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ENTERTAINMENT Four quarterbacks prepare to compete for the starting job in the fall, page 3

White Star Market provides countless options from Baton Rouge-based vendors, page 5

OPINION LSU professor studies hurricanes, floods to predict future storm surges, page 4

“While abusers ‘turn their life around’ in search of brighter days, many survivors remain in the dark, often still suffering from their past trauma,” page 8

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COVER STORY

LSU Residential Life prepares for opening of Nicholson Gateway apartment complex

BY BRITTNEY FORBES @itsbritforbes For several months now, construction crews have made their living on Nicholson Drive, on the west side of the University’s campus. LSU Residential Life is nearing the end of construction on Nicholson Gateway and preparing for 1,500 University students to call it home.

LSU Residential Life works year-round to provide various types of housing for underclassmen, upperclassmen and graduate students. According to the Residential Life website, “From orientation to graduation, there is housing for every Tiger.”

Catherine David, the associate director of communications and development for Residential Life, said the Nicholson Gateway Extension is very close to completion. David said she expects Residential Life to have complete control of the building by late July, early August.

“It includes a retail space, a foundations building and it was just a point to really transform the Nicholson entrance to campus,” David said. “For so long, there was nothing there, and you didn’t know you entered campus once you enter those gates. This has been a priority for a while for the University, and it just took several years to do the logistics and the funding all lined up so that we could move forward with the project.”

Getting student feedback for on-campus living was an important step in the development of Nicholson Gateway. Residential Life wanted to increase the number of beds for upperclassmen on campus. There are only about 1,200 beds in the East and West Campus Apartments combined.

The Nicholson Gateway Apartments will be more than double that capacity.

In addition to Nicholson Gateway, Residential Life is adding and removing several residence halls across campus. The 2018-19 school year will be the final year for one of the University’s oldest halls, Edmund Kirby Smith.

“We build new buildings, [we] take other buildings down, we’re just in that constant cycle,” David said. “Right now, we have one residence hall opening this fall. We’ll have Cedar Hall opening next fall. After that we will be moving to the Greenhouse Project by Miller. It’s just this constant cycle.”

David explained that new halls and apartments must be added before old ones are removed to ensure the University is never short on available beds and rooms for students. This is why Kirby Smith will not be demolished until after Cedar and Spruce Halls are completed.

“We don’t want to take beds away before we can have them replaced,” David said. “That would limit the number of people who could live on campus.”

There is annual training for the staff before students arrive.

The new live-in professionals are currently in training. New and returning graduate students and resident assistants will be returning in July for their normal, twoweek training. Residential Life tries to have one R.A. for every 34 students in an apartment or hall. “[Their training] is a very intensive, very thorough twoweek training to get ready for all of the logistics of the building, but also dealing with student crisis,” David said. “It’s everything from students to facilities.”

The official move-in day for the Nicholson Gateway Apartments will be August 12, just as the rest of the University’s Housings, on schedule for their August opening.

In a 33-6 vote Sunday, the Senate sent a sales tax bill to Gov. John Bel Edwards that could end the financial instability that has dominated discussions at the Capitol and led to seven special sessions since he took office in 2016.

The bill, which represented a compromise Friday between Edwards and House Republicans, will extend 0.45 of a cent of sales tax that was scheduled to expire on July 1.

That will lower the state’s portion of the sales tax to 4.45 percent from 5 percent now. But by not letting the full penny expire, it will raise $463 million to

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New tax bill marks end of third special session fully fund TOPS scholarships, higher education and state health services and reduce cuts in other areas. The extra 0.45 of a cent will expire in 2025.

Edwards and House Republican leaders also have grappled for control over the budget process, and the Senate voted 39-0 Sunday to pass a supplementary budget bill after acceding to House demands about how some of the spending choices might eventually be made. The House then ratified that deal 88-7, ending the special session.

The Senate tax votes came after months of intense infighting between Edwards, who initially warned that the state faced a $994 million budget shortfall, and House Republican leaders,

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who want to shrink the size of government, contended that the budget hole was much smaller.

A deal ended up being possible partly because changes in federal tax laws created a windfall in state tax collections, reducing the projected shortfall by nearly a third, and lawmakers agreed to apply tens of millions in damage payments from the BP oil spill to the budget.

In the end, there will still be cuts in the budgets for corrections, juvenile justice and other programs. But most Democrats and Republicans agreed that they were manageable.

Edwards has said that the state was in a $2 billion financial hole when he took over as a result of income-tax cuts by

former Governors Kathleen Blanco and Bobby Jindal and Jindal’s expansion of tax exemptions for corporations that the state is still digging out of.

But in opposing the sales tax bill Sunday, Sen. Sharon Hewitt, R-Slidell, argued that taxpayers had been left out of the conversation.

Hewitt pointed to the federal tax changes, which lower the value of deductions that wealthier taxpayers can claim on their state returns, and said they would increase the tax burden on Louisiana residents by $350 million. She said the sales tax extensions and other changes would add nearly $500 million more.

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WIDE OPEN Four quarterbacks competing for one spot makes for hectic, entertaining fall for LSU, one big decision for Coach Ed Orgeron

BY GLEN WEST | @glenwest21

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ith three months until kickoff for the 2018 season, the LSU quarterback controversy is in full effect with a wide open competition between four players.

Since 2000, seven LSU quarterbacks have been selected in the NFL draft, the highest being JaMarcus Russell at No. 1 overall in 2007.

The others were all taken later in the draft, usually in the sixth or seventh round.

Sophomore Myles Brennan came to school last year, hoping to put the QB doubts to rest right out of the gate. The four-star prospect was known for his pocket passing in high school, with accuracy being at the forefront of his game.

Brennan broke many Mississippi records with his play in high school, including 15,138 passing yards, 166 touchdowns and total offense at 16,168.

LSU fans were chomping at the bit to see Brennan in action and finally got their wish against Syracuse on Sept. 23. Brennan went 4-of-6 for 75 yards and an interception before being replaced by starter Danny Etling, who guided LSU to a 35-26 victory.

Brennan was called on again the following week against Troy. Trailing 10-0 at halftime, coach Ed Orgeron went with Brennan in the second half. Brennan went 4-of-7 for 68 yards with a touchdown and an interception. The

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freshman would be replaced by Etling in the fourth, and LSU would come up short in the comeback effort, losing 24-21.

Brennan would play sparingly after the Troy game, finishing the season completing 14of-24 passes for 182, a touchdown and two picks.

The two other returning quarterbacks, freshman Lowell Narcisse and junior Justin McMillan, come into fall 2018 with a lot to prove, as McMillan is the only one that has seen playing time, completing one pass in 2016 for 19 yards.

Then there’s new transfer quarterback from Ohio State, junior Joe Burrow.

Burrow spent three years as the backup

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SPECIAL SESSION, from page 2 “Spoiler alert to the taxpayers — we are raising your taxes another $850 million this year,” Hewitt said.

Hewitt criticized Edwards for expanding the Medicaid program without considering other vital state services and for letting the state budget grow to its highest level.

She also chided both the governor and fellow legislators for not making broader reforms in the state’s tax structure over the last two years, as both sides had talked about doing when they added the temporary extra penny sales tax in 2016.

“As long as we continue to solve long-term expenditure problems with short-term solutions like tax increases, we will never solve our state’s fiscal challenges,” Hewitt said.

Sen. J.P. Morrell, D-New Orleans, responded to that, saying: “It boggles my mind that some come down here and talk about taxes like this was the first thing we went to - this was the last line, ladies and gentlemen, we tried everything else.”

“We’ve had several opportunities where this body tried to do tax reform,” Morrell said.

“There’s been at least two instances where I’ve had bills that would have saved the state a tremendous amount of money, but they were killed in the Senate Finance Committee by some of the same people who are going to vote no today.”

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Senate President John Alario, R-Westwego, presided over a 33-6 vote on Sunday to approve a sales tax compromise between Gov. John Bel Edwards and the House.

Sen. Karen Carter Peterson, D-New Orleans, said Hewitt’s comments were “offensive.”

Sen. Norby Chabert, R-Houma, said he liked that the extra sales tax would not expire for several years.

“The reason why the budget is so big is that we have so many people in abject poverty,” Chabert said. “We need to grow our economy — our economy’s broken.”

The compromise bill was sponsored by Rep. Paula Davis, R-Baton Rouge, in the

House, and Sen. Jack Donahue, R-Mandeville, presented it to the Senate.

In his closing comments on the bill, Donahue drew applause from other senators when he said, “I’ll be damned if I’m going to cut $100 million out of education for the state of Louisiana when I know that’s what we need in this state to make it what it can be.”

“Nobody had a better solution,” Donahue added.

Hewitt and fellow Republicans Ryan Gatti of Bossier City,

Beth Mizell of Franklinton, Jonathan Perry of Kaplan and Neil Riser of Columbia were joined

by Democrat John Milkovich of Shreveport in voting against the tax bill.

The Senate on Sunday also passed the supplementary spending bill, the last major piece of legislation from this special session.

Under a deal with the House, it switched $4 million from the Corrections Department to the Office of Juvenile Justice to provide seed money for a new

facility to help house what is expected to be an influx of people under a new law that will let 17-year-olds be tried as juveniles rather than adults.

The Senate also watered down an amendment added in a Senate Finance Committee meeting Saturday that House leaders had objected to.

The amendments would have allowed Edwards to decide how to spend any sales tax revenue generated over official estimates on items that were not funded now.

The importance of the amendment may have been increased by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last week that would allow states to require more retailers to collect state sales taxes on online purchases.

Democrats said it could be a year or two before the state starts to realize much money, while Republicans think the online tax payments will kick in sooner and generate more revenue.

Rep. Cameron Henry, R-Metairie who chairs the House Appropriations Committee, criticized the amendments for giving the governor too much latitude in appropriating surplus revenue, saying it would amount to a “slush fund” for “pet projects.”

Republican lawmakers had argued that the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget, not Edwards, should have the final say on surplus appropriations.

The Senate decided Sunday to agree, and the House gave its final approval a few minutes later.

RESEARCH

LSU professor uses models to predict hurricane storm surges

BY BRITTNEY FORBES @itsbritforbes The University, as well as the rest of Louisiana, has undergone its share of bad weather. Hurricanes and flooding have had disastrous effects on South Louisiana and the entire Gulf Region.

LSU Civil and Environmental Engineering professor Scott C. Hagen has devoted his studies to the impact of runoff water and hurricanes on cities in Louisiana and how it affects Louisiana’s coastlines. Hagen works in conjunction with LSU professors Matthew Bilskie, Madeline Foster-Martinez and Karim Alizad and graduate students Shu Gao, Chris Siverd, Felix Santiago and William Lauve.

Hagen develops models that predict how water is going to move based on where a hurricane is going and what kind of force winds it has. Then, he’d be able to create a simulation that shows what the flooding would be.

“All my career, for the last 25 years, I’ve been developing the capability to do hurricane storm surge modeling,” Hagen said.

“My team members and I have been studying the entire Gulf of Mexico and the entire East Coast of the United States for a couple of decades now.”

In 2016, Louisiana experienced record flooding in inland areas. East Baton Rouge and surrounding parishes received around 25 inches of rainfall over a three-day period, resulting in tens of thousands of homes flooded and 13 lives lost.

At that time, tropical storm Hermine was in the Gulf of Mexico with the potential to develop into a hurricane.

“We were asked by the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority what would happen if that turned into a hurricane,” Hagen said. “We had a hurricane storm surge that came in on top of all of this rainfall flooding. So, that really inspired us to be looking at this kind of study.

From the 1970s, there has been a rise to the loss of the coastlines and marsh areas. All indications are that it is not going to decrease.

Flooding in coastal Louisiana causes most people’s instincts to edge towards hurricanes and storm surge, with water being pushed over the shore and land areas by hurricane force winds.

This is a very common threat.

“We have to be really concerned about [hurricaneforce winds] to develop our capability to analyze that kind of a threat to understand the probabilities of what that kind

of flooding’s happening,” Hagen said. “But what we also now recognize, and have more so in the recent past, is that when you have a lot of rainfall and a lot of hurricane, you can have worse flooding rather than having one or just the other.”

“The transition zone that we define is that zone where both rainfall and runoff and overland flooding is combining with the hurricane storm surge,” Hagen said. “It’s more of an overlap area. We want to understand how those two interact. We have to study them together as they occur in nature, instead of separate entities.”

“If we’re capable of describing that transition of flood zone, then in the future what we hope is to be able to describe transitional flood risk,” Hagen said. “That’s very beneficial whenever it comes to city planners in terms of knowing where you have a higher risk of flooding, due to the combined effects, as to where you might have a lower risk of flooding, where we’d want to build our homes.”

Historically, hurricane season begins June 1, but it made an early appearance in May with Subtropical Storm Alberto.

Hagen would like to acknowledge that the work he does is in collaboration with many people, since his work is a team effort.

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LSU’s campus and other Baton Rouge areas suffer from historic flooding late in the summer of 2016.

Entertainment

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White Star Market offers culturally varied food for capital city

BY CLAIRE BERMUDEZ @claireebermudez The highly-anticipated food hall, White Star Market, opened its doors May 17. The market includes booths from several local vendors and offers food that everyone can enjoy.

Gov’t Taco is a trendy taco booth run by former Food Network contestant Jay Ducote. Everything is à la carte, so it’s easy to mix and match different tacos.

“The Bovine Bureaucracy is the way to go,” said customer Adlai Gavel. “It’s spicy, but the pickled onions add a sweet touch.”

The tacos make this stop memorable, but the staff itself makes it a pleasant experience all around.

“The staff, especially Jay, is great,” Gavel said. “Even if I didn’t like the tacos, which I do,

I’d still come so I could support them.”

Another booth is Jolie @ The Market, the second location of the Jolie Pearl Oyster Bar. Here, you can find a wide variety of oysters, from raw to chargrilled.

The booth also offers a sampler plate, which consists of six different grilled oysters, so you can get a taste of everything. Their raw oysters were perfect, which is surprising considering it’s the middle of summer.

Chow Yum Phat serves Asian street food such a Pho and Ramen. Ran by Chef Vu Le, former Tsunam chef, the restaurant also offers delicious sushi.

“I know it’s Asian food, but their wings are my favorite,” Customer Josh Shepard said.

“I’ve also had their Pho, and that’s really good.”

The market is also home to vendors such as Southern Plate,

which features different kinds of comfort food; Fete au Fete, a Creole restaurant; Rêve Coffee Roasters; Dat’z Italian, which specializes in pizza; Mouton, a bar; and The Big Squeezy.

“When I first heard of this place opening up, I thought it would be a food court like you’d find at a mall,” Gavel said. “This place resembles food you’d find at a food truck. It’s all so good.”

With so much to offer, White Star Market is the perfect place for big groups of friends. It’s also great if you don’t know what you’re in the mood for, since they have a little of everything. This trendy market is definitely going to be a hot spot this summer.

White Star Market is located at 4624 Government St. It’s open Monday 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., Tuesday - Thursday 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday and Saturday 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sunday 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.

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page 6 QUARTERBACKS, from page 3 quarterback at Ohio State, accumulating 287 yards passing and two touchdowns in garbage time play.

In high school, Burrow was the eighth rated dual threat prospect, throwing for 11,416 yards and 157 touchdowns in three years, including an insane senior year of 63 touchdowns to just two interceptions.

Orgeron insists that Burrow will compete with the other three for the starting job and won’t come in with any handouts.

“We told him there’s an opportunity here,” Orgeron said in May. “I think the bottom line is he chose to compete at the highest level.”

Burrow wasn’t in purple and gold for the Spring Game this past April, giving Brennan, Narcisse and McMillan the head start in impressing the coaching staff.

All three struggled to some degree, with Brennan going 11-for-21 for 125 yards, one touchdown and one pick,

Narcisse going 6-of-13 for 205 yards and a touchdown, and McMillan going 13-of-27 for 182 yards passing and 69 additional rushing yards with two touchdowns.

Orgeron gave McMillan the highest praise from after the game but mentioned Brennan and Narcisse as guys that have shown promise in practices.

“He’s [Justin] playing with more confidence than the other quarterbacks, and I think that shows,” Orgeron said. “It’s what he’s been doing. The other guys have had other practices. I don’t think this was Myles’ or Lowell’s best practice. It’s been up and down the whole season.”

With four quarterbacks competing for one slot, it’s believed that one of the returning three quarterbacks will transfer from LSU. However, anything is possible.

There is never a dull year when it comes to LSU and its quarterbacks, so at this point all that can be done is wait with anticipation for what should be a competitive fall camp.

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LSU freshman quarterback Myles Brennan (15) hands the ball off to freshman running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire (22) during LSU’s 27-0 win against BYU on Sept.

2 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans.

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Ohio State sophomore quarterback Joe Burrow scrambles during Ohio State’s 5614 win over Nebraska on Oct. 14, 2017 at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

BASEBALL

LSU bullpen catcher unsung hero for Tiger pitchers, Team USA

BY GLEN WEST @glenwest21 Trent Forshag was lying on a beach in Florida his senior year in high school when his phone began to ring with a 225 area code.

When Forshag answered the phone, LSU coach Paul Mainieri was on the other end. Mainieri was reaching out to ask about Forshag’s interest in joining the LSU baseball program as a walk-on.

“Apparently, he was watching the news one night, and he saw me hit a double off the wall in one of my games,” Forshag said.

“He just called to ask what I was doing and found out I was going to be a regular student, so he offered me that role on the team.”

Three years after the first call from Mainieri, Forshag received a call from that same 225 area code, only now he knew who it was. Forshag raked through his mind about what he could’ve possibly done wrong to get a call from Mainieri out of the blue.

The call turned out to be the opportunity for a life changing experience. Forshag would be joining Mainieri on the staff of Team USA in 2018.

Forshag’s freshman year was his only season on the active roster, where he spent most of the time as the bullpen catcher.

During that time, Forshag had the opportunity to learn from former Tiger Michael Papierski and recent graduate senior Nick Coomes about catching at a collegiate level.

“You start picking up little things they do to adjust to those tough pitches,” Forshag said.

When there were no spots on the team last season for the Tigers’ magical 2017 run to Omaha, Mainieri asked for Forshag to return as a full-time bullpen catcher.

Forshag’s job is to be there whenever a pitcher is in need of throwing in practice or warming up before a game. Every day, the starting pitchers will have a throwing session that Forshag works in correlation with coach Alan Dunn.

Forshag has caught for many great pitchers over his three years, but one pitch stands apart from the rest that he’s seen.

“The nastiest pitch I’ve seen is probably [Alex] Lange’s curveball,” Forshag said. “It’s a 12-6 curveball that’s coming down and makes it very tough to catch.”

Forshag will now be heading to North Carolina as the bullpen coach for USA Baseball’s 2018 Collegiate National Team “It was totally out of the blue,” Forshag said. “When I saw his name on the call I thought ‘Oh man what did I do,’ it was just such a shock and took a little while to register. Coach explained it that every guy I’d be catching would have an arm like [Zack] Hess. I’m just really

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LSU bullpen catcher Trent Forshag (43) warms up during the Tigers’ 13-4 victory against Vanderbilt on April 7, 2016 at Alex Box Stadium.

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LSU bullpen catcher Trent Forshag (43) practices during the Tigers’ 8-0 win against Lamar on April 24 at Alex Box Stadium. excited about it.”

Joining Forshag and Mainieri will be senior outfielder Antoine Duplantis, junior outfielder Zach Watson and junior pitcher Zack Hess.

One of the first things Mainieri did when he was appointed head coach of the 2018 National Team back in October was call Forshag up.

“I have such a fondness for guys that do the dirty jobs,” Mainieri said. “Trent’s a wonderful young man and a very vital part of the team. He’s going to have quite an experience this summer catching for some of the

best pitchers in the country.”

Forshag, a finance major, will graduate in 2019 but has not decided what he plans to do. Joining the corporate world is a possibility, but if an opportunity presents itself to continue in baseball, Forshag would have to think long and hard about it.

“I always tell coach that there is no way I could ever repay [Mainieri] for the opportunity he gave me,” Forshag said. “I’ve made some of my best friends here, and it’s really like a fraternity. I take great pride in contributing to the team in whatever way I can.”

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Victims of abuse should not be forced to forgive their abusers HAN-SPLAINING HANNAH KLEINPETER @0728hannah Nearly 20 people are physically abused by an intimate partner every minute in the U.S. Roughly one in three women and one in four men have been victims of some form of physical violence by an intimate partner within their lifetime, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

Domestic abuse, assault and sexual violence toward women are often touted as a phase some men go through before becoming better, more enlightened men. Let’s be clear – a past of abuse does not make good conduct in the present more admirable.

The recent shooting death of rapper XXXTentacion initiated a larger conversation about forgiving the actions of abusers who display remorse. X was arrested on assault and aggravated battery charges in 2016. At what

point are a domestic abuser’s actions fully absolved after “good behavior?” The answer is never, not fully.

Apologetic actions are simply not enough to erase the abuser’s actions. Minimizing the ripple effects of their abuse only belittles the survivors’ experiences.

The abuser may have moved on from the occurrence, but odds are, the survivor has not.

No amount of donations to the Domestic Violence Hotline or public apologies can erase the damage abuse imparts on a victim. Studies show abuse survivors are more likely to attempt suicide, abuse alcohol and drugs and experience post-traumatic stress disorder.

Of course any person, even habitual abusers, are capable of legitimate change through self- reflection and behavior modification. However, it is not the survivors’ responsibility to absolve the abuser or society’s responsibility to force them to.

Abuse survivors don’t get to forget their experiences at the drop of a hat. Why is it often

demanded abusers be immediately forgiven after donating to charity or showing remorse for their actions?

Many survivors rebuke the idea that forgiveness is even necessary in the recovery process. Considering many abusers are manipulative, deceptive and seeking to avoid criminal charges, they have every incentive to feign remorse.

While abusers’ apologies may be convincing, it does not mean survivors are obligated to take it to heart and forgive. Despite popular belief, not all survivors need to forgive their abusers’ actions to heal.

While abusers “turn their life around” in search of brighter days, many survivors remain in the dark, often still suffering from their past trauma. It’s time we stop telling survivors what they “should” do to heal, and focus on doing what we should to prevent abuse. courtesy of WIKIMEDIA

Hannah Kleinpeter is a 20-yearold mass communication senior from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Arrested for aggravated assault and battery in 2016, rapper XXXTentacion (pictured above) stands example of whether an abuser’s actions can be fully absolved or not.

Excessive use of plastics will damage the environment EVERY DAY THE RACHEL WAY RACHEL MIPRO @remroc15 If we want to keep eating shrimp and crawfish, we’d better get used to lattes, without straws. Those innocent-looking drink cylinders are absurdly toxic for marine wildlife, and our campus, from Starbucks to Chick-fil-A, is littered with them. If students stopped using straws, we’d be making the ocean a better place for all marine life.

According to Ocean Crusaders, around 100 million marine animals are killed by plastic each year. It’s a horrifying massacre, and because the death is silent and the ocean doesn’t scream, we are not always aware of the loss.

Around 500 million straws a day are used in America, according to the National Park Service, and most of them end up in the ocean. Going strawless is a very small lifestyle change,

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Among other types of waste, replacing the common-yet-dangerous plastic straws with eco-friendly alternatives can greatly reduce marine pollution levels. but it can create substantial change in pollution reduction.

As college students, the changes we make now to become more eco-friendly mean the difference between having

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an inhabitable planet or not in the very near future. There are 100 million tons of plastic in the world’s oceans right now, according to National Geographic.

There are mountains of plastic,

and coral reefs are dying at an unprecedented rate. We are nearing a point of no return.

So guys, let’s do this one thing and get rid of straws on our campus. It’s really not going to make a difference to the vast majority of us, and for the die-hard straw fanatics, if they exist, there are alternatives.

Plastic straws can be replaced with straws made of bamboo or paper. For the fancy straw consumer, stainless steel straws can be purchased, along with cases to carry them in. Even lids designed for drinking without straws are being made.

Taking measures against other microplastics and plastics would also help us keep ocean life alive for longer. Microplastics, tiny pieces of degraded plastic, are caused mainly by degraded plastic trash and microbeads, which are tiny plastic beads found in thousands of different products, like mouthwash and toothpaste.

There were five trillion particles of microplastics found in the ocean. When marine life in

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the forms of plankton, shellfish and thousands of other minute organisms consume microplastics, they sicken and even die from starvation.

Besides obvious types of ocean trash, like plastic bags and plastic shampoo bottles, we also need to examine sneakier pollution factors, by which I mean glitter.

Ahem. Glitter is evil. It looks great and it’s really fun to use, but it’s a huge contributor to microplastics in the ocean. The sparkles in your eyeshadow and the confetti at your party will never degrade. Five hundred years after you rinse it off or clean it up, it will still be bobbing along in the ocean waves, and we will be responsible for mass extinction.

We have to reduce our plastic use in whatever ways we can. At LSU, the least we can do is get rid of straws.

Rachel Mipro is a 19-year-old mass communication sophomore from New Orleans, Louisiana.

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