The Daily Reveille - February 14, 2014

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SPORTS: Coaches and players talk about Valentine’s Day plans, p. 5

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POLITICS

Take me out to the ball game

Antisodomy law repeal rejected Quint Forgey Staff Writer

photo illustration by TAYLOR BALKOM / The Daily Reveille

Instead of taking a significant other out for an expensive dinner, take them to a game — like tonight’s baseball season-opener against UNO at 7 p.m.

Sporting events can be an alternative to a typical date Deanna Narveson Staff Writer

For some students, a bottle of wine and a nice dinner make a good Valentine’s Day. For others this year, it’s peanuts and Cracker Jacks.

Some valentines are taking it

out to the ball game, as Feb 14. happens to fall on Tiger baseball’s opening night.

Dakota Conravey, finance senior, and Kelsey Schexnayder, marketing senior, are embracing the coincidence by celebrating their first Valentine’s Day together in Alex Box Stadium.

“I’ve actually never been to opening day,” Conravey said. “This will be [Schexnayder’s] fourth opening day, so I said ‘This is what we’ll be doing’ and we got tickets in the grandstands.”

Conravey said their Valentine’s Day meal would be chicken

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SPORTS DATES, see page 11

The Parish of East Baton Rouge Metropolitan Council rejected a proposal in a 7-3 vote Wednesday that would have supported State Rep. Patricia Smith’s legislation to take Louisiana’s unconstitutional anti-sodomy laws off the books.

Louisiana’s current antisodomy law was used by the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office to arrest gay men in sting operations as recently as last year.

The proposal, co-sponsored by council members John Delgado and Ryan Heck, endorsed the repeal of Louisiana’s ban on consensual oral and anal sex between people in the state.

Heck said the proposal was simply a matter of striking down an unconstitutional law and “cleaning up the books.”

C. Denise Marcelle, one of the three council members in favor of the resolution, said her colleagues who voted against the proposal let their religious LAW, see page 11

BASEBALL

Tigers begin march back to Omaha against Privateers Nola gets ball second consecutive season

Chandler Rome Sports Writer

With the exception of one, all college baseball teams end their seasons in disappointment.

Sometimes it’s the welcomed end of a frustrating season. Other times it’s the unexpected loss that derails a championship train. Whether the former or the latter, it’s an ending teams must rue over for eight months before a new first pitch is thrown.

For the LSU baseball team, its

two-and-out performance in Omaha eight months ago stung. And coach Paul Mainieri knows the sting won’t leave anytime soon.

Just don’t expect him to bring it up.

“Anytime the season ends and you’re not holding the trophy up, it’s a disappointment,” Mainieri said. “You get yourself back to that position again and you do something about it. But we’re so far away from that position now that it’s not something we think about.”

So when junior righty Aaron Nola takes the mound against UNO tonight at 7 p.m. in Alex Box Stadium, it starts a march to get the Tigers back in that same position – Omaha.

It’s the second-straight opening night start for Nola, who struck out nine and scattered two hits through six and two-thirds innings in last year’s season-opening 1-0 victory against Maryland.

“It hasn’t kicked in yet, but I’ll probably start getting some butterflies here soon,” Nola said. “These are the kinds of things you remember, starting the season off with hopefully a victory.”

Mainieri said Nola will pitch a

Read an outfield position preview, p. 6 OPENING NIGHT, see page 4

ANGELA MAJOR / The Daily Reveille

LSU junior right handed pitcher Aaron Nola (10) winds up before a pitch Jan. 31 during a scrimmage at Alex Box Stadium.

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TODAY’S FORECAST

Nation & World

Friday, February 14, 2014

NATIONAL

STATE/LOCAL

Facebook introduces customizable gender Detectives

plead guilty to conspiracy

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Partly Cloudy HIGH 67 LOW 39 sunrise: 6:45 a.m. sunset: 5:52 p.m.

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MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — You don’t have to be just male or female on Facebook anymore. The social media giant has added a customizable option with about 50 different terms people can use to identify their gender as well as three preferred pronoun choices: him, her or them.

Facebook said the changes, shared with The Associated Press before the launch on Thursday, initially cover the company’s 159 million monthly users in the U.S. and are aimed at giving people more choices in how they describe themselves, such as androgynous, bi-gender, intersex, gender fluid or transsexual.

“There’s going to be a lot of people for whom this is going to mean nothing, but for the few it does impact, it means the world,” said Facebook software engineer Brielle Harrison, who worked on the project and is herself undergoing gender transformation, from male to female. On Thursday, while watchdogging the software for any problems, she said she was also changing her Facebook identity from Female to TransWoman.

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Workers from Facebook’s health center gather Wednesday near a banner promoting gay pride at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.

“All too often, transgender people like myself and other gender nonconforming people are given this binary option, do you want to be male or female? What is your gender? And it’s kind of disheartening because none of those let us tell others who we really are,” she said.

“This really changes that, and for the first time I get to go to the site and specify to all the people I know what

my gender is.”

Facebook, which has 1.23 billion active monthly users around the world, also allows them to keep their gender identity private and will continue to do so.

The Williams Institute, a think tank based at the University of California, Los Angeles, estimates there are at least 700,000 individuals in the U.S. who identify as transgender.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two New Orleans Police Department drug detectives pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing from a fund to pay informants and to double-dipping.

Rafael Dobard, 39, and Quincy Jones, 33, each entered pleas to two counts of conspiracy — one to commit wire fraud and one to steal from programs getting federal money, according to a news release from U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite.

They acknowledged that the department paid Dobard about $6,300 and Jones about $6,800 for hours when they were really at off-duty guard jobs.

Payroll records show that Jones — an 11-year veteran — got $32,063.84 in take-home pay from January 2012 through August 2013, including the double-billing.

INTERNATIONAL

Brotherhood members arrested The Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities on Thursday ordered new trials for 242 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, the latest in a series of mass tribunals against backers of the ousted Islamist president over protests and violence.

Thousands have been arrested in a crackdown on Mohammed Morsi’s supporters since his ouster in July. Recently, authorities have announced a string of trials of lowlevel Brotherhood members, each with dozens of defendants.

In the latest cases, the officials

said Thursday that 170 Islamists in the southern city of Assiut were charged with storming and burning government installations.

Another 72 in Beheira province, northwest of Cairo, will be tried on charges of attempted murder, illegal protests and acquisition of firearms.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief reporters.

Meanwhile, Egypt’s prosecutor general ordered an inquiry into a complaint accusing the country’s top satirist Bassem Youssef for mocking the military and its top commander Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi.

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VALENTINE’S DAY

Couples surround tower at midnight SG brings music back to tradition Jacque Masse Contributing Writer

Couples shared Valentine’s Day kisses at midnight on Thursday as the chime of the Memorial Tower rang out the melody of “My Funny Valentine” by Frank Sinatra.

“The tradition is that once you kiss under the Memorial Tower at midnight on Valentine’s Day, you become an official co-ed,” said Taylor Parks, Student Government vice president.

For the past two Valentine’s Days, a song hasn’t played at the clock tower, but Parks wanted to bring back the tradition.

“I think it’s a special tradition specific to LSU,” Parks said. “Not that many universities have traditions like this.”

Some students returned to the clock tower for the second year in a row with their sweethearts, like Dalton Hall, international trade and finance sophomore.

Hall said he learned about the tradition at the University’s S.T.R.I.P.E.S program and told his girlfriend about it.

When he arrived at the Memorial Tower last year, he said about 20 couples stood around waiting for the clock to strike midnight.

“It is kind of awkward,” Hall said. “And I felt nervous because you have 20 people around you that are about to kiss at the same time as you.”

Hall said the funniest part of the experience was looking up from his quick kiss to see other couples continuously making out.

Abigail Lallande, mass communication sophomore, said she decided to return to the Memorial Tower after she had a great experience with her boyfriend last year.

“I felt a lot closer to my boyfriend after the kiss,” Lallande said. “We felt like a real couple.”

Lallande said she made her way to the bell tower last year after sharing pizza with her boyfriend while watching the sunset at the levee.

“It was a last minute whimsical kind of thing, which made it very romantic,” Lallande said.

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Willie Clayton - Belle of Baton Rouge Comedy Sportz - La Nuit Comedy Theater The Royal Rounders - Buffa's Bar & Restaurant Ellis Marsalis Quartet - Snug Harbor-New Orleans Paul Sanchez - Chickie Wah Wah Ted Hefko and the Thosandaires - Artmosphere

9:00 PM

R. KELLY COMES TO BATON ROUGE

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R. Kelly performs Feb. 13 downtown at the Baton Rouge River Center.

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Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue - Mud and Water Chris Leblanc Band - Phil Brady's Bar & Grill The Lacs - Texas Club Dave Ruffner and Kevin Clark - Fritzels Jazz Club Alter Ego - Paragon Casino Resort Groovy 7 - Southport Hall Werewolf - Boudreaux & Thibodeaux's Cory Landry - Boudreaux & Thibodeaux's Cam Pyle Band - Lava Cantina Sweet Crude's Valentines Day Lovefest - Gasa Gasa

10:00 PM

Ellis Marsalis Quartet - Snug Harbor-New Orleans Chris Rehm with Greg Mullen - Circle Bar Chuck Credo IV - L'Auberge Casino Hotel Baton Rouge Meek Mills and Crystal Renay - Eiffel Society

10:30 PM

Friday Night Stand Up Open Mic - La Nuit Comedy Theater Naughty Professor - Chelsea's Cafe

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

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ONLINE

READ: LSU PD hosts crime prevention program.

PHOTOS: T-shirt giveaway in Free Speech Alley.

EVENTS LSU Libraries Civil Right Film Series, Friday, February 14, 2014 The Loving Story (2013 Emmy Award Winner for Outstanding Historical Programming) Discuss the story of the Loving’s and interracial marriage in the U.S. Noon – Hill Memorial Library Lecture Hall (Film clips and discussion) Full film series details at http://www.lib.lsu.edu/sp/subjects/createdequal

Valentine’s Day Dinner Buffet Friday, Feb. 14 and Saturday, Feb. 15, The Club LSU Union Square, 5:00-9:00 PM (Formerly LSU Faculty Club) $79.95 all-inclusive dinner for two with roses for your loved one Make reservations at: www.theclubatlsu.com/reservation

Phlat Out Sammys Dinner, Saturday February 15, The 5 and 459 Commons Come enjoy a delicious sandwich at one of LSU’s dining halls!

The African-American Read-In Sunday, February 9. 2:30 p.m., Eden Park Branch Children and families are invited to share literary works by African American authors. All presentations must be approved in advance.

Children nine and under must be with an adult.

For more information, call (225) 231-3260.

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UNIVERSITY

OPENING NIGHT, from page 1

College of Engineering grows to match students Deanna Narveson Staff Writer

The construction to complete renovations on Patrick F. Taylor Hall is set to begin in November, said Richard Koubek, dean of the College of Engineering.

The renovations, funded by $52.5 million raised by the “Breaking New Ground” campaign and an equal amount matched by the state, are part of a plan to expand the College of Engineering, which currently has the largest number of undergraduates at the University, Koubek said.

Koubek said based on freshmen enrollment, he predicts in four to five years the college will be graduating 1,150 engineers into the workforce, almost double the current 650 to 700 graduates. The new building will have office spaces for 200 faculty members, 60 more than currently, he said.

Three things influenced the expansion of the college: the demand for engineers in the workforce, which is essential to the expansion of the state economy, the growing number of students who declare engineering as their major and the need for more faculty members and space to facilitate the growth in the other two areas, Koubek said. The college

plans to begin hiring for the new positions in fall 2014.

Koubek said there’s a 40 percent increase in enrollment in the last four years, and the fall 2014 applicants are up 20 percent from last year.

LSU President F. King Alexander said in January the University was planning to hire about 100 new faculty members for next year, a part of which will replace retiring faculty members, but many will be additions to the University in colleges that have the highest student demand.

Koubek said the new building will have new equipment in all of the laboratories, an 80,000 square-foot extension separate from the original Patrick F. Taylor Hall primarily for chemical engineering and classrooms designed to facilitate more group work.

“The traditional ‘sit in front of the faculty member and listen to us talk’ way of teaching is fading,” Koubek said. “The opportunity to be much more interactive, hands on and experiential is much more important to our curriculum now, and the building needs to allow LSU students the opportunity to do that.”

maximum of six innings before the eighth-year coach inserts a slew of arms young and old — all a part of Mainieri’s weekend plan to evaluate his entire pitching staff.

Junior southpaw Kyle Bouman gets the ball Saturday when the Tigers travel to Zephyr Field to face UNO, while freshman Jared Poche will start Sunday in Alex Box Stadium against Grambling.

There won’t just be evaluation on the mound, though. To test his three catchers vying for a starting role, Mainieri will start sophomore Chris Chinea behind the plate tonight and junior Tyler Moore at first base before Moore moves behind the plate Saturday.

Junior Kade Scivicque will start at designated hitter tonight and could also see action behind the plate

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“You’d like to have that one guy who’s the leader of the team, that’s the super player like we’ve had for the last six years,” Mainieri said.

“But after about three weeks with these guys, I think they’re all about even. They’re all pretty good ballplayers, I’m kind of glad we have all three guys now.”

As Mainieri sorts out his stillevolving team from the home dugout, the visitors dugout will hold some familiar faces. Mainieri’s college coach, Ron Maestri, is back at the helm of UNO after a 28-year absence from the game, and Mainieri’s former player Blake Dean is Maestri’s assistant.

Add to that a UNO alumni gathering scheduled for Saturday when many of Mainieri’s college teammates will be in attendance, and all the weekend festivities will be

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Until the first pitch is thrown, that is.

“As soon as the introductions are over, the tunnel vision will kick in,” Mainieri said. “All I’m going to care about is what our players do and what we have to do to win the game.”

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Sports For the love of the game

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interviews by TOMMY ROMANACH

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Tigers look to rebound against Arkansas

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Sports Contributor

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LSU players and coaches discuss their plans, traditions on Valentine’s Day “My mom always gets me a stuffed animal for Valentine’s Day, and my dog usually tears it up. So I’m going to be spending Valentine’s Day with my puppy and cleaning up the mess from the stuffing everywhere.”

“My family is not coming down, or my girlfriend. So I think me and Sean [McMullen] will end up hanging out together.”

CHRISTIAN IBARRA · LSU baseball player

THERESA PLAISANCE · LSU basketball player “If you were a young lady in this town, where else would you want to spend Valentine’s Day than in the ice cold Alex Box Stadium?”

PAUL MAINIERI · LSU baseball coach

“My plan is to be spoiled. You have lots of flowers, lots of chocolates. I expect a teddy bear and I expect a really romantic dinner.

And a call from my mom.”

A.J. ANDREWS · LSU softball player

JOHNNY O’BRYANT III LSU basketball player “We’re going to be out of town Friday, so that kind of sucks. But the good thing about now-a-days is that there’s so much technology, and people are a phone call or text message away, and you order things off the Internet. That’s the beauty of today; you’ve got to use technology to your advantage.”

Trouble on the road continues for team Trey Labat Deputy Sports Editor

After suffering a disappointing loss to Southeastern Conference cellar-dwellers Texas A&M, the Tigers look to bounce back against Arkansas in Fayetteville, Ark. on Saturday.

The Tigers (15-8, 6-5 SEC) beat the Razorbacks (15-8, 4-6 SEC) at the start of the month, 8874, but that was at home, where the Tigers are 11-2 this season, as opposed to the road where the Tigers have dropped their last four games.

“We definitely need a big road win,” said junior forward Johnny O’Bryant III. “Arkansas is definitely a good team; they beat Kentucky at home, lost to Florida by two in overtime. So this will be a good chance to prove we aren’t the bad road team everyone thinks we are.”

O’Bryant has proven to be a catalyst for the Tigers, averaging 23.6 points, 9.3 rebounds and 31.3 ARKANSAS, see page 7

GYMNASTICS

Team targets reputation growth in high-profile meet Lady Tigers travel to Texas for event David Gray Sports Contributor

Entering this season, LSU coach D-D Breaux knew she had a squad that could realistically contend for a national title, but one of the toughest tasks was getting those outside of the program to recognize her squad’s abilities.

The No. 3 Tigers (5-1, 3-1 Southeastern Conference) have made a statement to those outsiders this season, scoring at least 197.000 in five of their six meets for the first time in program history. The scores have resulted in four consecutive victories, but they’re also helping the squad win what Breaux calls the

“battle of perception.”

“The first thing we talked about as a team was to win the battle of perception,” Breaux said. “To go out and be all that you can be and be perceived as a great team.”

LSU will try to further cement perception into reality Saturday when it competes in the Metroplex Challenge in Fort Worth, Texas.

The Tigers will square off against three other schools: No. 2 Oklahoma (3-2), No. 17 Arizona (3-3) and SEC foe Kentucky (4-4, 1-3 SEC).

This marks the second consecutive week LSU clashes with the Sooners. Last week, the Tigers stormed into Norman, Okla., and defeated the Sooners after failing to do so in two matchups last season.

Junior all-arounder Rheagan Courville said last week’s confidence-building victory against Oklahoma was another public reminder

that the LSU gymnastics squad is capable of winning a national title.

“We have a renewed confidence and we’re ready for the rest of the season,” Courville said. “We feel like we finally achieved the perception we were looking for, not only for ourselves to believe we’re this good, but for everyone to believe because now we’ve posted a road score we can really be proud of.”

The score was 197.650, which is the highest road score of any team in the nation this season, and the reigning SEC Gymnast of the Year acknowledged the total team effort it took to accomplish the impressive feat.

“I didn’t do my best, but having such a fantastic team win the meet even without my best performance is a great feeling,” Courville said. “To REPUTATION, see page 7

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Junior all-arounder gymnast Rheagan Courville poses on the beam Jan. 31 during the Tigers’ 197.650-196.825 victory against Alabama in the PMAC.

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BASEBALL

Speedy options abound in outfield Chandler Rome Sports Writer

Following his team’s shellacking at the hands of previously unheralded Stony Brook two seasons ago, LSU coach Paul Mainieri knew changes needed to be made.

First up: revamp the outfield.

After watching seemingly every ball the Tigers hit find a glove in the outfield, Mainieri wanted to model his new-look outfield after the speedy Stony Brook crew.

Two seasons later, Mainieri’s plan is in place as he sits on opening night with a plethora of potent combinations ready to roam the grass.

“You just can’t put a quantified value on speed in the outfield because of taking away those base hits and making it more challenging for the other team,” Mainieri said.

Sophomore speedster Mark Laird will start in right field, while senior Sean McMullen and junior Jared Foster will patrol center and left fields, respectively, when the UNO Privateers come into Alex Box Stadium tonight, Mainieri said.

Sophomore Andrew Stevenson — who started the majority of last season in center — will be held out as a precaution as he recovers from a groin strain.

McMullen said the competition

for the outfield defensive positions is all among friends pushing each other to be their best.

“We’re all out here to win baseball games, and that’s how we’re going to have fun on this baseball field. We’re rooting for each other,” McMullen said.

The new wrinkle in the race is Foster, who saw only spot action last season in right field. His strong arm was on display in last season’s Southeastern Conference Tournament Championship Game against Vanderbilt, and he gets the opening night nod after impressing Mainieri in fall practice. “[Consistency] is something I’ve been working on for a while,” Foster said. “I’m starting to feel comfortable, and it feels good right now, so I’ve just got to keep it up.”

Staying in the two-hole and manning left field, Laird will look to carry momentum from a rookie campaign where he hit .307 and had a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage.

Beyond the three opening day starters and Stevenson, Mainieri said junior Chris Sciambra will also contend for time in the outfield.

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LSU can learn from failures THE SMARTEST MORAN JAMES MORAN Sports Columnist

If the LSU baseball team wants to make a return trip to Omaha this summer, a bit of selective amnesia will go a long way toward punching its ticket.

For those who spent last summer living under a rock, the Tigers cruised into the College World Series as one of the favorites, only to be bounced out without winning a game.

LSU can use the disappointment of going 0-2 in Omaha as motivational fuel, but in order to avoid complacency, it must totally turn the page on the schoolrecord 57-win season and all the accolades it accumulated along the way.

The first part of that equation shouldn’t be a problem. All the Tigers need to do is follow their shortstop’s lead.

Alex Bregman had one of the most-decorated freshman seasons in baseball history, collecting National Freshman of the Year, the Brooks Wallace Award for national shortstop of the year and first-team All-America honors along the way.

Despite all the awards and surpassing even the wildest of expectations placed on him, Bregman fell short of his own

stated goal — winning the national championship.

And for all Bregman did to get the team to Omaha, he bears more than his fair share of responsibility for LSU’s early exit.

He finished the World Series hitless and his eighth inning error allowed UCLA to score the game-winning run.

A letdown of that magnitude would crush most freshmen.

Bregman instead took it as motivation.

“Baseball is a game of failure,” Bregman said. “You have to deal with your failure, get back and go after it again. I like failure because it pushes you to get better. We strive to be better around here, and when we lose a game, it motivates us that much more to go out and win the next one.”

The problem for Bregman and company is they’ve had to wait months for that next one to come around.

The worst part of getting so close to the finish line and failing is it makes it that much harder to start over from square one the next time. After such a long journey, it can be difficult to simply press the reset button.

But teams that don’t put the past season’s success out of mind risk falling into a well-known trap. It’s far too easy for a team to throw its gloves and bats out on the field and think it can coast back to Omaha just because it did it the season before.

This is especially crucial

for this LSU team because most of those responsible for last season’s success are no longer part of the team.

Bregman, third baseman Christian Ibarra and ace of the staff Aaron Nola still comprise a solid core of the team, but coach Paul Mainieri will have to completely remake the right side of his infield, the middle of his batting order, the back end of his starting rotation and his bullpen.

Mainieri still has capable players on his roster, but guys like Mason Katz, JaCoby Jones, Ryan Eades and Chris Cotton don’t replace themselves overnight.

Maybe in a few months the replacements will have settled in nicely, but until then Omaha should be treated more as a goal way off in the horizon instead of the center of attention.

“We’re working toward Omaha, but we realize it doesn’t start in Omaha,” Bregman said. “It starts against UNO on Feb. 14.”

James Moran is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from Beacon, N.Y.

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Friday, February 14, 2014 ARKANSAS, from page 5 minutes per game in victories. For comparison, O’Bryant averages only 12 points, four rebounds and 20 minutes in losses against Texas A&M and Georgia.

Both of O’Bryant’s poor performances have come when the Tigers leave the friendly confines of the Pete Maravich Assembly Center and derive from foul trouble the Cleveland, Miss., native seemingly finds himself in during road contests.

Freshman forward Jordan

REPUTATION, from page 5

know that I have people behind me who can pick up where I’ve fallen short really means a lot because it’s not going to go your way every time.”

She certainly has had plenty of help this season.

Heading into the Metroplex Challenge, Courville and junior Jessie Jordan are both ranked in the top 10 in the all-around. The only other school that boasts multiple top 10 all-arounders is defending champion No. 1 Florida.

The Tigers are getting plenty of contributions from others as well, such as senior Sarie Morrison, who earlier this week was named SEC Specialist of the Week for the second time this season.

Against the Sooners last Sunday, the Dallas native scored a 9.975 on vault and a 9.925 on the uneven bars, the highest scores she’s ever had against the Big 12 juggernauts.

Morrison said the victory against Oklahoma was crucial in building the Tigers’ perception of themselves.

“It definitely gives us the strong momentum we needed, especially going against [Oklahoma] again this week,” Morrison said.

“We know now that we can overcome any hurdle.”

Recently, one Tiger has had to overcome her own share of hurdles to help build the team’s overall perception, and that is highly touted freshman Ashleigh Gnat.

Mickey said the loss ranked as one of the worst of the season.

“It’s one of the most disappointing losses of the season for me, just because we know Texas A&M isn’t a good team,” Mickey said.

Arkansas has proven to have similar road troubles as the Tigers this season, with six of its eight losses coming on the road.

Freshman forward Jarell Martin said the Tigers are eager to get back on the road in an attempt to silence the critics who have emerged during their recent road slump.

After a pair of disappointing beam performances in the middle of the season, Gnat bounced back in a big way last weekend, claiming the first two individual titles of her career while also being named SEC Freshman of the Week.

With such an historic start to the season, championship talk is inevitably going to follow the Tigers wherever they go. While most coaches would prefer their teams focus on the tasks at hand, Breaux doesn’t shy away from the discussion.

In fact, she has a sign encouraging it.

“There’s a sign in the back of our gym that says anything that you ardently believe in, talk about and act upon absolutely will come true,” Breaux said. “Part of our preparation is talking about [a championship] and having these kids believe, and I think they believe.”

If LSU comes away from the Metroplex Challenge victorious, the championship talk and perception of the team is bound to escalate.

But the Tigers have talked about it from the beginning. The mission was getting others to join the conversation.

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O’Bryant said Martin’s improved play, as well as efforts of other underclassmen, has helped the Tigers from dropping more games than they have.

“I definitely noticed the focus in their eyes last night, they played hard, they played aggressive,” O’Bryant said. “[Martin] played strong, he did really well with offensive rebounding.”

Martin said as SEC play has gone on, he’s grown accustomed

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Mickey helped carry the Tigers to victory during the teams’ first meeting on Feb. 1. Mickey blocked six shots during the matchup, also chipping in 11 rebounds and 22 points.

The freshman phenom has accumulated 82 blocks so far this season, leading the SEC in total blocks and blocks per game with 3.57.

Mickey said even with his success and the Tigers’ success at the PMAC this season, LSU needs to

prove its worth on the road.

“We know we’re a good team, we know we can beat some teams,” Mickey said. “It doesn’t matter if you can win at home, we have to prove we can get it done out there.”

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WEB COMMENTS In response to Andrew Stolzle’s column, “Yes. Rights only apply to humans,” one reader had this to say: “Thanks for weighing in on this issue. I think you miss one crucial point, surprising given that you’re interested in science. Animal testing does not encourage innovation —it actually impedes scientific progress. The only justification we have for using animals in scientific experiments is that they lead to benefits for human health. But over and over again we’ve learned that animal tests don’t translate to useful cures or treatments for human diseases. We cured cancer in mice decades ago. We’ve cured obesity. Alzheimer’s?

Cured. HIV in monkeys? Check. We end up with a lot of healthy rats and mice but absolutely nothing of use for people. The NIH director himself has said that 95 percent of drugs fail in clinical trials— this can only be because the preceding animal trials produce bad results. Billions of dollars are wasted on failed research that has zero relevance to human beings. Animal testing isn’t just sloppy science... it’s deadly. After producing promising results in animal trials, the drug Vioxx killed tens of thousands of people and gave many more serious heart disease. The drug TGN1412, developed to treat leukemia and arthritis, passed animal tests with flying colors then nearly killed every human volunteer in the clinical trial. There are many more stories like these. The truth is that there are already plenty of alternatives available. There are just too many vested interests in the profits that come from the status quo. As a side note, we can thank vegan diets for allowing older people to compete in marathons: http://abcnews.go.com/ blogs/health/2014/01/01/elderly-couple-ran-amarathon-every-day-of-2013/. I seriously doubt drugs have anything to do with that.”

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Mating instinctive to human beings OFF WITH HER HEAD JANA KING Columnist It’s Feb. 14 on a university campus, and that means one thing — love and lust are in the air.

Whether someone caught your eye on the Tiger Trails bus this morning or someone has held your attention for a while, there’s a very good chance you’ve found yourself attracted to someone based on appearances or basic knowledge of their personality.

And while some may consider this quick judgement a shallow move, there are several studies that aim to prove this instant sexual attraction is natural.

Like it or not, your parents have a lot to do with who you find attractive. According to a study done by the University of St. Andrews, children who were born to parents age 30 and older reported being attracted to older partners more often than those who had youthful features.

Going further, St. Andrews researching psychologists found people are more likely to find themselves sexually attracted to partners who resembled their parents of the opposite gender.

But those resemblances were limited to hair and eye color, along with height.

So no need to worry about Oedipus and Electra complexes, guys and gals.

It’s difficult to define what beauty is, though the scientific community has come to a general consensus. Symmetrical faces are more likely to be considered beautiful than those with slightly off-center features.

As far as nature is concerned, sex is for reproduction. And even though humans are among two species who mate recreationally, we haven’t been able to shake nature entirely. In fact, nature is insisting we only mate with those who we feel would produce strong offspring with.

The desire to pass on our genes is expressed differently between sexes. Females tend to mate with only those strongest candidates for producing offspring, whereas males of the same species will mate with as many females as they can, in hopes that some of the offspring will survive.

This is very interesting when we think about the double standard in western society, in which a female is shamed for sleeping around, while males are celebrated for it.

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Of course, this occurring in animal species is not an excuse for that double standard. We are different from animals in that we have a conscious and free will.

Several species engage in some sort of mating ritual. Peahens, the female peafowl, will mate only with the peacock who has the most elaborate display of colorful feathers, also taking a mating dance into consideration.

Similarly, female LSU students will mate only with the male LSU students who have the most colorful collection of Chubbies pastel shorts during the spring mating season in Tigerland.

These and other aspects of human sexuality are entirely natural and important parts of the human experience. While sexuality and attraction can be frustrating and painful to deal with at times, it’s what keeps our species alive.

Now with all this talk about

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physical attraction and mating, it might prompt many of you to grab a ruler and run straight to a mirror to figure out your chances of getting a date before the day is over.

Please remember that while there is little we can do about how we look or who we are attracted to, we have a lot of say in who we are as human beings and the people we choose to spend our time with.

Jana King is a 19-year-old communication studies sophomore from Ponchatoula, La.

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Nagin’s guilt symbolic of New Orleans’ ugly chapter NEUTRAL GROUND Eli Haddow Columnist Another one bites the dust.

A guilty verdict Wednesday that doomed former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin to a sentence of 20 years or more came as a surprise to virtually no one.

While the trial has been a burden on the mind of New Orleanians for the past year — during which Nagin’s lawyers could have won an award for best trial delaying tactics — it ends a sad period that will undoubtedly go down as one of the most turbulent in the city’s near 300-year existence.

And that’s saying something.

The charges were numerous and mundane: bribery, wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy.

He was convicted on 20 and acquitted of one. But more surprising may be the fact that Nagin is the first New Orleans mayor to ever be found guilty of corruption.

That goes to show just how obvious our once-savior was in conducting his illegal affairs. Not only that, it shows Nagin’s first priority was to take care of himself rather than the citizens he took an oath to serve.

But to many New Orleans residents, Nagin’s rap sheet goes far beyond charges he can be guilty of in a courtroom. When put to task, the mayor was found wanting in nearly every aspect.

He was the aura of change and the promise of a new beginning after his initial election in 2002.

He united the underprivileged African-Americans of the ninth ward and the white Landrieu-haters of uptown in an election that gave the city hope after decades

of decline.

His shortfalls thereafter are well documented. The outbursts he had in the days following Hurricane Katrina are notorious, along with his infamous “Chocolate City” speech on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2006.

He claimed to have big dreams for what New Orleans could be in the wake of mass devastation that brought to question whether or not certain parts of the city would even be rebuilt.

His “cranes in the sky” remark lives on as a testament to the sheer ineffectiveness of his administration, even though he profited handsomely off contracts with companies that should have been helping the city get back on its feet.

So now, more than eight years after Katrina, we can sit back and take stock of all we really lost.

Sure, recovery would have been slow no matter what; after all it is New Orleans. But what we really lost was an early enthusiasm to change what was so wrong before the storm.

The school system is limping toward a better future and the crime rate remains abysmal.

There is no sum of taxpayer money that could pay back the sheer loss of time our great city endured in the years that Nagin lined his pockets instead of helping us recover.

Mayor Mitch Landrieu summed it up well by saying: “Hopefully this closes a very kind of ugly chapter in the history of the city of New Orleans.”

Indeed, but the question remains: even if the chapter is closed, how long will Nagin’s legacy negatively affect the progress of “The City that Care Forgot?”

Many LSU students probably find New Orleans a

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Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin arrives at the Hale Boggs Federal Building in New Orleans on Jan. 27.

blossoming metropolis compared to its pre-Katrina stagnation.

But the city remains the same.

This yet-to-be-determined quality that has pervaded our three-century history will never go, no matter how many hipsters move into grungy neighborhoods and drink Starbucks.

The city does not change.

Perhaps this is why, after a century of progress, we found ourselves falling behind Atlanta and Houston where businesses do not

need to worry about corruption or a local elite that perceives everyone born above I-10 as a Yankee carpetbagger.

Nagin only confirmed our image of depravity in the past years, and his legacy could potentially harm New Orleans for years to come. He only confirmed our late20th century identity of decayed elegance and a symbol of eras gone by.

However, despite all the doom and gloom that has been

brought upon this jewel of southern life, little will change in the eyes of its locals. Except, perhaps, our preference of cocktail.

Eli Haddow is a 21-year-old English and history major from New Orleans.

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DWI checkpoints a necessary evil, if done right NO WAY, JOSE Jose Bastidas Columnist Suppose you are driving your car and you find yourself at a DWI checkpoint.

An officer notices you have a can of beer — which your friend left in the passenger seat — and you get a DWI charge.

After a few months go by, you find out in court the checkpoint where you were “busted” was not following checkpoint regulations, and because of that, your case has been dismissed.

With a sense of relief, you leave the courtroom and wonder: how can checkpoints keep drunken people off the streets if officers

themselves are breaking the rules?

It’s worth considering after State District Judge Don Johnson denied an appeal on Jan. 31 to a previous ruling that the Baton Rouge Police Department violated the law when it had a police supervisor present and engaged in a DWI checkpoint.

City Court Judge Yvette Alexander ruled last year to eliminate evidence collected in a DWI checkpoint on Government Street in 2010, which initially resulted in a DWI charge against defendant Brian Parks.

Whether Parks was drunk that night should have been a contributing factor in the judge’s ruling.

However, if the police officers in charge of the checkpoints are caught breaking the rules, DWI evidence will be inadmissible in court and the guilty parties

will run free.

According to DWI checkpoint guidelines created by the Louisiana Supreme Court, the location, time and duration of a checkpoint and other regulations for operation of the checkpoint must be established by the supervisory personnel rather than the field officers in charge of running the checkpoint.

Parks’ lawyer, Cliff Ivey, said he was able to prove in court that supervisor Sgt. Cory Reach was working the checkpoint on the night in question, and he filed similar motions to eliminate evidence from DWI charges made by Baton Rouge police.

The fact that Ivey was able to convince two judges the checkpoints were violating state guidelines leads me to believe he must be onto something.

If the evidence wasn’t properly gathered to convict someone of driving while intoxicated, then it can’t be submitted, and the guilty party will be free.

It’s a loophole, of course, but one that is there to protect the public.

When Louisiana revoked the 1989 ruling that deemed DWI checkpoints unconstitutional, it laid out guidelines so police officers wouldn’t be violating a person’s Fourth Amendment rights preventing unreasonalbe search and seizure.

City Prosecutor Lisa Freeman said her office will be seeking a second appeal to the First Circuit Court of Appeal, but I think in this case, the third time won’t be the charm.

The Baton Rouge Police Department has to ensure it is

following the law to avoid legal battles like this one.

Otherwise, DWI checkpoints are only a hassle for drivers and courts alike.

I’m in complete support of DWI checkpoints because I believe they keep drunk drivers off the streets.

But without following the guidelines, DWI checkpoints become the pointless inconvenience everyone believes them to be.

Jose Bastidas is a 20-year-old mass communication junior from The Woodlands, Texas.

Contact Jose Bastidas at jbastidas@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @jabastidas

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to dinner Saturday.

Schexnayder said the two have been on several dates to sporting events, including Pelicans and Saints games as well as LSU events.

“You get to see another side of the person,” Schexnayder said.

“Dakota’s competitiveness really comes out.”

Romance and athletics seem effective ingredients in a modern love potion, as Hunter Geisman, LSU ticket office coordinator, can attest.

Geisman proposed to his wife, Cami Geisman, at a basketball game in December of 2008.

“We always went to a lot of sporting events together in college,” Cami Geisman said. “That was a part of our relationship.”

Cami said when they were juniors at the University, she signed Hunter up for one of the fan activities on the court during

a basketball game while he was in the bathroom. So when she was asked to participate in one of the events two years later on the night they were engaged, she knew he had a part in it.

“When I was leaving the court after the event, he was right on the edge of the court, down on one knee,” Cami said. “I remember the student section cheering, and he had bought tickets for my entire family so they were cheering from the upper deck.”

The couple married in 2009.

The Daily Reveille Cami said they went on a lot of gameday dates while they were in college because they were usually free for students, and they both loved sports.

“I can imagine it would not be fun for a girl who didn’t like watching sports,” Cami said.

“But we like them.”

Contact Deanna Narveson at dnarveson@lsureveille.com

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beliefs on the issue of sodomy cause them to disregard the law’s unconstitutionality.

Michael Beyer, political science sophomore, attended the meeting and said he was extremely shocked and disappointed by the results of the vote.

Beyer, the panel coordinator for Spectrum, the LGBT advocacy organization on campus, said attending the meeting reminded him of his time in high school when he wished he

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grew up in a more supportive environment.

Beyer also said the state’s current anti-sodomy laws are a painful reminder of our past, and he acknowledged Baton Rouge has “a lot of work to do” on the issue of sexual equality.

Contact Quint Forgey at qforgey@lsureveille.com

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