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Devin Almighty Rebuilt linebacking corps leads the LSU defense in 2018, page 2

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SPORTS New Orleans favorite Bud’s Broiler comes to Baton Rouge, page 3 Freshmen react to mandatory on-campus housing policy, page 5

ENTERTAINMENT Both newcomers and veterans show promise for new season for LSU volleyball, page 7

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Devin White leads LSU’s linebacking corp into 2018

BY BRANDON ADAM @badam___ LSU coach Ed Orgeron once had a conversation with defensive coordinator Dave Aranda during a recruiting trip about the team having more scholarship kickers and punters than inside linebackers.

Now Aranda’s linebacking corp goes two-deep at all four positions and three-deep at others.

The obvious anchor is AllAmerican inside linebacker Devin White, who heads into his junior season as a consensus first round pick in the 2019 NFL draft. In Aranda’s 3-4 defense, White plays the Rover position — a playmaking linebacker that flies from sideline to sideline and often gets after the quarterback in a blitz-heavy scheme. White picked up 133 tackles, 14 tackles for a loss and 4 ½ sacks at the position in 2017.

“Everybody wants to know what we are doing and how we done got so good,” White said, “but just know [Aranda] has been working extremely hard and he’s going to have a great game plan every game, and we are going to execute and dominate.”

Next to White is sophomore Jacob Phillips, the top-ranked inside linebacker in the class

of 2017, according to 247sports. com. Phillips beat out sophomore Tyler Taylor — who started five games in 2017 in place of Donnie Alexander — at the Mack inside linebacker during the spring.

Taylor has been suspended indefinitely following reports that recently came to light about his arrest in Georgia back in January. His suspension opened the door for true freshmen Micah Baskerville and Damone Clark, who was praised by Orgeron after the Tigers’ second scrimmage on Aug. 18.

“He’s raw, but he’s good,” White said about Clark. “He won’t redshirt. He’s going to find his way on that field. I don’t know if it’ll be getting a lot of reps at inside linebacker or mostly special teams, but he’s a guy that’s built for the SEC.” So, how has the added depth at the two inside linebacker spots changed White’s approach from 2017 when he rarely — if ever — left the field?

For one, he wants to play more on special teams, proclaiming himself a “kickoff master,” and hopes his leading by example on special teams rubs off on the younger players — much like Jarvis Landry, Duke Riley and Russell Gage have done previously.

White said he is a part of punt

coverage team, but he keeps asking special teams coach Greg McMahon to put him on kickoff coverage as well.

“He will not put me on there, I don’t know why,” White said jokingly. “I keep asking coach Mac to let me get on kickoffs, too, because the more you’re on special teams like that, those count as tackles in the game. So, if I can get those, I think it’d mean a lot.”

Secondly, White is ready to get snaps at running back and become the first two-way player for LSU since former cornerback Donte Jackson did it for a brief period early on in his freshman season in 2015.

“I talked to [offensive coordinator Steve] Ensminger,” White said. “I told him, ‘You recruited me out of high school to run the ball for LSU, and now you really hold a lot of power for who gets the ball, so let me get at least five goal line touchdowns.’”

In high school, White was a Louisiana Sports Writers Association All-State player at running back in 2014 and 2015, when he ran for 1,650 yards and 31 touchdowns as a senior and made it as an athlete in 2013.

White added that Ensminger said “he’s working on it, he’s a man of his word, and hopefully, we can see Devin White run the ball in 2018.”

Even if White doesn’t see the field at running back — which was his solution to the offense’s woes — he still has high praise for the offense he has been competing against for almost three weeks.

“They’ve been doing a lot of NFL stuff,” he said. “I’m not going to say what team they got their stuff from, but they’ve got a great scheme and just getting the playmakers the ball in space. I think they just need to go dominate another defense.

I think they’ve got all the right cards, you just need to know how to play them.”

One of those cards might be putting White in as the wildcat quarterback — a spot that was going to be manned by redshirt freshman quarterback Lowell Narcisse before he transferred to Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College.

White even picked out a name for the package: “The Game Changer.”

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STUDENT LIFE

Reveille archives to soon be digital

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Nicholson Gateway provides students with new views, shopping, dining options

BY MATTHEW BENNETT @mcbennett4

Extending along the western side of campus between West Chimes Street and Skip Bertman Drive lies Nicholson Gateway, providing residents with a view of Tiger Stadium on one side and the Mississippi River on the other.

Brought about by a shortage of on-campus housing at the Univerity, the complex comprises seven residential halls, a University Recreation space, a local grocery store called Matherne’s Market and 1,550 new parking spaces including a parking

garage. A retail area still in development will include Starbucks, Wendy’s, Frutta Bowls, Private Stock Sneakers and Apparel, along with several unannounced venues including a rooftop restaurant.

“I don’t think students yet can conceptualize how it’s really going to be like a traditional neighborhood development,” said Associate Director of Communications and Development Catherine David. “You’ll have everything you need right here.”

The project has been in the works since 2012, its completion amounted to $235 million and was funded by a public-private partnership with RISE: A Real Estate Company.

Students began moving into their apartments Aug. 9. The University offers 10-month and 12-month leases.

The cost of rent per semester ranges from $4,000-$7,000, and the summer rent ranges from $2,000-$3,600.

International business and finance freshman Charles Klous, who is a

Soon, 130 years of previously inaccessible information will be available for everyone.

The Daily Reveille Digitization Initiative is picking up speed almost a year after the project began. The initiative is to preserve original copies of The Daily Reveille is finishing up its first batch of digitization, with 36,000 pages of early issues of the paper already digitized.

These papers span from 1960 to 1980 and give students a firsthand look into generations of University students. The first batch of digitization has newspapers from the Martin Luther King, Jr. and John F. Kennedy and JFK assassinations, as well as other significant historical moments.

The University’s Head of Digital Programs and Services Scott Ziegler finds these historical papers fascinating.

“This will be very interesting to map issues of the Reveille that correspond to national moments to sort of see the JFK assassination [and] the MLK assassination,” Ziegler said.

“We’ll be able to see how the student media is portraying these.

We’ll be able to sort of map the different ways that local is-

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Popular New Orleans restaurant Bud’s Broiler opens on Nicholson Drive

BY MATTHEW BENNETT @mcbennett4 Original hickory smoked sauce, cheap hamburgers, Barq’s root beer and flaked ice – these are the ingredients that make Nicholson Drive’s newest restaurant Bud’s Broiler so special.

The famous New Orleans restaurant opened a location on Nicholson Drive on July 6.

Owner Shannon McGuire is excited for the LSU community to experience the restaurant.

“We came weeks before school started, so we’re waiting for the students,” McGuire said. “It’s so affordable. We have regular customers already.”

Bud’s Broiler offers an array of hamburgers, hot dogs, sandwiches, fries and milkshakes,

maintaining the original menu Alfred “Bud” Saunders created at the first restaurant in New Orleans in 1952. Since then, nine Bud’s Broiler locations have opened in New Orleans.

Business manager David Dillard wants to preserve the simple set-up from the original Bud’s Broiler in New Orleans and build a community of regular customers.

“A lot of people have their number memorized when they walk in. They don’t even have to look at the menu,” Dillard said.

“They say ‘I’m a No. 4 person’ or ‘I’m a No. 1 person.’”

Regular customer and Baton Rouge resident Rebecca Stanford, who has a daughter that teaches at the University and a son at the LSU School of

Architecture, says she and her husband are “delighted” the restaurant has opened up in Baton Rouge.

“I’m a No. 6 girl,” Stanford said. “He’s a No. 4. It’s the best.

We’re from New Orleans. We’d go back just across the line to get into Kenner and get a good burger.”

McGuire says it is no accident the new Bud’s Broiler location is only separated from Tigerland

by Nicholson Drive.

“Being right by Tigerland, it just kind of felt like it was perfect,” McGuire said. “Our hickory smoke sauce is what makes us famous, and it’s really good for hangovers.”

The new Baton Rouge restaurant replicated the same wooden

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Carry-out bags are marked with a signature logo at Bud’s Broiler on Aug. 17.

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Wednesday, August 22, 2018

RESEARCH

LSU Vet School professor awarded $147,000 for antibiotics research

BY BEN HOLDEN @benjaminholde10 LSU Veterinary Professor Yogesh Saini will begin research this month to help fight the growing problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Dr. Saini’s research is funded by the Louisiana Board of Regents, which gives out research grants every year. Last year, Dr. Saini was one of 151 applicants for a Research Competitiveness grant. He recently learned that he was among the 14 proposals to receive the grant, receiving $147,000 to fund his research.

Antibiotics are drugs that fight bacterial infections and have greatly improved modern medicine. The number of fatal infections has dropped dramatically since the invention of penicillin in 1928.

It is not uncommon for doctors to overprescribe antibiotics to patients, according to the World Health Organization.

Many people take over-thecounter antibiotics for viruses such as the flu. The animal industry routinely misuses antibiotics as well, by using antibiotics to regularly to promote growth.

Antibiotic misuse has led to antibiotic-resistant strains of

bacteria. These strains cannot be cured with modern antibiotics. Antibiotic-resistant strains of infections like pneumonia are already reaching “high levels” around the world, according to the WHO. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria can threaten decades of progress made in modern medicine without new forms of treatment.

Saini is researching a method to help fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria in patients’ lungs.

He hopes to develop a pharmaceutical that will enhance the host’s immune system clear bacteria in the lungs instead of developing more powerful antibiotics to fight infection. Dr. Saini called this pharmaceutical preparation a “magic bullet” designed to “enhance macrophage function” in the lungs.

Macrophages are large white blood cells responsible to fighting away bacterial infections. “[The enhanced macrophages] will be expected to target all the bacterial species including antibiotic-resistant strains,” Dr. Saini said.

The research will take three years and involve extensive experimentation on geneticallyaltered mice. The mice will all have cystic fibrosis — a genetic disorder that makes the host

particularly susceptible to bacterial infection in the lungs. The mice will also have geneticallyaltered macrophages, and the researchers will observe how their defense systems respond to bacterial infection in the lungs.

Then, they will use the mice to discover how to strengthen a host’s macrophages so that antibiotics would not be needed to fight infection.

“We have made significant progress in developing tools for the mice-based studies,” Saini said.

They anticipate moving on to testing pharmaceutical preparations that can strengthen macrophages soon. These preparations will be then be tested on various animals before making it to humans.

“If everything goes well, we anticipate the development of therapeutics in foreseeable future,” Dr. Saini said.

The $147,000 grant is expected to cover all the costs of his research including hiring student workers to assist him in his laboratory.

Saini knows the potential benefits of his research, and is confident that his proposal would be among the few chosen to receive the research grant.

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LSU assistant professor of Comparative Biomedical Sciences Dr. Yogesh Saini received a $147,000 grant to study antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

“The availability of all the transgenic mice, convincing preliminary data and our expertise in this area of research was

expected to return favorable outcome.” Saini said, “Obviously, it was nice to see that the proposal did exceptionally well.”

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RESIDENTIAL LIFE

LSU freshmen weigh pros, cons of living on campus

BY BRITTNEY FORBES @itsbritforbes

Starting this semester, all University freshmen are required to live on campus. So far, this policy has been met with mixed feelings.

The University had 29,292 students enrolled last spring and the number continues to grow with what is expected to be the largest freshmen class recorded.

About 6,000 students live in oncampus dorms and apartments.

Associate Director of Communications and Development of Residential Life Catherine David said first-year students who live on campus are more likely to be engaged with the University, have higher GPAs and higher graduation rates, establishing a “foundation for success.”

“The University sees the value of the living requirement for the first-year students,” David said.

“It helps students get immersed into the campus culture, finding their place at LSU. They feel comfortable so they can grow personally, academically and really flourish.

The University attempted to initiate the freshman residency requirement in 2008, but not enough housing was available to

support the students.

David said the recent construction of the Nicholson Gateway Apartments for upperclassmen and Spruce Hall for freshmen gave the University enough beds to accommodate the freshman class and the upperclassmen who want to stay on campus.

The University was one of the last SEC schools without a “freshman live-on requirement,” according to David.

With so many students who live at the University, rumors struck that there was not enough parking for students on campus in all zones: residents, commuters and other reserved spaces. David said those rumors are false.

“People just don’t want to park far out and walk,” David said.

“They want to be at their front door. That’s just not something this campus is designed for.”

David said the Department of Residential Life works with the Department of Parking and Transportation Services to make plans for the additional cars that will have an impact on the infrastructure anytime new resident halls or apartments are built. They also consider that not all 30,000 students will be on campus at once.

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Residential College One sits in the sunlight on Jan. 25, 2017.

This fall, several lots were added near Aster Street and Tiger Band Hall to accommodate residents who bring their vehicles to campus.

Sociology freshman Anna Hurder has mixed feelings about living on campus. Hurder said that by living on campus she can be more in touch with the University, but she believes all of the academic things she could do in her dorm could have been accomplished in an apartment off campus.

“It’s easier to just walk out of

my door and just get where I need to,” Hurder said.

The No. 1 complaint Hurder has about living on campus is the issue of parking.

“The fact that all freshman have to live on campus really escalates the [parking] problem,” Hurder said.

Music freshman Taylisse Boissonneault said living on campus is very convenient for her.

“Everything is close,” Boissonneault said. “The Pentagon is five minutes away from my music

building, so that’s pretty nice.

Boissonneault said she has no complaints about parking because she owns a scooter.

“I feel like, for cars, it’d be horrible,” Boissonneault said.

Hurder and Boissonneault both said the gate outside the Pentagon that holds the residents’ cars has been broken for four days, causing students to walk around campus.

Both girls said despite this, they are enjoying living on campus.

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The Science of Style: Agriculture senior interns at fashion design company

BY BRITTNEY FORBES @itsbritforbes Nathan Watson knew from a young age he wanted to be a fashion designer, but he didn’t always know an agriculture degree would take him there.

Watson, who is a senior, is pursuing a textiles-based major in the LSU College of Agriculture, rather than attending a university that focuses on liberal arts. “[At LSU] there’s an emphasis on the chemistry and textiles and how the fabric feels,” Watson said. “Being able to communicate actually helped me at Proenza so much — knowing the folds of fabrics, the weights of fabrics, -specifically with the designers. Being able to communicate that because of that science-based major helped me out [ten-fold], which I loved.”

Proenza Schouler is a wellknown womenswear brand, with clothing and accessories ranging from $100 to $3,950.

The company is a five-time winner of the Council of Fashion Designers of America Award.

Watson was surprised to receive an internship with the company. He said he applied to “unrealistic” internships

because he knew he had to “go big or go home.” He received a FaceTime interview with the company, which praised Watson’s portfolio and believed he fit the brand very well.

He was the head design intern, with other interns working under him. He also worked directly with designers Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, who made their mark by working with Barneys New York. Watson’s responsibilities included collaborating with the designers about what kind of fabrics to use, understanding fabrics, seeing if shipments needed to be sent to Italy and sewing runway samples.

“It was the most unbelievable experience I’ve ever had,” Watson said. “To be able to watch two designers who are the most awarded designers in fashion, seeing how they work and their creativity...what sparks it.”

When Watson was a child, he loved playing dressup with his sisters and their dance costumes Being their stylist sparked his interest in fashion.

One of Watson’s fashion inspirations included Lady Gaga when she became popular.

Her “freshness” inspired him to begin sketching and de-

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signing his own work.

Watson plans to go to New York City after graduation to pursue his dream of having his own label. He wants to first learn how every major designer designs so that he can create something no one has ever done before.

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page 6 BUD’S, from page 3 tables and brick walls featured in the original Bud’s Broiler restaurant. McGuire highlighted the Game of Thrones-themed pinball machine, jukebox, golf video game system and nine televisions that display sports throughout the day.

McGuire also owns the Bud’s Broiler in the New Orleans City Park, which closed down after Hurricane Katrina. Being a New Orleans native and “big Bud’s Broiler fan since childhood,”

GATEWAY, from page 3 resident of Nicholson Gateway, is pleased with both the setup and location of the University’s latest housing complex.

“I think it’s super nice,” Klous said. “It’s modern. It’s spacious. I think it’s great to be able to just walk downstairs and get my food.

It’s not really a long walk to class either.”

Nicholson Gateway enforces similar security measures that can be found among other on-campus housing locations.

Residents must use their LSU PAWS IDs to swipe into each apartment building, to use the elevators and to access their rooms along with a four-digit PIN code.

There are also three 24-hour help desks.

David said that the University is doing everything to keep its residents safe in a convenient manner.

McGuire decided to purchase it in 2009 to reopen. It did not take long for she and Dillard to team up to bring the restaurant to Baton Rouge.

“We love it here,” Dillard said. “We feel like we’re learning more every day with Baton Rouge.”

Both McGuire and Dillard spoke about their openness to meeting more LSU students and fans, as they already plan on hosting Greek Life Exchanges and catering LSU tailgating events.

“We don’t grant access to anybody that doesn’t live here,” David said. “As long as you’re not disturbing your roommates or the community, [then] visitation is 24 hours. RAs are not here to be watchdogs, or anything like that.

They’re a resource.”

Chemistry graduate student Isaac Dos Reis said he already feels safe at Nicholson Gateway.

“One of the big reasons I decided to live on campus is because it felt safer than going off campus,” Dos Reis said.

“I wanted the peace of mind.

That’s a big reason why I came here.”

While some residents see the various levels of security as an effective safety tool, others see it as an inconvenience. Theatre junior Streisand Zeno said the card-swiping requirements are difficult for having friends over.

“If I want to have a little

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(top left to right) Business manager David Dillard and franchise owner Shannon McGuire visit with store regulars (bottom left to get-together, I have to go all the way downstairs to open the door and get my guest up the elevator,” Zeno said. “[The University] advertised the apartments to be guest friendly, with the pictures in advertisements that depicted friends having a gathering on game day. [This implied] that it would be great for such events, and it is nothing of the sort.”

Residential Assistant and Psychology Prelaw sophomore Gracie Wilburn said the view from her room was the first thing she noticed when she moved in.

“I have three huge windows that cover my wall, and I can see over Tiger Stadium [and] into campus,” Wilburn said. “I’m on call for the LA Tech game, and I’m literally just going to sit in my room and watch the game from the big screen because I can see it clear as day.”

REVEILLE, from page 3 sues are handled in the press, or not handled at all in the press.”

The initiative is spearheaded by the LSU library, in partnership with the Manship School of Mass Communication, which has many alumni excited for the digitization, including Manship School of Mass Communication Dean Martin Johnson.

“It’s a really great initiative whose time has more than come,” Johnson said. “It’ll be really fantastic for so many different kinds of people to be able to access historical Reveille online.”

As a former editor of The Daily Reveille, Johnson finds the digitization personally significant. Though he has a bound copy of all the issues he oversaw, he thinks it will mean a lot to other newspaper alumni.

“I was editor in spring of ‘91 and I think it’s really exciting to see my own Reveilles

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Nicholson Gateway Apartments sits on a 28-acre site between West Chimes Street and Skip Bertman Drive on Aug. 20. online,” Johnson said. “But I, as a lot of editors have done in the past, have a bound copy of mine. So, I lug a book of my Reveilles around, but it will be great to see all of those online, for not just me but for the staffs that I worked with and the people we covered. I think a lot of folks will be interested in that.”

The papers have to be legible before cultural studies can be done. Digitizing The Daily Reveille is a painstaking process. Digitization cannot be done on campus since the scope is so large. Instead, volumes of Reveilles, each containing several years and several hundred pages, are sent off to the vendor.

The original pages are scanned, then read by people to make sure the words are legible. Then, the articles are separated to make individual pieces easier to find.

Other tests and processes also have to be done before the finished digitalized product can be posted to the Louisiana

Digital Library.

“It takes a couple of seconds per page,” Ziegler said. “The majorityoftheworkgoesintohaving people test the text and have humans reread it to try to catch typos that the machines do. The first pass of extracting the text is done by a machine and then we have humans doing quality control on that. Then we have article segmentation so it takes increasingly more time.”

As The Daily Reveille has been publishing for over 100 years, mostly with daily issues, there are still many newspapers left undigitized. Funding for the initiative is also lacking, with around $75,000 still needed to complete the project.

Ziegler says he remains passionate about the initiative and that digitizing The Daily Reveille should be a priority. “[This initiative] is a way to match what we learn about the history of our city and our state to what the official voice of LSU students were saying about it,” Ziegler said.

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BUMP IT UP LSU volleyball freshmen hope to build off strong 2017 season

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BY JBRIAAN JOHNSON @jbriaanjohnson photos courtesy of LSUSports.net

ith a new season looming, LSU volleyball has its sights set on success for the 2018 season. Last season, the Tigers orchestrated coach Fran Flory’s winningest season since 2014, led by a collection of promising talent.

This year’s team welcomes five newcomers: defensive specialist Kate Cowan, middle blocker Whitney Foreman, setter Darian Goins, defensive specialist Leigh Maher, and outside hitter Paige Hilliard.

Flory has expressed her excitement for her newest additions and how wellprepared they are coming from particular organizations, while playing with other high-caliber players. Flory believes with more time becoming acclimated to the installed system, the freshmen class could be tremendous assets to the team.

“The freshmen are all from bigger clubs and have had a higher level of training and teaching than many of the kids we’ve had come through our program,” Flory said. “It is a special class, and I see a lot of great leadership attributes that we will be able to rely on in the future. That makes a very balanced group, and I am excited about that.”

Flory has her eyes set particularly on Whitney Foreman to potentially have a breakout year as a true freshman and earn pivotal playing time on the hardwood. The 6-foot-2-inch Houston-native has made an early impression on the coaching staff and set the

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Coaching changes may be a factor in LSU’s quarterback shortage CAL’D UP CHRIS CALDARERA Columnist It’s often said that tradition never graduates.

The faces of the players suiting up to take the field, the coaching staff overseeing the program and the students sending thunderous cheers from the stands may change with each passing year, but school traditions stand the test of time.

Fans still line the street as the football team and Tiger Band march down

Victory Hill, players still gather by the student section after games to sing the Alma Mater and national audiences still tune in for Saturday nights in Tiger Stadium.

While most traditions incite a sense of pride among LSU’s impassioned fan base, there is one relatively new tradition that the purple and gold faithful would prefer to change.

It’s no secret that LSU has a tough time keeping quarterbacks on the roster.

As pointed out by Sports Illustrated’s Ross Dellenger, LSU has had 13 recruiting classes since 2005. Of those

13 classes, 20 quarterbacks have signed with the Tigers, but only four have completed their collegiate careers with LSU. Fourteen of the 20 signed quarterbacks were either dismissed, transferred or switched positions. Nine never played a single down in purple and gold.

The recent transfer announcements of Lowell Narcisse and Justin McMillan are the latest departures in the revolving door of LSU quarterbacks, and the Tigers are now left with two scholarship quarterbacks on

see QUARTERBACKS, page 9

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LSU then-junior quarterback Justin McMillan (12) runs with the ball during the purple team’s 28-27 victory against the gold team during the Spring Game on April 21 at Tiger Stadium.

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Wednesday, August 22, 2018

SOCCER

LSU soccer falters in first game, hopes to bounce back in 2018

BY BRANDON DECAREAUX @brandondec77 The LSU women’s soccer team kicked off the 2018 soccer season on Saturday looking to build on their success from last year.

The Tigers faced off against Villanova, falling to the Wildcats 2-1 after two weather delays postponed the game for nearly two hours. The weather delays seemed to affect the Tigers as they ended up with 13 corner kicks but were unable to convert on any of them.

Senior forward Alex Thomas scored the lone goal for the Tigers after a Villanova penalty in the 66th minute awarded the Tigers with a penalty kick. The goal brings Thomas’ career total to 11 after a great junior season that saw her lead LSU with eight goals.

“We had a composed chance in the box and got a penalty,” coach Brian Lee said. “Alex took it very well.”

The team brought back 15 letterwinners from last year’s

team that saw them finish the season with an 8-7-3 record.

The Tigers are led by its strong senior class that includes Thomas, Christyna Pitre and Caroline Brockmeier. All three players had stellar junior seasons as they look to return to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2015.

Pitre, an experienced midfielder, comes into the season having played in 44 career contests during her three-year career at LSU. Brockmeier returns for her last season, having tallied 14-career shutouts at goalie while recording a career best 1.14 goals against average last season. With 14 shutouts in her first two seasons on campus Brockmeier enters the season ranked fifth in program history in shutouts.

Lee leads the Tigers once again as hhe enters his 14th season with the team. Lee holds a 130-101-42 career record at LSU, accounting for nearly 40 percent of the soccer team’s wins during his tenure.

The Tigers are also lead by three talented sophomores who shined in their freshman campaigns.

Chiara Ritchie-Williams was a key player on the defensive side of the ball, starting all 18 matches for the Tigers. RitchieWilliams’ impressive defensive ability earned her second team All-SEC honors making it 14 consecutive years that LSU has had an All-SEC representative.

Tinaya Alexander, another talented sophomore, will look to build on her offensive success from last season as she led the team in assists with seven while scoring three goals of her own. Lucy Parker also returns hoping to improve on the offensive side of the ball where she scored three goals and assisted on four others.

Out of the Tigers’ 18-match season, three of their matches will be televised. Two will appear nationally on the ESPN networks and the third on Cox Sports Television. With the loss in the opening week, the Tigers will try to control what they can

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LSU then-junior goalkeeper Caroline Brockmeier (14) punts the ball while thenfreshman defender Chiara Ritchie-Williams (4) runs up the field during the Tigers’ 0-1 loss against Vanderbilt on Sept. 17, 2017 at the LSU Soccer Stadium. and strive to make it back to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in three seasons.

The team has a great opportunity to get on the win-

ning side of things with an away matchup against Liberty on Aug. 23 and a home matchup against Texas State scheduled for Aug. 26.

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David Ducre steps up as tight ends struggle for depth

BY KENNEDI LANDRY @landryyy

David Ducre never expected to change positions, especially not during his senior season.

After three years with only two catches for four total yards at fullback, Ducre is ready for a new challenge at tight end.

“Nothing really is that challenging,” Ducre said. “Probably the most major challenge I’ve had so far is learning the new blocking scheme. We’ve got a new O-line coach and all the blocking terminology and everything has changed. So, it’s been a little bit of time to learn the different calls.”

Ducre has had to make adjustments in his blocking, especially in pad leverage, he said.

At six feel tall and 242 pounds, Ducre is one of the smaller tight ends on the roster and is now constantly blocking larger guys than he is used to.

“Blocking as a tight end the majority of the time I start off with no head of steam, and you have to basically fight for leverage, fight for hand position, and you have to dig them out pretty much,” Ducre said. “But from fullback, most of the time you have a full head of steam, you are able to square people up and just run through them.”

LSU was struggling for depth at tight end behind senior Foster Moreau in the offseason, and was further hindered when Jamal Pettigrew went down with a knee injury.

That’s where Ducre came in.

Before the first preseason scrimmage, Ducre was walking into the running backs room for position meetings when offensive coordinator Steve Ensminger sent him in the tight ends room.

“I was kind of ready for it, but it still caught me a little off guard,” Ducre said.

Ducre said sometimes the

coaching staff would throw him into the position on third down to see what he knew, but otherwise, he had never played tight end.

The first day was hard as he struggled to keep up and learn as much as he could in a short amount of time.

“I’ve always been a smart kid,” Ducre said. “I’ve always knew the whole offense, even when I was younger I knew what everybody was doing, so even if I did have to make a move, mentally wise, it wasn’t going to be that difficult for me to make that move.”

Ducre, who played running back in high school and full back his first three years at LSU, believes he is a good fit at tight end.

He even believes he has the best hands within a tight end corps he joined only two weeks ago. Moreau emphasized Ducre’s speed and footwork after his years of working with LSU’s running backs coaches.

“I feel like calling him versatile is disrespectful,” Moreau said. “The dude can really do anything. He’s been a running back, he’s been a tight end, he’s been a Matt Canada H-back here. He can go line up outside the numbers and run the nine routes. The guy does a really good job, and he’s always accepted his role in the offense.”

Ducre believes he’s finally ready to make a difference on offense. Despite a few nagging

injuries, the tight end group continues to develop alongside the new offense.

But in a fairly crowded tight end room, nobody’s position is guaranteed, and competition continues to be tight.

“Shoot, I mean if a guy stands out over me, he can take my job,” Moreau said. “The depth chart is etched in sand as Coach O likes to say. No position is promised on this football team, which really drives the competition. The tight ends have been doing well.”

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LSU then-junior fullback/tight end David Ducre (41) runs down the field during the Tigers’ 35-26 win against Syracuse on Sept. 23, 2017 in Tiger Stadium.

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Wednesday, August 22, 2018 QUARTERBACKS, from page 7 the roster with the season opener fast approaching.

While the lack of quarterbacks is an immediate issue for coach Ed Orgeron and his staff, there is a glaringly large question many fans are still trying to answer: Why can’t LSU hang on to its quarterbacks?

Some speculate that transfers are part of the collegiate game now and claim that the rate of transfers at schools across the board are higher now then they were in past years.

A lack of patience for playing time seems to especially be the case at the quarterback position. According to a Fox Sports study, 46.9 percent of four- and five-star quarterbacks transferred at least once from 2011-14.

While high turnover rates at the quarterback position are prevalent in the modern

VOLLEYBALL, from page 7 bar high for herself. “[Foreman] is a significant athlete and someone who simply finds a way to score,” Flory said. “I am not sure if she will put up the numbers Taylor [Bannister] did because I don’t know if she will be put in that situation positionally, but she can have a year that warrants an All-Freshman team or some other accolades by the end.”

Flory also mentioned how important it is for the freshmen to adapt to the higher level of physicality they will be introduced to over the course of the season. Adjusting to a more aggressive style of play will be key to having the desired success within a conference such as the SEC. With the new season officially beginning two days from now, focus has shifted squarely to the first match against Baylor. This team has all of the ingredients to build on what was an encouraging season last year. With steady development as the year progresses, LSU can put itself in position to achieve many goals at the end of the season. Despite losing four seniors from last year, LSU does

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era of college football, LSU terback conundrum is solely has also had the misfortune due to the Tigers’ coaching of having inconsistency carousel. I believe it could plague its coaching staff. be a big reason LSU has been Since LSU’s quarterback hard-pressed to hang on to woes began in 2005, the Ti- its quarterbacks, but there gers have gone through five are exceptions to every rule. offensive coorConsistent dinators in that quarterback same time span. According to a Fox Sports play has been As the offen- study, 46.9 percent of four a staple for sive leadership and five-star quarterbacks the Alabama changed, LSU transferred at least once Crimson Tide’s quarterbacks five national from 2011-2014. have had to accha mpionsh ips climate themsince Nick Saselves to new ban’s arrival in schemes every few years.

2007, but the Tide have also It’s hard to sell top re- gone through six offensive cruits on a school when next coordinators in that period. season’s offensive philosoThe simplest explanation phy is a complete mystery, for the disparity at the quarand returning quarterbacks terback position between the may be more inclined to look Tigers and Tide despite their for the greener pastures of a similar circumstances might program with consistent and boil down to tradition. proven coordinators.

Alabama has a tradition However, it should be of winning, and LSU has a noted that I’m not claiming tradition of quarterbacks flying that the root of LSU’s quar- the coop.

[Foreman] is a significant athlete and someone who simply finds a way to score.

FRAN FLORY

LSU volleyball coach not have any shortage of skillful returners and newcomers, making the Bayou Bengals one of the deepest teams in the Southeastern Conference. Flory has taken great pleasure in watching her players grow throughout their time at LSU and intends to see that growth on display this year.

“We are a whole lot more physical than we have been in recent memory,” Flory said. “When you have key returners, especially in the middle position, that adds stability both offensively and defensively.”

Perhaps the biggest return for LSU will be last year’s team leader in kills and three-time SEC Freshman of the Week winner, sophomore Taylor Bannister.

Bannister’s value to the team

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LSU then-freshman quarterback Lowell Narcisse (2) runs during the purple team’s 28-27 victory against the gold team during the Spring Game on April 21 at Tiger Stadium.

Rodriguez and Olivia Beyer, as well as juniors Jacqui Armer and Anna Zwiebel. All of these players had superb seasons last year and showed the coaching staff what they are capable of doing on a consistent basis.

A lack of leadership will certainly not be a problem for LSU with such a large number of returning veterans and players who have experience with achieving success.

“I am a big believer that the junior class leads the team, and if you have great leaders in the junior class, you will have a very good year,” Flory said. “This year’s junior class with Milan [Stokes], Sydney [Mukes], Jacqui [Armer], and Anna [Zwiebel] have the same personality and opportunity as last year’s junior class. They have prepared really well and I am excited about that.”

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proved to be infinite with her dynamite play as a first-year player, and Flory expects an even bigger year in 2018.

“She arrived on the scene early last year as a freshman and matured a lot as a volleyball player and as a person,” Flory said. “When Taylor got here, she didn’t know how good she really was. A lot of what she did was from showing her athleticism, and she has now become a true volleyball player and uses her athleticism, knowledge and volleyball I.Q. to succeed.”

Bannister is only the beginning of what is a lengthy list of reliable assets Flory can depend on to deliver when needed. Other key returners for the Tigers are seniors Toni

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LSU alumnus shows campus’ unseen beauty

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itled “Forever LSU,” University alumnus Michael Key’s collection of landscape photography introduces a new perspective of the beauty all around LSU’s campus. The exhibit opened in the Student Union Art Gallery on Aug. 24 and will be open through Sept. 24.

Key graduated with a Bachelor’s in Political Science and a Masters in Marketing. Key now

works as a Public Information Officer and still finds the time to hone in his talent for photography. In Jan. 2018, Key decided to use his developed skills to show the University in a way that he did not experience while he was attending the school.

“I had to disassociate my personal ties to the LSU campus because I was always looking at it in just a one-world point of

view,” Key said. “I really had to separate myself and just kind of start from scratch on how I look at LSU because when you’re focused as a student, it’s different as an alumnus and it’s completely different as a photographer. So it’s like going through these separate phases as having to view LSU through a different lens.”

The gallery depicts landscapes that students, teachers

and visitors see everyday in a way that many don’t notice in passing. Key said he wanted people to see there wasn’t just one thing that defines the University –– it is the things that you see in your day to day life that just need to be seen from a new perspective.

“You really have to be weary of depth, the details and how you give the viewer a sense of pro-

spective,” Key said “That really pushed me to look at all of these well-known LSU locations and put them in different perspectives and just a more surrounding, open worldview and how everything just fits together in and of itself.”

Since the beginning, Key’s main interest was landscapes and all he ever wanted to do was to travel and take pictures of the

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Local artist aims to show rappers in positive light

BY KELLY SWIFT @kellbell237

Kendric Luhmont, more commonly known as “The LuhMont” or just “LuhMont,” is breaking the stigma behind young, modern rappers by staying focused, keeping away from drugs and challenging himself to test other genres.

He wrote the majority of his latest album “Still on Fire” in just one day. “Still on Fire” is made of 10 songs that shouldn’t flow, but manage to mesh together well. LuhMont spent hours crafting the lyrics for seven of the album’s songs that day.

“The lyrics all have meaning to me. There isn’t a song that I’ve put out that isn’t a part of me,” LuhMont said.

The first song, “Meditate,” kicks the album off on a mellow beat with surprisingly intense lyrics: “Will I fail or prevail, will I end up dead or in jail?”

LuhMont said he is inspired by Nas and Tupac, who are both known for songs that speak on real world topics like violence and white privilege. LuhMont said he wants to bring emotion back into the rap world instead of just talking about drugs and guns.

LuhMont is trying to break the stereotype that rappers need to be associated with gangs, drugs and other criminal activity, but that isn’t to say he’ll never rap about it. He has personal experience with the violence that can come from guns.

He has seen friends shot and has consequences, which makes his raps even more personal.

“Guns can look cool, but I don’t want young kids who listen to my music to think that I just hang around with guns all day. That isn’t me,” LuhMont said.

His most recent music video for his single “Rollin’” features several guns, so LuhMont is considering taking it down.

“It’s a good video, but it’s just not what I envisioned for the song,” LuhMont said.

“The more I watch it the more I realize that it isn’t me.”

LuhMont produced his own music video for his song “Boom Bye” Jan. 2018.

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LuhMont (left) and Germx (right) talk about their rap careers on Aug. 20, in downtown Baton Rouge.

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MUSIC

Rapper T.I. brings nostalgia to 2018 Bengal Bound Concert

BY MICHELLE GAUCHET @michelleg_0115

Students celebrated their return to campus at rapper T.I.’s concert to close out Bengal Bound 2018, the University’s official welcome week, on Aug. 18.

The concert, hosted by the Student Activities Board, Student Government and Campus Life, wrapped up the week of activities scheduled to get students excited about the University and encourage involvement on campus for Bengal Bound.

“Bengal Bound was extended to a week this year, so the students moved in a week early, and it really gave the opportunity for us to have bigger events like this,” SAB President Walter Scott said. “More people are encouraged to go, like the freshmen on campus. We were actually reached out to by the committee to try to throw a concert.”

SAB tweeted out a poll in May, asking for student input on who should perform at the Bengal Bound 2018 concert. People could vote between Charli XCX, DNCE, T.I. and Tracy Morgan.

Based on the poll, more than

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T.I. performs at LSU’s Bengal Bound Concert in the PMAC on Aug. 18. half of the students who voted wanted to see T.I. perform at the University. Scott said they did not expect to get as many retweets and votes as they did when they initially posted it.

“We talked to our middle agent, and they gave us a list of people who were available and in our price range, and we put them on Twitter to see who people wanted,” Scott said. “It was as simple as that. We wanted to

see who really gauged interest in people. Clearly, it was T.I.” SAB reached out to SG to use money from SG’s new initiative fund to put on the concert.

DJ C-Mix hyped up the crowd before T.I.’s performance with a mix of throwbacks and current hits, from TLC’s “No Scrubs” to Drake’s “God’s Plan.” DJ C-Mix also brought out local rapper and University fan favorite Darker Parker.

T.I. performed some of his biggest hits like “Whatever You Like,” “Live Your Life” and “Bring Em Out.” He encouraged the crowd of students to work hard to get to where they want to in life, saying that he’s living proof that any of them can do anything in the world, based on where he came from to where he is today.

At the end of the concert, T.I. brought a guest he met through

the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America on stage to perform with him.

With all the hype leading up to the concert and the excitement garnered from the Twitter poll in May, students said the concert was exactly how they wanted it to be.

“It was good,” kinesiology senior Glory Ogunyinka said.

“It was hype. It was what I expected from T.I.”

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REV R ANKS SHARP OBJECTS HBO

Based on Gillian Flynn’s bestselling book, HBO released a disturbing yet addictive series –– “Sharp Objects.” The series features troubled journalist Camille Preaker (Amy Adams) who is assigned to return to her hometown to cover the murders of two young girls. Camille possesses no relationship with her family after the death of younger sister, and is forced with the task of facing her destructive and disturbing past to solve the murders haunting the eerie town of Wind Gap, Missouri.

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‘To All the Boys I Loved Before’ perfect teen rom-com genre

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Let’s face it —no one expected “Slender Man” to be a good movie. From the get-go, the film was slated to be played at mediocre movie parties where the guests can easily ignore the thick of the plot. Slenderman was born on the internet and is weathering his death throes on the big screen. The creepypasta king was never meant to survive the wider world. Saying more about “Slender Man” would be a waste of pixels, a waste of ink. At the end of the day, I’ve listened to creepier Coldplay songs. Give this one a pass.

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The album’s intro, “STARGAZING,” is a song that personifies what people experience with psychedelics. The song makes listeners almost dizzy with Scott’s intensely auto-tuned falsetto. The album makes a choppy transition into “CAROUSEL,” which has a softer beat, than “STARGAZING.” The last song, “COFFEE BEAN” has a quick, consistent and jazzy beat which helps bring the album to a pleasant end. While the album is quite the journey, it is well worth the ride.

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The cinematic aesthetic derived from teen rom-coms is brought back to life in the Netflix original film “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before.” Adapted from Jenny Han’s 2014 novel of the same name, the teen romance gives the audience a chance to do what we all wish we could — relive the awkwardness that is high school.

The film centers around Korean-American teen Lara Jean (Lana Condor) as she faces consequences after five of her personal letters are sent out by mistake. Every time Lara Jean falls in love with a boy, she writes them a letter, addresses it and hides the letter away in a hat box for her eyes only.

By the time she’s 16 years old, she has racked up five total love letters, one of which is to her older sister’s boyfriend. When the letters are sent, it’s not hard to guess why her world is flipped upside-down.

This movie is a teen rom-com if I’ve ever seen one. Complete

with awkward teen moments, a popular athlete with a cruel girlfriend and a very efficient rumor mill, “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” will find a way to satisfy any fan of a good love story. Director Susan Johnson and her producers Brian Robbins, James Lassiter and Will Smith were able to hit all the points needed to make a truly relatable film without giving into unnecessary clichés.

The film exceeded all expectations when it comes to book-to-movie adaptations. The film stayed true to the book’s original narrative, and it didn’t change the essence of the characters. Everything that makes Lara Jean who she is happens to be the exact thing that makes her character so relatable. She’s awkward, new to relationships and doesn’t always want to be the center of attention. She has flown under the radar for so long that when she is pushed into the limelight, she finds herself becoming someone new in meaningful, positive ways.

People change as they grow and develop, which is what

audiences can see throughout Lara Jean’s story. She shows you what happens when you start living your life instead of just hiding in the shadows. Putting yourself out there changes a person’s life, and Lara Jean sees this as she navigates through the chaos that she indirectly caused.

The only thing about this film that was less than amazing was the pace. If you’ve read the book and know what’s going to happen, it feels as though you’re just sitting there waiting. Some things show up and others don’t, but the story has the same effect. The characters go through the same problems just leaving out a few subtle moments. While those moments are some of the best and had the potential to develop relationships in the story, they made up for it by paying attention to the details in the scenes they had.

The cinematography along with the set design then brings it all together by creating an aesthetically pleasing atmosphere for you to fall in love with the characters and their unconventional love story.

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What’s New, LSU? New developments are cropping up both on LSU’s campus and in the surrounding areas.

Read about some of the new restaurants and franchise locations coming to Baton Rouge.

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WHATABURGER

STARBUCKS

Texas-based fast food chain Whataburger purchased land near the Burbank DriveBen Hur intersection for nearly $2 million in June. The chain will be debuting its third location in Baton Rouge, according to Justin Langlois of Graham, Langlois & Legendre, LLC.

If you’re looking for a coffee fix, you will soon be able to get Starbucks on Burbank drive near Arlington Marketplace and the LSU Nicholson Gateway development.

The Nicholson Gateway location is expected to open in September.

DAT DOG

WENDY’S

The New Orleans-based franchise Dat Dog is set to open a Baton Rouge location in the new Arlington Marketplace strip on Burbank and Lee drives. Dat Dog is known for its signature hot dogs, veggie dogs and sausages, plus fries and shakes.

If you’re looking for a quick frosty or other fast meal, you’ll soon be able to stop

by Nicholson Gateway for the newest location of the Wendy’s fast food chain.

The fast food giant is expected to open in September.

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Frutta Bowls is a nationwide chain that serves acai, kale and pitaya bowls as well as fresh fruit. The health joint started in New Jersey in 2016 and has since spread to 14 states. The Baton Rouge location is expected to open in Nicholson Gateway in September.

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If you’re looking for contemporary Japanese and Hawaiian cuisine, Finbomb will be the place for you. The restaurant will be next to the Rouses Market in the new Arlington Marketplace and is expected to open mid-October.

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Wednesday, August 22, 2018

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I want people to feel something more than just a beat.

KENDRIC LUHMONT

Rapper

LUHMONT, from page 13 “The idea came to me in my sleep in the middle of the night,” LuhMont said.

He woke all of his friends up and made the video in one night. The video is completely different from “Rollin.’” It is more of LuhMont’s true style, which is slow yet meaningful and simple. He doesn’t need guns or cash to make his videos flow with his music and lyrics, which he writes completely by himself.

“I started writing when I was in middle school,” LuhMont said. “I liked to write poems and that slowly turned into me writing raps.”

His poetry and writing helped him transition into his rapping career, and he first recorded himself rapping when he was 17. He prefers recording himself with his own equipment rather than in a studio so he can have more control of his style.

LuhMont’s said his favorite tape is“XTape,” which he made in honor of his ex-girlfriend. It is titled “XTape” because it is about the unknown. He uses effects like a gun shooting at the end of one

FOREVER, from page 13 the natural charm of the world around him, he said. Photography wasn’t an interest of his until his senior year and since then, he has hoped to capture the aspects of the campus that are sometimes overlooked.

Like most students, Key said his main focus was just getting to class and hanging out with his friends, never really taking the time to look up and take in all the campus has to offer. Key advises students to branch out and re-

of his tracks to make the listeners experience more than just a song.

He makes his songs with his own equipment, but the results are professionalgrade. He wants his music to be completely his, which is why he isn’t rushing to sign to any labels. He makes his own art, write his own lyrics and is interested in making his own videos.

“I want people to feel something more than just a beat, though the beat is important,” LuhMont said.

LuhMont records himself alone and makes everyone leave the room, even his best friend, who goes by the stage name Germx. Germx and LuhMont have been friends since school at Lafayette High School and are still going strong.

LuhMont recently launched his own website with links to his music videos. He plans on producing more music and videos in the next few months which can be found on his Instagram account, @theluhmont. His ultimate goal is to reach a wider audience and expand his brand to cater to different genres, he said. ally get into the University’s surroundings.

“Don’t have your experiences at LSU be so defined by what you know,” Key said. “Try different things and incorporate new things into your life that really just enrich your experience during your time at LSU.” Key brought his talents back to the place that he discovered his love. He found a way to make the campus look different to people who see it every day. Key hopes his gallery will inspire old, new and future students alike to

You Are Not Alone.

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LuhMont (left) and Germx (right) talk about their rap careers on Sunday, Aug. 20, 2018, in downtown Baton Rouge.

go out and take the time to explore the campus in their own way and really take in the beauty of it all.

“I want to give thanks first to God for blessing me with this building and being able to share with LSU campus,” Key said.

“But more so with LSU auxiliary services who give services like these to both current students and alumni the opportunity to show off their art work in a formalized, gallery-set setting that is accessible to both students — present, past and beyond.”

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Russia hysteria exploited, distracts from larger issues HAMMER SEEKING NAIL SOHEIL SANEEI @soheilsaneei Decades ago, a disease plagued American minds with a madness so self-destructive it blinded many of reason and deprived human touch from any empathy. One man, engulfed in the delusions of jingoism too deep for survival, made it his mission to prevent any treachery in the U.S. He warned Senator Joseph McCarthy about the threat of the “Red Army” and helped start a witch hunt on any critic of U.S. domestic and foreign policy.

As former Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal was allured by the charisma of patriotism. He found his mental health declining and checked himself into psychiatric hospitals. The insufferable disease caused rampant paranoia and severe depression. On May 22, 1949, he was found dead after jumping from the 16th story of Bethesda Navy Hospital.

Author Walter Lippmann described Forrestal as, “a doctor who studies the disease and then contracts it himself.” The insufferable “red disease” had infiltrated one of the top politicians in the U.S. and taken him six feet under.

Former President Barack Obama ostensibly cured the disease when he criticized former Gov. Mitt Romney’s hostile foreign policy toward Russia by saying, “The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back.” Unfortunately, the remains of the mental disease evolved into a super-virus only four years later and have yet again begun to wreak terror in the American mind.

In 2016, President Donald

Trump’s campaign was accused of colluding with Russia to undermine the democratic values of the U.S. Since then, the corporate media has gone on a mass antiRussian crusade full of reaches for evidence and unsubstantiated claims. This propaganda has not been unleashed by pure leftists, but a cesspool of corporate democrats, neoconservatives and exintelligence grifters.

The media has lost credibility by giving this issue such disproportionate attention and by continuously referring to Russia as the KGB, as if it is still the Soviet Union.

It is also absolutely baffling that leftists would trust intelligence agencies that have directly assassinated liberal leaders like Fred Hampton, wiretapped Martin Luther King Jr., covertly funded anti-union violence, propped up a genocidal war in Iraq against anti-war movements and committed countless crimes against humanity.

In fact, it is absolutely hypocritical for the U.S. to cry about election interference when it has interfered in elections around the world and left continents ruined while being the world’s biggest hegemony.

The spread of Russian memes across the internet is an absolute joke compared to the assassination of former Congolese President Patrice Lumumba, the overthrowing of president Jacobo Árbenz of Guatemala in favor of the fascist government of Carlos Castillo Armas, and the overthrowing of Iranian president Mohammad Mossadegh in favor of the military monarchy under the Shah.

Recently, the Obama administration couped governments in Paraguay and Honduras. Bolivian President Evo Molares accused the Trump

administration of covertly funding a planned drone strike on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

Trump is undoubtedly the neo-fascist face of the American empire and must be met with resistance, but we must be guardians of truth and history in the process. MSNBC has constantly spread rumors of Trump being recruited into the KGB as early as 1987 and depicted him as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s puppet.

This is head-scratching since Trump has proposed increased NATO spending, armed Ukraine, bombed the Russian-backed al-Assad regime in Syria and expelled Russian diplomats all against Putin’s liking.

Many of the indictments in the Russia probe are unrelated to the investigation, and such tactics have earned Special Counsel Robert Mueller warnings from a federal judge. Other indictments have been made with no evidence against Russian officials who will never see trial.

In response to the unsubstantial accusations, Russia has called former Russia ambassador Michael McFaul for questioning. McFaul has missed the fact that these are not requests but rather a satirical point exposing U.S. hypocrisy. The U.S. claims Russians avoiding trial in the U.S. is evidence but is unwilling to send its own officials to Russia for the same reason.

The Russian scare has actually targeted pure progressives with altruistic intentions. Former presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein, environmentalists and black activists have all been linked to the Russian probe.

Anoa Changa is a black activist from Atlanta who has recently been smeared by NPR for spreading her message on Rus-

sian news media. Similar smears have been made against progressive Intercept journalist Glenn Greenwald for appearing on Russia Today, the Russian statefunded media.

After rising political star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won the Democratic nomination for New York representative, former FBI director James Comey, an antiTrumper who salivates at the thought of Russian frenzy, tweeted “Democrats, please, please don’t lose your minds and rush to the socialist left.”

This may be because Comey has become a multi-millionaire through positions in hedge-funds such as Bridgewater Associates and Lockheed Martin. He favors corporate Democrats who will prioritize his pocket rather than progressives who care about basic humanity. Any liberal who engages in Russian hysteria is shooting themselves in the foot, or is only concerned about social issues when their bottom line is unaffected.

Russian crimes are often brought up in justification for U.S. hostility, but were not brought up against the Obama administration’s Russia-friendly foreign policy. The U.S. cannot claim sanctimony when it backs an apartheid in Israel and supports Saudi Arabia, which has committed numerous human rights violations.

Former President Bill Clinton’s administration played a role in ousting former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev Russian in favor of Russian candidate Boris Yeltsin. Ironically this legacy haunted Clinton’s wife, Hillary in the 2016 election.

Many compare suspected Russian hacks of the Democratic National Convention to terrorist attacks such as 9/11 and Pearl Harbor. This is extremely insensitive to victims of those attacks,

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especially since the hacking exposed the rigging of the Democratic primary and the limits of U.S. democracy.

If the U.S. wants to stop election interference, it should propose international laws to protect democracies, and revoke its own immunity to international courts. It should also promote the use of paper ballots and revamp cyber security.

Until these changes are made, it is obvious the creators of Russian hysteria are not interested in justice but diverting any attempts at real change.

They are interested in keeping a system that contains 18.5 million people under severe poverty, shrinks the middle class and takes part in systemic racism and sexism, all because their international investors and masters profit immensely.

The Russia investigation should continue to keep powers in check; however, the disproportionate media coverage and false claims are just a distraction from the real problems.

Soheil Saneei is a biological engineering Sophmore from Metairie, Louisiana.

Louisiana non-unanimous jury rule disgrace to fair trial TO THE MAX MAX NEDANOVICH @maxnedan A cornerstone of democracy here in America is requiring proof beyond reasonable doubt in order to convict a defendant in a criminal trial. However, due to an unusual state law, in most felony cases in Louisiana, only 10 of 12 jurors are required to concur in order to acquit or convict someone.

Louisiana is one of two states in the country to allow nonunanimous felony convictions. Unsurprisingly, wrongful convictions are very common in Louisiana, perhaps due to this Jim Crow-era law. Of the

49 people discovered to have been wrongly convicted in Louisiana since 1990, 11 were convicted by nonunanimous juries.

In the upcoming November election, Louisiana voters may finally have a chance to rid our state of the controversial law allowing split-jury decisions.

The Louisiana Senate and House of Representatives passed the referendum to repeal the law and it now awaits a vote by the people on the November ballot.

Louisiana voters may finally have a chance to rid our state of the controversial law allowing split-jury decisions.

Louisiana courts operate very inefficiently compared to other U.S. states. Other states’ courts

have fewer problems making decisions with unanimous juries and typically have less wrongful convictions. Research shows that nonunanimous juries are less tedious in their deliberations, which, in effect, increases the risk of wrongful convictions—a major issue here in Louisiana.

In the Reconstruction era following the Civil War, white supremacy and racism remained abundant in Louisiana society, resulting in many racist Jim Crowera policies. The Advocate found that across Louisiana, blacks are less likely to be included in jury pools than whites.

At the 1898 state constitutional convention, Louisiana lawmakers passed a law allowing for split-jury

decisions. This turned out to be especially disadvantageous to black defendants.

Data from a study by The Advocate showed that black defendants were roughly 30 percent more likely to be convicted by juries with one or two holdouts compared to white defendants.

This Louisiana jury rule differs greatly from the federal government and 48 state governments.

Only in Louisiana can a person accused of murder be sentenced to a life term without chance of parole, even if two of the 10 jurors do not reach the same verdict.

The continued existence of this outdated law proves Louisiana’s criminal justice system is in desperate need of reform. The

right to a fair trial is an inalienable right guaranteed to our country’s citizens and should not be infringed upon.

In a state known for having one of the highest incarceration rates in the country, this bill gives Louisiana an opportunity to catch up with the rest of the country in criminal justice reform.

The 10-2 jury rule is an unfair law that favors prosecutors, and is an insult to a fair trial. Louisiana voters must vote in favor of eliminating the rule to begin improving the state’s broken criminal justice system.

Max Nedanovich is a 21-year-old mass communication junior from Mandeville, Louisiana.

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Wednesday, August 22, 2018

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Addiction should be destigmatized, treated as disease SMITT’S TEA JAMES SMITH @itssmitt Singer and former Disney Channel actress Demi Lovato was hospitalized after overdosing nearly a month ago on July 24. On April 24, 2017, I was arrested after driving drunk and under the influence of a slew of prescription drugs. Both instances are the product of obvious poor choices over the course of our lives.

They’re also the product of a broken society that outcasts addicts.

When people receive a cancer diagnosis, they aren’t exiled by their family. When people come down with a stomach virus, they aren’t judged by their coworkers.

But when a moderate drinker or a recreational drug user thinks they’re developing a problem, the fear of asking for help is ingrained via a social stigma.

Asylums, Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign and drug abuse being used as a vessel of institutionalized racism are some di-

rect causes of the stigma we face today.

Let’s get one thing straight— addiction is a disease that begins with the choice to consume a substance. Addiction itself is not a choice. Neither Lovato nor I decided that we would one day become addicts.

After my incident, I got help from a variety of sources. I began seeing a therapist and a psychiatrist. I even began attending and participating in Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. But most importantly, I told friends about my issues. I had conversations about the darker parts of myself that I typically don’t want to share. I told them that I wanted to be better.

While the stigma of addiction has receded in the last two centuries, death rates due to substance abuse have not correlated. According to the The Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs and Health, there are 88,000 alcoholrelated deaths yearly in the U.S., accounting for one in 10 deaths among working-age individuals.

According to a report from the

CDC, nearly 64,000 people died from a drug overdose in 2016. To put that figure into perspective, that’s about 6,000 more casualties than America suffered in Vietnam.

The outcry during Vietnam was unavoidable. The outcry during this continuing epidemic should be equally unavoidable.

Addiction is not a simple disease. There is no vaccine that’ll rewire one’s mind to not crave a substance, although there are three drugs that assist in the deterrence.

America’s addiction epidemic won’t be solved on a national level.

Yes, awareness campaigns and anti-stigma rallies will help. The problem, however, can only begin to be solved on an individual, personal and human level.

I don’t claim to have all of the answers – addiction is a much too complicated and individualized problem. Everyone’s addiction is the product of their own experiences. Sympathizing with a struggling family member, friend or stranger is a critical step to

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Louisiana has consistently ranked in the top 10 states for use of several illicit drugs. fixing the major problem facing Americans of all walks of life.

Talking about my problem was the single most important step in my ongoing recovery. We need to humanize addicts and realize they are people, too.

Addiction just happens to be what they struggle with. Love your neighbor as yourself.

James Smith is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from Grand Coteau, Louisiana.

Democratic socialism promising, requires rebranding FRANKLY SPEAKING

JUSTIN FRANKLIN @justinifranklin Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shocked the nation by defeating top Democrat incumbent Joe Crowley in New York’s midterm primary in June 2018.

In her first time ever running for office, Ocasio-Cortez’s victory, based on a socialist platform, marks a turning point in American politics. Many pundits love to deem socialist victories as evidence of the Democratic party moving further to the left, but I believe the Democratic party is moving closer to the real issues.

Ocasio-Cortez accomplished what many Democrats have not been able to do—convince voters that she is running on issues and not partisanship. Democratic socialism as a concept is centered around tackling the biggest issues of America, not party divides.

“We have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, ‘What are we fighting against?’”

Ocasio-Cortez said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “We understand that we’re under an antagonistic administration, but what is the

vision that is going to earn and deserve the support of workingclass Americans?”

Democratic socialism as a platform in and of itself is nothing new, or radical, like building a wall or separating families at the border, but the application of democratic values into every aspect of the function of America.

“We believe that working people should run both the economy and society democratically to meet human needs, not to make profits for a few,” the Democratic Socialists of America’s website reads.

“Democratic Socialists of America is a major organization on the American left with an all-embracing moral vision, systematic social analysis, and political praxis rooted in the quest for radical democracy, social freedom, and individual liberties,” Democratic Socialists of America member and Harvard Professor Cornel West said.

The problem with the issuebased democratic socialists movement is the control of the truth and clarity.

Though conservative media and capitalism absolutist often associate democratic socialism with state monopoly and the stripping away of free markets and individualism, it is ultimately the socialists themselves who

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prohibit national advancement through disorganized messaging. A number of democratic socialists are also pro-free market capitalism, but without adequately explaining how socialism can work with capitalism movement supporters open up the narrative to misinformation.

To be clear, any book will tell the track record for socialism hasn’t been the best in the last 150 years, but to blatantly ignore the platform of modern day democratic socialists and spread misinformation is intellectually dishonest.

So, the question is: how do pro-democratic socialism politicians and operatives accurately and relevantly convey the positive effects of democratic socialism to the America people?

The answer is to narrowly focus on the issues. President Donald Trump does an outstanding job of changing the narrative as soon as it becomes inconvenient to his agenda.

We don’t hear from Trump about education reform because he has no solution to the high cost of higher education or teachers not being adequately paid and appreciated. Democratic socialists such as OcasioCortez believe in establishing fully funded public schools and universities. We don’t hear from

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Democratic socialists gained a victory when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez overtook top Democrat Rep. Joe Crowley in the New York midterm primaries. him about Medicare reform because he’s too busy trying to dismantle the Obama-era Affordable Care Act. Democratic socialists believe in a single payer system that will cover healthcare for all.

From the housing crisis and jobs to justice reform and immigration reform—we must narrow the focus to democratic solutions that equal some sort of safety and prosperity for all working-class Americans.

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Frankly speaking, democratic socialists have to realize pointing to success in European nations does not necessarily guarantee success in the U.S. There are millions more taxpayers, millions more ideas and millions more people to convince.

Messaging is everything—rebrand socialism in the right way.

Justin Franklin is a 19-year-old political communication sophomore from Memphis, Tennessee.

Quote of the Week “And now let us welcome the new year, full of things that never were.”

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Poet and Novelist December 4, 1875— December 29. 1926

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Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Swearing not equivalent to simple-mindedness, ignorance I SAID WHAT I SAID

MAYA STEVENSON @colormemaya “They lack a respectable vocabulary, they use a curse word because they lack the intelligence to think quickly and form a valid point,” reads the reply to the question of, “Do unintelligent people cuss more than intelligent people do?” on debate.org.

Not only is the answer harsh and assuming, but untrue.

Cursing or swearing has long been associated with a limited vocabulary. This, in turn, leads to the misconception that people who swear are not smart. Both of these long-held stereotypes are wrong. Intelligence and swearing are not mutually exclusive, nor is having a large vocabulary and cursing. In fact, cursing may be more beneficial than not.

Like most issues, we must first understand the background of the problem. The cultural implication of profanity aside, the reason people associate it with

a lack of intelligence is because fluency goes up, so does the abilso many people think like the ity to say swear words, not the commenter referenced above. other way around.’’ He added, The poverty of vocabulary “Fluency is fluency.” myth states “At least this is what Simply put, this means as the ‘poverty-of-vocabulary’ hy- one gains a broader vocabupothesis would have us believe,” lary, so does their ability to use said Piercarlo Valdesolo in a Sci- profanity. entific American article. “On this Cursing doesn’t mean one’s account, swearing vocabulary is is the ‘sign of a small. It’s merely weak vocabulary,’ “Intelligence and swearing a choice in selfa result of a lack and are not mutually exclusive, expression, of education, lazia smarter one, nor is having a large ness or impulsivein fact. Anybody vocabulary and cursing.” can use culturness. In line with this idea, we tend ally non-taboo lanto judge vulgarguage, but there is ians quite harshly, unique strategy in rating them lower on socio-intel- one’s use of swear words. lectual status, less effective at Swear words have an effect their jobs and less friendly.” other words typically do not.

Dr. Timothy Jay, a language They are a powerful, concise and scholar and emeritus professor purposeful way to express one’s at the Massachusetts College of thought and feelings. This does Liberal Arts, co-authored a 2015 not negate the speaker’s arsenal study which examined the myth. of other words, but it emphasizes “We found that people who the strategy that went into the could generate a lot of letter choice of cursing. There is also words and animal names could strategy involved in choosing also generate the most swear which environments the use of words,” Dr. Jay said. “So as profanity are appropriate.

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This long-held stereotype is constantly reinforced in various social circles and the general culture of the country. It is harmful in its rejection of the intelligence of otherwise “acceptable” intellects based on

a requirement with no true merit behind it.

Maya Stevenson is a 19-yearold English and economics freshman from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Religious extremism divisive, violence-inducing epidemic ALLOW ME TO DIEFENRENTIATE BRITNEY DIEFENDERFER @back_in_a_dief More than 2,500 Americans lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001.

Religious ideals led 19 hijackers to sacrifice their lives in order to destroy the lives of others.

The Thirty Years’ War is estimated to have resulted in 3 million to 11.5 million deaths in Europe. These deaths were a direct consequence of a power struggle between two different denominations of ultimately the same religion. The minor separation of ideals created religious hate leading to political struggle and the death of

innocent people.

The war in Afghanistan has killed over 2,000 American soldiers. On average, every three days a soldier dies defending the religious principles that our country follows and protecting his country from the radicalism feared in other religions. The Iraq War caused almost 5,000 deaths of U.S. soldiers, averaging two soldiers killed per day.

The total deaths in the world resulting from religious conflict is unbearably high. Religion is a separative device that calls for individualistic radicalism causing tension and harm to humanity.

The hypocrisy of religious sects are written in their sacred texts. The Bible, for example,

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calls for peace to mankind and kindness between humans. Yet, in 2 Kings 10:19-27, God Himself calls for the worshipers of Baal to be killed in their entirety.

2 Chronicles 28:6 states 120,000 men were killed in the name of Christianity. They were not meeting the standards of worship, so their lives were sacrificed. These are only two examples in sacred text, though it contains a plethora of more.

Religion, of course, does good for the world. However, the controversy and killing it creates outweighs the good.

The lives lost in the name of religion are no longer experiencing the “good” religion does.

Religion is causing an epidemic, killing more lives than it could ever save.

Religion creates differences between people, allowing them to identify strongly with a title rather than with peace and goodness. Without religion, these same people would have little to no differences. Journalist Robert Nielsen stated, “Even wars which were caused by reasons other than religion, religion was used to justify it and motivate soldiers.”

Religions inflict ideals upon its followers, justifying the killing of non-believers. The Torah, the Bible and the Quran all contain examples of this allowance.

These religions also teach that one who is not a member of their identity will spend their eternal life in hell. How can a religion supposedly based on love and peace condone the killing of non-believer s threatening their eternal life?

Religion separates humanity. It allows for groups to

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The 19 hijackers responsible for the 9/11 terror attack were affiliated with alQaeda, a militant Sunni Islamist organization.

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Approximately 4,400 U.S. service personnel were killed in the Iraq War, spurred by the 9/11 terror attack. identify themselves based on subjectivity and brainwashes followers to believe their ideals are objective. Religions condone killing and even support it. Throughout history and currently, people have lost and are losing their lives to religious

causes and wars. Fighting over religious belief is an epidemic that must be stopped.

Britany Diefenderfer is a 20-year old English literature junior from Thibodaux, Louisiana.