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SHARING IN TRADITION NASO powwow unites tribes, traditions

Monday, April 7, 2014

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

‘Preferred name’ resolution passed Michael Tarver

Olivia McClure

Contributing Writer

Senior Reporter

Student Government passed a resolution last week with overwhelming support to provide a “preferred name option” to official University records for students who wish to go by a different name than their legal name.

The resolution, if implemented

by University administration, would allow transgender students, international students and any other students who prefer a name other than their legal names to be recognized accordingly in official University records.

UCFY Senator Robert Lancon said the resolution addresses the important issue of students being recognized by the name they prefer to go by instead of the legal name automatically applied to them through their official academic profile when they first come to the University.

Spectrum Panel Coordinator Michael Beyer said the resolution passed with a 98 percent approval rating and the amount of support behind the resolution is encouraging for it to be implemented and binding.

Lancon and Beyer agreed the resolution is primarily to avoid the

Seated in a circle, men chant lyrics and drum rhythms in remarkable unison, echoing ancestors who did the same thing centuries before. People of all ages wearing colorful shawls and headdresses march around them, socializing with one another while performing to spectators seated in folding chairs outside the circle.

This circle of friends is not closed. In fact, it is open to everyone.

Although powwows are typically held by individual tribes, they are a custom common to many Native Americans. Much like family reunions, powwows offer a place for people to appreciate one another’s company, their shared heritage and the things for which they are grateful. They reflect a tenet deeply embedded in Native American society — to welcome everyone so traditions can be passed through generations and kept alive.

The Native American Student Organization’s powwow Saturday was even more inclusive than POWWOW, see page 15

[Top] Citizen of the Potawatomi Nation Lyle Simmons [near right] Kaliq Sims and [far right] Traci Ashapanek and other participants dance Saturday during the 5th Annual LSU Native American Student Organization Spring Powwow in Parker Coliseum. photos by CHARLES CHAMPAGNE /

PREFERRED NAME, see page 6

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STUDIO ARTS BUILDING

Art students meet with administration Student resigns from LSU in protest Olivia McClure Senior Reporter

Six University art students met with administrators Friday to discuss possible short-term fixes to problems in the Studio Arts Building.

The 90-year-old building has been slated for renovation for years, and blueprints have already been drawn for the project. Still, the University’s capital outlay

requests for the $15 million needed to renovate have been consistently vetoed by the state legislature.

That is likely to be the case again this legislative session, so the University is exploring ways to address immediate concerns.

Director of External Affairs Jason Droddy said in an email that the meeting with students was productive. He said Facility Services executive director Tony Lombardo agreed to conduct a walk-through of the Studio Arts Building with students.

“LSU is currently looking into short-term options related to the roof and HVAC system,”

Droddy said.

The meeting came after art students and faculty held a silent protest on Thursday to draw attention to the building’s poor conditions. Also on Thursday, fine arts master’s student Melissa Precise posted a letter to LSU President F. King Alexander on her Tumblr account, in which she explained her decision to transfer to another university after this semester.

“While it may seem an extreme measure … my leaving is an action proportionate to its cause: an unsafe, unhealthy, and STUDIO ARTS, see page 6

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An art student marches with a half-face respirator Thursday behind Memorial Tower in protest of the Studio Arts Building’s dilapidated state and hazardous conditions.

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Nation & World

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NATIONAL

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‘Captain America’ sets April record Judge refuses to retract sentence The Associated Press

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Disney and Marvel could be one of the finest teams around.

Continuing the success of their superhero franchise, “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” has set a record as the biggest domestic April release ever. The Disney sequel debuted with $96.2 million, topping the previous record-holder, 2011’s “Fast Five,” which opened with $86.2 million.

“The Winter Soldier,” which stars Chris Evans as the shieldwielding superhero and Scarlett Johansson (whose sci-fi film “Under the Skin” also debuted this weekend with $140,000) as Black Widow, commanded 32 international markets last weekend.

Expanding to Russia, Australia and China in its second week, the Marvel comic adaptation, boasting a budget of more than $170 million, earned $107.1 million internationally this weekend, bringing its overall worldwide haul to more than $303 million.

Also a touchstone for Imax, “The Winter Soldier” received $9.6 million of its U.S. haul on 346 screens showing the film in

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This image released by Marvel shows Robert Redford, left, and Chris Evans in a scene from “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.”

the enhanced resolution format.

Internationally, it showed on 278 Imax screens, bringing in $6.5 million, $4 million of which was delivered from China.

“Captain America: The First Avenger,” which had a budget of around $140 million, debuted in July 2011 with $65 million. Overall, it earned $371 million worldwide.

Why the shift to an April

release rather than remaining a summer launch?

“We looked at the possibility of creating separation from the other summer tentpoles,” said Dave Hollis, head of worldwide theatrical distribution for Disney. “There was an opportunity. We have the second Marvel film coming at the end of the summer in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy.’

LAKE CHARLES (AP) — A state district judge has refused to reconsider a 40-year sentence he gave to a Sulphur man who pleaded guilty to 40 counts of aggravated incest.

Sheldon Edward Parker pleaded guilty before Judge David Ritchie in February 2013. Parker sexually abused a girl between Jan. 1, 2008, and Aug. 31, 2011, beginning when the girl was 13.

The American Press reports the 44-year-old asked Ritchie for leniency at sentencing so he would not die in prison. The judge gave him 40 years.

Parker asked Ritchie to reconsider because there had originally been an offer of 25 years in prison if Parker pleaded guilty, keeping the victim from going through a trial.

NATIONAL

Emmert against unionization The Associated Press

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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The NCAA president called an effort to unionize players a “grossly inappropriate” way to solve problems in college sports while insisting the association has plans to change the school-athlete relationship.

Mark Emmert said Sunday that the NCAA wants to allow the big conferences with moneymaking teams to write their own rules, and those changes could solve many athletes’ complaints more effectively than unionization.

“To be perfectly frank, the

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notion of using a union-employee model to address the challenges that exist in intercollegiate athletics is something that strikes most people as a grossly inappropriate solution to the problems,” Emmert said at his annual news conference.

The NCAA has spent the last three years writing up plans to change its governance structure to allow the five biggest conferences to have different rules from hundreds of smaller schools. Because smaller schools have fought against costly changes such as paying athletes stipends, the independence of the big schools could break a logjam.

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Students build car fueled by chemical reactions Panya Kroun Contributing Writer

Most colleges have a racing or solar car team, but only top engineering programs offer students the chance to build chemical cars.

This University is one of them.

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers at the University gives future chemical engineers the opportunity to put the skills they learn in the classroom to practical use.

Led by senior Aubyn Chavez, the University’s chemical car team offers some of the best training and the fiercest competition in the Southern region.

“We’re in the most competitive region, with Alabama and Florida, so it’s pretty tough,” Chavez said.

Chemical engineering junior Staci Duhon said the team is comprised of 12 devoted students who put countless hours into designing new car models, constructing new cars and creating the chemical reactions needed to fuel them.

“I feel like I spend my life devising doing these calculations,” Duhon said.

But what makes a chemical car so different from a

regular machine?

For one thing, they’re fairly small. Chavez said constructing a large vehicle would break the rules of the contests in which they compete.

The car also does not utilize typical fuels like ethanol or solar power. Instead, it starts via hyperfast hydrogen peroxide reaction and utilizes an iodine clock mechanism to stop.

Chavez said the completion of these chemical reactions serves as the basis for chemical car competitions.

Unlike most car-based contests, chemical car competitions are not races. They are modeled after over-under wagers integral to gambling games like poker.

“All the teams are given a distance, and whichever team’s car moves closest to that distance wins,” Chavez said.

But the University’s team doesn’t stake their reputation on guesswork. The group dedicates a substantial amount of its training to calculations that determine how far the car can travel when a particular amount of material is used for a chemical reaction.

When the group flew to Puerto Rico on March 20 to compete in the regional competition, they

had no idea how far their car had to travel, as is the convention for these competitions. They had to make sure their chemical reactions performed as closely to the team’s predictions as they possibly could.

“We were in the machine shop day and night — we poured blood, sweat and tears into this,” Duhon said.

The top five cars of each region are invited to participate in a national competition. The University’s team achieved sixth place out of 15 cars at regionals, falling literally inches short of the leading cars but handily defeating its rival at Alabama. LSU’s car qualified as a wild-card pick for nationals.

This is a significant step up from last year’s competition, during which the team could not get its car to move.

Building this year’s car was no easy feat either. In Duhon’s words, anything that could have gone wrong did go wrong. The team members even had a part of their car confiscated before their flight back to Puerto Rico, despite following all of TSA’s guidelines.

Despite these setbacks, the team is proud of what they accomplished. Chavez said she feels

as though she is much better prepared for a career in engineering than she was before she joined the team.

“I feel so much more capable of doing actual engineering things now that I’ve worked on this car,” Chavez said.

Duhon said that maintaining a

competitive team and car requires a large commitment of both time and effort, but she considers any investments she makes in the car as an investment in her future.

Contact Panya Kroun at pkroun@lsureveille.com

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Legislation that would relax the state’s strict penalties for marijuana possession went up in smoke Thursday after the Louisiana Sheriff’s Association came out against the bill.

HB 14, authored by state Rep. Austin Badon, would decrease the fine for second-time offenders to no more than $500 from the current maximum of $2,500.

According to NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, Badon withdrew his bill after the Sheriff’s Association went behind his back and testified against the bill in front of the House Criminal Justice Committee. Badon said the Sheriff’s Association had previously told him their organization would remain neutral on the bill.

Common core standards upheld The House Education Committee killed a bill Wednesday that would have replaced the state’s Common Core education standards.

Common Core standards refer to a collection of nationally imposed benchmarks that elementary and high school students must reach.

HB 381, by state Rep. Brett Geymann, would have created a committee tasked with creating new education standards for

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Chemical engineering students built a car fueled by chemical reactions and competed in Puerto Rico at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers regional conference.

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the state in place of its current divisive criteria.

New bill to halt St. George incorporation State Sen. Ben Nevers introduced a bill Tuesday that would restrict any new city from incorporating in the state until December of next year.

Nevers’ bill would halt the contentious establishment of the city of St. George for the allotted time period.

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faculty

Monday, April 7, 2014

Survey shows LSU professors’ wages relatively low Staff Writer

University faculty salaries are not on par with the national average, according to a survey released today by the American Association of University Professors, AAUP. Along with analyses of faculty salaries, the data shows gender discrepancies between males and females in the same profession.

The survey, titled “Losing Focus,” comes after University faculty received about a 4 percent merit increase in salaries last year, said University President F. King Alexander.

Despite the recent raise, faculty salary remains comparatively low, with assistant professors being the only job category to be paid above the national average. Instructors fare even worse — paid less than the bottom 20 percent of instructors nationally.

Those numbers only reflect salary and do not take into account benefits like retirement and health insurance. In total compensation the University ranks

better, with instructors the only job category to fall below the national average compensation.

The University’s average compensation rankings don’t line up with dismal rhetoric coming from faculty and administrators about faculty retirement contributions. Faculty Senate President Kevin Cope said improper funding and the coupling of separate retirement plans has the potential to wipe out the recent merit raise.

As such, the University’s compensation rankings may not stay high for long.

The AAUP survey also shows gender discrepancies between the average salaries of University faculty. Male professors are paid about $17,000 more on average than their female counterparts, according to the report. The gender differences are replicated in each job category surveyed, though are not as severe as with professors.

Salary differences is not the only area where gender differences are apparent. The number of male full-time professors at the University is four times higher

than the female equivalent. Fulltime instructors is the only position in which females outnumber males. This means there are more women than men in the lowestpaid job surveyed and more men in the highest-paid job surveyed.

The gender differences in faculty distribution at the University are similar to national distributions.

For public universities, the number of female professors as a percentage of total faculty is about three times less than their male counterparts.

In addition, more men occupy associate and assistant professorships than women, with women edging men out only in the number of instructors and lecturers.

The report made note of the rise in both the number of administrative positions and the salary of top-level administrators. The median salary for the president of a public university was about $425,000.

For comparison, Alexander accepted an annual salary of $600,000 last year, as reported by

The Daily Reveille. It should be noted, however, Alexander works as both the chancellor of the University and president of the LSU System, which may account for

his relatively higher salary.

Contact James Richards at jrichards@lsureveille.com

Gender Discrepancies at peer institutions U of Georgia - Male professors make $6,500 more on average than female professors U of Alabama - Male professors make $21,000 more on average than female professors Purdue - Male professors make $14,000 more on average than female professors LSU - Male professors make about $17,000 more on average than female professors.

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architecture

Professors win grant for redevelopment

Deanna Narveson Staff Writer

Professor Elizabeth Mossop and Associate Professor Wes Michaels of the School of Landscape Architecture received a more than $240,000 grant from the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority, NORA, to research and implement ecologically and economically sustainable designs on vacant land in New Orleans.

NORA currently takes care of about 2,300 vacant lots, which were transferred to NORA following Hurricane Katrina. The authority has partnered with the landscape architects at the University to help enhance some of the vacant properties by planting foliage and installing amenities like fences and birdhouses with the goal of stabilizing and beautifying neighborhoods still recovering from hurricanes Katrina and Rita. This also helps to reduce NORA’s long-term maintenance cost, according to a University news release.

Both professors are directors at Spackman Mossop and Michaels, an international office for landscape architecture and urban design, as well as working at the University. Michaels’ research involves pioneering techniques for sustainable public landscapes and Mossop’s focuses on investigation of contemporary landscape design, according to Spackman Mossop and Michaels’ website.

In 2013, Mossop led a research

seminar in which University students researched vacant land management practices and solutions in several cities including Detroit, Cleveland and Philadelphia. These cities are looking into ways to deal with the issues that come from lost population, like New Orleans after Katrina, said Mossop in the news release.

“There has to be a balance between the ecological needs and neighborhood perception,” said Michaels in the release. “In the end, we want to add to the value of these neighborhoods, and we want these lots to be seen as amenities by the residents.”

The University’s landscape architecture program was ranked second in the nation last November

by DesignIntelligence.

With the funding provided by NORA from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Mossop and Michaels will test a series of 15-25 plots located in a variety of ecological conditions across the city. Some of the lots they will work on will be prone to flooding and others that have environmental justice issues, such as being close to the freeway or under overpasses, the release said. They will investigate how to better manage storm water in the lots and encourage biodiversity.

Contact Deanna Narveson at dnarveson@lsureveille.com

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STATE ELECTIONS

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Incumbents, new faces win races Entergy donates The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Across Louisiana, residents cast ballots that sent incumbents back to city hall, brought in some new faces and left a few races still undecided.

However, complete but unofficial results from Saturday elections show at least four municipalities will face runoff elections on May 3.

In DeRidder, Marksville, Rayville and Winnsboro, incumbents won another term.

Rayville Mayor Harry Lewis won re-election over challenger Morgan Moss Jr. with 646 votes to 400 votes, while, in Winnsboro, Mayor Jackie Johnson narrowly won re-election over challenger John “Sonny” Dumas with 852 votes to 763 votes.

Marksville Mayor John Lemoine was re-elected to a second term, defeating Minnie Lafargue with nearly 55 percent of the vote and DeRidder Mayor Ron Roberts won his third term, defeating City Councilman Robert Rice with more than 73 percent of the vote.

In Oak Grove, residents will

see a new face in the mayor’s office.

Democrat Adam Holland defeated Jerry Waters, no party, 300 votes to 178 votes. Holland replaces long-time Mayor Lavelle Brown, who did not seek re-election.

In Leesville, businessman Richard Allen unseated incumbent Charles Rose.

Allen, owner of Rick Allen Construction Management and Leesville Motor Sports Park, received 696 votes, nearly 55 percent of the turnout. Rose, who is serving his first term as mayor after narrowly losing races in 2006 and 2010, finished with 577 votes, or 45 percent.

However, in Colfax, challenger Ossie Clark finished ahead of two-time Mayor Gerald Hamilton but fell one vote short of winning outright. Clark got exactly 50 percent of the votes — 172 out of 344. Hamilton received 151 votes, or 44 percent. The two face off in a May 3 runoff.

In Winnfield, Kiah Beville will face Raza Ali Mughal in a runoff. Beville had 47 percent of the vote in Saturday’s four-candidate primary, while

Mughal had 36 percent.

Edna Jones and Rosiah Humphery will contest the mayor’s race in the village of Natchez in a runoff. Jones earned 40 percent of the vote, while Humphery took 38 percent.

Sulphur Mayor Chris Duncan narrowly missed being re-elected and now faces a runoff against former Mayor Ron LeLeux.

Duncan received 1,780 votes, or 47 percent, just short of the majority needed to win outright. LeLeux finished second with 870 votes (23 percent), followed by Clopha Boudreaux III with 726 votes (19 percent) and former councilman Mike Koonce with 395 votes (10 percent).

Duncan is serving his first term as mayor. He previously served as a councilman.

$1 million to school James Richards Staff Writer

The College of Engineering announced a $1 million donation from Entergy Louisiana last Tuesday, according to a news release from the College of Engineering. The state will match the donation, which is slated to go toward the renovation and expansion of the College of Engineering’s facilities.

Entergy had previously donated $300,000 toward equipment for a new lab, continuing the march of private donations to the College of Engineering.

The donation will specifically go toward the construction of a new classroom complex and research laboratory focused on energy management. Dean

Richard Koubek said in the release the lab is the first of its kind in Louisiana and will prepare graduates “to address the energy challenges of the future.”

The expansion and renovation of Patrick F. Taylor Hall and other engineering buildings is expected to eliminate millions of dollars from the deferred maintenance backlog in repairs like HVAC systems, according to projections from the Board of Supervisors.

Contact James Richards at jrichards@lsureveille.com

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STATE ELECTIONS

Voters elect new Port Allen mayor The Associated Press PORT ALLEN (AP) — Retired law enforcement officer Richard Lee III is Port Allen’s new mayor.

Lee thwarted former Mayor Demetric “Deedy” Slaughter’s attempt to reclaim the city’s mayoral seat, getting 58 percent of the vote Saturday in the city’s special election following Slaughter’s recall from office.

According to unofficial results, Lee pulled 1,395 votes, compared to Slaughter, who received 786 votes, or 33 percent of the vote. The remaining two candidates, Kirby Anderson and Larry Bell, captured 214 and 20 votes, respectively.

The Advocate reports voter turnout was 60 percent.

Lee, 54, said he intends to get to work immediately on Monday by sitting down individually with each City Council member and with administration officials.

“I want to tell them what my vision is and tell them we need to be leaders in the community and there not be this division,” he said of the political and racial divide that has beset the city. “In order to get things done we have to be one to move the city forward.”

Meg Casper, a spokeswoman with the Louisiana Secretary of State’s Office, says the earliest Lee can take office is April 15.

The other candidates have 10 days from the election to contest the results. That deadline is 4:30 p.m.

April 14.

“As soon as the election results are promulgated, he can take

the oath of office,” Casper said.

Lee retired as a lieutenant after 33 years with the Port Allen and Baton Rouge police departments.

When he announced his candidacy, Lee pledged to establish an agenda of cooperation and collaboration. Lee said he’d like to establish a community group called One Port Allen to begin the city’s healing process.

He entered the campaign on the momentum of a nominating petition containing more than 200 signatures of registered voters.

“They knew I was a trustworthy and fair person,” he said. “I can work with everyone no matter their race or color — that’s the key.”

Meanwhile, an investigation by the West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office into possible early voter fraud still looms, as does a complaint filed by Slaughter supporters with the U.S. Department of Justice alleging the voter fraud investigation was nothing more than a drive to intimidate voters.

The Sheriff’s Office on March 27 launched its probe after receiving hundreds of complaints that mail-in and faxed requests for early voting ballots did not match voter information on file with the parish Registrar of Voters Office.

Slaughter’s attorney filed a complaint April 2 with the Justice Department seeking an investigation into alleged voter intimidation and suppression through the Sheriff’s Office investigation.

Officials have not yet indicated if Slaughter’s complaint or

the Sheriff’s Office investigation would affect the results.

Slaughter would not comment on either matter after the election but thanked her supporters.

“We fought the good fight,” she said. “I really don’t know what I’m going to do now. Eventually I’ll make a decision, but I don’t really know at this time.”

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

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Monday, April 7, 2014 PREFERRED NAME, from page 1

uncomfortable or sometimes even hostile situations that can develop in a classroom setting by being recognized by a legal name.

Beyer said there have been situations where students were forced to out themselves in a University classroom because they had to correct their professor when their names are called. For transgender students on campus, a student’s legal name, passed through their academic profile, may not be the name they prefer to go by and may be associated with a different gender, causing uncomfortable situations, he said.

This situation also applies to international students who choose to go by a different name than their legal name, and this resolution would help combat a lot of common confusion, Beyer said.

As a resolution, it is not binding but reflects the views and support of the student population as represented through SG, Lancon said. But with such a high percentage of approval, the chances of the resolution being recognized by University administration is very high, he said.

Lancon said the resolution is directed toward LSU Information Technology Services and the Office of the University Registrar to provide the option on Moodle rosters and profiles.

Lancon said the “preferred name option” for students has already been implemented into the registrar at several universities including Vanderbilt University, the University of California, Berkeley, University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Micah Caswell, graduate assistant in the Office of Multicultural Affairs and coordinator of the LGBTQ Project and the Safe Space Campaign, said though the resolution is not binding, it is exciting to see further backing for the LGBT population on campus.

“Student Government is becoming known for passing things that are good for LGBT students,” Caswell said. “It’s good to see that [SG] support is continuing, and I hope that continues into next year.” photos by TAYLOR BALKOM / The Daily Reveille

LSU softball fans were encouraged to bring their dogs to Tiger Park on Sunday for the “Bark in the Park” game.

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unproductive working environment,” the letter says.

Although she is leaving, Precise still wants to see art programs thrive at the University.

“All of us want to boast proudly, years from now, that we studied art at LSU,” the letter says. “We want to come back to visit a campus that is thriving and a Studio Art Building that is standing strong.”

Precise, who attended the meeting with administrators, told The Daily Reveille she believes the first steps toward addressing issues are finally being taken. Shortterm repairs including improved climate control will alleviate other problems, like mold that has been identified throughout the building, she said.

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Contact Olivia McClure at omcclure@lsureveille.com

Students label crumbling drywall near an artist’s workspace “Leroy’s House” in jest in the Studio Arts Building.

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Sports

Monday, April 7, 2014

Let the Battle Begin ANTHONY JENNINGS (10) Passing 9-17 2 interceptions 157 yards 1 touchdown

THE SMARTEST MORAN JAMES MORAN Sports Columnist

BRANDON HARRIS (6) Passing 11-28 0 interceptions 195 yards 3 touchdowns Rushing 77 yards

Harris’ strong spring game calls Jennings’ starting status into question Sports Contributor

The two quarterbacks competing to be the LSU football team’s starter next season both got off to forgetful starts in the Tigers’ annual spring game on Saturday.

On the first snap from scrimmage, freshman quarterback Brandon Harris bobbled the football as he turned to hand off to redshirt

Tigers’ QB battle is only beginning Fan, media pressure could affect race

Rushing -23 yards

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freshman running back Reshaud Henry, resulting in a 4-yard loss.

Later in the opening quarter, sophomore quarterback Anthony Jennings tried to thread a pass past junior linebacker Deion Jones, who intercepted the errant throw and returned it 67 yards for the game’s first score.

Combined, the quarterbacks completed 4-of-13 passes for 28 yards and no touchdowns in

the game’s first 15 minutes. But Harris stole the spotlight from the more experienced Jennings early in the second quarter, adding more uncertainty as to who will be the team’s starter heading into next season.

“We’re going to let the competition continue and see how this thing plays out,” said LSU coach Les Miles after Saturday’s scrimmage.

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[Left] LSU sophomore quarterback Anthony Jennings (10) runs a play and [right] LSU freshman quarterback Brandon Harris (6) runs downfield Saturday during the National L Club Spring Game in Tiger Stadium.

Read about other position battles and spring game storylines on page 8.

Few things in sports can divide a room quicker than a quarterback controversy. Buckle up Baton Rouge — the battle for LSU’s starting quarterback job heated up on a chilly Saturday afternoon and isn’t likely to cool down anytime soon.

Throughout the spring practice season — and really since he led the miraculous last-minute drive to beat Arkansas last November — it’s felt like a foregone conclusion the job belonged to sophomore Anthony Jennings.

With his Outback Bowl struggles in the rearview, most of the talk this spring has centered around Jennings taking the reins of the offense and growing into a leader in the huddle. LSU coach Les Miles said repeatedly that early enrollee Brandon Harris has provided “competition” to Jennings, but it’s never really felt like one.

Following that script, Saturday’s annual spring game was set to be a public coronation of Jennings as LSU’s quarterback. Instead, it BATTLE, see page 10

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Tigers place first in Regional, break school record Marcus Rodrigue Sports Contributor

Like all coaches, LSU gymnastics coach D-D Breaux has a repertoire of buzzwords.

Whether she’s urging her gymnasts to stay in the “purple zone” or preaching about winning the “battle of perception,” Breaux is never at a loss for motivating slogans.

Her most-used catch phrase is a little saying about momentum, and the No. 3 LSU gymnastics team put it on display Saturday night.

The Tigers (20-5, 5-2 Southeastern Conference) carried the energy from a strong opening event through the rest of the evening for a school-record 198.325 team score to earn a spot in the NCAA semifinals and first place in the Baton Rouge Regional meet in the PMAC.

LSU shattered the previous team record of 198.050 it set against Missouri on Feb. 28 and tied Florida with the highest team score in the country this season.

“Momentum is a very powerful medicine, and these kids started lapping it up,” Breaux said. “The crowd got behind them, and they kept grabbing that momentum and moving with it. They were not to be denied tonight.”

LSU’s midseason push to the first 198.000 team score in school history seemed like a distant memory following its disappointing showing at the SEC championship on March 22. Poised to contend for the elusive conference title, the Tigers never gained momentum during their third-place finish.

The two weeks separating the SEC and Regional competitions gave LSU ample

time to reflect after posting its fourth-lowest score of the season.

But rather than let frustration fester, the Tigers used their letdown as a learning experience.

“We needed to just believe in ourselves,” said junior all-arounder Rheagan Courville.

“SECs was just a realization that when we’re not hyper-focused on making something happen and we’re just going out there relaxed, that we do what we’ve been training. We were in a great mental state, and it really shows how much that paid off.”

That placid attitude and calm mindset paid immediate dividends.

After sitting out the first rotation of the six-team meet, LSU turned in six solid routines for a 49.425 bars score.

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LSU junior all-arounder Lloimincia Hall celebrates with teammates Saturday after the NCAA Gymnastics Regional meet in the PMAC.

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Tigers’ passing game impresses, right guard still undecided Mike Gegenheimer Sports Writer

The LSU football team lined up for its annual spring game on Saturday as Tiger Nation received its first glimpse of things to come in the fall.

The Tigers split up into two squads, with the majority of starters playing with the white team.

Tight ends and fullbacks shine It’s no secret that LSU offensive coordinator Cam Cameron is a fan of utilizing tight ends and fullbacks in the passing game, a trend that was established during his days with the Baltimore Ravens.

But Saturday, Cameron debuted his new scheme for getting the ball in the hands of more than just the LSU wide receivers.

“We want every guy on our offense involved in both phases of the game — run and pass,” Cameron said. “If at any time the defense knows you’re not going to throw the ball to a guy, you’re going to make it tough on yourself.”

Four different tight ends and three fullbacks caught passes in Saturday’s scrimmage, including sophomore tight end DeSean Smith and senior fullback Connor Neighbors, who both recorded three receptions and a touchdown.

Cameron described Neighbors as one of the best pass-catching fullbacks he’s been around and Smith as greatly improved from last season.

“It’s really a route tree that allows tight ends to do what they do best,” Cameron said. “We didn’t feature it last year for obvious reasons with the talent we had outside. …

This year’s different.”

Stalemate at right guard After the completion of spring practice, it doesn’t appear LSU is any closer to naming a starting right guard than it was a few months ago.

Senior guard Hoko Fanaika received the start with the white squad on Saturday but switched with purple’s Evan Washington at halftime.

“It didn’t mean anything,” offensive line coach Jeff Grimes said. “Those two guys have alternated everyday. … There’s really nothing to him starting with the ones. We switched them at halftime, and that was really the intent.”

Grimes refused comment on the guards’ performances at the scrimmage until after reviewing the game

film, but Fanaika wasn’t impressed with his showing.

“On a grading scale, I think I did OK,” Fanaika said. “I have to work on my technique more.”

Grimes also spent time Saturday rotating through several players at center, including senior Elliott Porter and sophomore Ethan Pocic. Grimes did say Porter is the assumed starter for now but wants plenty of depth at the position.

“The thing about center is you can never have enough guys who can play it because you can move a guy from guard to tackle or left side to right side with minimal time, but if a guy hasn’t had consistent time snapping the ball, making calls and doing those things, then you’re going to have trouble,” Grimes said.

Hunter performs well Junior defensive end Danielle Hunter emerged as the defensive stud Saturday, recording a pair of sacks on consecutive plays and setting up camp deep in the pocket all day.

Hunter battered the purple squad offensive line, shedding off double teams with relative ease. But instead of accepting praise for his dominating play, Hunter deflected all credit to defensive tackle Quentin Thomas for setting up so many opportunities for Hunter to get penetration.

“It’s not all because of me,” Hunter said. “[Thomas] is the main reason I got some of the sacks over there. It’s just the D-line working as one to penetrate the pocket and get to the quarterback.”

LSU coach Les Miles was happier with the performance along the defensive front more so than nearly every other position, saying its production was actually impeded by the play call on Saturday.

“There’s a lot of things the defensive coordinator could’ve called that he didn’t call today,” Miles said.

“I think they got to the quarterback pretty routinely, but I think there’s some other keys to that defensive calls sheet that’ll make a difference as well.”

Wide receivers If Saturday’s spring game proved anything to LSU fans, it’s that offensive coordinator Cameron isn’t afraid to go deep in the passing attack.

Nearly every drive during the inter-squad scrimmage featured a

flurry of long balls to several of the Tigers’ wide receivers, none more so than sophomore Travin Dural, who finished the day with 130 yards and a pair of touchdowns on five receptions.

“We love to run the ball, but at the same time, we love to throw the ball vertically,” Cameron said.

“That’s what we do, that’s what we believe in.”

Cameron praised Dural following Saturday’s scrimmage for his ability to go after the deep passes and said he expects that type of aggressive game plan will continue to be a mainstay in LSU’s offense despite the departure of former Tigers wide receivers Odell Beckham Jr. and Jarvis Landry.

Dural’s fellow receivers didn’t fare quite as well as he did, with John

Diarse and Rob Bolden as the only other receivers to register a catch, each hauling only one reception.

“We have to get our timing and our depth down,” Dural said.

“We need to be consistent.”

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LSU drops final game after winning first two Tigers fall in series finale, 9-0 Tommy Romanach Sports Contributor

For two days, the LSU softball team proved coach Beth Torina’s belief that the team could compete with anyone, taking two straight games from No. 2 Tennessee with timely hitting and solid pitching.

Sunday, however, Torina saw what many would expect one of the best teams in the nation to do to a team near the bottom of the Southeastern Conference.

LSU (22-16, 4-8 SEC) was silenced offensively for the first time all weekend, and Tennessee’s bats came alive in the early innings as the Lady Volunteers (32-5, 9-3 SEC) defeated the Tigers, 9-0, in six innings in the final game of the series at Tiger Park.

“We came out a little flat, so that’s a little unfortunate,” senior second baseman Allison Falcon said. “But we won a series against a great team, so we are not going to dwell on something like this.”

The biggest difference Sunday was the performance of Tennessee’s star pitcher, Ellen Renfroe. The senior pitched a six-inning shutout while allowing only three hits and one walk.

Renfroe entered Friday with a team-leading 21-0 record and a 1.29 earned run average. But Renfroe allowed a walk-off home run in the seventh inning Friday and was unable to get through the second inning Saturday, giving the senior her first two losses of the season.

Torina, who called Renfroe the best pitcher in the country last week, said she saw a different pitcher Sunday and thought she made some great adjustments from earlier in the weekend.

Tennessee got to LSU senior pitcher Ashley Czechner quickly as shortstop Madison Shipman laced a two-run home run to left field just three batters in. The hit gave Shipman her team-leading ninth home run of the season.

Czechner ran into more trouble in the third inning, as an infield single and a walk put two runners on for Shipman with one out. Shipman sent the ball up the middle, scoring a run with a single and bringing Czechner’s day to an end.

Shipman was selected No. 2 overall in the National Professional Fastpitch College Draft earlier this week, and Falcon said Sunday’s game displayed how she earned that honor.

Czechner’s replacement, freshman Baylee Corbello, got the Tigers out of their jam in the third and appeared in control after getting the first two batters out in the fourth.

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put the game out of reach.

The Lady Volunteers put the game in mercy-rule range in the sixth inning with freshman catcher Annie Aldrete’s three-run home run to push the lead to nine.

The Tigers could only muster a single in the bottom of the inning as Renfroe shut them down to end the game.

LSU will continue its homestand when it hosts McNeese State Wednesday followed by a three-game series against Georgia starting Friday.

Torina said despite the blowout today, this series gives the team confidence as it rolls

through conference play.

“Definitely nice to win a series against somebody as talented as Tennessee,” Torina said. “…

It’s always nice to go out on a winning note, but we have to keep in mind we won a series against a quality Tennessee team.”

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Jennings was brutal on Saturday. His intermediate-to-deep throws were wobbly and inaccurate and he looked uncomfortable in the pocket. Despite his athleticism, he was sacked four times.

To punctuate the afternoon, Jennings threw not one, but two ugly interceptions on lazy passes in the flats, both of which were returned by linebackers for easy touchdowns. The pair of pick sixes reminded everyone in attendance of Jarrett Lee circa 2008 — not ideal for someone trying to nail down a job.

By comparison, Harris was a rock star. He overcame his own slow start to toss three touchdowns and run for another, looking more like a calm veteran when pressure came than a guy who was in high school five months earlier.

He completed just 11-of-28 passes, but most of them were deep throws down the field. He launched passes into double coverage and most of the bombs fell incomplete, but they looked pretty in the air and the combination of Harris’ cannon and scrambling ability is intriguing.

The offense Harris ran looked familiar to anyone who ever played with Michael Vick in an old Madden NFL video game.

LSU sent three receivers deep with one running underneath on just about every play, and then Harris either turned it loose deep or broke the pocket and ran.

It’s not an efficient way to play football, but it’s definitely fun to watch.

It doesn’t mean that Harris will or should start ahead of Jennings, but if Jennings struggles in the season-opener against Wisconsin like he did Saturday, expect the chirps to come early and often calling for that-Harris-guy who lit up the spring game.

Miles tried to pre-emptively quell the fire after the spring game, crediting Jennings’ resiliency and pointing out that Harris did make “four, five or six major errors” on Saturday.

“I think some of the big plays

Brandon made will be reviewed positively by us, but to say it’s the reason or the spot [Harris made a big move toward the starting job], no,” Miles said. “We’re still a ways away. Again, I think there needs to be improvement at the position by both guys.”

To translate: the spring game is just one small piece of a big puzzle. Unfortunately for Miles and Jennings, it just happens to be the last piece of that puzzle open to the public until an Aug. 30 date with Wisconsin.

It doesn’t matter if Harris’ performance Saturday was an aberration and Jennings has actually outperformed him in every practice so far. Harris’ four-touchdown spring game will be at the forefront of every fan’s mind should Jennings get off to a bad start.

Of course if Miles and offensive coordinator Cam Cameron still believe in Jennings, no amount of fan complaining can force them to make a change. But it’s the natural progression that fan complaints become questions asked by the media to both Miles and his players.

Over time, questions create doubt, and if that doubt penetrates the locker room — and with quarterback controversies, it often does — it can divide a team between supporting one signal caller or the other.

Once that happens, the wildfire spreads far too quickly for Miles or anyone else to extinguish. Again, going back to Lee in 2008, it’s nearly impossible for a young quarterback to play well when fans and teammates don’t have any confidence in you.

But at this point, it should still be considered Jennings’ job to lose. It just might not take too much for him to lose it.

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The Tigers moved to beam, where a costly fall from junior all-arounder Jessie Jordan in the anchor spot torpedoed the Tigers’ chances at the SEC championship. Jordan responded emphatically Saturday, capping LSU’s season-high 49.600 team event score with a 9.900, but not before Courville energized the crowd with a 9.975 and freshman all-arounder Ashleigh Gnat tied her career-high with a 9.950.

“When you’re under the kind of pressure you’re under at this meet, you’ve got to hit to qualify for nationals,” Breaux said. “If you don’t hit, you stay home. That’s in their heads, and they went to beam and rocked the house.”

Just like that, the Tigers had all the momentum heading into their best two events. On pace to tie the school record, LSU maintained its energy through a bye in the fourth rotation and racked up its second-best floor score of the season.

Jordan and sophomore all-arounder Jessica Savona grabbed a pair of 9.925 each, and Courville executed a near-flawless 9.950 routine. As if the Tigers needed any more momentum, junior all-arounder Lloimincia Hall rode the wave of high scores to anchor the event with her third perfect 10 of the season.

LSU finished the meet on vault, where it spent most of the season ranked No. 1 nationally. Senior Kaleigh Dickson led off the event but stopped a few feet down the mat with an apparent foot injury. She received a 0.000 for failing to complete the vault, leaving no room for error for the rest of the lineup.

The untimely injury to a senior leader could have killed the Tigers’ momentum.

It didn’t.

LSU notched its highest vault score of the season with a 49.650, counting no score lower than a 9.900. Courville was one of three Tigers to vault a 9.950, and Breaux’s words rang true as she stuck her landing to close the meet.

“We had such a great lineup in front of me,” Courville said. “I was seeing stick after stick. D-D always says that there’s so much power in building up momentum, and it’s so true.”

Now the challenge for LSU is to carry that momentum through the two weeks of practice until the NCAA semifinals in Birmingham, Ala., on April 18. Breaux said she is “guardedly optimistic” that Dickson will be able to compete but is still awaiting MRI results on her right foot.

With another record in the books and a strong message sent to the rest of the country, the Tigers’ struggle at the SEC championship seems like a distant memory, and all it took was a little momentum.

“I’ve been seeing this all season long,” Breaux said. “People said ‘they peaked early,’ but I don’t think we did. The kids started focusing on the rankings and who we’re ahead of instead of what got us here.

And what got us here is blue-collar hard work.”

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“It serves us to say that there’s some talent at that spot.”

While Jennings struggled to find timing with his throws in the first half, Harris used his scrambling ability to escape pressure and ease himself into the flow of the game — a familiar sight to sophomore defensive tackle Christian LaCouture.

“There have been times in practice when you just throw your hands up and wonder what can you do,” LaCouture said. “You did your job, but [Harris] is just a freak of talent.”

Harris finished with a game-high 77 rushing yards on six carries, highlighted by a 41-yard scamper down the left sideline after he was flushed out of the pocket early in the second quarter.

But with 3:26 remaining before halftime, Harris used his arm more than his legs to lead the offense downfield.

Starting at the opponent’s 20-yard line, Harris went 4-of-7 for 49 yards to lead the white squad the length of the field. He converted two third-and-long situations with completions of 17 and 21 yards to sophomore tight end DeSean Smith and sophomore wide receiver Travin Dural, respectively.

While Harris was having success as the game unfolded, Jennings had trouble finding his rhythm, largely due to the disruption the defensive line caused up front.

Jennings was sacked three times in the first half.

Things got worse for Jennings the next time he hit the field.

With 5:09 left before halftime, junior linebacker Kwon Alexander intercepted another of Jennings’ off-target throws and returned it 26 yards for a touchdown — Jennings’ second pick six of the afternoon.

After the game, Miles attributed some of Jennings’ early mistakes to the offense’s limited play selection.

“I think when we throw a menu of plays that we’ve thrown all spring long and then we limit the menu, I think there’s a pretty consistent theme to the defense to intercept some of these throws,” Miles said.

By halftime, Jennings completed only six of his 14 pass attempts for 78 yards and no touchdowns. But he bounced back from an uninspiring first-half performance to end his outing on a positive note.

In his lone series of the second half, Jennings completed all three of his pass attempts for 79 yards and a touchdown before sitting out the remainder of the game.

After the game, Dural, who was on the receiving end of Jennings’ 13-yard touchdown pass, said he wasn’t discouraged by the sophomore quarterback’s untimely interceptions.

“Every quarterback has games where he throws an interception or two, so you can’t really hold that against [Jennings],” Dural said.

The Tigers still have five months to determine who will be the team’s starting quarterback, and Jennings expects the competition to last until then.

“Right now, there’s no starting quarterback. I’m just competing to get that job in the fall,” Jennings said.

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Dilemmas

Deciding on posting dilemmas determines user reputation NO WAY, JOSE Jose Bastidas Columnist A negative side effect of social media revealed itself on a large scale last week after a series of Instagram comments, direct messages and texts surfaced of actor James Franco in pursuit of a much younger suitor.

The messages featured Franco propositioning the 17-year-old woman to meet up with him in a hotel room, as well as multiple pictures that served as proof that Franco was the person in contact with the woman.

For a 24-hour news cycle, the general public debated whether the whole thing was a hoax, a PR stunt aimed to create buzz for Franco’s upcoming movies or simply a bored woman’s plea for attention. The scandal came to an end when Franco confirmed the story and apologized for his mistake.

This is just one of many examples of how people misuse social media.

After taking a hilarious, yet embarrassing, photo in Tigerland, LSU students face one challenging dilemma: whether to post the image or not.

When faced with a posting dilemma such as this, the first thing I think is, “How many of my family members will comment on this?”

When you come from a close, gossip-driven family, you know even the most distant of family members will be your Facebook friend and will make some joke about how hard you’re studying on a picture you took outside of Mike’s.

Then come the jokes when you talk to your parents about how your grades are slipping, not because your classes are more difficult but because you’re spending all your time in Tigerland, as documented in all your social media sites.

Once you have decided you can handle the familial backlash to your party pics, it’s time to consider another side of the dilemma.

Will third parties be OK with the post?

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Actor James Franco received criticism after sending a series of online messages to a 17-year-old.

accounts as a new method of background checking. Do you think you’ll land your dream job when the first thing on your wall is that picture of you vomiting outside of Fred’s?

These are just two of the many things one has to consider before publishing any type of information.

During his apology, Franco said social media was the new way to meet people and how society would learn to prevent scandals like this from happening over time, but I’m not sure I agree with him.

Social media is continuing to evolve, and through this evolution more and more of our personal information is being made public.

This fact alone means that posting dilemmas will not disappear but become increasingly more complicated over time.

To expect that we will conquer the puzzle that is social media through our mistakes is a stretch.

Take Instagram for example. Users became used to taking multiple pictures and picking the best one to showcase on their accounts until Instagram video was

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introduced and completely changed the game.

How do we keep up with that?

The answer is not to learn from our mistakes, but to be cautious about making them.

The key to being responsible social media users is to check what message we’re trying to convey and trying our hardest to get that message across without ruining our reputation in the process.

So, when you’re leaving Tigerland and have to decide whether to post that hilarious photo or not. I highly recommend you save it for a few decades, then you can show it at parties while you remember your younger days.

This way, instead of apologizing to the whole country, you’ll just have to apologize to your mortified children.

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Thanks a Latte

Last week, a barista at the Mall of Louisiana Starbucks drew signs of the devil on the tops of coffee orders. Columnists decided to commemorate National Poetry Month with haikus about what designs they’d choose if given similar power.

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Jose Bastidas Equality signs on her latte will crack the locks of her chained brain.

Ryan McGehee Coffee is sacred.

You ruined a cup of joe.

Stop with this nonsense.

SidneyRose Reynen It’s all fun and games ‘til she sees ‘poop’ written on her drink. She tweets it.

Justin Stafford The employer’s way.

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Annette Sommers Nothing in the cup.

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Joshua Hajiakbarifini An anarchist sign, to enlighten, we’ll be fight— ing. Revolution.

Megan Dunbar Middle finger to the world, it’s not personal, just been a long day.

High pollen count makes springtime less enjoyable BLUE COLLAR SCHOLAR Justin Stafford Columnist A mighty gust of wind roars over the sacred mounds and through the branches of the oaks, filling the air with a golden haze and cloaking everything in its reach with a powder as fine as the dust of a pixie’s wing.

This is my own poetic way to describe what many students, myself included, are seeing on the LSU campus as pollen takes its toll on our health, as well as anything else outdoors.

I personally loathe this time of year and all the terrors pollen brings. I’m essentially the Grinch of the spring season. If I could, I would sleep through spring just to avoid dealing with all the

pollen. Not to mention, I’d skip out on those cheesy “Where are you summer?” Facebook selfies of people in their swimsuits making pouting faces.

Louisiana was ranked third in the country this year as the worst place for spring allergies, according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. This could be viewed as a triumph for the purple and gold seeing that our city climbed from 10th place in last year’s ranking to its current position behind Louisville, Ky., and Memphis, Tenn., in the 2014 season. If it weren’t for the bounty of trees on our campus, Baton Rouge never would have advanced. Geaux Tigers!

You might ask what is it that’s making this spring much worse than previous years.

You can point a finger at Punxsutawney Phil the groundhog for being such a wimp or more

understandably at the polar vortex, but recall the splendid snow days that it allotted earlier in the semester. Because winter was drawn out and shortened up spring, Mother Nature reacted quick and in excess. The trees are playing catch up, and it sucks.

A man can only wash his car so many times a week before the paint starts to come off, and I may overdose if I take one more allergy pill. The pros and cons of the pollinating process are leaning heavily on the con side for me right now. I’m not the only one out there though.

“I usually love spending time in the Quad between classes and sometimes eating my lunch there, but it’s nearly impossible to do that with a storm of pollen filling the air,” said Kayla South, natural resource ecology and management freshman.

Pollen is all about

reproduction. Therefore, it’s love that’s in the air. Pollen is created by plants and contains reproductive cells. The wind, or whatever else it can cling to, carries the pollen to other plant life and fertilizes it. It’s pure environmental romance until a person sucks the particles into his or her nose or it lands in an eye. That’s when the booger-blasting, teary-eyed extravaganza begins.

Even though student’s heads are pounding, eyes are itching and they’re sneezing endlessly, it’s not the apocalypse. Allergists suggest that an allergy shot is the most effective way to deal with the symptoms. However, these injections take time to help the body become less sensitive to a substance.

Other alternatives to making it through spring are washing your hair each night after being outside all day, taking

antihistamines like Claritin and avoiding being outside when the pollen count is high.

Pollen will continue to find a way to make my health miserable for a while, but I hope your ailments are few. Students might consider taking their studying indoors and just observe nature’s bittersweet reproduction process from behind a window in the Union next to me or risk their health with finals week fast approaching.

Justin Stafford is a 21-year-old mass communication junior from Walker, La.

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POWWOW, from page 1

usual, uniting Native Americans from tribes across Louisiana and Texas as well as University students. NASO is open to Native Americans and students who are interested in that culture, said NASO vice president Emily Stretcher, which reflects a desire to raise awareness of Native Americans’ value to society.

“We don’t want something that’s so much part of American history and Louisiana history to become extinct,” she said. “We want it to be passed on.”

The powwow marks the place where elders and children alike come together to teach and show what they have been taught.

Saturday’s powwow kicked off around 10 a.m. with gourd dancing, which featured mostly older people. Next was the grand entry, led by a head man and head woman.

“They’re setting an example for everyone else,” said NASO president Skye Byrd. “No one dances before them. Once they start dancing, then everyone falls in behind them and dances.”

For the rest of the afternoon, everyone engaged in friendly dance competitions. Little girls costumed in glittering hot pink, purple and yellow shawls twirled and marched alongside their mothers and grandmothers. Men of all ages, and almost all wearing blue jeans, provided the beat from a shared drum.

Dance reflects life, Byrd said, which makes it a good medium for communicating with friends and family at powwows. The accompanying chants and drumbeats are an ideal backdrop because “music carries medicine and healing and language and traditions,” she said.

Not all of the music at a powwow comes from singers and drummers, however. Rolled Copenhagen snuff can lids are sewn onto many dancers’ regalia, making them jingle with every step.

Byrd, a member of the Coushatta tribe in Elton, La., said people usually make their own regalia or have relatives do it. Everything, including moccasins, is handmade — one way of putting to use the lessons taught by older members of their tribe.

Native Americans are not merely focused on preserving their own traditions, Byrd said.

Many of the older people at the powwow were military veterans, symbolizing Native Americans’ dedication to their country. American, Louisiana and Prisoner of War flags were displayed alongside the NASO flag.

As the original inhabitants of America, Natives want to protect their customs, but also the country that came to be the United States, Byrd said. It is their home, and even though other ethnic groups have moved here in recent centuries, they maintain a deep desire to share everything with them.

Byrd said powwows mirror Native Americans’ hospitality and how much they care about other people. At the powwow Saturday, everyone — singers and spectators, old and young — was part of a large circle that excluded no one.

Everyone at a powwow is

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Head Man Cocoa Creppel dances Saturday during the 5th Annual LSU Native American Student Organization Spring Powwow in Parker Coliseum.

family, sharing in a unique tradition inseparable from a larger family — America.

“It’s not something that’s just for Natives, and it’s not something that shouldn’t be shared,” Stretcher said. “Natives, I feel, want to share their culture and I feel like it’s good to have this on campus so they do have that opportunity,

especially at a place like LSU that has so many different people and is so big and it can be spread to everybody.”

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Kaliq Sims dances Saturday during the 5th Annual LSU Native American Student Organization Spring Powwow in Parker Coliseum.

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BASEBALL

Monday, April 7, 2014

Tigers dismantle Bulldogs, 17-4; offense pounds out 20 hits Chandler Rome Sports Writer

Sundays were a struggle for LSU baseball.

An ankle injury to junior pitcher Kyle Bouman only compounded the problem at the start of Southeastern Conference play. With no defined Sunday starter and a sometime-sputtering offense, the Tigers went into Sunday’s contest against Mississippi State 0-21 in SEC series-ending games.

Bouman returned against Mississippi State. The offense was in rare form. And the Tigers picked up their first series sweep of the Bulldogs since 2008.

In his first extended appearance since March 15, Bouman scattered five hits over 3 1/3 innings, and the LSU offense exploded for 20 hits to dismantle the Bulldogs 17-4 in Alex Box Stadium.

“It’s hard to put into words,” said LSU coach Paul Mainieri. “I thought we finished off the weekend in grand fashion. I felt very strongly that our guys were going to come out and play great.”

Senior third baseman Christian Ibarra and sophomore center fielder Andrew Stevenson scored four runs each at the bottom of the lineup while

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LSU junior infielder Tyler Moore (2) hits the ball Sunday during the Tigers’ 17-4 victory against Mississippi State in Alex Box Stadium.

junior catcher Kade Scivicque launched a grand slam in an emphatic six-run sixth.

Ibarra’s homer, which kickstarted the big sixth inning, was a no-doubter that cleared the bleachers in left field.

“That felt really, really

good,” Ibarra said with a chuckle.

“Everyone clicked today. Clutch hits, everyone was on. We were all being aggressive and taking advantage of those pitches.”

The Tigers scored in each of the first three innings, highlighted by three first inning walks

from Mississippi State freshman ankle when he stepped on a basestarter Dakota Hudson. Back-to- ball during practice three weeks back RBI singles from juniors ago, said any lingering effects of Conner Hale and Tyler Moore put the injury were gone. the Tiger lead at 2-0 after one.

While the plan was for BouSophomore right fielder man to go only three innings, Mark Laird added a two-RBI Mainieri was so impressed with double in the second to push the his outing that he sent him out for lead to 4-0. Laird finished the a fourth inning of work before afternoon 3-for-4 and drove in a yanking him with one out in the career-high four runs. frame.

“We were just rolling over “It definitely felt awesome the momentum to be back out from the last cou- ‘I thought we finished there,” Bouman ple games and fed “Just to go off the weekend in said. off each other’s out there and grand fashion.’ energy,” Laird prove to coach I said. “We were can get extendseeing the ball ed a bit. We can Paul Mainieri well today. The build from this.”

LSU baseball coach [hits] came at big After an ugly times and really propelled our of- four game losing streak that saw fense.” the offense disappear and the The Bulldogs turned to bullpen falter in crucial situaAll-American closer Jonathan tions, the Tigers said they heeded Holder in the third in relief of Mainieri’s advice to catch fire as Hudson, and he promptly al- the calendar turned to April. lowed an RBI single to Steven“I think we played pretson and an RBI double to senior ty intense and pretty good outfielder Sean McMullen to ex- baseball,” Mainieri said. tend the Tigers’ lead to 7-0.

“Hopefully, we can keep Holder was the second of six this going.”

Bulldog pitchers who together walked seven LSU hitters.

“To get those two big hits off Contact Chandler Rome at him at that time kind of broke the crome@lsureveille.com; game open for us,” Mainieri said.

Bouman, who injured his Twitter: @Rome_TDR

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