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Despite a presidency historically marked by white men and Greek inf luence, current leaders of Student Government are looking to revamp an organization accused of lacking minority outreach, pg. 2

Though both tickets in March’s Stu-dent Government presidential election campaigned heavily on efforts to diver-sify campus leadership, an analysis by The Daily Reveille shows that the Uni-versity’s SG presidency has not always been representative of minorities and non-Greek students.

Since the first SG president was elect-ed in 1926 under the title “student body president,” only two black students have taken over the role, with the first African-American man assuming office in 1972.

The first woman to assume the

presidency, Evelyn Norman, took unelect-ed office during the 1944-45 school year, ascending to the position from her role as co-ed vice president after the male presi-dent and vice president stepped down to enlist in the military. Seven women have ever been elected to the position.

Although the presidency has been traditionally dominated by men, through-out the years many women have served as vice president, a standard which may have evolved from the earlier role of co-ed vice president, a position separate from the vice presidency and reserved solely for women.

Cassie Alsfeld, who was elected in 2007, is the most recent woman to serve

as SG president, and she said she believes few women have been chosen for the position because female candidates are viewed more negatively than their male counterparts.

“It’s this same stereotype that many women experience in the ‘real’ world, es-pecially the political world,” Alsfeld said in an email. “If I was ‘assertive,’ some people misconstrued it as ‘aggressive.’ If I was passionate, some misconstrued it as ‘emotional.’”

She remembers not being taken seri-ously at times because of her gender, in-cluding several instances when she was

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This year’s Student Government elec-tions focused heavily on diversity and ac-cusations that SG does not do enough to pro-mote minority organizations on campus.

During the March 3 debate, “Restart” presidential candidate Kendra Davis said SG needs to be more inclusive when allocating funding to student organizations, specifical-ly naming minority groups such as the Black Student Union, LSU NAACP and Spectrum, which she said are overlooked.

Also during the debate, former vice president Hannah Knight defended SG’s out-reach, saying the organization has reached out to all University student groups on cam-pus, but later clarified that SG leaders were in the process of reaching and had not com-pleted their efforts at that time.

SG assistant director of organizational outreach Stephanie Brewster acknowledges that SG outreach, on the whole, has been lacking in past years. Since the debate, she has finished reaching out to every campus organization via email to inform them of

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see HISTORY, page 7

Amid criticisms, SG makes new minority outreach pushBREAKDOWN: STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS FUNDED BY SG

African American Cultural Center2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

African American Cultural Center Ambassadors2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

Asian American Ambassadors2014

African Student Organization2013, 2014

Alpha Phi Alpha2011, 2012

Association of Black Communicators2013

Chinese Student and Scholars Association2011, 2013, 2014, 2016

Black Student Union2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

Delta Sigma Theta2011, 2012, 2013

Hispanic Student Cultural Society2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

Indian Student Association2012, 2013, 2014

International Student Association2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016

MLK Commemorative Committee/ Office of Multicultural Affairs2012

LSU NAACP2011

Native American Student Association2013

NPHC2011

Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity2012, 2014/15 (either/or)

QROMA2015, 2016

Spectrum2013, 2014, 2015, 2016

Minority Women’s Movement2016

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SG presidency dominated by white, male representation; makes use of Greek organizing

[LEFT] JAVIER FERNANDEZ, [RIGHT] WINGATE JONES / The Daily Reveille

[Left] LSU engineering junior Zack Faircloth and child and family studies junior Lindsey Landry are sworn in during the inauguration for Student Government president and vice president on April 12 inside the Memorial Tower. [Right] SG Senate meets to form committees and discuss the upcoming semester on Jan. 13 in the Student Union.

Twenty years ago, LSU base-ball coach Paul Mainieri sat fix-ated on a television, dressed in a tuxedo.

On the afternoon June 8, 1996, Mainieri’s sister was to be mar-ried in Colorado Springs, Colorado — the same location of the Air Force Academy where Mainieri coached from 1989-1994. Paul’s wife, Karen, and their children were ready to leave for the wed-ding, but the skipper couldn’t miss a second of the action in front of him.

Paul already knew the baseball game he was watching was one of the best he had ever seen, even before — as some call it — “the greatest moment in college base-ball history” occurred.

“‘Go without me,’” Paul re-called telling his family, hoping the game wouldn’t go into extra innings. “‘I’ll be there as soon as I can.’”

The now-LSU coach thanks former Tigers second baseman Warren Morris for allowing him to sneak into the wedding just in time. His sister forgave him, too.

“My wife couldn’t believe it,” Paul said laughing. “She said, ‘Are

you serious?’ I said, ‘It’s LSU, Kar-en, come on.’”

Morris, whose walk-off, two-run home run against Miami handed LSU its third National Championship, will be among the 1996 team members honored Sat-urday before Game 2 of the No. 5 Tigers’ (26-11, 9-6 Southeastern Conference) series against No. 7 Mississippi State at Alex Box Stadium.

Former LSU first baseman Eddy Furniss, a key piece of that 1996 team and statistically the best career hitter in SEC history,

The No. 14 LSU softball was predicted as the second-best team in the Southeastern Conference prior to the season, according to the SEC coaches preseason poll.

They currently sit 10th in the league standings 18 games into the conference slate.

After a brief absence from SEC play against Northwestern State on Wednesday, the Tigers (33-13, 7-11 SEC) look to finish the season strong with two league se-ries remaining. They will end the SEC regular season in a road bout against Arkansas, but first is a home series clash with South Car-olina starting at 6 p.m. on Friday.

“Our biggest thing right now is wins,” said junior infielder Con-stance Quinn. “Unfortunately, the way our season has been going this year, we are kind of at the bottom [of the SEC], but we’ve got to move our way to the top. Ev-ery single girl on this team down from one to 23 want a National Championship.”

LSU’s offensive play has perked back up, after a being held to two runs or less in seven of their 11 conference losses. Five of the first six opponents the Ti-gers faced were ranked in the top-16, which didn’t help the squads’ cause.

But the team is optimistic it’s slump at the plate is over.

“We are on our upward moun-tain climb there,” said senior in-fielder Sandra Simmons. “The offense is doing much better.”

Although the hits and runs

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Tigers continue five-game homestand

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Furniss, 1996 title team to be honored during weekend seriesBY JAMES BEWERS@JamesBewers_TDR

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The No. 20 LSU women’s tennis team advanced to the Southeastern Conference Championship quarterfinals on Thursday after defeating ninth-seeded Kentucky, 4-3, at the LSU Tennis Complex.

Just five weeks after LSU’s 4-3 victory against the Wild-cats in Lexington, Kentucky, the teams found themselves in the same position on Thursday on the Lady Tigers’ courts.

Kentucky won the doubles point. LSU fought back in singles to tie it, 3-3. In the end, it came down to one de-ciding third set, exactly as it did in their regular season matchup.

This time, it was freshman Jessica Golovin’s turn to clinch it.

After a 6-1 first-set loss filled with frustration and er-rors, Golovin turned all momentum around, and defeated Wildcats’ freshman Justina Mikulskytè, 6-4 in the sec-ond and third set, pushing LSU to the next round — the tournament’s quarterfinals.

“Intensity is a big part of my game,” Golovin said. “I tried to hit with more spin, move her around

more and get to her back end, because that was her weaker side. First, the percentage of my serve had to go up, too. When everything came together, it helped me to get through.”

The Lady Tigers didn’t waste time and start out strong in doubles play as they took the first deuce point on all three courts.

While senior Ella Taylor and junior Joana Vale Costa fell behind 3-1 on court 2, LSU’s senior Skylar Kuykendall and sophomore Skylar Holloway’s 3-1 lead on court 3 kept getting slimmer, too.

Though the Wildcats battled a two-point defi-cit on court 1, momentum was all in their hands as the Lady Tigers fell on court 2 and 3, 6-2 and 6-3, respectively.

“I don’t think Kentucky has lost a doubles point all year long,” said LSU co-head coach Julia Sell. “We started with some of the best energy that we’ve had all year. In singles, we’re used to losing the dou-bles point. It doesn’t faze us and we got right back to work.”

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Former LSU first baseman Eddie Furniss (36) scores the Tigers’ first run against Tulane on April 8, 1997.

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Freshman Jessica Golovin hits the ball during the Tigers’ 4-3 victory against Kentucky in the SEC Championship on Thursday at the LSU Tennis Complex.

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For the No. 11 LSU beach volleyball team, this upcoming weekend is more meaningful than any other.

The Tigers hope to gain a leg up in the NCAA Champi-onship rankings with an ex-ceptional performance at the Coastal Collegiate Sports As-sociation Conference Champi-onship Tournament on April 22-24.

“Every match is crucial to give us a chance to help get us to the NCAA tournament,” said LSU coach Russell Brock in a press release.

LSU will compete in Emer-son, Georgia, this weekend at the LakePoint Sports Complex.

LSU (15-6) dominated UNC Wilmington, Coastal Carolina, South Carolina and Carson-Newman with a 5-0 victory in the Palmetto Invitational on April 16 and 17.

LSU’s performance, though, didn’t secure a top-10 ranking. It must maintain the same effort this weekend in order to secure a spot in postseason play in May.

“Last weekend we had a really good tournament,” sophomore Mandi Orel-lana said. “As a team we did

really well. We came and showed what we were capable of and we’re excited to do better this weekend.”

LSU enters the CCSA Championship as the fourth seed following behind Flor-ida State in the top-overall spot.

Georgia State is the second seed in the tournament while FIU follows in third. The tourna-ment also includes South Caro-lina, Florida Atlantic, Tulane and the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

The eight teams are divided

into two four-team groups with LSU in Group 1 alongside, and competing against, Florida State, UAB and South Carolina. Before the finals on Sunday, the top three teams will enter into a knockout phase and then the winner of each pool advances

to the semifinals on April 24. The final match will be on the same day.

Florida State may pose a challenge for the Tigers, but LSU treats all com-petitors the same, Brock said.

“Florida State is one of the best teams in the coun-try,” Brock said. “We know they’re going to be playing well, and we’re excited to be play-ing them again … We’re also expecting this to be an entirely different match [against South Carolina].”

No. 2 duo senior Helen Boyle and sophomore Lilly Kessler spearhead the Tigers with a 15-3 record for this season. The No. 3 couple senior Callan Molle and senior Cati Leak have won 14 out of their last 16 matches.

The pressure builds as LSU’s beach volleyball team focuses on playing better than ever before.

“I think that last weekend’s wins were great for us,” senior Victoria Boraski said. “We re-ally needed that. It’s really put us on a high note going into this weekend … But we can’t let up and we have to go into this weekend and give it all we’ve got.”

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LSU senior Helen Boyle (13) bumps the ball during the LSU Tiger Beach Challenge on Saturday, March 12 at Mango Beach Volleyball Club.

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In the midst of a national security crisis, an economic downturn and an unpredict-able presidential election, many Americans have shifted their focus to the root of our turmoil: bathroom equality.

States such as Tennessee have recently introduced legisla-tion preventing transgender pub-lic school students from using bathrooms that don’t match the gender on their birth certificate. Although the sponsor of the Ten-nessee bill took it off the table Monday, Rep. Susan Lynn, R-Mt. Juliet, had previously amended the bill by creating an alternative restroom option for transgen-der students. Opponents reject-ed the amendment by claim-ing it endangered transgender students.

I don’t think we need what some have referred to as the “pee police,” but everyone must take into consideration both sides of the argument before creating or slapping down legislation.

I don’t understand why the

government has to legislate who goes to the bathroom where. Be-fore we know it, legislators will regulate how much toilet paper squares each person can use in a single bathroom trip.

At the same time, allowing people to use restrooms intended for the gender they weren’t born into presents dangers to both the transgender individual as well as

the innocent children who need to go to the bathroom and/or locker room. Think about it this way: allowing people to enter bathroom facilities of whichev-er gender they choose provides sexual predators with opportu-nities under a false transgender identity.

The job of explaining sensitive topics such as the

definition of a transgender per-son belongs to the parents. Chil-dren already grow up faster now than they did when I was younger. Parents don’t need to feel pressured to explain what transgender is before they think their child is ready.

Laws legislating bathrooms don’t affect just the toilet-only bathroom facilities, but also lock-er rooms and changing areas. After the state of Washington passed a law allowing transgen-der individuals to use bathrooms and locker rooms of their self-identified gender, a man in Se-attle went into a woman’s locker room and changed, claiming it was his right.

“Bathrooms, showers, locker rooms are vulnerable places for women and children,” said An-gela Connelly of the Washing-ton Women’s Network. “This is not against transgender people, but against those who will ma-nipulate, distort and abuse the rule.”

Bathrooms are also not a place to hangout and relax. Peo-ple go to the restroom to get busi-ness done and get out. If you are uncomfortable using a restroom because you feel you don’t iden-tify with the bathroom you’re

expected to do your business in, then find a family bathroom, go before you leave the house or just go to the bathroom you’ve always gone in without complaining.

Not everyone has access to clean bathrooms. Our country is blessed with the opportunity to use the facilities in almost every place we go within the country.

Of course I want everyone to feel comfortable during the brief moments they do use the restroom. However, if bathroom usage is really a national is-sue, then public restrooms can all become single-stall family restrooms.

Sure, making all bathrooms single-stall present the challenge of serious lines and the use of taxpayer dollars, but single-stall bathrooms eliminate the pos-sibility of offending or making anyone uncomfortable. Isn’t that what everyone wants?

Before legislators address bathrooms, they need to take a look at the issues with national security and a failing economy. Bathrooms are an amenity that don’t need legislation.

Charlie Bonacquisti is a 20-year-old mass communication sophomore from Dallas, Texas.

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Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders announced plans to ac-cept sleazy money from Super PACs at a press conference on Thursday.

This new position differs from Sanders’ prior stance on accepting campaign donations from outside interest groups. The change in strategy follows Sanders’ crippling defeat in New York’s Tuesday primary.

“The results of that primary were a sham,” Sanders said of his defeat. “Those wise guys wouldn’t let my legion of hipsters into the voting polls!”

The Democratic National Committee addressed Sand-ers’ allegations of corruption

by tweeting out a picture of the Senator and captioning it, “Meh.”

Sanders hopes changing his outlook on Super PACs will help his campaign in the remaining primaries.

“If the good people of Amer-ica are willing to elect Supreme Ruler, I mean, Secretary [Hill-ary] Clinton, even though she accepts dirty money, I figured why not give it a shot,” Sanders said. “Besides, my college vol-unteers need portable showers. They all used them at Coachella last weekend and are demanding these showers.”

Political analysts say Sanders’ hopes for a comeback are irratio-nal due to Clinton’s 246 lead in pledged delegates, as well as her small, hired army of su-per delegates.

Another disadvantage for Sanders is his unpopularity with African-American voters who have flocked to Clinton over Sanders.

Clinton’s popularity with

African-American voters has recently surged due to a radio interview Clinton did with The Breakfast Club radio show.

In the interview, Clinton dis-cussed her love for hot sauce and chili peppers.

“I keep hot sauce in my bag,” Clinton said. “How do you feel about that swag, millennials?”

Clinton also admitted to pan-dering to African-American voters in the interview.

“I’m not a natural politician like my husband or President [Barack] Obama, but I know how to give the people what they want,” Clinton said. “You guys want a hip ol’ granny who’s friends with Queen Bey.”

Sanders’ campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, dismissed Clinton’s popularity as a fad, saying voters relate to Sanders’ values.

“When we started this whole thing, we were all pretty decent people,” Weaver said. “Now that it’s crunch time, we’re in it to win it. Screw morals!”

Weaver closed the conference pleading for super delegates to meet with Sanders.

“Everyone has a price. We’ve been out-raising the Clinton cam-paign, so we can offer you bas-

tards a better deal,” Weaver said.

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left out of meetings with adminis-trators and student leaders. How-ever, Alsfeld said she worked to effectively communicate her message and encouraged the University and its student lead-ers to become more accepting.

With such a large Greek pres-ence at the University, some stu-dents are cynical of a so-called “Greek ticket” which seems to emerge every election cycle: a white male presidential can-didate and a white female vice presidential candidate who are both active in Greek Life.

Concerns about SG being a Greek-dominated organization are not new to campus.

A March 1967 edition of The Daily Reveille reported that most of the “campus ‘political figures’” interviewed about the politics of SG agreed that “fra-ternities and sororities play an integral role in getting student government officials elected.”

Candidates who ran for the presidency and were not mem-bers of Greek organizations were often designated as “inde-pendents” in election coverage. While it was not uncommon for non-Greek students to campaign for president, their victories were often noteworthy because they were not the norm.

For example, when indepen-dent candidate Randy Gurie won the spring 1968 presidential elec-tion, The Daily Reveille’s report on his victory noted that he was the first independent elected to the position since 1963.

According to the March 1967 story, the unity of Greek or-ganizations made it easier for candidates “to mount a political running base,” and one of the re-alities of campus political partic-ipation was that independent stu-dents were “‘terribly apathetic’

toward voting.”In 1987, independent candi-

date Mark Tullis’ presidential victory stunned even himself.

“Historically, we were sup-posed to lose. We’re radicals — we’re not supposed to win,” he said in an April 1987 edition of The Daily Reveille.

An article published just be-fore his election illustrated that the Greek vote would play a significant role in the outcome, whether it bolstered Tullis or his Greek opponent. The inde-pendent candidate who lost the presidential election the previ-ous year said both he and the 1985 independent candidate had not been able to garner enough Greek support to take home vic-tories, but he said he believed Tullis could.

Elaine Durbin, who was elect-ed president as an independent in 1963, responded to specula-tion that there was sometimes “primping and pruning of pro-spective candidates for SGA of-fices by both fraternal and other student organizations” by affirm-ing that it “definitely goes on,” ac-cording to the March 1967 report.

However, Durbin, who joined a Greek organization after being elected, also said she did not see this as problematic when the can-didate being groomed was quali-fied for the position.

Since 2009, 13 of the 16 SG presidents and vice presidents elected have been involved in Greek Life, including 2016 win-ners Zack Faircloth and Lindsey Landry. Landry is a member of Kappa Delta sorority, and Fair-cloth is a former president of his fraternity, Phi Gamma Delta.

Landry said that, while their relationship with the Greek com-munity was an important factor during their campaign, she be-lieves their success came from their initiatives, not fraternities

and sororities. “It was important because

it gave us a support system and the ability to form relationships with different students,” she said. “But we didn’t run on the fact that we were Greek. We ran on the fact that we had the best candidates and initiatives.”

Faircloth acknowledged SG has not had an especially di-verse history, and he hopes his administration will take steps to change that negative aspect of the organization.

“Our platform was ‘Forward,’ and we’re going to build on the things we know SG hasn’t done well in the past,” he said. “That’s what we’ve said all along, and obviously that’s one of the areas we’re focusing on.”

Director of Greek Life Angela Guillory said SG is a common or-ganization for members of Greek Life to join because they see it “as an opportunity to maximize their ability to influence.”

“Students who join [Greek] organizations tend to be students who enjoy being part of a steady group of the same people,” Guil-lory said in an email.

She also said that, while she has noticed the presence of a “Greek ticket” in recent years, she thinks it’s healthy to have banners from both campaigns hanging from fraternity and so-rority houses.

Mass communication and political science professor Mar-tin Johnson said it “absolutely” makes sense for there to be an annual “Greek ticket,” because Greek candidates have an estab-lished group of voters to draw upon.

“When you win any election, you have to find a way to mobilize blocks of voters that are going to reliably turn out for you,” John-son said. “We have these mas-sive, life-involving organizations

filled with votes, so why wouldn’t you try to mobilize Greek votes?”

During Johnson’s time at the University, he served as editor in chief of The Daily Reveille, and he remembers when Kirt Ben-nett, the second black SG presi-dent in University history, was elected in 1990.

“Thinking about the frequen-cy with which African Ameri-cans get elected student body president at LSU, it’s not a com-mon thing,” Johnson said.

Although some believe SG has historically followed the “Greek ticket” trend, with a white male president and white female vice president, that wasn’t always the case. Stephen Moret, president of the LSU Foundation and a former SG president himself, said there was a trend in the 1990s of hav-ing a white and black male run on the same ticket.

Moret was president from 1993-94, during a time when he said SG needed major reforma-tion. He said SG — or the Stu-dent Government Association, as it was called during that time — was a political environment

marked by scandals and unfair election processes.

“Before I became president, that was the extreme low point of the organization,” Moret said. “There were discrepancies with the campaigns. The chancellor actually had to cancel the whole elections and get the administra-tion to run them to make sure they were managed correctly.”

Moret said there was an inci-dent during his election season between two other tickets, one of which featured a black candidate for president. He remembers racially charged paraphernalia spread around campus as one of the many corrupt instances with-in SG at the time.

Moret acknowledged he and his running mate, Amanda Bolz, were the stereotypical “Greek ticket” in their election. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, and she was active in her sorority. But Moret believes the reason so many members of Greek Life are also involved in SG is because they are gen-erally more active on campus than non-Greeks.

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ways SG can help them receive funding for their events.

Although she reached out to every group on campus, Brew-ster said only about 40 percent responded.

In the past, SG has funded events for several minority orga-nizations, some more than once. According to a spreadsheet from former SG Director of Finance Wesley Davis, SG’s Program-ming, Support and Initiatives Fund committee has funded some groups consecutively — specifically BSU, Spectrum, the African American Cultural Center and the International Stu-dent Association, although the amounts were unavailable.

Wesley acknowledged PSIF is not a well-known resource for student groups, and he wants that to change.

“We’ve seen a good bit of mi-nority groups come to PSIF, but it’s always the same groups,” he said. “PSIF is our best-kept se-cret, and I don’t like that.”

President Zack Faircloth and vice president Lindsey Landry said SG hasn’t been the most ac-cessible resource for minority organizations, and they hope to challenge that norm in their fu-

ture administration. They said one of the things their adminis-tration will do differently than previous presidencies is make sure SG is a voice for all students.

Faircloth promised SG will promote University diversity by making it the job of an executive staff member.

“What we plan to do specifi-cally is make the Organizational Outreach position a senior staff position,” he said. “Our utmost priority is to reach out to organi-zations ... their whole goal will be to bridge that gap.”

Faircloth also said he has reached out to LSU NAACP president Monturios Howard to begin solidifying SG’s relation-ship with minority organizations on campus.

Howard was approved as an SG senior executive staff mem-ber on Wednesday along with the rest of the newly-elected president’s appointees.

Howard said he believes one of the problems causing the divide between SG and minor-ity organizations is the lack of minority representation in SG itself.

“This semester has been a lot better in terms of outreach, but we’re not going to be silent about it,” Howard said. “We have to

bring everyone to the table, both leaders and ordinary students on campus.”

Howard said he also believes this past campaign season spoke volumes about the need for “those uncomfortable conversa-tions” about diversity on campus.

However, many minority stu-dents still don’t feel SG does all it can to reach out to them.

BSU president Destinee Me-rida said there are many small minority groups that get over-looked in all aspects of campus life.

“I think, too regularly, under-represented groups get passed up,” Merida said in an email. “There are more black groups than BSU and NAACP and more minority groups than black ones.”

Both SG leaders and minor-ity organization leaders agree that although this year sparked a much-needed conversation about outreach and forming connec-tions with campus groups, there is still much more work to be done.

“We can’t just fund minor-ity groups and go, ‘Oh, we’ve done our part,’” Wesley said. “It’s an ongoing process. You have to reach out to groups every year.”

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will have his No. 36 jersey retired before tonight’s series opener, which starts at 7 p.m. today.

Though he wouldn’t command the program for another 10 years, Mainieri cherishes the history behind 1996 team’s epic run, and it was used as motivation for the 2008 baseball team’s 23-game winning streak.

Before every game of that streak, the Tigers played the highlight tape of 1996 team, while wearing gold jerseys up until the NCAA prohibited the team from doing so in the postseason.

Mainieri countered the NCAA home-team guideline of wearing white jerseys by encouraging all fans to wear gold for the Tigers’ regional opener against Texas Southern. Similarly, fans are be-ing asked to wear gold to match the gold jerseys the team will wear all weekend against Missis-sippi State.

“[2008] was such a pivotal year in the LSU program and in my coaching career. My first year — 2007 — to put it mildly, was not very spectacular,” Mainieri said. “Forty games into our second sea-son, we were still scuffling along, pretty much. Then, all of a sudden, we started that 23-game winning streak and went to Omaha.

“Even though we didn’t win it, it set the tone for us to win it the next year. I credit the ‘96 team a lot for our current situation of how we progressed with the program over the last nine years.”

The Tigers’ series against the rival Bulldogs (25-12-1, 8-7 SEC) has significance beyond the cer-emonies and commemorations.

Mississippi State sits one game behind second-place LSU in the SEC West standings, possessing one of the league’s best offenses in multiple major categories.

On top of that, Bulldog junior ace Dakota Hudson, projected to start Friday, ranks fourth in the conference in ERA, contrib-uting to the pitching staff’s 364 strikeouts, which is fourth in the league.

Coincidentally, both teams played games that stretched into the late hours of Wednesday night. Mississippi State squeaked out a 1-0 victory against Louisiana-Monroe in 14 innings, while LSU waited out a two-hour, 24-minute rain delay to complete its 11-4 win against Southeastern Louisiana.

Mainieri said, like against Vanderbilt the key against the Bulldog offense will be keeping the leadoff hitters off base, some-thing the Bulldogs struggled with against the Warhawks. Mississippi State put the leadoff man on base just once Wednesday night, which came via a hit batter in the sixth inning.

“If you get the leadoff hitter out, you’re limiting to what the of-fense can do in the inning,” said sophomore right-hander Alex Lange. “So, that’s something that’s very important, getting the lead-off hitter out and not having guys in scoring position with less than two outs.”

LSU’s strong performance in singles play held the match wide open.

Taylor started out taking court 6 after sweeping the first set and finally winning the de-ciding second, 6-2.

With two-set victories from

Kuykendall and junior Abigail Owens on courts 4 and 5, re-spectively, the Lady Tigers tied the match and set the stage for Golovin, who headed into the only third set of the match.

Now, LSU prepares to take on No. 1 Florida at 2 p.m on Fri-day.

“They went undefeated in

our conference for a reason,” Sell said. “There are good at every spot and make you hit balls. They are the type of team where you have to beat them. They won’t give it to you. We had a really great battle with them, but are going to have to take it up a notch to beat them.”

have started to come together, the team still is stranding num-bers of runners on the bases. LSU left nine players on base on Wednesday.

The Tigers have left 37 run-ners on the basepath throughout the last three contests, including

a program-record 20 against Mis-sissippi State on Saturday. But LSU coach Beth Torina is not con-cerned with the figure and said it is a byproduct of the offensive improvements.

“The better your offense is, the more runners you’ll leave on base, because the more you hit,” Torina said. “It’s not something

I’m concerned about honestly. It actually means we are doing better.”

Carolina’s primary two pitch-ers, juniors Nickie Blue and Jes-sica Elliott, gunslingers have both pitched more than 142 innings, tallied at least 97 strikeouts and have earned at least 15 wins, in 2016. The only large dispar-ity in their stats is Blue is tabbed with 10 losses, while Elliott has recorded just three.

“They’re a really solid team. They have been for sev-eral years,” Torina said. “On the mound, Nickie Blue is capable of a great game any day … She’s a special pitcher.”

Unlike its pitching rotation, the South Carolina offense uses plenty of deadly hitters to win ballgames. Six hitters of the nine everyday starters are hitting above .300.

Junior infielder Kaylea Snaer boasts the team’s best batting average with a .397.

“They swing big. They hit a lot of stuff well. Their offense has had a lot of great moments [this season],” Torina said.

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Senior infielder Sandra Simmons catches the ball at first base during the Tigers’ 9-1 victory against Illinois State on February 27 in Tiger Park.