Sultan of SweetsFrom Catholic ties to the three wise men

to a modern-day Mardi Gras dessert, the vi-brant purple, green and gold icing marking the Louisiana tradition of king cakes melts onto the cinnammon-stuffed dough, the state’s cul-ture — and in student’s mouths.

With Mardi Gras right around the corner, students can sample the festive dessert for free today from 10 a.m. until it runs out. The Stu-dent Union will continue its tradition of giving away king cake, the popular Louisiana pastry with a unique history.

John Van Osdell, disaster science manage-ment senior, said when he moved outside the state, he turned to his mother to help satisfy his king-sized cravings.

“When I was in the military, she would bake it and vacuum seal it and send the icing and

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With its tradition of jazz, sea-food and European architecture, New Orleans is well known as one of America’s unique cities. And as Mardi Gras approaches, one historic company is trying to spread those traditions across the nation.

Zatarain’s, a Gretna-based, New Orleans-style food company, has designed a petition aimed at nationalizing New Orleans’ Mardi Gras festivities. The petition, which accepts signatures online via the Za-tarain’s Web site, will be presented to Congress once 100,000 signatures are collected.

“The whole point of this cam-paign is to bring national attention to Mardi Gras,” said Dudley Passman, Zatarain’s director of food services. “Just like the music and the food, by bringing that national attention

we can spotlight the holiday and the city.”

The petition fi rst became avail-able about two weeks ago when an independent study contracted by Zatarain’s suggested seven out of 10 Americans would support the move-ment.

Since the petition began, more than 9,000 signatures have been col-lected from citizens across the coun-try.

“Many New Orleanians don’t realize that so many people outside the city celebrate Mardi Gras,” said

Ken Beals, Zatarain’s marketing director. “I think it is a lot more popular than people realize.”

Zatarain’s petitions to nationalize Mardi Gras

E-mail transition won’t affect Facebook

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Ken Beals, Zatarain’s marketing director. “I think it is a lot more popular than people realize.”

Zatarain’s petitions to nationalize Mardi Gras

TRADITIONS, see page 5

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Facebook users registered with their University e-mail ad-dress don’t have to worry about changing the registered e-mail ac-count after the Tigermail tran-sition.

S h e r i Thompson , IT c o m m u n i c a -tions and plan-ning offi cer , said any mes-sages or ties to the old account, lsu.edu, will forward to the new account, tigers.lsu.edu.

“When you log into Face-book, it registers you as ‘name.lsu.edu,’” she said. “This is still tied to your LSU e-mail and will forward to tigers.lsu.edu.”

Thompson said students have the option of using lsu.edu or

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A worker at the Cake Palace on Essen Lane ices king cakes Monday night. King cake orders during the Mardi Gras season account for a busy time of the year for many local bakeries.

‘You don’t need to re-distribute your e-mail to people

who already have the old one.’

Sheri ThompsonIT communications and planning offi cer

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C H U R C H I L L , Australia — The only person accused of lighting one of Australia’s deadly wildfires was a lonely Web surfer who liked dogs, always said “G’day” to neighbors and was trying to find love on-line. Brendan Sokaluk, a 39-year-old who reportedly once served as a volunteer fighter, was named as the suspect police arrested last week, as the death toll from the wildfires edged up to 189 on Monday. Authorities were forced to keep Sokaluk at a secret location to protect him from po-tential reprisal attacks after a magistrate lifted a ban on publishing his name.

Suspect named in Aus. wildfire as toll hits 189

British, French nuclear subs collide in Atlantic OceanLONDON (AP) — Nuclear submarines from Britain and France collided deep in the Atlantic Ocean this month, au-thorities said Monday in the first acknowledgment of a highly unusual accident that one expert called the gravest in nearly a decade. Officials said the low-speed crash did not damage the vessels’ nuclear reactors or missiles or cause radiation to leak. But anti-nuclear groups said it was still a frightening reminder of the risks posed by submarines prowling the oceans powered by radioactive material and bristling with nuclear weapons.

NATION, STATE AND CITY BRIEFSBurris: Feds’ questions didn’t cause admissionsCHICAGO (AP) — Sen. Roland Burris insisted Monday that a newly released affidavit outlin-ing contacts with ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s brother and other advisers was voluntary and not the result of contact from federal agents investigat-ing the former governor. “It was done because we promised the [impeachment] committee we would supplement information in case we missed any-thing,” Burris said Monday before embarking on trip to talk with constituents. “End of story.” Bur-ris released an affidavit over the weekend in which he admitted Blagojevich’s brother asked him for campaign fundraising help before Blagojevich ap-pointed Burris to the Senate.

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Discovered parts could reveal cause of crash

Urgent new strategy needed for Afghan War

CLARENCE, N.Y. (AP) — Investigators have located key components that might help reveal what the pilot did to try to save Flight 3407 during its final desperate seconds, when the plane plunged to the ground so sud-denly that sending a mayday was impossible, an investi-gator said Monday. After a seemingly routine flight, the airplane endured a 26-second plunge before smashing into a house in icy weather about six miles from Buffalo Niagara International Airport on Thursday night, killing 49 people on the plane and one on the ground.

WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Barack Obama prepares to send troops to war for the first time as com-mander in chief, a new report says a “game-changing” strategy is urgently needed in Afghanistan to save the fal-tering international campaign. “All is not lost in Afghani-stan,” RAND Corp. experts said in a paper being released Tuesday by the congressionally funded United States In-stitute of Peace. “But urgent measures — what might be called ‘game-changing steps’ — are now needed to stem an increasingly violent insurgency,” said the authors.

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While many students started their weekend in Tigerland or dodging bad luck from Friday the 13th, three University students spent their evening in Bryant Park to kick off New York’s Fashion Week.

The University’s BCBG Am-bassadors were selected to attend the BCBG Max Azria Fall 2009 Runway Show at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in New York City last week after winning a nation-wide marketing competition.

Sarah Dewey, Ashley Vick-ers and Student Government Vice President Shannon Bates make up the University’s student-led marketing team. The Ambassador

program began in August to pro-mote BCBG’s new line BCBGen-eration.

“It’s a way for marketing and public relations majors to promote and market the new line,” Bates said. “We promote it through on-campus events. Whoever had the highest marketing numbers got to go to fashion week with all ex-penses paid.”

There are about 30 BCBG Ambassador programs on college campuses nationwide. Other teams included participants from Texas A&M University, Florida State University and the University of Southern California.

Bates said she didn’t know the exact marketing numbers, but the University’s team won the com-petition by conducting surveys to its targeted audience, passing out “keep in touch” cards, logo T-shirts and tote bags.

“It’s all about the number of

people we interact with,” Bates said.

The team put on two in-store events at Macy’s in Baton Rouge and Dillard’s in New Orleans, where the new line is sold.

As the winning team, they flew to New York City on Thurs-day morning and attended the fashion show Friday.

Max Azria, BCBG’s designer, invited the students backstage af-ter the show, Bates said.

“It really was the coolest ex-perience,” Bates said. “He talked to us about the program, and he was so proud that girls from Loui-siana were able to get it.”

Vickers, marketing senior, said it was an honor and a very memorable experience to meet Azria.

“He owns this business worth millions of dollars, and he had two more shows later this week, and he took time to talk to us backstage,”

Vickers said. “He was so down to earth.”

This year marks the 20th an-niversary of BCBG Max Azria and the 66th year of New York’s Fashion Week. More than 60 run-

way shows and backstage events will be held from Feb. 13-20.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Or-leans won’t part ways with contro-versial mayor Ray Nagin until more than a year from now, but already talk has turned to the post-Nagin era.

Political analysts expect next year’s Feb. 6 primary will draw a huge field of candidates vying to pick up where Nagin leaves off in this city’s recovery from Hurricane Katrina.

As for Nagin himself, there may be no elections in the next phase. Like others who took center stage during Katrina — including former Gov. Kathleen Blanco and ex-Presi-dent George W. Bush — Nagin, 52, appears ready to give up politics.

Records filed with the state show him last year beginning to draw down a campaign war chest built up ahead of the 2007 guberna-torial election he flirted with entering — paying bills, making political and charitable contributions and buying ads to get out the vote ahead of last fall’s presidential election.

The two-term mayor, elected in his first run for public office in 2002 and barred by term limits from running again, leaves office in May 2010.

The former cable TV executive has said his occupation will probably be business related. He insists he plans to be out of politics.

“I’m retiring,” he said. “I’m re-tiring undefeated.”

He’s shown no signs of leaving quietly. If anything, in the last few months, he’s appeared more publicly combative than ever, waging high-profile fights with the City Council on issues ranging from French Quar-ter trash to questions about his ad-ministration’s openness — a touchy spot for a mayor who claims to run the city transparently — as he tries to keep the recovery on track, avert a budget crisis for a city reliant on loans since the storm and shape his

legacy.“For me, I’m damned if I do and

I’m damned if I don’t, so I’m going to focus on what I think is best and not worry about the critiques going on,” he said.

But the fit-and-start pace of recovery and Nagin’s penchant for off-cuff remarks — like his 2006 statement that New Orleans would be a “chocolate” city — may have helped seal his legacy in the minds

of many here.“It would take a pretty aggres-

sive stance by him in the last year for people to change their minds about him,” said University of New Or-leans political science professor Ed Chervenak.

Nagin faces endless criticism

from residents, frustrated by what they see as the slow pace of recovery and a lack of vision and leadership by a mayor known for his delegation of duties.

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Other participants include USC, Fla. St.By Leslie PresnallStaff Writer

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Mayor Nagin wants to ‘institutionalize’ recoverySTATE

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photo courtesy of Shannon Bates

The University’s BCBG Ambassadors [from left to right] Ashley Vickers, Student Government Vice President Shannon Bates and Sarah Dewey pose with designer Max Azria backstage after his show Friday at New York’s Fashion Week.

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin speaks to members of the media after Hurricane Gustav. Analysts expect the Feb. 6, 2010 election to draw a spirited field of candidates to pick up where Nagin left off.

Ambassadors attend New York’s Fashion Week

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina sheriff said Monday he was not going to charge swimmer Michael Phelps after a photo of the 14-time gold medalist showed him smoking from a marijuana pipe.

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said he couldn’t ignore the photo but defended his investiga-tion.

“Michael Phelps is truly an American hero ... but even with his star status, he is still obligated to obey the laws of our state,” Lott said.

The photo showed Phelps smoking from a marijuana pipe at a party in November when he visited the University of South Carolina.

Phelps has called his judgment bad and said he would learn from his mistake.

USA Swimming suspended Phelps for three months in the wake of the photo, and Kellogg Co. said it would not renew its endorsement deal with him.

The photo surfaced in a Brit-ish newspaper, News of the World, on Feb. 1. The swimmer, who won a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Games, did not dispute its authenticity.

News of the World said the pic-ture was taken during a party while Phelps was visiting the university. During that trip, he attended one of the school’s football games and received a big ovation when intro-duced to the crowd.

The party occurred nearly three months after the Olympics while Phelps was taking a break from training, and his actions should have no impact on the eight golds he won at Beijing. He has never tested positive for banned substances.

This isn’t the first embarrass-ing episode for Phelps after an Olympic triumph. In 2004, a few months removed from winning six gold and two bronze medals in Ath-ens, the swimmer was arrested on a drunken driving charge at age 19. He pleaded guilty and apologized for the mistake.

University-sponsored music downloading program Ruckus is no longer providing its services.

Upon visiting the Ruckus Web site, users are greeted with the mes-sage, “Unfortunately, the Ruckus service will no longer be provided.” But the reason for the cancellation is still a mystery, even to University of-ficials.

Auxiliary service officials said they have not been contacted and have not been able to contact any representatives from Ruckus, so the reason for the service ending is un-clear.

“I’m not really sure what hap-pened except the Web site is down, and it looks like Ruckus is no lon-ger,” Roberts said.

University officials renewed their contract with the free, music-streaming program last August, said Kimberly Roberts, marketing coor-dinator for the University Auxiliary Services.

The University signed a five-year contract with Ruckus in August 2007, with a renewal clause each year.

Although Ruckus was in a con-tract with the University, no party involved has received any compen-sation because the service was pro-vided at no cost to the Uni-versity and the University received no revenue from their sponsorship, Roberts said.

“The service was provided at no cost to the University,” said Colo-rado Robertson, Student Govern-ment president. “We just agreed to promote them on campus ... so we gave out their flyers and linked them on our site.”

The rights to the media down-loaded through Ruckus must be re-freshed every three days. This was a constant process when users ac-cessed the music on a daily basis.

Because of the Digital Rights Management licensing server has been shut down, the rights will no longer be available rendering stu-dents’ music and video libraries use-

less, according to a Feb. 16 SG news release.

The initial agreement was signed with Ruckus because it provided stu-dents with an easy way to legally download music, Roberts said.

“It was basically a way to pro-vide a service for students ... that is easily accessible and legal,” Roberts said. “This was a great way to down-load the right way.”

In August 2007, SG partnered

with Ruckus to combat music piracy on campus by giving students access to the college music service, accord-ing to the SG news release.

SG was only informed of Ruck-us’ demise by students reporting problems when the service closed on Feb. 6, Robertson said.

The Freshman Leadership Council met a goal of signing up 2,500 new users on campus last se-mester. As a result, Ruckus donated

$2,000 to the FLC to work on cam-pus projects, Robertson said.

“We have had a good relation-ship with Ruckus,” Robertson said. “We have maintained it as an op-tion for free and legal downloads. But now that it has gone under, we are trying to pursue some other op-tions.”

MUSIC

University’s free music download service shuts downBy Xerxes A. WilsonContributing Writer

Contact Xerxes A. Wilson at xwilson@lsureveille.com

NATION

S.C. sheriff: No pot charge for Phelps after photo

BRETT FLASHNICK / The Associated Press

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott holds a press conference Monday in Columbia, S.C., to announce that Michael Phelps would not be charged as a result of the photo that showed him smoking from a bong during a November party.

By The Associated Press

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Though Fat Tuesday traditions are always mentioned in the same breath as New Orleans, the festival is celebrated throughout the country from the Gulf Coast to Philadelphia.

While some cities like Mobile, Ala., celebrate with mystic societies in the vein of New Orleans krewes, others celebrate Mardi Gras with their own regional flair.

“Almost half of the country is celebrating Mardi Gras from coast to coast,” Beals said.

Despite efforts to make the holi-day official outside Louisiana, Zat-arain’s spokespeople said they have no desire to uproot the festival from its historic Big Easy home. If any-thing, they said nationalizing Mardi Gras will bring much-needed atten-tion to the city.

“I think it brings a lot of visibil-ity and awareness not only to New

Orleans, but to the whole Louisi-ana area,” Beals said. “Obviously it benefits both New Orleans and Za-tarain’s.”

Though Zatarain’s is spearhead-ing the motion, Passman said the company is not trying to brand the festival, which has never had a cor-porate sponsor in its history.

“The goal is not to take over Mardi Gras,” Beals said. “I can only imagine the backlash if we tried something like that.”

Regardless of the culture and history surrounding the holiday, Mardi Gras in New Orleans has earned a reputation for debauchery and drunkenness. Though these tra-ditions are just as important as the call-response chants of the Mardi Gras Indians, Zatarain’s is looking to associate itself with Fat Tuesday’s more family-friendly aspects.

“People from New Orleans know it’s more about going to see

a parade on St. Charles or having a king cake with family and friends,”

Passman said the adult-oriented way Mardi Gras is often thought of outside New Orleans has little to do with the way most people celebrate in the city.

With Mardi Gras still a full week away, it’s unlikely the petition will make its way to Washington, D.C., before the Krewe of Zulu rolls down St. Charles Ave. The petition will re-main available for signing through Lent and beyond.

“It’s really too early to tell if this will work,” Beals said. “If enough people found out about it, we might have a chance. I think in the coming weeks, we might get a better idea for how realistic this really is.”

tigers.lsu.edu, but tigers.lsu.edu is faster, bypassing the LSU system and sending straight to a student’s inbox.

“You don’t need to re-distrib-ute your e-mail to people who al-ready have the old one,” she said. “But when you reply, it will spec-ify in the details that it was sent from your tigers.lsu.edu address, giving them your new e-mail.”

Molly Briggs, mass commu-nication sophomore, said her Fa-cebook account is registered under her University e-mail address.

“I just recently changed to Tigermail, but I haven’t had any problems with my Facebook since the transition,” she said.

Laura Davis, nursing sopho-more, said she uses a private e-mail address for Facebook, which avoids Facebook notifications

clogging her inbox. In addition, she said she hasn’t had problems with e-mails forwarding from her old account to her new one.

“I have this e-mail address just for my Facebook,” she said. “I use my LSU e-mail for every-thing else though. It’s more pro-fessional.”

Thompson said when a stu-dent graduates, his or her e-mail account is deleted after a year. If the deleted e-mail address is tied to a social networking system, the network account will still function but without sending e-mail notifi-cations.

Facebook officials could not be reached for comment by press time.

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the different-colored sugar sprinkles with it,” Van Osdell said. “I was in Georgia at the time, and all of my friends there had never heard of king cake before.”

The modern king cake is be-lieved to have originated in New Orleans, a transformation from its humble, fl aky pastry French origins into the sweet Danish dough treat known today.

Tracing back to the Middle Ages, king cake is thought to have Catholic origins, according to some king cake bakers.

In some cultures, particularly Christian ones, devotion was placed on the three Wise Men, the kings who followed the North Star to fi nd the infant Jesus. The Epiphany — the 12th night after the birth of Christ — marked the end of the Christmas cel-ebration. That time became known for gift giving and consuming the celebratory cake of the three kings, in turn naming the dessert “king cake,” according to the local bakery Gambino’s tradition.

King cakes have Catholic ori-gins tied to the Epiphany, said Father Frank Bass, associate pastor of St. George’s Catholic Church in Baton Rouge. The Mardi Gras season starts on the Epiphany of every year and ends differently depending on the date of Fat Tuesday.

“It began as a custom for Carni-val season, which begins on Epiph-any and ends the midnight of Fat Tuesday,” Bass said.

Each color of the cake is sym-bolic — purple represents justice, green for faith and gold for power, said Haydel’s Bakery manager Da-vid Haydel Jr.

Other bakers simply believe king cakes are part of the continu-ous partying that ends on Fat Tues-day. Because Mardi Gras is the day before Ash Wednesday, which starts the 40-day Catholic season of fasting known as Lent, many Louisianians indulge in guilty pleasures — like gorging on sweets — before the reli-gious time of self-denial begins.

Eating king cake is a group ac-tivity, said Gambino’s manager An-gella St. Romain . Traditionally, who-ever fi nds the baby in a slice of cake has to buy the next cake and host the next king cake party.

During medieval times, a bead was placed in the king cakes but was replaced with the plastic baby to rep-resent Jesus in modern king cakes, according to Gambino’s king cake maker Mitchell Lowery . Many lo-cal stores have opted not to put the baby inside of the king cake because of choking hazards, but Gambino’s and Ambrosia bakeries stand by the tradition.

The baby hidden in the modern king cake symbolizes the Wise Men’s quest to fi nd the infant Jesus, and the cake itself is oval-shaped to repre-sent his crown, Ambrosia’s Bakery Manager Felix Sherman Jr. said.

Although the traditional cin-namon king cake is still a crowd fa-vorite, the modern change of adding fi llings was well received, according to local bakers. Ambrosia’s, Baum’s, Cake Palace and Gambino’s all offer a variety of different fruit and spe-cialty fi llings.

This year’s favorites at the local bakeries include the praline, pecan

and cream cheese fi lled king cakes, said Baum’s Bakery owner Debbie Landry. The strawberry and cream cheese fi lled king cakes are also popular.

Some bakeries, such as Baum’s, create a new king cake every year. This year’s creation is a banana’s foster king cake. Gambino’s added a specialty brownie king cake to their

selection.With the large

variety of king cake options available, the number of cakes produced is stag-gering. Gambino’s makes anywhere from 400 to 800

king cakes daily, depending on the number of orders, St. Romain said.

Starting daily at 3 a.m., the Gambino’s production crew makes the dough for nearly three hours while the king cake crew waits for the dough to rise. The crew then pro-duces the cakes in the afternoon.

Other bakeries have a different approach, preparing the dough early to cut down the production time to 90 minutes.

“We have about 12 to 15 people making king cakes at night,” said Ambrosia’s Bakery Manager David Sherman. “From start to fi nish, one king cake takes about an hour to make.”

The king cake business expand-ed with the addition of shipping, ac-cording to these local bakers, all of whom who ship king cakes across the country.

Haydel’s Bakery was the fi rst bakery in the Big Easy to ship king cakes overnight, Haydel Jr. said. Be-cause of international shipping, their king cake production has boomed, he said.

“In a long year such as this one, we sell about 55,000 [king cakes] from Jan. 6 through Feb. 24, which includes shipped king cakes and those sold from the shop,” Haydel Jr. said.

To offer out-of-state students a taste of Mardi Gras, the Student Union Marketing Committee will be giving out free slices of king cake. Chartwell’s — the catering service on campus — is providing enough king cake for 500 people.

“We are doing this as a huge thank you for all that the students do

for us,” said Union Marketing Com-mittee Chair Sarah Latiolais .

Meg Quinn, mass communica-tion sophomore , has lived in Louisi-ana all of her life and said this year marked her fi rst taste of king cake.

“This year was my fi rst to really eat it and enjoy it,” Quinn said. “My favorite is the cream cheese-fi lled. I could eat it by itself.”

Additionally, the Global Studies Residential College will host “Car-nivals From Around the World,” an event scheduled Wednesday to share with students the tradition of king cakes across the globe. Guest speak-ers will discuss the topics of Carnival in Cuba and rural Cajun parades.

The event last year featured dif-ferent types of king cakes, including a traditional king cake and a French one, according to this year’s event coordinator Nawsheen Golam Hos-sen .

Caroline Hansen, kinesiology junior, said she grew up eating king cake, and her favorite is the cream cheese or the traditional king cake.

“I love king cake,” Hansen said. “I grew up with it, and we’d have them in school.”

ERIN ARLEDGE / The Daily Reveille

A Zulu king cake with chocolate and coconut is one of the options Cake Palace offers.

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lsureveille.comLog on to see bakers make a king cake.

LSU’s Paul Mainieri is usu-ally an even-keeled, soft-spoken baseball coach.

But throw out a topic like ste-roids, and his answer – especially his tone of voice – is unusually terse.

“I’m disgusted by it all,” the third-year coach said.

Alex Rodriguez’s recent ad-mission to using steroids once again rocked Major League Base-ball. But closer to home, the issue of steroids elicits a variety of opin-ions and brings up the question of how prominent steroid usage is in the college game.

“I know for a fact some of the kids I’ve coached against at other

schools have used steroids,” said Mainieri, who has coached col-lege baseball since 1983.

At LSU, the athletic depart-ment’s substance abuse policy prohibits “the use, sale, or distri-bution of any and all illegal sub-stances by its athletes and staff.” Steroids is the last item on the list of banned substances.

The policy’s goal, it says, is to drug test players twice a year. Players can also be drug tested at any time – announced or unan-nounced.

LSU outfi elder Jared Mitch-ell, said he has been tested “at least two to three times a year” between football and baseball. Mitchell said he doesn’t think ste-roids are a major problem in col-lege baseball, but he said he’s not oblivious to reality.

“I can remember seeing guys and saying, ‘That’s not all natural,’” he said.

LSU All-American outfi elder Blake Dean played summer base-ball in the Cape Cod League and said no one there talked about ste-roids. Dean guessed steroids are more prevalent in junior college baseball.

“I think ju-cos are more le-nient with their testing,” he said.

Mainieri said he has heard of players encountering steroids dur-ing summer baseball.

“You know what happens is your players come back from sum-mer leagues where they’re playing with players from other teams, and they’re sitting around, and they’re talking, and a guy will confess,” he said. “Then that player comes back to me or tells me what this player told him.”

Even with the pressure of playing for a nationally prominent program, many LSU players say

SportsONLINE: Log on to lsureveille.com to read a column about the men’s and women’s postseason chances.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2009 PAGE 7

BASEBALL

Mainieri, players say steroids not exclusive to MLB

By Kyle Whitfi eldEditor

But they say usage is not widespread

ALEX BOND / The Daily Reveille

LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri addresses the media Feb. 3 during the Tigers’ fi rst practice in the new Alex Box Stadium. STEROIDS, see page 10

JERIT ROSER / The Daily Reveille

LSU men’s coach Trent Johnson talks with an offi cial during the fi rst half of LSU’s win against McNeese State on Dec. 22.

BENJAMIN OLIVER HICKS / The Daily Reveille

LSU women’s basketball coach Van Chancellor looks on Jan. 22 as Miss. State hits a last-second shot to beat the Lady Tigers, 38-36.

Eyeing a chance to dance

LSU’s men’s basketball team climbed to No. 23 in the Associated Press Top 25 on Monday, the Tigers’ fi rst appearance in the poll since Jan. 22, 2007.

But don’t tell LSU coach Trent Johnson.“I actually got a memo from the NCAA,”

Johnson said sarcastically. “They said we don’t have to play any more games — the season’s over. Arkansas said we don’t even have to show up [Wednesday night].”

It’s hard to believe it’s been only 42 days since the Tigers’ 30-point loss to Utah.

Less than a month away from Selection

LSU women’s basketball coach Van Chan-cellor promised Lady Tiger fans during the team’s preseason media day that LSU would advance to the NCAA tournament.

But Chancellor knows his young team still has some work to do to get into the Big Dance

with just four regular season games remain-ing.

“Boy, I tell you, it’s going to be really, really close,” Chancellor said after the team’s 66-55 loss to Auburn two Sundays ago.

One of the reasons Chancellor was so con-cerned with his team’s tournament resume was

By Casey GisclairChief Sports Writer

Four regular season games likely to decide LSU’s fate History bodes well for Tigers’ tourney chancesBy David HelmanSports Writer

CHANCELLOR , see page 11 TOURNAMENT, see page 11

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SOFTBALL

Opening of new Tiger Park impresses fans

The opening of LSU’s new Tiger Park was an event Tiger fans have been anticipating just as long as the players and coaches.

“It’s something we’ve been waiting for for a long time,” said Mona Ragan, who has been attend-ing LSU softball games since the team’s inception in the 1970s.

Tiger Park’s gates were opened to fans Wednesday night when LSU played its first home game of the season against McNeese State. The game drew 2,172 fans to the inauguration of the new stadium.

“This is actually my first game, but it looks like they have a pretty good product of the field,” said Delvin Jones, sports manage-ment graduate student. “They’re probably a little motivated now that they have this nice stadium and everything.”

The crowd was the second largest in Tiger Park history,

trailing the total of 2,326 on April 28, 2007, when LSU played Ten-nessee in the old Tiger Park.

The softball team had its high-est attendance figures in the old Ti-ger Park’s 12-year history in 2008, when the Tigers averaged 866 fans per game.

Most fans were impressed with the facilities of the new stadium.

“I like that there are no bad seats,” said season ticket holder Brenda Simon. “Any place you go, you can see. The facilities are sec-ond to none.”

Harmony Schwethelm, who played for Baylor from 2002 to 2006, went to support her former teammate and junior Baylor trans-fer Kirsten Shortridge in LSU’s victory against No. 5 Texas A&M on Saturday.

Schwethelm said she was im-pressed with how the new park fared under poor weather condi-tions.

“I know just by rain, this field can take a whole lot more,” Schwethelm said. “We got can-celed out in a tournament my fresh-man year in the old stadium. From how much it’s rained in the last two

days, the field looks great.”Kent Dejean, who attends

eight or nine LSU softball games a year, said the new facility is “abso-lutely gorgeous.”

“It probably beats out most men’s baseball parks in the coun-try,” Dejean said. “It’s one of the finest facilities in the country.”

Ragan said the new stadium is a big step up from the old Tiger Park.

“There is no comparison,” Ragan said. “It’s like playing in a sandlot park and then coming and playing in a major league park.”

Jones said the new stadium could benefit the team in the fu-ture.

“It’s something good to brag on and get some recruits here,” he said.

Very few fans could find any-thing they disliked about the new Tiger Park.

“The only thing I dislike is I used to live over at the Fieldhouse Condominiums, and I used to be able to walk to the games,” Dejean said.

Simon said she hasn’t gotten used to the orientation of the new

stadium yet because she was used to sitting behind the plate in the old Tiger Park, where the seating is el-evated above the field.

“The only thing is, I’m hav-ing trouble with the net…looking through it,” Simon said.

The Tigers averaged 996 fans per game in their opening week-end at the new Tiger Park. The

team averaged 655 and 789 fans, respectively, in the team’s past two opening weekend Easton Tiger Classic tournaments.

Attendees say there are no bad seatsBy Jarred LeBlancContributing Writer

Contact Jarred LeBlanc at jleblanc@lsureveille.com

ERIN ARLEDGE / The Daily Reveille

Fans cheer on the Tigers at Tiger Park during their game Saturday against Texas A&M. LSU won the game, 6-5.

Fortson returning to starting lineup Wed. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas point guard Courtney Fortson could return to the start-ing lineup Wednesday against LSU, coach John Pelphrey said Monday.

Fortson was suspended for the Razorbacks’ 79-63 loss to Kentucky on Saturday. Pelphrey didn’t go into detail about why.

“If he does the correct things, he will play on Wednesday,”

Pelphrey said. “I love Courtney Fortson. There’s not another guard in the country I want play-ing our point guard spot.”

Fortson, a freshman, has started all but two games this season, averaging 14.6 points and 6.5 assists.

“I anticipate having him back in the starting lineup,” Pelphrey said.

By The Associated Press

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

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SOFTBALL

Current, former Tigers excited about stadium advancements

LSU’s softball team has fi -nally fi nished the longest one-mile move in program history.

The opening of the new Tiger Park last week marked the end of a long saga for LSU coach Yvette Girouard, who lobbied for new softball facilities not long after her hiring in 2001.

“This is something that ob-viously this program has waited on since its inception, something that was promised to us nine years ago, so we are fi nally see-ing it come to fruition,” Girouard said. “We were probably the last program in the [Southeastern Conference] to build a stadium, and as it’s said and done, there’s no question in mind that our sta-dium is probably the prettiest in the country now ... I couldn’t be prouder of it.”

Girouard has been telling her teams since 2004 they would be playing in this state-of-the-art fa-cility.

Emily Turner, reporter for NBC33 TV and a former LSU pitcher, said Gi-rouard recruited her to be part of the fi rst class to play in the new stadium.

“My most vivid memory is that Coach Gi-rouard used it as a way to re-cruit me,” Turner said. “We were supposed to be the fi rst class to play on the new fi eld, which ex-cited me. But it obviously didn’t

happen with all the setbacks.”A list of interruptions, in-

cluding fi nancial setbacks caused by Hurricane Katrina, held up the construction for more than just Turner’s class.

Killian Roessner, All-Ameri-can catcher for the Tigers’ 2008

team, did not think she would end her career in the old Tiger Park.

“We thought it would be done my sophomore year, but then Ka-trina happened,” Roessner said. “We didn’t hold any bitterness at all — we just

thought that what’s meant to be will be.”

Now an assistant coach

at Memphis, Roessner said “it would be great” to be a part of the stadium’s opening, but she wouldn’t trade where she is “for the world.”

“I put in my time at LSU,” she said. “Basically, I’m glad I ended on the fi eld I started on.”

Roessner isn’t the only one who won’t be holding grudges. Her former teammate, second baseman Shannon Stein, said no one could have controlled Hur-ricane Katrina’s effects on LSU, and that a new stadium was “not the main reason” she chose LSU.

Turner also said she didn’t regret not playing in the new sta-dium.

“Absolutely not,” Turner said. “My best memories in all my 23 years came at [old] Tiger Park. Of course we joked that it would be nice to have the new

stadium ... but I don’t think it would have been the same if I’d split two years in the old park and two in the new. [Tiger Park] was the old fi eld across from the natatorium and my old apartment and that’s how I’m going to remember it.”

Fortunately for Gi-rouard’s conscience, the 2009 Tigers have fi nally made the trek from the West Campus Apartments area to Skip Bertman Drive.

“Every recruiting class was promised this park, and I’ve apol-ogized to every one of them,” Gi-rouard said. “I really thought it was going to happen in ‘06, but it didn’t. Such is the nature of life, and that was the whole purpose of having [former players] on the fi eld with us the fi rst night. Because of them the program is what it is.”

But the “old park” isn’t com-pletely gone from the Tigers’ ros-ter. Junior outfi elder Jazz Jackson is one of six starters remaining

from last season. One week into the new era, she said, “Coach Gir-ouard did it up right.”

“I’m just proud to see where we came from,” Jackson said. “I played at the old Tiger Park. This isn’t the only stadium I’ve ever played in. It makes me really proud to be a part of this.”

GRANT GUTIERREZ / The Daily Reveille

The LSU softball team congratulates opposing McNeese State players after LSU’s 6-0 victory Wednesday night. The new Tiger Park boasted the second-largest crowd in program history on its opening night with 2,172 attendees.

‘‘‘There’s no question in mind that our stadium

is probably the prettiest in the country now...’

Yvette Girouardsoftball coach

Contact David Helman at dhelman@lsureveille.com

By David HelmanSports Writer

Tiger Park opens after four years of planning

‘It makes me really

proud to be a part of

this.’

Jazz Jacksonjunior outfi elder

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they haven’t been tempted to use steroids to gain an edge.

“Me personally, I wouldn’t even know where to get them fi rst of all,” Mitchell said.

LSU second baseman Ryan Schimpf said he has never played with anyone who has used ste-roids.

“I don’t think it’s an excuse – there’s pressure everywhere you go,” he said.

Even though Dean and Mitch-ell don’t defend steroid use, they both agree players like Rodriguez and Barry Bonds deserve shots at the Hall of Fame.

“Personally I don’t think it’s that big of a deal,” Dean said. “I don’t think that it’s going to help you hit a 97-mile-per-hour fastball or hit 51 home runs. You might hit a few more home runs because you’ve gotten a little bit stronger.”

Said Mitchell: “If I get a vote,

I think they both get in.”Their coach couldn’t disagree

more.“I wish they would strike ev-

ery player from the record book that was involved in cheating,” Mainieri said.

Mainieri, who was known more for his gritty work ethic than physical size when he played col-lege baseball, doesn’t buy Rodri-guez’s apology or the excuse that the pressure was too much.

“[Baseball] is supposed to be watching runners score from fi rst base with a triple in the gap and hit-and-run plays and bunt plays and tremendous defense,” he said. “Instead, it’s being played by guys who look like they should be playing in the NFL instead of baseball.”

As football prospects across the nation picked colleges on National Signing Day, running back prospect Bryce Brown chose to take a vaca-tion.

Brown’s delayed decision keeps Miami, Oregon, Tennessee, USC — and now, possibly LSU — one last-minute signature away from landing the Scout.com No. 1 recruit.

The Wichita, Kan., native is a soft verbal commitment to Miami, but he is considering LSU for his fi -nal visit, according to Rene Nadeau , college football analyst for ESPN and TigerVision.

Nadeau said Miami, LSU and Oregon seem to be garnering the most interest from Brown, but the Hurricanes have the strongest chance to sign him.

Sonny Shipp , Louisiana

recruiting analyst for Scout, said the running back may be second-guessing his Miami commitment after former Miami offensive coor-dinator Patrick Nix was dismissed in December.

LSU coach Les Miles contacted Brown, according to potentialplay-ers.com, a Web site that represents the running back.

“LSU is sounding really for real,” Brown said on the Web site. “They have some great linemen, and they got Reuben Randle and Craig Loston . LSU is defi nitely in the run-ning for my fi nal visit.”

The 6-foot running back rushed for 1,872 yards and 30 touchdowns at East High School his senior sea-son.

Adding Brown to LSU would give the Tigers two Scout fi ve-star running backs in the 2009 class. Brown would join Scout fi ve-star running back Michael Ford and ris-ing seniors Charles Scott and Kei-land Williams .

Even though the Tigers signed Ford, LSU made a last-minute push for Scout fi ve-star running back Trent Richardson , who chose Alabama.

“If [Brown] would choose to come to LSU, it would soften the blow and people would forget that LSU didn’t get Trent Richardson on signing day,” Shipp said.

The LSU coaching staff would like to add depth to the running back position, Shipp said.

Brown was an all-state, Parade All-American and USA Today All-American player. He also played in the U.S. Army All-American Game.

But Brown’s high school coach Brian Byers questioned the running back’s character earlier this year.

“It’s always been him and then everybody else,” Byers told The New York Times. “Our team chem-istry was nonexistent.”

Brown responded and told The Wichita Eagle he “was willing to do whatever if it was going get the win.”

Brown’s interest in LSU may have been sparked by his brother, Miami linebacker Arthur Brown , who chose Miami over LSU.

“Arthur always talked good about his visit to LSU,” Shipp said. “He really enjoyed it.”

Arthur Brown may be the Ti-gers’ best recruiting tool, Shipp said.

Bryce Brown has already visited Clemson, Oregon and Missouri. The fi ve-star running back also visited Tennessee last weekend.

“With the way that Tennessee was able to get in on so many guys late in the game, it makes you won-der if [Tennessee coach Lane] Kiffi n and company are able to pull another one,” Shipp said.

This is the second year in a row the No. 1 player in the country didn’t sign on National Signing Day.

Ohio State quarterback Ter-relle Pryor committed to Ohio State a month after National Signing Day in 2008.

Bryce Brown plans to make his decision March 12, according to po-tentialplayers.com.

RECRUITING

Top RB recruit Brown may visit LSU before decisionMiami commit considering LSUBy Michael LambertSports Contributor

Contact Michael Lambert at mlambert@lsureveille.com

Contact Kyle Whitfi eld at kwhitfi eld@lsureveille.com

STEROIDS, from page 7

‘‘‘They have some

great linemen...LSU is defi nitely in the

running for my fi nal visit.’

Bryce Brownrunning back prospect

‘‘‘If [Brown] would choose to come to LSU, it would

soften the blow and people would forget that LSU didn’t get Trent Richardson... ’

Sonny ShippLouisiana recruiting analyst for

Scout.com

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Sunday, when the 65-team field for the NCAA tournament is selected, LSU’s Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) has jumped from No. 107 to No. 39 since the week after the Utah loss.

Although it isn’t apparent from his demeanor, Johnson has LSU on the cusp of the division title in his first season at the helm.

At 9-1 in conference play, LSU is three victories away from winning the SEC West. Twenty teams have won or split the western division title in that time span. Only two of those have missed the NCAA tournament.

Those two teams were 2007’s split champions — Ole Miss and Mississippi State — who shared the title with 8-8 conference records. With six games left to play, LSU has already won more games than those teams had at the end of their regular season.

“We have a target on our backs,” said senior center Chris Johnson. “We’re the hunted, and we have to come out and compete 40 minutes.”

The Tigers’ win last Wednesday against Mississippi State also made them the 18th LSU team to earn 20 wins in a season. Only twice has a 20-win LSU team failed to qualify for the NCAA tournament.

The 1969-1970 Tigers finished 22-10 with an appearance in the Na-tional Invitation Tournament semifi-nals, and the 1916 team went 20-2 in the era predating the college basket-ball postseason.

This group of Tigers is the sev-enth LSU team to break 20 wins since the SEC realignment in 1992.

In that time span, LSU has never failed to send a 20-win team to the NCAA tournament.

“It’s so easy to get caught up in what you’ve done,” said junior guard Alex Farrer. “You’ve got to keep things in perspective and understand that the next game is important.”

Joe Lunardi, an ESPN college basketball analyst, released his latest “Bracketology” tournament projec-tion Monday, with LSU as a No. 7 seed in the East bracket of the 2009 tournament.

Lunardi correctly picked the entire field for the 2008 tournament.

But once again, Trent Johnson’s

unimpressed.One of his favorite anecdotes

this season is about his son, Terry, who calls Johnson frequently to update him on the Tigers’ standing in the polls and tournament projec-tions.

Once Johnson hears about brackets or rankings, his answer is always the same.

“Bye, Terry.”

LSU’s lack of a quality wins.Prior to LSU’s 66-47 win against

Florida, the Lady Tigers were 0-6 against teams currently in the top-25 poll, with four of those losses occur-ring in the PMAC.

LSU (13-9, 6-4) was also 0-9 against teams currently in the top 50 of the NCAA’s RPI rating, which is an index that measures the qual-ity of a team using its record and its strength of schedule.

But LSU bettered both of those records with Sunday’s win, and Judy Southard, LSU associate athletic di-rector and a member of the NCAA tournament selection committee, said the Lady Tigers have gone a long way toward showing they are among the top 64 teams in the country.

“They overcame one big ob-stacle [Sunday] and got themselves a signature win on their resume,” she said. “That Florida win helps them a lot. But the key thing is now, and I think the coaching staff understands this, is that now they’ve got to take things one game at a time because it’s a critical time of the year.”

Southard said although LSU lost many of its games against top-level competition, some of the Lady Tigers’ near misses will earn them recognition on selection Sunday.

“The most impressive thing about LSU’s schedule is the quality of teams they’ve played and the num-bers of those teams they’ve played,” she said. “While they don’t have a lot of wins against those teams, you can certainly look at those games and those scores and see that they competed and played tough. They

probably played Connecticut better than anybody in the country, and that was a nationally televised game, so those kinds of things are taken into consideration as well.”

LSU’s current position is new to senior forward Kristen Morris.

Morris has spent her three previ-ous seasons on teams that were No. 1 or No. 2 seeds in the NCAA tourna-ment. The Lady Tigers’ lone senior said the key to getting into the field of 64 will be building on the team’s current high point.

“We’ve been anxious for one of these wins for a long time,” she said. “Now we want to play off this momentum and carry it to the rest of the season.”

One factor that won’t influence LSU’s attempt to reach the NCAA tournament is geography.

The PMAC is set to host the opening weekend of the tournament, which Southard said doesn’t affect on who makes it into the tournament.

“That has absolutely no weight,” she said. “There are two things that do not carry any weight in the com-mittee room and that is conference affiliation and then the schools who are hosting.”

Southard said for the Lady Ti-gers to advance to the field of 64, they will need to finish the season with momentum.

“I think they will need to per-form well in the final four regular season games and then make a good showing in the conference tourna-ment,” she said.

CHANCELLOR, from page 7

Contact David Helman at dhelman@lsureveille.com

Contact Casey Gisclair at cgisclair@lsureveille.com

TOURNAMENT, from page 7

Matchmaker, Matchmaker, make me a match.

Find me a find, catch me a catch.

CBS, CBS, make a show on TV.

And wed us for all to see.The rearranged lyrics from

“Fiddler on the Roof” sound cra-zy, but this is exactly what CBS plans to do.

In their new reality show, tentatively titled “Arranged Mar-riages,” four love-scorned adults have agreed to let their friends and families choose their future spouses. The series then follows the newly acquainted newlyweds through the destruction or frui-tion of their marriages.

Airing arranged marriages on TV is not a new idea.

In 2003, FOX aired the re-ality show Married by America — which allowed viewers to call in and vote on which contestants should be married. The show failed as miserably as the mar-riages did.

Arranged marriages in

general aren’t a new idea either.In fact, it was only in the past

century that young people could marry whom-ever they want-ed for what-ever reason they pleased. Whether you marry for love, lust, money or power, you still have that choice — your family doesn’t. In Elizabethan England, though, arranged mar-riages were the norm.

Families of similar social status would arrange for their children to marry for the benefit of both families. The royal family and the nobility married off their children for more political power while farmers arranged their chil-dren’s marriages in hopes to ex-tend their land.

It was normal for babies to be betrothed immediately following birth. It was also not uncommon for a bride and groom to meet on

their wedding day. King Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves met for the first time on the wedding al-ter.

This didn’t fly because Hen-ry’s informants failed to mention Anne’s “plain” looks. To say the least, this arrangement didn’t work out. In just a year and a half, he was remarried to 17-year-old Catherine Howard.

In many countries, including India and China, arranged mar-riage is still the custom. There are many arguments for and against — but arranged marriages still hardly seem sacred for most of us.

The point is not that arranged marriages can’t be sacred.

This won’t happen when tele-vision can use marriage to make money. Entertainment doesn’t equate with sanctity, which is a lesson many in this country have failed to recognize. Marriage is not a game to the gay and lesbian couples who aren’t allowed to.

Neither is marriage solely about procreation. To say nothing

of the need for adoption, the pro-creation argument also ignores the moral justification for mar-riage between sterile individuals.

This doesn’t concern reli-gious marriage — it’s about legal marriage.

There’s a difference.A 1,400-plus rights and ben-

efits difference.The sanctity of marriage

should not be considered when discussing the legality of mar-riage, especially if TV produc-ers can make money off a reality show that mocks the notion of the sanctity of marriage.

To those who can’t even marry the ones they love, the idea, “I’m going to marry a com-plete stranger because I can,” is a straight slap in the face.

Sanctity is dead — get used to it.

OpinionPAGE 12 TuEsdAy, fEbruAry 17, 2009

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A non-PC take on Johanathan Brooks

In an effort to avoid “this PC junk,” I thought I would share my opinion about Reveille sports writer Johanathan Brooks.

It takes a special kind of inabil-ity to constantly write the absolute nonsense in his columns. I don’t know what Brooks’ career ambi-tions are, but if he aims to be a sports writer, I wish him a fruitful career covering local high school beats for a small circulation paper because any editor with common sense would not let him near anything of actual im-portance.

This is the guy who placed LSU’s last two regular season foot-ball games in the win column, listed Chris Jackson ahead of Bob Pettit and wrote a completely nonsensi-cal column blaming a weak SEC for LSU’s eventual non-inclusion in the NCAA tournament rather than their non-conference losses and weak schedule.

In his most recent column, Brooks compares the humiliation of learning-disabled young girls to Kobe Bryant scoring 81 points on a professional team. I would love to see Brooks tell his young daughter struggling with a disorder that the non-stop full court press was de-signed to show she is not a future pro player or that she should have prac-ticed harder.

Sports are about so much more than winning or losing, which is something that Brooks clearly fails to see.

Trust me, as a soccer player growing up, I was on the right side of games that could have easily been 40-0. I believe some of the greatest character-building moments from my days as a player were when I would give words of encouragement to a player on a team we were far su-perior to and to hear the next day that word got to the parents of our team’s sportsmanship.

I’d like to think that earning the respect of my opponent taught me a whole lot more than piling up a bunch of worthless goals.

I just hope Brooks has no am-bitions of ever becoming a success-ful writer because quite honestly his writing is absolute garbage.

I know this won’t get to print because the Reveille will protect its writers, but I think it should. Get-ting called out builds character and Brooks needs to face the music be-fore he continues wasting everyone’s time.

FREEMAN OF SPEECH

My 22nd birthday present — no more cableBefore we start, let’s have a

moment of silence for Molière, who died 326 years ago today.

Do any of you know how it feels to have the government steal the flavor out of your birthday?

I do.Today, February 17th, is my

birthday, and the government has been planning a huge present not just for me, but for everyone watching cable television.

Today was supposed to be the day the analog signal died as the country switches to digital televi-sion.

It felt good for a while to see commercials for the transition, es-pecially the one where they display the date “February 17th” stretch-ing across the entire screen over a major metropolitan skyline.

The voiceover would then bellow, “Are you ready for Febru-ary 17th?”

It felt really good to know so many people cared.

Alas, it wasn’t for me — or Michael Jordan, Lupe Fiasco or Paris Hilton, whose birthdays also land on the 17th — it was for tele-vision.

Meanwhile, I finally have my

own “less than 1 percent” issue to anger me about President Obama’s economic stimulus.

The Amer-ican Recovery and Reinvest-ment Act — known to most as the economic stimulus pack-age — provides an additional $650 million for coupons for

those still watching television on analog sets. The digital converter boxes — between $40 and $80 — were initially funded by the De-partment of Commerce, but cus-tomers were still short of coupons, according to the Senate Web site.

The Department of Com-merce reached its $1.34 billion spending limit, potentially leaving millions with snow on their sets after the transition. The House of Representatives followed the Sen-ate’s lead in postponing the digital switch until June 12, saying many weren’t ready for the switch.

Regardless of the necessity of coupons, as anyone purchas-ing cable or satellite television is

already prepared for the switch, another question is raised from the postponement of the transition.

Do we really need cable tele-vision anymore?

Aside from watching live news or sports events, there’s no point to watch cable in the Internet age.

Many Web sites, like Hulu.com, provide free television shows and movies with ads interspersed. As a product of last year’s Writers’ Strike, networks and Web sites have created a means for artistic products to be properly compen-sated with one 30-second ad be-tween scenes.

Instead of a three-minute com-mercial break, viewers are treated to one 30-second commercial di-viding the scenes.

With some appearing at least 12 hours before the original airing, major network Web sites stream their television shows on their sites with the same ad model, capi-talizing on revenue from the ads and providing TV watchers a free, legal way to enjoy their favorite television shows.

This move in the correct direc-tion will naturally reduce piracy, as

many will log on to their favorite show’s Web site and watch it there, in lieu of illegally downloading the series from a torrent Web site and risking disconnected Internet or even a lawsuit.

In short, there’s no reason to pay for cable television anymore.

As pleasing as it may be to have Ren and Stimpy available on your DVR, chances are you can find it online for free.

Congress and the president should work harder to make this more of a reality. The Internet provides a tremendous boon in terms of consumer content, and our new direction should reflect ever-changing, yet ever-present, realities.

While I finally have an issue with an item in Obama’s stimulus package, he’s giving me a silver lining.

He’s signing the entire bill into law today in Denver.

On the 22nd anniversary of my birth, a new America is born.

Be sure to tune in.

Eric FrEEman Jr. Columnist

(BI)PARTISAN VIEW

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Contact Isabel Blum at iblum@lsureveille.com

Marriage may be gay, but sanctity is dead

isabEl blumColumnist

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Steve Wolfmass communication freshman

OpinionTuesday, february 17, 2009 PaGe 13

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PERFECT DYSTOPIA

Religious extremists find new target in couplesMuslim terrorists hate infidels.

Hindu terrorists hate couples. Terror-ism of a new kind is generated.

As the students kissed under-neath the Memorial Tower at the stroke of midnight to celebrate Valentine’s Day, many youngsters across the ocean were banned from commemorating the holiday.

We celebrate the existence of mothers, fathers, grandparents and dead people for once existing; it only seems logical to also celebrate the existence of love that results in fertil-ized eggs which happen to turn into human beings.

But in India, Hindu extremists threatened and attacked celebrat-ing couples. Indian police rounded up Hindu extremists who allegedly threatened to marry off young cou-ples found together on Valentine’s Day. The Press Trust of India News Agency reported more than 100 activists were detained across the southern states of India.

It seems the loners – instead of wallowing in self-pity — organized a club to fight against the couples. The group called themselves Sri Ram Sena, or Lord Ram’s Army, claiming orthodox principles of Hinduism as their cause for action.

“Drinking, socializing, celebrat-ing Valentine’s Day is all part of Western culture, which is corrupting our Indian culture,” SRS general sec-retary V.K. Rajesh told The Times of India on Feb. 3.

“We are not against love. But we are against loose morals we see among the younger generation who are blindly aping the West. And we will not spare these people, and we will take whatever action is needed within the law,” Rajesh said.

The group is concerned with the changing image of women, relation-ship dynamics and preservation of In-dian identity, according to The Times of India. It is evident they are also concerned with the growing HIV/

AIDS epidemic. Instead of preach-ing safe-sex measures, they have adopted similar, ironically West-

ern, practices of preaching abso-lute abstinence.

Preserving culture in the midst of global-ization has an intrinsic worth, but these Hindu extremists are bluntly incorrect

if they deem public displays of affec-tion as wholly Western.

Hindus believe Lord Krishna had hundreds of lovers during his in-carnation on Earth. Known to be flir-tatious and charming, Lord Krishna is illustrated in many stories steal-ing clothes from bathing girls. Lord Krishna displayed his affection to all his lovers openly, and the public under him was well aware of his ac-tions.

Not only religion, but Indian culture is filled with unique love sto-ries. Since the launch of the cinema industry in India, most movies have been built on frameworks of simple love stories. From the oldies of the 1960s era to modern Bollywood films, most feature a love story of some sort. Love stories, through the medium of movies, have openly dis-played affection.

The public is only doing what comes naturally — openly express-ing love.

Hindu extremists may still ada-mantly claim Valentine’s Day is not part of Indian culture. But today’s vast globalization proves every cul-ture is influenced by foreign prac-tices to some degree.

Perhaps people inhabiting the Amazon rainforest or Sub-Saharan Africa have not yet been exposed to enough Western principles to inte-grate into their own individual cul-tures.

But the second-largest popu-lated country in the world should not expect to retain cultural purity.

The State of Karnataka banned the celebration of Valentine’s Day, hoping to alleviate problems of law and order. The people have a right to choose to conform to Westernization if they wish it. A democratic nation ought to protect the rights of lovers’ expression.

However, the state chose to act in fear of violence. Terrorism from Hindu extremists is much like terror-ism from Islamic extremists.

In Baton Rouge, we might not think much of the condition in India. We may still be thinking about the kiss under Memorial Tower.

But the next time you witness public display of affection, be proud of the right to express such affec-tion.

Dini ParayitamColumnist

Contact Dini Parayitam at dparayitam@lsureveille.com

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Lifting ban on arms would promote campus safety“The best we can hope for

concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.”

Alexander Hamilton spoke those words in defense of the Second Amendment and in sup-port of the philosophy that fire-arms would be the last resort of the people to protect their free-dom, should the other laws of the land fail to do so.

On a smaller scale, Hamil-ton’s words advocate not only our right to be protected from our government, but from each other.

But in some areas, such as the University’s campus, this right is suspended in favor of the naïve assumption that disarming the student body improves cam-pus safety. Over the years, pro-carry student groups have formed in protest.

“You are allowed to carry elsewhere. What makes campus less dangerous than anywhere else?” said Brandon DeShotel, president of the LSU chapter of the Firearm Rights Coalition. “If one meets the qualifications established by law to carry else-where, why not be allowed to carry on campus?”

DeShotel makes an excel-lent point, especially consider-ing studies support a decrease in crime in areas allowing concealed carry.

The University of Michigan studied the relationship between concealed carry permits and crime rates in 1996. The university’s re-search found murders decreased by 8.5 percent in areas that issued concealed carry licenses because the license itself deterred mur-derers from attacking. For each year, the murders declined an

additional 3 percent. This effect was especially

pronounced for women. The rate of attack dropped 3 to 4 times more for every woman carrying a con-cealed hand-gun, whereas it only dropped 1 unit for every man carrying a concealed

handgun. Some may argue issu-ing licenses may cause handguns to fall into the hands of criminals. However, Louisiana distributes permits on a “may issue” basis to prevent this from happening. A “may issue” mandate simply refers to the application process and requires the applicant to meet several criteria.

In addition to filling out the

application, Louisiana law re-quires fingerprint submissions on an FBI Applicant Fingerprint Card and safety and training re-quirements as mandated by the National Rifle Association and Department of Public Safety and Corrections. These training ses-sions are conducted by an NRA or POST certified instructor.

These regulations ensure the person applying for the handgun is a responsible and capable indi-vidual and effectively weeds out applicants deemed dangerous by state law.

The biggest flaw in Louisi-ana’s concealed carry law, how-ever, is the age requirement. Anyone under the age of 21 is automatically disqualified for a permit.

Initially, this may seem like a good rule. Raising the age implies raising the maturity level

of the individual. And assuming disarming someone is for their own good, the idea makes sense.

This is why Louisiana’s drinking age rose from 18 to 21 in 1987 — because tacking on three extra years would be enough to deter kids from guzzling booze.

But, as any underage drink-er can tell you, that ideal hardly holds a candle to reality. Age does not always correlate with maturity, either.

The same idea applies to the concealed carry laws, only with more dangerous repercussions. The age limit disarms those who abide by the law but does nothing to discourage those who break the law.

Someone who will flout the law and carry a concealed weap-on on campus — essentially, a criminal — is only emboldened by the idea that a majority of

campus residents are underage and unarmed.

Therefore, age stipulations and concealed carry restrictions on campus only subject students to more harm.

The only way to effectively deter criminals is to issue arms to as many eligible adults, in-cluding 18-year-olds and college students, as possible. After all, if an 18-year-old adult is eligible to take up arms for their country, then that same adult should be granted the right to take up arms for their own protection.

Increasing the amount of armed citizens can only increase the safety of the community as a whole.

Linnie LeavinesColumnist

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