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“I went up to his dorm … it seemed like no big deal. I kept thinking like ‘Well, this guy is in my class. I trust him. I see him everyday. I remember the look in his eyes … I remember the wild look.

I can still see it. I said, ‘I didn’t come up here for this.’ I remember sitting back on the bed, and kind of gave up. I just remember thinking ‘I’m not gonna get out of here. There’s so much sound.’

Dorms just have thick walls … no one is going to hear me or no one is going to care. No one was going to believe me … I just felt like people were going to say, ‘Well, you went up to his dorm room. What did you think was going to happen?’”

too In light of recent nation-wide sexual harassment allegations, LSU alumna Jennifer Andrews comes forward with her #MeToo story, page 2

NEWS

SPORTS Gear up for the 2018 baseball/ softball seasons with our intensive guide, page 7

We’re Committed, Lighthouse Program provide support for sexual assault survivors, page 3 Out-of-state students share experiences adjusting to LSU, page 5

ENTERTAINMENT LSU Student Union showcases artwork of students from all majors, page 13

OPINION “Have fun wading through trash with the rest of the drunken city,” page 18

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COVER STORY

Sexual assault survivor recounts 1991 incident at LSU

BY DENA WINEGEART @DenaWinegeart In 1991, Los Angeles Lakers star Magic Johnson announced he tested HIV-positive in a physical earlier that year. In every life, there are critical junctures that shape who individuals become. University alumna Jennifer Andrews uses the date of Johnson’s announcement to landmark her own critical juncture, of a different kind, which occurred while she was a student at the University.

Like many college freshmen, Andrews was not sure what her major was going to be. She knew she loved English, but she began college as an advertising student.

In her first English class, Andrews met two young men that she sat between every day in class. One of them, Andrews said, was very nice and polite, and she began to go on dates with him. A very chivalrous young man, Andrews said he would never “try anything.” The other man she sat next to, Alex,* was not so kind.

One day after class, Alex invited Andrews back to his dorm to watch T.V. and hang out. While walking through the halls and up to his room, Andrews said she felt safe and saw girls everywhere throughout the dorm, trusting that Alex was a nice guy.

“I went up to his dorm … it seemed like no big deal. I kept thinking like ‘Well, this guy is in my class. I trust him. I see him everyday,’” Andrews said.

While in Alex’s dorm, Andrews said he climbed on top of her and began making sexual advances without her consent. She remembers the heaviness of his body on top of her and how hard it was trying to push him off. And the way he stared at her.

“I remember the look in his eyes … I remember the wild look,” Andrews said. “I can still see it. I said, ‘I didn’t come up here for this.’”

They gaslight and intimidate us into not speaking out.

JENNIFER ANDREWS

LSU alumna

From there, Andrews said the events get hazy. She threatened to kick him in the groin if he did not stop, and she attempted to leave his room, but Alex locked the door and blocked it. Andrews felt trapped and still does not remember how, or when, she got out of his room.

At some point, Andrews said she gave up.

“I remember sitting back on the bed, and kind of gave up. I just remember thinking ‘I’m not gonna get out of here. There’s so much sound,’” Andrews said.

“Dorms just have thick walls … no one is going to hear me or no one is going to care.”

For the rest of the semester, Andrews said she continued to go to English class and see Alex every day. She doesn’t remember getting a good final grade in the course.

Andrews said she did not contact police and did not tell her professors about what happened.

She filed her experience away and never spoke out about the way this event affected her — until now.

“No one was going to believe me … I just felt like people were going to say, ‘Well, you went up to his dorm room. What did you think was going to happen?’”

Born and raised in Baton Rouge, Andrews attended Cornerstone Academy, a Church of Christ school, where she graduated with 15 people in her class. She was the valedictorian of her class and described her high-school self as shy while still “under her parents thumb.” She said she

attended the University because there seemed to be an expectation to do so when growing up in Baton Rouge. While she looked into attending the University of Miami, she said her mother thought it was too far and encouraged Andrews to stay in Baton Rouge.

When Andrews came to the University, she became more outgoing. She began to go out more, as she noticed many people did while at the University. She said she also began to feel more “empowered” after taking many classes at the University where she read literature written by feminist authors like Virginia Woolf.

But if Andrews had experienced Alex’s harassment at any other time in her life, she said she would have probably responded differently.

“Being the person I am now, I probably would have punched him and definitely gone to the professor because I had to go to class with him every day after that,” Andrews said.

In 1993, Andrews’ parents moved to Kentucky. Instead of moving with her family, Andrews stayed in Baton Rouge and began to expand her horizons after being freed from her parents’ watchful eyes. By going out to bars on Chimes Street and finding a core group of friends with whom she had a strong support system, Andrews saw herself evolve into a stronger woman.

Fast-forward to 2017, when it seemed like with every day came another news story about women’s’ experiences with sexual harassment and assault, Andrews

said she felt “very empowered” to speak out about her own experience. She said reading about the accusations against Harvey Weinstein triggered the memories of what she went through at the University because Weinstein and Alex used a similar “method of operation.” Weinstein would often allegedly invite women, such as Uma Thurman and Kaitlin Doubleday, up to his hotel room and make unwanted sexual advances toward them.

Andrews said one of the common criticisms among those who have spoken out is why women waited so long to talk about their stories. She contemplated this thought.

“I started thinking ‘Why do we wait that long?’ and I think it’s just that you’re not strong enough sometimes to cope with it… We want everything to be okay. We want normalcy,” Andrews said.

“I was embarrassed I didn’t do more. What if he did this to someone else?”

Today, Andrews lives in California and works in marketing and public relations for films.

She recognizes the impact, whether overt or not, that her experience could have had on her young adult life.

“I believed that this guy I’d see every day was trustworthy because I saw him every day and in close quarters,” Andrews said. “Why would he risk his education to attack a woman in his dorm? Why do these men risk their careers? They gaslight and intimidate us into not speaking out.”

After speaking out about her story, Andrews said she feels as though a weight has been lifted.

“I already feel much lighter,” Andrews said. “This experience is sending me to a much-needed place of healing.” *Editor’s Note: The Daily Reveille has changed the name of the alleged assailant to “Alex.”

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News

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Family remembers Micah Johnson

LSU Stuttering Lab aims to erase misconceptions about stuttering

COURTESY OF JAN JOHNSON

BY RACHEL MIPRO @remroc15

The LSU Stuttering Lab started in 2014 with a lofty goal in mind: to find out what causes stuttering. Geoffrey Coalson, lab director and assistant professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, has a personal stake in this project.

Coalson has struggled with lifelong struggle with stuttering since he was around 3 years old. He said the problems stuttering causes, like tension, embarrassment and fear about speaking, can have lasting effects on those who stutter.

“One of the unfortunate consequences of stuttering is that you feel like you’re all alone. You feel like you’re the only one doing this, and you’re doing something

wrong,” Coalson said. “You start to lose your mind. It takes so much effort to hop around words that people who stutter — they are exhausted. Or they just don’t talk to people because it’s just too much effort.”

Coalson and his staff are addressing this issue by bringing awareness that stuttering is acceptable, and to give stutterers the freedom to stutter. Coalson and his staff also go to different classes and departments within the University to recruit test subjects and to provide resources for those who stutter.

“There’s an oversimplification of stuttering,” Coalson said. “There’s a pop culture knowledge of stuttering that people see in movies

photo by ALYSSA BERRY

see STUTTERING, page 6

Micah Alexis Johnson, age 21, died suddenly and without warning Monday, Jan. 29, 2018, at Ochsner Medical Center after battling a 3-day illness.

Micah, a beloved daughter, sister, teacher and friend, was an LSU student majoring in early ch i ld h o o d education, a beloved JOHNSON tumbling coach at Flips and Fitness, an accomplished pianist, an energetic drummer, a student of Krav Maga, a dedicated Kid-zone ministry leader at Victory Harvest Church, a life-group member of Antioch Community Church, and most importantly, a “child of the one true King.”

Micah loved life! Her boundless energy, endless chatter, and overflowing joy electrified any room she entered. She passionately loved every child and every animal, and they loved her.

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HEALTH

LSU programs offer resources to combat sexual violence

BY SHERIDAN WALL @slwall7

One in four women and one in 16 men—that’s how many students will be victims of sexual violence before their college graduation, according to kinesiology senior and We’re Committed advocate Camille Faircloth.

The University works to reduce these statistics and assist survivors through its on-campus resources, including the Lighthouse Program, LSU Women’s Center and We’re Committed initiative.

“I think that by the time it’s 10 years down the line, I’ll look back, and that statistic [will be] one in 10, or that statistic [will be] one in 100 or one in a million,” Faircloth said.

Faircloth was one of the originators of We’re Commit-

ted and served as the initiative’s student director for two and a half years. She’s now the senior adviser to the student body president.

The University’s We’re Committed initiative was founded in Spring 2015 in response to former Vice President Joe Biden’s It’s On Us national platform, Faircloth said. The initiative works closely with on-campus partners like LSU Student Government, LSU Student Health Center, Women’s Center, Lighthouse Program, Dean of Students Office, LSU Greek Life, Title IX Coordinators and more.

“We’re Committed is the umbrella over all things encompassing the anti-sexual violence movement at Louisiana State University,” Faircloth said in an email.

The initiative focuses on prevention, intervention and postvention to combat sexual violence

on campus, Faircloth said. For the past three years, We’re Committed has concentrated heavily on post-vention. We’re Committed’s primary resource for postvention is the Student Health Center’s Lighthouse Program.

The Lighthouse Program is a free and confidential violence prevention, support and advocacy program on campus available to University students experiencing interpersonal violence, according to Assistant Director of Wellness and Health Promotion Susan Bareis, who also coordinates the Lighthouse Program.

Bareis said she assists students by connecting them with resources on and off campus, including medical care, evidence collection, STI testing, mental health services, academic

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The We’re Committed initiative is one of three on-campus resources available to survivors of sexual violence.

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STUDENT LIFE

Student Veterans Center aims to make a difference for veterans

BY CALEB GREENE @cgreene_24

Louisiana State University program has grown remarkably over the last five years. The The William A. Brookshire previous veteran student center Military and Veterans Student was located on the third floor Center opened its doors on Jan. of Hatcher Hall and served as 31 with a ribbon-cutting cer- little as seven to eight students, emony led by Gov. John Bel according to Brookshire StuEdwards and LSU President F. dent Center Program Director Sachiko Cleveland. CleveKing Alexander. land said the new “It’s imperative that we can “I hope more veterans Brookshire Center serves about 30 do everything we can to help will come and show students on a daily basis. out veterans,” their face at the The facility has Edwards said.

Sitting be- student center. They a computer lab, hind the LSU can contribute to the study lounge, free tutoring service Student Union center’s growth.” and textbooks for on Veterans the student vetDrive, the new erans. Any stuBrookshire StuDANIEL SERRA dent serves the Marine Corps veteran and student dent can donate textbooks to the Un ive r s i t y ’s Brookshire Center. veteran population. According to the center, Twice a month, there are Lunch there are 507 student veterans and Learn workshops in the on campus. Of the 507 veterans, center’s multi-purpose room.

Marine Corps veteran and 59 are graduate students and 12 are attending the LSU Paul M. software engineering sophomore Daniel Serra said he Hebert Law School.

The mission of the noticed the improvement the Brookshire Student Center is Brookshire location is over the to promote the academic suc- old center in Hatcher Hall.

“I was here when we were cess of student veterans, service members and dependents up in Hatcher. That was pretty at the University. The center’s hard to find and very select inprograms focus on three key dividuals went up there,” Serra initiatives: academic, personal said. “This is a more prominent location on campus, so we and career development.

The Student Veterans of will draw more faces in. It will

definitely help out more in that way.”

The most common majors for veterans on campus are in the STEM fields, according to the Brookshire Center. As part of the center’s career development programs, the center offers a resume writing workshop and mock interview panels to prepare veterans for life after the University. Along with career counseling, the center also advises students on veterans benefits they receive.

“I hope more veterans will come and show their face at the student center,” Serra said.

“They can contribute to the center’s growth.”

Cleveland said she believes the most difficult aspect of college life for military veterans is the transition. Veterans must go from the structured organization of the military to independent, educational atmosphere of college. An important goal of the center is to help veterans connect and interact with others on campus and establish a sense of camaraderie on a peer-to-peer basis.

The growth of the University’s veteran program has increased greatly over the last five years, but Cleveland and the program still have their eyes to the future, hoping to grow and better the lives of the University’s veteran population.

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The newly-opened William A. Brookshire Military and Veterans Student Center rests on Veterans drive near Barnes and Noble LSU on Feb. 5.

BUSINESS

LA declares highest foreign investment rate in country

BY RACHEL MIPRO @remroc15 On Jan. 29, Louisiana Economic Development declared on Twitter that Louisiana has gotten more direct foreign investment per capita than any other state for the past 10 years. Louisiana’s Office of International Commerce doubled down on this statement, saying that Louisiana has an unparalleled advantage through proximity to the Gulf of Mexico.

Louisiana’s access to foreign markets comes primarily from the Gulf of Mexico, which allows for easy shipping worldwide, contributing to the importance of Louisiana ports.

While soybeans were the top export for Louisiana in 2016, oil and gas exports still make up a significant portion of the Louisiana economy.

LED Secretary Don Pierson broke down Louisiana’s foreign investment dominance, explaining how the key is the ports. Louisiana has three of the top 10 and five of the top 15 ports by tonnage in the U.S. “Our Port of South Louisiana is No. 1 in the Western Hemisphere, with 260 million tons per year,” Pierson said.

“Port Fourchon services nearly

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20 percent of the U.S. crude oil supply, while Louisiana ports collectively distribute 60 percent of all U.S. grain exported to foreign shores. Since 2003, Louisiana has attracted 145 international projects repre-

senting $42.9 billion in Foreign Direct Investment to our state.”

Some of the international investments in Louisiana include BASF, Benteler Steel/ Tube, DHL, Drax Biomass, Incitec Pivot Ltd., Katoen Natie,

Lotte Chemical, Royal Dutch Shell, Sasol, Shintech Incorporated and Yuhuang Chemical Inc. These businesses have become a significant source of Louisiana jobs and revenue.

“A lot of money is being

invested in the ports — imports and exports are where the money is going. I think what we’ll see is continued investment and capital projects,” said Lewis Kilbourne, an instructor in the LSU Department of Finance.

“Projects that cost a lot of money and hire a lot of people and create high paying jobs.”

However, Kilbourne warned that the market for oil and gas will not always be a stable source of revenue. With the mass production of natural gas and crude oil, prices continue to drop in correspondence to increase in availability. The shift toward renewable energy is also cause for concern, as Louisiana relies on production of crude oil and natural gas.

Less than 4 percent of Louisiana’s electricity comes from renewable resources.

Kilbourne concluded that it was important to focus on education in Louisiana, saying that educated Louisiana residents at the top of their respective fields would be one of the greatest advantages the state could have in terms of the Louisiana economy and Louisiana’s future.

“LSU is invaluable to Louisiana,” Kilbourne said.” The greatest resources the state can have is young, educated people.”

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STUDENT LIFE

Out-of-state students find home-away-from-home at LSU

BY CALEB GREENE @cgreene_24 Louisiana Ca$h’s “From Louisiana” is a fan favorite when it energizes crowds at Tiger Stadium, Alex Box Stadium and the Pete Maravich Assembly Center. Students scream the lyrics at opponents letting them know their trip to the Pelican State will be rough and unfulfilling.

More than 21,000 University students tell the truth when they sing the lyrics — they are indeed from Louisiana.

The University is home to 3,845 out-of-state undergraduate students, according to the Office of Budget and Planning Fall 2017 report. The number stands small in comparison to the number of in-state students. Despite being a small portion of the campus population, out-of-state students are quick to try to enjoy the southern hospitality and adjust to the Louisiana culture.

Microbiology freshman Olivia Kluzhka is from the suburbs of northern Chicago. She said she was attracted to the organization and hospitality on campus immediately, and cited them as a few of the reasons she attended the University.

“I really like[d] how the campus was set up and everybody was so nice,” Kluzhka said.

Not every student feels that

same hospitality. Biology sophomore Corey Cooper found the culture much different and struggled to assimilate.

“From my background, my community and friends in Washington heavily focused on education, progression and baseball,” Cooper said. “In Louisiana football, partying and the more fun social aspects of life appear to be the cultural focuses. It has felt very difficult finding roots and there is this constant feeling of ‘I don’t belong’ that circulates my life since coming to Louisiana.”

LSU Campus Connections works to help out-of-state students adjust to life in Louisiana. The organization offers social events like Bengal Bound and What’s the Big Deal About Jambalaya in the fall to help students interact and network with other students.

LSU Campus Connections Director Missy Korduner describes these events as a wonderful way for out-of-state students to connect and acclimate to the culture.

“They aren’t able to ‘just go home’ for a weekend or on short breaks,” Korduner said. “This is where Campus Connections is crucial to student engagement.

Helping our students find their home away from home and make connections on campus makes it easier for them to make friends,

learn about LSU and engage in the campus community.”

Cooper found community involvement to be the best method in climbing the cultural barriers.

“What I’ve come to do to combat that depressing barrier is to simply participate in my community,” Cooper said.

Natural resource ecology and management freshman Christian Mann is from Presque Isle, Maine. Mann found life in Louisiana very easy to adjust to, thanks to the culturally diversity of the state.

“Louisiana is a big culture pot,” Mann said. “We have Mardi Gras, different ethnic backgrounds, and it’s just one of those places where there is always something to do.”

Mann does struggle on the weekends, though. Since his family lives in Maine, Mann said he cannot visit his family on the weekends and miss home-cooked meals.

“The weekends here can be very boring,” Mann said. “Campus almost becomes dead, and the way you could improve that is with more programs. Football games are about the only times that LSU is ever packed on the weekends. I hate being stuck in my room. I’m a very social person.”

Mann said he believes the only way to counter the lack of University activity on the

Compiled from LSU Office of Budget and Planning Fall 2017 report weekends is to have more programs on weekends without home football games. He sees that as a terrific way to increase the social atmosphere on weekends, he said, but realizes that it is unlikely since the out-of-state population is so small.

Regardless of the lack of campus activity on campus weekends, out-of-state students continue to overcome the regional culture differences with a little help from community involvement and

Campus Connections.

“There are a multitude of ways that students can connect, engage and get support at LSU from a variety of offices and there is something for everyone,” Korduner said. “Each student can create their own unique experience that works for them. We want our students to be successful and by utilizing the resources, asking for help when needed and engaging in the campus community, they can be successful.”

RESEARCH

LSU unveils Center for River Studies on BR Water Campus

BY LUKE JEANFREAU @LukeJeanfreau The Mississippi River is both a blessing and a curse. It drives commerce for Louisiana, but the act of diverting the river resulted in huge loss of the state’s wetlands. With the new LSU Center for River Studies, the University aims to help solve this problem.

Gov. John Bel Edwards joined officials from the City of Baton Rouge, the University and the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, and the Baton Rouge Area Foundation to unveil the new Center for River Studies in an area of Baton Rouge called the Water Campus on Jan. 29.

The centerpiece of the Center for River Studies is the Lower Mississippi River Model, a scale model of the Mississippi River. The facility will also feature educational exhibits.

“The idea of a physical model is to scale down the real-world system in a way that allows us to do controlled experiments in a certain-sized laboratory or space,” said director of the LSU Center for River Studies and the Mike Dooley Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Clint Willson in a press release. “And at the same time, you want to replicate the physics of the system as you can.”

The University originally planned to house the model on campus, however they were given the opportunity to build it on the Water Campus. The model is made up of 216 five-by-ten foot high-density foam panels.

“It took us over a year just to route the panels,” Willson said.

“Those were routed on the LSU campus while the building was being constructed. Once the building was finished, the panels were transported to the Center. Then a contractor probably spent about five months, maybe a little longer, actually constructing the model inside the Center.”

Willson said the process for designing the model was iterative, as there was limited space to create a model of a massive river. The CPRA also provided funding for all aspects of the project.

Willson said that a foot on the model represents approximately a mile of the real Mississippi River, and that an hour of water flow in the model represents about a year of flow in the Mississippi River.

“We basically take all the topography of the land around the river in the area that we’re modelling, and you scale that down by basically one mile to one foot,” Willson said. “We do some other scaling with elevation, then, finally, we choose a sediment, we choose particles that we’re going to use in our

physical model that will replicate or represent the way the sand moves in the Mississippi River.”

The Center will be used to conduct experiments, but Willson said it will also be used to educate people about the Mississippi River, as well as provide a collaborative space for scientists, engineers and government officials.

“The education component is critical and key, and really an amazing access,” Willson said.

“We have this amazing opportunity to communicate with the public, to communicate with policy-makers, to communicate to stakeholders, to middle school and high school students, and the general public why we have this. Teach them about the river. Educate them about why we leveed the river and why the federal government needed to do that for navigation and to protect people from flooding, and then talk about the consequences of that leveeing.”

Willson said he also hopes to use the Center as a place to host collaborative discussions where scientists can discuss their research. He particularly hoped that it could be a place for lawmakers and government officials to come to learn about the coast and meet with leading coastal scientists in order to make more informed policy decisions.

Creating the Center for River

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The LSU Center for River Studies sits close to LSU’s campus on Terrace Avenue on Feb. 5.

Studies took a long time, but Willson said it was worth the wait.

“I think the vision from five or more years ago, that vision of what we could do in terms of not just the

research, but the education and the outreach really, I think, kept everyone motivated and kept them more on track,” Willson said. “It made it worth the wait.”

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page 6 STUTTERING, from page 3 and people see in portrayals of media. That [stutterers] are just nervous and if they just try a bit harder, they can correct all that.

It’s not that simple.”

While 75 percent of children who stutter grow out of it by age 6, the remainder who retain a stutter can be greatly affected by it, Coalson said. There are around three million adults who have a stutter in the U.S., and more than 70 million worldwide. Stuttering is around three to four times more common in men. The LSU Stuttering Lab is trying to spread statistics like these.

“It’s good to be able to get them the facts, it’s nice to offer reassurance or explain what’s going on,” said Shanley Treleaven, LSU Stuttering Lab manager and a Ph.D. student concentrating in stuttering.

The lab examines some of

RESOURCES, from page 3 accommodations and safe housing. Bareis also assists students with reporting options, guiding them through the University’s judicial system and the procedure for law enforcement.

The Lighthouse Program stands out among other universities’ programs due to strong ties with several organizations on campus, the Dean of Students, Title IX Coordinators and with University police, Bareis said.

“I think what is unique is that this is a very established program, and we continue to grow and see more students coming to us for resources,” Bareis said.

Bareis said she emphasizes the program’s confidential support to each student, making it clear that students and Lighthouse advocates do not have to report sexual misconduct to the University or law enforcement.

“I really approach it as, ‘Here is a menu of different resource options, support options for you,’” Bareis said. “And, I let the survivor guide the process.”

Bareis said sexual violence is about power and control, and the Lighthouse Program’s goal is to return that power and control to the survivor. Students have the option to use any or all of the options given to them, or they may choose not to explore any

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the more subtle factors involved in stuttering, such as cognitive ability, linguistic processing and differences in motor skills.

Their test subjects are all adults volunteering for different exercises.

“A lot of what we do here is nonverbal,” Coalson said. “We look at factors that are more extreme than just speech production. We look at the actual moments of stuttering and then additional processes.”

While the staff examines different factors in stuttering, their mission is more than just research. They are also dedicated to spreading information about stuttering, and reducing misinformation and stigma attached to stuttering.

The Stuttering Lab staffers have also influenced the larger Baton Rouge community. Under Coalson’s direction, the Baton Rouge chapter of the National Stuttering Association, which

meets monthly, has grown in size and achieved more visibility, as well as gained a few University students.

Ultimately, the LSU Stuttering Lab wants to find the causes and indicators of stuttering, to be able to more effectively treat stuttering and to implement new methods of therapy for stuttering. While their focus is on stuttering factors as a way to help children, they hope their research will be beneficial to adults suffering from stuttering, as well.

“Maybe it’s being able to talk about stuttering in front of someone, or maybe it’s being able to speak more fluently while giving a speech or whatever their individual need is,” Treleaven said. “We want to be able to help them, and the more research we do, the more we can help adults as well ... So we can someday make better therapy techniques for these adults.”

I think for a lot of college students figuring out how to navigate the process after trauma, the fewer steps you have to go through, often the easier it is.

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Women’s Center Director further avenues.

The Lighthouse Program is open to all students, even those who experienced sexual violence outside of their college experience, Bareis said. The options provided by the Lighthouse Program also do not expire, so survivors can reach out at any point after the trauma.

“These last few years, we’ve heard more and more cases of sexual assault being reported on campuses, which is great because it’s the most underreported crime in the United States,” Faircloth said.

We’re Committed inspired the creation of the Department of Health and Wellness in Student Government, Faircloth said.

This department serves as another post-vention resource for survivors as it focuses largely on mental health issues.

The initiative also connects survivors with off-campus resources, including IRIS Domestic Violence Center, Sexual Trauma Awareness and Response Center (STAR), Crisis Intervention Center, Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault (LFASA), etc.

STAR is a confidential support system for sexual violence survivors operating in the Greater Baton Rouge area, according to the organization’s website. STAR provides services such as confidential advocacy, counseling and legal services at no cost to individuals or families suffering from sexual trauma.

As part of the intervention stage, We’re Committed introduced Tiger Bites, an active bystander program. Tiger Bites is a two-to-three day training program, equipping students with the necessary skills to detect and

expose sexual violence before or during an occurrence. The program also educates participants about sexual violence and available resources.

“We’re Committed is all about making this an active topic of conversation,” Faircloth said.

Faircloth said We’re Committed will focus on prevention in 2018, which involves peerto-peer education about consent, healthy relationships, important definitions and prevalence of sexual violence.

“Peer-to-peer education is the most important and most impactful,” Faircloth said. “The more education we get out about this topic, the more effective it’s going to be.”

The Women’s Center works closely with We’re Committed and the Lighthouse Program, according to Women’s Center Director Summer Steib. The Women’s Center provides survivors with resource referrals, with oncampus and off-campus guides both on hand and online. Apart from her role at the Women’s Center, Steib is also trained as a Lighthouse advocate, she said.

College is a vulnerable period for young adults, rendering students more susceptible to sexual violence, Steib said.

“All crime is really about motive and opportunity, and when you look at a college campus, if there’s a motive, there’s a lot of opportunity there,” Steib said.

Tulane University recently released a Campus Climate Survey, revealing about 40 percent of students responding to the survey had experienced some form of sexual violence while at the university, Steib said.

“So, we know that this

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LSU communication sciences and disorders senior Mary Claire Fontenot, Ph.D. student Shanley Treleaven, Director of LSU Stuttering Lab Geoffrey A. Coalson and communication sciences and disorders senior Andi Gugliuzza stand inside of their Developmental Stuttering Laboratory in Hatcher Hall on Jan. 31. impacts a high percentage of students either as direct victims or as friends and associates of folks who are being assaulted in some type of way during their college experience,” Steib said.

Steib said she believes this, as well as the volume of out-of-state students, necessitates specific on-campus programs designed to guide survivors through the difficult process post-trauma. Students not native to Baton Rouge may not be aware of or feel as comfortable using resources available in the Baton Rouge community.

Steib said the Lighthouse Program at the University is set up as a “one-stop shop” available on campus. The program is designed so students can access each step after trauma without leaving or engaging with anyone off-campus, unless they choose to do so.

Steib said creating an all-inclusive program simplifies the process.

“I think for a lot of college students figuring out how to navigate the process after trauma, the fewer steps you have to go through, often the easier it is,” Steib said.

The Women’s Center, partnered with the University Council for Gender Equity and the Office of Diversity, will host #MeToo at LSU, a panel discussion about the “climate around sexual assault and harassment for professional women and students,” according to a post on We’re Committed’s Facebook page.

“With all of the attention on the #MeToo movement and with so my critical conversation taking place around sexual assault and harassment, we felt that this was a timely, relevant, and needed discussion for our LSU community,” Steib said in an email.

The panel is part of Closing the Gaps, a campaign launched in December 2015 to address gender gaps on campus, the email said. The #MeToo panel will be the eighth Closing the Gaps panel.

The panel will be hosted in the Atchafalaya Room in the LSU Student Union on Feb. 21 from 8 to 9:30 a.m.

JOHNSON, from page 3 She was a defender of the defenseless and a champion of the underdog.

She embodied Micah 6:8 – “…and what does the Lord require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.” Micah adored her family and their many travels across the world, including two of her favorites, Disney World and Destin.

She loved ANY time with friends, four wheeling, Segway adventures, ziplining, horseback riding, bonfires, and all things outdoors.

She was a born teacher with a heart of gold and would pour out her diverse giftings on anyone in need.

Micah loved!

A celebration of her life was held Monday, Feb. 5 at Victory Harvest Church on 3953 North Flannery Road, with visitation beginning at 11 a.m. and her Celebration Service began at 2 p.m. Entombment will be at Resthaven Gardens of Memory on Jefferson Highway.

Micah leaves behind a devastated family who completely adored her: parents Steve and Jan Johnson; siblings Christian and Jenna Johnson; paternal grandparents Gerald and Mae Johnson; and numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, friends and students. She is preceded in death by her maternal grandparents: Leonard Joseph Jacob and Patricia Hendry Jacob, her uncle Christopher Jay Jacob and her cousin Nicholas Jay Jacob.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Micah Johnson Memorial Fund, which will support the causes that brought joy to Micah’s heart, namely those benefiting children and animals.

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BASEBALL

New faces bring abundance of talent, fill gaps in Tigers’ lineup

HILLIARD

CABRERA

FEDUCCIA

BROUSSARD

Catcher

Second baseman

Right-handed pitcher

Outfielder

1.09 ERA

Drafted in 26th round to Padres in 2017 MLB draft

.997 fielding percentage at LSU-Eunice

.429 batting average at Delagado CC

.510 batting average senior year

.394 batting average

.531 on base percentage

9 earned runs in 57.2 innings

BY GLEN WEST @glenwest21 LSU is one of the few programs in the country that consistently restocks when losing players to the MLB draft.

Despite losing four starters in the field and the three starting pitchers from a year ago, LSU Coach Paul Mainieri feels that the new wave of 17 players can contribute in a variety of ways right off the bat.

A player who has already received high praise from his teammates is left fielder Daniel Cabrera. Cabrera was drafted in the 26th round of the 2017 MLB Draft, but decided to forego the pro-level and come to LSU to polish his game.

Batting .510 his senior season at Parkview Baptist while earning First Team All-State recognition, Cabrera has impressed sophomore right fielder Antoine Duplantis because of his work ethic and how quickly he has picked up on the game at the college level.

“He looks really good out there in left,” Duplantis said. “I think he’s going to be a great player for us. He has that confidence where you know he’s going to do well.”

Cabrera is expected to also provide a role in the pitching rotation but in those scenarios, he would have to be a designated hitter with a candidate such as junior Beau Jordan playing in left field.

Another freshman on most

player’s watchlist has been pitcher Ma’Khail Hilliard. Hilliard has dazzled the team with his curve ball, which some players admit, is the hardest pitch to hit out of all the players.

Hilliard is expected to be a bullpen pitcher out of the gate, but if his breaking ball is as nasty as the reports say, a larger role could be carved out as the season progresses.

“There is a device that is called the Gametracker,” Mainieri said. “It gives you the spin rate of the ball. A good curveball by a major league would player would be about a 3,000 rpm. We only have one pitcher who has touched 3,000 and that’s Hilliard.

That means he can spin that thing even tighter which makes it break

that much more. Even former Tiger Alex Lange didn’t have that kind of a spin break on his curve ball.”

An important blueprint Mainieri has used to be successful at LSU is recruiting at the junior college level.

Guys like Kade Scivicque and most recently Cole Freemann have had successful careers at LSU leading them to early round draft picks in the MLB. This season, the new crop of transfers is headlined by second baseman Brandt Broussard and catcher Hunter Feduccia.

Broussard comes from Delgado, the same JUCO Freeman attended and is viewed in the same way. Broussard is a contact hitter with defensive range, but

certainly wants to write his own chapter at LSU. “A lot of people say I’m similar to Cole,” Broussard said.

“I’ve talked to him a couple of times. Handling the bats, good defense is what they are kind of looking for out of me.”

Feduccia is replacing one of the best defensive catchers in the nation from a year ago in Michael Papierski. Feduccia is a transfer from LSU-Eunice where he batted .394 with seven home runs and 41 RBI’s in 2017.

“He is going to be our No. 1 catcher,” Mainieri said. “He played last summer in the Northwoods League with a wood bat. In 50-55 games, he hit seven or eight homeruns. I would expect him to have the ability to do that.”

LSU baseball moves past Omaha loss, reloads in 2018 season

BY GLEN WEST @glenwest21 In recent memory, a trip to the College World Series Championship for LSU baseball was always a national championship.

Until last summer.

After a devastating flood in August 2016 left many in Louisiana having to rebuild their homes, LSU coach Paul Mainieri’s wife told him it would be great to win a national championship.

“Last year was the first time that I’ve ever been to the finals of the national championship and not won,” Mainieri said. “It’s only the second time I’ve been there. It’s a pretty distasteful feeling. It’s unlike any feeling I’ve had before in the previous 34 years of coaching. I’d like to tell you I’m over it, but I don’t think I ever will be.

To be so close and feel the games were winnable and not be able to finish it and be able to bring the big trophy home along with all

the things that go with being the national champion, it hurts.”

Mainieri and the returning players alike are ready to focus on the task at hand, make it back to the CWS Championship and finish the job.

A year ago this time, experience was the name of the game when former Tigers such as Kramer Robertson, Cole Freeman, Greg Deichmann, Michael Papierski, Alex Lange and Jared Poché seemed destined for a deep postseason run.

While those players have moved up to pro ball, the lessons they taught the returning LSU players makes them believe there is no setback.

Sophomore infielder Josh Smith is positioned to replace Robertson at shortstop while carrying on a tradition of exemplary play from that spot. Smith said there are a few noticeable differences he sees after switching from third.

“Definitely the range,” Smith

said. “You have to get rid of the ball a lot quicker at shortstop.

There’s a lot more responsibility that comes with third, so I think I’m ready for it.”

In the outfield, the Tigers are returning sophomore center fielder Zach Watson and junior left fielder Antoine Duplantis.

Duplantis is expected to make the shift to right after playing left for most of last season, with left field occupied by freshman outfielder Daniel Cabrera.

Mainieri has spoken very highly of Cabrera’s talents not only as an outfielder, but as a potential rotational pitcher.

“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,” Mainieri said. “I don’t think he will be intimidated by the atmosphere or anything like that. He’s a confident kid.

The pitching staff went through an entire rotation change

with two pitchers going pro and sophomore pitcher Eric Walker’s unavailability after undergoing Tommy John surgery last summer.

Junior pitcher Caleb Gilbert and sophomore pitchers Zack Hess and Todd Peterson will be the opening weekend starters against Notre Dame. Peterson spent much of the offseason getting in shape.

“He spent his entire summer and fall getting in better condition,” Mainieri said. “He’s done a lot of work with his throwing arm as far as increasing his strength and flexibility. Honestly, he was throwing outstandingly in fall practice and especially in these early simulated games. He has a chance to be a really good pitcher.”

LSU is returning 15 players from last season’s roster while bringing 17 new players aboard.

When there are a number of new players to a roster, finding a

vocal leader is crucial the team’s chemistry.

Mainieri said Smith, Hess and redshirt junior infielder Bryce Jordan and senior outfielder Beau Jordan are ones that have stood out to him in preseason.

“Probably the most vocal would be a guy like Hess,” Mainieri said. “But of course, being a starting pitcher, he has to focus on his job. I think the two Jordan boys, sometimes they’re a little bit more vocal, but they don’t do it on a consistent basis.”

“We try to be a little bit more vocal,” Smith said. “Just trying to get guys going when they need to get going. I’m comfortable with everyone on the team and I’m not afraid to tell someone something when they need it.”

LSU currently sits at No. 9 in the USA Today Coaches Preason Poll, and will take on Mainieri’s old team, Notre Dame, for a three game series beginning Friday, Feb. 16.

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Tigers move Hess to weekend starter

BY BRANDON DECAREAUX | @BrandonDec77

photo s DAILY by HASKEL LW REVEIL LE AR HITTINGTO CHIVE N&T HE S

LSU softball senior pitchers look to dominate 2018 season

Last year’s Cinderella run in the College World Series is over.

The biggest move of the season for LSU baseball is taking sophomore pitcher Zack Hess out of the bullpen and putting him into the starting rotation. Hess worked as the Tigers’ midweek starter for the first two months of last season before moving to the bullpen.

The move from the bullpen to the starting rotation is something LSU coach Paul Mainieri knows Hess can handle.

“There’s a lot of things that go into being out there for seven innings, and I think Zack has a tremendous understanding of that,” Mainieri said. “He is a very intelligent kid and he wants to do it.”

LSU will have to replace its entire weekend starting pitching rotation as Alex Lange and Jared Poché moved on to professional baseball and right-hander Eric Walker will be sidelined in 2018 after undergoing Tommy John surgery.

Hess found his stride in the bullpen making a team-high 30 appearances with six starts and allowing only nine earned runs on 19 hits and 48 strikeouts.

The return to the starting rotation will be different than the bullpen for Hess, but his mentality is what he thinks can help him this season.

“You have to go in with the mindset when your a starter that you’re [going to] be there for nine innings,” Hess said. “You have to pick and choose your big bullets and the rest of the time your cruising at 80 or 90 percent.”

Hess pitched brilliantly in the 2017 College World Series as a reliever, appearing in five of the Tigers’ seven games.

Hess

BY EGAN VALLIANT | @eganvalliant LSU softball has one of the deepest bullpens in the nation as seniors Carley Hoover and Allie Walljasper head into their final season as Tigers.

The seniors and their dominance on the mound have been crucial to LSU’s success in recent years, with three consecutive Women’s College World Series appearances.

“The fact that we have two as talented as them,” LSU coach Beth Torina said. “It is tough for any school to say that they have one equal to what those guys are. The fact that we have two arms like that is just an amazing thing for this program.”

Last year, Hoover, the Tigers’ ace, made 19 starts in 33 appearances at the mound while only giving up 27 earned runs. She finished the year with a 15-8 record, a 1.19 ERA, ranked seventh in the nation, and a no hitter vs. LA Tech. Hoover also earned an AllAmerican nod in the 2015 season.

A testament to her talent as a pitcher, Hoover was selected to represent Team USA in the 2018 Japan All-Star Series.

Walljasper also dominated on the mound last season. In her junior year, Walljasper made 26 starts in 35 appearances with an 18-6 record. She finished the season with a 1.61 ERA in 165 innings and 101 strikeouts, two one-hit games against Tennessee and Florida State and a one-hit save in three innings against No. 21 James Madison, and also earned her second All-American honor.

Combined, the two pitchers have earned three All-American honors, three All-Southeastern Conference nods and five All-Louisiana distinctions.

Hoover and Walljasper have dominated the mound together for three years. Not only do Walljasper and Hoover recognize the level of success they have achieved, but also how they both make each other a better player.

“Me and Allie’s relationship is something special,” Hoover said. “We both know we couldn’t do it without each other, we both know we need each

other, and we have a really good friendship and relationship that will last long after we’re done [at LSU].”

Torina knows the level of success Hoover and Walljasper can achieve, and doesn’t expect any less.

“Allie Walljasper, who is a two-time All-American, just had ice water in her veins since the first time she threw at Tiger Park her freshman year,” Torina said.

“Carley Hoover, who has had an unbelievable preseason, just went out and made our national team.

Just a fabulous athlete and a talent.”

The pitching duo’s performance will be vital for the Tigers in the upcoming season, as they prepare for one of its hardest schedules to date.

LSU will compete with 12 other SEC teams that made the 2017 postseason, and is scheduled to play 37 games against opponents that ranked in the Top 25 last year.

Amidst the tough schedule, Walljasper and Hoover are not only striving to make the WCWS for the third year in a row, but to also bring back their first championship trophy from Oklahoma City to Baton Rouge.

“Every year I’ve been ticked off when we come back from Oklahoma City,” Hoover said, “but this year is the last year to get it done, so I think there’s a little more fire in us this year.”

The softball team will kick off their season against University of Illinois-Chicago in Tiger Park on Feb. 8, at 7 p.m.

uses a power fastball that tops out around 96 mph and a devastating slider to fool his opponents.

Despite the two dominating pitches, Hess has been hard at work re-developing his changeup that he put on the shelf after the move to the bullpen.

“Going to the Cape Cod League, I was able to regain some feel for that pitch,” Hess said. “Between that and some of the early starts I made in the fall and live at-bats this spring, I think it’s come a long way and I think it’s [going to] be a weapon for me this year.”

Hess became an overnight sensation during last years College World Series when he adopted the famous “Wild Thing” persona after he shaved his head like Ricky Vaughn from 1989’s “Major League.”

Even with the “Wild Thing” haircut long gone, Hess is always going to bring his competitive fire to the game.

“From a competitive standpoint I’m still [going to] be the same guy,” Hess said. “My goal is to help our team win and compete in the strike zone. I’m really looking forward to getting back there on the mound.”

The transition of Hess to the starting lineup left a hole in the LSU bullpen, but with a good blend of old and young guys, Hess knows they can be successful.

“I think we’re [going to] have a lot of good guys out of our bullpen this year,” Hess said. “It might take us a little bit of time to figure out who fits where, but I definitely think we have guys that can help us out.”

With the season starting in nine days, the Tigers are poised to lead this team back to Omaha. Before a title run is in store, the Tigers and Hess know they need to clean up their mistakes and get ready to start the season.

“I think every aspect of my game needs to sharpen a little bit,” Hess said. “There’s still some work to be done, but I really like where I’m at right now and I’m excited to get back on the mound.”

The LSU baseball season will officially start on Feb. 16 when the Tigers face off against Notre Dame at 7 p.m. in Alex Box Stadium.

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Baton Rouge residents decorate their homes in festive purple, green and gold to celebrate the Mardi Gras season PHOTOS BY SOPHIE GRANZOW AND CHRISTA MORAN

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Professor stimulates historical dialogue

BY KELLY SWIFT @kellbell237

Collegiate Creativity LSU Student Art Show showcases student work

BY AMAYA LYNCH @maya09172 The 2018 LSU Student Art Show opened up its gallery in the LSU Student Union for students all across campus. Not only does the gallery feature work by students studying art but also from future engineers, psychologists and digital designers. The show gives students of all majors the chance to showcase their art.

The multimedia exhibit opened Jan. 29 and will close Feb. 16 after Mardi Gras break. Students submitted their work,

from paintings and drawings to clay work and glass art. Many people take up art as a pastime but only few go on to study art once they get to college, so the expo helps show how many University students are artistically talented, no matter their major.

Freshman psychology major Kofi Robinson is just one student who submitted her art to the show. She has three pieces in the show titled, “Vulnerability,” “Park Jimin” and “IU.” “When I see something really beautiful, I just feel the need to capture it,” Robinson said. “It makes me feel like I’m a part of it.”

Robinson has been drawing since fifth grade and decided to submit one of her favorite pieces, “IU,” that she drew in 2016.

She used the South Korean singer IU as inspiration because she views her as having a calm, confident and strong aura. Robinson liked how the ribbon in the picture represented who she was, and she felt the need to try to capture it. Robinson said the inspiration to draw comes from the need to capture beauty in a realistic way.

While psychology is her main focus, Robinson shows how art goes far beyond putting a picture on paper. She said art

see STUDENT SHOW, page 17

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Imagine walking into the first day of class and, on the projector, is a photo of a man making an instrument out of a carrot. Followed by that image is one of the most intellectually inspiring lectures a student may ever encounter. In only an hour and a half class, students learned how Christopher Columbus rationalized slavery, and how to make a carrot clarinet. This class is History 2055 with Professor Andrew Burstein.

In a world filled with stereotypes and common misconceptions, Burstein keeps his lectures informative and open to discussion. It isn’t uncommon to find a picture of Paris Hilton next to one of George Washington in Burstein’s class, especially when he’s discussing how important understanding the perspectives of people throughout history.

“We recognize the positive contributions of traditional historical actors that we admire,” Burstein said. “People tend to remember feel-good history and rationalize the less admirable aspects of the past, which is why I like history. It enables me to reintroduce a lost life.”

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ART

Tattoo shop owner uses building space for personal art, creativity

BY KIANA NAQUIN @Quinndaishone Johany “Jojo Bubbles” Howard has been a successful artist in Baton Rouge for the past 13 years.

She was born in Nicaragua and grew up in a little town down the bayou. She attended the University in 2004 and received a degree in wildlife ecology management.

Her life has been a mixture of surprises, but she has enjoyed every bit of it. She had dreams of possibly working as a ranger or for a wildlife fishery, but besides the outdoors, art was always a passion of hers.

“I still graduated from school,” Howard said, “but I realized I loved being in the shop more than anything.”

Starting your own business can be a difficult thing to do, especially for a piercer/tattoo artist. Howard has been able to accomplish this and still keep a large clientele.

She was ready to dive into bigger things and do more side projects.

“Being on my own, I have the opportunity and time to give to those little seeds basically that I want to grow,” Howard said.

She was not sure what she wanted to do at first, so she started working at a shop to pay for bills and school. Howard started piercing in 2005 and slowly started introducing herself into the tattoo industry in 2007. She worked with three different businesses and gained a lot of experience in what she now does today.

“I loved working with everyone at the different shops because I learned something from every single person and it’s formed me into who I am,” Howard said.

After all her anxiety and fears, she realized she wanted tattooing and piercing to be a part of her life for a long time. She loves going to work and meeting with her clients.

Whether she is doing a piercing or a tattoo, she said it is always fun for her.

“Every day I go to work, it’s pretty interesting,” Howard said.

“It’s never the same thing and you meet so many different types of people.”

On Howard’s social media, specifically Instagram, she includes these special hashtags, like #earporn, #inhale and #exhale. The hashtags exhibit her art and creative process. She figured she would promote what she actually tells her clients, which is a genuine, enticing form of advertisement.

Howard started apprenticing in 2004, and she has followed most of her mentors advice in the beginning.

“When I first started piercing, I was taught you have to teach your client how to inhale and

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Johany Howard graduated from the University in 2004 with a degree in wildlife ecology management.

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REV R ANKS THE FOSTERS Freeform

With teens as the target audience, many of the problems the characters face are ones that teenagers face everyday. The characters go through love, heartbreak and a lot of misunderstandings. While their problems may seem extreme, everyone can relate to certain aspects of the situations.

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MARVEL’S RUNAWAYS

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You must have some patience if you decide to watch this show. It does start off with a problem occurring and with some important details that have already affected each character internally. Through flashbacks, the truth will slowly be revealed.

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BUZZFEED UNSOLVED

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“Buzzfeed Unsolved” meets all of my criteria for a good show: it’s funny, interesting, engaging and just a little bit stupid. And, it’s most definitely worth the watch. You can find “Buzzfeed Unsolved” on YouTube and now on Hulu.

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I, TONYA

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If you were a functioning adult when Tonya Harding allegedly attacked Nancy Kerrigan, then you know how our society turned Harding into the villain. The movie defends Harding and it’s up to the viewer to decide what is true, which may be difficult because Margot Robbie is so lovable.

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‘Amélie’ a charming commentary on those with disabilities

create a healthy environment for their daughter as she grew older — in fact, Amélie was the For the weeks leading up to victim of a neglectful parentage.

Valentine’s Day, I will be review- Her mother died after praying ing a different romantic comedy for a son, who would be easier to movie every week. I am only raise than a daughter. Her father choosing classics from previous never touched Amélie unless he decades that address social is- was giving her a checkup and sues or offer a unique spin on the never ventured far from home due to her false diagnosis. romance genre.

Once she was old enough “Amélie” took the French to move away, Amélie unwittingly became cinema by storm an advocate in 2001 and evenfor those with tually became an international The issues the film tackles disabilities. She phenomenon. are not addressed in an pranked the grocer because he The story about obvious way. It takes some would treat his a shy girl who thought to uncover the mentally-ha ndshows kindness assisto Paris’ outcasts juiciest bits of the movie... icapped tant cruelly. Her and falls in love neighbor with with her indisbrittle bone disputable soulmate has bewitched audiences for ease was lonely, so Amélie would 17 years. The movie inspired a visit him. Her warmth touched 2017 Broadway musical starring “Hamilton” star Phillipa Soo, continuing to keep “Amélie” alive.

In the movie, Amélie Poulain’s (Audrey Tautou) parents were not her heroes. Her mother died in front of her during a trip to Notre Dame, and her father was a retired army doctor.

He wrongly diagnosed Amélie with a heart condition because he seldom interacted with her, so when he did her heart would beat wildly.

Amélie grew up and moved to Montmartre, Paris and got a job as a waitress at the Café des Deux Moulins. When she finds a forgotten box in a hiding place in her apartment, she decides to become an anonymous do-gooder to those in need. She sets up two lonely regulars at the café, visits the man with brittle bone disease across the hall and gets revenge on a particularly bullish grocer.

When a man, Nino Quincompoix (Mathieu Kassovitz) loses a personal book, Amélie makes it her mission to return it to him.

She finds herself unwilling to give the book back because that would mean she would never see him again. The two finally meet face to face, already in love, and they ride off into the sunset on his moped.

One of the aspects that makes “Amélie” important is the circumstances following her upbringing. Her parents did not

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everyone around her, whether they were disabled or not. She did not discriminate in her acts of kindness.

Most importantly, Amélie exhibited classic signs of social anxiety. Though she did perform kind acts, she preferred to do so anonymously. She never drew attention to herself as she helped people. Subtle hints point to her underlying anxiety, like her reluctance to approach Nino or engage in direct confrontation. Her growth throughout the film shows how those with anxiety can overcome it and let people in.

“Amélie” is a charming, subtle film. The issues the film tackles are not addressed in an obvious way. It takes some thought to uncover the juiciest bits of the movie, but it is one of those rare movies that quaintly discusses issues that are not discussed enough.

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Graphic design junior reflects on social media fame, popularity

BY KELLY SWIFT @kellbell237 Moments before she walked the red carpet of the iHeartradio Music Awards last year, graphic design junior Stephanie Clavin was in distress over what to wear. However, Clavin left the red carpet with a new perspective on fame.

It all started when Vine star Shawn Mendes revined her singing cover. She was previously a shy high school student who didn’t publicize her singing abilities, but once she started sharing her music on the internet, her classmates, along with thousands of other people, noticed her innate talent.

When Clavin was a junior in high school, she began posting Instagram videos of her singing along with her Vines. One day she woke up and her phone was exploding with notifications — a popular Instagram account had reposted her cover once again.

“Social media is a great platform for getting your name out there,” Clavin said.

When she was younger, her mother would sing Disney songs to her every night and play Christian music, which kick started her music appreciation. Clavin is active in her church and is a part of Christ the King’s ministry team at the University. Her favorite music to sing is Christian music, which is something she does often in her

church. She enjoys the intensity of music and the effects it has on people.

“Faith is the main inspiration for where I’m at right now,” Clavin said. “It keeps me humble. It has helped me realize that life is about so much more than being liked and looking good.”

When Clavin was invited to the 2017 iHeartradio Music Awards, she realized just how impactful her Instagram account is. To go from zero to 123,00 followers is an accomplishment in itself, but to attend an award show because of it is another thing. Her obvious talent and diversity in song covers brought her all the way from Harahan, Louisiana to Los Angeles in under a year.

“I remember feeling so shocked that my name was next to Jacob Sartorius,” Clavin said.

Clavin makes sure that her account is family-friendly and a good representation of who she is. She occasionally has followers recognize her in public, which has taken some getting used to, she said.

Since she is humble about her following, she was shocked that Instagram had brought her to the red carpet. Her account isn’t something she boasts about, but it is something she is proud of. When she arrived at the music awards, she saw all kinds of social media stars, some with millions of followers. In the

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LSU graphic design junior Stephanie Clavin sits in front of the Art and Design building on Jan. 31. midst of all of this, there was one moment during her trip to California for the awards that stood out.

“It was in that moment that I realized that I didn’t want anything to do with that lifestyle,” Clavin said. “There is no reason for a dress to be so important. I didn’t like how superficial it all could be, and that’s why I don’t think I’ll sign to a label. Some of the friends I made through Vine have signed with labels and it really changes things.”

Though Clavin is passionate about her music, she doesn’t let it define her. Since her Instagram account blew up, she has remained focused on her school

work and plans to have a career in design. However, when Clavin was a freshman, she was still a mass communication major and hadn’t given design much thought.

“I quickly realized that I had a brain wired for design and engineering,” Clavin said. “My dad is an engineer and my mom does everything for everyone.

I’d love to have a career where I can help people. I have a passion for problem-solving — I definitely get that from my parents.”

Clavin was born and raised in Harahan, outside of New Orleans. She attended St. Mary’s Dominican High School, where she discovered her

artistic talents.

“When I was a freshman in highschool, I remember learning that I could draw and not wanting to stop.”

Her love for music, God and art is prevalent on her Instagram page. She plans to keep posting covers on her Instagram of not only religious music but R&B and pop. With over 123,000 followers, she encounters a variety of followers, most of which have her best interest.

“Even amongst all the bad things in the world, there are good people out there that want to support you,” Clavin said. “When people comment nice things on my videos, it really makes my day.”

STUDENT LIFE

Drop-Out Project plays bigger venues, gains fan base

BY EMMA BURLETTE @theburlettegirl A new band has been gaining notoriety in the Baton Rouge music scene, regularly playing venues like the Atomic Pop Shop, Fred’s Bar and Grill and Varsity Theatre. While they haven’t officially recorded any of their new songs, they are making plans to do so in the foreseeable future.

They’re doing all of this while being undergraduate students at the University.

Finance sophomore Beau Bailey, accounting junior Mitchell Webb, mechanical engineering senior Hoyt Brignac and accounting senior John Lewis have made a name for themselves as a modern rock addition to Baton Rouge’s thriving local music arena.

Bailey, Lewis and Webb met as brothers in Sigma Nu Fraternity, jamming together in their free time. The fraternity and the rest of the Greek community gave Drop-Out Project their first break.

“We had always talked about starting a band, but we just never really acted on it,” Lewis said. “We had an exchange with Kappa Delta, and we were like, ‘Why don’t we play music during the exchange?’

We figured it would be just

We had always talked about starting a band, but we just never really acted on it.

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Accounting senior background music.”

Their exchange with Kappa Delta and connections within their friend group evolved into regular shows at The House Bar in Tigerland. As they played for bigger audiences, they knew they needed to round out their sound.

The band officially started when Bailey reached out to their future bassist, Brignac. The first night with Brignac, the guys jammed and wrote their first song, “Tell Me Why.” “I worked this summer at a camp, and I led worship there,” Bailey said. “Hoyt came the last week and played bass. He was a good guy, great bass player. I kind of texted him out of the blue and asked him, ‘Hey, man, you want to be in a band?’”

Drop-Out Project has been billed with recognizable local names as of late. They played LouMuzik Live, a Battle of the Bands event at House of Blues, New Orleans on Feb. 3. They

played with local bands like Cat Bamboo, Paris Avenue and 16 Bucks with others, and they’re having a blast.

Along with original songs written principally by Bailey, they like to dabble in covers, as well.

“We’re all really big fans of Catfish and the Bottlemen. We cover ‘7’ a lot,” Webb said.

Drop-Out Project is not just a hobby for the men, either, they said. They’re interested in making music into a career.

“It started as a hobby, us just messing around, but people keep liking us and maybe it could turn into something,” Webb said.

Each one of the guys got into music from a very early age. Most have developed skills on the drums, guitar and the keys. Bailey started writing songs while in high school following a sports injury. Their band is the product of a lifetime of studying music.

“This has always been a dream of mine,” Brignac said.

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Drop-Out Project meets up for practice at Sigma Nu on Jan. 30.

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THE KREWE OF SOUTHDOWNS FRIDAY, FEB. 9, 7 P.M. ROUTE BEGINS IN THE SOUTHDOWNS NEIGHBORHOOD Rain or shine, the Krewe of Southdowns will be putting on its 31st annual parade.

The parade brings men, women, children and pets together for a nighttime, familyfriendly parade in the Southdowns Neighborhood.

THE KREWE OF SPANISH TOWN SATURDAY, FEB. 10, NOON ROUTE BEGINS ON SPANISH TOWN ROAD This is the 38th parade put on by the Society for the Preservation of Lagniappe in Louisiana. With this year’s theme being Game of Thongs, the parade is sure to bring Mardi Gras to life in the city of Baton Rouge.

FIFTH ANNUAL BATON ROUGE MARDI GRAS FESTIVAL SATURDAY, FEB. 10, 10 A.M. NORTH BOULEVARD TOWN SQUARE The festival will feature many musical artist including Meshach Jackson, Henry Turner Jr. and Flavor, The Patrons and Bakari B. The festival offers free admission to all attendees and lawn seating.

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Wednesday, February 7, 2018 STUDENT SHOW, from page 13 is a way for people to express themselves and while it may not be the career choice for some, it is still a passion that many have.

Senior political science major Lauren Andrepont has displayed a passion for art for the majority of her life, yet she chose to go in a different direction for a career. When looking at her piece, “Waves pt.II,” viewers can see there is something beyond the abstract design.

“I love to capture nature,” Andrepont said. “With this piece, I saw it in my head and I painted it. It came out exactly the way I saw it and how I wanted it to and that’s very rare.”

Andrepont was drawn to the expo because it was advertised for people from all majors. Though Andrepont studies political science, art has been a part of her life since about second grade. Months before

HOWARD, from page 13 exhale three to four times before you actually pierce them.”

Howard said.

She realized after constantly watching this process the person would be so terrified and had such a higher rate of being anxious or even worse passing out.

“When I was more comfortable with the process I would tell my clients to take a deep inhale and on the exhale I’d pierce them,” Howard said Many clients love Howard

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graduation, Andrepont is still not sure if she wants to go all in with art, but definitely has a passion for it. She said she’s grateful to the expo to have the opportunity to put her art on display and showcase something she’s really passionate about.

“It’s a creative outlet for me,” Andrepont said. “I realized that no matter what I do in my life, I have to have some sort of creative outlet.”

The Student Art Show gives students an outlet for creating art, even if they’ve dedicated their lives to non-art fields. The show’s curator Heather Gulino said the University loves to put this show on to see students express themselves through art.

“Many people use painting, photography, etc. as a hobby or an outlet and may never have been able to show their pieces in an official gallery exhibit if it weren’t for the LSU Student Art Gallery,” Gulino said.

Artwork by multiple students are displayed in the LSU Student Art Exhibit in the LSU Student Union on Jan. 31.

because of her organic, genuine personality. Regular client Sean Wilson said, “Some people like to go to their therapists, I like to go to my tattoo artist.Howard takes her profession past just being a tattoo artist or piercer — she listens to her clients and their everyday problems. Whenever they have a problem, she is there to listen and comfort them.

“A lot of my clients open up about a lot of different things, like pent up family stuff, and I’m just their soundboard,” Howard said. “When a client chooses

you to put paint on them, you’ve impacted them, and they trust you.”

As an artist, Howard does more than just work in the shop.

She is a painter, a sculptor and even a cosmetic makeup artist.

At her shop, Bubble Art Body Studio — or as she likes to call it, “my little studio of my bubbly art” — she considers it the home of all her art. She has another room just for painting, sewing and growing plants.

“I want to grow and I’m not only a tattoo artist or a piercer, I’m an artist,” Howard said.

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Johany Howard showcases her piercing and tattoo artwork in her very own Bubble Art Body Studio on Feb. 1.

BURSTEIN, from page 13 Trying to keep a large class of college students interested is no easy battle, but Burstein seems to possess the secret formula. He has been teaching at the University for about 10 years and currently teaches both undergraduate and graduate classes. One of his former History 2055 students, mass communication freshman Isabell Gilfoil, thoroughly enjoyed his class.

“One of my favorite things that he did was that he would always start his classes with music,” Gilfoil said. “It always put me in a good mood.”

Burstein enjoys his profession, but what he did before his current career is something that many of his students may not be aware of.

Burstein has published nine books, been featured on a Ken Burns documentary for his extensive knowledge of Thomas Jefferson, been on C-SPAN multiple times, worked for an import/export firm on Wall Street, started his own consulting firm and helped with American business in China. However, he said teaching can be its own thrill.

“I like the challenge of teaching a large class,” Burstein said.

Burstein said he wants his students to think for themselves. He makes it clear that historians have to question everything, which is clear in his method of teaching. Teaching is what Burstein loves, but it hasn’t been his only career.

After receiving a bachelor’s degree in Oriental Studies from Columbia University and a master’s degree from the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan, Burstein went to places in China where the people had never seen Americans. There, he helped U.S. entrepreneurs establish relationships in China.

“I was young and didn’t mind being transported six hours on bumpy mountain roads to get to a glass factory,” Burstein said, “The adventure is

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LSU Charles P. Manship Professor of History Andrew Burstein lectures in the Art and Design building on Feb. 1. what drove me.”

After the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, Burstein “traded Chairman Mao for Thomas Jefferson,” and decided to return to doing what he loved: studying and teaching history.

“I realized how much I missed campus life and the interesting conversations that you have on a college campus,” Burstein said. “On a campus it’s all about ideas.”

He spent eight years teaching at the University of Tulsa and four years at the University of Northern Iowa.

He has taught at the University since 2008, and is about to publish his next co-authored book with University professor Nancy Isenberg, which is a sequel to his most prized book, the acclaimed best-seller “Madison and Jefferson.”

“The most fun I have recovering past lives is going into an archive and coming out with somebody’s diary,” Burstein said. “Teaching history enables me to reintroduce a lost life or a lost culture. To be a good historian, you need to try and restrain your cultural prejudices. It’s the hardest thing.

You need to understand before you judge.”

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New Orleans Mardi Gras overrated, dangerous to attend SARAH SAYS SARAH GROBETY @sarah_grobety It is officially that time of year, Louisiana. Mardi Gras season is upon us. Gather your tacky purple, gold and green shirts and prepare to make the yearly pilgrimage to New Orleans for the most overrated week of your life.

Approximately 1.2 million people attended Mardi Gras in New Orleans in 2011, which is more than three times the population of the city itself. The huge increase in people coming to the city make it impossible to function. Everything is overpriced, the garbage and filth are horrendous, and the crowds are unbearable.

The economic impact on New Orleans was valued at $145.7 million in 2009. This cost includes paying overtime for police, sanitation and other city officials to keep the festivities running as smoothly, safely and cleanly as possible. While the city did make the money back fourfold by the end of the season, it is

important to look at the non-monetary costs of the celebrations, as well.

During the 2017 celebration, over 200 tons of garbage were picked up from the streets of New Orleans. That is 3 pounds of litter per person in the city.

Much of that garbage is recyclable but must be thrown away anyway because it is contaminated. To keep the city clean, there are more than 600 city employees working day and night to clean up after every parade.

Their goal is to make it look like nothing happened by the next day, just so people can do it all over again.

Some of the trash never gets picked up. Beads hang on the trees, utility poles and fences year-round. Beads also get in the sewers, clogging them and making the already problem-ridden drainage in the city worse.

Transportation around the city for all the inebriated people is made extremely expensive and difficult because of parade road closures and bad traffic.

The city is deadlocked every evening, which is the exact time people want to go places. Ride-

sharing apps like Uber and Lyft hike up their surge fees to ensure they are making a pretty penny off drunk people just trying to have fun.

Alcohol sales spiked by $2.6 million in New Orleans during the 2009 season. With that jump in sales comes a jump in consumption for people of all ages.

Underage drinking is especially rampant. The lack of open container laws make it easy for all ages to enjoy drinks as they wish on the streets.

These drunk people do impact others when they act irresponsibly. In 2017, a drunk driver hit a crowd of people watching the Endymion parade.

His blood-alcohol concentration was three times over the legal limit. The same year, there was a whopping 373 people arrested in 12 days for all sorts of offenses. Many of the arrests were for weapons, and 39 guns were confiscated during that period. Rape, armed robbery, assault and other offenses happen often, as well.

Many drunk adults choose to take part in a flashing ritual in hopes they receive more beads.

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Roughly 90,000 pounds of Mardi Gras beads were removed from drains in downtown New Orleans. ber is that public nudity is illegal.

While many women do not get in trouble for it during Mardi Gras, men do. So, keep your clothes on, please.

Save yourself the cliché this year and abstain from the dirty and overpriced New Orleans Mardi Gras experience. If you are hellbent on experiencing Mardi Gras, consider going to another city that also cele-

brates it. Mobile, Alabama is the birthplace of Mardi Gras and throws some awesome parades, as well. Still not convinced that New Orleans Mardi Gras is a bad idea? Fine. Have fun wading through trash with the rest of the drunken city.

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

Disney princesses detrimental to young girls’ confidence ACCORDING TO ASHLON ASHLON LUSK @shlinie Disney princess movies market unrealistic body types and lifestyles to impressionable young girls. “The Little Mermaid” depicts a woman who has to win a man over without her words and only her body.

“Sleeping Beauty” is based on a non-consensual kiss from a stranger. “Beauty and the Beast” is a disturbing movie about a young girl in an abusive relationship with a large animal. These movies aren’t something I’d want my children watching.

I have watched every single princess movie and still love them today. However, when I re-watch them with my younger siblings, it makes me think of how problematic these movies actually are.

Disney gives each princess an unattainable body and tells young girls to worship them.

At the age of six, my little sister refused to wear a two-piece swimsuit because she thought she wasn’t skinny enough.

All little girls should think they are beautiful. They should see women of every size, shape and color on T.V. so they know every type of women is beautiful.

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Women with big breasts, tiny waists and long, skinny legs don’t often exist in everyday life.

When a child sees her favorite Disney princess doesn’t look like her, she’s going to want to change herself to look like them.

Disney also insists on every princess, except Moana, having a romantic male counterpart. “Moana” is the only Disney movie with absolutely no implication of a romance. “Frozen” and “Mulan” do not have a plot

focused on a man, but love is one of the central ideas in both. Excluding these three movies, the main character’s prerogative is to end up with a man. This is nonrepresentational of other sexualities and tells young girls that

their main goal in life should be to get married.

Not only are all the princesses straight, only five of the 14 are not white. Moana is a Pacific islander, Mulan is Chinese, Tiana is black, Pocahontas is Native American and Jasmine is Middle Eastern. Disney is slowly getting more diverse, but it is still not enough. Young girls of color only have one princess. There is only one princess for these five other races besides white. One out of 14 princesses compared to 10 out of 14 is a big difference.

The princesses are not inclusive of race and sexuality, which is bad for young girls.

Disney is also ageist. They portray most of their villains as old, ugly women. This makes society look down upon the elderly and worsens beauty standards. Cruella de Vil, Ursula, Maleficent and the Queen of Hearts are shown as either too skinny or too large, and are all very mean.

This plays on the stereotype of “ugly is bad” and “pretty is good.”

Little girls are like sponges.

When you tell them only white, skinny and straight women are good and everyone else is bad, it leaves a lasting impression.

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

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Donald Trump, Republicans to blame if ‘Dreamers’ lose protection THE NIEMAN NOISE SETH NIEMAN @seth_nieman Picture yourself as a young child fleeing a country with nothing but your parents by your side, filled with hope for a brighter future. You have no idea where you are going, no idea if you will ever see some of your relatives again and no idea what your future entails.

Each “Dreamer” has a unique way of retailing that scenario, and on March 5, nearly 800,000 of them could lose their protections granted by Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. Their lives are worth much more than being used as a bargaining chip in the passage of immigration reform legislation. They are what makes our country — one that was built on the backs of immigrants — great.

If Congress fails to pass legislation that enacts new protections for the Dreamers by March 5, the blame will be placed right at the feet of Republicans and President Donald Trump.

According to a Quinnipiac University poll, 75 percent of Americans support a bill allowing undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children to remain in the country legally; only 18 percent oppose it.

When Trump made the decision to rescind DACA on Sept.

5, 2017, it was widely known how dangerous such a move could be.

House Speaker Paul Ryan and Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch both advised Trump to allow Congress to create a legislative solution first, rather than rescinding DACA and placing the issue on a ticking time clock of uncertainty. Trump proceeded anyway, and nearly 122 Dreamers began to lose their DACA protections each day.

A bill that simply provides the Dreamers with the protections they deserve would pass in Congress today, but Trump’s administration is now attempting to tie the Dreamers’ protections to a $25 billion request for a border wall across the country’s southern border with Mexico. Wait one second, weren’t we promised Mexico would pay for that?

It is outrageous for American taxpayers to devote $25 billion

toward a border wall that will not only fail to secure our borders, but will also be immediately torn down the moment a Democrat assumes the presidency. If Trump’s eagerness to fulfill this campaign promise is as dire as it appears, it should not be proposed alongside the lives of the 800,000 Dreamers who fear deportation from the only place they call home.

Right-wing news outlets want you to believe the Dreamers are bringing crime and carnage into our country, when that could not be any further from the truth.

According to a study conducted by the Cato Institute, the incarceration rate for native-born females is 2.86 times higher than the female Dreamers incarceration rate, and the incarceration rate for native-born males is 12.5 percent higher than the male Dreamers incarceration rate.

Nearly 91 percent of DACA recipients are currently employed, and that number jumps to 93 percent with recipients ages 25 and older. These people carried no weight in their parents’ decision to move to our country, but they are here now, and it is evident that they are making

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As of 2017, more than 800,000 individuals are protected by DACA. a contribution.

“People will gerrymander a district, gentrify a neighborhood, tear down public housing and close a dozen schools to give their kids the chance to succeed over others, but if someone tries to escape violence & poverty to give their kids a better life, those same folks call it criminal,” writer and educator Clint Smith tweeted.

Just as native-born Americans jump through hoops to provide their own children

with the best possible future, immigrants to our country are only attempting to do the same.

I am hopeful legislation will be passed by Congress before March 5 to provide Dreamers protection from deportation.

If not, Republicans must take the heat for choosing to tarnish our country’s great history as a welcoming home to immigrants.

Seth Nieman is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from McComb, Mississippi.

Marijuana use dangerous for youth, slippery slope to harder drugs OH, NOT AGAIN! KYLE RICHOUX @KyleRichoux In recent years, drugrelated incidents have made up the majority of arrests in the U.S. With 14 million drug arrests in 2007, it’s easy to see the popularity of the crime.

Drug use is popular for a number of reasons. Firstly, it’s difficult to regulate. Users consume illicit substances within the privacy of their own homes or in other private areas. These reserved spots are usually far from prying eyes, like those of authority figures.

Many people are attracted to the apparent safety of drugs.

However, like alcohol, drugs are more dangerous than consumers would like to believe.

No one else is damaged explicitly by your drug use, but effects to your own health are evident.

Looking at only the direct damage caused by drug use is negligent. Whether or not you’re content to destroy your life is ultimately your decision.

However, the harmful effects of addiction reach further than we’d like to believe.

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A loved one’s drug addiction is emotionally traumatic and damaging to the psyche. Seeing a brother or a close friend’s life spiral out of control causes undue stress and frustration to any individual.

Pragmatically, it’s unreasonable to support those who choose to cope with hardship via drug use. Recreational drugs are not pocket change.

The poor man loses his entire salary to drugs. The rich suburban kid takes a chunk out of his careless father’s wallet for his fix.

The economy also takes a hit from drug use. Drug deals feature large sums of money

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passing untaxed from person to person. The federal government gains no revenue from it, which means public institutions like schools get less funding.

Furthermore, the drug dealer gaining ridiculous sums of money has no incentive to find a job. Drug deals take from the economy and exempt criminals from having to earn their pay.

The most common illegal drug and one of the biggest issues in modern American politics is marijuana.

In the 1980s, cocaine and heroin made up the bulk of drug-related arrests.

Over the years, use of cocaine and heroin has declined. Mean-

while, marijuana consumption has dominated.

Studies from the University of Michigan report marijuana use in adolescents has increased. Other drugs have seen a decline in use.

Marijuana-related arrests constitute the largest portion of drug arrests in the U.S. Law enforcement is adapting to marijuana’s rise in popularity.

More arrests doesn’t mean the problem is fixed, however. Arrests don’t make people stop committing crimes. They make people try harder to avoid getting caught.

Young people are starting to see less risk in consuming marijuana, which only raises its approval. Many people believe the drug is harmless and non-addictive. Proponents say marijuana doesn’t lead to any deaths.

Marijuana does lead to other drugs. Supporters deny it’s a gateway drug. It is supposedly harmless, after all.

Regardless of how dangerous marijuana actually is, it is a gateway drug. It has become normalized by its popularity.

This normalization is the key to its gateway status.

Alcohol is well-known to be a

dangerous substance. Its legality has made it a normalized feature of day-to-day life. No one bats an eye at alcohol consumption. Irresponsible parents even encourage their kids to try the stuff out before they’re even out of high school.

It’s foolish to think drugs will be any different. Casual beer consumption desensitizes us to alcohol and challenges us to drink heavier booze to find a comparable high. In the same way, marijuana will soon lose its charm to casual users. The law of diminishing returns will kick in, and you’ll need harder drugs to reach your high.

The solution can’t be more arrests. It must come in the form of education. The future lies with the youth. It is thus our obligation to inform young people about the dangers of drug use. Drugs are a crutch, and America can do better without them. Let’s honor the legacy of the immigrants and self-made men and women who built our country on grit and determination. Let’s genuinely make our country great again.

Kyle Richoux is a 19-year-old sociology sophomore from LaPlace, Louisiana.

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Politicizing tragedies catalyst for social change HAMMER SEEKING NAIL SOHEIL SANEEI @soheilsaneei Congress seems to have a bipartisan agreement that politicizing tragedies is wrong. However, Democrats and Republicans disagree on which tragedies should or should not be politicized. It is important we remember governments are established to prevent anarchy and resolve iniquitous conflicts.

Politicians skewing dismal events for capital gain has been a problem since the recording of history. The war between the Puritans and the Pequot Native Americans perfectly grasps the distrust in politics. When a white trader and Native American kidnapper were murdered in the 1630s, English elitists placed blame on the Pequot Native Americans. This was used as an excuse to plan a massacre against the Pequot where an estimated 1,500 people were murdered or enslaved.

Centuries later, a 14-year-old named Emmett Till became the subject of political upheaval in the U.S when he was lynched. The tragedy that occurred to Till was created in a political atmosphere when every black person’s fault was politicized.

Till was with his friends at a gas station in Money, Mississippi, when a white woman accused him of sexual harassment.

Her relatives became vigilantes as they unjustly murdered Till with no right to due process. All the men involved with the murder were acquitted in less than an hour.

This politicization of black American crimes was used because the Thirteenth Amendment states, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” One can infer that black Americans were being marked as criminals to push the political agenda of keeping them enslaved.

The origin of the War on Crime is typically connected to former president Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration, but the effects were seen much earlier. In the 1915 film “Birth of a Nation,” black men portrayed by white actors using blackface were demonized as rapists and antagonists, while the Klu Klux Klan was celebrated as the film’s protagonists.

After former president George H. W. Bush’s administration, many political analyzers argued that if Democrats wish to regain power, they must become tougher on crime. In 1992, former president Bill Clinton abided by this advice. His rhetoric on crime led to the infamous “superpredator” label used by Hillary Clinton in a 1996 campaign speech. The superpredator label stereotyped black

American men as nefarious and lacking a conscious. Bill Clinton’s Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act lead to higher mass incarceration than any previous presidency.

Perhaps the most infamous case of tragedy politicization was the destruction of the Twin Towers in 2001. The attack by 19 hijackers lead to the death of over 2,000 individuals. The U.S. quickly used that number to engage in war with Iraq and kill over a hundred thousand Iraqi civilians.

All these events may lead someone to think politicizing tragedies should be prohibited.

This is not a problem of politicizing. These tragic moments have been altered in the spreading of false propaganda.

If Till’s mother, Mamie Bradley, had never left his casket open during his funeral, the disturbing image of his distorted face would have never sent ripples of change through the fabric of American justice. She politicized his death because she wanted to spark a political movement, one that would fight for another mother to never feel the loss of her son due to inexplicable racism.

Terrorist organizations are a threat to society, no matter the region they are threatening. It is not the politicization of terrorist attacks regarding the Middle East that is harmful, it is some of the solutions presented.

In recent years, the politicization of mass shootings has sparked

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outrage from the political right.

It has been a vendetta of the right to ostracize Muslims with antiimmigration laws after politicizing any act of terror committed by a Muslim. They also fabricate events like political consultant Kellyanne Conway’s “Bowling Green Massacre.”

There seems to be a double standard when discussing gun control. Till’s mother utilized her tragedy to spark change.

It is odd we do not do the same for the victims of gun homicide.

There are over 30,000 gun-related deaths a year in the U.S. CBS News reported Americans are 10 times more likely to be a victim of gun violence than any other developed nation.

Inversely, Australia has yet to have a mass shooting since their 1996 gun ban. They also possess one of the lowest gun homicide rates of the developed nations.

Gun reform followed a mass shooting in 1996 that killed 35 people and injured 23.

Ostensibly, the U.S. seems to be dividing further. As we attempt to unify and progress as a nation, we cannot forget political discourse is a prominent component of this process. Conflicts should not be left for the grievances of those affected but should create a discussion.

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

‘Get Out’ boundary-pushing, deserves Oscars nominations WELL, SHE TRIED. CHANTELLE BAKER @deannayukari On Jan. 23, Jordan Peele learned his film “Get Out” was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor. The same day, Peele tweeted about speaking to Best Actor nominee and “Get Out” actor Daniel Kaluuya.

“I just spoke to Daniel. You know when you’re on the phone trying to disguise the sound of an ugly cry? I failed at that.”

Of all people and movies nominated, those for “Get Out” are certainly most deserving.

Although 2017 was a great year for movies, none can compare to what “Get Out” courtesy of WIKIMEDIA accomplished. The artistic work “Get Out” was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor. at play is something no other movie has done There was also the inclu- written by a black man, with the for the second year in a row, before. It did a sion of audacious racial protagonist also being nominat- all 20 nominees for the lead and Both Peele and great job at prodialogue, causing many ed as a black man, goes against supporting actor categories Kaluuya have a viding enough conversations about the grain. were white. In its 88 years, only history in the horror to scare underlying issues in As some may recall, the 14 black people have won acting viewers, while industry, though one the U.S. The movie’s Oscars were very pop- Oscars. simultaneously as impactful as with popularity, despite its ular last year for the Both Peele and Kaluuya have exciting the controversial nature, hashtag created around it: a history in the industry, though “Get Out.” viewers and is what makes it so #OscarsSoWhite. The Acad- none as impactful as with “Get keeping them great. The nominations emy Awards were noted for Out.” Peele was previously on the edge of their seats. of a racially-charged movie their lack of diversity after, known for his show with actor

Keegan-Michael Key, “Key and Peele.” Kaluuya was known for smaller roles in shows such as “Black Mirror.” For many, “Get Out” was the first time they had ever heard of either of them; now they’re greatly recognized for their talents.

Kaluuya and Peele are certainly most deserving of at least one of the awards. Kaluuya did a great job at performing an incredibly difficult character, and Peele was the genius behind it all. It is incredibly unconventional for one person to write, direct and produce a movie as Peele had done. The movie even made Peele the first black writer-director to land $100 million debut.

If this movie doesn’t receive one, if not all, of the Oscars it was nominated for, there will definitely be backlash from many.

“Get Out” is a contentious and outspoken movie. It has changed the way many view the industry and the possibilities for future works. I, along with many others, will be highly disappointed if Peele and Kaluuya don’t receive the recognition they deserve.

Chantelle Baker is a 21-yearold communication studies senior Waipahu, Hawaii.