Law students from across the city clashed Saturday and for a good cause.
The landmark football game bridges a rift between two schools plagued with a history of distance. While only a few miles apart, the schools have remained separate. The game was an even playing field because it allowed them to trade in their pens for shoulder pads and their law books for helmets.
Students from Southern and LSU law schools, the only two public law schools in the state, took the field in a full-pads, tackle football game full of mud and dirt. Instead of filing lawsuits they completed passes and scored touchdowns. What began as a fundraiser three years ago for tsunami victims has become an annual event assisting Hurricane Katrina victims through a program providing free legal aid.
Each year the schools come together and form two teams composed of players from both institutions. The game, which ended in a 21-6 score, provided a fun and exciting time for students from the universities.
Programs such as the Barrister’s Bowl are an escapade into recreational life every student should partake in during their time at LSU. Events that bring students together from LSU’s and Southern’s campus should be planned more often. Past strife between the two universities still needs mending, and we encourage all work to reconstruct a positive relationship between the two.
Both schools consider football a staple of life, and in the past three years the competition has also served as a foundation to help bring the two universities together.
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