The Daily Reveille - November 6, 2014

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014 [Left] LSU sophomore linebacker Kendell Beckwith (52) prepares to tackle Ole Miss wide receiver Larguon Treadwell on Oct. 25 during the Tigers’ 10-7 victory in Tiger Stadium. [Inset] Kendell, 4, and the Beckwiths stand with their horse.

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Alexander issues initiative to combat Ebola

BY kelsey bordelon kbordelon@lsureveille.com

JAVIER FERNÁNDEZ / The Daily Reveille inset photo courtesy of URHONDA BECKWITH

gifted athlete on the football field. The oldest of the three, Wendell Jr., was a two-year letterman at Tulane University. The youngest, Justin, is a junior wide receiver at East Feliciana High School. Kendell is different because he’s the only Beckwith brother with this love for horses. “I don’t even know why I like

LSU President F. King Alexander has set guidelines regarding personal travel by University employees and students to and from Ebola-affected nations. Permanent Memorandum 13 explains general regulations for travel at University expense in compliance with the World Health Organization’s declaration that the Ebola virus outbreak is now an international public health emergency. D’Ann Morris, executive director of the Student Health Center, said the provisions are a campus-wide collaboration to make this health initiative as efficient as possible.

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BACK IN THE SADDLE Sophomore linebacker Beckwith sticks to country roots

BY michael haarala mhaarala@lsureveille.com

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t the end of the day, LSU sophomore linebacker Kendell Beckwith would rather be in the woods than on the field. “I’m not like a lot of other college football players,” Beckwith said. “I’m a country boy.” The 6-foot-2-inch, 245-pound linebacker has always had a love

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for the outdoors. He grew up on 50 acres of land just outside of Clinton, Louisiana, a small town near the state’s border with Mississippi. As children, his brothers Justin and Wendell Jr. enjoyed playing football in the small pasture next to their house, but Kendell had his eyes on something else: horses. “Before he could even walk, Kendell loved horses,” said

Kendell’s mother, Urhonda. “He started riding horses when he was around 4 years old. He didn’t get into football until middle school, and even then, he spent most of his time with his horses.” When Kendell was 7 years old, he got his own horse. Since then, his childhood interest for horses has budded into a full-on passion. Each of the three brothers is a

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Spring course mixes food and religious traditions BY ROSE VELAZQUEZ rvelazquez@lsureveille.com Religious studies professor Gail Sutherland is plating a delicious new spin on some traditional ideas in one of her spring religious studies courses. Because life’s most important events revolve around food, Sutherland’s course — Food, Culture, and Religion — explores religious identity in everyday life through food. “There are all kinds of ethical issues, of course, that have to do with food,” Sutherland said. “There are political issues,

economic issues, and in my class, we kind of touch on all of that as sort of a total picture of the role of food in our culture.” Many people see religion as an individual’s beliefs or the religious knowledge gained by reading certain religious texts, Sutherland said. However, religious experiences vary among people, and her course looks at everyday life as an extension of religious identity manifesting through religious practices and disciplines, particularly disciplines of the body. “I think that food is part of a whole sector of our cultural life that is not just overlooked, but

deemed to be lesser,” Sutherland said. This is the second time in recent years Sutherland has taught this course, the first being last spring. She taught it several years ago but let it go due to prior obligations. Sutherland said she decided to bring the course back because she feels it’s still a relevant topic students will relate to and be interested in. Whether the decision is conscious or reflective, people make choices everyday about what to

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Religious studies professor Gail Sutherland will teach Food, Culture and Religion next spring. She said the course will explore religious identity through the foods of different cultures.

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