Speakers at Reason on the Bayou, the state’s fi rst secular con-vention, stressed Sunday the impor-tance of the youth population in the movement to push reason and logic over traditional faith and religious belief.

The University’s Atheists, Hu-manists and Agnostics club hosted the event in the Royal Cotillion

Ballroom of the Student Union , which brought together secular, freethinking and atheist groups from across the South.

The conference’s itinerary was fi lled with speakers who discussed issues including LGBT rights, the repeal of the Louisiana Science Ed-ucation Act and the use of Christian textbooks in Louisiana schools.

Ex-Pentecostal minister-turned-atheist and DeRidder, La. -native Jerry DeWitt said the youth of the

United States are embracing the secular movement, and its effects are showing.

“This is just a continuation of the Civil Rights movement,” De-Witt said.

Nate Phelps , estranged son of Westboro Baptist Church leader Fred Phelps and the conference’s keynote speaker, agreed with De-Witt about the signifi cance of youth

With an estimated crowd of 13,000 attendees, performances, festivities and crime commandeered

the Parade Ground at Saturday’s an-nual free concert Groovin’ on the Grounds.

YelaWolf , a rapper contracted to perform student band and con-cert opener Levee Daze , walked off

stage because he refused to keep his set free of profanity.

Student Government President Taylor Cox said YelaWolf’s contract was written four months ago, and it was requested in the contract he use

clean versions of his songs.“Apparently his management

did not tell him about this until mo-ments before his perfor-mance,” Cox said.

There were rumors among the crowd that YelaWolf’s microphone was cut off and he was kicked off

During Groovin’ on the Grounds on Saturday, a fi ght between two 19-year-old, non-LSU students re-sulted in a stabbing, according to LSU Police Department Spokesman Capt. Cory Lalonde.

Tyler Bowman, of 3000 July St. Apt. 1101, was arrested for aggra-vated battery after stabbing another patron.

Around 9:30 p.m., LSUPD broke up a fi ght between Bowman and the eventual stab victim and asked them to leave. Neither wanted to press initial charges, Lalonde said.

Bowman then found the victim while he was leaving and stabbed him in the back once near his right shoulder with a small folding knife, Lalonde said.

Bowman fl ed, but LSUPD found him on State Street about 15 minutes later, according to Lalonde.

Lalonde said the victim was alert and responsive as he was brought to the hospital, and he sus-tained moderate injuries.

Bowman was booked in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

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[Top left] YelaWolf raps while holding the mic stand, [above] Grace Potter � ips her hair and [left] Lupe Fiasco looks into the crowd during Saturday’s Groovin’ on the Grounds concert on the Parade Ground. Watch a video of opening act Levee Daze’s performance at lsureveille.com.

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Venezuela to choose between Chavez heir and fresh start in election

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Voters who kept Hugo Chavez in office for 14 years were deciding Sunday whether to elect the de-voted lieutenant he chose to carry on the revolution that endeared him to the poor but that many Venezuelans believe is ruining the nation.

Across Caracas, trucks blaring bugle calls awoke Venezuelans long before dawn in the ruling socialists’ traditional election day get-out-the-vote tactic. This time, they also boomed Chavez’s voice singing the national anthem.Bieber criticized for Anne Frank comment in museum guestbook

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Justin Bieber wrote an entry into a guest-book at the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam, saying he hoped the Jewish teenager who died in a Nazi concentration camp “would have been a Belieber” — or fan of his — if history were dif-ferent.

The comment triggered a flood of criticism on the mu-seum’s Facebook page Sunday, with many criticizing the 19-year-old Canadian pop star for writ-ing something they perceive to be insensitive.

Some states dropping GED as prices spike with new version of test

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Sev-eral dozen states are looking for an alternative to the GED high school equivalency test because of con-cerns that a new version coming out next year is more costly and will no longer be offered in a pen-cil and paper format.

The responsibility for issuing high school equivalency certifi-cates or diplomas rests with states, and they’ve relied on the General Education Development exam since soon after the test was cre-ated to help returning World War II veterans.September 11 memorial charging $2 reservation fee for tickets

NEW YORK (AP) — Visitors to the National September 11 Memo-rial & Museum must now pay a $2 service fee to reserve passes online or by phone.

The fee went into effect last month, although there is no charge for admission to the me-morial on the World Trade Cen-ter site. There’s also no charge for same-day passes distribut-ed on a first-come, first-served basis.

Family members of some 9/11 victims say the fee violates the memorial’s mission.

LAFAYETTE (AP) — Senny the Senegal parrot is back at the Zoo of Acadiana.

Authorities assumed the parrot was dead after a man stole it and two other birds from the privately-owned zoo and crashed fatally af-ter a police chase.

But Curtis Gonzalez of New Iberia tells The Advertiser of La-fayette that he spotted the bird on the side of a highway Fri-day about a mile from the ac-cident site. He retrieved Senny by throwing his jacket over it when it landed in front of his car.

The three birds were stolen be-fore dawn Wednesday. Critics say overhaul of Baton Rouge bus system, CATS, not fast enough

(AP) — A year after Ba-ton Rouge and Baker vot-ers approved a property tax to improve the local bus sys-tem, some transit supporters say the Capital Area Transit System isn’t making enough progress.

Before the tax passed, CATS leaders promised to meet a list of deadlines as they moved to overhaul the bus system by early 2014.

Brotherhood members face torture, kidnapping charges in Egypt

CAIRO (AP) — Two Muslim Brotherhood officials have been sent to trial on charges of kidnap-ping and torturing three men dur-ing protests in November follow-ing Islamist President Mohammed Morsi’s decrees, since rescinded, that granted him near absolute powers.

The case in the Nile Delta city of Damanhour north of Cairo is the first of its kind against Morsi’s Brotherhood and is likely to em-barrass the group at a time it is try-ing to fend off opposition.

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A presidential guard soldier shows his �nger marked with ink after voting in the presidential election Sunday at a polling station in Caracas, Venezuela.

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L.A. priest ministered Texas community despite child abuse conviction

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When the Rev. John Anthony Salazar arrived in Tulia, Texas, in 1991, he was warmly welcomed by the Roman Catholic community. What his new parishioners didn’t know was he’d been hired out of a treatment pro-gram for pedophile priests — and that he’d been convicted for child molestation and banned from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles for life.

Over the next 11 years, Sala-zar would be accused of abusing four more children and young men.

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Baton Rouge residents and business owners are taking a step toward revitalizing Government Street and creating a place where citizens want to work and live with Better Block Baton Rouge.

Transforming the Bedford and Beverly drive intersections of Government Street with a “road diet” Saturday, Better Block BR demonstrated what turning the area into a cycling friendly, walk-able and commerce-filled street would be like.

John Price, assistant chief administrative officer for the city, said the project aims to spark dia-logue about building an area Baton Rouge residents want to be a part of.

“What we are looking at is a complete street, so users of all ability can use the roads. Whether you’re 8 or 80, we want you to feel safe crossing the street,” Price said.

Lauren Marschall, project manager at the Center for Plan-ning Excellence and Baton Rouge

resident, said Better Block BR greatly depends on citizen re-sponse.

“Hopefully, they will be able to talk about complete streets and what they want to see,” Marschall said.

Kinesiology senior Brad

Penny spent the day doing acro-batic yoga with Bayou Boulder-ing, a rock-climbing gym, yoga studio and juice bar in the works for Baton Rouge.

He said Baton Rouge has a need to revitalize like New Or-leans has after Hurricane Katrina.

“Now we are trying to make this city a stone’s throw away from the art scene,” Penny said.

An area needs to be created that answers to people culturally and artistically, Price said.

Jennifer Wells, catering di-rector and owner of Culinary

Productions, participated in the project as a business owner and resident of the area.

Wells’ business set up a pop-up café on the sidewalk of the street during the project, and after seeing the effects, she said slowing down traffic and setting up bike lanes would revitalize the area.

“Any foot traffic with an eco-nomic impact would be wonder-ful,” Wells said.

Price said once traffic is slowed down, the area will begin to transform into an environment young people want to embrace, which he described as somewhere that’s more livable and sustainable and where people can live, work and play.

Penny also said Government Street has potential to become a youthful and attractive part of Ba-ton Rouge.

“This is a great area to start. It’s a beautiful area and people are making the city their own and making it safe,” Penny said.

After discussion and plan-ning, this two-block section of Government Street will be the first to change and other critical areas will follow, Price said.

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Bikers ride on a bike lane running parallel to Government Street on Saturday at Better Block BR, a demonstration project aimed at shifting the street into a safer location for pedestrians of all kinds.

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The University’s of�cial Twitter account raised eyebrows Saturday night in the aftermath of rapper YelaWolf’s early departure from his Groovin’ on the Grounds set. After the rapper complained on stage about his contractual agreement to limit explicit language and left, many students on Twitter found the @LSU Twitter account to be out of line in its reactionary conversations with students.

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Residents enjoy Baton Rouge Blues Festival downtown

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[Top left] Baton Rouge artist Taufeeq Muhammad works on a painting of a blues singer Saturday during the Baton Rouge Blues Festival at North Boulevard Town Square downtown. [Bottom left] Francisco Lomas (left) dances with his friend Louise Papillion (right) while Oscar Harpo Davis plays on the Swamp Blues stage during the Baton Rouge Blues Festival. [Top middle] A black dog sniffs a passerby at the festival downtown. [Bottom middle] A member of the band C.C. Adcock & The Lafayette Marquis strums his upright bass on the Galvez Stage while performing. [Top right] C.C. Adcock sings and plays guitar on the Galvez Stage during the event. [Bottom right] Oscar Harpo Davis and company play on the Swamp Blues stage during the Baton Rouge Blues Festival.

DORAL, Fla. (AP) — Wearing the colors of the Venezuelan fl ag and carrying pillows, thousands of Venezuelans began the journey from Miami to New Orleans to vote in their homeland’s presiden-tial election Sunday.

More than two dozen buses with an estimated 2,100 voters departed from Doral on Saturday. They chanted the name of the opposition candidate, Henrique Capriles, and played Venezuelan music. Others had coolers fi lled with food and drinks for the 16-hour drive.

“I feel this is something I must do,” said Vivian Koenig, 21, before getting on a bus.

With just six weeks of prepa-ration, Venezuelans in Florida raised money and arranged travel. Aside from bus, many are travel-ing by car and plane. Organizers said they expected a turnout simi-lar or higher than that of October, when 8,500 Venezuelans cast bal-lots in New Orleans.

“It’s been pretty amazing how people have responded since the fi rst announcement that Chavez died,” said Gilda Sollami of Voto Donde Sea, a group of students and young professionals that pro-motes voting outside Venezuela. “They showed a lot of interest.”

President Hugo Chavez died in March after a two-year battle with cancer. His chosen successor, interim President Nicolas Madu-ro, is favored to win, but opinion polls show Capriles has narrowed Maduro’s advantage, rallying vot-ers frustrated with chronic food shortages, infl ation, power out-ages and surging crime that many blame on Chavez’s mismanage-ment.

The largest concentration of Venezuelans in the United States resides in South Florida. Most were stridently anti-Chavez and were expected to vote for Capriles. They must travel to New Or-leans to cast their ballots because Chavez closed the Miami consul-ate in January 2012. Some 20,000 Venezuelans were registered to vote from the Miami consulate.

It is unlikely their numbers will decide the election; last year, Capriles lost by 1.6 million votes; there are 38,000 Venezuelan vot-ers in the United States

“You never know,” said Eric Hershberg, director of the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University. “This is an election under an un-usual circumstance. Surprises happen.”

Sollami said Voto Donde Sea had arranged for 32 buses to depart from Miami on Saturday, seven more than during the Octo-ber presidential election. Raising money was challenging, and the group hasn’t been able to offer as many free tickets as last year.

“It’s very hard,” Sollami said. “It’s a very long and complicated move going inland.”

Most of the buses planned to arrive to New Orleans by early Sunday and head back immedi-ately after the vote. Sollami her-self is traveling to Venezuela to

vote because she was not able to change her registration site be-fore the Miami consulate closed.

“People are motivated,” she said.

The Miami suburb of Doral — affectionately known as “Doralzuela” because of its large number of Venezuelan residents, restaurants and businesses — also is preparing for Sunday night, when the election is called. Mayor Luigi Boria, who is traveling by plane Sunday to New Orleans and returning to Florida, said Doral expects a large number of people will gather if Capriles is

announced as the winner.Boria donated two buses and

two airplane tickets for Venezue-lans to travel from Miami to New Orleans. He said he has encour-aged others to vote and push their relatives in Venezuela to do the same.

“If we’re traveling 1,500 miles just to exercise our right to vote, we have to tell the people in Venezuela they should do much more,” he said.

The atmosphere was festive in Doral on Saturday as Venezuelans gathered in a public park to board the buses, even as rain poured

down in the early afternoon. A crowd of people not traveling to New Orleans waved fl ags as the buses left, wishing them well.

Francisco and Ella Montanez, ages 80 and 79, said they were go-ing to New Orleans by bus for the future of their country.

“So that our country can re-turn to what it was,” Ella Montez said. “For unity. Without hate. Without bitterness.”

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[Top left] Grace Potter, lead singer of Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, jams out on the catwalk during her solo set Saturday at Groovin’ on the Grounds on the LSU Parade Ground. [Top middle] Andrew Borniak, bassist for local funk band Levee Daze, plays a bass solo during the event. [Top right] Hip-hop artist Wasalu Jaco, known by his stage name Lupe Fiasco, raps next to a band member. [Middle left] Lupe Fiasco holds a �ag brought to the show by an audience member. [Bottom left] Michael Wayne Atha, known by his stage name YelaWolf, covers his mouth with a bandana while performing. Check out a photo gallery of the event at lsureveille.com/multimedia.

Artists perform at Groovin’ on the Grounds

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A politi-cal brawl has broken out between the mayor and a sheriff who runs the city jail, which has come un-der scrutiny for a video showing inmates using drugs, drinking beer and handling a gun.

Mayor Mitch Landrieu asked a judge last Tuesday to take the extraordinary step of placing the jail under federal oversight, effec-tively wresting control of it away from Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman. Landrieu is upset over an agreement Gusman reached with the U.S. Justice Department to re-form the jail, saying the city, which funds the jail, can’t afford the po-tential expense.

“Stated simply, the person at the top is neither accountable, nor capable of exercising leadership skills,” the city said in court docu-ments that cited the video and the recent guilty pleas of two jail of-ficials in a bid-rigging bribery case.

Landrieu is trying to reform the much-maligned police depart-ment and reached a widely her-alded agreement with the Justice Department last year to clean up the agency. Now he’s trying to back out of it in light of Gusman’s separate agreement. Landrieu said the city was making changes but can’t afford all the requirements outlined in the jail and the police agreements.

Gusman believes the city has consistently underfunded the jail and suggested race may be behind the attacks. The African-American sheriff recently told reporters that Landrieu, who is white, was em-ploying “Archie Bunker rhetoric,” invoking the name of the fictional television bigot.

“They have to be looking at something different than just the record,” Gusman told The New Orleans Tribune. “And maybe they’re looking at the person who’s there. Maybe they’re looking at — they don’t like the way that person looks.”

Landrieu, a Democrat who

carried a majority of the black vote in his 2010 election, has not directly responded to the remarks on race.

While the problems at the po-lice department have been widely known, less publicized have been unsanitary, violent and dangerous jail conditions that have long been the subject of lawsuits and court orders. The extent of the dysfunc-tion was driven home during a re-cent federal court hearing on the jail reform pact when videos, ap-parently made by inmates in 2009, were released.

Shown to a stunned court-room audience, one video showed inmates smoking, snorting and injecting drugs. Some drank beer, some had cell phones and one in-mate ejected bullets from a hand-gun.

In another video, an inmate was seen wandering Bourbon Street and boasting, “Y’all know I’m supposed to be in jail right now.”

Gusman, a Democrat who was first elected sheriff in 2004, has said the dilapidated building where the drug party and escape hap-pened has since been closed. Two inmates who escaped, including the one seen on Bourbon Street, were arrested and prosecuted.

His sketchy memory of seeing the video in 2009, and his failure to involve state or federal authori-ties in the investigation, drew harsh criticism from jail consultants in court.

The agreement to make changes at the jail, known as a consent decree, would settle com-plaints the Southern Poverty Law Center filed on behalf of inmates. The agreement, which was signed by Gusman, is awaiting a judge’s approval.

During the recent court hear-ing, though, Gusman downplayed problems at the jail.

SARATOGA, Calif. (AP) — The parents of a 15-year-old California girl who took her own life after she was sexually abused and an explic-it photo of the assault circulated among her classmates want the three boys who have been arrested in the case prosecuted as adults, a lawyer for the family says.

Authorities arrested the three 16-year-olds on suspicion of sexual battery against Audrie Pott, a Sara-toga High School sophomore who hanged herself in September. The arrests this week shocked many in this prosperous Silicon Valley sub-urb of 30,000 as new details of the case emerged.

“We’re talking about, other than murdering someone, the high-est degree of a crime you could possibly do, which is to violate them in the worst of ways ... and then to effectively rub her face in it afterwards,” Robert Allard, the at-torney representing the teenager’s mother, father and step-mother, said Friday.

But lawyers for the three boys, whose names have not been released because they are minors, released a statement Friday asking the public to withhold judgment until their clients can give their side of the story, the San Jose Mer-cury News reported.

“Much of what has been re-ported over the last several days is

inaccurate. Most disturbing is the attempt to link (Audrie’s) suicide to the specific actions of these three boys,” the statement from San Jose attorneys Eric Geffon, Alan La-god and Benjamin Williams reads. “We are hopeful that everyone un-derstands that these boys, none of whom have ever been in trouble with the law, are to be regarded as innocent.”

Allard said the trouble started over Labor Day weekend while Audrie went to a sleepover at a friend’s house where the parents were gone and the unaccompanied teens got into the liquor.

“Audrie, by all accounts, con-sumed some of that alcohol and eventually went upstairs to go to sleep and woke up to the worst nightmare imaginable,” conclud-ing that she had been molested, he said.

She soon found an abundance of material online about that night, including a picture and emails. She also discovered that her attackers were three boys she considered friends — young men in whom she had confided, the lawyer said. On Facebook, Audrie wrote that the whole school knew what hap-pened, and she complained that her life was ruined, Allard said.

Eight days after the party, she hanged herself.

“She was being consoled by other friends and they were con-cerned about her,” the lawyer said.

“One day she apparently felt that she couldn’t cope with it anymore and poor Audrie was traumatized to the point where she ended her life.”

Her parents did not learn about the assault until after her death, when Audrie’s friends approached them, Allard said.

Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith told the Mercury News that investigators for her de-partment started looking into the circumstances surrounding Aud-rie’s Sept. 10 suicide in the days immediately following it. A deputy assigned to Saratoga High heard rumors about the sexual assault and possible photographic evidence, and detectives spent months inter-viewing students and subpoenaing cell phone records, Smith said.

“We still have more inter-views to do. We have more phones to get,” the sheriff said. “We have good evidence to justify the crimi-nal charges even though the inves-tigation is ongoing.”

Together with two other epi-sodes recently in the news — a suicide in Canada and a rape in Steubenville, Ohio — the case un-derscored the seeming callousness with which some young people use technology.

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Political brawl breaks out in New Orleans

Lawyer: Girl’s assault was shared via photos, texts

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[Left] New Orleans Sheriff Marlin Gusman speaks on April 4 to reporters at a news conference outside the construction site of new jail facilities in New Orleans. [Right] New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu speaks on Feb. 5 during a news conference at City Hall in New Orleans. A political brawl broke out between Gusman and Landrieu over recent scrutiny of the jail.

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the stage because of his use of pro-fanities, but Cox said those rumors were false.

“We’re not allowed to do that,” Cox said. “The media group that we used had control over all of that.”

Although YelaWolf left the stage, the DJ that accompanied him stayed to entertain the crowds.

“Because he left, YelaWolf’s contract is now null and void,” Cox said.

Cox said YelaWolf will not be paid because he broke his contract. He said for performers to get paid, they must perform for a certain amount of time, which YelaWolf did not do.

SG Director of Programming Nicholas Smith said at this moment, YelaWolf’s contract is completely broken, which also means his DJ who performed will not be paid, ei-ther.

Smith said YelaWolf was going to be paid $17,500 before he broke his contract.

Students said they were let down by YelaWolf’s early exit but were unsurprised given his explicit lyrics.

“I thought it was unfortunate. At the same time, I feel like if you sign a contract you should abide by that contract,” said mass commu-nication sophomore Bradley Wil-liams .

Olivia Barry, natural resource junior , said the incident wasn’t un-expected, and she was surprised he was even signed to perform.

Crime was also an issue at this year’s Groovin’ .

A stabbing involving two 19-year-olds who do not attend the University occurred during the per-formances.

Cox said the stabbing was a ter-rible situation, but everything that could have been done to prevent crime at the concert was done.

Williams said he heard about the stabbing through a friend.

“It should be discussed about how to improve safety for students next year,” Williams said.

After YelaWolf’s abbreviated performance, Grace Potter took the stage.

In an exclusive interview with The Daily Reveille on her tour bus, Potter said the concert was amazing.

“This was defi nitely the biggest crowd we have had for our college gigs,” Potter said. “Like yesterday at Ole Miss, it was big, but this was much bigger.”

Potter said she didn’t know what to expect from the crowd.

“Between YelaWolf and Lupe Fiasco , I didn’t expect people to know who I was,” Potter said. “I thought the crowd was exceptional.”

Potter said she walked around the University for about two hours earlier in the day and was amazed by the campus’ beauty.

Potter , who normally performs with her band Grace Potter and the Nocturnals , performed with only her drummer in a more acoustic style.

“I don’t know if we’ll ever do that again,” Potter said. “So you guys really got something special.”

Smith said the concert cost a total of $225,000 .

He said headliner Lupe Fiasco earned $75,000 , Grace Potter re-ceived $35,000 and YelaWolf would have been paid $17,500 if he had

not broken his contract.Lupe Fiasco closed the show

with his hit song “The Show Goes On. ”

Students said they enjoyed Lupe’s performance.

“I really liked Grace Potter , but I loved how Lupe Fiasco engaged the crowd,” Barry said.

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4-12 ANSWERS

GROOVIN’, from page 1

Contact Judah Robinson at jrobinson@lsureveille.com

ANGELA MAJOR / The Daily Reveille

John Trufant, lead singer and guitarist for local funk band Levee Daze, belts a song Saturday during Groovin’ on the Grounds at the LSU Parade Ground.

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The No. 3 LSU and No. 10 Arkansas baseball teams pounded each other Friday and Saturday , so it was only fi tting that Sunday’s matchup would go to extra innings in a 5-3 Tiger victory in Fayette-ville, Ark .

The Tigers (34-3, 13-2 South-eastern Conference) brought six runs home Friday night in a victo-ry against the Razorbacks (25-12,

9-6 SEC) , but Arkansas answered Saturday with an 8-3 win against LSU junior starter Ryan Eades .

When sophomore southpaw Cody Glenn took the mound for LSU on Sunday , the Tigers looked to rebound after their third loss of the season. In a game that seem-ingly represented the entire series, both squads battled into the 10th inning before the Tigers pulled

away late.“This victory demonstrates

the tremendous resiliency of our players,” said LSU coach Paul Mainieri . “We had a tough game yesterday, but our guys came back to the ball park today ready to play.”

After a leadoff double in the

SportsMonday, April 15, 2013 page 9

Woods had no reason to withdraw

MIC’D UPMICAH BEDARDSports Columnist

WOODS, see page 15

ANGELA MAJOR / The Daily Reveille

LSU senior left-handed pitcher Chris Cotton (58) pitches the ball April 7 during the Tigers’ 11-4 victory against Kentucky in Alex Box Stadium. Cotton pitched the ninth and 10th innings in Sunday’s win.RAZORBACKS, see page 15

BASEBALL

Lawrence BarrecaSports Writer

Tigers take series victory against Razorbacks in extra-inning win

Chasing the ElderChasing the ElderAs reporters gathered around on LSU baseball media day Jan. 25 , senior outfi elder Raph Rhymes

gave a bold declaration about his newest teammate.“[Freshman shortstop Alex Bregman ] will hit [.500] and break my record,” Rhymes said. After a junior campaign that garnered Southeastern Conference Player of the Year honors for Rhymes ,

Bregman is already rivaling his numbers and making Rhymes look like quite the soothsayer.The following is a look at Rhymes’ numbers during his quest for .500 last season as compared to

Bregman’s gaudy numbers this season.

Note: These stats are through 34 games from both seasons and do not include this weekend’s games against Arkansas.

by Chandler Rome • Sports Writer

RAPH RHYMES in 2012

ALEXBREGMAN

in 2013

ANGELA MAJOR / The Daily Reveille

LSU freshman in� elder Alex Bregman (30) takes off for � rst base after hitting the ball March 8 during the Tigers’ 9-4 victory against the Washington Huskies in Alex Box Stadium. Bregman is improving on Rhymes’ stellar numbers from the 2012 campaign.

RICHARD REDMANN / The Daily Reveille

LSU senior out� elder Raph Rhymes (4) swings at a pitch Wednesday during the Tigers’ 16-2 victory against Southern University in Alex Box Stadium. Rhymes had a .465 batting average through 34 games last season.

At-Bats

Average

Hits

RBIs

Home Runs

Doubles

Triples

Slugging Percentage

114 142

.465 .444

53 63

34 35

1 3

6 10

0 6

.544 .662

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LSU rebounds after Saturday loss

Tiger Woods is getting fi n-gers pointed at him again. This time it wasn’t for infi delity — it’s for apparent inequality.

Long after Tiger com-pleted his second round Friday and signed his scorecard read-ing a 1-under 71 , the Masters rule committee assessed a two-stroke penalty for an erroneous ball drop on hole No. 15 after hit-ting his ball into a water hazard.

Skeptics say Woods was giv-en preferential treatment after he wasn’t disqualifi ed from the 77th Masters Tournament for sign-ing an incorrect scorecard. Even some of Tiger’s fellow competi-tors chimed in about Woods not being disqualifi ed.

“They would have DQ’d me for sure,” former LSU golfer John Peterson said after his round Friday.

I’m not too sure about that.You can’t blame Tiger for

just being assessed a two-stroke penalty and not being removed from the tournament fi eld. When he put his John Hancock on his

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p. 12.

The weekend started out rough for the No. 13 LSU soft-ball team, but ended in impres-sive fashion when the Tigers were able to steal the series on the road against No. 10 Texas A&M.

It took a game for LSU to figure out the high-powered of-fense of Texas A&M, and once it did, LSU coach Beth Torina’s team never looked back, tak-ing game two in extra innings and game three in just five in-nings — the first time the Aggies lost a game in five innings since 2009.

The Tigers won their fifth straight Southeastern Conference series and remained in first place of the SEC Western Division standings.

“I don’t think we were men-tally shaken after the first night,” said LSU senior pitcher Rachele Fico. “We were swinging the bats really well, and we played really hard. We just needed to string some things together and were able to do that on Saturday and

Sunday.”Friday night was Fico’s

seventh loss of the season af-ter she allowed five runs in the first inning alone, eventually losing 6-2.

According to Fico, she struggled to make the necessary adjustments early Friday night. However, the All-American added once she finally was able to settle down, she thought she

pitched well.Fico was able to bounce

back in her brief appearance in game two and complete the game in game three. She threw eight strikeouts in seven innings pitched between the last two games.

“On the mound and in the bullpen, I need to have the men-tality to play whenever they ask me to,” Fico said. “We have

really strong pitching with Ash-ley Czechner and Meghan Patter-son. They’ve both been working really hard and have helped us out so much on the mound. … No matter who’s on the mound, I’m confident in both of them. … Not a lot of teams have that.”

E v e r y t h i n g connected for the Tigers during Sunday’s top-15 matchup when LSU didn’t even need the full seven innings to close out a series victory with the Aggies.

A seven-run fourth inning all but finished the game for the un-derdog LSU.

“Our offensive was fan-tastic this weekend,” Torina said. “I think that’s the No. 1 thing. We had RBIs all through-out the lineup, all through-out the weekend. Everyone contributed, and I thought we did really well.”

The Tigers will have to re-group from their big win quickly for a game Wednesday against in-state opponent McNeese State.

Torina said she knows the game could be a let-down match-up with the 32-10 Cowboys sand-wiched between No. 10 Texas A&M and No. 8 Missouri.

“That’s al-ways a concern,”

Torina said. “But when we play these in-state teams, they un-derstand how important those games are for the program. I think we understand how qual-ity of a team McNeese is, and I don’t think we’ll just look past them.”

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SOFTBALL

No. 13 Tigers upset No. 10 Aggies in 2-1 series

Mike GegenheimerSports Contributor

MORGAN SEARLES / The Daily Reveille

LSU junior utility Allison Falcon (32) hits the ball March 26 during the Tigers’ 5-1 win against Southeastern in Tiger Park.

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LSU wins �nal two games of series

‘No matter who’s on the mound, I’m con�dent in

both of them.’ Rachele Fico

LSU senior pitcher

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10 5 2

2 2 1

The LSU women’s tennis team lost its regular season fi nale 1-6 Sat-urday against Southeastern Confer-ence opponent Arkansas in Fayette-ville, Ark.

LSU (8-15, 1-12 SEC) started the day off slowly against Arkansas (12-14, 4-9 SEC), losing the doubles competition. The duo of sopho-more Mary Jeremiah and junior Ariel Morton dropped their match on court one, and soon after, senior Kaitlin Burns and freshman Ella Taylor dropped their match, which secured the doubles point for Arkan-sas.

Playing in their fi nal regular-season match, the senior duo of Keri Frankenberger and Ebie Wilson — the Lady Tigers’ best doubles pair-ing this year — wasn’t able to fi nish its match.

“It was a good battle,” said LSU coach Julia Sell. “Arkansas is a very good team.”

LSU’s struggles continued into the singles competition, as Taylor dropped her match in straight sets on court two.

Frankenberger was the fi rst Lady Tiger to get on the scoreboard

after she won her match on court fi ve in straight sets. She has struggled with back pain all season but has rounded into form in recent weeks.

“She was feeling good and was able to roll right through her match,” Sell said. “She kept the pedal to the metal and fi nished out strong there.”

Frankenberger’s fellow seniors — Burns and Wilson — didn’t fare as well in the singles competition, though. Both fell in straight sets on courts one and six.

Morton and Jeremiah complet-ed the tough day for LSU when they both fell in straight sets.

“We’ve had a lot of tough matches and taken some tough loss-es,” Sell said. “We haven’t played our best tennis yet.”

The Lady Tigers will now look to the SEC Tournament to salvage some success from this season. LSU will play Wednesday, which doesn’t leave them much time to prepare.

“We don’t have a lot of time, being in the bottom of the SEC,” Sell said. “We only really have Monday and Tuesday to make some adjustments.”

The No. 20 LSU men’s ten-nis team completed its fi nal week-end of regular-season play with a sweep of Southeastern Conference foe Arkansas and upstart Jackson State , 4-1 and 4-0.

The Tigers (15-10, 5-7 SEC ) took control early against the Ra-zorbacks (15-15, 0-12 SEC ), win-ning the doubles point and tak-ing the fi rst set in all six singles matches .

LSU got strong performances out of several seniors in what were likely their fi nal matches at W.T. “Dub” Robinson Stadium . Olivier Borsos won his match in straight sets , and Mark Bowtell clinched the match for the Tigers with his 7-6, 6-3 victory.

“You need to get any win you can get in the SEC [be-cause] the teams are all good,” said LSU coach Jeff Brown . “I was glad to see a senior, Bowtell , close it out. … It was a good day overall.”

Senior Stefan Szacinski was on his way to his ninth straight sin-gles victory when he aggravated a

condition in his right knee early in the second set , forcing him to take a medical timeout and a one-game penalty . He gutted it out the rest of his match, which was left un-fi nished after the Tigers clinched the win. Brown said the injury is something the senior has dealt with all season and does not expect it to keep him out of the SEC Tourna-ment , which begins this week.

The second half of the doubleheader against Jackson State saw a different mix of faces across all courts for the Tigers as freshmen took over for many of the veterans .

Jackson State fi elded a team of only fi ve players , and thus for-feited the third doubles match, al-lowing LSU to secure the point after freshman Tam Trinh and senior Roger Anderson won 8-3 . LSU took a 2-0 lead after Jack-son State forfeited the court six singles match and wrapped up the match with two straight set wins by Trinh and freshman Harrison Kennedy .

The Tigers will be the No. 11 seed in the SEC Tournament and will have their fi rst match at 6 p.m. Thursday in Oxford, Miss., against Mississippi State.

“In the SEC Tournament , you’re just looking at your fi rst match [because] you are going to be playing a top-25 team for sure,” Brown said. “You really can’t look [ahead], and if you do you probably won’t be around that long.”

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TENNIS

Men sweep Senior Day matchups Women suffer 1-6 loss against Ark.Trey LabatSports ContributorCole Travis

Sports Contributor

MARIEL GATES / The Daily Reveille

LSU senior Olivier Borsos slams the ball on Saturday during the Senior Day match against Arkansas in the W.T. “Dub” Robinson Tennis Stadium.

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Tigers secure SEC Tournament spot

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The Twittersphere talks: The Masters

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NCAA BASKETBALL

Burke making early exit for NBA DraftThe Associated Press

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) -- The time was right for Trey Burke.

The Michigan star made it offi cial Sunday: He’s leaving the Wolverines to enter the NBA Draft. The move came as no surprise after Burke was voted The Associated Press national player of the year and led Michigan to the NCAA title game as a sophomore.

Burke also considered going to the NBA a year ago, but he came back for another season. Now he departs with his stock seemingly peaking.

“I just felt like this was the best opportunity for me,” Burke said. “It’s an opportunity that I’ve always wanted.”

The 6-foot point guard aver-aged 18.6 points and 6.7 assists per game in 2012-13. He made perhaps the most memorable shot of the NCAA tournament, a long 3-point-er in the fi nal seconds against Kan-sas that sent that regional semifi nal to overtime.

Michigan made the Final Four for the fi rst time since 1993, and in the championship game against Louisville, Burke scored 24 points in a losing effort.

Burke nearly left the Wolver-ines after his freshman season but decided to stay. Expectations were high at Michigan after his return, and the Wolverines lived up to them — in part because Burke’s future never seemed to be a distraction.

“He came back with really a fi re in his belly to improve his game,” coach John Beilein said. “He just went to work. There wasn’t one time that I felt that he was play-ing for the NBA and not playing for Michigan.”

Once the season ended, it would have been shocking if Burke came back again. The main ques-tion for Michigan is how many other players the Wolverines might lose. Junior Tim Hardaway Jr. and freshmen Mitch McGary and Glenn Robinson III are also considered candidates to turn pro.

Burke’s teammates were on hand for his announcement Sun-day, but they weren’t available to reporters. The deadline for under-classmen to declare for the draft is April 28.

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The LSU men’s and women’s track teams swept the Battle on the Bayou meet titles, but sopho-more Tori Bliss’ performance in the shot put stole the show.

Bliss broke the 19-year-old school record in the event with a throw of 55 feet and 11 inches, which is eighth on the NCAA’s 2013 performance list.

The Portage, Ind., native had a previous outdoor personal record of 51 feet and 7 inches, but a re-cent change in her throwing technique sparked the improvement in her mark. Five weeks ago, Bliss went from the gliding technique she’s used since her freshman year in high school to a rotational technique.

Bliss said the new technique was frustrating in the beginning, but once she got the hang of it, she gained confidence heading into this weekend.

“I had a breakthrough week at practice,” Bliss said. “I had a good feeling about this weekend. I’ve been hitting some consistent

marks in practice at a distance that we wanted, but just having confidence knowing I’m getting better with all the drills and rep-etitions that we’re doing helped.”

Senior Kimberlyn Duncan ran the 200-meter dash in 22.82 seconds, which is the NCAA-leading time for 2013. The time is also the second-fastest in the 2013 world rankings.

In the meet, the Lady Tigers won 16 events and 14 athletes set personal records. LSU coach Dennis Shaver said the teams had great performances Satur-

day against teams from around the country, including Penn State, Ari-zona State, Mis-sissippi State and Connecticut.

“I love these kinds of meets because the focus

is more on how well you compete when you line up instead of just chasing a better time or a better mark,” Shaver said. “Overall, I feel like the team competed hard and competed for one another, and I think that’s one of the things I always hope that our team gains from this type of competition.”

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TRACK AND FIELD

MARY LEAVINES / The Daily Reveille

LSU senior Kimberlyn Duncan (left) breaks into a sprint during the 4x100-meter relay Saturday as junior Jasmin Stowers prepares to pass her the baton.

Tigers and Lady Tigers sweep Battle on the BayouUConn sophomore Selwyn Maxwell (left) and LSU sophomore Joshua Thompson (right) run the 110-meter hurdles Saturday. The LSU men’s and women’s track teams won Battle on the Bayou.

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Bliss breaks school shot put recordBria TurnerSports Contributor

Contact Bria Turner at bturner@lsureveille.com

‘I had a breakthrough week at practice. I had

a good feeling about this week.’ Tori Bliss

sophomore thrower

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Adam Scott finished the job this time, and put an end to more than a half-century of Australian misery at the Masters.

With the two biggest putts of his career, Scott holed a 20-footer for birdie on the 18th hole of reg-ulation that put him into a play-off with Angel Cabrera, and then won his first major championship Sunday with a 12-footer for bird-ie on the second extra hole.

Scott leaned back and thrust his arms in the air after the putt dropped on the 10th hole, a cel-ebration for all of Australia and personal redemption for him-self. It was only last summer when Scott threw away the Brit-ish Open by making bogey on his last four holes to lose by one shot to Ernie Els. The 32-year-old handled that crushing defeat with dignity and pledged to finish stronger given another chance.

“Next time — I’m sure there will be a next time — I can do a better job of it,” he said that day.

Scott was close to perfection, and he had to be with Cabrera delivering some brilliance of his own.

Moments after Scott made his 20-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole for a 3-under 69 to take a one-shot lead — “C’mon, Aus-sie!” he screamed — Cabrera answered with an approach that

plopped down 3 feet from the cup, one of the greatest shots un-der the circumstances. That gave him an easy birdie and a 2-under 70.

They both chipped close for par on the 18th in the first play-off hole, and Cabrera’s 15-foot birdie putt on the 10th grazed the right side of the cup.

With his long putter an-chored against his chest, Scott’s putt was true all the way.

The Masters was the only major an Australian had never won, and Scott was among doz-ens of golfers who routinely rose in the early hours of Monday morning for the telecast, only to watch a horror show.

The leading character was Greg Norman, who had four good chances to win, none better than when he blew a six-shot lead on the last day to Nick Faldo in 1996.

There was Jim Ferrier in 1952, Bruce Crampton 20 years later, and Scott and Jason Day only two years ago. Norman, though, was the face of Aussie failures at the Masters, and Scott paid him tribute in Butler Cabin before he slipped on that beauti-ful green jacket.

“Australian is a proud sport-ing nation, and this is one notch in the belt we never got,” Scott said. “It’s amazing that it came down to me today. But there’s one guy who inspired a nation of golfers, and that’s Greg Norman.

He’s been incredible to me and all the great golfers. Part of this belongs to him.”

Scott was just as gracious in victory as he was last summer at Royal Lytham & St. Annes. He and Cabrera flashed a thumbs-up to each other after their shots into the 10th hole in the playoff, and they walked off the 10th green with their arms around each other when it was over.

“Such is golf,” Cabrera said. “Adam is a good winner.”

It was a riveting conclusion to a week filled with some awk-ward moments. There was the one-shot penalty called against 14-year-old Guan Tianlang that nearly kept the Chinese teen from becoming the youngest player to make the cut. There was the illegal drop by Tiger Woods, who was given a two-shot pen-alty over questions and confusion about why he was not disquali-fied for signing an incorrect card.

And at the end, there was shot-making at its finest.

Scott didn’t make a bogey after the first hole, and he re-ally didn’t miss a shot the rest of the day on a rainy Sunday at Augusta.

scorecard, for all he knew, it was correct.

It’s the Masters’ fault for waiting so long. Officials had two chances to review the drop and pe-nalize Tiger, and they didn’t.

Woods doomed himself when he told ESPN’s Tom Rinaldi he dropped the ball on No. 15 back two yards to give himself a better shot.

Only after this and appar-ent television viewer complaints did the rule committee decide to go back and review the ball-drop again.

Tiger might have commit-ted a no-no for dropping his ball farther back for a better shot, but he should have been penalized im-mediately, and not after he already signed his scorecard. Plus, Rule 33-7 clearly states: “A penalty of disqualification may in excep-tional individual cases be waived, modified or imposed if the Com-mittee considers such action war-ranted.”

The defenses for Tiger taking his clubs and leaving the Augusta Country Club prematurely were hilarious.

Some sports writers churned out some stuff that caused me to fall out of my chair laughing. One opinion was that if Tiger won the Masters to help him reach Jack Nicklaus’ record 17 major tourna-ment victories, it would be tainted.

Are you serious?

If Tiger did come back to win his fifth green jacket after los-ing two strokes, it would be even more of an accomplishment than if he would have won it straight up.

Some have mentioned Tiger could have saved face from his or-deal with ex-wife Elin Nordegren by withdrawing himself from the Masters.

So because Tiger stepped up and disqualified himself from a golf tournament, it would have taken some heat away after he

cheated on his wife? That makes a lot of sense.

And did you really think CBS and the Masters’ sponsors were going to let him get disqualified anyway? Millions of Americans would have changed the channel.

The Masters might have made a faux pas with Tiger’s initial rul-ing, but they aren’t stupid.

Tiger drives ratings. I don’t even want to think about how down the sport of golf would be without Eldrick Tont Woods.

Woods gave false hope to everyone at the end of the final round, staying close enough to be in contention, but he ended up finishing 5-under Sunday, a few strokes behind winner Adam Scott.

But to say he didn’t get dis-qualified because he’s the most polarizing figure in golf, if not all sports, is off base. The Masters rules committee felt its late ruling led to Tiger signing an incorrect scorecard so they didn’t disqualify him.

Boom. Done. End of story.He might have broken the

rules, but he paid his price with a two-stroke penalty. There’s no way he should have withdrawn.

Micah Bedard is a 22-year-old history senior from Houma.

top of the 10th by junior catcher Ty Ross, sophomore outfielder Chris Sciambra placed a sacrifice bunt to put a runner on third with one out. Junior right fielder Sean McMullen came through in the clutch, slamming a sacrifice fly to deep right field. Senior left fielder Raph Rhymes would later hit an RBI single to make it 5-3.

Mainieri sent senior left-handed reliever Chris Cotton back to the mound, as the southpaw recorded the final three outs to se-cure a series vic-tory for the Tigers.

Cotton retired the Razorbacks in both the ninth and 10th innings, again proving to be a reliable arm in the back of the Tigers’ bullpen.

The LSU offense showed its strength Sunday after being sti-fled only a day prior, as the squad knocked eight hits in the series finale, including three from fresh-man shortstop Alex Bregman. Bregman, whose 23-game hit-ting streak was snapped Saturday, launched a two-run home run in the top of the third inning.

“Bregman’s career is still young,” Mainieri said. “He’s got a lot to do, and he has a lot of things to get better at, but I wouldn’t trade him for anybody.”

The day didn’t go as well for Glenn, who went to the mound looking to build on his previous

victory against Kentucky. Glenn has had trouble pitching away from Alex Box Stadium against SEC competition, as both Missis-sippi State and Missouri gave him difficulty on the road.

Glenn held his own into the fourth inning, but after putting runners on the corners with no outs, Arkansas senior center field-er Matt Vinson laced a ball back to the mound, bouncing off the sophomore’s shin before Glenn fired to record an out. The left-hander had trouble getting back

to his feet before being replaced by junior Nick Rumbelow.

Glenn tossed three-and-a-third innings, surren-dering three runs on five hits while striking out one.

Mainieri proceeded to turn to the bullpen, as Rumbelow and seniors Brent Bonvillain, Joey Bourgeois and Cotton combined to toss six-and-two-thirds innings of scoreless baseball, allowing only two hits and recording four strike-outs in the process.

LSU’s next contest will be against Grambling on Wednesday in Alex Box Stadium.

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RAZORBACKS, from page 9

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Scott beats Cabrera in playoffDoug FergusonThe Associated Press

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WOODS, from page 9

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Tiger Woods reacts after missing a putt on the fourth green Sunday during the fourth round of the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga.

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‘�is victory demonstrates the

tremendous resiliency of our players.’ Paul Mainieri

LSU coach

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A Titanic Waste of MoneyTitanic revitalization set for 2016, if only as a $1.6 billion �oating rich kids’ playground

It’s the 101st anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic — sub-ject of Leo and Kate’s eternal love story — but reviving ancient hor-ror and tragedy isn’t on the minds of most today.

But it is on the mind of Aus-tralian millionaire Clive Palmer, who wants to rebuild the infamous ship by 2016.

Palmer has held onto the Ti-tanic — site of the most doomed peacetime maritime tragedy — as a symbol that links three conti-nents, which is why he plans to build a replica of the ill-fated ship and launch it from Southampton, England — the starting port of the original Titanic’s maiden voyage, according to the BBC.

Palmer said he “might as well spend [the money], not leave it to the kids to spend; there will be enough left for them anyway,” at the unveiling of the Titanic II plans in February.

There are a billion other things Palmer could buy with the estimated $1.6 billion it will take to build the ocean behemoth.

Three hundred thousand wells

in water-poor communities. Eight thousand four-year college educa-tions. Sixteen million kegs of beer.

And I guess he doesn’t have any sort of duty to the world to make it a better place. Palmer is a grown man, and only he controls his money. If he wants to build the damn thing, by all means, go for it.

But it’s a waste of money.The last person to attempt re-

building the Titanic, businessman Sarel Gous, had to stop because of costs and impossibility, but if Palmer is the idealist he claims to be, this will happen.

While touting the ship’s abil-ity to connect the world, Palmer still plans to keep each of the three classes of passengers apart. Hypo-critical much?

They will, however, be able to switch between classes (spending two days in each) to get the “full experience.”

While this might seem like ev-ery Titanic enthusiast’s wet dream, it’s also a hare-brained idea.

Sure, promoting connectivity around the world is a great idea, but if that’s your passion, that and big dreams, why not help others instead of creating some money-making scheme for bored rich people?

According to Palmer, 40,000 people have expressed interest in tickets for the eventual voyages of

this floating rich kids’ playground.I understand that it’s roman-

tic, and someone will have fun messing around on the Edward-ian gym equipment Palmer plans to include.

But this assumes the Titanic II makes it past the first passage.

Which brings me to the most important point: 1,502 people died on this ship the first time around. Yes, the dramatized situation

surrounding the incident doesn’t happen often, but this is just tempt-ing fate.

The plan includes enough lifeboats and modern technology that keeps most ships safe in the modern age, but there will also be a mock-up of the room from which the crew members sent the infa-mous final S.O.S.

Further touting the ship’s greater safety, Palmer also said global warming was a blessing in disguise, because fewer icebergs mean less of a chance to sink.

The types of people who could afford a cruise on a period-intensive ship like the planned Ti-tanic II are most likely rich and un-interested in the hippie-sounding worldwide connection of the ship.

Maybe I’m a little too super-stitious. If I’m going to choose something to be superstitious about, it might as well be a crash that killed many people being rec-reated by a crazy man who can’t think of anything better to do with his money.

Megan Dunbar is a 19-year-old English junior from Greenville, S.C.

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Students on Target should let Groovin’ be groovin’

Parental Advisory: This col-umn contains explicit language.

And yet again, Students on Target’s Groovin’ on the Grounds failed to produce a family-friend-ly festival — “a good time not wasted.”

Apparently, quite few of us were. Marijuana smoke emanat-ed through the crowd throughout the afternoon and beer cans scat-tered the Parade Ground.

YelaWolf, an Alabama rap-per with an Eminem-esque knack

for violent lyrics, kicked off the show as the first national act.

He played a song, then be-gan complaining that his contract stated he couldn’t use profanity in a curse word-laden rant end-ing with a complaint about a violation of his First Amendment rights.

He didn’t return to finish his set.

Lupe Fiasco headlined the festival. Though he tried to keep it clean, more than a few curse words made it into the show.

The ordeal reminisced Lu-dacris’ alcohol and weed-fueled performance at last year’s Gro-ovin’.

Two years in a row begs the question: Why is Students on

Target putting up such a false facade?

The festival is clearly not what it’s advertised to be.

And why do Students on Tar-get hire performers with parental advisory warnings on everything they release to play if they want to promote a family-friendly at-mosphere?

Common sense tells you the artists aren’t going to listen. The artists — particularly YelaWolf, Lupe and Ludacris — are young, rebellious, famous and rich. They make their own rules.

I mean, Luda’s got a song called “Move Bitch.” Lupe raps about getting high.

And YelaWolf raps about drugs, sex and, you know,

killing people — in almost every song.

Just Google the lyrics to “Catfish Billy.”

Can we blame the artists for breaking the rules?

No. We can blame Students on Target for not taking the six seconds it takes to realize the acts they hire aren’t going to fit in with the all-ages atmosphere they try to create.

Come on, you guys said no to MGMT a few years back because they sing about drugs — but you hired a guy who raps about kill-ing people.

It’s time to stop pretending Groovin’ is something it’s not. Get rid of this idea that a college festival should be for all ages. Let

the crowd get rowdy and most importantly, let the artists be art-ists.

We need to promote what’s great about the First Amendment on college campuses — the abil-ity to congregate without censor-ship.

In the words of the great YelaWolf: “Free speech, motherf***ers.”

Chris Grillot is a 22-year-old mass communication senior from New Orleans.

photo courtesy of BLUE STAR LINE / The Associated Press

A rendering of the Titanic II is shown cruising at sea. The ship, which Australian billionaire Clive Palmer is planning to build in China, is scheduled to sail in 2016.

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THE C-SECTIONCHRIS GRILLOTOpinion Editor

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Immigration reform will bene�t U.S. economy

Pigs have flown, Hell has frozen over, and doctors have found Ann Coulter’s heart.

Well, maybe not the last one.The U.S. Senate has actually

reached a bipartisan agreement on immigration reform.

Republicans and Democrats have come to an agreement on something for possibly the first time since we gave a nice, big middle finger to England in that whole Declaration of Indepen-dence thing.

The “Gang of Eight” — a group of four Republican and four Democrat senators — is expected to announce Tuesday its proposal for comprehensive immigration reform for the esti-mated 11 to 12 million illegal im-migrants currently in America.

The proposal focuses on pro-viding a clear and fair pathway

to citizenship for undocumented workers coming across the bor-der in the hopes of greener jala-peños, as well as working to se-cure the border.

The bill outlines a 13-year process for illegal immigrants to reach citizenship — being re-ferred to as “probationary citi-zenship” by the bill’s proponents — and includes provisions of fees and back taxes for time spent in the country illegally as well as not allowing illegal immigrants access to government programs like food stamps or healthcare.

This has been a major break-through in public policy for Con-gress on an issue that has plagued the country for a long time.

So now Congress can focus on bigger issues like the econo-my and foreign affairs, right?

Unfortunately, not quite.On top of the fact this is only

a proposal that hasn’t even been released yet, the bill has already received harsh discontent from the far right.

Iowa Rep. Steve King claimed the bill is a way for

Democrats to give amnesty to what he refers to as “Undocu-mented Democrats,” and Repub-licans are only doing this to cater to the Latino vote.

Florida senator and Cuban-American Marco Rubio — the Gang of Eight’s face for the bill — adamantly refuted the claim that the bill’s probationary citi-zenship is just a sugar-coated way to say amnesty for illegals. This has been the primary at-tack sourcing out of Rubio’s own party.

But the far right seems to not want any immigrants at all in the country, appearing to believe pol-icies such as self-deportation and mass deportation are real solu-tions when they aren’t any more of an answer than doing nothing.

However, none of these poli-cies even take effect if it isn’t first determined the border has been secured.

But how is it possible for an appointed board to truly deter-mine how safe a border is? And if one party wishes to block legisla-tion, couldn’t they just convince

someone on the board to claim it’s unsafe?

The quantifiable goal the Gang of Eight set is a 90 per-cent apprehension rate and 100 percent surveillance along the border. First the Department of Homeland Security will attempt this, and if it has not reached the goal after five years, it will be turned over to a border commis-sion made up of local officials from those states most affected.

This would only be an esti-mate, seeing as there is no way to know the exact number of immi-grants sneaking across the border because they’re, you know, doing it illegally.

Rubio tried to combat all of the attacks while touring through the “full Ginsburg” of talk shows Sunday, saying the point of the bill is to make it more difficult for people who enter America il-legally to become citizens than those who stay in their respec-tive countries and wait to enter legally.

Opponents of the bill fear the government would be rewarding

people who enter our borders il-legally.

Most analysts believe Ru-bio’s onslaught of media attention is due to his presumed candidacy for the Republican nomination in 2016 — an election the Floridian senator denies even considering yet.

America has finally seen an agreement in Congress — some-thing feared to have gone extinct with the do-do bird and the flop-py disk.

Yes, this is a huge step for-ward in future bipartisan rela-tions in Congress — something desperately needed — but at the end of the day, even when Con-gress agrees, it can’t agree on to what extent it agrees.

Mike Gegenheimer is a 20-year-old mass communication sophomore from Covington.

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Bipartisan agreement may not end immigration woes

A sense of actually wanting to do something has finally captivated Congress, with a movement toward comprehensive immigration reform increasing considerably in the past few months.

Indeed, a bipartisan “Gang of Eight” senate group — a group of four Democratic senators and four Republican senators — released a blueprint for immigration reform Jan. 28.

The following day, President Barack Obama gave a speech out-lining the White House’s plans for immigration reform.

The thesis of both proposals centers on the need to provide legal status, in addition to a path to full citizenship, for the 11 million un-documented immigrants living in the country.

Many Congressmen, however, are not in favor of even granting le-gal status — let alone a chance for full citizenship — to undocumented immigrants.

Other lawmakers have ex-pressed a desire to draft legislation that would stop just short of giv-ing citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants, instead calling for a “middle-ground” op-tion: To leave undocumented im-migrants in a status of that below a legal citizen, yet above that of an illegal alien.

What the argument really should come down to, though, is the overwhelmingly positive economic

benefits our nation would experi-ence as a whole from a reform that grants legal status and a path to full citizenship.

As a recent study by the Center for American Progress illustrates, legal status and a path to full citi-zenship for undocumented immi-grants will result in considerable economic stimulus with respect to “growth, earnings, tax revenues and jobs.”

A key point in the Center’s

study is that the absence of reform — or reform that classifies the un-documented in a middle-ground, sub-citizen category — will result in the United States not benefiting from any of the potential profits our nation will likely realize from Gang of Eight immigration reform pack-age.

More concretely, the Gang of Eight’s immigration reform pack-age would bring about three huge economic gains over the next 10

years for the United States: An $832 billion increase in gross domestic product, a $470 billion increase in the income of all Americans and $109 billion of “extra” tax revenue, the Center’s report indicates.

But doesn’t this make sense?Currently, most undocumented

immigrants work and live in the United States just as normal citizens do, yet they consume public goods without paying taxes.

Simply put, they are the

beneficiaries of our hospital sys-tems, police and fire departments and public school systems, despite not having to pay for them.

In addition to this, undocu-mented workers are severely re-stricted with respect to what types of jobs they can pursue. As a result, the vast majority works in low-skilled, low-wage jobs.

The logic behind immigration reform is straightforward: Legal status and citizenship will enable undocumented immigrants to pro-duce and earn significantly more than they do when they are sitting on the economic sidelines.

The resulting productivity and wage increases will provide con-siderable stimulus to the economy because immigrants are not merely workers — they are also consumers and taxpayers.

Immigrants will spend their in-creased earnings on products such as food, clothing, electronics, cars, furniture, etc.

This increased spending will, in turn, stimulate aggregate demand for goods and services, which fos-ters the creation of jobs and grows our economy.

With economic uncertainty looming in the United States, as well as abroad in China and Eu-rope, the case for comprehensive immigration reform is obvious: The sooner, the better.

Jay Meyers is a 20-year-old economics sophomore from Shreveport.

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JASON LENHART / The Associated Press

Anthony Alexandra Ayala, 3, stands with his mom, Anyi Barahona, left, who immigrated from Honduras nine years ago, and dad, Hector Rosales, right, who immigrated from Guatemala 13 years ago, during an immigration reform rally at the Court Square in Harrisonburg, Va., on April 10. Tens of thousands of immigrants and activists rallied nationwide Wednesday in a coordinated set of protests aimed at pressing Congress to approve immigration measures that would grant 11 million immigrants living in the country illegally a path toward citizenship.

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to literally die off,” Phelps said. “A lot of the change we do see in soci-ety happens when a new generation comes along.”

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“With so many words, it be-comes easy to mold them into what-ever argument you want,” Phelps said of the Bible.

College groups from across the state had tables set up at the confer-ence, including Louisiana Tech Uni-versity’s Secular Student Alliance .

Chad Thibodeaux , AHA presi-dent and chemistry Ph.D. candidate , said the event’s attendance of about 130 was more than he expected.

“It was really good for a fi rst-time get-together,” Thibodeaux said. “Most conferences and con-ventions only dream of a turnout like this for their fi rst time.”

Secret Johnson , secretary of Louisiana Tech ’s SSA , said she was expecting a bigger turnout at the conference, but she hoped that

would change with future events.Johnson said she and other

Louisiana Tech SSA members re-frain from describing themselves as atheists because of the stigma asso-ciated with the term.

“We’re good people doing moral things,” Johnson said. “We just don’t believe in a deity.”

Thibodeaux said events like Reason on the Bayou show that lack of a religious belief is becoming less of a social stigma in the United States.

“Bill Maher once called it ‘the last untapped taboo,’ and it’s now unraveling,” Thibodeaux said. “It’s

just a natural progression of things.” Graphic design and art history

junior Kim Allen called Reason on the Bayou the fi rst step in the push for secularism in Louisiana.

“The fact that it is the fi rst in history and it’s 2013 is kind of a big deal,” Allen said. “It says that Loui-siana isn’t completely Catholic and conservative and right-wing and narrow-minded.”

The University is a good place to begin the push for secu-larism in Louisiana, Allen said, citing the diversity and large pres-ence of students from other states and countries.

Ellen Farrar , painting and drawing junior , said she thinks the conference will grow over time and more people will see they don’t have to conform to one view point.

Thibodeaux said he is unsure if the University’s AHA group will host the conference again next year or if another Louisiana university will host it, but that it’s a defi nite possibility thanks to a larger amount of resources available at the state’s fl agship school.

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AHA CONVENTION, from page 1

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Reason on the Bayou convention speaker Zach Kopplin discusses the Louisiana Science and Education Act on Sunday to a group of secular humanists.

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