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Monday, February 4, 2013 • Volume 117, Issue 83

PAY DAY

Board of Supervisors OKs amended Miles contract Chris Abshire Senior Investigative Reporter

The rich only seem to get richer in big-time college football, so count LSU football coach Les Miles among the sport’s richest.

The University Board of Supervisors approved an amendment to Miles’ contract on Friday that gives him a 15 percent raise and extends his contract by two years through 2019.

Retroactive to Jan. 1, Miles will make $4.3 million annually — up from $3.75 million — good for the fourth-highest salary in college football.

“There is no arguing [LSU] is one of the best football programs in the country,” said Athletic Director Joe Alleva. “[Miles] deserves to be one of the top-five paid coaches in the country. This commitment gives this program continuity, which is something I value for an elite football team.”

The raise marks Miles’ first pay increase since March 2008.

Alleva said the combination of LSU’s recent success and the timing of Arkansas’ interest in Miles for its head coaching vacancy in November “accelerated” the amended contract.

“I had always planned at the end of the season to give [coach Miles] a raise because he’s earned it on the field,” Alleva said. “The situation with Arkansas just exacerbated and sped up the process a bit, but the intention was there all along.”

It’s the third time LSU has amended Miles’ contract on the heels of another school pursuing him.

Miles’ alma mater, Michigan, pursued him in December 2007 and January 2011.

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FACULTY

Members frustrated with salaries University falls behind peers in pay Alyson Gaharan Staff Writer

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LSU head coach Les Miles jokes around with Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney on Dec. 30 during a news conference in Atlanta, Ga. The Board of Supervisors approved an amendment to Miles’ contract Friday.

School of Veterinary Medicine hosts open house

As the University approaches its fifth year without faculty pay increases, faculty members expressed their frustration in a recent news release that highlights the effect state appropriations have on salaries and faculty retention.

The news release, sent Jan. 25, spoke for hundreds of faculty members who feel neglected by the state legislature whose higher education appropriations fund their salaries, according to LSUnited executive board member and author of the release Michael Russo.

“Eventually your patience runs out,” Russo said. “You have to start saying something – otherwise you get taken for granted.”

After months of discouraging news and additional budget cuts, associate professor Stuart Irvine, SALARIES, see page 11

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A grey-horned owl [left], Cooper the Pembroke Welsh Corgi [left center], a fistulated cow [right center] and a bunny [right] were at the University’s School of Veterinary Medicine’s open house Saturday.

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Nation & World

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INTERNATIONAL Turkey police: Missing NYC woman killed by blow to head, on vacation ISTANBUL (AP) — A New York City woman who went missing and was later found dead in Istanbul had suffered a fatal blow to the head, police said Sunday.

Forensic experts have not concluded their autopsy report on the victim, Sarai Sierra, but it is “clear” the head injury caused her death, said Istanbul police chief Huseyin Capkin.

Sierra was last heard from on Jan. 21, the day she was to fly home from a vacation. Her body was discovered Saturday evening near the remnants of ancient city walls.

Paraguay presidential hopeful Oviedo dies in crash, ends dramatic career ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — Paraguayan presidential candidate Lino Cesar Oviedo has been killed in a helicopter crash, authorities said Sunday, ending a dramatic political career that included coups and repeated attempts to lead this impoverished 6.5 million-person country.

Oviedo was returning with his bodyguard from a political rally in northern Paraguay Saturday night when his pilot encountered bad weather. All three were killed in the crash, said Johnny Villalba, a spokesman for Paraguay’s airport authority.

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Sarai Sierra, a New York woman who was killed on a trip to Turkey, is shown in an undated family photo. The 33-year-old was last heard from Jan. 21.

Scientists’ announcement to reveal results of Richard III hunt Monday LONDON (AP) — Has Britain’s lost king been found?

On Monday, scientists will announce the results of tests conducted to determine whether a battle-scarred skeleton found under a municipal parking lot in central England belongs to 15thcentury King Richard III, the last English monarch to die in combat.

The University of Leicester, which is leading the search, refuses to speculate on what the announcement will say.

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STATE/LOCAL

Man charged in fatal shooting of ex-SEAL/author, Iraq war veteran

Lingerie-clad men beat up, rob man in motel room, suspect identified

STEPHENVILLE, Texas (AP) — A 25-year-old Iraq war veteran charged with murdering former Navy SEAL and “American Sniper” author Chris Kyle and his friend turned his semi-automatic handgun onto the pair while they were at a Texas shooting range, authorities said Sunday.

Eddie Ray Routh of Lancaster was arraigned early Sunday on two counts of capital murder in the deaths of Kyle, 38, and Chad Littlefield, 35, at the shooting range about 50 miles southwest of Fort Worth.

Bus on school trip hits overpass in Boston, injuring more than 30

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans police say a man who thought he was going into a motel room with two lingerie-clad women was beaten up and robbed when he tried to leave after discovering they were men.

Police say the two cross-dressers were joined by a man who had been in the bathroom of the motel room on Airline Highway in New Orleans.

Officer Garry Flot says in a news release that all three hit the man several times on the head and face, and each went through his pockets.

They took his cash, cellphone and credit cards.

BOSTON (AP) – A charter bus carrying high school students from Pennsylvania crashed when it attempted to pass under a low bridge in Boston Saturday night, injuring more than 30 people, four seriously, and leaving some trapped for more than an hour, authorities said.

The students had been in the area to visit Harvard University. The bus, which was carrying 42 students and adult chaperones, was heading back to the Philadelphia area when it struck an overpass on Soldier’s Field Road at around 7:30 p.m., Massachusetts State Police said.

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Former Navy SEAL and author of the book “American Sniper,” Chris Kyle, poses in Midlothian, Texas, on April 6, 2012. Kyle and a friend were fatally shot Saturday.

Drastic federal school turnarounds prompt minority community backlash

Taylor Foundation pledges $1M-plus to Loyola, seven $15K scholarships

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The federal government’s push for drastic reforms at chronically low achieving schools has led to takeovers by charter operators, overhauls of staff and curriculum, and even school shutdowns across the country.

It’s also generated a growing backlash among the mostly low-income, minority communities where some see the reforms as not only disruptive in struggling neighborhoods, but also as civil rights violations since turnaround efforts primarily affect black and Latino students.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Patrick F. Taylor Foundation has pledged $1.26 million in scholarship support to Loyola University for first-generation college students who live in Louisiana and demonstrate financial need.

The grant will provide seven $15,000 scholarships per year over the next 12 years. The first batch will be awarded in August.

Currently, 65 percent of Loyola students receive need-based financial aid, and about 30 percent are eligible for federal Pell grants.

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ADMINISTRATION

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Chancellors say reorganization will streamline efficiency LSU campus leaders offer input Alyson Gaharan Staff Writer

Baton Rouge isn’t the only LSU campus with a strong opinion about the system reorganization.

Together, the LSU campuses in Alexandria, Eunice and Shreveport, alongside LSU in Baton Rouge, make up the LSU System that is undergoing a reorganization process that administrators say they hope will streamline efficiency.

The Alexandria, Eunice and Shreveport universities serve diverse student populations that reach into every corner of the state, and each campus has unique qualities that set it apart from the others.

LSU Alexandria Chancellor David Manuel said one of the greatest things about LSU is the system’s diversity — research centers, medical schools, a law school and an agriculture school, among other entities — which he calls the LSU footprint.

“Bringing together LSUS, LSUA and LSUE under the umbrella of the flagship will take LSU to the next level,” Manuel said.

“The reorganization will look at the strengths of each and make the system more efficient, but the footprint is going to remain the same.”

According to Manuel, LSUA already works in conjunction with the Baton Rouge campus, “piggybacking” on accounting systems,

David Manuel LSUA chancellor

‘I think they’ve pulled the right people in and chose thoughtfully.’

human resource systems and purchasing.

“We’re already realizing some of the financial and economic benefits of reorganization,” Manuel said.

Cost-efficient ways to work together are especially important to the Alexandria campus.

“The biggest thing for central Louisiana is cost,” Manuel said. “[Central Louisiana] is burdened by lower income families. Everywhere we can save money and pass it onto students and families — we should do that.”

LSU Eunice Chancellor William Nunez echoed Manuel’s comments.

“You’ve got to give the system credit for trying to look for how we can get more out of what we have,” Nunez said.

For LSUE, the only two-year campus within the LSU System, cost-efficiency means keeping students within the system by encouraging them to transfer to the Baton Rouge campus, LSUA or LSUS after earning their degree.

“We need to get them into the LSU net and keep them there

William Nunez

‘Faculty have to have someone they can respect.’

LSUE chancellor

as long as we can,” Nunez said.

“We’re the only campus that can provide direct transfer students, but we’re losing students to other schools in the region. Greater collaboration will get them to LSUA or Baton Rouge. We can really capitalize on this.”

Before serving as LSUE’s chancellor, Nunez worked as the vice chancellor for academic affairs at Indiana University’s Kokomo campus.

Indiana University was a comprehensive system with eight campuses that provided the same quality of education and programming, Nunez said.

“We behaved and collaborated as one IU. The campuses helped each other out,” Nunez said.

Nunez said working in unison will produce the maximum benefit for the system.

Collaboration is also a familiar concept for LSU Shreveport, whose Commitment Plan promotes working with other campuses to increase enrollment and retention rates by improving educational opportunities for traditional and nontraditional students alike.

Paul Sisson

‘Ideally I would like to see this process driven by academics.’

LSUS chancellor

According to LSUS Interim Chancellor Paul Sisson, the plan has “already laid out cooperation between LSUS and the Baton Rouge campus” and includes “cooperative degree programs” that will be further integrated as the reorganization process presses on.

The degree programs will

involve courses that include students from multiple campuses and would vary depending on the material — some could be taught online while others involve shared resources, Sisson said.

Sisson said while his campus will receive benefits of reorganization, the larger picture is what the optimal solution is for the system as a whole.

“We need to focus on the optimal outcome for Louisiana,” Sisson said. “A reorganized LSU that reaches into every corner of the state — a true flagship university.”

Contact Alyson Gaharan at agaharan@lsureveille.com

Black History Month Celebration: 2013 Mister & Miss Imani Pageant

Wednesday February 6th, 2013 LSU Union Theater at 6:00 p.m.

Black History Month Celebration: Blacks in Academia Lecture Series

Wednesday February 6th, 20th, and 27th, 2013 LSU Honors College, French House Grand Salon, 12 p.m.

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BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

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ADMINISTRATION

University search for president continues Final decision to be made in June

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Rolfe McCollister asks a question Friday during the Board of Supervisors meeting in the LSU System Building.

Focus shifts to online programs McKenzie Womack Staff Writer

The Board of Supervisors emphasized at its meeting Friday the importance of online education at the University by introducing new online graduate programs.

The Board authorized an assessment structure for LSU Online, a new program that will offer four graduate degrees. The University anticipates initiating these first four online programs March 4, said Carolyn Hargrave, LSU System vice president for Academic Affairs and Technology Transfer.

The hope is that LSU Online will expand to undergraduate programs, said Board of Supervisors Chairman Hank Danos.

“LSU Online is an exciting concept that’s becoming a reality, because if you’re paying attention to what’s going on nationwide, if we want to survive and compete, we’re going to have to grow in this area,” Danos said.

The University will add additional programs as they are

developed by faculty and approved by the necessary channels.

“LSU anticipates that LSU Online will have a positive cash-flow within the first year,” Hargrave said.

In a letter to Interim System President and Chancellor William “Bill” Jenkins, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Stuart Bell said it is “widely accepted that the most rapidly developing trend in higher education is a transition to increased online delivery of instruction.”

Danos said there’s no reason not to follow this trend, as it will attract students from around the country.

Hargrave said undergraduate programs are the long-term because the University has to assess course offerings over four years, including general education classes.

The president of the LSU System will establish a per-program, per-credit-hour tuition and fee assessment for all students in LSU Online, she said.

The assessment will be based on market demand and will not

exceed the maximum amount of tuition and fees authorized for comparable degree programs provided on-campus by LSU, according to the Office of Academic Affairs meeting outline.

Contact McKenzie Womack at mwomack@lsureveille.com

the University position is an “outstanding opportunity,” Funk said.

“We have candidates from coast to coast and border to border. It’s literally been a national search.”

Funk said the firm is looking Alyson Gaharan beyond traditional candidates to Staff Writer find the best fit for the University.

The Presidential Search “It’s not the right position for Committee began narrowing an individual that doesn’t have down a strong yet confidential some pretty significant experipool of candidates attracted to ence,” Funk said. the combined Presidential ‘We have candidates Search Commitposition of LSU System president from coast to coast and tee Chairman and University Blake Chatelain border to border.’ chancellor in a said the team will meeting Friday. narrow the larger Bill Funk Interim Unicandidate pool versity Chancel- R. William Funk and Associates Founder down to 10 inlor and System dividuals before and President President William making a final de“Bill” Jenkins said the search cision closer to June. should conclude in June, resultAlthough Funk did not pubing in a new leader for the system licly provide details about canand University. didates in the meeting due to After R. William Funk and candidates’ privacy concerns, he Associates Founder and President said he was looking forward to Bill Funk gave a general update going into greater detail with the about the search, the commit- committee in private. tee transitioned to a closed-door executive session to privately review the candidates.

Contact Alyson Gaharan at The nationwide search has attracted candidates who think agaharan@lsureveille.com

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BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY

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ALUMNI

Local hair salon faces closure LSU alumna signs book on A.P. Tureaud Business open for nearly three decades

Zach Carline Contributing Writer

Jonathan Olivier Staff Writer

Hair Factory, a local hair salon, faces the challenge of keeping its doors open after existing for almost three decades in the same location.

The business is the only original shop in Beau Chene Shopping Village at the corner of Nicholson Drive and West Lee Drive. Since opening the salon in December 1986, the Carlinos have serviced LSU athletes, students, coaches, faculty and countless members of the Baton Rouge community.

Katherine Evangeline Carlino founded Hair Factory 27 years ago with hopes of making a successful business while giving back to the community. After passing away in 2011, her daughter, Christine Genevieve Carlino, took over as owner.

Of the diverse clients the shop has styled over the years, Christine said some of the most memorable include alumnus and former baseball player Austin Nola and her sister’s favorite customer, former women’s basketball coach Van Chancellor.

“I think [Nola] came in every now and then when they were trying to change their luck or something,” Christine said. “You know how they have their superstitions.”

Hair Factory offers discounts to all students, which include men’s haircuts priced at $10 and women’s haircuts at $15. The shop also partakes in “fan Friday,” which encourages customers to don Saints or Universityrelated sportswear to receive a voucher for a free daiquiri at the store next door.

Chancellor is a regular at Hair Factory, Christine said, and his picture resides behind the register as an homage to the former coach the Carlinos enjoyed serving.

Christine said the business has not been the same since her mother’s death. Katherine would often greet customers as they entered the shop and talk with them while they waited. Katherine was loved by everyone, Christine said.

“She put her heart into this place, and she was here every day. She didn’t do hair, but she was behind that register every day until she got sick,” Christine said.

Christine said she wants Hair Factory to succeed because of its long history with members of the University and to continue her mother’s legacy. Through tears, she added that serving the students and being a part of the community is something she loves.

“I love it here — the environment, the community,” she said.

Hair Factory has struggled financially for months, and

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Christine Genevieve Carlino, owner of Hair Factory on Nicholson Drive, cuts hair Saturday for Juan Diaz, a regular customer at the local hair salon.

Christine is barely keeping the doors open because of staff issues and a recent car accident that left her physically injured.

Christine said business was doing well for a few months, until the accident forced her to stop working while she was rehabilitated.

“Right now, I’m just thankful that I’m keeping it open,” Christine said.

Though experiencing hard times financially, Christine remains hopeful about the future, and she thanks students and others from around the community for their continued support.

“It’s the LSU students that made us. If it weren’t for them being so close to us and [us] being there for them, we wouldn’t have been able to build our clientele,” she said.

Saud Alotibi, petroleum engineering senior, has been frequenting Hair Factory for almost a year. He said the experience of the workers and its close proximity to campus keeps him going back. “[Christine] is doing a great job,” Alotibi said.

Contact Jonathan Olivier at jolivier@lsureveille.com

University alumna Rachel Emanuel spoke of the importance of the civil rights movement in public education at the LSU Bookstore Saturday during a book signing for “A More Noble Cause: A.P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana”, the biography of A.P. Tureaud.

The book was written with the assistance of the Tureaud family and co-written by A.P. Tureaud Jr. “A.P. Tureaud Sr. was the foremost New Orleans civil rights attorney who dedicated his career to change,” Emanuel said. “He worked with a group who worked with the legal system to knock out Jim Crow laws.”

Tureaud worked with many African-Americans who sued to attend the University, with his son being the plaintiff for the undergraduate school, so he knew firsthand what the environment was like for African-Americans trying to attend in those years, she said.

“We’re all part of A.P. Tureaud’s legacy,” she said. “Today we see a different society than the one he grew up in, one in which taxpayers didn’t have the same opportunities … being separate but not very equal.”

Tureaud’s fights in the courtroom allowed African-Americans to attend the University.

Vince Miranda attended the University from 1952 to 1956 as

an arts and sciences student and saw the success Tureaud had in the courts.

Miranda said he remembers when A.P. Tureaud Jr. first attended the University.

“It was odd in the fact that they didn’t have any [African American students], not that he shouldn’t be here,” Miranda said.

Miranda said he remembers hearing people talk inappropriately about Tureaud’s willingness to be at the University, but he always believed Tureaud deserved the same rights as everyone else.

Emanuel said she was involved with the civil rights movement as a child, not attending a desegregated school until the ninth grade. She said it was this involvement that influenced her decision to write “A More Noble Cause.”

In addition to her book, Emanuel has also produced a documentary about Tureaud entitled “Journey for Justice: The A.P. Tureaud Story”. “[The book] tells of an individual who uses his life experience to shape his career success and his legal training to make a change,” she said.

Emanuel said Tureaud’s work created a more open society.

“It is up to us now to build upon those improvements,” she said.

Contact Zach Carline at zcarline@lsureveille.com

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Monday, February 4, 2013

New collegiate choir changes traditional image you enjoy,” Bryant said.

Mix said she joined because she was encouraged by Kelly in class, but also because the choir offers the opportunity for more youth in the church community to meet new people.

When developing the idea for the choir, Bryant said she thought young adults needed an outlet and a way to spiritually connect with other students.

“I want them to go back and be refreshed,” Bryant said.

Contact Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez at fsuarez@lsureveille.com

Contributing Writer

Middleton Library patrons can now easily scan books, articles and just about anything else for free with the advent of a new pilot program.

Elissa Plank, LSU Libraries head of circulation services, said the library received a public access scanner kiosk last week. Plank said patron demand influenced the decision to try the pilot program.

“We’ve gotten feedback from students to say that they wanted this scanner,” she said.

The KIC BookEdge scanner station is set up near the entrance of Middleton. It is outfitted with a touch-screen monitor patrons use to complete the scan and to save the document to a flash drive, email or cloud storage like Google Docs, Plank said.

Plank said the scanner may prove especially useful for faculty and students who need copies of articles in old journals that were never digitized. Some current journals have vendor restrictions on when they can become available, so patrons would need to scan or copy those articles, too, she said.

Library Computer Manager Brian Melancon wrote in an email to The Daily Reveille that the scanner trial period will last 30 days.

When that time is up, the library will decide if there has been enough positive feedback to warrant purchasing the scanner, Plank said.

“We’re trying to get as many people to use it while it’s here and give us some feedback on how you like it,” Plank said.

The library might bring a proposal to the [Student Technological

Fee] Oversight Committee to secure funds to pay for the scanner, Melancon said.

Plank said the library is also testing an iPad checkout program.

Beginning in early February, patrons will be able to check out an iPad for seven days, she said.

There are 10 iPads in the checkout pool; each has a case and is loaded with some basic software, Plank said. The iPads were purchased with tech fee funds.

The more than $10,000 pilot program was approved at a tech fee committee meeting Oct. 22. Mike Smith, director of Technical Services, told the committee at the meeting many students regularly use newer technologies like the iPad for schoolwork.

“When students go to check them out, they’re going to find out if that’s a useful replacement for a laptop,” Smith said.

The iPad pilot may expand to a full checkout program if enough interest is shown, he said.

“The adoption rate for a tablet was so much increased proportionally, so much faster than, say, the introduction of things like laptops that we decided that we wanted to look at it,” Plank said.

Plank said because most University students have their own laptops, the library’s current Gear to Geaux laptop checkout program may need to be re-evaluated if iPad checkout is particularly successful. Programs like the iPad pilot help determine what kinds of new technological investments should be made with tech fee money, she said.

Contact Olivia McClure at omcclure@lsureveille.com

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The collegiate choir at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church practices Feb. 2.

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The Bethel Collegiate Choir is changing the image of a traditional church choir by starting a studentinclusive and nondenominational group, according to Sherrisse Bryant, University doctoral candidate and choir organizer.

At Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, pastor and University Africa and African-American studies professor, Herman O. Kelly said he wants the choir to help build a diverse youth community with a spiritual common ground.

“It’s been my dream to have a collegiate choir made up of LSU, Southern University and Baton Rouge Community College,” Kelly said. “Dr. King talks about the dream and beloved community. This is my effort to teach his dream.”

Bryant said the group will practice and sing during church service once a month, but it’s still trying to get word out to students from all the schools.

She said students do not need to be vocally talented or members of the church to participate.

“It is ministry inclusion of all colleges, races and denomination. All we want is to sing praise,” Kelly said.

Sports administration sophomore Naja Mix said there is no judgment when it comes to singing.

“I’m not a singer, but you know, anyone can sing for the Lord,” Mix said.

The group will sing upbeat and new songs, and musical director Tirzah Smith is open to suggestions and helping students grow musically, according to Bryant.

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POLITICS

LSU Quidditch team Obama: Allow gay Boy Scouts wins Mardi Gras Cup The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Sunday that gays should be allowed in the Boy Scouts and women should be allowed in military combat roles, weighing in on two storied American institutions facing proposals to end long-held exclusions.

The president’s comments in a pre-Super Bowl interview on CBS come ahead of this week’s meeting of the Boy Scouts’ national executive board. A proposal to open up the Scouts’ membership to gays is expected to be discussed and possibly voted on at the gathering in Texas.

The Boy Scouts emphatically reaffirmed the no-gays policy just seven months ago, but announced last week they were considering changing the stance. Instead of mandatory exclusion of gays, the different religious and civic groups that sponsor Scout units would be able to decide for themselves how to address the issue — either maintaining the exclusion or opening up their membership.

The White House said in a statement in August that Obama opposed the gay ban. Obama, like presidents for the last century, serves as honorary president of the group. The president’s comment Sunday was his first since the group announced it was considering a policy change.

“My attitude is that gays and lesbians should have access and opportunity the same way everybody else does in every institution and walk of life,” Obama said. “The

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LSU’s Quidditch team competes Saturday against Sam Houston State University for the Mardi Gras Cup on the Parade Ground. LSU won the game 110-20.

Scouts are a great institution that are promoting young people and exposing them to opportunities and leadership that will serve people for the rest of their lives. And I think nobody should be barred from that.”

Obama also had previously issued a statement supporting the Pentagon’s decision last month to open up front-line combat jobs to women, but the interview with CBS’ Scott Pelley included his first publicly spoken comments on the matter since the announcement. He said women are already serving in combat “as a practical matter.”

“When they’re in theater in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, they are vulnerable,” he said. “They are wounded, and they’ve been killed. And they have carried out their jobs with extraordinary patriotism and distinction.”

The policy change overturns a 1994 rule prohibiting women from being assigned to smaller ground combat units, and is expected to open up more than 230,000 combat positions that have been off limits to women.

Obama said he meets “extraordinary women in uniform who can do everything that a man can and more.” He gave the example of one of his military aides, who he estimated is only about 5 feet tall and 100 pounds.

“You put a 50-pound pack on her, and she can do things that you or me would keel over doing. And so the truth is that women are serving. They are taking great risks.

What we should not do is somehow prevent them from advancing in an institution that we all revere.”

On the economy, Obama said although more revenue has to be raised to reduce the deficit, it can be done without raising income tax rates again. He said the answer is “smart spending cuts,” reducing waste in the health care system and closing loopholes and deductions like offshore tax havens that benefit a few high income earners but not most Americans.

“There’s no doubt we need additional revenue coupled with smart spending reductions in order to bring down our deficit,” he said.

“We can do it in a gradual way so it doesn’t have a huge impact.”

Coming before the Super Bowl, Obama had to expect he’d be asked about his recent comment that if he had a son, he would have to think long and hard about letting him play football because of safety concerns. Obama said he feels differently about the NFL, where the players are well-compensated adults who know the risks, but the threat of concussions has to give parents pause about letting youth and children play.

“I want to make sure we are doing everything we can to make the sport safer, and that means the game’s probably going to evolve a little bit,” Obama said. “For those of us who like to see a big hit and enjoy the rock ‘em, sock ‘em elements of the game, we’re probably going to be occasionally frustrated.”

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Details emerge about man at center of Ala. standoff Suspect killed man, abducted child

enforcement officers have talked to Dykes’ family members and advised them not to speak with reporters, and officers told his sister there was nothing she could do to Bruce Smith and help the child in the bunker.

Government records and inMelissa Nelson-Gabriel terviews with neighbors indicate The Associated Press that Dykes joined the Navy in MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — Midland City, serving on active As an Alabama standoff and hos- duty from 1964 to 1969. His retage drama marked a sixth day cord shows several awards, inSunday, more details emerged cluding the Vietnam Service Medabout the suspect at the center, al and the Good Conduct Medal. with neighbors and officials paint- During his service, Dykes was ing a picture of an isolated man trained in aviation maintenance. estranged from his family.

Adams said he, too, is a VietAuthorities say Jim Lee nam veteran but that he never was Dykes, 65 — a decorated vet- close with Dykes. Adams said he eran of the Vietnam War known recalls last seeing Dykes in the as Jimmy to neighbors — gunned 1980s, when he drove a truck for down a school a company that ‘He’s just a really bus driver and ablaundered uniducted a 5-yearforms. angry and bitter old boy from the At some point guy with some anger after his time in bus, taking him to an underground management issue.’ the Navy, Dykes bunker on his rulived in Florida, ral property. The where he worked Morris Dees driver, 66-yearas a surveyor and Southern Poverty Law Center old Charles Albert a long-haul truck Poland Jr., was to be buried Sun- driver. It’s unclear how long he day. stayed there.

Dykes, described as a loner He had some scrapes with the who railed against the govern- law in Florida, including a 1995 ment, lives up a dirt road outside arrest for improper exhibition of this tiny hamlet north of Dothan in a weapon. The misdemeanor was the southeast corner of the state. dismissed. He also was arrested His home is just off the main road for marijuana possession in 2000. north to the state capital of MontHe returned to Alabama about gomery, about 80 miles away. two years ago, moving onto the The FBI said in a statement rural tract about 100 yards from Sunday that authorities continue his nearest neighbors, Michael to have an open line of commu- Creel and his father, Greg. nication with Dykes and that they Neighbors described Dykes planned to deliver to the bunker as a man who once beat a dog to additional comfort items such as death with a lead pipe, threatened food, toys and medicine. Officials to shoot children for setting foot also said Dykes was making the on his property, and patrolled his child as comfortable as possible. yard at night with a flashlight Dykes grew up in the Dothan and a firearm. Michael Creel said area. Mel Adams, a Midland City Dykes had an adult daughter, but Council member who owns the lot the two lost touch years ago. where reporters are gathered, said His property has a white trailhe has known Dykes since they er that, according to Creel, Dykes were ages 3 and 4. said he bought from FEMA after it He said Dykes has a sister and was used to house evacuees from a brother, but that he is estranged Hurricane Katrina. The property from his family. also has a steel shipping container Adams said he didn’t know — like those on container ships — what caused the falling-out, but in which Dykes stores tools and that he knew Dykes “had told part supplies. of his family to go to hell.”

Next to the container is the Midland City Mayor Virgil underground bunker where auSkipper said Dykes’ sister is in thorities say Dykes is holed up a nursing home. Adams said law with the 5-year-old. Neighbors

say the bunker has a pipe so Dykes could hear people coming near his driveway. Authorities have been using the ventilation pipe to communicate with him.

The younger Creel, who said he helped Dykes with supplies to build the bunker and has been in it twice, said Dykes wanted protection from hurricanes.

“He said he lived in Florida and had hurricanes hit. He wanted some place he could go down in and be safe,” Creel said. Authorities say the bunker is about 6 feet by 8 feet, and the only entrance is a trap door at the top.

Such bunkers are not uncommon in rural Alabama because of the threat of tornadoes.

Greg Creel was a friend of Dykes, but he said he would not comment for The Associated Press. “I will only talk to the police and the FBI,” he said.

Michael Creel said Dykes kept to himself and listened to a lot of conservative talk radio.

“He was very into what’s going on with the nation and the politics and all the laws being made.

The things he didn’t agree with, he would ventilate,” he said.

James Arrington, police chief of the neighboring town of Pinckard, put it differently.

“He’s against the government, starting with Obama on down,” he said.

Morris Dees of Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, a group that tracks hate crimes, said Dykes was not on the group’s radar.

Although the fatal shootings in December at a school in Newtown, Conn., are still on everyone’s mind, Dees said he doesn’t think Dykes was trying to be a copycat.

“Probably not. He had a whole bus load full of kids, and he could have walked up there and shot the whole crowd of them,” he said.

“I think he’s just a really angry and bitter guy with some anger management issues,” Dees said. “He is just against everything — the government and his neighbors.”

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Law enforcement officials remove the bus Feb. 1 that Charles Poland was driving when he was fatally shot in Midland City, Ala. Suspect Jimmy Lee Dykes has been holed up in a bunker on his property with the 5-year-old child he took from the bus since the late afternoon shooting Jan. 29.

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FILM

Local filmmaker Godshall to speak at TEDxLSU Zach Carline Contributing Writer

JORDAN STRAUSS / The Associated Press

Actor-singer Justin Timberlake poses at the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Jan. 27. Timberlake gave his first performance in nearly five years Saturday in New Orleans for DirecTV’s Super Bowl-eve bash.

Timberlake gives Super Bowl-eve performance Nekesa Mumbi Moody The Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — One of the most anticipated musical moments of the year so far happened in New Orleans and was connected to the Super Bowl — but it had nothing to do with Beyonce.

Instead, it was another superstar, Justin Timberlake, who had the town buzzing as he gave his first performance in nearly five years — a sizzling, hour-long concert that featured the nattily dressed entertainer with a more than 10-piece band and guest appearances by Timbaland and JayZ, who’s prominently featured on Timberlake’s comeback single, “Suit and Tie.” Timberlake hadn’t released new music in years, preferring to concentrate on a blossoming acting career that included star turns in movies such as “Friends With Benefits” and the Oscar-nominated “The Social Network.”

But when Timberlake took to the stage Saturday night for DirecTV’s Super Bowl-eve bash, it seemed as if he had never left.

Timberlake, dressed in a black tux, betrayed no nerves or rust as he appeared with the backing band dubbed “JT & the Tennessee Kids” and dove into the night’s first song, “Like I Love You,” his signature falsetto in top form.

There was a bit of irony in the setting of Timberlake’s comeback concert because he is identified with the most infamous Super Bowl performance of them all, 2004’s wardrobe malfunction featuring Janet Jackson. He spoke a little about Sunday’s big game as he baited Baltimore Ravens fans against San Francisco 49ers followers.

Other than that, he had little

else to say, letting his music do all the talking. For the most part, his musical statement consisted a rundown of his greatest hits, including “Senorita,” “Cry Me A River,” “Summer Love” and “My Love” (the latter of which included a verse of Jay-Z and Kanye’s “... In Paris”).

But he did offer at least two new songs that seemed as if they could have been inspired by his recent marriage to Jessica Biel. Both were slow jams: One was called “Push Your Love Girl,” while another had the refrain: “I’m in love with that girl ... don’t be mad at me.”

Timberlake also drew from others’ music, performing a cover of INXS’ “What You Need” and delivering a spot-on rendition of the Jacksons’ “Shake Your Body Down To the Ground,” complete with the Jacksons’ trademark choreography.

The standing-room crowd — which included Paul McCartney, Sofia Vergara, John Legend and New England Patriots owner Bob Kraft — was dancing most of the night, and by the time Jay-Z came on to deliver his verse for “Suit and Tie,” the party was in full throttle.

Timberlake ended the evening with “SexyBack,” bringing his sexy —and more importantly, his music — back for the public to enjoy.

Timberlake’s comeback will reach an even larger audience next Sunday with his performance on the Grammys. His third album, “The 20/20 Experience,” is out next month.

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University students and attendees of the TEDxLSU talks in March will have the opportunity to hear about the evolving nature of filmmaking from seasoned local screenwriter and filmmaker Zack Godshall.

Godshall, independent filmmaker and screenwriter-in-residence for the University, will be one of the 24 speakers at the event.

A producer of documentaries and fiction, some of his films include “Lord Byron,” “God’s Architects” and “Low and Behold.”

Godshall attended the University as an undergraduate and went on to receive his master of fine arts from the University of California, Los Angeles.

“I returned to Louisiana to produce some independent films. This job at LSU came up and it worked because [the University] is very supportive of what I’m doing with filmmaking,” Godshall said.

The theme for the TEDxLSU talks is “evolve,” and curator Joey Watson said the filmmaking industry in Louisiana has and is continuing to evolve in positive ways.

“Zack sort of embodies that,” he said. “[His films] speak well of LSU and the communities here.”

Watson said he expects Zack to be passionate and to talk about how filmmaking is inspirational and creative, as well as the creative process

photo courtesy of ZACK GODSHALL

Local filmmaker and University screenwriter-in-residence Zack Godshall works on the set of his movie “Low and Behold.”

he uses when making films.

Godshall said the theme of “evolve” is at the heart of what he does.

“A lot of artists think of themselves as evolving with each new concept. Working in creative ways is an evolution,” he said.

Godshall said the theme is also present in his films.

“Some of the films I’ve made, the characters face some kind of adversity and are forced to confront it, and these stories depict evolution or devolution of a character. The theme of evolve is pretty common to storytelling,” he said.

Godshall said many of his films are low-budget and are not big productions but close collaborations

with others.

“Working with minimal resources, evolving each project, each one is a new challenge,” he said.

Watson said Godshall’s tremendous success resonates with the South Louisiana culture.

Godshall’s most recent film is specific to the Louisiana coast.

There are plenty of interesting stories from the region that are untold or ignored, he said. “[Zack] is someone we will continue to hear from. He is evolving,” Watson said.

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Monday, February 4, 2013

Stevie Wonder headlines pre-Super Bowl concert

Chevel Johnson The Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Applause and approval greeted Stevie Wonder as thousands stood for hours to hear his pre-Super Bowl concert that also featured guitarist Gary Clark Jr. Escorted on stage late Saturday by his daughter and backup singer Aisha Morris, Wonder performed several of his hits, including his opening song, “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You).”

That was followed by “Master Blaster,” Michael Jackson’s “The Way You Make Me Feel,” and Wonder’s own “Higher Ground.”

The 62-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member headlined the outdoor event held near the Wyndham Riverfront Hotel on the eve of Sunday’s game between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers.

Thousands packed a tent and set up on a parking lot across the street from the hotel to hear Wonder, Clark, R&B artist Janelle Monae and French electronic music DJ Martin Solveig.

“I expected greatness from Stevie and that’s exactly what I got,” said Brendan Cawley of New York, N.Y., after Wonder’s performance.

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Famed soul singer Stevie Wonder headlined the pre-Super Bowl concert Saturday in New Orleans. The event also featured Gary Clark Jr. and Janelle Monae.

“I loved how he ad-libbed a lot of his songs and got the audience involved,” said Cawley’s friend, Jason Alex of Los Angeles. “It sounds like he’s still got it.”

Wonder’s early-’70s hit “Superstition” will be featured in two of this year’s Bud Light Super Bowl commercials. The beer company sponsored Saturday’s concert, one of many held to entertain the thousands of fans in the city for the game.

Brandon James, of

Grambling, La., said this was his first time seeing Wonder perform live.

“I always heard my parents talk about how great he was and he is. Most performers come on and only do two or three songs.

Stevie gave us a show!” he said.

The last time Wonder entertained such a large gathering in New Orleans was at the city’s annual Jazz and Heritage Festival five years ago.

Saturday night was also a return performance for Clark, who

played last year’s Essence Festival and jazz festival.

“There are so many talented musicians in New Orleans that I always feel like I have to step up my game when I come here,” he said after his set.

Carmella Smith of Orlando, Fla., said she hadn’t heard of Clark prior to the concert but was leaving as a fan.

“I didn’t know who he was, but he was very good,” she said.

Though known for his blues riffs, Clark has stated that his musical influences are many and include blues, jazz, soul, country and hip hop. He joined Wonder’s set, playing electric guitar on several songs including “Isn’t She Lovely” and “Ribbon in the Sky.” Clark said he could feel the audience’s energy during his set, which included several songs from “Blak and Blu,” which was released in October and debuted at No. 6 on The Billboard 200.

“The crowd was really great,” he said. “They were ready to have a good time.”

He also put his spin on electric blues guitarist Albert Collins’ “If Trouble Was Money.”

“I had to go there,” he said.

“This is the South.”

Opening the concert was Monae, whose rendition of “I Want You Back,” by the Jackson 5, had the crowd dancing and singing

along with her. She also treated the audience to an energetic performance of “Tightrope,” the first single from her 2010 album “The ArchAndroid.”

“I’m so honored to be here, to share the same stage as Gary Clark Jr., who’s absolutely amazing, and Stevie Wonder, who’s always been an inspiration to me.

I’m just glad to share this moment with them,” she said after her set.

During Wonder’s performance, both Monae and Clark joined him on his finale song, “Superstition.”

“It was phenomenal,” Monique Craswell, of New York, said of Wonder’s show. “He’s a talent you can never see enough.”

Solveig closed the show. Before his set, he said this was his first visit to New Orleans and his first Super Bowl experience.

“The city is so full of history and for me, being French, it’s like I really feel a connection,” Solveig said. “It’s quite amazing.

I’m very excited to be a part of such an event. I love the diversity of the people attending and performing. It’s all very interesting to see.”

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Power outage stops Super Bowl for 34 minutes Entergy: Feeds operating correctly Paul Newberry The Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Super Bowl was delayed because of a power outage Sunday, plunging parts of the Superdome into darkness and leading to a 34-minute delay in the biggest game of the year.

The Baltimore Ravens were leading the San Francisco 49ers 28-6 when most of the lights in the 73,000-seat building went out with 13:22 left in the third quarter.

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a member of LSUnited, said he wanted answers.

Irvine compiled a list of faculty salary data from the 13 peer universities identified on LSU’s Flagship 2020 website.

Every university on the list issued faculty pay raises within the past two years, and many are scheduled to receive raises this fiscal year, with the exception of University of Georgia and University of Maryland, College Park, according to Irvine’s findings.

“None of them have gone as long as we have gone without a pay raise, and more importantly, in the last year, they’ve started to get at least small raises. We don’t have that hope,” Irvine said. “It doesn’t

Auxiliary power kept the playing field from going totally dark, but escalators stopped working and the concourses were only illuminated by small banks of lights tied in to emergency service.

Philip Allison, a spokesman for Entergy New Orleans, which provides power to the stadium, said power had been flowing into the stadium before the lights failed.

“All of our distribution and transmission feeds going into the Superdome were operating as expected,” Allison said.

The outage appeared to originate in a failure of equipment maintained by stadium staff, he added.

The power failure occurred A few of the Ravens threw footshortly after Jacoby Jones re- balls around. turned the opening kickoff of the Officials gathered on the second half for a field and appeared touchdown, givbe talking to ‘We haven’t had the to ing the Ravens stadium persona commanding Super Bowl in 11 years. nel. Finally, the lead. came back It might be 20 more. lights The pubon throughout the Hopefully, everyone stadium and the lic address announcer said the will be understanding.’ game resumed.

Superdome was The outexperiencing an age provided a Monique Richard interruption of major glitch to Super Bowl attendee electrical service what has largely and encouraged been viewed as a fans to stay in their seats. Some smooth week for New Orleans, fans did the wave to pass the which was hosting its first Super time. Players milled around on Bowl since 2002 and was eager the sidelines, some took a seat to show off how the city has reon the bench, other on the field. built since Hurricane Katrina.

Monique Richard, who is from the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, had tickets in the upper deck.

“My exact words on the way over here were, ‘I hope this goes off without a hitch,’ because the city just looked so good, they were doing so well, the weather so good everything was kind of falling into place,” she said. “We haven’t had the Super Bowl in 11 years. It might be 20 more. Hopefully, everybody will be understanding.”

appear that we’re coming out of it.

I’ve been here for 25 years, and I can remember faculty going three years without a raise. I don’t think ever four-and-a-half years.”

Irvine said the news release is a way to let administration, the state legislature and the public know University faculty are serious about this problem.

“Beyond the money, going so long without pay raises makes a person, makes me, feel undervalued,” Irvine said. “I don’t want to get too personal here, but a pay raise, especially a merit raise, is an important way in which an employer shows the employee that he’s valued, he’s appreciated. I speak of the employer because LSU is public. The employer is the legislature. It’s the public.”

Irvine said that after so many years without salary increases, it takes more than optimism to keep faculty around.

The University has lost 156 full-time faculty members since 2008, the last year faculty received pay increases, according to the LSUnited news release.

Although all 156 faculty members leaving cannot be attributed to stagnant salaries, many faculty have found better opportunities elsewhere, Irvine said.

Interim Chancellor and System President William “Bill” Jenkins also voiced concerns about the correlation between a lack of salary increases and faculty leaving.

“As we struggle to meet budgetary needs, we are losing some

University will deal with serious financial shortfalls in the coming months, he thinks state leadership will recognize that the University can’t take many more budget hits.

“I actually am beginning to see a light at the end of the tunnel. Leadership across the state is recognizing that irreparable harm may be occurring at our University and we must do something to stop it,” Jenkins said. “Do I see a golden hand reaching out to us now?

No. But I do see the level of concern rising and our political leaders see that we cannot harm the universities any more than they’ve been harmed.”

of our best and brightest,” Jenkins said.

Irvine said he knows Jenkins is aware of the problem and has advocated for faculty salary increases numerous times.

“President Jenkins doesn’t have his own money to give us.

Neither does Provost Bell. Their job, one of their jobs, is to champion the faculty’s cause with the legislature. It’s the legislature that holds the keys. They’re the ones that have the power in this matter,” Irvine said. “I think all faculty recognizes that the higher administration here, they’re not the bad guys.

It’s not like it’s their decision not to give us raises. All they can do is go to the legislature and ask for money to be appropriated.”

Jenkins said although the

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page 12 meeting, several LSU Library staffers spoke, not begrudging He earned a contractually Miles his money but pleading stipulated raise after winning with the Board to show a similar the 2007 BCS National Cham- commitment to University facpionship, and LSU enhanced his ulty.

“Go ahead and give Mr. Miles incentive opportunities in August 2011 after Michigan’s most his 15 percent,” associate librarian Lois Kuyperrecent pursuit.

Rushing told the Miles went Miles’ Contract: Board. “But the on “The Dan Patrest of the LSU rick Show” on • New salary: $4.3 million family needs recJan. 28 in New (Previously: $3.75 million) ognition for their Orleans and told • Extends contract to: 2019 years of success Patrick he heard (Previously: 2017) with more than an out Arkansas be- • First pay increase since: March end-of-the-year cause of his rela- 2008 email thanking us. tionship with the • Length-of-service incentive: Find the money to Razorbacks Ath- $750,000 after 2017 season, give raises across letic Director Jeff $300,000 after each of next two the board to faculLong. seasons ty and staff before “I had a great • Buyout: $15 million before 2016 LSU becomes one relationship with [Long],” Miles (Previously: $18.75 million), $12.9 more failed business in Louisisaid. “He and I million in 2016-17 ana.” worked together Herb Vincent, associate vice at Michigan. I felt like what he was trying to get done was very chancellor and senior associsignificant, but I ... certainly am ate athletics director, said faculty concerns about Miles’ pay very happy at LSU.” The additional $549,000 in annual base pay comes from Miles’ supplemental media compensation, which is money generated by the Athletics Department.

He will still earn $300,000 per year as a University employee and $550,000 in supplemental Tiger Athletic Foundation and equipment compensation.

A new length-of-service incentive was also part of the amended deal.

Each year, $150,000 will go into an account “owned and controlled” by ‘To stay at LSU. Miles can an elite level collect those totaland give that funds money back, ing $750,000 he coaches you have to if through the spend money final regularfor an elite season game of the 2017 seacoach.’ son, when his Herb Vincent contract would Associate Vice have previousChancellor and ly ended.

Senior Associate The same Athletics Director holds true for the 2018-19 seasons, after which Miles would collect $300,000 if he remains LSU’s coach.

That increase in earning potential could be offset by an amended buyout clause. If LSU fires Miles without cause before Dec. 31, 2015, it would owe him $15 million, a decrease from the $18.75 million figure in place prior to 2013.

The buyout dwindles to $12.9 million in 2016-17.

Alleva briefly presented the amendment, fully endorsing the new contract before the Board, which offered no dissent and approved it unanimously.

The Board spent time either praising Alleva for the Athletic Department’s commitment to the University or asking him about the new LSU baseball Hall of Fame, a sharp contrast to the detailed and lengthy discussions about hospitals and a proposed overhaul to Nicholson Drive earlier in the meeting.

Support within the University community wasn’t as overwhelmingly positive.

At the beginning of the

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“Like the librarians said, you have to reward people when they perform,” Vincent said. “His marketplace is just different and you have to remember where the money’s coming from. It’s all self-generated and the athletics program actually gives money back. To stay at an elite level and give that money back, you have to spend money for an elite coach.”

Miles is 85-21 in eight seasons at LSU, good for the second-highest number of wins in school history. He’s won three Southeastern Conference Western Division titles, two conference titles and a national championship while winning more SEC games (47) since 2005 than any other coach.

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SUPER BOWL

All Flacco needed was a little faith

Hickey’s heroics again push Tigers past Bulldogs

THE GEG STAND

Chandler Rome

MIKE GEGENHEIMER Sports Contributor

Sports Writer

Down 17 points to Mississippi State in the PMAC last season, with postseason aspirations in limbo, LSU turned to its diminutive, dreadlocked freshman point guard.

Anthony Hickey threw up a one-handed runner over Rodney Hood’s outstretched arms with 1.4 seconds left that found the bottom of the net and propelled Trent Johnson’s 2012 Tiger squad to an NIT appearance with a 69-67 win.

Johnson’s gone, the dreadlocks are gone, but Saturday’s contest against the Bulldogs was all the same.

The Hopkinsville, Ky., sophomore anchored a come-from-behind 69-68 win for the Tigers (12-7, 3-5 Southeastern Conference) after being down as much as 17, again nailing a game-winning runner that was also coincidentally buried with 1.4 seconds left.

“Coach just told me, ‘Get to the rack,’” Hickey said. “I usually settle for a jump shot, but I took coach’s advice on it.”

Hickey broke through in the final five minutes of the second half after enduring a scoreless first half.

The Tigers struggled early, shooting a mere 27 percent from the field and bearing a 14-point deficit at the break.

Plagued with foul trouble throughout the second half, Hickey played the latter half of the final 20 minutes with four fouls, a risky tactic LSU coach Johnny Jones had no problem employing.

“The flow of the game was important at that time,” Jones said in his postgame radio interview. “I thought we were just going to roll with it. … I knew [Hickey] was capable of playing with [four fouls].”

emerging as a top-tier point guard in the SEC, dueling with the likes of Missouri’s Phil Pressey and Florida’s Scottie Wilbekin as he became the Tigers’ leading scorer.

“He played aggressive defensively without fouling,” Jones said. “On the offensive end, he

What do Steve Young, Brett Favre and Joe Flacco have one of that Tom Brady hasn’t had in eight years and Dan Marino never got?

Two things actually: a Super Bowl ring and a Super Bowl MVP trophy.

Flacco, once a laughingstock around the league, hated by his own fans and thought to be the factor holding the Ravens back from a championship, threw for more than 1,100 yards, 11 touchdowns and no interceptions in the playoffs on his way to a 34-31 win against San Francisco in Super Bowl XLVII. It turns out all he needed was a little confidence.

Baltimore coach John Harbaugh knew his team had to come out swinging in the Super Bowl and he had to have faith in his often-berated quarterback — something Flacco hasn’t had much of in his career.

“It’s been a process and Joe has been hugely successful doing it,” Harbaugh said in his Super Bowl Media Day news confer-

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THOMAS WELLS / The Associated Press

LSU sophomore guard Anthony Hickey starts to celebrate after hitting the game-winning shot against Mississippi State on Saturday. The Tigers won, 69-68.

Hickey put it more bluntly.

“I told coach, ‘Don’t take me out,’” Hickey said. “‘I’ll foul out playing this game.’”

Jones gushed over his point guard who had his fair share of adversity through the nonconference slate, suspended for one game and disciplined for another.

Hickey seems to have righted the ship,

BASEBALL

New faces expected to solidify left side of infield Ibarra, Bregman replace veterans

Lawrence Barreca Sports Writer

Something is eerily similar about the left side of the Tigers’ infield in 2013 compared to how it looked in 2012.

On one hand, two new faces on the team, junior third baseman Christian Ibarra and freshman shortstop Alex Bregman, will be manning positions formerly held by two fan favorites.

Ibarra and Bregman might remind spectators in Alex Box Stadium of their predecessors, though.

“Ibarra’s still short, so it still looks like [former Tigers third

baseman Tyler] Hanover’s still Nola played four seasons as over there at third base,” said se- the Tigers’ shortstop, making 219 nior first baseman Mason Katz. starts. As a senior, he batted .299 “And [Bregman] seems like he’s and was renowned for his defenbeen playing college baseball. sive prowess.

He’s ready. He’s far ahead of any Nola was drafted in the fifth freshman I’ve ever seen come in round of the 2012 MLB Draft by here.” the Miami Marlins.

Ibarra will have some big Katz poured on the praise for shoes to fill, because Hanover his new teammates. was a household name “[Bregman] doesn’t Position for LSU baseball fans. look like a normal freshPreview Hanover started man,” Katz said. “He’s A five-part 236 games as an infieldgot the confidence and series er for the Tigers over his he’s got the talent, and four-year career, finishing he’s expected to be a force No. 10 on the Tigers’ all-time in our lineup.” hit list.

Bregman had an injury-ridHe was drafted in the 33rd dled season as a senior at Alburound by the Detroit Tigers in the querque Academy, but he hit .678 2012 MLB Draft. as a junior, including a New MexBregman will take for- ico high school season-record 19 mer LSU shortstop Austin Nola’s spot.

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LSU junior infielder Christian Ibarra (14) rounds third base Feb. 1 during baseball practice in Alex Box Stadium. Ibarra will take over for former Tiger third baseman Tyler Hanover this season.

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Women take first at Lady Tigers return home to Armory Invitational take on No. 16 Texas A&M Men finish second to Texas A&M

news release.

In addition to Duncan, the Lady Tigers collected a pair of event championships from senior distance runners Charlene Lipsey Spencer Hutchinson and Laura Carleton en route to their 4-point team victory against Sports Contributor second-place Clemson.

The pair swept Friday’s disIn a crowded competition field comprised of more than 100 col- tance events, winning the 1000-melegiate track and field programs, ter and 5000-meter events.

For the men, the LSU women’s who placed sectrack and field ‘We did some great ond in the team team bested them things that I know competition beall.

Led by star se- will put our teams in hind Texas A&M, senior Damar nior sprinter Kimposition to succeed at Forbes made his berlyn Duncan, the season debut in No. 5-ranked Lady the NCAA meet.’ the long jump, takTigers nabbed the Dennis Shaver ing first place with team championan opening jump ship at the annual LSU track and field coach of 25 feet, 10 1/4 Armory Collegiate Invitational in New York for the inches.

Defending his long jump title sixth time in its 13-year history.

Duncan, who already holds the from the Armory Invitational last NCAA’s best time this season in year, Forbes established himself the 200-meter, established herself as an NCAA long-jump title contender after winning silver medals as the top runner in another event.

With a 60-meter time of 7.16 in both the indoor and outdoor seaseconds, Duncan edged out Clem- sons in 2012.

Sophomore sprinter Aaron Erson’s Dezerea Bryant — the NCAA leader coming into the meet — es- nest added the final event champitablishing herself as the top 60-me- onship of the weekend for LSU on ter performer in the nation this sea- Saturday, taking the 200-meter title for the fourth consecutive meet. son.

“I think both our teams made a Duncan’s benchmark performance also notched her name in the great showing here this weekend,” record books again, as the Bower- said LSU coach Dennis Shaver. man Award winner eclipsed the “I’m very proud of how we com60-meter meet record of 7.17 previ- peted, more than anything. We did ously held by former LSU sprinter some great things that I know will put our teams in a position to sucKelly-Ann Baptiste.

“For me to be up here with ceed at the NCAA meet.” people like that, it just motivates me to try to achieve some of the Contact Spencer Hutchinson at things they did while they were shutchinson@lsureveille.com here at LSU,” Duncan said in a

Tyler Nunez Sports Writer

The LSU women’s basketball team will begin a run of three straight home games Monday when it plays host to No. 16 Texas A&M. The Lady Tigers (13-8, 4-4 Southeastern Conference), who just celebratNext up for ed their first road win in the Tigers: more than two Who: LSU vs. Texas months, will look to protect A&M an eight-game When: 8 p.m. home winning tonight streak against the Aggies (17Where: PMAC 5, 7-1 SEC).

Watch or listen It will be the at home: ESPN2, first game between the new 107.3 FM division rivals since Texas A&M joined the league.

“We are going to see some great play from both team,” said LSU coach Nikki Caldwell. “Each team understands that every win in the SEC is an important win.”

LSU junior forward Theresa Plaisance and Texas A&M junior center Kelsey Bone will likely provide the matchup of the night, as both have established dominance in this post season.

Plaisance currently leads the SEC with 18.2 points and 2.8 blocked shots per game, but Bone’s statistics are just as impressive.

Bone is the conference’s leading rebounder, grabbing just under 10 boards per game, and she narrowly trails Plaisance in scoring with 17.1 points per game.

“It is going to be a great matchup,” Plaisance said. “[Bone] is one of the best players in the country.

She has a great inside game. When her inside game isn’t there, she knows how to dish the ball out.”

LSU senior guard Adrienne Webb will also look to continue her hot streak, as she has averaged 18.2 points per game in the five contests

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LSU senior guard Adrienne Webb (10) shoots the ball Jan. 20 during the 54-51 victory against the Vanderbilt Commodores in the PMAC.

since she failed to get on the scoreboard against Arkansas early in SEC play.

The matchup will be the first game the Lady Tigers will play in the PMAC since their victory against Vanderbilt more than two weeks ago.

The Lady Tigers have been successful in home games, going 10-1 in the PMAC so far this season, but Caldwell said she does not want them to get

too comfortable.

“We play better at home, which we know, but we have to make sure that our team does what we need to do, follow our game plan and execute it to the best of our ability,” Caldwell said in a post game radio interview.

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Strong start sets tone for LSU win against USF Cole Travis Sports Contributor

The No. 24 LSU men’s tennis team got off to a fast start en route to beating South Florida 5-2 over the weekend.

The Tigers set the tone by quickly winning the doubles point.

LSU earned decisive wins from the duos of senior Roger Anderson and freshman Tam Trinh, and freshman Boris Arias and senior Olivier Borsos, 8-2 and 8-3, respectively.

LSU carried the momentum from the victories into singles play.

Each Tiger took at least a 2-0 lead to open the match, and they would all win their first sets.

“Getting out to six first-set wins will lend itself to winning,” said LSU head coach Jeff Brown. “These guys are really working hard, and we saw [results] of that today.”

Anderson extended the lead to 2-0 after he dispatched his opponent

6-0, 6-2. Not long after, sophomore Chris Simpson pushed it to 3-0, beating No. 105 Federico Sabogal 6-1, 6-4.

Senior Mark Bowtell clinched the match for LSU after he defeated Ravi Patel 6-1, 6-3.

Although the match was in hand, there was still reason for concern on the court.

Senior Olivier Borsos had to receive medical attention for a lower leg injury during the second set of his match.

“Borsos was in a boot for about a month and a half at the end of last summer, so he is still trying to get back to match shape,” Brown said. “I think he will be back to full strength by the beginning of conference play in March.”

It was evident Borsos hit a wall after the first set as Oliver Pramming went on to win the match for USF, 3-6, 6-0, 6-1.

Senior Stefan Szacinski also

needed some medical attention during his match. He chalked it up to the wear and tear accumulated over the years and was not concerned about it affecting him moving forward.

Both Szacinski and Trinh were only in their second sets when LSU took the match. To speed up the close of the match, they played a 10-point super tiebreak in place of a regular set.

The super tiebreak format yielded a mixed bag as Trinh powered through to win his match 6-4, 4-6, 1-0. Szacinski, visibly weary from a long match, fell to Ignacio GonzalezMuniz, 7-6, 1-6, 0-1.

“It was a great team effort all around today,” Szacinski said.

Next up for the Tigers is a home doubleheader featuring Rice at 1 p.m. followed by Prairie View at 6 p.m. on Feb. 10.

Contact Cole Travis at ctravis@lsureveille.com

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LSU senior Olivier Borsos dives for the ball Sunday during a match against USF at W.T. “Dub” Robinson Stadium.

GYMNASTICS

Tigers sweeps individual titles in win at Kentucky Marcus Rodrigue Sports Contributor

The No. 6 LSU gymnastics team captured every individual title Friday night in its 195.875-195.25 victory at No. 16 Kentucky.

Sophomore all-around Randi Lau won vault with a 9.9, while a 9.85 from junior all-around Sarie Morrison was good for the uneven bars title. Sophomore all-around Lloimincia Hall’s 9.875 gave her the top score on the floor exercise, and sophomore all-around

Rheagan Courville dominated beam with a 9.95.

Courville tied for the all-around title with a 39.225, and her near-perfect score on beam came with the Tigers (6-2, 2-1 Southeastern Conference) trying to hold on to their lead in the final rotation.

“Kentucky did a super job,” said LSU coach D-D Breaux. “We could have easily given that away on the last event. … Rheagan showed up when we needed Rheagan to be there the most, and I’ve got to give her some real applause for that.”

Lau’s career-high-tying 9.9 on vault came on her second appearance of the season and matched her vault score from LSU’s second-place finish at the Metroplex Challenge two weeks ago. Lau’s vault title was her first of the season and the third of her career.

Junior all-around Kaleigh Dickson was poised to capture her first career all-around title heading into the final rotation, but she suffered a heavy deduction after slipping on the beam and using her hands to catch herself. Dickson ended up with a

9.625, marring an otherwise strong performance featuring a 9.875 on vault and a 9.825 on both floor and uneven bars.

“I feel like I’m more confident than I was last season,” Dickson said. “I had my team cheering me on, and I just wanted to do it all for my team. That aspect of it really helped me stay in it and hit my routines.”

LSU will return to action at Missouri on Friday for its fourthstraight road meet. Though Breaux said the team is ready to come home to compete in front of its fans,

Dickson maintained that playing in hostile environments will only benefit the squad.

“Everybody has to do away meets, so we’re just getting them out of the way right now,” Dickson said.

“That’ll help us when we have to travel for NCAAs and the SEC tournament. So it’s just getting us prepared, and this will make us a better team and a stronger team.”

Contact Marcus Rodrigue at mrodrigue@lsureveille.com

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Monday, February 4, 2013

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Lights out: Ravens beat 49ers, 34-31 Howard Fendrich The Associated Press

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Kinesiology junior Blake Hicks (right) dribbles around LSU senior guard Adrienne Webb (10) Jan. 29 in the Basketball Practice Facility.

Gold Guys improve Lady Tigers Male scout team mimics opponents Bria Turner Sports Contributor

Every practice, a group of men transforms into the LSU women’s basketball team’s next opponent.

They are the women’s basketball team’s scout team, also known as the “Gold Guys,” whose sole purpose is to make the Lady Tigers better.

The coaching staff watches film on its next competitor, learns its characteristics and the 12 or 13 Gold Guys embody those traits in each practice before the game.

“They give us a chance to practice the way we need to play,” said LSU coach Nikki Caldwell.

“It’s not always realistic, but it is a tougher situation when you go against guys than when you go against girls.”

When becoming LSU’s opponent, the Gold Guys also become NCAA athletes. They

must take the physicals, follow the compliance rules and keep a 2.0 GPA – all without receiving the scholarships.

Architecture junior Antonio Robinson played college basketball at McPherson College before coming to LSU, where graduate manager Darian Riley recruited him to the scout team. Robinson expected a much more hands-off role on the team, but has gotten used to his duty of playing the women as hard as possible.

“Sometimes you don’t want to be over-aggressive with girls,” Robinson said. “But they want you to.”

The main consensus is the Gold Guys make the women stronger, faster and ready to compete against any other female when the time comes.

“They should be able to beat anybody on any given day because of the players they play against [in practice],” Robinson said. “We make them better, make them quicker, make them faster and make them think more. Then once they play against a woman it’s easier …

now it’s a weaker or slower defender so it’s just one step ahead.”

Riley was a Gold Guy for four years and joined the team after getting cut from the second round of LSU men’s basketball tryouts. Riley now organizes and recruits the Gold Guys, finding most of the athletes at the University Student Recreational Complex. If a man has the talent, the free time during practice hours and the interest, Riley will ask him to join the program.

Junior guard Jeanne Kenney’s assist-to-turnover ratio improvement is evidence of the scout team’s contribution to the women’s basketball team. Kenney’s ratio is now the best in the Southeastern Conference, which she credits to the Gold Guys.

“We have great Gold Guys, who are a bit much sometimes,” Kenney said during “The Nikki Caldwell Show.” “If you cannot turn the ball over against them, there’s not a girl in the country that can guard you.”

Contact Bria Turner at bturner@lsureveille.com

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A power outage at the Super Bowl put the nation’s biggest sporting event on hold for more than a half-hour Sunday, interrupting an otherwise electric, back-and-forth game that ended with Joe Flacco and the Baltimore Ravens as NFL champions thanks to a 34-31 victory over the San Francisco 49ers.

Flacco, voted the MVP, threw three first-half touchdown passes to cap an 11-TD, zero-interception postseason. Jacoby Jones returned the second-half kickoff 108 yards, a Super Bowl record, to give Baltimore a 28-6 lead.

Moments later, lights lining the indoor arena faded, making it difficult to see. When action resumed, Colin Kaepernick and the 49ers scored 17 consecutive points, getting as close as 31-29.

But Baltimore stopped San Francisco on fourth-and-goal from the 5 with under 2 minutes left when Kaepernick’s pass sailed beyond Michael Crabtree in the end zone.

The biggest deficit a team has ever overcome to win a Super Bowl is 10 points, and there were moments were it appeared San Francisco had a chance to better that mark. Instead, the 49ers lost for the first time in six trips to the Super Bowl.

The AFC champion Ravens (14-6), a franchise that moved from Cleveland to Baltimore 17 years ago, improved to 2-0 in the big game. They also won the championship in 2001, when linebacker Ray Lewis was voted the game’s MVP. Lewis was not a major factor this time, but he was a center of attention, playing in the final game of his 17-year career before retiring.

The 49ers struggled early in the first Super Bowl coaching matchup between brothers: Baltimore’s John Harbaugh is 15 months older than San Francisco’s Jim Harbaugh.

Baltimore led 28-6 after Jones

opened the second half with the longest kickoff return in a Super Bowl, his eyes glancing up at the videoboard, presumably to watch himself sprint to the end zone. The 49ers showed they were capable of a comeback in their previous game: They trailed by 17 against the Atlanta Falcons before winning the NFC championship game.

Shortly following Jones’ return, the sudden, odd power outage arrived. Escalators weren’t working. Officials stopped play about 1½ minutes into the third quarter, and the bizarre delay lasted 34 minutes in real time before action resumed. Some players sat. Others stretched. Some fans chanted, “Let’s go, Ravens!” Others passed time by doing the wave.

This was the 10th time New Orleans hosted the big game — tying Miami for most in a city — and first since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Big Easy in August 2005.

When play resumed, NFC champion San Francisco (13-5-1) began making things more interesting, scoring 17 points in less than 4½ minutes.

First, Kaepernick threw a 31yard touchdown pass to Crabtree, pulling them within 15 points midway through the third quarter.

Ravens defensive backs Cary Williams and Bernard Pollard missed tackles on the play. Then, with 5 minutes left in the third quarter, Frank Gore swept around right end for a 6-yard TD run, making it 2820, before Ravens running back Ray Rice’s fumble gave the ball right back to the 49ers.

San Francisco tacked on David Akers’ 34-yard field goal to get within 28-23 after he missed from a longer distance but the Ravens were whistled for running into the kicker. It was his third successful kick of the game after hitting from 36 and 27 yards in the first half.

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LSU struggles early, recovers to top SMU 4-3 Morton crucial in Lady Tigers’ win Trey Labat Sports Contributor

The LSU women’s tennis team prevailed against Southern Methodist University 4-3 on Saturday at the W.T. “Dub” Robinson Stadium in a back-and-forth contest with sparks flying on both sides.

The Lady Tigers had a shaky start to the afternoon after dropping the doubles point — something coach Julia Sell said they worked on in practice all week — with the duo of senior Kaitlin Burns and freshman Caroline Hudson continuing their struggles from last week.

LSU continued to struggle during the early parts of the singles match, with Burns coming out flat against SMU’s No. 1, Aleksandra Malyarchikova. Only two of LSU’s six players won their first set — sophomore Ella Taylor and Hudson — and Taylor was the only player to win in straight sets.

Burns and sophomore transfer Mary Jeremiah, LSU’s top players, lost in straight sets, leaving the match up to the lower half of the lineup.

LSU junior Ariel Morton responded to that call in a big way.

After going down in her first set, Morton battled through cramps to win her match in three sets (0-6, 6-2, 7-5).

The match saw tension boil over

as SMU’s Yana Erkeeva had points docked twice because of a taunting violation.

“It felt really good to come back and beat her like I did,” Morton said.

“I figured out a game plan after the first set, and I could see her start to fail mentally, so I took advantage of it.”

After Hudson won her match (6-4, 2-6, 6-3), the contest was left in senior Ebie Wilson’s hands.

“If you want anyone playing last for the win, it’s Ebie,” Sell said.

“She understands how to win, she knows what works for her and she fights like crazy.”

Wilson, who is undefeated in dual-match play this season, eventually outlasted SMU sophomore Elena Fayner in the third set, going on to win the match 3-6, 7-5, 6-3.

LSU showcased its superior fitness throughout the day, as it won every match that went to three sets.

Morton cited the team’s improved fitness as a critical factor in the match as many of the SMU players seemed tired toward the end of their matches.

“We got affirmation that what we’ve been working on is what we need to do,” Sell said. “On paper, [SMU’s] a much more talented and experienced team than we are, but we out-competed them ... and that’s what you have to do to win matches.”

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LSU junior Ariel Morton hits the ball during the Lady Tigers’ tennis match against Southern Methodist University on Saturday in W.T. “Dub” Robinson Stadium.

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Monday, February 4, 2013 BULLDOGS, from page 1

Boston Celtics now 4-0 without Rondo The Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The Celtics keep rolling without Rajon Rondo.

Not even a late comeback by one of the NBA’s best teams could keep Boston from beating the Los Angeles Clippers 106-104 on Sunday and improve to 4-0 since a knee injury ended their star point guard’s season.

“A lot of people say that we don’t have a chance to go to the playoffs, we can’t do this, we can’t do that,” said starting guard Avery Bradley. “We know we have each other and we’re going to go out there and fight for each other, no matter what, every single night.”

The Clippers played without their own brilliant point guard.

Chris Paul missed his seventh straight game with a bruised right knee cap.

But they cut a 98-83 deficit to 103-101 on a 3-pointer by Eric Bledsoe with 56 seconds remaining. Then Bradley drew an offensive foul on Los Angeles’ Jamal Crawford with 26 seconds to go.

Paul Pierce then held on to the ball — and was surprised that the Clippers didn’t foul him — before making a 3-pointer with 2.5 seconds left to clinch the win and finish with a team-high 22 points.

“If we get a stop there [with] three or four seconds to go, we’ve got plenty of time,” Clippers coach Vinny Del Negro said of his decision not to foul. “If I was going to do it, I would have fouled Courtney Lee early right when he got the ball.”

But he didn’t want to foul Pierce, an accurate shooter down the stretch whether from the field or the free throw line.

“Any time the game’s on the line, whether he missed 15 in a row, we know the last one’s good,” Celtics guard Jason Terry said.

The teams played without the point guards voted starters in the All-Star game in Houston on Feb. 17. Rondo has a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee. With Paul sidelined, the Clippers have lost five of seven games, including their biggest setback and lowest scoring game of the season, 98-73 at Toronto on Friday night.

“We’re just a little out of rhythm,” Los Angeles forward Matt Barnes said. “Guys are just playing a little out of position, but that’s no excuse.”

The Celtics also are missing rookie forward Jared Sullinger

after he had season-ending back surgery Friday.

But they moved within 1 1-2 games of the Milwaukee Bucks for seventh place in the East and 3 1-2 ahead of the Philadelphia 76ers for the final playoff spot in the conference.

Jeff Green and Leandro Barbosa scored 14 points each for the Celtics and led a 52-point contribution from the bench. The Clippers were led by Bledsoe, replacing Paul, and Crawford, who made a 3-pointer at the buzzer, with 23 points each. Blake Griffin had 20 points and 11 rebounds.

Without Rondo, the Celtics were encouraged by coach Doc Rivers to take the open shot or move the ball quickly when they don’t have it. That prevents opposing defenses from double teaming the ball handler.

“We beat a heck of a team and I’m very happy with that,” Rivers said, “but in my mind we can be better, much better, than we were today.”

The first half was one of the best of the season for the Celtics, and they headed to the locker room with a 59-40 lead.

“We’re playing good in spurts right now,” Pierce said. “We got stagnant at times. We didn’t defend at a high level in the second half. ... A win’s a win, but we made it a lot more difficult than we thought it should have been.”

Trailing 98-83, the Clippers began a 15-3 run with Griffin’s free with 9:39 to play. Crawford’s layup made it 101-98 with 3:18 remaining.

Terry then put Boston up by five when he beat the 24-second buzzer with a jumper with 1:09 left before Bledsoe made his 3-pointer.

Then Bradley took the charge.

“Jamal’s a great player,” he said. “I just tried to make it as hard as possible on him.”

And Pierce hit his big 3-pointer.

“They were the aggressors and that’s what we do to teams when we are the most successful,” Crawford said. “They did that tonight.”

The Celtics tied their season highs of 33 points after one quarter and 59 after two.

made the necessary plays to keep us in the game.”

It was evident Saturday as Hickey resurrected his team from an awful shooting night, breaking a streak of 15 consecutive misses from 3-point land when he hit a trey from the right wing with just over five minutes to play.

After junior forward Shavon Coleman’s layup and free throws from sophomore forward Johnny O’Bryant III and senior guard Charles Carmouche, Hickey rattled off the final seven points of the contest for LSU, including his dramatic floater to give the Tigers their first conference road win.

“I give credit to my team,” Hickey said. “They stuck it out, too.

Johnny [O’Bryant] was a little down at the beginning, but he was able to pull it out toward the end.”

O’Bryant finished with his fifth consecutive double-double, tallying 12 points and grabbing 12 rebounds, becoming the first LSU player to record five straight since Glen Davis – even after playing a lackluster first half by Jones’ standards.

“I thought he came out in the first half probably not as aggressive as he’s played in the last few games,” Jones said in his postgame news conference. “I thought [in the second half] he rebounded the ball, he defended better and I thought he made some strong plays inside.”

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LSU forward Johnny O’Bryant III (2) leaps over the defense of Mississippi State forward Gavin Ware (20) to score a basket in the second half of LSU’s 69-68 win against the Bulldogs on Saturday.

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home runs.

Ibarra’s road to Baton Rouge was slightly different.

The new Tigers third baseman transferred from Rio Hondo College in Whittier, Calif., where he hit for a .396 average and a .469 on-base percentage as a sophomore.

He has a quirky approach at the plate, and it has proven effective.

“When you see him hit, he’s

got this weird Spanish wiggle and then he’s got this awkward leg kick, but he just rakes,” Katz said.

“He’s a great player, and he works hard, too. He’s going to hold his own over there.”

It will be a new experience in every sense for Ibarra. Along with a new atmosphere, Ibarra will now face the high-caliber pitching of the Southeastern Conference.

“He hit well in the fall against SEC pitchers,” said LSU coach Paul Mainieri. “I don’t expect him to have major trouble adjusting.

Contact Chandler Rome at crome@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @Rome_TDR He played against good competition in California junior colleges.”

Ibarra said he’s looking forward to playing in Alex Box. “I’ve never experienced this many people [watching] in live competition,” Ibarra said. “But everybody here is really nice. Everyone is cooperative and we all work together.”

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Flacco threw 126 times this postseason, including a slew of deep balls at the fast San Francisco defense.

In their first championship runs, Eli Manning threw 119 times, Brady threw 97 times and Ben Roethlisberger threw 93 times — those players now have a combined seven rings among them.

But the quarterback once mocked for making the claim that he was an “elite” quarterback now has as many rings as Joe Namath, Johnny Unitas and Peyton Manning.

Flacco took a great deal of flak after expressing his faith in himself in an interview with a Baltimore radio station in 2012.

“I mean, I think I’m the best,” Flacco said to WNST 1570. “I don’t think I’m top five, I think I’m the best. I don’t think I’d be very successful at my job if I didn’t feel that way.”

NFL fans need to accept that Flacco may not be pretty, he may not be a Drew Brees or an Aaron Rodgers, but the fact of the matter is he just brought a Lombardi Trophy home, which is more than 31 other NFL quarterbacks can say this season.

Flacco has never failed to lead the Ravens to the postseason and stands at 9-4 in the playoffs over the past five seasons.

The kind of faith Harbaugh showed in his quarterback is something Flacco probably wouldn’t have been shown by his coach’s little brother and 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh.

The younger Harbaugh gave up on San Francisco quarterback Alex Smith after a minor injury prompted an opportunity for thenbackup. Colin Kaepernick to start despite Smith showing promise during a last-minute drive to defeat the Saints in the 2012 NFC Wild Card game.

It’s almost fitting that the 49ers lost on a similar last-minute drive in Sunday’s Super Bowl.

Kaepernick was probably the right choice for the 49ers in the long run, but what example does that set for a team that a quarterback can lose his job — while injured — after accumulating a 19-5-1 record during the past two seasons?

What if Baltimore had given up on Flacco as easily as San Francisco did Smith?

Flacco is the shining model for why loyalty in the NFL matters. Two men who share in parentage, coaching the two best

football teams in the world; one sticks with his quarterback and one doesn’t.

Who has the ring?

Mike Gegenheimer is a 20-yearold mass communication sophomore from Covington.

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THE JINDAL ZONE Governor’s policies better fit for alternate reality

BUT HE MEANS WELL GORDON BRILLON Columnist Imagine, if you will, a world parallel to our own.

It is a peaceful world — a world where business thrives unfettered and job creators are revered.

It is a world in which people are happy and reap the fruits of their liberty. Government is small and taxes a memory stung with regret.

It is a world of black and white.

You have now entered “The Jindal Zone,” not to be confused with the similarly named television series from the 1960s.

Portrait of Michael, government worker and model citizen of “The Jindal Zone.”

Thanks to Dear Leader’s restructuring policies, Michael’s department is streamlined, efficient and performing well. In the past years, Michael was able to cut 93 percent of the operating budget, earning him a personal commendation from Dear Leader.

Michael is grateful for his luck and the opportunities afforded him, and wishes to give back to the people who work for him. One day he decides to speak to his underlings face-to-face, an honor usually reserved for “disciplinary scenarios.”

“Attention underlings, I have a request,” Michael booms to them.

“Tell me — how are you?”

Terrified this is some type of backhanded test of their commitment, most of the workers smile and mutter meekly, but one cannot contain herself.

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Juana, a 47-year-old mother, looks up at Michael.

“Things are difficult. My daughter is pregnant with her first child. We cannot afford the hospital, and ever since Feb. 1, 2012,” – Juana emphasizes this date, as if it has some great outside significance — “Medicaid has not covered inhome care for first-time mothers.”

Michael is bewildered at Juana’s words. Surely there is some explanation for this – Juana simply hasn’t been tugging hard enough at her bootstraps, or maybe this is God’s punishment for some immoral lifestyle quirk.

But before Michael can reassure himself, the other workers, emboldened by Juana’s words, are telling their own stories of difficulty and woe. Rob, the custodian, has children who are behind the others and acting out in school, but he cannot afford behavioral therapy. Reed, the receptionist, has been going to the free clinic since tests showed he is HIV-positive (by the way, the city they live in has the highest HIV rate in the country, with 33 of every 100,000 citizens HIV-positive).

Each of their stories boils down to one fateful Medicaid cut,

which coincidentally affects every person in the office but Michael.

Dear Leader passed the cut citing the need to fill a budget deficit, but it fit with his policy of chopping limbs from government programs.

There were those who opposed it, but they were drowned out by calls for small government and fiscal responsibility.

Michael is shattered and retreats to his office. He opens his desk drawer and drinks straight from a bottle of whole milk he usually saves for celebration.

How, under the watchful eyes and unquestionably moral

remain silent but for some reason I must speak, there is definitely a racist undertone in this blog, however I’m surprised this shocks any of you, coming from a white man who considers himself to be “the best of the best” really its LSU not Harvard, this conversation would only happen in Louisiana, California has so many colleges and all are equally represented for uniquely different areas. I dare not say UCLA is better than UC Berkley, or UC Davis all are wonderful areas of higher education, but know this LSUA students and alum when you decide to

flee Louisiana since you guys are refugees now, humans elsewhere don’t know the difference between LSUA, LSU, LSUS or UNO trust me I get so sick and tired of my professors asking me “how bout that purple and gold”, knowing that I transferred in from LSUA, (only because of a the loss of a family member otherwise I would have graduated in Alexandria) my response is usually the same “I’m not a Laker fan, but that Kobe guy he’s cute” laugh at stupidity, revel in intelligence, read as much as you can but only acknowledge the truth,

and when all else fails move to California I’ll be waiting with the rest of the refugees. Oh how I will never forget the ignorant and backward souls of LOUISIANA, especially the ones who were associated with higher education. Or shall I say “the best of the best”. What a joke!”

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oxymoronic as he advocates for “higher education” which he defines as development of students into productive members of society but, essentially, he believes this is only possible for those said students fortunate enough to attend his alma mater. What bull larky!”

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“What a pernicious statement filled with highhanded ineloquence!

Thankfully, I did receive a quality education from one of Ford’s so-called refuges. It seems to me that Ford’s argument is, in essence,

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leadership of Dear Leader, could ordinary people fail so greatly to account for their own well-being?

He decides something must be done, and quickly scrawls a letter to vacuum-tube directly to Dear Leader’s office — in his philosophical purity, Dear Leader has no assistants or secretaries.

Almost immediately, another tube appears in the “In” slot. Michael opens it, and reads the memorandum inside.

“Effective immediately, the government will no longer supply healthcare for upper-level government workers,” the memo reads.

“That means you, Michael. By the way, you totally have arthritis now.

Yours respectfully, Gov. Bobby Jindal.”

Michael grimaces at the paper, and rubs his hands together.

He reaches for his milk, but it slips from his suddenly arthritic fingers and smashes on the floor.

Oh, the cruel irony!

Michael did what he imagined impossible – through no fault of his own, he was brutally kicked in the ribs by random chance and government machinations out of his control. His inherent belief of the justice of the world was turned against him, but such is the strange justice of “The Jindal Zone.”

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Quote of the Day “I predict one of these two teams will win the Super Bowl.”

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Ranking the 2013 Super Bowl commercials BWALLY’S WORLD BEN WALLACE Columnist

Thank goodness for DVR. I can’t imagine actually having to watch football to see this year’s Super Bowl commercials — all 47 minutes of them. That’s the amount of time commercials aired post-

The Best

kick-off in last year’s Super Bowl, according to Nielsen ratings data.

Because companies paid, on average, $3.8 million each per 30-second spot for this year’s contest, according to CBS MoneyWatch,

Anheuser-Busch — “The Clydesdales: Brotherhood” Goosebumps covered my arms following this heartfelt story about a man and his horse featuring a Clydesdale pony and acoustic Dixie Chicks. When the horse came gallantly running down the street back to its father, I just about shed a tear for beer.

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Doritos — “Goat 4 Sale” Man finds goat that loves Doritos.

Man loses mind because goat won’t stop crunching away on cheesy chips.

Man hides Doritos stash from goat. Goat screams like a human twice. Goat finds man cowering in bedroom drowning his sorrows in Doritos. Goat slams door shut and makes ‘baaa’ sound, clearly ready to kick some butt, like this commercial did.

Oreo — “Whisper Fight” A casual cookie versus cream debate between two men turns violent and morphs into an all-out office brawl.

The humor-catch: whisper yelling. Desks crash and glass shatters at a normal volume, but even a police officer talking into a loudspeaker comes out as a whisper.

It’s like Subway’s baby-voice commercials, but better.

I expected a handful of ROFLinducing, seductive-skin-bearing, bass-thumping-filled commercials.

I also expected to see some embarrassing flops. Now presenting two lists—one for the winners, and one

The Worst

for the … other ads.

Ben Wallace is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from Tyler, Texas.

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GoDaddy.com — “Perfect Match” Most GoDaddy commercials make me think GoDaddy is a Danica Patrick porn site (it’s not). In one of its two spots during the Super Bowl, the web domain site achieved the unachievable by portraying Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli as briefly unattractive. The slurpy sound effects even disgusted the stars from Two Girls, One Cup.

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Calvin Klein — “Calvin Klein Concept” A well-oiled, angry looking, Greekstatue-ripped man with slicked back hair rotates his arms and hips to dub step beats for 30 seconds. He’s advertising undies. I don’t want them.

Audi — “Prom” Promotes infidelity, extreme risktaking and prom clichés. Also, brave, confident teenagers do not go to prom alone. Overall too unrealistic — kind of like owning an Audi for most people.

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Church in crisis as it struggles with growing liberalism BLUE-EYED DEVIL NICHOLAS PIERCE Columnist About two thousand years ago, a Jewish carpenter from Nazareth told his friends, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

I’m certain there are more spiritually edifying interpretations of that line, but many contemporary Christian leaders are apparently under the impression Jesus was talking about building the perfect veranda.

The house looks like it may collapse on itself in Rhode Island.

The Rhode Island General Assembly passed a measure Jan. 22 to present a same-sex marriage bill to the full legislature.

Should the bill be adopted, Rhode Island would become the last state in New England to legalize gay marriage.

Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has declared that isn’t going to happen — at least not on his watch.

But like a steely-eyed gunslinger, a challenger has

appeared: Episcopalian Bishop Nicholas Knisely has drawn his sixshooter and fired a warmly worded appeal for mutual love, respect and marital equality.

While the rumble in the Ocean State (who knew?) is just getting under way, these dueling bishops exemplify a larger crisis coming to a head in modern Christianity.

I’ve written over the past year about the ongoing conflict within the international Anglican Communion, called the Episcopal Church in the United States, and about how the issue of homosexuality is threatening to tear that church seam from seam.

Since its decision to ordain homosexual priests and bishops and its endorsement of gay marriage, the Episcopal Church has faced massive internal strife and defections, pitting the conservatives against the progressives and splitting the church parish by parish.

I’ve also noted the growth of the Catholic Church and its sudden appearance as a major player on the American political stage — the more conservative the American branch of the Catholic Church has become, the more parishioners they

gain and retain as progressive denominations hemorrhage adherents.

And this has dramatically increased the Catholic influence that can be projected into the public discourse.

One only needs to look to Rick Santorum, Paul Ryan, Newt Gingrich and four of the nine justices currently serving on the Supreme Court to see that, politically speaking, Catholicism is in the ascendant.

But this isn’t a political issue, and it’s not a LGBTQ issue, either.

This is an issue of shifting ideologies and church survival.

I spoke with Father Drew Rollins, of St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, and Father Bob Stine of Christ the King Catholic Church, both on the University’s campus.

Father Drew wasn’t intimidated by the crisis his communion is facing.

“The pursuit of truth is the heart of Christianity,” he said.

“Truth, come whence it may, cost what it will.”

And according to an internal census of Episcopalian membership, the cost has been quite high — the Church lost a large portion of its adherents since 1965.

Politically and doctrinally, conservative Christianity has come to take up more and more of the Christian demographic pie.

Truth has become a contentious word — and if the church’s official line on what constitutes the truth irks the lay masses, the Episcopalian Church in this case, stands to lose out big.

Father Bob acknowledged the gains Catholicism has made, despite America’s growing secularism.

“Religious millenials are more conservative. They are seeking identity. They may be alienated from popular culture, but they are devoted to their faith,” he said.

Father Drew was unconcerned with the controversy.

“Christianity is bigger than the issues of the day, and our doors will always be open as a refuge to the students of this campus regardless of sexual orientation or anything else,” he said.

How individual communities learn to deal with the rising tide of public opinion has become a makeor-break issue.

And while the Episcopalian Church may seem to be suffering now — history may yet vindicate

its position.

And Father Bob had no trouble conceding the Catholic Church may be on the wrong side of history.

“The Church is sympathetic towards homosexuals as people,” Father Bob said. “We want to minister to them as we would minister to anyone else, but on this particular issue of redefining marriage, we have to take a stand. That being said, I think this is a fight we’re going to lose.”

What toll will this have on American Christianity as a large and vibrant faith community?

For the time being, Catholicism will continue to make gains, and Anglicanism will continue its slow struggle.

But ultimately, only time, and the number of folks in the pews, will tell.

Nicholas Pierce is a 23-year-old history senior from Baton Rouge.

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