The Daily Reveille - April 10, 2014

FILM: Students take advantage of filming opportunites in BR, p. 9

NATURE: Bird observatory offers safe space for feathered friends, p. 4

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MCDONALD’S THEFT

$36k finance bill passed to fund Treasurer to aid refund emergency app for smartphones to students in theft case Jacquelyn Masse Contributing Writer

Student Government Senate passed several finance bills and resolutions at their weekly meeting Wednesday evening.

One finance bill passed will take $36,500 from the SG initiatives account to pay for an LSU emergency application for smartphones

through the LSU Police Department. Speaker Pro Tempore Trey Schwartzenberg said he thinks the free app will be effective because 87.6 percent of students use smart phones, according to a November 2013 survey. The app lets students press an emergency button that will send the police the exact location of where they are on campus. The application will also allow users to

make non-emergency reports concerning theft, suspicious people, drugs and other issues. The official name for the application was not determined, but ”Tiger Shield” was one suggestion.

Another finance bill passed takes $2,351.37 from the contingency account to fund students SG MEETING, see page 15

Staff Reports The state Treasurer’s Office announced Wednesday in a news release it would help students reclaim money stolen from them in a fraud scheme that involved several McDonald’s employees.

Students can search on the treasurer’s website, treasury.state. la.us, to locate money owed to them

through the office’s unclaimed property search tool.

According to the news release, nearly 4,000 students and alumni were affected by the fraud scheme, which saw employees of the McDonald’s in the Student Union overcharging students’ Tiger Cards and pocketing the difference.

MCDONALD’S see page 15

teens PROS IN PROGRESS Two arrested CRIME

Mettenberger, receivers showcase skills at Pro Day DAVID GRAY · Sports Contributor

A little more than four months removed from major ACL surgery to his left knee, former LSU quarterback Zach Mettenberger wanted to prove at the LSU Pro Day that his late-season injury wouldn’t inhibit his ability to perform.

Fortunately for Mettenberger, his favorite pair of wide receivers, Odell Beckham Jr. and Jarvis Landry, were on the receiving end of his passes.

“It was great to get out there and compete and throw the ball around with all my guys that I threw with for three years one final time,” Mettenberger said.

While 18 other players made PRO DAY, see page 15

STORY EXTRAS READ: Pro Day statistics from LSU prospects, Jeremy Hill’s preparation before draft day and more Pro Day coverage, p. 5.

POLL: Do you think Zach Mettenberger helped or hurt his draft stock? Vote online at lsureveille.com.

photos by RICHARD REDMANN / The Daily Reveille

LSU quarterback Zach Mettenberger (below) and wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. (left) show NFL scouts their skills at the Tigers’ Pro Day on Wednesday.

in campus bomb case Zach Carline Deputy News Editor

The LSU Police Department arrested two teenagers, neither of them University students, in connection with the bomb hoax that put campus on edge Monday afternoon.

Roy Anthony Chavalitlekakha, 19, of 14202 Tickfaw Drive, Baton Rouge, and Justin Adley Brocato, 17, 40142 Patty Jo Lane, Prairieville, La., were arrested for communicating false information of a planned bombing on school property, which is a felony offense with potential prison sentences, if convicted.

The two were booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

LSUPD spokesman Capt.

Cory Lalonde said department investigators received reliable information identifying the two suspects during their investigation Monday. Investigators located and questioned the two men and they admitted to writing, “bomb” on the BOMB, see page 15

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TODAY’S FORECAST

Nation & World

Thursday, April 10, 2014

NATIONAL

STATE/LOCAL

Teen stabs 22 at Pittsburgh-area school Bill requires health info before abortion

The Associated Press

Sunny HIGH 75 LOW 54 sunrise: 6:43 a.m. sunset: 7:30 p.m.

Friday HIGH 78 LOW 58

Saturday HIGH 79 LOW 63

MURRYSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Flailing away with two kitchen knives, a 16-year-old boy with a “blank expression” stabbed and slashed 21 students and a security guard in the crowded halls of his suburban Pittsburgh high school Wednesday before an assistant principal tackled him.

At least five students were critically wounded, including a boy whose liver was pierced by a knife thrust that narrowly missed his heart and aorta, doctors said.

The rampage — which came after decades in which U.S. schools geared much of their emergency planning toward mass shootings, not stabbings — set off a screaming stampede, left blood on the floor and walls and brought teachers rushing to help the victims.

Police shed little light on the motive.

The suspect, Alex Hribal, was taken into custody and treated for a minor hand wound, then was brought into court in shackles and a hospital gown and charged with four counts of attempted homicide and 21 counts of aggravated assault. Authorities said he would be prosecuted as an adult.

The attack unfolded in the

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Mike Kane, a parishioner at the Newlonsburg Presbyterian Church in Murrysville, Pa., works on a sign outside his church near Franklin Regional School District campus where more then a dozen people were stabbed on Wednesday.

morning just minutes before the start of classes at 1,200-student Franklin Regional High School, in an upper-middle-class area 15 miles east of Pittsburgh. It was over in about five minutes, during which the boy ran wildly down about 200 feet of hallway, slashing away with knives about 8 to 10 inches long, police said.

Nate Moore, 15, said he saw the boy tackle and stab a freshman.

He said he going to try to break it up when the boy got up and slashed his face, creating a wound that required 11 stitches.

“It was really fast. It felt like he hit me with a wet rag because I

felt the blood splash on my face,” he said.

The attacker “had the same expression on his face that he has every day, which was the freakiest part,” Moore said. “He wasn’t saying anything. He didn’t have any anger on his face. It was just a blank expression.”

Assistant Principal Sam King finally tackled the boy and disarmed him, and a Murrysville police officer who is regularly assigned to the school handcuffed him, police said.

Doctors said they expect all the victims to survive, despite deep abdominal puncture wounds in some cases.

(AP) — Anti-abortion lawmakers want women seeking the procedure in Louisiana to get pamphlets describing possible psychological effects, the illegality of coerced abortions and services available to human trafficking victims.

The House Health and Welfare Committee backed a bill Wednesday that would require clinics to provide those three brochures to women at the start of their state-mandated, 24-hour waiting period before they can have an abortion.

That would be added to other printed materials already required under the “Woman’s Right to Know” law, such as information on the fetus’ development in the womb and alternatives to abortion.

Supporters of the bill by Rep. Barry Ivey, R-Baton Rouge, said it would provide useful information to women seeking an abortion.

INTERNATIONAL

1 child dead, 14 hurt in day care crash The Associated Press WINTER PARK, Fla. (AP) — A car smashed into an Orlando-area day care Wednesday, killing a child and injuring 14 others, at least 12 of them children, authorities said.

Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children wasn’t releasing any more information on the age and sex of the child who died, said Katie Dagenais, a spokeswoman for the hospital where the most-seriously injured were being treated.

One person at the hospital was in critical condition, and five others were in serious condition, Dagenais said.

In all, 13 people were hospitalized, and two others were treated at the scene, said John Mulhall, a spokesman for the Orange County Fire Rescue.

Several of the injured at the KinderCare building in Winter Park were reported to be in “very, very serious condition,” said Florida Highway Patrol spokeswoman Wanda Diaz.

Diaz said the Toyota Solara convertible had gone out of control after it was struck by a Dodge Durango, jumped a curb and smashed into the day care, breaking through the wall and into the building. That driver was not hurt.

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Crime dispersed throughout campus, theft common Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez Senior Reporter

Crime can occur can anywhere on campus.

In the shadows of live oaks of the Enchanted Forest or in a dark corner of the West Campus Apartments, no one area of campus is safer than another.

Data collected by The Daily Reveille shows six months of different types of crimes are evenly distributed throughout the campus, with the exception of assaults. Most assaults occur near on-campus residences as students return to their residence halls or on-campus apartments late at night.

One of the most common crimes on campus is breaking and entering into University buildings, which sometimes results in stolen items.

Tammy Millican, assistant director of Facility Services, said Facility Services is working with the LSU Police Department, LSU Human Resource Management and Risk Management to strike a balance between accessibility and public safety.

She said students and faculty still want access to buildings in the evenings, and they want to know their research is safe when they leave.

When a building is broken into, Facility Services determines whether the space is public, private or a lab, and if it needs to be rekeyed, Millican said. If the lab is private and the key is missing, the door may need to be rekeyed if it was broken into.

Sometimes doors or entire buildings need to be rekeyed, costing Facility Services about $100 to rekey each office door, Millican said.

Facility Services is working to implement electronic keys in

University buildings. Keys can be matched with an individual if a crime occurs.

LSUPD spokesman Capt. Cory Lalonde said although these crimes are listed by the federal definition of breaking and entering, it does not always mean there is a forced entry — more often than not, doors are left unsecured.

“I think that’s one of our bigger battles, not only as a police department, but as a community,” Lalonde said. “A majority of crimes on campus are crimes of opportunity.”

Although there are 800 surveillance cameras on campus and patrol officers work through the night, Lalonde said crime still occurs. He encourages students, faculty and staff to take the extra time to secure their items when leaving them unattended.

“Card access is not a perfect system. We find that if one person

blocks the door instead of using a card, you defeat the purpose of the system,” Lalonde said.

Faculty Senate President Kevin Cope said part of the problem with break-ins is the University’s lack of solidarity as a community.

“We don’t have a relationship of education about belonging to the campus and a want to respect it,” Cope said.

Break-ins are common, but when students walk campus alone late at night, they face the risk of assault or robbery. The most at-risk areas are near residence halls.

Although there are resources like Campus Transit or the potential for LSUPD escorts from student requests, some students still choose to walk alone.

Cope said the first step toward ensuring University safety is studying transportation patterns students follow at night, from the parking for

LSU President F. King Alexander will post a video giving a state of the University address within the next two weeks.

Alexander said he filmed the video a few weeks ago, tweeting a picture of himself in front of a video camera, but it has not been made available to students yet.

Alexander’s video coincides with one of the initiatives of The Next Step LSU, said Clay Tufts, newly inaugurated Student Government president. Tufts said he is currently working to create a plan for a yearly event with the same title.

Tufts said the event would ideally include presidents of many different student organizations as well as University administrators, giving them a platform to deliver information to students about what they are doing. The event is not fully formed, and the time of year it would be held is undecided.

Tufts said they had also thought of

Contact Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez at fsuarez@lsureveille.com

APRIL

10 EVENT CALENDAR 7:00 PM

Shine the Light - Arts Council: Community Gallery Trivia Night - Hi Ho Lounge-LA Micah McKee and Little Maker - Blue Nile T. Youngblood - Checkpoint Charlies

7:30 PM

Frost/Nixon - Baton Rouge Little Theater Viktor Valkov, Piano - Baton Rouge River Center

8:00 PM

SAB's TNL Movie Night: American Hustle - LSU Student Union, Live Oak Lounge Tom McDermott & Aurora Nealand - Buffa's Bar & Restaurant Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue - Chickie Wah Wah Celjun - Artmosphere Sarah Gromko Ensemble - The Little Gem Saloon

8:30 PM

Comedy Gumbeaux - The Howlin' Wolf Sofa Kings - Lava Cantina

9:00 PM

Sol Cat - Gasa Gasa DJ Mike Larry - The Spanish Moon Andre Thierry - The Blue Moon Roddie Romero and The Hub City Allstars - The Blue Moon DJ Push Play - The Roux House Tom Fischer and Friends - Fritzels Jazz Club

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Crime occurs around campus, but students are most susceptible to assaults around the entrances to dorms and on-campus apartments.

King to address state of University Staff Writer

five extra minutes, Lalonde said.

“While it’s inconvenient, it’s still the safer bet,” Lalonde said.

Millican said Facility Services understands students need safety when they are on campus in the evenings and they work to ensure all of campus is lit.

The Faculty Senate has studied lighting on campus previously, and Cope said the campus gives students the impression of darkness because of the live oak shadows, making it a hard problem to solve.

THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2014

university

Deanna Narveson

students leaving Middleton Library in the evening to the Campus Transit service.

Lalonde said students should walk in groups or use the Campus Transit buses.

LSUPD always has officers actively patrolling the areas near residence halls — in parking lots or on-foot patrol. If a student does not feel safe, they can always call LSUPD. The officers working with residential communities provide rides or escort students, Lalonde said, but cannot be everywhere at once.

Students should also avoid unlit areas, even if it means walking for

having the event forum-style.

Tufts said the event is one of many initiatives SG will be working on going into the next school year to improve students’ lives and make information easily available.

Alexander said he plans to film a video or two each semester to make available for students. He said while the University sends out administrative news through email regularly and hosted a dinner for students at the start of the fall 2013 semester, he is hoping students will watch to keep up-to-date on the University.

Lena Simon, an international student from Germany, said she did not feel there was a need for state of the University videos because of frequent emails and news alerts.

Because the information will be delivered to students through his video, Alexander said the amount of times the video is viewed will be monitored to see how often state of the University videos should be made or whether students are using them.

Tufts said transparency about things going on within the University is important to both himself and Alexander, and this will take it one step further.

Erefaka Derefaka, kinesiology sophomore, said the event and video will be good because students need to know what is going on with the school, and a lot of times they do not know what is happening.

Contact Deanna Narveson at dnarveson@lsureveille.com

10:00 PM

Niko Night Life - Eiffel Society Saintseneca - Circle Bar

11:00 PM

Cat's Ass Karaoke - George's Place Bayou International Reggae Night with DJ T Roy - Blue Nile Greg Zola - Buffa's Bar & Restaurant

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

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STATE

Thursday, April 10, 2014

NATURE

Bird observatory sees early success GOP chair pushes McAllister resignation Paul Babineaux

Contributing Writer

The Associated Press (AP) — The chairman of Louisiana’s Republican Party is asking U.S. Rep. Vance McAllister to resign after the GOP congressman was captured on tape kissing another man’s wife.

A person close to the state GOP told The Associated Press that party chairman Roger Villere was trying to convince McAllister to step aside immediately. The source asked not to be named because Villere hadn’t spoken directly with McAllister and conversations continue with the congressman’s staff.

McAllister made an appeal for privacy on Wednesday

“during this difficult period” since a video surfaced two days earlier of him kissing the woman.

A north Louisiana newspaper said the video it posted was Dec. 23 surveillance video from inside McAllister’s office in Monroe. The woman, identified as Melissa Peacock, resigned Monday from McAllister’s congressional payroll.

Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at news@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @TDR_news

MANSHIP THEATRE

‘Dinner and a Movie’ to return Will Kallenborn Entertainment Writer

The Manship Theatre, located in the Shaw Center for the Arts in downtown Baton Rouge, has strived to bring exciting film and theater events to Baton Rouge since its creation.

Jason Langlois, film programmer for Manship, said the theater wants to make film a more enjoyable experience for the audience.

“Films are great here because of what we can do beyond the movie. We always try to always have either an activity or bring a specific theme to the big screen. We can do so much more than just hitting the play button,” Langlois said.

To do this, the theater is bringing back its Dinner and a Movie event on Friday. For Dinner and A Movie, the theater teams up with a local restaurant to combine food and film into an experience many would not get otherwise.

“The restaurants we work with come up with a thematic menu based around the movie we show,” Langlois said. “It’s fun for the audience because the meal and the movie are connected.”

This month, the theater will be showing “Her,” Spike Jonze’s Oscar-winning film about love and technology. Capital City Grill will be providing the menu, which includes iSalad, Tenderloin on the Moon and a cocktail called the Spike’d Jonze.

“Her” will play every Friday of the month, and for future showings, the theater will team up with Tsunami and Stroubes Seafood and Steaks.

“Each restaurant brings something completely different to the table. You get a totally different experience at each showing,” Langlois said.

The theater also tries to bring

a variety of new indie film releases to Baton Rouge, the kind of films that may otherwise not be shown in the city. One of the upcoming films that Manship is premiering in Baton Rouge is “Hateship, Loveship,” which stars Kristin Wiig and was filmed in Louisiana.

According to Langlois, the theater has always endeavored to strike a balance between film and other forms of entertainment, and Dinner and A Movie is another program that differentiates the Manship Theatre from other theaters and makes them more enticing for local audiences.

Contact Will Kallenborn at wkallenborn@lsureveille.com

The University’s School of Renewable Natural Resources helped develop Louisiana’s first bird observatory with groundbreaking studies in the spring of 2013, and it has seen early success since.

The idea for the Louisiana Bird Observatory was first hatched in professor Phil Souffer’s lab when Jared Wolfe, a University graduate student, noticed there was not an observatory program anywhere in the state.

In the spring of 2013, the Louisiana Bird Observatory launched a pilot study that focused on the Prothonotary Warbler, a small songbird, at Bluebonnet Swamp by attaching geolocators to individual birds to learn more about the bird’s migration patterns. The geolocators record light levels, which have been able to provide the location of the birds along their travels.

Wolfe said this is the first time there’s an opportunity to see where these birds go when they leave Louisiana, and the first bird returned this week.

The data from the first bird to return is currently being evaluated, but the initial success has produced region-wide growth, which Stouffer said is surprising.

The success and growth of the Louisiana Bird Observatory program has also been driven by a mercury contamination study, which analyzes blood samples taken from several species of birds throughout the year. The study partners with Oregon State University and the Biodiversity Research Institute to monitor the changes in mercury levels of an individual bird throughout its life cycle and various season changes.

Stouffer said this has been a great success for researchers because observers were only able to see snapshots of mercury levels as a whole before the study, and they can now observe individual mercury levels in the birds.

Wolfe agreed and said the

LAUREN DUHON / The Daily Reveille

A cardinal sits on a branch Wednesday at the BREC Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center.

mercury contamination study is a distinctive study because of the amount of mercury accumulation in Louisiana.

The Louisiana Bird Observatory has also experienced success and growth in its outreach projects.

Through the partnership with the Parks and Recreation Commission of the Parish of East Baton Rouge (BREC), the program has educated children about Louisiana’s bird species and bird conservation projects.

Wolfe said he expects the program to continue its recent

success and growth, and he wants the program to make a mark on Louisiana by performing more original studies with continued outreach.

“Our goal is simply to make our mark,” Wolfe said. “By expanding our research and continuing our outreach of helping to teach and inspire a bird-friendly community.”

Contact Paul Babineaux at pbabineaux@lsureveille.com

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Sports

Thursday, April 10, 2014

HEAD ON

FOOTBALL

Pro Day by the

Hill puts past troubles behind him

numbers ALFRED BLUE, RB

James Moran

40-yard dash: 4.64 sec.

Bench Press: *13

Sports Contributor

Vertical:

32 in.

KADRON BOONE, WR 40-yard dash: 4.44 sec.

Bench Press: 9 Vertical:

33 in.

EGO FERGUSON, DT RICHARD REDMANN / The Daily Reveille

40-yard dash: 5.08 sec.

Bench Press: *24 Vertical:

29.5 in.

JEREMY HILL, RB 40-yard dash: 4.52 sec.

Bench Press: *20 Vertical:

31 in.

TAHJ JONES, LB 40-yard dash: 4.54 sec.

Bench Press: 11 Vertical:

30.5 in.

JARVIS LANDRY, WR 40-yard dash: 4.58 sec.

Bench Press: *12 Vertical:

30.5 in.

JAMES WRIGHT, WR 40-yard dash: 4.52 sec.

Bench Press: 16 Vertical:

38.5 in.

*Number from NFL combine

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Augusta the stage for golf’s next star THE SMARTEST MORAN

Jeremy Hill has never been one to shy away from contact.

Throughout his time in an LSU uniform, the bruising back has preferred to plow straight through any defenders in his way instead of trying to run around or away from them.

So when it came time to address his off-the-field troubles before May’s NFL draft, it’s only natural Hill elected to take the questions head on.

Before February’s NFL Combine, Hill sent a package to each of the NFL’s 32 teams detailing his two arrests. Once he got to Indianapolis, he spent most of his time meeting with team executives, saying he wanted to give them a chance to get to know the real him.

“I got a chance to tell my side of the story and give them all the facts,” Hill said. “They kind of took it and were OK with it, and we just went forward from there to talking about football. You really can’t change the past. It’s there and it’s best to just move forward from now.”

As far as Hill can tell, the move worked. Since the combine, Hill said he’s actually been surprised by how little scouts and general managers have asked about the arrests.

“I didn’t get drilled about it,” Hill said. “Once I told them what happened, that was it.”

With the page turned and his personal troubles behind him, Hill has been able to turn his focus to what he does

Golf’s first major is truly a tradition unlike any other.

When the Masters gets underway each April from Augusta, Ga., it serves as the universal signal that spring has finally begun.

Some argue that honor belongs to MLB’s opening day, but that’s probably because they’ve never attended an opening day with temperatures hovering around 35 degrees.

From Jack Nicklaus’ historic charge on the back nine to win the 1986 Masters to a young phenom named Tiger Woods breaking every record in the book in 1997, the picturesque course has been the backdrop for many of sport’s greatest moments.

Woods’ legacy has and always will be defined by his play in major championships, and the Masters is the highest profile of the four. There’s always been something special about the sport’s biggest star performing on its biggest stage.

Unfortunately, Woods, who owns as many of those moments as anyone, will not be able to compete for his fifth Green

HILL, see page 8

MASTERS, see page 8

JAMES MORAN Sports Columnist

FOOTBALL

Boone, Wright improve draft stock at Pro Day Jack Chascin Sports Contributor

Aside from the big four in Zach Mettenberger, Jarvis Landry, Odell Beckham Jr. and Jeremy Hill, there were other Tigers who showcased their ability to NFL scouts in a last chance effort to improve their draft stock.

Wide receivers Kadron Boone and James Wright flew under the radar becauase of the understandable amount of attention on the standout talents of Beckham and Landry, but turned in strong performances.

With Beckham not performing in the individual events like the 40yard dash, it left just Wright, Boone and Landry to showcase what they could do to match Beckham’s blazing time at the NFL Combine in February.

Boone ran a 4.44 40-yard dash on Wednesday’s Pro Day, which bested Landry by more than a tenth of a second at the LSU Pro Day and also was just a hundredth of a second slower than Beckham’s time at the combine in February. Boone also had a vertical of 33 inches, besting Landry’s 30.5-inch jump.

Boone said he wanted to leave everything out on the field and show the NFL personnel he could compete with higher-ranked prospects.

Wright was also able to perform well in the shadows of his teammates, running a 4.52 40-yard dash, while also recording a vertical of 38.5 inches. Wright’s vertical tied with Beckham for highest among LSU receivers.

Both receivers said they felt PRO DAY, see page 8

RICHARD REDMANN / The Daily Reveille

Former LSU running back Jeremy Hill (33) participates in the running back drill on Wednesday in the LSU Indoor Practice Facility for LSU Pro Day.

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BASEBALL

Thursday, April 10, 2014

MEN’S TENNIS

Tigers defeat Cardinals, 5-0 Tigers complete sweep of Green Wave

Taylor Curet

Sports Contributor

Tighten the screws and tie up any loose ends.

That’s exactly what LSU (25-8-1, 6-5-1 Southeastern Conference) accomplished in its 5-0 defeat of Lamar (18-15) on Wednesday night in Alex Box Stadium.

In their weekly non-conference contest, the Tigers extended their current winning streak to five games, achieving LSU coach Paul Maineiri’s agenda of playing nine different pitchers and piecing together an encouraging offensive performance.

LSU recorded a school-record 11th shutout of the season, led by junior Henri Faucheux’s first career start.

The bullpen’s 12-strikeout, four-hit performance was kicked off by Faucheux’s two innings.

While the Laplace native acknowledged the starting pitcher holds some significance, he gave credit for Wednesday’s showing to the entire pitching staff. “[Starting]’s a little bit different because your job is to come out there and set the tone as opposed to if you’re coming out of the pen and somebody’s setting the tone for you,” Faucheux said.

“Most of the credit you can give to Aaron Nola. I think he has six of the 11 [shutouts]. It just says wonders about the whole staff in general.”

Maineiri admits the Tigers’ pitching staff isn’t as strong as seasons past, which forces LSU to rely on more production from the plate.

A key to LSU’s win against Lamar was putting pressure on the Cardinals by jumping to an early lead. Employing situational hitting drills they practice during the week, the Tigers’ first-inning run was scored after sophomore Mark Laird’s sacrifice bunt moved senior Sean McMullen to third, allowing for sophomore Alex Bregman to drive McMullen home on an RBI ground out.

An inning later, LSU junior Tyler Moore’s double sparked the offense before McMullen reached on an error and a sacrifice fly from Kramer Robertson scored two runs and the Tigers led 3-0 in the blink of an eye.

“A three run lead early puts a lot of pressure on the other team,” Maineiri said. “Kind of a formula in today’s era of college baseball, if you can get an early lead, it puts a lot of pressure on the other team to have to come from behind. It was a good formula for success tonight.”

A chief component to that formula was Moore, who notched his first multi-hit outing since Feb. 22 by going 2-4 and driving in LSU’s fifth and final run in the fifth inning.

Moore said his results Wednesday motivate him to move forward to the next game with confidence. Being able to lead all batters with two hits on a night in which the Tigers faced

seven different Lamar pitchers will give Moore and LSU a boost going into this weekend’s SEC series against Arkansas, he said.

“It is [challenging] because sometimes you see one guy and you might do well and you might settle in,” Moore said. “It’s [important] especially in these midweek games going into SEC

Contact Taylor Curet at tcuret@lsureveille.com

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PITCHING: LSU - Henri Faucheux (W) 2 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, Lamar - J.T. Autrey (L) 1.2 IP, 1 H, 2 ER

After a three-game losing skid, the LSU men’s tennis team dominated Tulane en-route to a 4-0 victory Wednesday.

The Tigers were coming off defeats to three ranked teams, all of which were in the Southeastern Conference. During the skid, the Tigers were only able to win one out of a possible 12 points.

Sophomore Andrew Korinek was the only LSU player to earn a point, beating Brandon Fickey on court three.

Prior to the match, Tulane honored the lone senior on the squad, Takuma Ohashi, for his contributions to the team throughout his four years in the program.

From the beginning, the match

was in total control for the Tigers.

They swept the doubles point, winning all three matches after a decision was made to continue through the third match.

The Green Wave struggled in the singles matches as well, getting swept via straight set victories, including another match-clincher from freshman Justin Butsch.

The win marks Butsch’s fourth of the year, further cementing his role as the team’s closer.

Butsch has since moved up to the No. 2 court for the Tigers, as his play has improved greatly throughout the season.

With the win Wednesday, the Tigers move up to 12-12 on the year with one match remaining against Arkansas Saturday in Fayetteville in hopes of ending the season with a winning record.

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Squad depth will help team overcome Dickson’s injury David Gray Sports Contributor

The LSU gymnastics squad had much to celebrate after its record-setting performance in the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional on Saturday.

The Tigers tied the nation’s highest score of the season Saturday with a school-record 198.325 to capture their second consecutive regional title and stamp the program’s 25th ticket to the NCAA Championships beginning April 18 in Birmingham, Ala. But the excitement from what was perhaps the greatest night in the program’s history came at a steep price when senior allarounder Kaleigh Dickson suffered an injury to her right foot Saturday during her vault.

Dickson said an MRI on Monday revealed she partially tore her plantar fascia, the tissue that connects the heel bone to the toes and creates the arch of the foot.

Now Dickson, who earned 2014 Second-Team Regular Season All-American honors as LSU’s leadoff gymnast, will likely be limited to two events for the NCAA Championships, and LSU coach D-D Breaux will be forced to tap into her squad’s depth.

But Dickson said she doesn’t expect her injury to be a distraction for the squad because she firmly believes her teammates are able to overcome it.

“We have deep lineups for this reason, and any one of those girls is more than capable of

delivering a great score,” Dickson said. “And that’s what a great team is — having multiple people that can go in and score just as good as the next person.”

Now that Breaux knows the extent of Dickson’s injury, the task will be finding who’s best-suited to replace her in floor and vault, the two events she’s unlikely to compete in.

Junior all-arounder Rheagan Courville, who earned a share of the vault title at regionals with a 9.950, is certain that whoever steps in will adequately fill the void because Dickson has set the example for the squad all season. “[Dickson’s] been perfectly consistent and a rock for us all year, and she’s really instilled that in everybody,” Courville said. “I think anybody who goes in will embrace her role and try to do the same she’s been doing all year.

And we have people who can do that.”

A likely candidate to replace Dickson is junior Britney Ranzy, the Oregon State transfer who filled in for Dickson on floor in regionals Saturday. Ranzy scored a 9.800 on floor before posting a 9.900 on vault, and she said competing at regionals helped her realize she’s capable of delivering for the Tigers.

“After doing regionals, it was just a boost of confidence for me,” Ranzy said. “Going into nationals, I know now that not only can I hit a set, but I can feel confident about hitting that set.”

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gymnast to take Dickson’s leadoff spot will also be a key factor for LSU. Fortunately for the Tigers, junior all-arounder Jessie Jordan is expected to pick up the mantel.

As the team’s beam anchor, Jordan is adept at performing in pressure situations, and she doesn’t plan to treat the role of tone-setter any differently.

“Of course, there’s a little more pressure because you want to be that person to start off the lineup well,” Jordan said. “But if that’s another role I’m given, I’m just going to take it and roll with it.”

Luckily for Dickson, her injury won’t keep her completely sidelined. She’ll be able to contribute to LSU’s final push for a national title on the uneven bars and possibly beam, and the strongwilled Dickson is determined to make the most of her limited opportunity.

“I’m going to try to do as much as I can because this is my sport, and I want to finish strong,” Dickson said.

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good about their performances Wednesday, and they have received favorable attention from scouts, but they want to continue to improve in hopes of making a team.

Both Boone and Wright aren’t projected to get drafted in this year’s NFL draft, according to CBSSports. com, but their performance during Pro Day might have helped their case.

Freak and Ego stay the course Anthony Johnson and Ego Ferguson were the only two defensive linemen to run drills Wednesday for LSU and neither really improved on their combine performances.

Johnson did not participate in the individual events, choosing to stay with the results he recorded at the combine, leaving only Ferguson to participate.

In the 40-yard dash, Ferguson recorded a time of 5.08 which was faster than Johnson’s time at the combine of 5.24 seconds.

Ferguson has lost weight since the combine, weighing in at 302 pounds compared to his combine weigh-in of 315 pounds. Johnson gained three pounds since the combine, weighing in at 311 pounds.

Jones, Barrow impress during drills Three linebackers worked out along with two defensive backs, including Tahj Jones who pulled double duty, working out with both groups.

Jones worked out as a defensive back on top of his natural position of linebacker most likely because of his small frame for a linebacker, measuring in at 6 feet, 1 inch and 205 pounds.

The transition was smooth with Jones catching all of the balls thrown his way, using his 4.54 40yard dash speed to impress those in attendance.

Jones will most likely go into the draft as a flex player who can be utilized at either defensive back or linebacker depending on the team’s needs. His flex workout today will hope to give him positive draft stock as he isn’t projected to be selected in the draft.

Lamin Barrow was the standout of the three linebackers who worked out.

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prove to the scouts that he can cut to the ball and change direction with relative speed.

“I’ve gotten a pretty good reaction from scouts,” Barrow said.

“Everybody from Minnesota to Jacksonville. … I’ve been talking to teams like [Philadelphia] teams in that nature that I think have an interest in me, but you never know until draft day.”

Trai Turner looks to prove he’s ready for pros One Tiger left some fans and experts scratching their heads today when he announced his decision to leave for the NFL draft, and Wednesday, Trai Turner looked to prove he’s NFL ready.

Before he even started his workout, offensive coordinator Cam Cameron had nothing but high hopes for Turner moving forward.

“I know he’ll perform well [at the next level],” Cameron said.

“Trai is one of those players you’d love to have back. He’s improved since the beginning of the season.

He has got guard-center value, and most people don’t know that about him. If he has to play center, he can play center because you have to.”

During his workout, Turner was seen snapping some balls during Mettenberger’s workout, along with his normal offensive line drills, where he performed well.

Old faces Among the four former LSU players to participate in pro day were former quarterback Jordan Jefferson and former defensive end Sam Montgomery.

There were no recorded stats for Montgomery besides his height and weight at the pro day. He is a current free agent in the NFL after unsuccessful stints with both the Houston Texans and Oakland Raiders in 2013.

Jefferson participated in Wednesday’s workouts in hopes of gaining attention from NFL personnel in attendance.

Contact Jack Chascin at jchascin@lsureveille.com

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Jacket this weekend. He announced last week that he’d miss the Masters because of a pinched nerve in his back.

The news is yet another tough setback for Woods, as this weekend will now mark his 23rd consecutive major championship without a victory. Without a set timetable for his return, there’s no telling how long Woods will remain stuck at 14 major titles.

It’s just as big of a disappointment for golf fans. Despite his drought in major championships and well-documented personal scandal away from the course, Woods remains golf’s dominant storyline and the biggest single reason people tune in to the PGA Tour events on a week-to-week basis.

Since the beginning of Woods’ career, TV ratings for golf tournaments tend to rise and plummet based on whether or not Woods plays. During his longest absence — a result of knee surgery following the 2008 U.S. Open — golf’s ratings dropped dramatically until he returned the following season. Though this is the first Masters Tournament Woods will miss since turning pro, it’s safe to assume his

HILL, from page 5 best — football.

Hill posted times of 4.52 seconds and 4.54 seconds in the 40yard dash at LSU’s Pro Day on Wednesday, both of which were more than a tenth of a second faster than the time he ran at the combine. He also managed to add two inches to his vertical jump.

He expressed some disappointment in his 40 times and slipped when going through agility drills — an issue he chalked up to not changing out of his track shoes — but backed by a 1,400 yard campaign that earned him First Team All-Southeastern Conference honors, Hill deemed the day a success.

“I just wanted to improve on my combine,” Hill said. “I think my game film speaks for itself.

I just wanted to improve on the

Thursday, April 10, 2014 absence won’t hurt the tournament’s rock-solid ratings. The Masters is the one golf tournament immune to any such rise and fall in popularity. It was a huge draw well before Woods hit the scene, and its mystique will live on well past Woods’ permanent departure, whenever that is.

The Masters will be a big deal no matter who wins, but the clock is ticking for either the old Woods to return or a new star to emerge and carry the sport week-to-week.

It’s saddening for someone who has grown up watching him, but with injuries mounting against the 38-year-old Woods, the latter is looking like the more likely option.

The PGA will get another freebie at June’s U.S. Open because Phil Mickelson, golf’s second-biggest and more-likeable superstar, will take his shot at finally winning the major that’s eluded him to complete a career grand slam.

Mickelson isn’t quite as popular as Woods, but he is big enough to draw in an audience of casual fans. However, since he is 43 years old and has a family, his playing schedule will continue to shrink until he’s only playing major championships.

This doesn’t in any way mean that Tiger and Phil won’t contend or win in years to come, but in order for golf to maintain the popularity that the two players have created going forward, it needs a new star to emerge.

There’s been no shortages of promising players labeled as “golf’s next Tiger Woods,” but the time is approaching where the TV ratings for regular PGA Tour events will fall off a cliff without a new generation of stars.

For years it seemed like the title was going to be either Rory McIlroy or Adam Scott, and each of them have had success at the highest level, but personally I’m partial to an American — 2013 PGA Championship winner Jason Dufner.

The Masters will always be immune from such problems, but there’s no better stage for the game’s next big star to be crowned than at Augusta.

things I did at the combine, and I think I did that, so I’m happy.

It wasn’t perfect, but I improved so I can build on that and keep getting better.”

From here, Hill plans to continue staying busy between training and meeting with teams until next month’s draft. He wouldn’t get into specifics, but Hill said he’s got visits and workouts lined up with multiple teams.

While the workout was productive, the biggest boost to Hill’s draft stock Wednesday may have been the ringing endorsement of his former boss — LSU offensive coordinator Cam Cameron.

“Go around the NFL and count the number of backs who play all three downs in short yardage situations and inside the 3-yard line. You’re not going to find many,” Cameron said. “[Hill] is an every-down back,

he’s an ascending player and he’s off-the-charts smart. He is LaDainian Tomlinson smart.”

Cameron is a former NFL head coach with years of experience coaching offense around the league, and Hill understands how much weight his coach’s words hold at the next level.

“My football IQ was pretty high before Coach Cam got here, but once he got here, it’s been elevated to a whole new level,” Hill said. “Coach Cam has a lot of respect about the NFL, so it’s definitely huge for me to get that praise from him. I’m going to take it and continue to do the things he’s taught me to do.”

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

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EXTRA! EXTRA! University students find their ways into locally shot films JEREMY MARSHALL · Entertainment Writer

In the recent cultural boom of Hollywood invading southern Louisiana, students are finding opportunities to live out their dreams on the silver screen by being film extras.

It’s the type of dream every kid has at one point or another: to share space with their cinematic heroes.

Unfortunately, not everyone can be Jonah Hill or Anna Kendrick, but as extras, some are allowed the rare opportunity to take a peek behind the filmmaking curtain

of mystery and find out what it really takes to create the movies we love and make some money in the process.

For marketing junior Kayla Deguetyer, the prospect of catching a glimpse of Hollywood royalty was what urged her to audition.

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Letterman leaving at perfect moment One week ago, “Late Show with David Letterman” host David Letterman announced he will retire in 2015. The Internet quickly voiced its opinion toward the news with a mixture of sadness and apathy.

Letterman is the godfather of late night entertainment.

Joshua Jackson He paved the Entertainment Writer way for talk show hosts for years to come. However, even a legacy the caliber of Letterman’s has to end.

Letterman has hosted late night television shows for 34 years and the “Late Show” for 21 of those years. He has earned 52 Emmy nominations so far and had a building named after him at his alma mater, Ball State University. The list of accomplishments for Letterman tells a story in itself, and with a résumé that extensive, his decision to retire makes perfect sense.

Letterman has spent almost half his life standing in front of a camera and entertaining the masses night in and night out. With the face of late night

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[From left to right] Leah Jarreau and Anna Lee often appear as extras in locally filmed movies like Pitch Perfect and 21 Jump Street.

LETTERMAN, see page 11

MUSIC

L.A.’s Local Natives to play first BR show on Saturday Gerald Ducote Entertainment Writer

Los Angeles-based band Local Natives has been an indie household name for quite some time now. Nearly 10 years, two LPs and a member change later, the quintet has made a name for itself by bringing fans folk music with a California edge.

Local Natives’ latest album, “Hummingbird,” spawned a tour that stretched from Tokyo to Vancouver. Along with the tour, the band’s website released audio stems of “Hummingbird,” allowing fans to download and remix tracks.

Last October, Local Natives played a show at Tipitina’s in New Orleans, promoting Louisiana interest. This time around, the rockers plan to make a stop Saturday in Baton Rouge for a show at the Varsity Theatre before heading to New

Orleans once more with touring mates Kings of Leon.

The afternoon before Local Natives’ Tuesday show in Tulsa, Okla., guitarist Ryan Hahn talked to The Daily Reveille about the band’s experience with Kings of Leon as well as what’s in store for the Baton Rouge show.

The Daily Reveille: How’s it been touring with Kings of Leon so far?

Ryan Hahn: It’s been fun. You know, these are kind of the biggest rooms we’ve ever been in. It’s just kind of a new experience for us so we’ve been having a good time.

TDR: How did a band like Kings of Leon set up a tour with you?

RH: We were actually wondering that same thing. Caleb [Followill] was saying that we both played

ACL festival [Austin City Limits] last year, and he said that they were watching that year were like, “Oh, it’d be fun to tour with you guys.”

Apparently they were all big fans so they just told their people to ask us, so that was kind of cool to find out.

TDR: Is the current tour to keep promoting “Hummingbird,” or is this something that you guys are starting to tour for?

RH: We’re still, I guess, on “Hummingbird,” I suppose, but we’re also writing new songs all the time.

We’re just going to finish this tour up and then get back in our rehearsal space and focus on the new music.

TDR: Have you debuted any new LOCAL NATIVES, see page 11

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Taylor Rice, guitarist and vocalist from Los Angeles indie group Local Natives, plays at Tipitina’s in New Orleans on October 2, 2013. The band plays the Varsity on Saturday.

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Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks, “Enter the Slasher House,”

Domino Records

If Animal Collective made strangely upbeat music to accompany a ’60s B-movie horror film, it would be similar to “Enter the Slasher House,” Avey Tare’s first project with the Slasher Flicks. Bizarre high-pitched noises sprinkled generously throughout the album’s many lo-fi, low-tech beach jams lend themselves well to the retro aesthetic Tare brings to the album with his iconic smooth and mellow voice. The album is definitely a little weird, as is typical of most of Tare’s projects, but it doesn’t push any boundaries the same way Tare’s other works do, making it a relatively tame, if occasionally mundane, musical affair. If the Beatles ever did a crossover album with the Misfits, it probably sound a lot like this.

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“Captain America: The Winter Soldier”

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Three years after the first movie “Captain America: The First Avenger,” actor Chris Evans dons the red, white and blue costume for its sequel “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.” The movie is the ninth motion picture in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and is the most entertaining film of the group. Evans delivers another stellar performance as the titular superhero. An entertaining representation of Falcon by newcomer Anthony Mackie brings much needed comedy to the film. Sebastian Stan’s role as Winter Soldier puts him in the running for Marvel’s best villain against fan favorite Loki. The Winter Soldier is a cold killer mixed with a dash of personal conflict, which Stan fully embodies. The film works as a standalone project and ties perfectly into the Marvel Universe, building the excitement for Captain America’s next appearance in “Avengers: Age of Ultron.”

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Heathers, “Kingdom”

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Heathers, a band composed of Irish twins, has certainly grown a lot from its super indie roots. Their early albums had a very acoustic sound, and “Kingdom” is a huge deviation from that. Its sound is rooted in female pop vocals but surpasses that with its lyrics and its dual singing. The sisters have different voices that compliment each other in a perfect way. The first single, “Forget Me Knots,” is clearly the standout from the album, but “Circular Road” and “Waiter” are interesting follow-ups to fill out the album. The only major problem with the record is that many songs are forgettable. It’s pretty hit or miss, but when it hits, it hits hard and provides songs with a great deal of replay value.

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Todd Terje, “It’s Album Time”

Soul Jazz Records

Imagine if Daft Punk had been making disco since the start.

Now imagine if Daft Punk was Norwegian. Add an extra splash of funk and you have Todd Terje. Terje’s debut, “It’s Album Time,” whose jokingly self-aware title alone is enough to prove the DJ’s intentions right off the bat, is an ode to funk in the most-endearing manner possible. Borrowing from his earlier EPs, the dance numbers — there are quite a few — get the blood pumping. Conversely, the ballad “John and Mary” acts like a spacey “Jack & Diane” wherein Roxy Music’s Bryan Ferry serenades the listener back to reality. “It’s Album Time” serves as Terje’s first act of homage toward electronic music, disco and even bossa nova.

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Rita Ora, “I Will Never Let You Down”

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Rita Ora has created a typical summertime pop song with her single “I Will Never Let You Down.” The song creates the typical bubblegum pop that works well for the carefree summertime of barbecues and pool parties. Ora’s single is supposed to represent being there for the one you love and never letting go.

However, the super pop instrumentals make it harder to capture the meaning and easier to just dance to meaninglessly.

The music video also follows with the bubblegum pop mentality, with Ora dressed like a Rihanna wannabe and dancing around with her back-up dancers. While Ora has created a song with good lyrics, this goes unnoticed with all the flash of upbeat music, autotune and flashy outfits.

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“Turn”

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AMC knows how to make good television, its newest offering “Turn” is no exception. In 1778, when the British are decidedly winning the colonial uprising and being “American” was a traitorous term, an honest farmer, Abe Woodhull, living in occupied New York, is recruited by the infantile Colonial Army to smuggle information from behind enemy lines: to be a mouse in a den of vipers. The pilot sets up the spy intrigue very early on and drives forward a narrative which promises many twists and turns in a plot where neither side of the line can be fully trusted, and anyone could be working for the enemy. I was hoping for a new show to take the place in my heart vacated by “The Walking Dead,” and I think

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Thursday, April 10, 2014

FASHION

Fashionable sports apparel debuts Meg Ryan Entertainment Writer

If every fashion week is my Christmas, then every football season is my Thanksgiving.

Recently, Macy’s was able to combine my two loves at its Herald Square flagship store. Macy’s invited the National Football League for a “style-out” at the store. Stylists and players conducted a photoshoot based on combining NFLbranded merchandise with street clothes to create a ready-to-wear look.

New York Giants players Victor Cruz and Mark Herzlich were among those in attendance. Cruz wore a pair of Giants sweatpants with a Michael Bastian sweater and Balenciaga sneakers. Herzlich paired a team T-shirt by Mitchell & Ness with a Kenneth Cole Reaction hooded jacket and Ralph Lauren Denim & Supply jeans.

Macy’s wanted to create looks that many would find stylish and see that NFL merchandise can be worn outside the stadium or a tailgate in a parking lot.

While I love that Macy’s is bringing football and fashion together, haven’t people been wearing their fan gear outside of the game for years?

As an LSU student, it’s very common to pass more than one person during the day in purple and gold or their favorite NFL team colors (cough, New Orleans Saints, cough). I’m even guilty of showing my Tiger pride on the way to class.

So is Macy’s just attempting to cash in on our football-obsessed culture and telling us we need to buy a specific fan shirt because it goes better with the high-end jeans and jacket Macy’s also sells?

Probably.

While Macy’s may be

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A New York Mets fan shows off his shirt that reads “Loyal til the Last Out” during a baseball game against the Washington Nationals opening day March 31.

using an over-done business move, I thank them for bringing back the sports-gear-as-street-wear trend again. This happens every couple years from a company, and I always enjoy getting to combine sportswear with what I wear every day.

Football T-shirts can be paired with high-waisted shorts, skirts or dark denim for a more polished look than sweatpants or leggings.

Adding a jacket or vest in leather, denim or another type of structured, nice material also dresses up a T-shirt. Finishing the look with boots, flats or nice sandals completes the look and allows you to show off your team spirit while being acceptable for casual Friday at your internship.

Football sweatshirts can be dressed up with a scarf and jacket or a vest over top, especially if they’re the crewneck version.

With a lot going on at the top of

the outfit, the bottom can be simple with leggings or dark jeans and boots or flats.

Attempting the sweatpants look like Cruz can be more difficult since it’s loungewear, but making the top structured is a simple solution. Ditch the ratty T-shirt or sweatshirt for a nicer Tshirt, Henley, sweater or jacket to change the sweatpants appearance.

Trading in Nike running sneakers for Converse, Vans, Toms or Nike’s street-wear sneakers can also take the pants from the gym to the classroom.

All I can say is, once football season starts, I’ll be happy to pull out my T-shirts with leather jackets and dark jeans.

And if anyone asks why, well, Macy’s told me to.

Contact Meg Ryan at mryan@lsureveille.com

Thursday, April 10, 2014 LOCAL NATIVES, from page 9

material for fans on this tour yet?

RH: No, I don’t think it’s ready yet.

I think it’s still kind of in the early stages of us tinkering around. Not even with a full band yet. So I don’t know if it’s ready to be played, but as soon as we get back, we’re going to start trying to get new ideas into a full band setting.

TDR: How do you think your show in Baton Rouge will compare to your previous experiences in New Orleans?

RH: We’ve got high hopes. It’s a place that we haven’t been before and so it’s always exciting to see some new people. You see what your expectations are and if they’re surpassed. We’re just excited to have our own show.

TDR: How do you think the “Hummingbird” stems project on the website has been going? Has it been well received?

RH: Yeah, it’s been really crazy to kind of hear all these remixes.

We get, like, a lot of them and you know not all of them are super awesome. A lot of them are really cool and so it’s just been really awesome to hear reinterpretations. Our favorite ones are when they take the

EXTRAS, from page 9

was filming in New Orleans, and naturally we wanted to see Channing Tatum,” Deguetyer said.

Not knowing exactly where to begin, Deguetyer went to the Internet to find out how to be a part of the production.

“We Googled how to do it and found this website called mycastingfile.com, and we signed up, made a profile, and they would give you announcements for extras,” Deguetyer said.

According to a study produced

by FilmL.A., the regional film office of Los Angeles, Louisiana has overtaken Hollywood as the go-to location for major studio film productions. In the past year, of 108 films produced, 18 were shot right here in Louisiana, outpacing Hollywood and Canada, which tied for second place with 15 apiece. This is good news for Louisiana residents, especially for students looking for some part-time work for full-time pay.

On a film set, extras have to be wary of the significant time that it takes for production to get underway.

“It was a very long day,” Deguetyer said. “They told us to get there around 2 p.m., and we didn’t start filming until about 10 o’clock at night.”

But once the lights are set and the camera starts rolling, the extra’s job kicks into high gear, which in essence means being present while also being invisible.

“We were in a hallway, and it was supposed to be the first day of school,” Deguetyer said. “It was a lot of standing there and not talking.

Acting like you’re talking.”

As more film productions flock to Baton Rouge and New Orleans, students like general business junior Leah Jarreau are given the chance to be a part of some of the biggest

chord structure of the song and just change it to something that we never would have expected. It’s been really fun for us and for people that are fans of our music.

TDR: Next year makes 10 years for you as a band, doesn’t it?

RH: It’s so bizarre to think of it that way because I’ve been playing music with Taylor [Rice] and Kelcey [Ayer] since we were freshmen in high school. We’ve always just seen it as an extension of one band since we’ve been together.

But maybe as Local Natives, that sounds about right.

TDR: Have you ever considered doing a reissue or something special?

RH: I guess we haven’t really thought of that. I think we’re so focused on doing record number three, just getting new music out there that I don’t know. Maybe I’ll go back and talk to the guys and see if that’s a good idea. Maybe there’s something we can come up with.

TDR: What can fans of Local Natives expect in the future? You mentioned a third album.

RH: You never really know with us. I think, with us, we’re really always pushing ourselves to write blockbusters in Hollywood. Jarreau. a veteran of a number of productions, has been an extra in both “21 Jump Street” and “Pitch Perfect.”

She knows show business isn’t always easy.

“Whenever we filmed, it was cold, and it was supposed to be spring time for the scene,” Jarreau said. “That was a little challenging because you had to put your coats by a tree.”

Even though it is the purpose of an extra to be visibly absent, sometimes an extra can be put out front and center to become what is known as a “featured extra,” as mass communication senior Anna Lee found out on the set of “American Horror Story: Coven.”

“I was part of a group of young witches in 1919 who had to murder an axe murderer played by Danny Huston, who is also very nice,” Lee said. “So I got to stab Danny Huston with an ice pick!”

The allure of Hollywood lights is something that attracts most people at one time or another, as well as the opportunity to be a part of the process. Many students are taking advantage. To them, it’s more than a job, it’s a life experience that lasts long after the film wraps shooting.

“It’s an incredible thing to be a part of,” Lee said. “It’s so fun. It’s fun to see all the work they put into all the cameras and stuff and feel famous for a day.”

Hollywood was once called “The Dream Factory,” where America went to be transported from their own lives to somewhere extraordinary. And as Louisiana is quickly becoming known as “Hollywood South,” that dream is becoming increasingly possible to grasp for anyone, no matter their talent level or camera appeal. There’s even a chance to live out dreams of a slightly morbid nature.

“I got splattered with fake

The Daily Reveille in different ways and never really know what comes out of that.

We’ve been doing like some remix work and we’ve got some different projects coming down the pipeline.

I don’t really know if there are any specifics that I can talk about right now. I think we’re just excited to be home and be able to focus on some things like that.

TDR: Outside of Los Angeles, has any show been a show that really sticks out to you?

RH: Last year was a pretty crazy year of touring for us. We had some of our biggest shows ever. We just played this show in Saskatoon [Saskatchewan, Canada] and, honestly, most of us hadn’t even heard of Saskatoon before, and we didn’t know what to expect and we showed up and it was just kind of a really, really fun show. The crowd was so awesome for us, so I think that one kind of stands out right now.

Local Natives will be playing at the Varsity Theatre on Saturday. Doors will open at 8 p.m. and the show begins at 9 p.m.

Tickets are available at the Varsity Theatre’s website.

Contact Gerald Ducote at gducote@lsureveille.com

blood,” Lee said. “It was so great.”

For more information regarding potential casting calls, visit mycastingfile.com and bathersoncasting.com.

Contact Jeremy Marshall at jmarshall@lsureveille.com

page 11 LETTERMAN, from page 9 television changing thanks to Jimmy Fallon, Conan O’Brien and Jimmy Kimmel, Letterman recognizes it is time for him to hang his hat and pass the reins of the “Late Show” to someone else.

The ratings of the “Late Show” have struggled in recent years, and Letterman must have recognized. The retirement episode earned the show its highest rating since October 2012.

Similar to Saturday Night Live, the “Late Show” has entered a rough patch of missed jokes and lackluster guests. The only way to keep the show from falling too far behind its competitors is to introduce a new host.

Our generation has grown up knowing two late night television names, Letterman being one and Jay Leno the other. After Leno’s retirement earlier this year, the changing of the late night guards became apparent.

The rumors have already begun flying around the Internet as to who will take Letterman’s place. Leading the possibilities are Neil Patrick Harris, Stephen Colbert and Chelsea Handler.

Choosing the future host will make or break the “Late Show.”

The thought of Chelsea Handler becoming the host of the “Late Show” is cringe-worthy. Colbert is a favorite for talk show fans, but his character on Comedy Central would not transfer well onto the CBS airwaves.

While it is unlikely the new host will be revealed this year, the buzz surrounding the replacement host shows the effect the “Late Show” has had on its viewers.

Letterman will not host the “Late Show,” but he will still be involved. He owns Worldwide

Pants, the company that produces the “Late Show” and the “Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.”

His presence will still be felt without his on-air appearance.

Fans of the “Late Show with David Letterman” have a minimum of eight months left to view the Indiana native in his natural element under huge lights, behind a desk and in front of a studio audience. Late night television may not be for everyone, but the accomplishments of Letterman can’t be denied.

New life is being breathed into late night television programs. Letterman is the last man to pass the torch to the new generation. Will the “Late Show” ever be the same after his departure? Probably not. This is a fact that everyone must accept.

However, the concern behind the show’s status may be what leads to its rise in ratings.

The man who was inspired

by Johnny Carson and has inspired a new generation of late night hosts is stepping down. He changed the format of late night television for the better. Letterman broke the fourth wall, reminding the audience that he is reading off cue cards and the show isn’t rehearsed. He forced his audience to be intelligent instead of dumbing subjects down for them.

Letterman became the prototype for how late night television is supposed to be done.

Thank you, David Letterman.

Thank you.

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WEB COMMENTS In response to Ryan McGehee’s column, “Opinion: Yes, carrying a gun is an American right,” readers had this to say: “Despite the pain that is brought to my politically moderate mind upon reading your unnecessarily extremist attempt at an argument in this article, I am tempted to agree with you on your last point made. Yes, nothing deters crime like knowing that you don’t know who could be your last ‘victim,’ but I’m personally not ready for 5000 Batmen and Batwomen patrolling our campus just waiting to be challenged by their own, personal Joker. You have also fallen into a trap that currently plagues this, oh so popular discussion. I challenge you and anyone reading this to take another look at the pocket constitution you got in 10th grade civics.

Reread the second amendment in the bill of rights and please tell me where any sort of debate about the public carrying of a firearm arises. Spoiler alert, it doesn’t. Our founding fathers did not include this amendment because they believed that on the third day, “God created the Remington Bolt-Action Riffle , so that man could fight the dinosaurs, and the homosexual. (see Mean Girls)” No, the intention was so that the people could protect themselves from the threat of an tyrannical government take over, which you are perfectly capable of doing with your AK 47 in your closet and your handgun in your glove department.”

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Sex ed necessary for rape prevention OFF WITH HER HEAD Jana King Columnist April marks the beginning of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. SAAM 2014 focuses on healthy sexuality and youth, promoting healthy relationships and sexual violence prevention.

I’ll be honest with you, when I heard “sexual violence prevention,” I immediately thought victim blaming. The burden of preventing sexual violence too often falls on the victim of the attack.

“She made the choice to drink that night.”

“He had an erection, he must have wanted it.”

“They didn’t try to fight their attacker.”

Unfortunately, victim blaming is rampant in our society. We’ve become conditioned to doubt the legitimacy of rape victims’ claims. It’s not surprising because we don’t like talking about sex. Especially with children and teenagers.

One of the reasons that comprehensive, positive sex education is necessary throughout grade school and into high school is because nothing good comes from pretending young people are not having sex.

And nothing good comes from neglecting to teach a generation what is consensual sexual activity and what is rape.

In the 2012 Steubenville rape case, one witness of the rape of an unconscious girl by several high school football players was

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Tiger Trails vs.

CATS First, LSU’s transition from the Capital Area Transit System (CATS) to Tiger Trails, a contracted private company, has been a vast improvement in enabling students, faculty and staff to travel to and from campus. The TransLoc mobile app, wait times, and quality of service provided by Tiger Trails is vastly superior to what CATS was providing LSU. While it is unfortunate LSU could not rely on Baton Rouge’s public transit system, the change was needed.

That said, Tiger Trails, as with any transportation system, has its own issues that need to be addressed.

Maybe it would be best if those boarding a Tiger Trails bus swipe a valid student, staff, or faculty identification card when boarding, because what is happening is those who do not pay for the service through student fees use Tiger Trails as either an alternative to CATS or as a “transfer” to other CATS stops. Additionally, those who drive

asked why he didn’t try to stop the attack.

His reply was that it wasn’t violent, so he didn’t think it was rape.

That same witness mentioned that earlier in the night, he had taken car keys away from a friend who he thought was too intoxicated to drive. The high school student knew, most likely from some program taught in his school, that drunk driving is wrong.

But it didn’t occur to him that sex with someone while they are unconscious is rape.

This may have seemed like a simple childlike misunderstanding, but this student’s attitude indicates a larger problem.

Between Missouri Representative Todd Akin’s comments about “legitimate rape” rarely resulting in pregnancy and a Georgia appeals court judge overturning a rapist’s conviction because his accuser didn’t “act like a victim,” it’s clear that we have a problem with our definition of rape.

It’s not only an issue facing accused rapists and lawmakers. In some cases, even the victim of rape doesn’t know they are a victim.

According to RAINN (Rape Abuse & Incest National Network), two-thirds of rape cases are committed by someone the victim knows, and one-fourth of rape cases are committed by someone the victim is or has been intimate with. It can be difficult to ascertain if the sexual act that took place was something you felt comfortable doing if it is with your significant other or a close friend.

And worse, it can be difficult to get people to believe you, even if you didn’t

consent to it.

The National Sexual Violence Resource Center has put together a variety of resources entitled “Safe Sexuality: Talking About What You Need and Want” to facilitate discussions with youth on how to form healthy and safe sexual relationships.

The topics include how to handle situations in which you experience sexual pleasure, but are not comfortable with it, forms of affection other than sex that are included in sexuality and consent.

It also includes a survey in which students can rate how comfortable they are talking to their partner about a variety of sexual topics, including contraceptives, sexually transmitted diseases, respect, body image and boundaries in emotional, physical and sexual relationships.

Rape prevention has turned into victim blaming, and that is dangerous. But when armed with resources like this, kids and teenagers are able to identify and abstain from harmful sexual situations before they escalate to sexual assault.

Teaching children how to have healthy sexual relationships is not dangerous. Disregarding an issue as serious as sexual assault is.

the bus, though very cordial and friendly, often disobey the general order of the transit system by 1) making at stops at non-designated locations for either those who pay for the service through fees and those who use it as a free means of transportation, and 2) the drivers seem to have a habit of picking up and dropping off friends along the route to have various conversations ranging from the sandwich they had for lunch or how awful Gov. Jindal is. While I can sympathize with the latter, this is not how student fees are designated for expenditure—to subsidize and complement the failed public transit system known as CATS. To the point: public transportation in Baton Rouge is a vital element to our community, provides a much needed service, but is severely lacking in quality.

Tiger Trails has been wonderful for LSU, but there seems to be a lax policy as to access to the service. While I empathize with those who need to get to work, a grocery store, or a doctor’s appointment through an efficient form of public transportation, Tiger Trails is not public transportation. It is paid for partially by student fees, and only those who pay those fees perhaps should be allowed to use the service.

The increase in volume of those riding on

Tiger Trails who do not pay for the service causes delays and disruptions.

Tiger Trails is a service of LSU to help students, staff, and faculty travel to and from LSU. It is not, to my knowledge, a public service.

Thus, there could be more oversight, strict adherence to the established guidelines of bus stops and those who are able to access the service.

Again, I believe Baton Rouge deserves a decent public transit system. However, that system is not Tiger Trails.

I ask LSU to investigate to make changes and also encourage those with oversight to address issues with CATS, which has been an ongoing issue for many years, infused with tax dollars, with mixed results.

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Quote of the Day “No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.”

Susan B. Anthony women’s suffragist Feb. 15, 1820 — March 13, 1906

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Shallow conversations limit our potential relationships 600 WORDS OF SOMMERS Annette Sommers Columnist People get closer when they drink together.

We open up to people and share things we would otherwise find it hard to talk about when sober. This seems to help explain why college friendships sometimes sprout from drunken confidence in the bathroom line.

I understand these slurred conversations can’t necessarily be translated into everyday activities, but we should make a personal effort to stop limiting them to 2 a.m. in Taco Bell.

Sober conversations need an upgrade. We shouldn’t be limited to comments on the weather and upcoming vacation plans. Unfortunately, more often than not, people stick to these topics because we fear photo illustration by TAYLOR BALKOM / The Daily Reveille the unknown.

Conversations with potential new friends should go beyond shallow topics, and it starts with asking the right questions.

We build walls and never bother to take them down. It’s a natural someone who will. There’s no point common interests. safety mechanism everyone is guilty in today’s society.

Now it seems people have got- in making friends with people you Spring Invitational is this week. of. It’s not bad. It’s just getting old.

You can know someone for All the incoming freshmen are tour- ten comfortable sticking to safer can’t talk to about personal things.

There’s no substance in that. years and not know a single deep ing campus and desperately trying topics instead of delving into deepThat’s the beauty of going to a thing about them because you aren’t to make friendships that will sustain er conversations with friends. You know your conversation is shot to school with 30,000 students. There’s until the fall. asking the right questions.

This is a good time to reflect on hell when you get awkwardly asked bound to be people we can connect I don’t want to know that you hate the spring time and cloudy our freshman year friendships and about your winter break plans eight with and hold meaningful conversations with; people who want to know mornings, I want to know why you think about how they started. We can months in advance. even go further than that and think We’re in college and this is about our past and future ambitions. feel that way.

But instead of finding these peoFriendships and relationships about how our high school friend- when we can define ourselves and express to people who we are. If ple and pursuing purposeful talks, we are based off walls being taken or ships started.

In simpler times, we someone doesn’t like what you tell limit ourselves to mindless, shallow broken down, and this is where we run into problems with conversations bonded over long talks and them, you can move on and find conversations. We are comfortable

at this level because it doesn’t challenge us to ask important questions and answer ones in return. One little word has a lot of power. “Why?” People tend to shy away from these talks because they’re scared.

But there’s no reason to be scared of asking questions. Asking why is not rude. It can be personal, yes, but I don’t know when it became so forbidden to get personal with people.

I’m not saying we should go up to random strangers on the street and strike up a conversation about a recent breakup, but it would make for a more interesting walk to the store.

If anything, we should have these conversations with our friends.

I’m starting to realize the importance of understanding people and their motives for things. If anyone in this world should care about another person’s emotional and mental state, it’s their friends.

Sure, some relationships will originate from the bars of Baton Rouge, but what happens after is our choice.

We owe it to ourselves to let people get to know the real us. We owe it to others to get to know the real them. So stop talking about the weather and start asking about the storm.

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

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It’s time to tax corporate wealth Mr. Fini Joshua Hajiakbarifini Columnist Five years after the financial crisis of 2008, the economy struggles to move forward, yet corporations are hoarding more wealth than ever before. According to Audit Analytics, corporations currently have more than $2.1 trillion in cash overseas.

On top of hoarding wealth, many companies like Google hold cash overseas to leverage for a lower corporate tax rate. Obama already mentioned lowering the corporate tax rate during the State of the Union, which if passed, will exacerbate the wealth gap even further.

It’s disgusting to see wealthy companies ruling politics by financing politicians. As a result, they end up paying little or no taxes as in the cases of General Electric, Boeing and Verizon.

The recent Supreme Court rulings in 2010 and this year will exacerbate the problem with corporations gaining further influence in Washington. This in turn will lead to more loopholes and more corporate welfare for the rich and further cuts

to social programs for the poor.

Corporate media pollute the public discourse on the subject of taxes and economic policies. Students exposed to corporate propaganda often hear the claim that companies already pay too much taxes.

Although the nominal corporate tax rate is 35 percent, loopholes and subsidies drop the real tax rate down to about 12.6 percent.

The claim made by conservatives that lowering the corporate tax rate will create jobs is blatantly false.

Corporations today have the lowest tax rate and lax regulations since the Jimmy Carter years, yet there is a jobs crisis.

If the right wing’s argument that cutting taxes leads to more jobs were remotely true, then we would be drowning in jobs. Instead of creating jobs as promised, corporations paid the extra earnings out as dividends and compensations.

Before Ronald Reagan, taxes were 70 percent on the highest income bracket, and corporate taxes were enforced. After the Reagan administration cut taxes, the wealth gap increased drastically, corporate profits soared, offshoring destroyed the middle class and the bottom 90 percent’s income stagnated.

The crisis that grinds

Washington comes from market fundamentalists who seek to cut taxes and cut spending. The problem we have isn’t a spending problem as much as a revenue problem.

It’s time to take on the nonsensical arguments of the Tea Party and the Republicans who seek to destroy what’s left of the New Deal and Great Society programs that have benefited the poor and middle class for generations.

During the 1950s’ Golden Age of Capitalism, one-fourth of all government revenues came from corporate taxes. Fast forward to 2012 — only 7 percent came from corporate taxes because of tax loopholes and subsidies.

It’s a dark revelation to have corporations hoarding historic levels of wealth while millions in America are homeless, dependent on food stamps and struggling to find jobs.

While many conservatives despise welfare, they are often silent about the approximately $100 billion in corporate welfare annually received by big business.

This goes to show that there isn’t an issue with lack of wealth because clearly there is plenty of it; the issue is how it is distributed. If the Tea Party and the Republicans get what they want, our nation will

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Raising taxes for big businesses would force corporations to stop hoarding their wealth and benefit the middle and lower classes.

start to look more like the third world where abject poverty exists side by side to extreme wealth.

It’s time to raise taxes on corporations and penalize companies that hide assets and cash overseas. If they want to do business in America, then they should pay taxes like everyone else. The working poor who pay payroll taxes literally paid more taxes than GE, Boeing and Verizon over the past five years.

It shouldn’t be controversial to have a conversation about raising taxes on corporations and the

rich .who not only can afford it. but clearly benefited the most from our society to begin with.

Joshua Hajiakbarifini is a 24-yearold political science and economics senior from Baton Rouge.

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their cases to representatives from all 32 NFL teams, most of the attention at the LSU Pro Day on Wednesday was centered on the popular Tiger trio, who wanted to show their skill sets could translate to the next level.

For Mettenberger, it was an opportunity to show pro scouts his surgically repaired left knee was no longer a concern.

“I’ve been saying for a couple weeks now that I’m healthy and good enough to go, and I don’t think [anyone] believed me,” Mettenberger said. “I wanted to show that I could go out there and take an explosive drop and throw the ball downfield like everyone knows I can.”

Attempting to come back from major surgery, there was some rust to his game as Mettenberger said he’s spent much of his offseason preparation rehabbing his surgically repaired knee. Passes the former LSU quarterback routinely made for the Tigers were off-target, but he displayed healthy movement from his left leg.

Overall, he was pleased with his performance.

“I think people think it’s pretty remarkable where I’m at 13 weeks [after surgery],” Mettenberger said.

“I wasn’t too pleased with myself on some of those throws today. But all things considered, I think I did

OK, but there’s still a lot of room to improve.”

Landry faced a similar situation to Mettenberger’s. In February’s NFL Combine, Landry had a pulled right hamstring that limited his 40-yard dash to an alarming 4.77, the worst time of any receiver there.

But Landry said his discouraging performance at the combine fueled his offseason preparation.

“I kind of felt bitter about it, but at the same time, I knew I had to get better and not let that take me down,” Landry said. “I had to recover from an injury to get stronger so I could get faster and perform well.”

At the LSU Pro Day, Landry silenced some of his critics by registering a much-improved 4.52.

“I was ecstatic, just being able to show my straight-line speed and show the drastic improvement from my injury,” Landry said. “But I’m not happy with just running a great time. It’s still a process, and until I’m drafted, I’m going to continue to work.”

But of the former Tiger trio, Beckham is the only one projected to be a first round pick. ESPN draft analysts Mel Kiper Jr. and Todd McShay both ranked him as a

The Daily Reveille top-four receiver in this year’s class. Beckham recently accepted an invitation to attend this year’s draft in New York City.

“It’s a little surprising now to see that they’re saying that I’m one of the best [receivers], but it’s a great feeling to me because it’s something that I worked,” Beckham said.

Though he’d be happy to play for whichever team selects him, Beckham, a New Orleans native, is thrilled with the potential of playing for his hometown Saints. Beckham said he and a few members of the Saints’ coaching staff planned to have dinner after the pro day festivities, making his childhood dream start to seem like a real possibility.

“I’ve always talked about how I wanted to play in the [Superdome],” Beckham said. “I got one chance in college, but it wasn’t what I expected at all. Just the possibility of me getting to play in my hometown, in the dome, is a surreal feeling.”

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from the College of Art and Design to build a directory, like a map, which will give direction for the Design Building and additional seating on the first floor.

The last finance bill passed will use $400 to pay for 14 lightning cables at charging stations for mobile devices on campus.

A potential $27,000 in additional seating for the third floor of Middleton Library did not pass after debate between the senators.

A resolution passed requests the Department of Residential Life to create gender-neutral housing options for on-campus residents.

The resolution suggests that some residence halls could have genderneutral halls for students. The bill aims to help transgender students live comfortably in their residence halls by living with roommates with genders of their choosing.

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side of one of the two boxes and placing them outside of Thomas D. Boyd Hall.

There was no indication that the two premeditated the crime, Lalonde added. They claimed the act was intended to be a prank.

Lalonde stressed the severity of their actions and said LSUPD takes these matters very seriously.

“When these types of things happen, regardless of their initial intent, LSUPD has to act accordingly and err on the side of caution for public safety,” he said.

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employee notified LSUPD about two suspicious boxes placed on the sidewalk. Because it seemed there might have been explosives inside the boxes, the Baton Rouge Police Department Bomb Unit was called on the scene.

The bomb unit was unable to say for certain the boxes did not contain explosives on initial analysis, so it conducted a controlled detonation.

It was then discovered that the boxes contained coffee, possibly grounds or beans, but not explosives.

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The LSU Police Department led a months-long investigation into the scheme, which has seen eight arrests so far. LSUPD spokesman Capt. Cory Lalonde said last week that the department anticipates two more arrests, but none have been made so far.

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