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Volume 120 · No. 30 STUDENT GOVERNMENT
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
see INITIATIVES, page 4
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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ZOE GEAUTHREAUX / The Daily Reveille
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.