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Coroner confirms LSU students died of accidental drowning
BY FERNANDA ZAMUDIO-SUAREZ news@lsureveille.com East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner William “Beau” Clark gave a preliminary cause of death of accidental drowning for the two University graduate students who were found in a pool near Tigerland early Sunday morning. The students were 25-year-old Anton Joe and 28-year-old Ishita Maity. In the LSU Directory, both students were listed as graduate assistants in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. LSU Department of Physics and Astronomy chair Michael Cherry expressed his grief in a news release. “We are deeply saddened to learn of the unfortunate and tragic accident involving Anton and Ishita,” Cherry stated in the release. Toxicology samples were taken, but results will not be available for three weeks, Clark said.
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Honors College completes Safe Space training for LGBT students BY ROSE VELAZQUEZ rvelazquez@lsureveille.com The Roger Hadfield Ogden Honors College might be best known for fostering academic excellence within its select group of students. But these days, Honors College Dean Jonathan Earle is proud of a different kind of accomplishment, one that will make the college a safe haven for all students. On April 20, the 13 members of the Honors College staff completed Safe Space Training through the Office of Multicultural Affairs’ LGBTQ Project and Safe Space Campaign, making it the University’s first fully safe space-trained college staff. Safe Space Training is designed to teach people, including faculty, staff and students, the basics of understanding and interacting with the LGBT community.
“I think it sets a really good and productive precedent for other departments on campus,” said mass communication graduate student Tucker Barry, the University’s LGBTQ Project and Safe Space Campaign coordinator. “That way, you know, students that interact with all of the staff of the Honors College are going to be interacting with folks who are sort of culturally competent and are a safer space for LGBTQ students to confide in, to seek guidance from.” Barry conducted the Honors College training. The training is constructed to give people an opportunity to ask questions they might think are otherwise inappropriate, Barry said. It creates an environment that allows trainees to learn and grow as supporters and allies of their LGBT students without fear or hesitation.
People are often intimidated by the idea of talking about LGBT issues because they fear whether they are being “politically correct” or not, Barry said. “People have different amounts of knowledge about things like this, so sometimes it’s great to get everybody together on a staff and kind of review what we know, and in a really safe environment, talk about things that maybe we don’t know,” Earle said. University faculty and staff are interacting with LGBT students during a critical point in their lives when they are beginning to understand who they are, often for the first time, Barry said. Earle said he considers it to be a difficult time for LGBT students in Louisiana. While the University is welcoming and safe, it exists
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The Roger Hadfield Ogden Honors College staff completed the Safe Space training program as part of the Office of Multicultural Affair’s LGBTQ Project.