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Crawfish Season

Warm weather brings southern tradition STORY Michael Tarver · Contributing Writer

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TIGER BAND

Tiger Band treks to Ireland Renee Barrow

ouisiana L mud bugs have played a

major role in the cultural development of south Louisiana’s traditional menu, and many Louisiana natives continue to look forward to

graphic by MADELINE ENGLER

photo by CHARLES CHAMPAGNE

Contributing Writer

crawfish season each year.

The consumption of crawfish dates back to Native Americans and early European settlers, most abundantly in the swamp and marsh regions of South Louisiana. However, the commercial sales of crawfish began in the late 1800s.

The total production of crawfish in Louisiana per capita is 22.5 pounds.

This means the state produces enough crawfish for each of the state’s 4.6 million residents to eat about 22 pounds each year.

Acadia Parish produces approximately 27.5 million pounds

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Tickets now campaigning Jacquelyn Masse Contributing Writer

Election season began with an official announcement from the Experience LSU ticket, but fewer signs from The Next Step ticket.

Presidential candidate Christian Coleman and vice presidential candidate Ashleigh Pichon of the Experience LSU ticket discussed several initiatives at their ticket announcement Thursday afternoon. They proposed a new seating area at Alex Box Stadium called the “bump at the box” that would allow students to socialize and sit at an outfield mound at the baseball games.

Members of the Experience LSU ticket also discussed urging a pre-law program to Academic Affairs for interested students. Pichon said if there is pre-nursing, then there should be pre-law.

The ticket presented an idea to have a Fitness Friday on the Parade Ground, which could give students the opportunity to rent out equipment from the UREC. Members of Experience LSU want to connect more with external University campuses, such as Alexandria, Shreveport, Eunice and the LSU Health Center in New Orleans to collaborate and share ideas.

The candidates stressed the need

to clean up the University’s campus by creating a litter campaign.

“Facility Services would be used on other aspects to beautify other buildings and make other parts of campus look better,” Coleman said.

The ticket aims to continue the initiative of a Tailored Tiger program, which would provide students with business attire in the new career center.

The Next Step ticket did not publicly announce its candidacy Thursday, but its members tentatively plan to make an official announcement Monday afternoon.

CAMPAIGNS, see page 11

each year, making it the highestproducing area in Louisiana, according to statistics published by the LSU AgCenter.

Many local restaurants are beginning to sell boiled crawfish, despite the cold weather that has hindered the start of crawfish season.

Patrick Foy, front of the house manager at Parrain’s Seafood Restaurant, said the CRAWFISH, see page 11

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68-56

St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland will give Louisiana Mardi Gras a run for its money, as the Tiger Band seeks to add a little purple and gold to Dublin’s green festivities.

The Tiger Band planned to leave early this morning to embark on its international trip.

The band will perform Monday in Dublin’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

The band will return Tuesday, with some students having the option to stay an extra day.

King said the trip marks the first time the Tiger Band will perform outside the country.

Roy King, director of athletic bands, said the total expense of the trip amounted to roughly $750,000, with $100,000 of the funds supplied by former University football player, Ralph McIngvale.

The rest of the funding came from the Athletic Department and various supporters, King said.

“No state funds were used,” King said.

IRELAND, see page 11

Read a full recap on p. 5.

JOHN BAZEMORE / The Associated Press

LSU rode hot 3-point shooting to a 68-56 win Thursday against Alabama, advancing to the quarterfinals of the Southeastern Conference Tournament.

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TODAY’S FORECAST

Nation & World

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NATIONAL

STATE/LOCAL

Colo. pot cases can be overturned Boosie to perform community service The Associated Press

Sunny HIGH 70 LOW 43 sunrise: 7:16 a.m. sunset: 7:13 p.m.

Saturday HIGH 73 LOW 63

Sunday HIGH 72 LOW 48

DENVER (AP) — Some people convicted of possessing small amounts of marijuana can ask for those convictions to be thrown out under the law that legalized recreational marijuana in Colorado, the state’s second-highest court ruled Thursday.

The Colorado Court of Appeals said people whose cases were under appeal when Amendment 64 on recreational marijuana took effect in December 2012 are eligible to have their convictions reversed.

Brian Vicente, one of the amendment’s authors, called the ruling a “huge victory.” Vicente said Colorado prosecuted as many as 9,000 cases a year for marijuana possession. After pot was decriminalized, a number of appeals were still in the courts.

Tom Raynes, director of the Colorado District Attorneys’ Council, said it would be difficult to quickly pin down how many cases would be affected by the ruling, but he believed the number would be small.

Attorney General John Suthers said his office likely would appeal, noting it is well-established that

The Associated Press

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People attend a demonstration in support of the legalization of marijuana Dec. 10, 2013, outside the Congress in Montevideo, Uruguay.

laws cannot be applied retroactively unless lawmakers or voters clearly indicate they should be.

“That was not the case with Amendment 64,” Suthers said in a statement.

The ruling came in the case of Brandi Jessica Russell, who was convicted in Grand County of possessing one gram or less of methamphetamine, possession of marijuana

concentrate and possession of less than an ounce of marijuana.

Her attorney, Brian Emeson, said Thursday the ruling is another indication the “tide is turning” on the nationwide attitude toward possession of small amounts of pot.

Emeson said he still handles a number of marijuana appeals, which shows prosecutors have not backed off.

(AP) — Rapper Torence “Lil Boosie” Hatch has been ordered to perform 100 hours of community service in New Orleans as part of his four-year probation term stemming from a 2009 guilty plea to a marijuana possession charge.

The Advocate reports Hatch appeared Thursday before state District Judge Chip Moore, his first court appearance since his release from state prison last week.

NOLA.com | The TimesPicayune reports Moore congratulated Hatch for obtaining his GED while serving four years and four months in prison. Baton Rouge attorney Lewis Unglesby noted Hatch also had completed programs in substance abuse, anger management, parenting and victim awareness.

INTERNATIONAL

Violence in Ukraine kills one The Associated Press SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Russia conducted new military maneuvers near its border with Ukraine on Thursday, and President Vladimir Putin said the world shouldn’t blame his country for what he called Ukraine’s “internal crisis.”

In Crimea, where the public will vote Sunday whether to break away from Ukraine and become part of Russia, jittery residents lined up at their banks to withdraw cash from their accounts amid uncertainty over the future of the

peninsula, which Russian troops now control.

In the eastern Donetsk region, violent clashes between pro-Russia demonstrators and supporters of the Ukrainian government left at least one person dead.

“These people are afraid their bank will collapse and no one wants to lose their money,” said resident Tatiana Sivukhina. “Nobody knows what will happen tomorrow.”

In Berlin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel sharply criticized Russia, saying the territorial integrity of Ukraine cannot be compromised.

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PARKING

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BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY

Parking issues not unnnoticed Louie’s Cafe to relocate this summer Students, faculty voice their opinions Lyle Manion Contributing Writer

During a period of change and expansion of campus infrastructure, complaints about parking will always persist, said Gary Graham, director of University Parking, Traffic and Transportation.

Graham said in spite of ongoing construction and events throughout a vast campus, “there is plenty of parking, it’s just a matter of being aware of the situation.”

Students have voiced their feelings regarding the inconvenience and congestion of parking around campus.

Emily Sullivan, interdisciplinary studies sophomore, said she knows students who never use commuter lots because of their location.

Riding a bike or parking off campus can be more feasible because commuter lots are on the outskirts of campus, away from classes, she said.

Union Square Parking Garage, complete in March of 2013 for $22.5 million, contains nearly 300 spaces specified for student commuters in the heart of campus, Graham said.

“A lot of students still don’t know that it is open for them.”

The cost for a student commuter to park in the garage for one year is $330, Graham said. A regular student parking permit costs $165 for one year.

To some students, these figures are too high.

Julia Castro, finance sophomore, said parking for the year is not affordable, especially when considering most lots are inconveniently located.

Resident parking comes with some setbacks as well, Castro said.

When living at South Hall last year, Castro said she often could not park in the North PMAC lot, the lot closest to her dorm, because of athletic events at the PMAC or Carl Maddox Field House.

“We paid for that space. We had a pass just for that space,” Castro said.

The North PMAC lot was built as a commuter lot often used for athletic events, Graham said. The Residential College, which includes South Hall, was built over a portion of the lot. What remained became resident parking. Therefore Parking, Traffic and Transportation has a prior obligation to athletes and fans.

Congested parking on campus varies from place to place, but students said the UREC and sorority houses are particularly crowded.

This area, composed of the UREC “X” lot, available to all passes, and the Greek lot, available to those with the appropriate parking pass, is “always full,” Castro said.

The University is not subject to the city regulation requiring one parking space for every 100 square feet of building space, said Sherif Ishak, civil engineering

undergraduate program coordinator.

This could explain the crowds.

The UREC expansion slated to begin this summer will add 400 parking spaces, which should help the situation, Graham said. Furthermore, the four-way stop in front of the University Press Building and the Zeta Tau Alpha house has helped control traffic in the back of the Greek lot.

Ishak said issues could arise with parking at Patrick F. Taylor during its expansion. The expansion will make faculty parking on the west side of the building unavailable. This will push faculty to the lot on Nicholson Extension, where many commuting students currently park.

“Parking is certainly an issue and should be addressed by the University,” Ishak said.

Olivia McClure Senior Reporter

Louie’s Cafe will move this summer to the old Wendy’s building on State Street, Louie’s owner Jimmy Wetherford told The Daily Reveille on Thursday.

Parking at the current location, which is just down the street from Wendy’s, is cramped and inconvenient for the restaurant’s many patrons. The move means more parking and seating space, Wetherford said, which he hopes will attract

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Wetherford said the new Louie’s location will retain the signature atmosphere, an open kitchen bordered by a counter and stools, that has made it an icon of the LSU area.

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UNIVERSITY

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Review of University positive Reaffirmation completes in Dec.

has not yet been accomplished because LSU President F. King Alexander has only been at the University since last June.

“It’s like a hurdle race,” Reeve said, and the next hurdle is to subDeanna Narveson mit a report showing how the recomStaff Writer mendation was handled. Reeve said The University passed the most the school’s reaffirmation completerecent phase of reaffirming its ac- ly occurs in December of this year. creditation this week, after an onPreparations for reaffirmation campus review by the Southern As- of accreditation began in 2011 with sociation of Colleges and Schools a committee working to make sure Commission on Colleges, said Jane the University fulfilled all requireCassidy, vice provost for academic ments set by the SACSCOC. The affairs.

University’s funding and students’ SACSCOC, the body that grants ability to obtain grants and financial accreditations to colleges and uni- aid depended partly on the outcome versities in the South, sent 10 mem- of their visit, said Randy Duran, bers to the University on Tuesday to director of the University Office review the impleof Undergraduate mentation of underResearch. graduate research ‘It’s a really great day The 98 requireand speak with stuments, or standards, for LSU.’ dents, administraset by the SACtors and faculty.

SCOC involved evJane Cassidy The team left ery single thing that vice provost for academic affairs Thursday morning makes the school with only one recrun, from the proommendation for the University as cesses used to make decisions reit heads into the next step in renew- garding classes and degrees to how ing its accreditation, said Gil Reeve, administration works, Cassidy said. vice provost for academic programs, The University completed a planning and review. compliance report of all of the stanReeve said the SACSCOC dards set and submitted them to team’s only recommendation for the SACSCOC in September. The report University to work on was its pro- was then sent back with 17 recomcess of an annual evaluation of the mendations for change, which were school’s chancellor, something that reevaluated during their visit this

week, Reeve said.

“It’s a really great day for LSU,” Cassidy said, adding the SACSCOC team’s reviews were very positive.

Reeve said he thinks the University is in good standing to receive a full reaffirmation in December.

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LSU rides hot distance shooting to 68-56 victory

Kentucky awaits Tigers in quarters Chandler Rome Sports Writer

Stifled by both double and triple teams throughout the first half of LSU’s Southeastern Conference tournament opener against Alabama, LSU junior forward Johnny O’Bryant III couldn’t shoulder the offensive load.

With their offensive pillar stagnated, the shaky Tiger offense searched for a spark.

It got two.

Senior forward Shavon Coleman buried five 3-pointers, while freshman guard Tim Quarterman

came off the bench to post a careerhigh 12 points, leading the Tigers to a 68-56 victory against the Crimson Tide in Atlanta.

“We’ve been seeing a lot in Tim [Quarterman],” Coleman said.

“He’s been coming out having great practice. He’s been working hard.

I had a good feeling he was going to come out and give us some great minutes.”

The Tigers exploited the Crimson Tide’s 2-3 zone to the tune of 50 percent shooting, including 11of-22 from 3-point land. The 11 3-pointers were a season high for the Tigers (19-12, 10-9 SEC) The win sends LSU into a quarterfinal matchup with No. 2 seed Kentucky — the third meeting between the two this season.

Quarterman sparked a crucial

17-3 run over the last 8:21 of the first half, creating separation from an Alabama squad that started the game hot from behind the 3-point line.

The Savannah, Ga., native subbed into the game with 7:41 to go and the Tigers down a point. He went to work immediately, streaking to the basket for a layup off a designed inbounds play to give LSU its first lead since the 11:44 mark.

After O’Bryant notched a layup on the Tigers’ next possession then corralled a missed Tide jumper, Quarterman splashed home a 3-pointer from the wing to push LSU’s lead to six.

He went on to score four of the Tigers’ next eight points,

Alabama forward Shannon Hale (11) and LSU forward Jarell Martin (12) watch a loose ball Thursday during the Tigers’ 68-56 victory against Alabama in the second round of the Southeastern Conference men’s tournament.

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WIN, see page 7

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AND AWAY WE GO Pitchers duel in Tigers’ first SEC series of the season WORDS

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When LSU junior Aaron Nola and Vanderbilt junior Tyler Beede meet in Nashville, Tenn., tonight, it will be a “Goliath vs.

Goliath” scenario in every sense.

It’s the sort of meeting major league scouts drool about.

Last season, Nola finished 12-1 with a 1.57 ERA, 122 strikeouts and five complete games.

Beede had a 14-1 campaign with a 2.32 ERA and 103 strikeouts in 101 innings pitched.

“There’s no question that you’re talking about two of the very top college pitchers in

the country,” said LSU coach Paul Mainieri.

“There will probably be 100 professional scouts there, and there could be half a dozen general managers there because you’re talking about two pitchers that should be in the top 10 picks.”

Both Nola and Beede share similar stories during their respective college careers — both were thrown into the starting rotation during their freshman campaigns, and it wasn’t until their sophomore seasons that they became VANDERBILT, see page 7

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TRACK AND FIELD

Six Lady Tigers to compete at NCAAs Men’s relay team looks for gold Taylor Curet

Sports Contributor

The LSU Track and Field program brings distinct goals — individual and team — into the 2014 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships beginning today.

For the No. 8 Lady Tigers, extending their streak of four-straight third place finishes at the indoor finale would surpass their expectations.

In 2013, the Lady Tigers qualified 10 athletes, and then-senior Kimberlyn Duncan made history by becoming the first sprinter, male or female, to win three-straight NCAA Indoor gold medals.

In 2014, the Lady Tigers head to Albuquerque, N.M., with six qualifiers and an understanding that matching the achievements of recent years is too high a bar to reach at this point in their development.

“I think it’d be unrealistic to look for a top-5 finish,” said LSU Track and Field coach Dennis Shaver. “We’d be excited if this group could pull together and create a top10 finish. … Just getting there is a great achievement for them.”

Individually, a few Lady Tigers are looking to contend for a national championship by improving on their NCAAs, see page 7

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SOFTBALL

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GYMNASTICS

Tigers take on LSU looks to reenergize in finale top-ranked Gators David Gray

Sports Contributor

Morgan Prewitt Sports Contributor

Southeastern Conference softball comes to Baton Rouge this weekend for the first time this season, but unfortunately for LSU, so is No. 1 Florida.

The Tigers (17-8) opened SEC play last weekend with a series loss to Auburn, and to bounce back, they’ll have to contend with the topranked Gators (26-1).

“We’ve shown that we can play with anyone,” said LSU coach Beth Torina. “It is a matter of being consistent with that performance. We have shown that we are capable of it.

Now we just have to go out and do it on a regular basis.”

LSU is 2-5 against ranked teams this season, its two wins coming against top 15 opponents in Washington and Stanford.

Senior outfielder Jacee Blades said the opportunity to play against top ranked competition like Florida fuels the team to play harder.

To pull the upset, LSU’s rotation must bounce back after its shaky performance against Auburn, where the rotation combined to allow 19 walks and tallied only 12 strikeouts in three games.

“We just can’t give up a walk then a big hit like a home run because that happened numerous times,” said freshman pitcher Kelsee Selman.

“The main thing [Torina] told us was to stay confident.”

Limiting mistakes will be crucial against Florida’s lineup, which features junior pitcher and first baseman Lauren Haeger, who leads the SEC with nine home runs.

While Haeger is the highlight of the Gators’ offense, Florida’s lineup as a whole leads the SEC in batting average and is tied for second in total home runs with 32.

Sophomore second baseman Kelsey Stewart, senior third baseman Stephanie Tofft, sophomore outfielder Kirsti Merritt and Haeger have combined to hit 114 RBIs so far this season.

LSU’s power hitters sophomore shortstop Bianka Bell and freshman catcher Sahvanna Jaquish are close behind with six home runs each.

Florida has a similar makeup of speed and power in its lineup. The Gators rank second in stolen bases in the SEC, falling only one steal short of LSU, which leads the conference.

LSU junior outfielder A.J. Andrews leads the conference in stolen bases with 21-22 the season.

The Tigers’ lineup must be consistently productive, which will relieve some pressure off of the pitching rotation.

The combination of speed and power in the lineup will play a key role against a Florida rotation that averages a 1.15 ERA. “They don’t make mistakes,” Torina said. “They do everything well. They are going to swing well.

They really have solid pitching. I think that is probably their greatest strength this year.”

First pitch of game one is set for 6 p.m. tonight at Tiger Park.

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A score of 197.500 is quite the accomplishment in collegiate gymnastics. Only eight squads in the nation have reached that mark, and only five have done so on multiple occasions. No. 1 LSU (9-3, 4-2 Southeastern Conference) leads the nation in the category with six.

But the Tigers weren’t too thrilled with their latest 197.500, which came in their most recent victory against North Carolina State last Friday. Instead, junior Rheagan Courville, who claimed her sixth all-around title of the season against the Wolfpack, said the score was underwhelming for the team, but it perhaps proves how talented the squad is.

“I think coming out of it, if we can say a 197.500 is a mediocre meet for us, then we’re really on the right track,” Courville said.

“That just goes to show everybody that if we can still get such a high score without our best performances, we have a lot more to come.”

LSU will look to refine any remaining blunders when it hosts SEC opponent Kentucky (9-9, 2-4 SEC) on Senior Night tonight in the PMAC. The meet is the final contest of the regular season for the Tigers, who have scored at least a 197 in eight consecutive meets, tying the school record set in 2004.

With the SEC championships eight days away, senior specialist Sarie Morrison, who claimed her school-record 28th bars crown on Friday, expects to see a more enthusiastic and focused mindset

from the entire squad against the Wildcats.

“With the postseason coming up, I think it’ll bring a whole new energy level,” Morrison said. “I think that as a team, the focus was a little bit off [against NC State].

All we need to do is just be us.”

If the Tigers look on what they’ve accomplished this season, they shouldn’t have trouble reclaiming their confidence and returning to form against Kentucky.

LSU has scored a 197 nine times this season, a school record that’s tied for the most in the nation this season.

The program’s historic scoring has led to a No. 1 ranking all three weeks the regional qualifying scores (RQS) have been in effect.

But Friday is LSU’s final opportunity to build momentum before postseason begins March 22, so coach D-D Breaux decided it was best to amp up the intensity this week in practice. “[We’re] going to try to put more pressure on them in practice and try to make it a little bit tougher to succeed, to do the assignment and be successful so that their minds get a little bit sharper,” Breaux said.

There’s also a strategic reason why LSU needs to have a quick bounce back tonight against the Wildcats. In the conference championships next week, the top four seeds will be based on the RQS rankings.

If the Tigers out-score or equal conference rival Florida tonight, they will maintain their grip on the No. 1 spot, which means they would start on vault and end on

floor in the SEC championships.

Vault and floor are the squad’s two best events, where they rank No. 1 and No. 3 in the nation, with an RQS of 49.545 and 49.490, respectively.

But if LSU has a repeat performance of last week and the Gators score big for the second consecutive meet, the Tigers could lose the top seed.

With so much to focus on, there are six Tiger gymnasts whose minds are bound to be racing with emotions. Though NCAA regionals will be held in the PMAC, this is the last home dual meet for the seniors on this year’s squad: Kaleigh Dickson, Casey Duvall, Lainie Fleming, Mckenzie Fox, Maliah Mathis and Morrison.

“I never really thought that it would be my turn to have senior night because it seemed so farfetched,” Morrison said. “It’s exciting to go out with a team like this on such strong terms. To have all the people who support us and the fans, I couldn’t ask for a better atmosphere to be in senior night.”

But this isn’t the end, Dickson said, because the team has had a bigger prize in mind this entire season.

“It’s not going to be over until NCAAs,” Dickson said. “There will definitely be a lot of emotions during the night, but we’re going to work on doing our best performances for the team, each one of us seniors.”

Contact David Gray at dgray@lsureveille.com

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Southeastern Conference Indoor Championships performances from a week ago.

Senior Jasmin Stowers enters the weekend as the No. 2 athlete in the 60-meter hurdles after sprinting to a season-best time of 8.01 seconds and a silver medal at the SEC Indoors.

Joining Stowers are three athletes who notched lifetime bests at the SEC Indoors last weekend, including senior weight thrower Denise Hinton, senior triple jumper Lynnika Pitts and senior 800-meter runner Nikita Tracey.

Tracey will also headline LSU’s 4x400-meter relay team, which includes sophomore Chanice Chase and freshmen Bealoved Brown and Jada Martin.

Long jumper Nataliyah Friar is the only Lady Tiger freshman to qualify individually for this

WIN, from page 5

punctuated by an emphatic putback dunk to send the Tigers to the locker room with a 35-24 advantage. “[Quarterman] was the difference in the game,” said LSU coach Johnny Jones in his postgame radio interview. “He came in and made some huge plays that set the tone for us. Our guys were able to feed off that and never looked back.”

O’Bryant found room to breathe in the second half, using spin moves and drop steps to break away from the Alabama defense to hit 3-of-4 from the field and score seven of his 11 points.

“Give credit to Johnny, he didn’t

weekend’s meet.

“I think that’s just a tremendous achievement for a freshman to get into this meet,” Shaver said. “You just have to take it like it’s just another track meet even though it’s really not. … What we always try to get them to do is just take the same approach that you took with the performance that you achieved to get there.”

Four Tigers round out the 10 qualifiers that will represent LSU at the two-day event beginning Friday at Albuquerque Convention Center.

And all four of those Tigers will be competing in a 400-meter event.

LSU juniors Vernon Norwood and Quincy Downing and sophomore Darrell Bush join Florida as the only two schools to qualify three runners in a field of 16 for the 400-meter dash. Norwood leads the No. 20 Tigers after sprinting to a career-best, and third-fastest time in the NCAA, 45.39 mark to finish third place at the force anything,” Jones said. “[Alabama] did a great job of doubling down and being very aggressive with their traps on him. Johnny did an excellent job after that initial trap they set on him. … He did a good job of getting that ball out of there.”

The Crimson Tide scored the first five points of the second half to trim LSU’s lead to six — the closest Alabama would get the rest of the way.

After O’Bryant split a pair of free throws, freshman forward Jarell Martin ripped off five straight points to push the lead back to 10.

The teams traded baskets for a while thereafter, but the Crimson Tide were never able to get the deficit less

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While having several athletes in the same event makes it tough for LSU to generate points as a team, Shaver said it speaks volumes about the Tigers’ sprint group.

“It just goes to show that that’s obviously the strength right now during the indoor season of our men’s program, is the 400 meter guys,” Shaver said. “They’ve just done an excellent job. And along with that, they also had the opportunity to run great 4x400 times.”

Sophomore Cyril Grayson completes LSU’s 4x400-meter relay.

The Tigers’ biggest competition are two teams they faced in College Station, Texas, one weekend ago.

The 4x400-meter relay teams of SEC Indoor Champion Texas A&M and runner-up Florida are ranked No. 1 and No. 2, respectively.

Contact Taylor Curet at tcuret@lsureveille.com than eight.

Coleman and senior guard Andre Stringer hit consecutive 3-pointers with just less than five minutes to go, pushing the lead to 15 and sowing up the victory that sends the Tigers into familiar territory against the Wildcats.

“We have to go out and make sure that we’re probably playing one of our better games all year,” Jones said. “Kentucky will come in and they will have an edge about themselves tomorrow and we’re just going to have to play well.”

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

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forces on the mound.

So far in 2014, the juniors have put on a solid first act in each’s final collegiate audition before expectedly heading to the pro level after this season.

In four starts, Nola is 4-0, surrendering only 11 hits and recording 36 strikeouts in 27 innings pitched. The Baton Rouge native has yet to give up an earned run this season. The last time he surrendered an earned run was last season’s SEC Tournament game against Arkansas.

Beede is almost a mirror image.

The Auburn, Mass., native has also surrendered only 11 hits while recording 33 strikeouts in 25 innings pitched.

Nola said he isn’t concerned about Vanderbilt’s ace on Friday.

“He’s definitely a great pitcher, and we’re going to be battling against one of the best teams in the SEC,” Nola said. “But it’s me pitching against their lineup, and it’s Tyler pitching against our lineup. It’s just about pitching and defense and clutch hits, and we’re going to need that this weekend.”

LSU has seen Beede before.

He started in Alex Box Stadium two seasons ago, surrendering three runs on five hits in 3 2/3 innings pitched.

The pitcher the Tigers will see Friday night isn’t the same freshman who struggled in Baton Rouge in 2012, though.

No regular in LSU’s lineup was on the team two seasons ago, so Mainieri has had to prepare his hitters for what Beede brings to the

mound. His arsenal includes a fastball that tops out at 97 mph, a 12-6 curveball and a changeup that some scouts have called his best pitch.

“You just get ready to hit on time,” said LSU sophomore shortstop Alex Bregman. “We’ve faced guys in our past — before we played at LSU and while we’ve been here — who throw very hard.

I think we just go about it ready to hit early and put a good swing on it.”

Mainieri said any SEC game will be a challenge for his squad this season, so starting off against a top squad like Vanderbilt will help prepare his players for the road ahead.

Junior left-hander Kyle Bouman will start for LSU on Saturday, while freshman lefthander Jared Poche’ will take the mound for the Tigers on Sunday. Both have combined for seven wins so far this season, surrendering six runs in 44 2/3 total innings pitched.

Offensively, both Bregman and sophomore outfielder Andrew Stevenson enter the Vanderbilt series on a 10 and 15-game hitting streak, respectively.

Mainieri was more than fired up about battling the Commodores at Hawkins Field this weekend.

“There’s no easing in to the SEC schedule,” Mainieri said.

“You just jump in feet first. Let’s go. Let’s line it up and play. This is what you come to LSU for is these kinds of series and games.”

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

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IN LIVING COLOR Denying race, claiming colorblindness do not indicate a post-racial America.

THE BOX DOES NOT EXIST Jana King Columnist Editor’s Note: This is the third column in a three-part series discussing racism in America.

When approaching this series, I had several personal conflicts. The most serious is one of political correctness. I’ve spent my life feeling uncomfortable when talking about race, struggling over the choice between “African-American” and “black,” followed by the guilt of pointing out race at all.

The arguments that we don’t need to talk about race and that any effort to is laced with white guilt turned into charity have skewed racial ideologies into denial of race as an issue. Political commentator and comedian Bill Maher said it best: “The new racism is the denial of racism.”

As a country, we have abolished slavery, granted voting rights to everyone and elected a black president for two terms. Yet we still don’t see the problem in claiming to be “color-blind.”

The denial of someone’s ethnicity is not an acceptance of that person. Claiming to be color-blind is to say you are not comfortable accepting someone as they are, and you would feel more comfortable imagining that person has the same background as you.

This is a relevant argument in the political and judicial systems in America. When Barack Obama was elected in 2008, there was an uproar over having a black president, but there were also people who claimed he was not the first black president because he is half white.

However when Bill Clinton was elected in 1993, there were few protests to claims that he was the first black president. It’s important to note this claim was not because of his skin color or that of his parents. Clinton’s birth

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Communication and African American studies senior Nygel Anderson performs a monologue on Racism at the Greek Theatre on Wednesday.

into a single parent working class household, ability to play the saxophone and love of fast-food were reason enough to call him the first black president.

The comparison of these presidents points out a truth — race isn’t all about skin color in America. Sure, it’s an obvious indicator of difference, but there is a set of ideas attached to the racial group that can make one person “blacker” than another.

The idea of the black race being a gradient in which one person can be blacker than another makes it apparent that “whiteness” is something that can be achieved. Indeed, white is a central point that we use to measure other races. White people don’t even think of being white as a

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race. Race is everyone else.

Nobel prize-winning author Toni Morrison touched on the idea of hyphenated identities when it comes to race.

“In this country, American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”

Civil rights leaders would have been disappointed to see the hyphenated identity of an African-American.

In an interview with an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies, Bryan McCann posited that if Martin Luther King Jr. were to walk around Baton Rouge, he would see the racial divide.

“He would look at the neighborhoods, poverty rates and see Baton Rouge as segregated.

Its not legally sanctioned, but functionally we are an incredibly segregated society,” McCann said.

In recognition of this segregation, several institutions have put codes in place to encourage ethnic diversity. The most popular and controversial is affirmative action.

The opposition believes affirmative action is a punishment for the majority’s white, slaveowning ancestors and a reward for ancestral black slaves. They cling to the belief that America is no longer racist because we are finished with slavery and everyone can vote.

Let me be clear. This is not the point of affirmative action.

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a wide range of policies. When LSU is performing a job search, it may state women and members of minority groups are encouraged to apply. This is a weak version of affirmative action that gives LSU a cover, should anyone question the disproportionately low number of ethnically diverse employees.

The point of affirmative action is to allow a candidate for any position, job or education a fighting chance when up against someone who was given more opportunities.

There may have a white applicant with more opportunities and probably more successes and a longer resume. Then there could be a minority applicant who works 10 times harder but has had fewer opportunities. That candidate seems like a risk to an employer, but not through any fault of their own.

“To oppose affirmative action is to assume that racism is self-correcting or done. Neither is true,” McCann continued as we discussed the pros and cons of affirmative action.

Those who claim affirmative action is not effective have a point, though. Historically, the group that has benefited the most from the policies are white women.

The oppressive history of America can only be interrupted by affirmatively helping those from previously excluded groups into positions that give them the opportunity to succeed. Otherwise we could create a permanent white supremacist society.

We have overcome much in the fight against racism, but we still have a long way to go before we are a post-racial America.

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

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Speed reading has counter-productive outcomes 600 WORDS OF SOMMER Annette Sommers Columnist If you could read 600 words per minute, you could read this entire column in about 60 seconds.

With an upcoming app called Spritz, you can learn to read at these speeds and then some.

Before you gasp in awe at the progression of technology and the human mind, take a second to think about what this means for future generations and their attention spans.

We want the newest, most high speed technology we can get our greedy little hands on. I’m guilty of it, too. You bet I went on the Spritz website and tested how fast I could read in a minute.

But that’s all it should be — a fun little test.

As college students, we are constantly searching for the easiest way out of tedious reading assignments and will probably ignore the dangerous implications of this app, leading our society to be entranced by this speedreading frenzy. As hard as it might be to resist the urge to Spritz your way through British Lit, try to see why it may be better to pace yourself instead.

CNN reported that a psychologist at the University of Victoria is critical of this speed reading method because of its counter-productivity. This opinion is spreading among scientists who study the rate of reading to comprehension but unfortunately had not been properly considered by the general public.

The website demo starts you off at 250 words per minute, a little faster than the average reading speed. We can increase our words per minute as our eyes begin to register words more quickly. But at a certain point, we are just seeing words and not comprehending sentences.

When this app falls into the hands of users, it will change how we define reading.

The Spritz website says the app will eventually work on multiple platforms like e-mail, social media and even outdoor signs.

It’s all a little too robotic for me.

I don’t want a program reading me my e-mails from grandma at lightning speed.

Our culture is moving in the direction of hyperspeed and calling our diminishing attention spans successful progress. Our minds were not designed to retain information presented at a speed of 600-plus words per minute.

We can train them all we want, but there is a certain point where we need to absorb the words flashed before our eyes and more importantly, appreciate them.

It might be cool to say we can read up to 1,000 words per minute, but how many of those words are we actually retaining in our memories? The entire concept of speed reading implies that reading is a chore and not a privilege.

A study conducted by the U.S. Department of Education and the National Institute of Literacy found that 14 percent of the American population can’t read. Those who have the ability to read should stop taking it for granted.

Reading for pleasure could potentially turn into a competi-

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Spritz is an app that emphasizes speed reading, but some argue it comes at the cost of comprehension. Books should be read and appreciated.

tion instead of the peaceful escape that should be. Our kids will be reading the entire “Harry Potter” series in one sitting and seeing who of their friends can do it the fastest.

“I’m Brad, and I read all of ‘Prisoner of Azkaban’ in two hours, Brad! Beat that!”

“Seriously, Robert? I read the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy in one hour, sucker.”

Brad is a brat, and I don’t

want my kids to be faced with any Brads of their generation, let alone become a Brad. But with the way things are looking, future generations may increase their demand for instant gratification.

Books need to be read and appreciated. Spending only a few hours on a classic novel doesn’t allow readers enough time to grasp the messages and understand their value. We will lose our ability to be patient and turn into a population of

elitist Brads with no sense of appreciation for the words we are so swiftly skimming.

Our attention spans need to be exercised, not eliminated.

Annette Sommers is a 19-year-old mass communication sophomore from Dublin, Calif.

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Being overly-competitive takes the fun out of games BARE KNUCKLES Samantha Bares Columnist I’m not what you would call a sore loser. More accurately, I am a rabid loser. I don’t have a meager lactic acid situation going on; I have the sort of thing that gets your childhood pet put down.

More than half of the time, I am fine with losing a game.

I’m simply not good at a lot of games, especially video games, and that’s something I’ve accepted about myself. Still, a large chunk of my losses dig at me and make me the kind of person you wouldn’t want to run into in Monopoly jail.

It’s the worst when I am learning a new game, like when my boyfriend first taught me backgammon and I chucked a

stuffed animal at his head. While I’m less likely to slip into rabidloserdom once I’ve licked the specific schematics of a game, it gets much worse when I don’t have “I don’t know what I am doing, dammit!” to fall back on.

My short temper is to blame, for the most part, but also the way my childhood experiences taught me to approach games.

First of all, when you’re a kid, adults don’t let you play anything fun. Yahtzee, Spin the Bottle, poker, you name it, and I was barred for being too little. I was precocious and wanted in on the fun, but no dice.

And then when I was old enough to be allowed, no one gave me a chance. My learning curve is steep at first. I ease into the game, then once I understand how it works, I get to real playing. There was this rush to indoctrinate me, abandoned once they got tired of shorty trying the big leagues.

A good example of this is Monopoly. After a couple games of being bored and “accidentally” skittering their houses off the board with my game piece, I shut the other players out of whole stretches on the board and took all of their money. And then I flipped the board and ran to my room when they called me out on my tyranny.

While I’ve been able to rally in most games and become a worthy opponent, I wasn’t as lucky in others.

Team-building in grade school Physical Education classes probably robbed me of the chance to go Olympic in volleyball. Who knows how to serve the first time they hold a volleyball?

Not me. Fittingly, I was last to be picked and shoved to the back of the court, impeding my ability to improve and making me generally cranky for years.

When my siblings discovered Nintendo, I was again shut

out once I demonstrated lessthan-ideal skill sets on “Crash Bandicoot.” That ice level is a killer. Personally, I’m more for pastoral scenes with lots of boxes to throw my body at.

I never learned how to use a joystick or game controller well, and my career as a video gamer has been nearly exclusively as a watcher. I like video games, but they are more like interactive movies to me at this point.

Given this long-standing exclusion from whole arenas of game-playing, I assume now, even as an adult, that if I do not demonstrate considerable promise right off the bat when playing a new game, I won’t be allowed to play anymore. Ever.

And the anxiety associated with that carries itself into games I know and play well, like backgammon or badminton, ruining everybody’s fun. I’ve spent a lot of time being ashamed of my being a terrible loser, especially

when I see someone else getting all sore over a game of checkers.

I’m assigning myself something of a New Year’s resolution as of today, midway through March. I am going to flex my losing muscles until they are much less sore post-play and stop worrying about being banned from a game — before people actually do ban me from playing because I am irrationally angry over scratching on the cue ball.

My fall-back plan is upping my average pitching speed at the expense of my friend’s heads.

So... win-win?

Samantha Bares is a 20-year-old English junior from Erath, La.

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Teen sues parents for tuition Deanna Narveson Staff Writer

New Jersey teenager Rachel Canning is suing her parents, demanding they pay for her current living and transportation expenses and commit to paying for her college tuition, CNN reported.

Four months prior to the lawsuit, Canning, 18, moved out of her home to stay with a friend.

She moved back in with her family Wednesday, but has not withdrawn her case, the New York Daily News reported.

The average student at the University pays about $10,600 each year, borrowing about $15,000 over the course of undergraduate studies, according to the White House College Scorecard.

Should Canning ultimately win her lawsuit, her parents would be required by law to pay a similar cost if she were to attend Rutgers University in New Jersey, a school of comparable

CRAWFISH, from page 1

restaurant will begin serving crawfish on St. Patrick’s Day this year, partially because of the pricing, quality and quantity of

the crawfish thus far in the season.

However, Darrin Dominguez, owner of Brightside Bar & Grill, said the restaurant has been serving crawfish for more than a month, and he has been pleasantly surprised by the size of the crawfish thus far, though he expects the season will be at its height through the rest of March and April. Dominguez also spoke to the cultural aspect of crawfish season.

“Over the past 40 years [crawfish] has exploded into something national,” Dominguez said.

Owner of Tony’s Seafood Market & Deli Bill Pizzolato agreed the demand for crawfish during the season is more than just a craving for crawfish. Once the Lenten season begins and the prices start to fall, people start hosting more crawfish boils on the weekends, sometimes gathering to consume the traditional meal every week, Pizzolato said.

The season has been delayed almost two months because of the unusually cold weather this late into spring, but if there continues to be warmer weather, the crawfish start to move around more and the quality will increase, Pizzolato said.

University students can get a taste of the cultural phenomenon of crawfish through an annual crawfish boil hosted by the LSU Residence Hall Association partnered with LSU Dining.

RHA President Patrick Stiegman said this year’s boil on April 8 will provide 4,000 pounds of crawfish for on-campus students, totalling a cost of $13,000. The event aims to bring a traditional and fun atmosphere to University students on the Parade Ground, Stiegman said.

The boil usually draws approximately 1,000 members of the student body and is a way to expose some of the University’s international

Do you think, if they are able, parents should be required to pay for their children’s education?

Elise Ras biological engineering sophomore

‘I would look at how they applied themselves in high school. As a parent, I’m not going to pay for them to party.’

size to LSU, according to data from the White House College Scorecard. students to the culture of South Louisiana, Stiegman said.

Cassie Breaux, coordinator with Residential Life, said Louisiana Bayou Bistro will cater the event.

Dale Mougeot, head chef of Louisiana Bayou Bistro, born in Melville, La., said crawfish is the signature item of Louisiana, and he looks forward to the season every year.

One aspect of preparing crawfish is the mix used and the boil itself. Mougeot’s signature boil features a dry and liquid mix, and in his 30 years of cooking, he has had plenty of experience in preparing crawfish, he said.

In an average year, Mougeot

Justin Kennedy international studies senior

‘Absolutely not, It’s just not necessary.

Why should parents who do have the means have to pay?’

Contact Deanna Narveson at dnarveson@lsureveille.com boils 250,000 to 350,000 pounds of crawfish for boils in various places across the state, though it is becoming more difficult to find good crawfish because of how much is shipped out of the state, he said.

However, Mougeot said the restaurant caters anywhere from 25 to 30 crawfish boils on campus each year for organizations, including fraternities, the LSU Law School and LSU School of Veterinary Medicine.

“What’s a better thing to do than boil crawfish and drink cold beer?”

Mougeot said.

Contact Michael Tarver at mtarver@lsureveille.com

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Jenna Hisey, biology sophomore and Tiger Band bass drummer, said she was excited to travel with 325 of her closest friends.

“I don’t think a lot of bands get to do this,” Hisey said. “I’ve never gone out of the country

CAMPAIGNS, from page 1 Presidential candidate Clay Tufts and vice presidential candidate Taylor Lambert of The Next Step ticket suggested giving part-time seniors benefits that full-time students have. These benefits would include access to the UREC, Student Health Center and sporting events without having to pay an additional price.

Another idea from The Next Step is to partner with Southern Conference schools to create an SEC ticket exchange. Tufts said this program would be beneficial for students who want to go to more away games. The exchange would allow students to exchange individual tickets with other SEC schools.

“It would be more beneficial.

Instead of buying that big package of tickets, they could do it individually,” Tufts said.

The Next Step wants to

before and this is finally giving me the chance to go.”

Hisey said the band will play various marching songs at the parade.

Contact Renee Barrow at rbarrow@lsureveille.com partner with the ROTC program and the Warrior Project to help raise money for soldiers who have fought and come back to Baton Rouge.

“Students should recognize this, and it’s a great way that we can show our appreciation for everything [the soldiers] did,” Tufts said.

Members of The Next Step also wants to clear up lines for football games at the student gate.

Another initiative they presented is to create changes with the parking congestion by Greek Row and Middleton Library.

Another initiative is a service project called White Roofs for the Red Stick. The project would consist of painting the roofs at LSU white to help lower utility costs and increase sustainability.

Contact Jacquelyn Masse at jmasse@lsureveille.com

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THE Daily Commuter Puzzle ACROSS 1 __ Rapids, Iowa 6 Finds a total 10 Hawaiian island 14 No longer sleeping 15 Feast at which poi is served 16 Apartment 17 Send in payment 18 Blyth & Jillian 19 Fabric for lining a jewelry box 20 First showing of a movie 22 Veer off course 24 Teacup’s edge 25 Go in again 26 Reverberated 29 __-up; confused 30 Beverage with foam on top 31 Money deducted 33 Passed out cards 37 Waterproof ball field covering 39 Acting parts 41 June 6, 1944 42 Perspiration 44 Sits for a spell 46 __ code; part of an address 47 Lassos, e.g.

49 Withdraw 51 Quito’s nation 54 Valley 55 Actor Ted __ 56 Mighty 60 Bump __; meet 61 “The Farmer in the __” 63 Stop 64 Spiral 65 Daredevil __ Knievel 66 __ aback; surprised 67 Golf pegs 68 Communists 69 Luge vehicles DOWN 1 Freshwater fish

2 Water jug 3 Knighted woman’s title 4 With hands on hips 5 Accepted one’s pension 6 Awakener, for many 7 Sand mound 8 Rather or Fouts 9 English county 10 Insulted 11 Vigilant 12 Bisect 13 Sheer; total 21 Large sea duck 23 Unwanted plant 25 Ceremonies 26 Has lunch 27 Talon 28 Roll call response 29 __ per hour; MPH 32 Any holemaking device 34 Shaping tool 35 __ up; ill in bed

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36 Sort; variety 38 Umbrellas 40 “Turkey in the __” 43 Well-__; rich 45 Chooses 48 Think about 50 Breakfast food 51 King’s decree

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Paddled boat Loosen Gifts for girls __ with; implored Phony Secondhand Part of the eye Arden or Plumb

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