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INVETSTIGATION LSU Vet School under investigation for allegedly purchasing animals in violation of the Animal Welfare Act

BY BAILEY CHAUVIN @BaileyChauvin

The LSU School of Veterinary Medicine is under fire for allegedly violating the federal Animal Welfare Act. In a complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in February, PETA said the school unlawfully purchased live dogs from a Baton Rouge shelter that is not a USDA-licensed breeder or exhibitor.

As of March 21, the USDA currently has an open investigation into the LSU vet school for potential violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act. The USDA enforces the Animal Welfare Act, which includes laws that dictate the treatment of research animals.

PETA accused the vet school of purchasing at least 70 live dogs from Companion Animal Alliance (CAA) in 2018. The complaint also said the vet school failed to maintain acquisition and disposition records for the 70 dogs, another violation of the Animal Welfare Act. In a statement issued by Commu-

nications Manager Ginger Guttner, the vet school said it uses euthanized animals from animal shelters for teaching purposes but does not violate the Animal Welfare Act in doing so.

“The LSU School of Veterinary Medicine obtains euthanized animals from animal shelters; the cadavers are used to train veterinary students, whose life work is dedicated to serving and saving animals,” Guttner said in a statement. “In some cases, live animals are brought to the veterinary school for euthanasia. In all of these cases, the animals were already scheduled for euthanasia.”

Guttner said the vet school has not been notified of investigations by either the USDA or East Baton Rouge DA as of March 20, and denies PETA’s allegations.

LSU Media Relations Director Ernie Ballard said the process used by the LSU Vet School to obtain animals is reviewed annually by the University’s institutional Animal

Care and Use Committee. The University is routinely found to be compliant during regular, unannounced inspections by animal care experts, Ballard said.

“Obtaining animals from animal shelters for use in teaching does not violate the Federal Animal Welfare Act,” Ballard said.

PETA began to investigate the vet school’s animal acquisition methods after receiving a complaint from former CAA Executive Director Desiree Bender. Shortly after Bender began working at CAA in May, she said she was asked to sign an invoice to transfer live dogs to the vet school for a lethal anatomy class.

Bender refused to sign the invoice, which led to disputes involving vet school professors who used the euthanized animals for lethal anatomy courses. After attempting to bar the transfer of dogs to the vet school in August, she received a call from Veterinary Clinical Sciences as-

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“Conservatives need to fix their public image before this moral bankruptcy becomes permanent.”

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LSU Vet School accused of violating Animal Welfare Act VET SCHOOL, from page 1 sistant professor Wendy Wolfson, who also serves on CAA’s board of directors.

Bender said Wolfson attempted to convince her to continue to meet the vet school’s needs, but Bender refused.

“I don’t run a shelter for the LSU vet school,” Bender said. “I learned what’s involved in this, and it’s not a process done with integrity and compassion. It’s not part of our mission, and it can’t be done.”

Bender did as much as she could to stop the practice of transferring animals to the vet school, but she said many decisions were made without her knowledge.

Much of the email correspondence that scheduled the transferring of animals took place between Comparative Biomedical Sciences Research staff member Allison Vestal-Laborde and CAA Director of Shelter Operations Amanda Pumilia.

Vestal-Laborde sent an email request for “at least 15 cat bodies from which we would need the heads from” in October.

Bender responded and said CAA would not be able to meet that demand, and she was terminated shortly after. Bender then filed a complaint with PETA after her termination.

To corroborate Bender’s claims, PETA requested “acquisition records for animals obtained from shelters and correspondence between LSU and CAA.” LSU sent 226 pages of responsive material to meet this request.

The records included email correspondence between VestalLaborde and Pumilia that confirm LSU purchased live and dead animals from CAA for lethal anatomy courses in 2018.

Despite this correspondence, PETA said they did not receive acquisition or disposition records for the 70 live dogs that were purchased from CAA, which the University is required by law to maintain. However, Guttner said the vet school kept records of the dogs.

“We do keep records on everything and we provided records to PETA, so I’m not entirely sure what the basis of that charge is,” Guttner said. “We definitely have records and provided PETA with documents because of their request.”

In January, PETA requested these records and identified the 70 dogs by their identification numbers provided by Bender. However, the University said it did not have the records.

PETA’s complaint said the University’s purchase of the 70 dogs from a non-licensed shelter and the failure to keep the necessary records for the dogs gives rise to at least 140 violations. PETA’s Laboratory Investigations Department research associate Jeremy Beckham, who filed the complaint, said LSU’s lack of records suggests a desire to avoid a paper trail of the purchases.

“It’s my suspicion that Louisiana State University and Companion Animal Alliance thought no one would ever know about this practice,” Beckham said. “The reality is if this whistleblower hadn’t contacted us, no one would know. The fact that LSU didn’t keep acquisition or disposition records for these animals is highly unusual.”

In PETA’s complaint, Beckham said he learned from Bender that cadavers were purchased from CAA for $20 each, and live dogs were purchased for $40 each.

Beckham said purchasing live dogs from commercial sources can cost up to $700-$800 per dog.

According to CAA, the live dogs the University purchased were on a euthanasia list prior to the University requesting a certain number of dogs for a specific date. However, the complaint suggested CAA would sometimes place dogs on the euthanasia list solely to meet the demands. Bender said to her knowledge, CAA met all the vet school’s demands, whether the shelter was at capacity.

Guttner said the dogs that were transferred to the vet school were already on a euthanasia list, but maintained that the decision to euthanize, for whatever reason, fell on CAA. “In all cases, the shelter determines which animals will be euthanized and why,” Guttner said. “That totally falls on them.”

The complaint said the email correspondence also suggested the vet school planned on euthanizing the newly purchased dogs from CAA immediately upon arrival for use in lethal anatomy courses and possibly other experimental purposes.

If this information can be substantiated, the vet school would also be in violation of an Animal Welfare Act clause that requires research facilities that acquire animals from a non-USDA licensed source to hold the animals for at least five days.

PETA also filed a companion complaint with the East Baton Rouge District Attorney’s Office in February. This complaint alleged the University committed criminal violations of Louisiana’s Public Records Law by failing to provide at least one email that fell under the scope of the records request. PETA received these emails from Bender.

One of the emails the University failed to provide PETA was the email in which Bender responded to Vestal-Laborde’s request for 15 cats. In the email, Bender said CAA didn’t “have the cats for this type of request.” Because the University provided other emails sent to Vestal-Laborde’s email account and not this one, Beckham believes the University intentionally did not provide the email.

“My working theory is LSU didn’t want to provide that, understanding that we could reach out and contact that person to get more information,” Beckham said. “They wanted to provide only part of the

picture that shows a willing, cooperative shelter partner when that’s not the whole story.”

The DA complaint also alleged faculty members at the University possibly worked to conceal evidence of their illegal activity. All email correspondence between CAA employees and Vestal-Laborde was sent to Vestal-Laborde’s personal email instead of her official LSU email address.

“LSU is a public university and a public agency,” Beckhma said.

“When you see public agencies switch to using a private email, it’s often to evade recordkeeping and transparency requirements. If you put all these pieces together, it’s a little troubling.”

PETA also asked that the DA investigate CAA listing some of the animals purchased by the vet school for its lethal anatomy courses as “adopted.” Beckham said the shelter’s false representation was deeply wrong and may have inaccurately provided a false appearance of the shelter to the public.

In February, Beckham sent a letter to CAA Board Chair Christel Slaughter after hearing CAA stated it would no longer transfer live animals to the University. Beckham commended them on ending the practice, but urged them to implement policies prohibiting timing euthanasia to meet the University’s demands. As of March 21, Beckham had not received a response.

Slaughter said CAA never sold live dogs to the vet school. Instead, they transferred live animals to the vet school and were reimbursed for expenses.

The CAA Board of Directors unanimously voted on Oct. 11, days before Bender’s termination, to stop transferring live animals to the vet school. Slaughter said CAA was contacted by the USDA on Oct. 29, who informed the shelter they needed a Class B license, the same license they would need to sell live animals to the vet school.

After CAA lead veterinarian Sarah Hicks responded to the USDA seeking further clarification, the USDA sent a letter in November stating that because CAA transfers animals to other rescue groups that adopt those animals out for a fee, the shelter should apply for the Class B license.

CAA submitted its application for the license in December. PETA received a leaked copy of its application in February and began drafting a letter to the USDA urging them to deny the application. PETA discussed this with news reporters on Feb. 28, and about a week later CAA withdrew its application for the license.

According to a statement on CAA’s website, the shelter withdrew the application after being informed by “knowledgeable transport partners and other national animal welfare experts” that they did not need a Class B license because CAA is the public animal

shelter for East Baton Rouge Parish.

Beckham questioned the authenticity of the letter Slaughter said the shelter received from the USDA. He said he believes CAA submitting an application for a Class B license two months after claiming to stop transferring live animals to the vet school is an admission of guilt.

“I think it’s way too coincidental that right as we were about to go to the USDA with this, they withdrew their application,” Beckham said.

“Their statement on their website about why they supposedly withdrew their application is just more lies. There’s been this stunning inability for any accountability or recognition of wrongdoing.”

On the application, CAA listed the “estimate total number of animals to be sold in the next business year” as 85 and the “estimate gross dollar amount derived from regulated activities” as $3500, meaning each animal sold would generate roughly $41.

Beckham said he found this information, 85 animals sold at approximately $41 each, to be extremely similar to the transactions that took place between CAA and the vet school in 2018. That year, CAA sold at least 70 dogs to the vet school at $40 each.

Beckham heard from the East Baton Rouge DA in February, who asked him to re-submit the complaint to the East Baton Rouge Police Department. The DA requested that EBRPD conduct an initial investigation and refer information back to the DA office.

Beckham said he believes there’s a low likelihood that the police will investigate, so PETA has stopped pursuing action on that complaint. PETA maintains that LSU did violate open records law, however.

Beckham also heard from the USDA in February, who said they would conduct a 30-60 day investigation.

On March 20, two PETA protesters held a demonstration at the LSU Board of Supervisors meeting to protest the vet school’s purchase of live dogs from CAA as well as biological sciences assistant professor Christine Lattin’s use of live birds in experiments.

The protesters stood at the back of the meeting carrying signs with various messages, including “HELLSU for dogs and birds” and “LSU vet school: stop using shelter dogs.”

Bender said it’s critical that the University be held accountable for these alleged violations and that CAA end the practice of meeting the University’s demands.

“It’s imperative that these organizations be transparent on providing every bit of information, so they don’t lose public trust,” Bender said. “It’s not OK anymore for LSU to be so far behind.

It’s not OK to have a relationship with a shelter agency that’s so dependent on making them happy.”

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of 15 to 20 minutes to complete, be taken in a private space due to the sensitive information it collects.

“In addition to sexual violence, this survey covers campus safety issues, which I know is a hot topic on campus right now,” Davis said.

The University was plagued

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Campus-wide survey seeks to detect campus climate to educate and prevent sexual violence Student participation in the Campus Climate Survey can be essential for Louisiana and the University to gather information that may be used to increase the education and prevention of sexual violence on campus.

The University’s Title IX graduate assistant, Kimberly Da-

vis, said it’s possible the results of the survey, offered by the Title IX office and the Louisiana Board of Regents through April 22, will yield changes to the University’s sexual assault policy.

“It’s a really good chance for students to be heard not only [at LSU] but also at the state level,” Davis said. “The point is to hear from students and hear what their concerns are. We take that

very seriously.”

Davis said the questions about sexual violence may be upsetting to some of the students who take the survey, but they will be warned about triggering questions. There are resources listed on the survey that she encourages affected students to take advantage of.

It is recommended that the survey, which takes an average

BY ANNA JONES @annajoneses The University’s School of Veterinary Medicine paid faculty member Fang-Ting Liang over $400,000 in salary and benefits for nearly three years, according to a state audit. Liang was an associate professor of pathobiological sciences within the School of Veterinary Medicine but did not work for a 38-month period in which he continued receiving a paycheck.

The School of Veterinary Medicine did not take sufficient action to address the faculty member’s lack of performance, according to the state audit.

Liang’s faculty supervisor has been removed and replaced with an interim chair as a result of the incident, but Liang is currently still listed in the faculty directory and maintains an office located on campus as well as an LSU email address. LSU has initiated disciplinary action against Liang, but the process will not be completed until September 2019, according to the state audit.

“We agree with the finding that the faculty member knowingly failed to perform his duties for LSU for a significant period of time,” said Dean of the

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Vet School faculty paid own $400k without working

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LSU chemistry professor wins National Science Foundation award

BY BAILEY CHAUVIN @BaileyChauvin LSU Chemistry assistant professor Revati Kumar received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award on Feb. 22.

The award will allow her to continue her research involving the interactions between graphene oxide and various liquids, which could lead to better materials for water desalination and purification.

The NSF CAREER award is part of the Faculty Early Development Career Program, which offers grants to assistant professors on tenure tracks who show promise as researchers and educators. Award recipients receive five years of funding for their research projects.

Early-career faculty can only apply for the award three times. This was Kumar’s second proposal for the award.

She won $550,000, which will fund her research for five years.

“It’s a relief,” Kumar said.

“I’m coming up for tenure soon, so it’s a relief.”

Award applicants must write a 15-page proposal detailing their plan for research and education on a specific topic in their field. Kumar studies the interfaces between graphene oxide and liquids.

Graphene is a form of carbon made up of a single layer of interconnected carbon atoms. When graphene is combined with functional groups that contain oxygen, graphene oxide is formed.

Graphene oxide has several applications, including water desalination and purification, but requires an interface, or boundary, with liquids.

An interface is a common boundary between two substances, like graphene oxide and water. Molecular activity at interfaces can differ from molecular activity in the rest of the two substances. Kumar said the chemistry at interfaces is exciting because of the asymmetry there.

“Most of the fun stuff in chemistry happens with interfaces,” Kumar said. “In the bulk, you have an average environment. When you go to the interface, you get an asym-

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Chemistry assistant professor Revati Kumar, chemistry postdoctoral researcher Rolf David and chemistry grad student Pu Du stand outside of their offices on March 20.

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LSU professor’s book highlights black women’s leadership framework and see how it is applied in contemporary times.

“It is very important when we are looking at a lot of the things that are happening in American society today that we also put them in an appropriate historical context,” Martin said.

“That helps us understand how

the increase in black women being elected to public office and involved in social movements.

Martin currently teaches With years of researching about African Americans in race and its effects on sports sports, and there are chapters in and education, professor of each book that look at activism Sociology and African and and athletes. Martin said she African American Studies Lori believes it is relevant, especially Latrice Martin has published given recent protwo books that tests in the NFL aim to highlight and reactions to black women’s them. leadership in soMartin is also cial movements. teaching a gradu“Black Comate level course munity Uplift on African Ameriand the Myth cans in sociology, of the Ameriwhere she looks can Dream,” at sociology and published last how it impacts year, focuses African American on the politics communities. of respectabilLORI MARTIN Most of Marity established Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studes tin’s research foby black Baptist cuses on race, women in the it relates to things that have wealth, equality and black povearly 1900s.

Politics of respectability happened in the past, what we erty. She has also researched sorefers to attempts by margin- are experiencing now and what ciology, sports and the schoolalized groups to show their we could potentially do to bring to-prison pipeline.

“I think that it is imporsocial values as being continuous about any necessary changes in tant for us to understand what and compatible with dominant the future.”

Martin published her second is happening today within a values, rather than challenging the mainstream for what book, “Black Women as Lead- broader context,” Martin said, they see as its failure to accept ers: Challenging and Trans- “so if we are interested in being difference, Martin said. She forming Society,” in March. She change-makers, that will help said she wanted to revisit that said she was was inspired by us and help transform society.”

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It is very important when we are looking at American society today that we also put them in an appropriate historical context.

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Lori Martin, professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies, holds her new book, “Black Community Uplift and the Myth of the American Dream,” on Tuesday, March 19.

ACADEMICS

Supplemental Instructors aim to help students academically

BY SOPHIE LIBERTO @LibertoSophie

Mass communication senior and third semester History 2057 SI Anna Coleman* said she enjoys helping students gain understanding of the material because she was able to rely on supplemental instructors in the past.

“Being an SI, you don’t necessarily stay with the same professor every semester, so I like to hear the different professors’ interpretation of the class,”

With a growing freshman class size, LSU welcomes more students — and more students who struggle with the learning gap between high school and college.

Many struggle with the higher demand for work at the college level. Supplemental Instruction sessions are offered for students enrolled in difficult courses. The Center for Academic Success reports that students who attend three or more SI sessions earn a 0.5 letter grade higher than students who do not attend. SI sessions are free, voluntary and open to all DESIREE PERKINS students.

English sophomore An SI leader is an undergraduate student who has taken Coleman said. “It is similar, but the course and leads the ses- every professor teaches it sort sion sharing what they learned of differently.”

Coleman said attendance and how to study. To apply, a student needs a 3.0 or above of SI sessions varies between overall GPA, and 3.0 or above classes and between weeks.

“On weeks there is an exam, in the selected course. The leader attends the regularly there will be up to 80 peoscheduled class and works ple there,” Coleman said. “On with the instructor to ensure weeks before Mardi Gras, there sessions are relevant to the will be like two people there.

I do know that a lot of the material covered.

STEM classes have really high attendance compared to Humanities and Social Sciences classes, but I’m guessing that is due to much more dense content.”

Professor of sociology Tasia Kazi had an SI last semester for her Sociology 2001 class, but not this semester due to low attendance rates. Kazi said she liked how the students had the opportunity to brainstorm with the SI leader, but did not feel supplemental instructors were necessary for the course.

“Since I teach a sociological course, I have heard from my colleagues in the STEM field that they actually require more SIs because they can practice the math,” Kazi said.

“However, in my case, I found that my students had a lower response rate. The attendance was really low.”

Kazi received feedback from the Center of Academic Success that only about 3 percent of her students attended the SI sessions. While some SI sessions havelow attendance, many students rely on SI sessions to help them prepare for exams. English sophomore

For the first test, I didn’t study the way I should have. [The SI leader] broke it down more than the professor did, so she made it easier to understand. It was definitely worth it.

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The Center of Academic Success welcomes students from all over campus who need academic help through tutoring and more in Charles E. Coates Hall in LSU’s quadrangle.

Desiree Perkins said her biology SI sessions have benefited her.

“For the first test, I didn’t study the way I should have,” Perkins said. “[The SI leader] broke it down more than the

professor did, so she made it easier to understand. It was definitely worth it.” *Editor’s note: Anna Coleman is a former employee of The Reveille.

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page 5 SURVEY, from page 3 with reports and rumors of female students being held at gunpoint, followed and grabbed on campus earlier this semester. Davis said she hopes these events will lead more students to take this survey.

Of the over 30,000 students enrolled in the University last year, Davis said only 1,200 students completed this annual survey. That means roughly 4 percent of the student body took a survey that was created to gather information to help all students.

Davis stressed how important it is for students to take the survey, since student feedback will give the University and the Board of Regents information to keep students safe. She said the survey is being used to allow the University to listen to students’ concerns.

VET SCHOOL, from page 3 School of Veterinary Medicine Joel Baines in a letter to Louisiana State Legislative Auditor Daryl Purpera.

Baines later said the situation was complicated by Liang’s status as a research-only faculty member. Findings from the state audit concluded he did not work for part of 2015 and all of 2016

“It’s not just another survey that’s showing up in your email,” Davis said. “People are taking this seriously.”

All responses to the survey will be kept anonymous, however the names of participants will be collected and entered into a drawing for prizes.

The survey was established as a result of Act 172 of the 2015 Regular Legislative Session and requires the Board of Regents, in consultation with the four management boards — the LSU System, Southern University System, University of Louisiana System and Louisiana Community and Technical College System--to develop a climate survey to be administered at every public higher education institution in Louisiana annually, according to Meg Casper Sunstrom, the Board of Regent’s deputy commissioner for strategic communication.

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because he failed to corroborate his activities.

“It cannot be ascertained easily whether the faculty member was working from home, except from his own reporting,” Baines said.

In addition to removing Liang’s supervisor, a review is currently underway at the School of Veterinary Medicine to determine whether there are other

research positions in need of increased oversight. Research professors will be required to attend certain University events and have the responsibility to teach graduate or Veterinary students.

These measures are intended to increase accountability, as the research professors must frequently be present on campus in order to teach classes and will be subject to student reviews. The estimated completion date of the new policies is June 30, according to Baines.

Liang readily admitted to accepting the compensation despite not producing any research.

He had also not been to the University in so long, he said he could not recall where his office was located.

“If LSU has decided to stop paying me, they could have decided to stop paying me at anytime,” Liang said. “I never asked for money from LSU.” Liang said the University took money from his account in September, but he still received a paycheck as recently as last week.

Liang said the majority of his work is conducted outside of the University at home. He alleged other reports released regarding the incident as false. Although he had not completed any research projects recently, he said he has continued working diligently on his projects on his own time.

Liang sent an email to Baines on Oct. 25, defending his research and addressing his denial of a promotion. In the email he stated, “I did have a very busy year” and said he “worked days and nights with little rest, seven days a week.”

Liang said he brought $3,000,000 of research during his first year at the University, and he was certain he would have brought in more if he had been given more funding. He attributed his lack of funding to his 2014 promotion denial.

“I have never stopped doing science and I will not stop,” Liang said.

Toward the end of the letter, Liang addressed his lack

metrical environment so cool chemistry can take place.”

Kumar first became interested in interfaces between graphene oxide and water three years ago after hearing about the water crisis in Flint. When she read a scientific paper about using graphene oxide for water purification, she knew she wanted to explore this topic further.

“This is a really interesting system,” Kumar said. “The carbon layers are hydrophobic, but the oxygen groups are hydrophilic. You’ve got these two different kinds of chemistries on one surface. That must make the interface with a liquid very interesting.”

Kumar’s research involves creating computer simulations of molecular systems to understand the chemistry of

interfaces, such as the interface between graphene oxide and water. She works with Chemistry postdoctoral researcher Rolf David and Chemistry graduate students Visal Subasinghege Don and Pu Du to create these simulations.

Kumar not only had to describe her research in her proposal, but also create a plan for an education program related to her research. One aspect of her outreach plan is a “fun with molecules” activity for middle school students that relates simulations of molecular interactions to what they see in real experiments.

Kumar plans to use the grant to increase the number of students and postdoctoral scholars involved in the research.

She also plans to develop more algorithms to better interpret the data from the molecular simulations she conducts.

Chemistry postdoctoral researcher Rolf David, chemistry assistant professor Revati Kumar and chemistry grad student Pu Du stand outside of their offices on March 20.

of a promotion saying, “How can I ensure I will receive a fair review in this poison environment created against me?”

Liang also said he was paid for the first four years after he came to LSU solely from research funds he brought in from Yale.

“I never complained that LSU did not pay me for my 48 months of service,” Liang said.

Liang said in an email to Executive Assistant to the Executive Vice President and Provost Emily Hatfield on Dec. 4, that he reported a misconduct in his promotion four years ago and never received a response.

Liang’s report said he had expressed his opinion that a colleague who had a similar number of publications was accepted by journals with higher impact, and that opinion shared in confidentiality was then leaked to the colleague in question. Liang said the comment against his colleague had been “buried in his brain” ever since then and believes it is responsible for the colleague voting against his promotion.

Liang called the leaking of his

comment an “ethics violation” that is “disgraceful.”

Baines responded to a follow up on the complaint on Feb. 21 saying, “the University will take this into account, but will also consider the freedom of any faculty member to express their opinion.”

If the University chooses to press charges against Liang, he will be charged with a felony due to the amount of money involved.

Ginger Guttner, communications manager for the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine, said the School of Veterinary Medicine has inserted safeguards to ensure nothing like this will occur again. She said the findings of the state audit show “poor management” and “abuse of the public trust citizens place in us.”

“LSU employees are held to the highest standards, and these actions do not represent our missions and values,” Guttner said.

“We do not take this lightly, and citizens can be assured that LSU is taking swift action while adhering to due process.”

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The LSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital is located on Skip Bertman Drive & River Road in Baton Rouge on March 26.

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LSU wrongfully portrayed as only villain in NCAA CAL’D UP CHRIS CALDARERA @caldarera11

goes out, we’re telling her to be Finnegan — to be relaxed and be normal.”

Priessman competed on three events for only the second time this season after nursing a midseason injury of her own. She had a 9.825 on vault, 9.925 on bars and 9.90 on floor.

Kelley also went on two events, with a 9.90 on both vault and floor.

“Being able to end our senior career, our last SECs with a title win is just, oh my gosh it couldn’t be any better,” Priessman said.

Finnegan said this win was a little more special than the other championships she won at LSU. One of her goals going into her senior season was to just take it all in. And winning another SEC

My mom woke me for breakfast to begin one of the busiest days of my week.

I approached my freshly poured bowl of cereal with the stress of my to-do-list weighing heavily on my soul.

It was already 10 a.m., which meant that I would have to push my scheduled game of freeze tag with the other neighborhood kids back by at least half an hour.

Consequently, the times I had allotted for building a pillow fort with my sister and taking an afternoon nap would definitely suffer because of my late start to the morning. I was even beginning to wonder if I would have time to watch cartoons before bed.

What a stressful day to be a 3-year-old boy. Little did I know that being a toddler would be the simplest existence I could ever imagine.

The world was straightforward as a kid, and determining heroes and villains in life was far from complicated.

For example, my mom was a clearly a hero for letting me skip out on going to preschool from time-to-time to spend the day with her. Back then, the villains were also obvious, and I would have probably listed my nem-

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LSU’s senior class revels in third SEC Championship in four years

BY KENNEDI LANDRY @landryyy14 They all said it felt like a home meet. And it did, with thousands dressed in purple and gold and chants of L-S-U reverberating through the Smoothie King Center.

And even though this LSU gymnastics senior class just won their third Southeastern Conference Championship in a row, this one in the state of Louisiana felt so much more special.

Senior all-arounder Lexie Priessman said when she ran out of the tunnel, she had to double-take because it felt so much like running out of the tiger head in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.

LSU coach D-D Breaux, who fought for years to bring the event

back to Louisiana, said that the entire weekend felt surreal to her.

“It felt like a home meet,” Priessman said. “We kept thinking we were in the PMAC because it was so loud. We looked into the crowd and saw so many familiar faces. It was crazy.”

Though they know what this feeling is like, senior all-arounder McKenna Kelley said they were still feeling the “sweet victory” as the confetti fell from the ceiling.

One senior, Julianna Cannamela, has been nursing an injury for most of the season, but the other three put their best feet forward as they helped LSU to a 197.900 at the SEC Championship meet. “[The seniors] have done a great job of creating this cohesiveness,” Breaux said. “Their ability to communicate with each other and just

read each other’s emotions and calm each other down and life each other up. It’s been amazing.”

All-arounder Sarah Finnegan clinched the meet and won the SEC individual event title on floor with a perfect 10. She also won the allaround at 39.800 and tied for the beam title with a 9.95.

“Amazing!”

Finnegan said, almost at a loss for words. “In front of over 10,000 people and the fact that it was in New Orleans. You could look around and people were in purple and gold.

It was so amazing. The energy was awesome.”

Breaux said Finnegan is almost so automatic that the coaching staff just tells her to go out there and be herself every time she touches the floor.

“She’s just so natural and so normal,” Breaux said. “When she

MEN’S BASKETBALL

LSU credits Wayde Sims as force behind tournament run

BY BRANDON ADAM @badam___ LSU assistant coach Tasmin Mitchell ran across the court with his hands held high above his head signaling “44.” Other assistant coaches like Greg Heiar stood with the players in front of the LSU fans who made the trip to Florida, and all involved chanted, “Forty-four! Forty-four!” in unison.

It was a celebration birthed

in tragedy. A celebration meant to honor teammate Wayde Sims, who was killed in Baton Rouge on Sept. 28, the day of what was supposed to be LSU’s first practice of the season.

And no matter what LSU has done this season since that day, they’ve done it for one reason — Sims.

Even though Sims wasn’t there physically after LSU’s last second 69-67 win over Maryland in the second round of the NCAA

tournament, he was there in every other way possible. Each of LSU’s coaches and players wear a pin or patch with Sims’ name and number 44 on it, and they carry the memories of their lost teammate every day.

Others like junior guard Skylar Mays have done different things as well to make sure Sims isn’t forgotten.

Mays wears a custom-made pair of shoes in pregame warmups designed to honor Sims, and

makes sure to write a memento to Sims on his shoes he wears during the game. The two were high school teammates and played basketball together for most of their adult lives.

It’s why the “forty-four” chant instead of the usual “L-S-U” refrain means so much to Mays. “[Sims] is with us every day.

He is the driving force in this thing,” Mays said. “We always try to bring attention to him in our own ways, and then when we’re

together, we try to bring attention to him. Wayde is who this is all about, the Sims family and everybody who has supported us.”

Support outside of Baton Rouge and Louisiana has been tough to come by for LSU in recent weeks, however.

The Tigers have been under a public microscope following the suspension of head coach Will Wade, but all the team has done

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BEACH VOLLEYBALL

Freshman Allison Coens makes her mark on beach volleyball

BY MATTISON ALLEN @mattisonlsu Allison Coens dreamed of playing beach volleyball in college, and now she is dominating on LSU’s court 5.

Coens, a freshman from Kansas, played indoor and club volleyball until her sophomore year of high school. It was that year that Coens became interested in beach volleyball.

She made the decision to stop playing club so she could focus on beach. She started to spend her falls on the court and her winters in the sand. The rest of the year, she was training to become the best she could be.

“Being from Kansas, usually my focus for the longest time was indoor,” Coens said. “It was going into my sophomore year that I sort of tried beach. Who knows, maybe I can play in college so that became a goal of mine. I had went to a tournament where LSU was there and coach [Russell] Brock handed my coach his card.

“We started talking on the phone, I came down for a visit and I just absolutely loved the atmosphere here. The girls, I could tell they were such a family and they had each others’

backs in every single situation.

Being at LSU, they have any resource any athlete could dream of, and he talked about them building the stadium, so LSU became a very attractive place.”

Coens went through big transitions when she came to LSU. Aside from starting her first year of college, she had to move over 800 miles from her family and figure out how to be a true student-athlete. However, Coens hasn’t had much trouble thanks to all of the love she’s seen at LSU. “I think one of the first things I said when I called my parents after I got here was how people in the South are so nice,” Coens said. “Southern hospitality is really there so I think that made it very easy.”

One struggle most freshmen face their first year is simply figuring out how to navigate college life. College academics are much different from high school and a lot of incomers struggle to find a new balance. This wasn’t the case for Coens. She credited her high school for preparing her through taking seven class days rather than her new five.

Coens also credited LSU’s resources. LSU offers a lot of resources in general, but even

more for student athletes. It’s something that if it’s taken advantage of, it can push a student’s success rate. Coens said college almost seemed easier because she had such a consistent schedule every day such as class, practice, tutoring — all on a rotation.

Those many practices have paid off in season. Coens plays on Court 5 with sophomore Hunter Domanski. The two currently have a six-match winning streak together. Coens said she and Domanski knew of each other before, but had only seen each other in tournaments from high school.

“I was so excited when I got paired up with Hunter,” Coens said. “One of the first things I noticed about Hunter is she knows so much about the game.

She was calling blocks or plays that I wouldn’t normally think of. Coming from juniors, you have limited knowledge of beach volleyball realm, and Hunter has a really strong grasp on the game. “[Hunter] knows how we should execute things, and executing them well, and so I was really excited to play with her high-caliber player. She’s just so intense and so focused all the

time, and it’s really nice to have a partner that’s just as invested and intense in making our partnership the best it can be.”

Coens said their main focus for the season is to work on their side of the court. She said that’s what they try to focus on because if they can get it right on their side, they become virtually unstoppable, which seems to be true considering their winning record. These wins have built confidence for the duo and they’re ready to take that to the National Championship.

Just like in any sport, there are challenges and rewards that come along with it. Coens’ case is no different. However, Coens was hesitant to call anything a challenge. She said the most difficult part was adjusting to playing every day. She mentioned how where she’s from, she never had the opportunity to play much, so it took time to get used to that.

Coens said the biggest reward so far has been her season.

She said they’ve been practicing since January, so to be able to finally put it all out on the court has been the best. Even with such a great record and progress, Coens has the future in mind. She is looking forward to the national

KRISTIN SELLE / The Reveille

LSU freshman Allison Coens (2) sets the ball as sophomore Hunter Domanski (10) looks on during the Tigers’ match against USM at the LSU Beach Volleyball Stadium on Saturday, March 23. championship and to show who the Tigers really are.

“When it comes to volleyball, it’s been a dream for so long to play college beach volleyball, and so realizing that every single day there’s something you can do to get better and make yourself better than the day you were before is a great opportunity.”

Wednesday, March 27, 2019 BASKETBALL, from page 6 esis as whichever antagonist appeared in the Batman cartoons that day.

Unfortunately, we grow older and learn the line that separates heroes from villains isn’t always clear.

This season, the LSU men’s basketball has had to overcome obstacles far beyond what anyone expected. The Tigers lost teammate Wayde Sims due to tragedy before the season began, and has recently had to deal with the challenge of being the NCAA’s public enemy No. 1 thanks to an ongoing FBI investigation into college basketball recruiting.

In the process, LSU basketball has lost coach Will Wade at the most crucial point in the season thanks to a rush of judgement from University officials after transcripts of an alleged conversation between Wade and convicted felon Christian Dawkins.

None of these hurdles have prevented the Tigers from advancing to the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2006. Yet, the focus of the media has rarely been on the mental toughness LSU’s players have and instead been on the “dark cloud” hanging above the program.

Somehow, we’ve found our way back to the world of children’s cartoons where there can only be one villain. This is especially mind-boggling when the much of the remaining field in the NCAA Tournament is considered.

Take LSU’s next opponent, Michigan State, as an example.

To some, the Spartans represent the hero that will finally slay the corrupt monster known colloquially as LSU basketball.

To special counsel Bill Forsyth and myself, the Spartans represent an athletic department that “has fostered a culture of of indifference toward sexual assault, motivated by its desire to protect its reputation.”

Has the public already forgotten the horrible crimes of trainer Larry Nassar and the accusations that Michigan State’s athletic department conspired to protect its reputation

page 9 before its athletes?

This news was released a mere three months ago and resulted in the president of the university being forced to resign due to felony charges. I’m not saying Spartans coach Tom Izzo or anyone involved with Michigan State’s basketball program shares guilt in any crime, but shouldn’t the accusations made against the athletic department also be a “dark cloud?”

The Kansas Jayhawks should be another team in hot water. Similar to LSU’s Wade, transcripts of text messages between Kansas coach Bill Self and an former Adidas representative revealed promises from Adidas to help Kansas land fivestar prospects because Adidas believed that Nike was helping Duke and North Carolina in the same way.

In the fall, the attorney for Adidas argued that Self knew of illegal payments to players.

Fortunately for Kansas, Self is still coaching and Dick Vitale and the other national pundits aren’t waging a war with the Jayhawk fan base.

Again, I’m not directing claims of guilt or innocence toward Self, Kansas or even Wade.

I am simply demanding consistency. Wade may have committed sins when building his program, but this NCAA Tournament isn’t exactly filled with saints.

When the Tigers take the court in Washington, D.C. on Friday, there will only be one villain. The networks will run chyrons on timelines of the FBI investigation pertaining LSU, and the commentators will discuss the alleged improper benefits made by Wade. The worst Michigan State fans may hear that night is a criticism of Izzo yelling at his players.

The bias will be clear, but that’s fine because many LSU fans have realized two important lessons in this FBI debacle. The world is far more complicated than we’d like it to be, and sometimes it’s fun to play the role of the villain.

SIMS, from page 6 is manage to pull the team even closer together. Interim coach Tony Benford gave credit to Mays and sophomore guard Tremont Waters for taking ownership of the team and making sure everyone sticks together.

“We’re a family,” Waters said.

“At the end of the day, like I said, nothing is going to break us as long as we have each other. We just have to keep pushing. The outside noise doesn’t really matter. We’re the ones on the court playing, and as long as we stay together and keep building faith in each other then we’re going to be great.”

Benford echoed Waters’ sentiments and said the team has three aspects that have helped them advance – trust, love and respect.

LSU hopes those three things can continue to help carry them past the Sweet Sixteen where they will play Michigan State, and possibly even farther in the NCAA tournament. But even with strong team characteristics, the Tigers may still need a few more

MITCHELL SCAGLIONE / The Reveille

LSU basketball players honor Wayde Sims by writing messages on their shoes during the Tigers’ 94-63 victory over Southeastern in the PMAC on Nov. 6, 2018. game-winning baskets from Waters to get where they want to be.

And Waters isn’t worried if he has to make a play to win the game similar to the way he did against Maryland. He knows LSU has something the other team

doesn’t – a true sixth man.

“I honestly put my faith in God, and God made the ball go in,” Waters said after his gamewinning shot against Maryland.

“And Wayde Sims made the ball go in.”

GYM, from page 6 Championship along the way was icing on the cake.

“I just wanted to take a moment, step back and really look around because this is something so special and I’m never going to get it back,” Finnegan said. “I’m just enjoying the process until the very end.”

The season isn’t over for the Tigers or the senior class, but they will continue to feel the victory from this win. It was thanks in part to the leadership of this senior class throughout a roller coaster of a season that the Tigers were able to turn a corner and compete at such a high level.

The seniors stepped up and became leaders in what was a more inexperienced team and guided them through the season.

“Being a leader is one thing, but actually having to lead is different,” Kelley said. “I think our senior class has had to do that because of the lack of experi-

ALYSSA BERRY / The Reveille

LSU all-around senior Sarah Finnegan completes the beam during the Tigers’197.900 first place victory in the SEC Championship meet on March 23 in the Smoothie King Center. ence in the beginning of the season. Now every single girl out there is seasoned and they know what to do.”

Breaux said this senior class deserves every good thing that has come their way during their careers, and this SEC Championship is just a small part of it.

“It’s our last one, ending with something so special means the most,” Priessman said.

“I feel like this group of girls, we’re family. We can go to anyone for anything. It’s more than a team, honestly. We’re sisters for life. It’s a group of girls I know I’ll never stop talking to. It’s just amazing.”

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BY ENJANAE’ TAYLOR | @_queenet_ LSU alumna and entrepreneur Nimia Cabrera Saleh shares her love for fashion, lifestyle and faith while helping others.

Going through life, she realized how much she loved fabric, sketching and styling others, so Cabrera decided to study apparel design at the University. Fast forward a few years later and she has her own store, Elohim + Nim, here in Baton Rouge.

The store opened in Baton Rouge in August 2017, but was put on the back-burner when Cabrera dealt with her personal health last year.

Cabrera opened her store with the intention of helping women, and when she felt like she strayed away from that and failed to achieve her goal, she began to experience depression. She had to deal with that personal struggle along with the stress of family issues, buying a new house and getting engaged.

“Everyone was like, ‘You know, you might just need to take a step back and just let it go for a second and re-brand yourself so you’re where you want to be,’ and that’s really what I had to do,” Cabrera said.

After taking a much-needed break, Cabrera is back and better than ever. Elohim + Nim is set to relaunch this spring, and its new re-branding is inspiring.

Cabrera wanted to step back from how superficial and competitive the fashion industry can be and get back to her roots to try to achieve her goal of helping women through her business.

“I’m from Honduras originally, and I went back to Honduras because I guess I had an upper hand there,” Cabrera said. “I speak Spanish, I know people, I have somewhere to stay so I went there.”

Cabrera knew she would be able to directly help women in Honduras because it’s a third-world country where the government doesn’t efficiently

BY RICHARD HAYDEL @magnetodorito LSU will have an on-campus excursion into the diverse and eccentric selection of Greek food when The Simple Greek opens at Nicholson Gateway.

The establishment will lie in LSU’s premier apartment complex in proximal distance to the rest of campus. Its residence lies in the Gateway plaza, which is also occupied with places like grocery store Matherne’s Market, Starbucks, urban apparel store Private Stock and healthy dining option Frutta Bowls.

A press release from the University in October stated that the opening of The Simple Greek will come alongside the opening of adjacent Baton Rouge General Express Care, a convenient ER service for students and those in proximity of campus. Both are expected to open in the coming weeks.

The Simple Greek, a national chain founded by the protagonistic entrepreneur of CNBC reality show “The Profit” in Marcus Lemonis, promises healthy and wholesome Greek cuisine

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BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY

Baton Rouge’s first Holi festival went off with flying colors

BY RACHEL MIPRO @remroc15 Colors and music filled the air while strangers ambushed each other with handfuls of powder. It was Baton Rouge’s very first annual Holi Festival, held on March 24.

Holi, the festival of colors, is a well-known Hindu celebration.

The Holi festival is about love and the triumph of good over evil, celebrated by colorful powders, music and dancing. The colors have meaning, with red meaning love, green as new beginnings, blue for Krishna and yellow for health.

The festival, organized by the nonprofit Colors of the World and sponsored by Elifin Realty, had a big turnout, with plenty of people coming for the food trucks, drinks, performances, henna art and of course, colorthrowing. Anita Gouri, one of the

organizers from Colors of the much success the city of Lafayette World, said that the festival was has with theirs,” Gouri said. “It’s long-anticipated. always part of our culture that “We’ve been wanting to do we’ve been proud of.” it for years and we just decided At the festival, white clothes this year, ‘You know what? We’re didn’t remain pristine for long. going to make it happen,’” Gouri Friends and strangers bought colsaid. “We had a lot of interest and orful packets of powder to hurl some of the people through the volunteering to do- “We’ve been wanting air and throw nate their time to at others. At help make it happen.” to do it for years and certain times, While there has we just decided this everyone was been several smaller encouraged to Holi celebrations in year, we’re going to throw the powthe past, this was Bamake it happen.” der into the ton Rouge’s first large air at the same scale Holi festival. time, creating a ANITA GOURI Gouri said that Colors Colors of the World organizer rainbow haze. of the World hopes to “For me, it’s make the Holi festival a great way to an annual event, getting inspira- showcase our culture and it’s just tion for the event from Lafayette’s such a fun, positive, colorful vipopular Holi celebrations. brant time. And it coincides with “We wanted one that was on the bigger scale because of how see HOLI FEST, page 16

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The Holi Festival was held at Repentance Park in downtown Baton Rouge on March 24.

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First spring Boutique Blowout Sale brings deals on March 31 of-the-line prices on clothing, shoes and accessories. It’s a win-win situation!

This year may mark the Ready to refresh your wardrobe for spring without first spring blowout sale, but Presnall is no stranger to hostbreaking the bank?

This Sunday, March 31, ing this type of event. The first Boutique BlowBaton Rouge out Sale took Fashion Council place in fall of is hosting its an2016, and has nual Boutique continued annuBlowout Sale. ally since then. If The event will Baton Rouge Fashion all goes well, she feature over 20 boutiques Council’s first spring says the biannual rhythm might with individual booths, stocked Boutique Blowout Sale just stick.

The sale will with both marked will take place Sunday, down items March 31 at The Crowne feature both familiar, local and new arrivals.

Plaza - Baton Rouge. boutiques like Founder of Hemline and Baton Rouge Article & Thread, Fashion Council as well as some Leslie Presnall travelers, like said that afVeaux Luxe from ter the success Metairie and of her fall Boutique Blowout Sale, she Golden Lily from Mandeville. began receiving requests Vendors bring their own stock from boutiques and custom- and set their own prices, but ers alike to host a spring they have to follow one rule: the event. Now, that request is majority has to be on sale.

For many events like this, a coming to life.

This sale allows boutiques ticket is required to score the to clean out their end-of-sea- deals. The Boutique Blowout son merchandise and make Sale is different. For general adway for new styles while cus- mission, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., adtomers are able to score end- mission is completely free. You

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If you want first dibs access to the deals, however, you can purchase a VIP ticket.

Tickets are $8 and can be purchased at www.eventbrite. com. With a VIP ticket, you get a full extra hour to shop before the deals are gone.

Supplies are limited.

VIP tickets will also be given out by each of the vendors prior to the event.

Along with a room full of deals, the event will also have a bar serving both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks while you shop. Despite this, all ages are welcome, even in strollers.

The event will also have dressing rooms to try on your finds, and vendors will be accepting both cash and card.

Essentially, it’s just like shopping in-store, just with some great deals and convenient locations.

Baton Rouge Fashion Council’s first spring Boutique Blowout Sale will take place Sunday, March 31, at The Crowne Plaza - Baton Rouge. VIP access will begin at 9 a.m., and regular access will continue from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ creates new nightmares with latest thriller

BY PEYTON DAVIS @peytongdavis Jordan Peele has done it again with his new film “Us,” making another horror movie that entertains and informs.

“Us” premiered March 22 and made $70.3 million in its opening weekend. This is more than double the opening of “Get Out,” Peele’s directorial debut that came out in February 2017.

This is Peele’s second film as a director, after “Get Out” won best original screenplay at the 2018 Oscar’s. Before he started directing, Peele wrote and starred in the Comedy Central sketch show “Key and Peele” with KeeganMichael Key. Peele was known for his sketch comedy, so it was a surprise for audiences to see him direct such a political, serious film.

“Us” stars Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Shahadi Wright Joseph and Evan Alex as a family of four who are tormented on their family vacation by scissor-wielding doppelgangers who are trying to kill them. The movie takes place between 1986 and present day. Nyong’o’s character, Adelaide, is the main character and what happens to her in 1986 sets up the rest of the film.

Young Adelaide, played

by Madison Curry, is at the Santa Cruz boardwalk with her parents. She wanders off and ends up in a house of mirrors attraction on the beach. In the house of mirrors, she sees not just her reflection, but her actual doppelgänger.

This traumatizes her for life and throughout the movie we learn that it eventually led her to not be able to speak for many years.

Flash forward to present day and Adelaide is at the same beach on vacation with her husband and family. She keeps seeing things that remind her of that fateful day, and she eventually shares with her husband what she’s feeling and he doesn’t believe her.

That is until they see a family standing in their driveway. This starts the action of the movie and things start to move fast.

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There is some amount of violence in the movie, but like in “Get Out,” it’s done pretty tastefully and is not overly excessive.

However, there is one scene where Winston Duke’s doppelgänger is mangled by a boat propeller that is pretty gruesome.

What is also impressive about this movie is Peele’s attention

to detail. Every little placement and detail in the movie matters.

Peele, once again, proves that he is not just a comedic powerhouse, but that he has talents in the horror genre as well. He is able to make a movie that doesn’t just scare you, but also makes you think. And not many directors are capable of doing that.

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Nicholson Gateway will house the restaurant and has the distinction of being The Simple Greek’s first location in Louisiana.

According to Lemonis, The Simple Greek is already committed to the finest service to the consumer, with the constantly-branching brand being established in 2016 and seeing 30 locations nationally as of last year, with more to come.

“The Simple Greek team is ready to listen, learn, and perform within a business model

The Simple Greek team is ready to listen, learn, and perform within a business model that has structure and leadership.

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The Simple Greek creator

that has structure, discipline and most importantly leadership,” Lemonis said.

Lemonis’ creation will be welcomed in the western areas of LSU, mere walking distance from the majority of the sporting arenas that house LSU athletics.

HOLI FEST, from page 13 spring, and it’s like a lot of new life, energy,” Gouri said. “So for me, it’s just a great festival in my culture that I’d love to share with everybody.”

Gouri said that the Holi festival was advertised mostly through word-of-mouth and online, getting positive responses from people who had

experienced Holi before and wanted to see it happen in Baton Rouge. At the festival itself, attendees learned more about Indian music and food, many saying that it was a good new experience.

“It’s great, I’m super happy and everyone’s having a lot of fun,” said Ashley Ajubita. “I found out I love Indian music and I can dance to it.”

The Simple Greek will also be in relativity to the residence areas that lie on the western side of campus. The Simple Greek hopes to cater to the taste buds of the Tiger community whether it’s a day in Tiger Stadium or a night in the dorm.

ELOHIM + NIM, from page 13 aid the poor and women have few rights. Cabrera later met women in need who were willing to help her produce clothes for Elohim + Nim’s revamping.

Then, Cabrera created jewelry with those women, which came from finding ideas on Pinterest.

She brought the materials needed to make the earrings, got a feel for their strengths and weaknesses and was able to make some official designs. One of those designs was chosen to be in the next Lagniappe box that Sweet Baton Rouge puts out monthly.

The Lagniappe box feature was the perfect way for Cabrera to start her relaunch.

“The main goal for us to stand out is that we’re going to create our own clothes and our own accessories that are going to directly create jobs for women in a third- world country,” Cabrera said.

With all this going on, Cabrera also found time to start and run her very own blog.

Cabrera found that she always received questions about her travels and what was going on with the store, which inspired her to start her blog. She was also able to share more about her life and express to her readers why she travelled, many of whom assumed she did it for fun and did not have a job.

Cabrera’s blog focuses on travel, faith and lifestyle, which she feels perfectly represents her life. Cabrera began to travel with her family from a young age, which always played a huge role in her life, along with her faith and lifestyle which

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LSU alumna and entrepreneaur Nimia Cabrera Saleh helps Honduran women by paying them fair wages to produce clothing and jewelry for Elohim + Nim. ties it all together.

“I’ve been to Spain, I’ve been to Italy, I’ve been to Honduras, I’ve been through Mexico, I’ve been to Guatemala,” Cabrera said. “The faith for me was what really got me out of that bad low point that I got to last year, it was really something that helped me through it.”

Like her brand, her blog also seeks to help women.

Cabrera started The Hang-Outs as a way for her to connect with her clientele one-on-one. Each group Hang-Out has a topic or theme, but people can also request personal intimate hang-outs.

It’s important for her to have that human contact with others and talk to women who can relate to the same things and share

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“If you don’t feed that person running everything, which is yourself, then you can’t really put your best out,” Cabrera said. “I think it was one of those things that feed that inner joy and so it keeps me going and I really like that not just for myself but like in general to connect with other women.”

Cabrera hopes to continue working on her relaunch and expanding her blog.

“I think I want it to merge into one whole thing like an overall brand, where I can talk about what’s going on in the business and it come from my perspective instead of having my business talk about what it’s doing through a business blog because it’s all one,” Cabrera said.

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Shame surrounding therapy damaging, unneccessary

I SAID WHAT I SAID MAYA STEVENSON @MayaSStevenson Like any other practice that requires emotional vulnerability, therapy has gained a stigma that attempts to discredit the practice and its value. Many people think therapy is a waste of time or that it’s strictly for people who are “crazy.” Some say therapy is for the weak or that it’s reserved for times of severe struggle. Therapy is none of those things.

Quite frankly, therapy is just talking. Sometimes, it’s not even that. Therapy is working with a licensed professional to work through struggles, uncover strengths and find a way to live a healthier life. None of those things are even remotely things that one should be ashamed of.

For college students, the stigma of therapy is even more prevalent. While many in our generation don’t believe the misconceptions previously mentioned,

we create a stigma around it because we don’t exactly like talking about our mental health.

We don’t think anything’s wrong with therapy, but we also don’t want our friends to think we’re not perfect. One possible reason for this is that people my age have a love for being seen as infallible, with picture-perfect lives. Many of us are obsessed with peoples’ opinions of us.

However, therapy is more necessary than ever for college students. One in five students will face a mental health condition. The majority of illnesses begin before the age of 24, an age range that includes most college students.

College is difficult. It’s often our first time away from home and our first time dealing with issues of this caliber. On top of that, our friends are enjoying their lives and having the perfect college experience. It’s so much easier to ignore the things that eat at us and to swallow them, pretending they don’t exist.

However, one thing I’ve

learned in my short lifetime is that problems have to be dealt with. Most of the time, it’s better to face them head-on. This is especially true in the case of any mental health issues. Mental health issues don’t just go away.

They might be dormant, but they have to be dealt with eventually.

Therapy has so many benefits.

It can help you resolve current issues, get you on track to helping resolve them, teach you coping mechanisms, help you understand trauma and more. Therapy is genuinely healthy for us.

Moreover, you deserve support with whatever you may be going through. It might not even be support—therapy can just be an outlet for things you’re not comfortable talking about with those close to. Therapists don’t know us personally, making them the perfect non-biased person to help us with our problems.

Therapy isn’t just for crazy people, whatever that means. It’s also not a form of brainwashing or people shoving their beliefs down your throat. With the right

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therapist, therapy is one of the greatest choices a person can make for their mental health.

Whatever stigma surrounds it does nothing to change that. Don’t let the stigma of therapy deter

you from a happier life.

Maya Stevenson is a 20-yearold English and economics sophomore from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Public universities promote greater diversity than private LET ME BE FRANK MICHAEL FRANK @BigMpfrank96 As Harvard faces a federal lawsuit claiming the Ivy League university discriminates against Asian—American applicants, questions regarding the effectiveness of affirmative action are resurfacing. Even with affirmative action delineating racially-based acceptance rates in elite colleges, diversity in private universities still pales in comparison to that of four-year public colleges.

This is far from the first time affirmative action has garnered criticism in the courtroom. In the 1970s, the University of California, Davis medical school applicant Allan Bakke cited that he had been unfairly denied access to the program. Bakke’s undergraduate GPA and test scores were higher than the accepted minority students, but the medical school program set quotas for minority student acceptance. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that affirmative action benefited the student body by citing the benefits of diversity within schools.

Diversity has been found to increase idea generation and creativity in teams — something especially important in the

business world. As companies turn to hiring more diverse teams of employees, it follows that colleges are preparing students for the diversified workforce. But more than this, diversity helps expedite social development—one of the major aspects of life in college. Diversity in the classroom is not just a mandated requirement.

It’s becoming clear diversity is tantamount in higher education.

A more recent challenge to affirmative action came in 2016 as the case Fisher v. University of Texas was heard by the Supreme Court. Interestingly, Students for Fair Admissions — the group currently levying claims of bias toward non-Asian—American students in Harvard’s admissions process — supported Fisher, a white woman who was denied admission to UT twice. Writing the Court’s majority opinion, then—Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote that universities should be allowed to achieve “qualities which are incapable of objective measurement but which make for greatness.”

As Fisher v. University of Texas shows, diversity is one of those qualities that make for greatness. But, in 2015, The American Council on Education surveyed 338 nonprofit four-year colleges, finding 60 percent of the elite, selective schools use the appli-

cants’ race to consider admission. So, if diversity is important for higher education, why are a preponderance of the schools using affirmative action elite colleges? It seems the low cost of admissions at public universities is still better at creating classroom diversity than affirmative action ever could.

It isn’t just race that determines diversity, though. Economic diversity should be taken into consideration, as well. Elite schools do just as bad, if not worse, on this front. Jennifer Giancola and Richard Kahlenberg, researchers for The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, a scholarship organization for students who exhibit financial difficulty in paying college tuition, reported that highachieving students from wealthy families were three times more likely in applying to top, competitive universities than those from poorer families. “Low-income, high-achieving students are often discouraged from applying to selective colleges for reasons ranging from sticker price to culture shock,” wrote Washington Post reporter Valerie Strauss.

Although private institutions are often lauded as having more expensive and better resources, public universities more than make up for this lack of funding with a higher rate of diversity. The benefits of diversity outweigh

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In 2015, The American Council on Education surveyed 338 nonprofit fouryear colleges, finding 60 percent of the elite, selective schools use the applicants’ race to consider admission. its detractors, yet low tuition is still far more effective at instilling a diverse student body than affirmative action. Rather than focusing on the latest applicant who failed to get into a school that values status over merit, per-

haps it’s time we pay more attention to public universities.

Michael Frank is a 23-yearold political science and English senior from New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Conservative commentators make money off Republican Party LET ME BE FRANK MICHAEL FRANK @BigMpfrank96 When choosing which party to vote for, policy is, of course, important. But, in a representative democracy, voters must also consider the character of proposed representatives. There’s been no lack of public officials with a dubious moral code. Former President Bill Clinton’s sexual exploits have reached the point of a bad joke, the late Sen. Ted Kennedy’s Chappaquiddick incident is scrutinized more now than in 1969, and former Vice President Dick Cheney has become mythologized as an exemplar of immorality in the recent Oscar-nominated biopic “Vice.”

Elected officials aren’t the only ones who represent the public. As the growth of ideologically-oriented media continues — thanks in part to the biased consumption of the viewers themselves — news stations, journalists, show hosts, analysts and talking heads are the new faces of partisan politics.

Both Republicans and Democrats does this reflect on conservative have them, though it seems the voters? popular conservative news sourcFox News is indicative of cones like Fox News and The Daily servatives falling from grace in Wire come much closer to mis- the public sphere. In 2017, coninformation and propaganda than servative commentator and show popular liberal news sources like host Bill O’Reilly, who hosted Fox The Huffington Post and MSNBC. News’ The O’Reilly Factor for 21 In recent years, conservatives years, received public backlash have become far less concerned following several allegations of with their public image. Consider- sexual harassment. O’Reilly aling the Republican legedly paid mulParty’s past of trytiple women to ing to cultivate an keep silent about “But, in a image of specific his harassment. representative and staunch morO’Reilly’s attorney democracy, voters denied the accusaal standards, it’s ironic that Repub- must also consider tions, stating that licans are becomhe believed them the character ing synonymous to be an “orcheswith weak chartrated campaign” of proposed acter in the 21st against the former representatives.” Fox News host. century’s public eye. In a 2018 Whether Fox poll, about 13 perNews booted cent of Americans O’Reilly due to the viewed President Donald Trump station’s own moral qualms or as trustworthy. The Republican the loss of advertisement monParty’s website insists that it still ey is unclear, but either way it adheres to conservative moral was already too late. Fox News values and “stands with the peo- gave O’Reilly a platform, and he ple.” But if trust in the Repub- proved immoral, casting a bad lican Party is failing, then how light on conservatives as a whole.

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In more recent news, current Fox News host Tucker Carlson has come under fire for comments made on the Bubba the Love Sponge radio show between 2006 and 2011. Carlson was recorded saying women are “extremely primitive, they’re basic, they’re not that hard to understand,” among other perplexing comments about statutory rape, his sexual attraction toward Sarah Palin and the sexuality of 14-year-old girls. Carlson has responded to the backlash with a hefty dose of whataboutism.

On March 9, Judge Jeanine Pirro used her show “Justice with Judge Jeanine” to question Rep. Ilhan Omar’s hijab. Pirro then equated wearing the hijab to anti-American behavior. Fox News stated they disagree with Pirro’s comments, and Pirro has yet to return to her normal time slot.

Trump, a frequent guest on Pirro’s show, criticized Fox News’ suspension of Pirro in a series of

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tweets. It’s an absurdist play of non-news that verges on self-parody, and the continued reliance on immoral and demagogic conservative commentators is weakening the character of the party.

Many might argue that these commentators do not represent the Republican Party, but in fact, conservatives are complicit in the immoral actions of these analysts by allowing these crude, vocal few to stay in the public spotlight. There are other conservative news sources besides Fox News, such as The National Review or The Hill, which tend to present less propagandistic views and have a fairer ethical track record than Fox News. Conservatives need to fix their public image before this moral bankruptcy becomes permanent.

Michael Frank is a 23-yearold political science and English senior from New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Algorithms threaten our democracy, promote filter bubbles OLIVE’S GARDEN

The algorithm will not show us something totally out of the ordinary or something that makes us too uncomfortable because it OLIVIA JAMES wants our experience on what@afroliviaa ever platform we’re using to be Algorithms decide what users great. It wants us to feel secure want to get out of their internet so we return again and again. We experience by analyzing factors see what we want, but not always such as location, browser, age, what we need.

“A squirrel dying in your gender and browsing history to decide what’s seen on different front yard may be more relevant platforms. Google is not even a to your interests right now than standard search engine anymore, people dying in Africa,” Facebook as it too has highly altering al- CEO and founder Mark Zuckergorithms. Grab a berg said when friend and two difasked about ferent devices in dif- “A squirrel dying in Facebook’s news ferent places, search your front yard may feed.

Internet something on activist Eli ParisGoogle and watch be more relevant to er quoted this the vastly different your interests right in his Ted Talk results displayed. about “filter bubnow than people bles,” a term he These algorithms are sweepcoined. dying in Africa.” ing the internet, “Your filter following our every bubble is your MARK ZUCKERBERG keystroke to come own personal Facebook CEO and Founder up with whatever it unique universe thinks will keep us of information online, keeping us that you live in falling down the rabbit hole. online,” Priser said. Filter bubAll the information is still bles are the reason you see an there, so why is it so dangerous? ad on YouTube for the furniture The danger lies in the fact that website you were just searching we constantly see exactly what on. It is not magic or “big brothwe want to see. We are cod- er” watching you. It is the use dled by being served familiarity of algorithmic equations taking all the time. your electronic footprints as in-

puts to output similar things that will keep you surfing and sharing.

The problem with filter bubbles is that the majority of ideas and beliefs we are shown are just like our own. Our beliefs are confirmed and ideas justified every single time we open an app.

As Pariser says, this is a threat to democracy. The world is not just what we know and what is comfortable. There are things happening to real people just like us and stories we need to hear about whether they fit into a social media platforms recipe for our viewing experience or not.

It isn’t just a threat to the idea of democracy where we are all given the same facts and figures to make sound decisions. It quite literally affects democracy in the way we vote.

“Given that many elections are won by small margins, our results suggest that a search engine company has the power to influence the results of a substantial number of elections with impunity,” said Jacob N. Shapiro, a Princeton University student who conducted a study on how the internet influences people.

There is no way to overcome this kind of suppression of information. Once the algorithm figures out which candidate they think you like, it’s possible

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he or she is the one you’ll see the most. We aren’t challenged enough. Notice the surplus of posts about getting out and voting around election time through the years? According to a study, posts on Facebook caused over 340,000 people to vote after seeing those ads.

So many people use plat-

forms like Twitter and Facebook as their daily source of news, so these algorithms are troubling.

If they are going to exist, people should at least be made more aware.

Olivia James is a 19-year-old mass communication freshman from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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