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SG addresses gameday Confederate flags issue Proposed initiatives include flags, legal counseling

BY WILLIAM TAYLOR POTTER @wmtaylorpotter

Robert Stine of Christ the King Catholic Church attributes this to LSU’s proximity to the predominantly Catholic southern half of Louisiana.

“Overall statewide, we’d be in like the 40 to 50 percent

Almost three months after the South Carolina State House lowered the Confederate flag from its grounds, LSU Student Government is trying to see them lowered at gameday tailgates.

SG created a flag exchange program over the past few weeks, said SG president Andrew Mahtook. The program has SG members offer to trade flags with tailgaters flying purple and gold Confederate flags on gamedays.

If an SG representative noticed a purple and gold Confederate flag at a tailgate, he or she could offer to exchange that flag for a new, regular LSU flag. The program was created several years ago and was well received, Mahtook said.

“If they said ‘yes,’ we exchanged them,” Mahtook said.

see RELIGION, page 4

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photos by ZOE GEAUTHREAUX [TOP LEFT, RIGHT] and JAVIER FERNANDEZ [BOTTOM LEFT, RIGHT] / The Daily Reveille

Centers of worship for Catholics (top left), Protestants (top right), Muslims (bottom left) and Hindus (bottom right) around Baton Rouge show religious variety on campus.

RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES ABOUND Data of incoming freshmen highlights Catholic presence, Christian population increase

BY TRENT PARKER @TrentParker_TDR Among the paperwork incoming freshmen fill out are questions about their religious preferences. Data obtained from the LSU Office of Budget and Planning reveals some religions to

be in flux and others fairly stable across the 2010-14 surveys.

Catholics remain by far the largest religious preference listed within the freshman class, with figures ranging steadily between 40.59 and 42.64 percent of the degree-seeking new freshman from 2010-14. Father

POLITICS

Jay Dardenne hopes to become next La. governor without party support

BY SAM KARLIN @samkarlin_TDR In the shadow of the towering Capitol in downtown Baton Rouge is the Capitol annex, an unsuspecting building housing the No. 2 in Louisiana’s political chain of command, Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne.

Dardenne said he hopes to move about 400 feet across the street after Louisianians elect a new governor Oct. 24 as he champions fiscal balance,

education and bipartisanship.

Dardenne is campaigning without the support of the East Baton Rouge Parish Republican Party, which backs the other two biggest GOP candidates Public Service Commissioner Scott Angelle and U.S. Sen. David Vitter.

Democratic Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell worked with Dardenne in the Louisiana Legislature in the ’90s, and while he often battled with Dardenne,

standing on opposite sides of the party line, he said it’s “shameful” the Republican Party does not endorse him.

“Jay Dardenne has done everything the Republicans want him to do,” Campbell said. “And for them, for the Baton Rouge Republicans to abandon him and go with Angelle and Vitter, and leave Jay Dardenne out is sinful.”

Campbell, who raised money for Democratic State Rep. John Bel Edwards’ campaign, said

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Gubernatorial candidate John Leigh ‘Jay’ Dardenne sits behind his desk Friday at the Capitol Annex building where he serves as lieutenant governor. Dardenne is campaigning to be the next governor of Louisiana without the support of the East Baton Rouge Parish Republican Party.

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Tigers highest-ranked team in Southeastern Conference Following its fourth consecutive victory to start the season, the LSU football team jumped to No. 7 in the Associated Press Top 25, making the Tigers the highest-ranked Southeastern Conference team, AP announced Sunday.

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Tiger Trails designates revised route as Purple-Union bus STAFF REPORTS @lsureveille Starting today, Tiger Trails returns to the former Purple bus route, designating its recently revised counterpart as a separate route, Purple-Union.

The route was initially changed because of a resolution passed by Student Government in March urging LSU Disability Services to re-evaluate campus accessibility for disabled students, as previously reported by The Daily Reveille.

Part of the resolution urged Parking and Transportation Services to consider a new route or additional stops, leading to the alteration of the Purple route, said Jeff Campbell, senior director of Administrative Services, Risk Management and Parking. The additional bus stop allowed transportation services to accommodate the needs of disabled students by providing access to the Student Union.

Although the resolution was passed in March, Campbell said he thought it would be best to wait until the fall semester to introduce the change rather than implement it at the end of the spring semester.

While SG received positive feedback from students about the change, Parking and Transportation Services received negative feedback, causing the office to re-evaluate the route, Campbell said.

Students complained about the longer wait time caused by

the buses’ delay at the stoplight at South Campus Drive and Highland Road and the lack of stops closer to the west side of campus, said political science sophomore Louis Gremillion, SG director of transportation.

“Students on that side of campus who regularly used those stops would have to rely only on the Gold bus to get around campus,” Gremillion said. “There was no longer a bus going in that direction.”

Biological engineering junior Makaila Santiago said the revised route has benefits and drawbacks.

“There was no bus route that stopped at the [Student] Union, so that’s the good thing about it, but the bad thing about it is that they cut off Dalrymple Drive, so now you have to walk,” Santiago said.

After meeting with SG senators, Parking and Transportation Services decided to bring back the original Purple route while keeping the new one as well, Campbell said.

“We’re going to try it and see how it works,” he said.

Of the 19 operating Tiger Trails buses, two run the Purple route, and one will run the Purple-Union route.

The new route will reflect on TransLoc — the campus transit application that can be found on the LSU Mobile app — beginning Monday. The Purple-Union route will appear on the app in a lighter shade of purple.

Campbell said he hopes

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A new purple route, Purple-Union, has been added to the Tiger Trails bus system, toaccommodate the needs of disabled students. students will be satisfied with this new accommodation.

“I think this is a fairly good compromise,” Campbell said. “If it doesn’t work, we’ll certainly re-evaluate it with

Student Government. I would hope that it works, but you know we’re always willing to try and accommodate where we can.”

Civil engineering junior Alexis Rush said she

thinks having two distinct purple routes may not work out.

“I think that’ll confuse everybody and make everybody more angry,” Rush said.

BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY

LSU Hilltop Arboretum hosts 32nd annual PlantFest

BY MEREDITH MUSSO @Musso_Meredith Though winter is on its way, one LSU group looks to provide a little extra greenery for Baton Rouge gardens.

The university held its 32nd annual PlantFest on Saturday and Sunday at the Hilltop Arboretum.

The Hilltop Arboretum was opened in 1981 by Mr. and Mrs. Emory Smith as a way to raise funds to continue plant growth in Louisiana and bring people and plants together, said Hilltop director Peggy Coates.

The annual event, which began in 1983, takes place each fall and features the sale of hundreds of different varieties of plants.

This year’s PlantFest honored the 240th anniversary of naturalist William Bartram’s visit to Louisiana in 1775. Native plants, such as red buckeye, river birch and silver bell, were present to fulfill the theme.

Plants were imported from Mississippi, Alabama and Texas to diversify the available selection. Over 5,000 plants

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The Hilltop Arboretum was opened in 1981 to raise funds for plant growth in Louisiana. and 600 species were offered, Coates said.

“It is a great way to promote planting in the community,” Coates said. “PlantFest has grown larger every year that we’ve held it. It is incredible

to see.”

The LSU chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, a student group that works to increase the public’s awareness of professional landscape architecture, recruits

PlantFest volunteers.

However, The event is organized by Hodge Podge Volunteers, Coates said. Hodge Podge Volunteers is a group consisting of a variety of volunteers who work in the nursery

year round.

“They work in the nursery all year and grow the plants,” Coates said. “They organize the sale and distribution of plants. They make PlantFest the success that it is.”

The event draws customers from all parts of Baton Rouge interested in furnishing their gardens.

“We are always so excited when PlantFest happens,” Baton Rouge resident Casey Broussard said. “We always buy a variety of plants that we plant in our garden at home. It’s just a great atmosphere over here.”

Along with the plants, vendors also sold cookbooks, wooden swings, concessions and much more. More than 100 volunteers helped out over the two-day period, Coates said.

“I found out about this last year,” Baton Rouge resident Mark Borne said. “My garden is my leisure activity. After a long day of work, I can come home and go pull weeds and just relax. I couldn’t wait for it to happen again this year.”

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RELIGIOUS PREFERENCE BREAKDOWN OF INCOMING LSU FRESHMEN CLASSES, 2010-14 BREAKDOWN OF ‘OTHER’

RELIGION

FALL 2010

FALL 2011

FALL 2012

FALL 2013

FALL 2014

Catholic

2,273 41.47%

2,184 41.29%

2,441 42.64%

2,233 40.59%

2,333 41.26%

Protestant

1,938 35.36%

1,844 34.86%

1,986 34.69%

1,854 33.70%

1,821 32.20%

818 14.92%

831 15.71%

826 14.43%

944 17.16%

970 17.15%

225 4.11%

229 4.33%

238 4.16%

243 4.42%

278 4.92%

None Listed Nondenominational Other Jewish

Muslim FALL 2010

FALL 2011

34 19.88%

31 15.82% FALL 2012

FALL 2013

43 21.29%

38 19.69% FALL 2014

61 27.23%

Buddhism FALL 2010

FALL 2011

196 3.58%

171 3.23%

193 3.37%

202 3.67%

224 3.96%

28 14.29%

31 0.57%

31 0.59%

41 0.72%

25 0.45%

29 0.51%

25 12.95%

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FALL 2012

FALL 2013

30 14.85%

FALL 2014

30 13.39%

BREAKDOWN OF PROTESTANT PREFERENCES

Hinduism DENOMINATION

Christian

FALL 2010

FALL 2011

FALL 2012

FALL 2013

613 31.63% 679 36.82% 736 37.06%

Baptist

655 33.80%

618 33.51%

Methodist

326 16.82%

259 14.05%

Episcopal

102 5.26%

Lutheran

56 2.89%

Presbyterian

83 4.28%

FALL 2014

691 37.27%

715 39.26%

659 33.18%

657 35.44%

641 35.20%

249 12.54%

234 12.62%

250 13.73%

98 5.31%

106 5.34%

71 3.83%

70 3.84%

54 2.93%

62 3.12%

54 2.91%

36 1.98%

53 2.87%

68 3.42%

51 2.75%

35 1.92%

Church of Christ

28 1.44%

21 1.14%

28 1.41%

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Pentecostal

21 1.08%

20 1.08%

22 1.11%

23 1.24%

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FALL 2010

FALL 2011

20 11.70%

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FALL 2013

25 12.38%

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24 10.71%

Other FALL 2010

73 37.24%

FALL 2011

67 39.18%

FALL 2012

FALL 2013

73 37.82

70 34.65%

FALL 2014

80 35.71% data courtesy of LSU OFFICE OF BUDGET AND PLANNING

RELIGION, from page 1 range,” Stine said. “Since we’re drawing from all over the state, you’d expect it to pretty much be reflective of the numbers statewide.”

Stine also noted a number of the Catholics on campus are international students from Spanish-speaking countries, a niche the church works to serve them by offering masses in Spanish.

Protestants as a whole saw a slight decrease from 35.36 percent of the incoming freshmen in 2010 to 32.20 percent in 2014.

However, Christians without further labels and smaller denominations saw a large increase, going from 31.63 percent to 39.26 percent of those categorized as Protestants.

As the data comes from incoming freshmen, the religious preferences of transfer, graduate and international students are not included. The figures provided thus may not accurately

DARDENNE, from page 1 Dardenne is an honest man and a moderate Republican. He said Dardenne has likely been a Republican since he registered, while Angelle was a Democrat for years before switching his affiliation to Republican.

Dardenne said he defeated the Republican Party’s former chairman and sitting chairman, as well as the son of a former chairman in his statewide campaigns for secretary of state and lieutenant governor.

“So I certainly haven’t been the darling of the Republican Party, although I’m proud to be a Republican, I’ll always be a Republican, and I’ve enjoyed significant support. But we live in a much too partisan a society right now,” Dardenne said.

Dardenne, like the other three well-known candidates,

reflect LSU’s overall population.

In spring 2014, LSU International Services said 207 Indian and 90 Iranian graduate students attended LSU. Among incoming freshmen that school year, 25 students responded as identified Hindus and 43 as Muslims.

Electrical engineering junior Saad Ahmad, president of the Muslim Student Association, estimated the number of Muslim students actually increased to several hundred during his time at LSU. “I think that the number of Muslim students has grown, but they’re scattered more,” Ahmad said.

The multiple clubs catering to the small Muslim student population means the group is less concentrated, Ahmad said.

From Fall 2010 to Fall 2014, students who reported their religious preference as “None Listed” jumped from 14.92 percent to 17.15 percent.

Kenny Smith, an instructor specializing in religion in

contemporary America, said this category raised many questions.

“What’s going on in the religious worlds of nearly one in five students in each incoming class?” Smith said. “That is, are they absolutely uninterested in religion? That wouldn’t be shocking, given the growth of the socalled ‘Nones’ nationally, and especially among Millennials.”

However, one should not assume students who do not disclose a religious preference are all atheist or agnostic, Smith said. It is possible that some of the “Nones” at LSU are involved in minority religions and uncomfortable disclosing it.

“Many are very leery about being identified by any kind of institutional structure, or power structure, or authority figure,” Smith said. “They have learned to be very, very careful about ‘coming out of the broom closet,’ as Wiccans and neo-pagans tend to say.”

The “None” category could encompass people who are

spiritual but not religious, as well as social movements like the Jediists and followers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Smith said.

Stine attributed in part the increase in students answering as “None” to divisions over moral and political issues such as gay marriage and abortion, with those opposed to the stance of their church on such matters often leaving the religion entirely.

Smith said he hopes that further in-depth studies are performed to gain a more comprehensive picture of the religious lives of students at LSU, with him personally interested in details on the “None” category.

“As a scholar of new religious movements, I’m especially drawn to this particular category,” Smith said. “I think we’re likely to find folks involved in new and creative and innovative movements in this category.”

said higher education would be his top priority if elected, touting his role in creating the community and technical college system in Louisiana while a senator.

He said the community college bill introduced Louisiana residents to certificates and associate degrees, and paved the way for seamless transferring to four-year schools or the workforce.

Dardenne said he served on the education committee for the 15 years he was in the state senate. He said he was involved with virtually all legislation dealing with education, and would draw on that experience if elected.

“It’s gonna be a priority to me to make sure we start the process of refunding higher education at a level that is gonna allow Louisiana to be competitive with other states in attracting professors, attracting research dollars,

in recognizing that higher education has to have a favored status in the Louisiana budget if we’re gonna continue to grow economically,” he said.

Legislation “devastated” higher education during the Jindal administration, and the proposed $608 million budget cuts to higher education floating around the state legislature in the spring would have decimated higher education and forced some universities to close, Dardenne said.

The Taylor Opportunity Program for Students, the meritbased scholarship that pays tuition for many students who met specific high school requirements in Louisiana, faces around a $20 million shortfall, and Dardenne said he would cap TOPS to limit its dramatic growth in state costs.

“TOPS is the most popular

thing the legislature has done in my lifetime,” he said. “And it needs to be maintained, and it needs to be sustained.”

Dardenne ranked coastal erosion as third on the list of Louisiana’s most pressing issues today, behind budget deficits and infrastructure.

Louisiana has significant federal dollars available to save the coast and rebuild land along southern Louisiana, which Dardenne called “America’s wetlands.”

Dardenne said he is encouraged by recent polls showing growth in his campaign support and a drop in Vitter’s, though he said polls can be manipulated, and he relies on his campaign’s information.

“I’m looking forward to the one that really counts which is the poll taken on election day when everybody votes,” he said.

INITIATIVES, from page 1 “If they said ‘no,’ we said, ‘All right, thanks,’ and went on our way.”

Mahtook said the program was around before he came to LSU, but he has not seen exchanges firsthand. From what he has heard, it was successful while in operation.

The initiative is being postponed while “higher ups” determine how the LSU flags will be purchased, Mahtook said.

They are also trying to figure out what to do with the Confederate flags once SG gets them.

SG is working on an initiative to provide students with free 30-minute legal consultations, Mahtook said. He said he hopes the program will be ready for the spring semester.

SG presented the proposal to Kurt Keppler, vice president for student life and enrollment, who helped guide the students in getting the idea off the ground, Mahtook said. SG is also working with Paul M. Hebert Law School officials to determine which model would work best for LSU. Eight Southeastern Conference schools have a student legal aid program in place, as well as other schools across the nation.

Mahtook said he will visit Tulane University to see how its program operates. He’s also contacted with officials from several other universities with a similar program.

“We reached out to all the SEC schools that have a service, and they’ve been more than helpful helping us shape our program as well,” Mahtook said.

He said the other schools’ programs vary in the amount and types of services they offer. The University of Florida, for example, will represent students in court for issues such as landlord-tenant cases, marriage dissolution and sealing criminal records.

LSU’s program will likely not operate to the same extent as Florida’s and will mainly serve to give students advice on limited legal matters, Mahtook said.

Because Mahtook does not expect the program to be ready until the spring, SG is looking at ways to provide consultation until then.

“We’re trying to work with the Baton Rouge Bar Association to get some ask-a-lawyer days on campus,” Mahtook said.

He said SG is also working on several other initiatives, such as incorporating the Law School into SG. The school rejoined the flagship campus this year, and Mahtook said he hopes to have them fully represented in SG. Other SG initiatives include working with the Student Activities Board to bring a Mardi Gras Masquerade to campus for students who cannot attend the big balls in New Orleans.

Mahtook said SG will work with students in the Manship School of Mass Communication to create a campus environmental app.

Sports

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Tigers’ ground attack continues to carry offense

BY MARC STEVENS @Marc_TDR

L

SU continued to ride its running game to victory on Saturday.

The then-No. 9 Tigers (4-0, 2-0 Southeastern Conference) racked up 399 rushing yards and four touchdowns on the ground in a 44-22 victory against Eastern Michigan University.

But LSU’s passing game wasn’t as successful against the Eagles (1-4, 0-1 Mid-American Conference).

Sophomore quarterback Brandon Harris started the game with a series of passes, completing three of his first four attempts for 52 yards. But struggled the rest of the game, completing only one of his next 11 attempts for 28 yards, including nine straight incompletions.

After suffering from key dropped passes and off-the-mark throws in the first half, the Tigers failed to complete a pass in the second half, attempting just two.

LSU coach Les Miles

alleviated Harris of the blame and said the receivers need to help their quarterback.

“We would have thrown for 200 or 150 yards had we just caught the balls,” Miles said.

“There’s nothing [Harris] can correct when he hits a guy dead in the hands, and [the receiver] doesn’t bring it in.”

After scoring two touchdowns on their first two drives, the ineffective passing game stalled the offense, which managed to add two field goals before halftime.

LSU’s passing struggles opened the door for a feisty Eagles team that scored two touchdowns in a 38 second span to pull within three points late in the second half.

LSU Rushing vs. Eastern Michigan

Leonard Fournette 26 carries, 233 yards, 3 TDs

Darrel Williams 11 carries, 89 yards

Derrius Guice 3 carries, 34 yards

Brandon Harris 5 carries, 26 yards, 1 TD

Nick Brossette 3 carries 18 yards

see RUNNING, page 6

I flipped my TV to ESPN at 11:21 p.m. Saturday to see the University of Colorado beating the University of Oregon just before halftime.

It highlighted something on my brain all day — the 2015 college football season is unbelievably weird but equally and unbelievably awesome.

This year is so strange, I don’t even need to look beyond this weekend to make my case.

Oregon ended up winning the game, but when I saw Colorado leading Oregon, 17-14, I thought to myself, “We live in a college football world where Colorado, a team that went 10-39 the last four seasons, is going toe-to-toe with Oregon, a team that went 48-7 during the same span.”

How is that possible? I have no idea.

But man, isn’t it fun?

That was just one strange scoreline on a strange day of football with a bunch of strange occurrences.

The University of Florida was nothing more than a meme in 2014.

Twitter was unforgiving regarding everything Jeff Driskel or Will Muschamp did, and the Gators were still blocking each other.

Saturday night, they moved to

see STRANGE, page 7

FOOTBALL

Lack of focus against Eastern Michigan exposes weaknesses STAFF REPORTS @LSUReveille The then-No. 9 LSU football team’s performance wasn’t perfect, but it remained undefeated and added another game to sophomore running back Leonard Fournette’s 200-yard rushing streak in Saturday’s 44-22 win against Eastern Michigan University.

After committing 14 penalties and giving up 24 points to Syracuse University last weekend, Saturday’s home game should have shown efficiency and strengths instead of weaknesses.

There was no noise to blame for the two false starts and three offside penalties LSU committed against the Eagles, only a lack of focus, said junior defensive end Lewis Neal.

Lack of focus was the

passing and receiving game’s story. After sophomore quarterback Brandon Harris went 3-of-4 on his first four passes, he went 1-of-11 and stopped throwing the ball at the end of the third quarter.

“There’s nothing you can do to correct when you hit a guy dead in the hands and he doesn’t bring it in,” said LSU coach Les Miles.

“He did exactly what we needed him to do. I’d like for him to take care of that ball and have a pocket presence that allows him to take a sack and not take a turnover.”

It became clear luck wasn’t on Harris side when he threw an interception straight into the arms of an Eastern Michigan defender, which marked LSU’s first turnover of the season and brought Eastern Michigan within four points at the end of the first half.

“We definitely didn’t want to give up any more points,” said sophomore safety Jamal Adams.

“Twenty-two points is way too many. We have a high standard at LSU, and it’s no knock to Eastern Michigan, but we feel we shouldn’t have given up that many points.”

With kickoffs going out of bounds and punt returns being muffed, the LSU special teams unit’s struggles shone through in all aspects.

Junior cornerback Tre’Davious White gained two yards on the one punt return he attempted, while Donte Jackson averaged 24 yards on his two kick returns.

“It’s about doing your assignment and being in the

see PENALTIES, page 7

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LSU sophomore wide receiver Malachi Dupre (15) looks down during the Tigers’ 44-22 victory against Eastern Michigan.

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Monday, October 5, 2015 MEN’S TENNIS

Butsch builds on early career success as junior

That was a good game, and we are glad to get a ‘W’.”

LSU coach Les Miles harped all week about not taking the Mid-American Conference program for granted and was convinced of its talented based on a performance against Michigan State University last season, a game Eastern Michigan lost, 73-14.

“If you watched that game, Michigan State was certainly a highly-ranked team,” Miles said at his post-game press conference. “So we knew we were playing a team that was capable, could move the football and had players. I’m glad that we responded the way we did. We are certainly not perfect.”

The Tigers needed another 200-yard rushing performance and three touchdowns from sophomore running back Leonard Fournette to keep the offense flowing when the passing game struggled.

The defense, which frequently rotated some second-teamers, looked porous at times, but it came up with back-to-back interceptions, including a pick six from senior linebacker Deion Jones, to seal the Eagles’ fate in the fourth quarter.

While Fournette was blunt about his team’s overall effort, saying the Tigers took the Eagles “light,” Jones said he knew the

Eagles would present a challenge “We try to take everybody as any other team,” Jones told the media after the game. “We knew those guys were going to come in and play. On film, they were a really good team with what they do and how they play. They gave us a run for our money a little bit. We hope those guys win out, and let’s look forward to South Carolina now.”

While a few of LSU’s SEC counterparts either made statements or reaffirmed their stance in the conference this weekend, re-entering SEC play against the Gamecocks (2-3, 0-3 SEC) could be what the Tigers need to refocus.

Although South Carolina has sputtered in league games, senior offensive tackle Vadal Alexander expects the crowd at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, South Carolina, to be energized “It’s fun when you get into SEC play,” Alexander said Saturday. “On the road — great environment at South Carolina. I remember going there on a visit when I was in high school and just how electric it was. So we have to be ready for it. As an offense, we have to stay calm, cool and collected. I look forward to this week of just getting prepared for it and getting the guys ready for it.”

When junior tennis player Justin Butsch finished his freshman season, it was clear he would be one of the top performers for the Tigers throughout his final three years.

Butsch had an overall singles record of 19-16, going 3-3 in conference play and undefeated on two courts in Southeastern Conference matches.

He also had a 16-16 doubles record and was named SEC Freshman of the Week and earned SEC All-Freshman Team honors.

Success in Butsch’s first season in the SEC was a surprise to some, but LSU coach Jeff Brown knew from the beginning that Butsch was special.

“He’s a unique player, a very unique athlete,” Brown said. “He’s the fastest player I’ve ever coached. If he was just a few inches taller, we probably wouldn’t see him on a tennis court. He’d be a defensive back or something like that. I’m not sure where he saw himself originally coming into college, but he certainly has an opportunity to play very high on our team and be one of the top 15 or 20 players in college.”

In his sophomore season, Butsch proved his first year wasn’t beginner’s luck.

He had the largest win total on the team with a singles record of 26-12, including a victory against a top-50 opponent.

Butsch’s success wasn’t limited to singles play, either.

He and partner Chris Simpson earned a 19-9 overall record ­ — the most doubles victories on the team. Butsch said although Simpson graduated, it’s not a setback for him in doubles play for this season “Simpson and I were pretty good together. We had good chemistry out there, and he’s one of my really good friends,” Butsch said. “But me and

[junior Simon Freund] had a good win last week over the 14th ranked team in the nation. [Senior Tam Trinh] and I are also pretty good. We have a lot of different guys we can mix well with, so I’m not worried.”

To prepare for the upcoming season, Butsch trained throughout the offseason in Bradenton, Florida, and played as much tennis as he could.

Going into his junior season, he credits his consistent progress to the experience he gained from Brown and time on the court during his first two seasons.

“When I was a freshman, I was pretty nervous out here on the court my first few times,” Butsch said. “Now that I’ve played pretty much every dual match possible, I feel pretty comfortable out here and every season I feel like I’m getting better.”

For Butsch, the preseason shows signs of him continuing to improve. Along with the doubles win with Freund against Oklahoma State University’s No. 14 team consisting of Julian Cash and Arjun Kadhe, Butsch also defeated the University of Oklahoma’s Alex Ghilea, who is the No. 50 player in the nation in singles.

Joining junior Jordan Daigle and senior Tam Trinh, ranked No. 48 and No. 85, respectively, Butsch is ranked No. 91 on the Intercollegiate Tennis Association poll.

Butsch said although it is exciting, he tries not to think about it too much because it will make him nervous, and he won’t be able to play to the best of his ability. His goal for the season is not his own ranking, but the success of the team as a whole.

“Come January, it’s not just me, it’s a team sport,” Butsch said. “We want to do as well as we can at the SEC tournament and make a run at the NCAA tournament, we want to take care of what we need to take care of to get to that point.”

yards per game while the Eagles defense gave up an average of 373.3 yards on the ground. Both of those averages increased after the game, as the Tigers ran for 399 yards.

Sophomore running back Leonard Fournette shouldered most of the load, turning loose for 233 yards for his third consecutive 200-yard game, a feat no Southeastern Conference player ever achieved.

The highlight of his day came when he took a handoff to the left side before turning the corner and accelerating past the defense for a 75-yard touchdown run on

the first play of the second half.

11, already surpassing his proMiles was not shocked his duction from last season of 10 star running back made an- scores. other play when the team Sophomore running back needed him.

Darrel Wil‘We took them lightly “Leonard’s liliams helped able to do that at because of their record boost the rushany time,” Miles — because they never did ing attack, addsaid. “There’s not 89 yards anything. That’s on the ing a time where you on 11 carries. hand him the ball leaders. That is our fault.’ Freshmen runand he doesn’t ning backs DerLEONARD FOURNETTE have the opporturius Guice and sophomore running back nity to hit a homeNick Brossette run.” combined for In addition to his yards, Four- another 52 yards in relief nette added three touchdowns, when the game was securely bringing his season total to in hand.

The Tigers came into the game 45-point favorites but were never close to covering the spread. Fournette said LSU thought Eastern Michigan would be an easy win and the team was joking around in practice, but he will make sure the Tigers don’t overlook their competition again.

“We took them lightly because of their record — because they never did anything,” Fournette said. “That’s on the leaders.

That is our fault. We didn’t stop the laughing that was going on in practice, so we have to pick it up this week.”

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Top-ranked teams from the Southeastern Conference battle for league superiority early in the season.

Chaos takes over SEC in week five

BY JAMES BEWERS @JamesBewers_TDR Then-No. 25 University of Florida proved its legitimacy with a 28-point stomping of then-No. 3 University of Mississippi.

By the same score, thenNo. 13 University of Alabama placed itself back in the hunt with a beatdown of then-No. 8 University of Georgia on the road.

Then-No. 14 Texas A&M University put away a pesky then-No. 25 Mississippi State University team by double digits.

As for then-No. 9 LSU, it beat Eastern Michigan University by three scores, but the final tally doesn’t indicate the struggle to send the unranked Eagles packing with their fourth loss of the season. Much like last week against Syracuse, Saturday’s contest wasn’t a foregone conclusion for the Tigers (4-0, 2-0 Southeastern Conference) by the start of the fourth quarter.

“They didn’t look at the 45-point favorite,” said junior defensive tackle Christian LaCouture to the media after the game.

“They wanted to come in here and win. They knew they were huge underdogs. We had to bring our A-game. They were very feisty and intense, but toward the end, we wore them down a bit.

RUNNING, from page 5 Eastern Michigan’s second touchdown was set up when the Eagles’ sophomore defensive lineman Luke MacLean intercepted Harris and returned it 13 yards to the LSU three-yard line. The miscue was LSU’s first turnover of the season.

While the passing game struggled, the running game allowed LSU to eventually pull away from the visitors from Ypsilanti, Michigan.

The Tigers entered the contest averaging 315 rushing

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The 2015 college football season is only a few weeks old, but there have been plenty of crazy games so far, including Oregon University’s close call with Colorado this

STRANGE, from page 5 5-0 by trouncing then-No. 3 University of Mississippi, the team many had anointed the best team in the Southeastern Conference, 38-10.

Florida freshman quarterback Will Grier was playing with the flu, but you couldn’t tell with him going 24-of-29 for 271 yards and four touchdowns.

A year ago, you threw your phone around the living room to various friends to show them the latest picture or gif mocking the Gators. Now, you have to respect them as a legitimate contender to play for the SEC Championship.

Isn’t it fun that a team can turn it around so quickly and unexpectedly?

In East Lansing, Michigan, Michigan State University, the then-No. 2 team in the country, barely survived a scare from Purdue University.

The Big Ten is full of weirdness because Northwestern University and the University of Iowa play each other in a couple weeks, and the winner of that game has a chance to play in the conference title game. Northwestern and Iowa both have College Football Playoff hopes five games into the season.

Let that sink in.

Imagine a College Football Playoff with the Wildcats or Hawkeyes. That is “Twilight Zone” strange.

I assumed Ohio State University would be nearly unbeatable

after watching a third string quarterback win the Buckeyes a national championship last season. Saturday, Ohio State couldn’t put away a pesky Indiana University team.

This is college football we’re talking about, not basketball.

Not so long ago, the University of Texas was the pride of the state.

But on Saturday, Texas Christian University beat them mercilessly.

The 50-7 thrashing wasn’t exactly a surprise, but it displays the shift in power in Texas.

But let’s shift the focus back to the SEC. After the first weekend in October, LSU, Florida and Texas A&M University are the remaining unbeatens. Just like we all expected, right?

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There’s been weird stuff happen before this weekend, like Brigham Young University winning back-to-back games with hail marys, and there certainly will be more weird stuff to come.

It’s okay, though, because weird is good. Weird is what makes college football exciting. Never change, college football. Stay weird forever.

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right place,” Neal said. “In special teams, if one person messes up, it messes up the whole team.

That’s all we got to work on. If everybody does their job, we’ll fine.”

Defensive efforts in the second half is an issue this season, but LSU limited Eastern Michigan’s short passing game to a touchdown and a twopoint conversion in the third quarter.

“We just got to finish,” Neal said. “When we finish, it’s going to be scary. It starts at practice and game-time is going to show. We’re not tired. It’s not about fatigue.

It’s about focus. We got to be there mentally.”

Despite constant miscues on all sides of the ball LSU’s defense lived up to expectations with three interceptions, where among others, freshman cornerback Kevin Toliver II earned the first of his career after catching the ball two yards from LSU’s end zone.

Although Miles liked the way the team responded, Adams said the Tigers are not happy with their performance at this point.

“We’re not even close to where we want to be,” Adams said. “As a team, all three phases, we can definitely get better. Each week we’re going to do that, keep staying in the film room and keep keeping the young guys up, because you never know when they have to get in and play their role.”

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PARKING PROBLEMS LSU parking should be based on seniority REAL SOLUTIONS TO REAL ISSUES GARRETT MARCEL Columnist The world we live in is barbaric, and nowhere is this more apparent than in LSU’s parking lots.

I am a senior, and almost all of my classes are near the Quad.

I spend my days with hours of breaks between classes, and after a long day I embark on a trek to reach my car — why?

Because LSU does not segregate commuter lots based on seniority. As much as I enjoy witnessing peculiar events happening on campus, the hours I spend walking back and forth from my vehicle each week

could be put to better use.

Upperclassmen have been here for longer than anyone except for graduate students and those who change their majors.

We do not have as many options when we schedule classes, and sometimes we have long breaks.

We should segregate commuter parking by giving upperclassmen the closest commuter lots on campus. We could let the upperclassmen keep the current commuter parking color — blue — and give the peasants an inferior parking color — pink.

Not all parking tags are created equal. Separating parking tags based on seniority will allow for easy towing of intruders in the wrong lot. Students who park in the wrong lots get towed all the time, so it’s an easily

enforceable standard.

Upperclassmen will have the stadium parking lots, the ROTC lot and the LSU AgCenter lot.

The underclassmen can have the leftovers. Let them hike to the lots behind Patrick F. Taylor, the Cow Pasture lot or the overflow lot.

The upperclassmen deserve the security offered by closer lots. We have a hard enough time already — we don’t need something happening to our cars. Let the freshmen and sophomores take the seemingly questionable security of Hart lot.

Not all the seniors and juniors will find a spot, but this will give us a better chance to avoid distant parking. The inflow and outflow from these lots will allow upperclassmen to have spots

when returning from breaks.

Upperclassmen shouldn’t have to watch as noobs who might drop out in a few weeks take every spot close to campus.

We must assert our dominance.

Sure, there will be complaints, but who cares? If they don’t like it, they can drop out.

According to the Office of Budget and Planning, 15 percent of last year’s freshman class did not return this fall. LSU also reported that the retention rate from first to third year was only about 73 percent.

With this many freshman leaving after the first and second years, why should we waste the space of those seeking to graduate on time? Upperclassmen are already ahead of them, so we should take priority.

LSU should also give upperclassmen discounts on parking fees. As students progress, they’d be rewarded for sticking with LSU. To maintain fee revenue for the university, raise the prices on underclassmen so the average student pays the same amount.

Instead of waiting for the ridiculous traffic and extraneous journeys associated with far lots, I would rather spend the extra time studying for exams.

Some will depict me as a parking supremacist, but to seniors seeking short walks to campus, I will be LSU’s Mussolini.

Garrett Marcel is a 21-year-old petroleum engineering senior from Houma , Louisiana. You can reach him on Twitter @Gret419.

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Facebook users shouldn’t fall for online privacy hoax SMASH THE HATE JACK RICHARDS Opinion Editor “Just in case this is true, I’d rather be better safe than sorry” *insert meaningless legal mumbo-jumbo.* If you’ve scrolled through Facebook in the past week, you may have seen someone you thought was smart — or a relative you know isn’t — copy and paste this status.

The latest one makes me want to become a lawyer so I can sue whoever thought it up for crimes against intelligence.

It usually starts something like this, “As of *insert today’s date and time* I do not give Facebook or any related entities permission to use my pictures, information or posts, both past and future.”

These statuses, which I will refer to as “legal copypasta,” delude those who don’t bother to check if something they read on the Internet are as fake as Donald Trump’s hair.

When I search the legal

copypasta in Google, all of the results are articles from various websites debunking them as a hoax. This is the first red flag because Google is widely known as the gatekeeper of information.

If you don’t trust an algorithm to tell you whether you should believe a random person on the Internet, then try the myth busters at Snopes.com. The worldrenowned rumor/urban legend busting couple Barbara and David Mikkelson updated their entry on the “Facebook Privacy Notice” hoax late September.

As they note, all of the data you willingly post on Facebook is ruled by their terms of service, including the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and Data Policy.

To quote the latter, Facebook will “use the information we have to improve our advertising and measurement systems so we can show you relevant ads.”

As a condition of signing up, every person with an account agreed to let Facebook use what they post for all kinds of purposes. As with any contract, they have to hold up their end of the bargain, or they don’t get to use

Facebook at all.

Specifically, Facebook users agreed to give the company a “non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook.”

Sounds like a deal nobody would ever agree to, right? That’s what happens when you scroll to the bottom of an important legal notice because you can’t wait to share a picture of your cat in a hat or 53 new photos of your baby — every single day.

To get back to the legal copypasta, what often gives these hoaxes an allure of legality and legitimacy is the litany of laws cited.

The one I saw most recently cited the Rome Statute, which among other things establishes the International Criminal Court and the crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and so-called crimes of aggression.

I have no idea why anybody would think an international law making genocide illegal has anything to do with Facebook privacy concerns. Then again, people

who take legal copypasta seriously are the kind of people who don’t double check their posts.

Unlike the Rome Statute, I know why section 1-308 of the Uniform Commercial Code is often included in these statuses. That particular subsection of the UCC is one way in which “sovereign citizens” try to assert that the federal government is illegitimate.

The movement originated from white supremacist William P. Gale, but its modern-day permutations crop up in everybody from controversial rancher Cliven Bundy to black drug dealers in Baltimore to the Oklahoma City bomber.

Without getting too far into it, the movement uses out of context legal quotes from the UCC and patriotic rhetoric to try slip out of the government’s clutches.

Their actions are similar to how the legal copypasta tries to slip posters out of Facebook’s terms of service.

The misuse of law isn’t even the dumbest thing about these posts. That title is reserved for the declaration at the end, usually in all caps, “DO NOT SHARE.

You MUST copy and paste.”

I have no way of knowing what convinced the original author to include this nonsense, but I do have a guess.

Somewhere in the depths of Facebook’s terms of service, there is a clause that states Facebook’s license to use your pictures and posts ends when you delete your account. The catch is, if your friends shared your content, Facebook still retains the license.

You know why I know all of this? I read the damn thing.

Heads up to those wondering, posting a nonsense status instead of sharing it gives it no more credibility.

In an age where the knowledge of generations is at our fingertips, it amazes me people still refuse to use it.

Do me a favor: When you see posts like this, go to the upper right corner and click “Hide post” then report it as spam.

You’ll be doing God’s work.

Jack Richards is a 20-year-old mass communication junior from New Orleans. You can reach him on Twitter @JayEllRichy.

Sending sexually explicit photos is irresponsible, unsafe BURNT TO A CRISP GARRETT HINES Columnist There is no trust in the digital age.

Sending sexually explicit photographs, GIFs and memes to one’s significant other or a potential hook-up is standard procedure for millennials. After picking the right filter to make sure everything sits and measures up perfectly, these pictures are a few clicks away from forever being inscribed on the Internet.

Not only will these pictures never leave the Internet, the person who receives these pictures has complete control over them for as long as they can hang on to them.

Besides putting your future in somebody else’s hands, there can be legal repercussions when keeping it real goes wrong.

In late September, two North Carolina teenagers were charged with sexually exploiting themselves after they both consented to sending nude pictures to one another. Both were charged with felonies and could spend

significant time in jail if convicted.

Now, imagine on your wedding day: Instead of passive aggressively judging people based on what kind of gifts they brought, you have to explain to your grandmother why there’s a Twitter account dedicated to your bare phallus. Or on the day of your big job interview, you future boss asks why the #PoochPic applies to you.

These scenarios may be extreme, but according to a recent study commissioned by adult novelty site Adam and Eve, 56 percent of people who sext said they believe it’s helped their relationship. So no matter how dangerous it is, sexting will not stop.

Many feel safe using apps like Frankly and Snapchat, as they heavily emphasize their ability to have messages automatically delete themselves.

But Snapchat allows users to screenshot images. This way, when your friend snaps you a picture of Drake in The 459, you can always have the picture.

While it alerts senders if their pictures have been screenshot, it does nothing to prevent it from happening. Frankly attempts

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to circumvent this problem by creating “a user interface that never shows the names of the participants on the same screen as the message,” This is a clever attempt on Frankly’s part, but it still does not block someone from screenshotting in the first place.

Sending sexually explicit messages to another person is never a safe, and no amount of coercion or promise of favors should make a person send them.

Trusting someone in an age where nothing is truly deleted and where sharing photos is as natural as talking does not make sense. However, if one cannot live without potentially exposing themselves to the entire world, something needs to change.

Silicon Valley needs to invent a way of tracking pictures to assure they are destroyed. Maybe the USPS can start a millennial service specifically for sending photographs on disintegrating paper, which melts under the light of copy machines.

If this happens in the next day or so, then go on and send those pictures with no abandon. Unfortunately, it’s not likely to happen, so your best bet is to avoid sending any kind of media that

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could be misconstrued as sexual in nature.

Falling for claims of undying love or denying these pictures will be seen by others is foolish.

Twenty years down the line, the knowledge that one less picture

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Garrett Hines is a 21-year-old political science senior from Monroe, Louisiana. You can reach him on Twitter @garrettH_TDR.

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Fran, Lindsay Flory juggle mother-daughter, coach-player relationship

BY JAVIER FERNÁNDEZ @Xavierxlv3 When LSU coach Fran Flory walked into the University Laboratory School gym to watch her daughter, Lindsay, play for the final time as a senior for the volleyball team last year, she said she never imagined coaching her as a collegiate athlete.

Fran took the head coach position at LSU in 1998, when Lindsay was almost two years old.

Lindsay grew to love the sport her mother coached, and showed the same prowess on the court Fran did. But Lindsay said she and her mother decided early on that the only way the two would ever meet on a collegiate court would be on opposing teams.

But on April 22, 2015, the volleyball team announced Lindsay’s addition to the program.

“I have to say I am as surprised as anybody else that Lindsay is here,” Fran said.

“I’m certainly very happy she’s here, but I never wanted her to think that she should come here just because I wanted her to come here because she really loved and had a true passion for LSU.” Fran said if Lindsay wasn’t her daughter, she still would have recruited her to join the program. Instead, LSU volleyball associate head coach Jill Wilson managed Lindsay’s recruitment while Fran tried to get Lindsay to look at other schools.

“I knew when she came back from those visits that she just wasn’t passionate and excited about it,” Fran said.

Despite telling people

otherwise, Lindsay said she knew LSU is where she would end up — not because her mother is the coach, but because it’s where she felt she belonged.

“I knew in the back of my mind I wanted to go to LSU,” Lindsay said. “I went on a visit to another school, and I compared everything there to LSU. My mom always tells people, the school you compare everything to when you go to your visits is probably the school you should be at.”

Before Fran officially approved Lindsay’s spot, she had a sit down with all the senior players.

“I said, ‘Can you handle this?

Can our team handle this?’”

Fran said. “Cati Leak, Katie Lindelow, Emily Ehrle, Khourtni Fears and Haley Smith [and] I called and said, ‘Can we do this is?’”

The upperclassmen agreed Lindsay was already a part of the LSU volleyball family, and they were overjoyed to have her join the team.

On Aug. 28, Lindsay stepped onto the court to play her first collegiate match in an LSU uniform in the Gregory Gymnasium in Austin, Texas — the same court where her mother played her college career and helped the University of Texas win the AIAW National Championship in 1981.

Fran said she was proud to see her daughter play in a college match, but was more focused on coaching and thought Lindsay stepped up to the challenge, playing well in her first career game.

“My staff was like, ‘we need Lindsay, we need Lindsay,’” Fran said. “I didn’t want it to be anything other than what our

JAVIER FERNÁNDEZ / The Daily Reveille

LSU coach Fran Flory and freshman setter Lindsay Flory (16) get ready before practice on Sept. 2 in the PMAC. team needed at the moment, and I thought she came in and showed poise and great composure. Sure, there was a part of me that was proud of her, but at that point at the match, I wanted to win the match.”

Lindsay’s collegiate start marks the extension of the Flory legacy, which Fran highlights as the winningest coach in program history, leading the team to eight NCAA Tournament berths in the last 10 seasons.

“Volleyball doesn’t define our family, but it’s a huge part of our family,” Fran said. “My husband and I met through volleyball. It’s part of every day of our life. It’s very interesting that she ended up here and playing. You just never know what you’re going to get when

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LSU freshman setter Lindsay Flory (16) enters the game during the Tigers’ 3-2 defeat against the University of Arkansas on Sept. 23 in the PMAC.

you have kids.”

Fran and Lindsay’s relationship developed a new dynamic since Lindsay joined the program, one in which Lindsay said she can’t look at Fran as a mother while in the gym. But Lindsay said the dynamic is easier to manage than she originally expected.

“I’ll call her ‘Fran’ on the gym and ‘mom’ at home,” Lindsay said. “It’s actually really easy for us to switch back and forth from mom-daughter, coach-player.”

A year ago, when Fran could only spectate her daughter’s games, Lindsay said she played better when her mother wasn’t there, saying she was bad luck.

But Lindsay played best match to date on Sept. 4 with 20 assists on 25 attempts, three

kills and six digs against the University of Michigan — with her mother as coach instead of a spectator.

Fran said Lindsay’s success isn’t the result of bad luck disappearing but rather her hard work over the summer paying off.

Although Lindsay has come a long way and is poised to be a big contributor for the next four years, Fran said she needs to continue working hard like she did over the summer if she hopes to lead LSU to another NCAA Tournament.

“I’m proud of her for what she’s done, but she’s still a work in progress, and she has a lot more development in front of her to really truly be a significant setter for a program for the future,” Fran said.

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The Daily Reveille

Monday, October 5, 2015

FALL FEST photos by JAVIER FERNÁNDEZ

Students, parents and alumni gathered on the Parade Ground Friday to enjoy performances, win prizes and speak with campus organizations at Fall Fest.

Fall Fest features student performers, sponsored activities

BY SARAH KENT @SarahKent_TDR Fall Fest 2015 attracted large crowds of students, alumni, parents and faculty Friday to take a break from the busy semester to enjoy a spin in a human hamster ball or sample refreshments.

This year’s event kicked off with the traditional performance by the Golden Band from Tigerland, LSU Cheerleaders and Tiger Girls. Students lined up for a closer look and a chance to get into the pre-gameday spirit.

“When you hear the first four notes of the [pregame] song it’s a sign for every Tiger fan to immediately get excited and pumped up. You’re ready to have a good time,” said sports administration freshman Kyle Lachney.

The Fall Fest emcees, sociology senior MarQuetta Lanier, history and philosophy senior Michael Moore, mass communication sophomore Bonnie Wells and human resource management sophomore David Simmons, energized the crowd with jokes, shoutouts and announcements while introducing Fall Fest sponsors.

Raising Cane’s and Coca- Cola drew throngs of students to the stage for a chance to catch purple and gold Cane’s t-shirts and Share a Coke With a Tiger merchandise. Students went long to catch Cane’s t-shirts shot over 100 feet from the stage.

The Fall Fest stage also hosted performances from students and groups, including Kryptonite, Julep, Musical Theatre Club, Ryan Zumo, Ahman Robinson, and Steven Kador, Public Display of A Capella, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., Cyndie Wright, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., Cypress Wyman and Legacy Dancers.

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