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LSU student government Rise presidential candidate Colin Raby speaks March 24, at the Student Government debate in the Journalism Building on LSU’s campus in Baton Rouge, LA.

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Student Government presidential candidates gathered Thursday to talk campus issues at the annual debate.

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A go-to guide for SG elections on Wednesday

BY MADDIE SCOTT AND CORBIN ROSS @CorbinRoss5 & @madscottyy LSU 2022 Student Government elections take place Wednesday, where students can vote on student body president, vice president, senators for their respective colleges and College Council. Voting opens Wednesday and lasts until 7:30 a.m.

Thursday.

Students can access the voting portal on TigerLink. SG uses a ranked-choice voting system, which means students will rank candidates by preference on their ballots.

There are four tickets this semester: EVOLVE, RISE, Scott-Rovere and F*** Around and Find Out. Here’s where each ticket’s executive candidates stand on issues facing campus and how their administration plans to tackle them.

EVOLVE Political communications junior Lizzie Shaw and psychology junior Nicholas St. Mary are running for president and vice president under the EVOLVE ticket. Shaw would be the first female SG president in 15 years. Their campaign is focused on student needs through mental health resources and teacher accountability.

As a student who has tried to access mental health resources on campus, Shaw said it can get “convoluted” as to what resources are available and what students’ rights are. Shaw wants to create a “Mental Health Bill of Rights” that tells exactly what rights students have and shows them mental health resources at LSU. Shaw currently serves as the SG director of outreach. She previously served the Student Media Board, the governor’s 2019 student task force and was the vice president of programming for her sorority, Zeta Tau Alpha.

RISE TIGERS Mechanical engineering junior Colin Raby and broadcast journalism sophomore Georgia Peck are running for president and vice president under the RISE ticket.

They have stressed the importance of rising above what they call petty partisan politics in SG. Raby is a senator for the College of Engineering and is vice chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. He is also a residential assistant and served as a governor’s fellow summer of 2021, which he said allowed him to see the inner workings of government. Peck is an RA and former member of Tiger TV. Peck said that her being an outsider to SG is an asset since she brings a different perspective. She also said her experience in TigerTV brought her more awareness of the campus climate.

“Coming from the Senate side, I’ve seen Student Government,” Raby said. “I’ve seen the executive branch operate for two years now and I’m consistently disappointed by how every year you see them promise high and then not deliver. So one of the big things that we’ve been doing is that it’s not just about ideas, it’s about making ideas happen.”

Raby said they want to improve transparency on where student’s money goes on the fee bill and to have it readily accessible for students to see. They also want to add

St. Mary is currently the SG president’s executive assistant and serves on the student technology fee committee. In the past, he was a member of the freshman leadership council.

Shaw believes they are different from other campaigns because neither she nor St. Mary want to go into Louisiana politics, so they feel they can be as “candid as possible” with the LSU administration.

“We’re not going to go in there guns blazing all the time, but we are when it comes to student needs and necessities,” Shaw said. “We want to make sure we are fierce advocates to the administration without anything holding us back like the fear of job prospects or future networking.”

more days to the semester for emergencies so students don’t have to take Saturday classes in the event of a natural disaster.

Raby said they want to have information tailored for individual student’s needs so that students aren’t swamped with a load of information on resources which aren’t relevant to them.

Raby also wants to create a ‘President’s Club’ where the heads of student organizations can meet with the executive branch on a regular basis. Raby said that it will be his first executive order on day one. He said this will allow SG to provide information to the clubs on the resources available to them and will allow the clubs to give SG a greater idea on what’s going on in the student body, since students interact with these organizations more than SG.

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FAFO Architecture seniors Harris Quadir and Matt McClure are running for president and vice president of F*** Around and Find Out. Their campaign focuses on administrative accountability and for SG to take itself less seriously.

Elections don’t have to be “pretentious,” Quadir said, and elections don’t have to be done the way they are now.

Although Quadir has thought of running for SG president since his freshman year, he believes that preparing “months and months” in advance is not necessary, which is why he and McClure decided to begin campaigning on social media on March 22, just a week before voting begins.

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LSU student government Rise presidential candidate Colin Raby and vice presidential candidate Georgia Peck represent their campaign March 24, at the Student Government debate in the Journalism Building on LSU’s campus in Baton Rouge, LA.

“We’re not going to go in there guns blazing all the time, but we are when it comes to student needs and necessities.”

SCOTT-ROVERE Devin Scott and Isabella Rovere are running for president and vice president under the Scott-Rovere ticket. Scott is the Chief Policy officer in the SG executive branch and previously the Director of Diversity.

Rovere is the Director of ‘We’re Committed’ and serves as chapter president of her sorority, Alpha Phi. She is also the chair of the Advisory Council for Power-Based Violence and previously served on the student task force for Title IX. “We hope to implement policies which are holistic to student’s needs, which include their financial security needs, mental health services, academic preparedness and career readiness,” Scott said.

Scott said that they want to create an assessment which analyzes student’s mental health and academic readiness so advisors will be better suited to reaching out to students who need help and providing them with resources tailored to what they specifically need.

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They also want to improve the Title IX office, increasing its diversity and adding more investigators while also making sure students know their rights under Title IX. Scott also said he wants to expand opportunities for minorities at LSU. Scott said that they want to improve relations and dialogue between administration and SG. He said administration can be out of touch with student’s needs, which is why it’s important for continued dialogue. They also said they want to have greater transparency in the university’s budget so student’s see where the money’s going.

“We hope to implement policies which are holistic to students’ needs, which include their financial security needs, mental health services, academic preparedness and career readiness.”

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SG executive branch member, presidential candidate

LSU student government F*** Around and Find Out presidential candidate Harris Quadir speaks March 24, at the Student Government debate in the Journalism Building on LSU’s campus in Baton Rouge, LA. “When we started talking about it, there needs to be more representation and more diversity on who is running within this presidential election, so we said, ‘f*** it. Why not? What do we have to lose?’ We want attention to ourselves, obviously, so we said ‘let’s f*** around and find out,’” Quadir said.

One of their goals in the campaign is to hold administration accountable to ensure that the voice of the student body is heard. They plan to do this through administrative report cards.

“Each semester, we would evaluate administrators’ response and ability to work with student leaders within Student Government,” Quadir said. “This would go into effect by having student senators and as well as other remembers of Student Government CC one specific email and create each department within the executive branch to have that specific branch work and evaluate administrators and give them a grade.”

“...So we said, ‘F*** it. Why not? What do we have to lose?’”

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Four campaigns speak on Title IX, Student Government transparency Eight candidates running for Student Government president and vice president spoke on campus issues at SG’s annual debate on Thursday, including Title IX and SG transparency.

The four campaigns, EVOLVE, RISE, Scott-Rovere and F*** Around and Find Out, answered 10 questions from moderator Madison Latiolais, chair of the Debate Commission.

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Title IX All candidates agreed that while the Office of Civil Rights and Title IX has taken steps in the right direction at promoting diversity and inclusion on campus and improving the university’s handling of sexual assault cases, there remains much to be done.

FAFO presidential candidate and architecture senior Harris Quadir said that they want to start “preemptive trainings within the student body” to focus on prevention. They also said they would fight for more funding for the Title IX Office.

“The funding is not there, and that’s something that we absolutely plan on fighting for at the state legislature,” FAFO vice presidential candidate Matt McClure said.

Scott-Rovere vice presidential candidate Isabella Rovere said she’s worked closely with the Title IX Office while in SG. Rovere believes the office has done a great job, but that there is always a “need to improve,” and would like to see more funding for the office.

President of the EVOLVE campaign, political communications junior Lizzie Shaw, said it’s hard for students to access Title IX resources. One of the campaign’s initiatives is to create a Title IX scorecard so that students can track Title IX progress.

RISE presidential candidate and mechanical engineering junior Colin Raby agreed the office is heading in the right direction. He also claimed that the office hasn’t fulfilled the Husch Blackwell recommendation to hire two Title IX investigators.

However, the Husch Blackwell report recommended at least two full-time Title IX investigators, which the office has. The only unfulfilled recommendation is to “regularly measure climate and effectiveness,” which will be checked off in spring 2023 according to Jane Cassidy, interim vice president of Civil Rights & Title IX. SG Transparency All candidates agreed keeping websites up-to-date increasing student outreach important steps in making more transparent.

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St. Mary said Shaw has done a lot of work updating the website, and they plan to make themselves more available for students to reach out to them.

Rovere said she and Scott plan

SG Efficiency An odd moment in the debate, all candidates declined to answer two questions from the moderator.

When asked who their ticket would endorse for the next speaker of the Student Senate, all candidates declined to answer because they did not believe it was their place to influence students’ choice on the matter.

Candidates also declined to answer who their ticket would rank second on their ballot.

Candidates were then asked what they think the biggest issue impacting the efficiency of SG is. Quadir said the branches need to work together more and that SG shouldn’t take itself so seriously.

“We need to do things more on a level that’s not so serious,” Quadir said. “People tend to argue and fight so we need to break down their barriers and work together.”

Scott-Rovere presidential candidate Devin Scott said SG needs to emphasize student outreach and be more involved with student resources.

“As student body president, your first job is to the student body and your second job is to be CEO of Student Government,” Scott said. “I’m more concerned with the everyday, day-to-day struggles the student body and with the inner workings of issue and issue policies.”

Shaw and her running mate, psychology junior Nicholas St. Mary, said the divisiveness among branches is a key issue that affects the efficiency of SG. “It’s very hard to get three different branches all on one page, which is something that we have really tried to implement in our campaign,” St. Mary said.

Georgia Peck, the RISE vice presidential candidate, said their campaign plans to streamline outreach with social media to ensure students get the information they need from SG. Raby also stated that divisiveness and petty politics also affect the efficiency of SG. “We’re gonna rise above the petty politics and focus on just implementing effective action that actually impacts our students,” Raby said. to do a monthly student body update in the form of an email to keep students informed about what is going on SG matters.

“There is no way for us to get that feedback without going after

BR fights to save local bookstore

BY XANDER GENNARELLI @XanderGenn

it first and showing that we actually care about their concerns and its not just the Student Government people determining us,

Inside the last independent bookstore in Baton Rouge, narrow aisles divide packed, overflowing bookshelves. The hardcovers and paperbacks that fill the small building are interrupted by the occasional leather-bound copy.

At the front desk, store owner Danny Plaisance sits with his wife Nancy helping patrons find what they came for. A sign reads “ALL BOOKS 40% OFF.” Cottonwood Books, located at 3054 Perkins Road, is closing, but some Baton Rouge residents won’t let it go down without a fight.

Plaisance bought Cottonwood Books in September of 1986 and has been running it since. But after nearly 36 years as a Baton Rouge mainstay, Cottonwood Books is shutting down.

Plaisance decided to sell the bookstore last October, after he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, according to The Advocate. However, finding a buyer has been difficult.

“Although we have been approached by approximately 20 potential buyers,” Plaisance said, “we have not been able to secure a sale.”

Plaisance said one reason buyers haven’t followed through is that he does not own the build-

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RESEARCH

Psych professor studying vape usage among LSU students

BY ALEXA HATTEN @HattenAlexa An LSU psychology professor and doctoral candidate are conducting a study to gauge vape use among LSU students to find effective ways to stop nicotine addiction.

Amy Copeland, a psychology professor, and Shelby Stewart, a psychology doctoral candidate, aim to document how frequently students aged 18-24 are using products containing nicotine, the addictive substance found in tobacco products and tobacco-free products such as vapes.

The study is part of Copeland’s research lab, the LSU Smoking and Substance Use Clinical Research Lab, located inside the Department of Psychology building.

“We have over 100 responses at this time among [vape or e-cigarette users], most showing a nicotine level that is in the very high

range, indicating they are addicted and may need professional assistance if and when they decide to quit,” Copeland said.

Users’ nicotine level is determined by how frequently they are vaping and how quickly they finish a pod or cartridge.

The number of college students using nicotine products has been increasing. Between 2017 and 2019, the percentage of U.S. college students who said they had used a vape in the last 30 days rose from 6% to 22%, according to the University of Michigan’s U.S. National Monitoring the Future Panel Study.

Though LSU is a tobacco and vape-free campus, students can easily subvert the policy, as vapes and e-cigarettes are easy to hide and usually don’t contain an odor like cigarettes.

LSU was spending a minimum of $37,000 a year to clean up the tobacco-related litter before becoming tobacco-free, according to

the LSU Faculty website.

All public campuses in Louisiana were required to ban smoking on campus after legislation passed in 2014.

By studying students’ nicotine use patterns and how dependent they are on the substance, the researchers hope to find better ways to help students quit.

“If participants express interest in quitting, my research team uses that participant’s information to tailor a brief intervention for them based on their use patterns and personal ‘triggers’ for use,” Copeland said.

Those triggers that motivate users to reach for their vape can include stress, depression, appetite suppression and weight control problems, Copeland explained.

Though more research on the effects of vaping is needed, experts say that nicotine addiction is harmful and can affect the developing brain, and that the chemicals found

in vape juices can be harmful and cause lung damage.

“This study and others we’ve conducted on campus indicate that students may not be aware of the health risks associated with [vaping] — lung and respiratory issues, changes in the brain, organ damage — and those who do [vape] regularly downplay these risks or are less aware of them,” Copeland said.

Vaping has commonly been used among adults to quit smoking since vapes don’t contain tobacco and the cancer-causing chemicals that come along with it. Many college students are not using it to quit smoking, however.

Food science freshmen Ally Hines occasionally smokes at parties and in her free time. Hines believes that being careful of not picking up an addiction and not giving in to peer pressure will help prevent college students from using e-cigarette products.

“With it being a tobacco-free

campus, I think it’s a good idea to bring awareness to how many people are smoking on campus,” she said.

Mechanical engineering freshman Tristan Norwood said that he started smoking in high school and the habit has stuck with him. He smokes and vapes throughout the day and has to go to a vape store nearly every two weeks for new cartridges.

“Mentally it makes you feel good, but it doesn’t make you feel better,” Norwood said. “You build that mental mentality that it will make you feel better.”

Norwood said he deals with a severe cough and congestion, chest and lung pains and withdrawal symptoms such as night sweats and irritability.

“I do not necessarily believe it is a healthy habit,” Norwood said.

“You just kind of keep doing it without knowing the consequences of it.”

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page 4 BOOKS, from page 3 ing Cottonwood Books is based in. Other issues involved problems with finances and lease negotiations.

As the number of potential buyers fell, Plaisance began trying to sell his stock of more than 40,000 books.

One Baton Rouge resident, however, is trying to save the store before it’s too late.

Sonny Cranch is a marketing veteran and long-time Baton Rouge resident. He is also a huge fan of Cottonwood Books.

“It’s iconic,” Cranch said. “I and a number of other people just don’t want it to go away.”

Cranch is leading a small group of residents to keep the store alive.

The group hopes to raise enough money to compensate Plaisance fairly for both the store’s physical assets and the goodwill he built over several decades in the community.

SG, from page 3 rather the student body connecting with us,” Rovere said.

Peck said her experience as a journalism major helps her understand how crucial transparency is between SG and student media.

Raby said engagement on social media, keeping the website up-todate and meeting students where

Cranch is working to create a non-profit company, called The Cottonwood Project, to run the bookstore. Starting a non-profit can take months, Cranch said, so he started raising funds at once.

“It’s kind of shoot first, ask questions later,” Cranch said.

Cranch created a fundraiser on GoFundMe to accept donations from the public. So far, the group has raised $2,385 out of the project’s $150,000 goal.

Plaisance said Cranch, a longtime customer of Cottonwood Books, approached him with the plan after the store’s last potential buyer fell through. But Plaisance said he must continue the process of closing the store.

“We are so overwhelmed with the outpouring of love and support from the community; we cannot express enough thanks. We appreciate the efforts of Sonny Cranch and his team,” Plaisance said in a post on the Cottonwood Books Facebook page. “However, due to

health reasons, we must continue to liquidate during their process.”

Cranch said that Plaisance would try to remain open several weeks in August.

“That buys us a little more time to figure this out,” Cranch said, “but we are exploring every possibility.”

To get the word out, Cranch has taken to social media and spoke to several news agencies—including appearing on Baton Rouge public radio station WRKF to speak about The Cottonwood Project.

“We felt humbled that he was involved with many of our customers who wanted to preserve Cottonwood Books,” Plaisance said.

“His efforts have really given us a ray of light in keeping the store alive for the community.”

Despite the race against time, Cranch says there is still hope for the local bookstore.

“Those who know me know that there’s always hope,” Cranch said.

Cottonwood Books sits March 20, at 3054 Perkins Road as one of Baton Rouge’s last independent book stores.

they’re at by speaking to different student organizations and asking what assistance they need will increase transparency.

FAFO believes transparency can be improved by using the scrolling banners on myLSU and TigerLink, as well as a weekly newsletter with sections like “this week in senate” and “what’s up in exec” that students can subscribe

to. They would also like to collaborate with LSU to broadcast an email once per semester about what has been happening in SG. The moderator asked Rovere how she will handle being vice president of the student body and president of her sorority, Alpha Phi, if elected. Rovere said her leadership will translate into both roles.

“I have used my leadership experience in Alpha Phi to learn three core values of being a leader and a team leader: empowering, communicating and delegating,” Rovere said.

The moderator asked Hariss and McClure to address rumors that they are both planning to study abroad next year, to which they confirmed the rumor, yet Ha-

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riss said he would reconsider if elected. McClure said they “will be here for the students” if they win.

“If elected to this position, it’s something I would seriously consider and reconsider doing, but you take things one step at a time,” Harris said. “Today I’m here, tomorrow I might not be, so it’s something I can’t really answer at this moment.”

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BUKU returns to NOLA after 2 year hiatus, offers outlet to LA artists

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Popular music and arts festival BUKU was held in New Orleans on March 25 and 26.

BY GIDEON FORTUNE & EMMA JACKMOWICZ @gidfortune & @emmajackimowicz “Be healthy, drink some water and stay in love,” one of the opening performers, A Hundred Drums, said.

The 10th BUKU festival returned to New Orleans for the first time in three years on Friday and Saturday, providing festival

goers and artists with a space to thrive.

Artist Lango, a Baton Rouge native, was excited to join the 2022 festival lineup, which featured plenty of Louisiana artists, and gave them the opportunity to perform for a large audience while still being close to home.

“I know this year they brought a lot of local talent out,” Lango said.

He emphasized the importance of his own presence, as BUKU does not have talent from Baton Rouge specifically often.

“I’m the only Baton Rouge artist in the line-up, the first since Kevin Gates,” Lango said. “I grew up off College Drive and Perkins Road. All of this is for my city and n****s straight up —All my friends are here and they’re a part.”

Performing at the New Orleans festival has been the highlight of his career so far.

“It’s full circle, what is bigger than BUKU here? This is the peak for my opportunities.”

Headlining musicians for the festival included Tyler The Creator, Tame Impala and $uicideboy$.

Not only was the festival important for fans and artists, but

vendors as well.

New York-based modern grooming company Faculty was also on site offering free nailpainting services to attendees.

“We sent out a sticker sheet to everyone who received the wristband in the mail. BUKU did that for us for free,” Faculty founder Umar Elbably said. “The audience

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Unlike Faculty, who paid for their booth, New Orleans-based recycled glass company Glass Half Full was invited to the festival for free, with the purpose of raising awareness for the organization dedicated to cleaning up the state and coastal restoration.

“We partnered with BUKU for the take action project,” Carissa Hibbert said, mentioning the project that gave away some free tickets in exchange for community improvement actions.

Hibbert, who works with Glass Half Full, appreciated the festival atmosphere.

“BUKU is a celebration of arts and culture and community, and this year it’s welcome back,” Hibbert said.

With three large outdoor sections and an indoor ballroom section to boot, festival-goers had ample space to roam and also separate from each other a bit.

Excited at the prospect of seeing Tame Impala live, the unwavering smile on LSU Alumnus Alex Rodriguez’s face captured what BUKU meant to him.

“I’ve been coming since high school. They killed it off for COVID, but I’m glad to see everyone back,” Rodriguez said.

The New Orleans native con-

siders it the perfect place for a large music festival.

“You know what laissez les bons temps rouler means—we take care of each other out here,” he said.

One festival group was charged with the sole purpose of taking care of others: BUKU Budz. This group operated in a tent labeled “Safe Space,” and focused on harm reduction and comfortability without police or medics present, something that can deter some from seeking help.

“Harm reduction is very popular at most festivals, but the South is catching up. It’s hard to approach police officers or even medical staff because they’re scared of getting in trouble, so it’s more approachable for everyone,” New Orleans resident and BUKU Budz worker Hampton Callais said.

Callais understands that most festival-goers are not sober, and the large amount of those people makes his job necessary.

“It is 100% essential for the festival experience because unfortunately, people pass away at these events, and our main mission is to get people home safe.

[Astroworld 2021] was a national travesty and it shook me to my core because of the work I do at festivals. It feels good to be back out here making sure that doesn’t

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Baton Rouge artist Lango performs at Buku music and arts festival on March 26. happen.”

Medics and police officers were present in other areas for anyone needing them.

BUKU was also a welcomed space for visual arts. The Live Painting wall featured spray paint artists with their own spot on the rafters creating art in real time during the festival.

“It was really cool to watch people paint and vibe to music,” said Baton Rouge resident Cameryn Lucas. “The music was inspiring them in a way to create

something beautiful.”

Hester Rito, a Slidell resident, was the brainchild for Any O’Cajun, a Cajun food catering company that was the talk of the festival.

“We started after the BP oil spill when my family lost all of our jobs,” said Rito when discussing how Any O’Cajun came to be.

“I buy it, I prep it, I cook it.”

As for the most popular meal during the weekend, Rito referred to “Saucy B,” a crawfish beignet dunked in sauce, a dish

that represents Southern Louisiana like no other.

“That is our flagship; it’s what we started the business with,” said Rito.

Other popular menu items were the crawfish mac’ and cheese and the crab sliders with jambalaya.

BUKU provided an audience thirsty for the festival experience with exactly what they wanted, keeping New Orleans and the state of Louisiana in mind while doing so.

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SPORTS HISTORIC CAREER

Ingrid Lindblad set school record, claiming eighth individual win

BY ADAM BURRUSS & JOE KEHRLI @AdamNFLdraft & @joekehrli9 As the sun was falling behind the green-painted hills of Sunset, South Carolina, Ingrid ‘Iggy’ Lindblad hoisted the trophy and made program history. Lindblad, a native of Halmstad, Sweden over 5,000 miles away from Baton Rouge has set an LSU record, claiming her eighth individual win of her collegiate career at the Clemson Invitational on Sunday.

After Lindblad tied former LSU golfer Jenny Lidback’s program record of seven wins at the Clover Cup two weeks ago, she promptly took the record for herself, carding a four-under par final round.

Lidback graduated in 1986 with a major in broadcast journalism and has been inducted into the LSU Athletic Hall of Fame. Lidback grew up in Lima, Peru with Swedish parents, Tommy Martty and Emily Fletcher, and became an American citizen in 2003.

Lidback has played in 13 LPGA events since joining in 2003.

Juniors Lindblad and Latanna Stone both have been invited to

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LSU women’s golf sophomore Ingrid Lindblad tees off on April 7, during the LSU Classic Day at the University Club on Memorial Tower Drive. the third playing of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, March 30 through April 2. Last year Lindblad battled a star-studded field and finished one stroke off the winner, Tsubasa Kajitani

(+1), giving her a third-place finish. Stone earned her way to the sacred grounds past Magnolia Lane after she captured several top-10 finishes this fall and spring, in addition to a win at the

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Orlando International Amateur this past January.

LSU came into this tournament after landing third place in the Clover Cup, but the team bounced back and captured a win with a score of 27-over par, 891, behind Lindblad’s four- birdie final round. Lindblad landed her fourth individual win this season, and landed back-to-back individual wins.

The Tigers also have now won two tournaments this season, with one tournament remaining at the Auburn Invitational in early April. The Tigers claimed two total team wins last year.

While Lindblad made history, the rest of the team did well to give themselves the victory. Stone tied for eighth, giving her a third top-10 finish on the season. Jessica Bailey tied for 38th, Elsa Svensson tied for 44th, and Pressley Baggett tied for 66th.

LSU, the 18th-ranked team, came into this game after losing a game last week despite leading coming into the final round. This week, they did the opposite and

The Tigers’ preparation for the upcoming football season is underway, though one crucial position remains unfilled — the quarterback.

Four candidates are currently vying for the position: Myles Brennan, Jayden Daniels, Garrett Nussmeier and Walker Howard. Coach Brian Kelly announced in a press conference that they will split the snaps until he gets a better idea of how they play, as he’s known to make decisions like these last minute.

Brennan may be the most wellknown name on the roster, though he’s still got some unknown qualities as he’s only started three games. Brennan started in 2017, where he backed up Danny Etling for a year as a freshman. He lost a previous quarterback competition to Joe Burrow and was a backup

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BY COLE HERNANDEZ @Ct_hernandez No. 14 Tigers impressed with a 16-4 win over No. 8 ranked Florida at Florida Ballpark on Saturday night. The Tigers’ 16 runs represented their most runs scored in an SEC game since March 17, 2017, when LSU posted a 22-9 win over Georgia in Baton Rouge. LSU collected 13 hits, including four home runs and four doubles.

LSU starting pitcher Ma’Khail Hilliard (2-0) blanked the Gators through the first five innings and was credited with the win. Hilliard pitched a total of 5.2 innings, allowing four runs on five hits with no walks and seven strikeouts.

Right-hander Paul Gervase relieved Hilliard in the sixth and worked 2.1 scoreless innings with no hits, one walk and two strikeouts.

“They didn’t get many good swings off against Ma’Khail,” Johnson said. “He was in and out, up and down, changing speeds, a great performance. Both Ma’Khail and Paul were incredibly hard to hit tonight.”

LSU erupted for six runs in the third inning as Dylan Crews hit a sacrifice fly and third baseman Jacob Berry contributed a runscoring grounder before Jobert

blasted a three-run shot, his fifth of the season. Left fielder Gavin Dugas followed with a solo shot, his second homer of the year.

Florida’s offense finally got going against Hilliard in the bottom of the sixth, with a fourrun rally highlighted by Sterlin Thompson’s two-run homer.

The Tigers iced the game with a seven-run ninth inning that featured a three-point home run by Crews, an RBI single by Jobert, a run-scoring double by Dugas and a sacrifice fly by DiGiacomo.

LSU continued its momentum in game three of the series on Sunday and tallied double-digit runs for a second time. The Tigers were hit by pitches eight times and converted on the Gators’ mistakes with five of those runners scoring. The NCAA record for most batters hit by a pitch in a single game is 10.

Samuel Dutton made his first collegiate start on the mound for LSU on Sunday. Coach Jay Johnson and the Tigers got exactly what they needed out of the freshman, who went 3.2 innings of scoreless baseball, surrendering just one hit and allowed LSU to build its early lead.

Dutton turned the ball over to fellow freshman Grant Taylor, who also put together a strong outing of 5.1 relief innings. Taylor allowed two runs but really con-

trolled the strike zone effectively with the double-digit lead.

The pitching over the last two days was a bright spot for a group that really struggled at the start of SEC play. For two true freshmen on the road in the SEC to control the game the way they did is a massive positive sign for this staff. LSU won 11-2 Sunday and took their first series against an SEC opponent this year.

Over the final two games, the Tigers outscored the Gators by a combined score of 27-6. The 2913 run margin for the three game series is the fourth highest in the history of these two programs.

This was obviously a huge momentum-boosting weekend for the Tigers, who not only pull even in SEC play, but also prove to everyone they can hang with the best in the conference.

“It was just the way you want to draw it up with a bunch of extra-base hits and a bunch of walks,” said Johnson.

What’s next?

Who: Tigers vs. ULM When: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday Where: Alex Box Stadium How to watch: SEC Network+

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The LSU baseball team stands for the national anthem Feb. 20, before LSU’s 12-1 win against Maine at Alex Box Stadium on Gourrier Avenue.

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for two years after.

Brennan was the clear starter for the 2020 season and began the season strong, but had to tap out after three games due to an injury.

Before the next season began, he suffered another injury that caused him to miss the 2021 season as well. He was initially set to transfer out of LSU, but Kelly convinced him to come back.

He’s no stranger to quarterback competition but hasn’t seen much luck with the Tigers so far. Some consider Brennan to be the default choice for the job, though the other three candidates could prove to upset his chances.

The next candidate, Jayden Daniels, has the most experience in the quarterback position, despite being the newest to LSU. A transfer from Arizona State, Daniels started 29 games for the Sun Devils. He has 6,025 pass yards for 32 touchdowns, along with 13 interceptions to go with 1,288 rushing yards and 13 touchdowns on the ground.

“He brings more than extending plays, actually,” Kelly said of Daniels at a press conference. “We think that there’s a lot that has not been tapped into with his ability to be a dual-threat quarterback, he’s got arm talent, he’s got a high IQ and he can run the football.”

Daniels was a four-star prospect in his recruiting class and

climbed back into contention after tying for fourth place to begin round three in South Carolina.

Lindblad began the round at even par and tied for third place before scoring four under par and landing herself a total of 212.

LSU began the day behind Kentucky, Michigan State and Florida, but Florida and Michigan State faltered as LSU and Illinois surpassed Kentucky for the podium finish.

The Clover Cup showed the ceiling of this team; even beyond Lindblad, Stone and Carla Tejedo Mulet can go on hot streaks and put the team in a good position.

Despite Tejedo Mulet not playing Sunday, Lindblad and Stone both finished top-10 and tightened up their games around the third round.

At the beginning of round three, Lindblad trailed with one shot behind the individual lead held by Annabell Fuller of Florida and Brooke Biermann of Michigan State with both at 1-under 143. By the end of the round, only Biermann had a real shot to reach Lindblad, but she fell short.

LSU came in Sunday with a shot to win, and Lindblad made sure to secure that shot. With a new program record-setter leading the way, LSU will be a force this season with Lindblad on the roster.

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LSU football freshman quarterback Garrett Nussmeier (5) walks out the tunnel Nov. 14, during LSU’s 16-13 loss against Arkansas at Tiger Stadium. clearly possesses potential untapped by the Sun Devils. He’s easily the top contender for the quarterback position against Brennan, but the two other young-gun candidates are highly talented as well.

Garrett Nussmeier is a redshirt freshman and a gunslinger who isn’t afraid to take risks. He got significant in-game experience last season, a loss to Arkansas, where he threw for 179 yards, one touch-

down and two interceptions. Nussmeier brings extra excitement to the game, though he struggles to keep his performance polished.

Any major improvements from last season during spring practice could land him the job and make him a prominent SEC player.

The last potential LSU quarterback is true freshman and early enrollee Walker Howard. Howard, a Lafayette native, comes as a high-

ly-touted recruit, having jumped back and forth between being a four-star and five-star player. He played at St. Thomas More Catholic High School with LSU breakout star Jack Bech — where the two were best friends — and sustained two injuries, likely making him a redshirt candidate. However, his talent keeps him on the roster of potential quarterbacks and someone to certainly watch out for.

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Academic dishonesty shouldn’t destroy futures of students THE STABILIER SCOOP LURA STABILER @lstabiler3 It is a busy school week. Assignments are piling up. You have exams in your two hardest classes. If you do not pass those exams, you will not get the credits you need to complete your degree.

On top of those exams, you have a project due in another class. You do not want to lose points for turning in late work, so you ask a friend to send you their project. You quickly paraphrase your friend’s work and turn it in as your own.

You do not think much of this choice until you receive an email from the Office of Student Advocacy & Accountability informing you that you are in violation of the Student Code of Conduct. You are a good student and have worked hard your entire college career, but you know that this mistake will permanently taint your otherwise clean record.

Most universities, including LSU, have very strict policies when it comes to academic dishonesty.

According to the LSU Code of Student Conduct, “High standards of academic integrity are crucial for the University to fulfill its educational mission.”

The code lists behaviors that qualify as academic misconduct, such as collaboration, copying and plagiarism. The code also lists the scary inventory of possible outcomes for these infractions.

After students’ academic dishonesty cases are reviewed by SAA, they could potentially face disciplinary probation, suspension, grade impact or even expulsion. In most cases, students also receive a notation on their transcript that hurts their chance of securing a job or enrolling in graduate school in the future.

Although it has been revised many times, the Code of Conduct has been in place since 1969. There is even an 11-member committee, including the Dean of Students, that periodically reviews and updates the code.

Academic integrity is important, and everyone needs to be held to the same academic standards. For the sake of the university’s credibility, students need to submit original work.

But should an impulse mistake

ruin a student’s future?

The university treats academic honesty with the upmost importance but has historically not given the same gravity to sexual assault.

The university made policy changes following Husch Blackwell’s investigation into its mishandling of sexual assault cases.

One of the most impactful of these changes adds a notation to the transcripts of students under investigation by the Title IX Office. The university also expanded their Title IX Office in recent months.

These are big steps for the university, but it is still shocking that academic dishonesty has ever been regarded as a more serious matter than sexual misconduct. Prior to the Husch Blackwell investigation, the Title IX office consisted of two employees compared to the committee of 11 entrusted with updating the Student Code of Conduct.

It also shocking that prior to the new transcript notation policy, students under investigation for sexual misconduct could continue into their futures unscathed, while students with even the smallest cheating violation had their transcripts notat-

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ed for future employers to see.

In 2018, then-senior Nam Vu posted a project online to his personal portfolio, and it was copied by another student. Although Vu shared his project online without the intention of others plagarizing, he was still contacted by SAA and received a note on his transcript according to 2018 Reveille reports.

Academic dishonesty policies lack compassion or understanding. Students accused of cheating are not dangers to the LSU campus. Academic dishonesty is a mistake students should have the chance to learn from.

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

‘Don’t Say Gay’ bills harmful alienating for the LGBTQ youth KACEYING THE STORY KACEY BUERCKLIN

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Over a dozen states have passed or drafted “Don’t Say Gay” bills that limit or prohibit discussion of different sexual orientations and gender identities in public schools. In Louisiana, House Bill 837, proposed by state Rep. Dodie Horton, RHaughton, prohibits that type of discussion for kindergarten to eighth grade students.

Some Republicans favor these bills because they fear that if instructors talk about different sexual orientations in school, they will brainwash more children into thinking they identify as anything other than straight.

This type of thinking is outdated. Talking about different sexualities and gender identities should not be considered

political or taboo. Just because heterosexuality is viewed as the norm does not mean that samesex relationships are wrong. It is normal for someone to identify as something other than heterosexual or cisgender.

Homosexuality and gender nonconformity have always existed. LGBTQ history is part of every nation’s history. There is proof of same-sex relations in ancient Greece. Gay people aren’t a new concept that came with the rise of media. Same-sex relationships have always existed and will always exist. Trying to restrict the LGBTQ community will not erase them.

This bill will not make more children “less” gay. Instead, it will continue to silence young people struggling with their sexuality and gender identity.

There are a lot of children out there whose parents would disown them if they were to ever tell them. Especially in a hy-

per-religious state like Louisiana, many LGBTQ students are unable to come out in fear of homelessness or abuse. Schools should be the safe place for students to be themselves.

Suicide rates are four times higher for LGBTQ youth than any other youth group in America according to The Trevor Project. Bills like the “Don’t Say Gay” legislation only perpetuates that harm by making students think it is wrong to be gay or transgender. It is hard enough for young people to come to terms with their identities, and bills like this only make it more difficult.

Let’s stop stigmatizing the talk of sexuality. Being in a same-sex relationship is normal, and we need to start treating it as so. “Don’t Say Gay” bills unnecessarily alienate LGBTQ people.

Legislators need to pass laws protecting the LGBTQ commu-

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