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PAGEANT MIXUP

As the dust settled around a bi-zarre scoring mishap that resulted in a recall of the 2011 Miss LSU-USA pageant crown, Sunday night’s origi-nal winner found herself in last place and looking for answers.

Kaitlynn Fish, communication studies junior , was crowned Miss LSU-USA in the annual pageant Sunday in the Student Union Theater before judges realized a mistake in the Top 5 rankings and recanted the announcements offstage.

Accounting sophomore Chris-tina Famularo offi cially won the title after originally receiving fi rst runner-up .

“I am pleased to have participat-ed in Miss LSU, but I am extremely disappointed that the management of the judging process of this pageant was mishandled. I have been given no explanation as to who was re-sponsible or how and why this hap-pened,” Fish said in an e-mail to The

Sarah LawsonEditor-in-Chief

Error drops Miss LSU winner to last place

RECALL, see page 15

Jones said there are “pros and cons.” He would probably vote against any legislative action in SG Senate, “which is why we need more emphasis on safety if we’re disal-lowing students the right to bear arms.”

International student population adds culture,

diversity to campus

Wells called himself “a strong supporter of Second-Amendment rights,” as he is a hunter and a Na-tional Rifl e Association member. “I’m OK with people carrying guns on campus but not in University buildings,” Wells said.

He said it’s a “pushcard issue,” and it comes down to having a “united front.” He said Wells cannot expect to unite the campus while he sits on the Board of Supervisors seat, which is why he and Brister are “commit-ted to leaving politics aside to focus solely on defi ning our future.”

“The seat of the president carries a lot of power. The reason people are on our team in because we’re giving that power to them.” He said his campaign includes every demographic on campus.

Jones called Brister “passion-ate, resilient and dedicated.” His main reason for running with her is knowing “she’ll listen and take to heart” student issues, and she’ll always be there for him and stand by their administration’s deci-sions, he said.

“Kathleen is a much more qualifi ed candidate due to her experience working directly with students and her passion to serve in a humble way,” Wells said. He also said in Louisiana, people often ask, “At the end of the day, who would you rather have a drink with?” He said, “I’d pick Kathleen.”

How do you feel about guns on campus?

What makes you different from the other candidate?

What makes your VP candidate a better

running mate?“Social media is huge,” Jones said. He said this year’s election season gave the candidates “sig-nifi cantly less time to get the word out.” He and Brister made both co-medic and serious videos, and he said he hasn’t gotten any negative feedback.

Wells said videos affect students because “students are looking for a leader that’s real. Students are looking for someone who can con-nect with them and not just shove a pushcard in their face.” He said he and Bordelon plan to have “weekly video addresses on YouTube” and make LSU broadcast system e-mails more geared toward social media.

How have online videos affected your

campaign?

VOTE for SG President and VP today at lsu.edu/sgelections, and read about the Wells/Jones debate at lsureveille.com.Cody Wells and Kathleen Bordelon

“Together LSU”

David Jones and Kacey Brister“Defi ning Our Future”

Irfan Thakur , an electrical engineering senior from Tanzania , transferred to LSU after a year in Texas.

At the University of Texas at Dallas , Thakur was only allowed to register for general education classes, and he wasn’t able to begin engineering classes for his major. However, Thakur discovered he could also enroll at Brookhaven College , a community college in Dallas, and take his required engineering courses.

After hearing about Thakur’s experiences, a fam-ily friend who was also a LSU graduate recommended Thakur consider attending LSU.

When Thakur discovered LSU also offered more transfer credits, he said he decided to enroll at the Uni-versity.

Of the six semesters Thakur has spent in the U.S., he has attended four at LSU.

“I like that LSU is an athletic university,” Thakur said. “It seems much more active than other universities.”

The cultural gumbo of Louisiana is augmented on campus by a large number of international students,

Countries with the most international students

attending LSU for spring 2011

1. China

2. India

3. Republic of Korea

4. Iran5. Nepal

of Korea

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Far From Home

Kate MabryContributing Writer

INTERNATIONAL, see page 15

Total number of students from each country at the University

Source: LSU Offi ce of Budget and Planning; graphic by ANNIE HUNDLEY / The Daily Reveille

SG RUNOFF ELECTIONS

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Offi cials say plutonium found in soil at Japan’s nuclear complex

TOKYO (AP) — Power company offi cials say plutonium has been detected in the soil outside of the stricken Japanese nuclear complex.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. says in a statement that the plutonium was discovered Monday in fi ve lo-cations around the plant, which has been leaking radiation for nearly two weeks.

TEPCO offi cial Jun Tsuruoka says the amounts of plutonium were very small and were not a risk to public health.

UK police brace for royal wedding threats after rogue attack

LONDON (AP) — Scotland Yard is bracing for all types of security threats to the royal wedding, rang-ing from terrorists and anarchists to anti-monarchists and other pro-testers, it announced Monday.

The declaration came after rogue groups disrupted a peaceful demonstration Saturday against Britain’s harsh spending cuts since. About 250,000 protesters fl ooded London, but small groups broke away, hurling ammonia-fi lled light bulbs, paint and wooden planks at offi cers and smashing windows near Trafalgar Square.

Army apologizes and condemns grisly photos of Afghan killings

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The U.S. Army says photos showing American soldiers posing with dead Afghans are “in striking con-trast” to its standards and values.

The Army issued a statement Monday apologizing for any dis-tress caused by the images that Rolling Stone magazine posted on its website over the weekend.

The magazine says the pho-tos are linked to an ongoing war crimes probe involving members of the 5th Stryker Brigade, based south of Seattle.Charges fi led against clown in Jan. 2002 rape of 12-year-old girl

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Pros-ecutors in California have fi led four felony counts against a profes-sional clown charged with raping a 12-year-old girl nine years ago.

Jose Guadalupe Jimenez is charged with two counts of lewd acts upon a child, a count of ag-gravated sexual assault of a child and a count of forcible lewd act on a child. The 41-year-old Ana-heim man, who is expected to be arraigned Monday, faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted. Inves-tigators say a DNA sample linked him to the rape.

Bohn eager to defend his title in New Orleans at the Zurich Classic

AVONDALE (AP) — Jason Bohn says he’s set up his training and playing schedule around two big events in the next month: The Mas-ters and his title defense in New Orleans.

Bohn says the 2010 Zurich Classic marked the biggest victory of his career, and it brought back good memories visiting the TPC of Louisiana for a media event on Monday.

Bohn says being a previous winner should give him a psycho-logical edge when he tries to repeat his Louisiana triumph during the last week of April. However, he expects it to be tougher.

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School now says girl can wear tux after civil liberties pressure

HOUMA (AP) — A Terrebonne Parish girl will be allowed to wear a tuxedo to her senior prom after all.

Nason Authement, parish sec-ondary education supervisor, says an exception to the policy that boys must wear tuxes or suits and girls must wear dresses or gowns will be made for 19-year-old Monique Verdin.

Authement said the policy is based on a long-held tradition.

Frenchman climbs world’s tallest tower, Burj Khalifa, in Dubai

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Just before sunset Monday, a French skyscraper climber who calls himself “Spiderman” started to pull his way up the side of the world’s tallest tower in Dubai.

Before he began his climb up the 2,717 foot-tall (828 meter) Burj Khalifa, Alain Robert said he ex-pected the climb to take about six or seven hours. As night fell, a row of powerful spotlights shone on the side of the tower as Robert contin-ued to climb.

It took more than six hours for Robert, 48, to climb the skyscraper.

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French “Spiderman” Alain Robert climbs up Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest tower, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Monday.

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The Daily Reveille won Best All-Around Daily Student News-paper in the Society of Profes-sional Journalists’ 2010 Region 12 Mark of Excellence Awards, SPJ announced Monday.

The Daily Reveille beat The Daily Beacon of the University of Tennessee (second place) and The Daily Mississippian of the University of Mississippi (third place) for the award.

The Daily Reveille’s website, lsureveille.com, also won Best Affi liated Web Site for Region 12. Legacy Magazine claimed second place for Best Student Magazine.

Both top awards come after The Daily Reveille revamped its print and online design, added blogs and other online features as

well as an iPhone app.Other Reveille fi rst-place

winners include staff photog-rapher Martin McCallister for Breaking News Photography, and chief staff writer Matthew Albright for Breaking News Re-porting.

Other honorees include: Bri-anna Paciorka (third place, Fea-ture Photography); Zach Breaux (second place, General News Photography); Adam Vaccarella (third place, Photo Illustration); Daily Reveille Editorial Board (third place, Editorial Writing); Rob Landry (second place, Sports Writing); Daily Reveille staff (second place, Online News Re-porting); and Lauren Langlois (second place, Radio Feature).

SPJ gives regional awards

each year for excellence in collegiate journalism.

First place region winners advance to the national round of judging, and national awards will be announced in May.

Region 12 also includes the University of Arkansas, Gram-bling State University, Louisiana Tech University, the University of Louisiana-Lafayette and South-eastern Louisiana University, among others.

The contest received almost 4,000 entries, according to a news release. The Region 12 winners received their certifi cates at a conference on Sunday.

Paul M. Hebert Law Center Chancellor Jack Weiss will select the judges who will hear large ap-peals from reimbursement claims resulting from the BP oil spill.

“I’m very honored to be se-lected to carry out this important responsibility,” Weiss said.

Weiss was chosen by Ken-neth Feinberg , the chief admin-istrator of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility , the federal organization tasked with distributing the $20 billion the oil giant has set aside to pay those affected by last sum-mer’s Deepwater Horizon disas-ter.

“[Weiss] brings decades of experience to this assignment,

both as a nationally recognized law professor and administra-

tor,” Feinberg said in a news release. “I am confi dent that I have cho-sen the right person for the job.”

G C C F protocol calls for the admin-istrator to se-

lect a “distinguished member of the legal profession” who will “identify distinguished members of the legal community (e.g., re-tired federal or state judges, re-spected legal academics, profes-sional mediators or arbitrators) to serve as impartial GCCF Appeals Judges,” according to the GCCF website.

The judges Weiss selects will hear appeals from claimants seeking $250,000 from the fund.

“My job is simple — select capable, impartial individuals to hear these appeals,” Weiss said.

Weiss made clear he will not hear any appeals relating to the spill himself — he is simply pick-ing the judges who will.

Weiss said he has already started looking for potential judges. He hopes to have a roster within 60 days .

The GCCF was formed in June 2010 after BP announced it would pay $20 billion to reim-burse those along the Gulf Coast who suffered damage or lost work because of the spill.

BP promised to “make things right” for those impacted by the spill. The company has chal-lenged some claimants seeking damages for indirect losses.

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Law Center’s Weiss to pick judgesOIL SPILL AFTERMATH

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A piece of proposed legisla-tion in Gov. Bobby Jindal’s execu-tive budget would increase a fee students already pay, potentially costing students more than $35 a semester.

Jindal’s proposal would “in-dex” the op-erational fee, an $80 fee students already pay.

When the fee was created in 2004, $80 was 4 percent of tuition. “In-dexing” the fee would match the fee to cur-rent tuition lev-els — for this year, that would mean $115 for stu-dents taking 12 hours.

That’s a jump of $35 a semester or $70 a year.

The fee increase will almost certainly cost students more than that because the LA GRAD Act, passed in last year’s legislative session, will allow the University to raise tuition by 10 percent if it meets certain performance criteria.

The fee increase could also grow even larger if separate propos-als in Jindal’s budget that would in-crease tuition pass the Legislature, such as a bill that would tweak the cap on full-time tuition.

The bill adjusting the fee has not yet been filed, so it is uncertain exactly which proposals would af-fect how much the fee would in-crease.

The increase will not be cov-ered by TOPS, according to the LSU Office of Budget and Planning.

The fee increase is one of sev-eral proposals in Jindal’s budget that allow universities to draw in more “self-generated” funds.

The Jindal administration has

said the operational fee increase is designed to help universities pay their mandated costs — costs the state forces institutions to pay with-out providing funding to do so.

University administrators have routinely complained that such “un-funded mandates” cause budgetary damage that “does not show up on paper.”

“[The fee increase] will not cover all mandated costs,” Com-missioner of Administration Paul Rainwater said when the budget was unveiled. “But it will generate $13.1 million in revenue.”

Administrators chalked up $13.4 million in unfunded mandates for LSU alone in the past two years.

While Jindal’s budget counts on the increased revenue to fund higher education, the provision must be approved by a two-thirds vote of the Legislature.

Some legislators have argued against funding higher education through tuition and fee increases.

“You’re not doing more with less,” said Sen. Karen Carter Pe-terson, D-New Orleans, firing back at Jindal’s claims that his budget makes the state more efficient. “You’re doing it with what are in-creased fees and taxes on students, in my opinion.”

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Jindal’s budget would increase student fee

Obama downplays US role in Libya

Matthew AlbrightChief Staff Writer

President: Less risk, cost than Iraq War

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Students line up for dinner Monday afternoon at the Chick-fil-A Express for its opening day on the second floor of the Student Union.

SHOW ME THE MONEY

A series looking at how Jindal plans to preserve higher ed funding

Matthew AlbrightChief Staff Writer

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President Barack Obama praised the military efforts of the international community and down-played the United States’ role in the recent conflict in Libya in an ad-dress to the country Monday night.

“I said our role would be lim-ited. Tonight I am keeping that promise,” Obama said. “The United States of America has done what we said we would do.”

Obama emphasized that the United States, which was respon-

sible for much of the initial military action in the country, was gradually giving more responsi-bilities to NATO and other coun-tries.

“In that ef-fort, the United States will play a supporting role,” Obama said. “The risk and cost of this operation will be

reduced significantly.”Obama answered critics who

say the country cannot afford an-other conflict.

“It’s true that America cannot use its military whenever there are human rights abuses,” Obama said. “But that cannot be an argument for never acting.”

Obama said the international community decided to intervene as dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s forces approached the city of Benghazi, which Obama said would have led to a massacre.

“Let us remember that for generations we have done the hard work of protecting our own people and thousands of people across the globe,” he said.

Obama said Americans have a vested interest in Libya’s struggles because a massacre there would have threatened democratic revolu-tions throughout the Middle East.

Obama also cautioned that, while he would like to see Gadhafi out of power, he would not support using broader unilateral military ac-tion to oust him, preferring to oper-ate within a U.N. mandate.

“To be blunt, we went down that road in Iraq,” he said. “Regime change there cost thousands of American and Iraqi lives and over a trillion dollars.”

‘It’s true that

America cannot use its military whenever there are human rights

abuses.’Barack Obama

U.S. President

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SportsTuesday, March 29, 2011 page 7

Tiger Feed: Read blogger Ryan Ginn’s take on how to combine polo and water polo.

CLUB SPORTS

Newly formed water polo team gains followers on campus

Tony Frey came to LSU con-fi dent he would continue his high school pastime of water polo in college. The only problem was that LSU didn’t have a water polo club.

Frey, a business sophomore, decided to start the club last year after being involved with the sport for two years in high school.

The Houston native and his friends began recruiting members to join the club through Facebook and advertisements at the Univer-sity Recreation Student Recreation

Complex. That was only the begin-ning of getting the ball rolling for the club.

Frey said while the club has done promotional events and fund-raisers like Tiger Stadium cleanup and selling concessions at baseball games, it’s diffi cult for a new club to get recognized by LSU and re-ceive optimal practice times and locations.

“It was easy to draw the peo-ple,” said senior water polo player Anthony Cane, also a business major. “The problem we had was getting a pool to play in. It took us about a year to get permission to use [the Natatorium].”

Frey said one of the toughest aspects of the sport for the team is dealing with the mix of experi-ence levels that come from a newly

founded club.“Some people come in not

knowing anything. Some people swam in high school, and some people played all four years in high school,” Frey said. “It’s a good growing experience for every-body.”

In LSU’s fi rst-ever tournament this weekend, the club came back from two goals down with less than three minutes left to win an 9-8 overtime thriller against Auburn.

Cane netted the goal that put LSU ahead.

“It felt really good to know that we could do that,” Cane said. “The fact that we were down with not a lot of time left but were able to come back showed a lot about photo courtesy of TONY FREY

Freshman Ricky Carnicle, center, preps for a shot during water polo practice in the LSU Natatorium. The club is in its second year and continues to attract students.POLO, see page 11

Group takes part in fi rst tournamentAlbert BurfordSports Contributor

GOLF

Tigers two shots off lead at Bulls BayChris AbshireSports Contributor

Two-and-a-half hours of weather delays couldn’t keep the LSU men’s golf team down at the Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate tournament in Awendaw, S.C .

The No. 12 Tigers posted a team score of even-par-284 in Monday ’s chilly, diffi cult second round and held steady at second place with a two-day total of 3-un-der 565 .

LSU took the lead late in the day before No. 6 Augusta State ’s late-evening push jumped them two shots ahead of the Tigers.

Senior Andrew Loupe fi nished with a late fl urry of birdies to shoot a 2-under 70 and tie for third place with a 36-hole total of 3-under 141 .

Senior John Peterson played another solid round, using 14 pars and two birdies to post an even-71 . He is tied for third with a two-round total of 3-under 141 .

Despite a late double bogey , junior Sang Yi carded a 1-over 72 and is tied for 29th going into to-day’s fi nal round.

Freshman Andrew Presley could not keep the momentum go-ing into Monday’s second round , as a slew of high numbers led to an 8-over 79 .

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LSU students join the millions of fans who gamble on NCAA bracket picks

‘Where else can we have VCU and Butler duking it out for a chance in the championship game?’Aric Dunaway, accounting junior

Mark ClementsSports Contributor

March Madness — the tournament that war-rants an entire month of craziness devoted to its name — draws attention from sports fans of all ranks and causes number crunchers to over-ana-lyze every stat they can scrounge up.

Yet, every year, millions of people (5.9 mil-lion participated in ESPN.com’s Tournament Challenge) fl ock to the Internet on Selection Sun-day, printing, fi lling out and re-editing brackets over and over again. Fans weigh every possible logical combination of wins and losses until they compile what they believe to be the “perfect bracket.”

Taking a step back and looking at the real possibilities that one bracket will stand out among the rest is pretty slim. But that doesn’t stop some LSU students from putting their money where their mouth is and gambling on one of the most popular tournaments in sports.

photo illustration by ADAM VACCARELLA / The Daily Reveille

Money Madness

MADNESS, see page 11

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It was a day I marked on my calendar more than a month ago — March 26, the day of the Loui-siana Derby at the New Orleans Fair Grounds Race Course.

I had never been to the Fair Grounds before (horse racing newb), but I had always wanted to get out there to see what it was all about.

There was something about watching large horses run for my entertainment (and perhaps a profit) while looking at big hats, eating cheese, yelling, gambling and drinking with the plebeians that enticed me.

I wonder why.The only problem was I

didn’t know the first thing about horse racing, so I had no idea how to place my large Daily Rev-eille salary down on these horses. I had to come up with a strategy.

I thought about my options: pick the horses the Times Pica-yune told me to, go with the fa-vorites or test all the long shots.

Well, there’s not much fun in any of those because the long shot (as I came to find out) rare-ly wins, and you win very little when you only bet on the favor-ites.

So I had to come up with something a little different, and the idea came to me after the sec-ond race of the day.

The horse’s name was Fast Tip, and I picked her for a few reasons.

First, she has an awesome name. Second, she was in the fifth post and started off with middle-of-the-pack odds at 6-1. None of the people I went with had picked her, so I figured I would give her a shot. Besides, five has been my favorite number since I was young, so I felt pretty good about putting down $2 on the five.

She won, and because she ended at nearly 10-1 odds, I won a little less than $20 on her. It was a great race that involved a late

push, an upset and me screaming far too loud over a horse.

The strategy was in place. I would bet on the five horse in ev-ery race to win. Sure, there would be other random bets placed, a show here, an exacta there. But one thing would be constant — the five horse.

It worked. The fifth horse ended up winning four of the 11 races I bet on. In all, that banked me $38.40 on 11 $2 bets. You do the math on my meager profit.

It’s too bad close doesn’t count in horse racing, because I would have won a few more. The five horse was out in front for eight races I was there for.

Maybe it was beginner’s luck, or maybe it was just an ex-cellent strategy. Doesn’t matter.

In the biggest race of the day, the Louisiana Derby (which had a $1 million purse), the fifth horse, Liondrive, went off at 120-1 odds.

For the first seven furlongs

(each furlong is an eighth of a mile), he was in the lead. It looked like I was going to make bank. Sadly, he faded in those last furlongs and fell out of the lead, but it was still an exciting race that came down to the wire.

I left after the 12th race be-cause my family was ready to go.

Of course, in the 13th race, the five horse won again, this time at 20-1 odds. I would have won $40 on another $2 bet.

Such is gambling.But I learned something

about horse racing — always bet on the five.

Andy Schwehm is a 21-year-old English and psychol-ogy senior from New Or-leans. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_ASchwehm.

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SCHWEHMMING AROUNDAndy SchwehmSports columnist

Contact Andy Schwehm at aschwehm@lsureveille.com

Horse racing rookie learns unique betting strategy at Louisiana Derby

CHRIS BENNETT / The Associated Press

Pants On Fire and jockey Rosie Napravnik, front, outduels Nehro and jockey Michael Baze to win the Louisiana Derby horse race at Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans on Saturday.

The LSU baseball team contin-ues to slip.

The Tigers (17-7, 1-5) fell in all three major polls Monday after dropping its weekend series with Georgia. Coach Paul Mainieri’s squad has now lost six of its last seven games.

Baseball America rates LSU No. 17, Collegiate Baseball slots the Tigers at No. 25 and USA Today/ESPN tabs them No. 16.

LSU will look to turn things around Wednesday against Mc-Neese State (14-11).

The Tigers’ relatively soft non-conference schedule helped them roar out to a 16-1 start to the season.

The team did sweep then-No. 6 Cal State Fullerton, however, de-spite opening the season against the likes of Wake Forest, Holy Cross and Princeton at home.

Since then, the Tigers were swept by then-No. 1 Florida, dropped a midweek game to Loui-siana-Lafayette and then lost two of three at Georgia.

Mainieri tried to jumpstart his team after the Florida sweep by in-serting junior Mike Lowery at first base and moving freshman second baseman JaCoby Jones to the top of the order and putting junior outfield-er Trey Watkins in the No. 9 hole.

After the losses, Mainieri is switching things up again, as Jones will move to No. 3 spot in the order.Junior third baseman Tyler Hanover will move into the leadoff slot.

Following its matchup with McNeese, LSU will host Ole Miss this weekend.

Meanwhile, former No. 1 Flor-ida slid in the polls after losing two out of three against South Carolina this weekend. The Gators stop in at No. 4 in the Baseball America and Collegiate Baseball polls. USA To-day/ESPN has them at No. 3.

The Gamecocks surged after the series win, vaulting to No. 3 in the Baseball America and Collegiate Baseball polls. They remained at No. 4 in the ESPN/USA Today poll.

LSU won’t play South Caro-lina this season, but is scheduled to square off against Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tenn., in late April.

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The last time the LSU softball team faced Southeastern Louisiana, the Tigers were perfect.

Sophomore pitcher Rachele Fico struck out seven and recorded the program’s third perfect game on Feb. 16, resulting in a 9-0 victory. LSU (18-12) will try to find simi-lar success tonight as they travel to Hammond to face the Lions (14-15).

“You don’t do it better than that unless you throw another perfect game, and that’s tough to do,” said LSU coach Yvette Girouard.

Girouard said she may split in-nings among the team’s three pitch-ers so they can see action.

Injuries might prevent Girouard from being as flexible with the line-up. Girouard said she typically likes to experiment with midweek games, but the team’s health has prevented her from doing that.

Seniors Jessica Mouse and Ashley Applegate have yet to return from injuries, and Girouard said there’s no timetable for their return. Sophomore infielder Allison Falcon will also miss the remainder of the season due to injury.

“We have to see who’s healthy,” Girouard said. “That’s been a bat-tle for us every time we come out

to the ballpark.”The No. 25 Tigers had the

weekend off after facing Nicholls State on March 23. LSU defeated the Colonels, 8-0, in the first game of a five-game road swing.

“I know I enjoyed my time off,” Girouard said. “Anytime we get some personal time I think we all treasure it.”

LSU returns to play riding a three-game winning streak, outscor-ing opponents 14-2 in the three vic-tories.

Junior outfielder Ashley Lan-goni has played a large part in the turnaround. Langoni has hit safely in a career-best six straight games, bat-ting .500 and recording eight RBIs during the streak.

“I’m hoping that that streak

continues,” Girouard said. “Some-times when you’re starting to see the ball, you want to play everyday.”

The Tigers have feasted on in-state opponents this season. LSU has taken all seven games against Loui-siana opponents and holds a 59-6 re-cord against in-state foes.

LSU holds a 16-1 record against Southeastern. The Tigers’ lone loss came in 2007 — a 1-0 defeat in Hammond.

Sophomore outfielder Kelsey Nichols leads the offensive attack for Southeastern. Nichols leads the Li-ons in batting average (.383), home runs (4) and RBIs (12).

LSU football coach Les Miles and company aren’t the only staff looking to make improvements this spring.

And despite not making head-lines for their offseason work, the LSU volleyball team has been put-ting in the hours in hopes of defend-ing their Southeastern Conference Western Division crown.

After a disappointing early exit in the NCAA Tournament in Decem-ber, the Tigers didn’t waste much time getting back to work. Just one month later LSU coach Fran Flory had the team back in the gym run-ning, weight lifting and training.

“We worked real hard and our

emphasis was really to improve our defense and our ball control,” Flory said. “Losing the people that we did, especially losing [outside hitter Angela Bensend], we didn’t really have somebody in that spot prepared to step right in. We’ve worked real hard on that and we’ve made good progress.”

The squad began team training two weeks ago, working in the gym for the full NCAA-allotted 20 hours per week before traveling to Rich-mond, Texas, for the Texas Pride Collegiate Invitational on March 26.

The exhibition tournament gave the Tigers a quality four-match ba-rometer on the early outlook on the team.

“It’s one of the better spring tournaments in terms of caliber of competition and number of teams,” Flory said. “It’s like baseball spring training. It’s truly a proving ground and a training ground for young players, which is something we

really need.”LSU finished the weekend

with a 3-1 record, topping Okla-homa, 2-0, Wichita State, 2-1, and Houston, 2-1, while falling to Texas A&M, 0-2.

Flory said one of the toughest challenges of the offseason is find-ing replacements for the three de-parting seniors, particularly setter Brittney Johnson.

“[Sophomore] Shelby Pursley is the heir apparent right now,” said Flory, who also mentioned sopho-more Victoria Jacobsen as an op-tion. “It’s a hard role to step into, and [Pursley] is a perfectionist … so she’s had a great learning curve but still has a long way to go. Our of-fense is very complicated, and you can’t just step into it.”

Along with offseason prepara-tions, Flory has received a few ac-colades of her own.

The 13-year coach was selected as one of three head coaches for the

U.S. Women’s National A2 Program, joining Ohio State’s Geoff Carlston and Dayton’s Kelly Sheffield.

“It’s an honor, and I’m really excited about it,” Flory said. “I think it’s going to be fun.”

Flory will travel to Dallas for 10 days from May 23 to June 1. Thirty-six athletes will be invited to the program, which includes a training session and competition in the USA Volleyball Open National Champi-onships from May 28 to May 31.

“I think the opportunity to work with those guys and get to know kids on other teams is always fun for me,” Flory said. “To help those kids a little bit to take another step and make them better for their colleges and help them get a little better for the future would be fun. And they’ll help me get better, as well.”

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina State University wants to be the only Wolfpack prowling the lucrative world of college mer-chandising and licensing, a goal that has put it at odds with Loyola University in New Orleans, which boasts a Wolfpack of its own.

Last month, N.C. State sent a letter to the Catholic school assert-ing its legal right to the name and logo, which the Raleigh institution registered with the federal govern-ment in 1983, the year Jim Val-vano coached the “Cardiac Pack” to an improbable championship in the NCAA tournament.

N.C. State isn’t threatening a lawsuit, and so far the two schools have only engaged in preliminary talks.

Both sides say they’re op-timistic of reaching a mutually satisfactory solution, but NCSU’s desire to be the only Wolfpack in town is in no doubt.

“Just like with any company, when people hear the name ‘Wolf-pack,’ we want them to associate that with N.C. State,” said Shawn Troxler, assistant general counsel for the university.

Right now, there doesn’t seem to be much danger of anyone con-fusing the two athletic programs.

Former LSU guard Garrett Temple will call Charlotte, N.C., his home for at least the next two weeks.

The Charlotte Bobcats signed Temple for the remainder of the season after previously agreeing to two 10-day contracts, according to multiple reports.

Temple appeared in two games for the Bobcats after being picked up from the Erie BayHawks of the NBA Development League.

He scored 3 points in 10 min-utes Monday in Charlotte’s 87-86 win against Milwaukee.

The 6-foot-5-inch guard had previous stints with the Houston

Rockets, Sacramento Kings, San Antonio Spurs and Milwaukee Bucks.

Temple has played in 54 D-League games during his two-year career, averaging 14.5 points and 4.5 rebounds, and was selected to the 2011 D-League All-Star Game.

This season, Temple scored 14.9 points a night in 15 games with the BayHawks.

Charlotte is currently behind the Indiana Pacers for the East-ern Conference’s eighth and final playoff spot. The regular season is scheduled to end April 13.

The Baton Rouge native start-ed four seasons for LSU, finishing his career in the 2008-09 season as the team’s all-time leader in min-utes played with 4,432.

Temple thrived on the defen-sive end, earning a spot on the 2009 All-Southeastern Conference Defensive Team. He sits fourth in LSU history in career assists (482)

and fourth in blocks (113).The defensive stalwart is the

eighth former LSU player current-ly on an NBA roster.

Three former Tigers are play-ing in the D-League, including for-ward Tasmin Mitchell, Temple’s LSU teammate.

Mitchell has started 18 games for the BayHawks, averaging 16.1 points.

Temple wasn’t the only for-mer LSU player to ink a deal for the stretch run of the NBA season.

Former LSU center Chris Johnson signed with the Portland Trail Blazers on March 14 for the final month of the season.

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our team.”Frey noted the signifi cance of

the win for the team, which only started practicing last semester.

“Seeing us compete and actu-ally beat a team at a tournament gave me reassurance that this team was going to go places,” he said. “I felt as though we’re actually be-coming something legitimate.”

However, the team’s path to its tournament and fi rst win wasn’t an easy one.

Before defeating Auburn in overtime, LSU had lost its fi rst game of the tournament in a tight contest with Georgia. The team lat-er fell to Central Florida in its fi nal game.

The experience was a positive one for the team, though.

“A lot of people at the tourna-ment were pretty surprised,” Cane said. “They have clubs that have been around for 20 years or so, and we made a statement to them.”

Cane added the team had to borrow caps from another school at the tournament because they only had enough money for one color of caps.

Cane said LSU is receiving op-portunities for future tournaments now that other schools know it has a team. He wants to keep generat-ing interest among the LSU com-munity, as well.

“I’m really hoping that people here at LSU know we’re around be-cause there’s 30,000 people that go here,” Frey said. “There’s bound to be some people who have experi-enced the sport before but don’t yet know about the club.”

Cane and Frey agreed the team needs to keep competing in tourna-ments to improve and, most impor-tantly, get more practice time.

“We want to get an addi-tional day,” Cane said. “Two days a week really isn’t enough to stay competitive.”

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“My favorite sport to bet on is March Madness, absolutely,” said Aric Dunaway, accounting junior. “It’s all in the name — March Mad-ness. Where else can we have VCU and Butler duking it out for a chance in the championship game?”

Dunaway isn’t alone, either. According to NSAwins.com, a na-tional betting website, the 2011 NCAA Tournament betting handle (the total amount of money wagered for the establishment accepting bets) averages more than $12 billion worldwide and ranks near the top of the list of sports on which the most people wager.

Dunaway said the idea of gam-bling on sporting events was pre-sented to him at an early age and stuck with him for years.

“I grew up with my dad and my grandfather both betting on sports, so I’ve been exposed to it since I was born,” he said. “I got really in-terested in it with lines and spreads and trends probably around 13 and 14 or so.”

The categories on which a gambler can bet include everything from picking winners and losers, to

choosing which team will score the fi rst basket, to guessing who will win the tipoff.

Dunaway said he won $8,000 bet-ting on last year’s tournament alone.

Lance Neyland, sports administration junior, who began wagering on games in his high school days, said he enjoys betting on other sports but called the chaos of March Madness his “defi -nite” favorite.

“There’s games going on all the time, so you can bet on it a lot of different ways,” Neyland said. “You can bet the spreads, and you also have your bracket that you bet on. With all the upsets and stuff and since there’s so much condensed in such a short period of time, it’s just that much more fun.”

With the many upsets in this year’s tournament, which features both an 8- and 11-seed in the Fi-nal Four, “fun” may not be the best word to describe the tournament on the gambling front.

“I haven’t done as well this year as I did last year,” Neyland said. “Unfortunately, all my teams are out

of it. In my brack-et [last year] I got second place, so I made about $50 off that, and then betting online I probably made $200 or $300.”

The tourna-ment isn’t over yet. Three games remain on the slate, and bets are still to be made.

Dunaway said despite the po-tential for a Cinderella champion, he’s putting his money with his al-legiance to the Southeastern Confer-ence.

“I really want Kentucky to win it just to keep it in the SEC so the SEC can have the trifecta of sports reigning champs,” Dunaway said. “But it would also be really cool to see VCU come out of nowhere with an 11-seed and take the cake.”

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As usual, the Opinion Section of our website, lsureveille.com, has been absolutely buzzing with reader comments. Check it out today, and let your voice be heard.

Regarding Zachary Davis’s col-umn, “Lessons can be learned from Guevara example,” readers had this to say:

“I must also add that the com-plete ignorance shown by the au-thor of this piece is a classic ex-ample of blind obedience to leftist dogma. He is completely unaware that Che was a murderous butcher who revelled in torture and muder of any opposition and when sur-rounded he tried to cowardly sur-render and play on his celebrity. He would have not given a tinkers damn about HIV and the “people” he supposedly served- only in how he could use it to his advantage. iI this is an example of what is taught about history at LSU today, it shames me to say that I once at-tended this formerly great institu-tion.”

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“Son, you and this article (and the one on Congressman King’s hearings) are going to be object lessons for the LSU community on how the LSU faculty has been infil-trated and is now in the process of brainwashing the poor uneducated students at LSU. Castro imprisons poets and gays and librarians; Che

was a murdering thug who would have been Castro’s enforcer. ‘To send men to the firing squad, judi-cial proof is unnecessary.’ Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara. Che was a commu-nist killer who would have killed you in a heartbeat once he thought he was done with you as a useful idiot.”

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Regarding Clayton Crockett’s col-umn, “Guevara a failed, idealist leader,” readers had this to say:

“Humans are mouths to feed in the same sense that humans are all equal in their ability to be pro-ductive and successful. I’ll choose not to be painfully ignorant. The reason that Marxism has never worked on a large scale should be enough, but I guess some people never learn.”

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Regarding Zachary Davis’s col-umn, “King’s hearings McCarthy-like, un-American, dangerous,” readers had this to say:

“Mr. Davis seems to forget that even our own beloved main-stream media has been warning us for years of the dangers of ‘home-grown Muslim terrorists’ being in-spired by foreign radicals. So to in-vestigate the Muslim communities of the nation is not that illogical if the media is to be believed.

And let us not pretend that only Muslims are being targeted.

While they may have the special attention of some members of Con-gress now, we must remember rela-tively recent comments by Home-land Security officials as well as this report,

h t t p : / / w w w. s c r i b d . c o m /doc/13290698/The-Modern-Mi-litia-MovementMissouri-MIAC-Strategic-Report-20Feb09, which specifically points to a ‘Christian

Identity’ as part of the factors that make up the Modern Militia Move-ment aka Domestic Terrorists.

This is clear evidence that our government at various levels is focused, not solely on Muslims, as Mr. Davis asserts, but mem-bers of other communities as well, including religious ones that are not Muslim.”

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It seems like only yesterday we were in the midst of the 2008 presidential campaigns. Now, with about a year and a half until the next election, it seems like the campaigning will soon start again.

While President Barack Obama will obviously run again in 2012, who his competition will be has remained a mystery for quite some time.

Not long after the 2008 elec-tions were over, names such as Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and even our own Bobby Jindal have been thrown around as likely pos-sibilities.

Other names, such as Sarah Palin or Donald Trump, have also been tossed around, though not nearly as seriously.

So it’s almost a relief former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is now making moves toward orga-nizing his presidential campaign.

The keyword there is almost.As expected from the cur-

rent political atmosphere, it isn’t surprising to see Pawlenty is not a traditional GOP candidate. Af-fectionately named “Tea-Paw” by some of his supporters, it’s fairly obvious where his politics lie.

Describing himself as a social conservative, his political beliefs simply frighten me.

Beyond the usual economic ideas of cutting welfare programs like Social Security and Medicare as a means to balance the budget, and a dislike of modern unions, it’s Pawlenty’s social ideas that stick out far more.

As an Evangelical Christian, his views on gay marriage or abor-tion shouldn’t be surprising.

However, his promise of re-instating “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” should he become president is downright frightening.

Not only would that be a slap in the face for civil rights — simi-lar to California’s Proposition 8

— but it could also serve to stifle any such attempts from being made for some time.

N e e d l e s s to say, Pawlen-ty has quickly gone to the top of a growing

list of people I never want to see in the White House. Granted, most people running under the GOP or Tea Party banner would probably make this list.

Unfortunately, candidates who will try to reach out to the new Tea Party base will be like Pawlenty. While Republican candidates may have regularly been against any sort of civil rights progress for

homosexuals in the past few years, it will probably become even more common.

Frankly, I will be amazed if Pawlenty is the only candidate to claim he or she would reinstate “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” by the end of all this. Maybe this sort of insan-ity will help keep Obama in office.

Yet, beyond his beliefs, Pawlenty’s moves toward a presi-dential campaign signals the start of something we are all too used to: the hate-filled attack ads that plague the campaign process.

Soon enough we’ll see point-less attacks against candidates, focusing on unimportant things like why a candidate wasn’t wear-ing an American flag pin or what a former pastor of theirs might have believed.

Personally, I know I’m going to start watching TV less. While I may hate most commercials

anyway, the campaign ads are al-ways the worst.

With the new campaign sea-son approaching, it seems like we haven’t done enough to fix the problems that continue to plague our elections. With no changes, we will undoubtedly continue to see low voter turnout.

If Tea-Paw is the sort of candi-date we expect to see from the right wing, I can’t say I would blame people for not wanting to come out to vote.

Zachary Davis is a 20-year-old history junior from Warsaw, Po-land. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_zdavis.

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STILLWATER, Okla. (UWire) – In an effort to assist the cause of Libyan rebels seeking revolu-tion against their ruler, Moammar Gadhafi, the United States has per-formed a number of military ac-tions in Libya this week.

Stealth bombers have dropped bombs, missiles have been fired and ships have been moved into position near the country’s coast. While the United States hasn’t em-ployed full military force in Libya, these strategic strikes, aimed at crippling Gadhafi’s air defenses, are still military actions by our na-tional armed forces.

The initial cost of these op-erations has been estimated from $400 million to $800 million, with a likely continuing weekly cost of $30 million to $100 million. Presi-dent Barack Obama said Monday the U.S. plans to be done with op-erations in Libya within days, leav-ing other countries and NATO to perform any further operations. If the operations were to end today, however, the estimated cost is still $400 million.

It is clear that the Libyan reb-els are fighting for a cause of free-dom and revolution. It is also true that Gadhafi is viewed as a harsh ruler. Also, this is not the first time that the United States has taken military action against Gadhafi. Similar tactics were employed by the U.S. against Gadhafi’s regime in 1986.

My worry, however, is if this military conflict is something

America can feasibly be involved with. These operations cost mon-ey. And our country is still in the midst of a weaker economy than we would like to have. On top of that, we are already involved in two wars that each cost much more than strategic bombings and mis-sile strikes.

While it seems Gadhafi has a very small amount of support, evi-denced by resignations of top tier

officials within his own regime and defections in his military, the U.S. must be careful to not get sucked into a conflict that is too large. Not to directly compare the situations, but shades of Iraq be-fore the U.S. invasion can be seen in Libya.

It is clear that Gadhafi is an unjust and unethical ruler. It is also clear that it is fair for America to support the motives of the rebels

in Libya. The United Nations has stated that it supports actions to aid the revolution, and multiple coun-tries have come to the aid of the rebels.

I hope Obama and the officials monitoring U.S. actions in Libya hold to their word that we will be out of the conflict soon. I think it is acceptable and fair for us to help the rebels. And we have. Now it is our turn to return to our ongoing

military conflicts and leave the Libyan situation to the U.N. and other fully capable countries.

With two other wars, a down economy and no need for our in-volvement, maybe it’s best if we patiently watch this situation be-fore getting in too deep.

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These days, cellphone compa-nies are sparing no expense adver-tising what great new feature they have to offer customers.

Verizon claims it has the fast-est 4G network.

T-Mobile brags it has Ameri-ca’s largest 4G network.

Sprint cites it still has “true unlimited” by not capping or moni-toring data usage.

AT&T, well, makes a lot of silly claims in its commercials.

Because AT&T can’t really compete with the other networks in terms of the future (4G, increas-ing data use, etc.) the company still brags about how it covers “97 per-cent of Americans” and is “getting faster with 4G.”

While 4G seems to get con-sumers excited, it’s comical watch-ing AT&T try to play catch-up considering its 3G is still severely lacking.

Verizon launched a series of TV ads last year blasting AT&T’s spotty 3G coverage.

Instead of spending money to fix said spotty coverage, AT&T

decided to launch a counter-ad set with Luke Wilson at the helm.

Great way to spend the money, AT&T.

Now, with the rest of the com-petition ex-panding their 4G networks, AT&T seems to be left in the dust again.

Yet again, the cellphone giant isn’t spending mil-lions of dollars

to improve its horrible service — it’s using it to buy the competition.

As The New York Times re-ported last week, AT&T announced its plan to acquire T-Mobile for $39 billion.

If the merger is approved, it would give AT&T(&T) nearly 130 million customers, making it the largest U.S. cellular provider, ac-cording to The New York Times.

Opinion Editor Devin Graham previously explained how this po-tential merger is bad for not only

customers, but also local econo-mies.

I’m not here to talk about those issues. However, I am here to tell T-Mobile customers what this merger may mean for you and your fancy new T-Mobile handset.

The biggest problem facing the AT&T and T-Mobile merger would be the monopolization of the Global Systems for Mobile Communications (GSM) commu-nity.

AT&T and T-Mobile use GSM for mobile phones. In contrast, Ve-rizon and Sprint use Code Division Multiple Access, or CDMA.

Overall, each choice has its own advantages and disadvantag-es.

GSM is an international stan-dard. It is better suited for interna-tional roaming and has more users worldwide. CDMA is more promi-nent in North America and offers faster data transfer.

GSM handsets also have the advantage of having users’ per-sonal information stored on their SIM card, allowing easy transfer

between handsets. CDMA stores information on the phone itself, requiring users to contact their car-rier to activate a new phone.

If the new AT&T were to control the entire GSM market in North America, it could easily charge ridiculous prices while lim-iting not only diverse handsets, but also a quality network for users to operate on.

Another major problem for current T-Mobile customers would be the necessity to replace their 3G handset for an AT&T model.

AT&T stated it plans to rear-range T-Mobile’s 3G cell towers to repurpose them for 4G. This would leave current T-Mobile users with-out 3G — meaning they would have to replace their phones with those that use AT&T’s 3G frequen-cies, Yahoo! News reported.

The Federal Communications Commission would still need to approve the potential merger be-tween the two cellphone compa-nies, which could take a year or more to accomplish.

Until then, T-Mobile users can

only sit and wait for their fate to be decided.

After Verizon acquired Alltel back in 2008, I wondered what company AT&T would gobble up next.

Although Verizon CEO Dan-iel Meed claims they “don’t need them,” I definitely see Big Red tak-ing over Sprint within the next five years, leaving only two cellular be-hemoths to do battle.

I know AT&T is still mad about losing its iPhone exclusivity, but it doesn’t mean it has to throw a fit and ruin the lives of every single T-Mobile customer.

Adam Arinder is a 21-year-old communication studies senior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twit-ter @TDR_aarinder.

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which tallies 1,558 students this spring, according to the Office of Budget and Planning.

International students at the University come from 107 countries, with China leading the way at 367, according to the Office of Budget and Planning.

International students comprise between 5 and 6 percent of the Uni-versity’s student population, said Natalie Rigby, director of the Inter-national Services Office.

Throughout the decade, the number of international students at the University has fluctuated. Since 2002, the number of international students peaked at 1,761 in spring 2004 and reached its lowest number, 1,394 students, in spring 2008, ac-cording to the Office of Budget and Planning.

According to Bernie Braun, ap-plication consultant in the Office of Budget and Planning, 1,624 total international students enrolled at the University in fall 2009, and 1,326, or 81.7 percent, received some type of scholarship or grant aid for that fis-cal year.

“A large number of the students in this total are students with the graduate assistant exemption, which is a function of their employment as a graduate assistant,” Braun said.

Aashay Mulay, marketing chair of the Indian Student Association and petroleum engineering sopho-more, said he chose LSU over other schools in the country because the University’s petroleum engineer-ing program has been consistently ranked high.

“There are hardly around 20 schools in the U.S. that offer this course,” Mulay said. “The depart-ment at LSU also receives heavy recruitment from top oil companies each semester.”

Mulay said the University’s relatively low tuition also influenced his decision.

“I am able to afford my tuition even without having a scholarship,” he said. “All other schools I consid-ered had much higher fees for the same program.”

Mulay said he also likes the University’s wide ethnic diversity and variety of activities, like sport-ing events and seminars.

Concetta Ingrassia, a native of Segrate, Milan, Italy, and mass communication sophomore, said she chose to attend the University because she was interested in Loui-siana’s culture and history.

“LSU has an amazing cam-pus, and there are lots of events and courses,” Ingrassia said. “In Europe, we don’t have many campuses, and the college life at LSU is amazing for me.”

Thakur names the size of the campus and limited transportation as

his only dislikes of the University.“It’s very hard to commute be-

tween classes and work,” Thakur said. “The campus is so big. It’s hard to get anywhere if I don’t have my bike with me.”

Some worry there is too much information to process at once for in-ternational students at their orienta-tion because the University has such a large campus.

Through a series of different processes, Student Government is looking into having an SG informa-tional table at the international stu-dents’ orientation to give the students a chance to interact with student

leaders, said Lauren Leist, SG assis-tant director of student outreach.

“We will be giving out pam-phlets with information to allow in-ternational students to become more acquainted with the LSU communi-ty,” Leist said. “We want to make all students feel like a Tiger.”

Leist said SG is also hoping to incorporate LSU Ambassadors into the student orientation.

“International students can sometimes feel overwhelmed with all the new information presented to them at orientation,” Leist said.

Leist said she believes the Am-bassadors will help keep the students

on track and become familiar with the University quickly.

SG officers would also like to include a link on the SG website featuring interesting places to visit in Baton Rouge and where the bus routes travel, Leist said.

Thakur attended his first orien-tation in Dallas before he transferred to LSU, and he said he had a clearer idea of the structure of American college orientations and how they are organized.

“[Orientation at LSU] might have been a little bit more over-whelming if I had not already at-tended orientation in Dallas,”

Thakur said.Thakur, who will graduate in

May, said he hopes to find a full-time job soon.

“I want to stay in the U.S., and I’m looking for jobs,” Thakur said. “I’m finding it very hard to find one, though.”

Thakur, one of only two stu-dents at the University from Tanza-nia, said he wouldn’t mind returning home, but he hopes to get more work experience in the U.S.

The Daily Reveille page 15Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Daily Reveille.Coordinators from Delta Zeta

sorority, the organization that hosts the pageant, attributed the error to a discrepancy between the Top 10 and the Top 5 selection groups. Lauren Whitman, Delta Zeta adviser, said the Top 10 is decided by a numerical score, and the five contestants with the highest score advance to the Top 5.

“All the numerical orders are basically wiped out after that,”

Whitman said.But once in the Top 5, the wom-

en are ranked manually according to judge preferences. Whitman said the numerical scores from the Top 10 level translated into the placement of the awards, not the judges’ manual rankings, which are supposed to de-cide the final placements.

“[The judges] knew something was wrong ... but we couldn’t just stop and say we knew exactly what was wrong,” Whitman said of an-nouncements onstage. “I always tell the girls, at the end of the day you

have to do the right thing. ... We had to do the right thing for the integrity of the pageant.”

Whitman said the participants were called back and the placements were adjusted once the issue was ar-ticulated.

In the amended decision, Lau-ren Brink earned first runner-up, Nicole Wall took second runner-up, Andrea Daigle won third runner-up and Fish took fourth runner-up.

KC White, associate vice chan-cellor and dean of students, said DZ organizers follow rules and

scoring regulations from the Miss USA pageant format, and the Uni-versity doesn’t oversee the pageant.

“When the judges brought the item to our attention, we decided the only ethical thing to do was to let them vote,” Jennifer Hale, Delta Zeta alumna and pageant organizer, said Sunday.

Fish is a co-host of “The Ra-men” entertainment show on Tiger TV. This was her third year partici-pating in Miss LSU-USA.

Whitman said Delta Zeta apolo-gizes to Fish and the other women

involved in the pageant, as well as their families.

Former Miss LSU-USA Ali Armstrong will crown Famularo to-day at 5 p.m. in the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority house — Famularo’s soror-ity.

“We’re welcoming anyone who wants to attend,” Whitman said.

Famularo could not be reached before print deadline.

RECALL, from page 1

Contact Sarah Lawson at slawson@lsureveille.com

INTERNATIONAL, from page 1

Contact Kate Mabry at kmabry@lsureveille.com

The Daily Reveillepage 16 Tuesday, March 29, 2011