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Friday, September 13, 2013 • Volume 118, Issue 14
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Tigers not overlooking the Golden Flashes
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TAYLOR CURET · Sports Contributor
hen LSU ranked outside the Associated Press Preseason top 10 for the first time since 2010, uncertainty seemed to be the only certainty for the Tigers in the 2013 season. But after two impressive showings, the talk of LSU as a title contender has resurfaced. No. 8 LSU (2-0) plays its second of threestraight home games on Saturday against MidAmerican Conference member Kent State (11, 0-1 MAC) at 6:00 p.m. in Tiger Stadium. Saturday will be the first meeting between the two teams. LSU rose to the No. 8 spot in the rankings this week as senior quarterback Zach Mettenberger and the offense are clicking on all cylinders, while junior receiver Odell Beckham Jr. leads the nation in all-purpose yards with 603 through two games. Despite all the success and external hype, it’s been just another week of practice for the Tigers. Junior running back Terrence Magee said preparation is always the same, no matter the outside distractions or the opponent. “Coach Cam [Cameron] always preaches KENT STATE, see page 4
TIGER STADIUM
Student entry reverts to old form
Gordon Brillon Staff Writer
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Kent State running back Dri Archer (1) runs the ball on Nov. 17, 2012, during the Golden Flashes’ 31-24 victory against Bowling Green in Bowling Green, Ohio. The Tigers are looking at this game like any other.
Students trapped in the heat and massive lines outside Tiger Stadium last Saturday don’t need to worry for this week’s game – the new system that caused hour-long delays has been changed, according to Student Government President John Woodard, who attended a meeting with LSU Athletics representatives this week. The Athletics Department instituted a new system for organizing student entry into Tiger Stadium for last week’s game against UAB, assembling entrants into a single, “Disney-style” line. For this Saturday’s game, lines will revert to the “chute-style” system used in the past, splitting the crowd into eight lines that lead directly toward ticket and ID scanners, Woodard said. Each line will also feature a bag IMPROVEMENTS, see page 4
STUDENT LIFE
Baton Rouge man on mission to stop racial profiling Camille Stelly Contributing Writer
Arthur Reed was headed to jail by the time he was in seventh grade. When he was released at 19-years-old, he was heavily involved in gangs and tried to commit suicide three times. Reed’s self-described thug lifestyle changed after a life-threatening car collision in 2003, when he realized life was too precious to make bad decisions. Now, Reed is a motivational speaker and philanthropist. Reed, better known as “Silky Slim,” founded Stop The Killing, Inc., a non-profit established to set at-risk youth on a path to success. The organization’s mission, Reed said, is to deter youth from getting into gangs and going to prison by teaching effective communication and conflict resolution skills.
Another one of Reed’s missions: Americans, and those cultures are feedending racial profiling. ing “garbage, filth and trash” to AfriReed spoke to an intimate group of can-Americans, Reed said. students Thursday night at the African “The change starts with us,” Reed American Cultural Center about racial said. “We become what we digest. You profiling and ways to rise above it. can’t put trash in your system.” “The first step to overcome racial Being an educated individual is not profiling is to recognize that you are be- the ultimate solution to eliminate racial ing fed it,” Reed said. profiling because, according to Reed, Reed defines racial profiling as you can still be a slave to the system any individual who even with a college Have you ever felt racially degree. It’s about judges an individual based on race, acperception, he said. profiled? Vote online at tions and skin color. “You have to lsureveille.com. Racial profiling be strong enough paints the picture that minorities are to understand who you are and your inferior to everyone else because it is roots,” Reed said. “If we can’t check a socially engineered problem, he said. ourselves, we can’t take our message to African-Americans must stray the people.” away from emulating rappers and Spanish junior Wendell Shelbysupporting networks like Black Wallace said the lecture was inspiring Entertainment Television because they are products not owned by AfricanPROFILING, see page 4
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Arthur ‘Silky Slim’ Reed, Vice President of Stop the Killing, Inc., speaks Thursday during the #WEARENOTSUSPECTS event in the African American Cultural Center.