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Amid ongoing controversy surrounding a recent fraternity banner and ahead of a performance by conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos tonight in the Student Union, free speech is once again a topic of contentious student discussion. In today’s issue, two columnists debate the merits — and limits — of the First Amendment on the University’s campus.

ALL’S NAIR IN LOVE AND WAR ANJANA NAIR @anjanaaanair

Free speech argument should not be used to justify hate speech

Free speech warrior Yiannopoulos upholds American values, troll culture

The controversy over the line between hate speech and free speech has always been a fight between conservatives who cite the First Amendment as their only credible rationale and liberals who aren’t even sure how to define hate speech.

Since the beginning of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, America has had to deal with a candidate who embodies and exemplifies this controversy and forces us to confront it.

I once thought I loved free speech. As someone involved in media, the First Amendment was my best friend. That is, until I faced the reality that people, like they do to all good things in the world, abuse it and use it as justification for reckless and hateful behavior.

One of the main proponents of this pseudo-patriotic ideology is a man is bringing his controversy to an already

Freedom of speech is as American as the image of Abraham Lincoln straddling a mammoth grizzly bear with an American flag saddle, holding an assault rifle in one hand and the Constitution in the other, whose recognition is a prerequisite for Young Metro’s trust, probably.

Upholding that right on college campuses is an integral element in ensuring the proper fostering of the brightest young minds America has to offer. Freedom of speech’s oppression, be it for political reasons or anything of the sort, massacres intellectual vitality that prevails where it’s allowed free reign.

Unfortunately, an existing faction on our campus and the larger community only support freedom of speech in a limited capacity, seemingly exclusively when it aligns with their views.

Harambe didn’t die for this.

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TEAM JACOB JACOB HAMILTON @jac0b_hamilt0n

MOVIES AND TV

‘Stranger Things’ lacks accuracy, professor Pullin says

BY LAUREN HEFFKER @laurheffker Netflix’s smash hit of the summer “Stranger Things” may walk the line between sci-fi and horror, but the show doesn’t deliver on scientific accuracy, according to University physics professor Jorge Pullin.

The show’s Spielberg-esque plot follows a group of children that spend the majority of the season attempting to rescue 12-yearold Will Byers, their friend who was kidnapped by a mysterious creature.

Later in the show, viewers learn Byers was taken to a parallel universe that appears to coexist with his own world, dubbed the “Upside-Down.” A point of entry to

the Upside-Down originates from a mysterious government organization, the Hawkins National Laboratory. The energy department is the headquarters for scientific experimentation on telekinesis.

The storyline of Eleven, a psychokinetic girl who escapes from the government facility and encounters Byer’s friends in the woods, accompanies the main plot.

“The series is trying to get on the right track in thinking that energy and electricity can produce some sort of anomaly,” said Pullin, who holds the University’s Hearne Chair of Theoretical Physics and conducts research in general relativity and quantum gravity. “What they’re driving is the idea of black holes — if you compress mass, you can create a region in spacetime

where nothing can get out.”

While they make for good TV, the scientific concepts presented in “Stranger Things,” including traveling between dimensions, don’t measure up in reality, Pullin said.

The presence of another dimension in conjunction with our world, like the one in “Stranger Things,” is impossible, Pullin said.

To produce a black hole on Earth, the planet would need to be an inch in size, Pullin said. The amount of energy required to form a black hole isn’t feasible on Earth, and a black hole is much more dense and energetic than anything that can travel through a phone line.

“They have some decent ideas

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Netflix’s summer smash hit ‘Stranger Things’ is not scientifically accurate according to University physics professor Jorge Pullin, whose research focuses on black holes.

page 2 STRANGER THINGS, from page 1 — like saying that energy could allow you to move — but they’re off by large factors,” Pullin said.

“This is far from established physics.”

When “Stranger Things” attempts to explain string theory, the boys’ science teacher, Mr. Clarke delivers an almost-correct explanation.

Clarke uses the analogy of an acrobat on a tightrope who can only move back and forth. To the acrobat, only three dimensions are visible. However, a flea on the

Wednesday, September 21, 2016 tightrope can travel around the rope, between the regular three dimensions.

Pullin’s research focuses on understanding what happens in the final moments in the life of a black hole. Black holes are regions so dense that nothing can escape.

They radiate wave particles and shrink, until they eventually disappear.

Pullin is investigating what happens to everything that enters black holes before they disappear.

He said he hopes to have a concrete prediction within the next few years.

HAMILTON, from page 1 Enter conservative pundit and apparent supervillain Milo Yiannopoulos, whose circumvention of that faction, The Dangerous Faggot Tour, hits campus today.

Yiannopoulos’ tour, which resumed last week, features stops at campuses across the United States including Alabama, Yale and Stanford before closing shop in February at UCLA. If Donald Trump is the chairman of a new, ultraconservative wave, Yiannopoulos is certainly the CEO. As a leader of the alt-right, Yiannopoulos essentially combats political correctness in all of its forms by trolling progressives, liberals, feminists and the whole lot of mainstream leftist ideas that have emerged as threats to freedom of speech.

He’s been permanently banned from Twitter since July, after his troll army nearly 350,000 strong allegedly harassed actress Leslie Jones.

Milo is accused of being antiLGBTQ — although he himself is a member of the community — along with every other term associated with bigotry. In actuality, he belongs in conversation with one of the most transcendent American heroes — Rocky Balboa in Rocky IV. Here, I’ll break it down.

Rocky IV is a movie starring Sly Stallone as Rocky Balboa. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union’s Ivan Drago fights Apollo Creed, who enters the ring to James Brown’s “Living in America” wearing an American flag top hat and trunks. For all intents and purposes, Creed represents America, while Drago is this Leftist wave. Creed suffers a fatal defeat to Drago, and, in a fit of rage, the slurred-speeched Rocky agrees to fight the Soviet in a battle of seismic proportions.

It’s a battle of good versus evil — physical versus metaphysical, if you will.

While Drago was hopped up on steroids with advanced equipment at his disposal, Rocky’s training was a montage of him chopping down trees, throwing logs and climbing a mountain.

But Rocky fought the good fight and came out on top.

Yiannopoulos is our Rocky, fighting an uphill battle against political correctness, thus resisting freedom of speech’s repression.

Much of what befouls Yiannopoulos’ reputation stems from liberals’ absent sense of humor,

courtesy of MILO YIANNOPOULOS

Milo Yiannopoulos combats political correctness by trolling leftist ideas. He will perform tonight in the Student Union. miscomprehension of the art of trolling and blatant denial of facts that don’t fit their narrative.

For example, many will point to Yiannopoulos’ headlines on Breitbart, just as Hillary Clinton did in a speech about the alt-right, “Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy” and “Would You Rather Your Child Had Feminism or Cancer?” as evidence of his unfathomable, next-level bigotry.

While that may seem like damning evidence, it easily stands out as a troll job to fellow trolls. The author of a feature on Yiannopoulos for Bloomberg, a markedly apolitical news service, conceded that his rebuttal “Milo to Hillary: You Did This” perseveres once you understand troll logic.

Whether you agree that Milo is a champion, the likes of Achilles combating “the cultural tyranny of the Left,” or you disagree with his cause to your core, there’s one thing we can all agree on — he has the right.

You don’t have to agree with everything he says — I by no means do — to support his presence on campus. He has something to offer everyone, whether your political orientation aligns with the alt-right, you simply support free speech or you appreciate Grade-A trolling.

Stop taking offense to everything for one night and enjoy a five-star troll fest. After all, it’s a right your forefathers afforded you.

And for the love of f***ing god, stand up for the national anthem.

Jacob Hamilton is a 21-year old political science senior from Slidell, Louisiana.

accounted for Twitter battles and social media showdowns influencvulnerable University commu- ing human opinion and behavior. nity: Milo Yiannopoulos. He is It couldn’t have foreseen the exisknown to liberals in our genera- tence of people like Yiannopoulos tion mainly as the guy who got and Trump, who force us to define kicked off Twitter for harassing what abusive speech is.

Leslie Jones with racist and sexThe real danger is how these ist insults, while indirectly en- words affect our community. couraging his followers to do the Not only do people like Leslie same.

Jones feeling like they’re trapped His defense came as no sur- in a “personal hell” when the prise: “My suspension has made free speech advocates come out one thing clear, Twitter doesn’t to play, but it incites mindless stand for free speech.” followers to act hatefully and As just another Trump-sup- sometimes even violently. porting, liberal-hating attention Some say they cannot be held seeker, Yiannopoulos scoffs at accountable for reactions to their agendas like feminism and ra- speech, but without accountcial equality. Instead, he stands ability, society cannot function. for important matters such as No man can live as an island. men’s rights and the right to call Our words and ideas have real someone fat and ugly. consequences.

I get it. Progressive moveWalters claims what we liberments can sometimes be quite als are truly scared of is a “diveroverwhelming. It’s hard when a sity of ideas.” We apparently canwhite man has to watch minority not handle the possibility of real groups gain equality in the world. diversity and equality because Now, all the sad white men who it comes with the possibility of have been taken out of the spot- truth in these messages of halight have banded together under tred. The thing is, the ideas that one supreme leader — Trump — conservatives like Yiannopoulos, who will lead them to the prom- Trump and Students for Trump ised land of white supremacy hold close are not new. They have once again. been in our country’s cultural LSU Students for Trump am- mainstream for decades — when bassador David Walters says African-Americans were still there was no real motivation slaves and women still couldn’t behind getting Yiannopoulos to vote. speak on campus besides the fact The bottom line is, conservathat he’s a Trump supporter and a tives do not believe their free speech will ever be harmful conservative.

Protesters on campus and all enough to constitute censorship around the country who don’t because they cannot even acwant Yiannopoulos’ hateful knowledge how much harm their rhetoric to infect their college ideologies can do. This is where environment say he is violating the standoff always ends. The defuniversity safe spaces. inition of hate speech will always Walters says it is unreasonable depend on the perspective and soto limit free speech just because cial standing of the audience.

The University and Baton someone is afraid of getting their Rouge are alfeelings hurt. In the marked real world, he says, The only people who feel ready there are no safe the need to defend their by vulnerability spaces or trigger freedom of expression and tension following the Alton warnings. behind the First Walters is partAmendment are those Sterling and poly right: To stop a shootings who are clearly misusing lice message because it that took place might offend some- it as a platform to attack this summer. To one is not a justifica- censorship in its entirety. have someone tion for censorship. like Yiannopoulos speak in a What is justification, though, is the fact that the place that can’t afford any more free expression of hateful ideas hostility is only asking to alienate has led to an environment of ten- people who already feel displaced sion between the groups who are in society. perpetuating such speech and Walters and other conservathe groups who are targeted by tives view our reactions as overly it. This in turn leads to an atmo- dramatic, considering only people sphere in which only the ones in- who want to hear the speech are flicting the harmful speech feel supposed to attend. But if you ask comfortable. me, a minority woman, how I feel Let’s be real: The only people about the free speech argument who feel the need to defend their in this case, I’d say that I simply freedom of expression behind the don’t understand.

First Amendment are those who I don’t understand why my are clearly misusing it as a plat- university welcomes speakers form to attack censorship in its who clearly have a strong bias entirety. against my gender or skin tone Even Walters admits that there to speak at my place of educaare limits to free speech, such as tion, which also happens to be a not being able to yell “Fire!” in Predominantly White Institution. a movie theatre when there isn’t From my point of view, it looks as one. Why does that exception ex- though white men will always be ist? Because it causes a sense of able to say and do what they want panic and fear when there’s no and use the law to hide behind it, justified reason for it — just like no matter what the consequences hate speech for the rest of us are.

It’s a battle in which old ideologies don’t account for modern day Anjana Nair is an 18-year-old inrealities. When the First Amend- ternational studies sophomore ment was written, it couldn’t have from Baton Rouge.

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Sports

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STEELE TRADE

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Former LSU defensive coordinator Kevin Steele’s prescence still felt at LSU after departing

BY JOSH THORNTON @JoshuaThornton_ The first thing that came to LSU coach Les Miles’ mind about the challenges No. 18 LSU will face against Auburn was its defense.

“Well, we know the defensive coordinator there,” Miles said.

That coordinator happens to be Kevin Steele, who led the Tiger defense for one season before bolting to Auburn $1.1 million later.

Steele inherited the old job from his former high school teammate John Chavis, who left for Texas A&M. When Steele left one day after the Tigers’ 56-27 Texas Bowl win versus Texas Tech, Miles was surprised to learn about Steele’s decision.

“I was going back to the hotel to get a bite to eat,” Miles recalled. “I walked through what was a common area and Kevin called me over and said, ‘I need to visit with you.’ And he said, ‘I’m going to Auburn.’ And I said, ‘Huh?’ I was

relatively shocked. I understood, and I really wish him well.”

Miles regrouped, then quickly replaced Steele with Dave Aranda, two days after Steele informed Miles he was leaving for Auburn.

After three games, Steele has the Auburn defense ranked third in the Southeastern Conference in opponent third down percentage, which isn’t a surprise to Miles.

“Kevin Steele has a very good knack with defense,” he said. “I think he’s certainly a challenge. I think the players that play defense for them are talented.”

For Steele, the focus isn’t on coaching against his former team, it’s on his present situation.

“We’re in a process of creating a mentality and creating an identity,” Steele said at a Sunday press conference. “We can’t be focused on who’s across the line of scrimmage. You can’t get into that … It’s about us.”

Sophomore outside linebacker Arden Key

seemed shocked, too, when Steele departed.

“I was kind of sad, mad, bitter sweet at the moment,” Key said. “Then we found out what the reason was for it … We can’t be mad about that.”

Senior defensive end Lewis Neal, who has played under three different defensive coordinators in his career, expressed the same sentiments as Key. The money mattered. Neal, a businessman and owner of Hair Factory hair salon, understood.

“It was a business decision,” he said.

“I understand.”

Though Steele no longer roams the sidelines of Tiger Stadium, his personality and southern drawl are still etched into the team. Key said Steele still keeps in regular contact with defensive line coach Ed Orgeron and other members of the staff.

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LSU offense needs to find ideal lineman combination THE BOY WHO LIVED

WILLIAM TAYLOR POTTER @wmtaylorpotter If there’s one thing that has always been true about LSU’s offenses in the Les Miles era, it’s this: when the offensive line plays badly, the team plays badly.

Through the first three games of the season, LSU played a total of 11 offensive linemen in a variety of combinations, including seven against Mississippi State after injuries.

While this isn’t necessarily uncommon, especially for the Tigers, it’s time to stick with what works.

It’s not hard to understand why the coaches have been toying with the offensive line. During the Wisconsin game, LSU’s offense netted only 126 rushing yards — the team’s lowest since Nov. 14, when the Tigers lost 31-14 against Arkansas.

The game against the Badgers also marked the first time the Tiger line has allowed multiple sacks since the Arkansas game, when it allowed five for 37 yards.

Headed into week 2 against

Jacksonville State, it made sense for the coaches to experiment with the line, especially with senior guard Josh Boutte suspended. There was no real danger in losing that game, making it the perfect time to mix and match.

With Boutte out, sophomore Maea Teuhema started at right guard. The rest of the line was similar, with junior K.J. Malone at left tackle, sophomore Will Clapp at left guard, senior Ethan Pocic at center and sophomore Toby Weathersby at right tackle.

The game didn’t start out particularly well for the group,

as the offense gained a mere 12 total yards in the first quarter.

But after the change at quarterback, the offense picked up. At the end of the game, LSU netted 244 yards rushing and allowed only one sack.

Granted, the entire game cannot be attributed to just those five guys.

Five other offensive linemen made their way into the game: redshirt freshman Chidi Okeke, junior Andy Dodd, sophomore Garrett Brumfield, freshman Donavaughn Campbell and redshirt freshman Adrian Magee.

Boutte returned to the starting group for the Mississippi

State game, though cramps and injuries forced LSU to rotate others in. A total of nine linemen saw action during the Tigers’ SEC opener.

In those two games, several non-starters looked pretty good.

Dodd, a junior who played in eight games over his career, seemed to have a handle on the center position. Brumfield has been nice in relief. Pocic even looked pretty natural when he was moved to tackle late in Saturday’s game, aside from a holding call immediately following the transition.

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Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Q&A: LSU vs. Auburn The Daily Reveille, The Plainsman talk LSU and Auburn’s upcoming game on Saturday

CHRISTIAN BOUTWELL @CBoutwell_ Sports Editor

The Daily Reveille sports editor Christian Boutwell sat down with The Auburn Plainsman football beat writer Sam Butler to preview LSU-Auburn at Jordan-Hare Stadium at 5 p.m. on Saturday.

CHRISTIAN BOUTWELL: LSU’s quarterback situation hasn’t been the most ... let’s say smooth sailing through three games. But Auburn is in a bit of a situation of its own. Should LSU expect to see two quarterbacks, like it has in recent years, or just Sean White, who was named the starter on Tuesday?

SAM BUTLER: Honestly, either outcome wouldn’t surprise me.

[Auburn coach] [Malzahn] Gus is tinkering and micromanaging the offense to a degree we really haven’t seen so far, so who really knows what he’s going to trot out next. Based on what he’s said, though, I’d expect to see a heavy dose of Sean White. Rolling with White — and only White — against Arkansas State worked wonders, but it stalled against Texas A&M. John Franklin III will be available “if needed,” but that could mean a half-dozen different things. Franklin took over for White late against A&M

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to give the offense “a shot in the arm,” and it worked for the most part.

BOUTWELL: If LSU’s passing game isn’t performing well, like it hasn’t in recent years, the team has a fail-safe in Leonard Fournette to dump the ball off to. Who are Auburn’s fail-safe guys to go for production on offense?

BUTLER: Well, there’s obviously nobody of Fournette’s caliber on Auburn’s offense. At least, nobody that we know of. Kerryon Johnson and Kamryn Pettway are seventh and eighth in the SEC in rushing, respectively, so those guys have been the ones who have shouldered the load offensively, at least while the QB situation is getting worked out. As far as receivers, seniors Tony Stevens and Marcus Davis have been pretty reliable so far, but they’re not home-run threats.

BOUTWELL: Auburn’s defense this season seems to be a bit stronger than it was last season, is that so? If so, how (and where) has it improved? What is the strongest — and what is the weakest — position group on Auburn’s defense?

BUTLER: The strongest has to be the defensive line, which

might be the deepest and most talented Auburn’s had in a while.

Carl Lawson’s one of the premier pass rushers in the nation, and he’s flanked by two other five-stars in Montravius Adams and freshman Marlon Davidson. Every other member of the two-deep there is either a four or five-star recruit, including Byron Cowart, who was the No. 1 recruit in the country in 2015.

As for the weakest, it’d have to be the secondary, which got depleted by injuries and a suspension early on. They held Clemson to almost no big plays, but have given up a couple to Arkansas State and Texas A&M. BOUTWELL: Is there a matchup that scares Auburn the most?

BUTLER: Similar to what you said, but the other way around.

LSU’s front seven is terrifyingly fast and strong, and Auburn’s offensive line has had a myriad of issues so far. Auburn is dead last in the country in negative plays allowed with 32, and even though two of the three defenses they faced were above-average to good, last in the nation ain’t good.

BOUTWELL: Do you think Auburn, if the quarterbacks are struggling, will find other ways to score points? If so, how? How has Auburn’s offense been as a whole lately?

BUTLER: Honestly, probably not. We saw last week against A&M what happens when the QBs struggle, and what happens is not pretty. Defenses key in on stopping Johnson and Pettway, and the pass rushers can pin their ears back and bull rush the quarterback. Getting White (and Franklin, if it should come to that) in a rhythm quickly and consistently is going to be key if Auburn wants to pull this win out.

BOUTWELL: A lot of the talk around Baton Rouge this week is about former LSU defensive coordinator Kevin Steele’s defense at Auburn. How has his transition to Auburn been? Also, Dameyune Craig’s Auburn connection is interesting, since he’s now LSU’s wide receivers coach and was a former QB at Auburn.

What have Auburn’s players said about Craig and Steele this week?

BUTLER: Kevin Steele’s settled in nicely, which isn’t what a lot of people expected when the hire was announced. He represented

Auburn’s third defensive coordinator in three years, and the Tigers were going to have to readjust yet again to a new scheme.

However, Steele’s scheme isn’t that different from Muschamp’s, so the transition has been smooth, and the defense has looked the best it has in a long while. As for Dameyune, the players haven’t said much, other than that the receivers talk to him every now and then. Gus, never one to open up too much, kind of sidestepped the question when he was asked about it.

BOUTWELL: How do you think this weekend will shape out? Prediction?

Thoughts?

BUTLER: This game is huge for Auburn. Auburn hasn’t won a home SEC game since October of 2014. LSU’s defense presents too many problems for Auburn’s offensive line, and the switch to Etling looks like it has done enough for LSU’s offense to where they’ll be able to score enough points on Auburn’s revamped defense to pull out the road win and exact revenge for the beatdown in 2014. I’ll say LSU 30, Auburn 20.

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STEELE, from page 3

LINEMEN, from page 3

Teammates still mimic or mock his old sayings in his deepsouth accent, Key said. But the biggest difference between Aranda and Steele isn’t the coaching style.

“Coach Aranda don’t dip, coach Steele did dip,” Key said about the Dillon, South Carolina native. “We used to always ask him for a little dip or something.”

Steele never gave Key, or other LSU players, a pinch of his Copenhagen tobacco, but it was always fun to ask, the SEC’s Defensive Lineman of the Week smiled and said.

“We love coach Steele,” he said.

“We had an offensive line that caught cramps and got injured and got knicked, and we had seven different combinations that played in the offensive line for us,” Miles said on Monday. “We will return everybody to play, most everybody to play next Saturday.”

But now that we’re getting into the thick of the season — with the next three games being at Auburn, Missouri at home and at Florida — the coaches should put the best group in and run behind them.

For the best possible results, the line should consist of Malone, Clapp, Pocic, Teuhema

and Weathersby.

Weathersby and Malone are the greener duo on the line.

Weathersby played in all 12 games last season and started against Ole Miss. Malone played in 17 games between the 2015 and 2014 seasons, but he did not have a start until this year.

Clapp and Teuhema are the strength of this unit. Clapp started all 12 games as a redshirt freshman last season, ranking third on the team for total snaps played with 776 and knockdown blocks with 88. Teuhema started 11 games as a true freshman last year and played every game.

Boutte, while not the same

caliber as Clapp and Teuhema, is solid in his own right. He played in 33 games over the last three seasons.

Pocic, without question, is the man at center. He started every game during his sophomore and junior seasons, aside from the ULM game in 2014 because of an injury. Last season, he led the team 132.5 knockdown blocks.

LSU has enough talent and depth on the offensive line to have some degree of success no matter who is in, but this group would give the Tigers the best chance at success.

These guys should be on the field early and often as the Tigers push further into SEC play.

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Junior quarterback Danny Etling (16) hands the ball off during the Tigers 2320 victory versus Mississippi State on Saturday at Tiger Stadium.

Opinion

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TRUCK OFF RYLED UP RYAN THAXTON @ryanthax

Trucks symbol of excess, display fragile masculinity Trucks are obtrusive, unnecessary and ugly. We are humans, not elephant seals. Males need to stop equating their worth with the size of the horns they honk. No college student living and driving in the metro area of Baton Rouge needs six tires and a Paul Bunyan-esque vehicle that is half truck bed.

Yeah, the guy in Wrangler jeans and a white T-shirt in the Ford commercials is gruff and handsome and manly — in a conventional sense — but you buying the truck in that commercial is falling for the most basic marketing ploy. You are still

a scrawny redneck-looking boy trying to discreetly stuff tobacco in your mouth outside Coates.

If anything, your souped-up truck only emphasizes how small and measly you are when you have to hitch your leg up and jump in it.

Trucks scream excess — excess of gas, parking spots and the amount of space you think you should take up in public compared to everyone else. They are the epitome of unnecessary auto machinery.

A majority of students with oversized trucks most likely do not even use them as they are

advertised. The majority of students could use a normal-sized car with a larger interior and smaller trunk size. Your kegs of beer and various drunken friends can only fit in the back of a regular car.

I will concede on some points.

Yes, trucks are useful when you live on a farm or work in construction.

But campus is not a farm out in Walker, Louisiana. Most truck drivers come from some suburban areas that equate southern machismo with big, expensive trucks. Is your manliness also judged by the number of parking spots you hog or

smaller cars you crush while trying to maneuver your truck?

Trucks have become the physical embodiment of manspreading on roads and parking lots. Guys, we are not good drivers. When you hog the road without being aware of the smaller cars around you, it is menacing and intimidating.

Sure, #notalltrucks are at fault, but a huge amount of them are obnoxious on the road and a nuisance to other drivers.

Don’t care what I think? The chance of a single vehicle crash resulting in death is about 50 percent

higher in trucks, according to a report by Raise the Hammer. This statistic is even worse considering that the most aggressive, young, under educated male drivers are drawn to trucks, vehicles with the least stability and pose the most danger to other drivers.

Believe me, or continue to deny your obvious fragile masculinity. We all know what they say about compensation…

Ryan Thaxton is a 20-year-old mass communication sophomore from Monroe, Louisiana.

Americans should look for common ground in opposition JORDANSWERS JORDAN MARCELL @jordancmarcell With police shootings, gun control debates, Colin Kaepernick and Donald Trump, it’s impossible to not have an opinion on the world’s most recent developments. But it seems the latest national fad in fallacious reasoning is our inability to agree to agree with each other.

If one person believes America isn’t great in matters such as immigration and economics, he is bound

to have supporters across the nation.

If another person believes America isn’t great on the grounds of its current racial affairs and the treatment of minority groups, he is also bound to have supporters.

It would be nearly impossible to get both sets of supporters to agree with each other on anything else, and most of their time is spent arguing over who has the right to draw this conclusion about the United States in the first place.

I believe the problem here is that people only want to be criticized on terms they are familiar with and agree with. In a way, it hurts when

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someone says something about them and their nation they didn’t expect to hear.

For example, a student who believes he possesses excellent grammar skills sends his paper to a friend for fact checking. That friend responds, “The facts are okay, but you’ve got a lot of grammar errors in this.”

The student who wrote the essay, though he might not say it, will more than likely be a little insulted by this response. He could have agreed with his friend, had the friend responded with some edits to the facts of the paper, but grammar is not what he wanted to hear about, specifically when he

deems this friend less qualified than himself to speak on the matter.

This same principle goes for American nationals. This nation is a salad bar. We can pick and choose problems to our heart’s desire and there are enough toppings for everyone to feast upon. Yet, for some reason, we are throwing the salads of other patrons to the ground because they didn’t dress theirs the same way we did. We forget that though they are unalike, their roots are the same. We forget to say, “Will you look at that!

We actually do have something in common, don’t we?”

We don’t have to agree on

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everything, but let’s not let it go unnoticed when we do. If we could calm down, listen to each other, stop weighing our problems against one another’s and try to hear out people who hold beliefs different than our own, maybe we truly can get somewhere.

It won’t always work, but let’s not forget that we do have a starting ground — that we, in some way, do agree on something. Let’s build from there.

Jordan Marcell is a 19-year-old studio photography and linguistic anthropology sophomore from Geismar, Louisiana.

Quote of the Day “Buck up or stay in the truck.”

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Wednesday, September 21, 2016 RESEARCH

LSU researchers take part in Mars exploration project

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Graduate student Don Hood (left) and adviser Suniti Karunatillake (right) explain Mars’ features in the Planetary Science Laboratory of Howe-Russell on Friday.

BY NATALIE ANDERSON @natalie_mechell While most geologists might be focusing on rocks on Earth, a group of University researchers’ work is going out of this world.

University assistant professor Suniti Karunatillake is the leader of a Mars exploration research project that studies the surface geology and geochemistry of the planet Mars.

“Fundamentally, our vision is to look for life beyond Earth, but we see Mars as a stepping stone,” Karunatillake said.

Karunatillake said the exploration’s participants use remote sensing instruments, satellites in orbit and analog observations on Earth to study Mars.

Karunatillake discussed a system of canyons on Mars called Valles Marineris, or the Mariner Valley, that could straddle the entire continent of North America. He also said there is a chain of volcanoes on Mars that help give a sense of direction for the entire planet. The chain includes what has been discovered to be the tallest volcano in the solar system.

Don Hood is a graduate student who has been working with Karunatillake for three years. He studies the geochemistry of the Mars’ surface.

“You have this unique topography combined with unique chemistry. We put those things together to motivate an investigation,” Hood said.

Karunatillake compared an area on Mars to the Whiting Dome area in the Gulf of Mexico, one of the many remarkable salt domes in the Gulf, which resulted from a landslide. He said the Whiting Dome area had mostly sodium chloride associated with it, while the area on Mars may include different salts, like magnesium sulfates.

David Susko, a participant involved in the research, studied the southeastern lava flows to see if the flows could tell us about the history of volcanic activity on the

planet. He found that the activity is similar to what is seen in Hawaii, with high temperatures and a smooth lava flow.

Karunatillake said it can be estimated that eruptions on Mars occurred as recently as two billion years ago, “which for geologists is yesterday, especially for Mars.”

“Mars is often viewed as kind of a dead planet that’s not doing anything right now, and we’re continually finding evidence that says that’s less and less true,” Hood said. “When we’re exploring

for life, Mars isn’t the best place to look for life today. One way to look at Mars is as a somewhat failed Earth.”

Nicki Button, another participant in the study at the University, did a study in the Mojave Desert and used a rover to take pictures and classify special types of soil and grain sizes of pebbles and gravel.

Hood said he was always interested in geology. After receiving his degree in physics, he noticed many people before him went into geology studies as physicists.

Karunatillake said looking for life and water motivates him, but he was also inspired by science fiction novelist Arthur C. Clarke.

He said he spent half of his life in Sri Lanka, where Clarke was a famous resident.

Hood said it is important for people to keep their faith in NASA and scientists who take part in planetary research. He said people have to understand that things can go wrong, but continued support helps keep the exploration going. Karunatillake said he wants to encourage future generations to keep outlandish mission ideas alive.

“Take good hold of that inspiration and don’t forget it, especially after you’ve started exploration,” Karunatillake said. “The path to that dream will be riddled with not just rough terrain, but mountains. You need to make a considered effort. Persevere. Many dead ends will be met, but don’t give up.”

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