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LSUHSC revamps rural health program David Gray Staff Writer

resources to make a movie. I’ve always enjoyed chances to film here.”

The film crew’s busiest day of work was Friday as hundreds

Since his 2005 induction into office, Chancellor Larry Hollier of the LSU Health Sciences Center has prioritized the healthcare needs of Louisiana’s rural communities.

According to the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, 49 of the state’s 64 parishes are classified as geographic shortage areas for primary care physicians, and the vast majority of these areas are designated as rural communities of the state.

However, the mission of providing these underserved rural areas of the state with competent physicians proved more difficult to accomplish than initially envisioned.

“It’s very hard to get people to go back into a rural community once they’ve lived for four years in a major city,” Hollier said. “Many students come from a small town

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LSU campus plays host to the “Pitch Perfect” cast and crew again

Tommy Romanach Staff Writer

Movie trucks returned to Baton Rouge and LSU on May 21, transporting the same cast and crew that turned the University

into Barden University just two years ago.

The Bellas are back in the state’s capital.

“Pitch Perfect 2” is scheduled to be released May 15, 2015, and the film brings most of the

cast and crew from the first film back to Louisiana.

“Baton Rouge has really provided me with some fabulous locations,” said production designer Toby Corbett. “It has a great landscape and it’s got the proper

FACES LAB

‘Bone Lady’ presents findings to historical society

Jennifer Vance

Contributing Writer

Images of bones were displayed for all to see Saturday as Mary Manhein, director of the LSU FACES lab, shared her experiences in forensic anthropology to members of the Baton Rouge Genealogical and Historical Society.

Originally, Manhein said she dreamt of teaching English and sentence diagramming, but found her niche in forensic science.

Manhein has dealt with more than 1,000 forensic cases from various law enforcement agencies.

The 2006 bill to establish a database for all missing and unidentified persons in Louisiana has given funding to the FACES lab to solve cold cases, she said. Law enforcement agencies send remains to the

lab after all reasonable efforts to identify the remains had failed.

She was also present for various digs where burials had been unearthed and said it is estimated that between 12,000 and 40,000 people currently buried are still unidentified.

“We dig everybody up,” Manhein said.

The lab has indirectly helped identify the remains of the famed 2003 “Precious Doe” case as well as helping to solve local cases more than 30 years old. Manhein said some of the oldest remains she has worked with were 6,500 years old from Jonesville, La. The FACES team tries to distance itself from the families as much as possible because it can become emotionally stressful on it as well, Manhein said. However,

when the lab does identify remains, there is a sense of accomplishment.

“It’s the most wonderful feeling in the world,” she said.

The FACES lab has had an abundance of cases dealing with missing and unidentified persons, but it has also dealt with cases of historical value, Manhein said.

Manhein described how the lab was commissioned to reconstruct John F. Kennedy’s face by age progression for the New York Post for the 40th anniversary of his assassination.

She was also involved with the USS Monitor project, which involved raising and restoring part of the famous ship in 2002 and reconstructing the faces of two skeletons. The lab made clay moldings BONE LADY, see page 4

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LSU FACES Laboratory Director Mary Manhein speaks to a crowd Saturday at Bluebonnet Library in Baton Rouge.

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Nation & World

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

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Kerry hands dire warning to Iraqis Judge rules LSUHSC closure illegal

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BAGHDAD (AP) — Warning of the “existential threat” posed by Sunni militants, Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday the U.S. is prepared to take military action even if Baghdad delays political reforms, noting that the risks of letting the insurgency run rampant threaten dangers beyond Iraq’s borders.

But he stressed military action would not be in support of the present Shiite-led government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

Kerry, on a few hours’ visit to Baghdad, urged Iraq’s leaders to quickly set aside divisions as the only means of stopping the vicious Sunni insurgency and said Iraq’s future depended on choices Iraq’s leaders make in the next days and weeks.

“The future of Iraq depends primarily on the ability of Iraq’s leaders to come together and take a stand united against ISIL,” Kerry told a news conference, using the acronym for the al-Qaida-breakaway group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, that has captured huge swathes of Iraqi territory in the north and west.

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month, but now,” he said. “It is essential that Iraq’s leaders form a genuinely inclusive government as rapidly as possible.”

It was a dire warning to leaders of Iraq’s bitterly divided Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish communities that came at a time when the Middle Eastern nation was facing its worst crisis since the withdrawal of U.S. forces in late 2011 after eight years

in Iraq.

The Sunni fighters have virtually erased Iraq’s western border with Syria and also taken territory on the frontier with Jordan.

Noting the dangers the Sunni militants pose to Iraq and the region, Kerry said the U.S. was prepared to take military action if necessary even before a new government is formed.

(AP) — Lawmakers didn’t follow the Louisiana Constitution in authorizing Gov. Bobby Jindal to close the LSU-run public hospital in Pineville, a judge ruled Monday, but the judge is not requiring the Jindal administration to stop plans to shutter the facility next week.

Judge Robert Downing said the Senate violated the open meetings law when the legislation was heard by its Health and Welfare Committee. He granted a preliminary injunction request sought by two hospital closure opponents.

However, Downing also suspended that judgment — effectively allowing the closure plans to continue — pending an appeal of his decision.

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Solo enters ‘not guilty’ plea The Associated Press KIRKLAND, Wash. (AP) — U.S. women’s soccer team goalkeeper Hope Solo has entered a not guilty plea following her domestic violence arrest at her sister’s home in suburban Seattle.

Solo appeared in court Monday and was released without bail. She was ordered not to have contact with the alleged victims and to not drink alcohol.

Authorities say Solo was intoxicated early Saturday when she was accused of assaulting her

sister and 17-year-old nephew.

But her lawyer, Todd Maybrown, said she was a victim in the altercation.

Solo was booked into jail for investigation of two counts of fourth-degree domestic violence assault. Kirkland police said in a report on the incident that a caller reported a female at the residence was hitting people and they could not get her to stop or leave the house.

Solo did not speak in court except to answer the judge’s questions.

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U.S. women’s soccer team goalkeeper Hope Solo appears in Kirkland Municipal Court Monday.

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student life

Orientation begins third session Alexander to be evaluated annually began with meetings in the morning explaining some of the necessities needed as a first-year student at LSU. They are then divided into groups based on their majors, and one orientation leader is assigned to guide each group.

Orientation leaders are chosen from the LSU Ambassadors, and are given 25 hours of training before they lead any groups. Once selected, the orientation leaders undergo training in the spring,which includes meeting with campus departments so they can get to know professionals on campus.

Leaders also live with each other over the summer, moving into dorms on campus about three weeks into the summer. The leaders receive more training in the summer, geared toward the logistics of running an orientation session.

“Over the summer, we get more one-on-one with students, so if different conflicts arise, we know what to do,” said orientation leader Tori Callais. “We also work with past orientation leaders to see common things that can come through at

Tommy Romanach Staff Writer

Renee Barrow Staff Writer

As F. King Alexander reined in his one-year anniversary as LSU President, the Board of Supervisors decided it was time to create a presidential evaluation protocol at its meeting Friday.

“The Board doesn’t have one yet,” said Chairwoman-elect Ann Duplessis. “We need to facilitate this.”

Duplessis said creating an evaluation protocol will help establish and organize University priorities.

“At the next meeting, we will help to create a documented process by which the president will set out his vision for LSU in the next five years,” Duplessis said.

Student Government President-elect Clay Tufts said he thinks this will help establish a better relationship between students and the Board.

Tufts said King is studentoriented and plans to increase visibility on campus.

Using organizations like SG in addition to online surveys and other tools will allow the Board to understand and act on student interests, Duplessis said.

Duplessis said she estimates Alexander’s plan will be ready around October. From there, according to Duplessis, the Board

will conduct annual reviews based on Alexander’s plan. Every five years, the Board will conduct a larger, formal evaluation.

“Board decisions impact students directly and indirectly, whether or not they realize it,” Tufts said.

Other topics discussed at Board of Supervisors’ meeting

Faculty Senate Kevin Cope said eduroam, the main wireless network, is not working for all faculty services.

IT Services is working on a solution.

Behind every student at LSU is an orientation that helped them prepare for the four years to come.

Another session of freshman orientations began Monday, as orientation leaders guided incoming students through the basics of college.

This is the third session this summer, with five more sessions to come in the next month.

“We want each student to feel prepared to start their journey as an LSU student,” said Kelli Webber, assistant director of the Office of Orientation. “We want to be sure that whenever they come in, they have the tools they need to feel confident in order to jump into the LSU community and be a successful student.”

The Office of Orientation begins preparing for the sessions in January.

Activities from January to March include arranging publications, gathering materials and making schedules for the sessions.

The orientation session

Contact Tommy Romanach at tromanach@lsureveille.com

college of engineering

Donations will fund energy lab Renee Barrow

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orientation and how we can adapt to those and work through those.”

Later on Monday, the orientation leaders ran through the campus resources and the Acalog, a general catalog located on the school’s website. Today, the leaders will go over the students’ placement profiles, helping them with any scheduling conflicts they may have for their first semester.

In the end, orientation leaders feel an obligation to make sure the students have a good first year at LSU, said orientation leader Drake Boudreaux.

“All orientation leaders are different, but one thing we have in common is that we are all extremely passionate about LSU,” Boudreaux said.

“Anyone could do our job as an LSU student, but what makes us orientation leaders is that we love Louisiana State University, and we want people to love it as well.”

Staff Writer

In addition to other recent donations to the College of Engineering, Chicago Bridge and Iron Company pledged $750,000 last month to establish an energy lab on LSU’s campus.

“It makes a statement,” said College of Engineering Dean Richard Koubek. “There are 360 engineering colleges in the country. They could have invested anywhere, but they’re investing here in Louisiana.”

Koubek said the College has two main sources of funding — donations and research. By donating to the College, Koubek said corporations invest in future employees.

“They want them to be wellprepared when they hire them,”

Koubek said.

As far as research, Koubek said the industry possesses an increasing need for results that may be applied quickly on a global scale.

“The bottom line is that they are investing because of the quality of the students and faculty,” Koubek said.

Koubek, referring to a May 2014 Career Services survey, said 80 percent of the students had jobs or declared attending graduate school a few weeks prior to the May graduation date.

“It will be a quite unique facility in the nation,” Koubek said. “I think it will help support the students who are here and make them more attractive to the industry.”

Koubek said the lab will be a resource for all engineering students,

not just those studying petroleum engineering.

“This provides a facility for faculty to teach energy production in a more broad perspective,” Koubek said.

The College wants to expose students to different types of energy, not just fossil fuel, Koubek said. Examples include biofuel, solar power and hydroelectric power.

Koubek said learning about differentiations among energy will expose them to issues concerning cost and sustainability.

The College is still in the process of designing the lab and will know more in the fall, Koubek said.

Contact Renee Barrow at rbarrow@lsureveille.com

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of extras were brought to Highland Road Fairgrounds to film one of the final movies scenes.

The filming lasted from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., and included a set most of the crew said was the largest they had worked on.

Corbett, the lone designer of the set, has been a production designer in more than 10 movies in the last decade and was nominated for an Emmy while working for the show “Tracy Takes On….” Corbett said about 150 men were required to assemble the set that contains more than 100 lights in and around the set.

Despite not being in front of the camera, Corbett says he finds his job very rewarding and worth the long hours. He said the ability to look at his films as finished projects and know he had a part in them makes his profession more than worth it.

“I find it to be a pretty exciting job. It’s a collaboration between so many different people,” Corbett said. “Beginning with myself and [film director and actress] Elizabeth [Banks], and our cinematographer Jim Denault, we’re kind of the triumvirate of people who get the vision going.”

“Pitch Perfect 2” is just the latest movie to be filmed in Baton Rouge, joining films such as “22 Jump Street” and “Jurassic World.” The surge in films has brought new opportunities in film to Baton Rouge residents, including actress Rachel Klein.

In “Pitch Perfect 2,” Klein is the stand in for Anna Kendrick, the film’s lead actress. Klein has been working in films since October and said she is proud of

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Cameras, lighting and other equipment line the outside of LSU buildings as “Pitch Perfect 2” sets up shop on campus.

People could sign up as exleaving her old job to work in tras for the shooting on Friday by films full time.

Klein graduated from LSU registering online with one of the with a degree in finance in 2012, film’s websites. Extras Sydnee Fowler and Katie and quickly got trava job in finance ‘I get a certain excite- Scheyder elled all the way that she mainment from being on from Fayetteville, tained for about a year. But once sets like this. Even if I Ark., to the park she stared do- might not be having the just to be a part of the film. ing films, she left The two were the job to pursue greatest day. inevitable something new the environment takes big fans of the original “Pitch and different to over. They call it ‘movie Perfect” and deher life. to make the “My first day magic’ for a reason.’ cided trip after hearing on set, I pretty about the event on much fell in love Stephen Hagen Twitter. Staying with it,” Klein Baton Rouge resident at a hotel in New said. “I decided that this was really something Orleans, Scheyder said getting to that I wanted to do, and I wasn’t see the set made the trip worth it.

Other extras, such as Baton happy with my office job, doing the same thing every day. I need- Rouge resident Stephen Hagen, heard about the event through ed a change.”

websites like mycastingfile. com. On websites like mycasting, background casting companies post listings for films being shot in the area, and viewers can register for the films that interest them.

The website has helped Hagen serve as an extra in “Jurassic World” and in a pilot episode of a CBS television series.

Like Klein, Hagen feels blessed about the recent influx of films coming into the Baton Rouge area.

But more than that, Hagen is just happy to be on movie sets.

He said there is a certain wonder in creating movies, and he is glad to be in a place that makes so many of them.

“It’s quite magical to me.

I get a certain excitement from being on sets like this,” Hagen said. “Even if I might not be having the greatest day, inevitably the environment takes over.

They call it ‘movie magic’ for a reason.”

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Bone Lady, from page 1

and photo images of the reconstructed faces in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Hampton Roads.

“Death can be fun,” Manhein said.

The lab does encounter struggles, one being the regular lack of records from law enforcement agencies. Everything in the state is either burned or underwater, Manhein said. The lab makes ends meet by using the 3-D printer that is property of the business department in exchange for the 3-D scanner that is property of FACES. While the lab works on independent cold case projects, Manhein said it also works on projects that will ultimately affect how cases can be solved when there is little evidence.

The lab was awarded a $500,000 NSF grant to create an

and initially think they want to go back there [to practice], but they get sidetracked along the way. We felt that if we could put them in more of a rural setting during training, it’d be beneficial.”

The Rural Scholars Track at the LSUHSC School of Medicine—New Orleans was established to recruit physicians to Louisiana’s rural populations, which constitute nearly 32 percent of the state’s total. It’s now the nation’s most successful program at providing rural communities with qualified physicians.

The first two years of medical school for students in the RST program are virtually the same as other students in the School of Medicine, but the similarities end there.

During the following two years, RST students are required to work one day per week with a primary care specialist in a location that’s a designated rural area in addition to undergoing their clinical rotations at the University Medical Center in Lafayette.

Hollier said the RST program had only moderate uptake in its beginning, and he acknowledged more steps had to be taken in order to meet the needs of the state’s rural parishes.

“I talked to the faculty about expanding the class without changing anything else because our budget was fixed at the 180 students that we had,” Hollier said. “We gradually started offering more to students.”

To provide a greater incentive, RST students are now eligible to have their four-year tuition waived if they sign a contract agreeing to practice primary care medicine in a designated rural area in Louisiana for at least five years once they’ve completed their residency training.

If students don’t meet these obligations, they are required to repay twice the amount of tuition.

The RST program in Louisiana is now the most successful program in the country in getting physicians to practice in rural communities, with a national high of 73 percent of its graduates setting up practices in these areas.

Contact David Gray at dgray@lsureveille.com algorithm to recreate a face when the majority of the skull is missing.

Manhein said the lab is working on another project that involves looking at different volumes of isotopes in bones and teeth to help find where a person had been living before they died.

“History can be read in the bone,” Manhein said.

Manhein said shows like CSI brought forensic science into popularity and has attracted more attention to the field. She’s written multiple books on her work, including a murder mystery novel.

“I might be a footnote in history,” Manhein said.

Contact Jennifer Vance at jvance@lsureveille.com

Sports

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

PAPER CHA$E

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LSU’s nine NFL draftees recently signed their pro contracts with teams across the nation.

Here’s where they ended up and their bottom line over the next four years. compiled by MARCUS RODRIGUE • Staff Writer

EGO FERGUSON DT, CHICAGO BEARS $4.11 MILLION

ODELL BECKHAM JR. WR, NEW YORK GIANTS $10.41 MILLION JEREMY HILL RB, CINCINNATI BENGALS $3.75 MILLION

TRAI TURNER OG, CAROLINA PANTHERS $2.79 MILLION

LAMIN BARROW LB, DENVER BRONCOS $2.41 MILLION

JARVIS LANDRY WR, MIAMI DOLPHINS $3.5 MILLION

ZACH METTENBERGER QB, TENNESSEE TITANS $2.35 MILLION

JAMES WRIGHT WR, CINCINNATI BENGALS $2.27 MILLION graphic by RYAN LACHNEY / The Daily Reveille

ALFRED BLUE RB, HOUSTON TEXANS $2.34 MILLION

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American tennis players need new celebrity leader WHERE THERE’S A WILL WILL COTCHERY II Contributing Writer Peyton versus Eli Manning.

Tiki versus Ronde Barber. John versus Jim Harbaugh.

These sets of siblings have garnered vast publicity around the football world throughout the duration of their careers; the Mannings come from a family deemed one of the greatest in the history of the sport and the Harbaughs quickly made headlines after leading their respective clubs to Super Bowl XLVII. But the greatest siblings in the history of sports are not even brothers – that title goes to Venus and Serena Williams.

At a young age, the stars attended the well-renowned Rick Macci Tennis Academy in Florida until their father pulled them out to further coach them intensively on his own. By the time the sisters became established pro stars during the early 2000s, their rivalry drew massive ratings.

Having two elite athletes from the same household is uncommon. Former New York Times writer Selena Roberts once characterized it “as improbable as one set of parents raising Picasso and Monet.”

The paramount match between the sisters came during the 2001 U.S. Open final, which was described as the most-anticipated tennis final in years.

The all-Williams matchup drew a larger television audience than a Notre Dame-Nebraska football game that aired simultaneously.

Venus won the match in two sets (6-2, 6-4).

Starting in 1999, the current head-to-head record between the Williams’ is 14-10 in favor of younger sister Serena. They have met in eight Grand Slam tournament finals (Serena also leads this series 6-2). Both of the Williams sisters have ranked No. 1 in the world in their careers; Venus held the top spot for 11 weeks while

Serena has held it for 130 weeks.

In total singles matches, the sisters have 105 titles combined (Serena 60, Venus 45).

As tightly contested as their one-on-one matches have been, they have competed side by side numerous times; Venus and Serena have won 21 doubles titles overall including 13 Grand Slams titles and 3 Olympic Gold Medals.

These statistics are not presented as a history lesson, but rather the eye-opening reality that Venus and Serena have carried American tennis for fifteen years.

Of the four Grand Slam tournaments (Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, US Open), no American women outside of the Williams sisters have taken home trophies; Jennifer Capriati was the last to do so back in 2002 at the Australian Open.

There have been other successful female stars from the States ranging from the legendary Billie Jean King (winner of 12 career Grand Slam singles titles) to Capriati and Lindsey Davenport (winners of five Grand Slams combined), but the Williams sisters have carried America’s tennis torch for more than a decade.

Although the U.S. ladies’ 12year drought appears alarming, the American men should not be granted a reprieve.

Arthur Ashe, Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi enjoyed decorated careers, yet no other male player has made an impact since these three retired. Agassi was the last male American to capture both the French (1999) and Australian (2003) Open titles.

Sampras remains the last male to secure Wimbledon after winning four consecutive titles from 1997 to 2000. Andy Roddick was the last American man to win the U.S. Open back in 2003 (this was his only Grand Slam victory as a professional).

The dominance of Swiss great Roger Federer and Spaniard great Rafael Nadal has played a significant role in the Americans’

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Sloane Stephens of the U.S. plays a return to Russia’s Maria Kirilenko during their first round match Monday at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London.

demise, but it’s not too late to recapture America’s glory in this sport.

The Williams sisters were both knocked out of the French Open on the same day last month – only the third time this has happened in their careers.

Sloane Stephens, America’s newest young talent, was eliminated two rounds later in the fourth round. In 2013, Stephens upset Serena Williams in the Australian Open quarterfinal.

From that point onward,

tennis analysts classified her the United States’ next tennis star.

So far, Stephens has not lived up to those claims as she currently holds an overall 29-37 record and zero Grand Slam titles. Although she has her entire career ahead, will tennis fans wait for her to become a superstar?

Venus and Serena have generated much excitement from ethusiasts throughout the States, especially within the AfricanAmerican community.

What Tiger Woods is to golf,

the Williams sisters are to tennis.

While both are in the twilight of their careers, one might wonder who will carry the load for this country. Hopefully Stephens can grow up fast.

Contact Will Cotchery II at wcotchery@lsureveille.com

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University should consider trigger warnings on syllabi OFF WITH HER HEAD Jana King Staff Writer At the end of last semester, many universities across the nation faced complaints from students urging them to include warnings for class content that may trigger uncomfortable and harmful thoughts and feelings from students.

Trigger warnings, a term that has been around since the dawn of the World Wide Web, aim to warn individuals that the material they are about to see may cause distress.

Campus advocates would like to see a warning included in syllabi for class material which may affect students dealing with posttraumatic stress.

It is difficult for me to imagine why anyone would have an issue with this. It’s no secret that

violence, rape and other tragedies take place each day. And LSU’s campus is full of students who have survived these incidents.

We aren’t talking about a student being afraid of water and wanting to leave geography class. We’re talking about a sexual assault survivor being warned that, on a particular day in their fiction class, they will be subjected to material and discussion that could cause flashbacks and distress centering around their attack.

This sort of distress could be detrimental to the student’s mental health.

Those who have survived tragedy deserve respect and compassion as they continue to rebuild their lives. They should be applauded for having the strength to get out of bed, not teased or put down for being sensitive to certain topics.

Human beings are emotional creatures. We respond

irrationally to different subject matter, especially those we associate with traumatic experiences.

And we should not be forced to sit through a lecture on subject matter that is troubling to our mental health.

Our nation is quick to use mental health as a scapegoat whenever a bomb is planted or a gun is brought into a school. But we rarely discuss the ways mental health is represented each day in public settings. By being dismissive, we’ve made it possible for an argument against trigger warnings to be accepted.

In May, columnist Jenny Jarvie wrote in New Republic that trigger warnings are misrepresented as a gesture of empathy. She went on to say that they lead to an “overpreoccupation with one’s own feelings.” But I’ll disagree wholeheartedly with her connotation.

Survivors of traumatic experiences have every right to be preoccupied with their feelings.

Violent and sexual attacks are about taking away power. The most important thing for survivors of those attacks is feeling a sense of control. Self-care and paying attention to your feelings is important for mental health in the same way that you drink water when you’re thirsty and eat food when you’re hungry.

Our society is full of physical trigger warnings already. We are warned not to go faster than 45 mph on a dangerous turn. We are warned that the contents of our disposable coffee cup may be hot. We are warned that certain foods contain ingredients to which we could be allergic.

The only difference between those warnings and the trigger warnings students wish to see in their classes is that one is physical health and the other is mental health. And we have got to stop dismissing mental health’s importance.

I cannot imagine a university

such as LSU, which is currently working to improve student health by imposing a campus wide tobacco ban, would be unwilling to work toward improving student mental health.

The LSU community is not a dog-eat-dog, make-it-if-you-can competition. We thrive whenever all members of our community feel safe and respected. And adding trigger warnings to class descriptions and syllabi would be a step toward an even more successful community.

Jana King is a nineteen-year-old communication studies junior from Ponchatoula, La.

Contact Jana King at jking@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @jking_TDR

Male and female objectification not comparable BUT HE MEANS WELL Gordon Brillon Managing Editor There are a lot of reasons I love the World Cup — the spirit of friendly international competition, the ability to watch a sport I love nearly all day every day, and the excuse for a little harmless nationalism.

And for the most part, the American media have taken to it with a fervor that we’ve never seen before. For the first time, a variety of major media outlets are recognizing Americans’ potential interest and trying to exploit it. It’s been a long time coming, but that’s a rant for another time.

Buzzfeed’s coverage of the World Cup has been particularly interesting. Most of their articles I’ve seen shared across social media have focused on the appearance of the players.

It was a little jarring to me the first time I saw “The 50 Most Important World Cup Bulges That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity,” or whatever it was, but it’s definitely part of a trend I’ve seen recently, where men are unabashedly sexually objectified in the media.

I first noticed it in a

commercial, where the camera and female protagonist repeatedly ogle a man’s butt. I was shocked at first. Not really offended, but more confused and unsure of how to react.

It took me a while to understand the reason I didn’t know how to feel was that it was simply something I’d never experienced before. Soon after seeing that commercial and some of the Buzzfeed lists, I did feel a little angry that men were being objectified so openly.

But you know what I learned?

It turns out being objectified doesn’t feel good.

That said, I don’t think this trend is necessarily a bad thing. There is a history of sexism, sexual assault and male entitlement that makes objectification of women threatening and scary. Because that kind of context doesn’t exist with regard to the objectification of men, you can’t compare the two like they’re equivalent.

The reaction I had — shock, confusion and eventual outrage — is a reasonable reaction to seeing someone objectified in a public setting. What men like myself need to understand is that some women go through this on a daily basis, only with the added implications of physical or sexual violence.

Not only is the perceived threat

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greater, it is constant and pervades all media. Every female video game character wearing “armor” that wouldn’t protect her from a toothpick attack, every Carl’s Jr. ad, every Michael Bay movie adds to the constant barrage of imagery telling us women are for sex, and that’s the normal way to think.

It takes an exercise of empathy to realize this, and it was never something I even considered before a 30-second commercial for a candy bar or something had a surprising effect on me.

The danger here is that we get sucked up into a squirt-gun fight of one-ups-manship, yelling, “You did it to us, so we’ll do it to you!” to the other side of the playground.

Men in this case need to accept that we’ve been wrong about this for a long time and that it’s part of a system of degradation ingrained in our culture.

Then, we can have a conversation about where things go from here.

Gordon Brillon is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from Lincoln, R.I. JONATHAN BACHMAN / The Associated Press

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Miss Nevada USA Nia Sanchez participates in the swimsuit competition during June 8’s Miss USA pageant in Baton Rouge. Many women are objectified on a daily basis with the added implications of physical or sexual violence.

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LeBron James should stick with the Miami Heat THE GRAY AREA David Gray Staff Writer On Tuesday, San Antonio Spurs power forward Tim Duncan decided to exercise his player option and return for his 18th NBA season, all of which have been with the same organization.

LeBron James should take notice.

The Miami Heat superstar has until June 30 to decide if he’ll opt out of the final two years of his current contract and become an unrestricted free agent.

James is the league’s most dominant and recognizable player and is still in the prime of his career. This puts more leverage in his hands than any other potential free agent in recent memory, regardless of the sport.

For me, the King’s decision is simple — James should do nothing and finish his career in Miami.

There’s no logical reason he should leave. In the four years James has been in South Beach, the Heat have been a fixture in the NBA Finals every season — a

feat only two other franchises have achieved in the last 35 years.

Leaving Miami would be a figurative slap in the face to Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. The pair has completely altered its style of All-Star play to allow James to reap all the praise for the Heat’s success. James predicted he would win “not six, not seven,” but eight championships with those same teammates.

By my count, they have six to go.

It’s difficult to determine whether James is seriously considering leaving Miami or if ESPN is simply looking for a ratings bump.

But if he does decide to leave the Heat, the scrutiny of James would immensely trump any he faced after his decision to leave the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2010.

It’d also give credence to one of the only accurate criticisms of his basketball abilities — sometimes, James simply quits.

Bolting for another team that may be in a better position to win a title would be further proof of that claim.

James should remember Magic Johnson. Along with Larry Bird and Michael Jordan, the Los Angeles Lakers superstar helped the

NBA become a global powerhouse.

He lost in the NBA Finals four times, one more than James. Yet Johnson neither quit on nor left the organization that drafted him.

Instead, he worked through those tough times, and he’s remained a household name among basketball fans nearly 20 years after his final game.

James cannot claim to have played for one team his entire career, but he can remain with a franchise that’s proved over the past decade that it can win titles.

As elementary as it sounds, there’s only one team that can win the championship. With 30 organizations all vying for the same prize, the odds aren’t in anyone’s favor — not even King James.

Making the finals is a success in itself, and that’s all James has known since he’s joined the Heat.

Losing in the NBA Finals after winning the previous two doesn’t seem like a bad situation for a superstar player. I’m fairly certain NBA greats like Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing or Karl Malone would gladly trade places with James, given the opportunity.

Even Duncan could have left San Antonio after the heartbreaking loss to James and the Heat in

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Miami Heat forward LeBron James, bottom, shoots June 15 as San Antonio Spurs forward Tim Duncan defends.

the 2013 NBA Finals, and no one would have blamed him.

But he didn’t. Duncan used the gut-wrenching defeat he and his team suffered at the hands of James — and a timely three-pointer from Ray Allen — as motivation. That motivation just ended in the fifth championship for the future firstballot Hall of Famer.

The level of play in the Eastern Conference has been putrid at best lately. James and the Heat

would be almost a lock to make it back to the NBA Finals, even if the organization doesn’t do anything to improve its roster.

Staying in Miami is the easiest way for James to keep adding championships to his “greatest basketball player of all time” résumé.

There’s no reason to leave now.

Contact David Gray at dgray@lsureveille.com

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