The football fi eld was fl ooded Saturday night with some of the Uni-versity’s most spirited students clad in purple and gold suits, patiently awaiting the announcement of who will carry the legacy of homecoming king and queen.

Taylor Cox, 22-year-old Stu-dent Government president, and Kendall Knobloch, 21-year-old member of Chi Omega sorority, both wore shocked expressions when

they were crowned the University’s 2012 Homecoming King and Queen during the halftime show at Saturday night’s football game.

Cox, a mass communica-tion senior, said he didn’t real-ize he had won until the reign-ing king approached him and said congratulations.

“Actually I couldn’t hear any-thing on the fi eld. I didn’t know I won until Zachary Corbin came up to me and said ‘Congratulations,’” Cox said.

Knobloch, a fi nance senior, said

she doesn’t remember much from the crowning moment.

“It all happened so fast. The fi rst real thing I remember is going to hug my friends,” Knobloch said.

Knobloch said she is waiting to watch a video that her friend fi lmed of the night to remember the details.

Cox and Knobloch both said it was a night they would remember for the rest of their lives.

Despite the crowns that now sit atop their heads, the recently named

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LSU coach Les Miles showed confi dence in junior quarterback Zach Mettenberger, and he rewarded his coach with a strong performance in the No. 9 Tigers’ 37-17 victory against No. 22 Mississippi State on Saturday night.

Mettenberger completed 19-of-30 passes for 273 yards with two touchdowns and perhaps most im-portantly, no turnovers.

“You’re seeing the coaches have more confi dence in us,” Mettenberg-er said. “They are mixing it up, more run/pass and being more balanced. Guys are making plays, having con-fi dence and having fun out there.”

The biggest display of Miles’ new-found confi dence came in the last minute of the fi rst half. After State kicked a fi eld goal to cut the lead to 13-10, LSU got the ball at its own 29-yard line.

Miles said LSU had been work-ing on the two-minute drill in prac-tice all week. He decided to let the offense go to work.

On the fi rst play of the drive, Mettenberger hit sophomore receiv-er Jarvis Landry for 15 yards. On the next play, he completed a 36-yarder to junior receiver James Wright.

Following an incompletion, Mettenberger laid out a perfect pass to junior running back Spencer Ware

Separated by a brisk ten-min-ute walk, LSU Career Service’s two sometimes-hard-to-fi nd lo-cations will soon move into one centralized venue in the heart of campus.

The Olinde Career Center, scheduled to open in fall 2013, will occupy most of the former bookstore on the Student Union’s fi rst and second fl oors, merging the physically divided organi-zation into one building for the fi rst time in its more than 25-year existence.

Currently, Career Services operates out of two locations: the fi rst fl oor of Patrick F. Taylor Hall and the basement of Coates Hall.

“Students have described the Coates Hall location as a

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2012 LSU homecoming king Taylor Cox and queen Kendall Knobloch pose together Saturday in Tiger Stadium.

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Vatican digs in after gay marriage advances in the United States

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vati-can is digging in after gay marriage initiatives scored big wins this week in U.S. and Europe, vowing to never stop insisting that mar-riage can only be between a man and a woman.

Catholic teaching holds that homosexuals should be respected and treated with dignity but that homosexual acts are “intrinsically disordered.” The Vatican also op-poses same-sex marriage, insist-ing on the sanctity of marriage between a man and woman as the foundation for society.

Palestinian, U.S. presidents discuss UN initiative regarding member status

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A spokesman for the Palestin-ian president says the Palestinians will proceed with asking the U.N. General Assembly to recognize a Palestinian state, despite a per-sonal call from President Barack Obama to abandon the bid.

Nabil Abu Rdeneh said Pres-ident Mahmoud Abbas had a long phone conversation with Obama Sunday evening.

He said Obama “express-es his opposition to this step,” but Abbas replied he would carry on.

Deadly blast devastates Indianapolis neighborhood, two dead in explosion

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A massive explosion sparked a huge fi re and killed two people in an Indianapo-lis neighborhood where about three dozen homes were damaged or de-stroyed, authorities said Sunday. The powerful nighttime blast shattered windows, crumpled walls and could be felt at least three miles away.

Aerial photographs of the once-tidy neighborhood of one- and two-story homes showed at least two had been reduced to blackened pits of debris. Other homes had sections gutted by fi re or holes in their roofs or exterior walls.Judge returns to bench after suspension regarding video beating

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — A Texas judge shown in a vid-eo beating his teenage daughter in 2004 will return to the bench this week after the Texas Supreme Court lifted his suspension.

The justices reinstated Aran-sas County Court-at-Law Judge William Adams on Tuesday, a year after they suspended him with pay when a video of him beating his daughter became an Internet sensa-tion.

Adams is scheduled to pre-side over cases on the regular court docket Wednesday in Rockport.

LAKE CHARLES (AP) — A pre-trial hearing will resume Tuesday afternoon in Lake Charles for a gy-necologist charged with video voy-eurism and sexual battery.

The question is whether pros-ecutors can use evidence found in Dr. Peter LaFuria’s truck.

Police had a warrant to search his offi ce and vehicles on the prem-ises. Detective Patty Bailey testifi ed Friday that the truck was searched at LaFuria’s house, and detectives found evidence that led them to ask for a warrant to search his house.

She testifi ed that she believed the warrant to search his medi-cal practice included a search of his vehicle.

Southern board member wants Grambling State Univ. in SU system

(AP) — Southern University board member Tony Clayton says Louisiana could save a lot of money by folding Grambling State University into the South-ern University system.

He tells The Advocate he will propose the plan at the board meeting Nov. 23, one day after the annual Bayou Classic football game in New Orleans between Grambling and Southern.

Customs authorities seize more than $4 million of ivory in Dubai

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Customs authorities in Dubai have seized ivory worth as much as 15 million dirhams ($4.1 million) from more than 100 poached elephants.

The UAE’s state news agency WAM reported Sunday that author-ities at the Jebel Ali Port seized the ivory hidden in a shipment of green beans. They said it came from an unnamed African country but did not say where it was headed.

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NEW YORK (AP) — New York-ers railed Sunday against a utility that has lagged behind others in re-storing power two weeks after the superstorm that socked the region, criticizing its slow pace as well as a dearth of information.

At least 150,000 people in New York and New Jersey re-mained without power Sunday, in-cluding tens of thousands of homes and businesses that were too dam-aged to receive power at all. More than 8 million lost power during the storm, and some during a later nor’easter.

The lack of power restoration for a relative few in the densely populated region at the heart of the storm reinforced Sandy’s fractured effect on the area.

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The University honored mili-tary alumni and all service mem-bers Saturday in conjunction with Veterans Day.

During a 9 a.m. ceremony on the Parade Ground, 12 alumni, both alive and deceased, were in-ducted into the Hall of Honor for Military Alumni.

Clifton Lee received the hon-or for his late grandfather, U.S. Army Major General Joseph Alsop Redding. Redding served in the Mexican Border War with gener-als “Black Jack” Pershing, former President Dwight D. Eisenhower and George Patton. He later served in World War I and was gassed in France. Redding received a Purple Heart for the incident, Lee said.

“He’s a wonderful man and deserves this very much,” Lee said.

He said he started “crying like a baby” when he received the phone call about his grandfather being honored.

“It was long overdue,” Lee said.

Redding was a baseball fan and would often check Lee out of school to take him to LSU baseball games under the pretense of going to a doctor’s appointment.

“’Til the day she died, my mother never realized that he had done that,” Lee said. “He’d literal-ly be sneaking me in one end of the parking lot when she’d be pulling in the other to come pick us up.”

Lee said Redding was a “fi ne man” and a great representative of America.

Jeanne McNeil went to the ceremony with her family to celebrate her father-in-law’s in-duction. She said she was hon-ored for her father-in-law, John McNeil.

“It’s been a wonderful experi-ence and very inspiring and patri-otic,” she said.

McNeil said the inductees and their families were treated to a re-union, a luncheon, a breakfast, a meal in the PMAC and a presen-tation of the honorees before the Mississippi State game Saturday night.

She said John was nominated last year by a Cadets of the Ole War Skule friend, but he did not receive the award last November. She said nominees must fi ll out an applica-tion and be a member of Cadets of the Ole War Skule.

McNeil said nominees can sometimes wait for two or three years before being inducted, but for John, it only took a year. She said John will be 91 in March, so her family was excited that his waiting process was short.

Retired U.S. Air Force Major Mac Wallace was among the veter-an alumni who were inducted into

the Hall of Honor.“It’s a great honor, a very

humbling honor, but a very great honor,” Wallace said. “I’m proud of this country and proud of what I can be as a part of it.”

While he was in school, Wal-lace said he was a part of the ROTC.

“I’m delighted that as a coun-try we can honor our veterans,” he said.

During the ceremony, a por-tion of the Tiger Band played the National Anthem while a jet fl ew over the stadium.

In another part of the cer-emony, two cannons were fi red as part of the 21-Gun Salute. After the cannons had fi nished fi ring, thick smoke clouded the Parade Ground and the military trumpet song “Taps” was played.

Before the game Saturday

evening, the honorees were brought out to the center of the football fi eld and introduced to the stadium, McNeil said.

She said many fans came to congratulate the veterans after the introduction.

“It was very emotional. It was a very proud moment for our fam-ily,” McNeil said. MORGAN SEARLES / The Daily Reveille

Twelve LSU alumni [top] were inducted Saturday morning into LSU’s military Hall of Honor in a ceremony [bottom] on the Parade Ground. A military parade was held in honor of the inductees.

Ceremony for military servicecelebrates alumni veterans

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Family members discuss recognition • Kirby Allen

• Donald Bulloch

• Edward Capron Jr.

• Franklin Foil

• Stephen Harmon Jr.

• the late Leon LeSueur

• John McNeil

• William Meyers

• John Pugh Jr.

• the late Joseph Redding

• the late Stanley Shaw

• Mac Wallace

Honorees inducted into Hall of Honor for Military Alumni:

As a group of University stu-dents threw around a football, grilled burgers and made score predictions at a tailgate on the Parade Ground on Saturday, many would never suspect some of them had only been living in the United States for a few months.

The students, brought together by the second-ever tailgate hosted by the International Cultural Center, represented numerous places around the world, including India, South Af-rica, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Germany, Romania and Iran.

Kenny Zhao, a mechanical en-gineering junior from China, said tailgating is a purely American expe-rience because American football is something only played in this coun-try.

International students get to experience a quintessential part of American culture while tailgating, Zhao said.

President of the International Student Association Ruoxi Chen, a graduate student in plant pathology, moved to Baton Rouge four years ago from China and said the tailgate encourages friendship among people of all cultures.

Chen said the ICC tailgate is a fun event and he wants it to continue bringing domestic and international students together.

“People are so in love with this sport,” Chen said. “It’s a culture by itself.”

Thabiso Musapelo, a chemistry Ph.D. candidate from South Africa, said they expected 140 to 150 people to stop by.

“Estimating how many people

will come is the biggest challenge,” Musapelo said.

Cesar Silva, who is earning his master’s degree in music, moved from Brazil to Baton Rouge three months ago.

Silva said he is more familiar with the soccer traditions from back home, and that even the Alabama game last weekend was more civil than a typical soccer game in his hometown.

In Brazil, the crowds are so rowdy that the street is divided into lanes for the home team and their op-ponent to keep them from fighting, Silva said.

“It’s peaceful here,” Silva said. “It’s a nice culture. People really enjoy themselves cooking, eating and playing games. I like all of it to-gether.”

Recent graduate Martin Loew moved to the United States from

Germany a few years ago and said although he was familiar with “bar-becues in the garden,” tailgating was a whole new experience.

Loew stayed close to the grill during the tailgate and cooked chicken, burgers and sausage for the group.

“I got a Cajun creole cookbook to learn how to cook,” he said.

Although the group has tradi-tional tailgate snacks like jamba-laya and burgers, the ICC tailgate has foods from other cultures, too — such as a German cheese tray for dessert.

Local Chinese and Indian res-taurants often donate food to the tail-gate, Chen said.

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EXPANSION TAILGATING

Land donated for LSU clinic development

ICC embraces football culture Alyson GaharanContributing Writer

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The International Cultural Center holds a tailgate Saturday for international students.

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Real estate developer and philanthropist Herbert Brown has donated more land for LSU’s North Baton Rouge clinic devel-opment.

The 1.5-acre tract is next to the clinic and is bounded by Mc-Clelland Drive, Glen Oaks Drive, Laca Street and Maplewood Drive. It was recently appraised at about $135,000.

The Advocate reports Brown previously donated a former Kmart property on 5439 Airline Highway to LSU.

LSU built a new $18 million medical clinic on the front part of the lot. The clinic opened in 2009.

The donation was made in memory of his son, H. Graham Brown, who died at age 15.

“I try to do things in his memory and honor,” said Brown, an Opelousas native who lives in Clearwater, Fla. “My wife, Di-ane, and I want to do all we can for humanity, for children and for schools. We’re just trying to ded-icate our lives to helping other people.”

Brown, 89, is the for-mer chairman of the Checkers

restaurant chain and the devel-oper of furniture stores, pharma-cies and Kmarts throughout the Southeast.

“This generous donation will be used to help ensure continued, quality health care services for patients in the north Baton Rouge area,” said LSU interim President and Chancellor William Jenkins.

LSU System director of fa-cilities planning Danny Mahaffey said the land would most likely be used for future expansion and parking for clinic patients and ad-ministrative staff.

“The additional land will be critical to accommodating the large numbers of patients who will seek care at the clinic and the new urgent care center next door currently under construction,” Mahaffey said.

Future construction plans for the property include a $3.6 mil-lion, 7,500-square-foot addition that will house a radiology suite.

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For many University students, scheduling next semester’s classes means hitting ‘refresh’ again and again to access the schedule re-quest feature on myLSU.

University IT communica-tions and planning officer Sheri Thompson said in an email to The Daily Reveille that students are placed in priority groups that determine what day they can be-gin scheduling. According to the University registrar’s course reg-istration calendar, the last group became eligible to schedule on Friday.

The first group that scheduled on Oct. 21 was the largest, with about 11,000 students, Thompson said. The registrar’s registration calendar states that the group in-cludes “graduate students, gradu-ating seniors and other selected students.”

In the past, PAWS would crash on the first day of schedul-ing because the system could not handle so many people trying to access it at the same time, Thomp-son said. PAWS was replaced in May with myLSU, which faced a similar problem this semester, she said.

“myLSU is hosted (like many of our resources are), and the vendor is making adjustments to handle the mass use of myLSU, which happens the first day of registration and then the first day of classes when drop/add is in the works,” Thompson wrote.

ITS officials do not think myLSU will be overwhelmed in the future, Thompson said. But even once logged into myLSU, students may not be able to access the schedule request page.

“Our system cannot handle thousands of people trying to add classes simultaneously,” Thomp-son wrote.

Thompson said to help man-age the flood of users, ITS work-ers monitor the schedule request system and only permit several hundred students at a time to ac-cess the feature.

“If scheduling starts at 5 p.m. and thousands of people at 5:01 p.m. try to log on through multiple devices, they are really only exac-erbating the situation,” Thompson

wrote. “It has taken them, in many cases, until 5:30 p.m. to get in.”

Thompson said scheduling slowdowns now only occur dur-ing the first hour that the first pri-ority group schedules. She also

said ITS will need to replace the schedule request system in the coming years.

The registrar’s registration calendar states that all continu-ing students must schedule by

Tuesday, or they must pay a $75 late registration fee.

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Scheduling waits occur during times of high demandUpdates to system may �x problemOlivia McClureContributing Writer

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Interim System President and Chancellor William “Bill” Jenkins and Paul Maloney, vice president of campus stores for Barnes & Noble College, cut the ribbon Saturday for the ceremonial opening of the new bookstore.

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The LSU Museum of Art will display “Trains, Planes and Au-tomobiles,” an exhibit of vintage and antique toys, according to a University Relations news release.

The exhibit will open Nov. 24 and run until January 2013. It will showcase toys from the 1930s to today, the release said.

In addition to the display, the Manship Theatre will host a showing of “The Polar Express” on Dec. 20.

The museum and the theater are both located in the Shaw Cen-ter for the Arts downtown.

LSU Libraries’ Special Col-lections will sponsor an exhibition called “Late Bloomers: Fall Flow-ers from Margaret Stones’ Flora of Louisiana” in December, accord-ing to a University Relations news release.

The exhibit, which will run from Dec. 3 to Feb. 16, 2013, in Hill Memorial Library, will show-case several of Stones’ watercolor drawings of Louisiana plants, the release said.

The library is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on week-days and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays, except for home game days.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The chaos wrought by Superstorm Sandy, the homes tossed from foundations and landmarks bur-ied beneath seawater, delivered a gut-wrenching dose of déjà vu for survivors of Hurricane Katrina like Joe and Gloria Robert.

Their own home fl ooded be-neath 7 feet of salty water when the levees broke after Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in August 2005, and they know all too well what their countrymen to the north will face: years of debris removal, cleanup, rebuilding, haggling with insur-ance companies, paying mortgages on homes left unlivable. And they knew they had to help.

“When you watch things like this, you relive all the memories, all the heartache,” said Joe Rob-ert, his voice cracking with emo-tion. He said the images of Sandy victims rummaging through what could be salvaged of their toppled and fl ood-ravaged homes were

painful reminders of his own loss. “I don’t have any pictures of my daughter when she was little.”

Seven years after Katrina de-stroyed neighborhoods, killed more than 1,800 people and caused some $108 billion in damage, many of its victims are reaching into their wal-lets and cupboards to try to bring relief to the Atlantic Coast.

Church groups, nonprofi ts, City Hall and individuals in New Orleans and along the Mississippi Gulf Coast have begun sending care packages, donating money and staging volunteers for the clean-up and recovery efforts.

Robert is working with the Episcopal organization that helped him rebuild his home, St. Paul’s Homecoming Center, which was established after Katrina to help residents as they returned to the city. The center has expanded its mission to include victims of not just Hurricane Isaac, which struck Louisiana in August, but also East Coast victims of Sandy.

The group has launched an “Adopt-a-Family” program where

donations can be made to families in either region to help them as the holiday season approaches. The or-ganization is also helping to ferry volunteers from the Gulf Coast to neighborhoods in New York and New Jersey.

“I hurt for them because they don’t know what they’re in for with recovery,” said Connie Uddo,

executive director of the Home-coming Center whose New Or-leans home fl ooded in 2005. “The event is one thing, but the recovery is another. It’s long, and it’s hard.”

For many students, the chance to speak with globally successful entrepreneurs is rare, especially when these business-men and women were once in their shoes.

Baton Rouge Entrepreneur-ship Week , or BREW , “is a week-long series of events designed to celebrate entrepreneurship and innovation in the Baton Rouge area. Entrepreneurs in the region and state are encouraged to come

together to work, learn, play, teach and show off,” according to the event’s website.

This year, BREW is bringing in a series of successful former alumni who all belong to an orga-nization called the LSU 100 .

“The LSU 100 showcases the entrepreneurial success of former LSU students represent-ing various fi elds and professions, including technology, oil and gas, insurance, healthcare, design, construction, manufacturing and public relations,” according to the organization’s website. “By en-gaging the honorees with the LSU community, students and alumni network with and learn from one another to create a legacy of en-trepreneurship at LSU .”

These rising stars have achieved “global success, but they walked the same hallways and sat in the same desks that these students have,” said Jarett Rodriguez , associate director for the LSU Stephenson Entrepre-neurship Institute .

The week kicks off at 5:30 p.m. today at the E.J. Ourso Col-lege of Business’ Business Edu-cation Complex . The event will include a conversation with the LSU 100 in an open, Q&A-style forum. Current students can ac-tively participate in discussion with the speakers as well as net-work professionally with other participants.

“This is a good opportuni-ty — a good way to learn,” said

business junior Meredith Murphy . “You see what LSU students have done, and [it] helps you fi nd out what you want to do.”

In addition to the event Mon-day, another notable entrepreneur will appear from 3 to 4 p.m. on Thursday. Jason Lucash, former participant on the television pro-gram “Shark Tank” and founder of OrigAudio , will answer a va-riety of students’ questions con-cerning the entrepreneurial scene.

“These won’t be boring pre-sentations,” Rodriguez said. “We want engaging people for the stu-dents.”

Former committee mem-ber for BREW Manuel Valencia , stressed the importance of the event for students.

“I feel it is important for un-dergrad business and MBA stu-dents to participate in events like this because of the opportunities for networking and personal de-velopment,” Valencia said.

Although the event involves professionals and entrepreneurs, students of all majors are wel-come. However, business casual attire is suggested when attending the networking events.

“Entrepreneurs are the reason that the economy thrives,” Rodri-guez said. “Students are improv-ing the economy one paycheck at a time.”

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Sandy’s wrath stirs painful Katrina memoriesIvan Neville performs Nov. 5 with his band, Dumpstaphunk, at the Highline Ballroom in New York. The event was planned by the voter advocacy group HeadCount to encourage voter turnout, but when Superstorm Sandy hit, the concert turned into some-thing more. JOE RUSSO / The Associated Press

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Three Baylor University students visited campus last Wednesday determined to experi-ence one must-do activity — roll-ing down the Indian Mounds.

“We’re visiting LSU, and we’re told we had to roll down the hill,” said Kevin Cochran, re-ferring to the University’s Indian Mounds. “How much trouble would we get into for jumping the fencing and rolling down the hill?”

But when they walked up to the fenced-off mounds and asked about rolling down the hill, they received a lesson on Native American culture.

“They gated this off because the Indian Mounds are actually older than the pyramids in Giza,” said Skye Byrd, vice president of the Native Student Association. She is a digital arts junior and a Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana member. “But the rolling down them is corroding them [so now] they’re not even a quarter of the size they used to be.”

Journalism freshman and Oglala Lakota Tribe member Jac-lyn Wagers assured the visitors that no one would get in trouble for sliding down them, but the group discussed how the mounds were one of the last sacred land-marks in Native American cul-ture for more than an hour before parting ways.

“I feel like people wouldn’t roll down it if they knew [the his-tory]. ... There are other hills to roll down,” Cochran said.

Informing others about the significance of the mounds is just one of the ways members of the Native American Student Association, NASA, bring more awareness of their culture to the University.

“Our goal right now is just

basically bringing awareness of Native Americans, and then next we’ll be able to bring awareness to the issues to Native Americans and their tribes,” Byrd said.

Native Americans make up the lowest minority demographic at the University, accounting for 0.4 percent of the student popula-tion.

Byrd said most students do not consider enrollment at the University as a big deal, but she emphasized how important it was to her tribe.

“It’s two hours away, and that doesn’t seem far at all, but usually people go to school 30 to 45 minutes away down the road at a junior college or at McNeese or they don’t go at all,” Byrd said.

Although Byrd has attended integrated schools before, she said she felt isolated at the Uni-versity until recently.

“It was pretty much this year I came to realize that I got used to being at LSU, and I got used to being away from my tribe,” she said.

Many Native American youths in Byrd’s tribe are leaving their traditions, a part of her iden-tity she holds onto dearly.

“When we have children, at four months old we shave their heads, and I’ve noticed that a lot of them have stopped shaving their heads and a lot of them have stopped wanting their children to dance in pow-wows and a ma-jority of them don’t understand their language anymore,” Byrd said.

By age 15, Byrd was pos-sibly the only one out of the 10 children her age who understood Koasati, the language spoken by the Coushatta people.

“It’s really sad because once our parents are gone, that’s it,” Byrd said, “We’re not going to have anyone speaking to us or speaking to our children or any-thing.”

Byrd balances school with her efforts to preserve the lan-guage and traditions of her tribe.

She continues tradition by visiting her tribe on holidays and weekends to travel and perform powwows. Byrd was excited to meet Wagers, who also continues her traditions through practices like powwow performances.

Born in Missouri and raised in New Orleans, Wagers’ mother, noted for being the first in her family to graduate college after attending the University of New

Orleans, received a Master’s de-gree from the University.

“I think that’s pretty sad that they don’t get the same opportunities as everyone else,” Wagers said, explaining how obtaining a college education in the Oglala Lakota Tribe was seen as a financially challenging ac-

complishment.Wager said

she misses her mom because she was able to embrace and un-derstand her cul-ture through her mother. Because she only visits her tribe once a year,

Wagers discusses her traditions with NASA members who either relate to her culture or desire to learn more about it.

“My whole living room is filled with beadwork and art-work,” she said, “My house smells like sweet grass whereas other people’s houses smell like candles.”

NASA will share its culture with the University with a pow-wow performance Wednesday in Free Speech Plaza.

CULTURE

Students to host campus powwowWilborn Nobles IIISenior Contributing Writer

Contact Wilborn Nobles III at wnobles@lsureveille.com

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Jaclyn Wagers, mass communication freshman, shows off her Oglala Lakota College jacket on Wednesday afternoon near the Indian Mounds.

‘My house smells like sweet grass whereas other people’s houses smell like candles.’

Jaclyn WagersOglala Lakota Tribe member

Native American students preserve tribe culture

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11-9 ANSWERS

MORTAR BOARD ANNOUNCES THE LSU TOP 10 FRESHMEN OF 2011-2012!

October 28, 2012, the Blazer Chapter of Mortar Board at Louisiana State University hon-ored its Top Ten Freshmen of the 2011-2012 school year. Recipients were chosen based on their extent of scholarship, leadership, and service their freshman year. Certificates were pre-

sented by Mortar Board’s President, Lyndsey Naquin and Vice President of Leadership, Kelly Franklin.

TOP 10 FRESHMEN AT LSU 2011-2012:Adetutu Abimbola

Kaity AddisonKristian BlackRyan Bolotte

Carlyn FranckiewiczMatthew LandryTommy LeBeauAlex Mendoza

Hannah SuffernHannah SuffernAlexandra Thrower

Congratulations to all recipients! To learn more about Mortar Board, “like” us on Facebook or email mortarboard@lsu.edu.

Tiger fans supported their team Saturday along with their canine companions. The Daily

Reveille had the opportunity to capture some photos of dogs garbed in tiger gear.

Canine companions take over campus ‘TAIL’gates

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[Left] An LSU fan walks about campus with her dog before a Tiger football game. [Middle] An LSU fan’s dog sports a festive hair dye pattern on campus before a Tiger football game. [Right] A dog pauses for a quick picture on campus.

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Congress wants answers on Petraeus, Broadwell affairWASHINGTON (AP) — Mem-bers of Congress said Sunday they want to know more details about the FBI investigation that revealed an extramarital affair between ex-CIA Director David Petraeus and his biographer, ques-tioning whether national security was compromised and why they weren’t told sooner when the re-tired general popped up in the FBI inquiry.

“We received no advanced notice. It was like a lightning bolt,” said Democratic Sen. Di-anne Feinstein of California, who heads the Senate Intelligence Committee.

The FBI was investigating harassing emails sent by Petraeus’ biographer and girlfriend Paula Broadwell to a second woman. That probe of Broadwell’s emails revealed the affair between Broadwell and Petraeus. The FBI contacted Petraeus and other in-telligence offi cials, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper asked Petraeus to resign.

A senior U.S. military offi -cial identifi ed the second woman as Jill Kelley, 37, who lives in Tampa, Fla., and serves as an un-paid social liaison to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, where the military’s Central Command and Special Operations Command are located.

Staffers for Petraeus said Kel-ley and her husband were regular guests at events he held at Central Command headquarters. A U.S. offi cial said the coalition countries represented at Central Command gave Kelley an appreciation cer-tifi cate on which she was referred to as an “honorary ambassador” to the coalition, but she has no offi -cial status and is not employed by the U.S. government.

The offi cial, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the case publicly, said Kelley is known to drop the “honorary” part and refer to herself as an ambas-sador.

The military offi cial, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to publicly discuss the investigation, said Kelley had received harass-ing emails from Broadwell, which led the FBI to examine her email account and eventually discover her relationship with Petraeus.

A former associate of Petraeus confi rmed the target of the emails was Kelley, but said there was no affair between the two, speaking on condition of anonymity to dis-cuss the retired general’s private life. The associate, who has been in touch with Petraeus since his resignation, says Kelley and her husband were longtime friends of Petraeus and wife, Holly.

Attempts to reach Kelley were not immediately successful. Broadwell did not return phone calls or emails.

Petraeus resigned while

lawmakers still had questions about the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate and CIA base in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including U.S. Am-bassador Chris Stevens. Lawmak-ers said it’s possible that Petraeus will still be asked to appear on Capitol Hill to testify about what he knew about the U.S. response to that incident.

Rep. Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said the circumstanc-es of the FBI probe smacked of a cover-up by the White House.

“It seems this (the investiga-tion) has been going on for sev-eral months and, yet, now it ap-pears that they’re saying that the FBI didn’t realize until Election Day that General Petraeus was involved. It just doesn’t add up,”

said King, R-N.Y.Petraeus, 60, quit Friday after

acknowledging an extramarital relationship. He and Holly have been married 38 years and have two adult children, including a son who led an infantry platoon in Afghanistan as an Army lieuten-ant.

Broadwell, a 40-year-old graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and an Army Reserve offi cer, is married with two young sons.

Broadwell has not responded to multiple emails and phone mes-sages. Attempts to reach Kelley were not immediately successful.

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Former Commander of International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces in Afghanistan Gen. David Petraeus, left, shakes hands with author Paula Broadwell on July 13, 2011. An FBI probe revealed Petraeus had an affair with Broadwell, his biographer.

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dungeon, and employees have expressed a tremendous need for improved facilities,” said Career Services Director Mary Feduccia.

For years, architects have fi ne-tuned designs for the career center. Now that the bookstore has moved across the street, con-struction will begin shortly after the contracting bids go out in ear-ly February, Feduccia said.

“The Union is considered the living room of campus,” she said. “Right now there are more than 15,000 visitors in the Union ev-ery day — virtually every one of those [visitors] will be seeing the career center.”

Most of the student and em-ployment services, as well as ad-ministrative offi ces, will move into the fi rst fl oor, and at least 20 interview rooms, a smart class-room and several conference rooms will fi ll in the second fl oor space.

Apparel design and merchan-dising students will draft plans for a more dynamic “Dress For Success” display than the current one located in Patrick F. Taylor Hall, Feduccia said.

Student fees did not rise to fund the $8.6 million proj-ect, and Career Services has almost fulfi lled its $3.35 mil-lion funding obligation, mostly thanks to the Olinde family who

contributed $1.5 million.The remaining funds will

come out of the Student Union’s budget, including additional funding for several retail stores, as well as relocating Campus Federal and moving the third fl oor computer lab to the fi rst fl oor for improved student ac-cess, said Kurt Caillouet, fa-cilities director for Auxiliary Services.

In a separate project, the Union’s southwest plaza, located across the street from Howe-Rus-sell Geoscience Complex, will re-ceive crescent-shaped brick walls with built-in benches and some landscaping work, said Dennis Mitchell, landscape design man-ager for Facility Services.

Merritt McDonald Construc-tion, Inc. placed the low bid of $57,000 for the project.

Landscaping and construc-tion should begin in about a month and fi nish up by the end of the spring semester, Mitchell said.

who made a diving catch on a wheel route into the end zone for a touch-down.

The Tigers took just 35 seconds to march 71 yards in four plays for the score.

“We worked on it and kept on it,” Miles said. “I think we are get-ting better. The time and effort that is being spent there is paying dividends and is fruitful.”

Mettenberger and the Tigers came out of the gate attacking through the air against a Mississippi State defense that was torched for more than a combined 500 passing yards by Alabama and Texas A&M the past two weeks.

Early on, he led back-to-back 12-play drives, but both stalled in the red zone and ended with short fi eld goals from senior Drew Alleman.

Trailing 7-6 in the second quar-ter, LSU linebacker Lamin Barrow recovered a fumble and set the of-fense up with a fi rst down at the State 21-yard line.

Facing a third down and 8, Mettenberger dropped back and zipped a ball over the head of Bull-dog safety Nickoe Whitley into the hands of Landry for a 19-yard touch-down to give LSU the lead.

“Receivers are running great routes, offensive line is protecting me and I’m putting the ball where it needs to be,” Mettenberger said. “If we keep executing like that, we

should be good to go for the rest of the year.”

Landry has emerged as Metten-berger’s go-to receiver in the last two games.

After hauling in a career-high eight passes against Alabama, Landry set career highs with nine catches and 109 yards against Mississippi State. He caught eight of the passes in the fi rst half.

“I feel really good about the win,” Landry said. “I don’t dwell on individual or personal things. I’d rather focus on team values. I tip my hat to the offense, defense and spe-cial teams for the things that they

have done.”Mettenberger fi nished the fi rst

half 12-of-18 for 174 yards with the two touchdown passes.

“We are very confi dent,” Landry said. “A lot of the guys on of-fense feel like we got that swag back. That’s something we really want to embrace, let it carry over from the Alabama game and show the world that we can be an effi cient and effec-tive offense.”

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Junior quarterback Zach Mettenberger (8) carries the ball in the � rst half of LSU’s 37-17 win Saturday against Mississippi State.

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royals spend their days much like the average college student.

Cox said he makes going to class a priority every day. After class, he spends time in the SG offi ce at-tending meetings and making sure his job as SG president is carried out.

“Ninety-nine percent of the time you can fi nd me eating or at a coffee shop,” Cox said.

But Cox balances his eating habits by running the lakes two or three times per week. He said he can be found studying and drinking

coffee at Highland Coffees during the evenings.

Cox said when he is not doing school- or SG-related activities, he tries to go home as much as possible to see his younger brother, grandpar-ents and friends from high school.

Much like Cox’s routine, Kno-bloch said she shares the same pri-orities — school, exercise, work and family.

Her daily routine involves wak-ing up early, working out, going to class, going to work and serving as a council member in her sorority.

Knobloch said her identical twin

sister, who attends Southern Method-ist University in Dallas, was able to see her win homecoming queen Sat-urday night. Having her sister there was the “icing on the cake,” she said.

“Splitting up for college was like going though a divorce,” Knob-loch said about their relationship.

However, both sisters will be working in Dallas after graduation. Knobloch said she is excited about living in the same city as her sister again.

Cox said he plans to keep his options open after graduation.

“At the end of the day, I will get

my master’s even if I take a year or two off from school. I don’t want my education to end with my undergrad-uate degree,” Cox said.

He said the past weekend has been one of the most cherished experiences he has had at LSU, comparable to serving the Uni-versity as SG president and an ambassador.

“Over the past seven semesters at LSU, I have had so many incred-ible experiences and opportunities to meet other students who have positively impacted my life. … I will forever and always be a LSU Tiger,”

Cox said. Knobloch said her friends

and family helped make Saturday special.

“My last experience in Tiger Stadium as a student was something I’ll never forget,” she said.

Knobloch said she encourages freshmen to make big decisions and step outside their comfort zones, like she did. She said that can help make a large school seem a lot smaller.

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It wasn’t always pretty and it had its share of dramatic tension, but the Johnny Jones era at LSU is off to a promising start.

The former LSU point guard and assistant coach watched as his team used a late first half run to put away the young UC Santa Barbara Gauchos in a 77-63 win Friday night in the PMAC.

Sophomore forward John-ny O’Bryant III dominated the opening minutes, bullying his

way over the undersized Gau-cho post players. He poured in 13 points and grabbed eight re-bounds before hobbling off the court with a strained calf.

“The way that he played away from the basket and as ex-plosive as he was, I thought he was on a tear,” Jones said, “[He] jumped up [and was] making plays, and he’s very capable of knocking down shots.”

O’Bryant did not return to action after the injury, and missed practice Sunday. He is listed as day-to-day.

Down a leader on and off the court, the perimeter play stepped up for the Tigers (1-0). Sophomore point guard Anthony Hickey, senior transfer Charles Carmouche and freshman Malik Morgan combined for 32 points and five treys.

Hickey, who was suspended for last Monday’s exhibition win against Arkansas-Monticello, chipped in six assists and seven steals while terrorizing the Gau-cho wings all night.

Multiple members of No. 8 LSU’s defense said the unit got its swagger back against Mississippi State, using turnovers to fuel a 37-17 victory.

LSU’s defense gave up 351 yards, but clamped down in key situations to hold Mississippi State to only 17 points.

“We don’t want to give up too many yards, too many points, but this is South-eastern Conference football,” said junior linebacker Lamin Barrow. “So you know we might bend a little bit but you nev-er want to break and let them in the end zone.”

LSU forced two turnovers — one fumble and one interception — and also forced the Bulldogs to turn over the ball after going for it on fourth down.

The Tigers have forced 11 turnovers in the past four games.

“Forcing turnovers is tradition here,” said junior linebacker Kevin Minter. “We work on it every day in practice.”

The first turnover came on a second quarter fumble by Mississippi State fresh-man running back Derrick Milton. Milton bobbled a pitch by junior quarterback Ty-ler Russell while under pressure from ju-nior defensive end Barkevious Mingo.

“It was kind of a lucky play because he bobbled it,” Mingo said. “Then it bounced right up to me and bounced off of me.”

Barrow recovered the ball and re-turned the it to the Mississippi State 21-yard line. The recovery set LSU’s offense

SportsMonday, November 12, 2012 page 11

MIC’D UPMICAH BEDARDSports Columnist

Tigers’ defense becomes �nishers

RICHARD REDMANN / The Daily Reveille

LSU senior forward Eddie Ludwig (13) drives toward the net on Friday in the Tigers’ 77-63 victory over the University of California, Santa Barbara in the PMAC.BASKETBALL, see page 15

DEFENSE, see page 19 FIGHTERS see page 19

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Tigers down Gauchos 77-63Chandler RomeSports Writer

Turnovers, Loston’s pick-six seal victory for

Tigers on Saturday

Trey LabatSports Contributor

It’s a script the LSU defense knew all too well.

Keeping the opponent out of the end zone in the fourth quarter had been a problem for it all sea-son. What do LSU’s tussles against Alabama, South Carolina, Texas A&M, Florida and Towson all have in common?

The Tigers allowed a fourth quarter touchdown in every one of those games. Towson punched it in twice in the final period when it visited Tiger Stadium Sept. 29.

Call it a lack of focus or a fatigue issue. Whatever it was, it needed to be fixed.

Allowing Alabama to march down the field in 43 seconds with relative ease to stun the Tiger Sta-dium faithful did not sit well with the members of the LSU defense. Maybe it was exactly the spark they needed to realize the fourth quarter should be a period they dominate.

“I think ’Bama just struck a match,” said LSU defensive end Sam Montgomery after the Tigers 37-17 win. “Once we lit [it], now we just want to keep it going and get back to those old times how we used to be last year.”

During the 2011 regular sea-son, LSU gave up a fourth quar-ter touchdown in only three of its thirteen games. The punishment for opposing offenses didn’t stop until the LSU defense decided it was over.

Saturday Night in Death CONNOR TARTER / The Daily Reveille

LSU junior safety Craig Loston (6) intercepts a pass from MSU junior quarterback Tyler Russell during the Tigers’ 37-17 victory over the Bulldogs Saturday in Tiger Stadium.

DefensiveGetting

In a coaching matchup that pit-ted LSU’s Nikki Caldwell against former teammate Jody Adams, the Lady Tigers picked up a 72-70 vic-tory against Wichita State in their season opener on Sunday. The game went back and forth, but despite only shooting 40 percent from the fi eld to the Shockers’ (0-1) 48.1 percent, LSU (1-0) was able to get to the free-throw line 30 times and force 25 turnovers to sneak its way past Wichita State.

LSU relied heavily on the ex-perience of its upperclassmen, as ju-nior guard Jeanne Kenney and senior guards Bianca Lutley and Adrienne Webb combined for 49 points.

The Lady Tigers jumped out to an early lead, scoring the fi rst eight points and controlling much of the fi rst half.

But the Shockers gave LSU a scare, cutting its lead to one before halftime, and using an early second-half rally to take the upper hand.

“I felt like coach Adams really had her team ready to come in here and win,” Caldwell said. “I thought they played extremely hard and came up with those hustle plays that can change the pace of a game.”

Wichita State’s success can be heavily contributed to its bench play-ers, who accounted for 35 points.

The two squads traded punches for a good portion of the second half before Webb hit a three-point shot to put the Tigers up 65-61 with 2:28 left to play and give them the fi nal edge.

“I was wide open for that shot, and I knew I could hit it, so I decided

to take it,” Webb said.Webb fi nished the game with 17

points.LSU junior forward Theresa

Plaisance tallied a career-high 15 rebounds, a number not reached by a Lady Tiger since Kristen Morris picked up 16 against Green Bay in the 2009 NCAA Tournament.

Caldwell was pleased with the performance, but she joked that Plai-sance gave herself some help, saying “They all were [off] her shots.”

Lutley came out strong, scoring six of LSU’s fi rst eight points. She went on to show her versatility on offense tallying a game-leading 19 points.

All three of LSU’s freshmen saw their fi rst action with varying results.

LSU freshman guard Dani-elle Ballard saw the most playing time with 25 minutes, and though she was the cause of six turnovers,

she showed an upside by putting up nine points and accounting for three steals.

“Danielle Ballard brought a very steady pace for us,” Caldwell said. “...You could see that she had a little toughness in her as the game went on, and I felt very comfortable playing her with our veteran squad.”

Lady Tiger freshman forward Derreyal “Tank” Youngblood strug-gled in her premiere performance, picking up four fouls in four minutes of playing time.

Caldwell said despite Young-blood’s struggles, she showed a posi-tive side, primarily on defense.

LSU freshman guard Anne Ped-erson went 1-3, earning two points in 12 minutes in the fi rst half.

This weekend provided the perfect summation of the LSU volleyball team’s season.

It was another up-and-down go for the Tigers (12-14, 8-9 Southeastern Conference), as they defeated Georgia (13-13, 7-9 SEC) Friday, 3-1, on the back of true freshman right outside hitter Cati Leak before getting swept two days later by Missouri (18-9, 9-7 SEC). They’ve now gone 1-1 over the week seven times.

“I couldn’t tell you really why we didn’t show up to play,” said sophomore outside hitter Helen Boyle.

The Tigers opened Friday’s match exploiting Leak’s side of the court, which worked in her statistical favor on a career-best scale; her 16 kills and .484 hit-ting percentage was the best of her few months as a Tiger.

Leak also contributed 12 digs, along with fi ve blocks, which made for Leak’s fi rst double-double since the season’s opening weekend.

“The defense ... gave [sopho-more setter] Mal-orie [Pardo] posi-tion to put us in one-on-one situa-tions, so defi nite-ly credit to them,” Leak said.

The team had been play-ing together like that recently, with Sunday’s loss snapping its longest win-ning streak of the season at three games. Boyle said the team’s mentality was different on Sun-day but couldn’t put her fi nger on why that was.

“The disappointing thing I wish I could answer for them, even more than myself, is how we play like we played on Friday and then turn around and not play with ... composure today,” said LSU coach Fran Flory.

Whatever the mentality of the collective team, Leak said her Missouri-bred teammate was ex-cited to play to her home crowd.

Hailing from Eureka, Mo., about 115 miles west of Mizzou’s

campus in Columbia, Boyle had 50 friends and family members watching. They chose Sunday to wear purple, rather than Mizzou black, to go along with their gold.

“It was new,” Boyle said of the familiar crowd. “I don’t usu-ally have them to play in front of, but it was interesting.”

LSU notched a .103 hit-ting percentage with three team

blocks and Mis-souri earned marks of .374 and 11.5, respectively. Sunday’s statis-tical script was fl ipped compared to Friday, when the Tigers out-played Georgia to a .242 percentage and 19 blocks.

“It wasn’t the best,” Boyle said of her six-kill, four-error hit-ting performance. “It was a little shaky at the beginning, but we all didn’t play our best game.”

The Tigers will go on their fi nal road trip of the year next weekend when they play at Flor-ida and Tennessee before closing out the regular season against Ar-kansas on Nov. 21 at the PMAC.

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Tigers have another up-and-down weekend

Lady Tigers squeak out victory

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Sophomore outside hitter Helen Boyle (8) spikes the ball on Nov. 4 during the Tigers’ 3-2 victory against Ole Miss.

TAYLOR BALKOM / The Daily Reveille

LSU freshman guard Danielle Ballard (32) tries to steal the ball away from Wichita State senior guard Jasmine Jones (1) Sunday during the Tigers’ 72-70 victory.

Alex CassaraSports Writer

Tyler NunezSports Contributor

Freshman Leak exploits Georgia

‘It wasn’t the best. It was a little shaky in

the beginning, but we all didn’t play our best

game.’Helen Boyle

sophomore outside hitter

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1. Oregon 10-0 2 1. Kansas State 2

2. Kansas State 10-0 3 2. Oregon 3

3. Notre Dame 10-0 4 3. Notre Dame 4

4. Alabama 9-1 1 4. Alabama 1

5. Georgia 9-1 5 5. Georgia 5

6. Ohio State 10-0 5 6. Florida 6

7. Florida 9-1 7 7. LSU 7

8. LSU 8-2 9 8. Texas A&M 15

9. Texas A&M 8-2 15 9. South Carolina 8

10. Florida State 9-1 8 10. Florida State 10

11. Clemson 9-1 10 11. Clemson 13

12. South Carolina 8-2 12 12. Oklahoma 12

13. Oklahoma 7-2 14 13. Stanford 14

14. Stanford 8-2 16 14. Nebraska 16

15. Oregon State 7-2 13 15. Texas 17

16. Nebraska 8-2 18 16. Oregon State 11

17. UCLA 8-2 17 17. UCLA 18

18. Texas 8-2 19 18. USC 19

19. Louisiana Tech 9-1 19 19. Louisville 9

20. Louisville 9-1 11 20. Louisiana Tech 20

21. USC 7-3 21 21. Michigan NR

22. Rutgers 8-1 24 22. Rutgers 23

23. Michigan 7-3 NR 23. Texas Tech 22

24. Texas Tech 7-3 25 24. Oklahoma St. NR

25. Kent State 9-1 NR 25. Washington NR

The LSU men’s and women’s cross country teams each ended their seasons Friday at the NCAA South Central Regional meet in Fayette-ville, Ark., finishing in 18th and 8th place respectively.

Both teams failed to place in the top-2 automatic qualifying spots for the NCAA Championships next week.

LSU coach Mark Elliott hoped the Lady Tigers would finish in the top-3 teams, but after junior Natoya Goule was forced to withdraw from the race with back issues, the Lady Tigers stood little chance to meet his goal, Elliott said.

Senior Laura Carleton, the Lady Tigers’ top performer all season, was

hoping to continue her season by qualifying as an individual runner for next week’s NCAA Champion-ships.

But Carleton was unable to land one of the qualifying positions, fin-ishing in 20th place.

Overall, the women had one of the best seasons in his tenure, Elliott said.

“We had a decent shot at mak-ing it to nationals as a team, and Lau-ra had a great shot, but it just didn’t work out,” Elliott said.

The men were led by sopho-more Phillip Primeaux with an 82nd place finish.

Friday was Primeaux’s first fin-ish as the Tigers’ top runner, setting a personal best time of 33:31.29 in the 10k race.

Senior Roger Cooke, who had

finished as the Tigers’ top finisher in every other race this season, was the Tigers’ second finisher, posting a 94th place finish.

Elliott said Primeaux’s perfor-mance is a sign of things to come with the youth of the Tigers’ team.

Cooke is the lone graduating senior on the team, and Elliott said he hopes to have a more experienced team returning next season.

“When all is said and done, the guys had a decent season con-sidering what we came to the table with,” Elliott said. “Hopefully next year they will continue to get better and we can pull better results as we go along.”

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CROSS COUNTRY

Teams fail to make nationals Spencer Hutchinson Sports Contributor

This week’s AP and BCS Polls

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Of all the teams to end the Atlanta Fal-cons' unbeaten run, it had to be their resurgent rivals the New Or-leans Saints in a game filled with drama until the end.

Jimmy Graham caught seven passes for a career-best 146 yards and two touchdowns, cornerback Jabari Greer made a diving, touch-down-saving pass breakup on a late fourth-down play, and New Or-leans held on to hand the Falcons their first loss, 31-27 on Sunday.

Graham and his Atlanta coun-terpart, veteran tight end Tony Gonzalez, were both superb in a game that showcased all the in-tensity and momentum changes one would expect from one of the NFL's most passionate and long-standing rivalries.

Gonzalez finished with 11 catches for 122 yards and two scores for Atlanta (8-1), and in the process became the first tight end to catch 100 touchdown passes.

Brees threw for 298 yards and three TDs as the Saints (4-5) won for the fourth time in five games, keeping alive hope of getting back into the wild-card race after an 0-4 start. It was also New Orleans' 11th win in 13 games against Atlanta since Brees joined the Saints in 2006.

Matt Ryan was 34 of 52 for 411 yards and three touchdowns with one interception, and the game was there for him to win when his 9-yard pass to Harry Douglas gave Atlanta a second-and-goal at the 1. But Ryan could not connect on a second-down pass for Gonzalez, the Saints stuffed Michael Turner for a 1-yard loss on third down, and then Greer broke up Ryan's pass over the middle for White.

After three conservative run calls from their 2, the Saints still had to punt the ball back to Atlanta with about 40 seconds left. But the Falcons' hopes were extinguished soon after when Gonzalez could not handle a fourth-down throw in

tight coverage along the sideline.Although the Saints' defense

came in allowing a league-worst 176.5 yards rushing per game, it held Atlanta to 46 yards on the ground.

By contrast, New Orleans rushed for 148 yards, highlighted by Chris Ivory's career-long 56-yard scoring run that gave the Saints a spark after Atlanta had raced to a 10-0 lead.

Ivory used a hesitation move to get to the corner past Asante Samuel, broke a tackle by Thomas DeCoud, kept his balance, cut back and then stiff-armed Dunta Rob-inson before trotting into the end zone.

The Saints led by as much as 28-17 on Brees' scoring strike to Marques Colston.

Colston's TD was the 55th of his career, tying Deuce McAllister for first in that category in Saints history. The touchdown capped an 81-yard drive that started with rookie Corey White's intercep-tion and was highlighted by Lance Moore's diving one-handed catch for a 29-yard gain to the Atlanta 32.

The Falcons chipped away, pulling to 28-27 on Gonzalez's second TD and Matt Bryant's short field goal after New Orleans' sec-ond red zone stand of the game.

New Orleans then briefly in-terrupted Atlanta's momentum when Graham's 46-yard catch set up Garrett Hartley's 31-yard field goal to make it 31-27.

Atlanta went 80 yards in seven plays on its first drive of the game, highlighted by White's 49-yard re-ception to the New Orleans 1. That set up an easy TD toss to eligible offensive tackle Mike Johnson.

Brees then underthrew Colston on an apparent miscom-munication and Samuel made a diving interception and returned it to the Saints 12. However, Samuel taunted fans afterward, drawing an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty that moved the Falcons back to the 27. The Saints forced a field goal that made it 10-0.

New Orleans vaulted into the lead with touchdowns on two straight possessions, the first on Ivory's long run and the second on Brees' first TD connection with

Graham from 29 yards.The Falcons pulled back in

front on Gonzalez's 1-yard TD catch, capping a drive on which At-lanta converted three times on third down — all on Gonzalez catches.

Then Graham, who like Gon-zalez is a big tight end with a bas-ketball background, helped New Orleans go back in front before

halftime, making three catches for 47 yards, the last a 14-yard TD to make it 21-17 at halftime.

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Florida players jumped around on the sideline, then rushed the field in celebration.

It was more like a collective sigh of relief.

The seventh-ranked Ga-tors staved off the biggest upset in school history Saturday, but couldn’t get the help needed to win the Southeastern Confer-ence’s Eastern Division.

Jelani Jenkins returned a blocked punt 36 yards for a touch-down with 2 seconds remaining, capping the comeback and giving Florida a 27-20 victory against Louisiana-Lafayette.

“I’m speechless,” said Flori-da cornerback Loucheiz Purifoy, who blocked the kick. “I’ve never seen a game end like that. We overcome adversity. That’s what we do.”

The Gators (9-1) needed Au-burn to upset Georgia later in the day, but the Bulldogs won 38-0 and clinched a spot in the league title game.

No one, though, was thinking about that game late in this one.

Florida did little on offense most of the day and looked to be in serious trouble when quarter-back Jeff Driskel left the game with a sprained right ankle.

The Ragin’ Cajuns (5-4) led 17-13 in the third quarter after Alonzo Harris’ 2-yard run and a blocked punt for a touchdown on the ensuing drive. Brett Baer’s

22-yard field goal — a huge stand for Florida’s defense — made it 20-13 early in the fourth.

But Florida backup Jacoby Brissett rallied the Gators. After a shaky start that included two sacks and a near interception in his first four throws, Brissett found tight end Jordan Reed down the middle for a 39-yard gain and then hit Quinton Dunbar for 3-yard score with 1:42 remaining.

“It’s difficult to come in dur-ing the middle of a series for a quarterback,” Florida coach Will Muschamp said. “I think he did a fantastic job.”

ULL was content to run out the clock and play for overtime.

Purifoy had other thoughts. One of Florida’s fastest players, Purifoy sprinted off the edge and got his right hand on Baer’s punt as the final few seconds ticked off the clock. Jenkins picked up the deflection and went untouched the other way.

Florida players and coaches erupted on the sideline, knowing the significance of the situation.

“Anytime you see the sev-enth-ranked team in the coun-try storm the field like they won the Super Bowl to beat you, you know you’re doing some good things,” ULL coach Mark Hud-speth said.

But players questioned Hud-speth’s late-game decisions.

With the game tied at 20 and 1:40 remaining, the Rajin’ Cajuns ran three times before the fateful punt.

“There is a lot of pain in the

locker room because we knew that we had that game in our hands and we let it slip away,” ULL re-ceiver Bradley Brown said. “The thing that we didn’t understand was why we didn’t go for it with a minute and 40 seconds left on the clock because we are a two-minute team.”

The Gators were coming off eight consecutive games against SEC foes and were supposed to get a break against a middle-of-the-pack team from the Sun Belt Conference. Louisiana-Lafayette was a 27-point underdog, was paid $950,000 to be Florida’s homecoming opponent and hadn’t beaten a ranked team in 16 years.

That didn’t matter at Florida Field, where the Ragin’ Cajuns played smart and waited for the Gators to self-destruct.

Florida was flagged 10 times for 79 yards, including two costly ones on ULL’s lone touchdown drive. Lerentee McCray was pe-nalized for being off side on a third-down play that likely would have forced a punt, and Purifoy was called pass interference on another third-down pass.

“As a player you’ve got to look in the mirror and realize you’ve got to be smarter than that,” Muschamp said.

Those came on the heels on Clay Burton’s dropped pass in the end zone early in the third. Reed got the ball on an end around and floated it to the sideline, but Bur-ton couldn’t haul it in, and Flor-ida settled for a field goal and a 13-3 lead.

The lead seemed safe con-sidering it was about how Florida has played all season.

The Gators had 158 yards and nine first downs at halftime, and most of those came on a late drive just before the break. Driskel found Trey Burton all alone for a 2-yard score with 7 seconds left, capping an 85-yard drive.

Driskel completed 13 of 16 passes for 98 yards and a touch-down. He added 76 yards rushing and was sacked three times.

Brissett was 6 of 8 passing for 64 yards, with a TD. He was sacked twice.

“That’s what you dream about, no matter who it’s against,” Brissett said. “I had to make sure when I got my chance that I didn’t make a fool of myself. I came out and did what I had to do.”

Mike Gillislee had with 45 yards rushing, his fifth consecu-tive game of less than 80.

The Gators finished with 311 yards against the 89th-ranked defense in the county, a unit that allowed 65 points against Okla-homa State in September.

But this game will be remem-bered for Purifoy’s block and Jen-kins’ return.

“To win the game in that fashion certainly is credited to our character and our kids,” Muschamp said.

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“If one person goes down, everyone else has to step up,” Hickey said. “We struggled a little bit when [O’Bryant] went down on the offensive and defen-sive rebounds, but we all came together as a team.”

Trailing by as much as seven in the first half, LSU used an 11-2 run over the last four minutes of the first half, punctuated by a Morgan tip-in over two defend-ers, to bring a 41-32 lead into the break.

The lead would stretch to as many as 21 in the second half as the Tigers found their stroke from the outside and converted 23 Gaucho turnovers into fast break buckets.

“I think we caught on to how [UCSB] was running their offense,” Carmouche said. “We started jumping the passing lanes and running the break. We are pretty good when we are running the break.”

Jones praised his players’ ef-fort in his first game leading his alma mater and said the entire experience evoked memories of days past.

“[I was] just really filled with emotions from playing days and just going full-circle to remem-ber my mom and dad being at games here as a freshman,” Jones said. “I’m so glad we were able to get it behind us.”

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That was fun, wasn’t it?It was another tedious elec-

tion cycle with lots of nasty words thrown around, and now we’re back where we started. The president and Senate are Democratic; the House is Republican.

So for the next four years, I’m prepared for more of the same – slow but steady economic recovery, con-stant bickering between the two sides and a whole lot of people telling us everything is much more grave and important than it seems. As a liberal, I’m optimistic that the President may be less restrained with his own lib-eral ideas now that he doesn’t have to worry about re-election.

But what interests me is the po-sition the Republican Party finds it-self in. Governor Mitt Romney won the nomination by appealing to hard-core conservatives and came damn close to the presidency by pandering to moderates.

Being so blatantly inauthentic is never a good thing for a candidate, but Romney’s strategy highlights the catch-22 Republicans now face on a national scale: They have grown increasingly reliant on the far-right base since the Reagan years, but that base is now shrinking as a demo-graphic.

This problem came to a head this election season, and it will have to be addressed sooner rather than later if the party doesn’t want to go

the way of the Whigs and Know Nothings.

The Republicans’ dedication to winning the far-right crystallized this year in the form of the national dialogue — if you can call it that — about abortion and exemptions in cases of rape and incest.

Candidate after candidate was mocked by the media and ostracized by his or her own party after offer-ing comments ranging from “con-troversial and possibly offensive” to “someone should probably lock this guy up.”

Representative Todd Akin of

Missouri and Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock were just two of the Republican luminaries who lost in traditionally red states because of their backwards views on a particu-larly emotional topic. Republicans need to understand that the majority of Americans no longer agree with their more extreme views, and that trend is just going to get stronger.

As it stands, Republicans de-pend heavily on white, male and older voters. This itself is not a problem. The Republican problem is that the policies used to attract these voters are repellent to voters in

other demographics. Taking hardline stances on im-

migration and welfare may appease the base, but it resulted in 80 percent of minority voters choosing Presi-dent Obama.

This trend is only going to snowball from here. Pew Research Center projects that over the next few decades, nearly all population growth will come from immigration and the children of immigrants. By 2050, it predicts whites will be a mi-nority.

If the Republican Party hasn’t adjusted by then, well, they’re up

diversity creek without a token black friend.

So what can Republicans do? I’d say the ideological basis of the party is economics. Most Republi-cans agree with some form of a sup-ply-side model and have a general distaste for welfare programs.

I don’t agree with them, but to moderate or liberal eyes, Republi-can economics are much less hateful than their stances on, say, birth con-trol or immigration.

Representative Paul Ryan, de-spite being a black hole of charisma, was relatively popular because of his idealism and competence when it came to economic issues.

Republicans need more politi-cians like him – savvy, able-minded candidates who aren’t going to scare away voters with thinly-veiled big-otry. I have a hunch Jon Huntsman, the former ambassador to China, will have a large role to play in future Re-publican plans.

After the results came in, Bill O’Reilly melted down on Fox News.

“Obama wins because this is not a traditional America anymore. The white establishment is the minority,” he said.

And he was right. America is changing, and if the Republi-can Party can’t keep up, it will be left behind.

Gordon Brillon is a 19-year-old Mass Communication sophomore from Lincoln, R.I.

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In response to Aaron Friedman’s column, “Electoral College dis-counts large minority groups,” readers had this to say:

“Not true - the electoral col-lege does not protect rural areas

from being underrepresented, it just makes a few counties in Ohio and Florida incredibly important. Literally the entire nation comes down to the votes of citizens rep-resenting less than 0.01 percent of the total population.”- john

“You’re on the right track but it is actually much, much worse than that. From a strictly mathematical viewpoint, as the percentage of the white vote decreases over time, and as long as the Democrats can provide a candidate who appeals to these new emerging majorities, the entire electoral college becomes

worthless. This new mathematical model developed in 2008 will be used by Democrats well into the future, unless someone stops them. Mrs clinton is getting ready, and after her Beau Biden.”- nycnikato

“Presidential elections don’t have to be this way.

The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC).

Every vote, everywhere, would be politically relevant and equal in presidential elections. No

more distorting and divisive red and blue state maps. There would no longer be a handful of ‘battle-ground’ states where voters and policies are more important than those of the voters in 80% of the states that now are just ‘spectators’ and ignored after the conventions.

When the bill is enacted by states possessing a majority of the electoral votes– enough elec-toral votes to elect a President (270 of 538), all the electoral votes from the enacting states would be awarded to the presidential candi-date who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and DC.

The presidential election

system that we have today was not designed, anticipated, or favored by the Founding Fathers but, in-stead, is the product of decades of evolutionary change precipitated by the emergence of political par-ties and enactment by 48 states of winner-take-all laws, not men-tioned, much less endorsed, in the Constitution.”- kohler

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BUT HE MEANS WELLGORDON BRILLONColumnist

Post-election GOP needs introspection, moderation

Grand New Party

Drop:Tea Party associations — but don’t forget the frustrations that generated it.

Increasingly unpopular tax cuts on wealthy Americans.

Plans to change Medicare to a voucher program.

Moral legislation, such as positions on same-sex marriage and contraception.

The War on Drugs.

Adopt:The DREAM Act, which allows illegal aliens who immigrated as minors to gain citizenship through a high school diploma and �ve years’ residence.

A secularized platform.

Libertarian sentiments to take advantage of their growing voting bloc.

More moderate candidates, such as former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman.

A bylaw prohibiting any party member from talking about rape – ever.

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You might have noticed an inflatable barn outside the Student Union last week.

Meet PETA, otherwise known as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – but you can just call them People for Extortion, Terror and Abuse.

I’m sure you’re familiar with PETA’s Disney-like hopes of a cruelty-free world, but I’m here to introduce you to an organization the United States Department of Agriculture classifies as a terrorist threat.

PETA is now the largest ani-mal rights organization in the world. They focus on areas where “animals suffer the most intense-ly,” which, according to peta.org, are “on factory farms, in the cloth-ing trade, in laboratories and in the entertainment industry.”

Their goal is complete animal liberation, so saving human lives with medicine that was developed

using animal research is a big no-no – unless you’re a member.

Mary Beth Sweetland, PETA’s senior vice president, is a dia-betic, and each day she must in-ject herself with insulin that was developed through animal testing using dogs.

There’s nothing hypocritical about that, right?

“I don’t see myself as a hypo-crite,” Sweetland said in Glamour magazine. “I need my life to fight for the rights of animals.”

I’m willing to bet she plays Angry Birds, too.

While PETA does not condone violence, its tax returns tell a dif-ferent story. And because it’s a tax-exempt organization, their returns are public record.

Rodney Coronado, proud ani-mal rights arsonist and influential member of the Animal Liberation Front, received more than $70,000 from PETA in 1995 – the same year Coronado admitted in court to the arson of the Michigan State University research laboratory and spent 57 months in federal prison.

In the government sentenc-ing memorandum, the U.S. attor-ney wrote that there was evidence Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder and president of PETA, was connected to the crime.

In a 2002 speech, Coronado admitted to commiting six other arsons. He might be most famous, though, for his thorough illustration to American University students in 2003 on how to build a firebomb using only household items.

Coronado isn’t the only luna-tic PETA endorses to recruit the naïve.

Gary Yourofsky, one of PETA’s national lecturers, has been arrested more than a dozen times for animal rights crimes, but he says it was for “random acts of kindness.”

He also champions the ALF with a tattoo on his arm. The FBI

classifies the ALF as America’s most dangerous domestic terrorist organization.

However, PETA keeps its stance as a non-violent organiza-tion — apparently, the more it grows, the more disillusioned its supporters are. And protesting out-side of animal shelters is common among the PETA community.

Better hold tight for this one. “Since 1998, a total of 27,751

pets have died at the hands of PETA workers,” according to consumerfreedom.com. “A 2010 inspection of 290 PETA animal custody records performed by the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services discovered that PETA killed 84 percent of the animals it took control of within only 24 hours.”

The inspection also revealed the condition of the organization’s animal shelter was below the stan-dards established by the organiza-tion itself.

Great organizations that fight for animal rights exist in non-violent, non-hypocritical ways by not burning down a restaurant just because they don’t like the menu. PETA is not one of them.

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Not your Parents’ Place Anymore

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Valley looked a lot like last season.The Tigers built a 30-17 lead

late in the third quarter when junior fullback J.C. Copeland bulldozed into the end zone from a yard out. It should have been the moment when I sat back and watched LSU power to victory.

Instead, I couldn’t help think in the back of my mind about how well the opposition has driven the ball against LSU in the final 15 minutes of games.

Thankfully, Montgomery, junior defensive end Barkevious Mingo and junior safety Craig Loston made me forget all about a Mississippi State comeback.

LSU’s defense gave up 164 fourth-quarter yards. It wasn’t a perfect performance. It made plays when it needed to.

Bend but not break has never looked so good. Both visits inside the twenty for the Bulldogs didn’t turn out how they expected.

Mississippi State’s first red-zone attempt resulted in quarter-back Tyler Russell being thrown to the turf by Montgomery on third down and Mingo did the same on fourth. The Bulldogs didn’t have anything to show for a once-prom-ising 10-play, 67-yard drive.

Once Mississippi State started throwing heavily, it played right into the hands of two of the best pass-rushers in the country.

“We mixed up a little bit of the stunts and let [Mingo and Mont-gomery] do what they do,” junior linebacker Kevin Minter said.

“There’s a reason why they’re the top defensive ends in the country.”

Then Loston put the nail in the coffin by picking off Russell at the goal line on the Bulldogs’ last red-zone trip and running it back 100 yards into the end zone to put the game away for good.

Who cares if there are only two games left on the Tigers’ 2012 slate? Discovering a defensive identity now is better than not find-ing one at all.

Montgomery, Mingo and the rest of the defense have bought into the old adage — it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.

“Just to put a cap on something to end it feels great as

a team,” Montgomery said. “It means you’re coming full circle now. We used to be fighters, and now we’re finishers.”

No national championship as-pirations, no problem. The fourth quarter alone shows me LSU wants to finish the season strong.

And that’s all you can ask for.

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

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LSU freshman cornerback Jalen Collins (32) and teammate junior linebacker Kevin Minter bring down MSU senior wide receiver Chris Smith (8) on Saturday.

up for a touchdown drive to take the lead, a lead LSU didn’t give up for the rest of the game.

“We needed a little spark. I wouldn’t say we were back on our heels, but we hadn’t found our rhythm yet,” Bar-row said. “Once we did we just kept clicking and kept rolling.”

The interception by junior safety Craig Loston was the big-gest play of Loston’s career as he took the ball 100-yards to seal the victory for the Tigers in the fourth quarter.

“That was just a huge play,” Barrow said. “It felt really good for the defense to put a statement on the win like that … it’s a great confidence boost for the defense to finish strong.”

In a game in which LSU was attempting to redeem its season after the crushing loss to Alabama, Loston got a little re-demption of his own after miss-ing chunks of the previous two seasons due to injury.

“Craig was one of the best players in the nation [in high school],” Barrow said. “It’s good to see a guy who works so hard finally see the fruits of his labor, I couldn’t be happier for him.”

Loston’s play has improved throughout the season. He has recorded 24 tackles over the past four games, and both of his

interceptions on the season have come during that time.

“He’s definitely been show-ing up to play the past couple of weeks, laying the wood down like we like to see,” said junior

safety Eric Reid. “He got the pick-six so I’m kind of jealous of him, but I’ll try and get one some day.”

The pick-six was the first touchdown the

defense has scored since week three against Idaho. With two games left to go the unit has already matched its defensive touchdown total from all of last year.

After last week’s let down against Alabama on the final drive, LSU’s defense was able to put a statement on the Missis-sippie State game by effectively ending the contest on the inter-ception.

“Two-minute defense is something the coaching staff re-ally stressed this week,” Barrow said. “We had a few nice plays, but the [Loston] interception re-ally sealed the victory for us.”

DEFENSE, from page 11

Contact Trey Labat at tlabat@lsureveille.com

‘So you know we might bend a little, but you never want to break.’

Lamin Barrowjunior linebacker

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