The University announced Tuesday that Kristina Johnson, Un-der Secretary of Energy in the U.S. Department of Energy, will speak at the University’s spring commence-ment ceremony.

Johnson’s job is to promote America’s energy security through reliable, clean and affordable energy, according to the Department of En-ergy Web site.

Chancellor Michael Martin said he’s excited to have Johnson give the commencement address because of the encouragement she can offer stu-dents, particularly women.

“She’s a very famous woman scientist,” Martin said. “That sends a message to young women out there.”

Martin said a faculty senate executive committee makes a list of people it would like to invite to speak, and he picks from the list. The fi nal decision is based on whether a potential speaker is available and what message they’ll send to stu-dents.

Martin said he picked the fall commencement speaker on his own and wanted a variety of opinions in-volved in the decision this year. He also said he hopes to involve students

There’s a long-running phenomenon that sweeps every University graduating class.

Senioritis — the increasing diffi culty to focus on one’s academics in light of impending graduation — affects most seniors, but students respond differently to the condition.

The effort to stay committed to schoolwork can be grueling for students who already have jobs lined up after graduation.

Lauren Ellermann, mass communication senior, said she’ll be working as an investigative assistant with an agency under the Department of Homeland Security in May .

Ellermann said she has been working for the department since her junior year but will work full-time after graduation.

“Life is hectic as a senior,” she said. “There are defi nitely nights when I just want to go home, drink a beer and not do anything, but I

resist the temptation.” Ellermann said it’s been harder to focus on

school since she got the job.“I’ve defi nitely been slacking a little bit be-

cause I see the graduation line, and I know I just need the minimum grade to graduate and that I have a job,” she said. “It takes some of the pres-sure off, but I still want to make good grades.”

Matthew Mick, fi nance senior, said his ini-tial plan was to attend law school, but he changed his mind after receiving a job offer from Texas Memory Systems.

“As soon as I knew I had somewhere I could go after graduation, it was a big weight off my shoulders,” he said. “Especially now that I have a job, it’s harder to focus, and it’s easier to cram and worry about things later.”

WHY SENIORITIS SETS INSenioritis is a natural occurrence that

typically sets in during the fall semester of a student’s senior year, said James Honeycutt,

communication studies professor.“Seniors get lethargic,” Honeycutt said.

“They’ve been in school for four years and are making a life change, whether it’s going on to graduate school or getting a job. This is a way of acting out against the uncertainty of their life change.”

Phillip Sheridan, general studies senior, said his senioritis started after getting accepted into the Atlantic Acting School in New York.

“You get to this point when you realize none of this will mean anything in four months,” Sheridan said.

Honeycutt said senioritis can affect any se-nior, regardless of GPA.

“It’s related to a large change in lifestyle and the stress that comes with that,” he said. “It doesn’t necessarily refl ect their GPA.”

Seniors had an average GPA of 3.015 for fall 2009, which was higher than any other

Sustainability was the word Tuesday as students gathered on the Parade Ground to celebrate the environment at ECO at LSU’s fi fth annual Earth Day festival .

The event, hosted by the Environmen-tal Conservation Organization and spon-sored by Student Government , focused on the message of individual sustainability.

“We’re trying to elaborate on the indi-vidual role in conserving resources,” said Matt Wyatt , ECO co-president.

Though Earth Day was April 22 , the event was held Tuesday because the Pa-rade Ground was booked during the previ-ous week for LSU Day setup, Wyatt said.

The Earth Day event featured various

booths giving away items like free plants and bike tune-ups, and the LSU AgCenter was also on hand with animals like pigs and goats for students to interact with.

The various booths and attractions were all meant to be fun and informational reminders about how students’ actions af-fect the environment, said Katherine Boy Skipsey , ECO co-president.

“People don’t pay attention to things that surround us every day,” she said.

ECO member Valeria Socorro said having the event outdoors on the Parade Ground is important to remind people what the festival is about.

“If people were outside more, they could appreciate the Earth more,” Socorro said.

Meredith Hunt , coastal and

environmental studies senior, said the wide variety of booths and activities at the event contributes to its appeal.

“Diversity is probably the best thing they have going,” Hunt said. “They can attract animal enthusiasts, people who are interested in solar energy and who want information about programs.”

Students were able to partake in a photo petition to promote legislation al-lowing local apartment complexes to offer their residents solar energy.

A representative from the company Lite Solar , University alumnus Justin Run-nels , was at the event to educate students about solar energy and collect photos and signatures for the petition.

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Stephen Eckholdt, construction management senior, Krista Allen, history senior, Lauren Ellerman, mass communication senior, and Matthew Mick, fi nance senior, have secured jobs for after their graduations in May. Graduating seniors, whether they already have jobs or not, often suffer from Senioritis, an increasing diffi culty to focus on academics.

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Insurgents attack in Kandahar in south Afghanistan, kill three

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — The powerful half brother of President Hamid Karzai urged the international aid community not to pull out of the troubled southern city of Kandahar, where insurgents attacked Tuesday night, killing at least three and injuring dozens.

Iran foreign minister hopeful for nuclear fuel deal, no sanctions

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s for-eign minister on Tuesday expressed optimism Tehran would soon strike a deal with the international com-munity to provide his country with nuclear fuel — the latest in a new Iranian diplomatic push to stave off fresh U.N. sanctions over its controversial nuclear program.

As part of the push, top Iranian offi cials have been courting some non-permanent Security Coun-cil members to pre-empt possible sanctions.

Malcolm X assassin Hagen freed on parole from Manhattan prison

NEW YORK — The only man to admit shooting Malcolm X was freed on parole Tuesday, 45 years after he assassinated the civil rights leader. Thomas Hagan, the last man still serving time in the 1965 killing, was freed from a Man-hattan prison where he spent two days a week under a work-release program, state Department of Cor-rectional Services spokeswoman Linda Foglia said.

Man pleads guilty in last summer’s attack on Milwaukee mayor

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The 21-year-old man accused of beat-ing Milwaukee’s mayor last sum-mer pleaded guilty Tuesday in a deal with prosecutors, averting a trial that was scheduled to begin next week in the attack at the Wis-consin State Fair.

Anthony J. Peters was accused of turning on Milwaukee Mayor

Tom Barrett in August when the mayor allegedly intervened in an argument between Peters and his daughter’s grandmother outside the fairgrounds.

Soldier arrested for assault of 52-year-old homeless man in Ohio

CINCINNATI (AP) — A soldier and another man have been ar-rested in the beating of a homeless man, and two other soldiers are suspects, police said Tuesday.

Military police in Fort Knox, Ky., turned over 24-year-old Riley Feller to the Hardin County, Ky., sheriff’s offi ce Tuesday. Feller was being held on a fugitive charge at the county jail.

He will be arraigned Wednes-day, pending extradition to Ohio.

Cincinnati police say Feller, 24-year-old Michael Hesson of Cincinnati and two soldiers based at Fort Bragg, N.C., badly beat 52-year-old John Johnson on April 10 at a homeless encampment un-der a bridge.

Package of bills would tweak La. parole requirement if passed

(AP) — Louisiana, where one out of every 55 adults is incarcerated, could see its prison population gradually decline if a package of bills up for debate in the House this week is passed into law.

The four bills mainly target nonviolent offenders, who make up 60 percent of the state’s in-mates. The proposed laws would enable prisoners not serving time for violent or sexual offenses to be considered for parole sooner and earn early release for good behav-ior.

Most of the bills would only apply to those convicted after Aug. 15, so it would be years before ma-jor reductions in prisoner numbers would be seen.

Corrections Secretary Jimmy LeBlanc is a strong proponent of the bills.

The House is scheduled to consider the proposals Wednesday and Thursday.

La. family with drywall-tainted home awarded more than $164K

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U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon’s latest ruling comes less than a month after he awarded $2.6 million to seven Virginia families. His earlier decision was the fi rst of its kind for a batch of federal lawsuits over drywall-tainted homes.

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It’s been 30 years and more than a million printed copies since John Kennedy Toole’s “A Confed-eracy of Dunces” was published by LSU Press.

To celebrate the book’s anni-versary, the Press hosted a panel Tuesday on the book’s more than 50 translated editions and the vari-ous art the novel’s cover has car-ried.

The novel has worn many titles through its translations. In Italian, it’s “Una Congrega Di Fis-sati,” while the Portuguese know it as “Uma Confraria De Tolos.”

Considering how many dif-ferent languages have interpreted the book, the panel discussed how successfully “A Confederacy of Dunces” can be translated into dif-ferent languages while retaining its cultural signifi cance.

“How can you depict such a culturally specifi c novel to an au-dience unfamiliar with it?” asked Mary Katherine Callaway , director of LSU Press.

Laura Gleason , design and production manager of LSU Press who was a student worker at the Press in 1979 when the book was originally designed, sat on the panel and discussed the design principles of several translated covers of “Dunces” and their rel-evance to the novel.

The panel also featured Rod Parker , director of the LSU School of Art, who analyzed the covers from an artistic perspective.

Parker said he measured the designs on the bases of creativity, conceptuality, relevance, unique-ness and durability.

The fi nal panelist was Betsy Wing , an award-winning transla-tor who spoke specifi cally about the French translation.

The panel focused on foreign publishers’ strategies to make the book’s cover visually appealing to non-American audiences.

“We are a visual culture,” Callaway said. “You can’t judge a book by its cover, but people often do because that’s what draws you in.”

The panel spotted a common theme among the cover designs —

the presence of hot dogs, which the book’s protagonist sells in New Orleans’ French Quarter.

“There is a fi xation on the hot dog in the foreign editions,” Glea-son said.

A 1988 German edition fea-tures a picture of a pinball ma-chine, which Gleason said was probably provoking symbolism.

“It’s a metaphor for [the main character] Ignatius being a ball that hits all those jobs, bounces off and goes to other jobs,” Gleason said.

Sam Oliver , Latin junior who attended the event, said he’s im-pressed by the success of foreign translations because of the book’s

comedic tone.“It’s amazing anytime some-

one manages to translate humor across language,” Oliver said.

Wing discussed the way trans-lation is seen as a type of perfor-mance, representing the author’s original work in a way that reso-nates in a different language.

“The readers in the language of origin are able to have a richer experience with the text, but that doesn’t mean the translation is without value,” Wing said.

John Easterly , executive edi-tor at LSU Press who proofread “Dunces” in 1979 , attended the event and said one of the book’s accomplishments is the way its signifi cance translates from lan-guage to language.

“The New Orleans culture and American culture gets through to foreign cultures,” Easterly said.

A 27-year-old man unaffi liated with the University was arrested and charged with impersonating police on April 23, said Sgt. Jason Bettencourtt, LSU Police Depart-ment spokesman.

Police patrolling on campus at 2:30 a.m. observed a black truck with fl ashing strobes in the corner lights of the vehicle, Bettencourtt said.

Bettencourtt said such lights

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LSU Press hosts panel on ‘A Confederacy of Dunces’

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Various covers of foreign editions of John Kennedy Toole’s novel “A Confederacy of Dunces” were analyzed during a presentation in Hill Memorial Library.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 2010

Campus Crime Briefs

Man arrested for using illegal car lights, reckless vehicle operation

Students arrested for driving while intoxicated, without headlights

Students arrested for trespassing near Huey P. Long Swimming Pool

On April 24 at 2:30 a.m., police patrolling Cypress Street noticed shadows in the restricted A University student was

Bettencourtt said.When police made a traffi c stop,

Bettencourtt said, they smelled alco-hol on the driver, 24-year-old Uni-versity student Jack Loupe of 17752 Links Court in Baton Rouge.

Loupe admitted to police he’d been drinking and registered a .095 blood-alcohol level, Bettencourtt said.

Loupe was booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison and was charged with driving while intoxi-cated and driving with no headlights.

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area of the Huey P. Long Swim-ming Pool, Bettencourtt said.

Police found fi ve 18-year-old students trespassing in the area, Bettencourtt said.

Leonardo Mayo of 1421 Magnolia Ridge in Bossier City, Leon Flettrich of 5512 Rebecca Blvd. in Kenner, Olivia Joseph of 7453 Kildeer St. in New Orleans, Miriah Land of 402 Osprey Court in Southlake, Texas, and Taylor Baudry of 110 Iverness Approach in Roswell, Ga., were issued mis-demeanor summons for trespass-ing and were released, Betten-courtt said.

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are illegal unless installed on a pub-lic safety vehicle.

Police following the truck saw it run through a stop sign before driving in the wrong lane, causing multiple vehicles to swerve from harm’s way, Bettencourtt said.

When stopped by LSUPD, the driver, Troy Thorton of 143 Pinehill Loop in Bastrop, told the offi cers he had the lights because he was going to be a fi refi ghter one day and he was just trying to get through traf-fi c.

Thorton was also charged with reckless operation and improper lamps, Bettencourtt said.

arrested April 22 for driving while intoxicated .

Police patrolling Highland Road saw a car nearly cause an ac-cident while driving through a stop sign and turning without a signal, Bettencourtt said.

Police stopped the car after it struck a curb. Bettencourtt said the driver, Michael Collins, of 62 Cha-teau Latour Drive in Kenner, showed signs of intoxication and failed a fi eld sobriety test.

Collins didn’t consent to a chemical test. Collins was also charged with careless operation, stop sign violation and failure to signal a turn and was booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

The same morning, offi cers observed a car driving down High-land Road with no headlights,

Seniors graduating this May are projected to have better luck in the job market than their peers did last May.

The “Job Outlook 2010 Spring Update” report by the National Association of Colleges and Employers found that em-ployers plan to hire 5.3 percent more newly graduated college students this year than last year.

College hiring has decreased since October 2008 because of

the recession , according to the report. In NACE’s 2009 Spring Update, employers reported hir-ing nearly 22 percent fewer col-lege graduates in spring 2009 than they did in spring 2008.

“Employers are still behind [in hiring numbers] to where they were in 2008,” said Sara Crow , LSU Career Services assistant di-rector for communications. “Ob-viously, with such a signifi cant decrease last year, it’s good to see improvement. That’s an indica-tion of a strengthening economy.”

Crow said job availability and the economy seem to be in-terrelated because of how the economy affects businesses. She said when companies have less operational revenue, they often

decide not to hire more employ-ees or fi ll empty positions.

“The pendulum has swung,” she said. “A couple of years ago, students got to pick what job they wanted, but now employers have their pick of what students to hire.”

Hiring of col-lege graduates in the Northeast was affected the most in the 2008-09 year , decreasing by 38.9 percent from the previ-ous 2007-08 year , according to the report.

But this year, the projected number of hires in the Northeast increased the most out of the four regions, up 25.5 percent from the 2008-09 year .

The Southeast is the only region reporting a decrease in projected hiring of college gradu-ates.

In 2008-09, the Southeast , including Louisiana , hired 4,279 college graduates, but this year, the projected number of hires is 3,849 — a 10 percent decrease .

Crow said soon-to-be Uni-versity graduates won’t neces-sarily have a harder time getting hired just because NACE’s report shows a decrease in hiring in the Southeast region, which includes Louisiana .

“Louisiana has come out as one of the top states not experi-encing much of an impact from the recession,” Crow said. “If

you were in the Northeast last year with a large drop, improve-ment over the next year is dra-matic because of where you came

from. The South-east may not have been hit as hard as other regions last year.”

Crow said NACE’s report is just a snapshot of projected hir-ing in the nation, which doesn’t mean the results are applicable to

the University.“I don’t think new gradu-

ates should feel worried that jobs aren’t going to be available to them,” she said. “There’s always a need for entry-level employ-ment. The job search is a com-petitive process.”

Kristen Dufauchard , mass communication senior, said she’s

been looking for a job since the beginning of her senior year and is worried about getting hired .

“I want to go out of state,” she said. “It makes me more hopeful that regions outside Lou-isiana have reported they want more graduates.”

Not all students are as hope-ful.

Colin Ryan , religious stud-ies senior, said he’s going to law school because he’s not optimis-tic about the job market.

“I’ve heard it’s still hard to get a job,” he said.

D’yonne Jones , sociology senior, said she’s pushed back her graduation date to avoid the job market and minor in an addi-tional subject, which she said will make her more marketable when she fi gures out what she wants to do.

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Employers projected to hire more graduates this springNational stats may not match LSU’sBy Mary Walker BausContributing Writer

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‘‘‘It’s good to see

improvement. That’s an indication of a

strengthening economy.’

Sara CrowCareer Services assistant director

for communications

Percent of college graduates hired (2004 to 2010):

Spring 2004 to Spring 2005 — 13 percent increase Spring 2005 to Spring 2006 — 13.8 percent increase

Spring 2006 to Spring 2007 — 19.2 percent increase

Spring 2007 to Spring 2008 — 8 percent increase

Spring 2008 to Spring 2009 — 22 percent decrease

Spring 2009 to Spring 2010 — 5.3 percent increase projected

Source: National Association of Colleges and Employers

The current generation is connected, confident and open to change, according to a recent sur-vey by the Pew Research Center.

The report profiles the “Mil-lennial generation,” or adults aged 18 to 29, and studies demograph-ics, political and social values and technology and social media habits.

The report compares its find-ings on the Millennial generation to those of the three other living generations — Generation X, ages 30-45, Baby Boomers, ages 46-64,

and the Silent generation, ages 65 and above.

Each generation has a person-ality, and Millennials are confident, self-expressive, liberal and open to change, the Pew Group said.

One of the strongest findings in the report is Millennials are the first “always connected” genera-tion.

Eight in 10 of those surveyed said they sleep with a cell phone by their bed and three-quarters say they’ve created a profile on a social networking Web site.

Pre-nursing freshman Marissa Darr said while she never leaves home without a cell phone, her par-ents always forget theirs.

But interior design senior Mer-edith Hom said other generations are also proficient technology.

“Its not that other generations aren’t open to technology too,” Hom said. “My dad knows more about computers than I do.”

The report found Millennials are confident about the future de-spite the economic downturn.

“I think confidence comes from being more accepting of change,” Darr said.

Eighty-eight percent are con-fident they’ll earn enough money in the future while only 31 percent feel they earn enough now.

“I think everyone is too wrapped up in the superficial,” said interior design sophomore Caroline Russell. “They’re not looking that far ahead.”

Millennials are also more con-fident in the government than other generations.

“I think that while we want change, we’re not sure what spe-cifically how to change it,” Russell said.

The report found Millennials are the least overtly religious of the living generations.

One in four Millennials are un-affiliated with a religion, the survey said.

“Being dogmatic limits per-spective, but I think I’m more spiritual now than I used to be,” said economics sophomore Joey Haynes.

The survey also examined life-style habits. Exercise plays a larger role in the lives of Millennials than other generations.

Fifty-six percent of Millenni-als said they participated in rigor-ous exercise in the last 24 hours,

the survey said.“While that is true for a lot of

people, I think the motive is dif-ferent,” Hom said. “It’s not to be healthier, I think it’s a very ‘in’ thing to do.”

Going green is another trend most Millennials follow, according to the report.

Seven in 10 Millennials recy-cle paper, plastic or glass at home, the survey said.

“I grew up with recycling,” said international trade and finance freshman Carolina Gomez. “For example, my school always cel-ebrated Earth Day and promoted recycling.”

Every day, nearly 1,000 teach-ers leave the field of teaching, ac-cording to a report by the Alliance for Excellent Education, a research and advocacy organization for the education industry.

An additional thousand teachers change schools in pursuit of better working conditions. The cost of re-placing public-school teachers leav-ing the profession totals $2.2 billion each year, according to the report.

And nearly half of all teachers who enter the field leave it within

five years, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

“Beginning teachers cite vari-ous reasons for leaving the profes-sion from working conditions, lack of support, student behavior prob-lems, family needs,” said Patricia Exner, associate dean of the College of Education, in an e-mail to The Daily Reveille.

The number of students interest-ed in studying education seems to be on the rise despite these fluctuating teaching conditions, Exner said.

“We’ve seen many students become interested in teaching, par-ticularly at the secondary level, after discovering their first academic pro-gram choice doesn’t mesh with their interests or abilities,” Exner said.

The education world is tak-ing notice of the need for teachers,

as well. Beginning pay is becoming increasingly competitive in grade-school districts. The average starting pay in East Baton Rouge Parish for beginning teachers with a bachelor’s degree was $20,549 in 1995, accord-ing to figures published by the Loui-siana Department of Education. For the 2009-10 school year, the average starting pay was $43,536.

And more competitive pay is being established at an appropriate time, as national education trends continue to fluctuate.

Statistics show as more teachers change professions, more middle and high school students are at signifi-cant risk of dropping out of school.

One-third of entering ninth-grade students will drop out of high school before attaining a diploma, according to 2001 research by Har-vard University.

“Sharing with children and young people the excitement of learning and discovery is one of the most rewarding experiences pos-sible,” Exner said. “But obviously the current economic situation and resulting loss of jobs impacts many families … which can impact [stu-dents’] performance in schools.”

But national education pro-grams are looking to combat strug-gling professional standards.

Since its inception in 1990, Teach for America has seen more than 24,000 potential educators

agree to teach in low-income schools for a minimum of two years, accord-ing to the organization’s Web site.

“If I wanted to teach, [Teach for America] would be something I’d consider,” said Laurel Johnson, gen-eral studies senior.

Students from any academic major and career interest can apply to become a part of the organization.

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Teachers leaving their profession at high ratesEDUCATION

By Matthew JacobsEntertainment Writer

Schools seek more competitive pay

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Millenials more connected than previous generationsTechnology used by younger generationBy Grace MontgomeryStaff Writer

graphic by CAITLYN CONDON / The Daily Reveille

The Louisiana Army National Guard is sending 500 troops to Haiti to aid in the earthquake relief effort and help children of the island.

For this particular mission, the bulk of LANG’s focus will be engineering projects, including re-building schools to allow Haitian

children to move from the tents cur-rently being used for classrooms, according to a news release from Gov. Bobby Jindal’s office.

The mission will be based in the vicinity of Gonaives, Haiti, which is approximately 95 miles north of Port au Prince, the release said.

The operation is headed by Maj. Gen. Bennett Landreneau, adjutant general of the Louisiana National Guard, and is scheduled to start in May and end in September.

The group organizing the mission is New Horizons, which

utilizes military units and personnel to help communities and individu-als with humanitarian needs.

The release said Louisiana is lending its support with the interna-tional aid it received during Hurri-cane Katrina in mind.

“Louisiana received so much support from across the country and around the world after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and we stand ready to lend that same assistance to other parts of the world in their time of need,” Jindal said in the release.

The mission is an excellent training opportunity for all soldiers

and airmen as well as a humanitar-ian effort, Maj. Gen. Landreneau said.

“This is a great opportunity for LANG to step up and assist the people of Haiti.”

Russell Case, an LSU student and one-year member of the LANG whose platoon wasn’t deployed, spoke highly of the operation.

“Although my unit was not shipped out, what I have heard from other people in the Guard is that we are pretty much the most helpful group over there,” Case said.

Jindal said his dispatched

guardsmen will be prepared for the challenge after the experiences of rebuilding Louisiana following the state’s own crises.

“These brave men and women know firsthand the type of hard work and perseverance it takes to recover from a disaster, and I know they will serve the people of Haiti well in helping them get back on their feet as quickly as possible,” Jindal said.

MILITARY

Louisiana sending 500 national guardsmen to HaitiFocus will be on rebuilding schoolsBy Andrew HansonContributing Writer

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CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — A fed-eral judge ruled Tuesday the Uni-versity of Wyoming must allow 1960s radical William Ayers to speak on the school’s campus in Laramie.

The university had cited threats of violence in not allow-ing Ayers to speak at a campus event planned for Wednesday.

U.S. District Judge William Downes said Tuesday that violent threats can’t be used as a reason to deny Ayers’ right to speak on campus.

Ayers, a professor at the Uni-versity of Illinois-Chicago, now plans to speak at UW on Wednes-day at the invitation of a student.

UW President Tom Buchan-an testified Monday that the deci-sion to bar Ayers from speaking on campus this week was based

on concerns about the safety and security of Ayers, students and faculty. He said he thought vio-lence was possible if the speech was allowed because of the types of threats the school received, which were unlike any “I have seen in my 30 years at the Uni-versity of Wyoming.”

Ayers was a co-founder of Weather Underground, a radi-cal anti-war group that claimed to be responsible for a series of bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol. He was a fugitive for years before surrendering in 1980. Charges against him were later dropped because of prosecu-torial misconduct.

He was originally invited to speak at the university in Lara-mie on April 5 by the privately endowed UW Social Justice Re-search Center. But the center’s

director, Franciso Rios, canceled the event after the invitation drew hundreds of protests.

UW student Meg Lanker then extended an invitation to Ayers to speak at the school Wednes-day, but the university refused to rent out its sports complex for the event. Lanker and Ayers, who

also plans an off-campus speech for Wednesday night, filed a law-suit against the school, saying it violated their constitutional rights to free speech and assembly.

In court Monday, Lanker and Ayers attorney David Lane of Denver said security concerns have been overblown and the

university is more worried about losing donations.

One of the donors who threatened to quit contributing recently gave about $2 million to the university, Lane said.

Former LSU Chancellor Mark Emmert will blend his background in academia with athletics, as the NCAA Executive Committee named him president of the orga-nization Tuesday.

Emmert, who worked as LSU’s top leader from 1999 to 2004, will become the NCAA’s fifth chief executive when he takes the post Nov. 1, according to a NCAA news release.

Emmert left LSU in 2004 to return as president to his alma ma-ter, the University of Washington.

Emmert will take over the job from Interim President James Isch, who took that post when Myles Brand died in September 2009, ac-cording to the NCAA release.

“It is my great honor to accept

this assignment,” Emmert said in the release. “It is more than a new job for me. This is special. This is an opportunity to help shape one of the great American institutions.”

The UW Board of Regents announced in a news release the

board will name an interim presi-dent while searching to perma-nently fill Emmert’s role.

“We recognize that the NCAA presidency is a unique opportuni-ty,” said Herb Simon, UW Board of Regents Chair. “It is the only

organization of its kind, national in scope and we feel the only type of opportunity that could possibly lure Mark away from his alma ma-ter. The nation’s gain is our loss.”

Emmert “led Washington to its standing as second among all

public and private institutions in research funding with $1 billion in grants and contracts per year” dur-ing his time there, according the NCAA release.

Before coming to LSU, Em-mert was chancellor of the Univer-sity of Connecticut from 1995-99 and provost and vice president for academic affairs at Montana State University from 1992-95.

Sean O’Keefe, who had been administrator of NASA and U.S. Secretary of the Navy, followed Emmert as LSU’s chancellor in 2004 until he resigned amid pres-sure from the Board of Supervi-sors in 2008.

Michael Martin, LSU’s cur-rent chancellor, took the post in August 2008. He previously worked as president of New Mexi-co State University.

FACULTY

Former Chancellor Emmert named president of NCAA

AJ MAST / The Associated Press

Mark Emmert, former LSU Chancellor, speaks during a news conference Tuesday in Indianapolis after being announced as the president elect of the NCAA. Emmert will become the NCAA’s chief executive when he takes the post Nov. 1.

By Nicholas PersacEditor

Contact Nicholas Persac at npersac@lsureveille.com

LAW

University of Wyoming must allow Ayers’ speechBy The Associated Press

Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at news@lsureveille.com

Interim President Isch to leave Nov. 1

GERALD HERBERT/ The Associated Press

William Ayers speaks Nov. 17, 2008, to an audience in Washington. Ayers is being allowed to speak at the University of Wyoming after initially being banned.

If someone would have told Sam Brad-ford in 2006 he would be the No. 1 pick in the 2010 NFL Draft, he might have called that person crazy.

No one would have thought the young Oklahoma Sooner , a three-star prospect out

of high school, would develop into a Heis-man Trophy-winning quarterback .

Year after year, college football recruiting boards are fi lled with high

school athletes dreaming of playing

football at the highest level. Some are more heavily recruited than others, and the fi nal product these young athletes become is far from predictable.

Recruiting Web sites award stars to high school athletes in an attempt to rank the fi eld of players.

LSU has recruited eight fi ve-star athletes that either graduated from LSU or left early for the NFL draft since Rivals.com began issuing stars in 2002 . Only half of the eight were drafted into the NFL . None of these four were selected in the fi rst or second round of the draft .

Defensive tackle Claude Wroten is the highest selected fi ve-star athlete to come from LSU. Wroten, who was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in 2006, was selected in the third round at No. 68 overall .

LSU has had nine fi rst round selections to the NFL Draft since 2000. With the exception of three-star defensive end Tyson Jackson , every fi rst round selection for the Tigers has been showered with awards and was highly recruited out of high school .

Michael Clayton , Marcus Spears and JaMarcus Russell are three of the nine fi rst rounders LSU has produced.

Michael Clayton was a consensus high

The No. 15 LSU baseball team began Tuesday night’s game against New Orleans the same way it did in its previous three games — and got the same result.

Two days after the Tigers (32-10) were swept by Ole Miss this past weekend, they scored fi rst for the fourth consecutive game with noth-ing to show for it at the end in a 7-4 loss to the Privateers (11-29) at Alex Box Stadium.

“They wanted to play very bad-ly, and the bottom line is we didn’t,” said LSU coach Paul Mainieri. “It’s my responsibility to get the team ready to play. I didn’t have them ready tonight, and I’m ashamed of that.”

With the game tied at 3-3 in the top of the eight inning, UNO took the lead for good on a sacrifi ce fl y by fi rst baseman Jerad Comarda off LSU junior pitcher Austin Ross and added an insurance run with left fi elder Rodarrick Jones’ RBI single.

Jones, the Privateers’ eighth hitter in the lineup, killed the Tigers with two singles, a double and three RBIs.

“He was capable, but what’s he hitting, .220? He feasted off our pitching. I can’t explain it,” Mainieri said of Jones, who entered the game with a .248 average.

The Tigers clawed back with a run in bottom of the eighth inning when LSU sophomore outfi elder Mikie Mahtook beat out an infi eld single to make it 5-4.

But the Privateers tacked on two more runs in the top of the ninth with an RBI double from center fi elder

It seems Death Valley is hiding people.

The much-anticipated 2009 matchup between Florida and LSU

drew 93,129 fans — yet the sta-dium’s seating capacity is listed at 92,400.

Games against Louisiana-La-fayette (92,443), Auburn (92,654), Louisiana Tech (92,584) and Ar-kansas (93,013) also drew crowds greater than the listed capacity last season.

But the answer isn’t as compli-cated as it may seem.

“We include the number of credentials we give out to the me-dia and those people that work the events,” said Michael Bonnette, as-sociate athletic director and sports

information director. “The number can sometimes be higher than what the capacity of the stadium can hold.”

LSU Ticket Offi ce manager Brian Broussard said anyone who watches the game in the stadium is counted in the fi nal attendance num-bers.

“We count the press level, and we count Boy Scouts who work sort of as ushers,” he said. “We count people who don’t occupy seats that are sold on the stadium but are at at-

SportsWEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 2010 PAGE 7

By Rowan KavnerSports Contributor

By Sean IsabellaSports Contributor

By Mark ClementsSports Contributor

When Stars Don’t Align

ATTENDANCE, see page 15

BASEBALL, see page 15

BASEBALL

FOOTBALL

Attendance numbers exceed capacity in Tiger Stadium

Tigers stumble at home with 7-4 loss

Reconstruction in 2000 added seating

High school rating not always a sign of NFL success for former LSU players

Editor’s note: This story is the fourth in a fi ve-part series involving attendance at LSU athletic events.

Fans pack Tiger Stadium Nov. 8, 2008, for the Homecoming game against Troy. Five games last season drew crowds great-er than the listed seating capacity of 92,400.Daily Reveille fi le photo

No. 1 overall (fi rst round, 2007)

No. 5 overall (fi rst round, 2008)

No. 6 overall (fi rst round, 2007)

No. 23 overall (fi rst round, 2007)

JaMarcus Russell Glenn Dorsey LaRon Landry Dwayne Bowe

No. 69 overall (third round, 2008)

Jacob Hester

Tyson Jackson

No. 3overall (fi rst round, 2009)

No. 68 overall (third round, 2008)

Chevis Jackson

DRAFT, see page 15

Three-star recruits coming out of high school

Two-star recruits coming out of high school

Four-star recruits coming out of high school

Tyson Jackson

THE DAILY REVEILLE

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Cowboy Mouthwith

Entertainment writer Matthew Jacobs caught up with New Orleans-based Cowboy Mouth frontman Fred LeBlanc as the band kicked off the opening weekend of its

national tour Friday at the The Varsity Theatre and Saturday at Jazz Fest.

Q: How would you describe Cowboy Mouth’s sound?

A: “We’re basically Louisiana-fl avored, kick-ass rock ‘n’ roll. It’s old-school rock with big guitars. It’s fun pumping. It’s like The Neville Brothers meet Green Day or Sex Pistols. The music stylistically is organic, but the songs are very hook-driven.”

Q: What would you say your live shows are like?

A: “What we do is basically try to get the audience to feel like we feel when we play. It’s about having a good time. We get the au-dience to take the journey with us. We’re all about passion and energy and joy. If you go to a Cowboy Mouth show, I guarantee you’ll have one of the best times of your life.”

Q: What age ranges do you see at your shows?

A: “I honestly think our age range is pretty wild. We have kids like 5-year-olds that go to our show and grandparents and everything in between. It’s never been based on styles or trends. You don’t have to be a certain age group or economic group to enjoy the show. A Cowboy Mouth show is a Cowboy Mouth show.”

Q: Since you’re from New Orleans, how does it feel to return home to perform?

A: “We’re playing our 20th Jazz Fest this year. Jazz Fest is fun because people are ready to party and have a good time. It’s special be-cause it’s home. Ultimately, our shows are all about creating that energy, but you’re just basically trying to reach that same musical orgasm.”

Q: Are your crowds outside Louisiana different?

A: “We’ve performed as far as Czechoslovakia, and a Cowboy Mouth crowd is a Cowboy Mouth crowd. We performed at the House of Blues in Chicago, and it was so insane the stage was actually shaking. It felt like there was an earthquake. It was awesome.”

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Today’s KLSU Specialty Shows: Beat Street (Trip Hop) 9 p.m. - 11 p.m.Underground Sounds (Underground Hip-Hop) 11 p.m. - 1 a.m.

THE DAILY REVEILLE PAGE 9WEdnEsdAy, APril 28, 2010

The LSU women’s basketball team has a new addition to its coach-ing staff.

Joni Crenshaw, who served as associate head coach at Alabama for the past two seasons, was appointed as an LSU assistant coach Tuesday, LSU women’s basketball coach Van Chancellor announced.

Crenshaw has experience coaching at the collegiate level in Louisiana, as she was an assistant women’s basketball coach at Loui-siana Tech for two seasons and the associate coach there for one season.

The Lady Techsters won two Western Athletic Conference cham-pionships in her first two years on campus, where she was also recruit-ing coordinator.

“I made a lot of great relation-ships with high school coaches and AAU coaches in [Louisiana], so I am very familiar with the area,” Cren-shaw said in a news release. “This is exciting to come back to a state

where I have previous experience. I am extremely excited about the op-portunity to become a part of the Lady Tiger family and to work for Van Chancellor, an Olympic coach with four WNBA titles, and a pro-gram that has gone to five straight Final Fours in recent years.”

Chancellor echoed Crenshaw’s emotions about the hire.

“I am extremely pleased to have Joni join our staff,” Chancellor said. “She’s grown up in the [Southeastern Conference], having both played and coached in this league. She is going to do a tremendous job recruiting for us, and she will be a great role model

for our players.”Crenshaw previously served as

recruiting coordinator for three years at Troy University until 2005, where she was also academic coordinator and in charge of developing post players.

Crenshaw said she sees the job at LSU as a way to enhance her coaching career.

“I am excited about what the en-tire staff brings to women’s basket-ball as a whole and the opportunity to ... continue to grow as a basketball coach,” Crenshaw said.

Crenshaw graduated from Ala-bama in 2002 after four years of

playing basketball there. Crenshaw was a center and team captain her se-nior season and recorded 716 points, 555 rebounds and 103 blocked shots in her career.

In 2001, Crenshaw was rec-ognized as one of the 10 most in-fluential African Americans on the Alabama campus by the Mentor Fel-lowship Society.

Crenshaw’s hire is pending ap-proval by the LSU Board of Super-visors.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Crenshaw named Lady Tigers’ new assistant coachChancellor excited about addition

Contact Rachel Whittaker at rwhittaker@lsureveille.com

By Rachel WhittakerChief Sports Writer

TRACK AND FIELD

Lady Tigers pass Texas A&M, reach No. 1 ranking

The LSU track and field teams have climbed the rankings after a successful showing at the Penn Re-lays.

The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association

released its updated team rankings Tuesday. The Lady Tigers are ranked No. 1, overtaking Texas A&M for the top spot.

The Tigers moved to No. 2 after being ranked No. 9 last week.

Senior Richard Jones leads the NCAA in the 800-meter run with his time of 1 minute, 46.9 seconds. Ju-nior Walter Henning is ranked No. 2 in the hammer throw with a throw of 239 feet, 5 inches.

The Lady Tigers hold the top three times in the NCAA for the

800-meter run. Senior LaTavia Thomas’ time of 2 minutes, 1.40 sec-onds gives her the No. 1 spot.

Senior Kayann Thompson is ranked No. 2 with a time of 2 min-utes, 3.54 seconds, and junior Brit-tany Hall comes in at No. 3 with a time of 2 minutes, 3.76 seconds.

Senior Samantha Henry is ranked No. 2 in the 200-meter dash with a time of 22.94 seconds and No. 4 in the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.18 seconds. The Lady Tigers also have two No. 2-ranked relays

in the 4x100-meter relay and the 4x400-meter relay.

HENNING, NUGENT WIN SEC WEEKLY HONORS

LSU junior thrower Walter Hen-ning and sophomore hurdler Barrett Nugent were named the Southeast-ern Conference’s Male Field Athlete and Runner of the Week, respective-ly, the LSU Athletic Department an-nounced Tuesday.

Henning won his second straight

Penn Relays hammer throw title this past weekend. He won with a throw of 237 feet, 9 inches — more than 22 feet farther than the second-place finisher.

Nugent became the first male in school history to win the 110-meter hurdles at the Penn Relays. Nugent won with a new personal best of 13.58 seconds.

Henning, Nugent win SEC weeklyBy Katherine TerrellSports Contributor

Contact Katherine Terrell at kterrell@lsureveille.com

THE DAILY REVEILLEPAGE 10 WEdnEsdAy, APril 28, 2010

An athlete’s career can be de-fined by the championships he or she wins.

Those who rise to the occasion in clutch situations will be remem-bered for their heroics.

And no one in LSU gymnas-tics history has shined in the spot-light more than Susan Jackson.

Jackson claimed three individ-ual national championships in her career, more than any gymnast in school history. She was also named the 2010 National and Southeast-ern Conference Gymnast of the Year.

LSU coach D-D Breaux said Jackson’s honors came for her ac-tions both in and out of the gym.

“Not only was she decorat-ed, but she was complimented,” Breaux said. “The AAIA Gymnast of the Year award is voted on by the coaches. To win that is truly a national honor. The coaches judge on how the kids represent their uni-versity and interact with the other student-athletes, and she has just really done a great job being an ambassador for LSU.”

Jackson’s gymnastics prowess began at the age of 3 as a way for her to burn some energy.

“I would run across the backs of couches and swing from shower rods or whatever I could get on,” Jackson said. “My mom thought I needed mats around me so that I wouldn’t get hurt.”

The Spring, Texas, native did her club training with Dan and Ashley Baker at Stars Gymnastics in nearby Houston. She was a four-time member of the USA National Team, and she finished fourth in the all-around at the Elite National Classic in 2005.

Breaux said she was well aware of Jackson’s talents at a young age.

“We follow Texas kids pretty close,” Breaux said. “We started following her when she began competing at a regional level, so probably when she was around 12 years old.”

Breaux’s persistence in pursu-ing Jackson paid off.

Jackson had scholarship offers from numerous schools around the country, including traditional powerhouses UCLA, Alabama and Georgia.

“[The LSU coaches] showed so much interest in me and actually cared about me as a person, not just me as a gymnast,” Jackson said.

Another reason Jackson chose the Tigers was to be a part of some-thing special in Baton Rouge.

“I didn’t want to go to a school that had already been on top,”

Jackson said. “I wanted to go to a school that I could help make to the Super Six and set school records and achieve new heights.”

Jackson started her attack on those records from day one.

“She was ready to go,” Breaux said. “She’s an elite-level athlete.”

As a freshman in 2007, Jack-son ended the season as an all-arounder in the Tigers’ final three meets. She also earned first-team All-America honors on the floor exercise.

In 2008, Jackson ended the season standing atop the podium at the NCAA Championships the vault national champion. She was also named first-team All-Amer-ican on the balance beam, floor exercise, vault and the all-around. She was first-team All-SEC and the

SEC vault champion.She was named first-team

All-American on the vault and all-around again as a junior. She was named the Central Regional All-Around Champion and was national runner-up on the vault to teammate Ashleigh Clare-Kearney.

But as a senior, Jackson took aim at the record books.

She set the LSU record for most consecutive all-around titles with six and spent a majority of the season as the nation’s top-ranked gymnast.

But in dramatic fashion, Jack-son saved her best performance for her swan song.

In the final meet of her career, the NCAA Championships, Jack-son won the all-around national championship. In the individual championships, Jackson performed her final routine on the balance beam and stuck it for her record-breaking third career national title.

Breaux said Jackson’s accom-plishments cannot be understated.

“She’ll be a hall of famer,” Breaux said. “She’s made a nation-al impact.”

Now that the dust has settled on Jackson’s career, she is not sure what to do with herself.

“Now I’m just going to go home and just sit down,” Jackson said. “I don’t know what to do be-cause I always have to be doing something. And I’ll miss my team-mates and my coaches because we had a blast in there.”

But Jackson hopes her ac-complishments can be a source of inspiration for gymnasts that hope to someday follow in her footsteps.

“I hope that the girls that come in later years can say, ‘If someone like that can do it, why can’t I?’” Jackson said. “I just want our ac-complishments to be a benchmark for teams to look at and shoot for.”

Jackon ends college career on top of record booksGymnast won three national titles

By Rob LandrySports Contributor

J.J. ALCANTARA/ The Daily Reveille

LSU senior Susan Jackson leaps on the beam March 13 during the Tigers meet against Iowa in the PMAC. Jackson was the recipient of many accolades during her career.

Contact Rob Landry at rlandry@lsureveille.com

GYMNASTICS

THE DAILY REVEILLE PAGE 11WEdnEsdAy, APril 28, 2010

It took one stroll onto the grass at Rosenblatt Stadium for Aaron Nola to know where he wanted play college baseball.

It wasn’t the genes. It wasn’t the hometown feeling.

It was the chance of playing in the College World Series at LSU.

“When he walked onto the field at Rosenblatt Stadium, he got chilly bumps,” said A.J. Nola, Aaron’s fa-ther. “He said he wanted to pitch on that mound for LSU. For a 16-year old to express a want like that is pretty significant.”

Nola, the younger brother of current LSU shortstop Austin Nola, is a junior flamethrower at Catholic High School in Baton Rouge.

Aaron has already committed to LSU.

Fans were wowed last season when Austin stepped into a start-ing role for the national-champion Tigers. Austin started 36 games, hitting .240 three home runs and 18 RBIs.

Aaron could be better than his brother, the pair’s father said.

“Aaron is definitely a better pitcher than Austin was,” A.J. said.

“He’s got him on the mound. Austin always had a live arm but Aaron is a better pitcher.”

The duo could theoretically play together at Alex Box. Austin will be a senior by the time Aaron arrives on campus. But the plan could be derailed.

If he plays well enough, Aus-tin could be bona-fide pro prospect after his junior season. Austin was drafted out of high school in the 48th round by the Colorado Rock-ies.

Still, the Nola parents hope Aaron and Austin will get the op-portunity to play together.

“Speaking for my wife Stacie and I, it’s a parent’s dream come true for them both to be at LSU together,” A.J. said. “It might not work out that way, but if it did, we would love it.”

Aaron said he would love to get the chance to play with his brother. The distance in age has hindered the chances in previous years, with Austin always on the way out just as Aaron was arriving.

“It would be cool,” Aaron said. “It would be a good experience for both me and him. I never really got a chance to play with him before.”

A.J. said the two are extreme-ly close — and have become even closer since Austin left for college.

“They’re really close now that Austin is out of the house,” A.J. said with a laugh. “The fact they don’t

see each other every day makes them closer.”

Aaron agreed. He said the two used to clash, but the separation be-tween the two has made their bond stronger.

“We used to fight a lot when he lived with us, but when he moved out, I didn’t see him that much,” Aaron said. “We got closer. We don’t fight anymore.”

While the two share baseball talent, they aren’t that similar in the way they progressed through the sport. Austin was always a solid hitter and defender, but never came around as a pitcher. Aaron was the opposite.

“Aaron was always a late bloomer in athletics as opposed to Austin,” A.J. said. “Aaron was al-ways a good pitcher but has turned into a solid hitter this season.”

Aaron won’t use any of his newfound hitting aptitude at LSU — he will only pitch.

He identifies himself as more of a spot pitcher, known for his location rather than speed. The younger Nola currently sports a 6-0 record for the Bears.

“I’m more of a spot guy,” Aar-on said. “I have a fastball, a chan-geup and a curveball. This year, ev-erything’s been working. I got my changeup to work more this year.”

Aaron is presently nursing a sports hernia which has him side-lined until May 10.

He received a plethora of in-terest from other colleges. He said while LSU always remained his top choice, he would have chosen Cen-tral Florida if LSU hadn’t offered.

A connection with Golden Knights coach and former LSU as-sistant coach Terry Rooney was his main draw.

“Coach Rooney wanted me,” Aaron said. “I was actually think-ing about going there because they wanted to see me pitch, and he wanted me to go there. That was my

second choice besides LSU.” Aaron also said he has no

doubts about coming to LSU after committing early. The combination of the hometown school, a winning program and the chance to play with his brother were too much to refuse when the scholarship offer came.

“It’s for sure,” Aaron said. “I early committed. I’m very excited.”

Brother of current shortstop early commits to TigersBASEBALL

Younger Nola plans to pitch for LSU By Chris BranchSports Writer

photo courtesy of Xavier Werneth

Catholic High School baseball player Aaron Nola (6) tags second base March 13 in a game against Neville High School. Nola, the younger brother of current LSU shortstop Austin Nola, has committed to pitch for the Tigers.

Contact Chris Branch at cbranch@lsureveille.com

THE DAILY REVEILLEPAGE 12 WEdnEsdAy, APril 28, 2010

The Southeastern Conference released its postseason golf awards Tuesday, and LSU junior All-Amer-ican Andrew Loupe picked up First-Team All-SEC honors.

Loupe is the second straight LSU golfer to earn the designation, as fellow junior John Peterson made First-Team All-SEC last season. Loupe’s selection made him LSU’s 30th First-Team All-SEC golfer all-time.

Aside from leading the Tigers, Loupe ranks No. 8 among SEC play-ers with a 72.09 stroke average. He has appeared in all 11 of LSU’s tour-naments this season.

Loupe won his first individual title this season with a win at the Louisiana Classics. He earned a career-low score of 8-under par 208.

Loupe tied for fourth at this season’s SEC Men’s Golf Champi-onships on April 16. It was his first ever top-five or top-10 finish at the SEC tournament.

His performance this season has been enough to earn him the No. 47 ranking in the Golfweek/Sagarin Performance Index, which ranks collegiate golfers.

Also earning first-team all-con-ference honors in addition to Loupe were Tyson Alexander from Florida, George Bryan IV from South Caroli-na, Bud Cauley and Hunter Hamrick

from Alabama, Harris English and Russell Henley from Georgia, David Lingmerth from Arkansas and Jona-than Randolph from Ole Miss.

Georgia nearly swept the sport’s individual awards, as Bull-dogs coach Chris Haack was named Coach of the Year, while Henley also earned SEC Player of the Year. Georgia freshman Bryden MacPher-

son earned SEC Freshman of the Year.

The only non-Bulldog to earn an individual award was Florida’s Bank Vongvanij, who was named the SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year.

Loupe named first-team All-SECBy David HelmanDeputy Sports Editor

Contact David Helman at dhelman@lsureveille.com

GOLF

Kelly recovering from surgery on torn ACL

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

LSU senior guard Andrea Kelly has recovered from the stress reac-tion in her foot she suffered in Oc-tober, but she now has another injury hurdle to overcome.

Kelly underwent surgery April 20 to repair her right ACL she tore while playing a game of pickup bas-ketball during spring break. Kelly said she is going through daily phys-ical therapy to recuperate, and she said her recovery timetable is about six months.

“It was just an awkward land-ing,” Kelly said.

Kelly said enduring her torn ACL has brought its challenges in the offseason.

“It’s been pretty hard to deal with, but everything happens for a reason,” she said. “I’m just working on getting my range of motion and strength back.”

Kelly’s foot injury kept her out of the Lady Tiger lineup for the en-tire 2009-10 season. She said being on the sidelines all year reminded her how much she values basketball in her life.

“You really understand how much you love the game and miss the game,” she said. “I’ve learned a lot by sitting and observing how to

play from a student’s perspective in-stead of a player’s perspective.”

Kelly played in all 30 games with three starts in the 2008-09 season — her first at LSU — and was LSU’s leading 3-point shooter, converting 40.5 percent of her shots from behind the arc. LSU coach Van Chancellor said the Lady Tigers greatly felt Kelly’s absence from the court after her injury.

“Andrea Kelly has earned the respect of her teammates by how she has conducted herself on and off the floor,” Chancellor said. “We expect her to make a full recovery and play an important role as a senior.”

Kelly will be one of three true seniors for LSU in 2010-11, along with guards Katherine Graham and Latear Eason. Kelly said the outlook for the team is bright — only guard Allison Hightower will not return next season.

“Our experience together will allow us to play better because we know how each other plays on the court,” Kelly said. “The biggest part of this team is we can all build each other up and be leaders at different times.”

By Rachel WhittakerChief Sports Writer

Contact Rachel Whittaker at rwhittaker@lsureveille.com

THE DAILY REVEILLE PAGE 13WEdnEsdAy, APril 28, 2010

Many softball teams through-out the nation used the offseason to improve their teams in various ways.

The No. 17 LSU softball team used the summer and fall practice to work on the fundamentals of base running and stealing bases and has become one of the best teams in the nation on the base paths.

The Tigers have stolen a total of 104 bases this season, which ranks No. 3 in the Southeastern Confer-ence behind Alabama (109) and Georgia (106).

LSU’s current stolen base total is more than double the team’s total of 46 from last season.

LSU coach Yvette Girouard said assistant strength and condition-ing coach Melissa Moore worked with the team during the offseason and focused on getting the Tigers in shape.

“A lot of credit has to go to Me-lissa Moore and her training staff,” Girouard said. “We challenged her this summer and said we wanted them in better shape.”

Senior center fielder Kirsten Shortridge leads the team with 38 stolen bases this season, but senior

right fielder Rachel Mitchell and ju-nior utility player Tiffany Shaw also have double-digit stolen bases with 17 and 16, respectively.

Shortridge is seven stolen bases away from tying Dee Douglas’ LSU record for stolen bases in a season (45).

Shortridge’s 0.78 stolen bases per game rank second in the SEC and No. 6 in the nation. The Keller, Texas, native is second on the team with a .437 on-base percentage.

“I try to get good reads, and my foot speed does a lot for me,” Short-ridge said.

Being able to steal bases and move into scoring position help teams score runs more easily.

The Tigers have used base-running techniques to move players into scoring position throughout the season, and during the team’s 24-game winning streak from Feb. 20 to March 31, LSU averaged 6.58 runs per game.

LSU’s numbers have dropped since its winning streak was snapped on April 3 against No. 6 Florida, but the Tigers still use base-running to average more than five runs per game, which ranks No. 5 in the SEC.

Girouard said one of the advan-tages of stealing bases is not hav-ing to give up an out by bunting to advance the runner. She said it puts pressure on the other team when LSU has runners in scoring position with no outs.

“It’s always constant pressure that way,” Girouard said. “Anytime you get someone in scoring posi-tion and put pressure on the other team, it’s always in the back of their mind.”

Most players who are success-ful at stealing bases have quick feet and tend to be among the fastest players on the diamond.

But some players like Mitchell have used other strategies to steal

bases.“I get lucky sometimes,”

Mitchell said. “I’ll knock the ball out of their glove, or I’ll slide into them really hard on purpose.”

Shaw, along with freshman Jackie Victoriano, sophomore Ka-tie Guillory and freshman Lindsay Price, often come into the game to pinch run for one of the slower run-ners on the team.

The group has gone a combined

19-for-23 when stealing bases this season.

“They stay focused in the dug-out,” said junior third baseman Jes-sica Mouse. “They do stretches and high knees in there. They know that when they get on base and come in to run for somebody, they are going to score.”

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NEW YORK (AP) — Jason Bay hit his first home run for the Mets to back another stingy outing by Johan Santana, and New York beat the slumping Los Angeles Dodgers, 4-0, in the opener of a doubleheader Tuesday for its fifth straight victory.

Santana (3-1) worked his way around early traffic on the bases, tossing six innings of four-hit ball to extend a run of splen-did starts by the Mets’ surprising rotation.

Luis Castillo hit a two-run single and New York pitched its

second consecutive shutout, fol-lowing Mike Pelfrey’s 1-0 win Sunday night against Atlanta in a game that was called in the sixth inning because of rain.

More wet weather Monday night led to Tuesday’s old-fash-ioned, single-admission, twinight doubleheader — but few fans made it to blustery Citi Field in time for the first pitch at 4:10 p.m.

There were still plenty of empty sections of dark green seats down low by the time David Wright dived headfirst to score on a second-inning wild pitch by Hiroki Kuroda (2-1).

A sparse crowd began filing in as the game wore on, but it was far from a full house as New York (11-9) improved to 7-1 on its 10-game homestand.

Pitching has been the key: Mets starters are 5-1 with a 1.17 ERA in the last 12 games, lead-ing the club to a 9-3 record dur-ing that span.

As white napkins whipped around the outfield in the wind, Fernando Nieve worked two scoreless innings and Pedro Fe-liciano finished the five-hitter. With its fourth shutout of the season, New York tied San Fran-cisco for the major league lead.

Oliver Perez was set to start for the Mets against knuckle-baller Charlie Haeger in the nightcap, a matchup of winless pitchers.

Missing injured slugger Manny Ramirez, the Dodgers lost for the fourth time in five games. They have scored only five runs in their last four.

Wright drew a one-out walk in the second, went to third on Ike Davis’ double and scored when Kuroda threw a wild pitch with the bases loaded.

Bay connected leading off the fourth, driving a 1-0 pitch over the 384-foot sign in

left-center for his first home run since signing a $66 million, four-year contract with the Mets.

New York had been waiting for Bay to break out the power bat that produced 36 home runs and 119 RBIs for the Boston Red Sox last season.

Castillo made it 4-0 in the seventh with a two-run single off Ramon Troncoso after fellow reliever Jon Link had loaded the bases.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Southeastern Conference com-missioner Mike Slive said the league isn’t considering adding teams but is working on a plan to keep up with other conferences if they expand just in case.

The commissioner said Mon-day the 12-member SEC hasn’t talked to any institutions about joining and has no plans to do so.

The expansion exploration is just an internal look at the potential advantages and disadvantages in case there is a “significant shift in the conference paradigm,” he said.

Slive didn’t elaborate on how much expansion would fit that billing.

“But I’ll know,” he said.League expansion has been

a hot topic since the Big Ten an-nounced in December that it was

considering expanding.SEC teams have won the past

four national titles in football and have lucrative TV deals with CBS and ESPN.

“That doesn’t cry for change,” Slive said.

Any changes would only be made if the league deems it nec-essary to maintain its prominent position, he said.

“We’ve always been known to be a creative league, be on the

cutting edge,” Slive said. “We’re not going to allow ourselves in any way, shape or form, to be anything less than what we are now.”

He declined to talk about what factors the SEC might look for in potential new members.

“The important thing is we’re paying attention. We’re go-ing to be strategic; we’re going to be thoughtful. But we’re not go-ing to relinquish our role as one

of the premier conferences,” he said.

Slive spoke to editors and writers from the Southeast Re-gion of the Associated Press Sports Editors across the street from his office in downtown Bir-mingham.

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Mike Petello. Then Comarda struck again, driving in his second run of the night with RBI single past a drawn-in LSU infield.

After building a 3-1 lead in the second inning with a pair of RBI hits by Mahtook and sophomore shortstop Austin Nola, UNO starting pitcher Joe Zimmermann shut down LSU for the next 4 1/3 innings.

“I don’t want to take anything away from him, but we weren’t tak-ing aggressive hacks,” said Mahtook, who went 2-for-4 with two RBIs. “We didn’t go up with an aggressive mindset, and it came back to bite us.”

Second baseman Nick Schwaner blasted his 15th home run of the sea-son into the right field bleachers in the top of the third inning to close the gap to 3-2.

Following a Nola error in the top of the fourth that kept the inning alive, Jones struck again for the Pri-vateers in the top of the fourth in-ning. He blasted an RBI double past the outstretched arms of Mahtook in right-center field, knotting the game at three.

LSU junior pitcher Daniel Brad-shaw had a respectable outing in only his third start of the season for the Tigers, tossing 5 1/3 innings. He allowed three runs — two earned — on seven hits to go along with five strikeouts.

Despite Bradshaw’s effort, it was the bullpen that faltered down the stretch for LSU.

Ross struggled mercifully for his second straight outing.

He picked up the loss in Sun-day’s 7-6 loss at Ole Miss, al-lowing three hits, including the

game-winning hit, before a single out was even recorded. It wasn’t any better Tuesday night as Ross tossed an inning of relief and gave up three runs on five hits.

Mahtook, senior first baseman Blake Dean, junior catcher Micah Gibbs and freshman outfielder Alex Edward all finished with two hits for the Tigers.

“We have to accept our fate because we got exactly what we de-served with the effort we put forth,” said a dejected Mainieri. “I don’t know what else to say.”

The Tigers travel to the swamps of Gainesville, Fla., this weekend to take on No. 6 Florida.

school All-American selection com-ing out of high school in 2001 and was named one of ESPN.com’s top 100 high school players in the na-tion. The former Tiger wide receiv-er was selected 15th overall by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2004 and will enter his seventh season with the team.

Spears was rated as the nation’s No. 1 tight end prospect in high school and was listed as the No. 3 overall prospect by Superprep.com in 2001. He made the switch to de-fensive end at LSU and has enjoyed a successful career on the defensive side of the ball. Spears was selected by the Dallas Cowboys as the No. 20 pick overall in 2005 and has record-ed 71 starts in five seasons.

Russell was recruited as four-star quarterback out of Mobile, Ala. With tons of hype coming out of LSU, the Oakland Raiders picked Russell as the first overall pick in the 2007 NFL Draft. The 6-foot 6-inch gunslinger has yet to pan out in the NFL, but the Raiders have not given up on Russell as he enters his fourth season with the team.

One former Tiger who was not highly recruited out of high school is running back Jacob Hester.

Hester was only a two-star prospect out of high school, according to Ri-vals.com, but racked up 1,780 yards and 20 touchdowns in his LSU ca-reer.

Hester made a big name for himself in Baton Rouge despite his small stature and was picked in the third round as the No. 69 pick over-all by the San Diego Chargers. The 5-foot 11-inch bruiser has played in 40 games in two seasons for San Di-ego with 13 starts.

Rivals.com recruiting analyst Mike Scarborough said the star rating system is not based on high school statistics, but rather upon players’ po-tential to succeed in college.

“I barely look at their accom-plishments in high school,” Scarbor-ough said. “A lot of it is the measur-able, their athleticism and what they do at the combine and at the camps.”

Most football fans who follow high school recruiting drool over the five-star prospects committing to their schools, and rightfully so. Lo-cal NFL draft analyst Mike Detillier said most of these guys didn’t just become great overnight.

“Some guys have that skill set pretty early in their life, and it carries with them,” Detillier said.

While many five-star pros-pects pan out and become great

professional athletes, several of these highly recruited athletes never live up to the hype.

Rivals.com awards about 25-30 athletes a five-star rating each year. Of the 32 players selected in the first round of the 2010 NFL Draft, only five were five-star athletes in high school. Fifteen of the draftees were four-stars, seven were three stars, and five were two-stars in high school.

So what happens along the way to develop these two- and three-star athletes into potential future NFL all-stars?

Both Scarborough and Detillier said a lot of it has to do with players maturing and developing physically later than others.

“A lot of times ... there is some physical development of a player,” Detillier said. “A 16- or 17-year-old may not fully mature until he gets 18 or 19 years old, and you can miss a little bit on that. A lot of time the body balance and coordination of a big man comes a little bit later, and at 16 you couldn’t have seen that because you’re just guessing at that stage.”

tendance at the event.”Broussard said photographers

and other press members on the field who aren’t allowed access to the press box are still included in the final attendance. Senior Associ-ate Athletic Director Herb Vincent said facility and concession workers are also included.

“There’s a small army of peo-ple that have to work to put a game on, and we count everybody in the stadium as people who attend the game,” Vincent said.

There are no-shows at every game, but highly anticipated match-ups naturally put more fans in seats and attract more media attention.

“If it’s something like the Ala-bama game or the Florida game, you have a television crew here, and they might have an HD crew here,” Vincent said. “ESPN Gameday may be here, and they have a crew.”

Broussard said the ticket of-fice already knows the 2010 game against Alabama in Tiger Stadium will be sold out.

“It’s not announced yet, but we don’t say we have those tickets on sale when people call in,” Brous-sard said. “We just know this from

past history.”Adjustments are made for

the media when the press box gets crowded, and as the accommoda-tions rise, so does attendance.

“We’ll issue passes to people who don’t have seats,” Vincent said. “For really big games, we’ll put stools in the back of the press box that we don’t have for the other games to let extra [media members] sit.”

Ronnie Haliburton, assistant athletic director of facilities and grounds, was a former standout tight end for LSU in the late ’80s. He said the maximum seating was around 75,000 when he played at Tiger Stadium.

“We only had one upper deck,” Haliburton said. “We didn’t have that capacity then. I think the largest crowd may have been 82,000.”

Tiger Stadium added more than 10,000 seats to the east upper deck in 2000, and a club-level seating area was installed to the upper west deck in 2005.

“The first upper west deck was constructed in 1974,” Haliburton said. “That’s when we had the press box in the upper west deck that you saw prior to 2000. That upper deck came down in 2005 and was

reconstructed between the 2005 and 2006 seasons.”

Vincent said the press box was expanded when the new upper west deck was installed.

“We’re able, for instance, now to accommodate an extra radio crew if an independent broadcast crew wants to broadcast a game,” Vin-cent said. “There’s more room up there.”

Haliburton said there are talks of reconstruction to the south and north ends of the stadium, but no plans or dates are set. He said it’s difficult to predict the changes to the stadium in the next 15 to 20 years.

“These concepts could come to fruition in the future, and that’s all predicated on revenue,” he said. “We are landlocked by the campus. Whatever we do, it also has to be dependent on the growth and ex-pansion of our existing campus.”

Other Southeastern Confer-ence schools will expand in the near future. Alabama already has plans to exceed a maximum capacity of 100,000 after reconstruction to Bry-ant-Denny Stadium this summer.

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Compromise.Sounds like a dirty word to-

day, doesn’t it?It isn’t terribly uncommon to

hear politicians couched as “un-compromising warriors,” people of ideological purity and convic-tion ready to fight the greedy men in government.

What never gets said is there are people of equal ideological pu-rity and conviction on “the other side.” What never gets mentioned is the “uncompromising warrior” is human and might be wrong, and what never gets thought of is maybe somebody else might have a good idea.

And nobody seems to remem-ber the “man of ideological purity” talking about “fighting business as usual” is soon to be just another rusty cog in the great broken ma-chine of our democracy.

Everyone forgets the demo-cratic process is inherently meant to be one of compromise.

We heard Republicans say “Go back to the drawing board,” countless times during the health care debate. What that really meant, of course, was “get this health care legislation out of here entirely because we refuse to ac-cept that you could conceivably be right about anything.”

It makes sense politically — in a kind of Machiavellian, self-serving, totally-counterproduc-tive-to-our-democratic-process kind of way. By stonewalling leg-islation and progress, the minority party can make the majority party look ineffectual, and then sweep back into power.

The majority never seems terribly interested in compromis-ing either. By mistaking majority

as a mandate without restrictions, they think they can and should do whatever they think is right — mi-nority be damned.

It isn’t a Democratic problem or a Republican problem.

It’s an everybody problem.Unfortunately, that means

it’s a difficult problem to fix. As politicians became more and more en-trenched, the symbiotes that latch onto those politicians — the national media and ac-tive political

interest groups — follow suit.Today, every major political

or social issue is framed in terms of Republicans vs. Democrats. There is no middle ground; there is no mutually acceptable solution — there is only war. And, instead of covering the real substantive policy arguments for each side, the media chooses to pontificate and speculate on which party is winning.

Meanwhile, activist groups feed off the negative energy and unequivocally align themselves with either side of the bi-prismatic spectrum. It becomes too standard to accuse those opposed to their positions of being wrong, so ac-tivists begin calling them stupid, ignorant and evil — or socialist or racist, depending upon the flavor.

We have a whole huge regime of closed-mindedness and bitter-ness and, given the plummeting participation rates we’re seeing all over the country, it seems the av-erage American is tired of it.

So I ask again — how do we fix it?

Is the solution a third party? Maybe. But broader than that, the solution is for average people to stand up, get mad about it and hold their political figures accountable.

Congress has approval ratings that would make skinheads shiv-er. Yet it still has an incumbency rate well above 75 percent. We hate our Congress, but we can’t be bothered to figure out what we think of our congressmen.

More people are yearly reg-istering independent than Repub-lican or Democrat, yet both par-ties are still beholden to the most

extreme ends of their ideologies, always pushing further and further to the edges of the spectrum.

Young voters, like college students, are increasingly inde-pendent of parties, but a pitiful percentage of us ever take the time to vote, let alone more actively participate.

How do we fix it?We don’t give up on the sys-

tem because it sucks, as I suspect most Americans have. We refuse to accept the false dichotomy of our parents, refuse to believe that those that disagree with us are ig-norant or evil. We refuse to accept that there are only two answers to

every question, and that the solu-tions we come up with individu-ally cannot be reconciled together. And, most importantly, we refuse to vote for any old rich guy that does.

How do we fix it?We get up and do something

about it.

Matthew Albright is a 21-year-old mass communication junior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twit-ter @TDR_malbright.

Controversy is raging on lsureveille.com over a bill in the legislature that reduces adminis-trative salaries at the University. Here is a sample:

“LSU administration is only lean from its fat head down. The fat head over feeds itself and its friends with increased pay and business trips to Hawaii and the like. The fat head feeds on private dinners, rides in private vehicles, and surrounds itself with loyal servants. The fat head quiets the body with false promises and real threats. All on our dime and wast-ing our time. Lets try something new. Let’s dive into this next

round of cuts, head first.”-Anonymous

“Everyone has taken on more responsibility as positions were left unfilled. But only a cho-sen few have received compen-sation. Most people got nothing and some even got let go. The chosen few are the same few who make the decisions about who gets what — a clear conflict of interest. Yet they can still look at us with a straight face and tell us there aren’t better options than furloughs and layoffs. The same people who tell us there are no resources to fill positions or compensate people doing extra

work are compensating them-selves!!!!!!! Disgusting!”

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What do you think? Are six-figure salaries for administra-tors necessary to keep the Uni-versity competitive? Or is it unfair? Log on today to lsurev-eille.com and let your voice be heard!

Now, more than ever, is the time for our collective voice to be heard. Every day presents a new issue that threatens the funding of the Graduate School. With de-creasing class availability, assis-tantship opportunities and overall program funding, it is crucial that we take action.

Now is the time to get in-volved. It’s time your voice be heard.

In the early weeks of the fall semester, the Graduate School College Council will be filling all available spots. These include a treasurer, numerous at-large po-sitions, and a limited number of graduate student seats in the LSU Student Senate.

This is your opportunity be-cause none of us is as strong as all of us.

Brett JacksonLSU Graduate School College Council President

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The Environmental Defense Fund and the Ad Council released an emotionally moving commercial depicting an older man standing on train tracks. After expressing apathy on global warming, he steps off the tracks to reveal a young girl about to be hit by the oncoming train.

Some right-wingers spice up arguments for fiscal responsibil-ity with emotional appeals to think of the future generations who will have to pay for our reckless spend-ing.

In both the personal and the political, we face tradeoffs between the present and the future. Money saved now will be worth far more in retirement. The pain caused by a carbon tax might prevent larger pains in the future.

An assumption is unques-tioned: Good, responsible voters should think about the well-being of those in the distant future.

I think this assumption is true to some extent, but there are good reasons to care far less about future generations than about our own.

1. People don’t really care about future generations.

When Ben Franklin died, he left £1,000 each for Philadelphia and Boston to gather interest for 200 years before being donated to charity. By 1990, the funds had grown to $2.3 million and $5 mil-lion, respectively.

This story is remarkable for its success. In 2010 dollars, the funds were worth about $55,000 each. Through the power of compound-ing interest, his donation was able

to help far more people in the 20th century than it would have in the 18th century.

This story is also remarkable for its uniqueness. No one has cop-

ied it. Many talk about how much they care about those in the fu-ture, but talk is cheap. When it’s time to make serious deci-sions, almost all choose those they know, even

though their money would help far more in the future.

Creating legislation that ben-efits future folk at the expense of modern folk in a world where no one cares about future folk makes about as much sense as supporting art in a world where no one cares about artists.

2. Future generations will be far, far richer than us.

If the economy grows at only 2.5 percent a year, prosperity will double every 28 years. From 1980-2008, the Chinese economy grew at an average of more than 9 percent yearly.

I’m willing to sacrifice to help the starving poor overseas. I’m less willing to sacrifice for well-fed mil-lionaires.

If growth rates continue, the distant future will be populated by well-off millionaires. Cap and trade might help keep the sea from ris-ing — but, if future folk can rebuild their cities on higher ground with

robot armies, global warming won’t hurt them as much as economic stagnation will hurt me.

If we subscribe to the logic of progressive taxation — that the rich should sacrifice more than the poor — than we should feel free to re-cycle aluminum cans only when the trash can is farther away.

3. Apocalypse.There’s a non-zero chance as-

teroid strikes, alien attacks or su-

pervolcano eruptions will make humanity extinct. To the handful of survivors standing on the smolder-ing ashes of civilization, spartan tax increases to balance the budget will seem foolish in hindsight.

The chance of apocalypse low-ers the amount we should care about future folk.

If my great-great-grandkids read this column, now you know why I didn’t create any funds for

you. Sorry.Now go enjoy your robot ver-

sion of Elizabeth Banks.

Daniel Morgan is a 22-year old economics senior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_dmorgan.

Last Wednesday night start-ed out like any other Wednesday night. After getting home late, I was excited to watch the heav-ily anticipated new episode of “South Park.”

But something tragic hap-pened. The episode didn’t record on my DVR. I tried to catch the 11 p.m. re-air later that night, but at the last minute it was replaced by an old re-run.

The next day I tried to watch it online, but the episode had been banned entirely. It wasn’t until later I learned why.

After the previous week’s episode, which poked fun at the mysterious aura surrounding the Muslim prophet Muhammad, a group of radical cyber-Muslims evidently demanded that Com-edy Central not air the show’s upcoming episode portraying the sacrosanct Islamic prophet. The ensuing backlash and personal threats eventually forced Com-edy Central to heavily censor the show’s 201st episode before the Wednesday night premiere.

“We have to warn Matt [Stone] and Trey [Parker] that

what they are doing is stupid, and they will probably wind up like Theo van Gogh for airing this show,” wrote one poster on RevolutionMuslim.com.

For the record, Theo van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker and religious critic, was shot and stabbed in the head multiple times by an Islamic militant in Amsterdam in 2004 after film-ing a documentary exposing the abuse Muslim women face in some Islamic societies.

RevolutionMuslim.com later displayed graphic pictures of van Gogh’s mutilated body as a warn-ing to “South Park” creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker. It also posted links to the location of a home the two own together in Colorado as well as the address-es of their L.A. studios and the Comedy Central headquarters.

As “South Park” fans know, this is not the first time “South Park” has encountered vicious blowback from radical Muslim groups.

The show encountered a similar backlash in 2006, when network executives censored an

image of the Muslim prophet during season 10’s “Cartoon Wars” episodes. The episode was a response to the Jyllands-Posten

cont roversy, when a Dan-ish newspaper was threatened by Islamic radicals for publishing car-toons satirizing Muhammad in 2006.

The Jyl-lands-Posten publication incited thousands of riots and dem-onstrations across the Muslim world, leading to the deaths of more than 100 protestors in the Muslim world, according to the BBC.

Following the Danish in-cident, Islamic leaders faced mounting pressure to extend Sharia Law sanctions against de-picting the Muslim prophet be-yond the Muslim world.

The impact of this reinstate-ment is evident in the wake of the show’s latest controversy. Today’s threats are being issued

not from remote locations in the Middle East but from Revolution Muslim — an organization that operates only a few miles from Comedy Central’s New York City headquarters.

Many of Revolution Mus-lim’s members insist they don’t support outright violence or “ter-rorism.” But given the words of one of the site’s leaders, it’s hard to be certain.

“We are commanded to ‘ter-rorize’ the disbelievers,” Revo-lution Muslim leader Younes Abdullah Mohammed said in a 2009 CNN interview. “It’s a com-mand from Allah.”

“South Park” has always had a unique way of taking serious social issues, wrapping them in a thick band of satire and providing viewers with uniquely profound lessons.

The show’s most recent con-troversy is no exception.

The beauty of our modern society is that everyone has a right to hold his or her own be-liefs. But as this saga illustrates, there’s a big difference between holding a particular belief and

violently imposing those beliefs upon others.

In this instance, Revolution Muslim has clearly crossed the line. These religious extremists aren’t merely threatening the creators of “South Park” now. They’re threatening free speech, in general.

Enraged Muslim groups are certainly free to express their outrage. But their right to free speech doesn’t allow them to re-strict the free speech of others.

Religious radicals may not like everything Stone and Parker have to say. But if they think a “South Park” episode warrants death threats and violence, they can go CENSORED themselves.

Scott Burns is a 20-year-old economics junior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_sburns.

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in the process in the future. Sen. El-bert Guillory, D-Opelousas, spoke during the fall commencement.

Martin said the amount of mon-ey it will cost to have someone speak affects whether they’re chosen.

He said someone he was con-sidering to deliver the commence-ment address — who he wouldn’t name — asked for $40,000, and the University can’t afford that amount at this time.

He said the University is still in negotiations about the amount John-son will be paid, but it will be less than $40,000.

Past speakers include former President George W. Bush and for-mer Vice President Dick Cheney while they were both in offi ce, Gov. Bobby Jindal, Sen. Mary Landrieu and former President of Honduras Carlos Roberto Flores while he was in offi ce.

Student Government President J Hudson said he believes Johnson will be a good speaker because of her national and international studies but only learned who she is after she was chosen.

Hudson isn’t alone — many students weren’t aware of Johnson’s accomplishments.

David Nestasi, general studies senior, said he wasn’t planning to attend the main commencement cer-emony, and Johnson won’t change his mind.

“It’s just not relevant to my life,” he said.

Jorge Aravena, interim chair of the Electrical and Computer En-gineering Department, said he’s ex-cited to have Johnson speak because she works with energy, which is im-portant to the state and the Univer-sity.

Johnson received a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

She was awarded with an hon-orary Doctorate of Science from the University of Alabama at Huntsville in 2009 and was named the Women of Vision Award Winner by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Tech-nology in 2010.

Johnson will speak Friday, May 21 at 9 a.m. in the PMAC. There is no limit on attendance, according to University’s commencement Web site.

classifi cation, according to the Offi ce of Budget and Planning’s records.

Stacia Haynie, vice provost of Academic Affairs, said weaker stu-dents tend to drop out before they reach their fourth year of college, and students that make it to senior year have acclimated to college life, resulting in higher GPAs.

“Statistically speaking, you’ll have a stronger core of students by senior year,” she said.

Though their GPAs may remain intact, seniors can still have trouble focusing and tend to procrastinate, Honeycutt said.

MOTIVATIONMany students are able to pull

through their senioritis and continue to produce consistent grades, ac-cording to Diane Mohler, assistant director of the Center for Academic Success.

Krista Allen, history senior, said though it’s a relief to have a job lined up with Teach For America in Geor-gia, she has always wanted to gradu-ate Magna Cum Laude.

“I need four A’s this semester to get it,” Allen said. “No pressure.”

Allen isn’t the only self-moti-vated senior.

“I still want to fi nish strong,” Mick said. “I worked hard over the past four years, and I don’t want to screw around in the last semester.”

Stephen Eckholdt, construction management senior, said his seniori-tis isn’t as severe as it was in high

school.“I’m defi nitely feeling a bit anx-

ious about moving to the next phase of my life,” he said.

Mohler said the center is avail-able for students who may need some outside motivation.

Mohler said she recommends habits such as planning ahead, not procrastinating on diffi cult assign-ments and changing up work strate-gies to stay focused.

Honeycutt said he could offer seniors one piece of advice.

“The known cure for senioritis is graduation,” he said.

Runnels said the petition got about 50 signatures at the Earth Day event. He said he attends ECO meetings and works closely with the organization to promote solar energy, which he said many college students are interested in exploring.

Student Government President J Hudson and Vice President Dani Borel were also at the festival.

Hudson said one of the pair’s goals while in offi ce is to increase both large and small sustainability efforts on campus.

Goals like reducing printing of receipts in the Union and ensur-ing on-campus buildings hold up to environmental standards are among the things they hope to contribute to the University’s sustainability efforts, Hudson said.

Wyatt said the event was meant to educate students about sustain-ability not only on campus, but also in the Baton Rouge community.

“Even though this is mainly a celebration mostly students are in-clined to attend, students are also part of the Baton Rouge commu-nity,” Wyatt said. “LSU isn’t a seg-regated part of Baton Rouge.”

Socorro said it’s important for students to think about their envi-ronmental footprint in the largest scope possible.

“It’s the ‘think globally, act lo-cally’ mentality,” she said.

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