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Greek Life changes since Maxwell Gruver’s death

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SU President F. King Alexander’s decision to ban alcohol for all on-campus Greek Life events is the latest ruling to come out of the hazing death of Maxwell Gruver more than a month ago.

According to an LSUPD investigation, Gruver reported to the Phi Delta Theta house late Sept. 13 to participate in “Bible Study,” a drinking game conducted by the older members of the fraternity. Gruver and other pledges were forced to drink a 190 proof liquor, but Gruver was forced to drink more than double the other pledges. Gruver was laid on a couch by fraternity members who noticed he was heavily intoxicated.

At 11 a.m. the next morning, fraternity members noticed he had a weak pulse and transported him to Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

Alexander held a press conference later that afternoon where he announced all Greek Life activities at the University would be suspended. He confirmed alcohol was a primary factor in the death, and condemned hazing.

“As we have continually warned over and over again, hazing is dangerous, irresponsible and unacceptable,” Alexander said. “It will not be tolerated at LSU.” Shortly before the press conference, the national Phi Delta Theta organization suspended the University chapter’s operations and launched their own investigation. On Sept. 18, they officially removed the charter for the chapter, removing them from campus.

On Sept. 21, LSU Director of Greek Life Angela Guillory announced in a letter that some Greek Life activities would resume Sept. 24. The reinstated activities included chapter judicial meetings, risk management workshops and homecoming-related activities.

The letter said tailgating would resume the following weekend with a new set of guidelines for all student organizations. The new procedures require all student organizations that tailgate on the Parade Ground to register on TigerLink, not provide common source alcohol, not have a tent larger than 10 by 10 feet, not have furniture and not set up before 8 a.m. on gameday. Registered events on

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SEPT. 14

Maxwell Gruver dies, Alexander suspends all Greek life activity

SEPT. 18

Phi Delta Theta removed from campus by national organization

SEPT. 21

University announces new student organization tailgating procedures, which will be enforced for the rest of the 2017 season

SEPT. 29

Alexander forms Task Force on Greek Life to examine Greek culture across campus

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Khayla Pointer making own place with Lady Tigers

BY JARRETT MAJOR @jarrett_tdr

Freshman point guard Khayla Pointer seemed destined to be a Tennessee Lady Volunteer.

Pointer grew up cheering for the Lady Vols and her aunt helped win national titles as a player and an assistant coach at Tennessee.

But when it came down to finally choosing a college to play basketball for, Pointer, an ESPN top 100 recruit, was determined to be an LSU Lady Tiger, in part because of her aunt, LSU coach Nikki Fargas.

“She definitely played a major role in my decision to go to LSU,” Pointer said. “I went through my recruitment process just like any other kid, however. When I was younger, it was [like] I was definitely

going to play for my aunt. It was something I battled with, going back and forth as I got older.”

For Pointer, playing on her aunt’s team had been a dream since she was kid.

Many LSU women’s basketball players attribute the family atmosphere around the women’s basketball program as a reason to come to LSU. “We are a family here,” Pointer said. “[The returning players] welcomed us here.

They made us feel welcome as soon as we came here. All of us freshmen are learning, but they made sure it was not a hard adjustment for us.”

For Pointer however, it was about playing with her family-her aunt.

“I have been playing for my

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LSU freshman guard Khayla Pointer answers questions on Oct. 24 at the basketball media day in the PMAC.

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MAJOR DEBUT

Screen Arts 120 Hour Curriculum

College of Humanities and Social Sciences to offer new BA in Screen Arts

Screen Arts Core...........................................................28 hours Foreign Language..........................................................14 hours Approved Electives........................................................27 hours

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General Education..........................................................39 hours Screen Arts Concentration.............................................12 hours

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he annual fall graduation and commencement ceremonies will have an unorthodox companion. On Oct. 13, the University Board of Supervisors approved the request to offer a Bachelor of Arts in Screen Arts starting in fall 2018.

This degree will replace the Film and Media Arts concen-

tration and move it into its own separate degree program, said Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences Stacia Haynie.

“We are very happy that the new Screen Arts BA is moving forward,” interim Film and Media Arts director Paolo Chirumbolo said. “It is an exciting

program that gives our students the opportunity to study visual cultures from a number of perspectives, and prepare for work in the film industry. We are sure that this new program will attract more students to LSU in the coming years.”

The College of HSS will offer the degree as an interdisciplin-

ary degree, employing classes taught by many departments, including Film and Media Arts, Film and Television, Digital Art, Communication Studies, Education, English, French and Foreign Languages, History, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Mass Communication, Management, Marketing, Music, Social

Work, and Theatre, according to the request sent to the Board of Regents. Offering the degree as a Bachelor of Arts opens pathways for students to pursue multiple tracks, including study of film theory and criticism, film production, screenwriting and

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BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY

WBR Museum to host exhibit commemorating WWI

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The West Baton Rouge Museum will open a two-part exhibit on Nov. 4 from the National Archives titled “Over Here & Over There: Americans At Home and Abroad In World War I.” “The first part of the exhibit consists of photographs from the Archives’ collections,” said curator of collections Elizabeth Brantley. “We’re going to try to give it a more local flavor by adding things from our collections and things people have loaned us.”

The exhibit is part of a month of programming commemorating the end of the war on Nov. 11, 1918. In addition to the exhibit, the museum is hosting a book club. The National Archives portion of the exhibit is all photographs and mostly focuses on the photography aspect, Brantley said. Local

additions to the exhibit include things like military uniforms, both American and German, letters sent home by soldiers, souvenirs and some German artifacts from the museum’s permanent collection, Brantley said. One such item is a knapsack brought in by a local woman, filled with hundreds of postcards from art museums, textiles gathered from all over, and guidebooks.

“One lady brought in her father’s knapsack that he carried with him. He went to France and was from Pointe Coupee Parish,” Brantley said.

“It’s interesting to see this young guy from Pointe Coupee going over to France and to see the things that he purchased.”

The exhibit is designed to capture and display the patriotic fervor inspired by the war. The items that were

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BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY

Baton Rouge Zoo seeks new location after attendance decline

BY ARI ROSS Manship School News Service The male black rhino generally keeps to himself. He’s an introvert. His troubles began when hunters reduced his population in the 20th century, enough to earn black rhinos the “Critically Endangered” label from the Worldwide Wildlife Foundation. You wouldn’t expect to see a black rhino in southern Louisiana. In 2009, the BREC Baton Rouge Zoo celebrated the birth of one of these rare creatures.

“She is the only black rhino born in North America that year and one of only three born in zoos worldwide,” BREC officials wrote about Zuri.

Geographic limitations or nearly extinct populations make creatures like Zuri an unusual sight. Nonetheless, zoo attendance is declining. In 2016, attendance reached its lowest point in 12 years. BREC attributes this decline in part to the zoo’s location. The zoo and its inhabitants reside in Baker, a drive of roughly 13 miles from LSU or 11 miles from downtown. That distance is one of the reasons BREC announced it would begin the process of relocating the zoo to South Baton Rouge.

“We are seeking a location that will lead to a more sustainable and successful future

for the zoo,” Baton Rouge Zoo Director Phil Frost said.

The ideal location for a zoo in Baton Rouge would be somewhere closer to I-10 and I-12, thus closer to its current visitors, according to a feasibility study done

by Philadelphia-based consulting firm Schultz and Williams. Such a location would bring more visitors to the zoo and make it more accessible to its current visitors.

Schulz and Williams also conducted a survey of 25 business and community leaders throughout Baton Rouge. Of those surveyed, 54 percent said the zoo should move to a new location. Likewise, 50 percent considered raising the $110 million needed for such a relocation an achievable goal.

While possible, relocation would be an expensive and timeconsuming task for BREC. One proposed alternative is to keep the zoo where it is and renovate the existing site. Projections show it would cost the same $110 million whether the zoo is relocated or renovated. Frost thinks moving the zoo would be better.

“A new location would take five years to build, where the current location would take 15 years to renovate,” Frost said.

Currently, the zoo averages 250,000 visitors per year, said Public Relations Director Robyn Lott. Projections from the

Schultz and Williams study show a new location would bring in about 675,000 annual visitors. A renowvated zoo in Baker would bring in roughly 375,000.

“The numbers make sense,” Frost said.

Despite these reassurances, members of the Baton Rouge community continue to protest the zoo’s relocation. Some say the zoo serves as an economic nucleus for North Baton Rouge, driving tourism in an area that has historically been neglected.

Activist and journalist Gary Chambers is on the front lines of those defending the current zoo from those who seek to move it. According to Chambers, the current zoo is being neglected.

“The Baton Rouge Zoo shouldn’t move because it has not had proper investment by BREC in its current location to help it to grow,” Chambers wrote.

In 2016, a string of deaths involving giraffes, monkeys and a tiger prompted the zoo to seek three separate audits, one by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Animal deaths caused public criticism of the zoo’s conditions, but none of the audits revealed wrongdoing by the staff. Following these deaths, zoo officials were not quick to replace the animals. That hesitation led to a lessened zoo experience and increasingly lower attendance,

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The Baton Rouge Zoo is home to many animals on Oct. 23 on Thomas Road.

Chambers argued.

Lott disagreed and said the zoo’s low attendance in 2016 was due largely to the civil unrest Baton Rouge faced in the summer as well as August’s historic flooding.

While relocation may fix the attendance problem for the zoo, it could also cause behavioral side effects to the animals themselves, according to veterinary behaviorist Liz Stelow. Each animal would adapt to relocation differently. Most would likely experience a mix of anxiety and curiosity during and after the transition.

“The benefit in this case is that the animal care staff will remain a constant,” Stelow said.

Moving would not cause any detriment to the animals, according to Frost.

“Wild animals in zoos are transported on a regular basis from facility to facility,” Frost said.

For a black rhino like Zuri, transportation would be unusual after living entirely in one habitat. The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo said it recently acquired a black rhino from Tampa. While he was cautious at first, he adapted quickly, zoo officials said.

While relocation for the Baton Rouge zoo is practicable, Frost said it will not be possible if BREC fails to find or purchase an agreeable plot of land.

BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY

Rape aggression class teaches women self-defense skills

BY CARA RUSSELL Manship School News Service Assuming a newly learned defensive stance, 24 women shout “No!” at an imaginary assailant on an early Saturday morning.

The confidence in the room is palpable. The two dozen women in attendance are taking a beginners Rape Aggression Defense Systems class at Louisiana State University.

R.A.D. is an international program offering self-defense courses for people of all ages and skill levels. Over the next few days, these R.A.D. students will learn how to avoid physical confrontation with an aggressor. They will also learn basic self-defense tactics so they can defend themselves and escape if attacked.

According to the Department of Justice, college age women are most at risk of being sexually assaulted. The most recent National Crime Victimization survey, conducted in 2014, found women aged 18 to 24 are about three times more likely to experience sexual assault.

Jhacova Williams, an LSU economics graduate student and doctoral candidate, is attending R.A.D. for the first time. Williams

has been interested in attending a class for years. Now that she is in her final year at LSU, she decided it was time. Williams is not in the most high risk age bracket but, personal safety is never far from her mind on campus.

“It’s just scary to be on a college campus, and just to be a women in general, that I just felt like these were things that I needed to know just for my everyday life,” Williams said.

Williams enjoys an active lifestyle but does not always feel safe exercising on campus, even in a group setting.

“I run a lot, especially at the lakes. And even if you run in a group, you may not all run at the same pace, so a lot of times you’re either ahead or behind them,” Williams said.

Williams’ concerns are warranted. According to the Justice Department survey, two sexual assaults occur per every one robbery on a college campus.

The Student Health Center’s Wellness and Health Promotion staff and LSU Police Department host a beginners R.A.D. class for women at least once a semester.

Kathy Saichuk, assistant director for Health and Wellness, coordinates the program.

Saichuk is also a veteran R.A.D.

instructor, helping teach classes at LSU for 18 years. She is quick to clarify R.A.D. does not teach physically combative techniques.

“R.A.D. is a self-defense program that is built on the philosophy of defending yourself and escaping with the least amount of harm done to yourself,” Saichuk said. “It is not a martial arts class.”

The 12 hour class is broken up over three consecutive days. The first day is mostly informational.

Instructors lecture and discuss possible scenario situations with students. The first day ends with students learning a few basic defense stances.

The second day focuses solely on learning physical defense skills. Students continue to repeat and practice these skills throughout the day. Repetition encourages muscle memory, helping R.A.D. students quickly react if they are attacked.

When R.A.D. instructors go through training, they are taught how to break down defensive tactics to a teachable level. Heather Tauzin, a seven-year R.A.D. instructor and former LSUPD officer, explains repetition helps students become comfortable applying their new skills.

“After you do it for a little

while, with one day of intense practicing, you do get a lot of muscle memory that you don’t anticipate,” Tauzin said.

On the third and final day of class, R.A.D. students have an opportunity to execute their newly learned skills in a scenario simulation. The scenarios are planned and carried out in a controlled environment. However, instructors try to make the scenario feel as real as possible. Both equipped with protective gear, students try to defend themselves and escape from an instructor acting as an aggressor. Saichuk describes the final day as the most exciting day for students and instructors.

“I think that’s the most fun part for us in that we have seen the progression. Friday night they may not even know the correct stance, then on Sunday afternoon they’re kicking someone’s rear and escaping from them. That’s pretty powerful for us,” Saichuk said.

Despite high occurrence among college age females, on campus sexual assault is largely under reported. The Justice Department estimates only about 20 percent of on campus sexual assaults are reported.

The most frequent answer

victims give is they believe being sexually assaulted is their own personal matter. Saichuk encourages sexual assault survivors to report the crimes against them.

“Another issue we’ve been dealing with since the beginning of time is we need more people to report what’s happening to them,” Saichuk said.

Disabled people are also at a higher risk of being sexually assaulted. The Justice Department survey also found that people who identify as disabled are three times more likely to experience sexual assault. Despite R.A.D. being an applied physical defense class, Tauzin encourages disabled people to attend.

“Discuss with the instructors what your limitations are and they will work with you,” Tauzin said.

For Williams, taking a R.A.D class has been a positive and fun experience.

“It’s great to see so many women become empowered,” Williams said. “When we first did that first defensive stance, to see everybody just go ‘No!’ at the same time. It made me feel that if I were a perpetrator that I would be afraid.”

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page 6 GREEK LIFE, from page 1 TigerLink at chapter houses must also adhere to all applicable rules.

On Sept.

29, Alexander announced the University assembled a task force on Greek Life to examine the culture on campus with perspectives from different departments and organizations affiliated with the University. The task force includes members of Greek Life, LSU Student Government, Student Advocacy and Accountability, LSU Athletics and the LSU Foundation.

“Maxwell Gruver’s death was a tragedy not only for his family, but for the entire LSU community,” Alexander said in the statement. “The Task Force will look deeply into our Greek community, the University structures and policies that support it and the strengths and weaknesses that define it.”

On Oct. 4, a report in The Daily Reveille revealed Phi Delta Theta had been placed on interim suspension from Nov. 16, 2016 to Dec. 21, 2016, and was investigated after receiving an anonymous alleged hazing complaint.

According to the complaint, new members were required to buy chewing tobacco and cigarettes, keep them on them and give them to the older fraternity brothers. The report said pledges were allegedly required to be at the fraternity house at 6 a.m. every day and report to tailgates at 1 a.m. before home games.

The report alleged pledges were to be available to fraternity members at any time of the day, excluding times pledges were in class, were 24 hours from a test or when parents came into town.

Pledges were called to deliver food and pick up brothers from bars at 3 a.m., and they were “exhausted all of the time.”

A separate complaint was filed by a student’s parent, who said the fraternity members’ behavior was “degrading to the LSU name.”

“We saw their pledges sleeping in their own puke behind the bar while people were pouring beer and snorting cocaine,” the complainant said.

In a letter Guillory sent to Greek chapter presidents on Oct. 4, the University reinstated Greek Life activities, excluding overnight retreats and new member

POINTER, from page 1 dad all my life,” she said. “So, it is kind of like jumping from family member to family member.

I know that on the court, inside these lines, she is the coach and I am the player. Off the court, she is still my auntie.”

While Fargas may have led Pointer to LSU, Pointer has made her own place at LSU. Along with being an ESPN top 100 recruit, Pointer was on the Naismith watchlist as a high school senior.

Pointer has already gained national recognition. SEC Network women’s basketball commentator Blake DuDonis suggested Pointer could finish as the

initiation. Chapters could resume new member education upon approval of a new member education planning worksheet submitted to chapter advisers and respective Greek Life council advisers.

“We have to go chapter by chapter and make sure the safeguards are in place that hazing will not return the minute new member education returns,” said Dean of Students Mari FuentesMartin. “For some people, when you say we go back to new member education, you go back to hazing. That’s what we’re trying to control.”

New member education meetings and activities must be on campus, cannot start until 9 a.m. and must conclude by 8 p.m. each day, unless HQs require a different time frame. Initiation must also occur before Nov. 22, according to the letter.

The document stated chapter presidents, risk management social chairmen and advisers must attend a mandatory social event and risk management training presented by Greek Life. Upon completion of this training, organizations were allowed to resume having events with alcohol on Oct. 12. The new student organization tailgating policies will also remain in place for the rest of the semester.

On Oct. 11, LSUPD issued arrest warrants for 10 individuals in connection with Maxwell Gruver’s death. The 10 individuals who were booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on hazing were Matthew Naquin, Zachary Castillo, Elliott Eaton, Patrick Forde, Sean Paul Gott, Zachary Hall, Ryan Isto, Hudson Kirkpatrick, *Sean Pennison and Nicholas Taulli. Forde and Gott are not current students at the University, but Gott was enrolled at the time of the incident, according to LSU Media Relations Director Ernie Ballard.

Naquin was arrested on an additional count of negligent homicide. They were later released on bond.

Shortly after the arrest warrants were issued on Oct. 11, East Baton Rouge Coroner William “Beau” Clark confirmed Gruver’s death was accidental and the result of acute alcohol intoxication with aspiration. Clark said Gruver’s alcohol level was .495 at the time of his death.

Later that night, the national

Phi Delta Theta chapter officially terminated membership of the 10 individuals arrested, according to a press release on the chapter’s website.

Alexander’s Task Force on Greek Life held its first meeting on Oct. 16 to discuss its overall timeline, goals and formation of subcommittees to review specific aspects of Greek life and hazing at the University. The entire task force will meet Nov. 15 and make final recommendations Jan. 30, 2018.

Alexander said there is no “return to normalcy” for Greek organizations on campus, and these organizations must be “better than the way it was.”

“I’m asking you guys to make recommendations that set up new expectations for our Greek culture,” Alexander said. “At the end of the day, if we need to have an effect on the peer-to-peer attitude about [hazing], it’s our students who know about this.”

Subcommittee I will meet every Monday, and will focus on University Governance and Oversight on Greek Organizations. Subcommittee II will meet every Tuesday, and will focus on Greek Organization Internal Governance and Accountability. Subcommittee III will meet every Wednesday, and will focus on University Governance and Oversight of Other Student Organizations.

On Oct. 19, Alexander sent a letter to Greek chapter presidents announcing his decision to suspend alcohol for all on-campus Greek Life events pending the final recommendations of the task force.

Alexander said in the letter that Greek students, alumni and parents who he has spoken to do not grasp the severity and magnitude of the situation. Alexander said he believes there are many in the Greek system who “seek to maintain the status quo despite

SEC Freshman of the year.

While she has gained national media attention, Pointer has impressed her teammates at LSU, too.

“She is a definite point guard, a strong point guard,” said sophomore forward Ayana Mitchell. “She is young and she has got a lot to learn, but her go-getter attitude is contagious.”

Before most freshmen had started practice, Pointer had already started three games for the Lady Tigers after LSU went to Italy in an exhibition trip during August. Pointer was the lone true freshman to start all three games in Italy.

Pointer led LSU in assists

during the Italy stint and improved her stats in each game.

In the Lady Tigers’ closing 83-50 win against FSG Academy, Pointer broke through with 10 points, 7 assists and 4 steals.

In Italy, Pointer was second to LSU senior guard Raigyne Louis in steals. Pointer says Louis has become someone she learned from since Louis started playing for her aunt.

“She is definitely been a mentor,” Pointer said. “I have been watching her since I was a kid. I have known her for a while. I just look at different pieces of her game, she is so good at everything and I try to pick up pieces from her game.

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As we have continually warned over and over again, hazing is dangerous, irresponsible and unacceptable.

F. KING ALEXANDER

LSU President

continued warnings about the dangers inherent in such actions.”

Alexander encourages students to contact the task force with any suggestions on policy changes or improvements by email to taskforce@lsu.edu.

“I ask again that we work together in order to eradicate

this dangerous undercurrent of behavior,” Alexander said in the letter. “Commit to change for the better. If your organization is already a standard-bearer, take this time to help your peers move toward that same threshold. If you know of troubling, potentially hazardous behavior within your house, your chapter, or other student organizations, I ask that you report it now. Do it for yourselves. Do it for your friends. Do it for Max and the Gruver family.”

Natalie Anderson and Abbie Shull contributed to this report. *Editor’s Note: Sean Pennison is an employee of Tiger TV in the Office of Student Media

OCT. 4

University lifts ban on new member initiation, under the condition all chapters complete risk-management training sessions

OCT. 11

10 individuals arrested on hazing charges for the death of Maxwell Gruver, all released on bond by Oct. 12

OCT. 16

Task Force on Greek Life holds first meeting

OCT. 19

Alexander suspends alcohol for all oncampus Greek Life events until task force makes recommendations on Jan. 30 photos by WHITNEY WILLISTON, ISABELLA ALLEN, DILYN STEWART / The Daily Reveille

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Women’s groups educate, Support gender equality

BY MYIA HAMBRICK Manship School News Service TahJah Krauss has been interested in photography since she was a child.

“When I was eight, I got a 35mm camera from my grandmother for Christmas,” Krauss said. “I went everywhere with it and decided I wanted to be a photographer.”

Krauss earned her degree in Digital Art and Computer Science from LSU for Digital Art. When she graduated, she got a job as an app developer where the gap between men and women in the workplace became apparent to her. Krauss was the youngest in the room and most of the time she was the only woman.

“I felt like I could never mess up because if I did, I felt like I had to work twice as hard to get people to trust me again,” Krauss said.

The inequality Krauss experienced is often seen in the workplace. Perceptions of women and what they can do rule over the minds of corporate officials when looking for candidates in hiring positions.

A 2016 study from the American Association of University Women on the American workforce as a whole found an unexplained gap of eight percent after accounting for college major, occupation, economic sector, hours worked, GPA, age, geographical region, marital status and type of undergraduate institution.

In the 2017 report from the AAUW, it stated that when employers make a job offer to women, specifically mothers, they offer them a lower salary than men and women who are not mothers.

Furthermore, the same report states that in a 2015 study, the research showed many fathers were receiving higher wages after having a child, known as the “fatherhood bonus”.

“Many people look at a successful female entrepreneur and when they realize she has kids, most would assume she is a bad mother or wife, but with men, if he is good at his job, people assume he is also a good father,” Krauss said.

Paving the way in changing the way female potential is perceived is Baton Rouge advocacy group Power Pump Girls.

Power Pump Girls was founded with the motto “encourage, elevate, empower.” So far, co-creator Raina Vallot believes her group has done just that.

“The most important thing we do is provide a safe haven and support group for women who have questions and a desire to pursue personal growth and development,” Vallot explained.

The Power Pump Girls duo of Vallot and co-founder Sherin Dawud host events where women can collaborate and speak among one another and find common ground. Learning negotiation skills, networking and building

confidence to do anything they wish – including balancing a hobby they enjoy, a job and a family – is the aim of the groups events.

The organization’s passion for bringing women to a collaborative, non-judgmental place to explore their potential, coupled with the founders’ experience in event planning, has made for a successful space for women to grow and learn.

Dawud explained that the organization’s philosophy is that all people play a vital role in contributing to society and all people should be treated equally with no regard for race, gender or any other identifier.

“I love what they stand for, they give women the encouragement, the tools they need to succeed and they help women contribute in life and find their purpose without letting obstacles they face become an excuse not to contribute,” Krauss said.

Though Power Pump Girls has made a difference in their short time, more established and well known programs, like Planned Parenthood who fights for reproductive rights for women and provides services for women to keep themselves healthy like access to birth control, have become controversial.

LSU professor of Women’s and Gender Studies Sarah Becker said the feminist movement has intensified in recent years as a form of response to threats against it.

“As threats to legal rights and protections for women in the U.S. intensify, I think additional numbers of women are stepping up to engage and participate politically as well,” Becker said.

The Planned Parenthood Generation Action group at LSU is a student organization working to educate students on safe sex habits, options when unplanned pregnancy occurs and the possibilities for birth control options.

The group meets at the Women’s Center at LSU and speaks each Friday in the University’s Free Speech Alley urging men and women alike to become educated on sexual health, women’s issues and more.

Although it is a student organization, the Generation Action group works alongside other groups in Baton Rouge like the AAUW. The AAUW is one of the oldest organizations for women in the country.

The Louisiana chapter offers women grants, fellowships and scholarships when they apply to pursue research projects and the advancement of women in the scholastic world.

Even with advocacy groups pulling women up and providing community, there are less women in power than men. Though the rise in awareness of feminism and gender equality has taken place, there are still barriers women must face.

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Wednesday, October 25, 2017 MUSEUM, from page 3 brought home were noteworthy to Brantley.

“To me, it’s just interesting to think this kid, it was probably his first time leaving home to go to France and being at war. To think he thought to buy all these souvenirs and postcards from museums, it’s fascinating that he was interested enough in the arts and culture.”

The book featured in the

museum’s book club is World War I And America: Told by Americans Who Lived It by A. Scott Berg. The discussion will be led by Paul Paskoff, associate professor of history at the University, and retired history professor Karl Roider.

“People can read the book and come participate in that part of the program,” Brantley said.

The book club meets on Nov. 4, 11 and 18 and Dec. 2, 9 and 16.

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West Baton Rouge Museum in Port Allen provides artifacts on Oct. 18.

SCREEN ARTS, from page 3 digital, Haynie said.

“Students will be able to study with faculty from multiple departments and multiple colleges,” Haynie said.

The degree comes as an evolution and upgrade of the Film and Media Arts concentration as it grows. The concentration has grown from granting eight degrees with an FMA concentration in 2012-13 to 21 in 2016-17. The number of seats/ courses offered has also risen from 70 in spring 2013 to 175 in spring 2017.

“As these interdisciplinary programs gain students, it can become an avenue to move into a degree,” Haynie said. “Which is what happened here.”

The interdisciplinary format of the degree means that only one faculty member will be employed under the Screen Arts

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“I think it’s a great idea. It really shows that the University is taking seriously what students wanted in terms of moving into media,” said Glen Pitre, associate professor and lone Screen Arts faculty. “They’re gonna be pioneers. They’re going to be the ones to invent the new ways of being educated and it’s our job to give them that foundation.”

The degree offers a unique opportunity. The film tax credit offered by the state of Louisiana has an educational component to it, requiring companies who receive the credit to offer internships and other opportunities to students in Louisiana, Haynie said. Because of this, the University has partnered with studios in Baton Rouge, such as Celtic Studios. According to the Board of Regents request, this will allow the program to better prepare Screen Arts students to serve the expanding Louisiana film industry.

“This degree is going to be a great partnership with these film companies,” Haynie said.

The request to offer the degree goes to the Board of Regents in December, where approval is expected, Haynie said.

If approved, the degree will be entered into the course catalog and will begin to be offered next fall. The B.A. is also the first of many. Under the Screen Arts banner, other degrees could be offered.

“We see this as the first of an expanded focus as an area for students,” Haynie said.

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LSU will replace the Film and Media Arts concentration and create a separate Screen Arts major.

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Donte Jackson’s move to nickel gives him a new playmaking role

BY BRANDON ADAM @badam_TDR After a stretch of eight straight games, the Tigers have a much-needed bye week ahead of their matchup against No. 1 Alabama. LSU (6-2, 3-1 Southeastern Conference) has won three-straight conference games after a humiliating loss to Troy.

BY KENNEDI LANDRY | @landryyy14 When Donte Jackson is on the field, opposing offenses often hesitate to throw his way.

The junior defensive back is one of the fastest players in the nation, but didn’t have the chance to showcase his talents in the first half of the season. Defensive coordinator Dave Aranda had a plan to change that.

Aranda’s idea was to place Jackson in the nickel back position, so offenses can’t avoid him.

If he wasn’t breaking up passes, he can easily avoid blocks and make big tackles on the inside.

“Coach Aranda brought it to me, like ‘We’re going to move you around a lot, let you get in action because that’ll help the defense,’” Jackson said. “That’s something that Coach O was big on too, just putting me inside. With Kevin [Toliver] and Greedy [Williams] outside, you don’t really miss a step anyway, so it’s a good move.”

A breakout performance by redshirt freshman Greedy Williams, coupled with junior Kevin Toliver as the other corner,

opened the door for Jackson to easily slip into the slot corner.

“That was something that if we could get two solid guys on the outside, we could move somebody like me inside,” Jackson said. “Somebody that can beat blocks and make tackles. So having them outside is a security blanket to be able to move me inside.”

Williams and Toliver’s dominance on the outside mirrors Toliver and Jackson’s dominance last season, which allowed former LSU cornerback Tre’Davious White to move into the nickel.

Like White, Jackson is versatile enough to adapt quickly and keep up the level of play in the secondary.

“Me and coach Aranda sat down and watched a lot of film on [White],” Jackson said. “Jalen Mills played the slot really good too. Just learning and seeing what their tendencies were, I know I have a different game set from

SEC PLAYERS OF THE WEEK LSU picked up its third-straight conference win against Ole Miss last weekend.

Junior running back Derrius Guice ran for 276 yards and a touchdown on 22 carries. Culp was 4-for-4 on field goals, becoming the first player since Drew Alleman in 2011 to make four field goals in a game.

Guice was named SEC Offensive Player of the Week, and Culp was named SEC Special Teams Player of the Week.

It is the third consecutive week that LSU players have been named a SEC Player of the Week in some capacity.

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SWIMMING AND DIVING

LSU swim team manager Kayne Finley battles cancer

BY JARRETT MAJOR @jarrett_tdr Kayne Finley got the opportunity to work with the LSU swimming and diving team when he came to LSU this fall. Finley helped out the team as an assistant manager doing small things like getting water and talking with the coaches before practice. But all the while, he is battling brain cancer.

Finley is was diagnosed with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), a rare form of brain cancer that attacks the brain stem. As the DIPG progresses, Finley said via Instagram that he had to return home to Florida and will not finish his freshman year at LSU. In the post, Finley said, “It is with a heavy heart that I annouce I will be leaving my dream school of LSU and returning home to Flori-

da instead of continuing my freshman year here in Baton Rouge.”

The LSU swim team continues to embrace him as a manager and a friend while he is back home.

“He represents hard work, determination, unrelenting spirit, and positive attitude, all ideals we want to have our team members reflect,” said diving coach Doug Shaffer. “To have him around is a blessing to us.”

Finley was diagnosed with DIPG on November 23, 2016 when he was a senior in high school.

Finley went through radiation treatment during December and over the summer, along with an experimental clinical trial.

While the diagnosis could have limited Finley, he knew he wanted to go to college and he knew he wanted to help animals. This led him to LSU. Finley said he hoped to work with the School of Veteri-

nary Medicine, despite being an undergraduate.

“When I got accepted to LSU, the doctors wanted to get me to LSU,” Finley said. “It is different than what I thought. I thought I would be out more, not in a wheelchair.”

Along with studying to go to vet school, Finley had the ambition to be involved with the LSU swimming and diving team.

Swimming runs in Finley’s blood. His brother swims at Florida State and Finley swam from elementary to high school and his club team was coached by the father of Olympic gold medalist Ryan Lochte.

LSU swimming coach Dave Geyer was more than happy to make it happen.

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Jacqui Armer influenced by family’s athletic pedigree

BY JBRIAAN JOHNSON @JBriaan_Johnson Sophomore middle blocker Jacqui Armer was rooted in a family that is overflowing with athletes that participated in a variety of sports.

The Bradenton, Florida, native began playing volleyball in first grade, and from that point forward, athletics have been a primary aspect of her life.

Growing up, Armer was a very well-rounded athlete and participated in sports year-round.

“I danced for five years,” Armer said. “In high school, I actually played volleyball, basketball, weightlifting and I threw for track. Throughout high school, I was on four varsity sports.

“There wasn’t a time when I was not playing a sport,” Armer said. “If it wasn’t basketball season, it was soccer. If it wasn’t soccer, it was volleyball. There was always a season, and I was always in something.”

Armer’s family was extremely competitive with one another, needing to win anything and everything.

“It was super competitive,” Armer said. “Everything in my house, you had to win. Everybody wanted to win something.

It could be stupid stuff, but if my sister or brother was doing it, I had to beat them.”

Small competitions in Armer’s family over the years have helped build a very a competitive and intense mindset when competing for the Tigers.

Having a competitive attitude also motivated her to improve her game and grow as a player.

After playing as many sports as she did, Armer really developed a particular passion particularly for volleyball.

Basketball, weightlifting and track were all hobbies Armer did for fun. Volleyball emerged as more of a serious sport and Armer became really invested in it.

“I considered high school sports for fun, but club volleyball [was] really serious,” Armer said. “I started playing it and it became my love. Other things are fun, but nothing compares to volleyball.”

In high school, Armer led Manatee High School to its firstever state championship during her junior year. She averaged two kills and a block per set on the season, as well as earning honorable mention to the Bradenton All-Area Volleyball Team.

Armer soon realized volleyball could be her best sport to take her to college on a scholarship. Oddly, Armer began getting noticed by recruits after her older sister, Kayla, brought her around bigger clubs with her, increasing her chances of getting recruited.

“My sister went to a bigger club and the club suggested she bring [me] to tryouts to for fun,” Armer said. “They put me on a team and said I could be good if I try and commit to this. It was a matter of me following my sister and it just worked out.”

Kayla Armer is currently enrolled in Houston Baptist University.

Kayla is a graduate student and plays beach volleyball. She played indoor volleyball from 2013 to 2016 and is currently the all-time leader in assists at

Houston Baptist with 5,070. Kayla also recorded the very first triple-double in HBU history.

Jacqui and her sister influenced each other to commit to volleyball and become the best version of themselves while playing. “[Jacqui] definitely played a role in my passion actually,” Kayla said. “She started playing volleyball before I did. I was really into dance and when my studio closed, I decided to try volleyball too. I fell in love with it, and I think seeing my passion for the game made her love it more too and it was something that connected us to each other more.”

With all of the accolades Kayla has accomplished at HBU and in high school, she believes it played a huge role in motivating Jacqui to elevate her play to new levels.

“She’s super competitive,” Kayla said. “I’m sure she looked at my success and thought, ‘Let me do better’. She definitely oneupped me when she chose a college. I went Division I, and she went Division I but in a better conference.”

Kayla says Jacqui’s brashness and her way of being very outspoken about things stands out in their competitive family.

“She doesn’t hold back and will tell it like it is, and she’s fiercely competitive to go along with it,” Kayla said. “It’s quite the combo. I’m sure that helped with all her success and driven her so far. I’m really excited to see where it takes her in the next couple of years.”

Coming from a family with a rich athletic background may

weigh on someone to feel obligated to do the same and pursue sports without genuinely wanting to. In Jacqui’s case, she did not feel forced to do anything she did not want to do. Volleyball was something she fell in love with and wanted to play for herself.

“It’s something I enjoy doing,” Armer said. “I pushed my parents to let me do so much, and they thought it was crazy that I played all of these sports.

It’s definitely something I have always enjoyed doing.”

Armer’s parents both attended the University of

Michigan and played sports while they were there. Her father, Chip, played basketball and her mother, Michelle, was on the swimming and diving team at Michigan. Armer did not want to pursue her college career in the Big 12, but remain in the south and play in the Southeastern Conference.

“If I’m going to play in college, I wanted to play in the SEC,” Armer said. When I narrowed it down, LSU was the obvious pick. It’s like a home away from home and you cannot say no to that. It was a super easy decision.”

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LSU sophomore middle blocker Jacqui Armer (13) serves the ball during the Lady Tigers’ 3-1 victory over the University of Alabama on Oct. 15 in the PMAC.

FOOTBALL

Orgeron gives updates on bye week ahead of Alabama game

BY KENNEDI LANDRY @landryyy14 LSU coach Ed Orgeron addressed media on Tuesday as the team entered into a bye week following three straight Southeastern Conference wins.

“From the Ole Miss game team positives: Our guys fought very hard,” Orgeron said. “I thought our guys went in there and fought for 60 minutes. We knew we had to come out with a sense of urgency.”

FACING NO.1 ALABAMA

LSU’s biggest challenge of the season comes when they travel to No. 1 Alabama following the bye week.

“It’s a dominant football team,” Orgeron said. “You have to stop the run. You have to be physical and win the line of scrimmage.

You’ve got to battle. Last year we did, and we’re going to battle them again this year.”

The offensive line struggled on one-on-ones and pass protection during the Ole Miss game. Orgeron emphasized the awareness

of where the protection should be and double teaming if necessary.

“It’s going to be hard to drop back and pass,” Orgeron said.

“Not a lot of people can do that against Alabama.”

Orgeron spent more time so far focusing of “self scouting” and the things the team could fix themselves.

“Tomorrow we will really dig into Alabama,” Orgeron said.

“The coordinators will stay in all week working on Alabama. Physicality sticks out. They’re bigger, stronger and faster.”

INJURIES AND RESTING

Juniors offensive tackle Toby Weathersby, running back Derrius Guice, center Will Clapp and senior offensive tackle K.J. Malone were all absent at practice on Tuesday.

All have been battling injuries this season, and have been in and out of lineups.

Malone, specifically, has been “questionable” since since tweaking his knee against Florida and has not appeared in a game since.

Weathersby, Guice and Clapp all played in LSU’s win against Ole Miss.

“A lot of guys will get rest this week,” Orgeron said. “We had a nice practice today, but [Wednesday] is going to be a get after day.

It’ll be a heavy day. Some guys will be rested.”

One guy who will not be rested is junior linebacker Arden Key. After missing fall camp with a shoulder injury, Key has been in the starting lineup since the SEC opener at Mississippi State and is just now getting to peak performance.

“He’s got to go and play,” Orgeron said. “He rested for eight months. He’s just getting to where he needs to be.”

said. “The placement of the ball was in the middle of the field. We had bad technique and lost leverage on the ball. They have a good scheme and a good returner.”

SECOND ANNUAL TIGER BOWL

The second annual Tiger Bowl will take place on Thursday, where LSU’s walk-ons will face the freshmen in a scrimmage game.

“It’s huge,” Orgeron said.

“Some of the older guys will be

coaching them up. There was a lot of enthusiasm last year. They want to show out. A lot of these guys like Jacob Phillips, Tyler Taylor, Kary Vincent, the young guys that have started, they’ll be playing.”

The Tiger Bowl is an opportunity for the younger guys to get some much needed scrimmage reps. Orgeron looks for tackling, blocks toughness and competition from the younger guys.

FIXING KICKOFFS

The Tigers struggled particularly on kickoff coverage during the 40-24 win against Ole Miss.

The Rebels totaled 194 kickoff return yards, with an average of 32.2 per return.

“We have to fix our kickoff and our kickoff coverage,” Orgeron

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MLB postseason heading to exciting finish with Dodgers-Astros match-up CALL’D UP CHRIS CALDARERA Columnist The 2017 World Series is shaping up to be an exciting finale to an already thrilling Major League Baseball postseason.

This year’s installment of the Fall Classic will pit the Los Angeles Dodgers against the Houston Astros and will represent the first World Series meeting between two 100-win teams in 47 years.

Much like the 2016 World Series against the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians, the Dodgers and the Astros don’t represent the typical archetypes of perennial title winners.

The Dodgers may be the third most successful organization in the National League with regard to the amount of World Series titles won, but recently the franchise has been synonymous with underperforming in the postseason.

In fact, the Dodgers have reached the playoffs in six of the last nine seasons, but are

appearing in their first World Series since 1988.

Unlike Los Angeles, the history of Houston is mired in subpar teams and flatout disappointment. 100-loss teams were a norm for the Astros just four years ago, and the organization is seeking its first World Championship win in franchise history after appearing in the Fall Classic only one other time in 2005.

The World Champion title has also eluded the two pitchers at the center of each team’s starting staff.

Justin Verlander played in two Fall Classics with the Detroit Tigers but is still without a ring. Verlander was acquired by the Astros minutes before the trade deadline on Aug. 31 of this season and has quickly made his mark in Houston’s rotation.

The Astros’s ace most recently recorded 21 strikeouts in the American League Championship Series and held the opposing New York Yankees to one run in 16 innings of play.

Clayton Kershaw will be pitching in his first career World Series when he takes the mound for the Dodgers in game one.

Although he missed part of the regular season after suffering a back injury, Kershaw performed impressively in the National League Championship Series against the Cubs pitching a total of 11 innings in two starts.

He finished with an earned run average of 2.45 and a walks plus hits per innings pitched average of 0.82.

The remainder of each team’s pitching rotation is nothing to sneeze at either.

Los Angeles pitcher Yu Darvish and Houston pitcher Dallas Keuchel provide a stellar level of consistency behind Kershaw and Verlander, and as a staff, the Dodgers finished the regular season ranked No. 1 in team ERA while the Astros finished ranked No. 6.

If you think drawing comparisons between the starting pitchers is like splitting hairs, good luck finding an offensive advantage.

Houston led the MLB in runs scored and had the lowest strikeout rate in baseball.

Conversely, Los Angeles ranked No. 6 in on-base percentage and No. 8 in slugging percentage.

The x-factor here may

World Series Teams by the Numbers

• First World Series meeting between two 100-win teams in 47 years.

• First World Series appearance for the Dodgers since 1988, despite reaching the playoffs for the last 6 of 9 years.

• Astros looking for first World Series win in franchise history.

• Dodgers have 6 World Series titles.

• Astros pitcher: Justin Verlander • Dodgers pitcher: Clayton Kershaw be Dodgers shortstop Corey Seager who injured his back earlier in the postseason but is returning to the roster in time for game one. Seager is rejoining Dodger stars Yasiel Puig and Justin Turner in the lineup which should provide interesting parity against Astro sluggers Jose Altuve, Alex Bregman and Carlos Correa.

To continue to seek an

advantage between either team in the stat book is a fool’s errand. We’re talking about Oc tober baseball. Heck, we’re talking about the World Series.

Statistics will fall to the wayside and the game of inches will be at the mercy of the twists and turns of random chance.

But that’s what, arguably, makes baseball so great.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Will Wade preaches defensive identity for young LSU team

BY GLEN WEST @glenwest21 With the LSU basketball season looming, players and coach Wade talked about the areas the team needs to improve to make sure a 10-21 season isn’t duplicated.

Since Wade’s arrival, the first year coach has enforced a defense first mentality to his players, but the area the Tigers have excelled in has been the offensive end of the floor.

Freshman forward Brandon Rachal said every player on the team has the ability to shoot the three ball and that points should come in bunches.

“We have a lot of snipers on the team,” Rachal said. “A whole team full of snipers.

College three, NBA three it doesn’t matter.”

Wade said the team needs to focus on making the defense the main identity of this team.

Last week, an SEC prediction had LSU finishing at the 14th spot in the conference. Wade said the focus in the locker room is not on what the media thinks but what each player believes can be accomplished this season.

“I understand why we were picked 14th,” Wade said. “It’s where we came in last year, we lost our leading scorer. That would be a solid

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LSU men’s basketball coach Will Wade speaks to the media on Oct. 24 at the basketball media day in the PMAC. conclusion to come too.”

Junior forward Brandon Sampson said projections is not something the team will dwell on.

“We control our own destiny,” Sampson said.

“We won’t be thinking about where somebody else thinks

we are.”

With four new freshmen coming to the team this season one name that continues to be a talking point is four star recruit Tremont Waters.

Waters has impressed Wade with his passing ability and his hard work.

“The last week to ten days he’s really picked it up,” Wade said. “There’s a learning curve and there will be some ups and downs. He sees guys, it’s like he has five eyes. You may not think you’re open but he thinks you’re open so it will be high risk high reward.”

Waters said Wade’s coaching style is what pushed him towards signing with the Tigers after decommitting from Georgetown.

“He reminds me of my father a lot,” Waters said.

“He knows his P’s and Q’s and I liked how he studied the game.”

In addition to four new freshmen, the Tigers have added four new transfer players in an attempt to add a veteran presence. Graduate transfer Jeremy Combs transferred from North Texas and is itching to get back on the court after a ligament tear in his ankle.

Combs has been doing some non-contact basketball drills with a return projected in a few weeks.

“I have a lot of experience,” Combs said. “I’ve been focusing on treatment and I believe in the doctors and everything we have going on here.”

Wade also provided an injury update with senior forward Aaron Epps being added to the list. Epps is expected to be out a week or two with a foot injury that has lingered for a little while.

“I didn’t think it was anything serious,” Epps said.

“I almost fractured it so they just wanted me to rest it. It’s been tough but I trust coach and all the work me and my teammates have put in.”

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page 14 JACKSON, from page 9 those guys, but just knowing their brain and how they think is helpful.”

Jackson is no stranger to the position though. He played nickel for former defensive coordinator Kevin Steele’s defense during his freshman season, and acknowledges how his growth in football knowledge makes it easier in Aranda’s defense.

Jackson practiced in the nickel during fall camp because Aranda wasn’t sure if he would be inside or not. Jackson was awaiting the move and embraced it wholeheartedly when it happened.

Since the switch, he has made twice as many tackles in the last four games than he had in the first four.

“I get a chance to make a lot of plays on the ball and make a lot of tackles,” Jackson said. “Anyway you can make plays, I’m always good with it. I feel like it makes our defense a lot more dominant when you have somebody inside

who helps on the run and makes plays on passes.”

Jackson appreciates the mobility of the position, but also recalls the patience and discipline he needs to play it well.

On the outside, Jackson explained there is a lot less field to cover, and you know what needs to be done. In the nickel, it is a much larger space, and he must sit back and pay attention to the leverages and the help.

“Outside, you rely on the safety or the linebackers to make the call,” Jackson said. “But when you’re at nickel, they rely on you to make the call. It took a lot of film study and knowing what teams like to do in certain packages. I have to make a lot of calls and a lot of tackles.”

Jackson has to be on alert all game, paying attention to formations and routes of the opposing teams. Being able to see what a team is going to do before they do it, and to make adjustments based on the observations, is essential to the nickel position.

His intense level of play at the position brings a confidence to the entire defense that will translate throughout the rest of the season.

“I like to tell the DBs that it’s all on us,” Jackson said. “We give up a play, that’s what people see, but when we make a play, that’s also what people see.”

Defensive backs coach Corey Raymond always tells Jackson that he’s the best in the country, and that he wants him to play like he’s the best in the country.

He has the personality and the gameplay to influence the rest of the team to do the same.

“I’m the leader in that room,” Jackson said. “If I’m going to be the leader, I can’t be the one getting thrown at or get caught on.

I think when the guys see me playing how I’m playing, they feed off of that. Greedy, Grant [Delpit], Kevin; they see me playing, see me talking, they get hype off that so I bring that leverage. I feel like I’m the best so I’m going to play like I’m the best.”

Wednesday, October 25, 2017 UPDATE, from page 9 LSU-Alabama continues again this year. It is the seventhstraight year that the game is being played in CBS’ 7:30 p.m. slot.

The game was first aired in primetime during the 2011 matchup between No. 1 LSU and No. 2 Alabama. The game was the most watched regular season, college football game of the season, and ended with a 9-6 LSU victory.

The Tigers have failed to beat Alabama since, and have lost their last two games in Tuscaloosa by a combined 35 points.

ORGERON AND STAFF HIT RECRUITING TRAILS DURING BYE WEEK Coaches were finally able to get back to recruiting now that the bye week has come. LSU has 18 commitments and are expecting more with the Dec.

20 signing date looming.

“I spent the day in Texas, mostly Houston, but we were all over the place,” said LSU coach Ed Orgeron said. “Identifying needs, going out and seeing specific needs that we need to finish this recruiting class. We went out and saw the players we needed to see. We are going to go again Thursday, and go out again Friday.”

Orgeron said they are trying to recruit multiple linemen and cornerbacks.

“We have some spots filled already, but we need a JC offensive lineman, maybe two,” Orgeron said. “Those are the things that stand out to me, linemen, cornerbacks, and we are losing two outstanding running backs, so that is going to be key for us.”

The coaching staff is attempting to close the deal on five-star cornerback Anthony Cook who is announcing his commitment on Oct. 30.

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LSU junior running back Derrius Guice (5) makes a play during the LSU Tigers’ 2723 victory against Auburn on Oct. 14 at Tiger Stadium.

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LSU junior defensive back Donte Jackson (1) runs for the ball during Tigers’ 24-21 loss against Troy on Sept. 30 at Tiger Stadium.

KAYNE, from page 9 I thought it would be a good opportunity for him once he got on campus and got settled,” Geyer said. “So far this semester, he helps out in any way he can.”

Finley’s work as a manager on an LSU sports team and his family’s connection with the swimming world has garnered him widespread support from both the LSU sports community and the swimming world.

During LSU’s football game against Syracuse, Finley did the coin toss at the center of Tiger Stadium.

“It was a little stressful,” he said, “Going out into the stadium is not always easy especially when you are in a wheelchair.”

Finley’s support from the swimming community has come in large part due to the #CannonballsForKayne campaign, which was started by his family to raise

awareness for DIPG and gain funding to combat it. #CannonballsForKayne has sought to do that by getting swimmers and nonswimmers to do cannonballs into a pool and post it on social media.

“When I was in the hospital, my club’s assistant coach, Kristin Lochte-Keeler, asked what they can do to support me,” Finley said. “My mom said, ‘Well, they can do cannonballs.’ We started a group on Facebook, and that turned into a page and that turned into the Cannonballs for Kayne Foundation.”

The #CannonballsForKayne campaign has been done by swim teams including national universities like Penn State and Florida State and smaller schools such as West Georgia. Olympians like Lochte, Elizabeth Beisel, and Nathan Adrian have also done cannonballs.

LSU has embraced the

campaign during its season.

Before starting its meet with Pittsburgh and Virginia on October 20 and 21, the LSU swimming and diving team did cannonballs before the meet.

After the Tigers meet with Tulane and Loyola, the swimmers and diver jumped into the pool. They were followed by their coaches and swimmers and divers from Tulane and Loyola.

Finley was awarded a swimming and diving team letterman’s jacket after the meet. A letterman’s jacket is normally reserved for members of the team and while Finley is not an athlete on the team, he is a member of the team.

“I don’t think there was a dry eye in the stands,” said Shaffer.

“You saw Tulane and Loyola’s reaction to the story and they were all on board. I had not been in the pool since I competed in 1987 and I did a cannonball. It was something I wanted to be a part of.”

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LSU freshman placekicker Connor Culp (34) is raised in the air by his teammates after the LSU Tigers’ 27-23 victory against Auburn on Oct. 14 at Tiger Stadium.

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FIXER UPPER Baton Rouge maker turns throwaways into handcrafted works of art

LITERATURE

Hill Memorial exhibit explores typeface

BY MYIA HAMBRICK @MyiaHambrick

BY KAYLEE POCHE @kaylee_poche What others may see as this week’s trash, Baton Rouge artist Victoria Petersen sees as next month’s project.

Through her business Heart over Harvest, Petersen creates wooden wall fixtures, furniture, macrame hangings and jewelry and sells them at local art markets like the Mid City Makers Market and her Etsy shop, heartoverharvest.

“I do everything,” Petersen said. “I can’t make up my mind.”

PHOTOS BY ISABELLA ALLEN Though her projects vary, they all aim to breathe new life into old objects — in many cases, ones that are about to be thrown away. Whether it’s an old chair that needs a back or a stained table that needs to be refinished, Petersen sees a quick-fix where many would see a lost cause.

“I just hate people throwing things away so I end up with a lot of garbage,” Petersen said.

Originally from Connecticut, Petersen and her family

see PETERSEN, page 20

The Hill Memorial Library’s latest exhibition on letterform and type design sheds light on unknown stone carvers throughout history and modernizes the art of typeface characters.

“It’s interesting to see the ways that the stone carvers distinguished themselves before there was a standardized system for writing,” said graphic design professor Lynne Baggett.

Baggett curated the stonecarving examples from her own collection, built from her travels throughout England and the northeastern United States.

The two-tiered exhibit is an exploration of Baggett’s work as well as renowned printer and typographer Bruce Rogers, said exhibitions coordinator Leah Wood Jewett.

Rogers’ work dates back to the early 20th century, printing books from the Bible, to the plays of William Shakespeare, to Homer’s epic “The Odyssey.”

“Rogers used some of the features we see in the 17th and 18th century stone carvings in his modern printing of the

see TYPEFACE, page 20

ART

Local artist uses color-saturation to create vivacious works

BY MACKENZIE TREADWELL @mackenzieelizaa Every day, local artist Raven Jones, also known by her Instagram name @bird_burger, eagerly awaits for 5 p.m. to arrive so she can start her second job: making her color-saturated, naturally-inspired work come to life.

“There’s not one time I don’t remember not making a mark on something,” the 27-year-old said. “As long as I had a pencil in my hand or some colors, I was good.”

Originally from Shreveport, Jones was drawn to artistic expression from an early age — while she tried other performance arts, like ballet and playing instruments, art was what captivated her, she said.

Throughout her time at Caddo Parish Magnet High School, Jones participated in traditional studio art classes, but was offered the opportunity to enroll in commercial art courses her junior year, allowing her to develop her skills in graphic design.

Jones’ commercial arts instructor, the late Annette Tolbert, eventually became her mentor and helped Jones hone her craft and thrive in the field.

“She saw my potential through and through. Even at times when I did not have confidence in myself, her earnest approach to instruction, resolve and unrelenting love never ceased,” Jones said.

Under Tolbert’s guidance, Jones enjoyed and excelled in graphic design, even going so

far as to win awards in design competitions throughout the Shreveport area.

In 2010, Jones enrolled in LSU Shreveport to pursue a graphic design degree, but eventually left to further her passion in traditional art. After waitressing for about a year, Jones applied and obtained a job in graphic design for Lamar Advertising in Baton Rouge in order to pay the bills, continuing to produce art in her free time, she said.

It took her a year to break into the Baton Rouge art scene, Jones said. It began with a simple search for live model art classes around the city, until she found Chez Fab Arts and Community Project — a gallery hosted in a residence on Iroquois

see JONES, page 20

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Artist Raven “Bird Burger” Jones speaks on behalf of her artwork on Oct. 16 outside of Magpie Cafe on Laurel Street.

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Annie Clark’s fifth studio album is a soft synth-pop hybrid, revealing a more personal side to the songstress better known as St. Vincent. Instantly likeable and a step away from her indie-rock roots, “Masseduction” is a blend of sugarcoated, catchy mixes and stripped-down acoustic tracks. The release is her most revealing work yet, and ultimately her best triumph.

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SURROUND ME Léon Swedish pop artist and rising star Léon’s Oct. 6 release of her third EP “Surround Me,” a perfect display of the songstress’ commanding vocals, varied musical influences and emotionally raw lyrics.

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‘It Follows’ blends dream with reality, scares through allegory

BY BOBBY CRANE @b_crane22 Throughout the month of October, I will be reviewing a different horror movie every week. To narrow down the selection, I decided to focus solely on what I’ve deemed contemporary horror classics, films that have come out within the last 10 years that have made a significant impact on the genre, have garnered cult classic status or critical acclaim and are unlike any other horror film released within the past decade.

Historically, good horror films have often been allegories for pressing societal issues. For example, take George A. Romero’s 1968 classic “Night of the Living Dead.” Critics have taken the film as a critique on ’60s American society, including racism and America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. On the surface, it looked like a lot of blood and guts, but dig deeper and it’s easy to see there’s a method behind the madness.

Today, directors are still using horror films as vehicles to tackle relevant problems in our society. “It Follows,” David Robert Mitchell’s 2015 psychological horror masterpiece, expertly does this through a harrowing and anxiety-inducing film experience that comments on sex culture, coming-of-age and suburban life.

The film follows college student Jay (Maika Monroe), as

she encounters a shape-shifting supernatural entity that is slowly walking toward her wherever she may be throughout the film. She contracted a virus after a sexual tryst with her new boyfriend who explains that It will always be following her until it kills her or she passes it on to someone else through sex.

The creature is never explained to the audience, but we do know it can take the form of a stranger or loved one, and can only ever walk. Throughout the film, Jay sees It in the form of her father, one of her friends, an old woman in a hospital gown and anything else physically possible. You can feel Jay’s paranoia, affecting the viewing experience as we become weary of appearances and constantly scan the screen for impending danger. And what’s scarier than always having something watching you?

The entity seems like something from a nightmare, contributing to the overall dreamlike feel of the film. The pale color palette, absence of adult figures, timelessness of the setting and electro-organ score straight from a John Carpenter film all work to create an atmosphere seemingly out of a dream. We rarely see characters other than the main group of friends, and the abrupt change of setting feels unrealistic.

Given this, the film should not be as scary as it is, as we’re often able to separate dream from reality. But the film is still

terrifying because of what it represents. Many critics have taken It to be an allegory for STDs — particularly HIV/AIDS — but I think that’s almost too easy of an interpretation.

Instead, it represents our sex culture — how women are often the target of shaming, sexual violence and double standards.

Who we sleep with should not, literally or hypothetically, follow us for the rest of our lives, although it often does. This is especially true with the rise of social media and increased social comparison.

While that may be the most accessible conceit, the main metaphor tackles the anxiety of growing up and leaving our childhood behind us. From the start, there are symbols of youth and discussions of lost innocence.

Jay’s paranoia and anxiety can be viewed as representative of the normal anxiety felt when adolescence is over and we’re thrown into real life. As much as we try to run from this, like the characters in the film, reality will eventually catch up to us.

In this, the film succeeds as both a horror movie and a coming-of-age film. Jay is not the same innocent girl she was at the beginning of the film, but she’s crossed a threshold into a different part of her life: one that will never really get easier, but one that she will have to learn to deal with.

FLICKER Niall Horan

Niall Horan’s debut solo album “Flicker” is the calmest of any of his former One Direction counterparts. The album, relying heavily on slow, acoustic crooning, consists mostly of singer-songwriter ballads with the occasional upbeat pop tune.

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WHAT’S SPINNING AT @KLSURadio

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NEW MUSIC “Fisherman’s Knot”

by Dear

6/10

“Thawing Dawn”

by A. Savage

8/10

REVIEW BY DJ DRAGONFLY HOST OF PANGEA, SATURDAYS 9 - 11 A.M. (WORLD MUSIC) Dear is the side project of 18-year-old Margaret Ellis, a bedroom dream pop musician born and raised in the deep south of Baton Rouge. Her sound is characteristic of floating harmonies and layered vocals, as well as her use of outlandish and strange instruments like the omnichord, mellotron, dulcimer, thumb piano, and the stylistic choice of coming up with a different guitar tuning for every song. These elements dance together to create a sound that is dark and haunting but simultaneously light and airy.

Her newest album, “Fisherman’s Knot,” was independently recorded and released on the music streaming website Bandcamp in September 2017. She began writing in November 2016 when she started dating her current boyfriend, and “Fisherman’s Knot” was publicly announced as an album written for him.

This album is an easy listen, sun-kissed and blindingly bright, sincere in exploring love and a blossoming relationship. Ellis is inspired by nature, her relationships, and the world around her.

The fourth track, “June 1st,” is one of many highlights of the album. It’s an instrumental track that sounds professional and poised, as if it was picked from a romantic indie film.

The fifth track, “Don’t Go,” features a warm guitar tone, thumb piano, cello sound, and a heartfelt confession of love. Dear sings “I watched the sun on your shoulders” to her partner, which is one of the moments that best characterizes the sincerity and warmth of the album.

On “Naming” the sensory details of Dear’s writing shine through. She croons “in crow-caw, cloves, and cardamom, careening

out like ships.”

Dear’s greatest influence is Joanna Newsom, which is apparent on the eighth track called “Swallows.” The song is grand in its use of dynamics with pastoral and mystical qualities.

Dear explores her limits as a lo-fi artist by experimenting harmonically and instrumentally while staying true to herself and her love for the world. “Fisherman’s Knot” is wholesome and true, an honest and impressive declaration to the person she loves. This album is insightful and very beautiful, strikingly contrasting the blues and funk scene prevalent in Baton Rouge. In other words, Dear is something you have not heard before.

For fans of: Joni Mitchell, Vashi Bunyan, Fiona Apple

REVIEW BY SIBYL HOST OF THE SLUMBER PARTY, SATURDAYS 11 A.M. - 1 P.M. (DREAM POP) Parquet Courts frontman Andrew Savage has released a debut solo album entitled “Thawing Dawn” under the moniker A. Savage. He recruited members of Woods, Ultimate Painting, PC Worship, EZTV, Sunwatchers, and Psychic TV to contribute during the recording process.

Originally hailing from Denton, Texas, Savage wears his roots proudly. This record feels especially alt-country, flavored with slide and steel guitars, narrative-style lyrics reflecting on the American frontier, and an occasional organ solo. He’s even wearing his big boy boots on the album cover.

But fear not, for “Thawing Dawn” is not a country album. The second track on the record, “Eyeballs,” sounds just like something fuzzy and buzzy from Parquet Courts’ 2015 record, “Content Nausea.”

“If I showed you my eyeballs, maybe you could see I’ve been hurting inside,” Savage wails. His singing voice is passive-aggressive

and monotonous. Alert, composed, aware, and observational, his songwriting has matured.

The lyrics in “Thawing Dawn” are melancholic and cleverly understated, just like the rest of Savage’s portfolio. At first listen I skipped over the third track, wryly named “Wild, Wild, Wild Horses,” because it’s repetitive, and I get bored easily. I gave it another listen, though, this time giving more consideration to the lyrics, and A. Savage kept me on the hook. If Phosphorescent’s Matthew Houck got stoned with Bob Dylan, and they were both depressed, they’d probably create this song.

Transitions between songs on the record are also noteworthy. Lyrically, melodically, and instrumentally, A. Savage puts intention behind each track’s placement on the record.

The fifth track, “What Do I Do,” is the thematic centerpiece of the album. It’s an

8-minute epic, shifting between organized and repetitive “what ifs” and chaos from guitar feedback and a shrieking saxophone.

It would fit nicely on any of Parquet Courts’ previous albums.

“Thawing Dawn” is undoubtedly the best cut. It’s a cycling triptych, a true collage of a song moving back and forth between the keyboard chords from “Eyeballs,” a Dylanesque riff and melody line, and a whirlpool of changing time signatures and rhythmic instability.

This record stands well alone, and I particularly like that Savage used this debut album as a chance to experiment with different sounds. “Thawing Dawn” received hardly any promotion, and it’s likely to fly under the radar, but I really dig this record and recommend it highly.

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Based in Sacramento, California, Deftones is a five-member dynamic that has continued to challenge and revive the alternative metal and rock scene. Releasing eight albums since their debut album “Adrenaline” in 1995, Deftones was originally labeled as part of the “nu metal” scene, producing the heavy metal sounds popular during that time and them to curate a unique mix of metal and grunge that came to be adored around the world. I’ll be spinning my favorite Deftones tracks and giving you a chance to fall in love with a band that will continue to transcend their time.

The Conet Project is a collection of recordings of shortwave numbers stations, which are radio stations of unknown origin believed to be operated by government agencies in order to communicate with deployed spies. Listeners should expect to hear distorted loops of music interrupted by a robotic voice calling out secret messages. It’s worth noting these are real recordings of actual numbers stations and these messages have never been decoded. It should be perfect for a spooky night before Halloween.

On Sunday nights, The Electric Carnival lives in the ‘20s — the 1920s and the 2020s. For this year’s Halloween episode, Mr. Soirée will spin two hours of the creepiest electroswing, accented with bed music from some of the world’s first motion picture animations. These movies were completely based on music, merry melodies and silly symphonies, the first of which being The Skeleton Dance. It’s once a year, so don’t miss the halloween-themed Carnival when it comes around.

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Post- hiatus, LCD Soundsystem is touring in support of latest release “American Dream,” which went on to become its first No. 1 album in the U.S. Best described as dance, rock punk with electronica and alternative influences, listen to “Dance Yrself Clean” and “All My Friends” to get a feel for this eclectic group that is sure to put on an inspiring show.

Hailing from Compton, California, Lamar gained notoriety with his early mixtapes and has since released four record-breaking albums and taken home seven Grammys along the way. Attendees can expect a setlist with many songs off his new album, DAMN., sprinkled with earlier hits like “Swimming Pools (Drank).”

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Saturday, 8:30 p.m. at the Wisner Stage

Saturday, 8:30 p.m. at the Le Plur Stage After a slew of remixes, singles, EPs and two albums, Henry Steinway, better known as RL Grime, is sure to bring an exhilarating performance to the Le Plur stage. If grimy, bass-heavy trap pleases your palate more than synth-heavy electronica, RL Grime is the show to head to.

Canadian electronic duo Crystal Castles are known for inciting chaos among the crowds with their loud, vibrant performances. Their music can be best described as a cacophony of different noises that come together in an enjoyable, thrilling way — perfect for a live EDM show.

The sound of notable American rock band The Killers can best be described as alternative indie-rock with a mix of new wave and post-punk revival. With a five-album chart-topping discography, and brand new album “Wonderful Wonderful” now on stands, The Killers have proved their staying power.

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Sunday, 6:30 p.m. at the South Course Stage Now with two more albums and many collaborations under his belt since 2007 debut album “All I Want is You” put him on the map, singer Miguel is sure to provide a sultry, notable performance to fest-goers. If you’re a fan of the style of Frank Ocean and The Weeknd, Miguel will be right up your alley.

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The relocation was followed by a change in Petersen’s father’s career as her parents opened their own furniture store, Kayu Furniture Imports.

Working at her father’s shop introduced Petersen to the world of crafting. There she would refinish furniture and make necklaces out of leftover wooden scraps, she said.

As Petersen began drawing and painting at an early age, the environment coupled with her creative inclination built the framework for what officially became Heart over Harvest in June 2016.

Petersen has her own backyard studio for desk work, but most of her work is done in her garage. Scrap pieces of plywood, rack, clamps and nail guns line her workspace when she has room to cut wood and lay it out exactly how she wants it before gluing it.

“I lay everything out like a huge puzzle, a big grown-up wood puzzle,” Petersen said.

Once her work is glued, she nails and frames it. A typical piece takes her about six hours, she said.

One of Petersen’s most unique pieces is a coffee table she made out of an old upright piano from her father’s store.

After removing some pieces from the piano, built legs for it she turned it into a glass table — a task that proved time-consuming due to the sheer size and weight of the instrument.

She brought the table to display at one of the Mid City Makers Markets — without the glass — and let passing children strum the strings and have fun with it, she said.

Petersen has recently expanded her talents to home renovations after she and her husband purchased a ‘70s style Kenilworth home almost four years ago. What started as removing the popcorn texture from the ceilings turned into a full-scale renovation.

From building countertops to demolishing walls, the couple

has single-handedly remodeled their home themselves.

The open floor plan and light colors give the home a modern vibe, but Petersen’s decor ensures no other home is quite like it. Their home is filled to the brim with one-of-a-kind, hand-crafted items, from refurbished furniture to macrame hangings to a giant repurposed mirror.

With the renovations, Petersen was able to gain new woodworking skills and add interior design to her repertoire, an avenue she hopes to pursue in the future, she said.

While Petersen is unsure what lies ahead for Heart over Harvest, she’s focusing on enjoying her crafts rather than turning a profit — a philosophy that inspired the name of the business, she said.

“It’s about loving what I’m doing more than worrying about the harvest or the money I’m making,” Petersen said.

Petersen’s next show will be Nov. 4 at Local Love Fest at Whole Foods Market on the corner of Jefferson Highway and Corporate Boulevard.

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Victoria Petersen sells her artwork, such as these handmade wooden necklaces, through her website Heart Over Harvest and the Mid City Makers Market.

TYPEFACE, from page 15 Bible,” Baggett said. “That is one of the cool things about this exhibit: we can see the overlap [of stylistic choices].”

Baggett’s favorite kind of creative distinction in the stone letterings are ligatures. Ligatures are seen when the artist merges two or three letters into one letter to save space, effort, and often to distinguish their work from others, she said.

Baggett’s blog, “Ligatures to Lichen,” is a space for those interested in typography to share interesting finds and photos. She started the blog to foster a collaborative effort of finding examples of typography around the world and to supply information to those interested in learning more on the topic.

The contributions of the

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“Letterform Characters: From Stone Carver to Type Designer” is on exhibit in the main gallery of Hill Memorial Library, Oct. 23, on campus. stone carvers and significant figures like Rogers are preserved through her blog, along with posts and findings

from contributors including typographer Matthew Carter.

Carter will speak about Bruce Rogers’ Centaur Type on Nov. 15th

in the Art and Design Building with a reception in Hill Memorial Library to follow. Centaur Type is the typeface Rogers used.

Many of the manuscripts and books encased in the museum have been curated since the ’80s, Jewett said. She encourages those who are interested in anything on display to visit the reading room once the exhibit is over to gain more insight on the book that catches their eye.

The main focus of the exhibit is to show the significant contributions made by early stonemasons on letter form development, Baggett said.

From carving letters into stone to the multiple font choices on your computer, the early forms of lettering played a massive role in it.

“I hope to inspire creative audiences to further study handcrafted letterforms in the pursuit of creative imagemaking and type design,” Baggett said.

JONES, from page 15 Street. Chez Fab is a non-profit organization whose mission is to “foster pride, growth, and revitalization within the impoverished neighborhoods and communities of Baton Rouge,” according to its website.

From Chez Fab, Jones would acquire the connections needed to go on to work with The Bando, a monthly live art and gallery show at The Spanish Moon, and make friends within the local art community.

In high school, Jones’ works were often gory, dark and macabre, done with graphite and pencil, she said.

Now, her art is a colorful and animated array of animal and human portraits that emanate a whimsical, airy aesthetic, she said. She primarily works with gouache — a technique that uses opaque water-coloring

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Artist Raven “Bird Burger” Jones speaks on behalf of her artwork on Oct. 16 outside of Magpie Cafe on Laurel Street. for a deeper, more vibrant look.

This drastic change in style stems from an evolution in her inspiration and a deep enjoyment of life, she said. Jones

was first introduced to the brighter colors by Tolbert, and from there, mixed colors less and less. Since she was no longer blending her colors for a more natural look, she began

creating the color-saturated, vibrant work we see today.

To her, art is a medium for communication to express her voice, Jones said. Jones hopes to progress to a more mature

expression — nude art.

“I’ve found I’m really good at the human form as well as gestures, so I’d like to develop that part of myself a little more,” she said.

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SAINTS ARE COMING

New Orleans Saints more than a football team, gives hope to locals

POP, LOX AND DROP IT JORDAN MILLER @jmiller101696 Unless you’re living under a rock, you’ve heard about the New Orleans Saints. To some of you, they might just be that football team you hear about because they’re one of the only decent professional sports teams in the state. Some of you might have no attachment to them other than seeing occasional Saints gear being worn around campus. To the rest of us though, specifically New Orleaneans, they are more than a team that’s having a great season this year, and they are more than just those guys that play on Sundays

and sometimes win.

Whether you’re a transplant to Baton Rouge or just someone who isn’t from New Orleans, we should all be Saints supporters.

As of Oct. 22, the Saints are 4-2 for the season, which is a big shock to many of the doubters who still like to label them the ‘Aints. True fans know that we have a great team led by Sean Payton off the field and the hunky Drew Brees on the field. Sparks simply fly when the two of them are together.

You shouldn’t just be a Saints fan because we have some pretty cute players on the team. Look deeper into what the Saints have done for the city of New Orleans.

When Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, home of the Saints, and the team meant a lot to the city.

The Superdome sheltered refugees and families that didn’t evacuate prior to the storm.

When you step in the building now in 2017, there is still a feeling that washes over someone, knowing the charity that

once took place in there. In the football season following Hurricane Katrina, we acquired head coach Sean Payton as well as quarterback Drew Brees.

The timing of these new, fresh faces couldn’t have been better. As the city started to evaluate the devastation surrounding it, we had football through all the hard times. The team gave the city an outlet and a source of entertainment they could turn to when dealing with their own problems became too much. Seeing New Orleans’ team battling and winning football games gave the city the hope it desperately needed. It showed we were worth rebuilding and there was still good left in the town. Fast forward a few years to 2009, and the city was still rebuilding and many residents had chosen not to return to the ruble that they left behind.

The Saints went on to win Super Bowl XLIV that season, further solidifying that we were a city and team who wouldn’t go down quietly or easily. We would

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The New Orleans Saints beat the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 in Super Bowl XLIV. fight and come back stronger than before. Relocated residents could still have a piece of home to be proud of, no matter how far away they had been displaced. If you don’t like the Saints because we’ve faced a few scandals or had a hard time sticking with a defensive coach, root for them because they gave the city of New Orleans hope when there

really wasn’t much. Root for them because our team has some attractive players, or root for them because your whole family does. No matter the reason, everyone should hop on the New Orleans Saints bandwagon.

Jordan Miller is a 21-year-old elementary education junior from New Orleans, Louisiana.

Monogamy more beneficial in relationships than polyamory STAY THIRSTY, MY FRIENDS. JACOB MARANT0 @Jacob_Maranto According to a 2016 YouGov study, approximately one in five people admitted to cheating on a partner. The further I dug into studies and surveys about infidelity, the more shocked I became about what people do and do not consider cheating.

According to a Deseret News survey, roughly 73 percent of people consider cheating to be having a one-night stand with someone other than your partner, meaning the other 27 percent don’t consider the one-night stand to be cheating. What the actual hell is going on here?

The definition of cheating gets blurred even further between the sexes. In the aforementioned Deseret News survey, females were more likely to consider something cheating. In fact, they indicated this in every scenario posed by the survey.

For example, 70 percent of women considered maintaining a dating profile as cheating while only 55 percent of men felt this way.

Similarly, only 63 percent of men considered sending sexually explicit messages to someone else as cheating while 74 percent of

women felt the same way.

While it’s no surprise men are less likely to consider something cheating, it is shocking what people consider cheating in general.

Despite being a college student in 2017, it is still baffling to me 31 percent of people don’t consider sexting cheating and 27 percent don’t consider a one-night stand cheating.

I don’t know what alternate universe these people are living in, but it seems a significant part of our population has devolved into blatant and utter stupidity.

In recent years there has been a push to make polyamory a legitimate alternative to traditional monogamous versions of relationships. The studies above indicate, at the very least, people are more open to licentious behavior while involved with a partner. Even if people never put themselves in these situations, it is disturbing to think some people don’t consider a one-night stand with someone other their partner to be cheating.

The value of traditional relationship aspects like truth and loyalty have eroded because more emphasis has been placed on self-indulgence and selfgratification. Cheating cannot be definitively defined because the people who do cheat want to have plausible deniability

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Polyamory is a relationship between three or more people. when caught.

It’s simple: no one wants to be monogamous anymore. Being with one person exclusively is hard work and requires sacrificing personal gratification, and it can probably be boring and repetitive to be sexually involved with one person for a long period of time. These are all valid arguments, but they’re misguided ones at best.

Entering a committed monogamous relationship with someone introduces intangibles exclusive to such a relationship. Having multiple romantic entanglments might be fun, but they lack trust. There

is no way to commit to multiple partners and please everyone.

It is an impossible task that is undermining family building and child rearing all across America.

Cheating is the manifestation of the polygamous cultural surge. The more monogamy is undermined and trashed as archaic and unhappy, the more often people are going to consider cheating to gain happiness. It’s a great secular lie that having multiple partners or sleeping with numerous lovers will make you happier than being with one person. If our society continues to devalue monogamy, cheating will increase. If two people

cannot decide what counts as cheating, the more likely someone will flirt with the line or claim ignorance when caught.

Cheating affects lives, breaks trust and has no place in society. Unfortunately, the militant war on monogamy is more likely to encourage people to cheat.

And when they do, they might not even consider their actions as cheating. This isn’t going to bode well for our generation — less people will marry, and less people will have children.

Jacob Maranto is 21-year-old mass communication senior from Plaquemine, Louisiana.

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Helicopter parenting negatively affects college experience ANNARIGIONAL TAKE ANNA COLEMAN @_annacoleman_ Helicopter parenting is generally defined as parents’ over-involvement in their children’s lives. This includes things like solving all of their child’s problems for them, handling all of their child’s responsibilities and intervening in situations with their child’s friends, professors or employers. This style of parenting is detrimental to students and has no place in college life.

Almost every study done on helicopter parenting has found it has little to no benefit for students. Conversely, most studies find that it is actually detrimental to students.

A 2015 study by professors at Brigham Young University revealed high levels of helicopter parenting correlated with lower levels of self-worth and a higher risk for depression, anxiety and lower overall life satisfaction among college students.

Indiana University psychologist Chris Meno found there is a correlation between students with helicopter parents and students with difficulty finding a job after graduation. These students have never experienced real fail-

ure, while simultaneously being told by their parents that they can do anything they want in life.

When their dream job does not just drop into their lap post-graduation, many get frustrated, give up and move back in with their parents.

It is understandable why parents would want to be so involved in their children’s lives.

College is a bigger risk now than it ever has been before. The price is high and, with so many people now possessing degrees and increasing competition, so are the stakes. Graduation is key, and helicopter parenting is a sure way to make sure your child gets there.

I am all for students having a close relationship with their parents. I personally talk to my mom daily and will not hesitate to ask for her opinion or advice on any major problems I incur. However, that is where it should stop.

I am an adult, and my mom or dad should not be the one making my major life decisions, monitoring my grades, emailing my professors and handling arguments in my personal life.

Professors all have horror stories of parents calling them, emailing them and even going to class to take notes on their student’s behalf. Jonathan Gibralter, president of Wells College in upstate New York told the New York

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Post that one mother even went as far as to ask if she could complete her daughter’s internship for her. These parents are willing to do whatever it takes for their children to succeed.

Most parents just want what is best for their children, and some see shielding them from any form of failure as a way to preserve their future success and happiness. However, failure is a healthy, necessary part of life

that teaches you what to correct in the future.

The rhetoric constantly says millennials are entitled, coddled, lazy and cannot do anything for themselves, but how did they get that way? The same parents throwing out those insults oftentimes have children who fit the bill themselves. It is difficult to be anything other than lazy and entitled when someone is constantly doing everything for

you and sheltering you from every inconvenience.

As hard as it might be, parents need to relax their grip on their child’s lives. Everything is good in moderation and this is no different. A balance between support and independence is essential for a well-rounded adult.

Anna Coleman is a 19-year-old mass communication junior from Kennesaw, Georgia.

Free Speech Plaza creates hostile school environment JUST A WRYTER ETHAN GILBERTI @EthanGilberti Slander is not tolerated under freedom of speech. While hate speech is still protected under the First Amendment, blackening someone’s name is illegal. Everyone who visits the Student Union or passes by Free Speech Plaza knows of the dreaded “screachers,” those who preach about this or that at the top of their lungs to the chagrin of their listeners.

When confronted, they hide behind both the First Amendment and University’s lack of rules.

Seventy percent of Americans believe hate speech should be protected according to a National Constitution Center poll. The First Amendment was designed mainly for unpopular, inflammatory opinions, but there is a line between inflammatory and contemptuous.

The latter attacks someone on a personal level, and the former incites a change. When screachers are standing on elevated platforms in Free Speech Plaza labeling passersby as “whores,” “sinners” and “sluts,” they victimize students as well as assault their ears. At the very least, these ear-splitting preachers should be charged with disturbing the peace.

These verbal confrontations do not incite others to change; they only create animosity

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Members of the Consuming Fire Fellowship elicit a student response on Sept. 27, 2016 in Free Speech Plaza near the LSU Student Union. toward the preacher as well as the organization they claim to represent. Freedom of speech was created to foster innovative ideas, not violence and discrimination. If regulations to Free Speech Plaza were imposed, not only would innocent ears be spared, but those proclaiming their beliefs might gather further support by not sounding insane.

The University has insufficient regulation on free speech. In the Registered Student Organization

Handbook, the University places great restriction on the distribution of printed material. Organizations must first seek approval from the Office of Campus Life before distributing pamphlets and posters. The University also has full rights to regulate its content as well as the time of distribution. However, there is no word on regulation of spoken expression.

Bystanders can choose to ignore pamphlets, but they are forced to hear the screachers’ shouts.

Therefore, the heavy regulation should be on the latter not the former.

The University does claim to protect the students to a degree.

Following Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the University prohibits “discrimination on the basis of sex and sexual misconduct” to promote “integrity, civility and mutual respect.” These values lack any defense in Free Speech Plaza and see no protection by the Univer-

sity. Furthermore, any facade of protection presented only encompasses sexual misconduct.

In the Faculty Senate Resolution 16-01, the University claims it will take no role to “shield individuals from ideas and opinions they find unwelcome, disagreeable or even deeply offensive.” The resolution states the University has no interest in regulating speech even to promote “civility and respect.” While this ruling could be taken as a boon to open debate and discussion, it would only work in an ideal world.

There is no open discussion in Free Speech Plaza. Instead, it is a hostile environment in which a select few “holier than thou” screachers shout obscenities and criticisms to bystanders who just want to enjoy a nice day outside.

Freedom of speech is one of the most valuable liberties we have as a nation. As the world changes, so should the laws and protections meant to benefit its people. It is free speech that allows us to point out flaws in the old that injure in order to instate new laws that protect. However, it is when freedom of speech is used as a shield to protect hatred, prejudice and obscenity that reasonable regulation must be imposed. It is not a matter of disagreeing with certain ideologies but rather subduing a hostile environment.

Ethan Gilberti is a 19-year-old English sophomore from New Orleans, Louisiana.

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LSU needs resources for students with drug addiction IT B THAT WAY SOMETIMES BREANNA SMITH @Bthejournalist Opioid addiction in America is not new, but the epidemic of fatal opioid overdoses is unprecedented. The crisis has reached epidemic levels largely due to the indifference of lawmakers and the misinterpretation of the warning signs and symptoms of drug abuse and addiction.

In 1999, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel gave his famous speech, “The Perils of Indifference” to warn of the effects that an attitude of indifference toward wars and genocide abroad has on the global community. He also used his own experience to speak of the hopelessness that an attitude of indifference fosters in persecuted individuals.

Wiesel’s speech is nearly two decades old and focuses largely on wars and genocide, yet his warning of the effects of indifference relate closely to a war we are fighting here at home today with the opioid crisis.

The epitome of lawmakers’ indifference came in 2016. After former President Barack Obama

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Congress declared opioid addiction a national crisis in 2016. and Congress declared opioid addiction a national crisis, the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act was passed with little dissent.

The act provided major protections for large pharmaceutical companies. First, it made it nearly impossible for the government to freeze suspicious drug shipments from large pharmaceutical companies. Second, it allowed those same large companies to avoid law enforcement by submitting a “corrective plan” if it acted with misconduct.

Finally, the act made it more

difficult to suspend a pharmaceutical company’s license if it is considered an imminent danger to the public by the Drug Enforcement Administration.

The recreational use of opioids in urban America skyrocketed and reached epidemic levels in the 1960s, according to the Institute for Medicaid Innovation.

Since then, America declared a war on drugs and imposed harsh mandatory minimums on drug abusers and traffickers. However, the epidemic continued to spread because none of these

punishment-oriented measures addressed drug addiction on an individual level.

Awareness is a simple way to ease some of the battle an individual with a drug addiction faces.

When friends and family members are aware of a problem, the chances of overcoming it rise astronomically. While a drug addict has to be willing to get help and want it, doing that alone is much scarier than with a support system.

Casual drug use has become pervasive in our favorite TV shows and song lyrics. It is not the onetime or occasional use of drugs that is the epidemic, but rather the formation of addiction.

Casual drug use can be found on any college campus, and drug addiction can be found on many.

Drug addiction turns a person into a hollow shell, but it isn’t always easy to recognize. Speaking up and voicing concern can often be harder than recognizing drug addiction alone.

The University and others should provide more resources to students and parents about the signs and symptoms of drug addiction and positive, effective ways to intervene. There should also be more tools available to friends and family members of

those exhibiting signs of drug addiction to intervene without escalating the problem or creating a rift.

Most people don’t recognize symptoms or side effects as drugaddiction related and even if they do, they don’t always know how to approach the issue. People don’t wake up and decide to become drug addicts, which is why recognizing when use becomes abuse and when abuse becomes addiction is so important.

The University should be at the forefront of starting a dialogue in our community on the slippery slope of opioid use and abuse. The LSU Collegiate Recovery Community is a great tool for students recovering from drug addiction.

We should use this same concept to prevent addiction by creating a space for conversations about use and abuse of opioids and other highly addictive drugs. By hearing from struggling students we can create a space where identifying and reaching out to those struggling with drug abuse feel empowered by their peers in asking for help.

Breanna Smith is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

R-word used offensively, perpetuates negative stereotypes STOP! HANNAH TIME

or “mental retardation” being widely excluded from medical diagnosis for decades, HANNAH KLEINPETER the word is still prevalent in today’s society and for all the wrong @0728hannah reasons.

According to the Center for In October 2010, former Disease Control and Prevention, president Barack Obama signed approximately one in six children Rosa’s Law requiring the term in the United States has a develop“mental retardation” be stricken mental or intellectual disability from federal records and re- such as cerebral palsy, autism or placed with “intellectual disabil- speech impairment. The R-word ity” or “individual with an intel- has long been used to belittle lectual disability.” The law came those with disabilities of all kinds in response to Rosa Marcellino, and, as of recent years, has been who has down syndrome, being la- employed by the general public as beled “retarded” on official school an all-encompassing word for any documents. When Rosa’s family negative person or situation. fought back, the state of MaryWhile 89 percent of Americans land, and eventually the federal agree that calling someone with government, changed their policy autism or Down syndrome the Ron the use of the word. word is offensive, 38 percent of The law was a momentous people say calling their friends stride for those advocating omit- the R-word is inoffensive, accordtance of the word from American ing to a poll conducted by Special diction. Proponents of this move- Olympics International and Shrivment argued the R-word is both er Media. Despite most people incorrect and offensive to those agreeing the R-word should not with intellectual disabilities who be used to identify or mock those should not be degraded by such a with intellectual disabilities, derogatory slang term. De- many people fail to understand spite the term “retarded” using the word to insult someone

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in any situation perpetuates the same negative stereotypes.

The R-word is widely considered a slur because of its ability to single out and label a minority in a derogatory and direct manner, and it should be treated as such. Although the word did not carry insult as a clinical term, it carries vastly different meaning in a society that has assigned the word to be derogatory and degrading. Using the R-word to insult someone only equates and further encourages the idea that those with intellectual disabilities are ignorant or stupid like the person you are trying to insult.

This, though untrue, only makes those with intellectual disabilities feel more alienated or “other” in a world that has historically been less than accepting.

“Because the word has become a casual description of anything negative or flawed, ‘retarded’ is no longer considered an appropriate way to describe people with intellectual disabilities,” said Sara Mitton, board member at Treasure Valley Down Syndrome Association. “And any use of the word, even when used as slang

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and not intended to be offensive is hurtful because it will always be associated with people who have disabilities.”

Use of the R-word in any context, whether intentionally or unintentionally hurtful, wrongfully equates intellectual disability with stupidity. Words

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are a critical factor in molding and shaping public perceptions. Words are our greatest tool and should be used to spread acceptance and understanding, not hate.

Hannah Kleinpeter is a 20-yearold mass communication junior from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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Manship School welcomes James Carville this spring

BY MANSHIP SCHOOL manship.lsu.edu Legendary political consultant James Carville will teach in the Manship School beginning this spring.

Carville, an LSU and LSU Law Center graduate, was an adviser to President Bill Clinton as well campaign consultant and media personality.

Carville taught at Tulane University in New Orleans for nine years.

At Manship, Carville will teach “Contemporary American Culture & Politics” in the Political Communication concentration this spring.

The “Ragin’ Cajun” invoked his LSU roots in explaining his return to the university.

“The mother ship has called

my pirogue home,” he said.

Manship Dean Jerry Ceppos said “James epitomizes the mission of the Manship School.

That mission is to teach and conduct research at the intersection of media and public affairs. James is a living example of that intersection.”

Carville, who was born in Carville, La., has a long association with the Manship School.

He was the Manship School commencement speaker in 2015, when he made a strong plea for more state support for LSU. He is also a member of the Manship School’s Hall of Fame.

If you miss registering for his class this spring, his fall class is for seniors who want to deeply examine one significant issue, such as the erosion of the Louisiana coastline.

Carville brings his talent and expertise to the Manship School starting spring 2018.

New 3+3 program puts students on the fast track to law school

BY MANSHIP SCHOOL manship.lsu.edu In Fall 2017, the Manship School of Mass Communication and the Paul M. Herbert Law School debuted its 3+3 Pre-Law Program for undergraduate students.

How does 3+3 work? In six years – you could earn two degrees, a bachelor’s in Mass Communication and an LSU Law degree.

Students follow an accelerated, set undergraduate curriculum for three years. Students can still choose a concentration of Digital Advertising, Journalism, Public Relations or Political Communication. When students reach their junior year, those who meet entrance

requirements may submit applications for admission to the LSU Law Center. If accepted, students would be eligible to begin study at the LSU Law Center during their fourth year at LSU, during which completed coursework will count toward the final year of the undergraduate degree as well as the first year of the law degree.

The fourth year double counts to finish off the undergraduate degree and finish the first year of law school!

The communication skills you will develop at Manship - skills you’ll put into practice from your very first class at the LSU Law Center - will lay a strong foundation for future legal writing and research.

Best of all, the 3+3 Pre-Law Program can get you there faster and better prepared while also saving time and money.

Junior Emiley Dillon from Shreveport, La., is excited about the possibility of becoming the Manship School’s first 3+3 student. Her concentration is Pre-Law Public Relations with a minor in business.

“I always believed that mass communication was a perfect undergraduate area of study to prepare me for law school. I am so glad that now it is providing me with the opportunity to have my dreams fast-tracked!”

If you are interested in starting your 3+3 Pre-Law path, contact the Manship School at masscomm@lsu.edu.

The 3+3 Law Program brings your graduation date closer as you earn both a mass communication degree and a law degree in just 6 years.

Game on: New Gen Ed class for sports fans

BY MANSHIP SCHOOL manship.lsu.edu There is no better place than Louisiana to explore sports and no better place than the Manship School to explore mass communication. Sports events are mostly experienced only through the mass media.

MC 2002 is designed to explore how sports work within journalism, public relations, advertising and political communication. Through scholarly research, industry leaders’ guest lectures and current news events, we’ll tackle how sports and mass media unify/divide people locally, nationally and internationally in terms of eco-

nomics, politics, culture, race, gender and language. We’ll also detail the history of sports and mass media and where their relationship will head in the future.

Dr. Steve Bien-Aime (pictured) will teach the class.

Prior to receiving his doctorate from the College of Communications at Penn State and coming to the Manship School, Bien-Aimé served in a variety of functions at FOXSports.com in Los Angeles, departing as deputy NFL editor.

The new class is a social science general education class to be offered for the first time this spring – but seats are limited!

Register now!