The Daily Reveille - October 7, 2015

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2015

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• Wide receivers aim to overcome past woes, page 5 • Male yoga “Broga” feeble attempt to protect masculinity, page 8 • LSU, South Carolina game could be moved to neutral site due to flooding, page 11 @lsureveille

GREEK LIFE

Kappa Alpha house dad found dead

DIRTY LAUNDRY

Coroner said cause of death appears natural

ResLife laundry facility costs cover operation charges HASKELL WHITTINGTON / The Daily Reveille

Laundry machine prices inside the dorm rooms are set to $1.25 a load, totaling $5.00 to wash and dry two loads of laundry.

Residence Number of Hall washers Edward Gay Apartments Nicholson Apartments Broussard Blake Acadian Kirby Smith Pentagon McVoy Miller

13 17 6 8 5 24 6 6 7

Number of dryers

20 17 6 8 5 24 8 6 8

Residence Number of Hall washers Annie Boyd Evangeline Louise Garig Highland East Laville West Laville Herget Res college Cypress

5 6 2 5 9 10 11 25 12

Number of dryers

5 5 2 5 9 10 11 25 12

Volume 120 · No. 32

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BY JOSHUA JACKSON @Joshua_Jackson_ Ten quarters — or $2.50 — is the cost to wash and dry one load of laundry in an LSU residential hall laundry room. Depending on how often a student washes his or her clothes, the routine task can become a costly chore. Every on-campus living facility provides a laundry room or unit, but residents of the on-campus apartments have units installed directly in their apartments and do not have to pay to wash or dry loads, said Director of Housing for LSU Residential Life Karen Rockett. The LSU Department of Residential Life charges $1.25 per load to wash or dry in every Residence Hall. Students can only pay using TigerCASH or quarters. Rockett said the laundry facilities are under contract by laundry service company Caldwell and Gregory, which installs and maintains the machines. She said the money students pay

see LAUNDRY, page 11

BY QUINT FORGEY @QuintForgey The house dad of LSU’s Kappa Alpha chapter, 52-yearold Carlos McKnight, was found dead in the fraternity house Tuesday, according to an email from LSU Media Relations director Ernie Ballard. Ballard confirmed LSUPD officers and Baton Rouge EMS were dispatched at 12:17 p.m. on a medical call to the fraternity house, located at 19 Dalrymple Drive. McKnight was unresponsive, and determined dead on the scene. East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner William “Beau” Clark said the death appeared to be natural, but is still under investigation. He said he does not suspect any suspicious activity in the death. Kappa Alpha declined to comment at the time of press.

FACULTY SENATE

F. King Alexander, administrators censured in Buchanan case BY CAITIE BURKES @BurkesTDR The LSU Faculty Senate voted 39-5 in favor of the censure of LSU President F. King Alexander, Human Sciences and Education Dean Damon Andrew and former Provost Stuart Bell at its monthly meeting Tuesday afternoon. The symbolic measure is “one step short of a vote of no confidence,” Faculty Senate President Kevin Cope previously told The Daily Reveille. The Daily Reveille previously reported Faculty Senate’s decision to postpone the vote at its

last meeting Sept. 2. Between then and yesterday’s meeting, the Senate created an internal subcommittee to investigate the case in greater depth. The committee compiled a timeline of Alleged Administrative Violations regarding education professor Teresa Buchanan’s firing from the university in June 2015, beginning with complaints made in the 2011-12 academic year. Buchanan’s most notable complaints involving her classroom demeanor occurred from 2011-12, though she claimed she was under severe emotional distress. Andrew’s first formal

notice of her unsatisfactory performance was issued in December 2013, and her promotion was denied by Alexander and Bell in January 2014. The subcommittee recommended Buchanan be re-hired, but censured in writing for her inappropriate classroom behavior. The subcommittee also concluded she should be required to agree in writing to cease such behavior. According to the subcommittee’s findings, the verbal offenses, which violated sexual harassment policies PS-73 and PS-95,

OLIVIA RAMIREZ / The Daily Reveille

see SENATE, page 11

Members of the LSU faculty sat in on the Faculty Senate Meeting held on Tuesday in the Capitol Chamber of the LSU Student Union to vote on three university censures.


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