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K O O L R E S O L C A ana i s i u o The L gents plans s Re f sion o s i d r m a d o B U’s a ithold S L t i to aud otentially w versity, and p to the Uni g fundin page 2

NEWS

SPORTS Learn the truth behind the tunnels under LSU’s campus, page 3

LSU’s Plant-Based Society promotes vegan, vegetarian lifestyles, page 5

ENTERTAINMENT Receivers begin to make impact on LSU offense, page 7

13th Gate adds new sets for Halloween season, page 13

OPINION “Consent has become a more prominent subject in sexual education in recent years, but it is not nearly as important in the conversation as it should be,” page 18

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COVER STORY

Board of Regents to audit LSU admissions

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The Louisiana Board of Regents announced at its monthly meeting on Sept. 26 it will audit, or officially inspect, university admissions across the state to determine if each is complying with the board’s required minimum admissions standards.

The board could potentially withhold funding from any university found non-compliant with the standards.

LSU President F. King Alexander and the University’s move to a “holistic” admissions process heightened public interest in admissions standards.

The Board of Regents responded by quietly announcing the audit. The first-time audit aims to measure compliance with admissions standards created by the Board of Regents in 2005 that focused on enrolling students at institutions where they could be most successful.

The purpose of the audit, which will commence in January 2019, is to get a handle on how many students are accepted to universities throughout the state under the exception rule and why, according to Richard Lipsey, a major University benefactor and Board of Regents member. The numbers provided from the audit will create a baseline to compare future incoming classes specifically to the fall 2018 freshman class admitted under holistic review.

LSU, as Louisiana’s flagship institution, previously held the strictest admissions standards. By ordering the independent review of LSU’s admissions decisions, the state’s educational board signaled its plans to frequently review the admissions process.

The controversial holistic admissions policy relaxed the University’s required 22 ACT score and 3.0 GPA admissions standards. Previously, the University rejected any

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Richard A. Lipsey speaks during the Board of Regents meeting on Feb. 23, 2015, where tuition autonomy is discussed. applicant who did not meet those requirements. Under holistic admissions, the University now reviews an applicant’s essays, recommendation letters and extracurricular activities in an effort to determine the student’s chance of success.

The Board of Regents allows exceptions to the minimum admissions standards for universities throughout the state. Students who do not meet LSU’s admissions criteria can be accepted under the exception rule. Created in 2010, the exception rule allows 4 percent — roughly 200 students — of LSU’s incoming freshman class to be admitted despite not meeting the ACT or GPA requirement.

The holistic admissions change sparked outrage from

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Board of Regents co-chair critics who believe holistic admissions will lower the University’s standards. The ensuing public battle over holistic admissions pitted Alexander against Lipsey.

“The 2017 figures will be used as sort of a baseline for indiscretion,” Lipsey said. “The 2018 figures are where we will look for changes.”

In addition to the effort to determine compliance, Lipsey argues that Alexander’s process of implementing holistic admissions brought about the statewide audit, specially targeting the lack of a LSU Board of Supervisors’ vote on the admissions change.

“It’s incomprehensible that someone would announce [Alexander’s] changing the standards of the University without informing his own Board of Supervisors and getting approval,” Lipsey said.

“He should have discussed this with the Board of Regents.

He should have gone to his own management board. His management board runs the system. He did not have respect for his own board to discuss this with them.

That lack of respect from President Alexander for his own board and the Board of Regents is what started this

whole investigation into what’s going on.”

The Daily Reveille reached out for a comment from Alexander, but LSU Media Relations Director Ernie Ballard said the University has not released any public statements regarding the Board of Regents’ audit.

The audit’s final report is expected to be presented in May or June. The University will submit information on students who were accepted under the 4 percent exception rule.

After reviewing the information, the board’s auditors will conduct a blind audit in April of students accepted under the exception status to validate the information provided by the University.

The Board of Regents controls the state’s higher education funding and could potentially halt funds to any public university found non-compliant with the admissions standards.

“We have lots of different things we can do, but the main thing is that the Board of Regents controls the money,” Lipsey said. “We can withhold money from LSU or any school that violates our policy.”

Editor’s Note: The online version of this story may be updated if a statement is released.

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EnvironMentors research science with high school students

BY MATTHEW BENNETT @mcbennett4

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underground

Dispelling the myths around the LSU underground tunnels

BY BEN HOLDEN @benjaminholde10

M

ost University students have heard rumors about tunnels beneath the older parts of campus like the Quad.

These rumors suggest they were built to be nuclear fallout shelters during the Cold War, or for Huey P. Long to use as a shortcut to football games from the Capitol. Their purpose is actually much simpler.

While it is true the tunnels date

back almost one hundred years, around the time Huey P. Long was governor, they were simply built to distribute steam to and from campus buildings. They were not built for transportation. The tunnels also vary in size, making it difficult for anyone to travel through comfortably.

Interim Executive Director for Facility Services Laura Morrow explained how unsuited the tun-

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nels are for transportation and how cautious the maintenance crew is when entering. Critters, bugs and spiders litter nearly every part of the dark tunnels, and they have low ceilings that force workers to slouch, crouch or even crawl to get through some parts.

Even though they are still almost 100 years old, they are still used today for electrical lines, communications lines, chilled wa-

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ter and steam. Facility Services does not foresee the tunnels becoming obsolete just because they are old. “[The tunnels] work for us,” Morrow said. “We have limited funds for the University, so we would never redo it just to redo it, because they do work.”

Many students, of course, still feel the need to investigate the mystery themselves.

The LSU EnvironMentors give high school students a rare experience at the University.

The group provides Scotlandville Magnet High School students with a free educational and research program diving into a subject that high schools may fail to teach: environmental science.

Graduate students at the University are teaming up with Scotlandville students to embark on a year-long research project. Each high school student is partnered with two mentors who guide them in finding a topic in environmental science that interests them in the first semester, and then carrying out the project into tangible research in the second semester.

The EnvironMentors have been at the University since 2010. They are still open to applicants this year as they try to maintain a 2:1 mentor-to-student ratio. They are supported solely by grants and donations and recently partnered with the Big Buddy Program to transport the students to and from campus for free.

Chapter coordinator Brian Matherne said they accept men-

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FACILITIES

LSU’s Landolt Observatory a little-known resource

BY RACHEL MIPRO @remroc15

For something that has a storied past and a lot of sentimental value, the Landolt Observatory is unknown to many University students. Besides occasional class visits and monthly public viewings, the observatory remains undisturbed.

At the top of Nicholson Hall, winding stairs lead up to the observatory. The only signage is a piece of paper, written on with black Sharpie. Inside, the walls are bright blue.

The only desk is wooden, and looks like it’s been in place for years, with a little stuffed spaceship toy on top of a map labeled as a chart of the heavens. In the center of the rounded room, there’s a mammoth refracting telescope.

The telescope has been there

since the observatory was built can actually do that because I’ve in 1939. It was made by Al- been looking at stars for a long van Clark and Sons. Clark was time.” considered to be the world’s But from the early 1990s best refracting telescope to 2005, the telescope was unmaker, and the telescope is usable. After the observatory considered an anmaintainers tique. moved away, “Before that, it Geoffrey Claythe space was was so bad that ton, professor in abandoned unthe LSU Departthe telescope was til a group from ment of Physics Physics actually resting on the and Astronomy and Astronomy and observatory the floor, not active.” D e p a r t m e n t caretaker, said the cleaned and telescope was refurbished GEOFFREY CLAYTON fun to work with everything.

Department of Physics and Astronomy despite its age.

“Before that, Clayton said that it was so bad operating it manually that the telescope was actually lead to a more immersive resting on the floor, not active,” experience.

Clayton said.

“I think there’s a certain After this, the observatory quaintness to it,” Clayton said. was reopened and named after “We have to actually pull it see OBSERVATORY, page 6 around and point it by hand. I

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Astronomy and astrophysics professor Geoffrey Clayton takes care of the Landolt Astronomical Observatory on Tower Drive on Sept. 25.

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STUDENT LIFE

Switching majors a risky, sometimes necessary process

BY MATTHEW BENNETT @MCBENNETT4

At the beginning of a college career, perhaps the most important question looms over a student’s head: What will I major in? Many students have been set on a major for as long as they can remember, and others still have not found a fit, but there is always the option to switch.

LSU Academic Counselor Tim Fields said it is never too late to switch majors and the University has a willing and helpful team of counselors to help students complete the process seamlessly.

The most common time for students to doubt whether they belong in their major is during their freshman year. He wants students to utilize resources like the University College’s Center for Freshman Year.

“Freshmen sometimes forget to spend time on their major,” Fields said. “‘Okay, where’s my dorm? I’ve fallen in and out of love three different times. I’m homesick.

Somebody scratched my car that I got from graduation.’

This freshman college exists to try to encourage them to engage to get a good foundation so that you don’t have to change after you already have 100 hours.”

Fields said there are many reasons students pursue a major they do not enjoy.

Some are swayed by financial opportunities, some are raised into it from their families and others go with what they were successful with in high school.

Fields suggested that another motivation freshmen use to pick their major is simply to fit in.

“A lot of the reason incom-

ing students find themselves in the wrong majors is because it gives them a sense of place,” Fields said. “You arrive at this big campus, and it’s like you’re getting dropped off on Bourbon Street in the middle of Mardi Gras. You just assume that if you’re this major then you’ll know where to stand at mixers and where to go at parties. So, it gives you that since of comfort, but you reach a point where you come in and go, ‘Wow, these are pretty tough courses.’”

Sophomore Grace Pulliam recently switched her major from coastal and environmental science to English. She said she was too nervous to tell her parents and go to the guidance counselor’s office and make the switch last year, but this year was able to declare an English major in one day without making up any credits.

“I was really unhappy,” Pulliam said. “There’s a lot of pressure to not go with a fluffy major. My brother is older than me and he’s a science major so I guess I wanted to fit in. My grades were slipping and English has always been a passion of mine, but I was scared to go with it.”

In some cases, students switching majors like Pulliam are able to transfer credits seamlessly without having to make anything up. There are some majors that are tougher to switch to and from, like petroleum engineering. Majors falling under Humanities and Social Sciences are typically easier to move in and out of, as well as majors that share prerequisites.

Fields said that even though switching majors is always an option, it is not encouraged in every case. He said many stu-

dents often want to make the decision based on one specific college course that they are struggling with.

“About 80 percent of the time, it’s because of study skills that they brought with them when they came to college,” Fields said. “You can’t base the decision off one course. If you’re determined then you can do this.”

Fields said that the most important factor for students to consider when potentially switching majors is how passionate they are about the field of study.

Fields added, “taking the financial part out of the equation, what would be worse: Walking into a job and doing a job that you feel uncomfortable doing each day, or maybe losing a few hours of credit and then getting into something that you love.”

STUDENT LIFE

LSU plans to expand campus capacity as enrollment increases

BY CALEB GREENE @cgreene_24 The Nicholson Gateway project revitalized student living

on the western side of campus.

The project, originally planned in 2006, is the University’s latest example of its continual effort to renovate and improve

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on-campus housing for students. With the Campus Master Plan as a guide, the University aims to innovate on-campus transportation and increase its enrollment capacity.

The Campus Master Plan was drafted in October 2017 to accommodate the University’s pre-planned enrollment growth.

The University set its undergraduate enrollment goal at 35,565 students, which meant increasing enrollment by over 1,000 students per year for the six years following the finalization of the Campus Master Plan.

The University saw that enrollment increase this year, welcoming the largest freshman class in history with over 5,800 students under its “holistic” admissions policy. The Campus Master Plan addresses classroom space, parking, housing and dining.

“The University’s administration set a goal for student enrollment,” said Assistant Vice President of Planning, Design and Construction Roger Husser.

“Then we developed a master plan to accommodate that. Rather than determining what our maximum capacity is, the idea is to develop campus over time to accommodate that aspiration of enrollment growth.”

Campus currently has enough beds to accommodate a 10 percent enrollment growth on campus, according to the Executive Director of Residential Life Steve Waller. This fall, Residential Life has a dorm capacity of 5,200 and an on-campus apartment capacity of 2,900.

However, occupancy figures for both dorms and apartments are currently far below maximum capacity, with dorms 90 percent full and apartments 72 percent full. Five hundred dorm beds sit empty, according to Waller.

Waller expects the campus dorm capacity to remain consistent in the near future despite planned enrollment increases.

If more housing is needed for freshmen, Residential Life may delay tearing down older dorms, such as Kirby Smith Hall, to accommodate those students.

The Campus Master Plan calls for the construction of four new dorms on the current greenhouse lot located in the eastern part of campus near the UREC complex. The four dorms, expected to be constructed by 2023, will house around 850 students total and serve as a replacements for Kirby Smith, Herget, Miller and Broussard halls, according to Waller.

Residential Life also anticipates more upperclassmen to live on campus with the completion of Nicholson Gateway.

Waller believes that finishing construction of the complex with its numerous restaurants and Matherne’s Market will create a positive image of Gateway, displaying a superior product unrivaled by student housing options in the oversaturated Baton Rouge market.

Some students, such as biochemistry sophomore Mallory Brignac, more concerned with the availability of parking on campus than residential life expansion.

“If you don’t get here early in the morning, it’s a nightmare to park,” Brignac said. “Even if you get here early, the buildings are too far away. It takes up too much time to park and walk to class.”

The campus redevelopment and planned construction of new buildings, such as Middleton Library, will take away surface parking options for students.

The development has a dual effect on parking since additional

buildings constructed for the anticipated enrollment and faculty growth take away designated parking spaces while ultimately adding to the need for more parking to accommodate the new faculty and students according to Husser.

The loss of surface area will likely lead to more parking garages on campus. The University currently has .75 parking spaces per university affiliate, much higher than SEC peers such as Arkansas and Tennessee, which offer .44 and .57 parking spaces per affiliate, respectively, according to the Campus Master Plan.

“We have run out of space on the LSU campus to continue to add surface parking,” Husser said. “There is just no space left to do that.”

The Campus Master Plan also calls for the University to develop alternative ways to improve transportation and mobility on campus through the usage of micro-transits like bikeshares.

Classrooms only account for 4 percent of the entire campus area, according to Husser. The University currently operates 330 classrooms, but the Campus Master Plan determined no additional classrooms would need to be built if enrollment increases to 35,565. Instead, the University would improve the efficiency of classroom utilization, such as increasing the number of classes held in classrooms on a weekly basis according to the Campus Master Plan.

After years of enrollment drops jeopardized the Campus Master Plan, this fall’s largest freshman class in history admitted under holistic admissions solidified plans for campus expansion and redevelopment within the next decade.

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STUDENT LIFE

LSU’s Plant-Based Society promotes vegan lifestyle

BY RACHEL MIPRO @remroc15

They just don’t eat meat. For the fourth year in a row, the University’s Plant-Based Society advocates going vegan or vegetarian.

The club was founded by Elizabeth Courville, now a nutrition and food science senior, who created a community for vegetarians and vegans her freshman year. She’s been a vegan for almost six years now and knows the struggle to find support.

“When I came to LSU, I didn’t feel like there was a community or organization on campus that was already existing that would help to welcome everyone with those certain diets,” Courville said. “Food is a very big culture here, and it’s hard a lot of times to be the only one eating a certain way.”

The club has expanded, with around 15-30 members attending its events. Club activities include guest speakers and events advocating for a more eco-friendly lifestyle. One of the more wellattended events is its monthly potluck, where members gather to exchange food and recipes, or just hang out. Courville says

this is especially popular with freshmen, who sometimes have trouble with on-campus meal plans.

“It’s not that LSU is unsupportive of vegans or vegetarians — I just don’t think it’s a main focus,” Courville said. “It is a pretty small minority of people who are vegetarian and vegan.”

While the club’s focus is on those with a plant-based diet, Courville encourages everyone to come and learn about vegetarianism and veganism, including the issues around them and the ethical and environmental sides of choosing a plant-based lifestyle.

Courville said she would also like to dismantle some of the stereotypes surrounding veganism.

“If you’re not vegan, we’re not going to harass you,” Courville said.

The club welcomes anyone who is interested and aims to provide advice and education about its causes.

“We don’t deny anyone from coming to our events if they’re not vegan, vegetarian or even flexitarian,” Courville said. “If you are interested in health, in becoming vegetarian or vegan in the future or even if you’re not,

even if you just think we’re cool people and want to hang out with us, I don’t really care. It’s always a good time.”

Before she graduates, Courville said she wants to get more vegan options in the University’s dining programs. While she said there have been improvements, she thinks it would be good to have more meat alternatives, especially within freshman dining hall plans, which she says often limits them to just salad and french fries. She said she plans to contact LSU Dining and to continue to spread the word.

Even after she graduates, Courville said she wants to stay involved with the club, making sure it runs smoothly and stays active on campus and on social media. She said she thinks that’s been really important to all of the members, as well as to her personally.

“I’m willing to come back here and just help run this club because it means that much to me,” Courville said. “I’ve just seen so many people be so thankful for it, because they wouldn’t have found those friends. Just to feel like you’re not the only one is a big deal for a lot of people.”

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Nutrition and food science senior Elizabeth Courville stands on the balcony of the LSU Student Union on Sept. 28.

Courville said she wants to be a dietitian, and true to form, she’s going to emphasize a plant-based diet in her future career. She says the club has helped her with this.

“Over the last four years it’s been really cool to see people really benefiting from that connection through food and health,” Courville said.

GRADUATE SCHOOLS

Immigration Law Clinic students help immigrants gain asylum

BY BEN HOLDEN @benjaminholde10 The Paul M. Hebert Law Center Immigration Law Clinic has helped gain asylum for 23 immigrants facing danger in their home countries.

The clinic also helps clients with naturalization, green card applications and visas for abused, abandoned or neglected juveniles, but the vast majority of cases involve asylum.

Clinic director Lauren Aronson said these cases also tend to be tricky and challenging for the law students to tackle.

“Because asylum is so complicated and because it’s what we do the most of, I devote three entire weeks of class to it,” Aronson said.

Aronson is responsible for picking which cases the clinic accepts, supervising the law students’ work on the cases and teaching immigration law, all while challenging her students by picking cases that are not easy to win.

“Basically, what I’m looking for, is if [the case] would be an interesting issue for a student to work on,” Aronson said. “I don’t pick a case because I know for sure it’s going to win. It just has to be viable.”

One case involved a woman from Baton Rouge who entered the country illegally in 1999 when she was 15 years old. She was granted temporary protected status two years later. Then in 2018,

she was under threat of losing her legal status in the U.S. To complicate things even further, she had lost all of her and her husband’s paperwork in the 2016 floods that documented her legal residence.

The Immigration Law Clinic had to hunt through any and all remaining forms their client had to prove her lawful presence.

“There were a lot of variables,” said Chris Chesne, the student responsible for her case. “I did not expect it to be as intense of a process as it was.”

Many cases were also emotional for the students. For example, one case involved a woman fleeing to the U.S. to escape horrifying domestic abuse in Honduras.

Annie Lanier, the student responsible for her case, said the woman had been forced into marriage at gunpoint when she was only 12 years old. During her time in Honduras, her husband repeatedly beat her in public and once cut her with a machete.

The woman has been in the U.S. for about 15 years and has four children living here legally. The Law Clinic has already helped her two daughers get asylum and they have completely prepared her asylum application, but she still has not decided whether she will risk applying for asylum because if her application is rejected, she will be put into deportation proceedings, Lanier said.

“It was really nerve-racking and frustrating,” Lanier said. “If she goes back, I think [her ex-hus-

band] will find her [and kill her] ...

I don’t know if I would have been able to make it. I don’t know how she’s still alive.”

These cases are becoming more difficult since U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions narrowed the scope of asylum cases over the summer, removing gang violence and domestic abuse from the list of qualifiers.

Even though the Immigration Law Clinic continues to take on difficult cases, it has a perfect record for the all the asylum cases it has submitted.

“We’ve had a couple cases where I thought there’s just no way where I think a person should qualify,” Aronson said. “But I doubt the government will agree, but miraculously, it did.”

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page 6 ENVIRONMENTORS, from page 3 tors from any college major, but prefer students with STEM background who have research experience.

“A lot of times graduate students don’t get a lot of training in teaching or being a mentor to another student, so they almost get to be a professor of sorts and break down a complicated concept of science to a high school student who doesn’t have a lot of experience with it,” Matherne said. “It’s a really good opportunity for our mentors to get leadership training.”

Matherne said environmental

TUNNELS, from page 3 One anonymous Reddit user named ThrowawayForNoSleep detailed his trip into the tunnels six years ago on a Reddit post. He said he and his friends entered the tunnels through an unlocked entrance near the on-campus Subway restaurant. According to the post, their trip was unexciting at first. They were a little afraid they might find homeless people down there, but soon realized that the steam pipes made it extremely hot and that there was no way anyone could live down there.

T h r o w a w a y F o r N o S l e e p ’s story then took a spooky turn.

According to the post, when they were deep into the tunnel sys-

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science is an important facet of education for young students to understand and take interest in, especially in Louisiana.

“When you look at coastal issues here in Louisiana—particularly wetland loss, the Mississippi River and the petrochemical plants—there’s a lot of complicated environmental issues that are really important to be aware of,” Matherne said. “Do I need to be concerned about it? The [program] makes the students more informed.”

Recruiting for the program started last month, and the first meeting will take place next week. The research projects that

the mentors and high schoolers pursue often revolve around ideas and issues that professionals take on. Research from past years includes testing the water quality of the University’s lakes, creating natural mosquito repellent from essential oils and testing the food safety of local raw oysters for harmful bacteria.

Graduate student Leslie Valentine is returning for her second year as a mentor in the program after conducting research on the raw oyster project last year with her Scotlandville students. She said that while giving these students a unique, professional environmental sci-

ence program is important, her favorite part about the experience is personally getting to know the students and talk to them about their day-to-day lives.

“I really connected with my student from last year,” Valentine said. “We try to provide emotional support for the students and be someone they can talk to if they have anything going on with their lives. We try to spend the first few minutes with each student catching up with them.”

Matherne tries to bring in other professionals and professors to visit the EnvironMentors program and give the

students insight and guidance as they prepare for college.

Matherne said the experience is one-of-a-kind for both the mentors and the Scotlandville high schoolers.

“A lot of our students come from an economically-depleted part of Baton Rouge,” Matherne said. “We’ll take them on a boat, and they’ve never been on a boat before. At the end of the year, we take the top three national students to Washington D.C., and they usually haven’t been on an airplane before. Just getting them out of their bubble and South Louisiana seems to get them out of their shell.”

tem, they found five stick figures painted on the wall. Each figure resembling one of the explorers in his group. They ignored it and continued walking.

Later in their trek, they came upon the same set of stick figures, but this time X’s were painted over the eyes. Upon closer inspection, they realized it was freshly painted, and they bolted from the scene.

“Something was down there with us,” ThrowawayForNoSleep wrote.

While Facility Services representatives were quick to laugh at the myths surrounding the tunnels, they did emphasize how dangerous the tunnels can be. Morrow stressed that students could be

severely burned by the steam pipes, or electrocuted by the highvoltage equipment. And most dangerous of all, she said there is a significant risk of students getting trapped. The long, winding tunnels are labyrinthine in nature, and Morrow said that even if a student happens to find an unlocked entrance, it is unlikely they will find an unlocked exit.

“There’s just always been an attempt to romanticize,” said Tammy Millican, executive director for facility and property oversight. “Every couple years someone will come and ask [about the tunnel myths], but really it’s just a mechanical area. It’s dangerous, and people should not go down into the tunnels.”

OBSERVATORY, from page 3

“Most people grow up now in a big city, and they don’t even know the stars are there because nobody looks up,” Clayton said. “And if they do look up, because of the city lights, it’s hard to see the stars.

It’s good to actually look in a telescope.”

Besides, its importance as a teaching tool, Clayton says the Landolt Observatory should be valued for its history.

“In Louisiana of course, everything is about the history, and some of it’s good and some of it’s bad,” Clayton said. “I think that it’s one of the oldest things on campus, and it deserves to be preserved.”

professor emeritus of physics and astronomy Arlo Landolt to honor his work and contributions to the field of astronomy.

Despite being retired for the last 10 years, Landolt can still be found in Nicholson Hall every day.

In the observatory, monthly viewings are available to the public on Public Night, which will be on Oct. 14. Clayton said he is excited for the next viewing, as Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Mars, along with the moon, will all be visible. Clayton said that these viewings are important, as most aren’t really familiar with astronomy.

Sports

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JOEY AND THE JET

OPINION

Tiger Woods makes major comeback CAL’D UP CHRIS CALDARERA @caldarera11

team facility and work on routes, learning the spots each receiver likes the ball thrown to.

Burrow said what makes Jefferson a good receiver is he can get to full speed in “about three steps.”

“He can change direction quickly and can make plays being contested,” Burrow said.

“We have really good chemistry.

He’s always open and is just really solid at making big plays in big situations.”

Jefferson echoed the sentiment Burrow threw his way, saying the connection he grew with Burrow over the summer makes Gameday feel just like practice.

One of the ultimate sources of subjectivity in the world is the calendar. Every week is filled with days marked by unique experiences of particular individuals.

The possibility of opposite realities occurring at the same time exists each day, sometimes simultaneously. Today could be the worst day of my semester if I flunk my accounting midterm.

At the same time, someone else could be experiencing the joy of welcoming a newborn child into the world.

While failing a test is objectively bad and becoming a parent is objectively good, I didn’t become a father and the newly minted parent didn’t fail my accounting exam. As a result, our opinions of the same day are polar opposites.

It should come as no surprise that Sept. 23 represents a completely different experience for sport fans, specifically those who follow professional golf.

On that day, Tiger Woods capped off a masterful performance in the Tour Championship and won his first golf tournament since 2013.

For some, that Tuesday represents a long time coming.

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Joe Burrow and Justin Jefferson reap rewards of summer workouts

BY GLEN WEST @glenwest21 We all know the traditional script of an LSU offense: pound the opposing defense with a surplus of running backs and use the quarterback as a game manager who doesn’t turn the ball over.

The balance hasn’t always been there this year, but junior quarterback Joe Burrow proved he isn’t just a game manager, but a game changer.

Heading into the Ole Miss matchup, LSU was ranked dead last in total offense in the Southeastern Conference.

Posting 573 yards against the Rebels shot the Tigers to No. 5

in total offense, which is middle of the pack, but Burrow believes the offense is just getting started.

Burrow went 18-for-25 for 292 yards and three touchdowns while rushing for an additional 98 yards on nine carries with a score. The most impressive thing, he connected with nine different receivers.

“I think this was a breakout game for our receivers - a breakout game for me,” Burrow said.

“It’s all predicated - running the ball with Nick [Brossette] and Clyde [Edwards-Helaire].”

Sophomore receiver Justin Jefferson agreed that last week’s 45-16 win over Ole Miss was a breakout performance for the

receivers, and it’s something to build on ahead of a tough match up in the Swamp.

“A game like that [Ole Miss] does help confidence,” Jefferson said. “It doesn’t matter if their defense is good or bad. They’re still an SEC school, so the confidence is definitely building.”

Jefferson, the clear cut No. 1 receiver, caught five passes for 99 yards and scored the first two touchdowns of his career. Jefferson and Burrow have already developed a great rapport, which Jefferson said started in the summer.

When Burrow committed to LSU in May, Jefferson said every Saturday the receiving corps would meet Burrow at the

SWIMMING AND DIVING

LSU swimmer Matt Klotz looks to break backstoke record

BY KERRELL ROBINSON @kerrell9 After dominating in the 2017 DeafLympics, Matt Klotz has his sights set for a 2020 World Olympic bid with Hungary.

He has represented the United States in the past. However, his father is Hungarian. He hopes to get dual-citizenship and compete for Hungary in 2020. He said that he would try for the United States, but in order to represent them, he would have to be a gold medalist.

Klotz is starting his junior season at LSU and has set his goals pretty high. After breaking three World Deaf Swimming records in the 2018 U.S. Nationals, he is aiming for the LSU backstroke record.

Klotz has not always been an elite swimmer. He started out testing other sports.

“I wasn’t very good at swimming when I was younger until I got to college,” Klotz said. “Then I got serious around junior year.

That is when I started trying those last two years because I knew I had a chance of getting into college.”

Swimming wasn’t even his first love. Klotz participated in many sports, including soccer and basketball, but once his sister started swimming, he decided to follow in her footsteps.

What he liked about swimming was the friendships he formed. He said that it is easy to get close with his teammates

because of the amount of time he spends practicing and training with the team, especially in college where he even lives with teammates.

A normal day for Klotz is pretty busy. It is mostly filled with practice and eating. It always starts with morning practice and weight before he has breakfast and goes to class. Then he goes to afternoon practices before going home.

He said that he has to eat so much because of all the calories he burns swimming. They lift weights and work out so much that all they do is burn calories, but he eventually got used to the

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LSU sophomore swimmer Matt Klotz (left) and junior swimmer Will Arthur (right) practice the backstroke on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, at the UREC.

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MEN’S GOLF

A dream come true: Andrew Danna and his journey to becoming a Tiger

BY JACOB BECK @Jacob_Beck25 When the opportunity to become a coach on the LSU men’s golf team presented itself, Andrew Danna knew it was one that he simply couldn’t pass up.

When it was announced that former men’s assistant Garrett Runion would become the head coach of the women’s golf team, Director of Golf Chuck Winstead had to find a new assistant.

After interviewing Danna, Winstead thought he was the perfect fit.

“Andrew’s a Baton Rougenative, had a lot of success at the Division II level and is a great recruiter. I think he’s doing a great job so far this season,” Winstead said.

One of Danna’s favorite childhood memories was going to Alex Box Stadium and seeing LSU greats like Eddy Furniss and Brandon Larson. When he got the call, words couldn’t describe the emotions he felt.

“I grew up here. I didn’t go

to LSU but I’ve been a fan my whole life, and to have this opportunity, it means so much to me,” Danna said.

Danna got his start coaching in 2011 at Georgia Southwestern State University, a Division II school with about 3,000 students.

Danna quickly turned the program around, having three student-athletes named All-Americans and winning the Peach Belt Conference Coach of the Year.

The success led Danna to another Division II school: Lynn University in Florida. In his six years there, Danna’s teams continually made runs in the Division II national championship, winning in 2018, earning three runner-up finishes and a third place finish, as well.

Along with the team’s success in national championships, Danna also received quite a few accolades himself, winning the 2018 NCAA Division II Dave Williams National Coach of the Year, along with the 2015 and 2016 Sunshine State Coach of the Year.

“My time at Georgia Southwestern was where I really learned the ropes, recruiting, how to coach. And then when I got to Lynn, I felt like I had really come in to my own as a golf coach,” Danna said. “We had a lot of success, and I’m really proud of those teams.”

One of the major points that Danna expressed when talking about coaching at the Division II level is that while resources may be limited, the level of competition does not suffer.

“If you take the top teams in Division II, and put them up against some of the lower level Division I teams, there really isn’t a big difference as far as talent goes … there were guys at Lynn that I believe will play on the Web.com Tour and the PGA Tour,” Danna said.

Coaching styles can be very different in golf, and Danna takes the approach that he is there to not only coach, but also to mentor the players. He doesn’t believe in discouraging players, but instead trying to find

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LSU men’s golf practices at the University Club golf course on Aug. 27. the reason why they struggling.

“When you hit a the last thing you hear is, ‘Hey man, terrible shot. What

might be bad shot, want to that was are you

doing,’ Danna said. That’s not constructive, I try to make sure that everything I do pushes the guys to be better but also encourages them at the same time.”

VOLLEYBALL

PMAC provides volleyball with warm home environment

BY MATTISON ALLEN @mattisonlsu LSU’s Pete Maravich Assembly Center — better known as the PMAC — is a sacred building right across North Stadium Drive from the famous Death Valley.

The PMAC is home to many

LSU teams, including the volleyball team. The PMAC gives off an indescribable energy that motivates the players. For many games, it is full of proud fans who are always ready to cheer on their favorite team.

Many players find motivation from the energy the crowd

gives off. There’s something about playing at home that makes the team play with even more intensity.

This season, LSU is 1-4 in the PMAC and 2-4 away. While the record does not look like much, the Tigers have performed to their highest in Baton Rouge.

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“We love the fans, they’re awesome,” junior setter Anna Zwiebel said with a huge smile.

“The band really rallies us up. I think it gives us that extra push, that extra fight. And when we see everyone and we hear everyone cheering for us, it’s awesome.”

After four decades, fans and athletes alike seem to have a special place in their hearts for the PMAC. Its presence is like none other and can be seen for miles.

The PMAC has an energy that is big enough to fit a football field, but once you’re on the court, it feels a lot more familiar.

Milan Stokes, a junior outside hitter from California, described it as “stepping into your home.” This says a lot considering her actual home is all the way across the nation.

“Away SEC games are always rowdy, but what I love is coming back to Baton Rouge and being able to play in front of our own crowd and feeling that support,” Stokes said. “There’s just nothing like it.”

On the other spectrum, going away from games is rough.

Just like the PMAC, other Southeastern Conference schools have the same type of crowd and energy at their games. Away SEC games are always the toughest environment, Stokes explained.

It’s a mix of that SEC grit and pride that will try to close in its unsuspecting opponents.

“Away games, it’s the opposite [of home],” Stokes said. “We don’t have that big support system, but I think that also rallies us up. We think about how we’re just gonna show them up, we’re gonna play better and beat them on their own home court.”

LSU faces yet another tough away game as it travels to Oxford this weekend to play Ole Miss.

“We have to play confidently and not try to win,” coach Fran Flory said on the upcoming game. “As we go, things will start multiplying. It has to be a building block and we’re going to make the best of it that we possibly can.”

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LSU junior outside hitter Milan Stokes (17) hits the ball over the net during the Lady Tigers’ 2-3 loss against Texas A&M in the PMAC on Sept. 30.

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Wednesday, October 3, 2018 TIGER WOODS from page 7 They thought it was obvious that Woods would win another major tournament after his dominant seven-stroke win in the 2013 Bridgestone Invitational, and they were finally proven right 1,876 days later.

For others, Sept. 23 is the day they were proven wrong. They believed Woods would never reach his 80th PGA tour win. Scrutiny mounted as the mistakes Woods made in his private life became the topic of discussion in the tabloids and the weekly talk shows. The thought of Woods’ career ending short of 80 wins became more believable with each passing tournament as the world watched a man’s life spiral into the ground.

While it’s interesting to see the parity between how different golf fans viewed Sept.

23, these opinions are irrelevant compared to the way Woods will look back on that wfateful Tuesday.

I don’t know Woods, but I think it’s safe to say he har-

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bored self-doubt now and then because we all do. This was especially clear after his fourth back procedure in 2017, when Woods admitted to reporters at the U.S. Presidents Cup that he had envisioned a future in which he would never return to competitive golf.

Woods is nothing if not a competitor though, and he pressed on despite criticisms both external and internal. He kept failing but also kept trying, and his resilience was finally rewarded.

Love Woods or hate him, there’s something to be said about a conviction that strong.

As for what sports history will say about Sept. 23, 2018, it’s hard to say. It could be the rebirth of Woods’ already legendary career, or it could fizzle out and be the last time Woods is ever a winner.

However, I do know that sports are most interesting when there’s a thrilling comeback story to follow, and the game of golf is at it’s best when Woods is playing at his peak.

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LSU sophomore swimmer Matt Klotz takes a break during practice on Aug. 29, 2017, at the UREC.

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that all they do is burn calories, but he eventually got used to the constant grind.

While Klotz is partially deaf, his hearing is more of an obstacle during practice than in the actual competitions. In practice, he is unable to really hear what the coaches are telling him. He needs a lot more one-on-one time with them. He has to practice the starts a little harder because he is unable to hear the starting sets. He just hears the start. However, he thinks that in competition it is an advantage. It’s easier to focus without hearing fans and opponents.

“Sometimes I wish I had

BURROW from page 7 Other receivers made sure their impact felt in the onslaught against Ole Miss, including junior Stephen Sullivan, who caught five passes for 50 yards on Saturday and has 143 yards on the season, good for second on the team.

Freshman receiver Ja’Marr Chase also hauled in a 21-yard touchdown in the first quarter, bringing his season total up to two.

Jefferson said the receiving corps as a whole has developed quickly, with different guys stepping up each week, and making it very difficult for defenses to pinpoint where the next point of attack will come from.

“You never know whose game it’ll be,” Jefferson said.

“We just always have to be prepared and do what we do best.

We don’t really care who makes the big plays we just care about winning.”

The second-year receiver also pointed out the work of wide

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receivers coach Jerry Sullivan, who Jefferson calls a “technician” of route - running.

“He’s more worried about our route running and releases then even catching the ball,” Jefferson said. “When I was coming up, it was all about catching the ball but he’s more on the techniques and the working of the route. He’s been coaching for as long as I’ve been alive so whatever he says I

take it to heart.”

Burrow is now going to face Florida in the Swamp, which the junior transfer said has been on his bucket list of places to play.

“I think we took a big step forward last weekend,” Burrow said. “It’s going to be a tough place to play. Everyone tells me it’s going to be very loud.

We’re going to have to get up and put our big boy pants on because it’s going to be a tough battle.”

chosen another sport,” Klotz said. “One that looks easier. I really like football, but would I have gone to LSU for football?

Probably not. In high school I always wanted to do it, but my mom told me no. She didn’t want me to be distracted.”

With all of the rigorous training that he goes through every day, especially while competing as a deaf athlete, the hardest part is finding a life outside of swimming. His life outside, however, still has to do with water.

“You do it twice a day.”

Klotz said. “You are consumed by swimming. That is what I want to focus on this year and do things I haven’t done before and reset during the weekend.”

“I like to hang out with friends.

Sometimes we go wake boarding. Sometimes there are alligators, but we take that risk.

There’s still water involved so it’s interesting,” Klotz said.

Most of the friends he hangs out with are his fellow teammates. However, he finds relief in one of his friends that is not a swimmer. He likes not being surrounded by swim life the entire time.

Although he sometimes feels consumed by swimming, he enjoys it.

“As a swimmer you know you aren’t going to make millions, unless you’re Michael Phelps.

You aren’t in it for the money or fame. I just enjoy watching myself grow.”

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FRIGHT NIGHTS

EDUCATION

Exhibit highlights LSU as Sea Grant University

BY AMAYA LYNCH @maya09172

so few opportunities that you get to have a job like this where you have such creative liberty and you really get to improvise, and you really get to become your character,” vocal performance master’s student Bella Mallow said. “You don’t have lines that you have to say. You get to be someone for a night, not just act as someone.”

Some students say it can get

Only 33 universities in the country have the privilege of calling themselves a Sea Grant University, and LSU is one of them.

Sea Grant is a Federal-University partnership program that allows for scientist to make a concentrated and coordinated effort to find solutions to coastal issues across the country. The University was selected as the 13th Sea Grant College of the nation in 1968, marking 2018 as the 50 year anniversary of the base of Louisiana Sea Grant.

Hill Memorial Library is hosting an exhibit titled “Louisiana Sea Grant, 1968-2018” to commemorate the efforts this federal program has made toward solving marine issues across the state. The exhibit shows Lousiana’s coastal history through written and visual pieces from newspapers, magazines and other sources.

The program has had its hand in each of the four issues that it has identified to be especially important in the state of Louisiana: healthy ecosystems and habitats, resilient communities and economics, sustainable fisheries and aquaculture and education and workforce development.

It strives to address coastal and marine issues that affect the day

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13th Gate adds new frights for Halloween season

BY WHITNEY HICKS @whitchicks Tucked away under the interstate in downtown Baton Rouge lies a place where evil clowns, witches, demons and murderers all come together to do one thing — scare you.

Located at 832 St Philip St., The 13th Gate is a 40,000-squarefoot haunted house featuring 13 spine-chilling realms guests must travel through. The house is widely known for its meticulous attention to detail, all the way down to

a pit of live snakes.

Each year, the crew tries to change at least 25 percent of the gate to keep up with new horror elements in pop culture and to keep returning patrons on their toes. This year, that includes a realm with a sinister take on “The Wizard of Oz.” The 13th Gate is also reintroducing CarnEVIL, the Haunted Midway. Across the street where Necropolis once resided,

CarnEVIL will be a nightmarish hub full of creepy games, delicious food, nightly entertainment and even free concerts. But be warned — ghouls and monsters have been known to wander from the haunted house.

The 13th Gate is also a place where students can gain practical experience in many fields such as acting, costume design and makeup.

“As a performer, there are

FOOD AND DRINK

Soji combines Asian cuisine with modern, energetic atmosphere

BY BARROW CLEMENT @ClementBarrow Asian cuisine gets a modern twist with one of Baton Rouge’s newest, hippest places to dine: Soji. Everything about Soji radiates energy, from the neon sign-peppered walls to the cheerful staff.

Co-owned and operated by Chase Lyons, the Government Street restaurant brings a vibrant atmosphere and a variety of Asian cuisine options to diners. To Lyons, the most important part of Soji is the atmosphere it creates.

“I want a fun, energetic atmosphere,” Lyons said. “I want people to think of this place whenever they want celebra-

tions or birthdays or anniversaries … I don’t think this place is ever gonna be a quiet, romantic spot. We want energy. We want a fun, festive atmosphere.”

Having gained experience during his tenure with his previous restaurant City Pork, Lyons knew very well that he wanted to bring new, fresh concepts to Soji.

One of the major contributing factors to Soji’s success is Lyons’ experience in the restaurant industry, he said.

Wanting to gain experience, Lyons researched the best restaurant to work at and decided on a restaurant in Austin, Texas.

“I’m like ‘This is the place I need to go learn’,” Lyons said.

“I showed up on their doorstep one weekend and said ‘Hey, I’m the guy that’s been texting you for a job. Can I wash dishes for free?’ I washed dishes for free for two days … I washed dishes and worked my way up.”

Despite Lyons’ experience and work, he said he could not have started Soji alone. He partnered with chef Ryan André to create a business reliant on passion for the cuisine.

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Soji sells modern Asian cuisines on Government Street on Sept. 30.

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REV R ANKS A SIMPLE FAVOR Lionsgate

This film paid incredible attention to detail. Every aspect of the movie from the fashion to the interior design was expertly executed. Combined with the good-looking cast of celebrities, there is always something beautiful to look at.

‘Maniac’ sends viewers on journey through the mind

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THE GOOD PLACE Netflix

“The Good Place” season three premiere brings its characters back to Earth, but keeps the same great humor.

Michael gives Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani and Jason a second chance to earn their spots in the Good Place, but they all fall back into their old habits after a few months.

“Maniac” manages to balance an absurd premise with realistically flawed characters as it guides us through a study in just a few of the ways our families can mess us up. We follow Owen Milgrim (Jonah Hill) and Annie Landsberg (Emma Stone) through an experimental drug trial that hopes to fix the problems you can’t take a hammer to.

The show takes place in a near future cyberpunk setting with a distinct Windows ‘95, oldschool aesthetic. It’s distinct and comforting to those who grew up with that style of tech, but if you couldn’t get into “Altered Carbon,” odds are getting into “Maniac” will prove difficult as well.

One of the first things we learn about Owen is that he’s

schizophrenic, and throughout the show this internal conflict endears him to the viewer. We’re supposed to believe what we’re seeing because this is a show, but through Owen’s eyes it could all just be a trick of the mind. It’s easy to understand his unease as the real and internal worlds within the story get more and more fantastic.

Annie is a drug addict. She’s been abusing the “A” pill, an experimental drug she’s just run out of at the beginning of the show.

Taking the “A” pill forces her to relive the worst day of her life.

We learn during the trial that this is the first step in the process of recovery.

A supercomputer who can feel presides over the more ethereal aspects of the drug trial. The lead scientist is in love with her, and if it weren’t for all of the issues

floating around the lab, it would be cute. As it stands, the fallout from their affair ends up driving conflict of the entire show in a way that’s impossible to predict.

Family is at the heart of “Maniac.” Owen is trapped by the actions of his family, Annie is haunted by her own actions toward her family and Dr. Mantleray (Justin Theroux) feels the shadow of his mother wherever he goes. There is no reaching the end without facing the people who made them who they are.

This series gets weird — there’s really no way around it.

But once “Maniac” has its hooks in, it’s hard to tear your gaze away. Nothing quite makes sense until it does, at which point you realize the answer has been looming in the background the entire time.

Don’t think too hard, or you’ll look down and miss it.

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NBC “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” is one of the rare shows to maintain cult classic status while still on air.

The show has seen a number of changes since its nobudget, standard-definition debut in 2005, but time has given the series better-developed characters and sharper satire.

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Wednesday, October 3, 2018 13TH GATE, from page 13 a bit exhausting going to school all day and then frightening patrons of The 13th Gate all night, but all of them agree that all the sleepless nights are worth it.

Working at The 13th Gate provides many students with performance majors a way to broaden their horizons and get acting and improv experience unlike anything else.

SEA GRANT, from page 13 to day life of people all across the state.

From the crawfish you eat to the coastal hazards faced every year, Louisiana Sea Grant has had its place in ensuring the safety of Louisiana citizens while also working alongside students at the University on research projects. Director of Outreach and Communication Roy Kron described the relationship between university researchers and as a symbiotic one.

“As long as the research has some relationship to coastal issues, we’re willing to look at it and fund it,” Kron said. “We have an extension program where we cooperate with the LSU Ag Center. We have county agents and they work with fishermen and folks in the fishing industry in helping get information to them and for them to get information

SOJI, from page 13 kitchen space to let this amazing chef do whatever he wants to do?”

Lyons said people should know Soji is not a fusion restaurant, which puts different

“I get more experience with acting and what kind of performance to put on for different types of people, so that’s always a good thing,” said theater performance senior Lindsay Hutson.

Students who aren’t pursuing a career in theatre can also find their place at the 13th Gate.

Students from all majors have come together to form a close-knit community.

“I just love Halloween, so when I moved here from Mandeville to go to LSU, I knew that the 13th Gate was here, and I just wanted to work here,” business freshman Robert Perez said. “I wanted to involve myself with as many things that interest me as I possibly could, especially being on my own now and venturing into things I like.”

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back to the main offices to know what kind of coastal issues we’re facing ... and to find and fund appropriate projects.”

2018 marks 50 years since the University was announced as a Sea Grant University. The exhibit at Hill Memorial Library shows just a small snippet of what the projects and programs have done in the recent years to better the state of Louisiana and its wetlands.

Leah Wood Jewett, the exhibit coordinator for special exhibits, said it’s hard to define everything Louisiana Sea Grant does, but the program focuses on issues detrimental to the Louisianians that inhabit the coastal wetlands.

“It’s important to remember that coastal wetlands loss is not a new problem,” Jewett said.

“Louisiana Sea Grant in particular has been trying to deal with that for decades. You hear coastal wetlands loss on the regular.

This has been an ongoing problem for a long time, and here you can see what has been tried over the years.”

Sea Grant looks to expand the reach of their research to the people who will continue on with it in the future by hosting educational events for children ranging from kindergarten to eighth grade. To help educate these students, they focus on coastal issues and the little things they can do to help everyday. A few of their annual programs include Coastal Roots, Marsh Maneuvers and Ocean Commotion hosted in the PMAC. “Later this month, we are hosting Ocean Commotion at LSU,” Kron said. “We’ve hosted that there for 20 years now and this will be our 21st year where we’ll have 2000 k-8th graders come to the PMAC. We organize around 60 exhibi-

cuisine from different cultures together to make something new. Instead, it prides itself on realistically representing multiple different varieties of food from all of the different Asian cultures in order to give diners the most authentic Asian cui-

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“If [André] wants to do Indian, if he wants to do Thai, if he wants to do Vietnamese, he can do it,” Lyons said. “We want to stay authentic to each cuisine.

And we are definitely not a fusion restaurant.”

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LSU commemorates 50 years of the Louisiana Sea Grant College Program with an exhibition in Hill Memorial Library on Sept. 28. tors and it’s all coastal related content. It’s kind of like a big science fair.”

Louisiana Sea Grant has had a base at the University for 50 years now and has worked with the students to make a difference through funded research projects and internship programs.

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“It’s important to see what is being done for me as a citizen and where my tax dollar is going.” Jewett said. “I think most people would be surprised about the broad number of projects that are being funded and the positive change that Louisiana Sea Grant is making.”

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Brett Kavanaugh nomination highlights importance of #MeToo ACCORDING TO ASHLON ASHLON LUSK @ashlonrose The #MeToo movement was founded in 2006 by social activist Tarana Burke when she tried to promote empowerment among women of color who had experienced sexual abuse. The movement was spread as a hashtag in 2017 by actress Alyssa Milano.

More than 200,000 women on the internet used the hashtag by the end of the day.

Comedian Norm MacDonald said, “I’m happy the #MeToo movement has slowed down a little bit. It used to be, ‘100 women can’t be lying,’ and then it became, ‘one woman can’t lie,’ and that became, ‘I believe all women,’ and then you’re like, ‘what?’”

Until the Kavanaugh hearing, the movement did seem to be slowing down. One of the last big stories on the #MeToo movement centered around comedian Aziz Ansari after he brought a woman home and aggressively tried to get her to have sex with him. Men all over the internet said they treated women just like Ansari did.

Every time there’s a new

man who gets accused, there are thousands of men and women who blame the victim instead of the person who committed the crime. Society has a tendency to blame the victim, which makes less victims want to come forward. It has taken many of these women more than 20 years to come forward, largely because they didn’t feel safe enough to come out before now.

Men in positions of power were keeping these women silent for all these years. I don’t think these women knew how common it was to be sexually harassed in a workplace environment by a man who had more power than them. The #MeToo movement lets women know they aren’t alone when they experience any type of sexual abuse. Whether that be catcalling on the street, feeling like they can’t say no to a boss or being drugged and raped after a night out.

The movement has made progress, but there are still women being asked what they were wearing or what they were drinking. No matter what the circumstances, she should still be treated as a victim. Many women don’t speak out because they have to try and prove what happened, when they should be

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believed. The percentage of women who make false accusations is so low, and an estimated 63 percent of sexual assaults go unreported. We should believe all women, because right now we barely believe any of them.

MacDonald’s opinion that people deserve second chances is a fair point, but some of these men don’t deserve that.

Men who use their power to pressure women into doing what they want don’t deserve a second chance. Men who prey on young girls and boys do not deserve a second chance. Men who drunkenly try to rape a girl, pretend they don’t remember and later become Supreme Court nominees do not deserve a second chance.

The #MeToo movement

is important for women who feel alone. These women don’t deserve to watch the men who hurt them rise to power. I don’t wish the #MeToo movement would slow down — I wish it would speed up so all these men can be exposed.

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

Abusers always to blame for sexual assault, not victims I SAID WHAT I SAID

MAYA STEVENSON @colormemaya The No. 1 cause of rape is not “revealing clothing.” The No. 1 cause of rape is not “walking alone at night.” The No. 1 cause of rape is not “someone changing their mind.” The number one and only cause of rape is rapists.

Too often, society forgets this and attempts to shift the blame onto victims. Why did they wait so long? Weren’t they drunk? Did they say no?

To attempt to blame a victim of sexual assault in any way for the traumatic experience they’ve had is nothing short of wrong. No action of a survivor could have warranted the vicious, terrible attack on their person they were forced to endure.

In the age of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, perpetrators of rape are being forced into the spotlight and held accountable for both their previous and current actions.

Society’s prejudice against survivors of sexual assault has also become more pronounced than ever. Too often I see victims being blamed for their traumatizing experiences and ridiculed on social media.

A recent example is the Bill Cosby conviction that occurred just last week. After a series of accusations and being tried, Cosby was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison for his sexual assault history. What felt like a blow and a loss to many fans of his resulted in a confusion among many of them on social media. Many weren’t sure what to feel about their beloved television dad being sent to prison, and him being guilty of those crimes.

Another result of the conviction was an array of victim-blaming across various social media sites, such as Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.

Some blamed the women for accepting pills from a stranger, going somewhere private with a married man and for waiting so long to speak up. Not only were some of these accusations false and irrelevant, but a vicious reminder of how society treats survivors of sexual assault.

Too often, society wants to believe and force a narrative which says the victim had a choice in their attack. No one chooses to undergo the trauma of a sexual assault. This is part of what makes it an assault. These victims don’t consent to their experience, the choice they deserve to have is stripped away from them.

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This is also what renders them blameless. How can they be judged or forced to acceptresponsibilityforamatter they had no choice in?

Blaming victims is society’s way of ignoring the misguided teachings which have resulted in the prevalence of these kinds of assaults. Instead of teaching men and women not to be sexual abusers, society places the responsibility of preventing assault on victims.

Why do we teach the ones who have no choice in the matter to avoid these incidents, instead of trying to prevent it altogether?

Consent has become a more prominent subject in sexual education in recent years, but it is not nearly as important in the conversation as it should be. Many members of society still fail to understand anything other than a definitive “yes” is a “no.”

A victim of sexual assault is not blame, nor should

they be blamed for what happened to them. Attempting to blame a victim forces an outdated and dangerous narrative that victims somehow have a choice in their assault. Instead, we must hold these criminals accountable for the pain and anguish they have caused.

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

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Black conservatism respectable, adulterated by Trump presidency FRANKLY SPEAKING JUSTIN FRANKLIN @justinifranklin From rapper Kanye West having to apologize for claiming “slavery was a choice” to political pundit Candace Owens going on a podcast and proclaiming, “I just don’t believe this, like, at all” on the subject of climate change, President Donald Trump’s exemplary black conservatives are an interesting breed.

For West and Owens, it’s the lucrative attention and recognition that drive their sudden awakening to the power of being “liberated” from being liberal. Conservatism is a marketing strategy in the age of Trump. For the rest of us, black people politics have sadly devolved into being either a whitewashed sellout or down for helping the black community.

To be extremely clear, there is nothing wrong with being black and conservative. A number of black people do not believe liberal policies are best for the advancement of the black community in a capitalistic American economic landscape.

Many counter-claim that no

community in American history is as oppressed and marginalized as black people in the justice system or marketplace, and the duty of all is to provide equality for communities everywhere.

The fact is, most black Americans vote for Democrats and support liberal ideology.

That being said, there are many ideologically conservative black Americans who deserve to be heard and respected. Disagreement is the base of democracy, and intellectual rational argument has shaped America from its founding.

The “self-help” vs. governmental accountability debate dates back to the days of author and presidential adviser Booker T. Washington. Washington himself could be considered a black conservative because of his views on government involvement in the rehabilitation of the black community after slavery.

Personally, I don’t think Washington accounted for the weaponization of government through the Black Codes, Jim Crow and eventually, the War on Drugs. But, he knew economic stability is key to success in America.

Unfortunately, in this age

of Trumpian politics, divisive rhetoric is bolstered on every side and fundamental policy is dismissed. Today we see partisanship spreading beyond political parties into intersectional debates over identity and loyalty to community.

Also in the age of Trump, black conservatives have found themselves on the outside looking in even in their own political party.

Well-respected Republican strategist Shermichael Singleton served as Deputy Chief of Staff at the Department of Housing and Urban Development in Trump’s administration until a background check revealed he wrote an Op-Ed criticizing Trump during the 2016 campaign.

The fact that a black man is fired after criticizing Trump when a wealth of other people in his administration have done far worse is something I want you to think about this week. The point is that Trump’s black conservatives are not conservative, they are merely blindly loyal “yes men” and “yes women.”

“For those folks, it’s definitely a cult of personality,” said Theodore Johnson, a senior fellow at the Brennan Center for

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Justice in an interview with the Washington Post. “They just like the access to power.”

Frankly speaking, real black conservatives deserve respect.

More often than not, we all have the same goal of producing positive change within the black community. Conservatives

today must see that Trump only cares about Trump, and supporting him is forfeiting reason and intellect for all-caps tweets and embarrassment.

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

Traditional beauty standards restrictive, reject diversity ACCORDING TO ASHLON

ASHLON LUSK @ashlonrose All women are beautiful, and there is something special about every single one of them. There is not one woman on this Earth that should ever have to hear someone tell her otherwise.

American fashion model Simone Thompson, better known as Slick Woods, has been berated on Twitter and told she’s not beautiful. Woods has graced the cover of Elle Magazine, modeled for Fenty Beauty and collaborated with Calvin Klein and Moschino for ad campaigns. The combination of her bald head, tattoos and gapped teeth make her as striking as she is beautiful.

Hateful Twitter users have said if she was just a regular girl walking down the street, no one would think anything of her. However, she was just a “regular girl” on the street when model Ash Stymest saw her at a bus stop in Los Angeles and introduced her to fashion

photographer David Mushegain, which began her career.

There is no such thing as “conventional beauty.”

Traditional Eurocentric beauty should not be the singular standard. There are different types of beauty other than skinny, small-featured white women. Model Jelena Noura “Gigi” Hadid is beautiful, but her and women who look like her are not the only ones.

This standard of beauty excludes women of color, women with bigger facial features and women who are plus-sized.

These attributes describe most women — the beauty industry is excluding most women.

The visible divide in the traditional beauty promoted by the industry can be seen in the creation of makeup and more specifically, foundation. There are usually more shades of “white” foundation than there are of any other color, which makes it hard for darkerskinned women to find makeup that matches their skin tone.

Makeup lines have recently been trying to offer more shades for their skin products,

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but it’s not even close to being enough. Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty has made an effort to include almost exclusively women of color in promotions and advertising. She recently had a fashion show for her line of lingerie, and all of her models were women of color, one of them being Woods.

Woods is not a Forever 21 model. She is a high fashion model for Vogue Italia, Japanese Vogue and American Vogue, among others. She has walked in fashion shows for Yves Saint Laurent, Rihanna Fenty x Puma, Yeezy, Fendi, Miu Miu, Jeremy Scott and Marc Jacobs. She does not look like everyone else, and she is beautiful. Anyone Rihanna thinks is beautiful is automatically beautiful, if you ask me.

Models are artists displaying clothing, but they are also art themselves. The quality of clothing matches the quality of the model. Woods didn’t land all those big-brand deals because she’s ugly.

Instead of calling women who aren’t traditionally beau-

tiful “ugly,” we should be celebrating diversity. Diverse skin tones, diverse faces and diverse body types should all be respected. All women are beautiful, and we should be

honoring every type of woman no matter what they look like.

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

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Media literacy necessary, vital civic duty in ‘fake news’ era SMITT’S TEA JAMES SMITH @itssmitt American politics have become drastically more polarized since the early 1990s, according to esteemed political analyst David Wasserman and the Pew Research Center. In 2016, less than 10 percent of all counties and parishes were decided by single-digit margins.

In 1992, that statistic was at 39 percent.

In 2016, nearly 1,200 counties were decided by margins surpassing 50 percentage points. In 1992, only 93 counties held that statistic. These startling digits are indicators of the shift toward American polarization and the influence of tribalism. One factor of this shift is confirmation bias and a lack of media literacy among Americans.

I don’t pretend to be a political expert by any stretch of the imagination. However, I do claim to be media literate thanks to my time spent at the Manship School of Mass Communication.

I know the difference between sponsored content and uninfluenced articles. I know that any credible journalistic entity won’t publish “fake news” or frame a

story with political motivations.

I know that it’s good to consume media from a variety of outlets across the political spectrum. I know every news article should be analyzed with a critical eye and mind. I know what confirmation bias is and how to break my bubble. I know the difference between a news and opinion article.

Not every citizen has the privilege to attend college, much less receive an education from the Manship School. This is why it is critical for college students, especially communication students, to share their knowledge of these concepts with friends, family and whoever cares to listen. Confirmation bias is one of the easiest and most effective notions to convey.

Confirmation bias was originally a psychology term that describes the tendency to exclusively seek out information that aligns with your pre-existing views.

Years ago, people got their broadcast news from one of three channels: ABC, CBS and NBC. Now, we have options such as MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, BBC and Al Jazeera, among others. We choose what kind of broadcast news we want to consume. The same goes for internet searches. And in an age of data collecting, your search

engine probably knows what links you’re more likely to click on.

By reaffirming our biases, we aren’t giving ourselves the option to self-correct. We end up living in an information bubble to the point where our biases become fact and any other views are automatically dismissed as false.

Confirmation bias can be broken by seeking out different viewpoints and news from outlets considered to be on the opposite side of your political ideology.

I’m not sure where I fall on the spectrum in regards to economics — I’m simply not educated enough on those matters to form an opinion — but I do consider myself a social liberal.

Therefore, I tend to get my news from outlets considered more liberal than others. However, I will watch Fox News and read The Washington Times or The Federalist on occasion.

I might be more inclined to consume that media with a grain of salt, but I’m learning how the other side sees things.

I’m now able to take those views into consideration. Imagine if your friends and family did the same thing. Imagine if they paid attention to all sides of the debate. Taking the time to understand arguments from all sides

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and then having discourse is an integral part of democracy.

This is one crucial way the First Amendment is meant to function.

Whether or not this information is new to you, please go out and share this knowledge with whoever will listen. We’re informed students, so let’s act like

it. Let’s do our civic duty and be a part of the solution. Journalism is an essential pillar of democracy, so let’s make sure we understand how that pillar functions and do our part in supporting it.

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

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