The Daily Reveille 9-19-16

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Volume 122 · No. 20

Monday, September 19, 2016

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CHARK WEEK

23 - 20

Junior wide receiver Chark earns first start, enjoys career day in Week 3 win

RYAN MCCARBLE / The Daily Reveille

Sec. of Education makes stop in Baton Rouge

BY WILLIAM TAYLOR POTTER Manship School News Service

BY JACOB HAMILTON @jac0b_hamilt0n

LSU senior wide receiver Travin Dural (83), junior wide receiver D.J. Chark (82) and junior quarterback Danny Etling (16) celebrate a touchdown during the Tigers 23-20 victory over Mississippi State on Saturday at Tiger Stadium.

STATE

After receiving critical acclaim from teammates and coaches alike during the last two spring football sessions, junior wide receiver D.J. Chark’s long-awaited breakthrough finally came on Saturday during LSU’s 23-20 victory against Mississippi State at Tiger Stadium. Chark reeled in a 37-yard strike from redshirt junior quarterback Danny Etling in the back of the endzone, jetting LSU (2-1, 1-0 Southeastern Conference) out to an early lead and its first points in the first quarter this season. The reception served both as Chark’s first career receiving touchdown. “I knew I had a deep post on the play, and I knew what [junior wide receiver Malachi Dupre’s] assignment was,” Chark said. “He did a good job for taking his guy, so it was one-on-one. And Danny threw a great ball. I was just trying to look in until the tuck, like coach always tells me, and try to get my feet inbounds.” Chark was targeted five times and finished with three catches for 52 yards and a touchdown. His performance booked him a ticket to the post-game media room. The soft-spoken speedster still isn’t used to the attention and offered a sheepish laugh while reporters flocked to his post. “Go D.J.!” senior and fellow wide receiver Travin Dural yelled from beyond the wall of reporters. Chark’s transcendence has been promised since the spring of 2015, following the former four-star prospect’s freshman season. But he only appeared in five games last year with no starts or catches. Then came “the play.” Chark’s jets were on display in last season’s Texas

Prior to a “fireside chat” with LSU President F. King Alexander, U.S. Education Secretary John B. King detailed to an auditorium full of reporters, students and higher education leaders his experience watching of Cameron Sterling, the 15-year-old son of Alton Sterling who was killed by police this summer, at a press conference. King said Cameron provided a glimpse of the “vast potential of every young person on every street and neighborhood” in America. “I watched this teen, who had just lost his father to sudden, shattering violence, call on Americans of every race and background to come together as one united family.” King’s appearance in Baton Rouge Friday came at the conclusion of the final leg of “Opportunity Across America” back-to-school bus tour. The tour also stopped in Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi and Virginia before cruising to Louisiana. Before speaking at the University, the secretary visited

see CHARK, page 2

see EDUCATION, page 2

ACADEMICS

LSU students perform at Festival Fringe in Scotland BY CJ CARVER @CWCarver_ Traveling more than 4,400 miles, students from the University participated in a study abroad program combining their learning with multiple performances in France and Scotland. In July, Associate Professor of Movement Nick Erickson and 14 students travelled to Edinburgh, Scotland, to perform their derived work called “SAVAGE/LOVE.” The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest arts festival in the world and consists of more than 50,000 performances of more than 3,000 shows in more than 250 venues all across Edinburgh. The students came together to develop this work which

consisted of spoken word, acting, dancing, aerial art and live video. “SAVAGE/LOVE” takes the play created by Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin, and uses its original poems, music and film to create the work performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe last July. “What we did, was we adapted the text, which is a collection of about 19 poems, that all were real or imagined moments in the spell of love,” Erickson said. “They’re all thematically connected. There wasn’t an overarching narrative or a story or a plot like you would normally expect in a regular stage play.” As the script was a

see FRINGE, page 2

courtesy of ANDY PHILLIPSON

Fourteen University students perform work based on the play ‘Savage/Love’ by Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in July.


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