The Daily Reveille - January 27, 2012

NBA: Former LSU star rocks the court in Sacramento, p. 5

Basketball: Pack the PMAC this Saturday for Kentucky, p. 6

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Campus: Performing arts night held in Union, p. 3

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Friday, January 27, 2012 • Volume 116, Issue 79

DREAM GIRL

HEALTH

LSUHSC hitches onto Obama’s vet program Lea Ciskowski

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With her waist-length brunette locks, Farmer, a Holly Simon, director of marketing for Hooters Natchez, Miss., native, was branded the “Baton Rouge Louisiana, said there is no formal audition process, and Bombshell” for the competition. She was selected from the contestants are selected by the national Hooters Magabout 40,000 Hooters Girls around the world. The final- azine based on their performance throughout the year. ists went to Aruba for one week in November to compete Transforming the competition into a TV show is an and film a television show that premiered on SPEED on annual tradition, Simon said.

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First Lady Michelle Obama and Second Lady Jill Biden’s “Joining Forces” initiative to support and medically treat the nation’s veterans is spanning medical schools nationwide, and while LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans is among them, the OBAMA initiative has been in place there for four years, thanks to Paul Harch.

The initiative, announced Jan. 11, combatted post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries, or TBI, in veterans.

Harch, clinical associate professor and director of LSUHSC New Orleans’ Hyperbaric Medicine and Wound Care Department, has been treating veterans suffering from PTSD and TBI with hyperbaric oxygen therapy, or HBOT, since 2008.

Before the First Lady OBAMA, see page 11

ART

Former LSU instructor hosts largest national biennial art event Ferris McDaniel Contributing Writer

Who knew so much beauty could come from so much devastation?

Six years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, the city now hosts the country’s largest biennial art event, Prospect New Orleans, which owes its creation to the storm.

“If it wasn’t for Katrina, the idea would have never occurred to me,” said Dan Cameron, creator and artistic director of Prospect New Orleans.

The first of the every-twoyears event, Prospect.1, premiered in 2008, and the second, Prospect.2, opened in October

and will close Sunday.

Cameron will lecture in Dodson Auditorium today at 5 p.m. to discuss the exhibition, which features work from 27 international artists, including eight local artists. Artist Alexis Rockman’s panoramic mural painting, which took a year to CAMERON complete, is on display at the Contemporary Art Center and is one of the exhibition’s must-sees, he said.

Cameron, a former New York City museum curator, said various PROSPECT, see page 4

photo courtesy of PAWEL WOJTASIK

Photographer Paweł Wojtasik’s panoramic photo, “Below Sea Level,” will be featured in Prospect.2 New Orleans art event.

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PHOTO STORY

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Performers celebrate in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.

photos by MARIAH POSTLETHWAITE / The Daily Reveille

As part of the MLK Performing Arts Night, English major Christien Bold [top left] performs with his band; [bottom left] dance team FENAJIM performs to tribal music; a member of FENAJIM [center] performs a lyrical dance; [top right] Legacy dance team performs; and kinesiology major Anna Davis [bottom right] recites a song Thursday in the Cotillion Ballroom for the celebration in honor of MLK.

Watch a video of the show at www.lsureveille.com/multimedia.

POLITICS

State senator encourages women to seek political office

Kate Mabry Staff Writer

Senate President Pro Tempore Sharon Weston Broome encouraged women to find their place in the political arena Thursday afternoon during an online seminar called “Don’t Get Mad, Get Elected.”

Broome was promoting the Center for American Women and Politics’ 2012 project, which is “a national, non-partisan campaign to increase the number of women elected to Congress and state legislatures by taking advantage of the once-ina-decade opportunities of 2012,” according to the project’s website.

Debbie Walsh, webinar moderator and CAWP director, said the purpose of the project is to champion advancement and promote the leadership of women on both the state and national level.

While women comprise about 51 percent of the population in the U.S., Walsh said they are vastly underrepresented in the legislature, holding only 17 percent of congressional seats, 12 percent of governorships and 17 percent of big-city mayorships.

Representation of AfricanAmerican women is even lower, with only 4.5 percent in Congress and 4.7 percent in state legislature positions.

Walsh said she has studied women’s participation in politics for 40 years, and the progress has been slow. A few women with “big names” have made headway in politics, but the “challenge with these few big names is that they are few,” she said.

“We have to face the reality of how few women we actually have,” she said.

Broome and former Missouri state legislator Emmy McClelland

spoke in the webinar about their experiences in office and their advice to women who wish to run in the future.

“It is important that women have a voice at the table when important decisions are made about our state’s and our nation’s future.

It is important that women realize they can run for elected office, win and make a difference,” Broome said. “This is particularly important in state legislatures with term limits where more and more seats are up for grabs.”

Broome said her frustration with problems in her community spurred her to run for office, and she thought she could do something about the issues.

“I had no political or financial backing,” she said. “I just had my family, friends and church members.”

While the majority of state legislators have backgrounds in law, Broome said her background in communications brings in a new set of

skills to the political arena.

Although that same political arena is dominated by men, Broome said, “Women are just as qualified as our male counterparts.”

Walsh agreed.

“Women are able to work together across party lines,” she said.

“Women usually run when there is a problem that needs to be solved.

Men run to be someone; women run to do something.”

Broome also gave advice about running for office.

“Dream big. Take all the limits off of yourself,” she said. “Think strategically. Jump in and don’t hesitate.”

McClelland reiterated Broome’s sentiments.

“Get involved,” she said. “If you can’t run this time, get involved in someone else’s campaign and take your skill set to help them.”

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ACADEMICS

School of Social Work to add child and family studies as undergrad program Degree moves from College of Agriculture Shannon Roberts Contributing Writer

The School of Social Work will welcome child and family studies as its first undergraduate program beginning July 1.

Child and family studies is moving from the School of Human Ecology in the College of Agriculture to the School of Social Work.

The program requested the move into the School of Social Work before the end of the fall semester, said Daphne Cain, social work interim dean and Master of Social Work program director.

Both Cain and Loren Marks, associate professor and interim division head of the division of child and family studies, said they agree child and family studies fits well with the School of Social Work.

Many social work faculty members often work with at-risk children and families, which is often a research topic for child and family studies faculty, Cain said.

“We want to build better

PROSPECT, from page 1 artists reached out to him after Katrina to help revive the broken city.

Cameron first visited the Big Easy in 1987.

“I went for an art event, and I stayed for Jazz Fest,” he said.

The artist said he fell in love with the festival and began attending every year — arranging his schedule to enjoy the city for three, four or sometimes 10 days.

To Cameron, New Orleans was a place for leisure rather than business — until local artists presented the idea for an exhibit.

“I had done different biennials internationally in Europe and Asia, and I was familiar with the form,” he said. “I thought that I could get enough support in the contemporary art world to bring people to New Orleans.”

And he did.

Cameron said the project began in 2006 with the intention to bring contemporary art tourists to New Orleans and give recognition to the city’s visual artists.

Then, in 2008, Prospect.1 premiered with a bang, Cameron said.

“For a lot of people in the art world, Prospect.1 was a once-ina-lifetime experience,” he said.

Cameron said the second installment was postponed in 2010 due to funding constraints. Dawn DeDeaux, Prospect.2 artist, said the event is vital for the community, but she’s concerned about its future.

“I hope that the city of New

people. We want to enrich peoAssistant professor of child ple’s lives,” Marks said. and family studies Cassandra Before these programs were Chaney teaches a social work merged, child and family studies elective and said the program’s students often took electives in move will strengthen graduate social work, and vice versa, Cain and undergraduate programs in said. Many of the students who the future. studied in the child and family “It will allow us to build on studies program went on to work each of our existing strengths that in social fields or apply to the actually make the school a much School of Social Work, according stronger unit,” Chaney said. to Marks.

In 2009, the School of SoMarks said students in child cial Work introduced a minor in and family studies social work, its gain internships ‘We want to build better first foray into unat nursing homes propeople. We want to dergraduate and as court-apgrams. But in the pointed special enrich people’s lives.’ next few years, advocates. At the the school is hopend of their work, ing to introduce Loren Marks they write letters associate professor and interim division a baccalaureate to the incoming social work prohead of child and family studies class about their gram, Cain said. experiences and knowledge they The addition of child and gained through their work. family studies to the School of “We give students real-world Social Work is only part of a experience at the undergrad lev- larger merger that will combine el,” Marks said. six units, including the School of Cain said social work faculty Social Work, into one College of are excited about the merger as Human Sciences and Education. well because of the research prospects.

She said the child and family studies faculty has exceptional publication records and great Contact Shannon Roberts at teaching abilities, which will be sroberts@lsureveille.com an asset to students.

Orleans and the state recognize the significance of the event and make sure that Prospect.3 happens,” she said.

Cameron’s lecture today will not be the first time he has visited University halls.

Cameron substituted for art history professor Susan Ryan while she wrote a book during the fall 2011 semester. The class concerned the history of biennials and their meaning to the art world, he said.

“It was a really amazing opportunity to have somebody who could explain from his personal experience in the field about biennials,” said Rae Jung Wilburn, art history graduate student.

Wilburn said Cameron’s hands-on class focused on his exhibits’ messages, along with honing in on individual artists within the shows, and allowed students to participate heavily in Prospect New Orleans.

Half of the classes were spent traveling to New Orleans, Wilburn said. Students met with Prospect artists, including DeDeaux, and visited venues like the New Orleans Museum of Art. “We were meeting with the artists, getting their perspective and seeing how they approach exhibitions,” she said.

Wilburn said Cameron’s class was a valuable experience, but his insights were invaluable, and having his expertise, guidance and encouragement was incredible.

Cameron left the job after the semester’s end, just as he will depart as Prospect’s artistic director

after P.2. Conventional biennials change leadership every two years, and Cameron has been the event’s artistic director since the start, he said.

Cameron said he is returning to the field he is most familiar with — curating at the Orange County Museum of Arts in Newport Beach, Calif.

But he isn’t abandoning Prospect New Orleans. He bought a house in New Orleans so he can return.

“My original idea of settling down in New Orleans when it’s time for me to retire is my longtime goal,” Cameron said. “I’ll still be involved in Prospect indirectly, but rather than being one of those directors that stays and stays forever, I thought it would be better to turn the reins over to someone else.”

Contact Ferris McDaniel at fmcdaniel@lsureveille.com

Friday, January 27, 2012

“A man who stops advertising to save money, is like a man who stops the clock to save time.”

-Henry Ford

Sports

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Lady Tigers visit Vandy on Sunday Luke Johnson Sports Writer

Former Tiger Marcus Thornton maintains strong ties to LSU Chris Abshire Sports Writer

The LSU-Kentucky basketball rivalry has mostly been a house of horrors for the Tigers in recent years.

But not on former Tiger standout and current Sacramento Kings guard Marcus Thornton’s watch.

As LSU prepares to host a No. 1-ranked Wildcat squad Saturday afternoon, the matchup has sparked nostalgia for the notoriously hot-and-cold-shooting Thornton.

In 2009, Thornton led the Tigers — who were 12-1 in the Southeastern Conference at the time — into Rupp Arena, where LSU hadn’t won in 20 years.

LSU left Lexington, Ky., that February afternoon with an SEC regular-season championship, and did it in thrilling fashion. Thornton scored 19 of his 23 points in the second half and earned the assist on former forward Tasmin Mitchell’s game-winning 3-pointer in a 73-70 victory.

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Sacramento Kings’ Marcus Thornton drives to the basket Jan. 20 during their 88-86 victory over the San Antonio Spurs in San Antonio, Texas.

THORNTON, see page 7

When LSU laces up its sneakers Sunday in Nashville, Tenn., against Vanderbilt, LSU coach Nikki Caldwell will be looking for her team to accomplish a goal that has eluded them all season — forty minutes of complete basketball.

Even during its 10-game win streak, LSU has struggled at times in every game this season — whether with turnovers, shooting or rebounding.

“This team has shown where they’ve turned it around and really played in a tough way,” Caldwell said Jan. 17. “There’s been a lot of games where we’ve been down nine, 10, 12 points. We’ve just been tough in stretches and got ourselves back in the game, and ultimately we’ve put ourselves in position to win those games.”

That rang true in LSU’s last game on the road against an East Tennessee State team that came in with a 5-14 record.

The Lady Tigers were down by as many as 12 at one point early in the first half and needed a second-half rally to send the game to VANDERBILT, see page 7

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Tigers to take on No. 1 Kentucky Wildcats averaging 78.4 points per game Luke Johnson Sports Writer

LSU will finish the final leg of a difficult spat in its schedule Saturday, and it’s the big one.

Kentucky (20-1) will bring its fresh No. 1 ranking to the PMAC against an LSU squad (12-8) coming off consecutive losses to ranked Southeastern Conference opponents.

But the Tigers are treating the No. 1 ranking as if it’s an elephant in the room, following LSU coach

Trent Johnson’s personal motto not to treat any team differently than the next.

“I understand they’re No. 1 and all that, and they’re the most talented team we could play this year,” Johnson said. “But what this thing is about is competing at a high level all the time and not treating anybody any different.”

It’s a noble concept — especially when playing a team you’re expecting to beat — but it would be hard for the Tigers to look past the Wildcats’ bevy of talent.

“We all know they can shoot from every position,” said sophomore guard Andre Stringer. “Our ability to play defense on all five will [determine] whether we’re

going to be there in the end.”

Six Kentucky players are averaging double digits this season, paving the way for an offense that is averaging 78.4 points per game — the second-best mark in the SEC. Sophomore guard Doron Lamb is leading the charge at 13.7 points per game.

Of those six, five are underclassmen — which Johnson said is a tribute to Kentucky coach John Calipari’s recruiting ability.

“There are no weaknesses,” Johnson said about Kentucky’s roster. “From an individual talent level — I chuckle at this — the national experts say [freshman guard KENTUCKY, see page 7

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LSU sophomore guard Andre Stringer (10) moves by an Auburn defender Jan. 17 during LSU’s 65-58 overtime victory against Auburn in the PMAC.

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LSU students should pack the PMAC on Saturday against Kentucky

SWIMMING AND DIVING

MIC’D UP Micah Bedard Sports Columnist

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LSU sophomore swimmer Ricardo Alvarado Jiminez swims the men’s 100-yard breaststroke Jan. 21 at the swimming and diving meet against Texas A&M.

Lady Tigers set for Houston quad meet

relay lineup possible before we go to conference.”

Despite the loss to Texas The LSU women’s swim- A&M, two LSU divers, junior Elle ming and diving team will travel Schmidt and freshman Alex Betto Houston, Texas, to compete in tridge, had their best performances a quad meet Friday and Saturday of the season. against Houston, Rice and Tulane.

Schmidt set a personal record The meet will be the Lady Ti- in the three-meter dive with a total gers’ final competition before the score of 298.05, and Bettridge had Southeastern Conference Cham- personal bests in both events, inpionships begin Feb. 15 in Knox- cluding the LSU all-time best score ville, Tenn. on the three-meter with a 344.40 “It’s that final tune-up for our total score. women’s program before [the SEC But the Lady Tigers’ divChampionships],” said LSU swim- ing pair will have their hands full ming coach Dave Geyer. “A lot of with Conference USA powerthe girls are swimming their main house Houston. The Cougars’ head events again just to get that final coach, Jane Figueiredo, is a former race experience before we head to Olympic diving coach and 10-time conference.” consecutive ConThe Lady Follow this weekend’s matches ference USA DivTigers (2-3, 1-1 ing Coach of the at lsureveille.com/sports.

SEC) are coming Year. off a tough dual- • Gymnastics to meet Gym “I have nothDogs at Georgia match loss at home ing but respect for to Texas A&M • Tennis heads west for ITA [Figueiredo’s] prolast Saturday, but gram,” said LSU Kickoff at the University Geyer said even diving coach Doug of California though the Lady Shaffer. “It’s comTigers fell, strides • Track and Field travels to petition kind of Fayetteville for Razorback were made. like Texas A&M, Invitational “We swam where we’re lookwell,” Geyer said. ing forward to go“Texas A&M is a strong program, ing into an environment to be chalbut I fully expect our women to lenged and pushed.” rebound well and perform their Schmidt has been suffering best.” from an ear infection that has kept Olympic hopeful junior her out of practice this week, but Amanda Kendall led the Lady Ti- Shaffer said it should not affect the gers last Saturday, claiming first game plan this weekend. place in the 100-meter butterfly, “Our ground game and our 100-meter freestyle and 200-meter preparation is done,” Shaffer said. freestyle. Kendall will be looking “Our most important game right for another strong performance as now is our mental game.” she prepares for the Olympic Trials Summing up the Lady Tigers’ in June. approach this weekend, Geyer and Senior Samantha Goates and Shaffer both said the most imporjunior Sara Haley also produced tant thing isn’t wins or losses, but solid performances for the Tigers, rather positive results against qualwith Goates winning the 50-me- ity competition. ter freestyle and Haley taking the “Our sport is unique in the 200-meter butterfly. fact that dual-meet wins and losses Geyer said he hopes the team aren’t too important for us,” Geyer will gain competitive experience in said. “It’s performance and evindividual events and solidify the erything we do to prepare and get relay teams with this weekend’s ready for conference championcompetition. ships.”

“We’re really keeping our options open on relays,” Geyer said.

“We’re trying to give as many peoContact Spencer Hutchinson at ple different spots on relays just shutchinson@lsureveille.com so that we can try to get the best Spencer Hutchinson Sports Contributor

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Tough times have set in for the LSU men’s basketball team.

The Tigers have lost four of their last five conference games and are in danger of missing out on the NCAA Tournament if they don’t turn things around quickly.

But the slate doesn’t get any easier when the No. 1 Kentucky Wildcats bring their talents to Baton Rouge on Saturday.

This is without a doubt the marquee game of the Tigers’ home schedule this season. Nationally ranked Marquette and Virginia were big games as well, but neither occurred while school was in session.

This game gives LSU students a chance to pack the PMAC to see one of the most talented college basketball teams in recent memory.

And I’m certainly not talking about LSU. Kentucky coach John Calipari has his team running on all cylinders. The Wildcats have six players that average double figures, making it difficult to key on just one guy.

The team is chock full of future NBA talent.

NBADraft.net currently predicts six players from Kentucky being drafted in the 2012 NBA Draft, with five of them going in the first round.

Those five players being

drafted in the first round would tie an NBA record for first-round picks set by none other than Kentucky in 2009 when John Wall, Demarcus Cousins, Eric Bledsoe, Patrick Patterson and Daniel Orton all went in round one.

Calipari has once again assembled a team that utilizes underclassmen. Not only does Calipari have the No. 1-ranked team in the country so far this season, but he was also able to haul in the No. 1 recruiting class in the nation last year — signs for a continuously bright future for the Wildcats.

Think about this for a second — Calipari’s 2011 signing class consisted of four players. Of those four players, the lowest-ranked incoming freshman was Kyle Wiltjer, who ESPN.com called the No. 19 recruit in the nation.

The other three true freshmen — Anthony Davis, Marquis Teague and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist — were all consensus top-10 recruits by the majority of recruiting websites.

Davis, Teague and Kidd-Gilchrist join sophomores Terrence Jones and Doron Lamb to make up one of the youngest starting lineups in the nation.

For Kentucky to have such a young lineup and a 20-1 record speaks volumes on how Calipari has learned to adapt to the new era of “one-and-done” college basketball. Even though I am vehemently against the “one-and-done” rule, I can’t deny how well Calipari has used it to his advantage

at Kentucky.

He has been able to consistently recruit kids to campus by preaching wins and preparation for their future NBA careers.

High school kids see a player like Derrick Rose — whom Calipari prepped at Memphis for a year — become the No. 1 pick in the draft, and they want a piece of that pie.

There is no reason the PMAC should not be sold out for this matchup against top-ranked Kentucky.

I was a freshman in 2008 when former LSU star Marcus Thornton took the SEC by storm and led the Tigers to the SEC Title.

For those games, I sometimes had to get there an hour early just to be guaranteed an upper-level seat in the student section.

This year’s version of the student section at games has been lackluster at best. There have been games when I’ve only seen 10 or 20 students in attendance. The Tigers have not received any kind of significant support at home so far this season.

Here is my request for LSU students: Bring back the Deaf Dome — at least on Saturday.

Micah Bedard is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from Houma. Follow him on Twitter @DardDog.

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“That was the highlight of my senior year,” the Baton Rouge native said. “Beating Kentucky in Rupp to win the SEC? That’s a special accomplishment. You play for championships, and it doesn’t get much greater than that.”

Few players in college basketball were greater than Thornton during his two years at LSU, especially in that spectacular senior season when his individual accomplishments were rivaled only by the team’s success.

Thornton was the consensus SEC Player of the Year, averaged 21.1 points per game and reached the 30-point plateau seven times during the 2008-09 campaign.

He also scored 55 points in the Tigers’ two-game NCAA Tournament run, including a sizzling 25-point performance that kept LSU within striking distance during a competitive second-round loss against eventual national champion North Carolina.

“I’ve played with a lot of good shooters over the years, and that’s usually how you learn to rebound,” said senior forward Storm Warren, who was a freshman during Thornton’s final season at LSU. “I didn’t have to get many rebounds playing with him. You knew the shots were

KENTUCKY, from page 5

Marquis] Teague is their weakness.”

Johnson paused to let that piece of information sink in and let out a low laugh.

“Really?” Johnson asked.

“Teague’s going to play in the NBA in a year or two.”

But for all Kentucky’s talent, it isn’t a perfect team. Johnson referenced their assist-to-turnover ratio, which stands a little better than 1:1.

VANDERBILT, from page 5

overtime and eventually steal a win.

LSU is heading to Tennessee for the third time since Jan. 19, and the team will need to come closer to achieving a complete game to return to Baton Rouge with a win.

The Commodores come into the game with a 15-5 record, thanks in large part to the offensive firepower of sophomore guard Christina Foggie.

Foggie uses a deadly touch from long range to average 18.4 points per game for the Commodores this season.

She scored a career-high 34 points in a win over No. 15 Georgia on Thursday night, connecting on 7-of-16 three-point-attmepts.

The sophomore is shooting 48 percent from beyond the arc this season — just under her overall shooting percentage of 48.6.

But despite the Lady Tigers’ recent struggles, they’re only giving up an average of 50.7 points per game defensively this season and will benefit from the return of sophomore guard Jeanne Kenney, who is returning from a concussion she suffered in the loss to Tennessee.

With Kenney back on the court, LSU should be able to return to a two-guard starting lineup, which could help mitigate the turnover problem that has been worsened recently by the team’s dearth of guards.

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going in.”

A Louisiana boy who starred at Tara High School, Thornton became an instant Hornets fan favorite when New Orleans drafted him in June 2009.

Thornton’s 14.6 points per game during his rookie campaign made him one of the league’s most prolific rookie scorers before a sophomore slump hit early in his second season.

Mid-season last year, the Hornets traded him to Sacramento, where he flourished in a free-flowing offensive system and earned a lucrative four-year, $33 million contract after the NBA lockout was resolved in November.

“I definitely miss being home sometimes,” Thornton said. “The biggest difference is not being able to see my family. New Orleans was an hour away, so I could see them anytime. But Sac-town is a great place. The fans and people remind me of Louisiana because they’re all passionate.”

One way Thornton maintains a connection with his home state is through his relationship with the LSU basketball program.

“I’m constantly paying attention to the Tigers, tweeting at the team and letting them know I still support them,” Thornton said. “I talk a good bit with Coach [Trent] Johnson, and we have a great relationship. He was Not a huge chink in the armor, but enough for Johnson to prove the team isn’t invincible.

“You can defend them, you can be aggressive, you can keep them in front of you,” Johnson said.

“They’ve shown at times they can give [the ball] up, too.”

The Tigers took a different approach in their loss to Mississippi State, bringing sophomore Stringer’s scoring punch off the bench for just the second time this season.

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Thornton especially maintains contact with senior point guard Chris Bass, calling the fellow Baton Rouge native his “little brother.”

“Marcus is texting me all the time, and he’s kind of my mentor,” Bass said. “But he still really cares about the program, and he’s an absolute die-hard fan. Whenever we lose, Marcus is extra-mad and calling to ask what went wrong.”

LSU fell off dramatically in the two seasons following Thornton’s departure — winning just 11 games in each — but this season’s 12-8 squad has shown positive signs, according to the former Tiger great.

“They’re competitive, and you can see the effort,” Thornton said.

“It’s a scrappy team that is young and still learning. Their future is bright, and Coach Trent’s got things on the up-and-up.”

While awaiting his NBA fate during the league’s four-month lockout last summer, Thornton joined fellow NBA Tigers like Brandon Bass, Glen “Big Baby” Davis and Garrett Temple for workouts and pick-up games at LSU’s practice facility.

“It was fun to be back in the loop and play ball at home again,” Thornton said. “We organized a lot of games, and I got to play with a lot of guys I grew up with and are

Stringer’s play made the decision look like the right one, as he scored 17 points in 25 minutes in the 76-71 loss.

“I don’t have a problem coming off the bench,” Stringer said. “It doesn’t change my approach coming into the game. It didn’t bother me.”

If the Tigers can pull an upset, they will be one of several underdogs to topple a highly-ranked team, after four of last week’s

and Bianca Lutley the only guards on the roster, the Lady Tigers have been forced to use forwards to handle the ball in Kenney’s absence.

In the two games without Kenney, the Lady Tigers turned over the ball 27 times against Arkansas and 13 times in the first half against East Tennessee State before taking better care of the ball in the second half.

Caldwell said eliminating the turnovers would go a long way toward giving LSU its first complete game this season and would make a much-needed conference win easier to attain.

“We’ve just got to do that now for 40 minutes. We can’t wait and do it for 20 or 25 minutes,” Caldwell said. “If you do it once, twice, three times, I know it’s in you to do it more than that.”

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Former LSU player Marcus Thornton reacts March 21, 2009, during a second-round tournament game against North Carolina in Greensboro, N.C.

successful guys that wore the purple and gold. It kept me competitive.”

Thornton, who is out of action as he deals with a thigh bruise, said he feels at home in the Kings’ purple uniforms and called them a constant reminder of his LSU roots.

“All the success that’s happened in my career, it’s all coming

from Louisiana,” the third-year NBA veteran said. “LSU, my coaches and teammates there helped me become a better man and person. How could you forget that?”

top-five teams lost games.

Syracuse relinquished the No. 1 ranking to Kentucky this week after losing its first game of the season to an 11-8 Notre Dame team.

Fellow top-5 teams Missouri and Duke also dropped games to unranked opponents in the last week. And after rising as high as No. 3, Baylor lost two consecutive games to conference foes.

But Johnson said he does not expect Kentucky to overlook LSU

because of its record. He knows Calipari will have his team better prepared than that.

If LSU wants to win, they’re going to have to earn it.

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WikiRevolution

Wikimedia, Orange telecom to offer free mobile access to Wikipedia in Africa, Middle East THE NEW FRONTIERSMAN

Clayton Crockett Opinion Editor While American political parties bicker over what action should be taken against the anarchic, warring or tyrannical nations in Africa and the Middle East, the American Wikimedia Foundation has provided those subjects of injustice the most potent aid possible: knowledge.

In what should be regarded among the most notable charitable acts of our generation, Wikimedia, parent company of Wikipedia, and French telecommunications company Orange disclosed Tuesday their intentions to offer free mobile access to the world’s largest encyclopedia in North African and Middle Eastern countries.

According to Orange’s news release, “Orange and the Wikimedia Foundation will provide more than 70 million Orange customers in Africa and the Middle East with mobile access to Wikipedia — without incurring data usage charges.”

Key countries on Orange’s large client list include Egypt, Kenya, Uganda, Morocco, Bahrain and Jordan, most of which harbored Arab Spring protests.

In such a volatile region, Wikimedia’s actions are by far the best answer to American interventionism to date.

In lieu of nation-building, they’ve provided the how-to. In place of weapons, materials and

WEB COMMENTS

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.

In response to Nicholas Pierce’s column, “Religious intolerance rampant in Republican camp,” readers had this to say: “Pretty horrible writing. No facts. No sources. No credibility.

You just pulled this out of your ass. I love how you’re so “loving”, as a good muslim should be.

Why don’t you go suicide bomb the republican’s you hate. Get

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Pro-democracy protesters march through a lower income neighborhood in Casablanca, Morocco, on Sunday denouncing the newly elected government and the king. Morocco is among the nations to soon receive free mobile access to Wikipedia.

the tangled allegiances that follow, Wikimedia and Orange are providing the facts.

It’s the rod in place of the fish and the tools in place of the product, and the access is indiscriminate, free and available to those who need it most.

Considering the Arab Spring, one cannot forget the enormous role the Internet has already played in reshaping the cradle of civilization — like Facebook logos graffitied onto dumpsters or Google executives sparking the Egyptian protests. The potential is massive.

Think about the way mobile access to Google and Wikipedia has changed the lives of

Americans — it’s perpetual access to all of the information you could ever need. Think of the menial facts and questions that arise in the daily life of a young American, and can be answered with your pocket professor, like who originally wrote Jeff Buckley’s “Hallelujah” or who directed “American Beauty.”

Instead, Ugandans can learn about the “Anti-Homosexuality Bill” and death penalty that follows. Or Egyptians can access the detailed history of their revolution, from former President Hosni Mubarak’s past to the military leaders who have succeeded him.

With widespread access in sensitive areas, however, comes

the dangerous reminder that Wikipedia is user-generated content and has been used for misinformation in the past. Hopefully the safeguards will be in place by the time this program unfolds to prevent corrupt nations from altering their webpages.

This movement should also bolster the case against controversial Internet-monitoring acts like SOPA and PIPA by displaying the prowess of Wikipedia, which would be heavily hindered under the legislation.

Above all else, Wikimedia and Orange’s project exemplifies the value of information. A year ago, in the midst of the Arab Spring, I

your 42 virgins early- since promiscuity is essentially what your faith is ultimately about anyways in the end. LOL” - Anonymous

In response to Matthew Westfall’s column, “The real Romney tax return scandal: It’s all legal,” readers had this to say:

exactly “find” loopholes in the tax laws either, its just set up that way, do you do your taxes and then think, “ya know i think ill pay a cuple extra grand just for kicks” ???? NO! Yes the laws need fixed, but its not really his fault they way taxes are now.”

- Anonymous

“Mr. Pierce is absolutely right. The only thing I find objectionable--no, surprising, is that he excluded Herman Cain’s remark that the people of Murfreesboro, Tennessee have a “right” to ban a mosque from their town. Disagreeing with another religion is one thing, but intolerance is just plain despicable, especially when coming from candidates for the highest political office. (On a side note to Nick: thanks for acknowledging Paul’s tolerance.)”

- Anonymous

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“Hey, he made risky INVESTMENTS that means his own money went to support companies, and some made a profit. I dont grudge him the risks he takes that pay off, he was self made from the beginning, dose anyone gripe about the profits Obama made from his books? How about when you buy a junker car and find out its a classic? Would you run back and say “oh no, i thought i was getting crap, not value! I dont deserve it! “ I dont want Romney as the GOP can., but since when is being smart a crime? He didnt

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referred in a column to the Internet’s role as the “window through which the subjects of dictators see freedom,” and the fact remains.

“Wikipedia is an important service, a public good — and so we want people to be able to access it for free,” reads the release.

“This partnership with Orange will enable millions of people to read Wikipedia, who previously couldn’t.”

If America is to lead by example, as the exceptionalists proclaim in the numerous Republican debates, there is no better way. America is freedom — free information, access and input.

Facebook originated in the states and provided tools for protest organization during the Egyptian revolution. Twitter, also created by an American, provided the world with live feedback from the front for freedom oceans away.

This is America’s Library of Alexandria, and I hope this project, as only part of the broader movement for freedom to the facts, can be our legacy.

Clayton Crockett is a 20-year-old international studies sophomore from Lafayette. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_ccrockett.

Read more on the New Spin Zone opinion blog at blogs.lsureveille.com/opinion.

Contact Clayton Crockett at ccrockett@lsureveille.com Smoking tobacco has disasterous consequences not only for the ignorant that continue to poison their own bodies, but also for passersby subjected to the carcinogenic smoke. And yes, while the immediate anxiolytic effects of nicotine may keep students from getting “pissed off,” I am proud that my alma mater is taking a stand, as the tobacco company lobbyists spend millions a year to insure smoking isn’t made illegal. You should do research before you expose your ignorance to your readers.”

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Quote of the Day

“Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.”

Ronald Reagan 40th president of the United States Feb. 6, 1911 — June 5, 2004

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U.S. can’t ignore EU’s potential to create mass financial ruin Greg Loving

University Daily Kansan

LAWRENCE, Kan. (UWIRE) — During the last several months, two separate media narratives have been playing out on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United States, the collective voice of the press has been focused on domestic issues and popular cultural absurdities such as the birth of Jay-Z and Beyonce’s new baby, Blue Ivy Carter.

Meanwhile, the European media has been almost exclusively covering what has been called the greatest threat to Europe since 1945: the European Union Sovereign Debt Crisis. Even President Barack Obama has said that the European Union (EU) debt crisis is “the biggest headwind the American economy is facing right now.”

Despite this, it’s fair to say that the majority of Americans do not understand the brewing economic crisis.

They should.

The crisis is the result of an

ongoing attempt to unify the nations of Europe into a “United States of Europe.” European countries are bound together in a monetary union, which means they share a common currency (the Euro) and a central bank (the European Central Bank).

All of this seems like a sensible attempt at international cooperation, but ignores one glaring fact: The nations of Europe have been waging war on one another for the better part of the last 2,000 years.

While nations are bound together by the decisions of a single central bank, each nation still controls its own budget and foreign policy. Most importantly, each clings to its national identity. As a result, a group of vastly different countries that tend to distrust one another have been forced into an intimate union.

Normally, an independent country has several tools to prevent economic problems from occurring. These include using a combination of spending less money,

asking others for help and printing more or less currency to support an ailing economy.

However, the EU has married 17 countries with different fiscal and political regimes into a single monetary union. As a result, each EU nation has lost part of its ability to alleviate economic distress because it cannot enact independent monetary policy. All 17 nations are now subject to the whims of the European Central Bank, which has been known to serve the needs of more powerful EU nations before those of the periphery.

European economic cooperation worked for a short time, but the 2008 global financial crisis reopened old wounds. Smaller EU economies (Greece, Ireland and Portugal) did not weather the crisis well and are now facing the prospect of a sovereign default (meaning that a country’s debt is so large that it is no longer able to realistically pay it off). As a result, these weaker EU economies are asking the more powerful EU members,

primarily Germany and France, for a bailout to avoid default. Understandably, these larger nations are hesitant to pay for the sins of their smaller neighbors.

A sovereign default has the potential to throw all of Europe, and indeed the world, into prolonged economic downturn.

By definition, someone’s debt is someone else’s asset. Unfortunately for the global economic system, much of the bad debt in the EU is held by large multinational banks in Germany, France and the U.S. If one of the troubled EU countries is allowed to default, any bank that holds a significant portion of that debt is also subject to fail. Because these large banks also happen to hold one another’s debt, global banks could conceivably begin to fall like dominos if a single collapse occurred.

Given this unfortunate reality, it is important to understand that events happening halfway around the world can have a significant

effect on our lives. The truth is, we no longer live in a world where all the solutions to our economic woes lie conveniently within our borders.

During the past several decades, the forces of globalization have made national economies and our lives more interdependent than ever before. At its core, this trend has been a powerful force for good, raising hundreds of millions around the world out of abject poverty and into a new global middle class.

However, it has also placed some uncomfortable pressure on developed countries, which have had their position of economic dominance for the past half-century challenged. As we continue the debate about how to heal our own economy, it would do us well to consider the global realities of our economic system.

Contact The Daily Reveille’s opinion staff at opinion@lsureveille.com

Share the Wealth

Online gambling jackpot: Law re-interpretation helps economy A new interpretation of a half century’s worth of legislation gave the gambling industry a very big Christmas present.

On Dec. 23, the U.S. Department of Justice updated its longheld ruling on the Interstate Wire Act of 1961. Colloquially known as “The Wire Act,” it was designed to prohibit any Jay Meyers kind of betting via telecommuColumnist nication devices that crossed state lines or borders.

The new decision only prohibits online sports betting, opening up the door for states to legalize any other form of virtual betting.

Prospective websites would be able to offer various wagering options, including poker, casino games, lotteries and bingo.

This ruling could not come at a better time, when states are imposing savage fiscal austerity measures on imperative programs such as higher education, Medicare and Medicaid.

University students have firsthand knowledge of these spending cuts, as the past two years have seen the University’s state appropriations cut by more than $45 million, resulting in the elimination of many programs and services along with the loss of about 400 would-be positions — nearly half of which were faculty jobs.

Now states can begin putting a halt to the budget cuts and attempt to reduce deficits by cashing in on their residents’ optimism — by

JULIE JACOBSON / The Associated Press

Baccarat dealer Ramiro Nepomuceno shuffles cards Wednesday at the MGM Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

legalizing and taxing Internet gambling.

The Joint Committee on Taxation, led by members of the Senate and the House of Representatives, issued a report claiming federal and state taxes imposed on Internet gambling firms would net $42 billion for the federal government and $30 billion for state and local governments over a 10-year period. The American Gaming Association, a casino industry trade group, made a similar estimation.

But there are other beneficial

aspects to virtual gambling aside from tax revenues.

Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., who leads the Financial Services Committee, said there are jobs and economic impacts to be seen with online gambling. A recent study released by H2 Gambling Capital, a data and market intelligence supplier for the worldwide gambling industry, indicated that approximately 25,470 jobs would be created in the next five years from the regulation of online gambling.

Not all are pleased with the

Department of Justice ruling, however.

The most vocal critic was Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., who made outlandish claims devoid of reason or logic that online gambling leads to crime and hurts youths.

Bachus’s demagoguery culminated in 2008 at a House Financial Services Committee — part of an earlier attempt to legalize online gambling — when he misinformed the assembled crowd that McGill University conducted

a study linking one-third of college students who gamble on the Internet to ultimately committing suicide. He further concluded an increase in gambling is “why the rate of suicide on college campuses had doubled in the past 10 years.”

McGill professor Jeffrey Derevensky, who was on the Board of Governors for Youth Gambling International, told Poker News Daily that no such study had ever taken place at the Canadian institute.

Aside from baseless comments made by conservative zealots, most of the reception has been positive. As a result, many states, such as California, New Jersey and the District of Columbia, have already taken steps to legalize online poker.

The willingness by states, the Obama administration and the Department of Justice to repeal the ban on online gambling is not only a step in the right direction for our economy — it is a stand for freedom.

The United States is a country built upon the idea of personal liberties. Americans should have the right to do whatever they please with their money in the privacy of their own homes, especially if it pays our nation well in return.

Jay Meyers is a 19-year-old economics freshman from Shreveport. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_jmeyers.

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Friday, January 27, 2012 HOOTERS, from page 1

Farmer said she’s still shocked by the success she’s found at Hooters. She competed in her first Hooters swimsuit contest when she started working for the company at 18 and won first place ahead of about 50 women.

After that, she said, she just kept winning.

She was the pull-out in the Hooters swimsuit calendar and is featured on a billboard in New Orleans. Farmer said she almost wrecked her car upon passing it, and she said being surrounded by photos of herself is “kinda weird.”

“I never thought this would be me,” Farmer said. “It’s so crazy to me — it’s surreal.”

Around the Corporate Boulevard location are posters and flyers of Farmer. She serves food and drinks from behind a bar that’s decorated with photos of her in a teeny bikini.

OBAMA, from page 1

announced the initiative, she requested that Harch and other collaborators submit research about PTSD and TBI treatment in veterans.

“We’ve got it. I’ve been doing it for years,” Harch responded.

The HBOT treatment increases the amount of oxygen in blood cells, which lessens the body’s inflammatory response and restores damaged cells so they may re-establish their functions, Harch said.

The results of Harch’s study were published in November in the Journal of Neurotrauma. The study showed a reduction of PTSD symptoms, as well as significant improvements in cognitive testing and quality of life, according to Harch.

Harch said he plans to extend his study of HBOT and its effect on

“My co-workers say they don’t miss me when I’m gone,” she said with a laugh.

As she talked about the competitions in Aruba that consisted of in-store relays, volleyball matches and blackjack battles, Farmer rushed around the restaurant topping glasses, filling orders and making sure a pair of customers didn’t leave without paying.

When she’s not working at the restaurant, she’s still working on photoshoots and promotions. She said she spends almost all of her time in the Hooters store, even when she’s not on the clock.

“It hasn’t hit me yet. I’ve been running around so much — I haven’t stopped for a minute,” Farmer said.

Farmer, who took online college classes, came to Baton Rouge with a friend who was attending LSU. She found a job at Hooters and has stayed put since.

Farmer stuck around Baton Rouge because of her job. At an hour veterans suffering from PTSD and TBI as part of this new effort.

But while Harch will continue his research, LSUHSC New Orleans, along with the other medical schools involved, will not receive additional funding.

“It will be a tall order without any funding,” Harch said.

Harch’s original study of HBOT could not be performed at LSUHSC New Orleans due to lack of funding.

Harch received $750,000 from military service organizations, veterans and other private donors to research the effects of HBOT on veterans with brain injuries. The treatment had to be performed at a private university under the LSU Institutional Review Board, which facilitates research, protects research participants and ensures studies comply with all research regulations.

The Daily Reveille and a half away, her biological family is close enough, but she said she can’t leave her Hooters family.

Hooters isn’t a forever job, Farmer said, and she plans to open her own business when her tenure is up.

Farmer said she enjoyed the experience competing in Aruba, and she misses her teammates and fellow Dream Girl contestants.

“I have not met one catty person through this whole experience.

Everyone’s super sweet. It’s been amazing,” she said.

Farmer said her recent success has puzzled her. She doesn’t know what has made her stand out, but she feels blessed.

The results of the first-round Bikini Bracket eliminations will be announced Sunday. Farmer has her fingers crossed.

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Contact Emily Herrington at eherrington@lsureveille.com Funding the initiative and continuing HBOT research will require more donations, especially amid the $29 million budget cut to the LSU hospital system, Harch said.

“It’s a struggle,” Harch said.

The Association of American Medical Colleges and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine will collaborate in this effort to create an upcoming generation of doctors, medical schools and research facilities that are committed to providing for the unique health care needs of veterans, according to Obama’s news release.

Contact Lea Ciskowski at lciscowski@lsureveille.com

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