The Reveille 10-12-20

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LSU adjusts to new national Title IX regulations, including a revised decision-making process.

NEWS

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With new safety measures, LSU’s Christ the King Catholic Center is continuing inperson service amid COVID-19.

ENTERTAINMENT

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Students share their college experience during COVID-19; no group gatherings makes things feel abnormal.

SPORTS

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After a 1-2 start, LSU football seems to be in shambles. If the players are not to blame, who is?

OPINION

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REVISED REGULATIONS LSU releases new regulations addressing sexual harrassment under Title IX

BY JOSHUA ARCHOTE & NICK FREWIN @JArchote & @itsnickfrewin In May, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights released new regulations addressing University sexual harassment under Title IX, the law prohibiting sex discrimination at federally funded institutions.

This is the first major regulatory change to Title IX since 1975, and the first change to deal explicitly with sexual harassment.

The regulations went into effect on Aug. 14 for all federally funded colleges and universities.

The LSU Title IX Office sent an email Oct. 5 outlining the new regulations.

Here are the major changes to Title IX: Decision-making process In cases of formal sexual harassment allegations, colleges and universities are required to hold cross-examinations of both parties in live hearings led by institution officials. Cross-examination occurs between both parties’ advisers and any witnesses but not the parties themselves.

The Title IX Office no longer has jurisdiction over cases that occur between students off campus. Students will still be able to report these types of cases to the Title IX Office, but they will be directed to whomever has jurisdiction over the area in which the event occurred.

Colleges and universities can choose whether to use the “preponderance of evidence” or “clear and convincing” standard to determine guilt in sexual misconduct cases. LSU’s Title IX Office chose to continue using the preponderance of evidence standard, which sets a lower burden of proof on the complainant.

A complainant’s previous sexual history is irrelevant for investigations in higher education institutions.

Institutions are not required to respond to reports of sexual misconduct in a specific time frame.

Rather, they must have a “reasonably prompt” period for conducting the investigation process.

Definition of sexual harassment Examples of sexual assault under Title IX now officially include stalking, dating violence and domestic violence.

Sexual harassment is defined as “any unwelcome conduct that a reasonable person would find so severe, pervasive and objectively offensive that it denies a person equal educational access.”

However, reports of sexual assault, dating violence, domestic violence and stalking do not need to meet these standards.

These key areas will remain the same:

The definition of Responsible Employee and reporting obligations remain the same.

“Our campuses will continue to use the Preponderance of the Evidence standard,” the LSU guidelines read.

“We will continue to respond to concerns of sexual assault, stalking, dating and domestic violence, retaliation and any other behavior of a sexual nature that is severe, pervasive and objectively offensive.”

Supportive measures and information about reporting options are available to any party who identifies as harmed whether the individual decides to file a formal complaint or not, according to the new guidelines.

LSU Title IX Coordinator Jennie Stewart and Vice President of Student Affairs Jeremiah Shinn spoke with student leaders in a virtual town hall about the Title IX changes.

Stewart assured students that the University will still receive the resources it needs in cases of sexual misconduct and that students have multiple avenues to report sexual misconduct.

“If someone is seeking help, our responsibility is to share with them the menu of options,” Stewart said. “What I see as advocacy and empowering people is letting them know their options and not providing additional barriers to people.”

Shinn said the Office of Student Affairs will continue to promote an environment where students can access the resources they need.

“We want to be sure that we’ve created environments that are promoting a sense of mattering and belonging among students so that there’s always a place to go to find out what the next step is,” Shinn said. “We want to make sure our staff is knowledgeable about how to help students in the way that the student wants to be helped in that moment.”

In the past, some LSU students have had trouble reporting sexual assaults to the Title IX Office.

Construction management senior Fazil Khan tried to report a sexual assault perpetrated by another LSU student to Title IX twice last year.

“I wanted to report it to the University, but it felt like they were trying to delay it rather than taking any action on it,” Khan said. “I don’t know what they wanted me to do. I was expecting the University to take some action against the guy. They were not proactive, they wanted me to put the energy in to do everything.”

Khan does believe the Lighthouse Program the University provides for sexual assault victims was helpful in providing counseling services but was dismayed over the lack of action taken by

the University toward punishing the student.

“They [the Lighthouse Program] helped set me up with a counseling service, and it did make things better for me,” Khan said. “But there was nothing ever done against the perpetrator.”

The Lighthouse Program helps students obtain medical care and gather evidence collection in addition to providing counseling, but its services are only available Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sexual assault evidence needs to be collected within 72 hours for peek accuracy, according to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network.

The second time Khan went to report the incident and get the perpetrator to face punishment from the University, he was told that the University could not do anything because the student had graduated.

“One time they said, ‘We are going to find out where he is working and report the incident to his human resources department,’” Khan said. “But I honestly don’t think they ever did any of that stuff.”

While Khan had attempted to get action through the University and Title IX, he was referred to LSUPD to make a report, but Khan, who is an international student on a visa, was not comfortable with going to the police.

“I wanted to go through the University to take action first because I’m an international student,” Khan said. “I don’t really know how things work around here, but I knew I didn’t want to be involved with police matters.

I was really hesitant, but because Title IX and going through the University isn’t working, I became ready to go to the police.”

Sexual offenses reported by LSUPD have remained low over the past few years. The latest Fire and Safety report indicates 10 sexual offenses reported oncampus in 2017, including both forcible and non-forcible, and eight in 2016 and 10 in 2017. Off campus numbers are lower – only one sexual offense was recorded in 2017, 0 in 2016 and 1 in 2015.

Few sexual offenses have been reported in 2020 so far, according to the LSUPD crime log.

Two incidences of improper communications/stalking/harassment occurred on campus that month, and one incident of dating violence, also on campus. January, February, March and June reported one sexual offense each, with all but one occurring off campus. The LSUPD report did not specify whether these offenses were forcible or nonforcible.

Approximately 19% of women and 5-6% of men will experience sexual assault during college, according to the Title IX website; however, only 12% of victims re-

port to the police. Common reasons for not reporting include not wanting others to know, lack of proof, fear of retaliation and fear of being treated poorly by the criminal justice system.

“I felt like they were trying to suppress it, the whole thing,” Khan said. “Specifically what I would want changed is for them to actually give options to victims, because when I went they kept the whole process really vague.”

“I wish they would have told me I can go to the cops or get a lawyer or something, but they didn’t,” Khan said. “They didn’t tell me anything. They took down the report. I provided all the evidence of what had occurred, and nothing ever happened. They didn’t tell me what could be done, it was like they wanted me to find out what could be done and act on it myself.”

Many aspects of the regulations were left up to universities and colleges to interpret. Co-presidents of Tigers Against Sexual Assault Angelina Cantelli and Angel Upshaw said LSU did well in this area.

“What I want everyone to remember is that these are federal regulations that have changed.

It’s not like LSU wanted to change all of this,” Upshaw said. “I don’t think these changes will highly affect LSU per say just because we have an amazing Title IX coordinator right now.

“I think LSU has done fairly well with keeping a lot of the former regulations to Title IX and not adapting too much of the new ones. The ones where they did have to choose, they’ve been choosing wisely.”

Cantelli said previous controversy around sexual assault at LSU has been with the enforcement of punishments for students who were found in violation of the Title IX rules.

“From things I’ve heard from the campus community and survivors who’ve reported to LSU, I think many of their issues don’t come from the Title IX office,” Cantelli said.

After an investigation is finished, the Title IX office will suggest appropriate punishments for the accused person if they are determined to be in violation of Title IX rules.

“Some survivors had issues with that recommendation actually being implemented by other departments on campus,” Cantelli said.

Cantelli and Upshaw agreed that although the new regulations were negative overall, there were certain positive aspects, such as complainants’ sexual history being irrelevant in investigations, and the expansion of the definition of sexual assault.

Taylor Ellis also contributed to this report.

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NEWS

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LSU’s COVID-19 dashboard receives C- grade from Yale

BY CAITIE ZEILMAN @caitiezeilman

PRAY-AT-HOME ORDER

more and churchgoer Ann Madison Jones said she felt safe and informed attending Mass. Precautions were followed and enforced while allowing social distancing, Jones said.

“It was very easy to adhere by the guidelines at CTK,” Jones said.

“There were people at the door directing us . . . each separate group of people was instructed where to

LSU updated its COVID-19 reporting dashboard shortly after one study ranked it last in the SEC for transparency.

The Yale ranking gave colleges and universities a letter grade on an A++ to F scale based on the type and extent of COVID-19-related information provided to the public via the dashboard.

LSU received a grade of C- on Sept. 5.

The University has since upgraded its dashboard to include the total number of tests administered on campus and the number of students in isolation and quarantine. The site also now specifies how many active positive cases there are among employees and students.

The We Rate COVID Yale ranking has not yet updated LSU’s ranking in consideration of the latest changes.

Previously, the dashboard only included the total number of positive cases within the LSU community.

The upgraded website is still

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How is Christ the King managing social distancing in its services?

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LSU students leave Mass Sept. 12 at Christ the King Church on LSU’s campus.

BY EMMA ZIRGIBEL @EZirgibel Campus churches are adjusting to COVID restrictions limiting social gatherings. Christ the King Catholic Center is allowing people to attend in-person services while still streaming 10 a.m. Mass.

The Rev. Andrew Merrick said CTK was shut down temporarily but implemented strict safety protocols upon reopening.

“We have a limited capacity because of [social distancing],” Merrick said.

Despite the restrictions and threat of COVID-19, people are still managing to attend church — so much so that an extra Mass time was added.

“Considering other churches, we’ve had a good number of people coming to the point where we’ve had to add a Mass,” Merrick said. “But, there are all in all less

people coming.”

CTK was forced to make numerous adjustments to reopen and remain safe. Ushers are now necessary to direct seating, making sure groups sit three chairs apart. Additionally, Missals and Bibles were removed in favor of a QR code. Finally, ushers follow during communion to sanitize if hands touch and a cleaning crew sanitizes pews after Mass.

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FACULTY

Graduate workers on LSU’s campus are overworked, underpaid

BY NICK FREWIN @itsnickfrewin

Every student that goes through the University is at some point instructed by a TA, a graduate student who has gained an assistantship from the University to assistant in educating students, usually in entry level classes. Graduate students can gain assistantship in five different forms, as a TA1, TA2, TA3, RA or SA. A campaign under the name of #FierceFees has revealed the financial struggles imposed upon these graduate students with by the University, with around 20% of graduate student stipends being paid back to the University.

English graduate student Anna McGill was not aware of the exact amount of money she would be paying back to the University when she first took the job.

“My issue was, there was no information about how much the fees were. My first year, the fees were 25% of my stipend,” McGill said. “So, I had to pay a significant portion of that already small number back to the University.”

A graduate student, who spoke to The Reveille on the condition of anonymity, said graduate students are not adequately compensated for their academic contributions.

“We do research, we teach a ton of classes; most introductory classes are taught by TAs. We are paying students, yes, but we are also part time employees of the University, and in exchange for that we receive a tuition exemption, which is great, but what we get paid is barely above the poverty line,” the student said.

The average person in East Baton Rouge needs $20,856 to afford housing, food and healthcare, according to a 2019 report from the Advocate.

McGill said in her department, graduate students usually start off with an annual salary of $17,000, but the four or five thousand dollars they pay in fees makes a “huge difference.”

“And that doesn’t even include health insurance, because I assumed it was offered in my offer of employment,” McGill said.

In the offer of employment, students are told their workload would be around 20 hours a week. This is confirmed by the University’s statement on graduate assistantships, which states graduate assistants are primarily students and their appointments may not exceed 50% of full-time effort (that is, twenty hours per week) without the approval of the Dean of the Graduate School.

Interim Associate Dean of the Graduate School Carol Whicks said graduate students’ hours

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The textbook section appears empty on Oct. 6 at Barnes and Noble at LSU on 2 Union Square.

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page 4 CHURCHES, from page 3 sit and how far away from [others].”

Though there has been some criticism directed at churchgoers, Merrick said he didn’t quite understand the backlash.

“We have been following the guidelines that the CDC and the state are asking us to follow and it’s really safe,” Merrick said.

“There are two extremes.

You could live in extreme fear or you could be careless and treat [COVID-19] like

it doesn’t exist. The Catholic church believes we need to take care of ourselves. We take care of our physical health but not to the point that it takes over our spiritual health.”

Still, Merrick cautioned at-risk individuals from coming to Mass, instead suggested streaming the services online.

“People at health risk or who may be a certain age need to make a decision if it’s best for them to stay home,” Merrick said. “For the people who are healthy, we think it’s a really safe environment.”

DASHBOARD, from page 3 updated at the same rate, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Engineering freshman Kenneth Tartleton voiced his frustration with the University’s approach to the virus.

“I still believe the time it took the University to give us this data was well overdue,” Tartleton said.

“And it’s weird to me that they released it a day before the first football game.”

Ohio State University received the only A+ rating on the list.

The Buckeyes’ dashboard features the availability of quarantine and isolation space, personal protective equipment and cleaning protocols. In addition, the site is updated every 24 hours.

Ohio State requires students to

“... the time it took for the University to give us this data was well overdue.”

KENNETH TARTLETON Engineering freshman

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Students wait on Sept. 12 as they are shown to their seats at Christ the King Church on LSU’s campus.

GRADUATE, from page 3 may fluctuate.

“A 50% graduate assistantship is considered 20 hours a week, and you might not average that over a couple weeks; one week you might have to grade a bunch of assignments and work 30 hours that week but the next you only have 10, but it would average over the semester,” Whicks said. “It’s not a common issue, they don’t bubble a up a lot.”

McGill said the official contract mandates a 20-hour work week.

“I do not know really any graduate student who works only 20 hours a week, often it’s double that,” McGill said.

A graduate student in the College of Science, who spoke to The Reveille on the condition of anonymity, also knows of cases of graduate students working well beyond the 20 hours a week set by the University.

“They said in the offer email, ‘your expected student workload is 20 hours a week,’” the student said. “It’s not unusual to hear of some students working 40 hours a week, sometimes even 50-60 hours, especially in some of the more lab-based sciences.”

Last year the graduate school hosted a town hall to discuss these issues that graduate students were presenting, with Executive Vice President and Provost Stacia Haynie, talking

to students directly. Haynie explained the University’s reasoning for increasing fees and how it affected graduate students with assistantships.

“When the state started disinvesting in higher education, institutions started to increase fees. We were not given tuition autonomy, but we were given the ability to raise fees,” Haynie said.

“Unfortunately, what that meant for graduate students is that they were paying more. This was essentially a fee replacing tuition, and graduate students should have been exempted from that.”

The University made steps toward answering graduate students’ problems in recent years, with Haynie speaking on the process of working together to solve these issues.

“So, what we did, and this is working with Student Government, without doubt ‘Fierce Fees’ was the priority,” Haynie said. “To eliminate graduate students from paying for the student excellence fees.”

The University has also improved on the transparency on fees and other areas in the offer letters to graduate students, with the graduate school providing departments with a sample letter to go from.

“We got all the offer letters, and we decided what common elements we as a graduate school need you to put in your offer letter,” Whicks said. “The name of

The University’s COVID-19 dashboard was updated to include more information on Sept. 25.

be tested on campus weekly and “regularly” tests students living off campus.

Many universities among the top of the list also featured information on the spread of COVID-19 in the area outside the campus community. For Ohio State, this includes daily cases in Ohio and Franklin County as well as

hospital capacity.

Twenty colleges and universities received an A rating, including Tulane University, Yale, Harvard and the University of Michigan.

The majority of schools received a B rating, at a total of 46 universities.

Five universities received a C

minus rating alongside LSU. Tarleton said he believes students should continue to voice their opinions on how they think LSU is doing.

“The only way things can improve is through listening to criticism and learning how to get better,” Tarleton said.

the fees wasn’t clear in the offer letters and wasn’t clear to the inbound graduate students, so we identified the language we needed to use and in turn standardized the letters.”

While McGill acknowledges the University has started to

move in the right direction, she still wants to know how the University, and specifically Haynie, is consulting with graduate students about these issues. She believes the University would fail without its graduate workers.

“I’m interested in how

[Haynie] intends to advocate and protect graduate workers in the future and what kind of feedback she is getting back from graduate students,” McGill said. “The work that graduate students do is essential to how the University runs.”

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The textbook section is empty on Oct. 6 at Barnes and Noble at LSU.

ENTERTAINMENT SAD SOCIAL LIVES

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Let’s hear it for the students: social lives during a pandemic

BY CAROLINE HEBERT @sister_carols A global pandemic halting college students’ social lives was never on the agenda for the 2020 – 2021 school year and to say the least, LSU students are devastated.

Charles Lobrano, a political science junior, expressed how the lack of social interactions due to COVID-19 has taken away certain experiences that all college students should be able to encounter.

“College isn’t just about school,” Lobrano said. “It’s about learning to live on your own alongside your peers. It’s about getting certain necessary experiences that are [crucial] to living in the ‘best years of your life.’”

Although college ultimately

revolves around getting a degree, students look forward to fun weekends after a week of work.

Not having fun social gatherings to compensate for their hard work can lead students to have a lack of effort when it comes to classes, Charles said.

Even though football season is in full swing, Madison Ready, a communication disorders junior, still felt game days are missing that special feeling we’ve all felt when supporting the LSU Tigers.

“Saturday [Sept. 26] was the first game day of the 2020 football season, and it was honestly heartbreaking,” Ready said. “Without the tailgates, the hype up music and seeing everyone dressed in purple and gold, it didn’t even feel like the Tigers were playing in Tiger Stadium that day. I’ve never seen campus and Tiger Sta-

dium so bare on a game day.”

It’s sad to hear the disappointment in students’ voices as they express how much they miss game days in Death Valley. Evan Walsh, a sports administration sophomore, explained how celebrating the LSU Tigers on game day is important to all students at the university.

“There is nothing better than going to a college game day at Death Valley on Saturday night with your great group of friends and then celebrating more after,” Walsh said. “Students miss the liveliness of the campus that draws you back every day.”

With classes mainly online, campus is quite sad. The absence of students on campus and in Tiger Stadium makes Maddy Murret, a junior in mass communication, miss the exciting feeling the

university once brought her.

“Being from such a big SEC school, I know firsthand college students were very excited to get back and support our team again to another national championship,” Murret said. “So, not being able to come together and be one with our whole LSU community has been hard.”

Missing tailgates, games and other social events is a hard pill to swallow as the final college years are approaching for juniors and seniors.

“Being a junior in college, having the coronavirus take away one of my last years in college was devastating to learn,” Ready said. “College is supposed to be the best and most fun years of life that you’ll talk about forever.

It’s hard to stay optimistic about missing out on so many things

that were planned for this year that are simply being canceled due to the virus.”

Lobrano feels strongly that the virus has taken over our college experience and has left people unsure of how to fix it.

“No tailgating, no parties, no bars, no crowds at any events,” Lobrano explains. “This is upsetting for every college student and is hard to cope with. For every college student or student in general, the pandemic has provided a time period that hasn’t been experienced before by recent generations and that’s the problem. No one knows what to do.”

LIFESTYLE

Five apps to help you stay off your phone and boost productivity

BY ARIEL BAISE @arielbiancaa

Can’t stay off your phone? Is TikTok taking too much of your time?

Social media and games are designed to keep you engaged and slightly addicted.

Instead of throwing your phone into a Kitchen Safe container or going cold turkey, ease your way into not picking it up when you should be doing something productive.

Here are five apps you can use to help with increasing productivity that reward you for not using your phone:

1. Forest If you ever wanted to grow your own virtual, cute forest, “Forest” has you covered. I use this app to grow cat-shaped trees.

With this app you set the timer for how long you want to be off your phone.

There are two options available: Deep Focus and Regular Focus. If you leave the app in Deep Focus, your tree will die — even if you answer the phone for an emergency or when you’ve focused for nearly 85 minutes and have five measly minutes left.

A good thing about “Forest” is the app partnered with Trees for the Future, a real tree-planting organization, and has planted nearly 900,000 trees so far.

Forest is a paid app available for only $1.99 on the macOS and iOS App Store as well as the Google Play Store and Google Chrome Web Store.

3. Freedom 2. Flora “Flora” is another rewards app where you plant trees or flowers.

This app might replace Forest as my to-go productivity app. Flora allows you to invite friends and see how well they are doing with a feed and stories. Unlike Forest, you can choose when you have a break and it allows you to leave the app. However, your time deducts from your assigned time.

The wildest part about “Flora” is the Flora Price feature, where you challenge yourself by setting a price anywhere from $5 to $100.

If you kill a plant — a.k.a leave the app — you are going to be charged. But your money help tree planting organizations across the world. If you prevail, you receive a special prize.

“Flora” is free and is available on the iOS App Store, Google Play Store and Google Chrome Web Store.

“Freedom” is probably the most extensive app I mention, being that it can do more than all the apps combined on this list. It blocks the Internet, provides coffee shop sounds, allows you to schedule your sessions and syncs across devices. This app also has specific websites and apps preprogrammed to block, such as Netflix, Amazon and Twitter.

However, it does require you to pay before you can use the actual app after downloading it.

The free trial only allows seven sessions, which all can be used in a day (and by accident in my case).

“Freedom” is free to download on the macOS and iOS App Store, Google Play, and Google Chrome Web Store. Its subscription options are monthly ($6.99), annual ($29.99) and forever ($129). New users can get a 30% discount on yearly or forever plans.

4. Be Focused “Be Focused” Pomodoro Timer has been one of the most effective timers for students. The Pomodoro Technique uses timed intervals, typically between 25 minutes, and each break is separated by short five minute breaks.

“Be Focused” allows you to customize the timed intervals and break times. This app, personally, helped me survive summer classes. In between each break I would either clean, get a snack or do a quick workout. Sadly, there is no actual reward unless you count getting your work done.

“Be Focused” has a free and premium version ($4.99) which are available on iOS and macOS App Stores.

5. StayFocused “StayFocused” and I have a love-hate relationship. Though it has helped me cut back on all social media, it is a pain sometimes.

“StayFocused” gives you the option to choose how many minutes a day you want to spend on timewasting websites. Once the time is up, the sites will be blocked with no way around it until midnight.

Where “StayFocused” fails is its ability to block random websites that are not on your “Blocked Website” list. It even blocks itself, which I find annoyingly comical.

It also is stricter than time itself.

If you want to add more time to your Daily Allowed Time, it will prompt humorous messages convincing you not to. I don’t recommend it for beginners because you will probably experience withdrawal symptoms in the first few days of using it.

It’s available for free with optional donations on the Google Chrome Web Store.

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DOUBLE TROUBLE

A “Tigers” bench sits with tennis equipment on Oct. 3.

LSU men’s tennis freshman Ben Koch tries to break his racket after losing a point during his and senior Malik Bhatnagar’s 8-4 loss against junior Boris Kozlov and junior Nick Watson in the second match on Oct. 3.

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LSU men’s tennis sophomore Ronald Hohmann and senior Rafael Wagner won 8-5 in the doubles semifinal on the second day of the Oliver Borsos Invitational in the LSU Tennis Complex on Oct. 3.

LSU men’s tennis junior Boris Kozlov gets ready to hit the ball during his and junior Nick Watson’s 8-6 win in the first match on Oct. 3.

LSU men’s tennis junior Boris Kozlov gets ready for the next serve during his and junior Nick Watson’s 8-4 win against senior Malik Bhatnagar and freshman Ben Koch on Oct. 3.

LSU men’s tennis sophomore Ronald Hohmann cheers during his and senior Rafael Wagner’s 8-5 win in the second match on Oct. 3.

LSU men’s tennis junior Boris Kozlov cheers after winning a point during his and junior Nick Watson’s 8-4 win against senior Malik Bhatnagar and freshman Ben Koch on Oct 3.

LSU men’s tennis junior Boris Kozlov throws the ball up to serve during his and junior Nick Watson’s 8-4 win against senior Malik Bhatnagar and freshman Ben Koch on Oct. 3.

LSU men’s tennis junior Nick Watson hits the ball during his and junior Boris Kozlov’s 8-6 win in the first match on Oct. 3.

LSU men’s tennis freshman Tom Pisane and sophomore Tomas Descarrega high five on Oct. 3.

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SPORTS Auburn (14) 2-1 Alabama (2) 3-0

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Arkansas Kentucky 1-2 1-2

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Ole Miss Tennessee 1-2 (18) 3-0

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Mississippi State 1-2 Georgia (3) 2-1

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Missouri 1-2

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South Carolina 1-2

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THE BLAME GAME

Column: The wrong people are answering for LSU’s terrible performances JARED BRODTMANN @_therealjarbear In a court of law, when a plaintiff brings a case against a defendant, the defendant hires a defense attorney to argue for him, protect him against calls for justice from the prosecuting lawyer, and ultimately bring the jury and judge to believe in his innocence or ability to be responsible.

This is not a court of law.

The persons of interest, namely Myles Brennan and Terrace Marshall Jr., being asked to speak for the atrocious performances by the LSU defense should not be the defense attorneys of their teammates on the other side of the ball. This responsibility rests on the shoulders of the coaches and players who have given up 623 yards to Mississippi State and 586 yards to Missouri in the first three weeks of the season.

It starts with Head Coach Ed Orgeron, who has had to sit

on the post-game podium and take the fall for his defense’s mistakes. He has shown the accountability Tiger fans are asking for and continues to do so, but he has sheltered his players from criticism.

“It was just all on the defense,” Orgeron said after LSU lost to Missouri, 45-41. “We’ve got to get it fixed. We’ve got to stay together. We can’t blame it on the players. I told the players I’ve got to coach better. We’ve got to coach better on defense.

That’s the second time we’ve given up so many yards and so many points. It’s just not LSU defense.”

It is reasonable to not place the full blame on the players.

In both losses, the LSU scheme has put players out of the play before they realize it. JaCoby Stevens had mentioned in previous weeks the players’ inability to pass along crossing routes in man coverage, for example. As a result, receivers keep finding themselves in space to make plays, giving Mississippi State

see COLUMN, page 10

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Four chances.

One yard.

‘We didn’t finish.’

BY NATASHA MALONE @malone_natasha

L.G. PATTERSON / Associated Press

LSU quarterback Myles Brennan heads off the field as members of the Missouri Tigers celebrate an LSU turnover on downs in the final seconds of an NCAA college football game Oct. 10 in Columbia, Missouri. Missouri upset LSU 45-41.

An early morning start and a last-minute change of location did not prevent the Tigers’ offense from coming out the gates hot, but lack of execution when the game was on the line made all the difference as LSU fell to Missouri, 41-45.

With an first offensive drive that was composed of 10 plays, with Myles Brennan going a perfect 6-for-6, Arik Gilbert hauling in four catches for 59 yards, including a crucial fourth down conversion to keep the drive alive, the offensive looked to be clicking in all the right ways.

The drive was then capped off by a six-yard touchdown reception in the back of the end zone by Terrace Marshall Jr. off a strike from Brennan. There is

see OFFENSE, page 10

FOOTBALL

LSU loses to Mizzou: How an unlikely loss became inevitable

BY RECE BEAUGH @recebeaugh In a weird year, LSU had a weird week.

Its game against Missouri that was supposed to be played at 8 p.m. on Saturday in Baton Rouge was played at 11 a.m. in Columbia, Missouri. Despite these changes, the most unlikely result of the entire week was LSU’s 45-41 loss to Missouri.

As unlikely as the loss seemed, one look at the stat sheet reveals how it became inevitable. For starters, Missouri gained 586 total yards as compared to LSU’s 479. Missouri finished with 180 yards rushing while LSU only had 49. LSU was 0-10 on third down conversions, while Missouri was 5-10. These statistics turned the game from a false reality into a nightmare.

The defense for LSU, or lack thereof, was the story of the day.

Fans were not the only ones upset

with the play on the defensive side of the ball though. LSU Head Coach Ed Orgeron was equally frustrated.

“This loss was all on the defense,” Orgeron said. “We’ve got to get it fixed. Whatever it is, we’ve got to get it fixed.”

Missouri freshman quarterback Connor Bazelak torched the LSU defense in his first career start.

He finished 29-of-34 for 406 yards passing and four touchdowns. Senior running back Larry Rountree added 119 yards rushing on 18 attempts to lead the ground game for Mizzou.

Although the Bo Pelini defense was flat-out beat for the second time in three weeks, Orgeron still believes the best is yet to come for the defensive coordinator and his squad, but not without major improvement.

“I love Bo (Pelini). He’s going to be a great defensive coordinator,

see PELINI, page 10

L. G. PATTERSON / Associated Press

Missouri wide receiver Chance Luper (18) runs past LSU cornerback Derek Stingley Jr. during the second half of an NCAA college football game Oct. 10 in Columbia, Missouri. Missouri upset LSU 45-41.

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OFFENSE, from page 9 not much more you could have asked for to start out a game offensively.

Brennan eclipsed the 400 yard mark for the first time this season, totaling 430 yards through the air today, with an offense averaging seven yards a play, but it was still not enough.

Down four with just over five minutes to play, the Tigers leaned on what had been working for them all day: the passing game.

LSU was able to quickly and efficiently maneuver its way down the field, with a combination of strikes from Brennan to Marshall and Gilbert. On the final drive of the game, Marshall

COLUMN, from page 9 quarterback K.J. Costello and Missouri quarterback Connor Bazelak 10.4 and 11.9 yards per attempt, respectively. While there have been missed tackles and some inexcusable blown assignments, the scheme continues to put players in bad positions.

There is a complete lack of understanding from the coaches of how to use the players’ strengths to succeed. There have been no adjustments made to suggest that they do understand.

If the players are not to blame, this leaves the other coaches liable.

Which begs the question: Where is Bo Pelini?

Brennan and Marshall were the players called on to face the media. Brennan threw at a 2948 clip, for 430 yards and four touchdowns. Marshall was on the receiving end of 11 of those passes, for 235 yards and three of the touchdowns. They more than carried their load.

But you would not know it from their selfless responses.

“You only get stronger through adversity, and I think we’re going through some adverse situations right now,” Brennan said. “We’re going to fight, and we’re going to keep fighting week to week. We’re going to get into the meeting room and the film room, and we’re go-

As displeased as he was with the result of the game, Brennan said the team has no intention of throwing in the towel on this season and will only get stronger because of the loss.

“You only get stronger through adversity. We are going through some adversity right now,” Brennan said. “We are going to get stronger. We are going to fight.”

Ultimately, LSU was outplayed

by Missouri on both sides of the ball, resulting in a loss not many expected.

Receiver Terrace Marshall summed up the loss best.

“The world isn’t perfect,” he said. “You’re going to have good and bad days. Today was one of those days.

Missouri outplayed us.”

hauled in four passes for 50 yards with the last going for 13, setting up LSU all the way down to the Missouri one-yard line.

Four chances, one yard.

With the game on the line, the offensive scheme took a change of course, and directed its sights on something that had not been successfully utilized all day: the ground game.

The Tigers put the ball in the hands of sophomore running back Tyrion Davis-Price, but he was stuffed at the one-yard line for no gain on back-to-back occasions, leaving the Tigers with two more opportunities to score if they wanted to leave Missouri victorious.

On third-and-goal from the one, Brennan attempted to find

Marshall in the corner, but his pass was deflected at the line by what could be Missouri’s next first-round draft pick, Nick Bolton.

Brennan tried to put the ball back in his playmakers hands but failed to connect to his go-to man on back-to-back plays.

With one play left, Marshall ran an out route in the endzone, but Marshall could not haul in the pass.

“We didn’t execute. We didn’t finish,” Brennan said on the goal line stand.

“The world isn’t perfect.

You’re going to have good days, bad days. Today was one of those days. They just came out there and outplayed us,” Marshall said.

ing to fix the things we need to fix. We’re going to stick together as a team. We’re going to move forward.”

“The world is not perfect,” Marshall said. “You’re going to have your good days, and you’re going to have your bad days, and today was just one of those where Missouri just came out there and outplayed us.”

Why are they being sent to answer for the awful defense put on the field by Pelini? Why isn’t the veteran coach, who has held head coaching positions at Nebraska and Youngstown State, sitting beside them in the courtroom on trial?

In Dave Aranda’s four years as defensive coordinator, LSU’s defense only allowed an eight yard per play average once, the 2019 Ole Miss game, per Brody Miller of the Athletic. Pelini’s defense has done it twice in three games.

Orgeron still supports his defensive coordinator.

“I love Bo,” he said. “I think Bo’s going to be a great defensive coordinator. He’s done it before, but we have to get better.”

Eventually, the constant routine of Brennan and company taking the blows after bad defensive games will grow tiresome. Fans will want answers from those directly responsible, not the people who are doing their jobs.

Missouri wide receiver Tauskie Dove (86) runs with the ball as LSU cornerback Derek Stingley Jr. defends during the first half of an NCAA college football game Oct. 10 in Columbia, Missouri.

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PELINI, from page 9 but we have to get better. We have to coach better on defense,” Orgeron said.

One bright spot for LSU was Myles Brennan. Although at times the offense did not play well as a whole, Brennan played exactly the way an SEC quarterback should play, win or lose. He finished 29of-48 with 430 yards passing and four touchdowns with no interceptions. Without his strong play, the game could have been much worse. But Brennan was the first to say how displeased he was with the offense.

“Personally, we have a lot to fix offensively,” Brennan said. “We didn’t execute on third down like we needed to.”

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Gameday regulations prove cash is paramount to safety SPILL THE TEA WITH MARIE MARIE PLUNKETT

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On Monday, Oct. 5, students of the University received an email with the subject line “Alcohol Sales Permitted at Tiger Stadium.”

I briefly glanced at the email before marking it as read, as I had no intention of visiting Tiger Stadium this season and had more pressing emails to read regarding midterms (and study groups and Zoom calls).

It wasn’t until the following day, when I saw a related article in the Advocate, that I finally put it all together: the administration had casually slipped critical information about new, looser COVID-19 policies in-between banal paragraphs about alcohol sales.

The University didn’t have that many restrictions in place to begin with, but now the CDC

wellness check would “no longer be required for entry into Tiger Stadium.”

Apparently to the administration, “listening to” fans is more important than protecting them.

Filling out a wellness check is a little inconvenient and puts a tiny bit of a damper on game day, but maybe that isn’t such a bad thing; we all need to be reminded now and then that this pandemic is still a threat. Just because an individual hasn’t contracted COVID-19 or lost a loved one doesn’t mean the virus is suddenly gone or any less dangerous.

Honestly — I get it. I’m tired of this, too. I’ve barely written about anything non-COVID-19 related since the University cancelled classes in March and sent us all online.

I know everyone is suffering from compassion fatigue and just wants to get back to “normal,” but that isn’t a realistic option anymore. Even if “normal” still exists, we are nowhere close to getting

back there.

Eliminating policies meant to help contract-tracing and ensure the safety of the LSU community may seem like a step in the right direction but it’s going to set us back in the long run.

Even our administration recognizes how dangerous its decision could turn out to be, as evidenced by a second email sent on Oct. 6 urging students to get tested “at least once a month.”

The proximity between the two emails can’t be a coincidence.

Obviously, encouraging students to get tested is a good thing, but by acknowledging that it’s well aware of students neglecting testing in order to avoid getting positive test results and having to quarantine and miss events, the University basically just admitted it’s only loosening these restrictions to make money.

The University could have easily continued to enforce the CDC wellness check before entry and could have even started enforc-

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ing mandatory monthly testing as many have suggested; instead it sent out an email asking students to get tested.

No mandate, no change— nothing but an extra layer of protection for the administration

to point to when an inevitable spike in new cases hits in a few weeks.

Marie Plunkett is a 21-year-old classical studies senior from New Orleans.

University needs to reexamine its Title IX procedures GOING SOUTH TAMIA SOUTHALL

@tamiabrem_

The University may claim a commitment to ending sexual assault on campus, but how committed is it to actually keeping its promises to students?

The University’s protocol for handling sexual assault cases is known as its Title IX policy. Once an assault is reported, the Title IX campus coordinator, Jennie Stewart, follows up with the survivor

to determine whether or not an investigation will be necessary. If so, the Title IX investigator will proceed with a formal investigation, gathering evidence to draft a summary report.

The summary report includes the investigator’s guilty or innocent verdict. In addition, the Title IX campus coordinator also offers her own guilty or innocent verdict. Both verdicts can be appealed by the respondent or the complainant. Then the case goes to the University’s Student Advocacy & Accountability Office to be reviewed and given a final

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verdict.

If all three verdicts are appealed, the survivor has the choice to either dismiss the case or move forward with a formal resolution which includes a prehearing conference and panel hearing. The hearing consists of three to five University employees and students, wherein parties can present evidence and provide witnesses for cross-examination.

According to LSU’s Title IXstatement, “Students found responsible for violating this policy may expect the range of sanctions to include, but not be limited to, disciplinary probation, deferred suspension, suspension, expulsion, psychological assessment, counseling, social restrictions, limited presence on campus, revocation of admission or degree.”

All of that sounds great on paper, but it’s proven to be essentially useless in practice. Sexual assault survivors on our campus often go through this painful, extensive process and get no justice. Too many cases have just fallen through the cracks.

I spoke with one student, who only agreed to speak on the basis of anonymity, who said many who go through this hopeless process express feeling mis-

treated by the administration and believe the University’s consistent suggestion to ‘seek therapy’ is simply a way to get claimants to dismiss their cases so they can be swept under the rug.

Victims dread speaking with administration, as the University handles cases like it couldn’t care whether justice is served.

Victims have gone through this process with clear evidence to support their claims and still received no justice. One woman I spoke to, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity, had a written confession from her attacker, yet the only punishment he served was a deferred suspension.

Under a deferred suspension, the attacker can still roam freely around campus, with the only stipulation being that they’ll be suspended if they violate University policy again.

How is that supposed to make victims feel? It’s as if their cases don’t really matter to the University.

The student I spoke to described the joy and hope she felt when she found out her attacker had received guilty verdicts, only to be let down when she realized he would still walk free.

Throughout this process, she

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went through panic attacks and nightmares reliving her attack, hoping to keep other people safe from her assaulter.

And victims are not even protected from their attackers on campus. The student in question requested her attacker be removed from any classes she was also enrolled in and her request was denied. The administration offered to remove her from the courses instead.

Sexual assault survivors on our campus cannot even go to class without potentially running into triggers. The University doesn’t keep a public record of students who have committed these crimes, which would helpkeep other potential victims safe.

Our administration has proven it cannot effectively deal with sexual assault cases on campus.

The University should not be given the authority to preside over these cases on its own. It cannot protect its students.

We commit so much to this school when those in charge can’t even commit to trying to keep us safe. Enough is enough.

Tamia Southall is a 19-year-old mass communication sophomore from New Orleans.

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