The Daily Reveille - March 26, 2014

OPINION: From ICEEs to campus safety, columnists pick their SG initiatives, p. 12

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: Lady Tigers advance to Sweet 16, 76-67, p. 7

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BODY CONSCIOUS

HEALTH

LSU kinesiology students participate in a cadaver lab Monday at the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine.

Body donation in Louisiana increased by 38 percent between 2009 and 2013.

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SATURATED FAT, see page 6

PHOTOS RICHARD REDMANN Staff Photographer

CRIME

LSUPD looks into campus crime app James Richards Staff Writer

Virginia Commonwealth University is one of 10 colleges using LiveSafe, a mobile app that allows students to give tips, receive safety alerts and let friends and family monitor them as they walk through potentially dangerous areas, according to the LiveSafe website.

There are many apps like LiveSafe on the market, seeking to provide people closer access to their local police department. LSU Police Department spokesman Capt.

Cory Lalonde said LSUPD has

Contributing Writer

BODY DONATION, see page 6

Body donation rate increasing in Louisiana hole body donation was once taboo, but recent data suggests the practice is becoming more acceptable and appreciated in Louisiana — and the University is helping to promote this trend.

Whitney Lynn

Statistics provided by the University’s Health Sciences Center in New Orleans indicate that full body donations to its Bureau of Anatomical Services increased by

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Contributing Writer

Saturated fat, heart disease link disputed A new study regarding what you should and shouldn’t eat is bringing scientists and nutritionists to the table, ready to devour the findings.

Rajiv Chowdhury, cardiovascular epidemiologist at Cambridge University, published a new study last week in the Annals of Internal Medicine journal stating there is no direct correlation between how much saturated fat a person eats and their risk for developing heart disease.

Cardiovascular disease, which includes heart disease, stroke and high blood pressure, is the No. 1 killer of Americans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC website correlates saturated fat intake with higher cholesterol levels and the creation of artery blockages.

Sandra May, registered dietician in the School of Nutrition and Food Science, said saturated fats

photos by RICHARD REDMANN /

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already worked to incorporate technology into campus safety efforts with the emergency text message alert system.

LSUPD is currently looking into and testing a system similar to LiveSafe, Lalonde said. He said the system they are testing would allow students to call LSUPD, activate a phone’s video and audio recorders and provide a GPS location with the touch of a button in an emergency.

Contact James Richards at jrichards@lsureveille.com

Would you use an emergency app?

Oluwaseyi Bamgbola

‘It would be good for friends, but it feels a little invading.’

Kayler Varmall

‘The probability of catching anything would be low.’

political science sophomore

communication studies sophomore

‘I feel like calling 911 would be less effort.’

Michael Cuccia accounting junior

‘If I didn’t feel safe, I would use it.’

‘I probably wouldn’t think to use it.’

Trent Davidge

Cristina Barrionuevo

biochemistry junior

psychology freshman

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TODAY’S FORECAST

Nation & World

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

INTERNATIONAL

STATE/LOCAL

America part of Russian rocket launch Committee backs calorie labeling bill The Associated Press

Mostly Cloudy HIGH 62 LOW 51 sunrise: 7:01 a.m. sunset: 7:20 p.m.

Thursday HIGH 72 LOW 65

Friday HIGH 81 LOW 65

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) — Their relationship on Earth may be at its lowest ebb in decades, but the U.S. and Russia haven’t allowed their disagreements over Ukraine get in the way of their joint mission in space.

In the early hours of Wednesday local time, a rocket carrying a Russian-American crew to the International Space Station blasted off successfully from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The Soyuz booster rocket lifted off as scheduled at 3:17 a.m. local time Wednesday (2117 GMT Tuesday), lighting up the night skies over the steppe with a giant fiery tail. It entered a designated orbit in about 10 minutes after the launch. All onboard systems were working flawlessly, and the crew was feeling fine.

The crew — NASA astronaut Steve Swanson and Russians Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev — are set to dock the Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft at the station less than six hours after the launch and are scheduled

The Associated Press

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The Soyuz TMA-12M space ship takes off at 3:17 a.m. local time Wednesday, carrying a new crew to the International Space Station.

to stay in orbit for six months.

Swanson is a veteran of two U.S. space shuttle missions, and Skvortsov spent six months at the space outpost in 2010. Artemyev is on his first flight to space.

The U.S. pays Russia nearly $71 million per seat to fly astronauts to the space lab.

So far, the tensions between the U.S. and Russia over Ukraine have been kept at bay.

(AP) — A bill requiring chain restaurants to provide calorie information on their menus received the narrow backing Tuesday of the Senate’s health committee.

The proposal would require restaurants with at least 15 locations, one of which is located in Louisiana, to label the caloric content of their food items and beverages, including alcoholic drinks.

Chains that fail to comply with the requirements would face fines of $250 to $1,000, after getting a written notice and 60 days to meet the labeling mandate from the Department of Health and Hospitals.

Senators voted 4-3 to advance the bill to the full Senate for debate.

NATIONAL

Burger King baby finds birth mom The Associated Press

A woman who, as a newborn, was abandoned in the bathroom of a Pennsylvania fastfood restaurant said Tuesday she has found her birth mother just three weeks after launching a search that garnered worldwide attention.

Katheryn Deprill, 27, said she felt “pure joy” when she met her biological mother for the first time Monday at an attorney’s office.

“She is better than anything I could’ve ever imagined. She

is so sweet and amazing. I’m so happy,” said Deprill, who has become known as the Burger King Baby.

Deprill began her quest on March 2 by posting on her Facebook page a photo in which she held up a sign that said, “Looking for my birth mother. ... She abandoned me in the Burger King bathroom only hours old, Allentown PA. Please help me find her by sharing my post.”

Deprill said she bears a very strong resemblance to the woman, whose name she wouldn’t disclose.

CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS The headline of the March 25 story “Ukraine orders troop pullout from China” was incorrect. It should have read, “Ukraine orders troop pullout from Crimea.” The Daily Reveille regrets this error.

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LSU Theatre performs world premiere of play Michael Tarver Contributing Writer

When most theaters host a premiere, the production has often been worked through relentlessly by multiple groups. But University students were the excited original cast for the world premiere of “Dionysus of the Holocaust” Tuesday night.

Steven Young, director of the production, said the play is distinct because a world premiere does not happen often in the collegiate realm — maybe once every few years or so. However, an open dialogue with the writer, professor Femi Euba, made the preparation for the production somewhat easier, though the actors were constantly challenged and pushed

during the process, he said.

The play is set after a meteorite strikes the Earth and destroys almost the entire planet. Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, agriculture and fertility of nature, is summoned by the unborn to repopulate the human race on Earth. While the question of human worth is discussed, the play also addresses racial issues. The few remaining survivors are competing to decide which race should rule the world.

The performance will be recorded for archiving purposes so future performers can reference the way the student actors portrayed each character.

Young said the difference in preparing for a world premiere is the fundamental approach to building the characters and the storyline.

The writer’s input is essential for the play’s success. “[The actors] have to be on their toes,” Young said. “Not only are small details constantly in flux but sometimes their characters are as well.”

Young said working with college students had its challenges, though their energy and enthusiasm contributed to the play’s vitality.

Geoffrey Place, mechanical engineering freshman, plays the lead role as Dionysus, and said multiple aspects contributed to his excitement for Tuesday’s premiere.

As a freshman who does not major in theater performance, Place said the opportunity to portray an original character was nerve-racking yet exciting,

especially in his first performance with the LSU Theatre Department.

“In any play with a history [like Shakespeare], you usually have something to go off of, but this play is not like that,” Place said.

Though this lack of traditional resources made developing his character difficult, Place said the rare advantage of having the writer present throughout the entire preparation process helped him.

Place said the nature of creating an original production and character was difficult but in some ways simpler because there are constantly discoveries being made by the actors, the director and even the writer.

“I think it’s easier because [the process] is very organic, and you

can originate all the characteristics of each character,” Place said.

For theatre performance senior Rachel Paternostro, the experience of a world premiere is familiar.

Paternostro said she has been a part of a world premiere before, but this production is different because of the large cast and the interesting plot of the play. It is always exciting to perform an original work, however, because it is a completely new palate that can be taken in any direction, she said.

“I hope when people come see the show, they’re ready for a good time,” Paternostro said. “And the end has a very good message.”

Contact Michael Tarver at mtarver@lsureveille.com

baton rouge community

IBM awards city exclusive grant for public transportation consultation

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Quint Forgey Staff Writer

Computing giant IBM awarded a grant to the city of Baton Rouge to receive exclusive consultation from a team of the company’s experts to address the issue of public transportation in the city. MayorPresident Melvin “Kip” Holden made the announcement Tuesday morning in downtown Baton Rouge, as CATS buses passed behind him in the roundabout of the North Boulevard Town Square.

Baton Rouge is one of only 16 cities and regions worldwide to receive a grant from IBM’s Smarter Cities Challenge and one of only four in the United ANGELA MAJOR / The Daily Reveille States.

Baton Rouge Mayor-President Kip Holden speaks to reporters Tuesday during a press The Smarter Cities Chal- conference at North Boulevard Town Square. lenge is IBM’s single largest philanthropic program, said Holden called Baton bus system was not as accessible Jim Driesse, senior state ex- Rouge’s current transportation as it could be. ecutive for the company in systems “outdated,” and he said “I think it’s practical for Louisiana. he anticipated the studies would some people, but for oth“This was a very, very help the city cope with traffic ers, it’s just not an option,” competitive process,” Driesse congestion.

McNorton said. said.

“We’ve outgrown our infraIBM’s team will spend three structure in this region,” Holden weeks in Baton Rouge later this said. year to comprehensively study Holden also expressed exthe concern of efcitement for the ‘We’ve outgrown our attention ficient transportathe Contact Quint Forgey at tion in the area. infrastructure in this t r a n s p o r t a t i o n Following their issue in Baton qforgey@lsureveille.com region.’ analyses, IBM Rouge was going will present the to receive because city with recomof the grant.

Melvin ‘Kip’ Holden mendations and “At least Baton Rouge mayor-president a written plan set the talk is going, for implementation, according to which means the topic will never a news release from the Holden die,” Holden said. administration.

Psychology sophomore Holden said the awarding of Aris Suarez said public transit the IBM grant is “not in any way in Baton Rouge could be better related” to the company’s soft- managed.

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UNIVERSITY

KLSU

Two students named Goldwater Scholars Two others receive honorable mention Staff Reports

Two LSU students were named Goldwater scholars, the University announced Tuesday, while another two received honorable mentions.

Brandon Oubre, computer science and mathematics junior, and Paxton Turner, mathematics junior, were two of the three students from Louisiana receiving the award.

The award is given to mathematics, science and engineering sophomores and juniors around the country who are nominated by faculty members. The oneand two-year scholarships help cover the cost of tuition, fees, books and room and board up to $7,500 a year.

“Our congratulations go out to these four students for being recognized on a national level by the Goldwater Foundation,” said LSU President F. King Alexander in a University news release.

“We also applaud them for their

pursuit of degrees and careers in the STEM disciplines, and we look forward to watching their careers as they complete their studies at LSU.” Oubre is working on a collaboration between Microsoft and the University to develop a geometry tutoring web application system and is interested in conducting research on robotics for an academic or government organizations, according to a University news release.

Paxton has received funding to research cluster algebras and graph theory at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, according to a University news release.

Rachael Keller, mathematical sciences junior, and Paul Koenig, chemistry sophomore, received honorable mentions for the award.

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FACULTY

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Health Center director also oversees emergency ops Moriah Purdy Manship News Service

Whether LSU remains open or shutters its classroom buildings in a crisis strangely begins with D’Ann Morris, executive director of the LSU Student Health Center.

Bandages, stomach aches and flu shots are just her day job.

Morris is the director of the Emergency Operations Center, the University’s 24/7 “all hazards” nerve center that responds to natural and man-made disasters, acts of terrorism and “no-notice” events, like hurricanes, bomb threats and ice storms.

That puts her at the root of why about a third of LSU students will be attending classes this coming Saturday — the last of three designated make-up days for weather-related class cancellations earlier this year.

Morris and her team gave the final recommendations to LSU President F. King Alexander, who closed the school those days.

“It was between midnight and 4 a.m. that [Alexander] was most comfortable to make the decision,” Morris said of the Jan. 29 closure.

“Some may have made that decision sooner, but he chose not to do that.”

Morris consults with the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, Louisiana State Police, the Office of the Governor and the Office of the Mayor-President to update the University president on current closures and procedures.

“Whenever you see that weather alert on the LSU homepage saying EOC is monitoring, that doesn’t mean I’m in my office watching weather.com,” Morris said. However, on a relative scale some decisions are not as complicated as others.

Hurricane Katrina, for instance, was the most catastrophic event Morris

has ever managed, in part because the LSU’s EOC was not formed until June 2006.

Morris said the most difficult call she had to make during Katrina was when the LSU campus was closed and turned into a triage center for those rescued from New Orleans. She had to ask the dean of the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine to use its animal morgue for human bodies.

“We didn’t have enough refrigerated trucks,” she said. “More people had [died] and we needed to do something.”

Morris said hurricanes require much more input, planning and preparation but fortunately always approach with a warning. Financial accounts need to be in order in case FEMA reimburses LSU for the disaster.

“It’s not just ‘Oh, somebody get the sandbags,’” she said.

Technically, the decision to cancel classes lies at the feet of the provost, who Morris said is “heavily guided” by the school’s registrar.

University registrar Robert Doolos said policy statement 117 on the academic calendar provides guidelines on how and when to cancel classes. The Faculty Senate and Student Government generated the policy in 2008 after Hurricane Gustav caused four canceled school days that were made up over that fall break and two Saturdays.

“The two Saturdays had to be on away game days,” Doolos said.

“It’s almost impossible to cancel a home game” even in the highly unlikely event the University chose to do so.

The policy states that classes in the fall and spring semesters must meet 34 times. In the case of January’s ice storms, Student Government and The Faculty Senate recommended Saturday classes because in

many cases flights and research trips were already planned for spring break.

“If we had missed a whole week, we couldn’t avoid cancelling spring break,” Doolos said. “It was a struggle to try to find three Saturdays where major events were not planned.”

Another traumatic event that stands out in Morris’ tenure with the Emergency Operations Center is a double homicide in December 2007, when two graduate students were shot in a home invasion of their campus apartment. Morris was sent to console the victims’ spouses, one of whom was pregnant at the time.

“That was the most tragic experience of my life,” Morris said. “I got to the police station between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m., and as the only female in the building, they thought it would be a good idea for me to [talk with them.]”

Morris operates in tasks far outside a typical EOC job description.

She said there is no way to make a list of everything one needs to know for the position.

“I never thought I would have to learn how to repatriate the remains of individuals from another country,” Morris said.

As a former executive secretary to the chancellor, Morris has experience with the inner-workings of top-level administration. She makes the call to activate the EOC to initiate all University evacuations, including the campus bomb threat Sept. 17, 2012. Protocol dictates that Morris physically hear the chief executive officer give her verbal confirmation to evacuate. Two other schools had received bomb threats that week, so the University was already closely monitoring calls, although the actual call this time was to the Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office.

The caller said he had planted three

ANGELA MAJOR / Manship News Service

D’Ann Morris is the executive director of the Student Health Center and interim director of the Emergency Operations Center.

bombs on the campus but gave no specific locations.

“This was the first time we had a credible threat,” she said. “We were just waiting for our turn, unfortunately.”

Morris said the University typically handles at least two bomb threats via phone each semester.

The EOC team quickly gathered in then-Interim President Bill Jenkins’s office for a call because Jenkins was in Shreveport for a meeting.

“They told me what the information was,” she said. “We all stared at each other for about two seconds, and I said ‘We need to evacuate.’”

And she dialed Jenkins for the order.

The University possesses one bomb dog to search for explosives.

Morris said the dog can only search a location for 30 minutes at a time because the energy required is the

equivalent of a human running a marathon.

“We searched the U-High gym first so we could move students in there if it was clean,” she said. “Unlike college students, I can’t tell a 5-year-old to pick up and leave.”

During the recent ice storm in January, Morris updated the chancellor every four hours through the night of Jan. 28-29, until a decision was made at 5:14 a.m.

That decision wasn’t easy, and neither will it be easy for many students, exactly two months later, to give up the routine weekend sleepin to trudge off to classes Saturday.

Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at news@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @TDR_news

NATION

More Washington mudslide victims found Tuesday The Associated Press ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — A scientist working for the government had warned 15 years ago about the potential for a catastrophic landslide in the community where the collapse of a rain-soaked hillside over the weekend killed up to 24 people and left scores missing.

Searchers found more bodies Tuesday as they slogged through muck and rain, but the number of victims in addition to the 14 already found has not been confirmed, Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Shari Ireton said.

With the grim developments came word of the 1999 report by geomorphologist Daniel Miller, raising questions about why residents were allowed to build homes on the hill and whether officials had taken proper precautions.

“I knew it would fail catastrophically in a large-magnitude event,” though not when it would happen,

ELAINE THOMPSON / The Associated Press

A flag, put up by volunteers helping search the area, stands in the ruins of a home left at the end of a deadly mudslide Tuesday in Oso, Wash.

said Miller, who was hired by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to do the study. “I was not surprised.”

Snohomish County officials and authorities in the devastated rural community of Oso said they were not aware of the study.

But John Pennington, director of the county Emergency Department, said local authorities were vigilant about warning the public of landslide dangers, and homeowners “were very aware of the slide potential.”

In fact, the area has long been known as the “Hazel Landslide” because of landslides over the past half-century. The last major one before Saturday’s disaster was in 2006.

“We’ve done everything we could to protect them,” Pennington said.

Patricia Graesser, a spokeswoman for the Army Corps of Engineers in Seattle, said it appears the report was intended not as a risk assessment, but as a feasibility study for ecosystem restoration.

Asked whether the agency should have done anything with the information, she said: “We don’t have jurisdiction to do anything. We don’t do zoning. That’s a local responsibility.”

The Seattle Times first reported on Miller’s analysis.

No landslide warnings for the area were issued immediately before the disaster, which came after weeks of heavy rain. The rushing wall of quicksand-like mud, trees and other

debris flattened about two dozen homes and critically injured several people.

“One of the things this tragedy should teach us is the need to get better information about geologic hazards out to the general public,” said David Montgomery, a geomorphologist and professor with the University of Washington in Seattle. “Where are the potentially unstable slopes?

How big a risk do they pose? And what should be done to let homeowners know about that?”

Meanwhile, searchers continued to pick through the debris, warning they were likely to find more bodies. Authorities were working off a list of 176 people unaccounted for, though some names were believed to be duplicates.

Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at news@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @TDR_news

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38 percent between 2009 and 2013.

Changing cultural attitudes toward body donation have affected this trend, and according to kinesiology professor Dennis Landin, programs like the University’s undergraduate cadaver lab have directly affected the way people view body donation.

“Some people who encounter their first cadavers are squeamish about the idea, but their opinions almost always change after they work with them,” Landin said.

Landin organized the lab with assistant professors Melissa Thompson and Wanda Hargroder following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. After Katrina hit, the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans transported some of its cadavers to the University’s School of Veterinary Medicine in Baton Rouge. The professors developed a plan to create the classes and worked with the Health Sciences Center to realize their plan.

The lab is operated by the University’s School of Veterinary Medicine and is used in two different classes: KIN 3519, cadaver prosection, and KIN 4519, cadaver dissection.

Landin said more and more students enroll in the classes each year, and the lab would not be possible without a steady influx of body donors.

Julie Martin, kinesiology senior, said public knowledge of the direct benefits of cadaver research probably plays a role in making body donations more socially acceptable. Martin has taken both undergraduate cadaver labs and currently serves as a teaching assistant for the prosection lab. As a prephysical therapy student, Martin has experienced the benefits that body donation provides firsthand.

“There’s no other lab like this in the state, and not many at all in the country, so it helps students stand out in their applications to professional schools,” Martin said.

Bodies that don’t arrive at the Baton Rouge campus are used by students and professionals alike at the University’s medical school in New Orleans. Cadavers have been used to develop treatments for cancer, multiple sclerosis and other life-threatening conditions.

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Cadaver labs are held at the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine, where students examine and dissect cadavers.

University medical students typically use cadavers to gain experience with human anatomy before they operate on live subjects, while researchers use them to develop new and better surgical practices.

Opinions of students at the University largely mirror the overall trend in Louisiana. Of 20 students surveyed, 19 said they have no moral objection to body donations, and five of those said they would consider donating their bodies to science, though 10 students opted not to comment.

Students willing to consider body donation cited a desire to assist scientific and medical advancement as reasons. Tyler Hermann, physics freshman, said body donation was a good way of putting an otherwise wasteful process to use.

“Once you’re dead, the best thing you can do with your body is allow it to help people,” Hermann said.

Students who were not willing to consider donation said they respected the practice, but they

alluded to personal objections to donating their own bodies.

Destiny Johnson, management freshman, said she wanted to respect familial funeral traditions and thus would not consider donating her body to science.

“We don’t mess with that,” Johnson said.

Other students also cited the rising cost of funerals as a reason to donate their bodies. The National Funeral Directors Association estimates that the average cost of funerals has risen by 7 percent since 2009, but quotes from local funeral homes indicate that this estimation is modest.

Most funeral homes in Baton Rouge price the components

of funerals separately. Caskets alone can cost between $2,500 and $10,000, and traditional funeral services and burials can cost up to $10,000.

Body donation is an attractive prospect for those who lack the funds to make such arrangements. Body transportation services can cost up to $2,000, but the University covers this cost for the families of body donors as well as the cost of cremation once the bodies have fulfilled their scientific purposes.

are formed in such a way as to clog a person’s arteries, leading to an array of cardiovascular problems.

Saturated fats are chains of hydrocarbons without a double bond. This gives them a linear form and allows the fatty acids to pack together tightly. Well-known saturated fats like butter and lard are solid at room temperature because of their concise structure.

Unsaturated fats contain a double hydrogen bond, which causes a bend in the chain, and are usually in liquid form. Common unsaturated fats include vegetable oils and fish oils.

May neither disputed nor approved of Chowdhury’s findings.

“It’s one study. Other studies show a correlation between the two. We discover new things all the time. It may be true,” May said.

She pointed out there are contributing factors to heart disease other than fat intake. Genetics, exercise and other risk factors play a role in developing cardiovascular disease.

Nutrition professor and registered dietician Carol Lammi-Keefe agreed with May, stating new data is constantly being produced and the recommendations of fat intake can change. Past studies created the now-used fat consumption protocol.

May suggested a person should try to keep their saturated fat intake to 10 percent or less for their total daily calories, which is 200 calories from saturated fat for someone on a 2,000 calories a day regimen.

“You have to make good choices,” May said. “Grilled and baked foods, vegetables and items not cooked in a lot of fat are better for you.”

Contact Whitney Lynn at wlynn@lsureveille.com

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Sweet Victory

Women’s Basketball

Kenney’s injury inspires reserves

Bench powers Lady Tigers’ upset Lawrence Barreca Sports Writer

The main concern at that point for the Lady Tigers was senior point guard Jeanne Kenney, who left with 7:22 remaining in the first half to be evaluated for a concussion. Kenney had a history with concussions before and did not come out with the team in the second half.

Caldwell said the team used Kenney’s injury as inspiration for the remainder of the game. The Lady Tigers turned their thoughts into actions, scoring the first seven

Win or lose, LSU senior guard Jeanne Kenney played her final contest in the PMAC when her squad battled West Virginia on Tuesday night.

With 7:22 remaining in the first half, Kenney walked into the LSU locker room — she was reportedly evaluated for concussion symptoms, an injury that plagued the Baton Rouge native last season, forcing her to miss the Lady Tigers’ victory against Penn State in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

LSU had a déjà vu scenario on its hands.

With senior forwards Theresa Plaisance and Shanece McKinney running into foul trouble midway through the second half, LSU coach Nikki Caldwell had to turn to her bench — a group that was already depleted with sophomore forward Derreyal Youngblood’s suspension and freshman guard Raigyne Moncrief’s leg injury.

The Lady Tigers had two regular starters, McKinney and sophomore guard Danielle Ballard, log more than 30 minutes in the contest. Junior guard DaShawn Harden carried the rest of the playing time, logging

VICTORY, see page 11

BENCH, see page 11

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LSU senior forward Theresa Plaisance (55) hoists sophomore guard Danielle Ballard (32) in the air Tuesday following the Lady Tigers’ 76-67 win against West Virginia in the PMAC.

Lady Tigers topple West Virginia, advance to Sweet 16 Tommy Romanach Sports Contributor

This was the moment they’d waited for their entire career.

With seven points at five minutes left, senior forwards Theresa Plaisance and Shanece McKinney saw the fate of their final game at the PMAC in their hands. Plaisance, for one, was not about to let it slip like so many games this season.

LSU (21-12, 7-9 Southeastern Conference) went on a 20-4 run in those final five minutes, capping a

76-67 win against No. 2 seed West Virginia (30-5, 16-2 Big 12) in the second round of the NCAA tournament. It’s the first time since 2008 the Lady Tigers have made the Sweet 16 in consecutive years.

The Lady Tigers controlled much of the game, but foul trouble and injuries helped West Virginia pull ahead as the game neared its final minutes. But the combination of strong rebounding, stingy defense and a raucous home crowd keyed LSU to its comeback.

The Lady Tigers came out with the same fast-paced game plan that

helped them in their 98-78 victory against Georgia Tech, building a 17-9 lead in the first eight minutes.

But turnovers, one of LSU’s main vices throughout the season, led to a Mountaineers comeback.

West Virginia held a lead for a while before LSU pulled back ahead to lead at halftime, 37-35.

Sophomore guard Danielle Ballard was LSU’s catalyst again in the first half, tallying 12 points and five rebounds. Ballard was the star of Sunday’s win, recording 24 points and 17 rebounds against Georgia Tech.

Important decisions await LSU’s talented frontcourt players THE SMARTEST MORAN James Moran Sports Columnist In the event of a serious cut, modern medicine says it’s best to bandage the injury immediately, then let time pass before painfully ripping the bandage off to let the scab heal.

But in the case of LSU’s 80-67 loss to Southern Methodist University in the second round of the National Invitational Tournament

on Monday, a fatal wound to the Tigers’ season, the best course of action is to begin the healing process immediately by putting the loss in the past and turning toward a promising future.

Since Johnny Jones will almost certainly return for his third campaign as head coach, the logical way to begin the process is to figure out which members of this team will also be a part of the 2014-15 club.

Guards Andre Stringer and Shavon Coleman are both lost to graduation. There’s no reason to think point guard Anthony Hickey won’t return for his senior season,

but LSU’s trio of talented forwards — junior Johnny O’Bryant III, freshmen Jarell Martin and Jordan Mickey — all must choose between returning to LSU or declaring for the NBA draft.

For O’Bryant, it’s a decision he’s wrestled with before. Following last season’s conclusion, O’Bryant weighed his options before turning down the NBA in favor of improving his game during his junior year.

After leading the Tigers in scoring for a second consecutive season, the lure of the DECISIONS, see page 15

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LSU basketball coach Johnny Jones celebrates with junior forward Johnny O’Bryant III (2) on Jan. 21 during the Tigers’ 77-71 win against Mizzou in the PMAC.

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BASEBALL

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Poor offense hands LSU second straight extra-inning loss Glenn struggles through another start David Gray Sports Contributor

For the second consecutive game, nine innings wasn’t enough for the LSU baseball team. But despite the extra innings of action, the Tigers could never find their rhythm against a plethora of Tulane pitchers, and the lack of bat production cost the Tigers in the end.

LSU (20-5-1) mustered only two runs on five hits through 11 innings of play and lost to Tulane, 3-2, Tuesday night in Turchin Stadium. The loss snapped the Tigers’ six-game winning streak over the Green Wave (13-11).

Senior right-hander Nate Fury

(1-1) suffered his first loss of the season for the Tigers after he surrendered the game-winning RBI single to Tulane sophomore left fielder Richard Carthon in the bottom of the 11th inning.

But the story of the game was the Tigers’ inability to give their pitching staff any run support, especially from the top of the lineup.

The first three hitters in LSU’s batting order, sophomores Mark Laird and Alex Bregman and senior Sean McMullen, went a combined 0-for-11 on the night.

Tulane struck the first blow of the game in the fourth inning when freshman shortstop Stephen Alemais drove in two runs on a single against junior southpaw Cody Glenn, who got the starting nod for the Tigers.

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Southeastern Louisiana, but he had another underwhelming performance for the Tigers. He pitched just four innings and gave up five hits, two earned runs and two walks.

The Tigers tied the game in the next inning thanks in large part to Tulane pitchers Tyler Zamjahn and Tim Yandel, who walked a combined four batters in the fifth.

But the Tigers couldn’t completely capitalize on the opportunity, stranding two runners on base after

McMullen hit into a double play to end the inning.

Altogether, LSU batters went just 5-for-32 on the night, and the only batters to produce those hits were junior catcher Kade Scivicque, sophomore center fielder Andrew Stevenson and freshman left fielder Jake Fraley.

But perhaps the only standout performance for the Tigers was by senior right-hander Kurt McCune, who came in relief for LSU

in the bottom of the seventh inning.

McCune did his best to give his ballclub every opportunity to win the game, giving up no hits and no runs in four innings of work while striking out four Green Wave batters.

But it wasn’t enough for the Tigers as they stranded seven runners on base in the game, the last of which being Stevenson after he reached base in the 11th with a chance to take the lead.

After two consecutive games of extra-inning baseball, the Tigers have three days to rest up before they visit Southeastern Conference foe Florida for a weekend series in Gainesville, Fla.

Contact David Gray at dgray@lsureveille.com

SAND VOLLEYBALL

Tigers travel to Tulane for first in-state road contest Tyler Nunez Sports Contributor

After earning its first program wins Saturday at the Gamecock Invitational, the LSU sand volleyball team will look to further its progression in its firstever contest against in-state opponent Tulane at 2 p.m. today at Coconut Beach in Kenner, La. The Tigers (2-3) have yet to defeat a program not in its inaugural season, but their three losses have been close, which has LSU coach Russell Brock optimistic about their growth early in the season.

“That next step is probably closer than I thought it would be at this point,” Brock said. “I would like to think that if we turned right around and played those teams again right after we played them, we’d have a different result.”

Brock said defeating a more established program is the next thing on the Tigers’ list of obstacles to overcome.

A contest with Tulane (2-3), a 3-year-old program, today provides a perfect opportunity to finally achieve this goal.

“That’s our next hurdle, and we get a chance to see if we can get over it [today],” Brock said.

“We’re coming off a week where we played more sand volleyball than probably any of these girls have played in their life. It will be a good opportunity to see if we’re ready to move into that next phase.”

Brock said LSU’s pairings are starting to solidify, especially the top three duos of Meghan Mannari and Katie Lindelow, Kaitlin Hatcher and Helen Boyle and Victoria Boraski and Cati Leak.

The Tigers will continue to shuffle the fourth and fifth pairs, according to Brock, who said the

coaching staff would decide who will take the sand in today’s contest against the Green Wave after Tuesday’s practice.

“There will be some lineup changes along the way,” Brock said. “We’re definitely not etching our lineup in stone at this point.”

The contest will mark LSU’s first in-state away contest, and Brock said he hopes fans come out to support what he hopes will be a new rivalry.

“I hope they get a lot of people out because it’s a lot more fun when there’s a big crowd cheering you and even against you,” Brock said.

Contact Tyler Nunez at tnunez@lsureveille.com

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LSU senior Meghan Mannari (4) bumps the ball March 18 during the Tigers’ 2-3 loss to ULM at Mango’s Outdoor Volleyball.

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TRACK AND FIELD

O’Neal, Brown to join Hall of Fame Team travels to Texas for outdoor event Mike Gegenheimer Sports Writer

The Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame announced the induction of former LSU All-American Shaquille O’Neal and his coach Dale Brown on Tuesday.

O’Neal and Brown join six people in the class of 2014, set to be enshrined in late November. Other inductees include Duke’s Grant Hill, Louisville’s Darrell Griffith and former Maryland coach Gary Williams.

O’Neal played three seasons for Brown (1989-92) and became one of the most prominent figures in LSU Athletics history in the process.

O’Neal averaged 22 points, 14 rebounds and five blocks per game for the Tigers before going on to win four NBA Championships, three with the Los Angeles Lakers (2000, 2001 and 2002) and one with the Miami Heat (2006).

O’Neal also played for the Orlando Magic, Phoenix Suns and Boston Celtics during his 19-year NBA career. O’Neal retired in 2011.

O’Neal garnered a slew of honors and awards during his time at LSU, including runner up for

change of season, too.

“I think after the indoor season the athletes concluded that The LSU track and field they were really anxious to get teams will participate in the 87th outside,” Shaver said.

LSU is hoping to build off Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays beginning today in Austin, Texas. a productive indoor season; the The meet is the second out- men’s 4x400-meter relay team door event for the Tigers and won the national championship, Lady Tigers this year. Only dis- and both men and women teams earned three comtance runners and bined All-American throwers competed Next up for honors. in last week’s Jim the Tigers: “Outdoors is a Mize Invitational, new challenge, and so many eager What: we always keep in athletes will be Texas Relays mind the NCAA competing for the Where: championships,” first time since the Mike A. Myers Stadium, Shaver said. “I cerindoor season.

Austin, Texas tainly think that we Despite earnhave a team to coning two All-AmerWhen: tend with outdoors, ican honors during today, March 26 as long as we manthe NCAA Indoor Saturday, March 29 age to stay healthy.”

Championships, The event will junior sprinter Vernon Norwood said he can’t wait be held at Mike A. Meyers Stadium, beginning today with the to finally run outside.

“I’m just excited indoor is female heptathlon and concludfinished,” Norwood said. “Track ing Sunday afternoon with the is naturally an outdoor sport, and male 4x400 meter relay.

I could not be more excited.”

Coach Dennis Shaver is also anticipating the beginning of the Contact Joey Giglio at outdoor contests and enjoys the jgiglio@lsureveille.com nice weather accompanying the Joey Giglio

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Former LSU basketball player Shaquille O’Neal talks with former LSU basketball coach Dale Brown on Feb. 17 in the Quad.

the Naismith and John R. Wooden Awards in 1992. The New Jersey native finished his time at LSU fifth in scoring (1,941), and first in blocks in a game, season and career.

Brown spent 25 seasons at the helm of the Tigers, winning 60 percent of his games, four Southeastern Conference titles and two Final Four appearances in 1981 and 1986.

Located in Kansas City, Mo.,

the Hall of Fame celebrates its ninth induction class this year with several inductees claiming ties back to LSU with Bob Pettit (2006), Pete Maravich (2006), Tex Winter (2010) and Joe Dean Sr. (2012) preceding O’Neal and Brown.

Contact Mike Gegenheimer at mgegenheimer@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @Gegs_TDR

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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Freshmen bolster LSU’s lineup for postseason David Gray Sports Contributor

The Southeastern Conference Championships had an unsatisfactory ending for the LSU gymnastics squad. After completing the greatest regular season in program history, the Tigers (15-5, 5-2 SEC) scored a substandard 197.325 and finished third behind national powerhouses Alabama and Florida.

But while the squad is working to forget last weekend’s disappointing outcome, LSU coach D-D Breaux found a silver lining in the way two of her gymnasts, freshmen Ashleigh Gnat and Sydney Ewing, performed in their first taste of postseason competition.

“I can’t say enough good things about Ashleigh Gnat and Sydney Ewing, two freshmen right there in our beam lineup [who] really supported the beam and did a great job for us,” Breaux said.

In the most intense environment Ewing and Gnat had ever performed in, they calmly held together the middle of LSU’s beam lineup with scores of 9.850 and 9.825, respectively. They kept their composure in the midst of more than 8,000 screaming fans and displayed the maturity of seasoned veterans, Breaux said.

“I singled them out after [SECs] and told them how complete I thought they handled themselves

throughout the weekend,” Breaux said. “They were very efficient, and I don’t think either one made a mistake the whole weekend in how they conducted themselves.”

As the season progressed, both Gnat and Ewing transitioned from talented yet inexperienced freshmen to vital assets for the team’s success.

But the two Tiger freshmen have traveled different paths toward being heavy contributors for LSU this season.

While Gnat has been a regular in the Tigers’ rotation the entire season, Ewing struggled to maintain a spot in the beam lineup early in the year. Through the season’s first six meets, Ewing performed only three times.

But February’s Metroplex Challenge was a turning point for Ewing’s season. In the quad-meet that included No. 2 Oklahoma as an opponent, the Lafayette native scored a career-high tying 9.850 on the balance beam, and she’s remained a fixture in the lineup ever since. “[Ewing] is in, without a doubt, the hardest event there is to manage, and she has stepped up and done a great job,” Breaux said.

In last weekend’s conference championships, Ewing coolly managed her emotions on beam and delivered the squad’s secondhighest score. She said her beam

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LSU freshman Ashleigh Gnat starts on the beam March 14 during the Lady Tigers’ 197.800-195.000 victory against Kentucky in the PMAC.

performance was especially uplifting given the discouraging blunder she committed the week before.

“Getting that routine under my belt was really important for me because I fell [against Kentucky], so I needed to build my confidence back up and stay on the beam and hit a solid routine,” Ewing said.

Ewing has made a strong case to compete in other events as well. In an exhibition performance against North Carolina State, she scored a 9.925 on vault that would have won a share of the title, had it counted. Ewing followed that

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performance with a 9.875 on vault in LSU’s regular-season finale.

On the other hand, Gnat has been a consistent presence in the Tigers’ lineup during her entire freshman campaign. She has performed in multiple events each meet this season, claiming four individual titles in the process.

Gnat’s also been named SEC Freshman of the Week twice this season, most recently after her performance against Kentucky when she posted a 9.950 on beam for the second consecutive week. She’s the only freshman in the SEC with

multiple scores of 9.950 on beam this season.

Gnat competed in Madison Square Garden and other large venues prior to joining LSU, but she said the intensity of the conference championships was unlike anything she’d ever experienced.

“It was a completely different environment, especially because the SEC is such a competitive region,” Gnat said. “I just tried to get up there and do what I do in practice every day.”

Gnat maintained her poise in front of the thousands in attendance and delivered a 9.850 on vault and 9.825 on beam. Her vault score helped LSU finish with a 49.525, which tied Alabama for the meet’s highest vault score.

The freshmen duo will continue to be called upon as the Tigers continue their march toward a national title. This may be a difficult burden for some freshmen, but Gnat doesn’t worry about the pressure — her only concern is contributing for her team.

“It’s not like you feel extra pressure just because you’re a freshman,” Gnat said. “We’re a part of this team and we have to contribute what we can. It’s expected.”

Contact David Gray at dgray@lsureveille.com

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BENCH, from page 7

points of the half to open up a nine point lead early.

But a victory only became more difficult when both Plaisance and McKinney picked up four fouls early the second half.

The Lady Tigers were suddenly without their three senior leaders, and West Virginia took advantage, attacking inside and at the line to take a 56-50 lead with 9:57 left.

The reserves began to hold ship, however, as good defense and a 3-pointer from junior guard DaShawn Harden cut the lead to three. Plaisance then reentered the game with more than six minutes left, and the game was ready for its conclusion.

Buckets from Plaisance and freshman guard Jasmine Rhodes coupled with three failed West Virginia possessions gave LSU a 6865 lead. Freshman guard Rina Hill, Plaisance and Ballard then went eight-for-eight from the line to seal the victory.

Next week, the Lady Tigers will learn how it feels to be on the other end of a home court advantage in the tournament, playing Louisville(32-4, 16-2 American Athletic Conference) on Sunday at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Ky. Victories against No. 14 Idaho and No. 6 Iowa secured the Cardinals berth in the third round.

The game will be a rematch of LSU’s third game and first loss of the season. The Lady Tigers lost 88-67 Nov. 14 to the Cardinals, a game that saw Louisville go on a 21-0 run midway through the second half.

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Caldwell had to trust her bench in the biggest game of its career.

It passed its latest exam with flying colors.

“We had a lot of people step up,” Plaisance said. “We just had a lot of team camaraderie. The play from our guards stepped up tremendously. The heart of our team was so strong tonight, and we were all beating as one.”

Ballard made her presence felt under the basket, collecting 15 rebounds and scoring 22 points.

“I felt like we, as a team, had to step up, especially me as one of the scorers on the team,” Ballard said. “I had to get to the hole and get the wide-open shot for my teammates. I’m used to Jeanne directing us on the court on offense and defense. It was tough.”

Freshman guard Rina Hill made pivotal shots down the stretch, including four free throws in the final minute of play.

She finished with eight.

Even freshman guard Jasmine Rhodes, who has only logged an average of 8.2 minutes per game this season, scored double digits, finishing with 11 points and six rebounds.

At one point in the second half, Caldwell had four guards on the court at the same time.

The unit held together for one of the more emotional victories of

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LSU freshman guard Rina Hill (13) shoots the ball Tuesday during the Lady Tigers’ 76-67 win against West Virginia in the PMAC.

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LSU’s season.

Caldwell attributed the emotional comeback victory to the chemistry between her players, saying the loss of Kenney brought the squad together.

“I think there’s something that stirs up in them as players when you lose a leader,” Caldwell said. “They chose to dig a little deeper and dig a little more for Jeanne because she’s been just that for them for a long time. I think that’s what made the difference.”

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WEB COMMENTS In response to Jana King’s column, “Opinion: Birth control and contraceptives: How it works,” one reader had this to say: “I think the businesses use religion as a reason to not have to provide birth control to its employees, and I agree completely. Birth control is not a right for people to have. Birth control is an avenue that people can take to avoid having a child, but the best birth control is to avoid having sex. If for some reason you just have to have sex, figure out a way to get the birth control you need. Stop trying to put your expenses for your pleasure onto someone else.

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Opinion

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Making it Happen Student Government powerful, should be more effective

In light of Student Government’s election announcement today, the opinion staff put together a list of initiatives the winning party could accomplish and should consider moving forward. Some are more realistic than others.

Jose Bastidas SG has a lot of power, they just have to remember that. They gave us the Night Bus D, and they supply us with free Scantrons and Blue Books when we desperately need them, but they could take it up a notch. SG should use some of its money, or at least its voice, to advocate for the deteriorating conditions of parts of the University. The (in)famous Studio Arts Building, the bathrooms in Allen Hall and others are examples of areas that are falling apart, and no one seems to be noticing.

P.S. Where’s my ICEE machine?

SidneyRose Reynen Some actually worthwhile initiatives would be nice. Who makes the rules for Free Speech Plaza? Sometimes I’m just trying to go stuff my face with Panda Express before my 2:30 p.m. class, but on the way there, I’m handed a pamphlet that tells me I’m a sinner and I’m going to hell. Not cool.

SG should stop focusing on the imaginary picture-perfect image and start attempting to fix the allowance of scary religious people yelling at me about pornography. I’m here to go to school, not church.

Ryan McGehee In all honesty, my view of legitimate purposes of government does not extend very far past defense, so why we have SG is beyond me. But since we do, how about they take a serious look at allowing properly licensed individuals to concealed carry on campus? Crime is a huge problem near campus, and LSUPD is not always around to save the day. Seriously, we believed a girl was almost abducted on school property this semester. Also, if they could halt their little push for a completely tobacco-free campus, that would be great.

Justin Stafford Can we please get more outdoor electrical outlets? I’m a nature guy and I like to do my studying outside. The only outlets in the open air, that I’ve found are at Barnes and Noble. My favorite spot to work is this little pavilion by the apartments on campus, but the outlets in it do not work. Also, on my way to this location I always pass the side of Middleton Library that has some kind of sludge blasted onto the outside wall

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Student Government candidates and a panel of students gathered March 17 to discuss possible initiatives during the 2014 Student Government Debate held in the Holliday Forum.

accompanied by a bloody fingerprint. Can we clean that up too?

Jana King Campus safety, campus safety, campus safety. I’ll say it again — campus safety.

Take a cue from several other Louisiana universities. The installation of emergency call boxes can cut out the chance of forgetting or dropping a cell phone during an emergency situation. Not to mention it immediately alerts the police to your location with just the push of a button. Scattering these around campus housing, the Quad or parking lots would be an excellent way to improve student safety.

P.S. I’ll second Jose’s call for an ICEE machine.

Annette Sommers While there are some more serious initiatives SG could change, keeping it simple usually yields quicker results than pleading for a drastic change. We live in Louisiana, and it would be nice to have some outdoor water fountains during the more humid months. I’m getting tired of seeing panting students drenched in sweat while making the trek to class across campus.

Joshua Hajiakbarifini SG should care about what students want for more than just two weeks in March for the elections. SG has the power and resources to launch a student policy forum where students can submit grievances and suggestions that SG should strive toward.

Instead of running on a platform with a dozen trivial initiatives, maybe SG should get their policy from the students directly through a public forum. Tuition hikes are

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ridiculous, and SG should organize the students to march on the Louisiana Capitol and Governor’s Mansion to demand a freeze in tuition hikes and for Gov. Bobby Jindal to stop cutting education budgets.

Eli Haddow I wish SG would try to increase the circulation of newspapers around campus.

I’m not sure exactly how involved they are in making sure The New York Times is delivered outside of Coates Hall and the library every day, but I would like to see a greater number and variety of national papers around campus. While I laud anyone willing to pick up The Daily Reveille to get their news, this paper falls short in many areas that concern the up-and-coming citizen of the world. It’s important this student body remains informed via the best media possible so we can take part in meaningful debates before and after we head into the real world.

Megan Dunbar Our buildings are falling apart. It’s not as bad as it could be, but making moves now to raise awareness about their potential worsening could head off larger issues in the future. Since SG’s mantra seems to be focused on raising awareness no matter the party, I’d suggest workshops for college representatives about lobbying state government. Drawing up a few basic letter forms and funneling money into letter-writing parties might be something government officials respond to as well.

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Student-teacher relationships are lacking in school 600 WORDS OF SOMMERS Annette Sommers Columnist When most people discuss student-teacher relationships, they think of relationships that go too far. But for many younger, neglected students, that relationship doesn’t go far enough.

Teachers just don’t have enough time to form bonds with their students. It’s not necessarily the fault of the teachers, but at the same time, they have some responsibility as a major figure in the lives of these children.

I volunteer at an underprivileged elementary school in Baton Rouge. I recently walked into a third grade classroom to find one of the students, a little girl, crying in her seat.

I looked to the teacher to see if she was going to address the silent tears rolling down the student’s cheeks, but it looked like no one even noticed.

So I took the girl outside, and after a little bit of coaxing, I got her to open up. She said another student in class asked her what happened to her mother, who recently passed away. On top of that, her father is in jail, leaving her aunt to raise her.

Naturally, the topic got her upset, and thus the waterworks intensified. Not knowing whether to cry myself or give an uplifting speech, I just asked if she wanted a hug. Nodding her head, she squeezed my waist and took a few deep breaths before she resumed her usual giggles and playful pokes.

This small incident got me thinking about her situation and the many students like her who go through major hardships but are left alone to cry while their teachers move on with class.

There is a tendency to target these children as problem kids and ignore them, or on the opposite end, send them to another classroom or school that goes especially slow to suit their needs.

Sometimes this is necessary, but other times it could be avoided by teachers simply taking the time to get to know their students on a deeper level than their reading comprehension scores.

I probably know more about that little girl from spending one hour a week with her than her own teacher knows after seven hours each day.

This is something the many elementary education majors at the University should take into consideration before deeming themselves equipped to handle multiple students in one of the most developmental times of

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Lebanese teacher Rajaa Bshara reads a story for Syrian refugee students March 5 in a mixed Lebanese-Syrian classroom at a Lebanese public school in Beirut, Lebanon.

their lives. You must have a passion for people — not just for the subject you teach.

Teachers really are special people. It requires dedication to genuinely care for someone else’s children. Just make sure to be the good kind of special and not the kind people mention with a sarcastic undertone.

It would be great if personal connections could be completely

separate from school life. But human nature doesn’t allow us to easily separate emotion and work.

Until every teacher measures up to the role model standard students need, we need to get these children the attention they deserve without drastically changing the entire teacher-student ratio law.

One way to combat this

issue is with volunteers. More volunteer and mentoring programs should be implemented in schools, especially in the more disadvantaged areas of our cities.

Sometimes authority figures like teachers can be intimidating, and these kids need role models who are a little less judgmental.

Unfortunately, not every student was born with the consistent personal life others have, and it’s up to the figures around them to make up for the lack of people these children can depend on.

When people grow up, they tend to immediately lose touch with the innocent outlook they once felt as children. If more people got involved with the massive amounts of underprivileged youth in our area, they would gain back some of their lost perspective.

You would be amazed at how much you can gain by befriending a child who would otherwise be forgotten.

Annette Sommers is a 19-yearold mass communication sophomore from Dublin, Calif.

Contact Annette Sommers at asommers@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @AnnetteSommers

Sexual assault still a major issue in U.S. military OUR LADY OF ANGST SidneyRose Reynen Columnist If you’re in the military and you want to sexually assault someone, it’ll cost you around $20,000.

Early last week, Army Brig.

Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair, the highestranking officer to have ever been court-martialed, pleaded guilty to mistreating his former mistress, a captain in the military, requesting explicit photographs from female officers and other lesser charges.

In exchange for the guilty plea, prosecutors dropped a sexual assault allegation against him. Sinclair allegedly forced the female captain to perform oral sex on him and often threatened to kill her and her family.

Instead of any jail time, Sinclair gets to keep his pension and must pay a fine of only $5,000 for four months.

While Sinclair is the one to blame here, I am disturbed that the prosecution decided the sexual assault and abuse of a female military officer was not worth bringing to court.

Sadly, Sinclair’s case is not the only case of the mistreatment of

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Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair, right, who admitted to inappropriate relationships with subordinates, arrives at the courthouse March 20 with attorney Richard Scheff for sentencing in Fort Bragg, N.C.

female military officers.

Because rape and sexual assault are prominent in military life, soldiers are required to take a Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention (SHARP) program to raise awareness and prevent such heinous crimes from happening.

However, think of it as the University’s current My Student Body requirement. Even though My Student Body quizzes students’ knowledge on alcohol, drug and sexual

abuse, all three of those issues are still prevalent on campus and in places like Tigerland.

When someone signs up for the military, they agree to abide by certain standards of conduct to represent and defend our nation. Sexual assault is not covered under these standards, however.

Ashley Wright, an international studies freshman and a member of the University’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), said in an

email that sexual assault is “incompatible with Army Values — loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity, and personal courage.”

When asked if the overwhelming amount of assault against military women worries her, Wright said, “As a female, I understand that sexual assault and harassment is something I have to be aware of throughout my career. I have to be careful to avoid situations that could cause a problem.”

If military members have to constantly be aware of their surroundings, even around their peers, how are they going to be able to concentrate on the tasks at hand?

In 2012, anonymous active-duty members of the military revealed 26,000 occurrences of unwanted sexual conduct, including rape and coerced sexual contact.

Even more disturbing, women in the military are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by an enemy.

Assault against male military members is not unheard of, either.

Although women are more likely to be assaulted, male officers are often vulnerable to assault committed by other men. According to the Pentagon, 53 percent of the sexual assault cases in 2012 involved attacks on men.

In Wright’s opinion, programs like SHARP teach that it is “extremely necessary to become aware of how severe sexual assault and harassment in the Army is.”

Awareness is one baby-step closer to solving issues. Being aware that alcohol impairs judgement doesn’t stop you from shooting Jägerbombs at Fred’s in Tigerland.

It is truly a shame that the men who swear to protect our nation take advantage of their power to abuse, harass and victimize their female and male peers. I cannot fully respect America’s military if it continues to perpetuate a culture where rape and other forms of abuse are unworthy of prosecution, as seen in Sinclair’s trial.

Hopefully, programs like SHARP will educate an entirely new generation of military members about the severity and seriousness of these disturbing crimes.

SidneyRose Reynen is an 18-yearold film and art history freshman from New Orleans.

Contact SidneyRose Reynen at sreynen@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @srosereynen

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Wednesday, March 26, 2014 DECISIONS, from page 7

NBA may be too strong for the offensive-minded forward to resist again.

O’Bryant hasn’t announced anything publicly at this point, but earlier this month, he told reporters he thought his game had improved enough to make the jump to the next level.

The eye test concurs. For such a strong forward, O’Bryant has a polished offensive game that includes an arsenal of post moves and the ability to step out and hit midrange jump shots.

He occasionally struggles with double-teams, and his lack of quickness makes him a liability at defensive end, but considering the lack of progress in those areas as this season went on, it’s unlikely another season of college ball will help.

Because of his weaknesses, O’Bryant is unlikely to become a lottery pick in the draft, but his skill set profiles well as a late-first or early second round pick.

A serious injury is the only way returning for his senior year would drastically change that projection, so his decision boils down to whether he wants to start his paid career now or risk it for one more shot at making the NCAA tournament.

At this point, I’d handicap it as a coin flip if he stays or goes.

While O’Bryant may have found his ceiling as a collegiate ballplayer, the two freshmen still have plenty room to grow. Unless their families need the money as soon as possible — in which case no one should fault them for leaving — both Martin and Mickey would benefit from another season at LSU. Martin’s career got off to an inauspicious start with an injury in the season-opener against UMass that set him back for a good portion of the season. He came on late in the season and showed flashes of brilliance but wasn’t consistent enough to warrant being a high draft pick.

Earlier this month, Martin told reporters he planned to return for his sophomore season. He would benefit greatly by doing so, especially if O’Bryant leaves and Martin learns to be more assertive as the likely focal point of the Tigers’ offense.

Again, assuming money isn’t the deciding factor, Martin will likely be back.

Mickey is more of a wild card because he has yet to indicate leaning one way or the other. He had the type of freshman season that often spells one-and-done, but another season at LSU would actually help his draft stock.

Mickey is a dominant shot-blocking power forward at the college level, but standing at a lanky 6-foot-8, NBA teams would likely want him to play small forward.

His length and athleticism would allow him to be a defensive difference maker right away at the next level, but to be a complete NBA small forward, his ball handling and jump shot need some work.

With a more polished offensive game, Mickey could be a lottery pick in 2015, but if all three left right now, Mickey would likely still be the highest selected of the bunch,

making his decision the toughest.

If Jones gets two of the three back, LSU should continue to improve next season, although it’s understandable if that sentiment is beginning to sound like a broken record.

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James Moran is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from Beacon, N.Y. Contact James Moran at jmoran@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @Moran_TDR

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