The Daily Reveille - October 10, 2013

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The Hispanic Student Cultural Society promotes Hispanic Heritage Month by offering salsa dance lessons Wednesday in the Echo Circle of Free Speech Plaza. photos by GRACE STEINHAUSER/

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As the month celebrating His- Hispanics are a minority at the Unipanic heritage draws to a close, the versity, the students and their culHispanic Student Cultural Society ture can often be overlooked. Lewwanted to do someis said the event thing to grab the atwas designed to William Morris tention of students be fun and festive Contributing Writer and stand out among and to show that a crowd of student organizations. all students are welcome to partake The HSCS took things to a new in the diversity of cultures. level Wednesday afternoon with a “This is the big event we have festive display of music, dancing to showcase Hispanic heritage,” and Hispanic culture pride.

Lewis said. “That’s why we have Markita Lewis, nutritional science senior, said because SALSA, see page 19

CRIME

Grenade found, detonated Wednesday Bomb discovered in yard off Highland Zach Carline Contributing Writer

The bomb squads of the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office and Baton Rouge Police Department securely detonated a World War IIera pineapple grenade off of Highland Road on Wednesday after a man discovered it in the dirt he was placing around his yard.

Casey Rayborn Hicks, EBRSO spokeswoman, said the grenade was discovered in the dirt being used in the yard early in the afternoon and officers were dispatched.

Hicks said upon investigation, the bomb squads determined the grenade was live and transferred it to a detonation site on the property.

Dirt was piled around the grenade, and it was detonated by EBRSO’s bomb squad robot in a controlled explosion, Hicks said.

GRENADE, see page 19

ACTIVISM

Organizations to celebrate Int’l Day of the Girl ‘Girl Rising’ to be played Friday Taylor Schoen Entertainment Writer

The relentless hassle of leaving the warm confines of bed and scrambling to make it to class on time is part of every University student’s life. Finding the motivation to take notes and study for tests can be daunting at times, but students often take for granted these academic nuisances.

Across the globe, young people — especially girls — would love to be presented with the educational opportunities that are the norm for

Americans. Student organization Feminists in Action and community organization Girl Warrior are teaming up to raise awareness for the inequality of girls’ education around the world.

FIA and GW will host a screening Friday evening of filmmaker Richard Robbins’ recent documentary “Girl Rising” in correlation with International Day of the Girl.

Courtney Brandabur, founder of Girl Warrior and psychology junior, said International Day of the Girl is a day of recognition and awareness for the plight that many young women face.

“Day of the Girl is a day that’s dedicated to recognizing girls’ awesomeness basically, and it’s especially for recognizing the

issue of global education for girls,” Brandabur said. “Currently, out of the 130 million children not in school, 70 percent of those are girls.

That’s for a lot of different reasons — whether it’s because they live in a society that doesn’t value them as men or they are simply kept out of school entirely because their parents don’t think it’s a good financial decision to invest in them.”

She went on to cite that impoverished countries are the ones that benefit the most from educating girls.

She said the organizations Girl Rising and 10x10 are attempting to raise awareness of this issue globally by promoting screenings GIRL, see page 6

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Psychology junior Courtney Brandabur photographs Shoko Morikawa on Wednesday with her opinion of why education is important for women.

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INTERNATIONAL Chilean man rescues Dalmations after seeing Disney’s “101 Dalmations” SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — In Chile, he’s known to many people as the “Dalmatian Man.” After watching the 1996 Disney movie “101 Dalmatians,” Nelson Vergara began fantasizing about rescuing and taking care of as many dogs as possible. Today, 42 Dalmatians live in his backyard on the outskirts of the Chilean capital.

“It all started because of that film,” said Vergara, 55. “That was computer-generated. But I wanted to do the real thing.”

That has him in trouble with the authorities because neighbors complain about the foul smell coming from his yard.

Saudi women in top advisory council want debate on women’s driving rights RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi women on the ultraconservative kingdom’s top advisory council have called for a discussion on the sensitive issue of allowing women to drive, a move that could embolden reformers pushing to lift the ban.

The official request was made this week to the head of the Shura Council, council member Latifa al-Shaalan said, to address all “excuses” raised to keep women from driving since Islamic law and Saudi traffic laws do not forbid it.

Nation & World LUIS HIDALGO / The Associated Press

Nelson Vergara, 55, pets one of his 42 Dalmatians on Oct. 7 in the backyard of his modest home in Padre Hurtado, a town on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile.

Passenger lands small plane for the first time after pilot falls ill LONDON (AP) — When the pilot of his small plane collapsed in the cockpit, passenger John Wildey took the controls of the Cessna 172 over England, and suddenly began his first experience of landing — with some help from instructors on the ground.

“I hadn’t a clue what to do to get down,” the 77-year-old Wildey told the BBC on Wednesday. “I’ve never flown a plane before.”

Officials at Humberside Airport in northwest England put emergency plans into place and flight instructors were called in to help Wildey after the mayday call went out Tuesday evening.

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NATIONAL

STATE/LOCAL

Government shutdown means no new beer from craft brewers

1 dead, 3 sent to hospital after chopper crashes in Gulf on Wed.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The federal government shutdown could leave America’s craft brewers with a serious hangover.

Stores will still offer plenty of suds. But the shutdown has closed an obscure agency that quietly approves new breweries, recipes and labels, which could create huge delays throughout the rapidly growing craft industry, whose customers expect a constant supply of inventive and seasonal beers.

Mike Brenner is trying to open a craft brewery in Milwaukee

by December.

Retired cop killed after firing at U.S. courthouse in West Virginia

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Scotland-based energy services company says a helicopter crash killed a contract pilot and injured two of three passengers.

Wood Group spokeswoman Bobbie Ireland, in Houston, says the helicopter was owned by Panther Helicopters of Belle Chasse. It crashed Wednesday, immediately after takeoff from an oil rig with three men whose shifts offshore had just ended.

Ireland says the men employed by Wood Group PSN are all from Louisiana.

WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) — Police say a retired police officer armed with two weapons fired up to two dozen shots at a U.S. courthouse in West Virginia before police returned fire and killed him.

Wheeling Police Chief Shawn Schwertfeger identified the gunman in Wednesday afternoon’s shooting as 55-year-old Thomas J. Piccard of Bridgeport, Ohio. He is a retired Wheeling police officer.

At a news conference late Wednesday, Schwertfeger said Piccard was armed with an assault weapon and a handgun.

CARRIE ANTLFINGER / The Associated Press

Mark Paprocki (left) and Dylan Maz pour beer on Oct. 3 during a tour at Lakefront Brewery in Milwaukee. Shutdown could lead to no new beer from craft brewers.

Jupiter-bound craft runs into problem Wednesday after flyby, still on track LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA’s Jupiter-bound spacecraft hit a snag Wednesday soon after it used Earth as a gravity slingshot to hurtle toward the outer solar system, but mission managers said it’s on course to arrive at the giant planet in 2016.

Juno emerged from Earth’s shadow in safe mode, a state that spacecrafts are programmed to go into when there’s some trouble.

Despite the problem, “we believe we are on track as planned to Jupiter,” said project manager Rick Nybakken of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the $1.1 billion mission.

Loaded gun found in junior high school bathroom; 2 boys arrested MANDEVILLE (AP) — A 13-year-old 7th grader and a 14-year-old 8th grader at Mandeville Junior High School were booked with possession of a firearm on school property Wednesday after a loaded handgun was found inside a bathroom at the school.

A lockdown was ordered after a student reported hearing about the gun. A school resource officer found it stashed on top of ceiling tiles in the bathroom, according to Lt. Gerald Sticker of the Mandeville Police.

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NATION

Fate of federal loans, grants unclear with debt ceiling Funding decrease could affect students Gordon Brillon Staff Writer

If the federal government doesn’t agree to raise the debt ceiling next week, University students may see an impact on their financial aid packages. Disagreement about the debt ceiling could lead to a decrease in federal funding, which could impact federal student loans and grants, professors say.

According to a memo released in late September by the Department of Education, the government shutdown has already reduced the department to

the minimum levels of staff.

Political science professor James Garand said failing to raise the debt ceiling would cause a reduction in federal spending, which may further reduce the amount of staff available.

Twenty-two percent of University students received some form of federal financial aid last year, according to data released by the University. Students were awarded an average of $5,039 in need-based aid.

Sujuan Boutté, executive director of the Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance, said the Department of Education has not released further information on how the debt ceiling debate could affect department operations because of the lower staff levels brought on by

the shutdown.

The debate over the debt ceiling centers around the federal government’s ability to borrow increasing amounts of money, Garand said. If the ceiling is not raised, the government will only be able to spend what it makes in daily revenue, which Garand said would be around 70 percent of its usual spending.

The difficulty, Garand said, is that an agreement on the debt ceiling will likely not be reached while the government shutdown remains in effect.

The Department of Education memo states that in the event of a shutdown, the minimum level of staff would be provisionally set at 138 workers for the first week and would increase if the shutdown lasted longer than

one week.

To date, the government has been shut down for 10 days.

The memo also states the minimum level of employees would be sufficient to keep federal student loan and Pell Grant programs available for a short period, but more would need to return from furlough to deal with new requests for financial aid at the end of the year.

However, the Department of Education policy does not account for possible revenue losses caused by failure to raise the debt ceiling.

Garand said if a raise to the debt ceiling cannot be agreed upon, funding to several federal programs would need to be cut.

In the event of an impasse over the debt ceiling, Garand

said the president would need to decide which programs take priority for funding. Garand said funding for education and student loans is popular among Americans, but it’s not clear whether it would continue to be funded if a decision had to be made.

“Americans tend to be sympathetic to students,” Garand said. “But if we have to choose between cutting Social Security from Grandma and cutting student loans for Jonny, it’s obvious who’s going to win.”

Contact Gordon Brillon at gbrillon@lsureveille.com

COLLEGE OF BUSINESS

OCTOBER

SEI program seeks applicants Jonathan Olivier Contributing Writer

The University Stephenson Entrepreneurship Institute’s Entrepreneurship Fellows Program is designed as a work-study platform where students who have an interest in entrepreneurship have the opportunity to engage in an intensive and in-depth regimen for two semesters, starting in the spring and ending in the fall, said SEI Fellows Program Academic Advisor Thomas Greckhamer.

Greckhamer said only around 12 students will gain entry into the program, which allows SEI staff to focus all available resources on the group, creating an unmatched learning opportunity.

Students pay nothing to take part in the fellows program and receive benefits like a personal mentor from the business world, guest speakers throughout the semester and a summer internship geared toward at entrepreneurship.

Each student has a different experience in the program because each takes different internships and has different mentors, Greckhamer said. But each experience is intended to allow students the opportunity to learn from experienced entrepreneurs and apply those skills in their own lives, he said.

Marketing senior Nathan Irby signed up for a minor in entrepreneurship so he could enroll in the fellows program, noticing the value becoming a fellow would have on his business aspirations.

“I heard through a past fellow that this was the best educational experience in college, and that has been the case for me as well,” he said.

Hearing firsthand from entrepreneurs in the guest speaker series and seeing what they have overcome creates a sense of motivation, and gives insight into how people have succeeded, he said.

Irby conducted his internship over the summer at PosiGen, a solar energy company, with entrepreneur Aaron Dirks, from whom, Irby said, he learned valuable skills needed for the professional world.

Fellows are required to share summer internship experiences with others in the program, which is meant to solidify the learning experience as the students reach the

closure of the program in the fall, Greckhamer said.

Applications for the 2014 class of the SEI Fellows Program are due Oct. 24 and are available online at sei.lsu.edu.

Contact Jonathan Olivier at jolivier@lsureveille.com

EVENTS UREC Open Challenge Course Adventure Education will be hosting open challenge course hours Be sure to bring athletic clothes and closed toe shoes Deadline registration is Oct. 11 2013

Myrtles Plantation Halloween Experience Haunted tours from 6-9pm Oct. 25 Admission is only $10 and can be bought ahead or at the door. www.myrtlesplantation.com for more or call 225-635-6277

$10 Race Night Take advantage of $10 races on the outdoor track all night!

Come be a rockstar at Baton Rouge’s premiere indoor kart facility, Rockstar Racing! www.rockstarracing.net

Dance to the Beat in Pink

EVENT CALENDAR

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2013 5:00 PM

Bill Malchow - The Three Muses Erin Demastes - The Maison Fit Club - Carver Branch Library

6:00 PM

Comedy Central on Campus - LSU Union Theater Miss Sophie Lee - The Spotted Cat Music Club Micah McKee and Little Maker - Blue Nile

6:30 PM

The 13th Gate Haunted House - 13th Gate Haunted House

7:00 PM

Upon A Burning Body - North Gate Tavern Trivia Night! - The Station Sports Bar and Grill Broadmoor vs. Live Oak Football - Broadmoor High School University of New Orleans vs. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Volleyball - Human Performance Center Michaela Harrison - Cafe Istanbul Open Mic Blues Jam - Phil Brady's Bar & Grill

7:30 PM

Brian Regan - Saenger Theatre New Orleans You're Ok! How Am I? - Baton Rouge Little Theater Luke Winslow King Blues and Jazz - The Three Muses

8:00 PM

A Night with Cameryn Moore - Shadow Box Theatre Adult Bedtime Stories with Chuck Palahniuk Tipitina's - New Orleans The 2nd Annual Save Shell Beach Fundraiser - Howlin' Wolf Avon Suspects - Old Point Bar

8:30 PM

Comedy Gumbeaux - Howlin' Wolf Geno Delafose - Rock 'N' Bowl Richard Knox & Company - Cafe Istanbul

9:00 PM

Tom Fischer and Ben Polser - Fritzels Jazz Club Mutzie - The Funny Bone Comedy Club

10:00 PM

The Soul Rebels - Le Bon Temps Roulé Barry Stephenson's Pocket - The Maison Jumbo Shrimp - The Spotted Cat Music Club Egg Yolk Jubilee - D.B.A. Reggae Night with DJ T Roy - Blue Nile

11:00 PM

Cat's Ass Karaoke - George's Place Youngblood Brass Band - Howlin' Wolf Big Freedia - Republic New Orleans

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

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STUDENT HEALTH CENTER

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‘Straight Up Tipsy’ event addresses student alcohol use Desiree Robertson Contributing Writer

Students learned about the risks associated with using alcohol at a University hosted event — complete with a menu of mock cocktails. The “Straight Up Tipsy” event was held to mark National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week, happening from Oct. 20-26.

“It uses no scare tactics, doesn’t condemn legal drinkers, nor push for abstinence, but rather advocates for safe and responsible alcohol consumption, if one decides to drink,” said Ian Wang, Health Promotion coordinator for the Student Health Center.

The University doesn’t have more of a problem with underage drinking or binging drinking than any other major college, but it is

still a major issue here on campus, Wang said. In the past 30 days, 77 percent of students have consumed alcohol, while 87 percent of the University’s students have consumed alcohol in the past year, the 2013 Core Institute Alcohol and Drug Survey 2013 reported.

Wang said he hopes that after attending the event, students will leave with enough knowledge to make smart and healthy decisions for themselves and others.

Students should keep their priorities in mind and remember their goal is not to major in alcohol consumption while they are in school, said Jennie Stewart, Student Advocacy and Accountability assistant dean.

Even if students are not dealing with an addiction, alcohol can still create a barrier that can

hinder their success, Stewart said.

St. Christopher’s Addiction Wellness Center’s Mental Health Technician Travis Weisbrod attended the event and shared how he faced problems with alcohol and drugs while he was in college.

“My college career was kind of a drug education course,” Weisbrod said.

Weisbrod said he did not drink or use drugs at all in high school, but when he was in college he started drinking on the weekends like most college students.

At first, it didn’t affect his life and he was able to keep up his grades, but as time went on, he began drinking more and using harder drugs. This led to arrest and in the end to him seeking treatment, Weisbrod said.

Weisbrod said he never thought this would happen to someone like him and this proves that it can happen to anyone.

Bret Blackmon, associate director of Louisiana Center Addressing Substance Use in Collegiate Communities, said the University is increasing the number of resources and services available to help students who are in recovery by having weekly Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

This is the first semester that this has been offered on campus to students.

CHARLOTTE WILLCOX / The Daily Reveille

Contact Desiree Robertson at drobertson@lsureveille.com

Assistant Dean of Student Advocacy and Accountability Jennie Stewart talks to students Wednesday at “Straight Up Tipsy” in the Laville Lounge.

EDUCATION

SU arch. school closure shouldn’t affect LSU Christine Aman Contributing Writer

As Southern University’s School of Architecture closes its doors and prepares to phase out its architecture degree program, LSU College of Art and Design authorities said the closure should not dramatically affect LSU. The closure will mean an increase in applications as students look to study architecture at LSU, but not an increase in enrollment due to the school’s unofficial cap on class size, said Angela Harwood, College of Art and Design communications coordinator.

The only thing that may change

at LSU is student diversity.

The biggest change of the shutdown will affect architecture in the community, as Southern University’s program— one of only seven Historically Black College architecture programs in the nation — will be gone, said Jason Lockhart, former architecture professor at Southern University and current architecture professor at LSU. This will cause a decrease in minority voices in the architecture community.

“It’s sad that we are losing a treasured program within the state of Louisiana that has educated so many African American architectures that are productive in communities around the nation,” Lockhart said.

How do you think Southern’s architecture school closure will affect LSU?

James Joyner architecture senior

‘It will be better for LSU because we’ll get more money from it.’

Kyle Hymel

‘The competition of getting into the architecture school will be larger.’

architecture senior

‘If [Southern architecture students] were to come to school here and had access to our resources, the school could benefit from a broader perspective.’

Zachary Chatelain architecture senior

While the cut is partially due to budget issues, the school is closing because it is losing its credentials.

Current students will be allowed to graduate and earn their degree, but no future students will be accepted after this semester.

Lockhart said Southern’s program had a close relationship with the community, something Lockhart was hired to continue by Jori

Erdman, director of the LSU’s School of Architecture.

With LSU planning to maintain its class sizes even with Southern’s program shutting down, aspects of LSU’s architecture program — such as scholarships and faculty — ­ will remain the same.

Contact Christine Aman at caman@lsureveille.com

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student government

Sandra Parks named Resolution opposes suffix grades new head of dance SG amends its Parks to expand dance minor Michael Tarver Contributing Writer

Sandra Parks danced her way from Taiwan into the University’s Department of Theatre and the head of dance position, inspiring expansion in the current dance minor program along the way.

Parks has performed her Parks choreography internationally and said she wants to build the current dance program to one day take students to compete overseas again.

One of her primary goals for the program is adding more classes and sections to distinguish individual training of the students, Parks said. She has already begun to reach out to the local community to establish partnerships that could help expand the program.

Parks said she plans to send 13 students to the American College Dance Festival to represent the University for the first time in this national competition.

She also said she plans to have two concerts a year instead of one, which she hopes will begin in 2014. Parks determined these plans after talking to her new students, she said.

Parks said she is excited to work with the dance program and expand it within the community.

The most exciting part of coming to the University is having the opportunity to direct a program of

her own, she said. Upon arriving to the University, Parks said she talked to her students to get their perspective about their hopes for the program’s future, she said.

The biggest feedback she got was that they want to be seen and recognized from their performing, Parks said, as there is currently no major solely for dance; students who minor want to see expansion.

“The most important thing for me is the student experience,” Parks said.

Parks recently presented an original production called “Rebuild” in the 2013 Taiwan Dance Choreography Competition. The competition was hosted by the National Dance Association of the Republic of China, and only 30 pieces were chosen out of the 120 applicants.

Prior to coming to the University, Parks taught at Kennesaw State University in Georgia as an assistant professor, where she took students to Taipei, Taiwan for a study abroad program with the National Taiwan University of Arts. Parks learned of the competition while in Taipei and submitted a recording to enter the competition.

Her enthusiasm for the growing program has been met with support from the Department of Theatre, Parks said. Interim Chair of the Theatre Department John Fletcher said Parks has already proven herself to be an energetic and dedicated advocate for dance in the program.

Contact Michael Tarver at mtarver@lsureveille.com

next door,” Brandabur explained.

To prepare for the event, of “Girl Rising” around the world Brandabur and FIA have been acto educate the public as well as gar- tively campaigning on campus to ner government attention. raise awareness as well as asking Brandabur said governments students to write down why educaplay a pivotal role in granting equal tion is important for girls. Brandaeducational opportubur has been snapping If you go: nities. Governments photographs of the that offer voucher What: film screening of participants and their programs for children answers to make a colstatistically achieve “Girl Rising” lage to unveil at the higher female enroll- When: 7 p.m. Friday film screening. She ment in schools.

Where: Dodson Auditorium said she encourages The film “Girl students to attend the Price: free Rising” tells the sto“Girl Rising” screenries of nine girls from ing because it can different countries and their expe- help open eyes to how privileged riences trying to receive an educa- students can be when it comes edution. Brandabur said one story in cation, which isn’t a basic human particular has stuck with her. right in many countries. Awareness “There’s one segment about of an issue can lead to the solution, — I believe she’s a coalminers’ Brandabur said. daughter and she’s in Peru — and The “Girl Rising” screening she talks about how she’s really will take place in the Dodson Audimotivated by her dad’s belief in her torium at 7 p.m. Friday. The event to become, I believe in her story, is free and open to the public. she’s trying to become an engineer.

And she works near a brothel … it’s super fascinating to see that she Contact Taylor Schoen at recognizes that if she doesn’t invest in her education, she might end up tschoen@lsureveille.com

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constitution Camille Stelly Contributing Writer

Student Government passed a resolution Wednesday evening reaffirming its opposition to the suffix — or plus-minus — grading system and advocating for student representation in further discussion of this topic.

SG concluded that many students oppose the suffix grading system­based on a survey sent to students and by the comments left by students in January 2012. Of more than 200 emails from students, only 2 percent were in favor of the system.

A Faculty Senate committee was also formed to address the process of implementation and to conduct research about the effects of a new grading system.

A survey conducted by the Faculty Senate committee in spring 2013 confirmed many students would see a drop in letter grades and a decline in their overall GPA. According to a resolution presented by SG, implementing the system would have a negative effect on overall student GPA, which in turn would affect TOPS and scholarship eligibility and retention rates, not to mention the logistics of implementing this system in the midst of a budget crisis.

Implementing a suffix grading system could cost the University between $15,000 and $20,000,

GRACE STEINHAUSER / The Daily Reveille

Speaker Pro Tempore Trey Schwartenzburg and Senator Kayleigh Buvens propose a resolution Wednesday to bring to the Faculty Senate opposing the implementation of a suffix grading system in the Capitol Chambers Room.

according to Speaker pro tempore Trey Schwartzenburg.

“Much survey and data research supports the almost unanimous opposition of plus-minus grading,” Schwartzenburg said.

This is the third SG resolution opposing suffix grading being sent to Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Stuart Bell, who has the final decision on this matter with the Office of Academic Affairs.

While SG wants to keep the status quo with the current University grading system, it switched gears by making changes to its constitution.

The amendments allow the president and vice president to run

for an additional term, allowing for a maximum of two one-year terms.

The president now has the ability to appoint an executive staff and judicial officers, dependent on SG senate approval.

The amendments also mandate removal of College Council officers who fail to regain active status after four weeks of inactivity.

While SG approved these amendments, they will not take effect until the student body votes in the fall election on Oct. 28 and 29.

Contact Camille Stelly at cstelly@lsureveille.com

Sports

Thursday, October 10, 2013

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BEATING GOLIATH

volleyball

Tigers rally past Aggies in five sets Mike Gegenheimer Sports Writer

lives forever.

The duo entered the tournament ranked 400th in the world. The pair won match after match, beating stars like Andrés Gómez and Patrick McEnroe, setting the finals match against the 1990 French Open

On the brink of its third consecutive loss, the LSU volleyball team pulled off an unlikely comeback against Texas A&M Wednesday night.

The Tigers were down two sets on the road to the reigning Southeastern Conference Western Division champions. It wasn’t a perfect situation for LSU coach Fran Flory and her team, but the Tigers never relinquished hope on their way to a five-set victory (20-25, 16-25, 2519, 25-18, 15-10).

“This team has a lot of ability and a lot of heart,” Flory said.

“They’re not going to quit, they’re not going to walk off the court not giving their best effort. We’re a bunch of really good athletes and they’re here in our program because we trust that.”

The come-from-behind win is the third time this season the Tigers have won after being down two sets in the match.

Flory credited her team’s slow start to inexperience on the court and playing with a fear of making errors — something she said can’t happen when playing a team like

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Current LSU men’s tennis coach Jeff Brown (left) talks to his doubles partner Scott Melville (right) during a match. Brown accomplished many feats in his playing days, including an upset against tennis legend Pete Sampras and his doubles partner Jim Courier at the 1990 U.S. Open.

LSU men’s tennis coach Jeff Brown puts together an ace of a professional career Trip Dugas Sports Contributor

Before becoming the LSU men’s tennis coach 17 years ago, Jeff Brown created an impressive résumé of his own.

As a player, he captained the Tigers’ 1988 NCAA Finals team,

reached 100 career wins and was awarded All-Southeastern Conference and All-American honors.

The Gainesville, Fla., native spent only five years away from the LSU program since graduating, but those five years manifested memories Brown still dawns upon today.

Brown teamed up with Scott

Melville, a former college AllAmerican from USC, and the duo tried their luck on the Association of Tennis Professionals circuit in 1989.

After competing in a number of small events, Brown and Melville qualified for the New Haven Volvo International Tournament in 1990, a tournament that would change their

Florida offense better off under new quarterback THE SMARTEST MORAN James Moran Sports Columnist

JOHN RAOUX / The Associated Press

Florida quarterback Tyler Murphy (3) high-fives fans Saturday after Florida’s 30-10 victory against Arkansas in Gainesville, Fla. Murphy filled in for Gators’ quarterback Jeff Driskel after he broke his tibia in the Gators’ game against Tennessee this year.

S a t u r d a y ’s F l o r i d a - L S U game promises to be a heavyweight showdown between two teams with Southeastern Conference Championship aspirations on the line.

But a few weeks ago, the Gators did not resemble the formidable foe that will enter Tiger Stadium. The Florida defense was rock solid, but the offense was a train wreck large enough to keep the entire team stuck in neutral.

After a sluggish season-opening win against Toledo, quarterback Jeff Driskel and company turned the ball over five times in the Gators’ 21-16 loss against Miami, despite the Florida defense allowing just 212 total yards.

Two weeks and another

Driskel giveaway later, Florida faced an early deficit in Gainesville against lowly Tennessee.

Then, something changed.

Driskel went down with an ankle injury and never got back up.

His injury was season-ending.

It was a tough break for one junior quarterback, but it was an opportunity for another to inject life into an offense dying for a spark.

Enter unheralded backup Tyler Murphy. His touchdown pass to Solomon Patton recaptured the lead, his late touchdown run sealed the victory against the Vols and the Gators have been on a roll since.

Murphy has played solid since, combining with dominant defensive performances to lead Florida to easy victories against Kentucky and Arkansas in successive weeks. By no means are those elite opponents, but considering how much the offense was struggling with Driskel, Will Muschamp would settle for

efficient victories.

It’s counterintuitive to think a team would improve when it loses its starting quarterback, but Murphy is a better fit for the way the Gators want to win football games.

In a season where good defenses have become an endangered species in the SEC, Florida has one. The Gators lead the conference in scoring defense, total defense, rush defense, pass defense and third down defense.

With that defense, Florida doesn’t need Murphy to go win games by himself; they just need him to not lose them.

So far, so good.

Murphy has only turned the ball over once since taking over.

He’s completed 72 percent of his passes, thrown five touchdowns and ran in a couple more.

He’s made smart decisions with the football and has the ability to florida, see page 10

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FOOTBALL

LSU looking to boost 2014 class with top-tier recruits

Fournette, Jones remain top targets Lawrence Barreca Sports Writer

Amid the weekly battles fought between the sidelines in college football stadiums around the nation, another war rages on that flies under the eyes of the public.

High school prospects across the country are putting on shows every Friday night and committing to collegiate programs, as the 2014 football recruiting classes are in the process of rounding out.

LSU began grabbing top-tier recruits a season ago, picking up four-star talents Edward Paris Jr. (safety), Jacory Washington (tight end) and Donnie Alexander (outside linebacker) early in 2013.

But the program is still missing several keys to put this year’s class in the upper echelon of the country.

Fifteen recruits have joined the Tigers’ 2014 class, and a number of other talents have expressed interest in committing to the Tigers for next season. Of those 15, a dozen are ESPN four-star prospects, and 10 are top-300 recruits.

That being said, LSU’s current class is ranked 10th in the nation by ESPN, 13th by Rivals. com and 15th by Scout.com, but

there’s plenty of work left to be done.

“It is a pretty small class so far,” said Kynon Codrington, Rivals.com’s Southeast college football recruiting analyst. “When you look at the class overall, it’s pretty good with the chance to get better. It’s a solid class so far, but they’re in the position with guys like [Laurence] Jones and [Leonard] Fournette, and it could be a special group.”

Jones, a four-star safety recruit according to Rivals, is considering a number of Southeastern Conference schools, with programs like LSU, Alabama and Arkansas extending him offers.

The 6-foot-2-inch, 208-pound Monroe, La. native would be the second quality safety prospect in the class along with Paris.

The name on everyone’s mind, though, is Fournette.

Fournette, a St. Augustine running back and the top recruit in the nation according to ESPN and Scout, has stolen plenty of the spotlight in recent weeks, and he will likely continue to do so over the next four months.

Fournette recently made an appearance on ESPN2 when St. Augustine battled John Curtis High School, as he showed off his talents by rushing for 262 yards and two touchdowns in a 29-28 victory.

“He’s the headliner and rightfully so,” Codrington said. “He

has the chance to be a feature back for you. He’s the developed talent for this class, and [LSU] is going against its rival in the SEC West in Alabama, so not only is he a must-get for the program, but he’s a must-get because you don’t want to be lining up against him for the next three or four years if he winds up in Tuscaloosa.”

The Tigers have already lost one commitment to the Crimson Tide. Five-star West Monroe offensive lineman Cameron Robinson committed to Alabama in early September.

Looking at how freshman running backs have found success at LSU in the past, Fournette would likely see his share of snaps in Tiger Stadium if he were to join the squad next season. The war for the 6-foot-1, 225-pound running back will rage on until he makes an announcement later this year.

LSU will look to address a number of needs with this year’s class, too.

With the potential losses of junior receivers Odell Beckham Jr. and Jarvis Landry to the NFL Draft, the squad will have several holes to fill when practice begins in the spring.

This is where Rivals five-star prospect and River Ridge, La. native Malachi Dupre comes into play.

According to Codrington, LSU has a slight lead on the 6-foot-4, 175-pound receiver from

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Catholic High School running back and LSU recruit Derrius Guice (20) runs past a Parkview Baptist defender Sept. 6 during the Bears’ 28-6 victory against the Eagles at Olympia Stadium.

John Curtis, and he said he likes his chances of Dupre staying close to home in Baton Rouge.

The success of the 2014 recruiting class goes back to defense — especially at defensive back.

Besides Paris, the Tigers have only received one other commitment from a defensive back, three-star safety John Battle IV from Hallandale Beach, Fla. With five-star defensive back recruits Jalen Tabor and Tony Brown still waiting to commit, LSU has two potential prospects who could help add to an already young secondary that is seeing

playing time for the Tigers in 2013.

“I think secondary help is kind of a position in need right now,” Codrington said. “Look for them to maybe address some of those needs, but this is LSU, and they always seem to find a way to rebuild and reload as they continue to close out this class.”

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

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Poor performance with free Tigers to join SEC throws holding LSU back foes this weekend Cole Travis Sports Contributor

Free throws seem so simple.

Stand 15 feet from the basket with no one playing defense and shoot the ball. Then do it again. And again, until it’s no longer a problem.

For all of the optimism surrounding the LSU men’s basketball team’s upcoming season, free throws are the one dark cloud hanging over the program.

Last season, the Tigers shot 62 percent from the charity stripe, the worst in the Southeastern Conference. Even worse than South Carolina — a team that had a player shoot one handed.

But in order to understand the scope of LSU’s ineptitude, one must look at the entirety of Division I men’s basketball. Of all 345 teams in Divsion I, the Tigers finished

331st in free throw percentage.

None of the teams that finished below the Tigers made the NCAA Tournament, a place senior forward Shavon Coleman said the Tigers are looking at as the goal for this season.

Despite this disturbing trend, LSU coach Johnny Jones said it wasn’t an issue he was particularly concerned with.

“We got off to a bad start and that hurt our percentage, but I think we finished strong,” Jones said.

“We’re not doing anything different this year.”

There could be help on the way in the form of Jones’ banner recruiting class. Of the freshmen expected to play significant minutes, guard Tim Quarterman of Savannah, Ga., has the best track record from the free-throw line, having shot 82 percent at Johnson High School.

Quarterman said the Tigers

shoot free throws at the end of every practice when they are exhausted from running Jones’ up tempo offense. He said it simulates the feeling at the end of a game and forces them to block everything out to focus on knocking down their shots.

Junior forward Jonny O’Bryant III sparked much of the optimism surrounding the upcoming season in April when he announced he would return for his junior season.

O’Bryant and junior guard Anthony Hickey led the Tigers in scoring last season.

But for of all their scoring ability, they were two of the chief offenders from the line last season.

The juniors shot almost a third of the Tigers’ free throws at only 55 percent.

O’Bryant said he is the best basketball player he has ever been after a summer of traveling to camps across the country. Specifically, he mentioned his improved 15-foot jump shot, something that could translate to more success from the free-throw line.

In order to challenge for a spot in the tournament, LSU needs its highest volume scorers to be more reliable from the line. Sophomore guard Malik Morgan said the Tigers just need to focus to get better.

“That was just a lack of concentration on our part really ... you can’t take them as a joke,” Morgan said.

“It is all inside people’s heads. We have great shooters on the teams, all we need is the confidence to knock it down.”

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LSU forward Johnny O’Bryant III (2) prepares to make a free throw Feb. 23 during the Tigers’ 97-94 triple overtime victory against the Crimson Tide.

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Taylor Curet Sports Contributor

While LSU was travelling through Mississippi on Wednesday afternoon, men’s tennis coach Jeff Brown was thinking about improvement.

The Tigers lace up for their third fall tournament as a complete team this morning at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Southern Regional Championships in Tuscaloosa, Ala. The five-day event is another opportunity for LSU to refine its skills — Brown’s goal for the team in the fall.

“It’s a super important time for our team,” Brown said. “It’s a time when you can make changes based on what you see during the matches. And you take a little less risk when you’re making changes in the fall ... you don’t want to do as much tinkering with their swings and such during the team season.”

All eight of LSU’s players will join a field of 18 southern regional schools that includes five fellow Southeastern Conference teams.

Even with a squad comprised largely of freshmen and sophomores, Brown said he’s not concerned about lack of experience or immaturity. The young Tigers are motivated, and Brown said he likes the idea that there is room for his team to develop.

“It’s exciting because they’re all very excited,” Brown said.

“The buy in has been really good with this team. They’re all on the same page. We don’t really have anybody that’s out in left field ...

and they’re pushing each other and encouraging each other.”

The most experienced Tiger, No. 29 junior Chris Simpson, leads LSU with five singles victories in two tournaments this fall.

Redshirt freshmen John Michael Busch and Eric Perez are still seeking their first wins as Tigers in the main draw of an event.

While Busch and Perez look for that first win, other Tigers are just looking for experience. But with a diverse group, Brown said he realizes individual aspirations for players may differ, but his ultimate objective for the Tigers this time of the year remains the same.

“For the guys that are more capable of playing at the top of the lineup, you’d really like to see them have big breakthrough events where they get past some ranked players and things like that,” Brown said. “And for the other guys, you want them to ... improve the level and for them to come out of the fall with confidence.”

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Thursday, October 10, 2013 RALLY, from page 7

Texas A&M on its own court.

“We wouldn’t risk, we wouldn’t put ourselves out there — we were trying to be safe,” Flory said. “The challenge between two and three is you can’t be afraid, you have to go, you have to get on the line and play the best you can.”

Junior setter Malorie Pardo recorded 46 assists and 10 digs during the LSU win. Pardo said the biggest difference between the second and third sets was the Tigers’ passion and desire for the game.

According to the team’s lone senior middle blocker Desiree Elliott, the change in mindset stemmed from LSU’s locker room conversation in which the team discussed what it meant to wear LSU on their chests.

“Once we figured out how to play for each other and what it means to have LSU on our jersey

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Current LSU men’s tennis coach Jeff Brown (left) sits with his then-doubles partner Scott Melville (right) during a doubles match.

BROWN, from page 7

runner-up team of Goran Ivanišević and Petr Korda.

“We were starstruck when we were playing them,” Brown said.

“Plus, it was a million dollar event back then. It was a really weird deal.”

Brown and Melville pulled off an improbable victory, winning 2–6, 7–5, 6–0. Their doubles world ranking jumped more than 300 spots and into the top 100, they won the $1 million grand prize, but most importantly, they qualified for the mother of all American tournaments: the U.S. Open.

Just two weeks after their first professional title, Brown and Melville traveled to New York to fulfill their childhood dreams.

But little did they know, Goliath awaited in the first round.

“Everything was happening really fast,” Brown said. “We didn’t know we were going to the U.S. Open, now we’re in the U.S. Open, and now we’re playing Pete Sampras and Jim Courier.”

Courier and Sampras were a doubles powerhouse. Both had been ranked No. 1 in the world in singles and were favorites to sweep the U.S. Open doubles field.

But Brown and Melville ignored the hype on that August day in 1990 and introduced themselves to the tennis world.

“There was a lot of excitement and we were playing with a lot of confidence,” Brown recalls. “We had to have that. We had to really believe in ourselves or else we could have gotten run over by their personas.”

Brown and Melville fell behind early, losing the first set 6-3.

“We didn’t win Pete Sampras’ serve the whole match,” Brown said.

“It was really apparent how well he was serving and we didn’t really have a chance. So we focused on Courier’s serve.”

Brown and Melville took the second set and broke Courier’s serve twice in the third set to seal the upset with a 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 victory.

“I remember that on the scoreboard it had Jim Courier and Pete

Sampras and my partner’s name, but they had my named mispelled,” Brown said. “It was kind of justice at the end for the no-names to take down the big guns.”

Brown and Melville were awarded access to a loft above Mickey Mantle’s bar that night to celebrate the first round win. Two days later, the duo won one more match, propelling them into the round of 16 where their U.S. Open streak ended.

“It was a great experience and a kickstart to our professional careers,” Brown said. “That few weeks really put a nice little nest egg for us financially to travel the world for the next few years.”

Brown continued to play on

the ATP circuit for four more years, changing partners along the way. He played alongside Swedish tennis legend Anders Per Järryd for some tournaments and faced American great Andre Agassi in others, but nothing compared to his professional debut days with Melville.

“Just feeling that sense of accomplishment that maybe you got to the pinnacle of your sport, especially so early in your career,” Brown said.

“That’s my biggest achievement.”

Contact Trip Dugas at tdugas@lsureveille.com

move the chains through the air and on the ground.

After watching film on Murphy, LSU senior linebacker Lamin Barrow said Murphy reminded him of Mississippi State’s Dak Prescott, who the Tiger defense had trouble containing early in the game last Saturday.

Barrow said Murphy was a little smaller and quicker than Prescott, and characterized the Gator signal caller as a “threat.”

“He’s a quick kid, you know,” Barrow said. “He’s very athletic and can make a lot of plays with his feet. Also, I think his arm is underrated. I’ve heard over time that he’s not exactly the thrower that Driskel was, but

and learn how to turn it around on the court, we just figured it out and it felt really good,” Elliott said.

“Coming off of a couple losses, we stuck together and we pulled through it for the Tigers.”

The win marked Flory’s 400th career win including head coaching stints at Kentucky and Southeastern Louisiana. Flory said she didn’t realize she had surpassed the milestone on Wednesday night, but gave her players and coaching staff all the praise.

“The bottom line is, I want our kids to succeed,” Flory said. “It’s never been about me and it’s never going to be about me. I’m proud of our kids and I’m proud of our staff and I’m looking forward to the next opportunity to get the next win.”

Contact Mike Gegenheimer at mgegenheimer@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @Gegs1313_TDR I’ve seen him make some throws to win games that have surprised me.”

So while all eyes will be on the Gators’ defense as it tries to slow down a high-powered Tiger offense, Murphy quietly makes the Florida offense good enough to come into Tiger Stadium and win.

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

Contact James Moran at jmoran@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @James_Moran92

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Matt Nathanson Gets Real M Singer reinvents himself with new album REBECCA DOCTER · Entertainment Writer

att Nathanson is done pretending.

It may seem like he has been around the block. The singer-songwriter is best-known for his platinum-selling single, “Come On Get Higher.” Last year, he recorded the song “Run” with country music greats Sugarland and made an appearance on “The Bachelor.” His music has been featured on television shows “One Tree Hill” and “The Vampire Diaries,” among others.

But through all of his success, Nathanson has never truly portrayed himself. In the music industry, where many artists feel as though they have to change themselves for an audience, Nathanson put on a metaphorical mask and wrote what he thought people wanted. With his new album, “Last of the Great Pretenders,” he’s seeking to change that. “[The album title] is a play on one of the lyrics in ‘Mission Bells’ — it’s based on the idea that on records in the past, I’ve tried to manage the way that people see me. I’m done pretending and I’m trying to embrace this whole new part of me,” Nathanson said.

The inspiration to begin this journey isn’t something that stemmed entirely from Nathanson himself. He’s had countless influences, but most come from the voices singing through his headphones.

His taste range is wide, including MATT NATHANSON, see page 15

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Matt Nathanson will play Tipitina’s in New Orleans on Saturday. He says his latest album better reflects himself than his past records.

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MUSIC

CJ Solar Band to play Fall Fest Sarah Nickel Entertainment Writer

Fall Fest is finally here, and it’s bringing a rowdy lineup with the CJ Solar Band.

Belmont University seniors CJ Solar, Nick Gibbens, Bennett McMordie and Zach Sheffler make up the country/rock group.

The guys will make a 10-hour drive from Nashville in their big white van, most likely with Solar driving, McMordie keeping a hand on the tunes, Gibbens napping in the third row and Sheffler avoiding all duties.

“Zach, we’re lucky if we can get him to drive 20 minutes the whole day,” Gibbens said with a laugh.

This won’t be the band’s first trip to Baton Rouge. Solar, who is originally from Baton Rouge, makes it a point to play in Louisiana about once a month. With brothers attending LSU and family still living here, Louisiana is a home away from home, and not just for Solar.

Gibbens, who considers Louisiana a “home base” as far as the band’s live following goes, looks forward to spicy crawfish boils most, as does the rest of the group.

“I’ll take a good crawfish boil over like barbecue any day,” McMordie said. “It’s like a little vacation. It’s got all the great food and the cool music.”

CJ SOLAR BAND, see page 15

FILM

Alumni to premiere movie at New Orleans Film Festival Katie Daigrepont Entertainment Writer

With Hollywood South helping to foster the next generation of filmmakers, this year’s New Orleans Film Festival will focus on local talent.

Organized by the New Orleans Film Society, the 24th annual festival is set to screen more than 200 films at six different theaters during its eight-day run from Oct.10-17.

Among the local talent are three 2012 University graduates: Mac Alsfeld, Andrew Megison and Gray Ward, all of whom helped produce the independent film “Father-Like Son,” a finalist for the festival’s Louisiana Feature Award.

The coming-of-age comedy, directed by Alsfeld, is about a 24-yearold whose views on relationships are tested when his recently widowed mother marries a man his own age.

With the Friday premiere already sold out, this much-anticipated movie is sure to attract national attention.

But one wonders how such fresh young faces, none of whom attended film school, succeed at such a daunting task of creating a feature film.

It all started with “Sketchmo,” the LSU-broadcasted weekly sketch comedy show, they said.

During their last semester of classes, the three friends were part of a comedy troupe that wrote and shot a total of six episodes.

The three men immediately connected, and the rest, they said, is history. Recognizing their comedic chemistry, Alsfeld and Megison began to churn out screenplays on Sunday afternoons. “Father-Like Son” only took two sessions to write, Megison said, with the two writers bouncing dialogue off of each other effortlessly.

Once the script was complete,

Ward joined his two friends as the third producer, leading to the creation of their production company, Abby Normal Pictures.

“We took [the script] seriously and said, ‘This is an actual good script, we have to raise money and do it right, or we’re going to waste time,’” Alsfeld said. “It ended up taking over a year of our lives, so those kind of things, you have to do them right.”

For the film’s budget, the three producers chose to use Kickstarter.com, which funds creative projects, taking 5 percent of money earned. But with all-ornothing funding, their goal had to be reached by a certain deadline in order for them to receive any money.

By offering rewards to funders ranging from playing an extra in the movie to slapping Ward in the face, the film earned $10,000 in one month, plus individual donations

from seven investors.

“People gave $25 to slap Gray in the face on any day of his life,” Alsfeld said. “A lot of people are going to be hitting Gray on his wedding day.”

The film was shot in less than three weeks in New Orleans, with Alsfeld, Megison and Ward all playing lead roles. The rest of the cast and crew consisted of fellow University alumni, friends in the film industry and even talent found from a Craigslist search.

“Filmmaking is so much fun because it’s like an event; you’re laughing the entire time,” Alsfeld said.

“It’s a defining moment in your life, like your senior year of high school.”

With the challenge of filming and editing now behind them, the three producers are anxiously awaiting the film’s premiere at the NOFF. FILM FESTIVAL, see page 15

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“Father-Like Son,” an independent film produced by three University graduates, will premiere at the 24th annual New Orleans Film Festival this month.

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Thursday, October 10, 2013 MATT NATHANSON, from page 11 everything from Taylor Swift to Anthrax. In listening to the music of his peers, Nathanson realized that most of his favorite sounds came from artists who were totally truthful about who they were.

“On my past records, I spent a lot of time second-guessing and trying real hard, and I would round off edges a lot of times,” Nathanson said. “I call it the ‘creativity assassin’ — if you let it flow freely and don’t get in the way of it, the creativity assassin won’t attack your work.

It was important that I duct tape the

CJ SOLAR BAND, from page 11 How is it, though, that four college seniors are landing gigs at the Texas Club and Bayou Country Superfest? They created a band from the “pick of the litter,” according to Gibbens.

Three and half years ago, each musician walked into Belmont University as college freshmen not knowing each other. Within the first week of classes, a Facebook page brought together the four people who now make up the CJ Solar Band.

According to McMordie, there are so many musicians at Belmont that people get “sized up” for bands almost immediately. McMordie stumbled upon the Facebook page created by Gibbens and Solar, thinking it was some sort of “Belmont jam club.” It turned out the page was actually Solar’s effort to find the perfect guys to make up his future band.

“We all showed up at the same time,” Gibbens said. “We were all looking for the same thing. We got together based off of somewhat common interests.”

With Solar songwriting, Sheffler on lead guitar, McMordie

assassin’s mouth so he didn’t have a say.”

Much of this creativity came from where the album was made — Nathanson’s home of San Francisco.

According to Nathanson, this wasn’t intentional and wasn’t brought to his attention until a fan created a Matt Nathanson scavenger hunt around the city, making note of landmarks and places mentioned throughout the album. One of those places was the diner mentioned in the song “Kinks Shirt.”

Nathanson recorded the album down the street from his home in California, and he and his band playing bass and Gibbens on drums, the group has been together ever since.

Although they enjoy the music they create together, of course, each member has a slightly different taste when it comes to personal style.

Sheffler is the “indie” guy, while McMordie is mostly into funk.

Gibbens says The Black Crowes and the Foo Fighters are his “bread and butter.”

“The reason I play drums the way I do is because I have a sad man crush on the drummer from the Foo Fighters,” Gibbens said.

As students, traveling on weekends can get overwhelming, and sometimes class must be skipped.

But at least the band has upgraded from its old airport shuttle bus, which might have been more trouble than it was worth.

“I mean, we probably broke down in like every state — in Kentucky, Texas and Florida and every state in between there,” Solar said.

Aside from all the traveling gigs, recording has begun for the group, and it released its first album, “Bars, Cars and Broken Hearts,” last spring.

The Daily Reveille would break for lunch to a restaurant around the corner from the studio.

“I walked in and all of us fell in love with this badass waitress — she looked powerful and like she didn’t take any shit,” Nathanson said. “You know, she had sleeves of tattoos and stuff. She was super nice, the antithesis of what you would think.”

Nathanson fell so in love with this woman that she took on “mythical proportions.”

“She wore this Van Halen concert T-shirt all the time. [For the song] I pretended that she liked The Kinks because it sounded better,” Nathanson said.

The band believes the key in the music business is to never give up on your dream. The ultimate goal is to make it a full-time gig.

“Every college student is worried about what they’re going to do when they graduate, you know, how they’re going to pay the bills,” McMordie said. “We’re pretty confident that we can make it work with the CJ Solar Band.”

With Solar working on writing more original songs, the group has plans to stick together and make a career of doing what they love.

“Who the hell knows where we’re going to be in a month, or even six months?” Gibbens said. “I’m just going to ride the train and see where it takes us and do whatever I can to get us where we need to be.”

LSU’s Fall Fest, beginning at 11 a.m. Friday, is the band’s first stop of three in Louisiana this weekend.

On Saturday, they will hit up Abbeville’s Cattle Festival, and Sunday they will play the Rock ‘n’ Bowl in New Orleans.

Contact Sarah Nickel at snickel@lsureveille.com

page 15 One key element of Nathanson’s success is that many listeners don’t notice at first glance just how long he’s been making music. His first album was released 20 years ago, but despite his long-term musical history, Nathanson doesn’t feel as though his creativity has suffered.

“For me, every record feels like an evolutionary step, it feels like a real growth,” Nathanson said. “The two things most important are longevity and creativity. I’ve been doing this a really long time and I still get to do it, and I still get to talk to you.

I’m also proud of the feeling I have

FILM FESTIVAL, from page 11 They all agree that having the film’s first festival screening in their hometown with all their friends and family is, as Ward put it, perfect.

“There are so many people that help out, even on small scales, not necessarily giving money or working on the film,” Alsfeld said. “You want to thank everyone and make it a big deal [in New Orleans] to show them our appreciation.”

From college friends to professional actors, writers and producers, these mid-20-year-olds’ advice for students aspiring to get into the film industry is simple: get experience.

“You got to put in your time,” Alsfeld said. “You got to lower your ego a little bit and get somebody coffee for a couple years.”

The future is now wide open for Abby Normal Pictures. With at least 35 script ideas, the filmmakers

as a creative person — I don’t feel like I’ve tapped the well.”

Louisiana holds a special place in Nathanson’s heart. His sister, along with his niece, live in Baton Rouge, and he enjoys visiting “the Big Easy” for late night trips to Café Du Monde in the French Quarter and walks through the city.

You can catch Matt Nathanson on Oct. 12 at Tipitina’s in New Orleans.

Contact Rebecca Docter at rdocter@lsureveille.com said they plan to work on developing these scripts for better storylines and character development.

“I want to have [writing scripts] like a legitimate business,” Alsfeld said. “We treat this like a job like anyone else. We have set hours to write because the number one thing is consistency.”

The Prytania Theatre will host the “Father-Like Son” world premiere Friday at 10:15 p.m., but there’s still hope for those who couldn’t snag tickets before the screening sold out in six hours. The Prytania Theatre will also host an encore screening at 9:30 p.m. on closing night, an honor only one other film has received since the NOFF’s conception.

Contact Katie Daigrepont at kdaigrepont@lsureveille.com

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NSA tracking program was an assault on civil liberty BRACE YOURSELF Ryan McGehee Columnist In Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight,” Bruce Wayne creates a cell phone-based sonar system he uses to pinpoint the Joker’s location within a building. The National Security Agency recently admitted to trying something eerily similar, minus the Morgan Freeman component, of course.

NSA Director General Keith Alexander and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper went before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Oct. 2, and disclosed that from 2010 to 2011, the NSA had a pilot program that was used to determine if it could collect and track the bulk cell-site data of ordinary Americans.

In layman’s terms, the NSA was flexing its technological muscles to see if it could track millions of Americans by their cell phone locations.

While they say the data collected under the program was never put to operational use, Alexander went on the record saying, “This may be a future requirement for the country.”

The NSA also disclosed that if the program ever became operationally useful, the American public would not be informed, just certain federal officials within Congress on select committees.

Now, don’t get me wrong, the United States needs a strong

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The NSA had a pilot program that was used to determine if it could collect and track millions of Americans by their cell phone location.

intelligence gathering force to effectively respond to threats around the globe. But why the NSA ever need to be able to track our locations en masse?

If this kind of technology is not operationally viable now, amid a global war on terrorism, it will never be useful.

We were able to find former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in a hole outside Tikrit, Iraq, and

al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a compound inside Pakistan without tracking the location of millions inside each country. Bin Laden was found using limited electronic surveillance on a select few and a massive amount of human intelligence.

There is no excuse under the sun to justify this program. It is nothing more than a precursor to an Orwellian nightmare.

The NSA repeatedly uses the tried and true fall back of the Patriot Act to justify its actions. I guess the Constitution isn’t good enough for Alexander.

Under section 215 of the Patriot Act, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance, or FISA, Court can compel U.S. businesses to hand over tangible evidence in matters relating to national security, i.e., cell phone data.

The fact of the matter is, the FISA court was established in 1978, ostensibly to go after Soviet agents within the U.S. – not U.S. citizens themselves. Furthermore, the warrants issued have to be for specific persons of interest, not just blanket warrants.

Earlier this year it was revealed the NSA had ordered Verizon to send it a constant feed of cell phone metadata, where it compiled every subscriber’s list of calls made and received. The authorization it got from the FISA court was no more than a general blanket warrant, exceeding its authority and violating millions of Americans’ Fourth Amendment rights.

Now the NSA director is saying it may be necessary for national security to track every American on a routine basis.

I feel like I’ve woken up inside the Soviet Union under Stalin. It’s sheer insanity. This program would serve no purpose other than allowing the federal government to keep constant tabs on every American. How long will it be before the government sets up checkpoints and we’re asked

for our papers?

This is the same government that slaughtered whole swathes of Native Americans, imprisoned Americans of Japanese descent during World War II, orchestrated massacres at Waco, Texas, and Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and is now arming the Department of Homeland Security with billions of rounds of ammunition and thousands of armored, mine-resistant vehicles.

And now it reserves the right to track us wherever we are, thanks to the modern convenience of cell phones.

The growing power of the federal government is far more of a threat to the constitutional liberty and livelihood of American citizens than alQaeda ever dreamed of being.

Ryan McGehee is a 20-yearold political science, history and international studies junior from Zachary.

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LSU shouldn’t let verdict in murder case be final word SHUT UP, MEG Megan Dunbar Opinion Editor Someone murdered two Indian graduate students six years ago, and the Baton Rouge court’s inability to run a trial on the culprit between then and now points to a basic failure of the judicial system.

Major court cases don’t seem to echo a citizen’s right to a speedy trial — Trayvon Martin’s took more than a year to resolve, and the Supreme Court’s docket for October’s session takes up cases begun years ago.

Obviously, it’s difficult to process important cases in a timely manner, but grief shouldn’t have to

last multiple years before official closure.

In the case of our graduate students, six years was enough time for the defendant to disprove the key witness’ statements on the basis of his drug abuse relating to potential poor memory, which meant nothing he said could be taken as true beyond reasonable doubt.

The witness claimed he was an accomplice in the murders and presented knowledge of one student’s injuries at the time of death, something only someone on the scene or part of the task force to investigate the killing would’ve known.

However, since the jury paid more attention to the witness’ admitted intoxication, in their minds this fact could’ve been fabricated or found out in another way.

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So maybe the jury isn’t to blame – the system and society in which they work is.

This society includes the LSU student body, with our average turnover rate of four years, and a collective consciousness that forgets issues as large as a double homicide if it doesn’t stay in the forefront of a news cycle.

We live in a fast-paced, mediafueled world of ever-rotating scandals, and this trial remained buried under bureaucratic jargon and class assignments for most of us.

Somehow, none of us did our jobs as far as this trial was concerned.

Until a former editor in chief mentioned it to us, no one in the newsroom brought up the legal aspects of an on-campus murder.

After reading the coverage, it

seems like this case should’ve been simple, and maybe it would’ve been had the trial happened earlier.

But now that it is clearly complicated, we need to work to bring details to light.

This is an issue that requires community concern. The formerly accused haven’t been found guilty, so a memorial and posthumous degrees don’t quite cut it. These are nice sentiments, but they’re nowhere close to justice.

There is no DNA evidence, no other witness and the case is closed.

This could be the end of the story.

But I don’t think it should be.

Too many murders go unresolved to let this one lie.

This miscarriage of justice requires a further investigation to figure out what happened six

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years ago.

True, it has been a while since the murder, and due process is all the legal system can promise, but if the LSU community continues to demand answers, we can find them.

Through curious, interested numbers, we can force the truth behind this verdict.

Hopefully we can shed more light on the death of these two students.

And it probably won’t take six years for us to do so.

Megan Dunbar is a 20-year-old English senior from Greenville, S.C. Contact Megan Dunbar at opinion@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @TDR_MDunbar

Quote of the Day

“If the measure of your work is the measure of your worth than you’d better make it work.”

Blake Schwarzenbach musical artist Jan. 16, 1947 — present

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Jindal brings focus to GOP governors from Washington NEUTRAL GROUND Eli A. Haddow Columnist The first thing going through your mind when you read the news these days is probably not how state governments are functioning. It’s so irresistible to watch the antics in Washington that almost no one is concentrating on what’s happening at home.

Gov. Bobby Jindal is out to change this.

He is rightly shifting, or at least trying to shift, constituents’ focus to state capitals. There, he argues, Republican governors are upholding and executing the conservative values they ran their campaigns on.

By limiting the importance of the federal government, states can play a more important role, and conservative governors can make a bigger difference.

He asks why Congress should retain the limelight during its tirade when nothing is actually happening.

In a speech last Wednesday as the chairman of the Republican Governors Association, Jindal sought to distance Republican governors from their compatriots

battling it out in the Capitol with the president, congressional Democrats and seemingly, most of America.

He told people to focus on the good that GOP governors are doing rather than the mess happening in Washington.

“We have outsourced the Republican brand to Washington, D.C., and it’s time to stop that,” he told The Advocate.

Though he stopped short of placing any blame on congressional Republicans, Jindal has clearly softened his line toward Obamacare. On Thursday, he told ABC News that he “won’t second guess” the Republicans’ strategy of using a shutdown and the debt ceiling as bargaining chips.

While he does not chastise, he is clearly distancing. He realizes that the longer this shutdown goes on, the further public opinion of his party falls. And with next year being an election year, he is trying to protect his fellow governors from a fate he thinks awaits many lawmakers.

There will be between five and 10 key gubernatorial races in 2014, according to The Advocate.

So as Republican popularity languishes, Jindal wants to change the conversation. That seems just about right for a

Republican governor.

Now, it’s no surprise Jindal is trying to highlight the important role of an executive. His own presidential ambitions have hardly been concealed, and when he speaks on the national stage, it’s as though he is at the lectern for a presidential debate.

Can’t you see him saying in 2016 that he fought hard for conservative values when he was the head of the Republican Governors Association? It’s almost as if the election is just around the corner.

This is the most ironic part.

While he tries to convince the country that governors, not legislators, are the most efficient in instilling conservative values, his largest competitor for the nomination is another governor.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has been gaining popularity on the national stage at the same time as Jindal. His folksy antics and stern response after Superstorm Sandy have made him the darling of the Garden State.

He is expected to win his gubernatorial race easily next year, without Jindal’s help. And this is in New Jersey, a state Obama carried with 58 percent of the vote in 2012, according to CNN. Even if Christie should

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Gov. Bobby Jindal addresses the Nebraska Republican Convention on July 14, 2012 in Grand Island.

outdo Jindal, the GOP’s brightest prospects are coming from state capitals, not the U.S. Capitol. For logical Republicans, this offers hope that the future of the party lies outside of its radical Tea Party wing.

It’s unclear whether Jindal’s pro-governor crusade will come to fruition. But as elections approach, and as GOP popularity wanes, he is making an important step in

distancing his party from the noise.

And maybe moving closer toward the White House.

Eli Haddow is a 20-year-old English and history junior from New Orleans.

Contact Eli Haddow at ehaddow@lsureveille.com

Silk Road shutdown exhibits failure of free markets SHARE THE WEALTH Jay Meyers Columnist Last Wednesday, the federal government raided and shut down the online marketplace Silk Road and arrested its alleged founder Ross Ulbricht.

This would have been a big story, if it weren’t for the government shutdown and the soon-approaching debt ceiling debate consuming virtually all of the media’s attention.

In its most simplistic form, Silk Road was essentially a secret Internet site where people anonymously purchase anything from illicit drugs to assassins-forhire.

Sure, it’s pretty interesting that, for more than two years, the online black marketplace evaded the FBI and other federal enforcement agencies, generating nearly $1.2 billion in sales.

However, lurking far below the surface, Silk Road was an attempt at something much greater.

Silk Road was, in many ways, the epitome of free market economics.

To really get a sense of why this is the case, you must understand two basic things.

First, the libertarian motives

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Mike Caldwell, a 35-year-old software engineer, holds a 25 Bitcoin token April 3 at his shop in Sandy, Utah.

driving Ulbricht, a 29-year-old with a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Texas, to allegedly create the Silk Road.

Second, the inevitable failure of Bitcoin which was the online “currency” used to purchase items on the now-defunct black market.

For Ulbricht, it all started sometime in 2008 when, according to his LinkedIn profile, he suddenly lost interest in physics.

“Now, my goals have shifted.

I want to use economic theory as a means to abolish the use of coercion and aggression

amongst mankind,” Ulbricht said.

He continued: “The most widespread and systemic use of force is amongst institutions and governments, so this is my current point of effort. The best way to change a government is to change the minds of the governed.”

He concluded: “To that end, I am creating an economic simulation to give people a first-hand experience of what it would be like to live in a world without the systemic use of force.”

Put simply, Ulbricht created the Silk Road as a result of being a

fan of the Austrian School of Economics, which is an argument for a “hands off” approach to the relationship between government and markets.

Bitcoin, the decentralized cyber-currency, was the vehicle through which Ulbricht’s free market fantasy took form, allowing for transactions on the Silk Road to be completely anonymous and free from government regulation.

But proponents of Bitcoin insist it’s about much more than paving the path for illicit transactions.

Indeed, the biggest known investors in Bitcoins are the Winklevoss brothers, the wealthy twins who claimed to be the creators of Facebook and were made famous by the film “The Social Network.”

Their claims for why they invested in Bitcoin are similar to conservative arguments for why we should abolish fiat money — money backed by the federal government — and revert back to the gold standard.

“We have elected to put our money and faith in a mathematical framework that is free of politics and human error,” Tyler Winklevoss said to the New York Times.

The similarity between Bitcoin enthusiast, gold and a libertarian ideology makes sense: All three share the belief that the government, specifically central banks, is vastly abusing its power to print money.

Regardless of whether you

believe the Federal Reserve has launched an assault against the value of the dollar, decentralized currencies, such as gold and Bitcoin, always end up being abject failures.

The reason: They have no fixed value. Both trade like stocks, bonds or other commodities.

In other words, if we suddenly switched from the dollar and started using Bitcoin or gold as money, you would literally have to check to see how much the currency was worth in terms of value every day.

Such uncertainty would be pretty inconvenient and render the fundamental purpose of money — as a medium of exchange that makes buying and selling products way easier than barter — essentially useless.

So, in a way, the Silk Road was kind of like a free market experiment that went horribly wrong.

We’ve got some serious economic problems, but an irrational hatred of government regulation — and little pieces of green paper — don’t happen to make the list.

Jay Meyers is a 20-year-old economics junior from Shreveport.

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GRENADE, from page 1 She said the explosion could have seriously injured someone or caused property damage had it gone off, but the controlled explosion was relatively small and did not cause any damage.

During the controlled detonation, Highland Road between Siegen Lane and Amos Road was closed in both directions for about 20 minutes, she said.

Hicks said possession of the grenade is illegal, but its appearance in the dirt was likely accidental.

EBRSO is currently investigating the origin of the grenade, she said.

Contact Zach Carline at zcarline@lsureveille.com

courtesy of EAST BATON ROUGE SHERIFF’S OFFICE

A live WWII-era pineapple grenade was found Wednesday in the dirt of a yard on Highland Road. A bomb squad robot detonated it in a controlled explosion.

SALSA, from page 1

salsa lessons and a DJ here playing authentic Latin-American Music.”

Part of the HSCS’s mission is to reach out and educate people on what it means to be Hispanic, and to invite people to find out where their roots are, Lewis said.

Max Wheelock, industrial engineering junior, said he didn’t get in touch with his Hispanic roots until he came to the University and got involved with the HSCS. Wheelock said even though his father is Nicaraguan, many people assume he is Anglo. Since joining the HSCS in his freshman year and embracing Hispanic culture, he said he has grown to see himself as both. The color of skin is not a factor in determining who he is, he said.

During his freshman year, Wheelock said the HSCS almost folded from a lack of student involvement. Since then, the group has built a solid foundation, but there is still a need for more members.

“There has got to be more people like me out there who have Hispanic roots,” Wheelock said.

“We need to find them because I think they would be as happy as I am if they were to get involved.”

While a fun showcase with music and dancing helps students get involved, Lewis said the most important thing the HSCS can do is provide support for Hispanic students.

“HSCS is actually the only sector of LSU that really does programming and events for Hispanic students here on campus,” Lewis said. “We’re the only organization on campus that connects Hispanic students with resources to help them in the community.”

Lewis believes the atmosphere of support they have worked to create is what makes the HSCS special. As the society grows, she said they hope to maintain that feeling.

“We try to provide a family environment for anyone that will come,” Wheelock said. “Wherever you are from, it is nice to have a place and friends that you can share your experiences with, and that is what we have in the HSCS.” Contact William Morris at wmorris@lsureveille.com

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