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When a University professor and psychology student team up to explore the underlying themes of black motherhood in hip-hop and R&B music, the results are em-powering.
Cassandra Chaney, associ-ate professor of Child and Family Studies and Arielle Brown, psy-chology senior, submitted national research regarding these issues and will be hosting a panel entitled “Is Black Motherhood a Marker of Oppression or Empowerment? Hip-hop and R&B Lessons about ‘Mama’” on Feb. 25 at the LSU Women’s Center.
Chaney and Brown recently partnered with each other through LSU’s Ronald E. McNair Research Scholars to embark on the study of two music genres that continue to defi ne generations.
Chaney said prior to beginning this project, she was already re-searching how African-American families are represented in the me-dia. However, as the project devel-oped, the focus shifted specifi cally to black motherhood and its pres-ence in hip-hop and R&B songs.
“I fi nd it amazing how this project defi ed many stereotypes, as far as mothers and hip-hop, be-cause a lot of people see it [hip-hop] as super violent.” Brown said. “It’s surprising, when you peel off the surface and look underneath, what great messages these artists have of their mothers.”
The majority of her re-search with Brown showed black
motherhood is a symbol of em-powerment and not oppression, Chaney said.
“Internally, there is a lot of strength related to their decision to become mothers,” Chaney said.
At its core, hip-hop is more racially and socially conscious, while R&B has more of an emo-tional sensitivity to it, focusing on love and romance, according to Chaney.
While taking a hip-hop and religion class, Brown said she learned about the music genre and the platform it became for many African-Americans to talk about racial issues. She also said hip-hop songs from different decades high-light the different aspects of life within the African-American com-munity at that time.
The duo examined 59 songs,
The area surrounding the Baton Rouge lakes is a beautiful place to relax, rife with students and residents enjoying exercise or down time. Scenic as the lakes may be, accidents and in-cidents are always a possibility.
Since 2011, there have been 55 traffi c crashes handled by LSU Police Department in-volving a bicycle or pedestrian, said LSUPD spokesman Capt. Cory Lalonde.
Logan Pearce, University of Louisiana Lafayette cross country athlete, said he always runs the lakes when visiting his uncle in the area.
“It’s beautiful out here,” he said.
Nearly every evening, the area fl ourishes with runners, walkers and cyclists, students and non-students.
Varsity Sports owner Jenni Peters said the lakes contain
routes of various distances. Uni-versity Lake, the larger of the two lakes, has a four-mile-long circuit, while running around both the University Lake and City Park lakes will exceed six miles in distance, Peters said.
Some believe running the lakes can be dangerous because of traffi c, and Pearce said the abundance of cars whizzing past and bicycles unexpectedly appearing from behind intimi-date him on occasion.
“It can get very tight back in the neighborhoods,” he said.
Peters said safety is para-mount when running or cycling anywhere.
“Runners should always go toward traffi c,” Peters said.
Gary Graham, director of Parking, Traffi c and Transpor-tation, said in most of the re-ported instances, the bicyclist is at fault. Traffi c crashes often result from cyclists riding in the
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Cassandra Chaney (left), associate professor of Child and Family Studies, and Arielle Brown (right), psychology senior will host a panel regarding black motherhood in hip-hop and R&B music on Feb. 25 at the LSU Women’s Center.
Campus prepares for snow flurries
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Half an inch of snow forecastedQuint ForgeyContributing Writer
EVENT
Hip-hop, R&B genres empower African-American mothersProfessor, student research phenomenonAlexis RebennackContributing Writer
SNOW, see page 11LAKE SAFETY, see page 11
MOTHERHOOD, see page 11
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Running the LSU Lakes can be safe with the right precautions
Despite students’ hopes for a snow day, University administra-tors said Thursday evening that all classes and activities scheduled for Friday would continue as planned, according to University director of Media Relations Ernie Ballard in an email.
Ballard said when the ques-tion of cancelling classes comes up, the decision falls upon LSU President F. King Alexander and the LSU Emergency Operations Center, which will “make the best possible decision based on the lat-est weather reports with the safety of our campus community as the top priority.”
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OAKLAND (AP) — The San Fran-cisco Bay Area transit offi cer who was shot and killed by a fellow offi -cer while they searched an apartment died of a single gunshot wound to the chest, according to autopsy results released Thursday.
Bay Area Rapid Transit police Sgt. Tom Smith was wearing a bul-letproof vest when he was shot on Tuesday, but the bullet struck an area that was not covered, Alam-eda County sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. J.D. Nelson said.
“Unfortunately, bulletproof vests do not provide 100 percent sup-port,” he said.
Authorities were still trying to determine whether the other offi cer’s weapon discharged accidentally or if the offi cer mistook Smith for some-one else, Nelson said. Either way, it was an accident, he added.
Smith, 42, was shot while au-thorities searched a one-bedroom apartment in Dublin for a smart-phone, laptop bag and related items stolen during an armed holdup at a train station in Oakland.
He was the fi rst offi cer killed in the line of duty in the transit agen-cy’s 42-year history. Smith’s older brother, Patrick, said his heart goes
out to the family of the fellow offi cer who accidentally shot and killed his colleague.
“We’re going to mourn the loss of our brother. We’ll never forget him,” Patrick Smith, a fi eld training offi cer with the Newark, Calif., po-lice told KPIX-TV Wednesday about the death of his brother.
“But there’s someone else in an-other family that’s affected by this, too, and I feel sorry for them,” said
Patrick Smith, whose other brother, Ed Smith, is a deputy with the Alam-eda County Sheriff’s Department.
Smith’s wife, Kellie Smith, also a BART police offi cer, told the TV station she “cherished every mo-ment” she had with her husband, a 23-year BART police veteran who oversaw the department’s detective unit.
The couple has a 6-year-old daughter.
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BOSSIER CITY (AP) — Bossier City police have arrested a teenager after he allegedly had possession of a fi rearm on a high school campus.
Authorities booked 18-year-old Bernard Pogue, of Bossier City, on a charge of possession of a fi rearm on a school campus in connection with a Tuesday incident at Bossier High School. Pogue is not a Bossier Parish student.
The Times reports Pogue was involved in a fi ght with a 14-year-old student. Witnesses told police that after the altercation, Pogue went to his car and displayed a handgun before driving away. Witnesses say they didn’t see Pogue point the weapon at anyone.
Police later arrested Pogue on a charge of simply battery and he was released on bond.
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Law enforcement of� cers salute as the body of a Bay Area Rapid Transit police of� cer is loaded into an Alameda County Sheriff’s Coroner vehicle on Tuesday.
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A protester breaks up a mannequin on the roof of a burned truck during clashes with police in Kiev on Thursday.
Of� cer dies from gunshot wound to chest
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Ukraine opposition urges truceKIEV (AP) — A top Ukrainian op-position leader on Thursday urged protesters to maintain a shaky truce with police after at least two dem-onstrators were killed in clashes this week, but some in the crowd ap-peared defi ant, jeering and chanting “revolution” and “shame.”
Emerging from hours-long talks with President Viktor Yanukovych, opposition leader Oleh Tyahnybok asked demonstrators in Kiev for sev-eral more days of a truce, saying the president has agreed to ensure the re-lease of dozens of protesters and stop
further detentions.But other opposition leaders of-
fered mixed reports on the outcome of the meeting, with Vitali Klitschko saying negotiations had achieved little.
He and Tyanhnybok were booed at the barricades by angry demon-strators and the atmosphere appeared tense.
“We are not going to sit and wait for nobody-knows-what,” said Andriy Pilkevich, a ski mask-wear-ing protester who was building bar-ricades near police lines from giant bags of ice. “Those who want to win must fi ght.”
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The Baton Rouge Police Department is investigating an armed robbery that occurred around 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday at University Edge apartments on 650 West McKinley St.
Witnesses said four male suspects forced their way into an apartment at University Edge, taking one apartment resident hostage as another apartment res-ident, a criminal justice Univer-sity student, locked himself in his
room before climbing out to the edge of his fourth-floor bedroom window.
The criminal justice student called out to witnesses below to contact emergency services before falling to the pavement, breaking his feet and ankles and crushing two of his vertebrae, ac-cording to a business marketing University student who lives at University Edge.
Witnesses said the suspects struck the first apartment resi-dent, who had been taken hos-tage, multiple times in the face with a handgun, knocking him out before they made off with stolen items.
The business marketing stu-dent said the suspects took more
than $8,000 in stolen items, such as cameras, laptops, a game con-sole and cash.
Witnesses said the suspects took a third victim hostage in an elevator as they tried to flee the scene, holding a gun to his head before releasing him and escaping.
As they attempted to leave the building, the suspects tried to rob six other victims, Cpl. L’Jean McKneely, BRPD spokesman, said.
BRPD arrested one of the suspects, former Ole Miss foot-ball player Hayward Howard, 27, of 5336 Marais St., New Or-leans, after he attempted to flee the scene.
Hayward was booked into
East Baton Rouge Parish Prison for two counts of armed rob-bery and six counts of attempted armed robbery, McKneely said.
A community meeting was held at 4 p.m. on Thursday on University Edge grounds to ad-dress the concerns that residents had about the security on the grounds.
Before Wednesday’s inci-dent, police patrolled Thursday through the weekend, but Eric Silvestri, regional manager for Peak Campus Companies, the owning corporation of University Edge, said they will increase pa-trols earlier in the week.
“We have off-duty offi-cers that come and help us out,” Silvestri said.
Many residents voiced their concerns at the meeting, some of whom were looking to termi-nate their leases because of the unsatisfactory security on the grounds.
Those wishing to leave the complex were told that the incident was “not a valid rea-son to break their lease,” said a University Edge resident.
McKneely said police are ac-tively searching for the remain-ing suspects and the incident is still under investigation.
The LSU Women’s Center will host a stalking awareness workshop Saturday to educate students about the dangers and preventative measures they can take against stalkers.
The Women’s Center has partnered with the outreach orga-nization Lend Ah Hand as well as local officials to create an agenda aimed at informing University students of the effects of stalking.
The Louisiana stalking stat-ute defines stalking as “the inten-tional and repeated following or harassing of another person that would cause a reasonable per-son to feel alarmed or to suffer emotional distress.”
Lend Ah Hand founder Daria Vinning, a victim of stalking, said she wants to raise awareness and invoke stronger penalties for stalkers in state law. Vinning will be one of the keynote speakers at the workshop.
“We should be able to not only have better laws against stalking, but also convictions and enforcement,” Vinning said.
As a Baton Rouge resident, Vinning said she wants to bring her experience and outreach to the University to inform students of this issue. However, the size of campus and the fact that the University is a public institution does not necessarily mean there are more instances of stalking compared to other places, Vin-ning said. Stalking can occur in a large state university or a small community college, she said.
Summer Steib, director of the Women’s Center, said there are not many workshops or orga-nizations in Louisiana that focus solely on the issue of stalking. Most of the concern and atten-tion is placed on the instances of violence that often result from stalking, Steib said.
One of the ways to provide
evidence of stalking is to keep a log or journal of instances that have happened over time, Steib said.
Assistant District Attorney M e l a n i e Fields will also speak at the confer-ence about the difficul-ties of pros-ecuting stalk-ers. Part of the reason building a case against a perpetrator is difficult is the personal nature of the details surrounding each case, Fields said.
“Intimate stalking,” as opposed to stranger stalking, is more common because the stalk-er knows the routines and ev-eryday life of the person they’re
stalking, Fields said. Losing a case could be a serious outcome for a victim of stalking because there could be a serious threat to the victim’s safety.
The more serious effect of stalking is the
possibility of domestic violence that could result from a lack of action, Steib said. This because
most victims of intimate stalking are stalked by someone they were previously in a relationship with, she said.
“I think we have to look at stalking as on that continuum
of gender based violence,” Steib said.
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Bring It On: The Musical - Baton Rouge River CenterGreg Schatz - Buffa's Bar & Restaurant
Gregg Martiznez - Paragon Casino ResortMichigan Avenue - Boudreaux & Thibodeaux'sPJ Bond - Mud and WaterMatt Kayda - Phil Brady's Bar & GrillBrandon Rhyder - Texas ClubThe Barhoppers - The Roux House
Nick Name & The Valmonts - Banks Street Bar & Grill
Friday Night Stand Up Open Mic - La Nuit Comedy Theater
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Join us for an afternoon of gospel music with the all-male Louisiana Gospel Fellowship Choir at the Jones
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LSU Libraries Civil Rights Film Series,
Tuesday January 21, 2014Signpost to Freedom: The 1953
Baton Rouge Bus BoycottNoon - Hill Memorial Library Lecture Hall
(Film clips and discussion)6:30 PM - Hill Memorial Library Lecture Hall (Full �lm
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Women’s Center to host stalking awareness workshop
“We should be able to not only have better
laws against stalking but also convictions and
enforcement.”Daria Vinning
founder of Lend Ah Hand
UEdge residents injured in incidentreese PerkinsContributing Writer
At the fi rst Student Technol-ogy Fee Committee meeting of the semester, members of Information Technology Services presented a funding proposal for the 2014-15 fi scal year, which may bring major changes to campus computer labs.
Of the potential $4,342,385 in expenditures discussed, $3,342,383 would go toward ITS. The remain-ing million dollars is the Chancel-lor’s Request, an effort implement-ed in 2010 to continue providing technology services through budget cuts.
Graduate Council President Thomas Rogers said budget con-straints caused the University to look toward STF to make up for lack of funding.
University Provost Stuart Bell said he is unsure if the $1 million would be available to the STF Com-mittee to use for other purposes until the legislature passes the budget in June.
If funding is available for STF use, the committee is considering when to allow University faculty and staff to submit individual fund-ing proposal, with most requests be-ing for student worker salaries and
updating hardware, software and license agreements.
Michael Smith, assistant direc-tor of ITS, said the committee also discussed ways to preserve funds, in-cluding closing labs. He said closing the Union lab would save $60,000 in student labor costs.
Last semester, the STF Commit-tee conducted a survey concluding less than fi ve percent of students use the University’s computer labs on a daily basis.
Based on that information, ITS is also considering new approaches to the computer labs in Middleton Library, possibly eliminating the sec-ond fl oor lab and reducing the total number of computers in the library.
Smith said these cuts could lower the cost of wireless nodes too.
“It’s important that these deci-sions be made quickly to allow ITS to go out and get equipment installed prior to the fall semester,” said Rob-ert Kuhn, interim vice chancellor and CFO.
Deliberation will continue at the next STF Committee meeting, on Thursday, Feb. 20.
With the spring semester comes the height of the fl u sea-son, and the Student Health Center has already issued ap-proximately 3,000 vaccines to students.
Health Center employee Amanda Ourso said about 50 injections remain.
The injection is free for full-time students and is available to part-time students and staff at the Health Center for a fee, said Julie Hupperich, Health Center associ-ate director, but most insurance companies cover the fl u shot.
The vaccine lasts about six months before the person is no longer immune, Hupperich said.
An alternative to the fl u shot is the fl u nasal spray, but it’s not provided at the Health Center because fewer people are quali-fi ed to receive it, Hupperich said. Moving toward using the spray more has not been discussed, though Hupperich said it is available at local drug stores.
In some ways, college students are more susceptible to the fl u than the rest of the popu-lation because they live in close proximity to their peers in large classes and residence halls, Hup-perich said. Students are also more likely to share food, drinks and utensils, making it easy to pass the fl u, she added.
However, being young and in shape does give college stu-dents an advantage over others, Hupperich said.
While Hupperich said the vaccine can help prevent the fl u, she said there are instances where the vaccine won’t help. In the middle of a sickness is the only time getting the vaccine is discouraged, as the immune sys-tem is already struggling. After being infected with the fl u virus, the vaccine will not help much, as the body already recognizes the virus and can fi ght it off, Hupperich said.
Hupperich addressed some misconceptions about the vac-cine, saying that neither the fl u shot nor the spray can cause the
fl u, and the only side effects may be soreness at the injection site.
Student opinion on the shot varies.
Alexis Ledoux, chemical engineering freshman, encour-aged students to get the vaccine. Ledoux received the shot and was around her sister who had the fl u and didn’t catch it. Her sister did
not get the vaccine, she said.Morgan Maite, food
science graduate student, said she believes the best theory is to just “wash your hands.” Maite said she doesn’t get the shot, nor the fl u.
Hupperich advised students to get the fl u shot and to have healthy habits to help prevent it,
such as getting plenty of sleep, eating well-balanced meals, exer-cising and disinfecting computer mice and keyboards periodically.
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SportsFriday, January 24, 2014 page 5
Read a recap of Thursday night’s women’s basketball game, p. 12
Just Flippin’ RelaxLSU needs relaxed approach against Auburn
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Tigers set to take on Tide
Forcing turnovers key to Lady Tigers’ success
graphic by ELIZABETH BARBIER
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Despite posting the third-highest score in the nation against Georgia last weekend, the LSU gym-nastics squad left Stegeman Colise-um the same way it entered: seeking its fi rst Southeastern Conference win of the season .
The No. 2 Tigers (1-1, 0-1 SEC) now look to grab that fi rst SEC vic-tory when they host No. 14 Auburn (1-1, 0-1 SEC) at 7 p.m. on Friday in the PMAC.
LSU coach D-D Breaux is hop-ing a return home to the comfort of the PMAC will help her squad re-discover the confi dence it displayed in its record-setting season open-ing performance against Centenary College .
“We have to be more relaxed, like we were against Centenary and create our own momentum,” Breaux said. “[At Georgia,] we never felt like we had the momentum or con-fi dence. I thought we were really uptight.”
It may seem odd that the second-ranked team in the country would need to be reminded of its abilities. But in a sport where the slightest mistake can have heavy repercus-sions, the daunting task of compet-ing for a national championship can shake even the elite athletes.
Junior all-arounder Rheagan Courville , the No. 2 gymnast in the country, could benefi t from heeding her coach’s remarks.
Against Georgia, Cour-ville stepped out of bounds dur-ing her fl oor routine, resulting in a
David GraySports Contributor
With 5:49 left in LSU’s 80-77 victory against Tennessee on Jan. 2 , freshman guard Raigyne Moncrief stole the ball from Ten-nessee’s Cierra Burdick , lead-ing to a 3-pointer by junior guard DaShawn Harden .
It was the Lady Tigers’ third forced turnover in a little more than four minutes, and all three were part of a 20-4 run that proved crucial to LSU’s victory. A grin came to senior forward Theresa Plaisance ’s face as she relived the run and the turnovers that helped create it.
“You’ll notice in our games that when our defense picks up, then our offense picks up,” Plai-sance said. “That correlates di-rectly from getting stops, and mainly getting those turnovers. …
Momentum swings are huge when it comes to getting that turnover.”
Forcing turnovers has become one of the Lady Tigers’ greatest assets as they move further into a challenging Southeastern Confer-ence schedule. LSU ’s opponents are averaging 20.3 turnovers per game, and when the Lady Tigers force more than that average, good things tend to happen.
In games where LSU forced 20 turnovers or less, LSU is 6-4 and has an average scoring margin of 2.7 points. In games where LSU forced more than 20 turnovers, the Lady Tigers are 8-0 and have an average scoring margin of 18.5 points.
Practice is the key to LSU’s success. Plaisance said coach Nikki Caldwell constantly in-structs the team to try to get defl ec-tions and disrupt the opponents’ passing lanes.
Caldwell said these discus-sions in practice lead to more turn-overs and the chance for points in transition.
“We talk about how when we extend our defense, we want to ei-ther look to trap or delay and dis-rupt them, try to get a ten second call if we can,” Caldwell said. “But I like that Danielle Ballard and Rai-gyne Moncrief can get their hands on some basketballs and lead to some transition points.”
A major part of LSU’s success comes through the ability to steal the ball, averaging 9.4 per game. Mocrief , Harden and Ballard are the main factors, with each of them averaging at least 1.5 swipes per game.
In her freshman season, Bal-lard became the fi rst player in LSU history to record at least 100 steals
Tommy RomanachSports Contributor
TURNOVERS, see page 6
LSU Record
LSU Points Allowed70
60
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40
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20
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20 or less forced turnovers
20 or more forced turnovers
70.5 points
53.9points
20 or less turnovers6-4
20 or more turnovers8-0
Basketball is a game of big scoring runs, and it’s important to maintain resiliency when hit with a run so a team can climb out of any defi cit it has fallen into.
The LSU men’s basketball team has used resiliency to be-gin its run, but it’s going to take a few more games to complete the climb.
LSU (12-5 , 3-2 Southeastern Conference) will attempt to as-cend further up the SEC standings as the team plays Alabama (8-10 , 2-3 SEC) on Saturday night at Coleman Coliseum in Tuscaloosa , Ala.
“[Coach Johnny Jones ] makes it important to realize we have a win streak going, and we want to continue to keep going,” freshman forward Jordan Mickey said. “We have to get some quality wins on the road and just keep ourselves rolling.”
LSU spent the past week saving its season, winning home games against Vander-bilt and Missouri that could help the Tigers make the NCAA tournament.
The main reason for the resurgence is the improved game of junior forward Johnny
SUCCESS, see page 7
Tommy RomanachSports Contributor
RELAX, see page 6TAYLOR BALKOM / The Daily Reveille
LSU junior all-arounder Jessie Jordan � ips during her � oor routine Jan. 10 during the Tigers’ victory against Centenary in the PMAC.
After a thrilling, back-and-forth debut win against Rice last Sunday, the LSU men’s tennis team will ride the momentum into the Intercolle-giate Tennis Association’s Kickoff Weekend in Nashville, Tenn.
The No. 23 Tigers (1-0) will join a group of schools that all rank inside the top 20, beginning with their opening-round contest against No. 19 Wake Forest (4-0). The win-ner of Saturday’s match will ad-vance to face the winner of No. 15 Vanderbilt and No. 20 Texas.
With only one upperclassmen on its roster, junior Chris Simp-son, LSU brings youth into a tour-nament packed with established, experienced tennis programs.
“A couple of those teams are probably better than their ranking,” said coach Jeff Brown. “These teams may be further along with the make-up of their team, but that doesn’t mean we can’t play very well against them and get a win.”
Simpson, a team captain, leads the Tigers into an event in which Vanderbilt boasts the No. 9 ITA-ranked Gonzalez Austin and the No. 2 doubles team in Austin and Ryan Lipman. LSU will see a familiar foe from Mississippi State in No. 20 Ro-main Bogaerts as the 2013 National Rookie of the Year transferred to Wake Forest this season.
Last Sunday’s season-opener was a learning experience for the Ti-gers, as it marked the first collegiate matches for freshmen Justin Butsch and Eric Perez.
“What happens in your first matches as a freshman is everything moves really fast,” Brown said. “You notice all the fans, you notice all the noises. The things that are easy in practice, when you add nervousness to it, it makes it very difficult.”
An inspired, come-from-behind effort against the Owls on Sunday told Brown a lot about the Tigers’ potential.
Brown said with time, LSU will gain experience, and competing against stiff competition early in the season will prove beneficial down the road.
“We’re going into it trying to get the most out of it and hopefully
that means a win,” Brown said. “But if not, we want to soak up everything that the weekend has to offer.”
Coach Julia Sell’s squad began the Kickoff Weekend by traveling to Coral Gables, Fla., on Wednesday af-ternoon. Although their stay in sunny South Beach may seem like an early spring break, the trip will be all busi-ness for No. 65 LSU this weekend.
The Lady Tigers (2-0) take on No. 59 South Florida (1-0) on Friday afternoon. The matchup will mark the first meeting since 1998 and kicks off a weekend that will be an early quality test for the rebuilt LSU squad.
“The kickoff weekend is some-thing [the Lady Tigers] haven’t played for a few years,” Sell said. “It’s a great opportunity to get a look at some of the top teams. It’s a high-quality event that we’re going down to and it’s just a great chance to see where we’re at.”
The winner of Friday’s match will move on to face the winner of the contest between host-Miami and No. 72 Ohio State. The No. 9 Hur-ricanes boast the No. 32 ITA-ranked singles player in Stephanie Wagner.
The king of Neil Schiff Tennis Center’s courts this weekend will advance to National Team Indoors on Feb. 7. But LSU is focused on the Bulls.
“We want to get through Fri-day,” Sell said. “South Florida’s traditionally a really good team. … They’re a tough team and they’re not in a conference so they’re always ranked lower than they should be. They’re scrappy, they’re fighters, they’re coached well.”
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But this wasn’t the first time the All-American has made that mistake. It wasn’t the first time she made the mistake in that arena either.
“I did that my freshman year on that same floor, so I guess I was just thinking about it a little too much,” Courville said.
Instead of focusing on past mis-takes, Courville said she believes she and her teammates need to focus on their success from everyday practice.
“We need to reflect on what we do in the gym and notice how good each and every one of us are,” Courville said. “That will build our confidence and give us the mindset [coach] D-D wants us to have. That way, we can be relaxed out there and
have fun.”If the Tigers look back on what
they’ve accomplished just this sea-son, they should have no trouble trusting their abilities.
Despite the loss at Georgia, the Tigers retained the No. 2 national ranking. LSU is one of only two pro-grams in the country currently ranked in the top six in all four events.
Despite the impressive rank-ings, Breaux was adamant that the numbers weren’t all she’s concerned about.
“We scored well enough to keep our ranking and have one of the highest scores in the country, but our team walked away knowing we’ve got to do better to win,” Breaux said.
This week in practice, Breaux turned the squad’s focus to perform-ing under pressure to help them get accustomed to the rigorous demands
of SEC competition. Breaux’s mes-sage was simple: If you don’t per-form well in practice, your spot is at risk.
It may seem difficult to balance a relaxed mindset with a competi-tive edge, but senior Sarie Morrison believes the early success of the sea-son and her coach’s change in prac-tice methods will benefit the Tigers against Auburn.
“It’s easy to be relaxed when you know that you’ve put in the work during practice,” Morrison said. “To know that we’re ranked No. 2 also gives us an easy mind going into the meet [against Auburn].
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“I look at the player with the ball, her eyes tells me everything: what she’s going to do and what di-rection she’s going to go,” Ballard said. “I read based off her, and I time it up perfectly because I know when she is going to throw it.”
LSU’s two opponents next week, Ole Miss and Mississippi State, both commit less than 16 turnovers per game. In the Lady Tigers’ first five SEC games, how-ever, opponents have committed more turnovers than what they averaged coming into the game.
Caldwell has said through-out the season that their defensive scheme will be the key to success in the SEC. Forcing turnovers will be important not only in the con-ference, she said, but in the NCAA tournament as well.
“[Turnovers] throw off the rhythm of the offensive team,” Caldwell said. “So we definitely want to disrupt our opponent, and one way to do that is by turning them over.”
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O’Bryant III , who is averaging 19 points and 9 rebounds in his last two games. O’Bryant III experi-enced one of his worst games of the season the week before in a loss to Ole Miss , scoring only 6 points on 1-5 shooting.
O’Bryant III said he remem-bers the Ole Miss game vividly, and he vowed to improve for his teammates.
“I felt like it was a lot of my fault [against Ole Miss ]. I fouled out and I didn’t really give them much that game,” O’Bryant III said. “I tried to do my best to produce as much as I could. … I’ve had two good games I’m just going to try to keep it up.”
One of the biggest changes to the team came after the 68-50 loss to Tennessee , when Jones benched senior guard Andre Stringer and freshman forward Jarell Martin for sophomore guard Malik Mor-gan and senior forward Shavon Coleman .
Since then, Stringer and Martin have had season-highs in points, scoring 23 and 18, respec-tively. Jones said the selfl essness of this team has made the mid-season lineup change an easy process.
“I think the really good part of the makeup of our basketball team is that these guys are so caught up in winning,” Jones said. “They’re not ‘me’ guys, they’re team guys. I think that’s what’s allowed this team to have success.”
Alabama is coming off a 68-62 loss to Florida Thursday night
at home. The loss snapped a 14 -game home winning streak against SEC opponents for the Crimson Tide, dating back to 2012 .
Alabama may come into the game with a losing record, but the Crimson Tide are battle tested. Four of Alabama’s losses have come to teams in the current AP top 25, and eight have come by 10 points or less.
Senior guard Trevor Releford leads Alabama, leading the team in both points and assists. Rel-eford had a career game in his last matchup against LSU, scoring 36 points on 14-18 shooting in a triple overtime Tiger victory.
The Tigers may be look-ing ahead to next Tuesday, when they host No. 14 Kentucky for the fi rst time in two years. Kentucky comes in with a stellar freshman class and were picked to win the SEC in the preseason media poll.
But Jones said he has empha-sized to his players to stay focused on the game ahead to complete their climb out the hole.
“I think our guys understand that our most important game on our schedule is the next one, and that happens to be Alabama this time,” Jones said. “They certainly will present them a great chal-lenge for us on Saturday. … Noth-ing will come up via our prac-tice but Alabama until our game is over.”
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SUCCESS, from page 5LSU junior forward Johnny O’Bryant III (2) dribbles around Missouri defenders Jan. 21 during the Tigers’ 77-71 win against Mizzou in the PMAC.
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My stomach was the first to go.Winter break has finally come to a
close, and it has been a stressful week and a half since I returned to campus. So it seems far-fetched that a little more than a week into my first trip to the Big Apple, I was burned out on vacation.
My palate threw in the towel the day my boyfriend and tour guide wanted to go straight from the Staten Island Ferry to Katz’s Deli, arguably the most famous restaurant in the city. By this time, we had swung like har-ried monkeys from train to train, seen sights aplenty, dodged each other’s snowballs — my first — and eaten our way through the coolest cuisine I could never get in Louisiana.
Pizza by the slice, gourmet macaro-ni and cheese, the fanciest Eggs Bene-dict I will ever devour in five minutes, Mamoun’s falafel, specialty meatballs, specialty doughnuts, specialty pudding — I should have been in paradise.
But, on that day, another new food experience sounded like being tossed into a swimming pool filled with pickles and brine. My brain had been
overwhelmed with sensation and re-gressed to the simple relationship it had with food at age five: stick to what you know, and fear all else.
All I wanted, or so I whined as we passed the Statue of Liberty on the way back to Manhattan, was one repeated meal. It didn’t have to be something from home. I wasn’t homesick. I just wanted falafel again, another food New York introduced to me.
My boyfriend, who travels by his stomach above all else, was baffled. He had introduced me to countless dining experiences with success, and now I didn’t want a warm deli sandwich and soup.
I chanted “falafel” in his ear, hoping to spark his appetite and get my bratty way, but he placated me by promising falafel for dinner. At Katz’s, we gorged ourselves on sandwiches, soup, latkes and — in his case — pickled things. We skipped dinner and opted for a walk on the Brooklyn Bridge instead, but we re-served the last day of the trip for repeat meals.
As the remaining days in New York counted down, my stomach got back on track and anticipated every strange, new bite.
But I started to feel exasperated with other vacation elements. I sighed through winding museum galleries. I scoffed at some amazing urban parks.
Sorry, High Line.Close on the tail of this annoyance
was shame. I was on vacation in the city that never sleeps, and I was com-plaining, however inwardly, about an obligation to experience the place be-fore I went home.
Looking back, the trip’s duration was its downfall. My routine had be-come all new experiences, and I started to resent them the way I resent trips to the post office. The seemingly never-ending obligation to see, eat and do it all was becoming as grating as ordinary obligations.
Thankfully, I managed to shake myself out of it and have an uproari-ous good time my last few nights in the city. I will only have fond memories of my time in NYC and of properly made falafel.
But I’m still stupidly grateful to be back in Baton Rouge, where I can eat Cane’s every night and nap on the couch every afternoon.
Samantha Bares is a 20-year-old English junior from Erath, La.
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Imagine if Zach Mettenberger started taking trips to play football for Barack Obama at the White House. They become friends and Mettenberger even sings “Happy Birthday” to the president. All the while, Obama is holding a Uni-versity student hostage.
But Mettenberger, not want-ing to involve himself in politi-cal affairs, ignores the reality of the situation and continues their friendship, enraging the entire state of Louisiana.
A similar situation is trans-piring with former NBA player Dennis Rodman and the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un. I’m not saying that Obama is equiva-lent to a North Korean dictator who recently executed his own uncle, but the same social respon-sibility applies for both sports icons.
After returning from his sec-ond visit to North Korean, Rod-man said, “I’m not God. I’m not [an] ambassador. I’m no one.”
Rodman has a point. I don’t believe he anticipated this much social buzz when he and the Har-lem Globetrotters departed for their first North Korean trip back in February 2013.
And, no doubt, this visit has stirred up some extra controversy because of the lack of support Rodman expressed for Kenneth Bae, an American tourist sen-tenced to 15 years hard labor for supposedly plotting to bring down the North Korean govern-ment through religious activities.
On Monday, Bae spoke in front of a camera for the first time since his arrest. He said he admits to committing the crimes North Korea is holding him for, even though these crimes haven’t been clearly communicated to the U.S. He hopes the American press will stop worsening his situation by exaggerating rumors, which are not based on facts.
Although North Korea is known for its brutality and lack of human rights, Bae also stated that he had experienced no abuse from the regime.
In a country known for hav-ing some of the harshest prison camps, that is a little hard to be-lieve. As a CNN article pointed out, the country has a reputation for generating false confessions, so taking Bae’s words as the truth should be done cautiously.
Here is where Rodman comes in handy. The only known attempt Rodman has made to gen-erate the release of Bae was on May 7, 2013 when he tweeted at the North Korean leader, “do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae loose.”
Well done, Rodman, display-
ing your budding friendship with the world’s most oppressive lead-er on Twitter. Just fantastic.
Rodman, however incompe-tent, owes it to his country to de-fend and support our political and moral endeavors overseas.
This is true for all public fig-ures. Sen. David Vitter, who re-cently announced he will run for Louisiana governor, also has a social responsibility to his people.
Vitter was caught in a pros-titution scandal in 2007 and has
been working his way back up the political ladder ever since. Loui-sianans will obviously take his actions into account during the election.
This is because people in power, people who represent our cities or states, should be the best versions of what they rep-resent. Unfortunately, this rarely happens, especially in American politics.
But Rodman is an especially horrific circumstance.
And again, America is not trying to be friends with North Korea. We want to halt their nu-clear program and welcome Bae home. Rodman is making a joke out of us.
Yes, it is ironic that after struggling to find a way into this country for so long, we want to forbid the one person who is ac-tually welcome there from going.
But come on, who would’ve thought out of all the decent Americans, all ten of them, Rod-man would be the one liked most by Kim Jong Un.
I am secretly hoping Rod-man is fooling us all and will end up going down in history as one of the best undercover spies of all time. But considering he checked into rehab Monday, I don’t think that will turn out to be true.
Annette Sommers is an 18-year-old mass communication sopho-more from Dublin, Calif.
A gunman shot and killed 21-year-old Purdue University senior Andrew Boldt on Tues-day, in the university’s electri-cal engineering building.
The best way to prevent catastrophes like these is for people to seek help before it’s too late.
Cody Cousins, a 23-year-old student, was arrested after he surrendered to the Purdue University Police Department and was booked with a prelimi-nary murder charge.
Authorities have yet to comment on why Cousins com-mitted the crime, but they are certain it was an isolated inci-dent and Boldt was the only in-tended target.
Whatever the reason that motivated Cousins to com-mit such an awful crime in the middle of a school day, mental health must have played a key role in this devastating event.
This incident is just one of the numerous tragedies to occur
at U.S. academic institutions in the past few years, and there must be a way to prevent them from happening.
According to an article in “The Forensic Digest” — “Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters” by Peter Langman – school shootings can be prevented by identifying warning signs. Some of these signs can appear through dis-cussion with friends, in school, at work, posts on social media and interactions with parents.
Another article posted in “LiveScience” after the New-town school shootings stated mass shootings are motivated by revenge or envy, which is why the most common loca-tions for crimes of that variety occur in places like schools or business offices.
However, psychologists are having a hard time predicting which individual will commit a crime.
Many people believe it is society’s exposure to violent media, such as movies and vid-eogames, that has influenced people to commit more crimes. But of the millions of people who play Assassin’s Creed or enjoyed Django Unchained,
very few have ever picked up a gun.
Most people have at least one point during their lives when they feel betrayed, hu-miliated or isolated. Specially in a place like a college cam-pus where every single person is trying to juggle a demanding class schedule and newfound freedom away from parents.
Because of this, it is hard for third parties to be certain of who in a community is a killer and who is just going through a rough patch.
Luckily for the LSU student body, the Student Health Cen-ter’s Mental Health Services offers students the opportunity to talk to licensed profession-als about subjects ranging from depression and anxiety to eat-ing disorders and self-esteem issues.
The Mental Health Services office is located in the second floor of the Student Health Cen-ter. Appointments can be made by telephone at 225-578-8774 or on the Student Health Center website.
It is the psychology world’s consensus that people don’t become criminals overnight; which is why I believe if a
person realizes when it is time to ask for help, then a large amount of shootings and other tragedies on college campuses can be prevented.
Jose Bastidas is a 20-year-old mass communication junior
from The Woodlands, Texas.
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Purdue University students, faculty, friends and family gather for a candelight vigil for Andrew Boldt, 21, who was fatally shot Tuesday on Purdue University’s campus.
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� e Daily Reveille page 11Friday, January 24, 2014
THE Daily Commuter Puzzle by Jacqueline E. Mathews
FOR RELEASE JANUARY 24, 2014
ACROSS1 Summoned
with a beeper6 Likelihood
10 Tiny amount, ina recipe
14 In the know15 Nurse’s helper16 Resound17 Part of USNA18 Adolescent19 Red octagonal
street sign20 Vision22 Arm covering24 12/24 & 12/3125 Sporting facial
hair26 Blush29 “Your Time __
Come Yet,Baby”; ElvisPresley song
30 Primate31 Happen again33 Speed __; one
who drives fast37 Dock39 More miffed41 “Been there, __
that”42 Threaded metal
fastener44 Passion46 Sept.’s follower47 Impudent49 Davis & Midler51 Nervous54 Attorney
General Janet55 Day __; stock
speculator56 Noticeably
different60 Heavy book61 Secondhand63 Maui greeting64 Get __; take
revenge65 Bundle of hay66 Ease67 Take a nap68 __-crazy; tired
of confinement69 Flower stalks
DOWN1 Window glass
2 Out of town3 __ in; relented4 Cleared a slate5 Hand over6 Sworn
promises7 Count calories8 Ike’s initials9 Smell, touch,
taste, etc.10 Abandoned11 Played a role12 Push forcefully13 Remained
optimistic21 Trait carriers23 Terra firma25 Exposed26 Knocks27 Heroic poem28 Stag or doe29 Rush32 Seashore34 Like a point no
longer worthdiscussing
35 In the past36 Brooklyn team38 Local yokel
40 Comfywraparounds
43 __ war; fight45 Homes with
tenants in them48 Bushes50 Bathroom
“throne”51 Say
52 Show to betrue
53 Subdues54 Passenger56 Sandwich shop57 Short letter58 Pal59 Bugle song62 Took a seat
Thursday’s Puzzle Solved
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wrong lane or running a red light, despite the fact they must follow the same laws as automobiles, Graham said.
“In Louisiana, bicycles are considered vehicles. Therefore, they should ride with great care,” he said.
Graham said runners and cy-clists should be well lit at night, using refl ective materials to make themselves as noticeable as possible.
He said everyone holds the re-sponsibility of knowing his or her surroundings.
Peters said being visible is not the only concern, as lighting in cer-tain areas around the lakes is lack-ing, leading to considerable issues for runners. The blacktop bike path running from Milford Wampold Memorial Park to sorority row is particularly rough, she said,
leading to many falls in the dark when runners cannot watch their footing.
“We’ve had many falls in that spot in our running group,” Peters said.
Being aware of footing when running in the dark can help pre-vent these issues, Peters said.
Another issue in the dark is the bench on May Street, which cyclists and runners are known to collide with, said Peters.
In spite of perceived risks,
Peters said she continues to enjoy the Baton Rouge lakes, practicing safety along the way. She believes the beauty of the lakes keeps run-ners and cyclists active.
“I’ve ran competitively around the world,” she said. “The lakes stand up to the world’s prettiest courses.”
LAUREN DUHON / The Daily Reveille
Sudents who run the lakes should be careful to stay in well-lit areas, wear re� ective materials and be wary of cars and bikes.
Contact Lyle Manion at [email protected]
LAKE SAFETY, from page 1
cancelled for weather-related or other reasons, students will receive email notifi cations, and offi cial word will also be updated on the LSU homepage and throughout the University’s social media channels.
Ballard said there is not a particular cut-off time for the an-nouncement, and he said the Uni-versity constantly monitored weath-er conditions through the night and into this morning.
Gov. Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency Thursday af-ternoon for Louisiana as a result of the weather conditions, signing an emergency order that would allow for the uninterrupted delivery of propane and heating fuels.
McNeese State University an-nounced Thursday its campus would remain closed through today, as will the schools in the West Baton Rouge Parish School District and East
Baton Rouge Parish public schools.Phil Grigsby, National Weather
Service forecaster, said LSU expect-ed a light snow and sleet mixture after 9 p.m. Thursday. The weather will continue to 8 or 9 a.m. today, possibly resulting in roughly half an inch of snow for the LSU area, Grigsby said.
Grigsby said this unusual weather is the result of a phenom-enon known as “overrunning,” in which a cold front in the Baton Rouge area converges with a gust of warm air coming in from the south-west.
Grigsby said the last time Ba-ton Rouge experienced similar con-ditions was Feb. 12, 2010, when an inch of snow covered the city. Grigsby also said Baton Rouge had 0.3 inches of snow in 2009 and 3 inches in 2008.
SNOW, from page 1
Contact Quint Forgey at [email protected]
both R&B and hip-hop, and iden-tifi ed four typologies related to black motherhood, Chaney said.
Brown said the research also explores previous literature in terms of how hip-hop has changed, examining songs from as early as 1950.
The women agreed their re-search ultimately suggests the strength of black mothers.
“Of course, in terms of so-ciety, black women are most likely to be head of single mother households, and there are lots of
challenges associated with that re-ality. But the song lyrics we ana-lyzed really speak to the strengths of these women and the support they received in their role as single parents,” Chaney said.
Contact Alexis Rebennack at [email protected]
MOTHERHOOD, from page 1
BATON ROUGE SNOW REPORT
Did you know that back in 1895, Baton Rouge received 12.5 inches of snow? Check out an interactive graph on snowfall in Baton Rouge going back to the 19th century on lsureveille.com.
DEC. 11, 2008 DEC. 4, 2009FEB. 12, 2010
3.O INCHES
1.0 INCHES
0.3 INCHES
When LSU needed a spark against unranked Auburn on Thursday night in the Pete Mara-vich Assembly Center, two fresh-men stepped up to propel the home team to a 71-60 victory.
LSU (15-4, 4-2 Southeastern Conference) opened the contest shooting 4-of-18 from the fl oor, but a pair of seniors and a fresh-man teamed up to give the Lady Ti-gers life.
With No. 15 LSU struggling from the fi eld early, coach Nikki Caldwell turned to Japan native Rina Hill, who proved to be a catalyst on both sides of the ball.
The freshman entered the game and contributed six points, two rebounds and one steal before halftime, helping to pull the home squad within one point.
“[Hill] did a nice job of knock-ing down shots for us at critical times, and she was very solid on the defensive end,” Caldwell said. “Whenever you can go to your
bench, you like to see them pro-duce, and she did just that tonight.”
Caldwell had to make an ad-justment at the half as Auburn (11-8, 2-4 SEC) entered the locker room with a 36-35 lead.
Freshman guard Raigyne Moncrief came out red-hot in the second half, pushing LSU to an eventual nine-point lead with roughly 10 minutes remaining in the game. The Fort Lauderdale, Fla., native shot 6-of-11 from the fi eld, fi nishing with 15 points.
Senior forwards Shanece McKinney and Theresa Plaisance provided leadership from both the fi eld and the free throw line, com-
bining to shoot 5-of-11 on fi eld goals and 7-of-8 from the line in the fi rst half. Plaisance fi nished the game with 19 points and 11 rebounds, while McKinney
fi nished with 11 points and fi ve re-bounds.
Plaisance also made noise in the history books. With 15:48 re-maining in the second half, she recorded her 500th career rebound, making her the 18th player in Lady Tiger history to have 1,000 career points and 500 career rebounds.
“I never thought I’d be able to get this moment,” Plaisance said. “My fi rst year was nonexistent. I
made it through, and luckily I had great teammates who got me the ball and had the trust and confi -dence in me to score the ball.”
The Lady Tigers will travel to Tad Smith Coliseum on Sunday to battle Ole Miss (10-10, 1-5 SEC).
Rebel senior point guard Va-lencia McFarland has spent the most time on the fl oor for her squad this season, hitting 41.5 percent of her shots from the fi eld and 33.3 percent from 3-point range.
“[Ole Miss is] very capable,” Caldwell said. “We’ve got to un-derstand that and respect it and stick to our game plan.”
page 12 Friday, January 24, 2014� e Daily ReveilleWOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Freshmen guards step up in 71-60 LSU victory
RICHARD REDMANN / The Daily Reveille
LSU freshman guard Rina Hill (13) drives toward the basket Thursday during the Tigers’ 71-60 victory against Auburn in the PMAC.
Plaisance grabs 500th career reboundLawrence BarrecaSports Writer
LSU · AUBURN
71-60
SCORE BY HALVES
LSUAUBURN
FINAL1ST 2ND
3536
3624
7160
Theresa Plaisance - 19 pts, 11 rebounds
STAR PERFORMERS Raigyne Moncrief - 15 points
Contact Lawrence Barreca at [email protected];Twitter: @LawBarreca_TDR
‘[Hill] did a nice job of knocking down shots for
us at critical times.’Nikki Caldwell
LSU women’s basketball coach