7:30 LRN Newscast October 19

LSU students marched Monday calling out administrators for not holding Chair of the Department of French Studies accountable for ignoring Title IX complaints. LSU Student and Outreach Chair for Feminist in Action Paola Colmenares says they are demanding the school hold rapists accountable….
Cut 10 (11) “…been fired.”
Six plaintiffs have filed a Title IX lawsuit claiming LSU administrators allowed a former grad student to prey on other students, despite his 2018 arrest in Rapides Parish on third-degree rape.

Police patrols have increased on Grambling State’s campus after two separate fatal shootings during Homecoming week. Student government association president Cameron Jackson met with university president Rick Gallot and plans to meet with him again…
cut 15 (11) “….at the university”
The search for the gunmen in the two shootings continues.

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell is voicing opposition to a proposed constitutional amendment on the November ballot. Amendment One would create a single, centralized sales tax commission; replacing the multiple tax collection authorities in parts of the state. La-Politics-dot-com publisher Jeremy Alford says this is an un-ignorable political dispute…:
Cut 4 (12) “…on the fall ballot.”
Cantrell calls Amendment one a “political solution to a technical problem,” while supporters say the amendment will streamline the state’s sales tax collection which will make the state more competitive and increase job growth.

It’s National Teen Driver Safety Week as state police and others try to get the message through about the causes of crashes that left 95 teens dead last year in the state and more than 82-hundred others injured. Trooper Thomas Gossen.
Cut 7 (12) “…behind the wheel.”