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Safely GATED Gated communities reassure local residents, offer lower theft rates

ACADEMICS

University education programs effective James Moran Contributing Writer

would be putting in a gate,” said 23-year-old Mississippi native Patrick Jones. “I wouldn’t live anywhere around here without a gate.”

Jones moved to Baton Rouge for work after living in Mississippi

The University’s teacher preparation programs are effective at producing consistently over-performing educators, according to the Louisiana Board of Regents’ 2011-2012 Annual Report for Teacher Preparation.

In April, the University’s education programs were fully accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education. The accreditation came back without any stipulations of recommendations for improvement, according to Laura Lindsay, dean of the LSU College of Human Sciences & Education.

“The accreditation process is very rigorous and closely scrutinizes every education program at the school over a seven-year period,” Lindsay said. “For that to come back without any qualifiers is huge.”

Lindsay said another way to gauge the school’s effectiveness is the value-added system.

The system is set up as a statistical analysis of a teacher’s impact on

GATES, see page 6

TEACHERS, see page 6

CONNOR TARTER / The Daily Reveille

Of the seven recent home burglaries around campus, only one happened in a gated community, according to the Baton Rouge Police Department’s crime map.

Trey Labat Staff Writer

The perceived safety of a gated neighborhood may be a significant factor in soothing residents’ worries about crime in the University community.

Burglary is the second most committed crime in the district that contains Tigerland and surrounding areas, which is second only to larceny, according to Baton Rouge Police Department crime statistics.

Although many college students return home during the

summer months, the burglary rate increases during the summer. In 2012, 94 of the 217 burglaries occurred in the four-month span of May through August.

“When I was first moving down here, I chose this place specifically because they told me they

TECHNOLOGY

Graduate student finds domestic use for drones Tesalon Felicien Contributing Writer

University graduate student Charles Malveaux watched intently as a drone circled overhead on the Parade Ground. But the familiar buzzing sound wasn’t that of a government-made Predator Drone — it was his own creation.

While the moral debate over U.S. drone strikes overseas continue, a new argument over domestic drone use and privacy and security has engulfed the country.

Though aware of privacy and security concerns, the biological engineering graduate student sees more practical uses for his drone, ranging from field research to emergency response.

“As a pilot of single-winged aircraft, I’ve always been interested in aerodynamic engineering,” Malveaux said. “I wanted to apply my love for aviation research with civilian applications.”

Malveaux said he recently used the drone to research alligator nests near the state’s intercoastal canal.

Though skeptical, Malveaux is not opposed to widespread use of domestic drones.

“As long as drones are used responsibly, I think there’s a place for them,” Malveaux said. “Each individual has to decide the balance between privacy and security, but there’s always going to be a tradeoff. Privacy has somewhat gone, anyway.”

His aluminum and carbon fiber

tricopter, equipped with GPS and a camera, can accelerate up to speeds of 40 mph and climb to about 400 feet. The $7,000 device also has sonar, infrared and air quality sensors and weighs five pounds when fully equipped.

Photography, meteorology and commercial agriculture are other fields that can benefit from drone technology, Malveaux said.

Malveaux said he’s a supporter of military drone use.

“It can save lives ... and it could make the battlefield more efficient,” he said.

Opponents of the military’s drone usage, like English senior Eric Couto, think otherwise.

DRONES, see page 4

CONNOR TARTER / The Daily Reveille

Biological engineering graduate student Charles Malveaux pilots his hand-made tricopter drone Sunday near the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Building.

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INTERNATIONAL G8 exposes rift among leaders’ opinions on Syrian civil war ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (AP) — Deep differences over Syria’s fierce civil war clouded a summit of world leaders Monday, with Russian President Vladimir Putin defiantly rejecting calls from the U.S., Britain and France to halt his political and military support for Syrian leader Bashar Assad’s regime.

Britain and France appear unwilling — at least for now — to join President Barack Obama in arming the Syrian rebels, a step the U.S. president reluctantly finalized last week.

Chinese activist says NYU is forcing him to leave by month’s end BEIJING (AP) — Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, who traveled to the U.S. after escaping from house arrest, said Monday that New York University is forcing him and his family to leave at the end of this month because of pressure from the Chinese government.

The university on Monday again denied Chen’s allegations.

Chen said in a statement that China’s Communist Party had been applying “great, unrelenting pressure” on NYU to ask him to leave, though he did not provide details or evidence to back his claim.

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President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin get up to leave Monday after their meeting in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.

9/11 suspects return to court for trial preparation GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — Five Guantanamo Bay prisoners accused of helping orchestrate the Sept. 11 terrorist attack returned to court Monday as arguments resumed over preparations for a trial that remains distant.

It was the first time the five prisoners had been in court since February, and they sat calmly through a morning’s worth of dense legalistic testimony, with none of the outbursts that characterized previous sessions.

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NATIONAL

STATE/LOCAL

WikiLeaks trial focuses on danger of Army email database

Science camp gone wrong sends 4 to hospital

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — A database of troop names and email addresses an Army private allegedly downloaded to a personal computer may be used by foreign adversaries to launch cyberattacks on service members, a government witness said Monday at the trial of Pfc. Bradley Manning.

Manning acknowledged he sent more than 700,000 battlefield reports, diplomatic cables and other materials to the anti-secrecy website but pleaded not guilty to stealing a veritable address book of troops deployed to Iraq.

Texas, S.D. governors court Conn. gun makers after gun-control laws

NASA picks eight new astronauts, four of them women

COVINGTON (AP) — Two boys were seriously burned, and a teacher and a third boy suffered minor burns when a science camp experiment to make fireworks got out of control, setting fire to at least one boy’s clothes, said Covington Fire Chief Richard Badon.

The teacher was burned when saving the boys and putting out the fire Monday morning in the chemistry lab at St. Scholastica Academy, Badon said.

He said the experiment used powdered sugar, sand, baking soda and burning alcohol.

Constitutional limits on oil spill money fail for second time

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The governors of Texas and South Dakota visited Connecticut on Monday to court gun manufacturers that have threatened to leave since the state passed tough new guncontrol laws following the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Executives say Texas is an appealing location — and some said the out-of-state attention marked a stark contrast with a Connecticut governor they say has shown little regard for a local industry that dates to the Revolutionary War.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has eight new astronauts — its first new batch in four years.

Among the lucky candidates: the first female fighter pilot to become an astronaut in nearly two decades. A female helicopter pilot also is in the group. In fact, four of the eight are women, the highest percentage of female astronaut candidates ever selected by NASA. Monday’s announcement came on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the launch of the first American woman in space, Sally Ride. She died last summer.

(AP) — Attempts to limit Gulf Coast oil spill penalty money to coastal restoration in the Louisiana Constitution failed to gain legislative passage for a second year, while disagreements continue over just how tightly the dollars should be restricted.

Rep. Simone Champagne, R-Erath, says she wants to make sure the billions of dollars that Louisiana will receive because of the ecological damage from the 2010 BP oil spill can’t be diverted to fill budget gaps.

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Army Sgt. Chad Madaras, a former 35 Fox intelligence analyst, leaves a Fort Meade, Md., courthouse during the court martial of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning.

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BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY

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LA Swift to end service June 30 Taylor Schoen Staff Writer

An affordable daily bus service running from Baton Rouge to New Orleans will no longer exist by the end of the month.

LA Swift’s service will be ending June 30 due to a lack of federal funding that will begin with the next fiscal year on July 1, said Jodi Conachen, communications director for the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development.

LA Swift originally started in October 2005 as a service to aid citizens displaced because of Hurricane Katrina, according to Conachen.

She said the $2.3 million program has been completely federally funded. For the program to continue running, it would require $750,000 in local funding.

“It’s purpose was to be a

hurricane recovery service, and since it’s become more of a local transit service, it has ended that program’s 100 percent federal funding,” Conachen said. “There would be the ability to transition it, if a local entity were interested, into more of a local transit service; however, they have to be a local match.”

Conachen said there are about 200 people who rely on the LA Swift every day of the year, but during football seasons, Mardi Gras and other big events, the bus services up to 500 people.

Conachen said Greyhound Lines Inc. is an alternative for the daily riders of LA Swift. Greyhound will offer a bus service from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, which will cost $15 for a round trip. This is $5 more than the round-trip price of LA Swift’s service.

“At this time, with the

Greyhound and the rates that they’re offering, they should be able to transition over to that service,” Conachen said. “I know that there are additional conversations at a local level to see if they would like to continue funding that.”

She said a few groups have put in inquiries about funding LA Swift, such as the Baton Rouge Area Chamber and Jefferson Transit, but no offers have been made yet.

Conachen also said that there will be no layoffs due to the closure because LA Swift’s contractor, Hotard Coaches Inc., had no full-time employees, and since it was a contracting service, the contract will simply expire.

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LA Swift transit buses, pictured above, will cease service from Baton Rouge to New Orleans on June 30.

JUNE

EVENT CALENDAR

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TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013 8:00 AM

Stargazers Camp at Highland Road Park Observatory

4:00 PM

Andy Forest at The Spotted Cat Music Club

6:00 PM 7:00 PM

Greg Agid Quartet at The Maison Zephyrs vs. Red Hawks at Zephyr Field A Monologue Slam II "Fusion" at Cafe Istanbul

7:30 PM 8:00 PM

Les Miserables at Baton Rouge Little Theater Comedy Beast Free Show at Howlin' Wolf Frank Oxley at Preservation Hall

9:00 PM

Magnitude at The Maison Treme Brass Band at D.B.A. Tom Fischer and Friends at Fritzels Jazz Club

10:00 PM

Irony Free Karaoke at The Library at Northgate Open Ears Music at Blue Nile

12:00 AM

All That Jazz at Louisiana Art and Science Museum and Planetarium

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2013 8:00 AM

Stargazers Camp at Highland Road Park Observatory

10:00 AM

Summer Movie Clubhouse at Cinemark Baton Rouge

4:00 PM 6:00 PM 7:00 PM

Ben Polcer at The Spotted Cat Music Club The Orleans 6 at The Spotted Cat Music Club Zephyrs vs. Red Hawks at Zephyr Field The Tin Men at D.B.A. New Orleans Rhythm Devils at Blue Nile Scahtzy at The Three Muses Free Comedy Wednesdays at Belle of Baton Rouge

7:30 PM

Les Miserables at Baton Rouge Little Theater Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo at House of Blues New Orleans

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Teya Feinauer, 3, holds an equal rights sign Saturday at the second annual Louisiana Equality March in downtown Baton Rouge.

For more information on LSU events or to place your own event you can visit www.lsureveille.com/calendar

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NATION

Court: citizenship proof law illegal The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — States can’t demand proof of citizenship from people registering to vote in federal elections unless they get federal or court approval to do so, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in a decision complicating efforts in Arizona and other states to bar voting by people who are in the country illegally.

The justices’ 7-2 ruling closes the door on states independently changing the requirements for those using the voter-registration form produced under the federal “motor voter” registration law. They would need permission from a federally created panel, the Election Assistance Commission, or a federal court ruling overturning the commission’s decision, to make tougher requirements stick.

Justice Antonin Scalia, who wrote the court’s majority opinion, said federal law “precludes Arizona from requiring a federal form applicant to submit information beyond that required by the form itself.”

Voting rights advocates welcomed the ruling.

“Today’s decision sends a strong message that states cannot block their citizens from registering to vote by superimposing burdensome paperwork requirements on top of federal law,” said Nina Perales, vice president of litigation for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. “The Supreme Court has affirmed that all U.S. citizens have the right to register to vote using the national postcard, regardless of the state in which they live.”

Under Proposition 200 approved in 2004, Arizona officials required an Arizona driver’s license issued after 1996, a U.S. birth certificate, a passport or other similar document before the state would approve the federal registration application. It can no longer do that on its own authority.

Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, who argued the case before the Supreme Court, expects the state will ask the Election Assistance Commission to approve the citizenship proof on the federal form and to fight any denial in court — the process laid out in Monday’s ruling.

“The U.S. Supreme Court has given us a clear path to victory for the people of Arizona, who overwhelmingly approved the state constitutional amendment that was the subject of the legal challenge,” Horne said.

“Since the U.S. Supreme Court has made it clear that this pathway exists, Arizona should use it.

The sanctity of the ballot box is a cherished right for all Americans, and it must be protected.”

Federal officials deadlocked on Arizona’s request in 2005, and

the state did not appeal.

The Arizona case is the first of two major voting decisions to be made by the court this month.

Justices have yet to say whether a section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a law that has helped millions of minorities exercise their right to vote, especially in areas of the Deep South, was still needed, despite several justices voicing deep skepticism during arguments in February.

Arizona has frequently tangled with the federal government over immigration issues involving the Mexican border, health care and more. But the decision on voter registration has broader implications because other states have similar requirements, such as Alabama, Georgia, Kansas and Tennessee, and still others are contemplating such legislation.

Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp called the decision disappointing but said he would continue working with state officials to “provide a safe, secure and legal system for voter registration.”

Tom Caso, a professor at Chapman University School of Law in California and supporter of the Arizona law, said the decision “opened the door” to noncitizen voting.

“The court’s decision ignores the clear dictates of the Constitution in favor of bureaucratic red tape,” Caso said. “The notion that the court will not enforce the Constitution unless you first apply to a commission that cannot act because it has no members is mind-boggling.”

Currently, the Election Assistance Commission has no active commissioners. The four commissioners are supposed to be nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. The last two left in 2011, according to the panel’s website.

Kathy McKee, who led the push to get Proposition 200 on the ballot in Arizona, said the ruling makes it harder to combat voter fraud, including fraud carried out by people who don’t have permission to be in the country. “To even suggest that the honor system works, really?” McKee said.

“You have to prove who you are just to use your charge card now.”

Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito were the only two dissenters. Alito said the decision means that Arizona now has two voter registration systems and that the success of an applicant could come simply by the system he or she chooses. “I find it very hard to believe that this is what Congress had in mind,” he said.

CRIME BRIEFS

Man arrested for burglary of student laptop in Woodin Hall Corey A. Coleman, 31, of 8501 Chase St. in Baton Rouge, was arrested June 11 for burglary of a University student’s computer.

LSUPD Spokesman Capt.

Cory Lalonde said officers stopped Coleman at 5:30 p.m. as a suspicious person and discovered the laptop in his possession. When officers received Coleman’s consent to search the laptop, they found several LSU school projects and identified the computer’s owner.

Lalonde said officers contacted the student who said his computer had been stolen from an office in Woodin Hall, and the officers placed Coleman under arrest.

He was booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

Man driving drunk on Nicholson Drive booked for DWI Jerome Littles, 54, of 77075 Garner Lane in Grosse Tete, was arrested Thursday after speeding and improperly changing lanes on Nicholson Drive, Lalonde said.

After stopping the vehicle, officers observed several signs of intoxication; they conducted a field sobriety test and placed Littles under arrest.

When transported to the LSU Police Station, Littles submitted a breath sample and was found to

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 have a blood alcohol content of .139, Lalonde said.

Littles was then booked into EBR Parish Prison and charged with first-offense DWI, speeding, improper lane usage and open container.

Suspect arrested for outstanding warrant, drugs, concealed weapon At 9:00 p.m. on June 8, officers approached two suspicious subjects outside the fence of the Edward Gay Apartments, Lalonde said.

One subject began to walk away, and after being identified, the second subject advised the officers that the other man had offered to sell him drugs. Officers identified the man as Richard Anthony Ellis, 32, of 639 S. 15th St. in Baton Rouge, and saw that he had an outstanding fugitive warrant for theft from the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office, Lalonde said.

After placing Ellis under arrest, officers searched him and found a small amount of what they believed was crack cocaine and a concealed kitchen knife.

Ellis was transported to EBR Parish Prison and charged with illegal carrying of a concealed weapon by a felon and possession of a schedule two narcotic.

DRONES, from page 1

“That’s crazy that we should strike other countries,” Couto said.

“It will definitely offset some chain reaction.”

Couto also acknowledged he is unsure of the domestic drone debate, and isn’t sure which liberty is more expendable: privacy or security.

The Wall Street Journal’s law blog said more than 40 states are in the process of enacting legislation for the use of domestic drones. Louisiana has no legislation on drone use at this time.

As the sole drone researcher in his department, Malveaux said he hopes to keep conducting drone research and possibly partner with other University departments.

“No matter what you do, the technology’s out here already, so we might as well use it for good,” Malveaux said.

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COLLEGE WORLD SERIES

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[1] Fans from all over the country fill the stands inside TD Ameritrade Park on Saturday. [2] College baseball fans walk around the outside of TD Ameritrade Saturday in Omaha, Neb. [3] LSU fans peel shrimp at their tailgate Sunday before the Tigers played UCLA.

Check out why some LSU fans flock to Omaha every year, p. 7.

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and Alaska.

The added protection allows landlords throughout the area to charge more for rent at gated apartments. After examining rent rates for eight Baton Rouge communities, the average price of rent for a three-bedroom apartment was $150 a month more than apartments that did not offer a gate.

Another part of Baton Rouge that experiences a spike in crime rate is the housing area directly around campus — especially the area near State Street. The area saw more burglaries than apartments or houses on the south side of campus, according to BRPD crime statistics.

And statistics show gated communities have a lower crime rate.

Of the seven recent home burglaries around campus, only one happened in a neighborhood which provides residents the protection of a gate, according to the BRPD crime map. “Any time you can add an additional deterrent or obstruction to criminals getting into an area, it is going to help,� said LSUPD Spokesman Capt. Cory Lalonde. “At the same time, I don’t think people should get a false sense of security from living in a gated community. You still need to be aware of your surroundings and pay attention and report criminal and suspicious activity, but I think the barrier doesn’t hurt.�

Contact Trey Labat at tlabat@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @treylabat1017

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their students’ learning and achievement, according to associate education professor Eugene Kennedy, who analyzes the numbers for the University.

Kennedy said teachers are placed into one of four categories based on their value-added scores and predicted student growth: ineffective, emerging, proficient and highly effective. He also said the Board of Regents’ report found most recent University graduates are outperforming what they expect to see from new teachers. “The Board of Regents accepts and expects most new teachers to fall in that emerging category because they are still learning the ropes,�

Kennedy said. “But in fact what they are seeing is most of our new

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 teachers exceeding those expectations in all programs.�

Lindsay said two changes made in 2005 are the major reasons for the improvement: a state redesign of the teacher-education programs and the implementation of stricter admissions standards by the University.

The redesign in 2005 allowed multiple School of Education programs to begin offering year-long student teaching, instead of only semester-long. School of Education professor Renee Casbergue said this made a significant difference in helping student teachers become effective teachers immediately after they graduate and enter the workforce.

In 2005, the University also increased its admission standard from a 2.3 GPA to a 3.0. Lindsay said the School of Education has seen a consistently better group of students

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The mean GPA of students in the undergraduate programs is 3.3 and the mean GPA of students in the Holmes Graduate Program is 3.875, she said.

The 2013 edition of Education Week’s Quality Counts, a report that tracks and grades each state’s educational policy efforts and outcomes, rated Louisiana as the No. 15 state in the country. Louisiana received a score of 79.0, 2.1 points better than the national average.

Lindsay and Kennedy both said some data indicates that the improvement of state-educated teachers played a role in the state’s success, but it was too early to draw any real conclusions.

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LSU Head Baseball Coach Paul Mainieri looks out at the field Sunday during LSU’s 1-2 loss against UCLA at the College World Series in TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Nebraska. The Tigers face elimination today.

Tigers face UNC to stay in College World Series

Lawrence Barreca Staff Writer

When LSU and UCLA meet this afternoon in TD Ameritrade Park, the crowd in Omaha will look down on two similar squads that will be fighting for another chance in the 2013 College World Series.

The Tigers (57-10) were haunted by errors against a smallball-style UCLA club Sunday night in a 2-1 loss.

Two defensive miscues by the LSU defense resulted in two

unearned runs for sophomore starter Aaron Nola, moving the squad to the loser’s bracket.

UNC (57-11) suffered a more brutal loss in the opening round of the CWS, as NC State left-hander Carlos Rodon stifled the Tar Heels’ batters in an 8-1 blowout Sunday afternoon.

Both squads are renowned for their prolific offenses. UNC has six batters hitting over the .300 mark, and senior outfielder Chaz Frank is sitting right on the cusp at .299. The Tar Heels have pounded out 48 home runs this season,

including 13 from junior third baseman Colin Moran.

“We know they’ve got a good lineup,” said senior first baseman Mason Katz. “Colin Moran was the sixth pick in the draft, and their other guys are very good hitters. We’ve been wanting to play them…”

They’ll match up against an LSU offense that scored only one run, a solo home run by Katz, against UCLA junior starter Adam Plutko. The Tigers feasted off WORLD SERIES, see page 11

Game could come down to pitching

Trey Labat Staff Writer

With LSU on the brink of elimination in just the second game of the College World Series, the Tigers will face the No. 1 national seed North Carolina in a game that will come down to the pitching matchup.

After Sunday night’s game saw LSU use ace sophomore pitcher Aaron Nola, a decision had to be made

by LSU coach Paul Mainieri: start junior righthander Ryan Eades, who has struggled in his recent starts, or go with sophomore southpaw Cody

Glenn, who was suspended for the Regional after violating team rules.

The team went with Glenn, despite his last start coming on May 22 and Eades being the team’s day two starter all season. Mainieri said Glenn received about 80 pitches of work during a simulated game, but was still a little worried on how much the long layoff would effect Glenn’s performance.

“I’m more than excited about the opportunity to pitch,” Glenn said. “It’s been a dream of mine PITCHING, see page 11

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Baseball fans continue love affair with Omaha Lawrence Barreca Staff Writer

One look around TD Ameritrade Park on game day in Omaha, Neb., shows a sea of purple hats and gold T-shirts occupying the bleachers.

Even if the Tigers aren’t playing, LSU fans crowd into the confines of the stadium and take their seats among the outfield stands. They’re here not just for the Bayou Bengals — they’re in the building for baseball.

They come from all corners of the “Pelican State,” and they’ve been making their ways to Nebraska for decades now.

Take John Marie and Mike Serio from New Orleans as a prime example. The two friends have ventured out to Omaha for 18 and 19 years, respectively, and the trip never appears to get old for their group.

“I’ve been here every time LSU has played here since 1989,” Serio said. “We flew up, and we’ve got some friends who came up here. The only way I haven’t come up here is via horseback. We’re going to be around.”

The two even attended Sunday morning mass in Omaha, and after receiving blessings from the local priest, they began setting up

purple tents and tailgating roughly 200 yards from the stadium.

Marie and Serio gushed about Omaha, but not because of baseball.

“We’ve made great friends, and people love us,” Marie said.

“We go to restaurants, and everybody knows us. The parish priest was in there eating, and he said, ‘Man, I’ve been praying for you guys.’ It’s great.”

Several locals noted how LSU fans tend to bring a sense of Louisiana hospitality. Passing through the tailgates, Louisiana natives would regularly wave FANS, see page 11

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New Orleans native Mike Serio eats freshly cooked fried shrimp Sunday at his tailgate before the LSU vs. UCLA game at the College World Series in Omaha, Neb.

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JUCO transfers living once-impossible dream Former junior college players thriving Lawrence Barreca Staff Writer

When the LSU baseball team took the field Sunday night against UCLA, Omaha suddenly became more than just a desire for two Tiger teammates.

For juniors Christian Ibarra and Sean McMullen, the College World Series is a once impossible situation turned possible. Both position players were at the junior college level only a season ago and monitoring the games from home.

Now, they’re living the Omaha dream, and they don’t have to wake up.

“I remember last year when I was committed [to LSU], and the team was a game away from Omaha; I just couldn’t believe it,” McMullen said. “It was crazy how they were a game away from their dreams coming true. I’m just fortunate enough to play on a team who, in their next year, punched their ticket to Omaha.”

Both players had different

roads to Alex Box Stadium in 2013.

Ibarra, who played at Rio Hondo College in Whittier, Calif., hit .396 with six home runs and 50 RBIs as a sophomore before earning the attention of LSU coach Paul Mainieri. After former Tiger shortstop Austin Nola left LSU following his senior season, Mainieri began scouting for a replacement.

What resulted was the pickups of Ibarra and freshman Alex Bregman — both of whom now man the left side of the LSU infield.

“You can’t say enough about Ibarra and how he’s jumped into the lineup,” said senior first baseman Mason Katz. “It adds a missing piece, and it was a spark for us from the beginning of the season to now.”

McMullen caught Mainieri’s eye early in the designated hitter’s career at an LSU baseball camp.

“I remember [Sean] very vividly [when he came to our baseball camp],” Mainieri said. “At the end of the camp, I told Sean, ‘I don’t think you’re ready to play at LSU, but we’ll watch you over the next two years, and if you develop, then we’ll invite you to come join our program at the appropriate time.’”

The designated hitter destroyed JUCO pitching as a sophomore,

batting .452 with five home runs, nine triples, 37 RBIs and a .525 on-base percentage. The success carried over to the Tigers, as McMullen was inserted into the leadoff spot in the LSU batting order at the beginning of Southeastern Conference play and thrived.

In 53 games in 2013, McMullen batted .310 with two home runs, 30 RBIs and 24 runs scored.

“Looking over everything, it’s amazing how everything works out,” McMullen said. “If you would have told me coming out of high school that I would lead off for LSU on an Omaha-bound team, I would’ve thought you were crazy.”

Mainieri isn’t surprised by the emergence of Ibarra and McMullen after transferring from JUCO. He wants to erase the idea that junior college is for less-talented players.

“I hate that baseball has that stigma that all the dummies go [to junior college],” Mainieri said.

“That’s so unfair. That’s not the case at all. It’s a very good grooming ground for college baseball.”

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LSU junior infielder Christian Ibarra (14) hits the ball Sunday during LSU’s 2-1 loss against UCLA at the College World Series in TD Ameritrade Park.

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Oregon St. sends Cards packing with 11-4 CWS win The Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — It's one down and three to go for Oregon State.

The No. 3 national seed Beavers stayed alive at the College World Series on Monday, beating Louisville 11-4 after a seven-run fourth inning broke open the game.

Oregon State won national championships the last two times it played in Omaha, in 2006 and 2007, and coach Pat Casey's first title team did it the hard way.

The Beavers (51-12) face the same challenge as that 2006 team, having to win four straight after losing their CWS opener to reach the best-of-three finals. Next up is Indiana or Mississippi State on Wednesday.

Casey said he's careful not to compare this year's team to the 2006 squad, though the situation makes it seem unavoidable.

"They're all different clubs, they're different personnel," Casey said. "I think they've got a pretty good understanding of what it is they have to do. We talk about things that this team needs to do, and they usually respond."

The Pac-12 champion Beavers won conference series against Oregon and fellow CWS participant UCLA after losing the first games of series. In a super regional, they bounced back from a Game 1 loss to beat Kansas State.

Oregon State enjoyed a stressfree afternoon against the Cardinals (51-14), who committed four errors against the Beavers and 13 in their last six games.

Ben Wetzler (10-1) allowed three runs in 6 1-3 innings while Louisville starter Jeff Thompson (112) lasted 3 2-3 innings, with three of the seven runs against him unearned.

Oregon State scored the most runs allowed by Louisville this season. It was the highest-scoring game at the CWS in the three years it's been played at TD Ameritrade Park.

"It takes a little edge off the players if they can get a win in Omaha," Casey said. "No one on this club has ever won a game here. So I think it was good to see them relax a little bit."

Andy Peterson went 3 for 4 and Max Gordon had two hits and two RBIs out of the No. 9 hole for the Beavers.

Louisville scored just one run in two CWS. The Cards were 1-2 in their only other Omaha appearance, in 2007.

"We came here with the expectation to win the whole thing, and that's why it hurts," Cards coach Dan McDonnell said. "I told the guys one day we will win a national championship at Louisville. The '07 team got us on the map and we've been in regionals six of the last seven years.

This team made a strong statement. I challenged them to leave their mark on Louisville baseball, and they did."

Oregon State capitalized on a hit batsman and two errors for a threerun third inning against Thompson, the Detroit Tigers' third-round draft pick.

Gordon was plunked leading off and scored from first when Tyler Smith doubled into the left-field corner.

Peterson's bunt single and a

walk to Michael Conforto loaded the bases. Conforto should have been retired, but Louisville catcher Kyle Gibson dropped a high pop foul along the third-base line.

Two runs came home when Cardinals second baseman Zach Lucas, after fielding a slow grounder, made a careless flip wide of shortstop Sutton Whiting.

"Coach Casey has taught us little things always win the big games," Gordon said. "So we just come out and we played real aggressive on the defensive side and sacrifice our bodies if need be."

The Beavers all but finished off

the Cards in the seven-run fourth, batting through their lineup for the 18th time this season and scoring all the runs with two outs.

Dylan Davis just beat third baseman Ty Young's throw on a basesloaded chopper. Louisville first baseman Zak Wasserman, thinking Davis was out and the inning over, started jogging toward the dugout unaware that Peterson was coming around to score from second.

Two more runs scored on Whiting's overthrow of Wasserman, and reliever Kyle Funkhouser's basesloaded walk and Gordon's single brought in three more.

The Cardinals ranked a respectable 76th out of 296 Division I teams in fielding after the regular season, but they committed two or more errors in five of their last six games.

"Overall I really didn't think Jeffrey pitched that bad," McDonnell said. "I would have liked to have seen us play better behind him, because he was competing. He was going to give us a chance."

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Bruins beat Blackhawks 2-0, lead Cup finals 2-1 Boston team needs two wins for Cup

instead of after the end of regulation.

Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara and Chicago forward Marian Hossa were both injured during warmups. But The Associated Press while Chara needed just some BOSTON (AP) — Tuukka stitches after his collision with Rask shut out the Chicago teammate Milan Lucic, HosBlackhawks in Game 3 of the sa was a late scratch with an Stanley Cup finals on Mon- unspecified injury. day night and got enough help Hossa, who has three gamefrom the Bruins' offense to do winning goals in the playoffs it without another exhausting this year, was tied for the team overtime. lead with 15 playoff points and After playing four extra pe- was third on the Blackhawks riods in the first two games, the with 17 goals during the regular Bruins made an early night of it season. with second-period goals by DanIt was a loss the Blackhawks iel Paille and Patrice Bergeron to couldn't afford. win 2-0 and take a 2-1 lead in Not with Rask stopping evthe Stanley Cup erything that came finals. his way.

PAST STANLEY CUP Rask stopped The Bruins' 28 shots for his goalie, who was WINNERS: third shutout of the a backup to Conn 2013 playoffs.

Smythe-winner Corey Craw- 2012 — Los Angeles Kings Tim Thomas in ford made 33 2011 — Boston Bruins the team's 2011 saves for the 2010 — Chicago Blackhawks Stanley Cup run, Blackhawks. didn't face as dif2009 — Pittsburgh Penguins Game 4 is ficult a test as in Wednesday night 2008 — Detriot Red Wings the first period in Boston before the matchup of Original Six teams returns to Chicago for a fifth game. The teams split the first two games there, with the Blackhawks winning Game 1 in triple-overtime and the Bruins stealing home-ice advantage on Paille's goal in the first OT of the second game.

But this time the intrigue came before the opening faceoff

of Game 2, when the Blackhawks sent 19 shots at him but managed just one goal. But he stymied them all game and got some help from the post on Bryan Bickell's shot with 42 seconds left in the game.

The puck caromed off the right post and the goal light flickered on briefly, but play continued for another 30 seconds

before the whistle blew and the game degenerated into fisticuffs.

Chara was on top of Viktor Stalberg, pounding away, and Andrew Shaw got the better of Brad Marchand.

By the time it was all sorted out, the benches were a little emptier but the scoring column for Chicago was still blank.

After a scoreless first period, the Bruins made it 1-0 when Paille slapped in the puck at 2:13 of the second, falling to one knee for extra power. It stayed that way until late in the second, when the Bruins picked up their first power plays of the game on two nearly identical plays, with a Bruin racing to the net and a Blackhawk undercutting his skates and sending him crashing into the left post.

Boston set up their offense during the 11-second two-man advantage, and just five seconds after it expired — but before Dave Bolland was able to get back into the play — Jaromir Jagr slid one across the middle, past Lucic in the center to Bergeron on the other side for the easy one-timer.

It was Jagr's 197th career playoff point in 199 games, moving him into sole possession of fifth place on the NHL's all-time postseason points list.

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Boston Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask (40), of Finland, defends the net Monday as ice crystals swirl around him during the second period in Game 3 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Finals against the Chicago Blackhawks in Boston.

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Boston Bruins center Patrice Bergeron (37) scores a goal past Chicago Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford (50) and defenseman Brent Seabrook (7).

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Georgia radio show cast fired The Associated Press

Hosts mocked explayer with ALS

AT L A N TA (AP) — The cast of an Atlanta sports radio show has been fired after mocking a former NFL player who has gleason Lou Gehrig’s disease, a station official said Monday.

The show, Mayhem in the AM, was broadcast on 790 The Zone Monday morning. In a statement, General Manager Rick Mack said the station regrets comments made about exNew Orleans Saints safety Steve Gleason.

The 36-year-old suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

ALS patients lose the ability to speak and move, which has happened to Gleason.

The station lists the hosts

as Nick Cellini, Steak Shapiro and Chris Dimino. But Mack didn’t give the names of those fired.

During the segment, two of the on-air personalities took a call from a third host who pretended to be Gleason by using a

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voice that sounded automated — mimicking another famous ALS patient, Stephen Hawking.

The host pretending to be Gleason told a series of jokes and eventually asked the two others to do him a favor by smothering him.

All three took to Twitter Monday evening to apologize to fans and others who criticized the segment. Listeners and critics turned to the station’s Facebook page to call for the hosts’ termination.

Gleason played for the Saints between 2000 and 2006.

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onlookers to join their tailgates and offer anything from fried shrimp po-boys to oysters and cold beer.

Omaha is sometimes referred to as “Alex Box North,” considering the Tigers have made a number of College World Series appearances over the years. It appears to be a loving relationship between the locals and the southern visitors.

Charlie Radcliff, a native of Zachary, La., has made the trek to Omaha since 1996.

He pointed out that meeting new people is half the Omaha experience.

“The people are as friendly as we are, and you couldn’t meet a nicer group of people,” Radcliff said. “We bring up [the food] to cook it up and to share. That’s how we met the first time tailgating with each other. They shared with us and we shared with them.”

Radcliff noted that Omaha is a baseball town, so it’s easy to connect with baseball people.

“Each year we just made more friends,” he said. “Even as things changed, we’d move to a new spot and make a new set of friends. The city is great and the people can’t get any better.”

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since I was a kid to pitch in the College World Series.”

Glenn is seemingly the best choice. UNC’s batting lineup — one of the best in the nation with four hitters slugging over .500 — has six left handed batters in the starting lineup.

Glenn has only allowed a .198 batting average to left-handed hitters on the season. “[UNC] has only lost 11 games this season and I think six or seven of them came in games where they faced a left-handed pitcher,” Mainieri said.

UNC was shut down in its first game in the CWS against in-state rival North Carolina State. NCST pitched one of the best left-handers in the nation, in sophomore Carlos Rodon. Rodon racked up eight strikeouts, using only 108 pitches to pick up the win.

Glenn isn’t the same type of pitcher, though. Rodon has struck out 178 batters in 127.1 innings pitched, while Glenn only struck out 37 in 82 innings pitched. In the postseason, Rodon has stuck out more than half the batters than Glenn has all season.

What Glenn specializes in his putting balls in play via groundballs.

“I’m going to try and pound the zone with the two-seamer,” Glenn said. “Get some groundballs and try to give my team a chance to win.”

Glenn induced nine double-play balls in his starts this season, good for second on the team, while getting 120 ground ball outs, also second on the team behind Nola. Glenn’s ground ball rate on the season was 60 percent — well above the average 44

percent for MLB pitchers, according to fangraphs.com.

With Glenn looking to induce ground balls from the UNC hitters, the LSU defense will have to revert to the form they showed in the regular season and stay away from the mishaps that have plagued them so far in the postseason.

LSU played its way to a .980 fielding percentage, which tied LSU for sixth in the nation, but errors — particularly by shortstop Alex Bregman — have cost the Tigers seven unearned runs dating back to the Super Regional game against Sam Houston State. Another Bregman error proved costly Sunday night against UCLA, as it allowed what would eventually be the winning run to score.

“I mean I’ve got to make that play, but I’m fine, I’ll be ready to go,” Bregman said. “I’ve been thinking about the play a little bit, and in the same situation I want the same ball hit to me.”

Glenn’s partner in Tuesday’s duel will be UNC closer Trent Thorton. Thorton, while having the most saves for the Tar Heels, also has started five games and pitched the same amount of innings as Glenn on the season.

The Tar Heels will try to exploit the same matchup as the Tigers.

Thorton, a righty, will face the LSU lineup whose three through eight hitters are right-handed.

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opposing pitchers in 2013, and they’ll be looking to rebound in Tuesday’s elimination game.

The large dimensions of TD Ameritrade Park proved to be a problem for LSU against the Bruins, as three flyouts by junior third baseman Christian Ibarra and freshman center fielder Andrew Stevenson all died at the warning track.

“It’s just so hard to hit a home run,” LSU coach Paul Mainieri said. “You just can’t play for extrabase hits in this park. You’ve got to scratch one across here and there.

It’s just a tough ball park to create offense in.”

Mainieri announced Monday that sophomore left hander Cody Glenn will get the start for the Tigers today. Glenn hasn’t pitched in a game for LSU since May 22, as he missed the Regional and Super Regional round of the postseason after being suspended for violating team rules.

“I’m going to catch my groove, and I’m going to try to catch it as

soon as possible,” Glenn said. “I’m excited to get back on the mound and get my blood pumping. I miss it.”

The Tar Heels will counter with freshman right-hander Trent Thornton, who went 11-1 with a 1.28 ERA in 84 and two-thirds innings pitched. Thornton, traditionally understood to be UNC’s closer in 2013, recorded eight saves, but he also made five midweek starts during the season.

LSU’s lineup understands fully that it’s a win-or-go-home scenario, and they appear to have no intention of going back to Baton Rouge.

“Everybody wanted to see [this matchup], and here it is,” Katz said. “Whether it was North Carolina or NC State, it wouldn’t really matter, because either way it was potentially our last game of the season, so everybody will be the same way no matter what.”

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Landrieu’s son’s DUI has broad implications for La. ROB IN THE HOOD Robert Klare Columnist It’s not what you know, it’s who you know. And for longer than I’ve been alive, that phrase has described New Orleans and Louisiana perfectly.

I can’t count the times I’ve heard about someone’s traffic or parking ticket getting “taken care of” because they know somebody. I am starting to suspect that “knowing somebody” is a real clause somewhere in Louisiana’s legislature.

Joking aside, there have always been problems with our state’s casual abuse of power and position. Look no further than Ray Nagin and his 21-count bribery indictment back in January, or the notorious money in the freezer belonging to the Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson from 2005.

Louisiana’s history of abuse of power goes way back. But based on two recent events, I believe that could be changing.

On Thursday, Sen. Mary Landrieu’s son was arrested in Orleans Parish for hit-and-run and DUI after reportedly hitting a pedestrian on Bourbon Street with his car and then blowing a .211 BAC into a breathalyzer,

according to The Times-Picayune.

Does this story sound familiar? That’s because almost one year ago New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu – Mary Landrieu’s brother – also had a son arrested for DUI in Orleans Parish, also according to The Times-Picayune.

Both stories were published in national newspapers, including The Washington Post and The Huffington Post, as well as The Times-Picayune.

The fact that they were published at all gives me hope.

I have no doubts that either Mitch Landrieu or Mary Landrieu could have pulled a few favors to keep things quiet. Certainly, there may have been the temptation to.

Mitch Landrieu, for example, appoints the New Orleans police superintendent and the city attorney. It would probably be easy for him to call up a few of his buddies in the police or justice departments and get things taken care of.

But he didn’t — quite the opposite in fact. Mitch Landrieu stated that his son will be treated with due process, with laws being followed “just as any other citizen.” The city attorney’s office chose to recuse itself from prosecuting Mitch’s son because of the potential for conflict of interest.

Mary Landrieu acted

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Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., speaks Dec. 9, 2009, at a health care news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.

similarly, assuring that the law would be followed properly and stating that her son’s actions will “have serious consequences both at home and in our legal system.”

In choosing not to hush things up and to accept the consequences that any other citizen would face in this situation, the

Landrieu family shows that there is at least some good getting into the Louisiana political system.

So while these two arrests are very sad news to the families involved, I say that the rest of Louisiana should take pride that we are moving forward.

It’s not much, but it’s a start.

Robert Klare is a 22-year-old engineering senior from New Orleans.

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Out-of-state fees too high for a public university THE CON ARTIST Connor Tarter Columnist In my three-and-a-half years as a student at LSU, my personal cost of attendance has slowly risen semester-by-semester with the largest spike at the tail end of last semester.

I, like every other out-ofstate student at LSU, knew at the very least that expenses would be higher for me than that of my local peers. I did not, however, expect the steady rise to be so swift and aggressive that I would eventually need to apply for upwards of $75,000 in student loans to cover these fees.

In the fall semester of 2012,

in-state tuition — including all fees — was a mere $3,498 for a student taking 15 hours, according to the University’s Office of Budget and Planning. Don’t get me wrong; that’s not a number to scoff at. For some, that could be quite a bit of money, especially since that number has risen to $3,892 for the upcoming fall semester.

But the out-of-state cost of attendance is an entirely different story. Tuition and fees are exactly the same, down to the penny. The difference is the out-of-state fees, which for fall 2012 were $7,638 for a student taking 15 hours, and are expected to be almost $9,000 for this coming fall.

You read that correctly — just the out-of-state fees are more than double the amount a resident pays in total. Add the two

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together, and it spells a complete nightmare for non-residents who don’t have any sort of scholarship helping them along, like myself.

In case you haven’t put the numbers together in your head, that makes the total cost of attendance for a non-resident $12,851 for just the fall semester of 2013.

Add that to the preliminary number of $12,843 for spring 2014, and the cost for the whole year comes to a whopping $25,694 — not including any intersessions, or personal living expenses like housing or groceries.

Those are the numbers that I might expect to see on a fee bill from a private school, not a public university like LSU. Sure, out-of-state fees are ludicrous in most states, but there’s one major catch: LSU is one of the only

universities in a state bordering my home state of Texas that does not offer Texas students in-state tuition. In many regions around the nation, bordering states will offer in-state tuition to their neighbors, which vastly expand a student’s options.

Many of these states are in the South and are all a part of the Academic Common Market, which is a program run by the Southern Regional Education Board. On their website, sreb.org, there is a chart listing every university that participates in the program. Many major universities appear on this list, including the University of Arkansas and the University of Florida, but LSU is notably missing from the list.

I’ve wanted to attend this school my whole life, and

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foolishly ignored the debt that I would incur by insisting on being a Tiger. Despite the existence of a program on campus called Texas Tigers, there is still very little assistance for us.

And if LSU doesn’t catch on to how absurd their fees are, we might just disappear.

Connor Tarter is a 21-year-old communication studies senior from Dallas, Texas.

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Louisiana women one step closer to equal pay LIZZY ON THE LOOSE Elizabeth Garcia Columnist Employers in Louisiana might soon be legally required to pay women as much as their male counterparts if Gov. Bobby Jindal signs a new bill into law.

Senate Bill 153 by Sen. Edwin Murray, D-New Orleans, requires employers to pay equal wages to men and women and allows women to report unfair wages.

This is a great step toward equality and equal pay for women should be a top priority.

But more needs to be done.

Women’s groups around the state are praising the bill and have been fighting for an equal merit system like this for years. The original bill would have applied to the private sector as well, but was changed on the Senate floor to apply only to women in the state government workforce.

“The proponents of this bill really do believe it should apply to all employers but they thought this was a good first step,” Murray said.

Once again, while this is a great step for female state employees in the state of Louisiana,

there’s still a long way to go. According to a study by the American Association of University Women, Louisiana women currently make 69 cents to a man’s dollar. This is not only less than the national average, but is second to last in the nation. These statistics are even worse for Latinas and women of color.

Over the course of a woman’s lifetime, that unearned money can add up to almost half a million dollars, the study found.

But in 2012, women made up 58.6 percent of the workforce in America and held most of the bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the country, according to the Department of Labor. While not every woman in America is paid unequally, most entry-level positions in the workforce give higher pay to men despite women having the same education and skills to fill the job.

Overall, equal pay for women is more than just a human rights issue. Millions of American families depend on a woman’s paycheck. About two-thirds of mothers in this country account for at least a quarter of their family’s earnings, and in many families, the woman is the sole breadwinner, according to a 2013 study by Prudential Financial.

President Barack Obama recently said in a press conference on National Equal Pay Day that “equal pay will strengthen our families, grow our economy and enable the best ideas and boldest innovations to flourish. Let us resolve to become a nation that values the contributions of our daughters as much as those of our sons, denies them no opportunity and sets no limits on their dreams.”

These are inspiring words, but there is still not enough action to counter the gap created by the current pay rate.

So how do we fix a problem that has persisted for years?

First off, more legislation like this needs to be passed nationwide on state and federal levels. Second, more companies should support paid maternity leaves for new mothers. A recent Rutgers study stated that “paid family leave increases wages for women with children because women who take leave lasting for a month or more are 54 percent more likely to have wage increases the following year than those who don’t take any leave.”

The study proved that better pay and benefits in companies are directly correlated to a continued work history. Lawmakers both in

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Louisiana and Washington should focus on legislation that forces companies to provide some type of paid maternal leave and give monetary help to parents and single mothers for affordable daycare and early education.

Unfortunately the wage gap isn’t an easy issue to fix.

However, the government can make small steps in the right direction.

Elizabeth Garcia is a 21-year-old mass communication junior from Greensboro, N.C.

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In chemical plants, some accidents are unavoidable THE TRADITIONALIST Chris Ortte Columnist While chemical plants do not particularly weigh much on the average person’s mind, they simply become part of the landscape as a maze of pipes and smoke stacks that seem impossible to make any sense of.

But in many ways they make our world turn.

Last week’s explosion in Geismar reminds us what kind of work is involved in making our lives easier.

Propylene, or propene, was reported as the culprit for the explosion in Geismar. As an essential ingredient to products of the petrochemical industry, propene sales were valued at nearly $90 billion five years ago. Without some of these chemicals, many of our everyday devices would have never materialized. Obviously, there’s a large risk run with their production.

Safety should be the number-one priority of these large companies that employ hundreds — if not thousands — of people, and no amount of money is worth a life. However, it would be foolish to say that these companies do not stress the

importance of safety. In any case, they’re the ones that will have to pay out when insurance companies come knocking.

Not to claim that employee negligence was the cause, but for the most part, safety is only as safe as the employee. Subsequently, there is also the alwaysexistent possibility of equipment failure.

Chemical plants are of a high-risk, high-reward nature where the means are dangerous but economic payout is grand.

The state benefits at an indispensable level from these plants.

Some critical of the situation, like self-proclaimed activist Caleb Maupin, have pointed the finger at the state’s disfavor toward unions, purporting that right-to-work states with “hostile anti-union legislation” promote big business and demote safety, predictably finding evidence of neglect by the company executives in order to save a buck.

However, this is only natural of southpaw critics who are good at making tragic accidents a thing of political discourse.

Perhaps right-to-work legislation is a conservative take on labor laws, but I would be more than willing to bet that those laborers vote conservative. For conservative legislation to pass, conservative politicians must be voted in. This is good reason to

CATHERINE THRELKELD / The Associated Press

Fire billows from the Williams Olefins Plant on Thursday in Geismar. The explosion injured 77 and killed one person. The cause of the explosion and resulting fire is under investigation.

leave out the absence of unions in Louisiana as a means to last week’s ends.

The jobs created by these plants and factories are good jobs, with well above average pay.

Lawsuits and big payouts are soon to come. Attorneys with Becnel Law Firm in LaPlace filed a class-action lawsuit the day after the Geismar explosion, and

I’m sure there will be an increase in restriction and regulation, all in an attempt to prevent the if-then situations.

The unfortunate circumstances of the events are grave, and in the cases of the families, devastating. But when it is the human hand that does the job, human error is inescapable. There is a price to pay when we live in one the densest petrochemical

corridors in the world.

Chris Ortte is a 22-year-old political science senior from Lafayette.

Contact Chris Ortte at cortte@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @TDR_chrisortte

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