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EDITORIAL

Student newsrooms vital, require support THE DAILY REVEILLE EDITORIAL BOARD @lsureveille As part of the national social media campaign #SaveStudentNewsrooms, The Daily Reveille Editorial Board encourages you to think about the challenges student-run newsrooms around the country are facing and the implications they have on students.

The Daily Reveille has always strived to provide students with the truth, even when it’s difficult.

Now, we face one of the hardest truths since our inception: student journalism is struggling to survive.

The Reveille has been on campus for more than 130 years, thanks to you. But now, The Reveille and college newsrooms across the nation lack muchneeded support from its universities — and worse, its students.

For over a century, we have worked tirelessly to be a voice for the students. Even after we had to reduce print frequency from daily to weekly, we continued to make do with an increasingly limited number of resources.

Employees at The Reveille are just like other students — when you read something from our editorial board, you are

reading the collective opinion of students who attend the same classes, pay the same tuition and walk the same campus.

When you see The Reveille’s name, it’s not referring to a group of overpaid, out-of-touch administrators or figure heads.

The Reveille’s name is attached to a group of dedicated student editors, writers, photographers, columnists and designers. We’re stationed in the basement of Hodges Hall, where we work early mornings and late nights publishing daily online content in addition to our weekly Wednesday paper.

Just like you, we attend the University to prepare ourselves for a life after college where practical experience and relevant knowledge will mean the difference between a burgeoning career and unemployment. We want to have the same opportunities as any other student to be successful.

Nothing jumpstarts success like the connections and experiences forged at The Reveille and LSU Student Media. Student media allows us to gain job experience, career opportunities and connections our degree programs alone cannot offer. For most of our almost

The beauty of a student-run newspaper lies in its distinct ability to portray the stories, faces and lives of those on campus.

THE DAILY REVEILLE EDITORIAL BOARD 200 employees, student media provides the foundational experience necessary to thrive after graduation.

The Reveille and LSU Student Media are charged with representing the voices of the student body. Quite simply, The Reveille is your newspaper — you own the paper as much as we do. We are here to cover what matters most to you, and we stick up for you when the administration doesn’t.

The Reveille aims to benefit all students. The beauty of a student-run newspaper lies in its distinct ability to portray the stories, faces and lives of those on campus. Look inside The Reveille’s print edition or search lsunow.com, and you’ll see

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Here’s how we reported on ourselves

BY RAMSINA ODISHO & NATALIE ANDERSON @ramsinaaa | @natalie_mechell

LSU Student Government receives blowback after passage of legislation recommends cuts to student fees

BY ABBIE SHULL & EVAN SAACKS @AbbieL J | @evansaacks On Tuesday, April 24, dozens of University students attended a Student Government Senate meeting to voice their opinion on legislation previously passed at an April 11 meeting.

Members of LSU Student Media and the College of Music and Dramatic Arts stated their displeasure with the passing of two SGCR bills which recommended cuts to student fees for all University students.

SGCR No. 15 recommends a referendum be placed before the student body to request the Board of Supervisors examine the Student Media fee. The legislation proposes the fees for the Gumbo yearbook be cut entirely, and have the remaining fees for The Daily Reveille, Tiger TV and KLSU consolidated into one fee. The legislation also recommends Legacy magazine be discontinued and the fees that would have gone toward it be reallocated to the remaining student media outlets. Additionally, part-time students would pay a $2 fee per credit hour, if the student body votes in favor, and the referendum passes in the fall.

SGCR No. 16 recommends a referendum be placed before the student body to request the Board of Supervisors examine the performing arts fee. The legislation proposes the fee be cut entirely and funding instead be done through the College of Music and Dramatic Arts itself.

Both resolutions were passed at the Student Senate meeting on April 11. The Daily Reveille’s designated Student Government reporter was unable to attend the

meeting due to an injury.

The bills were drafted by student senator John “Jack” Green, who co-chaired the Student Fee Value and Assessment Committee. The committee was formed in February with the purpose of reviewing student fees that had not been examined in several decades. The committee was made up of five student senators and five members of the SG executive branch.

“I think this is important given the context of where we are right now as a state and higher education, and the situation that students are facing,” Green said in a February interview with The Daily Reveille. “You see stories and press releases every day about how first-year retention in the state of Louisiana for public schools is so low, and it’s because of high fees and high tuition with low state funding.”

The resolution was debated in the Student Senate meeting on April 11. According to the minutes from the meeting, Green explained the $8 fee for Gumbo should be cut entirely because so few people actually purchased the yearbook. Green also said Legacy was not well-known outside of mass communication students, and the pick-up rate was not accurately tracked.

Green added the committee found the fees for the various outlets were not all being used accordingly, and that money was being used across all outlets. When asked by a senator about his contact with student media, Green said he had been in contact, and

see SG, page 6

planned to be in contact in the future. “[I] asked questions about how [Student Media would] feel about cuts, attachment to Gumbo[they] didn’t seem to attached to Gumbo,” Green said in the meeting, according to the minutes. “[I] haven’t come back to them asking how they’d feel about the cuts.

[Student Media is] not currently aware of exactly what we’re asking of them, but we’ll be in touch.”

The legislation was then debated in the Senate, according to the minutes. Manship senator and former columnist at The Daily Reveille Frederick Bell opposed the legislation, and proposed an amendment to strike the removal of funding for Legacy, which failed.

Manship representative Bailey Allmon was in favor of the legislation and against the amendment, stating the lack of popularity for Gumbo and Legacy on campus made it an unnecessary expense for all students.

“I felt that it was paramount for the student body as a whole to look at these fees,” Allmon said. “I did talk to some of my friends in Manship and they were like ‘Oh, I’ve never gotten like a Legacy or a Gumbo’... as far as the people I talked to, just friendly-wise that was the consensus I got. I probably should’ve done more research on that. But I felt that all students should have a choice to what their student fees should go to.

Allmon brought up the possibility of Student Government recommending cuts at the April 6 Media Board meeting with

Covering ourselves in the news as student journalists is a challenge other news outlets and publications struggle to conduct properly, even as professionals.

To remain as unbiased as possible in covering this situation, we decided to divide our staff into advocates and reporters.

Natalie Anderson, the managing editor, and Ramsina Odisho, the editor in chief, both played roles as advocates, speaking on behalf of The Reveille and Student Media during the Student Senate meeting on April 24. Our news editors Evan Saacks and Abbie Shull covered the reporting. Saacks and Shull never took part in advocating in front of the student senate, and treated the story as any other news coverage.

After SG approved the legislation to send the referendum to the student body, we sent an email to alumni on April 23 to request testimonials about their time in Student Media and the benefits it had served them.

A screenshot of the email then circulated social media.

After the email was made public, we decided not to publish testimonials from alumni because we didn’t want the language of the email to devalue the testimonials and the sentiment behind them.

On Tuesday, April 24, while we were still gathering information, it was important for us to ensure that all voices involved in the situation were heard. We reached out to Gumbo co-editor in chief Marlie Lynch and SG senator Jack Green, who drafted the legislation, to allow them the opportunity to submit a letter to the editor in this issue. Green declined to write a column.

Moving forward, The Daily Reveille is dedicated to honoring our mission to conduct unbiased, factual reporting for our audience.

Directly from Natalie Anderson: The email I sent privately to alumni was with haste and as an emergency call for support against the potential cuts Student Media could face. I wrote that Student Government “blatantly lied to us” about the procedure and schedule of events regarding Student Media cuts.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Gumbo Yearbook necessary, essential campus tradition

BY MARLIE LYNCH Co-Editor in Chief of Gumbo Yearbook

“We’re all here to fight with you.”

The words Nadeen Abusada, Tiger TV station manager, just told me in the hallway before I sat to write this.

It’s one of those things that makes me love this place, this basement of Hodges Hall. We are all very near finals week yet here we are, all on the same team, ready to fight for this big organization we put our hard work into every day.

We are used to being a voice

for the student body as a whole, representing LSU’s campus and telling the story of LSU’s history as it unfolds.

Now is the time for us to be our OWN voice, as an organization and team.

As co-editor in chief along with Taylor Gonsoulin for 2 years now, both members of the Gumbo for three years total, I mean it with everything in me that this yearbook is so important to us. Not only has it given me and will give me opportunities in my future career, it will do the same for my staff, who work hard and do even volun-

tary things to create and sell this yearbook when circumstances call for it.

It has been so rewarding, continuing this century-old tradition, and I want to see its continuance for years to come.

I do not want to graduate in December of this year knowing that the Gumbo is something that will cease to exist after I am gone.

Taylor and I have been through all the ups and downs one can imagine, being new to leadership roles and having to put together a staff willing to work as a team with

constructive criticism and compromise, to complete one historical document that represents this school and all perspectives that come with such a diverse campus.

There have been the technical problems and the financial problems, but through and through my staff has conquered all things we have faced.

The Gumbo Yearbook, from 1900 – 2018, has documented and represented students at Louisiana State University, covering events such as World War 2, a switch to the 21st centuray, 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and

The Great Flood of 2016, among tons of other historical events that not only left their mark on LSU but on Louisiana as a whole.

Student Government can potentially take away our fees, but they cannot take away what we have already accomplished here as a unit in Student Media.

I want to thank my staff, our Student Media Director, John Friscia, our Coordinator, Jann Goetzmann, and all other editors and hard workers down here in the basement for speaking for the Gumbo Yearbook and the Legacy Magazine.

FACULTY

LSU Professor receives grant for research on quantum computing

BY LUKE JEANFREAU @LukeJeanfreau The emerging field of quantum computing will provide many new ways for scientists to do calculations. Quantum computers work quite differently from normal computers and have the potential to radically change the way we think about computing.

“We are currently in the midst of a second quantum revolution,” said Department of Physics & Astronomy Professor Jonathan P. Dowling. “The first quantum revolution gave us new rules that govern physical reality. The second quantum

revolution will take these rules and use them to develop new technologies.”

Dowling and other researchers recently received a grant worth over $7 million from the U.S. Army Research Office for research into quantum computing. Dowling said one of the main issues facing quantum computers is noise, and his research focuses on mitigating this noise.

“They are very susceptible to noise,” Dowling said.

“Any little disturbance, temperature fluctuations, can cause them not to work. One of the big deals is how to make them tolerant to noise and the

environment so that they’ll actually run and do what you want. Otherwise, they’d be a pretty crappy computer.”

Dowling said he plans to use quantum sensors placed in the computer itself to detect noise and use machine learning algorithms to correct for it.

“The idea is to measure the noise locally, near the transistors that are doing the computing, and then correct the noise in real time,” Dowling said. “That way, we can make the quantum computers tolerant against the noise so that they’ll actually run and produce the mathematical answers we want.”

Dowling said this is incredibly difficult to do, and warrants the over $1 million of the grant the University will receive. He added that one of the teams competing with the University for the grant was from Harvard University.

“I frankly thought they would probably win, just because they’re Harvard,” Dowling said. “Putting together just the right people on the teams with expertise in different areas required physicists, mathematicians, engineers and computer scientists all working on different parts of the problem together. We did a really good job of balancing the team, making sure we had experts in all of these areas to address the different things we’re gonna need to do.”

Dowling said the grant will fund two graduate students to work on the project full time.

These students, along with Dowling, will design machine learning algorithms to help mitigate noise.

While working quantum computers already exist, Dowling said these machines can only handle around 100 transistors. Modern microprocessors, for comparison, can

contain billions of transistors.

Dowling said there is a ways to go before quantum processors get to that point, but progress is growing exponentially.

Although quantum computers aren’t necessarily better than standard computers at many tasks, they can perform many more tasks simultaneously.

“The quantum transistor is doing different calculations in parallel universes,” Dowling said. “Only in our universe do we get the readout, but we’re taking advantage of these exponential number of parallel computational universes to do the calculation.”

While the idea of parallel universes may sound farfetched, Dowling said their existence has been proven.

“People have been working on this from the 1960s and there is clear evidence that these parallel universes exist, and it’s been tested,” Dowling said. “These are not just theory. We know they’re there.

We don’t think there’s people living in them, that would be pretty cool if there were, but we are able to use them for calculation purposes.”

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LSU professor Jonathan Dowling discusses the grant he received on April 23 in James W. Nicholson Hall on LSU campus.

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STUDENT LIFE

University students see increase in vaping, Juul use on campus

BY SHERIDAN WALL @slwall7 E-cigarette use is on the rise among young people, and the University is not immune to the trend.

“E-cigarettes, devices that typically deliver nicotine, flavorings and other additives to users through an inhaled aerosol, are a rapidly emerging trend, and are especially popular among youth and young adults,” said a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “E-cigarettes are now the most commonly used form of tobacco by youth in the U.S.” One of the most popular ecigarettes is the Juul, released in 2015 by PAX Labs, Inc., according to a report by the Public Health Law Center. The design of the Juul is appealing to young people because it’s small, inconspicuous and has a rechargeable battery.

“Although JUUL is promoted as a product for adults looking for an alternative to smoking conventional cigarettes, it has developed a cult-like following among youth and young adults, fueled by a strong presence on social media sites like YouTube, where

uct hadn’t been out long enough for the long-term effects to be studied. Also, the advertising was unregulated.

“It was kind of like the 1950s and early 1960s with anything goes with the advertising,” Sylvester said. “I knew we were headed for trouble when we saw the advertising, when we saw how they were going to be promoted.”

Sylvester asked a young woman smoking an e-cigarette outside of her office whether she knew about the health risks associated with them, and the woman said she did but that e-cigarettes were much healthier than cigarettes.

“We’re failing because it is such a health risk,” Sylvester said.

“We were to the point where the initiative was to have the first tobacco free generation coming up, and now, all the sudden, we’re looking at another addicted generation” Many students and young people using e-cigarettes don’t consider themselves addicted to nicotine, but if e-cigarettes were ever recalled, the young people using them would likely be left with a nicotine addiction, Sylvester said.

“But there is no reason for any-

the term ‘JUULing’ is used to describe the use of the product,” the Public Health Law Center said.

Manship associate professor and tobacco-free campus advocate Judith Sylvester said it was a struggle to include e-cigarettes in the school’s tobacco-free campus policy, but it does include a prohibition against e-cigarette use on campus.

Sylvester said many of the people working with her on the policy didn’t know about e-cigarettes.

When e-cigarettes came out, and they were initially unregulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

“We failed utterly to stop this before it got started,” Sylvester said.

Although the policy includes a ban on e-cigarettes on campus, Sylvester said it is not enforceable. She said she had a “glimmer of hope” when the University banned hoverboards from campus, but it has yet to say anything about e-cigarettes.

Sylvester said the beginning of the e-cigarette phase resembled the release of cigarettes. Consumers were at first largely unaware of the health risks, and the prod-

body college aged or high school aged to ever start using them because we know that they’re dangerous in multiple ways,” Sylvester said. “The studies are showing more and more chemicals.”

Education freshman Abby Chaisson said she considers “vaping” the same as smoking, and she thinks it is more popular among college-aged young people.

English freshman Emily Gaffney said she thinks vaping is on the rise among young people because they don’t think e-cigarettes have as much of an effect as other tobacco products.

“People are literally getting themselves addicted to nicotine because they like the idea of smoking a Juul,” Gaffney said.

Chaisson said she didn’t smoke cigarettes before she bought her Juul, but now she’s addicted to nicotine.

Both Gaffney and Chaisson agreed that vaping is just as bad as smoking or using other tobacco products.

Chaisson said she thinks the biggest drawback to “Juuling” is the expense. She said a pack of Juul pods cost about $17 and only come with four pods. In addition,

her Juul cost $35, but she said she loses it often and has to replace it.

She said she buys hers from a gas station, but Juuls from a vape shop cost around $50.

History freshman Morgan Growden disagrees with Gaffney and Chaisson.

“No one smokes cigarettes because they love tobacco, it’s literally just to get that nicotine fix,” Growden said.

Growden said he thinks ecigarettes are more appealing to young people because of the variety of flavors and the way the flavors are marketed. He said he thinks vaping is often marketed in a way that entices children to smoke.

Growden said in his experience, he thinks it’s more common for someone to go from smoking cigarettes to vaping, not the other way around. He said he thinks vaping is more appealing and fun to do.

“Once you start using it, you look past the stigma of being that guy with the vape, and you just enjoy the act of vaping,” Growden said. “I think it draws you in more than cigarettes, because I think cigarettes are kind of gross.”

FACULTY

Architect professor named one of 13 top female architects

BY RACHEL MIPRO @remroc15

Ursula McClure is one of many architect professors at the University. As of April 3, she’s the only

female architect in the U.S. to be acknowledged by ArchDaily’s list of leading women in architecture.

ArchDaily, a web platform about architecture, named McClure as one of 13 top female ar-

chitects around the world. ArchDaily created this list to celebrate International Women’s Day, and candidates were chosen based on designs, work ethic and dedication to the profession.

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McClure first found out she won a week before ArchDaily notified her, when a former student congratulated her. Enough time had gone by since she’d submitted her application that she had forgotten about it, so the award was a pleasant surprise. Besides excitement, she also felt more introspective about her status as a female architect.

“I’ve gotten a lot of awards.

I’ve worked very hard for them and I’ve been very opportunistic and looking for them. But this is an award I think goes back to the role model. I’ve never thought about being particularly a role model as a female, I just thought I was a role model as a good architect,” McClure said. “This acknowledgement makes me realize that I should be more serious about that identity than I have before.”

She said making the list caused her to more carefully examine her past, to think about differences in treatment and how she had to fight to be heard.

“I didn’t really acknowledge or notice it until I started building buildings, and the contracting profession — which has even less women in it — treats you very differently than it would treat your male counterpart in building buildings,” McClure said. “So I sort of grew up learning how to stand in the mud with everybody else and have them listen to me in the same way that they would listen to a male. It’s just sad that you have to fight that battle, but it’s true.”

McClure hopes that she’ll be able to help and inspire future generations of female architects

as a result of being listed. She added that she wanted to be more of a role model for her female students and to encourage them in the field that she’s been immersed in for years. McClure has worked on more than a hundred projects, in various areas like building, speculative work and article writing, among others.

McClure’s high school guidance counselor first directed her to architecture, but she used to spend hours drawing extremely detailed rooms as a child. Her favorite picture books were ones that showed how things worked, with many pictures of designs.

Years later, she won a college scholarship by making buildings out of Legos.

Now, she balances working for her firm with teaching. McClure teaches classes within the Master of Architecture program and seminar courses that focus on Louisiana culture and architecture. She also works as the founding partner of the emerymcclure architecture firm.

While she says that managing everything is sometimes difficult, she ultimately finds teaching to be a rewarding learning experience.

McClure credits teaching as part of her inspiration and creative process.

“Every generation that I’ve taught, I hold all their knowledge and then the next generation I’ll teach or the next group I teach will bring me their knowledge, and so I’ll just suck it all up. And that’s what helps me be creative, the fact that they’re constantly challenging me to absorb new information,” McClure said.

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page 6 SG, from page 3 the heads of all departments of Student Media and various representatives from campus and the Manship School. Allmon said she felt it appropriate to bring up during this time because budget cuts are part of the job process.

“If you were to become an insurance broker, and someone asked you ‘hey, the US gov’t is looking to cut insurance,” wouldn’t you ask them how they’d handle a budget cut,” Allmon said. “I didn’t know what process [the committee] were in, so this was just the buzz that I heard was happening.”

Several Senators and other SG members repeatedly referenced the SG website, where agendas and legislation are posted for the public to view. However, Allmon said there is no part of the SG bylaws, constitution or any governing documents that require Senators to speak to the students in their senior college about legislation that is going through the Senate.

“It’s not stated anywhere in the governing documents or the bylaws that I have to personally email about legislation that’s going through Senate,” Allmon said. “I don’t think it’s not necessary, I just thought that students would seek it out on their own. I did bring it up in a Media Board meeting with all the student media heads. I think it is part of [Director of Student Media John] Friscia’s job to inform his students about what’s going on and what’s at stake. That’s also on him.”

Student Government president Stewart Lockett said that in a meeting with Friscia on April

4, he urged Friscia to reach out to Green regarding the legislative process of SGCR no. 15.

Friscia said he did not reach out to Green at that point, but had previously requested that Green keep him updated on the process.

“I said, how will we find out, and when will we find out what the committee’s findings are,” Friscia said. He added that Senator Green said the committee was “still looking everything over” and would get back to him.

The legislation passed with 93% of the Senate in favor. The referendum will go before the student body in the fall.

After the approval of SGCR No. 15, Green proposed SGCR No. 16, stating the services provided by the fee, such as music, theater and dance programs did not benefit enough of the student body to justify a campus-wide fee. Senators agreed the funding for Music and Dramatic Arts programs could be provided through the college itself. The College of music and Dramatic Arts did not have a Student Government representative at the time of the legislation’s passage.

College of Music and Dramatic Arts Dean Todd Queen said members of the college administration were contacted by SFVAC committee members in mid-February to inform them of the committee’s purpose, and to get some information from them about the performing arts fee.

“They sent us the directive they had and asked us for some information, so we sent that,” Queen said. “They asked us for some more information, we sent that and we asked to meet with them. They said yes, happy to.”

Queen clarified that no member of the committee offered to meet with members of their administration until Queen requested a meeting with the committee. He was unable to attend the meeting; however, Chair of the School of Theatre Kristin Sosnowsky and CMDA Assistant Dean of Finance and administration Julie Perkins did attend the meeting.

Senator Green later met with Perkins privately to clarify information, but Queen and the other administrators felt the committee “were not asking the kinds of questions they expected for the first time around.”

“I’m not entirely sure we would’ve been made aware of the assessment committee if they hadn’t emailed us for some clarification on some stuff,” Sosnowsky said.

Queen said no member of the administration or student body was made aware that legislation was being brought before Student Senate recommending a cut to the Performing Arts Fee after the mid-March meeting with senator Green.

SGCR no. 16 passed in the senate with 100 percent favorability.

Queen said no member of Student Government contacted him or any other administration member to tell them the legislation was passed and would go to a referendum for the student body to vote on in the fall. He found out the afternoon of April 24.

“I was walking in the lobby back from the restroom and I hear [a student] reading the [Student Government] meeting notes and then I sat there

Wednesday, April 25, 2018 and listened,” Queen said. “So, literally I heard because I was walking through our lobby.”

Queen said he thought there were “several flaws” within the committee’s processes that they’d need to examine.

“The fact that they’re not involving students in an open and transparent way is going to be problematic,” Queen said. “If and when our students find out I think you would expect to hear some really vocal [backlash] from our students. This would have an incredibly negative impact on their experience here at LSU.” Friscia emailed senator Green on April 12 to check on the status of the student media fee recommendations. Green responded to Friscia, saying the legislation passed with a 93% approval the night before.

Friscia and Green then met on the following Monday after Friscia noticed some inaccuracies in the numbers used when proposing the legislation. After meeting with Green, Friscia was informed during an April 17 meeting with incoming SG vice president Rachel Campbell that a meeting regarding the cutting of Student Media fees would take place April 25.

On April 23, members of Student Media learned the legislation had already been passed on April 11 after an employee of The Daily Reveille was forwarded the minutes from the meeting from a friend in Student Government.

The Daily Reveille managing editor Natalie Anderson sent an email to Student Media alumni asking for testimonials about the importance Student Media had on them. The testimonials were intended to be included in an editorial about the #SaveStudentNewsrooms movement, where the editorial staff would address the proposed cuts to Student Media. In the email, she said Student Government “blatantly lied” to Student Media by not gathering the opinions of Student Media employees before voting on the legislation, not notifying them of the meeting on April 11 and informing them of a meeting on April 25 that was not taking place.

The email was soon circulated on social media, where many people learned about the situation for the first time. SG notified Student Media they would be allowed to speak during the final Student Senate meeting of the year on April 24.

Representatives from all five branches of Student Media spoke during the meeting. After Anderson, who will serve as editor in chief of The Daily Reveille in the fall, spoke to the Senate to express Student

Media’s disappointment in not being involved in the process of creating the legislation. Senators expressed their displeasure with her email, feeling it slandered the reputation of Student Government.

“We were, at the time [of the email], told by Student Government there would be a meeting Wednesday at 6:30 where we could defend our case,” Anderson said during the meeting. “So we found out that was not the case.”

Several senators asked Anderson if she stood by the statements made in her email and how the paper would respond to potential charges of slander and defamation.

“From the information we were told by Student Government at that point we were lied to,” Anderson said. “I reiterated in the email that we were continuing to work through the details of this case.”

In the April 24 senate meeting, CMDA students David Baker, Streisand Zeno, and Sarah Bowe spoke to defend the performing arts fee and express their displeasure with SGCR No. 16.

“The irony of Student Government recommending to modify and to decrease the perf arts fee when advancing arts and culture is one of the six pillars of the strategic plan of the university has not been lost on us, and I’m not sure should be lost on the student body,” Queen said. “We literally have identified arts as one of the six things that make us unique as a university, as a public flagship, and when you think about Louisiana, arts and culture are inseparable.

The thought that students would decrease that fee at a time when we’re trying to advance arts and culture doesn’t seem to jive with the strategic plan we’ve just published as a university.”

In an interview with The Daily Reveille, Green explained that when the Student Fee Value Assessment Committee reached out to Queen, they received a response from the University’s Assistant Dean for Finance and Administration.

“We came into the meeting expecting to see [Queen], and the financial representative, only to find the assistant dean and financial representative were gonna be there instead,” Green said. “Which is totally fine. That’s what happened there.”

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situation. Such wording would never be used in any of my news reporting or any other employee of The Daily Reveille’s work.

But as a 21-year-old student who’s passionate about the value of Student Media, I allowed that passion to cloud my judgement of using such powerful words.

At the time it was sent, the information we had contradicted the reality of the situation.

The email was never intended to be publicized, and it also stated that our team was continuing to confirm the details of the

Editor’s note: Natalie Anderson, managing editor, did not edit or contribute to this story.

A full version of this story is available online at lsunow.com/ daily.

Sports

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Future of “DBU,” young players making a push

OH MYIA

BY JBRIAAN JOHNSON @jbriaan_jameson

DILYN STEWART

Senior Myia Hambrick puts up big performances in last meet as Tiger

BY KENNEDI LANDRY @landryyy14 ST. LOUIS — Before LSU’s final rotation on vault in the Super Six, senior Myia Hambrick called the team together in a huddle.

Junior all-arounder Sarah Finnegan says Hambrick told the team, “I don’t care what place we get. It’s really tight. If it’s first, second, whatever— I don’t care. I want to

finish strong. I want us to finish like Tigers.”

Though they ultimately finished fourth, all Hambrick wanted was for the Tigers to leave everything on the floor and that’s what they did.

LSU finished with the highest Super Six score in program history at 197.8375, a score that would have won the Tigers a national title in both 2015 and 2016.

Hambrick had one of the

best meets of her career on Super Six night by finishing second in the all-around with a score of 39.6625, the highest at an NCAA Championships for an LSU gymnast in program history.

Hambrick and freshman Sarah Edwards tied for second highest vault score of the night at 9.95, while Hambrick and Finnegan tied for second on floor at 9.95.

“She was amazing tonight,”

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LSU coach D-D Breaux said.

“We started on bars and she did a beautiful job. Every event she just got better and better. I think vault probably the best. I don’t know what her all-around score was but it was probably the best all-around performance that we’ve had from her in her career. What a way to end it. What a night to go out on.”

After a freshman season where she only competed

Without a doubt, sophomore corner back Greedy Williams will be the leader of “DBU” heading into the fall.

Along with fellow sophomore Grant Delpit, they are the only two starters returning in the secondary for the Tigers. Last season, Williams finished with 38 tackles and six interceptions.

Following a huge year, Williams adopted a new leadership role as his teammates began to look to him for guidance on their own individual game. It was new for Williams as an underclassman but a role he embraced.

“The season I had last year put a big impact on myself for those guys,” Williams said. “I have to keep performing well and maintain a professional style to teach those guys to walk around with a chip on their shoulder.”

Williams teaches his teammates how to grow as players on and off the field.

“We talk everyday, and I tell them when they are messing up, so I look at myself as a big brother to them,” Williams said.

Williams has taken strides to continue building off an impressive breakout year and

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BASEBALL

Freshman outfielder Daniel Cabrera excels in first year

BY BRANDON DECAREAUX @BrandonDec77

Entering the season as one of LSU’s most prized recruits, freshman left fielder Daniel Cabrera has lived up to the preseason hype.

After coming to LSU rated as the No. 1 player in Louisiana, and getting drafted in the 26th round of the 2017 MLB Draft by the Padres, Cabrera had a lot of anticipation for his arrival to the LSU program.

“I think you can put him in the category with the LeMahieus and the Bregmans

and the Antoine Duplantis that were ready to play as a freshman when they arrived at LSU,” coach Paul Mainieri said before the season. “I don’t think he’ll be intimidated by the atmosphere or anything like that. He’s confident kid.

The twenty year old is known to Tiger fans as a dynamic fielder with a knack for finding his pitch.

Cabrera has been great for the Tigers (24-17, 9-9 Southeastern Conference) in a year when everything hasn’t gone their way.

He is currently hitting .289 with 29 RBIs and a .516 slugging percentage. Cabrera

has hit throughout the lineup this season but has found his niche hitting in the five and six hole, where he’s thrived hitting second on the team with 12 doubles.

Cabrera’s signature moment of the season came last weekend after an improbable six-run ninth against Tennessee was capped off by a towering two-run blast off of Cabrera’s bat. The home run was the fifth of the season for Cabrera and gave Mainieri his 1,400th career victory.

“I kind of blacked out,”

see CABRERA, page 9

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LSU freshman outfielder Daniel Cabrera (2) runs to first base during the Tigers’ 9-4 win against South Alabama on March 14 at Alex Box Stadium.

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SOFTBALL

Senior Emily Griggs ref lects on four years as Tiger

BY TREASURE WASHINGTON @Twashington490

LSU senior center fielder Emily Griggs has been through it all in her four years as a Tiger.

For the past three years, the Wichita, Kansas, native has had the luxury of playing in the Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma City.

Griggs has also shared the outfield with some very special players over the years like Bailey Landry and A.J. Andrews.

In her first year as a Tiger, Griggs was her team’s starting left fielder while Andrews was the starter in center field. But when Andrews graduated at the end of that season, the center field torch was passed down from her to Griggs.

“We all kind of push each other to be better than we are,” Griggs said. “It’s been great to play with some of the best of the best.”

Griggs now shares the outfield with A.J.’s younger sister, sophomore left fielder Aliyah

Andrews, and freshman right fielder Taryn Antoine. Over the last week, all three outfielders have represented the Tigers in the top of the batting order, recording a combined 16 hits with 45 at-bats and a .356 batting average.

“All of the outfielders get along and we’re always competing with one another on a friendly basis,” Griggs said. “It’s so much fun to be able to go out and play the game that I love with the people I know that love it just as much as I do.”

Griggs has been one of the Tigers’ most consistent players, as she has started in every game since her sophomore year and all but one game in her freshman year. As a senior, her 46 hits, .315 batting average and 18 RBIs are all top-five on the team.

One special moment of Griggs’ final season came in the BYU game, as her RBI single to score sophomore right fielder Claire Weinberger clinched the Tigers’ fourth extra innings victory of the season.

But as the dates of her final

games at Tiger Park get closer, Griggs tries not to let that enter her mind.

She continues to take in the home atmosphere as much as she possibly can while at the same time enjoy the presence of her teammates.

Griggs calls her fellow seniors, which includes pitchers Carley Hoover and Allie Walljasper and catcher Sydney Loupe, some of the greatest people that she’s gotten to play with over the years.

“We’re all just so different and keep everyone on their toes,” Griggs said. “I couldn’t pick three other people to be graduating with. They’re great people on and off the field, and I just love them all.”

One of the main challenges of Griggs’ senior season is utilizing her different skill sets as an outfielder and a batter. That incorporates using a lot of small ball when needed and having better positions when she steps into the plate.

LSU coach Beth Torina describes Griggs as a veteran,

not just for her age, but for how her at-bats improve when she faces good competition.

“I think that she’s great in those situations,” Torina said.

“She knows how to have good atbats and how to make the right choices in the outfield.”

One piece of Torina’s advice that has stuck with Griggs since her freshman year is to always leave something better than you found it. Griggs, who is graduating with a degree in communication studies, wants to take that advice and apply it in all aspects of her life.

“She’s had a great career and done a lot for us,” Torina said. “She brings a lot of energy and fun to the team. She just knows the game and she plays it very well.” “[These four years] have gone by so fast,” Griggs said. “I’ve played with some of the best people on the field and off the field. I’ve been under the greatest coaching staff in the country, so I’m super grateful and blessed to be a part of something so special.”

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LSU senior outfielder Emily Griggs (8) prepares to hit during the Tigers’ 7-3 win over WKU on March 13 at Tiger Park.

OPINION

Spring Game creates murkier waters for LSU’s quarterback position CAL’D UP CHRIS CALDARERA @caldarera11 Nothing is certain but death,

taxes and an LSU quarterback controversy.

Entering spring practice, it appeared that the battle for the starting signal caller position was solely between sophomore Myles Brennan and redshirt

freshman Lowell Narcisse.

Many fans also speculated that Brennan had a slight edge against Narcisse, but Saturday’s National L Club Spring Game changed everything.

Not only is it clear that the

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Tigers’ quarterback position is Brennan did not. still wide open as the summer Execution also seemed to be months approach, junior Jus- a theme of high importance for tin McMillan has emphatically Orgeron. thrown his hat into the ring.

The team was plagued with McMillan had the most misreads, missed throws and head-turning day as quarter- missed protections, so the quarback and threw for roughly 216 terback that gives the offense yards and a touchdown in 14 the most consistency should be completions. favored come August.

I say roughly because LSU Orgeron also mentioned did not release an official stat that the ability to roll out of the line after the spring game, but pocket and throw the ball deep The Advocate’s Ross Dellenger down field will also be crucial tweeted his compilation of the to the offense that coordinator Steve Ensminger wants to day’s stats.

Narcisse also threw for implement.

So, what does the aftermath about 200 yards and had a 94yard touchdown pass to wide of the spring game mean for LSU’s quarterreceiver Justin back position?

Jefferson.

Things cerStatistically speaking, the Nothing is certain but tainly aren’t lookfavorable for perceived frontdeath, taxes and an LSU ing Brennan thanks runner in the quarterback bat- quarterback controversy. to an average pertle had the worst formance and the day of the three growing need to hopefuls. Brenscramble out of nan threw for the pocket, but I about 113 yards with a touch- wouldn’t count him out yet. down and an interception, but The coaching staff has been also engineered an offensive high on Brennan throughout drive in which he showed the the fall, and he’s also the only rhythm and poise that had Ti- quarterback on the roster to see ger fans buzzing about him last meaningful playing time at the fall.

FBS level.

Although rhythm in the However, McMillan and pocket is important, coach Ed Narcisse certainly impressed Orgeron told reporters after fans with their ability to play the game that the ability to es- on their feet, and both have cape pressure will be a big fac- shots at taking favorable tor in choosing which player leads in Orgeron’s eyes and starts under center during the the fans with developments in consistency and execution.

2018 season.

Perhaps, the only thing After the spring game, it’s safe to say that McMillan and made clear after LSU’s offense Narcisse showed their ability to spring game is that everything create plays on their feet while is still unclear.

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Wednesday, April 25, 2018 CABRERA, from page 7 Cabrera said of his home run. “That’s a memory I’ll remember for the rest of my life.”

The run was a rare victory for the Tigers, with them winning only one other time in 304 previous games LSU trailed by four runs entering the ninth.

“That’s what I came here for,” Cabrera said. “To play the best and win games like this.”

Prior to LSU, Cabrera played at Parkview Baptist in Baton Rouge where he earned AllState honors hitting .510 in his senior season with 25 RBIs. Cabrera’s terrific prep career positioned him as the No. 82 overall prospect in 2017 MLB Draft, according to Baseball America.

Good times at LSU were not always the case for Cabrera at the beginning of the season. Entering the opening series against Hawaii, Cabrera had a .211 batting average and was getting replaced in the lineup depending on what pitcher the opposing team went with.

“We just decided to not have him hit against lefties for a while to keep his confidence going,” Mainieri said. “The thing you worry about the most is that a young kid starts looking at his overall statistics and starts losing his confidence a little bit.”

However, Cabrera found something in the game against Hawaii, getting three hits on the night including an opposite field double.

Cabrera hasn’t looked back from that moment, shoring up his swing with a shorter stride that helped him target pitches in the zone with his quick hands.

The string of success for Cabrera has been a huge boost to the team, but Mainieri is hopeful this is just the beginning of Cabrera’s long journey to stardom.

“I think we’re just scratching the surface of what we’re going to see out of Daniel,” Mainieri said.

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Daniel Cabrera (2) attempts to steal third base during the Tigers’ 2-4 loss against Hawaii on March 9 at Alex Box Stadium.

WILLIAMS, from page 7 improve his game.

“I’ve worked on my technique throughout the spring a lot and became a big film-study guy,” Williams said. “I mainly wanted to work on my footwork.

That is very important to me, and I wanted to perfect my technique and make the best of it. I also wanted to get more involved with the team.”

Coach Ed Orgeron will be relying on less experienced players to produce at a high level for his defense.

A player such as graduate transfer from Stanford Terrence Alexander will provide the secondary with much needed maturity and experience, as well as speed. Alexander is a 5-foot-10, 182 pound elite athlete that provides quickness on the edge for the Tigers.

With an LSU team that is already lacking depth in the secondary, getting Alexander was a huge pickup for the Tigers.

“Bringing in that guy and getting him used to the playbook will be key,” Williams said. “He’s an experienced guy and I think he will pick up on the playbook fast and we’ll be able to get good work in with him.”

Sophomores Jontre Kirklin and Mannie Netherly have been in the mix to earn the starting role opposite Williams.

HAMBRICK, from page 7 consistently on vault, Hambrick has become one of the best all-arounders in the nation.

“Her freshman year was a real growing experience for her,” Breaux said. “She got her feet wet and realized this is really what she wanted to do. She’s so creative and such a wonderful little human being. Every year she’s gotten better and better. She’s so emotional about what LSU has done for her and what she brings to the table for LSU. It’s been a great relationship.”

Since her freshman year she has not only grown as a gymnast but also as a leader on the team.

LSU gymnasts have continuously talked about Hambrick’s “lead by example” nature and and how it contributes to the overall success of the team.

“Myia’s been amazing,” Finnegan said. “I’m just really proud of the growth that she’s had throughout her college career. Me, coming in a class after her, she’s definitely been one of my role models to look up to. To see what kind of student athlete that I’m trying to be, in the gym and out of the gym and she really embodies what it means to be a true leader.”

Ending her career with a fourth-place finish at the Super Six is hardly something to look down upon, and Hambrick recognizes that.

“My whole gymnastics career has been really crazy,” Hambrick said. “It’s just been up and down, and I’m

page 9 Kirklin is converting from quarterback to cornerback, causing him to adapt to a completely new style of play. He has looked to Williams the most as a mentor and someone to help smoothen his transition.

“He asks a lot of questions so I have to give him basically my whole game,” Williams said. “He came from quarterback also and now he is a DB. It’s a big change and from my experience as a wide receiver before becoming a DB in high school, I know the change.

He’s progressing well.”

Netherly is a player the coaching staff believes is a player that brings valuable assets to the team and could be a boost to the defense as well.

“He played defensive back in high school, but we brought it back to him,” Williams said. “It’s kind of new to him with getting all of the technique down.”

In the spring game, Netherly and Kirklin each recorded one pass breakup. The two have seen significant playing time and solidified themselves squarely in the race.

Along with those players, elite athlete Kary Vincent Jr. will also be a contender to challenge for the spot. Vincent Jr. has shown the ability to play a multiple positions effectively such as wide receiver and cornerback.

Vincent Jr. was recruited and really excited that I get to end here at LSU, in the Super Six. I’ve been saying all week, not everybody gets to come to nationals. Not everyone makes the Super Six. Being in the Super Six in general is a great opportunity.

I’m glad I got to finish it here with everybody. This team was really awesome, and I love them.”

Despite her departure from the program, Hambrick has high hopes for LSU in the future.

Only six teams have won a national championship: Utah, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Oklahoma and UCLA. LSU, as a program, has grown a tremendous amount in the last decade, and Hambrick sees a national title in LSU’s future.

Since Hambrick’s freshman year, the Tigers have added two Southeastern Conference cham-

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LSU sophomore cornerback Greedy Williams (29) takes a break during the purple team’s 28-27 victory against the gold team during the Spring Game on April 21. brought into LSU as one of the best athletes in the recruiting class of 2017. Last season, Vincent Jr. gained valuable experience when used at multiple positions,but primarily played cornerback in high school.

As a whole, LSU has players who are talented enough to fill in the holes and not experience a huge drop-off. However, no one knows who those players will be, and it will be one of the biggest question, going into summer camp. pionships and two national runner-up titles to its resume.

“Not many people have done it in general and I think that LSU’s heading in a really great direction,” Hambrick said. “I’m excited to watch them and see what they’re able to do.”

The development of the program comes directly from Breaux as a head coach. Even when LSU wasn’t hitting reaching the same heights as it is now, Breaux always believed they could and that’s what drew Hambrick to compete at LSU. “I think she knows me pretty well and I know her pretty well too,” Hambrick said. “It’s been cool to grow and learn somebody like that. I really wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. It’s the greatest place I could’ve been doing college gymnastics.

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LSU gymnastics team celebrates defeating Auburn in the SEC regular Season Championship 198.1-195.625.

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Capital City Records celebrates Record Store Day on Saturday, April 21 in Baton Rouge.

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Game Changer LSU student transforms traditional Japanese card game

BY KELLY SWIFT @kellbell237 Graphic design senior Grace Lee is leaving her final mark on the University’s campus, though it may find its way to Korea later on.

She is presenting her senior thesis on the third floor of the Design Building on Friday, April 27, from 6 to 8 p.m.

Lee re-designed cards from a card game that originated from Japan, known as “Hwatu” or “Go-Stop.” Lee said the cards have been a part of her life since her childhood. When Lee was a young girl, she discovered the card game, which unbeknownst to her at the time, is also sometimes a gambling game. Her mother quickly discovered Lee’s “gambling” cards and threw them away, but that wasn’t the end of Lee’s relationship with Hwatu.

“I emigrated to New Orleans from Korea when I was 6, and I’ve always missed my roots,” Lee said.

In Hwatu, there are usually two, three or four players. The objective of the game is to score the minimum amount of points, usually three or seven, and then say, “go” or “stop.” When a “Go” is called, the game continues, and the number

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BUSINESS

Company brings Disney to Baton Rouge

BY AMAYA LYNCH @maya09172 The magical world of Disney has resided in Baton Rouge for the past five years. Petite Princess Company offers the chance to bring that magic to your doorstep.

Petite Princess Company provides princesses and mermaids to people in the Baton Rouge area for parties and other events. Petite Princess Company is run by Venessa Lewis and allows people from all over the state to “rent” a princess. The Baton Rouge Petite Princess Company is one of the few of its kind in the state, and Lewis said she is looking to expand from the one location in Baton Rouge.

The company, originally named “Rent A Princess,” opened in 2014 before Lewis bought it from a former student of the University in December 2015 while she was working as an adjunct professor at the Manship School of Mass Communication. Within two weeks of the student asking Lewis if she wanted to buy it, Lewis said she had gone to the bank and purchased the company. What started as a few students in princess dresses has turned into the wellknown Louisiana business that

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Light House Coffee opens, gives job opportunities to refugees

BY KELLY SWIFT @kellbell237 Co-owners Cindy Barker, Steve Elworth and Amber Elworth have brought joy and light to Baton Rouge that shines far past 257 Lee Drive.

The concept of Light House Coffee was born in The Chapel on the Campus church, where the three friends met. Amber had a dream of opening up a coffee shop, and Barker had the business experience to make it happen. Amber knew she wanted to work with refugees since she had taught English to many of Baton Rouge’s refugees through her work with Catholic charities. She and Barker wanted to abolish the misconceptions that coincided with refugees.

“A refugee is a person who has had to leave their country for safety reasons,” Barker said. “They need jobs just like everyone else.”

The co-owners opened Light House Coffee on March 31 and

focused on hiring refugees, though anyone is welcome to work at the shop. However, their passion for helping refugees goes far beyond hiring them.

Light House Coffee is in a partnership with “Hands Producing Hope,” which is an organization run by Rebecca Gardner that sells jewelry and other items made by women in poverty. Light House Coffee has a section in the shop devoted to showing and selling the women’s work, some of which is made by local women.

“The organization’s goal is very similar to ours,” Barker said. “We want to empower others, both locally and globally.”

Light House Coffee also supports “Rahab’s Rope,” which donates profit from its jewelry and accessory sales to ending sex trafficking globally. Though Light House Coffee has a passion for helping people across the globe, they also support local business. Its pastries are made fresh by local vendors, and almost every table in the coffee

shop has been handcrafted by artisans in Baton Rouge, with four new ones on the way.

The shop’s layout was mostly designed by Amber, with a little help from Pinterest. She has traveled across the U.S. to many different coffee shops and generated her own idea for a fresh new look. She hired Coleman Partners Architects to bring her ideas to life. What used to be a “Mr Dollar” dollar store transformed into an elegant and innovative coffee shop.

“I feel like I have finally found a place that is just the right distance from campus and the right environment to both study and relax,” said mass communication junior Ashley Selzer, who is a customer at Light House Coffee.

Light House Coffee has direct trade with their coffee farmers, which brings coffee beans straight from the coffee belt and into the hands of Lighthouse’s roaster. Customers can enjoy

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Light House Coffee opens as a local café for the Baton Rouge community on April 20.

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LIFESTYLE

LSU student, travel blogger finds fulfillment by funding her own trips took her eight months of shifts to save up for. “[That last trip] was a few A deep wanderlust is weeks – it was actually my first practically a given among col- time to Europe,” Dean said. “I lege students. Our culture stim- was with a group for the first ulates the desire to discover the half, and then by myself for the world and see all it has to offer rest of it. When I was in England while we’re still young enough to I was by myself, but then I went to Germany, Switzerland, Ausenjoy it.

Mass communication junior tria, France and Liechtenstein.

Aubrey Dean is no exception, But that’s what I like, a mix of a and she has made her travel group and being by myself.”

Dean recalls her parents dreams come true through the power of her determination and bringing up the movie “Taken” hard-earned money. Well, that at the thought of their daughter being alone in Europe, but and a bit of luck.

Dean said her first excursion the idea of being in Europe for the first time alone, staying was a bit of a lucky break.

“My first time really with strangers in Airbnbs and in hostels with traveling out of strangers didn’t the country was “No matter where bother her in three years ago,” Dean said. “But you go, you need to the least. More than anything, it wasn’t very far, experience other the idea of a tour just to Honduras group felt refor a missionscultures.” stricting. type thing, and “I’m a photogI really enjoyed raphy person, so it. I knew I wantAUBREY DEAN I’d just go outside, ed to travel, but Mass Communication junior take pictures and I didn’t think see what’s around it was feasible for me, especially as a college me,” Dean said. “I don’t really like touristy areas that much, I student.”

Dean said her travel is more like to avoid the people. I like to important to her because the find little pubs and local areas. I trips are entirely self-funded. like to shop around and see what She said she currently waits the local people do.”

Before going to LSU, Dean tables, and her most recent trip

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Mass communication junior Aubrey Dean speaks on behalf of her previous and future travels in the Design Building courtyard. attended a smaller school in Mississippi, and she worked as a photographer for a year as part of Disney’s college program.

Dean said her experiences at Disney made her want to travel.

“I like being out of my comfort zone,” Dean said. “After that, I really wanted to go to Europe. I’m really comfortable being away from home. Being over [in Disney], away from my family and my friends really had me thinking, ‘Maybe I can

do this, maybe I can travel on my own.’”

This desire to experience life outside of her comfort zone, Dean said, was part of what inspired her to return home to Baton Rouge and attend the University, a place where she would feel pushed to her fullest potential. However, Dean said that no matter what school she attended, the problem of travel finances never changed.

“I work four days a week, which isn’t too bad, but that plus

a heavy course load is a lot,” Dean said. “Trying to balance a heavy workload, a social life and keeping my grades up is a struggle. It’s worth it in the end, but the process is hard.”

Dean said the struggle doesn’t bog her down, though. She said she’s already in the works of planning a trip to her dream destination: Norway.

“I really want to see the Northern Lights,” Dean said.

“I’m definitely more of a nature kind of person as opposed to the buildings and monuments. Those are always cool to see, but I always want to see the landscapes and the mountains.”

Through it all, Dean said the most rewarding parts of her travels have been immersing herself in the myriad of cultures around her and meeting new people, despite any supposed obstacles.

Dean’s biggest recommendation – more than any place or sight she’s come in contact with – is simply just to get out and see the world.

“I think everyone needs to travel internationally at least once. No matter where you go, you need to experience other cultures,” Dean said. “I know people who have never been out of the country, and I think you need to prioritize it.”

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LSU student urges people to bridge experience gaps through education

BY ASHLEI GOSHA @yungjemisin Educational leadership and research Ph.D. student Sydney Epps’ passport has far more stamps than the usual college student’s, and everywhere she’s been has led her right to Baton Rouge. She is currently working to enrich the area through direct action within the community and hopes to stay a while longer.

Epps said she is an army baby who is the product of three generations of army veterans – this is just one of the reasons she has been to more than half of the states in the country. When her parents were busy with work obligations, she stayed with her godparents.

Epps said the differences between her parents’ and godparents’ lives stuck with her.

She said the circumstances of their lives marked an essential aspect of being a black person or a person of minority status in America, and added onto the exposure to different things and peoples she experienced during high school.

“I saw another world in living with my godparents, so I really appreciated that dyad of seeing what it’s like to work very hard and not attain a lot of success, and then to work very hard and attain monumental success,” Epps said. “I knew

that on neither end was anybody necessarily doing anything wrong to be set back.”

Epps’ godfather experienced great success in his business while her parents maintained working class status.

Through education, Epps hopes to help students bridge the gap between these experiences and understand what she has learned during her life.

“You are either an outlier and you’re exceptional, or you are placed into this race of really never being able to get out of the ruts that are put in front of you, never given that big break or that opportunity or being lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time,” Epps said. “It really put my life into perspective.”

Epps said her success is due to her working hard, but it’s not due to the fact that other people weren’t. Her life experiences have helped her on the path to becoming who she is today.

“Sometimes I feel like I slipped through the cracks into a successful life and I wish that I could pull other people through, so I guess I’m trying to break through a lot of that grate to make to make it more open for other opportunities and that was because of him and seeing how hard he worked to become who he was,” Epps said.

Epps said she hopes to

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LSU educational leadership and research doctorate Sydney Epps talks about being a student activist. become a university president one day. She said she is also open to the professorship as she loves being in the classroom and had the opportunity last year to teach a popular Black Lives Matter class under the advisorship of professor Kenneth Fasching-Varner.

“The class was only supposed to be 25 students, it ended up ballooning to almost 40,” Epps said. “We always had guests in the classroom, I always allowed the students to bring their friends to class, bring your girlfriend to class,

your cousin and whoever’s in town with you.”

Epps said education was a huge part of her growth and she wants to give the same back to students. She wants to bring them together to fight and get angry with each other, then learn how things became the way they are and finally to heal.

“We need more environments like that because people need to let that hurt out,” Epps said. “Honestly, that’s what the University is supposed to do. If you are graduating with a degree and you still think the way

that you did when you came in about every subject, then we’ve taken your money and we’re not giving it back, but you haven’t gotten anything from that experience.”

Last year during the Blacks in Academia Lecture Series, in which a scholar was brought in every week, Silky Slim was one of the first individuals brought in to speak. Epps said Slim’s understanding of life as a disenfranchised black man and lowincome citizen is valuable at the University, specifically because of his connection to Baton Rouge.

“We have to be knowledgeable as scholars to realize that experiential knowledge matters,” Epps said. “People’s experiences in the community need to be brought to the footsteps of higher education because we only know things from a theoretical perspective.”

Epps said she wants her impact on her students to be continuous. In this vein, she believes faculty and staff can benefit from continuing their education.

“We at times think that we are the truth-knowers and that we espouse truth to students to absorb, like a sponge, and to be honest I’ve heard some of the most ignorant things I’ve ever heard on this campus come from people who have Ph.D.s or EdDs,” Epps said. “So, I’m here to challenge that, as well.”

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‘Rampage’ a money-grabber, misses deeper point

BY AMAYA LYNCH @MAYA09172 “Rampage” turned out to be just another “King Kong” movie, but it shockingly still has its charms. A movie that not only includes a giant gorilla, but also a giant wolf and crocodile is bound to peak people’s interest. Add Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson to the equation, and there’s a high budget blockbuster movie worth giving a chance.

Johnson stars alongside the giant albino gorilla George.

Johnson’s character, Davis Okoye, is the main care provider for George after saving him as an infant from poachers.

For that reason, George grew up a happy, normal gorilla until he is exposed to a pathogen that crash lands in his habitat.

George mutates and grows substantially overnight, leaving Okoye to frantically look for a cure.

The people responsible for the pathogen try to “fix” what they did by luring in George and the mutated wolf that was also exposed to the pathogen.

The mutated crocodile was a surprise for everyone.

Something to commend the movie producers on is how realistic the animals looked after they were mutated. Something that was hard to understand was how the wolf mutated and was able to fly, and the crocodile completely morphed into a prehistoric creature while George just became a really large and strong gorilla.

The plan to lure these giant animals into the center of a city full of people is something that went completely over my head. It may just be me, but that sounds like the worst idea ever.

The sensor they used to lure the animals in also caused them to become incredibly aggressive in trying to reach it.

The film turns out to feel like a huge video game. By the end, it turns into Okoye and George against the giant crocodile, but like most video games, any form of plot was extremely weak and played out.

The woman who helps Okoye, Dr. Kate Caldwell, plays a confusing role in the action film. At first, she is the person who will find the cure, but then she can’t cure him.

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A movie that not only includes a giant gorilla, but also a giant wolf and crocodile is bound to peak people’s interest.

Her role continues to change, and she seems like a really big plot hole.

The saving grace of the movie was George and Okoye’s relationship. There is a clear love between the two of them, and they are also the main source of humor. George was also incredibly relatable. He seemed almost human in some of his mannerisms. The big joke and plot twist at the end is probably the best part of the film. It almost makes you forget that you sat through a film similar to many you have

seen before — almost.

“Rampage” is entertaining and interesting, but it lacks depth. It’s worth the casual movie night, but it felt like another movie that Johnson can make money off of. There was the tiniest implication that the film was supposed to point out the negative effects people can have on the animals and the environment, as well as the effects that illegal poaching can have on animals. If they focused a little more on that, the film may have hit a little harder.

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LSU student uses travel company to gain international experience

BY KELLY SWIFT @kellbell237 Veronica Droulia is an English junior at the University, but if you’ve seen her Instagram, you may pin her as more of a geography major.

Droulia has traveled the world in only a couple of years.

She grew up without ever leaving North America and being perfectly happy with it, but once she left the States following her senior year of high school, she learned about her unquenchable thirst for adventure and travel.

“Once I finally traveled to another country, I knew I had to keep traveling no matter what,” Droulia said.

Her first trip out of America was to Jamaica with a friend of hers. She was immediately infatuated with the different culture, food and how warm the locals were. Droulia said the people were welcoming and happy to help travelers, which made her feel at home though she was nowhere near it.

The moment she arrived home from Jamaica, she started planning her next trip. With only a couple of months before her freshman year of college, page 18

she knew she needed to act fast.

She decided to go with EF Ultimate Break, a travel company specifically for college-aged students, to Germany with her cousin. They were introduced to the fried, delicious food of Germany and the social norms of the German people.

“I learned that some things are considered rude in other cultures,” Droulia said. “For example, in Germany, they don’t say ‘what’s up’ because small talk isn’t as common there as it is here. I learned to always do lots of research on a country before visiting.”

Droulia returned to Germany the summer following her freshman year for a study abroad program. Her study abroad ended in Prague, but she wasn’t done with Europe, so she decided to stay in Europe and continue her travels, specifically in Greece.

Droulia said Greece is her favorite place to travel because she feels like it’s a second home.

Her travels to Greece have exposed her to the world-famous Grecian architecture and food, which she still prepares for herself in her own home.

Droulia’s father was born in Thessaloniki, the second-

largest city in Greece, so she already had a tie to the country.

However, she said her own experiences there are what made Greece her favorite travel spot.

It was not only the beauty, but the kindness of the locals that made Droulia feel at home.

When she isn’t traveling out of the country, she’s in school at the University for English with a minor in German. She tries to schedule all Tuesday and Thursday classes so she can travel on the weekends. Droulia uses some of these free weekends to travel to the headquarters of, “Like to Know It,” her current job which allows her to showcase her travel outfits.

Droulia began working with “Like To Know It” in August 2017. The app helps shoppers easily find where their favorite Instagram model’s outfits are from. Droulia posts about three pictures a month related to the app. “Like To Know It” brought Droulia to do a paid partnership with Urban Outfitters.

“It’s been awesome working with them because I get to meet a lot of other college girls who work with the app, too,” Droulia said.

Droulia went to D.C. over the summer, and instead of work-

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English junior Veronica Droulia discusses her world travels and experiences on April 18 at Light House Coffee on Lee Drive.

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ing with “Like To Know It,” she wrote proposals with data concerning nonprofits and sent them to different foundations.

She said she hopes to work for a family foundation one day where she could litigate and

bring about change. For now, she is focusing on school and her world travels.

“I’m so happy that I’ve been able to experience different cultures and learn about them,” Droulia said. November 8, 2017 Wednesday,

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Wednesday, April 23, 2018 PRINCESS CO., from page 13 Petite Princess Company is today.

The attraction for the business came from the love Lewis and her child already had for the Disney characters. Lewis said she wanted to dedicate her time to her new company, and to focus on her new princess business, Lewis retired from being an adjunct professor.

“I have owned it for about two and a half years, but it’s been in existence for about five years,” Lewis said. “When I purchased the company, I did rename it and rebrand it. When it was founded, it was named Rent A Princess.

When I bought it, I named it Petite Princess Company. We have upgraded so much since then. We’ve gone from 15 princesses to 20 princesses and two mermaids.”

Petite Princess Company has gone from a college student’s small side business to a company that provides services to people all across the state of Louisiana. The company also holds special events like father-daughter balls and Mother’s Day teas in both the fall and spring time. At these events, princesses are featured for the children to meet and interact with.

“We are looking toward adding some princes,” Lewis said. “ We are thinking about Prince Charming, Flynn Rider, the Mad Hatter and possibly Peter Pan in the near future.”

Each of the characters have gone through special training to perfect the image of that particular character. The characters sing songs from their movie or show, and they know the background of each of the characters and where they came from.

Petite Princess is not currently hiring, but when they do go through the hiring process, Lewis said applicants must fit multiple specific criteria to get hired. Applicants can’t have tattoos or piercings in odd places, and they go through an extensive background check.

Lewis said she heard a lot about the trials of becoming an actual Disney cast member and believes that Petite Princess Company has the same, if not higher, standards.

“We are very particular about the people we hire because our audience is children and young families, so we want to make sure they always feel safe and comfortable and enjoy a magical experience,” Lewis said. “All of our cast

members are either currently LSU students, former LSU or Southern students, so yes, we hire specifically from the college crowd.”

Petite Princess Company has acquired a reputation for great service and committed character acting. Cast members not only entertain, but they also educate.

The company invites libraries and classes to reach out to them to cast members read to the children, play games and even talk about the heritage of that particular character.

If you can’t make the trip all the way to a Disney park, contacting Petite Princess Company seems to be the next best thing. There are few companies that provide this service in the state, allowing them to prosper and spread their magic across the state of Louisiana.

“I think we do princesses, and we do princesses very well,” Lewis said “You know, we are the best in the state as far as our reach and amount of characters and the amount of bookings we have. I feel like what we offer here is a much more intimate and personal experience. It really is a magical experience.”

page 17 LEE, from page 13 points or amount of money is first increased, and then doubled or tripled. A player calling “Go” risks another player scoring the minimum and winning all the points themselves. If a “Stop” is called, the game ends and the caller collects their winnings.

Lee became fascinated with the cards’ beautiful designs when she rediscovered the card game a few years ago. The original card game has traditional Japanese and Chinese designs, but Lee wanted to redesign the game to make it a blend of traditional and modern Korean styles.

She started with extensive research on Korean designs, then planned out what each card’s design would be.

“It was so fulfilling to learn more about my culture, and I learned things that I would have never known without this card game,” Lee said.

In Hwatu, there is a total of 48 cards. There are four for each month that can be matched

together with its individual designs. Lee took the original designs from the game and reimagined them into her own personal designs. She started her designs by using Photoshop and scanned them onto her computer.

Lee has been working on the cards for the entire semester to perfect each individual card. Her final designs will be displayed at the “In The Making” Senior show on April 27, where she will hang her cards, by month, on a large wall. Her work will be accompanied by the rest of her class.

After college, Lee said she hopes to move to Austin, Texas with her husband and continue her graphic design work. She also hopes to one day have her redesigned version of Hwatu in stores in Korea, but said she is perfectly happy to have it just for herself, friends and family.

“I have learned so much about myself and my heritage from this project,” Lee said. “Hwatu and I have come along way from my mom throwing it away.”

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Barker said their mission and the name “Light House” comes from the Bible verse Isaiah 58:10, which speaks about light from people’s good deeds rising in times of darkness. The owners of Light House Coffee care about their refugee workers and trying to help them become a part of the Baton Rouge community.

“We want to try and break the cycle of poverty that often comes with being a refugee in a new country,” Barker said.

The owners said they made sure Light House Coffee was on a bus line and close enough to where the refugees live. They also noticed there was a lack of coffee shops in the area, so they spent roughly 20 months renovating and adding to the existing building to make it what it is today.

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Tigerland dangerous party location, should be closed CHATTING WITH ABI ABIGAIL VARNADO @abi_varn Tigerland should be completely shut down. Tigerland is a cesspool for violence, crime, binge-drinking and other deplorable activities, making it a trashy and dangerous place for students and other visitors.

In June 2017, Reggie’s Bar was busted in a sting operation by law enforcement. They busted the bar on several violations, including selling alcohol to underage drinkers as young as 16.

Many were cited with crimes ranging from underage drinking to assault of an officer. The law enforcement also noted the crowd was twice the legal occupancy, making the bar a dangerous environment, especially in the case of an emergency.

As the investigation and court sessions went along, law enforcement also reported many more violations, which should have shut the bar down completely. However, a second judge came on the scene and lifted the temporary closure, opening it for the start of the

semester for the continuation of debauchery.

Reggie’s has also been accused of racism on several occasions, from their dress code to the Confederate flag hanging on the wall. In 2015, some complained of Reggie’s using a racist stamp. In September 2017, Reggie’s was under fire for cups stating “Show your pride” with a blue confederate flag, and the appearance of a noose in the establishment on the same night.

Reggie’s alone should have been shut down, never to be reopened, but the city apparently won’t do anything about the eyesore. It’s a place of severe disrespect and is a danger to its customers since they won’t follow the law, which is in place for public safety.

Fred’s Bar doesn’t fare much better than Reggie’s with their “midget wrestling” events. These events are quite disrespectful and dehumanizing, since the drunk crowd only shows up to view this as a funny spectacle to make fun of little persons.

The Tigerland bars are disgusting and sketchy enough as it is, but the large parking lot is what makes the place even more dangerous. According to The Advocate, law enforcement views

Tigerland as a crime hotspot.

The last few years have had several incidents of guns being fired or being used to threaten customers outside of the bars.

There have also been incidents of rape, burglary and other acts of violence in the parking lot.

In June 2015, LSU football player Trey Lealaimatafao was accused of digging through an unconscious man’s pockets and punching a woman in the parking lot. Another football player was stabbed outside of the bars. This is the deplorable behavior that seems to be encouraged by the shady environment Tigerland attracts. It’s obviously not safe for any customer, especially if stabbings are occurring.

According to The Advocate, batteries rose from 95 in 2014 to 119 in 2015, firearm incidents doubled from 14 in 2014 to 30 in 2015 and burglaries rose from 107 in 2014 to 111 in 2015.

This is quite concerning, especially if there are highschool children trying to attend these bars. The area is trashy, classless and dangerous. It doesn’t help that many customers get drunk from partying a little too hard at the bars, as well. Getting drunk in sketchy places leads to

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Many dangerous incidents occur in Tigerland all the time. impaired judgments and helpless customers.

There have been a few incidents with students and other pedestrians getting hit by the train passing by Tigerland— many of them were drunk. In 2016, a 19-year-old LSU student was seriously injured on the train tracks. He missed all audible ques of the train barrelling down the tracks and was luckily saved by a passerby who dialed 9-1-1.

Incidents like these are quite

serious: from the disrespectful attitude to the rampant crime to the binge drinking. Tigerland needs to be shut down for the safety and self-respect of students and residents in the area. If it won’t get shut down, then the University should at least better educate its students on the dangers of this party location.

Abigail Varnado is a 22-yearold English senior from Amite, Louisiana.

Presidential satire harmful to public perception, foreign affairs OH, NOT AGAIN! KYLE RICHOUX @KyleRichoux President Donald Trump’s approval rating sits comfortable at 39 percent following its peak at 45 percent in January.

It’s clear he’s not the most popular president around, but he is a goldmine for comedians.

In the 2016 campaign, the majority of the candidates on both sides made for decent parody targets. Banal hacks found an ocean of opportunities with said candidates.

Saturday Night Live’s 42nd season featured a plethora of sketches about the election. The cast gleefully lampooned candidates and other politicians on both sides of the political scale.

For the most part, SNL’s jokes were well-balanced. The Democrats received as much diatribe as the Republicans. The majority of the sketches focused on the debates between Trump and then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and gave each equal screen time.

Trump was a celebrity even before his run in the election, so

he had a pre-existing stage to play clown on.

It’s admittedly difficult to take a man seriously after a cameo in a “Home Alone” film and four years as the host of reality show “The Apprentice” and its follow-up “The Celebrity Apprentice.”

In addition, Trump hosted an episode of SNL in 2015. He even noted the myriad of jokes surrounding him in his monologue, including a smug remark saying he’d be president soon.

Now, with Trump in the Oval Office, the jokes haven’t stopped.

SNL went back to the drawing board with a series of sketches following his first 100 days in office, and every left-leaning “comedy” outlet followed suit.

There’s only so many ways you can call someone an angry citrus in a wig. Even the small hands gag gets old.

The problem isn’t with the president’s previous exposure to pop culture. Former President Ronald Reagan was an actor before assuming the presidency in 1981. His place in the media and pop culture didn’t sully his powerful presence as president.

The same should be true for Trump.

What is indicative, however,

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of Trump’s capability is other nations’ responses to his policies thus far.

In a sample of 37 countries, 35 rated former President Barack Obama considerably higher

than Trump. Israel and Russia were the two outliers who prefer Trump’s run over Obama’s.

Germany, one of America’s biggest supporters in past years, has an 11 percent confidence

rate. Compared to Obama’s 86 percent, Trump’s low rating spells trouble with foreign relations.

Of the 37 countries polled, a median of 64 percent viewed America favorably. With Trump in the White House, the median dropped to 49 percent.

Trump isn’t popular stateside or overseas. The lack of trust and confidence is jarring for the country as a whole. Part of the president’s job is to stand as the face of the country, to be the representative of the people.

Right now, Trump’s posing a poor presentation of the American people, but the representation is sadly accurate.

Calling our president a fool is a fair exercise of our rights.

However, the rest of the world looking in will see us choosing people we deem foolish to lead us.

What results is a self-fulfilling prophecy. At some point, it doesn’t matter whether the chicken or the egg came first.

The masses are just as foolish for following a jester as the jester is for playing the fool.

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

The Daily Reveille

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

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Sexual assault awareness first step in finding long-term solution HAMMER SEEKING NAIL SOHEIL SANEEI @soheilsaneei April 11 was recently named Sexual Assault Awareness Day by the mayor’s office, making a great gesture to combat sexual misconduct in the community. On April 11, sexual assault survivor Aly Raisman spoke at the University with gallantry, sharing her experiences and encouraging other women to share their tribulations, as well.

In recent years, the University has reported declining numbers of sexual assault. In 2016, only eight forcible sex offenses were reported, an improvement from years before. The concern remains prominent, as even one sexual assault is too many.

The commercialized sports entity and the associated party life are the main causes for sexual assault at the University currently. Seven of the last 12 rapes reported on campus occurred at football games, two at baseball games and another two at basketball games.

Still, the University’s selfpraise for ostensibly low sexual assault numbers are ignoble. One in five college women are sexually assaulted and the University’s reported numbers seem out of the realm of possibility. LSUPD

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Olympic gymnast and activist Aly Raisman answers questions before speaking at Delta Gamma sorority’s Lectureship in Values and Ethics event on April 11 at LSU. spokesperson Lt. Kevin Scott stated, “If you surveyed 100 girls, or 1,000 female students on LSU’s campus, will you really see one in five that say they’ve been sexually assaulted, if they’re really being honest? Is that accurate? I mean, look at the numbers.”

Scott’s statements are facetious and could be a legitimate reason why women underreport rapes. Research conducted

by Texas A&M researcher Jason Lindo found reported rapes by women between the ages of 17 to 24 increase by 28 percent during Division I college football games.

This is alarming when you account for the 68 percent of rapes that are not reported to police. More than 90 percent of

sexual assault victims on college campuses do not report assaults they’ve suffered. People who share the same philosophies as Scott are the reason so many college students are afraid to confess the traumas they have experienced.

Collegiate institutions care more about their industrial sports complex than they do about the humanity of their students. The greed of private interest has corrupted our educational system.

Recently, Tulane University has been exposed for recklessly letting sex life on campus turn into a primitive dystopia.

According to survey reports, two in five women are sexually assaulted at Tulane. The dispropor-

tionate amount of rapes reported at Tulane raise suspicion about the minimal amounts of rapes reported at the University, especially because of the sizeable population gap.

Tulane’s monumental 40 percent student participation in Greek Life is no surprise. A study conducted by NASPA in 2007 and 2009 concluded that “fraternity members are more likely than non-fraternity members to commit rape.” Even though only 22 percent of students from the University participate in Greek Life, there is a greater total population of students who are involved in fraternities or sororities than Tulane University.

In recent weeks, an organization known as the Collegiate Prevention Action Coalition attempted to shed light on rape culture around the University.

They established a wall outside of Middleton Library as a think tank where sexual assault survivors and their supporters can anonymously share their experiences and encouragement to combat sexual violence. This attempt to bring social justice also reaches out to men, as 6 percent of men experience sexual assault while attending college.

If you have experienced sexual assault in your lifetime or want to share your experiences, tweet using the #SpeakUpLSU.

CPAC created this hashtag to be analogous with the #MeToo movement, in hopes of creating the same surge for social justice.

The humiliation unfairly associated with being raped has created a burden for survivors to open up about their stories.

They are reluctant to reopen a wound they are attempting to bury in their past. It is painful breaking the shell of misunderstanding, which has encapsulated us and our society. To bring social change, we should encourage more of our courageous survivors, such as Raisman, to speak out and bring attention to the issue.

We should elect more women to work in public policy. We must realize these blatantly malicious acts are not just split-second mistakes affecting people distant from us.

Brave women and men who speak out are a reminder that these are acts of malicious intent that traumatize a person’s conscious for eternity. By tweeting using #SpeakUpLSU, you can create a ripple effect by influencing other victims of sexual assault in the University community. Together, we can make progress toward ending sexual misconduct for good.

Soheil Saneei is a 19-year-old biological engineering freshman from Metairie, Louisiana.

Banks’ refusal to fund military-style weapons admirable WELL, SHE TRIED.

CHANTELLE BAKER @deannayukari “We want to continue in any way we can to reduce these mass shootings,” said Anne M. Finucane, Vice Chairman at Bank of America, in an interview after declaring the company cut off their funding to manufacturers of “military-style weapons.” It’s a bold move by a company so influential; however, it’s one that needed to be made.

This is the initiative we’re lacking in the U.S. They’re not insisting we get rid of everyone’s guns; they’re showing they care about people’s lives more than unnecessary military weapons.

With the conversations being held about gun control today, it’s important for companies and persons of stature to show that their concern for mass shootings is greater than their ability to hold onto their military-style guns.

The issue with these

military-style weapons are exactly what their name says: they’re meant for military use.

They’re efficient in killing large numbers of people, with their lightweight bodies and precision accuracy. They were developed solely for use to kill other people.

There’s no rational reason these guns are being sold for civilians to have around their homes.

Bank of America has in no way gone against the Second Amendment by making this choice. The company is still providing their financial services to other firearm retailers. Bank of America’s intentions clearly aren’t to infuriate their consumers, although some people are certainly enraged. They’re sending the message that these mass shootings, such as the shooting at the nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and the shooting at the school in Parkland, Florida, which were both performed with an AR-15-style rifle, shouldn’t be happening anymore.

Bank of America isn’t the only banking company to make

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changes. Citigroup has also taken action to address the firearm policy. In March, the company began requiring their clients in the gun industry stop selling to customers who are younger than the age of 21 or have not passed a background check. These small changes will influence the future.

As more financial services are taken away, more firearm companies may consider changing their goods and selling what is for rational use, rather than what is novelty.

It doesn’t seem as though many laws surrounding these weapons will change soon. Companies will still sell militarystyle weapons and, unfortunately, they may still be used in tragic circumstances. However, the second best thing companies can do is remove funding. If more companies follow suit, we may see a future without deadly mass shootings.

Chantelle Baker is a 21-year-old communication studies senior from Waipahu, Hawaii.

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Bank of America Vice Chairman Anne M. Finucane announced the company will no longer fund manufacturers of “military-style weapons.”

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Quote of the Week “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”

Benjamin Franklin

Founding Father January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790

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Wednesday, April 25, 2018

College newspaper essential, valuable addition to LSU SARAH SAYS SARAH GROBETY @sarah_grobety Now more than ever, journalism and the press are under attack. National attacks on “fake news” are rampant. Local student journalism is disrespected and disregarded because of the age of the writers and columnists. People need to be more open to other opinions and make more of an effort to consume news that may not perfectly align with their own views.

College newspapers are a great place for young writers to gain valuable experience in their field. They allow an avenue for free speech and creative thought that many students need to grow as writers. The experience is often what a student needs to help find their career calling; not to mention, it looks great on a resume.

The opportunity to work and be passionate about an on-campus job is essential to career development. Many students who work on campus are in positions that may not further their careers in the future. College newspapers like The Daily Reveille offer students an on-campus

experience that can build careers later in life.

College newspapers are a great way to spread local news and important information around a campus. With online content posted daily and print editions published weekly, college newspapers like The Daily Reveille are essential in transmitting information about campus events, sports and news.

Some people seem to have an issue with college writers. They want to discredit their abilities and opinions because of their age. Just because someone is young does not mean their opinion or thoughts are any less valuable than an older adult. Just because someone has different opinions than you does not make them wrong.

The beauty and genius of a college newspaper is that it is run entirely by students, for students. It is about learning and gaining valuable, real life experience. It is not about pleasing everyone on Facebook or writing opinions people agree with.

The opinion section of college newspapers is the birthplace of thoughts and conversations that otherwise may never be expressed. College is such a transitional time in the development of adult opinions, a time for

experimenting and curating one’s personal viewpoints. Without an opinion section in college newspapers, the voice of the students would be utterly overlooked and unheard.

Writing for a college newspaper has been one of the most exciting and challenging things I have ever done. I have learned so much about myself as a writer and as a person through introspective thought about my opinions. I have honed in on skills such as writing, articulating arguments and creativity that I would have never been able to learn without this amazing opportunity.

I have also learned how to better take criticism and online comments with a grain of salt.

Hearing others’ opinions and constructive feedback on my writing helps me to improve as a writer. Feedback is one of my favorite things about publishing my writing on an open platform.

While working for my college newspaper, I have learned how to best articulate my own thoughts and form arguments backed up by research. Many college students cannot say the same.

Sarah Grobety is a 20-year-old mass communication junior from Atlanta, Georgia.

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