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STUDENT GOVERNMENT

END OF THE LINE As special session comes to a close, the University stares down $20 million in potential cuts

Elections end with increased turnout

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BY SAMUEL CARTER KARLIN | @samkarlin University funding rests in the hands of embattled legislators in a stalemate over how to solve the historic budget crisis in the special session, which is approaching adjournment today.

On the table for schools across the state are $86 million in cuts — $16 million higher than the “best-case scenario” outlined by Gov. John Bel Edwards’ administration, but far less than the doomsday, $200 million reduction scenario that would have shuttered campuses throughout the state.

Legislators have been working around the clock. Senate and House members didn’t adjourn until almost 11 p.m. Monday as they hashed out deals and planned ways to save important

government agencies. Last year, according to an interview with LSU President F. King Alexander after the 2015 session, the session went down to the wire, with solutions still being agreed upon in the final seconds of voting.

The $86 million cut would include the TOPS reduction, of which the University is slated to take a $10 million hit because a large proportion of TOPS recipients in the state choose to go there. Higher education leaders like University Executive Director of Policy and External Affairs Jason Droddy will be at the Capitol until the session is over to save schools from more cuts.

“With two days left, it’s looking a little dicey,” Droddy said on Monday of the chances schools can avoid any cuts.

BUDGET CUTS HIGHER ED CUTS ON THE TABLE $86 Million LSU’S TOPS CUT $10 Million PROPOSED OVERALL CUT TO THE UNIVERSITY $20 Million

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The ballots are cast, the polls are closed and this year’s Student Government campaigns have come to an end. This campaign season was a trailblazer in terms of how tickets utilized the student voice during elections.

According to the SG Election Board, 9,938 students voted in Monday’s general election on Moodle. As of Tuesday afternoon, around two thousand students voted in a revote for the University College Center for Freshman Year after a member-at-large candidate was left off the original ballot.

Although this year’s voter turnout was less than one-third of the student body, turnout was significantly higher than last year, when around 8,700 students cast their votes.

Sophomores made up the highest percentage of student voters, 27.9 percent, with a total of 2,776 votes. Seniors, including fourththrough seventh-year students, followed, with 27.8 percent and

see ELECTIONS, page 7

BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY

Water Campus dedicated to coastal restoration, sustainability

BY CAITIE BURKES @caitie1221 With a University connection, cutting-edge research and financial pursuits underway, the Baton Rouge Area Chamber doesn’t think it will be hard to recruit businesses to set up shop on its waterfront property which houses a collaborative research development and business park.

Sprawling across 35 acres, the Water Campus, which is still under construction, focuses its efforts on the water economy.

In addition to fostering innovation, the campus will conduct research and execute projects

dedicated to coastal restoration and sustainability.

While the development seeks to apply a “campus-like setting” to lure in companies and intellectual capital, Kyle Zeringue, BRAC senior vice president of business development, said the main goal of the park is to identify innovative solutions to the “complex water challenges” facing the state.

“Now that we have buildings to show companies and we have renderings to show what the campus will look like, there’s more and more interest from large engineering firms, large construction firms and other

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types of technology companies that want to utilize that space to attract top talent,” Zeringue said.

According to its website, the $50 million-plus Water Campus’ first tenants include The Water Institute of the Gulf, the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority and the LSU River Modeling Center. Though still under construction, Zeringue said tenants will move into the CPRA building during the summer, and the River Modeling Center should be occupied by the end of the year.

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STUDENT LIFE

Student volunteers foster friendships with disabled

BY TRENT PARKER @trentparker_TDR Those with developmental and intellectual disabilities can be stigmatized and isolated from society.

University students volunteering as Peer Buddies for the local Best Buddies chapter seek to change this by working to build one-on-one relationships with people with disabilities and encourage others to do the same.

“They’re just people, like us,” kinesiology senior and Best Buddies president Claire Strain said.

Volunteers meet with their buddies independently at least once a month and communicate weekly, though many do so more frequently, having forged strong personal connections. The paired-off buddies learn what they have in common, decide on fun activities to do and go on outings together regularly.

A coordinator at the Arc of Louisiana, an advocacy organization for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities, screens and selects people

for pairing with the student volunteers. They range in age from teenagers to individuals in their seventies, Strain said.

During a typical outing, biology junior Taylor Curry and her buddy visit pet stores to play with cats, people-watch at the mall, browse the library and play video games. Once a month the pair gathers for a group event with the other buddies in the program.

“He really gets excited to see all the new friends he’s made,” Curry said.

At the Best Buddies group meet up in February, the attendees were surprised by a visit from LSU football players Arden Key and Lewis Neal. The buddies played games with and got to know the players.

“It was like watching [my buddy] meet a celebrity … that just really made his whole week,” Curry said. “They were like heroes to him.”

The relationships between the Best Buddies can become lifelong friendships, Strain said, with some keeping in touch long after graduation. Best Buddies have been guests at each other’s weddings and continued to visit.

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University student volunteers are carefully screened by Best Buddies to determine if they are well suited to the task and motivated by genuine desire to help rather than padding their resumes, Strain said. The volunteers must be 18 or older and own a vehicle to transport

their buddy. Many are inspired to join by their past experiences with disabled friends and relatives.

“We don’t even ask their disability because it really doesn’t matter” Strain said. “You don’t need to know someone’s background to be their friend.”

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Baton Rouge bike share plan in development A Baton Rouge bike share system could arrive as early as next year, as the Downtown Development District continues talks with local agencies and University administrators about implementing the project, which was proposed by the Environmental Protection

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Agency in September.

A bike share, according to the EPA’s report, would be a network of bicycles distributed around the city from hubs to encourage non-motorized trips.

The EPA pointed to Baton Rouge’s nationally ranked congestion levels and a 2014 survey ranking it the most obese metro area in the country as compelling reasons for a

2015 CityStats Bike Share Survey If Baton Rouge had a bike share, would you use it?

65% ... No 32% ... Yes 3% ... Don’t know

Why would you use a bike share?* 97% ... For exercise 55% ... To ride to work 48% ... To run errands

Where would you want bike share hubs?* 80% ... LSU campus 76% ... University, City Parks Lakes 72% ... City Park 64% ... Downtown 51% ... Mid City 43% ... Southern University 33% ... Around Lady of the Lake Data courtesy of Baton Rouge Area Foundation’s 2015 CityStats Report *Only asked of those who responded that they would use a bike share

bike share plan.

But Baton Rouge Area Foundation’s CityStats, an annual report on Baton Rouge’s health, transportation, and other “quality of life” indicators, suggested most residents would not use a bike share.

When asked if they would use a bike share, 65 percent of those surveyed said no, and 32 percent said yes. Of those who said yes, 80 percent would want bike hubs on campus.

CityStats also reported 61 percent of those surveyed would not ride a bike to work if bike paths or lanes were on their route.

A host of factors led the Downtown Development District and other agencies to go after the bike share plan, and stakeholders are working with one another to develop a plan to implement it in the next six months, said Development Project Director Whitney Cooper.

“We have the mayor’s healthy city initiative,” Cooper said. “So that’s been a key component, and that part of his office has been heavily involved. And of course there’s the environmental issues, it is the EPA, so looking holistically all around tourism, recreation, health, air quality, all that.”

The next step in the process, she said, is to identify areas to implement bike share hubs and routes.

The EPA acknowledged some possible setbacks to the

plan, citing lack of credit card availability for low-income residents and lack of infrastructure.

The Downtown Development District is continuing its work on bike paths throughout downtown, and they will eventually connect as far south as the LSU lakes.

Funding is another caveat to the plan as state government finishes wrestling with a $960 million budget shortage for the fiscal year.

Cooper said the state’s fiscal issues are affecting the conversation on how to fund the project, but the first step is creating a more intricate plan of where and how many stations there will be, in order to find out how much it will cost.

The agencies behind the project, which include the Baton Rouge Area Foundation, LSU and Southern University, have looked at other similar sized cities, like Ann Arbor, Michigan and Boulder, Colorado, which have bike share plans, for guidance. Bike share systems in other cities are usually funded by corporate sponsors, city government, non-profits, or transportation departments.

Cooper said with everything going as planned, the bike share will be up and running in about a year.

“There’s a lot of people involved that are interested in doing it,” she said. “There’s a lot of push behind it.”

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Sports

page 3 FOOTBALL

Tigers embrace new defensive philosophy

HITTING THEIR

STRIDE

BY JOSHUA THORNTON @JoshT_TDR

Tiger offense strikes early versus Clancy in 6-3 win against Louisiana Tech WINGATE JONES / The Daily Reveille

LSU junior outfielder Jake Fraley (8) bats during LSU’s 6-3 win against Louisiana Tech on March 8 at Alex Box Stadium.

BY JAMES BEWERS @JamesBewers_TDR With Southeastern Conference play rapidly approaching, LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri was worried about weather forcing postponements of both midweek games this week, concerned his simmering club would cool down.

While Wednesday’s contest with McNeese State had to be rescheduled to April 12, Mainieri and his No. 6 Tigers (10-2) can prepare for Ball State this weekend with a quality midweek win in their back pocket.

On a damp Tuesday night at Alex Box Stadium, an aggressive LSU offense struck early against Louisiana Tech senior ace Tyler Clancy, picking up five of its six runs in the second and third innings to help clinch a 6-3 victory.

Clancy (3-1), a left-hander who is normally the Bulldogs’ (8-4) Friday night starter, allowed a combined two

earned runs in midweek wins against then-No. 6 LouisianaLafayette on Feb. 24 and then-No. 12 Arkansas on March 2. Coming in with a 1.00 ERA and 16 strikeouts, the Louisiana Tech hurler’s abilities weren’t lost on LSU during its preparation.

“I thought our guys did a tremendous job,” Mainieri said.

“He’s legit – a three-pitch-mix guy. I thought our guys had a tremendous approach. We had some really good at-bats.”

Though he worked around a one-out single in the top of the first, the LSU bats jumped on Clancy in the second and third frames. After junior designated hitter Jordan Romero drew a walk with one out in the bottom of the second, sophomore first baseman Greg Deichmann ripped a two-out double into right field, plating Romero from second base.

see BASEBALL, page 4

LSU conducted its second day of spring practice on Tuesday, and even though the Tigers are returning 18 of 22 starters, many of the players plan on using the spring as a learning period.

Being a student athlete, players already have to deal with professors in class, but now they have one on the defensive side of the ball. “[Defensive coordinator Dave] Aranda is more of a professor type,” said senior linebacker Kendell Beckwith. “I’m just ready to learn from him this season and build a relationship.”

The defense will especially see changes with new defensive coordinator Aranda, who brings along a 3-4 style defense.

But senior linebacker Duke Riley, who played in a similar style of defense at John Curtis High School, thinks the defense will be easy to grasp.

“It’s very simple and easy,” Riley said. “If you get in your playbook and just look over it, you’ll understand it and it’ll come quick.”

Aranda will be the third defensive coordinator in as many seasons for the Tigers.

Junior defensive tackle Davon Godchaux raved about Aranda’s coaching mentality and how his knowledge of the game translates into on the field.

see DEFENSE, page 4 SOFTBALL

Tigers sweep midweek doubleheader behind strong pitching

BY MARC STEVENS @MarcStevens_TDR The No. 4 LSU softball team had a relatively quiet outing offensively in its midweek doubleheader Tuesday night against Longwood.

After a 4-0 win in Game 1, the Tigers (21-2) managed just one run in the nightcap and were stifled by an impressive Lancers’ (9-7) pitching staff, led by junior Elizabeth McCarthy.

LSU manufactured just five total runs on 10 hits over the 14 innings. Coach Beth Torina’s team struggled from the plate, going 5-for-21 in each of the matchups.

“You’ve got to give credit to [McCarthy],” said sophomore

center fielder Emily Griggs. “She did a great job moving the ball and hitting her spots.”

Griggs said there were no frustrations in the dugout and the Tigers listened to Torina and hitting coach Howard Dobson when discussing their issues.

Even when LSU got runners aboard, the squad failed to take advantage. The hometown team left eight players stranded in each of the contests.

With the offense’s lackluster performance, the Tigers were not going to win without good pitching — and that’s exactly what the bullpen provided.

Junior pitcher Baylee Corbello started Game 2 in the circle for LSU and had her best perfor-

mance of 2016. She struck out a season-high 11 batters and allowed just three hits in the shutout.

The Lake Charles native allowed just five runners to reach during the contest.

“It was one of the best performances I’ve seen her have,” Torina said. “She steps up like that when our team needs her … [She understands] being a veteran, understanding the situation, understanding the importance of this game going into this weekend and wanting to go into this weekend on a high note.”

The junior nearly tallied her fifth complete game of the year,

see SOFTBALL, page 4

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LSU freshman pitcher Sydney Smith (12) pitches during Game 1 of the Tigers’ 4-0 victory against Longwood University on March 8 in Tiger Park.

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page 4 DEFENSE, from page 3 “[He’s] aggressive,” Godchaux said. “So far, I think he’s the best defensive coordinator I’ve had. He going to put you in the right position to make plays. So far he’s looking pretty good.”

The Tigers will also be looking for someone to fill in the void left by former LSU linebacker Deion Jones, who has now departed for the NFL. Freshmen early enrollees Devin White and Michael Divinity could step up to replace Jones.

Beckwith called the rookie duo “work horses”. “[White] is athletic,” Beckwith said. “I’m very interested to see what he and Michael Divinity bring to the table this year.”

On offense, the Tigers will be welcoming a new wide receivers

coach, Dameyune Craig.

A former Auburn quarterback and co-offensive coordinator under Gus Malzahn, Craig adds a new perspective for LSU wideouts.

“He coaches a lot of from the quarterback perspective,” said junior wide receiver Malachi Dupre. “It’s a great thing for us.

It’ll be easier for the quarterback to see and what they see, with him being a quarterback it gives us a different perspective from the wide receiver position.”

The slot position will be up for grabs with the transfers of wide receiver Trey Quinn and John Diarse.

Another pair of early enrollees, freshmen Dee Anderson and Stephen Sullivan could develop in the slot position for the Tigers.

“I feel like we brought in the

right guys to develop depth right away,” Dupre said. “They’re big, they’re fast, the basics that you need to be a good receiver. As long as they learn and take the mental part of the game, they’ll be fine physically and can step right in and play big roles this season coming up.”

Quarterback play will also be a point of emphasis this spring.

Dupre, who came in the same recruiting class as starting quarterback Junior Brandon Harris, has noticed a few changes in the gunslinger.

“Brandon’s coming into this spring with a lot of confidence,” Dupre said. “He finished the season out with a great game against Texas Tech. He’s carried that over to the spring to this point. It’s been showing in practice, he’s doing a great job thus far.”

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LSU junior pitcher Alden Cartwright (32) pitches during LSU’s 6-3 win against Louisiana Tech on March 8 at Alex Box Stadium.

One batter later, freshman third baseman O’Neal Lochridge traded places with Deichmann, belting a run-scoring double into the left-center field gap.

“We knew [Clancy] was going to be a strike thrower because he only has a couple of walks in however many innings he has,” Deichmann said. “We knew we were going to get a mix of fastball, slider and changeup. We were kind of being patient early to see what he has and feeling him out. Ultimately, we were able to jump on the fastball.”

But the Tigers continued to rev the offensive engine in the bottom of third. Junior shortstop Kramer Robertson led off the frame with single into left field and advanced into scoring position on junior center fielder Jake Fraley’s walk.

Then, an RBI-double from sophomore left fielder Beau Jordan, an RBI-fielder’s choice from Romero and blooping RBIdouble from sophomore catcher Michael Papierski padded LSU’s lead to 5-0. The Tigers’ three-run third inning chased Clancy from the game with

SOFTBALL, from page 3 but after 6.2 innings, the junior hurler was replaced by sophomore Carley Hoover. She used two pitches to record the final out and earn her first save of the season.

But Corbello wasn’t the only Tiger to pitch on Tuesday.

Freshman Sydney Smith pitched a complete game shutout and gave up just five hits. She recorded eight strikeouts and walked just one, while lowering her ERA to 0.62.

The two wins extended LSU’s win streak to 17, and they have not loss since falling to then-No. 9 Arizona, 3-0, on Feb. 19.

“We’ve won in a lot of different ways,” Torina said. “I don’t think it has been any one thing. Tonight we won with pitching. Against LA Tech, we won with offense. We’ve won with the long ball. We’ve won with manufacturing runs. I think

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LSU junior linebacker Kendell Beckwith (52) and sophomore safety Jamal Adams (33) tackle Auburn freshman wide receiver Stanton Truitt (10) during the Tiger’s 4521 victory against Auburn on Sept. 19 in Tiger Stadium. five earned runs to his name.

Tuesday’s win also marked the seventh-straight game LSU notched double digit hits.

Deichmann and Jordan said ungraduate assistant coach Brent Bonvillain and student manager Joe McCarthy, both left handers, helped simulate in batting practice what Clancy would bring to the game. “[McCarthy] is like Randy Johnson when he’s throwing [batting practice],” Jordan said.

“He gets us ready more than anybody ... It’s harder facing him than some of the lefties that we face.”

Meanwhile, junior righthander Alden Cartwright gave LSU the solid start Mainieri requested, assuming inclement weather may interrupt the game.

With help from some standout defensive plays, Cartwright retired the first nine batters he faced. Junior second baseman Cole Freeman’s backhand stab in the top of first and Fraley’s catch against the wall in center field allowed the third-year pitcher to enter the fourth with no damage done.

Cartwright found himself in trouble in the top of the fourth,

conceding a walk before recording the first two outs of the inning. However, a walk and an RBI-single plated Louisiana Tech’s first run, forcing Mainieri to go to his bullpen.

Although junior right-handed reliever Parker Bugg allowed free passes to the first two hitters he faced, bringing home the Bulldogs’ second run, he induced a fly out to escape the two-out jam.

Sophomore right-hander Austin Bain, who struggled in his first two appearances of the season, came in after Bugg and was productive in a three-inning stint. He allowed just one run on three hits while striking out four. With Bain mostly rolling through the fifth, sixth and seventh innings, LSU added its sixth run on Jordan’s sacrifice fly in the fifth.

After Bain, sophomore righthander Jesse Stalling and freshman right-hander Caleb Gilbert slammed the door on the Bulldogs in the final two frames.

“That’s what you call a team effort right there,” Cartwright said. “Everybody came in. Everybody did their job. A lot of guys got a lot of opportunities, and we came out with the win.”

that’s a strength of this team.”

LSU was held in check thanks to McCarthy. She was pulled in the first game after two innings thrown and three runs allowed, but was far better in the late game.

The junior tossed a six inning complete game, allowing just one run to the potent Tigers’ offense.

The team will face arguably its toughest test of the season when No. 6 Alabama comes to Baton Rouge for a top-10 Southeastern Conference series on Friday at 6 p.m.

But before the series Torina said the team has a lot of room for improvement.

“I could make you a long list [of things to work on],” Torina said.

“We have two days to get ready for them. We have a good plan, a good idea of what we need to do. We will be prepared for them.”

LSU junior outfielder Bailey Landry (26) celebrates during Game 1 of the Tigers’ 4-0 victory against Longwood University on March 8 in Tiger Park.

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Opinion

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State lawmakers should raise taxes on Louisiana businesses BEYER’S REMORSE

MICHAEL BEYER @michbeyer The Louisiana Association of Business and Industry and House Republicans have no budget plan except to screw over poor people in the special legislative session’s final hours.

Not that anyone is really surprised about this. Big business ponied up to the legislature to save its own barely-scratched skin. LABI, the big business lobby, would rather add another penny to the state’s sales tax than have its own industry share in the sacrifice.

Testifying before the Senate Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Committee Tuesday, Stephen Waguespack, who served in various leadership roles under then-Gov. Bobby Jindal, according to Louisiana Public Broadcasting, tried to argue sales taxes actually hurt businesses more than poor people.

Waguespack contended that “business and industry still bears 47 percent of burden of sales taxes,” according to the Monroe News-Star.

If the business lobby gets its way, Louisiana would have the highest combined state and local sales tax rate in the country, according to the Louisiana Budget Project. This high sales tax rate will disproportionately

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hurt poor people, who would pay a higher share of their income than wealthy people under any sales tax.

Louisiana faces its largest budget crisis in a generation, and LABI is hoping to skate by unnoticed. To them, sacrifice is only for poor people and college students.

House Republicans are letting them get away with it too.

According to NOLA.com | The Times Picayune, a lobbyist said, “You’re underestimating the influence LABI has exerted during this session. Nothing happens, especially in the House, without their blessing.”

In 2013, a group of Republicans named themselves the “Fiscal Hawks,” and allied themselves with House Democrats to stop the Jindal administration’s use of one-time money to patch budget gaps, according to The Lens, NOLA. The news outlet said in return for aligning themselves with Fiscal Hawks, House Democrats “won more spending for teachers, schools and universities.”

One of the leaders of the Fiscal Hawks at the time was Cameron Henry, Republican Sen. David Vitter’s top pick for House speaker when he still had a shot of being governor, according to

The Advocate. Now that Henry isn’t the Speaker of the House, he is free to troll Gov. John Bel Edwards at the expense of poor people and college students.

This time around the lines are clearly drawn: Monday, House Republicans refused to budge on raising the state Earned Income Tax Credit, which is the smallest in the nation according to the Louisiana Budget Project.

The EITC represents a boost for low-income families’ paychecks, making it “the singlemost effective anti-poverty tool for children,” according to the Louisiana Budget Project.

When you are living paycheck to

paycheck, every dollar counts.

On the other hand, Republicans can’t give poor people a helping hand while their health care has been slashed these past seven years, but they are willing to defend the $7.9 billion in corporate tax exemptions the state doles out, according to NOLA. com | The Times Picayune.

If our state eliminated $900 million of the $7.9 billion in corporate tax exemptions our state gave away in 2015 according to a February 2016 Louisiana Legislative Auditor report, we would have solved our state budget without raising taxes at all. But corporate tax exemptions are sacred cows while poor people and college students are fair game.

The priorities of the two sides are clear. Louisiana Republicans and LABI are willing to hold the state hostage to keep their precious tax credits in tact while poor people live paycheck to paycheck.

With only today remaining in the special session, the state legislature needs to get its act together. Students and poor people suffered long enough under Jindal, and they’ll likely continue to struggle at the expense of the super rich.

The poor have given more than their fair share of sacrifice.

Business must pay up too.

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

Louisiana needs to end its money-making prison system MACCABEE’S HAMMER

DAVID SCHNEIDER @NolaDavidS Louisiana’s prison system is a disgusting and corrupt moneymaking machine that wheels and deals in human lives on the cheap.

This system sacrifices fairness for profit. Instead of treating prisoners like human beings, it treats them like cattle.

Instead of thinking of them with a human value, it thinks of them with monetary value.

According to NOLA.com | Times-Picayune, an inmate is worth $24.39 per day to the state, and sheriffs use the profits to get new equipment and hire more prison workers.

Louisiana has been declared the prison capital of the world.

To put that in perspective, our incarceration rate is five times higher than Iran’s.

Our prison system is a cold, hard machine that crushes human beings under it. The system garners and trades human lives for money and is embedded in our state financially and politically.

In the 1990s, the federal government ordered Louisiana to reform its overcrowded state prisons. Louisiana, unwilling to free people, shifted state prisoners to local prisons. Local sheriffs’ departments and for-profit prisons now had to look after an influx of people.

The state then paid local police forces to house the prisoners. Suddenly, police had

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an incentive to house more prisoners. They saw inmates as an opportunity to make money. They lobbied for tougher laws and enforced laws more harshly, increasing the incarceration rate.

This so-called reform created a disgusting cycle.

Tougher laws led to higher incarceration rates, which resulted in more money for prison officials and law enforcement agencies.

Parish jails, where low-level offenders end up, typically have worse conditions, educational opportunities and social programs than the state prisons.

NOLA.com | Times-Picayune said Louisiana spent the least money per prisoner in 2012. So that gigantic $690 million spent on prisons in Louisiana is as costefficient as this system gets.

Congratulations on being cost efficient, Louisiana. Meanwhile, prisoners are stuck with poor living conditions, a lack of education and a lack of social outlets.

But, law enforcers make money, so who cares what happens to the criminals?

We need serious prison reforms, but police care more about profit than improving communities.

According to the NOLA.com | Times-Picayune, the Louisiana legislature recently reduced sentencing on marijuana crimes, but this sentence reduction won’t help people already in jail.

The Louisiana Sheriff’s Association, which might actually be the devil incarnate, spends money to make sure this system doesn’t change. The LSA endorsed Gov. John Bel

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Edwards, and he has family in the association. I doubt he will bring the real change we need.

When constituents see that a prison is offering a hundred new jobs and is outfitting the police with all new gear, reelection is simple and easy. Nothing changes.

Louisiana residents need to wake up and smell the systemic oppression, and they need to pressure their representatives for reform. Louisiana needs to restructure its prison system from the ground up. We need to reappropriate funds from incarceration to education and end the system that benefits from crime.

David Schneider is a 20-yearold religious studies sophomore from New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Wednesday, March 9, 2016 BUDGET CUTS, from page 1 In all, the main campus is staring at a $20 million cut unless more revenue is raised or other funds are found. The TOPS reduction, which higher education officials battled against, has fallen off the radar of legislators, who are focused more on avoiding steep general fund cuts to schools, Droddy said.

“The problem for us is, because we enroll more academically talented students, the cut falls on us more,” said Droddy, who serves as legislative liaison for the University. “So basically, it’s a penalty for having smart students, which seems counterintuitive.”

Student services like academic advisement, tutoring and financial aid counseling could be eliminated if the campus takes

WATER CAMPUS, from page 1 University engineering professor and director of the LSU River Modeling Center Clint Willson said the Center will have three main focuses: experimenting with management strategies for the lower Mississippi River, reaching out to the local community through an exhibition and offering handson experience with a hydraulics lab.

“I think it’s a win-win because LSU gets the visibility and opportunity to interact more closely with people from the CPRA and the Water Institute, and I think they also benefit from being in close proximity to LSU students, faculty and staff,” Willson said.

ELECTIONS, from page 1 2,767 votes. Juniors came in third with 2,525 votes, and freshmen voters made up the lowest number of votes — only 1,870 first-year students cast their ballots.

After Thursday’s debate, campaign managers reflected on their candidates’ performances during the debate and throughout the campaign season. Drake Boudreaux, “Forward” campaign manager, said the debate was a culmination of the campaign’s hard work.

“They’ve been preparing for this for so long, and to see all the initiatives come to fruition and to see them talk about them … it’s all because of Zack [Faircloth] and

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a $20 million reduction, and indirect impacts, such as faculty and student recruitment efforts being damaged, are already a near-certainty.

Additionally, the LSU System hospitals, which contract with the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, could get hit with two rounds of cuts — one from higher education reductions and one from health care cuts. Higher education and health care are two of the only areas not dedicated to receive money annually, and have seen steep, continual cuts in recent years.

University activists and organizations dedicated to full funding for schools are hitting constituents with a last-minute blitz of emails, insisting on the work left in coming hours to save campuses and pleading with students and parents to call legislators

and implore them to raise more revenue.

Lawmakers are running out of time to fill the budget shortfall, which totaled nearly $960

The Water Institute of the Gulf building, which Zeringue called the “showpiece of the entire development,” will begin construction sometime in late spring or early summer.

He said the building will have a modern design and overlook the Mississippi River.

BRAC’s ultimate objective is to expand beyond the initial three occupants and encourage others to join in the economic opportunity. In an urban environment like Baton Rouge, Zeringue said possibilities for the park’s efforts range from sewage treatment to disaster management.

To ensure development continues running smoothly, he said BRAC must align stakeholders and educate companies on the value of investing in the

engineering, biology and computer science the Water Campus would offer. Fundamentally, he said the primary recruitment strategy BRAC employs is “an education process,” convincing potential investors of the campus’ direct connectivity to the University and to the downtown area.

For companies with water practices and water focuses, Zeringue said the campus is the perfect place for business, as the workforce draws from LSU, Southern University and other collegiate institutions in the state. He said total employment could exceed 4,000 people.

“We’re creating opportunity for students to stay in Louisiana and Baton Rouge to ultimately

Lindsey [Landry]’s leadership,” Boudreaux said. “I think it speaks a lot to the leadership we have on campus [in both campaigns].

It’s awesome that we can have student leaders represent us so well.”

“Restart” campaign manager Wesley Gore said the debate further illustrated the initiatives his campaign was trying to accomplish.

“I think [Kendra Davis and Louis Gremillion] hit our initiatives head-on. I think they got our platform across and exactly why we’re running this campaign how we are,” Gore said.

Along with candidates for next

semester’s SG positions, a measure to create a Student Sustainability Fund was on the ballot. If it passes, the resolution would create a fund that students can draw from to start their own campus sustainability projects.

Mass communication and Spanish freshman Alex Thomas said he voted in favor of the fund because the result of the project would be more beneficial than the cost.

“It wasn’t that much money, and if everyone contributes, it will really help improve the LSU community,” Thomas said. “That would help not only my class but the classes behind me.”

page 7 million, as taxes cannot be raised during even-numbered years unless a special session is called.

The idea of another special session running concurrent with the

regular session has been floated around the Capitol, although representatives and senators are hoping to fix the problem by 6 p.m. tonight.

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[Left] Students from various universities across Louisiana march in protest of potential cuts to higher education funding at Capitol Park on Feb. 19. [Right] The Louisiana 2016 First Extraordinary Session convened on Feb. 14 at the Louisiana State Capitol.

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Louisiana architects, students discuss future of design

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The eco-friendly movement has gone from a niche trend to a necessary mindset in many careers, including landscape architecture.

New Orleans architect David Waggonner, whose firm has done collaborative coastal sustainability research with the University, said the next generation of architects will have to more actively look for change compared to previous generations.

Waggonner is behind the ambitious waterway change in New Orleans, which will invite excess stormwater into the city and store it in places like canals, rather than trying unsuccessfully to keep it out.

He said when he was in college, there were few people who understood what was happening to the oceans or the water, as his generation was not as aware of what was happening to the climate.

Architecture used to be about more than buildings; it used to consider the sky, rain, ground and life, in general, Waggonner said.

“Should your classmates be

hopeful?” he said. “They should work hard. They should try to bend [the future]. They should try to be as aware as possible.”

Landscape architecture junior Anjelica Sifuentes said green building and sustainability are always discussed in her classes. The students are constantly reminded that, while the eco-friendly design movement is “trendy,” students have to consider more than the surface.

She said ecological and humanitarian conscientiousness is always considered in landscape architecture students’ curriculum and design, since it places a huge emphasis on helping people, even with something as simple as building a park.

For example, Sifuentes said she took a class last year in which every student had to complete an ecological project considering how river dynamics and levee systems affect the black bear in Morgan City, Louisiana.

After college, Sifuentes said she hopes to work in “smart growth” city planning, an urban movement popular in coastal cities featuring all-walkable areas and high-density condos to support healthier living communities.

Waggonner said architecture

cannot just be about engineering; it must also be about holistic values. He said the problem with modern American society is that there is no universal consciousness.

“We’re living in a narrow band, with worsened climate, without much resonance beyond,” he said.

Waggonner also stressed the importance of pushing against tradition to implement necessary change, citing his own projects in the notoriously unbudging New Orleans.

“Reflection is a gift,” Waggonner said. “Sometimes, you don’t have the opportunity to do that.”

Architect Thom Smith has worked with Waggonner for about a year and said anyone working in design has to do more research.

Understanding history, Smith said, is the basis of progress and improvement. He said this element is now missing from design and architecture, and the next generation of designers need a broader knowledge base.

Landscape architecture junior Lu Rui said he chose the major because it integrates creativity with the chance to understand and help people with

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Architect David Waggonner’s firm has done collaborative coastal sustainability research to address excess stormwater in New Orleans. their issues.

One of the things landscape architects can do, he said, is grow toward nature. Rui said the “green revolution” of the past decade has prompted people to think differently about design, but, in the classroom, they do not focus on that aspect as much as he thinks they could.

He said the “green revolution” has affected his education and his perspective as a student.

Rui does not see himself staying in Louisiana as a landscape architect because the area is focused on reducing the effects of coastal erosion.

But he said he will have to think about these issues no matter what geographical environment he works in post-graduation. Pollution, green energy and integrating more nature into design, such as “green roofs,” are big concerns of his.

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