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Friday, January 25, 2013 • Volume 117, Issue 77www.lsureveille.com
In the wake of numerous school shootings and bomb threats, the University’s Facility Services de-partment is taking steps to make the campus safer with a new procedure for issuing and keeping track of keys on campus.
Door by door, Facility Services workers will be making their ways around campus over the next few years in an effort to create a central-ized electronic database that tracks the cutting and issuing of keys.
About two years ago, the is-sue of tracking and retrieving keys became a concern to the Associate Vice Chancellor of Human Resource
Management A.G. Monaco , as well as LSU Chief of Police Lawrence Rabalais . They, together with Ex-ecutive Director of Facility Services Tony Lombardo , decided the best way to improve safety for everyone on campus was to improve key con-trol, according to Associate Director of Facility Maintenance Sam Territo.
“It’s more about security than it is about the keys,” Territo said.
With the old key system, Fa-cility Services would cut and issue keys from its own lock shop based on work orders from various depart-ments.
Once keys were cut, Facility Services issued keys to building co-ordinators, responsible for commu-nicating with Facility Services about public safety and risk management concerns within their building. These building coordinators then issue keys to professors.
For more than a decade,
building coordinators have been keeping track of each facility’s keys with a notebook, Territo said.
Territo said the informal track-ing made it diffi cult to retrieve keys from professors leaving the Univer-sity .
Not knowing how many people have keys to buildings around cam-pus raised concerns for the LSU Po-lice Department about the possibility of thefts on campus, Territo said.
Territo said not being able to track keys could lead to the wrong individuals having access to every-thing from dangerous materials like chemicals to musical instruments that could be pawned.
“There was no University track-ing. It was all very decentralized and independently done,” Territo said. “Underlying everything is a terrorist act or a Virginia Tech-type scenario.
New key procedure meant for more securityCAMPUS SAFETY
Process aims at better access controlGabrielle BraudContributing Writer
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Admins send studentsinvitesMcKenzie WomackStaff Writer
Idol Power
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photo illustration by ANGELA MAJOR / The Daily Reveille
A door is unlocked at LSU’s Facility Services Of� ce on Thursday.
At age 12 , Megan Miller as-tounded her mother with a karaoke rendition of a Martina McBride song. Years later, her raw talent produced the same effect on Nicki Minaj , Mariah Carey and Randy Jackson when she auditioned for “American Idol ” last summer.
The University kinesiology se-nior and former Miss Greater Baton Rouge will be competing with this season’s cycle of “American Idol” hopefuls, and the episode in which she was offered her spot on the show aired Thursday night.
Miller said she has loved mu-sic ever since she was “little bitty.” Her musical muses range from Mar-tina McBride to Adele , and she has drawn inspiration from these song-stresses through the years.
Miller said her singing career began at an early age. She was self-taught and has never had a voice lesson. She said she had a “shel-tered” upbringing in Ethel, La., and only sang behind closed doors.
Her singing reclusion came to a halt when her family dined at a karaoke restaurant.
“I went and signed up for ‘A Broken Wing’ by Martina McBride ,
and my mom was like, ‘You know that’s a really, re-ally hard song.
Why don’t you sing what the other girls are singing? Like ‘Strawberry Wine ?’” Miller recounted. “I was like ‘No, I want to do this.’ And I got up there and I blew her away, and she hasn’t tried to prevent me from sing-ing ever again.”
Her precocious talent prompted Miller to continue singing and even-tually led her to audition for the me-ga-hit singing competition, “Ameri-can Idol .”
Miller said she waited until this point in her life to try out because she wanted to ensure she had a college degree before chasing her dreams.
The initial audition process began back in the muggy days of July
University student competes on ‘American Idol,’ re� ects on audition
LAUREN DUHON / The Daily Reveille
Kinesiology senior Megan Miller auditioned for American Idol from July to November, when she was chosen to go to Hollywood and compete. Miller said she is honored to have made it this far in the competition.
Daily Reveille Exclusive
Taylor SchoenEntertainment Writer
Emails inviting students and faculty to participate on the Transi-tion Advisory Team’s subcommit-tees were sent out Thursday .
The Transition Advisory Team consists of 10 people — none of whom are students or faculty mem-bers — tasked with studying the re-organization of the LSU System and reporting to the LSU Board of Su-pervisors about plans to reorganize the system.
LSU Student Government Pres-ident Taylor Cox and former LSU SG President J Hudson have been vocal advocates of adding students to the Transition Advisory Team, but administrators have not acquiesced to their requests.
Instead, administrators have insisted students will be able to
NEWS: Check out photos from the MLK Performing Arts Night, p. 4
SPORTS: Read what an editor says about JaMarcus Russell’s NFL hopes, p. 5
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Millepied of ‘Black Swan’ success named director of Paris Opera Ballet
PARIS (AP) — Benjamin Mil-lepied, the “Black Swan” chore-ographer who helped transform Natalie Portman into an obsessed, paranoid ballerina for the film and later married the actress, was named director of the Paris Opera Ballet on Thursday.
Millepied, 35, is a former prin-cipal dancer with the New York City Ballet who left in 2011 to cre-ate his own dance company in Los Angeles, L.A. Dance Project. He starts at the Paris company in Oc-tober 2014, when the current dance director, Brigitte Lefevre, retires.Spanish paper halts edition with fake photo of Venezuelan president
MADRID (AP) — The leading Spanish newspaper El Pais withdrew and reprinted its Thursday edition after discovering that its front-page exclusive photograph supposedly showing ailing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez being treated in Cuba was a fake.
The paper apologized to its readers for the mistake.
The poor-quality image showed the head of a man apparently on a hospital bed with tubes in his mouth.
El Pais had received the picture from an agency, Gtres Online, which declined to comment on the issue.
Rhode Island House easily passes gay marriage bill, awaits Senate approval
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Rhode Island House of Representa-tives on Thursday overwhelmingly passed legislation to allow gays and lesbians to marry in the only New England state where they can’t.
The House voted 51-19 after an often emotional debate that touched on civil rights, religion and the na-ture of marriage. The bill now moves to the Senate, where both supporters and opponents of gay marriage say it is difficult to predict the bill’s fate.
Nine states and the District of Columbia now allow gay and lesbian couples to marry.NASA begins testing vintage engine from Apollo 11 rocket for future use
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A vin-tage rocket engine built to blast the first U.S. lunar mission into Earth’s orbit more than 40 years ago is again rumbling across the Southern land-scape.
The engine was supposed to help propel Apollo 11 into orbit in 1969, but was grounded because of a glitch during a test in Mississippi and later sent to the Smithsonian Institu-tion, where it sat for years.
Now, engineers are using the bell-shaped motor in tests to deter-mine if its design can be improved for the next set of moon explorations.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The city of New Orleans must scale back its plans for a “clean zone” where the use of banners, signs and flags would be restricted during Super Bowl week, a federal judge said Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Kurt Engel-hardt’s temporary restraining order says the city can only enforce the limits in an area near the Superdome, where the game will be played Feb. 3. The city had also planned to en-force the rules in the French Quarter and surrounding neighborhoods.
The judge’s ruling comes af-ter the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of an activist and a street preacher.Gov. Jindal: GOP should change ‘just about everything’ to reach voters
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Loui-siana Gov. Bobby Jindal is calling on the Republican Party to “recalibrate the compass of conservatism” as party leaders on Thursday promised fundamental changes to help stave off future losses.
“We do not need to change what we believe as conservatives — our principles are timeless,” Jindal says. “But we do need to re-orient our fo-cus to the place where conservatism thrives: in the real world.”
Honduran government unable to pay bills, neglects public services
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Street surveillance cameras in one of the world’s most dangerous cities were turned off last week because Honduras’ government hasn’t paid millions of dollars it owes. The op-erator that runs the cameras is now threatening to suspend police radio service as well.
Teachers have been demonstrat-ing almost every day because they haven’t been paid in six months, while doctors complain about the shortage of essential medicines, gauze, needles and latex gloves.
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Benjamin Millepied (left) and Natalie Portman arrive at the 69th Annual Golden Globes in 2012. Millepied was named director of the Paris Opera Ballet Thursday.
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John Gray, senior, sits Thursday on a sculpture he made from a swing set and a barbecue pit. Submit your photo of the day to [email protected].
Foreign adoption rate by Americans declines again, lowest since 1994
NEW YORK (AP) — The number of foreign children adopted by U.S. parents fell by 7 percent last year to the lowest level since 1994, and is likely to plunge further this year due to the new ban by Russia on adop-tions by Americans.
Figures released Thursday by the State Department for the 2012 fiscal year showed 8,668 adoptions from abroad, down from 9,320 in 2011 and down about 62 percent from the all-time high of 22,884 in 2004. The number has dropped every year since then.
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R.I. State Rep. Frank Ferri greets Wendy Baker and her partner Judy McDonnell Thursday after a legislative committee unanimously endorsed gay marriage.
New Orleans told to narrow Super Bowl ‘clean zone’ to Superdome area
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The Faculty Senate reviewed Thursday a defi nition of credit hours and passed a resolution to look at the University’s make-up procedures through an ad-hoc com-mittee.
The newly revised South-ern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges’ guidelines for credit hours dictate that for every one hour of time in the classroom, there must be two hours of out-of-classroom work each week over the course of 15 weeks.
That means students taking 15 credit hours should spend 45 hours a week on school.
Some faculty members were upset because of the potential back-lash from students over additional work, but others liked the guidelines
because they thought they would force students to study more.
The Faculty Senate has no au-thority to change the new rule, said Courses and Curriculum Committee Chairman Larry Rouse.
“We don’t have a choice,” Rouse said. “Faculty members are going to have to show that the course is not just three hours in class sitting on your butt.”
T. Gilmour Reeve, vice provost for Academic Programs, Planning and Review, said the policy should not incite problems.
“There’s going to be some stu-dents that do it very quickly and some that won’t do it anyway,” Reeve said. “We are responsible that the course, through its face-to-face and out-of-classroom work, ap-proximates this defi nition.”
The ad-hoc committee will review what make-up procedures will be followed in the cases of
excused absences.Committee Chairman Bill De-
mastes said he has found “irregu-larities” from instructors refusing to give make-up work.
Demastes said he found that some instructors do not allow make-up opportunities for labs, quizzes or tests. Instead, some professors add weight to sections of fi nal exams to make up for missed exams during the semester. He also denounced re-formatted make-up exams and ten-dencies to drop exams and avoid a possible make-up test.
Faculty Senate President Kevin Cope said the committee’s decision will give students protection in the event of a faculty member refus-ing to allow a student to make up missed work.
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Mental health provisions in President Barack Obama’s execu-tive order on gun control may not be as successful as planned, ac-cording to some University fac-ulty and students.
In his address, Obama framed mental health care as a compo-nent in gun violence prevention. His plan aims to identify mental illnesses and make mental health care more accessible.
The overall concept is more complicated, according to Justin Ory, a clinical psychology gradu-ate student specializing in neuro-science.
He said that many non-vi-olent citizens who suffer from mental illness may be denied their Second Amendment rights.
“If you look at the rate of severe mental illness in the gen-eral population, that’s 1 to 3 per-cent,” Ory said. “That’s jeopar-dizing rights for everyone with that disease.”
In “Violence and Mental Ill-ness — How Strong is the Link?” Richard A. Friedman states, “Of course, because serious mental illness is quite rare, it actually contributes very little to the over-all rate of violence in the general population; the attributable risk
has been estimated to be 3 to 5 percent.”
Psychology professor Alan Baumeister said privacy is a ma-jor obstacle for potential regula-tions.
“Can the federal government ask doctors or require them to provide this information? The an-swer to that question may be no,” Baumeister said.
Ory said physicians cannot share an individual’s medical re-cords, but people can give physi-cians permission to release infor-mation.
Additionally, most people who have psychological prob-lems already have a “stigma” and do not want their problems to be made public, Baumeister said.
According to the Louisiana Concealed Handgun Permit Laws and Administrative Rules, any-one carrying a concealed weap-on cannot suffer from a mental
disease or illness. Baumeister said mental
health regulations may not neces-sarily prevent gun violence.
If someone cannot purchase fi rearms legally, that does not mean he or she will not be able to acquire them, Ory said.
“There are a lot of sick people who have never been committed to a hospital,” Baumeister said.
Mental disease does not al-ways mean violent behavior, Ory said.
“Only one in 100,000 people with schizophrenia are going to commit a mass shooting,” Ory said.
In regard to the Sandy Hook, Conn., shooting on Dec. 14, Ory said, “It sounds like a failure of his mother to not properly secure the weapons, rather than the sys-tem.”
Ory said psychologists for people who commit such crimes
could be at risk after concluding evaluations.
“There are legal and safety im-plications. If you are a psycholo-gist and do these assessments and someone commits a crime with a fi rearm, if you run the assessment,
you are responsible. It’s a liability I’m not sure a lot of psychologists would welcome,” Ory said.
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President and CEO of Campus Federal John Milazzo talks to the Faculty Senate Thursday in the Capital Chambers of the Student Union.
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University administrators say they hope the third time’s the charm for fi lling the position of vice chancellor for Research and Economic Development — a position that has been vacant for years after two inconclusive searches.
“I think we’re going to fi nd somebody,” said Thomas Klei, who holds the interim po-sition. “There’s a determination to do it. I think they’re looking a little differently and a little hard-er. I think that the third time’s the charm.”
The search process began when Brooks Keel , now the president of Georgia Southern University , left around four years ago, Klei said.
Since then, two searches have resulted in no relief for in-terim vice chancellors Klei and Doris Carver , who now works at the National Science Foundation .
“I’m the interim vice [chan-cellor] – that means I didn’t really want to be or will be the perma-nent vice chancellor,” Klei said. “I agreed to do it for two years, and now it’s going on three.”
Before fi lling the vice chan-cellor position at former Execu-tive Vice Chancellor and Provost Jack Hamilton’s request, Klei worked as an associate dean in the Veterinary School .
“My plan is that I’ll go back to the vet school and focus on my research this summer,” Klei said.
Klei said he agreed to take the position because the Uni-versity was experiencing budget cuts that put the offi ce in a dif-fi cult position, but the trend has continued, deterring many who would be well-suited for the job.
“How budget cuts are affecting us is that we’re unable
to fi ll some of the positions,” Klei said. “We’re in a diffi cult situation, and quality people are leaving here all the time. We’re losing the top level and hiring in at the bottom.”
Klei said despite a diffi cult budget situation, he retains a pos-itive outlook.
“I’ve been here 37 years, so I know something about LSU. I’m going to die here. I have a real affection for the University and the state. But that’s not what sells the place. What we need to do is fi nd someone who wants a challenge and has what it takes to do this,” Klei said. “Somebody in our case who will fi t into the research culture and can develop those programs and actually in-crease the research activity of the University – not only increase it but improve it and maintain it.”
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Vice chancellor search beginsAlyson GaharanStaff Writer
Contact Alyson Gaharan at [email protected]
Students present MLK showcase
Watch a video of the MLK performing
arts showcase at lsureveille.com.
PHOTO STORY
photos by ANGELA MAJOR / The Daily Reveille
[Top left] The Legacy dance team performs a piece in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. on the University’s MLK Performing Arts night Thursday. [Above] Ignatious Carmouche sings “Beautiful Surprise” by India Arie. [Bottom left] Members of the LSU National Pan-Hellenic Council perform a stomp routine. Nine acts performed in the annual showcase to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.
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KLEI
Does anybody actually be-lieve a 308-pound man can play quarterback in the NFL? Not to mention a 308-pound man who has a history full of attitude is-sues, substance abuse problems and last played professional foot-ball in 2009 .
JaMarcus Russell, the 27 -year-old ex-LSU quarter-back and No. 1 overall pick in the 2007 NFL Draft told Yahoo! Sports this week about his plans to work his way back into the
league, saying he’s employing the help of former LSU and NFL receiver Michael Clayton , former NFL quarterback Jeff Garcia and former NFL running back Mar-shall Faulk .
He’s even reportedly training at the TEST Football Academy , where Patrick Peterson and Joe Flacco practiced, and is receiv-ing consultation from a doctor for “mental and psychological analysis.”
Russell is tired of hearing criticism, too.
“People would say [that] I didn’t love the game, but that pisses me off,” Russell told Ya-hoo! Sports. “People don’t know the real you, but I want people to know the real me and see what I
can do. People are always saying that I’m a bust. I want to show them I’m not. I’m committed to this now.”
You know what’s the real punch line of the whole “JaMar-cus’ return” joke? He’s lost a whopping 12 pounds since this fall in preparation for his return. No more 320 , he’s at a fresh 308 . That’ll do it, Jam-Jam .
It would be a great story if Russell could pull off a return to the NFL, but it’s not one to which anyone should pay much mind. As nice as it is to see a guy get a second or third chance, some people throw away those fi rst few opportunities in such a vigorous
Top 25 opponents will clash as the No. 7 LSU gymnastics team takes on No. 2 Oklahoma, No. 9 Georgia, No. 16 Oregon State and unranked Washington on Saturday at the Metroplex Challenge in Fort Worth, Texas.
The Tigers enter the meet av-eraging 196.158 points per meet, but will face two teams with scores higher than 197 points in the Sooners and Bulldogs.
LSU is fresh off its fi rst loss of the season, in which the Tigers lost points after four falls from four different athletes, losing against No. 5 Alabama 196.575 to 195.525.
“We can’t make these kinds of mistakes at this level,” said LSU coach D-D Breaux in a news release after the match. “We had some bright spots in the meet, but we were certainly disappointed in the overall performance of the team.”
Despite the slip-up against the Crimson Tide, LSU still ranks in the top 25 in every event, in-cluding No. 3 on vault with a 49.308 score and fl oor with 49.325 .
Lloiminicia Hall has led the way for the Tigers on the fl oor as the highest-ranked gymnast for an individual event. Hall is No. 3 in the country with an average of 9.933 after scoring consecutive 9.95s in the fi rst two meets of the
Shunned by both Louisville and child-hood favorite Kentucky, Anthony Hickey , native of Hopkinsville, Ky., can only hold onto his last visit to Rupp Arena.
The 5-foot-11 dynamo drew the dou-ble team and kicked it out to his Christian County teammate, who drained a 3-point-er to send the arena into a pandemonium as the Colonels captured a double-over-time, state championship victory.
Despite Hickey being named Ken-tucky’s “Mr. Basketball” that season, it wasn’t enough to woo Kentucky coach John Calipari or Louisville legend Rick Pitino as Hickey made his way to Baton Rouge.
“Yeah, it [does] bother me,” Hickey said of his lack of recruitment. “I’m here [at LSU], though, so I get to play against them.”
Playing in Rupp for the fi rst time since that high school state title game, Hickey will lead a young LSU (10-6, 1-4 Southeastern Conference ) team into the raucous environment to face the defend-ing NCAA Champion Wildcats — a shell of last season’s group.
The freshman trio of Anthony Davis , Marquis Teague and Michael Kidd-Gil-christ is gone and Darius Miller’s veteran presence is clearly missed as the Wildcats (12-6, 3-2 SEC ) have stumbled out of the gate with two SEC losses and no top-50 wins on the season.
“They’re an OK team,” said LSU ju-nior forward Shavon Coleman . “They’re not the team they usually [are], like when they had John Wall , Brandon Knight and Anthony Davis . They’re just a normal team.”
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GYMNASTICS
photo courtesy of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JaMarcus Russell, a former LSU star quarterback turned NFL � op, is attempting to make a comeback to the NFL despite his massive 300-pound frame.
JaMarcus Russell is delusional
RUSSELL, see page 6
RICHARD REDMANN / The Daily Reveille
LSU sophomore Anthony Hickey lays up the basketball over Texas A&M senior foward Ray Turner on Wednesday in the Tigers’ 58-54 victory against Texas A&M in the PMAC. The Tigers travel to Kentucky this weekend.
Tigers face top opponents in TexasMike GegenheimerSports Contributor
GYMNASTICS, see page 7
HomecomingKentucky native Hickey
leads LSU into RuppChandler RomeSports Writer
HICKEY, see page 7
THE BERT LOCKERALBERT BURFORDSports Editor
Shunned by both Louisville and child-hood favorite Kentucky, Anthony Hickey , native of Hopkinsville, Ky., can only hold
The 5-foot-11 dynamo drew the dou-ble team and kicked it out to his Christian County teammate, who drained a 3-point-er to send the arena into a pandemonium as the Colonels captured a double-over-time, state championship victory.
Despite Hickey being named Ken-tucky’s “Mr. Basketball” that season, it wasn’t enough to woo Kentucky coach John Calipari or Louisville legend Rick Pitino as Hickey made his way to Baton
“Yeah, it [does] bother me,” Hickey said of his lack of recruitment. “I’m here [at LSU], though, so I get to play against
Playing in Rupp for the fi rst time since that high school state title game, Hickey will lead a young LSU (10-6, 1-4 Southeastern Conference ) team into the raucous environment to face the defend-ing NCAA Champion Wildcats — a shell
The freshman trio of Anthony Davis , Marquis Teague and Michael Kidd-Gil-christ is gone and Darius Miller’s veteran presence is clearly missed as the Wildcats (12-6, 3-2 SEC ) have stumbled out of the gate with two SEC losses and no top-50
“They’re an OK team,” said LSU ju-nior forward Shavon Coleman . “They’re not the team they usually [are], like when they had John Wall , Brandon Knight and Anthony Davis . They’re just a normal
HomecomingKentucky native Hickey
leads LSU into Rupp
manner that they don’t deserve any more — and Russell is one of those people.
Let me know when there’s a team in the market for a quarter-back whose last sniff of profes-sional football career came in 2010, when he failed to dazzle the Washington Redskins and Miami Dolphins during mid-sea-son tryouts for their backup quar-terback positions.
Here are a few things more likely to happen than JaMarcus Russell successfully making an NFL roster, much less proficient-ly quarterbacking a professional football team:
· The LSU men’s basket-ball team qualifying for the NCAA Tournament
this season.· Les Miles switching his choice of headgear from a ball cap to a fedora.· An Outkast reunion.As sad as the reality of it is,
none of these things will happen.But hey, I guess if Jared “The
Pillsbury Throwboy” Lorenzen has a Super Bowl ring and was one Eli Manning injury away from playing in Super Bowl XLII, nothing can be ruled out. Lorenzen was a hefty 285 pounds during that Super Bowl season, after all, so Russell only has about 20 more pounds to drop.
The LSU women’s basket-ball team will travel to Lexing-ton, Ky., to take on its highest-ranked opponent this season, the No. 5 Wildcats.
LSU (12-7, 3-3 Southeastern Conference) comes off a 54-51 victory against Vanderbilt and a 7-point loss to No. 19 South Car-olina. LSU coach Nikki Caldwell said the Lady Tigers are ready to take on the task.
“It’s going to be a really competitive game,” Caldwell said. “It’s going to be a game that our team welcomes, and it’s a challenge that we will not back down from.”
Kentucky (18-1, 6-0 SEC) enters into the game with its only loss coming from No. 1 Baylor by 34 points in November. Al-though senior guard A’dia Ma-thies, current SEC Player of the Week, leads the team in scoring
with 15.4 points per game, junior forward Samarie Walker leads the team in rebounds, blocks and steals with 156, 29 and 41 respec-tively.
With wins against then-No. 12 West Virginia and the return of players who were a part of the team that beat highly ranked Ken-tucky twice last season, Caldwell said LSU has the ability to win in Lexington.
She noted that competitive play of senior guards Adrienne Webb and Bianca Lutley and ju-nior guard Jeanne Kenney can lead the team and pressure Ken-tucky to turn the ball over.
“Our team has proven that they are capable of playing with some of the best teams in the country,” Caldwell said. “We’ve got players returning who under-stand what it takes to beat Ken-tucky.”
Lutley, Webb, freshman guard Danielle Ballard and junior forward Theresa Plaisance are all
averaging double-digit points per game with Plaisance leading the pack with 18.3.
Following the loss to South Carolina, Caldwell noted a change in intensity for her play-ers, which carried over to the game against Vanderbilt on Sun-day.
“I feel like the team is com-peting at a different level,” Caldwell said. “They understand the task at hand, they understand what we have to do each week and that this is a tough confer-ence to play in. They’re making the choice to be better for each other.”
According to Caldwell, more players are getting into the gym and making shots and free throws outside of practice, which Caldwell said is helping the Lady Tigers continue to grow into a team of their own.
“This team is still finding
themselves and finding their identity,” Caldwell said.
Kenney said although Ken-tucky is a highly ranked team, anything can happen when play-ing in the SEC.
“Any team in the SEC is beatable on any given day,” Ken-ney said. “There’s not one team that is clearly going to have a win during the game.”
LSU leaves for Kentucky on Saturday morning and will watch the LSU and Kentucky men’s game Saturday afternoon. Caldwell said the Lady Tigers will be the “sixth man” for the Tigers in their game against the Wildcats.
The No. 25 LSU men’s tennis team will have its hands full this weekend as it takes on two ranked opponents at the ITA Kick-Off Weekend tournament.
The Tigers will open play against No. 11 Mississippi State on Saturday before facing the winner of the No. 21 Auburn vs. No. 23 Indiana match on the sec-ond day of the tournament.
The tournament comes on the heels of a dominant performance by LSU against Southern Miss last weekend. The match against Southern Miss highlighted one of LSU’s greatest attributes on the season: its superior fitness.
Sophomore Chris Simpson and freshman Tam Trinh both fell behind early in their matches,
only to battle back and dominate in the following sets.
“Fitness is definitely some-thing we’ve worked on a lot re-cently,” Simpson said. “We’ve changed our diet and put a lot of extra work in; I could tell we were in much better shape than [South-ern Miss].”
The Tigers are taking on a Mississippi State team that beat them soundly last season. The Bulldogs dominated the Tigers 6-1 in singles play, with four of the Tigers’ five defeats coming against ranked opponents.
LSU coach Jeff Brown cited familiarity with an SEC opponent as something that would help the Tigers through the first match-up of the tournament.
The Bulldogs only return four players from last year’s squad, though. Four of their top
six singles players are freshmen, including the No. 25-ranked sin-gles player, Romain Bogaerts.
According to Simpson, the Tigers aren’t taking the challenge lightly.
“We’ve got payback on our minds,” Simpson said. “They de-feated us pretty easily this year, but we have improved and we’re looking forward to the challenge.”
While the men’s team seeks vengeance in Starkville, the wom-en’s team will take on Northwest-ern State and Southern Univer-sity on Sunday at the W.T. “Dub” Robinson Stadium.
This will be the first dual-match of the season for Lady Ti-gers, and the first of coach Julia Sell’s career at LSU.
“I’m pretty excited about the matches this weekend,” Sell said. “It’s the first dual-match, and it’s
a double-header so it should be a good test.”
Unlike the men’s team, the women will be facing an unfa-miliar opponent in Northwestern State, a team they haven’t faced in more than seven years.
In the second match of the double-header, LSU will take on Southern, who the Tigers have beaten every year since the 2000-01 season.
“We are looking forward to the matches this weekend,” said senior Ebie Wilson. “We haven’t played Northwestern State since I’ve been here, but Southern al-ways brings a couple of good players and is a good early season challenge.”
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9.95s in the fi rst two meets of the season.
“[Lloimincia is] our anchor, and she’s our anchor for a rea-son,” said LSU sophomore Rhea-gan Courville . “Her routine has so much pizazz and excitement in it, and the crowd gets into it. … We just love watching it because every time she does it, she does something different. She puts her own little twist into it.”
LSU has dominated the fl oor routine this season with four competitors ranked in the top 70 nationally, all of whom average scores of more than 9.8 .
“I don’t think there’s a com-petition between us,” Hall said. “We all have different styles and that’s what makes it so awesome. It’s just like having different por-tions and you can’t really put a competition on that when there’s different styles or different genres of music to make a team.”
Unfortunately for the Tigers, one of the few teams that has more athletes ranked higher than LSU in the fl oor exercises will be walking into the meet alongside them this weekend.
The Sooners have fi ve com-petitors ranked in the top 50 na-tionally, as well as having three of the top 15 all-arounders in the country.
Oklahoma junior Taylor Spears is No. 8 in the all around, averaging 39.4, and sophomore Erica Brewer is No. 9 with an av-erage score of 39.388 .
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National Player of the Year forward Nerlens Noel , a Davis-esque shot blocker who has swatted 76 thus far while chipping in 10.7 points per game.
Noel will present a different challenge for LSU sophomore for-ward Johnny O’Bryant III , who will need to go right at the lanky 6-foot-10 post player.
“The best way to attack him is just to go at him,” said LSU coach Johnny Jones . “When you go at him, generally you can at least try to put them on the defensive and play through them or get them in foul trouble.”
The Tigers are fresh off their fi rst conference win against Texas A&M. In the win, the Tigers forced 24 turnovers and rallied from a 14-point fi rst-half defi cit. LSU will rely on guard play and a full-court press that has given opponents a hard time all season.
Hickey , the NCAA leader in steals, was the benefactor of tipped passes in the A&M game, using Coleman and freshman guard Ma-lik Morgan at the front of the press as he grabbed a season-high eight steals.
“We don’t run the press that much, but it’s all about how we’re playing on defense,” Hickey said. “If we’re playing over top and get hands on balls, we have a chance to win.”
Known for its reputation as one of the more intimidating venues in the country, Rupp Arena can strike fear into any opposing team, espe-cially one as young as the Tigers.
Hickey , though, may allevi-ate the stress that Big Blue Nation may present – referring to calls he received from hometown friends af-ter the two Tiger losses to Kentucky last season.
“They told me, ‘Good job, but you gotta win some games against Kentucky,’” Hickey said. “We’re going to win some of these. I can’t keep playing Kentucky and not get-ting a win.”
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Forgive James Tracy, for he knows not what he types.
Tracy, an avid conspiracy theorist and tenured professor at Florida Atlantic University, be-lieves the Sandy Hook massacre — in which 20 children and six adults were killed — didn’t really happen.
At least not the way the me-dia portrayed it.
Tracy, like many conspiracy theorists, doesn’t offer much to back up his claim, other than his conspiracy laid out on a cute lit-tle blog. He believes the shooting was nothing more than “[news] intended primarily for public consumption to further larger po-litical ends.”
Basically, he thinks the
shooting was a ploy by the Obama administration to kick-start further gun control measures in Congress.
It’s tough to imagine the type of cynic who could be led to such an outrageous conclusion. How do we explain this type of per-son? Is he crazy?
I don’t have any answers for you. I’ve never met him. How-ever, if I was going to blog about an elementary school shooting being a hoax, I’d probably get intoxicated first for that idea to make sense.
So for the sake of simplicity, just picture Tracy as the high-est and/or drunkest person ever. High people love conspiracy the-ories almost as much as they love “Cosmos” with Carl Sagan.
Conspiracies are nothing new. With every major incident, there’s always the guy — either on the far left or far right — who claims the government is behind everything.
Take JFK’s assassination, which we all know was carried out by James Bond and Elmo in cahoots with the CIA, or 9/11, which definitely wasn’t car-ried out by radical Islamists, but rather Kate Middleton, as a way to recapture Prince William’s at-tention.
How could we forget the in-famous Pearl Harbor? Which, in actuality, was Quentin Tarantino and his Japanese crew filming one of his earliest budget films, “Kamikaze Chronicles.”
The news media obviously has its shortcomings. If fair and accurate are the standard, then slanted and patchy would be the practice.
For instance, many news out-lets reported that Obamacare had been struck down by the Supreme Court (even though it wasn’t), because all those reporters were about to blow up all over Capitol Hill if they didn’t get the news on TV before everyone else.
News media failure 101. However, the media didn’t
create 26 dead victims in a New England elementary school. Nei-ther did the government.
Sandy Hook wasn’t a ploy by Obama to disarm this nation in order to prep our country for an invasion by the Chinese.
So if you are going to be a conspiracy theorist, realize that everyone will hate you. They will call you an idiot behind your back, and every ounce of intel-lectual respect you’d managed to garner will disappear overnight.
James Tracy, Vicodin is not meant to be snorted.
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The best science classes and, by extension, the best science teachers are those that require students to systematically pursue knowledge in the form of empirical observations and testable explana-tions.
This is, however, not a view shared by Gov. Bobby Jindal, a Rhodes Scholar and graduate of Brown University with a bach-elor’s degree in biology.
Ironically enough, Jindal signed into law and is a vehement supporter of the Louisiana Science Education Act. The LSEA is leg-islation that allows public funding to go toward privately chartered schools that teach creationism, ei-ther alongside or in place of, evolu-tion in science classrooms.
In spite of his biology back-ground, Jindal’s passage of this law demonstrates an inability to acknowledge scientific evidence, which speaks to the irrational mind-set that has taken over his party.
Creationism, creation science and intelligent design are theologi-cal explanations arguing that mat-ter, the various forms of life and the world were created six thousand years ago by God in seven days.
Indeed, the issue of whether to teach creationism or evolution in public schools has enjoyed an extensive history in the United States, with the theory of evolution gaining overwhelming public sup-port after the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial.
Why did evolution gain the upper hand? Put simply, because creationism is purely faith-based — thereby inherently non-scientif-ic.
How can someone prove or disprove by observation or experi-mentation the existence of God?
You certainly can’t prove God’s existence through science.
Science is a strict and rigorous process. For any idea or belief to pass as scientific, you have to for-mulate a valid hypothesis and then support it with repeated testing.
Creationism extends beyond science’s realm, therefore, it should not be considered a legitimate sci-ence and be left out of public high schools.
Nevertheless, Louisiana, along with several other states, is increas-ingly allowing public funding to be given to schools that teach cre-ationism.
Thankfully, Baton Rouge na-tive Zack Kopplin, who is currently a history major at Rice University, has launched a campaign to repeal the LSEA. Kopplin partnered with Sen. Karen Carter Peterson, D-New Orleans, to sponsor bills in-tended to repeal LSEA.
More notably, Kopplin was able to garner 78 Nobel laureate scientists who support his
repeal efforts.Kopplin, through his website,
put the watering down of science education in concrete terms.
His analysis of Jindal’s vouch-er program found at least 20 schools in Louisiana that use a creationist curriculum. These 20 schools are allowed 1,365 voucher slots and can expect to receive as much as $11,602,500 in taxpayer money an-nually, according to Kopplin.
To give you an example of what a creationist curriculum might consist of, let’s take a look at Claiborne Christian School in West Monroe, LA.
First off, its handbook explic-itly states that students are taught, “to discern and refute lies com-monly found in [secular] textbooks, college classes and in the media.”
Additionally, in the January 2010 school newsletter, the prin-cipal of CCS declared, “Our posi-tion at CCS on the age of the Earth and other issues is that any theory that goes against God’s word is an
error.” CCS has 28 voucher slots and can receive up to $238,000 in taxpayer money, according to Kop-plin’s website.
And Louisiana isn’t the only state dealing with ridiculous cre-ationist high school curriculums. Kopplin said there are hundreds of more voucher schools across the nation that are similar in both form and function to CCS.
The U.S. is the most techno-logically advanced nation in the world, and we owe a large part of that to scientific innovations.
Let’s keep it that way by edu-cating students with actual, fact-based science, not religious dogma.
Jay Meyers is a 20-year-old eco-nomics sophomore from Shreve-port.
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Teaching creationism in La. high schools a denial of science
Back in my heyday along Lafayette’s Bayou Vermilion, I’d spend my afternoons in search for all sorts of reptiles.
Snakes were always the most dangerous and naturally intriguing to confront. Consequently, there was nothing cooler than whipping my machete over the snake and splitting it in half. Later, I would coil the carcass and place it con-veniently in the path of my sister’s morning routine.
Appalling? Maybe leaving it for my sister was, but her reaction proved a dead snake was the only good snake.
PETA, however, may not have been so happy with my prank.
In Florida, a battle has started between the state and the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, known in households as PETA.
In an attempt to reduce the population of non-indigenous Bur-mese pythons, the state has spon-sored a hunting contest this January offering cash rewards to the hunter with the most and the lengthiest tro-phies.
There are a couple of theories as to how the massive serpents have reached the wetlands of south Florida, but regardless, they are not a natural species of the ecosystem. With the lack of a natural predator in the habitat, stable populations of other indigenous critters in the area have become an issue.
The battle between Florida and PETA is purportedly over the humaneness offered to a
targeted snake. Florida has endorsed a number
of efficient and effective ways to kill a python that result in the im-mediate loss of consciousness. The method under scrutiny by PETA is decapitation.
Decapitation in some ancient cultures was an honorable means of death. However, in the serpent’s in-stance, though quick and painless, it’s shameful.
Akin to dogs and horses, the wild python has coexisted in ways with humans — specifically south Floridians — that have been fruitful enough for them to be owed some decency.
I suppose lethal injection is more of what PETA is requesting.
PETA’s opening statement on its website, “Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment, or abuse in anyway,” is misinformed.
Humans do not purely act on instinct, while animals do. We con-tain the capacity to perceive good and bad, making us a higher spe-cies.
PETA’ians may see it other-wise. However, I believe this is widely uncontested, placing us at the top of the food chain, and mak-ing animals ours to eat. Humans have dined on good ole red meat — a great source for protein and vita-min B— for centuries.
Do you think a neanderthal, when bitten by a winter frost, grabbed a pair of cotton slacks to warm his keister? More likely he fashioned himself with a bearskin coat. Or later on, if a cowboy need-ed a new pair of boots, he may have skinned a rattler and cobbled a nice pair of snakeskin shit-kickers.
Pinky and the Brain have done much for modern medicine, and
just this week some Louisiana lab chimps were given retirement and pension.
My dogs, though gullible, are awfully entertaining.
What’s going on in Florida is far from abuse. Although, I’m sure there are plenty of instances — past, present and future — of indecency to animals that should be prevented.
But snakes, especially where they do not belong, deserve no such decency.
Ironically, by educat-ing competitors of efficient
harvesting methods through a re-quired training process and list-ing rules and regulations, Florida is effectively being humane.
PETA’s initiatives seem to have trouble staying focused on tru-ly viable issues. There is a distinc-tion between animal cruelty and an attempt to control a predatory spe-cies disrupting an ecological cycle — PETA has failed to make it.
As of Jan. 21, hunters have only harvested 27 pythons. I am unaware as to what the state is con-sidering as par, but I’d guess this is
not up to it. Nevertheless, a life is a price-
less treasure, and we should re-member those who have fallen further than the dirt beneath their slick bellies.
Chris Ortte is 22-year-old political science senior from Lafayette.
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For example, someone who has keys could enter a part of a building and basically barricade themselves in.”
Territo said the University is running an inexpensive pilot pro-gram for a new key system that al-lows Facility Services to track the keys in a central database as keys are cut and issued.
The Student Health Center was the fi rst facility on campus to try the new procedure.
Territo said the pilot procedure was successful in the health center and allowed his department to learn more about the most effi cient way to distribute and track keys.
A centralized database of the in-formation allows Territo to print out the key records, determine who has which keys, and from that informa-tion, decide if certain key requests for a building should be fulfi lled.
Along with Facility Service’s new key procedure, Residential Life has also taken steps toward improv-ing dorm security by transitioning to Tiger Card building access for all dorms on campus, as well as a dorm room entry system that Territo called “hotel style” access with an ID fea-ture.
Residents of newer residential
halls like Blake, East and West Laville and the Residential Life colleges now use their Tiger Cards, combined with their own four-digit code, to get into their rooms.
“It’s about security, and with the students, they are taking the lead,” Territo said.
As Residential Life facilities continue to under go renovations, residential halls will be converted to the electronic locks, while Facil-ity Services will continue to make its way around campus in the coming years to bring more buildings onto the new key system.
Currently, the Business Educa-tion Complex , Choppin Hall Annex and the Wetland Resources building are on the new key system, Territo said. The next buildings start using the system will be the parking garage and bookstore, the new Animal and Food Science Lab building and the Huey P. Long Fieldhouse .
“To the average person, they just need to get in,” Territo said. “But security is still separate in my mind.”
in New Orleans . Miller performed “Something’s Got a Hold on Me” by Christina Aguilera while sporting crutches and antici-pating surgery later that day after break-ing her leg in an ac-cident prior to the audition.
“In any other instance, I would be really nervous, and my nerves would be the biggest enemy for me,” Miller acknowledged. “But that day, I didn’t really care about anything else. I’d been in an accident previ-ously, and I was going into surgery immediately after my audition.”
Alex Bossetta , a Spanish junior and friend of Miller for three years, went to the auditions to support the budding musician. Bossetta said she believed Miller was destined for Hollywood .
“I’ve heard Megan sing a thou-sand times, so I know what she’s capable of,” Bossetta said. “I had no doubts about her making it, but the anticipation of waiting to hear the re-sults was the worst.”
Bosetta said she was excited about audience and judge reactions to Miller , especially to her crutches and eminent surgery, after her audi-
tion episode premiered Thursday. Miller made it to Hollywood ,
and she is competing with about 20 other contestants for a chance to be the next “American Idol ” champion.
To set herself apart, Miller plans to play up her role as a brainy pageant queen and humani-tarian.
“My organization is all about education and volunteerism. So I think the way to set myself apart is to show them I’ve defi nitely given back a lot,” Miller explained. “I’ve been volunteering for the past four years for the Baton Rouge area and Louisiana in general. So what sets me apart is I wouldn’t let them por-tray me as a stereotypical, superfi cial beauty queen.”
To cheer on local talent and watch Miller strive for stardom, tune in to Fox on Wednesdays and Thurs-days at 7 p.m.
provide input in the reorganization process via membership on sub-committees. Multiple students were invited to sit on the subcomittees, which range from academics to stu-dent experience. Cox was invited to be part of the Technology and Opera-tions subcomittee.
“I saw the list of all the students and faculty who were asked,” Cox said. “It’s the most undiverse group of people. It looked like a bunch of
upper-middle class, Caucasians. ... We’re all heavily involved over-achievers with a good GPA.”
Student Government’s Director of Academic Affairs Thomas Rodg-ers was invited to sit on the Academ-ic subcommittee, and mass commu-nication senior and Daily Reveille opinion columnist John Parker Ford was invited to sit on the Student Ex-perience subcommittee.
Cox said the list appeared to be 65 names or more of fac-ulty and students from each LSU
System campus.He said the subcommittees will
meet a minimum of three times and not all of the meetings will be in Ba-ton Rouge.
The Daily Reveille will contin-ue to report on those invited to be-come members of the subcommittees as the names become available.
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