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CALLIN’ BATON ROUGE Country singer Garth Brooks’ concert in Tiger Stadium Saturday night brought over 100,000 attendees, and registered as an earthquake from loud cheering.

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BROOKS IN BATON ROUGE Saturday marked Brooks’ first Tiger Stadium performance

BY CONNOR MCLAUGHLIN @connor_mcla Tens of thousands of Louisianans flocked to Baton Rouge Saturday night to see famous country singer Garth Brooks perform in Tiger Stadium, a concert so groundbreaking that it will likely go down as one of the greatest nights in Death Valley’s history — after all, it already made history as the second earthquake recorded by local seismographs just from the yelling and cheering of fans in the stadium.

Louisiana natives and LSU students alike are no stranger to his acclaimed music or cultural impact on the Red Stick capital city. So when he announced his performance in Tiger Stadium as part of his stadium tour last December, over 100,000 tickets sold out in mere minutes, causing attendance to rival even the most competitive football games of the legendary 2019 season.

The concert was the biggest in the nation since the start of COVID-19 and the second-largest stadium concert in North American history, behind George Strait’s 2014 farewell concert at the AT&T Stadium in Dallas, Texas, according to Brooks.

In layman’s terms, the hype for Brooks’ first performance in Tiger Stadium was unreal.

“Paint your face, bring your helmet, and bring your cup,” Brooks told reporters at a press conference Friday, predicting Saturday’s concert would be the “largest honky tonk.” Although he joked about how he could sell out a crowd in minutes, he made

sure to ask everyone’s name, shake hands, and answer their questions sincerely.

Brooks said his favorite thing about Baton Rouge was “getting to be home to see those faces… those familiar faces made you kind of settle down and play.”

Saturday was a busy day for LSU’s campus before Brooks’ arrival — the university also hosted a baseball game, track meet and softball game, all at the same time. Within hours of the concert’s start, roads leading to campus were plagued with bumper-to-bumper traffic as the masses migrated. Brooks undoubtedly shut down South Baton Rouge for the day.

By the concert’s start, the massive crowd’s enthusiasm was sky high.

“I had never seen Tiger Stadium so packed or so loud. My ears were ringing,” said graphic design senior Gillian Reeves.

After opener Mitch Rossell performed, the lights dimmed until an Amazon Music logo appeared on the massive projectors above the center stage, where the audience heard a voice announce, “Alexa, play Garth Brooks in Baton Rouge.”

Moments later, the drum set in the center slowly rose up, and Brooks shot out from underneath. The stadium immediately erupted into ear-splitting applause as he opened with “All Day Long.”

The concert could have lasted all night long and nobody would have been disappointed in the slightest. Song after song, Tiger Stadium was electric with the audience singing, dancing and

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Country music star Garth Brooks speaks during a media availability April 28 ahead of his sold-out show Saturday night in Baton Rouge, La.

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Country music star Garth Brooks performs Amarillo by Morning with fiddle player Dave Gant during his stadium tour concert April 30. having the absolute time of their life while Brooks ran around the stage like a madman, singing his heart out.

“Oh, this is crazy. Are you kidding me?” Brooks asked the biggest party in all of Louisiana on that Saturday night.

Early in the show, he jokingly had bet the audience if they could beat him in loudness, to which they gladly accepted. He commented on how much he loved that everyone was “nuts in this house.”

Calling the 102,321 audience members nuts was an understatement by the time Garth Brooks asked, much to the audience’s delight, “Is it time?”

Then, the 1993 cover that forever changed the city began.

“Callin’ Baton Rouge” was by far the landmark moment of the concert, causing fans to scream at the top of their lungs and stomp their cowboy boots on the ground.

Brooks’ guitar fiddling soon caused the second earthquake in Tiger Stadium’s history, which was recorded by a nearby seismograph in Nicholson Hall. The first earthquake was recorded in October 1988 during an LSU football game against Auburn, when LSU scored a game-winning touchdown with less than two points left in the game and 79,000 fans cheered until the ground shook.

Garth ecstatically cried out “L-S-U” at the conclusion of the song, and he, along with the stadium crowd, pumped his fist into the air. Brooks, out of breath, explained why singing “Callin’ Baton Rouge” at LSU meant so much to him.

“That was better than I could have ever dreamed it’d be,” Brooks said. “Thanks for letting us be a small piece of thread in the family and the fabric of LSU Tigers’ Death Valley.”

Though the Baton Rouge anthem wasn’t the final song of the night. Afterward he offered phenomenal performances of “Friends in Low Places” and “The Dance” before the band departed and the country singer took song requests for solo performances.

“I understand why you guys are national champions at everything,” Brooks said in appreciation of the audience.

The band later returned, and Garth performed a show-stopping duet of “Shallow” from “A Star Is Born” with his wife, Trish Yearwood. Yearwood sang solo before leaving with the rest of the band, but Garth decided to stick around and sing a bit more with just his guitar.

The audience seemed intoxicated from the music by the final song of the night, a cover of “American Pie” by Don McLean.

He stooped down to the front row and embraced a young fan holding a sign saying, “six more rounds of chemo to go, thank you for everything your music has done.”

“I have seen him in concert seven times, and this was definitely the best concert of his I’ve been to,” chemical engineering senior Carson McBroom said.

As the concert wrapped up and the never-ending Baton Rouge traffic commenced once again, Brooks tweeted that his LSU concert was “better than [his] wildest dreams.”

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‘DON’T SAY GAY’ Legislator introduces bill that would ban discussion of sexuality in public schools

ing a different gender expression because the school has made it very clear that that is not to be tolerated.”

The restrictions would make it exceedingly difficult for faculty to stand up in defense of those students, Bibler said.

He also brought up concerns about how the restriction of discussions on gender and sexuality would harm educators’ ability to effectively teach literature and history because those topics are often central concerns of culturally important texts.

“How are you going to teach Romeo and Juliet?” Bibler said.

“How are you going to say they love each other if you can’t talk about gender and sexuality?”

He also drew comparisons between the proposed bill and the Lavender Scare in the mid 20th century. The Lavender Scare refers to a period between the 1940s and the 1960s when between 5,000 and 10,000 gay and lesbian workers lost their jobs as

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As legislation regarding discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools pop up in at least 20 states, a new bill in the Louisiana House of Representatives would be one of the nation’s most restrictive.

The legislation, which would ban public school teachers from discussing or teaching about gender identity and sexual orientation, was introduced into the House on March 17.

The bill, HB-837, would also ban any public school employee from discussing their own gender identity or sexual orientation.

Proposed by Rep. Dodie Horton, R-Haughton, the bill is similar to legislation passed in Florida, often referred to by opposition as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

Unlike Florida’s legislation, which states that discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity “may not occur in kin-

dergarten through grade three,” this bill restricts the discussion further, prohibiting “topics of sexual orientation or gender identity in any classroom discussion or instruction in kindergarten through grade eight.”

It would ban educators from any discussion of gender identity and sexual orientation during school hours.

The bil also restricts teachers, school employees and presenters from discussing their own sexuality until grade 12.

The grade levels named in the bill were based on Louisiana’s current public school curriculum, said Horton.

However, under current Louisiana law, sex education is prohibited from being taught in kindergarten through the sixth grade, except in Orleans Parish. which can offer sex education by the third grade.

Horton said she saw little to no mention of gender or sexual orientation in the standard sex education curriculum for Louisiana public school grades seven

and eight.

Horton’s motivation for the bill was to prevent adults from “interjecting their own lifestyle choices” into unrelated classroom discussions. Horton also said the bill would prevent educators from discussing topics such as transgender identities.

“I don’t believe our students really care to hear that,” Horton said. “I certainly believe it’s up to the parents to educate their children on those topics.”

Horton alleged that some educators seem to have an agenda to share their sexual orientation or gender identity and that her bill was meant to protect children.

“It’s not against anyone at all—it’s just pro-child,” Horton said.

Many educators say the bill would harm Louisiana students.

“What I think it will do is really exacerbate bullying,” said Michael Bibler, an LSU English professor who focuses on queer and southern U.S. studies. “It will victimize students perceived as being queer or different or hav-

BY JOSH ARCHOTE @JArchote An LSU philosophy professor received a grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents to incorporate ethics and values into the university’s science, technology, engineering and math curriculum.

Deborah Goldgaber, who has been teaching philosophy at LSU since 2014, will work with STEM professors to integrate ethical components to existing classes. The ultimate goal of the project is to teach STEM students moral literacy so they have the language and skills to talk about ethical challenges in their fields, Goldgaber said.

Computer science professors, for example, can learn about including lessons on the ethical implications of artificial intelligence, while biology professors explore ways to talk about moral dilemmas presented by advances in medicine and technology.

“AI is a big area where ethics is constantly at risk of exploding onto the scene,” Goldgaber said. “AI is being asked to take the place of human decision makers. How do you have responsible AI? That’s a big question.”

Goldgaber will recruit interested STEM professors over the summer and start the training in the fall. The goal is to have the professors incorporate modules into their courses in spring 2023.

Once implemented, STEM students may come across additional lessons that stray away from the technical coursework – an assigned reading and discussion on privacy issues for a computer science class,

The State Capitol sits beyond a lake on Feb. 6 at 900 North Third Street in Baton Rouge, La.

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Sustainability event draws crowds of students to go green

BY CORBIN ROSS @CorbinRoss5 Students petted baby goats, ate vegan foods and listened to music in celebration of sustainability on Wednesday.

LSU dining hosted Grateful for Spring, an event meant to celebrate and promote plant-based, sustainable foods for students to eat during Earth Month. The event attracted crowds of students to the various vendors.

The event was put on by Chartwells Higher Education Dining, the company that handles all of LSU’s dining needs. They partnered with Campus Life and Facility Services.

The event had several vendors serving plant-based foods, including pizza, meatballs, pasta and churros. There was also a petting zoo with baby animals, a photobooth, face-painting and a flowerpot creation station.

The event also had a “Thankful Wall” for students to write what they are grateful for and what they can do to be more environmentally sustainable in their daily lives. Chartwells CEO Lisa McEuen said that they include the wall at each of the Joyful Series events.

The recent event was the fourth installment in a series of events Chartwells has been hosting across hundreds of college

campuses called the Joyful Series.

McEuen said the Joyful Series was created to celebrate community in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic harming student’s ability to interact socially.

Senior marketing director Eric Rouse said that the Grateful for Spring event was organized to educate students on ways to reduce food waste and to provide students with a greater sense of community. He said that overall, plant-based foods are better for the environment.

“Basically, our mission today is to celebrate Stop Food Waste Day. That’s why we offered a vegan, plant-based menu today for students just to introduce them to

that cuisine,” Rouse said.

Senior executive chef Jon Jackson said all of the items offered at the event are offered in the LSU dining halls. He also said that they plan to continue hosting events from the Joyful Series in the future.

“Basically, it’s a post-COVID, kind of, ‘get back to normalcy’ kind of event,” Jackson said.

“This event is a celebration of Earth Day. Basically, we’re trying to feature sustainable products, sustainable zero-waste containers, plant-based foods that we’re serving out here today, things that go with our company mission.”

Jackson said that although plant-based foods are a little ex-

pensive, the price is going down as demand for them increases.

McEuen said that Chartwells hosted similar events across the roughly 300 universities that they service across the country. She said that each of the events had some sort of a giveback associated with it. For the Grateful for Spring Event, they gave the leftover food to a local homeless shelter.

“Students are a lot more...not so much in groups anymore and they spent a lot of alone time in COVID, so I think this is a way to bring people back together through food,” McEuen said.

McEuen said they are planning four more events, two in the fall and two next spring.

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a result of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, according to Prologue Magazine.

The bill, some argue, is not about limiting discussions of all sexuality, but restricting discussions of LGBTQ sexuality, as well as gender identity. Authors and proponents of the bill in Florida claim that discussion of gender and sexuality is an act of “indoctrinating and grooming” children.

“It’s absolutely ridiculous,” Inari Owens, a sophomore studying English and women and gender studies, said. “Queer people are not indoctrinating students by discussing that we exist. It is very hypocritical that Republican lawmakers are calling this an anti-grooming bill, when there is so much from a heterosexual standpoint that does groom children.”

Owens, president of Spectrum, one of three LGBTQ organizations on campus, brought up that parents who buy onesies for young boys that say things like ‘chick magnet’ on them, for example, are an example of indoctrination.

Bills like the one already passed in Florida and HB-837, Owens argued, will delay young LGBTQ exploration of sexuality and self-identity, creating “emotionally and developmentally stunted individuals.”

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“Thinking about ethical problems in teaching students is absolutely fundamental and should be part of the behavioral patterns of every professor,” said Hartmut Kaiser, a computer science professor and senior scientist of LSU’s Center for Computation and Technology.

Kaiser said that he talks about ethical issues surrounding software development with his graduate students. Implementing ethics into already rigorous STEM coursework could initially be a challenge for some professors, Kaiser said, but is nonetheless important.

Kaiser said the same LSU students in STEM classes now could be the ones who are facing important questions about AI in 20 years.

He gave the example of what happens when we develop self aware artificial intelligence – do these entities have rights like humans? Can these machines solve any problem a human can?

Those questions are at the core of the “philosophy of artificial intelligence,” a branch of philosophy.

But computer scientists will need to start thinking about these questions too, Kaiser said.

Another issue is that AI relies on a tremendous amount of data that can be skewed or used in harmful ways. Gender bias, racial prejudice and age discrimination can make its way into AI systems since these

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The sun peeks out from behind the State Capitol on Feb. 6 at 900 North Third Street in Baton Rouge, La. “But students will still find ways to learn about it,” Owens said.

To combat restrictions in schools, Owens said representation, specifically healthy representation of queer relationships like Disney Channel’s “Andy Mack” and Cartoon Network’s “Steven Universe,” is essential to supplementing the discussions that won’t be had in the classroom if HB-837 becomes law.

“It’s very important that we think about how this will affect the people around LGBTQ+ students like their teachers,” they

explained. “It’s a teacher’s duty to provide safe spaces for their students, regardless of sexuality, ideology, race and gender.”

Owens argued that it is the role of the teacher to teach all students about the real world, which includes the LGBTQ community.

“This won’t stop queer people from existing. Queer people come out of deeply conservative, anti-LGBTQ scenarios all the time,” Owens said. “This won’t stop it from happening. It will only promote ignorance in students.”

machines are programmed by humans.

How much ethics are discussed in STEM classes can vary by major and the course. Haley Devries, who is finishing her freshman year in industrial engineering, said that so far, ethical and workers’ rights concerns have been fundamental to her coursework.

For computer science junior Roshad Richard, classroom discussions surrounding ethics have been absent.

“We get so wrapped up in the workflow and the engineering, design process, that oftentimes our morals slip out of the window,” Richard said. “We’re almost seen as computers ourselves.”

Richard said he would welcome the introduction of more ethics and value discussion in STEM coursework.

Goldgaber’s program will be modeled after Harvard’s Ethics program, which is focused on ethics in computer science. But Goldgaber’s program will cover all STEM fields at LSU, including bioethics, research ethics and human-centered design.

“I was pleased to learn about Dr. Goldgaber’s efforts to work with science faculty to incorporate ethics into the STEM courses,” said College of Science dean Cynthia Peterson. “Dr. Goldgaber embraces a collaborative approach to develop course components desired by our faculty and students.”

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CAMPUS COMMOTION LSU softball redshirt sophomore infielder Taylor Pleasants (17) throws the ball to first May 1, during the Tigers’ 2-1 loss against Florida at Tiger Park in Baton Rouge, La.

LSU softball redshirt junior catcher Morgan Cummins (26) catches the ball May 1, during the Tigers’ 2-1 loss against Florida at Tiger Park in Baton Rouge, La.

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LSU buzzed with fans over the weekend as baseball, softball, and the Garth Brooks Stadium Tour brought tens of thousands to campus

LSU baseball sophomore first baseman Tre Morgan III (18) points at the dugout after hitting the ball May 1, during the Tigers’ 4-3 walk-off win against the Georgia Bulldogs at Alex Box Stadium in Baton Rouge, La.

Country music star Garth Brooks speaks during a press conference April 28, at Tiger Stadium ahead of his sold-out show Saturday night in Baton Rouge, La. The gift shop sits outside Tiger Stadium April 30 for the Garth Brooks Stadium Tour concert in Baton Rouge, La.

LSU softball outfield sophomore Ali Newland (44) throws the ball in after a deep fly ball May 1, during the Tigers’ 2-1 loss against Florida at Tiger Park in Baton Rouge, La.

Country music star Garth Brooks performs during his stadium tour concert April 30, at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, La.

LSU softball outfield freshman McKenzie Redoutey (4) slides into third Sunday, May 1, during the Tigers’ 2-1 loss against Florida at Tiger Park in Baton Rouge, La.

LSU baseball sophomore outfielder Dylan Crews (3) celebrates with his teammates after hitting a homerun May 1, during the Tigers’ 4-3 walk-off win against the Georgia Bulldogs at Alex Box Stadium in Baton Rouge, La.

Fans tailgate outside the Journalism building for the Garth Brooks Stadium Tour concert April 30, at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, La.

LSU baseball sophomore infielder Jacob Berry (14) talks to assistant coach Marc Wanaka May 1, during the Tigers’ 4-3 walk-off win against the Georgia Bulldogs at Alex Box Stadium in Baton Rouge, La.

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NFLSU Draft results: Where did players land and do they fit their teams?

BY ADAM BURRUSS @AdamNFLDraft With the 2022 NFL Draft finished, LSU landed one of its best classes, with 10 prospects selected to NFL teams.

However, how do these prospects fit into their new teams?

Will they have the chance to succeed? Here is a quick overview of every LSU player who was drafted and how they fit with their future team.

Derek Stingley Jr., Corner Back, Houston Texans, third overall Houston selecting Stingley makes sense considering its lack of talent in the secondary. The Texans needed to address cornerback in this class and chose to do it with the player that has the highest upside out of all the top cornerbacks.

While this pick makes sense, Houston runs a lot of Cover Two defense thanks to Head Coach Lovie Smith’s philosophy. Stingley is athletic enough to perform well in this system, but he thrives more as a pure-man coverage type of cornerback.

Regardless, injuries are the only thing that should hamper Stingley’s career. The junior cornerback missed many games in back-to-back seasons after emerging as a freshman. If he stays on the field, Houston should have no regrets.

Ed Ingram, Guard, Minnesota Vikings, 59th overall The next LSU pick took until

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LSU football players get prepared for Pro Day April 6 during LSU’s NFL Pro day in the LSU football indoor practice facility in Baton Rouge, La. the second round, and Ingram makes a lot of sense for a Minnesota team that struggled on the offensive line.

Ingram should slide in as a starter as his athleticism fits Minnesota’s scheme. New Head Coach Kevin O’Connell runs Sean McVay’s system, which is essentially the wide-zone run scheme with heavy play action that Minnesota ran already. Ingram’s athleticism fits here.

Overall, Minnesota is the best landing spot for an offensive lineman to immediately get starting opportunities. Expect Ingram to hit the field early in his career.

Cordale Flott, Corner Back, New York Giants, 81st overall Flott, at this selection, seems fairly interesting. The first LSU selection of the third round landed on the New York Giants, who drafted similar cornerbacks in years prior.

Flott acts more as a slot or nickel corner more than an outside corner, but New York’s previous regime before the arrival of Head Coach Brian Daboll and General Manager Joe Schoen, addressed this with cornerback Darnay Holmes a few seasons ago.

This means that the new regime sees the need to add another corner to fill this role.

Overall, Flott gets to play in a solid secondary alongside James

Bradberry and Adoree Jackson provided that both stay on the roster. He may get a real chance to shine.

Tyrion Davis-Price, Running Back, San Francisco 49ers, 93rd overall San Francisco taking DavisPrice seems a bit odd. For one, the team selected him far above where many projected him.

Additionally, San Francisco tends to like shiftier backs who make people miss. Davis-Price plays more like a bruiser who breaks tackles and takes on contact. In a system where burst and athleticism take priority, DavisPrice seems like a misfit.

That could be to his benefit, though. No other running back on San Francisco’s roster plays quite like Davis-Price. He may have his own role to carve out among a crowded running back room.

San Francisco loves to invest in running backs, but the 49ers forget about their investments pretty quickly. Davis-Price does not fit their system, but he also has a unique skillset. He will hope to carve out a role and not become another third round running back that Head Coach Kyle Shanahan tosses to the wayside.

Cade York, Kicker, Cleveland Browns, 124th overall Cleveland made Cade York the highest drafted kicker in the NFL since 2016, where Tampa Bay selected Florida State kicker Rober-

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Clutch Cade: LSU baseball wins Georgia weekend series

BY JARED BRODTMANN @_therealjarbear The weekend started with a boombox and ended with a boom at the Box. After a solid win to open the series on Friday night against No. 11 Georgia, LSU dropped the Saturday night game against the Bulldogs, 127. It was time for a hotly contested rubber match on a Sunday afternoon in Baton Rouge.

The game was a slugfest.

Dylan Crews had two massive home runs for LSU’s only two runs of the game. Both were tracked via LSU Baseball Data to be further than 400 feet on each blast. Georgia responded though, by manufacturing a run off a hit-by-pitch, throwing error by Devin Fontenot attempting to pick him off and a sacrifice fly to right field that

Josh Pearson couldn’t get a throw in with to make a play.

It came to the bottom of the ninth. Jacob Berry reached base on a single to left field.

Cade Doughty, one of LSU’s most productive hitters all year, came to the plate. He took the first pitch for a ball and then tore into the next one for a walk-off two-run dinger to net LSU its second home SEC series win in dramatic fashion. Pandemonium ensued.

As Doughty rounded the bases, his teammates waited to mob him at home plate.

The purple and gold boombox made another appearance after an eventful weekend, as the players danced and celebrated this massive win Doughty had just nabbed for

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LSU baseball sophomore infielder Cade Doughty (4) high fives sophomore right-handed pitcher Blake Money (44) May 1, during the Tigers’ 4-3 walk-off win against the Georgia Bulldogs at Alex Box Stadium in Baton Rouge, La.

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What does that mean? York needs to fulfill some high expectations. In terms of kicking prospects, York stands out due to his accuracy on long kicks and his massive leg.

Cleveland needed a kicker and York should start immediately as a fourth rounder. If he continues his trend of making long-distance, clutch kicks, York may last in Cleveland for a long time.

Neil Farrell, Defensive Tackle, Las Vegas Raiders, 126th overall Las Vegas does not have a lot of defensive tackles. Farrell is an athletic defensive tackle. These two factors mean Farrell may get an opportunity to play right away.

Las Vegas, like many other teams, received an overhaul to their staff with the arrival of Head Coach Josh McDaniel and General Manager Dave Zeigler. Even

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This certainly feels like the moment LSU can turn the season around and make a push.

The Paul Mainieri teams of old seemed to always get hot this time of year. LSU has definitely made some strides to become better as April has wound down and May has reached the

prior to this overhaul, though, the Raiders did not invest much into the defensive line, meaning Farrell has a chance to contribute immediately.

Farrell probably plays rotationally at first and should establish himself as a starter due to Las Vegas’ lack of depth at the position.

Damone Clark, Linebacker, Dallas Cowboys, 176th overall Damone Clark probably misses the 2022-2023 NFL season, and that explains how he made his way to the 176th overall pick.

Clark suffered a herniated disc in his neck and had to get spinal fusion surgery while at LSU. As a linebacker that relies on hitting people hard, that surgery was a bit scary.

However, Dallas could use some true linebackers, as Micah Parsons plays both as an Edge rusher and a linebacker. Once Clark heals, he has the potential to become a fantastic linebacker who cleans up the run.

If Clark stays healthy and continues to play football, this pick should pay off for Dallas. He acts as a massive risk right now, but he projects to heal normally, so none of this may matter.

Austin Deculus, Tackle, Houston Texans, 205th overall Deculus probably will not start for the Houston Texans, and that is just fine.

Teams at this range throw darts at guys, and Deculus is a worthy gamble. He can play multiple positions, started the most games in LSU history and put some decent tape out there when he played at his true position of right tackle.

He has the opportunity to become the swing player in the Texans’ system, he can be the primary backup at multiple positions. However, that spot does not come guaranteed.

Overall, Deculus projects more as a backup, but he may develop into a useful player for

Houston.

Chasen Hines, Guard, New England Patriots, 210th overall Chasen Hines also probably does not start, but his landing spot benefits him a lot.

New England likes to take gambles on guards and interior linemen late, and have a history of developing these guys. He landed in a good spot for his development.

This does not mean he will never start. The NFL needs any semblance of offensive line talent, and he probably gets an opportunity due to injury or any other circumstance. In the meantime, he should develop nicely in New England, but he may never be more than a backup.

Andre Anthony, Linebacker, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 248th overall Andre Anthony unfortunately lost an opportunity to improve his stock with a knee injury in

September, so the fact that he got drafted remains a shock.

Will Anthony make the roster?

With a team as deep as Tampa, that task seems hard. These late picks mostly act as a way for teams to secure players they were interested in as undrafted free agents.

If he does well in special teams or any other roles the Buccaneers throw at him, he may stick around on the roster. It is an uphill battle, though.

LSU may have a lot of rookie starters coming into the league next season. A lot of teams lack depth at the positions that they took these players. This means a lot of these spots give these rookies an opportunity to earn some playing time.

In one of the deepest drafts in LSU history, teams grabbed players that can become immediate contributors. For a 6-7 football team this past season, LSU produced a lot of talent.

team’s doorstep. With another home midweek game ahead this week and then a favorable matchup against Alabama on the road next weekend, it feels like LSU is hitting their stride at the right time.

The winning pitcher was Paul Gervase, who did a good job of holding Georgia close with another dominant inning.

All of LSU’s staff was effective Sunday, but Samuel Dutton, who started the game, went the longest, with 4.2 IP, four hits, two earned runs and four strikeouts. Grant Taylor and Fontenot pitched well in the middle innings for the Tigers.

The team’s ability to defeat teams at any time with the long ball has proven to be

one of its best skills. Crews’ home runs in the leadoff spot showcased the talent he has as a hitter, but he’s complemented with some serious sluggers behind him in Berry, Doughty and Brayden Jobert.

Tre’ Morgan, Josh Pearson and Josh Stevenson have been impacting the game with great at-bats and terrific defense.

There’s finally some consistency at catcher with Tyler McManus and Hayden Travinski providing some solid play at the plate and behind it.

Now is the time for LSU to make the run. With high spirits and even higher bass, the Tigers will keep dancing until Tuesday. They deserve to. This is a massive win.

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Fighting campus litter starts with personal accountability BESKE’S BUZZ KATE BESKE @KateBeske It doesn’t take much time on campus to spot litter. It’s in bushes, on sidewalks and even sometimes in Mike the Tiger’s habitat.

“It’s graduation season, and while I’m happy and proud of you, please do not use confetti when you take photos around the habitat,” read a post from Mike the Tiger’s Twitter.

The litter near Mike’s habitat poses immediate harm to the university’s beloved mascot, but it’s far from being the only place plagued with trash. Litter remains a problem seen all around campus and in much of Baton Rouge.

Mark Benfield, an LSU coastal environmental science professor, said that a big contributor to the litter problem is the insufficient number of trashcans around campus. Over 30,000 students at the university generate a large amount of trash, so adding more trashcans would give students more opportunities to throw garbage away.

“If we don’t have enough of [the trashcans] or they aren’t cleaned often enough, litter be-

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comes more of a problem,” Benfield said.

Another contributor to the litter issue on campus is the student laziness. When students see there is already litter on the ground, they feel less guilty about adding to it.

“People think, ‘The city will

pick it up at some point,’” Benfield said.

This type of thinking can be compared to saying, “I don’t need to clean the table, that is someone else’s job” when eating at a friend’s house. These statements come off as lazy and selfish. If you make a mess, you can try

your best to clean it up, rather than making others’ jobs unnecessarily harder.

Benfield also believed that the university would benefit from an educational program for students.

This program could teach students about the amount of litter on campus, how they can help

change this and the accountability they should have with their trash.

Tammy Millican, executive director of facility and property oversight, agreed that an educational program would be beneficial.

“Campus sustainability would be more than happy to participate in that,” Millican said.

Millican said the university is involved with Keep Louisiana Beautiful, a program made to “promote personal, corporate and community responsibility for a clean and beautiful Louisiana.”

The university is one of seven affiliates of Keep Louisiana Beautiful. The university has landscape service workers who check campus multiple times a day and pick up trash. One main area of concern is near the lakes, where more litter is usually found.

“It’s something that we work to combat all year long,” Millican said of the litter issue.

While the university has programs and solutions to help eliminate litter on campus, it ultimately comes down to personal accountability. Without that, the litter issue on campus will never improve.

Kate Beske is a 19-year-old journalism freshman from Destrehan.

The ultimate red flag guide from four years of college STABILER’S SCOOP LURA STABILER @lstabiler3 Unfortunately, I graduate in just a few weeks. As a parting gift, I want to share all the red flags I’ve noticed from dating throughout my college career, so you can learn from my mistakes.

I have learned a lot of skills in college. My professors helped me improve my writing skills, and I learned important adult stuff like paying bills to avoid wrecking my credit score. But the most valuable skill I am taking from college is how to use red flags to sort the good ones from the bad ones.

Some people don’t believe in red flags, or they choose to ignore them. To me, red flags are the flashing warning signs before the car explodes. If your car starts beeping and flashing, you don’t just keep driving.

Red flags certainly don’t just

apply to men. For example, my advice would be to stay away from horoscope girls. Obsession over the small detail of a birthday is just a bad sign. But, for the purpose of this column, I am sticking to the men.

First, if a man mentions his exgirlfriend more than once the first time you talk or spend time together, red flag. He is not over her.

Bigger red flag if he talks about how crazy she was or how much he hates her. Hate is the closest emotion to love, and maybe she had a reason to be so “crazy.”

If the man you are interested in is unemployed, red flag. Of course, there are extenuating circumstances, and everyone goes through hard times. However, if they are actively unmotivated and lazy, they are not going to be motivated to give you any time or attention.

Now, this next one is a big one. If he does not laugh at your jokes, huge red flag. You are not compatible. Not only are you not

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compatible, but he is boring and probably thinks he is better than you. But, if he laughs hard at your joke, immediate green flag.

Do not ever waste time or en-

ergy on a man that is not friendly to your friends. Now, some people take time to warm up to new people, and that’s okay, but if he is making no effort to get to know

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the people you care about, it’s a red flag. He does not care enough about you to get to know your friends. He likely views you as a temporary part of his life.

If his friends do not know who you are or do not know anything positive about you, he is not excited about you, and everyone deserves someone to be excited about them.

While those are the big red flags, there are small ones I always keep an eye out for. Be mindful of high Snapchat scores, privacy screens and one pillow on the bed.

I know I am only 22, but from my four years at LSU, these red flags almost certainly spell trouble if you have any desire for a long-term relationship. So, if you meet a man that is exhibiting one or more of these red flags, beware.

Lura Stabiler is a 22-year-old journalism senior from Baton Rouge.

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LSU needs to make on-campus apartment process easier GABBING WITH GABBY GABBY JIMENEZ @gvjimenezz I wish I had researched the housing situation more before coming to LSU. I didn’t realize it was so difficult to obtain on-campus housing, so it was a major shock when I discovered how coveted the East and West Campus Apartments and Nicholson Gateway apartments were among students.

Coming from out-of-state, I knew I wanted to live near campus. I don’t have a car, so being able to walk to class was a requirement for me. Because of this, my current roommate and I decided to apply for an on-campus apartment.

I wasn’t expecting the website to crash within minutes of applications going live. They decided to let everyone who wanted to apply for an apartment apply at the same time – on a Tuesday at 10 a.m.

My roommate and I both had work or school at that time, and weren’t expecting the application process to take longer than five minutes. We could not have been more wrong.

At 10 a.m. on the dot, we both sat on opposite sides of campus, our laptops ready to click on the link. As soon as we did, a message

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appeared: “SOMETHING HAS GONE WRONG. An unknown error occurred.”

After more than half an hour of frustration, we were still unable to get into the application portal. When I was finally able to successfully click the link an hour later it prompted me to join the

waitlist.

I’m not the only one to encounter this problem. Dozens of anxious students and worried parents went to the private LSU Students and Parents Facebook group to voice their complaints about the housing portal and the scramble for housing that was still walking

distance from campus began.

Still, I was determined to get an on-campus apartment, mostly because I didn’t want to have to pay rent over the summer when I wouldn’t be in Louisiana. The waitlist opened two weeks later, and I was ready this time – I had the tab opened and was ready to

click at lightning speed.

After a few frustrating failed login attempts, my roommate and I were finally able to get on the waitlist, but it wasn’t easy. It’s as if LSU was trying to make it as difficult as possible to get an apartment, with the confusing portal layout, and some apartment options not showing up completely.

Even after jumping through all the hurdles, LSU Residential Life told my roommate they might not be able to offer us an answer until June. By then, most off-campus apartment complexes would likely be full.

My roommate and I were lucky — we did eventually get an apartment. While I was happy about this, I couldn’t help but feel like LSU should make the on-campus apartments more accessible to students. If I knew it would be so difficult, I would have started searching for other options earlier on.

LSU needs a better system than this. There’s no reason it has to be this difficult to live on campus.

At the very least, they need to be upfront with students about the difficulty to obtain an on-campus apartment.

And if there’s just not enough on-campus housing, maybe that’s something LSU should invest in.

Gabby Jimenez is an 18-year-old political communication freshman from San Antonio, TX.

Other majors are just as difficult as STEM majors MISSING IN ACTION

MIA COCO @MiaMarieCoco1 Picking a major is one of the most difficult choices a student makes. And once you choose a major, it seems that you are in constant competition with other students over who has the hardest or the most important major — when in reality, it doesn’t even matter.

Science, technology, engineering and math are not my personal strong suits, so majoring in a STEM subject would be counterproductive for me. I thrive when analyzing history and writing research papers, so mass communication was the obvious choice for my major. Many of my close friends can solve math problems in under a minute and can explain each step, but if you were to ask them to write a history paper, they would curl up in a corner and cry.

Arguing over which majors are “harder” is pointless when it really is dependent on the student and their personal strengths and weaknesses.

However, if we were going to compare majors, a good place to start is with the workload. According to the National Survey of Student Engagement, engineering majors study an average of 19 hours per week, putting them at the top of the list. Arts and hu-

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manities spend about 18 hours studying per week, and communications, media and public relations majors spend about 15 hours per week. In this race, the STEM majors come out on top, but not by a landslide.

Another comparison is the availability of work in each field after graduation. Topping this list

is computer science, marketing and nursing. Communications, arts and humanities are not even in the top 10. While STEM majors may have heavier workloads while in school, after they finish their studies, they are much more likely to receive a job without any experience in their field. When you major in fields like public re-

lations, music, studio arts or communications, you need to be good at what you do when you graduate and gain as much experience as possible during your time at school in order to get a good job after college.

When it comes to salaries, which many people consider to be the highest measure of the qual-

ity of your major, humanities are actually first, followed directly by engineering, history-related degrees, business administration and communications, according to 2019 data. So, even though we compare the difficulty or importance of our majors, employers are willing to pay us all high amounts for our expertise in our field.

No matter what field you’re in, you will have to work hard and spend lots of time studying if you want to do well. Attending graduate school, gaining experience in your field and making connections with professors and future employers, no matter your major, is difficult.

Across the board, attending graduate school makes you more likely to get a stable, well-paying job. Regardless of your field of study, you need to work hard to get accepting into a post-graduate program. You can be a STEM major, but spend little to no time studying and be less successful than a vocal performance major or a history major who works hard and perfects their craft.

While arguing over the difficulty and importance of our majors can be fun, when it comes down to it, your own personal work ethic, strengths and weakness are what really determine your success.

Mia Coco is a 19-year-old political communication student from Alexandria.