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The fi nal decision on this week’s controversial Student Government election will come Saturday when the University Court hears an appeal to the elec-tion board’s decision to disqualify Unite LSU from the election after alleged overspending.
Both Impact LSU and Unite LSU’s campaign fi nancial docu-ments became available to the public on Thurs-day. Unite LSU’s spending limit
was $6,250 , and it spent a total of $6,033.11 , according to the cam-
paign fi nancial documents.
The decision to disqualify the Unite LSU ticket from the general election came from the election board moments
before the results were to be an-nounced Wednesday afternoon.
SG Commissioner of Elections Aimeé Simon said the decision to disqualify the Unite ticket from the election was made based on fair market value of campaign banners.
Simon said the SG Elec-tion Code gives the election board the right to revalue an ex-pense response on a campaign’s
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BASKETBALL: LSU holds on to beat Georgia
BOARD OF REGENTS
UCourt to decide SG election on SaturdayJudah RobinsonSenior Contributing Writer
SG, see page 11
WOODARD SIMON
OUTREACH
ST. BALDRICK’S, see page 11
Students to shave heads for cancerKirsten RomagueraManaging Editor, Production
photos by LAUREN DUHON / The Daily Reveille
[Top left] Guapo, a kinkajou, rests on a log; [top right] Cosmaux, a harlequin macaw, sits in his cage; and [bottom] Roux the red kangaroo hops across a � eld March 6 at Barn Hill Preserve in Ethel, La. The animal sanctuary was started by University student Gabriel Ligon, who is currently taking a semester off from school to get the preserve started. See a photo story, p. 4.
Call of the Wild
Student-run preserve aims to educate public
on wildlife
As visitors approach her cage, Angel the cockatoo asks them a simple question: “Want some coffee?”
Angel is just one of the many ani-mals Gabriel Ligon houses at his Barn Hill Preserve 45 minutes north of Baton Rouge , where a group of about 15 animal science majors at the University volun-teer. The preserve currently houses 14 animals, including rescued parrots, a kin-kajou (honey bear) named Guapo, a red kangaroo joey named Roux, pixie frogs, a hedgehog, a sugar glider and geckos.
Ligon , the director and founder of Barn Hill Preserve , said he came up with the idea for the preserve about a year and a half ago . Ligon is currently taking a se-mester off from the University where he was pursuing a degree in animal science .
“I’ve been interested in animals
Zach CarlineContributing Writer
ANIMALS, see page 11
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
A bald head is a characteristic typically associated with cancer pa-tients.
“The fi rst time it hit me, we were about 16 days into treatment ... and there was all this hair on his pillow,” said Laurina Con-ger , a Uni-versity alum-na whose 13-year-old son Mi-chael’s acute lymphoblas-tic leukemia has been in remission for four years . “It was like, ‘Wow. He re-ally does have cancer.’”
Free Speech Plaza passersby will have the chance to see members of the University community go bald voluntarily during a head shaving event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today that supports Michael and other chil-dren with cancer.
Donations for the event, which is organized by the University’s chapter of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity , go to the St. Baldrick’s Foundation , an organization that
$4.3M budget increase proposed
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Alyson GaharanStaff Writer
The LSU A&M 2014 fi scal year budget is expected to receive a $4.3 million increase in state allocations from the 2013 fi scal year budget, ac-cording to a Board of Regents docu-ment released to University presi-dents Thursday afternoon.
The increase in allocations is about 1 percent more than the $445.4 million the University was set to re-ceive at the beginning of last year.
“This is the fi rst release we have, but at least for the moment, it looks like we might have budget stability for the coming year,” said Interim System President and Chancellor William “Bill” Jenkins. “If we stick to this budget, it’ll be a great benefi t to LSU.”
Jenkins said although he has seen and had a brief discussion about the budget, he has not been able to analyze its implications thoroughly.
“Part of it depends on student tu-ition and enrollment for that coming year,” Jenkins said. “[The Board of Regents] estimates what enrollment will be, and they’re hoping it will be up, but we’re just not sure.”
There is a long legislative pro-cess, and the budget won’t be fi nal-ized for a few months, Jenkins said.
“If [the funds] materialize, that would be great, but there is budgetary uncertainty. I think that’s fair to say,” Jenkins said.
The Board of Regents uses a funding formula to divide the higher education budget among state uni-versities. The 2014 fi scal year fund-ing formula was composed of money from the general fund and the over-collections fund, parts of the pro-posed total higher education budget.
The $284 million general fund and the $489 million overcollections fund is contingent upon processes that haven’t been completed yet.
About $348 million of the over-collections fund depends on contracts being signed, sales being made and other processes that could potentially not happen, which would result in a budget shortfall.
Contact Alyson Gaharan at [email protected]
in the SEC tournament, p. 5
St. Baldrick’s event:
When: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. todayWhere: Free Speech CircleHow to donate: Participants will be collecting cash and laptops will be available for online donations
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CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS
POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
In the Thursday, March 14 edition of The Daily Reveille, a cap-tion incorrectly stated that the Impact LSU ticket would face a UCourt trial Thursday to appeal its disquali�cation. The Unite LSU ticket was supposed to have a UCourt trial Thursday, and the case was dismissed. If you would like something corrected or clari�ed please contact the editor at (225) 578-4811 or email [email protected].
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New style of papacy: Pope Francis stays modest, pays hotel bill himself
VATICAN CITY (AP) — On his first day as shepherd of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, Pope Francis picked up his luggage at a Vati-can hotel, personally thanked each member of the staff and even paid his own bill.
That was hardly out of charac-ter for Francis. For years, as Cardi-nal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Ar-gentine pastor took the bus to work, kissed the feet of AIDS patients and prayed with former prostitutes, es-chewing the luxurious residence that would have been his due as archbishop of Buenos Aires.New bill intended to curb Jamaica lottery scams and convict fraudsters
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Ja-maican officials said Thursday that they are hopeful new legislation will finally result in a stream of con-victions and lengthy sentences for fraudsters behind a multimillion-dollar lottery scam that has swindled mostly elderly Americans out of their retirement savings for years.
National Security Minister Pe-ter Bunting told reporters that the law reform act will result in a “vast-ly accelerated number of success-ful prosecutions” of swindlers who have made the island a center for cross-border telemarketing fraud.
NJ governor asked to apologize for race remark, claims misinterpretation
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Repub-lican Gov. Chris Christie has been asked to apologize for referring to the first black female leader of the state Assembly by race and gender, not by name, during a church-hosted meeting.
Christie, who is white, told an audience Tuesday that an “African-American female speaker of the Assembly” is blocking a vote on a school voucher bill that would let children in failing districts attend classes elsewhere.
A Christie spokesman said the governor was misinterpreted. Reuters journalist charged with hacking conspiracy after being �red
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A social media editor for the Reuters news service was charged Thursday with conspiring with the group “Anony-mous” to hack into the Tribune Co.’s computer system shortly after he was fired from one of the company’s TV stations.
Matthew Keys is charged with supplying hackers in December 2010 with the login credentials to the com-puter network of Tribune Co., which owns the Los Angeles Times, the FBI said. Keys had been fired from a Tribune-owned television station in Sacramento two months earlier.
(AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal on Thursday proposed a hefty jump in the state’s sales tax rate and $1.4 billion in new taxes charged on ser-vices to help offset the cost of his push to eliminate Louisiana’s in-come taxes.
The Republican governor and his leader on the tax code revamp, Tim Barfield, outlined the first spe-cifics of Jindal’s proposal to re-write Louisiana’s tax code, but they didn’t provide the legislation with the full details.
Jindal wants to boost state sales taxes from 4 percent to 5.88 percent and assess sales taxes on a wide range of services not currently taxed.Escaped La. prisoner added to top fugitive list with reward for capture
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A con-victed killer who escaped the Louisi-ana Correctional Institute for Wom-en in St. Gabriel has been added to a list of the U.S. Marshal Service’s 15 most wanted fugitives.
Authorities say the reward money in the case of Keana Barnes also has increased to $25,000.
The 33-year-old Barnes had been serving a 25-year manslaughter sentence for killing two men before she escaped the lockup on Jan. 1.
Carnival Dream passengers �own home after issues with generator
PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten (AP) — Passengers from the cruise ship Carnival Dream headed to the air-port Thursday instead of sailing home after an on-board generator problem halted their trip in the lat-est maintenance headache for the world’s largest cruise line.
The Dream was in St. Maarten on the final stop of a Caribbean cruise when the crew announced it would not be sailing home to Port Canaveral, Fla., because of a me-chanical issue with a diesel genera-tor, passengers said.
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Pope Francis celebrates his inaugural Mass — in Italian, not the Latin of his predecessor — with cardinals inside the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican Thursday.
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Fla. charity �gures accused of illegal gambling pumped $1M to politicians
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The key players behind a purported vet-erans charity accused of setting up illegal gambling rooms pumped more than $1 million into the cam-paign accounts of politicians who had the power to regulate or put them out of business.
As the untaxed, barely regu-lated industry mushroomed into a billion-dollar industry, money went to the campaigns of governors in Florida and North Carolina, as well as dozens of state legislators and state political parties.
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie listens Feb. 24 as President Barack Obama welcomes the governors to the Governors’ Dinner at the White House.
Jindal plan would remove income, raise sales taxes in tax code revamp
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The main topics of concern at the Transition Advisory Team’s Student Experience subcommit-tee meeting Thursday were re-quiring freshmen to live on cam-pus and fi nancial aid.
The Transi-tion Advisory Team is exam-ining the LSU System and will recommend a re-organization plan to the LSU Board of Supervi-sors. It will present its initial fi ndings to the Board on March 18.
Mass communication fresh-man and committee member George Bevan said there are pros and cons for requiring students to live on campus.
“It was distracting for me to sit down and study and have people coming in and out of my room, or go into the study room and have other people there,” Be-van said.
Renford Cindass, Stu-dent Government president at LSU Health New Orleans, said
students who live on campus are more likely to be involved in stu-dent life and activities on cam-pus.
“The ones who live farthest away tend to do their own thing,” Cindass said.
Vice Chancellor for Student Life and Enrollment Services Kurt Keppler said the problem with making living on campus mandatory is that the Univer-
sity will lose stu-dents because not all of them want to or can afford living on campus.
“A good 10 percent, if not more, live within 50 miles of our campus, many of
whom have siblings, have par-ents, relatives or someone who lives in an apartment. If we make it mandatory, our research shows we’ll lose students,” Keppler said. “Because we have 700,000 peo-ple in Baton Rouge … they don’t all want to live on campus. They want to stay home or live with siblings.”
Mark Tassin, head of the De-partment of 4-H Youth and Fam-ily Development at the AgCenter, said affordability is also an issue for many people.
“I have a daughter who lives in a residence hall. We’re fortunate enough to be able to
do that. That’s what she want-ed to do,” he said. “But it is costly. Ninety-fi ve percent of my friends and colleagues who have children at LSU, they commute.”
Lisa Pickering, assistant di-rector of Financial Aid at LSU-Shreveport, addressed the is-sue of fi nancial aid as not being enough for students.
“The gap is what aid cov-ers and what students’ fi nancial situation is,” she said. “Student loan debt has surpassed credit card debt in this country … Students are borrowing for liv-ing and for car expenses, for the indirect costs that factor in.”
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Mike VI paws the glass and spooks onlookers outside his cage on Thursday. Many considered him to be unusually active as he splashed in his pool and even growled.
HEAR MIKE ROAR (if you’re lucky)
Subcommittee considers all freshmen living on campusFinancial aid also a main subject
‘If we make [living on campus] mandatory,
our research shows we’ll lose students.’
Kurt KepplerVice Chancellor for Student Life and
Enrollment Services
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More than Louisiana’s coast may be eroding, according to New Orleans chef and restauranteur John Besh. Failure to preserve tra-ditional Louisiana foodways could mean Louisiana’s culture — which Besh said is the state’s most valu-able renewable resource — will go bland.
Besh , who spoke at the 2013 Louisiana Food Processors Con-ference Thursday at the Energy, Coast and Environment Building, said foodways, or the social and economic practices relating to food, are such an integral part of Louisiana’s culture that many of the state’s tradi-tions are insepa-rable from food. Until recently, however, chefs around the world have trained to cook the same way because of the popularity of international cuisines, Besh said.
People are increasingly in-terested in preserving Louisiana’s uniqueness, though, which has conveniently coincided with re-cent “farm to table” and “buy lo-cal” phenomena, Besh said. Using local ingredients and practicing Louisiana cooking styles helps maintain cultural traditions many take for granted, he said.
“If we don’t take care of these foodways, then we will slowly see the erosion of this culture speed up to the point that we have no cul-ture,” Besh said.
Besh emphasized the impor-tance of Louisianians cooperating to preserve their state’s foodways. He warned if people ignore the culture they claim to be part of, it may vanish.
“Very few [cooks] are coming from Louisiana, very few of them are coming from New Orleans and very few minorities are entering into our business,” Besh said.
Supporting farmers is another way to protect Louisiana’s culture, Besh said. When farmers partner with the food industry, they de-velop new commerce that fuels foodways and economies.
Besh said his foundation, the Chef John Besh Foundation, makes micro-loans to farmers that fi nance improvements such as fencing. The foundation also part-ners farmers with MBA students to write business plans, Besh said.
Farmers have to make a profi t for their business to survive, so it is important to provide business assistance when they need it, Besh said. Helping farmers build con-nections from the point of produc-tion to the consumer without in-volving middlemen makes larger profi ts possible, he said.
John Finley, director of food innovation at the LSU AgCen-ter’s food business incubator, also presented at the conference and said the incubator will have a
demonstration kitchen to exhibit uses of products it helps launch, which will help tenants market their own goods. The incubator will also test how well customers receive a product before a tenant begins producing and trying to sell larger quantities, Finley said.
The incubator is looking at inviting chefs to teach food prepa-ration classes, which would raise money for the University food sci-ence department and be valuable to community, Finley said. The in-cubator is set to open in June.
Dickie Brennan, owner of Dickie Brennan and Company, said that in the 1970s, Americans became fascinated with using American food products. He said
regional Ameri-can cuisines were reignited in res-taurants, including his family’s, Com-mander’s Palace.
“We’re not a French restaurant, we’re not an Ital-ian restaurant —
we’re an American restaurant,” Brennan said.
This facilitated a new promi-nence of local products and ways of involving farmers, Brennan said.
Brennan also pointed out that while it is important to remain grounded in culinary tradition, restaurants must make some oc-casional changes. Restaurants not willing to evolve may as well be museums, which leaves them open to becoming irrelevant, he said.
Besh said Hurricane Katrina woke him up to how quickly a cul-ture could be damaged, persuad-ing him to be aggressive about maintaining Louisiana traditions.
“We all love our red beans on Mondays, or we should,” Besh said.
Without those customs, there is not much reason to live in Loui-siana, Besh said.
“If we don’t hang on to all these great things that we have and we’re not responsible with it, it will simply just erode away and we will simply become just any old state on the coast — without a great beach,” Besh said.
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LOCAL SPOTLIGHT
Olivia McClureContributing Writer
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PHOTO STORY
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happening on campus:
Michelle Alexander, author of “The New Jim Crow,” talks about the birth of a caste system in the U.S.
Foodways is key to preserving culture
‘We all love our red beans on Mondays, or
we should.’ John Besh
chef and restauranteur
Exotic animals live just outside BR
photos by LAUREN DUHON / The Daily Reveille
[Top left] Hazel watches the birds; [top right] Roux the kangaroo hops across a � eld; [bottom left] Sugar, a blue and gold macaw, and Cosmaux, a harlequin macaw, rest together on a perch; [bottom right] Angel, an umbrella cockatoo, ruf� es her feathers on March 6 at the Barn Hill Preserve in Ethel, La.
Southeastern Conference play is finally here, as the No. 7 LSU baseball squad travels to No. 13 Mississippi State (18-2) today, and the Tigers’ core of young starters will have to adjust to the increased level of competition.
SEC schools have been domi-nant on the diamond so far in 2013, occupying five of the top ten rank-ings in the Baseball America poll. When the Tigers (16-1) travel to Starkville, Miss., to take on Missis-sippi State, several Tigers will be getting their first taste of in-confer-ence competition.
“I feel like the team is really
excited about SEC play and every-one on the roster can’t wait to get going,” said freshman shortstop Alex Bregman. “We’re really mo-tivated to have a good year in the SEC, and I think we’re going to.”
Three hitters in the Tigers’ starting lineup — Bregman, fresh-man outfielder Mark Laird and ju-nior third baseman Christian Ibarra — have never seen the likes of SEC competition. Ibarra is confident in the squad’s ability to win a series on the road for the first time in 2013.
“We’re going to take it one game at a time,” Ibarra said. “We’re pretty pumped and excited for [the Friday game against Mississippi State]. We’re going to keep doing what we’re doing. We’ve been hit-ting good and getting those clutch hits. I think our one through nine is solid.”
LSU fared well against the
SEC in 2012, going 19-11. The story is different against
the Bulldogs. The Tigers won two of three games against Mississippi State in Alex Box Stadium last March, but dropped two contests to the Bulldogs in the SEC Tourna-ment in May.
Led by junior hitters Hunter Renfroe and Alex Detz, who are hitting .436 and .418 respectively, Mississippi State has won 17 of 19 games at Dudy Noble Field.
LSU coach Paul Mainieri has coached both LSU and Notre Dame against Mississippi State, so he knows what the atmosphere will be like when his squad takes the field on Friday night.
“Their fans will be into the game,” Mainieri said. “It’s a rau-cous environment. I love it. Out-side of Alex Box, it’s my favorite
SportsFriday, March 15, 2013 page 5
Lack of dominant team is good
Tigers take on first SEC competition in StarkvilleMainieri says young Tigers are readyLawrence BarrecaSports Writer
THE BERT LOCKERALBERT BURFORDSports Editor
College basketball is, by na-ture, unadulterated craziness, and this season has done nothing but reiterate that point.
A bunch of kids fresh out of high school play a sport in which a team could put together a solid sea-son, but have it all wiped away with one loss in a conference tourna-ment. A highly seeded squad in the NCAA Tournament may get an un-fortunate matchup in the Big Dance and get upset because some player from (insert school you’ve never heard of) can’t stop hitting threes.
It may not be the most exact method for determining a champi-on, but it’s a damn good time.
If you want to watch insanely talented athletes play basketball at a consistently high level, you watch the NBA. If you want to see chaos in action, you watch college bas-ketball — and this season has had
DOMINANT, see page 7
STARKVILLE, see page 7
After perhaps its most dominant half in a game this season, LSU struggled to contain Southeastern Confer-ence Player of the Year Kentavious Caldwell-Pope in the second half but grinded out a 68-63 victory against Georgia in the second round of the SEC Tournament.
Junior forward Shavon Coleman broke out of his recent offensive rut to pace the Tigers (19-11, 10-9 SEC) with 24 points after scoring that much in his last four conference games combined.
The Thibodaux native fought off a bout of vomit-ing on the bench during the first half to bury four of his five 3-pointers. Coleman’s outburst was uncharacteristic as he made only nine treys all season leading up to the game.
“Tonight I just had the hot hand and the team kept coming to me,” Coleman said. “So when you got a hot fella like that, you got to keep coming to him.”
As they’ve done in many games of late, the Tigers raced out to an early lead behind a barrage of 3-pointers and suffocating defense, forcing four Bulldog turnovers
Tigers hold on to beat Georgia, Caldwell-Pope
SURVIVE, see page 7
Chandler RomeSports Writer
DAVE MARTIN / The Associated Press
LSU guard Andre Stringer (10) dribbles past Georgia guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (1) on Thursday during LSU’s 68-63 win against Georgia at the Southeastern Conference tournament in Nashville, Tenn.
Survive and
Advance
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LSU freshman in�elder Alex Bregman (30) swings March 9 during the Tigers’ 8-4 victory against Washington in Alex Box Stadium. The freshmen will taste their �rst SEC play today.
BASEBALL
MARCH MADNESS
Senior running back Alfred Blue said he is ahead of schedule recover-ing from the season-ending knee in-jury he suffered last season but prob-ably won’t be cleared for contact this spring.
Blue took handoffs and ran around when LSU spring practice opened on Thursday. He said he felt he was at about 90 percent and didn’t think he lost a step from the injury.
“I feel the same as I was before I got hurt,” Blue said. “At moments I feel like my burst is not there, but sometimes I feel faster than I was. I’m just trying to adjust to my knee.”
Blue said his doctor gave him the option to skip spring football, but he decided to participate because he didn’t want to fall behind in newly hired offensive coordinator Cam Cameron’s system.
“Right now the coaches said contact is not needed because they know what I can do,” Blue said. “I’m just trying to get comfortable with my knee, but if it was fall, I’d be full contact.”
Collins slims down
Junior offensive lineman La’el Collins said he lost 15 pounds to tran-sition from left guard to left tackle because he needed to get quicker to move back outside.
LSU coach Les Miles said he plans to give Collins the first crack at the left tackle spot this spring after Collins played guard for the Tigers last season.
“I’m down to 310 [pounds] now, and I feel good,” Collins said. “It’s all about being able to move your feet and being quicker with your hands. One missed punch can get you beat off the edge.”
Collins said he is comfortable at guard or tackle and is willing to play whatever the coaches need him to play.
Sophomore Jonah Austin took most of the snaps at left guard on Thursday, according to Collins.
Magee transitioning back to running back
Junior Terrence Magee is mak-ing the transition back to his natural position of running back after play-ing wide receiver for the Tigers last season.
Magee said Miles told him he was switching back when he re-turned from Christmas break, but he acknowledged the first practice back felt weird.
“I was a little rusty today,” Ma-gee said. “I have to get back used to it and shake the rust off, but I only think that will take a couple practices.”
Magee said he thinks his time at receiver will help him become a re-ceiving threat for the Tigers coming out of the backfield.
“I feel like it helped me a lot,” Magee said. “I feel more comfortable catching the ball and running routes, which gives me an advantage.”
He said the biggest aspect he needs to work on going forward is his blocking.
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FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK
Blue’s recovery ahead of scheduleJames MoranSports Contributor
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LSU running back Alfred Blue (4) evades Washington defenders Sept. 8, 2012, during the Tigers’ 41-3 win against the Huskies in Tiger Stadium.
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plenty of chaos.Rather than one or two clearly
dominant teams, like Kentucky last season or North Carolina in 2009, 10 teams have the potential to cut down the nets in Atlanta and claim the national title this year.
It seems like every time a new team gets on top, it stumbles.
Indiana has held the No. 1 spot more than any other team this sea-son but has fallen out of fi rst place twice and currently sits at No. 3. Duke took hold of the No. 1 spot for four weeks before relinquishing it to Louisville in the middle of con-ference play. Louisville dropped its fi rst game after earning the No. 1 ranking, only to be replaced by Duke. The Blue Devils also lost their fi rst game as the top-ranked team in the nation and Michigan took over the top spot. That lasted a whole seven days before Indiana reclaimed the No. 1 ranking. Since then, Gonzaga, the only two-loss team left in the country, took over at No. 1.
This week’s conference tour-naments have continued the ab-surdly entertaining aspects of the season, as a 20-loss Liberty team punched its ticket to the NCAA Tournament on Sunday by winning the Big South Conference title. The
Flames are the second 20-loss team to ever reach the tournament.
So when a season such as this one comes along and parity runs the world of college hoops, the sport may miss out on a few
viewers who want to watch a truly dominant team trot to a national championship. But for those of us who live for the surprises and up-sets, this dogfi ght of a season has been a treat that represents the spirit
of the sport.
by the second media timeout with 11:29 left as LSU led 21-11 .
Junior guard Andre Stringer , who fi nished the game with 16 points and three assists , fi nished the run with back-to-back 3-point-ers while playing tight defense on Caldwell-Pope .
Stringer and senior guard Charles Carmouche combined to hold Caldwell-Pope to seven fi rst-half points as the Tigers switched defenders off every screen and de-fensive set.
“I tried to stay attached to him as much as possible,” Stringer said. “I think I did a decent job in the fi rst half.”
From the 11:29 mark on, the Ti-ger defense fl exed its muscles, hold-ing Georgia to only two fi eld goals for the rest of the half as LSU car-ried a commanding 39-19 lead into the locker room.
But as the Bulldogs came out in a zone defense to begin the second half, Caldwell-Pope put his team on his back, slicing and dicing his way to 25 second-half points, good enough to set a new career-high with 32 and cut what once was a 23-point Tiger lead down to single digits.
“When you have a great play-er like [Caldwell-Pope ], you have to stay connected to him, and I think that was the big difference,” said LSU coach Johnny Jones . “They drove the ball, but I think
Caldwell-Pope was the big differ-ence in the second half.”
As Caldwell-Pope heated up, the Tigers went cold, missing point-blank layups and leaving points at the free-throw line, going almost eight minutes without a fi eld goal as Georgia cut the lead to two with 1:05 to play.
Then it was Stringer who stepped up to bury a deep 3-pointer as the shot clock ticked down on the ensuing possession to push the Tiger lead to fi ve .
After Coleman’s stout perim-eter defense forced a wild Caldwell-Pope miss on a try, Stringer swished two foul shots to ice the game and send the Tigers into the quarterfi -nals to face No. 1 seed Florida at
noon today.For Jones , whose Tigers were
schooled on the boards, 45-31 , the key to avenging January’s 22-point loss to the Gators lies in the same glass his team couldn’t control Thursday.
“That’s an area we’re go-ing to really have to improve in,” Jones said. “It’s going to be a war zone down there. Florida is strong. They’re very physical and they’ll get to the basket and also rebound the ball strong.”
ball park in the country. I just love to go to Starkville . It’s really a neat place, and they love their college base-ball, and their team is always good.”
With that being said, he said he feels as though his young team will be ready for the chal-lenge.
“ T h e s e guys will han-dle it just fi ne,” he said. “There’s nothing that we could throw at them that they couldn’t handle. They’re really unfl appable, and they have a lot of talent, which helps. I think they’re going to embrace the whole environment up there and they’re going to play very well.”
Sophomore Aaron Nola (2-0) will take the mound for LSU when the game kicks off at 6:30 p.m. today.
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I was heavily involved in LSU Student Government for almost three years during my time here.
SG has caught a lot of flak since last week’s announcement that it would be drastically decreasing the number of free Scantrons it hands out.
Instead of making the Scantrons available at all times, SG decided to limit them to only midterms and fi-nals week.
Of the maybe 70 percent of LSU students who know SG exists, I bet most of them are primarily aware of the organization because of the free Scantrons.
SG has a lot of programs you
should care about. Whether they’re good or bad, they’re using a lot of your money.
But back to the Scantrons. So why would it cut itz star pro-
gram?It’s cutting the program because
people are taking advantage of the Scantrons’ “free” nature, making them way too expensive to fund.
I have personally witnessed students walk in the SG office, look around to see who’s watching, grab a stack of 20 Scantrons and run out.
SG President Taylor Cox told me that Greek chapters require their members to each bring five Scant-rons to chapter houses.
Through my own admittedly small-sample, unscientific and oth-erwise unusable polling, I’ve deter-mined that it’s true — at least for some of the Greek organizations.
But some professors are getting in on the action.
In classes that require blue book testing, some professors are telling their students to bring multiple blue books to class at the beginning of the semester.
This is done so the professors can inspect and hand out the blue books for each test themselves in an effort to prevent cheating.
Even worse, some professors send their teaching assistants to the SG office before tests to grab a stack of Scantrons and sell them for money — and one assumes other, non-monetary payment can also be arranged when such petty behavior is involved.
The most obvious answer is to staff the desk where the Scantrons are kept to ensure students take only what they need.
This is difficult to do, though, as SG workers are usually not paid like students in other departments, so it can be difficult to have someone
staffing the desk at all times.Another solution Cox said SG
looked into was allotting a certain number of Scantrons and blue books to each college instead of trying to directly hand them all out.
This seems like an excellent idea, but, according to Cox, they were given high numbers by those colleges when asked how many they needed.
Having said all that, SG needs to find a way to fund the program.
The ideal method is funding it through sponsorships, but that’s un-reliable and will vary from year to year.
Cox said SG is also looking into having the materials directly funded through college council, but the col-lege councils would have to agree.
Perhaps the best solution is one it has already explored — the one mentioned above that would let the colleges hand out the Scantrons.
Instead of asking them how much they need, SG should consider putting their criminally underused economic advisers on the non-sar-castically difficult task of figuring it out themselves.
Whatever they decide to do, they need to make the chosen reme-dy clear and publicly establish a plan of action — and Cox needs to make sure he works with the incoming SG president during the transition to make it happen.
John Parker Ford is a 22-year-old mass communication senior from Alexandria.
Don’t get pregnant in Arkansas — unless you plan on keeping it.
The Arkansas legislature recent-ly passed a law that bans abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy. The bill, originally vetoed by Arkansas’ Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe, be-came law after the Republican domi-nated legislature overturned the veto.
This makes Arkansas the most restrictive state in the country when it comes to abortion laws.
So why 12 weeks?Allegedly, this is the point dur-
ing gestation when the fetal heart-beat can be detected for the first time by ultrasound.
Arkansas is the most recent in a long line of red states trying to effec-tively ban abortion by restricting the “abort by” date. First, you couldn’t abort past the second trimester, then it was 20 weeks, and now it’s 12 — all of the deadlines supposedly based on scientific evidence.
It all goes back to Roe v. Wade. The Supreme Court upheld a wom-an’s right to have an abortion and the states know that Roe v. Wade will
never be struck down.So what do they do? Essential-
ly, a de facto abortion ban. Twelve weeks is three months, or the first trimester, and many women aren’t even aware they’re pregnant until some time into that period.
The deadline gives young and impressionable women far less time than is due to make arguably the most important decision of their lives.
This abortion nonsense is cycli-cal. Every year, one of the southern states decides they’re going to be the soap box for the religious right. And every year, these types of laws are struck down in federal courts as unconstitutional.
So, in defense of women every-where, let’s look at the hypothetical life cycle of an Arkansas failed abor-tion.
Conception: a child is con-ceived. Its mother, a pregnant teen without a stable income, supportive family or spouse faces a tough deci-sion. To abort or not to abort, that is the question.
The child’s father has taken off, her family has shunned her for being a jezebel, and she has no education because she grew up in Arkansas. There are few prospects for this poor girl.
So she decides to abort the pregnancy because she knows she
doesn’t have the money or support to provide this child with a respectable upbringing.
But she can’t, because the state says no abortions after 12 weeks, and even though that fetus won’t be self-aware for at least two and a half more years, she is forced by the government to give birth against her will.
For as much as Republicans hate government, they sure do like using it to marginalize gays, women and minorities. I digress.
The baby is born into poverty, like many children in the South. Arkansas has the third-highest pov-erty rating in the country, with 18.4 percent living below the poverty line, according to U.S. Census data. That’s essentially one in five.
So for every five children born in Arkansas, one will go hungry most nights.
Back to my rant: This child grows up in a home where education isn’t valued. Surrounded by poverty, this child turns to crime as a teen. He or she is arrested and convicted of a minor charge, but without the ability to afford a proper attorney, ends up in prison.
Now, we have an individual who is costing the taxpayers nearly $50,000 a year to feed and house, but it’s OK because he or she is in
a privately owned prison funded by the state. Crime is profitable now, it’s good for the economy. It’s the new housing bubble.
The now-grown-up child may get out in a few years, but without the education or resources to climb the economic ladder, he or she returns to crime and ends up in jail again.
Yes, this is hypothetical. And yes, it may seem a bit far-fetched if you don’t know any poor people. It won’t be the case for every child who isn’t aborted, but it absolutely will be the case for some, if not most.
Rich people with options are not the ones seeking abortions.
So how do we resolve this? Is it by restricting abortions? Absolutely not.
The way you restrict abor-tions isn’t through legislation. It’s
by reducing the need for them. If Arkansas would spend half the ener-gy tackling poverty as it does polic-ing women, abortion numbers would decrease on their own.
Poverty and a lack of educa-tion (and probably abstinence-only education) are responsible for un-planned pregnancies and subsequent abortions.
Tackle poverty and you tackle abortion. Ignore the poor and watch it rise.
Parker Cramer is a 22-year-old political science senior from Houston.
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Well, you live and you learn. Three weeks ago, I took the
stance in an opinion column that the national decline in law school appli-cations held a direct correlation with the institution as a whole.
As Katherine Soniat, director of Communications and External Rela-tions at LSU’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center, pointed out, that assumption is neither fair nor accurate.
Technically, the knock on the decline in applications is more than fair, as the numbers are statistically falling, but the fact remains: There is a silver lining.
An article in the New York Times last week tackled the subject head-on, proving that con-trary to popular belief (or my own column), law schools across the na-tion aren’t as worried as they may seem.
Pulling pages from the boom-ing, entrepreneurial start-up sector and combining them with a medical-school type of hands-on training sys-tem, the American institution of law may have stumbled upon something to challenge today’s ever-evolving economy.
That’s right, one of our nation’s most traditional systems has decid-ed to dip its toes into the waters of change.
“It’s a perfect storm,” said Stacy Caplow, a professor at Brook-lyn Law School, to the Times. “The longstanding concerns over access to justice for most Americans and a lack of skills among law graduates are now combined with the problems faced by all law schools. It’s creating conditions for change.”
While the “perfect storm” is a bit of a stretch in my opinion, this is nonetheless a step in the right direc-tion.
At LSU, the Paul M. Hebert Law Center has made its own waves
by creating a conducive environ-ment to the arising sectors around the globe that are in need of more lawyers.
And it shows, as the school is ranked at a respectable number 76 in the nation, according to the U.S. News Best Law Schools rankings for 2014.
“We have created a vibrant live client law clinic and externship pro-gram that provides dozens of our students each year with real-world experience,” Soniat wrote in her let-ter to the editor. “We have created a new Energy Law Center to provide our students with broad training (and
to prepare them for good jobs) in the critical energy sector.”
The key words in this excerpt are, “real-world experience.”
The main question I have is, why hasn’t “real world experience” been utilized until now?
Though I applaud the law school community for looking to implement resources for students to capitalize on, as the market for law-yers is dwindling, this is something that should have been delved into before now.
And for all I know, it potentially has been.
But I think that it is evident that
this idea has taken off as the numbers in applications have dropped and one would assume that for such a highly esteemed profession, pilot programs such as Lawyers for America, would have been around before 2013.
I still do believe that the profes-sion of law is to be held in a high regard as a perennial power among many professions.
But in terms of a perfect storm, someone should have been check-ing the Doppler radar in terms of the technological savvy of our gen-eration that would only bring about change.
Because this is the 21st century
and while hindsight is twenty-twen-ty, this crisis could have been averted as the technological world grew and provided our population with an ar-ray of options, essentially cutting the middleman out of everything pos-sible.
But like I said, you live and you learn.
John Polivka is a 21-year-old creative writing junior from Houston.
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In response to the article, "Unite disqualified but wins by more than 1,000 votes,"
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If you would like to get FY 13's numbers those are available in Mid-dleton at the circulation desk. They would be a much better representa-tion of what faculty make.
Secondly, there are several peo-ple listed on the database that are no longer employed by the university. For example, Eric Monday no longer works at LSU.
I'd also like to point out that Greg Studrawa's pay rate was recent-ly reduced. His salary is the same as it was last year.
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fi nancial documents. Simon said Unite LSU’s fi nancial form is ques-tionable, and in an online explana-tion Thursday, she said the price for Woodard’s banners was low and once revalued, it was determined to be unfair.
“We are allowed to determine fair market value of any expense on a ticket’s campaign,” Simon said.
The SG Election Code states “The election board reserves the right to revalue an expense or do-nation in response to a discrepancy and/or complaint that the good or service is not reported at its fair market value. The election board must submit three (3) reasonable price references from merchants in estimating the value of any contest-ed reported price.”
Simon used a hypothetical sce-nario to explain fair market value.
“Let’s say my father works at a screening company, which he does not, and he can get everything printed for my campaign for free,” Simon said. “That would not be fair to other campaigns.”
Unite LSU adviser Joe Gipson said to his knowledge, no one on the Unite ticket is related to anyone who works for Talk’n T-Shirts , the company that Unite LSU used for its banners and several other items.
Gipson said the ticket will fi le an appeal today against the Elec-tion Board’s decision to disqualify Unite LSU.
“We did not spend more money than we were allowed,” Gipson said.
Gipson said Unite LSU bought a signifi cant number of items from Talk’n T-Shirts , including banners, buttons and stickers, and were giv-en a quote on all of the items. They were not necessarily given a dis-count, he said.
Gipson said he is hopeful the court will overturn the election board’s decision .
“If they upheld the disquali-fi cation, or this false expenditure increase that the election board implemented, that three people on the election board voted to imple-ment, [the disqualifi cation] would override all of the student body’s votes,” Gipson said.
Gipson said the UCourt’s deci-sion will not only affect the presi-dential race, but will also change the dynamic of the legislative branch.
“They would be taking out al-most every elected member from the legislative branch,” he said
Chief Justice Morgan Faulk said the UCourt will hear the appeal at 7 a.m. Saturday in the Student Union’s Atchafalaya Room .
Faulk said the decision the court makes will be fi nal.
“Regardless if we decide to overturn the election board’s deci-sion or uphold it, there can be no further appeal,” Faulk said
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funds children’s cancer research at facilities like St. Jude Children’s Re-search Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.
The volunteer-driven founda-tion held its fi rst event in 1999 and it only took three years to raise its fi rst $1 million . Within 11 more years, its total earnings topped $100 million .
Parish Tillman , mass communi-cation senior and philanthropy chair for TKE, will be shaving his head for the third time in support of the char-ity. He is one of about 16 people reg-istered to do so this year.
“The philosophy behind the philanthropy itself is not only just to raise money for childhood cancer research, but with the act of shav-ing your head, it’s supposed to show solidarity for children with cancer,” Tillman said.
Teams across the country orga-nize events, usually around the St. Patrick’s Day holiday, and collect donations prior to the event at a team page on the St. Baldrick’s website.
Cash and online donations are also accepted during and shortly after the event.
This year marks the second con-secutive year TKE has hosted the public head shavings. Last year’s efforts raised around $3,500 , but this year’s group had already raised $5,424 in online donations alone by 11 p.m on Thursday.
Contributing a large portion to that total were dairy sciences senior Mary Condo and psychology senior Ritu Roy , who each raised more than $1,000 . As the only female students to register for a head shave, Roy said the response to their campaign was inspiring.
“Within 24 hours of me putting up the Facebook event, we’d already met our goal,” Roy said. “I was just overwhelmed with happiness and how wonderful people were.”
Tillman said he increased the fundraising goal several times since creating this year’s event, and he expects the group to reach its most recent goal of $5,500 by the end of
the event.“The generosity has probably
been the most amazing thing about hosting the event,” Tillman said.
Tillman credits much of this year’s success to the experience of running the event last year , but he also said the support for the women participating helped the event quick-ly surpass its goals .
“I really admire the girls getting their heads shaved,” he said. “So much of feminine identity is tied to hair.”
Conger agreed, saying she doubts she would have had the “chutzpah” to shave her head as a young woman.
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since I was a kid, ” he said.Ligon’s interest carried over
into college, where he was the edu-cation coordinator for the largest wildlife sanctuary in the state for a year and also worked with wildlife in Costa Rica .
The program in Costa Rica “set a fi re” in Ligon . He said he knew upon his return he wanted to get the ball rolling on Barn Hill Preserve .
His next step was to acquire some land within driving distance of Baton Rouge. He purchased an acre of land from his grandfather in Ethel and built the two-story barn where he utilizes the bottom fl oor as a home for animals and the top fl oor as his own residence.
Ligon then acquired animals he thought were going to be interesting to the public .
Volunteer coordinator for Barn Hill Preserve Katherine Sternitzke joined Ligon in his quest to educate after working as a volunteer coordi-nator for another wildlife sanctuary. Sternitzke said her most interesting experience working at Barn Hill was the opportunity to work with Roux .
“That’s not something many people get to see,” she said. Sternitz-ke also said she has a special bond with Guapo , who will often follow her around.
Ligon and his group of student volunteers aim to educate the public on wildlife and provide the animals with a safe place to live .
Program coordinator for Barn
Hill Hannah Paul said she immedi-ately signed on when she heard of the idea for the preserve .
Paul said she enjoys sharing in-formation about animals with other people and also enjoys interact-ing with animals people normally wouldn’t encounter.
Two months ago, Barn Hill be-gan its fi rst educational programs . They have since had at least one pro-gram a week, with programs almost every weekend.
One way the preserve provides educational programs is to visit local schools . At the schools, Ligon and the volunteers are able to teach the students about the diversity of the animals . Ligon said he enjoys visit-ing older students in high schools where he is able to explain in more
depth the biology of each animal .In addition to educating, Ligon
and his volunteers sell pictures with the animals, T-shirts and educational toys to the students, which help to keep the preserve running.
Ligon has big plans for the fu-ture of the preserve. He said by fall, he hopes it will be set up and ready for fi eld trips . He is building more cages for the animals and hopes to construct an education center on the grounds as well as a pumpkin patch .
“The next animal is going to be a high-content wolf-dog, ” he said, an animal he explained that was almost the same as a pure-bred wolf .
Ligon said he would love to add some diversity to his group of volunteers . He said students with majors like marketing and business
who are interested in public speaking would be a good fi t .
He said he hopes the preserve will obtain a non-profi t status by the end of the summer , leading to the potential for grants . He also said there are plans to obtain more rescue animals to add to the preserve. Ligon is also a state licensed wildlife reha-bilitator and said he hopes to use this skill to assist some injured animals on their return to the wild.
Ligon said the preserve is al-ways looking for new volunteers, material for the buildings and fruit for the animals .
ANIMALS, from page 1
Contact Zach Carline at [email protected]
SG, from page 1
Contact Kirsten Romaguera at [email protected]
ST. BALDRICK’S, from page 1
Contact Judah Robinson at [email protected]
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