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Animal Aesthetics

Garland nomination means GOP standstill

BY KATIE GAGLIANO @katie_gagliano

‘Animals in Art’ to open this weekend, pieces from 38 states and two countries

BY TIA BANERJEE @tiabanerjee_

From hyper-realistic paintings of four-legged creatures to whimsical sculptures of animals, art from all over the world has been flown into Baton Rouge for the International Exhibition on Animals in Art. “Animals in Art” debuts Saturday and will remain open to the public through April 19. The opening reception and awards presentation will be Saturday from 6-8 p.m. The exhibit is

located in the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine library and is open during the library’s hours.

The show, which is more than 10 years old, is put on by the veterinary school in collaboration with the University’s School of Art, said Ginger Guttner, the school’s director of public relations. The show takes entries from all over the world and received more than 300 submissions this year.

Entries come from 38 states, Canada and Israel.

While there are no monetary prizes, getting accepted into the show is an honor, Guttner said.

“There’s almost 400 pieces entered, and we only took 75,” Guttner said.

“That in itself is something they’ll put on their resume.”

Awards include a best

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President Barack Obama nominated federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland on Wednesday to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by Justice Antonin Scalia, who died on Feb. 13.

Garland is the chief judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and has served on the court since 1997. He has been celebrated by both Republicans and Democrats as a centrist with a distinguished career of public service.

Republican opposition to the nomination came swiftly, despite Garland’s qualifications. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took the Senate floor Wednesday to announce Senate Republicans would continue to deny Garland nomination hearings until a new president is elected in November.

Political science assistant professor Matthew Hitt said the Senate Republican’s position is a risk.

“Mitch McConnell is a gambler playing it this way,” he said.

“Merrick Garland is a good deal if you think that there’s a more than 50-50 chance that Clinton wins and the Democrats can take

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RESEARCH

Professor leads mission to develop cryobot to explore icy moons

BY KATIE GAGLIANO @katie_gagliano Geology professor Peter Doran is leading a group of scientists in conjunction with NASA and Stone Aerospace to develop a specialized cryobot for potential space exploration.

The goal is for the cryobot, named SPINDLE, to reach an unexplored subglacial lake in Antarctica as a precursor to exploring icy moons, such as Jupiter’s moon Europa, Doran said.

A $3 million grant from NASA is funding Phase A of the project, which is bringing together experts from univer-

sities across the country and engineers from Stone Aerospace to develop the cryobot’s design. The team held the first of its three meetings March 7-9 at the University.

Bill Stone, the founder of Stone Aerospace, said the purpose of Phase A is to define the parameters for the cryobot’s design, including energy sources, dimensions and the necessary scientific instruments for measuring the environment and detecting potential life forms.

The SPINDLE cryobot is a robotic device which can melt through the ice and deliver a HAUV, or hybrid au-

tonomous underwater vehicle, to the subglacial body of water to explore and collect samples.

Stone said SPINDLE is the culmination of scientific collaborations between himself and Doran over the past 10 years.

“That was like the preamble, and what we proposed to NASA last year was taking everything that we had learned and putting it into basically a dress rehearsal for any of the outer planet ocean worlds,” Stone said.

Tentative designs for the cryobot proposed the robot be 0.3 meters in diameter and

seven to 10 meters in length, including the main body of the cryobot, the payload bay and the HAUV. While the general design isn’t complicated, both Stone and Doran agree safely powering the cryobot is a challenge.

Melting through ice on moons could require as much as 50 kilowatts to one megawatt of energy, which would be enough energy to power a small village, Stone said. Because of environmental regulations, the team is considering using a high-powered laser to power the cryobot.

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Geology professor Peter Doran is one of the lead scientists developing cryobots to penetrate miles of ice.

page 2 GARLAND, from page 1 the Senate.”

Despite the risk, the opposition is understandable. Garland’s nomination has the potential to shift the Supreme Court’s ideology leftward in a way that hasn’t occurred in decades, Hitt said.

The Republicans are attempting to hold the line in the hopes that if a Republican president is elected in November, Scalia will be replaced with an equally conservative successor.

The risk could backfire.

Third year political science graduate student Sonny Marchbanks said the nomination will be a main focus for the upcoming general election. Overturning legislation and protecting the current standing of the court will be common battle cries among Republicans and Democrats, Marchbanks said.

Obstructing the nomination could be dangerous for

ART, from page 1 of show, a judge’s award and an honorable mention. Additionally, the editor-in-chief of the American Veterinary Medical Association will pick a piece to go on the cover of the AVMA Journal and the Veterinary School will pick a piece to possibly go on their holiday card, as well as a piece to appear on the course catalogue, Guttner said.

Any medium other than film and audio is accepted. Artists must be at least 18. Their work must be original, and it must be priced. Of the pieces sold, the Veterinary School gets a 20 percent commission, which goes toward the hospital’s wildlife program, crates, gloves and journals, among other things.

“We tend to use it for those areas that don’t necessarily have a dedicated revenue strain,” Guttner said.

Artist and gallery assistant Jonathan Mayers was the judge-juror of the show, taking

CRYOBOT, from page 1 Stone Aerospace has powered previous cryobot missions requiring high-powered lasers by delivering the energy to the cryobot over a fiber optic line. Doran said using a laser for this mission is slightly radical.

Typical industrial lasers use a kilowatt of energy, and the cryobot’s design calls for nearly 100 to 125 kilowatts to melt through the ice. With a laser of that magnitude, you could cut a car in two from half a mile away, Stone said. If successful, the project’s laser will be the largest continuous waved laser ever built.

In addition to concerns about safely powering the cryobot, the project’s field logistics are also complicated, Doran said. Unlike in space, the time frame for working in Antarctica is narrow. Stone said executing the mission and collecting data could take as long as six to eight weeks, not

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Republican senators facing reelection in moderate states. Republican senators in states such as Ohio, Illinois and Pennsylvania will be under enormous pressure from both moderate and liberal constituents and the conservative right, Hitt said.

Politics in Supreme Court nominations is nothing new, he said.

“Especially in the modern era, all Supreme Court nominations are politicized,” Hitt said. “I mean, how could it be any other way when you have political figures, elected officials, doing all the work. They’re the ones who make the nominations and then confirm them. Of course there’s going to be politics when you ask politicians to do something.”

The politicizing of the Garland nomination has been especially pronounced. McConnell‘s and Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley’s refusals to receive an Obama nominee, even in

private meetings, is unprecedented, Hitt said.

McConnell said Republicans are attempting to give the American people a voice in the nomination process by delaying the hearings until the next president

Judge Merrick Garland sits during a meeting in Washington on March 17.

assumes office. Marchbanks said constituents had their say in previous elections and the Republicans are attempting to change the process in light of unfavorable circumstances.

Obama chose Garland based on his qualifications, not politics, Marchbanks said.

“He knows this is somebody that is going to be serving long after he is out of the White House, so how they approach the Constitution is his first consideration, not politics,” Marchbanks said. “The interpretation of the Constitution is binding and lasting, whereas politics are today and temporary.”

Though the odds Garland will receive a hearing before November are low, it is still possible he could receive approval from the Senate, Hitt said. If Democrats take the Senate and a Democratic president is elected in November, Garland is the Republicans’ preferred choice to a more liberal justice, he said.

four days to go through all the submissions. Mayers said he would spend at least three hours each day, if not more, going through entries.

“There’s a lot of good things coming in, and, sometimes, you second-guess yourself,” Mayers said. “But going back and reviewing things, I think I made the best choices for the show.”

Artist Charlotte Huntley, who has submitted entries to the show for years, has a piece in this year’s exhibit titled “It’s All Relative.” The work depicts a baboon who is holding a baboon skull it possibly recognizes as belonging to a family member, Huntley said.

She said she hopes viewers realize that animals are very much like humans.

“I think it might remind people that they’re not the only ones that love,” Huntley said.

Mayers said he looked for works that had energy and life in them, and that he enjoyed pieces with human elements applied to animals.

The variety of art in the show will allow viewers to find at least one piece that speaks to them, Mayers said, and he hopes they connect with the humanity in some of the pieces.

“Whether or not they have a specific mind-set on what style of art they like, they will possibly find one in there for them,” Mayers said. “I hope they leave with a smile on their face.”

including the time necessary to establish base camp, bring in equipment and account for weather.

Despite these challenges, Doran and Stone are ready to move forward.

“There’s really no deal breakers in this,” Doran said.

“We’ve done a lot of it before, and it’s just a matter of scaling it up to depths we’ve never gone to before.”

The $3 million NASA grant only funds Phase A of the program, and the team is hoping it can quickly secure funding for Phase B, when team members will begin assembling and testing the cryobot in the field. If the cryobot passes initial tests, the team will bring it to Antarctica for its final test.

If the project is successful and NASA and the U.S. government are willing to fund the project, Stone said a cryobot could be operating on Europa or another celestial body by 2032.

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‘Angel Light’, an acrylic painting by California-based artist Akiko Watanabe, hangs on the wall as part of the ‘Animals in Art International Exhibition.’

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March 15 at 5:10 p.m., The victim later reported multiple instances said LSUPD spokesperson Lt. Marshall between January 27 and Walters.

March 14 to LSUPD in LSUPD received which she returned to four complaints from a her legally parked car student victim, who preto find either writing in viously dated Davis and yellow chalk on her winDAVIS dows, including “stop reported harassment and vandalism of her car, ac- parking next to me” or sevcording to the arrest report. eral “Parking Violation” stickThe relationship ended in ers placed on it, according to February 2015, but Davis re- the report. peatedly harassed the victim LSUPD discovered that Dathrough social media, telephone vis, who said the court ordered and in-person visits to the vic- the victim not to park next to tim’s residence and place of him, purchased the exact “Parkemployment, according to the ing Violation” stickers found on report, all of which prompted the vehicle in February, accordthe victim to request assistance ing to the report.

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Sports

page 3 TENNIS

Tigers brace for conference weekend

BY MARKUS HÜFNER AND JUSTIN TALBOT @Hufner_TDR | @JT15_TDR

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LSU all-around sophomore Myia Hambrick does her beam routine during the Tigers’ 196.575-195.100 victory against Kentucky January 22 in the PMAC.

CHAMPIONSHIP BOUND LSU prepares to win SEC Championship Saturday

BY CHRISTIAN BOUTWELL @CBoutwell_TDR

There’s no “I” in “together,” and the No. 3 LSU gymnastics team is set to burst at 5 p.m.

Saturday on Verizon Arena’s podium stage in Little Rock, Arkansas.

“There’s no ‘I’ in this team.

It’s about doing it together,” LSU coach D-D Breaux said. “This team is locked and loaded and ready to go to SEC’s and explode on the scene.”

The Tigers (13-2, 6-1 Southeastern Conference) are coming off four consecutive team scores of 197.825 or more, much like the hot streak the Tigers were on

before the conference championship meet last season, when they headed into the same competition on a six-meet win streak.

But this team is different, Breaux and sophomore allarounder Myia Hambrick said.

LSU finished in second place in last year’s meet in Duluth, Georgia, as Alabama snuck past the Tigers in the final rotation with a higher event score, bumping LSU into the runner-up spot.

The Tigers will be facing a similar grouping in 2016 against No. 2 Florida, No. 3 Alabama and No. 6 Auburn on Saturday, all of

which the Tigers defeated earlier this season.

To Hambrick, the previous wins add an ingredient of excitement on the conference’s biggest stage.

“We’ve beaten everyone except for Georgia this year,” Hambrick said. “Everyone we’ve beaten we will be competing against, and that builds confidence for us, but for them they’ll be like, ‘Oh, you’ve already beaten us once,’ so they’ll bring their A-game, too.”

“Togetherness” and

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There are no bye-weeks in conference play.

As the No. 48 LSU men’s tennis team returns home to host No. 43 Alabama today at 5.30 p.m., the No. 18 women’s team continues its road trip to Nashville, Tennessee, to face No. 7 Vanderbilt at noon on Saturday.

After defeating No. 26 Kentucky 4-3 Thursday night, the Lady Tigers (14-5, 3-2 Southeastern Conference) are set to head into the harder part of their trip.

Vanderbilt has been a tremendous challenge year after year for the Lady Tigers and co-head coach Julia Sell has yet to beat the Commodores in her four seasons at LSU. However, the team disregards old statistics and current rankings.

Allowing their mindset be determined by numbers often came back to haunt the Lady Tigers in the past.

“We try to stay in the moment and just play the person across from us as much as we can,” said senior Ella Taylor.

“At times, we have focused on rankings too much, and that has made us come out a little tentative or nervous. We’ve been in the top-10, so we should feel comfortable playing against those teams because we’re

see CONFERENCE, page 7 BASEBALL

Surging Tigers open SEC play against the Crimson Tide

BY JARRETT MAJOR @Jarrett_tdr The Tigers hope to start their Southeastern Conference slate against Alabama in a familiar way: winning.

The No. 7 LSU baseball team (13-3) plays the Crimson Tide (115) tonight at 7 p.m. at Alex Box Stadium before continuing the series on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. and on Sunday at 1 p.m.

“They are having a good year pitching,” sophomore pitcher Alex Lange said. “So, it is going to be a battle. It is going to be a one to three run game, as most SEC weekends are.”

The Tigers enter conference play 10 games over .500,

after beating New Orleans 9-4 on Wednesday night, but have yet to be tested like they will be by SEC rivals.

The Crimson Tide will provide the first big test for the young Tigers, who replaced eight of nine starters from last season.

“The talent of the SEC teams is better than the teams we play out of conference, generally speaking,” said LSU coach Paul Mainieri. “That is what makes the SEC so good, but the players have an amazing way of adapting to the competition we face. We are excited about it, and what better way to start than with the Alabama Crimson Tide.”

The Tigers face Alabama at an opportune time. The Crimson

Tide have dropped four of its last six after winning nine of their first 10 games.

In contrast, the Tigers are on a hot streak, having won nine of their last 10 games.

Along with its current winning streak, LSU comes into the bout against Alabama with history on its side in recent seasons.

The Tigers have won 11 of their last 13 games against Alabama, including a sweep over in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 2015.

“Last year, we played a series over there and played like 38 innings,” Mainieri said “We blew three saves in one night. That doesn’t happen very often, and we

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Then-freshman pitcher Alex Lange (35) looks at first base during the Tigers’ 7-3 victory against Kentucky on March 28, 2015 in the Alex Box Stadium.

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SOFTBALL

No. 4 Tigers travel to College Station for 2016’s first road series

BY MARC STEVENS @MarcStevens_TDR

LSU athletics history was made Tuesday night.

The No. 4 LSU softball team dismantled Louisiana Tech, 30-8, setting six single-game records and tying another in the win. The game was just another highlight of an impressive season.

“If you would have told me we would score 30 [on Tuesday], I would have said you were probably a little crazy,” said senior designated player Kellsi Kloss. “I felt very comfortable ... when we have run support like that, I’m able to get a pitch that I want and not a pitch I think I have to swing at because I’m in a pressure situation.”

The Tigers (24-3, 2-1 Southeastern Conference) have dominated opponents this season with 13 mercy-rule victories.

LSU coach Beth Torina’s team on average wins by 7.5 runs and is the eighth best scoring offense in the NCAA, averaging 8.48 in all contests. LSU, as a team, is maintaining a .380 batting average — good for No. 4 in the NCAA. The team will need each of those runs when it travels to College Station, Texas, for a weekend series with SEC foe Texas A&M. The Aggies (25-2) feature a powerhouse offense that is quite familiar with the longball. They have hit 43 home runs this year, tied for second in the NCAA. LSU’s pitching rotation needs to be cautious of Texas A&M’s lineup. It features six players hitting above .300, with at least

22 appearances.

“A&M has a great offense,” Torina said. “They’re going to go and swing big, but I think we’ve proven we can swing right with them, and hopefully our pitchers can keep them in check.”

LSU pitchers have had outstanding performances in the circle this season — from shutouts to no-hitters. The Tigers’ hurlers have a staff ERA of 1.45.

Smith leads the team with a 0.71 ERA, No. 3 in the NCAA, and has thrown four complete-game shutouts, including a perfect game.

Sophomore Carley Hoover has stepped up as the team’s ace, posting a modest 1.53 ERA and a perfect 10-0 record. She has struck out 92 batters, averaging 1.8 strikeouts per inning pitched.

But she will need help if the Tigers want to take down the Aggies. Torina will likely enlist the help of sophomore Allie Walljasper and junior Baylee Corbello to round out the LSU bullpen.

Walljasper has the second lowest ERA on the team with a 1.29, but she has yet to pitch more than two innings since returning from her undisclosed injury on March 12. She was the de facto No. 2 pitcher prior to being sidelined, but for now, her status remains unclear.

“I’m not worried about our offense at all,” Hoover said. “Our offense is always great. Hopefully our bullpen this weekend can neutralize their offense and give us a good game.”

Though Texas A&M has yet to play an SEC opponent, the squad has competed against a difficult nonconference schedule.

The Aggies have gone 4-1 against ranked opponents, defeating three top-10 teams, with their lone loss coming against then-No. 7 UCLA, who they had already beaten once.

Torina said having the first conference series under the team’s belt gives it an advantage.

“The way we felt last weekend [against Alabama] was very different than how we had felt in some of the other games,” Torina said. “A&M has played a good schedule. They’ve traveled — been battle-tested for sure — but I do think there is something about playing in the SEC that just feels a little different.”

[Top] LSU senior catcher Kellsi Kloss hits during the Tigers’ 9-1 victory against Illinois State on Feb. 27 in Tiger Park.

[Left] Junior pitcher Baylee Corbello (9) pitches during the Tigers’ 1-0 victory against Longwood University on Mar. 1 in Tiger Park. photos by EMILY BRAUNER [TOP], JAVIER FERNÁNDEZ [LEFT] /

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BEACH VOLLEYBALL

Team focuses on righting the ship in Metairie’s Pelican Classic

BY JOURDAN RILEY @jourdanr_TDR The LSU beach volleyball team (4-3) looks to regain its winning streak Friday and Saturday in the Pelican Classic, at the White Sands Volleyball Courts in Metairie.

The Tigers lost their last three matches on March 12 and 13 in the Tiger Beach Challenge against Stetson, Florida International and Georgia State. Eleven of the 15 matches went to a third set.

LSU coach Russell Brock said he has been stressing mental preparedness to his squad to handle close matches like the ones they saw last weekend.

“We’re really looking at eliminating situations that limit our ability to take advantage of opportunities,” Brock said. “It’s not about changing or revamping or doing anything major. It’s more about attention to detail. It’s more about discipline. It’s about really holding ourselves to a high standard.”

On the first day of the tournament, the team will play a Louisiana-based field, featuring Tulane

and the University of New Orleans on Friday. They will have a match against Spring Hill College and Missouri Baptist University on Saturday.

The No. 1 pair, senior Katie Lindelow and freshman Ashley Allmer, has a 4-3 record with a win against No. 10 Georgia State last weekend.

“Tulane is a fun match for us,” Lindelow said. “We see them a few times a year and this will be our first matchup of this season. They have some of the same people coming back, so there’s definitely an in-state rivalry there, but they’re a fun team to play.”

The No 2. duo, senior Helen Boyle and sophomore Lilly Kessler, is 6-1 undefeated in the CCSA conference, with a record of 3-1 against ranked teams.

Sophomores Mandi Orellana and Cheyenne Wood, the No. 4 pair, have a 5-2 record.

Allmer said she is ready to compete Friday and Saturday.

“I’m expecting to win [this weekend],” Allmer said. “I think not only Katie and I, but our entire team trained hard enough and were coached well enough

“We’re really looking at eliminating situations that limit our ability to take advantage of opportunities ...

It’s more about attention to detail.

RUSSELL BROCK LSU beach volleyball coach for us to be really good this year and for us to reach our potential.

I think against Tulane, which should be our toughest competition, I really think, if we play the way we’ve been taught and really execute that, we’re going to win all the games.”

The No. 1 pair’s matches Friday will be televised on CST with Lyn Rollins, marking the first time in program history a regular season match will be televised.

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LSU freshman Ashley Allmer (11) spikes the ball during the Purple & Gold scrimmage on Feb. 27 at Mango’s Beach Volleyball Club in Baton Rouge.

Opinion

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Black hair is a form of identity, should not be chemically altered MY BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL CLARKE PERKINS @ClarkePerkins New rule — straight hair and high-pony tails are now prohibited at some schools.

I’m kidding, but why do we allow those, yet ban afros and dreadlocks?

School administrators constantly tell black children in schools their hair doesn’t meet school requirements. They have to chemically treat it, which damages their hair, to fit the school’s dress code. Hair, for many children, is part of their identity.

Several weeks ago, seventhgrader Isaiah Freeman left West End Christian School in Hopewell, Virginia, after administrators told him that his hair wasn’t up to par. The length of his dreadlocks were suddenly against the school’s handbook, even though Freeman’s hair remained the same length since he was in third grade.

This is a case of the school “not being culturally aware,” said Isaiah’s father, Shawn Freeman.

“It’s an issue of people feeling uncomfortable with a young, black male having dreadlocks and having a certain persona of negativity,” he said.

Shawn made the right choice

by taking Isaiah out of the school and looking for one where his culture would be accepted.

Yes, his son’s haircut may have been against school rules, but withdrawing him taught Isaiah a valuable lesson.

You do not have to conform for anyone. Your hair is your culture, which cannot be compromised.

The stories of blacks’ hair not meeting certain standards of schools and professions are endless.

However, school administrations’ tendencies to ignore the cultural importance in hair for black children is more depressing than when a business does it.

According to University of Michigan professor of psychology, education and women’s studies Jacquelynne Eccles, the middle childhood stage is extremely important for mental growth. That childhood stage is so important that she wrote a journal on it: “The Development of Children Ages 6 to 14.”

“Middle childhood gives children the opportunity to develop competencies, interests and a healthy sense of confidence, so that they can master and control their worlds,” Eccles said in her journal.

Telling black children their hair doesn’t meet regulations at such an age can ruin the

confidence they are building and hurt the identify they are forming.

Vanessa VanDyke, a teenager from Orlando, Florida, faced conflict because of her afro in 2013 when she was only 12 years old. She attended Faith Christian Academy, and the administrators said her afro was a distraction to students, and she had a week to cut and shape it.

“First of all, it’s puffy, and I like it that way,” VanDyke said.

“I know people will tease me about it because it’s not straight.

I don’t fit in.”

Black hair always seems to be “distracting.”

Want to know what’s distracting? Sitting in my college courses seeing messy-buns and straight hair in every direction.

How am I expected to take notes when that’s all I see.

The more society tries to conform black culture, the more the racial divide widens.

Not only will the racial divide grow, but black children will grow resentful.

They’re told their dreadlocks, braids and afros aren’t standard and are against regulations.

Meanwhile, celebrities such as Katy Perry and Kylie Jenner are rocking the cornrows, and Lady Gaga is wearing dreads.

Can you say cultural appropriation?

And yes, there is a difference between appropriation and appreciation.

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La’Porsha Renae attends the Red Carpet Arrivals and Debut of the “American Idol XV” Finalists in West Hollywood, California.

You’re not giving props to the black community for the hairstyles they can’t even wear.

Think about the fact that white celebrities wear black hairstyles that black children themselves aren’t allowed to wear.

Think about the effect that has on black children’s self esteem.

It screams

white privilege.

Accepting black culture in its entirety is another barrier Americans must cross if you want any chance at narrowing the racial divide.

Clarke Perkins is a 20-year-old political science sophomore from New Orleans, Louisiana.

Millennials turn to Clinton as lead against Sanders widens HARP ON IT

JOHN GAVIN HARP @SirJohnGavin This article is purely satire and meant only for the readers’ enjoyment.

As Hillary Clinton’s lead over Bernie Sanders grows, millennials are finally giving up on their hopes and dreams and turning to the inevitable Democratic frontrunner in preparation for the general election.

A new poll by USA Today reveals millennials will leave their safe places and head to voting booths to support Clinton should she face Republican frontrunner and Hunger Games

strategist Donald Trump in November.

Following the publication of the poll, Clinton held a press conference outside her youthoriented campaign headquarters in Brooklyn.

“After months of self-entitled brats telling me they don’t want to vote for the establishment, I’m glad they finally see the light,” Clinton said. “It appears I’m their only hope. Now I can finally stop paying ‘SNL’ to feature a skit of me every damn week.”

“Welcome to the dark side, my children,” Clinton howled before disappearing into a cloud of smoke.

Shortly after her conference, Clinton tweeted “#FreeKesha” to flaunt her recent surge

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The Clinton campaign has struggled gaining millenial support throughout the primary season. Until recently, Sanders maintained the support of young voters who favored the idea of having a hipster Jew for president.

Exit polls previously showed elderly white people, minorities and homosexuals all favoring Clinton for her “YAS QUEEN” persona.

The recent USA Today poll cites growth in millennial support for Clinton is due to Sanders’ numerous losses in primaries across the nation.

The poll also showed positive feedback to viral videos of Clinton dancing to rap songs on

“The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and a stint on millennial-centric comedy, “Broad City.”

Local Jewish teen, Justin DiCharia, said, while he is able to resonate with Sanders’ message of economic inequality, he feels as if it’s time to stop fighting the inevitable fate of supporting Clinton.

“Listen, I feel like Sanders would like one of my Reveille budget columns,” DiCharia said.

“But I can’t shake the feeling that he may have a heart attack while debating Donald Trump.

This is why I’m throwing all of my support behind Hill-Dawg.”

The Sanders campaign also held a press conference to dismiss claims of losing millennial support and to let people know

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he’s not pulling out until the bitter, humiliating end.

“The kids love me, OK? And they wanna help me stop Super PACs,” Sanders said. “If they abandon me now, they won’t get to see me make a surprise appearance at Coachella. I’ve been banking on it for months.”

Representatives for Coachella refused to confirm which artist Sanders would be joining, but speculation points to recently unretired rapper Ice Cube.

Cube’s support would be a last-ditch effort to gain support from African-American voters in the remaining states.

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page 7 [left] LSU junior Ashleigh Gnat prepares for her floor routine during the Tigers’ 197.825197.125 victory against Auburn on Feb. 19 in the PMAC. [right] LSU all-around sophomore Erin Macadaeg performs on the beam March 4 during the Tigers’ 197.925196.225 victory against Alabama in the PMAC.

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SEC, from page 3 “collectiveness” are mottos for the youthful Tiger squad in 2016 and make this year’s corp different from last season’s.

“This team is a lot more invested in each other just all together,” Hambrick said. “There’s not a whole lot of This is about me. It’s now what we can do as a team and with each other. Now when someone goes up, we have full confidence that they’re going to hit.”

Breaux said the Tigers’

ALABAMA, from page 3 won the game.”

LSU’s success in the SEC extends well beyond its dominance of Alabama. The Tigers lead the league with 11 SEC titles, including five of the last eight.

As Mainieri and company look to prolong their SEC reign, continued development will be crucial to while facing top-notch teams.

LSU enters conference play

TENNIS, from page 3 right there with them.”

Though Vanderbilt marks the Lady Tigers’ highest ranked SEC opponent so far this season, the environment at the Currey Tennis Center will force the actual adjustments.

Saturday’s forecast for Nashville predicts a high of 55 degrees. Though the team said they prefer to play indoors, a usual spring climate has become more of an unfamiliarity after the recent sunny weather in Baton Rouge.

“We’re heading into a colder climate,” Sell said. “Their indoor and outdoor is very different. It’ll really be a challenge whether we’re going to be inside or outside, but we’ll just have to make that game-day adjustment to whatever surface we’re on.”

difficulty on skills is “the toughest in the nation,” and if LSU embraces how great it could be, winning the conference championship is feasible, Breaux said.

“We tell them, ‘Go get a trophy now,’” Breaux said. “‘Go get what you have earned and worked for.

Just be you. Just do what you do in practice.’ If the stars line up and our gymnastics is on that night, we will win it. We’re that good.”

LSU will have had two weeks of practice heading into SEC’s as

the Tigers competed in the same rotational order in Denton, Texas, last weekend in a quad-meet — bars, beam, floor then vault.

The Tigers posted a 197.825 as a team in the same order last weekend, which is more than helpful in preparation, Hambrick said.

“That helps a lot,” Hambrick said. “You get used to going in a home and away meet order. You get in the hang of that because you do them both five or six times a year. Not that last week messed us up or anything, but it was kind

of weird going from bars to ‘Oh now we’re going to beam.’ It was good practice for sure.”

Unlike last season, Breaux doesn’t expect to make any last minute lineup changes before the meet. She is “sticking with what has worked,” she said.

“I don’t aspire to make any changes,” Breaux said. “I made a mistake making some changes at the end of the season. I want to lock in on what has been successful during our season and in our inter-squads. I want to take all emotion out of it.”

Sophomore all-arounder Erin Macadaeg said the Tiger gymnasts were excited for Saturday’s competition as early as Monday.

Macadaeg and Breaux said winning the SEC’s title is a goal and would mean much to the program, Breaux said.

“It would set the table for us going into the national championships,” Breaux said. “It would mean so much. That’s what this team has aspired to do. Hoisting that trophy up and bringing it back to LSU would be an incredible feeling.”

12th in ERA and seventh in batting average in the SEC. The Tigers are looking to find stability in the infield, where LSU has featured five different lineups. Freshman third baseman Chris Reid, who is playing for injured freshman O’Neal Lochridge, said the rotation is gelling.

“We need to make sure everybody is on the same page,” Reid said. “ We do a pretty good job.

We are always talking throughout

the infield and making sure we know where we got to go and what we have to do. That would probably be the biggest thing we are trying to adjust.”

For the Tigers’ pitching staff , the Crimson Tide lineup is an enticing matchup.

Alabama’s batters have notched a league-high 136 strikeouts. In contrast, LSU has tallied 68 strikeouts, the fewest in the SEC, so far.

The Tigers pitchers, however,

will not take the Tide lightly.

“I don’t care about how many strikeouts we get,” said senior pitcher John Valek III. “If they put the ball in play a little earlier in the count, it allows me to go deeper in the game and keep my pitch count down. So, I don’t care how many times a team strikes out, it doesn’t bother me.”

More than strikeouts, the Tigers are hoping for wins against the Crimson Tide.

Reid, a Baton Rouge native,

said just to start for LSU in the SEC is a victory.

“It is dream come true,” Reid said. “I was born during the golden ages when they won in ’96 and all the other national championships. I never was able to watch in Omaha, but my dad and I would always go to the games ... It is just a dream come true, I have always hoped and pictured myself being here in this position. Now, that it is here I hope we can capitalize on it.”

On the men’s side, the Tigers (8-6) are coming off two -straight road losses to No. 22 Ole Misson March 10 and No. 32 Arkansas on March 12.

Last weekend’s setbacks highlight LSU’stwo main struggles throughout the early season.

The Tigers continued their skid against SEC opponents to fall 1-3 in conference play with a lone win coming via a 5-2 victory against Auburn on March 6.

Venturing beyond the confines of the LSU Tennis Complex has also caused issues for the Tigers, who are 0-5 on the road this season.

“They were good teams,” said LSU coach Jeff Brown.

“It’s not that we weren’t capable of winning those matches, but it’s to the point where we’ve played a pretty tough schedule and we have to play

exceptionally well in order to get through, especially on the road.”

Most of all, Brown seeks consistency from his team, which LSU has yet to achieve in 2016.

Despite their struggles on the road and during conference play, the Tigers have commanded respect at home, boasting a 7-1 record with their lone loss coming against then-No. 30 Florida on March 4.

“We have to play well everywhere.” said Brown. “Some people have been playing better one day but we need to get everyone on the same page together [to win]. ” LSU faces another strong SEC rival to close the weekend Sunday, when the team faces No. 25 Mississippi State at 1 p.m in the LSU Tennis Complex.

Senior Ella Taylor returns a serve during the opening game against Nicholls State University in the LSU tennis complex on January 16.

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