The School of Art will refund $62,590 of fees illegally collected from its students over the previous three years , according to a news re-lease sent by the lawyer for former faculty member Margaret Herster , who fi led suit against the School of Art for the unauthorized fees and for sexual discrimination .

A statement released to The

Daily Reveille in late January by Stephen Haedicke , Herster ’s law-yer, said the charges of sexual ha-rassment and unauthorized fees fi led against School of Art Director Rod Parker on Jan. 22 “amount to stealing money from students .”

An audit report spurred by Her-ster ’s claims of unauthorized stu-dent fees was released Jan. 10 and concluded more than $55,000 in un-authorized course fees was charged to students for the fi scal years of

2011 and 2012 alone.Associate Vice Chancellor for

University Relations Herb Vincent said Tuesday the refunds are “a result of the recommendations from the audit report.”

According to Vincent, the $62,590 is being doled out to 620 students affected by the School of Art ’s unauthorized fee collection.

Haedicke said he is awaiting a

response from the defendants, who have 30 days to respond after being

served court papers. Institu-tional defendants, such as the University, have been served, while individual de-fendants have not yet been served.

The email says the University will refund

“fees you paid for Art courses you took in 2010, 2011 and 2012 that were assessed outside of the normal

collection process for tuition and fees,” and it was sent about three weeks after the lawsuit was fi led .

Refunds will be posted to the bank account each student has on record with the University or sent via mail to his or her home address .

Former LSU football player and 1959 Heisman Trophy winner Billy Cannon is alert and resting after suf-fering a stroke Tuesday afternoon, his family told LSU.

Cannon, LSU’s only Heisman Trophy winner, was rushed to a Baton Rouge hospital from Angola State Penitentiary around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday. The former All-American and College Football Hall of Famer works as the director of the dental program at the Louisiana State Peni-tentiary, according to NOLA.com.

In a statement released by LSU Senior Associate Athletic Director Herb Vincent on Tuesday, the school said Cannon would remain in the in-tensive care unit over night as doc-tors conduct tests to determine the extent and severity of the stroke.

Cannon’s family thanked friends and fans for their concern.

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Maya Angelou performs Tuesday in the Student Union Theater. Angelou is a writer, poet and African-American activist.

The University’s Transition Advisory Team defi ned a mission and tenets that will guide the system through reorganization in a meeting Tuesday, emphasizing the impor-tance of research in the University’s national ranking and reputation.

The meeting’s agenda high-lighted a panel of internal experts who addressed the team about the importance of research and innova-tive technology to set the University apart from peer institutions.

Interim System President and Chancellor William “Bill” Jenkins said research and a focus on a com-prehensive student experience would make LSU stand out.

“We’re at the tipping point of going from a tier one to a tier two,” Jenkins said, according to The Ad-vocate.

However, allocating more re-sources to research is easier said than done, said Interim Vice Chancel-lor for Research and Development Thomas Klei.

An array of different faces of various races gathered in a buzz-ing LSU Student Union Theater on Tuesday night for an unforgettable evening with Maya Angelou during Black History Month .

A lively bunch of young men and women, including the LSU Gospel Choir ; Jonosha Jackson and Eric Couto, winners of the Mic with Maya poetry slam ; and a step show by representatives of the National

Pan-Hellenic Council at LSU com-menced the event by paying tribute to the civil rights author and activist.

By the fi nal note of the Gospel Choir’s “We Shall Overcome,” the audience was brimming with an-ticipation to greet Angelou , who last visited the University 20 years ago .

The curtain rose and Angelou sat in a wooden chair, soulfully sing-ing, “When it looked like the sun would not shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds” — a line infl uenced by Genesis in the Bible .

It rained so unrelentingly that

people thought the downpour would never cease, so God put a rainbow in the sky to ease their worries, Ange-lou said. But a 19th century African-American lyricist said the rainbow wasn’t simply placed in the sky but in the clouds, she explained.

“We know the suns and moons and stars and all sorts of illumina-tions are always in the fi rmament, but clouds can lower and lower so that the viewer cannot see the light,” Angelou said. “But if the light is

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Visitors to Austrian museum attend show about nudism in the nude

VIENNA (AP) — These museum goers didn’t just leave their coats at the coat check. They handed over their shirts, trousers and under-wear.

Everything, in fact, except their shoes and socks.

For many, the tour of “Nude Men from 1800 to Today” — an exhibit of 300 paintings, photo-graphs, drawings and sculptures focused on the bare male — was a goose-bump-raising instance of life imitating art.

China rejects recently established status as world’s biggest trader

BEIJING (AP) — China has a new status its government doesn’t want — world’s biggest trader.

Official Chinese and American trade data indicate China passed the United States last year in total imports and exports by a margin of $3.866 trillion to $3.822 trillion. That is about $44 billion, or just over 1 percent of China’s total.

The Commerce Ministry has taken the unusual step of publicly denying China as the new No. 1. It says China still trailed the U.S. by $15.6 billion last year under World Trade Organization standards for valuing goods.

Shooting spree across surburban Orange County leaves four dead

TUSTIN, Calif. (AP) — A violent rampage that left four dead in sub-urban Orange County began in the pre-dawn hours Tuesday when a 20-year-old killed a woman in his home and sped away in his parents’ car, authorities said.

An hour later, it was over — but not before Ali Syed had killed two more people during carjack-ings, shot up vehicles on a busy freeway interchange and left three others injured in a trail of carnage that stretched across 25 miles.

Multiple injuries reported from gas explosion fire in Kansas City

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Mul-tiple injuries were being reported Tuesday evening after a suspected gas explosion sparked a massive fire that engulfed an entire block at an upscale shopping center in Kan-sas City.

Police spokeswoman Rhonda Flores said it appeared that a car crashed into a gas main near a restaurant at 6:03 p.m. Flores said injuries were reported but did not know how many or how severe. She noted an initial call for three ambulances had been increased to 10. She said she had not heard of any reported fatalities.

THIBODAUX (AP) — A 31-year-old man accused of beheading his 7-year-old disabled son is incom-petent and unable to help his attor-neys fight the first-degree murder charge against him, a judge ruled Tuesday.

Judge John E. LeBlanc’s deci-sion came after a six-day hearing that ended Feb. 4. At least a dozen investigators and experts testi-fied that Jeremiah Lee Wright told them that his son, Jori Lirette, was a robot or CPR dummy put into his home as a government experiment to teach him about life.

Three hospitalized after collision between SUV and freight train

ELTON (AP) — Louisiana author-ities say three people were hospi-talized after a crash involving a train and a sport utility vehicle in Jefferson Davis Parish.

Louisiana State Police said in a news release that 32-year-old Pa-mela Thomas Thompson, of Elton, was driving the 2000 Ford Expedi-tion Tuesday morning when it went into the path of a Union Pacific freight train. Troopers say Thomp-son tried to back up but the vehicle was struck on the passenger side and pushed off the track.

French family of seven kidnapped while on vacation in Cameroon

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — A French family of seven — includ-ing four children — was kidnapped on Tuesday in northern Cameroon, and officials suggested the involve-ment of one of Nigeria’s Islamic extremist sects.

Military helicopters are being used to search for the tourists, who were abducted from Cameroon’s Far North Region, a Cameroo-nian government official told The Associated Press.

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GRANBURY, Texas (AP) — A Texas woman wanted to make sheriff’s deputies the butt of a joke, but she picked the wrong audience when she called 911 to have ciga-rettes delivered to her home.

Hood County sheriff’s Lt. Kathy Jividen says the 48-year-old woman was “very intoxicated” when she requested the special de-livery on Feb. 11.

Jividen says the caller instead received a visit from two deputies and was arrested. She was charged with a misdemeanor count of abuse of 911.

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Student members of the Tran-sition Advisory Team’s Student Experience subcommittee are worried about tuition raises and the increased emphasis on online courses.

The Student Experience sub-committee, which met Tuesday, is focusing on the student aspect of the University. It aims to increase graduation rates and career oppor-tunities for LSU System students. It offi cially consists of 12 members, six of whom are students.

“In my three years as a law student, every year my tuition has gone up,” said James Sudduth , an LSU Law Center student. “I had a choice between Baylor and LSU, and I chose LSU mainly because of

the fi nances, but ... I’m still going to graduate about $90,000 in debt.”

LSU Student Government President Taylor Cox , who is on the Technology and Operations subcommittee, attended the meet-ing and said he is worried about upcoming changes.

“We’ve been so blessed to have TOPS,” Cox said. “What we’re put-ting out is quality, but as TOPS is soon to change, I think that is going to hit us very hard.”

Sudduth said he is concerned about online courses diminishing the value of LSU.

“I have not yet seen the evidence to support that employers equate DeVry University and Phoenix with LSU,” Sudduth said. “We can become more technology savvy ... but we can devalue our University because of

online courses.”Renford Cindass , SG president

at LSU Health New Orleans , said the student experience needs to be preserved.

“Our students are nationally competitive,” Cindass said. “I want to be sure that the student experi-ence that we’re currently getting is making us nationally competitive is not adversely affected.”

Carroll Suggs , co-chair of the subcommittee, said student in-volvement is critical.

“How do we get students in-volved?” Suggs asked the members of the committee. “It’s very impor-tant that we can be trusted.”

Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority , together with the University , will construct a new scale model of the lower Mississippi River that will be four times larger in scale and size than the University’s existing model on River Road .

The new model will be a mas-sive, indoor, scale replica of the Mississippi River from Donald-sonville to the river delta, complete with sediment and running water, which will allow researchers and engineers with CPRA and the Uni-versity to study the river’s dynam-ics.

The new model will be the largest moving-bed, hydraulic phys-ical model in the country, said Rudy Simoneaux , the CPRA’s project en-gineer.

“The reason for changing is because the other model has reached the end of its useful life,”

Simoneaux said.Physical models have a limited

shelf life because the running water on them causes leaks and rotting, Simoneaux said.

The Vincent A. Forte River and Coastal Hydraulics Lab on River Road currently houses the 8-year-old small-scale physi-cal model, or SSPM , of the lower Mississippi River.

The new model, which Simo-neaux said is currently being re-ferred to as the expanded small-scale physical model, or ESSPM , will be built using a state-of-the-art 3-D router to construct more than 200 5-by-10 foot panels, compared to the current model’s 24 4-by-8 foot panels.

The scale of the new model will extend from Donaldsonville to the Gulf of Mexico, compared to the SSPM , which shows a model of the river extending from near Belle Chasse to the Gulf, Simoneaux said.

Simoneaux said the future of the larger model has many uses, like

determining the best places to put several large diversions in the river, which allow river water to freshen the marshes and sediment to build up the wetlands to prevent erosion.

Clint Willson , associate profes-sor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and di-rector of the University’s Vincent A. Forte River and Costal Hydraulics Lab , along with graduate students, conducts research using the current model and helps operate it.

“We would like to locate and design a diversion system that more effectively captures sediment. The Mississippi River is a wonderful natural resource, but currently we are not fully utilizing these resourc-es,” Willson said in an article on the University’s Live Gold website.

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Online focus, tuition raises concern subcommittee studentsMcKenzie WomackStaff Writer

Despite other universities claiming The National College Scorecard for American universi-ties is inaccurate, it proves to be accurate for LSU yet “superfi-cial,” according to LSU officials.

The College Scorecard, an on-line hub from the White House for college students to review costs, graduation rates, loan default rates and the types of employment after graduation for American universi-ties went viral last week. But this information has not been received as positively as intended. The New York Times reported that the numbers on the site are medians, and they are not compared in a side-by-side manner like on other government sites.

Vice Provost and Associate Vice Chancellor for Budget and Planning Robert Kuhn said the site only gives potential students and families a “superficial” look and he is unsure how TOPS re-lates to the numbers on the site.

“On your fee bill, you receive a reduction for TOPS or the state

general fund giving you money. I don’t know how TOPS relates to any of these scorecards,” Kuhn said. “Loan rates might be lower because of TOPS.”

Montclair State University in New Jersey is questioning the site’s calculations. The site states the school’s average net price has increased 34.5 percent from 2007 to 2009, but the university said costs have risen 9.7 percent be-tween 2008 and 2010.

Information on the scorecard for LSU states that 23,977 are en-rolled as undergraduates and “the average net price for undergradu-ate in-state students is $10,629 per year.”

Director of Institutional Re-search in the Office of Budget and Planning Sandra J. Walker said the University’s numbers are accurate.

“The bottom line is that we provide the numbers, and that is exactly what we reported and that is what is accurate,” Walker said.

Walker said the $10,629 price was from 2010-11, and last year’s records were published and sub-mitted last month.

Bernie Braun, applications consultant in the Office of Budget and Planning, said the graduation rate of 59.9 percent was also ac-curate.

Kuhn said the site’s numbers show the University’s relatively low costs.

“For a resident student, [LSU costs] 29 percent below average, and for non-residents 15 percent below average,” Kuhn said.

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“We have a lot of competition out there, so we have to make sure that wherever we land, we can re-cruit the best,” said Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Stuart Bell.

The mission, or proposed vi-sion, of the University focuses on three premises: academics, re-search and public service.

Developing this mission and vision will help the University become one of the top schools in the country, said SSA Consultant Christel Slaughter.

SSA Consultants is the higher education firm hired to assist the University through the reorgani-zation process. The 10-member transition team will work with SSA Consultants to deliver a reorganiza-tion proposal to the Board of Su-pervisors for approval this summer.

The meeting’s agenda also lent time to a discussion about the University’s membership in the As-sociation of American Universities.

The AAU comprises 62 pub-lic and private universities that have made substantial strides in research.

Federal academic research conducted by AAU universities to-taled $18.9 billion in 2009, or 58 percent of all federal research funds provided to colleges and universi-ties.

“The more we discuss and de-velop and vision, the better our un-derstanding of how this will work,” Slaughter said. “We’ve got to po-sition ourselves for becoming a top university.”

Setting the Table

A career night from Tennes-see junior guard Jordan McRae was too much for the LSU men’s basketball team to overcome as it fell to the Volunteers 82-72 on Tuesday night at Thompson-Bol-ing Arena.

McRae made all six of his 3-point shots as he dropped 34 points, nearly two-and-a-half times his season average of 13.8 points per game.

“We just didn’t have an answer for guarding Jordan McRae,” said LSU coach Johnny Jones in a post-game radio inter-view. “… I thought our guys did give great effort, making him play up over the top of us, as was the plan. But I thought he was re-ally good in terms of midrange game, knocking down threes, and I thought he was a big difference in the ball game tonight.”

Tennessee (15-10, 7-7 South-eastern Conference) came into Tuesday night’s matchup riding the momentum of a three-game winning streak, its most recent

Every baseball lineup has a formula.

When placing batters in the order, a head coach must take into account each of his player’s

individual abilities and apply them to where he’d fit best on the lineup card.

For LSU coach Paul Mainieri, one of the most difficult pieces to decipher was the top of the batting order, also known as the “table-set-ters.” Two key spots in the lineup,

the leadoff man and the No. 2 hole, were left open for both sophomore center fielder Chris Sciambra and freshman right fielder Mark Laird to claim.

It wasn’t an easy decision for Mainieri.

“About two weeks before

opening day, I had Laird leading off and Sciambra hitting second, and then we flip-flopped it, and it was really the last decision go-ing into the season,” Mainieri said. “I just felt like it was a better

Things got wild in Alex Box Stadium on Tuesday night.

The Lamar bullpen imploded in the eighth inning with four wild pitches and the Tigers (4-0) cashed in on the mistakes, scor-ing six runs and giving LSU an 8-1 win.

Wild pitches by Lamar (4-1) pitchers Travis Moore and J.T. Autrey set the tone for a hectic inning that allowed six LSU runs on two hits. Autrey started the inning by walking senior desig-nated hitter Raph Rhymes to first, and senior infielder Mason Katz

followed with a hard line drive to third. Junior infielder JaCoby Jones walked, and the inning spi-raled.

“It fell apart for them there because their pitchers just didn’t handle the environment well for them there in the eighth inning,” said LSU coach Paul Mainieri.

As soon as Moore stepped on the mound for Lamar, he threw a wild pitch, allowing freshman outfielder Andrew Stevenson to score.

All together, Lamar pitchers Will Hibbs, Moore and Autrey allowed six walks, six runs, and threw four wild pitches in the eighth inning. Besides Steven-son, sophomore outfielder Chris Sciambra, Katz, Jones, freshman catcher Chris Chinea and junior infielder Christian Ibarra all scored in the eighth.

“In that situation, you can’t try to produce, you have to let them do it for you,” Katz said. “We literally went out there and did nothing.”

After a weekend of “swing-ing at really bad pitches,” Katz improved his batting average of .100 to .200, batting one runner in, earning two hits and scoring once.

“Opening night I guess I was jittery,” Katz said. “[Tonight] I was being more selective, taking good pitches and not being afraid to hit with two strikes.”

On the mound, sophomore left-handed pitcher Cody Glenn kept Lamar at bay with three strikeouts, allowing three hits, one run and walking two bat-ters. Before the game, Mainieri

SportsWednesday, February 20, 2013 page 5

McRae’s career night downs LSUMarcus RodrigueSports Contributor

Decisive Win, see page 7

RoaD Loss, see page 7LeaDoff HitteRs, see page 7

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Laird, Sciambra proving to be effective at the top of the order

Tigers fall to red-hot Tennessee, 82-72

photos by anGeLa MaJoR / The Daily Reveille

[Left] LSU freshman center fielder Mark Laird (9) takes a swing at the ball Tuesday during the Tigers’ 8-1 victory against Lamar. [Right] LSU sophomore left fielder Chris Sciambra (5) prepares to hit the ball Tuesday. Laird and Sciambra lead off the Tiger’s batting order with Sciambra in the first spot and Laird in the No. 2 hole.

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LSU senior first baseman Mason Katz catches the ball for an out Tuesday during the Tigers’ 8-1 victory against the Lamar Cardinals.

Tigers capitalize on four wild pitches

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LSU scores six runs in eighth inning to top Lamar, 8-1

With Southeastern Confer-ence play a little more than a week away , the LSU women’s tennis team will look to continue the intense style of play it showed in a 6-1 win against McNeese State when it faces off with Rice at 1 p.m. on Wednesday in Houston .

The win against McNeese was almost a complete sweep, with the Lady Tigers winning all three doubles matches and all but one of the single matches in straight sets . LSU coach Julia Sell called it the most complete performance so far this season.

“It was the fi rst time we were able to maintain our focus and intensity for an entire match and really shut down our opponent,” Sell said. “As an athlete, you draw a lot of confi dence from [such a performance], and we are going to take that into our match versus Rice.”

Rice (3-2) is a program that has been steadily improving un-der the leadership of coach Eliza-beth Schmidt , who was named 2012 Conference USA Coach of the Year . Schmidt guided the Owls to two wins in the NCAA Tournament and a Sweet 16 berth for the fi rst time ever .

Schmidt was not the only one to bring home some hardware following last season . Sophomore Natalie Beazant won numerous

awards during her freshman campaign, including both C-USA Freshman and Player of the Year .

“They are a solid team with no huge weakness,” Sell said. “[The Lady Tigers ] are going to have to work for every point and execute with confi dence if we are

going to win this match.”With only three matches re-

maining on the non-conference slate , Sell wants the Lady Tigers to focus on being accountable in order to reach the goals they set for themselves.

“We are a team that is

transforming daily, and if we continue to trust in the process we are going to have success,” Sell said.

The No. 12 LSU men’s golf team rode a hot fi nal round to a second place fi nish Tuesday at the season-opening Mobile Bay Inter-collegiate .

The Tigers shot a 5-under 283 in the fi nal round to fi nish the tour-nament at 1-over 865 , four shots be-hind No. 22 Auburn .

“It is a good place to start the semester,” said LSU coach Chuck Winstead. “We got off to a slow start on the fi rst nine holes, but played very solid golf after that.”

A trio of Tigers fi nished the tournament tied for fi fth . Juniors An-drew Presley and Smylie Kaufman and sophomore Stewart Jolly all fi n-ished the tournament at 1-over 217 .

Presley birdied his last three holes to fi nish the fi nal round with a 4-under 68 , good for a tie for the lowest round of the tournament.

Kaufman also used a strong ending to secure a top fi ve fi n-ish . Kaufman struggled to 5-over through 10 holes but birdied four of his next six holes to fi nish the day and the tournament at 1-over .

Jolly had two birdies in his fi nal round but double-bogeyed No. 16 to fi nish the round at even par . He shot 2-over in the fi rst round and 1-under in the second round.

Sophomore Myles Lewis had rounds of 2-over , 1-over and 2-over to fi nish 5-over for the tournament, good for a tie for No. 22 overall .

Sophomore Curtis Thompson bounced back from shooting 12-over in the fi rst round to shoot even par in round two and then 2-under in the fi nal round; each round contributed to the Tigers’ team score.

Auburn junior Niclas Carls-son won the tournament at 4-under , shooting two rounds of 1-under and one round of 2-under to win by two shots.

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LSU travels to Rice with SEC play looming

victory coming in the form of an 88-58 obliteration of then-No. 25 Kentucky on Saturday.

LSU (15-9, 6-7 SEC) brought in a little streak of its own, win-ning six of its last eight contests behind great shooting efforts. But the Volunteers outshot the Tigers, shooting 59 percent and making four of their six 3-point attempts in the fi rst half en route to a 40-30 lead at the break.

McRae and fellow junior guard Trae Golden both exceeded their season scoring averages by halftime with 14 points apiece.

The Tigers and Volunteers opened the second half by trad-ing 3-point blows for about fi ve minutes, and Jones turned to his vaunted full-court pressure as his squad continued to fl irt with an 11-point defi cit. But Tennessee consistently broke the LSU press, and its offensive effi ciency kept the Tigers at bay.

Sophomore forward Johnny O’Bryant III paced the Tigers with 24 points and eight re-bounds, but he fouled out while jostling for a rebound with 3:21 left in the game. O’Bryant spent most of the night battling with Tennessee sophomore forward Jarnell Stokes, whose 13 points and 11 rebounds gave him his 11th double-double of the sea-son, tied with O’Bryant for most in the SEC.

LSU cut the Volunteer lead to six a few times, but the Tigers were never able to get over the hump.

“We did a great job early on,” Jones said. “We turned them over, sped them up a little bit. But again, they settled in on the back side of [the press], and they got good looks, got some set shots,

and knocked down some threes.”The Tigers’ Tuesday night

tilt with Tennessee marked their third game in six days, and they will get an extended rest before hosting Alabama at 12:30 p.m.

Saturday in the PMAC.

said he wanted fi ve innings from Glenn, and that was what he got.

“I was ready to go six [in-nings], but coach was ready to go to the bullpen, which I respect,” Glenn said. “But next time I’ll be ready to go six.”

After a shaky fi rst inning where he gave up a run, Glenn said he felt a sense of urgency to prove to his teammates and coaches that he could get the job done. He said crucial infi eld plays by Jones helped, and Jones’ solo home run in the second in-ning knotted the score at 1-1 and

helped settle Glenn’s nerves on the mound.

“I wasn’t trying to hit [a home run] tonight because I knew the wind was blowing pret-ty hard,” Jones said. “It cut the wind and got out for me.”

The Tigers return to action at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, when they take on Brigham Young at Alex Box Stadium.

combination for our team, and I didn’t want to make Laird take a lot of pitches with him being new to college baseball.”

The judgment worked in the Ti-gers’ favor during the team’s open-ing series against Maryland.

S c i a m b r a thrived in the lead-off spot against the Terrapins, batting .625 with a .750 on-base percent-age.

“I think [get-ting the leadoff man on often] it’s huge,” Mainieri said. “I knew he hit leadoff in high school at Catholic High, but he’s a much different player now. Now he draws, walks and he uses the whole fi eld. He doesn’t have great running speed, but outside of that, he’s the consummate leadoff hit-ter. He’s not afraid to go deep into counts and make the pitcher throw a lot of pitches.”

Sciambra knows his role in the Tigers’ batting order, and his plate approach during the Maryland se-ries proved he has a keen under-standing of the leadoff position.

“It’s an honor to be the lead-off man and know that [Mainieri]

trusts me to set the table for the guys in the middle of the order,” Sciambra said. “I’ve got to do anything that I can to get on base, whether it’s walking or getting a hit

here and there.”Laird had a

more diffi cult time adjusting to Mary-land’s pitching, picking up only two hits over the three-game series. Laird’s speed has been well-docu-mented, and his multiple attempts to lay down bunts showed the fresh-man has the tools to be a No. 2 bat.

“Really, we didn’t even see

what Mark Laird can do offen-sively,” Mainieri said. “You watch and see this kid as the season goes

on, and you’ll see he’s going to be a special player.”

Laird isn’t intimidated by be-ing placed in the second position as a freshman.

“I didn’t really think about [being placed No. 2 in the lineup],” Laird said. “I just try to play like I always play. I try to fi nd a ball in the zone I can drive and get a base hit.”

The young left-handed batter also understands the importance of having a leadoff man with Sciam-bra’s capabilities.

“It’s always great to have somebody who can get on base and help the team out in almost every at-bat,” Laird said. “It gives us an opportunity to move him over and score. It’s pretty great.”

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LEADOFF HITTERS, from page 5

ROAD LOSS, from page 5

DECISIVE WIN, from page 5

SAUL YOUNG / The Knoxville News Sentinel

Tennessee’s Jarnell Stokes (5) drives to the basket as LSU’s Johnny O’Bryant III (2) defends him Tuesday during the Tigers’ 82-72 loss to the Volunteers.

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LSU senior designated hitter Raph Rhymes (right) high � ves junior second baseman JaCoby Jones (left) on Tuesday during the Tigers’ 8-1 victory against Lamar.

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‘[Sciambra] doesn’t have great running speed,

but outside of that he’s the consummate leado� hitter. He’s not afraid to go deep into counts and make the pitcher throw

a lot of pitches.’

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Kids are great at a lot of things, like being naive, innocent and murdering entire villages full of people.

It has been a while since we’ve talked about Joseph Kony and his child army and under-standably so.

After Jason Russell, Kony 2012 Director and Co-founder of Invisible Children Inc., was caught running around naked, masturbating on a sidewalk in San Diego, the movement lost a little credibility.

But that hasn’t stopped Un-cle Sam from getting involved.

After the YouTube film de-tailing Kony’s brutal kidnap and conscription of Ugandan children into his evil cult/army went viral, the U.S. decided to intervene — despite the fact that, at least ac-cording to the Ugandans, Kony has probably been dead for a while now.

In October 2011, Presi-dent Barack Obama deployed a contingent of 100 U.S. military advisers to assist the Ugandan Army in its posthumous hunt for the long defunct madman.

But that’s not all he did.Using his keen mind for

military tactics, Obama knew the only way to fight fire was with fire — or rather to fight a bunch of starving brainwashed kids with another bunch of starving brainwashed kids.

So the president promptly

granted immunity to the Congolese National Army, among others, and continued to fund them despite the fact they were employing the exact same tactics Kony used.

To do this, Obama waived a section of the Child Soldiers Pre-vention Act of 2008 that forbade the U.S. from sending military aid to any country that enslaved children under the age of 18 to fight on the battlefield.

When asked by child-ad-vocacy groups why the United

States simply didn’t withdraw funding for those specific ele-ments of our allied governments that enslave children, the White House responded saying “the ap-proach had been weighed but re-jected as unwieldy.”

Let me be as clear as pos-sible: The President of the United States, Barack Obama, a recipi-ent of the Nobel Peace Prize, per-sonally directed the U.S. govern-ment to continue giving money to organizations that forced children to fight and die.

An example is South Sudan, where soldiers forced the chil-dren of refugees fleeing from Darfur into army units.

Or in Chad — where the Chadian Army refused to dis-charge their thousands of com-batants under the age of 15 because, according to the Wash-ington Post, “[they] fight against al-Qaida militants.”

Apparently Obama’s child army has worked so well, he waived the immunity again in 2012, and will presumably do so

again later this year.In fact, the president has

been waiving or ignoring this provision every year since he took office.

Why? National security, of course. How funding “allied” armies that conscript and employ children to do their dirty work benefits the security of the nation absolutely eludes me.

I understand the material side of the equation — what bet-ter way to end child soldiering than to fund an army of children?

Children are compact and quick, they don’t require much food, and they’re much easier to trick into running through mine fields.

I just thought humans, as a species, had decided that sort of thing was incredibly immoral.

Whatever “national security” advantages we get from fielding our own Childrens Crusade are probably washed out by the rest of the world assuming we’re just as evil and hypocritical as the ter-rorists, like Kony, we claim to oppose.

Obama should either quit giving these maniacs money or he should have to give back that Nobel Peace Prize.

Preferably both.

Nicholas Pierce is a 23-year-old history senior from Baton Rouge.

photo courtesy of The Associated Press

Members of Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army are seen July 31, 2006 as their leader Joseph Kony meets with a delegation of Ugandan officials, lawmakers and representatives from non-governmental organizations, in the Democratic Republic of Congo near the Sudanese border. The LRA Crisis Tracker group, which tracks the Joseph Kony-led LRA, said in a report released Feb. 7 that the LRA killed 51 civilians across Central Africa in 2012, a huge drop in the number killed from two years previous.

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OpinionWednesday, February 20, 2013 page 9

Cops hold a revered position in our society.

Like the military, police of-ficers are often regarded as heroes for simply wearing the uniform and doing their jobs.

There’s a reason for that. In the eyes of most civilians,

cops risk their lives to protect us from crimes and criminals, putting themselves between us and danger.

However, unquestioned rever-ence to authority figures in a free society is never a good idea, and it is this reverence that makes it so easy to dismiss Christopher Dorner, the former Los Angeles Police De-partment officer who killed four during his vengeance-fueled ram-page against the LAPD.

Now, I believe I have to make a few statements before I go on.

No, I do not and did not sup-port or condone Dorner’s actions. Going to “war” with the LAPD as though you’re some righteous, Rambo-style crusader is never the right decision, no matter how noble your intentions. Brutally murdering innocent people is an act that sim-ply cannot be forgiven.

Yet, no matter how I feel about Dorner’s actions, I cannot simply dismiss his case against the LAPD because of them.

Dorner released a manifesto Feb. 4, detailing the corruption and racism that he alleged was rampant throughout the department.

“The department has not changed since the Rampart and Rodney King days,” Dorner wrote in his manifesto. “It has gotten worse.”

Most of Dorner’s issues with the LAPD seem to stem from an incident in 2007 when he reported a fellow officer for allegedly kicking a mentally ill suspect in

the face. Dorner wrote that this incident crossed the “Blue Line,” an alleged, unwritten code to not report fellow officers, and he blamed it for his eventual dismissal from the department.

It’s easy to call someone a “cop-killer” and immediately dis-miss anything and everything he or she has to say, associating this per-son with the vilest of the vile.

However, I think there is a reason that many people, especially in minority communities,

empathized with Dorner. Despite the noble caricature many Americans hold of the police, law enforcement officers often abuse their authority and their power, and sometimes, people end up on the wrong end of that abuse.

Have we so quickly forgotten the incident on Danzinger Bridge, when the New Orleans Police De-partment tried to cover up a shoot-ing that occurred six days after Hurricane Katrina? What about the Rodney King incident?

Myriad reports of police cor-ruption are released each year, so why are Dorner’s allegations being so easily ignored?

Already, two other former LAPD officers have come out af-firming Dorner’s critiques of cor-ruption and racism run rampant.

Brian Bentley, 49, detailed how he was treated after writing a book on misconduct in the depart-ment. Joe Jones, 48, released his own manifesto detailing his own problems with the LAPD while at-tempting to reach out to Dorner and stop him.

Even the LAPD’s response to the Dorner threat is enough to call their organization into question.

Shooting at random civilians driving in trucks (which weren’t even the same make or color of Dorner’s) is not what I’d want out of a police force.

Corruption in police depart-ments is nothing new, so dismiss-ing the allegations brought up by Dorner simply because of his ac-tions amounts to nothing more than an emotional reaction that’ll do nothing to help anyone.

If Dorner had legitimate criti-cisms and we ignore them because of his actions, corruption will con-tinue to breed in the LAPD and other departments.

And it might be just a matter of time before someone is once again driven to the edge.

Dorner’s allegation shouldn’t be so easily dismissedMANUFACTURING DISCONTENT

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After the amount of decep-tion our art students have alleg-edly endured by paying unlaw-fully collected fees, we’re glad to see the University has taken a step to right itself and bring justice to students.

News leaked Tuesday that students received emails inform-ing them that they would be reim-bursed for the extra fees collected in 2010, 2011 and 2012, which were spent on iPads, Apple com-puters and other items for certain faculty members, according to an audit released by the LSU System.

It’s only right that the Uni-versity should return the money that students unfairly paid, along with point out that this money was “assessed outside of the normal collection process for tuition and fees.”

But the University should go one step further — art students deserve an official apology. A sincere “I’m sorry” would go a long way to repair trust. A slip-up like this isn’t easily forgotten and

brushed under the table.Our art students bring

creativity and beauty to our University. They design and

construct projects that add to the University’s aesthetic appeal and

their programs bring us national recognition. On top of that, they’ve been shelling out double doses of money between expensive art supplies and unapproved fees.

They deserve to be recog-nized for their contributions to campus and to society. An official apology would show them that they’re valued in the eyes of their leaders.

We’re interested to see what happens in the upcoming lawsuit between the University and the whistleblower Margaret Herster, and we thank her for being coura-geous enough to stand up for stu-dents. Without Herster, students may not have had their money refunded.

We hope more information continues to come out about the situation and that the University will take steps to ensure some-thing like this doesn’t ever happen again. Students deserve better.

CHRIS CARLSON / The Associated Press

Law enforcement officers look over the scene of an officer involved shooting in Torrance, Calif. on Feb. 7. The shooting is believed to be related to the manhunt for fired Los Angeles police officer, Christopher Dorner.

LSU made the right call by refunding studentsThe Daily Reveille Editorial Board

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put right into the clouds, that means in the worst of times, in the mean-est and most threatening of times, there’s a possibility of seeing hope.”

The University is a rainbow in the clouds because it is an opportu-nity for some students to be the fi rst in their family to attend such an insti-tution, she said.

“We have had rainbows in our clouds, and so I wanted to come here,” Angelou said. “I wanted to be here. I wanted to see you. I wanted to hear you. I wanted to remind you of who you really are and that you’ve already been paid for.”

Some people today still fi nd it diffi cult to see the African-American

race as a marvel, Angelou said. Poet-ry is important in understanding the culture, and she encouraged young people to visit libraries to familiarize themselves with African-American poetry.

“You need Nikki Giovanni . You need her. You need Mari Evans . You need them. You need the poetry of the 19th century and the 20th cen-tury , and even now in the 21st . Don’t you know Jay-Z? Don’t you know that is poetry?” she asked. “Don’t you know that some of the hip-hops are poetry? You take some of those lyrics and talk about what it’s like to be black in these yet-to-be United States.”

She recited many of her favorite poems and various lines

from old folk songs to remind stu-dents that they’ve “already been paid for.”

“The woman I love is fat,” she sang, “And chocolate to the bone. And every time she shakes, some skinny woman loses her home.”

A sea of laughter erupted from the crowd while Angelou chuckled herself. It’s crucial to have some-thing to laugh at in spite of every-thing around you, she said.

“The truth is you have to laugh at yourself fi rst,” she insisted. “You’re the funniest person you’ve ever met. I never trust people who don’t laugh.”

Young men and women are the best defense the country has in fi ght-ing racial oppression, Angelou said.

Young people aren’t told enough that they are important and loved, she added.

She recalled the time when she reminded rapper Tupac Shakur of his worth.

Upon traveling to California to recite a poem for Janet Jackson dur-ing the fi lming of John Singleton’s “Poetic Justice,” she saw two men yelling at each other on the set, near-ing a boiling point.

She grabbed one of the men and took him aside.

“I said, young man, excuse me. When is the last time anyone has told you how important you are? Do you know that our people stood on slave ship docks so that you could survive? Did you know that they laid

in the fi lth of each other’s excrement so that you could survive? Do you know how much we need you?”

He began to cry, and she wiped his tears with her hands until he was calm.

Angelou later learned the man was the legendary rap artist. Shakur’s mother sent Angelou a letter thank-ing her for possibly saving her son’s life that day.

She then turned to the men and women in the crowd — potential po-ets, scientists, curers of cancer. Why not you, she asked, pointing to the audience.

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ANGELOU, from page 1

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