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More than 1,000 University students, faculty and community members gathered on the steps of the State Capitol on Thursday afternoon to protest potential budget cuts to higher education. Organized by Student Government, the LSU Alumni Association and Geaux Vote LSU, the protestors at the “Make the Change” march also wrote letters to legislators while listening to a host of speakers. Read more about the protest on page 3, and check out a columnist’s take on the march on page 8. photos by RAEGAN LABAT / The Daily Reveille

Volume 119 · No. 137 ACADEMICS

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BY CHLOE HUFF chuff@lsureveille.com If the caterpillars’ campus takeover doesn’t signify the beginning of spring finals, then emails from classmates advertising their for-sale posts on notesharing websites surely do.

Assistant Dean of Students and Associate Director of Student Advocacy and Accountability Katie McGee Barras said while some uses of these sites are allowed under the University’s Code of Student Conduct, most are not.

Issues arise when students upload content belonging to faculty without consent — not just tests, but any resource by the professor.

Barras said although her office cannot trump the First Amendment, posting faculty-created content without permission from the faculty member is in violation of the University Code of Student Conduct.

Pre-nursing sophomore Layne Miller said note-sharing is useful if a student is absent.

Using these websites to gain a deeper understanding of the material is allowed. Students

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Professor’s reach aims to improve cancer treatment drug

BY ROSE VELAZQUEZ rvelazquez@lsureveille.com

Renewable natural resources professor Zhijun Liu is planting the seeds of change for cancer treatment.

One of his specializations is working with medicinal plants, and since 2008, he has been using his expertise to reduce the effects of chemotherapy on cancer patients.

Liu’s research project focuses on working with a chemotherapeutic drug called Taxol, which has been used in the treatment of breast cancer and ovarian cancer

for the last 20 years. The project’s partners include The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and University School of Veterinary Medicine and Department of Chemistry faculty.

They are working to develop an oral variation of the drug with improved absorbability and reduced side effects. Though research has been underway regarding the subject, no one has been able to develop an oral variation of Taxol to date, Liu said.

“If we can turn the intravenous Taxol drug, which is very potent and still being used into an oral drug, patients can really

benefit by taking it orally without having to go to a physician’s office for intravenous injections,” Liu said.

He said there are two main issues facing the drugs’ effectiveness — poor solubility and permeability.

Currently, Taxol is administered to patients through intravenous injection, and because it is not soluble in water, it must be combined with solubilizers cremophor and ethanol to create an injectable formulation, Liu said.

However, the use of Cremophor

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Renewable natural resources Professor Zhijun Liu works in the lab on solubility enhancement.

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Winstead named SEC Coach of the Year LSU men’s golf coach Chuck Winstead was named Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year Thursday, becoming just the third LSU coach in conference history to accomplish the feat. Buddy Alexander in 1986 and Britt Harrison in 1989 are the other two LSU coaches to win the award.

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Winstead led the Tigers to their first SEC championship in 28 years with a three-shot victory April 17-19. The team will find out its postseason fate when the NCAA Golf Regionals are announced on May 4.

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Protesters march on Capitol in name of higher ed cuts More than 1,000 turn out, urge state lawmakers to support education

BY CAITIE BURKES cburkes@lsureveille.com University alumni, gubernatorial candidates and concerned students and faculty found common ground on the steps of the State Capitol on Thursday.

Together, they marched to the Capitol to protest potential budget cuts to higher education after the last attempt on April 15 showed a lack of student involvement.

The “Make the Change” march was the second attempt to combat the state’s proposed $600 million cut to higher education.

Student Government, the LSU Alumni Association and Geaux Vote LSU spent a month organizing the protest.

Students, faculty and other University advocates met at 12:30 p.m. at A.Z. Young Park and began the march to the steps of the Capitol at 1 p.m.

The march, sponsored by the LSU Alumni Association, got its start when LSU President F. King Alexander said the University may file for financial exigency, or academic bankruptcy.

Stacey Messina, director of marketing and communications for the Alumni Association, said though the protest served as a follow-up to its predecessor, the two differed in organization.

“This protest is organized

by LSU’s main campus and has been much more heavily promoted than the last, which was the result of collaboration between Southern University and several other state universities,” Messina said.

Though student-organized, the event was open to the public.

Alumni Association President Cliff Vannoy said he encouraged all University supporters to attend.

“It’s time for the Louisiana Legislature to protect our students — our future alumni — and find alternative solutions to the budget shortfall,” Vannoy said in a news release. “We’re putting the faces of those students at the steps of the Capitol to remind legislators their decisions impact the lives that are the future of Louisiana.”

The Facebook event page “Make the Change, March the Capitol” showed 1,800 expected attendees the night before the march. More than 1,000 showed up.

Gubernatorial candidates state Rep. John Bel Edwards and Cody Wells, on behalf of Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne, gave speeches to those present. State Sen. Dan Claitor also spoke about the potential cuts.

Wells, a University alumnus and former SG president, spoke for Dardenne when he said citizen approval is essential for success in lawmaking.

“More public support in the Legislature is needed,” Wells said.

Edwards, Dardenne’s opponent, agreed with his competitor’s words. Bel Edwards said he has been fighting proposals for higher education budget cuts for the past seven years.

“Enough is enough,” Edwards said.

While listening to speeches, attendees engaged in a letterwriting campaign. Organizers plan to hand-deliver the letters to legislators’ offices.

Messina said the Alumni Association wants legislators to see the faces and read the words of those whose educational careers would be altered by

their decisions.

Protesters ranged from University professors to students from LSU and other universities.

University history professor Maribel Dietz called the 82 percent cuts a “national embarrassment” that reflects poorly on the state.

“For a student trying to graduate in four years, it’s going to get harder and harder,” Dietz said.

English senior Lauren Jensen said the cuts only exacerbate Louisiana’s low national ranking in higher education. She said she went to the protest to protect the education of future students.

“I’m lucky that I’m getting out now, but it’s really unfortunate,” she said.

Aside from a strong University presence, there were also students from University of Louisiana at Lafayette in attendance.

English graduate students Lucy Biederman and Jennifer Morrison said LSU’s potential financial exigency status has a ripple effect on other colleges in the state. They cited an example as simple as their textbooks, saying they get books from the University’s libraries.

Morrison said as the flagship university, LSU needs to have clout throughout the U.S. so its satellite schools will succeed as well.

“We’ll be really affected by LSU being affected,” Biederman said.

The Jindal administration’s budget cuts drew people from all walks of life together, first to a park in downtown Baton Rouge and ultimately to the state’s postcard tourist attraction.

Whatever their reasons were, protesters were all united in one respect — their mission to save their colorful flagship University from a dismal bankruptcy.

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Professor uses grief to inspire concert

BY EMILIE HEBERT emiliehebert@lsureveille.com Assistant professor and head of dance Sandra Parks always wanted to choreograph a work about lanterns.

She said in Asian cultures, lanterns are used to communicate with the spiritual realm and those who have passed.

When Parks, who is from Taiwan, lost close family members this year, she used her grief to inspire the pointe number “Passage to You” featured in the 2015 Spring Celebration of Movement May 2 to 3 in the Claude L. Shaver Theatre.

Parks directed the Dance Ensemble for the showcase in collaboration with physical theatre students under associate professor Nick Erickson and School of Music Percussion Ensemble directed by associate professor Brett Dietz.

Students from the School of Art’s interior design studio, mentored by associate professors John Campbell and Jun Zou, designed models for the show and three were chosen for use.

The showcase begins with the dance concert, featuring two faculty pieces and two studentchoreographed dances, and ends with the physical theatre performance which includes aerial

work and other movements.

Parks said she kept up an open conversation since last summer with Dietz to brainstorm ideas for the spring concert.

Together, they decided the performance would celebrate the students’ dedication and passion for dance and movement.

Parks said she wants the audience to leave the show feeling just how much the students love the art of dance.

The show begins with a flamenco dance highlighting the students’ trip to Spain in February.

Parks said she drew her inspiration for the second part of the dance concert, “Journey to Congo Square,” from the history of Congo Square, or Louis Armstrong Park, in New Orleans, a place with both professional and personal meaning to her.

Her research on Congo Square, the only place that slaves could freely dance and celebrate on Sundays in the 18th century, fascinated her enough that she moved to Louisiana.

She said the dancing in “Journey to Congo Square,” combined with live music, costumes and the set designs, reflects the hopeful joy in slaves who were torn from their homes.

Parks selected two students last semester to choreograph

their own dances for the concert. She said their pieces deal with personal, emotional issues many other students can relate to.

Though they were apprehensive to share their feelings at first, Parks said the student choreographers have grown more comfortable with opening up through dance.

“The first thing we talked about is, you have to be vulnerable. It’s a very scary feeling,” Parks said. “Their growth is tremendous, and to see them from being almost shy from sharing [their emotions] to now they feel confident and comfortable to share their work.”

Since the University only offers a dance minor, student performers often have rigorous schedules from their major classes plus almost five hours a week for the concert.

“Really what makes me and my life so happy is to see them working in the studio, to see how they’ve grown from [point] A to where they are right now,” Parks said.

Many students are trying to push the University to offer a dance major, including communication studies sophomore Macy Dunne, who has spent three semesters in the Dance Ensemble.

Friday, May 1, 2015 TREATMENT, from page 1 and ethanol causes various levelsof hypersensitivity and side effects in patients.

Going to a physician’s office for the treatment is costly and makes the patient nervous and stressed, Liu said.

While administering the drug to patients, physicians must monitor the individuals’ reactions and reduce the dosage or slow down in response to signs of illness or discomfort. But lowering the dosage diminishes the treatments’ intensity, and therefore results in a poor effect on the cancer, Liu said.

He said Taxol is considered the toughest compound in the pharmaceutical industry for oral drug development, but through his research with medicinal plants, he discovered a solubilizer within a tea plant, which he was able to isolate and use to develop a new Taxol formulation.

“It did very beautifully,” Liu said. “So we solubilized the Taxol with a tea plant ingredient without any use of ethanol, alcohol or Cremophor, or any other solvent, so we did the same thing by replacing all other ingredients that cause hypersensitivity.”

Once he overcame the drugs’ poor solubility, he took on the challenge of finding a way to solve its permeability issues. Roughly two and a half years ago, Liu was able to secure a grant from the National Institute of Health’s National Cancer Institute, which allowed him to transition Taxol into an oral

format.

Liu said he knew plant solubilizers were useful in solubilizing several different types of compounds, and his interest in working with Taxol began with a recommendation from a pharmaceutical company to demonstrate any new solubilizers’ use on a drug which has traditionally faced significant issues.

“Basically, the Taxol is a model to validate our solubility technology, so if this is successful, which we have shown, we have applied this same solubilizer to other drug compounds, food compounds, supplemental compounds, medical food compounds,” Liu said.

“We have been applying it to other compounds that are poorly soluble.”

The research, which will conclude in June, shows administering the drug orally doubles its concentration in the bloodstream, Liu said. Though he said he would like to see at least a tenfold increase in the drug’s absorption, the ability to double its concentration is an encouraging step forward.

He said he believes the use of a tea plant ingredient to solubilize the drug will do well in clinical trials in terms of toxicity, the degree of its negative effects on the body.

But he would like to see further improvement in absorption before he takes that step.

Liu and his partners are currently looking for a new source of money to fund the next steps of his research project, which may include industry investments.

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LSU survives 14 innings against Bulldogs

BY JAMES BEWERS jbewers@lsureveille.com

midweek gives the Tigers confidence heading into a crucial series against Auburn (44-8, 16-5 SEC), which comes into the series second in the conference standings.

“Without question they are in a better spot,” said LSU coach Beth Torina. “Monday night, even though it came off three losses in a row, was a signature win for us. ... They feel differently about it. It gave them some confidence they were missing.

They’re going to continue that feeling heading into this week-

With a one-run lead, LSU sophomore pitcher Jared Poche’ looked destined for a valued accomplishment in baseball — a complete game.

But there’s a reason at least nine innings are played on the diamond.

The No. 1 Tigers (39-7, 15-6 Southeastern Conference) overcame Mississippi State’s gametying double in the bottom of the ninth inning to complete a 5-3 victory in 14 innings on Thursday night at Dudy Noble Field in Starkville, Mississippi.

LSU senior third baseman Conner Hale’s two-run double in the top of 14th secured game one of the three-game set against the Bulldogs (23-23, 7-14 SEC).

Although he registered a no decision, Poche’s nine innings were a career high. Much like his recent outings, though, Poche’ ran into brief trouble out of the gate.

The Bulldogs jumped out to an early lead via three straight singles in the bottom first inning, leading to two runs scored. Mississippi State senior first baseman Wes Rea drove in sophomore catcher Gavin Collins, and sophomore left fielder Reid Humphreys pushed across sophomore third baseman Luke Reynolds on fielder’s choice.

After that however, Poche’ was dominant.

The Lutcher, Louisiana, na-

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LSU junior catcher Kellsi Kloss (77) sprints toward second base on Wednesday during the Tigers’ 11-0 win against Southeastern Louisiana at Tiger Park.

LSU softball to host No. 8 Auburn tonight in top-10 clash

BY MORGAN PREWITT mprewitt@lsureveille.com The No. 6 LSU softball team’s dramatic turnaround started with a players-only meeting, led by senior center fielder A.J. Andrews and other team leaders, following LSU’s loss against Missouri in Game 2 on Sunday.

“We came together, and our team leaders stepped up and showed us some motivation things,” said freshman pitcher Carley Hoover. “We really talked it out and discussed where we were going to be here on out. We all decided that we were going

to be different beasts from here on out. ... We came out and responded on Monday and again on Wednesday.”

The Tigers’ (43-8, 14-7 Southeastern Conference) renewed determination has churned out dominant performances at the plate and in the circle in their last outings.

LSU hopes to continue this play in an offensive battle royale with No. 8 Auburn in its final SEC series of this season, starting with Game 1 at 6 p.m. tonight at Tiger Park.

The Tigers were run-ruled for the first time this season against

Missouri in Game 2, but they rebounded with back-to-back mercy-rule victories against Missouri on Monday and Southeastern Louisiana on Wednesday night.

LSU has outscored its opponents 20-0 and notched 11 extra base hits, including three homers, in its last two wins.

After allowing 20 walks and 13 earned runs during its threegame losing streak, LSU’s pitchers have allowed three walks while recording eight strikeouts and two shutouts in their last two wins.

LSU’s resurgence during the

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No. 6 Tigers focused on cutting down walks, errors

BY JACK WOODS jwoods@lsureveille.com The LSU softball team has accomplished a lot this season — its best start in program history, the longest win streak in program history and the best start to a season by any LSU sports team.

The Tigers may have rewritten the record book, but they’re just now entering the business end of the season. LSU hosts Auburn in a three-game series, beginning today at 6 p.m., before hosting the Southeastern Conference Tournament. Following the SEC Tournament, LSU will be involved in at least NCAA Regionals play.

Ahead of the crucial games, been infrequent for the Tigers in LSU is focused on cutting down 2015, but most of the free passes on walks and errors. they’ve allowed have come in “ Postse ason, that small sample ‘You can’t give a team size. it’s kind of crunch time,” said senior anything when it comes In its eight center fielder A.J. down to the postseason losses, LSU has Andrews.

“You because the team, if you allowed 35 walks can’t give a team committed 17 give them a little, they’re and anything when errors. Those figgoing to take a lot.’ it comes down to ures mean nearly the postseason a third of LSU’s A.J. ANDREWS, because the team, walks and errors LSU senior center fielder if you give them a have come in just little, they’re goeight games. ing to take a lot.”

LSU coach LSU has won 43 of its 51 Beth Torina said Auburn has games, sprinkling 105 walks and the best offense in the SEC on 54 errors throughout the games see ERRORS, page 7 on its schedule. Losses may have

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LSU senior outfielder A.J. Andrews (6) hits the ball in the Tigers’ 11-0 win against Southeastern Louisiana at Tiger Park.

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Nostalgia makes MayweatherPacquiao match worth watching LIFE OF BRIAN BRIAN PELLERIN Sports Columnist

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Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. motions to the crowd during an arrival ceremony Tuesday in Las Vegas. Mayweather will face Manny Pacquiao in a boxing match on May 2.

Let’s get ready to rumble.

Tomorrow night, Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr. will put his 47-0 record on the line against Manny Pacquiao. It’s a fight the boxing world has been waiting years for. Like a student trying to get out of homework, Mayweather has come up with every excuse in the book to push this fight back.

Regardless of being beyond each boxer’s prime, this match is still being labeled “The Fight of the Century,” which speaks volumes about how bad boxing has been this century.

To give you a quick breakdown, Pacquiao is a 36-year-old southpaw with a shorter reach than the 38-year-old orthodox fighter Mayweather. That’s all I’ve got.

I’ll admit I know little about boxing. I understand how the matches work, who the fighters are and how someone wins.

I know of Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman,

Oscar de la Hoya and Mike This fight probably won’t Tyson. be of the same magnitude as But I don’t know how they the greatest ever because both line up in history, who fought Pacquiao and Mayweather are who or who was the greatest be- reaching the end of their cacause I never watch the sport. reers. But this is as close as In today’s society, people we’ll ever get. love the UFC and its caged vioMany of you won’t because lence. Boxing is a thought of it’s the Saturday night before the past, so odds are you prob- finals week. You’re either goably know little as well. ing to be studying or getting But once upon a time, box- wasted to keep yourself from ing ran the sports world. People studying. If you’re choosing the packed arenas to watch two of latter, why not go to a sports the biggest, baddest men in the bar somewhere with friends to world get into a legal fist fight. watch the fight, or maybe host Think of it a house party as Tigerland Once upon a time, boxing ran and have evchip without the the sports world. People packed eryone in to pay for two freshmen arenas to watch two of the it on HBO or being kicked biggest, baddest men in the Show time? out afterworld get into a legal fist fight. You could even ward. Sounds fun, right? come up with For a sport to be as popu- drinking games. lar as boxing was, there has Regardless of how you deto be something special to it, cide to watch, don’t you think something needed to make it watching what could be the last amazing. Maybe it was just the great boxing match is worth it? violence, and maybe UFC has I know I sure do. replaced it with a better, more Brian Pellerin is a 21-yearaggressive version.

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On the following at-bat, Missistive shut out the Bulldogs through sippi State senior starting pitcher his next seven innings on the Lucas Laster’s first pitch to junior mound, surrendering only one first baseman Chris Chinea got hit while retiring 10 straight bat- away from the catcher, allowing ters from the end of the first into Hale to race home for LSU’s first the fourth. Poche’ only struck out run. Laster then walked Chinea, two in those seven and sophomore Mississippi State had designated hitter innings but let his defense work another opportunity to win Danny Zardon folto the tune of 10 the game in the bottom of lowed with an RBI ground outs. The the 11th on the freshman single through the lefty also walked shortstop Ryan Gridley’s left side to tie the only one Bulldog game, 2-2. hitter in his first single, but LSU left fielder Bolstered by a Jake Fraley delivered a leadoff double into eight innings.

After another one-hop throw to the plate left field by junior slow start, the LSU to tag out sophomore shortstop Alex offense finally Bregman, LSU center fielder Jacob evened the score Robson, ending the inning. took the lead in the in the top of the following inning. fourth, capitalizAfter Bregman’s ing on numerous Bulldog miscues. double, sophomore Zac Houston Hale reached the basepaths on relieved Laster, but Hale singled an error committed by Reynolds on the next at-bat to put runners on to lead off the inning. LSU senior the corners with no outs. Although catcher Kade Scivicque was then Scivicque followed by groundplunked with a pitch, which set ing into a double play, Bregman up junior center fielder Andrew scored to grab a 3-2 lead.

Stevenson’s bunt single to load the With Poche’ cruising into the

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Auburn rolls into Baton Rouge with one of the conference’s best offenses, stacked top-to-bottom with elite power hitters who will test LSU’s young pitching rotation in every at-bat.

As a lineup, Auburn leads the conference with a .368 batting average, 411 runs batted in and a .642 slugging percentage.

Junior infielder Emily Carsone, sophomore infielder Kasey Cooper and junior infielder Jade Rhodes have combined for 52 of Auburn’s 92 homers this season.

Despite the challenge Auburn’s lineup presents, LSU’s rotation has made its mark against elite power hitters this season at home. Against Oklahoma on March 20, Hoover shut down the Sooners’ marquee duo of senior infielders Lauren Chamberlain and Shelby Pendley, who went 0-6 at the plate.

Although the rotation has the talent to shut down hitters, LSU’s key to success will be its ability to cut down the walks and defensive errors plaguing the Tigers

ERRORS, from page 5 paper. Auburn leads the SEC in batting average (.368), hits (504), on-base percentage (.484), home runs (92), RBIs (411) and slugging percentage (.642), meaning it doesn’t need much help when it comes to scoring.

“Limiting the free passes is huge,” said junior catcher Kellsi Kloss. “Auburn is already so talented, you can’t give them any more free passes than they’re already going to give themselves.

They’re going to make their own breaks, but we can’t allow them to capitalize on our mistakes. We need to make sure that our defense is sharp [and] our pitching is sharp, too, because we can’t allow them to capitalize on anything we give them.”

After the Auburn series, LSU will have to shift its focus to the

during their losing streak.

“Giving up extra bases and freebies against Auburn will really work against us with the type of offense they are bringing, the best offense in the SEC on paper,” Torina said.

At the plate, LSU looks to continue its recent success by depending on its combination of speed and power in the lineup.

The Tigers’ record-breaking power hitting pair of junior shortstop Bianka Bell and sophomore Sahvanna Jaquish have combined for 32 homers and 127 RBIs this season.

While Bell and Jaquish are major names, junior first baseman Sandra Simmons emerged as a clutch hitter for LSU this week. In the Tigers’ two wins this week, Simmons has gone 4-for-6 at the plate with one homer and five RBIs. “Sandra is in a great spot and what a good time for it,” Torina said. “It’s so nice to see someone who has worked so hard have it pay off.”

You can reach Morgan Prewitt on Twitter @kmprewitt_TDR.

SEC Tournament and then the NCAA Regionals. In the latest NFCA poll, the SEC has nine ranked teams. When the NCAA Regionals begin, the nation’s top teams from each conference will be competing to move on to Oklahoma City for the Women’s College World Series. Andrews said every team is capable of punishing mistakes in the postseason.

“It just comes down to inches in the postseason,” Andrews said. “Every team is good. Every team is up for a win. Every team is gutsy. If you give a team anything, it really could be the last of the game. If we limit that [and] we play hard, LSU softball, I don’t believe there’s a team that can beat us. We can only beat ourselves.”

You can reach Jack Woods on Twitter @Jack_TDR.

ninth inning, the Bulldogs registered back-to-back singles, bringing Humphreys to the plate with runners on first and second.

Humphreys then drove a ball over Stevenson’s head, banging off the wall in center field, to score Reynolds easily Mississippi State had another opportunity to win the game in the bottom of the 11th on the freshman shortstop Ryan Gridley’s single, but LSU left fielder Jake Fraley delivered a one-hop throw to the plate to tag out sophomore center fielder Jacob Robson, ending the inning.

With scoreless relief performances from sophomore Parker Bugg, senior Zac Person and freshman Jake Godfrey, who got the win, redshirt freshman Jesse Stallings was able to complete his 12th save in the bottom of the 14th inning.

You can reach James Bewers on Twitter @JamesBewers_TDR.

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Why is the protest important to you?

Friday, May 1, 2015

FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS Students represented the University well, need to be addressed

‘So many people want so many things, and they’ve been reluctant to pay taxes.’

Linda Robinson alumna

‘I want LSU to be around for my daughter.’

Heather Perlis alumna

‘Apathy got us where we are now.’

Martin Walke alumnus

‘You’re not going to get anything if you don’t fight for it.’

Will Parrie sports administration junior

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Protesters march toward the Louisiana State Capitol on Thursday in protest of higher education budget cuts.

SMASH THE HATE JAMES RICHARDS Columnist Despite every Yik Yak hater, despite it feeling like 96 degrees in the shade and despite every attempt to crush the spirit of students, LSU showed up at the State Capitol yesterday with a vengeance.

I’ve got to hand it to the organizers for putting together such a coordinated effort. If you didn’t know better, you’d think people were paid to be there as part of a media stunt.

News cameras were everywhere — I stopped counting after eight. Reporters had to hurry people through their statements because so many people wanted to talk about the scourge of budget cuts.

The LSU Alumni Association had tables set up with water and jambalaya that tasted better than what they serve on campus. Before the march began, there were more alumni and graduates at A.Z. Young Park than students, which tells you something about how much of an impact the University has had on past generations.

I was going to bring my own sign, but I was running late and ended up there without one. Never fear — Student Government and Geaux Vote LSU had tables set up with all the supplies to make sure

I had the means to get my point across through at the protest and ballot box.

And oh, were there some smart sounding signs. Among my favorites were: “Bobby Swindle,” “Turn Down For Cuts” and “Jindal betta have my money.” A purple and gold Batman protested alongside a girl in her graduation gown, making the whole thing seem surreal.

It was certainly a millennial-driven protest. Our attention spans didn’t last long enough to make it through the speeches without cheering and chanting in between sentences.

I couldn’t contain myself, either. I started yelling about how “Duck Dynasty” gets better treatment from the legislature than students while everybody was supposed to be messaging legislators from their phones.

The chants started off shaky and improved as the protest went on. At the beginning of the protest, some guy — my guess is a leftist who thought he was in ’70s Chile — started shouting “The students, united, will never be defeated.”

Adapted South American solidarity chants aside, people were certainly making their voices heard. I started a “No funds, no future,” round before the inevitable happened. When you get a bunch of LSU students yelling about something, “Geaux Tigers” is sure to slip in.

Surprisingly, people were civil enough to avoid “F*** Jindal” and “Suck that tiger d***.” Some might say that meant we weren’t angry enough, but

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I think it means we were professional enough to demand respect.

Some legislators certainly gave it to us. Democratic state Rep. John Bel Edwards killed it, promising the crowd that he wouldn’t vote for a budget that cut a single dollar from higher education.

He was definitely just pandering to us so we’d make him the next governor instead of U.S. Sen. David Vitter.

Republican state Sen. “Dan’s the man” Dan Claitor made no such promises, but he did tell protesters how to get to the Governor’s mansion and suggested we stop by there before we left.

Fewer than the 1,800-plus people who RSVP’d on Facebook showed up, but it was far more than the multi-school protest two weeks ago. It seems like the LSU-centric nature of this protest made the turnout bigger, especially with the bus coming from the Veterinary School parking lot.

I don’t know whether legislators listened. I don’t know whether I wasted my time. I don’t know how the budget will look at the end of the legislative session.

What I do know is that I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t send some kind of message. A retired faculty member I talked to summed it up best: “If we don’t show that we care, that definitely sends a message.”

James Richards is a 20-year-old mass communication sophomore from New Orleans. You can reach him on Twitter @JayEllRichy.

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Sexual assault dialogue on campus dangerously lacking LSYOU, BUT DEFINITELY NOT ME LOGAN ANDERSON Columnist About 5 percent of women on college campuses will face rape or attempted rape while in school, according to advocacy group One in Four. That means, statistically, 790 women at LSU were survivors of sexual assault last year.

Despite these stats, only 14 cases of forcible sex offenses were reported to LSUPD in 2013.

This does not mean that LSU is an exceptionally safe school, where so few people are at risk of facing sexual assault crimes that it defies all statistical studies.

This means that, statistically, there are 776 women who did not report their assaults to LSU. The low rate of sexual assault points to a hesitancy to come forward among LSU students. There is a perception among students that reporting their sexual assaults would lead to more harm

than it’s worth.

LSU is not the only campus that faces this issue — universities around the country are discovering the barriers to reporting sexual assault are forcing students to under-report these crimes.

The Louisiana Legislature has recognized this problem and is attempting to remove those barriers in all public college campuses in the state.

State Sen. J.P. Morrell, D-New Orleans, who created a panel to address campus sexual assault last year, introduced two bills that focus on improving the Louisiana’s current campus laws. These bills would mandate that Louisiana colleges do more to evaluate the rates of sex crimes on campus and set up new provisions to make it easier for students to report those crimes.

These bills are vital. By not dealing with the issues surrounding underreporting, LSU leaves all students vulnerable to having to deal with these crimes on their own — a devastating possibility.

Senate Bill 255 mandates that schools conduct voluntary sexual

assault climate surveys each year and report those findings to the legislature and the governor. It also requires that all universities appoint a number of confidential liaisons who are required to inform students of their options for both criminal prosecution and interdisciplinary actions, and who will act as mediaries between students, campus officials and possibly police officers.

This bill also sets up a new framework through which local police can contact schools when informed of a crime. As of right now, the Baton Rouge Police Department is not required to report sexual crimes that involve LSU students to the school faculty.

Additionally, it will grant immunity to students who either witnessed or are survivors of these crimes, yet may be reluctant to come forward because they were under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of the assault.

Because the majority of college students are underage, this provision is incredibly important; students who may have kept information secret due to fear

of facing disciplinary action for being drunk or doing drugs would know they would not be punished for coming forward, regardless of the circumstances surrounding the crime.

The second bill, SB 214, would set up a taskforce to investigate and address issues of sexual assault on all Louisiana universities. This taskforce will be made up of both lawmakers and campus officials, including students, and will study the trends of sexual assault in depth, making reports to the Senate Committee on Education and the Board of Regents.

This taskforce will generate important information regarding sexual assault cases and how they should be handled in order to make sure all universities have the proper provisions in place. It will also suggest new laws based on the problems identified.

Opponents of these bills claim that universities are under too much pressure from budget cuts to begin setting up new positions and investigating crimes that — as far as they’re concerned — are not

happening at a rate that dictates such attention.

However, the implementation of these bills is necessary to protect and inform students on how to deal with sex crimes. Campuses that do not put their student’s best interests at heart are failing as universities; even in the face of budget cuts, student safety must always be the top priority for faculty members.

There are a lot of different factors that contribute to campus sexual assault and its rates of underreporting; these bills only address the tip of the campus sexual assault iceberg.

But these are steps in the right direction. With the help of these bills, and similar bills in the future more students will feel comfortable reporting their sexual assaults to campus officials. At that point, we can begin to get to the root of this deep and troubling problem.

Logan Anderson is mass communication senior from Houston, Texas. You can reach her on Twitter @LoganD_Anderson.

FINALS WEEK FAVES THE CERULEAN CONCILIATOR JUSTIN DICHARIA Columnist

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LSYOU, BUT DEFINITELY NOT ME LOGAN ANDERSON Columnist

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Vet school treats horses in Guatemala

BY JAYCE GENCO jgenco@lsureveille.com Some students go on mission trips for religious reasons, but fourth year School of Veterinary Medicine student Melissa O’Hara traveled to help the horses and mules of Guatemala.

O’Hara and a group of veterinarians traveled to different villages around Antigua during the week long trip to give care to horses in need and educate their owners on the importance of good health.

“They have these animals and they’re their workforce and livelihood, but they don’t know how to take care of them like they should because that’s just how it’s always been done,” O’Hara said. “We kind of tried to educate them and teach them this is why it’s so important that the saddle fits right… there was a lot of education that went into it,” The Texas Equine Veterinary Association offers two scholarships to students in Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas for the Equitarian Project, which provides care to horses and donkeys in the rural areas of Guatemala. O’Hara was the only student selected for the trip.

O’Hara said the group evaluated and treated about 50 to 150 horses each day. She said sometimes the team arrived to the village around 7 a.m. and did not leave until 4 or 5 p.m.

“We’d work on the horses all day long and they’d tell the villagers that we were coming, so by the time we got there, they’d have horses lined up all through the city,” O’Hara said.

“The men would come and bring their horses and children would come and they would all just stand there all day long if they had to.”

The veterinarians and O’Hara treated the horses with vaccinations and provided hoof trimmings and dental care — all free of charge to the villagers.

O’Hara said the team experienced some foreign diseases that have not been seen in the United States for a long time.

She said the villagers do not have the proper medicine or knowledge to eradicate the diseases.

The biggest challenge O’Hara and the veterinarians faced while in Guatemala was the language barrier.

“We had some good translators there, which was really nice, but they weren’t always available so we had to kind of learn to communicate with the native people there and try to figure out what everybody wanted,” O’Hara said.

Even though the villagers knew O’Hara and the group of veterinarians were there to help treat their horses, but some were skeptical of mod-

ern medicine at first. She said some villagers were wary of the veterinarians giving shots to horses, but after explaining that it was good for the horses health, they were fine with it.

O’Hara said the most common problems with the horses they treated were with saddle sores.

It was not only a learning experience for the group of American veterinarians, but also for the Guatemalan veterinarians and students who would be able to continue to help the area, O’Hara said.

“Here in the United States, we take it for granted what we have,” O’Hara said. “You go help these horses and you end up helping the people and the other professionals in the area as well.”

page 11 NOTES, from page 1 violate the Code of Student Conduct if they look to these sites for answers for graded work.

Barras’ office determines consequences on a case by case basis.

“I understand it being against the rules to memorize an old test.

It’s not fair for someone who never goes to class to get an A and someone who is there every day to get an 80,” Miller said. “But posting notes you typed based off of a PowerPoint is helpful if anything, especially for people who might have just missed the first 10 minutes of class.”

Barras said the sites are de-

signed to constantly receive new content, making it difficult to monitor.

The Office of Student Advocacy and Accountability’s three fulltime staff and two graduate assistants do not have the manpower to monitor the different sites, Barras said, but they encourage faculty to look for content from their courses and change their tests.

Sports management sophomore Antoine Regnard said using the sites should not be considered cheating.

“Teachers know about the website and if they want, they could change their tests or change their assignments,” Regnard said.

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