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FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2016
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Volume 121 · No. 68
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FRESHMEN FAILS story and photos BY BETH CARTER | @bethie_carter
Freshman year of college is a time of personal growth, new adventures and some of the most embarrassing moments of your life. The Daily Reveille asked freshmen about their most failworthy moments of the past school year:
MADISON BOLOGNA civil engineering
SARAH COHEN biochemistry
NICK HALABY mass communication
CAROLINE FENTON mass communication
I was in my physics class and it was the day before formal, and I was really excited to be done with classes for the day, so I was the first one out. I was walking and my ankle rolled and I fell into this little pothole and cut up my knee. My whole physics class saw me, Everyone in the school saw me, it felt like, because it’s a highly-trafficked area. When I was on the ground, I looked up and there was a car waiting to turn into the parking lot and it had to wait for me to get up off the ground, so he saw me fall ... so I had to quickly get up and it was really embarrassing. And my knee was all bloody and gross.
Last semester, I walked into my calculus class and there was the most perfect spot in the middle towards the back of the classroom, and my friend and I always fought about it. So I thought, “You know what, I’m gonna be cool and I’m gonna hop over the desk to get to it.” So I put my feet over the side of the desk and I sat on the flat part and the desk flips over backwards on top of me I’m falling backwards, I push two desks out of the way, I hit my head on the wall. The entire class is there and they’re all laughing at me. Two other people fell but only because they were laughing so hard at me.
When I was coming to LSU in August — I’m originally from Los Angeles — we were on the plane at LAX. the plane was about to take of, like, the wheels hadn’t even lifted off yet. For some weird reason I just started vomiting on myself and the people next to me. It got so bad that they had to ask the people in the back of the plane to [move] so I could lay down for the entire flight and deal with whatever sickness I had. I spent a 3-4 hour plane ride in the back of a plane just vomiting. I didn’t even make it to college. My mom told me, “Aw, honey. it’s your first ever college sick story and it’s not even for a fun reason.”
The most embarrassing moment of my freshman year was the first time I ever went out in college. Me and all my friends were walking to our sorority house and I started running on the gravel road, and I tripped and fell on all fours in front of an entire fraternity pledge class. I still have a scar to this day.
Hear these freshmen tell their stories at lsunow.com/daily
SOFTBALL
Tigers head to SEC series versus Arkansas BY JOSHUA THORNTON @JoshT_TDR Earlier in the 2015-16 season, LSU coach Beth Torina said she wanted her team to play its “best softball” come postseason play. Right now, LSU (37-13, 1011 Southeastern Conference) is starting to find its groove of its weekend series into its first game against Arkansas, beginning at 6 pm. today. After running through a stretch of playing four straight top-25 SEC opponents, Torina said her team can finally relax for a bit. “It feels like we can breathe,” Torina said. “Just being beat down by the gauntlet we went through in SEC play, we can breathe this part of the year … We can almost come up for air at this point. We’re a lot more relaxed and more loose.” A revitalized offense and more confidence could be the reason for to the team’s current ascension. “Coach Beth has focused on details recently,” said senior catcher Kellsi Kloss. “It’s kind of evident [that] every little thing that we’re doing is getting better. When the little things come
see ARKANSAS, page 7
BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY
Annual technology festival incorporates film, art, music, fosters creativity BY TIA BANERJEE @tiabanerjee_ This weekend, the annual Red Stick International Festival continues with events such as the Kids’ Lab, a “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” screening and a multimedia concert and light show. The festival is in its 11th year and originally was an animation festival that focused more on the digital arts, Randy Dannenberg, co-director of the festival, said. In the last few years, the festival was revamped to include film, music and robotics, making the event bigger and more interactive.
“It’s where creativity meets technology,” Dannenberg said. “We’re trying to … foster creativity within a tech sector because if you don’t have sort of creative scientists, then you don’t really get innovation.” Last weekend, University students got to showcase their work at Future Fest and attend the video game symposium and game tournament. Future Fest gave students an opportunity to talk about their work and receive feedback from the community. The festival this weekend starts at 10 a.m. on Saturday with the Kids’ Lab, where there will be activities such as exhibits presented by NASA and the John
C. Stennis Space Center, a Lego lab and interactive art projects. Co-director Jesse Allison said it is important to expose children to technology at an early age so they can integrate it with whatever field they choose to pursue when they grow up. Another goal of having a workshop for a younger age demographic is to help narrow the digital divide by providing children who might not have a digital education a chance to be exposed to technology. Part of the reason for calling it an international festival is not only to show off what is happening around the state, but
see RED STICK, page 7
courtesy of RYAN DANNENBERG
The Red Stick International Festival begins Saturday, April 30, with the Kids’ Lab, which includes exhibits by NASA and a Lego lab.