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“They’re taking Free Speech Alley and making it into a place for hate.”

Semester sees heated confrontation among students, preachers and LSUPD in Free Speech Plaza

BY SARAH GAMARD • @SarahGamard

“Does Title IX trump free speech?”

Joshua, a Free Speech Plaza preacher, asked in a YouTube video of a confrontation with LSUPD officers published almost a month ago.

Officers accused Joshua of making “racially motivated” and femaleoppressive statements, explaining that people are allowed to exercise free speech until they violate Title IX, a federal law prohibiting sex discrimination against students and employees in education programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance.

In the video, Joshua defends his remarks, pointing out that he made those statements to address the disproportionate rate of abortions in the AfricanAmerican community for “fornicators” on campus, referencing the Black Lives

Matter movement as justification.

Officers asked him to leave the area, but an LSUPD statement later showed the officers incorrectly cited Title IX and have since been through a review of its role in law enforcement situations.

Two groups often take up residence in Free Speech Plaza: Brother Jed’s The Campus Ministry USA, which Joshua belongs to, and a religious organization called Consuming Fire Fellowship. Both have been present in the area even longer than Ivan Imes, the “Jesus Talks” guy, who has made himself available in the Plaza almost every day for the past 10 years.

Imes said at the end of the fall 2015 semester, he saw one of the Consuming Fire Fellowship members grab a woman during a confrontation. He said

see FREE SPEECH, page 2

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FOOD

Po~Boy Times opens doors today Eatery is newest addition to West Chimes Street

BY HAYDEN ROBERT @hashtagbyhayden With LSU’s Northgate area consistently receiving an influx of different eateries, the building previously home to Chinese Combo King and Little Saigon II has a new tenant.

Po~Boy Times, which opens today on West Chimes St., offers

a varied selection of po-boys and salads.

The eatery is owned and managed by Husan Ardah, a biostatistics doctoral student at LSU Health New Orleans. He manages the restaurant with his three brothers.

“We’ve been trying to find the right location for Po~Boy Times since 2010 and this close to LSU’s campus is the best place we could possibly be,” Ardah said.

Ardah and his brothers are from Jerusalem. He said coming

to America and getting to open and own a restaurant is reminiscent of the “American Dream.”

“Finally, my dreams are coming true,” Ardah said.

The restaurant is focused on giving LSU students the best service and food around.

Po~Boy Times will open at 10:30 a.m. everyday and close at 10 p.m. Sunday through Wednesday. The restaurant will stay open until 3 a.m. Thursday JAVIER FERNÁNDEZ / The Daily Reveille

see PO~BOY, page 2

Po~Boy Times will open its doors today on West Chimes Street.

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Po~Boy Times on West Chimes Street serves up sandwich and salad options.

PO~BOY, from page 1 through Saturday to serve customers who find themselves near the Northgate area after a night out.

The restaurant will provide free coffee to all of its guests, along with a wide variety of menu options, Ardah said.

Ardah has both worked and managed restaurants throughout his culinary career. Along with his expertise, he said his brothers have additional experience in the restaurant business.

Po~Boy Times’ building owner Jim Hall said he is more than excited about having this familyowned and -operated business taking over the space. The building also has an adjoining parking lot, a feature most venues on West Chimes Street do not have, he said.

“Their food and their service is geared toward the students,” Hall said. “I’m thrilled that Po~Boy Times is here, and I think they are going to do great.”

The building owner said, when he was looking for a business to lease the space to, he saw Ardah as the perfect fit.

“We have no other options but to succeed here,” Ardah said.

“We are all very determined to be successful, and we all have what it takes to make this restaurant successful.”

the fellowship member was subsequently arrested.

He recalled another incident that took place a few years ago in which a heated argument between a lesbian and a Consuming Fire Fellowship member ended with the woman being chased on foot around campus. Imes said she went to the police, and he believes the fellowship member was arrested in that instance as well.

LSUPD spokesperson Marshall Walters said he was unable to find official police reports or evidence of an arrest for either of these events, but acknowledged LSUPD does occasionally get called to handle aggressive preachers in Free Speech Plaza.

As far as he knows, he said such incidents have never escalated beyond heated arguments, and he does not remember arresting anyone for physical violence.

However, he said there is a fine line between free speech and disturbing the peace. In his 15 years working at the University, Walters said the aggression has not gotten worse, but cycles in and out with different visiting groups. No specific group gives LSUPD problems, he said.

Imes said he believes the contention with groups that come to Free Speech Plaza has been relatively the same throughout his decade there, but every semester has a different theme. He said last semester’s was “relationships” and this semester’s so far has been sexual issues, such as pornography and promiscuity.

International studies and political science sophomore Chloe Riviere tabled for her rowing team at Free Speech Plaza one day, sharing the space in front of the Student Union with some preachers. She referred to that day as “Go to Hell Wednesday.”

Riviere said she tries to ignore many of the preachers because they have been

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Kirsten Borchert preaches on Jan. 19 in Free Speech Plaza. aggressive toward her friend, calling her a slut for her clothing.

“It can be a little offensive,” she said. “I feel like it’s rude, more than anything.”

Biology junior Jess Coulon said she was at Free Speech Plaza when a woman called her a “harlot” because of what she was wearing. Coulon, who was wearing shorts under her dress at the time, said she lifted her skirt in response.

She said she also witnessed a woman harassing an openly gay man, calling him a “rapist.”

“Does it really feel good to you to make people feel bad about who they are?” Coulon said. “Does that make your relationship to God closer?”

However, the aggression is rare, she said.

Free Speech Plaza is great because everyone can speak their minds, she said, but being cruel to other people is unacceptable.

“They’re taking Free Speech Alley and making it into a place for hate,” Coulon said of the aggressors.

Accounting sophomore Ross

Brown and mass communication sophomore Michael Etheridge often play guitar and sing worship songs in a large group at Free Speech Plaza on Wednesdays.

Brown said he thinks the events in Free Speech Plaza give people a skewed view of Christianity because the messages from some preachers are hateful rather than loving. Brown said his worship group also feels victimized by Consuming Fire Fellowship.

Last semester, Etheridge said they were “persecuted” by preachers, prompting students to show the worship group respect despite differing religious views.

Consuming Fire Fellowship member Charlie Kennon, who wears a “Jesus Must Be Your Lord or He Will Not Be Your Savior” sign on his body at Free Speech Plaza, said he expects the opposition from students because the Bible warned the fellowship’s members about it.

The church’s name, he said, comes from Hebrews 12: “Our God is a consuming fire.” He said those who antagonize God face negative consequences, but those who submit see positive results.

Micah Williams, another preacher with the fellowship, said he has been coming to Free Speech Plaza with his father, who began preaching on campus 27 years ago, since he was three weeks old.

“You will suffer eternal damnation,” Williams called to passersby as he paced on top of a bench with a worn Bible in his hand. His voice echoed across the otherwise-peaceful Plaza.

He said the church usually comes to campus once a month during the semester.

“We don’t affiliate with them,” Williams said about other preachers at Free Speech Plaza.

“They do a lot of things we don’t agree with.”

While his church is not necessarily looking for converts, Williams said he feels he is making a difference.

He said he has a good relationship with LSUPD, and while they do run into opposition from students, there is never violence.

“Maybe a heated argument, they would call it,” he said. “But no extreme violence or anything, normally, out here.”

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Sports

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Like father, like daughter Wilder’s competitive nature product of bond with father WINGATE JONES / The Daily Reveille

LSU sophomore Sidnie Wilder places eighth in the weight throw on Saturday in the PMAC.

BY JOSHUA THORNTON @JoshT_TDR “Committed” and “hardworking” are two words one could use to describe LSU sophomore track and field thrower Sidnie Wilder.

When Sidnie, a native of Cameron, Wisconsin, was in the eighth grade, she approached her father, Deren Wilder, about becoming a hammer thrower.

Sidnie had the right person to teach her, as her father was a former Division II All-American at Saint Joseph’s College in Rensselaer, Indiana.

Not only did Sidnie have the genes and tutelage of an All-American, but Deren also coached other gifted ath-

letes for more than 15 years, including a former Gatorade All-American and a former NCAA weight throw champion.

“We sat down when I was in high school,” Sidnie said. “It was like, ‘All right, I’m going to have to pay for college somehow,’ and he knew how to coach the hammer.”

When Deren first learned his daughter wanted to compete, he wasn’t surprised or shocked. He was hopeful she would stick with it.

“I knew what it would take to accomplish the goal we discussed,” Deren said. “But [I] also know that not a lot of people would want to put in the time and effort. I didn’t know if she would stick with it or not.”

When father and daughter first began training, Sidnie would practice throwing off of plywood floors. But she ran into some trouble when they practiced throwing off her high school’s basketball court, which they got kicked off of for safety reasons.

The two would have “intense” workouts, Sidnie said. She would practice throws for an hour and then hit the weight room for roughly another hour.

“My dad always had me maxing out,” Sidnie said. “It was really hard catching on because it’s so techinal of an event that ... to get your body to move that way is a struggle.”

There were times when Sidnie

wanted to quit — more times than she could count, she said. But she never gave up. With her hard work and her dad’s motivation and coaching, Sidnie would go on to compete with a USATF team and win a silver medal in the hammer throw event in the intermediate girls division at the 2011 USA Track & Field National Junior Olympic Championships.

By the time her high school career wrapped up, she ranked in the top five nationally among prep throwers. One thing Deren didn’t do was try to live out his career through Sidnie, he said.

He never put pressure on his daughter

see WILDER, page 7

SOFTBALL

Jaquish’s offensive explosion powers team in Tiger Classic

BY MARC STEVENS @ Marc_TDR The No. 3 LSU softball team opened its season in a dominating fashion during the 18th edition of the Tiger Classic hosted at Tiger Park.

LSU (4-1) outscored opponents 42-5 over the weekend and won each of its four games by run-rule, ending the matchups in the fifth inning. LSU’s lone loss came against University of the Pacific, as its potent offense was limited to only one run.

Throughout the weekend, one player consistently shined a bit brighter than the rest — junior infielder Sahvanna Jaquish.

Jaquish provided a commanding influence all weekend. She

finished with a .750 batting average, going 9-for-12 and drawing three walks during the five-game stretch. Her biggest offensive performance came in game three against Connecticut.

The Highland, California, native recorded just two hits, but she made both of them count.

Jaquish struck a ball up the middle into center field for a double, earning two RBIs. Her best at bat came at the end of LSU’s flurry of runs in the bottom of the third.

The Tigers had already scored nine runs against the Huskies (2-3) in that inning before Jaquish smashed a ball over the left-field fence for a grand slam home run. The four-run blast gave LSU a 13-0 lead at the time and all but ended the game.

“It felt amazing,” Jaquish said of the homer. “There’s just something about hitting the ball in the right spot and timing it up. It’s the reason I play softball.”

It was the first home run of the season for the junior, but her power is no surprise to fans.

Last season, Jaquish led the team in RBIs with 76, the single season program record, and was second in homers with 17.

Her home run count was behind power hitting senior Bianka Bell, who crushed 18 balls over the fence in 2015.

The LSU home run crown will likely go to either Jaquish or Bell, but the senior shortstop was unwilling to make a prediction on

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see SOFTBALL, page 7

LSU sophomore outfielder Emily Griggs chats with junior infielder Sahvanna Jaquish during LSU’s 2-1 loss against University of the Pacific on Saturday at Tiger Park.

Entertainment CRAVING CRAWFISH

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Mudbug season is in full swing, and as crawfish prices begin to drop, the tasty critters are getting bigger. With the help of this guide, you’ll know just where to pinch the tails and suck the heads in Baton Rouge.

CAPITOL CITY CRAWFISH LOCATION: 5355 Government Street HOURS: Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m.-7 p.m., Sundays from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

CRAWFISH BREAKDOWN: Capitol City Crawfish, known for its Cajun specialities, offers boiled crawfish for $4.40 per pound and live for $3.29 per pound. Customers can also purchase five potatoes for $1.50 and three ears of corn for $1.50. The restaurant offers dining both inside and outside, but many customers take it to-go.

TONY’S SEAFOOD LOCATION: 5215 Plank Road CATHERINE SEDDON / The Daily Reveille

HOURS: Open weekdays 8 a.m.-7:30 p.m. and weekends from 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

CRAWFISH BREAKDOWN: Tony’s Seafood, a market and deli, sells boiled crawfish for $4.15 per pound. Customers can also purchase a pound of potatoes for $1.59 and three ears of corn for $1.59. Tony’s Seafood is the largest seafood market in the Gulf South. This restaurant offers carryout only.

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HEADS & TAILS

LOCATION: 12740 Florida Boulevard

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Thursday through Saturday 9 a.m.-8 p.m. and Sundays

HOURS: Monday through Wednesday 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Thursday through

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Saturday from 10 a.m.-9 p.m.

CRAWFISH BREAKDOWN: The restaurant, which

CRAWFISH BREAKDOWN: Heads & Tails sells boiled crawfish for $4.59

doubles as a market and cafe, offers boiled crawfish for

per pound and live crawfish for $3.19 per pound. Corn and potatoes are also

$4.79 per pound and live crawfish for $3.79 per pound.

available. Three ears of corn can be bought for $1.75 and a pound of potatoes

Customers can purchase five potatoes for $1.59 and

for $1.75. Customers can dine both inside and outside, in the courtyard. The

three ears of corn for $1.59. Montalbano’s offers both

restaurant also offers catering.

inside and outside dining, as well as carryout.

HOURS: Monday through Wednesday 9 a.m.-7 p.m.,

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Kanye West’s behavior, concerning RANDALL RAMBLES KAYLA RANDALL @kay_ran21 It’s time we stop acting like Kanye West is OK. There comes a point when it isn’t a gimmick, and it isn’t for show or for album promotion. I think we’ve reached that point.

West might just be on the verge of a psychotic break and we’re all ignoring it.

He doesn’t seem happy. Ever.

In fact, he’s never seemed more miserable than he has these past few years. When has he shown genuine joy other than when he’s interacting with his precious daughter, North West?

These incoherent Twitterrants, while sometimes comedic, are alarming. He seems manic and restless. He’s clearly going through a lot more than being “distracted from his creative process,” as he protested on Twitter. He recently told a fellow grown man, rapper Wiz Khalifa, that he owned his child via Twitter in a more than 30-tweet rant, and while that made for a day of great social media jokes, it didn’t seem to cause many people concern.

Soon after, he tweeted “Bill Cosby innocent” and an array of exclamation points with no explanation or further clarification. Tweeting support for Cosby, a man who is currently under fire with more than 50 sexual assault allegations, is

see KANYE, page 8 STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

Student launches international art project among other endeavors

BY LAUREN HEFFKER @laurheffker For most college students, co-creating and launching an international art project is nothing but a dream. For psychology and art junior Brittany Basco, it’s just one of her several endeavors.

She has a broad range of interests: powerlifting, art, photography, creative writing, aerial silks, acro yoga, singing, playing various instruments and Pi Beta Phi sorority. Basco is also employed as a photographer at LEGACY Magazine.

She incorporates all of her passions into her

creative ventures.

Basco met her project partner, Chris Pemberton, via Instagram in July 2015. She followed his own creative project, “Humans for the Future,” and several conversations later the two realized their mutual visions aligned.

Through Skype sessions, the duo formed the foundation of their project, “Creative Mirror.” Over winter break, Basco and Pemberton met in Mexico to make their plans of collaboration a reality.

The process entails having two people, primarily family members, each designing one side of a random object. After

completion, the two halves are compared. The project is a creative experiment to see how each individual’s mind is different and interprets the image.

“The moment the results are combined is amazing,” Basco said.

Basco said the goal of the project is to connect creativity in places where it is not thought to be. She aims to showcase the many elements and opportunities available with a wide spectrum of creativity.

Basco believes that everyone is creative, especially people who have faced challenges in life

see BASCO, page 8

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LSU art and psychology junior Brittany Basco recently launched an international art project called “Creative Mirror.”

Opinion

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Blackness cannot be peeled away from the Rainbow Coalition BURNT TO A CRISP GARRETT HINES Columnist Important black cultural keystones, figureheads, leaders and regular people all are part of the LGBT community.

Because of our steadfast Christian influence, the black community is not the most welcoming to our “alternative lifestyle” brothers and sisters.

Black Twitter’s expansive reach and power make it a breeding ground for investigations to suss out downlow brothers and determine what and with whom a young lady might be dibbling and dabbling.

The University even pops up in this conversation. Questions surrounding Odell Beckham Jr.’s sexual orientation are a constant occurrence. Online masses have sworn that, if they see him outside the lines, they’ll teach him to be a man, and his gametime opponents

threatened him and hurled slurs his way.

In 2015 alone, 21 transgender women were murdered, and their only offense was choosing to express their full identity regardless of the social stigmas attached to it. Their deaths speak to a decrepit evil seeded in minority communities.

The majority of them were women of color living in lowincome, majority-black neighborhoods. These murders directly link to the transphobic and, more broadly, homophobic tendencies ingrained in large swaths of the black community.

I understand why others may feel it’s best to keep this discussion and their family members in the closet. In their minds, systemic poverty, police brutality and equal access to healthcare far outweigh the concerns of the gay cousins they’d rather ignore.

However, our LGBT brothers and sisters are and have been working to better the black community for decades.

Bayard Rustin, a pioneering leader for racial equality and the architect of the Civil Rights Movement’s nonviolent strategy, organized the 1963 March on Washington, the largest nonviolent protest held in the United States.

Most folks do not know his name or his works because he was publicly known to be gay.

A prominent black pastor and congressman from Harlem threatened to spread innuendos about Martin Luther King Jr. and Rustin being secret lovers, and King had to publicly shun Rustin to save his own reputation. The mere thought of being connected to the gay lifestyle was too much for King.

From then on, his contributions to the movement were murky and hard to publicly validate. He was a gay man in a heteronormative world.

We’ve made creeping progress though. Today, the public figurehead for the Black Lives Matter movement, DeRay Mckesson, is an out gay man.

He has not been pushed aside yet, and this acceptance correlates with a positive generational shift toward accepting LGBT celebrities.

Beyoncé’s blockbuster “Formation” video put Messy Mya and Big Freedia voices’ in a radiant spotlight. Mya, a YouTube star and out gay man, was a premier act in the local New Orleans Bounce scene before he was murdered. Big Freedia, a non-gender identifying person, is the most popular performer of Bounce music and a mainstream icon Louisianians know and love.

This video championed Queen Bee’s most prolific declaration yet of her being “Black and Proud.” Black Twitter praises this video’s portrayal of problems the black community faces, and it shows the generational difference in how younger blacks are more open to our LGBT brethren. Not only do we celebrate them as prominent icons, but we put them at the forefront of our

cultural dialogue.

Accepting and celebrating LGBT celebrities is a positive change, but we must also accept those whom we come across in our daily lives. Being black in America, for some, is a daily reminder of inferiority.

We need to take a hard look at how we treat blacks who don’t look or act “ideal,” and then fix our prejudiced tendencies.

Black History Month is a special time set aside to exalt those who came before us and lit a blazing trail of glory for all to follow when it comes to fighting injustice and making America more racially harmonious.

We should expect factions in the black community because a monolithic black thought doesn’t exist. However, we can’t base those differences around a disapproval of what happens once bedroom doors close.

Garrett Hines a 21-year-old political science senior from Monroe, Louisiana.

Becoming a millionaire is not as unrealistic as you may think JAY TALKING JAY CRANFORD Columnist If your aspirations include being a one-percenter, then amassing a net worth of $7 million is the goal. Easy enough, right?

While political jargon makes the one percent synonymous with Illuminati members in underground shadow banking rings, millionaires are not who you’d think they are.

Thomas Stanley and William Danko studied American millionaires for decades.

Their most successful book, “The Millionaire Next Door,” profiles those whose net value is at least $1 million with surprising results.

While most of us picture millionaires as people on Instagram flexing in their new Yeezys, the prototypical millionaires are humble spenders who created their own wealth.

For example, the median taxable income of millionaires is only $131,000, and only 13

percent earn more than $500,000.

As an LSU graduate, earning a $131,000 salary in your career isn’t a farfetched idea — your results will vary by major, of course. In fact, being a graduate already gives you a leg up on becoming a millionaire.

Only 18 percent hold master’s degrees and 20 percent hold advanced degrees.

Roughly two-thirds of millionaires are self-employed, with many working “dull” jobs, such as contractors or farmers.

The most interesting result from Stanley and Danko’s research is the discovery that beginning life in a lower class doesn’t affect your ability rise to the millionaire class. Eighty percent of millionaires are firstgeneration affluent, meaning they received little to no inheritance. Only 17 percent attended a private school prior to college.

The secret to building wealth is spending less money than you earn.

It’s not an exciting secret, but it’s the truth. Going back to those flexing on Instagram, these people pay money to

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look like millionaires, but they aren’t. Spending money on items that don’t grow in value, like the new iPhone, does not make wealth — it just portrays it.

Stanley and Danko’s research finds millionaires live in houses with an average value of $320,000. In their neighborhoods, they have six and a half times the wealth of their neighbors, and non-millionaires outnumber millionaires three-toone. The average millionaire has given up high-status possessions, such as large houses, for wealth.

Forgoing a new car and abstaining from thousand dollar suits are easy ways to cut down expenses.

Take a page from millionaires and hold 20 percent of your wealth in securities, such as stocks and mutual funds.

Don’t touch those accounts. Let them increase in value.

But why should I choose creating wealth over spending money? Many of you would rather spend every penny of your paycheck in Tigerland — and I say more power to you.

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Everyone has their own Goldilocks happy medium of wealth and spending.

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Quote of the Day ‘I don’t want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.’

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Tuesday, February 16, 2016 SOFTBALL, from page 3 the outcome.

Jaquish finished with nine RBIs through the first five games putting her on pace to smash her own individual record by nearly 20.

LSU coach Beth Torina said the offense has a nice mix of speed and power. While Jaquish and Bell cheer for one another, the fifth year coach said they both want to end the year as the team leader in home runs, even if they don’t admit it.

“This offense is extremely special,” Torina said. “Our greatest competition is within ourselves.”

Even with her offensive numbers, what set Jaquish apart was her defensive play and versatility. Over the weekend the infielder split time between third base and catcher, earning three starts at third and two behind the plate.

She recorded three assists

and 13 putouts, including eight against North Florida on Friday.

The junior said it was great experience through the highs and lows of the weekend.

“It’s always amazing playing here,” Jaquish said of Tiger Park.

“It’s the best facility in the country, and the fans are amazing. So it was all love.”

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LSU junior infielder Sahvanna Jaquish walks to the dugout after the LSU’s 2-1 loss against University of the Pacific on Saturday at Tiger Park.

The Daily Reveille WILDER, from page 3 to have a better career than what he had.

“I had a somewhat successful college career,” Deren said. “I allow Sidnie to be the athlete that she wants to be. It was really not about me at all. I did push her to be as good as she could be.”

Just like any parent would, Deren helped his child find a school, but he transitioned from his role as a coach to her agent.

“I did all the contacts up front,” Deren said. “I was the recruiting agency. I started making contacts when she was a freshman in high school.”

Not only did Sidnie have her own personal agent, she had autonomy when it came time for her to pick a school. Sidnie took all of her official visits on her own, visiting LSU, the University of Iowa and the University of Wyoming.

When it came to picking a school, one advantage LSU had over her other two choices

page 7 was the great weather and the treatment of athletes, she said.

“The weather is wonderful,” Sidnie said. “Usually, you can train all year long. Everything they do for the athletes here is really impressive compared to other schools. Everybody is so nice here.”

When current LSU coach Derek Yush first saw Sidnie, he saw skills and attributes that most incoming freshman don’t have.

“Her dad laid the foundation,” Yush said. “She has a very solid foundation, awareness of the event and how to accelerate the inclement. For me as a coach, it’s awesome to just take what she’s learned and just try to refine what she’s doing. If I had to point to one thing, I would say probably how her head and spine align when she’s doing these throws.”

Those skills helped Sidnie have a productive freshman season at LSU. In her outdoor season debut, she won the hammer throw title with a season-opening mark of 177-8 at the Louisiana Classics.

In that same season, Sidnie also came up short in qualifying for the final spot in the SEC Indoor Track and Field Championships.

Coming into this season, Sidnie, who competes in both indoor and outdoor track meets, had goals of making it to the SEC Championships. But a back injury slowed her down from competing earlier in the season.

Sidnie has recovered from the injury, placing eighth in the indoor LSU High Performance Meet.

If Deren could, he would attend every one of Sidnie’s track meets, but because of the long distance between the two, it’s hard for him to watch her participate. Even though she doesn’t receive much coaching from her dad, Sidnie still calls him after nearly every practice or track meet to tell him how things went.

“He doesn’t really coach me anymore,” Sidnie said. “I call him usually after every meet.

If I have a good or bad day at practice, I’ll call him.”

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page 8 BASCO, from page 4 that result in self-expression as a form of therapy.

“You’re thrown a curveball and you have to learn how to catch it,” she said.

For Basco, creativity is necessary to survive. She maintains her positive outlook by affirming and visualizing what she wants to happen, rather than limiting herself.

The artist enjoys an active lifestyle, playing other sports including softball, soccer and pole vaulting. Her love for acro yoga began as the by product of an injury, and she found yoga impacted her healing process.

Basco says it’s all about the experience and always learning something.

“Failures are an opportunity to create more or to make something out of it,” she said.

“Everything that has altered me has made me go further.”

Basco never thought she could do anything acrobatic until she found aerial silks last year through her previous employment with DIG Magazine.

Aerial silks is a leisure course offered at the University.

“Silks brought together everything,” she said. “Through silks, you find your weaknesses and can improve on them.”

Tuesday, February 16, 2016 Among Basco’s other commitments, she is a member of the LSU Powerlifting club.

She competed at a national level during the summer of 2015 and qualified for the powerlifting nationals in April. Basco was also recently invited to compete at the IPF World Bench Press Championships for the U.S. World Bench Team.

Basco has numerous creative outlets and enjoys thriving in all of them. Her other photography project, “The Body and Mind” captures the human body in its purest form.

Basco is attending the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland this summer with LSU’s Academic Programs Abroad.

Edinburgh is known as the biggest art festival in the world, and Basco is planning on collecting more samples for

“Creative Mirror.”

Basco plans to attend graduate school to eventually study art therapy and plans on using “Creative Mirror” for research as part of her thesis.

Basco said ideally she and Pemberton want 100 pieces to form the exhibition, which has already been confirmed to show the U.S., New Zealand, and possibly Australia. Basco said the project should be ready for exhibition in six to seven months.

Anyone can submit their work, regardless of skill level.

The entry fee is $20, for the materials needed to complete the project.

Basco’s work with “Creative Mirror” and “The Body and Mind” can be viewed at @brithephotographer and @strippedsoul on Instagram.

KANYE, from page 4

easiest of outs, but I don’t think they are wholly to blame. Kanye was unstable before he married Kim Kardashian. Losing his mother is also a factor, but we can’t blame all of his behavior on that.

Not to sound so full of doom and gloom, but Kanye is obviously going through something and in our rush to make fun of the next Twitter rant, maybe we should consider her death.

People write Kanye’s craziness off as him being egomaniacal, and he is. People also ignore his behavior and his personality in favor of his music, but this isn’t 2005, and he’s not going to put out another “Late Registration.” His delusion has reached a level that perhaps we need to start paying attention to.

You don’t have to stifle your laughter when he compares himself to Google, Walt Disney and Shakespeare in all caps. Let’s be honest, that is genuinely funny.

But sometimes we need to analyze what we’re laughing at.

Maybe we should listen to him when he says “I’ve been out of my mind a long time,” as he does on “Feedback” off of his new album “The Life of Pablo.”

problematic enough, but to offer no other words on the matter is even more confusing.

Most recently, he went on a Twitter rant about being bankrupt and begged mogul Facebook Mark Zuckerberg for money, $1 billion to be exact. Can we stop making jokes about Kanye begging Zuckerberg for money via Twitter instead of Facebook for a few minutes and process the fact that this man has probably lost it?

There was a time when all of his moves were calculated, and he knew exactly what buttons to press and when. Mixed in with this calculation, however, was an explosive unpredictability that drew us to him. He might’ve said or done anything, like tell the country that George Bush doesn’t care about black people, or drunkenly interrupt an awards acceptance speech.

While he may still be unpredictable, it’s not the same kind of unpredictable that had us enthralled. We already know he’ll say or do something crazy now, but whether it will actually mean anything is up for debate, thus the unpredictability.

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