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Earth Day Events Bell named provost after two-semester search ADMINISTRATION

SATURDAY

Party for the Planet

9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.

The Baton Rouge Zoo is one of more than 120 zoos and aquariums across the country celebrating Earth Day with a Party for the Planet. Visitors can expect educational activities like animal encounters and lessons on recycling and which plants they can use in their gardens to protect the planet.

Adults and teens: $8.25 Seniors: $7.25 Children 2-12: $5.25 Children 1 & under: Free

Board of Supervisors must approve Brian Sibille Staff Writer

Stuart Bell has been named the University’s new executive vice chancellor and provost after a search that spanned two semesters.

A University news release BELL on Thursday announced that Bell, the dean of

SUNDAY

Louisiana Earth Day: “Live Green, Live Long”

12 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

More than 100 booths will be set up along Town Square and surrounding areas in downtown Baton Rouge to educate and inspire residents to go green. Local artists like the Honey Island Swamp Band, Kenny Cornett and Killin’ Time and the Cajun French Music Association Dancers will perform on stages scattered along North Boulevard. The event will also feature interactive events for children and a fashion show featuring outfits made from recycled computer parts.

Admission: Free

the School of Engineering at the to the university and his leaderUniversity of Kansas, would oc- ship as provost over the past two cupy the position following cur- years,” Chancellor Michael Marrent Executive tin said in the re‘We have to make Vice Chancellor lease. “His hard and Provost Jack sure to move forward work and dedicaHamilton’s twotion have been and in the most year appointment. vital during these positive fashion.’

H a m i l t o n ’s tough economic stint was plagued times.”

Stuart Bell by budget criThe new pronewly selected executive vice ses and a lack vost begins his chancellor and provost of faculty salary tenure Aug. 1, increases, and the situation may pending approval from the Board not prove better for Bell. If Gov. of Supervisors.

Bobby Jindal’s current budget “We are pleased to welcome plans go through, LSU will face a Stuart Bell to LSU and feel that hole, according to Hamilton. his vision and experience will “We’d like to thank Jack continue the momentum of mainHamilton for his commitment taining the academic standards,

quality education and research that Louisiana has come to expect from its Flagship University,” Martin said.

Bell emerged from a pool of more than 100 candidates from across the country compiled by the Greenwood/Asher search firm. He was announced as one of four finalists in March, among two other deans from out of the state and the lone internal candidate, Dean Kevin Carman from the College of Science.

“The LSU faculty, staff, students and alumni that I have had the opportunity to meet have been just exceptional,” Bell said PROVOST, see page 4

THE CAT’S MEOW

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Spring Greening Day and Sustainability Expo 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.

The Environmental Conservation Organization (ECO) Earth Day Sustainability Expo will coincide with LSU’s Spring Greening Day this year. Visitors can stop

by Free Speech Plaza and the Parade Ground on campus for live music, giveaways and information about local efforts and organizations. As part of the annual Spring Greening Day, volunteers will gather to plant flowers and plants along Tower Drive and in the Quad.

Admission: Free compiled by RACHEL WARREN • photo by BRIANNA PACIORKA

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Mike the Tiger protected from U.S. bill that would make private possession of big cats illegal

Lauren Duhon Staff Writer

Legislation has been introduced in the U.S. Congress to prohibit private possession of big cats, but Mike the Tiger lovers need not worry.

The Big Cats and Public Safety Protection Act would require anyone who currently possesses big cats, like lions or tigers, to register with the U.S. Department of Agriculture

in order to keep the cats they currently own. The act also outlaws the breeding of any big cats except at zoos and research or educational institutions, as well as inbred breeding of tigers.

The main goals of the bill are to ensure big cats don’t threaten public safety, weaken global conservation efforts or endure mistreatment in poor living conditions.

BIG CATS, see page 11

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INTERNATIONAL

Nation & World

Friday, April 20, 2012

NATIONAL

STATE/LOCAL

Thousands of youth remember Holocaust death in Auschwitz march

Space shuttle Discovery finds final resting place at Smithsonian

Louisiana casinos see 5.8-percent increase in winnings from last March

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Thousands of youth from Israel, the United States and other countries marched Thursday between Auschwitz and Birkenau, the two parts of Nazi Germany’s most notorious death complex, to honor the millions killed in the Holocaust.

An estimated 10,000 young people, some carrying Israeli flags or wearing them draped around their shoulders, took part in the March of the Living.

CHANTILLY, Va. (AP) — NASA turned over space shuttle Discovery on Thursday to the Smithsonian Institution, the first in its orbiter fleet to be transferred to a U.S. museum.

The U.S. Marine Drum and Bugle Corps, astronauts including former Sen. John Glenn and several thousand visitors with American flags greeted Discovery. It will retire as an artifact representing the 30-year shuttle program.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With the economy showing signs of slow improvement, Louisiana’s state-licensed casinos in March continued to pick up their recent winning pace.

State police said Thursday that the 12 riverboat casinos, Harrah’s downtown New Orleans casino and the four race-track casinos took in $227.9 million. That’s a 5.8-percent gain from $215.4 million won in March 2011 and follows an 8.7-percent increase recorded in February compared with February 2011.

“Most jurisdictions would be happy with a 5.8-percent growth, especially at a time when people aren’t feeling good about their finances,” said Joe Weinert, a casino analyst.

Bombs kill at least 30 people in Iraq’s worst violence in a month BAGHDAD (AP) — Bombs ripped through 10 Iraqi cities Thursday, killing at least 30 people and shattering a month of relative calm. Minority lawmakers decried the violence as a tragic but inevitable result of the Shiite-led government’s attempts to dominate Iraqi politics.

Despite simmering sectarian tensions, a lull in deadly attacks since mid-March led many to hope Iraq had turned a corner away from widespread violence. That proved overly optimistic as at least 14 bombs and mortar shells exploded across 10 cities over three hours in the morning.

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Participants in the March of the Living walk past a tower Thursday at the most notorious former Nazi Death Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in southern Poland.

Egyptian demonstrators block main Cairo bridge for more than an hour CAIRO (AP) — Hundreds of Egyptian demonstrators briefly blocked a main Cairo bridge over the Nile river Thursday to back their call for an end to military rule, a sign of growing concern that the generals might try to cling to power.

The protesters stopped traffic on the bridge Oct. 6 during a peak traffic period, angering commuters. The bridge was blocked for more than an hour.

‘Profane’ beer banned in Alabama for sake of young people BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — You can buy Fat Bastard wine in Alabama, but you’ll have to go elsewhere for Dirty Bastard beer.

The state alcoholic beverage control agency said Thursday it has banned the sale of Dirty Bastard beer in the state because of the profanity on its label.

Beer and wine are commonly sold in grocery and convenience stores, and anyone can see the labels, so staff members rejected the brand because parents may not want young people to see rough language on the shelves, said Bob Martin, an attorney with the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board.

Monroe man arrested for not paying Domino’s Pizza delivery driver MONROE (AP) — Monroe police have arrested a man who refused to pay for his pizzas. Police say Shaba A. Gorham allegedly took two pizzas from a Domino’s delivery driver Wednesday night, went into his home and didn’t come out again.

The driver told police he knocked on the door to collect $25.29 for the pizzas, but he never got an answer.

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CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

A clarification for the April 19 story “Schroeder reinstated after UCourt hearing”: The Your LSU ticket violated three campaign rules. The election board issued the ticket a private warning for its first offense and a public censure for the second. The third offense limited the presidential and vice presidential candidates’ campaigning abilities and also received a public censure. An outside party appealed the third punishment to the University Court, which prevented the entire ticket from campaigning.

POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

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PHILANTHROPY

ACTIVISM

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Zumbathon ‘Cover the Night’ to to benefit raise Kony awareness student with cancer Ferris McDaniel

Contributing Writer

Small grad program supports classmate Gordon Brillon Contributing Writer

Students in the medical physics graduate program will hold a Zumba class Saturday to support a student currently in treatment for cancer.

When medical physics graduate student Tony Mazza, 28, was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer last December, the other students in his program quickly banded together in support.

“It’s a really small program, so we’re like a family,” said Lydia Wilson, a medical physics graduate student who is organizing the event.

Wilson said because the program is small and tight-knit, averaging just six students per year, anything that happens to one student affects ‘We want the whole people to know group.

Mazza about what had surgery Tony is going earlier this through, and month and we want him is currently to know we undergoing care about him chemotherapy in Pittsand miss him.’ burgh, Pa. Though he Lydia Wilson has been unmedical physics able to attend graduate student classes, he has been able to keep up with his teaching assistantship by grading papers, and he has attended lectures through Skype.

“We want people to know about what Tony is going through, and we want him to know we care about him and miss him,” Wilson said. “He is just a really great guy.”

Wilson said Mazza is pursuing his graduate degree because he spent his time after graduating from Wheeling Jesuit University in Pittsburgh working with nonprofit groups in New Orleans helping with Hurricane Katrina recovery.

The Zumbathon will be at Definitions Fitness on Nicholson Drive on Saturday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. The class is open to beginners and those familiar with Zumba.

Tickets cost $15, and bracelets and T-shirts to support Mazza will also be sold.

Contact Gordon Brillon at gbrillon@lsureveille.com

Nearly 88 million YouTube hits later, a group of young activists are preparing to hit the streets with the mission to bring fame to their cause.

The awareness campaign sparked by activist group Invisible Children’s short film, “KONY 2012,” culminates today with the organization’s “Cover the Night” event. The video’s message was simple: solidify African warlord Joseph Kony as a household name.

Released one month after the original video exploded across the Internet, “KONY 2012: Part II - Beyond Famous” solved unanswered questions and emphasized Cover the Night.

Though there is no official University-sponsored Cover the Night group, many Facebook groups exist for the event, and students like photography senior Desiree Watkins and mass communication freshman Janie Lunn plan to serve their community alongside small groups of friends.

Lunn, who has produced two Invisible Children benefit concerts, welcomes anyone wanting to get involved to meet under the University’s clock tower around 11 p.m. to blanket Baton Rouge with a fresh coat of Kony awareness. Activists will take to the streets after sunset to spread Invisible Children’s message via posters, stickers, chalk stencils, wall murals or any other creative and legal methods.

The event is monumentally

important because it will show persistence, Lunn said.

Watkins, vice president of the University’s Invisible Children chapter, who interned for the organization in 2008, said it has been incredible to see the campaign’s worldwide impact, especially with the younger generation.

“This type of activism is going to be very powerful in the future,” she said. “I think it has really opened people’s eyes to what they can do.”

According to another video featuring Invisible Children’s Noelle Jouglet, communication director, and Jedidiah Jenkins, director of idea development, Cover the Night is a four-step process.

Supporters are encouraged wear a Kony 2012 shirt for the entire day.

Shirts could be purchased as part of an “action kit” bought from Invisible Children’s website, or homemade shirts can be worn.

Handwritten letters asking for support will then be mailed to government officials around the country.

The next step urges followers to spend three hours serving the community before spreading their message around the country. The activist group wants to earn the right to be heard globally by serving locally, Jenkins said.

Lunn said the Kony controversy died down after criticisms of Invisible Children’s first video contributed to co-founder Jason Russell’s stressrelated breakdown caused by dehydration, exhaustion and malnutrition.

But Cover the Night will show

photo courtesy of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Invisibles Children stand underneath the Brooklyn Bridge in New York during a scene from the film “KONY 2012: Part II.”

that the activists have not given up, Lunn said. The event isn’t a 15-minutes-of-fame video, but rather a movement that will continue until African children can live a life without Kony, she said.

“This is not a political issue.

This is not a country issue. This is a human issue,” she said.

Despite the criticism, Watkins said she’s satisfied that the video stirred the pot, which was Invisible Children’s goal.

Watkins said many other

worldly issues similar to the one in Africa need attention, but the Kony 2012 initiative is a good way to start.

“It allows people to realize that they can make a difference in something no matter how old or young they are,” she said. “All it takes is them realizing that and finding something they can put their energy, emotions and passion into.”

Contact Ferris McDaniel at fmcdaniel@lsureveille.com

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LGBT

Friday, April 20, 2012

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Louisiana Queer Conference 2012 offers Westbrook attendees day of support, interaction elected Spectrum hosts Senate 2nd annual event speaker Marylee Williams Contributing Writer

LGBT college students and allies from across Louisiana will populate campus Saturday for the Louisiana Queer Conference 2012 in an effort to further the LGBT movement.

University organization Spectrum will host the second annual conference in Coates Hall.

The conference’s goal is to provide opportunities for attendees to interact and build connections statewide, according

PROVOST, from page 1

in the release. “I am looking forward to working with them and the entire community, leading the University forward, meeting the challenges that are before us and toward the achievements that await us.”

Some of Bell’s higher education experience comes the University of Alabama, where he worked for 16 years.

“I want to congratulate Stuart on his selection and thank him for the progress the School

to its website. is different than last year’s beThe conference includes a cause of the keynote speaker, statewide panel, three workshop Student Government’s funding sessions and keynote speaker and community partnerships with Mara Keisling, execEquality Louisiana utive director of the and Louisiana Trans Louisiana Queer National Center for Conference 2012 Advocates.

Transgender EqualCommunity When: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. LGBT partners and ity.

Kameron Kil- Saturday experts will offer 29 christ, biological en- Where: Coates Hall workshops particigineering junior and pants can attend, inco-chair for confer- Cost: Free for University cluding “Becoming ence planning, said students, $5 for other the Unicorn: Identity it would be great to attendees Erasure” and “Queer have 200 people atin the Mirror: Body tend, but it’s difficult to estimate Image Issues and Community the number of attendees because Concerns.” registration takes place at the Although the conference door. ends at 6 p.m., Spectrum has Kilchrist said the conference partnered with Feminists in

Action for an 8 p.m. showing of “The Vagina Monologues” that benefits Louisiana Trans Advocates.

Spectrum will also host a prom from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the French House.

Kilchrist said he is looking forward to the prom because students can mingle in a safe, alcohol-free environment.

The conference is free for University students with their LSU ID and $5 for all other attendees. Registration begins at 10 a.m.

of Engineering made under his leadership,” University of Kansas Chancellor Bernadette GrayLittle said in a news release.

Bell will remain in his position at Kansas through July.

His contributions to Kansas’ School of Engineering included building new facilities, and he played a part in securing millions of dollars for the school’s endowments.

He also led the school’s Building on Excellence initiative, a $500 million plan that stimulated the engineering department.

optimism for the future.

“We have to make sure to move forward and in the most positive fashion,” Bell said.

His educational background includes a nuclear engineering degree and master’s and doctoral degrees in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University.

When Bell spoke to the campus community during a visit in March, he recognized the University’s financial struggle as a problem that extends across the nation, including Kansas.

He said an important effort the University needs to make is securing more respect among state lawmakers.

Bell also emphasized engaging students who are part of an “incredibly connected” generation.

Despite acknowledging the University’s struggles, he showed

Contact Marylee Williams at mwilliams@lsureveille.com

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Danielle Kelley Staff Writer

The Student Government Senate elected Music and Dramatic Arts Senator Meredith Westbrook as speaker Thursday during the first meeting for the new administration. Westbrook succeeds Aaron Caffarel as speaker.

She ran unopposed, though five senators ran for the pro tempore position.

Former University Center for Advising and Counseling Senator Lane Pace topped his four opponents for the position.

Thursday’s meeting was a continuation of the Senate’s regular Wednesday session, which was recessed after the newly elected senators, President Taylor Cox and Vice President Carrie Hebert were sworn in.

During a teary farewell speech, Caffarel said the Senate will be in good hands with Westbrook.

Contact Danielle Kelley at dkelley@lsureveille.com

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Sports

Friday, April 20, 2012

In the Running Tigers, Wildcats battle for SEC lead Luke Johnson Sports Writer

L

SU baseball enthusiasts probably didn’t have the Tigers’ upcoming weekend in Lexington, Ky., circled on their calendars before the season started.

But the Wildcats, coming off an 8-22 conference record in 2011 and picked to finish fourth in the Southeastern Conference Eastern Division in the SEC Preseason Coaches Poll, have surprised everyone this season.

“I never would’ve expected Kentucky to be a team to beat,” admitted sophomore pitcher Kevin Gausman. “It just goes to show you how good the SEC is.”

With both teams sporting identical 11-4 conference records, it’s a battle between No. 4 LSU (31-7) and No. 3 Kentucky (33-5) for SEC supremacy this weekend.

The matchup was set up by the Wildcats surging out of the starting gates, winning their first 22 contests — something LSU coach Paul Mainieri thinks has been paramount to Kentucky’s success.

“They got off to a great start. … When that happens, regardless of who they’re playing against, they develop a tremendous self-confidence in their team,” Mainieri said. “They KENTUCKY, see page 7

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LSU freshman first baseman Tyler Moore rounds third base and heads toward home Wednesday during the Tigers’ 5-4 victory against Lamar at Alex Box Stadium.

TENNIS

Teams bear tough losses in SEC Tourney Ian Fontenot

Sports Contributor

Next up for the Tigers:

Who: No. 4 LSU (31-7) vs. No. 3 Kentucky (33-5) When: 5:30 p.m. today; 1 p.m. Saturday; 12 p.m. Sunday Where: Cliff Hagan Stadium, Lexington, Ky. Watch or listen at home: FSN South (today and Saturday) or 98.1 FM

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LSU senior third baseman Tyler Hanover sprints toward third base Wednesday during the Tigers’ 5-4 victory against Lamar at Alex Box Stadium.

In Oxford, Miss., the No. 41 LSU women’s tennis team (11-12, 4-8) was unable to avenge last weekend’s 5-2 loss to No. 36 Arkansas (12-12, 4-8) when the Lady Tigers dropped the rematch Thursday in the first round of the Southeastern Conference Tournament, 4-1.

“This was a tough loss today,” LSU women’s coach Tony Minnis said in a news release. “It’s unfortunate, but Arkansas played well.”

Tenth-seed Arkansas took the early advantage in the match, taking the doubles point from No. 7-seed LSU. The Razorbacks’ Stephanie Roy and Emily Carbone defeated LSU senior Olivia Howlett and sophomore Yvette Vlaar on court two, 8-5.

Senior Whitney Wolf and junior Keri Frankenberger evened the doubles point battle on court one, beating Razorback pair Claudine Paulson and Laurie Gingras, 8-4.

Arkansas would clinch the point as Kate Lukomskaya and Catherine Parenteau took down junior Kaitlin Burns and sophomore Ariel Morton, 8-6, on court three.

Gringas carried the momentum into singles for the Razorbacks as she defeated Vlaar, 6-3, 6-0.

Lukomskaya took down Frankenberger, 6-3, 6-1, to bring the score to 3-0.

Morton picked up the only point for LSU, defeating Parenteau, 6-3, 6-2.

Arkansas’ Roy picked up the LOSSES, see page 7

GYMNASTICS

LSU seeks third Super Six at NCAA Championships Alex Cassara

Sports Contributor

The No. 11 LSU gymnastics squad is set to make its 23rd NCAA Championships appearance today when it competes in Semifinal I in Duluth, Ga. The team will perform in the afternoon along with No. 2 UCLA, No. 3 Oklahoma, No. 6 Nebraska, No. 7 Utah and No. 10 Stanford.

Should the Tigers (14-12) place within the top three of their pool, they will move on to the NCAA Super Six Finals on Saturday, which LSU coach D-D Breaux has pegged as her team’s ultimate goal all season.

“Our preparation and the mental outlook of the team ... has been

very beneficial,” Breaux said. “If everything continues to happen in a positive way, I think we’re good enough to be a Super Six team.”

If successful, it will be the third time LSU has reached the Super Six following the team’s recent appearances in 2008 and 2009.

Those teams featured decorated LSU gymnasts Susan Jackson and Ashleigh Clare-Kearney, but Breaux said the overall depth of the current squad surpasses its recent predecessors with “more kids that can score higher.”

With that depth comes inexperience, though. Only four of the 15 gymnasts on the 2012 roster have been to the nationals meet — one of those being junior Shelby Prunty, who is nursing a bone spur

and may be held out.

Another is senior Ashley Lee, who earned All-American honors on the vault at the same meet in 2010. Lee said the thought of the last meet of her collegiate career is starting to set in, but it won’t hinder her performance.

“We’ve put in so much hard work, and we’ve done as much as we can do,” Lee said. “We’ve sacrificed so much just to be sure that we put ourselves in the best position going into this meet.”

LSU has leaned on that youth, particularly outstanding freshmen Rheagan Courville, Lloimincia Hall and Jessie Jordan, who all ranked nationally in the all-around SUPER SIX, see page 7

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LSU gymnastics coach D-D Breaux speaks to freshman gymnast Lloimincia Hall on March 16 during the Tigers’ meet against West Virginia in the PMAC.

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SOFTBALL

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LSU to host Ole Miss in inaugural ‘Teal Game’

TRACK AND FIELD

LSU prepares for Gold Meet, Penn Relays

Tigers can rebound following road losses

Florida State put two runs on the board in the first frame and again in the third — something Mack said can have a negative effect on the Tigers at the plate.

Scott Branson “I have to make sure I start off stronger so I can give my hitters a Sports Contributor positive first at-bat,” Mack said.

The No. 23 LSU softball team LSU senior left fielder Ashley returns to Southeastern Conference Langoni said the Tigers have the competition against Ole Miss (16- tools to get back to their winning 26, 2-16 SEC) on Friday after go- ways, but it will require an attitude ing 1-5 on the road in-conference adjustment. the past two weekends.

“These next three games, we On the heels of an 8-1 loss to need to get back to how we felt No. 22 Florida State against ’Bama, Tenon Wednesday night, nessee and now Next up for the Tigers (30-14, Florida State,” Lanthe Tigers: 11-6) had one pracgoni said. “Right tice Thursday to turn Who: LSU (30-14, 11-6) vs. now, I think we’re things around before Ole Miss (16-26, 2-16) low on confidence.” facing a scuffling Reb- When: 6 p.m. today, 6 p.m.

Langoni said els squad, losers of there’s a simple cure eight straight games. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday for a lack of con“We’ll get them Where: Tiger Park fidence, and it’s to out here [Thursday], Watch or listen at home: amp up the competiget going and do some tiveness on the field.

104.9 FM for all games, things to help us be “If you’re an more prepared and TV on CST for today and athlete, you’re gofeel good and try to Saturday ing to bounce back get back on the right from that, no matter foot,” said LSU coach Beth Torina. what,” Langoni said. “It shouldn’t LSU senior pitcher Brittany take an outside source to get you Mack, who gave up five runs in pumped up to come out and play three-and-a-third innings in a loss every day.”

Thursday against the Seminoles, After two consecutive roadsaid she’ll have no problem shak- SEC series, the Tigers will face the ing off the poor outing.

Rebels in the friendly confines of “We just have to make sure we Tiger Park for three games. get over this and blow it past us,” “It’s good to be back home,” Mack said. “That way, we can just Mack said. get ready for this weekend and take Tiger Park may feel exit out on Ole Miss.” tra friendly on the weekend,

Friday, April 20, 2012

1987 Lady Tigers honored at banquet Chandler Rome Sports Contributor

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LSU senior pitcher Brittany Mack sends the ball over home plate Wednesday during the Lady Tigers’ 8-1 loss to Florida State in Tiger Park.

considering the Rebels’ anemic 2-10 record on the road.

Ole Miss’ road wins came on a Wednesday night doubleheader against Arkansas in Fayetteville, Ark., on March 7.

Saturday’s 6 p.m. contest marks the Tigers’ inaugural “Strikeout Ovarian Cancer” event, also known as the “Teal Game.”

LSU will wear teal jerseys to honor those stricken with the disease and its survivors, and the team encourages fans to do the same.

LSU coach Beth Torina’s mother, Betty Dieter, is a survivor of ovarian cancer and will throw out one of the game’s ceremonial first pitches.

Contact Scott Branson at sbranson@lsureveille.com

The LSU track and field team will take a trip down memory lane this weekend, all while preparing for the toughest stretch of the NCAA outdoor season.

Along with the Alumni Gold Meet slated for Saturday at the Bernie Moore Track Stadium, the team will honor current and former Tigers tonight at the third annual Track and Field Awards Banquet and Alumni Recognition at the PMAC. Most notably, the 1987 NCAA Champion women’s track team will be honored on the 25th anniversary of its crown — the first in Lady Tiger history. The team will also be recognized in a ceremony during the meet on Saturday.

As for the meet, LSU coach Dennis Shaver said he expects individual competition that extends beyond the collegiate ranks.

“It’s going to be quality fields in all the events,” Shaver said. “It’s a time where a lot of post-collegiate athletes [will be] coming in to compete.”

Shaver pointed specifically to the Canadian national team, which he said will have roughly 19 athletes competing Saturday.

He also pegged perennial powers like Texas A&M and Ole Miss as two of the more premier teams slated to compete.

Both the Tigers and Lady Tigers will look to build on momentum carried over from last week’s Arizona State Tri-Meet, where there were a combined 14 personal bests set.

Senior Brieanna Kennedy highlighted the Lady Tigers’ personal records, shattering both her hammer throw and discus bests by two feet. Senior Riker Hylton also shaved two-tenths of a second from his 200-meter-dash personal best for the Tigers.

“We have a great opportunity this weekend to run and compete in all the individual events, which we will try to take advantage of,” Shaver said.

The Alumni Gold Meet serves as the final tune-up before the prestigious Penn Relays, which begin April 26. The Tigers and Lady Tigers will then return home for the Southeastern Conference Outdoor Championships at the Bernie Moore Track Stadium, beginning May 10.

Contact Chandler Rome at crome@lsureveille.com

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won a couple games in pretty exciting fashion, and it kind of built upon the momentum of it all.”

But LSU comes in riding its own budding wave of momentum. After securing a closer-than-expected 5-4 win against Lamar on Wednesday, the Tigers have won 14-of-15 games, and seven straight.

What makes LSU’s recent streak most impressive is that it included two of the arguably more difficult matchups on its slate this season in Arkansas and Florida.

Mainieri said the team has been brimming with confidence while playing some of its best ball of the year, prompting what he called “the age-old question.”

“Do you succeed because you have confidence, or does confidence breed success?” Mainieri pondered.

“I believe that it’s both. I believe that you have to have confidence in yourself to have initial success, but the more success that you have, your

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match-clinching point, beating Howlett on court two, 6-4, 6-3.

Wolf and Carbone left their match unfinished on court one, as did Burns and Paulson on court three.

Minnis said the Lady Tigers will await their postseason fortune in the coming weeks.

“Now we just sit back and wait to see if we will get an NCAA Tournament bid,” Minnis said.

The No. 19-ranked Tigers team (14-10, 5-7) lost a heartbreaker, 4-3, against No. 43 Vanderbilt (8-14, 3-9) in Starkville, Miss., on Thursday in the first round of the SEC Tournament.

The No. 8-seed Tigers struck

confidence continues to grow until you believe that you can accomplish anything you put your mind to.”

Both teams come into the series with confidence, but they bring two contrasting styles to the ballpark.

While the Tigers have been getting it done with a stellar pitching staff that sports a minuscule 2.96 ERA, the Wildcats have mashed opposing pitching with the long ball — smashing a league-best 44 home runs.

Part of Kentucky’s big fly binge may correlate with the dimensions of its home field, Cliff Hagan Stadium.

The fence is 20 feet closer to home in right field, and 25 feet closer in center field than Alex Box. “You can’t overdo it in your mind,” Mainieri said. “You’ve just got to realize it’s the same for both teams and maybe one of our guys will pop one out and even things out.”

Short fences or not, the LSU pitching staff is focused on keeping the Wildcat bats at bay. early, sweeping the doubles point from the ninth-seed Commodores.

Juniors Olivier Borsos and Roger Anderson defeated Vandy duo Blake Bazarnik and Anton Kovrigin, 8-3.

On the top court, the No. 36-ranked duo of senior Neal Skupski and freshman Chris Simpson upset Vanderbilt’s No. 17-ranked Gonzales Austin and Alex DiValerio, 8-5, to clinch the point for the Tigers.

Senior Tom Knights and junior Stefan Szacinski left their match with Charlie Jones and Joe Dorn unfinished on court three.

Vanderbilt answered in singles as Bazarnik beat Knights, 6-4, 1-6, 4-6, to even the match.

DiValerio defeated senior David

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this season. Jordan, like Courville, has not missed an event all season but is now being hampered by several ailments to her elbow, foot and skin that will keep her limited.

Breaux said Jordan won’t compete on the uneven bars, but said she would like to see her in the balance beam lineup “a lot.” She named junior Britney Taylor and sophomore Lainie Fleming as possible alternates on bars.

The coach said she still has heavy expectations for the freshmen.

“I’m expecting [the freshmen] to be enthusiastic,” Breaux said.

“I’m expecting them to have the best meets of their lives.”

Hall won the Southeastern Conference floor title at its championship meet on March 24 but was one of many LSU gymnasts who underperformed two weeks later at regionals to squeak into the NCAA meet by .25 points over Washington in the final rotation.

The freshman said she feels the experience will be beneficial in

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LSU freshman gymnast Lloimincia Hall performs on the floor March 16 during the Tigers’ win against West Virginia.

the end.

“I was not as on top of my floor routine, but it was definitely things

The Daily Reveille “We know that they’ve got some good hitters, but so do we,” Gausman said. “I think we’re going to bring down their batting average this weekend. That’s something we talked about as a staff. … We’ve got to quiet their bats.”

Gausman (6-1, 2.76) will get the task in the series opener today at 5:30 p.m., followed by the usual weekend rotation of sophomore Ryan Eades (5-1, 2.51) and freshman Aaron Nola (5-1, 3.15).

Kentucky will counter with the left-handed trio of junior Taylor Rogers (4-1, 5.07), junior Jerad Grundy (3-1, 4.60) and sophomore Corey Litrell (6-0, 1.95).

“We hit pretty well off lefthanders this year,” said junior outfielder Raph Rhymes, who is hitting a sizzling .484 this year. “We’ll get a whole bunch of them this weekend, and I think we’re up to the challenge.”

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Roberts, 6-2, 4-6, 3-6, to give the Commodores a 2-1 lead.

No. 38 Borsos then took down No. 40 Jones on the top court, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4, to even the score to 2-2.

Vanderbilt took the lead as Jeff Offerdahl upset No. 91 Simpson, 7-6, 4-6, 3-6.

Szacinski fought from behind in a battle to pull out a 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 victory against Kovrigin to tie the match at 3-3.

With all eyes on the match, No. 102 Austin upset No. 54 Skupski, 3-6, 7-6, 6-7, to eliminate the Tigers from the tournament.

Contact Ian Fontenot at ifontenot@lsureveille.com that were fixable,” Hall said. “I feel like I’m ready for nationals because of the things that went on at regionals.”

Breaux said she was expecting higher than a No. 11 seed going into regionals, but that the placement, because of the national meet’s structure, should have no effect on her team. Courville and Breaux both said it was the toughest meet of the season judging-wise.

Whatever the outcome, Lee said she’s just looking to soak it all up.

“I want to get another AllAmerican and another Super Six ring,” Lee said. “That’s obviously what everyone wants, but I just really want to enjoy this experience to its fullest.”

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Stop persecuting people with STDs. They’re not as bad as you think.

POSITIVELY CARNAL Kristi Carnahan Columnist Spring break is probably my favorite school holiday.

The weather is generally beautiful and the timing is perfect for spending days lazing around the house, hanging out on the beach and getting frisky with that special someone.

Whoever chose April as spring break month didn’t choose blindly.

I’m pretty sure the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention didn’t select April to promote STD awareness haphazardly, either.

The beautiful weather and the exuberance on spring break getaways lead to unexpected sexual flings for many people. Sharing the fun sometimes leads to sharing other things people might not ask about before diving into the sack.

But are sexually transmitted infections and diseases really as horrible as people make them out to be?

We can’t deny the reality that sexually transmitted infections or diseases cause a disruption in some normal bodily functions. But many are curable, or at least manageable for many years.

Yet our society condemns people who get an STD as dirty, vile and immoral. The shaming of STDs is unnecessary and harmful, yet rampant and seemingly uncontrollable.

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[Left] A condom-shaped hot air balloon flies over a Dutch music festival with the words “Safe Sex” written in Dutch along the side. [Right] Gardasil, one of two vaccines against HPV, can prevent various sexually transmitted medical symptoms in both males and females.

Some STDs, such as herpes and genital warts, are very painful and generally show themselves at the most inopportune times. HIV, hepatitis and other infections cause lifelong issues that wreak havoc on your body.

But do they mean your life — inside and outside the bedroom — is over?

No. Multiple STIs are curable. With a round of antibiotics and a few weeks of celibacy, most cases of gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis are gone.

The CDC estimates at least 50 percent of Americans will have at least one infection of human papillomavirus in their lives, but the body of an otherwise healthy individual will clear many strains of HPV with time and patience.

The reality is that you and most people you know will likely get at least one sexually transmitted infection in your lifetime.

Even if you use protection, things happen. Condoms break, fall off or tear.

Having sex — even with all the bells and whistles like male or

female condoms and dental dams — comes with a risk. Some people never even know they have a problem because they never get an outbreak, a discharge or any other sign that something is wrong.

While there is testing for many STDs, a full panel of tests is expensive and not always accurate.

One person, one time, one accident can find even the safest of people with an illness they didn’t ask to have.

We shouldn’t keep piling blame and negativity onto those who made a mistake or had an accident,

labeling them horribly unclean people.

As a human race, we like to think that it can’t happen to us. But sexually transmitted infections and diseases happen every day to people of all colors, creeds and economic statuses.

It can happen to you. It will happen to more than 50 percent of us by the time we die, and that statistic is always increasing.

Be careful and take precautions, but in the end, be compassionate.

If you don’t have an STD, it’s hard to understand the difficulty of talking to people about living with or having a lifelong STD. Those dealing with diseases often get dismissed or shamed — romantically and otherwise — on a regular basis because of their medical issues.

If you’re not comfortable, you don’t have to have sex with them. But how you handle that situation will make all the difference.

The golden rule never saw a better application than its relation to STDs. Treat others as you would wish to be treated if you found yourself in the same situation.

Kristi Carnahan is a 25-year-old anthropology senior from West Monroe. Follow her on Twitter @TDR_KCarnahan.

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W hat’s Instagram encourages faux photography the Buzz?

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COLUMBUS (UWIRE) — In yet another act of wistful money wasting, Facebook announced it would purchased the image-sharing application Instagram for a whopping $1 billion Monday.

Let me share my overwhelming enthusiasm.

Cough.

I have long denounced Instagram as a platform for iPhone (and now Android) owners to take a vapid photo of a cloud or a tree and throw some kind of sepia-toned filter or a crappy blur tool over it in an attempt to make it look cooler than it is. While that’s not what everyone does, that’s what a lot of people do, and it’s infuriating.

Blowing that up and giving Facebook’s more than 845 million users the chance to do that is a scary thought. I’m already planning my strategy on whose updates to hide on my timeline.

Instagram is an app some describe as being for hipsters, even if the vast majority of the photos I see from my Instagram friends are of themselves at a bar with friends.

There’s really no point in applying a filter that makes it look like the photo was taken on an old Polaroid camera when it’s just a photo of you so drunk that your brain is struggling to keep your left eyelid open.

With Facebook dropping more money on this deal than the gross domestic products of some small countries, I can’t help but think that money would be better spent

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elsewhere. There are millions of starving people around the world who have no concept of the X-Pro II filter. They just want some soup.

At any given time during the day, my Facebook timeline is flooded with photos of corny quotes about love, something making fun of (politician who represents the party I don’t support’s name here), and jokes that appeal to the lowest common denominator, such as something witty like, “I just don’t like you because you’re stupid.”

It’s not exactly clear what, if anything, will change about Instagram with its new partnership, but if it means seeing photos of quotes saying “I’m with stupid,” in sepia tone, count me out.

Instagram does have its benefits. It was a perfectly apt platform to share photos with your friends

without the extraneous frills of Facebook. In that sense, I liked it.

I just can’t tolerate the lackluster “photographers” who get a little too carried away with the filters.

I don’t mean to sound like a pretentious curmudgeon, but I’m afraid of what a potential Facebook partnership could mean to Instagram. Instagram has its benefits, if you forget about all the faux-photographers who use it. It’s simple and easy. But if Facebook is going to throw your Instagram updates on there too, you can count me out.

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Quote of the Day

“It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he’s telling them all different things.”

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Domestic reaction to Muslim Shariah law overblown BLUE-EYED DEVIL Nicholas Pierce Columnist What does a thousand-yearold body of Muslim religious law have to do with the United States?

Absolutely nothing.

But a year ago, 22 states were considering bills that would ban Islamic law, called Sharia in Arabic.

Several states have already passed such legislation, including Louisiana and Mississippi.

The law in Mississippi specifically called out Sharia by name and labelled it as a “guide to the Islamic faith.”

It’s not an issue anymore, however.

The entire issue of creeping Sharia has basically evaporated like hot air from Sean Hannity’s mouth, and one of the last active anti-Shariah bills in the country was withdrawn last week by a New Jersey state legislator.

What is Sharia law? It’s essentially the Islamic legal code. It was developed by Muslim scholars, known as Ullema, centuries ago for the governance of the now defunct Muslim Empire, or Caliphate.

Why do we need to be banning it here, hundreds of years later, on a continent that has almost no history or cultural ties with Islam?

The entire anti-Sharia campaign was born out of the conservative myth that radical “Islamofascists” were planning a secret takeover of the United States.

Once us Muslims had snuck into the corridors of power, we

would then begin introducing laws that would substitute the U.S. Constitution with Sharia, essentially reviving the Caliphate here in America and putting us one step closer to global domination.

Think “Red Dawn,” but with parachuting jihadis.

(Wolverines!)

This thought process was promulgated chiefly by the sort of folks who believe that President Barack Obama was born in Africa and is a closet Islamist — or a lizard person from space, same basic group of people.

Think I’m making all this up?

In January, Newt Gingrich told a crowd of supporters in South Carolina that “stealth jihadis use political, cultural, societal, religious, intellectual tools” as a way to “replace Western civilization with a radical imposition of Sharia.”

So the only logical conclusion was to preemptively nip creeping Sharia in the bud by banning it in state legislatures — because our government doesn’t have better things to do than ban ancient tomes of Middle-Eastern jurisprudence.

That being said, Sharia is important to Muslims in the same sense that the book of Leviticus is important to Jews and papal missives are important to Catholics.

Muslim Americans, who make up less than 1 percent of the American population, might use the Sharia in their personal lives when dealing with family issues such as inheritance or divorce, but that varies widely amongst communities and individuals.

American Muslims might consult the Sharia when deciding on business contracts or the proper way to take out a loan, but there is not, nor has there ever been, any

desire to impose our particular set of traditions on the other 99 percent of the country.

That’s why this entire issue is ridiculous, offensive and overall quite stupid.

Needless to say, I’m relieved to see most states dropping the issue.

But this entire episode does raise greater concerns.

For instance, about the same time all this anti-Sharia fervor was reaching its climax, the Republican governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, appointed a Muslim American to the state’s Supreme Court.

Christie had to go on television shortly after appointing Justice Sohail Mohammad to defend

his decision.

“The guy [Mohammad] is an American citizen. ... [This] Sharia Law business is just crap … and I’m tired of dealing with the crazies.”

At its heart, the anti-Sharia movement is xenophobic. It’s reactionary and racist and has very little to do with any intellectual opposition to a set of ideas.

This sort of attitude threatens to hamstring Muslim Americans or any Americans who follow any sort of creed that’s in the minority.

Furthermore, we don’t need any anti-Sharia laws because we already have one — the First Amendment.

By that very token, just as the government cannot be a respecter

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of any one faith, Islam or other, it cannot act antagonistically towards any one faith.

That is the broader implication of what these yahoos are calling for: the selective application of amendments. When you start selectively applying amendments, why even have them at all?

Nicholas Pierce is a 22-yearold history junior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_nabdulpierc.

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Santorum’s sudden exit proves the start of something new FOR THINKERS ONLY Matthew Westfall Columnist Ding-dong, Santorum’s dead.

And no, I’m not talking about the “frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex,” a common definition of “Santorum” found on Google.

I’m talking about former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and his failed bid for the Republican presidential nomination — and hopefully the end of his political career.

The news is about a week old, but for the past seven days I’ve not been able to wipe the smile off my face knowing the once-candidate is no longer.

To verify, Santorum is not actually dead, but the suspension of his campaign and dropping out

of the 2012 GOP primary is good enough for me.

The crazed politician, with all of his radical policies and retrogressive thinking, can now be an afterthought in the political realm.

I rejoice.

Santorum’s exit gives way for the highly anticipated contest between GOP frontrunner and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama.

I originally intended to write on Santorum’s potential demise heading into next week’s primaries, which are taking place in a slew of Northeastern states, including Santorum’s home state of Pennsylvania.

That being said, he made my job much easier by giving into what was becoming inevitable.

Santorum saw the writing on the wall well before those primaries arrived, watching his campaign finances quickly drying up and realizing that he wasn’t

polling well in Pennsylvania and the other upcoming states.

To be honest, the sudden exit comes as a disappointment for the politician that came so far, but Santorum has promised it won’t serve as the be-all end-all for his political career. In fact, some believe his stronger-than-expected campaign has established the former senator as a new leading voice for the conservative wing of the Republican Party.

I’m not one of those people.

Santorum holds media entertainment value, and he has established a celebrity status of sorts, but his campaign platform proved to be too socially radical to resonate among the Republican Party as a whole.

Santorum proved to be nothing but a clown in a suit. Sure, he triumphed over some of the other pretenders and clowns that comprised the weakest Republican field in recent memory, but what merit does that really hold?

Joshua Green of Bloomberg Businessweek noted that “most of the party’s top prospects, such as Jeb Bush, Bobby Jindal, Mitch Daniels and Chris Christie, opted not to challenge an incumbent president. But if Obama wins another term, most of them are expected to run in 2016.”

That would present a much more formidable field for Santorum and a bleak outlook for his chances in 2016. He had enough problems raising money during this election cycle, so all I can say is good luck against the likes of those other characters in 2016.

The enormous sigh of relief and noted pleasure I’ve felt in seeing Santorum walk away from the race only shows one side of my excitement. Now we can all bust out our happy dance in knowing this presidential race will actually be about much more than sweater vests, tax returns, Cadillacs and Swiss bank accounts.

Romney’s and Obama’s

political arrows now point squarely at each other.

The Obama campaign recently released a commercial that tries to link Romney to the oil industry, stating that Romney “stood with big oil for their tax breaks, attacking higher mileage standards and renewables.”

In a speech Wednesday, Romney argued that Obama “has failed by the measurements he set.”

The gloves are off, and the gauntlet has been thrown down.

With Santorum out of the way, we’re now on a one-way track to one of the most significant presidential elections in recent history.

Matthew Westfall is a 23-year-old mass communication senior from Winchester, Va. Follow him Twitter @TDR_mwestfall.

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This legislation would amend the Captive Wildcat Safety Act, which made it illegal to sell a big cat across state lines as a pet.

Big Cat Rescue CEO Carole Baskin said the Captive Wildcat Safety Act was the best thing to happen to big cats.

“Instead of having to turn away more than 300 unwanted big cats a year, the numbers began to drop,” Baskin said. “They have continued to drop as eight more states passed bans.”

Baskin said the Captive Wildlife Safety Act failed because it was poorly regulated and exempted USDA licenses.

Baskin noted that LSU’s mascot, Mike the Tiger, came from a facility in Indiana that lost its USDA license in 2010. The Great Cats of Indiana facility reportedly violated regulations under the Animal Welfare Act. Ginger Guttner, School of Veterinary Medicine media relations director, said the University followed all federal regulations when acquiring Mike VI from Great Cats of Indiana in 2007. Guttner said Mike was not purchased, but instead donated to the University when he was a cub.

According to the bill, violators of this law could have their animals confiscated, along with any equipment used to aid in their illegal activity. Violators could also face fines up to $20,000 or be sentenced as many as five years in prison.

Congressman and bill sponsor Howard McKeon said the bill is a step forward in protecting the public and ensuring big cats reside in proper living conditions.

“No matter how many times people try to do it, wildcats such as lions, tigers, panthers, cheetahs are impossible to domesticate for personal possession and require much higher living standards compared to a domestic house cat,” McKeon said in a news release.

Despite the legislation, universities are exempt from the law, meaning Mike the Tiger is here to stay. Baskin said most informed animal lovers think it’s cruel to keep a tiger in a cage as a prop, but there is an exemption in the Big Cats and Public Safety Protection Act that would allow universities to continue their traditions of keeping big cats as mascots.

“The reason this bill can save so many big cats is because it doesn’t exempt some of the worst abusers just because they have a USDA permit,” Baskin said. Baskin said she

hoped the students at LSU would speak out against a live tiger as a mascot when Mike V died in 2007.

“Maybe by the time this tiger dies there will be more humane students and no more tigers bred for LSU’s cage,” Baskin said. “Not enough [students] care.”

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have also spoken out against the University’s live mascot. In the aftermath of the death of Mike V, PETA sent letters to thenChancellor Sean O’Keefe urging the University not to purchase a tiger to replace the deceased one.

Baskin spoke out against crossbred animals like Mike, who is a cross between a Bengal and Siberian tiger.

“These animals serve no conservation value,” Baskin said.

She said tigers should be rescued rather than bred for the purpose of a live mascot.

Guttner said the University has opted to continue its 76-year tradition of having a live mascot on campus.

“His safety and well-being are

The Daily Reveille of the utmost importance,” Guttner said. “He receives constant care from the University’s School of Veterinary Medicine.”

Guttner added that Mike is only tiger in the country living on a college campus.

“He is beloved by visitors and the LSU community,” Guttner said.

“Mike represents the spirit of the University.”

Students agree that Mike is a vital part of the campus environment.

Elementary education sophomore Mary Clark said she can’t imagine the University landscape without Mike.

“I pass by Mike every morning and say hi,” Clark said. “It is a tradition that needs to continue.”

The legislation is supported by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, Big Cat Rescue and other organizations. The bill is in the process of being considered by a congressional committee.

Contact Lauren Duhon at lduhon@lsureveille.com

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