At 123 years old, the oldest living me-teorologist, Punxsutawney Phil — “Seer of Seers, Prognosticator of all Prognosticators” — emerged from his stump Monday and saw his shadow, declaring six more weeks of winter.

But closer to home, Pierre C. Shadeaux made a much different forecast. In New Ibe-ria, Shadeaux’s prediction pertains the length

of spring rather than winter. Shadeaux, a nutria who leads festivities

entitled “Cajun Groundhog Day” in New Iberia, emerged before a crowd of about 40 people and did not see his shadow Monday, which means a longer spring for Southerners dreading summer’s humid weather.

“If he sees his shadow, it’s bad news. If he doesn’t see his shadow, it’s good news,” said Will Chapman, publisher of The Daily Iberian who began the yearly festivity in 1997. “Good news is putting off summer’s heat and humidity.”

Punxsutawney Phil made his forecast to a crowd of about 13,000 who gathered in

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Beer cups littered the sidewalks as a line wrapped around the porch of Serrano’s on Highland Road on Saturday evening.

And the crowd of pub-crawling patrons packing Northgate-area bars may have shared more common bonds than multicolored wrist-bands and intoxication.

The more than 2,000 people — mostly students — who participated in the Abita Pub Crawl could share similar genes. A new Harvard-

based study found genetic makeup infl uences a person’s popularity, social skills and even the willingness to go out partying.

Harvard professor Nicholas Christakis and two University of San Diego professors, James Fowler and Christopher Dawes, published the study Jan. 26 in the Proceedings of the Nation-al Academy of Sciences.

“These results allow us to reject the hy-pothesis that genes have no effect on human social networks,” the study said. “Genes give

Following the tragic suicides of six University students in 1970 , including Student Govern-ment President Art Ensminger , the student body voted to estab-lish a suicide prevention hotline with the Baton Rouge Crisis Pre-vention Center. Now, 39 years later, some dissatisfaction with the center almost ended this long-standing relationship.

Despite a few weeks of shaky relations with the BRCIC, the University decided to maintain its relationship with the center af-ter BRCIC offi cials promised to increase the center’s presence on campus.

During a telephone confer-ence with SG President Colo-rado Robertson and University offi cials Thursday afternoon, the BRCIC vowed to institute new training programs for University faculty and students and to make

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The Rev. Scott Bullock makes his declaration Monday in New Iberia. He announced that Pierre C. Shadeaux, the weather-predicting nutria, said residents should expect a long spring.

Pierre C. Shadeaux doesn’t see his shadow

Study suggests some people’s party habits could be a result of genetics

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I get my [outgoing personality] from

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Students toast at the Abita Pub Crawl on Saturday in the Northgate area. A recent study suggests party habits could be a result of genetics.

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Police seek seized UN worker in Pakistan

Protester hurls shoe at Chinese prime minister during UK visitCAMBRIDGE, England (AP) — A protester hurled abuse and then a shoe at China’s prime minister Monday while he delivered a speech on the global economy at Cambridge Uni-versity at the end of his trip to Britain. The protester leapt up from his seat near the back of a crowded auditorium, blew a whistle and yelled that Prime Minister Wen Jiabao was a “dic-tator” before throwing the shoe toward the stage. “How can this university prostitute itself with this dictator here? How can you listen ... to him unchallenged,” the man shouted.

NATION, STATE AND CITY BRIEFS

Daschle pleads case to keep nomination aliveWASHINGTON (AP) — Fighting to salvage his Cabinet nomination, Tom Daschle pleaded his case Monday eve-ning in a closed meeting with former Senate colleagues after publicly apologizing for failing to pay more than $120,000 in taxes. President Barack Obama said he was “absolutely” sticking with his nominee for health secre-tary, and a key senator added an important endorsement. The White House both underscored the magnitude of the problem and tried to downplay it in the space of seven words. “Nobody’s perfect,” said press secretary Robert Gibbs. “It was a serious mistake ...” On the bright side for Daschle, he got warm words of support from the chair-man of the Senate Finance Committee, the panel that will have the first say on his fate.

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Marijuana use, nights out decrease among teens

Gov. Jindal ‘concerned’ about stimulus bill

CHICAGO (AP) — Kids on both sides of the Atlantic are smoking less pot and going out less often with friends at night, a study of 15-year-olds in 30 countries found. The double declines occurred in the United States, Can-ada and mostly European countries from 2002 to 2006. The trends are likely related, because other research has found that kids who spend many evenings out are more likely to smoke dope than homebodies. Teens are most likely to use the drug secretly away from home, said lead author Emmanuel Kuntsche.

BATON ROUGE (AP) — Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal said Monday if he were still in Congress, he would have voted “no” on the federal stimulus bill. But he said he will review the final version of the bill for federal money for Louisiana projects. Jin-dal told reporters if he were still in the U.S. House, he would have joined fellow Republicans in voting against the bill. Jindal served in Congress before his election to governor, a post he assumed in January 2008.

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QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen seized an American U.N. worker as he rode to work Mon-day, shooting and killing his driver, U.N. and Pakistani authorities said. His Land Cruiser was found rammed against a wall, punctured by at least one bullet hole. The United Nations expressed “extreme shock and dismay” at the rare attack in a region that has largely been spared the al-Qaida and Taliban insurgency wracking much of north-western Pakistan. The government called the abduction of John Solecki, head of the U.N. refugee office in the southwestern city of Quetta, a “dastardly terrorist act.”

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Knocking door-to-door to re-cruit volunteers during and after Hurricane Gustav was just a walk in the park for Michael Rhea.

“Volunteer LSU is part of the Campus Life department,” said Rhea, Volunteer LSU director. “That department’s mission is to come up with innovative projects that enhance student learning and get students involved in the com-munity.”

After Gustav hit, Volunteer LSU leaders, including Rhea, re-cruited volunteers to help at the University during the hard days after the storm.

Volunteer LSU was founded in the spring of 2006, just after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. Rhea, international studies and political science se-nior, said disasters like Hurricanes Katrina and Gustav really drove him to serve the community.

“After Katrina, we noticed that there wasn’t a real service organization on this campus that served as the central location for all things service,” said Campus Life Assistant Director Mallory Trochesset. “Volunteer LSU’s mis-sion is to bring together the LSU community of students, faculty and staff, to alert them to service opportunities in the community, to get them engaged in what’s hap-pening and make a difference in Baton Rouge.”

Trochesset said Volunteer LSU membership is open to all students, faculty and staff. Vol-unteer LSU does not have of-ficial membership requirements and therefore, keeps track of their

membership numbers through their e-mail list, which currently has around 1,300 people. Howev-er, Trochesset said Volunteer LSU has seen a higher volume of traffic in the e-mail list each year.

“The unique thing about Vol-unteer LSU is that it’s open to anyone and everyone in the LSU community,” said Trochesset. “Once you decide that you want to participate in a program, you are a member of Volunteer LSU.”

From pressure washing pub-lic school buildings to cleaning up after Ike in Galveston, Texas, Volunteer LSU is successfully achieving its mission to have in-novative community service proj-ects this year.

One of the biggest service events Volunteer LSU has taken the leadership of in its short ex-istence is Community Bound, which takes place the Saturday before the fall semester begins. Community Bound focuses on serving the needs of East Baton Rouge Parish Schools. In 2008, Community Bound’s 300 volun-teers helped clean, paint and beau-tify 10 East Baton Rouge public schools. Within the program, a team of faculty and staff serve as site supervisors, and a team of up-perclassmen serves as leaders for the day while first years and other incoming students participate as the volunteers.

“All the schools were very satisfied with what we did, and we made major improvements for the schools that really needed help,” said Rhea. “That being my first experience with Volunteer LSU as a leader was really rewarding and set a great tone for the year.”

The 2008 fall service proj-ect sponsored by Volunteer LSU teamed up with BREC, the Rec-reation and Park Commission for the East Baton Rouge Parish, and took 80 volunteers to help clean up

Baton Rouge parks after Gustav, said Trochesset.

“We painted one mile of fence,” Trochesset said. “BREC had been so focused on restoring parks after the hurricane, and we helped with the small things they couldn’t get to. It’s always good to walk away from a project, see the result and feel good about it, knowing we made a difference.”

Volunteer LSU is split two ways, said Trochesset. One half, the executive board, oversees the big picture and plans the big events like Community Bound. The other half is made up of the five focus areas. These focus areas were picked by the founders and are based on where the most help was needed in the community.

This spring, Volunteer LSU has two more major projects in addition to the smaller projects headed by the five different focus areas. The first is called Service on the Shore: Galveston, which will take 40 to 50 volunteers to Galveston, Texas, from March 6 to 8 to help clean up the debris and devastation left by Hurricane Ike.

“Louisiana has received so much help from other states and citizens from around the country during its hurricane troubles that it will be nice to give back,” said Rhea. “Texas has helped us a lot. We’re going to take vans and do some rebuilding and some gut-ting.”

Through this project, Rhea and Trochesset plan to shed light on the troubles people are still fac-ing from Hurricane Ike.

The second major service event this spring will be a project with the Mid-City Redevelopment Alliance in which volunteers go to a part of Mid-City Baton Rouge to help renovate homes and “make them more livable,” according to Rhea.

“You don’t have to be a

member of a specific service or-ganization to volunteer,” said Mi-chelle Lowery Eldredge, associate director of Campus Life.

Applications to apply for Ser-vice on the Shore: Galveston are on the Volunteer LSU Web site and in room 304 of the Student Union.

Three University colleges will answer to a new leader start-ing this summer.

The Col-lege of Engi-neering, the College of Mu-sic and Dra-matic Arts and the School of the Coast and Environment have each hired a new dean.

The LSU Board of Su-pervisors con-firmed and approved the contracts for Richard Koubek, College of Engineering; Laurence

Kaptain, College of Music and Dramatic Arts; and Christopher D’elia, School of the Coast and Environment at its January 22 meeting.

“Each [new hire] have been in places where they know how to build strong programs and take us on the road to excel-lence,” said Chancellor Mi-chael Martin. “Each one is desirable be-cause they have ‘played in the big leagues’ before.”

Koubek is the head of Penn-sylvania State University’s Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. His appointment is effective March 1, 2009, with a June 1, 2009 start date and has an initial salary of $275,000 on a fiscal year basis,

according to his contract obtained by The Daily Reveille.

Kaptain is the dean and pro-fessor at the Shenandoah Con-servatory in Winchester, Va. Ac-cording to his contract, his a p p o i n t m e n t takes effect July 1, 2009 and he will re-ceive $200,000 on a fiscal year basis.

K a p t a i n said he wants to be a “power listener,” learn-ing the college’s strengths and gaining a feel for the faculty and students before making decisions in any direction.

“The LSU College of Mu-sic and Dramatic Arts has a big leadership role for a wide geographic range,” he said. “People are looking to LSU for leadership ... CMDA has a big

responsibility, and I want to lead the college through this responsi-bility.”

Christopher D’elia is the re-gional vice chancellor for aca-demic affairs, research and graduate stud-ies, director of the Interna-tional Ocean Institute-USA. He is also an env i ronmen-tal science and policy and ma-rine sciences professor at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. According to his con-tract, his appointment, effective July 1, 2009, has an initial salary of $200,000 per fiscal year and will not lead to tenure.

“I want to see more of an identity built with the school,” D’elia said. “It’s critical that peo-ple start to recognize the name and

the enormous power of LSU’s po-tential.”

Provost Astrid Merget said since the School of the Coast and Environment is the youngest on campus, she would like to see its academic program enhanced and capitalize on its critical location on the Gulf Coast.

The deans were chosen after undergoing a selection process that included a two-day on-cam-pus interview process and mul-tiple meetings with the chancellor and provost, Merget said.

“We are just elated to have deans of that academic caliber,” she said. “Each one has proven himself in leading institutions and at the same time, excelling as scholars and teachers in their fields.”

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Volunteer LSU achieving goals of innovationCommunity service projects successfulBy Mary Walker BausContributing Writer

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Eric Holder won Senate confirmation Monday as the nation’s first Afri-can-American attorney general, after supporters from both parties touted his dream resumé and eas-ily overcame Republican concerns over his commitment to fight ter-rorism and his willingness to back the right to keep and bear arms.

The vote was 75-21.Holder’s chief supporter, Sen.

Patrick Leahy, said the confirma-tion was a fulfillment of civil rights leader Martin Luther King’s dream that everyone would be judged by the content of their character.

“Come on the right side of his-tory,” said Leahy, chairman of the Judiciary Committee.

Holder becomes the only black in President Obama’s Cabinet. Three other African-Americans were named to top administration positions but are not Cabinet sec-retaries.

Holder was a federal pros-ecutor, judge and the No. 2 Justice Department official in the Clinton administration. Even his critics

agreed that Holder was well-qual-ified, but they questioned his posi-tions and independence.

The debate turned partisan in its first moments, when Leahy expressed anger that a few Repub-licans demanded a pledge from Holder that he wouldn’t prosecute intelligence agents who participat-ed in harsh interrogations.

Leahy singled out Texas Re-publican John Cornyn as one who wanted to “turn a blind eye to pos-sible lawbreaking before investi-gating whether it occurred.”

“No one should be seeking to trade a vote for such a pledge,” Le-ahy said.

When Cornyn rose to announce his vote against Holder, he did not make such a demand. However, he accused the nominee of changing his once-supportive position — on the need to detain terrorism sus-pects without all the rights of the Geneva Convention — to one of harshly criticizing Bush adminis-tration’s counterterrorism policies.

“His contrasting positions from 2002 to 2008 make me won-der if this is the same person,” Cornyn said. “It makes me wonder what he truly believes.”

Cornyn and Sen. Tom Coburn said Holder was hostile to the right of individuals to own guns, despite a Supreme Court ruling last June

affirming the right to have weap-ons for self-defense in the home.

Holder said at his confirma-tion hearings: “I understand that the Supreme Court has spoken.” But he added that some restrictions on guns could still be legal.

Holder’s confirmation will trigger reviews — and changes — to the most controversial Bush administration policies, from inter-rogation tactics to terrorism trials and warrantless surveillance.

Those are some of the known issues. Even Holder doesn’t know what he’ll find when he looks at se-cret memos in the Justice Depart-ment Office of Legal Counsel.

Holder also will have to re-habilitate a department that under President George W. Bush was criticized for injecting politics in hiring career officials and firings of U.S. attorneys. He’ll have to decide whether to prosecute Jus-tice Department officials who may have violated the law in some of those policies and tactics.

Holder also could reverse Bush’s orders to former aides not to testify before Congress on their private advise discussions on the U.S. attorney firings.

To the satisfaction of Demo-crats and consternation of some Republicans, Holder told his con-firmation hearing, “Waterboarding

is torture.” The statement about an interrogation technique that simu-lates drowning was an important signal of a policy change from Bush’s view that the tactic was le-gal and not torture.

Obama issued an executive order to close the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within a year. He also created a special task force, co-chaired by the attorney general and the

secretary of defense, to review de-tainee policy going forward. The group will consider policy options for apprehension, detention, trial, transfer or release of detainees and report to the president within 180 days.

The Office of Multicultural Af-fairs is working to start a chapter of the first Latina sorority on campus, said Cross Cultural Affairs Coordi-nator Cerise Edmonds.

The sorority, Lambda Theta Alpha, will also be the first Latina sorority in the state, said Ashley Suazo, public relations freshman and founding member.

Suazo, along with three other members of the Hispanic Cultural Society, researched LTA after Ed-monds encouraged them to find a student organization they could identify with, Edmonds said in an e-mail.

“It’s our opportunity to basi-cally stand up,” Suazo said. “Our mission for this is so girls can iden-tify even more with a deeper bond as a sisterhood.”

The four founding members have since recruited four more par-ticipants.

The University will recognize LTA as a student interest group for one year, before becoming nation-ally recognized as a chapter, said Angela Guillory, director of Greek life.

Though LTA has Latin roots, the sorority is multicultural, Ed-monds said.

“Of course we respect the roots and that it’s Latin, but we’re

trying to be more multicultural,” Suazo said.

LTA’s goals include scholarly excellence and the empowerment of Latina women, according to lambdalady.org, LTA’s official Web site.

“Where I come from, there’s a lot of poverty,” said Suazo, who is Honduran. “It’s not that common for people to go to a re-ally good college. It’s not that common for a woman to be

[anything] other than a housewife. It’s different when you come to America and when you become part of an organization like this.”

The interest group is known as the Interested Ladies of Lambda Theta Alpha, Edmonds said.

As an interest group, the mem-bers must perform community ser-vice and hold socials.

“Unfortunately, going through the one-year process does not guar-antee expansion,” Edmonds said.

Thomas Gonzales founded LTA at Kean University in New Jersey in December 1975.

Since then, LTA has increased cultural and political awareness and community activism among the Latin community.

LTA is open to all female stu-dents, as long as they meet specific requirements, which include 12 hours of college credit, enrollment as a full-time student and at least a 2.5 GPA, Edmonds said.

“Other members have put as much effort into it as the founding girls,” Suazo said. “In all truth, if we didn’t have those other girls following behind us, it would be 10 times harder to push for something like this.”

State’s first Latina sorority in interest-group stageLambda Theta Alpha founded in ‘75By Victoria YuContributing Writer

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NATION

Former judge elected by a vote of 75-21By Larry MargasakThe Associated Press

Senate confirms Holder as first black attorney general

LAUREN VICTORIA BURKE / The Associated Press

Sen. Chuck Schumer pats Attorney General-designate Eric Holder on the back on Jan. 15 in Washington. Holder is the nation’s first black attorney general.

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people individuality.” Christakis de-clined an interview with The Daily Reveille, but his Web site says his studies focused on exploring two aspects of social networks — “The process by which they form and the way they operate to influence behav-ior.”

The idea of genes affecting your behavior is not surprising, said Ste-ven Pomarico, LSU biology profes-sor. Some of a person’s behavior is determined by their physical appear-ance, which is determined primarily by genes, he said.

“Genes seem to somehow have an effect on if you are seen as more or less likable,” Pomarico said.

The research studied 1,110 identical and fraternal twins to com-pare genetically similar or identical people.

The results show a genetic link to likability and popularity, which make some people more apt to be considered a friend by others.

“Your genes may in fact influ-ence more what you project than what you perceive,” Pomarico said, based on the study.

For example, Pomarico said if someone is a warm, outgoing per-son, they will be seen more easily as a friend.

The genes could affect a per-son’s behavior, and in many cases it applies to physical features, he said. Many studies have shown people want to view good-looking people as their friends.

Jordan Neldare, biology senior, said he gets his outgoing personality from his dad.

“He makes everybody laugh,” he said with a smile, explaining he can do the same.

On the other hand, Charlie Ho, political science senior, said he likes to party three times a week, is the exact opposite of his introverted par-ents.

“I love drinking with strang-ers,” Ho said, explaining his favorite reason for going out is meeting new people.

While a person’s genes have something to do with their personal-ity, Graham Bodie, LSU communi-cations studies professor, said how a person was taught is a big factor.

“A lot of it has to do with the training we receive,” Bodie said.

Bodie said his research on peo-ple’s behavior is concerned with ob-serving the environmental factors.

“[We] can’t do anything about our genes,” Bodie said. “But we can do things about our environment.”

The family where a person was raised and even courses taken in col-lege are environmental factors that can impact behavior and the ability to be social, he said.

Bodie said another problem with the research is the study assumes identical twins share 100 percent of their genes. The problem is identical twins can have potential differences, he said.

Loretta Pecchioni, communi-cation studies professor, said some people are inherently extroverted

and others are introverted. But the idea of nature and nur-

ture both go together, Pecchioni said.

“Is there a gene trait that makes us more social? Or was this what was modeled for us?” she said. “The simple answer is both.”

People are born sociable be-cause babies have a primitive drive to get attention in order to be fed, Pecchioni said.

Since babies develop at such a young age, it’s hard to identify at that age how much of their behavior is hereditary and how much is learned by the parents, she said.

A person’s environment can en-hance a genetic behavior, Pecchioni said. If a person is depressed and people ignore them, they can become more depressed.

The good news for more intro-verted people is they can still have their social needs met from a closer group of friends, Pecchioni said.

“Maybe you don’t need a 100 [friends],” she said.

Laura Rachal, French and biol-ogy senior, said she only likes going out about every other week. Instead of a noisy bar with people blocking her in, she prefers to talk with her close group of friends

“I prefer conversations to body impact ... and sweat,” Rachal said.

Gobbler’s Knob, about two miles out of Punxsutawney, Pa., for his yearly Groundhog’s Day appear-ance.

According to legend, Phil see-ing his shadow means another six weeks of winter while a lack of shadow means an early spring.

But that forecast may mean little to Louisianians, as the state typically begins to see warm tem-peratures around 70 in the end of February, according to National Weather Service Meteorologist Phil Grigsby.

“Spring is very close,” Grigs-by said in response to Phil’s fore-cast. “On average, we actually al-ready are starting to see the normal highs warm up ... We don’t get the extreme cold that they normally get up in the Northeast and Great Lakes.”

Andy Reaux, veterinarian for Reaux Animal Hospital, said he and a friend in wildlife manage-ment are responsible for locating a nutria rat in the South Louisiana

marshland in the two weeks lead-ing up to Groundhog Day.

“He’s already back in the wild,” Reaux said. “I thought it was something that I could do, and I kind of wanted to do. It’s kind of a fun thing.”

But the more famous mammal meteorologist has an established relationship with his community.

Michael Chapaloney, spokes-man for the Pennsylvania Tourism Office, said Phil has open commu-nication established with Ground-hog club members.

“The president [of the Ground-hog Club] is the only one who speaks ‘Groundhogese,’ and he gets down and Phil tells him whether or not he saw his shadow,” Chapalo-ney said. “[Phil] was a little feisty this morning, but he was very well behaved.”

Crowds of fans and media be-gin to gather Feb. 2 of each year at about 3 a.m., Chapaloney said. In the finals hours before Phil emerges from his stump, the sounds of live music and lights from fireworks fill the amphitheater.

Chapaloney said Phil stays perpetually young with the help of the yearly doses of ‘elixir’ he re-ceives at the summer Punxsutaw-ney Groundhog Festival held annu-ally in July.

Marlene Lellock, director of the Punxsutawney Area Chamber of Commerce, said Phil can be-come a grumpy critter despite the help of the elixir.

“They’re wild animals. If they feel threatened, then they will re-act,” Lellock said. “And they do bite.”

While Phil is considered a tame groundhog, Lellock said he tends to nip at his handlers when-ever he tires. Nipping can often mean a blood loss for the handlers because of Phi’s sharp teeth, ac-cording to Lellock.

“The [handlers] that don’t handle him quite often will wear their steel gloves,” Lellock said.

services more visible to target au-diences.

“The things they have been doing, they’ll be doing more often,” Robertson said. “And they’ll also be advertising more to the students.”

Every semester, students pay two dollars in fees to fund the partnership with the BRCIC. The $100,000 annual program provides students with a 24-hour suicide hotline and suicide pre-vention training programs.

Though the crisis center has continually provided these ser-

vices to students, Robertson said he didn’t feel students were get-ting a full range of services for the amount of money paid to the institute. Robertson suggested a nationally-based organization to replace BRCIC if they were un-able to be more active on cam-pus.

Because of its proximity to campus, the BRCIC has the pow-er to act more effectively than a national service, which would only be able to provide suicide hotline services.

“The BRCIC can offer a wider variety of services in terms of training, the hotline phone and

being available to people from residential life if they have a po-tential suicide situation,” said Drayton Vincent, Student Health Center director.

When SG presented their complaints to BRCIC, the crisis institute said it was eager to main-tain its relationship with the Uni-versity because of a long-standing history of service to the students and the importance of those ser-vices to an at-risk group.

“Personally, I am very pas-sionate about it because I was a student there, and Art Ensminger was a friend of mine,” said Nor-ma Rutledge, BRCIC executive

director. “University students are part of a higher-risk population and are certainly a group who can feel alone in a crowd.”

To better serve the Univer-sity, the BRCIC proposed adding new suicide prevention and inter-vention training programs for ad-ministrators and students.

Annual two-day assistance training courses for residential counsellors, a one-day training program for campus police called “Suicide 101,” and training for student organizations and student leadership are included in the new programs. BRCIC will also begin an active e-mail campaign

to inform students about avail-able services during stressful times like finals week.

Robertson said the need for the BRCIC to spend more on ad-vertising and communicating to students is especially important.

“They haven’t had a pres-ence in print on campus in sev-eral years, and its important that students know about all the ser-vices provided for them, espe-cially ones as serious as suicide prevention,” Robertson said.

BRCIC, from page 1

Contact Adam Duvernay at aduvernay@lsureveille.com

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GROUNDHOG, from page 1

GENETICS, from page 1

Contact Joy Lukachick at jlukachick@lsureveille.com

CAROLYN KASTER / The Associate Press

John Griffiths, center, holds the weather-predictiong groundhog Punxsutawney Phil as Phil is interviewed by media at Gobbler’s Knob on Groundhog’s Day on Monday. The Groundhog Club said Phil saw his shadow, predicting six more weeks of winter.

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LSU senior forward Kristen Morris made a couple of dribbles in the post before spinning past an Auburn defender and putting the ball in the hoop in Sunday’s 66-55 loss.

The field goal was one of six Morris had for the game, as the Lathrup Village, Mich., native scored 14 points and pulled down seven rebounds — both team-highs for LSU.

Playing time hasn’t always come so frequently for LSU’s lone senior. Morris only played in 14 of

LSU’s 19 games this season, aver-aging only 11 minutes per game — which ranks 10th on the team.

“It looks like the coach should have been playing Kristen more,” said LSU women’s basketball coach Van Chancellor. “But that’s the way it goes.”

Morris is one of a few Lady Tigers who has seen increased playing time since Chancellor shuffled the team’s rotation fol-lowing LSU’s 38-36 loss Jan. 22 against Mississippi State.

Morris played 21 minutes per game and averaged 8 points and more than six rebounds per game since.

Sophomore guard Katherine Graham said Morris’ biggest con-tribution to the team has been her experience.

“She’s a great leader, and she really knows the game,” Graham said. “She is able to tell us what we need to do better, because she sees the game from a different perspec-tive than we see it.”

Another notable switch has been at point guard, where junior guard Andrea Kelly now handles the Lady Tigers’ offense. Sopho-more guard Latear Eason and freshman Destini Hughes previ-ously started at that position.

LSU has won two of three games since Chancellor made the move — one he called the riskiest of his career.

The Lady Tigers have also been more efficient on the offen-sive end of the floor and average

SportsTHE DAILY REVEILLE

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2009 PAGE 7

SEC blowing Tigers’ chances

THE 6th MAN

There’s nothing I love more than instant results.

That’s why I own two micro-waves.

LSU coach Trent Johnson has brought that kind of instant success to LSU’s men’s basketball program in his first season.

This time last season, the Ti-gers were 1-5 in Southeastern Conference play and couldn’t even dream of making the big dance.

The Tigers right now are 5-1 in the SEC — the top in the conference — and have begun to spur talk of being a tournament “bubble team.”

That’s change I can believe in. After starting conference play

with a 6-point loss to Alabama, the Tigers bounced back and trounced South Carolina, Ole Miss and Missis-sippi State in three-straight games.

After a non-conference loss to Xavier, LSU held on to beat Tennes-see and won the 100th Anniversary game against Arkansas on Saturday.

This team is pretty good against the teams in SEC, but is that good enough to make the NCAA tourna-ment?

No. No, it isn’t. The Tigers haven’t played that

great outside of the conference, and that’s going to hurt.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Chancellor hopes new rotation sparks success

JERIT ROSER / The Daily Reveille

Senior forward Kristen Morris looks for an open teammate in the first half of the Lady Tigers’ 65-40 win against Southeastern Louisiana on Dec. 18.

Morris, Kelly seeing more playing timeBy Casey GisclairChief Sports Writer

TOURNAMENT, see page 10

ROTATION, see page 9

Johanathan Brooks Sports Columnist

High schoolers likely to shock, surprise on National Signing DayBy Tyler HarveySports Contributor

Every year on the first Wednesday of February, thousands of fans, coaches and players anxiously await the decisions of the top high school football players in the country.

National Signing Day is Wednesday, and, in typi-cal fashion, there will surely be drama and shocking news that will haunt the lives of recruiting super-fans until football season.

“There’s going to be a lot of twists and a lot of turns,” said Sonny Shipp, re-cruiting analyst for Scout.com “There’s going to be excitement and disappointment; there al-ways is. That’s the great thing about recruiting. You follow it for 12 months out of the year, and then when you get to this last week you go from having a good grasp on things to sitting around like everyone else waiting to see what kids are going to pick.”

This year promises no different. LSU’s class

is ranked No. 2 in the country by both Ri-vals.com and Scout.com.

But with a few big names still out there, LSU could lock up the No. 1 spot on both sites depending on a few big name recruits like Rueben Randle (Bastrop), Barkevious Mingo (West Monroe), Ken-dall Kelly (Gadsen, Ala.), Darren Myles (Atlanta, Ga.), Sam Montgomery (Greenwood, S.C) and Darrington Sentimore (Destrehan).

The nation’s eyes are on Randle, the top un-committed prospect in the country. The consensus

Player Position Height/Weight Hometown

Rueben Randle Wide receiver 6-foot-3/195 Bastrop

Trent Richardson Running back 5-foot-11/210 Pensacola, Fla.Darrington Sentimore Defensive tackle 6-foot-3/265 Destrehan

Sam Montgomery Defensive end 6-foot-4/230 Greenwood, S.C.

Barkevious Mingo Linebacker 6-foot-5/209 West Monroe Kendall Kelly Wide receiver 6-foot-4/210 Gadsden, Ala.

Players to keep aN eye oN

Positively Uncertain

RECRUITING, see page 10

photo courtesy of KELLY KIM at CRAST GADSDEN TIMES

photo courtesy of KITA WRIGHT at BASTROP DAILY ENTERPRISE

photo courtesy of GREENWOOD INDEX JOURNAL

‘There’s going to be excitement and disap-pointment;

there always is.’

Sonny Shipprecruiting analyst

Scout.com

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[Left to Right] Sam Montgomery, Rueben Randle and Kendall Kelly could all end up as Tigers on Wednesday.

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Last season’s injuries are still affecting LSU’s volleyball team nearly two months after the end of the season.

LSU volleyball coach Fran Flory said the team will begin its team spring practice March 11 and not end until late April due to injuries sustained by a few Tigers during last season.

“A lot of the local schools are [starting practice] on an ear-

lier schedule because of Mardi Gras and spring break, so they will be done with their allotment of [spring practice] days in mid-March,” Flory said.

A team is allowed 144 days to train as a team through the whole academic calendar, according to Flory. If a team does not use all 144 in the fall, the days can roll-over to the spring.

Flory said the team has about six weeks of training left to use and will participate in four tour-naments — March 28 at Rice, April 4 in Houston, the South-eastern Conference Coaches Beach Championship April 18 in Siesta Key, Fla., and April 25 in the PMAC.

Flory said senior outside hitter Marina Skender and junior middle blocker Lauren DeGirola-mo are doing fine in their rehabs, but sophomore outside hitter An-gela Bensend had surgery on her swinging arm.

“She was loose, and [the doctors] thought there may be some damage in there, but there wasn’t,” Flory said. “They just went in and tightened her up a little bit.”

Flory said the normal recov-ery for the surgery is around six months, but Bensend’s recovery may be faster because she went into the surgery “really strong.”

With LSU’s men’s basketball team having won five of its first six Southeastern Conference games, many analysts are beginning to take note of the Tigers’ on-court success.

The Tigers have risen all the way to No. 30 in the Associated Press’s Top 25 poll after having not received any votes last week.

LSU has also moved into the NCAA tournament as a No. 10 seed, according to ESPN.com bracketologist Joe Lunardi, who has accurately predicted 64 of the NCAA tournament’s 65 teams each

of the past three years.

“We’ve got a long way to go,” said LSU coach Trent Johnson. “I’ll worry about Se-lection Sunday when it hap-pens.”

Johnson is focused on his team’s meeting with Georgia this Thursday

despite the new-found recognition.“Obviously, we’re excited

about the position we’re in right now,” he said. “But we also under-stand that we need to continue to be ready to play.”

Georgia enters the game as the SEC’s lone winless team, but John-son said LSU will be beaten if they overlook their 9-12 opponent.

“When you start to feel good about yourself, you’re going to get knocked in the face,” he said. “We need to try to stay on an even keel like we’ve done for the most part all year.

BYE BYE FELTON, HELLO KNIGHT?

The Bulldogs will face LSU on Wednesday without coach Den-nis Felton, who was fired last week

after a 9-11 start and five straight Southeastern Conference losses.

Felton was on the hot seat last season, but those rumors subsided after the Bulldogs won the SEC tournament and advanced to the NCAA tournament.

Former Indiana and Texas Tech coach Bob Knight is one of the names who will be considered for the Bulldogs’ vacancy, accord-ing to the Atlanta Journal Constitu-tion.

University of Georgia presi-dent Michael Adams told the Journal Constitution he would not comment on specific candidates until the season ended, but said the Bulldogs will be interested in an experienced coach.

“We’re looking for a proven entity — and I think a proven en-tity at this level,” he said. “I mean somebody who has some experi-ence at a major place.”

Knight resigned Feb. 4, 2008 after nearly seven seasons as the Red Raiders’ coach.

WILDCATS DROP BACK TO THE PACK

After climbing into the Top 25 for the first time this season, Ken-tucky took a pair of steps backward this week with losses to Mississippi and South Carolina.

The Wildcats (16-6, 5-2) will be tested again tonight when they take on Mississippi State (14-7, 4-2) in Lexington, Ky.

Junior guard Jodie Meeks con-tinued to thrive last week and had a pair of 20-point games despite Kentucky’s struggles. Meeks now has nine straight games surpassing the 20-point plateau.

He will be facing a Mississip-pi State defense that has struggled defending the perimeter recently, allowing 31 points to LSU senior guard Marcus Thornton on Jan. 21 and 18 points to Mississippi fresh-man guard Terrico White last Sat-urday.

But Kentucky coach Billy Gillispie said, despite his team’s expected advantage on the perim-eter, the key to Tuesday’s game is containing Mississippi State’s post players.

That’s something the Wildcats did not do last week when they

were outrebounded, 32-19, on the offensive glass in their two games.

“If we don’t find some tough-ness somewhere in our defensive rebounding, then it is going to be a long rest of conference season,”

he said. “We are getting whipped in the lane, big time.”

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Johnson hopes to avoid letdown in upcoming games

By Casey GisclairChief Sports Writer

Contact Casey Gisclair at cgisclair@lsureveille.com

Last season’s injuries push back spring trainingBensend has surgery, Reuther leaves team

VOLLEYBALL

INJURIES, see page 11

LSU moves into ESPN’s bracketology

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LSU outside hitter Marina Skender [right] cheers on her teammates during a match last season. LSU coach Fran Flory said injuries to Skender and others have forced her to push back the start of spring training.

By Andy SchwehmSports Contributor

THE DAILY REVEILLE PAGE 9tuEsdAy, fEbruAry 3, 2009

The LSU softball team’s season kicks off Thursday, and the Tigers’ opening weekend pitching rotation is still up in the air.

LSU softball coach Yvette Gi-rouard said Monday senior pitcher Dani Hofer’s wrist injury hasn’t got-ten better, and now the Tigers’ ace is having back problems.

Hofer injured her wrist last April and had surgery last summer. She had a 19-8 record last season but was only 3-6 in her final 11 appear-ances.

“Hofer is not pitching right now,” Girouard said. “There have been complications, and she’s not healthy. I’m not quite sure when she will throw.”

Girouard also said junior pitcher Cody Trahan is injured but should still see playing time.

“Cody Trahan, over the Christ-mas break, had a little back surgery,” Girouard said. “She is coming back from that. She has thrown some.”

Girouard said junior Baylor transfer Kirsten Shortridge also has an injury but is expected to start in the outfield in this weekend’s Para-dise Classic in Hawaii.

“Kirsten Shortridge, who is a

pitcher, lead-off hitter and center-fielder for us, also had a little arm surgery before she came in here,” she said.

LACK OF HOMEFIELD ADVANTAGE

Practice, preparation and home-field advantage play major roles in how any team will perform during the season.

The Tigers have had plenty of practice and preparation, but they still don’t feel that home-field ad-vantage.

The team has been going back and forth between practicing in the old Tiger Park and the new Tiger Park, because the new stadium is not yet finished.

“We spend an hour out here [in old Tiger Park] at a time, usually scrimmaging,” said sophomore Jes-sica Mouse. “Then we have to pack our bags up and get mentally pre-pared for the second practice.”

Plenty of distractions still bother the team once players finally make it to the new field each day.

“They’re still doing construc-

tion, so it’s hard to hear each other,” said freshman Juliana Santos. “It’s hard to communicate because there are people sanding and machines go-ing.”

The Lady Tigers are only al-lowed to do defensive drills because of the construction.

“All we can do is take defense,” Girouard said. “We can’t even do pop-ups to the catchers or down the sidelines. We can do no hitting.”

The women are eager to practice on the new field because there are many differences between the two ballparks.

“The field orientation is totally different,” Girouard said. “The sun is in the leftfielder’s eyes there; the sun is in the rightfielder’s eyes [in the old Tiger Park].”

Girouard said she isn’t sure when her team will finally be able to hit and have full practices on the new field.

“[The date we move in] has switched a million times,” Girouard said. “The facility was supposed to be finished in November. Now they are saying hopefully Feb. 5 for the whole thing.”

Eddie Nunez, associate athletic director of Operations and Project Development, did not answer or re-turn phone calls about the park’s pos-

less than 11 turnovers per game with Kelly at the point — down from the nearly 15 per game the team averages on the season.

Graham also helped polish LSU’s rotation since returning from a knee injury she sustained Jan. 14 against the University of New Orleans.

The Birmingham, Ala., native, who started the first 14 games of the season, has been eased back into the lineup but should return to the starting lineup in the coming weeks.

“I’m feel-ing great,” Gra-ham said. “I just don’t want to overdo it. That’s the main thing for me — just trying to take it slow . . . But there’s no pain or anything.”

With the second half of con-ference play looming, Morris said she’s confident LSU will be able to have success with its new-look rotation.

“I think we’re getting better as a team altogether,” she said. “We just have to keep working and get ready for the rest of the teams that we have.”

THE DAILY REVEILLESOFTBALL ROTATION, from page 7

Contact Casey Gisclair at cgisclair@lsureveille.com

Team practicing in old, new ballparksBy Jarred LeBlancSports Contributor

Tigers’ pitching staff facing early problems

GRANT GUITERREZ / The Daily Reveille

The LSU softball team runs laps around the warning track at Tiger Park on Friday. The Tigers’ season begins Thursday in Hawaii.

‘I’m feeling great. I just don’t want to overdo it

... just trying to take it slow.’

Katherine Grahamsophomore guard

Contact Jarred LeBlanc at jleblanc@lsureveille.com

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The nation’s eyes are on Ran-dle, the top uncommitted prospect in the country. The consensus five-star wide receiver will choose be-tween LSU, Alabama and Oklaho-ma. Four-star linebacker Mingo is widely considered an LSU lock and will shock everyone if he signs with someone else.

While it seems Tiger fans have become more confident about Randle’s decision in recent months, Shipp still believes there’s the po-

tential for fans to be broken-hearted Wednesday.

“I still give LSU a slight edge right now [with Randle],” Shipp said. “If I had to bet on it, I’d say LSU, but I wouldn’t bet much.”

If Randle commits elsewhere — like Alabama — it could remind Tiger fans of Joe McKnight’s dis-appointing commitment to USC. Shipp said the way Randle’s recruit-ment was handled with such respect wouldn’t make it feel as personal.

Tiger fans have been sweating bullets worrying about how solid

some commits are, including LSU’s top cornerback commit Janzen Jackson and, more recently, four-star wide receiver commit Kenny Bell (Rayville).

Jackson’s recruitment took a turn when his father, Lance Guidry, was scheduled to interview for a position on the Tennessee coaching staff.

“We just talked to [Jackson], and he’ll sign with LSU on sign-ing day,” Scarborough said. “I don’t think there’s any issue there. Kenny Bell is one to watch. There’s been a

lot of smoke there, and we’ll see if there’s some fire on signing day.”

Darrington Sentimore is anoth-er name LSU fans will keep an eye on Wednesday. The four-star defen-sive tackle from Destrehan has been committed to Alabama since Oct. 5. But with LSU offering Sentimore a late scholarship, the 6-foot-2-inch defensive force could possibly make a signing day switch to LSU.

As letters of intent are faxed Wednesday and the 2009 recruiting class is sealed and delivered, a ques-tion will arise in the minds of LSU

fans: Is this LSU’s best recruiting class ever?

“That 2001 class is the best they’ve ever had, and three years later proved it,” Scarborough said. “This one on paper is going to look as good as that one did when it was signed, and then we’ll find out in a couple of years if it actually mea-sure up as good as that class.”

Twelve of the 15 non-confer-ence opponents LSU has played are at a level comparable to Bruce Springsteen during halftime at the Super Bowl this weekend — not very good.

They’ve pounded on three Southwestern Athletic Conference teams in Grambling, Alcorn State and Jackson State, who are a com-bined 16-45.

They’ve also played six more in-state teams who don’t have a chance of making it to the tournament unless they win their conference — plus Troy from Alabama.

Two teams from the West Coast were supposed to be legit challenges for the Tigers. They weren’t.

Cal State Fullerton and Wash-ington State were both tournament teams last season, and LSU beat both fairly soundly. The Cougars actually held a second-half lead in that con-test before losing by 12.

And neither of those teams are

on pace to make it back to the NCAA tournament — Washington State has a 12-9 record, and Cal State Fuller-ton is 11-10.

The three other non-conference teams the Tigers played have owned LSU.

Utah blasted LSU by 30, Texas A&M pulled away to win by 11 and Xavier beat a streaking LSU team by 10 in the PMAC two weekends ago.

The Tigers’ lack of quality wins will be what keeps them out of the tournament.

LSU has the No. 55 best rat-ing percentage index in the country out of 343 teams, according to RPI-ratings.com. The SEC has the No. 6-best rating out of 32 conferences.

That’s not very good for a team that’s most likely going to have to rely on an at-large bid to the dance.

This isn’t a slight on the Tigers, since they have no say in who their conference mates play and how bad they play against them. LSU is liter-ally doing all they can to push toward the tournament.

The Tigers are at or near the top of the SEC in many statistical cat-egories.

The team ranks No. 1 in 3-point percentage at more than 38 percent. They’re No. 2 in scoring defense, No. 3 in rebounds and blocks and No. 4 in assists and field goal per-centage.

The league’s No. 3 scorer and No. 2 stealer both suit up for the Ti-gers.

Senior guard Marcus Thornton has been playing lights out almost all season and is averaging 19.4 points a game, and senior guard Garrett Temple averages almost 2.2 steals a game.

When LSU’s name isn’t called on Selection Sunday, don’t blame Johnson and his boys because they’ve done pretty much all they can.

Blame the rest of the SEC for not being that good.

Contact Johanathan Brooks at jbrooks@lsureveille.com

RECRUITING, from page 7

EMMET BROWN / The Daily Reveille

Senior guard Garrett Temple, spins past a defender in the Tigers’ 80-70 loss to Xavier in the PMAC.

Contact Tyler Harvey at tharvey@lsureveille.com

TOURNAMENT, from page 7

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The Plano, Texas, native had 151 kills in 95 sets, along with 30 blocks last season.

Flory also said Skender — who tore her ACL and MCL dur-ing an April practice — is doing well in her rehab.

“She is actually stronger now than she was pre-surgery,” Flory said. “She’s back to full strength. Her workouts are going really well, and she’s well ahead of where I hoped she would be at this point.”

The Zagreb, Croatia, native ranked fifth in the SEC in aces per game in 2007 at .42. She also ranked second on the team in digs per set (3.15) and third on the team with 378 kills.

Flory said DeGirolamo — who went down with a similar injury against Ole Miss on Oct. 3 — is anxious to get back on the court and is doing fine with her rehab, which has had no setbacks so far.

“[Lauren’s] range of motion came back really fast,” Flory said. “The key for her is strength training. It’s going to take her a while to regain her muscle mass because she is such a physical player.

Flory said the coaching staff is taking things slow with DeGi-rolamo’s injury.

“We aren’t pushing her real hard because we are letting her heal,” Flory said. “She’s real anx-ious to get back out there.”

DeGirolamo ranked third on the team with 2.40 kills per set and second on the team with .98 blocks per set before the injury. She was also a member of the

2007 All-SEC First Team and the 2006 SEC All-Freshmen Team.

ADDITIONS AND DEPAR-TURES

Flory said she doesn’t think either of the incoming freshmen — Allyson Judkins and Madie Jones — will arrive on campus until the fall semester.

“I would love to have both of them here [for summer], but the

Junior Olympic Championships for their club teams run into July, which is past the start of sum-mer school,” Flo-ry said. “Maddie’s team lost in the finals last year, so I would anticipate they would have the chance to be

there again. Ally may have a little bit of a better chance because her team is not ranked as highly na-tionally.”

But with the additions comes a departure. Flory said sopho-more libero Haley Reuther has decided to leave the program.

“She’s been a great addi-tion to our program,” Flory said. “We’re pretty sad about that, but for Haley, it is something she did a lot of thinking about, and it’s the right decision in her mind. But I did leave the door open for her to come back if she changes her mind later.”

The New Orleans native walked-on to LSU from Domini-can High School.

Reuther played in 54 sets last season, averaging 1.17 digs per set.

Contact Andy Schwhem at aschwehm@lsureveille.com

NFL

Another fantastic Super Bowl favors PittsburghBy Dave GoldbergThe Associated Press

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Super Su-per Bowls are becoming a habit.The Steelers’ 27-23 win Sunday night over Arizona was another classic in an era of great games — “a game for the ages,” commis-sioner Roger Goodell called it.

Indeed, with a few of excep-tions (notably Ravens 34, Giants 7 in 2001) fans have been treated to a decade’s worth of rousing NFL championships.

Consider that the typical Su-per Bowl score from 1980-99 was 35-17.

But starting in 2000, when Tennessee’s Kevin Dyson was tackled a yard short of the goal-line with what would have been the tying touchdown in a 23-16 loss to St. Louis, the games have generally been what they were al-ways supposed to be — worthy of their immense hype.

Six of the last 10 Super Bowls have been decided by a touchdown or less. Whatever the reason — luck, greater parity, never-say-die teams — the NFL

has reason to smile.The Rams’ winning score

against the Titans came on a 73-yard TD pass with 1:53 to Isaac Bruce from Kurt Warner, who brought the Cardinals back from a 13-point deficit Sunday before the Steelers’ final drive.

Warner also had to watch from sidelines in 2002, as Tom Brady drove the Patriots to the winning field goal against the Rams.

It wasn’t the only similar-ity Sunday to Super Bowls past. In some ways, this year’s edition mirrored last season’s.

The winning TD game came on a pass from Ben Roethlis-berger to Santonio Holmes with 35 seconds left in the game, the same time remaining a year ago when the Giants scored to beat New England 17-14. The Steel-ers’ game-winning drive started from their own 22 with 2:42 left in the game; the Giants’ drive began from their 17 with 2:39 re-maining.

Holmes was voted the game’s MVP with 9 catches for 131 yards. It was for him redemption in two

ways.The play before his game-

winning touchdown on tiptoes, he had missed what seemed to be an easier throw on the opposite side of the end zone. And in midsea-son, he was suspended one game by Steelers coach Mike Tomlin after being found with marijuana after a traffic stop by Pittsburgh police.

“I learned a lot from that,” Holmes said. “I’ve grown a lot.”

Goodell added: “Santonio grabbed me as we were coming off the podium and said ‘thank you for believing in me.’”

Holmes’ acrobatics made a winner of Tomlin in only his sec-ond year as Pittsburgh’s coach.

The 36-year-old Tomlin guided the Steelers to an unprec-edented sixth Super Bowl title. After a short night, he told report-ers Monday, he’s appreciating the Steelers and their fans more all the time.

“It’s generational,” he said. “It’s passed down from father to son. The more I’m in the organi-zation, the more I understand it. It’s part of the fabric of peoples’

lives.”It’s a game Pittsburghers

certainly will remember for a long time. It might even have been the best in the recent run of title-game dramas, played out be-fore an estimated TV audience

of 95.4 million — second only to last year’s Super Bowl for U.S. ratings.

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

INJURIES, from page 8

JULIE JACOBSON / The Associated Press

Steelers wide receiver Santonio Holmes, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, coach Mike Tomlin and team owner Dan Rooney celebrate the Steelers defeat of the Arizona Cardi-nals, 27-23, in Super Bowl XLIII on Sunday in Tampa, Fla.

‘‘‘We aren’t pushing [DeGirolamo] real

hard because we are letting her heal.’

Fran FloryLSU volleyball coach

The moment you challenge that the Bible is not divinely inspired, word for prophetic word, you step into a dangerous realm.

First, to say no one believes the Bible is 100 percent literally true,

isn’t true.You claim no one believes this

because they don’t follow its com-mands. Belief doesn’t require ac-tion. Many people believe the Bible is true, but no one does everything it says to do. You’re right when you say no one follows every command-ment.

Romans 3:23 reads, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” We have all sinned,

or “missed the mark,” and fall short, or “come behind,” the glory, or “dig-nity,” of God (Strong’s Greek Dic-tionary). The Bible tells us we won’t measure up, and lets us know that’s a normal diagnosis.

The Bible says when we believe this, we will be saved just by believ-ing, not by our actions, our good deeds or how well we follow the rules (Romans 10:9).

Second, the Bible is not a list of

guidelines. Lastly, scripture is not to be

taken out of context. We believe the letters are true in the environment in which they were written, and we base our lives off the attitudes and passions displayed in the Word of God.

I’m not saying we all do it right. I’m not justifying anyone who screams words of hatred to the inno-cent. I’m not verifying the actions of

those who use the power of religious regimes to gain personal benefit. I’m saying thank God the Bible is true, because it’s saying the innocent will be freed, the hurt will be healed, the broken will be put back together, and if I need to be rescued, there’s someone who will stand in the gap for me.

Jeanne Loupesociology senior

It’s finally happened.Sports have fallen victim to the

politically correct masses.Roughly three weeks ago, the

Covenant School — a Dallas area high school — defeated the Dallas Academy in a women’s basketball game 100-0.

The Dallas Academy is a small school that caters to students with “learning differences” including attention deficit disorder and dys-lexia.

The school only has 20 girls total, with eight of them on the bas-ketball team.

It’s sad the academy got beat so bad, but that’s not what concerns me.

Micah Grimes, the coach of the Covenant School’s team, was fired as a result of the victory.

His termination came on the same day he replied to an e-mail from reporters saying he would

not apologize “for a wide-margin victory when my girls played with honor and integrity,” according to Fox News.

Good for him.There is no reason this man

should have to apologize for having a better team than his opponents.

But his former employer feels differently.

It seems the school has been willing to apologize to anyone who will listen.

A statement was posted on the school’s Web site calling the win “shameful” and an “embarrassment” and was signed by the school’s headmaster and board chair.

The Covenant School should not be giving in to the whims of the politically correct public in apolo-gizing for its remarkable win.

Let’s be real here: everybody likes a blowout — it’s good for the ego.

The Covenant School’s girls probably have a level of swag-ger unmatched by any of their op-

ponents, and they’re probably playing some pretty good ball right now.

They were jacking 3-point-ers in the fourth quarter of the game against Dallas Academy

while fans and coaches cheered them on.

These are telltale signs of hav-ing a high level of confidence in their abilities, and they can thank their dominating performance in the first three quarters of the game.

When you’re on, you’re on.Nobody gave Kobe Bryant any

lip when he went out and scored 81 points three years ago against the

Toronto Raptors.We crowned it as one of the

greatest performances of all time and heralded the Mamba as a beast among men in the NBA.

These politically correct apolo-gists didn’t give two bits about Toronto, their feelings or how it affected their psyche — and they shouldn’t have.

The same should apply here.Lopsided outcomes are a part

of life and sports.It’s a lesson we’ve all had to

learn, so why does a man have to lose his job because he taught these girls a valuable lesson they won’t soon forget?

They’ll forever know they have no future in basketball, and they’ll adjust life plans accordingly.

It would have been a shame if one of these kids thought she had a future in the WNBA, only to realize all too late that she was awful and

no one wanted her talents on their team.

Athletes have always prided themselves on being better, stronger and faster than their opponents, and this team just proved that — even in sports — survival of the fittest still applies.

If you can’t play basketball, you can’t play basketball.

There is no reason Covenant Academy should have been expect-ed to call off the dogs and coast to victory.

If Dallas Academy didn’t want to get beat so bad, maybe they could have spent extra time in the gym taking jump shots.

This PC junk has gotten out of hand, and now it’s tainting one of the few things I love: sports.

Music is easy.In its most basic sense, it is easy

to make: just whistle. It is easy to hear: just listen. It is easy to find: just go anywhere. It is easy to steal: just download.

In fact, it is so easy to steal that people argue whether stealing it is even stealing. Ridiculous commer-cials appear before movies remind-ing us that stealing cars and steal-ing music is the same because some people still claim that downloading music without permission of the art-ist is not stealing at all but actually good for the artist.

Making the debate even more difficult is the seemingly random sentences that have been passed down for those who have stolen songs, regardless of whether it was Crazy Town’s “Butterfly” or Radio-head’s “Fake Plastic Trees.”

In October of 2007, a Minnesota

woman was fined $220, 000 for shar-ing 24 particular songs through the Kazaa peer-to-peer client on which she claimed not to have an account, according to CNET.

That’s $9,166 per song.The $9,166 could buy a car.It could buy a pony (or two).It could buy six MacBooks.Or one song.This past June, British police ar-

rested the founder and five users of the extremely popular private torrent server Oink.cd. Three of these users were just given their sentences: be-tween 50 and 180 hours of commu-nity services and court fees paid in full, according to PitchforkMedia.

Without trying to claim Ameri-ca and Britain should hold the same stands insofar as the legal system is concerned, there does seem to be a major discrepancy here.

Paying $9,166 per song, 24

times over, for accidentally seeding music on a peer-to-peer program does not compare to community ser-vice for belong-ing to a private server whose only purpose was to share mu-sic.

It’s like a sun is to a light bulb.

It’s the same concept, but the two have almost nothing in common.

And one obviously makes more sense.

Of course downloading music from the Internet and not paying for it is stealing, but at what point do we seriously start comparing it to Grand Theft Auto as our pre-preview com-mercials in movie theaters across the

country do so often?I guess about 16 months ago.If a crime is committed by mil-

lions upon millions of people on a daily basis, does it cease to be a crime?

Of course not.But it does become far harder to

track and stop, and randomly pluck-ing people out of Minnesota and sticking them with bills higher than a Porsche 911’s price tag is senseless and pathetic and will not deter any-one. While it’s terrifying to think you could be next, it’s far too removed from the reality of a normal twenty-something or teenager sitting in his or her room, desperate to hear Kanye West’s “Heartless” or Taylor Swift’s “Love Story.”

There doesn’t seem to be a real reason for fear.

But if community service was the penalty, and if it started being

handed out like candy on Halloween, we might think twice about grabbing free tunes. And it makes sense — do-ing work for a few hours for taking something that someone else spent a few hours working on.

But, as it stands now, it’s a twist-ed form of utilitarianism. One person gets punished for all our sins, and we all live on, downloading away with reckless abandon. Because we have no reason not to.

Frankly, the way it is doesn’t bother me too much.

But I sure as hell bet it bothers the Minnesota woman who may be working the rest of her natural life just to pay off a CD and a half worth of songs.

OpinionPAGE 12 TuEsdAy, fEbruAry 3, 2009

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Everyone certainly has a right to conjugate his own opin-ion, but it is when absurd and in-articulate ideas leak out into the mainstream, ideas that impede the sovereignty of independent nations and promote hatred and violence, that we as Americans must draw the line; and if any-thing, PSA and MSA were merely trying to fulfill this duty.

In the zenith of her enthu-siasm, Dini Parayitam forgot to mention an obvious flaw with the brilliant solution she proposed a few days ago: India cannot se-cure itself against terrorism sim-ply by projecting Pakistan as the culprit and threatening, or even taking, military action against it. Though presently shying away from acknowledgment, India also faces homegrown terrorism and insurgency. And state terrorism is rampant in India. The demolition of the Babri Mosque led by the BJP’s L. K. Advani, the burning alive of nearly 70 Pakistanis in

the misnamed ‘Friendship Ex-press,’ the series of bomb blasts in the predominantly Muslim town of Malegaon, the killing of some 600 Christians, the rape of their nuns and the burning down of their churches with state com-plicity are just a few examples that come to mind. In the last six months, the government of In-dia was directly threatened by a number of groups including VHP, Bajrang Dal, Shiv Sena, RSS, Tamils and other extremists so much so that Christians who be-came prey to the violence a few months back openly announced

the establishment of their own private army. If India cannot eradicate homegrown terrorism, how can India be ready to attack a nuclear neighbor?

India’s handling of the Mum-bai terrorist attack shows it is more interested in pursuing its broader domestic and foreign pol-icy agendas than focusing direct-ly on elimination of terrorism. In the domestic context, India wants to cover up the administrative, in-telligence and security failures in coping with the Mumbai attacks. The Indian government is unable and unwilling to explain how 10

people could come to Mumbai in a small boat and undertake care-fully planned massive operations at several different places without local support.

It will not be long before India realizes the U.S. and other western countries have strategic interests in Pakistan with refer-ence to Afghanistan and that they would neither endorse India’s war jingoism nor declare Paki-stan a terrorist state.

Hasnain Mujahidbiological sciences sophomore

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Pope embraces Internet, social progress with FacebookThe Catholic Church is taking

advantage of the latest — and per-haps most effective — proselytizing method in modern communication.

At the World Day of Commu-nications annual celebration, Pope Benedict XVI recognized the “shifts in patterns of communication and hu-man relationships” brought on by in-stant global communication through modern technologies.

The pope cited the new media’s ability to foster communities and networks, spread information and ideas and advocate learning.

In its latest image makeover, the Catholic Church is modernizing its reputation by promoting social networking sites “to promote human understanding and solidarity.”

Recognizing the fundamental human desire for relationships, the pope even claims these online ser-vices reflect the Almighty’s desire to unite humanity into one family. The innate outreach of man carries with it a sort of righteousness, Benedict

XVI said.But short of outright praise, the

pope offered stern cautions for his flock.

He attacked the “fleeting, shal-low relationships” often cultivated by social outlets like Facebook. Benedict XVI praised not the capac-ity to encourage contact between people but the quality of the content circulated through new media.

The theme of the papal speech was to espouse respect for the dig-nity and worth of new media users; open and tolerant dialogue between different cultures, countries and re-ligions; and friendship — the most elusive concept in the discussion.

Networking sites such as Fa-cebook have done much to alter the modern understanding of the term “friendship.” The pope rightfully raises awareness about the poten-tial toll taken by sustaining and de-veloping online relationships at the expense of real social interaction among actual members of society.

The desire for virtual connect-edness could have a perverse effect by isolating individuals from reality

and “disrupting the patterns of rest, silence and reflection that are necessary for healthy human development.”

B e n e d i c t XVI says friend-ship should be a means of com-

munity service, not an end in itself.And the money quote:“We must not allow ourselves

to be deceived by those who see us merely as consumers in a market of undifferentiated possibilities, where choice itself becomes the good, nov-elty usurps beauty, and subjective experience displaces truth.”

In other words, don’t whore yourself out to advertisers or online peers.

But short of raining on

everyone’s Facebook parade, the pope offers encouragement and ini-tiative to new media users.

To achieve moral justification for its existence, the pope says, new media users must strive to make this technology available to the whole world so as not to “increase the gap separating the poor from the new networks that are developing at the service of human socialization and information.”

Users must also be responsible enough to post and view only appro-priate content.

Benedict felt compelled to ad-dress today’s youth through a means it understands and appreciates be-cause he recognizes the task of evangelization falls squarely on the shoulders of those who will pioneer the expansion of the “digital conti-nent.”

Since his papacy began, Pope Benedict XVI has taken heat for his traditional approach to Catholicism. Succeeding John Paul II — or the

Great Communicator, a pope known for his liberal outlook — Benedict has cast himself as a staunch oppo-nent of modern, liberal approaches to faith and world events.

Since then, the Church has gone so far as to launch its own YouTube channel.

The pope’s recognition of the dangers and benefits of new media in general — and social networking sites in particular — is a further step toward social progress.

Benedict XVI acknowledged humans naturally seek to manipulate their environment through various tools, and the Internet provides the latest instrument with which to foster modern human growth.

No matter how quickly the me-dium grows or changes, the message must be carried on as effectively as possible.

Daniel lumettaColumnist

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To make roadways safer, legalize drunken drivingWisconsin is notorious for

lenient drunken driving laws. It’s the only state in which the first of-fense for operating while intoxi-cated is not even a misdemeanor. In response to this perceived need to stiffen the penalties for repeat offenders, several members of the state Legislature introduced a proposal that would increase the penalties for some third- and all fourth-time offenders to a felony conviction instead of waiting until the fifth offense to make OWI a felony crime.

While this proposal clearly has good intentions, it is misguid-ed. I not only oppose this new proposal, I would fully support decriminalizing drunken driving all together. Not only would the first offense not be a criminal one, neither would the thirteenth.

Before you fire off a letter

of outrage to this paper or call Mothers Against Drunk Driving to help organize a rally, hear me out. While it might be true that more stringent drunken driving laws save lives and make people safer, that alone is no justification for enacting a law. If that were the case, then people should support banning all cars, as that would prevent any kind of car accident. There is obviously some middle ground between complete disre-gard for the safety of others and the totalitarian state that would ensue from attempting to make everyone safe from everything. Also, this isn’t to say the sobriety level of a driver could not be tak-en into account as an aggravating circumstance in another crime.

I’m sure that most of my op-ponents will rush to cite some study or other argument as to how severe penalties for drunken driv-ers lower drunken driving rates and save lives. However, these

studies fail to refute my argument because I don’t advocate for any level of penalties for drunken driving laws as these studies com-pare. No one can be sure how safe our roads would be if OWI laws were repealed completely.

The main argument in favor of OWI laws in the first place is they deter drunken driving and therefore keep people safe. How-ever, as an innocent driver or pas-senger on the road, you are endan-gered by all sorts of bad drivers. Those drivers who are talking on cell phones, texting, tired or sim-ply not paying attention also pose increased risks. Even though be-ing intoxicated might make one a worse driver than other sorts of impediments, the same accident causes the same damage regard-less of cause.

Instead of enforcing a myriad of laws to stop people from driv-ing in these conditions, why not penalize people for being unsafe

drivers regardless of the cause? Wouldn’t we all be safer if we just penalized those who swerved out of their lane, blew by traffic lights or engaged in other traffic law vi-olations that increased the risk of an accident? Is causing an accident because you choose to drive after drinking any worse than causing a similar accident because you were texting? If a driver is over the legal limit but could still obey all traffic laws, are they really an unsafe driver?

Even with more stringent OWI laws, there will inevitably be those who choose to break them for whatever reason. Cur-rently, those who know they are intoxicated but still choose to drive probably have one thing on their mind: not getting caught. To them, this usually means emulat-ing as close to “normal” driving as they can.

In a world where drunken driving were legalized, inebriated

drivers could account for their lower reaction times by slowing down or even flashing their warn-ing lights as a signal to others.

Enforcing traffic violations as opposed to bloodstream contents also gives a greater flexibility than the current system. There are some people who can drive safely with BACs above the legal limits and others who shouldn’t be driv-ing after consuming alcohol.

While those in favor of harsh-er penalties for repeat OWI of-fenders might be right when they claim it will make our roads safer, that ought not be the sole criteria for evaluating public policy. The real question ought to be, “Should drunken driving even be prohib-ited in the first place?”

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LLSSUU:: TTIIGGEERRLLAANNDD 1 & 2 BR. FLAT &TH WOOD FLOORS, POOL, LAUNDRY,QUIET $525-$725 225.766.7224

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2bed/2.5 bath - $1,3003bed/3.5 bath - $1,650

See our website for more details!www.deanflores.com

Dean Flores Real Estate9191 Siegen Lane Ste 4-BBaton Rouge, LA 70810

225.767.2227

DDOOWWNNTTOOWWNN RRIIVVEERRVVIIEEWW CCOONNDDOOSSRenovated 2BR/2BA, granite coun-ters, cypress cabinets. Fresh paint.$1,200/ mo. Plus deposit. Call Don

368-3240.

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33BBRR//22BBAA CCOONNDDOO Like New. FreeCable. Community Pool. Extra Parking.

Great Location at LSU. $1500/mo.225.202.1148

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33BBRR//22..55BBAA 11550000SSQQFFTT$$11111100//MMOONNTTHH 5291 S. Brightside

View Drive: On-Site Manager, FlexibleLeasing Terms, Washer & Dryer,

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Bedroom has it’s own Bathroom andWalk-In Closet. Available Now

225.978.7400

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Dean Flores Real Estate225.767.2227

11 && 22 BBDD RRMM CCOONNDDOO FFRR RREENN JUSTOUTSIDE THE SOUTH GATES OF LSU.FRIG, WSHR/ DRYR, MICRO, STOVE,4264, 4278 oxford 1 & 2 bed rm.,

595.00 695.00 & 995.00.323.691.3129

ROOMMATES

AAVVAAIILL.. FFEEBB.. 1. Room in house offBrightside. $400/month.

alebl33@gmail.com or 225.571.4207

FFEEMMAALLEE RROOOOMMMMAATTEE For bottom bed-room and bath of 2br2ba townhousein Sharlo. 4-6 months, Feb thru May,June or July. On LSU bus route. $475

plus 1/2 of utilities. Emailmjlap04@cox.net

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PERSONALS

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date. Let’s take a chance. Hope youare out there!

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FFAALLAA PPOORRTTUUGGUUEESS?? 22 yr old gallooking to practice her portuguese.Everyone welcome! Fica bem con-tact:beethovensfeast@gmail.com

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SSEEAARRCCHHIINNGG 44 SSOOUULLMMAATTEE 20yoAsian guy seeking masculine guy 18-23 to date. Races open. I’m a sweet-

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MISCELLANEOUS

PPRRIIVVAATTEE LLEESSSSOONNSS:: French,Japanese, Classical or Pop guitar,LSU area, aboutiyama@yahoo.com

225.456.6153

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