Asante “Tiger” Hooker didn’t tell anybody he was going to do it. He just went for it.

After all, he is a self-proclaimed exhibition-ist, and he wanted to give the 93,000 LSU faithful a show they would remember.

Starting at the end zone in Tiger Stadium, Hooker sprinted toward the opposite end zone, planted his feet and fl ipped.

Then he fl ipped again. And again. And again. Hooker’s dizzying acrobatics lasted all the

way until his feet were planted on the Eye of the Tiger at midfi eld.

“I was very alarmed because there’s all

types of presentations and things that go on the fi eld,” said LSU spirit coordinator and cheer-leading coach Pauline Zernott . “When he did it,

I thought, ‘Oh my goodness, I hope he doesn’t tumble into anybody.’”

But Hooker wouldn’t have noticed the impediments to his march down the fi eld. He was focused.

In his ears, Tiger Stadium fell deathly silent until his feet connected to the turf and

stayed there.“In the stadium, it’s a feeling like no other,”

Hooker said. “Once I stop and land, everybody

yells. It’s exciting.” After he fi nished, Zernott gave a nervous

look to Associate Athletics Director Eddie Nunez, who oversees things on the fi eld. But Nunez looked like he was enjoying himself.

So goes the true effect Hooker has on people who see his dazzling aerial displays.

With the 2011 football season in the books, Hooker has taken his airshow to the PMAC, where he somersaults down the fl oor during

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Hill Memorial Library is hosting a Charles Dickens exhibit to celebrate his birth. The exhibit, open until April 28, includes one of Dickens’ illustrators’ original engraved plates.

From now until April 28, stu-dents will be able to take a step back in history just by walking through the doors of Hill Memorial Library.

The library has compiled an exhibit to celebrate the 200th anni-versary of Charles Dickens’ birth-day.

Michael Taylor, assistant cura-tor of books, said the library want-ed to commemorate Dickens’ work and took the opportunity to high-light the University’s collection.

“We don’t have a huge col-lection, but we’ve displayed all different kinds of his work here,”

he said. The exhibit includes fi rst edi-

tions of novels like “Oliver Twist” and “A Tale of Two Cities,” along with an engraved plate originally used to illustrate the author’s books and several magazines containing short stories.

Taylor said many of Dickens’ readers were poor, and he pub-lished some of his stories in maga-zines or in parts so they could af-ford to read them.

“When you see that fi rst edi-tion, it tells you about how it was to be a reader in that time,” he said.

The exhibit also boasts several fl iers for performances of Dickens’ work.

“He’s had a really long

afterlife,” Taylor said. “He died in 1870, and by 1880, people were adapting his stories for theater pro-ductions.”

Taylor said people also used to host bazaars where they would dress up as Dickens characters and converse with each other as if they lived in the stories.

He said several of the books and pieces of work were already in the University’s library and were moved to a special collection as they became rarer.

The library purchased others, including a fi rst edition of “Oliver Twist” for $2,000.

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Flipping OutLSU cheerleader gains notoriety through acrobatics

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BR Tea Party leaders resign

The Baton Rouge Tea Party lost its president, vice president and secretary Wednesday after word spread of internal confl ict.

A resignation letter was re-leased Wednesday by then-Pres-ident Mike Thibodeaux , Vice President Rebecca Favre Lipe and Secretary Karen Daniel .

“After much deliberation, the President, Vice President, and Secretary have concluded we are extremely uncomfortable working with Mark Holmes, Treasurer, and submit our resignations,” the letter stated.

Only a day earlier, Holmes shared an e-mail he sent to Lipe with BRTP members and the press. The e-mail addressed Holmes’ discovery of an alleged request Lipe made to restrict his access to

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Nearly 100 people arrested for fakeOlympic tickets and hotel rooms

LONDON (AP) — Nearly 100 people have been arrested for sell-ing fake tickets and bogus hotel rooms ahead of the London Olym-pics.

With some six months to go before Britain’s largest-ever planned security operation, Home Secretary Theresa May said police had arrested 97 people in scams involving tickets, fake Olympic websites and nonexistent hotel rooms.

The demand for tickets and hotels in London during the July 27-Aug. 12 games has been huge — some rooms are going for more than 600 pounds per night (nearly $1,000).

Egyptians rally in Cairo to mark anniversary of the 2011 uprising

CAIRO (AP) — Tens of thousands of Egyptians rallied Wednesday to mark the fi rst anniversary of the country’s 2011 uprising, with liberals and Islamists gathering on different sides of Cairo’s Tahrir Square in a refl ection of the deep political divides that emerged in the year since the downfall of longtime leader Hosni Mubarak.

Gingrich vows to establish a colony on the moon by 2020, if elected

COCOA, Fla. (AP) — Newt Gin-grich is promising to establish a permanent base on the moon by 2020 if he’s elected president.

Gingrich, the former House speaker, told an overfl ow crowd gathered on Florida’s space coast Wednesday that he wants to de-velop a robust commercial space industry in line with the airline boom of the 1930s. He also wants to expand exploration of Mars.

The pronouncements appeared to thrill the crowd of roughly 700 people. World War II destroyer returns to South Carolina home after repairs

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) — With the blare of air horns, cheers and a champagne toast, “The Ship That Would Not Die” returned Wednesday to its home at a maritime museum on Charles-ton Harbor on the South Carolina coast.

The World War II destroyer USS Laffey was towed down the Cooper River to the Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum. It was moved more than two years ago to a dry dock so its hull could be repaired at a cost of about $9 million.

Shreveport’s Moonbot Studios earns Oscar nomination for � rst short � lm

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Champagne corks were fl ying at Moonbot Studios in Shreveport. Its fi rst movie — “The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Less-more” — is one of fi ve Academy Award nominees for best animated short fi lm.

Co-director William Joyce tells The Times the movie took a lot of risks, and everyone at the studio is “just super happy that people responded to the story, to us and to everything that we were try-ing to achieve.”

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal proposed Wednesday a package of pension changes that would shrink retire-ment benefi ts for thousands of cur-rent state workers, boost their costs and push back the age for collect-ing benefi ts.

New state employees hired after the changes wouldn’t receive the promise of a set monthly retire-ment payment. They would get a cheaper, 401(k)-type of account where retirement contributions are invested and a retiree gets a lump sum payment when leaving work.

Search efforts in Italy resume, more ship survivors would be miracle

ROME (AP) — Search efforts aboard the capsized Costa Con-cordia resumed Wednesday, even as the offi cial overseeing the op-eration acknowledged for the fi rst time it would take a miracle to fi nd any more survivors from the ship’s Jan. 13 grounding.

Franco Gabrielli, head of Italy’s national civil protection agency, told reporters that res-cuers would keep searching the ship until every reachable area is inspected.

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They endure the same juggling act as most University students, bal-ancing multiple jobs, social lives and class.

But a team of six University un-dergrads are anything but little fish in a big sea.

They are Big Fish, rising pre-sentation specialists who work not only in Louisiana, but across the na-tion.

Their youthful approach to run-ning a company boasting clients like Blue Cross, Raising Cane’s and the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce has made a mark in less than a year.

Big Fish assists companies in making presentations, whether it’s giving advice, designing presenta-tions or making films.

The firm hatched in February 2011 after Kenny Nguyen, market-ing junior and Big Fish CEO, was at a meeting with a Fortune 500 com-pany that didn’t impress him.

“It was the worst presentation ever,” Nguyen said.

He said he always had a knack for presentations, and after training a critical eye, Nguyen started Big Fish with a partner who is no longer in-volved. The rest of the team would join soon after.

Nguyen said the business runs under a corporate structure during semesters. Every member of the Big Fish team is a full-time student at the University, and they function through different departments to fin-ish projects while going to class.

“Everybody is good,” said Sam Claitor, graphic design junior. “We take what everyone is good at and combine. It’s a team job. It all ends up fitting together like a puzzle.”

Claitor, who heads the graphic design department, said most of Big Fish’s work is done under pressure when clients ask for a project with short notice.

“But we’re not afraid of saying no,” Nguyen said.

The team put its youthful side into the spotlight in December with a series of humorous Web videos they created focusing on Luke Jones, mass communication sophomore. Made in the style of television com-edy “The Office,” the videos depict Jones’ tribulations as Big Fish’s new-est intern.

“The videos also showcase our creative abilities, and we send them out to all of our clients,” said Gus Murillo, biological sciences sopho-more and Big Fish account manager.

The Big Fish team members were the first University students to participate in the Global Student En-trepreneur Awards, where they were finalists.

Big Fish’s reach now extends past Louisiana, with clients in New York, Washington, D.C., and even Argentina.

“Louisiana is our No. 1 client

base, and New York is our No. 2,” Nguyen said.

He said no nearby companies offer services to compete with Big Fish, and the company’s services are needed in Louisiana.

The team is now taking on new ventures, including working on an app and doing voice-overs for Web seminars and tutorials thanks to team member Drew Reilley, graphic de-sign senior.

But despite constant work and national success, the Big Fish team remembers to take time being young.

“It doesn’t feel like I’m coming

to work,” said Phil Roberts, commu-nication studies junior and Big Fish team member.

Murillo said the key to Big Fish’s success and expansion thus far has been time management, a necessary skill when working as a full-time student.

“But being a student is never an excuse,” Roberts said.

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Big Fish Presentations’ Luke Jones, Sam Claitor and Kenny Nguyen (from left to right) emphasize having fun while working hard.

The University announced Wednesday that Interim Dean of the College of Education Laura Lindsay will serve as dean of the College of

Human Sciences and Education.

The new col-lege, announced last semester, will combine six units on campus, in-cluding the Col-lege of Education. Executive Vice

Chancellor and Provost Jack Hamil-ton asked Lindsay at the time of the announcement to oversee the plans for the creation of the college, which is slated to open in July.

When the plans for the merger were presented to the LSU System Board of Supervisors last month, several members of the board praised Lindsay’s work on the merger and asked if she would consider leading the college as dean instead of step-ping down, as she had planned.

“We feel that a year of stabili-zation as a college will be attractive to the top national candidates as we search for a dean,” said Hin a news release.

Lindsay has been working in academia for 43 years, according to the release.

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University students and faculty are developing robots that not only travel under the sea but can also op-erate in irregular conditions in the wake of a disaster like an oil spill.

University mathematics pro-fessor Michael Malisoff worked with two collaborators — Fumin Zhang, Georgia Tech associate pro-fessor of electrical and computer engineering and Mark Patterson, College of William and Mary ma-rine science professor — to design and research marine robotics.

The goal at the heart of the project was to develop tracking control methods for these marine robots, which can operate in uncer-tain and unknown conditions in the water, which is especially relevant in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.

“We want the robots to work like intelligent agents to pinpoint substances,” Zhang said. “There is a need to give these robots more autonomy.”

The project, which began in September 2010, had three com-ponents — mathematical analy-sis, student involvement and marine surveys.

Along with a team of students from Georgia Tech and the College of William and Mary, the group worked off the coast of Grand Isle tirelessly testing their marine cre-ations. The team was joined in its efforts by LSU mathematics gradu-ate student Aleksandra Gruszka.

The research team used four specific robots, two of which were entirely student-made.

Malisoff said the use of spe-cial analysis is what sets the group apart from others involved in robot-ics research. He said it allows them to better understand how the robots will systematically work in marine conditions.

Malisoff, who called himself the “mathematical support guy,” joked about how Zhang ran the show. Zhang has been working with marine robotics for the past five years.

“We aren’t developing a futur-istic robot,” Zhang said. “We want to focus on a design that is work-able for real-life situations. This is an exciting era with a lot of great innovations ahead of us.”

For the 14 students who partic-ipated, the experience provided an opportunity to merge mathematics and engineering. Zhang described the project as an unconventional classroom environment.

“It is important for students to straddle the fence,” Malisoff said. “Employers are looking for versa-tility, and we want the students to

go beyond their curriculum.”Working hands-on with the

marine surveys and the design of the robotic vehicles, students were able to become “double-threats,” Malisoff said.

The work they have accom-plished will be great for the future, Zhang said. He said not enough people in the engineering field have focused enough on environmental disaster issues.

“Colleagues of ours haven’t been able to achieve the same lev-el of success, especially with oil

missions,” Zhang said.He added there is a need to pay

attention to environmental disas-ters.

Malisoff said there have been more than 30 news articles written about their involvement in marine robotics.

“It is always a pleasure to com-municate the excitement I have for my research,” Malisoff said.

After receiving more grant money from the National Science Foundation, theoretical research will continue for the next three

years, Malisoff said.Malisoff’s work as the proj-

ect’s go-to mathematician involves the theoretical aspects behind the robots themselves. He wants to lessen the delay between com-mands and action responses in the robots to improve them in the fu-ture.

“The delay is caused by un-friendly sea conditions,” Malisoff said. “If we can change the analy-sis, we can improve the delay.”

He said the more researchers can understand, the easier it will be to control a coordinated fleet of ro-bots instead of a single one.

Once Malisoff can improve control delays, he said these marine robots will be vital tools in future disasters.

“This is the most we can do to help the state of Louisiana and the rest of the Gulf of Mexico in the re-sult of an oil spill or other disaster,” Zhang said. “This gives me peace of mind knowing I can give back.”

Zhang said he is excited about future solutions that may come as a result.

“Unfortunately, [an oil spill] may happen again in the future,” Zhang said. “It is only a matter of time, but next time we will be better prepared.”

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TECHNOLOGY

LSU partners with 2 schools to develop marine robotsProject targets oil, substances in gulfLauren DuhonStaff Writer

Contact Lauren Duhon at lduhon@lsureveille.com

photo courtesy of FumiN ZHaNG

Jennifer Elliot and David Godschalk, students from College of William and Mary, experiment with the marine robot Fetch.

Louisiana residents are praised for their social well-being, but the state falls fl at in diet, physical health and mental health.

These fi ndings come from America’s 2011 Brain Health In-dex, a research project by brain health resource Beautiful Minds.

The rankings, which include evaluations on all 50 states and the District of Columbia, base their sta-tistics on 21 factors including fruit and vegetable consumption, serious psychological distress and obesity rates, among others.

While Maryland and the Dis-trict of Columbia ranked in the top two, Louisiana and Mississippi ranked 50th and 51st on the index.

Out of 51 , Louisiana ranked 50th in diet, 46th in physical health, 47th in mental health and 4th in so-cial well-being with an overall rat-ing of 50th .

Human ecology professor Georgianna Tuuri said the rankings don’t surprise her.

“The rankings are consistently high,” she said. “We’re worried about the statistics, and we need to take charge of our health.”

Tuuri said she educates stu-dents in her nutrition and wellness class to common health problems.

“We’re doing what we can, but the younger generation must pick up the torch,” she said. “This is not only a monetary issue for the state, but also has serious emotional and physical impacts [on residents].”

In order to combat unhealthy lifestyles, Tuuri suggested modi-fi ed recipes with reduced fat and increased fi ber for those who love traditional Louisiana cuisine.

“In West Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge schools, they’ve substituted brown rice for white rice,” she said. “Schools could pos-sibly even substitute wheat bread for white.”

Tuuri also said many tradi-tional Louisiana dishes contain too much salt.

“Recipes can be modifi ed with a decreased amount of salt,” she said.

Sandeep Bandi , computer sci-ence graduate student and interna-tional student from India, said he’s not surprised by the state’s rank-ings.

Bandi said he prefers to eat oats and milk for breakfast and In-dian food with rice for dinner, and while he said he occasionally treats himself to traditional Louisiana cuisine, he doesn’t eat local food on a daily basis.

“The food here is good, but

there is a lot of oil and fat in it,” he said.

Megan Sullivan , business ad-ministration freshman from Chi-cago, also said she wasn’t caught off-guard by the rankings.

“I’m new to the food, but it seems a lot heavier and less healthy,” she said.

Sullivan said she anticipated that Louisiana would rank high in social well-being.

“At home [in Chicago], people like to stay at home, but here, it seems like everyone is up for any-thing,” she said about social life in the state.

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The Louisiana Board of Regents revised on Wednesday its role, scope and mission statements, which will be incorporated into a fi nal response to state legislation that requested the Regents to study certain aspects of post-secondary education.

Meg Casper, the board’s associ-ate commissioner for public affairs, said the statements contain revisions and updates to each institution’s mission statement.

According to a news release, the statements revised at the month-ly meeting will differentiate audi-ences served and programs offered at each post-secondary education institution in Louisiana.

“An example of this is [Uni-versity of Louisiana at Monroe],” Casper said. “They have a great pharmacy program.”

As a result, ULM’s revised mis-sion statement will include specifi c wording to emphasize its pharmacy program.

“Think about these statements as lanes in which our institutions travel. An ideal system clearly es-tablishes parameters and monitors activities to make sure no one veers into another campus’ lane,” Com-missioner of Higher Education Jim Purcell said in the release. “Once approved, the role, scope and mis-sion statements will allow us to give the board specifi c guidance when making decisions about program additions, consolidations or elimina-tions.”

Deputy Commissioner for Aca-demic and Student Affairs Larry Tremblay said in the release many of the items in the requested by the state legislature had been addressed in previous meetings, so Wednes-day’s meeting focused on updating statements.

The fi nal role, scope and mis-sion statements will be adopted by the board in February and will be-come part of the Master Plan for Higher Education.

Board of Regents Chairman Bob Levy said the board’s response to the resolution outlines what its members believe is necessary for higher education to thrive both as an educational institution and as a busi-ness.

“We have to ensure that educa-tional opportunities are available in every region of our state, but we also have to balance that against a man-date of effi ciency,” he said.

BOARD OF REGENTS

Revisions re� ect schools’ specialtiesRachel WarrenStaff Writer

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HEALTH

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Kate MabryStaff Writer

La. higher ed. mission statements updated

State receives low rank in 2011 Brain Health Index

Top 51. Maryland2. Washington, D.C.3. Washington4. Colorado5. Vermont

Bottom 547. Alabama48. Oklahoma49. Arkansas50. Louisiana51. Mississippi

America’s Brain Health Index:(Includes all 50 states and Washington, D.C.)

• The adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds.• The adult human brain is about 2 percent of the total body weight.• The human brain has about 100 billion neurons.

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basketball timeouts to the delight of fans.

“It’s a big thrill. I’m a big showoff,” Hooker said. “I guess it’s my downfall, but it’s a good thing, too. I just love performing in front of people. It’s what I do.”

To be technical, Hooker hasn’t mastered the art of fl ipping, but rather “tumbling,” which he learned from his mother — Maxine Frank-lin , a former gymnast — when he was 5 years old.

“I taught him everything I knew, and he just picked up every-thing along the way on his own,” Franklin said. “He’s just a quick learner, and he did everything I did.”

As Hooker grew, so did his skill. He learned more advanced tumbling techniques as he got older, and soon he could perform complex fl ips even his mother couldn’t keep up with.

But the combination of Hook-er’s newfound skill, youth and his tendency toward showmanship caught up to him one day.

His adversary took the form of a Greyhound bus. And Hooker was determined to perform a backfl ip off it.

He didn’t fi nish the fl ip.“It left a scar on my leg when

glass went straight into my knee,” Hooker said as he displayed the two- or three-inch scar below his knee. “My mom said if I ever got hurt, she wouldn’t take me to the hospital. But she took me that day.”

Franklin didn’t hesitate when she saw the injury.

“That hurt me to my heart,” Franklin said. “I thought he wasn’t

ever going to fl ip again, to be hon-est. But he overcame that.”

It’s not the fi rst time Hooker hurt himself tumbling, and he said it probably won’t be the last. When his head is consistently the closest part of his body to the ground, in-jury is just something he deals with.

Hooker loves tumbling. He does it everywhere. And it’s started to get him noticed.

“When people really started to notice is when he tumbled out to the Eye of the Tiger,” Zernott said. “And it just kind of escalated from there — which is great.”

More important than entertain-ing large crowds of people, Hooker has turned his abilities into a means of paying for school.

Hooker had never been part of a cheerleading squad before, but his abilities landed him a scholarship at Faulkner University , a two-year school near his Mobile, Ala., home.

The 22-year-old junior

transferred to LSU this year, where he’s majoring in art in the classroom and perfecting his daredevil art in a purple and gold cheerleading uni-form.

His tumbling skills require more than just athleticism, though Hooker doesn’t fall short in that de-partment.

While he stands just 5-foot-7, Hooker said he can dunk a basket-ball on a regulation hoop.

But what really allows Hooker to perform his craft is his fearless-ness. Or, according to his mother, his passion.

“Your heart has to be in it,” Franklin said. “When you’re fl ip-ping, it’s like you’re soaring. ... It’s a passion. If you’ve got your heart into soaring like that, fl ipping is a wonderful feeling.”

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multiple BRTP checking accounts at Chase Bank.

Holmes detailed his hours spent on the phone with Chase Bank determining why he had been blocked from the accounts. He then asked Lipe a series of questions about the blocking.

“Please join me in continuing to press for the truth and transpar-ency so we can focus the BRTP on the subjects that we all are commit-ted to,” Holmes said, addressing recipients of the forwarded mes-sage.

The resignation letter

mentioned “accusations” that were made by a “small group of disaf-fected and disgruntled members.”

“Our roles consist of a great deal of work which has been com-plicated in recent months by a per-sistent and aggressive onslaught of unfounded accusations, inane and unreasonable demands and diver-sions, almost totally irrelevant to our work at hand,” the resignation letter said.

The letter cited a specifi c inci-dent when a disruption at a Decem-ber meeting kept members from focusing on relevant issues and the BRTP’s plans for 2012 .

Many members expressed

confusion and anguish over the confl ict by commenting on the group’s Facebook page, suggest-ing the resignation had come as a shock.

Thibodeaux, Lipe and Daniel were not available for comment by press time.

Holmes told The Daily Reveil-le he could not provide comment as of Wednesday afternoon, but said he would speak at a later date af-ter being cleared by the remaining BRTP members.

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TEA PARTY, from page 1

FLIP, from page 1

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LSU cheerleader Asante “Tiger” Hooker � ips through the air Wednesday in the PMAC.

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Kevin Durant scored 25 points to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to their 10th win in 11 games, 101-91 over the New Orleans Hornets on Wednesday night.

The Thunder improved to 15-3, the best record in the Western Conference, despite an off night from guard Russell Westbrook and 21 turnovers.

Oklahoma City led through-out, including by as many as 14 in the first half. The Hornets pulled to 83-81 with 9:07 left in the game, but Westbrook hit back-to-back shots and the Hornets never got closer than four the rest of the way.

Westbrook started 1 for 10 with four turnovers. He finished 4 of 14 for 14 points.

Jarrett Jack scored 20 points to lead New Orleans. Gustavo Ayon, who came in averaging just 3.2 points, added 16 and Carl Landry 15.

Reserve James Harden had 18 points and made 9 of 10 free throws for the Thunder, who shot 53 percent to win their third straight.

The Thunder led 60-51 at the break after shooting 60.6 percent in the opening half.

Durant didn’t miss a shot in the first half, going 5 for 5 and scoring 16 points. He finished 9

Lauded by their coach as one of the best around, the Tigers’ pitching staff has set the bar high.

LSU coach Beth Torina said the staff is “extremely talented,” but what makes it even more ef-fective is how different each pitcher is from one another.

“They will really comple-ment each other, and their com-plement will make the staff so much stronger,” Torina said.

The staff is spearheaded by senior Brittany Mack, who last year compiled a 20-7 record and a 1.74 ERA for the Tigers.

“Brittany Mack is our return-ing All-American,” Torina said. “She has done so much in her career, and I expect her to have another great year.”

Fellow pitcher Rachele Fico, a junior, said Mack has a visual approach on the mound.

“[Mack] can visualize the pitch breaking exactly how she wants to,” Fico said. “That helps her to be more consistent.”

Fico, an Oxford, Conn., na-tive, contributed 160.2 innings last season and compiled a 2.40 ERA.

“Rachele throws so hard and does so many things well,” Torina said. “She thinks a little different-ly on the mound than some other competitors I’ve been around, and that helps her to be phenom-enal on the mound.”

Fico said her approach on

the mound is based more on feel, as opposed to Mack’s visual ap-proach.

“When it all feels right, it makes me more confident that I can throw my pitches and be ef-fective,” Fico said.

Sophomore Meghan Patter-son rounds out the pitching trio for the Tigers, returning after a freshman season in which she earned a 3.26 ERA in 53.2 in-nings of work.

“Meghan Patterson is the fu-ture of the program,” Torina said. “She’s our young one that gives us a different look.”

Torina said Patterson has an “unbelievable curveball and a great rise ball,” and will give the Tigers solid innings this season.

“She’s so laid back and

SportsThursday, January 26, 2012 page 7

NBA

Hornets fall to Thunder, 101-91The Associated Press

HORNETS, see page 9

SOFTBALL

SOFTBALL, see page 9CATHERINE THRELKELD / The Daily Reveille

LSU sophomore pitcher Meghan Patterson tosses the ball Jan. 18 during practice.

Pitchers utilize varied approaches

Scott BransonSports Contributor

MISSISSIPPI STATE see page 9

BULLDOGS EDGE TIGERSLate flurry not enough to close gap in Tigers’ 76-71 loss

ROGELIO V. SOLIS / The Associated Press

Mississippi State guard Dee Bost (3) tries a layup past LSU forward Storm Warren (24) on Wednesday in the first half of the Tigers’ 76-71 loss in Starkville, Miss.

Chris AbshireSports Writer

It was a classic case of too little, too late.The LSU men’s basketball team staged a tor-

rid late-game surge behind three Anthony Hickey 3-pointers, but No. 18 Mississippi State held on for a 76-71 victory Wednesday night in Starkville.

The Tigers were all but out of the game with 1:10 remaining, trailing the Bulldogs, 67-58.

But the freshman point guard caught the hot hand, and — along with a Ralston Turner trey — vaulted LSU back to within one with 18 seconds to play.

Following Hickey’s final 3-pointer, a bank shot from the top of the key, MSU freshman guard Jalen Steele was fouled and made two free throws, setting

up LSU with a chance to tie on a final possession.

But Bulldogs senior guard Dee Bost jumped a high screen, forcing a Hickey turn-over that led to two clinching free throws by junior forward Arnett Moultrie with 2.6 sec-onds left.

“We got it to Anthony quick a lot late, and he came through,” said LSU coach Trent Johnson in a postgame radio interview. “They made

an adjustment on that last possession, and Dee dodged [LSU junior forward Justin] Hamilton’s screen up top. It was a great defensive play.”

Hickey finished with 15 points. Hamilton added nine and sophomore guard Andre Stringer — who didn’t start for the first time this season in a game he was available — found his shooting touch and led LSU with 17 points.

The Tigers controlled much of the early action and held a seven-point advantage with four minutes to play in the first half, but Steele went on an 8-0 run by himself in just 75 seconds to swing the game’s mo-mentum and give MSU a 32-31 halftime lead.

The Bulldogs parlayed that momentum out of

‘The team was really dialed in tonight. They

competed hard and didn’t let the game get away

without a fight.’Trent Johnson

LSU men’s basketball coach

Differences give Tigers advantage

In 2004, it was the crew team. In 2008, it was Quidditch. Now, in 2012, LSU will get its first disc golf team and club.

Disc golf has grown in popularity over the years with its relaxed pace and ease of getting involved in the sport.

“I used to play when I was younger at sum-mer camp and with my friends in high school,” said marketing senior Kevin Mc-Minn, a member of the inaugural team. “Now I just want to play some more and in a competitive atmosphere.”

The basic premise is simi-lar to the game of golf, or “ball golf” as many disc golfers refer to it. The idea is to get the disc into the designated basket with as few throws as possible. Just like ball golf, disc golf uses different discs the same way a ball golfer uses different clubs for putting and driving.

Clifton Byrd, a post-bacca-laureate undergraduate student, decided to bring the sport to cam-pus after failing to keep a team going at Birmingham Southern College, his alma mater.

Byrd, who received his un-dergraduate degree in biology at BSC, attempted to start a team there last year, but it fell apart after he and others graduated in May. A 22-year-old Baton Rouge native, Byrd is taking classes part time at LSU while working at a hospital.

Now Byrd gets his second chance, this time with an invite to the National Collegiate Disc Golf

Championships in Augusta, Ga., site of the PGA’s Masters Tourna-ment.

“Since LSU is a new team, the [National Collegiate Disc

Golf Union] decided to give us an automatic bid for the National Cham-pionship, which is really awesome,” Byrd said. “It’s getting a lot more people interested in join-ing not only the club as-pect but the team aspect as well. ... It will be a good measure of where we are in our first year.”

However, the team will still compete in the qualifying tour-nament Feb. 18 and 19 in Tusca-loosa, Ala.

As of now, about 15 people

have shown interest in joining the student organization before the group’s first team meeting this afternoon.

The team is also working to gain the faculty adviser necessary to become a club team with LSU University Recreation. Byrd said

an adviser has shown interest in working with the group but has yet to sign the needed paperwork.

“I really want to see these guys improve,” Byrd said. “I would love to see a top-10 fin-ish in the country — that would be huge for us. Mainly, though, I

want to see this club stick around and be here next year. I’m not go-ing to be around next year, so I want someone to pick it up.”

It’s no secret how much time student-athletes dedicate to achieving excellence.

Nights spent in the weight room and afternoons spent run-ning sprints are just some of the ingredients in the recipe to make an elite athlete.

But the training doesn’t stop with athletic activity.

The correlation between a well-balanced diet and on-field performance is obvious, accord-ing to a CNBC report. But only 28 Division I Football Bowl Subdivision college football pro-grams have registered dietitians on staff.

Two of those programs, LSU and Alabama, played in the BCS National Championship game on Jan. 9.

Jamie Mascari, LSU coor-dinator of sports nutrition, was named to her position this fall and is the first to hold the job at LSU.

“The sports nutrition profes-sion is really growing,” she said. “The [Southeastern Conference] has the most sports dietitians hired with their athletes, but all the other conferences are kind of catching on when they see how much of a benefit it is.”

Mascari said she meets with each team individually in the fall to educate the student-athletes about sports nutrition.

“They spend so much time in the weight room and so much time on the court or the field practicing,” she said. “They don’t always realize that wherever they eat, that’s part of their training, too.”

Mascari works with team trainers, strength and condition-ing coaches and even dining-hall employees to make sure LSU’s student-athletes make the right decisions regarding their diets.

“All of the staff is in close contact to make sure we’re on the same page,” she said. “Consistency is the key in ev-erything.”

For the most part, all active athletes need to get their nutrients from the same places, regardless of the sport they play, Mascari said.

A 110-pound, 5-foot-2 gymnast would consume about 2,200 to 2,400 calories a day, though the calorie levels vary depending on the season. A 300-pound, 6-foot-5 football player would consume more than twice that, at roughly 4,500 to 5,000 calories a day.

“We want them getting their calories from lean meats, from

good carbohydrates and heart-healthy fats,” Mascari said. “We

try to stay consis-tent with that, but just change the quantity of it.”

Senior men’s basketball for-ward Storm War-ren said the team’s strength and con-ditioning coach Ryan Filo keeps every player on the team in line.

“We sit down with him and he pretty much goes through what’s your favorite food, what’s the things you eat on a daily basis and gives you suggestions on certain things

if you have to make changes to your diet,” Warren said.

Warren said Filo and Mas-cari never tell the athletes they can’t eat, but instead give them

nutritious alternatives to keep the athletes satisfied while maintain-ing their health.

Senior golfer Sang Yi said the changes he made in his diet and exercise routines have made a noticeable impact on his endur-ance while on the course.

“The biggest thing is, after each tournament round, you’re not as tired,” he said. “You’re not making poor choices because you’re tired. It’s not like you’re playing 18 holes; it’s like you’re playing 15 or something like that.”

For some student-athletes, the right way to eat becomes in-grained in their daily activity.

“I’ve been on my diet for quite a while, so it’s pretty much what I know,” Warren said. “It’s just the way I eat now.”

The Daily Reveillepage 8 Thursday, January 26, 2012

Academic Programs Abroad

Study Abroad Fair

January 31 and February 1

Royal Cotillion Ballroom

LSU Student Union

11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

NUTRITION

CLUB SPORTS

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Disc golf team coming to LSU, to compete nationally

Diet plays important role in LSU athletes’ health, well-being

Albert BurfordSports Contributor

Michael GegenheimerSports Contributor

ATHLETES’ DIETS — BY THE NUMBERS

- 120 Division I FBS programs- 28 Division I FBS programs with a registered dietician, and 2 played in the BCS National Championship game on Jan. 9 - 2,200 to 2,400 — number of calories* a 110-pound, 5’2” gymnast consumes per day - 4,500 to 5,000 — number of calories* a 300-pound, 6’5” football player consumes per day*calories may vary depending on if it’s in-season or off-season

‘I would love a to see a top-10

finish in the country —

that would be huge for us.’

Clifton Byrddisc golf team member

Nutritionist helps all Tiger teams

the halftime break, opening an 11-point lead at the 13-minute mark behind eight Moultrie points and five Bost assists.

Moultrie was a monster down low all night, mixing an array of dunks, put-backs and turn-around jumpers to finish with 28 points and 12 rebounds.

Bost added just nine points on ineffective shooting, but dished out a game-high 10 assists.

Even with LSU 6-foot-9 fresh-man Johnny O’Bryant III making his return following a six-game absence with a fractured hand, Moultrie and fellow forward Rod-ney Hood — who had 13 rebounds — burned LSU on the boards all night.

Mississippi State outclassed the Tigers by 17 rebounds, 40-23.

“We couldn’t keep them off the glass all night,” Johnson said. “It’s pretty hard to win on the road like that.”

Stringer kept LSU in the game with back-to-back 3-pointers mid-way through the second half, and the Tigers were down by only four points with eight minutes remain-ing.

But Moultrie again took over, scoring seven straight, setting up the Bulldogs’ late lead and LSU’s near-comeback.

The Tigers corrected the pe-rimeter shooting woes and turn-over issues that have plagued them recently, making 11-of-21 3-point-ers and only losing the ball twice in the second half.

“The team was really dialed

in tonight,” Johnson said. “They competed hard and didn’t let the game get away without a fight.”

Still, the result was the same, as LSU lost for the fifth time in its last six Southeastern Conference games. It was the Tigers’ fourth-straight road loss in the league play.

of 13 and had a team-high seven rebounds.

Durant finished 9 of 13 shooting and had a team-high seven rebounds.

The Thunder offset the 21 turnovers by getting timely shoot-ing from Daequan Cook, who hit three 3-pointers, and with 21 as-sists.

“Just too many turnovers,” Thunder coach Scott Brooks said. “Don’t know. It’s not like we don’t work on it. It’s happening and we have to correct it. We con-trolled the boards and the turn-overs were a big part of the game. We have to do a much better job with the ball.”

Brooks also said Westbrook improved as the game went on.

“Some shots fell for him,” Brooks said. “You just keep play-ing. You’re not going to always play good basketball. You have to keep your focus and in the fourth quarter the game turned around for him.”

Hornets forward Trevor Ari-za was just 1-for-8 and had two points. New Orleans forward Xavier Henry played for the first time this season and had three points on 1-for-5 shooting Hard-en had six assists for Oklahoma City.

easygoing,” Torina said. “Noth-ing really gets to her.”

Patterson said her even-keeled composure helps her stay focused, no matter how things are going on the mound.

“It helps to just be relaxed,” Patterson said.

Apart from each pitcher’s individual talents on the field, their bond off the field and in the dugout contributes to their overall effectiveness.

“We’re all each other’s biggest cheer-leaders,” Fico said. “We have a lot of fun to-gether.”

Mack said her experience as a senior gives her the chance to give pointers about how to face specific hitters.

“I can sometimes tell them that a batter can’t hit the ball well inside or outside,” Mack said.

Torina said the variance be-tween pitchers gives LSU an ad-vantage on the mound because opponents have to be ready to hit against a drastically varied pitch-ing staff.

“The three of them will be very tough for teams to prepare for as we’re going to face them,” Torina said.

The Daily Reveille page 9Thursday, January 26, 2012

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

ROGELIO V. SOLIS / The Associated Press

LSU forward Storm Warren (24) scores an uncontested rebound against Mississippi State on Wednesday during the Tigers’ 76-71 loss to the Bulldogs.

‘The three of them will be very tough for teams to

prepare for as we’re going to

face them.’

Beth TorinaLSU softball coach

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Funk-rock band Flow Tribe brings its brand of “backbone-crackin’” original music to Chel-sea’s Café tonight.

The sextet of New Orleans na-tives is made up of K.C. O’Rorke , Russel Olschner , Blake Quick , Chad Penot , Bryan Santos and John-Michael Early .

Beyond national tours, Flow Tribe has appeared on an episode of MTV’s “The Real World: New Or-leans ” and performed at the Voodoo

Experience music festival in 2010 . Flow Tribe will take the stage

at Chelsea’s Cafe tonight at 10:30 p.m. The Baton Rouge-based band Onion Loaf will also perform. Ad-mission is $7 .

TDR: Flow Tribe recently wrapped up its Winter Wonderfunk Tour 2012 . How was it to tour out west?O’Rorke : It was great to see the response from people in Colorado , Texas and New Mexico because our music was pretty foreign to them. I think there’s a strand of commonali-ty that runs through everything, and people got on board. We brought them some bayou fl avor.

EntertainmentThursday, January 26, 2012 page 11

RED STICK ROUNDUP

Friday:

Today:LASM After Hours — A Discussion with artist Robert WarrensRobert Warrens will speak about his career and the development of his personal artistic style at the Louisiana Art & Science Museum at 5:30 p.m. Admission is free for members and $7 for nonmembers.

Krewe of Mutts Parade The CAAWS 2012 Mutts Parade will feature “The Good, The Bad and the Furry!” with activities. North Boulevard. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The Punch Brothers and Loudon WainwrightA performance of their classical, bluegrass-style songs with Grammy Award-winning songwriter Loudon Wainwright at the Manship Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Cost ranges from $65- $85.

Saturday:

Main Street MarketOffering winter produce from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and a Charles Wilford cooking demonstration at 10 a.m.

Sportman’s Paradise Red Star will host a taxidermy art show with music by Neighborhood Threat at 10 p.m. Camou� aged attire is encouraged.

photo courtesy of THE PUNCH BROTHERS

Entangled ActMeta Exchange clothing store hosts its � rst art opening with painter Lauren Young Downing at 7 p.m.

Sunday:

File photo

N.O. natives to play at Jazz Fest

MUSIC

Josh NaquinEntertainment Writer

FLOW TRIBE, see page 15

File photo

K.C. O’Rorke, from the band Flow Tribe, performs Aug. 25 on the Parade Ground for the Back to School Concert put on by Student Activities Board.

Andrew Zimmern, who has eaten tarantulas, grilled rats and lamb tongues on the Travel Chan-nel’s “Bizarre Foods,” came to Baton Rouge on Wednesday to taste authentic Cajun jambalaya and raise funds for Capital United Way .

Driving from coast to coast in his black Toyota Venza , Zimmern visits different ar-eas that have been affected by natural disasters for his MSN Web show,

“Appetite for Life,” now in its third season.

Zimmern has been to more than 80 countries for “Bizzarre Foods.” He said traveling through the United States gives him the same thrills as traveling to Africa or Asia.

“Travel is all about the peo-ple,” Zimmern said. “You learn about the spirit of a place.”

Although he used to be ad-dicted to drugs and homeless, Zim-mern overcame these obstacles and is now a famous chef, food critic and notable TV personality.He is also a published author, with his works “The Bizarre Truth” and “Andrew Zimmern’s Bizarre World of Food.”

Zimmern has been to Louisi-ana previously and is familiar with the fl avors and foods Baton Rouge has to offer.

“I think about dark roux,” Zimmern said. “Thinking about Louisiana instantly recalls a fl a-vor. In this city and state, food is in your DNA.”

Having already been to Ala-bama, Georgia and Tennessee, Zimmern and his crew for “Appe-tite for Life” came to North Bou-levard Town Square to fi lm a seg-ment on Southern hospitality.

Dean Carpentier, the show’s producer, said each season is about Zimmern giving back to com-munities, and the show will also feature a cultural segment as they visit Jesse Brown, a local custom accordion maker.

According to East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President Kip Holden, Zimmern’s visit was the fi rst major event for the North Boulevard Town Square.

“The success has been un-believable,” Holden said. “This event gives you an appreciation for all the different things Baton Rouge has to offer. You don’t have to go far to get great food.”

Hundreds of spectators at-tended the event. Attendees were able to enjoy food from a jam-balaya cook-off between Gonza-les chefs Tee Wayne Abshire and Carlos Braud. Burgers and tacos from food trucks, including Taco de Paco and FRESH, were also on hand.

Nutritional sciences se-nior Rebecca Porche waited in line to try more of the food and meet Zimmern.

in his black Toyota Venza , Zimmern visits different ar-eas that have been affected by natural disasters for his MSN Web show,

has to offer.“I think about dark roux,”

Zimmern said. “Thinking about Louisiana instantly recalls a fl a-vor. In this city and state, food is in your DNA.”

Having already been to Ala-bama, Georgia and Tennessee, Zimmern and his crew for “Appe-tite for Life” came to North Bou-levard Town Square to fi lm a seg-ment on Southern hospitality.

Dean Carpentier, the show’s producer, said each season is about producer, said each season is about Zimmern giving back to com-Zimmern giving back to com-munities, and the show will also munities, and the show will also feature a cultural segment as they feature a cultural segment as they visit Jesse Brown, a local custom visit Jesse Brown, a local custom accordion maker. accordion maker.

C’est Bon

Flow Tribe performs tonight at Chelsea’s

TV chef Andrew Zimmern judges Cajun cuisine for charity

ZIMMERN, see page 15

photos by XERXES A. WILSON / The Daily Reveille

Raylea BarrowEntertainment Writer

The wisps of fall bring car-digans and sweaters. Summer is a time of sweet miniskirts and short dresses. But during the winter, we can combine these seasonable fa-vorites into a fi erce, layered look.

Even more exciting is the prospect of fash-ion hosiery to transition a classic vest, sweater or dress into certi-fi ed style. Hosiery can be the per-fect addition to those tube skirts you bought in June, as well as the oversized sweater you found in your father’s closet. If you’re in sync with the times, you’re prob-ably wearing them together.

As wide waistlines take the spotlight this winter, I’ve spotted plenty sweatshirt-and-skirt com-binations. Rebellious but eccen-tric fashion print tights provide an exciting pop accent between your hemline and the top of your knee or calf boot-du-jour.

A heavy hitter in the Ameri-can fashion hose scene is Ameri-can Apparel, but we’ve come a long way from the watered-down African and Aztecan prints that the brand is known for. Ameri-can Apparel will have every sol-id color and metallic legging you may need, but if you take a little time to explore local and over-seas brands, you can get more bing-bada-bang for your buck.

Hosiery is just as popu-lar on American runways as it has always been, but the

high-fashion leg accessories that tickle my fancy are fi nally trick-ling down to discount pricing.

One such brand I admire for its quality and trend analysis is HUE, which caters to a colorful aesthetic and incorporates in-novative prints and popular lace weaving patterns, all for less than $20. A plethora of other designer brands also cater to the same aes-thetic, if you care to extend your pretty pennies.

My vote rests with some of the international hosiery brands like Wolford, an Austrian com-pany specializing in knits and hosiery. This brand is one of the most luxurious of its kind, carried in retail establishments worldwide. Even though there’s a much more comprehensive appreciation for leg-cessories across the pond, I’ve been a long-time fan of the visual fi reworks the right pair of hose can ignite.

Cette, another great supplier to hose addicts, hails from Bel-gium, and its reputation for tights is known from coast to coast.

House of Holland comes from a young designer who gifts the fashion community with col-orful collections of cocky but classy prints live from London, and he has the hose to prove it.

Tiffany Quinn is another fashion tights brand that takes pride in its on-trend attentive-ness and quality production, making loyal customers proud to pay such a small price for such a large boost of leg drama.

There are plenty other brands that won’t be upstaged by competitors’ print persuasion,

like Miss Oroblu, a stunningly eye-catching brand of tights headquartered in the UK that de-livers an array of new designs for hosiery.

Another hard-hitting UK-based brand is Pamela Mann, carrying the boldest, baddest two-toned tights a girl could crave. If you’re in the mood for some jester styling — or ‘parti-colored’ looks, as the tights have been fondly referred to in cos-tume stores — Pamela Mann is your go-to brand.

With so many different brands to utilize for your hose emergency, one should never be without a pair on a windy day. Many of these brands and more can be found on the likes of popular European hose websites such as UK Tights or the more central MyTights.com.

� e Daily Reveillepage 12 Thursday, January 26, 2012

Audiences of “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” will laugh and cry, but more importantly, they’ll remember. The story of a young boy who loses his father in the collapse of the World Trade Center tugs on the heartstrings, but it isn’t overly patriotic or at all vengeful. The cast includes A-listers Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks , but 14-year-old newcomer Thomas Horn steals the spotlight. And the stellar performances continue with Swedish actor Max von Sydow , who enthralls the audience without uttering a singular syllable, which earned him an Oscar nomination this week for Best Supporting Actor . Though the movie is a tear-jerker, it sends a positive message of compassion and hu-man connection. Intense emotional scenes

are followed with laugh-inducing, colorful characters that break the tension. Director Stephen Daldry’s work will have viewers simultane-ously laughing out loud and wiping tears from their eyes.

HAYLIE NAVARRE

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Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures“Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”

The Weinstein CompanyEDITOR’S PICK: “The Artist”

For those who hadn’t heard the name Seal until it hit the blogo-sphere attached to words like “divorce” and “interracial couple,” now might not be the best time to do a musical background check. With the crash and burn of his marriage to hottie Heidi Klum, Seal’s newest album won’t be redeeming his reputation. Tracks titled “ Let’s Stay Together” and “ I’ll Be Around” carry the cold weight of irony amid his separation. “ Love Don’t Live Here Anymore” certainly seems to be a more appropriate description of the soul singer’s situation. Despite its doctor’s of� ce-inspired

collection of soul covers, Seal proves he hasn’t lost his velvety voice to the years of C-list celebrity life. Thrust into the spotlight by his misfortune, one might predict this to be his most popular work. Put it this way: Seal’s latest album doesn’t suck as much as his current love life. MORGAN SEARLES

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Reprise RecordsSeal, “Soul 2”

Singer-guitarist Matthew Caws’ voice blends well with melodies throughout this album, producing harmony that makes the tracks catchy and likeable. The acoustic songs are some of the more enjoy-able cuts on the album. The soft, well-composed rhythm guitars set a pleasant background to let Caws’ voice shine, which is one of the best aspects of “The Stars are Indifferent to Astronomy.” Caws’ clever lyrics and unique vocals — like his stop-and-go pattering in “Clear Eye Clouded Mind” — add a sprightly element to otherwise simple tracks, but the album offers little originality. It’s alternative rock and little else.

Nada Surf should have produced this album in the late ‘90s, when it might have climbed its way to the top of the post-grunge alternative buzz.

AUSTEN KRANTZ

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Barsuk RecordsNada Surf, “The Stars are Indifferentto Astronomy”

RYAN BUXTONAssociate Managing Editor

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Ingrid Michaelson’s fourth studio-backed album, “Human Again ,” is aptly titled, as it explores a wide range of human emotion. The album contrasts previous efforts from Michaelson, like “Can’t Help Falling in Love ,” which, while emotional and heartfelt, focused on lighthearted and predictable concepts. With songs like “End of the World ” and “Save Me ,” the new album tackles darker, more mature subjects. With this new, edgier work, Michaelson provides an archetype for female singer/song-writers looking to break free of the

conventional “Grey’s Anatomy” soundtrack sound. While “Hu-man Again ” may not offer the upbeat, infectious pop sound of Michaelson’s previous ukulele-based work, its juxtaposition of innocent vocals and chilling messages is hauntingly beautiful.    

JOSH NAQUIN

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Cabin 24 RecordsIngrid Michaelson, “Human Again”

Hollywood may have found its newest action star in Gina Carano , who leads the all-star ensemble cast of “Haywire .” She’s like a female version of Jason Statham — not a great actor, but a great screen presence. What the � lm lacks in clear storytelling, it makes up for in terri� c, tense � ght sequences. Director Steven Soderbergh smartly presents these scenes without any music, letting the audi-ence feel every punch and kick. While “Haywire ” is one of the more authentic action movies in recent memory, the � lm’s shortfall is its

lack of a cohesive story. Sure, it’s fun to watch Carano’s character kick ass, but maybe it would be a bit more fun if the audience knew why she was kicking ass.

JOEY GRONER

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Relativity Media“Haywire”

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Fashion hosiery and leg accessories add exciting twist to winter out� ts

AL BURKSColumnist

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In an age when moviegoers’ attention spans are so short that airheaded explosion � icks like “Transformers” top the box of� ce, asking them to sit through a silent � lm is a tall order. But “The Artist” is just as engrossing, if not more so, than any talkie you’ll � nd in theaters this year. Jean Dujardin is perfection as George Valentin, a silent � lm star who fades into obscurity with the proliferation of sound movies. In a story that chronicles the death of silent pictures, the lack of dialogue lets the audience experience the unique magic Valentin can’t leave behind. And who needs dialogue when you’ve got stellar performances, a wonderful score and the cutest dog actor since Wishbone?

Though its silence may be a stigma, “The Artist” is one of the most fun � lms of the year, and likely the only one that will have audiences laughing out loud without ever hearing a joke.

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MATTICUS FINCH

‘Artist’ for Best Picture, other Oscar predictionsA black-and-white silent film,

an ode to evolution and a flashback to 1920s Paris populate this year’s Academy Award nominations, an-nounced Tuesday.

The offer-ings provide a varied bunch, with a crop of surprises threat-ening to overtake the predicted win-ners. Will they succeed come Oscar night? Of course not, but it’s fun to speculate on the possibili-ties nonetheless.

BEST PICTUREThe Academy’s Board of Gov-

ernors can’t seem to solidify what it wants the Best Picture category to look like. The race was inflated to an overstuffed 10 nominees in the past two years, and now we’re left with what may actually be a prudent move on the Academy’s part — an open-ended ballot system in which the number of Best Picture nomi-nees is determined by how many films received a certain percentage of first-place votes.

What did the new system get us? Nine nominations in-stead of 10. At least it’s a start. Golden Globe favorites “The Art-ist” and “The Descendants” sit alongside award magnet “The Help” in what appears to be a

three-way race for the top prize. While nothing else seems to

stand a fair chance against these powerhouses (although seeing Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Par-is” steal the prize would warm my heart), it’s interesting to see “Ex-tremely Loud & Incredibly Close” and “The Tree of Life” creep into the finalists’ pool. With mixed re-views, both were snubbed by the Globes and the Screen Actors Guild, making them contentious entries, considering the Academy’s new voting system.

Rounding out the list is a triad of films that stand almost no chance of being crowned: “Hugo,” “Mon-eyball” and “War Horse.”

My prediction: “The Artist”

BEST ACTOROut of nowhere comes Gary

Oldman for the little-seen “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” and Demián Bi-chir for the even-less-seen “A Better Life,” displacing once-favored “J. Edgar” star Leonardo DiCaprio and a nudity-prone Michael Fassbender for the lascivious film “Shame.”

Joining Oldman and Bichir, George Clooney (“The Descen-dants”), Jean Dujardin (“The Art-ist”) and Brad Pitt (“Moneyball”) comprise another trifecta of front-runners.

All three gentlemen have collected a bevy of precursor awards, so the verdict will depend on what mood the Academy feels

like embracing this season. If vot-ers are going for glam, expect Pitt to strut across the stage for his first win. If they’re looking to honor the resident legend of the catego-ry, then Clooney’s unanimously praised turn as a father who learns his dying wife was unfaithful may catapult him to the forefront. But if voters favor originality and a touch of avant-garde — and they prob-ably do — then it’s Dujardin’s race to lose.

My prediction: Jean Dujardin.

BEST ACTRESS No matter which leading la-

dies made the shortlist in this cat-egory, snubs were sure to abound.

Glenn Close (“Albert Nobbs”), Viola Davis (“The Help”), Meryl Streep (“The Iron Lady”) and Mi-chelle Williams (“My Week with Marilyn”) have been guaranteed nominations since awards season began, while the fifth slot provided a dead-heat battle that seemed like anyone’s game.

It turned out to be Rooney Mara’s (“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”), who topped Tilda Swinton (“We Need to Talk About Kevin”), Charlize Theron (“Young Adult”) and my personal favorite Elizabeth Olsen, from the superb “Martha Marcy May Marlene.”

Mara may have overtaken Swinton, Theron and Olsen for the nomination, but pundits can dis-count her when placing their bets.

Her incipient celebrity status will inhibit her from soaring to the Os-car stage.

Also cast aside Close. Despite earning raves that “Nobbs” may be the best performance of her 29-year film career, the actress has been largely overshadowed by Davis, Streep and Williams, all of whom have dominated the leading-actress races.

Despite collecting the Golden Globe a few weeks ago, Williams, too, will be dwarfed on Oscar night by Davis’ heartfelt performance as a 1960s maid and Streep’s portrayal of British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.

My prediction: Viola Davis.

ADDITIONAL PREDICTIONSSupporting Actress: Octavia Spencer (“The Help”)Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer (“Beginners”)Director: Michael Hazanavicius (“The Artist”) Adapted Screenplay: Steven Zail-lian and Aaron Sorkin (“Money-ball”)Original Screenplay: Woody Al-len (“Midnight in Paris”)Original Score: Ludovic Bource (“The Artist”)

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Anthony Myles almost didn’t win more than $13,000. He almost never got the chance to go to Los Angeles and appear on “Wheel of Fortune.” He almost never even auditioned for the show.

Yet the political science soph-omore found himself on the show’s colorful set, where he spun his way to $13,700 on the Jan. 9 episode.

His journey to the show began last year when Myles was a fresh-man. He saw the “Wheel Mobile,” the show’s traveling audition stage, near the Student Union.

“I didn’t get called to audi-tion that day, but we filled out slips that they picked randomly to call people back,” Myles said. “After a couple months, they e-mailed me and told me they wanted me to au-dition in New Orleans for College Week.”

After being one of 15 par-ticipants selected from a group of about 50, show organizers told Myles he’d receive a letter in three

weeks if they wanted him to be on the show. When those three weeks were up, Myles thought it just wasn’t meant to be.

“After the three weeks passed, I just kind of ac-cepted that it wasn’t going to happen,” Myles said. “But then out of nowhere they called and asked me to be an alternate for Col-lege Week, plus

they told me I was guaranteed a spot in the future.”

Myles went to Los Angeles in April 2011, but he didn’t compete on the show during College Week. He had to wait until August, when the new season of “Wheel” was be-ing filmed.

“They called me on Aug. 15 and told me they wanted me in L.A. for Aug. 18,” Myles said. “I called my mom, told her we had to leave in two days and she had no hesita-tion. She bought the plane tickets and everything immediately.”

Once he was ready to film his episode, Myles said he began feel-ing nervous. Even after watching five episodes being filmed in a sin-gle day and knowing exactly what to expect, Myles said he tensed up when the lights came on.

In the end, Myles said all his worrying was for nothing. He won thousands and found himself in the spotlight after his episode was aired.

“My Facebook was blowing up that day – my Twitter, too,” Myles said. “Even random people from all over the city see me and they’re like, ‘Hey, weren’t you on ‘Wheel of Fortune?’ It’s just kind of strange to me.”

Though he hasn’t received the money yet, Myles said he plans to invest his winnings and to help support his family.

Joey GronerEntertainment Writer

Student spins Wheel of Fortune

Myles

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Remembrance project to benefit museumDavid JonesEntertainment Writer

A butterfly effect is rippling through art to commemorate the deaths of 1.5 million Jewish chil-dren during Holocaust.

The Leisure Arts Studio, located in the Student Union, will join the nationwide But-terfly Project on Friday by help-ing University students to make handcrafted butterflies as part of its Free Art Fridays program. The student-made art will be featured in an exhibit at the Holocaust Museum Houston.

The Butterfly Project was in-spired by the poem “I Never Saw a Butterfly,” written by Pavel Friedman, who died in the Ho-locaust. The project started as an educational exercise for children but spiraled into an exhibit that boasts about 900,000 butterflies from all over the world.

The exhibit’s goal is to col-lect 1.5 million colorful pieces, each representing a child who died in the Holocaust.

Ira Perry, Holocaust Museum Houston public relations director, said the museum has been col-lecting butterflies since its open-ing in 1996. He said the exhibit is expected to open next year.

“The exhibit reminds us that these children, who were no

different from anyone else, were treated unfairly.” Perry said.

Tina Ufford, Leisure Arts Studio assistant, said the project will help students to gain a sense of community while allowing them to express themselves.

“Every time we do a Free Arts Friday project, almost ev-eryone comes up with something different,” Ufford said.

The studio has hosted two previous Free Art Friday proj-ects, including crafting Hallow-een lanterns and making masks for Chinese New Year. The next event will celebrate Mardi Gras and Valentine’s day.

Ufford said the process for making the butterflies is easy and can be done by any student, regardless of artistic ability. She said its takes about 20 minutes to complete one butterfly, and up to 18 students can fit in the studio at one time.

The Butterfly Project will be held from tomorrow from noon to 2 p.m. in the Leisure Arts Studio.

For students who are unable to participate in the project, the museum will be accepting butter-flies mailed to 5401 Caroline St., Houston, Texas, through Dec. 31.

Contact David Jones at djones@lsureveille.com

MARIAH POSTLETHWAITE / The Daily Reveille

Butterfly crafts will be made in the Leisure Arts Studio on Friday. They will be sent to the Holocaust Museum Houston in memory of children who died in the Holocaust.

ART

TDR: You’ve described the Tribe’s music in the past as being “back-bone-crackin.’” Can you elaborate?O’Rorke : Our music is based and rooted in New Orleans traditions like late-night partying. We really try to make the audience as much a part of the show as we are, because if the audience is getting wild we’re just going to be getting even wilder. We’re making that feeling-good-deep-down-in-your-soul music.

TDR: Flow Tribe released a new, self-titled album late last year. How does it differ from your previous work?O’Rorke : We recorded it in May of last year at Dockside Studio in Lafayette . We were blessed to have older jazz musician Bill Summers there to lay down percussion for

most of our tracks. For this album we had a full horn section and a saxophone. We also had more time to lay down a more complete vision. We consider this album a great rep-resentation of who we are as a band.

TDR: What are your thoughts about playing at Jazz Fest for the fi rst time later this year?O’Rorke : We’re incredibly excited for that, being New Orleanians and growing up with that, it’s had a huge infl uence on us. It’s defi nitely a huge milestone in our career as a band. Being able to represent the next generation of street funk is im-portant to us.

TDR: Flow Tribe is playing at Chelsea’s Café in Baton Rouge tonight. Having played there be-fore, how does it compare to other venues?

O’Rorke : It’s a great spot and a cool community place. We’re excited to play there again. We haven’t been back to Baton Rouge in a couple months, so this will be a nice sort of homecoming. We love to get down with the 225 .

TDR: What are the band’s plans for the future?O’Rorke : We want to focus on spreading the music to as many people as possible. We’re going to be playing more festivals and pro-ducing quality music that the peo-ple can get down to. We’re hoping in the summer we can play some in Europe and just keep churning out the tunes.

“We saw the food trucks and came by,” Porche said. “The food tastes great.”

Carlos Braud, member of the Jambalaya Festival Association and Gonzales Jambalaya Champion, was busy cooking a bubbling pork and sausage jamba-laya.

“I have been cooking all my life. I started when I was about 13 years old,” Braud said.

Zimmern was given the opportu-nity to judge the jambalaya made by Braud and Abshire as a part of the segment. He described the fl avors of each Cajun dish as “unbeliev-able.” Because Braud and Abshire included similar ingredients in their recipes, Zimmern judged the com-petition as a tie, declaring the City of Baton Rouge and Capital United Way the true winners, which elic-ited cheers from the audience.

Chandra Williams, Baton Rouge Community College nursing junior, volunteered for Capital Unit-ed Way through the Boys and Girls Club for the event. Williams, along with her friend, Northwestern State

University biology senior Marlesha Winding, handed out the jambalaya. Both said they enjoy the aspect of giving back to the local community.

As the event came to a close, Zimmern had some advice for ad-venturous students who love food

as much as he does. “Put your

content out there. [Food writing] is the most democrat-ic environment,” Zimmern said. “Anyone with an opinion can write.

The options are mind-boggling.”After the festivities, Zimmern

tweeted a proclamation from the mayor-president declaring Jan. 25 as Andrew Zimmern Day, which Zimmern said was humbling.

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In this tough economic envi-ronment, former Massachusetts Governor and GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has shown an inability to relate to voters on their financial struggles and fears.

Experts have analyzed Rom-ney’s communication strategies and rhetoric, questioning his strug-gles in identifying with voters and their financial concerns.

The real answer is obvious — Romney has no financial struggles or fears.

After enduring weeks of criti-cism from GOP challengers and the media alike, Romney finally

released his tax returns Tuesday — all two years’ worth, provid-ing only a par-tial snapshot to his vast personal wealth.

R o m n e y chose not to fol-low the example of his father,

who, as a presidential candidate in 1968, released 12 years of returns.

The release of Romney’s tax returns revealed no surprises. Romney’s personal finances only reinforce him as a poster child of what’s wrong with the American tax system.

The disclosure shows Rom-ney had an adjusted gross income of $21.6 million in 2010 and an estimated $20.9 million in 2011, largely all of it profits, dividends or interest from investments.

No income was reported from earned wages, as Romney collect-ed millions in capital gains from a myriad of investments, as well as stock dividends and interest pay-ments.

In 2010, Romney and his wife,

Ann, paid about $3 million in fed-eral taxes to the IRS on their ad-justed gross income, for an effec-tive tax rate of 13.9 percent. And for 2011, Romney estimates he will pay about $3.2 million, for an effective rate of 15.4 percent — significantly lower than rates paid by President Obama and Romney’s biggest GOP challenger, Newt Gingrich.

How can this be possible? Very simple.

Romney has taken advantage of tax loopholes that are a direct reflection of the archaic American tax system.

The most glaring loophole in current law that Romney has taken

advantage of is the treatment of “carried interest.”

Romney and his wife earned $7.4 million in so-called carried interest in 2010 and $5.5 million in 2011, reflecting his share of profits from the private equity firm Bain Capital, which he co-founded in 1984 and retired from in 1999.

That money is currently taxed at the rate normally reserved for long-term capital gains — the 15 percent top capital gains rate rather than the 35 percent top rate for or-dinary income earned by people providing personal services.

Managers of private eq-uity funds, such as Bain Capital, don’t receive a salary but take a

percentage of the fund’s profits, which is taxed as capital gains at 15 percent, even though it’s a per-sonal service.

In an interview with ABC, Re-becca Wilkins, senior counsel for federal tax policy at Citizens for Tax Justice, noted “most of the in-come is capital gains, which comes through Bain, all of which is prob-ably carried interest.”

The unethical matter is that the carried interest should be taxed at the rates which normally apply to earned income, which tops out at 35 percent. If Romney’s car-ried interest income in the last two years had been taxed at that higher rate, he would have owed about

$4.8 million in federal taxes, al-most $2.6 million more than under the current tax code.

Romney’s investments in for-eign entities, some located in Lux-embourg, Ireland and the Cayman Islands, are all famous tax havens. Bain Capital, as well as Romney’s individual retirement account, have significant holdings in funds based in the Caymans and other low-tax countries to take advan-tage of these loopholes.

These offshore accounts have provided Romney and Bain Capi-tal with various potential financial benefits, such as higher manage-ment fees and greater foreign inter-est, all at the expense of the U.S. Treasury.

Many of the steps that Rom-ney has taken in his returns are measures that are effectively avail-able only to the wealthy, which brings to light just how crooked the American tax code is.

The progressive ideals that the tax code was designed under — the more you earn, the more you are supposed to pay — have carried no weight with millionaires such as Romney.

And while Romney slithers his way to personal tax breaks, the middle class foots the bill.

If Romney were elected presi-dent, the media would have far more to talk about than an election outcome — most notably, the death of the middle class.

Matthew Westfall is a 23-year-old mass communication senior form Winchester, Va. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_mwestfall.

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OpinionThursday, January 26, 2012 page 17

If you hoped President Obama would quell the Or-wellian tide that swept through the country during the Bush ad-ministration, you may be sur-prised to learn that the president has not only continued many of Bush’s policies, but has also ex-panded the powers of the execu-tive branch.

The most recent example is the president’s signing of the Na-tional Defense Authorization Act.

The NDAA is an annual bill passed by Congress that lays out the Department of Defense’s budget and expenditures for the following fiscal year. The most recent bill, however, which was signed into law on Dec. 31, 2011, included provisions added by Senators Carl Levin, D-Mich., and John McCain, R-Ariz., which codified into law the ability of the military to indefinitely detain “enemy combatants,” including American citizens, without trial.

Section 1031 of the bill al-lows military detention of anyone at home or abroad who “substan-tially supports” Al-Qaeda and the

Taliban or “associated forces.”Although a compromise

amendment added by Sen. Di-anne Feinstein, D-Calif., to the NDAA claims to “preserve ex-isting law or authorities relating to the detention of United States citizens,” the bill’s vague lan-guage allows for a broad interpre-tation.

This is because the Obama adminis-tration and other proponents of broad detention powers already argue that the 2001 Authoriza-tion for Use of Military Force (AUMF) resolution permits the detentions of United States citizens. In fact, the Obama and Bush administrations applied the AUMF to authorize their use of indefinite detentions around the world. The NDAA merely codi-fied this into law.

Civil libertarians and others have been in an uproar over the

bill, and the backlash has been strong against the administration.

A New York Times edito-rial lamented Obama’s decision to sign the bill, stating it was a “political cave-in” that “reinforc-es the impression of a fumbling presidency.”

Pulitzer Prize-winning jour-nalist Chris Hedges went so far as filing a suit against the Obama administration, calling the bill “unforgivable, unconstitutional and exceedingly dangerous.”

Apologists for Obama will come out and say the president had no choice but to sign the bill or else risk being politically vul-nerable to Republicans. There would be some credence to those claims if it wasn’t for the fact that the Obama administration had language removed from the bill which expressly exempted U.S. citizens from indefinite deten-tion.

Yet, this continuation of Bush administration policies is nothing unusual to Obama’s presidency.

Earlier last year, Obama signed an extension to the

controversial Patriot Act, which allows the warrantless surveil-lance of citizens in the name of the War on Terror. This is despite data which demonstrated that de-layed-notice search warrants au-thorized by the Patriot Act have only been used 15 times in cases of suspected terrorism — com-pared to the 1,618 times it has been used in drug-related cases.

The president committed what is arguably the most egre-gious attack on American civil liberties to date when he autho-rized the extra-judicial assassina-tion of radical cleric and United States citizen Anwar al-Awlaki.

Al-Awlaki’s assassination set the dangerous precedent of allowing American citizens to be killed by their government far from any battlefield and without the right to trial.

If these actions were commit-ted by the Bush administration, then there would undoubtedly be fierce reactions by progressives.

So what gives?Have progressives become

so entrenched in the partisan

politics of this country that they have sacrificed their ideals in order to cheer on their chosen candidate? Where is the backlash that we saw when Bush enacted similar policies? Where is the outrage?

Obama has shown time and again that he is willing to sacri-fice American civil liberties to score political points, yet pro-gressives and liberal-leaning in-dependents will still flock to vote for him again in November.

We cannot lose ourselves to the political game. Instead, we must continue to defend our rights and hold Obama’s feet to the fire when he encroaches on them.

David Scheuermann is a 20-year-old mass communication and computer science sophomore from Kenner. Follow him on Twitter at @TDR_dscheu.

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Health class is usually taught accompanied by physical edu-cation during middle or high school, when you learn to wait for sex, drink responsibly and avoid smoking.

For a community that under-stands the side effects of smok-ing, throwing repetitive informa-tion in our faces gets annoying fast.

I don’t smoke, but after watching commercials and lis-tening to speakers waste my class time over and over again on the subject, I may just give it a try.

I acknowledge that regu-lation of smoking locations is lacking on campus, but I also know that, in this country, when enough people want something gone or changed, it should only take two snaps.

When it comes to smoking on campus, students are aware of the repercussions but still don’t feel strongly enough to support banning the indulgence com-pletely.

“As long as they’re outside, it doesn’t bother me,” said Lindsay Rivet, accounting sophomore.

Jenn Winston, early child-hood development freshman, shares similar views, saying that smoking doesn’t seem common enough to make it an issue.

Organizations like Smok-ingWords, a smoking awareness campaign that started in 2000 at LSU, have continued to push for a tobacco-free environment.

In 12 years’ time, Smoking-Words has developed an aware-ness website and an advocacy

group that attends fundraising and awareness events such as the American Cancer Society Re-lays for Life and the Great Amer-ican Smokeout.

Why bother to keep pushing for something not many students

feel strongly about?

The Louisi-ana Campaign for Tobacco-Free Living pro-vided LSU with the financial means to work toward a clean e n v i r o n m e n t and eventually

become a member of Fresh Cam-pus, a statewide organization in the process of making colleges and universities across Louisiana smoke-free.

Smoking is prohibited in any University building, provid-ing professors, faculty and staff with a smoke-free environment. Smoking is permitted 25 feet away from the entrance of any building, and with the exception of the front of Middleton Library, the rule seems to serve its pur-pose.

Seeing that smoking is not illegal everywhere, banning it across campuses is only solv-ing half the issue. By having our campus tobacco-free, only sec-ondary effects of smoking are be-ing eliminated — smokers aren’t going to quit merely because they can’t do it in a certain area.

After speaking to students around campus, I found that

most are indifferent to the issue. Smoking is a decision that we are allowed to make, and taking away an opportunity to relieve stress will only piss us off more than being forced to walk off campus if the rule is actually en-forced.

Joshua Seitz, computer sci-ence senior, agrees.

“It’s good to educate, but that doesn’t change the fact that smoking is a choice people will make either way,” Seitz said.

I’m with him.Being told not to do some-

thing doesn’t imply that we’ll lis-ten — just ask any members on the staff of LSU’s Office of Park-ing, Traffic and Transportation.

Littering is also prohibited, but that doesn’t mean you won’t find trash in hallways, classrooms or parking lots — which nullifies the argument about smokers hav-ing no respect for the beauty of the campus, because apparently a large number of non-smokers don’t either.

According to Judith Syl-vester, mass communication professor and founder of Smok-ingWords, LSU has a 27 percent smoking rate among undergradu-ates and a nearly 12 percent rate among graduate students and staff members. Six percent of the faculty smoke.

Looking at the numbers, barely a quarter of LSU’s com-munity partakes in the legal issue which is apparently causing so much grief.

“It’s not an issue, you know the areas and can avoid

them,” said Megan Simon, psychology junior.

A vocal majority has yet to speak up while LSU is set on becoming a smoke-free campus in the fall of this year. We can only hope that when LSU en-forces the new rules, less of our class time will be wasted telling us why we should follow them.

Marie-Therese Yokum is a 19-year-old mass communica-tion and finance sophomore from Lafayette. Follow her on Twitter @mtyokum_TDR.

Contact Marie-Therese Yokum at myokum@lsureveille.com

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