The Reveille 10-24-22

LSU ranks No. 18 after win over Ole Miss.

STORMING BACK

Brian Kelly earns his first signature win as LSU dominates Ole Miss

B-16 Hodges Hall

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BY PETER RAUTERKUS @peter_rauterkus

Nov. 29, 2021, feels like a life time ago now.

In that time, LSU football has seen a complete upheaval of its program, starting with the hir ing of Brian Kelly. Though many supported LSU in the hire, there was still a fair bit of criticism at the time, and that criticism has followed Kelly through his first year at LSU. Now, eight games into the season, LSU is 6-2, ranked No.18 in the country and is tied for first place in the SEC West.

From dancing videos with re cruits, to a rumored fake accent and many other criticisms, many believed Kelly wasn’t a good “fit” at LSU. Concerns were raised about whether a coach from a Catholic school in the midwest could fit the culture down in Louisiana.

Throughout that long offsea son filled with talk, criticism and still a fair amount of praise, LSU fans and college football fans knew that the real talk would start when Kelly would lead the Tigers on the field for the first time.

Kelly and LSU had a chance to quiet the noise on the field, but a disappointing loss to Flori da State to start the season only

made it deafening.

Through all of the noise though, the team never seemed fazed. LSU handled business against Southern, setting up a big SEC matchup with Missis sippi State, in which the Tigers came away with a 31-16 win.

LSU then beat New Mexico, putting momentum back at a high. Then the next gut punch came.

Tennessee humbled LSU at home 40-13, which felt like a game where LSU was reminded of the work still ahead of the program.

The Tigers had no time to blink, though. A gauntlet in the SEC was ahead of them, with back-to-back games against Flor ida and Univ. of Mississippi be fore the bye week.

But then, the momentum came back. LSU’s offense came alive against Florida, securing a vital road win and setting up an even bigger matchup at home against Ole Miss.

In that game against Ole Miss, LSU got off to yet another slow start. But much like multiple other games this year, the Tigers stormed back. After going down 17-3, LSU then outscored Ole Miss 42-3, on its way to a domi nant 45-20 win.

“The last three quarters, we played great football. And that’s,

at the end of the day, when you have a top team coming in, that’s why you come down to LSU,” said Kelly after the game.

The game itself was arguably the best LSU has played all year. Quarterback Jayden Daniels con tinued his impressive play from last week, throwing for 248 yards and two touchdowns, and run ning for another 137 yards and three touchdowns.

“We have found our rhythm,” Daniels said. “The biggest thing in the offensive unit is trust, and we all trust each other. I am go ing to give them the ball where they can go out there and make a play, and they trust me to put it in the right spot.”

The offense put up 500 yards in what was another impressive, balanced game. Led by Daniels, LSU as a team ran for 252 yards with Josh Williams and Armoni Goodwin also contributing.

Defensively, LSU stifled Ole Miss in the second half. The Tigers held the Rebels’ potent rushing attack to just 117 yards. They also gave Ole Miss quar terback Jaxson Dart problems in the second half, creating pres sure and forcing an interception that turned the game on its head in the third quarter.

With that win, Kelly has his first top-10 win as LSU’s head coach and his first signature win.

With all the questions surround ing how he’d fit with the culture, wins like this are the fastest way to fit in with any culture. When asked about whether the win validated his decision to come to LSU however, Kelly was more fo cused on what the win means for the players.

“I think that’s probably the furthest thing from my mind,” Kelly said. “I’m so excited for our players. I used this analogy before, they jumped in 100% with a whole new way of doing things for me, and I’m just so pleased that they’re seeing posi tive results because of it. I think that that’s what I’m most excited about.”

A bye week will set the Tigers up with the biggest game of them all, a showdown in Tiger Stadium against Alabama.

For now, though, Kelly’s re build is going quicker than many expected. His team has answered the call at each point of adversi ty, which has it sitting in a posi tion to control its own destiny in the SEC.

That’s a far cry from where the program was after week one, and even further from where it was when Kelly was hired. Kelly continues to acknowledge that the rebuild is far from complete, but another big win has things moving ahead of schedule.

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LSU football freshman linebacker Harold Perkins Jr. (40) celebrates after a defensive stop Oct. 22, during LSU’s 45-20 win against Ole Miss at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, La.

GRADUATE STIPENDS

Provost Haggerty announces zero-budget model at Faculty Senate meeting

BY MADDIE SCOTT @madscottyy

LSU Executive Vice President and Provost Roy Haggerty an nounced a program to provide raises for faculty and benefits for graduate students, to the Faculty Senate at their meeting on Thurs day.

Haggerty explained his plans in an eight-minute speech, fol lowed by 40 minutes of questions from faculty senators.

Haggerty said he wants to raise faculty wages every year, something the university has not been doing regularly. He also wants to improve the finan cial state of graduate students through stipends and providing health benefits.

“We need to make sure we in crease our graduate stipends to a level that is nationally competi tive and where students are not having to eat from the food bank or wait to have wisdom teeth pulled until they can save up enough money,” Haggerty said. “So, we need to provide stipends that are livable [with] basic health benefits.”

Beginning on July 1, 2023, the university will move toward a ze ro-based budget “for a small num

ber of years,” Haggerty said. Af ter that, the university may move toward something that takes less effort, he said.

He defined the zero-based budget framework as one in which units of an organization, in this case individual colleges, propose a budget to the admin istration of an organization, the university, and have justified ev

ery single line in that budget; this excludes tenured staff.

After that, Haggerty said col lege deans will need to propose their budget for the 2024 fiscal year, which is due Jan. 20, 2023.

In terms of graduate stipends, Haggerty said the university cre ated a team consisting of a coun cil of faculty graduate students, vice provost and dean of LSU

Graduate School James Spencer, a representative from human re sources and a representative from the budget office to provide an implementation plan to bring the graduate stipend to a minimum of $23,000 on a nine-month ba sis, along with a basic healthcare benefit package. The team has met twice so far, he said.

The team will deliver this plan to Haggerty in three stages, the first stage set to be delivered around Dec. 1. The second stage of information will be delivered Feb. 1, which will include infor mation sufficient enough for the office to write offer letters for graduate stipends. The complete implementation will go into effect on July 1, Haggerty said.

“We should not be paying graduate students a stipend that they cannot afford to live on in Baton Rouge, Louisiana,” Hagger ty said. “I’m sure we can all agree on that. We have to increase this, okay? Morally, we have to do this, and practically as well, because [currently] we’re not competitive.”

Haggerty said he will ask the state legislature for additional funding for the plan, but the uni versity shouldn’t rely on that. The

Space for homeless research

BY CHANDLER MCINTOSH @GeauxChandler18

An education professor at LSU used her passion for discussing homelessness, education, hous ing and justice to create a creative space called the Tobin Lab to col laborate with students.

Kerri Tobin said she started the Tobin Lab because she want ed a formal way to collaborate on ideas with her Ph.D. students.

“My students all work from different angles, so aligning our selves in an official way helps sharpen our thinking and stream line our efforts to get our ideas out into the larger research com munity,” Tobin said.

Although Tobin and her stu dents meet in Peabody 107, she said the Tobin Lab isn’t a physical space but rather an intellectual one.

“It exists any time my grad students and I get together to talk about ideas,” Tobin said. “It’s not a physical space, though I guess Peabody 107 is where most of the

LSU student’s jewelry business draws orders nationwide

BY GABBY JIMENEZ @gvjimenezz

Psychology sophomore Macken zie Paradis started her small jew elry business, Kenzie’s Trends, dur ing her senior year of high school. She wanted to make matching necklaces for a spring break trip with her friends, who liked the jew elry so much that they encouraged her to start a business.

Paradis began selling beaded bracelets with people’s names for $5 at school, then moved to selling on Instagram, Depop and eventu ally Etsy. She also expanded her services to create different types of rings, anklets, phone charms and custom orders.

Over the past three years, her Instagram business account gained nearly 1,800 followers. According to Paradis, she’s sold over 450 or ders on Instagram and Etsy and has had orders from 40 states as well as Australia and Canada.

“It’s insane. One of the people that has bought from me literally was right above my dorm last year, and she just came downstairs,” Par adis said.

Most of Paradis’ jewelry fol lows a certain theme. She said she draws inspiration from a variety of sources, including the Dream SMP,

a Minecraft survival world run by a group of content creators on You Tube.

Paradis has found that while people may originally have been drawn to her Dream SMP-inspired jewelry, many of them continue to purchase other jewelry from her.

“I started making necklaces in spired by each of the creators in the Dream SMP, which is insane that that’s what enabled me to be where I am, because I have sold a lot of that kind of necklace,” she said.

Kenzie’s Trends is Paradis’ only job, and she spends a significant amount of time on it. She once timed herself to see how long it would take her to make 20 neck lace orders and ended up spending 13 hours on the ordersbetween two days. She also dedicates time to designing new jewelry and market ing her business on Instagram and TikTok.

While it can be time-consum ing, Paradis said her business has given her the opportunity to travel more and earn money doing some thing she enjoys.

“This is my only source of in come, and it’s enabled me to do so much. I’ve been visiting my sister a lot who lives far away now in [Los Angeles]...And it’s good because I love making jewelry, so even

though it is my job, it doesn’t feel like a job,” Paradis said.

While she’s been able to man age her schedule so far, Paradis ex pressed concern for next fall, when she will be busy applying to law school.

“I am anxious to see how I’m going to balance it whenever I have a harder workload…It’s just impor tant for me to remember that I do need to study and to not spend all my time doing Kenzie’s Trends,” she said.

Paradis said seeing her work improve with time has given her confidence in creating what she wants.

“My quality has gotten better, and I feel more okay to be creative because at first I wanted to do only

trendy things, but I’ve made like small jewelry business friends, and they do insane stuff,” Paradis said. “So they’ve inspired me to also cre ate like crazy things that I never would have before…And it’s amaz ing that [my followers] support me not only for the jewelry, but me as a person.”

Sarena Treaster frequently pur chases from small businesses on Etsy. She learned about Kenzie’s Trends in 2021 through TikTok and has ordered around 20 necklaces from Paradis, who ships her orders to Treaster in Pennsylvania.

Treaster’s first orders includ ed fandom necklaces, which she thinks is a unique way of display ing her interests in a subtle way.

“It’s not something that screams,

‘oh hey, I watch this’ – it’s very sub tle, which is nice,” she said.

Treaster enjoys the different charms and chains Paradis uses in her jewelry. She said she’s ordered a variety of necklaces from Kenzie’s Trends, including two from a Greek God-inspired line. Her favorite, a “Dark Hermes” necklace, is made of safety pins and has a more “al ternative” look.

For the past year, Treaster has seen Kenzie’s Trends grow in popu larity.

“It’s honestly really cool that her business has grown this much… When I first got into her small busi ness, it was still relatively smaller, so to see it blow up in popularity was really nice,” Treaster said.

Yasmin Sanchez runs MadeByY azzy, a small handmade jewelry business based in Chicago, Illinois. For the past year, Sanchez has sold Dream SMP and anime-inspired jewelry through her online busi ness.

Sanchez learned about Paradis through Etsy, and after following her on Instagram, the two became friends. Sanchez said she’s seen the effort Paradis puts into her busi ness and believes customers can also see it.

STUDENT LIFE

MADDIE SCOTT / The Reveille Vice President and Provost Roy Haggerty speaks to LSU’s Faculty Senate on Oct. 20, in the Dalton Woods Auditorium in the Coast and Environ ment Building.

COURTESY OF MACKENZIE PARADIS

Kenzie’s Trends’ “Yours” necklace, inspired by Conan Gray’s song “Yours.”

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university must move forward, Haggerty said, and increasing the stipend is the way to do that.

Senator Robert Cook, a profes sor representing the science de partment, said he agrees it needs to be done, but that a lot of guid ance on technicalities is needed in these early stages.

Senator Sarah Rosser, an in structor representing the English Department, is also in support, but expressed concerns about the plan’s small salary difference be

HOMELESS

synergy happens. Sometimes at Starbucks too.”

Tobin said that the purpose of the Tobin Lab is twofold: to create a space for scholars to en gage with each others’ ideas in a formalized way and to showcase their work as well as current research about the educational needs of unhoused students.

“Because homelessness is my research topic but also something that needs immediate action, we walk the line of learning [and] teaching about it and actually do ing something to solve its myriad problems,” Tobin said.

Every spring, Tobin teaches a class called Homelessness in Our Community, in which undergrad uate students either do a research

tween graduate students and in structors. She said it is a “morale killer” for instructors struggling to get by as professionals.

“We’re looking at a $10,000 difference between a graduate student and a full-time instruc tor,” Rosser said. “That’s discour aging. We are the dark horses as composition instructors, and we are thrilled to see the university growing with all of the incoming freshmen, but is that disparity in your mind at this point?”

Haggerty responded, adding that there needs to be faculty

project or a service project. She also said the lab’s website houses some of the work and informa tion her students have gathered.

Thanks to the creation of the Tobin Lab website, she and one of her graduate assistants pub lished the only existing guide for classroom teachers on meeting the needs of homeless students in their classes.

“My students continue to re search and publish their own ideas for advancing equity,” To bin said.

Tobin also said that one of the lab’s major accomplishments is gaining international attention for the work they do, which resulted in a fruitful collaboration with Matthias Fischer, a Ph.D. student from the University of Education in Heidelberg, Germany.

raises across the board, includ ing instructors. He agreed that instructors need to be paid a fair wage, and said he hopes the im plementation of the plan isn’t de moralizing.

Senator Mostafa Elseifi, a pro fessor representing the Civil En gineering Department, was con cerned that “the state support in Louisiana is not there.” He said that during his time at Virginia Tech, he found they didn’t have the same problem. In response, Haggerty cited his experience in creasing stipends at Oregon State

“He found our website, learned about our work and traveled to the U.S. to study with us for a couple of weeks,” Tobin said.

Fischer’s research focus is on science education in German street schools. He said that street schools aim to provide educa tion to homeless, unaccompanied youth and young adults who have dropped out of school without an official diploma.

Fischer said he had various reasons why he chose to study in the U.S.

“There are several research ers [like Tobin] who are working in my research field and I wasn’t able to find any researchers with a similar focus in Europe,” Fisch er said. “I [also] wanted to have an exchange of ideas and results with a researcher who works in

University as the dean of the Col lege of Science as an example showing that it can be done.

Haggerty said the university “can’t continue abusing graduate students this way.”

“It’s like gravity. We don’t like gravity all the time, but we have to obey the law of gravity. We can’t pay our graduate students 10, 12, 13, 15 thousand a year and not give them health benefits,” he said. “I don’t have an answer for every particular grant or other kind of question, but it’ll have to fit in the budget we have.”

the context of a different country and educational system.”

Fischer said he gave a guest lecture at LSU about what les sons the U.S. can learn from his studies of the academic needs of homeless youth in Germany.

Tobin said that she and Fisch er are working on a manuscript regarding academic self-efficacy in German street youth.

“I am hopeful that the work we are doing based on his research can inform how we serve home less youth here in the states,” To bin said.

Brandy Gros, a higher educa tion administration and policy doctoral student at LSU, became Tobin’s graduate assistant. She said creating the Tobin Lab web site was one of her first tasks.

As a part of the Tobin Lab, she

JEWELRY, from page 3

“I love that [Paradis] puts so much love and hard work into her business and in the pieces that she makes, and you can tell that noth ing but love and care goes into them,” Sanchez said.

Sanchez believes the jewelry from Kenzie’s Trends is especially unique, and the styles of Paradis’ designs are what make her busi ness stand out from others.

“You can’t really find anything like her work anywhere else,” she said.

has been able to discuss interna tional issues of homelessness in education and race. These discus sions have allowed her to speak with Jennifer DeBoer and Dinesh Radhakrishna from Purdue Uni versity, who are working at an alternative school of formerly homeless youth expanding engi neering.

One of Gros’ goals in working with the Tobin Lab is to highlight researchers and understand their intentions towards homelessness.

“I always get asked why I started working with homeless ness,” Gros said. “I know my why, and it is interesting to hear oth ers’ why, and their perspective on the issue. Therefore, I would like to highlight those individuals because it takes a special type of person to do this work.”

ENTERTAINMENT THIS WEEK IN BR

BY MADELON DAVIS @madelondavis

OCTOBER

Monday at 1 24th

Bike the Levee LSU UREC

The LSU UREC is hosting an event where stu dents can bike the Baton Rouge levee. The web site states that bikes and helmets are included. Other supplies, such as water bottles, will need to be provided by students. You can register on the UREC’s website. This event will be from 4 to 6 p.m. and will begin at the UREC.

Destress with Dogs

Parade Ground

Sigma Alpha is hosting an event on the Parade Ground from 1 to 3 p.m. Students can destress from all their school and life worries while play ing with some furry friends. This event is also a fundraiser for Companion Animal Alliance.

Want to see your event in The Reveille? Email information to editor@lsu.edu.

OCTOBER

Tuesday at 4

Wednesday at 10 26TH

OCTOBER

Haunted Open House Student Health Center

LSU’s Student Health Center is having a spooky open house from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Among other activities, students will be eligible to get free health and wellness checks. The website states there will be free sliders and ice cream, as well as a costume contest.

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LSU VS. OLE MISS

Football wins 45-20 against Ole Miss on Saturday, Oct. 22, at the 2022 Homecom ing game in Tiger Stadium. Fans storm the field after the game.

LSU football freshman tight end Mason Taylor (86) runs into the endzone for a touchdown.

LSU football junior wide re ceiver Kyren Lacy (2) steps out of bounds.

LSU football redshirt safety Sage Ryan (15) tackles an Ole Miss player.

LSU football head coach Brian Kelly walks down Victory Hill.

LSU football senior safety Jay Ward (5) leaps over junior defensive end BJ Ojulari (18) in celebration.

LSU fans cheer for the Tigers.

Photos by Matthew Perschall and Chynna McClinton

by Jacqueline E. Mathews

SPORTS OUT OF JUICE

How LSU’s rally in the second quarter caused Ole Miss to implode

on 90% completed passes, the primary reason why Ole Miss started the second quarter by taking a 17-3 lead.

That early, two-score deficit has become a familiar sight if you’ve been following LSU foot ball this season. The feeling of this game was similar to the one fans had felt while watching the game against Tennessee.

Eventually, they adjusted. And it wasn’t too little too late, not even close.

Initial Comeback

It began on the ensuing drive, with Daniels getting it together after a shaky start to quickly lead his team down the field. Though his last throw of the drive stressed fans out, as it was underthrown into double cov erage, Jaray Jenkins bailed him out by effectively coming back to the ball, securing the catch and waltzing into the end zone for a 34-yard touchdown connection.

SOCCER

LSU freshmen named Top 100

BY GRANT CHACHERE @ChachereGrant

Two members of LSU’s soccer team were named to Top Drawer Soccer’s Top 100 Freshman list Tuesday afternoon.

Midfielder Ida Hermanns dottir and forward Angelina Thoreson were announced to be in the top-100 freshman in all of women’s college soccer, ac cording to Top Drawer. The or ganization ranked the top-100 freshman players in the country. Hermannsdottir ranked at No. 10 and Thoreson was ranked No. 38.

BY HENRY HUBER @HenryHuber_

LSU started the game similar ly to how it had in its first three

ATHLETES

games of SEC play, with a shaky play from Jayden Daniels offen sively and overthrowing and un der-throwing receivers, and the defense reeling against the pace

and versatility of the Ole Miss of fense.

Rebel quarterback Jaxson Dart outpaced Daniels 156-17 in the first quarter passing yardage

The next Ole Miss drive fea tured multiple risky throws by Rebel quarterback Jaxson Dart, indicating that he was feeling the pressure and foreshadowing

Hermannsdottir leads the LSU squad in goals scored with six in her first season with the Tigers, as well as having recorded two assists. Hermannsdottir leads the Tigers in points with 19 as well. She also leads the team in shots on goal and shots on goal per centage. Hermannsdottir has 13 shots on goal and a shot on goal percentage of 68%.

A look into how international student atheletes adjust

BY SOPHIA WEILAND @sophweiland

LSU is one of the most com petitive athletic schools in the country. This makes it a home not only to American athletes, but also foreign athletes.

The United States is different from other countries, on top of that, LSU has its own environ ment. College is an adjustment for every student whether they’re an athlete or not. The adjustment is even bigger coming from a dif ferent country.

Sophomore Julien Penzlin started his LSU experience in Fall 2022. Penzlin is on the men’s ten nis team and is originally from Frankfurt, Germany. His first ex perience in Baton Rouge was in June when he visited LSU for two days. After being a student at LSU for almost two months, the big gest cultural differences Penzlin mentioned were the people and the food.

“The food is completely differ ent to what I normally eat in Ger many, and I would say the people are more friendly,” Penzlin said.

Soccer player Brenna McPart lan, golfer Chris Woollam and tennis player Nina Geissler all had the same answer saying the food is the biggest difference.

Out of all the cultural differences and adjustments it’s interesting that food is something all of them agree is shockingly different.

“The portions of food are so much bigger in America,” Geissler said.

“The food is pretty different. Going to a crawfish boil was defi nitely an experience.” Woollam said.

McPartlan is a fifth-year se nior originally from Blackburn, England. Prior to LSU, McPartlan spent three seasons playing at the University of South Alabama. McPartlan describes the facilities at LSU as “next level”. She also mentioned that practices at LSU are more competitive and intense than back in England.

“The weather makes it so much tougher, but we have in ternational coaches which makes the playing style similar to back home, but the players here are more technical and athletic which is different from back home,” McPartlan said.

Another adjustment for the international athletes was harder practices but easier schoolwork.

Most athletes in other coun tries don’t train as much as they do in the U.S., however these athletes are still on LSU sports teams and at similar athletic lev

els as their teammates. McPartlan only practiced soccer a few times a week in England, compared to practicing every day at LSU.

Penzlin said it’s much more competitive being at LSU. In South Africa, it’s not as intense as LSU golf practices.

Relating to schoolwork, Wool lam and McPartlan said almost everything at LSU is multiple choice which isn’t very com mon in South Africa or England. Geissler’s only concern with the education was the possible lan guage barrier.

“I wasn’t worried because knew I was coming from Swit zerland which is very advanced,” said Geissler.

LSU has some of the up-todate resources and sports facili ties in the country. Most of their facilities have been updated and renovated within the last 10 years.

“They have so many more re sources here. And it’s like, more competitive and they want you as a player improve like a lot here as the student and athlete,” Penzlin said.

“They take care of the athletes really well here and help you find your place,” Woollam said.

Woollam is currently in his fifth year at LSU. He had visited

the U.S. prior to committing to LSU, but spent most of his time on the east coast visiting family near New York.

“I definitely expected south ern hospitality in Louisiana,” Woollam said.

Going to college is a big ad justment for local students, how ever many have the comfort of being close to family. Something all four of these athletes have in common is missing family.

Non-athletes that live close by and even athletes from different states are typically able to see their families more frequently. Not only is it much harder for family to visit for a weekend, CO VID-19 restrictions made the last few years even tougher for their families to travel internationally.

“I miss my family a lot, it doesn’t get easier,” Woollam said.

ERIN BARKER / The Reveille LSU soccer fifth-year senior midfielder Brenna McPartlan (20) falls to the ground while fighting for possession on Oct. 2, during LSU’s 3-2 win against University of Kentucky at LSU’s Soccer Stadium off Nicholson Drive.

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LSU football junior quarterback Jayden Daniels (5) easily finds his way to the endzone on Oct. 22, during LSU’s 45-20 victory over Ole Miss in Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, La.

the eventual interceptions that would come.

Usually when LSU has gone down early, it has taken until the end of the half for them to effec tively respond. It had gotten its deficits against Mississippi State and Auburn down to one score on its last drives of the second half. The difference here was that it took less time to adjust, which gave them more time to build momentum throughout the remainder of the second quarter.

The Tigers were able to put up 14 second quarter points to temporarily tie the game, with Daniels’ confidence growing throughout the period. He would narrow the gap between his and Dart’s passing production con siderably, before contributing

TOP 100, from

Hermannsdottir scored her first goal of her collegiate career against San Diego in an impres sive 4-1 victory for the Tigers on Aug. 28. In the following game against Grambling, Hermanns dottir scored two goals for her first brace of her collegiate ca reer as well.

The Icelandic international has represented her homeland at the senior, U19 and U17 levels.

Hermannsdottir capped twice for

his second touchdown of the day with his legs. That would give him seven rushing touchdowns in the season, tying the school record held by Joe Burrow.

After they tied the game, Ole Miss would quickly respond with a field goal, going into halftime with a 20-17 lead. Even then, LSU’s production in the second half had livened up the crowd, creating a very different feeling heading into the third quarter than the one fans had felt going into the second.

Last Chance for the Rebels

Midway through the third quarter, LSU was finally able to take its first lead of the game. Ob viously a four-point lead doesn’t take a team out of the game but falling behind by multiple scores would be hard to come back from with the team bleeding mo

the Iceland National Team. Prior to arriving in Baton Rouge, she played professionally at Valur Reykjavik in Iceland, where she appeared in 41 matches and scored 10 goals. Hermannsdottir helped Valur Reykjavik win the Iceland League Title and Reykja vik Cup in 2021 and the Icelandic Women’s Super Cup in 2022.

Along with a team-high sev en assists, Thoreson has also recorded one goal, 10 shots on goal and nine points through 15 games. She started in 13 of those

mentum.

The Rebels effectively drove down the field, mostly on the back of freshman running back Quinshon Judkins, and were in position to take back the lead af ter making it into the red zone. But on second-and-goal from the nine yard line, the foreshadow ing mentioned earlier was finally proven true.

Feeling the pressure from the LSU blitz, Dart threw an errant pass into double coverage in the right corner of the endzone. The throw was off-target and fell within the vicinity of Joe Foucha, who snagged it with one hand to kill the Rebels’ attempt at regain ing the lead.

While that wasn’t technically the last chance Ole Miss had in this game, it was proven to be once LSU responded.

matches. The forward ranks sixth in the country for assists.

Thoreson scored her first col legiate goal of her career for LSU in the matchup against Princeton on Sept. 8.

The Sweden national com peted the last three seasons for her hometown club IK Uppsala, a professional club in Sweden. Thoreson made over 50 appear ances for the club. She scored five goals in 20 games played during 2021, her last season with the club before joining LSU.

The Fourth Quarter

If the third quarter was where Ole Miss officially lost its mo mentum, the fourth quarter was where things completely fell apart.

On the offensive side of things, the Rebels weren’t able to get much going, with Dart being flustered by the defense’s adjust ments. The coaching staff elected to be a bit more aggressive with its play calls and had Harold Per kins more involved in the second half to chase down Dart.

On defense, the Rebels com pletely imploded, giving up three more touchdowns to Daniels in the fourth quarter alone.

Daniels ultimately finished the game completing 75% of his passes to go and two touchdowns through the air with three more touchdowns on the ground, his

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“My teammates and their families are like a second family though.”

Penzlin echoed that statement but added that having livestreams of games is helpful for his family.

“I’ve been calling my parents and siblings a lot so I haven’t got ten home sick so far but it’s nice to know that they can watch the livestreams of my matches when I’m competing, so I know they’re there with me when they watch,” Penzlin said.

second straight hat trick in that regard. He rushed 137 yards, headlining a rushing attack that had torched the Rebel defense for much of the last three quar ters.

“The structure of their de fense is a three down with six defensive backs,” Head Coach Brian Kelly said on how they rushed so effectively against Ole Miss. “When [Daniels] had three deep safeties, he was reading it out and keeping it. He was really good tonight at reading it out.”

LSU played perfectly through the last three quarters, which culminated in a staggering 45-3 run to finish the game after fall ing behind 17-3. It had its best performance of the season, tak ing the No. 1 spot in the SEC West with Alabama on its hori zon.

Although LSU is tougher than what the student athletes are used to, the environment is helping them grow not only as athletes but also students. As Geissler said, the environment is very professional. Penzlin ex pected that he needed to ask a lot of questions and be on top of things himself but was pleasantly surprised that the faculty was so helpful.

“They (LSU) really want you to improve as a student athlete,” Penzlin said.

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LSU’s strategic planning, Scholarship First Agenda is yielding results

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CHARLIE STEPHENS @charliestephns

A new strategic plan is in the works to guide LSU through the next several years implementing its scholarship first agenda.

Coupled with its recent comple tion of the Fierce for the Future campaign, the university is well on its way to solidifying its new direc tion in its budding love for strate gic planning and, hopefully, the dollars associated with it.

To varying degrees of success, universities across the country en gage in strategic planning efforts to change the direction of their in stitutions.

The plans are usually closely followed by associated fundraising campaigns to help actualize and implement the aims of the strategic planning process.

Here in Baton Rouge, our goals and aspirations haven’t changed much over 20 years, various lead ers and several different planning processes.

The national flagship agenda— the university’s plan to improve its standing among large public re search universities—was launched in 2003 by the university planning council. It laid out bold goals in alignment with those of the state and where it wanted to go, includ ing investments in bioinformatics, graduate student stipends and nu

merous other areas.

Almost 20 years later, the uni versity is still talking about some of the same kind of goals and in vestments. Now and then, these goals require strategic investments to actually materialize, not simply wishful planning.

“We have observed a number of public universities that have been seriously constrained in pursuing new initiatives,” RAND researchers noted, “because of the inflexible traditional public-sector budgeting systems they must follow.”

The national flagship agenda offers a perfect example of this di lemma for the university. The plan called for capping enrollment at

30,000, but state budget cuts un der Gov. Bobby Jindal forced the university to boost enrollment to ensure it stayed afloat financially.

“Have our goals been realized? I don’t think anyone can honestly say they have been,” said William Jenkins, retired LSU Chancellor and system president, to The Advo cate in 2016. “We could have been so much further ahead.”

Throughout the Jindal years, ambitious plans to raise our schol arly profile were effectively halted by a governor who deprioritized public higher education and the state’s role in funding it.

The scholarship first agenda is a second bite at the apple in elevat

ing the flagship while focusing on its service mission to the Pelican State.

The last several years, have been positive—at least financial ly—for the university, with Gov. John Bel Edwards prioritizing re investment into higher education across the state, which has ben efited LSU in particular with total state investment to LSU being $110 million for the 2023 budget year.

Despite increased state sup port, the university as a percent age of the budget still receives less from the state today than it did at the inception of the national flag ship agenda in 2003.

Shortly after arriving in Baton Rouge, President William F. Tate IV derided the lack of “collective be havior” between the university and the broader public as parallel play.

It was a siren call for additional philanthropic investment from the business community and addition al involvement between the univer sity and the business community that it supports.

In one of Tate’s biggest an nouncements to date, Shell donated $27.5 million to establish the LSU Institute for Energy Innovation— a key component of the scholar ship first framework. The hope is to make similar announcements a consistent event.

While speaking to the Baton Rouge Rotary Club—a professional club for business, nonprofit and government leaders— in December 2021, Tate read a hypothetical 2050 obituary for the university.

“Today we mourn the death of an old friend, LSU,” he said.

That is something that both the national flagship agenda and the scholarship first agenda frame works seek to address. Increased funding could allow the university to raise its research profile and garner top rankings by hiring ad ditional faculty to solidify existing strength.

It’s a noble pursuit to repair the reputation of a school that has been subject to a roller coaster of unkind funding scenarios in recent history.

The approach seems to be net ting significant new investments in support of its core pillars. In creased communication with leg islative leaders has netted earmark funds for specific projects at the university, the largest investment being $12 million for a top-spec AI supercomputer.

Coupled with a record-breaking donation from LCMC Health and Our Lady of the Lake, commit ting $245 million over 10 years, the university is seeing tangible investments from its planning. Ex panding on these successes will continue to move the community’s relationship with LSU beyond par allel play.

It’s an exciting time here at LSU, and hopefully it marks a turn around from years of funding ne glect toward the flagship.

Charlie Stephens is a 22-year-old political communication senior from Baton Rouge.

Letter to the Editor: LSU can’t sweep injustice for survivors

BY ALLISON REDMANN

Approximately six months ago, I wrote a note about the fact that Dr. Adelaide Russo would be teaching in the class room during the Fall 2022 se mester. Dr. Russo is accused of enabling and defending the actions of a rapist and abuser once employed by the univer sity who has fled the United States and remains a fugitive in France. Both she and Dean Troy Blanchard are also accused of ignoring numerous pleas for help from both students and staff regarding the situation. The note was published in the school newspaper.

Much to my surprise, I never really got in trouble for the con tents of my letter or for taping

it all over the building. In fact, community feedback was large ly positive. I thought we were heading in the right direction— I thought that somebody, final ly, had listened.

Unfortunately, Dean Troy Blanchard was mysteriously al ways busy with something out side of his office for the rest of that semester and was also unable to respond to the emails that I sent him. In my meeting with the Interim Executive Vice President and Provost of LSU as of Spring 2022, Dr. Matt Lee displayed what appears to be 1) a fundamental misunderstand ing of Louisiana law and/or 2) total apathy towards victims of a grossly mishandled situation at the university by which he is employed. After that, I sup

pose I should have attempted to meet with President William F. Tate IV, but I assume he was too busy recording his podcast or scolding members of the school newspaper for doing their jobs.

And so, more than half a year later, nothing has happened. In fact, LSU seems to believe that a quiet attempt to sweep the situ ation under the rug might result in our forgetting the whole or deal. In Spring 2023, Adele Rus so will be teaching FREN 4003, a required senior seminar for all students who wish to gradu ate with a degree in French.

I wanted to point out the absurdity of this situation by writing and posting this sec ond letter. I am confident that any honorable institution would have already handled this situ

ation and would have handled it very differently. Geaux tigers.

Ultimately, students, I en courage you to not sign up for Adelaide Russo’s classes in the coming semester.

To the faculty, staff, stu dents, and other members of the community who have and will continue to support survi vors—especially those who are members of the LSU French De partment—thank you.

To the people in positions of power who continue to ignore injustice over which they have control: I hope this haunts you for the rest of your spineless existence.

Very sincerely, Alison Redmann, Class of ‘23

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