press will publish. He worked at the Southern Review while attending graduate school at the University, and was invited to edit the then-new Yellow Shoe Fiction series after moving to Cincinnati.

“From the beginning, my idea and the press’ idea about the series was that we would go after things that fell through the cracks in New York, things that we thought were delightful in one way or another but that New York had deemed not blockbustery enough for them,” Griffith said.

There is no theme or unifying thread to the works published in the series besides all being works of fiction.

“I don’t want us to have a house style,” Griffith said. “I’m looking for excellence of whatever variety I can find,“ Griffith said.

Majors and “Visitations” author Lee Upton emphasized how collaborative the series and LSU Press are in their treatment of authors and the books they bring with them.

“It takes a lot of people to create a book, to edit, design, to bring it into the world, to publicize it,” Upton said. “So Michael Griffith and all the people working there at LSU who are part of the series — all of us who are readers and writers owe them a great debt.”

“Penelope Lemon: Game On!” is Majors’ fifth book, and his second to be published by a university press. He laid out a few of the differences between his past experiences, and the most recent with LSU Press.

“At a New York press, you get paid more,” Majors said. “You know they’re there for profit and it’s maybe a little easier to get national publicity, but they also have a lot more titles to turn out, a lot more authors to deal with.

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Friday, December 2, 2016 CUPCAKE, from page 14 All of the cupcakes include elements made from scratch. The Lemon Meringue Pie cupcake offers a homemade graham cracker crust and lemon curd filling, and Gateway includes some of the best aspects of a vanilla cupcake.

“All of our cakes here at Cupcake Junkie, our cookies, our cupcakes down to the junkie juice is made from scratch,”

Selders said. “Our cake, our icing, our lemon curd, our caramel drizzle is all made from scratch. We don’t cut corners at Cupcake Junkie.”

To celebrate its first birthday, Cupcake Junkie held a Cupcake Junkie Carnival on Aug. 25 where they offered face paint, live screen T-shirt printing, gourmet cotton candy from a mobile cotton candy stand and giveaways, all free to the public. That day, Selders also revealed brand new cupcake flavors: Cakie Chip and Southern Hospitality.

“Cakie Chip is a combination of a cupcake and a cookie,” Selders said. “The bottom of the cupcake is an actual chocolate chip cookie made from my homemade chocolate chip cookie dough, and I baked chocolate

chips into the cake layer above that. I’m calling the other one Southern Hospitality, and basically it’s a peach cobbler cupcake... it’s everything you would put inside a peach cobbler, except it’s a cupcake.”

The carnival was a way to say thank you to the Baton Rouge community for being so welcoming, Selders said. She wanted to thank all of her supporters and “cupcake junkies” for allowing her to successfully run her business and do what she loves for the past year.

Selders said that while she does love running her business the way she does, she is still looking for people to join her team. Selders needs people who fit the image of Cupcake Junkie because this is not “just your everyday bakery.”

page 19 FICTION, from page 14 At LSU, you get that personal touch. You send an email to somebody in marketing or somebody in design and we hear back the same day.”

Upton had nothing but praise for the series and the people who work on it.

“I very much admired the work that had already been published by Yellow Shoe,” Upton said. “The terrific books, the production values that they bring to them. I’m so impressed with Michael Griffith, who is the editor.

He’s a brilliant and daring fiction writer, so a chance to work with him was just such such a wonderful opportunity.”

Majors said his new release is a better book for having gone through Griffith and LSU Press, and Upton said Griffith is an editor who is devoted to the task.

“There was hardly a page of the entire book that the book

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Cupcakes, among other treats, sit on display at the one year anniversary of Cupcake Junkie on Coursey Blvd. on Aug. 25.

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the show.

Stallard and Beason said they wanted to make sure to include different types of drag performers, not just the skinny, white, cis male drag queens that Stallard says are usually showcased in shows like this one.

“People should expect to see subversive drag performance that’s meant to make the audience kind of uncomfortable,” Stallard said. “But also, we’re going to be a bunch of people presenting genders opposite our own to the 10th degree, so it’ll also be just plain funny.”

FIA organizes events like this drag show to promote feminist awareness and activism to the University and local community. They invite people of all backgrounds to get involved and learn more about issues related to women and gender. If a student wants to get involved

manuscript that he didn’t have some idea — particularly about ways to tighten sentences and clarify elements in the manuscript,” Upton said. “I couldn’t have asked for an editor who is more discerning and so inspiring as an editor because he himself is a foremost fiction writer. “ Upton and Majors said they believe LSU Press gives a great service to the literary community with the series, which is made possible by the people who work there.

“I hope the LSU people know how special they are in the publishing industry, which is often so hurried and so cutthroat,” Majors said. “The people that I’ve worked with in the past have been nice, but no one had made quite the effort to make me feel at home and to solicit my opinion on things. They wanted me to like it. They wanted me to have a good time along the way.” with FIA, they can attend its Wednesday meetings at 4:30 p.m. in the LSU Women’s Center.

The FIA event is not the first drag show to be held on the University’s campus. Last spring, the Louisiana Queer Conference put on its first drag show as a “Queer After Party” to the conference itself. Carina Von Tuna hosted the show, and Scarlett Diore performed along with other drag queens, including Chanell La’Sha, Sasha Vanguard and London Manchester, who are also University students.

The LAQC is an annual event held by on-campus organizations Spectrum, Queer Students of Color (Qroma) and the LSU Office of Multicultural Affairs.

The conference started in 2011 to provide leadership development, networking opportunities and social support to LGBTQ college students and their allies in Louisiana.

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Scarlett Diore (top left, bottom) and London Manchester (top right) perform at LAQC’s Queer After Party on LSU’s campus on April 14.

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Sorority recruitment a form of hazing ACCORDING TO ASHLON ASHLON LUSK @ashlonrose Sorority recruitment is a form of emotional and physical hazing.

When people think of hazing at the University, they immediately think about the tragic death of former Phi Delta Theta pledge Maxwell Gruver following a drinking game pledges were forced to participate in called “Bible study.”

Not to take away from this incident, but alcohol is not the only form of hazing. Asking girls to walk up and down sorority row, wear dresses in the heat and be judged by every girl you speak with is a form of mental hazing.

The definition of hazing states, “any activity which subjects another student to potential physical, mental or psychological harm for the purpose of initiation or admission into, affiliation with, continued membership in, or acceptance by existing members.”

Recruitment is a six-day event in which sororities choose new members, but it often causes mental harm. The girls have to speak to active members in each sorority and be judged on a single interaction to decide whether or not they make it to the next round.

Recruitment consists of four rounds. On the first round, each girl visits all 12 sorority houses. During the second round, girls see a maximum of nine houses; third round six houses’, and the last round three houses. Walking in the heat to all of these houses is exhausting, especially in heels. The Panhellenic community does make accommodations for the event like tents, snacks and ice water during the rounds, but it doesn’t take away from them standing outside in the heat almost all day.

The morning before each round,

girls are told they may or may not get a call telling them they can’t come back. The call signifies they have been cut from every single house. Each round, girls are trying to prove themselves to current members so they will feel accepted. They tell the girls that they’re going to find their “home” at the end of the week. If they make it to the end of the week, they’ve made small talk with roughly 30 girls who’ve deemed them worthy or unworthy of a spot in their glorified club.

Some may make the argument that recruitment forces people out of their comfort zone, but what about girls with mental illness? Girls who have social anxiety or depression may not feel comfortable talking to girls all day for six days straight.

Sororities are exclusive. This is a fact. Recruitment allows the sororities to judge each girl on how they look and how they act before actually getting to know the girls for who they are.

The sororities can be exclusive based on a girls race, body type and personality type. Undergraduate students at the university are 78.7 percent white and in sororities it is 90.4 percent white. This type of exclusivity allows this exclusion of minorities to happen.

This also allows sororities to keep girls out who can’t afford it. Excluding sorority dues, during recruitment each round has a dress code. Girls have to buy at least three dresses and a nice skirt or shorts for the week.

This could potentially dissuade girls from signing up because they can’t afford it.

As a sorority girl who went through recruitment, I can see the pros and cons of it. But, at the end of the day, it’s a form of hazing. While all these new hazing laws are being passed, maybe the sororities are being overlooked.

Ashlon Lusk is a 19-year-old mass communication freshman from Houston, Texas.

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Sorority recruitment character-building ALLOW ME TO DIEFERTIATE BRITANY DIEFENDERFER @back_in_a_dief “Sororities are cults,” “you pay for your friends,” “sororities force you to conform into something you’re not.”

These are common ideals believed by non-Greek members who do not understand the benefits and actual effects of Greek life, specifically sorority life at the University.

Recruitment is commonly stereotyped by the outfits sorority members are forced to wear, the chants the women sing and the long hours they spend talking to potential new members and judging them. From a pessimistic standpoint, all of this information is objectively true. However, each of those categories teach life skills to women that are priceless.

The process of recruitment instills confidence in women on both sides of the process. The women who are members of a Panhellenic sorority realize they possess amazing qualities that younger women look up to and want to copy. Potential new members gain a different aspect of this same confidence. They are appreciated during recruitment for their past accomplishments, and feel wanted throughout the recruitment week when being invited back to houses. It forces women on both sides to step out of their comfort zone and truly be themselves.

The conversation during recruitment is hard, especially during the first round known as “ice water.” Sorority women will talk to approximately 50 people during this first round in a span of two days. PNMs will talk to around 20 to 30 women. Ice water, in particular, forces women to gain skills in small talk, reading people, making quick connections and relating to people of different backgrounds and cultures.

The overarching skill that sorority life and recruitment gives is networking. The skills gained during recruitment are life-changing. If you don’t feel comfortable putting yourself out there and making connections, then

you don’t need to be in a sorority. The underlying principle is that being in a sorority is a choice, if one disagrees with the benefits gained from it, then you can choose not to be in it.

Matching outfits and chanting is a popular topic for jokes and judgement.

I relate to this personally because the chapter I am a part of is often made fun of in a viral meme depicting our recruitment chant as the “gates of hell.”

However, these aspects of recruitment do not enforce conformity. Yet, they allow members to express themselves in a specified category. I have never been forced to wear something I did not want to wear. I, as well as other Greek women, were allowed to shop freely to allow our beautiful figures to be accentuated. This is not a form of conformity, but teaching women skills for the future. If we consider enforced dress code “hazing” or “conforming,” would businesses not be enforcing the same negative principles when forcing their employees to follow a dress code?

Being in a sorority is a privilegebids should not be given to just anyone.

This is not unfair, it is a principle of life. In the Greek Life Report of 201617 at the University, sorority women were reported to maintain a higher GPA than women not participating in Greek Life. The GPA of sorority women was an averaged 3.21, while the women not in Greek Life are averaged at 3.04. Retention rates for women at LSU are higher when participating in Greek Life.

The qualities that Panhellenic women possess allow them to be competitive. Service, philanthropy, academic commitment and sisterhood are just a few of the aspects sorority life offers. Just like honor societies, sororities should be allowed to have standards upon offering membership.

Membership is a privilege one receives when going through the process of recruitment. Recruitment is a difficult process, but the end result and the benefits received from it makes it worth it.

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

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Racial double standard exposed among celebrities with drug issues I SAID WHAT I SAID MAYA STEVENSON @colormemaya Public figures and celebrities have a long history of falling prey to drug abuse and mental health issues. In the profession they work in, they are subject to different kinds of abuse, among other struggles. It can take a toll on these people who aren’t allowed to be human, and they don’t always cope in a healthy way.

Celebrities like Amy Winehouse, Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears come to mind.

While I cast no judgement on them for their situation, media has a unique way of responding to white celebrities specifically. Black celebrities, such as superstars Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey and even the great athlete Serena Williams, have been subject to harsher judgement from critics on social media and in news. It is a double standard and conditions the public to respond to black celebrities’ mental health and drug use struggles in a negative way.

In July, former Disney star and singer Demi Lovato suffered from a drug overdose from which she is now recover-

ing. Lovato has suffered from a long history of mental health issues, including an eating disorder and depression. She has also struggled with drug addiction and use of heavy drugs like cocaine since her tears.

Social media rallied in support of the star with hashtags such as #StayStrongDemi and #HowDem i H asHelped Me. There were hundreds of posts of support and encouragement.

If Lovato checked social media, she would have seen an abundance of love and support for her, all of which she deserved.

In 2016, due to a large amount of hate she received because of a past relationship, biracial singer Kehlani attempted suicide.

Her attempt was met with laughter, wishes she would have succeeded, among other horrible things. Blogs reported the singer as “attention-seeking,” and accused her of “faking it.” Social media comments accused her of being crazy and needing help. Her attempt to end her life was somehow humorous. Neither Lovato nor Kehlani succeeded in their suicide attempt, thankfully.

So why was the Kehlani’s nearloss of her life funny? She was also suffering from depression.

Why was her situation amusing? She deserved to be taken seriously, too.

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Singer Whitney Houston suffered from a situation quite like Lovato’s. Houston, an amazing performer and singer, struggled with drug addiction for years. This, unfortunately, led to her death. However, Houston has been the victim of various slurs about her drug use. She was called a “crackhead” regularly and was rarely regaled with support.

The public treated Houston horribly, often contributing to her pain. From tabloids to blogs, Houston’s struggle wasn’t taken seriously. Even after her death, many didn’t respect her, even other celebrities. Rapper Kanye West purchased a photo-

graph of Whitney’s drug-riddled bathroom from 2006, and used it for one of his artists’ album covers. Not only was this incredibly disrespectful to her and her family, but minimized her suffering. Even worse, the public thought it was acceptable.

Former professional basketball player Lamar Odom is another example. As famous as he is, when the famous athlete almost died in 2015 due to his drug addiction, he was the subject of memes and ridicule on various social media sites. It was a joke even with his life continuously in question.

The public holds black celebrities who suffer from men-

tal health and drug use issues to different standards than their white counterparts. Black celebrities are torn apart and ridiculed for what the public accepts as human error for white stars. Black celebrities are deemed crackheads, druggies, attention-seekers and “asking for it.”

They’re belittled and treated as if they’re not suffering from these same issues. Their struggle is taken less seriously and somehow lighthearted.

However, when a white star falls victim to such issues, they garner sympathy and wellwishes. They get hashtags, open letters of encouragement and favorable coverage from the media. They’re not called crackheads, they’re labeled more understanding terms.

All those struggling with mental health and drug issues should be treated with understanding, not just white celebrities. It is unfair for black celebrities to be continuously disparaged on different media platforms when they, too, are human. Their struggles are worthy of sympathy, support and kindness.

Maya Stevenson is a 19-yearold English and economics sophomore from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Louisiana government officials shirk fiscal responsibility THE MODERATE’S PROPOSAL PATRICK GAGEN @PattyGagen Comedian and “Real Time” host Bill Maher once said he wished for a recession because it would get rid of his Republican adversary, President Donald Trump. Naturally, reasonable individuals, myself included, were appalled at those comments for suggesting that the welfare of the American people be collateral in the growing political rift between Democrats and Republicans in Washington, D.C. While politics should, in principle, never be put above the well-being of citizens, ideological polarization has encouraged politicians to increasingly view politics as a zero-sum game. Nationally, both Democrats and Republicans unabashedly sabotage the opposing party to the detriment and progress of the country.

However, this hyper-partisanship is even more pronounced in state governments.

Recently, Republicans on the Louisiana Department of the Treasury’s State Bond Commission stooped to a new extreme of self-sabotage having disavowed their fiscal conservatism to spite Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat. By voting 7 to 6 to prohibit Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America Corp., two of the nation’s largest private banks, from underwriting a $600 million bond for road infrastructure, Republicans have abdicated their duty to taxpayers.

Under the guise of conservatism, Republicans on the State Bond Commission exacted political retribution on the Democratic governor to the extent of which they unjustifiably obstructed the free market and jeopardized a lower bond interest rate. As a result, the interest taxpayers will be coerced to pay on the bond will almost certainly be higher.

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By casting votes in favor of the prohibition, State Treasurer John Schroder and his co coconspirators on the State Bond Commission betrayed Louisiana taxpayers through their fiscal irresponsibility.

Without the two top-ranked underwriters of long-term municipal debt participating, the more reasonable individuals on the State Bond Commission issued their concerns. Louisiana Sen. Jay Luneau, D-Alexandria argued that the exclusion of the two biggest underwriters of long-term municipal debt might mean Louisiana doesn’t get the best rate.

His concern isn’t without merit. “It is disappointing that the taxpayers of Louisiana will be deprived from competitive bidding for necessary public works because the process has been politicized,” Citigroup spokesperson Scott Helfman said. A true free market allows unfettered competition to set the lowest price and determine the best outcome

for the parties involved. In this case, Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America Corp. lowered the interest rate; however, restricting their entry into the bond market means less competition and therefore a less favorable interest rate. Free market capitalism was once a cornerstone for Republicans, but now it’s the Democrats who champion fiscal conservatism.

Meanwhile, Schroder, chair of the State Bond Commission, justified the unconscionable affront to capitalist values by citing the banks’ policy of not lending to gun manufacturers that sell military style rifles for civilian use. “I personally believe the policies of these banks are an infringement on the rights of Louisiana citizens [to bear arms],” Schroder said. I must remind Schroder that a private bank can lend money to whomever it pleases; moreover, for a Republican in government to bar a private bank from entrance into a free market is a

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disconcertingly anti-capitalist offense.

An explanation may be that Schroder is taking too many cues from the former treasurer and current U.S. Sen. John N. Kennedy, whose vanity trips to Russia seem to have inspired recent free market restriction. Or, more likely, Treasurer Schroder and the other incompetents on the State Bond Commission are willing to burden taxpayers with the political cross intended to crucify. Edwards before the upcoming gubernatorial race.

In posturing themselves as Second Amendment stalwarts, they’ve abandoned fiscal responsibility—prioritizing political ambitions above the welfare of Louisianans. Edwards isn’t to blame for free market restrictions. In Louisiana, Republicans have claim to that.

Patrick Gagen is a 21-yearold mass communication and finance senior from Suwanee, Georgia.

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Drag Queen Story Time beneficial, teaches gender diversity SMITT’S TEA JAMES SMITH @itssmitt A group of protesters gathered August 25 on Johnston St., near University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s campus. They were protesting the Drag Queen Story Time event scheduled for October 6. A small group of counter-protesters accumulated across the street.

Drag Queen Story Time is currently one of the most divisive issues in Lafayette. It separates the new generation from the old, the left from the right, the tolerant from the intolerant. This is a broad generalization, but you see my point.

Lafayette Mayor-President Joel Robideaux issued a statement on Aug. 21, calling for the event to be cancelled. “Our parish libraries are public spaces, with venues that any group or individual can reserve, on a non-discriminatory basis, as required by law,” Robideaux said. “We have to be certain, however, that our internally approved programming is both appropriate and serves the needs of Lafayette Parish.”

“Our children deserve library programming that is educational, reflective of our traditional American, Christian-principled

values, and very importantly, age appropriate,” U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins said in his statement regarding the event. “The intrusion of the LGBQT Drag Queen realm into the Lafayette community, targeting our youngest children within a publicly funded venue, can only reflect the leftist agenda to deconstruct gender across America.”

Both statements are embarrassingly disgusting blemishes on Lafayette. Robideaux and Higgins, like some citizens they govern, cannot fathom the idea of a child learning the values of diversity, love and inclusion.

By exposing young children to non-traditional gender norms, these adult men who freely choose to dress as women provide a Christ-like example — love your neighbor and love yourself.

Speaking of religion, please do not throw Bible verses around in the name of moral righteousness.

Religion has no place to dictate what is allowed in a democratic public forum.

While Robideaux’s statement is simply contradictory, Higgins’ statement is shamefully reminiscent of anti-interracial dialogue.

I can’t help but wonder if those “traditional American, Christian -principled values” he refers to are racism and sexism. He provides a lovely example of dehumanization

by using language such as “intrusion of the LGBQT Drag Queen realm.”

This event can only benefit Lafayette youth. By tearing down gender norms, children are freed from traditional societal expectations based on their sex. Perhaps “little Bobby” will learn that it’s okay to express emotions, rather than bottle them up and lash out in the form of bullying. Perhaps he will go on to live a happy life as a gay adult, rather than commit suicide as a teen, as lesbian, gay and bisexual youth seriously contemplate suicide at three times the rate of heterosexual youth. Perhaps “little Bobby” will forget about the reading by the time he falls asleep.

Aside from talks of gender, this event simply exposes children to a larger world. Would you not want your child to be worldlier, more cultured and more empowered?

“With drag, you can be anything,” said Dr. Catherine Jacquet, an associate professor of history and women’s and gender studies at the University. “This sets an incredibly positive example for children. They too can be anything. They can create anything.

They do not have to be confined or constricted by any limits. So I would say that in the same way that exposing children to the arts and creativity is beneficial for them, so too is exposing them to

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Drag queen London Manchester performs at LAQC’s Queer After Party in the French House on LSU’s campus on Saturday, April 14, 2018. drag queens.”

It’s astounding that all of this can be accomplished by playing dress-up, a rather innocent form of entertainment. That’s a hell of a way to serve, Mr. Robideaux.

Why should I have any opinion on this matter? I’m mostly heterosexual, and I don’t claim to be a drag queen by any stretch of the imagination. Although, I do enjoy wearing chokers and black nail polish from time to time.

In 2001, 25-year-old Lewis Davidson murdered Willie Houston, a 38-year-old heterosexual man, because he believed Houston was gay. Houston was holding his wife’s purse and walking with a male friend after a mid-

night dinner cruise in Nashville, Tennessee.

“Antigay violence and transphobia can affect anyone. Gay rights are for everyone,” Dr. Pippa Holloway writes in her “Manifesto for a Queer South Politics.”

Dr. Michael Bibler, associate professor of English and affiliate of WGS at the University, put it best: “Maybe it sounds cliché, but I think the best way to address hate and intolerance is with love. And I think that’s what the event is about anyway: opening up a world of possibilities with joy and welcoming.”

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

Black students should break barriers, attend PWIs DEAR SOCIETY JASMINE EDMONSON @jasminetwt1 The University is welcoming its largest, most diverse freshman class this year, according to the LSU Division of Strategic Communications. The diversity population is now 30 percent among incoming freshman, with 11.2 percent of the student body identifying as black students.

Only 63.5 percent of Louisiana’s population identifies as white, although 75 percent of the University’s student body is white.

The enrollment increase proves minorities have the capability to attend a flagship university and potentially succeed at challenging higher education in-

stitutions. Black students should attend predominantly white institutions to change college enrollment statistics and break the stigma placed on black intellect in Louisiana.

Once an influx of black students enroll in PWIs, the school’s atmosphere diversifies in festivities, organizations and politics. This creates a feeling of inclusiveness within minorities and enhances student involvement in campus life.

“One of LSU’s goals is to ‘strengthen the intellectual environment by broadening the cultural diversity of the LSU community,’” LSU President F. King Alexander said in the statement.

Retention of minorities is one of the toughest challenges universities face. Students often leave because they feel underrepresented,

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or they find it difficult to balance their academic, social and work life.

“It’s important for us to not only bring high-quality, diverse classes each year, but to also see them complete their college degree. Once a student enrolls at LSU, we will provide every service and resource available to see them walk across the stage and earn their degree,” Alexander said.

A major contributing factor in the change in minority retention rates is the absence of racial prejudice toward students of color in academia. Another method to keep a large percentage of minorities at these schools is by allowing them to sit on student councils and amplify their voices on issues targeted toward their community.

If numerous black students become part of highly-concen-

trated white colleges at once, a diverse environment with different mindsets quickly develops. The PWI label placed on high-priced colleges in Louisiana begins to peel.

The University now requires all unmarried freshmen under 21 years old to live on campus if they don’t stay with a guardian within a 50-mile radius. The new policy is beneficial for the majority of first-year minorities because scholastic sources are easily accessible and will help them succeed academically.

Further, the retention rates for black students increase because they can lean on undergraduate advisers to help them overcome difficult courses during the semester.

It’s necessary for black

students to consider flagship schools because of the abundance of financial aid they might receive.

Grants and scholarships catered to minorities make the tuition affordable and help them accrue less debt.

The plethora of aid minorities can receive to pay for expensive colleges should encourage more black high school students to make PWIs their choice universities.

Even though it may be more comfortable for some minorities to apply to colleges with people who mainly share their ethnicity, it’s time for more black students to step away from their comfort zone and contribute to the value of education at flagship schools.

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

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Shortsighted laws dangerous to free speech, personal freedoms OH, NOT AGAIN! KYLE RICHOUX @Kylerichoux Early in 2018, a woman named Marie Laguerre was harassed by a passerby on her way home from work. Security footage captured a man making crude comments to Laguerre near a cafe in Paris and subsequently hitting her.

The French government refused to let the incident go unpunished.

Immediately following Laguerre’s public harassment, the French government agreed on a law to prohibit and penalize sexual harassment in public.

Offenders are given immediate fines between $105 and $876.

We should applaud France for the attention given to their citizens and their willingness to whip up laws to protect the common man. We should also look at the event through a critical eye.

An immediate and passionate response, while good for morale, is not always the best course of action.

The law’s fatal flaw is its vague language. French politician Marlene Schiappa describes the law as prohibiting “verbalisation harcèlement de rue,” which roughly translates to verbal harassment on the streets.

We all know harassment is bad. We do not, however, all agree on a definition for harassment. What makes the difference between a harmless comment and harassment?

Sure, we all think we can tell the difference, but language is never so clear-cut. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, after all. What may seem fair and friendly to a man may seem like outright harassment to a woman.

Radical leftists have decided to solve the problem of sexual harassment by causing more problems. The infamous social justice warriors love to take matters into their own hands, but continue to lack the competence to accomplish their unclear “goals.”

For reference, we can look to the case of Rudy Pantoja, Jr., whom internet dwellers will recognize as “Hugh Mungus.”

Pantoja used the infamous dad joke during a conversation with Black Lives Matter activist Zarna Joshi.

Joshi took great offense to the harmless joke. She recorded Pantoja innocently repeating the joke while she flailed around yelling like a belligerent child. In the video, Joshi claimed the man harassed her, even to the point of claiming rape.

Of course, no one of authority or basic reasoning skills took Joshi seriously. Joshi soon

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French Parliament recently passed a law to prohibit and penalize sexual harassment in public. deservedly became a laughing stock on the internet thanks to online entertainers and commentators.

Now, Joshi could easily turn around and accuse such commentators of raping her. Just as before, no one would take her seriously because we have free speech.

According to our values of freedom, we cannot be penalized for words said. Short of yelling “fire” in a movie theater

and uttering a credible threat to someone’s well-being, anything goes.

The further we go to prohibit speech, the further our freedoms are sullied. France’s eagerness to protect her citizens is admirable. However, laws like the one France will see in September have the potential to undermine the freedoms both our nations have fought for time and time again.

Hate and oppression are

constant evils. Likewise, there is always another way to make the world a better place for everyone, and limiting our free speech is not the way to do it. France and the U.S. both hold freedom in the highest regard, and we must all take as much care to protect and nourish it as we would our citizens.

Kyle Richoux is a 20-year-old sociology junior from LaPlace, Louisiana.

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