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REMEMBERING JERRY CEPPOS Manship community mourns beloved professor, mentor and former dean NEWS

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LSU paid approximately $19,000 in travel expenses to key administration members according to expense reports obtained by The Reveille.

SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

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When putting a staff together, Head Football Coach Brian Kelly looked for a combination of experience and Louisiana roots.

OPINION

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GOODBYE, PROFESSOR Remembering a man who inspired us all

BY DOMENIC PURDY @tigerdom16 Jerry Ceppos, former Manship School of Mass Communication dean, professor and award winning journalist, died on Friday. He was 75.

He died from sepsis brought on by severe infection in his Baton Rouge home surrounded by his family on July 29, wife Karen Ceppos said.

Before moving away from reporting to begin instructing the next generation of journalists, Ceppos’ award-winning career spanned multiple papers from coast to coast, prioritizing diversity and communication everywhere he went.

“You can’t talk about his legacy without talking about the people he hired, the people he brought in, and he was crucial in that process,” said Josh Grimm, interim dean of the Manship School, who Ceppos hired as the associate dean for research and strategic initiatives. “People are what make the Manship School what the Manship School is. And he was critical in helping that part of the school grow.”

For Ceppos, reporters were the basis behind reporting, so why not nurture them?

Ceppos’ ethos on prioritizing the people he was responsible for carried over from a four-decade career to his position as the Manship School’s dean from 2011 to 2018, where he also continued to teach as a William B. Dickinson Distinguished Professor teaching media ethics and social responsibility until his death.

Prioritizing the expansion of the school’s curriculum and the wellbeing of his students, he also sought to amplify the resources available to faculty and students for the best education possible.

“Dean Ceppos was a great teacher, mentor and person overall,” said Peter Rauterkus, mass communication junior and Reveille sports editor. “He pushed us and was genuinely passionate about teaching us and making us better writers and journalists. I will always remember his passion and kindness and the impact he left on me will be felt for the rest of my career.”

His students recall his kindness and his attentiveness to their needs, even after brief conversations upon their first meeting. For Ceppos, attentiveness was an important part of every interaction, even after his students graduated.

“He gave me plenty of career advice and frequently emailed me about stories that he enjoyed,” said Andrea Gallo, a Manship School alumna and investigative reporter at the Advocate. “I peppered him with questions about journalism controversies, always interested in his take on what was going on.

And whenever I had stories that involved gray areas of journalism

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LSU Manship School of Mass Communication Dean Jerry Ceppos introduces the Neither Liberal Nor Conservative Panel on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017, in the Holliday Forum. ethics, I’d email him and tell him, ‘I’ve got a good example for your ethics classes.’”

He helped create programs essential to the education of mass communication, including LSU Cold Case Project and Statehouse Bureau, which gave student journalists real world experience and publication experience reporting unsolved Ku Klux Klan murders from before the Civil Rights Movement and state politics, respectively, for 90 publications across dozens of newspapers statewide.

“The more we can send out student work year round, it is better for the students with clips and experiences, and helping the papers stay in business,” said Christopher Drew, director of both the Cold Case and Statehouse programs. “(It was also) the public service of getting more news out to people, because he was concerned about the decline in newspapers and drops in readership numbers.

And he wanted us to get more news out there to people.”

He also helped create the Social Media Analysis and Creation Lab, bringing mass communication education further into the 21st century, as well as establishing the school’s endowed chair in race, media and cultural literacy, the first of its kind anywhere in the country.

“He was a man who genuinely wanted and appreciated diversity, in the truest sense of the word,” said Tina Harris, Manship-Maynard Endowed Chair of Race, Media and Cultural Literacy. “Jerry wanted to elevate everyone and create parity where disparities reigned, displaying compassion and understanding along the way.”

Born in 1946 in Washington, D.C., and graduating from the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland in 1969, Ceppos, hailing from a family of journalists, quickly joined the ranks of the New York-based Rochester Democrat and Chronicle as a reporter and editor for three years, before transitioning to the Miami Herald as an assistant managing editor, where he would stay for almost nine years.

By 1981, he moved west to join the editorial staff of the San Jose Mercury News as executive editor and senior vice president where he

remained for 18 years.

It was around this time that Ceppos met his future wife, Karen, through a colleague from the Miami Herald. After Jerry moved to San Jose, Karen followed suit. By 1982, the couple was married.

During his nearly two-decade tenure at the California-based paper, his leadership brought two Pulitzer Prizes for 1985 reporting on a Philippine President’s controversial international dealings, as well as reporting on the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989.

As editor in both Miami and San Jose, he developed an interest in the power of technology and new forms of reporting the news, including developing a master narrative, around which all news in the community would connect to.

After his tenure at the San Jose Mercury News, Ceppos became the vice president for news at the Knight-Ridder, at the time, the second-largest newspaper publisher in the country.

Between 1999 and 2005, he oversaw the company’s Washington and foreign bureaus and prioritized recruitment and diversity in newsrooms.

During his tenure at KnightRidder, he was awarded the Gerald M. Sass Award for Distinguished Service to Journalism and Mass Communications, the highest honor granted by the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication, in 2002.

In 2008, the next step in his career was to share what he had learned over the past 35 years as the dean of the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno for three years before finding his home in Baton Rouge.

“His lifelong goal was to be the editor of a big newspaper, (but) I think he found the greatest pleasure In his career, teaching and working closely with students,” said his wife, an academic in library information sciences. “I don’t think he ever realized it was something that would be so meaningful and rewarding to him.”

Even after a career in journalism and higher education that touched thousands of reporters, young and old, Ceppos never wavered in his championship of ethics and the social responsibility journalism held

in modern society. He contributed to several books on the subject, including “Moral Reasoning for Journalists,” as well as a 2021 book he edited titled “Covering Politics in the Age of Trump.”

“Jerry had a way of making students feel like they were a key part of the Manship School, and that they were not just students, but professionals who were doing important work,” said Sam Karlin, reporter at the Advocate and alumni of the Manship School. “He put an imprint on tons of journalists who are working in the field today, myself included.”

Who reported the news was just as important to Ceppos, a champion of diversity in the newsroom, boardroom and classroom, as what was being reported. In addition to ensuring diversity was present in decision making in higher education at the Manship School and beyond by advocating for the inclusion of diversity chairs on every search committee at the school, he increased the racial and ethnic diversity of staff at the San Jose Mercury News threefold.

“It was always so apparent, even obvious, that this was something Jerry truly cared about,” said Grimm, who worked with Ceppos in the effort to include diversity in committees. “It was who he was.”

Ceppos was particularly interested in championing the exploits of young reporters when their jobs put them in conflict with those in power.

Similarly, when Piper Hutchinson, current Reveille editor-in-chief and mass communication senior, was illegally removed from a faculty senate meeting last year, “Ceppos not only rebutted them in a letter, but publicly called them out on the most popular radio show in the state,” she explained.

“Anytime somebody tried to disrespect the work of Reveille reporters, Dean Ceppos was there to defend us,” Hutchinson said. “His loss will be deeply felt in the Hodges basement.”

Outside of journalism, Ceppos was a connoisseur of both wine and contemporary art, as well as being an avid pen collector. Merging his love for writing and pens, he wrote irregularly for a publication called Pen World Magazine, with a yet to be finished article about a California woman collecting pens from various film productions she has worked on.

“Always above all, the news,” Ceppos’ wife explained. “And telling it like it is.”

Ceppos is survived by his wife Karen and two children, Matthew and Robin, who live in Reno, Nevada, and Washington D.C., respectively.

He will be buried in Miami at a private funeral for family and friends, Grimm announced in a statement to Manship staff on Saturday. A public memorial service is planned for a later date, his wife explained.

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LSU paid approximately $19,000 in travel expenses to key administration members, including nearly $3,000 to send four administrators to Washington Mardi Gras in January.

According to expense reports obtained by The Reveille, between July 1, 2021, and June 30, 2022 the university paid the travel expenses of ten members of administrative staff, including President Tate, Executive Vice President & Provost Matt Lee and Executive Director for the Board of Supervisors Jason Droddy.

Per the university’s travel policy presented in Permanent Memorandum 13, the university provides travel funds for “authorized travel of staff members who are designated by the appropriate administrative officer as delegates to conventions or association meetings.”

“LSU’s travel procedures and regulations exist to ensure compliance with state requirements,

provide a procedural framework for employees and students who travel on University business, and outline fiscally responsible spending practices,” explained LSU spokesperson Ernie Ballard.

Total travel expenses for the staff members consisted of 51 charges totaling $18,870.08, with an average of $2,096.68 spent on each staff member.

Here’s some of the more expensive charges: • Deborah Richards, Assistant to the President: $1,354.25 for charges related to President Tate’s June 2022 trip to the Harvard President event • Winston DeCuir Jr., Vice President of Legal Affairs and General Counsel: $2,068.72 for June 2022 travel to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he was a speaker at the National Association of College and University Attorneys annual conference.

• Ashley Arceneaux, Chief of Staff: $1,084.54 for a January 2022 trip to Washington D.C. for Washington Mardi Gras.

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• Louis Gremillion Jr., Policy Analyst: $1,473.80 for October 2021 travel to attend the SEC Government Relations Conference in Missouri.

• Matt Lee, Interim Executive Vice President & Provost: $545.40 as a June 2022 reimbursement for expenses for the National Security Forum in Montgomery, Alabama.

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• Mark Bieger, Vice President of Strategy: $540.96 for November 2021 travel to LSU Shreveport “to discuss strategic planning of the Shreveport campus and the Health Science Center of Shreveport.”

• William F. Tate IV, President: $128.05 for a January 2022 trip to visit the University of

Georgia.

Notably, the university paid for multiple trips to LSU’s Shreveport campus for Board of Supervisors meetings and tours of the campus, in addition to assistance in the selection of a new chancellor.

Ballard explained that paying to send the administration to Shreveport and Washington, as well as other trips listed in the expense reports, is to enrich the LSU community, “enhancing LSU’s reputation among potential prospective faculty and across funding agencies.”

“These travel opportunities help with recruitment of faculty and undergraduate and graduate students, open doors for funding opportunities and partnerships, and provide visibility for the university overall among peer institutions, associations and the like,” Ballard said. “(It also allows) leadership to develop beneficial relationships with organizations and industry that can yield support for research and scholarships.”

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A look at LSU’s new staff: The impact of experience and Louisiana roots

BY PETER RAUTERKUS @peter_rauterkus When Brian Kelly took the job at LSU, one of the first big questions was how he’d assemble the coaching staff.

One thing that became apparent during the hiring process was the emphasis on hiring coaches with Louisiana. Though Kelly only retained one assistant coach, he brought in multiple coaches with ties to Louisiana.

This makes sense considering one of the biggest knocks against Kelly is his inexperience in the state and region One of the notable hires Kelly made was wide receivers coach and passing game coordinator Cortez Hankton. Hankton’s stock was as high as ever, coming off a national championship at Georgia in the same role. A native of New Orleans, Hankton is another coach with Louisiana roots that LSU hopes will pay dividends on

the field and in recruiting.

“It’s a great opportunity because I get the chance to coach at a University, at a program that I watched growing up,” Hankton said after getting the job. “When you’re from uptown New Orleans

or you’re from the state of Louisiana, this is the team that you watch.”

A big part of Kelly’s philosophy since becoming head coach has been that of graduating champions. A bigger emphasis is

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LSU football interim head coach Brad Davis enters the field with linemen Jan. 4, during LSU’s 42-20 loss against Kansas State at NRG Stadium in Houston, TX.

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being placed on off-the-field excellence compared to LSU’s previous coaching teams.

That was also part of Hankton’s philosophy when coming to LSU. “Having an opportunity to grow here and coach in our state, to develop talent in our state, but more importantly to develop the young men as students, as football players and as people,” Hankton said. “And I feel like it’s only right to give back to the place that has given so much to me.”

Hankton takes over one of LSU’s best position groups and will look to further develop that elite talent. LSU has never had a shortage of good wide receivers, and Hankton is now tasked with keeping that pipeline rolling.

The one coach Kelly did retain was a notable one, offensive line coach and former interim head coach Brad Davis. Davis is

Another famous figure in LSU Athletics was immortalized as the Pete Maravich statue was officially unveiled Aug. 25 in front of a crowd of family and fans.

The statue comes 52 years following the end of Maravich’s electric LSU career where he broke just about every scoring record both at LSU and in all of college basketball. He finished his career as the all time leading scorer both in LSU and NCAA history.

He finished his career with 3,667 total points over his college career, averaging 44.3 points per game. This was also before the introduction of the three-point shot and the shot clock, mean-

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ASTROLOGY

Leo July 23 - Aug. 22 Should you face an inconvenience, don’t hesitate to reach out to your circle. The coming days will reveal the importance of letting people be there for you. And save up some of your birthday money - it’ll come in handy later.

IN YOUR STARS

Your horoscope for the week of August 1 Scorpio

Libra Sept. 23 - Oct. 22 You’ll reap the rewards of your hard work this week, but may still feel like you should aim for more. Take a bit of time for life outside of work: a self-care day, dinner with friends, or just more time to rest.

Pisces Feb. 19 - March 20 If you find yourself feeling overwhelmed this week, try to take a deep breathe and get organized.

Expect to receive attention of all kinds in the coming days.

A feminine figure in your life may help you get out of a bind.

Oct. 23 - Nov. 21

Sagittarius Nov. 22 - Dec. 21

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Aug. 23 - Sept. 22 Your logical side takes the lead this week, as you brace for major changes in your life and daily routine. Aim for balance and don’t feel guilty for outgrowing things. Your social life will also pick up in the coming days.

Capricorn Dec. 22 - Jan. 19

This week is action-packed for you socially speaking. Avoid committing to too much at once. Financial matters experience a positive boost. You may establish a boundary in a personal/professional relationship.

This week, you’ll take a much needed break from a commitment to shift your focus onto another one.

In order to do so successfully, your habits may have to change. Nostalgia is your theme - DMs from old friends?

An opportunity to expand your horizons arrives don’t turn it down because it requires some effort and adjustment. Your work receives positive feedback this week; use this as inspiration to do what feels right more often.

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April 20 - May 20

May 21 - June 21

Trust your gut this week and don’t be swayed by false narratives. You know yourself, and that’s what matters.

You may receive unexpected help from a relative/mentor.

Steve Lacy was right - y’all can’t be surprised. Discernment is your theme for this week. Be cautious of who you share good news and resources with. You may decide to save up for a trip.

If you experience any setbacks this week, you’ll find solutions just as quickly. You may find yourself getting more sleep than usual. Changes regarding a connection that distance is a factor in.

Virgo

Aquarius Jan. 20 - Feb. 18 This week, avoid making other people’s problems your problems. Your home life will experience a positive boost this week. Utilize this time to catch up with the people you care about.

Cancer June 22 - July 22 This week, allow things to be revealed naturally and avoid stressing over situations you can’t control. If you get overwhelmed, disconnect and decompress for a bit. Deceitful behavior may be uncovered by accident.

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Monday, August 1, 2022 FOOTBALL, from page 5 a Baton Rouge native who spent his first season at LSU in 2021.

His path to LSU was a bit unconventional, with him being hired just months before the season last June. He was then tasked with turning around a struggling offensive line in a very short period of time.

The learning curve was evident last season, and LSU struggled at the line of scrimmage early on. From there, the whirlwind began as Ed Orgeron was fired during the season, and uncertainty loomed throughout the

STATUE, from page 5 ing his numbers could have been even more eye-popping in today’s game. After his time at LSU, he played 10 seasons in the NBA for the Atlanta Hawks, New Orleans/ Utah Jazz and the Boston Celtics.

He averaged 24.2 points per game over his NBA career and was inducted into the hall of fame in 1987.

Following his death in 1988, the then LSU Assembly Center was renamed the Pete Maravich Assembly Center, the first physical devotion to him on LSU’s campus.

His No. 23 jersey was retired in 2007, before the LSU Athletic Hall of Fame committee unanimously voted in 2016 to erect a statue of Maravich.

page 7 staff. In that time though, Davis’ unit continued to improve and he was chosen to be the interim head coach for LSU’s bowl game.

“Coaching offensive line is a position that will prepare you for these opportunities,” Davis said after the season. “For me it was something I had been prepared for, for quite some time.”

Davis now enters his second year at LSU, and steps into a more stable role. After a year of development and turnover on the offensive line, expectations are high that he can take the group back to the standard it held prior to the 2020 season.

Though bringing in Louisiana-based coaches was a priority, Kelly still brought some familiarity with him, including Brian Polian, a tag-along from Notre Dame who was an on-field coach.

Polian now serves the same role at LSU, and is also the recruiting coordinator. He comes from a background of player management, as he is the son of longtime NFL general manager and president Bill Polian, who most notably brought the Buffalo Bills to prominence as the General Manager from 1986-1992.

Though he is not from the south, his role is that of a rela-

tionship builder that he uses to recruit nationally.

“Who I am as a recruiter is genuine and relationship-driven,” Polian said in an interview.

“I want to get to know each prospect, I want to know who’s important in their life, I want to know what’s important in their life, I want to know what’s unique about where they’re from and their families and communities. I want to build relationships and in the end, we are in a relationship business.”

Outside of the Louisiana ties, Kelly was big on hiring experienced coaches. That is evident

with Polian, Hankton and Davis, along with the rest of the staff.

“We’re in the toughest division in the SEC,” Kelly said when introducing the staff. “You need experienced coaches, you need coaches that know what winning is about and how difficult it is to win in this conference.”

That trait is reflected through the whole staff, and is a contrast from what LSU’s coaching staff looked like under Ed Orgeron. Polian, Hankton and Davis alone have a combined 49 years of college coaching experience, despite all three still being relatively young coaches.

The statue itself was made to honor the details of him as a player. From his floppy hair to his iconic, long socks, the statue honored the small details that many associate with Maravich’s unassuming look as a basketball star.

That campaign was led, in part, by former LSU men’s basketball coach Dale Brown, who spoke about the decision at the unveiling ceremony.

“I don’t know why some things become so difficult, they’re so simple,” Brown said, addressing some of the issues he and others ran into when campaigning for the statue. Some were opposed to Maravich having a statue due to him not graduating, therefore not meeting the requirements for monuments to student-athletes.

“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future,” is what Brown said he told opposers to the statue, a quote originally attributed to Irish playwright Oscar Wilde.

Six years on from the decision to erect the statue, Maravich’s family, led by his widow, Jackie Maravich-McLachlan officially unveiled the monument. She also spoke, talking about what Maravich brought to LSU and the sport of basketball as a whole.

“Over Pete’s lifetime, many have described him as an entertainer, artist, showman or basketball wizard,” Maravich-McLachlan said. “Whatever the adjective used, they describe and represent the joy and excitement Pete brought to the game of basketball.”

She, along with their two sons, Jaeson and Josh, got the honor of unveiling the statue following the ceremony. The statue is located in front of the Pete Maravich Assembly Center Practice Facility, next to

statues of other former LSU basketball greats Bob Petit and Shaquille O’Neal. A statue of former women’s basketball star Seimone Augustus is slated to be added soon.

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Pete Maravich’s new statue now stands near the Shaquille O’Neal statue outside the PMAC, July 25.

OPINION

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Letter from the Editor: What I learned as a disabled editor PIPER HUTCHINSON

@PiperHutchBR

Disabled journalists belong in the newsroom. I’m one of them.

When I got my first job as a student journalist, I was scared.

I was scared my disability would get in the way. I was scared that my editors would find out and think of me differently.

I am privileged, as my disability is hidden. It makes my life harder, as it always will, but my editors probably never knew.

With time, I overcame my fear. I did my job well and my work is respected. I rose to se-

nior reporter and again to editor-in-chief. Soon I will be stepping back at The Reveille for yet another opportunity in journalism.

Before I go, I want to share what I learned as a disabled editor. I hope that the editors at this newspaper and every other outlet hears what I have to say.

It’s easy to accommodate. Not only is it easy, it is worth it in every sense of the word.

I never saw some of my staff.

They did their job from home and produced some of their best work. While shoe leather reporting will never go out of style, so much of contemporary reporting, particularly enterprise reporting, can be done from home.

There is no reason to not allow a reporter to work off site if there is no benefit to them showing up in a physical newsroom.

Some deadlines were missed.

But through a little communication and empathy, I still put a paper out on time and allowed my reporters to take care of their own health and well-being. Having a product you can be proud of a couple of days late is always better than forcing your staff to push themselves to exhaustion to turn in a subpar story.

Sometimes stories got transferred because a reporter needed a mental health break from a topic. Considering the state of the world and the news that we cover, that’s going to happen. It’s

not the end of the world.

These are accommodations that should be offered not just to disabled reporters, but to all reporters. Treating your staff with dignity and respect will only benefit an industry that has been defined by pushing those that are deemed “different” out of the industry and relying on abusive labor practices.

Offering basic flexibility to all workers, and accommodating disabled workers whenever humanly possible, is how journalism, a calling that is under threat, will survive and grow.

I’m proud of the work that The Reveille team did and I’m proud that we did it while prioritizing the needs of the people

in our newsroom.

It wasn’t hard.

In a world where the COVID-19 pandemic is causing leagues of people to develop permanent disabilities and health news is constantly at A1, disabled reporters bring a much needed perspective.

To the bosses out there, I ask you to put your biases aside and hire and accommodate disabled reporters.

To my fellow disabled journalists, I ask you to keep writing. You belong in this industry. It can be hard and it can be lonely, but you are doing a good thing for the world by lending your voice to truth. Don’t give up.

School Survival Guide: Four tips for surviving college classes SULLY’S SCOOP CLAIRE SULLIVAN

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We all remember what is was like to be a freshman with a million questions. The Reveille is kicking off its freshmen advice column series as the fall 2022 semester ramps up. You ask, and we’ll answer.

Though the social aspects of college pose a number of anxieties to incoming freshmen, the reason we’re here — i.e., to get an education — is most often the major stressor. Whether they’ve taken

college-level classes or not, many freshmen feel like they’re flailing in the deep end of the pool when they think about starting their coursework.

The transition to college can be difficult, but there’s many people here to help you. Here’s a few tips for starting your college career off right.

Go to class.

One morning, you wake up a little more tired than all the rest.

You’re sitting in bed, and you think, “Would it be so bad to skip just one class?”

Maybe skipping one class isn’t so bad, but skipping one makes it a lot easier to skip the rest. For

that reason, it’s best to force yourself out of bed everyday, outside certain exceptions like illness or a personal crisis.

Being in class is important for absorbing information and for knowing what’s going on in terms of assignments, content and exams. Not to mention, professors notice empty seats.

Going to class is like going for a run; difficult to start, sometimes bad in the moment, but not often regretted after.

Take advantage of LSU resources.

There are resources at your fingertips to help you succeed academically, most of which are

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A student studies in LSU Library on May 26.

housed in the Center for Academic Success.

When you get the email ding on Sunday night from the Center for academic success, you should read it. The center sends out weekly outlines of relevant resources and advice. There’s everything from the study cycle, to finals planning, to stress reduction techniques. CAS also provides services like supplemental instruction and tutoring.

These resources are all free.

CAS is often underutilized, often because people are stubborn and think, “I can handle this on my own.” There’s no shame in reaching out for academic help. College is supposed to be challenging, and these resources are here to help you succeed.

For my STEM peers...

College science classes can be difficult, and they’re meant to be.

After all, I’m glad the aerospace engineer designing the plane I’m flying in or the doctor administering me medical care have received rigorous educations.

Most STEM courses can’t be absorbed in a night of cramming (or at least, are better off not). Organic chemistry, for one often dreaded example, takes a tedious plan of attack and consistent studying throughout the semester.

A huge help in staying on track is attending supplemental instruction sessions. If you’re available during SI, you should commit to going whenever possible. Either way, it’s vital to make a consistent study schedule to avoid getting overwhelmed with your course work. Trust me, I’ve been guilty

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of trying to cram science concepts in my brain at the last minute, and it never ends well academically or mentally.

STEM courses are hard, of course. But making smart investments in time and effort can alleviate your stress and grow your grades.

Get to know your professors.

Talking to college professors can sometimes be intimidating, especially when you’re fresh out of high school.

How do I address them? Am I being annoying? Is this a dumb question?

But you quickly come to realize that professors are not different from any other adult you might talk to on a daily basis. You should address them respectfully, of course, but don’t be afraid to ask them about course content or just about how their day’s going. Take advantage of office hours. Though there are nightmare stories, most professors are friendly and more than happy to help you. After all, I’d imagine they want students to learn and appreciate the subject they’ve spent much of their life studying.

If you’re a freshman reading this just a couple of weeks out from stepping on campus, don’t despair. Think about all the people that came before you and made it out just fine. Look for help around you, and you’ll be sure to find it.

Claire Sullivan is a 19-year-old coastal environmental science and mass communication junior from CT.

Quote of the Week “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.”

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