The Daily Reveille 6-21-2017

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LSU students and faculty research landslide deposits in the Gulf of Mexico

BY KATHERINE ROBERTS @krobe844 A team of University faculty and students are researching landslide deposits in Gulf of Mexico seabeds.

Since its discovery in 2001, the S.S. Virginia, a sunken oil tanker in the Gulf of Mexico, has shifted 1600 feet due to underwater landslides occurring in the Gulf.

Researchers at the University worked with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the US Geological Survey to study the seabeds where submarine landslides occur in the Gulf. The Bureau funded Samuel Bentley, a professor in geology and geophysics at the University, along with Kevin Xu, an assistant professor of oceanography at the University, and their research team to core the area where submarine landslide deposits occur.

The USGS created high resolution, seabed maps of the area so the researchers could see which locations they needed to core, or dig into. To retrieve the mud and sediment, Bentley’s team took piston cores — 30-foot pipes — and dropped them into the seabed, allowing them to bring 10-meter long seabed samples to the surface.

“We study that to date the sediments, measure their strengths and to see if they might have zones of

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New vendors coming to Union in fall

STAFF REPORTS @lsureveille The LSU Student Union will see a host of new concepts beginning in the fall semester.

Auxiliary Services vice president Margot Carroll confirmed that construction is underway for several new vendors to occupy spaces in the Union. She would not confirm which businesses would be the Union’s newest tenants, but did say that they wouldn’t be limited to just dining options.

“When students return to campus in the fall, the LSU Student Union will have several new vendors, not just in food but throughout the building,” Carroll said in an email.

However, speculation has been circulating via Twitter that Popeye’s could be coming to campus, and that Lit Pizza will take over the space Papa John’s currently occupies.

WE’RE GETTING POPEYES IN THE UNION. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. THIS. IS. NOT. A. DRILL. @she_knws

One of the employees in the Union told me they’re building a Lit Pizza and getting rid of Papa John’s. @kdaniielaaa

TRACK AND FIELD

Team leaders Brisco, Hobbs look forward to final season at LSU

BY HANNAH MARTIN @hmartinTDR From national championships to NCAA records, junior sprinters Aleia Hobbs and Mikiah Brisco know a thing or two about running fast.

Brisco finished her junior season as a national champion in the 100 meter at the historic Hayward Field running a 10.96.

“It’s still unreal when I look at the race and see what time I ran because that’s a personal

best time,” she said.

In previous seasons, Brisco was running hurdles along with the 100 meter sprint and the 4x100 meter relay.

Things changed this year as she and coach Dennis Shaver decided she would cut out the hurdles and focus on the other two events.

“This year we decided that I wasn’t going to be doing the hurdles because of the time frame in between [the events at meets],” Brisco said. “It was

like 10 minutes in between the hurdles and the 100. Throughout fall training and all the way to the national track meet we were just working on my technique in the 100 and eventually it paid off last week when I ran at nationals.”

The national championships went slightly different for Hobbs, though.

Hobbs, along with Brisco, competed in the 100 meter sprint and the 4x100 meter relay.

She finished fifth in the 100 meter sprint after running some of her fastest times all season long, but she couldn’t help but be excited for her teammate.

“It was really just mixed emotions,” Hobbs said. “What Mikiah did is the only thing that kept me up. That was the only thing that lifted me up really.”

Hobbs ran a personal best in the 100 meter earlier in the season and smashed the previous record at the Bernie Moore Track Stadium with a 10.85.

The previous record was a 10.96 set in 2012 by former Tiger Kimberly Duncan.

Not to mention, Hobbs’ HOBBS time was the fastest 100 meter time of the 2017 outdoor season of all collegiate track.

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page 2 BENTLEY, from page 1 weakness prone to land sliding,” Bentley said.

These submarine landslides can be quite significant, Bentley said. Hurricanes with forceful waves can cause underwater landslides, damaging submarine infrastructure such as pipes, oil wells and oil platforms, and can cause oil spills.

“My research team just recently published a paper where we actually found evidence for even winter storm waves causing small submarine landslides to occur on a regular basis — that’s new,” Bentley said. “We know something about the annual time scale, something about the really big storms, but we don’t know anything about the in between.”

Another way the landslides occur is when sediment from the Mississippi River is dumped

T&F, from page 1 At the inaugural SEC relays, the 4x100 meter relay team ran a collegiate record-tying 42.12 second race and broke their own school record they had just set two weeks prior.

Hobbs, Brisco, sophomore Kortnei Johnson and senior Jada Martin ran the second-fastest time in collegiate history at 42.14 at the Mt. SAC Relays on April 15.

Coming into the 2017 season, the 4x100 meter relay record stood for 28 years, originally set

by Tananjalyn Stanley, Dawn Sowell, Cinnamon Sheffield and Esther Jones.

The relay team of Hobbs, Brisco, Johnson and Martin were a force to be reckoned with heading into the NCAA championships; however, they didn’t make it past the preliminary round.

“During prelims we ran out of the zone,” Hobbs said. “So basically if you run out of the zone you’re disqualified. It sucked because that was our race. We’re going to be straight, but I know [Jada Martin] wanted to go out with a championship.”

Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon is every track and field athlete’s dream. Opened in 1919, the history behind the stadium makes it that much more special, but Brisco is no stranger to running there.

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offshore into the Mississippi River Delta, so much to where it becomes “over-steepened,” he said.

“You’ve probably watched a dump truck emptying sand into a pile,” Samuel Bentley said. “It can only build a pile of sand that’s just so steep, and if it gets steeper than that, it collapses. The same thing happens with mud underwater. The river is piling the mud up, very steeply, and so these landslides [occur] to let the angle of repose, as we call it, decrease. It’s a natural part of how the sediment deposits form and equilibrate to the submarine landscape.”

Shaped like an apron, the River Delta Front wraps around the Delta, and only a small portion of this area is currently mapped. The area was mapped in the 1970s, but since then the river has changed and technology has improved for researchers to better study and understand the front.

The research his team is doing will prove that this environment can be successfully sampled and

mapped, Bentley said, so they can eventually map the entire river delta front.

Brisco has qualified for the national championships each year she has been at LSU. “For someone who runs track,” Brisco said, “You’re not going to get that feeling everywhere. Embrace Hayward Field if you can.”

Hayward Field holds over 10,000 people and many come out to watch some of the best track and field in the country.

“It’s a lot people,” Hobbs said. “You just have to zone the crowd out. At least use them to motivate you. Don’t get nervous.

It’s the biggest meet you’re ever going to go to during the season.

You just have to really zone in to what you’re about to do.”

But running at nationals isn’t enough for Brisco, she wants more for her final season as an LSU Tiger.

“We haven’t won a team title since I’ve been here so that’s of course one goal is to win a team title,” Brisco said. “I’m fortunate enough to have an indoor SEC champion title under my name, so I want an outdoor SEC title.

Thank God I got a national title, but it’s something to work towards next year again to repeat that. I just want my team to win an SEC championship and a national championship next year.”

Brisco and Hobbs had to transition roles and become leaders coming into their junior season.

“In our sprint group,” Brisco said, “We’ve had the same group

for the last couple of years, but this year we had a big freshman class come in so just knowing that people I recruited were here, it wasn’t pressure on myself, but I knew I had to step my game up so that they would work hard as well.”

Aside from a role change, Hobbs feels that she matured both on and off the track heading into her junior year.

Hobbs was limited during her sophomore season due to a knee surgery she had done.

“My junior year was one of the best years I’ve had since I’ve been at LSU,” Hobbs said. “From the PRs to my health to basically everything.”

Hobbs collected multiple awards throughout the season as she emerged as one of the top sprinters in the country including the South Central Region Women’s Track Athlete of the Year.

“It was the most rewards I’ve got since I’ve been here,” she said. “I just couldn’t believe it.

It was really motivating me to keep getting more.”

Brisco and Hobbs’ next challenge will be to compete for a spot on the USA National Team and run at the World Championships.

The duo made the junior national team their freshman seasons.

“I have a little experience running with the senior team,

or the senior level athletes last year at the Olympic trials,” Brisco said. “Now I have a better mindset of how to prepare and how to run through the rounds at this World [Championship] trials. I’m excited, nervous, but I’m anxious to see how I’m going to do.”

Running together is something Brisco and Hobbs are used to, as they’ve been doing so long before they were teammates at LSU. Their dominance on the track makes them each better athletes and helps them to push each other to the limit.

“We ran against each other in high school and [during] the summers we got on a team together so we were on the same team and running against each other,” Hobbs said. “We’ve been doing this for a long time together.”

“Aleia has always been dominate in track and field so just to be able to work with her and feed off her energy and off of her performances is just amazing,” Brisco said. “That’s why I was able to run as good as I did at nationals because she told me the right technique, how I’m running, how I need to get out of the blocks. Just having her as a training partner is a major benefit for me because she ran the fastest time in college this year.

Having that person train with me every day is huge.”

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Campus architecture could soon resemble original design

BY KATHERINE ROBERTS | @krobe844 Louisiana is known for its colorful and distinctive history, tradition and culture, yet one of the state’s most often overlooked accomplishments is the architecture of its own flagship University.

“In Louisiana, we don’t have a lot of outstanding public environments that are carefully composed of beautiful, thoughtful architecture,” said University architecture professor Michael Desmond. “If you think about that, where would you go in Louisiana if you wanted to look at a beautiful, coherent of architecture, other than this campus?”

The redesign of the University began in the 1920s with plans for relocation from the downtown campus and expansion. The state hired the Olmsted Brothers in 1921, who also designed Audubon Park in New Orleans. Plans for a new campus started with the purchase of a 2000-acre tract south of downtown Baton Rouge, according to the book “The Architecture of LSU.” Also included in this land were the

historical Indian Mounds, which are over 5,400 years old, Desmond said.

“Where the Indian Mounds sit is the last place you can stand on high ground and see the Mississippi River,” Desmond said. To date, virtually nothing is known about the people who created the landforms. The mounds are among the oldest manmade structures in the New World and are even older than the Great Pyramids, according to Desmond.

As Rick Olmsted, one of the brothers in the architectural firm, observed the land and the Indian Mounds that came with it, he saw the structure of the land and the historical significance it held. He sought to interpret this character through the architecture of the campus, Desmond said.

“Rick Olmsted got that,” Desmond said. “He had argued to help move the campus from downtown and he had argued that LSU as a federally sponsored agricultural school had a mission in terms of agricul-

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COMMUNITY

Southfin Southern Poké uses rice developed by former professor

BY TAYLOR DELPIDIO @TD_Reveille Many Louisianans are familiar with island culture. It’s been said that southern Louisiana, New Orleans in particular, is a Caribbean island refuge on the American mainland. Now, a new island culture is making its home in Baton Rouge, courtesy of Southfin Southern Poké.

Southfin Southern Poké serves a Hawaiian dish called poke, pronounced poh-kay. According to Southfin general manager Eusebio Gongora, poké is originally a Hawaiian street food. The word itself comes from the Hawaiian word for “to cut” or “to dice.”

“The dish was kind [of] developed out of necessity,” Gongora said. “Fisherman looking for something to eat saw the delicious tuna in front of them, and mixed it with some soy sauce and onion.”

In Hawaii, it is served as a raw fish salad, usually mixed with some sort of soy product, vegetables like Maui onions or cucumbers served fresh in a bowl.

The poké isn’t the only thing that makes Southfin Southern Poké distinct. One of their featured menu items is a type of purple rice, unique not only for its color, but also for its connection to Baton Rouge and the University. The rice, sourced

from a company called Blanca Isabel, was developed by the late Milton C. Rush, a former professor and plant pathologist at the University.

“It was one of the things that drew me to it.” Gongora said when asked about the product.

An alumnus and longtime supporter of the University, Gongora had first heard about the purple rice at a tailgate.

“Somebody had said that next year, our jambalaya could be purple.” Gongora said. “I was like, what are you talking about.

When I saw it was making a run in the culinary world, I thought it would be pretty cool.”

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Southfin Southern Poké bowls are made with a variety of fresh, local ingredients.

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Vintage Poché

BASKETBALL

Robertson leaving due to medical reasons

BY BRANDON ADAM @badam_TDR Senior center Elbert Robinson III has decided to step away from the LSU basketball program due to medical reasons, according to a news release.

The senior will remain enrolled at the University, and is set to graduate in 2018.

“I have really enjoyed getting to know Elbert and he has worked extremely hard in our offseason program since our arrival,” coach Will Wade said in the release. “The LSU Athletics Department and our basketball program will continue to support Elbert and to make sure that we help him reach his ultimate goal of graduating next year with a degree from LSU.” Robinson came to LSU in 2014 as a highly touted recruit, but struggled with weight issues during his three years with the Tigers.

The 7-foot-one, 290-pound center averaged 2.1 points and 1.4 rebounds in 6.4 minutes per game in his junior season.

To fill Robinson’s scholarship spot, Wade landed Oregon’s Kavell Bigby-Williams on Tuesday after the 6-foot-11 forward announced his intent to transfer on Twitter.

Bigby-Williams played just one season with the Ducks where he appeared in 37 games and started one, seeing more action towards the end of the season.

Due to NCAA transfer rules, Bigby-Williams will have to sit out the upcoming season, but will be eligible to play in the 2018-19 season for his senior year.

Jared Poché eyes LSU’s all-time win record

BY BRANDON ADAM | @badam_TDR For Jaren Poché, a win against Florida State would mean more than just keeping the Tiger’s season alive.

It would be a new all-time win record for an LSU Tiger pitcher.

Poché returns to the mound after he came on in relief against Florida State in the Tigers first game in Omaha. The lefty was credited with the win after he stymied the Seminoles bats, allowing only two hits and no runs on 30 pitches.

“We would have expected that he would have won his record win against Texas Southern or Mississippi State,” said coach Paul Mainieri following the Tigers 5-4 victory over Florida State, “But I guess he wanted to save it for a more exciting time here in Omaha.”

The previous win against Florida State tied Poché with former Tiger Scott Schultz, (19861989), for the most wins all-time by an LSU pitcher at 38.

“It’s unbelievable,” Poché said. “Just with all the great pitchers that have come through LSU for me to, I guess, tie that record and put my name at the top of the list, it’s something that’s hard to describe. Obviously been thinking about it all year and been hoping that it would happen obviously the last two weeks. But I guess God had a better plan and wanted it to happen in Omaha. So I’m excited.”

The chance to break the record on Wednesday night could be Poché’s last. If the Tigers lose, it will have been his last time on the mound in an LSU uniform. The senior may not have been the most dominant or flashy pitcher during his time in

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Walker’s injury throws LSU’s Omaha pitching rotation into chaos

BY BRANDON ADAM @badam_TDR The Tigers will play Florida State again in an elimination game, and will have to rely on a Jared Poché-Zack Hess combo once more.

After the early exit of the freshman pitcher Eric Walker due to forearm tightness in the 13-1 rout of the Tigers by Oregon, coach Paul Mainieri’s College World Series plans went up in flames. LSU wound up using eight pitchers by the end of the game, and while some may be to still pitch again this week,

it has put LSU in a bind.

“I thought Eric was throwing the ball really well, and we figured we’d get to their pitcher eventually,” Mainieri said in his press conference following the loss to Oregon State.

“But when all of a sudden you have to take one of your starting pitchers out after two innings, obviously it’s going to tax your staff.”

Poché and Hess both pitched in Saturday’s game against FSU, throwing 30 and 10 pitches respectively. The duo will have to be sharp for the Tigers in Wednesday’s rematch

if the team looks to keep its championship hopes alive.

Poché, who will be attempting to break LSU’s all-time wins record, is going to need to give LSU a more than solid outing. With the extended usage of sophomore Caleb Gilbert on Monday, Mainieri is without his first option in long relief. If Poché falters early, the Tigers may have to fall back on Hess or another arm that saw action against Oregon State a lot sooner than hoped.

“I know the kids are

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ture to serve the uplands and lowlands in Louisiana.”

To highlight the history and structure of the land, Olmsted created an axis from Highland Road, towards the setting sun in the west, adjacent to the Indian mounds. Along the bluff, Olmsted placed a series of quadrangle groupings to narrate the natural structure of the land, Desmond said.

However, after the preliminary plan was created, the state declined to compensate the Olmstead Brothers for their work. Another architect, Theodore Link, replaced the brothers to finish the project. The Olmstead’s original plan accommodated 3,000 students, but Link cut the size of the campus in half to only accommodate 1500 students.

Link’s plan was similar to the Olmstead’s, such as the use of quadrangles as well as the construction of Hill Memorial Library. However, at the same time, Link drastically changed the plan.

“But what Link did, is what architects [tend to] do- he made it all about the buildings, and it lost its connection to the land,” Desmond said.

Instead, Link created a cruciform-shaped quadrangle with four terminal buildings at the ends of the two primary axes.

The first building is the Memorial Tower, which symbolizes the service and sacrifices made by those who lost their lives in World War I as it vertically extends to the sky,. Desmond said these values are necessary for a free society and for a public education for the

Southfin Southern Poké uses all local produce, and all of its tuna and shrimp are sourced from the Gulf of Mexico. Gongora has said that he plans to continue supporting local produce.

“Whenever we can support and celebrate the products from here, we will take advantage of that,” he said.

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people.

Horizontally across from the Memorial Tower sits Hill Memorial Library. At a time when no state archives or a state library existed in Louisiana, it was important to have a place for the “collection and preservation of knowledge,” Desmond said in his 2013 TEDxLSU Talk.

At the vertical top of the cruciform lies Foster Hall, which used to occupy the old cafeteria.

Designed as a Roman basilica, it mimicked the ancient design by adding a forum, which is the courtyard of the quad, to symbolize community and shared values amongst the student body, Desmond said.

Stretching downwards, the courtyard leads to the last terminal building, Atkinson Hall, which was the flagship academic building in the ‘20s. The way the architecture of the building is laid out, with the repeating pattern of windows on the outside and repeating rows of desks in the inside, symbolizes the

discipline in regards to academics, Desmond said.

These four buildings represent together sacrifice, knowledge, community and discipline, and are ultimately the values the college holds, Desmond said.

While Link’s design has been altered with the creation of Middleton in the middle of the quad, the architecture, although somewhat hidden, is still there, and it should not be forgotten, he said.

With the 2017 Master Plan calling for the demolition of Middleton Library, the University quadrangle could once again clearly reflect Link’s cruciform design.

“Citizens and public servants must find opportunities to provide well-designed public environments in which architecture and planning are coordinated in the service of broadcast goals and ambitions of the state and its people,” Desmond said in his book. “...

The core of the LSU campus is an example of what we can do when we set our sights high.”

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Southfin Southern Poké is located at 4321 Perkins Road.

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Tin Roof Brewing Company 6 to 7 p.m.

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Opinion

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LSU’s tuition cost has changed dramatically within recent years. Since 2001, tuition and fees for in-state students have increased from approximately $3,468 annually to $10,814, according to data from the Office Budget and Planning. In the same time span, tuition and fees for out-of-state students ballooned to $27,491 from $8,768 — an increase of 32 percent.

By graduation, many students are typically in a deep financial hole. Soon after graduating, students are faced with the dilemma of paying off student loans, opposed to putting forth the effort to find a job to establish themselves in their respective fields.

State funding to pub-

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THE DAILY REVEILLE ARCHIVES

More women should pursue STEM fields, bridge gender gaps MYIAOPINION MYIA HAMBRICK @MyiaHambrick Science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs have been traditionally male, but with recent news and a closer look at the University’s latest enrollment numbers, the current generation is looking to change that, which is important. We are living in what may seem like an exclusive time, but it really is a fairly inclusive culture. We must continue to push for females in the STEM fields.

In Miami, Florida this June, three teenaged women developed straws that can detect common date-rape drugs in drinks that are odorless and colorless, like gamma hydroxybutyric (GHB), Ketamine and Rohypnol (roofies).

Their development was part of the Miami Herald’s contest for high school students to develop

an idea for a business plan, and the three women were selected as the winners. The contest reward included the launch of a crowdfunding campaign.

Because they were the sole females in a 30-student entrepreneurship class, the women overcame gender barriers to create a useful product, as stated in USA Today.

According to the University’s fall 2016 fact sheet, the number of full-time instructional faculty in all areas was 1,279. Out of that number, 807 were men and 472 were women.

In terms of students, there were more females than males enrolled in the University, but in STEM majors, the opposite was true. A total of 6,175 students were enrolled in the 23 undergraduate degree programs considered to be a part of STEM in the spring 2017 semester.

Out of that, 3,903 of STEM students are male and 2,272 of them are female which amounts

to 52.8 percent male and 47.2 percent female. Nothing to sneeze at in terms of equality, but the faculty and staff of the engineering department are far more divisive.

In the 11 disciplines of the department, there are 205 faculty and staff listed on their webpage, but only 22 of them are women.

That means the department is only 10.7 percent female. Only 10.7 percent of the faculty are examples of what the women in their classes can achieve.

The discrepancy of men and women involved in the STEM fields is still prevalent, but it looks to be closing at the University.

The clear generational separation offers hope and encouragement for new college enrollees to branch out and pursue their love for STEM subjects.

With more women in STEM fields we may see more varieties of inventions. Take the aforementioned straws for example — the fact that they were created by young women is a

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Former president Barack Obama greets Girl Scouts on March 23 during the 2015 White House Science Fair that celebrates winners of STEM competitions. testament to the fact that women have potential to make meaningful contributions.

One of the team members, Susana Capello, told USA Today she believes people should pursue anything they want to achieve, re-

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gardless of gender. As evidenced by the University’s latest enrollment numbers, the tide is turning.

Myia Hambrick is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from Temple, Georgia.

Quote of the Day ‘When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.’

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TUITION, from page 6 lic universities has seen a decline since the 2008 recession, according to Claire Diver, Educents marketing associate.

Another factor of students’ empty bank accounts is the competitive nature of universities.

Universities compete with one another for higher enrollment rates at the expense of students, enhancing campus facilities to make them more appealing for recruiting efforts. As a result of this, increased tuition is one of the ways to make up for the excessive spending.

Eventually, higher tuition will cause the college enrollment rate to plummet exponentially with students unable to afford it. TOPS will not be around forever and it is possible that many students will choose to forego college or begin their collegiate careers at two-year community colleges.

“Fewer students may be able to attend college if they feel their families would be put under financial stress,” said Diver. “Public universities are, traditionally, a more affordable option for low-income students, who are most likely to be hit the hardest by tuition increases.”

It can be difficult for recent college graduates to start their adult lives due to the financial struggle most will have to face.

Debt can affect their ability to afford essential needs such as a home or food. With not purchasing anything, it could impact the

Fewer students may be able to attend college if they feel their families would be put under financial stress.

CLAIRE DIVER

Educents marketing associate overall economy if business are see a decline in their income.

How could we resolve this issue? There are several approaches that could help diffuse the problem. However, the best one could be a federal-state partnership. A federal-state partnership would ultimately provide states a way to maintain some sort of funding for their public universities and would help students avoid facing a cost crisis.

LSU President F. King Alexander touched on the idea and its effectiveness in a August 2016 column published in The Washington Post.

“The Morrill Act of 1862, which created land-grant universities, is perhaps the greatest example of how federal incentives can encourage progressive state policies,” Alexander said.

“Territorial lands and other federal assets were offered to states in exchange for the creation of new public colleges and universities. The outcomes of this partnership still benefits us today -- increases in college

graduates, scientific breakthroughs, improvements in disease prevention and treatment, and technological discoveries, all of which move our society and economy forward.”

However, with no signs of trends changing, college tuition should unfortunately continue to grow over time.

JBriaan Johnson is a 19-yearold mass communication sophomore from Patterson, Louisiana.

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trying,” Mainieri said. “It’s a tough environment for their first time at a College World Series and getting in the game.

So hopefully if they get other opportunities this week, they’ll be better.”

The loss of Walker affects not only the game against Florida State, but also possible future matchups against Oregon State.

Mainieri has stated that junior Alex Lange would pitch on Friday against Oregon State if the Tigers were to make it to that point. Lange’s usage on Friday puts him on a tight squeeze to pitch in College World Series Finals three days later if LSU were to beat Oregon State twice in two days.

The task for Mainieri and the Tigers is not impossible, but it is definitely tenuous.

Mainieri used the 2016 Coastal Carolina team as an example of a team who fell into the loser’s’ bracket, and fought its way to a championship.

“It’s not the easiest route,” Mainieri said, “But fortunately there’s some days off that allow your pitching staff to reDESIGNS cover a little bit. And we’re going to face a tough ball team on Wednesday in Florida State.”

“We’ve just got to get the job done Wednesday and then live to play another day on Friday.

7” Take it one at a time.”

Wednesday, June 21, 2017

I’m just going to approach it like I’ve approached every start the last four years.

JARED POCHÉ’

Senior pitcher

POCHE’, from page 4 Baton Rouge, but his grit and non-stop effort has vaulted him to the top of the LSU record books.

“He’s just a consummate competitor,” Mainieri said.

“Sometimes he doesn’t pitch great because he might be a little bit off with his control or they get to him a little bit, but it’s never because of lack of effort. It’s never because of a lack of preparation.

It’s never because of a lack of competitive zeal.”

Poché knows he has a slim margin for error against Florida State, but said that he will not change the way he approaches opposing hitters.

“Obviously it is win or go home for us, a lot on the line. I’m just going to approach it like I’ve approached every start the last four years. Just go out there attack the zone, let the defense work, compete and hope for the best.”

Poché, who was hampered by defensive errors in the first regional game against Texas

Southern, will indeed need his defense to work behind him.

The Tigers came into the NCAA postseason having only committed 41 errors, and in the seven game’s since the conclusion of the Southeastern Conference Tournament the team has committed eight errors.

One of the main culprits for the errors has been senior shortstop Kramer Robertson, who is responsible for three of the eight errors in NCAA postseason play.

“It seems like these are the games Jared Poché is at his best,” Robertson said. “We are going to go out there, and play good defense behind him.”

Poché will need the assistance from his defense especially. The senior is often prone to erratic moments, but has often times managed to finagle his way out the jam.

“If you asked me of all the pitchers I have ever coached, when we had our backs against the wall after a tough outing who I would want to be giving

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LSU senior pitcher Jared Poché’ (16) begins his windup during the Tigers’ 7-4 win against Texas A&M on Friday, March 31 at Alex Box Stadium. the ball to, it’s Jared Poché,” Mainieri said.

With Tigers in pursuit of a 50-win season and LSU’s all-time wins record for a pitcher on the

line, the team will possibly need more than a great performance from Poché.

LSU will need to see “Vintage Poché.”

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