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Special session raised

$300 million in new tax revenue

There is a nearly

$70 million shortfall for the current fiscal year

HALF of state’s higher ed cuts with the main campus to take about 30 percent

LSU system is expected to absorb

The Revenue Estimating Conference approved an estimate of the upcoming fiscal year’s budget gap at

$750 million

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Despite a special session that raised $300 million in new tax revenue, it was deja vu for higher education leaders in the House Education Committee on Wednesday morning as they repeated, sometimes verbatim, pleas to stop budget cuts.

Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne indicated higher education and the Department of Health and Hospitals would take the hit for the nearly $70 million current year fiscal shortfall, as confirmed by Wednesday’s Revenue Estimating Conference.

When asked about specific percentages for cuts to higher education and hospitals, Dardenne said those numbers have yet to be decided.

The LSU System is expected

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First female Groovin’ headliner announced

BY CAITIE BURKES @caitie1221 On a sunny Wednesday afternoon in Free Speech Plaza, Student Government representatives released the names of this year’s Groovin’ opener and headliner to anxious students and passersby.

As SG progresses to its next chapter, the 2016 acts for the event break tradition in more ways than one.

Electronic artist Santigold will headline the event after an opening act by rapper Danny Brown. The selections take a different direction from years past, as Brown is the first rapper in a few years and Santigold also stands out as the first female headliner.

Last fall’s “Battle of the Bands” winner Ship of Fools will kick off the event at 6 p.m. in the PMAC on April 8.

SG director of programming Mackenzie Mistich said Santigold is a popular choice on the KLSU radio station and has made rounds on the festival circuit. She said SG wanted to bring the University a performer

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STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Faircloth, Landry make progress before inauguration

BY BETH CARTER @bethie_carter

Student Government President-elect Zack Faircloth and vice president-elect Lindsey Landry are wasting no time getting their initiatives for next year started before their inauguration on April 12.

The “Forward” campaign winners have already scheduled meetings with administrators and Baton Rouge community leaders to establish connections that will help them implement their plans smoothly

once they are in office.

The two will meet with Metropolitan Councilman John Delgado to develop their “LSU Connect” initiative which will help University graduates connect with internships and possible career opportunities in and around the city.

They are also ensuring a student presence at the state Capitol as part of their “Flagship Forward” initiative. Faircloth said there has been a student from the “Forward” campaign at the Capitol each day since the regular session started on

March 14.

“In addition, I’ll probably be sending out emails to legislators in the upcoming days saying ... ‘Let’s set up a meeting and start talking,’” he said.

“TOPS is going to be a huge issue for this session.”

Other initiatives the two plan to work on before inauguration include opening the UREC for summer use and making campus vending machines Paw Point-accessible, a project the Student Senate

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page 2 GROOVIN’, from page 1 who is “very relevant.” “[Santigold’s] very different,” Mistich said. “She’s electronic, she’s alternative, she does a lot of hip hop ... she’s a lot of everything.”

For her performance, Santigold will earn $90,000, while Brown will claim $27,000. With the exception of Groovin’, Mistich said Santigold will not appear again in Louisiana on tour this year.

After dropping her third album “99¢” in February, Santigold will tour the country until May. The Philadelphia native is best known for her hit singles “Creator” and “L.E.S. Artistes.”

Though SG senator Lauren Accardo admitted she only knows a handful of Santigold’s songs, she said she is still looking forward to her performance.

“She’s definitely someone that

CUTS, from page 1 to absorb roughly half of all higher education reductions, and the main campus will take about 30 percent.

LSU President F. King Alexander said he expects the University will be cut roughly $17 million in the current year’s budget. He called it the largest midyear budget cut in the past nine years.

He also warned medical schools will be hit with a “doublewhammy,” as they are handed cuts from both higher education and healthcare partners.

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only a few people know, but she’s a really great artist,” Accardo said.

Brown’s name rings a more familiar bell within the University community. Well known for the release of his second album, “XXX,” Brown has toured with A$AP Rocky, Schoolboy Q and Vampire Weekend in the past.

While not completely familiar with his music, chemical engineering junior Mindy Duong said she is interested to see what turnout is like for a rapper.

“We haven’t had a rapper in a while, so I’m very interested to see if a lot of people are gonna come because we’ve had more alternative bands in the past,” Duong said.

Mistich said she hopes an oncampus location will encourage more students to attend this year’s event than last year’s in the Baton Rouge River Center. She said Next fiscal year’s shortfall poses serious problems for colleges and universities, and only $65 million of the $295 million required to fully fund TOPS is currently allocated to the program.

The Conference approved estimates for a $750 million budget gap for the next fiscal year, which is less than the Legislature expected.

To students, Alexander said “keep going to class and working.

But I certainly would have concerns if I were heavily reliant on TOPS going into next year.”

Lawmakers have filed a host of bills to reign in the cost of TOPS, from a cap on the amount of tuition the program covers to completely restructuring the scholarship into a loan program to be paid back if a student drops out early.

“This year’s deficit is worse than we expected,” Dardenne said. “We saved higher [education] and hospitals from cuts earlier so most of the $70 million will have to come from them.”

Cuts are now inevitable in the current year as lawmakers cannot raise taxes in the general session. Gov. John Bel Edwards has carved out a position against using one-time money for next year’s budget shortfall, and the Legislature must balance the

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Johnny Stubblefield from the band Parachute takes the stage at the Baton Rouge River Center on April 17 for Groovin’ on the Grounds, run by LSU’s Students on Target. students who bring their IDs get free floor seating, and the public can get free upstairs seating.

Despite approaching six other possibilities before ultimately choosing the acts, Mistich said she thinks the Groovin’ crowd will

appreciate Santigold’s high energy and Brown’s relevancy.

“We’ve picked [performers] that worked with their schedule, with our schedule and within our price range,” Mistich said. “I’m so excited.”

budget in the coming months by cutting spending roughly $750 million.

The $70 million in future cuts does not include the roughly $28 million cut to TOPS, the state’s popular scholarship program open to all Louisiana students who qualify. Universities will absorb the cut to the program, rather than reducing student scholarships for this semester.

Alexander indicated student services will be cut, the AgCenter will be restructured and the University will have to hand down across-the-board cuts to nearly everyone.

Legislators from the agricultural regions of the state expressed concern during the special session about funding for the LSU AgCenter’s satellite offices, which aid farmers in farming techniques and pesticide resistance.

LSU Vice President for Agriculture Bill Richardson said the AgCenter is looking at a $3-5 million cut, and has already begun the downsizing process.

Employee layoffs are not on the table, but if spending reductions continue, the center would have to consider it, he said.

The AgCenter began selling cows earlier this spring in order to supplement its budget.

Richardson estimated the auction may rake in half a million dollars.

The officials who delivered testimony to the Education

Committee on Wednesday included Commissioner of Higher Education Joseph Rallo, Board of Regents Chairman Richard Lipsey and the four university system heads, who have years of practice pleading with legislators for funding after consistent reductions in state dollars for colleges and universities.

“Some of our public institutions, because the amount of money they get from the state is so small, are almost private,” Rallo said.

Dardenne has already been advised about possible accreditation sanctions to schools whose budgets continue to be cut.

Rallo warned of a severe “chilling effect” on student enrollment and a massive loss of federal dollars if sanctions are handed down. And all may not end well for the schools that are already “on the edge” of accreditation sanctions, he said.

Faculty and student recruitment is sluggish, and some professors are leaving the state for greener pastures, Alexander said.

“Students who are not even getting TOPS scholarships are paying for [TOPS],” Alexander said, calling the system “backward.”

Committee members expressed solidarity with the system presidents, acknowledging the “failure” of the Legislature to make Louisiana colleges competitive.

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“Forward” winners said their personalities will set them apart from the “Here and Now” administration.

“There’s a lot of internal Student Government things that Lindsey and I will do differently ... we like to surround ourselves with different kinds of people, so that aspect will be different,” Faircloth said.

Looking back on their campaign, Faircloth and Landry said the most important components of their win was their candidates and their tangible initiatives.

“It was never just about me and Zack,” Landry said. “It was about our whole team and what everyone had to offer.”

has already begun working on for vending machines in the Student Union.

Faircloth and Landry will continue working on some initiatives started by the current administration such as finalizing the Student Bill of Rights and maintaining the College Council’s Speaker Series between University alumni and students, which will hold its first event Thursday.

“This is something that we hope to continue to connect students to what their future careers could be as LSU alumni,” Landry said.

Although they look forward to continuing current plans, the

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Women’s tennis might not be the first sport that comes to mind when thinking about the Southeastern Conference — but it should be.

As LSU’s program slowly climbed into the field of championship contenders during co-head coach Julia Sell’s tenure, the SEC has proven its dominance over and over, leaving no doubt about being the toughest conference in the nation.

Seven of the 14 teams rank in the top-25, with Georgia, who finished the past four seasons ranked no lower than 6, leading the conference at No. 4.

Still, no match is truly one-sided. Three out of No. 18 LSU’s four SEC matches so far were decided by one point, despite a double-digit differences between the Lady Tigers and their opponent’s rankings.

“The rankings right now are really skewed,” Sell said. “Every team is legitimately a top-15 team, they just haven’t had enough wins for the ranking to reflect it.”

Missouri sits at the lowest spot of the conference ladder at No. 61. Prior to SEC play, the squad was off to a 12-1 start, but then-No. 12 South Carolina and thenNo. 15 Florida delivered a swift reality check with 4-0 and 6-1 losses, respectively on March 3 and March 5.

LSU, on the other hand, had the opportunity to test the waters against top-10 teams in early February at the ITA Indoor Championships.

With a 13-5 overall and 2-2 conference record, the Lady Tigers have jumped up and down the top-25 polls all season, climbing as high as No. 9.

“Playing national indoors helped us a lot,” said

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Lady Tigers prepare for Nationals

BY JARRETT MAJOR @jarrett_TDR In the Southeastern Conference Swimming and Diving Championship from Feb. 16-20, LSU set 10 new school records.

Before the NCAA Championship in Atlanta starts today, the Tigers will already have another one in the books.

LSU is sending a record 11 Lady Tigers to participate in the NCAA Championship.

“We know what to expect, and our goals are high,” LSU diving coach Doug Shaffer said in a news release.

Five Lady Tigers will compete individually along with three more to participate in the relay and three divers.

Juniors Kara Kopcso and Leah Troskot will represent LSU in three events. Kopcso is participating in the 100 yard fly, 200 yard fly and the 100 yard individual medley.

Troskot qualified for the 50 yard freestyle, the 100 yard freestyle and the 200 yard freestyle as well as the 200 yard freestyle relay.

Along with Troskot, seniors Megan Cox and Danielle Stirrat and freshman Haylee Knight will swim the 200 yard freestyle relay.

Stirrat is also swimming in the 200 meter freestyle and the 100 yard and 200 yard backstroke.

Junior Colleen O’Neal is competing in the 100 yard breaststroke, the 200 yard breaststroke and the 200 yard individual medley and senior Taryn MacKenzie

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WOMEN’S TENNIS

Lady Tigers seek improvement in second conference road trip

BY MARKUS HÜFNER @Hufner_TDR The No. 18 LSU women’s tennis team hits the road to take on No. 26 Kentucky at 5 p.m. tonight at the Boone Tennis Complex in Lexington, Kentucky.

The Lady Tigers (13-5, 2-2 Southeastern Conference) just refuse to lose their smiles as they prepared for their fifth conference match of the season.

Co-head coaches Julia and Michael Sell preach the importance of staying true to the process weekly.

Now, not even the tough loss to then-

No. 28 Mississippi State on Sunday seems to affect the Lady Tigers’ mentality.

“I have a lot of confidence in this team in general, no matter who we play,” Julia said. “We’ve proven that we can beat anybody.

Kentucky is much-improved team from last year, but so are we.”

The Sell’s confidence in the depth of their team gives them the opportunity to change lineups without consequences.

After seeing no end to the Lady Tigers’ struggle in doubles play, they decided to move freshman Jessica Golovin to court 1 and partner with junior Joana

Vale Costa, while having sophomore Ryann Foster join junior Abigail Owens on court 2 last weekend against then-No. 27 Ole Miss and Mississippi State.

Though the Lady Tigers still lost the doubles point in both matches, the new duos brought up excitement on the coaches front.

“This weekend, we found three more teams that worked really well,” Julia said. “They are definitely still getting used to one another, because we did just change it up mid-year. You saw a

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Sophomore Ryann Foster returns the ball against North Carolina State on Feb. 12 at the LSU Tennis Complex.

Entertainment

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Love through the lens

Graduate pens novel on Baton Rouge crime story

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The project first took the photographers to Uganda. After the first year, people reached out to Williams and Dewberry, asking to be a part of the project. Five photographers then traveled to Madagascar to continue the work.

The “Go Love Africa” team is still trying to figure out where they will travel this year. They are considering Sierra Leone, Williams said.

While the exhibit is mainly photographs, the photographers

“Familiar Evil” follows public relations consultant and University graduate Rannah Gray’s personal involvement in one of Baton Rouge’s most thrilling crime investigations.

In her book, which released in December, Gray recounts the events of the investigation of Scott Rogers, a child abuse case that shocked Baton Rouge in 2013. The book reveals details of the hunt for Rogers previously unknown to the public from the perspectives of those within the investigation and victims of his abuse.

The story begins twenty years before Gray was involved, when Rogers, owner of a performing arts academy in England, was allowed to walk free due to a hung jury after being charged for sexual assault against one of his young students. He was able to quietly slip out of the country and relocate himself in the United States.

At the time of the events of “Familiar Evil,” Rogers was the host of his own weekend morning talk show in Baton Rouge, “Around Town,” which ran for close to 10 years despite its small audience.

He lived with his 30-year-old

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The exhibition “Go Love Africa: Portraits from Uganda and Madagascar” is on display at the West Baton Rouge Museum from March 12 through April 30.

University alumnus spreads compassion through photography

BY ALLIE COBB @alliecobbler Photographer Aaron Williams introduces Africans to another side of themselves through his project, “Go Love Africa.”

Williams and his counterpart Nathan Dewberry travel to remote villages in different African countries to photograph villagers — villagers who have never owned a photo of themselves, Williams said.

Williams and Dewberry, both professional photographers, take

portraits of the villagers and then gift the photos, along with a gospel message, to each individual.

They have the technology to print the photos in two minutes, Williams said.

“It’s a Christian faith-based project,” he said. “We are going to help a church, missionary or pastor. We spread love through photography.”

The “Go Love Africa” project began in 2014 and is now on exhibit at the West Baton Rouge Museum in Port Allen. Those interested can view the exhibit during

normal museum hours Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m.4:30 p.m. and on Sunday from 2-5 p.m.

West Baton Rouge Museum Curator Angelique Bergeron said the exhibit made its way to the museum due to Williams’ connection to the city, being a 2007 University graduate and current resident.

“We read about his project in The Westside Journal,” Bergeron said. “The museum is always looking for local stories, and we are excited about telling his story.”

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Opinion

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Summer music festivals beneficial for economic increase BURNT TO A CRISP

GARRETT HINES @GarrettH_TDR The number of summer music festivals in America has exploded in the last decade, and New Orleans should continue to capitalize on this market.

The Napster and Limewire generation are finally coming to an age where “summer camp” means spending a couple nights in a far away land, gawking at light shows like the campfires in their youth.

Louisiana plays an important role in summer music festival season, thanks in part to former Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne, R-La. He aided these festivals in expanding their advertising prowess, which attracted new festival goers.

Though he is no longer in that office, serving now as commissionary of administration, his support spilled over into this year, which helped BUKU, the unofficial opening to music-festival season, sell out.

During the current budget

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Pretty Lights performs during the second day of Buku Music + Art Project on March 12 at the Power Plant. crisis, State Treasurer John Kennedy proposed undedicading a significant portion of the funds that allow the tourism industry to flourish. He has incited a false battle between higher ed and tourism.

If business tax credits are reigned in and wasteful

spending is kept under control, all can continue to enjoy great music and prepare themselves for a better future.

Our music festivals bring in people and money from all around the world. And who can blame them? They are dope.

All the major music

festivals — the French Quarter Fest, BUKU, Jazz Fest, Essence and Satchmo Summerfest — total 55.5 days of continuous music within a 20-day span. The Official Guide to New Orleans also notes this musical menagerie attracts an estimated 2.38 million people.

These events pump almost $1 billion into the economy annually.

A conversation about Louisiana music festivals must include the grandaddy of them all: The New Orleans Jazz and Music Heritage Festival.

This festival appeals to those who have a matured music taste, seek legendary sets from legacy acts and take a laid-back approach to enjoying themselves.

BUKU, on the other hand, enchants a younger, more vivacious crowd with driving beats, spastic light shows and the dank space of Mardi Gras World.

The festival has only existed for the last four years. But, in such a short time, it burst out of its humble beginnings as a dorm room rumination into a full-fledged celebrity pop-up destination.

This year, for example, Instagram star and Miley Cyrus’

legal guardian @BaddieWinkle went. For anyone not hip, she’s a 87-year-old grandma who parties like speakeasies never died and is a true testament to the adage “age ain’t nothin but a number.”

Her appearance cemented BUKU into the national pop-culture lexicon and made it one of THE places for people to blow up social media with pictures of them and their friends having a blast #ListeningToSomeDopeTunes.

For those who need a bit more classic R&B and hip hop in their lives, the Essence Music Festival during the Fourth of July traffics heavily in that vein. Two years ago, Prince brought down the house with an epic performance featuring Janelle Monáe.

The three-day event also hosts empowerment sessions headlined by famous African-American thought and civic leaders speaking and educating attendees.

New Orleans is home to a music empire, and we need it to stay that way. Our state depends on it.

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

Marco Rubio does the right thing, drops out for sake of party LOGIC DICTATES CAPTAIN garrett marcel @Gret419 Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., dropped out of the presidential race after a humiliating defeat

by Donald Trump in the Florida primary. Rubio realized he has no chance of being the next leader of the free world. He couldn’t even win the support of his own state.

Rubio’s departure from the Republican race means that Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio, both have a better chance to defeat Trump and win the nomination. Rubio had the backing of many conservatives who knew Trump is obnoxious and arrogant, but unfortunately, he did not have enough support among the right.

Fortunately for Cruz, he may have a chance to make a comeback with Rubio gone. He

has the second-highest delegate count at 411, according to the Associated Press. Trump stands at has 673, Kasich has 143 and Rubio ended with 169. A Republican needs 1,237 delegates to win the party’s nomination, and 1,061 delegates are available.

Rubio showed his distaste of Trump throughout the campaign by constantly clashing with and attacking him. If Rubio wishes to help this country and despises Trump as much as his campaign led on, he should endorse Cruz to rally his former supporters behind a candidate who can take on the reality-starturned-politician.

With their combined delegate support, Cruz could close in on Trump with 580 delegates, Kasich still holds the wild card with his 143. Unfortunately, Kasich plans on wasting people’s time and handing the nomination to Trump by not supporting Cruz.

Kasich has the mentality that neither Cruz nor Trump can

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win the general primary, and he fantasizes winning the nomination. Kasich delivered a blow to Trump by winning Ohio, the governor’s home state. One state isn’t enough to win an election.

Kasich can either help defeat Trump by dropping out and endorsing Cruz, or allow Trump to secure the nomination. Rubio at least had the decency to know he had no chance and backed down.

If the current ratio of delegates spreads among the candidates until the 2,472 delegate cap is reached, it is unlikely Cruz or Trump will win the nomination outright. If that happens, a brokered convention will occur, where delegates switch allegiances and re-vote until a candidate has a clear majority.

Unless Trump’s support dies down, plenty of people will want to vote for whoever is currently winning.

Rubio and Kasich both campaigned themselves as the individual who can defeat

the associated press

Rubio is ending his campaign for the Republican nomination for president after a humiliating loss in his home state of Florida.

Trump, but the truth is neither of them can nor will.

The only choice for the party is to throw its support behind Ted Cruz, a

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Quote of the Day ‘‘Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.’’

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Thursday, March 17, 2016 ROAD, from page 3

DOMINANCE, from page 3

little bit of them learning how to communicate, but I liked what I saw and have high hopes moving forward.”

Other than improvement in doubles play, Julia looks for more aggressiveness from her team. She believes the players haven’t played their best possible tennis yet, but taking the right steps forward will get them there.

“With a team of seven players, it’s hard to get everyone going on the same day, but things like good energy and a good attitude are things that will feed into our tennis,” said senior Ella Taylor. “If we control the things we can, the rest will take care of itself.”

New additions to the Wildcats team force LSU to disregard its 4-0 win from last year.

The Lady Tigers are treating the familiar opponent as if they had never faced them before.

“Going in with that type of mentality, we don’t put extra pressure on ourselves,” Taylor said.

“They are a great team, came close to South Carolina, who beat Vanderbilt, so it’s all very up-anddown and on the day at the moment.”

No. 7 Vanderbilt is LSU’s next stop on the schedule. The matchup marks its highest ranked SEC opponent so far this season and provides a challenging environment, due to a colder climate and different surface.

senior Ella Taylor. “Even though we only played three matches there, playing back-to-back top10 teams made us see the level.

We started getting into the swing again now these first two weekends, but it really set the stage for the rest of the season coming up.”

CHAMPIONSHIP, from page 3 qualified for the 100 yard and 200 yard breaststroke.

Along with the swimmers, LSU qualified three divers at NCAA Zone Competitions.

“I think the big thing going into this year is the wealth of experience we carry into the meet,” Shaffer said. “Although it is [freshman Lizzie Cui’s] first shot at NCAA’s, she has so much international, elite-level experience that will obviously fuel her.

It is new, but there is no doubt that she will rise to the occasion. [senior Cassie Weil] and [sophomore Madison Sthamann] both have experience now.”

Cui and Weil qualified in two diving events and Sthamann qualified in platform dive. Weil earned a spot in the platform and the three meter dive and Cui is diving in the one meter and three meter.

The Lady Tigers are confident in their preparation for the NCAA championship, which had been the goal all season according to swimming coach

Among the Lady Tigers’ new additions to the 2016 season is sophomore Texas transfer Ryann Foster. When playing for the Longhorns, the then-freshman faced highly ranked teams as thenNo. 7 Baylor, but the Big 12 also featured four unranked teams, which the SEC has not seen in over a decade.

page 7 “I knew coming in that the SEC was really strong and that once we hit conference play that every match is going to be a battle,” Foster said. “It’s just been really fun so far.”

After not being able to finish with a ranking since 2009, Mississippi State ended last season at

No. 32 with a 16-12 overall record.

Now, the Bulldogs hold a 11-3 record and a No. 22 ranking, validating their place in the SEC with a 4-3 upset of LSU on March 13.

This season, however, shows how even the weaker members of the conference look to keep up with the high standard.

Dave Geyer.

“This is the meet that we wait for,” Geyer said. “As long as we get to NCAA’s, I can look back and evaluate what we did in the season. The thing is for us, it is a process throughout the entire season and continuing training for SECs and NCAAs. So for the season, we are not done. The main story has yet to be written.

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Senior Taryn Mackenzie swims the womens’ 200 yard breaststroke during the LSU swimming and diving meet against Tulane on Oct. 9 in the LSU Natatorium.

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page 8 AFRICA, from page 4 also brought back African fabrics and hand-crafted souvenirs, Bergeron said, which adds another layer to the exhibit.

“It’s cool to see their faces and how excited they are that someone from a country as far away as America is coming and giving them something absolutely free of charge,” Williams said. “We want to give them something out of love.”

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the brains to making it all come together. He came up with the idea while on a mission trip in Zimbabwe. He contributed by constructing buildings, but he — a photographer at heart — would take pictures at the end of the day, Williams said.

People would pose for Dewberry and ask that their picture be taken. Afterward, they would look at the photo on the back of the camera. Williams said the villagers were ecstatic and would ask for their photo, but Dewberry had no way of giving it to them.

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“He wanted to get the people their pictures,” Williams said.

“When he returned to America, he tried to find a way to make that happen. I helped him find the right printer and worked out all the other technicalities. We ended up going to Uganda that same year.”

The photographer looks back fondly on one interaction in particular. Williams met Samuel, a 62-year-old English and math teacher, his very first day photographing in Uganda.

“He came up to me and asked, ‘Why are you doing this?’” Williams said. “I asked if he owned a photo of himself. He said yes,

which surprised me a little. It was just the photo on his passport.

This struck me.”

Williams said he was astounded a 62-year-old man had never owned a photo of himself and subsequently, told Samuel that he was the reason they were there.

The photographer told Samuel he wanted him to have a photo of himself so he could look back on it to remember the happy moment.

“His face lit up,” Williams said. “That’s probably the moment when I realized that we have something here. We’re just trying to spread love and happiness to an area that normally doesn’t see it.”

Hundreds of villagers gather

around the photographers to receive a photo. The “Go Love Africa” team took 1200 portraits in Uganda, but over 3,000 in Madagascar, Williams said.

“We take our daily lives for granted and don’t feel we can change someone’s life through the simple things we do, but you can change someone’s life through almost anything,” Williams said.

“Their lives changed because now they have something they can look back on and feel happy about.”

Go Love Africa opened March 13 and runs until April 30. Regular admission into the museum is $4, but students can get in for $2.

GRAY, from page 4

After that letter to the editor was published, a man in England that had been searching for Rogers for 13 years, who is referred to as Ethan in “Familiar Evil,” contacted Gray to ask her to warn the community about him. He was confident Rogers was still abusing children.

Gray began working with her attorney and Ethan to gather information on Rogers’ past charges.

In the process, she learned Ethan had been sexually abused by Rogers between the ages of 12 and 16.

Wary of Rogers’ connections with Baton Rouge law enforcement, Gray took the case to Luke Walker, an Assistant United States Attorney in Lafayette who had prosecuted child exploitation cases for more than 20 years.

“Rogers developed very close relationships with law

enforcement in Baton Rouge,” Gray said. “He was a chaplain and a reserve deputy at the sheriff’s office, and he claimed he was very close friends with the head of the state police.”

After spending so much time acquiring information, Gray went on to become a confidential informant to the federal investigation on Scott Rogers.

“Familiar Evil” chronicles Gray’s fight to expose Rogers over the course of a year as she worked with Ethan, criminal defense attorney Nathan Fisher and paralegal Mary Jane Marcantel.

“The thing I really care about is that people understand that there’s a positive side to learning about this story,” Gray said.

“It’s starting to make it a little easier for people to talk about this subject.”

daughter and two men in their mid-30s who he had been abusing since they were 12 years old.

Those men, who he kidnapped and brought to the country, never saw their parents again.

Rogers had also adopted a 10-year-old boy and was in the process of adopting a 2-year-old. Gray said she later learned he told child services about his intention to later adopt four more children.

Gray’s involvement in the case started after one brief encounter with Rogers in a meeting in August 2013.

“He said some things in the newspaper about those of us working on the project with him that were not accurate,” Gray said.

“I wrote a letter to the editor to correct everything.”