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fighting tiger Students mourn as Mike VI moved to hospice care

BY KATIE GAGLIANO | @katie_gagliano Tiger fans may have less time to say their goodbyes to Mike the Tiger than expected. Yesterday morning, a post on Mike VI’s official Facebook page announced the live tiger mascot, who was diagnosed with cancer in May, had been moved into hospice care and will no longer be released into his outdoor enclosure.

Mike will remain in his night house while in hospice care, and his student caretakers and team of veterinarians will continue to care for him as usual.

The news comes less than a week after LSU attending veterinarian David Baker announced that Mike VI’s spindle cell sarcoma had spread.

Kinesiology freshman Katherine Belou said she visited Mike Friday for what will likely be the last time. Belou was shocked by the news of Mike entering hospice care.

“It’s sad that our mascot has cancer and we can’t do anything about it,” she said.

A CT scan and physical exam on Oct. 3 revealed new nodules in the base of Mike’s neck, his right leg

see MIKE VI, page 2

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ATHLETICS

Alleva unwilling to move Nov. 19 game

BY JOSH THORNTON @JoshuaThornton_ LSU will not move its home game against South Alabama on Nov. 19, athletic director Joe Alleva said.

Nov. 19 has been targeted as a makeup date for LSU to play No. 18 Florida, but Alleva quickly refuted swapping LSU’s Senior Day to play the Gators.

“One thing we’re going to hold very firm on: We have a home game Nov. 19,” Alleva said. “Our fans and this city deserves a home game.”

The game between Florida and LSU was postponed because of Hurricane Matthew, and a reschedule date hasn’t been decided on yet. LSU is scheduled to play South Alabama and Florida is slated to play Presbyterian on Nov. 19.

LSU’s season would end with three straight road trips to No. 22 Arkansas, Florida and No. 6 Texas A&M, if the game is moved to Nov. 19.

Alleva adamantly stated on Monday that option is not possible for LSU. Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley reiterated in a statement that Florida wants to play the aforementioned game.

“We understand the importance of playing this game, and we want to play this game,” Foley said.

The other options for LSU would require a lot of cooperation from other teams in the league.

LSU has an open date on Oct. 29, when the Tigers could make

see ALLEVA, page 2

ACADEMICS

Visiting scholar, Princeton professor to lecture on societal ‘fracture’

BY CJ CARVER @CWCarver_ Daniel Rodgers, historian of American culture and ideas and Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, emeritus, at Princeton University, will present his lecture, “Age of Fracture: The Transformation of Ideas and Society in Modern America,” on Thursday, Oct. 20 in the French House.

Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest honor society for liberal arts and sciences, invited Rodgers to present his lecture in the French House’s Grand Salon, which serves as the headquarters for the University’s Roger Hadfield Ogden Honors College.

Phi Beta Kappa’s Visiting Scholar Program offers undergraduates an opportunity to interact with some of the nation’s most

distinguished scholars, according to the Phi Beta Kappa website.

Throughout the program’s history, more than 640 Visiting Scholars have visited more than 5,000 universities across the United States that are a part of The Phi Beta Kappa Society.

“This talk is going to be out of [Rodgers’] more recent book about ‘fracture,’” Honors College Dean Jonathan Earle said. “We

all see fracture in our everyday lives … [Rodgers] looked at this as, not just a thing you could measure, but an idea, which I love.

He’s talking about ideas on the right and the left, and he’s talking about trying to understand the world we live in kind of from an intellectual perspective.”

Rodgers’ lecture on society and its development of ideas will come two weeks after the Uni-

versity’s presidential symposium, “Moment or Movement: A National Dialogue on Identity, Empowerment and Justice for All,” and shortly after the University was awarded the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award

by INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine.

Throughout his career,

see SCHOLAR, page 2

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MIKE VI, from page 1 and lungs, Baker said. The original tumor also grew, expanding to block Mike’s right sinus and tear duct.

At a press conference Wednesday, Baker estimated Mike would have approximately one to two months to live.

Mike began stereotactic radiotherapy at the Mary Bird Perkins — Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Center in June. Baker said the treatments were successful in shrinking the tumor initially, but ultimately the tumor was more aggressive than anticipated.

Baker said medical partners at Colorado State University had never seen such an aggressive form of spindle cell sarcoma and seen it spread as it has in Mike.

Baker said the 11-year-old tiger will be euthanized if his health continues to decline and he begins to show discomfort.

“We will not allow Mike to suffer,” Baker said. “We will monitor him closely every day and will humanely euthanize him when the time comes. This is about treating Mike with dignity, compassion and respect.”

Following euthanasia, Baker

ALLEVA, from page 1 the trip to Gainesville, but the Gators, however, are scheduled to meet Georgia in Jacksonville.

That would require Georgia to agree to moving its game versus Florida to Oct. 22, something the Bulldogs might not be in favor of.

Georgia athletic director Greg McGarity, said moving the game would be “impractical.”

“It’s really impractical. We have over 15,000 temporary seats placed in the stadium just for that

said the University’s pathologist Victor Castellon. “He is the spirit will perform a necropsy for educa- on this campus. If I actually got tional benefit. Mike’s remains will a chance to speak to him, I would then be cremated and housed in just thank him for being here for us the Jack and Priscilla Andonie Mu- because we really love him.” seum in the Lod Cook Alumni CenMany students and fans also ter alongside the took to social meremains of Mike IV to express their ‘If I actually got a dia and Mike V. feelings about Baker said the chance to speak to Mike VI’s health search for Mike decline, and severhim, I would just al online petitions VII is underway, and he has a stratand a GoFundMe egy in place for se- thank him for being have surfaced. lecting the new ti- here for us because we On Facebook, ger. Considerations an article posted for a new tiger by Independent really love him.’ include a good geMonthly in Lafaynetic background, ette began circulatVICTOR CASTELLON outgoing personaling among fans and biological engineering freshman ity and clean bill students calling on of health. the University to It is unclear how long the search select Tony the Tiger, the featured will last. Following the death of attraction at the Tiger Truck Stop Mike V, the search for a new tiger in Grosse Tete, Louisiana, as the lasted three months until Mike VI next Mike the Tiger. was chosen from the Great Cats of The article cited Tony’s short Indiana Sanctuary. distance from the University’s Students and fans were sad- campus, 15 miles, and relative levdened by the news of Mike’s el of care in comparison to Mike’s decline. as considerations for his selection.

“It’s kind of sad that our time Baker said he intends to select is short with him, but we really do a tiger from a USDA approved appreciate him being here,” said sanctuary. biological engineering freshman Another online movement de-

veloped in the form of a GoFundMe page seeking to reunite Mike VI with Steve Cotner, his caregiver from the Great Cats of Indiana Sanctuary. The GoFundMe emerged after an article in The Advocate detailed Cotner’s distress at Mike’s declining health and the pair’s early history together in Indiana.

The fund was started by Jeri Courville Guinn of Pineville, Louisiana, and had raised just over its goal of $3,000 at the time of publication. Updates on the page said arrangements were being made to bring Cotner and his wife to Baton Rouge by the end of the week, and any remaining funds will be donated to the University’s Veterinary School.

Psychology sophomore Erika Grant said she visited Mike during elementary and middle school field trips to the University. Grant said she has a big heart for animals and is saddened by Mike’s cancer, but he lived a good life and it may be his time.

“Nothing lasts forever,” Grant said. “Life is the blink of an eye.

We loved him and we’ve done our best as a community to take care of him, so I guess it’s just his time to go.”

game,” McGarity said on the Paul Finebaum show. “We have an off week next week and things are in place to play Florida on the 29th.

It’s such a traditional game, with 40,000 Georgia fans and 40,000 Florida fans.”

If that move goes through, LSU would play a game before facing No. 1 Alabama, who also has a bye week. However, Alleva would want Alabama to play on that day.

“I’m not favoring playing a game on that day unless

this game.”

Time will tell if and when a resolution will be made among the schools and SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey, but the two sides “continue to work” for a solution regarding the postponed game.

“The presidents and athletics directors agreed on Thursday that the schools and SEC Office would make every effort to find a scheduling solution to their postpone,” Sankey said in a statement.

“We continue to work with the universities to play this game.”

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Alabama plays a game on that day,” Alleva said.

Another option Alleva pointed out is to play on Dec. 3 — the day of the SEC Championship Game.

That however, would bring in the issue of television contracts and could push back a selection from the College Football Playoff committee.

“I don’t know if that’s going to be an option,” Alleva said about playing on Dec. 3. “I’ll get back to what I said, I think it’s going to be very difficult to reschedule

SCHOLAR, from page 1 Rodgers has published four books: “The Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920,” “Contested Truths: Keywords in American Politics Since Independence,” “Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age” and “Age of Fracture.”

Rodgers is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. During his career, Rodgers also held the Pitt Professorship of American History and Institutions at University of Cambridge in England. “‘Fracture’ now seems everywhere in our contemporary United States: in social relations, partisan politics, growing economic inequalities, and enduring culture ‘wars,’” Rodgers wrote of his lecture. “But the ‘fracture’ of our times began in the realm of ideas, as larger ideas of society, economy, selves, and political culture shattered into smaller, more individualistic ones.”

During his visit to the University, Rodgers will also teach a section of the HNRS 2000 course, “Critical Analysis: Why War?” and meet with undergraduate history majors as well as with graduate students in history and political science.

Rodgers’ lecture and its subsequent reception are free and open to public.

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Sports

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TIME OUT

LSU players spend unscheduled bye week with family, friends

BY CHRISTIAN BOUTWELL @CBoutwell_

BY JACOB HAMILTON @jac0b_hamilt0n While five Southeastern Conference matchups were played this weekend, LSU sophomore offensive guard Garrett Brumfield’s weekend consisted of funnel cakes, turkey legs and convict poker.

This all took place, of course, while he attended the Angola Prison Rodeo, which stakes claim to being the “wildest show in the South.”

Brumfield said he frequented the Rodeo when he was little, but this trip was his first in years. His free weekend was afforded by the cancellation of LSU’s game against Florida due to safety concerns as Hurricane Matthew closed in on Florida’s east coast.

“It’s a good place to go out and have some fun,” Brumfield said. “The concessions, I love concessions … it might not be the best, but sometimes you got to get in there and get a couple things you might not always be able to have when you have a weekend off.”

While Brumfield used his time off to get away from football, senior cornerback Dwayne

Tigers unranked in AP Poll for third consecutive week

Without playing a game this weekend, LSU remains out of the AP Poll that was released Monday.

After a last-second, fivepoint loss at Auburn three weeks ago, LSU dropped out of the Associated Press’ Top 25 weekly poll, and did not return after its 42-7 win against Missouri on Oct. 1.

Because of Hurricane Matthew, the Tigers did not meet No. 18 Florida Saturday, leaving them in the same unranked position they were in Week 6’s AP Poll. LSU checked in at No. 25 in the Amway Coaches Poll, which was released roughly one hour after the AP Poll.

The Tigers (3-2, 2-1 Southeastern Conference) ranked as high as fifth in the AP Poll before their season-opening loss to Wisconsin on Sept. 3.

LSU began the season ranked fifth, moved to No. 21 then to No. 20 and up as high as No. 18 before losing to Auburn and being knocked out of the top 25.

It’s the first time since 2008 that the Tigers were left out of the AP Poll for three consecutive weeks, since 2008 when LSU was unranked for the last four weeks of the season.

The Tigers face Southern Mississippi at 6:30 p.m.

Saturday at Tiger Stadium.

Thomas didn’t stay far removed from the game.

After relaxing at his mom’s house and being treated to a few home-cooked meals, Thomas said he visited his dad in Houston, where he watched the weekend’s slate of games.

“I needed those four days off. It felt good,” Thomas said.

“I was sad watching a lot of college football, saw a lot of upsets that I was not expecting. It was just awful watching football … I saw a lot of Florida teams playing.”

Thomas said he found himself coaching the games from his couch, focusing on the defender playing his primary position — nickelback — and the opposing wide receiver. He commended Alabama’s nickelback, sophomore Minkah Fitzpatrick, who intercepted three balls and returned one for a touchdown.

But his favorite play came during the Texas A&M and Tennessee game, when Tennessee senior cornerback Malik Foreman, who wears the same number as Thomas, chased down Aggie freshman running back

see BYE WEEK, page 7 FOOTBALL

Lunch with Orgeron: LSU plans to focus on Southern Miss

BY CHRISTIAN BOUTWELL @CBoutwell_

LSU athletic director Joe Alleva cleared the air: the Tigers will not move their home game on Nov. 19 to reschedule against No. 18 Florida.

“We’ve got to put it to bed and move forward,” said LSU coach Ed Orgeron. “It’ll be good to talk about it, move forward, put it to rest and get ready for Southern Miss.”

No plans to reschedule LSU’s duel with the Gators (4-1, 2-1 Southeastern Conference) have been made, but Alleva says Dec. 3 — the day of the SEC’s Championship Game — is an option, as is LSU’s scheduled open date on Oct. 29.

“We’re going to have a home

game on Nov. 19, and we’re not going to change that,” Alleva said.

A week from LSU’s impromptu bye week, the Tigers will meet Southern Miss at 6:30 p.m. at Tiger Stadium.

Southern Miss and LSU will meet for the third time in series history (1-1). The Golden Eagles won the last matchup, 20-18, in Baton Rouge in 1994.

“This is game two of our season,” Orgeron said. “Today is about forgetting about last week and getting ready for Southern Miss.”

“I don’t know if he’s going to play this week,” Orgeron said. “I would list him as questionable right now.”

Fournette has been hampered by a lingering ankle injury, which was worsened in LSU’s 14-16 loss against Wisconsin.

The junior’s recovery plan is ongoing, and Orgeron says there is still work to be done.

“I talked to [director of athletic training Jack Marucci], and he’s going to do some things this week,” Orgeron said. “He’s getting better.”

LEONARD FOURNETTE: QUESTIONABLE Junior tailback Leonard Fournette’s status remains unclear for LSU’s meeting with Southern Miss, Orgeron said.

OTHER INJURIES Redshirt sophomore guard Will Clapp is battling an injury, causing position shifts along

see ORGERON, page 7

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Interim head coach Ed Orgeron takes the stage at his weekly press conference yesterday in the Moran Family Center for Athletic Administration building.

Entertainment

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Baton Rouge area hides diversity of street art painted by locals

BY SALIMATA FALL @salimatalalaf While exploring the Capital City, one will find that Baton Rouge is a mecca for Louisianainspired art. With many attractions, downtown Baton Rouge displays art for citizens to view while perusing the streets of the historic districts.

There are two murals located across from both the River Center and the USS Kidd. The murals, painted on both the back and front of two free-standing walls, pay homage to Baton Rouge and its sights and sounds.

Painted on one wall is the Old State Capitol building and the Louisiana state bird, the brown pelican. The other wall features the

bridge that goes across the Mississippi River, with the river visible in plain sight of the murals.

While driving through the Baton Rouge warehouse district, located off Choctaw Drive in South Baton Rouge, keep an eye out for abandoned warehouses that feature splashes of graffiti and tags from local artists.

A little spooky, the haunting backdrop sets the perfect mood for this Halloween season. The abandoned warehouse’s dilapidated walls, covered with vines and the occasional spider web, contain plenty of graffiti to accompany the intriguing setting.

The graffiti includes a woman of the night, dressed seductively in all red. Next to her is a small round creature whose likeness is left to

the viewer’s interpretation.

Filled with tags from different local artists, the warehouse highlights the emerging art scene in Baton Rouge.

Closer to the campus, seated just outside popular nightclub The Spanish Moon, is a mural of bright colors and geometric shapes.

Exploring the psychedelic effects of drugs, the mural depicts different types of shrooms, emphasizing bold yellows, purples, blues and greens. The mural captures viewers’ interest with its chaotic, colorful bustle, mesmerizing the eyes of all who view it.

For a chance to see an underground art culture brimming with understated elegance in Baton Rouge, just look to the streets.

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Kentucky Route Zero offers unique narrative, strong themes

BY JAY CRANFORD @hjcranford Kentucky Route Zero, a pointand-click adventure game made by independent game studio Cardboard Computer, consists of five acts that are individually released in an episodic fashion, with Act I released in January 2013 and Act IV released in July of this year. The fifth and final episode currently has no scheduled release date.

In Kentucky Route Zero, you play as Conway, an old man delivering an antique shipment.

He soon learns that his destination is on the mysterious highway Route Zero.

As the player delves into a sci-fi thematic experience with ghosts, giant eagles and many other strange things ready to be discovered, the game quickly becomes more than simply delivering a package.

Void of gameplay mechanics, Kentucky Route Zero uses only a point-and-click system, which

allows you to talk to people and observe items in the world. You do have dialogue choices, but they are inconsequential.

Usually having inconsequential choices would be a negative, but here, it’s a positive. The dialogue choices allow you to characterize the main character instead of changing the plot.

In this game, you are not the main character, but merely seeing from the perspective of the main character. The difference is that you are along for the ride, feeling more like an actor in a play than a main character in a game.

We are given no background for Conway, so the player can create his persona through dialogue choices.

For better or worse, you will spend a lot of time reading dialogue. It’s not on the verge of a visual novel, but you will have to enjoy reading to enjoy this game.

Having next to zero gameplay mechanics is fine for me because the value of this game is in its story and setting.

The sci-fi narrative has a unique feel with an Americana or Southern Gothic aesthetic. The beautiful, minimalist art style, with its vague, shadowy landscapes and detailed characters, complements the story nicely. Kentucky Route Zero does an amazing job with simple cinematography and framing.

From the chugging of your truck’s engine to the sounds of owls at night, the sound design, though mostly silent, adds to the game’s tension. Each act also has its own song, all of which are satisfying.

Through the first four acts, I enjoyed the story immensely.

Kentucky Route Zero deals with themes ranging from spirituality, debt and finding and losing oneself to the struggles of working class citizens.

If you are looking for a rich narrative with strong thematic elements, compelling visual storytelling and a distinctive storyline, I highly recommend checking out Kentucky Route Zero.

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Kentucky Route Zero, a point-and-click sci-fi adventure game, offers players an intricate storyline and a simple, yet compelling, art style.

Opinion

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Focus on football match undercuts effects of Hurricane Matthew JAY TALKING JAY CRANFORD @hjcranford

Down south, the Southeastern Conference is life, and the way everyone reacted this past weekend, you’d think it’s life and death. I am talking about our community’s reaction to the postponement and possible cancellation of the football game between LSU and the University of Florida.

With Hurricane Matthew slowly barrelling toward the east coast of the United States, many colleges had to move their football games. Of the 11 football games affected by the hurricane, the LSU versus UF game is the only one that does not have a scheduled makeup game.

We all watched a PR disaster unfold in front of us as a gametime decision quickly turned into a he-said-she-said between an athletic director, the media and the SEC until the postponement was official. As a

diehard LSU fan, I dove into the numbers to see how an unprecedented SEC cancellation would affect our season.

To spare you the nitty gritty details, a cancellation could have serious effects on the SEC championship if LSU or UF happen to win the rest of their SEC games. However, as LSU fans kept discussing these numbers, my attention turned to another number — 19.

This is the reported number of Americans who died from Hurricane Matthew at the time of publication.

The hurricane meant more to me than most people in Louisiana. My hometown, an island on the coast of Georgia not far from Jacksonville, was under a mandatory evacuation before the LSU game was even postponed, and my family has yet to return to their home.

While most people were concerned with the football game, I was concerned for my family and hometown. I was not prepared to go through another tragedy like I did just a

few months ago with the Louisiana flooding. Listening to my mom tell me she was moving our family photos to our second story brought flashbacks of the devastation I saw here in Baton Rouge.

I’m lucky enough to have called Baton Rouge my home for the past five years, which is why I poured my blood, sweat and tears into helping rebuild this community. But while I was preparing to sit helpless 700 miles away while my family dealt with destruction, I had to listen to friends and social media talk about the inconvenience of having one less football game.

That hurt.

Luckily, Hurricane Matthew let out to sea more than predicted, lessening the devastation. This meant that during the original game time, Gainesville, which is as far from Jacksonville as Baton Rouge is from New Orleans, was sunny and dry.

But the destruction of the Louisiana flooding and Hurricane Matthew are similar.

The death toll of the Louisiana flooding was 13, while Hurricane Matthew’s U.S. death toll is at 19. The Louisiana flooding has caused economic damage estimated between $8-10 billion while Hurricane Matthew’s early estimated damage is between $4-6 billion.

This isn’t even taking into account the over 800 people killed in Haiti.

Was Gainesville affected as much a Baton Rouge? No, but it’s still not fair to expect a program with players whose families are in the affected areas to be concerned with a game over the wellbeing of loved ones. I would hope and expect that if the Louisiana flooding occurred during football season, we would allow our players to look after their loved ones despite our schedule.

Could the situation have been handled better by the UF athletic department and the SEC? Absolutely. In fact, LSU was more than generous with its reported offers of funding transportation and boarding for the Florida squad to come play at Tiger

Stadium. However, this gesture seemed to be more about playing a game than accommodating fellow competitors in their time of need, made evident by Gov. John Bel Edwards’ statements about how rescheduling the game could be a $6 million hit to LSU and we should not be penalized because of the hurricane.

I understand the significance of LSU football to the entire state of Louisiana. However, I’m still disappointed that the same people who complained about the lack of national coverage of our disaster are belittling the disasters of others.

Baton Rouge has been through the most trying year a community can go through. But that gives us no right to decide who is going through a disaster and who is just “hiding” from playing the LSU Tigers. I expected more empathy out of our community.

Jay Cranford is a 22-year-old finance senior from St. Simons Island, Georgia.

Honoring police officers in Freddie Gray case inappropriate, insensitive RHYME AND REASON BRIANNA RHYMES @briannacrhymes The police officers indicted for their roles in the death of 25-yearold Freddie Gray were honored at a black-tie gala held by Media Research Group, a prominent conservative news “watchdog.”

The unsuspected death of Gray while in police custody left many questioning the events surrounding the case. Gray was arrested

by Baltimore police for allegedly possessing an illegal switchblade.

While being transported in a police van, Gray sustained a spinal cord injury and died days later at a hospital, while still in police custody.

His death sparked controversy across the United States, especially in Baltimore, where the incident occurred. Protests broke out across the city, demanding that the officers be punished for their actions. Among the protests were hostile riots and looting of local businesses.

After an extensive investiga-

tion by the Department of Justice, Gray’s death was ruled a homicide.

This led to the arrest of six officers with charges ranging from second degree murder to misconduct in office.

One year later, all charges against the police officers involved were dropped.

Months after the final court proceedings, the officers were invited to a black-tie gala as the guests of honor. At the annual gala held by the Media Research Center, the officers were introduced by Deneen Borelli, a conservative columnist.

“No one apologized for ruining their lives,” she said. “No one thanked them for their service or recognized their honor. Who will thank these officers? Who will thank all police officers … at a time they are being so vilified?

Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, we will.”

My problem with this gala and the decision to honor these officers is the disrespect and insensitivity that comes along with it. With the media feeding everyone this narrative of black people versus police officers and vice

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versa, I don’t think it was smart to honor officers from a high-profile case like this, in which there was an obvious case of police brutality against a black man.

If the goal was to shed a positive light on the role police officers play in our everyday lives, a better approach to the situation would have been to honor police officers from a community that has good relations with it police.

Officer Tommy Norman from North Little Rock, Arkansas, is someone worthy of being honored for being a trustworthy and exemplary police officer. Norman takes initiative in getting to know the families around the community that he polices.

I’m sure Norman isn’t the only police officer in America to do this, and I’m sure whoever had the idea to honor those officers knew that, too. The decision to honor those specific police officers was careless and inappropriate.

Bringing these police officers to this black-tie gala wasn’t about honoring them and their profession, but rather giving people from the left who are supportive of the

Black Lives Matter movement something to get angry about.

During her introduction speech, Borelli made false claims that the liberal, left-wing media was the main reason Baltimore police officers were blamed for Gray’s death. The autopsy ruling Gray’s death a homicide is why the police officers responsible for Gray’s transport were blamed for his death.

The justice system failed Gray by putting irresponsible

people in positions of power, resulting in his death. The justice system failed Gray and his family by letting the people responsible for his death walk free.

If anyone’s lives have been ruined by Gray’s death, it’s the lives of Gray’s family, not the police officers responsible for his death.

Brianna Rhymes is a 19-yearold mass communication sophomore from New Iberia, Louisiana.

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ORGERON, from page 3

Trayveon Williams and poked the ball loose for a touchback on what should have been the game-sealing score.

To Thomas, that could have been him.

“I was like ‘Finally, a 13 made a big play this week,’” Thomas said. “That was a great play by him to send the game into overtime … it made me want to play.”

He did manage to play some football, though. In between watching games, he threw the ball around with his cousins in his backyard.

“I didn’t hit them,” he joked.

“They tried to hit me.”

Heading back home was a common theme. Junior quarterback Danny Etling made his way back to Terre Haute, Indiana, to visit family and keep his mind off football.

“I wanted to play [our game], so I didn’t want to think too much about football,” Etling said.

Meanwhile, junior fullback J.D. Moore and junior offensive tackle K.J. Malone visited home in Ruston, Louisiana.

“The game was cancelled Thursday right before practice, so I went home Friday morning,” Moore said. “I kind of decided when they told us. Everyone was like ‘Well, I’m going to go home.’”

“K.J. Malone is also from Ruston, and he was like ‘I’m going home tonight.’ I [said] I’m going to sleep in, then I’m going home.”

LSU’s offensive line. Clapp, who is hampered by a shoulder injury he received against Missouri by landing on his right shoulder — which was already strapped in a bulky shoulder brace.

Clapp was seen on campus last week donning his right arm in a shoulder sling.

Clapp remains unlikely to play against Southern Miss. Orgeron said LSU’s offensive line must adjust without the former starting left guard.

“We need to be able to adjust,” he said. “We have to have some guys who are ready to play.”

Additionally, Orgeron spoke about outside linebacker Corey Thompson — who was injured in LSU’s fall camp prior to the season-opener on Sept. 3 — and hasn’t played a snap this season because of a leg injury.

Orgeron said he’s spoken with Thompson and his family and a redshirt may be possible. But he suggested Thompson will play at some point this season.

“He’s not ready to play yet,” Orgeron said. “We’re going to do more things with him right now.

I spoke to him and his father last week on the phone. There’s always options and people thinking about how much you’re going to play, saying ‘use that as a redshirt year.’ I told his dad, ‘Let’s take it day by day.’ Corey wants to play.

Let’s see how much we can use him and how much we’re going to play him.”

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ACROSS Long-haired ox Pitt and Garrett Recedes Has debts India’s currency Tide type List of dishes Perfect Storm or Sayers Swimming stroke Not brand new Actor Sinise Neighbor of Nevada: abbr.

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Sophomore center William Clapp (64) jogs off of the field on Sept. 10 during the Tigers’ 34-13 victory over Jacksonvile State University.

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Junior running back Leonard Fournette (7) helps out with drills before the Tigers’ 42-7 victory against Missouri on Oct. 1 in Tiger Stadium.

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