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BY jose alejandro bastidas jbastidas@lsureveille.com hysics senior Nigel Payne hopes the skills he learned from Tiger Band will make his U.S. Navy officer application hit all the right

notes.

Payne began the application process for the Navy’s Nuclear Propulsion Officer Candidate Program in November. If accepted, the Navy would finance the rest of his undergraduate degree, and he would become a nuclear officer after graduating in May 2016.

“I decided to be a physics major with aspirations of someday going to graduate school for nuclear engineering,” Payne said. “Before I heard about this program, I was going to try to apply for graduate school in my last couple of years at [the University] with my physics degree. With this program, I’d be getting nuclear training from the Navy, and it would give me work experience.”

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politics

Advocacy group challenges budget cuts

BY jayce genco jgenco@lsureveille.com In light of the recent $384 million budget cuts to higher education proposed by Gov. Bobby Jindal, some students decided it was time students had a voice in the legislature.

Political science senior Brad Guin and accounting senior Aaron Brown were approached by former Student Government President John Woodard in 2013 to start an advocacy group for students at the Capitol. Unite Louisiana was born and recently revamped due to budget cuts looming over the University.

Guin said Unite Louisiana is an informative communication tool to alarm students of the severe consequences the potential budget cuts will have on them.

“I kind of wanted to utilize

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Students protest racial profiling ‘Suspect: Vague’ event a response to LSUPD alert BY william taylor potter wpotter@lsureveille.com Students gathered in the Quad yesterday as part of the “Suspect: Vague” demonstration to protest racial profiling.

Participants wore dark hoodies and held up signs with their physical descriptions. The event was put on by Baton Rouge Organizing after LSUPD sent out an emergency alert Jan. 30.

The alert was for an armed robbery in the Kirby Smith Hall parking lot and reported the

suspect was a “black male wearing dark hoodie.” The vague description put everyone matching the profile in danger, said international studies junior and event organizer Majdal Ismail.

“We’re not against LSUPD sending out an alert in general,” Ismail said. “The problem is the way that they sent it out.”

Ismail said she understands the goal of keeping the community safe, but the messages should not compromise the safety of those with similar characteristics.

Racial profiling is a major issue on campus and in the nation, said history junior and event organizer Blair

Elizabeth Brown.

“These types of incidences are harmful to a community like LSU,” Brown said. “We shouldn’t have to dictate what people are doing just based on their race.”

An alternative solution is to not include physical descriptions of suspects unless there is a distinctive characteristic, Brown said.

Other students had mixed feelings about the event. Business freshman Tyler Altenberger said the message was not vague at all.

“Of course they could have

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Business senior Naja Mix holds up a sign in the Quad on Thursday while participating in Baton Rouge Organizing’s demonstration, ‘Subject: Vague.’

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Pope: ‘Inhuman’ conditions on U.S. border THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has decried the “inhuman” conditions facing migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border and has encouraged communities there not to judge people by stereotypes but welcome migrants and work to end discrimination.

Francis made the appeal in a letter to a Jesuit priest who helps organize Catholic teens in Nogales, Arizona, to support the Kino Border Initiative, which advocates a more humane solution to migration. The letter was dated Dec. 19 but was made public on Kino’s website recently.

“These young people — who have come to learn how to strive against the propagation of stereotypes, from people who only see in immigration a source of illegality, social conflict and violence — can contribute much to show the world a church without borders,” Francis wrote.

Rev. Sean Carroll, executive director of Kino Border Initiative, said student were very excited and very touched after receiving the letter from Francis.

“They cross the border every day to serve meals to the migrants,” said Carroll, who wrote the cover letter to accompany the teens’ messages to the Pope.

“I think receiving this letter affirms the work they are doing.”

Lucy Howell, a board member of Kino Border Initiative, said the letter was share at a recent board member. “We’re ecstatic,” Howell said. “We’re all touched.”

Francis has made migration one of the priorities of his pontificate and will likely raise the issue when he visits the U.S. in September. On Thursday, U.S. officials confirmed he would address Congress on Sept. 24, the first pope to do so.

Francis has said he would have loved to have entered the U.S. via the Mexican border in a “beautiful ... sign of brotherhood and of help to the immigrants.”

But he said the trip’s itinerary was too tight to let him visit the border.

Carroll said a papal visit to the border would be a “transformative event” that might change minds of certain U.S. residents on the issue of immigration. “It would help people

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In his letter, Francis praised migrant initiatives in cities like Nogales “which live daily with the phenomenon of immigration, and the ensuing inhuman situations of all type that it

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FAIRBANKS, Alaska — An Alaska man who attempted to walk 50 miles between two villages at 35 below zero was found in good shape four miles from his goal by searchers called by his family.

Lawrence James, 52, wore heavy winter gear and carried water and a .22-caliber rifle.

He walked nonstop for 15 hours and told searchers he didn’t get cold on the long stroll between Birch Creek and Fort Yukon, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported.

James left Birch Creek at about 7 p.m. Monday and spoke to Fort Yukon Police Officer Michael Ivie on Tuesday when he was found.

“When I asked him why he did it, he said that a cousin of his did it a few years back and he thought he’d try to see if he could do it,” Ivie said. “I told him, ‘more power to you, buddy,’ but that’s not something I think I’d want to try.”

James’ family alerted Alaska State Troopers and village law enforcement in part because he was not completely sober.

“He had been drinking,” Ivie said. “Not a whole lot, he wasn’t drunk. He had a couple of drinks.

He said if he had to do it all over again, he would have probably picked a different time. He said his last drink kind of gave him

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Temperatures across the state are well below zero, and have dipped to 40 below at Bemidji with wind chill. that urge, that oomph.”

The freezing temperatures clinched the decision to search, Ivie said.

“Our issue is that it was minus-30 or below, and he was by himself, and he was only carrying a little .22 rifle,” Ivie said. “There were all sorts of possibilities that might have happened. He could have been trampled by a moose or (attacked by) wolves.”

The rifle would not be effective against a moose or predator, Ivey said, but said James “could have shot a couple of ptarmigans to eat.”

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Professor finds link from religion to academics

SG candidate puts students in Hot Seat to discuss campus life

BY carrie grace henderson chenderson@lsureveille.com Assistant sociology professor Samuel Stroope pores over data from almost 400 congregations and 100,000 churchgoers from all regions of the country.

His objective is not new.

Sociologists for centuries have tried to find out how religion affects a person’s place in society.

Others have found that people who attend church often are more likely to complete college.

They have also found other fundamental and conservative beliefs negatively correlate with educational achievement.

Stroope’s research supports these findings, but it’s the information he added to religion’s sociological puzzle that earned him a place in the next edition of Sociological Perspectives.

The data Stroope looked over came from the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

“PC(USA) has a huge research unit, and they collected the data in coordination with a bunch of other denominations around the country,” Stroope said. “So dozens of researchers around the country are using this huge expensive data set that they collected.”

Stroope and his team of two other researchers from Hope College and Baylor University focused on congregations of biblical literalists.

Biblical literalism is the theological view of the Bible as literal truth, instead of as an allegory or piece of literature.

Biblical literalism is not the same as innerancy, which deals with the truthfulness of the author’s intent, but instead accepts every line as law. For example, under the literal interpretation of the Bible, women are not permitted to teach men.

As the researchers expected, their findings showed a negative association between biblical literalism and college completion, as well as a negative relationship between literalist congregations and college achievements. “[Biblical literalism] is related to a variety of outcomes such as obviously political affiliation and beliefs, moral attitudes, family behavior,” Stroope said. “Biblical literalists are more likely to marry earlier in life. They are less likely to have extra marital affairs. Then lower educational attainment is an outcome, and my findings supported that.”

But in addition to the anticipated outcomes, Stroope

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Assistant sociology professor Samuel Stroope’s research finds correlations between biblical literalism and education. and his team found something else they weren’t expecting.

Stroope said his team expected to find that literalists in a literalist congregation would be less likely to attain education, but instead found people with those beliefs stayed constant no matter what setting.

“Literalists tended to have lower education regardless of what kind of church context they were in,” Stroope said.

“We thought that the highly literalist congregation would kind of tap into the literalist beliefs of individuals and make them stronger, kind of reinforce them, but we didn’t really find that.”

Even those who did not identify as biblical literalists, but were part of a biblical literalists congregation, were less likely to complete college than nonliteralists in a nonliteralists congregation.

“What I found was that going above and beyond your own beliefs, being part of a congregation that was highly literalists, was also associated with lower educational attainment,” Stroope said.

He said the implications of his research were important in the age of a “knowledge economy.”

Even with high amounts of debt accumulated by some students, Stroope said college degree attainment affects everything from the kind of jobs available to life expectancy.

Student Government presidential candidate Helen Frink and running mate Wesley Davis want to stand up for their constitutes, so first, they’re having them sit.

The Hot Seat, part of their pre-campaign called Listen., uses a colorful armchair to draw people into the candidates’ campus chats. The conversations are designed to find out what concerns students have going into the election.

“We have this chair. It’s very ridiculous. It’s this awful orange and we covered it in crazy fabric from Walmart,” Frink said.

Once in the chair, the students tell Frink and Davis their concerns about SG, campus life and any other issues they may have.

Frink said she’s heard many opinions and ideas through the project that she would not have come up with otherwise.

“The whole premise is the Hot Seat, and when you’re in the Hot Seat, you talk, and we listen,” Frink said. “So we invite people to just sit down in the chair and tell us about their thoughts on Student Government or anything that they want on campus.”

The Listen. pre-campaign first contacted all student organizations to find out what they wanted out of SG. Though active campaigning for SG elections does not start until March 2, Frink wanted to find out what issues mattered to their constituents ahead of time.

Frink said she learned a lot from the different clubs, but in the end, she knew there were still students who had not been reached.

“We were like ‘OK, what about those students organizations that we didn’t get to or those that are not involved on campus?’” Frink said. “‘How do we reach those people? Because obviously they have a very important opinion, too.’”

What she found was a desire for those students to get connected.

“Yesterday, four people in a row talked about that they wanted more fun things to do on campus to help them meet people,”

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As part of their campaign, Student Government presidential candidate Helen Frink and running mate Wesley Davis listen to students’ concerns with University campus.

Frink said. “[The students said] ‘there’s movies and stuff but that way you don’t get to meet new people you just keep hanging out with the same friends that you have.’”

The International Student Association told Frink they wanted a way to connect with people outside their club.

As an LSU Ambassador and a sorority member, Frink said she sometimes forgets not everyone is as plugged into campus as she is.

She said some students wanted to turn the former billiards hall in the Student Union in to a hangout space instead of a UREC satellite, and she was go-

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ing to incorporate those suggestions into her initiatives.

Frink said the Hot Seat has helped her meet candidates who could run on her ticket, but not everyone has a positive view of SG. “It’s hard because a lot of people are like, ‘No I don’t want to talk about Student Government,’” Frink said. “But when we get those few people that do want to talk about it and have really awesome thoughts and opinions that I never would have heard before, it’s totally worth it.”

The Hot Seat will make its final appearance tomorrow in the Quad, Frink said.

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crime

University students visit Angola for insight to justice system BY deanna narveson dnarveson@lsureveille.com A group of communication studies students walked single file down one of the narrow tiers where several of Louisiana’s 86 men sentenced to death row live on a class trip to the Louisiana State Penitentiary on Feb. 5.

No executions have taken place at Angola in five years, and none of the inmates on death row are scheduled, said tour guide Thomas Merriet.

However, about 4,200 of the 6,300 inmates at Angola are serving life terms.

Some of the inmates awaiting execution smiled or waved from behind the bars as the students passed, some continued sleeping or listening through headphones. The students, who had spent the morning chatting, were quiet as they passed through the dimly lit hall.

Connor Vanveckhoven, a senior in the Communication Studies 4107 class, which focuses on crime and public culture, said she wasn’t scared at first going into Angola Prison, the nation’s largest state penitentiary.

“I was scared going into death row,” she said. “The pressure of feeling that everyone in there is going to die. I found out we walked passed Derrick [Todd] Lee, like if he targeted girls at LSU, how was he looking at us?”

Angola is flanked by the Mississippi River on three sides, and apart from the fenc-

es outside of the living quarters and recreation yard, there are no barriers. A majority of the inmates will die somewhere between the horseshoe shape of the levee and the main road, Tunica Trace.

“The natural surroundings are our fence,” Merriet said.

“Life in the state of Louisiana means exactly what it says. The rest of your life. No parole or early releases. And about 2,000 of them are in for a first time offense.”

Angola has its own zip code, 70712, and houses a farm large enough to supply fresh vegetables and fruit to the entire prison and four other institutions in the state, Merriet said.

Communication studies professor Bryan McCann said he hopes the class left Angola with a better picture of the complexities of the criminal justice and prison system.

This is the fifth time he has visited.

“I experience it different every time,” McCann said. “Part of the value is for them to be more aware of themselves.”

Crime has many sides, McCann said, and the impact of a crime goes deeper than just those immediately affected, and it’s important to understand it isn’t as simple.

Kerry Myers, an inmate serving a life term, described the prison like a small city, where inmates who are not on high security train for vocations, earn degrees and work skilled jobs.

Myers earned a degree in

communications from Nicholls State University before entering Angola 25 years ago.

He is editor of a magazine produced at the prison, The Angolite.

More people are incarcerated per capita in the state of Louisiana than anywhere else in the world, Myers said, but he thinks the media has stopped questioning the way the criminal justice system works.

“Everyone here has a story, and stories matter,” Myers said.

“Prisons are necessary, but is the way we operate prison necessary?”

The Angolite has insight within the prison system that other publications do not, Myers said. He hopes to leave it better than it was before.

In the seven years since Gov. Bobby Jindal stepped into office, he has only pardoned one other inmate, but Myers hopes he issues a second before leaving office. He submitted his paperwork 16 months ago.

Myers said the goals of the warden, Burl Cain, are to instill a sense of responsibility and rehabilitation.

“There are people here who should never leave. They aren’t even able to function within this population here,” Myers said.

“But this is also one of the safest prisons. I have never once in 25 years closed my eyes and been worried for my personal safety.”

He said it was difficult to define the level of violence of a crime.

Myers said the prisoners un-

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University students’ visit to Angola Prison allowed them to see the conditions in which prisoners live, and what opportunities the prisoners may have. der the least amount of security are called trustees. They have to have been at the penitentiary for more than eight years. They work the highest skilled jobs and are allowed to keep more belongings.

The University students visited the dormitories of the trustees, a large three-room block where the bathrooms have no curtains, and there are more than 80 beds in the room.

The bare, stained concrete floor is bleached every other day to keep bacteria levels down, Merriet said.

Chemistry senior Brian Dejean said the trustees’

dormitories reminded him of the barracks he stayed in during his years in the Navy.

“This is like the pinnacle of their lives,” Dejean said. “And I looked down on it, and hated it when I stayed there.”

Communication studies senior Paris Piotter said she was struck by how at peace the inmates were with serving a life sentence.

“It stood out to me how accepting they were of the fact that they are going to die here,” Piotter said. “You see all this stuff on TV and it’s not really how it is.”

dining

Celebrity chef brings Indian flair to 459 dining hall

BY Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez Manship News Service Though Chef Bal Arneson plans to curry crawfish while visiting Baton Rouge, for always-famished University students, Arneson served up a simpler Indian-inspired meal.

Adding a different spice to Louisiana college dining, Arneson kicked off LSU Dining’s Celebrity Chef series Thursday by serving up her signature Indian cuisine to students in the 459 Commons dining hall.

Host of the Cooking Channel’s “Spice Goddess,” Arneson served students quinoa salads with cumin dressing, beef masala wraps with yogurt and dill sauce and warm beet and yam salads.

Arneson said she jumped on the opportunity to cook for the Tigers, given her history as an elementary and high school teacher.

“For me, kids are so impor-

tant. Education, students are so close to my heart,” Arneson said.

She didn’t start with hopes to become a celebrity chef. It was the furthest career from her mind when she began cooking with her family at the age of 6 over a barbeque pit in India. Trained by her great-great aunt and great aunt, Arneson said she grew up cooking with no electricity in a small Indian village.

After accepting an arranged marriage, Arneson moved to the

U.S. with her husband as a teenager. She soon became a single mom, and between earning her teaching degree and cleaning homes, Arneson catered to pay the bills.

Fame and fortune weren’t her motivation when she prepared meals for girlfriends, small parties and taught cooking classes.

“It was literally to pay my bills. It was not, ‘Okay, I’m going to become a celebrity chef or a Food Network chef,’ or that I was going to become famous

and make money. It was none of that. It was just a need, being a single mom, [that] turned into a passion.”

Her show is a hit in Malaysia, but Arneson said her collaborations with chefs across the globe are not over.

Though she worked with talented chefs in Paris for her second cookbook, even the chefs in the dining hall left her with a lasting impression. They encouraged her to experiment with different spices and flavors, given the diverse flavor

profiles of Louisiana cuisine.

Arneson’s meal, filled with grains and fresh vegetables, was created especially for the college diners. When she handed over her recipe to the 459 chefs, Arneson said the team managed to feed the masses and keep her flavors intact.

She said she gave them her basic recipe, and they factored every ingredient times 200.

“That’s what I love. [Creating] a recipe and the chef is able to [cook] a mass quantity and still have the same flavor profile.”

Sports

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LSU falls to Auburn at home, 81-77

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BY david Gray dgray@lsureveille.com

you see them do it every day, you think you’re not going to be able to change it. But you can.”

Clark, who serves as the bars coach for the Tigers, said he has to work with an incredible

LSU men’s basketball coach Johnny Jones didn’t mince words when he summed up his team’s performance against visiting Auburn on Thursday.

“We wasted a great opportunity tonight,” Jones said.

In one of its closest games of the season, LSU (16-6, 5-4 Southeastern Conference) couldn’t keep pace with the physical play and sharpshooting of Auburn (1111, 3-6 SEC) and fell, 81-77, at the PMAC. It was the second consecutive loss for LSU, both against teams with records below .500. For Auburn, the victory snapped a fourgame losing streak.

LSU outscored Auburn in the paint (44-30) on second-chance opportunities (24-13) and won the rebounding battle (45-38). LSU also outshot Auburn from the field, 43.9 percent to 42.6.

Yet despite controlling the game in a variety of statistics, Jones said his team lost because it couldn’t match Auburn’s tenacity.

“Unfortunately in this game, you can’t turn it on and off,” Jones said. “You have to get it from start to finish, play every second of every play and have an edge about you. When you don’t, bad things are going to happen to you. We got treated to that tonight.”

Sophomore forward Jordan Mickey tallied a team-high 23

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LSU gymnastics associate head coach Jay Clark watches the events on Jan. 23 during the Tigers’ 197-192 victory against Missouri at the PMAC.

Gymnastics excels on bars under associate head coach Jay Clark BY jacob Hamilton jhamilton@lsureveille.com

LSU gymnastics associate head coach Jay Clark has a sign in his office that reads, “You’re either coaching it, or you’re allowing it to happen.”

The message is in reference to the uneven bars, an event in which a missed handstand or a

step on the landing will prevent a gymnast from earning a 9.900 or better.

“I try to remind myself every day that I can’t let up and not be detail oriented,” Clark said. “It is easy to do because if you see a kid that has a bad habit, and

softball

No. 19 Tigers to open season with Tiger Classic double-header

BY Morgan prewitt mprewitt@lsureveille.com After falling short of reaching the Women’s College World Series last season, the No. 19 LSU softball team will come into the 2015 season loaded with talent at the plate and in the circle.

Led by All-American sophomore catcher and infielder Sahvanna Jaquish and senior outfielder A.J. Andrews, the Tigers will start the season with the annual Tiger Classic in Tiger Park, featuring games against Memphis, Eastern Illinois, Tennessee State and North Carolina State.

LSU opens the tournament today with a double-header against Memphis at 4 p.m. and Eastern Illinois at 6:30 p.m.

“There is no question this is

the most talented team we’ve had here,” said LSU coach Beth Torina. “They have a great offensive potential, but when you add this pitching staff, [there are] a lot of people that can step up.”

At the plate, the Tigers have a dynamic lineup balanced with power hitters, such as Jaquish and junior infielder and pitcher Bianka Bell, and slappers, such as Andrews.

The Tigers’ power shined at the 2014 NCAA Tucson Regional when Jaquish hit four home runs in the Tigers’ five games to break the LSU single-season home run record with 17 homers in 2014.

After slamming 12 homers out of the park during her freshman campaign in 2013, Bell increased her offensive production last season,

finishing with 14 home runs and 51 RBIs. Kloss nearly doubled her career home run total in 2014, earning nine home runs.

While the power hitters crushed home runs, Andrews and former Tiger outfielder Jacee Blades made plays using their speed.

Andrews led the Tigers with 38 steals, finishing second in the Southeastern Conference in stolen bases. Blades’ speed helped her earn a .352 career on-base percentage.

Sophomore pitchers Baylee Corbello and Kelsee Selman are joined by freshmen Carley Hoover, a transfer from Stanford, and Allie Walljasper.

Corbello led the Tigers with 188 strikeouts last

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Then-freshman pitcher Baylee Corbello (19) winds up a pitch April 23, 2014, during the Tigers’ 6-1 victory against the University of South Alabama at Tiger Park.

page 6 BARS, from page 5 amount of diligence because he doesn’t have a team full of natural bar workers.

“Bars is one of the toughest events out of the four,” said sophomore all-arounder Shae Zamardi. “It involves a lot of strength, mentally and physically. We have to work on it a lot more than the other events because it takes so much more out of you. It’s an event where, in order to get the strength for bars, you have to practice bars.”

To the gymnastics community, championship-caliber vault and floor lineups are intrinsic to LSU gymnastics. The Tigers have won four NCAA individual

vault national titles and another on floor since 2009.

Since joining LSU before the 2013 season, Clark has coached three Tigers to All-America honors, a school-record 49.330 average on bars in 2014 and three of the top 10 scores in program history.

This season, LSU is No. 2 in the nation on bars with a 49.350 average, and the event accounts for the highest total for the team.

“I hope it’s a confidence builder for them because it’s an event that we have to train with an incredible amount of discipline and demand a lot in order to be proficient,” Clark said. “From a perception standpoint, [the No. 2 ranking] helps shake off the stig-

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LSU gymnastics associate head coach Jay Clark celebrates after former LSU gymnast Kaleigh Dickson’s bar routine April 5, 2014, during an NCAA Gymnastics Regional at the PMAC.

The Daily Reveille ma that LSU has had for so long, that we are great on vault and floor but not [bars and beam].”

LSU coach D-D Breaux said Clark’s overhaul of the event began with consistency in training.

When the gymnasts step into the practice facility, they mimic how they will warm up and train at a meet. Clark said the lack of variance from practice to competition allows the gymnasts to develop a routine.

“He has such a consistent way of coaching, and we know every day when we get in the gym that we have a set assignment to do,” said senior all-arounder Rheagan Courville. “We can either take the easy road and do the assignment he says to do, or if we choose not to, we are going to spend the whole day on bars.

He prides himself on consistency and good, clean work the first time.”

For Courville, Clark’s consistent ways changed how she approaches the event.

A two-time national champion on vault, Courville said bars has always been her weakest event and caused her to question her abilities in competition.

But under Clark’s guidance, Courville is the No. 2 bar gymnast in the nation, and her expectations have risen to the same level as his — perfection.

“It really shows how much of an impact his coaching has had on our bar for the entire lineup,” Courville said. “I know I wasn’t nearly as confident when I first started working bars here. Obviously he has completely changed that mindset, and I wouldn’t be half the bar worker I am now if it wasn’t for [Clark].”

Even with the No. 2 rank-

Friday, February 6, 2015 ing in the country, the Tigers still train on bars more than any other event because the youthful lineup has not found its ceiling yet.

“I think the mantra of all of us here is to improve even when things are going well,” Clark said. “We enjoy our success, but we are not satisfied with it. Our

job, as coaches, is to make sure that message is there every day.

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“All four of us offset each other very well,” Corbello said.

“Everyone brings something different to the table … Whenever we are able to work together and really use our strengths, that’s when we have handsdown one of the best pitching staffs in the country.”

The featured matchup of the Classic comes Saturday and Sunday when the Tigers take on NC State, which has reached an NCAA Regional for the past two seasons.

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SEASON, from page 5 season — the second-most strikeouts in program history for a first year pitcher. Selman shined against Boston University in the Tucson Regional on May 17, 2014, when she posted eight strikeouts and only one walk in a complete game.

In her limited action for the Cardinal in 2014, Hoover posted a 1.65 ERA and 26 strikeouts in a 2-0 record in five starts.

Walljasper comes to LSU after a stellar prep career, during which she tallied 895 strikeouts

The Daily Reveille niors pitcher Emily Weiman and shortstop Renada Davis. Last season, Wieman finished 21st in the NCAA with 253 strikeouts in 269.2 innings pitched. While Weiman led from the circle, Davis sparked NC State from the plate with 19 home runs, which was tied for 11th in the NCAA last season.

“For the third year in a row, we face the No. 1 out-of-conference strength of schedule,” Torina said. “These guys love the challenge, and they are ready for it. They’ve prepared.

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LOSS, from page 5 points and 12 rebounds for LSU, which also got 17 points from sophomore guard Tim Quarterman and 14 from sophomore forward Jarell Martin.

Auburn senior guard KT Harrell led all scorers with 28 points, going 5-of-9 from 3-point range.

As a team, Auburn hit 45 percent (9-of-20) of its 3-pointers compared to LSU’s 4-for-17 clip from beyond the arc.

“We had to make 3’s, take some charges and turn LSU over,” said Auburn coach Bruce Pearl. “That was a big key. And we couldn’t let those guys have a big run up.”

Pearl’s players kept to his strategy, never allowing the home team to build any momentum.

“It seemed like every time we’d [score], they would come down and hit a big shot,” Mickey said. “They executed their offense, they were able to get what they wanted, they ran their plays and got open.”

But LSU had its chances, most notably when junior guard Josh Gray went to the charity stripe with his team trailing 77-75. But Gray missed the second of two free throws with 11.5 seconds left, and Harrell hit two on the ensuing possession to give Auburn a three-point advantage.

Auburn senior guard Antoine Mason then iced the game with a pair of free throws following LSU’s 15th turnover of the game.

Aside from LSU’s continuing turnover woes on offense, it couldn’t stop the three-headed monster of Harrell, Mason and junior forward Cinmeon Bowers on defense. The trio totaled 68 points, with Mason and Harrell going a combined 8-for-13 from 3-point territory.

With Harrell and Mason hitting from deep, Bowers controlled the inside. Bowers — who drew a double-technical foul with Martin after the two tangled in the second half — muscled his way to 16 points and 10 boards. It was Bowers’ 13th double-double of the season.

Auburn came out firing the long ball to start. Auburn, which entered the game as the SEC’s fourth-worst 3-point shooting team, went 6-for-12 from beyond the arc in the first half.

But LSU kept pace with 16 second-chance points and trailed 41-39 at the break.

LSU has two days to rest before hosting Alabama (14-8, 4-5 SEC) at 5 p.m. Saturday at the PMAC, the second of the Tigers’ three-game homestand.

The Crimson Tide recently ended a two-game losing skid with a 62-49 victory against Missouri Wednesday, but it was just its second win in seven games.

But with the losses now piling up for LSU, Mickey said the Tigers must lean on one another to avoid digging themselves in a further hole.

“We just have to stick together,” Mickey said. “Stay positive. We can’t let guys separate and try to break off from the team. [We have to] pull together.”

You can reach David Gray on Twitter @dgray_TDR.

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WEB COMMENTS In response to Clarke Perkins’ column, “Restrictions on UVA sororities are misguided, sexist,” one reader had this to say: “The national sororities are not so much trying them members from themselves but protect their sororities from the foolish and sometimes dangerous that young women will inevitably make.

Women join sororities, in part, to attend fraternity parties, so that they get all the benefits of the alcohol-lubricated hookup culture without any of the costs.

Sorority women not only prefer to have their fraternity brothers bear all the expense of these blowout parties, but also bear all the responsibility of the inevitable sexual miscommunications that result. Fort these elitist sorority sisters, women’s liberation is all freedom with no responsibility.”

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The Cerulean Conciliator justin dicharia Columnist Saturday night football in Death Valley, watching clouds roll by on the Parade Ground and listening to the Memorial Tower chime the alma mater at noon are better in hues of purple and gold, but one in 10 University students views these experiences in black and white — the hues of depression.

No one wants to talk about depression. No one wants to be sad. So put on a smile, be a good lad and march on.

Just think positive thoughts, right?

Unfortunately, that is not how depression works. It can interfere with school, work, relationships and most parts of the day.

There is a negative social stigma that moseys along with depression.

It’s a feeling of guilt and a fear of becoming a burden to your loved ones.

But with depression, silence is anything but golden — silence can lead to death.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide is the third-leading cause of

death for Americans 15 to 24 years old, and suicide is one of depression’s strongest risk factors.

Speaking to loved ones and getting the proper medical attention, whether through therapy or medication, must become as socially acceptable as taking a trip down to the Student Health Center to treat a cold. Treating the brain for depression needs to be synonymous with treating the lungs for asthma.

The stigma of depression is not a lone ranger in the hush-hush of mental illness.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness reported that one in four Americans will experience some type of mental illness within a given year.

That could range from anxiety to bipolar disorders.

Fill the Cox Auditorium with 1,000 students, and 181 of them are likely to have an anxiety disorder and a good number of them wouldn’t talk about it.

Mental illnesses are a reality, and the person sitting next to you in class may have it.

Your best friend may have a mental illness but could be scared to talk about it. Approximately 60 percent of adults suffering from a mental illness received no professional help in the previous year. Let your friends know

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it’s OK to talk about mental illness, and encourage them to seek professional help.

The University’s Student Health Center has six clinical social workers, four clinical psychologists and one psychiatrist on its mental health staff.

Ridding our society of mental illness’ negative social stigma is in our hands.

With upcoming budget cuts to LSU, mental illness must be a priority, or our mental health services will probably be one of the first programs cut, if the past is any indicator.

In 2013, when Gov. Bobby Jindal made cuts to the state’s primary and secondary education systems, The Early Childhood Supports and Services program, a school counseling program that assessed the mental health of low-income students, lost funding, and 76 employees lost their jobs.

If mental health is not a priority among Louisiana’s citizens, mental health services will be cut in a time where they are needed more than ever.

Justin DiCharia is a 20-year-old mass communication junior from Slidell, Louisiana. You can reach him on Twitter @JDiCharia.

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‘Saying we should keep the twoparty system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.”

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The United States should change its voting system SMASH THE HATE JAMES RICHARDS Columnist Most people reading this column didn’t vote in the Dec. 6 elections for Louisiana’s senatorial seat, statistically speaking.

In fact, many won’t even vote for the next president in 2016. It’s a dereliction of our essential duty to democracy, which only furthers the masses of corrupt, ineffective politicians in government today.

Despite that, I don’t blame Americans for staying away from polling booths. It’s time consuming, politics is difficult to understand, and that creepy old lady standing behind you in line sounds more and more racist with every passing second.

Besides all the old people crowding up the place, polling stations reek of defeat and indifference. The number of times I was confident my vote made a difference equals the number of times I thought I could fly — a few, but ouch, I was wrong.

This feeling is reinforced everywhere you turn. Last week the Koch brothers announced their plans to spend nearly a billion dollars in the 2016 presidential election to make sure people vote the way they want them to.

It doesn’t just seem like your vote doesn’t matter in who wins — it actually doesn’t count.

A 2001 study examining every Congressional election since 1898 found only one election where it actually came down to a single vote: a 1910 election in Buffalo, New York. Statisticians compare the chances of a single vote deciding an election to winning the Powerball lottery.

Why does voting seem like such a pointless enterprise? Is it the lack of good candidates to motivate us? Is it the lack of a mandated voting holiday to incentivize us?

While those things probably matter in the grand scheme, the biggest, most systemic reason voting doesn’t matter in the U.S. is its voting system. I’m not even talking about the electoral college, which is another matter completely.

The majority of the U.S. utilizes what is called First Past the Post voting, where everybody gets one vote and the winner of the election is the candidate with the most votes.

Sounds like a fair way to vote, right? Wrong!

FPTP is mathematically shown to devolve into a two-party system. The way the system counts ballots causes a great deal of the populace to vote for the candidate they hate the least, but who has the best chance of winning. Voting for a smaller candidate who more accurately represents your views only hurts the chances of somebody with some of those views making it to office.

FPTP voting is the reason

third-party candidates see such little success, despite lots of interest. New-age Republicans are a prime example. Small government-liking, socially indifferent voters who may agree more with Libertarian Gary Johnson feel the need to vote for somebody like Senator Rand Paul because third-parties don’t win elections.

Louisiana’s jungle primary system is where the lower placing candidates are eliminated and a runoff between the top two decides the winner only marginally better. Despite this, Louisiana still produces middle of the road candidates like Bill Cassidy and Mary Landrieu, with grassroots favorites like Rob Maness falling to the wayside.

Just like with cars, beer and state-managed health insurance, the Germans have it better when it comes to voting. Introduced under the watch of major Allied powers after World War II, Germany uses what’s called MixedMember Proportional voting, which fixes the major voting issues present in FPTP. MMP gives every eligible citizen two votes, with one going to a specific candidate and the other going to a political party who places their best candidates in the legislature based on how many votes they get.

It’s very easy to imagine how something like this would work out. Lets say I’m a vegan, socialist tree-hugger who wants to see more environmental issues in

Congress. However, at the risk of sending a Republican to office, I feel the need to support the Democratic candidate. When the election rolls around, I can vote for both the Democrat with the best chance of winning and the Green Party.

None of this will change the fundamental problems present in the political system unless more

people turn out to the polls to demand change. If we can’t bother to do that, then I hope you enjoy politicians that don’t care about you.

James Richards is a 20-yearold mass communication sophomore from New Orleans.

You can follow him on Twitter @JayEllRichy.

Comparing systems FIRST PAST THE POST (FPTP):

A plurality-majority voting system used in single winner elections where the candidate with the most votes wins without necessarily a majority of votes. It is the most common system used in nation-states descended from the British and French Empires, including the United States and Canada. Certain jurisdictions couple the use of a First Past the Post system with runoff elections if no winner attains the majority of votes in the initial election.

MIXED MEMBER PROPORTIONAL (MMP):

A hybrid electoral system where a fraction of seats are elected from plurality-majority districts and the remainder from party list proportional systems. MMP combines geographic representation with proportional representation of ideological interests. Depending on how party lists seats are allocated, MMP can be fully proportional (i.e. the list seats compensate for any disproportionately produced by the district results) or semi-proportional. courtesy of FairVote.org

Students should know their different loan options JAY TALKING JAY CRANFORD Columnist One of the great aspects of the American college system is the amount of opportunity given to citizens.

In 2012, 71 percent of students who graduated from a four-year college had student loan debt.

Regardless of your opinion on tuition rates or student loans, you can’t deny federal student loans give 71 percent of students an education they otherwise couldn’t afford.

The United States government offers several loans for needy students. Two of those loans are Perkins Loans and Stafford Loans.

Students should be aware of all their options to pay for college.

You might think you will always have TOPS, but if your GPA drops, knowing your options may keep you from having a breakdown when those final grades come in.

The most common federal loan is the Stafford Loan. The Stafford Loan is given out by the US Department of Education to students

who show financial need. Students’ applications and eligibility are assessed by applying to Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). You can receive a Stafford Loan for both undergraduate and graduate school.

There are two types of Stafford Loans, subsidized and unsubsidized. The main difference between the two is how much you repay. A subsidized loan will be cheaper than an unsubsidized loan because you will pay no interest while in school. In addition, unsubsidized Stafford Loans are available to any student regardless of need.

If you qualify for a Stafford Loan, you can borrow between $5,500 and $12,500. Borrowing limits are based on year classification and whether you filed for FAFSA as a dependent of your parents or as an independent. Freshmen can borrow less than seniors, and dependents can borrow less than independents.

Graduate students can borrow up to $20,500 and medical school students can borrow up to $40,500 yearly.

With a subsidized Stafford Loan, interest will not be accrued while you are at least a half-time

student. Technically, the government pays the interest for you during that time. With an unsubsidized loan, interest will accrue while you are in school.

There are several repayment plans that include the graduated repayment plan, which increase the amount you have to repay over time and income-based repayment plan that is tied to how much your income is.

In 2013, President Obama passed a law that changed how the interest rates for federal loans were determined. From now on interest is linked to federal bond interest rates — specifically the Federal 10-year Treasury note, plus a small margin.

However, this is not an economics class, so I won’t bore you with details. Just know that this year’s interest rate is 4.66 percent, so you can expect around that rate while we are in school.

Oh, you’re still reading this.

You must really want to learn about loans after making it through the last paragraph. Moving on to Perkins Loans!

The Perkins Loan is for people who display extreme financial need. The federal government gives money to participating

schools, and then it’s the schools job to decide who is “awarded” the loan. So, in your case, you’d borrow from LSU. Because LSU is a participating school, you can contact undergraduate admissions & student aid if you want to talk to an official about the Perkins Loan.

Like the Stafford Loan, the Perkins Loan does not accrue interest while you are at least a half-time student. Repayment starts nine months after your graduate or leave school. Perkins Loans have a fixed interest rate of 5 percent a year.

Undergraduates can borrow up to $5,500 a year with a lifetime maximum of $27,500. Graduate students can borrow $8,000 a year.

The Perkins Loan is the most favorable federal student loan you could receive, but there is a limited amount. I also encourage you to go to the U.S. Department of Education website and learn all you can about student loans.

Jay Cranford is a 20-year-old finance junior from St. Simons Island, Georgia. You can reach him on Twitter @hjcranford.

BEST WEBSITES FOR LOAN INFO studentaid.ed.gov: This is a good resource for all things student loans.

fafsa.ed.gov: Remember to apply for federal student aid; the deadline for the 2015-2016 school year is June 30th.

ed.gov: This is the US Department of Education’s website; you will find up to date information on all federal student loans here. staffordloan.com: You can learn all about Stafford Loans here. lsu.edu/financialaid: This is where you can find information about all of the scholarships and student aid offered by LSU.

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Unite Louisiana as a separate entity from SG, to sort of have a more aggressive voice in communicating the potential effects of the budget cuts and to also get students involved,” Guin said.

According to its website, the Unite Louisiana group wants to change higher education policy.

“We speak for the 226,000 Louisiana students and the 30,000 LSU students: higher education in Louisiana is critical to the success and economic vitality of the state,” the website says. “We champion commonsense policymaking when it comes to Louisiana’s public colleges and universities: protect and stabilize its budget, invest in Louisiana’s students and make college more accessible and affordable.”

The website warns of potential tuition increases, lower graduation numbers, faculty and staff layoffs, decreases in state investments and a loss of research money.

Brown said the group sees Unite Louisiana as a team of grassroots lobbyists and students informing state legislators of students’ opinions and thoughts on bills affecting the University.

“All these big corporations and everybody else has their lobbying teams and their grassroots networks, and that was something we were hoping to build,” Brown said.

Guin hopes to draw the same amount of attention to the governor’s proposed budget cuts as Jindal’s own prayer rally received.

“I think it’s kind of hard for a lot of students to realize this is going to be impacting them within the next year,” Guin said. “It’s easy to say, ‘Yeah, I read this in the newspaper today, but it’s never going to affect me,’ when in reality, it is.”

The group’s 2015 goal is to form closer relationships with lawmakers at the capitol along with University administration.

In addition to forming close relationships, the group will also start a larger grassroots movement with the LSU Alumni Association and SG. “That’s going to be one of the challenges this year, is building these relationships for the future,” Brown said. “Unite’s not just about now — these issues are always going to be facing the University — there’s always going to be something going on in the legislature that affects the students, so our goal now is to start building these relationships because we are a fresh and new organization.”

Both Guin and Brown urged students to get involved in Unite Louisiana and other advocacy groups.

Brown said without the support of students, the grassroots group will not go anywhere.

“We also want to show to our state leaders that the LSU student body and students in general in Louisiana aren’t apathetic about these issues,” Guin said. “As students, we are literal stakeholders in decisions they make everyday, and it does affect us.”

“We’re not just going to take it laying down either,” Brown said.

When he’s not working on academic assignments, Payne is a section leader for the trumpet section of Tiger Band and the Bengal Brass Band.

Along with the trumpet, Payne plays the piano and composes arrangements the Bengal Brass Band plays during basketball games. The most recent arrangement was for Mark Ronson’s hit song, “Uptown Funk,” Payne said.

“I don’t know where I would be if it weren’t for my involvement with the band,” Payne said. “[Tiger Band] requires a lot of time, and it can be rough sometimes to manage it all, but you just have to man up and do your homework on the road. For me, it’s all worth it because music and physics play such a vital role in my life.”

Payne first joined Tiger Band during his freshman year and became section leader his junior year.

Payne said he believes the leadership skills he’s learned as a section leader gives him a leg up in the NUPOC application process, because as a navy officer, his primary job would be to lead his division. “[Payne] leads a lot by example,” said marketing senior and trumpet co-section leader Jordan Koenig. “He’s one of the best players in the section, so people can look to him to see what they’re supposed to do. Pretty much everyone that knows him looks up to him as a great dude.”

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Protest attendees hold a sign reading ‘He. Fit. The. Description.’ The ‘Suspect: Vague’ event was held in response to the LSUPD text alert sent out Jan. 30.

protest, from page 1 had more description, but if that’s all they saw, that’s all they saw,” Altenberger said. “It didn’t matter if it was a white male with a blue hoodie, that’s all the description they had.”

The decision to send an emergency alert is made on a case-by-case basis, said LSUPD spokesman Capt. Cory Lalonde.

It depends on whether there is a possible ongoing threat associated with the crime.

LSUPD is required to send out emergency notifications through the Clery Act, Lalonde said. The goal is to ensure people can take necessary safety precautions.

The emergency alert system limits messages to 160 characters. Another issue is these incidents often leave victims traumatized and unable to provide accurate descriptions, Lalonde said.

“The purpose of the text messaging system going out is to let the public know, and part of that is we’re always having to balance the timeliness as well as accuracy of information,” Lalonde said. “But again, there’s only so much you can fit in that 160 characters.”

The emergency messages are

followed up with information on the “Crime Alert” page of the LSUPD website. These posts typically have more detailed descriptions, Lalonde said.

LSUPD is also looking to improve their processes and procedures for these situations, Lalonde said. The department looks at every message sent out to see how it could be improved.

“Obviously, we’re constantly looking for new ways,” Lalonde said. “Just as everything we do in law enforcement, there’s always new ways, there’s always newer technologies, there’s always newer methods, and we’re always looking for newer ways to do things and improve.”

The character limit should not be an excuse, Brown said. She attributes the incident to laziness and a lack of forward thinking.

These vague descriptions are unacceptable, and people across the nation need to understand the consequences of profiling, she said.

“You see this type of thing happening at Harvard or at USC,” Brown said. “We need to be a place of distinction, where people can come and see LSU as a place where race relations are not as they are in the rest of the South.”

according to the Navy’s website.

Then, he or she is selected to travel to Washington, D.C., for a personal interview.

The first part of the interview process examines the applicant’s knowledge of calculus, physics and other technical courses. Once the applicant passes the test, he or she meets with Adm. John M. Richardson, the current director of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, for a final test. Richardson chooses the prospective officers personally.

As a nuclear officer, Payne hopes to hop aboard a submarine or surface warship as the officer in charge of the nuclear propulsion division, which powers the ship. “[Nuclear science] is the study of nuclei and how they have so much potential to release energy,” Payne said. “Too many people have the wrong idea about nuclear power. There’s a negative connotation because of the bombs [the U.S.] dropped on Japan and the accident in Fukushima. But when you could use that energy to power cities, I think looking into nuclear power as an energy source is the way to go.”

Payne said he hopes to either work in the Navy until he retires or manage his own nuclear power plant design company once his nuclear science education is finished.

After retiring, his long-term plan is to return to school for a piano performance degree.

Payne submitted his background information for the position and is expected to undergo his physical test in the coming weeks.

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Friday, February 6, 2015

No. 3 LSU to face top-10 opponent BY christian boutwell cboutwell@lsureveille.com The No. 3 LSU gymnastics team will get a chance to compete against one of the nation’s top teams in an effort to topple its season-high team score of 197.425 set on Jan. 31 at the Metroplex Challenge.

The Tigers (6-1, 3-0 Southeastern Conference) are set to face one of the nation’s best in No. 9 Georgia (2-3, 2-1 SEC) at 6:45 p.m. tonight at the PMAC. After putting together one of their best performances of the year at the Metroplex Challenge, the Tigers could not walk away with a victory against No. 1 Oklahoma. Senior all-arounder Rheagan Courville said there weren’t any major changes to make, but the team’s attention to detail could be what pushes it ahead of the competition.

LSU coach D-D Breaux said she knows paying attention to details is key to leading the Tigers to victory against Georgia.

“I’m excited to get back in the gym and work on some minor corrections, and then go out there and compete against Georgia,” Breaux said.

The Tigers look to count on beam, 49.400 on bars and floor strong performances from senior and a season-high 49.500 on vault. all-arounders Jessie Jordan and The Tigers need to post anCourville this weekend. Jordan is other high team score to achieve ranked as the fourth all-arounder victory against Georgia, which in the nation, with a season aver- is ranked ninth nationally with a age of 39.519, and Courville sits season average of 195.925. in sixth at 39.481.

Georgia ended its last meet LSU ranks in the top six in the with a score of 196.950 on the nation on every event. road against No. 2 Florida. GeorThe Tigers are second on un- gia junior all-arounder Brandie even bars with a season average Jay was named SEC Specialist of of 49.350, third on balance beam the Week on Tuesday after her with a 49.188, fourth on floor and performance against the Gators, sixth on vault with an average of where she posted a 9.925 on vault 49.294 on both events. and floor and a 9.90 on bars.

Breaux said she believes the Georgia had major contribuTigers have not yet shown exact- tions from sophomore all-aroundly what they are caers Kiera Brown, pable of this season. who captured the “We have still ‘We have still not had bars title with 9.925, not had our best our best meet yet, but and Ashlyn Brousmeet yet, but we are we are progressing sard, who scored her career high on beam progressing each each week.’ with a 9.95. week,” Breaux said. d-d breaux, Courville said she “We will stay in the LSU gymnastics coach believes the Tigers process and continue to get better need to be the most and better as we go through the prepared team and continue the season.” path they are already taking to LSU has a lot of work to do to gain a crucial conference victory achieve better scores than it did Friday night. last weekend. The Tigers posted high scores on every event at the You can reach Christian Boutwell Metroplex Challenge: 49.125 on on Twitter @CBoutwell_TDR.

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LSU then-freshman all-arounder Ashleigh Gnat performs her balance beam routine Jan. 25, 2014, in the Tigers’ 197.175-196.850 victory against Auburn at the PMAC.

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Senior discus thrower Tigers prep for New Mexico Classic striving to be leader BY jacob hamilton jhamilton@lsureveille.com

BY mario jerez mjerez@lsureveille.com Senior discus thrower Rodney Brown was a hurdler and high jumper in high school, but he decided to practice with throwers one day to take a break from running. It was a small decision, but it brought big results.

Brown has maintained a stellar career at LSU, becoming a conference champion and being named an All-American in 2013. He also broke LSU’s 25-year-old discus throw record and is helping lead the men’s track and field team in his final season.

Brown qualified for the discus NCAA championships as a freshman and entered the competition ranked 13th in the nation. He followed this by receiving All-American honors as a sophomore.

In his third year, Brown broke the previous school discus record set by former NCAA Champion John Nichols as a junior with a throw of 210 feet 10 inches.

Brown said what he is most proud of is the growth he’s seen within himself since joining the team, and it is what he attributes with his success.

“I came in in my own little shell, but I’ve come to know a lot of good people here, and I’ve branched out and tried to get my brand growing,” Brown said. “I could say I’ve done a pretty good job of putting

my best foot forward.”

He said he has improved his craft significantly over the years with the help of teammates and head coach Dennis Shaver. Now in his senior season, he wants the chance to be a mentor and help younger teammates grow as he did and reach their full potential.

“Originally, my goal was to become the best discus thrower to come through the school, which I’ve accomplished, but now it’s about branching out and helping others become a better thrower and better person,” Brown said.

He said this season is of utmost importance for seniors, as it can affect their professional careers.

“This is the money season, because this is the season that determines your contract and whether you make world championships or the Olympics,” Brown said.

After all the records and accolades Brown has earned, he still has one ultimate goal for his senior season: a national title.

The Tigers haven’t won a national championship since 2004.

Brown said he hopes to break the 11-year drought and leave LSU on a good note.

“We have the team to do it,” he said. “We didn’t lose much talent, and if everyone gets on board and everybody believes we can, I think we have a really good shot at winning the national championship.”

The LSU men’s and women’s track and field teams kick off the second half of their indoor seasons at the New Mexico Collegiate Classic this weekend.

The event begins at 5 p.m. Friday and concludes Saturday evening at the Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The Tigers enter the meet after earning four event wins, 21 indoor personal bests and seven performances at the Razorback Invitational last weekend.

For this weekend, LSU will be without the men’s and women’s middle- and long-distance runners because of the high-altitude track.

“When you train at sea level and go to altitude, you’re not going to get good results [in distance races],” said LSU track and field coach Dennis Shaver. “We have traveled the last few weekends in a row, and the traveling wears people out. We’re going to rest them up, because next week they’re going to an oversized track at Iowa State where they’ll try to qualify for nationals.”

Sophomore distance runner Morgan Schuetz is the lone national qualifier who won’t be competing this weekend. Her 800-meter time is the 10th fastest in the nation, and she is No. 19 in the mile.

The short-distance runners and field event athletes will make the trip and are expected to turn in impressive performances. At last

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Sophomore middle-distance runner Blair Henderson [left] and freshman distance runner DC Lipani [right] run a race Jan. 9 at the LSU Indoor Invitational. year’s meet at the same track, nine Lady Tigers and five Tigers turned in personal-best performances.

Among the athletes looking to improve on their seasonal-best marks are sophomore jumper Nataliyah Friar and freshman hurdler Daeshon Gordon.

Friar tallied a mark of 40 feet and two-thirds inches in the women’s triple jump last weekend, which ranks No. 15 nationally.

In the women’s 60-meter hurdles at last week’s meet, Gordon cut two-tenths of a second off her previous indoor best by crossing the line at 8.30 seconds, a performance that ranks No. 14 nationally and makes her the second-fastest

freshman in the nation.

Shaver said he is going to put some runners who have already posted national qualifying times in their main event in different events, which will help with their primary event.

Sophomore sprinter Tremayne Acy is among the athletes in secondary events. Last weekend, Acy clocked in at 20.85 seconds for a lifetime best in the men’s 200-meter dash and jumped up to a No. 7 national ranking in the event.

“I’m not running the [200-meter race] this meet,” Acy said.

“I’ll be running just the [60-meter race], so I can try to get a top-10 ranking in that, too.”