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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2015
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IN THIS ISSUE • Find out went wrong in last season’s loss to Mississippi State, page 5 • Letter to the Editor: LSU unjustly fired tenured professor, page 9 @lsureveille
Volume 120 · No. 14
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LSU bar passage rates rank top in LA BY KACI CAZENAVE @kacicaz
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LSU NAACP Vice President Monturios Howard grills chicken and hotdogs at an event aimed to shed light on race issues on campus.
Read about the LSU NAACP’s rally in response to a United Daughters of the Confederacy meeting on page 4.
Compared to other Louisiana law schools, LSU students achieved the greatest passage rate on the Louisiana State Bar Exam four out of the past five years, according to the most recent data from the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center’s website. LSU’s scores fared just below some of the leading law schools in the Southeastern Conference and the nation, according to July 2014 bar passage rate statistics. Bar passage rates from the July 2015 examination will be released Oct. 8, according to the Louisiana Supreme Court Committee on Bar Admissions. According to data provided by the Law Center, students in the university’s law program had a 25 percent greater passage rate than Southern University’s law school — the lowest scoring school in the state. Out of the 173 LSU students who took the bar in July 2014, 32 students did not pass
see BAR EXAM, page 4 FOOTBALL
LSU defense focuses on putting pressure on Dak Prescott
BY JACOB HAMILTON @jhamilton_TDR The No. 14 LSU football team is hungry to finally show the world the sky’s the limit for the revamped Tiger squad, especially on defense. The Tigers (0-0, 0-0 Southeastern Conference) travel to Starkville, Mississippi, to play No. 25 Mississippi State University for their official season opener and the first of eight SEC
games at 8:15 p.m. on Saturday at Davis Wade Stadium. The last time the Tigers and Bulldogs (1-0, 0-0 SEC) faced off, Mississippi State and then-junior quarterback Dak Prescott put up 570 yards, the most LSU has allowed during coach Les Miles’ tenure, and 34 points, giving LSU its first loss against Mississippi State since 1999. Prescott lit up the Tiger defense with 268 passing yards, 105 rushing yards and three
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touchdowns alone. But sophomore defensive tackle Davon Godchaux takes exception to that game because it was early in the season, and the inexperienced Tigers weren’t ready for the rigors of SEC play. “They caught us early in the season last year,” Godchaux said. “It’s no excuse for it, but things you do is you get off the ball with technique and you stay in your
see DEFENSE, page 4
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LSU then-junior defensive end Danielle Hunter (94) attempts to tackle Mississippi State then-junior quarterback Dak Prescott (15) during LSU’s 34-29 loss at Tiger Stadium on Sept. 20, 2014. JAVIER FERNÁNDEZ /
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