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Two hours into the Zoom meeting, which The Reveille ob tained a recording of, Kafili said he and the other students made no progress in finding short-term solutions for their situation.
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The conversation was “going in circles,” Hupperich said, and that the Student Health Center has not received many complaints about billing. She has tried to advocate for students who can’t afford the university’s plan, she said.
Compliance at ACS Medical Bill ing Solutions, the billing compa ny for the Student Health Center, Rachel Ricks, responded to billing criticisms regarding late fees in a past article by The Reveille. She said that ACS does not charge late fees and does not set any prices.
Instead, insurance compa nies set the prices of visits to the clinic, Ricks said, and if ACS did charge a late fee, that would be a violation of contract.
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The problems started a year ago when the Student Health Cen ter became in-network with oth er insurance plans and changed certain financial policies, such as the cost for certain services, Ghose said. Students with good health insurance have the option to receive medical care from any where.“At the time, we knew [LSU going in-network] would dispro
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Hupperich also wanted a hard waiver so that international stu dents would have to either en roll in SHIP or provide proof of an equally robust plan, so they wouldn’t be able to enroll in in surance that provides little-to-no coverage, she said. Her efforts of enforcing mandatory insurance and a hard waiver did not suc ceed.“You’re cutting off the ben efits that would previously help the students with no insurance or students who are underinsured, so you’re not thinking about students,” Ghose said. “[You’re] thinking about business here.”
“That [charging late fees] would be a violation of contract,” Ricks said. “Pretty strict govern ment and state laws for some pa tients, and there are other rules
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“I don’t know if she was even considering the fact that interna tional students cannot afford the LSU health insurance,” Ghose said.The cost for the LSU spon sored health insurance plan (SHIP) is $3,064 annually, accord ing to LSU’s billing and insur ance website. Students enrolled in SHIP also have to pay ranging copayments on top of the $3,064 cost. The additional $185 student health fee from the university’s fee bill is another payment SHIPenrolled students are responsible for as well as all full-time stu dents.Because many students can’t afford to enroll in SHIP, they en roll in cheaper insurances that may not cover as much of a ser vice as they would hope. Many international students enroll in International Student Insurance, known as the ISO plan.
Ghose feels terrible that the SHC has put her and her col leagues in a financially stress ful situation. It is especially not fair to international students, she said.“When [international students] come here, they don’t have any idea about the whole situation,” Ghose said. “They’re in their 20s. It’s not written that ‘hey, the med ical care situation is kind of like that there.’ They don’t have any idea about Directorthat.”of Revenue Cycle
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Two students may receive the same service at the clinic, but due to differing insurances, one stu dent may be responsible for a de ductible or a higher out-of-pocket cost, Kelly said.
The SHC crafted the questions to protect the student, Hupperich said, so that students are educat ed during a walk-through of what to look for in a health plan. The challenge comes into play when a student completes the waiver but still enrolls in a plan with littleto-no coverage, she said.
“We try to put safeguards in place so that students wouldn’t just wave out of appropriate cov erage and get these substandard plans, and for the students who have done that, it’s had a major impact, and we see it every day.” Hupperich said. “It’s hard for us to see because they don’t have the access they need. But we did everything that we could to advo cate and support them and edu cate them in the process, so they wouldn’t end up in this place.”
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International geophysics grad uate student Ritu Ghose is from Bangladesh and is president of the International Student Associa tion at LSU. She was one of the three international students in the meeting with Hupperich.
“We encourage students to en roll in the university-sponsored plan because anybody with an ISO plan is grossly under-insured, and no matter where they go, even if it’s in-network with their plan, that plan covers next to nothing,” Hupperich told the students dur ing the meeting.
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and guidelines that govern what we can send the statement to a patientChieffor.”Operating Officer of ACS, Peggy Kelly, said that ACS is open to questions at any time and generally has no problem com municating with students about issues that come up.
According to Kafili and Ghose, international students are still not satisfied with Hupperich’s re sponse, and they plan to conduct a town hall with Hupperich so that more students can voice their concerns.“Ifwe can afford a robust in surance, what’s the need of a Stu dent Health Center on campus?” Ghose said.
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But they still did end up in that place, Kafili said. He said the
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When LSU international grad uate student Soheil Kafili set up a meeting with Julie Hupperich, executive director of the Student Health Center, to discuss solu tions for students who can’t af ford medical services on campus, he said he didn’t get any answers.
portionately impact international students and graduate students,” Hupperich said. “We actually re quested that the leadership con sider mandatory insurance.”
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When LSU partnered with the LSU Healthcare Network on May 10, 2021, it became “in-network” with most major US-based insur ance plans, so that more insuranc es could be used at the Student Health Center. However, students believe this also caused a raise in primary care prices.
All international students must sign a waiver before changing in surance, Hupperich said.
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“We have attempted and have always made that our forefront is to help these students walk them through whatever we have to walk them through as best we can, and I do think that the clinic is trying to make that something a little bit more proactive, if you will,” Kelly said.
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Kafili said that Hupperich is putting the problem on students in response to her restatement of her short-term solution.
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“They go through a process where they have to answer cer tain questions about the new plan that they intend to enroll in, and it walks them through questions that make sure that they basically are getting comparable coverage to the university-sponsored plan,” Hupperich said.
“The short-term plan is to en roll in better insurance coverage,” Hupperich said to the students during the meeting. “Or connect with our case manager who can help you to connect with other resources.”“You’re not offering anything,” Kafili said in response to Hupp erich. “I’m asking since you’re not offering anything, and [the] LSU insurance plan is very expensive for everyone, and no one wants to useKafilithat.”went on to recommend solutions like re-prioritizing fund ing within the Student Health Center to reallocate money to lower the cost of primary medical services for Hupperichstudents.saidthat students need to enroll in health care cov erage and that students can meet with the case manager today.
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“I was like ‘oh crap, I’m going to have to call them to pick me up…’ but I didn’t,” Champagne said.Champagne, a math graduate student at LSU, calls it “getting a flat tire” when one of his cane tips breaks because it’s a simple fix. He turned his cane tip up side down, a temporary fix that allows him to get him to his des tination.“Iflipped the cane upside down…and I made that cross ing,” Champagne said. “I kept going, and I found my way back to the center with a broken cane. I just had a rush of pride. I felt like I had just conquered a mountain.”Champagne, who grew up in the rural town of New Roads, Louisiana, earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from LSU and is now pursuing a secondary de gree in math. At the age of 5, he was diagnosed with retinitis pig mentosa, a rare visual impair ment that progressively worsens
Geaux Vote, a non-partisan LSU student organization focused on voter education and engage ment, celebrated National Voter Registration Day on Sept. 20 with a voter registration drive in Free SpeechPoliticalAlley.science and interna tional studies sophomore Lailah Williams is Geaux Vote’s director of programming and initiatives.
The test-run was funded through the student sustainability fund, a $2 fee on each student’s fee bills during the fall and spring se mesters.“We kind of cut off the initia tive because we needed to regroup and figure out ways that we can get students involved,” Powers said.Powers said OZZI should be of ficially introduced across campus during the fall 2023 semester.
When partially blind Justin Champagne was walking alone in the streets of Ruston, Louisi ana, on his way to the Louisiana Center for the Blind, his walking cane unexpectedly snapped.
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Student Government is work ing with the university to introduce a reusable alternative to styrofoam to-go boxes in LSU’s dining halls.
While LSU is also working to use OZZI containers in athletic dining halls, certain infrastructure like drying racks and receptacles are needed for effective implemen tation.Despite its origins as an SG initiative, LSU has taken over and is currently working to implement it. Powers said LSU wants 5,000 containers, each customized with purple LSU branding.
the containers and take up a lot of space. The university is currently exploring methods to best incor porate them into dining halls.
The containers, known as OZZI, are a more sustainable op tion that minimizes waste, said po litical science junior Gigi Powers, SG’s director of campus affairs and sustainability.According to their website, OZZI is a reusable to-go container designed to minimize the harmful effects of single-use containers. The containers can be returned to receptacles and then brought back to beTomcleaned.Wright, CEO of OZZI, said the company that designs the sus tainable containers was founded in 2013 and is currently in 48 states across 500 locations and 350 universities. He said each con tainer can be used over a thousand times.The effort to introduce sustain able containers to the dining halls started as an SG initiative in 2020,
According to a September 2022 campus report from the National Study of Learning, Voting and En gagement, about 84% of eligible LSU students were registered to vote in 2020, and about 77% of registered students voted in the 2020Williamselection.believes it’s impor tant for students to vote and stay on top of their voter registration, so they are ready when elections occur. Election Day is on Nov. 8,
When the initiative is prop erly introduced across campus by the fall of 2023, Powers said that students will check out an OZZI container at a dining hall and then take it back to their dorms. Once finished with it, she said they’ll be able to drop it into a receptacle ei ther located in the dorms or one of the dining halls where they’ll be
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Williams said LSU has a good history with youth voter partici pation, with some of the highest youth voter participation rates in the SEC.
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“We’re out here tabling, get ting people registered, helping them check their voter registra tion status and signing up for noti fications about different electionbased information, and also just telling them a little bit more about what it means to be civically en gaged,” Williams said.
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“It’s most important for people to be registered to vote because it’s a part of your civic duty. We’re the adults now…we need to go out and take that responsibility upon ourselves…that’s the best way to arm yourself as an American citi zen, is to know who you’re voting for [and] why you’re voting,” Wil
“We want to make sure that people are knowledgeable and aware of each election cycle when ever it happens so that they can be aware of when to vote and how to vote and who they’re voting for, most importantly,” Williams said.
“Geaux Vote wants all students of LSU to be engaged in their lo cal, state and national elections. Voting is a fundamental part of being in a democracy, and Geaux
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to keep buying as many styrofoam boxes.OZZI containers are also used in the healthcare industry and the military.“LSU’s a world class institu tion with a terrific student body that’s committed to sustainability,” Wright said. “We find that it’s very easy to engage students because they get it, they want a better world.”
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Wright said he is excited to bring his product to LSU. He de veloped OZZI after many years of working in foodservice and seeing the need for more sustainable ways of operating. He said that over the long-term, OZZI will likely save LSU money since they won’t have
liamsPublicsaid.relations senior Bridget Cotten serves as the president of Geaux Vote and hopes the organi zation can increase voter partici pation for all elections.
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Students read the poster at the Geaux Vote tent on Sept. 20, in Free Speech Plaza on Tower Drive in Baton Rouge, La.
Powers said. It was passed in 2021 with a test-run of OZZI conducted in theThey459.ordered 2,000 in the be ginning and were left with around 700. She said they ran into diffi culty getting the boxes returned to the dining halls.
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Many people don’t know about voter registration, Williams said, and students often mistook their tabling efforts as part of Student Government voting.
“They (LSU) were all eager and passionate that someone, a stu dent, can advocate for them and push a project on the student side of things,” Powers said. “That’s re ally special and it was super en couraging that LSU is not sweep ing sustainability under the rug so much as we’re trying to figure out the logistics of doing sustainable things.”One of the challenges includes getting the necessary equipment to dry the containers after they’re used and getting the receptacles in place for students to drop the containers off, Powers said. Dry ing racks are necessary to sanitize
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Vote wants everyone to exercise their right to vote,” Cotten said.
“A lot of students who come into college, they’re just turning 18, but they’re also getting thrown
“We are putting the people who we want to speak on behalf of us in office, and I know that I wouldn’t want someone that I didn’t particularly vote for in of fice, so that’s why I believe all stu dents should vote,” he said.
one’s peripheral vision. He has a very small bit of usable vision in his right eye but is completely blind in his Champagneleft.said he has run into many roadblocks as a par tially blind graduate student at the university, particularly the lack of braille in Lockett Hall, which houses LSU’s Math De partment.“Inoticed it pretty quickly, even though I myself am not yet a full braille reader, I still no ticed it,” Champagne said.
On Champagne’s cognitive map of LSU campus, Highland Road lies in the Champagne’scenter.favorite part of the program in Ruston was learning how to rely on audio cues to cross streets, intersec tions, four-way stops and inter states.“[My] other favorite part was probably the cooking and the cleaning,” Champagne said. ”Well, not so much the cleaning, but cooking was fun.”
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Champagne calls his kitch en his laboratory because he loves to experiment with food. He cooks “good ‘ol” Cajun food like jambalaya, bakes loaves and cookies, and roasts different meats.There is no one-size-fitsall approach to how blindness manifests in people, Champagne said. Non-blind people often make the misconception that blind people can’t see at all, but it is a spectrum, he said, and that no two blind people are alike.
After training at the LCB, Champagne was taught how to build a cognitive map of Ruston so that he could translate the skills to his new home, some thing he brought to LSU when he enrolled as a graduate stu dent in math.
Champagne enrolled in train ing at the Louisiana Center for the Blind in 2019 after realizing he needed to accept his blind ness, requiring skills to live in dependently with a career of his own.When he arrived in Ruston, Champagne quickly found a community of people he empa thized“Forwith.thefirst time, it made me feel like I wasn’t alone,” Cham pagne said. “Up until that point, I felt like I was going through all of these struggles alone. That was the most debilitating part of it. No one should have to strug gle through something alone.”
Delatte said Geaux Vote has many upcoming events to help students get involved, including absentee ballot training, voteby-mail drives and educational events to provide students with the tools and resources they need to participate in elections.
“Know that your vote means a lot more than just a ballot…It’s your vote, but it’s also going to be the voice that represents a multi tude of people, so make sure you pick your candidate carefully,” Delatte said.
“Ican.understand the added time it takes to submit an absentee bal lot. But the sooner you submit it, the less you worry about getting it back on time,” Cotten said.
Hoping to see a change, Champagne feels responsible for advocating for himself and other blind people.
Political communication junior Matthew Delatte is the director of communications, social media and marketing for Geaux Vote. Delatte expressed excitement to celebrate National Voter Registration Day, his “favorite Accordingholiday.”toaBoston Globe article, college students are a his torically underrepresented demo graphic in elections that have only recently begun setting record vot er turnout numbers with the 2020 election. But some students are still unaware of the election pro cess and how to participate.
Part of that is just the age of the building, he said. The building’s coordinator has been working with Champagne to get door signs in braille, but it’s on the university’s side to make it happen, he said.
“I talked to my coordinator, and no one has noticed it until now, which is why it hasn’t been done,” he Crackedsaid.sidewalks are also an issue, he said, finding it to be more of an inconvenience than the lack of braille signs, espe cially with his cane catching in the cement and jabbing him in theThroughoutstomach. high school, Champagne struggled to accept
his blindness, wishing he was like the other kids.
Being the only blind stu dent at his school only added to his feelings of alienation. He learned braille but resisted it, feeling it was demoralizing. He also didn’t want to use his cane, falling numerous times as a con sequence.“Ididn’t really accept that I had this condition,” Champagne said. “I didn’t have the level of acceptance that I do now.”
After years of struggling to accept his condition, Cham pagne now tells people that he’s “living the dream.”
He said that the universities that do have voter registration of fices have higher voting rates than LSU, but they are more likely to be found at private universities and not in the SEC. Still, Delatte em phasized the importance of mobi lizing college students to vote.
“I’m so proud of myself,” Champagne said. “I’ve come to really embrace who I am, every part of who I am and every part of my identity. I’ve come to em brace the unique struggles that I experience. I accept who I am, and I’m happy where I am.”
Cotten said that busy college students may also not want to miss class or other obligations to vote, but she hopes schools and jobs will give excused absences for voting days in the future.
this entire new life...I think that all college students want to vote, but I do think that sometimes they do lack the resources,” Delatte said.Unlike other campuses, LSU does not have an office of voter registration that focuses on out reach, which Delatte said creates a barrier for voting that Geaux Vote is trying to fix.
As an out-of-state student, Cot ten knows the difficulty students not from Louisiana can face when trying to vote while at school, but she encourages them to still sub mit an absentee ballot as soon as they
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for the support they’ve received from family, friends and custom ers. The two are excited to con tinue making their mark in Baton Rouge, a community they know and“Fromlove. restaurants to sorority houses, we love them all,” Emily said. “They are one of the reasons that we are opening the store front now.”
es, Marlo said it was a lot of work. The women are excited to have their own permanent storefront.
Just like the choosing of the clothes, the responsibility of the Marem social media, @shopma rem, is taken up by both of the Marem women.
The clothes Marem sells is what many college women want their closet to look like — from everything you could possibly need for game day to all differ ent styles of colorful dresses. The shop sells a diverse range of products. The store has a shoe for every occasion and jewelry that goes from subtle to statement pieces.Marlo and Emily love going on buying trips to markets and trade shows to stock their bou tique. Marlo said they divide and conquer. They each pick a side of the store, choose what they like, and then go through each piece together. One of the big factors they look at when choosing what to buy is if it’s within their price point and fits their customer base, Marlo
Opening day for the storefront was a success. Marem Boutique hosted many different pop-ups inside their store — from cook ies to permanent jewelry to Bub bly. From the shopper’s point of view, everything went off without a hitch. Shopping at Marem gives you all the feels of being with your girl gang. The store gives
social media and hosting events are great ways for new businesses to get exposure.
Marlo and Emily are grateful
“Even after we opened the on line store, we never saw a store front in the near future,” Marlo said. “It became something that was tugging on our heart strings, and we knew that if it was meant to be, it would come to fruition.”
said.Marlo is in charge of posting photos, while Emily handles mak ing and posting to social media stories. They both take and edit photos of outfits, depending on who has time in their schedule.
Starting a boutique together was a topic the two cousins and friends talked about, but they never imagined it would happen so soon.OnJuly 25, 2020, Emily and Marlo opened Marem Boutique as an online store. Just two years later, on Sept. 16, 2022, Emily and Marlo opened a storefront at 4250 Burbank Drive.
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“We like to post four to five pictures a day to show off as many products as we can,” Marlo
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Emily Rodrigue and Marlo Ro drigue have both loved fashion from an early age.
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“Theresaid. are definitely times where one likes an item and an other doesn’t,” Marlo said. “We generally compromise.”
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you a place to feel confident try ing on clothes.
“There is no blueprint on how to do things, but there are so many resources that we used to help us through hard times,”
“What made me love fashion more was helping other people pick out outfits that they love and feel confident in,” Marlo said.
Being able to meet customers and see the clothes come to life is a feeling like no other, Emily said.
While Marlo and Emily enjoyed setting up temporary retail spac
KATELYN BANKER / Courtesy of Butterflies of Hope Photography Marlo and Emily Rodrigue cut the ribbon at the opening of the Marem Boutique storefront on Sept. 16, at 4250 Burbank Drive in Baton Rouge, La.
The name Marem comes from both women’s names meshed into one — “Mar” from Marlo and “Em” from Emily. Being in their late teens and early twenties, starting a business was tough work for Marlo and Emily, but their passion and dedication kept themEmilygoing.described the first three months as an entrepreneur as a stressful time. She said today, they look back and laugh since every thing they were trying to figure out is second nature to them now.
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Emily is finishing up her senior year as a marketing major at LSU. Marlo graduated from LSU with a marketing degree in August 2022.
Marem Boutique has attended pop-up events around the city since the online store opened.
The parking lot between Nich olson Hall and Coates Hall has a ramp that leads to a wide side walk, making it almost seem like LSU wants people to drive into the Quad.After carefully, and sweatily, bringing the car model to the en trance between Nicholson Hall and Coates Hall, it was time for the final test.
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I set the model down and slow ly dragged it through the columns, along the sidewalk and down the handicap ramp, all while getting confused looks from bystanders.
My “car” fit perfectly. The mod el made it down the ramp and into the parking lot without needing to take any stairs or hopping any curbs.Do not actually do this with your real car. It is illegal, you will get in trouble and my editor will yell at me. But if you were to do it, which you should not, taking the entrance between Nicholson and Coates would be the best way to go.
I measured my car, and it came out to be 15 feet long, 5 feet wide and 5 feet tall. Then I measured out the tent poles to make a rect angle with the same measure ments as my car. I added duct tape to hold the tent poles together.
Taylor Swift’s “folklore” is for those gloomy fall days, which are not uncommon in Louisi ana. This album has all the wistful tunes that you could need this fall, with tracks such as the dreamy “cardigan” and “august.”
Swift possesses the power of storytelling and uses that to her advantage time and time again. The entire album tells a story (hence the name “folklore”). Each song is a piece of the narrative Swift weaves, making it a perfect album to get lost in this fall.
Instead, I created a model of my car to pull through the quad to see if my car would fit and where. By model, I mean rectangle on
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Finally, and most crucially, every car needs wheels. The car outline needs to roll just like a car since I would not be able to pick up my actual, real car if I needed to go down steps to get into the
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Hozier’s self-titled folk album is an essen tial album for fall. The album itself is extremely peaceful in terms of sound, but still has a compel ling nature. “Like Real People Do” is one of those serene tracks with devastating lyrics. “Someone New” is more on the upbeat side but it’s still worth mentioning.Overall, this album is probably more for peo ple who like sad music (don’t worry, I am people).
There have been at least three instances of LSU students driving their cars into the Quad. The most recent incident occurred in 2020 when a driver got lost and acci dentally made their way into the area before being escorted out by LSUPD.The driver asked pedestrians where they could find the nearest street, according to @overheard_ lsu on Twitter. Pictures and videos of the lost driver quickly spread on social media and left many people asking the same question: “How did they get their car in the quad?”
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This album makes me feel nostalgic for a time period I didn’t live through. I don’t know why, but this album has always felt like fall to me.
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It’s one of those albums you listen to when you’re outside, driving with the windows down, or some other scenario where you can feel the fall weather. “Over My Head” and “Tusk” are perfect for a car ride nostalgia scenario. I just think this album is so well done, and it’s one of Fleetwood Mac’s best.
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Quad.Itied roller skates to the four corners of the car outline, and then I had a realistic car model to testThewith.best location for a car to enter the Quad seemed to be the parking lot between Nicholson Hall and Coates Hall. There are other entrances that would work, but most were harder to get to or involved driving over stairs and curbs.
You should probably start wor rying about getting hit by a car while walking through the LSU Quad.Well, maybe not worry — but know that its a possibility.
“Red” is one of the best pop country albums of all time and there’s a reason for it. The re-recorded version is packed with “vault tracks,” which are songs Swift didn’t get to include on the album’s initial 2012 release.
I think what makes this album so great is that it has a little bit ofOneverything.onesideof the spectrum there’s “I Bet You Think About Me,” which is a wonderfully petty and angry country song. On the other side of the spectrum sits a pop song, “I Knew You Were Trouble”. It may have been overplayed since its initial release but, that can’t take away from the fact that it’s still brilliant. Not forgetting those who fall in the middle of the mu sic genre spectrum, “Red” is an almost perfect mix of pop and country (and even a bit of rock). I think it is the perfect title track, and it honestly should have opened the album.
I collected tent poles from my parents’ house, roller skates from my roommate and duct tape from my friend – all the conventional components of a Reveille story.
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I decided I would find the an swer. Obviously, I cannot drive my real car through the Quad.
The Beatles’ sixth studio album “Rubber Soul” is a great fall album. The track “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)” is so beautifully quaint with its unique and somewhat “trippy” sound. “In My Life” is reflective, but leaves you with a long ing feeling.Youcan tell “Rubber Soul” was The Beatles’ way of testing the waters with different sounds and was the perfect transition into their glory years in experimental rock.
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LSU Soccer opens conference play with impressive 2-1 road winSOCCERBYSPENCER
Opening SEC play with a win is very important. The road only gets tougher for the Tigers from here. LSU opens with much of the same level of opposition, but as SEC play continues, they will meet the likes of Auburn, Arkansas and Ole Miss. All are ranked opposi tion which will require the team to be at the top of their game.
LSU won a free kick near the edge of the box which was in perfect shooting position. Hermannsdottir stepped up and whipped the ball over the Vanderbilt wall and into the back of the net. With 57 min utes gone, LSU was back on top.
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LSU brings a fire with them. The Tigers might struggle against
scoring and Thoreson leads the team in assists. The two interna tionals are finally starting to see more time on the field and contin
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While LSU is headed into the matchup with considerable mo mentum, so is New Mexico. The Lobos are 2-1 on the year and are coming off a convincing 2710 win over University of Texas El Paso, who made a bowl game last
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LSU soccer started SEC play on a positive note with a 2-1 road win against Vanderbilt.
As conference play gets set to begin, let’s take a look at the preseason poll, league format and players to watch for LSU.
the Atnet.the start of the second half, Ida Hermannsdottir did just that.
LSU is coming off a huge win against Mississippi State, and the Tigers look to continue their momentum as they host New Mexico for their third straight home game. While the spread favors LSU by 30.5 points, noth ing is guaranteed until the game is played. Here’s what to expect from LSU’s next opponent from the Mountain West Conference.
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“Really pleased to start SEC play with a win,” LSU Head Coach Sian Hudson said. “Any time you get three points on the road in the SEC is a good thing. The players adjusted well to what we asked and seeing them respond well af ter last week’s defeat this week was great as well.”
The rest of the game was a defensive struggle for the Tigers.
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Vanderbilt had only conceded one goal all season coming into this game, so scoring early helped give LSU a boost of confidence that the Commodores could be beaten.Vanderbilt was up for the challenge of finding an equalizer though. Peyton Cutshall leveled the game in the 39th minute. Out side of the box and moving away from the goal, Cutshall hammered the ball over LSU goalkeeper Mollee Swift and the Commodores were
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Before the season began, the SEC posted a coaches poll to their Twitter, which had LSU sitting at 10th. Some might say that could be seen as unfair, but LSU’s start to conference play last year was abysmal, and questioned the true strength of the squad. After seeing its performances so far this year, that might just be unfair.
Theseason.main part of New Mex ico’s team to look out for is the defense, as eight players are coming into the matchup with LSU having already recorded double-digit tackles in just three games. Safety, Jerrick Reed II, and linebacker, Cody Moon, lead the team in tackles, each hav ing over 20, and Moon adding 3.5 sacks. Safety Ronald Wilson leads the team with two intercep tions.
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The Tigers were resilient on the road, scoring early in the 13th minute on a corner kick. The ball was whipped into the back post and Shannon Cooke settled it, be fore chipping it back across to find Lindsi Jennings. Jennings headed it home to give the Tigers the lead.
ue to produce good results. LSU will now gear up for a home matchup against Missouri on Thursday, Sept. 22.
Vanderbilt continued to press for an equalizer, but they found noth ing. The game ended 2-1 for LSU.
The LSU soccer team celebrates freshman midfielder Ida Hermannsdottir’s (17) goal Sept. 2, during LSU’s 3-1 win against Grambling State University at LSU’s Soccer Stadium off of Nicholson Drive., NEW
LSU soccer rounded out nonconference play on Sunday against No. 9 Rutgers. The end of confer ence play also brought an end to their unbeaten run since the start of theTheseason.lossto Rutgers was partic ularly heartbreaking as the Tigers held a 2-0 lead into halftime. Rut gers turned the game around and won it 3-2. This could have been a big boost for the Tigers, and could have had them ranked to begin conference play.
Goinglevel. into halftime, it was looking like this could be a back and forth affair. Vanderbilt was defensively solid, but LSU had shown they could find the back of
First year players Hermanns dottir and Angelina Thoreson con tinue to be on top of their game. Hermannsdottir leads the team in
CHYNNA MCCLINTON / The Reveille LSU soccer freshman forward Angelina Thoreson (11) hugs redshirt sophomore forward Mollie Baker (3) after she scores Aug. 18, during LSU’s 5-0 win against Stephen F. Austin at LSU’s Soccer Stadium off of Nicholson Drive.
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bos. The stops on fourth down and one certainly increased the morale of the team as a whole against Mississippi State, so the defense will have to set the tone once again in order to control the rest of the game.
If LSU can continue to play like this and beat teams that are ranked higher than them in the preseason poll, then this team can be something special.
The league table is decided by the most points, and the SEC Tour nament will follow those stand ings. This means draws can hap pen this year which could shake things up for teams tactically.
The league format
Hermannsdottir is younger than Soale, but she brings a breath of fresh air to the attack in the squad. She leads the team in goals and assists this season.
Hermannsdottir’s free kick in
Unlike Mississippi State, which is a pass-first team, it’s an even split between a ground game and a passing game for New Mexico. Quarterback Miles Kendrick has thrown for 379 yards on the year along with three touchdowns and three in terceptions.Inthebackfield, the Lobos ro tate between a variety of backs, but Sherod White and Nathaniel Jones get the majority of the car ries. White leads the team with 101 rushing yards and three touchdowns, and Jones is right behind him with 95 rushing yards and a touchdown.
Given that New Mexico’s de fense is the strong point of their team, Jayden Daniels will have to get the offense going early; first quarter points are essential in order to control the game going forward.Overall, in a combination be tween home-field advantage and the momentum the Tigers have heading into the matchup, LSU looks to be a heavy favorite go ing into this game.
Soale will continue to be a big piece of the Tigers’ midfield. This will be a mainstay as she can play 90 minutes. Expect Soale to have a
the top opposition, but Coach Sian Hudson continues to prepare these players for games of this caliber. The team is young, but there is still a lot of experience in this squad.
CHYNNA MCCLINTON / The Reveille LSU football junior defensive end BJ Ojulari (18) leaps onto sophomore defensive end Sai’vion Jones’s back as they celebrate a Mississippi State fumble Sept. 17, during LSU’s 31-16 win against Mississippi State at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, La.
This shows how tough of a road LSU has in the SEC. That be ing said, successful results could make things easier for the tigers to get a tournament bid come end of
big role coming into SEC play.
The receiving game is also split primarily between two play ers in Geordon Porter and Luke Wysong. Both receivers have over 100 yards on the season, Porter with 140 and Wysong with 104. In addition, Porter, who leads the team with two receiving touchdowns, averages 15.6 yards per catch, so containing him will certainly help the Tigers.
With this system, LSU could definitely finish above 10th in the league. Hudson knows the strength of her team. She knows the quality of her players as well.
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Players to watch Two players to watch going into SEC play are Wasila DiwuraSoale and Ida Hermannsdottir. These are two dynamic players in different parts of the system. Soale plays more of a defensive role and Hermanssdottir follows into an at tackingHudsonrole.speaks highly of both.
“She leads by example on the field,” Hudson said about Soale. “I was thrilled for her to score a goal against Princeton last week. She is an absolute warrior.”
Hermannsdottir will continue to be a huge playmaker for this team. She is expected to continue her fine run of form right into SEC play.LSU opened SEC play in the best way possible by beating Vanderbilt on the road 2-1.
season.
The SEC currently boasts five teams ranked in the United Soc cer Coaches top-25; South Caro lina, Alabama, Arkansas, Ole Miss, and Auburn. They also boast Tex as A&M and Tennessee receiving votes in the poll.
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“She plays with such expres sion and personality,” Hudson said. “The bigger the moment the more you will see from her.”
The Commodores are no easy team to beat. Coming into today, they had only conceded one goal all season, but LSU’s attack was up for the challenge. Both goals came from set pieces, which is some thing that LSU spent time practic ing this week.
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In New Mexico’s only loss, which came to Boise State, the Lobos were limited to under 100 yards passing, under 30 yards rushing and under 100 yards re ceiving.The Tigers’ defense will have to keep their intensity headed into their match up with the Lo
the second half was the winning goal for the tigers. LSU showed that they were ready for the physi cality of SEC play. They played fiercely and pressured the Com modores the entire game.
How does the league work? The teams are split into their normal divisions of SEC East and West. With each win, a team earns three points, a draw earns one and a loss earns zero.
Here are the headlines of
LSU president William F. Tate IV speaks at the Our Lady of the Lake and LCMC Health game-changing investment press conference Feb. 11, at the LSU Foundation Center for Philanthropy in Baton Rouge, La.
But you’d be wrong on both counts.LSU keeps open 25 seating sections for students – out of 658 total. The university’s student body of over 30,000 undergradu ates would only fill a quarter of Tiger Stadium’s 102,321 seats. So, why not expand the space for current Tigers?
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be the best events on campus. It creates a feeling of camaraderie among the students, especially when cheering or watching the team get their first touchdown of the game or the season.
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what we’ve reported on that he’d rather you didn’t know.
“I hold journalism in high re gard. As a scientist speaking to a group about how institutions are described, I built on the empiri cal realities of the negative in stinct,” Tate tweeted.
We agree with what Tate said when he arrived at LSU: Our pri mary job as journalists is to seek truth. It takes empathy. It takes courage. And, often, it makes people in power upset – includ ing, evidently, the president.
The answer’s simple: LSU puts football revenue over students.
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Tate seemed to notice that his comments struck a nerve among some LSU faculty and Manship School of Mass Communication alumni and students, as he at tempted later that day to clarify his position and say he values journalism on Twitter.
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We’d expect a trained epi demiologist to be more careful about throwing out anecdotal numbers to prove a point, es pecially when a quick browse of The Reveille’s website shows how ridiculous the claim is.
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gate outside Tiger Stadium for hours ahead of kickoff and don their purple and gold with pride.
The president’s recent state ments are in stark contrast to the praise he gave student media upon his arrival at LSU in August 2021.“I have three principles that guide my leadership: Seek truth. Be empathetic. Demonstrate a courageous act. If you have a student media that is seeking the truth, and they’re empathetic, and they’re courageous, you’re a better campus,” Tate said in an interview with Tiger TV. “And so for me, I view journalistic ac tivity in general, but obviously students who want to be in that world both while they’re stu dents and perhaps as a career, as vitally important to a robust campus.”
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The most serious fans that at tend each game religiously know every player down to the high school they attended. They tail
All of this is valid; football is entertaining. But these fans, especially those who have no connection to LSU in any way, shouldn’t be allowed to buy tick ets or season passes until each LSU student has been offered the opportunity to get them. It’s unfair to all of the students who have paid thousands to be able to call themselves LSU Tigers.
It’s not our job to do PR for the university, and it never will be. The Reveille’s history of be ing censored by overly sensitive administrators lives fresh in the mind of Reveille reporters and Manship alumni. We hope that Tate’s comments were a lapse in judgment, and not revelatory of a more troubling attitude toward studentPresidentmedia.Tate, we always welcome an opportunity to inter view you and get your perspec tive. But if you’d prefer to bash us publicly, feel free. It won’t slow us down one bit.
“I know [football] is a massive part of the culture here at LSU,” said computer science freshman Jack O’Connor. “I would defi nitely like to experience it a little bit.”O’Connor was one of many students who were unable to snag tickets for LSU’s “electric” games, he said.
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Each game is hyped up with tailgating events throughout game-day, and the feeling on campus before kickoff is unlike anyThoughother. LSU recently opened up additional student tickets for a few home games, they’ve already sold out. All that’s left are highpriced guest tickets or general admission.Money shouldn’t be the uni versity’s main priority. The stu dents who pay tuition should be given the best opportunities to go to LSU’s home games.
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LSU President William Tate IV doesn’t seem to be a fan of our coverage. During a Board of Regents budget meeting on Tues day, he said so publicly.
With the fifth largest stadium in college football, you might think any LSU student who wants a seat for a home game could get one. And with the 11th richest program, you might guess they could get one for cheap.
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This isn’t the first time Tate has criticized The Reveille’s cov erage.He said in a September 2021 interview with The Reveille that every news article he reads is a critique of an institution. At a Faculty Senate meeting in Au gust, he referenced The Reveil le’s Page 1 story about the string of crimes during the first week of school, saying that the negative bias in journalism makes these events seem worse than they are. It’d be interesting to know what coverage, specifically, Tate takes issue with. Or, maybe,
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Which empirical reality was the “95%” figure based on? The editorial board searched for aca demic articles showing this to be true. We couldn’t find anything.
LSU and Southern fans begin to find their seats on Sept. 10, before LSU’s 65-17 win over Southern at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, La.
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College football, especially in the SEC, is seen as far more than just a group of young men who gather to play a sport.
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“Every student newspaper article in all the systems, if you pick them up, 95% of the infor mation is negative,” Tate said. “The negative instinct is over whelming in journalism. They cannot help themselves.”
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Was it our recent front page story about LSU ending its con tract with Sexual Trauma and Awareness Response? Our cover age last fall of protests sparked by revelations of yet another in stance of LSU mishandling rape cases? Our in-depth series last semester about LSU infrastruc ture
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Amplifyingproblems? students’ com plaints about parking and other capacity issues at the university? Or that recent story about crime on Doescampus?Tate take an issue with how we cover these issues, or the fact that we cover them at all?
He said, too, that students have a unique opportunity to represent issues on campus.
“There’s a part of being a stu dent that allows you to say some things that some people can’t or won’t, and so I love it,” he said. “I think it’s extremely important that students have a voice in that way.”It seems that the president is less eager about student journal ists seeking truth when it comes to his own administration.
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Jindal’s eight years as governor left the state with a $1.6 billion budget shortfall and a real risk of serious cuts to services. Edwards took over in 2016 and restored stability to the state.
as one big political statement. A politician who — if former Gov. Bobby Jindal is any indicator — will leave the state in ruins.
Landry has spent the last six years painting himself in the im age of Trump, so in some ways, the visit was the least his family could offer. After all, they say imi tation is the best form of flattery.
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Jeff Landry as governor would be disaster for Louisiana
Landry has already been run ning for governor for four years as he continues to put Louisiana in the national spotlight for all the wrong reasons, contributing to our collective embarrassment.
support of former President Don ald Trump in his Mar-a-Lago re cords case, which doesn’t involve the state of Louisiana and does nothing but stroke the ego of a former president.
All the brief succeeds in is eas ing Landry’s craving for continual validation and attention from the far-flung fringes of the Republican Party.The Republican Party has be come increasingly defined by this fringe wing headed by the Trump family and a cast of characters working to fit into the plot, in cluding governors Greg Abbott of Texas and Ron DeSantis of Flor ida.One such character could be found at Landry’s de-facto cam paign launch. Donald Trump Jr. attended Landry’s annual gator hunt in St. Martinville where tick ets cost up to $50,000.
Charlie Stephens is a 21-year-old political communication senior from Baton Rouge.
Attorney General Jeff Landry hasn’t officially announced he’s running for governor, but the hats and t-shirts emblazoned with “Team Landry Governor” that he handed out at a recent event, ac cording to reporting by The Ad vocate, don’t leave much to the imagination.Thenews of his near-launch was one of the least surprising things I’ve heard all year.
Under Gov. John Bel Edwards, the state has expanded Medicaid, reinvested in education, reformed
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our criminal justice system and laid a strong financial foundation for the future with the administra tion projecting additional surplus dollars from last year’s budget.
Landry isn’t running for gov ernor to make state government work for the people of Louisiana. He’s running to make Louisiana work for Jeff and his political am bitions.
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In his latest display of using his office for his own political ad vancement, Landry filed a brief in
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Louisianians are lucky to enjoy a principled and effective gover nor who can be expected to do what is best for the state.
The attorney general has made it clear that he doesn’t value the people of Louisiana. In fact, he openly questions their intelli gence by pushing the state into indefensible lawsuits that leave taxpayers on the hook for lousy political stunts.
The prospect of Landry as governor makes me severely con cerned for the future of Louisiana.
Electing Landry as governor would return Louisiana to a play book that we are all too familiar with: a politician with aspirations for national office using the state