The Daily Reveille 03-21-2018

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Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Volume 126 · No. 11

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CHEAT CODES

LSU students utilizing the GroupMe app may be in violation of the Student Code of Conduct, page 2

NEWS

SPORTS Sarah Finnegan poised for SEC championships in hometown after three perfect 10s, page 7

LSU engineering students design playgrounds in local parks, page 4 A look into Middleton Library’s $12 million budget, page 3

ENTERTAINMENT Earthly Concerns/ Bayou Birkenstock offers large shoe supply, page 13

OPINION “Transparency in Hollywood is the only way to ensure fair and equal pay for women,” page 21

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COVER STORY

LSU students accused of cheating in GroupMe app

BY LUKE JEANFREAU @LukeJeanfreau Many class group chats at LSU have begun to go silent.

English freshman Taylor Pisanie received an email from the office of Student Advocacy & Accountability on March 5 indicating that she was involved in a possible violation of the LSU Student Code of Conduct during an art history exam. The email alleged that she may have shared information with other students via GroupMe during the exam.

In early March, students started to leave group chats, and some groups were outright deleted when rumors surfaced that some students were contacted by SAA regarding cheating in group chats. ­ Rather than risk being accused of cheating, many students left groups — even if no cheating was involved.

Many University students use the popular messaging app GroupMe in their courses to connect with classmates. The app is useful for sharing study materials, like Quizlets, organizing study groups, or seeking general help with coursework.

However, Pisanie’s art history class this semester revealed problems that could arise when using GroupMe. Pisanie said a few students discussed cheating in the chat, but many more students, including Pisanie, chimed in to condemn the potential cheaters, with a warning that LSU takes cheating in group chats very seriously and everyone in the group could be at risk. One by one, students began to leave the group.

“I left,” Pisanie said. “Then everyone else left, so it was never used for cheating ever. And then we still all got called in.”

SAA held a meeting with Pisanie and many of her classmates on March 8. Pisanie said many of her classmates that had spoken in the chat on the day of the alleged incident, including those that either did not contribute to the cheating or condemned it, were present. She said one classmate in particular did nothing but ask for a Scantron.

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“We had a big group meeting, and there were a bunch of kids, like the kid who asked about the Scantron,” Pisanie said. “He was like, ‘Why am I in here?’ And [the SAA representative] kept skirting around the question. [They] would not directly tell him why he was in there or what he personally was being accused of.”

Pisanie said these accusations brought her great mental anguish. She found it difficult to concentrate and study, and she said her grades were affected negatively.

Pisanie emphasized that she in no way condones cheating, whether via GroupMe or using other methods.

“If we were actually cheating, [punish us] for it, whatever,” Pisanie said. “But nobody cheated. They’re saying that they wanna get us for collusion, which is talking about it, or attempting to cheat.”

Pisanie conceded that she had joked about cheating earlier in the group, but emphasized that it was clearly a joke and was in no way connected to this incident.

Although SAA is unable to comment on individual cases, Associate Dean of Students and Director of Student Advocacy & Accountability Jonathan Sanders offered some explanation as to how a case involving GroupMe may be handled

by SAA. “We do not have a specific policy for group chats, but individual students are held accountable for academic misconduct with the Code of Student Conduct and involvement in group chats could be a violation of the Code if they are used for purposes that would be a violation of the Code,” Sanders said.

Sanders explained Code of Student Conduct policy 10.1.G. Other Academic Misconduct states, “attempting to commit, or assisting someone in the commission or attempted commission of an offense defined in this section, or any other act of Academic Misconduct.”

“Therefore, if students discussed how they would share answers on an assignment, [10.1.G] might be appropriate, as well as others if information is shared in a group message that might fit,” Sanders said.

“Depending on what is shared, it could also fall under 10.1.A Collaboration, 10.1.B Collusion, or others depending on the situation.”

Sanders said the nature of the GroupMe app makes it difficult to determine which students are guilty and which are innocent.

“In addition, because it is not possible to know who reads messages in a group chat, there is no way of knowing if a student looked at those messages and/or utilized them, so again this might be a Code violation,” Sanders said. “When looking at

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Students use GroupMe for organizing study groups, sharing study materials such as Quizlets, connecting with classmates, etc. these types of cases, we look to see what was shared and by whom and who could have benefited from the information and have an academic advantage over other students. As mentioned in the Code, high standards of academic integrity are crucial for the University to fulfill its educational mission.”

GroupMe Support also responded to the events, confirming that officials from the University had reached out and requested access to message transcripts.

“Indeed [we were contacted] about students using our services to cheat, which is not right, but it was never mentioned to our terms of services as well that such action is violating it,” GroupMe said in an emailed statement. “The violation that will defy our terms of service would be harassing another user, which is not the case here.

So we refer the person to Microsoft in order to get the transcript since we do not have such option to acquire that.”

According to Microsoft’s privacy statement, private information, including content like emails or messages, may be shared if it is requested through valid legal processes, such as law enforcement or another government entity.

GroupMe said they do not feel they are responsible for students who decide to use their app to cheat.

“The students are just taking advantage [of] the perks of social media, and the discipline of students is not our responsibility,” GroupMe said in the statement.

On March 14, Pisanie received the news that she was found responsible in her case.

She said she was devastated about the decision, and feels the odds are stacked against her. She struggles to see a resolution to her problem.

“They have me painted into a corner where I can’t decline the decision and take it up with the hearing panel because I might get a worse punishment,” Pisanie said. “I honestly just want to leave LSU. It’s not even worth it to me anymore.”

Pisanie said she feels that SAA is treating students unfairly in this case. She believes SAA is punishing all students involved because of the difficulty for the office to discern guilt.

Pisanie and her mother, Marianne Covington, plan to appeal the decision. Covington wholeheartedly believes her daughter is innocent.

“I have seen everything, and I have seen no evidence of her attempting or assisting someone in attempting to cheat,” Covington said. “She did not contribute to the conversation in a manner that was attempting to cheat. All the accountability office kept telling me was that is my opinion.”

Covington feels that SAA has blown the situation out of proportion. Covington said she has consulted other students, faculty and an attorney who have all agreed that SAA’s decision doesn’t make sense.

“I had been telling her all along, ‘Don’t worry about this.

It’s obvious you didn’t do anything, so just put it out of your mind. Don’t stress over it,’” Covington said. “Then they come back with [a guilty ruling.]”

Covington is currently in discussion with an attorney on how to approach Pisanie’s appeal.

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FACILITY SERVICES

Middleton struggles with funding

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the Baton Rouge and South Louisiana community, Aronson said. The clinic’s clients are indigent members of the community who either have or are seeking some level of immigration status.

“The clinic provides the legal services to get a stabilized or regularized immigration status,” Aronson said.

Aronson said the bulk of the clinic’s cases are asylum cases. Clients seeking asylum must have suffered persecution for their race, religion, nationality, political ideology or membership in a particular social group. Since her term as director, the clinic has gotten asylum for 18 clients.

“These cases are notoriously difficult to win, especially without representation,” Aronson said.

Twelve of the 18 asylum cases were clients from Central America fleeing

Despite being the largest library on campus, Troy H. Middleton Library has a reputation among students for a seemingly constant state of disrepair. A look into the building’s nearly $12 million budget shows that little funds are allocated to the purchase of new equipment and the repair of existing facilities.

LSU Facility Services handles the general maintenance and upkeep of the library building. However, the library is responsible for any building updates or furniture purchasing. Unlike other SEC universities, Middleton’s budget lacks sections allocated to specific areas like building alterations and furniture, according to library dean Stanley Wilder.

For that, the library must reallocate funding from other areas to compensate, Wilder said.

For example, the library recently added a reflection space for students to pray or meditate from reallocated money. The library also furnished the former faculty technology center and replaced carpeting in a staff area that hadn’t been updated since the early 1980s.

Wilder said the library usually takes the money from

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LSU Law’s Immigration Law Clinic helps refugees gain asylum, offers hands-on experience for law students photo by CALEB BOURQUE

The Paul M. Hebert Law Center Immigration Clinic hosted its annual green card clinic March 20. Eighteen green card applicants attended, including Iraqi, Honduran and Venezuelan asylees.

The Immigration Law Clinic allows students to fight for clients seeking immigration status in the U.S. The program is open to second- and third-year law students and handles “humanitarian based immigration cases,” according to clinic director Lauren Aronson. Aronson said she became the clinic’s director in the fall of 2015.

Aronson said the primary goal of the clinic is to give students hands-on experience handling cases with real clients.

“The purpose of the clinic is primarily to teach students how to engage in the practice of law in a way they don’t get to experience in their more

lecture-based classes,” Aronson said.

Third year law student Lauren Ferand said one of her clients was granted asylum two weeks ago. She said she’s excited to be a part of the clinic to help people from challenging backgrounds “reach the American dream.”

“It’s very eye opening seeing people’s different lives and how different my life was growing up compared to someone else’s,” Ferand said.

While she doesn’t think she’ll go into immigration law professionally, Ferand said the skills she’s learned during her time at the clinic are critical for whatever area of law she decides to practice.

“I think this is a great way to learn how to work with a different group of people and how to interact with clients,” Ferand said.

The clinic is also set up to serve

STATE

Study shows persistence of wage gap at LSU colleges

BY RACHEL MIPRO @remroc15

Are men and women equal in Louisiana?

Looking at the wage gap, statewide and at LSU, and the state’s ranking as the worst state for women, there doesn’t seem to be a simple answer.

The continuing investigation into the University’s possible wage gap reveals that some colleges have worse pay disparities than others, with large variations.

Accounting assistant professor Christine Cheng is the investigation’s main analyzer. She gave a few examples of the disparities between colleges, some of which have a wage gap, some that have a reverse wage gap and some that have no wage gap.

Within the E.J. Ourso College of Business, the average male

assistant professor salary is $11,519 higher than the average female assistant professor salary.

In the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law School, the average female assistant professor salary is $6,322 higher than the average male assistant professor salary. In the LSU College of Science, the average female assistant professor salary is approximately the same as the average male assistant professor salary.

Cheng also found that there was a significant lack of women in higher-level roles, raising the concern that there’s something beyond individual choice to blame for the lack of women in higher positions.

“Another big piece to this wasn’t just the wage gap, but there’s a representation gap, as well,” Cheng said. “By college, by level, what we see is, the

percentage of females as we go into the higher promotional levels, tend to fall off drastically. And that’s pretty much across the board.”

The investigation, headed by the University Council on Gender Equity, has been in progress since last year, focusing mainly on disparities in full-time salaries for full-time faculty. Cheng said the data the investigation has found has been the result of many hours of careful testing.

“Most people think that it’s really easy to get data, that there should be a push button and it comes out, and that’s not really how that works,” Cheng said. “You gotta make sure that the data is good data, that it’s clean. And by clean I mean in terms of making sure we’re not comparing apples to oranges.”

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An investigation into the wage gap at the University revealed that some colleges have significant pay disparities.

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FACULTY

LSU professor’s workshops promote physical education standard

BY LUKE JEANFREAU @LukeJeanfreau If you asked a lot of people, they would tell you physical education wasn’t the highlight of their day. One University professor is looking to change that.

LSU kinesiology adjunct instructor and Chair of the Louisiana Physical Education Standards Committee Kathy Hill both helped write new physical education standards and joined other educators to hold workshops to teach K-12 teachers how to implement them.

“Our aim is to teach young people about being fit individuals,” Hill said in a press release.

“We’re not talking about marathon runners, but someone who can go through the daily routine of their lives without being exhausted, overweight or having high blood pressure.”

After coming up with the guidelines, Hill and the committee decided that simply writing them was not enough.

“When we finished the writing, we all kind of looked at each other like ‘Now what?’ and we decided we couldn’t let it just lay,” Hill said. “We

embarked on this notion that we were going to get out and train as many teachers as we can, bring them to the table, and let them see the new standards and see how they can start implementing them in their classrooms.

Hill and the committee held workshops in 13 parishes and taught the new standards to over 1,000 physical education teachers.

Two other members of the LSU community, pedagogy doctoral student Kelly Simonton and instructor KLynn McKey, were invited by and served on the committee with Hill.

“When Kathy asks you to do something, you don’t say no,” McKey said. “Being at LSU, which is obviously our flagship university, we thought we needed to have a hand in it. All the meetings were primarily in Baton Rouge, so it was important that LSU’s name be a part of it.”

Hill said the committee drew ideas from the examples of other states when writing the new standards.

“At that first meeting, we looked at probably 15 states, and we kind of zeroed in on three

or four states that we thought had something we could live with and were easy to read and easy to implement,” Hill said.

“We didn’t want a really tough document like we had before.

It was huge. We wanted to streamline it and make it more user-friendly.”

One change proposed through the workshops was to get students active as soon as they got to class.

“A traditional P.E. would be a warm-up: run laps and do push-ups and sit-ups,” Simonton said. “This doesn’t translate to a lot of activity, and doesn’t translate to people enjoying what they’re doing or meeting the standards, unless it’s the fitness standard, which is only one of our five.”

According to a draft of the new standards, rather than focus purely on fitness, the new standards aim to make students “physically literate.”

Fitness is a part of this, but the standards also aim to teach students skills needed to perform physical activities, know the implications of those activities, participate in them regularly, and value physical activity and its contributions

to a healthy lifestyle.

The new standards also encourage teachers to teach their students more about strategies for games rather than focus on specific skills.

“With traditional P.E., we teach passing one day; we teach dribbling another day; we teach shooting on the third day, and then days four and five we’re playing a game,” McKey said. “I haven’t taught offense, I haven’t taught defense, I haven’t taught strategies. We can teach games and they can practice those skills, but it’s not sport.”

Simonton compared physical education to math saying students wouldn’t learn anything if their teachers asked them to solve problems that they never truly understood.

The committee also discussed dodgeball and its implications.

“Our biggest thing was elimination games,” McKey said. “The kid that needs the most practice with throwing and catching is typically the kid that gets eliminated first. What is the point of that? It goes back to math. If you do one problem and get eliminated then you

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A program instructor demonstrates at a physical education workshop on Feb. 7 on LSU Campus. don’t get to do math anymore.

You’re never going to learn.”

The workshops also showed teachers what a physical education class should look like.

Younger children should be learning basic skills and start learning strategies and playing games in middles school.

By high school, students should be learning to do more complex things like set personal fitness goals.

ACADEMICS

Biological engineers create playgrounds for local schools

BY HAILEY AUGLAIR @haileyauglair1 LSU biological and agricultural engineering professor Marybeth Lima and her students are asking elementary students to create their dream playground, and are doing everything they can to make those dreams a reality.

Lima’s biology in engineering class spends the semester designing a playground for a local school or organization.

The class is taught once a year and each section has a different partner they design a playground for. This semester the three sections are working with Ryan Elementary, McMains Children’s Developmental Center and Labelle Aire Elementary School.

“What I really hope that they get from the class is how to design something effectively with a community partner that reflects the soul of that community,” Lima said. “All three designs are going to be distinctive because they are going to reflect the best aspects of that community.”

The students begin the class by visiting city park and learning basic vocabulary and playground safety standards. They then visit their partner school or organization to talk to the children and faculty about what they want in a playground and begin designing.

Teaching Assistant and biological engineering sophomore Adriana Deras said the difference after the class redesigns the playgrounds is astonishing.

“You truly don’t see a playground the same afterwards,” Deras said.

Throughout the semester, the class visits a few playgrounds to get a sense of what is out there, Lima said.

This is Lima’s 20th time building playgrounds. When she first came to the University, she created this first-year design class because playgrounds are something all students are familiar with, which makes it easier to design.

“Playground design is all about child safety and child development,” Lima said. “You’re building an environment to meet kids’ basic needs. It pertains to biological engineering, all students knew something about it coming in, and all students I think enjoy it.”

Lima said funding is where the creativity comes in. They fundraise and write grant proposals to raise money to build. National nonprofit organization KaBOOM!, dedicated to bringing a playground within a mile of every child in the U.S., has funded four of Lima’s 34 playgrounds.

They are not always able to build the playgrounds immediately—waiting for funding may take years. Once the

playground is ready to be built, Lima reaches out to the students who designed the playground to help build along with community members.

“It builds a lot of community spirit,” Lima said. “I’m really excited to teach the class where they go from working with a child and coming up with a concept to actually being able to participate in the build.”

The class is where the designs start, but the LSU Community Playground Project ensures the completion of the playground, Lima said.

Lima started the LSU Community Playground Project in 1998. It consists of a research and design team of Teaching Assistants.

Teaching Assistant and biological engineering senior Jeanne Steyer said the best part of working on the project is presenting the design to the children.

“It is hilarious some of the things they say and how excited they get,” Steyer said. “Sometimes we have them draw out what their dream playground is to help with the inspiration.”

Lima’s students also participate as Volunteers in Public Schools as reading or math tutors to get to know the children better. “[Lima] does so much for the community,” Deras said.

“She inspires me to care about the community.”

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One of Perkins Road Community Park’s playgrounds sits at the corner of Perkins Road and Kenilworth Parkway on March 15.

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STUDENT GOVERNMENT

$900,000 tech upgrade approved by SG committee

BY MATTHEW BENNETT @mcbennett4 LSU Student Government is continuing its annual commitment to keep the University up to date with the latest technology.

The Student Technology Fee Oversight Committee approved for the funding of 14 proposals amounting to nearly $900,000 for campus upgrades on March 14. The committee received 27 proposals from college majors at LSU, and the colleges that received the most funding were the colleges of science, music and dramatic arts, engineering, and art and design.

The Student Tech Fee Program started at LSU in

1997, in response to the need for the engineering program to stay up to date technologically. The Oversight Committee has since expanded to consider the technological needs of all colleges across campus.

They focus on three major areas: public access computer labs across campus from Patrick F. Taylor Hall, multimedia equipment in classrooms and specific equipment proposed by academic programs across campus.

There are several big upgrades coming to LSU’s campus next year that will affect students of all colleges and classes.

Televisions and screens throughout Middleton Library

will be installed with the capability of reserving a room for studying, providing walkthroughs to learn how to print, accessing other library resources and more.

There will also be upgrades to computer-based testing for disability services.

Human sciences and education senior Camille Faircloth, who is the senior adviser to SG president Jason Badeaux on the committee, is personally excited about this year’s batch of upgrades and wants students to be appreciative of what the committee is bringing to LSU. “I hope students realize that the things that pop up on their fee bills, specifically student fees, are going back to their

campus,” Faircloth said. “This campus has so much to offer students, so we hope that they are taking advantage of it all.”

Faircloth highlighted the physics and astronomy in-class demonstrations, another year of funding for online tutoring, and a “really large robotic arm” that will go in the engineering building as her favorites for this year’s upgrades.

The Student Technology Fee Oversight Committee is funded by student technology fees that are a part of the tuition that students pay every year, generating about $4 million annually.

The committee is composed of faculty, staff, administration and five LSU SG students.

The student representatives

are junior Erica Borne and senior David Trepagnier Jr., representing the College of Business; sophomore Rene Petit and junior Ashton Vaughn representing the College of Engineering; and Faircloth.

Faircloth is pleased with the workings of the committee this school year and the members representing the University.

“The committee is an asset to campus,” Faircloth said. “It’s beneficial that we have students, faculty and staff on the committee, because if it was a committee solely ran by faculty, staff,and administration, we’d lack student voice. I really love that this committee is able to affect a large number of students in a positive way.”

STUDENT LIFE

University’s NROTC blasts its way through the spring semester

BY CALEB GREENE @cgreene_24 Cannons blasted in the early morning hours on March 14.

While the University slept, the University’s Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps embarked on a morning run, starting

and ending it with the firing of their cannon.

The NROTC has been active and highly visible in the Spring 2018 semester to increase their exposure on campus and bolster their number of midshipmen. Along with early-morning runs and regular

physical training sessions, the NROTC has engaged in other high-visibility events to spark interest in the NROTC program, such as marching in the Uptown New Orleans Krewe of Alla Parade and dedicating a empty seat at Alex Box Stadium for MIA/POW servicemen and women.

The NROTC is structured the same as the Army’s ROTC program, educating and training qualified men and women as commissioned officers in America’s Navy and Marine Corps. The program instills the military’s highest ideals of duty, honor and loyalty.

The March 14 run was just one of the NROTC’s corps runs, where they join the University’s Army and Air Force ROTC programs. The corps stopped and saluted Mike the Tiger on March 14, which is a nod to the University’s military background, as Mike is traditionally considered the first cadet at LSU. “The purpose of these runs is to promote cohesion between the different branches,” explained economics junior Jacob Hall.

“LSU does have a strong tradition of military history-it is still technically a military college.

The Corps of Cadets is an important tradition of LSU that we are trying to keep together and actually grow.”

The NROTC competed and placed second in the Feb. 9 Mardi Gras Weekend drill competition at Tulane University. The two components of the competition focused on inspection and color guard.

The inspection events emphasize coolness under the pressure. The cadets are asked about general military knowledge along with a typical uniform inspection.

“You’re being judged on your bearing,” Hall said. “It’s more so not even knowledge, because most people know the questions being asked. People mess up easy

questions, it’s just they aren’t able to perform and answer when a marine is right in front of you.”

The midshipmen also compete in more physicallydemanding events, such as Corps Wars on April 9 and 11, where NROTC members from across the nation compete in various physical challenges.

“It’s another fun competition that we get to do,” said plant and soil systems sophomore Phillip Mooney. “We go out there and you get that healthy competition.

You get those interbranch rivalries that you are going to experience in the military and you get to grow into it now.”

The NROTC focuses on developing leaders and offering opportunities to pursue a military career. Though most events offer midshipmen to enjoy healthy competition, there are still somber reminders of the dangerous lives America’s servicemen and women live. The NROTC helped LSU honor MIA/POW veterans with a symbolic seat at Alex Box Stadium on Feb. 17.

“It’s a lot of tradition,” Mooney said. “It holds a very high sentimental value to veterans and ourselves, as well. We are going to be in the military. We have to understand that there’s a lot of people that went before us.”

The 25-member NROTC continues to push on into the Spring 2018 semester looking to expand its presence on campus.

The number of midshipmen is down from its peak of 80 a couple of years ago, according to Mooney.

Despite their attempts to expand, the recent events have also given midshipmen the opportunity to develop and strengthen relationships within the NROTC community.

“It’s helps us all to get closer with each other,” said biochemistry freshman Samantha Jackson.

“A lot of the time, we only see each other at five in the morning and nobody is really awake. We don’t really get to practice teamwork or anything like that, so these events are an opportunity for us to see each other and do navy things.”

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page 6 IMMIGRATION, from page 3 gang-related violence in their home countries of either Honduras or El Salvador, Aronson said.

Each of these clients belonged to a social group targeted by gangs and would risk considerable harm or death if they were to return home.

Four of the cases involved Turkish nationals fleeing political and religious persecution. The remaining two cases were citizens of Bangladesh.

“I’m extremely proud of what my students have accomplished, and I think it’s making a very significant difference in the community here,” Aronson said.

Without the clinic, Aronson said it’s likely these clients would be removed from the U.S. and sent back to their home countries to face probable harm. Their clients cannot afford to hire an attorney, and Aronson said she doesn’t think there are other pro bono opportunities for them in the area.

The semester-long program accepts a maximum of eight students per semester, according to Aronson. Since she’s been the director, all eight spots have been filled every semester, aside from her first semester when only five

MIDDLETON, from page 3 salary savings. The library has a certain number of staff positions that it receives funding to maintain. However, if all of the positions are not filled, the library is allowed to keep the money. Wilder said he estimates this year’s salary savings is going to amount to a little less than $600,000.

Middleton’s overall budget is usually around $12 million, Wilder said. Over half the budget is dedicated to collections, most of which goes to serial and academic journal subscriptions. About 35 percent of the budget is allocated to salary and benefit payments for faculty and staff, including student assistants. The remaining 15 percent of the budget is for everything else including supplies, interlibrary loan and travel for faculty.

“Honestly, we’re incredibly

WAGE GAP, from page 3 The data analysis used standardized salaries broken down by college and the faculty rank level, such as assistant professor, associate professor and full professor.

The LSU Faculty Senate has seen the results, although the entire investigation will likely take a few more years to be completed. Cheng is optimistic about the response to the wage gap, saying that faculty were already examining the implications of this.

“There’s already been a lot of response from the University and various colleges with respect to it, because there are people interested in figuring out more, about why this is the case,” Cheng said. “About what they can do to take a look at whether things are being handled fairly in different departments.

The data we

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spots were given.

Immigration clinicians receive class credit for their participation and also take a seminar class to accompany their cases, Aronson said. The seminar teaches students skill exercises, as well as the fundamental immigration law needed for their casework.

The clinic partners with Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Baton Rouge refugee program to provide a green card clinic, Aronson said. Once a semester, clinicians and other participants meet with people eligible for green cards to ensure their eligibility and assist them with the application process.

“I have two missions for myself: to serve my students and serve my community,” Aronson said. “This is one of the events that I feel really helps the community and is making a difference.”

Venezuelan asylees Choughik Kaltakjian and Belani Torres found the Immigration Clinic through Catholic Charities. Kaltakjian and Torres came to Baton Rouge with Kaltakjian’s parents, her sisters and their families to meet other family members already living in the area. Kaltakjian and Torres were forced out of

Caracas, Venezuela, due to their political party affiliation.

Kaltakjian said they’ve had a positive experience with the Immigration Clinic.

“It’s a blessing that they offer the service for free,” Kaltakjian said in a quote translated for The Daily Reveille. “They know what they’re doing. It’s all been excellent. They’re good people.”

Aronson said the language barrier can be a challenge. She speaks Spanish and often serves as an interpreter for her students and their clients. She’s also had Spanish-speaking students working in the clinic assist with trans-

lating between other students and clients.

“It’s easier to make a connection with a client when you do speak their language, but you spend so much time with your clients over the course of the semester that eventually you know each other well enough that even though you’re not understanding every word they’re saying, you’re still able to make that visceral connection with them,” Aronson said.

The only other language the clinic’s encountered is Arabic, Aronson said. In that case, the clinic recruited undergraduate Arabic

speakers to serve as translators in the clinic.

Second-year law student Jourdan Curet said dealing with bureaucracy can be frustrating, as government agencies don’t often operate as efficiently as the time sensitivity of immigration cases necessitates. She described her experience with the Immigration Clinic as busy because “immigration work doesn’t rest.”

“It’s very frustrating when you’re fighting for your client whose life is on the line,” Curet said. “On the other side of that coin, I would say it’s also very fulfilling.”

Curet said the work is emotionally draining. It’s difficult to continuously ask her clients to relive their trauma, but it’s necessary in order to achieve some sort of immigration status. The heaviness and emotion involved with each case is the most challenging part of her work with the Immigration Law Clinic, Curet said.

“I think the hardest part is sitting across the table from people who have been through hell and back, and they’re here and they’re completely relying on you to help them and you know there’s only so much you can do at the end of the day,” Curet said.

strapped,” Wilder said.

Wilder said the cost of journals is exponentially high and has been that way for the last 20 years. The library has to continue to purchase subscriptions to serials and journals to have Ph.D programs, particularly in the science and engineering fields. Wilder said the cost of scientific journals rises at a faster rate than the consumer price index.

Wilder said he loses about $300,000 in purchasing power every year due to the inflation on the serials and journals. The library subscribes to about 40,000 journals including e-journals and print. Many of these journals come in big packages, which are financially efficient, but the library doesn’t need most of the titles.

Middleton hasn’t received an inflation adjustment for serials. Two years ago, the Provost increased the library’s budget permanently by a million dollars.

“All it take is three years and a little bit more and then that permanent increase is completely gone doing the math that way,” Wilder said.

Other SEC libraries spend about a million on books each year, but Middleton struggles to put together $400,000 to purchase new books each year, Wilder said.

“That’s just not enough to support all of the disciplines that rely on books,” Wilder said.

The scientific disciplines don’t rely on books to communicate with one another, but several other disciplines need books to stay current, Wilder said. Middleton struggles to stay current even with books that the University’s faculty is publishing.

Middleton’s funding predicament is part of a national trend, according to Wilder.

“It’s bad, maybe worse here at LSU, but you can absolutely see the number of books purchased

in research libraries in steady decline as people are paying more and more money for serials,” Wilder said.

Wilder said Middleton also lacks significant funding for faculty and student technology used within the building. They need to replace the staff’s computers and scanners and fund student technology, but they don’t have a budget for it.

“If you walk around the first floor, it’s just an embarrassment to see what we can make available to people,” Wilder said.

The University’s library budget ranks low compared to other SEC universities, which Wilder attributes to the cuts Louisiana’s higher education has seen the last few years.

“Higher education in Louisiana has taken such a beating,” Wilder said.

Despite the lack of funding, Wilder said he’s optimistic about

the library’s future. He said he has support from the administration. The prospect of a new library building also keeps him hopeful, he said.

“Provost and the deans recognize that LSU can’t do what it needs to do for recruitment, retention, teaching and learning without a better library,” Wilder said. “More than a million people come through our doors each year.”

Wilder said the University will be holding budget hearings, where the deans from each college, including the library, can express their budgetary issues and concerns. The University will tax 1 percent of each of their budgets to form a pool of money that will be allocated to whichever area needs it the most.

“I’m hopeful that these budget presentations will give us a chance to make our case,” Wilder said.

processed was kind of to start that conversation.”

And the conversation seems to be happening statewide, as well.

Amid all the confusion of Taylor Opportunity Program for Students and the state’s looming budget crisis, other issues at the state level have received little attention, like Louisiana’s recent ranking as the worst state in the U.S., or something less known: Louisiana’s ranking as the worst state for women.

Analyzing factors such as women’s health, unemployment, safety and cost of living, the personal finance website WalletHub ranked Louisiana No. 51, officially declaring the state to be the worst for women. This means the state is lagging behind in women’s social and economic status, as well as women’s healthcare and safety. Gov. John Bel Edwards seems to be trying to

fix that.

On March 15, Edwards advocated for equal pay and minimum wage legislation to the Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee. The committee passed these bills, meaning that the first step to equal pay has been taken.

This is his third attempt to persuade Louisiana lawmakers to pass legislation ensuring women receive payment equal to their male coworkers.

“When I ran for governor, I made a commitment to the people across the state of Louisiana that I would fight for fair pay,” Edwards said in his address to the Senate Labor Committee.

On the same day, he advocated for equal pay in a tweet, writing, “It’s past time we do something in Louisiana to make a modest increase in the minimum wage and ensure that women

are paid the same as their male counterparts.”

Edwards also commented on the state of women’s healthcare in his March 12 State of the State Address, saying that he was focusing on lowering maternal mortality in the state.

“It’s 2018. Women should not be dying at such an alarming rate due to childbirth,” Edwards said in his address. “I have tasked the Louisiana Department of Health with examining the factors contributing to the increased cases of maternal mortality in our state and developing an extensive report on the policy and practice recommendations we can implement.”

Edwards then talked about his efforts to end sexual harassment in the workplace, as well as other measures he was taking, such as those against hazing and abuse of

elders. Edwards later continued advocating for his equal pay and minimum wage legislation.

“LA has one of the highest wage gaps in the country,” Gov. Edwards wrote in a tweet on March 14. “We should be offended that a woman makes only 66 cents for every dollar a man makes for doing the same job. Her groceries aren’t any cheaper just because she’s a woman.”

The statistics are worse for minority women. According to the 2017 National Partnership for Women and Families analysis, African-American women in Louisiana make around 48 cents to every dollar that a white, non-Hispanic man makes, Asian women make 58 cents, and Latina women make 51 cents.

If the bills make it through, maybe everyone will be able to afford their milk.

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Director of the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center Immigration Clinic Lauren Aronson during the LSU Law Immigration Clinic on March 20 in the LSU Law Center.

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THE VOICE OF ALEX BOX Bill Franques dedicates 30 years to LSU baseball

BY GLEN WEST @glenwest21

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He’s been there for all the big moments.

He was in Omaha for Warren Morris’ epic home run that shocked the college baseball world in 1996.

He watched as former Tigers would enter as lowly freshmen and leave as high MLB draft picks.

LSU sports information director and voice of Alex Box Bill Franques has worked in the sports information office at LSU since he graduated in 1985. Franques began working as an intern but soon worked

his way up and became the sports information director for the baseball team.

Franques is the mediator between the players and the media, and also hosts a radio show and commentates the games over the radio. Starting lineups, batter intros and promotional ads between innings from the Box are all the voice of Franques.

“Although I’m not playing in the game, I feel like I’m participating in the game,” Franques said. “I used to be responsible for the music, as well. I guess I enjoy the part of being the pulse of the game.”

To notarize the 30 years that Franques has given to the LSU baseball team, Mainieri presented the idea at the beginning of the season to dedicate May 5 as “Bill Franques Day” at the Box. The ticket stubs that day will also have a picture of Franques.

The ‘90s were a peak time to be a baseball fan at LSU, as Skip Bertman led the Tigers to four national championships during the decade. Franques experienced first-hand all the big moments, including the walkoff home run from Morris in 1996.

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OPINION

NCAA wrong for Fulton punishment CAL’D UP CHRIS CALDARERA @caldarera11

Most of us learn the difference between right and wrong at a young age.

It’s wrong to throw a rock at your grammar school crush on the playground. It’s right to finish your plate of food — including that side of bland vegetables your mother eagerly included with the meal.

When we’re young, right and wrong are as black and white as the print in a newspaper, but as we grow older, black and white often meld together to create gray.

Throwing rocks at people is still plainly wrong, but what about pulling a harmless prank on a roommate for playing music too loudly?

Welcome to the gray area.

To further complicate the ideas of right and wrong, there are also special moments where there are only examples of wrongdoing.

That leads us to the curious case of LSU cornerback Kristian Fulton.

Fulton is highly-touted junior who has seen meager playing time in his collegiate career.

A five-star recruit out of high

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GYMNASTICS

LSU’s Sarah Finnegan returns home, grows in leadership position

BY KENNEDI LANDRY @landryyy14 Junior all-arounder Sarah Finnegan and the LSU gymnastics team return to her home state of Missouri for the third time this season as they try to capture their second straight Southeastern Conference Tournament championship.

While it’s her third homecoming of the season, the novelty still hasn’t worn off for Finnegan, who enjoys any opportunity to see her family and friends from home.

“I grew up in St. Louis,” Finnegan said. “I love the city and the area. I don’t [ever get less excited.] St. Louis is home for me.”

“I know a lot of people in the area so I think the crowd’s going to be awesome. I think that there’s going to be just as many LSU fans coming. I’m really excited to bring

the energy and what’s to come.”

LSU gymnastics fans traditionally travel well, and the same can be expected in St. Louis this weekend.

Even if a large number of fans turn out, the team is more focused on what they can control, like landings and execution, rather than the environment surrounding them at the SEC Championship.

The Tigers used their last regular season win against Arizona as a “springboard” into the postseason, Finnegan said. LSU is confident going into the SEC Tournament, especially as it comes off a second-straight undefeated SEC regular season.

LSU coach D-D Breaux acknowledges the confidence it brings to the team knowing that they have beaten every team in the arena, but that doesn’t mean they won’t come just as strong as always.

“We never want to get in a place of complacency,” Finnegan said. “We always know that things do happen. You’re never going to have a perfect meet. We really want to get in that position that we know our gymnastics, we know that consistency wins and just get in there.”

Consistency has defined Finnegan as she reached new heights in her gymnastics career during her junior season.

While she entered the season an eight-time All-American, two-time All-SEC and the first NCAA bars champion in school history, Finnegan has shattered the already high expectations surrounding her.

As the fourth-ranked allarounder in the country, she breaks the top 10 in bars, beam and floor and sits at No. 1 on bars.

see FINNEGAN, page 9

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LSU all-around junior Sarah Finnegan competes on the balance beam during the Tigers’ 198.125-195.525 win over Arizona on March 17 in the PMAC.

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BASEBALL

Hunter Feduccia uses junior college experience to excel at LSU home runs. I would expect him to do that this year.”

Feduccia has been great for Twenty-one games into the the Tigers predominantly hitting season, junior college trans- fifth in the lineup with a .316 batfer catcher Hunter Feduccia is ting average and a team high of quietly turning into one of LSU’s 18 RBIs. “Being in the five hole, there’s best players.

Feduccia came to LSU from easily gonna be guys on base, LSU-Eunice where he thrived and I’m just trying to do my job,” behind the plate and in the Feduccia said.

Even though Feduccia has batter’s box.

Feduccia was named the 2016 been one of LSU’s best playand 2017 LSU-Eunice Defen- ers, the beginning of the season did not start out sive Player of the Year, and was also “I don’t even know as easily.

Feduccia was named the 2016, Gold Glove Award if Hunter Feduccia diagnosed with a hairline fracture winner in 2016 with a fielding per- realizes just how good of the third metacentage of .997 as a ball player he’s carpal. The injury occurred when the a catcher. capable of being.” unprotected top of The experiFeduccia’s catchence and leaderer’s mitt was hit by ship that Feduccia PAUL MAINIERI a teammate’s bat exhibits behind LSU baseball coach during a followthe plate has been through swing. valuable to the The injury sidelined Feduccia young LSU team. With the loss of key players from last year’s team, for the opening week of the seacoach Paul Mainieri’s expecta- son, but being able to dress as an tions were high for the first year LSU Tiger for the first time was catcher at the start of the season. special for the first-year player.

“I was just glad to be in the “Feduccia played last summer in the Northwoods league with a dugout and just being a part of wood bat,” Mainieri said. “In 50- the team and getting to soak 55 games, he hit seven or eight everything in,” Feduccia said.

BY BRANDON DECAREAUX @BrandonDec77

“You know I had fun.”

Feduccia is trying to replace one of LSU’s best players from last year’s team catcher Michael Papierski. Papierski was a twoyear starter behind the plate and a leader on the 2017 team that went to Omaha.

Papierski set the standard for LSU catchers moving forward when he left the program last year after getting drafted into the Houston Astros organization.

Like Papierski, Feduccia has been dominant behind the plate committing no errors and throwing out 10 of 12 runners trying to steal.

“He reminds me of Papierski in his junior year,” Mainieri said.

“Papierski made a big jump his senior year so hopefully he will continue to get better back there,” Mainieri said. “Clearly we are the best team we are with him back there.”

Feduccia has been a key player for the LSU team, bringing stability and a certain level of “coolness,” as Mainieri would say, that allows him to excel.

Feduccia was a late bloomer in his baseball career, not starting at Barbe High School until his senior year.

Despite the late start, Feduccia has thrived at every level

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LSU junior catcher Hunter Feduccia (7) catches the ball during the Tigers’ 9-4 win against South Alabama on March 14 at Alex Box Stadium. seamlessly improving as the competition gets stiffer.

The rate at which Feduccia has improved is a source of excitement for Mainieri moving forward in the season.

“I don’t even know if Hunter Feduccia realizes just how good a ball player he’s capable of

being,” Mainieri said. “He can really be an outstanding player if we can just get him to shift it into another gear. Just to give a little bit more and give a little bit more focus and intensity. I think the kid could be a tremendous all-around ball player that could really do a lot in his post LSU days, as well.”

BASEBALL

Tiger Park grounds crew unsung heroes of LSU

BY EGAN VALLIANT @EganValliant Tiger fans know the success achieved by LSU coach Beth Torina’s softball team in recent years, but an important facet of the Tigers’ success is often overlooked—the field itself.

Standing on the outfield terrace, the outfield looks like a high-end golf course.

Its grass is perfectly cut in a line pattern at two and three quarters of an inch, only disrupted by the spots where outfielders stand. The infield sits perfectly flat, without a single footprint.

Since its opening in 2009, Tiger Park has been known around the softball world as a top-tier stadium.

In 2013, The Sports Turf Managers Association honored Tiger Park with the Field of the Year award for the college softball division.

Tiger Park’s grounds crew, led by sports turf manager Ben Wilson, works behind the curtains to keep the park in excellent condition. The crew consists of four men who often work more than 50 hours a week, according to Wilson.

“They give us opportunities to play games when we shouldn’t,” Torina said. “They

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The groundskeepers mow the field at Tiger Park on March 20. do a good job.”

The methods used to maintain Tiger Park’s appearance are long and meticulous, especially the outfield.

“It’s a process that never ends,” Wilson said. “[We are] always looking at it and always trying to make it better. It’s very detail-oriented.”

In the outfield, the groundskeepers start by putting in the pattern of the grass,

and then fertilizer is applied weekly. The crew will then “spoon feed” the grass with bits of nitrogen and aerate the field accordingly.

On Fridays before a game, the crew will complete the finishing touches on the field, such as leveling the infield and drawing in the foul lines.

“I have a couple goals [for the field],” Wilson said. “I want to make it safe for the players.

That’s the number one objective out of all of this. Number two, I want to make it look as good as it possibly can and aesthetically pleasing to the fans. It’s just a general grind.”

Torina referred to the grounds crew as heroes by making Tiger Park suitable for play when weather conditions make it challenging in last year’s regionals.

“I think the grounds crew’s

role was the biggest in the regionals last year when we were able to play all those games in that rain,” Torina said. “They were able to really get it done for us. They were the heroes there. They do a lot. They work hard.”

When LSU hosted the Regional Tournament last year, heavy rains drenched the field at Tiger Park, and at one point, the outfield grass wasn’t visible because of the buildup. In just three hours, the grounds crew made the field playable.

“We had to put the tarp on the infield,” Wilson said. “The field took a lot of water. So the next morning, we came in at 6 a.m. and pulled the tarp off because it had stopped raining.”

“The back arch of the infield was completely drenched. It was pretty hectic. We had a game at 9:30 in the morning. At that time, the field was unplayable, and it was 6 [a.m.]. So we scrambled to get the field squared away and dried up as quick as we possibly could. That was the most hectic day I’ve had.”

Days like that in Baton Rouge are inevitable, but luckily Tiger Park has Wilson and his crew working tirelessly day in and day out to keep it enjoyable for both fans and players.

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Wednesday, March 21, 2018 FULTON, from page 7 school, many fans were expecting the Metairie, Louisiana, native to contribute to the defensive secondary early in his career, but this has not been the case.

Fulton saw action in the Tigers’ 2016 campaign when he entered as a substitute in two regular season games and the bowl game, but he was suspended with a dozen other players for the 2017 season opener.

However, unlike the other suspended players, Fulton sat out the remainder of the 2017 season. The reason for this lengthy suspension was unknown to the

FINNEGAN, from page 7 Finnegan’s season reached its peak when she achieved her first career perfect 10 on floor against Texas Woman’s. Just two weeks later, she achieved 10s on bars and beam in the same meet against Arizona.

Finnegan describes herself and all gymnasts as their own personal critics.

Though she wasn’t short on excitement, Finnegan recognizes when her routines aren’t as perfect as she strives for them to be.

“I think gymnastics is a sport of perfection,” Finnegan said. “I don’t think that we would ever see ourselves or a routine as perfect. I think, especially since you know yourself, you know that you do this routine every single day in the gym.”

Finnegan works every day in the gym to improve her outcome during competition, but in the

general public until news broke early last week.

In a column by The Advocate’s Ross Dellenger, it was revealed that Fulton is in the process of serving a two-year suspension for multiple infractions in the NCAA drugtesting protocol.

Fulton was suspended one year for attempting to use a fraudulent testing sample and another year for allegedly failing the test, according to the column.

If it’s true that Fulton tried to cheat himself using performance-enhancing drugs and cheat the system by using a

fraudulent sample, then it’s true that the Tiger defensive back is doubly wrong.

But, what about the NCAA? Was it wrong to suspend Fulton for two calendar years?

Many, including Fulton’s lawyer Don Jackson, believe so.

“The NCAA suspending this young man for two full competitive seasons is unethical, and there are due process issues relative to the collection of the test specimen,” Jackson told The Advocate.

Although Jackson wouldn’t divulge in the specifics of the case, the Fulton family plans to submit a request for

latter part of the season, she has taken on a new leadership role on the team.

It’s not the loud, assertive leadership of former LSU gymnast Ashleigh Gnat and her senior class — Breaux claims it is still just as charismatic and contagious to the rest of the team.

“Myia Hambrick is kind of a quiet leader and Sarah Finnegan has begun to speak out more and more but they mostly lead by example,” Breaux said. “It’s not so much banging on their chest and ‘do what I tell you to do, but leading by example and ‘Follow me, walk with me.’ It’s been a great outcome.”

Breaux instills that type of competitive atmosphere in the entire team.

That outcome, Finnegan hopes, will lead to an SEC Championship this weekend and a national championship later this season.

“The pride and the passion that D-D has for our school is

contagious,” Finnegan said. “I have so much pride for this school and I’m so proud to be a part of LSU. Just her carrying that upon herself and us looking up to her like that, we can feel it. We want this just as much as she does.”

page 9 reconsideration on the basis of the “clearly observed tampering” clause in the NCAA rules.

If such a clause is defined literally, as it should be when discussing topics of legality, Fulton may have a legitimate gripe.

Unless there is an NCAA official who can serve as a firsthand eyewitness to any observed tampering, there’s not enough evidence to satisfy the burden of proof laid out in the rule book.

Not only would the NCAA be severely penalizing Fulton on an unsubstantiated hunch, they would also be unjustly punishing an entire football

program.

LSU currently has four scholarship cornerbacks on the roster, and keeping another off of the roster without concrete proof of specific wrongdoing would represent a systematic failure on the part of the NCAA. There’s a fine line between imposing a punishment that fits the crime and burdening wrongdoers with “overly punitive” consequences.

Fulton may have been in the wrong to start off this whole debacle, but the NCAA is wrong to kneecap a college kid’s athletic career without some form of due process.

Although I’m not playing in the game, I feel like I’m participating in the game.

BILL FRANQUES

Voice of Alex Box

FRANQUES, from page 7

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LSU all-around junior Sarah Finnegan competes during the Tigers’ 198.125195.525 win over Arizona on March 17.

“It was just an unbelievable game,” Franques said. “It looked pretty grim going into the bottom of the ninth inning. We were down early and then fought our way back to that point. It was just an incredible thing to witness.”

Morris’ story was welldocumented in a 30-for-30 piece entitled “Walk Off,” which explained the hardships that Morris had to go through that season. A broken hand kept the senior out for most of the season and when he returned to the lineup, all he was able to do was bunt until the morning of the championship game against Miami.

Franques said that for some shots in the documentary, former Tiger slugger Greg Deichmann was used because he was also a left-handed batter.

The success has continued under current coach Paul Mainieri as LSU has made the World Series trip five times with the lone championship coming in 2009. But Franques remembers the 2008 season as one of the most memorable teams during the Mainieri-era.

An influx of freshmen were coming to the team, headlined by DJ LeMahieu, Leon Landry and Micah Gibbs. That team came in as a preseason top 10 team, but a 23-16 start to the season left some doubters.

LSU proceeded to go on a 23-game win streak, won the SEC tournament and advanced to the College World Series before losing to North Carolina twice.

“The expectations were so high that year, but we got off to a terrible start,” Franques said. “The final Super Regional game that year was against UC-Irvine, and it was the last game in the old Alex Box Stadium. The place just erupted so that was one of the most enduring memories of my tenure here.”

Franques said that LSU has embraced many different and unique personalities over the years on the baseball team.

One player that stood out to him

was Chad Cooley.

Cooley was from Barbe High School in Lake Charles, where current players Bryce and Beau Jordan and catcher Hunter Feduccia attended.

“Cooley came to LSU in 1993 and struggled a little bit his freshman year,” Franques said. “By the time he was a senior for the 1996 season, he was a leader and one of the best players on that team. Just an outgoing kid that was one of the most entertaining players we ever had.”

Having been around for 30 years, Franques has worked under two of college baseball’s greatest coaches in Bertman and Mainieri.

And it’s no secret that Bertman and Mainieri aren’t just LSU’s greatest college coaches, but two of the most respected coaches in college baseball history.

Franques said they have similar qualities that make them the coaches that they are.

“I would say they are both detail-oriented,” Franques said.

“Skips big saying was ‘Everything counts,’ there is nothing that is unimportant. From the game programs to the netting behind home plate, to the service at the concession stands. Everyone worked together to make the program great. They are both extremely open and honest to the players, and they gather a great deal of respect from the players because of that.”

Franques can be considered a right-hand man to Mainieri, making the coaches’ job as easy as he can. Franques and Mainieri have built a close relationship in their time working together.

“He knows everything about the history of LSU baseball,” Mainieri said. “He’s such a firstclass person and his great diversity. He’s a great SID, a great writer and a great PA announcer. Anything you ask Bill to do, he’ll do it in a very competent way. I think Bill deserves to be recognized for his amazing dedication to our program and [May 5 will] be a special day.”

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What may seem like a hidden gem on Lee Drive in Baton Rouge is actually one of the main Birkenstock distributors in the South.

Earthly Concerns / Bayou Birkenstock is loved by many, including one of its current staff members and longtime shoppers.

Sarah Corie was just any other residential assistant working in Laville Hall when she was

offered the opportunity to take a semester abroad and travel to Spain. She needed extra money for her awaiting European adventures, so during her junior year in 2016, she applied to the boutique of her dreams, Earthly Concerns.

She grew up in the store, shopping there at a young age with her family. She recalls fond memories at the shop and wanting to

eventually work there.

“I have loved coming here since I was little, Corie said. “It’s always been a fun store to shop at.”

Corie graduated from the University in May 2017 with a degree in sociology, and is one of many employees who were regulars at Earthly Concerns prior to working there. Currently, there are seven employees in the shop, which

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Activist and entertainer Ts Madison will present the keynote speech at the eighth annual Louisiana Queer Conference (LAQC) conference on April 15. Madison will become one of the few openly transgender black women to speak at a major event on the University’s campus.

Madison is a comedian, social media personality, performer and author who went viral through social media platforms like Vine and Instagram.

She is known for going against the traditional notions of gender presentation and helping educate the public on what it means to be transgender.

The LAQC will be held at the LSU Student Union on April 14 and 15. Applications for workshop and research presentations are open until March 31, and the 2018 theme for the conference is “Celebrating our presence. Imagining our future.” Though the event is student-run, it is open to community members across the state.

The April 14 date will include the “Queer After Party,” a drag show put on by local performers from 8 to 11 p.m. in the LSU French House Salon. The show will feature five drag queens, all of which are University students.

This will be the first drag show put on at the LAQC.

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ALUMNI

University alumna, photographer to travel to Orlando for Disney

BY AMAYA LYNCH @maya09172

From the quad to the most magical place on Earth, the creativity of Charlene Guilliams knows no bounds.

Guilliams, 22, has been developing her professional eye for photography for the last five years, and it has paid off.

She is taking her talents from the pages of Baton Rouge’s 225 Magazine and bringing it to the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida.

For the next year, Guilliams will be working with the Disney advertising team to help bring out the magic of the Disney parks.

“I’ve been taking photos my whole life,” Guilliams said. “I had those disposable cameras forever, but I really started

getting serious my senior year.”

Guilliams said she had a quick start to her professional photography career. She always had an eye for it but didn’t gain the tools until the day her father decided to get rid of his own equipment. He told Guilliams she could keep his camera equipment if she could figure out how to use it all in just a week – and she took him by surprise.

Guilliams not only figured out how to use the equipment, but also kept it to use throughout her career. The equipment her father handed down to her has seen her through high school yearbook photography, her time at the University and her job at 225.

On social media, Guilliams goes by Charlene Maria and uses an Instagram account

to show the versatility of her photography. She has been working on finding a balance between her product and portrait photography, and she said she loves the details that come from up-close portraits and product photography. Those details are what draws people to the pictures on her feed because she has found a way to bring out the beauty in everything she shoots.

“If you look at my feed right now, there’s a whole shift to pink,” Guilliams said. “With a lot of the photos I have taken recently, that’s the thread between them. I’m really working on making it all look more aesthetically pleasing.”

Guilliams started as an intern at 225 in May 2017 and was later hired on as a

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Photography alumna Charlene Guilliams will be working for the Disney advertising team this year.

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Wednesday, March 21, 2018

FASHION

LSU alumna opens Moxi Boutique, curates personable business

BY KELLY SWIFT @KELLBELL237 The word “moxie,” meaning courage and determination, may just perfectly describe 23-yearold Jenee Esquivel who opened up a chic boutique when she was fresh out of college.

She didn’t miss a beat after she graduated in 2017 with a mass communication degree focusing on digital advertising. She had plenty of experience from working at a local boutique, Bella Bella, for four years while attending the University. She said she is thankful for her previous bosses at Bella Bella, Ashley Thibaut and Elise Decoteau, and credits them for many of her skills in retail now.

“They provided me with many opportunities over the years,” Esquivel said. “They were really good to me while I was there and they taught me a lot.”

With a minor in fashion merchandising, Esquivel has loved fashion ever since she was in grade school. She still has many of her childhood drawings and said they were impressive for her young age.

“I would always draw clothing on my stick figures when I was young,” Esquivel said. “I guess I was destined to become involved with fashion.”

Esquivel said her background

from the University helped her prepare for her current position as the owner of Moxi Boutique on 320 Lee Drive . Her success story would not be possible without the help of her influential teachers at the University.

One of Esquivel’s favorite classes at the University was Media Law with Erin Coyle. She said Coyle really cared about her students and made sure that they were pushed beyond their perceived limits. After taking Coyle’s class, Esquivel questioned if she should go into law – she took the LSAT and did well, but realized her heart wasn’t in it so she headed in a different direction.

“Dr. Coyle’s class was one of the hardest, but most interesting classes I’ve taken at LSU,” Esquivel said. “I sat in the front row every day.”

Esquivel also took a campaign class her senior year with Yongick Jeong. She, along with her classmates, had to put together an ad campaign for Tai Pei food. Her class won district that year in 2017.

Her years at the University were also filled with clubs and activities that foreshadowed her future career. Esquivel was involved in the Fashion Association and was the secretary of LSU’s Advertising Federation. These involvements, along with her own motivation, helped her find the

right path toward owning her own business only months after graduation.

She wrote her business plan during her senior year in college and saw it come true around October of 2017 when she started construction for Moxi, which opened in February 2018.

Esquivel said her family played a large role in the construction process. Her dad and brother-inlaw engineered most of the building, and they helped her figure out the plumbing and mechanical aspects of the future boutique. Her boyfriend, who has a graphic design degree from the University, helped her design Moxi’s logo.

Her mom was her biggest cheerleader throughout the process.

Her business has a special place in her heart for many reasons, but she credits most of her love to the fact they started the technical design of the building from scratch.

Esquivel tries on all of the clothes she orders for the store before they go on sale. Since all clothing companies have different sizes, she likes to have a gage on the clothing so she can guide her customers.

“I really just want to make the shopping experience as easy for my customers as possible, Esquivel said. “I want them to be relaxed and happy when they leave the store.”

Esquivel listens to her

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Boutique owner Jenee Esquivel discusses her aspirations for the store at Moxi Boutique on March 13, on Lee Drive. customer’s feedback and tries to improve the business based on their wishes. Most recently, some of her most loyal customers have suggested she sell denim flares, which will be coming soon to Moxi’s collection.

Her goal is to have customers leave feeling better than they did before they walked in. She makes sure she has a staff that reflects this value. Currently, her staff is

collectively made of people she grew up with in St. Manama, Louisiana. Esquivel said their close bond is obvious when you enter the store.

“I’m so lucky to do what I love with the people that I love,” Esquivel said. “I am obsessed with customer service so coming to work is a privilege and has never been something that I didn’t want to do.”

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REV R ANKS HQ TRIVIA

Rus Yusupov and Colin Kroll HQ Trivia seems like something straight out of an episode of “Black Mirror.” It’s a live-stream questionnaire app that thousands of dollars a day to lucky winners.

Players quick enough to answer all 12 questions in a short period of time can see prizes from as low as a few dollars to as high as $50,000 in their PayPals.

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VOLTRON Netflix The death of the Saturday morning cartoon has given rise to the anytime Netflix cartoon. For younger kids, this means watching “Bolt” for 12 hours, then “Dinotrux” for another eight. For older kids, this means watching shows like “Voltron: Legendary Defender” to capture the feel of shows older generations grew up with.

Ashlei Gosha @yungjemisin

‘Nailed It!’ shows everyday people in cooking competition is just a normal person who loves the comfort of food, and Torres is the professional in Finally a baking show has the situation that sometimes been made for people who can’t looks pained by the faults of the bake. The Netflix new original contestants.

The contestants make the baking show “Nailed It!” features amateur bakers who as- show fun to watch. They are pire to be better than they are just like you and me – they at baking. The bakers have to love food and they love to go through two challenges and bake, but they want to get betwin the final to be award- ter at it. The fact that they are ed $10,000. What makes making such intricate baking this show funny and masterpieces is just comienjoyable is the fact that these cal. We all have seen those baked goods onbakers know line that had that they aren’t moment where very good at we thought, “I baking, and they have to The show not only entertains, could do that.” recreate pro- but also informs and inspires But, the contestants on the show fessional baked its viewers. have to actually goods. accomplish that.

The host The show of the show is isn’t really about Nicole Byer, the final product and by her side in every episode is choco- matching up to original – it’s latier Jacques Torres and one about what they learn along additional professional baker. the way. They learn skills they Byer alone is already interest- can take with them back home ing, funny and entertaining, to their friends, family and The conbut adding Torres to the equa- acquaintances. tion gave the show something stants are mothers, fathers, completely different.

Byer teachers and grandmothers

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R U TALKING REM RE: ME?

Adam Scott and Scott Aukerman

“R U Talkin’ R.E.M. RE: ME?” is the newest absurdist comedy-meets-music analysis podcast baby from Adam Scott and Scott Aukerman. Their previous collaboration was called “U Talkin’ U2 To Me?” Both are currently free and available on Earwolf.

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all just hoping to be able to navigate the kitchen and learn different techniques to improve their baking.

The show not only helps the contestants on the show, but also the viewers. Before the contestants attempt to make the creations, Torres or the guest baker explains how you’re actually supposed to make it. It is then you get to watch the contestants completely screw it up.

While watching, you’ll want to get up and try baking it yourself. The show not only entertains, but also informs and inspires its viewers.

“Nailed It!” is one of the first cooking shows that made me feel as though I could get up and do exactly what the people on the show are doing. They are normal people just having a good time while baking and learning. This Netflix original baking show has six episodes of people competing to have $10,000 shot at them from a money gun – not something you can say about many other baking shows, and not something you want to miss.

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Wednesday, March 21, 2018

FOOD AND DRINK

The Big Cheezy food truck opens Baton Rouge location in Tigerland

BY ASHLEI GOSHA @yungjemisin Every Tiger knows there’s never a dull moment in Tigerland, and The Big Cheezy food truck now has a front-row seat to those not-so-silent nights.

Co-owner Jason Harbison mans the new The Big Cheezy food truck in Tigerland, where the Baton Rouge community can try grilled cheese-based dishes like the fan favorite “Mac N’ Cheezy” or the “Crawgator.”

“Not your typical grilled cheese, but still a grilled cheese at heart,” Harbison said.

Harbison got into food when he was an undergraduate at Tulane and met co-owner Thomas Jacobs selling cheese fries at F&M’s in New Orleans.

“Selling cheesy food to kids late night at bars is something it feels like we’ve been doing our entire adult lives now,” Harbison said.

Harbison is an alumnus of the University’s law school. He is a licensed Louisiana attorney, but he said he would rather sell grilled cheese in Tigerland

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than practice law.

“You’ll always see us linger in the window and try to watch people take that first bite and either get that smile or the head nod and that instant gratification of giving somebody what they needed in that moment,” Harbison said. “When I was a lawyer, you’d take years to reconcile a case or to get a final judgement, and I’m handing out good news in five minutes in a grilled cheese truck.”

Harbison said the plan for the growth of The Big Cheezy isn’t set. The owners plan to grow alongside Baton Rouge and take the opportunities as they come, and Harbison emphasized working with the community to grow.

“The management team at Fred’s, Reggie’s and the House and the other bars in Tigerland have been very welcoming, cooperative,” Harbison said. “It’s always nice to see other small business owners helping each other, and that’s definitely what we’ve got going right now.”

Harbison said the location gives The Big Cheezy access to the late-night crowd, puts them

in a big parking lot for easy access during lunchtime and was also the right place for students and the community alike to have a chance to find them.

“It just fits,” Harbison said.

“Whenever you’re going to be out in Tigerland, you either need to sober up a little bit or fill up a little bit and build a good foundation for what you’re about to go do. Our menu fits both needs.”

Harbison and his partners also chose to open the truck in Tigerland because most of them have a connection to either the University or Baton Rouge.

“LSU is more than the fancy buildings and stadiums and the good times,” Harbison said. “The people at LSU come from everywhere and from a lot of different walks, so in my time there I got to see a lot of stories and learned a lot from other people. I think those lessons help me every day, both making small decisions in the business and making big decisions like what city to come to to expand The Big Cheezy. Baton Rouge is the right one.”

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The Big Cheezy food truck is located in Tigerland and serves sandwiches like the “Mac n’ Cheezy” to its guests.

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Wednesday, March 21, 2018 GUILLIAMS, from page 13 contributing photographer. It was then she realized she loved the work she got to do with the 225.

“I definitely want to do some editorial commercial work,” Guilliams said. “Like working for some big magazines, shooting food and things like that. I love editorial, commercial and structure. I like having a say-so in my art and collaborating with people on projects.”

Guilliams enjoys to work with people in all aspects of photography. She said she is inspired by the people she sees on the streets and just the world around her because she can’t create without being exposed to the real world. She will undoubtedly be inspired by the people she sees walking the Disney streets during her yearlong internship with the Disney advertising team.

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[Working for Disney] is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I wasn’t going to pass that up.

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“They went so fast,” Guilliams said. “I prepared for the interview, and when I started it, they already seemed excited to have me working with them. It was just like boom boom boom, and I was really shocked.”

Guilliams said seeking an internship with Disney may have been intimidating at first, but when the opportunity came

knocking, she knew there was no passing it up.

“At first I was like ‘Oh my gosh, Disney contacted me,’” Guilliams said. “When I started to think about spending a year away and missing, so much I wasn’t too sure, but then I thought about it. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I wasn’t going to pass that up.”

workshops on topics including LGBTQ sexual education, race The conference is an annual and representation and the hisLGBTQ event put on by Spec- tory of queer movements and trum, Queer Students of Color resistance. and the LSU Office of MulticulThe first openly gay NFL tural Affairs. The conference player Michael Sam delivered began in 2011 with the mission the LAQC’s 2017 keynote speech. of providing leadership develop- Sam’s speech told the story of his ment, networking life as a gay footopportunities and ball player and social support to Ts Madison will become how he learned LGBTQ college the importance one of the few openly students and their of helping othtransgender black women to allies in Louisiers like himself ana. The LAQC speak at a major event on and representthe University’s campus ing the LGBTQ allows individuals to discuss ideas community. and collaborate Sam came on projects, while out publicly on building a statewide network to ESPN in 2014 and became the support and advance the LGBTQ first openly gay football player movement. to be drafted by the NFL later The LAQC’s itinerary typical- that year. Sam is one of the many ly consists of workshops and pan- members of the LGBTQ commuels including University faculty, nity to deliver the keynote speech students and alumni, as well as at the LAQC, with other speakstate activists and students active ers including Equality North in their LGBTQ organizations Carolina’s Jen Jones and Alison at universities in other states. Gill, the Governmental Affairs In 2017, the conference held 11 director for the Trevor Project.

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is owned by Bill Lovejoy.

Lovejoy has owned many stores over the years, most of which have been in New Orleans.

Earthly Concerns has been open for roughly 21 years and is one of his oldest stores. It sells a variety of things, which brings in a diverse crowd.

“It is truly a timeless store, with its mixture of shoes, beauty supplies, candles and other beautiful items,” said shopper and mass communication freshman Grace Millsap.

Earthly Concerns’ shoes are one of its main attractions. They sell many different brands, but they all have the element of comfort in common. Many people are sent to Earthly Concerns from their doctors to purchase

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Photography alumna Charlene Guilliams edits photographs on her laptop in the LSU Student Union on March 12. comfortable shoes. The store carries many brands that are specially made for people with foot problems and others that are just nice quality.

Birkenstock is one of the most popular brands that Earthly Concerns sells. The store is a large retailer for Birkenstocks in the South, so they receive limitedtime offers and specialized shoes from them. They have a large range of Birkenstocks with many different colors, designs and sizes for all. The store also sells Toms, Chacos and other luxury shoes.

“Mr. Lovejoy really knows how to pick brands and styles,” Corie said. “He always has new styles of shoes, but remains loyal to his trusted brands.”

Lovejoy has sold Birkenstocks since the store’s opening in 1996. He said he likes

Birkenstocks because they are investment pieces that last for years.

The store’s motto is “uncommon gifts for the finest taste.”

Besides shoes, they sell candles, bath products, jewelry and other items. Many of the brands that Lovejoy sells are locally made, such as Mimosa Jewelry, which is made by an artist located in Baton Rouge.

Earthly Concerns will be selling many of these products and their shoes for a reduced price at their annual tent sale in April. The annual sale has been a tradition for several years now and brings in shoppers from all over the Baton Rouge area.

“I am so happy that I get to work at a store like this,” Corie said. “It really isn’t your average boutique.”

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Activist and entertainer Ts Madison will dleiver the keynote speech at the 2018 Louisiana Queer Conference.

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Earthly Concerns, owned by Bill Lovejoy, has been open for roughly 21 years and sells a diverse range of items.

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ROYALLY SKEWED Hollywood wage gap reveals larger societal issue

SARAH SAYS SARAH GROBETY @sarah_grobety It is 2018, and we are still hearing about underpaid women who are killing their lead roles.

Transparency in Hollywood is the only way to ensure fair and equal pay for women.

Critically acclaimed actress Claire Foy, who portrays Queen Elizabeth II in “The Crown”, was paid significantly less than her male co-star Matt Smith, according to executives from Left Bank Pictures.

Smith, best known for playing the 11th Doctor in “Doctor Who,” was reportedly paid significantly more than Foy because of his previous fame. While this is to be expected, it does not explain the continued disparity after the immense success of the first season. Foy was nominated for an Emmy, and won a Screen Actors Guild award and a Golden Globe.

Foy did not reap the benefits of Netflix’s $7 million budget per episode, and was paid a meager $40,000 per episode. According

to Forbes, some of the dresses she wore in the role cost more than her $40,000 paychecks.

Undervaluing women in Hollywood is old news. For years, reports of extreme wage gaps have come to light. In 2015, “American Hustle” made headlines when reports that Bradley Cooper and other male actors were paid significantly more than Oscar-nominated actresses Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Adams.

More recently, Mark Wahlberg made headlines when his co-star Michelle Williams made less than 1 percent of what Wahlberg made for filming reshoots of “All the Money in the World.”

Walhberg donated his $1.5 million earnings to the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund.

Even more infuriatingly, women of color make even less than white women. Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer made news earlier this year when Chastain spoke out about getting paid more than Spencer, her costar in “The Help.”

“Women of color on that spectrum, we make far less than white women,” Chastain said at

the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s “Women Breaking Barriers” panel. “So, if we’re gonna have that conversation about pay equity, we gotta bring the women of color to the table.”

After being so vocal about the injustices, Chastain helped Spencer make five times more than originally contracted by vocalizing the inequalities and remaining “tied together” with Spencer.

Outside of the film industry, the pay gap divides professional men and women. White women make an average of 80 cents per dollar that a male counterpart would make. For minorities, that number drops.

Black women make 63 cents on the dollar, while Latina and Hispanic women make 54. For many women, this pay gap is what keeps them from being able to afford basic necessities for their families.

If you feel that you are underpaid for a job because of your sex, speak up. In many companies, human resource departments are there to help you. Legislation exists to protect women in the workforce. The Equal Pay

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Act, which was meant to minimize the wage gap, was written more than 50 years ago. While it does need to be updated and strengthened, it is a good place to start. The federal government needs to take this disparity more seriously and step in to help fix the issues.

In Foy’s case, there is a chance that legal action could help her. Because her time on the show is over, Netflix no longer is

writing her any checks. But, depending on when her contract is officially up, she may have time to file a lawsuit and make back some of the money she deserves.

“Going forward, no one gets paid more than the Queen,” said Suzanne Mackie, executive producer of “The Crown.”

Sarah Grobety is a 20-year-old mass communication junior from Atlanta, Georgia.

Greek Life tailgating regulations put students’ lives at risk ACCORDING TO ASHLON ASHLON LUSK @shlinie The hazing-related death of University freshman pledge Maxwell Gruver was a wake-up call to the University to do something about hazing that goes on in fraternities. LSU President F. King Alexander recently approved new rules for Greek Life, including an alcohol ban of hard liquor at registered events and relocation of tailgating to fraternity houses. These rules make the University look like they’re making changes, but it doesn’t actually protect members of Greek Life.

Since Gruver’s death, the University hasn’t done enough to prevent another incident from happening. No one has died at a bar during a fraternity or sorority exchange. No one has died at a fraternity tailgate on the Parade Ground. Someone died in a fraternity house, which is where the University has moved tailgating.

The only way to make sure tailgating is safe is to have 20 or more police officers monitoring

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LSU’s Parade Ground sits nearly bare on Sept. 23, 2017, due to the recent tailgating policies. all fraternity houses on gameday. Paying 20 or more police officers to monitor the fraternity houses, in addition to officers patrolling the rest of campus, is unrealistic.

Moving tailgating to the fraternity houses spreads tailgaters to many different and hardto-monitor locations. When tailgating is on the Parade Ground, it is public and everyone is relatively safe. This new rule is put-

ting students’ lives at risk, due to the lack of supervision and witnesses.

The alcohol ban for Greek events is only promoting preand post-gaming, or the act of drinking heavily before and after an event. This will lead to more binge drinking and drunk driving, which could cause more death. The ban only removes the guilt from the University’s shoulders and puts it on Greek

Life. No one is being helped in this situation besides the University.

The problem in Greek Life is not the alcohol—it’s hazing.

College students are adults and should be treated as such. If someone decides to drink heavily, that is their prerogative.

However, that is not what happened to Gruver. He was forced to drink by powerful members of his fraternity.

The University doesn’t actively prevent “Pledge Season.” For most fraternities, “pledge season” includes dressing in khaki pants and a polo shirt for class, having cigarettes and a lighter on hand for an upperclassman and wearing suits on gameday. These measures are only the public things the potential new members of fraternities have to endure. University students, professors and staff see this happening and no one does anything. This behavior only promotes more serious forms of hazing.

The University is, by default, promoting hazing by not at least stopping the public alienation of pledges that any person on campus can see. On their own, these measures aren’t harmful to the members in any way. However, these regulations can lead to the singling out of one member and, sometimes, forcing them to drink alcohol until they die.

To keep people safe, the University should pass stricter rules about hazing, not about alcohol and tailgating.

Ashlon Lusk is a 19-year-old mass communication freshman from Houston, Texas.

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Trump’s cabinet reflects race of his preferred associates FRANKLY SPEAKING JUSTIN FRANKLIN @justinifranklin Directly after the firing of Omarosa Manigault, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders responded to inquiries about White House diversity saying, “We have a really diverse team across the board at the White House.”

One would assume diversity is the norm in the U.S. today, but a look at the faces around the White House tell a different story.

Trump’s cabinet is more white and male than both of his immediate predecessors. According to the New York Times, former President Barack Obama’s original cabinet was composed of 64 percent men of color or women.

In former President George W. Bush’s first cabinet, 45 percent were men of color or women.

Trump’s cabinet includes only five women. It also includes Secretary of Housing and Urban

Development Dr. Ben Carson, the only black American to make the roster, Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, the only Asian American to make the roster and U.N. secretary Nikki Haley, one of three Indian—Americans to make the roster. That’s as far as Trump diversity goes.

“Something that we strive for every day is to add and grow to be more diverse and more representative of the country at large,” Sanders said.

White males do not represent the country at large, but they do represent Trump’s base and preferred associates. Ninety percent of Trump’s picks for federal courts are white, and 80 percent are male. This is not growing diversity in any form.

Trump’s lack of inclusion directly represents his priorities as president. He doesn’t want to help minority communities, so they aren’t around him. He doesn’t respect woman, so they aren’t around him.

If I was a person of color working in the White House, I don’t think I would want to be

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attached to a president who is so outwardly prejudiced against minorities.

The second year of the Trump travesty is in full effect, and he has made it clear he thinks

there are good white nationalists. He made it clear when he called Sen. Elizabeth Warren D-Massachusetts, “Pocahontas.” He made it clear he prefers immigrants from white

European countries, not “shithole” countries composed of people of color. He’s made it clear he believes all Mexican immigrants are drug dealers or rapists.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was recently fired via tweet. Did the White House seek to grow diversity with his replacement? Nope, CIA Director Mike Pompeo was already set to take the position. The Trump administration just moved one white male from one post to another.

Frankly speaking, “spin doctor” Sanders really did make it sound good, but the facts are different. Across the board, Trump has the whitest cabinet since former president Ronald Reagan, and the number of women in the White House is minuscule. Promoting diversity and inclusion at the highest level would be a start to making America great, but keeping America white seems to be the goal.

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

Louisiana citizens must respect, protect natural environment CHATTING WITH ABI ABIGAIL VARNADO @abi_varn About two weeks ago, Louisiana came last in the U.S. News & World Report state rankings. Honestly, it’s disappointing, but not surprising.

Every aspect of our state is run-down and needs serious improvement, especially Louisiana’s environmental quality and excess energy usage. According to the rankings, Louisiana placed No. 49 in Natural Environment and 39 in Energy. In the Renewable Energy Usage sub-category, Louisiana came in 49th. This is awful, especially since we live in a state with a disappearing coastline peppered with swamps and wildlife.

Louisiana has the potential to be a leading state in environmental conservation and renewable energy usage, but people don’t seem to care enough about the state to educate themselves on the topic.

Just driving down the interstate or highway, drivers can see loads of litter and abandoned items in the medians

or on the sides of the roads. Why to fix it. are we so trashy?

According to the Louisiana According to Keep Louisiana Office of Tourism, Louisiana genBeautiful, about $40 million in erated over $1 billion in state tax taxpayer dollars are spent each revenue from travel and tourism year in Louisiana on litter re- activities in 2016. moval, abatement, education and The amount of money enforcement. That’s a large sum generated is amazing for our of cash that could be used for pub- state, chiefly since it creates jobs. lic schools or roads if we all just Be that as it may, what would our cleaned up after ourselves. state do if the number of tourAccording to Keep Louisiana ists decreased due to the trashiBeautiful, 81 percent of litter is ness of our state? There won’t intentional. Motorists and pe- be anything else left to visit or destrians produce 70 percent of sight see, because we aren’t takroadside litter, while 16 percent ing care of our state or environof the litter comes from irrespon- ment. We would be in more of a sible drivers who don’t secure financial bind than we already their cargo correctly. Nearly 99 are. percent of litter in parks and playLouisiana also needs to start grounds come from pedestrians. using more renewable energy.

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Louisianbeautiful. ians could at least ing these, we need go to their local to use renewable landfill to dump their mattresses energy like solar panels or wind or pieces of wasted furniture if turbines, which are far and few they can’t resell them. We are de- between in our state. stroying our state, and we have to Louisiana receives a great be aware of it before we can begin amount of sunshine, even more

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Over 12.6 million pounds of toxic chemicals were released into Louisiana waterways in 2012 alone. so during the summer. Imagine if our state decided to install solar panels in large, remote designated areas or on government building roofs. We would save heaps of energy and money in the long run, while helping our state’s natural environment.

It all boils down to the respect we have for ourselves, our state

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and our environment. Louisiana has the potential to be so much more efficient and beautiful. We need to clean up after ourselves and go the extra mile to better our communities.

Abigail Varnado is a 21-yearold English senior from Amite, Louisiana.

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