SU honors 16 student protesters By SCOTT DYER sdyer@theadvocate.com Capitol news bureau Forty-four years after expelling them for protesting three racially segregated restaurants in Baton Rouge, Southern University honored 16 former students as heroes Friday. "Sixteen of our young people had the courage to sit at segregated lunch counters and to dare the laws of this state," Southern University Chancellor Ed Jackson said at Friday's commencement. "Some of them went to jail, and all of them, unfortunately, were expelled from the university," Jackson said. The Baton Rouge protests laid the legal groundwork for a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that desegregated...