There’s an app for that: Alumnus develops popular game, p. 16
Golf: See a breakdown of a golfer’s bag, p. 9
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Faculty Senate to debate resolution to ban smoking on campus Celeste Ansley Staff Writer
‘[A ban on smoking on campus] is absolutely silly. This is a right. It’s my personal freedom.’ John Methe agriculture freshman
Assignments worth 5 percent allowed
SMOKING, see page 8
DEAD WEEK, see page 7
SOCIAL MEDIA
SG campaigns use YouTube, Facebook to appeal to voters Staff Writer
More than 1,000 of the University students who flocked to YouTube during Student Government election week hoping to encounter comical videos unknowingly stumbled upon SG campaign messages. Cody Wells and Kathleen Bordelon, recently elected SG president and vice president, set a precedent for future candidates by incorporating well-known University viral videos into their campaign strategy as “accidental exposure,”
Bordelon said. “Dougie in My Snuggie LSU” and “LSU Lil Finals Week Bounce” went viral on campus last year. Myles Laroux, international studies junior, and Logan Baudean, University alumnus, created the video titled “LSU lil finals week TEASER” for the NOW campaign. And Laroux, along with finance freshman DeJarion “DJ” Neely, accounting freshman Jermaine Mathis and international trade and finance freshman Rachel Sadberry filmed the video titled “Dougie In My Snuggie LSU Part 2.”
Provost signs dead week policy into effect
Smoking regulations on campus could change in coming months with proposed resolutions by Faculty Senate and a petition supporting one of the resolutions, which had about 1,500 signatures as of Wednesday. One of the Faculty Senate resolutions aims to make improvements and better enforce the 25-feet-away-from-buildings rule, while the other seeks to make the University a smoke-free campus. The resolutions will be presented to the Faculty Senate on April 11. LSU Libraries senators Michael Russo and Stephanie Braunstein will present the resolution and petition to make the University smoke-free as well as establish a task force to help implement the bill, Russo said. Russo said there is a petition in the library as well as one at a table at the EMILY SLACK / The Daily Reveille Health and Wellness Fair held Wednesday. He said Michael Russo and Stephanie there has been vandalism to Braunstein, LSU Libraries senators, the petition in the form of created a petition to make LSU a obscenities and fake names, smoke-free campus. The petition can like someone who signed as be found in Middleton Library. President Barack Obama. Russo said if the smoke-free campus resolution passes, there will be no need for the other resolution.
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ACADEMICS
Wells and Bordelon told Laroux and Neely to name their videos so nobody knew they contained campaign messages. “We released those videos in the hopes that we would reach an audience that otherwise would not be reached by traditional campaign methods,” Wells said. The idea for the videos sparked at a campaign meeting, Laroux said, because he was already working on Wells and Bordelon’s ticket. Laroux said when Wells approached him SOCIAL MEDIA, see page 8
Celeste Ansley Staff Writer
The new policy limiting the coursework instructors are allowed to assign during dead week was signed by the provost Tuesday after being passed by Faculty Senate and Student Government Senate. The old policy allowed teachers to give assignments worth up to 10 percent of a final grade with the exception of class projects, ‘The [new] which could be worth more, policy is a said Jeffrey reasonable Wale, SG direc- compromise.’ tor of academics. The new Kevin Cope policy allows Faculty Senate for assignments president worth 5 percent, with the exception of class projects. Under the old policy, some instructors were labeling tests and quizzes as class projects because they had been on the syllabus
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Where on campus can you find 25 tons of books? It’s not the library, page 4.