INSIDE: The Daily Reveille’s sports staff breaks down what to expect from the Tigers this fall in our special football season preview.
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La. SC: LSU case won’t be reviewed Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez
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BATON ROUGE University mourns WEST student’s death Special Report
Gordon Brillon
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The Louisiana Supreme Court declined Thursday to review the University’s case regarding making its presidental search records public and denied the University’s request for a stay. The University was found in contempt of court on Aug. 14 by District Judge Janice Clark to pay a $500-a-day fine for every day it failed to turn over the names of finalists for the recently merged System president position. Clark originally ruled the names be released on April 30. Former Reveille Editor in Chief Andrea Gallo and NOLA. com | The Times-Picayune and The Advocate filed seperate lawsuits for the University to turn over the the presidential search finalists. Gallo lost her case while NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune and The Advocoate won. The University appealed the ruling in NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune and The Advocate’s case, but Gallo chose not to appeal her case. University Attorney Jimmy LAWSUIT, see page 4
matchups, the most of any nonTexas team. It’s the first time Hairston’s getting involved, but he knows what games like these mean for the team. “It was an amazing experience to play in that beautiful stadium and to represent LSU on the highest stage,” Hairston said. “… People don’t understand. There’s a huge alumni base in Dallas. That’s what also makes [the Cowboys Classic] appropriate,
The University community was shocked and saddened at the news of 22-year-old sociology senior Chris Broussard’s death after police confirmed they found his body in his overturned truck near St. Gabriel Wednesday night. Broussard was a founding member of the Theta Chi fraternity at the University, according to Matt Darouse, Theta Chi co-founder and Broussard’s friend. Darouse, who now attends LSU Law School, said he and Broussard had been longtime friends, and they graduated together from Catholic High School in Baton BROUSSARD Rouge. “He cared deeply, not only about people in the fraternity, but about everyone he came across,” Darouse said. “He was just a really, really good guy.” Since receiving the news, Darouse said he has been busy making arrangements for
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AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas will host the annual Cowboys Classic on Saturday, when LSU will play TCU.
Alex Cassara
Matchup in Dallas stretches beyond the field
Senior Reporter
A coin flip has the final say, but there is a 50-50 chance junior kicker James Hairston will kickoff LSU’s football season in his hometown stadium — the modern marvel of American architecture occupied by his favorite boyhood team. Hairston has stepped on the AT&T Stadium field before in 2011, where the resident Dallas Cowboys were holding their annual Cowboys Classic, pitting
LSU against Oregon. Though he wouldn’t clock game time as a redshirt freshman kicker, he looked on gleefully as his team whipped No. 3 Oregon in front of the millions of eyes glued to ESPN — a beatdown that was eerily similar to the one LSU perpetrated on Texas A&M months earlier in the same building. LSU will play in the Cowboys Classic for the second time Saturday. The game will mark the third time in as many years the Tigers will play in one of Cowboys Stadium’s marquee college