The Daily Reveille 10-28-2016

Volume 122 · No. 44

Friday, October 28, 2016

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ENERGY SUMMIT

Energy panel discusses Trump’s anti-trade rhetoric

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sk8er bois

Skateboarding culture still relevant on campus

BY CYNTHEA CORFAH @Lacedincyn

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espite “no-skateboarding” signs and bumpy sidewalks, skateboard culture on campus is alive and well.

Skateboarding originated during the ’50s in California. Over the last seven decades, skateboarding developed its own culture, influencing style, music, sports and language.

Mass communication junior Robert Henry started skateboarding during his freshman year after a brief stint when he was 13. Henry owns two skateboards that he uses to commute on campus: a plastic Penny board and a traditional board with longboard wheels.

“Normal skateboard wheels would make riding around difficult because they are not large enough to handle most of the large cracks and other hazards around campus,” Henry said.

see SK8ER BOIS, page 7

Expert warns energy representatives of future challenges

BY WILLIAM TAYLOR POTTER @wmtaylorpotter

BY CHRISTIAN BOUTWELL @CBoutwell_

While sitting in a roundtable discussion on energy and economic implications for Louisiana, LSU Professor Emeritus of Economics Loren Scott related an anecdote about his mother to attendees. “[She] told me when I was growing up anybody could [become] the president of the United States,” Scott said in reference to GOP nominee Donald Trump. “For the first time in my life, I believe my momma.”

Trump, and specifically his anti-trade rhetoric, were a common theme for the hour-long discussion among Scott, Associate Director of the Tulane Energy Institute Eric Smith, Dek Terrell, professor and executive director of LSU Economics and the LSU Policy Research Group, and David Dismukes, the executive director of the LSU Center for Energy Studies.

Wednesday’s roundtable was part of the 2016 Energy Summit at the LSU Center for Energy Studies and LSU Economics and Policy Research Group.

“If there’s one thing where economists universally agree, it’s that free trade is a good thing,” Scott said of Trump’s promise to renegotiate trade deals.

Scott said Louisiana lost its largest manufacturing

Jim Krane, Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, veered global at the opening of the 2016 Energy Summit at LSU’s Center for Energy studies for a perspective on risks.

He warned industry representatives at the conference that they will face increasingly complex challengers in the future.

Krane’s research addresses geopolitical aspects of energy with a focus on the Middle East.

His scholarly work explores energy-exporting states and their problems with demands, subsidies and the risks they face from climate action His presentation, one of several in an afternoon agenda at the LSU Center for Energy Studies, introduced four types of risks that could affect the fossil fuel industry: policy, demand, divestment and competition risk.

Krane’s key point: The burning of fossil fuels is responsible for two thirds of the human greenhouse gas emissions behind climate change.

Those same fuels are the financial underpinnings for the resource-rich countries.

Effective climate action, if it were to happen, is going to

see ROUNDTABLE, page 2

see FOSSIL FUEL, page 2

STUDENT LIFE

ACADEMICS

BY SCOTT GRISWOLD @griswold_ii

BY LAUREN HEFFKER @laurheffker

After nine years as the University’s mascot, Mike VI passed away as a result of his battle with cancer. The beloved Tiger’s death which sparked an outpouring of emotion from students, faculty and community members came after a tumultuous summer and major changes to the LSU football team’s leadership.

The student body’s reaction to Mike’s passing was one of love and appreciation, with many adorning the habitat with drawings and flowers. The day after his death, Student Government held a memorial service in honor of Mike VI. The football team also

While the world of economics may sound complex and incomprehensible to some, students of all disciplines can find something to learn from today’s talk, hosted by the E. J. Ourso College of Business Department of Economics.

Cornell University economist Robert Frank will be delivering a free lecture in the Business Education Complex Auditorium at 2:30 p.m. today.

Professor Areendam Chanda invited Frank to the University because he is one of the authors of the Principles of Economics textbook, which all ECON 2010 students use. The class is a prerequisite course for all business majors.

“Robert Frank is like a messenger

LSU and UT share in the loss College of Business to host of live animal mascots nationally known economist

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The University of Texas’ live mascot, Bevo XIV died of leukemia in October 2015.

for economics in many ways,” Chanda said.

Frank’s talk will be based on his latest book, “Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy.”

It explains his philosophy of how luck and success are intertwined, with one leading to the other.

Frank’s studies have concentrated on wealth and social theory, and he believes that recognizing chance as a factor in economic growth can ultimately decrease pay gaps.

The Cornell professor is one of the faces of economics to the world at large, and not just to economics students, according to Chanda. Frank’s research

see ECONOMICS page 2

page 2 MASCOTS, from page 1 honored Mike VI by wearing special stickers on their helmets during a victory over Southern Miss.

But LSU isn’t the only university that has endured the grief of losing a mascot. In October of last year, the University of Texas lost Bevo, its live longhorn steer mascot, under similar circumstances.

According to a UT press release, “Bevo XIV began his tenure at the age of two in 2004, and was on the sidelines for many historic moments. Bevo XIV was a part of back-to-back Rose Bowl victories, including the January 2006 win that resulted in the most recent Longhorns’ BCS Football National Championship.”

Bevo XIV passed away from a terminal illness called Bovine Leukemia Virus. Shortly after Mike’s diagnosis back in May, he received a bouquet of flowers from Bevo.

“Our students were very saddened about his passing and also very supportive,” said Ricky Brennes, executive director of the Silver Spur Alumni Association in an email. “The students here at Texas were great to us and really helped support us as we searched for Bevo XV. For the student athletes on the football team, they seemed to rally around the loss of the University’s mascot.

The two best games the team played were the game he was sick and the game immediately after his passing. The starting QB said in the post game press conference that they won for Bevo.”

Despite the universities’ apparent love for the live mascots, their treatment of the animals did not come without criticism.

Back in 2007, then-LSU Chancellor Sean O’Keefe responded to a letter from People for Ethical Treatment of Animals in which they urged the University not to find a replacement for Mike V. In the letter, O’Keefe stated that “LSU stands behind its treatment of its tigers. Their habitat and lifestyle are constantly monitored to ensure their well being, and they receive state-of-the-art veterinary medical care from the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine, which can improve and extend the life of a big cat.”

Shortly after Mike VI’s death, PETA again urged the University “to honor Mike VI’s legacy by making him the last live mascot to be locked up in captivity and paraded around in an unruly stadium.” They claimed that “sensitive, intelligent tigers have been reduced to game-day props for decades.”

UT has tremendous respect for the University’s Mike the Tiger tradition, Brennes said.

“The care he receives from the veterinary school and the love LSU fans have for Mike are both tremendous,” Brennes said.

Friday, October 28, 2016 go up: “They [other nations] always retaliate.” employer, Fruit of the Loom, While the discussion on around the time the 1994 North trade deals was fairly favorAmerican Free Trade Agree- able, the panelists described a ment was signed much darker situation for the state into law. But from of the oil indus1992-2000, the state enjoyed its He said that while trade try in the Gulf of best growth pe- agreements have winners Mexico. and losers, the standard riod in history.

Smith deissues He said that of living for all countries tailed with shallow wawhile trade goes up ters, saying the agreements have production was winners and losers, the standard more expensive of living for all than drilling countries goes up. Scott also on land.

Scott said the oil companies said the United States can expect one certainty if tariffs had succeeded in negotiating

to break-even point per barrel down to $55-60, rather than the traditional $70-80. He warned that while that was good “the price has just got to go up.”

The summit coincided with a recent push by the University to increase involvement in the energy sector. The E.J. Ourso College of Business recently created an energy undergraduate minor to allow students to specialize in the industry.

The LSU Petroleum Engineering Research and Technology Transfer Laboratory has been working to simulate a widescale disaster, such as the one with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

to and including banning fossil fuels.”

Krane’s “demand” risk detailed the decline in the appetite for fossil fuel due to climate change.

“Coal is the one that is most at risk,” Krane said. “Global coal demand fell by 22 percent,” The demand for coal may have already peaked, Krane said, while adding that natural gas is “the bridge” to decarbonization as a coal substitute, noting that China’s use which consumes half of the world’s coal,

has declined within the last two years.

Krane points to gas as a “fantastic” substitute for coal.

“It’s already replaced coal as the number one source of power generation in the U.S. this year,” he said.

Krane says his research concludes that gas is expected to surpass coal as a global power generator by 2030.

That said, Krane concluded, the biggest risk of all is that these climate actions may fail.

ROUNDTABLE, from page 1

FOSSIL FUEL, from page 1 make life increasingly difficult for the fossil fuel business going forward, he underscored.

Policy risks include governmental regulation policies and pledges governments make to reduce carbon emissions or to support competing technology.

“This potentially is the strongest form of risk. Governments have the tools to take policies that they choose or that their electorates want, right up

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ECONOMICS, from page 1 has made important contributions to microeconomics in how income equality, consumption and status is regarded in society, he said.

Frank’s argument is that self-made people attribute their success to hard work, rather than a combination of hard work and luck. This attitude makes them less likely to give back once they’ve achieved success.

The economist is in favor of progressive consumption taxes to reduce income inequality. The difference between a household’s taxable income and annual savings would be the consumption spending, which would be taxed, rather than personal income.

“He was the one who first brought this idea that the world is increasingly becoming a place where only the best people get a lot of money,” Chanda said. “If you’re ten

percent worse than the best, it doesn’t mean you get ten percent less — you get 50 percent less.”

Applying the principles of economics can help people make more informed decisions in other aspects of life, Chanda said.

Chanda teaches HNRS 2011 and undergrad and graduate courses on economic growth. He has been a professor at the University for 12 years.

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Sports

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Alabama 29, LSU 20

Shoutout to Dwayne Thomas for exuding so much confidence when discussing LSU’s upcoming match against Alabama. Confidence is certainly a necessary requirement for beating the No. 1 team in the country, but that doesn’t mean it’s sufficient for defeating the Crimson Tide. Alabama’s defense is too big, too physical and too good.

It will maul the LSU offensive line.

LSU 42, Arkansas 17 Just when I think Arkansas isn’t so bad, it loses to Auburn 56-3. That’s a 53-point loss in a game where Arkansas allowed Auburn to rush for nearly 22 (!) times more yards than the Razorbacks. That speaks to both the trash Razorback rushing attack (25 rushing yards) and garbage defense (543 rushing yards allowed). Those stats are so egregious, I don’t even know what to do with them. I’m sort of inclined to tell Leonard Fournette’s rushing record to move over because it might be shattered come Nov. 12 in Fayetteville.

LSU 27, Florida 17 The Gators definitely didn’t take kindly to being accused of dodging the Tigers a few weeks back, and LSU probably didn’t appreciate Florida players mocking Mike VI’s death. A game that already comes with its fair share of hostility will carry even more aggression between the two sides. Florida quarterback Luke Del Rio is less than great — he threw three interceptions versus Missouri — and Dave Aranda’s defense should feast against him.

Texas A&M 31, LSU 16 TAMU and LSU are pretty evenly matched this year, IMO. The Aggies have yet to beat LSU since joining the Southeastern Conference, but this time around they have Trevor Knight, a more-than competent running back and the best defensive line in the country. That has to count for something.

I think the differentiator comes down to the LSU-Alabama game. If the Tigers somehow pull that off — and if the Aggies are the only thing standing in the way of the SEC title game — it won’t be close. But given that LSU loses to Alabama, it will lose that sense of “new season, new team” and won’t have much to play for against TAMU. Meanwhile, the Aggs will have plenty to play for, and that will show.

Alabama 31, LSU 14 LSU has been a completely different team under Ed Orgeron. The Tigers have broken three straight offensive records, but will face their toughest test of the season against Alabama. Before the season started, this seemed like the year the streak would end. LSU gets Alabama at home, and it has a veteranladen team. The streak, however, won’t stop this year. LSU’s offensive line is more finesse than physical, which is why it struggled with Alabama last season. Jonathan Allen and Tim Williams will have a field day in LSU’s backfield.

Alabama is too talented, and the Tide still have Nick Saban.

LSU 28, Arkansas 10

What’s gone under the rug are LSU’s back-to-back losses to Arkansas by the exact same amount of points. However, Brandon Allen is gone. The Razorbacks were dismantled by Auburn and can’t run the ball, and LSU’s defense is pretty stingy. Leonard Fournette and Derrius Guice should be able to run all over the Razorbacks defense.

LSU 27, Florida 3

LSU-Florida have developed a strange rivalry the past few seasons. I’m sure the Gators have had this game circled on their calendar since last season.

They’ll finally get their shot against LSU, but the result will be the same as the last five seasons. In the former Purdue quarterback bowl, Danny Etling and LSU will come out victorious. Florida’s quarterbacks have struggled and they don’t have a solid run game. Give me LSU in blowout.

LSU 41, Texas A&M 21

Texas A&M allowed 684 yards to Tennessee without Jalen Hurd, the Volunteers best running back. The Aggies defense on paper is better than before, but come on, if you watched the Tennessee game then you might have noticed Texas A&M had trouble tackling. Now imagine what the Aggies’ defense will do against more capable running backs Leonard Fournette and Derrius Guice.

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Friday, October 28, 2016

VOLLEYBALL

Tigers set for weekend road trip versus South Carolina, Florida

BY CHRIS CALDARERA @Caldarera_TDR LSU’s volleyball team is hoping that errors and miscues stop haunting its season this Halloween weekend.

The Tigers (7-13, 2-7 Southeastern Conference) will play two road games against South Carolina (14-6, 2-6 SEC) and No. 9 Florida (19-2, 8-1 SEC) on Oct. 28 and Oct. 30, respectively.

LSU finds itself in a threegame losing skid, but is aiming to avoid another six-game losing streak like it suffered earlier this year.

“We haven’t started games off in a good rhythm recently,” LSU coach Fran Flory said. “We can’t continue to do that against the high-caliber opponents in this league.”

This weekend’s matches will mark the second time LSU has played South Carolina and Florida this year. The Tigers played both teams last week, losing to the Gamecocks 1-3 and to the Gators in a three-set sweep.

Despite last week’s final scores, LSU’s volleyball players felt they had a good chance of beating South Carolina and Florida the first time around.

“This is definitely a winnable weekend for us,” junior outside

hitter Gina Tillis said. “Last week, we came close to beating South Carolina, and we hung with Florida, so we’re pretty optimistic about this weekend.”

To Flory, the team’s offensive performance will have to improve if the Tigers want any chance at a successful road trip.

“The forte of LSU volleyball is that we’re a middle-first offense,” Flory said. “We need to get back to being a more dynamic offense and that starts with better ball control and passing.”

LSU’s offense struggled mightily in last week’s game against Missouri, a match that saw the Tigers end with a .000 hitting percentage and 27 errors committed.

LSU will have its hands full against South Carolina and Florida — two teams that average .258 and .331 attacking percentages, respectively. LSU’s current attacking average sits at .185.

Although this weekend is shaping up to provide a daunting offensive challenge, the Tigers insist early momentum will play a big role in helping them overcome their offensive slump.

“The way we play against South Carolina will dictate our attitude for the weekend,” Tillis said.

“If we play South Carolina hard on Friday, we’ll be able to play Florida with some confidence.”

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Opinion

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Bob Dylan transcended music, deserves Nobel Prize in Literature LYNNE YOU A HAND LYNNE BUNCH @lynnebunch11 Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan performed at the Baton Rouge River Center Wednesday, nearly two weeks after becoming the first musician to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The Swedish Academy did not need to give such a famous person the award, but Dylan deserved it nonetheless. His lyricism is not traditional literature, but he transcended regular music and used it as a tool to tell stories, comment on social issues and give a voice to the voiceless.

Dylan’s ability to tell a story in a limited amount of time sets him apart from novelists. Songs such as “Hurricane” and “Motorpsycho Nightmare” tell stories like any other piece of literature, but they reach more people than books could. His stories are told in a simple, easily understood way.

“Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to

make it simple,” Steve Jobs said in an 1998 BusinessWeek profile.

“But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”

Dylan moved mountains with his lyrics, and part of what makes his work so special is the way he could change a person’s worldview with just a single song. He wrote songs in which the original context may lose relevance over time, but the broader meaning of the songs will live forever.

His songs tell a story about humanity, and the humanity he speaks of will always exist in our society. In the song “The Times They Are A-Changin’,” his lyrics are as applicable now as they were in the ’60s.

When guitarist and singer José Feliciano heard one of Dylan’s most famous songs, “Blowin’ In the Wind,” he realized the goal of Dylan’s music.

“I realized then what Bob Dylan was all about,” Feliciano said. “It wasn’t about being a great guitarist or even being a great singer, but it was about getting the message of what you wrote across.”

Feliciano perfectly characterizes Dylan’s work. Dylan never cared about showmanship or popularity, but rather saying what he and others needed to say.

Dylan is a famous artist, but he told the story of those formerly unknown by most of society. In “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll,” Dylan told the tale of Hattie Carroll, a black woman who was beaten to death by William Zantzinger, a white man who served a mere six-month sentence for his crime.

Hattie Carroll’s murder would have gone unknown without Dylan’s song. Many opponents to Dylan’s Nobel Prize win say that he is too famous to receive it, but awarding the prize to him also awards it to those he gave a voice to.

He changed the world through his music, and he inspired many other people to change the world as well. We must give newer and more current writers the chance to change their world, but for Dylan, this award was long overdue.

Dylan’s songs are poetry.

They are masterfully written and

thought-provoking, and his words are some of the best I have ever read. I would not be the same person I am today without his music in my life, and I am glad that he

won the Nobel Prize.

Lynne Bunch is an 18-year-old mass communication freshman from Terrytown, Louisiana.

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Bob Dylan, the recent recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, performs in Barcelona, Spain in 1984.

Constitutionalists hold hypocritical, outdated beliefs LYNNE YOU A HAND LYNNE BUNCH @lynnebunch11 Constitutionalists believe the Constitution is the ultimate law of the land here in the U.S. They are supposedly moral, principled citizens and the truest kinds of patriots.

However, I have never seen a Constitutionalist who is not a hypocrite in some shape or form.

Both sides of the political spectrum say they love the Constitution, but the “Constitutional Conservatives” overshadow all others. They use the Constitution to defend their right-wing opinions and ideologies, no matter how much it actually aligns with what they’re saying.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) took much of the Constitutional conservative spotlight over the recent year during his presidential

campaign. He won 11 states in the Republican primaries on the promise of defending and fighting for the Constitution.

Though Cruz may characterize himself as a Constitutionalist, he picks and chooses what he does and doesn’t like from the document. He may support things like the basics of the amendments, but when it gets more in-depth, he turns a blind eye.

When the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in 2015, Cruz went on about how we as a country have turned toward “judicial tyranny.” He claimed the ruling class took power away from the states, going against the Constitution.

He only called this particular ruling tyranny because he opposes marriage equality. When dealing with issues concerning religious freedom, he often ignores important parts of the Constitution.

The First Amendment defines

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a “wall of separation between Church and State.” But while Cruz battles for freedom of religion, he promotes keeping Christianity in public sectors.

Former Republican U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota), Sen. Rand Paul(R-Kentucky) and many others categorize themselves as Constitutional conservatives. Many affiliates of the Tea Party and the GOP believe in the same ideals as Cruz and also have the same blind spots.

While I don’t believe there is anything wrong with sometimes picking and choosing from the Constitution, there is nothing worse than people who act like they are superior because they call themselves Constitutionalists.

No one can follow the document’s rules 100 percent of the time.

Including its 27 amendments, the Constitution is composed of more than 7,500 words. It is a long and complicated document, and there are even sections within

the Constitution that supercede others.

For instance, the 21st Amendment repeals the 18th Amendment altogether. Even the Constitution is not perfect when providing guidelines for the way people should live.

Though we should take the Constitution into serious consideration in everything we do, we must remember that the nation has grown a lot since it was written.

The Constitution stated that people had rights, but they were not distributed equally. No one has ever perfected the art of staying true to the Constitution, including its writers. Just like the Declaration of Independence said that all men were equal even when there were slaves, the original Constitutionalists did not follow all of their promises either.

Guns are different, civil rights are different and we are different. The Constitution is a guide,

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but not rule-for-rule law. We have evolved, but the document can only stay the same, with new things occasionally added along the way.

We are growing more modern and more progressive than ever.

As we evolve as a country, we need to realize that there is no plausible way for us to follow the Constitution word for word. We should try to stay true to it within reason, but some things are too different now for that to happen.

If you call yourself a Constitutionalist, you are probably a hypocrite, and that’s OK. We all are. No one is as perfect as the Constitution because it is only an ideal — a shot at the American dream aspired to since the beginning of our nation’s history. The Constitution is merely hope, and hope is what we do best.

Lynne Bunch is an 18-year-old mass communication freshman from Terrytown, Louisiana.

Quote of the Day “I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.”

Bob Dylan

songwriter May 24, 1941 — present

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There’s definitely a skate subculture on campus that is very strong, albiet not as strong as during the early 2000s.

ROBERT HENRY mass communication junior

SK8ER BOIS, from page 1 Civil engineering senior Taron Graham started skateboarding in the first grade, but he didn’t skateboard consistently until his freshman year.

Because of the uneven pathways on campus, Graham said riding his longboard is easier than the standard boards that ride less smoothly.

“Nowadays I feel a lot of people are moving more toward longboards on campus because it’s a quick way to get around,” Graham said. “When it comes to skateboarding, YouTube is making it more interesting by showing others how to do tricks.”

Henry said there aren’t many smooth areas on campus that allow students to skate or do tricks, so most students and local skaters go to the skate park located within Perkins Road Community Park. The skate park, built by California Skateparks, consists of 30,000 square feet of concrete open to the public and on weekdays until 10 p.m. and weekends until midnight On campus, Henry and Graham said smooth areas for skating are behind Tiger Stadium,

at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center and on the hill next to Louie’s Cafe.

“There’s less kids skating around and learning kickflips in the suburbs perhaps, but the aesthetic is a big part of pop culture,” Henry said.

In addition to skating on campus, students partake in skateboarding culture by wearing clothing brands such as Vans, Supreme and Zumiez.

Skaters’ clothing styles have trickled from the streets and onto the runways.

One of the most popular skateboard style influences appears in footwear. Brands such as Nike, eS and DC produce shoe styles most suitable for skateboarders.

“Shoes that are made out of mainly suede are the best for skating,” Henry said. “Vulcanized rubber soles are also better for durability and getting ‘pop’ on a skateboard.”

Henry recommended wearing high-top shoes for ankle protection while skating and avoiding footwear made out of canvas or other weak materials.

“There’s definitely a skate subculture that is very strong, albeit not as strong as during the early 2000s,” Henry said.

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