With her team facing the possibility of missing the NCAA Tournament midway through SEC play, LSU women’s basketball coach Nikki Caldwell brought out the big guns.

She told the Lady Ti-gers if they did not make the tournament, they would be forced to work as custodians, water girls and

in the concession stand as they watched four other teams play on their home court.

“I told them you are not at LSU just to play through a season,” Caldwell said. “LSU is rich in tradition ... It would be an insult for us not to be representing LSU on a na-tional level.”

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While some members of the Faculty Senate are partially hap-py the suggested president and chancellor of the LSU System F. King Alexander is an academic, the Senate unanimously voted Tuesday to pass a no confi dence resolution in the LSU Board of Supervisors.

The resolution states the Senate has no confi dence in the Board to make the right deci-sions regarding administrative leadership, budget defi ciencies or reorganization of the LSU System. Faculty Senate President Kevin Cope said he, along with other Faculty Senate members, is

partially happy about Alexan-der’s position, but worried be-cause Alexander has never been a tenured professor nor administra-tor at a major research institution.

“We are currently at a time where shamelessness is at a high end. This body … expects a giv-en standard of performance even of the Supervisors,” Cope said. “LSU is currently in an accredita-tion cycle. If there are a number of shadows on the operation of the System, it is possible there might need to be some reform before the various accreditations go forward.”

William Daly, past president of the Faculty Senate, said the

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Maj. Bart Thompson of the LSU Police Department was in-volved in a traffi c crash last Thurs-day morning with LSU student Paulina Tran, who said Thompson hit her parked car and drove away.

Tran said she saw Thompson, in a black unmarked SUV, drive to the Public Safety Building after hitting her car. She said she went in and fi led a police report, and af-ter examining both cars, Thomp-son denied hitting her.

LSUPD released a crash re-port saying Thompson backed into Tran while in a vehicle owned by LSU, but it did not mention a hit and run.

Tran said it was not the crash that upset her, but Thompson’s de-nial of the wreck.

“He said there was no way his car did that, and there was no damages or evidence on his ve-hicle to match up with that dam-age,” Tran said. “He called me a liar in so many words.”

Thompson later acknowl-edged the hit, shown in the police report.

Tran, who delivers issues of The Daily Reveille, said she was delivering newspapers near Jesse Coates Hall at 6:50 a.m., got out of her car with the engine and lights still on, and Thompson backed into her while allowing a construction vehicle to enter the parking lot.

Tran said the damage was minimal – only a dent and scratch on both vehicles.

The man in the construction vehicle provided a second report to LSUPD as a witness, according to Tran and the LSUPD report.

LSUPD Spokesman Capt. Cory Lalonde said there was no other information available other than what was in the police report.

Thompson was unavailable for comment Tuesday.

Mathematics instructor and chemist Charles Egedy died of a heart attack Friday afternoon while walking the University lakes, ac-cording to mathematics chair Rob-ert Perlis.

Egedy taught Calculus II and bridge mathematics courses this

semester. He was 62 years old, a husband to Karen Summerell, had two children and one grandchild.

Egedy was a poet, chess player and valued in-structor to many

at the University. President of the Louisiana State Poetry Society and director of the Baton Rouge Chess Club, he enjoyed hobbies outside the world of math and science and was willing to share experience and advice on various subjects, accord-ing to those who worked with him.

Perlis said he recalls passing Egedy’s door decorated with his poetry and catching a glimpse of him playing chess with a student.

Perlis asked students in Egedy’s class to write about their experiences with him.

One student wrote that he “was a very strong-willed and funny man — I cannot recall a day of class that he did not smile, crack a joke or hide the fact that he loved what he did. His passion showed through his work, and he was an inspiration to math students on campus.”

Egedy started his career as a research chemist at Grant Chemi-cal Division of Ferro Corporation and began teaching remedial math at the University part-time in 1999. In 2009, he earned a doctorate in mathematics before becoming a full-time instructor.

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Syrian government and rebels trade chemical weapons charges

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syr-ia’s government and rebels traded accusations Tuesday of a chemical attack on a northern village for the first time in the civil war, although the U.S. said there was no evidence it had happened.

The use of such weapons would be a nightmare scenario in the 2-year-old conflict that has killed an estimated 70,000 people, and the competing claims showed a willingness by both sides to go to new levels to seek support from world powers.

Abuse activists want Pope Francis to apologize on behalf of church

BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Ac-tivists against abuse by Roman Catholic clergy urged Pope Fran-cis to apologize Tuesday for what they called the Argentine church’s protection of two priests who were eventually convicted of sexually assaulting children.

The U.S.-based Bishop Ac-countability group cited the case of Father Julio Cesar Grassi, who ran the “Happy Children” foundation and was convicted of pedophilia in 2008 and Father Napoleon Sasso, convicted in 2007 of abusing girls at a soup kitchen in Buenos Aires.

Colorado one of few victories for gun control; governor to sign bills

DENVER (AP) — After a no-holds-barred White House push for sweeping gun control legisla-tion across the country, Democrats have racked up only one victory outside the ideologically friendly confines of the Northeast.

It is a big one: Colorado’s moderate Democratic governor John Hickenlooper will sign land-mark bills today to require uni-versal background checks and limit magazine capacity in this bellwether swing state.

Three alleged American Indian gang members convicted in Minn. trial

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Three al-leged members of a violent Ameri-can Indian gang known for terror-izing people in the Upper Midwest were convicted Tuesday in what authorities called one of the largest gang cases to come out of Indian Country.

An alleged leader of the Na-tive Mob, 34-year-old Wakin-yon Wakan McArthur, was found guilty on several charges includ-ing the most serious one he faced, racketeering conspiracy.

MONROE (AP) — An 18-year veteran Louisiana State Police ser-geant has been arrested for alleg-edly distributing drugs.

Col. Mike Edmonson says 42-year-old Ronald Thomas was arrested without incident Mon-day and booked into the Ouachita Parish Jail, where he is being held on $250,000 bond. He was booked with payroll fraud, mal-feasance in office, conspiracy to distribute cocaine, distribution of cocaine and obstruction of jus-tice. Bond information was not immediately available.

Gov. Jindal visits Assumption Parish sinkhole residents for �rst time

(AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal has met for the first time with the fam-ilies displaced since August by a massive sinkhole in Assumption Parish.

Jindal visited Tuesday with residents and local officials in the Bayou Corne area, a sparsely pop-ulated swampland about 40 miles south of Baton Rouge.

Scientists say the 12-acre sinkhole formed after the col-lapse of an underground salt cav-ern operated by Houston-based Texas Brine.

One injured in grenade attacks at Turkish prime minister headquarters

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Assail-ants on Tuesday fired a rocket-pro-pelled grenade at the headquarters of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party and hurled two hand grenades at the Justice Ministry’s parking lot, wounding one person, officials said.

Interior Minister Muammer Guler said no one was injured in the attack on the ruling Justice and Development Party headquarters, while the spouse of a Justice Min-istry employee was treated for a slight injury in the second assault.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — To law enforcement agencies, the dis-appearance of a Missouri woman and her young daughter for four days had all the markings of an abduction: a cryptic text message asking for help, a phone call that sounded like it was being read from a script, an ex-husband with a history of domestic violence.

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The LSU Flores master’s in business administration program was ranked 61 overall in U.S. and World Report’s 2014 “America’s Best Graduate Schools,” jumping 20 spots in the ranking.

Edward Watson, associate dean for graduate programs and director of the Flores MBA pro-gram, said the ranking is based on quality, peer and recruiter as-sessments; placement success and student selectivity.

The report surveyed 448 MBA programs accredited by the Association to Advance Col-legiate Schools of Business Inter-national and of the 448, 140 re-sponded with the appropriate data to determine their full-time MBA ranking.

Watson said the ranking

greatly depends on what other programs are doing.

MBA student Justin Wang said even though it is his first year, he feels the program is im-proving in various aspects, such as developing the distinguished speaker series, implementing group-oriented projects, team-work and providing technology.

“I feel like the program is re-ally trying to add value to the cur-rent students right now,” Wang said.

According to Watson, this year the numbers for peer assess-ment rose because of the new building.

“When our school is invest-ing in the program, that means a lot,” Watson said.

In a news release, Watson said alumni support helped fund the building, and their support has also helped provide scholarships

and mentor students.Wang said the MBA program

is close-knit, and the professors engage the intimate classes.

“It is like high school again. You see everybody every day,” Wang said. “My favorite part is the encouraging teamwork envi-ronment.”

Watson said the program was more selective this year.

“We want to make sure we have a healthy cohort, but the best possible cohort,” Watson said.

The next goal for the pro-gram is to break into the competi-tive top 50, Watson said.

“We are a flagship university, so we want to attract the best,” Watson said.

Peppering the Quad and other areas around campus, ciga-rette butts are a common sight, but some students are working to change that.

The University chapter of Fresh Campus, a new official student organization, will be at the Wellness Fair in the Student Union today to raise awareness about health risks associated with smoking and to gather student support for the organization.

This year’s Wellness Fair coincides with Kick Butts Day, which, according to the Kick Butts Day website, is “a national day of activism that empowers youth to stand out, speak up and seize con-trol against Big Tobacco.”

Fresh Campus is partnered with Smoking Words, which is a tobacco education program on campus that advocates for a smoke-free campus, said Judith Sylvester, mass communication associate professor and adviser for the University chapter of Fresh Campus.

Around 70 percent of stu-dents on campus don’t smoke and 30 percent do, which is a combi-nation of social smokers and ad-dicted smokers, Sylvester said. The organizations aim to educate students on smoking risks, she said.

The tax plan recently put forth by Gov. Bobby Jindal’s ad-ministration would potentially raise taxes on tobacco products to $1.41 per pack, and Sylvester said

that may cause the percentage of student smokers to drop further.

Fresh Campus will provide boiled crawfish to students at the Wellness Fair, but in order to get crawfish, students must visit the Fresh Campus booth to receive a ticket, Sylvester said.

“The Rec Center is going to have a dance from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on the tennis courts in support of Kick Butts Day as well,” she said.

Mass communication sopho-more and vice president of the University chapter of Fresh Cam-pus Bene’ Vincent said the booth will have games for students to play, and items will be given away in addition to pamphlets advocat-ing for a smoke-free campus.

Vincent became involved

with the initiative to create a smoke-free campus because of a smoking-related death in her fam-ily.

“I was really intrigued be-cause my grandma actually died from smoking, so I wanted to in-put as much as I could in getting the organization formed,” she said.

Growing Fresh Campus is a goal of Vincent’s, and she said students need to step up to address the risks smoking has on students.

“We need people to start coming up and saying how this is affecting them so that the admin-istrators do know this isn’t just a minority [or] smaller amount of students who are affected – it’s a lot. They just don’t come out and

say anything,” she said.Finance sophomore Chris

Bryant said although he isn’t a smoker, smoking on campus isn’t an issue for him.

“It’s not like [they’re smok-ing] inside,” he said.

Jourdan Ooi, computer sci-ence sophomore, sat adjacent to Bryant near the entrance of the library, where students often gath-er for smoke breaks. Ooi said he didn’t have a problem with smok-ers on campus and it doesn’t both-er him, either.

“That guy is smoking; she is smoking,” Ooi said as he pointed to several smokers around the vi-cinity, noting that smoke was no-where near him.

Though smoking on campus may not be noticeable to some students, others find secondhand smoke bothersome.

Math freshman Gabrean Stansbury said she doesn’t like breathing in secondhand smoke on campus.

“I feel like everywhere I go there is someone smoking,” she said.

Stansbury said a smoke-free campus would benefit the campus as a whole.

“I think [a smoke-free cam-pus] is a good idea, but I don’t think it’ll work because too many

people smoke,” said math junior Meredith Caldwell.

Caldwell questioned the Uni-versity’s ability to enforce a cam-pus-wide ban on smoking.

Sylvester is optimistic about establishing the University as a smoke-free campus, and said the event today will help raise aware-ness about the topic and gain ad-ditional student support for Fresh Campus.

“I think the problem is every-body thinks [a smoke-free cam-pus] has to be 100 percent, imme-diately,” she said. “No, we want to change the campus culture. You can’t do that overnight, you can’t just dictate it and have it happen.”

Louisiana has been ahead of the curve with initiatives to stop smoking in certain areas, Sylves-ter said, and that is important to her.

“It’s really a concern for the campus first and foremost,” she said. “But it’s really a concern for the whole state, and I think LSU certainly has a responsibility to try to prevent as much tobacco use as possible, just for the good of our own state.”

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Trans-ocean employees should have done more to detect signs of trou-ble before the company’s drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mex-ico in 2010, killing 11 workers and triggering the nation’s worst offshore oil spill, Transocean’s chief executive testifi ed Tuesday.

But the Swiss-based drilling company’s subsequent investi-gation didn’t fi nd any mistakes beyond the rig fl oor, Transocean Ltd. President and CEO Steven Newman said. He testifi ed on the 14th day of a trial designed to

determine the causes of BP’s well blowout and to assign fault to the companies involved.

Newman said Transocean didn’t identify any “management failures” that led to the blowout.

“I think we had a good sys-tem in place,” he said.

Newman testifi ed that Trans-ocean agreed in January to plead guilty to a criminal charge of violating the Clean Water Act because its rig workers on the Deepwater Horizon played a role in botching a crucial safety test before the blowout.

“Do you blame the crew that night?” Transocean attorney Brad

Brian asked Newman.“Do I blame the crew? Do I

wish the crew would have done more? Absolutely. I am not sure that that’s the same emotional content as blame,” Newman said.

Newman, however, said BP ultimately was responsible for deciding how to perform the safety test and for determining whether it was successful.

Two BP rig supervisors, Robert Kaluza and Donald Vidrine, are charged with manslaughter in the 11 rig workers’ deaths and await a separate trial. An indictment last year accused Kaluza and Vidrine

of disregarding abnormally high pressure readings during the safety test.

No Transocean employees have been charged with crimes, but the company pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge in February and agreed to pay $1.4 billion in criminal and civil pen-alties as part of a settlement with the Justice Department.

BP’s internal investigation of the blowout spared its own upper-level managers from any blame. Instead, the London-based oil giant issued a report that out-lined a series of mistakes by rig workers and faulted decisions by

other companies.Newman touted the com-

pany’s safety culture, saying any rig worker is empowered to call a halt to a drilling operation. If a worker sees any cause for con-cern, he said, “You not only have the right but the obligation to call a timeout.”

“Safety is one of our core values,” Newman said.

(AP) — Lawmakers digging into the details of Gov. Bobby Jindal’s plan to restructure Louisiana’s tax code said Tuesday that his admin-istration needs to do a better job selling the tax plan to the public.

During a House committee meeting, some said their constitu-ents are calling to express worry that Jindal’s proposal to get rid of income tax and raise sales tax will end up costing them.

Revenue department leader Tim Barfi eld, the governor’s point man on the tax rewrite, started walking members of the House Ways and Means Commit-tee through Jindal’s proposal. He gave them the fi rst specifi c lists outlining what new items would be subject to sales taxes and what

sales tax breaks would be re-moved.

Jindal wants to eliminate per-sonal and corporate income taxes without shrinking the revenue available for state programs and services.

To offset the loss of $3 bil-lion, Jindal proposes to increase state sales taxes from 4 percent to 5.88 percent and add state sales taxes to an array of currently un-taxed items, like haircuts, cell-phone purchases, museum visits, accounting services and cable TV.

Lawmakers will decide the proposal’s fate in the regular ses-sion that begins April 8.

Rep. Joel Robideaux, an ac-countant who will sponsor the tax bills for the governor, said working families would benefi t from Jindal’s tax plan under every

scenario he’s been able to devise.But he added, “The message

is clearly not out there, based on the phone calls we’re getting in our districts now. [The callers are saying,] ‘This seems terrible. This doesn’t make sense.’”

Critics of the plan say it would place higher tax bur-dens on the poor and middle-class, making them pay a larger share of their income to support government services. A coali-tion of more than 250 religious leaders submitted a letter to the governor opposing the plan as an unjust burden on low- and middle-income residents.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Walk into any convenience store or gas sta-tion in the country, and chances are the cigarettes will be in rough-ly the same spot: at eye level, right behind the cash register.

That’s no coincidence. To-bacco companies have worked hard and paid handsomely to en-sure cigarette displays occupy the retail equivalent of prime real es-tate. In 2010 alone, the industry made $370 million in payments to retailers to help lock down prime shelving space, according to a report last year by the Federal Trade Commission. It spent an ad-ditional $107 million on in-store advertising.

“Every consumer-product goods manufacturer in the country wants to be there,” said Kurt M. Ribisl, a professor at the Univer-sity of North Carolina who studies tobacco marketing. “People mak-ing chips and Doritos and Pepsi — all of these companies want that space. But the tobacco indus-try wins.”

Now, that supremacy could be in jeopardy in one of the na-tion’s biggest cigarette markets.

New York City Mayor Mi-chael Bloomberg proposed a bill this week that would force retail-ers to keep cigarettes out of public view until a customer asks for a pack.

The rule would effectively require merchants to keep tobac-co products in closed cabinets or drawers, rather than on the col-orful displays, dubbed “power walls,” that are familiar just about everywhere in the U.S.

A second bill would take aim at the system of discounts and in-centives that manufacturers have long used to woo retail custom-ers and keep merchants happy. It would ban coupons and buy-one-get-one-free promotions for to-bacco products and eliminate deep discounts by creating a price fl oor for each pack.

It is too early to tell whether either measure will survive the legislative process or an almost-certain court challenge. Tobacco companies and convenience store owners have assailed both propos-als as unfair and maybe uncon-stitutional. An industry lawsuit forced the New York village of Haverstraw to quickly rescind a similar ban enacted last April. The city of Providence, R.I., was sued over an anti-coupon ordinance, much like the one proposed in New York.

Even more unclear is whether the policy would actually lead to fewer people smoking.

A number of nations, includ-ing Ireland, Canada and Austra-lia, have restricted retail tobacco displays, but most experts say the policies haven’t been in place long enough to know whether they have had a strong impact.

Big immediate drops in sales are unlikely, said Ribisl, who fa-vors tighter restriction on tobacco marketing. But he predicted that the display rules — and especially

the new prohibitions on discounts and coupons — might lead to a modest reduction in smoking rates over time.

An FTC report last year said the industry gave $6.49 billion worth of price discounts to ciga-rette retailers and wholesalers in 2010.

“When you stop discounting and multipack specials, you are now thwarting the tobacco indus-try’s ability to prey on low-income smokers,” Ribisl said.

Scientists at the nonprofi t research fi rm RTI International recently published the results of an experiment in which they had 1,200 young people take virtual shopping trips through computer-ized convenience stories. It found that kids were less likely to make fantasy purchases of cigarettes in shops where tobacco products were hidden in cabinets.

It is hard to say whether that type of simulation would repeat it-self in real life, said Annice Kim, a social scientist who was involved in the project. But she said one theory is that simply making a product less visible makes people less likely to make an impulse buy.

The New York supermarket chain Price Choppers decided on its own in 2006 to move its ciga-rette stocks off regular shelves and into closed cabinets that re-semble refrigerator cases with frosted glass.

“We made a commitment not to entice the next genera-tion of smokers,” said company spokeswoman Mona Golub. “We visually muted the cases, so as not to entice kids.”

Since then, sales have indeed declined, but she said the com-pany doesn’t know whether that is due to customers going elsewhere for their fi x or maybe quitting because of other factors, such as a subsequent big increase in the state cigarette tax.

Some smokers familiar with New York City’s proposed plan said they found it hard to believe it would make a difference.

Talking about the ban on a smoking break, Jonathan Davies, 24, and Roman Gayaram, 22, said they both started out fi lching ciga-rettes from their parents — and didn’t start buying them in stores until later. Srujan Poshala, 27, an offi ce worker on a cigarette break outside his midtown Manhattan offi ce, noted that young people are exposed to smoking in many other ways.

“What big difference does it make?” he asked. “It’s on maga-zine covers and everywhere. Peo-ple smoke in movies.”

City health offi cials have said

that obscuring cigarettes at the point of sale might lead to fewer impulse buys by addicts trying to quit. That logic appealed to smok-er Demian Menezes, 37, who said the visibility of packs at stores was indeed a temptation during a two-year period when he quit.

“You always have that ‘Oh, my God — it’s right there’... ‘Pick me! Buy me! Smoke me!’ feeling,” he said.

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The Residential College North fi re alarm was falsely pulled Feb. 27, and after sending out a “help identify” broadcast email, the LSU Police Department identifi ed the suspect and arrested him, accord-ing to LSUPD Spokesman Capt. Cory Lalonde .

Robert Thomas Bernard, 19 , of 160 Twin Oaks Blvd. in Lafay-ette was arrested for criminal mis-chief after being identifi ed in the broadcast email less than a month after pulling the alarm, Lalonde said.

Herget Residential Life staff called LSUPD and pointed out bro-ken card readers and scratched and dismantled door frames that totaled $2,000 in damage, Lalonde said.

Ryan Sherwood Anthony, 19-year-old student, was arrested for criminal damage to property of $2,000 on March 10 . LSUPD iden-tifi ed him through security video analysis, Lalonde said.

Two males ages 15 and 16 from Baton Rouge were charged with unauthorized use of a move-able vehicle March 16 after steal-ing a John Deere Gator all-terrain vehicle and driving it through the Alaska Street lot near Aster Street , Lalonde said.

After investigation by LSUPD, the young men admitted to taking it from outside Tiger Sta-dium at North Stadium Drive .

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — When customers get into some New Or-leans taxis, they’ll now have the chance to buy a cold beverage during the drive to their destina-tion.

New Orleans Carriage Cab launched backseat vending ma-chines Tuesday inside its 250-car fleet that also includes the Yel-low-Checker Cab brands.

The latest innovation comes after the city’s entire taxi fleet of about 1,600 cars was forced to modernize. Now vehicles must be equipped with air conditioning, surveillance cameras, credit card machines and global positioning devices. The vehicles also will need to be no older than 11 years, with that age limit reduced even further to seven years in 2014.

New Orleans Carriage Cab owner Simon Garber said his 14-year-old son, Shaun, pitched the idea to offer passengers soft

drinks back in 2007 but Garber said he was doubtful it could work. After continued prod-ding from his son, Garber said he found a patent attorney and technical experts who brought the idea to fruition. The idea took four years to develop.

“We’re launching here, in New Orleans, because this is a great tourist city, with great hos-pitality and opportunity for every-body,” said Garber, who operates more than 1,200 taxis nationwide.

Mark Romig, head of the New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corp., said the concept reinforces the city’s lock on hospitality.

“We pride ourselves on be-ing No. 1 in hospitality,” he said. “It’s yet another example of how we can foster economic growth through tourism.”

The dispenser and touch-screen technology, created at the cost of just under a $1 mil-lion, has been tested for the past six months. Future roll outs are

being planned for Chicago and New York.

“This is another way of how we’re growing and getting better every day,” said Councilwoman Latoya Cantrell, whose district includes Garber’s business.

Passengers, with a swipe of a credit or debit card, will have a choice of five different Coca-Cola products that cost 99 cents apiece. Each vending machine refrigera-tor holds 36 drinks and used cans are recycled.

“Passengers across the coun-try will appreciate knowing they can have a cold beverage on the go at an affordable price,” Garber said. “They will not have to make an extra stop to get a drink.”

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Board needs to listen to the Senate.“The Faculty has communicat-

ed with the Board of Supervisors,” Daly said. “This is a very complex situation we’re going into right now. … I don’t think the Supervisors un-derstand it fully. By saying there’s no confidence now, maybe they’ll listen to us.”

Faculty Senate member-at-large Judith Sylvester argued that the Board will be resentful of any issues the Senate has with a lack of trans-parency, and it will say the Senate got what it wanted in that Alexander is an academic and the Board con-ducted a nationwide search.

However, Faculty Senate mem-ber Dorin Bolder said there is a con-cern about Alexander’s lack of expe-rience at a major research institution.

“This is a system structure that emphasizes research and teaching,” he said.

The resolution states that the California State University at Long Beach four-year graduation rate of 12 percent compares unfavorably with the University’s 29 percent four-year graduation rate.

Cope said there have been seri-ous problems surrounding the presi-dential search since day one.

“There has been an extravagant expenditure of Foundation monies and an intense level of secrecy. We live in a period of propaganda,” he said. “When we have a candidate, the candidate is presented as head and shoulders above every other can-didate. To claim this person is some sort of prodigy is false.”

The Faculty Senate and its reso-lution also took issue with the Uni-versity’s faculty not having had a raise in five years, and the Board has not advocated for faculty raises.

Cope said the resolution would be sent to the Board of Supervisors and the LSU System president.

The Associated Press

When he was handed the reins to the LSU men’s tennis program at only 30 years old, Jeff Brown was concerned he wasn’t ready. Sixteen years later, he is running a program that consis-tently ranks in the top 25.

After 24 years as a player and coach at LSU, Brown has put his stamp on one of the most con-sistent teams in the Southeastern

Conference by utilizing a con-trolled approach to an emotional game.

Brown was a part of some of the most success-ful teams in LSU history under In-tercollegiate Ten-nis Association Hall of Fame coach Jerry Simmons, including the only NCAA Final appearance in Tiger history during his senior season in 1988. He thrived under Simmons’ leadership, but some-times the emotional swings of a match got the better of him.

“There were times in col-lege when I lost control and my temper got the better of me,” he said. “When it came to matches,

I needed to be around [a coach] that was more calm, because I

was already so worked up in-side.”

After a three-year stint as a professional, Brown returned to Baton Rouge as an assistant coach, and after Simmons retired at the end of the 1997 season, he named Brown the head coach.

Brown said he was surprised when Simmons retired at age 52, but happy he would be able to stay at his alma mater.

He now leads the Tigers with the help of one of his for-mer players, current assistant coach Danny Bryan. Bryan said because of the close relationships Brown builds with his players, he cannot remember exactly when he stopped being an athlete and started being a coach.

“It was a very gradual

When linebacker Kevin Minter decided to forgo his senior season and declared for the NFL Draft in January, he left a large hole in the middle of the LSU defense.

Minter started every game at middle linebacker last season and led the Tigers with 130 total tackles. He was a first team All-Southeastern Conference performer and a third-team All-American.

LSU coach Les Miles said se-nior Lamin Barrow will likely get the first chance at the job. Barrow started every game at outside linebacker for LSU and finished second to Minter with 104 total tackles.

“You know that you have Bar-row that can play well,” Miles said. “He’s done that at a number of spots.

He continues to improve at mike [middle] backer. It is probably his.”

Barrow said he doesn’t care which linebacker spot he lines up in and isn’t working on anything differ-ent this spring to adjust to the middle.

“I’m just trying to be a better player overall,” Barrow said. “Line-backer is two different positions but it’s pretty much the same thing. I’m just working on my quickness and my diagnosing plays, which would help me on the inside or outside.”

Miles said after he and defen-sive coordinator John Chavis figure out who will be playing in the mid-dle, they can begin fitting guys on the outside around them.

While Barrow is the frontrunner for the position, Miles said he’ll keep Barrow on the outside if he is able to find another player who can start in the middle.

“If D.J. Welter or somebody else can play inside, then we’ll move Barrow outside,” Miles said. “But initially, we’ll start with Barrow.”

As a sophomore last season, Welter missed the entire regular sea-son after being ruled out along with senior linebacker Tahj Jones and three other Tigers.

Tahj Jones and sophomores Kwon Alexander, Lamar Louis and Deion Jones are candidates to play outside linebacker, Miles said.

Alexander appears poised to grab one of the outside starting posi-tions. He started two games for LSU last season before breaking his ankle against Florida. Miles said Alexan-der was added to the Unity Council, the team’s official leadership corps, this spring as a young player because

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Upsets to watch for in NCAA Tourney

MIC’D UPMICAH BEDARDSports Columnist

FOOTBALL

Miles, Tigers looking for top three linebackersJames MoranSports Contributor

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LSU junior linebacker Lamin Barrow tackles Arkansas senior running back Dennis Johnson on Nov. 23, 2012. Barrow will likely �ll the hole left by Kevin Minter at middle linebacker.

An NCAA Tournament without upsets is like “Anchorman” without Ron Burgundy.

Davids taking down Goliaths are what make the NCAA Tourna-ment the best sports spectacle on the planet. With college basketball hav-ing no cut-and-dry No. 1 team like Kentucky was a season ago, it should make this year’s Big Dance one of the maddest Marches you’ve ever seen.

If you’re one of those people who fills out all the top seeds to win, I probably don’t like you. Have some fun, pick some schools you’ve never heard of and laugh in your friends’ faces when they topple the higher-seeded team.

I’ll even help you out a little bit. Here are some snakes in the grass waiting to pull off upsets Thursday and Friday in the NCAA Tournament.

No. 11 Belmont over No. 6 ArizonaBelmont is in the Big Dance

for the sixth time in eight seasons with a 0-5 record in games played in the tournament. So why am I pick-ing a team who hasn’t won a game in March in recent memory? The Bruins are due.

UPSETS, see page 11

LINEBACKERS, see page 11

Zen Master

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LSU men’s tennis coach Jeff Brown tosses a tennis ball Tuesday in W.T. “Dub” Robinson Stadium. Brown has been at LSU as a player and a coach for 24 years.

Brown leads LSU with calm coaching

BROWN, see page 11

Cole Travis Sports Contributor

The LSU softball team bat-tled through a midweek double-header against Georgia Southern on Tuesday, taking both games to extend its current winning streak to seven straight.

“Some things we’ve been waiting on to happen happened tonight,” said LSU coach Beth Torina. “Add that to the win streak that we’re on, and I think we’re in a really good spot.”

LSU (25-5, 5-1 Southeastern Conference) used two high-pow-ered innings in game one to wrap up a five-inning, run-rule victory against the Eagles (14-16).

The Tigers stormed out to a 5-0 lead in the second inning with an impressive display of power. Freshman shortstop Bianka Bell and sophomore designated player Rikki Alcaraz started the inning with back-to-back solo home runs.

After freshman first base-man Sandra Simmons and senior catcher Lauren Houston reached base later in the inning, sopho-more outfielder and leadoff hitter A.J. Andrews knocked a triple off

the center-field wall that scored Simmons and Houston.

Junior utility player Jacee Blades finished the Tigers’ five-run outburst in the second, driv-ing in Andrews with an RBI single.

Bell started the Tigers’ fifth inning in similar fashion, launch-ing her second solo home run of the game. Alcaraz couldn’t fol-low Bell with another home run

the second time around, but she did reach base on a single to tie her career high in hits with a per-fect 3-for-3 day.

After Simmons and freshman infielder Hailey Smith reached to load the bases, Houston ended the game with a two-RBI single.

The second game proved to be a much closer contest, with LSU winning, 3-2.

Georgia Southern grabbed

an early two-run lead in the top of the first inning. The Eagles put runners on first and second with a walk and help from an LSU error. Then, Eagles first baseman Tab-by Douberley drove in both runs with a double to left field.

The Eagles’ lead didn’t last long, as LSU answered with two runs of its own in the bottom of the first inning.

Both teams remained score-less until the third inning when Bell came through for the Tigers once again. Bell sent a double into the left field gap that scored junior infielder Allison Falcon, who reached base on a walk ear-lier in the inning.

“Today I was just seeing the ball really well,” Bell said. “I was just trying to stay within myself and stick to the plan. Today the plan worked.”

Bell struggled offensively in the Tigers’ most recent series against Kentucky, so Torina said she was pleased to see the fresh-man standout bounce back men-tally from a poor weekend.

“She doesn’t have to get hits to lead us,” Torina said. “Just her approach at the plate leads us, so when she actually is able to come through, it’s even more danger-ous.”

LSU’s bats went cold for the remainder of game two, but Bell’s go-ahead RBI proved to

be all the Tigers needed as junior pitcher Meghan Patterson deliv-ered a solid final six innings af-ter giving up the two first-inning runs.

Patterson found herself in multiple jams throughout the game but saved herself from any additional damage, stranding six Georgia Southern runners in the game.

Patterson loaded the bases in the sixth inning, but Torina said she never thought about pulling Patterson because the first-year starter needed the confidence boost of working through jams.

“I think she understands that she has missed a couple of pitch-es here and there,” Torina said. “This is the SEC, and when you make mistakes, you’re going to pay for it.”

The Tigers’ game one pitch-er, senior Rachele Fico, breezed through the Georgia Southern lineup, allowing only two hits for a five inning shutout and her 15th win of the season.

LSU will continue its SEC schedule this weekend when it hosts South Carolina for a three-game series starting on Friday.

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SOFTBALL

LSU cruises past Georgia Southern in doubleheaderTigers win seventh straight gameSpencer HutchinsonSports Contributor

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LSU freshman in�elder Bianka Bell (27) hits the ball Tuesday during the Tigers’ 3-2 victory against Georgia Southern in Tiger Park.

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Perusing the batting order before his team’s tussle with Mis-sissippi State on Saturday, LSU second baseman JaCoby Jones couldn’t find his name in its cus-tomary six-hole spot.

Jones finally found it scrawled in the leadoff spot, a surprise af-ter Jones went 0-for-5 with three strikeouts in the Tigers’ 6-4 win the day before.

“No biggie,” Jones said to himself in the dugout.

The junior responded with four hits and three RBI’s in the next two

games, fulfilling LSU coach Paul Mainieri’s pregame gut reaction and prompting Mainieri to keep him leading off for tonight’s game against Northwestern State.

Mainieri, after watching Jones’ early-season struggles come to a head in Friday’s game, sought out Jones in the team hotel that night and reminded him of his importance to the Tigers’ (18-2, 2-1 Southeast-ern Conference) aspirations.

“I wanted him to know that I really believed in him and that he was going to continue to be a vi-tal player for our team,” Mainieri said. “I explained to him that even though his batting average was not

stellar, that I thought all year he’d been hitting the ball well.”

Jones said his approach at the plate hasn’t changed since the shift, as pitchers serve up fastballs early in the count, just the pitch Mainieri likes Jones to swing away for.

Mainieri also said he’ll give sophomore Jared Foster a start in right field against the Demons (9-13) after Foster lifted a solo home run off heralded Mississippi State closer Jonathan Holder in the eighth inning of Sunday’s 10-2 Tiger loss.

Foster, who has nine plate ap-pearances despite just one start, carries a .556 batting average and a perfect 1.000 slugging percentage

into the contest.He sees no difference in start-

ing as compared to coming off the bench.

“I just have to go out there and handle my business,” Foster said. “It’s not too big of an adjustment. It’s baseball, I’ve been playing this game all my life.”

Freshman righty Russell Reyn-olds will get his second start of the season on the mound, a week re-moved from his first career start in a 9-3 victory against Nicholls State.

The Baton Rouge native breezed through two scoreless in-nings before an army of nine other Tigers held the Colonels to three

runs and six hits. Mainieri said Reynolds could pitch as many as five innings tonight, depending on his stamina and command through-out the game.

“I was pretty nervous [dur-ing my first start],” Reynolds said. “Now, I’m used to the preparation for the start, what to do before the start and everything. I’m pretty ex-cited for the second one now that the first one is out of the way.”

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Tigers tangle with Northwestern State tonightChandler RomeSports Writer

LSU junior second baseman JaCoby Jones (23) throws to �rst base for the double play Feb. 23 in the 9-4 loss to Brigham Young University at Alex Box Stadium. Jones will be in the leadoff spot for the game tonight against Northwestern State University.

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Offensive Consistency“Consistency” seems to be

the buzzword among members of the LSU passing offense early in spring practice.

“Last year, I think everybody would say re-ceivers were not consistent,” said Kadron Boone , senior wide re-ceiver. “This year the receivers need to be consistent and make plays.”

LSU offen-sive coordinator Cam Cameron has receivers doing a number of drills — such as catching balls around a goal post — that the Ti-gers hope will rid them of their woes dropping the ball.

Junior wide receiver Jarvis Landry said the extra practice is working, boasting that he has only dropped one pass out of 85 thrown to him in spring practice as of Tuesday .

“If you can catch a ball com-ing at you with a pole in your way, I am pretty sure when you are open and there is nothing there, it is going to be a lot eas-ier to catch a ball,” said senior quarterback Zach Mettenberger . “I think all those drills are going to be very benefi cial for us in the long run.”

Revamped OffenseIt appears LSU coach Les

Miles has given Cameron quite a few liberties in running the of-fense.

Citing an increased pace as the most notable change, several LSU offensive players agreed the new offensive scheme being im-plemented by Cameron is dras-tically different than what they have run the past few seasons.

“When Coach Cameron came in, he put us in different positions to catch the football – positions that you would be in during a game,” Landry said. “I think that is going to help us tre-mendously this year.”

In addition to running a fast-er offense, LSU will also look to get its running back corps more involved in the passing game, ac-cording to senior running back Alfred Blue .

That said, Cameron appar-ently has no plans of diminishing the role of LSU’s powerful run-ning attack.

“We are still going to run the football,” Landry said. “Just because Cam comes in doesn’t mean he’s going to take away the running game.”

Harlem ShakeIt may have come out a bit

late, but the LSU football team’s contribution to the Harlem Shake phenomenon did not take long to gain popularity. The video has been viewed more than 215,000 times in a 24-hour period .

“It was fun,” Mettenberger said. “You got to see the charac-ter of some the guys on the team.

Hopefully we can show that we are more than just a couple guys in helmets.”

The play-ers may have been featured, but, according to sophomore of-fensive lineman Trai Turner , Miles stole the show.

“I think other people might ex-

pect seeing us do it, but Coach Miles , I don’t think anybody saw that coming,” Turner said.

PHOENIX (AP) – NFL owners approved two rule changes Tues-day to enhance player safety. They might not vote on a propos-al to ban offensive players from using the crown of their helmets against defenders.

The owners outlawed peel-back blocks anywhere on the fi eld; previously, they were ille-gal only inside the tackle box. A player makes a peel-back block when he is moving toward his goal line, approaches an oppo-nent from behind or the side and makes contact below the waist.

The penalty will be 15 yards.Also banned is overloading

a formation while attempting to block a fi eld goal or extra point. Defensive teams can now have only six or fewer players on each side of the snapper at the line of scrimmage. Players not on the line can’t push teammates on the line into blockers, either.

The alignment violation is a 5-yard penalty. The pushing pen-alty is 15 yards for unnecessary roughness.

But the potential change that has drawn the most attention –yes, even more than eliminating the infamous tuck rule, which seems to be a foregone conclu-sion – is prohibiting ball carriers outside the tackle box from low-ering their helmets and making contact with defenders with the crown.

New York Giants owner John Mara, a member of the

competition committee that has recommended the change, ex-pressed doubt Tuesday the pro-posal would be voted on before Wednesday, when the owners’ meetings conclude. He also said there was “a chance” it could be tabled until the May meetings in Boston.

“There was a spirited discus-sion,” Mara said. “We’ll have more discussion today.”

Many coaches have said they are concerned about offi ciating such a new rule.

“In all fairness, it’s going to be tough on the offi cials; it’s going to be tough to make that determination at live speed with one look,” said John Harbaugh of the Super Bowl champion Balti-more Ravens.

Harbaugh noted that in the competition committee’s exami-nation of one week of play last season, it found fi ve instances where a ball carrier was not pro-tecting the ball or himself and lowered his helmet to make con-tact with a defender.

Dean Blandino, recently pro-moted to vice president of offi ci-ating, noted that fi ve in 16 games was signifi cant enough to consid-er banning the act.

Rams coach Jeff Fisher, co-chairman of the competition committee, added, “We want to make a serious attempt to get the shoulder back into the game. We are not saying the ball carrier cannot get small. We are not saying the ball carrier cannot protect the football, because if

he is going to go down to cover the football, if the shoulder goes down, we know the head goes down, we understand that.

“Protecting the football is OK, providing you do not strike with the crown of your helmet, and that is what we are trying to differentiate.”

Blandino added that the league wants fl ags thrown only on the obvious calls. He also said in cases where a player is not pe-nalized, he could still be subject to a fi ne if video review after the game determines he made con-tact with the crown.

The penalty will be a spot foul for 15 yards.

New senior director of offi ci-ating Alberto Riveron said if the offensive and defensive player are both committing the foul, it would be an offsetting penalty and the down replayed.

Riveron said the key to of-fi ciating the play is to show the offi cials more plays that are legal.

“That will be a great way to train because as we know it, most of the shots we have seen are le-gal, most of the contact is legal,” he said. “We are trying to get that one individual situation where the head is lowered – and you can see on the fi eld a player put his head down – and the contact is with the crown and you can see it.”

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‘When coach Cameron came in,

he put us in di� erent positions to catch the football – positions

that you would be in during a game.’

Jarvis LandryLSU junior wide receiver

process,” Bryan said. “He brings [upperclassmen] into the coach-ing side of the game and likes to get their input. … [Working with Brown] wasn’t near as awkward as it would be with a coach who yells a lot and is always putting you down.”

That calm demeanor became an essential part of his coaching philosophy after his playing ca-reer, but he knows each player is unique and some may need more prodding than others. His under-standing his players’ needs is one of his strongest attributes, said senior Olivier Borsos .

“In our team, there are a lot of different mentalities and per-sonalities, but they are similar to some of his former players,” Bor-sos said. “So if a player doesn’t have confi dence, he knows how to talk to that player. …He makes you comfortable on the court.”

While he is often light-hearted during practice, Brown is all business when it comes to matches. He can be seen quietly

standing alongside the courts while the Tigers compete, and he generally apears stoic and de-tached, but underneath, he is just as stressed as the players, Borsos said .

“There are two [coach] Browns . One during practice and [off the court], when he is smil-ing and funny and one during matches, when he has his game face on,” Borsos said. “On the court, he is focused just like us.”

Once the match is decided, Brown will greet the other team and shake hands with the players and coaches, even after disap-pointing losses. Bryan and Bor-sos agree this illustrates his most admirable trait: his perspective.

“[Coach] Brown is a win-ner, and he hates losing. But, he knows it is still just a sport, and you cannot go overboard after a loss or celebrate too much after you win,” Borsos said.

of the way he developed his skills as a true freshman.

“What we expect from Kwon is that he will take up where he left off and will have a great spring and a great fall,” Miles said.

Louis and Deion Jones also saw playing time during their freshman season. Louis started fi ve games at outside linebacker after Alexander’s injury while Jones totaled 23 tackles,

more than any other LSU freshman linebacker.

Tahj Jones began last season as the Tigers’ starting strong side line-backer but was ruled ineligible and sat out the regular season before returning to start in the Chick-fi l-A Bowl .

Miles also identifi ed sophomore Ronnie Feist as someone who could see time at middle linebacker. Feist saw some playing time at linebacker last season, but Miles said he has

worked with the defensive linemen this spring to help provide depth.

“He is a guy at linebacker that could step down and be physical enough to play at short-side end,” Miles said. “He is also a guy who can play mike [linebacker], and so when you put him in the game they don’t know how you might use him.”

It doesn’t hurt that Arizona is limping into the tournament with a 7-5 record in its last 12 games. Belmont also has a pair of se-nior guards in Ian Clark and Ker-ron Johnson who have been to the tournament before and won’t be rattled.

The Bruins have an RPI of 19 . They’re not your average mid-major.

No. 11 Bucknell over No. 6 Butler It’s weird to see Butler as a

lower seed trying to fend off an up-set from a pesky underdog. To win NCAA Tournament games, you have to possess a player who can take over games by himself.

The Bison defi nitely have a game-changer in center Mike Mus-cala . The senior averages 19 points a game and will be tough for the But-ler front line to handle.

Butler guard Rotnei Clarke has the ability to heat up from long-range, but he’s never played in the NCAA Tournament . This should be one of the better games of the round.

No. 12 Oregon over No. 5 Oklahoma State

First off, Oregon is horribly un-der-seeded by the selection commit-tee. There’s no way the Ducks are a No. 12 seed.

That being said, the Ducks have a bunch going in their favor. Okla-homa State does have the Big 12 Player of the Year in freshman point guard Marcus Smart, but the Ducks have a true freshman guard in Dom-inic Artis looking to prove he can ball on a national stage.

Oregon should also own the glass with Tony Woods and Arsa-lan Kazemi . Look for the Ducks to roll, especially since they get to play close to home in San Jose, Calif .

No. 13 South Dakota State over No. 4 Michigan

America , get ready to be in-troduced to South Dakota State guard Nate Wolters . The kid aver-ages nearly 23 points a game and is a threat to knock down shots from anywhere on the court.

SDSU almost took down Bay-lor in the tourney last season, and Michigan should be on its heels. Not to mention the Wolverines are only

6-6 coming down the stretch.Also, there’s no way you can

pick against a team nicknamed the Jackrabbits . Can you say swag?

No. 14 Davidson over No. 3 Marquette

Davidson doesn’t have Steph Curry , but it’s still dangerous in this season’s tournament.

It’s hard for me to pick against Marquette coach Buzz Williams , but the Golden Eagles are defi nitely on upset-alert.

The Wildcats haven’t lost since Jan. 14. It’s safe to say they’re on a roll.

Plus, Marquette doesn’t have a go-to guy down the stretch like Davidson’s Jake Cohen . It will be interesting to see the contrast of styles when the two take the fl oor in Lexington, Ky .

Micah Bedard is a 22-year-old history senior from Houma.

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It has taken quite some time to utter that statement without hang-ing my head in shame. While I was always on the nervous side, the severity and frequency of my anx-ious feelings became overwhelm-ing during college.

When I finally mustered up the courage to see a professional with LSU Mental Health Service, I felt an immediate sense of relief. Shak-ing hands, severe nausea, panic at-tacks – those are all normal, right?

No, but they are nothing to be ashamed of. I have a hereditary ill-ness known as Generalized Anxi-ety Disorder, which often results in depression. All the horrible feel-ings I had been experiencing final-ly had a name, a cause and a solu-tion. I finally began to feel normal.

Currently, I am a member of Supreme Public Relations, a stu-dent-run public relations agency in Dr. Jinx Broussard’s PR Cam-paigns course. We have partnered with the Mental Health Association for Greater Baton Rouge, a non-profit focused on raising awareness of mental health issues while pro-viding services for individuals with or at risk for mental illness.

Although MHA does not pro-vide treatment for college students, LSU students should be aware of

its mission and services. Eliminat-ing the mental health stigma cannot be achieved alone. We can change the public’s opinion of mental health, but we must work together.

To learn more about MHA and mental health, visit the Wellness Fair in the Royal Cotillion Ball-room today from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. You can also assist MHA by eat-ing at Reginelli’s on Chimes St. on March 21. Say “MHA” and 10 per-cent of your bill will support MHA services.

Mental health issues are prev-alent and diverse in our communi-ty. In fact, one in four adults suffers with a diagnosable mental illness each year. However, this fact is of-ten clouded by the sufferer’s shame due to the stigma associated with mental illness.

Mental illness is a taboo subject in our society, especially among college students. However, the number of LSU students re-ceiving mental health treatment is much higher than ever before, ac-cording to Dr. Timothy Honigman, a primary care physician at the LSU Student Health Center.

“Don’t be afraid to come in and discuss the issues you’ve been having. There’s someone here who can take care of your needs, even if you think it’s an unusual problem,” Dr. Honigman said.

LSU Mental Health Service provides free clinical consultations for full-time students to discuss students’ issues and create a treat-ment plan.

Many LSU students provide assistance for members of the

community as volunteers with THE PHONE, a crisis interven-tion hotline provided by the Baton Rouge Crisis Intervention Center. Just want to talk and have some-one listen? Anyone can call THE PHONE at (225) 924-3900 or toll free at (800) 437-0303.

If you too are “one in four,” do not be ashamed. Find the help you need, and remember: mental health affects the whole community, not just the individuals.

Karoline Drehermass communication senior

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

I have a mental illness. �ere,

I said it.

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I’ve been trying to figure out how to approach this for a while now.

Last Sunday in Steuben-ville, Ohio, 17-year-old Trent Mays and 16-year-old Ma’lik Richmond were found delin-quent — the equivalent of guilty in juvenile cases — concerning the August rape of an unnamed 16-year-old girl.

With each new piece of evi-dence I read, I feel some over-whelming sense of disappoint-ment swelling up like a balloon in my stomach. I can feel its nau-seating lightness, its hollowness.

“What if that was your daughter?” a boy asks in one vid-eo of the act.

“But it isn’t,” another teen replies.

“What if it was?” the friend persists.

“If that was my daughter, I wouldn’t care. I’d just let her be dead.”

I think I’m going to be sick. Then, for an instant, I almost pity Richmond and Mays.

I know it’s far-fetched, prob-ably even wrong. In fact, major news outlets — but predominant-ly CNN — have been criticized recently for portraying the two boys in an overly sympathetic light.

They called them “star foot-ball players” and “good students” and talked about their once

“promising futures.” “Are we supposed to feel

bad for these two juveniles who disgustingly took advantage of a girl’s drunkenness and circulated the humiliating photographic and video proof?” critics asked.

I read a text written by Trent Mays: “Yeah dude, she was like a dead body. I just needed some sexual attention.”

I feel sick again. Mays and Richmond deserve

the punishment handed down to them — I have no doubt about it. If anything, their sentences are

lenient compared to what they would have received as adults.

A minimum of one and two years in a juvenile correction fa-cility for Richmond and Mays, respectively?

That’s it? For rape? How can I even begin to feel

bad for them?Maybe it’s not that I feel bad

for the boys, but that I just feel bad in general. It is, after all, a dismal situation — an economi-cally depressed Ohio town, two teens who betrayed not only themselves but in a horrendous

act violated a girl’s trust and body.

Can’t I be just a little sad we don’t live in a perfect world?

I see there’s a petition cir-cling right now asking CNN to apologize for its coverage of the case.

“I won’t sign,” I think. CNN, in its misguided way,

tried to magnify the tragedy by continually emphasizing that all important roles were played by children. As depressing as that is, it doesn’t make me upset with CNN.

Furthermore, I can’t fault them much for leaving out most of the victim’s story.

What do you want to be told, the truth? Do you need CNN to tell you she might experience random bouts of rage or uncon-trollable crying, never quite sure when they’ll begin, why or how to stop them?

Should they have mentioned that she might experience trust is-sues for the rest of her life? That she’ll probably transfer schools to escape the “dead girl” moni-ker? That this girl would rather slip into anonymity than chance being recognized someday by a future employer or boyfriend as the Steubenville rape girl?

Or maybe CNN should have said some people will begin to view her as tarnished, devalued, and one day — just maybe — she might begin to believe that false assumption too?

CNN doesn’t talk about the victim because they know nearly nothing about her, as it should be. She’s already receiving death threats and any further publicity

could only harm her.Their choice to focus instead

on the legal ramifications the rapists will face seems more ap-propriate. Despite sounding sad, it doesn’t lament their crumbling futures, but reminds the world we will hold rapists accountable for their actions, and no one — not local law enforcement, not high school pals, not esteemed football coaches — will impede justice and stop their crimes from following them the rest of their life.

If you think CNN mishan-dled its coverage of the Steu-benville case, don’t waste your energy signing a petition. Make sure those around you — because nearly a quarter of all female uni-versity students will report an at-tempted or completed rape within their college career, according to Campus Safety Magazine — know the repercussions for vic-tims and assailants.

Make sure everyone knows that “no” means “no,” but the inability to answer or physically resist sexual advances can mean no, too.

Let everyone know that you don’t think it’s “all in fun,” and hold every one accountable — even your friends.

Aaron Friedman is a 22-year-old Spanish senior from Destrehan.

KEITH SRAKOCIC / The Associated Press

Trent Mays, 17, (left) and Ma’lik Richmond, 16, (right) sit at the defense table on March 13 before the start of their trial on rape charges in juvenile court in Steubenville, Ohio. Mays and Richmond are accused of raping a 16-year-old West Virginia girl in August of 2012.

FRIEDPHILOSOPHYAARON FRIEDMANColumnist

Contact Aaron Friedman at afriedman@lsureveille.com;

Twitter: @AmFried

CNN coverage still not worst part of rape case

Ten years ago today, American soldiers crossed the borders of Iraq, seeking to topple Saddam Hussein’s murderous regime.

They were told the dictator was stockpiling weapons of mass de-struction, that he had ties to terrorist organizations like al-Qaida and that Iraq was a part of an “axis of evil.”

The mainstream media and the government largely pushed this view on the populace. The American pub-lic was largely duped.

Ten years of hindsight allows us to reflect on that time and examine what brought us into the tragic and costly war. It allows us to view, to-day as informed citizens, the infor-mation given to the American public and the ways the government and media pushed the country to war.

The Bush administration was by far the most vocal cheerleader for an invasion of Iraq. Bush himself had ordered Saddam to be looked into after 9/11, and the president often reminded the press and members of Congress that “the biggest threat” was Saddam and his WMDs.

Bush’s “axis of evil” speech and the long-running antagonism toward Iraq following the First Gulf War made Hussein an easy figure to rally opposition against.

The American media helped as well.

In the prelude to the war, 76 percent of all sources who appeared on network news were current or former government officials, accord-ing to a 2003 study by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR). Most would be for invading the country. Grassroots and anti-war figures were relegated to the margins, making up only 17 percent of sources.

The propaganda model devel-oped by MIT professor and political dissident Noam Chomsky rarely had a more fitting case study.

The American media had stuck to its playbook, seeking government officials for “credible” information while ignoring the arguments against war and the public’s aversion to it. Before the invasion, most Americans were only willing to support a war if the United Nations backed it, accord-ing to USA Today and Gallup.

A particularly embarrassing moment for the press would be then-Secretary of State Colin Powell’s ad-dress to the U.N. Security Council. Powell used satellite pictures as evi-dence of an Iraqi buildup of WMDs and a vial of white powder to dem-onstrate how Saddam could have ac-cess to anthrax and other chemical weapons.

Much of the media reported Powell’s claims with little skepti-cism, and support for the war rose after this period.

The effect of the American media on the public’s perception of

the Iraq conflict can be most easily observed by seeking public opinion polls from the time. A Program on International Politics (PIPA) study from that time reflects the wide-spread misunderstanding of the Iraq War.

In 2003, about 57 percent of Americans believed Iraq had a con-nection to al-Qaida. About 69 per-cent believed Saddam played a role in 9/11, and 56 percent thought the world either favored the war or was indifferent.

All of these positions are incor-rect. There was a never a connection between al-Qaida and Saddam, Sad-dam played no role in 9/11 and the world was largely opposed to the war at the time.

Even 22 percent still believed the most widely known falsehood pertaining to the war — that WMDs had been found.

What’s worse is how the level of misconceptions affected support for the war. The PIPA study unsurpris-ingly found that the more falsehoods one believed concerning the war, the more likely one was to support it.

Certain media networks were worse than others.

Fox News, known for its con-servatism and steadfast support for the Bush administration at the time, had the most uninformed view-ers of all networks surveyed with 80 percent believing at least one misperception about the war.

Still, many say the war was justified for removing a tyrant like

Saddam, often citing the brutal at-tacks he committed on his own people.

These people often fail to un-derstand it was the West that helped build Saddam’s chemical weapons program or that the United States was supporting Saddam before, dur-ing and after his chemical attack against Iraqi Kurds.

The media’s failure to a ad-equately inform the American public and the public’s failure to adequately question the government teach us a lesson about the importance of skepticism.

Skepticism toward institu-tions of consolidated power – the

government, the media, our favored political power – is an important tool for protecting ourselves against those who would fool us.

The Iraq War ended up costing anywhere from 100,000 to 1 million lives and trillions of dollars.

A little skepticism could have done a lot of good.

David Scheuermann is a 21-year-old mass communication and computer science senior from Kenner, La.

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OpinionWednesday, March 20, 2013 page 13

In China, they force abortions. In North Dakota, they force birth. The common denominator between the two: big governments overstep-ping their bounds.

North Dakota doesn’t have much to boast about. From rolling plains to more rolling plains, it’s kind of close to Mt. Rushmore and not much else.

However, North Dakota is in the process of becoming the most abor-tion-restrictive state in the nation.

Last week, the North Dakota legislature sent two bills to the gov-ernor, both of which are expected to be signed into law.

The first bill, and undoubtedly the most controversial, bans abor-tions after six weeks of pregnancy.

Last Friday, less than a week ago, I wrote about how Arkansas now has the most restrictive abortion laws in the country, after the state banned abortions past 12 weeks of pregnancy.

In less than a week’s time, a slightly redder and less populated state said, “You think you hate

women more than us? Nobody hates women like North Dakota.”

So what is the justification be-hind North Dakota’s proposed bills?

The state claims that, accord-ing to “experts,” the fetal heartbeat is first detectable at six weeks, thus abortion should be illegal and equi-table to murder past six weeks.

That’s so funny, North Dakota,

because about a week ago, Arkansas passed its anti-abortion law under the justification that a fetal heartbeat is first detectable at 12 weeks, not six.

So which is it? The same event can’t possibly have two deadlines. Does the fetal heart start beating at six weeks or 12 weeks? Can any-body tell me?

No, nobody can tell me. Why?

Because so-called “experts” are brought in by the states to reassure and coerce scientifically illiterate legislatures into believing whatever the Republican party wants them to believe.

The fetal heart either starts beat-ing at six weeks or 12 weeks. It can’t possibly be both.

If there is one thing I know about science, it’s that it’s not ar-bitrary. Real, hard data about fetal heartbeats surely exists, but we’ve allowed political parties in red states to skew the data and convince the population they are indeed correct and should be trusted.

I have scoured the Internet in search of a definitive answer, yet it eludes me. No one can come to a consensus about when the fetal heart actually starts beating.

Maybe that’s the problem — different doctors in different regions of the country have many different political leanings.

And what is the result? Fifty different states with 50 different opinions on when the fetal heartbeat begins and thus at least 50 different laws regarding abortion.

North Dakota has no more right than any other state or government to restrict an individual’s access to abortion. This fight has been go-ing on for 40 years, and it’s time a

certain party accepted defeat.Every North Dakotan (Is that

right? Who cares.) is screaming at the federal government to stay out of their homes when it comes to the Second Amendment.

“God damn guvment can’t tell me what to do,” said every Repub-lican ever.

Which is funny, because they love telling everybody else what to do: who they can marry, what they can and cannot put into their bod-ies and what they can and cannot do with their own bodies.

If we don’t have control over our own bodies, then who does?

“Obama,” said every Republi-can ever. The scapegoat for every-thing that’s wrong in the world.

My advice to conservatives: Listen to yourselves.

Throw off the shackles of big government – just don’t put them on anybody else.

Parker Cramer is a 22-year-old political science senior from Houston.

Contact Parker Cramer at pcramer@lsureveille.com;Twitter: @TDR_pcramer

SCUM OF THE GIRTHPARKER CRAMERChief Columnist

North Dakota out-aborts Ark. with six weeks restriction

MIKE MCCLEARY / The Associated Press

North Dakota state Sen. Margaret Sitte, R-Bismarck, speaks in favor of HB1305 during the chamber �oor debate at the state Capitol Friday in Bismarck, N.D. The North Dakota Senate overwhelmingly approved two anti-abortion bills.

Do not forget the lesson of Iraq: skepticismMANUFACTURING DISCONTENTDAVID SCHEUERMANNColumnist

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This March 13 photo shows a general view of Firdous Square at the site of a photograph taken by Jerome Delay as the statue of Saddam Hussein is pulled down by U.S. forces and Iraqis on April 9, 2003.

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responded by finishing the regular season on a six-game win streak in which they defeated three top-15 teams.

In just two seasons, Caldwell has rejuvenated a program that pre-viously seemed to be on decline.

Caldwell replaced Van Chancel-lor in 2011 after a season in which LSU failed to make the NCAA Tour-nament for the first time since 1998. Since then, Caldwell has led the Lady Tigers to a 43-21 record in two seasons and a second straight NCAA Tournament berth.

“With her coming in and us get-ting NCAA Tournament spots both years, it’s really putting our name out there and showing that LSU is a con-tender for national championships,” said LSU senior guard Adrienne Webb. “We are putting our name back on the map.”

It seems everything Caldwell touches turns to gold. She has had little but success in both playing and coaching.

Caldwell played for Tennessee

under legendary coach Pat Summitt from 1991-94. In that time, the Lady Volunteers compiled a 118-13 record and won a national championship.

After spending a combined eight seasons as assistant coach un-der Summitt, Caldwell took her first head coaching job at UCLA.

In three seasons, she trans-formed a fledgling program into a third-seeded team in the NCAA Tournament and earned a PAC-10 Coach of the Year award.

According to Webb, there is no secret to Caldwell’s prosperity — just hard work.

Caldwell said the luxury of be-ing surrounded by talented coaches and players does not hurt, either.

“It all starts with the unbe-lievable staff I have, which works extremely hard, not only to bring players in here, but also to develop them,” Caldwell said. “... I’ve got student-athletes who know how to win. They know how to compete when their backs are against the wall ... I’ve got a bunch of fighters on our team.”

Once the NCAA Tournament

ends, Caldwell won’t take much of a vacation — she will spend the sum-mer representing the red, white and blue as assistant coach to the 2013 USA Basketball U19 World Cham-pionship team in Lithuania.

Caldwell will reunite with head coach Katie Meyer of Miami and Gonzaga’s Kelly Graves for the tournament. The trio led the USA’s U18 team to a gold medal at the FIBA Americas Championship last summer.

“I’m looking forward to the U19 national team,” Caldwell said. “I had an opportunity to be a part of something really special last year. I appreciate the committee asking me back this year.”

Caldwell has accomplished a lot

in a short amount of time at LSU, but she is nowhere near finished yet. She said she wants to bring the program back to a place where winning SEC Championships and making Final Fours are not just possible but expected.

“It’s a big privilege to be here at LSU, to be their head coach and to be a representative of the women’s game as a whole,” Caldwell said. “I thoroughly believe that when you’re able to work with young people, that is one of the greatest gifts that we can give.”

Perlis said Egedy’s chemistry background helped him excel as a teacher and bring life to subjects by helping students understand the real world applications beyond plugging numbers into formulas.

“He knew from chemistry that you need to actually know stuff, not just be able to do stuff,” Perlis said. “Most of the faculty hold the students to higher standards, but he could tell them why because he had practical experience.”

Another student wrote that Egedy challenged them more than any previous professor. “Unlike other challenges that I faced in other classes, I knew that the chal-lenges were meant to strengthen my knowledge and love for mathemat-ics,” the student wrote. “There was never a dull moment in the short time that I had [class] with Dr. Egedy in his discrete mathematics class. His office hours were always full of insight. Dr. Egedy will be truly missed.“

As a colleague, Perlis said Egedy always had a wealth of sto-ries to share and was always eager for a discussion.

“He had strong opinions, but enjoyed being challenged — as-suming you could back up your opinions,” Perlis said.

Math senior Steven Li said he enjoyed how Egedy followed the syllabus and how he was strict about the structure of his course.

“He was very enthusiastic for math and learning,” Li said.

Li said he once accidentally stumbled upon Egedy’s Facebook profile and it displayed the profes-sor’s passion for poetry. When in-specting his office, Perlis said he found three original poetry books.

A memorial service for Egedy will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. May 2 in Basement Room 2 of Lockett Hall.

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WAVEFARERBOARD SHORTS

CALDWELL, from page 1

EGEDY, from page 1

MARY LEAVINES / The Daily Reveille

A memorial wreath hangs Tuesday outside the late Charles Egedy’s of�ce in Lockett Hall. Egedy died Friday.Contact Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez at

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