Volume 122 · No. 56
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
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POLITICS
Students join in progressive network
BY CJ CARVER @CWCarver_ In the wake of widespread protests following the Nov. 8 presidential election, posters were hung around campus Monday morning promoting a new nationwide initiative called “Students for a Just America.” The initiative, which was founded at the University of Houston by Jacob Foreman last week, has now spread to more than 20 college and university campuses across the nation. At the University, Monique LeBlanc organized the initiative. “Community organizing has always really been the foundation of the progressive movement,” Foreman said. “If you look at community organizers like Saul Alinsky, movements like the Civil Rights Movement, the workers’ rights movements in Chicago and New York … they’ve all been based around community organizing.” In 1960, Students for a Democratic Society was founded at the University of Michigan. This student-led activist group was the driving force for many student movements throughout the ’60s and ’70s, he said. “The issue now, though, is that presence doesn’t really exist,” Foreman said. “There isn’t as much of an effective community organizing network on the left at all, but especially not with students.”
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
BATON ROUGE ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEEK early 50 new business start-ups and concepts from the Baton Rouge area took advantage of the networking opportunities provided during the opening night of the Baton Rouge Entrepreneurship Week, or BREW, at the Louisiana Emerging Technology Center on Monday. LSU Office of Innovation & Technology Commercialization, Louisiana Innovation Park, Nexus LA and the Louisiana Technology Park hosted the event. It was also produced in partnership with The University Financing Foundation, or TUFF, and Sandbox communities. Andrew Maas, the Director of the LSU Office of Innovation & Technology Commercialization, said he was responsible for spinning out companies around
Whether you believe in climate change or not, litter is an eyesore. Last week I went on a run around campus, and I was repulsed at the amount of litter in the Corporation Canal where East Chimes Street turns into Carlotta Street. It is unarguable that litter is bad and that recycling is good. With a campus as large as ours it is even more important to properly dispose of our trash in order to keep LSU safe and beautiful. If you have ever tailgated on campus, you are well aware that there is a lot of drinking both from bottles and cans. If you go walk on the Parade Ground after the game has started, you will see litter everywhere, and you may even see individuals working to collect all of this trash. LSU makes donations to groups around Baton Rouge to help clean the campus and the stadium the day of games and the day after. With the help of these volunteer hours and individuals who recycle throughout the day, LSU was able to win the 2015 GameDay Recycling Challenge, leading the nation in total recycling with 86,400 lbs. “Together, the participating colleges and universities recycled or reused 2.1 million pounds of bottles, cans, paper, cardboard and other materials, in addition to composting or recovering 457,000 pounds of food organics. Diverting these materials from the landfill prevented the release of
see BREW, page 2
see LITTER, page 2
Nearly 50 businesses attend networking event’s opening night BY NATALIE ANDERSON @natalie_mechell
Campus needs to be kept litter free
PHOTOS BY MICHAEL PALMER
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see JUST AMERICA, page 2 STUDENT LIFE
Delta Literary Journal to host ‘Teen Angst Night’ Thursday
BY LAUREN HEFFKER @laurheffker Those aching to return to their years of teenage angst will have the opportunity to reminisce on past clichés at the Delta Literary Journal’s “Teen Angst Night.” The Delta Literary Journal, a University undergraduate organization, will be hosting its fall fundraiser, “Teen Angst Night,” at The Parlor in downtown Baton Rouge on Thursday. Admission is $10, and entertainment will include live music and poetry readings
throughout the night, along with an open keg. Proceeds will go toward the printing of the journal. The Delta prints annually in the spring semester and accepts submissions. The staff of student submission readers and editors collaborate to produce the literary journal. This year, the submission period will open before the end of the fall semester, which is earlier than in previous years. The journal content consists of poetry and prose fiction and nonfiction. The journal’s student staff
fundraises all of its printing costs, as the Delta receives no departmental funding. The average cost of printing is around $800, but it can vary from $500 to $1200 for as many as 500 copies. English and anthropology senior Meredith Aulds is the co-editor of the journal. While the journal relies heavily on the fall fundraiser, she said it’s also an opportunity to create something from the ground up. “The journal creatively is
courtesy of DELTA UNDERGRADUATE LITERARY JOURNAL
see JOURNAL, page 2
Readers share creative works of poetry and fiction as part of Delta Literary Journal’s Highland Coffees Reading Series.