STUDENT GOVERNMENT: Bike auction to take place Thursday outside the Union, p. 4
FOOTBALL: First-year players get their report cards, p. 5
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Wednesday, October 30, 2013 • Volume 118, Issue 46
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CRIME
Four arrested for ticket scheme
Food Rules
Alyson Gaharan
Federal food safety rules to be updated STORY OLIVIA MCCLURE Contributing Writer
The safety of America’s food has been guaranteed by the same federal regulations for nearly a century. That will change, however, once rules for enforcing the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) are finalized. FSMA, which was
News Editor
LSU Police Department officers arrested four people, including two Tiger Stadium workers, after receiving an anonymous tip that the workers were allegedly being paid to let others into football games without tickets, LSUPD Spokesman Capt. Cory Lalonde said Tuesday. Brothers Casey McKenzie, 33, and Caleb McKenzie, 27, were arrested after LSUPD investigators saw them purchasing Event Staff wristbands from gate marshal James Oglethorpe, 34, and gate captain Judy Wilson, 59, Lalonde said. Lalonde said LSUPD witnessed Casey McKenzie and Oglethorpe exchange cash for two wristbands Oct. 12. McKenzie also gave an envelope with cash in it to Wilson. “[The investigators] continued watching and did see Casey McKenzie enter the stadium with four people, and none had tickets,” Lalonde said.
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signed into law in January 2011, updates rules for record-keeping, mandates more frequent inspections of food facilities and introduces new measures to prevent food safety issues. It also grants the Food and SAFETY, see page 11
GATE, see page 11
HEALTH
Underage, binge drinking down at University My Student Body credited with drop Desiree Robertson Contributing Writer
Since the introduction of My Student Body eight years ago, the University has seen a decrease in risky drinking habits. MSB is a required online interactive prevention education course for incoming students. The course covers alcohol, illicit and prescription drug use and sexual violence. Students who do not complete this requirement will have a hold placed on their account and will
not be able to add or drop classes. Underage drinking at the University has decreased from 72.4 percent in 2011 to 69.9 percent in the spring of 2013, according to the Core Alcohol and Drug Survey, a national survey that polls students at different colleges about alcohol and drug use. In 2013, 46.6 percent of LSU students said they participated in binge drinking, down from 51.8 percent in 2011, according to the survey. MSB focuses on helping incoming students develop positive habits by giving them the truth, because the majority of all alcohol and drug violations are committed by first-year students, said Health Promotions Coordinator
Kathryn Saichuk. The program encourages lowrisk behavior instead of telling students to abstain from drinking and other activities, Saichuk said. Ideally, the Student Health Center would prefer students not to participate in risky behavior at all, but that’s not realistic, Saichuk said. Students need to know their actions affect them academically, financially and can also affect
Do you think My Student Body helps educate students about drinking habits? Vote at lsureveille.com. DRINKING, see page 11
UNDERAGE DRINKING
72.4%
2011
BINGE DRINKING
69.9%
2013
51.8%
46.6%
2011
2013
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