The Daily Reveille - April 4, 2014

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BREAKING

Students march around campus to protest Studio Arts Building conditions

POINT for artists on LSU’s campus

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Olivia McClure Senior Reporter

University art students and faculty marched from the Quad to the Student Union in a mock funeral for the School of Art Thursday, protesting dilapidated conditions of the 90-year-old Studio Arts Building.

Organizers decided on a silent protest and black clothing to symbolize the potential downfall of their program if the building is not renovated soon, said painting senior Brinna Ryan.

“We’re dying,” she said. “If we don’t get help, we will flounder and drown.”

Ryan said she and other students are tired of paying the same tuition as everyone else while having to work in an aged, crumbling building that is home to peeling lead paint, bad drainage, a damaged ceiling and rats, among other problems. Although Facility Services has “come in and fixed what they can for the time being … it’s a Band-Aid on the problem,” Ryan said.

Despite the protest, she worries the state legislature will not approve the funding required because the arts are not a priority.

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PROTEST, see page 11

Friday, April 4, 2014

HEALTH

Research predicts virus in oysters Renee Barrow Contributing Writer

Most people enjoy Louisiana oysters, but bringing them to the table is not as easy as throwing a net out to sea.

Zhi-Qiang Deng, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, conducts research to assist prevention of norovirus outbreaks among oyster harvesting locations.

“Most people think they’re unpredictable,” Deng said, but he said his research shows otherwise.

Last April, Deng, working with the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration satellite data, successfully predicted an outbreak in Cameron Parish and was able to harvest areas several months before it occurred.

The Federal Drug Association’s National Shellfish Sanitation Program requires all states to test state growth waters for safety approval.

According to Deng’s website, NASA’s environmental data, along OYSTERS, see page 11

EVENT

Mysteries behind ‘I Agree With Adam’ revealed Michael Tarver Contributing Writer

In a sea of electrified students, many sporting the increasingly popular bright orange “I Agree With Adam” apparel, Adam Roethele shared the story of his religious life and answered the seemingly mysterious questions surrounding the campaign on campus.

After weeks of campaigning, the ambiguous “Adam” was revealed to be kinesiology senior Roethele, the student chosen to take on the persona of a campaign to fertilize conversation about Jesus Christ among students on campus.

Roethele shared his story of faith to University students Thursday night including anecdotes about his personal life and his relationship with God. Political science and economics junior Josh Phillips said the “I Agree With Adam” campaign is not necessarily about raising awareness but rather creating relationships with people and sharing beliefs with anyone who wants to have a religious conversation. “[The campaign] is an opportunity to understand what Christ has done for us,” Phillips said.

According to Phillips, the campaign drew University students from various campus ministries including The Refuge and Campus

Outreach, and he said he has seen a lot of unity within the ministries.

Elementary special education sophomore Courtney Pope said, though it has been perceived in multiple ways on campus, she feels the “I Agree With Adam” campaign is not hurting anyone because it is not a forceful campaign but instead a resource for information about what the campaign represents.

Pope said the goal of the campaign is simply to share the personal beliefs of Adam and the campaign supporters but not to force anyone to share in those beliefs.

“I agree with Adam that ADAM, see page 11

LSU kinesiology senior Adam Roethele talks to a crowd Thursday in the LSU Student Union Royal Cotillion Ballroom.

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TODAY’S FORECAST

Nation & World

NATIONAL

HIGH 79 LOW 57 sunrise: 6:50 a.m. sunset: 7:26 p.m.

Saturday HIGH 66 LOW 59

Sunday HIGH 75 LOW 63

STATE/LOCAL

Supreme Court won’t stop execution $144.5M in spill fines to be used for La. beach The Associated Press

T-storms

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HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court said Thursday that it won’t stop the execution of a Texas serial killer whose attorneys want the state to release information about where it gets its lethal injection drug.

The plea to the high court from Tommy Lynn Sells’ lawyers was rejected about an hour before his scheduled execution Thursday evening. They made it after a federal appeals court allowed the execution to remain on schedule. A lower court had stayed the execution Wednesday, ordering Texas to reveal more information about its drug supplier, but the ruling was quickly tossed on appeal.

“It is not in the public interest for the state to be allowed to be deceptive in its efforts to procure lethal injection drugs,” Sells’ attorneys told the high court.

The appeal was one of two that the justices rejected. Another before the court since last month asked for the punishment to be stopped to review whether Sells’ legal help at his trial was deficient, and whether a

court improperly denied him money to hire investigators to conduct a probe about his background.

Sells was sentenced to death for fatally stabbing a 13-year-old South Texas girl in 1999. Court records show he claims to have committed as many as 70 killings in states including Alabama, California, Arizona, Kentucky and Arkansas.

Sells’ attorneys argue that they need to know the name of the company now providing the state with pentobarbital, the drug used during executions, in order to verify the drug’s quality and protect Sells from unconstitutional pain and suffering.

But the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Texas prison officials, who argued that information about the drug supplier must be kept secret to protect the pharmacy from threats of violence. It also found that the stock of the pentobarbital, a powerful sedative, falls within the acceptable ranges of potency.

The court said that had Texas wanted to use a drug never used before for executions or a completely new drug whose efficien-

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A corrections officer keeps watch outside the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas on Sept, 21, 2011.

cy or science was unknown, the case might be different.

The Supreme Court last month rejected similar arguments from a Missouri inmate’s attorneys who challenged the secrecy surrounding where that state obtained its execution drugs, and the condemned prisoner was put to death.

PORT FOURCHON (AP) — The foundation overseeing use of fines from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill has approved $144.5 million to complete the restoration of a beach near Grand Isle.

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation says the project will create about 490 acres of habitat, adding about 7.5 miles of beachfront to the Caminada Headland.

It will do so by pumping more than 5 million cubic yards of sand from the Gulf of Mexico through a pipeline.

Money for the project comes from a fund set up to manage fines paid by Transocean Ltd. and BP PLC after the companies pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges related to the 2010 oil spill.

INTERNATIONAL

100 migrants try to enter Spain The Associated Press MELILLA, Spain (AP) — Spanish and Moroccan police thwarted a fresh attempt Thursday by at least 100 African migrants to scale border fences and enter the Spanish enclave of Melilla. At least 25 migrants, many with bloody bare feet, clung to the tops of fences for hours.

After a seven hour standoff, authorities coaxed most of the immigrants down from the fence, gave them water and turned them over to Moroccan police.

The Moroccan state news agency said 100 were involved in the

attempt, 64 of whom were arrested.

The attempt was the latest in a recent wave of African migrants trying to breach this unusual border between northern Morocco and the enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta.

Success is rare, but the promise is so great that migrants from around Africa keep taking the risk.

In Thursday’s assault, several dozen migrants tried to scale the fences but most were driven off, leaving just those perched on the 20foot fence, who shouted “Freedom!” and “Victory!” and called for the Red Cross to help them from being returned to Morocco.

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CRIME

GRADUATION

Two more arrests made in McDonald’s case LSUPD expects additional arrests Reese Perkins Contributing Writer

Two additional McDonald’s employees have been arrested after it was announced late last week that workers in the Student Union had allegedly overcharged students’ Tiger Cards and pocketed the difference. This brings the total number of workers arrested in the LSU Police Department’s investigation to eight.

On March 26, four workers were arrested on felony theft charges, according to LSUPD spokesman Capt. Cory Lalonde.

The arrests were the result of a months-long investigation beginning in October 2013, which initially saw two employees booked on misdemeanor theft charges.

Recently, officers arrested McDonald’s employees Cassandra Nicole Bell, 31, of 24325 Thibodeaux St., and Ashley B. Phillips, 33, of 18117 Burnham Way, Greenwell Springs, La. Bell and Phillips were arrested on March 27 and March 29, respectively, on felony theft charges, Lalonde said.

Felony thefts involve thefts of more than $1,500.

Lalonde also said LSUPD anticipates two more arrests.

The fraud scheme has led to

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speculation concerning whether or not employees of other businesses on campus that accept Tiger Cash may be committing the same crime.

Lalonde said the department makes an attempt to inform business managers to be aware of their employees’ actions, but the department may only interact with these businesses to an extent.

“Law enforcement agencies cannot tell a business what procedures it can or cannot use.”

Lalonde said.

The department is not prepared to release any information regarding the two additional suspects at this time, Lalonde said.

Chartwells, the company that operates LSU Dining, announced it planned to reimburse students after details of the arrest surfaced, and some students have acknowledged their Tiger Card accounts have been credited.

LSU Dining was unable to respond to The Daily Reveille’s request for comment.

The Advocate originally reported the employees could have stolen more than $30,000.

Contact Reese Perkins at rperkins@lsureveille.com

University announces commencement speakers Deanna Narveson Staff Writer

The University recently selected United States Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus to deliver the keynote address during the commencement exercises at 7 p.m. in the PMAC on May 15. Washington, D.C. attorney Robert Barnett was also selected to deliver the Paul M. Hebert Law Center commencement address at 9:30 a.m. on May 30.

Members of the University’s administration considered recommendations for speakers and LSU President F. King Alexander extended an invitation to Mabus, who accepted, said University media relations director Ernie Ballard.

Barnett, who was selected to speak at the Law Center commencement, has represented presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and worked on the preparations for televised presidential debates in eight campaigns, according to a University news release.

A 2010 profile in the Washington Post said that Barnett’s “specialty is the birth, life and death of Washington careers — then he works on the afterlife. … He ushers the powerful to Washington, tries to make their lives fruitful while they’re here, then helps them launch second acts elsewhere.”

“Bob Barnett occupies a unique niche among the nation’s lawyers,” said Law Center Chancellor Jack Weiss in a news

release. “He is a trusted counselor to dozens of globally known clients on their most sensitive matters. It’s a great honor to welcome Bob as our 2014 graduation speaker.”

During his tenure as Secretary of the Navy, Mabus has focused on improving the quality of life of sailors, marines and their families, as well as decreasing the Navy’s use of fossil fuels. Mabus has set a goal for the Navy and Marine Corps to obtain at least 50 percent of their energy from alternative sources by the year 2020, according to a University news release.

Mabus was elected governor of Mississippi in 1988 and served as

the youngest governor of the state in more than 150 years, the release said.

Alexander said in a release he looks forward to Mabus’ talk and the advice he will give to students as they graduate in May. The individual diploma ceremonies, where bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral candidates will be recognized, are scheduled to take place on May 16.

Contact Deanna Narveson at dnarveson@lsureveille.com

APRIL

EVENT CALENDAR

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THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2014 5:00 PM

Live After Five - North Boulevard Town Square H.O.N.O.R. - Buffa's Bar & Restaurant

6:00 PM

LSU Softball - Tiger Park - LSU Baton Rouge Baseball - Pete Goldsby Field

6:30 PM

LSU Baseball - Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field - LSU

7:00 PM

Kyndra Joi - Cafe Istanbul Kermit Ruffins and the BBQ Swingers - Blue Nile

7:30 PM

Friday Night Lecture Series - Highland Road Park Observatory Southern Soul Assembly - Manship Theatre, Shaw Center Frost/Nixon - Baton Rouge Little Theater

8:00 PM

ComedySportz - La Nuit Comedy Theater Paul Sanchez - Chickie Wah Wah The Sweet Substitutes - Buffa's Bar & Restaurant Gabriel Iglesias - Saenger Theatre

9:00 PM

Joel Cooper Rock Show - Lava Cantina Underhill Family Orchestra - Gasa Gasa Sue Johansons - The Roux House

9:30 PM

Michael Juan Nunez - Artmosphere Bon Soir Catin - The Blue Moon

10:00 PM

Le'Jit - Famous Theatre Duke of Orleans Entertainment - Hangar 13

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

EVENTS Louisiana Gospel Fellowship Choir Join us for an afternoon of gospel music with the all-male Louisiana Gospel Fellowship Choir at the Jones Creek Regional Branch on Saturday, November 9, at 1:00 p.m.

For more information, call (225) 756-1150.

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ACADEMICS

Friday, April 4, 2014

POLLEN INVASION

Graduate school costs rising Degrees don’t ensure employment

because they believe they’ll get a job immediately after obtaining their graduate degree, but that’s not always the reality.

“If you’re going into a specific major to get a Ph.D. to teach at a James Richards university, that’s a bit of wishful Staff Writer thinking,” Wolfe said.

Gary Byerly, graduate school While the University celebrates Graduate Student Appre- dean, agrees with Wolfe that there ciation week, graduate students is a lack of upfront information without University stipends are about the direct and indirect costs struggling under tens of thousands of graduate school at the Universiof dollars in debt, according to a ty and higher education in general. study released last Tuesday from Neither of them believe the Unithe New America Education Pol- versity is in any way intentionally icy Program. The study showed hiding the information, but both the median graduate borrower think some more could be done to goes into about $40,000 in debt make resources available. over the course of their degree To show the nature of the program. problem, Byerly tried to find a The study examined all gradu- price calculator for the average ate programs using numbers from cost of living in Baton Rouge, the National Postsecondary Stu- but was unable to locate it on the University’s webdent Aid Study collected in 2004, ‘If you’re going into a site.

Master’s pro2008 and 2012. specific major to get grams were the The study includes information a Ph.D. to teach at a main focus of the study, showabout undergraduate debt as well, university, that’s a bit ing, for example, showing some of wishful thinking.’ a $17,000 leap in median debt levof the perceived Jason Wolfe increases in colels for a master’s history graduate student lege students’ debt in education from load can be at2008 to 2012. tributed to expensive graduate Byerly said the current trend degrees. for graduate degrees has master’s History graduate student Ja- degrees overtaking bachelor’s deson Wolfe said he thinks there grees as the professional degree, is a lack of upfront information instead of being a stepping stone about the cost of graduate school, to a doctorate. He said above other leading some pursuing graduate factors, the main reason a student degrees to take out large loans. usually pursues a doctorate over a He said many students do this master’s degree is market-driven.

Wolfe gave the example of a master’s in engineering most likely landing you in a management position making a good salary. He said a master’s in humanities may leave a student without a job for a few years “before they find their place in the world.”

In terms of paying for graduate school, the University offers tuition and fee exemptions, stipends and assistantships to around half of their graduate students, averaging about $35,000 over nine months, Byerly said. Some departments, typically those with high-demand programs like science and engineering, can offer much more, he said. In contrast, programs whose endowments were hit with budget cuts and don’t have large private donations can only offer something in the range of $10,000.

Biology graduate student Brad Nelson said in an email it was fairly easy for him to acquire a tuition exemption and stipend because he’s in a higher demand field.

It’s not as easy for graduate students in less-demanded areas to be exempted. The study shows around 60 percent of graduate students take out loans. Comparable numbers for the University are difficult to pin down exactly, as the loans don’t go through the University, and the information must be offered by the graduate students, Byerly said.

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Pollen litters the sidewalk in front of the Journalism Building on Thursday.

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all are invited Dance Competition starts at 2pm

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Sports

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TRACK AND FIELD

Tigers battle on the Bayou

LSU vs. Miss. State Tonight 6:30 p.m.

Alex Box Stadium

NO HARD FEELINGS

LSU hosts fourth annual meet Taylor Curet Sports Contributor

Two weeks into its 2014 outdoor season, the LSU Track and Field team will host its fourth annual Battle on the Bayou meet Saturday, a chance for LSU to showcase its talent in Baton Rouge.

The Tigers and Lady Tigers, both ranked No. 8, will open up the Bernie Moore Track Stadium to Kansas, Mississippi State, Ohio State and UCLA. Saturday’s meet will be LSU’s first of its three home events this season.

“We love being able to host a meet at our home facility,” said LSU coach Dennis Shaver. “It’s a great facility, and we’re usually able to get some good teams to come in and compete with us.”

Both LSU’s men’s and women’s squads are looking to win their third straight Battle on the Bayou event with UCLA’s No. 9 Bruins and No. 13 Lady Bruins being the biggest threats.

Saturday’s event is also a homecoming for the Tigers’ 4x400 meter relay team. Shortly removed from capturing gold in the 4x400

Nola gets Friday start as Tigers, Bulldogs renew rivalry Chandler Rome Sports Writer

After Mississippi State senior pitcher Kendall Graveman’s pitch went behind Mason Katz’ head last season, LSU coach Paul Mainieri knew the Bulldogs were frustrated.

Katz had cranked three home runs in the Tigers’ two wins that Friday and Saturday in Starkville, leading Graveman to send the purpose pitch on the first throw of the second inning.

“I mean, we beat them every year and they get tired of getting beat by us,” Mainieri told Nola.com | The Times-Picayune after the game. “There’s no place in college baseball for doing that.”

REMATCH, see page 7

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BAYOU, see page 7

GYMNASTICS

Tigers going back to basics for NCAA Regional David Gray Sports Contributor

The LSU gymnastics squad entered the Southeastern Conference championships relishing the prospect of winning the program’s second conference title and first since 1981. But following a disappointing showing, the Tigers sat and watched as others walked up to the podium to accept the trophy they coveted.

However, the squad’s unsatisfying finish at SECs served as a necessary reminder of what LSU coach D-D Breaux has preached throughout the entire season — focus solely on what’s happening now.

“I think they got out of the process [at SECs] and started looking at the prize and the end

result, but the task at hand has to be the most important thing,” Breaux said.

The task No. 3 LSU (15-5) now faces is the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional on Saturday in the PMAC. The Tigers will square off against five other squads as they try to claim their second consecutive regional title and stamp their ticket to the NCAA Championships.

And although the Super Six is only two weeks away, Breaux was adamant her team’s focus was on Saturday’s meet, seeing as only two of the six competing teams will make it through to the next round.

“They know that it’s all or none right now,” Breaux said.

According to junior allarounder Jessie Jordan, the

disappointment at SECs was perhaps the shake-up the Tigers needed to reset their focus in everyday preparation as they head deeper into the postseason.

“Really, what makes people win is you win every day in the gym and in practice,” Jordan said.

“I think we were so letdown by SECs that it really refocused us and gave us a wake-up call for what we need to do and what our mindset needs to be going into regionals.”

With so much riding on the meet Saturday, the past two weeks of rest and non-competition may have been the remedy LSU was searching for. It was an opportunity to recharge both bodies and minds that have grinded through REGIONAL, see page 7

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LSU senior Sarie Morrison attempts a vault March 14 during the Lady Tigers’ 197.800-195.000 victory against Kentucky in the PMAC.

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TENNIS

Friday, April 4, 2014

Both LSU teams to face stiff conference competition Taylor Curet Sports Contributor

Win. It’s something easier said than done in the Southeastern Conference, and the LSU’s men’s tennis team has learned that the hard way in 2014.

No. 54 LSU (11-10, 2-7 SEC) begins its four-match road trip in Knoxville, Tenn., today against No. 20 Tennessee (13-9, 2-6 SEC) followed by a visit to Athens, Ga., to face the No. 8 Bulldogs (12-6, 7-1 SEC) on Sunday.

Two top-20 matchups over the course of a weekend is common for the Tigers, as they compete in a conference that boasts 11 schools in the top 50, including six in the top 20.

“It’s a difficult conference,” said LSU coach Jeff Brown. “It’s certainly tough on us being so young this year and lacking a little experience. Any spot that you have, whether it’s your youth or your inexperience or injury, you’re going to struggle in tennis in the SEC.”

Though LSU and Tennessee share near-identical SEC records, the Volunteers enjoy a higher national ranking, which Brown said is evidence of the conference’s strength.

And while the Tigers have won at least one match for three weeks in a row, continuing that streak will be a challenge this weekend.

“We’re at the point where every match is another opportunity,” Brown said. “Tennessee and Georgia have been traditional powers for years. We’re looking to play a hard match. We’re looking to play good, and if we have the opportunity to win, we’d be delighted to accept that.”

The Lady Tigers will welcome the women’s tennis teams of No. 45 Tennessee (9-10, 3-6 SEC) and No. 2 Georgia (15-3, 8-1 SEC) to W.T. “Dub” Robinson Stadium today and Sunday, respectively.

Echoing Brown, LSU coach Julia Sell said every week is a challenge for the No. 54 Lady Tigers (10-10, 2-8 SEC) in conference play, and this weekend will

be no different.

“We are the strongest conference, hands down, top to bottom,” Sell said. “Our entire conference is probably top-20 teams, but we all beat up on each other. … We are the toughest conference. There’s no one else that comes close.”

With five SEC teams in the top 10 of the women’s rankings, LSU’s contest against Georgia will be its sixth top-10 matchup of the season.

And although the Lady Tigers are 0-6 in those matches, each week in the SEC offers LSU opportunities to notch a marquee victory.

“They’re not bad losses, but we can’t get those wins,” Sell said. “We’re going to have to play our best tennis to beat a team like [Georgia]. We’ve shown we can go tight with a lot of top-10 teams; we just haven’t pulled off the win yet. We’re going to focus on Friday first.”

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Contact Taylor Curet at tcuret@lsureveille.com

LSU junior Chris Simpson returns a volley Sunday during the men’s tennis doubles match against Florida at W.T. “Dub” Robinson Stadium.

SOFTBALL

Tigers’ brutal stretch finishes with Tennessee series LSU hopes to end recent slump Tommy Romanach Sports Contributor

The LSU softball team just can’t seem to catch a break.

The Tigers have experienced one of the toughest stretches in the country, playing two top-10 teams and the defending national champion in the last three weekends.

Next up? LSU will face the No. 2 team in the nation with a potential National Player of the Year on the mound.

LSU (20-15, 2-7 Southeastern Conference) will end the most brutal part of its schedule and begin a seven-game home stand with a three-game series against Tennessee (31-3, 8-1 SEC) starting today at Tiger Park.

“We knew these five weeks were a very rough stretch, the roughest I’ve been a part of since I’ve been part of this program,” said coach Beth Torina. “It is what it is. Our goal is just to stay the course and stay positive and know there’s a light at the end of the tunnel here in the next

couple weeks.”

The Tigers’ rough start to conference play has dropped them to last place in the SEC, a far cry from their top 20 ranking to begin the season. A major problem has been the team’s failures in close games, going 1-5 in games decided by two runs or less since March 8.

LSU did gain some confidence entering the series with a midweek 14-1 victory against UL-Monroe Tuesday. An 11-run fourth inning, including a grand slam from junior utility player Kailey McCasland, keyed the Tigers to victory.

The benefit to this series is a long-awaited return home to Tiger Park, with LSU playing its first home game in nearly three weeks. Torina said her players’ spirits should be lifted with the return of a home crowd and familiar setting.

“We’ve been on the road for a long time. It’s tough on our kids,” Torina said. “They’re tired.

They’re worn out. And it’s always great to be in front of the Tigers’ fans. They really boost our spirits and give us confidence. It’s nice to have people on our side.”

Tennessee comes into the series as one of the hottest teams in

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the nation, winning its last eight week against then-No. 4 Florida. games. The Lady Volunteers are She received the win in all three led by an offense with 41 home games, allowing nine hits and runs and a pitching staff with a four runs with 20 strikeouts in combined earned her 16 innings of run average under ‘Our goal is just to stay work.Torina said 2.00.

Senior pitchRenfroe is probathe course and stay er Ellen Renfroe bly the best pitchpositive and know is the dominant er in the country, force of Tennes- there’s a light at the end but this is the type see, sporting a of challenge that 21-0 record with a of the tunnel here in the brought her play1.29 ERA, while next couple weeks.’ ers to LSU. taking three SEC Most imporBeth Torina Pitcher of the tantly, this weekLSU softball coach Week awards this end’s games are season alone. seen as a launchRenfroe was essential in ing pad for the rest of SEC play. the Lady Volunteers’ sweep last If the Tigers can have success in

the final series of such a treacherous stretch, some players say it can lead to confidence for the rest of the season.

“Basically, we’re at probably the lowest point of our season right now,” said freshman pitcher Baylee Corbello. “You really can only go up from here. We know what we need to work on, and I feel like we will be prepared.”

Contact Tommy Romanach at tromanach@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @tro_TDR

Friday, April 4, 2014 REGIONAL, from page 5

11 consecutive weeks of nonstop action.

Junior all-arounder Rheagan Courville, one of only two gymnasts in the country earning AllAmerican honors for all events and the all-around in the 2014 regular season, believes the rest has been invaluable in helping her and her teammates return to focusing on the details of their performances and not the scores they receive.

“We’ve been able to focus on things we wanted to fix and improve on instead of focusing on only hitting sets,” Courville said.

“We had really become outcome-

based and score driven, and we needed to get back to the place where we aren’t worried about all that.”

Fortunately for the Tigers, they’ll have one less thing to worry about this weekend. Last year, LSU had to travel to Columbus, Ohio, to capture the NCAA Regional title. But the regionals will be in their home arena, so the squad can further rest up while teams from Stanford, Auburn, Arizona, Kent State and Iowa State make the journey to Baton Rouge.

“I don’t think some of the girls realize yet how big of a deal it is for us to not be traveling this week,” said senior AllAmerican Sarie Morrison. “It’s

is a good, competitive facility. I think the biggest thing outdoors is meter at the NCAA Indoor Cham- you have to deal with the elements. pionships on March 15, the LSU And you never know what the elesquad comprised of juniors Vernon ments are going to be.”

Norwood and Quincy Downing The weekend is also another and sophomores Darrell Bush and chapter in the 4x400 relay team’s Cyril Grayson will quest for adding show off their speed an outdoor chamto Baton Rouge ‘This is really a starting pionship trophy folks for the first to its hardware. point for us.’ time since winning The men’s the title.

4x400 team joins While many an LSU sprint Dennis Shaver Louisiana natives core that swept LSU track and field coach for LSU’s teams its competition in will have family and last year’s Battle friends coming to support them, on the Bayou. The Tigers won evcompeting on familiar ground isn’t ery sprint event in the 2013 meet, necessarily an advantage, Shaver while their only other first place said. finish came from junior discus “In our sport, the 400 meters thrower Rodney Brown. is 400 meters, no matter where The Lady Tigers retain a sucyou’re at,” Shaver said. “But this cessful history at the annual meet

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The Daily Reveille basically like a rest week for us even though we have a huge meet at the end.”

Saturday will be LSU’s final meet to build momentum before it heads back to the same venue in Birmingham, Ala., where it fell short two weeks ago at the SEC Championship, and Breaux is looking for her team to seize that momentum early and have it carry the squad throughout the meet.

“I know that this team has the capabilities, but the door needs to be opened and we need to slam through it,” Breaux said.

Contact David Gray at dgray@lsureveille.com. as well. In last year’s Battle on the Bayou, they won 10 of 18 events.

Beyond the accolades LSU seeks this weekend, the meet is another step for the Tigers and Lady Tigers to improve and evaluate their progress at this point in the season.

“A lot of kids will be opening up for the first time in an individual event,” Shaver said. “The outdoor season goes by pretty fast. They’re trying to nail down some performances. This is really a starting point for us.”

Contact Taylor Curet at tcuret@lsureveille.com.

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The often chipper, serene skipper wasn’t done there.

“I just can’t respect people who do things like that,” Mainieri added that day. “It’s just not how the game is supposed to be played.”

Graveman’s gone. Katz is gone. And when the defending College World Series runner-up Bulldogs (20-10, 6-3 Southeastern Conference) begin a threegame set in Baton Rouge tonight, the feelings of animosity stemming from the incident will have departed too.

Instead, Mainieri and the Tigers (21-8-1, 3-5-1 SEC) anticipate a clean rekindling of an SEC rivalry dating back to the days of legendary managers Skip Bertman and Ron Polk.

“That was an isolated incident,” Mainieri said Thursday. “[Mississippi State coach] John [Cohen] and I talked over the summer, and I really believe it’s behind us. We don’t have hard feelings about it.”

Mainieri originally told reporters Thursday he would start freshman southpaw Jared Poché to give Aaron Nola a full six days rest.

But the weather forecast forced Mainieri to change plans, telling The Daily Reveille that he will start Nola on Friday night because of expected rain Saturday.

Opposing Nola is crafty redshirt junior Ross Mitchell, who Cohen relied on last season out of the bullpen early in games, but uses his funky offspeed style

PLAYER TO WATCH Quick Hits · 5-1 record · 0.55 ERA · 61 strikeouts Aaron Nola

against righties to find success.

Both teams are unsure of a Sunday starter.

With the tensions toned down from last season’s debacle, LSU senior designated hitter Sean McMullen said the Tigers’ focus is breaking out of their SEC doldrums and ascending the Western Division standings.

McMullen asserted the series wasn’t circled before the season and there’s no added pressure on the team, even though Mainieri has not lost a series to the Bulldogs in his seven previous seasons.

“This is a new team, and we’re playing like we’re a new team,” McMullen said. “I’m treating it as another SEC series. I don’t have any bad blood toward them.”

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

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In response to Megan Dunbar’s column, “I disagree with Adam, and you should too,” two readers had this to say: “I will agree with you that Christians don’t need to try tricking people into approaching us about our faith, and that the “Adam” campaign is a passive way to engage people.

However, I disagree with you where you say ‘The only honest and open dialogue we need is Jesus Talks and the presence of nine churches less than a block away from campus.

The resources exist, and everyone knows.’ Firstly, not all students know of these resources. Secondly, telling students that their dialogue isn’t needed because someone else already shares their common viewpoint with others would be like me telling an opinion writer that her columns are unnecessary because there is already enough dialogue on campus and in our national media discussing the same issues.

The beauty of a public university such as ours is that there so many viewpoints on all issues of life, and dialogue is how we get to experience this beauty and learn, understand and appreciate other’s values, beliefs, and experience. There are ways for Christians (I include myself among them) to share our faith in an honest, up-front, respectful, nonobtrusive way, and I hope that this column doesn’t discourage you from doing that in any way. I am sure Ms. Dunbar doesn’t believe that her opinions and viewpoints on Christianity are more worthy of sharing than yours, but she does seem to imply it with this column.”

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“This is one of the best articles that I have read in this newspaper. I do think that the ‘I agree with Adam’ campaign could be used for a lot more than it currently is though.

Instead of ‘Let me tell you about my faith,’ it should be ‘let’s talk about how our different faiths can co-exist.’”

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Texting and reading while driving are both still legal in Louisiana due to legislation that was struck down.

Enough is Enough Time to fight distracted driving, ban cell phones

600 WORDS OF SOMMER Annette Sommers Columnist A series of commercials titled “It can wait” discourages texting while driving.

These commercials have had an effect all over the country. Some states have taken it upon themselves to ban cellphone use while driving altogether.

But then we have Louisiana, which is still adamant against banning phone use while driving for reasons unknown to myself. Never mind that more than 3,000 people were killed in car accidents involving a distracted driver in 2011, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

We should outlaw phones while driving if only for the sake of those drivers in the fast lane going 15 mph slower than everyone else because they are chatting on their phones.

You know who you are.

Last week, the latest plea for a law banning cell phones behind the wheel was shot down in a House committee meeting. Some remarked that the government shouldn’t act as a babysitter with issues like that. Others said reading the newspaper while driving isn’t illegal, so talking on the phone shouldn’t be either.

That’s the best they could do? I would love to hear a real argument against the cell

phone ban next time it’s suggested. I’m glad the people governing our state are so concerned with our safety.

I guess that is asking too much. They can ban tobacco on campus and not worry about being called our babysitters, but when it comes to road safety they would rather stay silent.

For the record, reading while driving should be illegal as well. A law banning phones while driving would only improve our already dangerous roads. I don’t understand the hold up.

People are starting to understand the risks involved with cell phones and reading while driving, but little is being done to combat the problem.

Louisiana has a history of relaxed driving laws. For instance, seat belt laws were only enforced after much of the country had already implemented them. You can still hitch a ride to Tigerland with eight people in the bed of a truck.

I’m not saying I’ve never done it, but there comes a point when safety should trump the police and governmental yearning for approval.

A study conducted by the University of Utah concluded that drivers on the phone are more impaired than drunk drivers. While this is just one study, it still reveals the truth so many people like to ignore while nonchalantly taking a phone call or checking Twitter on the road.

To make matters worse, as college students, we have the mentality that nothing bad will happen to us. So we make phone

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calls, take selfies, text and Facetime at stoplights. It’s unfortunate because no one is exempt from a possible accident.

We forget that these accidents are just that­— accidents — and phone-and reading-related accidents are the most avoidable.

It’s so easy. Just put down the phone for the nine-minute car ride to Chipotle and enjoy some music. I promise nothing interesting is happening on Instagram anyway.

I know I’m not the only person who gets a little nervous when my driver is snapchatting while simultaneously navigating through 5 p.m. traffic. My hand unconsciously creeps to the steering wheel, ready to take action if my less concerned driver makes a wrong move.

Backseat driving is annoying, but I would rather yell at my driver to get off the phone than be found lying in a ditch by emergency responders.

The annoying part is that this entire scenario could be avoided if legislature just banned cell phones while driving. The law may not catch on right away, but for the sake of passengers, let’s see some action.

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

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Quote of the Day “Silence is argument carried out by other means.”

Che Guevara revolutionary June 14, 1928 — Oct. 9, 1967

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House bill violates women’s right to abortion OUR LADY OF ANGST SIDNEYROSE REYNEN Columnist If you’re a woman in Louisiana, there comes a time when you realize that the entire state is against you.

Last year, the Center for American Progress revealed that Louisiana is the worst state to live in if you’re female. With a small percentage of congresswomen and the dismal ratio of practicing female OB-GYNs, our state is an unwelcoming one to women.

In an effort to keep this status, the Louisiana House of Representatives passed a bill that is actually entitled, the “Louisiana Unsafe Abortion Protection Act.” It is predicted that the bill, otherwise known as HB388, will close at least three of the state’s five abortion clinics.

Instead of advocating for the protection of women, our state is actively fighting for the protection of unsafe abortions. Louisiana politicians would rather take women’s right to bodily autonomy and watch them suffer from unsafe abortions than protect them.

The name of the bill itself is misleading and offensive. Much of the rhetoric surrounding this bill is concerned with making abortions safe for the women who want them. However, That’s the opposite of what HB388 would accomplish.

HB388 requires abortionproviding physicians to have “admitting privileges” at a hospital within at least 30 miles of

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71% of pregnancies in Louisiana resulted in live births. Only 14% resulted in abortion.

Abortions in Louisiana make up 1.2% of all US abortions.

In 2011, 89% of counties in the U.S. had no abortion clinic.

In 2011, 92% of parishes in Louisiana had no abortion clinics. 63% of Louisiana’s women lived in these parishes.

In 2010, 86% of abortions in Louisiana were completed before the end of the first trimester.

If Roe v. Wade were overturned, abortion would be banned in Louisiana.

Louisiana women must undergo ultrasounds and counseling designed to discourage her from obtaining an abortion.

Less than 1% of women experience complications due to an abortion. all information is from the Guttmacher Institute and the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals

wherever the abortion is performed. Admitting privileges let doctors admit a patient for hospital treatment.

Although this may sound like legislative mumbo-jumbo, it has incredibly dangerous implications for the women of this state.

A similar bill was implemented in Texas less than half a year ago. Using the same language as HB388, the Texas bill was responsible for closing about one-third of the state’s abortion providers. In a state of 26 million people, there are now only 19 clinics.

Louisiana — with only five abortion clinics to its name — will likely suffer the same fate.

The writer and sponsor of HB388 is Rep. Katrina Jackson, a chairwoman of the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus and an African-American woman.

This is particularly interesting because African-American women have consistently received the most abortions out of

any race or ethnicity in America.

According to the Guttmacher Institute, African-American women receive 37 percent of all abortions, compared to only 34 percent of white women and 22 percent of Latina women.

While many may cry for adoption instead of abortion, adoption clearly does not favor African-Americans. In 2010, the Center for Economic Policy Research found that non-black children were seven times more likely to be adopted than black children were. Even when black children were adopted, they cost significantly less than non-black children.

Therefore, Louisiana, with an African-American population more than twice the national average, is not the place to eradicate three-fifths of abortion clinics. Although it is not Jackson’s job to legislate on behalf of the women of her same race, I doubt that HB388 is a bill that accurately represents the thoughts of

African-American women in this state.

There are countless protections against things like guns which have no other purpose but to maim and kill both people and animals. However, the legalization of abortion has various benefits.

In all countries where abortion has been legalized, the chances of dying in childbirth are 10 times greater than one’s chances from dying due to an abortion.

Additionally, once women no longer have to face the burden of having children they cannot provide for or do not want at the time of conception, they can fulfill other goals like education or pursue more demanding employment opportunities.

Jackson said on the House floor that HB388 was “about the safety of women.”

This is a blatant lie. Either that or believers of this statement have no idea what safety means.

Time after time, it has been

proven that restricting access to safe, legal abortions does not stop abortions from happening.

Limitations like the ones posed in HB388 do nothing but force women to either resort to unsafe methods to induce miscarriage or have children that they cannot afford or simply do not want.

Despite personal views on the subject, abortion is a right that women, not only in this country, but everywhere, should have. Violating a conscious, fully grown being’s — meaning no fetuses — bodily autonomy is a devious crime against humanity.

SidneyRose Reynen is an 18-yearold film and art history freshman from New Orleans.

Contact SidneyRose Reynen at sreynen@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @srosereynen

Louisiana Legislature should allow alcoholic frozen treats BLUE COLLAR SCHOLAR JUSTIN STAFFORD Columnist We’ve all been dumped, found ourselves eating ice cream straight out of the carton and sipping brandy while watching “Golden Girls” reruns.

OK, maybe that’s just me.

However, if Louisiana lawmakers pull through on a new bill, alcohol-infused frozen treats might be at a store near you before summer is up.

There will be no need to hold a carton and a bottle anymore.

This frees up a hand for tissues to dry one’s tears.

HB471 has been taking some flack as legislators quarrel, but if passed, it would allow Louisiana grocers to stock alcoholic ice cream and other

frozen goodies.

Other states are already on board with this idea; some have been for quite some time.

Rep. Ray Garofalo said he worries about a loophole in the bill that might allow minors to have the ability to buy products with alcoholic-content. The bill was pulled until an agerequirement was added to the purchase of frozen alcoholic products.

It’s high time that this state sets aside useless pieces of legislation dealing with education reform and poverty to take on things of greater importance like booze-laced Neapolitan ice cream and all its wonders.

These lawmakers should have initially thought about age requirements for the purchase of these products in the bill’s first stages.

Naturally, I do not want to see minors buying something

along the lines of “Gin and Berries” thinking they were getting Ben and Jerry’s.

Alcohol is used in various recipes and is a big part of the culinary world. The alcohol usually is evaporated out of the food when it is cooked and has little to no measurable content.

This is not the case with the ice cream. Therefore, I support making strict age restrictions on who can purchase the stuff.

SnoBar Cocktails is a line of alcoholic ice-pops and ice cream started in Arizona. The company assures that each serving of SnoBar ice-pops and ice cream has the same alcohol percentage of a full cocktail.

For Louisiana, one of the brands hoping to make it in grocery store freezers is Buzz Bar. Buzz Bar’s ice cream bars are made with whiskey among other alcohols. Now that’s something I’d try sitting beside the pool while

reading some Hemingway.

Buzz Bar’s ice cream has a rather low alcoholic content.

This is a point the company’s lobbyist tried to make last Thursday to go ahead and push the bill through.

Certainly the content is not as high as other competitors’ in the new industry, but I believe no exceptions should be made on the purchase of any product with alcoholic content. This goes for fruitcake too.

I’ve heard some crazy things in my day, and if the youth of America keeps partying on like Wayne and Garth, a purchase age might have to be added to Dr. Tichenor’s mouthwash.

All in all, the folks down at the Capitol are doing the right thing by reassessing the situation and adding age restrictions to the products among other things.

However, this kind of thing should not create the

conundrum it did. Should more serious legislation continue being set on the back burner for trifles like this, I will be eating an entire tub of whatever has the best bourbon in it to drown my woes because of this state’s foolish lawmakers.

Justin Stafford is a 21-year-old mass communication junior from Walker, La.

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Friday, April 4, 2014 OYSTERS, from page 1

with regular bacteria sampling and analysis, is used to develop a system that focuses on predictions rather than reactions after an outbreak occurs.

Deng said outbreaks typically occur around the winter holidays and early January, but not always.

Outbreaks are typically related to the consumption of raw oysters.

John Supan, assistant professor at the LSU AgCenter’s School of Renewable Natural Resources, said while norovirus is classically associated with oysters, people may also be exposed by eating raw vegetables like spinach.

Supan said oysters can be riskier to eat because people consume them raw and whole.

Supan said people infected with norovirus may experience flu-like symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, headaches and diarrhea.

The virus spreads across humans in congested areas, like hospitals or senior care housing, the same way a common cold does, Deng said.

Supan said these tests look for bacteria that occur in fecal material, which is another way norovirus may spread.

“Sick people with flu symptoms shouldn’t be out on the water,” Supan said. “And people should not discharge any sewage overboard.”

Supan said thoroughly cooking oysters helps reduce the risk.

“You’re not eating the gut of a shrimp, you’re just eating the tail,” Supan said.

Supan said consuming the gut of an animal is more dangerous than eating the regular flesh.

Deng said if contamination occurs during low-tide periods, the

likelihood of an oyster becoming infected increases, as the infected water concentration is higher.

“Oysters work like pumps,” Deng said. “When they pump water through their tissues, it can spread.”

Supan said oysters pump approximately 8 liters of water per hour.

In the past, government agencies dealt with such problems as they occurred, rather than seeking methods to prevent them.

Deng said at least three cases must be reported to a government agency for an outbreak to be declared; if it is proved that the sick individuals ate raw oysters from the same area, the area will be closed, and the oysters will be recalled.

“But they may have already been sold in different states,” Deng said. “The cost can be very high, up to millions of dollars.”

Supan said outbreaks can have negative economic consequences, particularly in the parishes in which they occur because individuals who work as harvesters cannot go to work.

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Jesus Christ is our savior, and that is my personal belief, but I’m not telling you to believe that, and I’m not asking you to agree with me, but it’s just me stating my belief,” Pope said. “That’s all it is.”

Director of CRU at LSU Darin Travis said the concept behind the “I Agree With Adam” campaign can be traced back to as early as 1999 when he helped execute a similar campaign called “I Agree With Matt” at Purdue University.

Travis said the point behind not providing a lot of information about the campaign is to cultivate and inspire conversation among students to share and learn about their religious lives.

Pope said Roethele chose to be the one to offer his testimony of what God has done in his life and why he chooses to believe what he does.

“He is one student of the many of us who is deciding to share his personal testimony and journey in his relationship with God in front of many other people,” Pope said.

Though it has raised many questions and even controversy among University students, Pope said the shirt is just a resource for people to use to find out more information, but she does not

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“They say we’re a department that doesn’t bring money in, so we’re low on the list to get funding,” Ryan said. “That’s not OK. We bring more to the University than just money. We bring culture.”

Until the building is renovated, students must work in conditions they fear are harmful to their health and safety.

“This place will kill someone,” Ryan said. “It will. Give it time. Someone will be in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

Ernie Ballard, University media relations director, said in an email that the University has requested and continues to request funds for the building’s renovation.

“The state previously provided some funding for the renovation, and we await additional dollars through the capital outlay process,” Ballard said.

But those funds are tied up until the state is able to find the money. University students plan to hold another protest at 9 a.m. on April 8 at the Capitol Park Museum in downtown Baton Rouge.

understand why anyone would find the shirt oppressive or offensive.

Pope made the comparison of wearing the “I Agree With Adam” shirt to wearing a shirt supporting a musician or band.

“What if I dislike that band?

Am I going to be upset because you’re wearing that shirt? It’s honestly just a shirt,” Pope said.

Electrical engineering senior Chantal Trosclair said, as a Christian, she has no problem with the actual message of the “I Agree With Adam” campaign but she does not agree with the way it was executed, specifically in its advertising.

Trosclair said at first, not knowing anything about the campaign or what is was about was confusing. After looking on the campaign’s website and Facebook page, she said she still had no

better understanding of the campaign or the event it advertised.

When she finally talked to some of her classmates who were wearing the shirt, Trosclair said she completely supported the idea behind Christians spreading their beliefs but not the vague way it was executed.

“The way it was perceived by many people was that it was secretive and weird and so vague that they felt like they were being tricked into something,” Trosclair said.

As an active Christian, Trosclair said it is important to be upfront and forthcoming about what the goal of an event like this is.

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