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Volume 121 · No. 45
MONSTERS’ BALL Bell, Jaquish, Kloss bring fire to LSU softball team
BY MARC STEVENS | @MarcStevens_TDR Though the existence of Mexico’s El Chupacabra and Scotland’s Loch Ness are still up for debate, the presence of a three-headed beast on the No. 7 LSU softball team cannot be denied. It’s alive, thriving and constantly on the prowl. Senior infielder Bianka Bell, junior infielder Sahvanna Jaquish and senior catcher Kellsi Kloss combine to form a formidable, three-pronged ,power-hitting monster. “It’s cool to see the dynamic of how we work and how we are back-to-back-to-back in the lineup,” Kloss said. “If you have us in an inning, you have to throw to one of us. We provide the RBIs and the rest of the team gets on for us.”
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DIVERSITY
Office of Diversity launches book club to spark conversation BY KATIE GAGLIANO @katie_gagliano The Office of Diversity launched its diversity book club initiative Monday with a discussion on reporter and author Dan Baum’s “Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans” in the Women’s Center. Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Chair Dereck Rovaris said the initiative’s goal is to provide the campus with a common read that serves as a departure point for discussions about diversity. The initiative will focus on a single book every year, and a new read will be chosen each
fall to mark the arrival of a new President’s Millennial Scholars Program class. The program supports a cohort of underrepresented students, including first generation students, low income students and ethnic minorities, Rovaris said. The frequency of meetings will be left to the discretion of the group each semester. Dan Baum’s “Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans” follows nine New Orleanians after Hurricanes Betsy and Katrina. The book highlights the city’s distinctiveness through the subjects’ diverse voices. Extensive character range and the focus on New Orleans were
key in the novel’s selection, Rovaris said. “We’re sitting in class with people, we look at them, we make a judgment but we don’t really know anything about them,” Rovaris said. “But if we spend a little time getting to know them as we get to know those characters, these characters in this book, you might have a different opinion of them and it might be a little bit better than it initially was.” Understanding diversity is also important beyond the classroom. Joann Guidos, one of the
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Joann Guidos and Wilbert J. Rawlins, Jr., subjects of the book “Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans” participate in a panel discussion in the Women’s Center on Monday.
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