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Mentorship Academy junior Rashaud Red speaks about gang violence and defying stereotypes at the Shaver Theater for TEDxLSU.

Jindal cuts $141M from higher education

BY william taylor potter wpotter@lsureveille.com

Youngest TEDxLSU speaker bridges gap between at-risk youth and law enforcement BY caitie burkes cburkes@lsureveille.com From a neighborhood in Sanford, Florida, to a street in Ferguson, Missouri, the media have highlighted tensions between minority youth and law enforcement in recent years.

Seventeen-year-old high school junior Rashaud Red believes this issue can be resolved.

A minority youth himself, Red was one of the 12 speakers at Saturday’s third-annual TEDxLSU event. He is the youngest speaker in the University program’s history.

“Please don’t judge a book by its cover,” Red told audience members, “or its color.”

TEDxLSU curator Melissa Thompson said Red was chosen as a speaker because his application made him stand out

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Gov. Bobby Jindal’s executive budget for the 2016 fiscal year calls for a $141.3 million reduction to Louisiana higher education spending. Jindal made the announcement Friday morning to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget.

The actual amount taken from higher education totals $567 million, equaling a 78 percent cut to the state’s public universities, according to LSU President F. King Alexander’s statement on LSU Budget Hub. Most of the cut will be offset by reworking $526 million in tax credits.

Health care and higher education are sharing the savings. About $154 million is going to health care, and the remaining $372 million goes to higher education.

The $567 million reduction is more than half of the LSU System’s total public operating budget of $975 million.

The $141.3 million does not include hospitals, the Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance or recurring adjustments, according to Jindal’s budget

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BR Fashion Week’s BIG Night showcases Southern talent BY meg ryan mryan@lsureveille.com Oneofakind Baton Rouge Fashion Week housed shows For Kids

By Kids and BARE, but Saturday’s BIG Night featured designers of all styles to showcase artistic talent throughout the South.

BIG Night had a lineup of eight spring and summer collections combined into one runway show.

The evening was hosted by Igor Matkovic, host and co-producer of Style Savvy on WBXH. During his opening speech, Matkovic said he was thrilled to be hosting BRFW and was happy to see all the shows from the week

had sold out, including BIG Night.

The first designer of the night was Christopher Youngstar from Dallas, Texas.

Youngstar displayed four designs, three male and one female.

The designs consisted of blackand-white deconstructed formal wear. The majority of each design was painted onto the models’ bodies with some fabric involved, like a female model’s tutu or a male model’s shirt collar.

The second collection was from Lacie Cupani of Cupani Fashion in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Cupani presented at Friday’s BARE show, the all-natural show of BRFW during which models

wore no makeup, with her “Sensuality” collection, but she presented a different selection of designs at BIG Night, titled “Simply the Best.”

The clothing comprised crochet tops, skirts and dresses, with some designs including leather overlays. All clothing came in light spring colors like cream, yellow, blue and brown.

Next was the BARE presentation, another reminder of Friday night’s show. Select pieces were put on display again for those who did not get a chance to see it and to allow guests another look.

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Designs from various Southern designers are displayed Saturday at Baton Rouge Fashion Week’s BIG Night.

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The Tigers battled a rain delay midway through the singles matches after securing the doubles point. Senior Chris Simpson finished with a 6-2, 6-4 victory once the match resumed.

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The University is working with law enforcement and the Collegiate Licensing Company to prevent further copyright infringement.

College of Business presents health care analytics speakers The third session in the 2015 speaker series presented by the E.J. Ourso College of Business and the Center for Computation and Technology on Tuesday from 1-3 p.m. will focus on healthcare analytics and how they can be used to improve a business.

Sabrina Heltz of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana, Stephanie Mills of Franciscan Health and Wellness Services and Mark Wolff of SAS, an analytics

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Monday, March 2, 2015 STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

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University group hosts informal rocket launch competition

BY AMANDA CAPRITTO acapritto@lsureveille.com A new University student organization, made up of about 20 eager-to-learn engineering students, participated in its first rocket launch competition on Feb. 28.

The University’s chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics was recently named an active campus organization after being deemed inactive a few years ago, said mechanical engineering sophomore Austin Ober.

“Now we’re back and very excited about it,” Ober said.

Members broke into two teams of 10 to build their rockets.

Mechanical engineering sophomore Connor Joslin said students worked on their projects for about a month leading up to launch day.

Joslin said the budget for the rockets was low, but he didn’t think the members minded much — naming it the “pocket change” budget.

“Whatever people could pitch in, that’s what we used,” Joslin said. “We made do with what

we had.”

Chapter president and mechanical engineering junior Jake Roblez said although there were some restrictions on the rockets, the teams were free to do what they wanted with their projects as long as they followed the “pocket change” budget.

The rocket launches were scored on a 50-point system, with the majority of points dependent on the actual altitude reached. A smaller portion of the points went to engineering design and measuring how accurate the team’s altitude prediction was, Ober said.

Team One, also known as Team Buzz Lightyear, predicted its rocket, “Freedom,” would reach an altitude of 900 feet .

Team Two predicted an altitude of greater than 1,000 feet for its rocket, “Synth Zero.”

Roblez said he thought the rockets were going to be successful if they would reach the predicted altitudes.

“I think it’s very difficult to predict something like this, but these guys know what they’re

doing,” Roblez said. “I think it’ll be more successful than we think.”

Ober said he made sure the area was clear and the students conducted a 10-second countdown before the launch.

Though neither rocket reached its predicted altitude, Ober said the members weren’t too worried about the success of the rockets because the informal competition was the chapter’s first.

“The scoring was really on the back burner this time,” Ober said.

“But next time, we’ll incorporate it more because this is our first competition, and it’s a learning experience.”

Ober said he thinks both teams should take the data from this experiment and use it to improve for future competitions.

Mechanical engineering professor and the chapter’s faculty adviser Keith Gonthier said he loves being a part of the group.

“These boys are so into it, it’s great,” Gonthier said. “This organization provides them with so many opportunities, so many ways to learn.”

Ober said the group wants to

Mechanical engineering sophomore Austin Ober fixes a wire on his team’s rocket Saturday during an informal rocket launching competition hosted by the University’s chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

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conduct another informal competition like the one on Saturday, but the members are also looking to enter and host more formal competitions in the future.

The chapter also is looking into outreach and educational programs. Joslin said the group has a speaker from NASA, propulsion

engineer Todd Barber, coming April 1 to talk about the Curiosity Mars Rover.

“We want to offer as many opportunities as we can,” Ober said. “The competitions are really just about providing a learning experience and a networking experience.”

ALUMNI

Architecture alumna encourages students to embrace differences

BY ROSE VELAZQUEZ rvelazquez@lsureveille.com While her youth, gender and race make her unique, University alumna Nicole Hilton said they are also the factors that set her apart in a field that traditionally lacks diversity — architecture.

On Friday, Hilton gave a lecture on behalf of the University chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students, discussing her time as a University student and her career as the first African American School of Architecture graduate to become a licensed architect.

Throughout her presentation “Studio to Architect: Beauty, Sweat, Tears,” Hilton engaged students not only as a speaker, but also as a peer just eight years removed from them. She gave advice on everything from how to negotiate salary to how to balance a career and a family.

Hilton graduated from the University in 2007 with a Bachelor of Architecture degree and went on to obtain her licensure in May 2014. She established her own architecture firm, Cole Hil, in December 2014.

During her first year of school, Hilton said she was excited to be an architecture student. However, financial and academic struggles and obstacles as a minority student emerged during her second year.

Hilton said she came from an upper-middle class background and was used to a comfortable lifestyle where she didn’t want for much. She was a smart and talented student coming out of one of the best schools in Austin, Texas.

But as her school work began to require more and more materials, she said she often struggled to

scrape together the funds for the barest necessities. She couldn’t afford the same quality as many of her classmates because she was paying out-of-state tuition.

“It was a really difficult time for me,” Hilton said. “When you’re used to being able to afford everything, then you go to seeing your peers being able to complain about their beautiful final model kind of materials, and I can barely afford a chip board to build a model, it really began to create some sweat for me.”

But Hilton said lack of materials didn’t stop her. Instead, she used her financial struggles to develop her problem-solving skills, and she encouraged students to work on their skills because they are a valuable asset in the industry.

She began to visualize her projects in 3-D and utilize available technology to get to the final product, rather than working through expensive physical materials.

During her second year, Hilton also faced a change in her perspective as a minority student. After she was asked about her high school GPA by a fellow classmate, she realized there were people who may have thought she was there because of the color of her skin rather than her academic achievement.

“My classmate proceeded to explain that I didn’t get in because of affirmative action that I actually belonged,” Hilton said. “I think it was at that moment where I felt like an outcast, and I never was in that position because I had friends from all backgrounds. I never experienced that.”

She said architecture continues to become more diverse, and students need to appreciate

differences in themselves and their peers. She encouraged students of all demographics to find their voices and embrace what sets them apart.

Because of the vigorous nature of the architecture program, Hilton said she took 17 to 18 hours of courses every semester and began to struggle to understand the content in her classes.

To overcome this type of obstacle, Hilton encouraged students to do research and expose themselves to many different types of architecture to build a well-rounded foundation.

Hilton served as the first president of the University chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects. From the organization’s establishment in 2005 through her senior year, Hilton maintained her position and took on the role of national representative for the group.

Serving as a national representative gave her the opportunity to network and meet other architects, and she continues to maintain her NOMAS professional membership today.

When it came to getting an internship, Hilton told students to be proactive and build a thorough résumé and portfolio to showcase both their technical and design skills. She said if students just have attractive renderings for employers to look at, they’re not going to get the kinds of offers they are really looking for.

Firms are looking to hire the full package, and being versatile and willing to learn every aspect of architecture is very important, Hilton said.

“It does get tough, but if you learn the technical skills today, you can design very, very well

tomorrow,” Hilton said.

After graduating, Hilton took a two-month hiatus before accepting an internship from McAfee3 Architects, a small firm based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Hilton said she received offers from several larger, more prominent firms but sacrificed the “bells and whistles” for the well-rounded experience and mentorship McAfee3 Architects could offer.

The adversity Hilton faced as a student didn’t end when she entered the professional world.

Hilton said as a young African American woman working in the field, she often came across individuals who tried to intimidate her or who didn’t believe she was

a project manager because of the industry’s lack of diversity.

“Unfortunately, being a minority, a lot of the stigma is we don’t perform at a certain level,” Hilton said. “So I was very adamant about making sure that my skills, that when my paper and my plans were next to other people’s plans, that they looked no different.”

As a young person who became so successful so quickly, Hilton said there were colleagues who didn’t always respect her because of her age. She said she learned to master the skill of knowing when to speak up and when to sit back and listen to gain the respect of her peers and be invited to work among some of the best.

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Panceratic Cancer Support Group - Cancer Services of Greater Baton Rouge

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EnvironMentors - Energy, Coast & Environment Building

9:00 PM ALL DAY

Music Video Overload - George's Place

Move Your Mountain, Low Impact - Gus Young Park Ryan Bingham + Lucero w/ special guest Twin Forks - The Varsity Theatre-Baton Rouge

Brave Steps: The Louisiana Native Guard - West Baton Rouge Museum

For more information on LSU events or to place your own event you can visit www.lsureveille.com/calendar

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Monday, March 2, 2015

Business college in early stages of energy initiative development

BY WILLIAM TAYLOR POTTER wpotter@lsureveille.com E.J. Ourso College of Business Dean Richard White wants students to know why a bottle of water costs more than a bottle of gasoline. White began writing a new strategic plan for the college when he became dean last April.

One of the plan’s top priorities is an “energized business” initiative.

The initiative details an energy studies minor and an energy MBA specialization for those who want to learn more about Louisiana’s prized resource.

The program is expected to be approved soon, said business school marketing manager Josh Duplechain.

White said the program aligns with the University’s new Power Players campaign. Power Players is designed to help University researchers and the energy industry interact.

“We’re putting together Power Players right now,” White said.

“We’ve got several who are doing some really interesting energy research.”

The college will host an event on March 11 with four

high-ranking speakers from the energy industry to promote the program.

“That’s going to be our unofficial announcement of the initiative,” White said. “I’m excited about it.”

The initiative gives students a broader understanding of an industry that is crucial to the Louisiana economy.

About 65,000 people in the state are directly employed in the energy sector.

White said the initiative has two main purposes: to make University students more competitive in the job market and provide the energy industry with more qualified applicants.

“I want to have students who understand the terminology, the definitions, the value streams,” White said. “Even more importantly, I want to have the students be self-selected when they interview.”

The energy industry is one of the least understood industries in the state, he said. If students can understand energy, they can handle any other industry.

The demand for business graduates has never been higher, White said — particularly on the

LGBT

executive track.

“That’s where the need really is,” White said. “The sooner you can get students prepared for that, the better. This will give them a leg up in that transition.”

Though Tulane University has a similar program, the University’s version won’t be as complex.

It’s more about getting students excited about the field, White said.

“We’re more interested in giving our students a fire in their belly for their careers, for some really exciting careers in the energy industry,” White said.

“The purpose here is not to create experts, but to give an overall awareness to our students of the energy industry.”

The business school will become more energy-oriented as a whole.

Other activities, such as case studies and international travel, will develop this focus as well.

White said the energy initiative would not be affected by the $141.3 million budget cut. The college is raising money from supporters and corporations to independently support the program.

“We’re not going to let anything stand in our way with this,”

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The energy sector has a $73.8 billion economic influence on Louisiana, the No. 2 crude oil and gas producer in the U.S. White said. “This is important to the long-term future of the college, to our students and to the industry.”

The University previously offered a degree in petroleum land management, but it was discontinued in 1994.

White said the University needs to support the energy

industry in good times and bad.

“We’re in this for the long haul, it’s where LSU should be as an institution,” White said. “Now’s a bad time. Oil prices have been cut in half over the last six months, so this shows our commitment to this program, that we’re sticking with it even as a lot of energy corporations are cutting back.”

FASHION

Spectrum, Qroma host BRFW should offer more menswear THE STYLIN’ LGBT film series PEACOCK

BY HAYLEY FRANKLIN hfranklin@lsureveille.com LGBT student organizations Spectrum and Qroma hosted a queer film series on Friday in the African American Cultural Center, featuring “Pariah” in honor of Black History Month.

Released in 2011, “Pariah” is a coming-of-age story that captures the struggles of an African American lesbian as she tries to discover her sexual identity.

International studies, economics and Spanish freshman Ethan Deslatte-Guerra, Spectrum’s activism leader, said the goal of Spectum’s queer film series was to show films that accurately depict the lives of LGBT people.

“A lot of popular depictions of LGBT people is that we’re all white, gay males and we’re rich,” Deslatte-Guerra said. “It’s really not common that you’ll see, in popular media, there’s queer people of color, trans people, lesbians, bisexual people, asexual people, Latino queer people, poor people.”

Spectrum president Julianne Martin said she also saw the rich, white male stereotype in shows such as “Glee.” She hoped the movie night would introduce movies offering a wider representation of the LGBT community.

“It’s always the white, gay male kind of thing, so we’re looking for movies that have more representation and that people

can connect to outside of the white, gay male experience,” Martin said.

English professor Christina Armistead has also observed the LGBT stereotype in teen television.

In Armistead’s English honors 2823 class, students analyze teen TV character types, including the gay character type.

Each character type in the English course has defining characteristics, and Armistead said the gay characters in teen TV are often characterized solely by their sexuality or flamboyance.

She also said they are generally “white, well dressed and have access to wealth somehow.”

Looking back at her experiences in the classroom and in watching teen TV, Armistead could not think of a character who defied the stereotype.

“I think that, in itself, is indicative of a problem,” Armistead said.

Armistead said there is more room for breaking stereotypes in film than there is in teen TV, especially with the creation of independent producers like Netflix.

Deslatte-Guerra said some of Spectrum’s possible movie choices will come from Netflix, as it offers a wide range of LGBT titles to choose from.

The queer film series is expected to occur at least once a month and show movies that focus on the Latino LGBT community and the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the future.

MICHAEL TARVER Columnist While this year’s one of a kind Baton Rouge Fashion Week offered some fabulous designs from various designers, menswear wasn’t a major focus for almost any of the designers. In fact, it barely found its way into the show at all.

Women’s fashion was eloquently represented, as always, throughout the two significant nights of Baton Rouge Fashion Week: Friday night’s “BARE” show and “BIG Night” on Saturday evening.

However, men’s clothing pieces were dispersed at large throughout the show, a subtle reminder that men’s high fashion still exists. Every time a male model sashayed down the runway, it was as though it offered a short intermission before the next spectacular woman’s ensemble made an appearance.

In the entire show, only one menswear piece was consistent with the high-fashion genre that makes a fashion week so appealing.

Cupani Fashion, a crochetbased designer located in Little Rock, Arkansas, presented an offwhite, almost champagne-colored crochet top that nearly resembled a v-neck sweater with a high collar. It was paired with similarly colored dress pants and white leather dress shoes. The top was riddled with beautifully intricate

crochet design and large gold fabric panels covering the left side of the chest midsection.

Cupani’s outfit was original, distinctive and exemplified the growth the Baton Rouge fashion scene desperately needs. Unfortunately, it was really the only one at “BIG Night.”

It’s important to note that Brandon Campbell, founder of BRFW, presented his line iME, a brand of T-shirts and sweatshirts with culturally alluding slogans that Campbell created.

While the line offers an interesting streetwear aesthetic, the pieces weren’t consistent with a high-fashion mentality. In a prior interview with The Daily Reveille, Campbell said he does not want to discredit other artists in the show by fully considering himself a designer in the truest sense.

For this reason, it’s unfortunate there were so few examples of menswear in the show despite a promising show opener. “BIG Night” began with a short, introductory line based around the use of body paint by Christopher Youngstar. A few male models did walk at this time, but their outfits weren’t ones that could be added to a wardrobe because they were made up of about 80 percent body paint.

Though it’s nice to see experimentation with menswear, it would be even nicer to see a variety of pieces the male audience could have chosen to make part of their closet collection. For about every 15 to 20 women’s outfits, one piece of menswear made an appearance. Of the four designers from the LSU Textiles, Apparel

Design and Merchandising department, the one male designer did not provide any menswear pieces.

The ratio of men’s to women’s outfits is entirely too one-sided, and there needs to be more Baton Rouge designers who recognize the importance of men’s fashion in our community.

Baton Rouge is lucky to have a growing fashion scene and, now, a substantial event to celebrate it each year. But the scene and its designers need to branch out slightly into an important realm of fashion that represents half of the city’s population.

Women’s clothing is important, but so is men’s.

Michael Tarver is a 20-year-old mass communication junior from Houma, Louisiana. You can reach him on Twitter @michael_T16.

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Lacie Cupani’s menswear piece featured in BRFW’s “BIG Night” on Saturday.

Sports

Monday, March 2, 2015

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Half & Half

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Lady Tigers upset No. 12 Texas A&M

BY MORGAN PREWITT morewitt@lsureveille.com

Tigers run away from Ole Miss with explosive second half

BY DAVID GRAY dgray@lsureveille.com The LSU men’s basketball team has experienced many ups and downs during its roller coaster season.

The first half against Ole Miss on Saturday was on the down side.

The Tigers shot 29.6 percent from the field in the first half, their second-worst in Southeastern Conference action, and finished with a season-low 23 points at the break.

But then the sleeping Tigers woke up.

“We told each other at halftime that something had to change,” said LSU junior

guard Keith Hornsby.

And after the 15-minute break, everything did.

The Tigers erupted for 50 points in the second half — their most since the seasonopener against Gardner-Webb — and displayed the resiliency they’ve shown all season in a 73-63 win against the Rebels at the PMAC. Saturday was the third-consecutive win for LSU (21-8, 10-6 SEC) and fourth in the last five games. More importantly, it bumped the Tigers into sole possession of fourth place in the SEC standings ahead of Ole Miss and Georgia with two games to go.

But unlike the first two games of the streak, LSU endured a bit of a scare before

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[Left] Ole Miss senior forward M.J. Rhett (4) blocks LSU sophomore forward Jarell Martin’s (1) shot. [Right] LSU sophomore guard Tim Quarterman (55) hits a layup against Ole Miss on Saturday at the PMAC.

After falling behind early in its last two games against Arkansas and Ole Miss, the LSU women’s basketball team’s defense shut down No. 12 Texas A&M early and never looked back in an 80-63 victory at the PMAC on Sunday afternoon.

The Lady Tigers’ defensive pressure returned as LSU (1612, 10-6 Southeastern Conference) notched its second home win against a ranked opponent this season. But senior guard DaShawn Harden stole the show with a careerhigh 28 points in her last home game.

With the win, LSU secured the fourth seed and a doublebye in the Southeastern Conference Tournament. The Lady Tigers will play on Friday, 25 minutes after the first quarterfinal finishes in Little Rock, Arkansas. That game is slated for noon.

“Last year [in the SEC Tournament], we played four games and in the second half against Tennessee we got tired and that’s why we lost,” Harden said. “That’s what my main focus was. Anything that I could do to help us win this game, that’s what I’m going to do.”

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SOFTBALL

LSU crushes SFA, sweeps Purple and Gold Challenge

BY JACK WOODS jwoods@lsureveille.com It didn’t take long for the No. 7 LSU softball team to storm by Stephen F. Austin for a 14-0 win in the final game of the Purple and Gold Challenge at Tiger Park on Sunday.

LSU (21-0) scored eight runs in the first inning and continued to build on that lead as the game progressed, giving the Ladyjacks (6-10) no chance at a comeback.

“It’s really disheartening [for the other team] when you put that many runs up early ... so it’s definitely a big momentum builder for us,” said LSU coach Beth Torina. “It’s nice they’re capable of something like that.”

Senior center fielder A.J. Andrews scored in the bottom of the first inning to open up

scoring when an errant throw on a Bailey Landry single sent the Florida native across homeplate. A sacrifice fly by sophomore infielder Sahvanna Jaquish extended LSU’s lead to 2-0 just a few plays later.

The Tigers then staged a sixrun offensive barrage with two outs to give them all the runs they would need to take the Ladyjacks down in only five innings.

Junior designated player Dylan Supak doubled to bring in two more LSU runs, stretching the lead to 4-0.

In her second at bat of the inning, Andrews lined a standup triple off the centerfield wall to score three of her six RBIs on the day.

A single from junior shortstop Bianka Bell capped the

scoring and gave LSU an 8-0 lead after one inning.

The Tigers produced six hits in the first inning on their way to a grand total of 13 on the day — one shy of the season-high mark they set against Northwestern State on Saturday.

The Tigers added a run in the bottom of the second inning thanks to an Andrews RBI double, pushing the Tigers’ lead to 9-0.

LSU’s offense exploded again in the bottom of the third inning for five more runs.

This time Bell and junior Jenna Kreamer singled before junior first baseman Sandra Simmons followed with her first home run of the season, a shot just inside the right field foul pole, to stretch the lead to 12-0.

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LSU senior A.J. Andrews hit .909 with 13 RBIs during the Purple and Gold Challenge.

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page 6 MEN’S TENNIS

Monday, March 2, 2015

Brown becomes winningest coach with victory against Kentucky

BY JAMES BEWERS jbewers@lsureveille.com LSU men’s tennis coach Jeff Brown doesn’t like talking about personal accomplishments.

He was an All-American doubles player in his senior year at LSU in 1988 and recorded 100 total wins throughout his college career. A decade later, he led the Tigers to back-to-back SEC championships and Final Four appearances in his first

two years as a head coach. In between he played professionally, competing in doubles in the U.S. Open, Wimbledon and the Australian Open.

The charismatic Brown is almost always laid back, but his competitive fire still burns in his 18th year as LSU’s head coach, something he learned from his former LSU coach and predecessor, Jerry Simmons.

On Sunday at W.T. “Dub” Robinson Stadium, the student

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surpassed the teacher.

Brown became the winningest coach in LSU tennis history, recording his 279th win as the Tigers (11-1, 2-0 Southeastern Conference) completed the weekend sweep of Tennessee and Kentucky, 4-0, 4-1.

While Brown remains humble, he’s still honored to be mentioned with a man he greatly respects.

“I know how hard and how much of his life Coach Simmons’ put into everything in – as a player for him and as an assistant him,” Brown said. “Every victory and every loss, he lived and died by that. We’ve tried to carry that over as best we could. He’s a tough guy to duplicate his results, but what we’ve tried to do is win as often as possible.”

The Dubuque, Iowa, native wasn’t lying about Simmons’ success at LSU. Simmons, who is an Intercollegiate Tennis Association Hall of Famer, immediately turned around a program with one prior-season appearance.

He orchestrated five NCAA Final Eight teams in 15 years, and the 1988 team, with Brown as team captain, was the national runner-up.

“There wasn’t much of a bigger mark in the history of LSU tennis to this point,” Brown said

about the team. “We all had gone calm over time, and it’s become through a lot together to get to a habit.” that point. We Brown’s new had a few seaccolade may niors, but we had not have come ‘There wasn’t much of a gone from the bigger mark in the history of at a better time. underdogs for year’s team LSU tennis to this point.’ This a few years to won its last eight the point where matches, shutwe were in the ting out its opJEFF BROWN, finals against ponents in five of men’s tennis coach Stanford. ... We those matches. talk about it a lot The six tostill as if ’88 was tal shutouts this yesterday.” season are only four shy of the Brown may not have talked record set by the 1940 team. about approaching the lofty num“We’re doing a lot of things ber he achieved Sunday, but it right,” Brown said. “They’re takshould not be a surprise to any- ing care of themselves on and off one. the court … I’m really proud of Brown has led 12 teams to this team, and I’m happy to take top-25 finishes, and 15 of his them into any place and comteams have reached the NCAA pete.”

Tournament.

For a team with only one seNo one knows this better nior, the dominance is impresthan LSU assistant coach Danny sive.

Bryan, who played under Brown But Bryan credits Brown’s from 2003-2007. consistency as the key in direct“[Brown] is very competi- ing this year’s Tigers. tive,” Bryan said. “There’s no “Whatever he does, he’s very, doubt about it. From what I’ve very consistent,” Bryan said. heard when he was playing, he “It’s not something where he’ll do maybe showed it a little more something for a week and change outwardly. his personality completely. He’s “As a coach, you really want consistently working and trying to be calm and be in control so to get better.” you are able to think correctly and help advise the guys during You can reach James Bewers on the match. He’s worked on being Twitter @JamesBewers_TDR.

Monday, March 2, 2015 HALF, from page 5 prevailing in the end.

The Rebels (19-10, 10-6 SEC) played with an abundance of energy in the first half, constantly shifting defensive schemes to confound LSU. LSU coach Johnny Jones said the strategy worked.

“Ole Miss had a huge part on how we played offensively in the first half,” Jones said. “They are hard, tough to score on and they made sure that we played over the top of them. They did not make things easy when they kept switching the defensive plays up.”

Sophomore forward Jarell Martin wasn’t as forgiving toward his team as Jones.

“We didn’t come out in the first half playing with that effort and that fire that we play with each game,” Martin said.

The Tigers’ offensive struggles temporarily masked their work on defense, which freshman guard Jalyn Patterson said was the team’s primary focus heading into the conference clash.

LSU held the high-scoring Rebels to 27 points in the first half, their third-fewest in league play this season, on 35.7 percent shooting from the field. The Tigers also forced eight turnovers, with four coming in an 8-1 spurt that erased an 11-point deficit going into the break.

“We got off to a slow start [offensively] in the first half, but that wasn’t our worry,” Patterson said.

“Our worry was on the defensive end. We just stuck with it, and in the second half, we knew the shots would fall.”

It was all LSU after halftime, thanks in large part to a historic performance from sophomore guard Tim Quarterman.

Four Tigers scored at least 10 points in the second half. Quarterman led the way with 12 on 4-of-5 shooting from both the floor and the free throw line.

Quarterman finished the game with 18 points, 10 boards and 10 assists, giving him LSU’s first tripledouble since Shaquille O’Neal recorded his last of six on March 19, 1992, against BYU. But Quarterman, who played despite rolling his ankle in practice the day before, wasn’t even the most excited player on his team following his historic feat.

“My teammates celebrated more than me,” Quarterman said.

“It’s special as a player when your teammates are excited about stuff like that.”

The victory gave the Tigers their 21st win of the season — their most since LSU’s last NCAA Tournament team in 2008-09. It’s only the second time in the last nine years the Tigers have won more than 20 games.

The victory also guaranteed Jones his first winning season in SEC play in three years at the helm.

But the year’s not over yet.

LSU still has two regular season games to play and the SEC Tournament.

After his team overcame its worst first half of the season with perhaps its best second half, Quarterman said he doesn’t think that’ll be a problem.

“It just comes with the season,” Quarterman said. “I think we’re growing up as a team and getting more experience game by game.

Everybody has high spirits about winning the basketball game, and we never give up.”

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The Daily Reveille UPSET, from page 5 Harden exploded offensively in the first half, starting with a layup just five seconds into the game that sparked an 11-4 LSU run during the first three minutes. In the first two minutes alone, Harden recorded a steal and seven points, including a 3-pointer.

In the remaining 18 minutes of the first half, Harden hit a career-high five 3-pointers on 5-for-5 shooting from behind the arc. By halftime, Harden was only one point away from her career-high of 23 points.

“It was nice,” Harden said.

“I was just thinking I was going to get defensive stops.

That’s what my main focus was this game. [My teammates] just kept finding me.

Really, you can’t make shots without people passing it to you.”

Along with Harden, junior guard Danielle Ballard and sophomore guard Raigyne

CRUSH, from page 5 Simmons said she remained steady and focused on moving runners over, and the ball happened to carry.

Andrews’ second triple of the game scored LSU’s final two runs and gave the Tigers what would eventually become the final 14-0 score after just three innings of play.

Sophomore pitcher Kelsee Selman protected the lead the entire game. She only allowed two hits and didn’t give up a run in five innings of work. Selman finished with five strikeouts and

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LSU’s full-court pressure defense disrupted the rhythm of Texas A&M’s (22-8, 10-6 SEC) offense by forcing 15 turnovers in the first half, including seven steals.

The Aggies began the second half by outscoring the Lady Tigers, 6-4, in the first five minutes and cutting LSU’s lead to 10 points. But that was the closest the Aggies would get in the second period.

Ballard led the Lady Tigers with 12 points in the second half, shooting 5-for-10 from the floor and 2-for-3 from the charity stripe.

Although Texas A&M cut the lead to 11 points with 2:41 remaining, the Lady Tigers took over the game with an 8-2 run in the final three minutes to seal the victory. During the

run, Ballard and Harden each hit a field goal while Ballard and sophomore guard Rina Hill went 2-for-2 from the free throw line.

Despite tallying a third win against a top-15 opponent and a third win against a top30 RPI opponent, LSU coach Nikki Caldwell is focused on getting her team through the SEC Tournament and securing a NCAA Tournament bid.

“When you look at our last 12 games, which the committee looks at, we’re 8-4 with the four losses coming on the road, so that’s a strong statement,” Caldwell said. “Our guard play is pretty strong. ... Obviously when you look at what Harden did tonight, that’s another player who’s explosive. We’ve got the personnel to match that résumé that you want to take into the NCAA Tournament.”

walked only one batter on 70 pitches.

Torina said Selman did a good job of bouncing back after a disappointing start Friday, in which she left the game in the third inning after giving up two home runs to Ball State.

The Tigers outscored opponents 57-8 at the Purple and Gold Challenge, and Andrews finished the weekend with a .909 batting average. She collected 10 hits on 11 at-bats, 13 RBI and seven stolen bases on seven attempts.

“A.J. Andrews was just

absolutely phenomenal,” Torina said. “One of the best weekends I’ve ever seen from a player. She was unbelievable.”

Andrews said she’s just focusing on getting on base for her teammates and trusting her teammates behind her.

LSU finishes preconference play with Northwestern State on Tuesday night before hosting Arkansas for the opening of its Southeastern Conference schedule.

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WHITE FEMINISM Certain brands of feminism sell some women short

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Patricia Arquette accepts an Academy Award for her work on ‘Boyhood’ on Feb. 22 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

LSYOU, BUT DEFINITELY NOT ME LOGAN ANDERSON Columnist Technically, feminism has one definition: the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political, social and economic equality to men. However, there are many different types of feminism — and not all feminism is created equal.

Patricia Arquette’s Oscar speech — and the comments she made backstage — spawned a million thinkpieces on “white feminism,” a type of feminism practiced by certain white women. The best example of white feminism in pop culture takes place on the TV show “Girls.”

During the second season of “Girls,” Lena Dunham’s character, Hannah, has a two-episode relationship with a black man, played by Donald Glover, who happens to be a Republican.

When Hannah decides she can’t date a Republican, she tells Glover’s character they should just be friends.

An argument breaks out between the two, which leads to Hannah telling her new ex that she never once saw him as black because she “doesn’t live in a world where those kinds of divisions exist.”

Glover’s character tells her she’s lying and she absolutely does live in a world where

race still matters. He ends up throwing her out of his apartment because he can’t stand any longer to listen to her asserting that she doesn’t “see color.”

After the break up, Hannah’s best friends — who happen to be a white gay man and a white woman — question her about what happened.

“Your rights happened,” she says indignantly, pointing to her gay friend, “and your rights happened because I can’t be with someone who isn’t an ally to gay people and women.” Her perplexed friends thank her, not out of genuine appreciation but because they know that’s what she wants to hear.

This is white feminism. It is feminism that believes the biggest struggle is that of being a woman. The things that could possibly intersect with that struggle — such as being a minority, disabled, part of the LGBT community — do not factor into the white feminist’s views.

When “white feminists” take these intersections of discrimination into account, they do so myopically, choosing to speak for these people instead of with them or letting them speak for themselves. They ignore the work being done within these communities, assuming they know what’s best for other women.

Not all white women who are feminists are white feminists.

Only the ones who fail to realize their fight may not be the hardest fall into this category. Women of color and LGBT women can

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also be white feminists, if they subscribe to the idea that their race or sexual orientation is not something that should be taken into account when examining their struggles, believing that simply being a woman contributes to their statuses in life.

Feminism has a long history of racism and discrimination. The first wave of feminism, women fighting to earn the right to vote, would often claim it was in America’s best interests to grant women the right to vote so they could offset the votes of the black men who had recently been granted suffrage.

The second wave of feminism also was notoriously exclusionary to black women, who were allowed into feminist spaces but weren’t allowed to speak for themselves. This movement had a bad habit of using black women as props that groups could hold up to show how progressive they were. Beyond that, it largely ignored black women and the ways in which their struggle was different than the struggle faced by white women.

The second-wave feminist movement took place at the same time as the Civil Rights movement, which also notoriously ignored women and kept them out of positions of power. With nowhere to turn, black women created the reproductive justice movement.

This movement, which merged the fights for reproductive rights and social justice, was inclusive. It allowed anyone who

identified as female to contribute and examined the ways in which belonging to various minority groups can intersect to change the way a person lives.

In addition to marginalizing women of color, second-wave feminism was also notoriously transphobic. Many believed that transgender women were men trying to invade their safe spaces and destroy the movement.

Reproductive justice, on the other hand, welcomes anyone and everyone who identifies as female and their allies. The very framework of the movement is inclusionary in a way that white feminism refuses to be.

This is why, when Arquette stood backstage at the Oscars and said it was time for “all the gay people and people of color that we’ve all fought for to fight for us,” she received such huge backlash.

It’s not because minority communities didn’t agree with her that equal pay was important. It’s because she erased the struggles women of color and women in the LGBT community face, as white feminism is wont to do.

If Arquette really wants to discuss wage inequality, she should examine the statistics in context.

For every dollar that a man makes, a white woman makes 78 cents. A black woman, however, makes 64 cents, and a Latina or Hispanic woman makes 54 cents.

Studies have also shown that gay and bisexual white men make

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somewhere between 10 and 32 percent less than their straight counterparts, and transgender women make significantly less money after their transition, while transgender men make slightly more.

To talk about the wage gap without also acknowledging that it’s worse for some than it is for others is irresponsible. To then call on those communities to give up their own fights in favor of fighting for a movement that has largely ignored them since its inception is dismissive and ignorant.

Arquette’s backstage comments show that white feminism is alive and well, especially in Hollywood. The swift and cutting backlash to those comments shows that the women excluded from the white feminist movement are going to make sure their voices are heard.

Hopefully, the dialogue started by the speech leads to some white feminists widening their scope, allowing society to begin equalizing all branches of feminism — because it is possible to fight for all women without ignoring the needs of those in minority communities.

But, based on the history of white feminism, the chances of those people widening their scope are, unfortunately, slim.

Logan Anderson is a 21-yearold mass communication senior from Houston, Texas.

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Gubernatorial front-runner David Vitter unqualified, hypocritical SMASH THE HATE JAMES RICHARDS Columnist Election talk is cropping up in the media, and the Bayou State is in the spotlight yet again.

I’m not talking about the 2016 presidential election — where, by the way, Gov. Bobby Jindal is failing spectacularly. He placed 12th in the high-profile Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll. He beat out Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee, who are more famous for being on Fox News than for being governors.

I’m talking about the Louisiana gubernatorial elections. Jindal hits the term limit at the end of the year, and Jay Dardenne wants to take his place, so it’s time for another couple of politicians to milk the state for all it’s worth.

You wouldn’t know this from NOLA.com | The TimesPicayune, who recommends instead reading about Tom Benson’s estate drama and a nudist colony trying to stay afloat.

The news that does appear on the site are mostly recycled Associated Press stories about Jindal’s blatherings.

One possible reason for the lack of coverage is it seems like the election is already won.

Studies show that the closer an election seems, the more coverage it receives.

In this case, there is a clear front-runner in the staunchly conservative Sen. David Vitter.

You might remember Vitter from his prostitution scandal

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Sen. David Vitter, R-La., speaks about Second Amendment rights Jan. 19, 2014, in front of the Louisiana State Capitol. in 2007. After denying having relations with a New Orleans prostitute, his phone number showed up in the records of the infamous “DC Madam.”

He’s a massive a hypocrite for promoting family values while hanging with hookers.

When Monica Lewinski was a household name, Vitter called on then-President Bill Clinton to resign. He refused to give up his seat after his “sin.”

In addition to his welldocumented hypocrisy, Vitter’s

also got an Oedipal complex.

He allegedly liked wearing diapers while he cheated on his wife. Apparently spitting in God’s face wasn’t kinky enough for him.

Despite the scandal, the man-child has endorsements from national conservative leaders like Chris Christie, Rand Paul and George H.W. Bush. In addition, he leads in nearly every poll so far and would probably look even better if other candidates weren’t

splitting the Republican vote.

Two other Republicans look to challenge him: current Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne and Public Service Commissioner Scott Angelle. The two have been involved in state politics for a number of years and have a solid support base, but they can’t compete with Vitter’s influence.

Vitter also holds a substantial monetary advantage over the two. The senator reported $3.5 million on hand to begin

2015, more than Angelle and Dardenne combined.

The only viable Democrat in the race is state Rep. John Bel Edwards — thankfully no relation to Edwin Edwards. The former West Point graduate is billing himself as a conservative Democrat and has the views to back it up. He’s anti-abortion, against gay marriage and supports gun rights.

It’s a terrible strategy. Edwards is going to be up against candidates with stellar conservative voting records, like Vitter, so he won’t win on that front. Dardenne is known as a centrist Republican, so any hope for independent votes is gone. Finally, it’s going to be hard for him to get Democrats to vote for him when they can vote for Angelle, a former Democrat, who voters will see as having a better chance of winning than Edwards.

The only way I see Edwards having a shot at the governor’s seat is if he runs hard against Jindal’s record the past eight years. Of the four major candidates, he seems to have the best shot at capitalizing on the anti-Jindal sentiment, having opposed many of his policies in the state legislature.

It worked for Republicans in the 2014 midterm elections, so why not for Edwards?

Regardless of who gets the most votes in October, it’s clear Louisiana’s political climate hasn’t changed much. Even though everyone hates Jindal, the main candidates sound very similar to him in rhetoric and record.

James Richards is a 20-yearold mass communication sophomore from New Orleans.

You can reach him on Twitter @JayEllRichy.

Creating, living on a budget after graduation is vital JAY TALKING

JAY CRANFORD Columnist If you’ve somehow managed to last four years in college without a job, you’ll be surprised how hard it may be not to live paycheck-topaycheck.

When you get your first job after graduation, the most important thing you can do is to create a budget, which will allow you to simultaneously spend money, pay bills and save for retirement simultaneously.

What you should first do with your new paycheck is start building an emergency fund.

This fund should be enough to

cover your expenses of living for six months if you were to lose your job.

This might seem like a lot of money to stow away, but it beats having to live with your parents if you lose your job.

Start putting money into a savings account at your local bank until you can live off that account while job hunting.

The second thing you have to do is pay off debt. If you took out student loans to pay for college — and you probably did — you should pay these off as soon as you can. Make these debts your enemy. Imagine you are the LSU football team and student loan debt is the Crimson Tide.

If you have more than one debt to pay, like credit card debts that you also built up

during college, pay off the one with the highest interest rate first.

Next, let’s talk about investments. You don’t have to work on Wall Street to be able to invest for yourself.

Why should you start investing now? Investing is about time. As a college graduate, you have more time than most people who are already working.

Simply put, it will cost you less to save for retirement now than when you’re 40.

Ask your employer about its retirement plan. If they offer a 401(k), try to max out your contributions and your employer will give you free money to save for retirement.

If they do not offer a 401(k), look into opening your own retirement account and investing

on your own.

I could write a whole article just about investing, so you should read up on this on your own. SmartAboutMoney. org is a great place to start learning about investing your money for the future.

Now, to the good stuff. How much do you have to put away every month?

There is no standard answer. It’s all about your personal preference, but I can give you a place to start.

If you have debt you need to pay off, I suggest you do this as soon as you can. This means making cuts on your spending if necessary. Maybe find a roommate to cut down on living costs or lower your food costs by cooking for yourself and not eating out.

I suggest using the 70-30

rule, meaning 70 percent of your income goes to buying things and 30 percent will go to setting up your emergency fund and paying off debt. Once you have paid off your debt, or if you never had any to begin with, I suggest using the 80-1010 rule. 80 percent of your money goes to buying stuff, 10 percent to savings and investments and 10 percent to charity.

Again, it’s about personal preference. If you find you can live comfortably off 70 percent of your income, then do that and save the rest. However, try to put at least 10 percent into investments. It can save you more money in the end.

Jay Cranford is a 20-year-old finance junior from St. Simons Island, Georgia. You can reach him on Twitter @hjcranford.

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Monday, March 2, 2015 budget cuts, from page 1 proposal presentation.

The presentation’s summary said there are legislative options to ease the cuts’ effects on the final budget. The University will also look at some options on its side, Alexander said in a Budget Hub statement.

“While we support the Governor’s proposals to help offset much of the reductions, we also have to take the initiative to identify and

support LSU-specific solutions so that we remain nationally competitive,” Alexander said in the statement.

Jindal’s proposal included a $30 million investment to the WISE initiative and an increase to the TOPS fund by $34 million.

The higher education cut was expected to total about $383 million, according to LSU Budget Hub. The budget plan is not final and is subject to legislative approval

Designs from textiles, apparel design and merchandising junior Peyton Simms’ clothing line, Perfectly Taylored, are displayed Saturday at Baton Rouge Fashion Week’s BIG Night.

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fashion week, from page 1 Another designer who presented at both the BARE show and BIG Night was BRFW creator and founder Brandon Campbell.

Campbell presented a second collection from his line, iME. The clothing line consists of graphic Tshirt and sweatshirt designs with phrases focusing on today’s generation, such as “Like Addict” with the Facebook thumbs-up icon.

BIG Night also included many University student designers.

Textiles, apparel design and merchandising junior Peyton Simms presented her clothing line, Perfectly Taylored. The designs included T-shirts with catchy sayings, such as “I’m on a champagne diet.” Simms said the goal of her designs was to blend comfortable with chic and ensure the wearer is happy and having fun.

A Baton Rouge native, she said she participated in BRFW because she wanted to support her city’s fashion industry.

The textiles, apparel design and merchandising department had four other designers present their cotton-themed collections from University work as one joint show.

Seniors Eric Prestley, Ki’Yada Jenkins, Jane Gressaffa and Nimia Cabrera showed outfits in soft hues of purple, pink and white.

Most of the designs were cocktail or floor-length gowns, with one design being a white, wide-legged pant paired with a tan and floral crop top. The designs were created for TAM assistant professor Lisa McRoberts’ draping class in fall 2014. The fabrics and funding for the designs came from McRoberts’ and TAM associate professor Chuanlan Liu’s Cotton Inc. grant.

The show included two children’s designers: Ms Smitty from Maumelle, Arkansas, and MEROCKI from Dallas.

BIG Night ended with Shreveport designer Johnathan Darden’s Balloonatic Fashions. The designs were balloon dresses for children and women in various lengths, colors and shapes.

BIG Night model and mass communication junior Laeh Alexander found BRFW to be an event that brought the city together.

“It’s another event to bring community members together, have fun and enjoy seeing local designers showcase their talent,” Alexander said.

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and changes in the April session.

Once the budget is finalized, the LSU Board of Supervisors must approve it for University use.

The University’s main campus receives 13.5 percent of its revenue from the state, The Daily Reveille previously reported. That equates to about $110 million. The University ranks 46th in flagship funding.

“This is the beginning of a long process where we will work with the Legislature and the Governor

to ultimately restore funding for public higher education to its appropriate levels,” Alexander said in the Budget Hub statement.

The Board of Supervisors will be working with Alexander and the state to help with the problems caused by the reduction, said Board chairwoman Ann Duplessis in a statement.

“The LSU Board of Supervisors recognizes the challenges for higher education represented in the Governor’s FY 16 Executive

Budget,” her statement said. “It is critical that we work cooperatively with the Governor and the Legislature to find solutions to the proposed cuts to higher education.

Our board will work closely with President Alexander in support of all efforts to mitigate the impact of the reductions. This is just the beginning, and we appreciate the willingness of Governor Jindal and the Legislature to identify viable options for long term stability for LSU.”

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Breaking news popped up on the television screen. Another unarmed black teenager, close in age to Red, was killed by a police officer.

Red said the media greatly influenced perceptions about the issues without making room for reason, and the problem not only affects youth like him, but officers of the law as well. Young black males are now 21 times more likely than their white counterparts to be killed by a police officer, according to a ProPublica statistic.

“As a black teenager ... I feel like a one-dimensional character in a novel authored by society,” Red said. “Oftentimes, the story doesn’t end well.”

As the child of a single mother who is the family’s sole breadwinner, Red does not have a relationship with his father.

He also lives in a Baton Rouge

neighborhood where violence is not uncommon.

“I am a walking stereotype in a world where these attributes don’t typically equate to success,” Red said.

However, Red believes he is bigger than the stereotype — as are other young people in his situation.

Aside from serving as Mentorship Academy’s junior class president, Red is also vice president of his school’s National Honor Society and aspires to be a psychiatrist.

Though he contends that some of his peers might be led astray, he said there is still hope for his demographic to redefine itself.

Red said he is more than the status quo, but in order for law enforcement officers to see that, he and others like him would need to earn their trust.

“We must place familiarity over fear,” Red said.

from the other applicants.

“He saw a problem in our world and came up with a simple and feasible solution,” Thompson said.

“He’s so very wise beyond his years.”

Red said a lack of trust and communication between at-risk youth and the police is the crux of the problem.

He said he hopes to change this disconnect through his “I Am” initiative, which allows student volunteers to engage in open dialogue with the law enforcement community.

In “I Am,” cops and at-risk teens will put names to faces and get to know one another on a more personal level. Red said this connection will bridge the gap between the two groups and humanize them.

“True dialogue happens between two people, not an officer and a black teen,” Red said.

Red’s initiative aims to form relationships in a stress-free environment. He said he wondered what it would have been like if Darren Wilson knew Michael Brown or if Trayvon Martin knew George Zimmerman.

Each of these groups should try to understand the other, Red said.

His journey to becoming part of the solution began on his couch, “a place most teenagers in [his] neighborhood refer to as their bedroom,” Red said.

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