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MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2015 LSU junior kicker Trent Domingue (14) carries for a touchdown in front of University of Florida defensive back Vernon Hargreaves III (1) on a fake field goal in the second half of an NCAA college football game in Baton Rouge on Saturday.
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LSU junior kicker Trent Domingue (14) celebrates with his teammates after scoring a touchdown on Saturday during the Tigers’ 35-28 victory against the University of Florida at Tiger Stadium.
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A FAMILIAR FAKE
Domingue scores go-ahead touchdown on fake field goal in 35-28 win BY JAMES BEWERS @JamesBewers_TDR As he ran toward the left corner of the end zone, juggling the ball before finally securing it, LSU junior kicker Trent Domingue blacked out. “I’m not really sure what happened after that,” Domingue said. “I just know I ended up on the other side of the field, and I almost forgot to kick the extra point, which was also
difficult because I was pretty tired from that run.” Oddly enough, the fourth-and-13 fake field goal pass from senior holder Brad Kragthorpe, which statistically went down as a 16-yard rushing touchdown, was Domingue’s idea. “How many bobbles were there?” LSU coach Les Miles asked. “I want you to know my heart was fluttering with each bobble.” In a tie game of a top-10 showdown with then-No. 8 University of Florida, Domingue’s ingenuity and Miles’
penchant for risk taking were exactly what LSU needed to walk away with a 35-28 win Saturday night at Tiger Stadium. Moreover, the Tigers (6-0, 4-0 Southeastern Conference) scoring a go-ahead touchdown with trickery from special teams, especially against the Gators (6-1, 4-1 SEC), is shrouded in irony. The situation draws similarities to a play five years ago
see FLORIDA, page 11
LITERATURE
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ACLU celebrates freedom of expression Collection of essays explores BY SAM KARLIN @samkarlin_TDR
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A host of local educators and artists graced a backyard stage under Christmas lights in mid-city Friday to read, recite and perform banned and threatened works of art as part of the American Civil Liberties Union-sponsored “Freedom of Expression Festival.” The ACLU of Louisiana organized the event, which took place at David Mooney and Penni Guidry’s “Bee Nice Concert Series,” a backyard lot-turned outdoor venue in the middle of a Capital Heights Avenue neighborhood. ACLU representative
Stephen Dixon said the venue, which featured painted signs, colorful trailers and a “no drama” flag, embodied the spirit of freedom of expression, and Mooney and Guidry immediately agreed to the event. Mass communication professor Robert Mann read aloud a column he wrote for the NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune in 2013 titled “Gov. Jindal gets what he wants from the LSU Board of Supervisors,” asserting its relevance in 2015. Mann began the column with, “Pity the hapless members of
see ACLU, page 11
‘undeadness’ in southern lit
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The Upper 2s performed banned songs at the ACLU event on Friday.
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In 2012, three East Coast academics hatched a haunting idea from the conference rooms of Vanderbilt University during the Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference. LSU Press published their final product, “Undead Souths,” just in time for the pumpkin carvings and scary movie marathons of Halloween season. The editors — Taylor Hagood, Daniel Cross Turner and Eric Gary Anderson — wanted to write
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a serious work of literary scholarship on a fun topic. Their collection of essays spans the southern United States’ campy culture of horror from the 1800s to present. Inspired by pop culture fascinations with television shows such as “True Blood” and “The Walking Dead,” Hagood said they all discovered a “strain of undeadness” prevalent in southern literature. Though such undeadness occasionally included zombies and vampires, he said sometimes its
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