He might never be a royal or pledge his alliance to a specifi c crown, but Faculty Sen-ate President Kevin Cope is a registered monarchist — the only University pro-fessor registered as a mon-archist according to data compiled by The Daily Reveille.

Twenty years ago Cope swapped his inde-pendent party registra-tion for the Monarchist Party, a party he said refl ects Louisiana’s monarchical structure.

Although never asked about it before, he

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Models wear fashions designed by LSU students Sunday at The Felicity Methodist Church in New Orleans as a part of NOLA Fashion Week. Read the story on p. 4.

STRUTTIN’ IN NOLA

POLITICS

Week one of the 2014 legisla-tive session kicked off last Monday as Gov. Bobby Jindal introduced his proposed legislative agenda to lawmakers, characterized by an emphasis on higher education in the state. .

“Our top priority this legisla-tive session must be making sure we have the resources to prepare our students and train them for the jobs of the future,” Jindal said.

Jindal touted the fact that next year’s state budget will increase total higher education funding by $141 million.

Jindal also advocated his sup-port for human traffi cking reform in the state, announcing a legisla-tive package “to prosecute crimi-nals to the fullest extent of the law, and protect the vulnerable and of-ten forgotten victims of these ter-rible crimes.”

Two days later, the House’s Health and Welfare Committee passed legislation that would pro-hibit the use of tanning beds for those under the age of 18.

State Sen. Dan Claitor of Ba-ton Rouge also was in the legisla-tive spotlight Wednesday when the Senate Education Committee ap-proved Claitor’s bill to repeal the Balanced Treatment for Creation-Science and Education-Science Act, deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court 27 years ago.

The unenforceable act requires that Louisiana public schools give “balanced treatment” to the teaching of both creationism and evolution.

Among the various bills scheduled for fl oor debate this week is HB 244, which could al-low fundraising events at public universities to sell fi rearms.

According to the bill, “if property at a public postsecond-ary education institution is leased to a nonprofi t corporation or as-sociation for the purpose of hold-ing a fundraising event, the lease may authorize and provide for the auction and sale of fi rearms at the event.”

Quint ForgeyStaff Writer

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College campuses are home to traditions, free thinkers and political action. And while some universities are regarded as liberal ha-vens, LSU’s faculty maintains a relatively neutral political affi liation.

According to data compiled by The Dai-ly Reveille, the University’s faculty is com-prised of about 28 percent Republicans, 38 percent Democrats and 33 percent indepen-dents. The data was macro-retrieved through yellowpages.com and the Louisiana Secretary of State’s Voter Portal.

These numbers do not refl ect every pro-fessor on campus. The data shows the faculty members with registered political affi liations.

TRUE COLORS

Faculty Senate president reveals party loyalty

Data reveals University balanced politically

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COPE, see page 15PARTY AFFILIATIONS, see page 15

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PARTY AFFILIATIONS37.60% Democrat33.29% Independent 28.41% Republican0.31% Libertarian0.25% Green Party 0.06% Monarchist0.06% Socialist

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NEW YORK (AP) — As work-ers cleared some of the last of the rubble Sunday from the site of a massive explosion this week in New York City, a pair of congre-gations gathered to mourn — one for its lost church and one for two members who were killed in the blast.

At Bethel Gospel Assembly, tears mixed with the sounds of gospel music as the congregants remembered Griselde Camacho and Carmen Tanco, two of the eight people killed in the massive East Harlem explosion that leveled a pair of fi ve-story buildings on Wednesday.

“We feel the void,” said Mi-chelle Robinson, the church’s busi-ness administrator. “Both women were very active members.”

Tanco often served as an ush-er at services and would greet her fellow congregants at the door, Robinson said.

“We are a family and we’re all just missing the big hugs she used to give,” she said.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the women “were ex-amples to all of us” because of the

faith and spirit they demonstrated.“We will not let you fall,” de

Blasio said, speaking at a podium with a screen above him displaying photos of the women. “We are all a family in the end.”

De Blasio also praised the emergency responders who felt the explosion and “ran into the fi re, ran into the danger because they knew they might be able to save one life.”

A fundraising drive will be launched to help those affected by the explosion, De Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, told the crowd. The money will support a relief plan that includes a victims’ as-sistance fund to go toward funeral arrangements, rent and house-hold expenses. The plan also in-cludes counseling and outreach to immigrant communities.

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PORT ALLEN (AP) — One of the four candidates seeking to be Port Allen’s new mayor has been arrested and jailed in the mistreat-ment of animals. The Advocate reports Larry Bell, 63, had been issued multiple written and verbal warnings about the undernourished appearance of his horses before he was taken into custody last week by the parish’s Animal Control di-vision. Bell was booked Thursday on charges of cruelty to animals and on a bench warrant for having an animal at large.

“We were just getting mul-tiple complaints about the horses from people who were driving by and seeing them looking malnour-ished,” said Richard Summers, su-perintendent of West Baton Rouge Parish Animal Control.

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People search the area where a twin car bomb exploded in a bustling marketplace and killed at least 51 people in Maiduguri, Nigeria, on March 2.

INTERNATIONAL

Nigerian stampedes kill at least 16ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 16 people were killed in stam-pedes for government jobs in Ni-geria when hundreds of thousands were invited to apply for fewer than 5,000 positions, offi cials and activists said Sunday.

Interior Minister Abba Moro held the applicants responsible, saying they “lost their lives through their impatience.” Activists blamed his ministry and called for him to be fi red. Emergency offi cials said the death toll could rise.

Nigerians are desperate for

work, with offi cial statistics put-ting the number of unemployed at nearly 41 million of the 170 million population. Unemployment among young people aged under-24 is even higher — 38 percent accord-ing to offi cial statistics and nearer to 80 percent, according to the World Bank.

Moro was quoted as saying by the offi cial News Agency of Nigeria that many of the applicants “jumped through the fences of affected cen-ters and did not conduct them-selves in an orderly manner ... This caused stampedes and made the environment unsecured.”

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Community leaders from LSU and Baton Rouge will gath-er to share their ideas for social, civic and commercial progress in Louisiana at TEDxLSU 2014. The event, which will take place at the LSU Shaver Theatre on March 29, has undergone im-provements after the success of last year’s inaugural TEDxLSU event.

TEDxLSU is an evolution in the Communication across the Curriculum, or CxC’s, effort to highlight innovative thinkers from LSU and the greater com-munity. Before TEDxLSU, the student organized LSU Digital Media Fest provided a platform to share work in digital media from the most recent generation of LSU students.

Rebecca Burdette, Associ-ate Director at the CxC, said that TED sponsorship was an oppor-tunity to take the event to another level by setting a higher standard for ideas and inviting speakers from different disciplines rather than just digital media.

“LSU is our fl agship for the state, we are an incubator for knowledge, training and develop-ing students to be informed and productive citizens,” Burdette said. “When you have passionate people like at LSU, it creates the opportunity for a great event.”

Burdette said the fi rst TEDxLSU event was planned and executed in only 75 days. This year Communication across

the Curriculum had more time to plan and strategize.

“Anyone who came to last year’s event will see the differ-ence,” Burdette said. “This year the event will be more focused, with fewer speakers giving high-er quality talks.”

Last year, the event sold out at 250 tickets. This year, the CxC managed to reduce the price to $75 for general admission and $50 for students and is on course to sell all of its 400 tickets. Bur-dette said that the extra time for planning also gave the event’s Curator, Joey Watson, an op-portunity to work individually with speakers and cultivate their speeches.

The event comprises three 60 minute sessions with two 30 minute breaks in between. As a part of the TED theme, speakers are asked to give the “talk of their lives” in 18 minutes or less. At TEDxLSU, a specially selected team of individuals will speak for eight-12 minutes to optimize

the number of speakers attendees will hear.

“Last year, we talked about how our community was chang-ing through the theme ‘evolve,’” Burdette said. “This year, we want to talk about the exciting things that are happening when we ‘enact.’”

The event will last from 1-5 p.m. Visit the TEDxLSU website, www.tedxlsu.com, for more de-tails and a list of speakers. “Like” the TEDxLSU Facebook page, www.facebook.com/tedxlsu, and follow on Twitter, @TEDXL-SU, to get the most up-to-date information.

Google announced last week the University’s STELLAR re-search group at the Center for Computation and Technology will participate in the 2014 Summer of Code program .

According to the program’s website, Google’s Summer of Code is a worldwide program that offers students stipends to produce com-puter code for open source projects.

Open source software is source code for public use, said Hartmut Kaiser, University CCT consultant and senior scientist .

Kaiser said being a part of Google’s Summer of Code program is a selective process.

“Organizations create a range of proposals, and Google picks which ones they want to pursue,” Kaiser said.

Kaiser said they applied last year, but were not selected. He at-tributes this year’s success to the large visibility of their current work in the open source community.

Adrian Serio, STELLAR proj-ect coordinator , said high perfor-mance clusters need software to

coordinate their use of applications. The high performance com-

puting community at the University centered around the scientifi c appli-cations of supercomputers like Su-perMIC , Melete and SuperMIKE-II , has developed applications for more than two decades, which hasn’t been the most effi cient way, Serio said.

Kaiser said they want to pro-duce software allowing people to utilize supercomputers today and in the future.

Another quandary they hope to solve is the massive amount of en-ergy used by such machines.

Kaiser said one of the machines can use 25 megawatts of power, which is approximately equivalent to that used by 25,000 homes.

Kaiser said they are still look-ing for students, preferably with C++ knowledge, to work with them during the summer .

Selected students will receive a stipend from Google , whether or not it ends up using their code.

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Speakers at TEDxLSU 2014

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· LSU art history alumna

· Sociology and political science senior at University of Wisconsin-Madison

· Poet, playwright, education advocate

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The Felicity Church in New Orleans saw a different crowd than usual on Sunday night.

Textiles, apparel and mer-chandising seniors Annie Etzel, Alex Engelhardt and Maddie Louviere presented their fall/winter designs in the Emerging Designer Showcase at NOLA Fashion Week this weekend.

Etzel said her designs are normally evening gowns and cocktail wear, but she wanted to challenge herself by creating more casual wear for this collection.

Etzel said she gained inspira-tion for her col-lection from an imaginary muse — someone who is bold, glamor-ous and complex.

“More than anything, she’s passionate,” Etzel said.

Etzel’s collection includes gold as the focus both in the clothing and the model’s makeup. The garments are made in black and neutral tones like whites, greens and tans. The collection’s showing ended with a long sleeve gown with a plunging neckline in a black and dark green toned glit-ter fabric.

“[It’s] a little bit of every-thing [and] every style,” Etzel said.

Engelhardt said his in-spiration came from robots and futurism.

Engelhardt’s collection focused on neutral colors of black, white and gray. He also used pops of yellow in the cloth-ing and the model’s makeup, some with yellow highlights on their chin bones and all wearing yellow lipstick.

The garments include struc-tured elements with shoulder pads, hoods and collars. The final look consisted of a black body suit with large shoulder pads.

Louviere said her collection concentrated on contrasts and draws from her experience of

growing up with a twin sister who was very different from herself. She was also inspired by ballerinas, who Louviere said are strong but also mysterious.

“[The collection] is very feminine but with edgy twists,” Louviere said.

Her contrasting themes of dark and light, soft and hard came off in her color choices of black, white, light pink and dark burgundy.

Louviere said the collection is ready to wear, focusing on two pieces. She chose the simple col-ors with few prints but added an edge with leather details and gold zippers.

Her final piece was a long burgundy body suit with a sheer polyester skirt that creates the il-lusion of a gown. It also includes leather-trimmed sleeves and a high waistband.

Louviere, Engelhardt and Et-zel all agreed the textiles, apparel and merchandising department challenged them to make things they wouldn’t normally make but also pushed them to make what they always imagined.

“Hollywood of the South” may not be a big enough title for Louisiana’s film production after a recent study by Los Angeles-based nonprofit FilmL.A. ranked Louisiana first in number of fea-ture films made in an area. The state also ranked second in terms of jobs, with nearly 14,000 jobs being created in Louisiana from the films examined.

The study examined 108 film productions from six major stu-dios and five of the “best known independent studios.” Eighteen of those 108 were filmed in Loui-siana, with Canada and Califor-nia tying for second with 15 each.

Liza Kelso, executive direc-tor for the Baton Rouge Film Commission, said the study shows how much economic growth Louisiana is gaining from California’s losses.

The most significant driver of Louisiana’s growth in film pro-duction is the tax credit program, Kelso said. Louisiana offers a 30 percent tax break on production costs, including payroll for resi-dents and non-residents, accord-ing to the study.

Baton Rouge Mayor- President Kip Holden pushed for the tax credits, Kelso said.

“He’s the reason why we’re here today, he gets all the credit,” she said.

Kelso rebutted concerns about the fleeting nature of film jobs, saying the film industry is shifting to more freelance work. Louisiana is keeping young, cre-ative people in the state instead of losing them to traditional film hubs like New York and Los An-geles, she said.

In addition to the major film productions, Louisiana is also seeing an increase in smaller producers, Kelso said. She said a local welder and eight other men recently applied for a permit to shoot in downtown Baton Rouge.

University English professor Mari Kornhauser said in an email the tax credit program is not fo-cused on creating content in Louisiana, but rather, it is aimed at producing and shooting films in Louisiana. She acknowledged, however, she can take advantage of the production credits as a con-tent creator.

Baton Rouge keeps growing, Kelso said, with the upcoming “Fantastic Four” movie planned to begin shooting April 21. In ad-dition, “Pitch Perfect 2” is also planned to shoot in Baton Rouge, just like its predecessor.

The film industry is shifting, Kelso said, with states having to offer incentives to stay competi-tive in the market.

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• “The Dukes of Hazzard,” 2005• “Jonah Hex,” 2010• “Battle: Los Angeles,” 2011• “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn,” 2011• “Battleship,” 2012• “Pitch Perfect,” 2012• “Beautiful Creatures,” 2013• “The Host,” to be released on March 29• “Pitch Perfect 2,” to be released on May 15, 2015

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A model wearing one of LSU senior Alex Engelhardt’s “Xander” designs showcases the clothing at The Felicity Church in New Orleans on Sunday.

‘[It’s] a little bit of everything [and] every

style.’annie etzel

student designer

LSU designers showcased

A year removed from a disap-pointing Selection Sunday, the LSU basketball team received better news in 2014.

The Tigers (19-13, 10-10 South-eastern Conference) learned Sunday night they made the 32-team fi eld of the National Invitational Tournament as a No. 5 seed and will hit the road to face No. 4 seed San Francisco at 9 p.m. on Wednesday.

“As a staff and as a team, our guys are really looking forward to the challenges in front of us,” said LSU coach Johnny Jones. “Our guys are really looking forward to an op-portunity to continue playing togeth-er, improving as a basketball team and making strides for our program.”

After only three SEC teams made the NCAA tournament fi eld,

speculations swirled whether the conference would place four teams in the NIT fi eld, with LSU largely considered the fourth best of the SEC candidates.

Jones said he grew concerned when he saw the NCAA tournament committee send Tennessee to a First Four play-in game and left Georgia out of the fi eld of 68.

“After watching the picks of the NCAA tournament … I was certain-ly disappointed in that,” Jones said. “I didn’t know how the NIT brack-ets would shake out after watching that.”

But Jones and his staff were elated when the Tigers were the third team revealed on the ESPNU selec-tion show and were excited at the

prospect of progress and growth for the basketball program.

The Dons (21-11, 13-5 West Coast Conference) fi nished second in the WCC and have won six of their last seven games — the lone loss an overtime setback to NCAA Tournament-bound BYU in the WCC tournament semifi nals.

The Dons are led by senior forward Cole Dickerson, who leads the team with 14.8 points per game and 7.7 rebounds per game. Sopho-more guard Avry Holmes chips in 12.6 points per game while 6-foot-9 center Mark Tollefsen puts in 10.7 points in the middle.

Should the Tigers defeat the Dons on Wednesday, it would draw the winner of No. 1 seed Southern Methodist University and No. 8 seed UC-Irvine.

It’s a quick turnaround for the Tigers, who leave for San Francisco

on Tuesday and began scouting the Dons late Sunday night.

Although a cross-country trip awaits, Jones said the players were thrilled at the opportunity to continue their season.

“We’re going to have to do a lot of work and prep for each other, but we’re in the same situation they are,” Jones said. “That’s what the postsea-son is about.”

SportsMonday, March 17, 2014 page 5

Tigers grab NIT bid, will face San FranciscoMEN’S BASKETBALL

Chandler RomeSports Writer

GYMNASTICS

Tigers fall to No. 2 after � nalhomestandDavid GraySports Contributor

REGULAR SEASON, see page 11

Contact Chandler Rome at crome@lsureveille.com;

Twitter: @Rome_TDR

READ: Sports staff members give their Final Four

picks, p. 9

LSU coach Paul Mainieri often refers to baseball as “a humbling game.”

Following an emotional come-back victory against Vanderbilt on Friday night, the Tigers were thrown right back into the fi re with a double-header on Saturday to close out their fi rst Southeastern Conference series of the season.

What resulted was two losses and a long bus trip back to Baton Rouge.

In past years, Mainieri has had his share of pitchers and hitters he could turn to when looking to collect series victories. Pitchers like Kevin Gausman, Ryan Eades, Chris Cotton and Nick Goody gave him reliable arms that helped carry the Tigers to both a Super Regional and College World Series appearance in the past two seasons.

As for the lineup, two former Tigers — Raph Rhymes and Ma-son Katz — were known to pro-vide veteran leadership against rival pitching.

This season, Mainieri has a combination of southpaws, junior Kyle Bouman and freshman Jared Poche’, both of whom had never ex-perienced SEC play.

Bouman was unable to keep his pitch count down in the fi rst game of the doubleheader, tossing 41 pitches and surrendering three runs on three hits.

The Ferguson, Mo., native recovered to toss three more innings of clean baseball on just 32 pitches

SERIES, see page 11

Lawrence BarrecaSports Writer

In its fi nal meet before the start of postseason competition, the LSU gymnastics squad (10-3, 5-2 Southeastern Conference) capped off the greatest regular season in program history, de-feating SEC opponent Kentucky 197.800-195.000 Friday night in the PMAC.

It was a noticeable bounce back from the previous week against North Carolina State when a slew of small mistakes and mental errors resulted in the Tigers’ lowest score since Feb. 7 against Arkansas. Heading into the SEC Championships, LSU has scored at least 197.000 for nine consecutive meets, breaking the school record of eight set in 2004.

“I think we really got out there and didn’t hyperfocus on anything in particular,” said ju-nior all-arounder Rheagan Cour-ville. “When we do best is when we’re not really focusing on one specifi c thing to fi x.”

Courville scored a 39.625 in the all-around to capture her seventh all-around title of the season. Fellow junior Jessie ALEC MYSZKA / The Hustler

With little help from a sti� ed offense, LSU pitchers, junior Kyle Bouman and freshman Jared Poche’, struggled in their � rst Southeastern Conference series as the Tigers dropped both games of a Saturday doubleheader against Vanderbilt.

‘A humbling game’Lack of experience, poor plate discipline plague Tigers against Commodores

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The LSU track and fi eld teams fi nished their 2014 indoor track sea-sons this weekend with an 8th place overall fi nish for the men and a 12th place overall fi nish for the women at the NCAA Indoor Championships.

Sophomores Darrell Bush and Cyril Grayson teamed with juniors Quincy Downing and Vernon Nor-wood to place fi rst in the 4X400-me-ter relay and give LSU its claim to at least one indoor event championship for the fi fth straight year .

“What a way for both of our teams to go out in this national cham-pionship,” said LSU track and fi eld Coach Dennis Shaver . “You could tell just how much this champion-ship meant to each and every one of our athletes that lined up today.”

LSU fi nished third to Texas A&M and Florida in the 4X400-meter relay at the Southeastern Con-ference Indoor Championships, but this weekend, the Tigers led the race from start to fi nish.

Bush, who learned of his grand-mother’s passing only hours before competing, raced out to the lead for the Tigers before handing the baton to Downing with a fi ve-meter lead.

“I put it all on the line for my team, and they had my back, “Bush said. “I did it for my grandma too,

thinking of her. It was just an emo-tional race for all of us tonight. “

Texas A&M’s Gregory Cole-man and Florida’s Dedric Dukes col-lided with one another on the third leg, disqualifying both teams.

Norwood sealed the result for the Tigers with a swift 45.05 second split on the anchor leg. A little more than an hour before, Norwood took silver in the men’s 400 meter dash.

Oregon’s men’s and women’s teams swept the National Champi-onships, marking the third time in NCAA history a school has swept the titles.

Senior Denise Hinton became the fi rst Lady Tiger in school history to earn All-America honors in the weight throw, with a best throw of 70 feet, 7 1/2 inches . Hinton fi nished in fi fth place.

Senior Jasmin Stowers fi n-ished third in the women’s 60-meter hurdles , ending her career with con-secutive bronze medals in the event and four All-American honors from 2011-14 .

She broke a 14-year-old LSU school record, crossing the line in 7.94 seconds and fi nishing one hun-dreth of a second behind Arkansas State’s Sharika Nelvis and Baylor’s Tiffani McReynolds .

For two consecutive nights, the LSU softball team proved its worth to the nation with competitive games against No. 1 Florida, includ-ing a 3-2 win on Saturday.

On Sunday, the Gators proved to everyone why they were so de-serving of the No. 1 ranking.

Florida (28-2 , 4-2 Southeast-ern Conference) scored seven runs through its fi rst eight batters of the game, and LSU (18-10 , 2-4 SEC) was never able to regroup, losing 10-2 in fi ve innings. The loss marks the fi rst time the Tigers lost by the mercy rule since March 1 , 2013 .

“Florida is an amazing team. They’re No. 1, and this is the reason why,” said junior centerfi elder A.J. Andrews . “They’re a really good team and they fi nd a way to win. We wanted to fi nd a way to win too, and I think it just didn’t go our way.”

Florida got things started early, with lead-off hitter Kelsey Stewart crushing a home run to right center on the sixth pitch of the game. A single and another home run soon followed, and LSU freshman pitch-er Kelsee Selman saw her day end after only four batters.

The weekend was not kind to Selman , who went only 0.2 IP while allowing four earned runs, three hits and two walks on only nine batters faced. These struggles come only a few weeks after Selman threw her

fi rst no-hitter and was awarded SEC Pitcher of the Week .

The barrage continued against senior pitcher Ashley Czechner . Four consecutive batters reached base, culminating in a three-run home run by Florida fi rst baseman Taylor Schwarz . The Gators’ lead climbed to seven runs before the Ti-gers came to bat.

“Obviously, we didn’t make very good pitches [in the fi rst in-ning],” said coach Beth Torina . “I think we fell behind in counts a lot and weren’t able to make quality pitches. … And to attack their hit-ters, we had to make some defen-sive pitches because of the counts we put ourselves in.”

After experiencing her short-est outing for a start of the season on Friday , Florida pitcher Delanie Gourley returned to her old self, pitching a complete game and al-lowing only fi ve hits with seven strikeouts. The outing earned her the win, extending her grip for the best record on the Gators’ staff to

11-0 . Andrews was the lone bright

spot for the Tigers, going 2-for-3 in-cluding a triple and two runs scored. Andrews continues to lead LSU in both batting average (.398 ) and hits (37 ).

LSU will hit the road again as it takes on Nicholls State Wednesday in Thibodaux , followed by a two-game road series against Oklahoma . Torina said although today’s out-ing was far from what they wanted, the Tigers proved something this weekend.

“I think the positive is we’ve shown that we can truly play with anybody in the country,” Torina said. “If that’s No. 1, we’re capable of playing No. 1 wherever they are.”

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The LSU men’s tennis team split its doubleheader Sunday, stumbling against higher-ranked Texas A&M but dominating Nicholls State .

No. 9 Texas A&M proved too much for the Tigers to han-dle right off the bat as the Ag-gies swept the doubles point and breezed to a 4-0 victory.

“We didn’t play well in doubles,” said LSU coach Jeff Brown . “They’re a good doubles team and it really compounded with us having an off day in dou-bles. That was probably one of their best points.”

In singles, the Tigers forced three matches into their last sets, but the Aggies were still able to prevail with relative ease.

Junior Chris Simpson fell be-hind early, dropping the fi rst set 6-3 . Simpson was able to push the second set to the brink but fi nally lost 7-6 for A&M’s fi rst singles point.

The Aggies were able to get its second singles point from Jordan Szabo when he defeated sophomore Harrison Kennedy 6-4, 7-6 .

Sophomore Boris Arias jumped ahead early on No. 25 Shane Vinsant , but Vinsant weathered the storm and won in straight sets for A&M’s fi nal singles point and match clincher.

“They played very well,” Brown said. “That’s about as tough of a team as we’ll face, and I thought we gave ourselves a

chance in singles.”The Tigers turned their night

around against Nicholls, easily sweeping the Colonels , 7-0 , in match two of the doubleheader.

Doubles started off slow with all three courts battling be-fore the Tigers settled down and took the doubles point with 8-3 and 8-4 wins.

“They’re a pretty decent team,” Brown said. “They gave us a good fi ght and that’s kind of what you need.”

Singles action brought much of the same as LSU dominated from the start.

Simpson overpowered his opponent, winning in straight sets, 6-3 , 6-2 .

The rest of the singles match-es went the same way as the Ti-gers took fi ve out of the last six in straight sets with only freshman John Michael Busch needing a third set to fi nish off his opponent 6-2 , 3-6 , 6-3 .

“I thought a few guys han-dled their business really well,” Brown said. “It was good for [Busch] to get some experience, especially under pressure with a quality enough opponent.”

The Tigers’ next matchup will be Friday against Mississippi State in Starkville, Miss.

After earning their fi rst South-eastern Conference victory of the season in a 6-1 win against Missouri on Friday , the Lady Tigers lost, 4-0, to Texas A&M on Sunday .

Sunday ’s contest marks LSU’s fourth of fi ve top 20 losses to end in a 4-0 score. LSU coach Julia Sell said it’s important for the Lady Ti-gers to have a good start against tough opponents.

On Sunday , LSU lost the dou-bles point in straight sets to Texas A&M , including an 8-0 result.

“Our doubles today was atro-cious,” Sell said . “It was the worst we’ve played all season, and I let them know I was very unhappy after

the doubles point.”A month away from the SEC

Championships , this is a critical point in the Lady Tigers’ 2014 sea-son. With Sunday ’s match being the last top-20 matchup on LSU’s regu-lar season schedule, the Lady Tigers are confi dent their SEC record will improve before the conference tour-nament.

“What’s important is that we’re playing our best tennis in April and May,” Sell said. “You get to the SEC tournament and the beauty of our conference is everybody’s so good. You knock off anyone in that tournament, that’s a great win.”

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LSU freshman Justin Butsch hits the ball Friday during a match against George Washington University at W.T. “Dub” Robinson Stadium.

Progress can be diffi cult to quantify.

Judging progress through the lens of the eye test plays a role in the assessment, but in the world of sports, wins and losses are the ultimate measuring sticks.

Because of that reality, it’s hard to pinpoint any signifi cant step forward the LSU men’s bas-ketball team made during coach Johnny Jones’ second regular season as coach.

Adding freshmen forwards Jordan Mickey and Jarell Martin to play alongside junior forward Johnny O’Bryant III gave LSU an imposing front line in combi-nation with a veteran backcourt that had everyone, including the team itself, believing an NCAA tournament bid was not just like-ly, but expected.

And around the halfway mark of the season, following back-to-back home wins against Kentucky and Arkansas, it seemed like LSU was well on its way. But from that point on, not much went right for the Tigers as they fi nished the season 19-13.

After an 85-67 thrashing at the hands of Kentucky in the

third round of the Southeastern Conference tournament, it ap-peared LSU would once again miss the postseason entirely.

But after the NCAA predict-ably passed on the Tigers, the National Invitational Tournament didn’t, and LSU was unexpect-edly picked among the 32-team fi eld late on Selection Sunday. It was a welcomed reprieve after more than two days of prognosti-cators across the country project-ing LSU was too far down the ladder to grab an NIT bid.

Granted a No. 5 seed, LSU will head west to play No. 4 seed San Francisco at 9 p.m. on Wednesday. A win against the Dons and the Tigers would advance to play the winner of top-seeded Southern Methodist University and UC Irvine.

Because of the injection of athleticism and talent to a team that overachieved in 2013, NCAA-or-bust was the stated goal of the players, fans and me-dia heading into the season.

In hindsight, they may have had too high of expectations for such a young team, but it was fair to expect some amount of prog-ress in Jones’ second year at the helm.

Obviously, it’s not what Jones and company envisioned heading into the season, but it’s better than where they fi n-ished last season, and progress

is progress.Making the NIT is as good

of an opportunity as LSU makes of it. It’s not as prestigious as it used to be, but for a team that struggled mightily on the road all season, it’s an additional chance to work on fi guring out how to win basketball games outside of the PMAC.

It’s an opportunity to gain the postseason experience LSU missed out on when it passed on a College Basketball Invitational berth last season.

I didn’t fault them for turning down a bid to a third-rate tourna-ment at the time, but after another season of ineptitude on the road, it’s hard to argue the practice wouldn’t have been valuable.

The NIT wasn’t Jones’ dream ending for year two, but a deep run would be a sign of prog-ress and would build momentum heading into next season, espe-cially if Martin, Mickey and pos-sibly O’Bryant return for another season together.

At the beginning of the sea-son, it seemed like a forgone conclusion that 2014 would be O’Bryant’s and Martin’s last campaigns in purple and gold. A yearning to make the Big Dance may be exactly the appeal that brings them back for another year in Baton Rouge.

Currently, one would need a magnifying glass to fi gure out

how this team’s season is any better than that of the mismatched group that overachieved to win 19 games in Jones’ fi rst season at the helm.

Winning a couple games in the NIT, or dare I say a trip to New York to play in the fi nals in Madi-son Square Garden, is the kind of progress we can all point to and see real improvement. It’s not the ultimate goal, but it’s defi nitely

a step in the right direction.

James Moran is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from Beacon, N.Y.

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[Top Left] LSU junior Jessie Jordan finishes her floor routine Friday during the Lady Tigers’ victory against Kentucky in the PMAC. Jordan and LSU junior Rheagan Courville [top right] led LSU to a school record nine consecutive 197.000 or better scores and a program best No. 2 ranking at the end of the regular season.

Jordan, who competed in only two events last week against NC State because of a sore back, tal-lied a 39.525 in the all-around against the Wildcats.

LSU received major contri-butions from its supporting cast, particularly on beam. Freshman Ashleigh Gnat and senior Ka-leigh Dickson tied their career highs with scores of 9.950 and 9.875, respectively. Jordan added a 9.900 in the anchor spot to help the Tigers score a season-high of 49.450 on beam.

But for the first time in this season’s regional qualifying score (RQS) rankings, LSU isn’t the nation’s No. 1 team. Defending national champion Florida scored a 198.200 on the road against Missouri last Friday to bump its RQS to a 197.790 and knock the Tigers out of the top spot they’ve held for the past three weeks.

Florida’s jump to the top didn’t come as a shock to LSU coach D-D Breaux.

“[Florida’s] been home and away, and they’ve had a little bit of variety, so we kind of expected that,” Breaux said.

SEC Championships are Sat-urday in Birmingham, Ala., and will be divided into two sessions. The top four teams will compete in the night session. Seeding is based on RQS standings, so

Florida will be the No. 1 seed, followed by LSU at No. 2. The Tigers will begin on the uneven bars, followed by beam, floor and vault.

Despite losing the top seed, the Tigers are perhaps better po-sitioned for a good showing this weekend because they will end on their best two events, floor and vault. LSU has ranked in the top three for each event since the RQS rank-ings went into effect.

But as great as LSU has been this season, peo-ple outside the program wondered if the squad had peaked too soon, espe-cially after the Tigers scored the program’s first 198 on Feb. 28. But Breaux doesn’t think that’s the case.

“It’s been a long season, and people accused us of peaking early,” Breaux said. “I don’t think we’ve peaked, but I think SECs has been in their minds.”

The Tigers haven’t been able to match the 198.050 they scored against Missouri two weeks ago, but perhaps that has more to do with the opponents they’ve

recently faced than an inability to nail routines they’ve shined in throughout the season.

During the month of Feb-ruary, LSU had the most gruel-ing road stretch of any of the top-ranked teams in the nation. The Tigers had four consecu-tive road meets in three weeks, with matchups at No. 16 Arkan-sas, No. 3 Oklahoma and No. 1

Florida. They also participated in the Metroplex Challenge in Fort Worth, Texas, during the stretch.

After such a taxing road trip against champi-onsh ip -ca l ibe r teams, the Ti-gers returned to the security of the PMAC for a three-meet home stand and faced

Missouri, NC State and Ken-tucky, none of which were a consistent presence in the top 25 all season.

Now the Tigers will com-pete against Florida, Alabama and Georgia, teams that have combined to win eight of the past nine national champion-ships. To Jordan, going head-to-head against elite competition actually helps the squad remain locked in and focused during

their performances. “Going into these past

three meets, we’ve talked about how we’re just not competing against these team, we’re com-peting against teams all around the country,” Jordan said. “But to feel their presence and to see those scores flying and see the competition in the actual are-na is a really huge force. The competition is what drives us.”

Breaux has been resting the squad in recent weeks, but she chose to start practice on Sun-day to extend the squad’s prepa-ration heading into conference championships.

But she acknowledged there isn’t much left for the coaches to do. It’s now up to the gymnasts to perform like the team she’s con-tinuously deemed to be the best she’s ever coached.

“We’ve put them in a great position, and that’s all coaches can do. Put your team in a po-sition, and they’ll either rise to the occasion or not,” Breaux said. “We get them to SECs and it’s a podium, so when they step up on that podium, they’re on their own.”

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— throwing 73 total — but the dam-age was already done in a 5-3 loss.

In the second game of the dou-bleheader, Poche’ suffered a similar fate, allowing four runs on five hits in 4 1/3 innings pitched.

In his previous two starts against Southern and Northwestern State, Poche’ had surrendered eight hits in seven innings of work, but a different issue arose when he faced the Commodore lineup.

Poche’ surrendered five walks — three more than he had in his first four starts combined heading into Saturday.

“He walked five, which was un-usual for him … but there were a lot of close pitches he wasn’t getting the calls on. I thought he maintained re-ally good composure and poise, and he battled through it,” Mainieri said.

Offensively, LSU has relied on sophomores Alex Bregman and Andrew Stevenson and junior Kade Scivicque early in the season, but on Saturday, the three Tigers combined to finish 2-for-21 (.095 batting aver-age). Bregman didn’t register a hit in eight at-bats.

The squad’s two senior hitters, Sean McMullen and Christian Ibar-ra, ended the series 3-for-14 (.214 batting average). Ibarra struggled with a hamstring injury last week, and McMullen didn’t start Friday night because of a leg injury.

The Tigers’ lack of scoring stemmed more from a combination of poor plate discipline and efficient pitching from Vanderbilt’s three pitchers, junior Jared Miller, sopho-more Tyler Ferguson and freshman Hayden Stone.

“You could take any names and combine them and give me stats that look [poor], but I’m not going to overreact to it,” Mainieri said. “It’s not an exaggeration when I tell you that there would be major league teams that wished they had [the Vanderbilt] pitching staff.”

LSU managed only four walks in the doubleheader, striking out 16 times.

Prior to Opening Day, Mainieri said he would be looking for leaders to emerge both on the field and in the clubhouse.

After the first weekend of SEC play, he may have to wait a little longer until such a player steps into that role.

“We just have to keep it in per-spective that we ran up against prob-ably the best pitching staff in the country on the road in the opening weekend with two first-time starting pitchers in the SEC,” Mainieri said. “We had one tremendous win this weekend, and there’s 27 more games to go.”

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position, and that’s all coaches can do. Put your team in a position, and they’ll either rise to the

occasion or not.’

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Baton Rouge will host the Miss USA pageant in 2014.

This news is sure to bring a whirl-wind of excited squeals and wide-eyed spectators, but it is also an opportunity to recognize the impact beauty pageants have on how society perceives women and beauty.

Most pageants, especially the high scale ones like Miss USA, use contestants who fi t the mold of what judges view as beautiful. And while there is no denying that these women are attractive, the limits of pageant beauty are confi ned to a spe-cifi c stereotype, and any opposing body shape or tooth gap is shunned.

Contestants train with coaches for countless hours and spend thousands of dollars on outfi ts just to gain a crown, a title and sometimes a small scholarship.

At least the Miss LSU pageant do-nates all of its proceeds to charity. This takes away the edge of the competition yet doesn’t change the concept of the pageant.

Winners walk away with a confi dent glow and seamless smile, but what about the losers?

The losers account for more than just the women behind third runner up. The losers are all the women watching who will look down on themselves post-show. What’s even more disturbing is that there are women who will look at themselves and decide that they want to change to be more like the women walking on stage.

Pageants put enormous pressure on women to look like models and wear custom-tailored dresses to support their falsely represented idea of beauty.

But this isn’t just about the effects beauty pageants have on young girls and women, it’s also about the message it sends to the world population about our society and how we view and value other people.

We are a nation completely absorbed in outward appearances. We give pag-eants the fi nal say on what beauty is and never question it. Our obsession with ap-pearance stems from years of propaganda being drilled into our brains from main-stream media.

It shouldn’t be like that. A person’s perception of beauty should be based on his or her own attitude and taste instead of the Barbie and Ken cutouts we now see dominating the runways.

And the frustrating part is that pag-eants have the ability to redefi ne what they stand for at any time. No one is forc-ing the judges and supporters to adhere to past pageant trends, yet there is little ef-fort to move toward a more dignifi ed and humanitarian show.

Anyone who is opposed to the di-minishing self-esteem in women should be demanding a change in the way these pageants are run.

Instead of having a swimsuit walk, which is clearly for the sole enjoyment of male viewers, why not have a culture walk where women dress like a culture they feel needs more attention and then give a speech on how they want to help the people of this culture?

It’s a stretch from the current body-centered charm of pageants, but progress is sometimes born out of the most de-meaning circumstances.

It would be one thing if pageants ad-mitted to their somewhat superfi cial and basic nature, but they try to mask their

shortcomings by saying that they support the advancement of women in the world.

They send the wrong idea to almost every demographic. Men are trained to think women are only beautiful if they are 5-foot-11 with voluminous, bouncing hair. Women are forced to look at their bodies and compare them to the fl awless-ly made-up ones on screen.

We are all victims of pageants whether we actively participate or not. Once we become aware of this fact, we can call for a revolution and change the representation of beauty in our world.

Annette Sommers is a 19-year-old mass communication sophomore from Dublin, Calif.

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Last Saturday was the annual Z-Day. No it’s not about zombies. Z-Day is a sort of TED talk-like annual event for the Zeitgeist Movement, where activists and revolutionaries gather and give lectures about poverty, corruption, war, the state of technology and new economic models.

The Zeitgeist Movement is the most fascinating social move-ment to arise in my lifetime and deserves more attention than ce-lebrity drama. Students should be interested in what the Zeitgeist Movement has to offer because it is the first movement to address not just our local and national problems, but global systemic problems.

With a whole new generation entering the workplace, it is im-portant for Millennials to seek out alternative ideas to address prob-lems caused by our parents and ancestors.

Peter Joseph founded the Zeitgeist Movement, TZM, in

2008 following the release of his award-winning documentary “Zeitgeist Addendum.” Although Joseph is the founder, he is not the leader. The movement is a leader-less organization that depends on activism and volunteerism.

The movement seeks to use the scientific method instead of faith, dogma or traditional politi-cal leadership to push for change. TZM makes it clear that it is not a political movement.

Although the word “revolu-tion” is thrown around daily in politics, the Zeitgeist Movement truly embodies the term.

The Zeitgeist Movement is, in its own words, a global “sustain-ability advocacy organization” that seeks to address poverty, war, corruption, homelessness, pollu-tion and starvation by addressing what they see as the “root cause” of all of these issues, the global economic system itself.

While thousands of non-gov-ernmental organizations, charities and government programs address war, poverty, corruption and hun-ger directly, TZM sees all of these issues as “symptoms” and not the problems themselves.

The driving force behind the world’s problem is our outdated

social system. While markets and governments are used to guide humanity, TZM advocates a shift from a monetary-based economy to a “Resource Based Econo-my,” RBE, because the move-ment views our current economic model as outdated.

Futurist Jacque Fresco de-veloped and proposed a RBE as a model for a post-scarcity soci-ety that is possible due to the ex-ponential growth of technology. Instead of fighting for jobs, the movement seeks to eliminate jobs through automation and eliminate scarcity of goods and services through abundance.

Another major cause for the movement is to declare all the world’s resources as the common heritage of all the peoples of the world. In the long run, they also seek to see governments and mon-ey become obsolete and elimi-nated.

While this sounds like anoth-er utopian pipe dream, the move-ment has attracted futurists, engi-neers, economists, politicians and activists.

The best example of a re-source-based economy would be the military. The military has many of the greatest minds and

hardest working people on earth, yet they are not rewarded through the market for their work. Moving away from a profit-driven culture to an empathic culture is a major tenant of the movement.

The movement seeks to change the economic system in-stead of the political system be-cause their view is that political systems are an outgrowth of eco-nomic systems.

Although the movement is in its infancy, I am optimistic that it may become a major movement that the establishment can’t avoid.

The world that the Zeitgeist Movement envisions is hard to imagine because it has never ex-isted but with automation and technology eliminating jobs quicker than replacing them and goods and services becoming

cheaper than ever, it is only a mat-ter of time until the current system crashes under the weight of corpo-rate profits above humanity.

The Zeitgeist Movement is one of the only revolutionary or-ganizations out there that is trying to change the world. Instead of just accepting poverty and hunger as a byproduct of our economic system, we should seek to elimi-nate them entirely by creating a new system.

Students should consider the revolutionary goals of the Zeit-geist Movement because the sta-tus quo is the reason why tuition is expensive, jobs are hard to find, poverty exists, wars continue and corruption pollutes daily life.

We need to stop voting for change and as Mahatma Gandhi put it we must become the change we want to see in the world.

Joshua Hajiakbarifini is a 24-year-old political science and economics senior from Baton Rouge.

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World’s 6th annual Z-Day call for a change in society

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Twitter: @Joshua_Fini

The Zeitgeist Movement:

• Founded by Peter Joseph in 2008

• Currently more than 50,000 supporters worldwide

• 400 Z-Day events

What should Lil Boosie do with 100 hours of service?Jana King

I vote that Boosie use his com-munity service hours doing some construction work to benefit the LSU community that actively fought to #freeboosie. Repaving the roads near the north gates of campus, or repair-ing the Studio Arts Building. In fact, why don’t we just make him University President, I’m pretty sure he’d get that campus repair list taken care of before flying off to every corner of the coun-try. Is Boosie even allowed to leave the state while on probation?

Eli a. HaddowMaybe Boosie will do us all the

service of buying up his own records, then destroying them.

JosE BasTidasThere is a vast number of retire-

ment homes in the Baton Rouge area. Contrary to popular belief, the elderly aren’t solely stimulated by Bingo nights, ballroom dancing classes and canasta tournaments. So, I believe Boosie should kill two birds with one stone by doing his community service hours — as well as kickstarting his mu-sical career — by scheduling the first-ever retirement home tour. The elderly will be entertained, and let’s face it, with all the troubled performing artists, this will become the next hot celebrity trend.

MEgan dunBarBoosie’s 14-year-old daughter,

Iviona Hatch, has a blossoming ca-reer as a rap artist, and as such, his

community service should involve him going to middle schools to guide stu-dents interested in the music indus-try and help them create marketable products. It would serve students bet-ter than sitting through review sessions for iLEAP tests and get them started on a career path early. Gov. Bobby Jindal seems keen on raising Louisiana’s profile, and there’s no better way to do that than by producing young rap art-ists fighting for social justice. Imagine how viral that could be.

sidnEyrosE rEynEnLil Boosie would become

Inspector Boosie and be a world re-nowned detective — à la Sherlock Holmes. Doing all of his work for free, Boosie solves crimes internation-ally. Instead of reading suspects their rights, he raps them. Soon enough, there will be an entire franchise dedi-cated to Boosie’s crime-solving abili-ties: from action figures to Law & Or-der: Lil Boosie Unit. Our world will be enveloped by Boosie, just as it was meant to be.

JosHua FiniI suggest that Lil Boosie spend

his community service pushing for

the legalization of marijuana. It is only fitting that a person arrested for marijuana should push for legaliza-tion, bringing back the ’60s. Today, a majority of Louisianians support legal-izing marijuana for medicinal purposes and it could be a great theme for his comeback album. I think the last thing Jindal and the Louisiana Legislature want is Lil Boosie walking up to the Capitol with his fans and demanding marijuana legalization.

ryan McgEHEEPersonally, I’m rather ambivalent

about what a convict chooses to do

with his community service hours. If the state of Louisiana could go five minutes without glorifying another felon — looking at you, Edwin Edwards — that would be great. Besides, he’s more likely to spend 100 hours hot boxing than actually doing something productive.

JusTin sTaFFordWhat Boosie does with his ser-

vice hours is none of my concern. I re-fuse to divert any more attention to the man and his actions. As of now, I am actively blocking people on my per-sonal social media feeds that use the word “Boosie” and “free” in any post.

annETTE soMMErsI am a firm believer that Boosie

should fulfill his community service by making guest appearances at middle school dances throughout the state. It could be beneficial to his career by targeting a younger audience and a little culture wouldn’t hurt the youn-gins. Maybe their youthful spunk and innocence will rub off on Boosie and generate a whole new genre of middle school-appropriate freestyling. I would pay to see that.

Mr. FiniJoshua haJiakbarifiniColumnist

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Torrence Hatch, also known as Lil Boosie, (left) poses March 10, with Webster Gradney Jr., also known as Webbie, during the Boosie Speaks press conference at The W Hotel in New Orleans.

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These numbers do not reflect the nation’s party affiliation. Ac-cording to a Gallup poll in Febru-ary, 23 percent of people surveyed said they consider themselves Re-publican, 45 percent independents and 30 percent Democrats.

Some students feel there is a peaceful balance with professors’ political affiliations.

Cameron Coleman, commu-nication studies junior, said the af-filiation numbers — with a blend of conservative and liberal faculty members — accurately represent the University.

Although a large percent of University professors identify as Democrats, some departments are more partisan than others.

Music and Dramatic Arts was the department with the most lib-eral professors — 72 percent of professors are registered Demo-crats. University College Center for Advising and Counseling ranked in with the most Republicans at 47 percent. The College of Engineer-ing has the most the registered in-dependents with 46 percent.

Pre-nursing freshman Anissa Chenevert said the numbers re-flected in department affiliations are also telling for students in the respective majors.

Chemical engineering fresh-man Samantha Maghanoy’s profes-sors have never brought up politics in class, which she said shows their middle-of-the-road stance.

Faculty Senate President Kevin Cope said though the Uni-versity leans liberal, the campus is still conservative compared to other universities. He also said the large number of independents at the University does not reflect national partisan numbers.

Cope said in his 30 years at the University, there have been isolated episodes where professors let their political colors fly too freely, but these are rare situations.

Political science professor James Garand said the partisan numbers at the University are in-teresting, but should not affect the University’s ultimate goal of edu-cation and research.

“We’re trained in our depart-ment to set aside their beliefs when conducting research,” Garand said.

Accounting senior Mark Haydel said one of his communi-cation studies professors maintains this principle in his classroom.

“He views politics as some-thing to research, as opposed to something you believe in,” Haydel said.

In a map of the greater Baton Rouge area, The Daily Reveille’s data shows northern Baton Rouge had a dense Democrat population and University conservatives live mostly in south Baton Rouge.

The data also shows no Repub-licans live north of Florida Boule-vard. This does not mean there are no Republicans in the area, just none registered with the University.

American political parties are not just about policy, but encom-pass lifestyle and culture, Cope said. So it is somewhat natural for Democrats and Republicans at the University to live near their respec-tive partisan groups.

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is confident in his political affilia-tion and his reasoning behind the switch.

Cope is not fighting to have the state or country establish a way to crown leaders, but dogging tra-ditional ways of political action.

According to the Monarchist Party of America’s official web-site, monarchists do not take part in any political party’s action — other than their protests or votes — to not give weight to the partisan system.

In his independent days, Cope struggled to identify a place where he fit in politically and said it was almost unattainable to be a true in-dependent given the broad platform of the party and ideal changes.

Cope also did not agree with the common idea that independent party candidates or votes did not hold much weight in the two party system.

“If everyone votes with the idea that votes will be wasted, it will come true,” Cope said.

Marching to the beat of his own drum, Cope paid homage to the state’s early European settler’s monarchical culture with his party switch.

The state’s “highly pyramidal

power structure” still resembles the political organization of Louisiana settlers, Cope said.

For example, several state en-tities are governed by boards or committees that are ruled by chair-men and chairwomen.

He chose to recognize the po-litical reality of the state and fight the power structure with his mo-narchical registration.

“The only way to change the status quo is by individual action,” Cope said. “I was never aware the goal of a good citizen was to fit in.”

Cope said political parties of-ten lead people to stand behind a candidate or clever slogan, as op-posed to true ideals or established positions.

“Either political party does not give coherent opinions,” Cope said.

Assured in his political choic-es, he feels content in being part of a party that does not strive for con-sensus on specific issues, but holds principles.

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