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NEW LEADERSHIP A new Faculty Senate President, vice president and secretary were elected on Monday.

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Student organizations work with Project Parole to bring attention to high incarcaration rates in Louisiana.

ENTERTAINMENT

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Bill Hader and “Barry” return with a darker and funnier third season — and the stakes are higher than ever.

SPORTS

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Derek Stingley Jr.’s list of possible suitors is a long one as he enters the 2022 NFL Draft as a top prospect.

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CHANGES COMING New leaders elected after contentious year in Faculty Senate

BY PIPER HUTCHINSON @PiperHutchBR After a contentious year in the LSU Faculty Senate, new Senate leaders were elected on Monday at the body’s last meeting of the semester.

President Mandi Lopez, who decided not to seek re-election, will be replaced by Inessa Bazayev, a music professor and at-large member of the Faculty Senate Executive Committee. Bazayev beat her sole opponent, current Vice President Joan King, on a 37-15 vote.

King will be replaced as vice president by Daniel Tirone, a political science professor. Tirone beat out two other candidates, Roy Heidelberg and Eddie Gibbons, on a 37-14-2 vote.

The new secretary of the Senate, Meredith Veldman, beat one other candidate, Kerry Dooley, an engineering professor, to replace Marwa Hassan, who did not run for any officer position.

Bazayev, Tirone and Veldman have made waves in the Faculty

Senate for their opposition to the current administration. The three have co-sponsored several resolutions together and have at times been openly critical of Lopez’s practices as president.

A group of senators, including Tirone and Veldman, brought a resolution calling for Lopez, King and past President Kenneth McMillin to resign. This was following the revelation that Lopes, King, and McMillin knew about the LSU Board of Supervisors’ plan to abolish the Faculty Council ahead of time and did not alert the rest of the Senate.

Bazayev publicly supported the resolution.

“We were told by the president that there’s nothing we could do,” Bazayev said at the October Faculty Senate meeting.

Bazayev said that her priority as president will be to “build our Senate into a formidable body that advocates for faculty” by working with faculty throughout the LSU system and following up on resolutions that the body passes.

As a senator, Tirone has been

outspoken, often found leading the conversation at Faculty Senate meetings. On multiple occasions, Tirone has exchanged terse words with Senate leadership and even other senators.

Both Bazayev and Tirone criticized Faculty Senate leaders when the body illegally kicked out a Reveille reporter from a meeting without following proper protocol in November.

In March, when the body underwent open meetings law training, Tirone simultaneously defended the body’s need to comply with open meetings law while also advocating for the body to seek an exemption.

“It is not a choice we can make whether to abide by them or not,” Tirone said of the open meetings law, later arguing that the law was not made with bodies like the Faculty Senate in mind.

While Veldman has been less outspoken than Bazayev and Tirone, she has made her mark in the Senate in her own way.

Veldman is known for her at-

tention to detail. On many occasions, Veldman has advocated for administrative changes to various aspects of Faculty Senate business.

On some occasions, that has meant lobbying for changes to the minutes to make them more accurate or pointing out that agenda items have been skipped.

Veldman also sponsored a resolution to amend the Faculty Senate bylaws to make meetings operate more efficiently. The resolution, which sought to rearrange the agenda structure so that guest speakers appear after business is conducted, passed in February.

The body also elected new atlarge members of the Faculty Senate Executive Committee. Jin-Woo Choi, an engineering professor, and Parampreet Singh, a physics professor, were elected over James Madden, a math professor, and Dooley.

Although more reserved than the rest of the group, both Choi and Singh have joined Bazayev, Tirone and Veldman on various resolutions over the past year.

Faculty Senate calls for more library spending

BY PIPER HUTCHINSON @PiperHutchBR The LSU Faculty Senate on Monday unanimously passed a resolution aimed at increasing the university’s spending on the library by 6% annually until the budget resembles the average spending on college libraries.

The resolution is sponsored by the Faculty Senate’s Library Advisory Committee.

The resolution points out that LSU’s library expenditures are significantly lower than those of other flagship universities in the SEC. LSU’s total library expenditures were about $14 million in 2019. In that same year, the University of Florida’s were about $35 million, the University of Tennessee’s were about $30 million and the University of Kentucky’s were about $23 million.

The resolution cites LSU’s recent $245-million donation from Our Lady of the Lake and university President William F. Tate IV’s academic-first vision as reasons for increasing the library budget.

“The vast majority of scholarship is published in subscriptionbased journals or book publications, either in print or in electronic formats,” the resolution says. “All researchers, be this undergraduate students, graduate students or faculty members, routinely use databases to find and select publication titles within specific fields of research.”

The resolution reports that the library has to turn away students and faculty trying to reach a spe-

cific title over 100,000 times in any given year and that the demand for the interlibrary loan system has grown significantly.

LSU library total expenditures and book expenditures rank second from the bottom among SEC libraries, with just Mississippi State spending less money on their library.

The benchmark for bringing the LSU library expenditures up to the average reported by the Association of Research Libraries was chosen as LSU has hovered at less than half of the average for over a decade.

“Financial constraints prevent us from obtaining adequate collections to support a flagship institution like LSU,” Dean of Libraries Stanley Wilder said. “We have data (referenced in the resolution) that illustrates the impact of this problem to researchers and LSU students alike. The resolution presents a modest, gradual path to addressing this long-developing problem.”

Wilder also spoke in support of the resolution at the March Faculty Senate meeting when it first came up for discussion.

“We’re not able to provide the resources to support doctoral level research at this institution,” Wilder said. “But I can go on and on with ways of showing that the inadequacy of collections leaks through, everywhere you look, at every every metric.”

Professor of library science Ed Benoit said that increasing the funding would be a great first step.

“The library is woefully underfunded and does not match the

standing of a flagship land grant institution,” Benoit said. “Without additional funding soon, I would be concerned about LSU losing its R1 status due to a lack of library resources.”

This is not the first time that the library budget has come up in the Faculty Senate. In 2015, the Faculty Senate passed a similar resolution, which called on the university to increase the library’s book budget.

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Faculty Senate members sit as Senate President Mandi Lopez speaks at a meeting on April 25.

While the state of the LSU Library has faced intense public scrutiny for many years, most of the discussion has centered on the status of the facilities, which are in dire shape.

The library requires significant investment, with about $30 million worth of deferred maintenance

projects listed on the university’s project list.

Most notably, the library is in need of a new roof.

“The roof is already beyond its expected life,” Roger Husser, Assistant Vice President of Planning, Design and Construction, said.

Husser said the new roof would be coming within a year.

LSU has plans to build a new library and tear the current building down. LSU President William Tate IV has said that the new library will have fewer books, but instead be a center for technology.

A new library is not the university’s top capital outlay priority. Instead, the university is prioritizing a new interdisciplinary sciences building. LSU requested $1.5 million from the Legislature for the design of the new library.

The House of Representatives included funds for the design in its capital outlay bill, which passed the House last week.

Rep. Tanner Magee, R-Houma and the second-ranking legislator in the House, confronted Tate in committee about the university’s handling of library funding.

“Because of some students on Twitter, complaining about the library, Rep. Davis and I actually set up a tour for the legislature to go see the library because I thought it was such a pressing need,” Magee said. “Now five years down the line, we haven’t made any progress on that front. And I wouldn’t really put the blame on the legislature to be honest. We’ve always had priority from LSU that was above the library.”

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LSU prison reform organizations fight for criminal justice reform

BY JOHN BUZBEE @thebuzzbuz Despite reforms in recent years, Louisiana continues to have some of the highest incarceration rates in the world, having more people in jail than any other democracy on Earth, according to a 2021 report conducted by the Prison Policy Initiative.

Those staggering rates are what motivates Tiger Prison Project and Project Reformation’s work to educate the campus community on the issue and volunteer with the Parole Project to assist formerly incarcerated people in Baton Rouge.

“We’re trying to educate students on campus about prison reform, mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex as a whole,” said African American studies senior and president of Tiger Prison Project Kaya Lewis.

The primary goal of Tiger Prison Project is to mobilize the campus community and have them acknowledge the humanity of those that are currently incarcerated or have been previously, as well as the systematic and often overlooked struggles they endure.

“I think that most students have a disillusionment to some extent,” Lewis said. “I think everyone still has things to learn. Even myself, having studied this my whole college career, I know there’s still a lot I don’t know. There’s a lot going on.”

The organization’s reach has extended past weekly meetings, with volunteers from the group directly

assisting formerly incarcerated people in Baton Rouge.

Lewis said that when Tiger Prison Project advocates at the state capitol, they usually start with baselevel information, testing the waters of onlookers’ familiarity to their cause. She said project members usually start by sharing information

lored projects, like resume building or smartphone crash courses.

Project Reformation began as the capstone project for mass communication senior Kate Wells, but has since become a passion of her and her teammates.

They are currently focusing on educating the community on Sen-

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Tiger Prison Project members gather at a meeting. they’ve never heard before.

Tiger Prison Project holds general meetings that typically feature a professor, attorney or someone who has been through the criminal justice system acting as a guest speaker.

They also regularly hold workshops in conjunction with Parole Project where they interact and help incarcerated and recently released individuals with specifically tai-

ate Bill No. 336, which would significantly raise the requirements needed for incarcerated juveniles to seek parole.

“These are kids only a few years younger than us,” Wells said. “They could be our peers in college one day. They’ve been given a bad label entirely” Wells said that of the recidivism among juvenile lifers is around 1%.

She said that the minds of these of-

fenders haven’t fully developed; the system considers them irredeemable when they’re still children.

Parole Project was co-founded

by Andrew Hundley, the first Louisiana “juvenile lifer” to be paroled after the U.S. Supreme Court’s verdict in Miller v. Alabama and Montgomery v. Louisiana. The conclusions of these cases meant that life imprisonment of a minor was considered cruel and unusual punishment, and therefore unconstitutional.

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Sri Lankan students protest

BY JOHN BUZBEE @thebuzzbuz

When Hundley was released in 2016, he emerged as a far different person than when he was convicted in 1997. He immersed himself in education courses while in prison, completing numerous programs and serving as a leader in multiple prisoner organizations Hundley is a graduate of Baton Rouge Community College, LSU, and earned a master’s degree in Criminology and Justice from Loyola. He serves as executive director for the Parole Project.

His story mirrors the goals of Parole Project–to successfully integrate their clients—most having served 20 years or more incarcerated—back into society.

According to Wells, only 60 of the 300 juvenile lifers have actually been paroled despite the verdicts of Miller v. Alabama and Montgomery v. Louisiana.

She adds that 93% of those children are Black. Louisiana is three times more likely to to sentence juveniles to a life sentence.

A Sri Lankan LSU student arranged a peaceful protest Sunday condemning the leadership of the Sri Lankan government and raising awareness for the country’s humanitarian crisis in Free Speech Alley.

Despite the heavy rain, the protest was reinforced by students from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and Tulane University, as well as Sri Lankans from across the state.

Ovini Kankanamge, a chemistry graduate student and vice president for the International Student Association, organized the event.

“We’re helpless and hoping that something happens to make a change, with the protests going on,” Kankanamge said. “Maybe the government resigns, and somebody takes over that can do better.”

Like many of the protesters, Kankanamge has friends and family suffering back home. She said food and medical supplies are growing scarce, the power is out as many as 16 hours a day and the market—both domestic and international—is dire.

Professor of finance and Sri Lankan native Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara believes that the majority of the problems can be traced back to the country’s long-standing leadership.

“I think it boils down to the

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BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY

Phase one updates to university lakes to begin this summer

BY XANDER GENNARELLI @XanderGenn Gov. John Bel Edwards met with Baton Rouge area leaders to discuss updates on the University Lakes Restoration Project Monday.

Edwards announced that work to restore the six lakes around LSU campus will begin this summer, and some restoration efforts will be completed in December.

“I don’t think you need me to tell you that the lakes have lost their luster a little bit,” Edwards said.

The university lakes have not been maintained and have become too shallow. Work to restore the lakes would improve detention, retention and flooding control abilities, benefit wildlife and make the lakes more beautiful, Edwards said.

Edwards said that the first phase of restoration has been fully funded and will begin this

summer.

“We are not going to let any more time than necessary get away from us,” Edwards said.

Mayor-president Sharon Weston Broome emphasized the planned accessibility improve-

ment areas surrounding the lakes.

There will be new paths for pedestrians and cyclists along the new shoreline, Broome said, and more ways for the surrounding communities to access the lakes.

“The lakes are an enormous

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Governor John Bel Edwards addressed the community at University Lakes Restoration Project press conference.

cultural asset for this community, and this project will maximize their impact,” Broome said.

The project is a result of collaboration between LSU, the governor’s office, the Baton Rouge Area Foundation and BREC. The mayor-president said her administration has committed $5 million to the project.

The Superintendent of Baton Rouge Parks and Recreation, Corey Wilson, said that specific lakes that will be dredged and deepened are City Park Lake, Erie Lake, College Lake and Campus Lake. Material dredged from the lakes will be used to construct a “foundation of living shorelines” that will help manage storm water as it enters the lakes, Wilson said.

Lake control structures will be improved to increase flood storage capacity. City Park Lake and University Lake will be hydraulically connected. Other planned

infrastructure improvements include the reorganizing of dangerous intersections, providing a dedicated pass for pedestrians and cyclists and the construction of a new May street bridge, Wilson said.

Phase one of the restoration is planned to be completed by December 2023.

Chairman of the LSU board of supervisors Rémy Starns said he hopes the University Lakes Restoration Project will serve as a template for other projects planned across LSU campuses throughout the state.

LSU President William F. Tate IV, who introduced the conference, spoke to the importance of the university lakes to LSU and the greater Baton Rouge community.

“We want to make sure the community has access to a wonderful asset, like a beautiful lake community,” Tate said.

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page 4 PRISON, from page 3 Kelly Garrett is deputy director of client services at Parole Project.

She said that there’s always been a need for it, but the need was magnified after the Supreme Court rulings.

“There’s always been a need for transitional services for individuals transitioning back into society,” Garrett said. “2022 is very different from pre-COVID. It’s very different than what 2010 was or 2000.”

PROTEST, from page 3 kind of advisers the administration surrounded themselves with,” Ratnadiwakara said. “For example, the central governor wasn’t a qualified individual. The finance minister was the president’s brother. They have no clue what the long-term impacts of their decisions are.”

Sri Lanka is currently over $50 billion dollars in debt with a national reserve falling to less than $2 billion.

Ratnadiwakara said that since the 1950s, successive governments have been acting in short-sighted measures that don’t adequately handle the long-term situation.

“It’s not something that happened overnight,” Ratnadiwakara said. “It has been going on for a long time. They were not prepared to handle it. You could see in data that we’re running out of reserves.

Grocery stores, for example, have changed a lot in the past 20 years. Garrett said that the Parole Project offers classes designed to introduce participants to new stores that can otherwise seem confusing and overwhelming.

Other classes focus on budgeting, interview skills, employment skills, health care and interpersonal skills.

Parole Project reentry manager Christi Cheramie said that it’s important to meet the individual

needs of the clients because everyone’s starting at a different place.

Cheramie joined the Parole Project after serving 25 years in prison and going through the project herself. Even with help from her family, Cheramie felt like she needed something more. She is a firm believer in the organization and process.

“All of the tools that I was given as a client helped guide me to this point in my life, I was able to turn around and give that back to clients I encountered, just like myself,”

Cheramie said. “We all came from the same place and faced this same struggle so who better to teach than someone who has that same experience.”

According to Garrett, the majority of the staff at Parole Project is composed of formerly incarcerated individuals. She and Cheramie also said that many activities operate thanks to the help of volunteers, of which include Tiger Prison Project members.

“That’s when our volunteer

work comes in,” Lewis said. “We have workshops with incarcerated people, helping them readjust. We help them learn new technology like how to use cell phones, tangible things like helping them build resumes.”

Lewis said that sometimes making human connection is just as important as the instructional courses of a workshop.

“We have to remember that these are people, the same as us,” Lewis said.

They have to renegotiate and they aren’t doing that. They don’t have a good understanding of the problem we’re facing.”

For years, the imports of Sri Lanka have outpaced the exports of the country, and the country was heavily spending more than they made.

“One of the decisions they made last year was they stopped importing a lot of fertilizer,” Ratnadiwakara said. “Sri Lanka still depends on lots of agriculture; a lot of people’s livelihoods depend on agriculture. The people didn’t get fertilizer, so the crops didn’t grow.

“There will be a food shortage in the next couple of months as a result of that short-sighted decision.”

Ratnadiwakara said Chinese loans to Sri Lanka proved that the country was in a “debt overhang

situation,” meaning that further loans couldn’t effectively be used in amending the already wide debt.

“Things that used to cost, like, 100 rupees—now they’re 300 rupees,” Ratnadiwakara said.

The price of food is becoming unreasonable, and the supply of food is diminishing. Hospitals can no longer operate on patients normally. Unrest grew to the point of protest, and the people took to social media.

Sri Lankans dissatisfied with the government’s administration used #GoHomeRajapakshas and #GoHomeGota to broadcast their message.

Kankanamge said that protesters hope that the mass response will encourage the government to renegotiate, change policy, or as the hashtags imply, prompt a resignation in favor of more qualified

politicians.

“The whole country supports the situation,” Kankanamge said.

“There’s a huge suspicion among the people that the leadership is corrupt. The request is that the president and prime minister resign from their positions because they don’t have any good responses. They are not doing anything to mitigate the condition.”

Briefly after the movement took to social media, the government restricted platforms. Kankanamge said that this prompted people to use virtual private networks to bypass the restrictions.

“That kind of backfired,” Ratnadiwakara said. “Initially, when the protests started, they tried to sort of send in the force of the army and ban social media. It backfired on them because it started trending internationally and they reversed the decision the next day.”

The Sri Lankan police fired live ammunition into a crowd of protesters on April 19, further isolating the government from the people.

Kankanamge said that LSU students can help by staying informed and by holding the regime accountable for their actions.

“At the moment, what the international community can do is support the International Monetary Fund,” Sam Hewage, a Sri Lankan graduate student studying math at UL, said. “If we make the international community more aware of the situation, they could help more financially.”

Hewage said that he is impressed by the concern the campus community has given the crisis in Sri Lanka.

Like many Sri Lankans abroad, he intends to join the international protest on Sunday, May 1.

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Bill Hader’s ‘Barry’ returns with a funnier, darker new season

BY CONNOR MCLAUGHLIN @connor_mcla As they say in showbiz, the show must go on.

After a three-year long hiatus and a global pandemic, “Barry” is back and better than ever in its third season.

Known for its mix of dark comedic visual gags and hardhitting drama, the series stars Bill Hader as Barry Berkman, a former U.S. Marine with a natural tendency for marksmanship, working as a hitman under his handler, Monroe Fuches, portrayed by Stephen Root.

While on a job in Los Angeles, he finds himself enraptured by a stage acting class taught by retired performer Gene M. Cousineau, played to perfection

by Henry Winkler.

There, he decides to quit his violent past and become an actor, but the dark criminal underbelly of Los Angeles, spearheaded by idiosyncratic characters like a Chechen mobster, keeps finding new wild opportunities to draw him back into his life of killing.

Last season, viewers saw Barry attempt to quit his hitman life cold turkey after having killed Mr. Cousineau’s girlfriend, when

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she discovered his hitman alter ego. Nevertheless, his addiction to killing was put to the test when a jealous Fuches revealed Moss’ body to Gene and told him who murdered his beloved.

Enraged, Barry’s hunt for his handler ended in a disturbingly bloody massacre at a monastery under occupation by Chechen, Bolivian and Burmese mafia members before disappearing into the shadows.

Set six months after the second season finale, the third season premiere, “forgiving jeff,”

serves as a reload for the show’s themes of forgiveness and violent pasts, playing a lot of plot catchup in the process. Everyone is somewhere new.

Unkempt and unshaven, Barry is not acting anymore, but rather keeping his violent streak alive by taking odd jobs from amateurs on Craigslist and the “Hitman Marketplace” in between playing video games on his couch.

Distracted by her own dreams, Barry’s girlfriend Sally, played by Sarah Goldberg, is the star of her own series. The curtains have

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closed on Gene’s acting class while Fuches, distraught and hungry for revenge, hides out in the mountains of Chechnya.

Despite everyone being in a new place, nobody is safe, and the stakes are higher than ever.

Even with its high concept and sketch show-esque premise, what’s amazing about “Barry” is that it consistently outdoes itself every season. This season feels darker and more morose than before with its cold opening seeing a frustrated Barry kills the man who commissioned him and

another man when the former keeps changing his plans. All his self-help work that was completed in previous seasons is thrown out the window.

The premiere feels like a dark descent into cynicism and misery that looks promising for viewers, but not for the characters.

Unpredictable as ever, there is no telling what the bloodstained sleeves of co-creators Bill Hader and Alec Berg are hiding, but all viewers can expect for these characters is exactly what was said to Barry: “Forgiveness has to be earned.” As does self-reflection.

Whether it’s a hitman trying to be absolved of his egregious sins or an actress lying about her abusive past in her work, these characters refuse to take a good look at themselves in the mirror for who they are.

It is the self-delusion of both acting and contract killing that instigates these characters to not see themselves for who they are, so forgiveness can be earned.

However, what is frightening is that the ship may have already sailed long ago for Barry and others.

Nevertheless, the show must go on.

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WHO’S SEEKING STINGLEY expected and suffered injuries.

Okudah’s failure to emerge makes the cornerback position a bigger need for the team.

From Stingley’s perspective, Detroit’s defensive scheme suits him incredibly well. Defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn calls an aggressive defense with heavy man coverage, which perfectly fits Stingley’s play style.

Will Detroit take him? It seems

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LSU football sophomore cornerback Derek Stingley Jr. (24) gets into position Oct. 24, 2020 during LSU’s 52-24 win against South Carolina in Tiger Stadium.

LSU cornerback Derek Stingley Jr. seemed poised to take his place among great LSU cornerback prospects who entered the league and immediately found success. Stingley projects to land near the top of the 2022 NFL Draft.

However, Stingley’s skillset and inconsistencies after a stellar freshman season make him

a little less of a slam dunk than expected. Stingley may not be the top cornerback of his class, as Cincinnati cornerback Ahmad Gardner rocketed up the boards after his 2021 performance.

With that in mind, Stingley still is projected to be Top-15 pick in the 2022 NFL Draft. That would not guarantee him instant success, though.

Here are teams that provide environments that may lead to Stingley’s immediate success.

Detroit Lions In terms of pure fit and need, Detroit, who holds the second overall pick, benefits the most from taking a talent like Stingley.

The team’s thin cornerback room and lack of a true corner brings Stingley an opportunity to assert himself.

Stingley makes sense from multiple perspectives. Detroit previously took Ohio State cornerback Jeff Okudah third overall in 2020, but he played worse than

BY DYLAN SANDERS @DillySanders The next wave of self titled “NFLSU” talent will make its way to the league this weekend as the NFL draft kicks off on Thursday night and will go until Saturday afternoon. Quite a few LSU Tigers are going to hear their names called or sign undrafted free agency contracts.

Derek Stingley Jr. needs no introduction. He is undoubtedly going to be the first LSU Tiger to hear his name called. The cornerback burst onto the scene during his freshman season, putting up one of the best defensive performances of the decade.

He has been battling injuries the past two seasons, but that shouldn’t keep him from hearing his name early Thursday night.

Tyrion Davis-Price is going to have a better professional career than he did a college one. With him trimming down the weight to add speed, but keeping his strength is very big for his game.

Expect to hear his name somewhere in the middle of the draft.

Derek Stingley Jr. will wait to hear his name at the Draft

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Women’s tennis season defined by battles: COVID-19, losses

BY HANNAH REHM @hrehm12 It has been said many times over the course of this season that the LSU women’s tennis team has faced what seems to be many challenges. From COVID-19 protocol compliances to challenging opponents, these struggles are reflected in an overall record of 5-14.

This difficult season comes after much scrutiny of co-head coaches Julia and Mike Sell, who were implicated in investigations on LSU’s sexual assault problem.

A USA Today article published in November 2020 said that the Sells knew about multiple cases of abuse, but chose not to do anything about it.

When Husch Blackwell investigated these claims, their released report said the evidence could not prove the accusations, but did not say the accusations were untrue. This left questions as to the future of these coaches at LSU, but the university has yet to take action despite calls by fans to fire them.

In this far from normal season, LSU had to cancel or re-

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LSU women’s tennis junior Nina Geissler bounces the ball before serving April 8 during LSU’s 7-0 loss against Texas A&M in the LSU Tennis Complex on Gourrier Avenue in Baton Rouge. schedule several matches. Rescheduling or cancelling the February matches against TCU, SMU, Tulane and Southern took away the importance of earlyseason play. These cancellations

forced the Tigers into the always difficult SEC play with few matches under their belts.

Three straight losses to start SEC play against Florida, South Carolina and Ole Miss, followed

by three wins against Mississippi State, Kentucky and Vanderbilt, show the many ups and downs the Tigers have experienced. In SEC play alone, they recorded four wins with nine losses.

LSU was unable to capture key wins or keep streaks going for long enough to gain momentum.

At the beginning of the season, when the Tigers were able to play without having to reschedule or cancel, key players were missing in the lineup. LSU had to forfeit courts during the early matches at the start of SEC play due to missing players, who had or were recovering from COVID-19, giving opponents early advantages.

One of the most staggering truths is many of these losses were not even close to being wins, with opponents winning by more than four points.

The Tigers rounded out conference and regular season play with a 7-0 loss to Arkansas that foreshadowed what was to come in the postseason.

At the SEC Championships on Wednesday, April 20, the Tigers lost out in the first round

against Kentucky by a score of 4-2. LSU had already beaten the Wildcats earlier in the season 4-1 and were seeded above Kentucky. Despite being expected to win this first match and taking the early lead after doubles, the Tigers just could not pull it off in singles.

While frustrating for many fans, this loss to Kentucky is just another example of their overall downfalls this season.

With all of these problems dating back to 2020, many have begun to question whether recruiting would decline, and after this season, it still remains to be seen.

Two future Tigers did sign National Letters of Intent in November.. Nikita Vishwase, the blue-chip recruit, is currently the No. 1 player from Arizona.

Noor Carrington is a five-star recruit from Massachusetts, the younger sister of Safiya Carrington, who already plays for LSU. Still, this season seems to have left more questions than answers about the future of the LSU team with only five recorded wins out of 19 matches played.

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STINGLEY, from page 8 as if they want a different position at this spot. Anything can happen at this point, but Stingley will not land in Detroit despite both sides complementing each other well.

Seattle Seahawks Seattle, who owns the ninthoverall pick needs a lot of help in a lot of places, and cornerback certainly stands out as a position of need for them. Stingley immediately slots in as their best cornerback if they choose to select him, so how well does this fit work?

For starters, new Seattle defensive coordinator Sean Desai showed the capability to use his corners well, as 2020 secondround pick Jaylon Johnson flourished under his tutelage. From a pure development standpoint and ability to play immediately, Seattle makes a lot of sense for Stingley.

However, that does not make Stingley a lock for Seattle. As mentioned earlier, Seattle needs a lot of help. The Seahawks lost its two starting tackles and sit Top-10 in an offensive line, heavy class. Should a player like Charles Cross fall to Seattle, it eliminates the likelihood of Stingley landing there.

Another problem comes with the scheme fit. While Stingley and Desai could work well together, Cincinnati cornerback Ahmad

Gardner suits Desai’s system better as a cornerback who can play more than man coverage. Stingley is better suited as a man corner, so Gardner may seem more appealing due to his versatility.

If Stingley goes to Seattle, it should not be a surprise. The team has other needs, though, and Stingley may not rank as their top corner.

Minnesota Vikings The Minnesota Vikings, who own the 12th overall pick, probably act as the floor for Stingley in this instance, as they also have no true number one cornerback on the roster and desperately need stability.

Minnesota spent the past few drafts loading up on cornerbacks like UCF’s Mike Hughes or TCU’s Jeff Gladney, and both did not work out at all. With their love of corners and need for Stingley, the Vikings act as the true floor for him.

In terms of how Stingley benefits from landing on the Vikings, look no further than the corner that would play opposite of him: Patrick Peterson. Peterson, an LSU alumnus, could act as a mentor for the young, developing cornerback.

Despite Peterson’s age, he and Stingley possess similar athletic profiles. They pair well together and could click quickly on the field. Stingley acts as an immedi-

ate improvement to that room.

Minnesota remains the obvious destination for Stingley, should he slide outside of the Top-10. The draft remains unpredictable, but the fit seems obvious.

Where else makes sense?

I truly do not envision Stingley slipping past the Minnesota Vikings, but I wanted to mention some other teams past the Top-15 briefly in case he does fall past Minnesota as a closer.

Baltimore, who owns the 14th overall pick, might be the best spot for Stingley should he slide.

The Ravens already have two great cornerbacks, and Stingley could immediately come in to replace Marcus Peters when his time with the Ravens expires. He may not get immediate starting reps, but the Ravens notoriously develop defensive players well.

Philadelphia, who owns the 15th overall pick and owns multiple firsts, desperately needs a cornerback, and Stingley makes sense if he falls or if the team wants to trade up for him. Stingley suits their system well and slots in as their number one cornerback.

Draft night stays unpredictable, so someone else may grab Stingley as well. However, his athletic upside and skillset mean that someone could take a shot on him earlier. On Thursday night, he will see who takes that shot.

tage. It’s likely that Hines will be a later pick in the draft.

Damone Clark should have been one of the first linebackers taken in the draft. He is a great leader and highly talented, but a recent surgery will cause him to miss his entire rookie season.

Clark’s draft stock will plummet because of it, and someone near the end of the draft is going to snag an absolute steal.

Austin Deculus has played the most games in purple and gold of all time. He certainly has an NFL frame and serviceable athleticism, but does not stack up well against NFL edge rushers. His durability will likely land him a late draft pick and a backup role for a while at the next level.

Cade York left for the draft early as a kicker, which usually means he’s pretty good. Can confirm that York is pretty good.

He should absolutely be the first kicker taken in the draft, which means you should expect to hear his name called around the fifth round.

There are a few players that will likely not hear their name called, but could definitely sign an undrafted free agent contract to get another shot at the next level. They would most likely be Liam Shanahan, Jontre Kirklin, Andre Anthony, Glen Logan, Cam Lewis and Darren Evans.

DRAFT, from page 8 Cordale Flott is one of the most confusing players on this list. He probably could have benefitted from staying in college. He is a talented nickel corner, but that is probably all he will be. His talent is there, but some murmurs of off-the-field issues could cause a team to pause on taking him. Flott is another player expected somewhere in the middle of the draft.

Neil Farrell Jr. could go either in the third round or go undrafted. Neither would surprise me. Teams view defensive lineman very volatilely, valuing them all over the place. Farrell is a quick and strong lineman who shouldn’t have any issue finding his way into a team’s rotation.

Ed Ingram was once considered a lock to be taken in the first round, but has had some inconsistencies later in his college career. These could have caused him to drop into the third or fourth round, most likely. He has all of the tools to be a great starter in the league, but needs good coaching to fully mold his game.

Chasen Hines is another guard that flashes greatness but needs to find more consistency in his game. He’ll probably be a career backup, but given the opportunity he could take advan-

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Passionate professors can make any teaching method worthwile MISSING IN ACTION MIA COCO @MiaMarieCoco1 Every professor has a different teaching method. Whether it’s lectures, in-class activities, outside readings or a mix, there is no doubt that some are more effective than others.

But what matters more: method or passion?

College professors have a particularly important role. Unlike high school teachers, college professors are teaching classes that are highly soughtafter and very costly. They must give students the education that they’re paying for.

When students add classes to their schedules, they check each professor’s reputation. Are they strict about deadlines? Are they easy to contact and open to answering questions about the material? Are the lectures easy to follow? These are questions that run through students’ minds when they choose a professor.

One of the most common methods of teaching is lectures.

While many students consider lectures boring, when done correctly, they can be highly effective. When professors make connections between ideas, show the bigger picture of the lesson and focus on a few main points each class period, lectures can be a great way to promote retention of material.

History professor Gaines Foster hopes his “lectures help students master content, the substance of the history behind those interpretations, but also to see a model of how to construct an interpretation or argument about history.”

To reinforce information provided through his lectures, Foster also provides an outline of each class, so that students can easily follow along. Rather than simply reading from a presentation, Foster finds ways to engage his students with course material, displaying his passion for history in each lecture.

Foster has a high rating of 4.4 on RateMyProfessors.com.

One student gave him a stellar review, stating, “Professor Fos-

ter is so knowledgeable and… is super caring and accessible!”

Another said, “He was so nice and was always ready to help out students.” While his teaching methods are very effective, what seems to be more important to his students is his passion for his job and care for his students’ success.

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Assistant political science professor Anna Gunderson also chooses to use lectures to teach.

As a professor, Gunderson has a responsibility to make sure her students fully understand the material and why what they are

learning is important.

Gunderson said the most important questions for her students to keep in mind are “Why do we care? Why should we care?” She believes an effective way to keep students engaged during lectures is “to ask them questions that further and challenge simple concepts.”

“I consider it a privilege to teach, and I am excited to do so,” Gunderson said. “I think that excitement is palpable, and students can tell—if you’re passionate about the material, they are more likely to pay attention and learn.”

Students who have reviewed Gunderson on RateMyProfessors.com describe her as “openminded and informative,” as well as saying she is “extremely understanding and genuinely wants you to learn the material.” Her lectures are described as “engaging,” but once again, her passion and care for students appears to outweigh her teaching methods.

Lectures are a great way to teach because professors can very easily incorporate other methods into this style. For example, Foster assigns outside readings to supplement his lectures. These readings are used to reinforce ideas discussed in class and are asked about on tests and quizzes along with lecture materials. Gunderson chooses to further engage students by asking questions and encouraging her students to connect the concepts they learn through the lectures to current events.

When professors genuinely care about what they’re teaching, they will find ways to keep students engaged and interesting. These two professors are prime examples of passion, enhancing a teaching method that is typically criticized by students.

While students may not consider lectures to be the most effective form of teaching, it may not be the method that’s the problem, but rather the professor’s lack of passion for the subject.

TAKES

What’s the most important thing you’ve learned this school year?

The most important thing I have learned this year is to try not to get overwhelmed with class. If I do one task at a time, then it is a lot easier to stay on top of things and complete them. I like to write down every task I have for that day and cross them out as I finish them. The feeling of being overwhelmed really sucks, and I learned how important it is to avoid that feeling.

Kacey Buercklin @0kacey1

This year has taught me how important it is to spend my time intentionally. There is an endless list of hobbies, interests and activities that are enjoyable or potentially worthwhile, but no one can do everything. This year has given me a sharp reminder to consider my time carefully and intentionally select the activities that will bring me the most fulfillment in the long run.

Noah McKinney @itsthatnoah

I learned to have a cool head and not stress about things that are out of my control. I do my best to set myself up for success, but failure is just an opportunity to try again. In hindsight, things that I’ve spent sleepless nights thinking about ended up not mattering at all, so I’m taking a no use crying over spilled milk approach for the foreseeable future.

Frank Kidd @FK446852315

This school year, the biggest lesson I’ve learned is how to better prioritize the things that matter most to me. As a first-year college student, I’ve had to get used to making my own schedule and having more freedom than ever before. I’ve realized that although difficult, it is possible to balance my social life with my schoolwork while also making time to talk to my family and focus on myself.

Mia Coco @MiaMarieCoco1

The most important thing I learned this year was to make friends that I share interests with and enjoy being around. Being a freshman in college, I realized that many ‘friendships’ from highschool were not real or healthy. Being in college, it is much easier to meet people you can relate to and, therefore, much easier to make friends.

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

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TIGER TWELVE Class of 2022

Each spring, LSU recognizes twelve outstanding seniors. These individuals, in keeping with the university’s Commitment to Community, contribute positively to the life of the campus, surrounding community, and society and demonstrate commitment to intellectual achievement, inclusive excellence, leadership in campus life, and service. Congratulations to the Tiger Twelve Class of 2022!

Everett Thomas Craddock Lafayette, La. Environmental Engineering

Josephine Dominique Engelman Queens, N. Y. Environmental Management Systems

Alejandra Maria Ham Slidell, La. Biological Engineering

Codee Dominque Jones New Orleans, La. Mass Communication

Alexia Maeanne LaGrone Lafayette, La. Natural Resource Ecology and Management

Abigail Grace Milligan Lake Charles, La. Political Science, International Studies, and Spanish

Grayce Susan Mores Metairie, La. Microbiology

Emily Ames Otken Denham Springs, La. Biological Sciences

Taylor Michelle Perrodin Crowley, La. Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness

Blaire C. Peterson St. Amant, La. Biochemistry

Kennedy N. Simon Beaumont, Texas Psychology and Sociology

Maia Elise Williams Missouri City, Texas Animal Science and Technology

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