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Overcoming addiction: 4 years sober pills every once in a while. After I graduated and moved away for college, things picked up. I started using anything and everything that I could get my hands on.” Fontenot started using as part of a social trend, but soon became reliant upon these vices to avoid dealing with her emotions. “Everyone was doing it, with drinking at least,” said Fontenot. “And with drugs, there was just so much pain in me. I used to change the way that I felt. I had a lot of anxiety, so I used. I disliked my situations in life, so I used. I disliked myself, so I used.” After struggling with an addiction to substances such as alcohol, Xanax, cocaine, Molly, Roxicodone and heroin, Fontenot sought out a rehabilitation center. “I went to a long-term, allfemale treatment facility called The Journey Home,” said Fontenot. “I stayed in treatment for a long time and worked on Alaina Fontenot, a junior early childhood education, PK-3 major, sits with her daughter Luna Fontenot underneath Friendship Oak. Alaina Fontenot has been sober all of the things that I needed to work on. I learned to live without from her addiction to alcohol and pills for four years. Annie Goodman/The Lion’s Roar drugs and alcohol, and I learned ANNIE GOODMAN was going to die, and that same sober from drug and alcohol of 13. to truly love myself.” Editor-in-Chief small part of me didn’t want to addiction. “I stuck to mainly alcohol Since becoming sober, die,” said Alaina Fontenot, a Now 28 years old, Fontenot and cigarettes until about 16,” Fontenot reveled at the “There was a small part of me junior early childhood education, first began drinking when she said Fontenot. “At that time, I that knew that if I didn’t, that I PK-3 major, who is four years was an adolescent around the age started smoking weed and taking see ADDICTION, pg. 2
Value of sex education opinion Pg. 3
Dance Performance Project Pg. 4
Hazing prevention week
ANNIE GOODMAN Editor-in-Chief
Since the death of Louisiana State University student Max Gruver, the state has taken stricter stances on hazing activities. In addition to the university’s “These Hands Don’t Haze” event, the university will be celebrating National Hazing Prevention Week with events throughout this week. President of Sigma Tau Gamma Lane Taillon, a senior industrial technology major, explained the usual hazing prevention seminar his chapter participates in. “All associate members must be educated according to Sigma Tau Gamma’s ‘Path of Principles’ member record and manual,” said Taillon. “This educates them on the law regarding hazing as well as more likely hazing situations they should be aware of, rather than the more exaggerated picture painted by the film industry. This also provides them with the tools to report
any incident.” Taillon shared some of the myths he encountered when he first decided to join a Greek organization. “Some of the most common myths when I was going through recruitment in the fall of 2015 was usually based off media,” said Taillon. “I was aware of rumors of being paddled, made to drink excessive amounts of alcohol, or eating unsavory foods while being locked in a room. These rumors, which I had no evidence was actually being conducted anywhere, definitely made me hesitant to rush in the beginning. It was a pleasant surprise when I realized SELU’s Greek life is not in line with these expectations.” Although Taillon has never met someone who wanted to be hazed, he is aware of the media’s role in an individual’s perspectives of hazing. “The closest thing to an individual being ‘pro being hazed’ is associates that have taken the media’s portrayal of being forced to excessively
drink as a fun activity,” said Taillon. “This, however, is simply not a part of Sigma Tau Gamma’s associate member process, and so individuals are forced to quickly rethink their expectations.” President of Kappa Alpha Order Tyler Olivier, a senior marketing major, pointed out the false belief that hazing is unique to Greek organizations. “Many people like to use fraternities as a scapegoat for a wide variety of social issues, hazing being one of them,” said Olivier. “People believe Greek life is the only place hazing happens when this is completely false. Hazing is widespread amongst all organizations regardless if it’s based on academics, music, art, athletics or fraternities.” Olivier also expressed frustration with overdoing hazing classifications. “Another one is that when people think of ‘hazing,’ they think of forced alcohol consumption, embarrassment
see HAZING, pg. 2
Impact of tardiness
PRAKRITI ADHIKARI Staff Reporter
As the semester goes on, the number of students missing class and being late for class increases. This impacts the teaching and learning environment by distracting both teachers and students. Dr. Lucy Kabza, a professor on mathematics, shared her experience with latecomers. “It’s different for different classes,” said Kabza. “If it’s a science major class like precalculus, generally the attendance is very good, and there are very, very few students late. In non-science classes like college algebra, that happens a lot more often whether missing classes or coming late.” Kabza tries not to get distracted when students come late to class. “My philosophy is that I am there for students that are doing their job, that is they are in class on time,” said Kabza. “So, if a student that comes late to class asks a question, I would answer that, but I usually point out that ‘If you were not late to class, you would know it.’” George Gibson, a professor of English, feels it impacts students negatively whenever they are late to class or late submitting assignments. “Almost always there is a negative impact when
a student arrives late or turns in assignments late,” said Gibson. “Many teachers will automatically delete points for late assignments, but even if this is not the case, late assignments tend to be last minute, rushed work, and the quality is less because of this. A student arriving late to class means that he or she has already missed part of the lecture for that day.” From 20 years experience of teaching in the university, Gibson has had a few students who were consistently late to class and on submitting assignments. Gibson feels technological advancements like iPhones in the recent years prevented students from having interpersonal communication. “One of the trends I have observed is that in the days before iPhones, students tended to engage with each other more directly, and communication was more face to face and personal,” said Gibson. Kabza has taught mathematics since joining the university in 1999. She asks for explanations from students when assignments are late, and she subtracts some points from the assignment’s total to discourage such behavior. “It just gets worse and worse if they don’t submit on time,” said Kabza. “There’s usually already something else assigned, and it is a selfpunishment.”
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Decline in sports Pg. 7
Healthy food for healthy life PRAKRITI ADHIKARI Staff Reporter
At last year’s “Gumbo Ya Ya,” students participated in painting a “These Hands Don’t Haze” sheet sign. File Photo/The Lion’s Roar
When, where, what? Programs by UPD
MAIAH WOODRING Staff Reporter
Although the University Police Department can be seen on campus at events like the last football game, monitoring and surveying the event, Patrick Gipson, police lieutenant, wants everyone on campus to know the department beyond this perspective. “We also like to engage with students in a non-enforcement manner, to make sure that they understand why we do what we do, and what they can do to keep themselves safe and how they can help us keep the campus safe.” Recently, UPD has been hosting one to two programs each week. “We offer a lot of programs,” said Gipson. “We do a self-defense program for women. We speak about stalking, domestic violence, sexual assault, some online safety classes, personal safety. Those are the ones that we do the most and we do a lot of other classes too.” Since the classes are conducted on request, they may not occur as frequently. These programs can vary in size, location, instructor and length. “Our self-defense classes are limited to 10 people because of the personal nature of it and because we are teaching a physical skill,” said Gipson. “You have to have time to practice different things, so those class sizes are limited, and
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they’re usually full,” The size of other programs can depend on how well they are advertised and when they occur during the week. Gipson recalled giving a presentation to an audience of a little over a thousand. Classes can take place in different locations such as classrooms, and may take over an entire class period. “If we’re doing a self-defense class it needs to be in a place where we have room and space to move around, and it also needs to be in a private location,” said Gipson. “We don’t tell anybody where that class is held unless they are actually in the class because it is not a spectator class.” Although self-defense classes last for an accumulative 12 hours and stretch through the weekend, an online safety class can be as short as 30 minutes. “The only really long program that we do is the self-defense class because the nature of teaching self-defense requires time,” said Gipson. “You can’t teach a selfdefense class in an hour.” Gipson finds student reactions to UPD’s programs to be positive. “Many students come back afterwards to say that they didn’t have the information that we provided, and they kind of wondered, but never really felt comfortable asking,” said Gipson. Stay Connected With Us! Like and follow @lionsroarnews.
The human body needs a wide variety of nutrition to maintain a healthy lifestyle. As different foods supply different nutrition, consuming food to supply a balanced diet can sometimes be tricky. Superfoods are the foods that are thought to be nutritionally dense and should therefore be included in the diet. While there is no actual category of superfoods, foods like blueberries, strawberries, avocado, beans, grains, vegetables and a wide variety of nuts are on the top list of the superfoods. Research done by Harvard University explained the nutritional facts of some of the mentioned superfoods. Almonds are rich in vitamins, monounsaturated fat, fiber and minerals like calcium, phosphorus and magnesium. The study explained that the nut helps “reduce heart disease risk by lowering total and LDL cholesterol, and exerting anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects.” Eggs have a high source of protein, which helps the body make enzymes to power up the reactions in the body. The animal source of protein supplies amino acids that are hard to get from plant-based foods. Blueberries are available in the market and are sources of nutrients like anthocyanin, which acts as an antioxidant in the body. According to the Medical News Today, blueberries help to decrease the risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and overall mortality. While different people may include different foods on their list, eating a balanced and healthy diet must be considered to maintain good health. Volume 90, Issue 8 A Student Publication www.lionsroarnews.com lionsroar@southeastern.edu