The Daily Reveille - March 15, 2013

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$4.3M UCourt to decide SG election on Saturday budget increase proposed Judah Robinson

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Alyson Gaharan Staff Writer

The LSU A&M 2014 fiscal year budget is expected to receive a $4.3 million increase in state allocations from the 2013 fiscal year budget, according to a Board of Regents document released to University presidents Thursday afternoon.

The increase in allocations is about 1 percent more than the $445.4 million the University was set to receive at the beginning of last year.

“This is the first release we have, but at least for the moment, it looks like we might have budget stability for the coming year,” said Interim System President and Chancellor William “Bill” Jenkins. “If we stick to this budget, it’ll be a great benefit to LSU.” Jenkins said although he has seen and had a brief discussion about the budget, he has not been able to analyze its implications thoroughly.

“Part of it depends on student tuition and enrollment for that coming year,” Jenkins said. “[The Board of Regents] estimates what enrollment will be, and they’re hoping it will be up, but we’re just not sure.”

There is a long legislative process, and the budget won’t be finalized for a few months, Jenkins said.

“If [the funds] materialize, that would be great, but there is budgetary uncertainty. I think that’s fair to say,” Jenkins said.

The Board of Regents uses a funding formula to divide the higher education budget among state universities. The 2014 fiscal year funding formula was composed of money from the general fund and the overcollections fund, parts of the proposed total higher education budget.

The $284 million general fund and the $489 million overcollections fund is contingent upon processes that haven’t been completed yet.

About $348 million of the overcollections fund depends on contracts being signed, sales being made and other processes that could potentially not happen, which would result in a budget shortfall.

Contact Alyson Gaharan at agaharan@lsureveille.com

The final decision on this week’s controversial Student Government election will come Saturday when the University Court hears an appeal to the election board’s decision to disqualify Unite LSU from the election after alleged overspending.

Both Impact LSU and Unite LSU’s campaign financial documents became available to the public on Thursday. Unite LSU’s WOODARD spending limit was $6,250, and it spent a total of $6,033.11, according to the cam-

paign financial documents.

The decision to disqualify the Unite LSU ticket from the general election came from the election SIMON board moments before the results were to be announced Wednesday afternoon.

Call of the Wild

SG Commissioner of Elections Aimeé Simon said the decision to disqualify the Unite ticket from the election was made based on fair market value of campaign banners.

Simon said the SG Election Code gives the election board the right to revalue an expense response on a campaign’s SG, see page 11

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Students to shave heads for cancer Kirsten Romaguera Managing Editor, Production

Student-run preserve aims to educate public on wildlife

Zach Carline

Contributing Writer

photos by LAUREN DUHON / The Daily Reveille

[Top left] Guapo, a kinkajou, rests on a log; [top right] Cosmaux, a harlequin macaw, sits in his cage; and [bottom] Roux the red kangaroo hops across a field March 6 at Barn Hill Preserve in Ethel, La. The animal sanctuary was started by University student Gabriel Ligon, who is currently taking a semester off from school to get the preserve started. See a photo story, p. 4.

As visitors approach her cage, Angel the cockatoo asks them a simple question: “Want some coffee?”

Angel is just one of the many animals Gabriel Ligon houses at his Barn Hill Preserve 45 minutes north of Baton Rouge, where a group of about 15 animal science majors at the University volunteer. The preserve currently houses 14 animals, including rescued parrots, a kinkajou (honey bear) named Guapo, a red kangaroo joey named Roux, pixie frogs, a hedgehog, a sugar glider and geckos.

Ligon, the director and founder of Barn Hill Preserve, said he came up with the idea for the preserve about a year and a half ago. Ligon is currently taking a semester off from the University where he was pursuing a degree in animal science.

“I’ve been interested in animals ANIMALS, see page 11

View more photos and a video at lsureveille.com.

A bald head is a characteristic typically associated with cancer patients.

“The first time it hit me, we were about 16 days into treatment ... and there was all this St. Baldrick’s hair on his pillow,” said event: Laurina Conger, a Uni- When: 10 a.m. to 2 versity alum- p.m. today na whose Where: Free Speech 13-year-old Circle son Michael’s acute How to donate: lymphoblas- Participants will tic leukemia be collecting cash has been in and laptops will be remission for available for online four years. donations “It was like, ‘Wow. He really does have cancer.’”

Free Speech Plaza passersby will have the chance to see members of the University community go bald voluntarily during a head shaving event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today that supports Michael and other children with cancer.

Donations for the event, which is organized by the University’s chapter of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, go to the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, an organization that ST. BALDRICK’S, see page 11

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INTERNATIONAL New style of papacy: Pope Francis stays modest, pays hotel bill himself VATICAN CITY (AP) — On his first day as shepherd of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, Pope Francis picked up his luggage at a Vatican hotel, personally thanked each member of the staff and even paid his own bill.

That was hardly out of character for Francis. For years, as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Argentine pastor took the bus to work, kissed the feet of AIDS patients and prayed with former prostitutes, eschewing the luxurious residence that would have been his due as archbishop of Buenos Aires.

New bill intended to curb Jamaica lottery scams and convict fraudsters KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaican officials said Thursday that they are hopeful new legislation will finally result in a stream of convictions and lengthy sentences for fraudsters behind a multimilliondollar lottery scam that has swindled mostly elderly Americans out of their retirement savings for years.

National Security Minister Peter Bunting told reporters that the law reform act will result in a “vastly accelerated number of successful prosecutions” of swindlers who have made the island a center for cross-border telemarketing fraud.

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Pope Francis celebrates his inaugural Mass — in Italian, not the Latin of his predecessor — with cardinals inside the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican Thursday.

Carnival Dream passengers flown home after issues with generator PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten (AP) — Passengers from the cruise ship Carnival Dream headed to the airport Thursday instead of sailing home after an on-board generator problem halted their trip in the latest maintenance headache for the world’s largest cruise line.

The Dream was in St. Maarten on the final stop of a Caribbean cruise when the crew announced it would not be sailing home to Port Canaveral, Fla., because of a mechanical issue with a diesel generator, passengers said.

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NATIONAL

STATE/LOCAL

NJ governor asked to apologize for race remark, claims misinterpretation

Jindal plan would remove income, raise sales taxes in tax code revamp

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Republican Gov. Chris Christie has been asked to apologize for referring to the first black female leader of the state Assembly by race and gender, not by name, during a church-hosted meeting.

Christie, who is white, told an audience Tuesday that an “AfricanAmerican female speaker of the Assembly” is blocking a vote on a school voucher bill that would let children in failing districts attend classes elsewhere.

A Christie spokesman said the governor was misinterpreted.

Reuters journalist charged with hacking conspiracy after being fired

Fla. charity figures accused of illegal gambling pumped $1M to politicians

(AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal on Thursday proposed a hefty jump in the state’s sales tax rate and $1.4 billion in new taxes charged on services to help offset the cost of his push to eliminate Louisiana’s income taxes.

The Republican governor and his leader on the tax code revamp, Tim Barfield, outlined the first specifics of Jindal’s proposal to rewrite Louisiana’s tax code, but they didn’t provide the legislation with the full details.

Jindal wants to boost state sales taxes from 4 percent to 5.88 percent and assess sales taxes on a wide range of services not currently taxed.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The key players behind a purported veterans charity accused of setting up illegal gambling rooms pumped more than $1 million into the campaign accounts of politicians who had the power to regulate or put them out of business.

As the untaxed, barely regulated industry mushroomed into a billion-dollar industry, money went to the campaigns of governors in Florida and North Carolina, as well as dozens of state legislators and state political parties.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A convicted killer who escaped the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women in St. Gabriel has been added to a list of the U.S. Marshal Service’s 15 most wanted fugitives.

Authorities say the reward money in the case of Keana Barnes also has increased to $25,000.

The 33-year-old Barnes had been serving a 25-year manslaughter sentence for killing two men before she escaped the lockup on Jan. 1.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A social media editor for the Reuters news service was charged Thursday with conspiring with the group “Anonymous” to hack into the Tribune Co.’s computer system shortly after he was fired from one of the company’s TV stations.

Matthew Keys is charged with supplying hackers in December 2010 with the login credentials to the computer network of Tribune Co., which owns the Los Angeles Times, the FBI said. Keys had been fired from a Tribune-owned television station in Sacramento two months earlier.

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie listens Feb. 24 as President Barack Obama welcomes the governors to the Governors’ Dinner at the White House.

Escaped La. prisoner added to top fugitive list with reward for capture

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CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS In the Thursday, March 14 edition of The Daily Reveille, a caption incorrectly stated that the Impact LSU ticket would face a UCourt trial Thursday to appeal its disqualification. The Unite LSU ticket was supposed to have a UCourt trial Thursday, and the case was dismissed. If you would like something corrected or clarified please contact the editor at (225) 578-4811 or email editor@lsureveille.com.

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STUDENT LIFE

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Subcommittee considers all freshmen living on campus Financial aid also a main subject

students who live on campus are more likely to be involved in student life and activities on campus.

“The ones who live farthest away tend to do their own thing,” McKenzie Womack Cindass said.

Staff Writer Vice Chancellor for Student The main topics of concern Life and Enrollment Services at the Transition Advisory Team’s Kurt Keppler said the problem Student Experience subcommit- with making living on campus tee meeting Thursday were re- mandatory is that the Univerquiring freshmen sity will lose stuto live on cam- ‘If we make [living on dents because pus and financial not all of them campus] mandatory, aid. want to or can The Transi- our research shows we’ll afford living on tion Advisory campus. lose students.’

Team is exam“A good 10 ining the LSU percent, if not Kurt Keppler System and will Vice Chancellor for Student Life and more, live within recommend a re50 miles of our Enrollment Services organization plan campus, many of to the LSU Board of Supervi- whom have siblings, have parsors. It will present its initial ents, relatives or someone who findings to the Board on March lives in an apartment. If we make 18. it mandatory, our research shows Mass communication fresh- we’ll lose students,” Keppler said. man and committee member “Because we have 700,000 peoGeorge Bevan said there are pros ple in Baton Rouge … they don’t and cons for requiring students to all want to live on campus. They live on campus. want to stay home or live with “It was distracting for me siblings.” to sit down and study and have Mark Tassin, head of the Depeople coming in and out of my partment of 4-H Youth and Famroom, or go into the study room ily Development at the AgCenter, and have other people there,” Be- said affordability is also an issue van said. for many people.

Renford Cindass, Stu“I have a daughter who dent Government president at lives in a residence hall. We’re LSU Health New Orleans, said fortunate enough to be able to

do that. That’s what she wanted to do,” he said. “But it is costly. Ninety-five percent of my friends and colleagues who have children at LSU, they commute.”

Lisa Pickering, assistant director of Financial Aid at LSUShreveport, addressed the issue of financial aid as not being enough for students.

“The gap is what aid covers and what students’ financial situation is,” she said. “Student loan debt has surpassed credit card debt in this country …

Students are borrowing for living and for car expenses, for the indirect costs that factor in.”

Contact McKenzie Womack at mwomack@lsureveille.com

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HEAR MIKE ROAR (if you’re lucky)

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Mike VI paws the glass and spooks onlookers outside his cage on Thursday. Many considered him to be unusually active as he splashed in his pool and even growled.

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LOCAL SPOTLIGHT

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Foodways is key to Exotic animals live just outside BR preserving culture demonstration kitchen to exhibit uses of products it helps launch, which will help tenants market More than Louisiana’s coast their own goods. The incubator may be eroding, according to New will also test how well customers Orleans chef and restauranteur receive a product before a tenant John Besh. Failure to preserve tra- begins producing and trying to sell ditional Louisiana foodways could larger quantities, Finley said. mean Louisiana’s culture — which The incubator is looking at Besh said is the state’s most valu- inviting chefs to teach food prepaable renewable resource — will go ration classes, which would raise bland. money for the University food sciBesh , who spoke at the 2013 ence department and be valuable Louisiana Food Processors Con- to community, Finley said. The inference Thursday at the Energy, cubator is set to open in June.

Coast and Environment Building, Dickie Brennan, owner of said foodways, or the social and Dickie Brennan and Company, economic practices relating to said that in the 1970s, Americans food, are such an integral part of became fascinated with using Louisiana’s culture that many of American food products. He said the state’s tradiregional Ameritions are insepacuisines were ‘We all love our red can rable from food. reignited in resUntil recently, beans on Mondays, or taurants, including however, chefs his family’s, Comwe should.’ around the world mander’s Palace. have trained to “We’re not a John Besh cook the same French restaurant, chef and restauranteur way because of we’re not an Italthe popularity of ian restaurant — international cuisines, Besh said. we’re an American restaurant,” People are increasingly in- Brennan said. terested in preserving Louisiana’s This facilitated a new promiuniqueness, though, which has nence of local products and ways conveniently coincided with re- of involving farmers, Brennan cent “farm to table” and “buy lo- said. cal” phenomena, Besh said. Using Brennan also pointed out that local ingredients and practicing while it is important to remain Louisiana cooking styles helps grounded in culinary tradition, maintain cultural traditions many restaurants must make some octake for granted, he said. casional changes. Restaurants not “If we don’t take care of these willing to evolve may as well be foodways, then we will slowly see museums, which leaves them open the erosion of this culture speed up to becoming irrelevant, he said. to the point that we have no culBesh said Hurricane Katrina ture,” Besh said. woke him up to how quickly a culBesh emphasized the impor- ture could be damaged, persuadtance of Louisianians cooperating ing him to be aggressive about to preserve their state’s foodways. maintaining Louisiana traditions.

He warned if people ignore the “We all love our red beans culture they claim to be part of, it on Mondays, or we should,” Besh may vanish. said.

“Very few [cooks] are coming Without those customs, there from Louisiana, very few of them is not much reason to live in Louiare coming from New Orleans and siana, Besh said. very few minorities are entering “If we don’t hang on to all into our business,” Besh said. these great things that we have Supporting farmers is another and we’re not responsible with it, way to protect Louisiana’s culture, it will simply just erode away and Besh said. When farmers partner we will simply become just any with the food industry, they de- old state on the coast — without a velop new commerce that fuels great beach,” Besh said. foodways and economies.

Besh said his foundation, the Chef John Besh Foundation, Contact Olivia McClure at makes micro-loans to farmers that omcclure@lsureveille.com finance improvements such as fencing. The foundation also partners farmers with MBA students to write business plans, Besh said.

Farmers have to make a profit Check out for their business to survive, so it lsureveille.com is important to provide business assistance when they need it, Besh to see what’s said. Helping farmers build conhappening on campus: nections from the point of production to the consumer without inMichelle Alexander, volving middlemen makes larger profits possible, he said. author of “The New John Finley, director of food Jim Crow,” talks about innovation at the LSU AgCenthe birth of a caste ter’s food business incubator, system in the U.S. also presented at the conference and said the incubator will have a

Olivia McClure

Contributing Writer

photos by LAUREN DUHON / The Daily Reveille

[Top left] Hazel watches the birds; [top right] Roux the kangaroo hops across a field; [bottom left] Sugar, a blue and gold macaw, and Cosmaux, a harlequin macaw, rest together on a perch; [bottom right] Angel, an umbrella cockatoo, ruffles her feathers on March 6 at the Barn Hill Preserve in Ethel, La.

Sports

Friday, March 15, 2013 MARCH MADNESS

Survive and Advance

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Lack of dominant team is good THE BERT LOCKER ALBERT BURFORD Sports Editor

Tigers hold on to beat Georgia, Caldwell-Pope

Chandler Rome Sports Writer

After perhaps its most dominant half in a game this season, LSU struggled to contain Southeastern Conference Player of the Year Kentavious Caldwell-Pope in the second half but grinded out a 68-63 victory against Georgia in the second round of the SEC Tournament.

Junior forward Shavon Coleman broke out of his recent offensive rut to pace the Tigers (19-11, 10-9 SEC) with 24 points after scoring that much in his last four conference games combined.

The Thibodaux native fought off a bout of vomiting on the bench during the first half to bury four of his five 3-pointers. Coleman’s outburst was uncharacteristic as he made only nine treys all season leading up to the game.

“Tonight I just had the hot hand and the team kept coming to me,” Coleman said. “So when you got a hot fella like that, you got to keep coming to him.”

As they’ve done in many games of late, the Tigers raced out to an early lead behind a barrage of 3-pointers and suffocating defense, forcing four Bulldog turnovers SURVIVE, see page 7

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LSU guard Andre Stringer (10) dribbles past Georgia guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (1) on Thursday during LSU’s 68-63 win against Georgia at the Southeastern Conference tournament in Nashville, Tenn.

College basketball is, by nature, unadulterated craziness, and this season has done nothing but reiterate that point.

A bunch of kids fresh out of high school play a sport in which a team could put together a solid season, but have it all wiped away with one loss in a conference tournament. A highly seeded squad in the NCAA Tournament may get an unfortunate matchup in the Big Dance and get upset because some player from (insert school you’ve never heard of) can’t stop hitting threes.

It may not be the most exact method for determining a champion, but it’s a damn good time.

If you want to watch insanely talented athletes play basketball at a consistently high level, you watch the NBA. If you want to see chaos in action, you watch college basketball — and this season has had DOMINANT, see page 7

BASEBALL

Tigers take on first SEC competition in Starkville Mainieri says young Tigers are ready Lawrence Barreca Sports Writer

ANGELA MAJOR / The Daily Reveille

LSU freshman infielder Alex Bregman (30) swings March 9 during the Tigers’ 8-4 victory against Washington in Alex Box Stadium. The freshmen will taste their first SEC play today.

Southeastern Conference play is finally here, as the No. 7 LSU baseball squad travels to No. 13 Mississippi State (18-2) today, and the Tigers’ core of young starters will have to adjust to the increased level of competition.

SEC schools have been dominant on the diamond so far in 2013, occupying five of the top ten rankings in the Baseball America poll.

When the Tigers (16-1) travel to Starkville, Miss., to take on Mississippi State, several Tigers will be getting their first taste of in-conference competition.

“I feel like the team is really

excited about SEC play and everyone on the roster can’t wait to get going,” said freshman shortstop Alex Bregman. “We’re really motivated to have a good year in the SEC, and I think we’re going to.”

Three hitters in the Tigers’ starting lineup — Bregman, freshman outfielder Mark Laird and junior third baseman Christian Ibarra — have never seen the likes of SEC competition. Ibarra is confident in the squad’s ability to win a series on the road for the first time in 2013.

“We’re going to take it one game at a time,” Ibarra said. “We’re pretty pumped and excited for [the Friday game against Mississippi State]. We’re going to keep doing what we’re doing. We’ve been hitting good and getting those clutch hits. I think our one through nine is solid.”

LSU fared well against the

SEC in 2012, going 19-11.

The story is different against the Bulldogs. The Tigers won two of three games against Mississippi State in Alex Box Stadium last March, but dropped two contests to the Bulldogs in the SEC Tournament in May. Led by junior hitters Hunter Renfroe and Alex Detz, who are hitting .436 and .418 respectively, Mississippi State has won 17 of 19 games at Dudy Noble Field.

LSU coach Paul Mainieri has coached both LSU and Notre Dame against Mississippi State, so he knows what the atmosphere will be like when his squad takes the field on Friday night.

“Their fans will be into the game,” Mainieri said. “It’s a raucous environment. I love it. Outside of Alex Box, it’s my favorite STARKVILLE, see page 7

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FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK

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Blue’s recovery ahead of schedule James Moran Sports Contributor

Senior running back Alfred Blue said he is ahead of schedule recovering from the season-ending knee injury he suffered last season but probably won’t be cleared for contact this spring.

Blue took handoffs and ran around when LSU spring practice opened on Thursday. He said he felt he was at about 90 percent and didn’t think he lost a step from the injury.

“I feel the same as I was before I got hurt,” Blue said. “At moments I feel like my burst is not there, but sometimes I feel faster than I was.

I’m just trying to adjust to my knee.”

Blue said his doctor gave him the option to skip spring football, but he decided to participate because he didn’t want to fall behind in newly hired offensive coordinator Cam Cameron’s system.

“Right now the coaches said contact is not needed because they know what I can do,” Blue said. “I’m just trying to get comfortable with my knee, but if it was fall, I’d be full contact.”

Collins slims down Junior offensive lineman La’el Collins said he lost 15 pounds to transition from left guard to left tackle because he needed to get quicker to move back outside.

LSU coach Les Miles said he plans to give Collins the first crack at the left tackle spot this spring after Collins played guard for the Tigers last season.

“I’m down to 310 [pounds] now, and I feel good,” Collins said. “It’s all about being able to move your feet and being quicker with your hands.

One missed punch can get you beat off the edge.”

Collins said he is comfortable at guard or tackle and is willing to play whatever the coaches need him to play.

Sophomore Jonah Austin took most of the snaps at left guard on Thursday, according to Collins.

Magee transitioning back to running back Junior Terrence Magee is making the transition back to his natural position of running back after playing wide receiver for the Tigers last season.

Magee said Miles told him he was switching back when he returned from Christmas break, but he acknowledged the first practice back felt weird.

“I was a little rusty today,” Magee said. “I have to get back used to it and shake the rust off, but I only think that will take a couple practices.”

Magee said he thinks his time at receiver will help him become a receiving threat for the Tigers coming out of the backfield.

“I feel like it helped me a lot,” Magee said. “I feel more comfortable catching the ball and running routes, which gives me an advantage.”

He said the biggest aspect he needs to work on going forward is his blocking.

Contact James Moran at jmoran@lsureveille.com

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LSU running back Alfred Blue (4) evades Washington defenders Sept. 8, 2012, during the Tigers’ 41-3 win against the Huskies in Tiger Stadium.

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Friday, March 15, 2013 SURVIVE, from page 5

by the second media timeout with 11:29 left as LSU led 21-11.

Junior guard Andre Stringer, who finished the game with 16 points and three assists, finished the run with back-to-back 3-pointers while playing tight defense on Caldwell-Pope.

Stringer and senior guard Charles Carmouche combined to hold Caldwell-Pope to seven firsthalf points as the Tigers switched defenders off every screen and defensive set.

“I tried to stay attached to him as much as possible,” Stringer said.

“I think I did a decent job in the first half.”

From the 11:29 mark on, the Tiger defense flexed its muscles, holding Georgia to only two field goals for the rest of the half as LSU carried a commanding 39-19 lead into the locker room.

But as the Bulldogs came out in a zone defense to begin the second half, Caldwell-Pope put his team on his back, slicing and dicing his way to 25 second-half points, good enough to set a new career-high with 32 and cut what once was a 23-point Tiger lead down to single digits.

“When you have a great player like [Caldwell-Pope], you have to stay connected to him, and I think that was the big difference,” said LSU coach Johnny Jones.

“They drove the ball, but I think

The Daily Reveille Caldwell-Pope was the big difference in the second half.”

As Caldwell-Pope heated up, the Tigers went cold, missing pointblank layups and leaving points at the free-throw line, going almost eight minutes without a field goal as Georgia cut the lead to two with 1:05 to play.

Then it was Stringer who stepped up to bury a deep 3-pointer as the shot clock ticked down on the ensuing possession to push the Tiger lead to five.

After Coleman’s stout perimeter defense forced a wild CaldwellPope miss on a try, Stringer swished two foul shots to ice the game and send the Tigers into the quarterfinals to face No. 1 seed Florida at

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For Jones, whose Tigers were schooled on the boards, 45-31, the key to avenging January’s 22-point loss to the Gators lies in the same glass his team couldn’t control Thursday.

“That’s an area we’re going to really have to improve in,” Jones said. “It’s going to be a war zone down there. Florida is strong.

They’re very physical and they’ll get to the basket and also rebound the ball strong.”

Contact Chandler Rome at crome@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @Rome_TDR

DOMINANT, from page 5 plenty of chaos.

Rather than one or two clearly dominant teams, like Kentucky last season or North Carolina in 2009, 10 teams have the potential to cut down the nets in Atlanta and claim the national title this year.

It seems like every time a new team gets on top, it stumbles.

Indiana has held the No. 1 spot more than any other team this season but has fallen out of first place twice and currently sits at No. 3.

Duke took hold of the No. 1 spot for four weeks before relinquishing it to Louisville in the middle of conference play. Louisville dropped its first game after earning the No. 1 ranking, only to be replaced by Duke. The Blue Devils also lost their first game as the top-ranked team in the nation and Michigan took over the top spot. That lasted a whole seven days before Indiana reclaimed the No. 1 ranking. Since then, Gonzaga, the only two-loss team left in the country, took over at No. 1.

This week’s conference tournaments have continued the absurdly entertaining aspects of the season, as a 20-loss Liberty team punched its ticket to the NCAA Tournament on Sunday by winning the Big South Conference title. The

STARKVILLE, from page 5 ball park in the country. I just love to go to Starkville. It’s really a neat place, and ‘Outside of they love their college baseAlex Box, ball, and their [Dudy Nobleteam is always Field is] my good.” favorite ball With that being said, he park in the said he feels country. I just as though his love to go to young team Starkville.’ will be ready for the challenge.

Paul Mainieri “ T h e s e LSU baseball coach guys will handle it just fine,” he said. “There’s nothing that we could throw at them that they couldn’t handle. They’re really unflappable, and they have a lot of talent, which helps. I think they’re going to embrace the whole environment up there and they’re going to play very well.”

Sophomore Aaron Nola (2-0) will take the mound for LSU when the game kicks off at 6:30 p.m. today.

Contact Lawrence Barreca at lbarreca@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @LawrenceBarreca

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Gonzaga’s Kelly Olynyk shoots against Saint Mary’s Brad Waldow (00) Monday during the second half of the West Coast Conference tournament championship game in Las Vegas. Gonzaga is currently ranked No. 1 in the country.

Flames are the second 20-loss team to ever reach the tournament.

So when a season such as this one comes along and parity runs the world of college hoops, the sport may miss out on a few

viewers who want to watch a truly dominant team trot to a national championship. But for those of us who live for the surprises and upsets, this dogfight of a season has been a treat that represents the spirit

of the sport.

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Read previews of contests this weekend in men’s and women’s tennis, track and field, softball and gymnastics.

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Abort Arkansas State abortion restriction unconstitutional, won’t hold up SCUM OF THE GIRTH PARKER CRAMER Chief Columnist Don’t get pregnant in Arkansas — unless you plan on keeping it.

The Arkansas legislature recently passed a law that bans abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy. The bill, originally vetoed by Arkansas’ Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe, became law after the Republican dominated legislature overturned the veto.

This makes Arkansas the most restrictive state in the country when it comes to abortion laws.

So why 12 weeks?

Allegedly, this is the point during gestation when the fetal heartbeat can be detected for the first time by ultrasound.

Arkansas is the most recent in a long line of red states trying to effectively ban abortion by restricting the “abort by” date. First, you couldn’t abort past the second trimester, then it was 20 weeks, and now it’s 12 — all of the deadlines supposedly based on scientific evidence.

It all goes back to Roe v. Wade.

The Supreme Court upheld a woman’s right to have an abortion and the states know that Roe v. Wade will

never be struck down.

So what do they do? Essentially, a de facto abortion ban. Twelve weeks is three months, or the first trimester, and many women aren’t even aware they’re pregnant until some time into that period.

The deadline gives young and impressionable women far less time than is due to make arguably the most important decision of their lives.

This abortion nonsense is cyclical. Every year, one of the southern states decides they’re going to be the soap box for the religious right.

And every year, these types of laws are struck down in federal courts as unconstitutional.

So, in defense of women everywhere, let’s look at the hypothetical life cycle of an Arkansas failed abortion.

Conception: a child is conceived. Its mother, a pregnant teen without a stable income, supportive family or spouse faces a tough decision. To abort or not to abort, that is the question.

The child’s father has taken off, her family has shunned her for being a jezebel, and she has no education because she grew up in Arkansas.

There are few prospects for this poor girl.

So she decides to abort the pregnancy because she knows she

doesn’t have the money or support to provide this child with a respectable upbringing.

But she can’t, because the state says no abortions after 12 weeks, and even though that fetus won’t be self-aware for at least two and a half more years, she is forced by the government to give birth against her will.

For as much as Republicans hate government, they sure do like using it to marginalize gays, women and minorities. I digress.

The baby is born into poverty, like many children in the South.

Arkansas has the third-highest poverty rating in the country, with 18.4 percent living below the poverty line, according to U.S. Census data.

That’s essentially one in five.

So for every five children born in Arkansas, one will go hungry most nights.

Back to my rant: This child grows up in a home where education isn’t valued. Surrounded by poverty, this child turns to crime as a teen. He or she is arrested and convicted of a minor charge, but without the ability to afford a proper attorney, ends up in prison.

Now, we have an individual who is costing the taxpayers nearly $50,000 a year to feed and house, but it’s OK because he or she is in

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Gov. Mike Beebe speaks to reporters March 4 in a hallway at the Arkansas state capitol in Little Rock after vetoing legislation that would have banned abortions 12 weeks into a pregnancy.

a privately owned prison funded by the state. Crime is profitable now, it’s good for the economy. It’s the new housing bubble.

The now-grown-up child may get out in a few years, but without the education or resources to climb the economic ladder, he or she returns to crime and ends up in jail again.

Yes, this is hypothetical. And yes, it may seem a bit far-fetched if you don’t know any poor people.

It won’t be the case for every child who isn’t aborted, but it absolutely will be the case for some, if not most.

Rich people with options are not the ones seeking abortions.

So how do we resolve this? Is it by restricting abortions? Absolutely not.

The way you restrict abortions isn’t through legislation. It’s

by reducing the need for them. If Arkansas would spend half the energy tackling poverty as it does policing women, abortion numbers would decrease on their own.

Poverty and a lack of education (and probably abstinence-only education) are responsible for unplanned pregnancies and subsequent abortions.

Tackle poverty and you tackle abortion. Ignore the poor and watch it rise.

Parker Cramer is a 22-year-old political science senior from Houston.

Contact Parker Cramer at pcramer@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @TDR_pcramer

Reduction of SG Scantron program is all your fault THE PICKUP PERSPECTIVE JOHN PARKER FORD Columnist I was heavily involved in LSU Student Government for almost three years during my time here.

SG has caught a lot of flak since last week’s announcement that it would be drastically decreasing the number of free Scantrons it hands out.

Instead of making the Scantrons available at all times, SG decided to limit them to only midterms and finals week.

Of the maybe 70 percent of LSU students who know SG exists, I bet most of them are primarily aware of the organization because of the free Scantrons.

SG has a lot of programs you

should care about. Whether they’re good or bad, they’re using a lot of your money.

But back to the Scantrons.

So why would it cut itz star program?

It’s cutting the program because people are taking advantage of the Scantrons’ “free” nature, making them way too expensive to fund.

I have personally witnessed students walk in the SG office, look around to see who’s watching, grab a stack of 20 Scantrons and run out.

SG President Taylor Cox told me that Greek chapters require their members to each bring five Scantrons to chapter houses.

Through my own admittedly small-sample, unscientific and otherwise unusable polling, I’ve determined that it’s true — at least for some of the Greek organizations.

But some professors are getting in on the action.

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In classes that require blue book testing, some professors are telling their students to bring multiple blue books to class at the beginning of the semester.

This is done so the professors can inspect and hand out the blue books for each test themselves in an effort to prevent cheating.

Even worse, some professors send their teaching assistants to the SG office before tests to grab a stack of Scantrons and sell them for money — and one assumes other, non-monetary payment can also be arranged when such petty behavior is involved.

The most obvious answer is to staff the desk where the Scantrons are kept to ensure students take only what they need.

This is difficult to do, though, as SG workers are usually not paid like students in other departments, so it can be difficult to have someone

staffing the desk at all times.

Another solution Cox said SG looked into was allotting a certain number of Scantrons and blue books to each college instead of trying to directly hand them all out.

This seems like an excellent idea, but, according to Cox, they were given high numbers by those colleges when asked how many they needed.

Having said all that, SG needs to find a way to fund the program.

The ideal method is funding it through sponsorships, but that’s unreliable and will vary from year to year.

Cox said SG is also looking into having the materials directly funded through college council, but the college councils would have to agree.

Perhaps the best solution is one it has already explored — the one mentioned above that would let the colleges hand out the Scantrons.

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Instead of asking them how much they need, SG should consider putting their criminally underused economic advisers on the non-sarcastically difficult task of figuring it out themselves.

Whatever they decide to do, they need to make the chosen remedy clear and publicly establish a plan of action — and Cox needs to make sure he works with the incoming SG president during the transition to make it happen.

John Parker Ford is a 22-year-old mass communication senior from Alexandria.

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Law schools taking initiative worldwide, about time POLIVIN’ THE LIFE JOHN POLIVKA Columnist Well, you live and you learn.

Three weeks ago, I took the stance in an opinion column that the national decline in law school applications held a direct correlation with the institution as a whole.

As Katherine Soniat, director of Communications and External Relations at LSU’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center, pointed out, that assumption is neither fair nor accurate.

Technically, the knock on the decline in applications is more than fair, as the numbers are statistically falling, but the fact remains: There is a silver lining.

An article in the New York Times last week tackled the subject head-on, proving that contrary to popular belief (or my own column), law schools across the nation aren’t as worried as they may seem.

Pulling pages from the booming, entrepreneurial start-up sector and combining them with a medicalschool type of hands-on training system, the American institution of law may have stumbled upon something to challenge today’s ever-evolving economy.

That’s right, one of our nation’s most traditional systems has decided to dip its toes into the waters of change.

“It’s a perfect storm,” said Stacy Caplow, a professor at Brooklyn Law School, to the Times. “The longstanding concerns over access to justice for most Americans and a lack of skills among law graduates are now combined with the problems faced by all law schools. It’s creating conditions for change.”

While the “perfect storm” is a bit of a stretch in my opinion, this is nonetheless a step in the right direction.

At LSU, the Paul M. Hebert Law Center has made its own waves

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The LSU Law building stands across from the Parade Ground on Feb. 19. Applications for law schools around the nation are statistically declining.

by creating a conducive environment to the arising sectors around the globe that are in need of more lawyers.

And it shows, as the school is ranked at a respectable number 76 in the nation, according to the U.S. News Best Law Schools rankings for 2014.

“We have created a vibrant live client law clinic and externship program that provides dozens of our students each year with real-world experience,” Soniat wrote in her letter to the editor. “We have created a new Energy Law Center to provide our students with broad training (and

to prepare them for good jobs) in the critical energy sector.”

The key words in this excerpt are, “real-world experience.”

The main question I have is, why hasn’t “real world experience” been utilized until now?

Though I applaud the law school community for looking to implement resources for students to capitalize on, as the market for lawyers is dwindling, this is something that should have been delved into before now.

And for all I know, it potentially has been.

But I think that it is evident that

this idea has taken off as the numbers in applications have dropped and one would assume that for such a highly esteemed profession, pilot programs such as Lawyers for America, would have been around before 2013.

I still do believe that the profession of law is to be held in a high regard as a perennial power among many professions.

But in terms of a perfect storm, someone should have been checking the Doppler radar in terms of the technological savvy of our generation that would only bring about change.

Because this is the 21st century

and while hindsight is twenty-twenty, this crisis could have been averted as the technological world grew and provided our population with an array of options, essentially cutting the middleman out of everything possible.

But like I said, you live and you learn.

decision of the Election Board to disqualify Unite for a violation of the Election Code. I stand by what I said as it was based on fact and not rumor.

I appreciate your concerns, if you have any further questions or issues please feel free to contact me at lbenn22@tigers.lsu.edu.”

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database sheds light on faculty pay," readers had this to say:

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“I'd like to pose a few questions.

First of all, which Fiscal year are these numbers from. In the article it says the fiscal year of 2011 to 2012. If by that you mean FY 2012, then those are last year's numbers.

If you would like to get FY 13's numbers those are available in Middleton at the circulation desk. They would be a much better representation of what faculty make.

Secondly, there are several people listed on the database that are no longer employed by the university.

For example, Eric Monday no longer works at LSU. I'd also like to point out that Greg Studrawa's pay rate was recently reduced. His salary is the same as it was last year.

My final point is a suggestion.

I think it would be more effective to write this article at the beginning

of the fiscal year, rather than the end. This article is being published months before the fiscal year expires.

It would be more timely to do it as soon as the fiscal year begins.

Keep up the good work.”

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Friday, March 15, 2013 ANIMALS, from page 1 since I was a kid,” he said.

Ligon’s interest carried over into college, where he was the education coordinator for the largest wildlife sanctuary in the state for a year and also worked with wildlife in Costa Rica.

The program in Costa Rica “set a fire” in Ligon. He said he knew upon his return he wanted to get the ball rolling on Barn Hill Preserve.

His next step was to acquire some land within driving distance of Baton Rouge. He purchased an acre of land from his grandfather in Ethel and built the two-story barn where he utilizes the bottom floor as a home for animals and the top floor as his own residence.

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financial documents. Simon said Unite LSU’s financial form is questionable, and in an online explanation Thursday, she said the price for Woodard’s banners was low and once revalued, it was determined to be unfair.

“We are allowed to determine fair market value of any expense on a ticket’s campaign,” Simon said.

The SG Election Code states “The election board reserves the right to revalue an expense or donation in response to a discrepancy and/or complaint that the good or service is not reported at its fair market value. The election board must submit three (3) reasonable price references from merchants in estimating the value of any contested reported price.”

Simon used a hypothetical scenario to explain fair market value.

“Let’s say my father works at a screening company, which he does not, and he can get everything printed for my campaign for free,” Simon said. “That would not be fair to other campaigns.”

Unite LSU adviser Joe Gipson said to his knowledge, no one on the Unite ticket is related to anyone who works for Talk’n T-Shirts, the company that Unite LSU used for its banners and several other items.

Gipson said the ticket will file an appeal today against the Election Board’s decision to disqualify Unite LSU. “We did not spend more money than we were allowed,” Gipson said.

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Ligon then acquired animals he thought were going to be interesting to the public.

Volunteer coordinator for Barn Hill Preserve Katherine Sternitzke joined Ligon in his quest to educate after working as a volunteer coordinator for another wildlife sanctuary.

Sternitzke said her most interesting experience working at Barn Hill was the opportunity to work with Roux.

“That’s not something many people get to see,” she said. Sternitzke also said she has a special bond with Guapo, who will often follow her around.

Ligon and his group of student volunteers aim to educate the public on wildlife and provide the animals with a safe place to live.

Program coordinator for Barn Gipson said Unite LSU bought a significant number of items from Talk’n T-Shirts, including banners, buttons and stickers, and were given a quote on all of the items. They were not necessarily given a discount, he said.

Gipson said he is hopeful the court will overturn the election board’s decision .

“If they upheld the disqualification, or this false expenditure increase that the election board implemented, that three people on the election board voted to implement, [the disqualification] would override all of the student body’s votes,” Gipson said.

Gipson said the UCourt’s decision will not only affect the presidential race, but will also change the dynamic of the legislative branch.

“They would be taking out almost every elected member from the legislative branch,” he said Chief Justice Morgan Faulk said the UCourt will hear the appeal at 7 a.m. Saturday in the Student Union’s Atchafalaya Room.

Faulk said the decision the court makes will be final.

“Regardless if we decide to overturn the election board’s decision or uphold it, there can be no further appeal,” Faulk said Impact LSU’s presidential candidate T Graham S. Howell failed to return calls to The Daily Reveille on Thursday night for comment.

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Paul said she enjoys sharing information about animals with other people and also enjoys interacting with animals people normally wouldn’t encounter.

Two months ago, Barn Hill began its first educational programs.

They have since had at least one program a week, with programs almost every weekend.

One way the preserve provides educational programs is to visit local schools. At the schools, Ligon and the volunteers are able to teach the students about the diversity of the animals. Ligon said he enjoys visiting older students in high schools where he is able to explain in more

ST. BALDRICK’S, from page 1

funds children’s cancer research at facilities like St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.

The volunteer-driven foundation held its first event in 1999 and it only took three years to raise its first $1 million. Within 11 more years, its total earnings topped $100 million.

Parish Tillman, mass communication senior and philanthropy chair for TKE, will be shaving his head for the third time in support of the charity. He is one of about 16 people registered to do so this year.

“The philosophy behind the philanthropy itself is not only just to raise money for childhood cancer research, but with the act of shaving your head, it’s supposed to show solidarity for children with cancer,” Tillman said.

Teams across the country organize events, usually around the St. Patrick’s Day holiday, and collect donations prior to the event at a team page on the St. Baldrick’s website.

page 11 depth the biology of each animal.

In addition to educating, Ligon and his volunteers sell pictures with the animals, T-shirts and educational toys to the students, which help to keep the preserve running.

Ligon has big plans for the future of the preserve. He said by fall, he hopes it will be set up and ready for field trips. He is building more cages for the animals and hopes to construct an education center on the grounds as well as a pumpkin patch.

“The next animal is going to be a high-content wolf-dog,” he said, an animal he explained that was almost the same as a pure-bred wolf.

Ligon said he would love to add some diversity to his group of volunteers. He said students with majors like marketing and business

who are interested in public speaking would be a good fit.

He said he hopes the preserve will obtain a non-profit status by the end of the summer, leading to the potential for grants. He also said there are plans to obtain more rescue animals to add to the preserve. Ligon is also a state licensed wildlife rehabilitator and said he hopes to use this skill to assist some injured animals on their return to the wild.

Ligon said the preserve is always looking for new volunteers, material for the buildings and fruit for the animals.

Cash and online donations are also accepted during and shortly after the event.

This year marks the second consecutive year TKE has hosted the public head shavings. Last year’s efforts raised around $3,500, but this year’s group had already raised $5,424 in online donations alone by 11 p.m on Thursday.

Contributing a large portion to that total were dairy sciences senior Mary Condo and psychology senior Ritu Roy, who each raised more than $1,000. As the only female students to register for a head shave, Roy said the response to their campaign was inspiring.

“Within 24 hours of me putting up the Facebook event, we’d already met our goal,” Roy said. “I was just overwhelmed with happiness and how wonderful people were.”

Tillman said he increased the fundraising goal several times since creating this year’s event, and he expects the group to reach its most recent goal of $5,500 by the end of

the event.

“The generosity has probably been the most amazing thing about hosting the event,” Tillman said.

Tillman credits much of this year’s success to the experience of running the event last year, but he also said the support for the women participating helped the event quickly surpass its goals.

“I really admire the girls getting their heads shaved,” he said. “So much of feminine identity is tied to hair.”

Conger agreed, saying she doubts she would have had the “chutzpah” to shave her head as a young woman.

“It’s amazing that young people would do something so drastic,” Conger said. “... I’m impressed that kids are aware ... it’s something that they can do to raise awareness and to get involved.”

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