LSU starts fundraising campaign for wild tiger conservation

BATON ROUGE- Louisiana State University has launched a new fundraising campaign aimed at helping students' efforts to save the school's mascot - the tiger - in the wild.The campaign is tied to university participation in the U.S. Tiger University Consortium.The consortium includes LSU, Auburn University, Clemson University and the University of Missouri, all of which have tiger mascots and are working to help save wild tigers from extinction.LSU's fundraising dollars will be used to start a fel