The Daily Reveille - March 10, 2014

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BILLS, BILLS, BILLS HIGHER EDUCATION

• SB 124 Authored by Sen. Ben Nevers, D-District 12 • This constitutional amendment would give postsecondary education management boards the freedom to set their own tuition rates.

Legislative session begins today; proposed legislation emphasizes higher education, social issues

STORY FERNANDA ZAMUDIO-SUAREZ and QUINT FORGEY Senior Reporter and Staff Writer

Louisiana’s 2014 legislative session will kick into full force at noon today, beginning a series of discussions on the most important issues facing the state. Higher education will be a major player in the debates, with legislators advocating for various TOPS reforms and higher education

• Currently, Louisiana mandates that both the state House and Senate approve tuition changes.

MARIJUANA

• LSU President F. King Alexander has pushed tuition autonomy to save money and separate the University from the state’s monetary constrictions.

Rep. Austin Badon, Jr., D-District 100 • Decreases fines and jail time for marijuana possession • Similar legislation authored last year by Badon failed in the final days of 2013’s legislative session.

• HB 561 Authored by Rep. Patrick O. Jefferson, D-District 11

HB 14

revamps. Many social issues are up on the docket as well, as LGBT and marijuana legislation take center stage in several bills. The Daily Reveille presents a brief summary of some of the key legislation that could affect the lives of university students across the state.

GUNS HB 494

Rep. Austin Badon, Jr., D-District 100 • A proposed constitutional amendment that would allow the carrying of a concealed weapon without a permit or license

LGBT HB 887

Rep. Karen Gaudet St. Germaine, D-District 60, and House Speaker Pro Tempore Walt Leger, D-District 91 • Prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation in employment

MUSIC

Weezer headlines pricier Groovin’ Jacquelyn Masse Contributing Writer

This year’s Groovin’ on the Grounds concert will see world famous headliner Weezer, along with higher costs and a new Festival of the Arts showcase.

The estimated budget of the event is around $230,000. Student Government budgeted about $40,000 from sponsorships and around $191,000 from student fees.

Chelsey Gonzales, director of programming, said the total cost of Groovin’ on the Grounds was GROOVIN’, see page 15

ACCREDITATION

Undergrad research key in review

• This law would allow postsecondary education management boards to establish financial hardship standards for waving out-of-state tuition or mandatory fee increases.

• The waiver criteria would be made available to all students before they decide on a school.

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• Some students question where schools will get the funds to waive the fees.

Staff Writer

• SB 62 Authored by Sen. Conrad Appel, R-District 9 • This bill would establish a common application for all public colleges and universities in Louisiana.

• Because schools have their separate application fee costs, Appel said the fees will still be present, but at least the paperwork process would be streamlined.

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La. Gov. Bobby Jindal addresses the state legislature on the opening session March 12, 2012, in Baton Rouge. This year’s legislative session begins today.

Ten members of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges will visit the University this week to give an appraisal of the University’s implementation of undergraduate research on campus.

SACSCOC is the body that grants accreditation to universities in the South, according to its website.

Without accreditation universities cannot grant degrees to students, The undergraduate research is the result of the Quality Enhancement Plan, an ACCREDITATION, see page 15

Expands research opportunities for OUR undergraduate students Be part of this life changing experience!

Visit lsu.edu/discover to learn more.

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Nation & World

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TODAY’S FORECAST

Monday, March 10, 2014

NATIONAL

STATE/LOCAL

High school stage collapses, injures 25 Chef offers culinary training for at-risk teens The Associated Press

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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Investigators combed through a collapsed theater stage at a Southern California high school Sunday, trying to determine why it buckled during a performance that sent 25 students to the hospital with mainly minor injuries.

Police, firefighters and medics responded to a call Saturday night after the wooden stage gave way at Servite High School, an all-boys Catholic school in Anaheim.

About 250 students from nearby Rosary High School, an all-girls sister school, were singing and dancing on the platform when they fell five feet, Anaheim police Lt. Tim Schmidt said.

Injuries included broken bones, bruises and scrapes.

The likely cause appeared to be too many students on stage and too much weight on the platform, Schmidt said. “It was a weight issue,” he said.

Inspectors will double-check the school’s stage permit to determine if it’s up to date. They will also review whether the permit included a weight restriction or a limit on the number of people who could be on

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A firefighter assists an injured student after a stage collapsed during a student event at Servite High School in Anaheim, Calif., on Saturday.

stage. The investigation is expected to take two weeks.

The stage was extended out in the 1980s to provide more square footage, Schmidt said. It was the add-on that collapsed.

“We’re lucky that no one was seriously injured,” he said. “It was a quick, sudden collapse, and the students fell right away.”

More than 600 students,

parents, faculty and alumni were in the auditorium at the time of the accident.

The students were performing in “Red and Gold,” Rosary High’s annual musical theater challenge since 1971, in which teams prepare for six weeks to put on choral, dance, drama and other performances, according to the school’s website.

(AP) — Some people might question Chris and Sommer Wadsworth’s definition of slowing down. Chris was working 80 hours, six days a week when he left his position as executive chef at Restaurant IPO last August. They sold the food truck that Sommer, formerly a special education teacher, had been manning. They also have a line of seasoning and he had been catering.

The couple, who have a combined six children ages 2 to 12, went to work on a new project —founding and opening a notfor-profit culinary training facility designed to give culinary and hospitality training to at-risk youth and underprivileged teens. Café Reconcile gives inner-city New Orleans youths culinary training.

INTERNATIONAL

Door from missing plane found The Associated Press

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Vietnamese aircrafts spotted what they suspected was one of the doors of a missing Boeing 777 on Sunday, while troubling questions emerged about how two passengers managed to board the ill-fated aircraft using stolen passports.

Interpol confirmed it knew about the stolen passports but said no authorities checked its vast databases on stolen documents before the Boeing jetliner departed Saturday from Kuala Lumpur en route to Beijing with 239 people on board.

Warning “only a handful of countries” routinely make such checks, Interpol secretary general Ronald Noble chided authorities for “waiting for a tragedy to put prudent security measures in place at borders and boarding gates.”

More than two days after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went missing, the final minutes before its disappearance remained a mystery.

The plane lost contact with ground controllers somewhere between Malaysia and Vietnam. However, searchers in a low-flying plane spotted an object that appeared to be one of the plane’s doors.

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Politics

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University

Minimum wage bills would raise pay Cassidy named head of tech committee Quint Forgey Staff Writer

If several state legislators succeed in their efforts to increase minimum wage in Louisiana, certain University employees could see a pay raise as early as 2015.

Ernie Ballard, University director of media relations, said in an email that the University currently employs some part-time workers who are paid at the minimum wage, and LSU would have to increase the wages of anyone below the new amount.

Ticket takers and other gameday personnel are among those who are paid minimum wage by the University.

Ballard said the Department of Labor would also mandate that student workers being paid minimum wage be eligible for an increase in pay.

At least four lawmakers have filed legislation to increase minimum wage in Louisiana, including District 26 representative Herbert B. Dixon, a Democrat who chairs the labor and industrial relations committee in the House.

Dixon’s proposal would gradually increase the state minimum wage over the course of two years — to $8.25 in July 2015 and to $9 in 2016.

Other bills to be voted on in the upcoming legislative session could raise the minimum wage up to $10.10 in Louisiana.

Dixon said Louisiana is one of only five states without its own minimum wage, instead complying with the federal standard of $7.25 per hour.

Dixon said only 10 percent of minimum wage jobs are held by individuals 20 years old and younger. He said the focus of his legislation was to aid older minimum wage recipients who

Renee Barrow Contributing Writer

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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal speaks to reporters outside the White House in Washington on Feb. 24, following a meeting between Barack Obama and members of the National Governor’s Association (NGA).

may have families to support.

Dixon acknowledged that he did not think his legislation would significantly impact Louisiana universities, saying his wage proposal would primarily affect the private sector.

Gov. Bobby Jindal has come out publicly against any minimum wage increases in the state, even drawing national media attention Feb. 24 for his remarks against minimum wage increases outside the White House.

“I think there are things we

can do instead of waving the white flag of surrender, instead of declaring this economy to be a minimum wage economy. I think our economy, I think America can do better,” Jindal said Despite the governor’s opposition, a recent survey from Public Policy Polling revealed a majority of Louisianians are in favor of a $10 state minimum wage.

On Friday, the new Student Technology Fee Oversight Committee chairperson, Jane Cassidy, was announced and made effective immediately.

“Appointing Jane to this position just made sense,” said Stuart Bell, executive vice chancellor and provost.

According to its website, the committee is responsible for providing state-of-the-art technology for student use. When the committee meets, it makes decisions about how to use funding gathered from the Student Technology Fee to suit student needs.

It’s been almost a year since Robert Kuhn, former STFOC chairperson and associate vice chancellor and CFO, announced his retirement in late March 2013 after more than 39 years at the University.

In a previous interview, Kuhn told The Daily Reveille it was time for University President F. King Alexander to build his own team.

Bell and Daniel Layzell, vice president for finance and administration, made the decision, after consulting with Kuhn.

Cassidy has sat on the committee for the past four years as vice provost for Human Resources and Facilities Management and worked at the University for 26 years.

Cassidy also has an extensive history with the School of Music.

She worked as director of the school

for a year, associate dean for the College of Music and Dramatic Arts for three years and was a professor.

During her time at the College of Music and Dramatic Arts, Cassidy said the technology fee enabled the University to purchase more instruments for undergraduate use.

“Those instruments are still used by students today,” Cassidy said in an email. “I don’t know how we would teach all of our instrumental methods courses without them.”

Cassidy said she is excited for the position and sees the STF Oversight Committee as one of the more unique committees at the University.

More than half of the members of the committee are students. They may contribute to the discussions as peers, Cassidy said.

Cassidy said it is crucial for students to have a say in what their priorities are with how their technology fee is spent.

“This [committee] is a great example of faculty and staff working with students,” Bell said. “It’s student driven.”

Cassidy said she knows Wi-Fi access is a large source of frustration for the student body and hopes the committee can help alleviate those problems efficiently.

The STFOC will meet at 3 p.m. on March 20, in room 135-F of Thomas D. Boyd Hall.

Contact Renee Barrow at rbarrow@lsureveille.com

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Celtic music band to perform at the School of Music Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez Senior Reporter

With St. Patrick’s Day around the corner, students can get in the Irish spirit when the Brock McGuire Band performs at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the School of Music Recital Hall.

The school brings a wide variety of musical experiences for students, and the band’s traditional use of banjos, accordion, fiddle and piano blend Celtic, French-Canadian and American bluegrass sounds to create their music.

The touring band offered to visit the University and play a show, and Director of the School of Music Stephen David Beck took the opportunity. This is the first time the band will visit

the University.

“It’s something that’s completely different, something students will enjoy,” Beck said.

Beck said the school aims to host bands and musicians that go beyond students’ area of study.

Regardless of the style, musicians play the same instruments and can take inspiration and notes on technique from other musicians.

“It’s still a part of the music language we can all share and relate to,” Beck said.

He said students who play the same instruments can still learn, enjoy and connect with Irish music.

The band will have an open presentation with students at the recital hall today from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. to answer

questions and discuss their traditional music style.

The Irish music of the Brock McGuire Band has links to American folk music with its similarities of ideas, themes and storylines through the music. European settlers brought their instruments and musical talents to different areas of the U.S. and though the music changed, the influence remains, Beck said. In the South, Celtic musical inspiration is often heard in Cajun tunes through their melodies and songs with a narrative.

Contact Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez at fsuarez@lsureveille.com

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Amazing Scavenger Hunt Adventure - Harrahs Resort and Casino

9:45 AM 5:45 PM 7:00 PM

Storytime - Livingston Parish Library

8:00 PM 10:30 PM

Bring Me the Horizon - House of Blues New Orleans Switchfoot - The Varsity Theatre Magnetic Mondays - Gasa Gasa Andrew's Extravaganza - George's Place The Mary Onettes - Mud and Water Preschool Storytime - Livingston Parish Library

For more information on LSU events or to place your own event you can visit www.lsureveille.com/calendar

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STUDENT LIFE

Monday, March 10, 2014

Crowdsourcing sites help fund student costs Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez Senior Reporter

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The cost of college is rising, and for some University students there is little room for extra expenses.

Crowdsourcing websites are growing in popularity as a way for students to fundraise.

When five University dance minors were accepted to perform a piece at the NYC Dance Arts Festival, they were overwhelmed with excitement and thoughts of the trip’s cost for travel to Manhattan. To combat these expenses, English junior Molly Russell put their cause on GoFundMe for friends and family to donate.

The site allows anyone to look at a brief description of the cause and donate whatever they can via credit cards, similar to an online purchase.

Marlon Grigsby, biology senior, said the group has to fund their meals, hotel stay, flights and transportation costs — everything but the festival fee.

“The question was do you want to go. Of course you want to go. Now pay your own way,” Grigsby said.

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University students are using GoFundMe.com to raise money for various events.

to fundraise travel to an engineering competition. At the competition, the group will present a business plan to sell a race car to a specific market and build the car designed in their plan.

Alex Rome, a civil engineering sophomore, said the group decided to fundraise independently because University funding did not meet the group’s needs.

If the group accepted money from sponsors, then the University would take 5 percent of the money

Students, friends and family are contributors to the cause. While students contribute what they can, heftier donations come from adults, Russell said.

“Everyone gives a little. It adds up to a lot,” Russell said.

Communication studies freshman and dancer Macy Dunne said the site can be shared on social media, making it efficient when results turn out faster.

University Formula Society of Automotive Engineers uses the site

by allocating the funds through University accounts. Since Student Government’s funding initiative for student groups only applies to fulltime students, the entire group could not be covered, so the students took to the Internet.

“Crowdsourcing seemed to be the best because friends and family wanted to give, and they didn’t have an avenue to do that,” Rome said.

He said the site has mostly proven useful to connect community members who want to get involved with the club. Now the group can reach out to people who have access to computers everywhere, not just sell T-shirts in Free Speech Plaza.

When the group goes to car shows, they meet adults who are interested in the cause and donate. After, the group sends them emails and keeps them up-to-date on projects.

With about $2,660 raised, Rome said the money now helps with car construction materials and the potential to raise more money is still there.

Contact Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez at fsuarez@lsureveille.com

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A week after announcing he will travel to New Hampshire, home of the nation’s first presidential primary election, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal pulled just 2 percent of votes in the Conservative Political Action Conference’s annual straw poll for the Republican nomination.

The poll asked a sample of around 2,500 conservative activists and politicians to name their top choice for the Republican nominee in the next presidential race.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul led the poll for the second year running, rising to 31 percent from last year’s tally of 25 percent. Jindal’s 2 percent share puts him in a tie for 10th place with former Republican candidates Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

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Sports

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Small Ballers

SOFTBALL

Corbello struggles as LSU falls, 7-0 Tommy Romanach Sports Contributor

rolling more quickly.

After senior left fielder Sean McMullen led off the first inning with an infield single, sophomores Mark Laird and Alex Bregman laid down consecutive bunt base hits, loading the bases for junior second baseman Conner Hale.

It was an uncanny series of events for a program known for its “Gorilla Ball” approach in the tiny

Freshman pitcher Baylee Corbello struggled in the pitcher’s circle and LSU failed to get clutch hits throughout Sunday afternoon as it lost its second consecutive game to Auburn, 7-0, at Jane B. Moore Field in Auburn, Ala. The game gave Auburn (19-3-1, 2-1 Southeastern Conference) the series victory in what was both teams’ opening SEC series.

LSU (17-8, 1-2 SEC) earned a 4-1 victory Friday night, but a 6-4 loss Saturday afternoon and the loss Sunday gave LSU its second losing streak of the season.

Neither coach Beth Torina nor any of the players made themselves available to the media after the game.

LSU trailed for the majority of the game Friday as it failed to get a run across for the first five innings.

But a three-hit inning, including back-to-back doubles by freshman outfielder Bailey Landry and junior outfielder A.J. Andrews, gave LSU a three-run lead it never relinquished.

Saturday marked another struggling performance from senior pitcher Ashley Czechner. She was taken out in the fourth inning after allowing six earned runs. The outing nullified a two-home run

BASEBALL see page 7

SOFTBALL, see page 10

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Sophomore outfielder Andrew Stevenson sacrifices a bunt Sunday during the Tigers’ 7-3 victory against Purdue.

Lawrence Barreca

Bunts spark quick offense in Tigers’ series sweep clincher

Sports Writer

Following a comeback victory on Saturday night, LSU (14-2) strung together an efficient performance in every facet Sunday to defeat Purdue, 7-3, and complete the three-game sweep in the Tigers’ final weekend of non conference play.

Sunday’s finale against the Boilermakers (1-10) marked the fifth-straight day in which LSU

played a game, proving to be both a physical and mental test for the program.

LSU coach Paul Mainieri was forced to make a number of key decisions regarding his bullpen and starting lineup, and the reserve players delivered to propel the squad to a five-game winning streak.

“Everybody worried about [playing five straight days], but I was looking forward to it,” Mainieri said. “I thought it was a silver lining

because the game of baseball is the type of sport that you have to play a lot. If you play every day for five days in a row, then I felt what would happen is the players would get a lot of at-bats and become more comfortable in the batter’s box.”

On Saturday night, LSU took seven innings to find its stroke at the plate.

For Sunday’s contest, Mainieri’s team turned to a small-ball approach to get the Tigers’ offense

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Tigers hope for new start in SEC tournament Chandler Rome Sports Writer

Comparing last season to this season is an easy task for the LSU men’s basketball team.

Both seasons had a marquee win in the PMAC against a top20 team, both contained baffling road losses to meddling Southeastern Conference teams and both ended on a sour note with senior day defeats.

And, the most obvious of all, both ended 9-9 in the SEC, stranding the Tigers in the cluttered middle of a criticized conference.

“I don’t know, I guess 9-9 is 9-9,” said LSU coach Johnny Jones. “The games we were able to win here at home and positions we put ourselves in on the road to win some games … I thought we were a lot closer to our record

being different this year.”

Now the Tigers (18-12, 9-9 SEC) enter what Jones termed the team’s “third season,” a postseason where the team has wiped the slate clean and realized only they control their destiny.

The message was sent just moments after Georgia defeated the Tigers, 69-61, to close the “second season.”

“Coach just told us, ‘It’s a new four game season,’” said junior forward Johnny O’Bryant III. “We’re not looking back.

We’re bringing our hard hats and we’ll be ready to play.”

O’Bryant, who left the floor Saturday to chants of “One more year!” by the student section, was coy about his future plans, only saying he was focused on the SEC tournament and he would discuss his future with family and coaches later.

For senior guard Andre Stringer, there is no such discussion. The Jackson, Miss., native has one more shot at real postseason play, something he hasn’t tasted since a 96-76 beating at the hands of Oregon in the first round of the National Invitation Tournament during his sophomore season.

“It’s gut check time, it’s tournament time,” Stringer said. “It’s time to leave everything out on the floor and hope you can play well enough to keep playing.”

Stringer carried the offensive load on Saturday, pouring in 22 points in his final game at the PMAC but lamented empty possessions and second half turnovers, ultimately saying the Tigers beat themselves.

Freshman forward Jarell BASKETBALL see page 10

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Junior forward Johnny O’Bryant III (2) and freshman forward Jarell Martin (12) walk down the court Sunday after drawing a foul during the 69-61 loss to Georgia.

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Swimming and diving Men’s Tennis

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Tiger Tigers push No. 20 Auburn to brink, fall short divers aim for NCAAs Jack Chascin

Sports Contributor

Jack Chascin Sports Contributor

The LSU men’s and women’s divers have a final chance to punch a ticket to the NCAA Championships when they take the pool today in Minneapolis, Minn., for the 2014 NCAA Zone-D Championships.

LSU will take seven divers to the event, including sophomore Cassie Weil, who won two bronze medals during the Weil Southeastern Conference Championships Feb. 18-22.

Weil will compete in all three diving events, including the two events she won bronze in, the 3-meter and platform.

LSU diving coach Doug Shaffer said in a competition like this, it can be difficult to predict the outcomes because it depends on who puts their best foot forward during the three day competition.

Senior Sean McKinney will look to improve on his performance after a disappointing outing at the SEC Championships.

“Sean, Kevin [Leong], Alex [Bettridge], Cassie have all performed at a level throughout this season that has given them an opportunity to earn a berth to the NCAA `ChamMcKinney p i o n s h i p s , ” Shaffer said.

Shaffer said he expects all the divers to be focused and ready to compete at the highest level. This is the competition the divers have prepared for all season.

“Divers are performers,” Shaffer said. “It comes natural for them to want to [compete].

The emphasis is to not treat this [meet] as anything different.”

The competition begins today, when the women start preliminary competition at 11 a.m. and wraps up Wednesday with both the men and women competing on the platform at 2:48 p.m.

The LSU men’s tennis team challenged No. 36 Auburn on Sunday, taking four out of six singles matches to final sets, but were unable to close any of them out as they fell 4-1.

The match started off with LSU leading all three doubles matches in the beginning before dropping two of three and giving Auburn the doubles point. LSU coach Jeff Brown credited Auburn’s accuracy in being able to bounce back.

“They just don’t miss much,” Brown said. “We started making mistakes, and they’re real good shot makers. We weren’t able to maintain.”

Freshman Justin Butsch and sophomore Boris Arias in particular were among the players unable to maintain their singles matches.

Butsch jumped ahead of his opponent, No. 120 Dante Saleh, 6-3 in the first set, putting him on track to get a marquee win before

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LSU sophomore Boris Arias stretches to hit the ball Friday during a tennis match against Alabama in W.T. “Dub” Robinson Stadium.

tough place to play.”

Not every match was lost, as sophomore Harrison Kennedy dominated his opponent in singles, winning both sets 6-2.

The Tigers will now move

their focus to opponent George Washington, whom they host on Thursday.

Contact Jack Chascin at jchascin@lsureveille.com

Women’s Tennis

Lady Tigers lose close match at home Taylor Curet Sports Contributor

After losing its third match of Southeastern Conference play by a 4-0 score against No. 4 Alabama on Friday, No. 47 LSU was eager to notch its first conference win of the 2014 season against No. 20 Auburn on Sunday.

The Lady Tigers put themselves in prime position to pull the upset against Auburn before ultimately falling 4-3 at W.T. “Dub” Robinson Stadium.

The clash between LSU (76, 0-4 SEC) and Auburn (14-2, 4-0 SEC) extended to four of the six singles matches being

decided in three sets, including four tiebreakers. Auburn’s No. 114 singles player Emily Flickinger clinched the close contest by beating LSU’s No. 87 Noel Scott 6-7 (7-9), 7-6 (7-3), 6-4.

LSU coach Julia Sell said Sunday’s match produced the most positives of LSU’s two-loss weekend.

“It was an incredible college tennis match,” Sell said. “It was a four-and-a-half hour battle. I thought we finally put ourselves in a position to beat a really good, quality team. It’s nice to see our freshmen starting to relax and being confident out there.”

Two LSU freshman, Abigail

Owens and Joana Vale Costa, proved Sell’s point and helped keep the Lady Tigers alive in a match with several lead changes.

Owens followed up Wednesday’s SEC Freshman of the Week honor by defeating Auburn’s Michala Kucharova 1-6, 7-6, 6-2.

Costa won LSU’s first singles point with her biggest victory of the season, defeating Auburn’s No. 29 Pleun Burgmans 6-3, 6-0.

The win was Costa’s first win against a ranked opponent in her LSU career. The Lisbon, Portugal, native has spent the first half of the season adjusting to life in the U.S. and college competition, Sell said.

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dropping the final two sets 6-4 and 6-3.

The trend continued for most of the match with many LSU players forcing Auburn to go a third set, but ultimately being unable to capitalize.

Arias had a very up and down match, falling 6-1 in the first set to opponent Daniel Cochrane, but Arias forced a third set after winning the second 6-4.

Cochrane bounced back in the third set, firing at Arias and keeping him on his heels for an easy 6-0 win in the third.

“Bit of a streaky match,” Brown said. “It really snowballed in the third.”

Arias got shut down in the third because his style of play didn’t effectively counteract Cochrane’s.

Cochrane also dominated his home court, which visiting teams can have difficulty with, Brown said.

“A little bit tough on the courts today,” Brown said. “They are a little slow and bouncy, but I think we competed well in a

LSU sophomore Ella Taylor serves Sunday during the Lady’s Tigers’ double match against Auburn at W.T. “Dub” Robinson Stadium.

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“Joana, we haven’t seen the best of her yet,” Sell said. “Today was the first day where she relaxed and I thought she looked more comfortable. She played very well but still not even the best of her ability.”

Despite encouraging performances, Sunday’s loss means LSU remains winless in conference play. LSU has lost four matches in a row and will continue its SEC slate at Missouri next weekend.

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Nistrup narrowly misses championship Joey Giglio Sports Contributor

Freshman golfer Caroline Nistrup lost Sunday to Duke’s Yu Liu in a one-hole playoff to claim second place at the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate in Hilton Head, S.C. After finishing the tournament tied for first place, shooting 2-under-par 211 total score, a playoff birdie by Liu proved to be the difference between the two freshmen.

No. 21 LSU finished tying for third place with No. 5 Oklahoma. Both finished 13 strokes behind second place No. 14 Vanderbilt and 23 strokes behind the tournament champion No. 2 Duke. The Blue Devils finished each day on top the team leaderboard.

The Lady Tigers finished the first round tied for sixth place with Stanford and Arkansas, posting a round of 13-over-par 297.

They improved in the second round, shooting one stroke better than the previous day, while they saved their best overall performance for Sunday.

The Lady Tigers shot 8-overpar in the third and final round of

the tournament to propel them to their strong showing against a competitive field.

Junior Madelene Sagstrom finished the tournament tied for 21st place with North Carolina’s Katherine Perry and Wake Forest’s Mariana Sims, shooting a respective 8-over-par 221 total score.

Three other Lady Tigers all finished tying for 62nd place.

Sophomore Nadine Dreher, senior Lindsay Gahm and senior Ali Lucas all shot a total score of 18-over-par 231.

Dreher entered the final day tied for 69th and shot 3-over-par to jump seven spots up the overall leaderboard.

Gahm and Lucas shot identical final rounds of 5-over-par, after both entering the day tied for 60th.

The Lady Tigers will compete in the LSU Tiger Golf Classic on March 21 at the team’s course of University Club.

The Tigers Classic is the Lady Tigers only home tournament this season.

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dimensions of Alex Box Stadium.

LSU has been renowned for its power bats throughout the lineup in years past.

“Coming into the last game of the series, you want to jump on top quick and make the other team kind of get down on themselves,” Laird said. “What we’re trying to do lately is implement getting ahead early.

Our pitching has been fairly good through these past five games, so we just get a little lead and they’re going to hold them off.”

Hale followed the bunts with an RBI single to left field, then sophomore center fielder Andrew Stevenson plated the second LSU run on a sacrifice fly.

Sophomore catcher Chris Chinea added another run on an RBI double to right field in the bottom of the fourth, and one inning later, the Tigers’ offense pulled away for good.

With two runners on and no outs, Hale hit an RBI ground out, junior designated hitter Kade Scivicque roped an RBI single and Stevenson hit an RBI triple to right field.

The triple extended Stevenson’s hitting streak to 14 games and raised his season average to .432. “[Stevenson has] completely been a spark plug for us,” Bregman said. “I think he’s been on base every single time he gets up. He just starts innings, and he also finishes them.

He brings so much to our team, and he’s a real big leader out there.”

On the mound, junior left-hander Cody Glenn only lasted four innings, giving up two runs on four hits and recording only

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“It was a four-seam fastball that was supposed to be outside, and I left it right down the middle,” Glenn said. “You just learn to forget about things like that and continue battling and continue doing what you know you can do and trust your pitches.”

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“We have a ton of depth in our bullpen and position player-wise,” Bregman said. “I’ve been really pleased with it, and I think that’s a big thing for us for the entire season.

We have a lot more depth than even I thought we had [before the season].”

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No. 1 Tigers trudge through meet after setting record LSU scores 197.500 against N.C. State Marcus Rodrigue Sports Contributor

D-D Breaux couldn’t deny that something was off Friday night.

In front of a mostly pink-clad crowd for the annual Pink Meet to raise breast cancer awareness, the No. 1 LSU gymnastics team appeared to sleepwalk its way through the competition. The usual energetic fanfare was absent, excluding a handful of spectacular individual performances and a slew of tiny mistakes that marred what seemed like an underwhelming showing.

But for all the oddities Friday night, the Tigers (9-3, 4-2 Southeastern Conference) still claimed a 197.500-195.525 victory against No. 25 North Carolina State, totaling a score only five other teams have exceeded this season.

That LSU could have a down meet yet post a score it would’ve killed for last season didn’t slip Breaux’s mind.

“Any team would probably be happy to have that score, especially at this point in the season when you’re looking at the postseason and your preparation is with that in mind,” Breaux said.

“I think we skipped the ‘stay in the process’ part tonight.”

Staying with the process for the Tigers this week was made more difficult because the process changed.

Breaux said she modified LSU’s practice schedule

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LSU freshman all-arounder Sydney Ewing poses on the beam Friday during the Tigers’ victory against N.C. State in the PMAC.

leading up to Friday night’s meet.

Just a week removed from a program-record 198.050 team score against Missouri, she wanted to keep LSU on its toes.

The Tigers were also missing one of their key performers on two events. Junior all-arounder Jessie Jordan, who has been nursing a sore back, competed only on bars and beam against the Wolfpack (12-7, 10-1 East Atlantic Gymnastics League).

Fellow junior all-arounder Britney Ranzy filled in for Jordan on vault and floor, scoring a 9.850 and a 9.725, respectively.

Ranzy is no stranger to the vault — she held a spot in the rotation at the start of the season until an Achilles tendon injury kept her off the apparatus for the last two weeks.

Jordan left her mark in the events she did compete in, earning a 9.850 on bars and a career-high 9.975 on beam.

“It just shows how consistent I’ve been all along,” Jordan said.

“I’m anchor on beam, and that’s what I’m supposed to do.”

LSU featured at least one exhibition gymnast on every event because Breaux wanted to

test the Tigers’ depth. She was most pleased with freshman all-arounder Sydney Ewing’s 9.925 on vault, which would have earned her a share of the vault title with junior all-arounders Rheagan Courville and Lloimincia Hall.

Courville, the No. 2 gymnast in the country, won the all-around title with a 39.500, but expressed visible frustration after nearly falling off the balance beam.

“It’s disappointing because I know that I can do better, and I’m second-guessing myself,” Courville said. “I try not to do that. So

I’m just going to have the mindset in the gym that I don’t need to carry those mistakes because that’s not who I am and that’s not part of my regimen on workout.

It shouldn’t be in competition, either.”

But Courville responded to her 9.750 on beam with a powerful floor routine that earned a 9.925, and Hall followed up with a 9.950-scoring routine that sent the PMAC into one of its few frenzies Friday night.

“We did have a very appreciative crowd, but they knew that we weren’t sticking landings,” Breaux said. “When we would get a great performance, we had a great response.”

LSU turned in several noteworthy performances, like freshman all-arounder Ashleigh Gnat’s career-high 9.950 on beam and sophomore all-arounder Jessica Savona’s 9.925 on floor. But the Tigers made minor technical mistakes throughout the competition that reflected in the final tally.

Breaux is sticking to the restcentric regimen that kept LSU out of practice until today, confident the Tigers know where they fell short against N.C. State. She called the past week of preparation and performance a letdown, but managed to find a silver lining with the SEC championship two weeks away.

“We didn’t want [a letdown],” Breaux said. “But if there’s any time in your season that this is OK, it’s right now.”

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[Left] LSU freshman all-arounder Ashleigh Gnat prepares to flip off the vault and [right] LSU junior all-arounder Lloimincia Hall dances during her floor routine Friday during the Tigers’ victory against NC State in the PMAC.

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Monday, March 10, 2014 brought Corbello’s day to an end.

Prior to Sunday, Corbello had yet to be taken out of a game, going the full seven innings in her first 10 outings.

Auburn sophomore Lexi Davis was the star of the game, pitching a complete-game shutout while allowing eight hits and no walks on 91 pitches. The performance was Davis’s 10th complete game of the season, twice as many as she had in 2013.

LSU generated offense throughout the game but never put everything together to scratch a run across.

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performance from freshman catcher Sahvanna Jaquish.

On Sunday, Auburn got to Corbello early, with junior outfielder Branndi Melero’s three-run home run in the first inning, her sixth of the year. It was the third home run Corbello has allowed in 2014, and the three runs were the most she has allowed all year.

Things worsened in the second when two hits and three walks extended Auburn’s lead to five and

After the first, LSU recorded a hit in every inning, but a lack in clutch hitting resulted in six runners left on base.

LSU will head back to Tiger Park for its next SEC series as it takes on Florida starting Friday night. The Gators have started the season winning 24 of their first 25 games.

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It wasn’t nearly enough to counter the Georgia guards as the sophomore duo of Charles Mann and Kenny Gaines combined for 42 points and an 8-of-10 clip behind the 3-point line.

“It was a lack of communication, not playing team defense,” Martin said. “Gaines was able to knock down shots coming off screens. Mann was able to get to the free throw line. We just have to go out there and play together.”

Now into the postseason, the comparisons to last season don’t stop at the 9-9 conference record.

As it did last season against Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and Georgia, the Tigers will face a

one-man wrecking crew in the first round of the SEC tournament when it squares off against do-it-all guard Trevor Releford and Alabama on Thursday.

The Tigers dropped their only other meeting with the Tide this season, 82-80, in Tuscaloosa.

A game Jones said isn’t indicative of who the Tigers are now or the goals that lie in front of them.

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I live in Panama City, FL. now and go to FSU games and hear nothing so disgusting or base coming from its students. I hope when I come home for a visit, there will be some changes, as I have told my husband who graduated from FSU there is no place on earth as wonderful as Tiger stadium on Saturday night!”

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ANDREW STOLZLE Columnist As the global job market continues to evolve, education must adapt to meet the increasing demands of employers. American academia has fallen behind its European counterparts despite record spending by both universities and students.

Louisiana consistently scores in the lowest tier of high school education, placing 46th in the 2013 U.S. News and World Report rankings. A poor primary education correlates with substandard university performance; this cascade of underachievement is a result of systematic flaws which are keeping our state — and nation — from flourishing economically.

Europe holds an advantage in its teaching methods. Educators there encourage students to learn by experience through apprenticeships, whereas American universities focus on graduation rates and often sacrifice quality for the sake of graduating more students.

Most universities employ this factory model of education, but none are advocating for the inclusion of courses that introduce undergraduates to the market by allowing them to work with companies.

LSU has a strong foothold in the STEM fields and benefits from great alumni support. It should utilize these resources and introduce joint-apprenticeships with local businesses that are looking to

hire graduates. In doing so, Louisiana’s flagship university can optimally prepare its students while leading the national discussion in youth employment and education.

Cool Planet, a clean-energy company, will be constructing its first commercial facility in Alexandria and is looking to build two more units in Louisiana.

In a state where fossil fuels reign supreme, Cool Planet’s presence can both springboard Louisiana into the modern energy discussion and serve as a pilot for the apprenticeship program.

Instead of learning abstract information that is usually extraneous, students can learn firsthand how a commercial facility goes from idea to actuality. Undergraduates can intern with the company in between semesters to gain experience and see if they truly are interested in that field. If LSU encourages this form of education and implements courses into its own system, it will notice brighter prospects for its students.

Germany’s vocational system has become a model for European nations because it has been so successful — and America should take notes. Youth employment in Germany is the highest in Europe, with a jobless rate of 7.8 percent. That’s almost half of the youth unemployment rate here in the states, which hovers around 16 percent.

Some consider Germany’s scientists and engineers to be among the best in the world, largely in part because students become involved in their respective industries at a young age. High school graduates often begin on-the-job training while taking courses that connect them with companies and exposes them to the market. This method is becoming more popular overseas.

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Almost 60 percent of German high school graduates choose this vocational method over traditional ones because it’s proven to work. The labor market in Germany is continuing to grow, and almost 33 percent of German companies experienced a shortage of workers in 2011. I know it sounds impossible, but there is such a thing as a worker shortage.

Many companies in Europe pay those who choose the vocational route because they know these future workers will be skilled producers. Interns in America rarely receive compensation for their work, discouraging many from pursing a non-typical education. What’s missing is an institutional leader who understands the importance of joint-apprenticeships and its effects on the local economy.

Not only will this new system benefit students, it will show other companies like Cool Planet that our state is ready to diversify its energy portfolio, which may attract more businesses that are invested in working with non-traditional energy sources. No matter which side of the climate change debate you find yourself, we can all agree that more local businesses and cooperation between those businesses and LSU will generate growth for the university and its graduates.

Andrew Stolzle is a 21-year-old mechanical engineering junior from Baton Rouge.

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Hypocritical corporate media attacks RT news Mr. Fini Joshua Hajiakbarifini Columnist On March 5, RT news anchor Liz Wahl resigned on air in protest of her network’s coverage of the Ukrainian crisis. Her resignation sent a shockwave throughout the media and revealed the subtle alliance that the corporate media has throughout our national discourse by catering to corporate America and shutting out alternative views.

RT is basically the BBC of Russia and is currently the second-most watched foreign news outlet after BBC World Service.

Although RT does reflect the views of Russia, it doesn’t necessarily mean they are the 21st century Pravda.

Students should be supportive of alternative voices in America regardless of their origins. RT brings up issues that affect Americans more often than Fox News or CNN. While MSNBC interrupts a former Congresswoman talking about the NSA PRISM program to bring in the “utter important news” of Justin Bieber’s DUI, RT aired half a dozen shows which talked about government corruption, corporate crimes and collusion with the state, the drug war and government surveillance.

Last week, RT was part of a media and viral blitz when “Breaking the Set” host Abby Martin closed her show with a clarification that just because she

works for RT doesn’t mean she cannot criticize Russia, and she proved it by condemning Russia’s military intervention in the Crimea.

The fact that RT didn’t fire Abby Martin for criticizing Russian foreign policy is telling. When Martin was invited on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Live,” she criticized the corporate mainstream media and stated that RT’s bias for promoting Russian foreign policy isn’t unique compared to the corporate media bias in supporting the political and social establishment of the United States.

She made it clear that RT was the only major news organization in the U.S. in which she could be free to criticize corporate America without repercussions.

Leading up to the Iraq War, criticism of the Bush Administration was minuscule at best. The only two journalists who spoke out, Peter Arnett of NBC and Phil Donahue of MSNBC, were fired. This was not a surprising outcome because both NBC and MSNBC were owned by General Electric, which is one of the largest defense contractors. War is profitable for General Electric, so criticism of the war was unacceptable.

Another dark example of corporate censorship that affected people’s health was when Fox News fired reporters Steve Wilson and Jane Akre because they were trying to air a story about cancer-causing milk. Monsanto was one of Fox News’ largest advertisers and sent a fax which stated “there would be dire

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Russia Today American anchor Liz Wahl quit her job on live TV on Wednesday, saying she couldn’t work for a network that ‘whitewashes’ the actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

consequences for Fox News” if the story aired.

This flies in the face of people who believe the media has a left- wing bias. If it did, then Arnett and Donahue wouldn’t have been alone or fired leading up to the Iraq War. The sad truth is the corporate media in our nation censors stories and ideas that go against the elite narrative. The elite control the media, whether through direct ownership or through advertising.

Even though RT caters to a Russian worldview, it draws attention to the lack of diverse and critical news our country has.

Criticism of the government surveillance programs and aggressive foreign policy is limited to critics on YouTube, alternative fringe outlets and student papers.

It is telling that the most critical news of U.S. government policy comes from foreign media instead of our own.

Students should care about how the six media conglomerates are ganging up on RT. RT is one of the few well-funded alternative media outlets that gives voice to grassroots ideas from libertarians to anarchists.

It’s time to focus our criticism of RT on our own media conglomerates that have polluted

the American psyche to care only about consumerism, capitalism and terrorism and to ignore the wealth gap, government surveillance and endless wars.

Joshua Hajiakbarifini is a 24-year-old political science and economics senior from Baton Rouge.

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Society perceives female orgasms, sex incorrectly OFF WITH HER HEAD Jana King Columnist Science is truly amazing — we’ve just about eliminated polio, pizza can be delivered to your house and there is a patented a device that can give a female an orgasm at the push of a button.

The women who choose to have the small device implanted near the spinal cord use a remote to send signals to their nervous system, which then causes an orgasm.

But while we celebrate this new freedom of women to experience sexual pleasure after years of struggling to have an orgasm, we should also look at what it took to get us to the point where a procedure as invasive as pacemaker surgery is necessary for sexual satisfaction.

Yes, there are women who cannot reach an orgasm after

properly exhausting all of their options, but that number is much less than one would think.

There is a bigger problem here. Biological and cultural issues have led us to believe that a female’s orgasm is unimportant and something that can be neglected.

The biological basis for sex is reproduction, and the only orgasm necessary for impregnation is the male orgasm. If there were only one man and one woman left on the earth, they could repopulate our entire planet without a single female orgasm.

However, we’ve moved far past sex as a form of repopulating. In fact, being one of the few species that is known to have sex for recreation, we’ve made quite a show of it.

But there are several ideas surrounding the female orgasm that leave many women unsatisfied while their partners drift off into a postcoital sleep.

The biggest lie a female can ever be told is that sex will hurt.

First time, third time, the 100th time — it doesn’t matter. When properly aroused, the vagina becomes elastic and produces natural lubrication. There should be no blood, ripping or pain.

The false claim that sex is painful for women has led to a society which dismisses any sort of education that allows for a pleasurable female experience.

Millions of sex positive activists have voiced distress over this, but instead of correcting ourselves, we’ve perpetuated the issue.

And now women are not only told to expect pain during sex, but they are also made to feel guilty about having sex.

Growing up, females and males experience different reactions when displaying their sexualities. While every sitcom that you can think of will have an episode where the parents find a pornographic magazine in their son’s room, I have yet to see a single episode where the daughter’s porn is discovered.

It could be that she’s just

smarter and keeps them well hidden, but it’s more likely an audience wouldn’t respond well to a female viewing porn for pleasure.

Instead, the daughter’s storyline will include dating a “bad boy” who wears leather jackets and rides a motorcycle.

We’re more responsive to a male display of sexuality because we think it’s just how men are.

But female displays of sexuality can ruin reputations and cause problems.

The fact is, females want sex just as much as males.

Louis C.K. advocated for the female orgasm in a comedy routine where he pointed out women are just as inclined to sex as men, but the lack of positive sexual experiences makes females less aggressive about having sex.

“When you [have sex], you get to [have sex with] a woman.

When she [has sex], it’s with a man. Wildly different experiences,” the comedian remarks.

His words ring true for millions of heterosexual partners,

but the idea can be stretched to include all sexualities. Our sex drives may make us focused on our own personal satisfaction, but there is more to sex than your own orgasm.

Sex for reproduction is a natural instinct. But sex as recreation takes a little more education.

American sex education is severely lacking, so for now, we’re on our own. Do a little bit of research and ask yourself if having sex with you is as great of an experience as you think it is.

Jana King is a 19-year-old communication studies sophomore from Ponchatoula, La.

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Part-time 22-28 hrs/wk. $8-$9.00/hr DOE. Current CRP/First Aid Cert or ability to be certified by the Y within first 30-days of employment. Must pass B/G check and drug screen. Contact Eddrick Martin @ (225) 344-6775 or apply in person to Baranco-Clark YMCA, 1735 Thomas Delpit Dr., Baton Rouge, LA. ________________________ Busy Physical Therapy clinic seeking parttime technicians in Baton Rouge office.

WANTED: SWIM INSTRUCTORS: Crawfish Aquatics; Louisiana Total Swim Program, Part Time Afternoons-April.

Full Time Summer. If you are highly motivated, great character, hard working, we can teach the rest. Send resume to:swimminglessons@crawfishaquatics. com ________________________ ROLY POLY Now hiring friendly faces part time all shifts. Please apply at 4500 NIcholson Drive Ste. E. in Southgate. ________________________ COLD STONE CREAMERY seeks part or full time cake decorator for fun environment. Needs to be energetic and reliable with prior experience. Competitive pay.

Call Bob 609-412-5736 or 985-276-3558 ________________________ COURIER NEEDED Downtown law firm - Preferably M-F from 1-5; responsible student with neat appearance, must have car/ good driving record/ins., computer skills; $8/hr +mileage; email resume to jwinkle@ pierceandshows.com ________________________ Love Kids? Leaps and Bounds Sports Center is hiring SUMMER CAMP COUNSELORS and Pre- School Teachers. Apply in person 225-665-7200 ________________________

Male and female models wanted for online adult productions. Great Pay!!! Visit www.

QCDelights.com ________________________ La Carreta Government is looking for team players to compliment our great staff.

Hostess and servers please apply in person between the hours of 1-4 Monday thru Friday. ________________________ DENTAL OFFICE P/T assistant/receptionist needed. Great opportunity for those interested in the dental/ medical field. Fax resume’ to (225)7662122. ________________________ WORK WITH KIDS! Learning Center needs tutors. T/Th after 4pm. For more info: elinorbailey@ikumon.com ________________________ Part time afternoon counter clerk needed!!

Welsh’s dry cleaners at the corner of perkins and college dr. great for students!! flexible schedules!! apply in person 9285067 ________________________ Assistant Managers and Team Members Wanted. Smoothie King and Jimmy John’s.

Greater Baton Rouge area. Must have resume’. Email to eric@one12.net ________________________ Students needed to work with individuals with Developmental Disabilities. Great job for COMM D, PSYCH, Social Work and KINES majors. Several shifts available.

Apply in person at St. John the Baptist

Human Services 622 Shadows Lane St A. Baton Rouge, LA 70806. 225-216-1199 ________________________ Recent graduate needed for Human Services position. Applicants must be highly organized, efficient, able to multitask, possess excellent clerical skills, and must be professional. This position requires excellent written and oral communication skills. Applicants must be team-oriented, and must possess a pleasant, outgoing and engaging personality. Degree in Human Services related field required and experience working with people with developmental disabilities is preferred. Salary TBD. Please send resumes to HumanServicesJobs@gmail.com ________________________ SELA Aquatics is now hiring lifeguards, swim coaches, swim instructors, managers for several BR and NOLA country clubs for Summer 2014. Apply at www.selaaquatics.com. ________________________ Children’s store needs helpers. No nights or Sundays. 291-4850 ________________________ Part-Time position with Nabisco 25-30 hours in retail for Baton Rouge area.

Please use the link below to apply http://global.mondelezinternational. com/Careers/Find_a_Job_With_Us/ USJobs/CareerApplication.aspx?isrc =https%3A%2F%2Fmondelez.taleo. net%2Fcareersection%2Fmndlz_careersite_hourly%2Fmoresearch. ftl%3Flang%3Den ________________________ DEREK CHANG’S KOTO: NOW HIRING SERVERS NO EXP NECESSARY APPLY IN PERSON MON-FRI 2:30PM4:30PM 2562 CITIPLACE CT ________________________ The Camelot Club looking for experienced serves in both dining and banquet service. Dependable servers that have reliable transportation. Part time, day and night availability.

Apply in person from 2:00-4:00 p.m.

Monday-Friday ONLY 451 Florida St., 21st Floor Baton Rouge, La 70801 ________________________ Patrician Management is seeking an Asst. Property Manager with experience along with a P/T weekend leasing agent.

Leasing agent is great job for student; must be available every weekend in exchange for an apartment in a great location. Customer service experience preferred. Drug test/criminal background checks required. Email resumes for both positions to jfarr@pm-br.com or fax to 225-924-9893. ________________________ New Year, New Fun Job! Great Starting Pay! Flexible Schedules, Scholarships and Internships available. Customer sales/service.

Full training provided. All ages 17+ Apply Today! 225-803-8982 workforstudents.com ________________________ HIRING STUDENTS! *$16 STARTING PAY* Customer sales/ service. PT/FT available with very FLEXIBLE schedules. NO EXPERIENCE NEC-

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225-921-9673 earnparttime.com ________________________ Math Tutors Needed Make a difference by tutoring students in grades 1-12 at Mathnasium. We offer flexible work schedules, a great work environment, and $12/hour after training. Must be very strong in high-school math. Hiring now for both area locations. Call 744-0005 or email ascension@mathnasium.com for more information. ________________________ John`s Pro Window Cleaning is looking for 2 part-time window cleaners (20-30 hours per week). Must have reliable transportation and be prepared to work as early as 6 am. No experience necessary.

Must be completely honest, in good physical health and completely self-motivated (references required). Great working conditions, flexible hours and great pay.

Start at 10.00 an hour with significant monthly raises (17.00 an hour within first 7 months). Great opportunity for college students.

To apply call Judy at 225-927-6748 between the hours of 9-5 ONLY. DO NOT call cell number mentioned in message. ________________________ Albasha Restaurant is now hiring for part time hostess and waitstaff. Please come in to apply. We are located at 2561 Citiplace Court Baton Rouge, LA 70808. ________________________

Our hotel sets the standard in business travel, day after day. We are looking for energetic individuals who are passionate about customer service to join our team.

We are seeking out dedicated individuals for the following positions: FRONT DESK AGENT must exceed our guest’s expectations and ensure revenue optimization through check in/out while assuring to the attentive coordination of hotel services for our guests.

NIGHT AUDITOR perform the duties of a Front Desk Agent and complete, balance and file night audit reports on the various areas of the hotel to provide accurate, timely information in accordance with cash handling, credit card processing and accounting policies and procedures.

BARTENDER will be responsible for delivering excellent guest experience in our bar area by missing drinks for both guests and servers. Other responsibilities include the complete set up and break down of the bar area.

HOUSEKEEPING staff are expected to exceed our guest’s expectations by maintaining the highest standard of cleanliness of the guest rooms. Clean and prepare guest rooms and public areas by meeting our established standards.

LAUNDRY ATTENDANT & DRIVER process the hotel’s laundry by folding, stacking and storing linen in compliance with hotel standards. Class D driver’s license is needed for driver applicants.

If you want to join our dynamic team you will enjoy competitive salary, benefits, paid time off and a 401 (k) plan e-mail your résumé to jobs@wampold.com Flexible hours, weekends and nights are required.

3BR,2-5Bth,WD, 5268 Brightside view Dr.,No.4, lsu Area Call -766-7258, OR 268-1273 $900/mo ________________________ 1200 SQFT. HOUSE FOR RENT. 2 BR W/ OFFICE, 2 FULL BATHS, W/D HOOK UPS, 2 CAR CARPORT, TREE SHADED GRASS COMMON AREA, QUIET, SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD CLOSE TO LSU. 950.00.

DOUBLE OCCUPANCY ONLY. CALL: 931-4250 ________________________ Now, Accepting Deposits for Summer/ Fall Move Ins. Lake Beau Pre Townhomes, Arlington Trace & Summer Grove Condos 2 & 3 Bedrooms .

Dean & Company Real Estate 225-767-2227 www.deanrealestate.net ________________________ 1 Block from LSU lakes. Efficiency with separate kitchen & bath. Internet, cable, W/D, utilities, included. $800 per month.

ROOMMATE NEEDED! (female) Furnished kitchen, dining, and living room, 2 car garage with a covered back porch!

Barely 10 minutes away from LSU campus! Please call (318) 210-1444 ________________________ 1 ROOMMATE NEEDED: 4/2 House/Garage EXTREMELY NICE Nicholson Lakes Sub.$600 month/$200 Deposit. No pets.

Utilities pd. Call 225-270-6034 ________________________ LARGE BEDROOM FOR RENT - 5MINS FROM OLOL, JACOB’S, SHAW! THE JEFFERSON APTS - NEWLY RENOVATED AND FULLY FURNISHED EXPT ROOM FOR RENT. PET FRIENDLY and POOL! ALL INCLUSIVE $850 A MONTH! email Aimee @ afouqu1@lsu. edu - sbj Room

Sponsored Freerunner and Parkour practitioner looking for cameraman/video maker who just wants to make awesome videos. mdbeke13@gmail.com ________________________ Models wanted for photo shoot for ladies sportswear Jbe267267@gmail.com

Monday, March 10, 2014 ACCREDITATION, from page 1

initiative for the reaffirmation of the University’s accreditation.

Randy Duran, director of the University Office of Undergraduate Research, said the accreditors will be on campus Tuesday through Thursday speaking to administrators, faculty and students who are conducting research. Undergraduate research will be presented to the public in an exposition in the Student Union today.

“This is the process by which LSU retains its accreditation,” Duran said. “Without it, we become worse than the University of Phoenix.”

The QEP focuses on a theme selected out of suggestions collected from faculty and staff to better student’s academic experience at the University, said Matthew Landry, nutrition and food sciences junior, and QEP Undergraduate Student Body Representative. The last QEP was 10 years ago and resulted in the implementation of the residential colleges, Landry said.

Preparations for reaffirmation of accreditation began in 2011, with a committee working to make sure the University fulfilled all requirements set by the SACSCOC. The University’s funding and how students obtain grants and financial aid depends on the outcome of their visit, Duran said.

Landry was a part of the University committee coordinating and planning the QEP. He will showcase his research on the effect of salinity on the imported red fire ant today, and talk about his work to the accreditors on Wednesday.

“Students were missing [undergraduate research] in their academic experience,” Landry said. “Undergraduate research used to be ‘I got into a lab and cleaned some test tubes and put it on an application for graduate school.’”

Landry said the goal of the QEP is to allow students to be truly involved in research from the moment they step on campus and across multiple semesters, using funding given from research grants or provided by the colleges where the research is conducted.

“This includes students across campus. Anyone can get involved. undergraduate research is generally viewed normally as hard sciences,” Landry said. “This also includes humanities.”

The showcase of undergraduate research, branded LSU Discover, is “a science fair on steroids,” and

The Daily Reveille demonstrates the goal of QEP, Duran said. He said they hope to have a week-long exposition of research in years to come.

According to LSU Discover’s website, the undergraduate research event will be held in the Cotillion Ballroom and Atchafalaya room from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m today and will have demonstrations of student research starting at 1:30 p.m. Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Stuart Bell will speak at 2 p.m.

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cheaper last year at $185,000 because the artists were not as expensive.

“The price of Lupe [Fiasco] and Grace Potter together don’t even equal Weezer’s cost,” Gonzales said.

The new Festival of the Arts will have activities before the concert such as a student showcase. Gonzales said she wants to incorporate

student talent to create an outlet for their artistic abilities. Gonzales said she wanted to choose a different music genre this year because the past genres were getting repetitive. Gonzales also decided to have only two acts for Groovin’ on the Grounds.

Contact Jacquelyn Masse at jmasse@lsureveille.com

Contact Deanna Narveson at dnarveson@lsureveille.com

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