A small, slightly wobbly tabletop prize wheel, the kind often seen at a school carnival, sat on a marigold-yellow tablecloth in Free Speech Alley, outside the LSU Student Union.
Students who spin it land on a number and a color, each corresponding to a question. One asks: How many people did Jesus feed with five loaves of bread and two fish?
The answer is about 5,000 men, plus women and children, according to the Gospel of Matthew. Those who get it right win a prize — a tiny Jesus figurine, about the size of a thumbnail.
Most students walked past on a recent October morning Peyton Cacioppo stopped…