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Greek:Sororities help middle and high schoolers fi nd dream dress pg. 5

Second Harvest:Sorority and car rental host food drive pg. 2

Sports:Lacrosse team enters fi nal leg of season pg. 7

UL administrators, students discuss switching majors

League of Legends:From streaming to steady income: Hunter Trahan tells all pg. 4

Lil Wayne to perform at UL

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With over 80 majors offered at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and four or five years to decide on one or two, students are faced with an ultimatum with each advising session — to take a new batch of major-related courses or change their career track. Although students can change their majors at any time throughout the school semester, Academic Success Center Di-rector Bette Harris said the office sees the most junior division students during advising. “When they’re getting advised, that’s when they’re thinking, ‘Oh, I don’t want to be in chemical engineering; I want to be in something else.’ We have a bulk around this through the end of advising,” she said. The average U.S. student changes his or her major three times throughout col-lege, and 80 percent change their major at least once. Harris said this average is “on par” with UL Lafayette’s average. Harris said 40 to 50 percent of incoming fresh-men change their majors after graduation. According to ASC records, 60 per-

cent of students who began school in 2011 have changed their majors at some point during their college careers. Of the students who graduated in spring 2015, 41 percent changed their majors once, and 70 percent of 2011 freshmen still in school have changed their majors. “So many will apply, and they’ll put down whatever their mother and their grandmother wanted (them to major in), or they want to be a doctor,” said Harris. “Then they take their first biology course. It’s not that they can’t do it; they’re not allocating the time or they’re not putting in the effort.” Of these students, 54 percent had one change of major. 46 percent have 2-5. Harris said another factor is time and the student’s youth. “A lot of them work, and a lot of them don’t know how to manage their time, so I would think those factors play in. Part of it’s that they’re 18 and immature; They’re not applying themselves,” she said. Abbey Zaunbrecher, a freshman, has changed her major twice before settling on public relations. After realizing busi-ness classes were not quite her speed, she decided to visit ASC in Lee Hall.

“The hardest part was figuring out what you want to switch to,” said Zaun-brecher. “It’s one thing to know you are dissatisfied with your current major. It’s another to to figure out what you want your major to be instead.” The ASC, which sees “an excess” of 2,000 junior division students each semester, helps students change majors and advises freshman students as well as oversees UNIV 100 classes. “It gives them a little bit more real-istic expectation of what’s required. We don’t want them to be lost in the shuffle,” said Harris. So far, the ASC has seen 789 stu-dents — for whom Harris said time is the enemy. “The longer you’re here, the less like-ly you are to get a degree,” Harris said. Harris said another factor is expec-tations versus reality — namely the sci-ence, technology, engineering and math (STEM) majors that have topped the list of most popular majors since the Great Recession of 2008. “The big push I have seen is the STEM classes,” she said. “Those are the majors that are huge now, but this wasn’t the case a few years ago.” According to a list Harris compiled, the most popular major at UL Lafayette during the fall was nursing, followed by biology, online nursing RN to BSN, me-chanical engineering and petroleum engi-neering. “All of those first five are STEM … you have eight out of the 12 are STEM classes; that’s been huge,” she said. “Af-ter the downturn in the economy, I think students think they can readily find a job easily in those majors.” The top 12 majors comprise 52 per-

Lil Wayne will perform at the Ca-jundome on April 18 in a collaboration with TlDAL for the college target philan-thropy project. Under the campaign “Social Wave For Change,” the program gives people the opportunity to come together for posi-tive cause. About 50 schools across the nation entered the contest for a chance to win. Narrowed down to six schools, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette won the final standings on March 15. The Zeta Xi Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraterni-ty, Inc. won the contest by donating wa-ter collected through a water drive to the Flint water crisis in Michigan. “We collected roughly 7,000 bottles of bottled water for the people of Flint,” said fraternity member Bryan Guidry. ”I got a link to pass it to the chap-ter and students, and we just hopped on,” said chapter president Trevon Oliver.Students and faculty members donated water and cash to the drive. Local club manager Ashton John-son said he contributed to the water drive and submitted the application to TIDAL. Johnson’s girlfriend mentioned the con-test to him after receiving email subscrip-tions from TIDAL. “I was already donating, then I found out the Alphas was donating, so I decided to help,” Johnson said. “I tagged them un-der TIDAL’s pictures on Instagram, and they hit me up saying, ‘Keep up the good work, and we’re going to consider y’all for the finals.’” Since then, the Office of Communica-tions & Marketing social media strategist Amy Windsor said she has been working closely with TIDAL for the concert de-tails.

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The Gamma Delta Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. paired with Avis Car Rental for a food drive at Lafayette’s Second Harvest Food Bank on Wednesday, bringing in 300 goods, in honor of Nation-al Volunteer Month. National Volunteer Month, celebrat-ed in April, honors volunteers across the country while encouraging people to be-come active in their communities. “April is the volunteer month, but since April is kind of a busier time for us, I thought this would be a better opportunity to kind of get a jump start on it,” said Sher-yl Fisher, Operations Manager at Avis Car Rental. “I reached out to (Second Harvest) because each different location within Avis Budget Group tries to do some kind of vol-unteer help within the community, and that is one area that I wanted to help out in.” Fisher gathered a eight employees, in-cluding herself, to participate in the drive. Although Fisher and employee Marlon Watkins aimed to bring the food drive to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, the effort became a bit difficult with the time crunch and students and staff gone away for spring break. Still, Watkins, a senior management major at UL Lafayette and president of Gamma Delta, found a way to reach the community to get donations starting with the seven other members in his chapter. “Family and friends helped out, and because it was too late to put it on campus, we just went home and asked our people for it,” Watkins said. “Or if we had the money, we bought it ourselves. We just gathered as many cans as we could.” In total, Gamma Delta initially col-lected 200 food items. As a chapter, they collectively bought an additional 100 as their goal was to supply half of what they were able to gather altogether.

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Gamma Delta, Avis host food drive for Second Harvest

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Watkins said members of Omega Psi Phi take pride in their involvement. Two of their annual projects include a blood drive on Martin Luther King Day and “Cuts for Kids,” a school supply giveaway where kids can get free haircuts and free food at Blue Cliff College during the summer. “Uplifting the community is a very valuable part of our fraternity and it’s part of what we stand on,” Watkins said. “As president, I saw this as an opportunity for us to exemplify what we stand on to the community and actually do something that’s going to help a noble cause.” Second Harvest is a nonprofit orga-nization, and according to Volunteer Ser-vices Coordinator Michelle Rosamond, the largest food bank in Louisiana. Rosamond said the best way to get people involved in a food drive is to get creative. “We have a list on a flyer of our most needed items, so what some people like to do is they take that list, and they’ll do a theme,” she said. “We have different themes that people like to use. So maybe like “Naturally N’awlins,” which is red beans and rice, or “Spread the Love” — peanut butter and jelly — “Meat the Need,” which is protein like beef and beans. “Just stuff like that helps people get more excited about it,” she continued, “and it also helps people know what we really could use.” Second Harvest’s most-needed items include fruits, vegetables, cooking oil, milk, proteins and grains — all non-per-ishable — in addition to paper products, diapers and toiletries. Second Harvest ac-cepts monetary donations as well, with a statement that ensures they can provide three meals per $1 donation. To organize a food drive through Sec-ond Harvest, register online at http://no-hunger.org/food-fund-drive-registration/.

Lafayette locavores speak

out on community cause

Lafayette’s locavores — people whose diets consist of using produce that has been grown exclusively within their com-munity — are expressing their support for the community and how it coincides with their health-conscious diets. Locavore, a term coined by chef and author Jessica Prentice of Berkeley, Cali-fornia, is a belief that’s grown significantly in Lafayette and promoted the support of small businesses in the community. There are several businesses in La-fayette that purchase their produce from locally owned venues. Nathan Stubbs, 36, a founding partner of The Saint Street Inn, said he and his partner, Mary Tutwiler, wanted to open a business that represented all staples of the Lafayette community. Before opening The Saint Street Inn in 2011, Stubbs and Tutwiler were reporters at The Independent. “We live in a rich area of farm produce and seafood,” Stubbs said. “There are all kinds of things we felt were not represent-ed enough in the restaurants. We dreamt up this crazy place that could do music and art and be a neighborhood joint out of New Orleans and not in a strip mall. We wanted to have a place to really embrace the cul-ture. We felt like it would be welcomed in Lafayette. “So far, we’ve been embraced pretty well,” he continued. ‘It’s great to see ev-eryone embracing the local resources and local economy, and taking ownership of it.” The highlight of The Saint Street Inn is that all of the ingredients are locally grown. The restaurant receives its seafood from the Gulf of Mexico and produce from various farms around Acadiana. That is what has made the restaurant so popular in Lafayette, according to Stubbs. “A lot of our clientele come here spe-cifically for that because they know we consciously source all of our ingredients,” he said. “If we can’t get completely local, we at least try to get organic free-range chicken from the region; we get farm eggs. We’re trying to bring together a lot of the things they’re looking for in a real conve-nient way for them because they can just come in. They know they can get that fresh home-cooked meal with local fresh ingre-

dients. They get the whole 360-degree lo-cavore experience.” It can get hectic going to three differ-ent farmers markets during the week, ac-cording to Stubbs, so the restaurant offers itself as a one-stop-shop for your locavore appetite. Anthony Greco, Ph.D., an economics and finance professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, said the money lo-cally owned businesses make stays within Lafayette. “This locavore shopping supports the local economy by ensuring that all spend-ing and the income that it generates remain within Lafayette,” he said. “Hence the ad-ditional rounds of spending initiated by the initial spending all occur within Lafayette, resulting in a larger multiplier effect on lo-cal income generation and employment.” A.J. McGee, a junior public relations major from New Orleans, said he would consider himself to be a “watered-down” locavore because he cannot afford to buy local produce on a student budget. “I love to shop small when I can,” McGee said. “I like going to the farmers market. I don’t really cook. I don’t eat a ton of local foods unless I’m going some-where like Saint Street Inn or Dark Roux — that’s a farm table restaurant — but I love to go to Fresh Pickins Produce Mar-ket. Even though they’re not always local-ly sourced produce, they do support a lot of local brands like Swamp Pop. “It’s real farmers, which is cool within itself,” McGee continued. Morgan Stone, a senior public relations major from Denham Springs, said she has always supported local businesses — espe-cially ones involving food. “One of my favorite little produce shops is Fresh Pickins located off of Ka-liste Saloom,” she said. “I go there on a regular basis, and the bar that I work at that sells food also buys all of their pro-duce from there as well.” Stone said she has a strong interest in where her food is coming from and said she is relieved when she can find out how the produce is grown. “It is certainly a relief to know where my food intake is coming from, and more importantly to know that it is safe,” she

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dent Union and Rex Street to downtown. Although the buses will not be in transit until fall, Allen said they will soon host test runs. “I’m fighting for (the stop to be at) McKinley Street,” said Vice President Annie Briley. The shuttle, Allen said, will most likely be free for students from any uni-versity with a student ID. Natalie Bodkin received $30 from the Total College Fund for Individuals to defer the cost of attending the Marjorie Stricklin Emerging Artists Competition in Monroe on Jan. 9. Shonda Garner received $150 from the TCFI to defer the cost of attending Louisiana Association Computer Using Educators Summit 2015 in New Orleans from Dec. 7 to Dec. 9. Katie Kuecker received $200 from the TCFI to defer the cost of attending the International Symposium for Research on Internet Intervention 8th Conference from April 6-9 in Seattle.

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PoliceReports

Compiled by Heather Osbourne

Remaining after being forbidden

A non-student, who authorities had previously told not to return to UL Lafayette, entered Huger Hall on March 21 and walked to the third floor before running away after seeing officers in the building. A resi-dent of Huger Hall recognized the suspect as he entered the dormitory and contacted campus police.

Nicholas Beckford, 17, was charged with two counts of simple burglary and a juvenile, 15, received a juvenile summons for two counts of simple burglary. The two suspects, along with two other juveniles, broke into the UL Lafayette lacrosse team trailer and stole a bottle of Gatorade, Reebok tennis shoes and a Hanes T-shirt. The juvenile charged was released to his guardian.

Simple burglary

A University of Louisiana at Lafayette student allegedly walked into a professor’s office on March 22 and slammed a book on the professor’s desk. He claimed the professor stole a bicycle program idea he had pre-sented in the past and used that idea to create the new UL Lafayette bicycle-sharing program. The professor filed a complaint with campus police the next day.

Funds totaling $1,877.02 were sent back to their original source after the money was wrongfully deposited into a university account on March 24.

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Nicholas Beckford, 17, was charged with simple criminal damage to property and a juvenile, 15, was issued a juvenile citation for simple criminal damage to property after damaging a fence between Youth Park and dog park on West Lewis Street.

Simple criminal damage to property

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The Student Government Association passed amendment eight, which reformed the Finance Committee for funding indi-viduals and organizations. Under the new amendment, SGA will pay $200 for individuals and up to $90 per person. Funding will not exceed $800 for individuals. “It’s been a long time coming,” said Treasurer Chris Rome. The amendment updated article VII, section four, subsection three of the by-laws to reflect the change. President Kirsten Allen announced that plans for the green space where La-fayette and Vermilion halls used to stand will have an amphitheater for events, and a more even space for recreation. Additionally, Allen said there will be a shuttle bus to downtown Lafayette to prevent drinking and driving. The shuttle, called Ragin’ Ride, will run Friday and Saturday from 9:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. With stops in front of Legacy Hall, the Stu-

SGA approves amendment, begins downtown bus program


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Last time he checked, playing League of Legends had earned him over $4,400 in donations from viewers on his stream on Twitch, a popular video game streaming website. Hunter Trahan, a computer science student at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, also known as Pink Ward in League of Legends, has already cemented his legacy as one of the most famous top lane Shaco players in the world. Howev-er, Shaco is a champion with a fairly low playing percentage. Even when the cham-pion is played, it is usually in a different role and with a different build than the way Trahan plays him. Although most League of Legends players enjoy playing a multitude of differ-ent champions, Trahan, 19, said he doesn’t get tired of playing just Shaco. “I just look forward to bettering myself with this one champion and I have fun,” Trahan said about being a Shaco main. “So in the end that’s the biggest reason I kept with it.” What started about five years ago as a niche other players occasionally com-

plained about for “breaking the meta,” has turned into something the majority of avid League of Legends players attribute to Pink Ward himself. Before his fame, Pink Ward had already worked his way up to being in the top .3 percent of all League of Legends players. The fame didn’t come until a meeting with Boxbox, a famous top lane streamer with over 840,000 followers on Twitch. “I randomly got placed against (Box-box) one day,” Trahan explained. “That was really big for me. Just being so hyped and so happy to play against someone so known in the community and someone who you have such a respect for. Your heart starts racing and you don’t know what to do. You don’t want to mess up or look bad in front of them.” After the first game, Boxbox com-plimented Trahan on his unique playstyle and encouraged him to start streaming. Trahan started doing research on how to start streaming on Twitch.com, and how to setup YouTube channel. The two met again in the top lane and this time Trahan was set up and streaming. After the game, Boxbox sent his view-ers Trahan’s way, giving Trahan his first splurge of views. Adding to the new Pink Ward fans,

Boxbox made a video about his matchup against Trahan, and the video made it to the top of Reddit with more than 2 million views. It was the start of Trahan’s fame. The fortune would come later. Just a couple months after setting up his successful stream with an option for viewers to donate any sum of money of their choosing, Trahan received what he called a small donation of $100. “It was $100 that came out of nowhere,” Trahan said. “You’re just surprised and in awe that people enjoy (watching me play) so much.” After a short hiatus, the cash flow really began spiraling upwards. “My first really big donations were during (last) Christmas time,” Trahan ex-plained. “I got like two or three thousand dollars worth from a few people.” Since calculating his total earnings, he has continued to increase his viewership and earnings. Like a startup business, Tra-han knows it will take time for his persona to evolve. “It’s also building up a community,” he added. “You have to brand yourself. It’s creating something from nothing pretty much.” With a decent inflow of cash, Trahan treats his video game playing like a part-time job. But unlike most college jobs, this is one that he thoroughly enjoys.Trahan said he thinks the Pink Ward per-sona could even help to find him a job in the computer science field. He said it is at least something to put on his resume. “Having such a presence in the on-line community actually helps me make somewhat of a name for myself,” Trahan said. “It’s easy to make connections with people. There are people that come to me that are working on apps and stuff and tell me to message them or hit them up after I’m done with college and we can talk.” However long his fame lasts, Trahan said he is thankful for the opportunities he has been given. However long the fortune lasts, he said he knows it was great to make money play-ing the game he loves. “This has all really been for fun,” Tra-han admitted. “I’ve gotten a lot out of just doing something I enjoy.”

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History students at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette are inviting mem-bers of the community to bring historical items that tell the history of the Cajuns, the Creoles or American Indians to the Lafayette Public Library in downtown Lafayette this Saturday, April 9. Anything from musical instruments, tools, pictures, letters, newspapers, cloth-ing, diaries and any other historical ob-jects will be accepted and photographed, copied and added to a collection online at louisianafrench.omeka.net. “We’re looking for objects that kind of tell the story — especially the (Louisiana French) revival period between the 1950s through 1970s,” said Victoria Throop, a graduate student, to the Acadi-ana Advocate. “We’re really interested to hear people talk about their experiences growing up speaking French, or being told not to speak French.” They will be accepting items from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., but will also accept pictures, scans and writings uploaded to the website.

History students to compile historical artifacts


On March 6, members of University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s Interfraternity Council (IFC) fraternities participated in an inaugural clean up on fraternity row lo-cated on South campus. There are 10 fraternities in the IFC at UL Lafayette, and seven of those frater-nities’ houses are on the row. Sigma Chi, Phi Kappa Psi and Pi Kappa Alpha have houses located outside of fraternity row. Nevertheless, members from these frater-nities still showed up to support IFC and clean up around each house on the row. “As a member of IFC (executive board) and a fraternity that doesn’t have a house on the row,” said Andrew Albritton, IFC vice president of finance and member of Sigma Chi, “I know that the men came out

because they knew that improving the im-age of fraternity row would help the image of Greek life on campus overall.” The cleanup was from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and ended with burgers on the row. The IFC’s executive board initiated the cleanup and asked for the majority of members from each fraternity to partici-pate. Michael Brodnax, junior and Sigma Alpha Epsilon president, said the turnout was greater than the majority from each chapter. “We cleaned up the outside of each house and took care of flower beds and ti-dying up,” Brodnax said. “We also picked up litter and hauled off all unnecessary items like old couches.” Following the sufficient turnout, the IFC decided to have a fraternity row clean-up each semester.

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IFC cleans up fraternity row

Greek Life

The Theta Xi chapter of Delta Sigma Theta is making its presence known with a number of activities: voter registration drives; working with kids with special needs and autism and a step show to end the week. Delta Week is April 3-8, and is named Delta SZN, which is taken from entertainer and designer Kanye West’s clothing line, Yeezy SZN, explained the vice president of the chapter, Maya Loving. It’s a week of events ranging from forums to commu-nity service by the Delta Sigma Thetas. “Each day is named after a song from multiple Kanye albums,” Loving said. Throughout the week, the Deltas are hosting a variety of events, including a voter registration event, a day dedicated to building your brand, a girls lock in and “Pillow Talk” with the brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. They will end the week with their stroll off on Friday at 5 p.m. at the top of the Girard Park Circle Parking Garage. Each year, every Greek member also participates in a community service ac-tivity during Greek week. This year, for community service, the Deltas will be par-

ticipating in the Walk for Hope benefiting autism. The sisters will be at different stations helping and assisting with the games and activity area with the kids. They will be helping at tables such as the Coke booth and the art activity area, facilitating the large Connect Four game and face paint-ing. “The purpose of Delta Week,” said Myleeza Mingo, chapter Sergeant-at-Arms, “is to get people more familiar with the organization and let them understand Delta is not just about throwing pyramids and strutting, but they do service and work as well.” “Through this week, we can show people that we are back and very much ac-tive on campus,” Loving said. “There are so many times when people have come up to me and said that they didn’t even know we were on campus. So I really hope to gain that presence.” “One thing I think people will like the most about Delta week is seeing the fun and chill side of us,” Mingo said. “Most people think Greeks are so scary and in-timidating, which is the opposite of what we are and what we represent. I hope ev-eryone can see how normal and goofy we are.”

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Delta Sigma Theta prepares for

Kanye-inspired sorority week

During the week of Feb. 15 - 19 the University of Louisiana Lafayette Panhellenic Council held a drive to collect dresses for The Cinderella Project. The Cinderella Project, put on by AmeriCorps, is an annual event open to junior high and high school girls that provides these students with gently used and donated semi-formal and formal dresses at no cost. The dresses are donated from stores, organizations and also individually. The Cinderella Project was Satur-day, March 19 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Blackham Coliseum. The Panhellenic Dress Drive was promoted through the Council and other sororities’ social media the week before and the week of February 15-19. Suzanne McCloskey, a sophomore who serves as the philanthropy chair for Alpha Omicron Pi, was eager to donate to the Panhellenic Dress Drive this year. “I’ve participated in TCP since high school!” exclaimed McCloskey. “I’ve also worked the event in previous years.Seeing the excitement on the girls’ faces

is the best reward. It gives you such a great feeling knowing you were able to help make their dreams a reality.” Suzanne was among the sorors who donated to the Panhellenic Dress Drive. At the end of the week, more than 30 dresses were collected by the eight sororities included in UL Lafayette’s Panhellenic Council and were then donated to TCP. Assistant Dean Erica Schwartz, as-sistant director of Student Engagement and Leadership who also works in Greek Affairs, helped organize the Panhellenic Dress Drive for The Cinderella Project. Schwartz was also in attendance at TCP and served as a personal shopper, where she would take a recipient around and help them find the dress they love. She said the atmosphere at TCP was “re-ally upbeat.” “Music was playing, people were excited,” recalled Schwartz. “Everyone was really kind — the staff, volunteers and attendees.” Around 400 girls attended TCP on March 19 and more than 300 went home with a dress for their upcoming proms.

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Panhel holds dress drive

for Cinderella Project


The Printmaking Research and Edu-cational Student Society received $630 from the Total College Fund for Organi-zations to attend the Southern Graphics Convention International in Portland, Or-egon, from March 30 to April 3. Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity received $800 from TCFO to attend the Pike U Dallas Leadership Summit in Dallas from Feb. 26 to Feb. 28. Oludamilola Adesiyun received $140 from the TCFI to attend the National So-ciety of Black Engineers Conference in Boston from March 24 to March 27. The National Society of Black En-gineers received $800 from the TCFO to attend the National Conference in Boston from March 23 to March 27. The American Institute of Chemical Engineers received $800 from the TCFO to attend the AICHE Southern Regional Conference in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, from March 31 to April 3.

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cent of the student body; meanwhile, the nine majors with the fewest students only hold 3 percent. The least popular majors were phys-ics, insurance and risk management, orga-nizational communication, anthropology, middle school education from fourth to eighth grade, modern languages, math-ematics, economics and interior design. Although these majors have the fewest people enrolled, Harris said these majors still have a lot of people in the classes. “Some of our small majors serve large bodies of students,” she said. “The bottom line is if you come in and know what your major is and you’re very dedicated and you’re studying, not as many of those change their majors,” said Harris.

said. “As I’ve gotten older, I have made more of a point to buy local and be more aware of my choices — compared to the past when I would simply buy on the fly.”McGee agreed and said his interest in where his food is coming from stems from his high school environmental science class. “I’ve grown up in the technological age, so I’m always on my MacBook or using my iPad,” he said. “I didn’t really realize what kind of cost those things had until I took environmental science and started learning about externalities. Learn-ing about what kind of conditions those resources are made in in other countries really changes your perspective on where you shop or what you buy.” McGee said although he doesn’t eat local food from restaurants often, he often finds himself at local coffee shops. “I love the atmosphere,” he said. “Rêve

Coffee Roasters, Carpe Diem, The Lab — I’m always there. It’s this crazy concept of those people know my name.” Being a locavore is something that brings the Lafayette community together, Stone said. “Ultimately, I am a firm believer in supporting your local community whether it is through clothing stores, food distribu-tors, restaurants, etc.,” she said. “This, in my opinion, is a fantastic way to come to-gether as a community and bring success to those around you. Local businesses and their overall contributions is part of what makes Lafayette such a special place to live.” “It is a good thing to do in regard to boosting local income and employment,” Greco said. “None of these effects or im-pacts would be siphoned off to areas out-side of Lafayette. However, some may be unable to afford higher local prices.”

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“I waited to announce it to our stu-dents through the UL Lafayette Twitter and Facebook accounts,” Windsor said, “until after I exchanged emails with a rep from TIDAL confirming the win and had coordinated with the dean of stu-dents, Margarita Perez, to make sure that TIDAL and Lil Wayne’s timeframe for the concert aligned with the University schedule.” TIDAL is working to secure a contract with the Cajundome to have the concert free for students. UL Lafayette posted about the contest winning on its Facebook page Wednesday evening. “Congratulations to the students of UL Lafayette on winning a free concert by Lil Wayne for their charitable work!” the announcement read. “Students in-volved with the Zeta Xi Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha’s Flint Water Drive on Feb. 3 entered a contest through the TIDAL mu-sic-streaming website, called Social Wave for Change.” On March 15, Lil Wayne announced UL Lafayette’s victory on a Huffington Post column. “I’m psyched to announce University of Louisiana - Lafayette as the winning university,” the rapper wrote. “I can’t wait to head over there on April 1 to thank these young individuals for all the work they put in to do some good for the needy. I’m pumped to put on an epic perfor-mance, which will also be live streamed on TIDAL.com for all y’all to see!”

7THE VERMILIONApril 6, 2016 Sports

Cajuns’ defenseman Byrnes Tatford, 4, guards a player from Stephen F. Austin.Photo by Garrett Ohlmeyer / The Vermilion

The third-ranked University of Loui-siana at Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns’ (29-3, 10-1) softball team swept Sun Belt Confer-ence opponent Texas State over the week-end in a three-game series, finishing off the series with a 3-0 win. The Cajuns defeated the Texas State Bobcats 7-0 in the first game of their dou-ble-header. Alex Stewart pitched in the first game of the double header and pitched her fourth straight shutout in conference play. Stew-art allowed three hits and had 11 total strike outs. Shellie Landry hit the first of the Ca-juns’ four home runs in the bottom of the second with a two-run shot that was also her 200th career hit. Haley Hayden, DJ Sanders and Sara Corbello also hit home runs in the first game of the double-header, which more than picked up the slack for catcher and home run leader Lexie Elkins (17), who missed the game with a thumb injury. In the second game, the Bobcats were more competitive — leading 2-0 until the bottom of the fifth, when the Cajuns scored 5 runs before recording an out. Senior first baseman Kelsey Vincent hit a homerun in the bottom of the fifth with Landry on base that tied the game at 2-2. Corbello hit another two-run home run to extend the Cajuns’ lead and secure the victory in a competitive game against the Bobcats. The Cajuns had eight hits and five runs in the second game while the Bobcats had four hits and two runs. Stewart pitched her fifth straight con-ference shutout in the final game of the series and gave the team a total of 14 shut-outs for the season. The Cajuns defeated the Bobcats 3-0. Stewart gave up just one hit and pitched six total strikeouts. The Cajuns hit three home runs, which gave them 10 total for the series and was their 19th multiple home run game of the season. Aleah Creighton hit her first home

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Cajuns’ softball

sweeps

Texas State


A pair of weekend games against Texas teams is all that separates the Ragin’ Ca-juns’ lacrosse team, 8-4, from the postsea-son. Although Saturday’s 2 p.m. game against Texas A&M-Galveston (4-4) was initially the team’s only scheduled game for this weekend, the University of Texas-San Antonio joined the mix after a rain delay caused the two teams to move the previously scheduled matchup to Sunday. The rescheduling of Texas-San Anto-nio (6-2) gives the Cajuns a chance to head into the playoffs with a strong opponent in their rearview mirror. The Sunday match-up boasts the two top teams in the Division II Lone Star Alliance conference. “It’s perfect timing for us,” said Cajuns attacker Nick Midboe about UTSA. “We get to see how we respond to a little ad-versity. It’ll be nice to get a chance to see a team that we know we will probably see again in the playoffs.” Midboe said both teams this weekend have strong defenses, but they don’t want that to dictate the way they play their game

as they prepare for the playoffs. “We’re just kind of focused on playing our game and getting all the little things right as we’re getting ready for the playoffs to see some of those northside teams we haven’t seen yet,” Midboe said. Texas San-Antonio is riding a four-game win streak and has allowed just 4.88 goals per game on the season, making them one of the best statistical defenses in the conference. That defense will be one of the biggest tests all season for the Cajuns high-octane offense that averages 14.67 points per game. The Cajuns will be led on offense by Tanner Castagna, who has posted 49 points on the season, and Midboe, who’s posted 48; both are top five in total points in the conference. Although the Cajuns’ Sunday game against Texas-San Antonio has a higher number of cumulative wins, Midboe said they can’t look past Saturday’s game against Texas A&M-Galveston, who is playing for their playoff lives. Midboe said Texas A&M-Galveston has one of the best players in the confer-

ence in their junior goalie, Raleigh Shep-herd, who has 118 saves on the season. Much like Texas San-Antonio, Texas A&M-Galveston also plays with a strong defense. “We know we are going to see a team whose strength is defense, so we want to control the pace of that game,” Midboe said. “We really wanted to dictate our tem-po and not really worry too much about matching up with them or scheming for one of their guys, just more-so focusing on playing our game and getting ready for those tough playoff games coming up.” The Cajuns have a home playoff game locked up in the first round regardless of what happens this weekend, but Midboe said that doesn’t mean they will take this weekend any less seriously. “It’s huge for us,” Midboe said about clinching a home playoff game. “The big-gest thing is we can’t be too complacent with that. We want to be the number one seed and we want to win out our confer-ence games. It’s nice to know that we have that to fall back on, but it’s not like we’re just sitting happy with that.”

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run of the series — her 11th of the year — in the final game, while Hayden and Cor-bello each hit a home run, as well. Corbello hit a home run in each of the three series games and brought her home run total to eight for the year. The Bobcats fall to 23-15 overall and 4-8 in Sun Belt play for the year. The Cajuns will face the Georgia State Panthers for a three-game series in Atlanta starting April 9.

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Hayward Register officially became a former Cajuns shooting guard last Thurs-day when he was granted his release. Register, a junior, broke the news from his unverified Twitter account by tweeting, “It was great being at UL (Lafayette) ...but sometimes things are crazy...everything happens for a reason #Godbless #amen.” Head basketball coach Bob Marlin confirmed the tweet in a statement made Thursday afternoon. “Hayward has asked for and has been granted his release (to transfer) for next season,” Marlin said. “We wish him well in his future endeavors.” Register went into the 2015-2016 sea-son having shot a career 38.2 percent from outside of the arc. During his sophomore season, Register

averaged 6.7 points but game and 8.9 as a starter. He also shot 39.7 percent from three in his sophomore campaign. Rather than the commonly known sophomore slump, Register seemed to have his slump during his junior year, shooting just 29.1 percent from three-point range. With Register leaving the team and guards Kasey Shepherd and Steven Wronkowski having wrapped up their se-nior seasons, other guards with less expe-rience will have to make up for the three major losses. Going into his senior season, Jay Wright is one of the guards in a prime po-sition to make up for the loss of the two shooters. Wright ended his junior season shooting 34 percent from beyond the arc on 103 attempts. He also had a field goal

percentage of 37.6. Another guard in a position to fill the void is sophomore Johnathan Stove. Stove started 32 games last season and shot 35.7 percent from three, however he only at-tempted 42 shots from three point range. Ultimately, this is an opportunity for shooters with less on their resume to show if they can play in the bright lights of Divi-sion I basketball. With Register gone, the Cajuns will lack experienced players in the 2016-2017. Although Register’s minutes were cut this past season, Register has still a fixture on the Cajuns roster for the past three seasons. If Register plans on playing Division I basketball, he will have to sit out a year via NCAA rules. However, Register will be el-igible to play if he switches to Division II.


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THE VERMILION10 April 6, 2016Opinion

Secular:

Government, confessional

secrets pose conflict

Religious:Suffering, Easter

integral to Christianity Dawn [email protected]

Kaitlin [email protected]

Even if there were no natural disasters, the choice between good and evil would still lie before us — and we would still choose evil at times, thus bringing suffer-ing into the world. We cannot avoid suffer-ing. That is the nature of sin. The greatest comfort we have during our times of suffering is when someone is there with us. His or her compassion for us in our time of pain — physical, emotional or otherwise — is our greatest relief. Christianity addresses suffering di-rectly because God descended to endure our sufferings with us. Jesus Christ be-came man and since his birth endured the daily sufferings of life and embraced many more. His arrest and crucifixion was the climax of His suffering. When Jesus said, “It is finished,” he was speaking of his sacrifice. His crucifix-ion was always going to be more than just another execution. As prophesied in scrip-ture such as Numbers 21, Isaiah 52 and 53 and Psalm 22, the Messiah was meant to die as he took on all the sins of humanity; to redeem us. The Christian message, however, does not end there. If it ended on that Friday, we would indeed have an incoherent tale of a man who went to death for claiming to be God. Jesus’s tale continues with Easter Sun-day with the resurrection. He still bore the wounds of his death (John 20:20-24) to re-mind us that suffering has a redemptive role in our lives. Later, Jesus commissioned his followers to preach the salvation he offers by his death and resurrection. Many would die for their preaching and belief in the Risen Lord. They were martyred because

they saw the Risen Christ, and could not turn their backs on that. Their testimony has spread across the world ever since. Christianity’s success, partly, comes from the confusion and incoherence of the crucifixion. A belief that Jesus is with us in our own failures and sufferings is evident when we see Emmanuel, “God with us,” hanging on the Cross. It is the only religion that makes sense when the question of suf-fering is asked. Yes, as an all-powerful God, he could snap his fingers and end suffering and re-deem our lives. But how could we choose true charity if there was no suffering? God permits suffering because He can make greater things come from it. The Resurrec-tion of Jesus Christ shows us that the God of Israel is more powerful than suffering. Sacrificing everything as an act of charity is found in all human hearts. Our lives are truly all we have to give anyone. Sacrifice as true charity is a universal like truth, goodness and beauty. It isn’t exclu-sive to Christians, but rather a concept all people understand. This is precisely why Christian-ity makes sense. God, revealed in Jesus Christ, comes among us in our joys and sorrows and then bringing us to the Resur-rection with him. Our whole lives take on a new and deeper meaning, filled with faith, hope and love despite anything that may happen. Many theologians say that the Gospel is incomplete if we separate Easter Sunday from Good Friday. Likewise, our lives are incomplete when we separate suf-fering from redemption.

In a liberal democratic society like ours, we have to be able to balance out competing and conflicting interests. This is why secularism was developed as a political philosophy. It was a way of keeping religion apart from government, so that neither could corrupt the other, and prevent religious persecution by allowing minorities the freedom to worship as they see fit. But keeping these interests in bal-ance isn’t always easy. The most obvious example right now is contraception in the Affordable Care Act, with some organiza-tions attempting to claim a religious ex-emption. But I want to focus on a trickier issue, one that strikes at the heart of a par-ticular religious practice. In Roman Catholicism, the practice of confession is a holy sacrament. What the person reveals to the priest while asking for forgiveness is supposed to remain the person, the priest and God - the priest is never supposed to reveal what was said, or else he will face excommunication (Canon Law 983.1: “The sacramental seal is invio-lable; therefore it is absolutely forbidden for a confessor to betray in any way a peni-tent in words or in any manner and for any reason.”) But what happens if the priest learns some horrible truth that should nev-er be kept secret? This is not an abstract case, either. For example, Robert Hanssen was sentenced for life in prison for espionage for the So-viet Union. He spied for nearly 30 years, telling no one except for a priest during confession. How many state secrets could have been kept away from the Soviets, or how many lives could have been saved, had others known about his spying. But the priest never said anything because of his religious duty. In another example, in 1989, Jose Morales was convicted of murder. Twelve

years later, the Rev. Joseph Towle revealed to the authorities that Morales was in-nocent because the real murderer, Jesus Fornes, had admitted to the killing, but Towle could not tell anyone until Fornes died. The Archdiocese of New York support-ed Towle, saying ‘’Father Towle, given the circumstances as we understand it, was not violating any church law by testifying… It was not a sacramental confession, in which confidentiality would be absolute.’’ Recently, the Louisiana Supreme Court has ordered the Rev. Jeff Bayhi to testify in a case where a 12-year-old girl allegedly admitted during confession to being sexu-ally abused by an older man. Unlike the Morales case, this was said explicitly in the confessional, and the Diocese of Baton Rouge is fighting it, saying the court order would violate one of the oldest sacraments of the faith. There really isn’t an easy answer here. On one hand, if we want to prevent the government from dictating what religious beliefs are acceptable or not, then we have to side with the Catholic Church. But that means we also have to ac-cept that guilty people will escape justice and victims will continue to be victimised because priests will not report anything admitted during confession. And we know how priests have abused the confessional to molest children. But do these small number of cases warrant the government ripping open the confessional seal? I’d argue anyone who takes a side too quickly and assuredly isn’t thinking hard enough about the implications either way. Modern society is about balancing inter-ests, and sometimes that means that people have to lose. Is protecting the confessional worth also protecting murderers, rapists and spies from justice?


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Opinion:Columnist learns to accept

death, departureChelsea [email protected]

George [email protected]

Two months ago, my grandfather died. Last week, my boyfriend’s grandmother died. Three years ago, my best friend died. Death is not something new anymore. Death is familiar; it is close and cold. No one is allowed to live forever on earth. Ev-eryone dies — I know this. It’s natural. Death happens. As we get older and older, those we care for slip from our fingers. As we get older and busy with our own lives, we fall in love and get married and have children. It is easy to for-get that our elders are also growing older, growing so close to death. Still, it does not get easier. Still, I feel death’s close embrace, his knock on the door, his arms wrapping around people I love, his icy breath taking over their lungs. He is most usually quiet, so very quiet. Sometimes we know it’s coming, and sometimes we don’t. When my best friend died, it was like the depression that followed. Gradually, then suddenly. Slowly, then all at once. She was sick for a long time, but then died sooner than I expected. I take it in, I take it all in. Each time someone dies, they take a piece of us with them. We are left with memories, and they

live on in us, through our love for them and our memories. At times, I wish I had solace in reli-gion, in believing there is a heaven, a place where my beloved go after they leave this earth. But it’s OK because I have some-thing else — the comfort that they are still with me in my mind and heart. My friend and I were so intrinsic; even though she is dead, I know wherever I go, she is too. Henry Scott-Holland once wrote, “Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened.” But something has happened, and it’s OK. Dying is OK, and it’s OK to have nothing to say about it. Most of the time, there are no words. The words I am writing right now are only to let you know that it’s alright to grieve. It used to make me feel weak, but I have learned that grieving is normal — healthy even. Remember to allow yourself time to mourn the fact that things will never be the same. One day your loved one was here, and now he/ she is gone. Give yourself time to accept the new reality you face. Mourning is an essential part of being hu-man.

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The countdown to Festival Internation-al de Louisiane’s 30th anniversary is near-ing the red and the dancing quarter-notes and aromatic culinary haze of the event color the end of the April calendar with a palette of Acadiana rouges, blancs et bleus. Previous previews of Festival have included profiles of French musician, poet, artist and sculptor Charlélie Couture, Mex-ico-via-Montreal hip-hop artist Boogat, Ivory Coast’s premier reggae superstar Alpha Blondy and New Brunswick’s sonic savages Les Hôtesses d’Hilaire. The aforementioned would make a lineup that would be well-worth seeing by itself, but in the words of the late, great Billy Mays, “Wait, there’s more!” The Burundi Drummers Also known as the Royal Drummers of Burundi, this collection of percussionists is formed from a group of refugees who escaped from Burundi during the Rwandan genocide in 1994. The members take turns playing the various drums, dancing with spears and shields and resting. Never letting the roll-ing thunder of the drums cease, the Bu-rundese give more than performance: dis-playing the rich culture and history of their country through the evocative medium of song and dance. Now based in Dayton, Ohio, the Drummers deliver an experience that isn’t so much a spectacle as an invitation to ob-serve the traditions of their people.

BélO Hailing from Haiti, BélO brings a mélange of rhythms and textures to the fes-tival stage. The winner of the “Prix Radio France International Discoveries of 2006” award, the artist’s musical style vacillates within the loose confines of jazz, modern rock, worldbeat, reggae and Afro-Haitian tra-ditional, making for an eclectic auditory experience that is as unpredictable as it is refreshing.

Smoov-Ras and the Refl ection Lafayette’s Smoov Ras draws influ-ence from the old-school ideals of Damien Marley and Tupac, creating a high-grade blend of hip-hop and reggae that comes as an insight to the future of the Jamaican-bred genre. Smoov isn’t afraid of tackling the polit-ical — common enough in reggae, a style that historically has been a voice against oppression — but also keeps it fun, a prime example being “Gun From,” a look at gun-control that keeps it light and danceable with an earworm melody. With a gifts for melody, rhyme and rhythm, Smoov-Ras and the Reflection are on an upward trajectory; catch them before they go too high. Festival International de Louisiane takes place April 20-24.


Cajun Candids:People throw colors during

Holi Fest in Girard Park

Photos by: Meagan Bolds

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