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drumming up SUPPORT Ralliers maintain alleged Tiger Band, School of Music dispute prompted Roy King’s administrative leave

BY KATIE GAGLIANO | @katie_gagliano Approximately a dozen supporters gathered Monday morning to deliver petitions to LSU President F. King Alexander and Gov. John Bel Edwards in support of Tiger Band director Roy King, who was recently placed on administrative leave.

Mary Bahlinger, 2014 Tiger Band drum major, led the group, which submitted copies of a change.org petition with nearly 1,500 signatures to Alexander’s and Edwards’ staffs.

Bahlinger said the group gathered Monday to show visible support for King, who has served in the band’s administration for 20 years. She said King has been a mentor to many of his students and does everything he can to support his Tiger Band members, going beyond what is necessary for the job.

In a previous interview with The Daily Reveille, King’s attorney Jill Craft said she believes the administrative action was taken because King refused to allow the LSU School of Music to access certain Tiger Band funds, though

LSU Media Relations director Ernie Ballard refuted this claim in a statement, which reads “This is not as a result of any alleged dispute between Tiger Band and the School of Music.”

Bahlinger said she believes the money at the root of the rumored dispute between the School of Music and Tiger Band funded stipends for the Golden Girls and the Golden Girl and Color Guard captains, who receive additional funds for their leadership positions within the band.

Junior assistant Color Guard captain Lisa Aldridge said Tiger Band members had an inkling something was coming down the pipes beginning in the fall, when longtime administrative coordinator Linda Saucier left abruptly mid-semester. Saucier’s departure was followed by controversy surrounding the band’s annual fundraiser, Tigerama.

Aldridge said, to her knowledge, King challenged higher-ups by refusing to allow the reallocation of Tigerama funds to other

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BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY

Southern to honor shooting victims STAFF REPORTS @lsureveille Southern Un ive r sit y ’s Student Government Association will host a candlelight vigil at 6 p.m. tonight in the courtyard BENTON of its student union to honor the two students who were killed in Sunday morning’s shooting at The Cottages of Baton Rouge.

A memorial fund has been JANUARY established through the SU System Foundation to support Lashuntae Benton and Annette January’s families, according to an SU news release.

“The Southern University family has been devastated by the recent deaths of Lashuntae Benton and Annette January. Each of these young ladies embodied the values and spirit of Southern University,” said interim SUBR athletic director Roman Banks in the release.

The two women were shot during an exchange of gunfire between Ernest Bernard Felton, 22, who was arrested Sunday night, and a 24-year-old man who was taken to the hospital for nonlife-threatening injuries.

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LSU Survivors: Response Rally addresses campus sexual assault

BY CAITIE BURKES @caitie1221 University students and alumni voiced their outrage Monday night at a statement made by LSUPD spokesperson Lieutenant Kevin Scott in the April 6 issue of The Daily Reveille. The group’s rally in the Live Oak Lounge drew a crowd peppered with spiritual leaders, law students and campus activists.

In the article, titled “Vast majority of LSUPD rape reports

since 2010 fall on gamedays, gameday weekends,” Scott is quoted as saying in reference to commonly cited sexual assault statistics, “If you surveyed 100 girls, or 1,000 female students on LSU’s campus, will you really see one in five that say they’ve been sexually assaulted, if they’re really being honest? Is that accurate? I mean, look at the numbers.”

Organizer Peter Jenkins, a University alumni, echoed the sentiment of the LSU Survivors:

Response Rally’s Facebook event page, stating the rally sought to quell Scott’s “hurtful and heinous comments.” When authority figures make statements like Scott’s, Jenkins said survivors feel less comfortable coming forward in situations where they are already uncomfortable.

“It doesn’t matter if it’s one in 100 or everyone,” Jenkins said.

“The point is, it’s still happening.”

In a statement provided by

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LSU students and community members gather on April 11 to discuss sexual assault and sexuality in the LGBT community in the Live Oak Lounge.

page 2 SURVIVORS, from page 1 LSU Media Relations Director Ernie Ballard, Scott addressed his concerns that his comments had been misinterpreted and responded to issues discussed during the rally.

“Sexual assault is something that we take very seriously at LSU, and I’m glad to see that the LSU community is concerned about this issue,” Scott said in the statement. “As I said previously, I have worked throughout my career to encourage the reporting of crimes such as sexual assault and to make the LSU campus a safer place for all, and I would never question the honesty of a victim. The way I was quoted in The Reveille is not at all what I was trying to say, and while I certainly didn’t mean to create a misunderstanding, I am glad that so many are speaking out about this issue and taking a stand.”

Jenkins opened the floor for discussion on the subject, and survivors and concerned students alike offered personal anecdotes, talking points and possible solutions to problems looming over campus culture. Solutions

KING, from page 1 departments. The event was briefly cancelled following King’s refusal, but then reinstated after an uproar from alumni and band supporters, she said.

Despite King’s alleged stand, the band has not seen a penny of the fundraiser money and the location of the funds is undetermined, she said.

Regardless of alleged disputes between King and

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ranged from promoting Lighthouse volunteering efforts to performing “flash demonstrations” during campus tours.

University United Methodist Church youth director Stew Craig regularly attends Sexual Trauma Awareness and Response classes to become more cognizant of the issue. While Craig said he sees “steps being made” both on campus and in his church, he said rallies like the one held Monday night allow people to “connect a face to a name.”

Craig said he has spoken with the Lighthouse program about offering sexual assault awareness classes for high school students about to enter college. Rally attendees agreed the church would be an ideal place to host these sessions.

Sexual assault survivor Lynn Espinoza said she approached a once-trusted high school teacher with her experience, to which the teacher asked why the police should waste their resources on her claims when they need to prioritize more important cases.

“Sex is treated such a different way in our society that it’s difficult to talk about,”

Espinoza said.

Though he agreed with the sentiments expressed in the group discussion, University law student Gabriel Loupe said a strong interplay between sexual assault and substance abuse exists.

Jenkins said there have been talks about including a sexual assault awareness module in addition to the proposed alcohol safety training expected to hit season football ticket holders’ online applications in the fall.

administrators, no one believed it would come to this, Aldridge said.

“There are few men I respect more than Roy King,” Aldridge said. “I think what’s happening to him is putting a huge black eye on our program and he’s the least deserving of anybody of this negative publicity.”

If King is not reinstated, Bahlinger said it will be a blow to the entire Tiger Band community.

“It means that money and

politics wins over doing a good job and loving your students and being a good teacher,” she said.

Timothy Toler, a Tiger Band alumnus and retired band director for Denham Springs Junior High school, said King being placed on unexplained leave is a dark spot in University history.

Toler said he is a lifelong supporter of the University and is a member of the Tiger Athletic Foundation, the Tiger Gridiron Club and the LSU Baseball

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Coaches Committee. He is also a 30-year football season ticket holder, as well as a baseball and women’s basketball season ticket holder.

If King is not reinstated, Toler said he will likely cancel his season tickets, withdraw his financial donations to the University and cancel his memberships with various University organizations.

“I’ll probably just wash my hands of LSU, period,” Toler said.

Toler said he has known King for 14 years and believes the band director is generous, hardworking and devoted to his job.

He said many of the Tiger Band alumni respect King and are loyal to him.

King’s positive reputation extends beyond the University and its alumni community, Toler said. King and the Tiger Band have garnered national and international recognition in recent years, with the band playing at the 2014 St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Dublin, Ireland.

“Our presence is known around the international community and that just doesn’t come from someone showing up for work and doing their job,” Toler said. “That comes from dedication, loyalty and going beyond working eight hours a day.”

Though several rumors exist regarding King’s administrative leave, Toler said he has not heard any indication that King’s behavior or character is under suspicion. All rumors suggest the dispute between King and the LSU School of Music over funds allocated for band stipends is the cause, he said.

Bahlinger said another friendly gathering of King’s friends and supporters is in the works for the coming weekend.

King doesn’t want anything too dramatic planned and hopes to handle the situation as civilly and peacefully as possible, Bahlinger said.

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Sports

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Preview: Team preps for NCAA Semifinal in Fort Worth

LSU junior infielder Kramer Robertson (3) runs to home plate during LSU’s 6-3 win against Louisiana Tech on March 8 at Alex Box Stadium.

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WHAT No. 3 LSU Tigers (18-4) vs.

No. 6 Auburn (16-8-1), No. 16 Minnesota (29-4), No. 2 Florida (20-2), No. 9 Georgia (12-13), No. 18 Stanford (18-10-1) WHEN/WHERE Semifinal I: 1 p.m. Friday at the Fort Worth Convention Center in Fort Worth, Texas HOW TO WATCH ESPNU

After Vandy series win, rolling Tigers host McNeese State; Jake Latz debuts on mound

BY JARRETT MAJOR @Jarrett_tdr After a noteworthy series win against then-No. 6 Vanderbilt, the No. 9 LSU baseball team will take on McNeese State at 6:30 p.m tonight at Alex Box Stadium.

The Tigers (21-10, 10-6 Southeastern Conference) enter the matchup with a renewed sense of confidence after consecutive SEC series wins, including the first series win against

the Commodores (25-7, 7-5 SEC) since LSU coach Paul Mainieri took over.

“I think just seeing more pitchers throughout the SEC has helped,” said junior shortstop Kramer Robertson.

“The young guys are not overwhelmed by the mid-90s fastball any more. They have confidence they can hit it. I think you saw that this weekend.”

The Cowboys (18-11, 10-5 Southland Conference) enter on a similar trajectory. McNeese State has won its last four games, including a series

sweep against the University of New Orleans during the weekend.

Despite McNeese State’s weaker schedule, LSU plans to play the Cowboys as tough as it played Vanderbilt.

“The biggest thing for us is sticking with an approach and actually executing it offensively,” sophomore first baseman Greg Deichmann said. “The past few weekends, we have really

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“It is a big build-up of what I have been looking for, for two years now. Once the first pitch is out there and I get used to the crowd, it will just be baseball and pitching again.”

JAKE LATZ LSU redshirt freshman pitcher

PROBABLE LINEUP • Bars: Jessica Savona, Myia Hambrick, Randii Wyrick, Lexie Priessman, Sarah Finnegan, Shae Zamardi • Beam: Erin Macadaeg, Myia Hambrick, Julianna Cannamela, Sydney Ewing, Sarah Finnegan, Ashleigh Gnat • Floor: Sydney Ewing, Myia Hambrick, McKenna Kelley, Jessica Savona, Randii Wyrick, Ashleigh Gnat • Vault: Julianna Cannamela, Sydney Ewing, Sarah Finnegan, Jessica Savona, Myia Hambrick, Ashleigh Gnat LSU’S SECOND VISIT TO FORT WORTH OF THE SEASON • Posted a team score of 196.750 and finished second behind Oklahoma at the Metroplex Challenge on Jan. 30.

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Tigers’ bats fall silent in 2-0 loss against Kentucky; Wildcats complete sweep

BY MARC STEVENS @MarcStevens_TDR Timely hits, or the lack thereof, has doomed the No. 8 LSU softball team in recent weeks.

It has cost the squad at least two games against then-No. 1 Florida, who eventually secured the sweep, and led to the team failing to sweep then-No. 10 Georgia.

Heading into a three-game series with No. 16 Kentucky at

Tiger Park, the Tigers (29-12, 5-10 Southeastern Conference) hoped to change this trend.

They didn’t.

Despite an impressive two-hit performance from sophomore pitcher Carley Hoover, LSU fell to the Wildcats (34-8, 11-4 SEC) last night, 2-0, completing the series sweep for Kentucky.

“We ran into a buzz saw,” said LSU hitting coach Howard Dobson. “In 20 years of coaching, I’ve never seen something like

this. A stretch of a streak where you can’t get a hit with runners on base ... I’ve got to do a better job. That’s what it comes down to. I’m the one that has to start the offense.”

LSU stranded 17 runners throughout the first two contests. In Game 1, Hoover threw a one-hit complete game, but her team’s offensive was not there to help. She struck out 10 batters

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LSU sophomore outfielder Emily Griggs (8) bats during LSU’s 2-0 loss against Kentucky on Monday at Tiger Park.

Entertainment

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BY LAUREN HEFFKER @laurheffker

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LSU english and creative writing major Hailey Manint has created an alternative culture and fashion outlet called Pop Rox Zine.

PIXEL PUBLICATION

ushing textbooks and projects aside, University students are able to use the environment as a place to collaborate and produce content outside of an assigned syllabus. Pop Rox Zine is no exception.

English sophomore Hailey Manint, and textiles, apparel design and merchandising sophomore Tommy Do are the innovative minds behind Pop Rox. Launched in January on Squarespace, the online zine places an emphasis on local pop culture and fashion. Manint and Do are the primary contributors but welcome collaborations with guest contributors.

Manint approached Do, a long-time friend and previous employee of The Daily Reveille, about the possibility of starting a creative project that allowed for freedom of expression and fluidity of ideas and content.

“We’re trying to tap into an artistic community in the south, especially in this area where it sometimes feels like it’s not really youth-based or encouraged,” she said. “We want to encourage that culture of sharing with your fellow people who are also creative and who are also trying to get their ideas out on a platform.”

Along with Squarespace, Manint said Instagram is the main medium that their audience is using to keep up with the zine’s content.

Manint and Do usually alternate between the roles of creative director and stylist for their photo shoots, which are accompanied by shorter articles.

Both co-creators work in the retail industry, and knew they wanted to find a way to incorporate fashion, style and culture into their publication. Manint

University students begin fashion, culture zine

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Annual film festival focuses on women

BY LAUREN HEFFKER @laurheffker The Louisiana International Film Festival is kicking off its 2016 five-day run with a special presentation on April 13, emphasizing this year’s festival theme of women.

On Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., supermodel-turned-activist Christy Turlington Burns will be hosting a special presentation of, “Giving Birth in America,” a new three-part documentary series released by “Every Mother Counts,” a maternal health non-profit organization founded by Turlington Burns.

The presentation by the Louisiana Film Society will be accompanied by a Q&A with Turlington Burns after the screening.

“Giving Birth in America” examines the state of maternal healthcare in the U.S., one of only eight countries in the world where the maternal mortality rate is rising.

Each segment of the docuseries follows pregnant women in Florida, Montana and New York, and explores how different aspects, such as race, poverty and illness, affect each of their deliveries.

This is the second year the festival chose women’s films

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GALA FILMS

THE REAL REEL

WORLD CINEMA

SOUTHERN PERSPECTIVE

NEW VOICES

“Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise” is the first documentary film about the poet. Photographs and film, accompanied by various voiceovers from Angelou, tell her life story, from her upbringing to her rise as one of the most influential literary minds of her generation.

“Miss Sharon Jones” depicts soul singer Sharon Jones’ journey battling pancreatic cancer while embarking on a world tour and producing an album. The documentary chronicles Jones performing shows while undergoing chemotherapy.

“No Greater Love” shows combat footage of the guerilla warfare Chaplain Justin Roberts and his comrades of the “No Slack” battalion encountered in Afghanistan.

The documentary includes footage of the soldiers after they return home, where they deal with issues such as PTSD and depression.

“Marguerite” is an international production set in the golden era of the 1920s, where an aspiring opera singer is trying to ascend to fame. In the comedy, she believes she has a beautiful voice, but those around her don’t tell her that she’s better off singing when nobody is listening.

“Sidemen: Long Road to Glory” takes viewers through the last performances of longtime blues sidemen Willie Smith, Hubert Sumlin and Pinetop Perkins. The drummer, guitarist and pianist, respectively, were all sidemen for music legends Muddy Waters and Howlin Wolf.

“Search Engines” is a satirical film about the increasing use of technology in society, with the underlying message that it does more harm than good. Director Russell Brown said the aim of the film is to ask questions about technology rather than answer them. He hopes to engage students and everyone else.

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LIFF FILM SPOTLIGHT

BY LAUREN HEFFKER @laurheffker The Louisiana International Film Festival is screening a diverse and distinctive 42-film lineup from April 13-17.

“Diversity is key to any international film festival,” LIFF Executive director Chesley Heymsfield said.

Heymsfield said the festival prides itself on the diversity of its program.

Here’s a cheat sheet to the films showing at LIFF from every available genre, brought to you by The Daily Reveille.

Opinion

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Student body needs to better prioritize what they protest BEYER’S REMORSE

MICHAEL BEYER @michbeyer LSU, you need to sort out your priorities.

This past week, many students lined the Student Union’s Capital Chamber to protest proposed new tailgating rules during a town hall, according to The Daily Reveille.

Y’all are right. The new rules are draconian and senseless. Many of the new rules will not promote public safety and seem poorly thought-out.

I am glad many of y’all have been involved in the public policy process. However, the way you talk about these rules is almost as unreasonable as the rules themselves.

One student somehow thought it was appropriate to compare the new rules to the Holocaust on Twitter.

Another ludicrous cherry on top of this debacle are the Greeks shouting discrimination, when white Greek organizations in the United States were founded on the idea of exclusion.

Lawrence Ross, author of “Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America’s Campuses,” wrote: “The DNA of these

organizations, if you go back, these predominantly white fraternities in particular were created after the Civil War with the expansion of college to non-aristocratic students.”

Part of the exclusion was requiring an entrance fee to shut out working class students, but other restrictions were obviously racist in their founding.

“Organizations on those campuses, they started to put restrictive clauses that restricted membership to white Christians and sometimes they would say you had to be ‘Aryan,’ so it was a long fight just to get African Americans to join their organizations,” Ross said.

Just because you find a policy unfavorable doesn’t make it discrimination. The affected group must have a history of discrimination toward it.

For these white Greek organizations to claim discrimination ranges from infuriating to hilarious.

I can’t wait for the day when your organizations endorse a black student for president or vice president of Student Government. But that will probably be 20 years from now, and I’m sure y’all will feel so progressive then.

That doesn’t mean Greek organizations haven’t gotten better or

aren’t trying to do better than they have in the past, but they still have a lot of work to do.

I’m also sick of people who don’t benefit from this system defending it. Many of the people hosting these tailgating parties are the same ones calling you a slur behind your back. Why defend them?

I really wish the same people who showed up in force to protest these rules would protest budget cuts and the sexual assaults that have primarily occurred during game-day weekends. The University could have closed down because of a lack of funding, meaning no tailgating or football games.

Where were the protests then?

By choosing to protest tailgating rules, students have picked football over their own school remaining open.

No wonder our university has been slammed with budget cuts.

Students don’t protest when the University is threatened with closure.

Maybe the state legislature needs to regulate tailgating to get students to care about funding their own futures. Until then, we’re screwed if we don’t sort out our priorities.

What will you do if proposed tailgate policies are implemented?

Luckily GDI’s aren’t a student organization, so I’ll keep doing what I’ve been doing.

Laugh as a drunken mob of LSU “fans” riot in response.

Garrett Marcel

Jay Cranford

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Be forced to close my side business of reselling overpriced student tickets to thirsty freshman.

Wait, people DRINK at LSU? Tiger blood just became a lot less metal.

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Jack Richards

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The only reason people actually get out of bed on Saturday is to tailgate. The football team will have to cheer for themselves.

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Michael Beyer is a 22-year-old political science senior from New Orleans.

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Jennifer Lawrence comments promote body shaming, not support CULTURE ON THE COBB ALLIE COBB @alliecobbler Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence made headlines April 7 when she shamed the media for its stance on body positivity and urged them to adopt a new “normal.”

In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar, she revealed that her body shape is seen as “normal” by the media just because she has a little more meat on her bones than other actresses.

She is lauded for her body type, which is seen as a realistic and attainable example for young girls, but Lawrence admitted that she doesn’t feel like she has a “normal” body.

“I do Pilates every day,” she said. “I eat, but I work out a lot more than a normal person. I think we’ve gotten so used to underweight that when you are a normal

weight it’s like ‘Oh, my God, she’s curvy.’ Which is crazy.”

She suggests that we adopt a new “normal” body type. While her motivation is honorable, her execution falls flat. We don’t need a new normal. We need to embrace all body types, shapes and sizes. No body type should be seen as more or less acceptable than another.

Someone’s weight and subsequent size is no one’s business but their own. Lawrence is perpetuating body shaming by entertaining the notion of a “normal.”

Only five percent of women naturally possess the “acceptable” body type portrayed by Americans in the media, according to a study done by Do Something. Ninety-one percent of women are unhappy with their bodies and resort to dieting to achieve their ideal body shape.

In an interview with The Guardian, Lawrence said, “If anybody even tries to whisper the word ‘diet,’ I’m like, ‘You can go f--- yourself.’” This poses as a

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positive message, and was embraced by many. However, if this had been a statement from a larger actress, chances are, it would have received a vastly different reaction.

Lawrence’s heart is in the right place, but to suggest that someone is “normal” suggests that body policing is OK. This reinforces today’s asinine cultural standards and perpetuates the myth that only one type of body is acceptable.

Like Lawrence, actress Amy Schumer is often grouped in with “larger” actresses. Earlier this month, Schumer posted an Instagram photo of an issue of Glamour Magazine, in which she was lumped with Melissa McCarthy, Adele and Ashley Graham — all of whom the media consider plus-size.

In America, plus-size is defined as size 16 and up. Schumer stated that she fits within the realm of sizes 6-8.

“Glamour Magazine put me in their plus size only issue without asking or letting me know, and it

doesn’t feel right to me,” Schumer said in her Instagram post. “Young girls seeing my body type thinking that is plus size? What are your thoughts? Mine are not cool.”

Schumer said there’s nothing wrong with being plus size. She considers these women beautiful and healthy. Lawrence could learn a few things from Schumer.

Fifty-eight percent of collegeage girls feel pressured to be a certain weight, according to a Do Something study. This statistic can be attributed to the media and the pressures put on women to be thin, attractive and, overall, visually pleasing.

Lawrence is only permitted to be a body-positive role model because she represents conventional beauty standards. Her hypocritical statements not only reiterate those made by the media, but also reinforce them.

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Tuesday, April 12, 2016 SEMIFINALS, from page 3 LSU senior allarounder Randii Wyrick performs March 4 during the Tigers’ victory against Alabama in the PMAC. GRETA JINES / The Daily Reveille

FROM SENIOR ALL-AROUNDER RANDII WYRICK “We’ve been there year after year, ever since I first got here, and it’s definitely going to be a place of comfort. A place that we know we can go and dominate and being able to compete against teams that we’ve already competed against just gives us confidence.”

FAMILIAR FOES • Defeated Florida 197.900-197.875 on Feb. 26 in Gainesville, Florida • Split series against Georgia Lost: 196.800-197.525 on Feb. 13 Won: in NCAA Regionals 197.300-196.850 FROM LSU COACH JAY CLARK “With this field, for anybody, it’s going to take a high-197. One thing that is a little different nuance this year is that there is six judges on the floor instead of four. So, you’ll be averaging four scores instead of two. That could affect scoring a little bit. It may go down a little bit. That’s what I’d expect because you’re going to have some outliers in those averages. My guess, it’s going to take someone in the high 197s to win this thing.”

RECENT OUTINGS Entered Athens Regionals as the top seed and finished first for the fourth time in a row to advance to the NCAA Semifinals.

• All event scores exceeded the team’s season average • 49.450 on floor marked highest score • 49.150 on beam marked the lowest • Posted three scores higher than a 9.9 on vault, two 9.9’s and two 9.95’s on floor FROM LSU COACH D-D BREAUX “We believe we’ve dotted our Is and crossed our Ts, and that T is in Tiger. These kids are ready.

It’s just a matter of the emotion of the competition and removing the clutter. If they are loose without the clutter, they’re doing well.”

NCAA SEMIFINALS 2015 LSU finished fifth at last year’s semifinals • Posted a team score of 196.550; Vault: 49.375, Bars: 49.425, Beam: 48.275, Floor: 49.475 • Failed to advance to Super Six FROM BREAUX, ON 2015 SEMIS “That performance, that night, was not indicative of what this team can do. That was then.

This is now, and these kids are living in the moment.”

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SWEEP, from page 3 and walked three, but her offense left nine runners on base and managed five hits.

Sophomore Allie Walljasper entered the circle for the series’ second contest and did not fare much better. Walljasper had a solid showing but could only hold down a potent Kentucky offense for so long.

She allowed only three hits and one run through six innings.

In the seventh, the visitors used three singles to plate two more runs. Another eight runners were left on the basepaths, as Walljasper recorded her teamhigh fifth loss. “[Hoover and Walljasper] were very good,” said LSU coach Beth Torina. “It’s definitely a positive we’re going to take away from this. That is two of the best games Carley has thrown [in her career]. She was in control at all times.”

In the first two contests, the LSU offense produced only 10 hits and four runs, and it was a combined 0-for-28 with runners on the bases in Games 1 and 2.

In Game 3, Wildcat senior pitcher Kelsey Nunley continued to stifle the LSU lineup. She recorded her 15th win of the year, forcing 18 batters to ground or fly out. The visiting ace walked five batters but surrendered only four hits throughout the game.

“She’s good enough to beat anyone,” said LSU senior catcher Kellsi Kloss. “We are good enough to beat her. We just didn’t do it today.”

In the sixth inning Monday night, LSU squandered its best chance to tie or take the lead.

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[Above] LSU sophomore pitcher Allie Walljasper (25) bats during LSU’s 2-0 loss against Kentucky on Monday at Tiger Park. [Below] LSU sophomore pitcher Carly Hoover (21) pitches Monday at Tiger Park.

Torina’s squad used two singles and a walk to load the bases with one out. But junior Constance Quinn grounded into a fielder’s choice and Walljasper, the game’s designated player, struck out to end the frame.

“We expect to score when we get the bases loaded,” said senior third baseman Bianka Bell. “At that point we can’t get down. We didn’t have any runs at all and getting down would definitely just affect us even more.”

The Tigers finished the series finale 1-for-12 — 1-for-40 overall — with runners on base and stranded another eight

baserunners. The team was swept at home for the second time this season, which is the first time LSU has been swept by more than one SEC opponent in a three-game home series since 2005.

A quick turnaround awaits LSU as it travels to Hammond on Wednesday for a midweek date with in-state foe Southeastern Louisiana.

“We just need to continue to trust the process and be ourselves,” Torina said. “We need to keep celebrating small successes and build their confidence back up anyway we can.”

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MCNEESE, from page 3 taken the approach we wanted and executed it really well.”

The Tigers feel comfortable playing McNeese State because they had previously prepared for the in-state opponent.

LSU was scheduled to play the Cowboys on March 9, but the game was postponed to Tuesday due to inclement weather. Similarly, the two schools were scheduled to meet in their football season openers, but that game was cancelled due to thunderstorms.

This time, however, JAKE the Tigers are confident they will be able to play their game versus McNeese.

“We are going to hope the weather clears,” Mainieri said.

“The forecast I have is that [the rain] is going to get out of here by noon and be good for [tonight].”

Against the Commodores, LSU was successful offensively.

The Tigers were 36-for-106 at bat and managed to score 23 runs off those hits.

LSU hopes to bring that same spark into its matchup against McNeese State, as the Cowboys have been especially tough against ranked foes. McNeese State boasts wins over both top-25 teams it has played this season.

Against Vanderbilt and last week’s midweek matchup against Southern, LSU’s starting pitchers came out strong. In the three wins last week, LSU’s starters allowed just two runs, seven hits and struck out 19 batters.

Starting redshirt freshman pitcher Jake Latz hopes to bring the same success to the Tigers’ matchup with the Cowboys.

Latz has been recovering from an offseason elbow surgery and the McNeese State game will be his first in an LSU uniform.

“It is a big buildLATZ up of what I have been looking for, for two years now,” Latz said. “Once the first pitch is out there and I get used to the crowd, it will just be baseball and pitching again.”

The Tigers’ meeting with McNeese State is the first of five games they are playing this week. LSU plays another in-state foe, Grambling State, on Wednesday and will travel to play Missouri on Friday for a three-game series.

Despite the heavy schedule, the Tigers hope that momentum can carry them through.

“You always want to get back out on the field the next day,” Deichmann said. “Off days are nice, but when you are feeling it, you want to be on the field.”

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RANKS JUNK M83

Those hoping that M83’s newest record would be reminiscent of 2011’s masterful “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming” might be slightly disappointed with “Junk” – a project that, although ambitious, is disjointed, erratic and sometimes too wacky for its own good.

— DILLON LOWE courtesy of THE LOUISIANA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL’S FACEBOOK

LIFF, from page 4 as its theme since its inception four years ago.

LIFF executive director Chesley Heymsfield said the mission of the festival is to reflect the culture and the environment around it.

“I think that one of the things that is important for an international film festival and one that is community-driven is to pay attention to what the heartbeat is in the community,” she said. “I do think that there is a national conversation happening about women and women’s rights, and a lot of

activism is taking place around women.”

The headlining film for LIFF, “Presenting Princess Shaw,” is a documentary telling the story of Samantha Montgomery, a performer from New Orleans who was discovered on YouTube.

Montgomery will be at LIFF on April 16 to give a special presentation of her film at 4:30 p.m., along with a Q&A and performance after.

“It’s really interesting to have people like that who you can look at and know that you can do it, too, who are from here,” Heymsfield

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Of the 42 films to make up the festival program, many of them have women as the primary subject or character, including “Ingrid Bergman,” “Miss Sharon Jones,” “Marguerite,” “Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise,” “Vita Activa” and “L’Attesa.”

“I think that it’s important for our film festival to always reflect what is current, what is new, what is fresh, what is the future,” Heymsfield said. “And so we reflect that with the films we play — but we [also] reflect it with the theme and the vibe and the feel we present.”

CLEOPATRA The Lumineers

The trio’s second release is a darker, simpler take on their usual acoustic style. While they did not set out to accomplish any feats with this album, “Cleopatra” has gained little traction.

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ZINE, from page 4 works at Time Warp Boutique, a local shop known for its vintage clothing selection.

Manint often borrows from Time Warp to style models for photo shoots, and she said one shirt can be an inspiration for an entire shoot. While the zine has a heavy focus on fashion, Pop Rox has no genre limitations as to what type of content it produces.

“We bounce ideas off of each other until we find something we both really like and can build an article around,” Manint said.

Manint said she plans to work with Do to expand the project for the remainder of her college career. She said Pop Rox combines her passions for writing, fashion and creativity into one project.

“It’s melding my interests.

When you bring that together

and it has a theme and a cultural undertone to it, it makes doing it a lot easier,” she said.

Because Pop Rox is still in its early stages, only a couple of pieces have been produced so far. Manint said she hopes to build up to more full-scale features, and that the eventual goal of the project is to be in print.

Gaining funds to support the production of the zine is a long-term objective for the duo.

“We would hope to eventually incorporate product into our shoots,” she said. “Eventual sponsorship would be ideal.”

Pop Rox aims to publish new content every one to two weeks.

“The official definition of a zine is a print book, so we’re naming it that to set our goal,” Manint said. “Right now, what we have is a blog, but we’re working toward this zine aspect.”