OPINION: SG president addresses first semester, goals for future, p. 12
FOOTBALL: Former LSU RB back in administrative role, p. 5
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Thursday, November 21, 2013 • Volume 118, Issue 60
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‘Tradition Matters’ campaign should not be necessary CHROME IS BURNING CHANDLER ROME Sports Editor Congratulations, LSU students. You finally got it. After three years of making fellatio jokes, someone’s noticed you. Flip through today’s issue of The Daily Reveille, and you’ll see
that LSU coach Les Miles and the Athletic Department took out an entire page in the paper. Pleading. Begging. Imploring you to shut your mouth in a letter signed by the entire football team, University President F. King Alexander and Athletic Director Joe Alleva. That’s not all. As you walk in to Tiger Stadium on Saturday — if you even show up — you’ll be handed a flier asking you not to tell the 85,000 people around you to “suck your
Tiger d***.” Even better, the Tiger cheerleaders will hold “Keep it Clean” signs toward the student section. On LSU football’s social media platforms, you’ll find PSA-style videos starring junior wide receivers Odell Beckham Jr. and Jarvis Landry. Sounds a lot like a kindergarten class doesn’t it? Like when teachers TRADITION, see page 4
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The LSU student section cheers in the rain Sept. 21 during the Tigers’ 35-21 victory against Auburn in Tiger Stadium. Will the “Tradition Matters” campaign work in
preventing the student section from cursing? Vote at lsureveille.com.
photo illustration by ANGELA MAJOR / The Daily Reveille
G�� STRINGS AND GPAS
Entertainment Writer
Platform heels, dollar bills, Scantrons and study sessions are all a normal part of life for Jasmine, an international trade and finance sophomore who asked to be identified by her first name only. While most students spend their
Saturday nights working on their buzz, Jasmine trades in her nights to work on her pole dancing technique. Jasmine began working at the Bourbon Street-based Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club two years ago. During her freshman year, Jasmine struggled to maintain her grades, causing her relationship with her mother to be strained. She
7-year-old software crashed server Alyson Gaharan News Editor
decided to move out of her parents’ house and take a break from school. It was the need to be financially independent that drew Jasmine to exotic dancing. “I started working there because I needed a good financial job, and because me and my mom never got along and my mom kicked me
After the Computer Based Testing Center experienced an hourslong server failure Tuesday that delayed testing for hundreds of University students, the Office of Assessment and Evaluation determined the problem was caused by a glitch in the center’s outdated software that Testing Lab Manager Derek Wilson said was at least seven years old. The software OAE currently uses is version 3.4, but the newest version is much more sophisticated than that. “We’re at least two major releases behind, and that’s much farther behind than we’d like to be,” Wilson said. So far behind, in fact, that the vendor stopped supporting version 3.4 at the end of the summer and even discontinued tech support, which is why it took so long to get testing back up after the server failure. OAE personnel had to beg the vendor to allow them to use the program for just one more semester, Wilson said. The vendor agreed, giving OAE time to ask the Student Technology Fee Oversight Committee to purchase updated software.
STRIPPER, see page 15
TESTING, see page 15
University student discusses her life as a stripper Taylor Schoen
TESTING CENTER