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Weiss: cuts threateningto school’s momentumBy Joy LukachickStaff Writer

$pring brokeU.S. economy, violence in Mexico affecting University students’ vacation plans

As the last class lets out two Fridays before Eas-ter and University students leave the Quad behind for sunnier places, Sara McManamon is staying in Louisiana for her spring break.

The communication studies freshman has spent spring break on Florida beaches in the past, but this year she’s staying home to save money.

Between a shaky economy and the news of drug wars and increased violence along the borders of Mexico, local travel agencies are admitting the spring break market has been affected, and resorts are lowering prices to attract a larger market.

Joy Sills, AAA travel agent in New Orleans, said airfare and hotel prices decreased this year in Mexico, including in the popular destination Can-cun.

Last-minute prices for an all-inclusive trip to Cancun for fi ve nights, including airfare and trans-fer, is around $500 per person, Sills said.

“The economy is defi nitely affecting us,” said Siman Normand, Accent Travel Services Inc. travel

By Joy LukachickStaff Writer

The Law Center chancellor ex-pressed concern Tuesday for loom-ing budget cuts, saying a $2 million cut could adversely affect the prog-ress for the Law Center’s future.

Chancellor Jack Weiss outlined the main areas the Paul M. Hebert

Law Center will have to cut if Gov. Bobby Jindal pro-posed budget cuts to higher educa-tion pass the legis-lature in July.

“When you have a budget cut of this magnitude, it is defi nitely threatening to the momentum of the school,” Weiss said.

Weiss said his goals for cutting the school’s budget are similar to LSU System President John Lom-bardi’s goal to “not adversely affect the core academic issues.” Weiss said he wants to maintain motivation for faculty and maintain scholarships

LAW CENTER, see page 15

SPRING BREAK, see page 15

‘We’re now looking

into ... the possibility of a volun-tary faculty furlough.’

Jack WeissLaw School chancellor

‘For four-year

institutions, [funding] should be across the

board.’Colorado RobertsonSG president

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Student Government Presi-dent Colorado Robertson said a complicated funding formula under consideration by the state

Board of Regents is unfair to the University.

The formula would establish how much total funding a univer-sity should have based on an insti-tution’s level of research, gradua-tion rates and its ability to produce graduates in high-demand profes-sional fi elds.

The Board of Regents’ budget request calls for the state to pay 56 percent of that total for LSU, and 60 percent or more for all other

four-year institutions. The remain-ing money would come from tu-ition, research, grants and other sources.

“LSU A&M should receive the same amount of state share of their operating dollars as every other four-year institution in this state,” Robertson said.

The Board of Regents is meet-ing today to discuss the methodol-ogy behind the formula, which has been in the works for nearly two

years. Robertson met with Commis-

sioner of Higher Education Sally Clausen and LSU System Spokes-man Charles Zewe last week to discuss the formula and its role in pending budget cuts.

“For four-year institutions, [funding] should be across the board,” Robertson said. “It’s not fair, and it’s not equitable for LSU

Board to consider formula todayBy Kyle BoveChief Staff Writer

photos courtesy of The Associated Press

[Pictured Above] Various students spend their spring breaks at South Padre Island in Texas.

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PAGE 2 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2009Nation & WorldWORLD NEWS

KABUL (AP) — The manager of an Afghan television network who refused to cen-sor images of women dancing in short skirts and plunging neck-lines was arrested in what appeared to be a new sign of the government’s struggle to define the role of Islam in a country once led by extrem-ists. The government has previously censured television stations and taken others to court, but the arrest of Emrose TV’s Fahim Khodamani on Monday was the first for airing overly sala-cious content, the Afghan deputy attorney gen-eral said Tuesday. The debate over television in this conservative Muslim country heated up af-ter U.S.-led forces toppled the Taliban in 2001.

Afghan TV station falls under gov. crackdown

YouTube blocked in China; official declares video fakeBEIJING (AP) — A video that appears to show police fatally beating a Tibetan protester was a fake concocted by support-ers of the Dalai Lama, China said Tuesday — the same day the video-sharing network YouTube said its service had been blocked in China. The video has been posted on YouTube in recent days. A spokesman for Google, which owns YouTube, said he couldn’t comment on the Chinese government’s reason for the block. “We are looking into it and working to ensure that the service is restored as soon as possible,” spokesman Scott Rubin said in an e-mail to The Associated Press.

Obama: plan ‘inseparable’ from US recoveryWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Tuesday night his attempts to lead the nation out of economic turmoil are beginning to yield re-sults, and toned down his criticism of bonuses to executives at bailed-out AIG. At the second prime-time news conference of his presidency, Obama also cast his budget — now under review in Con-gress — as essential if the economy is to recover. The tax and spending plan “is inseparable from this recovery because it is what lays the founda-tion for a secure and lasting prosperity,” he said. Briefly reviewing the steps his administration has taken to date, he said teachers and others have jobs today because of the economic stimulus measure that Congress passed, and the nation is “beginning to see signs of increased sales and stabilized hous-ing prices for the first time in a long time.” At the same time, he said full-fledged recovery is months away, and he added, “It will take patience.” The news conference came at a pivotal, early mo-ment in Obama’s young presidency, with Demo-crats in Congress readying budget proposals that will largely determine how much of his first-term agenda will be passed, Treasury Secretary Timo-thy Geithner churning out near-daily proposals to solve the nation’s economic crisis and the admin-istration struggling with public and congressional outrage over bonuses paid to executives of bailed-out AIG. Additionally, Obama departs next week for his first European trip as commander in chief, with the global economy a major focus.

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President Barack Obama listens to a question during a news conference Tuesday in the White House in Washington, D.C.

TSA: Vitter not security threat at airportNEW ORLEANS (AP) — U.S. Sen. David Vitter didn’t pose a security threat when the Louisiana Republican set off a security alarm at Washington Dulles International Airport earlier this month, the Transportation Security Administration said Tues-day. A statement issued by TSA said Vitter triggered a door alarm but didn’t enter a restricted area of the airport. A TSA spokesman said the agency has closed its review of the incident, but he wouldn’t elaborate on the statement.

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The fi ght over accepting fed-eral stimulus dollars aimed at ex-panding unemployment benefi ts is another chapter in what many

political ob-servers charac-terize as Gov. Bobby Jindal’s rocky relation-ship with the state Legisla-ture.

In a letter sent to Sen. Mary Lan-drieu’s , D-La., offi ce last We d n e s d a y, Douglas Small, deputy assis-tant secretary

for the U.S. Department of Labor , specifi ed Louisiana would not be required to make a permanent change in state law by accepting the federal dollars expanding un-employment benefi ts — allaying one of Jindal’s primary concerns about accepting the $98 million.

“As a result, if a state even-tually decides to repeal or modify any of these provisions, it may do

so, and it will not be required to return any incentive payments,” Small wrote.

Jindal based his reluctance on the interpretation that taking the $98 million would force business-es to pay higher unemployment taxes once the federal money runs out in a few years.

State Sen. Eric Lafl eur, D-Ville Platte, said while Jindal’s concern about what the state will be obligated to do in the future was legitimate, “you won’t fi nd anyone who had the same inter-pretation they had.”

Leftover dining hall food previously dumped in trash cans found a new use this semester — one that saves the University money.

Students from the Explor-ing Campus Sustainability course took food waste from the 459 Commons and turned it into com-post for University landscaping to conserve costs spent on soil and fertilizer, said Alisha Andrews, horticulture senior.

These students created six projects that intend to make the University more “green” to save money, Andrews said.

The composting project col-lects pre-consumer waste, such as potato peelings and kitchen scraps, along with post-consumer waste, such as students’ leftover food from the 459 Commons Monday through Friday, Andrews said.

“On average, we collect be-tween 200 to 500 pounds of pre- and post-consumer waste a day,” Andrews said.

Students then bring this waste to the Callegari Center on Nicholson Drive and separate it into the pre-consumer, post-con-sumer and mixed piles for study, Andrews said.

The sorting shows which type or mixture of wastes pro-duces the most nutritious com-post, Andrews said.

Collection at the 459 Com-mons ends this week, but the stu-dents will continue to measure temperatures and decomposi-tion rates of the piles for several weeks, Andrews said.

The project will end when this semester fi nishes, but An-drews said she hopes this project will become permanent and help create future sustainability cours-es through its results.

“I defi nitely see this project helping future courses because it’s hard to reject hard data you can see,” Andrews said. “We’re proving our idea because you can see our progress.”

Students also created a pro-posal for a student-run farm through this course, said Andrew Loyd, horticulture junior.

Students intend to grow pro-duce on the farm that can be used for salad bars and maybe cooked in the cafeterias, Loyd said.

Students have faced prob-lems with this idea, though, be-cause of lack of space, Andrews said.

“To have a farm, you need land,” Loyd said. “We can get all of these awesome ideas, but it all comes down to getting money and getting land.”

Stephanie Elwood, psychol-ogy freshman, said students in-tended to put the farm at Hill farm.

“Hill farm is what is left of the horticulture and agriculture departments’ land,” Elwood said. “They started off with 40 acres in the ‘40s, but now they’re down to just four acres.”

The Lod Cook Alumni Cen-ter’s need for a parking lot threat-ens this land, so the location has not been decided, Elwood said.

“We’ve been looking for something at bike-riding distance from campus, like somewhere near the LA house,” Elwood said. “But we’ve really been concen-trating on why the farm would be a good idea because we have no control over where it goes.”

Elwood expects a proposal to be made for the farm by the end of the semester.

The other four projects stu-dents created include a publicity

group for student involvement in sustainability efforts, a pro-posal to use local food vendors’ produce in the cafeteria, a group to connect departments for the creation of sustainability curricu-lum and a separate group for the compost study that determines

the effi ciency of the composting system and the ability to involve other sources’ food wastes, Loyd said.

ENVIRONMENT

Project turns food waste into compost, saves moneyCollection at 459 Commons ends Fri.By Peter HubbsContributing Writer

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Matthew Moerschbaecher, oceanography and coastal sciences doctoral student, picks up waste Tuesday from the 459 Commons to take to a local compost pile.

Stimulus argument creates partisan battle for Jindal

ECONOMY

Governor, Legislature relationship rockyBy Nate MonroeContributing Writer

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UNIVERSITY STUDENT AR-RESTED FOR SIMPLE BAT-TERY AT GROOVIN’ ON THE GROUNDS

A University student was ar-rested for simple battery, theft and

disturbing the peace by intoxi-cation during the University’s Groovin’ on the Grounds con-cert event on the Parade Ground on March 21 at about 8 p.m.

O f f i c e r s reported to the parking lot near Thomas Boyd Hall after a call about a possible

fi ght in progress there. When offi cers arrived, a parking offi cial told them a drunk man had approached him and began screaming expletives and

taunting him. The man then hit the parking offi cial’s baseball cap off his head, Tabor said.

The parking offi cial told the offi cers the man returned sometime later, continued to scream and then stole his baseball cap.

Offi cers found and arrested Mi-chael E. Tymchak, 20, of 3125 Lau-rel Drive, Baton Rouge, based on description given by the victim.

Tymchak was booked in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

WOMAN ARRESTED FOR IN-TENT TO DISTRIBUTE

A woman unaffi liated with the University was arrested on March 21 at about 8:30 p.m. for possession of marijuana and intent to distribute Xanax and Lortab.

Melissa R. Rogers, 30, of 1471 Daniel Webster Drive, Apt. 2, Baton Rouge, was arrested after an offi cer saw her turn into on-coming traffi c on Skip Bertman Drive. The offi cer

stopped Rogers for the traffi c viola-tion and could smell burnt marijuana coming from the vehicle, Tabor said.

Rogers gave the offi cer consent to search the vehicle, and the offi cer found a pill bottle fi lled with seven generic Lortab pills and 14 generic Xanax pills. The offi cer also found 1.2 grams of marijuana and a smok-ing pipe, Tabor said.

Rogers was arrested for pos-session of marijuana and drug para-phernalia, possession with intent to distribute Schedule III drugs, posses-sion with intent to distribute Sched-ule IV drugs and improper lane us-age. She was booked in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

UNIVERSITY STUDENT AR-RESTED FOR ALCOHOL POS-SESSION AT GROOVIN’ ON THE GROUNDS

A University student was ar-rested for underage public posses-sion of alcohol on March 21 at about 7:30 p.m.

Offi cers saw Lauren E. Adam-son, 20, of 3166 Denton Place, Ro-swell, Ga., while patrolling the Uni-versity’s Groovin’ on the Grounds concert event on the Parade Ground. Adamson looked intoxicated and was carrying a red plastic cup, Tabor said.

Offi cers confronted Adam-son and found beer in the cup she

carried. Offi cers identifi ed Adamson as underage, and she was arrested for possession of alcohol.

Adamson was issued a misde-meanor summons and released.

MAN ARRESTED FOR HIT AND RUN

A man unaffi liated with the Uni-versity was arrested for a hit and run two days after a fender bender near Skip Bertman Drive.

Deverene Dillon, 49, of 1257 West Garfi eld Drive, Baton Rouge, turned himself in to LSUPD after he left the scene of a fender bender he caused near Skip Bertman and Nich-olson drives. Offi cers were called to the scene on March 17 at about 1:30 p.m., where the person he hit told of-fi cers Dillon’s license plate number, Tabor said.

Dillon called LSUPD on March 18 and told offi cers he wanted to talk about the accident.

Dillon was issued a misde-meanor summons on March 19 and released.

STUDENT ARRESTED FOR MARIJUANA POSSESSION

A University student was ar-rested for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia on March 17 at about 12:30 a.m.

An offi cer patrolling near the intersection of East Parker and South

Stadium drives saw a car run a stop sign. After stopping the vehicle, the offi cer noticed the smell of burnt marijuana on the passenger, said LSU Police Department spokesman Sgt. Blake Tabor.

After a consented search of the vehicle, the offi cer found a small bag fi lled with 4.2 grams of marijuana and two smoking pipes, belonging to the 18-year-old passenger, Brett Jude Busby, of 5037 Pike Drive, Metairie, La.

Busby was issued a misdemean-or summons and released. The driver was issued a traffi c citation.

STUDENT ARRESTED FOR MARIJUANA POSSESSION

A University student was arrest-ed for marijuana possession at about 9 p.m. on March 19.

Offi cers went to Jackson Hall after they received a complaint about the smell of marijuana coming from one of the rooms. Offi cers found the room and asked the resident, Jor-dan Paul Zeller, 19, of 101 Autumn Creek, Madisonville, La., for con-sent to search the room. He agreed, and offi cers eventually found 4.5 grams of marijuana and a smoking pipe, Tabor said.

Zeller was arrested for posses-sion of marijuana and drug parapher-nalia. He was issued a misdemeanor summons and released.

University students spend plenty of time in Baton Rouge’s popular haunts like Tigerland or its sports stadiums. But many of them have probably never visited the city’s more uncommon spots, like an alien lair or the house where Ike Turner grew up.

Those are two examples of fi ctional places in Baton Rouge — all part of the area’s expanding fi lm production business. Whether fi lming takes place at a real loca-tion or in a studio’s fabricated one, the Red Stick is attracting movi-emakers of all kinds to do their work here and boost the local economy.

One way for fi lmmakers to fi nd the perfect setting is the

Baton Rouge Film Commission’s location database — a directory of many places willing to host movie productions.

Katie Harvey , project coor-dinator at the Film Commission, said it catalogs all types of loca-tions because they must visually respond to any script.

“Last week we had a call to fi nd a place that is a lair for aliens,” Harvey said. “It was sup-posed to be an underground bun-ker. We used a sugar mill that was dark with dripping pipes.”

The Baton Rouge Film Com-mission is currently looking to ex-pand its database and is calling for

submissions. Any location that is unique and could be multipurpose is great, Harvey said.

Most on-campus locations are featured in the database, including the Memorial Tower, the Quad and Tiger Stadium.

“One of the only elements of LSU we’re missing is dorm rooms because students are hesitant to share their space,” Harvey said.

The Baton Rouge Film Com-mission’s database features nearly 40 plantations, which Harvey said are popular for fi lms looking to embrace the Louisiana ambiance. But most productions look for lo-cations that can pass for a place

outside Louisiana.“Restaurants like Tsunami are

popular,” Harvey said. “You can cheat a restaurant like that for an-other city pretty easily.”

Lisa Calhoun , local location scout, said most of the time clients are looking for settings that don’t look like Louisiana.

That’s because of the attractive tax credits the state provides fi lm-makers. The fi nancial incentives bring productions to Louisiana even if the story is not set here.

State law allows out-of-state fi lm producers to earn a 25 per-cent tax credit on their qualifi ed Louisiana based production and 10

percent on labor costs.Film work would go to other

Baton Rouge a popular attraction with fi lmmakersMOVIES

Commission’s database looks to expand

By Ryan BuxtonContributing Writer

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One of the highlights from the Baton Rouge Area Chamber’s annual canvas trip was observing how one of the universities near Richmond, Va., helps develop the downtown area, according to Ba-ton Rouge Downtown Develop-ment District officials.

Davis Rhorer, Downtown Development District executive director, described Virginia Com-monwealth University’s contribu-tion to the city’s success as “in-spiring.”

About 140 people from

different organizations in Baton Rouge, including the Downtown Development District and Univer-sity Chancellor Michael Martin, attended this year’s canvas work-shop hosted by BRAC and the Of-fice of the Mayor-President.

The theme for BRAC’s 5th annual trip was “Learn, Unlearn and Relearn.” The trip began Sun-day and ended Tuesday.

The workshop costs $2,100 per participant and aimed to con-tinue moving Baton Rouge for-ward by observing Richmond’s success to learn how these ac-complishments can be applied in the Baton Rouge area, according to a BRAC news release.

Some of the main goals of the trip were to look at Richmond’s success in its education system,

regional cooperation and River-front development, urban restora-tion and recruiting international businesses.

Large areas of downtown Richmond once faced high crime, but the city improved safety mea-sures, in turn creating a great en-tertainment district and increased residential opportunities in the area, according to a BRAC news release.

“The residential component is their real secret for downtown success,” Rhorer said.

Rhorer said Richmond has student housing downtown for the university, which has about 30,000 students. The school is now a part of downtown, he said.

The Downtown Development District would like to market housing that is affordable for all, including LSU students, Rhorer said. This plan is incorporated into the Plan Baton Rouge Phase Two, he said.

Plan Baton Rouge Phase Two is going to be presented to the public Monday at the Old State Capitol, and the team will present the final draft for specific propos-als to the downtown area, Rhorer said.

The workshop included studying all aspects of the city and looking at the approach Rich-mond takes to market to visitors, Rhorer said. The trip has allowed key members of the Baton Rouge community to study the good and bad components of another suc-cessful city, he said.

Richmond was ranked in Forbes Magazine as one of the top 10 “Best Places for Business and Careers,” according to a BRAC news release.

BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY

Va. university inspires BRACOfficials aim to copy Richmond’s successBy Joy LukachickStaff Writer

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A man fishes on the banks of the Mississippi River last spring near the bridge that connects East and West Baton Rouge parishes.

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WORLD

Rising violence in Mexico has caused some University student groups to cancel spring break trips across the border.

The upswing in drug-related vi-olence has prompted the U.S. State Department to issue a travel alert for citizens traveling into Mexico. The State Department warned of violent crimes taking place in day-light hours in crowded places.

Reports of this violence has caused The Refuge, a student re-ligious organization, to cancel its mission trip to the border town of Acuna, Mexico.

The Refuge takes the trip an-nually to provide free medical care and evangelize to impoverished citizens of the town. But this spring break, the risk of potential violence was too great.

“There were reports of deaths around [Acuna], so we are not go-ing to get in-volved in that,” said Sarah Borne, adminis-trative assistant to the college pastor at the Chapel on the Campus. “We didn’t want to take any chanc-es and bring 90 students if it was going to be so dangerous.”

The U.S. Department of Home-land Security announced on Tues-day it will send 100 additional U.S. customs agents, as well as provide an additional $700 million to “do everything we can to prevent the violence in Mexico from spilling over across the border,” according to a news release.

While these violent crimes are primarily directed at members of drug trafficking organizations, U.S. citizens have been among vic-tims of homicide and kidnapping in the border region, according to the State Department travel alert.

The prospect of being targeted by the violence caused civil engi-neering junior Patrick Radecker to cancel a spring break rock climbing trip to Mexico after reading about the violence.

“Mexico wasn’t the safest in the first place, but we were going to be passing through with thousands of dollars of gear, and let alone on being white kids, it just seemed like a bad idea,” Radecker said. “Being American, I think it puts a little bit of a target on our back.”

Borne said having such a large group played a part in assessing the risk involved with the trip.

“If we were not taking such a big group, I wouldn’t think it would be such a problem,” Borne said. “It’s easy to lose someone. We just

didn’t want to take the chance.”The Refuge has scheduled a

mission trip in conjunction with Campus Crusade to a college cam-pus in Bolivia during spring break but isn’t counting out the prospect of returning to Mexico next year, Borne said.

Britteny Kelley, kinesiology se-nior, said she is disappointed about not going to Mexico but is looking forward to a trip to Bolivia.

“It is kind of sad because ... hundreds of Mexicans go through the free medical clinic,” Kelley said. “Bolivia is kind of different ... We are going to meet students and practice English with them and tell them we love Jesus.”

Violence in Mexico affecting vacationsStudent group cancels mission tripBy Xerxes A. WilsonContributing Writer

‘Being American, I think it

puts a little bit of a target on our back’

Patrick Radeckercivil engineering junior

Contact Xerxes A. Wilson at xwilson@lsureveille.com

NATION

Bargain hunters shopping for groceries at auctionsDALLAS, Pa. (AP) — Out of toi-let paper? Need to pick up a few things for dinner? Take a number and start bidding.

Many bargain hunters these days are trading supermarket aisles for the auction circuit in search of discounts on groceries. Past the sell-by date? Bidders are happy to ignore that detail if they’re getting a good deal.

As consumers seek relief from the recession and spiraling food prices, grocery auctions are gain-ing in popularity as an easy way to cut costs. The sales operate like regular auctions, but with bidders vying for dry goods and frozen foods. Some auctioneers accept food stamps.

When Kirk Williams held his first grocery auction in rural Pennsylvania last month, nearly 300 people showed up. Astonished by the turnout, he’s scheduling auctions at locations throughout northeastern Pennsylvania.

“Right now, people don’t have a lot of spare pocket change,” said Williams, 50, operator of Col. Kirk’s Auction Gallery near Bloomsburg, Pa. “They’re looking to save money.”

Rich Harris, 28, who was re-cently laid off from his welding job, showed up at Williams’ auc-tion in Dallas earlier this month looking for meat for his freezer and snacks for his kids.

With his wife pregnant with their third child, “I’m basically trying to expand my dollar right now,” he said. “The deals, they

seem to be fairly good.”Grocery sales make sense for

auctioneers, too. Sales of baseball cards, estate jewelry and other auction staples have “fallen off a cliff,” Williams said. He hopes to average about $12,000 in sales per auction, which would net him a profit of about $1,000.

The popularity of the auctions — which sell leftover or dam-aged goods from supermarkets, distribution centers and restaurant suppliers — comes at a time when people are stretching their grocery budgets by using more coupons, buying inferior cuts of meat, and choosing store brands.

By Michael RubinkamThe Associated Press

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Replacing players is a fact of life in the sports world, espe-cially in college football.

But when it comes to re-placing a school’s all-time lead-ing scorer, the task becomes even more daunting.

LSU is in that exact predica-ment this spring, attempting to

replace kicker Colt David .David’s 363 career points as

a kicker — not including his fake fi eld goal touchdown run in 2007 against South Carolina — are the most by an individual player in LSU history. It is also 352 more than the combined total points of the three kickers vying for his va-cated position.

But junior kicker Josh Jas-per said David’s impact on the program was deeper than just kicking.

“The records just naturally happened,” Jasper said. “But

[David] was more of a team player. He made me a much bet-ter kicker by forcing me to get reps at practice even though he was the starting kicker.”

Jasper , junior Andrew Crutchfi eld and redshirt freshman Drew Alleman are all in conten-tion for the starting job. The only one to have scored points in a game is Jasper , who was 2-for-2 on fi eld goals last season and 5-for-5 on extra points. The oth-er two have yet to attempt a kick with points on the line.

“Josh Jasper is the leader

right now,” said LSU coach Les Miles . “He’s a guy who is very capable, and I think we’ll be fi ne there.”

Miles said Jasper is expected to handle the place kicking duties as well as kickoffs.

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FOOTBALL

Jasper front-runner to replace DavidPunter vacancy still up for grabsBy Rob LandrySports Contributor

KICKER, see page 11

BASEBALL

Mainieridissatisfi edwith effortin 4-3 winBy Andy SchwehmSports Contributor

The Last Dance“Escape” isn’t exactly the

word the LSU baseball team wanted to use when referring to Tuesday night’s game against Harvard.

But that’s what happened, as the Tigers (18-5) barely pulled out a 4-3 victory against the Crimson (2-12).

“ T h e r e weren’t a lot of positive things out there to-night,” said LSU coach Paul Mainieri. “We didn’t put forth a very great effort out there, which I need to take respons ib i l -ity for because I’m the coach.

We were fortunate to win the game.”

Mainieri inserted freshman third baseman Tyler Hanover for senior third baseman Derek Helenihi with the Tigers trailing, 3-2, with the bases loaded and one out in the bottom of the fi fth inning on a hunch that the fresh-man would deliver.

The hunch worked as Hanover came through with a two-RBI single to put the Tigers’ up 4-3 on their way to the

HARVARD, see page 13

‘We won the game

because we had super

relief pitching.’

Paul MainieriLSU baseball coach

MAGGIE BOWLES

/ The Daily Reveille

Former LSU kicker Colt David kicks a fi eld goal Oct. 25 during the Tigers’ 52-38 loss to Georgia in Tiger Stadium.

COLT DAVID’S CAREER•54-for-72 FGs, 162 points

•201-for-204 PATs, 201 points

photos by MAGGIE BOWLES / The Daily Reveille

[Top] LSU women’s basketball coach Van Chancellor (center) and his staff look on during the Lady Tigers’ 62-52 loss Tuesday against Louisville in the second round of the NCAA tournament. [Above left] Freshman Taylor Turnbow (left) and sophomore guard Latear Eason (right) watch as the game ends. [Above right] Junior guard Allison Hightower shoots over four Cardinal defenders.

Lady Tigers lose to Cardinals, 62-52

The atmosphere was electric during the No. 6 seed LSU wom-en’s basketball team’s NCAA

tournament sec-ond-round game against No. 3 Louisville on Tuesday night.

But miss-ing too many free throws and losing the re-bounding battle hurt LSU down the stretch as the Lady T i g e r s ’ s e a s o n

ended with a 62-52 loss to the Cardinals.

“They made free throws,

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Few things cool down a hot streak like a split with the South-eastern Conference’s 10th-place team.

The No. 17 LSU softball team took its fi ve-game winning streak and fi ve-run-per-game average to Oxford, Miss., on Tuesday night and came out of a doubleheader against Ole Miss with a split and just seven combined runs.

“I’m still not happy ... We should have won this series,” said LSU coach Yvette Girouard. “It just shows you that you can’t just roll off the bus and expect to win games.”

The Tigers’ bats had been go-ing off with the consistency Gir-ouard wanted up until their fi rst meeting with the Rebels (13-17, 2-11) . LSU (21-7, 8-3) combined for 43 hits — an average of 8.6 — in its fi ve previous wins, but ac-counted for just four in its open-ing 3-2 loss to Ole Miss.

“We’ve had a terrible time with [Ole Miss pitcher Becky Nye],” Girouard said. “She’s beaten us the last three times we’ve played. I don’t know what

it is.”LSU’s low offensive pro-

duction — four hits, two runs — allowed the Rebels to take the night’s fi rst game into extra in-nings. A two-run home run from LSU freshman infi elder Ashley Langoni gave the Tigers a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the seventh inning, but the Rebels rallied to tie the score and extend the game.

LSU junior pitcher Cody Tra-han (6-2) pitched a no-hitter up until the rally but ended up with three runs and three hits af-ter 10 innings. An Ole Miss base hit off Trahan gave the Rebels the win to start the eve-ning.

“We had that game won in the seventh inning, and we gave it away,” Girouard said. “This is a young team, and sometimes you just have to learn it the hard way.”

The Tigers found their of-fense in the night’s second game — a fact Girouard credited to facing “a different pitcher.” LSU capitalized off a two-run, two-hit third inning and a two-run, two-hit seventh inning on the way to a 5-2 win.

Freshman infi elder Anissa Young went 2-for-4 for three RBI

in the win after not getting a hit in her fi rst outing.

Freshman shortstop Juliana Santos also earned an RBI when her third-inning single scored junior outfi elder Kirsten Short-ridge.

“They’re good softball play-ers, and that’s why we recruited them,” Girouard said. “Hopefully [Young] started to break out a little bit in the second game to-

night.”Ole Miss

tried to stage an-other rally with runs in the sixth and seventh in-nings, but the Rebels couldn’t overcome LSU’s four-run cushion. Freshman pitcher Brittany Mack

(7-1) limited the Rebels’ come-back by forcing a groundout to end the game.

Mack pitched a complete game, allowing six hits and two runs with four strikeouts.

“We’ve got to really work on not allowing leadoff walks,” Gi-rouard said. “But [Mack] had a lot of control tonight, and I liked what I saw from her.”

SOFTBALL

Tigers rebound, split doubleheader with Ole MissYoung paces LSU in 5-2 victoryBy David Helman Sports Writer

ERIN ARLEDGE / The Daily Reveille

LSU freshman Ashley Langoni hits a foul ball Feb. 20 before her game-winning hit in the top of the eighth inning during the Tigers’, 3-2, win against Northern Iowa.

‘‘‘I’m still not happy ... We should have won this series.’

Yvette GirouardLSU softball coach

Contact David Helman at dhelman@lsureveille.com

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FOOTBALL

Tigers stacked at running back, shaky at FB

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Minnis goes for 250th victory of career against Oregon

One thing is uncertain about LSU’s running backs this spring.

“The main thing in our realm is the fullback,” said senior run-ning back Charles Scott. “We know who the tailbacks are. We know how the rotation is. We know we all are going to get our carries. The main thing is we’ve got to find a fullback.”

The Tigers’ running backs rushed for more than 2,000 yards and 24 touchdowns last season be-hind the blocking of Quinn John-son.

But Johnson’s eligibility is done, and now the Tigers are using this spring to find someone to fill the void he left.

“Quinn had some big shoes to fill,” Scott said. “But I think [Rich-ard] Dugas can do that. He’s mak-ing big steps towards that.”

Dugas, a junior from Lincoln,

Neb., is lining up at fullback this spring and has impressed his team-mates.

“He’s looking real good out there at fullback,” said junior run-ning back Richard Murphy.

Dugas is a converted lineman, and his teammates are impressed with his transition to the new posi-tion.

“The only two people who could do it are him and T-Bob [Hebert] because they are so ath-letic,” said sophomore lineman Will Blackwell. “Dugas is one of those special guys who can prob-ably play just about anywhere.”

Dugas said running backs coach Larry Porter approached him during drills and asked if he wanted to try out for fullback.

“I told him I’d be down,” Du-gas said. “Anyway I can get on the field and help the team out.”

He said the positions are simi-lar with the exception of running and catching the ball.

“It’s kind of the same but kind of different,” Dugas said. “You might catch the ball, you might run the ball, but a lot of the technique

is the same. You got to get low and get under those linebackers com-ing full speed, but now I have a lit-tle more time to read the defense.”

As far as running backs are concerned, Scott said the position is more experienced.

“We’ve got three or four guys that have been around and know the system,” Scott said.

Scott rushed for 1,174 and 18 touchdowns last season, and senior Keiland Williams rushed for 417 yards and two touchdowns.

Scott said he’s been focused on becoming a better pass blocker.

“That is what I’m working real hard on right now,” Scott said.

Murphy averaged more than four yards per carry, and sopho-more Stevan Ridley saw a limited number of snaps but averaged 7.7 yards per carry. Ridley is out for the spring with a knee injury.

The running backs also have to adjust to a new offensive line. Center Brett Helms and lineman Herman Johnson left a void in the offensive line that sophomores Josh Dworaczyk, Blackwell and Hebert are hoping to fill.

“The coaching staff really found some guys to fill those shoes,” Murphy said. “I’m very confident in the offensive line. You got to be confident in the offense

line and the fullbacks to run the ball.”

Dugas could fill Johnson’s voidBy Amos MoraleSports Contributor

MAGGIE BOWLES / The Daily Reveille

Senior running back Charles Scott (32) takes a handoff March 17 from freshman quarterback Russell Shepard (10) as freshman quarterback Chris Garrett (14) looks on.

Contact Amos Morale at amorale@lsureveille.com

LSU women’s tennis coach Tony Minnis said he expects his team to refrain from looking ahead to Friday’s Southeastern Conference home showdown against No. 2 Geor-gia.

That’s because the No. 21 Lady Tigers (10-4, 1-2 SEC) host Oregon (7-8) today at 3 p.m at W.T. “Dub” Robinson Stadium. And a victory could mean a milestone for Minnis.

A win against the Ducks would give Minnis his 250th career win.

A doubleheader was scheduled for today, with Centenary visiting Baton Rouge for a 7 p.m. matchup, but that was canceled on Monday because Centenary was down to only three women on its roster. The game will not be rescheduled.

“This team has been around long enough to know that you don’t take anybody lightly,” Minnis said. “I would fully expect them to come out fully prepared, ready to get after them.”

While Oregon has recently struggled, losing five straight match-es, they are no stranger to SEC com-petition.

The Ducks lost to then-No. 14 Arkansas, 4-0, in late January and were just defeated by then-No. 16 Alabama, 5-2, on Monday.

“The SEC is really tough,” said Oregon coach Paul Reber. “We made this road trip because one, I wanted to come out and play some different schools, some different conferences and two, I’ve known Tony [Minnis] for a while.”

Reber said his team will match up well against an LSU team that boasts the No. 14 doubles tandem in LSU seniors Megan Falcon and Mykala Hedberg. Oregon will coun-ter with No. 39 Ana Cecilia Olivos and Pavlina Smatova.

“That’s part of the reason we’re here,” Reber said. “We want to play some teams we’re not super familiar with so we can challenge ourselves and not continually play the same teams over and over.”

Hedberg, an Oxnard, Calif., native, got off to a slow start this spring, losing four of her first six singles matches.

She has since rebounded and

rides a four-match win streak into today.

Minnis said he has been im-pressed with the recent play of Hed-berg.

“She’s emerging [as a leader], especially these last weeks,” he said. “She’s really stepped up in all as-pects of her game both on and off the court, knock on wood.”

Minnis said in the beginning of the fall season that Hedberg could emerge as one of the nation’s best players if her singles play reached its potential.

Statistically, singles competition has held her from reaching this feat.

Hedberg enters today with a

career singles record of 58-67, com-pared to a 24-3 doubles record this season.

“Some people are [better at singles than doubles],” Minnis said. “It’s not really that unusual.”

Minnis said he expects big

things from Hedberg down the stretch because she is peaking at the right time.

Tonight’s Centenary matchup canceledBy Sean IsabellaSports Contributor Contact Sean Isabella at

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Many college teams recruit ath-letes outside Louisiana to field the best team, but it’s rare to find a col-lege sports team consisting of mul-tiple international athletes.

LSU’s track and field teams have representatives from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Saudi Arabia, Zimbabwe and the Bahamas, along with players from around the U.S.

Recruiting is a difficult process in track and field — a sport that runs continuously from the indoor season in January until the end of the out-door season in June.

LSU coach Dennis Shaver had to miss the home meet the week-end before the 2009 NCAA Indoor Championships on March 13 and 14 to recruit.

“We do a lot of evaluating and choose to go to meets to evaluate tal-ent where there are very large meets and meets that involve more than just one local area,” Shaver said. “I go to Lubbock [Texas], and that was the Junior College National Champion-ships where I got to see a great many of the best junior college athletes throughout the entire United States.”

The process is a little different and not quite as simple when it comes to recruiting athletes outside the U.S.

“Over the years, you develop relationships with coaches that un-derstand what you’re looking for,” Shaver said. “Maybe you have a contact in Jamaica or in Trinidad that when they see somebody that they think could help us, and they feel would benefit from coming to the United States — they oftentimes contact me, and then we go forward from there.”

Among the foreign LSU ath-letes is sophomore sprinter Gabriel Mvumvure, who came to the U.S. from Zimbabwe.

“I met some coaches from dif-ferent schools,” Mvumvure said. “I just kind of kept in touch with the LSU coaches — I really loved LSU. When I started running fast and ran the times I wanted, that’s when they said, ‘Yeah, we can take you.’ It was a hard process, especially for me get-ting the visa and coming over.”

The history of the school and its skilled track and field athletes remain vital aspects of Baton Rouge’s pull.

LSU’s strongest aspect has been its phenomenal sprinters. Trinidad and Tobago native Richard Thomp-son was the 2008 NCAA Men’s Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year. Sprinter Muna Lee was the 100-me-ter dash champion in the 2008 Olym-pic trials. Hurdler Lolo Jones was the

2008 World Indoor Champion and a three-time USA Indoor Champion.

“I heard about LSU [and its history], because athletes before me that came to LSU always come down during the summertime for the Jamaica Trials,” said junior sprinter Samantha Henry. “I knew they had a good tradition of sprinters.”

Henry’s native Jamaica has its own championships, through which she got in touch with LSU.

“We have the boys’ and girls’ championships, and it’s like a high school national for all the high schools in Jamaica,” Henry said. “That’s where [LSU] coach [Mark] Elliott came and saw me.”

Sophomore sprinter Kenyanna Wilson, an Arizona native, said LSU’s history in the sport drew her to compete for the Lady Tigers.

“You look at the Olympians they had, you look at the national champi-ons they had — those numbers and names speak for themselves,” she said.

Shaver also stressed education and performance in the classroom is important when finding athletes.

“You have to find out, no matter where they’re from, if they have an interest in getting a college degree,” Shaver said.

TRACK AND FIELD

Recruiting international athletes a challenging processShaver misses meet to seek new talentBy Rowan KavnerSports Contributor

BENJAMIN OLIVER HICKS / The Daily Reveille

LSU track and field coach Dennis Shaver coaches his team during spring practice. Shaver missed a home meet the weekend before the NCAA Indoor Championships this year to recruit, a particularly difficult process in track and field.

Contact Rowan Kavner at rkavner@lsureveille.com

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Punter Brady Dalfrey’s gradu-ation left another vacant spot on special teams. Last season, LSU av-eraged 40.3 yards per punt, which ranked fifth in the Southeastern Con-ference.

Jasper is the only kicker on the roster who has attempted a punt in a game. He attempted four punts in 2008, averaging 43.0 yards per kick.

Junior Derek Helton, a transfer from Fort Scott Community College in Fort Scott, Kan., will contend for the starting position and may be the holder on field goals. Helton aver-aged 36.1 yards per punt in 2008, with his longest traveling 68 yards.

“He has good hands,” Jasper said. “We work constantly through the day, and he has progressed tre-mendously. Right now, I’m real con-fident when he catches the ball.”

LSU used a tactic called the sky kick on kickoffs last season. The sky kick is not designed to put the ball in the end zone for a touchback, but in-stead get maximum hang time for the coverage team to get downfield. Us-ing that strategy, LSU finished fifth in the SEC in kickoff coverage.

“I think we’ll use it [this season] because it might give return teams a difficult time returning,” Miles said.

LSU retains all its kick returners from last season. The Tigers finished last in the SEC in kickoff returning, averaging just 19.5 yards per return.

Seniors Trindon Holliday and Keiland Williams should anchor the kick return game for the second straight season. In 2008, Holliday has averaged 22.6 yards per return.

“The team will have speed,” Miles said. “And at times we may see Holliday and [sophomore corner-back Ron] Brooks back there.”

The punt returner duties will once again be split between Hol-liday and junior Chad Jones. Holli-day fielded 21 punts, averaging 13.3 yards per return and one touchdown. Jones averaged 6.6 yards on 16 re-turns in 2008.

KICKER, from page 7

9-10:30pm V for Vendetta 12:00-1:30pm Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 3:00-3:30pm The Manship Show 7-8:30pm Air Force One

Pluckers wing barTrivia at 8.

$4 34 oz Mother Plucker Mugs.If you don’t like our wings,

we’ll give you the bird.

Mellow MushrooM Pizza bakersTrivia and Karaoke Night

5-10pm: $5 Domestic Pitchers, $6 Abita Pitchers

Contact Rob Landry at rlandry@lsureveille.com

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Coast Guard coach commits suicide while on leave

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The women’s basketball coach at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy who committed suicide earlier this month had been put on paid leave three days before his death amid an investiga-tion by federal prosecutors, a school official said.

Alex Simonka, 51, who was also director of the school’s athletic association, was found dead in his car at the New London academy on March 14. The state medical exam-iner ruled he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

Rear Adm. J. Scott Burhoe, the academy’s superintendent, said in statement that the Connecticut U.S. attorney’s office has been investigat-ing the Coast Guard Academy Ath-letic Association for several months.

The nature of the investigation

is unclear. Neither academy officials nor a spokesman for the U.S. attor-ney’s office would comment.

“After an interview with Mr. Alex Simonka, certain information was revealed that warranted plac-ing him on administrative leave with pay pending the outcome of that

investigation,” Burhoe said in the statement first provided to The Day of New London on Monday.

Burhoe referred other questions to federal prosecutors. Tom Carson, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office, said Tuesday he could neither confirm nor deny an investigation of

Simonka or the athletic association.The unincorporated associa-

tion raises money for the academy’s sports teams and spends about $1 million a year, said Petty Officer Ryan Doss, an academy spokesman. Half the money for the academy’s in-tercollegiate athletic program comes from the association, while the other half comes from federal government appropriations.

The organization pays for assis-tant coaches’ salaries, athletic equip-ment repairs, teams’ travel costs, printing expenses, sports awards and other costs, Doss said. Revenues come from donations, ticket sales and merchandising, he said.

Simonka, who was not paid for his work as the association’s direc-tor, was also the academy’s athletics business manager. He lived in the town of Ledyard with his wife and daughter, Doss said.

Simonka had served the Coast

Guard and the academy for more than 30 years in various positions, both as an officer and a civilian employee, Burhoe said. He graduated from the academy in 1979, retired from ac-tive duty in 1999 and coached the women’s basketball team for the past 16 years.

He was a three-sport athlete at the academy. He led the basketball team to its first NCAA tournament in 1978-79, and he still holds the foot-ball record for three touchdown re-ceptions in a single game, according to his obituary in The Day.

“We are all deeply hurt by this tragedy,” Burhoe said last week. “Those who knew Alex best saw his passion for helping others, and his interest in developing and inspiring future Coast Guard leaders.”

KATE GARDINER / The Associated Press

Coast Guard women’s basketball coach Alex Simonka meets with his team during a game in a 2007 file photo. Officials say the body of 52-year-old Simonka was found March 14 in his car after a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

By Dave CollensThe Associated Press

Body found in car, killed by gunshot

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and we didn’t,” said LSU coach Van Chancellor. “They had 12 second-chance points, and I thought we had to limit them to six. We’ve been a hot and cold free throw shooting team. When we make them, we con-tinue to make them, and when we miss them, we continue to miss them.”

The Lady Tigers were out-rebounded by 14, 39-25, during the game, and they shot just 5-of-12 from the free throw line in the second half.

LSU senior forward Kristen Morris said giv-ing Louisville too many offen-sive rebounds and easy points was a clinching factor in the loss.

“We lost the game at the line and on the boards,” Morris said. “We didn’t turn the ball over a lot, but not winning the rebound battle was what lost it for us.”

LSU was fi red up early against the Cardinals, and there were six ties and three lead changes in the fi rst half. LSU never led by more than fi ve points, and Louisville was never ahead by more than four points en route to a 33-29 Louisville halftime lead.

The Lady Tigers committed only seven turnovers throughout the game and forced 13 Cardinal

turnovers.“We were really concerned

about Louisville’s press,” Chan-cellor said. “We got them to quit pressing, and they didn’t get many points off turnovers.”

Louisville coach Jeff Walz said LSU was defi nitely one of the best teams the Cardinals have faced all season.

“It was an absolute battle,” Walz said. “It was a great envi-

ronment. [Chan-cellor] did an outstanding job preparing for our press. They were by far the team that’s been best prepared to play us.”

In the second half, Louisville built a six point lead, 39-33, but LSU answered with a 7-0 run and Hightower’s

20th points of the night on a one-handed shot to go back up by 1 with about 12 minutes left.

“I wasn’t trying to take over or anything like that, just stay ag-gressive and if the shot was there, I was going to take it,” Hightow-er said. “[Louisville] did a pretty good job on the box-and-one.”

LSU would lead once more, 42-41, after a layup by freshman forward LaSondra Barrett, who fi nished with 7 points.

The Lady Tigers fell behind by nine points with 2:55 left. The closest LSU would get was seven points in the last two minutes,

but two free throws by Louisville freshman guard Becky Burke and a jumper by Louisville senior for-ward Angel McCoughtry put the game away.

McCoughtry, projected by many to be the fi rst pick in April’s WNBA draft, fi nished the night with a game-high 28 points.

Questionable offi ciating fi red up both teams throughout the game. Both had four fouls just four minutes into the game and fi nished the half with 10 apiece.

Chancellor said now that the Lady Tigers’ season is over, he will relish in what they have accomplished with so many new faces.

“This team had fi ve times it could have given in, but they did a remarkable job of keeping confi dence up,” he said. “When I look at what these kids have done, it’s been unbelievable. We played three freshmen who have never been under this kind of pressure, and Kristen Morris has been the glue that held this team together.”

Now that her season is over, Morris said she sees a very bright future for the Lady Tigers.

“I am sad, but I want to make sure my teammates remember to work hard,” Morris said. “The next season starts right now, and they have a chance to be really good next year. I am very thank-ful for the opportunity I had to play here.”

victory in front of a season-low 3,537 fans.

“Thank God I brought in Tyler Hanover off the bench,” Mainieri said. “He came in and played with spunk.”

The Tigers had trouble man-ufacturing runs early in the game, as Harvard southpaw Will Keu-per kept LSU’s offense at bay.

Keuper (0-2) entered the game with a 15.19 ERA in 5.1 innings pitched but had a solid outing, go-ing 4 1/3 innings and giving up four runs, three earned, in his fi rst start of the season.

“It had noth-ing to do with him,” said LSU junior outfi elder Jared Mitchell. “We came out here and gave our poorest effort of the season as a team.”

The Tigers got the fi rst run of the game in the bottom of the fi rst when Mitchell scored on an RBI single by junior catcher Sean Ochinko.

Mitchell got his NCAA-lead-ing 20th steal of the season ear-lier after leading off the bottom of the fi rst with a double.

“Coach is giving me the green light,” Mitchell said. “I feel a little more comfortable on the bases this year, and I have more maturity of knowing what I can and can’t do out there, and it’s helping me out.”

The Crimson got their fi rst run of the game in the top of the second when shortstop Sean O’Hara scored on a wild pitch by LSU senior Ryan Byrd.

Byrd lasted only 4 1/3 in-nings, giving up three runs, one earned, on six hits while striking out six in his second start of the season.

It was the relief effort from senior Nolan Cain, sophomore

Jordan Nichol-son, junior Paul Bertuccini and freshman Matty Ott that led the Tigers to the vic-tory.

The four play-ers combined for 4 2/3 innings of relief work, giv-ing up no earned

runs while striking out fi ve.“We won the game because

we had super relief pitching,” Mainieri said.

No. 4 LSU will fi nish its midweek series against the Crim-son tonight.

LSU freshman Chris Matulis will get the start on the mound for the Tigers.

Matulis (3-0) has looked im-pressive so far in his freshman campaign with a 2.49 ERA in 21.2 innings while adding on 19 strikeouts.

HARVARD, from page 7

‘‘‘There weren’t a lot of positive things

out there tonight ... We were fortunate.’

Paul MainieriLSU baseball coach

Contact Andy Schwehm at aschwehm@lsureveille.com

LOUISVILLE, from page 7

Contact Rachel Whittaker at rwhittaker@lsureveille.com

‘‘‘This team had fi ve times it could have given in, but they did a remarkable

job of keeping confi dence up.’

Van ChancellorLSU women’s basketball coach

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states without Louisiana’s tax credits, according to Kevin Mur-phy , director of studio operations at Raleigh Studios in Baton Rouge.

“The incentive brings fi lm-makers here and fosters fi lmmak-ers locally,” Murphy said.

Gov. Bobby Jindal supports extending these entertainment tax credits for at least two more years, an issue that will be discussed among state legislators this spring, according to a Times-Picayune ar-ticle.

Calhoun said when searching for a location, the most important thing is fi nding a place that fi ts the story’s needs.

She is currently scouting for a fi lm called “The King of Rhythm, The Ike Turner Story,” which re-quires locations to fi t a certain time period.

“It’s retro,” Calhoun said. “We need an old house. Power lines are okay, but I don’t want streetlights. And the bane of retro fi lms is the cable box on telephone poles.”

Another concern is what prop-erty owners will allow to be fi lmed on their land.

“For ‘The King of Rhythm,’ there is a scene where Jimi Hen-drix is walking outside, stoned and cussing like a sailor,” Calhoun said. “I know we can’t shoot some-thing like that at a BREC park, so I have to fi nd something else.”

The University also has rules about what can be fi lmed here. Before anything is shot on cam-pus, the administration must fi rst review the script and deem it ac-ceptable.

“LSU has pretty strict guide-lines in script content before they allow fi lming on campus,” Harvey said.

While on-location fi lming is important, some movies require or prefer a studio setting, which can be converted into any type of set. To serve those needs, Baton Rouge has Raleigh Studios, which provides sound stages for a more

controlled environment.Other services available to

fi lmmakers at Raleigh Studios in-clude a production company, trans-portation service, payroll company and tools for post-production. The studio provides the resources to com-pletely produce a fi lm from start to fi nish, Murphy said. “The Ab-duction of Jesse Bookman,” an up-coming fi lm, has already done that.

“‘The Abduc-tion of Jesse Bookman’ was cast locally, fi nanced here, fi lmed in Baton Rouge, and all the post-pro-duction was done in Baton Rouge,” Murphy said.

Productions like that one are important to Baton Rouge’s econ-omy.

“For every dollar spent, [Baton Rouge] gets about $6 back,” Murphy said. “Money for hotels, space rental, paying employees and taxes from these expenses are

all brought into the local economy.”

Calhoun said as long as Louisi-ana remains com-petitive with tax credits, fi lmmak-ers will continue to work here for one important rea-son — food and Southern hospital-ity.

“People come here because of money, but they leave saying, ‘Ev-eryone was so nice, and boy, did we eat well,’” Calhoun said.

Lafl eur said it was always clear to him the state would have the ability to repeal the law in two or three years time when the feder-al money runs out. The letter from the Labor Department confi rmed that in writing, he said.

“I feel com-fortable with my-self knowing we could change the law two years from now, three years from now,” Lafl eur said.

It’s still un-clear whether Jindal will accept the money, as he still has fears that doing so may result in higher taxes.

“Our position remains the same. We’re certainly not going to take federal dollars if they cause a tax increase on Louisiana busi-nesses,” Jindal said in an inter-view with The Associated Press .

A ROCKY RELATIONSHIPTalk of overriding the

governor — should he not accept

the money — has swirled since he announced his intention to reject that portion of the stimulus funds.

Lafl eur is pushing for a reso-lution to notify the federal govern-ment Louisiana intends to take the

$98 million. Bob Mann,

mass communica-tion professor and former communi-cation director for Kathleen Blanco, said Jindal “found himself out on a limb” while he was deriding the stimulus on a na-tional platform, and he needed

to turn some part of the stimulus down to gain credibility with his conservative base.

Kirby Goidel , director of pub-lic policy research for the Manship School of Mass Communication, said it was also part of a political calculation — timed to increase interest in his national speech — and that the federal money’s im-pact on the state budget was never a primary concern.

His new role as a representa-tive for the national Republican

Party , Goidel said, has made him a more partisan fi gure — a trans-formation exacerbated by the fi ght over the federal stimulus dollars, which, both Goidel and Mann ac-knowledged, is an issue that has been breaking down party lines in the Legislature.

Lafl eur didn’t know whether there was enough support in the Legislature to potentially override Jindal’s decision.

“He may win the battles,” mass communication and politi-cal science professor Goidel said. “But there will be more criti-cism.”

It’s part of a long-term po-litical problem, Mann said, that began when Jindal vetoed a leg-islative pay raise last year — a “fl agrant betrayal of trust” to many legislators — and continued through the new year when he de-cided to endorse Lee Domingue , a candidate for the special election to replace the District 16 Senate seat vacated by Bill Cassidy . Jin-dal promised legislators he would stay out of local races like District 16 , where all three candidates are Republicans .

If Domingue doesn’t win, Mann said legislators will be less

afraid to publicly criticize him in the future.

Mann was unsure if Jindal would eventually accept the mon-ey. He said Jindal is torn: Jindal could quietly signal to the legis-lature to push the money through or ultimately reject it to avoid the

appearance of caving to the Leg-islature .

“I don’t think he’ll back off on it now,” Goidel said.

FILM, from page 4

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‘‘‘For every

dollar spent, [Baton Rouge] bets about

$6 back.’Kevin Murphy

Raleigh Studios director of studio operations

JINDAL, from page 3

photo courtesy of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Gov. Bobby Jindal speaks on Saturday in Farmerville about Foster Farms’ purchase of the Pilgrim’s Pride chicken processing complex.

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‘‘‘[Jindal] may win the battles, but

there will be more criticism.’Kirby Goidel

director of public policy research for the Manship School of Mass

Communication

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agent. “Last year [we booked] more cruises and more all-inclu-sive trips than Florida.”

Normand said the Baton Rouge-based agency has fewer requests for destination vacations to the beaches in Mexico this year. For 2009, the travel agen-cy reported 50 percent of spring breakers are headed somewhere outside the U.S., while the other half is headed to Florida.

Louisiana college students will usually travel by car to Flor-ida, Normand said. The price for an airline ticket is between $300 and $400 for a flight to Florida from New Orleans, making it a much cheaper option to drive from Louisiana.

“Most kids are going to Gulf Shores and Florida beaches be-cause they’re so much less expen-sive than exotic vacations,” said Melanie Williams, Gulf South Travel consultant.

Williams said most of her cli-ents aren’t leaving the country.

U.S. WARNS TRAVELERSThe U.S. Department of State

issued a travel warning on Feb. 20 for all citizens crossing the border to Mexico.

“The greatest increase in violence has occurred near the U.S. border,” the travel alert said. “U.S. citizens traveling through-out Mexico should exercise cau-tion in unfamiliar areas and be aware of their surroundings at all times.”

Robberies, homicides, petty thefts and carjackings were listed

as some of the major threats that occurred in northern Mexico last year. The warning cautioned citi-zens traveling along the Mexican border and cited injuries and vio-lent attacks occurring in cities across Mexico.

The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, a national an-ti-sexual assault organization, ad-vertised public safety tips nation-ally for students traveling during spring break.

The organization notifies col-lege students of safety issues ev-ery year before spring break, but there’s more emphasis this year after the State Department’s warn-ing, said Lynn Parrish, RAINN spokesperson.

“College age women are four times more likely to be sexually assaulted,” Parrish said.

When college students go on spring break, they often become less aware of the surroundings and get wrapped into a “vacation mentality,” Parrish said. Students shouldn’t let their guard down, she said.

“Always trust your instincts,” Parrish said. “If the situation seems unsafe, get out.”

Prices have decreased at des-tination resorts in Mexico because of all the rumors, Sills said.

“The Mexican situation is mostly around the border,” Sills said. “There are no problems around the resort areas.”

STA Travel, an agency target-ing college-aged students, is pro-moting cheap rates at South Padre Island, Texas. The travel agency advertised seven nights start-ing at $199 per person, based on

four-person rooms at a resort on the island near the Mexican bor-der. Other destinations, including Cancun, have offers starting at $699.

The State Department’s warnings have affected the spring break market, Williams said. The travel agency has tried to relieve customers’ fears by assuring cus-tomers the resorts are safe, she said.

Riveria Maya, just south of Cancun, is still a popular place for spring breakers to go, said Cynthia Swain, Pearsons Travel World travel agent.

Swain said she hasn’t seen a decrease at the agency for re-quests to areas in Mexico.

LOOKING AT FLORIDAThe number of visitors in

Florida fell in 2008 by 2.3 per-cent, meaning about 82.5 million people visited the Sunshine State in 2008, according to preliminary reports from the state’s official tourism marketing corporation, Visit Florida.

“March is our third-highest revenue month of the year,” said Dan Rowe, Panama City Beach Convention and Visitors Bureau executive director. “A lot [of rev-enue] is related to spring break.”

While June and July are the biggest months for the beach-es, March brings large crowds to the beaches in Panama City, Rowe said. And the beaches were crowded with college-aged kids during the past two weeks of March, he said.

The Panama City Beach Con-vention and Visitors Bureau will

not have the complete number of visitors in the area until mid-April. But the hotel bookings this year are similar to last year’s crowd, Rowe said.

For the past weeks, occu-pancy at some of the Panama City hotels were reported full, said Dana Lynn, Panama City Beach Convention and Visitors Bureau spokesperson.

Before the spring break sea-son began, locals expressed con-cern about the economy affecting the market, Rowe said.

“2009 is such an interest-ing time with the economy being what it is,” he said, explaining the travel industry is in “uncharted territory.”

But Panama City is an iconic spring break destination, and the city is having another good year during spring break, Rowe said.

Kyle Rordam, undeclared freshman, said he’s spending his spring break in Panama City. He said he’s spending $436 for six nights on the beach.

“[Panama City] is closer ... and it’s cheaper than going to Cancun,” he said.

for students. “We feel like there are two ma-

jor components of the program,” Weiss said. “And they are faculty and students.”

The current state budget for the Law Center is almost $10 million, and the cuts will decrease the budget by about 19 percent next fiscal year.

Half of the Law Center’s funds comes from the state, and the other half comes from tuition, Weiss said.

Tuition was $11,700 for last year’s in-state freshmen for the se-mester. In fall 2009, the incoming freshman class will pay $12,700 for the semester, while the following freshmen will pay $13,700, Weiss said. The plan to increase tuition by $1,000 each year was approved by the legislature in 2008 and will continue through the 2011 academic year.

“I don’t want to say never ... be-cause it’s hard to predict the future,” he said. “But it is certainly my inten-tion to stick with that program.”

Some of the ways Weiss plans to cut the school’s budget are suspend-ing distinguished foreign visitor’s programs, suspending the publica-tion of the Law Center’s magazine, LSU Law, reducing hard copy books for the library, the hours the library is open and cutting back travel for students and faculty.

“What concerns me most about the budget cuts is the potential for loss of momentum,” Weiss said.

When the budget was first pro-posed, Weiss said it appeared the Law Center might be able to avoid staff layoffs by furloughing virtually

everyone in the building. Weiss said he met with the faculty and asked if they would favor a furlough plan, which they approved.

But the LSU System has ad-vised the Law Center that furloughs are not permissible for academic staff, Weiss said.

“We’re going to have to find the money to cut that would have been involved in faculty furlough,” he said. “We’re now looking into ... the possibility of a voluntary faculty furlough.”

Weiss said he will have to lay off a number of staff members. He has already started to have conversa-tions with particular staff members about possible lay-offs.

“I want to give those individu-als as much advance notice as I can,” Weiss said.

One area Weiss said will not be affected by the cuts is the Clinical

Legal Education Program that began in fall 2008. The program’s funding is on this year’s budget, he said.

The Law Center is moving ahead with plans to open the bids for renovating the clinical building this week, he said.

The clinical program is a good example of how he will not let the budget cuts adversely affect the core education mission of the law school, Weiss said. Building the clinical pro-gram is a top priority, he said.

“We are going to survive,” he said. “But will we be able — with this level of financial hit — to con-tinue on the upward projection I feel we are on now?”

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FORMULA, from page 1SPRING BREAK, from page 1

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students to sit back and let the state fund every other university 60 per-cent and only fund this university 56 percent — and pass the cost on to us and our families.”

Robertson said every four-year institution should be funded at the same level — in this case, 60 percent — otherwise the fund-ing level could force the Univer-sity to increase tuition and student fees, among other options. He said the formula is unfair to current and prospective LSU students.

If the budget request was changed to pay 60 percent of the University’s total funding, instead of 56 percent, it would cost the state an extra $20 million — or roughly $700 per student.

Whether the performance-based funding formula will help or hurt the University won’t be known until the Board of Regents decides on a final draft of the for-mula and on the percentage the state will pay.

“The only people that can make this right is the Legislature if the Board of Regents doesn’t make that adjustment,” Robertson said.

Student Government President Colorado Robertson is unhappy with a complicated formula under consideration by the state Board of Regents.

It’s unclear whether Robertson’s discontent is justified.

The officials who make this

University and other institutions in the state work need to be more trans-parent in their decisions and in the steps that lead to those decisions.

That’s something students and taxpayers of this state deserve.

This formula would set how much total funding a university

would receive based on the level of research, graduation rates and its ability to produce graduates in high-demand professional fields.

But the formula is complex — so complicated that we’re not sure everyone involved completely un-derstands it.

We don’t expect every student and every Louisiana taxpayer to comprehend what’s going on.

But not everyone affected by this formula has a college degree. And not every taxpayer can analyze mathematical equations and reach logical conclusions involving a state

budget.What we expect is for the high-

er-ups in the University, System and state to be clear and palpable.

It’s a well-documented trend that bloggers are becoming increas-ingly powerful.

These Web-warriors, whose personal thoughts and opinions are posted online and viewed by increas-ing numbers of political junkies, are considered by many media critics to be the new wave of journalism.

Some bloggers, like the Atlan-tic’s Andrew Sullivan, are well-es-tablished and respected journalists who have support and write under the names of prestigious papers or enterprises. Some write for increas-ingly visible and influential Internet-based organizations, including Po-litico.com.

Some are just average Joes with opinions, computers and the fortune of an audience.

But whatever the type of blog-ger, it’s becoming virtually impos-sible to deny their influence is in-creasing.

A recent extreme example is

the city of Salisbury, Maryland. In her final “state-of-the city” speech, Salisbury mayor Barrie Parsons Tilghman lamented what she per-ceived to be the negative effects that bloggers have on her city’s political climate.

Tilghman apparently believed a group of “suspicious, mean-spirited people focused on the negative” has been unduly influencing the way the city is being run, according to the Maryland Daily Record. Tilghman said citizens are afraid to run for public office because “it’s not worth chancing the scorn of the bloggers.”

Whether or not Tilghman’s lament is justified is largely irrel-evant.

Bloggers are becoming more and more powerful, and sooner or later the question must be asked: Are blogs beneficial to the political discourse?

The answer is, as it usually is, complicated – yes, but with a great

deal of qualification.First, as previously stated,

bloggers can come from any and ev-ery part of the spectrum of respect-ability and reputation. Although it’s true you don’t need press credentials to make astute analysis of the news, they serve as an identity marker for cred-ible sources.

There’s a reason only se-lect writers have their names at-tached to presti-gious organiza-tions – they’re good at what they do. Sullivan writes for the Atlantic be-cause he is a practiced, professional columnist, with a finely-honed sense and skill for rhetoric and argument.

Furthermore, writers associated with major organizations are gener-ally dedicated entirely to observing

and analyzing the news and the po-litical atmosphere – consequently, they are better informed and better able to provide context than a blog-ger who writes in his or her spare time.

Second, it is essential that blogs not be your sole source of informa-tion intake. Just as your body needs a balanced diet to function properly, a politically conscious diet can cor-roborate the facts and stories a blog refers to with other, more directly journalistic media. Blogs, by their very nature, provide a biased re-counting of events, so make sure your facts are straight before digest-ing the information contained in them.

Third, it’s vital that a blogger’s popularity – the number of hits per page – not function as a measure-ment of his or her worth as a writer or an analyst. A writer’s popularity is by no means directly proportional to his skill – it’s more likely because

of an ability to write what a cer-tain group of people wants to hear, which is definitely not conducive to a reasoned, logical analysis.

Finally, it’s important to keep a blogger’s importance in perspective. In the final analysis, a blogger is at best a well-informed and eloquent person giving his opinion – his word is not law, nor should his criticism of a public figure be accepted without debate.

If you follow all these rules, you can make the most of a future full of bloggers.

And your city won’t be de-stroyed, because you’ll know how to survive them.

Matthew Albright is a 20-year-old political science sophomore from Baton Rouge.

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A I X - E N - P R O V E N C E , FRANCE — A cold war is being waged between the U.S. and the European Union. The weapons of choice?

Beef and cheese.Since the late ’80s, a sore spot

has existed in trade relations be-tween the two communities, stem-ming from a ban of U.S. imported beef treated with hormones. Since then, the U.S. has retaliated with various tariffs on European im-ports.

The latest tariff, put in place by the Bush Administration, tar-gets Roquefort cheese — a revered French blue cheese known for its strong taste — with a 300 percent added cost.

But earlier this month, the Obama administration put a hold on the tariff expansion amid discus-sions with the EU’s trade director, who said progress has been made on lifting the ban.

Critics claim the ban — which

the World Trade Organization condemned in 1998 — was a pro-tectionist measure meant to bolster European meat prices.

Of course, the controversy over growth hormones in cattle is not the first the American beef industry has endured.

Any discussion of the beef pro-duction in the U.S. inevitably began in 1906 when Upton Sinclair pub-lished “The Jungle” — a scathing portrayal of the destitution of meat factory workers’ lives and the filthy process they oversaw. As a result of Sinclair’s muckraking, a wave of food safety regulations were put in place by an angry and disgusted public.

Still — more than a century later — health and safety issues persist in the increasingly industri-alized agrobusiness. It has become increasingly centralized, with 80 to 85 percent of production being con-trolled by just four companies. After merging with IBP in 2001, chicken

giant Tyson Foods became the larg-est of these multinational corpora-tions, commanding a 27 percent

market share.Seeking its

profits through high volume and low costs, criticism of the industry extends to multiple lev-els. As the film “Fast Food Na-tion” portrays,

many meat packing employees are immigrant workers — some of whom claimed to have been ex-ploited.

The breakneck speed of the cut-ting line has been blamed for mak-ing work in beef-processing one of the most dangerous occupations in America. Industry turnover rates are incredibly high, and many walk-offs have been staged by employees protesting poor conditions and sag-ging wages.

Then there have been the out-breaks of disease and bacteria, displaying what critics say is a poorly managed industry.

The treatment of livestock in particular was brought under public scrutiny in 2007 when the Humane Society released an undercover tape showing sick and injured cows being moved with forklifts and shocked with cattle prods — clear violations of federal law.

The result was the nation’s largest beef recall in history. Still, inspectors claim they are stretched too thin and that companies track their movements, among other ploys, during their inspections.

Maybe if the American public could see first-hand how the food got to the table, they would demand stricter regulations.

It seems that, despite the nu-merous flashes of beef industry impropriety in the media, Ameri-cans keep their heads down. Even common sense approaches, like

requiring video surveillance of meat processing, are easily defeated by beef industry lobbyists.

In France the beef industry is also moving toward highly central-ized beef processing by large com-panies. This trend directly threatens the French tradition of steak tartare — a plate of ground beef consumed raw. It highlights a part of the cul-ture that is incompatible with meat from the industrialized beef busi-ness.

Perhaps with an engaged pub-lic, adequate resources for inspec-tors, common sense laws and con-fidence, such a dish could catch on in America.

Until then, I’ll just stick with a hamburger.

Mark Macmurdo is a twenty-two-year-old economics and history se-nior from Baton Rouge.

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America’s beef industry still a jungle, needs reform

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OUR VIEW

Funding formula should be clear to taxpayers, students

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“Like all great universities, LSU continues to work to address global climate change. Finally I can breathe a sigh of relief.” These are the words of Chancellor Martin.

ECO@LSU has long asked the University to acknowledge its role in educating the community about the seriousness of climate change, and during the last “Chats with the Chan-cellor,” he did just that. Martin noted the science was conclusive, and that it was indeed the role of an institu-tion of higher education to clear up the misunderstanding surrounding climate change.

As the Flagship university for this state, it is our role to address the threats that climate change pose to our coast. Louisiana will be hit hard-est if we do not act now to mitigate the effects of climate change. Hur-ricanes pick up more energy as they travel over warmer waters. Between rising seas and subsiding land, our state is disappearing at a staggering rate.

As part of the ongoing ResLife Energy Competition, ECO has sched-uled a presentation called “Climate Change and Louisiana” to be present-ed by the Gulf Restoration Network. Come to Dodson Auditorium tonight at 8 p.m. to find out what climate change means to our home state and what you can do to help.

Jordan Bantuellebiology senior,co-president of ECO@LSU

Trying to explain earmarks to Republican diplomats must be like Oscar Nunez from “The Office” giv-ing financial advice to Michael Scott: “Your mommy and daddy give you $10 to open up a lemonade stand. So you go out and you buy cups and you buy lemons and you buy sugar. And now you find out that it only costs you $9.”

The question is: What should you do with the extra dollar? If you’re a good little kid, you’d give that dollar back.

But let’s assume your mommy and daddy are abusive spend thrifts who would use that dollar to buy crack from your crazy Uncle Sam.

The answer should become much clearer now — find a way to spend that dollar.

President Barack Obama signed the Omnibus spending bill into law March 11. Congressional Republi-cans, including Sen. John McCain,

R-Ariz., have criticized Obama for reneging on his campaign promises by signing the omnibus bill, which contains nearly 9,000 earmarks.

Yet the overall total of earmarks under scrutiny makes up less than 2 percent of the legislation’s aggregate cost. To rebuke this alleged pork bar-rel spending, representatives need to have a rational understanding of what earmarks are.

An earmark can loosely be de-fined as a congressional provision that directs approved funds to be spent on specific projects or that di-rects specific exemptions from taxes or mandated fees. Congressional leadership and appropriators deter-mine the total level of congressional spending before any member has a chance to propose any alterations or amendments. These requests are merely suggestions to apportion parts of that spending for certain items in their district or state.

When a request makes it into the budget, it deducts funds out of what is available to the executive branch and vari-ous bureaucrats and targets it for projects the people and their representatives request.

If a con-gressman does not submit fund-ing requests for his district, the money doesn’t magi-cally disappear or go toward paying down the national debt. It’s simply spent elsewhere.

To eliminate all earmarks would further consolidate power in the overly powerful executive branch without saving the taxpayer a dime.

Further, designating how tax-payer money is distributed provides a level of transparency and account-

ability over federal dollars that is currently lacking.

If earmarks were indeed the im-petus behind government spending, then all the hoopla would be com-pletely warranted.

But that isn’t the case. Address-ing Congress from the house floor, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, spoke out against its distorted view of ear-marks. Paul urged Congress to de-flect focus away from earmarks and toward the real crisis of unsustain-able federal spending.

Instead, Paul argued that Con-gress should assign all federal spend-ing so there’s at least a tinge of over-sight in the process. This also allows for resources to be sanctioned more effectively so taxpayers can — at least to some extent — benefit from their investments.

It’s obvious many of the ear-marks in the omnibus spending bill were unwarranted. And most cer-

tainly any frivolous spending is det-rimental.

Earmark privileges certainly shouldn’t be abused to help elected officials gain political clout nor should they put a strain on our col-lective piggy banks. Elected officials shouldn’t chastise targeted spending simply for the chance to grandstand on topics they don’t fully under-stand.

If Republicans want to facili-tate change, they need to direct their outcry toward the real problem. The financial landscape of our political system is bursting into flames. But Republicans can’t see the fiery forest if they’re too focused on the trees.

Scott Burns is a 19-year-old politi-cal science and business sophomore from Baton Rouge.

During former President George W. Bush’s visit to Baghdad last December — a visit made to bid farewell, converse with Prime Minister Nuri al-Muliki and mark greater security in Iraq after years of bloodshed — an Iraqi reporter lost his temper and hurled his shoes at Bush.

The reporter, identified as Mun-tadar al-Zaidi, apparently screamed, “This is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog!” as he hurled one shoe at him, then the other before the authorities intervened.

Throwing a shoe at someone is considered an act of supreme disre-spect in the Middle East. The Amer-ican equivalent would be, roughly, spitting at someone.

The action has symbolic signif-icance and was not meant to cause bodily harm. Zaidi merely threw his shoes to express contempt.

Coupled with the widely

negative opinion of Bush, this has caused the incident to become the butt of political jokes across Amer-ica.

The repercussions have been unforgiving as far as Zaidi’s future is concerned. Much to Iraqi outrage, Zaidi was originally sentenced to 15 years in prison for his stint.

Since then, his sentence has been trimmed back to three years. Many feel this is still too harsh, even though Zaidi was lucky to not be subjected to worse treatment. Still, public sentiment is on Zaidi’s side, and many feel the punishment was shockingly harsh for the crime.

Even Bush found the incident amusing, rather than a cause for alarm.

“I don’t know what the guy’s cause was. I didn’t feel the least bit threatened by it,” Bush said.

This is not to say the re-porter should be released without

consequence. A slap on Zaidi’s wrist would suffice. Namely, he should be fined for disrupting public order

and perhaps de-tained for a few days.

This isn’t to say the reporter should be hon-ored for unruly behavior. While there are many that share Zai-di’s sentiments

and others that merely support his actions as a freedom of expression, his actions were an embarrassment for his people.

In addition to minor legal re-percussion, it would be appropriate for Zaidi to catch heat from his em-ployers. Iraqi journalists need to set higher standards for public behavior in order to maintain a collectively positive image.

But jail time for shoe flinging is too extreme a punishment.

It is possible the charges have resulted from a polarization of feel-ings toward the former president.

While many side with the re-porter, other Iraqis, such as the Prime Minister, have nothing but praise for Bush.

“You have stood by Iraq and the Iraqi people for a very long time, starting with getting rid of the dictatorship,” he said after the shoe-throwing incident.

If the Prime Minister believes sentencing Zaidi to jail is necessary to politically appease the U.S., he apparently hasn’t heard the jokes generated at the incident’s expense.

Others — including Ahmed al-Massoudi, a spokesman for the parliamentary bloc loyal to anti-American Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sad — felt that Bush’s visit was a “show of force.”

Massoudi never commented directly on whether he thought the fiasco was justified, but it is likely he, and others like him, condone the incident as a legitimate form of re-taliation against perceived hostility.

Essentially, given the context, this incident is more of a case of bad manners than actual assault, and it needs to be treated as such.

While truly aggressive action and public misconduct should never be condoned, Zaidi’s humorous as-sault is hardly threatening enough to warrant jail time.

Slap him on the wrist and send him on his way.

Linnie Leavines is an 18-year-old mass communication freshman from Central City.

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HELP WANTED

DDOONN’’TT MMIISSSS TTHHIISS OOPPPPOORRTTUUNNIITTYY!!Now hiring for all positions at the following

locations:JEFFERSON 7615 Jefferson Hwy Baton

Rouge 70809PERKINS ROWE 7707 Bluebonnet Blvd.

Baton Rouge 70810“Flexible schedules & Benefits for Full

Time Associates”Please apply in person during regular

restaurant hours.Equal Opportunity Employer

SSUURRVVEEYY TTAAKKEERRSS NNEEEEDDEEDD:: Make $5-$25per survey. www. GetPaidToThink.com

PPAARRTT TTIIMMEE MMAARRKKEETTIINNGG PPOOSSIITTIIOONNLocal Commercial Real Estate Firm seek-

ing P/ T Marketing Assistant. Dutiesinclude updating company website, man-

aging listings, preparing flyers, etc. Submitresume to pam@kurzhebert.com

PPAARRTT TTIIMMEE FFRROONNTT DDEESSKK PPOOSSIITTIIOONNLooking for energetic person with great

communication skills to assist at the FrontDesk. This position requires morning andafternoon shifts and every other Saturday.please email resume to jodi@gofitt.com.

PPRREESSCCHHOOOOLL TTEEAACCHHEERR NNEEEEDDEEDD at localMontessori based preschool. Must be

experienced, energetic, and knowledge-able. Call M-F, 8am-5pm by March 31st.

225.343.9998

!!BBAARRTTEENNDDIINNGG!! Up to $300/Day. NoExperience Necessary. Training Provided.

Age 18+ OK 1-800-965-6520 xt127

TTJJ RRIIBBSSIS NOW HIRING SERVERS.

APPLY IN PERSON AT 2324 S. ACADIANTHRUWAY, BATON ROUGE, LA.

**EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER**

EENNJJOOYY HHEELLPPIINNGG PPEEOOPPLLEE& making money? Foxy’s Fitness Center &

Foxy’s Fitness for Women-now hiring forSales Position. Apply on-line @ www.foxys-fitnesscenters.com or call 225.296.8000

SSTTRROOUUBBEESS CCHHOOPPHHOOUUSSEE DDOOWWNNTTOOWWNNNow Taking Apllications for the following:Wait Staff, Bartenders, Exp Kitchen staff,

and Host. Pleas pick applications atCapital City Grill 3535 S. Sherwood Forest

blvd

SSTTRROOUUBBEESS CCHHOOPPHHOOUUSSEE DDOOWWNNTTOOWWNN107 Third StreetOpening Soon

Now Hiring for the following: Wait Staff,Bartenders, Host, and Exp Line Cooks.Pick up applications at Capital City Grill

Downtown or Sherwood Forest Blvd.

CCOOUUNNTTEERR CCLLEERRKKpart time, flexible hours, great for students

Welsh’s Cleaners 4469 Perkins Rd. atCollege Dr. location apply in person or call

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FFRROONNTT SSAALLEESS && AADDMMIINN CCLLEERRKK Full-timefront sales & admin clerk needed to

answer phones, take phone orders, andperform light clerical duties. Must have

superior computer skills, strong attentionto detail, and good communication skills.

Fax Resume: 225-928-1677 or emailjobs@lettermans.com. Compensation:

$16,000 - $20,800 per year

EEAARRNN EEXXTTRRAA MMOONNEEYY Students neededASAP

Earn up to $150 per day being a mysteryshopper

No Experience RequiredCall 1-800-722-4791

SSUUMMMMEERR DDAAYY CCAAMMPP CCOOUUNNSSEELLOORRSS Nowhiring thru April 15th...training starts in

May and 1st day of camp starts May 25th.Work where you have fun! Don’t delay

apply today. Must be age 18+ and passcriminal b/g check and drug screen.

Contact your nearest YMCA for more infor-mation.

Paula G. Manship - 767.9622Baranco-Clark - 344.6775

A. C. Lewis - 924.3606C. B. Pennington, Jr. - 272.9622

Southside - 766.2991Dow Westside - 687.1123

SSUUMMMMEERR CCAAMMPP PPOOSSIITTIIOONNSS IInntteerrvviieewwsstthhiiss MMoonnddaayy ffoorr GGrroouupp LLeeaaddeerrss aannddCCoouunnsseelloorrss.. GGrreeaatt HHoouurrss!! NNoo nniigghhttss oorrwweeeekkeennddss.. CCoommee hhaavvee ffuunn wwiitthh kkiiddss!!AAppppllyy kkiiddccaammccaammpp..nneett

PPAARRKKVVIIEEWW BBAAPPTTIISSTT PPRREESSCCHHOOOOLLPreschool Teachers needed flex days

no degree required 293-9447

WWEEEEKKEENNDD LLEEAASSIINNGG AAGGEENNTTNeeded for apartment community on

Jefferson Hwy. Compensation is an apart-ment. Great opportunity for a college stu-

dent. Fax resume to 225-924-9893

LLIIFFEEGGUUAARRDDSS Lifeguards needed at all (7)branch locations of the YMCA. Certificationclasses available. We will train you! Flexschedules & fun atmosphere. Be part of

our Y family! Apply in person at any YMCAor contact Toni at (225) 924-3606.

BBAASSEEBBAALLLL IINNSSTTRRUUCCTTOORRSSPart-time work in kids’ athletic program.HS baseball/ softball experience pref’d.

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Surveys.

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**$15.00 Base/appt**Flexible SchedulesNo experience nec

Customer sales/ svcAges 17+

Apply NOW:225-927-3066www.collegestudentwork.com

PPLLUUCCKKEERRSS Now Hiring Delivery DriversEarn $8-$16/ Hr

Apply at 4225 Nicholson

AAQQUUAATTIICCSS CCOOOORRDDIINNAATTOORR //PPTT The Paula G. Manship YMCA seeks

Aquatics Coordinator P/T, 30 hr/wk, flexschedule M-F w/occasional weekends.

Responsible for the quality control of allaquatic programs, focusing on swim les-sons and the swim team. Individual mustbe comfortable managing co-workers andinteracting with the membership. Lifeguard

certification required and swim lessoninstructor or equivalent. Certification class-

es available. Flexible schedule, Mon-Fri and some week-

ends as needed. Apply in person or submit resume to:

Anthony IrackiAquatics Director(225)767-9622

airacki@ymcabatonrouge.org

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Come by 10360 N. Mall Dr, M-T, between2 and 4 pm for an interview. Hope to see

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FOR SALE

FFOORR SSAALLEE:: Studio Apt. 900 Sq. Ft. FencedYard 1535 Nicholson Dr. $114,860

985.859.3292

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$$113399,,990000-- 33333300 WWIILLLLAARRDD CCOONNDDOO!! Highdemand 2BR 2BA Views of LSU clock

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WWHHYY RREENNTT!! 1400 sq ft home 5 miles fromcampus. 3bdrm, 2bath. Fireplace. Newroof. Appliances included. $139,900.

Don”t miss out on this great deal!225.757.7455

FOR RENT

FFOORR RREENNTT--AARRLLIINNGGTTOONN TTRRAACCEE 1300 sq ftliving area

2 bed, 2.5 bathApprx. 3 Miles South of LSU

Gated Community$1300.00 monthly 225.819.2616

CCOONNDDOO FFOORR RREENNTT 3 bdr 2 baths BRIGHT-SIDE APT.#1204 900 Dean Lee Dr. BatonRouge La. Gated, Pool, Sand BB, Res.park

$1500.00 per Mth 504-382-8655504.382.8655

SSUUBBLLEEAASSEE NNOOWW Tiger Plaza apartmentnear LSU, available for sublease now!!!Utilities and furniture included!!! Greatprice Contact at ldiga1@lsu.edu or call

347.424.5140

AAPPTT FFOORR RREENNTT 2 bedroom Apt in Tiger

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

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ROOMMATES

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FFEEMMAALLEE RROOOOMMMMAATTEESeeking to share nice 2 br apt near cam-

pus, w/other female. $375/mo.225.892.8901

PERSONALS

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such as... U2... Coldplay... Fray... Blue October...

Practice space preferred, but not necessary.

Call Josh @(318) 458-9766

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BBAASSSSIISSTT LLOOOOKKIINNGG FFOORR BBAANNDD 19 YearsOld

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LLSSUU GGUUYY Looking for love in all the wrong places.

Finally decided to put this up here. I’m 22going to graduate next May. I need a

sweet girl who is content being herself. Ilike movies, going out to dinner, traveling,

and of course LSU Football. Tigerlovin22@gmail.com

GGIIRRLL NNEEEEDDEEDD FFOORR girl needed for laundryand creation of tasty ice cream treatshungrymandirtylaundry@yahoo.com

**TTIIRREEDD OOFF BBEEIINNGG HHEEAARRTT BBRROOKKEENN**Smart, shy, Independant LSU Junior girllooking to hang out with a nice, smart,

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II WWAANNTT TTOO BBEE YYOOUURR DDEERRIIVVAATTIIVVEE so I canlie tangent to your curves. Nerdy ndn chickseeking an intelligent and attractive con-versationalist. Ladies only, please—I’mtired of natural logs approaching the

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MISCELLANEOUS

GGEETT AA FFRREEEE BBOONNEE SSCCAANN at the WellnessFair on Wednesday, March 25

TRAVEL

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