Volume 122 · No. 40
Monday, October 24, 2016
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School of Social Work collects blankets BY ALLISON BRUHL @albruhl__
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Depsite ankle injury, Fournette shines after weeks of recovery BY JOSH THORNTON @JoshuaThornton_
On a bum ankle, Leonard Fournette’s first game without Les Miles, the coach who gave him a scholarship, was unlike anything he’s done before. When Fournette made his return in LSU’s 38-21 win against Ole Miss, he made a statement: a single-game, program-high 284 rushing yards, eclipsing Alley Broussard’s 250 yards in 2004 against the Rebels. In his first game under LSU coach Ed Orgeron, Fournette was still recovering from a high and low ankle sprain and a bone bruise, he revealed Saturday night. After sitting out for three weeks, Fournette said he gained weight and would call for junior running back Darrel Williams to relieve him every other
play to catch his breath. “I was telling Darre ‘Come get in the game,’” Fournette said. To Orgeron, he still looked like college football’s best player. “I’ve never been a part of a player like Leonard, to be honest with you,” Orgeron said. “He’s dynamic. I believe he’s the best player in the country.” And to think, everyone wanted LSU’s junior tailback to sit out his junior season, he said. But he didn’t. Fournette loves football too much to follow the narrative of sitting out his junior season, engraving his spot as a top selection in 2017’s NFL Draft. “Man, when I tell you that was one of the hardest things of my life,” Fournette
see FOURNETTE, page 2
As temperatures begin to drop, Baton Rouge area shelters see an influx of people coming to stay the night and a shortage of resources. The LSU School of Social Work is asking for blanket donations through the Help the Shelters blanket collection drive, which began Monday, Oct. 17 and will continue through Friday, Dec. 9. “With winter around the corner, it’s imperative that people in our community donate much-needed items to support homeless citizens,” School of Social Work director and professor Wesley Church said. There’s more than one way the public can donate. People can either buy a twin size blanket online and ship it to Church or drop off a blanket at one of several locations on campus. Collection locations include the third flood of the Huey P. Long Field House, the dean’s office of Peabody Hall and the lobbies of Patrick F. Taylor Hall, the Student Union and Middleton Library. Church said the blanket drive started last year and donated 200 blankets to three shelters, Youth Oasis, Capital Area Alliance for the Homeless and Society of St. Vincent de Paul. “People don’t really think
see BLANKETS, page 2 HEALTH
University alumna discusses career path, mental health
BY LAUREN HEFFKER @laurheffker
The University welcomed back one of its own on Friday to discuss her path from one field of science to another and her promotion of mental health as a spokeswoman in her community. Dr. Leanne Truehart, a University alumna, is a practicing psychiatrist and mental health advocate. However, it was the calculated, formulaic world of physics, not psychology, that
first captured her interest. Truehart began her lecture by describing how her fascination with space and existential curiosity was originally what led her to want to pursue a career in astronomy, which is why she majored in physics at the University. Later in her academic career she saw the appeal of medical school, and once she found psychiatry, she never looked back. “I did a rotation in psychiatry, and it just blew me
out the water. I loved it. It was unbelievable and very interesting,” Truehart said. After completing a subinternship in her final year of medical school, Truehart entered a residency through the National Resident Matching Program. Truehart said that many of the major mental illnesses present themselves during the college years, a lot of times in what professionals call a “two-hit hypothesis.” The hypothesis involves the
genetic determinants combined with environmental factors that put people at risk for mental illness. Starting college is an extraordinarily stressful endeavor, which can be accelerated if young people are abusing drugs and alcohol, Truehart said. “Even still to this day, there is a feeling that mental illness is something that happens to other people,” Truehart said. “Or that if you’re educated enough, or if you come from
see MENTAL HEALTH, page 2
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University alumna Dr. Leanne Truehart speaks about mental health among college students.