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quite the character LSU professor balances acting and teaching careers
STORY BY HAILEY AUGLAIR @haileyauglair1 PHOTO BY CHRISTA MORAN
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rom acting in major films to teaching at the University, Joe Chrest, an adjunct professor in the LSU School of Music and Dramatic Arts, is living his dream. Chrest began acting his senior year of high school when he took a speech class to overcome his shy habits before
starting college. “They had us do an acting scene and I found that I really enjoyed that,” Chrest said. “It was much easier to be somebody else than to be myself in front of people. It just really clicked.” Chrest graduated as part of the University’s first Master of
Fine Arts program. “When I first came to LSU, I was a graduate assistant. And I saw right then how much I loved [teaching],” Chrest said. “If I was independently wealthy, I would either be an acting student for life or an acting teacher.” Despite Chrest’s busy act-
ing career, he finds time to teach “Introduction to Acting for the Camera” at the University. Chrest said having time to teach while acting is “a dream scenario.” “It’s like having your cake
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MEN’S BASKETBALL
LSU prepares for season opener
BY BRANDON ADAM @badam_TDR It has been 966 days since LSU lost to North Carolina State in the NCAA Tournament. In that time span, a team led by No. 1 overall draft pick Ben Simmons missed postseason play completely, and coach Johnny Jones was fired after one of the worst seasons in LSU history. Enter 34-year-old Will Wade, one of the youngest head coaches in college basketball. Wade’s job this season is to lay a new foundation for a program that made the NCAA Tournament every year from 1984-1993. Since then, LSU has only made the tournament six times. This year’s LSU squad is led by a bevy of new players, and Wade is attempting to instill a defensive identity that can carry over from year-to-year. Last season, the defense finished 335th in the nation with 83.0 points allowed per game. The Tigers’ defense once again struggled in an exhibition game against Tulane, giving up 84 points. Wade criticized himself for the lack of execution on defense and plans to give less experienced players a chance. “This was all stuff we have
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ART
LSU professor uses art to spark reflection about immigration BY KATIE GAGLIANO @katie_gagliano
Printmaking assistant professor Leslie Friedman is using art to inject empathy into discourse about immigration. Friedman said today’s rhetoric lacks empathy for our neighbors and the experiences of others. It’s difficult for people to relate to others who are distant or who look different than themselves, she said. Many people believe because they haven’t experienced the hardships of immigration that they aren’t real. Friedman is working to change that by bringing community members’ experiences to the forefront through her installation series “Go Home.” The
professor is calling for accounts from immigrants, participants in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, refugees and others with firsthand experience with the U.S. immigration system. The original iteration of “Go Home” was inspired by a friend’s struggle to gain asylum status, and later citizenship, in the United Kingdom, Friedman said. The woman was born in the Czech Republic, but she and her father fled the country in response to a threat on his life. She grew up in the United Kingdom but struggled with the country’s immigration system into early adulthood, Friedman said. The “Go Home” installation featured prints of application documents, letters of support
from the friend’s school and rejection letters from the British government. Friedman transformed the documents into wallpaper by printing them in large scale and wheat pasting them on the wall of a dilapidated hotel room. The show also featured felt and vinyl bras covered in foil using a screen printed adhesive. The bras were hung from a shower rod to evoke the idea of being home but not having a place to put your belongings. It’s a feeling most people experience when staying with friends or family, but Friedman wanted the audience to imagine it as an everyday experience, she said. The show was part of an
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Professor Leslie Friedman creates printed works using different techniques and firsthand accounts on Nov. 2 in Hatcher Hall.
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LSU professor weighs in on release of JFK documents BY ABBIE SHULL @AbbieLJ
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The release of the new files about former President John F. Kennedy produced no new evidence for conspiracy theorists, but University history professor Alecia P. Long said the release of the new documents is much like the search for the Holy Grail, and will produce few answers to long-standing questions. “People are convinced the ‘thing’ is going to be there.” Long said. “I don’t think it’s going to be there.” The federal government released over 2,800 records complying with a 1992 law mandating the documents’ release, but kept roughly 300 files classified out of concern for U.S. National Security, law enforcement and foreign relations. Long is an avid researcher of New Orleans history. The center of her latest project is a conspiracy about the assassination of Kennedy that evolved in New Orleans throughout the 1960s. Long is currently working on
a manuscript, tentatively titled “Crimes Against Nature: Sex, Violence and the Search for Conspirators in the Assassination of JFK,” but said she has tried not to answer any questions about who killed Kennedy. “It’s just a really fascinating story and I’ve tried to make sense of it through the lens of thinking about the way gay people were conceived of and pathologized and also policed,” Long said. “I’m not trying to answer the ultimate questions about who killed JFK or who did not. I’m trying to use these documents to do something new and different.” Long said her interest in New Orleans grew into a focused study about New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison’s investigation and the history of policing the sexuality of gay men for virtually all of the 20th century. Her first book “The Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865-1920” won the 2005 Julia Cherry Spruill Prize for the best book in southern women’s history.
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RESEARCH
Professor’s research recognized nationally
BY ALDEN CEASAR @a1997jc A University professor and his students are in the beginning stages of a research project that could potentially revolutionize the electronics industry. Organic and Materials Chemistry professor Evgueni E. Nesterov has been developing films made of organic polymers that could increase the quality of light-emitting devices and solar cells. Though he and his team of student underlings are in the early stages of research, their work was highlighted by the U.S. Department of Energy in October of 2017. A press release on the department’s website illustrated how Nesterov’s method of synthesizing solar cells could create more dense, secure organic light-emitting devices. “This unique morphology would be particularly suited for applications requiring efficient charge transport across the films, such as in photovoltaic and light-emitting devices. In general, surface-initiated polymerization is not limited to polythiophene
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ACADEMICS
Baton Rouge Opera Guild awards scholarship to LSU Opera Program BY ASHLON LUSK @shlinie The Baton Rouge Opera Guild has given their annual scholarship to the LSU Opera program, which will allow students to worry less about their fee bill and more about their talent. LSU College of Music and Dramatic Arts Director of Development Katie Rothstein has been working for the University since December 2015 and has a background in opera. She works for a group that raises money for the College of Music and Dramatic Arts and College of Humanities and Social Science. “We are so grateful to our donors for their support,” Rothstein said. “Organizations like [the Baton Rouge Opera Guild] are what make LSU Opera great and help us attract the very best talent that’s out there. Talented students attract talented faculty and vice versa. We have what we have because we have people
who are generous and we are so grateful for that.” The BROG was formed in 1948, and since that time, they have been giving money to opera organizations in Baton Rouge, which has taken a couple forms but has almost always taken the form of support for the Opera at LSU, Rothstein said. “We have some major gifts that come through that will establish an endowed scholarship, but this is a non-endowed gift that comes through annual that their members support,” Rothstein said. Music Director and Associate Professor of LSU Opera Michael Borowitz has been at LSU for nine years and has been involved with BROG since the beginning. The patrons of the organization form an individual relationship with all of the students that they sponsor and support. The scholarship of $30,000 is split up among students in the LSU Opera program.
Students who are selected based on talent and need are given up to $2,000 each. B o r o w i t z said the students are chosen by the voice opera faculty vote. The faculty meets, and once they have established the singers who will be invited to attend the University, they sit down and talk about who is most deserving of that money. Their vote is based on their auditions and their perceived abilities for a career. “It allows students who otherwise wouldn’t be able afford to go to college to get that opportunity,” Rothstein said. “Some who otherwise would have to be working more hours now have more opportunity to study and do music and be at rehearsals and all those sorts of things that would make it difficult to hold up a job at the same time and go to school.” The LSU Opera puts on two mainstage productions a year. This year they are THE DAILY REVEILLE ARCHIVES
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The LSU School of Music sign rests outside of the main building on Oct. 26, 2016.
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TRANSPORTATION
Campus Sustainability celebrates LSU Bike Month BY ABBIE SHULL @AbbieLJ
The University is celebrating LSU Bike Month throughout November in partnership with Bike Baton Rouge to promote sustainability and increase the number of bike riders on campus. Campus Sustainability Manager Sarah Temple said the Office of Sustainability hopes the month-long event will
encourage the community to get moving and educate them on resources available on campus. “We have some students, faculty and staff that ride their bikes to and from campus everyday,” Temple said. “So, we wanted to have an LSU Bike Month not only to bring about awareness to alternative transportation and bicycle routes on campus, but also to incentivize people to ride their bikes.”
Some of the events throughout the month include a bike sale and auction on Nov. 15 several “Bike Talk” classes and an ongoing bike miles challenge on social media. “One of the main things we’re doing for the whole month is the bike miles challenge,” Temple said. “We’re having people post anytime they do a bike ride on campus and we’re asking them to post a rough estimation miles on Twitter,
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LSU Bike Month partners with Bike Baton Rouge to promote sustainability and bike usage.
Instagram or Facebook with #LSUBikeMonth.” Temple said at the end of the month, the Office of Sustainability will give away prizes for the most miles and most number of trips. Another event during LSU Bike Month is the Photo Scavenger Hunt from Nov. 13 to 17. “On that Monday, we’re going to be publishing a list of everywhere we’re going to be asking people to go on their bikes and take a photo,” Temple said. “Anyone who completes the list will get some kind of prize.” The main partner of the University on the LSU Bike Month is Bike Baton Rouge. On Nov. 12, they will host the annual “Cranksgiving” volunteer day. The event is hosted at City-Brooks Community Park and challenges bikers to collect five common grocery items from designated stores as quickly as possible. The collected goods will be delivered to the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank Awards will be given for fastest time, as well as biggest and smallest spender. Starting this spring, the campus will see the advent of the Baton Rouge BikeShare program. “We’re hoping that in the spring around March or April that the Baton Rouge BikeShare program will be up and running,” Temple said. “The
first phase of the program involves spots at LSU so we’ll have bike share on campus.” Temple said the Student Sustainability Fund will make the bike share program less expensive for students to participate. Last year, the University was given the designation of a “Silver Bicycle Friendly University” by the League of American Bicyclists. The University is one of only 164 colleges and universities in the United States to receive the designation. Temple said transportation on campus has become a sustainability issue in the last few years. “We have a campus-wide committee on sustainability who’ve been looking at sustainability issues for the University as a part of that we’ve done a greenhouse gas emissions inventory for campus,” Temple said. “We have actual data to show that transportation is a sustainability issue. The largest emitter of greenhouse gasses campus wide is transportation.” Temple said the goal of LSU Bike Month is to get people on campus more familiar with the ample resources the University has to offer. “We want to do what we can to get more cars off the road and get people using bicycles where we can,” Temple said.
ENVIRONMENT
Princeton Review recognizes LSU as environmentally responsible BY ASHLON LUSK @shlinie The University has recently been recognized as an environmentally responsible college in the 2017 edition of “The Princeton Review Guide to 375 Green Colleges.” LSU assistant director of communication and grants Tammy Millican said Princeton looks at the sustainability and the green things the University is attempting to do. The University was considered for the first time in 2011. Millican said the ranking is based on the University having electric vehicle charging stations and recycling construction waste. The ranking is also based and on the University being named the Environmental Protection Agency’s game day challenge winner in the Southeastern Conference two years in a row. The University was granted three electric vehicle charging stations in 2011 from Entergy. The University has received five Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality leadership awards since 2011, and received some grants from Keep Louisiana Beautiful to reduce
waste, Millican said. For the past five years in a row, the University has been recognized with Tree Campus USA Tree Campus USA by the Arbor Day Foundation. Millican said that has to do with how the University cares for the oak trees around campus. “All of these programs and our effort to operate more energy efficient...lead them to include us in the guide,” Millican said. Millican said the University tries to look for creative ways to engage students and to increase awareness. The Litterati Campaign was started by Jeff Kirschner. Kirschner started this campaign when he and his daughter were walking in the woods and saw a plastic tub of cat litter. This one piece of trash sparked the idea for the campaign. Campus Sustainability started #LSULitterati and got students to locate trash and take creative pictures of it before they threw it away or recycled it. The most creative photo was displayed in the LSU Art Gallery. Kirschner started an Instagram page where you can upload photos of trash students pick up. Millican said it becomes like a digital landfill.
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The University has been recognized with Tree Campus USA by the Arbor Day Foundation for the past five years. “The real thing is that we had over 200 entries,” Millican said. “When you think about it, if we have 30,000 students and everybody picked up one piece of trash everyday, it would make a huge difference in keeping the campus cleaner.” Millican said to keep the
status of an environmentally responsible college, students should stay involved, volunteer and give Campus Sustainability suggestions. Millican said doing small things everyday like turning the light off when you leave your dorm or apartment or picking up a piece of trash
can make a difference. “It’s really about the facts that even with small things, you can make a difference in reducing our carbon footprint and recycling, and just being good stewards with the resources we have,” Millican said.
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Wednesday, November 8, 2017 CHREST, from page 1 and eating it, too,” he said. “I think the students enjoy someone who’s actually in the field. It’s not like I did it five years ago, or even three. I did it last week or yesterday,” Chrest said. “They teach me so much. They make me a better actor, and I think I’m able to bring the nuts and bolts of what’s going on and to help them to understand to love the process like I do.” His favorite role was FrankN-Furter in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” at Swine Palace, a local theater. He was one of the founding members of the theatre in 1992. Chrest has been in a variety of films including both “21 Jump Street,” and “22 Jump Street,” “Deepwater Horizon,” “Free State of Jones” and “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2.” Chrest said he has played four father roles since playing Jonah
Hill’s dad in “21 Jump Street” and “22 Jump Street.” He was contacted about a role in “Stranger Things” while shooting “Deepwater Horizon” He has also recently had several roles set in the 1980s. “I’ve been stuck, really since 2015, with an ‘80s haircut,” Chrest said. “I haven’t been able to cut my hair the way that I want since, which was a huge bummer at the [Emmy Awards] because I had a $400 hair and makeup budget and I was looking forward to getting a really expensive Beverly Hills haircut.” Chrest said filming “Stranger Things” felt like summer camp because everybody “hung out,” which is rare with everyone on different schedules on set. The Duffer Brothers are young and passionate and their energy trickles down and makes everyone excited about the process, Chrest said. “With ‘Stranger Things’, I was talking with Cara Buono,
who plays my wife — it’s one of the best sets we’ve ever worked on,” Chrest said. “The guys work so efficiently, that we’re in and we’re out. The irony is you’re usually looking forward to getting off work, but we would just be bummed out when it was time to go home.” Chrest emphasized the importance of working hard and loving what you do and that the results will come later. Chrest said the satisfaction of performing does not require a performance to be universally seen or praised, but needs commitment. “I always try to answer to myself, I can make my art really any time, any place,” Chrest said. “I don’t need someone to hire me or applaud it. I can get together with my friends a do a play that no audience is going to come to and I love that stuff.” Chrest can be seen in his upcoming role in “Assassination Nation.”
page 5 WADE, from page 1 taught for six months and we just had huge breakdowns,” Wade said in his press conference. “We have to get it corrected. Part of it is that we are playing the wrong guys. We have been trying some of these guys and hoping they would come around defensively and the experiments are over.” One of the players coming under fire for poor defense is junior guard Brandon Sampson. Sampson was the Tigers’ third leading scorer last season with 11.6 points per game. With Sampson seemingly relegated to the bench, LSU plans to run the offense through senior forward Duop Reath, sophomore guard Skylar Mays and freshman guard Tremont Waters. “[Reath] is our best offensive option,” Wade said. “The second option is not even close to where he is. We are going to play through him. We are going to feed him the ball.” The 6-foot-11-inch forward averaged 12.0 points and 6.2 rebounds per game. “I’m surrounded by guys that can shoot real well,” Reath said. “I feel like it is going to be easier for me on the weak side. The double team is going to come, but I am going to be more careful now. If they
come and leave their man, I’m going to throw it out and shoot that three.” “Duop is good enough to where if it is one-on-one he is going to score,” Wade said. “If it is not one on one that means somebody has helped and our perimeter players are good enough because if it is 4-on-3 on the perimeter we are going to make a play. That’s what we are going to do. Simple basketball.” Wade plans to have senior forward Aaron Epps on the perimeter. Epps shot 43.8 percent from three last season, but his availability for the start of the season is in question due to a foot injury. Wade said that the team misses Epps’ shooting and that he is one of the team’s best weapons on offense. “I told you Skylar has gotten better, he has gotten better,” Wade said. “I told you Duop has gotten better, he has gotten better. I told you Epps was a guy that has gotten better, I promise you he has gotten better. They are our three most improved players.” “They are our three most consistent, hardest working guys.” Wade and the Tigers will open the season at home against Alcorn State at 7 p.m. on Nov. 10 in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.
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Professor Joe Chrest of “Stranger Things” teaches his drama students on Nov. 7 in the Music and Dramatic Arts Building.
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LSU senior forward Duop Reath (1) speaks to the media on Oct. 24 at the basketball media day in the PMAC.
PRINTMAKING, from page 1 exhibition of artist collectives in conjunction with Art Basel in Miami Beach 2015. Friedman later featured the body of work in a solo show in Philadelphia in 2016. In the second iteration, Friedman incorporated a video of a person packing and unpacking to increase the viewer’s feeling of displacement, she said. The friend is now married to an American citizen, and initially Friedman proposed focusing the prints on her endeavor to secure a work visa prior to their marriage. At first the friend was willing, but reconsidered as concern grew that publicizing her experience would negatively affect her visa application, Friedman said. That same fear is echoed by many in the international and immigrant communities, Friedman said. Response to Friedman’s call for submissions has been slow and she said the fear permeating public discourse is likely a factor. Art allows people to express
thoughts and feelings in a way that extends beyond written and spoken expression. Sometimes art allows for greater eloquence, subtlety and subversion than what people are willing or able to communicate when discussing an issue, Friedman said. “There are ways to say things in art that you can’t say out loud,” she said. “It’s important that art speaks.” Printmaking, as an art of multiples, is an inherently democratic process, she said. Printmaking has been used to produce political posters, pamphlets and artworks and can be a catalyst for seeing contemporary issues from a new perspective. While Friedman aims to challenge her viewers, she said her intention is never to provoke the audience. Political artwork doesn’t need to be salacious, she said. “I don’t think you’re actually creating dialogue if you’re making your whole audience upset,” Friedman said. “For me it’s about bringing people in.”
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GREEK LIFE
Pi Kappa Phi fraternity placed on interim suspension BY NATALIE ANDERSON @natalie_mechell The LSU Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity has been placed on an Interim Suspension of Activities for all chapter events, and is now under an investigation regarding potential violations of the LSU Code of Student Conduct, according to an email sent to the chapter. The fraternity held a social event Oct. 13 that was not in compliance with the Greek Life Status Update from Oct. 4, according to the email. The update, announced in a letter to Greek chapter presidents on Oct. 4 by LSU Greek Life director Angela Guillory, reinstated all Greek Life activities, excluding overnight retreats and new member initiation. In the Oct. 4 email, chapter presidents, risk management, social chairmen and advisers were required to attend a social event and risk management training presented by LSU Greek Life on Oct. 10 and Oct. 11. Any class conflicts required documentation with an appropriate officer as a substitute. Events with alcohol could be resumed on Oct. 12 following
the chapter’s compliance with chapter attendance at the social event and risk management training sessions and signatures from all active and new members acknowledging their review of the Greek Life Risk Management Compliance Statement, according to the Oct. 4 email. On Oct. 19, LSU President F. King Alexander announced the University would continue to allow Greek organizations to have registered on-campus events, but without alcohol. He said the decision would stand until the Greek Life Task Force rendered its recommendations in January, to determine how to best integrate the recommendations into the existing policies and procedures. In the announcement, King said, “there are those among us who have not yet absorbed the severity and seriousness of the current situation. It also underscores that there are a few who seek to maintain the status quo despite continued warnings about the dangers inherent in such actions.” The University’s Policy Statement 52 states any allegation against a student organization gives reasonable cause to believe
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Pi Kappa Phi fraternity house sits on West Lakeshore Drive on Nov. 7. that the organization represents “a threat to the safety, security or welfare of the University community.” Under the suspension, the chapter may not host or participate in any chapter events, including but not limited to game day banners; study hours and groups; on-call and designated driver programs; organized chapter clean-ups; bus trips; exchanges; GRUBs; semi formals;
formals; dance and step practices; Founders day; alumni events; and any on-off campus programs and socials. The chapter cannot host or participate in any assessment workshops unless the topic regards hazing, alcohol, drug or sexual misconduct, according to the email. The chapter is unable to participate in any intramural activities, or conduct any meetings unless directed by the University
to assist in the investigation, the email stated. The chapter may, with Alumni Advisory board members present, conduct ritual meetings to facilitate new member education and to carry out essential chapter business, according to the email. The chapter president and adviser must notify LSU Greek Life in writing, at least 24 hours in advance, to request permission to hold a chapter function.
ACADEMICS
Boyd Professor featured in PBS ‘Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive’ BY HAILEY AUGLAIR @haileyauglair1 Taking a break from lecturing and writing novels
about Edgar Allan Poe, English Boyd Professor J. Gerald Kennedy gave his insight in PBS’s documentary “Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive.”
“The idea was to have a number of scholars and biographers who have years of study and expertise to fill in pieces of the story,”
Kennedy said. The title of the film “Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive” has both literal and metaphorical meaning. In the antebellum period, especially during times of epidemic, people were literally often buried alive, Kennedy said. “The title is also a nice metaphor for the way that Poe was, in a way, buried in obscurity in a culture that did not particularly value what he was doing in an age of territorial expansion and money making,” Kennedy said. “Poe never experienced much economic success in his career.” In 2008, Kennedy was first contacted about the film and was interviewed in 2014 by the director, Eric Strange. The documentary starred Denis O’Hare as Edgar Allan Poe and other scholars who gave their insight on his life. Poe was one of the most influential American writers of the 19th century. He was the first author to try to make a professional living as a writer. Much of his work was inspired by the events that happened around him, according to the Poe Museum website. “It’s cinematically one of the most interesting Poe documentaries that’s been made,” Kennedy said. Kennedy first became interested in Poe in middle school. He has since written and published eight works and taught several courses about Poe. Kennedy’s latest work, “Strange Nation,” was influ-
enced by Poe, but is about all of antebellum America and the nation-building taking place during the time. He is also currently editing the Oxford handbook of Edgar Allan Poe. He said he hopes to gear his next work toward students and general readers instead of scholars, and to tackle the topic of reading Poe in a time of terror. In addition to his many works about Poe, Kennedy has also published essays on short story sequence and American writers in Paris. “I think Poe, in a lot of ways, anticipated the way that death has become a presence in culture — that’s why he’s become the Santa Claus of Halloween,” Kennedy said in a news release. “The way that this movie was made has a really great balance in the way it represents Poe’s life.”
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Boyd Professor J. Gerald Kennedy talks about his book, “Strange Nation”.
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Wednesday, November 8, 2017 JFK, from page 3 “My scholarly interest has always been New Orleans,” Long said. “This particular case of Garrison looking into a potential conspiracy that began in New Orleans in the summer of 1963 that led to the assassination of JFK is a very big event in New Orleans in the 1960s.” Long said she did not shy away from answering questions about the assassination out of fear, but because she does not believe they are answerable questions. “I don’t want to dig through CIA and FBI documents for the rest of my life,” Long said. “I ultimately believe there are certain questions about the assassination that cannot be answered.” Long said because people around the world saw the events of the assassination and the subsequent killing of the shooter, Lee Harvey Oswald on television, there have always been and may always be unanswered questions. “It was, if I’m not mistaken, the first televised assassination certainly in the United States,” Long said. “So, people saw the events of the assassination over and over and over again.” In 1973, The Warren Commission’s report tried to settle some of the unanswered questions by saying that Oswald was, in fact, the lone gunman, but Long said
many people, including Garrison, were not satisfied with that explanation. “From late 1964 on, the majority of Americans have believed that there was some kind of conspiracy in the president’s assassination,” Long said. “So, that was very fertile ground by the time Jim Garrison started his own investigation in 1966.” The story of Garrison’s investigation is tenuous and filled with drama, Long said. On the weekend of the assassination in 1963, two men in New Orleans came up with potential stories of conspiracy. One of these men, Dean Andrews, called the FBI and the United States Secret Service and claimed Oswald visited him in the previous summer with five other men. “These men impressed him as homosexual, but he only identified one of them by name,” Long said. “That was a man by the name of Clay Bertrand.” Garrison decided that Bertrand was homosexual, and homosexuals sometimes changed their last names to use an alias, but not their first names, Long said. He and his team searched New Orleans and decided that Clay Shaw is Clay Bertrand. “They have one eye witness who just sort of appears in late February, and under hypnosis and under the administration of
sodium pentathol, he makes an identification,” Long said. “Then Clay Shaw is arrested and charged as Clay Bertrand, co-conspirator with David Ferry dead and Lee Harvey Oswald dead.” Long said Garrison’s theories have lasted because many people had doubts about the Warren Commision, and there is evidence Shaw lied during the trial. “One of the arguments I would make is that’s not really surprising. This is a person whose entire sex life had been illegal for the entirety of his sex life,” Long said. “He enters court in a very vulnerable state as a sex criminal and, according to the American Psychological Association, a person with a mental health problem.” Shaw was eventually found not guilty, but after his death in 1974, Garrison continued to make a case for conspiracy with no one alive to argue against it. Long said the most challenging part of researching JFK’s assassination is the sheer volume of documents. She said typically, a historian will read all of the secondary literature related to a research topic before they begin; however, in the case of researching JFK, there are over 2,000 books published on some aspect of the assassination. “I will also say that I find the basic premise of many of [these books] to be problematic
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History professor Alecia P. Long hopes to find connecting links that would reveal key aspects to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. and would then note take those as seriously as historical studies,” Long said. “That is compounded by the overwhelming numbers of primary source documents. It’s huge, it’s in the millions.” Long said the trouble with a lot of these documents is they are reporting what someone says. “That’s documentary evidence of a kind, but just because someone said something does not make it so,” Long said. “So, all of these documents have
to be read in two ways. They have to be read very critically and they have to be read on balance.” Long said, from what she has reviewed, she believes Shaw was an innocent man. “We live in a world where people ‘come out’ more or less routinely, but that was not the world Shaw lived in,” Long said. “So, you have to think about the events related to his prosecution and where they sit in time.”
LED, from page 3 but can also be expanded for other classes of semiconducting polymers and copolymers,” The U.S. Department of Energy said in a press release. “It’s cheaper to make devices from organic materials,” Nesterov said. “That’s why there is a lot of interest in developing organic materials, which can replace those functions and materials which are traditionally [inorganic].” Because organic materials are cheaper and of a higher quality than inorganic materials, such as silicon, Nesterov said he and his team want to know how to control the growth of polymer chains. While the organic materials are flexible, he said, the problem is controlling the orientation. Nesterov explained the focus of his research in terms
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Chemistry professor Evgueni E. Nesterov of a car driving along a straight road compared to a car driving along a winding road. Driving a car on a winding road is more laborious than driving a car on a straight road, he said. “Imagine the same for an electron,” said Nesterov, who hopes that this idea reciprocates in his research. “If they have to move through curved passageways, they move slowly.” Though the idea is clear,
Nesterov explained that it is important that he and his team have a sufficient understanding of their research before they could make any application. “The research creates the foundation on which the commercial application can be built upon,” Nesterov said. “In order to do something that is commercializable, you have to have a very good fundamental understanding and method of how to do things.”
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something like opera or classical music, it gives me goosebumps in the same way that funk makes me dance,” Rothstein said. “It just moves a different part of my soul.” Rothstein said the university was one of the first opera workshops in the country to attract the most talented people around the United States to come join the University’s program. LSU Opera has many successful alumni, including Lisette Oropesa, Daniela Mack and Paul Groves, who have all had successful international opera careers. “Almost all of our voice professors have had profes-
sional careers,” Rothstein said. “So what’s happening here at Baton Rouge is really, truly incredible. We have incredible faculty that all have international accolades.” She said most of the students in the program are not from Louisiana, and LSU Opera has higher than a 50 percent rate of out of state and international students. “So that says something because they have to pay out of state rate to come here,” Rothstein said. “They are willing to pay that to study with our professors.” In the 1940s, the LSU Opera program was the
doing “Falstaff” with music by Guiseppe Verdi, and “Dog Days” with music by David T. Little. Rothstein said opera is more accessible than people think. She said it takes all of the elements people love about big music theater like the sets, the costume and the orchestra and on top of everything it is also entirely acoustic. Everything you are hearing is at a supremely high level of artistry, she said. “For me, I love all types of music. I have a very eclectic taste, but when it comes to
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only one in Baton Rouge, so supporting LSU was supporting opera in Baton Rouge, Rothstein said. University students have had the opportunity to sing at BROG events for decades and make great friends with BROG leadership, Borowitz said. “So what’s nice about that organization, not just the events that our singers sing for them, they get to socialize with these singers and they actually have a very hands on experience with the development of each of these students careers,” Borowitz said.
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LSU looks to rebound against Arkansas
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CAN’T GUARD THEM Guard duo hopes to take Lady Tigers to next level BY JARRETT MAJOR @jarrett_tdr
The Lady Tigers enter the 2017 season with higher expectations than last season. The Lady Tigers were picked to finish seventh in the Southeastern Conference, but they believe they can finish in the top four of the conference and get a double bye in the SEC tournament. The optimism contrasts with last season which LSU exceeded expectations, finishing seventh in conference instead of its preseason projection of 12th.
Much of last season’s turnaround can be traced to the debut of senior guard Raigyne Louis and junior guard Chloe Jackson, who both redshirted in the 2015-2016 season. “We are just trying to get our team to win,” Louis said. “We want to end this season with a bang.” “It definitely feels different this season,” Jackson added. LSU’s duo provided the bulk of the Lady Tigers’ offensive and
defensive prowess. Louis averaged 15.8 points, 5.9 rebounds, 2.9 assists and 3.3 steals, leading LSU in each category. She also was selected as the SEC Defensive Player of the Year last season. Jackson was second in three categories with a season average of 13.1 points, 2.1 assists and 1.8 steals. She was fourth in rebounds with 5.1 per game, and led the team with 33.5 minutes per game and made 19 three point shots.
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A post-Alabama hangover is often present in LSU teams in the weeks following a loss to the Crimson Tide, but LSU coach Ed Orgeron is attempting to change that. In 2014, the Tigers lost to Alabama 20-13 in overtime and then lost to Arkansas 17-0 the week after. In 2015, LSU followed a 30-16 loss to Alabama with a 3114 loss to Arkansas and a 38-17 loss to Ole Miss. 2016 was different with Orgeron as the interim. There was a notable change in the way the Tigers played against Arkansas the week following a 10-0 loss to Alabama compared to the previous seasons. LSU came out on top, with a 38-10 win over the Razorbacks in Fayetteville after a dominating performance. “I remember last year,” Orgeron said in his media luncheon on Monday. “Obviously our goal this year is to take [it] one game at a time. We’re about to bounce back with some confidence. I remember last year our strength coach and the coaching staff was the MVP. Their energy, and the way they brought it all week, we have to bring extra energy this week.” Orgeron said the team is even
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Diversity is key in LSU’s offense going forward under Matt Canada BY KENNEDI LANDRY @landryyy14 Since October, offensive coordinator Matt Canada’s diverse offense has come alive and given a variety of players a chance to make big plays. From senior receiver Russell Gage rushing for 202 yards on the season, to senior running back Darrel Williams having 100 receiving and rushing yards in one game, and tight ends having more catches than receivers occasionally, Canada’s offense is ever changing. “It’s definitely different from what we used to do,” junior center Will Clapp said. “I think it’s a great asset for us. In the past it’s been kind of one-dimensional, but now you never know what you’re going to get. Coach Canada brings multiple dimensions to this offense that nobody can ever predict what’s coming.”
LSU coach Ed Orgeron said one of the reasons he hired Canada in the first place was to give opposing teams, especially Alabama, problems. The motions and shifts are an integral part of Canada’s offensive game plans that make it difficult for teams to keep up. In LSU’s 24-10 loss to Alabama, the Tigers offense was nowhere near what it had been in previous years. LSU had 306 total offensive yards compared to just 125 yards in 2016. “I think coach Canada put together a really good game plan,” Clapp said. “I went upstairs to his office — like [I] appreciate you — I thought that game plan was great. I think our offense ended up having a pretty solid night.” But just a solid night is not what LSU is looking for. While LSU fought hard, Orgeron affirmed that there’s not room for
moral victories and that they need to identify what needs to fixed and move on from there. “There’s things to improve on, we gave up some sacks late, but we had some good rushing stats,” Clapp said. “We were able to get consistent drives going. I think that was the best thing to see, and realize that our offense is improving and putting up good drives and putting good numbers on a really good defense like that.” LSU’s thin offensive line, which was starting two freshmen, stepped up against Alabama and helped open up holes for big plays that allowed the Tigers to stay in it. The biggest play of the game was a 54 yard run by Williams in a wildcat formation to set LSU up inside the 54-yard line that resulted in a touchdown. The
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Former Tiger star Tasmin Mitchell rejoins team as coach
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Part of hiring a new head coach is also hiring assistant coaches that can make an impact on the player’s lives. Former Tiger basketball great Tasmin Mitchell was hired by Will Wade as the director of student athlete development. Mitchell’s role with the team is player development and to be an open ear for players to talk to. When players have problems with balancing school and basketball, Mitchell is the go-to guy. “I’m the guy they come to if they need to talk about something,” Mitchell said. “Unless it’s a life or death situation, I won’t tell coach and try to solve the issues myself.” As an integral part of LSU’s Final Four run in 2006, Mitchell remembers that season as a 19-year-old true freshman trying to make an impact. On a team that included Glen “Big Baby” Davis, Tyrus Thomas and Garrett Temple, Mitchell was able to thrive, averaging 11 points and six rebounds per game. “That Final Four team was
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LSU director of student-athlete development Tasmin Mitchell returns to LSU to assist with the men’s basketball team on Nov. 7 in front of the PMAC. crazy,” Mitchell said. “It spoiled me and it was a journey of brothers. We grew up with each other and had a lot of camaraderie.” Mitchell chooses not to talk about the Final Four days with the current team and talks instead about what the players need to do to be successful. “They were kids when I
was playing,” Mitchell said. “I really don’t try to reiterate about that because I don’t want to talk about myself. I want them to understand that they still have a lot of work to do.” After his college career ended in 2010, Mitchell went overseas and played in Paris, Israel and Moscow for six years.
Mitchell said it was very hard at times because he would be away from his family for ten months at a time while continuing to play the game he loved. “The best place to play was Paris,” Mitchell said. “Israel was the most warming country but it was definitely a culture shock. The total years I was
overseas, I was only home for a year and a half.” Mitchell returned to Baton Rouge on a permanent basis after the flooding last August and volunteered at his high school stomping grounds, Denham Springs High School. “They made me feel real welcome,” Mitchell said. “I enjoyed it, and I saw myself being a coach. I was always the leader that led by example, so I can try to put that knowledge into players today to help them be successful in life.” In the few months that Mitchell has been with the team, Wade has taught him to pay attention to detail and to stay poised. “Care about your players,” Mitchell said. “[Wade] cares about those players and he’s hard on them, but if he’s hard on you that means he cares.” Mitchell plans to build his resume with this coaching staff and doesn’t plan to leave the LSU family anytime soon. “I want to be able to be next to the head coach one day,” Mitchell said. “I don’t want to leave LSU. This is something that I want to stay and build on.”
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students reach their junior year, those who meet entrance requirements may submit applications for admission to the LSU Law Center. If accepted, students would be eligible to begin study at the LSU Law Center during their fourth year at LSU, during which completed coursework will count toward the final year of the undergraduate degree as well as the first year of the law degree. Again, the fourth year double counts for completion of both the undergraduate degree and the first year of law school. The communication skills developed in the Manship School will lay a strong foundation for legal writing and research and will be put into practice from the very first class at the LSU Law Center. Best of all, the 3+3 Pre-Law Program can save time and money. Students interested in the 3+3 Pre-Law path can contact the Manship School at masscomm@lsu.edu.
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Youthful coaching adds new dynamic, energy to LSU Tigers BY JBRIAAN JOHNSON @JBriaan_Johnson Coaching is an essential aspect for all levels of sports, whether it is high school, college or professional. A rarity in the world of coaching is a team - specifically a college team - with young adults who has a coach that is the antithesis of the stereotypical old, traditional coach. Not every program in the country has coaches within its staff that are, at maximum, 10 years older than the players on the team. LSU has three of them. Assistant coaches Ethan Pheister and Sarah Rumely, along with volunteer coach and former LSU standout Tania Schatow all graduated less than a decade ago and now work under coach Fran Flory. The volleyball program has a splash of youth on its bench that gives the team another element in terms of receiving information and tips in a different way. “For us, the timing was right for us to have an insurgence of youth,” Flory said. “Sarah, Tania and Ethan are not very far off of their playing careers. They had very successful playing careers ,and they’re credible. They understand exactly what it takes to be successful in our league and successful nationally.” Having youthful minds on the staff that comes with an understanding of how to win, and winning consistently provides the team with something every squad around the country does not have. Each assistant coaches specializes in bringing something different to the team, increasing the
coaching intangibles on the staff. Pheister is the analytical mind of the staff. In his second season with the Tigers, Pheister works mainly with the setters. “He brings a statistical analysis to the game that not many young people have,” Flory said. “He does a really great job at creating a game plan and putting our kids in the best position to win.” Rumely spent two years as the recruiting coordinator for Arkansas before joining the LSU volleyball program. “She brings a tenacity and a feel to the game that is fresh and light,” Flory said. “It’s a game and it’s enjoyable, but it’s important and she helps everybody balance that.” Schatow, the final piece of the puzzle, played for LSU from 200710. “Adding Tania this year, someone who has been a part of our program and understands the culture that our program was built on,” Flory said. “She was built on one of the best runs we ever had and her delivery is amazing. She’s young, but she is already an outstanding coach.” Their ability as coaches have shined through multiple aspects of the season and have earned Flory’s respect and trust. At many points within games throughout the season, Flory has handed the reigns over to her assistants to have the control to put their stamps on the game and communicate a great deal to the players during timeouts and on the court. “They’ve sat on that bench just like our kids are doing now,” Flory said. “In our matches, I give the
coaches a lot of freedom to talk in timeouts. I would specifically say, ‘This is your time out.’ They understand what needs to be delivered and how it needs to be delivered for our team to respond.“ Rumely explained what having ample coaches as young as she is on the team can really be a luxury for the Tigers. “I can remember what it was like when it was October and we had a lot of tests and volleyball,” Rumely said. “Putting myself in their situation and knowing how they feel is definitely easier. It helps having someone a little bit close in age. [It] provides a different mentorship because you can relate because it’s not that far off since you were doing it.” The coaches aim to find a balance between implementing a more fresh and lively way of relaying information to the players, while keeping the more conventional style of coaching with Flory. “The best part about our staff is that we balance each other,” Flory said. “It is important that everyone is not on top of the players at every minute. There needs to be some balance to delivery, and I think our staff does a great job of that.” With the pressures that exist in the life of the a studentathlete, having the calming presence of younger coaches can be a stress-reliever for the players. Younger coaches have the tendency to empathize players because it is a lifestyle they lived not too long ago. “I think the world of college athletics have evolved so much,” Rumely said. “In recent years,
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Assistant coach Ethan Pheister helps with drills at volleyball practice on Nov. 7 in the PMAC Practice Facility. even when I was playing, it was a bit more softer than it is now just with the time demands and what it was like to be a college athlete. They could come to me because I did it. I played in the SEC, and I have a pretty good idea of what they are going through because I did it myself.”
Having younger coaches to help guide college student-athletes down the same path they traveled not too long ago is a luxury for any coaching staff. With the Tigers having three, they hope to use this advantage as they develop into the team they want to be and reach their set goals.
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LSU vows it ‘will be back’ following tough loss to Alabama BY BRANDON ADAM @badam_TDR Despite losing 24-10 against Alabama, LSU’s optimism for the future was not shaken. The Tigers went toe-to-toe with what some believe to be the best team in the country, and did not seem over-matched by the Crimson Tide. “We coming,” said LSU coach Ed Orgeron. “We coming. And we ain’t backing down.” The belief and frustration stems from a strong defensive performance, and the ability to move the ball — especially on the ground — against Alabama’s defense. The Tigers outgained the Tide 306-299 and had multiple opportunities to complete passes downfield, but failed to connect. “We played a great game,” said LSU defensive back Donte Jackson. “It was really down to about four or five plays that we weren’t dialed in on, and it was really on us. They didn’t do anything spectacular on offense, it was really us.” The loss shined a light on just how narrow LSU feels the gap is
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LSU sophomore linebacker Devin White (40) tackles Alabama freshman wide receiver Devonta Smith (6) during the Tigers’ 24-10 loss to the University of Alabama on Nov. 4 on Bryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa. between the two teams. Sophomore linebacker Devin White and sophomore defensive end Rashard Lawrence both pointed toward the future — one they believe to be very bright. “It starts with the rest of this
year,” Lawrence said. “We got three SEC games, we want to finish this year strong, and we coming. We have got a brotherhood right now that nobody can break. The coaches put us in the right position, and we are just
sticking together.” “We just said we’ll be back,” White said. “Next year is going to be our year. It’ll be our team because we are going to be juniors, and we are just going to have to lead. The way we are leading the team right now, it’s just the start for what’s to come in the future. We know we are going to get the job done, we’ve got big goals and we set the goals before we even came to LSU.” The two sophomores have been two of LSU’s best defensive players all season long. White leads the team and the Southeastern Conference with 89 tackles and also has three sacks. The performance of White is a credit to the play of Lawrence and seniors Greg Gilmore and Christian LaCouture. The two seniors have played an enormous amounts of snaps due to LSU’s lack of depth up front. “Coach O told me to trust the process a long time ago after the Troy loss,” White said. “We’ve got some guys that can’t play right now — transfers, recruits, Tyler Shelvin, Fehoko. We’ve
got some guys who are coming in and they’re going to be ready to play and we’ll be even better next year.” One of the players who will be expected to come in and play is freshman quarterback Myles Brennan. Orgeron put him in the game at the end of the fourth quarter, allowing the freshman quarterback to gain experience against an SEC defense. Brennan finished the game 3-of-5 passing for 18 yards, but was sacked twice. Orgeron said that Brennan looked good in situations and made good decisions, but was not ready to proclaim Brennan next year’s starter or even if Brennan will see more playing time in the next three games. “Myles is going to have a chance to be our quarterback,” Orgeron said, “I don’t know if he is going to be our quarterback next year, but he has to get some experience.” “What we are doing over here is special with Coach O,” Lawrence said. “Y’all saw that [on Saturday]. We fought for 60 minutes, didn’t get the W, but we will be back.”
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page 14 DUO, from page 8 Jackson said she worked hard over the summer to be better from behind the arc. “She has been very accurate in practice,” LSU coach Nikki Fargas said. “She has been someone we can really rely on to put points on the board. She has been a smarter player. She is becoming a great player on our team and in our league.” Both Jackson and Louis are eager to get back on the court this season. LSU’s season ended in the NCAA tournament last year with a 52-55 upset by the Cal Golden Bears. Jackson and Louis combined for just 20 points on 8-for-33 shooting with just two steals and six rebounds, well below their average. “I am just ready to play
ARKANSAS, from page 8 hungrier for a win this year. They want to finish out this season strong and put last week’s 24-10 loss to Alabama behind them. LSU has not won out after losing to Alabama since the 2013 season, and even with that loss, they are taking positive from that and developing it into a game plan. Senior receiver DJ Chark explained that Orgeron has a 24-hour rule, where the players and staff start focusing on the next game, whether or not the previous one was good or bad. “The loss hurts the same, but I think the attitude is different when we got in the locker room,”
CANADA, from page 8 wildcat snap to Williams was not originally part of Canada’s playbook, and he added it during the bye week as a wrinkle against Alabama. Williams’ ability to read the defense well, combined with the blocking of the offensive line made it a perfect momentum shifting play for the Tigers. “I’m proud of them,” Orgeron said at his media luncheon on Monday. “You know, we faced a lot of growing pains at beginning of the year and in camp, and we could not scrimmage like we wanted to. We weren’t too deep in a lot of positions. But those guys have gotten better, and I’m proud of them. I’m proud of Saahdiq [Charles] and Ed Ingram and the older guys.” The way the offense has come together as the season has gone on shows how the team has bought into Canada’s vision and begun to execute it to the fullest. “It gives confidence, obviously,” Orgeron said. “[Canada] had more yards than they had against us, and that was evident with his game plan. The shifts and motions were very hard. Although they stopped some plays, the things that they stopped, he was able to do something else. He had options. I think that he had a great play call in the first down, play-action pass. “I think the more and more time coach Canada has with us and we have with him, the better we’re going to get,” Clapp said.
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against other teams,” said Jackson. “I am excited to get back on the court.” While Jackson and Louis carried much of the burden for LSU last season, the two will have additional help from a very talented backcourt. Junior Shanice Norton and sophomore Jaelyn RichardHarris bring back experience in LSU’s difficult matchup zone, one that Louis says even she still has not completely figured out as a senior. LSU freshman guards Dekeriya Patterson, Jailin Cherry and Khayla Pointer are young but should take some of the burden off Louis and Jackson, who both averaged over 30 minutes per game for LSU last season. “They have been going hard in practice,” Louis said. “They can make great plays. They are
looking pretty good and coming along well.” With playing time more spread out, Louis and Jackson are still expected to have a lofty season for the Lady Tigers. Louis was selected preseason first-team All-SEC by the coaches of the conference. Jackson was one of 20 players named to the inaugural Ann Meyers Drysdale Award Watch List for the best shooting guard in women’s basketball. Louis played just 19 minutes, but tallied 15 points, eight steals, and six assists in a 96-34 win over the Mississippi College Choctaws in an exhibition game. Jackson had a game high 24 minutes — 10 minutes less than her average from last season — but had 13 rebounds, five assists, three steals, and six points.
LSU senior guard Raigyne Louis (11) calls a play during the Tigers’ 96-34 victory against Mississippi College on Nov. 5 in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.
junior center Will Clapp said. “Everybody’s like ‘This isn’t going to change us, we’re going to go out and we’re going to learn from this.’ We’re going to go out and put together a game plan to beat Arkansas.” Orgeron is at the center of the Tigers’ resurgence last season. Clapp says that Orgeron brings a fire into the locker room that makes sure nobody has the opportunity to dwell on anything. Orgeron brings an intensity that makes his players believe in it. “That’s just how he is,” Clapp said. “Honestly it’s the same stuff every time. Win or lose, we’re going to learn from it. We’re going to get back up and
this isn’t going to change us. We still have a lot to play for and he’s not going to let anybody tail off. He’s going to hold us to high expectations every time. The Tigers are hoping for repeat this year to beat Arkansas twice in a row for the first time since the 2012-2013 seasons. This requires more than just showing up for game time, but being into the practices and preparations all week. The entire team has to bring the energy to keep everybody hype throughout. “It’s a practice mindset,” sophomore linebacker Devin White said. “I’d say last week was some of the best preparation
we had throughout the season. We’ve had great practices, but last week it was on a different level as far as competition wise and people knowing what they have to do and just execute.” Clapp said that last year the team learned how to drop the Alabama game quickly and get into the weekly routine of Arkansas. Everybody on the team wants to learn and to win and will do whatever it takes. “For me, I’d like to see the team play as hard as we did against Alabama against a team like Arkansas or Texas A&M,” White said. “I feel like it was just a different level of playing with Alabama. Not saying that we don’t play hard against other
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LSU offensive coordinator Matt Canada creates a diverse offense for a variety of big plays.
teams, it’s just like we took it to a whole nother level.” If the Tigers come out for the rest of the season with the same type of intensity that they did at Alabama, a 10-3 season is well within their reach. But Arkansas won’t bow down and give LSU the win as history proves. The Razorbacks are just as eager to beat Tigers as LSU is to get a bounce back win against them. “This team feels like we’re vulnerable,” Chark said. They’re coming hard, coming to play, coming into Tiger Stadium. This is a big game, historic game, Battle of the Boot. So they’re not going to come in here and take it easy on us. We understand that.” WHITNEY WILLISTON / The Daily Reveille
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BY YSABELLA RAMIREZ @ysaram97 While Baton Rouge has a plethora of local musicians trying to make a name for themselves, the city still seems to lack the smaller, in-between venues to host the blossoming scene. This is where Kerry Beary’s Atomic Pop Shop comes in. Upon first glance, the bright teal storefront facing Government Street
immediately catches your eye. Inside, stacks of records and eccentric decorations welcome you. Yet, many visitors are unaware of the performance space beyond the front of the store. Located in the far back of Atomic Pop Shop is one of the city’s only allages music venues. The space is relatively small with simple embellishments, but the unassuming spot plays an important role in the network of local musicians and creatives.
The store has been open over six years, and for most of its existence the Atomic Pop Shop been just that — a record store. Over time, touring musicians expressed interest in playing shows at the shop. Through trial and error, the store started hosting performances after hours and on the weekends — though it was ineffective as a venue at first.
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Bright colors combined with abstract shapes and everyday life images are key components to distinguishing international studies senior Sam Prather’s work. The 22-year-old Baton Rouge native has been creating ever since her mother first gave her a crayon, she said. “I have an entire wall at my parent’s house that I just drew all over,” Prather said. “They [really] let me express myself creatively, and after that it just grew and snowballed.” In middle school, Prather dabbled in drawing comics that were a mixture of early teen angst and light humor. Once in high school, she began to experiment conceptually, allowing her work to take on more abstract forms, Prather said. She eventually abandoned form altogether in college, leading to her current eclectic style. Prather’s work is created with a mixture of varying mediums including watercolor, micron pen, charcoal and her most-used, acrylic. While Prather’s work varies in its subjects, her work is recognizable through its vibrant colors and imaginative execution. Prather’s apartment, which doubles as her studio, is adorned with her wide-ranging works:
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BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY
Local event promotes community engagement, education BY MACKENZIE TREADWELL @mackenzieelizaa At work, home and your local coffee shop, a simple cup of coffee brings people of varying worldviews together. This communal idea is what moved Mid City Studio Executive Director William Doran and Creative Director Lynley Farris to create Coffee on the Porch, an event dedicated to furthering community outreach and education through bridging gaps. The free gathering began in July 2015 as an effort to utilize the simplicity of a cup of coffee and the familiarity of a front porch to
connect people across the city through dialogue and stories, Doran said. “We really try to focus on crossing racial, socioeconomic boundaries in the city,” he said. Mid City Studio began in 2012 out of the community design work Doran was already doing in his classes as a professional in-residence for the LSU School of Architecture. Doran began working personally with members of the community and other organizations to address the areas Mid City was lacking such as community engagement and education, and in Nov. 2016 Mid City Studio gained its nonprofit status. Originally hosted in an
abandoned firehouse on Laurel Street, Coffee on the Porch began as a panel with prompted discussion, allowing for crowd response. Doran and his team found that people were often having trouble getting through the prompts because they were so invested in talking to one another. They opted for a more organic program to take over and decided to make the event mobile, choosing a different front porch each month where attendees could gather. This decision not only helped diversify the locations, but allowed for varying populations to engage in
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Members of various Baton Rouge communities gather for Coffee on the Porch at Magnolia Cemetery to connect on Sunday, Oct. 29.
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6 TIPS TO SURVIVE THE SEMESTER As the end of the semester nears, it can be more difficult to maintain your focus. Finish the semester strong with these helpful tips. BY CORRINE PRITCHETT | @corrineellen
1. PUT AWAY THE PHONE
3. START AHEAD OF TIME
My biggest distraction when I try to study is my cell phone. The world inside my study bubble is boring, and that text I’ve been waiting on is way more interesting than the language I’m struggling to learn. A good way to keep your hands away from your phone is to give yourself breaks where you allow yourself to check it in between studying.
I’m not sure if anything is worse than the feeling when midnight is nearing and you still have three chapters to learn or 1,000 words to write. Waiting until the last minute doesn’t give your brain enough time to comprehend new information and adds unnecessary stress to your life. Breaking the work into periods will give your brain time to process the information and you’ll be studying less each night.
2. TAKE BREAKS Another way to not become overly stressed when it doesn’t seem like there’s enough time in the day: take breaks. Breaks are healthy. It’s impossible to keep your mind 100 percent focused on a single subject without getting distracted. Having a designated distraction period allows you to really zero in on the subject during study time, and worry about the rest of your life during the break.
4. GET ENOUGH SLEEP A key aspect of function and high performance during the day is getting enough sleep the night before. The night before the exam is the most crucial because your brain processes all of the information you’ve learned during sleep, which is why binge studying only leads to unsuccessful results. Make sure you get work done during daytime hours so you can get eight hours of sleep.
5. PRIORITIZE YOUR DAYTO-DAY TASKS
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Keep your priorities straight, especially during finals week. Game of Thrones and Reggie’s Bar will always be there, but this is the only time you will take this test. Remember why you’re in college: to better yourself and get an education. Studying is crucial to achieve that goal.
7. REMEMBER HOW YOU GOT THIS FAR How did you get where you are today? Remember the blood, sweat and tears that have gone into the semester thus far, and all of the semesters before it. You’ve made it this far, and you’ll make it to next semester. Think about the end result — time will pass regardless, but you’ll feel so much better when you get there with an A on that final.
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REV R ANKS JOAN DIDION: THE CENTER WILL NOT HOLD
Netflix Filmed in classic documentary style, this film incorporates family photos, voiceover narration and music that mirrors the confrontation and exploration of disillusionment found in Didion’s socially and emotionally-driven works.
Mackenzie Treadwell @mackenzieeliza
PACIFIC DAYDREAM Weezer Those looking to be transported the simplicity of summer should look no further than “Pacific Daydream,” but if you’re looking for more thought-provoking lyrics and experimental, dynamic sounds, you’ll likely be disappointed with Weezer’s latest work.
Kaylee Poche @kaylee_pochee
RYAN HANSEN SOLVES CRIMES ON TELEVISION YouTube Red The pilot for YouTube Red’s “Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television” included occasional clever quips about the television industry, but the show’s efforts to break the fourth wall skewed toward overindulgent.
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‘Stranger Things 2’ universally relatable, lives up to first season BY BOBBY CRANE @b_crane22 When Netflix’s “Stranger Things” came out in 2016, its 8-episode tale of a vanishing boy in a supernaturally tormented 1983 Indiana town felt like the makings of a historical cultural event. The TV show’s cinematically rooted homage to ‘80s culture resonated with adult audiences, and its exploration of the struggles of growing up — exhibited through a motley crew of both pre-teens and teenagers — attracted younger fans. Everyone was talking about it, but more surprisingly, everyone liked it. Replicating that same effect a second time provided show creators the Duffer brothers with a challenge, but by playing up to its predecessor’s strengths and adopting a darker, more emotionally-charged tone, “Stranger Things 2” does it again with a binge-worthy treat. Beginning with an extended exposition, the first two episodes of the new season serve to set the scene after the events of last season and introduce a slew of fresh faces. Season two picks up about a year later, during the days leading up to Halloween 1984. Will Byers (Noah Schanpp) has had time to adjust back to the real world but has “episodes” where he finds himself back in the Upside Down. This season puts greater emphasis on Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) and Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) as they deal with their first crush, new girl Max Mayfield (Sadie Sink). Max is a skate-riding, arcade-game playing tomboy, and the boys have never met anyone like her in Hawkins. On the other side of the friend group, Mike (Finn Wolfhard) is still reeling from Eleven’s disappearance, often acting out and still attempting to call her every day on his walkie-talkie. Unknown to Mike, Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) is alive and well, living in an isolated, highly-protected cabin in the woods with Hopper, although she is not allowed to go outside. Through this, the show utilizes an opportunity for a touching father/daughter relationship, one of the most emotionally
affective aspects of this season. From the third episode on out, the fast pace of the season gradually builds to a familiar climax where all the characters join forces to defeat an otherworldly evil. It’s not predictable, but it is a tad underwhelming, seeming to wrap up a little too quickly. That’s a small price to pay for what I would otherwise consider to be one of the most enjoyable television experiences around today. Shedding light on what it’s like to grow up has always been one of the show’s strengths, but by making a darker, more gritty season, the show is able to delve into more complicated parts of growing up. Specifically, episode seven’s exploration of Eleven’s character as she comes into herself provides for a wonderful coming-of-age tale about a character we’ve never known much about. Even better than last season, Millie Bobby Brown portrays Eleven with an emotionally astute blend of sensitivity, anger and strength — a true feat for such a young actress. One actor in particular steals the show with his surprise performance, as his role has been upgraded from a supporting character. Noah Schnapp’s Will Byers is not just a character, but a force of nature. On top of having to play an
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extremely anxious and emotionally fraught young boy, Schnapp has to portray a boy possessed by an evil shadow monster. With his big eyes and bowl cut, Schnapp is able to both elicit and represent fear. Schnapp goes all-out in his award-caliber performance, and I won’t be surprised if we start to see a lot more of him. The real magic of “Stranger Things,” though, lies within its characters and their relationships with one another. We saw this last season with the exploration of first loves, the bonds between parents and children and the intense beauty of platonic friendship. All of these relationships are amplified this time around, and our emotional connection to the characters has only intensified, providing us with a much more satisfying viewing experience. In that, one of the show’s biggest strengths is the universal relatability of the characters. Regardless of what kind of person may watch this show, it’s extremely easy to see a little bit of yourself in at least one of the characters. By doing this, “Stranger Things 2” is a show for everyone, the rare art piece that does not garner polarizing reactions from different ideological camps but unifies a world otherwise divided.
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WHAT’S SPINNING AT @KLSURadio
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NEW MUSIC “The OOZ” by King Krule
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“Urn” by Ne Obliviscaris
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REVIEW BY DJ DRAGONFLY HOST OF PANGEA, SATURDAYS 9-11 AM (WORLD MUSIC) King Krule is a 23-year-old, red-headed, misanthropic singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and poet hailing from London. His newest album, “The OOZ,” shows us that sometimes, life hurts. King Krule is the primary creative outlet of the mysterious Archy Marshall, who has also released music under his real name, as well as Zoo Kid. Marshall has a particularly strong and distinctive working-class English accent and uses British slang that breaks through heavily in his music. King Krule’s sound is unique in its blending of punk, jazz, hip hop, and indie musical stylings. His music is inspired by artists like Elvis Presley, Fela Kuti, J Dilla, and The Penguin Café Orchestra. His full-length debut album “6 Feet Beneath the Moon,” released in August 2013, attracted a lot of attention and earned him a comfortable space in the indie music scene. His anger, grit and despair cuts through to the bones of listeners, but is softened by beautiful jazz chords -- a contrast that works in his favor. The words he yells are often profane or vulgar and shock listeners; however, we cling and want more. King Krule is bold
and violent in his language as he pushes boundaries in what is usually a clean-cut indie scene. “The OOZ” packs an attitude that is more sophisticated than Marshall’s previous work. His sound is mature and developed. The songs are more polished and technically impressive. The guitar sounds are cleaner and less messy, but his temper has stayed the same. In his career, King Krule has maintained and managed a visceral blueness that never goes away, singing about and revisiting emotionally sensitive subject matter. We absorb his moods and textures, feeling what he feels, whether it is anger, self-loathing, disorientation, isolation, or anxiety. In “Logos,” the sixth track from “The OOZ,” Marshall sings about the torment he experienced in his childhood by recounting the care of his drunken mother. He sings, “She draws me in and swallows whole.” These words are paired with somber guitar and distant keyboard sounds. The second track, “Dum Surfer,” evokes dark and gritty imagery from vomiting on
sidewalks to screaming car crashes. In the fourth line he shouts, “Skunk and onion gravy, as my brain’s potato mash,” displaying his quirky, unusual wit. “Cadet Limbo” is a heart-dropping number in which Marshall sings about a woman, comparing her mesmerizing beauty to the deepness of outer space. He repeats, “Has it been this long since I’ve had this bond?” What these songs have in common is a deep-seated intensity. His songs sprout from feeling and nothing else. “The OOZ” is a beautiful, emotionallydraining, nineteen-track album in which the roots of love, loss, and anger are explored. This album is an essential listen for people interested in modern jazz and punk sounds and the melting together of the two. This is the soundtrack to loneliness, staying inside your apartment on a Friday night, or obsessively thinking about a past lover. It is real, it is raw, and it is honest. For Fans of: Mount Kimbie, Cosmo Sykes, BADBADNOTGOOD
REVIEW BY DJ LEVIATHAN HOST OF THE HEAVIEST MATTER IN THE UNIVERSE, TUESDAY 11PM-1AM (METAL) Australian outfit Ne Obliviscaris returns to the forefront of extreme metal with one of the most anticipated album releases of the year. “Urn,” the band’s third record, continues the group’s previous blending of both harsh and clean vocals. The formerly radical feature stemming from the ‘90s has now become an almost exhaustive trope within the genre. However, Xenoyr does display some of the finest harsh vocals in the entire scene. Xenoyr’s performance is once again extraordinary. His guttural, yet coherent growls are worthy of the adoration of his musical peers. Meanwhile, his shriller sounds represent a beautiful blend of black and death metal vocals.
Violinist and clean vocalist Tim Charles appears to play a much more prominent role on this particular record. Charles’ vocals are soaring and melodic as usual, and his violin playing is much improved from the two previous releases. But, there are times when the album winds up bogged down by these soothing interludes and clean passages. “Urn’s” standout tracks, the blistering “Libera (Part I) – Saturnine Spheres,” the welldeveloped “Urn (Part I) – And Within the Void We Are Breathless” and “Urn (Part II) – As Embers Dance in Our Eyes),” bookend the album quite well. Still, there appears to be a stall in the band’s previous sonic evolution. Other than
Charles’ growing role as both a vocalist and instrumentalist, the album signifies a less impressive retread of “Portal of I” (2012) and “Citadel” (2014). The compositions are extensive and given room to develop, but there isn’t anything groundbreaking to witness. A progressive metal band that fails to “progress” inevitably betrays the very appeal of their act. Though not as intriguing as its predecessors, “Urn” remains an album that should conjure up many favorable impressions by those unfamiliar with Ne Obliviscaris’ work. For fans of: Opeth, Amorphis, and Enslaved.
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Darren Korb is an American video game composer and songwriter best known for his work with Supergiant Games, the developers of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre. Korb worked on Bastion with childhood friend and Supergiant Games co-founder Amir Rao. A well-received game, Bastion’s soundtrack was described by Korb to be “acoustic frontier hip-hop”. He returned 3 years later to work on Transistor where he described the music as “old-world electronic post-rock.” Korb worked with vocalist Ashley Barret on both projects to rave reviews.
Even fair-weather fans of punk know the huge influence left on the genre by hardcore legends Black Flag. This week on More Than Noise, hear rare recordings from the band’s early compilation “Everything Went Black,” released in 1982. The album captures the essence of Black Flag’s early sound before Henry Rollins signed on to the project in ‘81. Keith Morris’s vocal is raw, messy, and half-drunk -- three words that encapsulate the advent of SoCal hardcore.
“Geodesy” is the debut EP by live mathtronica duo Ssighborggg. A joint venture between South Korea and the United States, the two members of Ssighborggg bridge their geographic boundary by mashing together synth fueled IDM beats with polyrhythmic math rock goodness. “Geodesy” clocks in at just four songs, but each track is filled with enough progressive energy to take up an entire album by itself. The duo constantly changes gears and engages radically different compositional styles seamlessly. “Geodesy” is the perfect album to compromise the artificial anger of IDM with the unhinged carefreeness of math rock.
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ART
Alumnus turns salvaged wood into functional, unique works BY KAYLEE POCHE @kaylee_poche Across town from the stately oaks and broad magnolias, University alumnus Josh Wascome spends his days in his backyard workshop turning salvaged wood into homemade, functional works of art. With his business, Wascome Woodworks, the 35-year-old creates kitchenware — bowls, coasters, cutting boards and spoons — bow ties and ornaments out of a variety of local woods, including persimmon, cypress and magnolia. Wascome sells his pieces at local markets like the Red Stick Farmers Market and the Mid City Makers Market, in addition to stores across southern Louisiana, including Sweet Leather Goods and Red Onion. Growing up, Wascome worked with his contractor father remodeling and roofing houses during the summer, which gave him familiarity with wood as a medium. However, he didn’t truly develop a passion for woodworking until he was completing his final semester of general studies in college, he said. Wascome originally began selling wood pieces to pay for his final semester at the University. Soon this labor of necessity became a labor of love, as he began spending more time
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LSU alumnus Josh Wascome’s business, Wascome Woodworks, turns salvaged wood into handmade art. perfecting his products, he said. “All this isn’t too outside of what I learned growing up,” Wascome said. “I didn’t really get a passion for it until around 2009 when I was really taking the time to appreciate what I’m doing rather than being like, ‘Alright, I’m just trying to get this done.’” Wascome Woodworks began in 2007 as a hobby Wascome’s father adopted in his retirement. Wascome’s father started selling his wooden creations at the Red
Stick Farmers Market. In 2010, Wascome took the reigns. While Wascome picked up his woodworking expertise from his father, he has also learned from trial and error and online tutorials. “As soon as you think you have something figured out one way, you look online and there’s somebody that’s figured out a way to do it twice as fast and way more efficiently,” Wascome said. Wascome first turns the wood with a lathe, then dries and sands
it before carving and grinding the piece. He then programs a CNC computer-controlled machine to cut the wood to his liking. The Baton Rouge native has streamlined his workflow over the years, making the process more efficient. A medium-sized bowl he used to create in three hours, he can now create in a little under an hour, he said. However, he hasn’t compromised originality for efficiency. At the beginning of his woodworking career, he used to strive
for perfect edges, trim and inlay, but over time realized people were drawn to more unique pieces with looser edges, he said. Wascome wants customers to know his products are handmade, which is why he intentionally ensures none of his products are exactly the same — even when using a template. “That’s probably my favorite part of it all,” Wascome said. “Even when you’re doing mass production, you have to learn how to be creative with how you do it.” Wascome usually acquires the wood from family friends, like the owners of Marathon Tree Service Inc. and neighbors who need to get rid of trees they have chopped down, he said. “I’ve made stuff out of pretty much every local tree I can get my hands on at this point, just to see what it’s like,” Wascome said. With the popularity of the wooden bowties and cufflinks, Wascome wants to shift the business’s focus from kitchenware to more fashion accessories like belt buckles, watches or sunglasses in the future, he said. He also wants to eventually make abstract wooden wall art, time permitting. “I guess there’s like that the-sky’s-the-limit kind of thing with it,” Wascome said.
BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY
Days for Girls team provides supplies, educates women
BY MACKENZIE TREADWELL @mackenzieeliza
Imagine you lived in a world where you not only had limited access to feminine hygiene products, but were ostracized and unable to attend school because of your period — this is the case for many young women in third-world countries. One Baton Rouge Days for Girls team is combating this stigma by supplying sustainable feminine hygiene products. Since September 2015, the volunteer team at Ingleside United Methodist Church has gathered weekly to assemble nearly 400 Days for Girls kits that have been distributed across Nicaragua, Kenya and Uganda. The Ingleside team began when church member Ev Auster stumbled across an article discussing a Days for Girls team in North Carolina when researching missions for her ladies’ groups. Once Auster presented her finding to the groups, volunteer and church member Shannon Rowe’s group decided to establish a team. “We had the skills, the hands, and the time, and we wanted to make a difference,” Rowe said. Days for Girls is a
grassroots nonprofit organi- ness during their periods. The zation developed in 2008 by Days for Girls kits are distribfounder and CEO Celeste Mer- uted by trained volunteers and gens, who realized the need missionary teams that educate for reusable feminine hygiene recipients about their menstruproducts and health educa- ation cycle, self-hygiene and tion while working with an personal safety. orphanage in Kenya, according Since its inception, Days to the Days for Girls website. for Girls has provided 640,000 When Mergens asked the women in over 100 countries orphanage’s assistant direc- with kits and materials genertor what the girls did as far as ated by teams across the world. feminine hygiene, she received The kits come in fun, a shocking response — nothing. decoratively patterned drawThey waited in their rooms on string bags containing a wash cloth, bar of a piece of cardboard for their soap, two pairs “We love them and of underwear, a periods to stop, often not emerg- want to care for them. Ziploc bag, eight ing for days, accloth liners and cording to the Having a period is a two shields. The site. is similar beautiful thing and shield In many thirdto a panty liner, world countries, not something to be while the cloth feminine hyliners allow womashamed of.” giene products en to avoid attention when they are either too hang the reusexpensive or SHANNON ROWE able items out to completely out of Volunteer and church member dry. All materials reach, meaning are gathered by that many young women are stuck — missing sev- each team through donation or eral days of school — eventually out-of-pocket expenses. dropping out because they get so Countless yards of fabric are behind. ripped, folded, ironed, pinned Not only are they ill-equipped and sewed before any element to handle their menstrual flow, of the kit is complete, Rowe but young women lack the said. At the beginning of their education to maintain cleanli-
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Days for Girls volunteers create feminine hygiene kits for women living in third world countries at 4264 Capital Heights Ave., on Oct. 31. journey, a member of the church who was attending a mission trip to Uganda approached the team about distributing 50 kits. For three weeks, the team worked tirelessly to assemble the sets. The end result was well worth the effort when they saw photos of the women with their kits in hand, they said. “It was so moving and surreal to see the joy on their
faces,” Rowe said “[After we saw the pictures] we knew we would continue making the kits.” This labor of love has taken on countless hours, but for the volunteers it’s all worth it, Rowe said. “We love them and want to care for them,” she said. “Having a period is a beautiful thing and not something to be ashamed of.
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page 20 POP SHOP, from page 15 Enter Matthew Polito. A psychology senior and fellow local musician, Polito came up with a solution: draw crowds by brining in local groups. After introducing his idea in the summer of 2015, the shop’s “backspace” evolved into the venue it’s known for today. “Once we put ourselves out there as a venue that caters to mostly local artists, the demand was apparent,” Polito said. Going from the awkward, loud and cramped shows in the front of the store to the open and intimate backspace made a world of a difference for live performances. The progression came together naturally, Polito said. The backspace that was once a dusty storage room now had a stage and a quality sound system. Younger, fresh bands that don’t have pull yet and high school bands limited by their age had no platform in Baton Rouge until the shop transitioned into a venue. The shop is a place to encourage new talent. Polito was inspired by his own beginnings in the local music scene as a teenager trying to get his band out there, he said. He modeled the backspace in the shop after a spot in local thrift store “Here Today Gone Tomorrow,” where he and many other high school bands started out. Polito hopes Atomic Pop Shop can offer a leg up for upcoming artists like his old spot did for him. “There was this gap left in the music scene where younger artists weren’t able to get their start,” Polito said. “There was
PRATHER, from page 15 a forest of twisted snakes or lines, opposing abstract images that somehow seamlessly flow together and pop off the canvas, radiant animal-centered pieces, often with abstracts strategically placed around them, and a Mexican girl wearing a horned butterfly mask, inspired by a moment that immediately caught her attention on a visit to Mexico City, Prather said. Louisiana culture is one of Prather’s main artistic
COFFEE, from page 15 the event. “[We want to] stitch together different parts into a whole,” Doran said. This year, the studio created a series of maps to accompany their event that has a linking element with whatever organization Mid City Studio has paired with for the month. The maps are a takeaway item that further participants’ involvement and understanding of their city, by showing them places to visit or educating them on aspects and social issues they might not have considered before, Doran said. For February, the event was held at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Since it was
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no starting place if you weren’t already established. I tried to capture the same feeling. For it to not be some high-stakes, huge venue. This is where you come to learn how to be a band and a performer in a way where you’re not judged based on your ability.” The way Polito puts it, you could be the best band of 15-year-old’s ever, but you won’t be able to land a gig at The Spanish Moon or Varsity Theatre. The Atomic Pop Shop is one of the few live music experiences you can find around the Capital City for underage folk. “These [high schoolers] might have the audience, but just need the space,” Polito said. “That’s where the Pop Shop comes in. It’s like a middle ground between a house show and a full venue.” Polito describes the shop as a space with a more reliable setting than a house or backyard for the younger crowd. The “first step” is often the hardest for bands, and this venue hopes to provide an avenue for younger bands to get that initial step accomplished. The Atomic Pop Shop tries to provide the most available and easiest entry into the music scene. High school bands like The Sun Room, a jazz fusion neosoul group, and indie band Mr. San Francisco have approached Polito about hosting shows at the shop. The turnout for these performances was huge — upwards of 80 people. The demand was clear. To find bands or artists to perform in the backspace is an easy feat. Local acts approach Polito, but he also prides himself in knowing most artists
within the city limits that have been playing for at least a few of months, he said. “Everybody is only one degree of separation from any other person in Baton Rouge. Once you know one person, you stumble into someone else involved,” Polito said. Live shows are either curated by people with a knack for creating a successful lineup, such as duo Seaux La, or put together by Polito, as the booker for the Shop. “I can make an educated guess on who would fit stylistically and who would balance out a crowd [on a lineup]. If there’s a new band, [I might] put an act on the bill that I know will bring a crowd. It’s all about pairing people off that I think if you like this one band, then you’ll like the other,” Polito said. The Atomic Pop Shop is a venue for music and musicians. “Unless you want to buy a vinyl record at 10 p.m., the only real reason [people] are there is to see the band,” Polito said. “The crowd is tremendously more engaged than a bar-oriented venue.” Polito hopes that patrons who leave the show will return as new fans, and that they can say they’ve discovered new bands and talented performers they might have not found elsewhere. “The overall feeling of a show with a good crowd makes you feel like you’ve done a good job.” Polito said. “I want the Atomic Pop Shop to be an inviting hub of creativity and culture in the community. Our end goal will always be the same: to provide that space for the forgotten demographic.”
Atomic Pop Shop hosts the event “Live From Da Swamp,” which features a variety of bands Oct. 13.
influences, she said. One of her first pieces was a canvas of a Mardi Gras mask, and one of her more recent works is a canvassed two-headed selfdescribed Voodoo queen with many eyes. After graduation Prather hopes to enter the New Orleans art scene, but in the meantime will continue to invest herself in the Baton Rouge art community, she said. Prather gets to know other local artists in the city’s multifaceted creative community
through The Bando, a monthly art and music event at Spanish Moon and Mid City Merchants’ annual White Light Night. Prather is also a lifeguard at the LSU UREC and a server at Louie’s Café. In addition to her two jobs and school, Prather maintains her artistry in her downtime by setting personal due dates for each commission, and ultimately using art as a source of happiness and stress relief, she said. To check her out, look through her Instagram @friedskrimpz.
International studies senior Sam Prather paints in her home Oct. 1.
Black History Month, the map for this month showed a timeline and map of all things related to the Civil Rights Movement in Baton Rouge. For October, the event was held in the Magnolia Cemetery with the map featuring a historic cemetery bike tour led by historian Mark Martin attendees could follow later in the day. “The goal is to get people out on the street meeting each other and talking about Mid City,” Doran said, “[We want] to build community across Mid City area.” Coffee on the Porch is hosted the last Friday of every month excluding August and November from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. For locations check midcitystudio.org.
LSU School of Architecture Professional in Residence and Executive Director of Mid City Studio William Doran speaks on behalf of Coffee on the Porch monthly event at Magnolia Cemetery
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Jeremiah Marshall, known as OG GUCCI, raps Oct. 13, at the event “Live From Da Swamp” at Atomic Pop Shop on Government Street.
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Members of various Baton Rouge communities gather for Coffee on the Porch at Magnolia Cemetery to connect on Sunday, Oct. 29.
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H , H , H LD ON Thanksgiving overshadowed by Christmas
JUST A WRYTER ETHAN GILBERTI @EthanGilberti Americans will spend $465 billion on Christmas shopping this year, according to the National Retail Federation. The day after Halloween, many retailers will string up lights, set up trees and leave out Thanksgiving. To corporations, the only seasons that matter are the ones that bring in the most money, and they decide how soon those seasons start. Understandably, it is their job to sell as many products as possible. However, by using Christmas as a tool to garner more wealth, companies’ commercialism cheapens one of the happiest seasons. This commercialization is not new. In fact, the Christmas we think of today is almost entirely based off of advertisements and financially-driven marketing. Even the stereotypical Santa Claus is propaganda created by a soda company. Because the original white-bearded saint was unappealing to audiences, Coca-Cola hired an artist to redesign a more jolly Santa Claus for their advertisements. Thus the fuzzy red cap and coat were created to sell sugary sodas. Almost every aspect we consider part of the Christmas season
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has been carefully designed by men in suits deciding how best to steal your money. A quick walk down greeting card aisle will show just how expected and expensive sending a friend a kitsch piece of paper can be. The appreciation and desire for sentimental, handwritten cards
has fallen victim to kittens wearing elf hats. Because of this expectation, Christmas cards account for 25 percent of greeting card sales, or two billion dollars a year. The earlier stores push Christmas, the more cards customers will feel forced to purchase for their long-lost uncle.
Unfortunately for companies, customers hardly buy Thanksgiving paraphernalia. This means that for all intents and purposes, Thanksgiving does not exist. In almost every retail store, the “Elf on the Shelf” and every other iconic Christmas product appears far before families carve their
turkeys. Though it brings about less purchases, Thanksgiving is an important holiday to remember in our nation. As a country of mostly consumers, we need this holiday to take a breather and reflect on everything there is to be thankful for. Instead, retailers force this celebration out of our minds with garland, pseudo-snow, and Christmas tunes. While we should be giving thanks, customers are consumed with Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. Having a commercial holiday so soon after Thanksgiving cheapens the atmosphere we are supposed to create. It is impossible to be grateful when people are so focused on what they want and how cheap they can get it the very next day. In fact, 19.2 percent of retail industries’ total sales came from the holiday season in 2013. There is far more desire than thanks. Even though there are no Thanksgiving decorations or carols, do not forget the upcoming holiday. It is necessary to reflect on what you already have to be grateful for. Without thanks, people devolve into animals of desire. A Christmas wish list can wait, but it is never too soon to write a thank you card. Ethan Gilberti is a 19-year-old English sophomore from New Orleans, Louisiana.
Portraying, glamorizing past tragedies in movies insensitive POP, LOX AND DROP IT JORDAN MILLER @jmiller101696 Daily life and news is filled with tragedy, sorrow and haunting headlines. It seems like every day there are mass shootings, new fatality records broken or natural disasters ruining hundreds of lives. It’s great when celebrities use their star power for good and fundraising to help aid or bring awareness to events like these. However, that’s the only involvement celebrities should have with these horrific events. The film industry has taken it upon themselves to profit from the disasters and heartbreak many people have endured. This trend started many years ago with films about the Holocaust, genocides in other countries and serial killers. For Louisianians, the industry recently produced the movie “Deep Water Horizon” about the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Locals already watched that event unfold and
the sad aftermath of it. I don’t want to go pay to relive that story with handsome actors as the selling point because I already coped with it and have moved on. The glamorized reminders of these events is not welcomed and slightly insensitive. Not just one, but two movies have been made about the Boston Marathon bombing. It’s wonderful when movies highlight the real life heroes that sprang into action during those hard times, but I don’t need Mark Wahlberg in “Patriots Day” or Jake Gyllenhaal in “Stronger” to emphasize the hardships so many people went through because of the terrorism that took place. People like to go to the movies and see something fun and chipper, or an original drama with enticing acting and unique storylines. We already know what happened, how many lives were lost and how many of us are in the healing process. There’s no sense in opening old wounds for entertainment. It’s insensitive to the people who were affected
firsthand, who lost loved ones or lost everything in the natural disasters. If charities or something else was created from these movie adaptations, then at least they’d have a worthwhile purpose. However, the movies are too late to do any good and are just an excuse for actors and actresses to feel like they were involved in bringing light to a terrible tragedy. Save your money and don’t support movies that glamorize and exploit devastating past events. Don’t support the insensitivity to human lives that have been lost or wondrous nature that’s been destroyed. Hollywood needs to come up with something new or original if they want to gain support from a broader audience because encouraging survivors to relive their trauma is alienating to an audience, and really, it’s sick and cruel. Jordan Miller is a 21-year-old elementary education junior from New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling unit on fire in April 2010.
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Donald Trump on path to winning presidential re-election in 2020 STAY THIRSTY, MY FRIENDS JACOB MARANTO @Jacob_Maranto A year ago today, Donald Trump was elected as the 45th president of the United States. For Trump, getting re-elected may be even more significant than getting elected the first time. He has always faced incredible opposition, but someone could rationalize his election as a fluke or as the stars aligning perfectly. Though a few years away, 2020 will be here quicker than we expect. Eleven months into office, we are starting to get an idea of Trump’s strengths and weaknesses. To stay in office after 2020, Trump is going to have to play on strengths and temper his weaknesses. No matter what side of the aisle you find yourself on, the economy is undeniably trending in the right direction. The stock market in particular is surpassing all expectations, putting to rest any ideas that it would tank during a Trump presidency. There are several key economic trends that bode well for a Trump re-election if they continue. The unemployment rate fell to 4.1 percent in October, which is the lowest since 2000. As of June, the average housing price is at a record high of $263,800, which is another bright spot for the Trump administration since housing prices under Obama were dismal. The stock market is surpassing everyone’s expectations, and I can imagine there are some sour economists who predicted a Trump presidency would
crash all markets and western civilization as we know it. Other notable and positive economic trends include a narrower trade deficit, increased consumer spending and increased borrowing by companies and individuals. And with Trump’s approval rating recognizably low at roughly 39 percent in October, continuation of these positive trends should bolster approval of Trump. The promise of a healthy economy moves voters to the polls, and actually having a healthy economy will help motivate voters to help win a re-election. People want to make more money, have nicer things and be able to save more. It is still early, but if Trump continues to improve the economy, many of his various unpopular foibles will be forgotten. Trump deserves credit for economic growth and health, and sustaining the uptrend is the single greatest factor in his re-election bid. Trump ran his whole campaign on building a wall on our southern border with Mexico. 11 months into his term, exactly zero percent of this wall has been constructed. If he wants to be re-elected, he is going to have to make good on his promise and get some form of wall built. A good economy is vital to Trump’s re-election bid, but people want safety from illegal aliens coming into our country, becoming a tax burden, taking jobs and committing crimes. It’s a similar situation with immigration from predominantly Muslim countries: people want to feel safe and they want a commander-in-chief who is going to keep undesirables out of our country.
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While his travel ban has been extremely contested in the courts, he has done well in acknowledging the threat of radical Islam to our country. This is something Obama was never able to do and Hillary Clinton would have refused to acknowledge. Despite what liberal media propagates, radical Muslims are a threat to this country and a strong effort by Trump to keep radicals out of our country is extremely important for his approval and re-election. Trump can satisfy his base if he tackles the two-pronged problem of closing our southern border and keeping out radicals all while initiating a more proficient, safe and legitimate immigration policy. In recent weeks, claims of Trump and Russian collusion has been overblown. As time passes, the president is becoming more and more vindicated in this fight
with Democrats and the media. Last week, news broke about how the Hillary Clinton campaign rigged the Democratic National Committee system in her favor. Even the touted leader and possible future of the party Elizabeth Warren agreed this happened. DNC chairwoman Donna Brazile is even writing a book about the unethical practices used by the Clinton campaign to steal the nomination away from Bernie Sanders. Trump has to take advantage of this insanity in the Democratic party. Even if he fails to unite the Republican party, he has to at least show some semblance of unity. Trump may well come into 2020 limping because of his own gaffes, but if the Democratic party is in shambles, it won’t matter. Trump must maintain a level composure among himself and his party for the next two years. The
Democrats have no leader and no idea who to run against Trump. This was their biggest mistake in 2016: they ran the worst candidate in election history. It will be interesting to see who they bolster in 2020. If they plan on running a crazy old socialist like Bernie or Elizabeth Warren, a woman so liberal and out-of-touch she might as well be on Jupiter, they will lose. The Democratic party is the wildcard in Trump’s re-election bid. Will they continue to shoot themselves in the foot by parading around crazy liberals like Obama and the Clintons, or will they unify around someone new and more moderate? Only time will tell. The ball seems slightly in their court on this one. Jacob Maranto is 21-year-old mass communication senior from Plaquemine, Louisiana.
Gourmet cupcake shops not sustainable market in college city POP, LOX AND DROP IT JORDAN MILLER @jmiller101696 If you’re one of the hundreds of students who live near campus, specifically the Tigerland or Burbank areas, you’ve noticed the gourmet cupcake shop, Cupcake Allie, that’s nestled in the same strip as Hungry Howie’s Pizza. Most people, specifically college kids who are stress eating, love cupcakes and can appreciate the proximity of this dessert shop, but the prices of these establishments are just not realistic or sustainable for college kids. Most students frequently repeat the mantra “treat yo’ self” when they realize they’ve been excessively, unnecessarily spending money, but generally they are aiming that statement at splurging on drinks, pizza or some new clothes, not gourmet, aesthetically pleasing cupcakes. Treating yourself to a delightfully sweet treat is always nice if you can spare the money, but it isn’t something that students can justify regularly spending money on. Cupcake Allie isn’t the only
casual, convenient dessert option close to campus. Nothing Bundt Cakes and The Ambrosia Bakery are some other well-known spots, but aimed at a slightly different clientele. Nothing Bundt Cakes is a chain that is expanding, opening locations in nearly 36 different states, and The Ambrosia Bakery knows they have higher prices and so they are aimed more at local families or businesses. Cake shops that have an average price of $3.25 per cupcake are probably targeting the wrong clients. With boozy flavors coupled with late closing times, exceeding 10 p.m., college students seem like the targeted buyer. Unfortunately, it’s a bit too expensive for a student, but it’s located amongst mostly students or lower income families. Some of the aforementioned shops are expanding their businesses, but it doesn’t seem like they are refining the focus on clientele. Instead it seems like they’re broadening their products and having some sort of identity crisis. Many sweets shops now sell frozen drinks like Icees, cake pops and are even trying out dog products, such as mini cupcakes that are healthy for dogs or small
bones covered in pet friendly icing. As mentioned before, college students barely want to shell out money for textbooks deemed necessary so it’s unlikely they’ll be rushing to scoop up gourmet dog treats while they’re on a budget. Coffee shops that sell a variety of pastries just make more sense in a college town like Baton Rouge. Dessert shops that sell mediocre coffee just don’t seem like a feasible, sustainable market where the buyers are mostly students. The concept behind these restaurants is a delightful, whimsical thought, just not one that people are often thinking about. Owners of these stores should look at the market around them and realize that their main focus should be on something manageable for students, like having the spotlight be on cheap, delicious coffee, and entice them into stores that way. It’s as simple as this: know your market and don’t try to create one that’s not already there in a town that’s overrun by broke kids. Jordan Miller is a 21-year-old elementary education junior from New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Smallcakes Cupcakery and Creamery displays a few of their cupcakes on Aug. 25 on East Petroleum Drive.
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Kevin Spacey reinforces negative LGBTQ stereotypes ANNARIGIONAL TAKE ANNA COLEMAN @_annacoleman_ In a recent interview with BuzzFeed News, actor Anthony Rapp, most known from his role as Mark in the original cast of the Broadway production “Rent,” publicly alleged that actor Kevin Spacey made sexual advances toward him when Rapp was only 14 years old. Spacey responded by saying if he “did behave then as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior, and I am sorry for the feelings he describes having carried with him all these years.” He went on to reveal he has dated both men and women in his personal life, and said Rapp’s allegations caused him to examine his own life and behaviors. Spacey concluded his statement by professing that “I now choose to live life as a gay man.” There are multiple issues with the nature of Spacey’s apology. First, it is not actually an
apology. Spacey essentially just makes excuses for his actions by characterizing it as drunken behavior and then says he is sorry Rapp is still upset all these years later. A “sorry you feel that way” is nowhere close to the same as “I’m truly sorry for my actions.” The second glaring issue with Spacey’s non-apologetic apology is his choice to close it by coming out as a gay man. An official statement discussing criminal sexual allegations against you is quite possibly the worst possible time to come out of the closet. There has been a long history in America of LGBTQ people, most specifically gay men, being characterized as sexual predators who are unsafe around children. Spacey choosing to combine these two statements just provides fuel for those looking to confirm this grossly inaccurate misconception. In the 1970s, a time where LGBTQ rights were coming to the forefront of American political debate, singer and orange juice spokeswoman Anita Bryant famously ran a “save the children” campaign against gay rights under the guidance of televangelist Jerry Falwell. Bryant and Falwell
warned the American public of the so called “threat of militant homosexuality” and claimed LGBTQ people were a threat to the nation’s children. Falwell wrote in a fundraising letter to his followers to “please remember, homosexuals don’t reproduce! They recruit! And they are out after my children and your children.” It has been four decades since Bryant and Falwell’s campaign, but many of their sentiments remain. According to a 2017 Gallup Poll, 23 percent of Americans still believe samesex relations between consenting adults should be illegal. In 2005, 43 percent of Americans believed LGBTQ individuals should not be hired as elementary school teachers. Gay men were not allowed to be scoutmasters in the Boy Scouts of America until 2015. In the transgender bathroom debate of 2016, the most vocal argument against allowing people the right to use whatever bathroom they choose was the threat of transgender people assaulting children. Though these fears may be widespread, there is little true evidence that they are warranted. Research from the
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Kevin Spacey came out as gay after allegations that he attempted to sexually assault actor Anthony Rapp 32 years ago. University of California, Davis found there is “no inherent connection between an adult’s sexual orientation and her or his propensity for endangering others.” Similarly, a 1998 literature review by behavioral psychiatrist Dr. Nathaniel McConaghy spoke on the lack of a link between homosexuality and pedophilia. McConaghy observed that “the man who offends against prepubertal or immediately post pubertal boys is typically not sexually interested in older men or in women.”
It is clear that many Americans still incorrectly believe that LGBTQ people are a threat to our children. For someone looking for a confirmation of their biases, Spacey’s admission appears to be a direct corroboration of their feelings. Instead of making a poor attempt to distract from the allegation against him, Spacey should have waited until a later time to come out. Anna Coleman is a 19-yearold mass communication junior from Kennesaw, Georgia.
NCAA Football must return from its hiatus, release new game MILES AWAY FROM REALITY MILES JORDAN @MilesBJordan NCAA Football 14 released on July 9, 2013, on the XBox 360 and PlayStation 3 video game consoles. Unbeknownst to fans of the game, this would be the final installment to date in the franchise that began in 1993 as Bill Walsh College Football. The franchise’s cancellation left a large hole in sports gaming community making the Madden franchise the only new football-related sports video game. Each year during July and August there are messages on message boards asking if there will be a new NCAA game. To date, there hasn’t been an answer on if there will ever be another game, but there must be a new one at some point. EA Sports published NCAA Football every year from 1993 to 2013. The game was meant to simulate a college football season similar to how Madden is intended to simulate the pro game. However, the simulation caused the problems in the first place. To simulate college football, the
game had to be hyperrealistic, which meant having licensing for college football teams, stadiums, mascots and other necessary elements like players. However, NCAA Football couldn’t have the players in the game because of the NCAA’s unwillingness to pay its players. The issue of payment arises when the players are near or exact replicas in the game. According to a study done by SB Nation after the release of NCAA 2014, 124 of the 126 top virtual players on each team played the exact position as their real-life counterpart. 122 of the players had the same height, and all 126 have accurate home states. In 2009, a former Nebraska studentathlete sued EA Sports for the use of player likeness. This lawsuit, O’Bannon v. NCAA, is what set the groundwork for what ultimately ended operations in the game. Former UCLA studentathlete Ed O’Bannon sued the NCAA for its usage of player’s images for commercial purposes. This lawsuit ended the video game because EA Sports and the NCAA did not want to have to deal with more lawsuits for continuing the usage of likeness.
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The NCAA game has not seen a new edition since 2013, and each year it seems the likelihood of a new game gets slimmer and slimmer. However, here are a couple of possible good signs through EA Sports. In this year’s version of Madden, Madden NFL 18, the game uses the likeness of the Texas Longhorns in its Longshot series. Furthermore, other companies want to create college football video games. For example, iMackulate Vision Gaming is attempting to develop a college football-like video game called Gridiron Champions. The game’s idea is eerily similar to the NCAA series, minus one thing – no actual teams. Every school in the game would be generic and created by the creators of the game. The lack of real schools will inevitably turn some off from the game, but Gridiron Champions, if successful, has built-in customization that will give individuals the ability to edit a team to make real schools since there is no legal issue with an individual customization. The game is currently still trying to accumulate money to begin creation. The options may be few, and
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The LSU football team before the Tigers’ 27-23 victory against Auburn on Oct. 14. the likelihood of a game exactly as we know it may be doubtful. It’s up to some corporation to bring the game back. Whether it is iMackulate Vision Gaming or EA Sports, the fan base has waited long enough for a new rendition of the beloved NCAA
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franchise. A new game is needed and wanted, and someone needs to bring it. Miles Jordan is a 20-year-old liberal arts sophomore from New Orleans, Louisiana.
Quote of the Week “The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.”
Confucius Teacher/Philosopher Sept. 28, 551 BC — 479 BC
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New iPhone purposeless, too similar to past year’s release WELL, SHE TRIED. CHANTELLE BAKER @deannayukari If you’ve been alive and well these last few months, you’re aware Apple released two new phones on Nov. 3. If you’ve paid any attention to the phones, you’d see they’re pretty similar to every other phone they’ve released in the past. Ask yourself, why do you want this new iPhone? Is it because of the amazing new features compared to the one released last year? If this is the case, someone probably lied to you. The truth is the iPhone 8 doesn’t differ much from the iPhone 7. Aesthetically, the iPhone 8 returns to glass like the iPhone 4 had once upon a time, but otherwise it is near exactly the same. With the iPhone 8, the greatest thing Apple is introducing is a new A11 Bionic chip that allows for quicker task performance, causing it to be a bit more power efficient. Though it sounds great, the iPhone 7 is pretty efficient already. Comparatively, the 8 is probably not lightspeed ahead of the 7. The only other real thing Apple has added is wireless charging. Regardless of this, Apple has
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stated the battery life is about the same. This year, they’ve chosen to release two different models: the iPhone 8 and the iPhone X, which celebrates the 10th year of iPhones. It has been advertised as a phone that is going to change the way we view phones. Apple has stated they want the iPhone X to be the start of a new generation of iPhones rather
than just a variation of previous phones. However, it doesn’t live up to those expectations. The iPhone X is indeed a bit more advanced than the iPhone 8. However, according to Tom’s Guide, a site dedicated to modern technology, a majority of buyers won’t even be able to receive their phones until December. It may turn out to be a good sales tactic due to the
anticipation of these far-fetched features, but they won’t be here as soon as people thought. Thankfully, it still allows for buyers to learn more of the new things that make this iPhone so advanced. The iPhone X has removed the home button, something that is certainly new to iPhones. It’s allowing Apple to introduce Face ID, which would be
the first of its kind. A review by David Pierce of wired. com has noted the Face ID is a sleek addition to the iPhone, but considering everything else in the phone is basically the same as it has been, it probably isn’t worth the $1000 they’re expecting for it. The greatest thing that has hooked buyers is the increasingly improved camera. However, the iPhone 8 and iPhone X still have the same 12 MP camera as the iPhone 7. I’m sure it’s something people are probably unaware of, considering Apple buyers look forward to an updated camera every year. It will serve as a disappointment when people compare the cameras and come to see the cheaper phones produce the same quality photos. As a business, it is a good thing Apple chooses to release something new every year. It adds to their sales and it gives people something new to await. However, the hype surrounding these phones this year is unnecessary and just causation for overspending on a phone that is comparatively similar. It’s a great marketing tactic, but it has disappointing results. Chantelle Baker is a 20-yearold communication studies senior from Waipahu, Hawaii.
Women deserve better sexual experiences from male partners MILES AWAY FROM REALITY
vaginal intercourse is not the only sexual activity, and for the majority of women it does not result in orgasm as it does in MILES JORDAN men. To change this, sexual @MilesBJordan education needs to change — Only 18.4 percent of women few men understand the female orgasm from vaginal inter- anatomy at all. If the female course. Women and men live anatomy becomes more well different sexual known to men, realities. Men more men will are free to talk on portions Men need to understand focus about sex, free of the female to have multiple that sex is not about the body like the clisexual partners destination but the entire toris. Beyond just journey. and orgasm while u ndersta ndi ng, women are looked men could also down upon for focus on doing talking about sex things that are andareshamedfor not only sex. being with various partners. Foreplay and post-play are esBefore the physical plea- sential to an enjoyable sexual sure -gap changes, the way men experience for women. think about women’s sexuality Men must move beyond inmust change. Men must begin securities and be open to ideas to see the hypocritical nature that women have. One of the of sexuality. There is no reason largest sexual insecurities for why sex should seem to be about men is the use of vibrators. sheer conquest to men yet it is Many men fear that a vibrator an immediate issue if a woman is a substitute for a partner but even dresses in an unpopular typically speaking that is not way. Furthermore, there is a the case. The vibrator can just responsibility for parents and be a helpful tool to reach optifamily members to stop ap- mal pleasure for both men and plauding men for sex while be- women. littling women for it. As long as Men need to understand that these perceptions stay the same, sex is not about the destination the pleasure gap will remain the but the entire journey. It is easy same. to understand why men care The physical gap can be a about the destination because more straightforward fix if men sex has traditionally been for just start understanding that men. Naturally, it has always
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Free condoms being handed out for Free Condom Friday on Sept. 25, 2015, in free speech ally on LSU campus. been about orgasming, then being done. For men, sex and orgasming can legitimately put them to sleep, so it would make sense that after orgasming the sexual experience would be done for many men. However, men should be held accountable as sexual partners to at least ask
the woman they are with if they want more, especially more than just intercourse. Education is an essential beginning for men to start becoming better sexual partners. Sex is a two-way street and should be treated as such, and the man’s side of the street is the
side that needs the most work. It is necessary for men to see what they’re doing wrong and improve, even if only marginal improvements are necessary. Miles Jordan is a 20-year-old liberal arts sophomore from New Orleans, Louisiana.