The phrase “free Tony the ti-ger” can mean two different things for the 13-year-old Siberian-Ben-gal living at the Tiger Truck Stop, only 25 minutes down the inter-state from the University’s iconic

Mike VI. For animal rights activists,

freeing Tony means moving the nearly 500-pound tiger to a new home, one where truckers and trav-elers aren’t looking through the bars of his enclosure.

However, for Tony’s caretaker and owner Michael Sandlin, free-ing Tony means keeping him in Grosse Tete, La., where Sandlin has kept him since he was a cub.

Sandlin said typically when exotic animals like Tony are

removed from their long-time homes, they do not live for longer than a few months to a year in their new habitats.

Like the University’s Mike, Tony lives alone in his enclosure and has a heated and air condi-tioned space to sleep, which was added because of complaints made by animal rights activ-ists, said Darryl Taylor, one of Tony’s caretakers.

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Alcohol, drug tests possible for facultyAssociates must provide consentJames RichardsStaff Writer

University researchers may fi nd themselves subject to ran-dom drug and alcohol testing, after three University offi ces expanded their lists of “safety-sensitive” positions.

Vincent LiCata, professor of biological sciences, said he became aware of the expansion when Hu-man Resource Management sent him and his colleagues an email telling them to notify their research associates and postdoctoral associ-ates that they must provide written consent to the random testing.

Prior to the expansion, only researchers who dealt with “dan-gerous” chemicals were screened, LiCata said. The change expanded the screenings to all research asso-ciates, he said.

The offi ces with expanded lists include the Offi ce of Human Resource Management, Offi ce of Risk Management and Offi ce of Environmental Health and Safety

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Tony the tiger peers out his habitat Thursday at the Tiger Truck Stop located in Grosse Tete, La. Tony has sparked debate among activists.

BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY

Truck stop tiger raises legal controversy in Grosse TeteGroups attempt to free Tony the tigerDeanna NarvesonStaff Writer

“Throw me something, Mister!”This ubiquitous cry can be heard

throughout the entire city of New Or-leans during the Mardi Gras season. Though the “something” can refer to various trinkets, toys or snacks, more

often than not, the primary goal for parade-goers is beads. Mardi Gras beads are an essential part of New Or-leans society that has permeated the culture of the city in an extraordinary way.

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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Fac-ing criticism for a remark she made about sexual assault, University of Iowa President Sally Mason on Thursday discussed her own experi-ence of being accosted by a stranger when she was a college student.

Mason opened a campus fo-rum on sexual assault issues as her job appeared to be on shaky footing, following a week of protests among students calling for improvements to the university’s handling of rape allegations.

The protests gained traction after Mason told the student news-paper earlier this month that ending sexual assault was “probably not a realistic goal just given human na-ture and that’s unfortunate.” Mason has since apologized for the remark, but student critics said it refl ected the university’s lack of commitment to preventing rape and a lack of sen-sitivity toward victims.

Speaking to about 200 students Thursday, Mason said that when she was a student in Lexington, Ky., a man in a trench coat grabbed and groped her before she was able to fi ght him off and get away. She said the attack “left me shaken” but that

she had no clue where to turn for help.

“I never want a young woman on this campus, ever in her life, not to know where to go if something like that happens to them,” Mason said.

The Iowa Board of Regents on Thursday scheduled a special meet-ing for Friday to hear an explanation of the earlier remark from Mason

and to meet behind closed doors to discuss her performance. Board members had considered replacing Mason in 2012, but backed off after leaders of students, faculty and staff groups came to her defense.

After the forum, Mason told re-porters that she has a lot of work to do and looked forward to explaining her plans Friday to regents. She said this week has been diffi cult.

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Sup-porters of a south Louisiana fl ood control board’s lawsuit against scores of oil and gas companies over erosion of coastal wetlands announced plans Thursday to fi ght legislation they say could undermine not only the lawsuit but the political independence of the board.

Sen. Robert Adley’s bill, fi led for this year’s legislative session, would give Gov. Bobby Jindal power to reject an indepen-dent committee’s nominations for membership on the South-east Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East.

Jindal opposes the lawsuit fi led last year against 97 oil, gas and pipeline companies by the SLFPA-E.

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Meagan Thies, a 2011 University of Iowa graduate, speaks about her experience of sexual assault during a campus forum Feb. 27 in Iowa City, Iowa.

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An opposition demonstrator holds a poster that reads in Spanish “They are killing us” outside the Venezuelan Military Industries (CAVIM) in Caracas, Venezuela.

INTERNATIONAL

Troubled country lacks revolutionCARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — It is hard to fi nd toilet paper or fl our in oil-rich Venezuela these days and the country is plagued by some of the highest infl ation, murder and kidnapping rates in the world. Clashes between protesters and se-curity forces loyal to the president have left 16 dead, and a telegenic opposition leader has been thrown in jail.

But don’t expect a Ukraine-style street revolution anytime soon in this South American nation, where the frequently outmaneuvered

opposition hasn’t united behind a single strategy or managed to broad-en its appeal beyond the largely mid-dle-class, educated followers it’s had on its side all along. The man they are up against, President Nicolas Maduro, has a near-complete grip on the military, broadcast media and in-stitutions from congress to the judi-ciary after 15 years of socialist rule.

That could change if the pro-tests continue and unrest gets further out of hand. But for many Venezu-elans, the opposition’s two highest profi le leaders are still viewed as part of an elite detached from the working class life.

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The Museum of Natural His-tory in Foster Hall has many inter-esting exhibits in the front room, but what’s behind the scenes can be more astounding.

The museum houses more than 169,000 bird specimens, mak-ing it the fourth largest university-based collection in the world, after Harvard, Berkeley and Michigan, according to the museum website.

Glenn Seeholzer, biological sciences doctoral candidate and researcher at the museum, said the ornithological research they con-duct on the specimens has two ma-jor goals: determining which bird species exist and where they are distributed.

“Everything we know about the natural world comes from col-lections like this,” Seeholzer said.

Seeholzer said museums like the University’s collect and pre-serve specimens for years not knowing how they will be used in the future.

Michael Harvey, biological sciences doctoral candidate and museum researcher, said while many of the same 19th century methods are used to collect speci-mens, new technology has become available for specimen analysis.

Today, researchers like

Seeholzer and Harvey can use specimen tissue collected decades ago and supercomputers to collect data to learn about anything from dietary habits to genetic composi-tion.

Using such data allows them to create phylogenetic trees, which are like maps of a given speci-men’s origin, Seeholzer said.

“We use DNA sequences to understand relationships between bird species and history of popula-tions,” Harvey said.

Harvey said gathering genetic data is less expensive now than it was a decade ago.

“LSU is at the forefront of using these techniques,” Harvey said. “We’ve had people from oth-er universities come here to learn.”

New technology allows them to dig deeper than ever before. The department is still planning expe-ditions and processing specimens that were collected in the 1980s in new ways.

Daniel Lane, research associ-ate at the museum, said a type of brown bird specimen was collect-ed in 1961 and labeled as a Haux-well’s Thrush.

It was not until 2011, through genetic research and using phylo-genetic trees, that the department was able to classify the brown bird specimen as a Varzea Thrush, rather than a Hauxwell’s Thrush,

Lane said. Currently, they are studying a

new group of specimens from Bra-zil. Like their ongoing work in Bo-livia and Peru, the data could lead to conservation recommendations, Harvey said.

“This is the best collection in about 100 years to come out of Brazil,” Harvey said.

The department has a long history of research and conserva-tion in South America, including the discovery of two new birds in the 1970s, according to the web-site.

Expanding upon their South American success, the museum’s researchers are planning a “big day” event in Peru this October to raise money for the department and to learn more about native birds.

“A big day is when a team of birders sees how many species they can see in 24 hours,” said Mike Harvey, biological sciences Ph.D candidate. “It usually goes from midnight to midnight.”

Harvey said Ted Parker, for-mer University researcher, also called a young birding phenome-non, was a part of the team that set the record for most species seen during a bid day event for 331 spe-cies in one day.

“He could go into a rainforest and basically just stand there and

tell you the bird species by their songs,” said Robb Brumfield, pro-fessor of biological sciences.

Harvey said he is looking for-ward to the department attempting to beat a world record, set by an-other LSU researcher.

“Everyone knows about LSU for football, but LSU’s also

known for having one of the best museum programs in the world,” Harvey said.

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Hot 8 Brass Band - Belle of Baton RougeComedy Sportz - La Nuit Comedy TheaterGreg Schatz - Buffa's Bar & RestaurantThe Royal Rounders - Buffa's Bar & RestaurantHerlin Riley Quartet - Snug Harbor-New OrleansPaul Sanchez - Chickie Wah WahVagabond Swing - Artmosphere

Jesse Dayton - The Blue MoonFat Boy South - Paragon Casino ResortBLT Ball - Southport HallHunt D Radio - The Roux HouseTrue Spin - Boudreaux & Thibodeaux'sCharlston Bourgeois - Boudreaux & Thibodeaux'sParty at Joe's - Lava CantinaBrian Hyken and the Wanderlust - Gasa GasaSofa Kings - The Station Sports Bar and GrillKiller Whale - Mud and WaterM.J. & The Redeemers - Phil Brady's Bar & GrillLocal H - The Spanish MoonCuban Fire - The Varsity Theatre

Friday Night Stand Up Open Mic - La Nuit Comedy TheaterPine Leaf Boys - The Blue MoonSon's of Fathers - Chelsea's CafeLed Zepplin 2 - House of Blues New OrleansSnow Tha Product - House of Blues New Orleans

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Visiting professor shows students the beauty of math in nature

In a field known for abstract theories and technical rigor, Uni-versity professor Gestur Olafsson wants everyone to know math is beautiful.

He and the University’s chap-ter of Vertical Integration of Re-search and Education (VIGRE), for which he serves as project director, brought Satyan Deva-doss, a mathematics professor at Williams College, to campus for a two-day colloquium on finding creative solutions to nature’s most complex and elegant puzzles.

“Nature poses many interest-ing and complicated questions that mathematicians set out to solve,” Olafsson said.

Devadoss led two discussions during his visit to the University. On Wednesday, he used a variety of three-dimensional puzzles, in-cluding various models of can-nonballs, to show undergraduate students how to pack space effi-ciently.

“Math is really about playing with toys and using them to solve big, beautiful questions,” Deva-doss said.

On Thursday, Devadoss used a collection of bright and colorful images and devices to welcome

graduate students to the world of particle collisions. Devadoss said many of nature’s most beautiful features are formed by novel par-ticle interactions. These forma-tions, which include smoke trails and bee hives, have inspired the creation of many man-made in-ventions that define the modern age.

“DNA sequencing, origami, cardiograms and especially ro-botics — all of these things are rooted in the patterns of nature,” Devadoss said.

Although Devadoss lectured at the colloquiums, he also en-couraged his audience to partici-pate in the discussions and to at-tempt to solve some of the puzzles he presented.

Mark Davidson, the collo-quium committee’s faculty advi-sor, said VIGRE routinely invites guest speakers to the University to show undergraduate students the practical results their educa-tions can yield. The guests are selected by a panel of graduate and undergraduate students who work to make all participants feel more comfortable about inter-acting with prominent figures in mathematics.

“We want to show students what’s going on in the world of math and how they can be a part

of it,” Davidson said.Guests are selected based on

the breadth of research they con-duct and how well their research will engage their largely student audiences. Devadoss was selected for his enormous body of research and his innovative philosophy on math and science.

“Shakespeare’s known for his poetry, and Picasso’s known for his paintings — we need mathematicians to be known for their art too,” Devadoss said.

Devadoss conducts much of his research on computational geometry. He studies the math of physical objects. He has used his research to create new ways of visualizing data, describing and finding new species, making DNA easier to study and crafting origami. He has lectured painters, programmers and Pixar anima-tors, and he wants to bridge the gaps between art and science and undergraduates and professionals.

“I want people to know about the big, important ideas in math, and I think that’s what a lot of students get out of these talks,” Devadoss said.

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The LSU ornithology department has one of the largest collections of bird genetic material in the world. This Paradise Tanager, Tangara chilensis, is one of many species located in the department’s collections.

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In 2008, University alumus Jason Theriot stopped his boat in an oil pipeline canal along the bayous of Southern Louisiana. He noticed a sign that said not to anchor or dredge. He realized oil and natural gas had changed the land he and his family had known, and he set out to learn more.

In his new book “American Energy, Imperiled Coast: Oil and Gas Development in Louisiana’s Wetlands,” Theriot tells the sto-ry of how energy development and environmental change have shaped of Southern Louisana.

“Southern Louisiana is mazed with a lace of canals built by the oil and gas industry to get access to this area,” Theriot said. “Canals have become a major feature of the landscape.”

Theriot was working toward a doctorate in energy history at the University of Houston. He

was curious about the way canals were built and the topic became the subject of his dissertation, which turned into his book.

Canals were built to accom-modate pipelines that stretched to the Northeast, and as energy consumption increased, so did the pipeline infrastructure. The canals, however, contribute to wetland loss through saltwater intrusion, which kills freshwater vegetation in the bayous, Theriot said.

Though pipelines and ca-nals have helped build the area’s economy, they changed the way Southern Louisianans lived with the problem of coastal erosion.

“We’ve always had a little camp on the bayou. I’ve seen the area change dramatically,” The-riot said. “It’s a history book, but it also has a lot to do with people. Their voices help tell the stories.”

He wants readers of his book to understand the affect of the oil industry on Southern Louisiana and the need to prioritize restor-ing the coast.

Theriot said several research components of the book came from University research. When the geologist and environmental

scientists came together, they presented the coastal erosion problem, Theriot said.

Given the state and the Uni-versity’s importance in the book, Theriot decided to publish the book, his third, under LSU Press. The book will be released in March.

“There was really no ques-tion, I wanted to keep it in the backyard,” Theriot said.

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Phi Delta Theta house mom looks after membersgreek life

To some, she is known as Teri Meyer, but in the Phi-Delta Theta house she is Mama T.

Meyer is currently the frater-nity house mother of Phi Delta Theta for her second year. She is one of the few fraternity house moms who actually live on the University campus, inside the fra-ternity house.

“There’s been a lot of fun and a lot of laughs,” Meyer said. “It’s fun being part of their lives as they go through this college ex-perience.”

After working in retail for 30 years, Meyer wanted to do something different with her life. At her previous job, a co-worker suggested she become a fraternity house mother.

“I was like ‘Fraternity house mom? Seriously?’” Meyer said

Out of curiosity, Meyer start-ed to read about the position and thought it could be fun. She decid-ed to apply online and was sched-uled for an interview with the Phi Delta Theta president shortly after. Within a week, Meyer was notified that she would be the new official house mother.

At first, Meyer was nervous about meeting all the fraternity members.

“They brought me into a chapter meeting and introduced me to everyone. It was a little intimidating, but they were all

welcoming and sweet,” Meyer said.

When she told people about her new job, she received a few strange reactions.

“My mom laughed and said if anyone could fit in with them, it would be me,” Meyer said.

Inside the house, Meyer has her own small apartment with a living room, bedroom and bath-room. Meyer lives in the frater-nity house for free and is paid for her position as house mother. Some of her duties include clean-ing, laundry and occasionally cooking.

Meyer sometimes worries about interrupting the members, but she said she is always there to help out her boys.

“If they need me, I can give them a Band-Aid or if they rip their pants I can help them fix it.”

Meyer said she shares many memories with the Phi Delt fra-ternity men.

“One time we saw some mice run by the house and both me and the boys screamed like girls,” Meyer said.

Phi Delta president Brian Rees said Meyer attends many fraternity events, such as bus trips and formal.

“Last year Mama T came to our formal in Pensacola, and we had a great time hanging out at the beach,” said Rees.

Meyer has also formed re-lationships with several other fraternity moms and dads. She

attends meetings with fraternity moms and goes to dinner with them.

Meyer has only been a frater-nity mom for two years, but that didn’t stop previous Phi Delta Theta President Tyler Loga from

nominating his Mama T as house mom of the year.

“It takes a special person to be a house mom, I’ve seen mul-tiple house mothers, and she goes above and beyond,” said Loga.

Meyer said since her son

has grown, she finds herself hap-pier in the presence of youth once again.

Contact Jaquelyn Masse at jmasse@lsureveille.com

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College of Business

Richard White Jr. has been named the new dean of the E. J. Our-so College of Business, according to a University news release. White served as the interim dean for the college after Eli Jones left in 2012 to work as dean for the University of Arkansas’ Sam M. Walton College of Business.

White is one of a number of new deans to be selected recently, including Cynthia Peterson of the College of Science and Joel Baines in the School of Veterinary Medi-cine. He follows Peterson as the sec-ond internal candidate selected this year to a dean’s position.

Jane Cassidy, vice provost for Human Resources and Facili-ties Management, worked with the search committee. She said even from the early stages of the process, White looked like the best fit.

Being an internal candidate brings certain advantages and chal-lenges, Cassidy said. On one hand, a person can already know everybody and how things are run, on the other hand, sometimes people want a fresh face, she said.

Cassidy said White made hard decisions as an associate dean and interim dean but still retains the sup-port of the faculty, showing his lead-ership skills.

White’s appointment as dean begins Apr. 1, pending Board of Su-pervisors approval.

College of Agriculture

Mike Burnett has been named executive associate dean of the Uni-versity College of Agriculture, a new position for the college.

Burnett has served at the Uni-versity for 33 years, most recently as the director of the School of Human Resource Education and Workforce Development, and she served as committee chair for more than 160 master’s and doctoral students.

The addition of Burnett to the College of Agriculture follows the consolidation of the administrations of the college and the LSU AgCenter by the Board of Supervisors in Sep-tember 2013. The goal of the merge was to unite the agriculture programs to better serve students

Burnett, who started in the po-sition on Jan. 13, said he hopes to help the college’s 10 departments as they undergo structural changes this semester.

Burnett said one of the things currently being worked on is the expansion of distance-learning op-portunities for students, which is a delicate thing because of the labora-tory time required for many aspects of their degree programs.

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

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Teri Meyer is one of LSU’s Fraternity House Moms. Meyer has been the Fraternity House Mom for Phi Delta Theta for two years.

Missed Opportunity

When LSU welcomes Yale to Alex Box Stadium for a three-game series this weekend, it will be an opportunity to rebound.

The Tigers (7-1) tasted defeat for the fi rst time this season on Tuesday when No. 10 University of Louisiana-Lafayette rolled into Baton Rouge prior to a torrential downpour sweeping the city.

ULL entered the sixth inning with a 4-1 lead, and the game was called after a thunderstorm can-celled play, handing LSU the loss.

LSU junior southpaw Cody Glenn (1-1) tossed four innings of three-run baseball, surrender-ing fi ve hits and striking out one in 75 pitches.

Though Glenn struggled in his second start of the season, LSU coach Paul Mainieri de-cided to insert the left-hander

into the Sunday slot in the rota-tion this weekend. Freshman left-hander Jared Poche’ will start on Tuesday at Northwestern State.

Mainieri said he didn’t see Glenn’s start against the Ragin’ Cajuns as a poor outing.

“Cody didn’t struggle that much,” Mainieri said. “I didn’t think his two-seamer had the movement or the sink it normal-ly has. I think he was throwing harder than I’ve seen him throw in a long time. Unfortunately, when the throw’s hard, his fast-ball seems to straighten out a little bit.”

Glenn, whose fastball nor-mally hits speeds in the high 80-mph range, relies more on mix-ing his pitches and having a solid defense behind him than being a high-strikeout thrower.

On Tuesday, senior third baseman Christian Ibarra failed to handle a bad hop, causing ULL to

build its lead to 3-1 in the top of the fourth inning.

LSU senior outfi elder Sean McMullen said being sound defensively is pivotal.

“We know Cody and [junior left-hander Kyle] Bouman aren’t going to get all the strikeouts that [junior Aaron] Nola might get, but we believe in ourselves defensively,” McMullen said.

Bradley Dale Peveto has been named LSU special teams coordina-tor and defensive assistant, accord-ing to a statement released by the school on Thursday. News of Pe-veto’s return to the Tigers broke last week, but the offi cial announcement was delayed until Thursday.

Peveto returns to LSU after a one-year stint with Kentucky, where he was special teams coordinator and safeties coach. Prior to his arrival at Kentucky, Peveto was the head coach at Northwestern State.

Peveto was the Tigers’ special teams coordinator from 2005 to 2007. He was part of LSU’s run to the national championship in 2007, and he helped produce two First-Team All-Southeastern Conference performers that same year: place-kicker Colt David and punter Patrick Fisher.

During this span, he also served as linebackers coach, where he helped develop All-American Ali Highsmith. In 2008, he was pro-moted to co-defensive coordinator, a position he held for one year before being named Northwestern State’s head coach.

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LSU senior in� elder Christian Ibarra (14) � elds a ball Tuesday during the Tigers’ 1-4 loss to ULL in Alex Box Stadium.

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LSU soph-omore pitcher Mitch Sewald has resigned from school and is no lon-ger a part of the Tiger baseball team, coach Paul Mainieri told reporters Thursday.

Sewald served a four game suspension to begin the season as punishment for a drunken driv-ing arrest in November. Since the suspension, he had not recorded an appearance for the Tigers.

“It’s personal reasons and that’s all I’m going to say about it,” Mainieri said. “He did dis-enroll and I’m not exactly sure what his future plans are. Let’s just classify it as personal reasons.”

The Archbishop Rummel product had two appearances in relief last season, pitching 3 1/3 innings with three strikeouts and allowing two unearned runs.

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LSU senior guard Jeanne Kenney (5) and senior forward Theresa Plaisance (55) embrace during the alma mater Thursday after the Lady Tigers’ 72-67 loss to Tennessee in the PMAC.

Plaisance, Kenney fall on senior nightTommy RomanachSports Contributor

PHOTOS: Go to lsureveille.com to view a gallery of last night’s women’s basketball game.

Coming into Thursday night, senior forward Shanece McKin-ney said LSU needed something to wake itself from a four-game losing streak.

This awakening seemed to come in the form of a second half surge Thursday night. But by then, it was too late to repair the damage done from a dreadful fi rst half.

LSU (18-10, 7-8 Southeast-ern Conference) came back from being down 21 points at halftime, but Tennessee (23-5, 12-3 SEC) made the plays and stops late to hold on for a dramatic 72-67 vic-tory to hand the Lady Tigers their fi fth consecutive loss on three LSU seniors’ last regular season game in the PMAC.

“[The game] showed a team that didn’t give up, showed a

For the LSU men’s basketball team, the season is far from over.

The Tigers have played 27 games, but Saturday could be the toughest test for a team still fighting for room on the NCAA Tournament bracket.

Life outside the PMAC has been unkind to the Tigers in recent weeks, but things won’t get any easi-er when LSU hits the road to take on No. 1 Florida in Gainesville, Fla., on Saturday.

“Every team can be beaten,” said LSU junior guard Anthony Hickey. “A lot of No. 1 teams have lost. … You don’t have to go out there, and just because they’re No. 1, be all nervous. Just go out there and have fun.”

The last time Florida lost a game in the O’Connell Center, for-mer LSU coach Trent Johnson was still at the helm of the Tigers.

The Gators are currently on a 32-game home winning tear, the second-longest active streak of its kind in the country and haven’t lost since March 2012 when eventual national champion Kentucky dealt a 74-59 blow.

“I know [Florida is] going to be hyped up, the crowd is going to be involved, but that’s something you should want as a college basketball

player,” Hickey said. “To go into somebody else’s home — that’s what we’re going to do.”

LSU is on a streak of its own, losing six consecutive games on the road.

Despite the string of road losses, LSU coach Johnny Jones remained optimistic about the way his team responded to the setbacks, and he looked forward to meeting Florida on Saturday.

“The No. 1 team in the country, it doesn’t get any better,” Jones said. “It’s a college basketball game and you have an opportunity to be in a venue playing at the highest level, and that’s what you look for. It’s cer-tainly going to be a challenge, but that’s one you look forward to.”

One of the primary challenges Florida presents is four out of the Gators’ five starters are seniors com-pared to LSU’s one in Shavon Cole-man, who has only been starting since fellow senior Andre Stringer was moved to the bench at the be-ginning of Southeastern Conference play.

Hickey said the Tigers are pre-pared for a team like Florida, but being prepared isn’t the same as playing at maximum level.

“I wouldn’t say we’ve played our best yet, but were going to con-tinue to get better,” Hickey said. “This game is going to show where we stand. The No. 1 team — this is

who you want to play against.”The Tigers are coming off two

of their best outings of the sea-son despite losing to Kentucky last Saturday.

LSU took the No. 17 Wildcats to the brink of overtime in a 77-76 loss Saturday and then held Texas A&M to under 50 points Tuesday for its best defensive showing of the season.

“We just have to come back even stronger,” said LSU senior for-ward Shavon Coleman. “Florida is next on our list, and we’re looking to prepare for them the best we can and have plenty of energy for them and hopefully get a win.”

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The LSU men’s tennis squad is set for doubleheader action Friday when they take on both Kentucky and the University of New Orleans at W.T. ‘Dub’ Robinson Stadium.

The action is set to begin at 3 p.m. when the Tigers play No. 25 Kentucky before resuming action at 7 p.m. against UNO.

After an up-and-down loss to Michigan on Feb. 21, head coach Jeff Brown is looking forward to getting back on the court for South-eastern Conference play.

“[Kentucky] is a rival of ours,” Brown said. “We’ve gone back and forth with them. … We’re looking to use the energy of the home match and the crowd to build enough of a lead.”

Kentucky has dominated the match up for quite some time. LSU fans would have to look back to 2008 to recall the last time the Tigers defeated Kentucky on the court.

Brown said Kentucky is more experienced in some areas, but if the Tigers can get out to a good enough lead before the experi-ence can settle in, they could be successful.

With the UNO matchup set to open serve at 7 p.m., the Tigers will have little time to rest after

their Kentucky match.The team hopes to use the

doubleheader to showcase the tal-ent of junior Chris Simpson who was named SEC Men’s Tennis Player of the Week Wednesday.

Simpson has not lost a singles or doubles match since Jan. 26, leading to a 6-1 record in singles matches this season.

“He’s had a really good year this year,” Brown said. “I think the difference with him this year is he is more aware of his opponents’ weaknesses and seems to be able to jump on people a little more.”

Simpson will be pitted against Kentucky senior Tom Jomby, the No. 14 ranked player in the nation.

Simpson is no stranger to bat-tling the nation’s best, as he de-feated nine ranked opponents last season. Most notably, he defeated the No. 3 player in the nation at the time, Mikelis Libietis from Ten-nessee.

Simpson will look to take that experience into Friday’s match to pull off another impressive vic-tory in his career and for the Tigers when they take the court at 3 p.m. Friday at W.T. ‘Dub’ Robinson Sta-dium to kick off the double header.

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If collegiate gymnastics is a game of perception, then No. 1 LSU is winning.

Associate head coach Jay Clark introduced the concept of the game of perception last sea-son when the coaching staff met to discuss the team’s philosophy. With only five schools having ever claimed a national championship, the Tigers (7-3, 3-2 Southeastern Conference) sought to place them-selves in the conversation among elite squads.

LSU’s midseason résumé has done just that, with a slew of high road scores pushing the Tigers to a No. 1 ranking for the first time since 2005. Now that LSU has made its presence felt across the country, it must maintain its image against Missouri at 7 p.m. tonight in the PMAC.

“In a sport that is so subjec-tive, it’s important that you start quickly and be very consistent,” Clark said. “That’s how you win the battle of perception, not just in the eyes of the fans or the judges but even in your own minds. We had to shake off any apprehension about saying what it was that we want to accomplish and be able

to clearly state that we want to go after a championship.”

Missouri (6-4, 0-3 SEC) is the first non-ranked opponent to meet LSU in a dual-meet since the Tigers’ season-opening vic-tory against Centenary on Jan. 10. LSU’s 197.470 regional qualifying score is almost three points bet-ter than Missouri’s, but senior all-arounder Sarie Morrison doesn’t expect a weaker opponent to cause a lapse in focus.

“We might have more of an edge and focus because we are No. 1 right now, and this team has never done that,” Morrison said. “It’s giving us this extra boost of energy with the hype from all the fans. We know now that we’re the best in the country.”

Tonight’s meet marks the end of an arduous month-long road stretch for the Tigers, during which they competed at No. 2 Oklahoma and No. 3 Florida.

Two days after blowing past No. 13 Arkansas, LSU decisively defeated the Sooners, 197.650-197.325. The Tigers scored a school record 197.875 team score just six days later at the Metroplex Challenge despite finishing second in the four-team field.

LSU lost to the Gators by half a point to close its road swing, but the time away from home allowed the Tigers to gain valuable experi-ence and grow closer as a team.

“We know we’ve been stick-ing to our process and doing what

we’re supposed to be doing,” said junior all-arounder Rheagan Cour-ville, the No. 1 gymnast in the na-tion. “It’s great to see it all come together because it’s a momentum you get when you see you’re hard work is paying off.”

Though LSU proved its worth away from Baton Rouge, the road took a physical toll on the squad.

Junior all-arounder Jessie Jor-dan, the No. 1 beam performer in the country, battled a sore back for the past few weeks, and an aggra-vated Achilles’ tendon injury kept junior all-arounder Britney Ranzy out of the vault lineup against Flor-ida, according to LSU coach D-D Breaux.

Clark called the battle of per-ception an ongoing process, and taking down Missouri is the next step for the Tigers. With a relative-ly easy slate for the three weeks leading up to the SEC Champion-ship, LSU is aiming to tip the scale of perception even further in its favor.

“The consistency and the high level of difficulty throughout the season is what has put us here,” Breaux said. “What we need to do now is eliminate the small de-ductions and the things keeping us from a 198. That’s an achiev-able, attainable score for us, and that’ll be our goal for the next three weeks.”

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Most fans only watch from the sidelines and cheer during games while their favorite team controls the outcome. The money they spend for merchandise and the games they attend are their contributions to the teams they adore.

But there are those who go beyond the average call of duty — fans like Wayne Leader and his wife Diane.

“We just enjoy sports more than anything,” Wayne said. “It’s a way to get away from other things in life, and we can just enjoy ourselves. We feel it’s an obligation to demonstrate that passion.”

The Leaders are members of Lady Tiger Elite, a group that pro-vides operating funds to promote and support the LSU women’s basketball program. The couple joined the group in 2003 to better show their affection for the team.

For the Leaders, however, the passion for the purple and gold travels far beyond the hard court.

The Leaders began their fixa-tion with sports as an outlet from work, spending weekends at any football game they could attend. They became hooked, and the two have now gone 38 consecu-tive years without missing a sin-gle LSU football game — home or away.

Around 2000, the couple be-gan to branch out to other sports, joining Lady Tiger Elite and sim-ilar programs for football, men’s basketball, softball and baseball. Although their attendance is not perfect, they find it essential to go

to any postseason tournament.“Once the postseason rolls

around, you can forget about it,” Wayne said. “We are going to be there. It does not matter what the location, we’ll make the trip.”

Diane still has fond memo-ries of 2006, when the men and women’s basketball teams made the Final Four, and their fan-dom was put to the ultimate test. Despite both events coming on the same weekend, the two were prepared to travel between

Boston and Indianapolis, the sites of each tournament, as many times as possible.

Wayne said it was “unfortu-nately” easier than expected, with the Tigers and Lady Tigers going down in their semifinal matchups.

The Leaders’ donations have led to improved facilities and locker rooms for the Lady Tigers.

Wayne said he is fortunate to have the money to make these donations, and he takes pride in having the chance to support a

program that has been so central to his life.

Through the years, the cou-ple have made friends with Lady Tiger alumnae, including Nikki Caldwell, Seimone Augustus and Sylvia Fowles. Wayne said the team has always welcomed Lady Tiger Elite members with open arms.

The best thing about their sports-filled lives, however, has been getting to know fans just like them within Lady Tiger Elite.

“We have met many fans only through basketball, football or through LSU sports period,” Wayne said. “The relationships we’ve made with these people can’t be put to words. I cherish every game with them.”

After a successful stretch in the Mary Nutter Classic last weekend, the No. 22 LSU soft-ball team returns to Tiger Park to play Harvard (2-3) and Jackson State (5-9) in the Purple and Gold Challenge.

After hitting eight home runs and beating two Top-15 teams in California last weekend, the Ti-gers hope to see some more hom-ers launched over the fence.

“We’ve won some games with power and we’ve won some games more predominantly with speed. It’s so fun when both are working together,” said senior outfielder Jacee Blades.

The Tigers’ lineup has pro-duced 49 hits and scored 33 runs in their last five games.

While the offensive fire-power steals the show, the Tigers’ defense has been solid, with an average field percentage of .973, which ranks seventh in the South-eastern Conference.

Against Harvard, the LSU lineup will face junior pitcher Laura Ricciardone, who was named the Ivy League Pitcher of the Week in the first week of the season after her performance in Harvard’s first five games in the Florida Gulf Coast round robin tournament.

In the Florida Gulf Coast tournament, Ricciardone record-ed a 1.50 ERA and 12 strikeouts in 14 innings pitched.

Junior infielder Emily Gusse leads Harvard in batting average, on base percentage and is tied for most hits. Gusse was recognized

as the Ivy League Player of the Week the first week of the season.

The LSU bullpen averages a 2.44 ERA and is led by fresh-man pitcher Baylee Corbello, a nominee for SEC Freshman of the Week and SEC Pitcher of the Week last week.

In her 4-0 weekend, Corbello recorded 17 strikeouts in 24 in-nings pitched, culminating in a 2.04 ERA for the weekend.

“The wins last week over top teams give me all the confidence in the world to play anyone,” Corbello said.

In the second game, LSU will face Jackson State, which allowed 17 runs in its last two losses.

Jackson State is led offen-sively by senior infielder Lauren Aikens, who has 8 RBIs and 13 hits in her first 38 at-bats of the season.

Though Jackson State has only hit one homer this season, it has stolen 22 bases resulting in 34 runs.

The success of the Tigers’ pitchers makes the defense more

determined to make plays to help out the pitchers, Blades said.

The Tigers start the action at 4:30 p.m. on Friday at Tiger Park, where they look to continue their

recent success.

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During the Southeastern Conference championships, countless athletes from 14 South-eastern Conference schools will be settling into their starting blocks thinking about the oppor-tunity that lies ahead: a chance to qualify for the NCAA Champion-ships on March 14.

But for LSU senior hurdler Jasmin Stowers, opportunities lie beyond the finish line and the track.

At this weekend’s 2014 SEC Indoor Track and Field Champi-onships, Stowers has the chance to make history as the first athlete in conference history, male or female, to win four straight SEC Indoor championships in either the 55-meter or 60-meter hurdles. But Stowers’ real goals grow be-yond her success on the track.

“With Jasmin, I think that there’s really that focus in aca-demics and being a collegiate athlete,” said LSU track and field coach Dennis Shaver. “But she has more aspirations to go to graduate school than she has to be a professional track and field athlete.”

If hurdling doesn’t turn into a profession, Stowers’ career goal is to become a dietician because she said proper nutrition is something both athletes and non-athletes can benefit from.

Academics always finishes first in Stowers’ mind. The Pend-leton, S.C. native has carried the classroom success she held at Pendleton High School to LSU, being named to the SEC Aca-demic Honor Roll twice.

Both her athletic and scho-lastic abilities have shaped the person Stowers is today. And the honors she’s received have been endless since Aug. 17, 2007 was named “Jasmin Stowers Day” in the town of Pendleton, S.C.

“I was given a key to the city,” Stowers said. “It felt really good at the time. I know some people had that honor before so to be one of those people I felt blessed.”

Stowers’ potential to be a role model as a student and an athlete has made Shaver’s four years as her coach a special experience, he said. Her hard work and per-severance have been tested and proven on and off the track, most notably when she came back from a hamstring injury suffered in 2013’s Battle on the Bayou in Baton Rouge.

After pulling up in a 100-meter dash during the April 13 event, Stowers rehabilitated and was able to compete in the SEC Outdoor Championships a month later. Although she wasn’t able to defend her two-time crown in the 60-meter hurdles, Shaver said it was “miracle” to even see her make the NCAA Final.

Stowers battled adversity, and that molded her into a lead-er. Being the only 60-meter and

100-meter senior hurdler on the women’s team, Stower’s charac-ter has evolved since her fresh-men year.

“I’ve definitely seen my-self grow,” Stowers said. “I’ve become a better leader for the team and also know what it takes to do well in the SEC because it’s a very competitive confer-ence. I had to step up this year to be an example for the younger freshmen.”

If not for the injury in 2013, Stowers may have added three straight outdoor crowns in the 60-meter hurdles to the three straight indoor titles she owns, a record currently tied with former Lady Tiger Lolo Jones, who set it from 2002 to 2004. While it’s an honor for Stowers to be men-tioned in the same sentence as Jones, an Olympic hurdler, Shav-er said it is well deserved.

“I really do believe that in the next two competitions, if every-thing goes well, I think [Stowers] could end up being our school record holder,” Shaver said. “So that means that she would have run faster indoors than Lolo

Jones did as a collegiate. In their own ways, they’re very unique and special and both of them were very good students and very good athletes for our program. We’re proud of both of them.”

Stowers remained humble when asked about all of her ac-colades and comparisons to Jones. Breaking records means nothing if she’s not helping LSU win its thirteenth SEC Indoor Championship.

And when the 2011 Women’s Freshman Runner of the Year and five-time All-American is asked about the future, she is more fo-cused on the present and the SEC Championships.

“[Becoming an Olympian] has always been an aspiration of mine,” Stowers said. “I’m just trying to get through this year and see how fast I run. Hopefully I’ll be capable of doing that in the future.”

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“We don’t try to put too much pressure on ourselves and stick to the fundamentals.”

Freshman second baseman Kramer Robertson — who made a key base running mistake and an error that led to a ULL run — will also get the chance to redeem himself against Yale on Friday.

Mainieri said Robertson will start Friday night at second base, while junior Conner Hale will play first base.

“You’re going to make mis-takes in baseball, and you’re not going to be perfect every game,” Robertson said. “It’s not my first error I’ve ever made, and it’s not going to be the last. It’s all on how you respond.”

Friday’s contest will be Yale’s season opener. Ivy League programs don’t begin their respective seasons until the first

weekend of March.Last year, Yale finished 13-

25, but the Bulldogs closed out the season with five straight vic-tories against Dartmouth and Brown.

The last time LSU played Yale was in a 7-1 Bulldog victory in 1908.

“Yale is as experienced as [ULL],” Mainieri said. “They’ve got their entire pitching staff back, and they’ve added a really good freshman arm. Those kids are very mature and very confi-dent. They’ll come out here, and they won’t be intimidated.”

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LSU senior guard Jeanne Kenney (5) drives to the goal Thursday after the Lady Tigers’ 72-67 loss to Tennessee in the PMAC.

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LSU senior forward Theresa Plaisance (55) hugs Mike the Tiger Thursday after the Lady Tigers’ 72-67 loss to Tennessee in the PMAC.

team that stayed together and obviously showed a team that was able to come back from ad-versity and potentially put them-selves in position to win.” said LSU coach Nikki Caldwell.

Tennessee controlled the first half from the first possession, quickly running out to a 12-2 lead. Fifty percent shooting from the field and 34 combined points from teammates Meighan Sim-mons and Cierra Burdick gave the Lady Volunteers a 42-21 lead at half.

LSU’s stars struggled to keep up in the first half, as se-nior forward Theresa Plaisance and senior guard Jeanne Kenney combined for just 13 points on 3-of-15 shooting. In the locker room at the break, Kenney had a moment with Plaisance that helped click the tandem back in gear.

“Jeanne knows me really well, so when she came up to me and basically told me, ‘This is our half. We are not going to go down like this.’” Plaisance said. “That’s what did it for me.”

The duo combined for 28 points in the second half, helping inspire one of the Lady Tigers’ most impressive runs of the sea-son. The team took everything

possession by possession, cut-ting the lead to single digits with 6:20 left and tying the game with little more than three minutes to play.

A major reason for the turn-around was the concentration to take care of the ball. After com-mitting 11 turnovers in the first half, LSU committed just one in the second.

High energy plays on de-fense pumped up the crowd and propelled the team throughout the comeback. Kenney said the emotion from players and the crowd made her proud to play the game.

After trading baskets for two minutes after LSU tied, the most important play came with just one minute left when Simmons made a 3-pointer to put the Lady Volunteers back up five. Tennes-see coach Holly Warlick said the shot was risky but was a testa-ment to the player Simmons is.

The Lady Tigers will have to transition quickly as they hit the road this weekend to take on Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Sunday afternoon. The Crimson Tide has displayed its share of highs and lows, dropping two games to Auburn while winning at Kentucky.

The Crimson Tide is led by junior guard Daisha Simmons,

who leads the team in assists while also putting in 13.4 points and 5.1 rebounds. Caldwell said Simmons is one of many guards for Alabama who can shoot the ball very well.

More importantly, the team will look at this game as a way to channel themselves as the Lady Tigers head into the postseason.

“This team has it in them,” Caldwell said. “They have a re-sillency about themselves, they have a competitiveness about themselves, and they have a determination about themselves.”

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perspective, LiCata said in an email, a research associate con-ducting mass communication re-search may be subject to random drug and alcohol screening if their title is research associate.

LiCata defi ned research asso-ciates as people paid, most often through grants, solely to conduct research at the University. He pointed out the National Science Foundation and the National Insti-tutes of Health, which he estimates

fund 90 percent of research in the U.S., have no requirements similar to the University and have rejected such policies when brought up.

Postdoctoral associates will also be included in the expansion. LiCata said postdoctoral associ-ates will go to another university for more experience after receiving their doctorate, much like physi-cians complete a residency at a hospital before venturing out on their own.

A.G. Monaco, associate vice chancellor for Human Resource

Management, provided a list of positions considered “safety-sensitive,” which did not include postdoctoral associates or research associates, Licata said. Those two were added orally, at a meet-ing of Human Resource Manage-ment representatives, making the status of these positions more ambiguous, LiCata said.

One of the concerns motivat-ing the expansion is insurance, said Faculty Senate President Kevin Cope. Although there are con-cerns with people operating heavy

machinery, handling dangerous chemicals and driving around cam-pus, Cope said, research associates and postdoctoral associates are not likely to be in a risky position,

Both LiCata and Cope said they think the expansion is an abuse of Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure.

LiCata submitted a resolution to the Faculty Senate for the Dec. 5 meeting, titled “A Call for Pro-tection of Privacy Rights of LSU Staff.” At the February Faculty

Senate meeting, Monaco addressed some of the concerns and planned a meeting to speak with the sponsors of the resolution, Cope said.

The meeting should happen before the March 18 Faculty Sen-ate meeting so they can have some progress to report, LiCata said. He said he is hopeful about resolving the issue, because “the administra-tion has been very responsive to the faculty senate.”

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Taylor said Tony eats 20 pounds every day of specialized big cat food made from a blend of meat and vitamins, which is less food than the 25 pounds per day Mike eats, according to Mike the Tiger’s website.

“We get truck drivers that come through here saying that they remember when their own parents would bring them here to see the tigers,” Taylor said. “There are people who may never see a tiger if they didn’t come through.”

Sandlin said the truck stop has housed tigers in its fenced enclo-sure since 1988, when he bought Toby and Rainbow, a breeding pair that lived to be more than 20 years old and had a total of 13 cubs over the 19 years they lived at the truck stop.

“LSU is not a stranger to criti-cism about Mike,” Sandlin said. “The only thing that lightened their load is their habitat, which quieted

the complaints against LSU.” In 2006, Louisiana legislation

regarding the exhibition of exotic animals changed, and Sandlin lost his permit to ex-hibit the large fe-line. While Tony was still legal un-der federal law, Sandlin needed an exemption for Tony issued from the Louisiana De-partment of Wild-life and Fisheries, one that he said the University received for the housing of Mike.

According to the Animal Legal Defense Fund’s website, Tony’s enclosure puts him at risk for adverse health effects because of truck stop fumes and his pacing of his habitat. The ALDF sued the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries in 2010 for unlaw-fully issuing Sandlin a permit for his tiger.

Sandlin said Tony paces his

habitat because he’s a male tiger, and if the state legislation would allow, he would have gotten a mat-ing partner for him. Sandlin said

the fact that his tigers produced healthy cubs in the past, which Sand-lin sold or traded with other breed-ers, shows they were happy and healthy.

“My employ-ees, on two occasions, have caught animal rights people using the fl ash on their cameras to try and upset him,” Sandlin said. He mentioned that those who oppose their posses-sion of Tony say he looks sad.

According to ALDF’s website, the case for Tony’s freedom, in one meaning or the other, remains up in the air.

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Samantha BaresI’m pretty loud and adamant about catching the coolest beads and other useless knick-knacks at parades. I don’t fl ash anyone, or anything, but I defi nitely yank the mile-long strands out of the air before it can land on some poor kid’s sensitive head. We all know this holiday is for the benefi t of the children, after all. But my favorite parade runs from my front door to the garbage can, beads in hand. Mardi Gras is fun in the moment, but introduces way too much clutter.

Jose BastidasThe mass of heavily intoxicated grownups and the over-priced cab fares of my fi rst Mardi Gras last year were au-tomatically overshadowed by my favorite parade, Bacchus. I’m not one to compete, let alone beg, for people on fl oats to throw beads and other stuff at me. So when I was stand-ing in the crowd and a toy pig dropped to my hands, I knew I had to treasure it forever. His name is Herman, and yes! It grunts.

Jana KingHaving spent four years in high school marching band, Mar-di Gras parades are not my fondest memories. Each year I marched about 30 miles total, toting a heavy silver mel-lophone and dressed in a hot, sweaty uniform. My fi rst year in college, I took Mardi Gras weekend off — avoiding New Orleans at all costs. This year will be my fi rst experience on the sidelines, and I’m hoping it’s a good one.

Annette SommersMy fi rst parade was last year, about a week before the actual holiday. My friends and I fl ashed our best “throw me some-thing, mister” smiles, which quickly faded as a parade of nudity and, to put it nicely, vulgar fi gures drove by. It just so happens that was Krewe du Vieux, and I was scarred for life. Or at least until I witnessed Bourbon Street nightlife, Mardi Gras edition, a week later.

Ryan McGeheeThe best for me was the Mardi Gras Day parade in Gheens, La. In the days leading up to it, I helped construct the fl oat a buddy of mine and his family were riding on, most of which was a drunken blur. Say what you will about New Orleans, but they can absolutely throw back some booze in Gheens. During the parade, I spent my time in a lawn chair in the back of a pickup getting pelted with hundreds of beads.

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“Do you not think that the big businesses will kick their leashed politicians into ensuring that they still remain as the most successful business with minimal competi-tion and max pro� ts? Capitalism is the world of opportunism where one would take all advantage of any chance they have available to better themselves in any way, with all apathy toward the jobs, families, and other businesses, both estab-lished and aspiring alike, that they topple and destroy in their wake. The average person who “votes” them in does not have any sort of power or control over what the politician says, does, advocates, or supports; it is the big businesses that gave them the funding to get elected in addition to the many bribes and free trips to New York every week to ensure that the politician listens solely to the monetarily and politi-cally deep pocketed big businesses. No matter what we demand the politician do, even if we manage to get Crooked Carl removed from of� ce before, during, or after his term ends, we are just going to elect Corrupt Chuck and his other equally money hungry buddies to take Carl’s place in our laughably optimistic hope that they � x the problems we, as average Americans, must face in this economy, while they gladly accept the collar and leash, roll over obediently, and fall into the same pattern of big business teat sucking that come about because of this magical thing called greed bolstered and � eshed out by the oh so all amazing capitalism!!!!!!! We will never be able to separate state and economics because of the irreparable systematic � aws we have in place already. It’s a nice, lofty hope and dream, but as long as we keep electing more and more politicians, all of whom reciprocate the overwhelming support from the same disgustingly rich companies that we are trying to drag down to some remote degree of fairness and equality, we certainly aren’t going to get anywhere.”

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SidneyRose ReynenI don’t like parades. I’d prefer to never get pelted with plas-tic beads by white people who reek of beer. A plus side to parades though: those free plastic cups. However, I do enjoy parading around LSU campus in a new outfi t. No one throws things at you then.

Justin StaffordI have only attended quaint community parades. I fi nd them to be pleasant in a small-town America kind of way. I love the sight of the people gathered together and the children on their parents’ shoulders. The sound of young laughter as they catch a string of beads is fantastic. It takes me away for a moment from the hustle and bustle that consumes the world.

Andrew StolzleI’ve never had a more positive Mardi Gras experience than when I was in the third grade. Since the highlight of my days usually centered around “Spongebob” and a McFlurry with M&M’s, catching gigantic beads and shiny doubloons was almost an out of body experience. But now, I’d rather quarantine myself in my own room instead of marinating in streets fi lled with cheap beer, musk and rejection.

Megan DunbarOlympia is hands-down my favorite parade. The super krewes are great and bring back fond memories. But as a Northshore native, I have to give kudos to the parade show-casing the St. Paul’s band in all its fi nery. It’s like Mardi Gras lite, with just a little bit of drunken debauchery in front of the thousands of downtown Covington art galleries instead of stately St. Charles Avenue homes.

Eli HaddowGrowing up in New Orleans, there was no better child-hood memory than walking from school on Jackson Av-enue to my grandmother’s house the Friday afternoon be-fore Mardi Gras. There, I would sit through a couple of hours of CNBC, eat cold Popeyes and await the coming of Hermes and Le Krewe D’état. The eager anticipation of the rest of Mardi Gras, as well as the ensuing week off of school, made that night more enjoyable than Christmas Eve itself. Couple that youthful sentiment with the taste of stale-ish McKenzie’s king cake without icing and nothing could compare.

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Dr. Seuss’ birthday is not far away.Do you remember what his books say? Most of you read them as wee little tots.If you look at them closely, you will learn a lots. You have grown into a college student.You are smarter now and much more prudent. You surely recall the Grinch and “Horton Hears a Who!”Now you might wonder how that pertains to you. Let’s look at the lessons and morals within.You can use them now just like you did then. Open up “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.”You’ll find you can befriend anyone you wish! Some of your pals might enjoy biology.Don’t forget students of sociology! We can all agree on one thing for sure.There are many sick people and we need a cure. We can all take hold of someone’s hand.Let’s join together and take a stand. You are wise Who boys and smart Who girls.You can all work together to change the world. There might be a Grinch who has a small heart.That doesn’t mean he can’t play the part. Show him kindness to change his ways.It might take years, months, weeks or days! He will then see he’s not so different from you.You both can start doing that job that you do.

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BLUE COLLAR SCHOLARJustin staffordColumnist

Editor’s Note: This is the first column in a three-part series dis-cussing racism in America. This column contains language that may be offensive to some readers.

Maurice Williams’ participa-tion in a class community service project at a local thrift store came to a halt when a worker at Connec-tions for Life accused him and his friend of stealing.

After several conversations, the owner of the store apologized and allowed the two students to re-turn to finish their community ser-vice hours. But that didn’t erase the racial bias that Williams continues to experience.

“The woman had no proof that we had taken anything,” Williams said. “All she had was the color of our skin and a bias against black people.”

Racism is no longer tied ex-clusively to hatred or violent at-tacks against members of a race. It has become a system in which one race triumphs over another. It is a learned system that has led me to become a 19-year-old, southern Louisiana racist.

As I talked to Williams, a gen-eral studies senior, I felt ashamed of being white, but I realized my individual apology won’t help any-thing. When prejudice has gotten to the point of political and economic oppression, those things won’t change because individuals claim not to be racist.

Claiming race is biological and unchangeable assigns characteris-tics to people based on things they can’t control. And it has helped to rationalize white supremacy.

In the time of slavery, we de-veloped a system of meaning to rationalize identifying Africans as property. The same rationalization contributed to the brutal genocide of Native Americans.

These factors explain why rac-ism doesn’t work both ways. While any individual of a different race can hold a prejudice against me for being white, their opinion does not hold power over me. It doesn’t make it more likely for me to be ar-rested or not to get a job.

My personal prejudices ac-complish that and more. It’s a mistake not to be critical of all forms of racial prejudice, but it’s an even bigger mistake to assume that all forms of racial prejudice are equal.

We claim to live in a post-racial America, but we live in an America where Sarah Palin can post to Face-book on Martin Luther King Jr. Day that President Obama should honor

the civil rights leader by no longer “playing the race card.”

It’s funny, however, that no white person claims the race card in times when it’s convenient to be white. Would a white student complain about flying under police radar? No, we only claim that the race card exists when it negatively affects us.

Bryan McCann, assistant pro-fessor in the Department of Com-munication Studies, researches and teaches crime and public culture. And he wishes the race card would be played more. The more people who point out every instance of ra-cial inequality, the more attention is brought to the issue.

McCann cited LSU emergency alerts as an example.

“If you’re a black male on campus when that text goes out, it might not be talking about you ex-plicitly, but it’s talking about you,” McCann said. “If LSUPD drives past you, they’re probably going to back up. You can’t say that about other students,”

We have coined the term “race card” as a way to avoid listening to a black individual’s protests to how society treats them, which is some-thing we should all be ashamed of.

When I spoke to Williams about racism and how it affects him as a black male, it quickly became apparent that the young man’s an-ger was centered around one factor — a lack of communication about racism.

He said it’s necessary, first and foremost, for people to see this is a discussion worth having. We’ve all seen the Confederate flag. We’ve heard derogatory language. And while we may not mean it in the same way slave owners meant it in the 17th to 19th centuries, it doesn’t change the fact that at one point someone created these symbols of oppression.

“We’ve decided that only black people can say nigger,” Wil-liams said. We’re not going to say you can’t raise the confederate flag, but we’re not going to have either on the front page of the school paper.”

It’s time for us to put aside the personal integrity that we cling to when we say “not to be a racist, but...” and admit that yes, I am a 19-year-old learned southern Loui-siana racist. But I will actively fight that miseducation. We all have to actively fight this learned system.

To stagnate in this fight is to remain a racist America.

Jana King is a 19-year-old communication studies sophomore from Ponchatoula.

Racism, USAThe myth of post-racial America

Contact Jana King at jking@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @jking_TDR

OFF WITH HER HEADJana KingColumnist

You’ll have a new friend now but a lot still to learn.Don’t stop, there are new friends around every turn!

College is a big new world with many things to try.Be safe and smart, but don’t let it pass you by.

You too may find green eggs and ham are all right.You will never ever know until you take just one bite. You may get too wild like Thing 1 and Thing 2.But no cats in hats may be around to help you. Too much play is surely not best.If you mess up, clean up and then rest. That talking fish in the bowl is the voice inside you.You can listen to it when you don’t know what to do. This chapter of your life is full of study and flow.If you love what you do, oh, the places you’ll go! You can be anything you want, if you just try.There are no limits, not even the sky. Some will live in city flats and some in condos on beaches.No one is greater, not even Star-bellied Sneetches. In the end, “who is better than who” is a silly game.One can climb Everest or teach, but they’re both the same. Don’t leave anyone out, oh, no one at all!A person’s a person, no matter how small. A Horton may hear and you may not see.Give him a chance and how right he may be! Did I ever tell you how lucky you are?To live where you live and be who you are. You’ll run into problems and get into a pinch.You’re a brave LSU student, there’s no need to flinch. So keep in mind ole’ Dr. Seuss.He’ll be there to help you, he’s always of use.

Theodor Seuss Geisel was born on March 2, 1904.Justin Stafford is a 20-year-old mass communication junior from Walker, La.

Seussical in schoolsicalColumnist pays tribute as Theodor Suess Geisel’s birthday approaches.

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Mardi Gras beads have become a significant aspect of New Orleans life. Beads can be seen through-out the year hanging from phone lines and strung up in trees as remnants from the previous year’s revelry. But during the season, the beads are a constant reminder of what Mardi Gras means to the city.

Carnival season begins on Twelfth Night, Jan. 6, and con-tinues until the big day of Mardi Gras. Throughout this time, dozens of krewes hold their annual pa-rades. Each parade lasts only a few short hours, but over the course of these events millions of pounds of beads are thrown to the excited masses.

To most, beads are only impor-tant during the season and quickly lose their luster when the parades have stopped rolling. But the beads travel a long way to arrive in the Crescent City and their lives con-tinue on well after Fat Tuesday has passed.

The history of Mardi Gras beads begins in the 1950s with string beads made of glass primar-ily made in Czechoslovakia. Alan Philipson, who organizes the beads and throws for the Rex parade and who’s family was the first in the bead business in New Orleans, said the Czech bead was immensely popular but quickly died as the cost of production was too high.

Philipson said the market then jumped from Czechoslovakia to Japan with the popularity of the much cheaper “bugle bead,” which is made out of tubes of glass, before again shifting to China where almost all of the modern production occurs.

He said the founding of su-per krewes like Bacchus and En-dymion had a major effect in the ever-changing roles of beads. The high demand for large quantities of beads that these parades brought made them mass quantity throws as opposed to collectors’ items.

“At different times, doubloons and cups have overtaken beads in popularity, but it always comes back to beads,” Philipson said.

The current popularity of the Mardi Gras bead is undeniable. According to an article by the Los Angeles Times, an estimated 25 million pounds of beads are thrown each year. But what happens to those beads after Mardi Gras?

Many end up in the streets. Each year, the parades leave a mas-sive quantity of garbage in their wake. Much of that trash comes from the beads, which are so com-mon that few will pick ones up that fell on the ground. Cleaning these beads can be a massive hassle, but groups like Downtown Develop-ment District of New Orleans work hard to return order to the city.

Richard McCall, director of operations for the New Orleans DDD, said its cleaning teams use large manpower and a variety of methods to return downtown New Orleans to its normal state after the parades. Because of the efforts of the DDD, downtown is gener-ally returned to its regular state by early morning on Ash Wednesday. Yet, the large amount of garbage produced by the parades remains a problem.

In recent years, groups have

been making efforts to cut down on the amount of bead waste produced by instigating bead recycling programs.

The Arc of Greater New Or-leans, an organization that works with people with intellectual dis-abilities, runs a program that turns donated beads into a useful ser-vice. The program provides jobs for people with disabilities who recycle the beads for resale to vari-ous other parades. Margi Perez, the recycling coordinator for the Arc, said they sell on average 120,000 pounds of beads every year, and they have already surpassed those numbers this year.

“People are becoming more conscious of the fact that beads need to be recycled, so they are catching more,” Perez said. “If more people can do this, then the landfills will see a lot less plas-tic and Mardi Gras will be better for everyone.”

Many are beginning to con-sider how Mardi Gras beads can change to make a less harmful ef-fect on the environment, while still keeping the charm they are known for.

New Orleans parade manager Katrina Brees founded I Heart Louisiana in 2012 to re-evaluate the eco-friendliness and future of the Mardi Gras bead.

While most beads are made of plastic and contain a variety of environment-damaging chemicals, to reduce the environmental foot-print of parades, Brees has started producing handcrafted beads made of aluminum and recycled paper clay.

These beads are more individ-ualized collectors’ items than mass throws, and Brees hopes it will be a continued trend.

“We are designing beads that will end up in someone’s jewelry box. That is our goal,” Brees said. “We want high fashion items. Our items are not being designed in a sweatshop half a world away, they are being designed by someone who understands the trends going on in New Orleans right now as far

as jewelry and fashion.”Brees is using iconic New

Orleans symbols like the fleur-de-lis and the New Orleans Sewer-age and Water Board water meter to give these new beads a local flair.

Though beads may change, to Philipson, they are an essential part of Mardi Gras and will remain that way for as long as New Orleans celebrates the holiday.

“Beads have a natural mag-netism to them,” Philipson said. “I don’t think it’s stopped and I don’t think it ever will. Beads will change, they’ll get tired of some beads, but they’re always going to want beads.”

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THE Daily Commuter Puzzle by Jacqueline E. Mathews

FOR RELEASE FEBRUARY 28, 2014

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Thursday’s Puzzle Solved

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BEADS, from page 1

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[Above] Mardi Gras beads hang from a tree Thurs-day on the side of North Sixth Street. [Left] Pride mas-qerade beads sit on display Tues-day at Beads By The Dozen located in Metarie, La.

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