Music lovers and tired tail-gaters lounged under oak trees and enjoyed rock tunes after the football game as four local bands vied for the top spot Saturday in the Battle of the Bands in Free Speech Plaza.

New Orleans-based band Hazy Ray claimed fi rst place and a slot at the Groovin’ on the Grounds spring concert on March 24 after judges scored each competitor.

“It feels incredible,” said P. Michael Hayes , Hazy Ray trom-bonist and music education senior. “We put in a lot of work in the last couple months.”

Hazy Ray graced listeners with a smooth, jazzy, alternative sound, incorporating a trombone and cello into each of its songs.

The Broken Rubber Band , from Baton Rouge , kicked off the show with songs ranging from blues and jazz to rock ‘n’ roll.

With three of its members clad in variations of suits and ties, the band got a few of the con-certgoers dancing with its song “Waltz.”

Framing the Red , a band from Natchez, Miss., livened the mood as it cranked out sounds of

high-energy rock.People clapped and cheered

while one young boy danced in the middle of the plaza.

Familiarity set in when audi-ence members joined in to sing a rendition of Johnny Cash ’s “Fol-som Prison Blues.”

A crowd of more than 100 accumulated for the event, with many gathering near the stage and others simply sitting in the grass with their dogs.

Baton Rouge group Pushing Pandas ended the performance as the sun began to set, playing a few rock songs with funk, pop and reggae infl uences.

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Beginning today, students will be able to access a new portal sys-tem, myLSU , as ITS slowly phases out PAWS .

The new myLSU portal will be accessible via the header of the LSU homepage. PAWS will re-main accessible for the next few years through a link in the new por-tal. The left navigation of the new portal will mimic the navigation of PAWS to prevent confusion during the transition, according to ITS.

Thomas Rodgers , Student Government director of academ-ics , said PAWS is being replaced

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Tigers down UK 35-7, ‘repay a debt’

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LSU sophomore cornerback Tyrann Mathieu runs a fumble in for a touchdown Saturday in the Tigers’ 35-7 victory against Kentucky.

The LSU and Kentucky series has been a wild one since the turn of the millennium. Unless you put the game in Tiger Stadium .

While the Tigers’ recent trips to Lexington, Ky ., have been com-plete with Blue-grass Miracles and triple-over-time heartbreak, the Wildcats again couldn’t mount a serious threat between the Tiger Stadium lines, even with a slug-gish LSU team and sleepy crowd playing to their advantage.

LSU’s 35-7 victory Saturday kept LSU at No. 1 in the AP poll and marked the third consecutive victory for LSU against Kentucky at home dating to 2000 . The Ti-gers outscored the Wildcats, 118-7 , in those three meetings, and Kentucky’s fourth -quarter touch-down Saturday was the fi rst in its last 12 quarters of play in Baton Rouge .

While LSU seemed to spend much of the game exhaling from a rugged four -game opening stretch, coach Les Miles said his team had

plenty of motivation despite Ken-tucky’s slow start to the season.

“I told this team to repay a debt to the 2007 team,” Miles said in reference to that team’s 43-37 loss in triple-overtime in

Lexington. “We were ranked No. 1, then we went to Kentucky and

fi nished second in the ballgame. I think that they took that to heart.”

While today’s Tigers remain the nation’s top team, Southeast-ern Conference rival Alabama continued to creep closer to LSU after it moved to No. 2 following a pair of dominant conference wins against Arkansas and at Florida . It’s the fi rst time since 2000 that the top two teams in the poll are from the same division.

LSU opened the scoring with a familiar face back under center. Embattled senior quarter-back Jordan Jefferson , making his fi rst appearance since a sus-pension from his involvement in

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Afghanistan urges Pakistan to end Taliban insurgency, promote peace

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Afghan government urged neigh-boring Pakistan on Sunday to take concrete steps to help end the Tali-ban insurgency and use its infl u-ence to bring the militants to direct peace talks.

The appeal follows accusa-tions that Pakistan, through its his-torical ties with some of the mili-tant groups, has played an active role in supporting attacks across the border on U.S. and Afghan tar-gets — a charge it denies.

Parents: Children forced to strip off clothing in elementary school

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Human Rights Commission is in-vestigating an elementary school for allegedly forcing sixth-graders to strip down after $13 disap-peared.

The commission is launching its probe following parents’ com-plaints and a report by the human rights commission in Michoacan.

The national commission said Sunday that the principal and teachers of a public school in the city of La Piedad ordered the chil-dren to take off their clothes when they were searching for the money.

Hurricane Ophelia picks up speed as it travels north toward Canada

MIAMI (AP) — Forecasters say Hurricane Ophelia is expected to pass near or over Newfoundland, Canada, by early Monday.

The National Hurricane Cen-ter in Miami said Sunday that Oph-elia was a Category 2 storm with top sustained winds of about 100 mph. The storm was moving north-northeast at 33 mph.

Ophelia was centered about 485 miles southwest of Cape Race, Newfoundland, and a tropical storm watch was in effect for New-foundland’s Avalon Peninsula.Illegal students face obstacles even after college graduation

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — When Rhode Island became the 13th state to allow in-state tuition for illegal immigrants at public colleges, supporters heralded the move as one that would give stu-dents the kind of advanced educa-tion they need to succeed in the workforce.

But students who are not here legally may still face a major ob-stacle, even with a college degree: Many have no immediate pathway to legal status and, under current federal immigration law, employ-ers cannot legally hire them.

Twenty-seven pianists from 13 countries compete in Alexandria

ALEXANDRIA (AP) — A chance to perform in St. Petersburg, Rus-sia and at Carnegie Hall is bring-ing 27 pianists from 13 countries to compete in central Louisiana.

David Holcombe, president of the Louisiana International Piano Competition, tells The Town Talk that the competition brings the world to an area where income av-erages $24,000 a year per person.

The competition has taken place every other year since 2005.

First through third prizes in-clude a performance at Carnegie Hall. First prize also includes a performance in Russia with the St. Petersburg Symphony and $6,000.

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(AP) — The Conservation Fund expands the Maurepas Swamp Wildlife Management area by 40 percent, joining two previously separated areas of public land west of Lake Pontchartrain.

Gov. Bobby Jindal says the partnership with the Conservation Fund adds 29,600 acres of land for hunting, birdwatching and other outdoor activity. It brings the area’s public land to more than 100,000 acres in four parishes.

Polish Catholics celebrate miracle in communion wafer Sunday

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Roman Catholics in Poland gathered Sun-day for a special Mass celebrating what they see as a miracle: the ap-pearance on a communion wafer of a dark spot that they are convinced is part of the heart of Jesus.

The communion wafer in question developed a brown spot in 2008 after falling on the fl oor during a Mass in the eastern Pol-ish town of Sokolka. Two medical doctors determined that the spot was heart muscle tissue.

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Recent college graduates shouldn’t sweat finding a job in Ba-ton Rouge, according to a new study by employment firm Manpower-Group, which led Forbes to rank Ba-ton Rouge seventh in the country for employment outlook during October through December.

The study for 2011’s fourth quarter gives Baton Rouge an em-ployment outlook of 12 percent, tied with neighboring cities New Orleans, Metairie and Kenner, and cities across the country like Boise City-Nampa, Idaho, and El Paso, Texas.

University economics professor emeritus Loren Scott said discoveries of natural gas acquisition techniques, like fracking, have contributed to Ba-ton Rouge’s economic slope.

“The No. 1 thing is that Baton Rouge has a very large petrochemical base to its economy,” he said. “The chemical industry, in particular, is doing very well right now.”

Scott, who publishes the Loui-siana Economic Report, said Baton Rouge’s newfound surplus of natural gas propelled the city into competi-tion against European markets.

East Baton Rouge Parish May-or-President Kip Holden touted more job attractions to Baton Rouge on Sept. 26, when he announced Baton Rouge Shrimp Company’s plans to establish processing and distribution centers in the city.

Holden said Baton Rouge Shrimp Company’s $2.1 million fa-cility will spur 38 direct jobs and nearly 60 indirect jobs for East Baton Rouge Parish with an annual payroll of about $1 million.

“The rest of the nation is having problems, but Baton Rouge is still creating jobs,” Holden said.

Sales tax revenues are also climbing, which Scott said is a sign of a growing economy because it means people have money to spend.

“The one kind of weak employ-ment area is state government em-ployment,” Scott said. “But every-thing else is doing pretty darn well.

We did not get hammered by the great recession like the rest of the country.”

But University economics pro-fessor R. Kaj Gittings said in an e-mail that ManpowerGroup’s statistic is not useful because it is calculated as a difference between employers surveyed who expect to hire workers minus employers who are projecting employment cuts. Thus, if employ-ers hiring are only expecting meager gains but other employers are making deep cuts, then there is still a net loss of workers.

Rachel Miller, who graduated from the University in May, is about

to begin working full-time at Cova-lent Logic, a public relations firm, and has been interning part-time at AARP since April. Miller said she was lucky that her internship net-working led to her job, and that’s how she advises college graduates to look for jobs.

“Every person you meet, you sort of tell them what you want to do, and they know somebody who knows somebody who can help you,” Miller said.

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After years of living in Cali-fornia as research and development supervisor for DreamWorks Anima-tion, Marty Sixkiller hasn’t lost any passion for his home state of Loui-siana.

Sixkiller, a University alumnus, discussed the different aspects of the animation industry with participants at the Louisiana Entrepreneurship Day downtown Friday.

He noted the importance of pro-fessional networking and risk taking when building a career in the anima-tion industry as he explained how his career evolved since graduating from the University in 1992, where he earned a bachelor of fine arts in graphic design.

After working locally as a com-puter artist at Video Park, he said he left Louisiana to follow his dreams.

“I said ‘I gotta do this,’” Sixkill-er recalled. “I swore I’d never leave Baton Rouge, and I left.”

After working as an animator in Miami, Sixkiller decided he could further his career by moving to Hol-lywood. Researching potential future employers, he decided on Pacific Data Images, where he began work as a generalist.

He started working for Dream-Works in October 1995 as an ef-fects animator when the company acquired Pacific Data Images. He then worked in layout for nine years writing code before becoming the senior technical director and then the research and development supervisor at DreamWorks.

Sixkiller said he chose to work in graphic design because he knew he needed to find a job he would en-joy, and it has proven to be the right direction for him.

Budding animators and at-tendees interested in working in the

animation industry were encouraged to ask questions, get to know people and accept challenges.

“The biggest mistake people make is to not ask questions,” Sixkiller said. “You find success by not being afraid to take risks as an entrepreneur and by not being afraid to fail. You have to find other people with a similar idea and light it on fire.”

Sixkiller has worked on 24 animated projects and said Dream-Works is working on 10 films right now for the next several years, with about 400 to 550 people working on each movie. Many employees work on multiple projects at a time.

The idea of starting an anima-tion studio in Baton Rouge was a hot topic at the event, considering the re-cent boom of the local film industry.

“A company coming into Loui-siana offering animation would al-low [filmmakers] to finish a movie here,” Sixkiller said. “We already know you can shoot here, but we need digital effects that would attract companies.”

Sean McIntosh, digital art ju-nior, said the city needs to develop a strong animation industry.

“We need this kind of thing in Louisiana and at LSU,” McIntosh said. “It’s lax on the digital side of things. It’s already here with film, and if the college can match that in animation it would be great.”

Phyllis Sims, attorney with Kean Miller LLP, explained the ele-ments behind the Louisiana motion

picture and digital media incentives to attendees.

Sims said those incentives are the reason large numbers of filmmak-ers choose to work in Baton Rouge.

“Companies have to file an ap-plication with the state Office of En-tertainment if you want your project to be qualified as a state certified project,” Sims said.

The pre-game festivities at Death Valley involve a program steeped in tradition, but this Sat-urday added a new element to the festivities — live performance art.

Baton Rouge-based perfor-mance artist Christopher Turner made history by painting his vision of the pre-game events on canvas from the sidelines, the first event of its kind in Tiger Stadium.

“Everything just lined up to make this happen,” Turner said.

Turner’s creation, a painting of a tiger, will be auctioned off at Tigerama to raise funds for schol-arships in the LSU School of Mu-sic and Tiger Band.

“We are very lucky to be able to do this. It is not an opportunity granted to just anyone and we feel

very blessed,” said Pamela Matas-sa, director of community relations and special projects for the LSU College of Music and Dramatic Arts and executive director for Ti-gerama.

Matassa, a former Golden Girl, said the painting’s sale via silent auction at Tigerama this Friday will help garner financial support for music programs at the University.

“Tigerama is our No. 1 fund-raising event for the year and it is more important now than ever with the loss of scholarship money due to budget cuts,” Matassa said.

Turner first thought of doing a live art performance inspired by the University in 2010. He origi-nally set out to perform a live art interpretation at Tigerama, but the timing was off.

Turner said he had several

motives for his live art perfor-mance.

“I wanted to make history, but beyond that, I wanted to add awareness to budget cuts in LSU’s music department,” Turner said.

A Baton Rouge native, Turner sold peanuts in the stands at Uni-versity football games during his youth and recognizes the need for increased financial backing of the arts.

Turner has painted at many other live music events including the Baton Rouge Symphony Or-chestra, and he said he gets a kick out of performance art and the feedback it provides.

“I enjoy getting energy from the crowd,” Turner said. “You get a certain verse of emotion, a rush of feeling.”

Looking to the future, Turn-er hopes to continue creating

performance art at music events. He said all forms of art are beneficial to people because they help them see things in different ways.

“Meeting two art forms together opens our eyes to new

concepts,” Turner said.

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EMILY SLACK / The Daily Reveille

Artist Chris Turner paints a tiger on the sidelines during the band’s pre-game show for the Kentucky game Saturday. The live performance art is the first of its kind.

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Marty Sixkiller, research and development supervisor for DreamWorks Animation, gives a presentation for Louisiana Entrepreneurship Day on Friday at Kean Miller LLP.

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University alumnus spoke to students

As frustrations mount in the political arena, the new website Americans Elect allows Internet users to bypass political party al-legiances and select a new presidential candidate.

The website works by having new users rank polit-ical priorities , such as economics and foreign policy, and answer questions to gauge their political positions. Through online surveys and forums, Americans Elect will match users with a unique candidate and, eventually, place that candidate on the national ballots.

Reserving a position on the presidential ballot in all 50 states is no small task, though, and Mardi Gauthier , early education junior , is doing her part to advance the move-ment.

Gauthier is the on-campus leader for Americans Elect at LSU.

“I feel like this could be the fu-ture,” she said.

According to Gauthier, can-didate registration will begin next spring and an online convention to select one will follow in June. The primary process will also involve debates featuring the most popular candidates, and online voters will choose the questions asked.

The website also features fo-rums where politics can be dis-cussed and debate questions de-cided.

“It’s trying to change govern-ment in what I think is a helpful way,” Gauthier said.

Gauthier sees the utilization of user input as one of the most prom-ising aspects of the project.

“It’s their questions that are getting answered,” she said.

And the response on campus has been positive, Gauthier said. She estimated Americans Elect now has a presence on about 50 campus-es nationwide.

“We’re just tired of not having choices,” Gauthier said. “All that

this stands for is being able to choose.”

A l t h o u g h Americans Elect will have a can-didate in the race, it does not fi t the defi nition of a political party as it lacks political

views and guidelines. With neither platform nor policy, Americans Elect is a tool voters can use to hone their views and fi nd candidates that match them.

To encourage growth, Ameri-cans Elect has set benchmarks for campus leaders. Gauthier said that

once she brings 500 new users from the University to the website, the or-ganization will send a guest speaker to campus.

The real draw for students is the nonpartisan approach, she said.

“This allows people to choose who they think will be the best can-didate, period,” Gauthier said. “Not just the best Republican or Demo-crat.”

She said this approach will es-pecially appeal to voters who are politically apathetic or “don’t want to subscribe to party lines.”

“Young voters often feel stuck,” she said. “And we kind of are.”

Gauthier fi rst heard about Americans Elect when COO Elliot Ackerman appeared on “The Col-bert Report” on Aug. 10 .

By that time, Americans Elect had garnered approximately 1.6 million signatures for its ballot pe-tition in California , breaking state records there .

The legislatively mandated Governance Commission for Loui-siana’s higher education hosted talks with offi cials from across the nation in consecutive meetings Wednesday and Thursday to better plan for the future of higher education funding in Louisiana.

“You don’t have the right mix between appropriations and tuition today,” said David Longanecker , president of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education .

Longanecker’s presentation fo-cused on national trends regarding state appropriations to educational institutions, the tuition policies of those institutions and fi nancial aid — all of which should work together rather than separately, he said.

“You want a reasonably priced set of tuitions for the value that stu-dents are receiving,” Longanecker said, adding that Louisiana has failed to establish such tuition policies. “You are substantially underpriced for the value your students are re-ceiving.”

Louisiana’s “underpriced” tu-itions wouldn’t be a problem if there were unlimited funds on the state level, but that’s not the case, he said.

“Good policy is affordable tu-ition, not low tuition,” Longanecker said.

LSU System President John Lombardi described the current funding transition as a shift to “more and more student support and less and less state support.” This transi-tion, he said, is both “unmistakable and unavoidable.”

The problem is that substituting state money with student money, like tuition increases, does not result in the same net gain, Lombardi said.

In dealing with this issue, Lom-bardi warned the commission not to neglect the diversity of higher educa-tion institutions in the state.

“I urge you to be cautious about broad-scoped changes that will affect institutions differently depending on their functions and their structure,” he warned.

Rich Petrick , executive director for the Ohio Business Alliance for Higher Education and the Economy , provided the commission with direc-tion in their approach.

“A bleak budget environment is the new normal,” he said. “How do you deal with the new normal?”

Petrick said that any campus or state can cut its budget, but such de-cisions “often tend to be very short-term” and “do not fundamentally bend the cost curve.”

The right approach is to become more strategic and productive, he said.

Petrick stressed the importance of collaboration and communica-tion between all public bodies in the state, especially for accounting and budget.

“If you do all of these good things and you don’t communicate it, it will be a failure,” he said.

Melanie Amrhein , executive di-rector of the Louisiana Offi ce of Stu-dent Financial Assistance , discussed the changing role of TOPS funding over the years.

She highlighted the fact that TOPS is a merit-based fi nancial aid rather than need-based, like Pell Grants.

Over the past three to four years, she said, the GPA requirements for the upper levels of TOPS were re-duced from 3.5 to 3.0, allowing more students to qualify.

Commissioner of Higher Edu-cation Jim Purcell criticized the LA GRAD Act for the negative conse-quences it hangs over the heads of higher education institutions.

Schools often lower their target goals to ensure success because “the risk of losing is so high,” Purcell said. When falling short of goals car-ries so many negative consequences, schools tend to aim lower to increase likelihood of success, he said.

Purcell preferred a format in which higher education institutions would be funded more for showing any improvement with each new year.

Many institutions in Louisiana are within reach of their maximum potential, Purcell said, and when they achieve it, “we need to make sure they’re rewarded for staying there.”

The Governance Commission was formed over the summer to study the management of postsec-ondary education in Louisiana.

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Commission discusses higher ed. fund reformOhio specialist advised synergyClayton CrockettStaff Writer

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ELECTION

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‘‘‘Young voters often feel stuck, and we

kind of are.’Mardi Gauthier

early education junior

Hairy, erratically moving ants native to South America and the Caribbean have been in the United States since the 1950s, but now the pests are moving into Louisiana.

A pest control agency in Sul-phur sent a sample of the “hairy crazy ants” to the Louisiana State Arthropod Museum, where curator Victoria Bayless identified the spe-cies for the first time in Louisiana.

Bayless said the ants, whose scientific name is Nylanderia pu-bens, appeared in Florida in the 1950s and Texas in 2002. Ever since the hairy crazy ants came to south-eastern Texas, etymologists like Bayless have expected their arrival in Louisiana.

Sulphur is the only place hairy crazy ants have been found thus far, and Bayless said the speed of their migration into the rest of Louisiana is unpredictable because of the new climate.

She said researchers have not yet found a way to prevent or get rid of the ants.

According to Bayless, the ants’ common name is indicative of the way they move.

“Their movements are very er-ratic, so they look crazy,” she said.

Bayless said the main

difference between this species and other ant species is the size of the colonies. A single colony can con-tain millions of the pests because there are multiple queens, or head ants, that work together.

She said hairy crazy ants repro-duce rapidly and do not respond to normal pest control methods.

The ants are dispersed by peo-ple moving them, such as picking up flower pots and putting them down in a different environment. Bayless said they spread out and nest underneath things.

Hairy crazy ants have also been reported in walls of houses, she said. They can cause electri-cal shortages as they accumulate in large numbers.

Biology sophomore Ina Tilli-son said she would “lose her mind” if she found hairy crazy ants in her house.

“I wouldn’t be able to stay in the house,” she said, explaining she is allergic to ants.

Bayless said the hairy crazy ants bite, and they cause similar al-lergic reactions to other ant bites.

Because the species originated in tropical climates, Bayless said the ants will be limited in their mi-gration northward because of the colder climates.

She said the introduction of hairy crazy ants into a location where they are not native will likely cause imbalances in the ecosystem.

“All invasive species can po-tentially be a very serious problem,” Bayless said.

In Texas, the ants get into bee hives and eat larvae, causing a bee shortage. Bayless said this also af-fects agriculture because there are fewer bees to pollinate.

This also causes economic is-sues because of the additional costs to beekeepers to try to get rid of the ants, she said.

Bayless said there is much more research to be done in order to know more about this invasive species, such as how to decrease their population and how to avoid spreading them into homes.

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August’s infamous Shady’s bar fight, scored a touchdown on a quarterback sneak midway through the first quarter to put LSU ahead, 7-0.

But his entrance was met with a chorus of boos from a previously subdued Tiger crowd.

While LSU lost sophomore running back Spencer Ware to an early hamstring injury and strug-gled on offense most of the game, the Tigers may have found some new firepower at the skill positions.

Heralded freshman running back Terrence Magee’s redshirt was removed, and he scored a touch-down in his first career appear-ance as a Tiger. Overall, six Tigers received carries in the game, and sophomore Alfred Blue led the way with 16 rushes for 72 yards — both career highs — and a touchdown.

Freshman receiver Odell Beck-ham Jr. wowed with three catches for 75 yards, including a 51-yard touchdown reception where he dashed across the length of the field while eluding several Kentucky de-fenders en route to the end zone.

Miles said he was “pleasantly surprised” with the youngster’s contributions, but indicated that Ware might have returned if the game had been tight.

“He could’ve played,” Miles said. “The good news is he’ll have time to rehab it and quiet it down. It’s a muscle issue.”

Kentucky managed only two first downs in the first half, as LSU’s defense harassed Kentucky’s two quarterbacks to a horrendous

passing day while sacking them five times. Kentucky had just 155 yards of total offense in the game.

Sophomore defensive back Tyrann Mathieu continued his fringe Heisman candidacy with another virtuosic performance. Mathieu forced two more fumbles, giving him nine in 18 games and setting the LSU career record. He essentially sealed the victory with a sack and strip of Kentucky fresh-man quarterback Maxwell Smith that he picked up and returned 23 yards for a touchdown late in the third quarter for a 28-0 LSU advan-tage.

The Tigers’ bruising defensive performance forced Wildcat coach Joker Phillips to rotate between weary quarterbacks and open his post-game press conference with an injury report.

With LSU preparing for its annual showdown with Florida, whose starting quarterback John Brantley was knocked out of Sat-urday’s game against Alabama, the Tiger defense will likely have another chance to tee off on an un-steady quarterback core next week.

“It’s Florida,” said junior cor-ner back Morris Claiborne. “We’ve all been around for these match-ups and watched some of those great games. Our defense has to prove itself again against them. The team knows what kind of history is there. We paid back UK, now we’re ready for the next challenge.”

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Freshman defender Jodi Calloway (10) fights a Georgia player for the ball during the game Sunday at the LSU Soccer Complex. The Tigers defeated Georgia 2-1.

Tigers use early goals to beat Bulldogs

All the talk surrounding the LSU soccer team this past offsea-son was about the team’s focus on reclaiming Southeastern Confer-ence Western Division superiority.

Following a weekend home sweep of two of the SEC East’s strongest foes, Tennessee and Georgia, an outright SEC title is suddenly in play for the Tigers.

LSU defeated Georgia, 2-1, on Sunday afternoon behind an early goal onslaught to move to 4-0 in conference play. Au-burn also fell to division rival

Mississippi State on Sunday, leav-ing the Tigers (9-3-1) with the lone unbeaten mark in conference play.

Senior Taryne Boudreau was again at the center of an increas-ingly dangerous Tiger offensive attack. Following a Bulldog turn-over, Boudreau gained possession in the ninth minute and found ju-nior forward Carlie Banks, who netted her second goal of the sea-son from eight yards out.

“Taryne and Carlie continue to have a nice rapport, especially in the final third of the field,” said coach Brian Lee.

Just eight minutes later,

Boudreau took a Natalie Martin-eau pass inside the penalty box, spun off a Georgia defender and buried a left-footed liner to give LSU a 2-0 advantage.

The goal marked the eighth in nine games for Boudreau, and LSU has gone 8-0-1 in that stretch.

Senior goalkeeper Mo Isom said the early goals were espe-cially important given the physi-cal, grinding nature of Sunday matches in the SEC.

“It’s a boost to your defense getting up like that early,” Isom said. “You need a cushion like

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Jefferson makes return to football field after suspension stemming from incident

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soCCEr

Jordan Jefferson must love his critics. Amid a smattering of boos throughout Ti-

ger Stadium, No. 9 stepped on the field for the first time this season on a fourth and goal situ-ation at the Kentucky one-yard line and took care of business.

The senior quarterback ran the ball in to put No. 1 LSU ahead, 7-0, against Kentucky, a lead the Tigers would never give up.

While it was only one yard, the run was a giant step for a quarterback that was pegged as the starter prior to the season and his off-season criminal trouble following the Shady’s

incident in late August.Many players said Jefferson didn’t miss a

beat while he was suspended from the team.“He’s already been in the playbook every

day and throwing everyday,” said freshman wide receiver Odell Beckham, Jr. “He’s been wanting to be back and be part of this team again, and now he is.”

Jefferson finished the game with four rushes for 29 yards, which included two 12-yard quarterback keepers and a touchdown.

The team was quick to dispel any notions that Jefferson’s return to the team would cause complications.

“It’s been five years now [for Lee],” said senior offensive guard Will Blackwell.

“There’s nothing we haven’t really seen. We’re excited and Jordan and Jarrett are going to lead us to where we want to go.”

The Tigers were unanimously unhappy with the crowd’s reaction to Jefferson taking the field.

“I’m very disappointed in the boos,” Blackwell said. “It doesn’t really matter who’s in there at quarterback for us. I don’t think it’s good for our program or good for our school.”

Senior offensive guard T-Bob Hebert didn’t play against Kentucky, but he took to Twitter to talk about the crowd.

“Anybody who booed [Jefferson] today

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Senior quarterback Jordan Jefferson tries to evade a Kentucky defensive player during Saturday’s game against Kentucky in Tiger Stadium. The Tigers won 35-7.

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The Tigers placed their top five scorers in the top 16 en route to a second place finish behind McNeese State in the eight-team field at the 2011 McNeese Stam-pede in Lake Charles on Satur-day.

The Tigers’ tag team of se-niors Cullen Doody and Richard Chautin switched finishes from last week. Doody led the Tigers, finishing sixth overall in 19:40, and Chautin finished second for the Tigers and eighth overall with a time of 19:48.41 in the four-mile race.

“We work well together,” Doody said. “I feel good about the way I felt today and I know a lot of the guys felt the same way.”

Last week at the LSU invita-tional, Chautin bested Doody by 23 seconds in the 8,000 meters.

“Overall I’d say we had a great day today,” Chautin said. “Cullen Doody and William Wi-esler ran great individual races, and as a team we still have room to get better for conference.”

Wiesler, a redshirt freshman, ran 20:36 and finished 14th. Ju-nior Roger Cooke and sopho-more Alden Heaphy ran 20:13 and 20:47, finishing 12th and 16th, respectively.

The Lady Tigers finished third behind Nicholls State and McNeese State.

Junior Leigh-Ann Nac-cari led the team, finishing fourth overall in 17:48 for the

Teams finish 2nd, 3rd at Stampede

The LSU women’s swimming and diving squad swept its way to victory to start the 2011-12 season Friday.

The Lady Tigers won all 16 events to start the season 1-0 with a commanding 193-98 victory against in-state rival Tulane.

“We definitely saw some things in the water that we didn’t see last week [at the intrasquad meet],” said swimming coach Dave Geyer. “We saw a little bit more of a racing edge from some of our athletes.”

Diving coach Doug Shaffer said he told the divers he wanted them to fight through aches and pains, and he was pleased with what he saw against Tulane.

“We’re beat up, sore and tired, but they did what I asked them to do, which was to set that aside and compete,” Shaffer said.

Freshman diver Alex Bet-tridge claimed first place in both

the one-meter and three-meter events.

“Hopefully I make it to NCAAs this year,” Bettridge said. “And I’d like to get my name up on the [LSU records] board.”

Bettridge met one of her goals Friday and nearly accomplished the other. The Austin, Texas, na-tive qualified for the NCAA Re-gionals and her one-meter perfor-mance of 318.0 was just 13 points off the school record.

She posted a 268.57 in the three-meter competition.

Junior Jana Ruimerman swam in the 1,000-yard freestyle for the first time at LSU and finished first with a time of 10:20.74. Geyer said Ruimerman will swim the 1,000 free again later in the season to help the team.

“We talked about it before the meet and the last time she swam the 1000 free was when she was about 15 or 16,” Geyer said. “A light bulb went off in my head to experiment a little bit this week and give her that trial run and play with it and see where it leads.”

Junior swimmer Sara Haley finished first in the 200-yard but-terfly and 500-yard freestyle and contributed to two relay teams that

took first place. Senior swimmer Samantha

Goates won both the 50- and 100-yard freestyle sprints, and sopho-more swimmer Torrey Bussey posted first place finishes in the 100-yard breaststroke and 200-yard individual medley.

Junior swimmer Amanda Kendall was held out of the meet as she prepares to represent the United States at the Pan American

Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, in October. Kendall will miss two LSU meets while competing in Mexico.

“It was a team decision hold-ing her back in the meet,” Geyer said. “It gives the women an op-portunity to see how we can fill in those gaps without her competing for us.”

The men’s and women’s squads return to action Oct. 14

when they take on Florida State in Tallahassee, Fla. The following day, the Tigers and Lady Tigers will open Southeastern Confer-ence competition against Florida in Gainesville, Fla.

The Tigers haven’t lost back-to-back home games since the 2004 season.

But that changed this weekend when LSU dropped its Friday match against No. 23 ranked Tennessee, 1-3 (17-25, 25-23, 21-25, 14-25), and its Sunday match against Kentucky in straight sets (26-24, 25-16, 25-17).

The Tigers (10-5) dropped to 3-2 in Southeastern Conference play, falling to fourth in the SEC but re-taining the top spot in the Western Division.

LSU was unable to generate any momentum against the quicker and more accurate Wildcat team in Sun-day’s loss.

“Speed and ball control are

areas where we hang our hat on, and today speed and ball control were on the other side of the net,” said LSU coach Fran Flory. “And when you have that, you’re going to win the match.”

LSU was led by senior middle blocker Michele Williams, who post-ed a .348 hitting percentage with 12 kills on the day. But the Tigers also recorded a disappointing .165 hitting percentage and 19 errors to Ken-tucky’s .385 hitting percentage and 11 errors.

Kentucky senior middle blocker Becky Pavan and freshman outside hitter Lauren O’Conner led both teams with .533 and .545 hitting per-centages, respectively.

“[Kentucky] controlled every aspect of the match and we didn’t respond very well,” Flory said. “Our defense and ball control has really led us and created opportunities, and for the first time this year that failed us.”

LSU played Kentucky close in

the first set, losing by two points. Go-ing into the second and third sets, the first lost set was clearly in the minds of the Tigers, as the team came out flat and unable to keep pace with the speedy Wildcats.

“When a team [loses a close first set] I think that should spark a fire, and today we just didn’t an-swer any of the calls on the court,”

Williams said.LSU went on to drop the

next two sets by a combined 17 points, committing 13 errors, while Kentucky scored five of their six aces in the match. Kentucky also doubled the Tigers in total team blocks through the last two sets with eight.

LSU lost its first game of the

weekend to SEC-leading Tennessee in front of a season-high crowd of 1,581.

Junior outside hitter Madie Jones and sophomore middle blocker Desiree Elliott led the Tigers with 11 kills each, while freshman outside hitter Helen Boyle added nine more.

Freshman setter Malorie Par-do dropped to No. 2 in the SEC in assists behind Tennessee’s Mary Pollmiller despite recording 38 as-sists on the night.

The Tigers’ 13 blocks weren’t enough to stop Tennessee sophomore outside hitter Kelsey Robinson, who posted 20 kills.

LSU will continue SEC play on the road next weekend when the team travels to Columbia, S.C., to take on the Gamecocks on Friday.

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VOLLEYBALL

Tigers lose two straight at home to Tennessee, Kentucky

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Freshman outside hitter Helen Boyle (8) digs the ball Friday in the PMAC against rival Tennessee. The Tigers lost 1-3.

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SWIMMING AND DIVING

Lady Tigers start season with a sweep of Tulane at homeLSU victorious in all 16 home eventsScott BransonSports Contributor

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The Lady Tigers swim team defeated Tulane 193-98 at the meet Friday evening in the LSU Natatorium.

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The men’s golf team sent four Tigers to compete individually today in the Squire Creek Intercollegiate in Choudrant.

Senior Austin Gutgsell, sopho-more Smylie Kaufman, sophomore Landon Lyons and freshman Stewart Jolly will represent the Tigers in the tournament.

Those that didn’t make the trav-eling squads for other events were chosen to play, said senior golfer Sang Yi. The tournament marks the first of Jolly’s collegiate career.

“This tournament gives valuable experience to the players who don’t get to compete in some of the bigger tournaments,” Yi said. “It keeps the players sharp by allowing everyone to have some competition.”

Louisiana Tech, who won the overall competition at Squire Creek last year, is hosting the tournament for the eighth straight year. Although LSU players will be playing as in-dividuals, the tournament is consid-ered a team competition.

Last year’s tournament yielded strong performances from the four Tigers competing, and Yi said they are hoping for a similar success

this year. Former Tiger Ken Looper fin-

ished the 2010 tournament in second place behind individual champion Horacio Leon from Southeastern Louisiana. Looper finished at 1-over par 73, putting him seven shots be-hind Leon.

Lyons also competed in last year’s tournament as a freshman, finishing fourth place overall with a

3-over par 75. It was the first tourna-ment of his collegiate career.

Sophomores Franco Castro and Andrew Presley rounded out the Ti-gers’ representation last year. Presley tied for 16th place with a 9-over par 81, followed by Castro who tied for 54th place.

Yi said he expects all four Ti-gers competing in the two-day tour-nament to shine.

“If they all play their best game, any of them could win,” Yi said.

Yi also said that his experiences with the Squire Creek course have proven relatively easy. However, the greens can be somewhat difficult due to their slope and size, he said.

When I told people in my home-town of Greenville, S.C., I was going to school at LSU, their eyes widened.

“Don’t even look at funnels,” they said. The second piece of ad-

vice was, “Tail-gate. And send me pictures.”

S i x t e e n hours before an 11:20 a.m. kickoff against Kentucky, I rode my bike across campus and passed three couches on curbs

occupied by polo-wearing fraternity boys, two dads unloading SUVs full of bag chairs and one girl on the phone in front of Memorial Tower, shouting that the buttons were sup-posed to be at the house yesterday.

Glimpsing at these pockets of preparation seemed like an adven-ture, but the cool, dark calm was still the campus I’d spent the past couple weeks figuring out.

The next day blew my mind.Two hours before kickoff, I

squeezed through the solid pur-ple and gold crowd in front of the PMAC, following a blessed upper-classman who agreed to lead me to a tailgate near the baseball stadium.

People, generators and ice chests covered every square inch along the way. We nabbed some cookies from a gigantic dome-like tent, turned sideways to fit between two RVs parked end-to-end and ducked under a setup complete with electric fans, a television and a rug.

We emerged from the crush of plastic into full sunlight on the cor-ner of Nicholson and South Stadium, and I stared at the endless white tents wondering which one housed the in-coherent friend who had just hung up on me. The pause allowed my sen-sory overload to take effect.

“Callin’ Baton Rouge” blared from one tailgate’s speakers for the umpteenth time while “All I Do is Win” played from another, and more adults than I’d ever seen on LSU’s campus sized up this year’s crop of freshmen.

Brigades of college

women dressed in their gameday best streamed past. They were as intimi-dating as an army in full battle gear, and campus had somehow become their home base. I’m pretty sure I saw every single shade of purple and gold within the span of five minutes.

It dawned on me that there was no way to capture the insanity in a picture, no way to box up this experi-ence and ship it home for the benefit of my family.

“There are so many people here,” I said. The upperclassman nodded. “Look at all of them,” I said. “How is this even possible?” He laughed.

It occurred to me I knew noth-ing about what these people wanted to do with their lives, what kind of jobs they had or what worries cloud-ed their minds. For a second, the fact that I lived 670 miles away from home and the idea I might not see this upperclassman again in a school so huge bothered me.

I watched as a herd of Kentucky fans crossed the road, and a change came over the crowd. Everyone —

children, freshmen and grandparents alike — turned as one toward the blue-clad intruders and chanted the infamous, “Tiger bait! Tiger bait! Ti-ger bait!”

I’d only ever heard this yelled by my great uncle and grandfather as they watched LSU games on televi-sion, sitting in armchairs while my cousins and I played hide-and-seek.

Joining in felt like becoming part of a sacred club, a family of diehard fans who know, no matter age or social standing, this is their

turf. They protect the team for which they cheer and know that no place is better than LSU’s campus on a gameday.

Megan Dunbar is an 18-year-old mass communication freshman from Greenville, S.C.

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First LSU tailgating experience eye-opening, memorable

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DAWG DAYS

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Bacchus the bulldog watches LSU’s soccer team defeat the Georgia Bulldogs, 2-1, on Sunday.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — It was a mismatch on paper and on the field.

About the only thing that made Sunday’s game between the New Orleans Saints and Jack-sonville Jaguars interesting were chippy plays near the end.

Drew Brees threw for 351 yards and a touchdown, Darren Sproles added 188 all-purpose

yards and the Saints beat the Jag-uars 23-10 in a game that was more lopsided than the score in-dicated.

The Saints (3-1) scored touchdowns on their first two possessions and looked well on their way to scoring 30 points for the fourth consecutive week. But Brees threw two interceptions, John Kasay missed two long field goals and the Saints managed just nine points in the second half.

“If you had told us before the game that you’re going to have 500 yards of total offense and you’re going to convert 50 per-cent of our third downs, we would have thought that’s 40 points,”

Brees said. “Unfortunately, it was 23 points because we got inside the 20 three times in the second half and didn’t come away with touchdowns.“So that’s disappoint-ing, but feel we have proven that

we can move the ball. Now we just got to score touchdowns.”

NFL

Saints get off to fast start, hand inept Jaguars 23-10 loss

The Tigers and Lady Tigers hit the court with mixed results this weekend.

Junior Stefan Szacinski finished the weekend with a win in singles Sunday, along with senior David Roberts and sophomore Matt Zach-ary, at the Rice Fall Invitational in Houston. Freshman Chris Simpson and junior Roger Anderson lost their final singles matches of the tourna-ment.

The doubles team of Szacin-ski and Anderson and the duo of senior Tom Knights and Roberts both finished the tournament with

wins on Sunday.Seniors Mark Bowtell and Tom

Knights both won their consolation flight Saturday. Simpson, Anderson and sophomore James Turbervill also won Saturday second-round matches, while Szacinski, Zachary and Rob-erts each lost second-round matches.

Szacinski and Anderson won their second doubles match of the tournament Saturday, while the duo of Bowtell and Simpson and the team of Turbervill and Zachary won in consolation flight play. Knights and Roberts lost their consolation flight match Saturday.

Roberts, Szacinski, Anderson, Turbervill, Zachary and Simpson all defeated their first-round singles

opponents Friday, while Bowtell and Knights lost, 5-7, 3-6 and 4-6, 3-6, respectively.

“We got a lot of good perfor-mances, and we got a lot of work done,” men’s coach Jeff Brown said .

The pair of Szacinski and An-derson was the only LSU doubles team to win Friday.

“We have some new teams that have some work to do,” Brown said. “But they did a good job of handling things [this weekend].”

Senior Neal Skupski and junior Olivier Borsos will compete this week in Tulsa, Okla., at the Intercol-legiate Tennis Association All-Amer-ican Qualifying tournament.

“In doubles, Neal’s been playing

really well, so we hope that [Skupski and Borsos] mesh as a team,” Brown said.

Two Lady Tigers were also in Texas this weekend, playing at the Stephen F. Austin Fall Invitational in Nacogdoches.

Sophomore Hayley Everett and freshman Paige Bahnsen each lost their first two singles matches Friday, but together earned a first-round dou-bles victory, marking the duo’s third straight doubles victory.

Everett and Bahnsen scored sin-gles victories Saturday — Bahnsen in round robin play and Everett in con-solation flight play.

The pair dropped their second-round doubles match, 0-8, but won

their consolation flight match, 8-5, Saturday.

Senior Olivia Howlett and ju-nior Kaitlin Burns lost their singles pre-qualifying matches Saturday in the first round of the ITA All-Amer-ican tournament in Pacific Palisades, Calif.

Senior Whitney Wolf starts singles qualifying play in the ITA All-American tournament Tuesday, where she will also partner with Burns in doubles.

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TENNIS

Tigers, Lady Tigers experience mixed results in tournaments

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that sometimes, because mistakes happen in Sunday matches.”

LSU made a mistake of its own in the 23rd minute, allowing Georgia sophomore midfielder Nicole Locandro to deflect an Isom save back into the net and cut the Tiger lead in half.

Both teams were silent for the final 65 minutes, as each man-aged a handful of scoring chances while tired legs and tight defenses helped LSU preserve the victory.

“They got [a goal] against the run of play, and that can change everything on a Sunday with mo-mentum,” Lee said. “We really had to grind it.”

On Friday night, LSU took down No. 16 Tennessee, 2-0, with a dizzying array of midfield pass-es and another stingy defensive effort.

Senior midfielder Natalie Iey-oub notched the Tigers’ first goal in the 34th minute with a 20-yard, right-footed strike off an assist from sophomore Addie Eggleston. In the 62nd minute, Eggleston took a break-away from midfield and finished past two Volunteer defenders from eight yards out to cement the Tiger victory.

LSU is now 4-0 in the SEC for just the second time in Lee’s seven-year tenure. The Tigers also opened up with a 4-0 mark in 2009.

LSU now has a month-long unbeaten streak working, but the Tigers’ last eight matches have

come in the cozy confines of the newly-renovated LSU Soccer Sta-dium.

The Tigers will hit the road for six of their final seven confer-ence matches.

“We feel great about how we’re playing at home, and now the challenge is being mature enough to play that quality soccer on the road,” Lee said. “We know that you don’t win the SEC at home on a Friday night. You win them on the road, when you’re tired in Sunday games and facing

needs to stop watching #LSU games and stop cheering for the tigers, we don’t need you and don’t want you,” he tweeted.

Hebert later thanked the sup-portive fans, which he said were the majority.

LSU coach Les Miles said he didn’t talk to Jef-ferson following the boos.

“He certainly understands the position he’s in,” Miles said. “He’s taken defensive ends on and line-backers on, and I suspect he can handle 2,500 fans that are a little disposed to bemoan a guy that’s busting his tail to do everything he can do for LSU.”

Senior quarterback Jarrett Lee has had Tiger Stadium crowds

send boos his way during his tu-multuous freshman campaign.

“I’ve been in that position be-fore,” he said. “We’ve got some dedicated fans and sometimes

that happens. But you’ve got to shrug it off and I thought he did a good job.”

Lee played his least statisti-cally attractive game of the sea-son.

He was 8-of-21 passing for 169

yards and a touchdown, but Miles showed his confidence in the se-nior by subbing him in for Jeffer-son on a third-and-six situation in the fourth quarter.

Miles said the way the Tigers used Jefferson was specific to the Kentucky game plan.

“There’s an opportunity to use him in a variety of ways,” Miles

said. “I can tell you this: Jarrett Lee is our starting quarterback.”

Blackwell said having Jef-ferson back will provide more competition for Lee, rather than become a distraction.

“Jordan Jefferson was here last year and we went 11-2,” Blackwell said. “Jarrett Lee was here too. I think they’re just going to compete and it’s going to make both of them better.”

Some players said Jefferson’s return gave the team an energy boost.

“He was excited to be back,” Lee said. “He was ready to get on the field. He was being really vo-cal. He was getting us excited and that’s how Jordan is.”

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5,000-meters. “Coach [Mark Elliott] told

me to start the race at a faster pace today because this course is flat. So I did what he said and tried to keep the pace,” Naccari said.

Naccari beat her personal re-cord for the event by more than a minute.

“I was especially happy to see how Leigh-Ann did,” said senior Laura Carleton. “I thought she was capable of running like that, but it’s still always a bit sur-prising when someone is able to drop a minute off of their time.”

Carleton, who is using her redshirt this season, won the race as an unattached runner in 16:50 for 5,000-meters, setting a new cross country personal record.

“I can’t wait [to be back on the team next year]. Hopefully I’ll be running even better, and I know the rest of the team is go-ing to keep improving,” Carleton said. “The team ran really well, a lot of the girls had personal re-cords, so that was exciting.”

Juniors Brea Goodman, Laura Aleman and Dakota Good-man broke personal records in the 5,000-meters, finishing 11th, 14th and 19th overall. Freshman Andria Aguilar was the last scor-er for the Lady Tigers, finishing 25th overall.

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LSU sophomore cornerback Tyrann Mathieu (7) celebrates after his touchdown from a recovered fumble Saturday afternoon in Tiger Stadium.

‘‘‘He was getting us excited and that’s

how Jordan is.’

Jarrett Leesenior quarterback

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Sophomore forward Addie Eggleston evades a Georgia defender during the game on Sunday at the LSU Soccer Complex. The tigers are 4-0 in conference play.

This past Wednesday should have seen the close of what has been a dark public relations storm at LSU.

But after a brief respite, LSU football coach Les Miles sum-moned the clouds back to Baton Rouge on Saturday.

After the now-infamous Shady’s altercation, LSU quarter-back Jordan Jefferson and line-backer Josh Johns, both of whom where charged with felonies, went before a grand jury Wednesday and testified about the fateful night. Jefferson left the courthouse with a reduced charge of simple battery, and Johns had his charges dropped completely.

Both rejoined the football team immediately, as they should

have. Each served his suspension. Each had to watch as his team-mates stormed to a 4-0 record, a No. 1 ranking and the best month of football the school has seen since 2007.

Their punishment was more than enough for a bar fight. No gripes there.

But when Miles decided to in-sert Jefferson into the lineup on the Tigers’ second drive of the game, he brought attention back to the murky waters Baton Rouge waded through in early September.

Met with a mix of boos and cheers, Jefferson pushed into the end zone for LSU’s first touch-down.

It was a strange moment. Some of the boos were probably

directed at Jefferson, and others at Miles for putting Jefferson in the game so soon.

After the game, many players took to Twitter to voice their dis-pleasure with the boos. Offensive lineman T-Bob Hebert went so far as to tell the dissatisfied fans that “we don’t need you and don’t want you.”

There’s nothing wrong with defending a teammate. No qualms there.

The problem is the fact that we’re still talking about the alterca-tion, which has now pervaded the national conversation about LSU for more than a month.

It’s a black eye for the football team and a black eye for LSU.

Simply, Miles should have

sat Jefferson. At most, Jefferson should have seen action in garbage time. Why mess with the rhythm and chemistry of the best team in the country?

The grand jury’s verdict Wednesday should have been the end of a month-long obsession with barroom antics rather than the University’s athletic and academic prowess. But Jefferson’s presence in Saturday’s game, just days after the case’s conclusion, reopened a fresh wound.

Not a day has gone by since Aug. 19 that we haven’t heard Jef-ferson’s name, and perhaps a week outside the spotlight would have given fans time to let the incident go and Jefferson time to settle back into the routine of playing football

with a clear head.This isn’t about Jefferson. It’s

about the dark cloud that has hung over the University for weeks. If Jefferson would have played his first significant snaps next week-end against Florida, with more days between the case’s conclusion and his return to the field, it’s likely that not a boo would be heard.

It’s understandable to get him into the mix. But doing it so soon prolonged an already depressing conversation.

It’s time to move on.

It’s amusing to me how much people are obsessed with Face-book. It’s also amusing to me how much people whine about Facebook. Whether it’s chatting with friends, watching the news or even reading my Facebook feed, it seems every-one just loves to complain about the social networking giant.

Then again, with more than 800 million users, it’s easy to see that Facebook is a big part of many people’s lives. But that doesn’t mean everyone needs to throw a hissy fit every time CEO Mark Zuckerberg decides he wants to make a few tweaks to his baby.

After the “Facebook in your Facebook” update went live a cou-ple weeks ago, everyone went up in arms posting angry status updates complaining about the changes. The backlash was ridiculous and unnec-essary, especially considering the changes weren’t all that drastic.

Sure, I still can’t figure out what the site considers a top story for me and what isn’t. But it doesn’t mean I can’t stalk people the same way I’ve been doing for years. There’s always a work-around.

However, after seeing the af-termath of the last minor change to the social network, I’m going to start getting my “block” button ready for the angry statuses I’ll be seeing this week. Set to go live at the end of the week, your Facebook profile will change to the new Timeline.

Timeline organizes everything you’ve ever done on Facebook since you joined the site.

Want to see a status update you posted in November 2008? Done. Want to know how many new Face-book friends you made in 2010 or how many pages you liked that year? Also done.

It does it all.I was able to

opt-in to the new Timeline pro-file last week, so I’ve been playing and exploring all weekend. Over-all, the update is pretty nifty.

Users start by picking an album cover to be proudly displayed at the top of the Timeline along with your normal profile picture.

Then, all of your statuses, added pictures, likes, etc. are posted next to a long vertical line extending down the page — your timeline.

From there, you are able to ei-ther delete and add activities or or-ganize your posts by decades, years or months. It’s a really cool way to take a trip down memory lane and see what your past self was like.

Fortunately or unfortunately, if you’re able to meticulously search through your Facebook Timeline with such ease, someone else will be able to as well.

When the live news feed (the “Facebook in your Facebook”) was added, people complained it was an easier way to stalk friends. Well, Timeline makes it even easier.

When my profile switched to Timeline, I was asked if I wanted to

take a tour of the new features or not.What I’m about to tell you is

very important — take the tour.While most of the tour is tell-

ing you about very trivial and obvi-ous features, the tour ends by do-ing something Facebook normally doesn’t do after a major update — explicitly tells you how to change your security features to better pro-tect your privacy.

About three times during my tour, a pop-up box appeared point-ing me in the direction of the “View Activity” button. Here users can set what others — from the general

public to individual users — can see in their timelines.

Timeline is supposed to go live Thursday, according to my profile when I updated. Whether it actually will or not is another story. Updates have been postponed in the past.

Timeline is one of the best changes Facebook has done — at least during my five years on the site.

I know it will be met with backlash and many ignorant status updates, but it seems Zuckerberg is trying to keep his site relevant and fresh — especially with Google+ chomping at his heels.

Just remember to take the time and tweak those privacy settings. If not, you’ll be sharing your life with everyone.

Adam Arinder is a 22-year-old communication studies senior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_aarinder.

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With Jefferson’s quick return, Shady’s incident lingers

This week, as many as one quarter of LSU undergraduates will use prescription drugs like Adderall, Ritalin and Vyvanse to enhance their cognitive per-formance, according to a 2008 study.

Use — or abuse.

A 2007 column in the Cavalier Daily, the University of Virginia’s stu-dent newspaper, eloquently de-clared that these students “create work that is dependent upon the use of a pill rather than their own work ethic.”

“That constitutes outright cheating,” it continued.

Be that as it may, the prob-lem with this position is that there’s really no implication to its accusations of “cheating” — if anything, we’re presumed to understand that cheating is im-moral.

Many students have doubts about the morality of using such drugs, popularly dubbed “neu-roenhancement” by the medical community. In the context of sports, by comparison, pharma-cological performance enhance-ment is indeed cheating — it’s ex-plicitly prohibited in the “rules.”

There are no such rules, however, in academia. “Cogni-tive performance enhancement” is a term applicable to private tutors, triple espressos and eight

hours of sleep, for instance.No, what’s at the heart of

such accusations isn’t morality. It’s inequality — students using neuroenhancers outperform those who don’t.

But the evidence indicates otherwise.

According to Martha Farah, director of the Center for Cogni-tive Neuroscience at the Univer-sity of Pennsylvania, neuroen-hancers are decidedly less helpful for students scoring above aver-age — such students aren’t being disadvantaged, in other words.

On the contrary, neuroen-hancers actually might promote academic equality of opportu-nity, which is an explicit goal of our education system. A 2007 report by the British Medical As-sociation argued that “selective use of neuroenhancers amongst those with lower intellectual ca-pacity, or those from deprived backgrounds who do not have the benefit of additional tuition, could enhance the educational opportunities for those groups.”

Either way, the idea of “brain steroids” and “brain hacking” isn’t by any means a novel one — in fact, some of humanity’s most celebrated thinkers were “cheat-ers,” as it were.

English polymath Sir Fran-cis Bacon, for one, voraciously consumed the spice saffron, writ-ing that “it maketh the English sprightly.” Lock him up.

French novelist Honoré de Balzac reportedly guzzled gal-lons of coffee — which “chases

away sleep” — to power his noto-riously protracted writing spells. Throw the book at him, too.

French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre actually resorted to using amphetamine — speed — to finish “Being and Nothing-ness” and “No Exit.” Mon Dieu! Off with his head!

Just as there’s nothing new about all this, there’s also noth-ing wrong.

“Toward responsible use of

cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthy,” a 2008 article published by the University of Pennsylva-nia — and authored by academics and neurologists from the Uni-versity of Cambridge, the Uni-versity of Manchester and Har-vard Medical School — went as far as endorsing neuroenhance-ment outright.

“Like all new technologies, cognitive enhancement can be used well or poorly,” the article

said. “We should welcome new methods of improving our brain function.”

Indeed, maybe we should.

Phil Sweeney is a 25-year-old English senior from New Orleans. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_philsweeney.

On April 6, 2009, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck the central Italian city of L’Aquila, killing 308 people and destroying the homes of more than 28,000 residents.

Victims of other natural disas-ters share their fear and uncertain-ty, but two weeks ago, authorities in L’Aquila began an entirely dif-ferent kind of disaster.

Six of the Italian seismolo-gists and representatives responsi-ble for studying and reporting seis-mic activity have been indicted for manslaughter due to their inability to predict the L’Aquila earthquake.

Whether people executing their noncriminal jobs in good faith should ever be accused of criminal acts is debatable, but “earthquake predictor” is a job that does not exist.

While scientists understand earthquakes are caused by the buildup of stress along fault lines between tectonic plates, no reli-able earthquake prediction system has yet been developed. The best seismologists can currently do is provide the public with informa-tion of the seismic risk associated

with different areas of the world.The region surrounding

L’Aquila is classified as a Cat-egory 1 seismic zone, the highest level where resi-dents risk “high or catastrophic seismicity.”

I am not sug-gesting residents of L’Aquila and other high-risk seismic zones to abandon their homes and move to less earth-quake -prone areas. As a lifetime resident of southern Louisiana, I understand the forces pulling us home in spite of the natural world’s apparent desire for our departure.

The people of L’Aquila have rebuilt their homes in the past and should continue doing so in the future, but their treatment of the seismologists trying to help them during this ordeal is ignorant and counterproductive.

Science is a method based on observation and logic we use to

make sense of the world around us, and while science has brought humanity many advances, perfect knowledge is not one of them.

Science is heavily based on the study of uncertainty. The real objective of a scientific experi-ment is not to prove an explana-tion correct, but to find evidence for why one explanation is better or worse than another. A good sci-entist is always open to the possi-bility of being wrong, and over the decades many ideas about how the world works have been disproved, leaving us with a set of best guess-es backed up by millions of hours of close observation and experi-ments.

When faced with devasta-tion, the people of L’Aquila did not want uncertainty or a scien-tist’s best guess — they wanted predictions beyond the abilities of modern scientists.

While earthquake prediction is still impossible, L’Aquila’s best chance at an accurate system being developed is supporting the work of the men and women who have devoted their lives to studying

the problem.By indicting these seismolo-

gists based on the public’s unrea-sonable expectations, L’Aquila is not only slowing progress in earthquake prevention by threat-ening scientists who fail, but also dissuading seismologists from helping people in the region re-build their homes and businesses to better withstand the next major earthquake.

Proponents of the indictment argue the seismologists did not adequately convey the dangers of a major earthquake to the popula-tion in the days of minor seismic activity leading up to the L’Aquila earthquake, but again I believe the public placed unreasonable expec-tations on the group of scientists.

After several days of minor earthquakes, the Italian seismolo-gists concluded, “There is no reason to say that a sequence of small-magnitude events can be considered a predictor of a strong event.” This statement reflects the currently impossible task of earth-quake prediction.

With our current

understanding, a series of small quakes could mean a major earth-quake is coming, but the probabili-ty of raising a false alarm is at least 100 times more likely than a major earthquake actually occurring.

Scientists are slowly unrav-eling the mysteries of the natural world. Just a few decades ago, hurricanes would kill thousands of people without warning, but meteorologists are now able to predict the path and intensity of most storms with remarkable precision.

We may never be able to predict earthquakes, but if we ever hope to find the way, we cannot lock up the people doing the searching.

Andrew Shockey is a 21-year-old biological engineering junior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_ashockey.

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because it is more than 10 years old and is quickly becoming ob-solete. The new system will in-tegrate existing components of PAWS like the degree audit and schedule request tabs.

The function of PAWS is to take portlets — individual parts of the portal that were developed in the 1970s — and integrate them into one interface, accord-ing to Sheri Thompson, IT com-munications and planning officer.

PAWS was created in the ’90s and has remained largely un-changed until now. ITS will slow-ly switch to myLSU because the current portlets in PAWS are out-dated. Replacing the components will take a significant amount of time, Thompson said.

“As we replace the individual components with new technol-ogy, the integration needs to be seamless,” Thompson said. “It would take too much time to code these new systems for PAWS.”

Rodgers said this change is necessary to keep up with the

latest technology.“Students frequently expe-

rience server problems during times of high usage,” Rodgers said. “A good example of this is when students schedule classes.”

Thompson said the func-tion of myLSU is to integrate the new portlets once they are devel-oped. These portlets will sit inside myLSU and perform similar to the current, outdated ones.

Though myLSU will replace the mainframe of the current PAWS, Rodgers said students should not experience a major difference in performance until the individual components are also replaced. Rodgers said the most noticeable difference is the layout of myLSU.

“It is a lot more graphically pleasing than PAWS,” Rodgers said. “It also will have event no-tifications that will keep students better informed about what is go-ing on.”

ITS is looking to gauge the new portal’s reception on campus.

“A Portal Advisory Com-mittee has been formed at the

University to obtain feed-back from the campus com-munity,” Thompson said in an e-mail.

The committee includes fac-ulty and staff from many areas of campus, with Rodgers as the only student on the committee. But Thompson said students will be able to provide feedback through several focus groups that ITS will conduct.

The committee’s main re-sponsibility will be to help de-termine what features will be integrated, Thompson said. The committee’s first meeting is Sept. 26.

PAWS, from page 1

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Matthew Loupe said he wanted to see the bands perform and would like to play in next year’s Bat-tle of the Bands.

“[It was] pretty decent. Better than I thought it was going to be,” said Antonio Smith, mechani-cal engineering freshman, who happened to stumble upon the event as he was walking around campus.

Students on Target, a part of Student Government, hosted the event that has been taking place at the University since the ’90s.

“Our motto is ‘music with a

mission,’” said Khristen Jones, SOT director and accounting se-nior.

She said there was an in-crease in talent and a great audi-ence turnout at this year’s con-test.

“I think all of the bands have been really, really good,” said Christina Tran, SOT member and microbiology junior.

SOT works to promote a healthy lifestyle and delivered wellness messages throughout the event.

Each band submitted an ap-plication and CDs, and SOT members chose the four bands that competed Saturday.

BANDS, from page 1

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‘Our motto is ‘music

with a mission.’’

Khristen JonesStudents on Target

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