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LSU football becomes the latest team to take a stand on social justice photos by JALEN HINTON
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Tiger Band is still performing amid the COVID-19 pandemic; here’s how they’re preparing.
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Senior safety JaCoby Stevens has proven himself to be a leader both on and off the field.
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‘We really needed this’: LSU football players join movement of athletes protesting racial inequality BY REED DARCEY @byreeddarcey Long after all his teammates had filed out the University Administration building, JaCoby Stevens stood outside on the steps, fielding questions from reporters. “We need to have this conversation of social injustice,” he said. “We need to have this conversation and admit there is racism out there. If we have those types of conversations as a people...and actually admit it, I think that we can make a lot of improvements and take a lot of steps forward.” The last to leave the team’s march against racial inequality last Friday, Stevens was also the first to arrive, when he and linebacker Andre Anthony orchestrated a strike on that day’s practice. The players met at Tiger Stadium in the afternoon, to the surprise of coach Ed Orgeron, and stood resolute for a photo-op. They then marched across campus, fists raised high, to the University president’s office. After meeting with Interim President Tom Galligan, Athletic Director Scott Woodward and Orgeron, Stevens spoke to the LSU community on behalf of the players. “I hope it encourages people to bring up a conversation,” he said. “We had the head coach, the AD and the president of the school here, so I think in our social world here at LSU and in Baton Rouge, I think we did a really good job.” At the meeting, the players told the University leaders about their encounters with racism. Remove the pads, the helmets or the 100,000 screaming fans, Stevens said, and these players are ordinary Black men, marching through a world fraught with racism, on a wet, rainy Friday afternoon. “I understand their feelings,” Orgeron said. “We’re like family. There’s a lot of hurt going on. I want to let them know that I fully support their decision.” “It wasn’t a question if Coach O was going to listen,” Stevens said. “He always does. I think he was really receptive to it. He came, and he really supported us.” “I need to know more about them,” Orgeron said. “I don’t go through the same things they go through. I don’t have the same feelings that they have. They face different things that I heard about today that I never knew before, so obviously, I want to hear them out. I want to be there for them, and I want to support them 110%.” “Thank you to our LSU football student-athletes for speaking up,” Galligan wrote on Twitter after meeting with the team. “We support you, we stand with you against racism and inequality, and we know actions will always speak louder than words.” Almost a week before the team’s protest, a police officer in
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LSU senior safety Jacoby Stevens speaks to media about protest on Aug. 28 in front of the LSU President office.
See pages 6-7 for more photos of the protest Kenosha, WI shot Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black father, seven times in the back, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. The officers were responding to a domestic incident on Aug. 23 that Blake was attempting to de-escalate, according to his attorney. When the police arrived, Blake began walking to his car where his three sons were waiting for him. Police first tried to stop him with a taser before one officer fired seven shots into his back, Wisconsin state investigators say. The officer who shot Blake, Rusten Sheskey, was placed on administrative leave, and an investigation into the shooting went to the Wisconsin Department of Justice. A civil rights probe was also launched. Nightly protests ensued in Kenosha following the shooting. On Tuesday night, 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed two protesters and wounded a third. He is facing charges of homicide and felony charges of attempted homicide. LSU’s protest was part of a larger movement of athletes protesting racial inequality in the week after Blake’s shooting. The Milwaukee Bucks announced a strike of their playoff game on Wednesday night, forcing the NBA to postpone the playoffs. Players across the WNBA, NHL, MLB and MLS followed suit and chose not to practice or play games in protest. The NBA players agreed to resume playoffs on Saturday after the league agreed to a three-point plan to confront systemic racism. One: The league will create a social justice coalition of players, coaches and governors that will work to “increase access to voting, promote civic engagement
and advocate for meaningful police and criminal justice reform.” Two: Every NBA arena that is owned by a team will be converted into a polling place for the November election, allowing ample space for residents to vote safely. Three: The NBA will work with its broadcast partners to open advertising slots during playoff games “dedicated to promoting greater civic engagement in national and local elections and raising awareness around voter access and opportunity.” The Oklahoma Sooners also marched across their campus in Norman on Friday, dressed in all black. Head coach Lincoln Riley stood at the front of the march, joining senior safety Chanse Sylvie, who recently drafted his own plans for police reform and discussed them with lawmakers, according to The Athletic. On Monday, University of Alabama football players and coaches will walk from their practice facility to the Foster Auditorium, where Gov. George Wallace infamously stood in 1963, attempting to block the university from integrating. Missouri football also canceled its practice on Friday and held a meeting instead. Missouri football players went on strike in 2015, declining to participate in all football-related activities until the university’s president, Tim Wolfe, resigned. Wolfe, under fire for his handling of incidents of racism on campus, resigned two days after the players’ strike. Ole Miss football also protested on Friday in lieu of practice. On the 65th anniversary of Emmitt Till’s murder, the players marched from campus to down-
town Oxford at the site of a Confederate monument. The team stood around the statue in front of the Lafayette County Courthouse, chanting, “No justice, no peace” and “Hands up, don’t shoot.” Mississippi State football held a similar demonstration. In June, star running back Kylin Hill announced that he would not play this season unless the Mississippi state legislature voted to remove the Confederate emblem off its state flag. By the end of the month, Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill into law that removed the stars and bars from the flag. Over the summer, the LSU Board of Supervisors voted to remove Troy H. Middleton’s name from the library in the heart of campus due to his vocal support of segregation while president of the University. The University also announced that it will form a new committee that will work to rename other buildings on campus named after slaveholders, Confederates, segregationists and racists. The College of Humanities and Social Sciences announced plans to promote its African and African American Studies program to department status. On the steps outside the president’s office, Stevens said the actions of athletes across the country inspired the march across the University. Previous generations of his family fought for civil rights, Stevens said, so he felt he had no choice but to protest. “I really don’t have a choice because of the color of my skin,” he said, “but I have so many great people in my family who fought for civil rights, and I feel like I need to take on that burden.” “I think we really needed this.”
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Juneteenth recognized as an LSU holiday BY EMMA ZIRGIBEL @EZirgibel
tion leaders have been doing,” Brownfield said. “They’ve been getting on there with potential members and returning members and playing games and trying to familiarize themselves with each other.” Tiger Band Director Kelvin Jones shared that while the band is planning to perform, there are ideas circulating as to how the band may need to be different this season. “We haven’t been told otherwise so we’re anticipating something,” Jones said. “We’ve already put together a socially
Juneteenth became an official holiday on LSU academic calendar following a resolution passed by Student Government June 3. The resolution was headed largely by Black Caucus President and mass communication senior Alaysia Johnson and Senate Speaker and political science and African American studies senior Justin Martin. The two met in May and discussed initiatives that could illuminate issues faced by Black communities. “Student government as a whole was trying to address issues going on in the country and around campus,” Martin said. Juneteenth has been celebrated in America since the 1800s According to the New York Times. It celebrates the announcement that Union Army General Gordon Granger made informing enslaved African-Americans that the Civil War had ended and they were free. For Johnson, Juneteenth goes beyond history. She said the holiday was an integral part of her life, one other Americans may not even know of. She found it important to give students a day to stop and celebrate with their families. “Juneteenth to me represents
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How LSU Tiger Band is prepping for football season amid COVID-19 ABBY KIBLER / The Reveille
Tiger Band marches down Victory Hill before the Tigers’ 42-6 win against Utah State on October 5, 2019. BY JACOB LOFTON @jacobalofton With the cancellation of football seasons for both the Big Ten and the PAC- 12, some have questioned the future of college football this season. But as the University’s football team readies itself for a football season, the Tiger Band is moving forward with new plans, practice techniques and contingencies for a season of COVID- 19 football. It is still the early stages of for Tiger Band, but they have started the season with the pandemic in mind through their au-
dition processes. Tiger Band drum major and music senior Taylor Brownfield shared what the band is doing to prepare for the season. “We have our band camp currently going on virtually, and we are doing auditions via video,” Brownfield said. “Then the band directors will judge that and we’ll move forward” With rehearsals slated to start in-person Sept. 1, Brownfield also said the band is taking precautions for in-person practices. “We’re definitely implementing social distancing,” Brownfield said. “Actually, athletics
have given us a great opportunity to use their military grade equipment to use while we are practicing and rehearsing. A majority of our rehearsals, if not all, will be outside. There’s a 10-person limit within Tiger Band Hall, and so that restricts us a good bit.” In addition to using Zoom for schoolwork, jobs and sectionals, Tiger Band section leaders have been using Zoom to organize social functions between members. “It’s also great to be able to use as a platform to have fun and build relationships and that’s what some of our sec-
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LSU Lakes restoration project set to restart in September BY MARYKELLY MUNSTER @ mkokayokay Anyone entering campus or crossing the interstate can clearly see the algae-topped LSU Lakes, but thanks to a new restoration project, the six lakes may become a shining landmark for the LSU community. The University Lakes Project will resume rehabilitating the scenic lakes in September following its spring 2020 suspension. The LSU Real Estate and Facilities Foundation, under the LSU Foundation’s umbrella, will oversee the dredging of all six lakes, construction of a bridge at May Street and building of sidewalks and bike paths around the lakes. “The Lakes are not only important to LSU, but to the entire state of Louisiana,” LSU Interim President Thomas Galligan said
in a press release. “We are excited to be part of the endless possibilities this project brings to our community” While most students take pleasure walking, biking and running the lakes, many believe the lakes project is necessary. Political science junior Tyler Gambino said he enjoyed walking the lakes with friends almost every day in the summer, but he thought the conditions of the lakes could improve. “I think the sidewalks could use a little care,” Gambino said. Chemical engineering junior Aaron Hutchinson agreed. “The overall health of the lakes could be better,” Hutchinson said. “I mean the water looks brown and disgusting.” A partnership between the State of Louisiana, the City of Baton Rouge, BREC, LSU and BELLA BIONDINI / The Reveille
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Six lakes surround LSU’s Campus in Baton Rouge on January 24.
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LAKE, from page 3 the LSU Athletics Department and the Baton Rouge Area Foundation formed in fall 2019 to improve the lakes. Progress temporarily halted when the project partners spotlighted the health of the community in the midst of the pandemic. To begin the projects amongst the impact of COVID-19, the project will occur in phases. “…This is a great step for the City of Baton Rouge and the entire parish,” said Mayor Sharon Weston Broome in an LSU press release. In the same press release, BREC Superintendent Corey Wislon said the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of trails and parks for the community. The project does not suffer from a lack of ambitious ideas: Project members aim to create boathouses, islands, easier access to the water, cleaner water for fishing and marine life and safer pathways for pedestrians. CEO of the LSU Foundation,
half.” Jones said the delay of the football season has given more time for the band to think of ways to protect its members. “I can say there’s a big difference in regards to the first Robert Stuart said funding is in place to move forward with the design of the lakes’ rehabilitation by the end of 2020. “We’re very confident that we’ll have a good design team coming in to do the dredging,” Stuart said. “The lakes are an important part of the quality of life at LSU and Baton Rouge. People from all walks of life use them, and we think we can make it a showcase that will be much more useable.” Stuart said project partners hope to engage students from various sciences to learn from the project. After the design team finishes the lakes’ revamp, Phase I of construction, scheduled to start in fall 2021, will include the deepening and reshaping of City Park, Erie, Campus and College Lakes along with the creation of pedestrian and bicycle path renovations around City Park and Campus Lakes. The three sources of funding from Baton Rouge Parish, BREC and the Louisiana Office of Community Development, combine
game not happening until Sept. 26, which gives us more time to kind of take our time with things, making sure we’re safe and we provide a healthy environment for our students,” Jones said. “As much as I want
to play and would’ve been playing weeks ago, we just want to be smart about it.” Brownfield said that while this year will come with major changes, he anticipates things returning to normal soon.
“No matter what this year entails, in the near future we will be back to normal so we have to carry the rich tradition,” Brownfield said. “We’re still going to do a great job with the circumstances we have nationwide.”
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Six lakes surround LSU’s Campus in Baton Rouge on January 24. for a budget of $15 million for Phase I. Mark Goodson, a principal with CSRS, a small architectural firm merged with a small engi-
neering firm, said he was excited to see increased safety and accessibility around the lakes, as well as marine biodiversity. “The lakes are already tre-
mendously popular, but there’s still a lot of untapped potential,” Goodson said. “If they’re newer and nicer and better they’ll become even more popular.”
JUNETEENTH, from page 3 freedom and rest,” Johnson said. “[Which] is increasingly important because this [past] summer and every day presents a struggle and sense of fatigue for a lot of my community.” She compared the holiday to a Fourth of July for the Black community--a day to be proud and free. “Juneteenth gives us the space to just be and celebrate who we are as individuals in our Blackness and as a people,” After passing the resolution, SG worked with administration, especially Executive Vice President and Provost Stacia Haynie, to integrate the holiday on the academic calendar. Due to summer schedule changes, the day ended up balancing out the semester beside the Fourth of July, easily integrating into the year. Johnson, though not completely shocked that LSU accepted the resolution, said she was a little surprised at how easy the change was. “I will admit I was a little taken back by the university’s willingness to help add Juneteenth to the calendar,” Johnson said. “Not because I think the administration doesn’t care or doesn’t support us, just because I’m not confident enough in the world’s commitment to Black people.” The change marks an important recognition on the University’s part, and on Louisiana’s as well. Still, Johnson emphasized that there is more to do and the changes do not stop with Juneteenth. “I am very glad [LSU is]
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showing us their commitment, but we have more work to do and there will be more opportunities for the University to act,” she said. SG’s resolution also included other measures to bring aware
ness to issues primarily faced by the Black community.The proposal included hosting a forum with LSUPD to encourage transparency. As with any change, there will be pushback. However,
Martin said he found the student body was relatively open to new ideas and social awareness. “I think the vast majority of students aren’t against having these conversations but they might not have the space to do
it,” Martin said. “We’ve encountered a lot of students who just don’t know what others are experiencing. Providing those [students] with opportunities to learn is something [SG has] focused on.”
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Nonverbal mask-friendly greeting alternatives
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BY TANER MORGAN @taner_morgan The exact rules for when and how to engage a familiar face were ambiguous even before half of everyone’s faces were coveredby face mask. Flashing a quick smile and quietly breathing a “hey” was a safe bet, but that dialect of body language is dying quickly. “Smeyesing” only goes so far, and squinting can mean anything from a pleasant grin to a death glare. Instead, here are some alternative ways to politely acknowledge the presence of someone familiar, in some not-sofamiliar ways.
Foot Tap Tapping toes together seems like a culty, secretive exchange — which is an accurate assessment — but it also makes for a hands free, hardly touch greeting, like using those tap to pay card readers at fancy juice places. Elbow Bump The elbow bump is the most close quarters greeting enumerated here, though it also allows participants to hold/interact with something with both hands. Also called “the service industry see ya” by no one (yet), the bump is ideal for passing acknowledgement of an acquaintance. Elbows are socially sup-
pressed on a grand scale by sneezes and deserve a renaissance of everyday application. Sensei Bow While most fitting when entering a dojo, a shallow bow from the waist can act as a courteous and respectful gesture to another. This is a fairly hands-free process and is best performed by keeping one’s arms pinned to their sides. I suppose a namaste position works just as well. Finger Guns Finger guns while pointing at someone are best accompanied by excited expressions like, “There he/she is!” or “Just who I was hoping to see!” This verbal excite-
ment gives the gesture an upbeat context and confirms that you are not actually threatening that individual with violent acts. This can be by far the most captivating or most dangerous approach on this list, so make your intentions clear with a smile. Or, for the more daring finger gunners, give your firearms a crackle by snapping at your victim — or, rather, recipient — while bidding your greeting. Jazz Hands Flashing some jazz hands is a great noncommittal hello that avoids the social and health risks associated with touching other people at the moment. Unless one’s hands are occupied with something other than jazz-
ing, it takes little to no effort to exchange a round of jazz hands. If you’re too embarrassed to single handedly bring traditional jazz hands back to the forefront of common communication, giving only a shake or two of the palms is a more subtle approach. Some basic conventions may be forever lost in the wake of Covid-19. Wearing a mask has stripped away my dimples and the advantage they give me in conversation with grandmothers. People with intricate mustaches suffer in silence. Demand for nose and lip tattoos has plummeted. Practice your bows and bumps because the world is changing in a not very big way.
MOVIES AND TV
Five Rev Ranked shows that made it to the Emmy Awards BY BRITNEY YOUNG @byoun99 It was a surprise to see that the Emmy Awards still be held during a pandemic, but the talented creators and actors of 2019 cannot go unnoticed. HBO and Netflix put out the most nominations. Netflix has 160 nominations, and HBO has 107. In addition, some of the shows nominated were ranked by The Reveille’s entertainment section. I want to discuss my favorite aspects of these shows and my predictions for them.
“Watchmen” “Watchmen” is one of my favorite shows of 2019. From the first to last episode, I was blown away by how creative and unique “Watchmen” was. “Watchmen” was able to snag 26 nominations. The show was nominated for categories like music, production design, casting, cinematography and many more. The cinematography and music of “Watchmen” was a wonder to watch. I wouldn’t be surprised if they won in these categories for a limited series. Although, the categories I am most excited for
are outstanding supporting actor, lead actress, lead actor and outstanding limited series. Regina King is nominated for outstanding lead actress, and I think she is above the competition. Her performance is the best that I have seen in 2019.
“Euphoria” “Euphoria” was all over my Twitter timeline every Sunday night. I mean a show can’t go wrong with Zendaya in it. But, Zendaya’s performance still didn’t outshine the others who were all equally important to the story. Although I do love the casting choices, I was disappointed that Zendaya was the only actress nominated for “Euphoria”. “Euphoria” only has six nominations for this year. “Euphoria” was also nominated for outstanding costumes, makeup, music composition and music supervision. Labrinth is the music composer for “Euphoria,” and his work is truly amazing. Makeup and costumes is also another factor that made “Euphoria” so beloved. There is even a TikTok trend where creators use makeup styles that were similar to the ones on
“Euphoria.” I am certain that “Euphoria” will win for outstanding contemporary makeup.
“Hollywood” “Hollywood” earned 12 nominations. The limited series was able to get nominations for outstanding period hairstyling, makeup, costumes, music composition, main title theme music, sound mixing, production design and prosthetic makeup. Dylan McDermott, Jim Parsons and Holland Taylor are nominated for outstanding supporting actor and actress, and Jeremy Pope is nominated for outstanding lead actor. I did enjoy Pope’s performance, but I think Jeremy Irons will win the nomination for his performance in “Watchmen”.
“The Politician” With five nominations, “The Politician” only has one actress, Bette Midler, nominated for outstanding guest actress in a comedy series. But, they are nominated for outstanding contemporary costumes, hairstyling, makeup and main title design.
I would say the costumes were the best feature from “The Politician”. The costumes matched the character’s personalities, and I really liked tuning in to each episode and loving the costume choice. They are in competition with “Euphoria” in this category, but I would choose the “The Politician” over “Euphoria.”
“Love Is Blind” I remember sitting in my apartment mindlessly watching “Love Is Blind.” This show made it so easy for me to procrastinate while doing my homework, but I am surprised it was nominated for two Emmys. “Love Is Blind” is nominated for outstanding structured reality program and casting for a structured reality program.
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alike rejoiced. Stevens was one of those players. “We always felt like we were going to play,” he said. “There was no question of not playing.” Even though there will be a season, many players around the country are choosing to opt out. So far, three Tigers have made this decision. Star receiv-
SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey announced Thursday afternoon that SEC fall sports, including cross country, soccer, volleyball, golf and tennis, would receive new start dates, scheduling, and championship formats. This comes after the conference office had previously announced that cross country, soccer and volleyball would be suspended until at least Aug. 31. The cross country season will begin on Sept. 11 and continue to Oct. 23. Teams will be limited to compete in a minimum of two events and a maximum of three in this span. The SEC Championships will be held in Baton Rouge, LA on Oct. 30. Soccer will start on Sept. 18 and play to Nov. 8 for an eightgame regular season. Teams will play six divisional opponents
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LSU senior safety JaCoby Stevens (3) tackles Florida senior runningback Lamical Perine (2) on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019, during the Tigers’ 42-48 victory against the Gators in Tiger Stadium. BY RECE BEAUGH @recebeaugh In this time of great uncertainty, leadership has never been more valuable. The LSU football team has many leaders on both sides of the ball, but when it comes to defense, senior JaCoby Stevens heads the ship. The defensive back had a great year for the Tigers in 2019,
recording 92 total tackles, five sacks, three interceptions and nine passes defended. LSU will look for another big year out of Stevens, especially since the team will have a new defensive coordinator, Bo Pelini. Although new to the program, Pelini and Stevens have already garnered a great relationship both on and off the field.
“My relationship with Coach Pelini is pretty cool,” Stevens said. “We can talk about stuff outside of football. It creates a great rapport between us.” Before the first game on Sept. 26, one big question remains: Will college football have a season? The SEC announced earlier in August that a 10-game, conference-only schedule would occur, to which fans and plays
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Pelicans will fly high without Alvin Gentry’s guidance BY MICHAEL SANCHEZ @MikeSanchez525 On the morning of Aug. 15, the New Orleans Pelicans relieved Alvin Gentry of his head coaching duties. After five seasons as head coach for the team, Gentry accounted for a lowly 175-225 record. The dismissal came at no surprise to most, due to the Pelicans’ shortcomings in the playoffs. Pelicans management stated that they are scouting 30 possible prospects to take over the team. So the question remains: What does the future hold for this young, talented team? NBA hall of famer Jason Kidd and championship-winning coach Tyronn Lue have been mentioned as front runners for the coaching job. Kidd had an outstanding career on the court, and still hasn’t quite put his mark on the league yet as a coach. Kidd’s playing style was very similar to the current form of the New Orleans team: fast-paced
and in your face. And yes, with Kidd at the helm, the Pelicans might as well trademark that as their motto for the foreseeable future. Lue is a very worthy contender for the job as well. Midway through the 2015-2016 season, Lue replaced David Blatt as head coach for the Cleveland Cavaliers. Lue was able to lead his team to an NBA title, despite coming in as a replacement coach. That championship is a testament to Lue’s versatility as a leader. Both Kidd and Lue are currently assistant coaches on two playoff teams, the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers, respectively. The Pelicans organization has made it known that they are not shy to bring a college coach onto the professional scene. Will Wade, LSU men’s basketball coach, was among one of those names mentioned. Wade is 37 years old and could gel well with the young Pelicans team. Wade and the Tigers had a good chance to make some noise in March
Madness, sitting at number two in the Southeastern Conference prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. An upside to bringing in a college coach is that he is familiar with furthering underdeveloped playing styles. In Wade’s seven years of coaching, he boasts a credible 158-77 overall record. The Pelicans have not shot down the idea of an internal hire just yet. Assistant coaches Chris Finch and Fred Vinson could be potential candidates for the position. Both coaches have years of experience in the organization and would be the safest hires. But is that what the New Orleans Pelicans need? A safe hire? I think not. This team needs to be flipped on its head and revitalized. After logging countless losing seasons, the time for safe hires has passed. Pelicans Executive Vice President David Griffin made it clear that the process of finding a new head coach will not be a quick one. The team is searching for the leader of this franchise.
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New Orleans Pelicans forward Zion Williamson (1) dunks the ball against the Portland Trail Blazers in the first half of an NBA basketball game in New Orleans, Feb. 11. Kidd is the fiery spark that this young team needs to propel them to the top. Kidd has been coaching under Frank Vogel for the 2019-2020 season while coaching the likes of LeBron James and Anthony Davis. Coaching those types of top-tier players is what
makes inexperienced coaches into veteran leaders. With Kidd as the pilot of the Pelicans plane, they will surely fly high without Gentry. Pelicans fans, hop on the coaching carousel. This is shaping up to be a wild ride.
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Monday, August 31, 2019 STEVENS, from page 9 er Ja’Marr Chase, defensive end Neil Farrell Jr. and cornerback Kary Vincent Jr. all have decided not to play in the 2020 season. When Stevens was asked what the team thought of losing key players on the defensive side of the ball, he said head coach Ed Orgeron preaches a “next-man-up mentality,” and the team would do exactly that.
“We always felt like we were going to play. There was no question of not playing.” JACOBY STEVENS LSU senior safety
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LSU senior safety JaCoby Stevens (3) in Tiger Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019.
SEC, from page 9 and two non-divisional opponents. The SEC Tournament will be held in Orange Beach, AL, from Nov. 13-22. Every team will be guaranteed two games in the tournament. Volleyball will run from Oct. 16 to Nov. 27, with a total of eight matches over six weeks of play. Teams will play against four different opponents, playing the same opponent twice in the same weekend. Golf and tennis will abide by similar rules. Both sports will require teams to wait until Oct. 1 for competition to begin. There is a limit of three to-
tal team events for the season, and teams will be restrained to playing in events that are SECexclusive or constrained to only non-conference teams from the team’s geographic region. The conference office also announced that fall practice and intra-squad scrimmages for baseball and softball would continue as planned, but exhibition games against other schools would not be allowed. The SEC had previously announced the football season will begin on Sept. 26. Each team will play 10 conference games, with six games against division opponents and four against non-division opponents.
He was also asked about Vincent’s replacement, sophomore Cordale Flott. “Cordale has always been a guy we can depend on,” Stevens said. As big of a leader as he is on the field, it is just as important that Stevens and other veteran players are leaders off the field. He and linebacker Andre Anthony helped lead the team in a march on Aug. 28 to protest racial inequality. The team skipped practice, met instead at Tiger Stadium and marched across campus to Interim Pres-
ident Tom Galligan’s office, where the players met with the president, Athletic Director Scott Woodward and Orgeron. Stevens, who said previous generations of his family have fought for civil rights, was the first to arrive and last to leave. “I really don’t have a choice because of the color of my skin, but I have so many great people in my family who fought for civil rights,” Stevens said. “I need to take on that burden; I think we really needed this.” The team’s protest was part of a larger movement of athlete protests following the Aug. 23 police shooting of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old black man, in Kenosha, WI. In times like this, players must practice safety, even after they leave the football facilities. Stevens stressed the importance of this responsibility and commended the team for their efforts recently after an outbreak within the team earlier this summer. “The team has been really good about learning from our mistakes,” Stevens said. “We have been really responsible in how we are handling ourselves. We are here to make the peoples’ jobs who put the protocols in place easier. We are all about the team and representing the state of Louisiana on Sept. 26.” The Tigers will open their season in Tiger Stadium against Mississippi State on Sept. 26.
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The SEC logo is displayed on the field ahead of the Southeastern Conference championship game in 2014.
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Hurricane Laura reminds us climate change is already here CLAIRE’S COMMENTARY CLAIRE SULLIVAN
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Climate change is not a farfetched theory of the future but a reality of today. It is the whipping lashes of Hurricane Laura battering homes in Lake Charles. It is the Northern California fires erasing whole communities. It is the Louisiana coast swallowing towns; the collapsing glaciers roaring in defeat as they meet the warming sea. Though climate change deniers in Congress may have you believe otherwise, the scientific consensus is that: 1) the Earth is warming at an unnatural rate, and 2) human activity is to blame. Coastal land loss in Louisiana is a grim and destructive reminder of this phenomenon. And so was Hurricane Laura. Louisiana breathed a sigh of relief earlier this week when Tropical Storm Marco fizzled out and Laura was labeled a
Category 1 hurricane, a turn of events which seemed to contradict the reports of a historic double storm system in the gulf. Just two days later, however, residents would have to hold their breaths again as Hurricane Laura intensified into a Category 4 storm, prompting national news coverage of the impending storm surge deemed “unsurvivable.” Supermarket shelves were stripped of essentials like water and canned goods, resembling the panic-buys of the early COVID-19 lockdown in mid-March. The University urged students to shelter in place and take precautions and those left on the coast braced themselves as Laura throttled forth. Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases like methane trap solar energy in the atmosphere and warm the planet. Much of this warmth is absorbed by the ocean’s surface, which acts as a temperature regulatory machine. Warming oceans cause sea levels to rise, but they also act as dangerous pit stops for hurricanes like Laura.
The Gulf of Mexico has been unusually warm this season, with water temperatures reaching up to 90 degrees in some areas. As Hurricane Laura hurtled over the Atlantic it swept up energy and water vapor from the sea below, fueling its rapid escalation. Scientists have noticed that as oceans warm, storms intensify. Not only that but higher temperatures prompt evaporation, bringing more rainfall to places like Louisiana and increasing the risk of destructive — often deadly — floods. While climate change likely was not the root cause of the storm itself, it was largely responsible for the hurricane’s abrupt escalation, which produced 150 mph winds. As if Hurricane Laura wasn’t enough, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predict more storms entering the Atlantic in 2020 than ever before, with estimates rivaling even the record storm season of 2005 that included Hurricane Katrina. Louisiana exists in twisted irony. It lays in perpetual anxi-
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A chemical fire burns on Aug. 27, after Hurricane Laura swept through Lake Charles, LA. ety for the next natural disaster, and today climate change only intensifies that fear. The fossil fuel industry on which the state’s economy depends also contributes to the rising seas that swallow its lands and the storms that demolish its towns; industryfunded politicians cite economic talking points while ignoring the devastation Louisiana has seen in the past few years due to the effects of climate change. Politicians — those who at least pretend to care — act like climate change is the inevitable bur-
den Generation Z must shoulder later in life as adults. They lament the fact that their grandchildren will grow up on a dying Earth. What they fail to realize is that climate change is not a problem of tomorrow, but one we live through each day. As Louisiana looks upon the damage of Hurricane Laura, let it see that the apocalyptic “future” has become the present. Claire Sullivan is an 18-year-old coastal environmental science freshman from Southbury, CT.
Boom in online content threatens role of higher education EVAN ON EARTH EVAN LEONHARD
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Somewhere down the YouTube rabbit holes that have become far too familiar in the late-night solitude of the past six months, I stumbled upon a series of philosophy lectures from a group of academics who teach at the University of Nottingham. Although the video titles seemed intriguing, I admit that my expectations were relatively low, and all I was expecting to see was some random professor teaching his or her usual class through the shaky, low quality lens of a phone camera. What I found was pleasantly surprising. These lectures — if it’s even accurate to call them that — were almost like miniature documentaries, featuring professionally filmed expert monologues intermingled with music and visual aids. They were substantial, yet easy to binge-watch, each running at approximately 30 minutes long.
But perhaps the most striking thing about this lecture series was its unsuspecting popularity: it had been raking in hundreds of thousands of views. This example is not unique. The past five years have seen an explosion of serious academic content online, particularly pertaining to the humanities and social sciences. Youtube, its format uniquely well-suited for long-form lectures and video essays, has been the epicenter of this movement, making viral celebrities out of primarily intellectual figures like culture critic Natalie Wynn, also known as “Contrapoints,” and clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson. On some level the website has long nurtured this environment of scholarly curiosity, with channels like Crash Course and The School of Life offering bite-sized introductions to a wide variety of ideas and disciplines. Although entities like Crash Course certainly have their niche, this recent rise of online academe, exemplified by the Nottingham lectures, speaks light-years beyond the mild, el-
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ementary blathering of the Green brothers. These new community leaders comprise a wide variety of serious thinkers developing challenging, cutting-edge ideas and sharing them exclusively on the internet. This puts universities, who are naturally the traditional suppliers of this sort of intellectual instruction, in a potentially difficult position. For centuries these institutions have acted as the gatekeepers of human knowledge, providing elites access to truth, art and culture in exchange for absurd amounts of money. The internet has disrupted the university’s age-old monopoly on academia, resulting in what I believe to be an unprecedented democratization of information and quality instruction. This seems to be particularly problematic for the humanities and social science departments which, despite being home to some of the most fascinating and life-ennobling disciplines one can study, have struggled against prevailing trends of rising tuition and extreme cultural careerism.
Many passionate young people who would usually consider a major in arts or the humanities are rightly posing the question: why should I entrench myself in thousands of dollars of debt for information that I can get for free online? It’s a valid question, yet there are unavoidable drawbacks to socialized academia, as it can give way to the rise of charlatans, making it harder for the general public to discern between quality scholarship and misinformation. There have always been, and always will be, pseudo-intellectuals. Nowadays, however, literally anyone with access to the internet can amass a loyal flock of followers by spilling conspiratorial nonsense as long as it’s wrapped in the right rhetoric. Situations like these become especially dangerous when political or religious undertones are added to the mix. Still, not all hope is lost for the university, which maintains the benefit of providing a formal academic framework, the chance to regularly interact with experts and peers alike and, perhaps
most importantly, the potential for accreditation in one’s field. If modern universities and liberal arts departments have the will to survive — and it is undoubtedly in society’s best interest that they do — serious changes in their fundamental outlook desperately need to be considered moving forward. When thinking about ways higher education could better secure its quality and cultural prominence for the future, it might be helpful to take a cue from the Nottingham professors. Universities need to develop new ways to make what they provide, especially in the liberal arts, approachable and economically feasible. Activity on the internet has proven that rising generations are eager to engage with the fundamental questions of human life and knowledge. It is time for universities to step up, capture this curiosity and guide it to its full potential. Evan Leonhard is a 19 year-old English and philosophy junior from New Orleans, LA.
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“...you realize how much you need to have people that you love. It’s not as much about them loving you – it’s about you needing to love people.”
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University must abolish long-standing use of prison labor KEVIN WONDERS OF THE WORLD KEVIN DOUCETTE
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As recently as Nov. 2019, our administration has admitted to using prison labor for landscaping and other on-campus duties. Students may not have noticed these workers, who are primarily kept in secluded areas of campus and work “mainly on the weekends.” Speaking to The Reveille last year, Executive Director of Facility and Property Oversight Tammy Millican explained, “We’re very careful not to put them in the more populated areas of campus.” One area you likely recognize,
Mike’s habitat, is serviced by unpaid inmates once a month. There is a perceptible stain on convicts that doesn’t extend to you and me despite our own indiscretions. What are the offenses that these men deserve to be enslaved for? You or someone you know has most likely fallen behind on a loan payment, violated traffic laws, shoplifted, or illegally bought or sold drugs (there surely are violent offenders among our student body too, including sexual harassers and abusers), yet neither you nor they are in a jumpsuit right now digging trenches in the Louisiana heat. Why do you think that is? To explain why I consider prison labor interchangeable with indentured servitude and slavery, allow me to point to the
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13th Constitutional Amendment which states: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Essentially, as a citizen of the United States, you’re subject to conditions wherein the state can exploit labor from you under the pretense that you have committed a crime. Following your conviction, you may be sent to a private prison in which the state allows your indentured servitude. In other words, the state still permits your dehumanization under federal, state and private oversight. African Americans and Hispanics make up 56% of the United States prison population and are incarcerated at over double the rate of their white counterparts. It’s not hard to understand this racial disparity when examining the history of policing and prosecution--both are political tools that have been reformed and weaponized in reaction to civil rights movements since the 19th century. Since 1997, the University has chosen to exploit free labor from convicts rather than circulate money into the surrounding
community by paying fair union prices for hard labor, a blunt ploy on the administration’s part to save money. However, they attempt to contend this fact with their ongoing mission to serve the community. As a wealthy institution, the University can afford to meaningfully service and provide for its surrounding population. Bussing in ousted community members to involuntarily labor away is not service it’s exploitation. An institution that can afford to build high-tech locker rooms and lazy rivers is one that can fairly compensate local contractors. Our campus sits alongside Baton Rouge’s historically Black neighborhoods, yet the administration chooses to feed into the arguably bloated correctional system rather than hire within the community and promote economic growth. While others on campus may be concerned with ensuring their safety around inmates or padding out the University’s landscaping budget, I’m concerned with the administration’s insistence on slave labor and what that entails specifically for Black students. At this moment in time, “Black Lives Matter” is an arguably political stance and one the University claims to take. But an institution that rents out the unpaid hard
labor of mostly Black men is distinctly at odds with the anti-racist movement of today. White individuals in a predominately white institution vouching for the unpaid labor of Black men is a profound marker of how little progress we’ve made. Any justification founded on the prospect of saving this well-endowed University money is ignorant of the clear racial dynamics at play. This is a racially and politically diverse campus. For many, that means finding the right forum to air out your grievances. For BLM supporters, that means reconciling your beliefs with the University’s insistence on exploiting the labor of an overpoliced demographic. For Black students, it means separating your own Blackness from that of the ever-present laborers in your periphery. For over two decades, the University has relied on slavery to maintain a sightly campus — one at which minority students should feel welcome. Any institution that profits off the unpaid labor of downtrodden minorities is racist and should be treated as such. Kevin Doucette is a 20-year-old political science junior from New Orleans, LA.
Fox’s Tucker Carlson is a shameful excuse for a journalist GABBING WITH GABBY GABRIELLE MARTINEZ
@martinez_g0 With an average audience of 4.33 million viewers each night, frozen dinner heir and political pundit Tucker Carlson consistently spews hate through misinformation and misdirection as the host of the highest-rated program in U.S. cable news history, “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” A defining trait of the millionaire’s TV persona is his hatred for the American “elite.” He repeatedly discusses his distaste for the “pompous” rich, like Barack Obama, to an almost anti-capitalist degree; ironically, it’s estimated “Tucker Carlson Tonight” has sold $108.3 million in commercials alone this year, making up 16 % of Fox’s billion-dollar ad revenue. Yet Carlson still attempts to portray himself as a figurehead of America’s working class. A supposed patriot, he wants the best for the United States--or at least enough to relentlessly push Fox’s ultra-conservative narrative on their elderly white viewership. These fearmongering tactics are nothing out of the ordinary in right-wing media. However, while personalities like Ben Shapiro and Kaitlyn Bennett bring some satirical entertainment to outside audiences, Carlson of-
fers nothing but constant racism, homophobia and hate. When it comes to appealing to his audience, Carlson’s most basic approach is to feed off people’s fear of the unknown. In June, for example, Carlson compared creators on the social media outlet TikTok to a cult. Showing a clip of a teenager lip-syncing Nicki Minaj lyrics, he manipulatively draws the conclusion that the child is brainwashed to disagree with and “attack” her poor parents out of a “loyalty” to Black Lives Matter. In another feature, rather than talk about the 2017 Republican tax cuts that helped big businesses instead of the middle class as he’d endorsed, Carlson deliberately dedicated a majority of his show to a bogus segment on “racist trees.” Carlson has deemed the rise of white supremacy in America a liberal conspiracy theory, all the while claiming that immigrants have made the country “poorer and dirtier.” He and his fans are able to dismiss any backlash he receives as toxic “cancel culture,” invariably resulting in a followup segment in which Carlson admirably stands by his original claims. The consequences of Carlson’s extremism became most apparent following the recent Kenosha riots when the host defended the actions of murderer Kyle Rittenhouse. “How shocked are we that
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Tucker Carlson speaking with attendees at the 2018 Student Action Summit hosted by Turning Point USA at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida. 17-year-olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order when no one else would?” he said. To Carlson, “maintaining order” apparently means murdering two innocent people, a crime even our current president refuses to condemn. This is the result of Carlson’s inability to distance himself from radical far-right rhetoric in turn for higher ratings and publicity. It’s becoming more and more clear that Carlson is intentionally
pushing a narrative that he himself is writing. While it’s humorous to acknowledge as an outsider, it’s dangerous to the people who actually take his word seriously and believe the liberal left wants to destroy the American way of life. While the left advocates for race equality and climate change, Carlson somehow twists these movements into what he views as socialist corruption. Instead of acknowledging things as they
are, Carlson falsely portrays himself as a heroic character trying to save America from ruin. This tactic only heightens dramatics to further divide the country along race and party lines. What I want to know is, at what point will Carlson be satisfied with his job well done? Gabrielle Martinez is a 19-yearold mass communication sophomore from Gonzales, LA.