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New student health scourge or safe nicotine alternative?

BY AIDAN ANTHAUME @aidanth04 College campuses across the country have noticed the increasing popularity of Zyn nicotine pouches among students. These tiny pouches, marketed as a discreet and “safe” way to consume nicotine, have been embraced by many young adults despite the potential health risks.

Emerging in the 2010s, nicotine pouches allowed a safer alternative to existing forms of smokeless tobacco, being placed inside the mouth on the upper lip to discreetly deliver nicotine to the bloodstream. Initially unpopular, it was only with the sudden rise of Zyn that nicotine pouches entered the public eye.

On college campuses like LSU, it seems near impossible to escape them.

“I see them about four to five times when I’m out at Tigerland,” said entrepreneurship freshman Jack Manhan.

Nicotine addiction is nothing new to college campuses, but are Zyn pouches truly a safer substitute?

Proponents of Zyn argue that they provide students a chance to shake their addiction to smokes and vapes, accepting a higher risk of gum infection and disease to spare their lungs. As Manhan puts it, “Sacrifice the gum, not the lung.”

Such claims, however, are at odds with LSU’s health approach, which suggests nicotine pouches are not a good way to shake the habit of vaping, and instead are a new way to get people hooked on this addictive drug.

“This is a completely different product. This is not intended to help you quit. This is intended to keep you addicted and to keep you coming back…they’re designed that way,” said LSU Director of Wellness and Health Promotion Michael Eberhard.

Zyn pouches come in a variety of flavors, many alluring to young adults. Citrus, spearmint and cinnamon are just a few of the flavors coined by the brand.

“I think that’s just one way to attract younger people to try it.

It’s enticing,” Eberhard said.

Despite the warnings, some students see benefits to using

pouches. Their discrete nature allows them to be consumed without disturbing others around them, something more difficult with cigarettes and vapes. The stimulant property of nicotine can temporarily enhance focus and concentration, possibly helpful for late-night study sessions or periods of high stress. But not without sacrifice.

“It’s definitely better than smoking actual tobacco or vapes, but it still has its cons,” said kinesiology sophomore Erick Gonzalez.

It all comes down to nicotine, the highly addictive chemical at the center of Zyn. Nicotine, even in small doses, can alter a person’s psychological and physical wellbeing and create a dependency, which will become increasingly difficult to quit due to addiction and subsequent withdrawal symptoms. For some, it can also amplify existing issues such as anxiety.

“Nicotine is a stimulant. So, you might have some anxiety, especially if you have anxiety already,” Eberhard said.

The long-term health effects of using nicotine pouches are not

fully understood. Nicotine itself can have adverse effects on the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, but the potential harm caused by the flavorings and other additives in these products remains a subject of ongoing research.

What is known is that nicotine pouches like Zyn’s can cause gum irritation, soreness, infections and eventually even cancer. It’s easy to think that because they don’t contain actual tobacco, they’re safer to use, but this is not exactly the case.

“When you strip all that away, and you have just pure nicotine in this powder form, it presents a lower risk for sure. But they’ve done trials on the different nicotine pouches that are out there, and they still do contain cancerous chemicals in them,” Eberhard said.

The LSU Student Health Center provides many resources for students looking to quit nicotine, including smoking cessation and replacement therapy products and one-on-one quitting support.

If you are struggling with quitting nicotine, you are not alone.

Meet new Manship School Dean Kim Bissell

BY BELLA ANGELOS @twitter Every morning at 5:30, she walks outside and peers at the sky as it slowly reveals a wash of blue, pink and purple. Reveling in its beauty, she thinks to herself, “How grateful I am to be here.”

Kim Bissell, the new dean of the Manship School of Mass Communication, has found greatness in her surroundings ever since she was a child.

In the darkroom of her childhood home in Washington state, 7-year-old Bissell stood on a stool and peered into the developer chemical, watching a photo of Mount Rainier slowly emerge.

“It was like magic,” Bissell said with a soft smile.

At that moment, Bissell fell in love with photography. Much like an image in the developer, her life reveals a more beautiful picture as time goes on.

Her father was a minister who started churches, and throughout her childhood, she was constantly moving around the country.

Her family was “quite poor,” she said. With a lifestyle bound for change, photography, alongside her willingness to give to those around her, was a constant. Her father taught her the importance of living life with a rich heart, and even though there wasn’t money to spend, there was a life to spend giving.

Bissell’s father sent her down the path of believing in others.

When people didn’t believe in her, she paved the path for her-

self.

“When she was in high school in West Virginia,” Emma Bissell, her youngest daughter said, “she was told by her guidance counselor that she would essentially amount to nothing. She was told to give up on her dream of attending the University of Florida and to choose a path that might ‘suit’ her abilities better.”

“Nothing” amounted to receiving her doctorate from Syracuse University, holding multiple positions at the University of Alabama and Florida, where she did indeed earn her undergraduate degree, and now making her place at LSU. Aside from these accomplishments, her nothingness is also defined by her mental and physical strength combined. Taken together, these two have produced 36 completed half-marathons, 29 marathons and four ultra-marathons.

“She’s in the business of proving everybody wrong,” Emma said. “No one can get in her way.”

When there wasn’t a seat at the table for her, she made room for herself, and extra room for others. “If you give to others before yourself, good things will come of it, ” Bissell said in an interview in Manship professor Len Apcar’s advanced reporting and writing class.

Everyone around her seems to notice.

“She’s never willing to ask more of someone else than she’s willing to ask of herself, and she always seems to have people’s well-being in mind,” said her for-

mer colleague, professor Andrew Billings, associate dean for faculty at the University of Alabama’s College of Communication and Information Sciences.

This reflects a high standard of personal ethics. While working as a young photojournalist for a newspaper near Pittsburgh, Bissell was assigned to photograph a victim of sexual assault. When she got to the address, the woman was standing on her porch.

“I thought there’s no way that the newspaper is going to publish a photo of a sexual assault victim,” Bissell said. “No way.”

She was appalled at the idea of having to flash a photo of a woman who had just been assaulted.

“I made a decision at that time to flood the photo,” she said, “So that there was no way it could be reproduced.”

She recognized at that moment that her job conflicted with her morals and that the photograph was being taken for the wrong reasons.

“I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t do that,” Bissell said.

So, she left news photography and chose to follow a career better aligned with her personal ethics, which led to teaching. Bissell’s childhood prepared her for moments of picking up and moving on. She said she wasn’t afraid.

“It’s just about being adaptable, being able to evolve, and being open to change,” Bissell said.

Her openness guided her ability to adjust to consistent change.

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Manship School Dean Kimberly Bissell poses for a photo outside of the Journalism Building Nov. 8 on LSU’s campus in Baton Rouge, La. ing. However, the faith she has in others remains consistent.

Bissell acknowledges “we all have doubts in ourselves.” She added, “What I try to do is funnel my efforts into believing in others and making sure that they know I believe in them.”

When self-doubt starts to sink in, at least they can think, “but Kim believes in me,” she said with a slight sigh of relief. She finds peace in knowing that.

Every night when Bissell gets home, she takes another look outside.

“I see the color in the sky,” she said, as she let her restless hands finally land on her lap, “and I wrap it with gratitude.”

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LSU integrates artificial intelligence into 40 spring courses

BY MARTIN SULLIVAN @marty_sulli LSU will incorporate artificial intelligence into the curriculum of more than 40 classes in the spring semester, according to LSU Executive Vice President and Provost Roy Haggerty.

Haggerty is leading the initiative to integrate AI into projects, operations, research and, now, coursework at LSU. This fall he helped create and teach a course, HNRS 3035, on the ethics, real-world applications and development of AI in large language models, similar to ChatGPT. HNRS 3035 was only the beginning.

Now, the university is rallying faculty, staff and external stakeholders to explore the expansive terrain of AI applications.

“It’s like any other intellectual revolution in human history, the people in the lead get the most benefit,” Haggerty said. “I want LSU to be in the lead in the area of artificial intelligence, machine learning and large language models, at least in terms of our institutionalization of these tools.”

A wide variety of LSU courses are incorporating AI into their curriculum, including biology, math, sociology, political science, philosophy and even Italian.

Haggerty hopes LSU will eventually have more classes teaching the development of AI tools.

“You can put AI to work in virtually every human endeavor in

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undergrad college student, because we’ve never seen a technology emerge in local business and life this fast,” Hays said.

Haggerty plans to ensure the consideration of ethics as LSU begins to integrate AI, concerning topics like intellectual property and system bias.

This fall the Southeastern Conference offered an online course in teaching with AI. Currently, 30 LSU professors are enrolled to learn more about how to incorporate AI into their classes.

The SEC designed the course to cover academic integrity, course

LSU’s Hill Memorial Library opened a new space called the Special Collections Reading Room on Friday as part of a wider initiative to demystify and welcome the community into LSU’s Special Collection headquarters.

Before its recently completed renovations, the Hill Memorial Library featured a General Reading Room on the second floor, now the home of a quiet study area. The newly unveiled reading room can be found on the first floor.

The space’s grand opening saw about 20 students and community members attend. As part of the festivities, library staff held a scavenger hunt with prizes — a $5 gift card to CC’s Coffee House — for the first 10 participants to complete the hunt.

Questions for the hunt centered on the history of LSU and led participants throughout the library on a type of informal tour.

The Special Collections Reading Room was designed as a space for all members of the community, including those outside the LSU system, to carry out research in a private, quiet room within the library.

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one way or another, so it makes sense that you would bring machine learning and AI into different classes to make the class better,” Haggerty said.

Henry Hays, CEO and cofounder of DisruptREADY, a firm that helps companies use AI, teaches HNRS 3035 with Haggerty and James Ghawaly, an AI senior research scientist.

“I want to tip my hat to Roy Haggerty, because we met June 21, for him to reach out to me and get a class syllabus written and students enrolled in about six weeks’ time in academia today is almost unheard of,” Hays said. “To give these students, and frankly LSU,

the exposure and the opportunity, we’re lucky to have him in that post because that is really unusual behavior.”

AI knows more than any individual human and can spit information out in nanoseconds. That’s the power of what this technology can do, Hays said.

“The technology is rapidly changing and improving, so it’s early, but it isn’t,” Hays said. “Those that are going to get hurt are those that wait to adopt.”

Netflix took nearly four years to reach a million subscribers, Chat GPT matched that number in five days, Hays said.

“This is a great time to be an

POLITICS

Early voting for Louisiana’s next election is available now

BY BLAKE EDDINGS @blake_eddi9644 Early voting for Louisiana’s next statewide election began on Nov. 3 and will run until Nov. 11.

The ballot features runoff races for attorney general, secretary of state and treasurer, in addition to several constitutional amendments. Here is the full breakdown: Attorney General Republican Liz Murrill will face off against Democrat Lindsey Cheek to determine who will replace the office being vacated

by Gov.-elect Jeff Landry. Murrill was Landry’s chief deputy during his tenure as attorney general ,while Cheek is an attorney running with the support of current Gov. John Bel Edwards.

Secretary of State The race for secretary of state sees Democrat Gwen CollinsGreenup, a private attorney, running against Republican Nancy Landry, a former state represen-

tative who has worked under the current Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin, who decided not to run for re-election. Both candidates have promised to provide voting machines that create paper copies of votes, in addition to electronic votes, following unsubstantiated claims against Ardoin for inaccurate voting results.

Treasurer Republican John Fleming, who worked under the Trump administration, and Democrat Dustin Granger, a financial adviser, are running to replace outgoing treasurer John Schroder, who ran unsuccessfully for governor.

In addition to the runoffs, four statewide constitutional amendments will be on the ballot.

Amendment 1 The first constitutional amendment will create a new timeline for legislators to override the governor’s veto.

In Louisiana, a veto session is automatically scheduled 40 days after the Legislature adjourns,

which must be attended unless canceled by a majority vote.

Typically the session is canceled without issue, but in 2022, a veto session fell during the time of a regular legislative session, forcing the legislature to adjourn the regular session to vote on the override.

The proposed amendment would allow legislators the option to override a veto while in a regular session, avoiding this scenario.

Amendment 2 The second constitutional amendment would remove inactive state funds that have little to no money.

The Atchafalaya Basin Fund, Higher Education Louisiana Partnership Fund, Millennium Leverage Fund, Agricultural and Seafood Products Fund and First Use Tax Trust Fund all contain a balance of zero dollars, while the Louisiana Investment Fund for Enhancement has $604. The proposed amendment would

eliminate these defunct funds and declutter the list, but some have argued that removing them would decrease awareness for those issues.

Amendment 3 The third constitutional amendment proposes a property tax exemption of up to $25,000 for qualified first responders. If the amendment is passed, other taxes will not be raised nor created to make up for lost revenue.

Amendment 4 The fourth constitutional amendment would allow the state legislature, after a twothirds vote from both state houses, to use up to $250 million of the Revenue Stabilization Trust Fund, a state savings account made up of corporate and mineral taxes intended to fund infrastructure projects across the state. The legislature would likely use the funds to alleviate budget deficits.

Any registered Louisianan can vote early, even without a

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A sign reads “Vote Here” on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, outside of the LSU Laboratory School on East Campus Drive in Baton Rouge, La. particular reason to do so. Polling locations can be found on the secretary of state website. Polls will be open each day from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. with the exception of Friday, Nov. 10, for Veterans Day. The general election will be on Saturday, Nov. 18.

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page 4 AI, from page 3 creation, ethics and legal issues, use of AI tools to enhance student learning and leading conversations in departments and academic programs.

“One of the rarest resources that we have at the university is faculty time,” Haggerty said. “Freeing faculty up from some of the more mundane tasks that take up their time but don’t result in better learning or better scholarly outcomes is

READING ROOM, from page 3 Hill is also home to a Special Collections Request System, enabling those interested to register as a library user and have materials retrieved for viewing within the library. These collections range from the Bowlus Comic Book Collection, to football magazines dating back to 1933, to beautiful illustrations of Humming Birds by John Gould and H.C. Richter.

“I don’t come here that often because in the past I didn’t think this was a place where I could just show up, but now I know they’ve got this Reading Room, I guess I am welcome,” said LSU library science postgraduate Jason Luquette.

The main impetus for the reading room was to add more public space to the library and to

something I’d like to see.”

Fortunately, task replacement is one of AI’s most common applications—and not just for professors.

“Your average salesperson will do a lot of research behind the scenes on their customers, when that time could be better served in front of people closing deals,” Hays said. “Artificial intelligence automation through machine learning will take all the research out of that equation and hand it to that salesperson.”

LSU is launching three working groups on AI. One is tasked not only with providing cutting-edge AI education but also with preparing students for the future workforce.

“The older veteran people who are running companies of all sizes, the ones that are asking me about the kids in my class, they want to hire these kids yesterday,” Hays said. “They don’t know enough about AI and they’re willing to resource younger people who do

know.”

There are going to be job titles unheard of today in the market by the time most current LSU students graduate, Hays said.

“If you’re young and you’re going into the job market and you don’t have a handle of this technology, I think you need to be prepared to be asked why,” Hays said. “As a young person with the ability to learn quicker than most older people, you have to have this.

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show the community Hill is more than the home of LSU’s special collection, according to Kelly Larson, head of research and public services of LSU Libraries Special Collections.

“One of the most valuable things we do is we reward people’s curiosity,” Larson said.

The library’s special collection includes volumes from the humanities and social sciences, natural sciences, agriculture, aquaculture, the fine arts and design.

The division’s principal mission is to preserve these collections, add to them and make them available for use, according to the LSU Libraries website.

“We’re very proud of our building, and we want to share it with everyone,” Larson said.

Hill opened as LSU’s first dedicated library in 1903, housing

22,000 volumes. By the ‘40s its collection had grown tenfold, but by the ‘50s, the library was aged and small compared to those of other universities in the region.

In 1954, a report by the Reveille found that out of six major Southern universities, LSU had the smallest and oldest library.

When the LSU Library opened in 1959, Hill became the home of a series of other projects and departments.

The space was dedicated for LSU’s Special Collections in 1985 to administer rare books, manuscripts and other special research opportunities.

Today, Hill is making steps to fold itself back into the community as a space for research, reflection and study. The new Special Collections Reading Room is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Students study in a quiet space at the Hill Memorial Library on Nov. 3, on Field House Drive in Baton Rouge, La.

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Hays and Haggerty both believe companies leading in AI are either coming for the customers or the profit margins of companies who aren’t.

“At the end of the day it’s about opportunity for students, how do we get them quickly educated and with job offers,” Hays said. “This is where the future is in every industry, I know that to be true.”

Hays calls it “the great disruptor of our time.”

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ENTERTAINMENT

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Getting to know LSU basketball’s Trace Young through fashion

BY AVA FRANCIS @avamohsochic LSU basketball player and content creator Trace Young knows a thing or two about personal style. The Austin, Texas, native comes from a city where people aren’t afraid to express themselves through fashion, music and other forms of art.

You can catch Young in the PMAC come basketball season, until then he’s showing glimpses of what a day in the life as a Divison I athlete looks like. He also shared details about his walk as a Christ follower through faith-based content on his social media platforms.

Young may not be a fashion influencer per se, but his followers have taken notice of his style.

Whether it’s a vintage jacket or Prada sunglasses, Young has curated a wardrobe admired by many.

“I would describe my style as spontaneous, because I’ll wear different things randomly just to try it,” Young said.

Young’s closet includes pieces from Banana Republic and Express, but he also enjoys thrifted finds like his center swoosh ‘90s Nike hoodie.

“I dress casually most often, but I also thrift a lot of the clothes I wear,” Young said.

He would swap closets with actor Jacob Elordi and credits Hollywood legend Woody Harrelson as

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his style icon. Harrelson is known for his cool ‘80s/’90s streetwear.

“It’s just his whole vibe. He wears retro vintage Nike stuff. I like vintage Nike a lot,” Young said.

While Young is a fan of the Miami aesthetic, Birkenstock clogs, linen, Dior and Prada, one notable trend he’s not fond of comes to mind.

“Golden goose shoes are ugly,” Young said.

However, there are two pairs of shoes that are essential for Young on and off the court, which are Kobe 6’s and Travis Scott Jordan 1s Mochas he said.

Young is sure of himself in the realm of fashion and finds inspiration all around him including in his home state.

“Austin, Texas, is a pretty trendy area that has quite a bit of fashion associated with it,” Young said.

Young shared some advice on how people can find their own personal style.

“Be confident in who you are and be authentic,” Young said.

Young’s first love was for basketball.

“I’ve been playing my whole life, honestly, before I can even re-

member. When I started walking, I started dribbling a basketball,” Young said.

Young’s dream starting five includes basketball greats Magic Johnson, Shaquille O’Neal, Charles Barkley, Lebron James and Jeremy Lin. Young’s Division I athlete journey began at Colorado State.

“God was calling me to make a change and go somewhere else,” Young said.

When asked what his first impression of LSU was, Young said “paradise.”

“It’s unlike anything ever.

Having the experience of an SEC school is super awesome. Going to tailgates and seeing all the fans’ support is cool,” Young said.

Young isn’t just a basketball player, though.

“I enjoy playing the piano from time to time as well as the guitar and collecting vinyl,” Young said.

Videography and photography are also hobbies of his.

As a content creator Young showcases these talents on Instagram and TikTok. Nerf, Under Armor, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Raising Cane’s are a few brands Young currently represents through his name, image and likeness partnerships.

“NIL changed everything because now athletes can profit from their name,” Young said.

Young hopes to continue inspiring the next generation of student athletes and young people alike by fearlessly sharing his faith.

“You need to have a stable relationship with Christ,” Young said.

“It’s easy to lose who you are and base your identity on how you’re performing,” Young said.

“That’s dangerous because you’re not always going to perform well. Having your identity in Christ...that’s the only stable thing there is,” Young said.

So, who is Trace Young, the athlete, the student, the person?

After giving it a lot of thought, Young said, “authentic.”

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SPORTS EARLY SETBACK

LSU women’s basketball stunned with 92-78 loss in season opener

BY TYLER HARDEN @ttjharden8 From the names on paper, maybe LSU wins the game. But on Monday night at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Colorado was the better team.

The Buffaloes came away with a 92-78 win over the defending national champions.

Colorado was the more experienced team, and it showed.

The Buffaloes looked like a team that had played with each other before. For LSU, there were growing pains, and with a team full of new faces learning to play with each other, that’s expected.

“I was disappointed and surprised in some players that I thought would be a little tougher and play with some fight,” head coach Kim Mulkey said.

“I thought Colorado did exactly what I thought they’d do. I thought they shot the ball well from three. They were poised.

They were polished.”

If there’s one positive for LSU Monday night, it’s Mikaylah Williams. Williams showed out as a true freshman, proving her case even more that she’ll be a valuable piece to the team early on.

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LSU women’s basketball head coach Kim Mulkey points at a play on Feb. 26 during LSU’s 74-59 win over Mississippi State at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center in Baton Rouge, La. without a fight,” Williams said.

“I think we just need to play together. We have a lot of work to do.”

In many cases, she looked more comfortable on the floor than anyone else on the team.

She led the team with 17 points along with four rebounds.

Angel Reese was also a force for LSU, recording her first dou-

ble-double of the season. But the Buffaloes controlled her in the second half after she finished with 10 first-half points. She finished with 15 points and 12 rebounds in the game.

Colorado also contained Hailey Van Lith in the second half, who finished 14 points, including two three-pointers, along with seven assists. Eight of her

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14 points, including both threepointers, came in the first half.

Sa’Myah Smith came off the bench and scored 16 points along with five rebounds.

The Tigers were outshined by Colorado in almost all aspects of the game. Once the Buffaloes caught fire by tying the game at 24 in the second quarter, they never let go of it.

“They [Colorado] were very good at helping each other,” Mulkey said. “We’re terrible at it right now.”

Jaylyn Sherrod led the Buffaloes past LSU in the first half, as she went into halftime with 12 points. She finished the game with 19 points and eight rebounds. But when LSU controlled Sherrod in the second half, holding her to seven second-half points, Frida Formann took over.

Formann was almost automatic from behind the threepoint line. She knocked down seven three-pointers and finished with 27 points along with five rebounds and five assists.

The “Princeton offense” Colorado runs benefitted her more than anyone on the Buffaloes’

Monday night was unexpected for the LSU women’s basketball team. Coming off a national championship and quickly reloading the roster for this season, the Tigers arguably had the biggest target on their back out of any women’s college basketball team.

Colorado hit the bullseye of that target Monday night with a 92-78 win over the defending national champions. The Buffaloes seemed to have outplayed LSU in all aspects of the game.

However, there were glimpses when LSU looked like the team many expected them to be right out of the gates, or at least showed themselves in ways many may not have thought they would right away.

Here are three positive takeaways from LSU’s loss to Colorado: Mikaylah Williams doesn’t play like a true freshman The true freshman started for the Tigers on Monday. The way she

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Three takeaways from LSU men’s hoops’ season opening

BY JASON WILLIS @JasonWillis4 In its first real game action since a disappointing 14-19 year last season, LSU opened the 202324 season Monday with a 106-60 win over Mississippi Valley State in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.

It was a dominant wire-to-wire win that saw few bumps for LSU. Against lesser opponents, a Tiger squad with a lot of new pieces needs to put together complete performances and find its identity.

The team made an important step toward doing just that.

Here are three takeaways from the performance, which now has LSU at 1-0 to open the year: Will Baker can carry the offense for stretches For about a four-minute period starting with 12 minutes left in the first half, LSU had an extended period of struggles on offense, one of its few dry spells in an otherwise spotless game.

With a lineup of mostly bench players, the Tigers had a few poor offensive possessions, starting with one that would’ve gone nowhere if not for the MVSU defense bailing out LSU by fouling Tyrell Ward on a desperation three-

pointer.

Eventually, MVSU went on a 9-2 run in which it drew as close as 28-18. The LSU offense resorted to one-on-one basketball, getting away from the ball movement that had been so successful before.

Then, Will Baker took matters into his own hands. He went to work in the post and scored backto-back layups to end the run.

He finished the half on a tear, showcasing his ability to score in a variety of ways. He backed defenders down, knocked shots down from deep and turned pump fakes into drives. That success carried over into the opening minutes of the second half.

Overall, Baker was stunning in the opener, leading all scorers with 29 points on 10 of 11 shooting despite sitting most of the second half. He also made his way to the free throw line, going 7-of-8 from there.

“It was a great performance,” graduate transfer Jordan Wright said. “The way he’s patient in the post, we knew to get the ball to him down there, and good things are gonna happen. We see it every day, we see the work that he puts in.”

Baker’s scoring can provide stability for the LSU offense when

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LSU men’s basketball graduate student forward Will Baker (9) puts the ball up on Oct. 30 during LSU’s 132-44 win against Louisiana Christian inside the Pete Maravich Assembly Center in Baton Rouge, La. it runs into trouble. Though it’s yet to be seen if his physical, back-tothe-basket game can work against Southeastern Conference defenses, he clearly brings a versatile skillset that will be useful for the Tigers going forward.

LSU’s offense will be focused on the hot hand Without Jalen Cook, LSU lacks a true No. 1 option on offense.

There’s no table setter that all the plays run through.

That isn’t a death sentence for the team. It just means that it won’t always be a simple choice of going to the most reliable source of offense when things get tough.

Instead, the team says, the game flow will dictate who drives the LSU offense. Whoever has it going is who’ll get the ball and

who the team will run through.

“We have enough talent to let the ball decide who has a night,” Wright said. “Any given night, it could be anybody’s time to shine.

Whoever has the hot hand, we’re going to feed them and the rest of the guys are going to play off of them.”

In the exhibition game last Monday, the ball went to Wright and Ward, who had it going from beyond the arc. Monday, it was Baker.

LSU has a starting lineup of five players who can legitimately create for themselves and put the ball on the floor; the offensive focal point won’t be the same on any given night.

That will just be the state of things for the Tigers this year, a team built with Cook’s leadership on the floor and in the scoring column in mind. It’s advantageous to have the depth and all-around scoring skill to try to make up for that loss.

Jalen Reed’s ball-handling ability is legitimate Since Jalen Reed arrived on campus last year as a freshman, head coach Matt McMahon has been exceedingly complimentary

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Why Kim Mulkey refers to Sa’Myah Smith as ‘a coach’s dream’

gers struggled to put points on the board.

Overall, Smith was consistent last season, and a player head head coach Kim Mulkey frequently went to off the bench. She averaged 14.7 minutes, 4.6 points, four rebounds and 1.1 blocks per game.

LSU reloaded its depth for this coming season, and Smith looked to be a big piece being that she’s one of the few returners to the team. But she took those possibilities into her own hands, and went right to work after the season ended.

“I spent a lot of time in the weight room, just trying to get not like stocky, but just get stronger,” Smith said. “The weight room was a big part of my offseason.”

It was noticeable that Smith got stronger. In both of the Tigers’ exhibition games against East Texas Baptist and Loyola, she was much more aggressive in the paint.

Against Loyola, she grabbed 14 rebounds along with six points and three blocks. Her assertiveness in the paint is especially important because LSU’s forward options are thinner than their perimeter player options.

Despite her production and experience in the program, Smith was still an option off the bench for the team’s regular season opener against Colorado.

While this was mainly expected, Smith continued to show the results of her hard work this offseason, and it came during a time where the team needed it most.

In LSU’s 92-78 loss to Colorado Monday night, Smith played 25 minutes, which is the third-most minutes she’s played in any game at LSU thus far. She scored 16 points, five rebounds and blocked one shot in the loss.

To compare that to her teammates, she was the second-leading rebounder in the game, only behind Angel Reese, and was the second-leading scorer only behind Mikaylah Williams.

However, while Smith’s production was one of the positive takeaways from Monday’s loss, the biggest takeaway from Smith’s game, according to Mulkey, was her effort.

“You live with a tough night offensively, what I don’t live with is no guts and fight and physical

play,” Mulkey said after the loss.

“I thought this lady [Mikaylah Williams] and Sa’Myah Smith gave it all they had.”

It said a lot about the faith Mulkey has in Smith, but Mulkey has always had an abundance of faith in her. During the offseason, Mulkey saw the work Smith was putting in and admired her for it. In fact, Mulkey sees her as “a coach’s dream.”

“She knows that she’s got to get stronger,” Mulkey said. “She wants to do good and she wants to get more minutes. She’s a joy to coach.”

Smith has shown several times during her time at LSU that she can come through for her team, especially when things aren’t going so well. But Mulkey expects that as the season progresses, Smith will play a bigger role.

The potential change of her role on the team plays a factor to why Smith stayed in Baton Rouge over the summer to train.

While it’s the type of player Smith is, regardless of the team she plays for, Smith may have to step up at times this season and be ready to play a significant role.

“She’s super talented. She played her role last year,” Mulkey said. “She realizes that her role needs to change and she’s prepared for it.”

As Smith’s sophomore season is getting ready to pick up, she and Mulkey can look back and say confidently that she has done her job thus far at LSU. But for Smith, it’s all about consistency. And despite being an important part of a national championship team, she knows her job is not yet finished.

the game.

Quay Miller, Colorado’s leading scorer last season, also made a timely impact with eight points and four rebounds. Sara-Rose Smith, a transfer from Missouri, and Tameiya Sadler each added five points.

For Colorado, its familiarity could lead to year it makes

a statement in women’s college basketball.

For LSU, Monday night serves as a wake-up call.

Monday night showed the Tigers there is work to be done.

It all starts with chemistry, and being more comfortable playing with each other. Colorado functioned as a unit, and while LSU

showed glimpses of that, they never were able to put anything long-term together.

“I can’t just flip a switch and have us all on the same page,” Mulkey said. “But it will happen for us, I just don’t know when.”

LSU will have time to identify itself as a team and figure out who will play what roles this

season. The Tigers won’t play another Power Five team until Nov. 25, when they take on Virginia in the Cayman Islands Classic.

The Tigers will be back in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center for their home opener on Thursday against Queens University of Charlotte. That matchup will tipoff at 7 p.m.

a steal and a block in 31 minutes played.

As Williams gets even more comfortable in Kim Mulkey’s system, Williams will be likely to play a huge role on the team.

Sa’Myah Smith is set to have a bigger role this season Last season, Sa’Myah Smith was one of Mulkey’s most frequently used options off the bench. After a productive offseason where she

stayed in Baton Rouge and trained in the weight room, she looked to be more aggressive in the paint, even before Monday’s season opener.

Against Colorado, Smith totaled 16 points, five rebounds and a block in 25 minutes. She also shot 6-of-8 from the field and 4-of-5 from the free-throw line.

Smith consistently produced during her freshman season, and

with the improvements she’s made this offseason, she has the potential to produce even more this season.

Based on Monday’s matchup, her chance of doing that seems likely.

LSU’s defense forced more turnovers than Colorado While 19 turnovers from LSU isn’t ideal, the Tigers forced 21 turnovers from Colorado. In a game where not a ton seemed to go LSU’s way, the little things became bigger

for the Tigers.

The stellar defense came from LSU’s most sought after transfers that the team added this offseason.

Hailey Van Lith and Aneesah Morrow each had two steals. Williams and Kateri Poole each had a steal as well.

Ironically, Frida Formann and Jaylyn Sherrod, the two guards that lifted Colorado past LSU in the first place, led Colorado in turnovers.

over the course of the year. This season, Reed is once again the starter.

After last week’s exhibition game, McMahon mentioned that he sees Reed as one of the team’s primary facilitators, along with Carlos Stewart and Mike Williams III. Stewart and Williams are guards, so that role is expected.

They’re 6-foot-1 and 6-foot-3, re-

spectively. Reed, on the other hand, is a 6-foot-10 power forward. It’s an unusual role for a player of his size.

This goes in line with what McMahon has been saying for a while: Reed is a unique player who can legitimately play the role of point forward for this team. He can operate from the perimeter and in transition, make decisions with the ball and make plays for

himself driving downhill.

Though his stats weren’t overwhelming in the opener, finishing with eight points, six rebounds, three assists and two blocks, Reed was certainly used in that fashion.

He drove to the basket from the perimeter, took the ball from coast to coast in transition and served as a facilitator in the high post.

“We’re very confident when he does defensive rebound, for him

to attack in transition and lead the break because he’s a very willing and selfless passer there,” McMahon said. “I just love his versatility and his ability to impact the game in multiple ways.”

Reed’s role in this regard will clearly be a consistent wrinkle in the offense, and it will be fascinating to watch his development and how he continues to help the team.

BY TYLER HARDEN @ttjharden8 While most LSU women’s basketball players were at home this summer, or at least enjoying their summer vacation away from school, Sa’Myah Smith was in the weight room, working on her craft almost every day.

Smith’s true freshman season last year was a success. Not only did she win a national championship during her first year at LSU, but she appeared in every game during the season, often playing a crucial role off the bench.

In the national championship, Smith played 11 minutes, scoring two points along with two rebounds and a block.

“A national championship is always the goal,” Smith said. “But it’s a surreal feeling to actually go out there and win it, for sure.”

She made her reliability known from the start of the season against Bellarmine, where she scored 12 points along with 11 rebounds.

While the competition was introductory at first, she continued to make an impact once Southeastern Conference play came around.

Against Georgia, where the Bulldogs took LSU to overtime, Smith scored 10 points and grabbed five rebounds in her 16 minutes of playing time.

In addition, the most playing time she got in any SEC game came against South Carolina, where LSU lost 88-64. In 27 minutes, she totaled seven points, six rebounds, two assists, a steal and a block.

In the NCAA Tournament, she scored six points along with five rebounds against Miami in the Elite Eight, a game where the Ti-

BUFFALOES, from page 9 roster.

Along with Sherrod and Formann’s stellar guard play, the Buffaloes were a larger force in the paint than LSU as well, led

by Aaronette Vonleh. She scored 24 points, shooting 11-of-15 from the field, along six rebounds on

TAKEAWAYS, from page 9 played may surprise people that she is a true freshman and that Monday’s matchup was her first legitimate collegiate game.

At many times during Monday night’s game, Williams looked like she was the most comfortable player on the floor for LSU. Her stat line reflects that, as she led the team with 17 points, four rebounds,

OPENERS, from page 9 of the young player. He praised the former four-star’s ability to make things happen off the dribble, a skill that most power forwards don’t possess.

Reed opened last season as a member of the starting lineup, but underwhelming early results caused Derek Fountain to take his spot. He saw his role diminish

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LSU women’s basketball freshman forward Sa’Myah Smith (5) attempts the shot on April 2 during LSU’s 102-85 win victory against Iowa in the NCAA National Championship in the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas.

OPINION

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You should be agreeing with mass consensus; it’s good for you ISABELLA’S INSIGHTS ISABELLA ALBERTINI

@BasedIsabella

Editor’s note: The following column is satire.

We live in a world where there’s conflict, unrest and chaos. But there’s an answer to make all our problems go away.

Groupthink.

Stop thinking critically, and start thinking collectively.

Abandon your own judgment, and hop on the bandwagon of whatever the mainstream opinion may be.

It’s simpler, and it’ll bring world peace. Why question the narrative and doubt its authority when you can placidly ignore your own thoughts and just do as you’re told?

But some people are stubborn, so they question the evidence in an attempt to verify the truth. They are troublemak-

ers, not willing to give in to the established narrative of what is right, just and good to believe in. They’re a danger to the wellbeing and peace of society, thinking their own thoughts and coming up with their own conclusions. How divisive and selfish!

Yet there’s hope to believe that we’re on the path to unity, as there are more people of the same mind or, at most, two different opinions. Any third or fourth viewpoint falls into a minority that is cast to the side and discarded as irrelevant.

Less people are speaking their own minds in a free and confident manner. And, luckily, when some do, there’s always a feral mob ready to cancel and ostracize them. Yes, free thinkers and open-minded people are becoming scarce, and those who remain are too cowardly to raise their voices.

As they should be. If they all got together and agreed to voice

their objections, they could very possibly cause a lot of trouble, as they could awaken all those who are asleep.

Of course, you know, the majority doesn’t even think. It’s too complicated. They’ve left that to be done and decided on by others. Why look for the facts to find the truth only to realize you’ll have to live with the guilt of being unwilling to fight for it, to risk being canceled for it? So, the majority drowsily ignores this dilemma before them and avoids asking any questions.

There’s still much hope that we will attain unity, with no hesitation to complete obedience. Because, of course, the subjection of thoughts is only one step away from the subjection of actions. And if it’s for the good of the whole, what does it matter what that good is or even makes up the whole?

Unless more people awaken, unless they unplug the cords connecting their views to the

overarching programming being set before us and untangle their minds from the same message that is being projected on the screens, unless they dare to say there’s more to the truth than what we’ve been told, groupthink can be ended any minute.

Those awake have the pow-

er to awaken others. They can agree to end the unity and allow for disagreement. This danger threatens your well-being.

And the only one who can stop it is you.

Isabella Albertini is a 23-yearold mass communication junior from Lima, Peru.

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The Biden Crime Family must be stopped, threatens peace SERIOUSLY KIDDING FRANK KIDD

@FK446852315 Editor’s note: The following column is satire.

House Republicans accused President Joe Biden and his son Hunter of peddling influence after discovering the extent of cash and gifts they allegedly received while he sat on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings. This has led conservative pundits and politicians to coin the term “Biden Crime Family.”

Critics of the title say Biden would be far richer if he was running a crime family. However, it’s likely a boss of his stature has numerous untraceable offshore accounts that, if discovered, would reveal him as one of the richest men in the world.

Most people don’t know the true history of the so-called “Biden” family. Joe Biden’s father Vincenzo Bidenolianssodimario immigrated to Delaware from Sicily in 1910. Bidenolianssodimario then started the most lucrative crime family in America with a vision for his son, Joey Lianzarigallo Bidenolianssodi-

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mario, to take over his role as boss.

Joey wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps but he also understood the value of political power. He changed his name to Joseph Robinette Biden to obscure his connections and won a senate seat, but Biden occasionally showed his true colors.

He gave a glimpse behind the curtain in his speech opposing bussing Black children to white schools, which was as progressive as one would expect a mob boss to be.

“It’s bad enough they took over the NBA and the NFL; next they’re gonna say we gotta let

‘em plow our wives or even our Goomars, or they’re gonna call us racist. Look, I just don’t want my kids growing up in a racial jungle over here. I’m not racist; I do work with some of those types down by the docks. They know how to make a shipment or two disappear if you know what I mean,” Biden said.

When a reporter asked him what he meant by his comments, Biden realized he’d blown his cover and responded, “Va Fangul! If anyone prints any of this, it’ll be the last story you ever write. We’re gonna gift you and your editor some brand new cement shoes. Fresh out the box.”

Biden must not have had access to cement at the time, because the reporter and editor who planned to run the story were found dismembered in shipping crates.

The story only came out years later when the reporter’s notes were found. The notes also included a deep investigation into the family, and Biden’s net worth was estimated at $600 million, an sum unheard of for a mob boss.

Biden is a ruthless criminal and has been for decades. David Chase, writer and producer of “The Sopranos,” spoke about how the show’s main character, Tony Soprano, was based on Biden.

“A lot of people think that Tony was based on Vincent Palmero, but after we cast James Gandolfini, I showed him behind-the-scenes videos of Joe Biden when he’s acting natural. It’s funny Tony is based on Biden, but I think this senile old man routine he’s doing now is similar to what Junior Soprano tries to pull on the judge in season…” The interview with ABC cut off abruptly there.

Fortunately, there is a video of the interview obtained from a transcriber that was home sick

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and getting a live feed. The video shows two men wearing velour tracksuits, white tank tops and gold chains enter and shoot the camera.

It’s been rumored that CBS decided against running a story on leaked audio of Biden after the reporter who obtained it died in a questionable suicide.

He’s said to have tied himself to the back seat of a car, taped his mouth shut, put a brick on the gas pedal and driven into a hole full of dynamite after shooting himself in the head twice.

Those who have heard the audio say Biden can be heard talking about Donald Trump, saying, “I already beat him once; if he keeps talking like this, I might have beat him for good. I really hope he finds some more respect somewhere in his heart.

It’d be a shame if something unfortunate were to befall him.”

Biden’s reign of terror has gone on for too long. The Biden Crime Family needs to be brought to justice, and I won’t stop until they’re exposed or I stab myself 300 times in the stomach, whichever comes first.

Frank Kidd is a 22-year-old mass communication senior from Springfield, Virginia.

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Kris Kristofferson

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