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If the data collected at LSU and Penn State resemble each other, then the teams can forward their data to the NCAA to make policy changes, if need be, said strength and conditioning coaching assistant Lauren Norton, who is leading the Tigers’ head injury assessment research.

“The force monitoring was developed for real time, so we can detect how severe the injury is and get that person out of the game,” said Andrew T. Walker, a Yale School of Medicine alumnus and neuroradiologist. “What we want is something on the field that can tell us if this is going to be too severe of an impact to not have an impact on the brain — to see if we need to get them off the field.”

The Tigers are coming aboard a train of universities that have previously begun football-related traumatic brain injury research.

Programs such as Virginia Tech, Dartmouth, Brown, Oklahoma and Stanford started brain injury research with force-calibration sensors dating back to 2003.

The goal of this study is to reduce the intensity of these injuries as they happen. The research will continue through the 2015 regular season and is likely to grow.

“If the players are showing us signs of a concus-

Until the next dean of LSU’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center is named next semester, William “Bill” Corbett and Cheney Joseph Jr. are navigating territory abruptly vacated by former Chancellor and Dean Jack Weiss.

A search committee was established earlier this week to select the best candidate to lead the Law School for 2016-2017 CORBETT the academic year.

The new dean is expected to assume power summer 2016.

The law center’s ideal applicant would respect the important relationship between the statefunded school and the state legal system, appreciate strong teaching and scholarship and have impressive legal experience, Corbett said.

Corbett and Joseph were appointed interim codeans of the 10 0 -ye a r - old law center following Weiss’s resignation in JOSEPH July.

After serving as chancellor for eight years, Weiss stepped down, citing “major policy differences” with faculty at the law center, according to a July LSU Media Relations news release.

Prior to his resignation, faculty members signed a petition demanding a change in leadership, complete with 25 of the law center’s 33 tenured or tenure-track faculty’s signatures.

The petition stated faculty, “do not have confidence in the leadership of the law center’s Chancellor, Jack M. Weiss.”

Despite the terms of his resignation, Joseph said Weiss was a great leader and will be missed.

“Jack got a lot accomplished

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Helmets for the LSU football team have been equipped with new technology to record size and strength of impacts to the head.

LSU among select teams studying effect of on-field head collisions

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BY CHRISTIAN BOUTWELL • @CBoutwell_TDR

merican football is the most well-known 11-versus-11 warzone, and many have admired it for as long as they can remember.

But the game is changing. LSU football is changing.

The LSU football team partnered with the Marucci BodiTrak Head Health Network to conduct a study on how on-field head collisions affect players. The goal is to figure out ways to limit the internal body demolition that is a part of the game players have grown to love.

The project is a research-based joint study with Penn State University. The two programs are working to collaborate on the data they receive to see how their respective programs compare when focusing on hits to the head.

Each team implemented force-sensors inside the helmets of 24 of its players at the beginning of fall camp. For LSU, 16 are linemen, and the remaining helmets are allocated between safeties, linebackers, wide receivers, fullbacks and running backs.

LSU aims to find and prevent the amount of damage each observed player is receiving through these force-monitoring systems. The sensors will be monitored on the LSU sideline during games by a computer, calculating the impact on subjected players.

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LSU volleyball to return to court in Bobcat Invitational After dropping all three games in its season-opening tournament, the LSU volleyball team will return to the court in the Bobcat Invitational today.

The Tigers (0-3, 0-0 Southeastern Conference) are set to take on the host, Ohio University, in their first game of the tournament at 11:30 a.m. today in the Convocation Center in Athens, Ohio.

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days, LSU also will face Michigan at 4:00 p.m. today and Xavier (Ohio) at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow.

Junior middle blocker Tiara Gibson said it is paramount the Tigers win all three games this weekend to get their record to .500. The best way to ensure victory in each game is to find a better balance on offense and be more consistent with setting, said LSU coach Fran Flory.

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Clothing project dedicated to students in need

BY Carrie Grace Henderson @carriegraceh If you look past the racks of khakis, T-shirts and other gently used clothes lining the walls, 136 Allen Hall looks like any of the other hundreds of faculty offices across campus.

But this one belongs to Craig Winchell, assistant director of Student Support Services. The clothes are part of a personal project Winchell started last spring to provide low-income students with clothes for the semester.

“After I noticed a few of our students could use a little extra clothing, I emailed out some of the parents that I knew,” Winchell said. “If they were going through their closets after their kids left, instead of taking it to the Goodwill — if they would bring it to me — I would hang it up here and let students just come through and take whatever they want.”

And many students do.

After putting the racks out

Wednesday, Winchell said more than 15 clothing items were gone by Thursday morning.

The racks will be out all semester, and students can bring donations by Winchell’s Allen Hall office anytime.

SSS works with students from a variety of economic backgrounds, including those who receive the maximum Pell Grant award and low-income and first-generation students.

Winchell said the clothing drive is separate from SSS initiatives, which focus on providing academic services and helping students adjust to college life.

“This is just something I do,” Winchell said. “It’s a need that I have seen.”

Through the combined power of social media and concerned parents, Winchell said his drive reached a broader audience.

A post on the LSU Parents Facebook page applauding Winchell inspired parents to collect clothing, which will

be dropped off this weekend while they are on campus for the season’s first football game.

Winchell, who will be out of town this weekend, also is the faculty adviser for the Delta Chi fraternity and asked parents to take their donations by the fraternity house. He said the members were happy to help and have already set up collection boxes.

Winchell has worked at LSU for 22 years and is known for going above and beyond in his role at SSS. He often encourages students to hang out in his office.

Hot coffee sits out on the conference table every morning, alongside a chocolate cake to celebrate all the September birthdays of his students.

“I like to have them come hang out here instead of going back to their dorm and falling asleep and missing a class,” Winchell said.

The shared space also offers a place for students to make

friends and get to know one another.

“Sometimes there will be an incoming first-year biology student, and they find they’re sitting across from a third-year biology student, so they start networking,” Winchell said.

His students also love to give back. This month, Winchell will be flipping pancakes and hosting lunch in exchange for donations to the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank.

September is Hunger Action Month, and donations will go to Trevor’s Wish, a GBRFB initiative started two years ago.

Winchell said the same project raised money in 2014 to fund a year’s worth of meals for three kids.

“The students that don’t really have the money and come in and do a quarter or a dollar, they like that they can donate and give back to other people,” Winchell said. “They just like doing that stuff as well. They aren’t taking all the time. They are giving as well.”

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Student Support Services assistant director Craig Winchell stands next to a rack of clothes on Thursday.

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Louisiana native uses incubator for pickle business

BY Kaci Cazenave @kacicaz For Prairieville businessman Alvin Ray, LSU isn’t just the school where he took microbiology and thermal processing classes — it’s also home to the Ingram Hall small food incubator, where production for his fast-selling Best Bayou Pickles kicked off.

Ray entered the pickle-making business in 2012 when the idea for the spicy treat first came to him.

He had no formal culinary experience or cooking lessons from his parents when he first attempted to create the best pickle. Every technique he knew was self-taught.

“Prior to my pickle-making, I was in maintenance full time,” Ray said. “I was a process operator for a plant, then a site and safety coordinator for that same plant, an electrician, a plumber — you name it.”

After Ray quit his day job to focus on pickles, he received the opportunity to bring his production to a larger scale through the LSU AgCenter Food Incubator.

“When LSU called, they said I may or may not make it,” Ray said.

“I never intended this — I never expected it to go along right like this — but today, I’m having the time of my life.”

Director of the AgCenter incubator Gaye Sandoz said Ray was an overnight success, selling over 5,000 jars of his product per month.

Sandoz said there are two more incubators across the state, located in Norco and Alexandria. The AgCenter’s incubator, however, is the only one with three food science department staff members

helping tenants and providing hands-on opportunities for them to work in the food industry.

LSU hired the scientists to work full-time in the incubator, along with one graduate assistant and two student workers, after receiving a three-year $2.5 million grant from the Louisiana Office of Community Development’s Disaster Recovery Unit in June, according to an AgCenter news release.

Ray, who was recently picked up by Associated Grocers, Inc., said the incubator is the best way to mass-produce food products — taking them out of the kitchen and launching them into the market.

“The incubator nurses us, just like an incubator, except we’re the

chicks,” Ray said, giggling. “The people that do this help us grow.”

The incubator is the reason buyers can find Ray’s pickle variations in places like Matherne’s Supermarket, the Red Stick Farmer’s Market and the television show Cajun Livin’ & Cookin’.

“The sky is the limit with this thing,” Ray said.

Pickles aren’t the only food products created in the incubator.

According to Sandoz, the other tenants make barbeque sauce, marinara sauce, gelato, juice, salad dressing, rehydrated popsicles, hummus, granola and pretzel crunch in the same 100-gallon kettle that Ray uses to create his pickles.

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Ray said he hopes to add to the list of incubator food products in the near future, and he has plans for a relish line, followed by pickled jalapenos and garlic products.

“The goal is to give the public what they want, and this product is so versatile that I can do that,” Ray said. “I’m ready to go all over the place with this.”

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FAFSA simplification Chemistry professor receives pushed in Congress $390k grant for research

STAFF REPORTS news@lsureveille.com The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions will try to move the Higher Education Act’s reauthorization through Congress this fall. The bill aims to reform financial aid processes and help students and parents navigate college successfully.

Also to be debated is the Financial Aid Simplification and Transparency Act, which would whittle down the lengthy Free Application for Federal Student Aid to just two questions.

FAFSA is required for students who receive both federal- and state-based aid, like TOPS and the Louisiana Go Grant.

The FAST act, authored by HELP Chairman Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., would dramatically reform FAFSA by only asking students how large their family is and what their family income was two years ago.

Currently, FAFSA poses about 100 questions to students and, if they are dependent, their parents. The answers are analyzed to provide the family with their “expected family contribution,” which determines the type and amount of aid they will receive.

About 2 million students nationwide eligible for Pell Grants fail to complete FAFSA, said Taylor Haulsee, deputy press secretary to Sen. Alexander, in an email to The Daily Reveille.

“The bill was introduced to simplify the process for receiving student aid, so students aren’t deterred from enrolling in college because of an overly complex form,” Haulsee said.

The HELP committee met in early August to discuss the Higher Education Act

SEARCH, from page 1 in that period of time,” Joseph said. “Frankly, eight years is a long time for a person to serve in the capacity of a dean of a law school.”

Weiss will return to the law center in the next academic year as a media law professor.

“I’m looking forward to working with him as a colleague,” Joseph said.

LSU President F. King Alexander and Vice Provost Jane Cassidy appointed Corbett and Joseph over the summer, but they did not officially take office until Aug. 17, when classes started.

This is not the first time the two reluctant leaders have joined forces. They also worked together on planning LSU’s legal and judicial education programs for the past 24 years as Law Center colleagues.

“There’s a lot to be done,”

reauthorization and the FAST Act, and Alexander said during the meeting that low-income students are more likely to drop out.

He said the solution was to make the financial aid process easier and more efficient through the FAST Act. The act would “discourage over-borrowing” by limiting the amount of aid students can receive based on enrollment, Haulsee said.

“For example, a part-time student would be able to take out a part time loan only,” Haulsee said.

When students do not know what aid is available to them, it creates a “huge hurdle” in Louisiana, said Sujuan Boutte, executive director of the Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance.

Research shows students who understand the type and amount of aid they will receive are more likely to attend college, she said.

“What we try to do is make the process less cumbersome by providing a lot of public information, providing hands-on assistance to students and families to be able to complete the FAFSA,” Boutte said.

Income-based repayment, which the FAST Act aims to expand, is a helpful option to students who leave school with debt, he said.

“It helps students to be able to contribute to the economy after if the majority of their usable income is not consumed by student debt,” Boutte said.

Most rates for income-based repayment options currently stand at 10 to 15 percent of the student’s discretionary income, while the LSU ratio of student loan payments to earnings is 5.3 percent, according to College Measures’ website.

BY JOSHUA JACKSON @Joshua_Jackson_ LSU chemistry department chair and professor Carol Taylor is researching a molecule to combat the threat of bacterial infections with immunity to antibiotic treatment, which is being funded by a $390,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.

Taylor said her goal is to develop new approaches to formulating microbisporicins, a powerful antibiotic that could be used to fight advanced infections resistant to common medications. These compounds may result in methods that may be applicable to synthesize other antibiotics, both natural and unnatural.

She said she hopes to use organic reactions to recreate a natural compound to fight infections and create a molecule applicable to other forms of research.

She spent four years applying for grants for this project before the NSF approved her proposal.

“Often, you’ve got this project and think it’s exciting, and you propose it,” Taylor said.

“Then, you get [turned down], lick your wounds, and based on the constructive criticism, you apply again.”

Taylor took a sabbatical during spring 2014, which she said allowed her to focus on her research and fine-tune her proposal on molecules combatting infectious bacteria.

In the laboratory, research is done on a molecular level, Taylor said. Since researchers are working with such small particles, they must be precise in their movements and meticulous in their notes.

Her team includes a postdoctoral researcher, graduate

Carol M. Taylor, professor of organic chemistry and department chair, was recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to research microbisporicins.

Joseph said. “It really takes both people to get all of our chores out of the way.”

Corbett left his Birmingham, Alabama, practice in 1991 to join the law center faculty as a professor. He served as interim vice chancellor and then vice chancellor for academic affairs at the law center for nearly three years. He also served as executive director of the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel for almost 15 years.

Joseph, a 1964 cum laude graduate of Princeton University, has a law career spanning more than 50 years. He worked his way up the legal ladder, first as an administrative assistant in the District Attorney’s office in East Baton Rouge Parish and then as district attorney for the parish in 1990.

After a brief stint in the early ’90s as judge pro tempore of the 16th and 40th judicial courts, Jo-

seph served as vice chancellor for academic affairs for the past 15 years.

Though the co-interim deans said they look forward to the academic year, leftover challenges from the previous administration still need attention.

“We are worried about paying the bills,” Joseph said. “We didn’t have to worry about that on the academic affairs side before.”

Corbett said alumni relations are essential for fundraising. The law school relies heavily on donations of distinguished alumni with prominent law firms.

The Chancellor’s Council appeals to alumni to make different levels of contributions to the school.

Corbett and Joseph plan to host continuing legal education seminars for lawyers, which have a high alumni turnout. Corbett said he hopes alumni will make donations as they mingle during

the receptions.

“In the times of budget cuts that we’re in now, raising private funds becomes a difficult job,” Corbett said.

Other than fundraising and alumni relations, Joseph said taking on administrative chores has been an “interesting challenge” for the duo.

He said the faculty has been surprisingly cooperative with and accommodating to the new leadership arrangement but that faculty disagreements with Weiss were part of the “inevitable process” that comes with the title.

Corbett said he and Joseph’s leadership strategy differs from Weiss’s by necessity. They have been relying heavily on executive committees to aid them in guiding the school.

Both plan to tackle issues involving declining enrollment and generating alumni interest.

students and a few undergraduates looking to acquire lab experience.

“As an undergrad scientist, everyone should have a research opportunity,” Taylor said. “It’s easy to sit in classrooms and go to labs with canned experiments, but research is hard work ... to experience the discovery process and learn [about] the work that’s involved is worth the time.”

Taylor said she can no longer spend so much time in the lab now that she is chemistry department chair. She placed trusted graduate students, including Joshua Lutz, in leadership roles to help out the team’s undergraduates.

“I’ve started to learn how research is done on the cutting edge of things,” Lutz said. “No one knows how to do the things

we do because they’ve never been done before.”

Taylor usually teaches organic chemistry classes but will not this semester. She said engaging in real-life application of classroom material is what she wishes most students had the opportunity to do. Taylor said when these undergrads have a research experience, it allows them to get hands on experience of the things she teaches in the classroom.

“Organic chemistry is easy on paper,” Taylor said. “It’s a lot more difficult in the lab.

You have to be good with your hands, as well as your brain, to be successful here. So the research we’re doing is exciting for its potential application and great training experience for the researchers involved.”

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“We face a number of challenges with the decline of the current interest of students in legal education, along with challenges to attract as many good students as we possibly can,” Joseph said.

The 3+3 program, in partnership with the LSU College of Humanities and Social Sciences, would serve as a great bargaining tool for prospective students, he said.

Corbett agreed that both financially and in terms of time commitment, 3+3 might be a nice incentive to join the law center.

Joseph said he and Corbett hope to smooth out these issues before the new dean takes charge and that he is optimistic about the law center’s future.

“Next year at this time, we’ll have a new dean in place,” Joseph said. “Bill and I will be part of the history of the administration of this place.”

Sports The Tigers scored 58 points against Louisiana Tech in 2007, their highest against an in-state opponent.

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LSU shut out its opponents three times: against Tulane in 2009 and against the University of Louisiana at Monroe in 2010 and 2014.

LSU’s defense held Northwestern State to -4 rushing yards during their 2011 rendezvous.

The last time LSU played McNeese State was in 2010, when they defeated the Cowboys 32-10.

Since 2006, the Tigers’ offense has averaged 40.1 points and 374.5 yards per game against in-state opponents.

Defensively, LSU has allowed 5.9 points and 205 yards per game.

The Tigers’ offense tallied its highest number of passing yards (299) against the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2006.

LSU has played Tulane four times since 2006, the most of any in-state rival.

LES vs. LA

Under coach Les Miles, the Tigers are 12-0 against Louisiana opponents. Here’s a closer look at their in-state stats.

STATS COMPILED BY MORGAN PREWITT GRAPHIC BY EVANN COOKMEYER

What to watch for against McNeese INTO THE WOODS JACK WOODS Sports Columnist LSU is going to beat McNeese State easily Saturday night.

At the end of the game, I’ll be impressed if the Cowboys are within 35 points of whatever outlandishly large number LSU hangs on the scoreboard.

With the result a foregone conclusion, what am I watching for Saturday night?

I’ll watch specific areas of the field and specific players, paying close attention to backups who sub in late in the game. If injuries happen, those are the players LSU will depend on.

This is what I’m looking out for, if you want to play along.

QUARTERBACKS All anyone wanted to talk about this offseason is quarterbacks. LSU coach Les Miles confirmed sophomore Brandon Harris would be the starter, and now is the time for everyone to see how much he has progressed. I’ll go back and watch some highlights from his start against Auburn last season and compare it to what he does Saturday (with a grain of salt, of course, because Auburn and McNeese State are at two different levels). It’ll be interesting to observe how much

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FOOTBALL

LSU offense needs confidence to build successful new season Tigers to focus on executing plays

BY CHRISTIAN BOUTWELL @CBoutwell_TDR “Too young,” “too inconsistent” and “too inefficient” were resonating descriptions for the LSU offense last season.

Now, the group is older, seasoned, humble and has a new quarterback paving the way.

The LSU offense is eager to reinvent the subpar offensive personality it gained last season when it takes on McNeese State University at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at

Tiger Stadium.

“We are really eager to just show ourselves what we can do,” said junior wide receiver Travin Dural. “It is more so an ‘us’ thing. We want to prove to ourselves that we can be a good offense.”

LSU coach Les Miles announced sophomore quarterback Brandon Harris as the starter on Aug. 31. Harris and sophomore running back Leonard Fournette, understand the top priority for their offense this season.

“Executing plays,” Fournette said. “Last year, we had [a lot] of freshman players.

But now, that’s out the win-

dow. Everyone needs to know their job and know what they have to do.”

Last season, the Tigers had the youngest roster in all of Miles’ tenure as head coach with 17 rookies seeing the field in 2014. This season, with experience, LSU has little room for error.

Harris, who has taken first-team reps all offseason, is more confident than ever, Miles said.

“Brandon Harris continues to improve,” Miles said.

“The more reps he gets, the better he gets. He is more

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Former LSU offensive tackle Evan Washington (75) lifts then-freshman quarterback Brandon Harris (6) in celebration Sept. 6, 2014, after the Tigers’ 56-0 blowout against Sam Houston State at Tiger Stadium.

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Tigers hope to extend unbeaten streak against Ball State BY mario jerez @mjerezlll_TDR The LSU soccer team hopes to extend its unbeaten streak when it takes on the Ball State Cardinals at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the LSU Soccer Stadium. It will be the first ever meeting on the pitch between the two programs.

The match is LSU’s first in the Stomp in the Swamp tournament at the LSU Soccer Stadium this weekend, and the Tigers will conclude the tournament with a matinee against Indiana on Sunday afternoon. It will be preceded by a game between Indiana and Middle Tennessee State, who also are in town for the tournament.

The Tigers (3-0-1, 0-0 Southeastern Conference) enter the match on a two-game winning streak. After sweeping the competition at the Battle on the Bayou tournament last weekend, LSU is off to its best four-game start since 2008.

“We think we’re progressively getting better,” said LSU coach Brian Lee. “From a result standpoint, we’re perfectly happy, and we just have to continue to take it one game at a time.”

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LSU senior midfielder Natalia Gomez-Junco (11) performs a free kick during the Tigers’ 4-1 defeat against Western Kentucky on Aug. 28 at LSU Soccer Stadium.

After trailing 1-0 at halftime, LSU used an offensive onslaught in the second half to defeat Western Kentucky for its second win of the season last Friday. The Tigers carried that momentum into last Sunday when they defeated Minnesota, 1-0, courtesy of a header in the

70th minute scored by sophomore forward Jorian Baucom.

Baucom is the Tigers’ leading scorer for the season, with three goals and a registered assist in the game against Western Kentucky. She said she likes where the team is at this stage in the season, but it’s

important the players continue to improve and build on the recent success.

“We’re feeling pretty confident, but there’s a lot of things we need to clean up and work on,” Baucom said. “We’re working hard to improve in practice, and I

think we’re ready to compete on Friday and get another win.”

Baucom has spearheaded a diverse LSU attack that has featured goals from six different players. Highly-touted freshmen forwards Alex Thomas and Gabriela Maldonado have each scored the first goals of their collegiate careers.

Ball State (3-1, 0-0 MidAmerican Conference) also enter Friday’s match with some momentum after sweeping Wright State and Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne last weekend.

Lee said the Tigers can’t take the Cardinals lightly if they want to continue their stellar start to the season. He said it will take 90 minutes of discipline for his team to get another win, but he feels good about where the team is at this point in the season.

“We have a committed group of players this season that has worked very hard for nine months to put themselves in a position to succeed at the highest level this fall,” Lee said. “That hard work is paying off in the early part of the season, and we’re looking to build on that with two tough opponents coming in this weekend.”

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to effectively execute an offensive gameplan against comfortable now, and every- the Cowboys, continuing to thing is more natural.” grow as a group in prepaThe sophomore started ration for the rest of the only one game in his youthful season.

LSU football career — last “With this being the first season’s 41-7 loss against No. game, we still have some 5 Auburn. Harris went 3-for- learning to do,” said sophomore 14 in the blowout, passing wide receiver Malachi Dupre. for 58 yards before being re- “In the first game, we are going placed by junior quarterback to do some learning. We are Anthony Jennings. going to see where we need Harris will be protected to improve and move forward by a mammoth-sized offen- from there.” sive line. During WednesLearning and development day’s news conference, Miles is key for the long haul of the answered the questions sur- Tigers 2015 season, where rounding the interior line- many television personalities man, solidifying a 1,565- have the Tigers in the fourpound offensive line. team BCS Playoff Series — Miles ancompeting for ‘Last year, we had nounced freshthe National man William Ch a mpionsh ip [a lot] of freshman Clapp and junior players. But now, that’s title.

Josh Boutte will out the window. Everyone But the Tigers both start at aren’t taking the needs to know their guard for LSU in-state Cowboys job and know what today. Although lightly. they have to do.’ this week’s lineMcNeese is up is settled, most well-known LEONARD FOURNETTE competition for for its speedy, LSU sophomore running back playing time at agile senior quarterback Daniel those spots is ongoing. Freshman Maea Teuhe- Sams, but its defense, molded ma will substitute with the in depth and experience, could pair of starters throughout the startle the Tiger offense. game.

“They have a lot of experiAlthough the offensive line ence,” Dural said. “They have a competition is compelling, lot of juniors and seniors. They Harris will be the focus of are really aggressive, so we the LSU offense against Mc- are going to have to work hard, Neese State at tonight in Ti- getting off key blocks and ger Stadium. The Tigers look getting downfield.”

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chemistry he has developed with his receivers. Are they on the same page every play? When the game is out of hand, will junior Anthony Jennings come in for some reps?

RUNNING BACKS Everyone is watching sophomore running back Leonard Fournette — and rightfully so.

But freshman running backs Derrius Guice and Nick Brossette and sophomore running back Darrel Williams should all get some looks. I’m interested to see how the workload is distributed among such a talented group. I’ll be looking at what each player can bring to the backfield that his teammates can’t.

DEFENSIVE LINE I’m a big believer that defenses should be built from front to back. The success of a defense is heavily dependent on how dominant the defensive line is, no matter how great the secondary. Even a mediocre quarterback can find an open receiver if he has enough time to throw. It’s time to observe if LSU is able to get after the quarterback without having to heavily blitz. How effective will different players in the rotation be? There have been questions about depth after the Tigers lost a few defensive linemen during the offseason, so I’m curious to see

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LSU then-freshman running back Leonard Fournette (7) scores a touchdown against Texas A&M at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas, on Nov. 27, 2014. how they’ve issue.

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SECONDARY I don’t know where or when Florida got the idea that it’s Defensive Back University.

LSU is DBU. It’s been DBU for a while, and it looks like it’ll be DBU for years to come. The Tigers’ secondary is loaded with talent, and I’m curious how dominant it’ll be in 2015. How will junior safety Rickey Jefferson fare stepping in for injured junior safety Jalen Mills?

How quickly will freshman cornerback Kevin Toliver II

and freshman defensive back Donte Jackson adjust to the speed of college football?

LSU will play plenty of tight games as the season goes on, and you’ll want both eyes following the ball at all times. So take advantage of one of the few opportunities to watch a game in the pieces that make up the whole.

Jack Woods is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from Ruston, Louisiana. You can reach him on Twitter @Jack_TDR.

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Students should take advantage of their education, attend class

MY BLACK IS BEAUITFUL CLARKE PERKINS Columnist It’s only the second week of school, and the hallways already are less crowded than they should be.

When you skip class, you don’t just affect yourself, but others as well.

Professors aren’t blind. They notice the change in attendance. So they will frequently give participation points. You may test well, but if you’re skipping class, it can still affect your grade.

A study done by U.S. News and World Report shows the graduation rate for LSU 4-year students is 40 percent.

As more students are forced to delay their graduation, the requirements for acceptance continue to rise. There isn’t enough room at LSU to accommodate so many students

slacking off. A 22 on the ACT and a 3.0 GPA is rather high for high school students attending a state school.

If you don’t care about keeping other students from pursuing an education, consider that you’re throwing your or your parents’ money away. You’re practically balling it up and tossing it as far as you can throw.

With the amount of money being spent to further your intelligence, why not to learn something?

According to a Student Scholarship Search survey, 55 percent of students skip class because they don’t feel like getting out of bed.

You might as well spend your money on something more useful, like a Tempur-Pedic mattress and a pair of Burberry pajamas.

People who care about where their money is going look at their fee bills and then wait for Ashton Kutcher to pop out and tell them they’re on “Punk’d”. Whether it’s a scholarship, financial aid, parents or yourself paying your way through college, it’s not Monopoly money.

According to the same Student Scholarship Search, at a 4-year public college the cost per day for each course is more or less $20, assuming you’re taking 15 hours a semester. The average student skips 13 classes per semester, which means the average person throws away $260 in a semester.

Class attendance in college should be like in high school: mandatory. Work is mandatory for adults. There is no excuse when trying to keep your job if your bed is holding you hostage.

Not everyone wants to sit in a long boring lecture, but it’s something that must be done.

Just think — if you could sit in a high school classroom for eight plus hours a day, this “college” thing is nothing.

It’s time to grow up. Both Tigerland and your bed will be there after class, but your money won’t.

Clarke Perkins is a 19-year-old political science sophomore from New Orleans. You can reach her on Twitter @ClarkePerkins.

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Should the U.S. increase minimum wage?

Yes, we should not allow Americans to live in poverty ENTITLED MILLENNIAL CODY SIBLEY Columnist The minimum wage is pointless if it can’t pull someone out of poverty.

According to Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s living wage calculator, a worker needs to make $10.47 an hour in Louisiana to have the minimum living wage. A family of four with two working adults needs to make $13.14 an hour per adult.

The poverty wage threshold is $5 an hour for a single worker and for a family of four with two working adults. The government uses the poverty wage as a threshold to determine eligibility for financial assistance from the federal government.

We have families and single workers living on the brink of poverty across Louisiana. If you condone that lifestyle, then you should stop calling yourself pro-life right now. As one of the richest nations in the history of the world, it’s inexcusable to allow people to live at or near the poverty line.

Many families already are living below the poverty line. A single mom with two children needs to make $23.53 an hour for a living wage in Louisiana, while the poverty line is $9 an hour.

The current federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour isn’t enough for any demographic to live on. It keeps single mothers in poverty and keeps families with more children near the poverty line.

There’s currently a movement in the U.S. to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour across the board. Proponents say the minimum wage would be about $10.88 if it kept up with inflation from its peak in 1968. They also argue the minimum wage should increase beyond inflation to reflect productivity, which is at its highest point in American history.

Some argue that raising the minimum wage would increase prices and inflation, thus making the raise obsolete.

They’re not wrong about the minimum wage increasing prices. The School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Purdue University estimated that prices would increase by the unsustainable rate of 4.3 percent, assuming corporations passed 100 percent of the cost onto consumers.

So, your $3.99 Big Mac will cost $4.16.

You’ll pay an extra 17 cents to increase

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millions of people’s wages by $7.75. Since most of you college students will go into middle-class jobs that pay far beyond $15 an hour, I’m sure you can afford to pay an extra 4.3 percent price increase.

Some say the minimum wage should be a stepping stone and that we need to keep the minimum wage so low so people have an incentive to work harder.

What a great idea. Let’s give starving people, impoverish wages so they can make more money for corporations, and then — maybe — they can move up the ladder to have a better life for their families.

I understand wanting people to have an incentive to work hard, but that doesn’t justify pitiful wages. If the only way companies can motivate their workers is to pay them poverty-level wages, then they should rethink their business strategy.

The federal minimum wage is too low, and it’s time for an across-the-board increase. If you care about the economic well-being of Americans, support $15 an hour.

Cody Sibley is a 19-year-old mass communication sophomore from Opelousas, Louisiana. You can reach him on Twitter at @CodySibley.

No, raising minimum wage would cause more harm than good crease, harming consumers like you and me.

SIMPLY READ For college students, this means finding a job would be considerably more KAIN HINGLE challenging. Competition would rise due Columnist to the decrease in available positions, College students aren’t particularly and people would need to work more to objective when it comes to views on the pay for the higher prices. minimum wage.

Proponents of raising the minimum Many are more than eager to support wage claim $7.25 per hour is not suitable raising the minimum wage because they for adequate living conditions. The issue currently hold minimum-wage jobs. with this logic is $7.25 is not meant to be Though seemingly a living wage. beneficial at the presMinimum wage posiThough seemingly ent, raising the minimum beneficial in the present, tions are typically tranwage would snowball into raising the minimum wage sition jobs. If for some a blizzard of negative fusomebody is stuck would snowball into a reason ture outcomes. The curworking a minimum wage rent minimum wage is ap- blizzard of negative future job for an extended period outcomes. propriate, and should not of time, that person’s embe raised above $7.25 per ployer should give them hour. a raise, as long as they If the Legislature raised minimum worked hard enough to deserve it. wage, there would be immediate probAn unfavorable minimum wage prolems. Employers could not support the vides incentive to work hard and work current number of employees, and lay- for promotions. If we raised minimum offs would be probable. If employers felt wage, there would be a decrease in the the layoffs were too gruesome a solution, quality of work, as there would be little they would seek other opportunities for incentive to do well. revenue. This would lead to an increase Not only would the quality of work in prices to counteract the wage in- decrease, but there also will be less incentive to go to college. Why would I pay $10,000 in tuition if I could comfortably live off of my low paying job with no requirements? Raising the minimum wage allows people to settle for mediocrity.

According to the United States. Bureau of Labor, minimum wage workers tend to be young. Although workers under the age of 25 made up about one-fifth of the total employees paid an hourly wage, they made up nearly half of those paid minimum wage. What this tells me is that those old enough to live alone have surpassed the bureaucratic buffer that is minimum wage. Raising the minimum wage primarily helps the young, but harms all age groups.

If the minimum wage has to be raised, it should just be raised enough to count for inflation. Although $10.10 is a wage that appeals to many low income families, the negative impact would equate to, if not surpass, the positive repercussions. The U.S. is writing a check it can’t cash, and everyone will feel the effects. courtesy of FLICKR.COM

The current minimum wage in Louisiana is $7.25 an hour. Supporters of raising minimum wage have proposed to increase this number to $15 an hour.

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The problem facing football is much larger than merely LSU and Penn State players.

Former New Orleans Saints safety and eight-year NFL veteran Steve Gleason knows this tale all too well.

Gleason is remembered best for his game-altering blocked punt against the Atlanta Falcons in 2006 — the first home game for the Saints inside the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina.

Gleason was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, more commonly known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease, in 2011.

The disease stems from minor brain damage, which happens frequently to players in football. Gleason previously said how he would not want his son, Rivers, to play football because he fears how the game can damage one’s body.

Walker, who specializes in sports concussion and sports traumatic brain injuries, conducts studies for one of only four groups in collaboration with the National Football League to dissect the complexity of brain injuries in football.

Walker focuses mainly on retired NFL players, reviewing and examining the damage done to athletes’ brains throughout their playing careers.

“About 30 percent of the guys we have studied are showing structural brain injury, and that’s a big problem for these guys,” Walker said. “Now, they are at higher risk as they get older for dementia, and at higher risk for other diseases such as ALS. Just the fact that an individual plays in the NFL — they are at a four-times-greater risk than the normal population to get Alzheimer’s, Lou Gehrig’s disease and so on.”

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“So, it’s a combined evaluation when these retired NFL players come to us,” Walker said. “They see neurologist for a neurologic evaluation. They see a neuropsychologist for complex neuropsychological testing, and then we perform a brain MRI with DTI as well. So they get a full-brain MRI evaluation to look for structural damage to the brain.”

The DTI-MRI stage of the evaluation looks specifically at the brain’s performance when compared to other healthy, unharmed brain illustrations.

“The DTI portion of the exam is a specialized sequence,” Walker said. “It is part of a unique brain MRI sequence that looks at water movement within the white matter tracts.”

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If the brain is fully functional, healthy water will flow normally as a car would on the interstate — anywhere between 60 and 70 mph.

If the brain experiences traumatic damage of any sort, the water would grind through a traffic jam at less than 50 mph.

It’s a traffic jam no one wants to experience but a reality many footballers are stuck in for a lifetime.

Football researchers are using DTI testing for brain-injury studies. In 2014, Dr. Christopher Whitlow, a Wake Forest School of Medicine radiology professor, conducted a study on 24 players from a Chicago high school football team. The initial DTI-MRI exam was conducted prior to a season full of games and practices, and a conclusion test was administered at the end of the season.

The study found the players, all between the ages of 16 and 18, experienced significant decrease in the fluidity of water transport inside the white matter

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Walker’s research cannot point to where brain damage begins in the timeline of a football career.

Football play resulting in brain injury is studied mainly at the more-physically athletic collegiate and professional levels, but 70 percent of football careers begin in youth and high school development settings.

The NFL, filled with extremely athletic and strong men of all shapes sizes, has the most lifethreatening hits in the sport.

LSU, though, continues to progress and develop ways to create a safer environment for the future of its football program.

“I could play you 100 different NFL collisions,” Walker said.

“What is amazing to me is that 80 percent of the time the players get up and walk away. But the other 20 percent result in a devastating head injury that may result in unconsciousness. There is no way looking at the impact that you can tell [the damages].

There is such a complex combination of forces that you just cannot tell.”