Volume 122 · No. 43
Thursday, October 27, 2016
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Advocate editorial shameful, unethical EDITOR IN CHIEF QUINT FORGEY @QuintForgey On Monday, President Barack Obama called U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa “the definition of chutzpah” after the California Republican and unrelenting Obama White House critic had the audacity to feature a picture of the commander in chief working at his Oval Office desk in a campaign mailer boasting Issa’s bipartisan credentials. But following The Advocate’s shockingly glib editorial on Wednesday regarding The Daily Reveille’s studentled decision to reduce print frequency, that’s a presidential designation I wish Obama would have waited to bestow upon Advocate editorial page editors Danny Heitman and Lanny Keller, editor in chief Peter Kovacs, general manager Sheila Runnels and publisher Dan Shea. The Advocate’s editorial board said our recent decision to produce an enlarged weekly newspaper and focus more on our digital footprint across the LSU community was an “unnecessary retreat” the infamously press-averse former Gov. Huey Long would have celebrated. What they failed to mention was literally any contextualization of our dire fiscal situation or the fact that there would be
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Pete Jenkins, ‘father’ of defensive line, barrels into fifth decade as coach BY JOSH THORNTON @JoshuaThornton
see LETTER, page 11
Arden Key knows not to test Pete Jenkins. Jenkins, the Tigers’ 75-year-old defensive line coach, has been around the coaching circuit for more than five decades and is on his third stint with the Tigers. So when Jenkins took the reigns from Ed Orgeron as defensive line coach, the sophomore pass rusher noticed a distinct difference between the two. “Coach Pete coaches us like grown men,” Key said. And you better listen to him. “With him being in the league so long teaching grown
see JENKINS, page 2
LITERATURE
Southern Review publishes fall issue BY LAUREN HEFFKER @laurheffker Maintaining the beauty and quality of The Southern Review, a product of LSU Press for more than 80 years, isn’t an easy task, but co-editors Emily Nemens and Jessica Faust welcome the challenge. Nemens and Faust released the Review’s auFAUST tumn issue this month. Based out of Johnston Hall, the quarterly literary journal features poetry, fiction and nonfiction NEMENS prose. New and renowned local and international authors send work during the submission period. Nemens and Faust are the primary producers of the journal, with Nemens as the prose and art editor and Faust as the poetry editor. Their positions serve as full-time jobs for both. “There’s not many journals like this left in the country, in terms of professional quarterlies that are publishing really top-notch fiction,” Nemens said. The journal selects roughly one percent of work submitted, she said.
see REVIEW, page 2
RESEARCH
Ph.D. student teaches week-long intensive medical radiation course in Mexico BY ALLISON BRUHL @albruhl__ University medical physics Ph.D. student Lydia Jagetic joined her passion for research, teaching and travel over the summer in Ensenada, Mexico. She almost skimmed past the opportunity in an ad called “Outreach in Mexico” in a graduate student newsletter. “It was the very last thing, so I almost completely overlooked
it,” Jagetic said. “It was the day the application was due, but it all worked out.” “I’ve always been really interested in outreach and traveling and other cultures and things like that, so it was a perfect combination of everything that I love,” she said. “Once it caught my eye, I was sold on it.” Jagetic volunteered to teach a week-long intensive course for high school and college students
in Mexico on the uses of radiation in medicine. The course was organized by Clubes de Ciencia, a non-profit organization that aims to inspire and mentor the future generation of scientists and innovators in Mexico. “It was an amazing experience, absolutely incredible,” Jagetic said. The majority of her students spoke English fluently, except for
see RADIATION, page 2
LSU Ph.D. medical physics graduate Lydia Jagetic volunteered to teach high school and college students in Mexico the uses of medical radiation.
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