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Pastor: Church should be ‘open and affirming’ BY amanda capritto acapritto@lsureveille.com

call and response Gov. Bobby Jindal’s “The Response,” a prayer rally sponsored by the American Family Association, was held at the PMAC this Saturday “to call on Jesus on behalf of America,” according to the event’s website.

Many students, faculty and community members protested the event, carrying signs and banners, while rally participants prayed and sang in the assembly center.

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Behind the loud masses gathered at the PMAC on Saturday for Gov. Bobby Jindal’s “The Response” prayer rally was a quieter congregation advocating for samesex marriage.

The Presbyterian conference, “Marriage Matters: A Matter of Life and Love,” had been in the works since August, said Patti Snyder, head pastor of University Presbyterian Church.

About 120 attendees participated in the event, including students, members of the church and members of the Covenant Network of Presbyterians.

“We’ve had people from New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lafayette and other cities help us put this day together,” Snyder said. “It’s a big day.”

The church opened the samesex marriage conference with a worship service led by Snyder and Ken Kovacs.

Snyder welcomed guests to the event with a brief speech introducing key figures in the

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Fashion students raise awareness of heart disease in women Students design dresses made of paper hearts BY emilie hebert ehebert@lsureveille.com Student organization Hemline @LSU designed from the heart to raise awareness for women’s heart disease, crafting dresses solely from red paper hearts for a competition Saturday.

Students submitted 13 dress sketches for the Hemline for Hearts competition. The American Heart Association, which

sponsored the event, selected six to be designed.

Participants had four hours to build their designs in front of Macy’s at the Mall of Louisiana.

The dresses had to be made of 90 percent red paper hearts and 10 percent miscellaneous materials, such as accessories and fishing wire.

All six dresses will display at the Mall of Louisiana for one week.

The event encouraged creativity and educated people on the dangers of heart disease, which is the No. 1 killer of women. Passersby in the mall could get involved in the

event by writing their names on paper hearts used in building the dresses.

Faculty advisers for Hemline @ LSU Delisia Matthews and Casey Stannard said it was a great opportunity for members to display their creativity for a philanthropic cause.

“It’s a way that our students can showcase their talents, but at the same time also give back to the community,” Matthews said. “It’s like bridging the gap between the Baton Rouge community and our

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Apparel design junior and firstplace winner Rebecca Stephens works on her dress during Hemline’s dress-building competition Saturday at the Mall of Louisiana.

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WICHITA, Kan. — The recent plunge in fuel prices has been a welcome relief across the agricultural sector, helping ease the pain of low grain prices for growers and boosting profits for cattle ranchers.

“Every movement we make in farming takes fuel,” Kansas cattle rancher and hay grower Randy Cree said.

Livestock producers in the Midwest and vegetable growers in the Sun Belt alike are reaping the immediate benefits. And with average retail gas prices for 2015 forecast to be about $1 lower than last year, farmers this spring may end up planting more energy-intensive crops, such as corn or rice, as the cost to irrigate and cultivate drops.

Consumers, however, shouldn’t expect to see lower prices at the supermarket.

Transportation costs constitute only a small slice of those prices, and it takes months, if ever, for cost savings at the farm level to trickle to the shelf sticker.

For years, Cree hasn’t been able to afford to fill the fuel tanks at his farm west of Lawrence. But with the local price

of untaxed diesel and regular gasoline both below $2 a gallon, Cree plans to completely fill the two 300-gallon and one 200-gallon tanks.

It takes fuel to feed his 100 cows all winter long, fuel to drive to the feed store. The lower prices will also make “a big difference” this summer. Each time he harvests his hay, his tractor must make three trips over every field — one to mow it, one to rake it, and another to bale it.

“We are hoping that for the first time in a long, long time to have the burden of high fuel prices off our backs — so we can maybe make a little bit of money this year,” Cree said.

Farmers use mostly off-road diesel, for which they don’t pay federal and state taxes, in their tractors and other farm equipment. While diesel averages about 20 cents per gallon more than regular gasoline, road taxes alone can add 14 percent more at the pump. On-road diesel prices nationwide are forecast to average $1.86 a gallon this year — well below the $2.81 per gallon in 2014. And looking into 2016, prices are forecast to average $2.30 a gallon for on-road diesel,

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Cattle rancher Randy Cree adds fuel to a tractor Jan. 7 at his farm near Big Springs, Kan. according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

That’s good news for farmers who depend on row crops, and who’ve seen farm income drop by as much as 50 percent because of low grain prices.

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NEW DELHI — President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday declared an era of “new trust” in the often fraught relationship between their nations as the U.S. leader opened a three-day visit to New Delhi.

Standing side by side at the stately Hyderabad House, Obama and Modi cited progress toward putting in place a landmark civil nuclear agreement, as well as advances on climate change and defense ties.

But from the start, the day was more about putting their personal bond on display.

Modi broke with protocol and wrapped Obama in an enthusiastic hug after Obama got off Air Force One. Obama later told reporters that Modi’s “strong personal commitment to the U.S.-India relationship gives us an opportunity to further energize these efforts.”

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President Barack Obama’s arrival Sunday in New Delhi marked the first time an American leader has visited India twice during his presidency. guest Monday at the annual Republic Day festivities, which mark the anniversary of India’s democratic constitution coming into force. Obama is the first U.S. leader to attend the celebrations that are part Soviet-style display of India’s military hardware, part Macy’s Thanksgiving Day-type parade with floats highlighting India’s cultural diversity.

Obama’s presence would have been unlikely only a few years ago.

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RESEARCH

Grad student travels to Antarctic University participates in Peninsula to research penguins first Global Game Jam

BY EMILIE HEBERT ehebert@lsureveille.com

courtesy of MICHAEL POLITO

University graduate student Rachael Herman researched penguins in the Antarctic Peninsula in December. share similarities, such as the way they breed, but their differences in diet restrictions makes While most species of pen- one penguin species more resilguins look similar, their abilities ient than the other. to adapt to change make them as Chinstrap penguins posdifferent as black and white. sess a stricter diet, eating krill, Oceanography and coastal while Gentoo penguins eat fish sciences professor Michael and krill, which is why they are Polito and graduate student Ra- unaffected — if not benefitting chael Herman embarked on a from changes in their environone-month journey to the Ant- ment, Polito said. arctic Peninsula in December to With the initial conclusion research how certain penguin reached, Polito enlisted Herspecies adapt to their environ- man to travel to Antarctica in ments.

December 2014 and focus solely “The reason that we study on Gentoo penguins. penguins is because they “Gentoo penguins eat a variare great scientific sampling ety of different items, so they’re devices,” Polito highly adaptive to said. change,” Her‘Gentoo penguins eat In a study man said. “I’m a variety of different published in the trying to see if Marine Ecology items, so they’re highly this adaptability adaptive to change ... is pertinent to all Progress Series I’m trying to see if this populations, or if on Tuesday, Polito’s team stud- adaptability is pertinent to each individual ied how certain all populations, or if each has its own diet.” penguin species’ Herman will individual has its own eating habits — conduct her rediet. ’ specifically Chinsearch by anastrap and Genlyzing samples RACHEL HERMAN, too penguins of feathers and oceanography graduate student — expressed the blood to look at effects of climate how their comchange and commercial fishing position indicates the penguins’ on Antarctic marine ecosys- eating habits. tems.

“What’s really cool about “The Antarctic Peninsu- [the Antarctic] ecosystem is that la is one of the places that’s there aren’t really any large warming up faster than oth- predators, so all the penguins ers,” Polito said. “This change and seals, they don’t really have in climate, combined with com- a fear of people,” Herman said. mercial fishing of krill — the “You can literally sit in front of a primary source of food for penguin and watch them do what penguins — affects the marine they do and they aren’t afraid of ecosystem.” you or bothered by you. It’s like The team found the num- a National Geographic film, but ber of Chinstrap penguins right in front of you.” decreased, while the popuPolito encourages University lation of Gentoo penguins students who are interested in increased. research to reach out to their Polito concluded both species professors and gain experience.

BY Jose Alejandro Bastidas jbastidas@lsureveille.com

Travel opportunities can come to any student who is interested and enthusiastic, Polito said.

Polito and Herman traveled to the Antarctic Peninsula aboard a tour boat with about 200 tourists, Herman said.

When not collecting samples from different penguin colonies, they served as experts in residence, educating passengers on their research.

“We like to think of Antarctica as this remote, pristine place, but our actions still have an effect on the environment over there,” Polito said. “There are two ways that humans have an impact on marine ecosystems.

One is with our our fossil fuel and carbon dioxide emissions, the other is through commercial fishing activities, and in the Antarctic Peninsula, there’s commercial fishing for Antarctic krill.”

While people in Baton Rouge don’t see Antarctic krill on their fish platters, the animal contributes to the production of popular products.

Antarctic krill is used to make nutritional oil supplements advertised as more healthy for consumers than regular fish oils. Krill is also used to feed farm-raised salmon to give the fish the pink color consumers see in regular salmon, Polito said.

“It’s hard for someone in Baton Rouge to think about how they’re impacting these marine ecosystems,” Herman said. “Everything is connected in this world, and I think it’s really important for people to know that these places are out there and these animals are out there, and however far away they are, what we do affects them.”

Prototypes, coding, alphas and betas were just some of the foreign vocabulary words used at the Digital Media Center last weekend.

The University participated in Global Game Jam, a 48-hour game creation event centered around this year’s theme: “What do we do now?”

Participants at 519 sites in 78 countries who developed video games or board and card games convened for the jam.

Marc Aubanel, director of the Digital Media Arts and Engineering program, said the gaming community breaks all language barriers.

“Here’s a way of getting a whole bunch of nations together where we can build something positive and work together as teams,” Aubanel said.

This is the first year the University participated in the jam after the 2014 event was canceled at the last minute for the polar vortex.

Anyone from students to professionals can take part in the jam.

Participants are not required to have any game developing experience, and sites like LSU provide computers to loan.

Teams had 48 hours to work on their games. They were free to come and go, but some dedicated participants brought air mattresses to sleep on at the site.

Teams complete a small portion of their games in a limited time frame but sometimes continue development after the jam to publish their creations.

Computer science professor Robert Kooima said the deadline creates an engaging environment students otherwise would not encounter.

“What a student tends to do, of course, is do their assignment, get it done, hand it in and then do no more, “Kooima said. “And this is something more.”

He said participating in the event makes the University a greater part of the global world of technology.

“I think a student would expect nothing less from a school like LSU,” Kooima said.

Digital art juniors Cameron Bragg and Tylar Spencer were part of “Team Awesome Potato.”

They both said they had some experience with game development on their own but wanted to participate in the event to learn team dynamics and gain experience.

One day into the jam, the team’s room was lined with air mattresses and littered with coffee bags.

“I think the hardest part so far has been getting everyone to agree on certain concepts and key ideas of the game, so I think development was the hardest part, and production has been sort of smooth,” Spencer said.

The University began a master’s program in digital media arts and engineering last week, focusing on animation, effects and video game development.

Aubanel said if the University was going to offer a game program, it had to participate in the global jam as a “rite of passage.”

He said video games go beyond entertainment, emerging in many industries like engine repair, where augmented reality glasses display a simulation of the repair and show the user exactly what to do.

The first Global Game Jam was in 2009. Though many universities host jam sites, companies like Facebook and Google also participate in the event at their headquarters.

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PRAYER RALLY

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‘The Response’ attendees stand to listen to a speaker at the PMAC on Saturday.

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A pro-life advocate lectures protesters outside the PMAC.

‘The Response’ turnout Rally protests call for LGBT rights less than expected BY carrie grace henderson chenderson@lsureveille.com

BY william taylor potter wpotter@lsureveille.com

and uniting the nation.

“I’m glad when the candidates I support win elections,” Jindal Fifteen minutes before the said. “But we can’t just pass a start of “The Response” on Sat- law to fix what ails our country. urday, a mass of believers began We need a spiritual revival to fix to huddle around the stage of the what ails our country.”

PMAC, their outstretched arms Participants from the proswaying to the music of a worship life march came on stage while band. speakers addressed abortion, one When the rally kicked off at 10 of the many hot-button topics disa.m., the PMAC stands were lined cussed during the event. with empty seats.

“I remember one lady said, Former Texas Gov. Rick ‘Abortion is almost like sacrificPerry’s 2011 version of “The Re- ing your child on the altar of consponse” in Housvenience,’” said Folton drew in about ‘I thought people would som resident Justin 35,000 people, but have to wait in the Lombardo. “That’s Gov. Bobby Jindal’s same way I feel.” hallway. It just shows theOver event was far from the course meeting the PMAC’s how many people don’t of the event, the think this is big.’ seating capacity of crowd was asked to 13,215. split into groups and jordan paul, “I thought it reflect on particiNew Orleans resident would be packed,” pant discussion. The said New Orleans groups prayed over resident Jordan Paul. “I thought and with one another. people would have to wait in the Throughout the rally, speakhallway. It just shows how many ers would deliver rapid-fire people don’t think this is big.” prayers on subjects like single Event spokesman Doug mothers, Israel and orphans.

Stringer opened the event and “You could see the people called for Louisiana to “spark a praying and breaking down, from revival across the nation,” before the little kids all the way up,” asking Jindal to give the opening Paul said. “It was God touching prayer. the nation.”

Jindal took the stage after Protesters gathered outside leading a pro-life march across the PMAC during the prayer ralcampus. ly, but Folsom resident Stephen The governor gave his per- Lombardo attributed the protessonal testimony during the event, tors’ different perspective on life. telling the crowd stories about his Their signs and jeers didn’t grandfather’s death and his first bother Stephen, who instead ofBible — a childhood gift from a fered to pray for the protesters. friend who told Jindal he was go“I don’t have anything against ing to hell. them,” Stephen said. “I just need Near the end of his testimony, to pray for them, and I hope they Jindal spoke briefly on politics pray for me sometimes.”

When she was a student at the University in the ’70s, alumna Jackie Blaney marched on campus for African American equality.

Saturday, she came back to finish the job.

“Would I have believed that 40 years later I would be doing the same thing, that we would not have achieved equality?”

Blaney said. “It’s unbelievable to me that this institution is being a basis for [Gov. Bobby] Jindal’s hateful speech when we should be way past that.”

With a sign that read, “Jindal Preaches Religious and Gender Hatred Is That Christian???”

Blaney and her husband stood outside the PMAC with hundreds of others in protest of Jindal’s “The Response” prayer rally.

The rally was funded by the American Family Association, which has been classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group because of its stance against the LGBT community.

“This institution gave me a great education, allowed me to be the person that I am today, and I am ashamed and embarrassed about what’s going on in there,” Blaney said. “The legacy of civil rights, this spits in the face of that.”

But African American rights were not the only issues marched for on Saturday.

Keynote speakers addressed the topics of Islamophobia, homophobia, budget cuts to higher education and police brutality.

Demonstrators held signs criticizing fracking in St. Tammany and women’s health in Louisiana.

Blaney’s husband, Bruce, a member of Healthcare for Everyone Louisiana, condemned Jindal’s refusal to sign Medicaid expansion legislation.

“It’s a lethal policy,” he said.

“He could sign a piece of paper tomorrow, and 240,000 people would be covered.”

One of the biggest topics trumpeted by protesters was LGBT treatment in Louisiana.

English professor and University alumna Anna Nardo said she was at the demonstration to support her students.

“I want my gay students to know that we’ve got their back,” Nardo said. “The suicide rate of gay adolescents is huge, and so holding a rally like this is like yelling ‘Fire!’ in a movie theater.”

Associate music professor Brett Boutwell was also marching down to the PMAC in support of his students.

“I came out in support of LSU students and especially those whose sexual orientation makes them the target of the AFA,” Boutwell said. “Our event is just to raise awareness of views that are different from those that are meeting over there.”

Though environmental engineering junior Kevin Brown did not agree with Jindal hosting the event on campus, he said the day was about making his voice as a student heard, even though the cold weather was not ideal.

“I just hope that we’ll show that LSU is not condoning these actions,” Brown said. “Even though the chancellor and the Faculty Senate has come out and said that LSU does not condone these actions, it really does mean something more when

students come out and just be present.”

Event organizer Peter Jenkins said the protesters were not calling for an end to the AFA. “We’re not out here saying that certain people should not be allowed to exist, like the American Family Association is,” Jenkins, a public administration graduate student, said. “We’re here saying, ‘Let’s all live together and respect each other.’”

While the Facebook event had about 900 people signed up to attend, Jenkins said he expected about 30 to turn out.

The crowd was not up to 900, but he said he was amazed at the hundreds of people protesting together.

“I think this says that we have room for all types of people in this state,” Jenkins said. “We may disagree on stuff, but let’s at least promote the American value of respect for diversity.”

For some protesters, their morning of activism was followed by an afternoon of education.

Students and community members asked questions of a panel in the Student Union Cotillion Ballroom after the protests.

The panels and workshops aimed to educate participants on social activism and bipartisan policy. The panel included Jenkins; activist blogger Bruce Parker; state House Rep. Patricia Smith, D-Baton Rouge; adjunct law professor and public defender Jack Harrison and SPLC provocateur Keegan Hankes.

Discussion on how to bridge partisan gaps and make change in Louisiana was followed by workshops in the Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex.

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LSU sophomore forward Jarell Martin (1) congratulates sophomore forward Jordan Mickey (25) during the Tigers’ 64-67 defeat against Texas A&M on Jan. 17 at the PMAC.

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The LSU men’s basketball team pulled off a come-from-behind 79-75 victory Saturday at Vanderbilt, one of the strangest places to play in college basketball.

The game was closer to a loss than the Tigers would have liked, but they were threepoint underdogs, according to Bovada, an online betting platform. The Tigers didn’t hold a lead the entire second half. They tied the game twice, once with 8:15 left and again with 1:07 remaining.

It was a big win because it avoided a

bad loss.

Sophomore forwards Jordan Mickey and Jarell Martin played like one of the nation’s top frontcourt duos, totaling 44 points and 23 rebounds. Junior guard Keith Hornsby continued his streak of double-digit scoring nights on the road. Sophomore guard Tim Quarterman scored half of his 12 points in overtime.

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LSU sophomore forward Jarell Martin can’t wait to get back in the PMAC. The last loss there still bothers him.

Not only did LSU’s defeat by Texas A&M on Jan. 17 give the Tigers their second loss in Southeastern Conference play, it ended their hopes of going undefeated at the PMAC. It’s something that hasn’t been done in 35 seasons — when the PMAC was called the LSU Assembly Center — but Martin and his teammates must wait another year to get that chance again.

“I’m ready for us to get back home,” Martin said. “Losing to [Texas] A&M was very disappointing. We wanted to win all of our home games and not let someone come in our house and win, but we’ll be ready to come back here and play in front of our fans.”

After wins against Florida and Vanderbilt in a two-game road swing, LSU (15-4, 4-2 SEC) plays four of its next five games inside its 43-year-old home venue. The Tigers are 9-1 at the PMAC, the best record in program history since the 2008-09 season.

That 2008-09 squad maintained its edge down the stretch, only losing two games at home all season.

This season’s Tigers want the same, hoping a poor second half against Texas A&M won’t derail

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gymnastics

Tigers’ abundance of season highs shows improvement

BY Jacob Hamilton jhamilton@lsureveille.com

The No. 3 LSU gymnastics team’s 197.350-192.675 victory against Southeastern Conference foe Missouri on Saturday was a night characterized by seasonhighs.

LSU (4-0, 2-0 SEC) scored its highest team score of the season in front of 7,267 fans — the largest crowd of the season and fourth largest in the program’s history.

“The crowd definitely plays a huge role in how we perform,” said junior all-arounder Randii Wyrick. “When the crowd is riled up, it gets us riled up and allows us to relax knowing that we have a whole fan base behind us.”

Sophomore all-arounder Ashleigh Gnat’s vault of 9.875 started the barrage of season highs for LSU.

Senior all-arounder Rheagan Courville, the two-time reigning vault national champion, followed Gnat with a season-high of her own, scoring a 9.950.

After scoring well on bars, LSU moved to beam where four gymnasts set or tied their season high en route to tying the highest team total of the season in the event with 49.325.

Senior all-arounder Lloimincia Hall led off by tying her season high of 9.825, but she was followed by freshman all-arounder Erin Macadaeg, who fell off the beam and scored her lowest total of the season.

But sophomore all-arounder Sydney Ewing picked up where Hall left off and tied her careerhigh with a 9.900.

“I try not to watch people in front of me, but of course you hear the crowd when someone in front of you falls,” Ewing said.

“But I just tried to think of it no different than if she hit it because the way I do my routine doesn’t really matter how she did it …

There are six people up and only five count, so that’s what is most important.”

Courville and senior allarounder Jessie Jordan finished the beam lineup, where Courville scored a season-high 9.875 and Jordan tied her season-high with a 9.925.

LSU set the second-highest floor routine score in the nation with a 49.500 in its last event of the night.

With victory all but guaranteed, the crowd was loudest during the floor routines.

During a prolonged TV timeout, “Let’s go, Randii” chants echoed inside the PMAC just moments before Wyrick scored a

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LSU senior all-arounder Lloimincia Hall performs on the balance beam Friday during the Tigers’ 197.350192.725 victory against Missouri at the PMAC. Hall tied her seasonhigh score of 9.825 on beam and earned a new season-high of 9.975 on floor in Friday’s meet.

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Monday, January 26, 2015

Men’s and women’s teams compete at Rod McCravy Invitational

BY Jacob Hamilton jhamilton@lsureveille.com The LSU men’s and women’s track and field teams competed this weekend in the Rod McCravy Invitational in Lexington, Kentucky.

The first day of events yielded several personal bests for the Tigers, most notably for senior Rodney Brown and sophomore Jada Martin. Martin started the day for the Tigers by earning first place in the women’s 200-meter dash and setting her personal best of 23.44 seconds.

Toward the end of the day, Brown answered with a personal best in the men’s weight throw.

Brown’s hurl of 68 feet 6.5 inches clinched a second-place finish.

Senior Vernon Norwood earned the only other event victory for the Tigers, but sophomore Tremayne Acy nearly won a third race in the men’s 200-meter dash.

Norwood’s time of 1:08.84 was good enough for victory in the men’s 600-yard race, while Acy missed out on first place by less than three-tenths of a second.

“What a great way for us to start the weekend with the competitive spirit we showed,” said LSU coach Dennis Shaver in a news release. “You can tell we’re starting to make strides as a team with each opportunity we have to compete.”

Day two of the invitational was highlighted by LSU senior Tori Bliss breaking her own school record and NCAA leading mark by throwing 57 feet 4.75 inches in women’s shot put.

After finishing as the NCAA Outdoor national runner-up in shot put last season, Bliss has emerged as the favorite to win the women’s indoor title and has accounted for the top four shot put marks in the nation this season.

Bliss was the only Tiger to finish in first place in an event on day two, but several other athletes were in contention for their event titles.

Senior Quincy Downing ran the fourth-fastest time in the nation in the men’s 400-meter race, finishing third with a time of 46.74.

Downing was also part of the men’s 4x400-meter relay team’s second-place finish. The reigning NCAA Indoor champion team — consisting of Downing, Norwood, junior Darrell Bush and junior Cyril Grayson — ran the secondfastest time in the nation and finished six-hundredths of a second behind Florida.

Sophomore Morgan Schuetz — the reigning Southeastern Conference Women’s Runner of the Week and the No. 1 women’s 800-meter runner — finished in third place behind Florida’s Claudia Francis and Baylor’s Olicia Williams.

“It is important for us to build on each competition with the way

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we prepare and in the way we compete as a team, and I am pleased with the way our athletes approached the meet this weekend,” Shaver said. “It’s important for us to take the steps necessary to be where we want to be as a team when we go to the [Southeastern Conference] and NCAA Championships in the coming weeks.”

The Tigers and Lady Tigers will be back in action at the Razorback Invitational on Jan. 30-31 at the Randall Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas. charles champagne / The Daily Reveille

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Monday, January 26, 2015 Culture, from page 5 But none of that is the most impressive part of Saturday’s victory.

What stood out was what happened as the final horn sounded.

When the clock struck zero, the five LSU players on the court jogged toward the bench — which is along the baseline for whatever reason — high-fived their teammates and then shook hands with the Commodores.

No chest-bumping. No slapping the floor. No ‘rah-rah, look at me’ celebrations.

LSU remained focused on the big picture. The Tigers expected to win. They understood there are more important goals to accomplish than one win.

Following Texas A&M’s

home court, from page 5 their ultimate goal of an NCAA Tournament berth.

“We played a good 35 minutes [against Texas A&M], but it was those last five minutes that cost us,” said LSU sophomore guard Tim Quarterman. “The goal now is not to not lose at home anymore.”

LSU shot just 29.4 percent from the field in the second half against the Aggies. But perhaps even more bothersome to LSU coach Johnny Jones was the Tigers’ inability to pound the ball down low to Martin and fellow sophomore forward Jordan Mickey.

By halftime, Martin and Mickey had combined for 17 points on 7-of-13 shooting from the field.

They scored only 12 total after the break.

Instead of getting its big men involved, LSU jacked up 13 3-pointers in the second half and made only one. Quarterman said the late-game meltdown helped the Tigers realize how they need to perform when the game is on the line.

“It made us focus on end-ofgame situations,” Quarterman said. “In practice, we did a lot of scenarios of end-of-game situations after the A&M game just to focus on that. That was a big part of the game. That’s where we lost that game, at the end.”

The Tigers made up for the loss to the Aggies by racking up a pair of SEC road wins in completely

season highs, from page 5 career-high 9.850 in her first appearance on the floor this season.

“It was really uplifting,” Wyrick said. “I gained some confidence while I was just standing there waiting. I knew I was going to be able to hit my routine.”

As if the confidence boost carried over to the next performance, Gnat executed her routine flawlessly to one judge and earned a career-high 9.950. The score bested her season high by .075.

Courville consummated her all-around title by scoring a season-high 9.850 on floor, enough to tie the highest all-around score in the nation of 39.625.

“It was amazing to be able to fix a little bit more than I had done the week before,” Courville said. “I feel like my confidence

win in Baton Rouge one week earlier, the Aggies ran out to midcourt and chest bumped one another. They held up their jerseys and shouted toward the crowd as they left the court — and rightfully so.

The Aggies pulled off an inconference comeback road victory. They were not expected to win and earned the right to celebrate.

But the Tigers are focused on a different goal. The atmosphere and mentality around the team is different than in the past and different from that of the Aggies. These Tigers expect to win every game and act like it.

After watching the Tigers’ post-game celebration, the first thing that came to mind different fashions. Against Florida last Tuesday, LSU led by five points at halftime before finishing with an 18-point victory, its largest conference win of the season.

On Saturday, the Tigers trailed Vanderbilt by five at the break before rallying for a four-point victory in overtime. In both games, LSU shot at least 54 percent from the field in the second half — a far cry from its second-half shooting struggles against Texas A&M. In both games, the Tigers continuously pounded the ball down low to their two preseason All-SEC big men. After being held in check in the second half against A&M, Martin and Mickey notched a combined 40 points per game against the Gators and the Commodores.

With a home contest against South Carolina (10-8, 1-5 SEC) next up, the Tigers get a chance to put the Texas A&M loss out of their minds for good and show how much they’ve learned. But the loss will eat at them until tipoff, said junior guard Keith Hornsby. “[The loss to Texas A&M] couldn’t help but bother us,” Hornsby said. “[Going undefeated at home] was one of the team’s goals at the beginning of the year. We knew how hard it was because the opponents coming in here were tough. It always sucks. We don’t want anybody coming in and stealing a game in our house, but we still have a lot of games left to play.” improved because of everyone around me.”

Hall’s routine in the anchor spot induced roars of seismic proportions and yielded a season-high 9.975 for the three-time reigning SEC floor champion.

In spite of the team’s success in three meets, LSU coach D-D Breaux remained unsatisfied with the team’s success, citing it has performed better in practice. But Breaux said the bevy of team and individual bests are a good start.

“I feel like we are underperforming in some areas,” Breaux said. “From what we see in the gym, when we have that break out, it’s going to be great.”

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Blakeney won’t get his chance to help the cause until next season, but he’s right.

page 7 Football and baseball dominate at LSU, but the cultural change is coming.

The players are playing like they are at a basketball school.

They don’t plan on playing second or third fiddle to anyone, and they shouldn’t.

All that’s left is for Tiger fans to recognize it, too. It’s time for

basketball season to be the first thought after football season.

The culture is changing.

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WEB COMMENTS In response to Logan Anderson’s column, “Despite pro-life movement, Roe v. Wade is here to stay,” readers had this to say: If we were smart (spoiler: we’re not) we’d do what other developed countries have done, which is to reduce the NEED for abortion, not access to it or the legality of it. Germany has an abortion ban after 4 months; however, in Germany, abortion is covered by health insurance and is available at just about any public hospital or OBGYN clinic. Moreover, in Germany, they have near universal health insurance, better maternity and child care, children’s pre-K and a whole host of other social safety net programs that reduce the risk of the child literally bankrupting the mother. The result? Germans get abortions at a LOWER rate than Americans! The time limit restraints aren’t onerous because women don’t have to save up to pay for the abortion with cash up front; they don’t have to travel to some city hours away and possibly have to return 72 hours later. But...like I said...we’re not smart. These stupid regulations will all unfold as soon as the balance of the Supreme Court shifts leftward anyway.

Hopefully, that will be sooner rather than later.

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While I agree that there should not be a ban on abortion and that the women should be able to choose, what my issue is has to do with the volume of babies aborted in this country. In New York City alone, 74,000 babies were aborted in one year, the vast majority minorities. That is a problem unto itself. It is as if it is one gigantic meat grinder that never stops. To your point in Germany, most of the population is Caucasian which is why there is not as much of an issue with numbers and costs.

How about keeping records on who is getting the abortions and after the third procedure they are sterilized?

Of those 74,000 babies, they did not state how many women were involved.

These records came from the federal government. One day people will see the light and if you want to be very careless with your sex life, go ahead and get fixed, males included.

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SMASH THE HATE JACK RICHARDS Columnist Last Thursday, Hank Green was one of three Youtube celebrities tasked with making President Obama seem accessible to millennials. Green took the opportunity to ask Obama about marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington during the White House interview.

After assuring Colorado and Washington residents the feds won’t go nuclear on their crop, Obama called U.S. drug policy “counterproductive,” suggesting a public health approach to drug use.

Despite, speaking to new people, the stance is nothing revolutionary from Obama, but it was the first time in awhile I’d heard him talk about the issue. The president ran on this approach in 2008, when he promised to steer the Department of Justice away from raiding medical marijuana patients.

The problem is his rhetoric doesn’t line up with reality. The Obama administration blazed a warpath against legal pot with about 270 medical marijuana raids throughout his presidency. The administration spent $100 million dollars more than under both terms of George W. Bush.

The smoke has been extinguished, though, thanks to an amendment in the recently signed omnibus spending bill.

The amendment prevents the Department of Justice from using funds for raids on marijuana businesses in states where it’s legal.

If Obama wants to treat drugs as a public health issue, instead of just talking, he needs to stop bothering with the

Department of Justice and refocus his attention on the Department of Education.

The state of drug education in the United States is miserable. The biggest and most recognizable of the government’s attempts is the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program.

You might remember D.A.R.E. as the time a cop came to your school and told your fifth-grade class how to make meth.

The closest I had to a D.A.R.E. experience is when some guy doing lines of something at Voodoo Fest wearing a shirt emblazoned with the logo, blocked what would normally have been a wonderful view of Pearl Jam. Beyond festival kiddies ironically wearing the T-shirts, there isn’t much success to speak of for D.A.R.E. The program has proven ineffective at stopping kids from using drugs in multiple peerreviewed academic studies as far back as the ‘90s.

Turns out, “just say no” is a terrible education strategy for preventing drug abuse. Just like abstinence-only education, trying to scare kids away from something will only further their interest.

One of the arguments made by D.A.R.E. proponents is it’s better than nothing. This falls flat in the face of facts.

A six-year study from researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago found student-reported drug use was higher in D.A.R.E. schools than schools with no comparable drug education.

It’s an undeniable fact that many kids will experiment with drugs. If drug education is designed around that simple fact, it’ll be much closer to the reality of drug use than what is currently taught in school.

Harm reduction strategies do just that. The Drug Policy Alliance defines

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harm reduction as “a public health philosophy and intervention that seeks to reduce the harms associated with drug use and ineffective drug policies.”

Harm reduction is already incorporated into government policies in other parts of the world. Needle exchange programs allow intravenous drug users to swap their dirty, disease-ridden needles for clean ones.

The U.S. is the only country to ban the use of government money for NEPs, despite seven federally-funded studies finding they reduced HIV rates while not encouraging more drug use.

Because of these and other programs, the Netherlands has virtually eliminated heroin use among young people with more than nine-out-of-10 heroin users over the age of 40.

If you aren’t convinced about needle exchange programs, another prominent example of harm-reduction is pill testing at music festivals, a place where intoxicated college students are almost as plentiful as music.

There, unethical dealers peddle synthetic cathinones, known commonly as “bath salts,” under the guise of popular club drugs like MDMA and cocaine.

Groups like DanceSafe and Bunk Police offer testing kits to help concert-goers identify what the hell they’re putting in their body.

Serious discussions require serious solutions. If the president wants to do anything about the lies he’s spread throughout his term, than education is the place to start.

James Richards is a 20-year-old mass communication sophomore from New Orleans. You can reach him on Twitter @JayEllRichy.

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Protestors shouldn’t have to ‘earn’ their inalienable rights SMALL THINGS CONSIDERED ALEX MENDOZA Columnist By now, you’re probably aware of what happened on campus this weekend. But while “The Response” was big news all around campus, it did not go unchallenged.

According to Organize, Reflect, Act — a Facebook event page aimed at organizing opposition to the prayer rally — 890 people gathered on campus to protest “The Response.” Opposition to the prayer rally centered on The American Family Association’s involvement, budget cuts to higher education and general displeasure with Gov. Bobby Jindal’s policies.

Organize, Reflect, Act included standard protest fair such as marching and picketing at the

PMAC during “The Response.”

However, the protest lived up to its name with a series of workshops on topics including social media activism, grassroots lobbying, direct action and intersectional coalitions.

The workshops were designed to teach protesters “how to be more effective community organizers in their areas of interest, ranging from social media usage to direct action and more.”

Some strategies for a better protest include spreading news of an event via social media, knowing your rights when it comes to interacting with police and maintaining a peaceful presence.

It is impossible to understate the importance of effective protest. Unfortunately, many people judge the worthiness of a cause by the actions of those who support it.

Furthermore, with the advent of social media, any perceived misconduct on the part of protestors

is picked up and spread rapidly, often devoid of any context.

We saw it during the Ferguson protests, when efforts of the vast majority to protest peacefully were totally undermined by the violent behavior of a small number of people. Facebook and Twitter were flooded with fiery images of what looked like a warzone.

Sadly, in many cases the conversation shifted from the issue of police accountability to disgust over what were perceived to be lawless, out-of-control riots.

Judging a cause based on its supporters reveals a fundamental flaw in reasoning. A cause cannot be rendered just or unjust by the protesters’ actions. To think this way is to assert that, for minorities, equal treatment under the law is contingent on their behavior.

But the Fourteenth Amendment makes no mention of “earning” equal protection of the laws.

We do not enjoy the Bill of Rights out of merit — we are entitled to it not only as American citizens, but as human beings.

This is not to condone violence in any way. Rather, it is simply to state that when it comes to certain rights, violence and other socially unacceptable forms of protest do not affect whether individuals should receive those rights.

As such, homosexuals do not “owe” society a peaceful protest in exchange for the right to marry any more than African Americans owe society a peaceful protest in exchange for the right to freedom from police discrimination.

Nevertheless, as long as the public feels minorities owe them orderly demonstrations, protesters will have to work as hard as possible to make sure that protests are deemed “acceptable.” In this way, they can ensure news and social media coverage remain focused squarely on the issue

at hand.

To this end, Saturday’s workshops were arguably just as important as marching and picketing.

Whether activists like it, they are often the face of a particular issue. This influence extends far beyond witty protest signs and T-shirts. As we learned in Ferguson, effective protests can be the defining factor in how the public perceives a cause.

Poise and dignity — which were on display Saturday — are admirable. In the social media age, they might even be required.

But it is important to remember we are all human, and as such, we don’t owe society for our inalienable rights.

Alex Mendoza is a 22-year-old political science and international studies senior from Baton Rouge.

You can reach him on Twitter @alexmendoza_TDR.

Protests through the ages

1773

Boston Tea Party: American colonists destroy 46 tons of East India Company tea by dumping it in Boston Harbor. Conflict escalates into the Revolutionary War.

1969

Stonewall Riots: Greenwich Village experiences days of violent unrest after a New York crackdown on homosexual life, bringing the gay rights movement above ground.

1963

Civil Rights March on Washington: More than 200,000 people protest peacefully for civil rights for African-Americans.

1970

Kent State Massacre: Ohio National Guard officers fire on Kent State students during a nonviolent protest against President Nixon’s Cambodian Campaign, killing four and wounding nine.

2011

Tahrir Square: Over 200 thousand anti-Mubarak protesters hold their ground under attack from opposition forces until the president steps down.

1989

Tiananmen Square: Chinese soldiers and tanks fire on over 10,000 people during a peaceful protest, killing an undisclosed number of civilians.

Congress should protect right to abortion with tax money LSYOU, BUT DEFINITELY NOT ME LOGAN ANDERSON Columnist Congress is trying as hard as possible to make abortions unattainable.

Its newest attempt at robbing people of their reproductive rights comes in the form of a bill that bans all taxpayer money from funding abortions. Ironically, the bill passed the House on Jan. 22, the 42nd anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision that granted all Americans the constitutional right to an abortion.

This was Plan B for Congress.

Plan A, the “Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act,” was abandoned Wednesday night after multiple Republican women came forward and said the bill went too far. The act would have proposed a ban on all abortions following the 20-week mark of a pregnancy.

Plan B, also known as H.R. 7, the “No Taxpayer Funding for

Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2014” , would withhold abortion services from anyone using Medicare, Medicaid, insurance purchased through the Affordable Care Act’s healthcare exchange and all public employees who are insured through their offices.

This bill makes it impossible for anyone under any sort of financial strain to obtain a safe, legal abortion. Those who can finance their own procedures, which can range in cost from $350 to several thousand dollars, remain largely unaffected by this bill.

Conservatives have a long history of blocking taxpayer funds from financing reproductive care.

In 1976, three years after the passage of Roe v. Wade, Congress passed the Hyde Amendment, barring any Medicaid funding of abortion. In the years prior to the Hyde Amendment’s passing, federal Medicaid was responsible for covering one-third of all abortions performed in the U.S. Henry Hyde, the Illinois Republican who introduced the bill,

stated he “would certainly like to prevent any woman from having an abortion: a rich woman, a middle class woman or a poor woman.

“Unfortunately,” he went on, “the only vehicle available is this bill.”

Since going into effect in 1977, the Hyde Amendment has disproportionately affected minority communities, barring many women of color from obtaining the reproductive care that they need.

After the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the amendment in 1980, Justice Thurgood Marshall summed up the bill’s motives, stating Hyde is “designed to deprive poor and minority women of the constitutional right to choose an abortion.”

This was not political posturing — it was a fact that was proven by Rosie Jiménez. In 1977, the 27-year-old college student and single mother needed an abortion.

However, because she was on Medicaid at the time, her doctor turned her away.

Desperate, Jiménez crossed the border into Mexico in an

effort to obtain an illegal procedure. She died seven days later from complications of the unsafe operation. Her fate was the same as countless other, unknown women who needed safe and legal abortions.

H.R. 7, if passed, would go beyond the Hyde Amendment in a number of ways, such as banning public health facilities from providing abortion services, outlawing the use of tax credits to purchase insurance that would fund an abortion and raising taxes on small businesses that include abortion care in their covered service.

Even worse, the bill would remove the exceptions the Hyde Amendment currently has in place.

As of now, Hyde allows for federal funding to be used in an abortion in the cases of rape, incest or a pregnancy that endangers the life of the mother. H.R. 7 contains no such exceptions.

The Guttmacher Institute recently found, when Medicaid use is restricted, one-in-four low-income women are forced to carry

an unwanted pregnancy to term. If H.R. 7 becomes a law, that number would undoubtedly rise.

President Obama stated Thursday morning if this bill were to make it to his desk, he would absolutely veto it. But this bill is more than just an attempt to block lowincome women from receiving the reproductive care they need — it is a message from the Republicancontrolled legislature on what they will focus on for the duration of Obama’s presidency.

Republicans plan to spend the next two years doing everything they can to undermine reproductive rights. Hopefully, they don’t make any achievements because, if they do, Rosie Jiménez’s story will cease being a cautionary tale of what happens when abortion restrictions go too far, and instead become a common reality that the American people have to face.

Logan Anderson is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from Houston, Texas. You can reach her on Twitter @LoganD_Anderson.

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page 11 hemline, from page 1 campus at LSU.” Textile merchandising senior Nimia Cabrera was one member whose design was selected for construction.

She said the most challenging part of the competition was the time required by the project.

“You think you have enough time, and then you get towards the end ... and you feel like, okay, this is not enough time,” Cabrera said.

Cabrera said it felt good to get together as women to bring awareness to a disease that kills one in three women each year.

Vicki Brooks, a six-year AHA volunteer and judge for the competition, said it was important the

competition was visible to the public so people could get facts about the disease.

“It’s very exciting that the students at LSU and the fashion merchandising [students] get on board with this to promote our cause and help people understand the drastic effect that it has on women,” Brooks said.

The event also advertised at the Go Red for Women luncheon held in Baton Rouge in February, which includes a fashion show and testimonies from those affected by heart disease.

This is the second year Hemline @LSU partnered with the AHA for the competition, sponsored by Macy’s and The Lemoine Company.

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Ken Kovacs delivers a sermon Saturday at the University Presbyterian Church’s same-sex marriage conference.

conference, from page 1 congregation, outlining the day’s events and addressing the goals of University Presbyterian Church.

“The goal is to be unified, not divided,” Snyder said. “We want a completely open and accepting congregation — to be totally open and affirming.”

In his sermon, Kovacs spoke passionately on themes of love and acceptance.

“The church must not stand in the way,” Kovacs said during his deliverance. “Instead, we — the church, the people — must recognize love when we see it.”

Events later in the day included a short speech by Brian Ellison, executive director of the Covenant Network of Presbyterians, and a keynote speech given by Cynthia Rigby. There were also two workshops, a closing worship and a silent prayer vigil.

Ellison delivered a brief address on the ideals of the Covenant Network of Presbyterians.

The Covenant Network of Presbyterians has focused on being an all-inclusive church for several years.

“The Covenant Network is a national organization formed in 1977 with a mission to work for inclusion — that is, the welcoming of all people into the life and leadership of the church,” Ellison said.

Ellison referenced his opposition to Jindal’s prayer rally, but said he is not discouraged by the event.

“As that gathering down the road does demonstrate, we still have a lot of work to do in changing the conversation,” Ellison said.

“I’m excited about the possibilities.

I’m excited that there are people willing to have this discussion and still be churched together.”

Rigby re-emphasized the importance of LGBT rights in her speech.

“This is not an event that is also primarily an agenda,” Rigby said.

“This is a gathering of people who want to be who they were created to be.”

The first workshop included a review of marriage equality court decisions and changing understandings of marriage in the church, run by Rigby and attorney Chris Otten.

Kovacs, Snyder and Zach Sasser, pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Lafayette, ran the second workshop, “Marriage Matters and Welcoming Matters.”

Snyder said University Presbyterian Church was not aware of the prayer rally hosted by Jindal and the American Family Association when organizing its event in August. Conference attendees gathered in the courtyard of the church and concluded the day with a silent prayer vigil to protest the prayer rally.

Associate pastor of University Presbyterian Church Mike Watson said he was happy to see so many students protest, but he and the

church have different methods of speaking out.

“I stand fully with our church on same-sex marriage and believe in endorsing it fully,” Watson said.

“I love that students are willing to stand up against [the rally] in their own way. We are choosing to stand, to respond in a different way. Our idea is not to fight against it, but to provide a silent message of inclusion and hope.”

Sociology doctoral candidate Anthony Reed, who spent Saturday morning protesting the prayer rally outside the PMAC, said he thinks highly of the church’s separate conference.

“I think that’s actually really beautiful,” Reed said. “There aren’t many churches that are very inclusive of gay people. As far as this [rally], to see Jindal using our facility to further his political agenda deeply disturbs me.”

Merchandising junior Nicole Hogan works on her dress during Hemline’s dress-building competition Saturday at the Mall of Louisiana.

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