Uloop Morning Mix: LSU Freshman Dies After Frat Party, End of Cassini and Harvard Backlash

FRESHMAN DEAD AFTER ‘POTENTIAL HAZING INCIDENT’ AT LSU

Maxwell Gruver, left. (Image: Via Facebook)

Sad news from Louisiana State University this morning, where 18-year-old freshman Maxwell Raymond Gruver died Thursday after what LSU officials are calling “a potential hazing incident.” Gruver was reportedly at the Phi Delta Theta for an event.

The Washington Post reports that “Gruver, a native of Roswell, Ga., was taken from the fraternity on LSU’s Baton Rouge campus to the Our Lady of the Lake Hospital on Thursday for a “medical emergency,” school spokesman Ernie Ballard said at a news conference. Gruver was later pronounced dead.

LSU President F. King Alexander, extending condolences to the Gruver family,  immediately suspended “all Greek activities” on the Baton Rogue, LA campus. An autopsy is pending.

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13-YEAR SATURN MISSION COMES TO A CLOSE

Illustration of the NASA Cassini craft (Image: NASA)

NASA’s 13-year Cassini mission exploring Saturn and its moons is coming to an end. The spacecraft will transmit photos up till early Friday morning and then deliberately crash into Saturn.

The New York Times reports that, “With Cassini’s fuel running low, NASA is cleaning up after itself, leaving the Saturn system as pristine as it found it. Any spacecraft, even one launched in 1997, has unwanted microbial hitchhikers aboard.”

In addition, scientists want zero chance that the spacecraft will crash into and contaminate Saturn moons Titan or Enceladus which could be hospitable for life.

HARVARD WITHDRAWS CHELSEA MANNING FELLOWSHIP

Chelsea Manning, shown in May 2017 (Image: Tim Travers Hawkins, via Wikimedia)

According to The Harvard Crimson, backlash from high-ranking and current CIA officials has lead to the university to withdraw an invitation to Chelsea Manning to visit the school and serve as a visiting fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics.

“The school withdrew the invitation to Manning—a transgender activist and former U.S. Army soldier who was imprisoned after disclosing over 700,000 classified government documents— after CIA Director Mike Pompeo cancelled his scheduled appearance at the school Thursday, ” reported the Crimson.

honored to be 1st disinvited trans woman visiting @harvard fellow ???? they chill marginalized voices under @cia pressure ???????????? #WeGotThis https://t.co/7ViF3GaSec

— Chelsea E. Manning (@xychelsea) September 15, 2017

Read the full story here. 

AND FINALLY, SOME TIPS ON DEALING WITH TEST ANXIETY

image via www.newhealthadvisor.com

We know it may make you anxious to even think about tests, but calm down. Chelsea Gilmore from Texas Tech has got this.

As she writes in this piece on Recognizing and Dealing with Test Anxiety, “Recognizing test anxiety can be fairly easy. Dealing with test anxiety can put you in control, essentially eliminating test anxiety altogether.”

Read it all here.

And that’s it… you made to the weekend and you’re armed with what you need to know today. Get out there and own that weekend.