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STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Executive Branch talks student fees, budget cuts

BY BETH CARTER @bethie_carter

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“It’s not ‘me against him.’ If you watch basketball, you know it’s not ‘me against him.’ If you’re saying it’s ‘me against him,’ then you clearly don’t know too much about basketball. You must not watch if it’s ‘me against him’ because I won’t be guarding him.”

BEN SIMMONS, LSU freshman forward

BUDDY VERSUS BENNY Tigers view matchup as more than just Hield versus Simmons

BY JAMES BEWERS @JamesBewers_TDR LSU freshman forward Ben Simmons made sure to put the pregame billing to bed before he could be further asked about Saturday’s contest with No. 1 Oklahoma.

Fresh off a morning SportsCenter interview, Simmons sat in front a host of reporters Thursday afternoon and was frank about his supposed battle with fellow Wooden Award candidate and

likely NBA lottery selection, Sooner senior guard Buddy Hield.

“It’s not ‘me against him,’” Simmons said. “If you watch basketball, you know it’s not ‘me against him.’ If you’re saying it’s ‘me against him,’ then you clearly don’t know too much about basketball …

You must not watch if it’s ‘me against him’ because I won’t be guarding him.”

While the 6-foot-10 Simmons likely won’t draw the defensive assignment for the 6-foot-4

Hield, all most want to talk about is the matchup between two of the best players in college basketball, featured in an unusual nonconference showcase at midseason.

But as Simmons, his teammates and LSU

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Buddy Hield Ben Simmons

Senior guard Freshman forward 6-foot-4 • 214 pounds 6-foot-10 • 240 pounds Freeport, Bahamas Melbourne, Australia

Primary Stats 33.9 minutes per game points per game 25.9 5.8 rebounds per game assists per game 2.5 steals per game 1.4 blocks per game 0.5 53% field goal percentage 52.3% 3-point percentage 90.3% free throw percentage

34.2 19.8 12.7 4.9 1.8 1.0 55.3% 33.3% 71.3%

Advance Stats 31.8 player efficiency rate 31.4 win shares 4.5 4.3 30.2% usage percentage 26.5%

LSU Student Government’s Executive Branch Senior Staff discussed possible fee hikes on Tuesday. The potential fee increases could affect student organization funding, commuter transportation and Memorial Tower renovations.

If they pass through the Budget and Appropriations Committee, the proposed fees will go to the Student Senate for a vote on Feb. 3. If approved, the fee increases will be on the ballot as referendums for students to vote on this spring.

One of the proposed fee increases is a $2 fee over 2-4 years which would serve as a gift on behalf of students to the Military Excellence Fund Commission.

The fees would help pay for renovations for Memorial Tower, specifically the construction of the museum inside the tower dedicated to fallen Louisiana soldiers during World War I. Another fee, $2 per semester, would go toward the creation of a student sustainability fund, which would reserve money for campus sustainability programs.

The fund would be available for any student, department or campus organization to request financial support for a project.

The third proposed increase is a $1-5 fee for the creation of commuter shuttles that would be available for students who park in commuter lots. The shuttles would allow commuting students to park in less crowded lots farther from campus and have the assurance that a bus would bring them to and from campus.

SG president Andrew Mahtook said these shuttles are part of the legacy items his campaign is working on. These initiatives, Mahtook said, will be the longlasting imprints his administration has on the LSU community.

“It would be a system of Tiger Trails buses making loops around to the far out commuter lots and bringing students to campus,” Mahtook said. “We’ve seen a lot of complaints from students about not being able to find parking … and having to walk all

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FACULTY

Professors named co-editors of ‘Taboo’ academic journal

BY KATIE GAGLIANO @katie_gagliano Sociology professor Lori Martin and School of Education professor Kenneth FaschingVarner aren’t afraid to court the controversial. In fact, it’s their job.

Martin and Varner have assumed the roles of co-editors in chief of Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education. The online academic journal is published biannually and features five to seven academic articles in addition to an editorial column and book review section.

Founding editors Joe Kincheloe and Shirley Steinberg established the journal to spark conversations around socio-cultural topics traditionally overlooked in academics.

“They were both post-modern thinkers whose work pushed the envelope and tried to challenge people to think more profoundly about complex issues in a critical way,” Varner said.

Martin and Varner said they hope to continue the journal’s boundary pushing tradition while bringing it to broader audiences. An important aspect of working as scholar-activists is bridging the gap between the academic sphere and society at large, Martin said.

“We want every reader of the journal, no matter what their academic background is or their particular orientations around scholarship, to read each piece and say that’s interesting,” Varner said.

The online-only style allows Taboo to extend beyond the limited academic circles that traditional print journals are often limited to, Martin said.

The flexibility of online publishing allows Taboo to experiment with interactive audio and

video features to make the journal a living publication, Martin said. It also allows the journal to encourage dialogue across editions.

“We don’t want it to just be a set of dictates or mandates or monologues, but we’d like to see it be a discourse and relationship between the readers and authors and editors,” Varner said.

Under Martin and Varner, the journal will also extend access to undergraduate and graduate students by providing space for their contributions in each edition. Undergraduate and graduate scholarship is rarely recognized in journals, but inter-generational dialogue adds depth to the subject matter, he said.

Incorporating the journal into the University’s student

and academic culture is essential to Martin and Varner’s mission. LSU Libraries has already reached out to work as a partner for the journal’s publication and outreach, Varner said.

The editors are considering hosting a Taboo sponsored conference on campus or in the surrounding Baton Rouge area to create opportunities for local scholars to share research.

Another goal is to incorporate journal articles into critical courses and host teach-ins to analyze the works and promote campus discussion, Martin said.

“I think the message ever since I’ve been at LSU is about preparing ethical, prepared, responsible leaders that can tackle the big issues that face this community,” Varner said. “The journal is a natural link to what

a flagship institution like LSU is committed to.”

Martin and Varner’s transition as co-editors in chief has been smooth thus far.

Preparations for their first edition are underway and in April they have been invited to host a meet-the-editors session at the American Educational Research Association’s annual meeting in Washington D.C. Both Martin and Varner said they look forward to editing the journal and will stay as long as they can produce high quality, relevant work that pushes the boundaries of accepted academic thought.

“Our goal is to facilitate the propagation of work that has the potential to bring about meaningful change on a number of levels,” Martin said.

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Body scanner helps professors to change apparel industry Researchers from the College of Agriculture are reshaping the apparel industry with a new study that could change how clothes are sized and manufactured.

The research strives to create a new database of average American body sizes and encourage a method for clothing brands to make items fit customers’ exact measurements.

Textiles, apparel design and merchandising assistant professors Laurel Romeo and Casey Stannard are leading the study with the help of a high-tech 3-D body scanner called the Size Stream.

Their focus is to study modern American body shapes and

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how clothing brands can use this data to make clothes custom fit to customers’ body shapes.

Romeo and Stannard would like to use the data to transform “grading”, which are the measurements of average clothing sizes.

Current grading measurements are based on incorrect assumptions about body shape and make it even harder for those who buy plus-size clothing to find the right fit, Romeo said.

“The assumptions are that as a person gets wider, they also get taller. So with plus size clothing, people perhaps sometimes look sloppy. The clothes don’t fit them correctly,” Romeo said.

Romeo said she and Stannard will hopefully create new algorithms for the grading method, which will align better with

modern American measurements.

Current clothing sizes are based on a grading system from a study done after the end of World War II, over 70 years ago.

“Our population is very different and much more diverse.

We have many more body shapes and sizes than we did at that time,” Romeo said.

The study includes 5,000 participants of all ages, especially those 18 years or older who are currently in a weight-loss program.

Each participant stands in a curtained area while the Size Stream’s surrounding scanners measure every part of their body.

Within seconds, a virtual avatar appears on the computer screen with their exact measurements.

Romeo said she hopes the

results and use of the Size Stream will bring the apparel industry closer to its future of “purchase activated manufacturing.”

With purchase activated manufacturing, a store would have its own body scanner and hold only one item of each piece of clothing. When a customer decides which piece they want, they step into a body scanner. The store would then send the customer’s measurements to a local manufacturer to be made within the hour.

Romeo said this shift would bring more apparel manufacturing into the United States and make the industry more sustainable because no fabric would be wasted.

“It’s a whole new paradigm of how we do business in the apparel industry,” she said.

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‘IT ENDS WITH ME’

Why Buddy is the best player in the nation TEAM JACOB JACOB HAMILTON Sports Columnist

Tigers embrace motto to remain positive despite mistakes

BY CHRISTIAN BOUTWELL • @CBoutwell_TDR

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LSU all-around junior Ashleigh Gnat performs a beam routine during the Tigers’ 196.575195.100 victory against Kentucky for the Pink & Blue Meet in the PMAC.

After the semifinals in Fort Worth, Texas, and a summer of work, the LSU gymnastics has team adopted yet another motto.

“It ends with me,” said LSU coach D-D Breaux after the Tigers’ 196.575-195.100 victory against Kentucky on Friday.

Associate head coach Jay Clark and Breaux created the aphorism.

After the Tigers (3-0, 1-0 Southeastern Conference) suffered two falls from junior all-arounder Ashleigh Gnat and freshman sensation Sarah Finnegan on the uneven bars in their last meet against the Wildcats, Breaux said there was no rattled confidence as the team headed into its next rotation, balance beam.

It ended with them.

LSU rebounded. The Tigers didn’t seem flustered as they maintained a positive mentality. Although retaining confidence through falls was LSU’s main struggle last season, Breaux said consistency is this season’s biggest speed bump, not confidence. LSU has plenty of that.

The rattled confidence headed to beam dates back to last season. In the NCAA Semifinals, LSU led off with a fall and a score of 9.300. The pressure, as great as it was at the time, was too much. Two gymnasts after the leadoff beamer fell off the apparatus, as well, and led LSU to following scores of 9.375 and 9.250.

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The best college basketball player in the nation is suiting up in the PMAC for the first time this season tomorrow.

No, that’s not some stupid metaphor suggesting LSU freshman forward Ben Simmons can finally officially be considered the best player in the country after willing LSU to a 6-2 record through a grueling opening stretch of conference play. The player I’m referring to is Oklahoma senior sharpshooter Buddy Hield.

Hield is in line to receive a bevy of seasonal awards, and it’s really not even close. Not to downplay the efforts of Simmons, Michigan State senior guard Denzel Valentine and Providence junior guard Kris Dunn, all of whom are surefire All-Americans — Hield has simply been that good.

He’s by far the most entertaining scorer in the NCAA since BYU guard Jimmer Fredette, averaging 25.9 points on just 15.9 shots per game.

But hey, you may have assumed I was referring to Simmons when talking about the

see HIELD, page 4 GYMNASTICS

Tigers put past behind them before Metroplex Challenge

BY CHRISTIAN BOUTWELL @CBoutwell_TDR Happiness and good memories are not what the LSU gymnastics team remembers about Fort Worth, Texas after last season’s debacle in the NCAA Semifinals.

The Tigers, while having performed well up until balance beam, crumbled on the nation’s biggest stage — which led LSU coach D-D Breaux to call the team’s fifth-place finish in the second semifinal “the all-time biggest disappointment of my career,” after the meet on April 17.

But LSU hopes to change what Texas saw from the Tigers in their last visit.

Junior all-arounder Ashleigh Gnat said she’s excited to bring

new thoughts of LSU gymnastics to the same stage as the National Championship at 7 p.m. on Saturday in Fort Worth, Texas, where the No. 6 Tigers will face No. 2 Oklahoma, No. 12 Stanford, No. 16 Missouri and Washington in the Metroplex Challenge.

“I think that we’re going to be able to get out there and show everybody what we’ve been working on and improved on since the last time we were there,” Gnat said. “This is a new team and a new year. We’re going to make a step in the right direction.”

LSU’s new team, as Gnat called it, will be competing in a podium-stage meet for the first time as a group. The podium — an elevated, bouncier, softer surface raised above eye level for the judges and exactly at eye

level for fans — is what LSU will have to adjust to in warmups as podium-staged training is impossible to replicate at LSU. The pressure of competing on a podium is super intensified, Breaux said.

“It gives the equipment a different feel,” Breaux said. “Plus, you’re eye level with your audience. It gives the judges a different level of watching you from down below and it just feels like everything you do is bigger.”

The Tigers will summon their entire team to surround each gymnast in practice to resemble the heat of the moment that Fort Worth will present.

Breaux said the Tigers’ lack of consistency in competition is

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LSU all-around sophomore Erin Macadaeg gets ready fo routine during the Tigers’ 196.575195.100 victory against Kentucky for the Pink & Blue Meet on Friday in the PMAC.

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TENNIS

Tigers and Lady Tigers prepare for bout with Rice University

BY MARKUS HÜFNER @Hufner_TDR The LSU women’s and men’s tennis teams will head to the Lone Star State to take on Rice University at noon on Sunday in Houston, Texas.

Coming off a successful weekend with ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships qualifications in the bag, the No. 18 women’s tennis team looks for momentum against a team the Lady Tigers have not defeated in nine years.

“I think it’s time for revenge,” said junior Joana Vale Costa. “I think we’re all ready to go out there and compete.”

Last year’s home match against the Rice Owls is burned in the players’ memories like any tough loss. At that time, the Lady Tigers’ roster had three new players on the team and some suffered from injuries.

This weekend, the program goes into the matchup with a 4-0 record and its highest ranking since 2009, but for LSU coach Julia Sell it’s more about the progress than the record.

COLUMN, from page 3 best player in the country, and there’s a reason. Most experts think he’ll be the No. 1 pick in the impending draft, and he’s definitely playing like it.

There’s not a player in the country who can lock him up when he puts his head down to drive, and his 55.3 field goal percentage proves he can convert when he gets down there.

But even my high-schooldropout of a brother knows three points is worth more than two, and Hield is All-Galaxy from downtown.

As far as his pure shooting ability — in case you haven’t watched him play — I’ll go out on a limb and dub him the NCAA’s equivalent of Warriors

GYMNASTICS, from page 3 the weak link of the 2016 team thus far, as they have counted “too many” falls to begin the season.

“We’re lacking a little bit of consistency,” Breaux said.

“We’re having to count a fall in some of our events. That’s very costly. That’s minus fivetenths from your team score.

At the same time, we’re having to change our lineup a little bit.

We’ve used some of our depth a little bit. We have 15 kids and we want to feel like we can have 10 ready on every event on every weekend.”

The injury-blanketed Tigers have yet to have all gymnasts available for competition, which is a goal for the Metroplex, Breaux said.

Freshmen all-arounders McKenna Kelley and Lexie

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Sophomore Simon Freund waits at the Tennis Invitational on Nov. 05, 2015, at the new Tennis Complex on Gourrier Ave. “It would be nice to get the W, but our focus right now is just to get better and better every match,” Sell said. “If that means we get the win then it’s great, but otherwise we need to keep improving.“

Sell wants to see her players press as hard as if they were behind to extend leads in deciding situations after almost allowing comebacks against Georgia Tech last weekend.

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guard Stephen Curry.

Of course, that is to be taken with a grain of salt, but you don’t shoot 53 percent from the field, 52.3 percent behind the arc, and 90.3 percent at the free throw line by accident. That’s not a typo — he took the everallusive 50-40-90 and raised it 10 more from three-point land.

That’s wild, man.

Hield doesn’t have the passing pazzaz Simmons has, and it’s unlikely he will slam home a half-court alley oop. But, he’ll sink more than his fair share of beyond-NBA-range, contested threes, and you’ll come to assume everything that leaves his hand will end up at the bottom of the net.

If the Dr. Jekyll LSU team that dusted then-No. 9

Kentucky shows up, it’s more than capable of matching No. 1 Oklahoma bucket for bucket.

Simmons is one of the only players in the country who can match Hield’s impact and likely the only one who can actually outplay him. If it becomes a scoring chess match between the two, it’s important to keep in mind LSU is 8-1 when Simmons scores at least 22 points.

The last time Hield caught fire while battling against one of the top players in the nation, he ended up with 46 points in a triple-overtime game. What a treat that would be.

On the other hand, if we get the Mr. Hyde LSU team tomorrow, well, at least one thing’s for

Priessman have been held from competing for an ankle, and ankle and shoulder injuries, respectively — along with senior allarounder Jessica Savona who’s battling a yearning ankle injury.

Breaux said she hopes to be able to expand the Tigers’ range on each event with a variety of gymnasts, and the process begins at the Metroplex against a few of the nation’s elite teams.

“That’s our goal,” Breaux said. “Being able to get McKenna Kelley into the floor lineup this weekend was really big. We’d like to get Lexie Priessman into maybe another event. We’d like to get [freshman all-arounder] Sarah Finnegan in on maybe another event. At the same time, we’d like to get Jessica Savona in off of her ‘my foot is hurt’ mentality. And if she does, she’s one of the best tumblers in the country.”

POSITIVE, from page 3 As described best by Breaux, “We’re committing suicide!” she said during the event on April 17, 2015.

Luckily the turmoil hasn’t transferred over to the 2016 season, as LSU continues to rally behind one of its many mottos.

“That’s D-D’s thing,” Gnat said. “‘It ends with me.’ It’s something we’ve been working on in the gym. It’s getting in the mental mindset of ‘oh, someone fell in front of me, what are you going to do? How are you going to perform?’”

In a test of responding to adversity this season, LSU has passed. When challenged by injuries, inexperience in competition and falls on equipment, the Tigers have responded well, as they channel their motto whenever momentum spirals downward

Championships around the corner, the players also focus on taking care of their body.

“National Indoors is three days of hard competition,” Vale Costa said. “It’s time to practice as hard as we can, but we have

to take care of our bodies at the same time because the season is just getting harder and harder from here.“ For the men’s team (1-1, 0-0 Southeastern Conference) the match against the Owls (4-0, 0-0 Conference USA) serves more as warm up and orientation for the season.

After losing in the final round of the ITA Kickoff Weekend against then-No. 13 South Florida, the team just missed qualifying for the ITA Indoors Championships.

“It will be good to see where we are following having played a couple matches,” said LSU coach Jeff Brown. “The guys are excited to see their improvements, and usually there’s a big difference in improvement from the first weekend to the second.”

When the team hosted Rice at the W.T. “Dub” Robinson Stadium last year, the Tigers dominated in a 6-1 win.

Brown said the team hopes to make improvements at every position, while looking forward to putting practice into play on Sunday.

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Senior guard Buddy Hield pushes past an Oral Roberts defender for two points Dec. 12. sure — we can enjoy watching Buddy ball out.

P.S. If LSU does pull off the victory, don’t storm the court.

That’s stupid.

Jacob Hamilton is a 21-yearold political science junior from Slidell, Louisiana. You can reach him on Twitter at @jac0b_hamilt0n

during meets. Any loss of mental focus, which senior all-arounder Jessica Savona says is “very important,” creates opportunity for mistakes to occur.

“After something like that happens, we come together and have to decide that’s where it stops,” said junior all-arounder Sydney Ewing. “‘It stops with me’ mentality. It’s knowing that if someone falls in front of you, it doesn’t have to decide your performance.”

Another key to the Tigers’ response to hardships is talent.

LSU has a plethora of options for each event with five freshmen and a group of veteran gymnasts from last season.

Talent makes forgetting a fall and moving on much easier.

All of our girls, from freshmen to seniors, have the ability to bring out 10s on every event,” Savona said. “Every single event

and every single girl. Everything is as strong as the next, we just have to bring out the best in ourselves every single meet.”

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LSU all-around junior Ashleigh Gnat smiles at the Pink & Blue Meet on Jan.22 in the PMAC.

Opinion

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Minority organizations deserve greater respect on campus My Black is Beautiful Clarke Perkins Columnist

Black students need places on campus where they feel welcomed and comfortable.

The responses to Stacey Dash’s latest ignorant statements help explain why.

Her reaction to #OscarsSoWhite caused turmoil within the black community. She insists black people need to make up their minds — they either want segregation or they don’t.

“Either we want to have segregation or integration,” Dash said.

“And if we don’t want segregation then we need to get rid of channels like BET and the BET Awards and the [NAACP] Image Awards, where you’re only awarded if you’re black.”

Actress Gabrielle Union had the best response to an Associated Press reporter asking about Dash’s recent outburst.

“Who’s Stacey Dash?” Union asked.

To answer Union’s question, she’s just a crazy lady climbing her way higher on the black-people-that-black-people-can’t-stand list.

Union finished her point by saying, “It’s like why there’s a need for “The Birth of a Nation,” and why there’s a need for the Country Music Awards and the ALMO

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LSU students and minority organizations show their support for the Mizzou community in front of the Memorial Tower. awards. If you don’t see yourself reflected in mainstream awards, you tend to create your own.”

Same goes for organizations.

People will create organizations that reflect their identities and their needs if one doesn’t already exist.

Black people created organizations across the nation because they weren’t welcomed in most places. No organizations on campus have signs saying “no blacks allowed,” but students still don’t feel welcomed in certain places.

We’re in the middle of another

civil rights era, so I understand if students don’t feel welcomed in some organizations. We’re still fighting racial inequality in America.

Black organizations serve as a safe haven, especially for students at predominantly white institutions like the University.

Black students make up 12 percent of the more than 30,000 students enrolled. We’re overwhelmed and exhausted because we’re surrounded by people who usually don’t know how being underrepresented feels.

Minority students use black

organizations on campus to come together and unite. Those organizations and clubs are the few places underrepresented students feel safe and can relate to different injustices they may experience on campus. They allow students to motivate and uplift each other.

Over the years, minority students on campus created organizations such as Black Student Union, Minority Women’s Movement, African American Cultural Center Ambassadors, National Society of Black Engineers and Justice Now, just to name a few.

These organizations help

bridge the gap between students and the University. Students can voice their concerns and address the University collectively while also serving the community. “[Minority organizations] do not create boundaries that don’t allow the majority in. They simply create a space for those excluded from the ‘American Dream,” said LSU NAACP president Monturios Howard. “Without these groups, who would push racial boundaries? Who would be the voice for the voiceless?”

The University also has organizations such as Hispanic Student Cultural Society, Latin American Student Association, Native American Student Organization and Asian American Ambassadors. They all have the same goal as black organizations: provide a comfortable space where minorities can be themselves.

These organizations make a safe space for certain students, but they welcome anyone. They’ll never turn you away just because you’re black, white, gay, straight, rich or poor.

No, minority students do not want segregation. All we want is to be represented and treated as equals. Until that happens, we will continue joining organizations that welcome, understand and protect us.

Clarke Perkins is a 20-year-old political science sophomore from New Orleans, LA. You can reach her on twitter @ClarkePerkins.

Donald Trump to host own debate moderated by Sarah Palin Infrangible Icon John Gavin Harp Columnist This article is purely satire and meant only for the readers’ enjoyment.

Presidential candidate and self-declared winner Donald Trump said he will host his own debate this weekend in Des Moines, Iowa because he could not stand to be in the same building as low-energy koala and Gov. Jeb Bush.

Trump’s debate will be held at 7 p.m. on Saturday at the

Hy-Vee Hall, a prominent convention center in downtown Des Moines — though not nearly as prominent as the Trump Tower Donald plans to build once he bulldozes the White House.

The debate will be moderated by Trump supporter and prominent schizophrenic, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who was present during Trump’s announcement Wednesday afternoon.

“You betcha we’re gonna play by all of President Trump’s rules,” Palin said. “We won’t be asking any of those ‘gotcha’ questions the lame-stream media at Fox News is known for.

Especially questions on geography. Man, those are the ones

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Palin also declared Trump’s private debate will be an event for all Americans who dropped out of high school.

“Whether you’re a gun owner, a gay lover or a border hopper, this is the debate for you,” Palin said before being removed from the stage.

“Please make sure to watch my new Travel Channel special, ‘Sarah Palin Gets Lost in Iowa,’” Palin yelled as security carried her away.

“That woman is great,” Trump said of Palin. “She’s like a slice of apple pie. Nice lady.”

When asked why he wasn’t attending Thursday night’s GOP debate, Trump cited journalist

Megyn Kelly’s involvement with Fox News as the reason for holding his own debate.

Kelly tweeted a laughing emoji followed by a sassy emoji of paint drying on fingernails shortly after Trump’s announcement. Kelly’s spokesperson said the emojis are her only comment on the matter.

The announcement comes after a week of heated public statements between Trump and executives from Fox News.

“She doesn’t want to make America great again,” Trump said of Kelly. “I ran a poll. She’s a loser. It’s sad. Pathetic really.

Jeb Bush can have her.”

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pretending to be former Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and a toddler wearing a ‘Jeb!’ shirt.

It’ll be a good time,” Trump said.

“The ratings will be great.”

When asked which network will be airing Trump’s debate, he responded, “whichever one I own.”

As of this writing, Donald Trump does not own a television network nor has a network stepped forward to air Trump’s debate.

John Gavin Harp is a 20-yearold mass communication junior from St. Francisville, Louisiana.

You can reach him on Twitter @SirJohnGavin.

Quote of the Day ‘No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong.

Only racists make them.’

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Writer Sept. 30, 1928 — present

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STUDENT FEES, from page 1 the way to campus.”

In light of possible cuts to the University’s budget due to the state’s budget deficit , the executive staff also discussed how the shortfall affects SG and its impact on students.

Mahtook said the Student Advocacy Commission, run by executive branch members State Capitol advisor Myles Sonnier and chief advisor Zack Faircloth, will help students make sure their needs are addressed by state representatives.

“A lot of our efforts revolve around working together with legislators to help complete the promises that they made during their campaigns,” Mahtook said.

Chief of staff Kat Latham assured students that SG will maintain an open line of communication between the administration and the students. Latham also urged students to continue to make their voices heard to legislators and show solidarity toward preserving higher education funding.

“We are keeping on top of it to ensure protection of the university we love and the students we represent — past, present and future,” Latham said. “We will do whatever we can to always keep this conversation going.”

‘We are keeping on top of it to ensure protection of the university we love and the students we represent.’

KAT LATHAM SG Chief of Staff

SIMMONS-HIELD, from page 1 coach Johnny Jones will point out, the top-ranked Sooners (17-2, 6-2 Big 12) earned their ranking for a reason, and it’s more than just Hield.

“They’ve got a team full of guys,” Jones said. “Buddy Hield is not their leading three-point field goal percentage shooter.

He’s actually second. They’ve got three guys in the top four in their league in terms of knocking down 3-pointers ... Buddy’s an excellent player. But, again, you’ve got to stop their team. They are averaging well over 80 points a game.

“You’ve got to defend their basketball team, not one individual. If you’re concentrating on him, someone else is going to hurt you.”

Hield, who is the No. 2 scorer in the nation with 25.9 points per game, is as efficient of a scorer as any in the country, averaging a gaudy 53 percent from the field, 52.3 percent from 3-point territory and 90.3 percent from the field.

But beyond him lies an experienced, battle-tested starting lineup, including sharpshooting guards Jordan Woodard and Isaiah Cousins, versatile forward Ryan Spangler and shot-blocking forward Khadeem Lattin.

Moreover, Woodard is No. 1 three-point shooter in the nation, Spangler averages nearly a double-double and Lattin blocked eight shots in Oklahoma’s most recent win against Texas Tech.

Despite Spangler and Lattin’s prowess in the paint, it’s clear to LSU senior guard Keith Hornsby, who will be turning 24 on Saturday, the Sooners have a guarddominant roster that likes to run the floor and is capable of pulling up from anywhere around the arc.

“It will be interesting,” Hornsby said. “We’ve haven’t gone against a team where each of the

three guards are such an incredible threat from three and also shoot it willingly.”

Hornsby said the Tigers (13-7, 6-2 Southeastern Conference) haven’t officially determined how they will slow down the Oklahoma transition attack, possibly sending an additional player back instead of attacking the offensive glass. In whatever way LSU plans its defensive assignments, both junior guard Tim Quarterman and freshman guard Antonio Blakeney embrace the task of squaring up against Hield.

For Quarterman, his length is his biggest asset against Hield’s quick trigger and his moves to the basket.

“Just be long,” Quarterman said when asked about his strategy. “Try to stay in his wheelhouse. Don’t let him get easy shots and just make it tough on him.”

While Jones gave his team the day off on Wednesday, LSU began its preparation for the Sooners relieved it didn’t let late lead against Georgia slip away in an 89-85 win Tuesday night.

In a drawn-out contest due to the 55 fouls called, the Tigers took a double-digit lead into the final minute of the game. But, the Bulldogs cut the lead to one point in less than 30 seconds and had a chance to tie the game on freshman forward E’Torrion Wilridge’s errant jumper with four seconds left.

Despite LSU missing four foul shots down the stretch, Blakeney nailed his final four free throw attempts to salvage the victory.

“The only positive thing about that was that we didn’t suffer a loss because it really was a bad way to end the game,” Blakeney said. “Within 50-something seconds, we were up 10 points, and there’s no way it should get to where — if they hit a three — we’re losing the game. That’s just

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Game Info No. 1 Oklahoma versus LSU 4 p.m. Saturday PMAC ESPN, 98.1 FM Game Highs

Hield

46 points in a game 9 rebounds in a game 7 assists in a game 5 steals in a game 2 blocks in a game

43 20 10 5 3

Simmons

Eye-popping Facts Hield leads all major conference players with seven 30-point games.

Hield is No. 4 among major conference players in player efficiency rating, according to former ESPN columnist John Hollinger’s Divison I Player Statistics.

Simmons leads all freshman in Division I basketball in points and rebounds per game (tied for second in assists per game).

Simmons has 15 double-doubles, which is the most of any Division I freshman and is fifth in the nation.

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not a good way end the game at all, but I’m just glad we got the victory.”

Even with the unpleasant ending to their sixth conference win, the Tigers charge forward to their soldout Big 12/SEC Challenge contest with more to gain

than to lose. At the very least, it will be fun, even if it’s just a “regular game,” Simmons said.

“It’s going to be a memory that I will always hold onto once I leave, whenever that is,” Simmons said. “It’s going to be a fun night.”

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Friday, January 29, 2016

Teams set to compete in Razorback Invitational this weekend

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Last week, LSU’S 4x400-meter relay team ranked second in the NCAA with a time of 3:05.77.

The teams participating in the women’s events are No. 1 Arkansas, No. 2 Georgia, No. 5 Oregon, No. 6 Florida, No. 20 Texas A&M, Florida State, Iowa, Iowa State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and UCLA. LSU junior sprinter Jada Martin placed seventh in the country with a time of 23.46

seconds when she ran her first women’s 200-meter dash of the 2016 season last weekend.

In her season debut, LSU junior jumper Nataliyah Friar jumped 20 feet, 5 inches in the women’s long jump to rank No. 10 nationally. She will compete in the event in Friday’s opener.

“Many of these events will be very much like an SEC and NCAA final with the teams that

are in this meet, so this will be a great opportunity for our athletes to take another big step in their progression this season,” Shaver said.

Next, the Tigers and Lady Tigers will compete in the two-day New Mexico Collegiate Classic on Friday, Feb. 5 and Saturday, Feb. 6 at the Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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LSU junior Jada Martin participates in the 60 meter dash event during the Tigers’ track and field meet on Jan. 16.

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The LSU track and field teams hope to continue their fast break to the 2016 season at the Razorback Invitational on Friday and Saturday at the Randall Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

The Tigers and Lady Tigers look to perform as well as they did last week in the Conference Clash: Power Five Invitational at the Birmingham Crossplex in Birmingham, Alabama.

Last Friday at the Conference Clash, eight Tigers and Lady Tigers qualified for the 60-meter hurdles, 60-meter dash and 200-meter dash to advance to the next day’s finals.

LSU left the Conference Clash with eight NCAA Top-10 performances, five LSU alltime Top-10 event records and 16 indoor personal-bests.

“We’ve shown good progression as a team through the first few weeks of the season,” said LSU coach Dennis Shaver in a news release. “It’s time to take it a step further and show improvement on the performances that we’ve seen to this point. The indoor season comes and goes very quickly. We’re already at the midway point of the season before we go to SECs, so it’s important to take advantage

of every opportunity we have.

Together, eight Tigers and Lady Tigers, along with relays, are qualified to compete in the 2016 NCAA Division I Indoor track and field Championship at the Birmingham Crossplex on March 11 and 12.

Friday’s multi-events start at 11 a.m., field events begin at 3 p.m. and running events kick off at 6 p.m.

Saturday’s final rounds start with the field events at noon, and continue with the multievents at 11 a.m. and the running events at 11:15 a.m.

The teams competing in the men’s events are No. 1 Florida, No. 3 Texas A&M, No. 5 Oregon, No. 7 Georgia, No. 11 Arkansas, No. 16 Oklahoma State, Florida State, Iowa, Iowa State, Oklahoma and UCLA. LSU junior hurdler Jordan Moore set a national-leading time of 7.69 seconds in the 60-meter hurdles last weekend.

This weekend, he hopes to reinforce his status as a national championship contender and All-American candidate.

LSU sophomore middle distance runner Jack Wilkes ran a career-record best of 1 minute, 49.79 seconds in his first 800-meter event a week ago. He ranked No. 15 nationally and aims to continue improving his times.

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