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The LSU Soccer Fields will be-come a landing zone at 11 a.m. today when the Bengal Raiders tactically storm the University.
Two Black Hawk helicopters will land on the fi eld as part of a Ben-gal Raiders qualifi cation course. The mission is an end of the semester cul-minating event in Raiders , said geol-ogy senior and Raiders Command-ing Offi cer Cadet Robert Brown .
Potential raiders will run the mission to see if they are capable of handling the responsibilities of being a Raider , he said.
Members of the 244 Aviation
Battalion Army National Guard will pilot the helicopters. When they land, the rudders will be turned off to ensure safety, Brown said.
The trainees will receive a quick class on unloading and loading the aircraft, and they will familiarize themselves with the helicopter and perform safety inspections, Brown said. Then they will fl y to Slidell to complete the course.
“There will be a series of mis-sions that follow that. … They will do a raid mission,” Brown said. “...We throw stuff at [the trainees] to see how they react on their feet.”
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A Black Hawk helicopter touches down in Iraq. Two similar helicopters will land on campus today as part of a Bengal Raiders quali� cation course.
Advocate owner a campaign donorJared W. KendallData Editor
New Timesand NewChimes
Repairs to Memorial Tower bring more accurate time synced
with more crisp chimes
Punctuality will take on a new meaning this fi nals week as the chimes of Memorial Tower echo more boldly and pre-cisely across campus with the installment of new speakers and the replacement of the mechanism that powers the four clock faces.
Michael Guillory , director of Facility Systems for the Offi ce of Facility Services , said between the installment of new speakers and the repair to the clock movement, the clock repair was the most crucial.
“We were potentially about to lose the clock face and the clock movement,” Guillory said.
Jim Henry , Offi ce of Facility Services maintenance manager , said the clock motor went out in February, but he was able to replace the piece and keep the clock going.
After that repair, there were no more spare parts and re-placement of the clock movement was crucial.
“What is sad is that no one has kept a good history of
Gabrielle BraudContributing Writer
TOWER, see page 6
Black Hawk helicopters to land on campus
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[Left] A lone student walks in front of Memorial Tower on Tuesday. [Above] The speakers were changed out in the recent renovation of the tower.
BLACK HAWK, see page 6
The Daily Reveille has analyzed state political contribution records to identify 242 donations made by The Advocate’s new owner John Georg-es, his family, and his business in-terests totaling more than $700,000. Georges recently fi nalized an agree-ment to purchase The Advocate, and though he is a well-known public fi gure, the number of addresses and businesses used for these donations makes it diffi cult to examine this as-pect of his public record.
The Reveille used its Bayou Bundlers tool to identify alternate donor names that appeared likely to be associated with Georges. Incorpo-ration records were retrieved from the Louisiana Secretary of State da-tabase to identify offi cers and mail-ing addresses for those businesses, and this information was combined with donation records retrieved from the Louisiana Ethics Board to fi nd and confi rm linked donations.
The businesses included in the list have some sort of association with Georges, but that doesn’t mean Georges decided to donate. There’s nothing wrong with a business do-nating to a political candidate, but if groups of companies are particularly active, that activity stands out.
Names associated with these donations include 19th Rue Carre, AMA Distribution, AMA Distribu-tors, Dathel Georges, DDG 2 LLC, Dolphin Holdings Inc, Dolphin Marine, Dolphin Dowing, Dolphin Tugs, G&P Properties, Geocor Prop-erties, Imperial Trading Co, John Georges, Lag Oasis, Lucky Coin Machine Company, M&M Gaming, National Holdings Inc. Rapid Fire Inc., Sunshine Gaming, Sunshine Ventures, United Restaurant Entities, WG Ventures LLC, ZLN Holding LLC, ZLN Holdings #2 LLC and ZLN Holdings #3 LLC.
Contact Jared W. Kendall at [email protected]
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Nation & World Friday, May 3, 2013page 2
BBC sportscaster Hall pleads guilty to 14 indecent, underage assaults
LONDON (AP) — Veteran BBC sportscaster Stuart Hall pleaded guilty to 14 indecent assaults on underage girls, including one who was just 9 years old, prompting the broadcaster Thursday to drop him for his “sickening” behavior.
The 83-year-old, who had been arrested in January for ques-tioning about alleged crimes com-mitted between 1967 and 1986, had earlier denied any wrongdoing.
Hall admitted his guilt in court in mid-April, but the information couldn’t be made public for legal reasons until Thursday.UN wants moratorium on robots that kill without human instruction
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Kill-er robots that can attack targets without any human input “should not have the power of life and death over human beings,” a new draft U.N. report says.
The report the U.N. Human Rights Commission posted on-line this week deals with legal and philosophical issues involved in giving robots lethal powers over humans, echoing countless science-fiction novels and films. The debate dates to author Isaac Asimov’s first rule for robots in the 1942 story “Runaround.”
Man killed after �ring shot inside Houston airport; shooter unclear
HOUSTON (AP) — A man who had fired a gun inside a ticketing area at Houston’s largest airport was killed after being confronted by a law enforcement official dur-ing an incident that sent people in the terminal scrambling and screaming, police said Thursday.
It’s unclear if the man fatally shot himself or was killed by a Homeland Security agent who had confronted him, said Houston po-lice spokesman Kese Smith. The man’s name was not released by police, but they said he was about 30 years old.Marathon bombing suspect cause of death determined; body claimed
BOSTON (AP) — The body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was set to be claimed Thursday.
Department of Public Safety spokesman Terrel Harris said au-thorities were informed someone would be claiming the 26-year-old’s remains Thursday night. He had no more information.
The medical examiner deter-mined Tsarnaev’s cause of death Monday, but officials said it won’t become public until his remains are released and a death certificate is filed.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A state appeal court in Louisiana says a state law unconstitutionally pre-empts federal law by requiring drivers from other countries to prove they are in the United States legally.
The 3rd Circuit Court of Ap-peal in Lake Charles overturned the conviction and sentence of a Honduran man stopped in Lafay-ette Parish. After three months in jail, he pleaded no contest to vio-lating the law but reserved the right to appeal.
The decision Wednesday cited last year’s U.S. Supreme Court rul-ing against an Arizona immigration law that had similar provisions.
Fats Domino’s Katrina-damaged piano restored; to be in N.O. exhibit
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A white Steinway grand piano salvaged from musician Fats Domino’s home after Hurricane Katrina has been restored and will be the cen-terpiece of an exhibit in New Or-leans’ French Quarter.
The piano was damaged after Domino’s home in the Lower 9th Ward flooded during the storm.
Its restoration came through $30,000 donated to the Louisiana Museum Foundation.
Rhode Island legislature OKs gay marriage bill; Gov. Chafee to sign
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island is joining nine other states and the District of Colum-bia in allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry after the state’s General Assembly gave it a final procedural vote Thursday.
Gov. Lincoln Chafee planned to sign the legislation into law Thursday evening. Hundreds are expected to gather at the Statehouse to celebrate the new law, which al-ready passed the House and Senate once. The first weddings could take place Aug. 1.
KAREN WARREN / The Associated Press
Airport security members divert traf�c around the Marriott before getting to Terminal B on Thursday at Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston.
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Mike the Tiger gets the crowd pumped up on Thursday during LSU’s game against Florida in Alex Box Stadium. Submit your photo of the day to [email protected].
House Speaker Kleckley changes course on budget negotiations
(AP) — House Speaker Chuck Kleckley reversed course Thursday and threw his support to bipartisan budget negotiations in the House between Democratic leaders and a group of conservative Republi-cans.
Kleckley, R-Lake Charles, had been supporting a plan that involved simply maneuvering the budget through the House and working with the Senate on a fi-nal budget that includes patch-work financing sought by Gov. Bobby Jindal.
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Workers with the Louisiana State Museum slowly roll one of Fats Domino’s pianos out of his gutted house March 14, 2006, in the 9th Ward in New Orleans.
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The LSU Police Depart-ment’s bicycle officers lost their training wheels this week.
Baton Rouge hosted the An-nual International Police Moun-tain Bike Association (IPMBA) Conference on Thursday and Friday to improve the safety and skills of mountain bike police of-ficers from around the country.
The LSU Police Department, Baton Rouge Police Department and the Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office sent officers to the confer-ence because local bike cops may respond more quickly than offi-cers on foot or in a car, especially in a high-traffic scenario, accord-ing to LSUPD Spokesman Capt. Cory Lalonde.
“When a call is in progress, people are expecting vehicles — so bikes can approach a suspect in a more stealthy way,” Lalonde said. “They aren’t undercover, but they have an element of sur-prise.”
Charlie Summers, Illinois State University Police officer and member of IPMBA, said this conference trains the cyclist offi-cers to face scenarios they are not accustomed to facing.
“This class involves stunts like ascending up and dropping off curbs,” Summers said. “Some
new officers get off their bike when they see stairs, but we go out and practice going up and down stairs on a bike.”
Summers said Shaums March, professional bike rider for Red Bull and two-time world downhill champion, was helping the officers get acclimated to fac-ing hills and dismounting safely and quickly.
The skills and abilities taught in the conference allow the
officers to focus on their jobs in-stead of handling the bike, Sum-mers said.
The officers went through classes and training sessions that included advanced riding train-ing, tactical response training and advanced maintenance, Lalonde said.
Lalonde said LSUPD utilizes bicycle officers not only during outdoor events, especially those with large crowds, but also as a
part of everyday patrolling.“Everyone knows how to
ride a bike,” Lalonde said. “But with so much daily bike use, it is important for our officers to mas-ter their technique.”
Lalonde said hosting the con-ference in Baton Rouge helps the LSUPD be on the same page with BRPD and the Sheriff’s Office.
“It is a good opportunity to work with the sheriff and city police when we are able to host it,” Lalonde said. “We are glad to host and participate.”
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10:30 am Disney On Ice: Rockin’ Ever After UNO Lakefront Arena5:00 pm Live After 5 North Boulevard Town Square 5:15 pm Maroon 5 Fair Grounds Race Course and Slots 6:00 pm Arkansas State vs. Louisiana-Lafayette Moore Field 6:00 pm Millionaires The Cypress 7:00 pm Disney On Ice: Rockin’ Ever After UNO Lakefront Arena7:00 pm Ashland High North Gate Tavern7:00 pm Jitney UpStage Theatre7:30 pm Steve Hirst The Funny Bone Comedy Club7:30 pm Move Over Mrs. Markham Baton Rouge Little Theater7:30 pm All the King’s Men Claude L. Shaver Theatre
8:00 pm Robert Randolph and The Family Band House of Blues New Orleans8:00 pm High Top Kicks Varsity Theatre- Baton Rouge8:00 pm Belle Concert Series: Ryan Foret Belle of Baton Rouge8:00 pm USA MMA Stacked 3 Baton Rouge River Center Arena
9:00 pm JK and The Gun Show Paragon Casino Resort 9:00 pm The “Mali” Connection Louisiana State Museum9:00 pm Black Hand The Spanish Moon 9:30 pm Le’JIT Live Famous Theatre 10:00 pm Steve Hirst The Funny Bone Comedy Club 10:00 pm Zach Deputy Republic New Orleans, 10:30 pm Eddie Money Thibodaux Fireman’s Fair-ground, 10:30 pm Beaucoup Boogie Chelsea’s Cafe, 11:45 pm Living Colour Blue Nile
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[Left] An of�cer drops off an obstacle Thursday during the Mad March Racing intermediate class. [Right] Mad March Racing instructor Shaums March jumps an obstacle Thursday during the MMR intermediate class.
BR hosts annual conference for bicycle officersNic CottenStaff Writer
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Waterfowl hunters now have the opportunity to comment on several aspects of the 2012-13 duck season via the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fish-eries Waterfowl Hunter Opinion Survey, which will be available until July 1.
Two-thousand five hundred randomly selected hunters will receive questions through mail, and an identical Internet survey will be open to all hunters on the LDWF website.
All hunters who participate in the survey will be entered into a drawing for a chance to win a September teal season hunt for two at the White Lake Wetlands C o n s e r v a t i o n Area, a Cabela’s Gore-Tex wading jacket or a Rem-ington 887 Nitro-Mag 12-gauge shotgun.
The survey is being conducted for LDWF by of-ficials within the University’s School of Renewable Natural Resources to gather hunters’ opinions on the past season. The survey will also help LDWF to make informed decisions about next year’s regulations, said LDWF waterfowl study leader Larry Reynolds.
“Last year, for the first time in 36 years, we had three waterfowl hunting zones in-stead of only two,” he said. “My primary purpose was to get some feedback from hunt-ers on that change in waterfowl hunting zones.”
Hunters can expect questions ranging from demographics to where, when and how often they hunted.
“Basically we just want to ask hunters, ‘What do you want,’” said RNR associate pro-fessor Frank Rohwer.
Rohwer is conducting the re-search for LDWF and has done similar studies in previous years, he said.
The survey is also a continu-ation of a cooperative human-dimensions research project by RNR doctoral student Luke Laborde that focuses on what hunters want in the Mississippi Flyway, Rohwer said.
The Mississippi Flyway is a migration route that follows the Mississippi River from Canada to Louisiana and is used by large numbers of waterfowl, covering about 11 states, Laborde said.
Laborde is using data col-lected from this survey, as well
as other previous surveys and research, to conduct his disserta-tion.
“What I’m really looking at is linkages of hunting participa-tion to motivations and experi-ence preferences of waterfowl hunters – who, what, when, why, [and] how they like to hunt,” he said.
LDWF and the School of RNR are also uncovering find-ings in survey methodology, Reynolds said.
Researchers found that hunt-ers who participate in Internet surveys are avid waterfowl hunt-ers and more eager to answer questions about season changes, while hunters who received the random mail survey – a more ex-pensive survey method – may not hunt as often.
Reynolds said Internet sur-vey questions therefore can be
biased when they are posed con-cerning number of ducks harvest-ed or days spent in the field.
“But their answers to atti-tudinal questions – questions about satisfaction, what they think about certain policies, what their prefer-
ences are for season dates – are almost identical to our random sample as long as we get a large enough sample size,” he said.
LDWF is using the current survey to understand “more cost effective ways of getting that hunter opinion information,” Reynolds said.
Reynolds said LDWF will sift through the data collected over the three-month period to look for any consensus on certain issues, or areas where changes can be made.
The proposed season dates will be discussed at the July meeting with the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commis-sion, and season date changes or alterations to the water-fowl regulations will be made at the August LWFC meeting, Reynolds said.
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Waterfowl survey available to huntersUniversity school conducting studyJonathan OlivierStaff Writer
‘My primary purpose was to get some
feedback from hunters on that change in
waterfowl hunting zones.’
Larry ReynoldsLDWF waterfowl study leader
Contact Jonathan Olivier at [email protected]
The waterfowl hunting zones will be studied in a survey conducted by of�cials within the University’s School of Renewable Natural Resources for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. The survey will help LDWF make decisions about next year’s regulations.
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The University will celebrate the opening of the new African-American Cultural Center with a rib-bon cutting at 10 a.m. today.
The center’s new location is 3 Union Square, the same site as the recently opened bookstore, parking garage and new Women’s Center, ac-cording to a University news release. The AACC was previously located in Hatcher Hall.
The move will give more space
for meetings and conferences, as well as provide access to the AACC’s library and a student lounge.
“The old Cultural Center was a space student organizations would use for their own programs and meet-ings. We hope that will come back,” Director at the Office of Multicul-tural Affairs Chaunda Allen told The Daily Reveille on Jan. 17. “It was a place where professors would bring their classes for specific lectures.”
The speaker for the ribbon cut-ting will be Donald R. Cravins Jr.,
who is the current chief of staff for Sen. Mary Landrieu and a Univer-sity alumnus. Cravins was Student Government vice president when the original AACC opened in 1993.
Vice Provost of Equity, Diversi-ty and Community Outreach Katrice Albert and Executive Vice Chancel-lor and Provost Stuart Bell will also speak.
The acclaimed Russian Na-tional Ballet Theatre will perform “Swan Lake” at 7:30 p.m. Satur-day in the LSU Student Union Theater.
According to 225 Magazine, this will be the first time the ballet has been performed full-length in Baton Rouge, and Washington Post writer Alexandera Tomalo-nis described the performance as “a cut above many of its rivals.”
The Russian National Ballet Theatre has toured many coun-tries with more than 50 ballet dancers, including China, Italy, France, Belgium, Spain, Portu-gal, Guatemala, Japan and South Korea, according to its website.
Ticket prices range from $36 to $44.
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Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected];
Twitter: @TDR_newsBILL COOPER / The Associated Press
The cast of “Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake” dances on Dec. 15, 2009. A “Swan Lake” production will visit Baton Rouge on Saturday.
Swan Lake to beperformed at LSU
MORGAN SEARLES / The Daily Reveille
Stuart Bell, executive vice chancellor and provost (third from left), and others involved in the creation of the new Women’s Center cut the ribbon Thursday.
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New African-American Cultural Center opens by bookstore
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senior military instructor Master Sergeant Clay Usie said there are no safety concerns.
“Like all things we conduct in the Army, safety is our first and fore-most concern,” Usie said. “It’s been approved all the way to the brigade level. With any training event, they are well-versed and trained.”
Usie said this is the first time the ROTC and the Bengal Raiders have partnered to conduct an operation with such advanced skill training.
Brown said this is the biggest test first-semester trainees will par-ticipate in.
“We do it every semester, but every time it changes, depending on who’s in charge. It’s usually not real large-scale. We’re moving to more large scale to make it more realistic,” Brown said.
Management junior Steven Honore, an ROTC Cadet and first-semester trainee, said he is looking forward to the mission.
“I’ve ridden in a Black Hawk helicopter before,” Honore said “… This is something I’ve been training for three years, so I’m pretty excited about it.”
The Bengal Raiders is a student organization that is voluntary and
open to all students, Brown said. To become a Raider, a person
must complete two semesters of training. In the first semester, trainees don’t know much. Second-semester trainees help out first-semester train-ees, Brown said. If they pass both, they become active Raiders.
Brown said Raiders is about go-ing the extra mile.
“Your tactical knowledge is superior, physical fitness is supe-rior, dedication is superior,” he said. “Your attention to detail and disci-pline is also superior. It’s taking the initiative to better yourself, not only as a cadet, but also as a person.”
While it is affiliated with the ROTC and primarily comprises ca-dets, it is a separate University orga-nization, Brown said.
Usie said the Raiders has a man-tra of combat-focused training for the young men and women who plan to serve in the United States military.
“It’s really refreshing to see so many motivated young Americans within this program that are active-ly wanting to serve given today’s environment across the world,” Usie said.what has gone on in the tower,”
Guillory said. “For instance, the original chimes were pulled out in 1949, but we have no clue where they are.”
However, in 2007, Student Government commissioned the repair of the sound system for $29,000, putting a new digital re-cording system, called a carillon, in the tower.
With this renovation, the tow-er, which had not chimed regularly since 2003, was restored to its for-mer glory.
“That brought back the sound of LSU to the tower,” Guillory said.
Guillory said the tower cur-rently has a big digital recorder, loaded with more than 500 songs from a digital library along with a keyboard that can play music through the speakers.
While the eight speakers cur-rently in the tower have a 300- to 8,000-hertz frequency range, Guil-lory said the new speaker system will have a 20- to 20,000-hertz range, allowing them to more ro-bustly project the crisp bell-like sound throughout.
However, the Universi-ty’s Memorial Bell Tower has never actually housed a bell, Guillory explained.
Instead, the ringing from the tower was produced by a set of Deagan Tower Chimes, also called vertical bells, and drawn from the finest quality of bell metal. They were installed in 1924 when the building was being constructed.
The set of 18 chimes also had an organ and keyboard that could be played by hand and would ring across campus. A similar electronic keyboard came with the new sys-tem installed in 2007.
Also with the new digital sys-tem, the company the system was purchased from, Chimemaster, recorded a set of Deagan chimes specifically for the University’s Memorial Tower.
Guillory said in 1949, when the Deagan chimes were replaced by an electronic sound system, the speakers were moved to the top opening of the tower.
“We are going to replace all eight of the speakers and relocate them back to the original location of the Deagan chimes, in hopes to improve the sound quality because they will be located in a much broader area,” Guillory said.
Guillory said he hopes to one day be able to raise enough money to reinstall a set of working Deagan chimes in the tower.
Along with the addition of new speakers, Guillory said the
mechanism that turns the tower’s four clock faces, called the clock movement, was replaced on Tues-day.
Guillory said the old move-ment was installed in the late ’60s or early ’70s and has now been replaced with a much more robust unit with a larger shaft and gear motors, making it stronger and more able to accurately power the four clock faces.
“The old movement was very undersized for the hands on the clocks that we have,” Guillory said.
Because the clock is open-faced, the weather affects the movement of the clock hands, which causes issues with the hands slipping and not tracking the time properly. Also, to reset them, some-one would have to go up in the tower to manually reset everything.
Henry said he climbed the tower seven or eight times Tuesday while replacing the clock mecha-nism.
“Now we have integrated the clock and the chimes to run dead on with each other,” Guillory said.
Henry said he won’t have to put grease on the gears with the new clock system.
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TOWER, from page 1
BLACK HAWK, from page 1
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[Left] A drawing shows how the original chimes of the tower may have looked. [Above] The inside of Memorial Tower has a staircase leading up to the top.
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LSU coach Paul Mainieri made a decision Tuesday to save sophomore southpaw Cody Glenn for Thursday’s game against No. 21 Florida, and the gamble paid off in a 3-2 victory.
The No. 3 Tigers (41-6, 17-5 Southeastern Conference) looked to Glenn to provide stability in the rotation in the opening game, as Mainieri wanted to pitch both sophomore starter Aaron Nola and junior right-hander Ryan Eades on normal rest today and Saturday.
Glenn responded in grand
fashion, tossing six-and-two-thirds innings of two-run baseball, allowing fi ve hits and recording a season-high six strikeouts.
“For the fi rst time all season, I relied big time on my curveball,” Glenn said. “It was there for me. It’s been like a get-me-over pitch [in the past], but tonight it was a strikeout pitch for me. That and my two-seamer allowed me to get a lot of good outs and let me go deeper in the game.”
Mainieri knew the chance he was taking by tossing his No. 3 starter against Florida’s (25-21, 12-10 SEC) top starter, and said he couldn’t be more pleased with his young southpaw’s perfor-mance.
“Nobody would have prob-ably anticipated that Cody Glenn would have gone deeper in the game than [Florida junior starter
Jonathon] Crawford,” Mainieri said. “Crawford’s a fi rst-round pick, and Cody’s our third starter. He just did a masterful job to-night. Obviously he was the key to the game, and he gave us a chance to win. I was just so proud of him.”
Offensively, both teams struggled to maintain possession of a lead.
Florida got the scoring start-ed in the top of the third, as Glenn loaded the bases with one out. He would get a grounder back to the mound, though, forcing out a runner at home, but an error by Mason Katz would allow a run to score.
A Katz RBI single in the bottom of the third and a Ja-Coby Jones solo home run in
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MARIEL GATES / The Daily Reveille
LSU sophomore pitcher Cody Glenn (24) catapults the ball Thursday during the Tigers’ 3-2 win against Florida in Alex Box Stadium.
Glenn shines as Tigers take 3-2 win against FloridaRoss’ sac � y in eighth seals victoryLawrence BarrecaSports Writer
BASEBALL
GLENN, see page 15
George Costanza taught me to always go out on a high note.
This will be my last sports col-umn for The Daily Reveille. So I don’t want to disappoint.
A common misconception of TDR is that we, especially the sports staff, have to essentially function as PR agents for LSU.
We don’t.It isn’t fair to you as readers
and us as journalists to show any bias when it comes to covering the
Tigers. If all we wrote about is how great LSU sports are, our content would be boring and the same in-formation would be recycled over and over.
Luckily, my former and cur-rent editors have let me give my two cents on the highs and lows of LSU athletics over the course of the last three semes-ters. So why not stir the pot one fi nal time?
As Frank Costanza says at Festivus dinner, “I got a lot of problems with you people! And now you’re gonna hear about it!”
Here’s my version of Costanza’s airing of grievances. I give you my 10 unpopular LSU sports opinions:
PARTING VIEWS, see page 15
10 Unpopular LSU Sports Opinions
MIC’D UPMICAH BEDARDSports Columnist
Columnist signs o with words of wisdom for fans of Tiger athletics
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I know it sounds like the cool thing to do, but next time you’re at an LSU sporting event, instead of belting out “Tigers” at the end of the national anthem,
please don’t. America is the home of the
brave, not the Tigers.Show some respect for
our nation.
It’s the home of the brave, not the Tigers
You know in “Billy Madison” when Billy gives the answer about the puppy that lost its way and the moderator tells him, “Everyone in this room is now dumber after listening to it”? Yep, that’s essentially what Tiger Drop-pings is.
That is, unless you like to read and com-ment about in-depth LSU sports topics like “Anyone own or have a pic of LSU’s purple pants” or “Jarrett Lee is the reason for our suc-cess the past couple of years.”
One thing Tiger Droppings is good for: a laugh.
Tiger Droppings is not a source of
sports information
3 Saying “Fire Les Miles” is senseless
Miles is 34-6 in his last three seasons, yet some LSU football fans still consider him
on the hot seat.If you think Miles
should get the boot, I have only one ques-tion for you: If Miles goes, what
available coach right now would do
a better job than him?Nobody.
Good for LSU?
You betcha.
CONNOR TARTER/ The Daily Reveille
4 The PMAC isn’t close to being the “Deaf Dome” again
We need someone like this guy to revitalize
the crowd.
As much as I want there to be a great atmosphere in the PMAC for basketball games, it still isn’t there yet.
It’s the fan-base’s job, not just the students’, to make this happen. But it won’t until LSU Basketball can prove it’s no longer the red-headed stepchild to the football and baseball teams.
(See No. 8)
courtesy of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
5 “Greatest fans in college baseball”
is a myth
All right guys, we’re playing Vandy today. We can show up and
cheer, I guess.
LSU Baseball fans are kind of like Sam Montgomery when he played for LSU— they show up when they want to.
Sure, they set an attendance record earlier this season, but if you’re the best at something, you don’t just do it when it’s convenient. Paid attendance numbers are consistently higher than actual attendance in the Box.
CONNOR TARTER / The Daily Reveille
Even if he doesn’t like to ac-knowledge it, LSU track and field coach Dennis Shaver is normally the first person to arrive at Bernie Moore Track Stadium and the last to leave.
Shaver estimated he and his assistant coaches spend between 20 and 25 hours a week at the track during the indoor and outdoor track seasons. He said he likes to spread out the team’s workouts to work closer with each specialized group of athletes, even if it means more time at the track.
“He’s always the first one here,” said senior sprinter Siedda Hebert. “Don’t tell him this, but I don’t think he gets much sleep. I think that makes him a great coach overall.”
Shaver came to LSU as an as-sistant coach from Auburn in 1995 and took over as the Tigers’ head coach in 2004.
Since then, he has been named the NCAA Women’s Out-door Coach of the Year twice and the Southeastern Conference Women’s Coach of the Year seven
times. He’s produced 19 NCAA Champion relay teams and 39 NCAA Champion athletes.
Shaver said his favorite part of coaching is the looks on the fac-es of his student-athletes who were a part of those teams.
“You don’t always have that opportunity to win team champi-onships, but we’ve had our share where we were there to be a part of it and share it with the athletes who made those sacrifices,” Shav-er said. “They really bonded to-gether and worked toward a com-mon goal, which is what makes those championship teams so spe-cial to me.”
Some of those athletes con-tinued working with Shaver after they graduated and went on to compete at the highest level of track and field — the Olympics. Shaver has sent 22 athletes to the Olympic Games, with six bringing home medals.
Shaver said he is always proud to be able to help his ath-letes reach the highest level even if they are no longer donning purple and gold.
“It’s the ultimate goal of any track and field athlete,” Shaver said. “It’s hugely gratifying be-cause it is so challenging just to be able to qualify to participate in those games. We’ve been fortunate to have people who have been able
to do that while continuing to train as a part of our program.”
Despite his success, Shaver has not changed his routine and can still be seen putting in a lot of grunt work around the track, help-ing the managers set up hurdles and other events around the track.
“We pretty much run the
show,” Shaver said. “Our manag-ers do most of the work setting up the meets, but we do all of that.”
In addition to setting up the events, Shaver will deal with problems that arise during the meet. Hebert said Shaver is tech-savvy and often repairs equipment around the track.
“He’s a coach and a handy-man,” Hebert said. “If there is anything broken you will always find him on the track trying to fix it early before or late after practice.”
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TRACK AND FIELD
Shaver leads by example with long hours at trackCoach has produced NCAA ChampionsJames MoranSports Contributor
RICHARD REDMANN / The Daily Reveille
LSU track and �eld coach Dennis Shaver has coached 19 NCAA Champion relay teams and 39 NCAA Champion athletes since 2004.
Contact James Moran at [email protected]
It’s been six years since the LSU softball team fi nished a regu-lar season with sole possession of the Southeastern Conference West Division title.
With a new coaching staff and a completely fresh crop of players since 2007, no one associated with the current LSU squad knows what winning the SEC West feels like. But that could be about to change.
No. 8 LSU (40-11, 15-6 SEC) begins the fi nal weekend of regu-lar-season SEC play today against Georgia with at least a share of the SEC West title already in hand. The Tigers need only one win against the Bulldogs (35-18, 12-9 SEC) to secure sole possession of the title.
The Tigers assured themselves at least a share of the top spot af-ter sweeping No. 7 Alabama last weekend to open up a three-game
lead on the Crimson Tide, which has perched itself atop the SEC West standings every season since LSU’s divisional championship in 2007.
“It’s amazing for all of us to be a part of the team that fi nally got the SEC West back to LSU,” said junior infi elder Allison Falcon.
The Tigers are also fi ghting for positioning in the SEC Tourna-ment, which begins Wednesday in Lexington, Ky.
The SEC East has more depth than the West this season, with four teams boasting at least 12 confer-ence wins. Only LSU and Alabama hold that mark in the West.
With all those teams clustered at the top of the conference rank-ings, LSU could receive anywhere from a No. 1 to a No. 5 seed in next week’s tournament.
“We’re not just going to go for one win,” Falcon said. “We don’t want to just go for the [SEC West title]. We want to go in there and make a statement and fi nish the season out really well.”
Luckily for LSU, it is com-ing off perhaps its best weekend
performance of the season in the sweep against Alabama, while Georgia has lost three of its last four.
But the Bulldogs pose perhaps the most threatening power lineup in the league, ranking in the confer-ence’s top-2 in team batting aver-age (.339), hits (466), runs scored (362), home runs (84), doubles (75) and RBIs (331).
The matchup will pit Georgia’s potent lineup against LSU’s stellar pitching staff, led by the reigning Louisville Slugger/NFCA National Player of the Week, Rachele Fico.
Fico has led 11 of LSU’s 15 conference victories from the cir-cle, and the senior ace enters the
weekend just two strikeouts shy of passing former LSU All-American Emily Turner for third place on the program’s all-time list.
Joining Fico in the circle will be juniors Ashley Czechner and Meghan Patterson, who have both helped LSU collect a 2.02 team ERA that ranks fourth in the SEC.
Czechner notched the win in the second game of LSU’s sweep of Alabama to extend her record to a perfect 10-0 this season. It was her second consecutive victory against a top-25 opponent after pitching fi ve shutout innings against No. 11 Missouri the prior weekend.
Czechner seems to have passed Patterson for the Saturday starter
position, but Patterson still holds the staff’s lowest ERA at 1.62.
LSU coach Beth Torina said with all that’s riding on this week-end’s series, she doesn’t have to worry about keeping her team from looking ahead to the postseason.
“I think it’s a pride thing at this point,” Torina said. “We want to win. We want to make sure we’re putting ourselves in the best pos-sible spot we can for the regional selection committee, and I don’t think this team ever takes the fi eld without a win in mind.”
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SOFTBALL
Tigers seek first SEC West title since 2007LSU jockeying for postseason positionSpencer HutchinsonSports Contributor
MARIEL GATES / The Daily Reveille
Junior utility player Allison Falcon makes a home run April 25 during LSU’s 3-2 victory against Alabama in Tiger Park. The Tigers begin a weekend series against Georgia today.
Contact Spencer Hutchinson at [email protected]
The day Southeastern Confer-ence sports fans have waited for has fi nally arrived, as ESPN and the SEC announced an agreement Thursday that will bring the new SEC Network to households around the country starting in August 2014 .
SEC commissioner Mike Slive and ESPN President John Skipper detailed in a news conference Thurs-day the 20-year deal , which will last through 2034 .
The network is expected to tele-vise “approximately 45 SEC foot-ball games, more than 100 men’s basketball games, 60 women’s bas-ketball games, 75 baseball games and events from across the SEC’s 21 sports annually,” according to SECDigitalNetwork.com . It will also air original content, signing day
coverage, spring football games and other additional programming.
“The SEC Network will pro-vide an unparalleled fan experience of top quality SEC content presented across the television network and its accompanying digital platforms,” Slive said. “We will increase expo-sure of SEC athletics programs at all 14 member institutions, as we show-case the incredible student-athletes in our league.”
Subscribers of AT&T U-verse , which has already signed on to carry the network, will have ac-cess to it from Day 1 on a number of platforms, including PCs, tablets, smartphones and Xbox Live, among others.
Will fans pay major league prices to watch minor league level baseball?
That is the question facing the Houston Astros as they stumble through the worst stretch in fran-chise history, in which they have lost more than 100 games in the last two years and are on track to surpass that plateau again this year. As of May 2 , they are on pace to lose 117 games , which would be the third most in the modern era .
This is one of the worst teams in the last 100 years , so why does owner Jim Crane insist on charging top dollar for broadcasting rights and tickets?
While selling out Minute Maid Park looks impressive, game atten-dance revenue pales in comparison to broadcasting dollars. Team-owned regional sports networks are the cash cows that have driven the growth of MLB over the last decade , with con-tracts regularly reaching billions of dollars .
The Astros jumped onto the RNS bandwagon this year, ditching Fox Southwest for the newly-formed Comcast Sports Network , providing exclusive coverage of the worst team in baseball to Texas and surrounding states to all Comcast members.
Instead of negotiating a stan-dard deal with their competitors in the area, Crane and Comcast want CSN to be part of every provider’s basic package of channels — some-thing few teams can claim.
This disagreement has turned into an eight-month long holdout that cost baseball fans the fi rst month of the season and basketball fans much more. The Houston Rockets , who are also exclusively shown on CSN , lost an entire regular season worth of coverage to this fi asco.
While fans outside of Houston seem to be out of luck, Houstonians can still experience all of the mis-ery of being an Astros fan the old fashioned way. But thanks to a sys-tem called dynamic pricing , visiting
Minute Maid will cost as much as three times more from one series to the next.
Dynamic pricing argues that adjusting single game ticket prices based on division standings , rivalries and star players , will better represent the real value of tickets. In the real world, that means any seat against the Boston Red Sox will run you three times as much as one against the Colorado Rockies .
The fl uctuating ticket prices only further shrink the average As-tros’ attendance, as most Houston fans do not want to watch a blowout and opposing fans would rather stay home than pay an arm and a leg to make a trip to the factory of sadness that is Minute Maid Park .
The Astros are currently ahead of fi ve teams in attendance, includ-ing the AL West-leading Kansas City Royals . The fans are not giving up on
them, despite the ownership’s best efforts to alienate them.
We will see how long that lasts.
Cole Travis is a 20-year-old psychol-ogy sophomore from Houston.
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Astros fans getting blacked outCHIN MUSICCOLE TRAVISSports Contributor
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Houston Astros’ Chris Carter (left), Brandon Barnes (center) and Ronnie Grossman (right) celebrate their 10-3 win against the Seattle Mariners on April 24 in Houston.
Contact Cole Travis at [email protected]
TELEVISION
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ESPN President John Skipper (left), SEC Commissioner Mike Slive (center) and ESPN Senior Vice President of Programing Justin Connolly (right) answer questions Thursday during a news conference announcing the launch of the Southeastern Conference Network in partnership with ESPN in Atlanta.
ESPN, SEC partner to bring fans new networkLawrence BarrecaSports Writer
Contact Lawrence Barreca at [email protected]; Twitter: @LawrenceBarreca
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Johnny Manziel has decided he’s not go-ing to allow the pitfalls of fame to stop him from having a good time, forging friendships with rival quar-terbacks or even going back to class — in person.
As for the pressure inherent in living up to the Heisman Tro-phy standard he set for himself in only his fi rst season as quarterback at Texas A&M, it isn’t concerned about that, either.
“I’m not thinking about it. I’m just going out and playing football and doing the things I’ve always done,” Manziel said Thursday, when he visited New Orleans to accept the Manning Award, which recognizes the nation’s top college quarterback. “The success that we had last year — I wasn’t worried about my own individual success. I was just wor-ried about going out and playing football and trying to learn the sys-tem and get better.”
Following a memorable, high-light-fi lled regular season in which he accounted for 4,600 total yards, Manziel became the fi rst freshman ever to win the Heisman Trophy — then racked up an additional 516 total yards in a 41-13 Cotton Bowl victory against Oklahoma.
And then the player sometimes called Johnny Football found out how public his private life could re-ally be.
He was famously photographed partying in a Dallas nightclub with a sparkler in his mouth as if it were a cigar while fl exing both biceps. Oth-er photos showed him holding what looked like a bottle of Champagne, raising questions about whether Manziel, now 20, was partaking in under-age drinking. Another showed him triumphantly fanning out a wad of cash at a casino; he later noted on his Twitter page it is legal for
someone 18 or older to gamble at a casino.
Even his decision to take class-es online last semester became con-troversial. Manziel has said his deci-sion to limit himself exclusively to the virtual classroom was a reaction to the attention he was receiving on campus while simply walking to class, and he added Thursday that he expects to return to regular classes this summer and fall.
“It was just one semester — something that I needed and wanted to do,” he said.
Manziel said he’s adjusting bet-ter to life as a celebrity and is trying not to let it change him much.
“I continue to slip up every now and then with people that you think you can trust and you really can’t, so I’m continuing to learn things every day,” he said.
“I’m still having a good time. I know that. I’m not letting any of that factor into my life and what I want to do,” he continued. “There might be some cameras here and there and some things like that, but I’m go-ing to continue to still go to some basketball games, continue to still do things I want to do, just be smart while I’m doing it.”
That includes making friends with Alabama quarterback A.J. Mc-Carron, who during the season will be among the players standing be-tween Texas A&M and a chance at a Southeastern Conference champion-ship or more.
“Once football season comes around, that’s when it becomes ri-vals,” Manziel said. “Off the fi eld, we’re all 20-, 21-year-old kids just enjoying going to school, playing football and like doing the same things. Me and him have talked on Twitter, exchanged numbers and still continue to talk every couple weeks. So I’m maybe building a little bit of a friendship there, maybe going on a trip together this summer some time
or just trying to be friends and hang out and have fun.”
This July, Manziel plans to serve as a counselor at the Manning Passing Academy in Thibodaux, La., where he was a camper while in high school.
In introducing Manziel to a luncheon crowd gathered for the Manning Award trophy presentation at the Manning family’s downtown restaurant, Archie Manning talked of how extraordinary he thought it was for Manziel to do what he did in his fi rst season in the SEC, a conference renowned not only for its string of national champions, but also for defenses loaded with NFL prospects.
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FOOTBALL
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Heisman Trophy winner and Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel (left) poses Thursday with former NFL quarterback Archie Manning (right) and the Manning Award in New Orleans.
Heisman winner talks football, friendship and fame
When it was announced last month that yet another plan to re-develop the site of the old Six Flags theme park in New Orleans had fallen through, most people’s reac-tions were the same.
“There’s a Six Flags in New Orleans?”
It turns out there is — or was — a Six Flags way out in the Ninth Ward, and since it closed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, it’s been the subject of a few failed at-tempts to rebuild.
The market wouldn’t be able to sustain the upscale outlet mall they had planned, the developers said after the most recent plan fell through.
Good.We all have memories from
Six Flags or some place like it. Some loud, brightly colored place where men in funny suits sell you overpriced food and drinks until you run off and make yourself sick.
Sounds like somewhere else in New Orleans, doesn’t it?
I visited Six Flags last night, though security turned me away at the entrance and I did not — let me emphasize that — not, climb through chicken-wire fences and overgrown thickets to skulk through the shadows, dodging security like a mouse skittering through a kitch-en in the middle of the night.
Despite not having done all that, I imagine an abandoned amusement park would be a
seriously depressing place. Amuse-ment parks are a 151-proof distil-lation of childhood nostalgia, with all the vomiting and awful smells those memories entail.
My friend who accompanied me on our incredibly legal trip mentioned how just the sight of the decrepit roller coasters silhouetted on the sky gave him that same pit-of-the-stomach excitement he felt as a kid.
So do we actually want to pave our childhood paradise and put up a shopping mall?
Our night ended, as so many New Orleans stories do, in the French Quarter, blinded by the
neon signs of Bourbon. It was just a Wednesday night in May, but the street was still littered with the usual mix of vagrants and drunken tourists.
But as we rode the streetcar back to St. Charles, it wasn’t the apparently drug-addled man sit-ting across from me, clutching a dilapidated saxophone and moan-ing about Walgreens, who bothered me. It was a small group of Ohio mid-level businessmen huddled together, looking terrified at the world around them but chatting happily about their motorcycle trips and summer homes in Maine.
These are the people who
Bourbon Street now attracts, and it’s depressing.
A place that used to be known as the absolute embodiment of gen-uine New Orleans culture is now just another tourist trap, filled with bars bumping the Black Eyed Peas and gift shops selling beads year-round.
It’s easy to think of New Or-leans as a party city.
It’s not inaccurate, but it ig-nores too much, and it means you’re going to attract a horde of used car salesmen and accountants chasing the head-spinning highs we used to get from places like Six Flags.
Katrina caused a lot of
destruction, much of which still hasn’t been fixed, but it couldn’t take away the spirit and energy that has made the city famous. Even among the water damage and cap-sized magnolias, New Orleans is still a vibrant, gritty city that re-mains the pride of its citizens.
It’s worth not selling out.
Gordon Brillon is a 19-year-old mass communication sophomore from Lincoln, R.I.
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Despite how you measure them, the four largest United States banks — JPMorgan Chase, Bank of Ameri-ca, Wells Fargo and Citigroup — are mammoths.
With a greater market share than ever, their combined assets are $7.8 trillion, which is nearly half the size of the entire U.S. economy.
Indeed, these financial institu-tions are so large and interconnected that they have been deemed “too big to fail.”
As a result, market participants believe the U.S. government will always be there to bail them out in a pinch, as their failure would be di-sastrous to the overall economy.
Certainly, if you are of the belief that actions speak louder than words, Washington has done literally every-thing in its power to reinforce the notion that they would lend extraor-dinary help to enable TBTF banks to survive.
In 2008, at the peak of the finan-cial crisis, the government stepped in and decided which Wall Street megabanks would receive a taxpay-er-funded bailout, because they were considered too economically vital to fail.
Put simply, the U.S. govern-ment did what any economics text-book will tell you not to do: hand-select economic winners and losers.
More importantly, however, the U.S. government created a terrible precedent. By refusing to allow these financial institutions to fail, banks essentially received an unspoken guarantee that the government would always be there in a time of need.
It’s the perfect insurance policy — and the large banks are taking full advantage.
Right now, the biggest U.S. banks enjoy a massive competitive
advantage in that they’re able to bor-row and lend money far more cheap-ly than other, smaller banks, because everyone on Earth knows their debt is pretty much government-guaran-teed.
Additionally, megabanks are in-centivized to engage in excessively risky practices that have a high po-tential for reward, but carry with it an even higher potential for failure.
Case in point: In April of last year, Bruno Iksil, a trader nicknamed the London Whale and Voldemort, was solely responsible for $6.2 bil-lion in trading loses for JPMorgan
Chase’s investment offices.In essence, what we have is a
financial system that rewards banks for their size, rather than quality of operations.
Fortunately, on April 24th, Senators David Vitter, a Republican from Louisiana, and Sherrod Brown, a Democrat from Ohio, spearheaded their campaign to end the era of “too big to fail” banks, by introducing a bill that calls for two things.
First, the bill would make the giant banks much safer.
Indeed, its core provision re-quires that any bank with more than
$500 billion in assets hold a safety cushion of at least 15 percent in capital reserves, which is more than twice the current amount. This pro-vides a buffer for potential loses.
For example, take a hypotheti-cal bank that holds $400 billion of mortgages and $400 billion in bonds. Under the Brown-Vitter bill, it would have to set aside 15 percent of $800 billion, or $120 billion, in capital.
The second important feature of the Vitter-Brown bill is that such a high standard for capital require-ments will likely force big banks to spin of much of their business,
which would eliminate the systemic “too big to fail” risk they currently impose.
It’s a simple two birds, one stone kind of fix. And our banking system — and the global economy — will benefit substantially from it.
Jay Meyers is a 20-year-old economics sophomore from Shreveport.
I love the middle finger. It’s the last breath of a losing
argument. If all else fails, give them the finger and walk away. You may have lost, but at least you didn’t lose with dignity.
It’s so satisfying. There’s some-thing cathartic about expressing frustration, even if it’s just the finger.
I was driving down Interstate 10 going west toward Lafayette. I was in the left lane, going 80 mph, and a big truck gets on my ass like he wants to pass me.
This pisses me off, like it would many drivers. I’m doing 10 over
already and this guy’s breathing down my neck.
My first reaction — screw you, man.
So I move over and let him pass on the left, but not without giv-ing him a middle finger so erect I could’ve been mistaken for E.T.
So this guy, who by this point I’ve figured out is also a jerk, pulls in front of me and slams on his brakes.
I slam on my brakes, nearly rear-ending him. Thankfully, there was no contact and he sped off like somebody was giving away free camouflage floor mats.
So what’s the lesson here? Yes, you could argue I instigated it by giving him the finger, but that was only in response to his Third World style of driving.
The point is that offending peo-ple is important. It’s a healthy way
of expressing frustration in a non-violent manner. I felt so much bet-ter after letting that guy know how much he sucks as a driver.
Granted, he could’ve killed me. But he didn’t. Because if he did, he’d go to jail.
The Constitution protects mid-dle finger use, but not assault and battery, Jeremy Hill.
In a similar fashion, I bet lots of you feel pretty good after telling me off in an online comment.
Which is great; that’s what it’s there for. It’s our job to write stuff that’ll make you think (but it’ll probably just make you mad), and it’s your job to get mad afterward and tell us how much we suck.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is the United States of America — freedom’s wet dream.
The beauty of this great nation
is I’m allowed to say anything and you’re allowed to say anything back.
Nobody should be censoring either of us. I have ideas, you have ideas, and no matter how contro-versial or seemingly insane, nobody can shut us up.
Offending people is the Ameri-can way of doing things. You think the Founding Fathers went around just being polite to each other all the time?
Who do you think we are, Ca-nadians?
The day we can’t shit all over somebody (figuratively speaking) is the day we lose the very thing that makes us American — the freedom to air our grievances without fear of retribution.
But sometimes, there is retri-bution. People often try to silence those who disagree with them, at
which point in time, I instruct all of you to lock and load your middle fingers, we’re going on a drive-by.
You have a voice. If you love something, say so. If you hate some-thing, let us know. If you couldn’t care less, just say, “Dude, I’m Switzerlanding over here, leave me alone.”
When you’re quiet, somebody else is talking.
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night.
Parker Cramer is a 22-year-old political science senior from Houston.
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The greatest of all is this: love thy hater as thyself
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SCUM OF THE GIRTHPARKER CRAMERChief Columnist
Vitter, Brown look to give simple �x for megabanksSHARE THE WEALTHJAY MEYERSColumnist
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the fourth would give LSU a 2-1 lead. It wasn’t until the top of the seventh inning that Flor-ida re-tied the game, as fresh-man left fielder Harrison Bader roped an RBI double to left field.
With the bases loaded and one out in the bottom of the eighth, LSU junior catcher Ty Ross delivered in the clutch, hit-ting a sacrifice fly to give the Ti-gers a 3-2 lead.
“[The pitch I hit] was some-thing moving away from my barrel,” Ross said. “I was just trying to put something in the air and hit something hard and make them make a play or hit a
pop fly.”LSU senior closer Chris Cot-
ton would seal the deal in the ninth, giving LSU win No. 41 of the year.
The Tigers will send Nola to the mound tonight against the Gators.
“We’re going to think about [Thursday’s] win until 12, then look at [Friday’s] game,” Ross said. “We’ve got Nola on the mound, and he’s been our guy all year. We definitely feel good.”
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PARTING VIEWS, from page 7
Contact Lawrence Barreca at [email protected]; Twitter: @LawrenceBarreca
6 LSU’s consistently best teams are track and �eld
and gymnastics
7 Nick Saban is never coming back
8 There is a season between football and baseball: basketball
9 Priority Points are the worst
10 Football and basketball student sections need improvement
Look it up for yourself. Track and field coach Den-nis Shaver and gymnastics coach D-D Breaux have been
throwing out ultra-competi-tive teams for a while.
For some reason, they still don’t get enough credit.
Give it up already. It’s not going to happen.
I can’t stand when I hear people say, “Welp, foot-ball season is over. When’s first pitch?” That’s not how it works.
Next season, LSU will be able to play a brand of basket-ball that should more exciting than both football and baseball. You’ll see what I mean by this time next year.
ANGELA MAJOR / The Daily Reveille
Johnny O’Bryant III
Priority Points make no sense. They only count for football, yet you have to attend other LSU athletic events to accumulate points.
One problem: LSU isn’t helping increase popularity for smaller sports when students just swipe their cards and roll out.
The football section can’t have nice things, (See: “Neck”), and most students leave at halftime regard-less of the score. The Roar Corps is still a major work in progress.
(Drops mic.)
Contact Micah Bedard at [email protected];
Twitter: @DardDog
Micah Bedard is a 22-year-old history senior from Houma.
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