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tackled safely.

In March, Diaz officially established the Australian Rules Football Club, a University student organization he hopes will evolve into a competitive intramural team.

Other nearby universities, including the University of Texas and Texas A&M, have teams he would like the University organization to compete against.

Although most Americans are not familiar with the game, Diaz said the Australian Football League is as popular in certain areas of Australia as the NFL is in the U.S. While many University students might remember growing up on sports-themed video game series such as “Madden NFL” and “FIFA,” young people

Hundreds of bills are taking their first steps to becoming Louisiana laws today, but as “Schoolhouse Rock!” put it, many have a long journey ahead.

The legislative session begins at noon today and ends on June 11. During this timeframe, bills will have to be passed in both houses before moving to the governor’s desk to be signed into law.

There will be 45 legislative days during the 60 calendarday period.

As bills come before the state legislature, senators and representatives review, argue and shape them based on, among other things, their personal beliefs, their constituents’ opinions and the bill’s fiscal effects.

Much of the focus this session is on the governor’s spending plan and how legislation will mitigate cuts to higher education.

In a move praised by many higher education leaders, State Sen. Jack Donahue, R-Mandeville, introduced Senate Bill 155, which would allow higher education management boards to set tuition prices without twothirds approval from the legislature.

House Bill 60, authored

by State Rep. Thomas Carmody, R-Shreveport, would abolish the standing higher education boards and replace them with a single Postsecondary Education Board of Trustees.

HB 148, an increase on cigarette taxes from $0.36

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see BILLS, page 4

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LSU petroleum engineering sophomore Adam Diaz picks up the ball during Australian Rules Football practice on the Parade Ground.

Australian rules football finds home on campus

BY ROSE VELAZQUEZ rvelazquez@lsureveille.com While almost every University student knows the thrill of watching a football game in Tiger Stadium on a Saturday night, most will never experience the rush of being on the field among the flurry of tackles and touchdowns.

For many students, intramural sports is a way to get in on the action. But for those who find that passing a frisbee or snatching a flag falls short of fulfilling their desire for the physicality of football, petroleum engineering sophomore Adam Diaz has a less common sport in mind.

Three years ago, Diaz was introduced to a popular foreign sport called Australian

rules football, which has slowly grown in the U.S. during the last several years. “Footy,” as the game is colloquially named, combines elements of multiple sports University students are familiar with, including soccer, American football, rugby and ultimate frisbee. “[American football is] definitely a game that I’ve always liked,” Diaz said. “I don’t think flag football really fills that craving for me. I didn’t know what would, and I’ve played ultimate frisbee, I’ve played a little bit of rugby, but I found that Australian rules football fit that. It was still physical, and there was still the tackling, and there was new ball skills to learn too.”

Footy is played on an ovalshaped field that is anywhere from 135 to 185 meters long

(147 to 202 yards) and 110 to 155 meters wide at the wings (120 to 169 yards). The players’ goal is to get the ball between two goal posts at the opposite end of the field, much like a field goal in football.

However, like soccer, the ball can touch the ground.

There are two ways to move the ball down the field: punting and handballing, which is a method of passing the ball similar to the way volleyball players move the ball across the court.

Diaz described the game as a “tough-guy sport.” It’s physical and requires a lot of tackling, similar football, except Australian rules footballers do not wear padding.

But, with the right training and preparation, Diaz said, players learn to tackle and be

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The Tigers immediately responded, claiming the first two victories of singles play.

Arias leveled the match with a 6-4, 6-4 win on Court 3 against Cutura, and Butsch gave LSU its first lead of the day with his 6-2, 6-4 victory against Schmid.

However, Butsch’s win was the last point the Tigers would claim. The Bulldogs prevailed on the next three courts to seal the win.

Mississippi State has now defeated LSU in six of the last seven matches the teams have contested.

Boyd Professor receives SEC Faculty Achievement Award Boyd Professor of European Intellectual History Suzanne Marchand became the University’s recipient of the 2015 Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award when the winners were announced Wednesday, according to a release from the Southeastern Conference and LSU Media Relations.

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The No. 24 LSU men’s tennis team lost its final regular season match, 4-2, against No. 20 Mississippi State on Sunday in Starkville, Mississippi.

The Tigers (16-7, 6-6 Southeastern Conference) dropped the doubles point to the Bulldogs (18-6, 9-3 SEC) and couldn’t overcome the early deficit in singles play.

Sophomore Justin Butsch and senior Chris Simpson fell, 6-4, to the Bulldogs’ pairing of senior Tassilo Schmid and junior Mate Cutura on Court 2, giving the Bulldogs a 1-0 lead before singles play began.

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the award. Winners receive a $5,000 honorarium from the SEC and become their university’s nominee for the 2015 SEC Professor of the Year Award, to be announced later this month, according to the release.

Marchand came to the University in 1999 after holding faculty positions at the University of Chicago and Princeton University, according to the release.

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Monday, April 13, 2015 ART

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Saturday Arts for Families attracts participants of all ages

BY CAITIE BURKES cburkes@lsureveille.com A Donaldsonville bride-to-be and a Baton Rouge toddler had the same weekend plans this Saturday.

University alumna Katie Roach and 4-year-old preschooler Isabel Keaton both saw a morning filled with family, fun and chalk.

The Shaw Center for the Arts provided a place for all three at no cost.

Saturday Arts for Families is a free program offered by the Shaw Center on the second Saturday of every month. The program has been around for more than two years.

Roach and Keaton’s session, called “Unusual Masterpieces,” culminated in the use of chalk pastels to create designs on milksoaked fabric. When ironed, the protein in the milk causes the chalk to seal the fabric.

“It’s important to make art fun for families so they realize a museum is a place where they can bring their kids and where they can learn to see art a different way,” said program instructor Lucy Perera.

She said a typical class has about 15 students and includes activities like embroidery, bookmaking and printmaking.

“It’s a quality, free thing to do,” she said.

Perera said each art lesson is tied to a specific exhibit or work of art in the museum at the time of the class.

The chalk-and-fabric activity drew its inspiration from “Whistler Wall Drawing,” a chalk piece

by University fine arts senior Jacob Cobb selected to be part of the museum’s “Whistler” exhibit.

The powdered-rock illustration caught Perera’s eye, and she incorporated it in the class.

Born in Boston, Perera grew up in “a house filled with art” before earning a degree in art history.

Her first job was teaching art to elementary students.

“What fired me up was trying to bridge the idea of art — looking at art in museums — to what little kids really want and making it accessible, showing people how magical a museum can be,” Perera said.

Following her teaching stint, Perera moved to Colorado for graduate school and then to New Mexico, where she furthered her experience in the art field for 15 years.

She relocated to Baton Rouge two and a half years ago, when the Saturday Arts for Families program launched.

“I know I am not a skilled

artist, but ... it’s much more about just expressing yourself and not the finished product,” Perera said.

“It’s the process.”

Nancy Keaton, Isabel’s mother, has attended Saturday Arts for Families regularly for the past year with her daughter.

“It’s something fun for us to do together, and she gets to learn a lot of different mediums of art which she wouldn’t necessarily get to learn in school,” Nancy said.

Roach said she wanted one last prenuptial hurrah with her mother and sister in Baton Rouge, where they could share a new experience.

When she researched the program, Roach said she was worried it was only for children.

Roach said she was eventually proven wrong.

“I thought it was going to be awkward having three grownups following kids around,” she said.

“But it really is interesting. ... I think that everybody can get into it.”

Perera said she loves her job because she creates a different activity every month and thinks of how to put the various materials to use.

“It’s about how you make art interesting to new audiences,” Perera said.

The next Saturday Arts for Families event will be held May 9.

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[Top] Participants in the Saturday Arts for Families make chalk illustrations Saturday at the Shaw Center. [Bottom] Participants view and discuss a piece of artwork.

STUDENT LIFE

International students struggle to find jobs after college Work visa sponsorships hard to come by

BY HAYLEY FRANKLIN hfranklin@lsureveille.com For international student Hui Du, getting a job out of college was not an easy process. He said his best option was to attend the University as a petroleum engineering Ph.D. student.

Du is from China and earned his bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. After graduating, he applied for work at about 80 companies. He received interview requests from six.

Du said the main reason employers turned him down was their unwillingness to sponsor him as an international student.

International students hold F1 visas, which allow them to study, but not work, in the U.S. Du’s F1 visa allows him to work as an intern and hold an on-campus job, but he can’t work anywhere else, such as a fast food restaurant.

To work in the U.S., international students need an H1B1 visa. Employers sponsor international students by paying a sum of money for paperwork and the new type of visa after they are hired.

Du pays for college with his teaching job at the University, where he helps a professor in the classroom and also teaches students in engineering labs.

ISDS sophomore Juan Castellanos, a student from Ecuador, said his ability to get jobs in the U.S. hinges on his status as a legal permanent resident, having been born to two U.S. citizens.

On job applications, jobseekers are asked if they need a sponsorship or a new visa. Checking this box can be a deal-breaker when searching for a job.

“The fact that I’m not checking that box because I don’t require any kind of sponsorship, it’s what makes the difference between any kind of applicant and somebody that’s either a citizen or a legal resident,” Castellanos said. “Some of my friends, they have struggled with that because some of them, they want to stay.”

Companies are not required to sponsor Castellanos, unlike many of his international friends. While he doesn’t struggle to find jobs, Castellanos’ friends do. He said they can stay in the U.S. if they’re willing to make sacrifices.

“If they are willing to stay and they can put in a balance ... with their willingness to stay in the country and their career, there are several tools that the government has put on the Internet where you can see what is required,” Castellanos said.

One Internet option is GoinGlobal, a tool any student can use to find jobs on a global scale.

Created by Mary Anne Thompson, the site is a global search engine with information on what

employers in different countries look for in job applications.

Thompson said GoinGlobal offers users an individualized search engine for international students.

“H1B1s are rewarded by the U.S. Department of Labor and they’re applied to by companies to the U.S. Department of Labor,” Thompson said. “An international student in the U.S. can go into our H1B Plus search engine to really find listings of American employers who have applied to hire international talent to work here in the U.S.” Thompson said the search engine can be useful for finding jobs but said international students must also network.

“I would say the No. 1 way to find a job anywhere in the world, no matter what country you’re in, is by personal networking,” Thompson said. “I would certainly recommend that international students try to reach out and connect with American students at LSU.” Du used Internet resources to find companies offering sponsorships, but he said he enjoyed meeting employers face-to-face at career expos.

Soon after graduating from MST, Du began applying for jobs, but he had a time limit.

F1 visa students who maintain good academic standing for at least a year are eligible for Optional Practical Training.

OPT is a temporary employment

authorization granted in fields related to an international student’s major. A petroleum engineering student like Du would be required to find a job in petroleum engineering, not physics or English.

In their first year after graduation, international students must find a sponsor or they will be forced to leave the country or apply to another American college. Du decided to attend the University because he struggled to find a job in Houston, one of the strongest job markets for petroleum engineers.

Having a Ph.D. will make him a better candidate for sponsorship, he said.

Du said having experience in the American workforce will be helpful when he returns to China.

“I do want to go back to my country, but first I do want to work here for a few years to get some experience,” he said. “The oil industry, the vastest technology is here. It’s called fracking.

It’s the most modern thing I know, and only a few countries have this technology, and the rest of the world is still way behind.”

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There are 68 bills in the House Education Committee and 26 in the Senate Education Committee, but not all bills affecting higher education concern money.

State Sen. J.P. Morrell, DNew Orleans, a strong advocate for changing campus culture regarding sexual assault, authored SB 255. The legislation would make law some portions of what the Board of Regents recently approved regarding campus sexual assault prevention and awareness, including campus climate surveys.

Under the law, titled the Campus Accountability and Safety Act, the Board of Regents would submit a survey and its results to the

FOOTY, from page 1 from regions in Australia play “AFL Live.”

After moving to Baton Rouge about a year ago, Diaz got involved with a local semi-pro team, the Baton Rouge Tigers Australian Rules Football Club. Today, he serves as the organization’s vice president.

Once they realized what a useful recruiting tool the University could be, Diaz and Baton Rouge Tigers President Joshua Cartmill, who is also an associate clinic specialist at the LSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital, began working to establish a University team.

While Diaz is currently leading the effort to manage and organize the University team, Cartmill serves as the faculty adviser.

Diaz said recruiting is simple. He wants players who have a positive attitude and willingness to learn.

He said he finds soccer,

legislature and publish it online.

Compliance will be tied to Title IX funding.

Other bills have the potential to affect Louisiana far into the future.

HB 73, authored by State Rep. Barbara Nortom, DShreveport, would expand the state’s definition of “domestic abuse” and “dating violence,” allowing people to seek protection on broader counts.

Several bills in the House Natural Resources and Environment Committee take a harder stance on littering. HB 33 would double littering fines while HB 190 removes certain exceptions to the current law.

Bills in that committee could also help the “Sportsman’s Paradise” rid itself of a feral hog problem. HB 51 establishes a bounty on feral hogs, while HB 288 prohibits their release and importation and restricts the transportation of the animals. football and baseball players transition to the sport well, but there is no specific athletic ability necessary to join. By the end of the semester, Diaz said he hopes to have roughly 15 to 20 committed members.

The University team practices on Sundays and Thursdays on the Parade Ground with equipment and instructional support provided by the Baton Rouge Tigers.

Diaz said if students are willing to give the sport a try, they will find it’s both fun and a great workout. So far there are five members who attend practices regularly, along with a few additional players who have begun to show up to practices and express an interest in joining.

“I find that the sport really speaks to people,” Diaz said.

“It’s hard to find somebody who doesn’t like it once they’ve actually tried it. For me, if we can continue to have people come out and try it ... I think that the sport itself will keep people around.”

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2015 LEGISLATIVE WATCH

Monday, April 13, 2015

Upcoming Bills

House Bill 60

House Bill 148

Rep. Thomas Carmody, R-Shreveport

Rep. Austin Badon Jr., D-New Orleans

What: Abolishes Board of Regents and higher education management boards to be replaced with the Louisiana Postsecondary Education Board of Trustees.

What: Increase cigarette taxes from $0.36 per

Senate Bill 155

Senate Bill 255

What: Allow higher education management boards to set tuition prices without two-thirds approval from the legislature.

What: Make law some portions of what the

pack to $1.41 per pack, with 70 percent of its funds going to the Louisiana Board of Regents and state higher education.

Sen. Jack Donahue, R-Mandeville

Sen. J.P. Morrell, D-New Orleans

Board of Regents recently approved regarding campus sexual assault prevention and awareness, including campus climate survey.

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Members of the Australian Rules Football team, led by Adam Diaz and Josh Cartmill, attend practice on the Parade Ground.

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Monday, April 13, 2015 BASEBALL

LSU strikes early to clinch series

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BY DAVID GRAY dgray@lsureveille.com The LSU baseball team finally broke through against Auburn.

After being held to less than four runs and eight hits in consecutive games, No. 3 LSU jumped all over Auburn in a series deciding rubber match, stomping the visitors 6-2 Sunday afternoon at Alex Box Stadium.

LSU (31-6, 10-5 Southeastern Conference) didn’t have more than seven hits in either of the first two games of the series but tallied seven through four innings Sunday.

The six runs the team scored were two more than the previous two games combined.

LSU scored runs in the game’s first three innings after doing so in just three of the previous 17. LSU’s bounce-back game on offense helped it win a series that never saw freshman pitcher Alex Lange, who missed his start this weekend with tightness in his arm.

“If you would’ve told me before the weekend began that we would’ve won a series and Alex Lange wouldn’t have thrown one pitch for us, I probably wouldn’t have been that upset about it,” said LSU coach Paul Mainieri.

LSU senior outfielder Chris Sciambra and junior outfielder Mark Laird each collected a pair of hits against Auburn (21-15, 5-10 SEC), which dropped its fourth SEC series of the season, and four LSU batters drove in a run.

The visitors, however, couldn’t get much going offensively. LSU’s pitching staff held Auburn to three hits through the first five innings and didn’t allow a run until the sixth.

LSU senior pitcher Zac Person (2-0, 3.60 ERA) picked up the win in a career-long outing, while Auburn senior Rocky McCord (2-3, 4.34 ERA) earned the loss after giving up six runs in two innings of work.

Person, normally a reliever, pitched a career-best three innings and held Auburn scoreless on one hit. He retired the first four batters he faced and nine of 12 overall. Person also fanned two batters, the second of which left an Auburn runner on base in the third. “[Pitching coach Alan] Dunn told me, ‘Your job is to get three outs before a run scores, and if we send you back out there, get three outs before a run scores,’” Person said. “He told me to do that as many times as we give you

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The LSU men’s and women’s tennis teams have competed at W.T. ‘Dub’ Robinson Stadium for 39 years. The teams will play in newly built indoor and outdoor facilities next season.

Waving Goodbye Tennis teams play final match at W.T. ‘Dub’ Robinson Stadium

BY JAMES BEWERS jbewers@lsureveille.com What’s the best way to bid farewell to a home of almost four decades? In Louisiana, celebrating with 500 pounds of crawfish seems appropriate.

Treating fans to free food and drinks has become commonplace for the No. 24 LSU men’s tennis team, and that was no different during its final home match at W.T. “Dub” Robinson Stadium against No. 7 Texas A&M on April 9.

After 39 years of competing at the Dub, LSU will move to its new indoor and outdoor facility next season.

The Dub has been home to a loyal, boisterous and family-oriented fanbase. Young children are scattered throughout the crowd, squeaking encouragement for players such as “Simo,” LSU’s Chris Simpson – the only player who celebrated his Senior Day on Thursday.

“Tennis is a big community here,” said senior manager Seth Guilbeau. “A lot of people don’t realize how big it is in Baton Rouge. We do our best to get the community involved because we want them to feel like they’re a part of this. That’s the biggest thing. That’s what keeps drawing people back.”

While not as large in number, fans at the Dub contributed as much to the 13-2 at home success of LSU through their participation as those in Tiger Stadium do in football season. Guilbeau said the crowd provides a special magic as the matches play out in the afternoon.

As former Tiger All-American Neal Skupski can attest, it’s part of what makes

college tennis a different world than a professional circuit, where noise is kept to a minimum.

“Some of the tournaments that I go to around the world, there’s hardly anyone there,” Skupski said. “You can’t be loud like [at the Dub]. You can’t be shouting throughout the points.”

While the spiciness of the crawfish may not have offset the Tigers’ sour 4-0 loss to the Aggies, members of the program spoke of only fond memories about the Dub on its final day.

For Simpson – the 2013 Louisiana Player of the Year – and Guilbeau, the best memory was a match in Simpson’s sophomore season that mirrors his career at LSU. In the only singles match remaining in a 3-3 tie against No. 6 Tennessee, Simpson faced seemingly insurmountable odds, having already lost the first set and trailing, 5-2, in the second set to No. 3 Mikelis Libietis. But as LSU coach Jeff Brown has said, Simpson turns up his energy level when his team needs it most.

Simpson, who went on to reach the NCAA Tournament in singles that season, won the next five games to secure the second set and clinched the overall match in the third set for a 3-6, 7-5, 7-5 singles win.

“Against a guy who was top-three in the country,” Guilbeau said. “It doesn’t get any sweeter than that.”

Fans at the Dub are behind Brown and assistant coach Danny Bryan’s warm feelings. They welcome people from all walks of life to join a community that Brown has spent 18 years building.

“It’s not such a formal environment,” said Jason Savage, who volunteers his

see DUB, page 11

For many college-aged people, goals are short-sighted.

As a student, you worry about avoiding your ex in the Quad, how you’re going to pass your next test or where you’re going out for drinks tonight.

Not many of us consider being a part of history or doing something few have ever done before, except maybe getting on Pluckers’ Wall of Flame.

But while many of us were partying during Spring Break, 21-year-old Jordan Spieth accomplished something bigger.

Heading into the Masters, Spieth was a favorite in the golf world. He finished first or second in each of his last three tournaments and in the Top 10 in seven of his last nine. He was as hot as a golfer could possibly be, and yet his name was still left out of the national mainstream sports picture.

The spotlight shined most brightly around the newly reformed, last great superstar in golf — Tiger Woods. Despite not playing a competitive round in the last two months, Woods dominated the headlines because of his past success.

Golf is only fascinating when players shoot record-low numbers. Casual fans don’t want to see somebody win a tournament at even par or 1-under.

They want somebody to chase records and do something that makes the game look easy, and nobody in recent years could do it like Woods.

This weekend, it was Spieth who posted gaudy numbers day after day.

On Thursday, he was chasing the unattainable 62 in a major tournament but fell two strokes short of setting the new record with a 64. After Friday’s 66, Spieth grabbed the record for the Masters’ lowest two-day total. His third-round 70 wasn’t as remarkable as the first two days, but it still left the Dallas native only two strokes behind Woods’ record for the lowest four-day score at the Masters.

Spieth tied that record on his way to securing his first green jacket and the tournament’s first wire-to-wire

see RECORD, page 11

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Teams place first, second at Jim Click Shootout Women’s relay team runs fastest time in NCAA

BY JACOB HAMILTON jhamilton@lsureveille.com The LSU men’s and women’s track and field teams placed second and first, respectively, at the Jim Click Shootout on Saturday at Roy P. Drachman Stadium in Tucson, Arizona.

The women’s team finished at the top of the standings after recording 169 team points to outlast the University of Southern California in second place with 144 points and third-placed Arizona with 89 points.

“With it being our spring break week back home, we were able to spend much of our week here in Arizona preparing for this competition,” said LSU track and field coach Dennis Shaver in a news release. “With what we saw today, you have to say that our athletes approached it with the right mindset to improve as a team and take another step forward this season.”

The Lady Tigers strung together impressive performances in the sprints Saturday, and the 4x100-meter relay team ran the fastest time in the NCAA this season. The team — comprising sophomore sprinters Rushell Harvey and Jada Martin along with freshman sprinters Mikiah Brisco and Aleia Hobbs — took the tape with a winning time of 43.23 seconds, more than a halfsecond faster than second-placed USC’s 43.79, setting a new Drachman Stadium record.

Martin also ran in the 200-meter dash, during which she set a lifetime-best time of 23.00 seconds to claim the event title and catapult herself to No. 5 on the NCAA top performances list.

Sophomore distance runner Morgan Schuetz claimed the final running event title for the women as she finished in first place in the 800-meter dash with a new outdoor-best time of 2:06.86.

The Lady Tigers also submitted two event-winning bids in the throws, with senior thrower Tori Bliss’ school record-breaking performance in the shot put. Fresh off a silvermedal finish at the NCAA Indoor

Junior sprinter Cyril Grayson runs the men’s 400-meter dash April 4 during the 2015 LSU Invitational Battle on the Bayou at the Bernie Moore Track Stadium.

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Championships, Bliss broke the LSU outdoor record in the shot put with a season-opening throw of 57 feet, 5.5 inches.

LSU had a strong presence on the javelin leaderboard. Junior thrower Mayme Cook claimed the event title, while senior thrower Annie Simoneaux, junior thrower Doren Welch and sophomore thrower Alli Brasuell finished second through fourth, respectively.

The men’s team finished just 21 points behind first-place Illinois, which tallied 181 points.

The Tigers’ 160 points was good enough for second place, and Arizona finished in third place with 93 points.

Senior sprinter Aaron Ernest led the Tigers in their runner-up performance, winning the event title in the 200-meter dash. Ernest emerged with the seventh-fastest time in the nation after clocking in at 20.56 seconds.

Ernest returned to the track, anchoring the 4x100-meter relay team to a first-place finish. The team of senior hurdler Joshua Thompson, senior sprinter Vernon Norwood, sophomore sprinter Tremayne Acy and Ernest turned in a Drachman Stadiumrecord time as Ernest crossed the line at 38.95.

Thompson also raced in a second event, finishing in third place in the 110-meter hurdles, while sophomore hurdler Jordan Moore claimed first place with a time of 14.04.

Senior thrower Rodney Brown, senior pole vaulter Andreas Duplantis and sophomore jumper Jonathan Pitt also claimed event titles for the Tigers.

In all, the Tigers and Lady Tigers combined to break one school record, set 18 personal bests and posted 10 clips ranking among the NCAA’s top 10.

“I’m proud of the professionalism they showed coming here to compete at a very high level,” Shaver said.

The Tigers and Lady Tigers will compete on their home track this weekend for the LSU Alumni Gold meet, starting at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Bernie Moore Track Stadium.

You can reach Jacob Hamilton on Twitter @jhamilton_TDR.

Monday, April 13, 2015

SOFTBALL

Top-ranked Tigers take series at Tennessee Kloss leads offense with three home runs

BY MORGAN PREWITT mprewitt@lsureveille.com The No. 1 LSU softball team rolled into a top-12 showdown with No. 11 Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee, with one goal in mind: to get back on track.

After dropping their first midweek game of the season, 9-4, against Mississippi State on Wednesday night, the Tigers (38-5, 11-4 Southeastern Conference) ran away with Game 1 and Game 2 to clinch the program’s first series victory at Sherri Parker Lee Stadium.

In the first two games, the Tigers’ power hitters shined, tallying five homers.

“They did a good job of staying to the plan,” said LSU coach Beth Torina.

But the Lady Volunteers (3011, 8-7 SEC) did not go away quietly in Game 3, bouncing back with a 8-5 victory Sunday afternoon to avoid Tennessee’s first sweep at home this season.

Although the Tigers dominated the first two games, the Lady Vols and the Tigers battled back and forth before Tennessee took command with a three-run home run by sophomore catcher Annie Aldrete in the third game.

LSU struck first in the top of the second inning when junior catcher Kellsi Kloss blasted a solo homer to center field, her eighth of the season.

Tennessee answered in the bottom of the frame by scoring two runs to take the lead. The Tigers rebounded with a tworun inning of their own at the top of the third.

After sophomore right fielder Bailey Landry reached on a fielder’s choice and junior shortstop Bianka Bell singled, sophomore third baseman Sahvanna Jaquish drove in Landry from second with a single through the right side.

In the next at-bat, Kloss drove in another run with her seventh double of the season.

The hit would have added another, but Tennessee’s Aldrete tagged Jaquish out at the plate on the play.

The Lady Vols’ lineup caught fire against LSU’s pitching rotation, and the Tigers’ lineup went flat after the bottom of the third.

Although she entered the game leading LSU in ERA, sophomore pitcher Baylee Corbello (9-1) allowed four earned runs in her two and one-third innings of work and picked up her first loss of the season.

After Corbello gave up her first walk and a single in the third, Aldrete sparked the Lady Vols with a three-run shot over the left field wall. With the homer, Tennessee regained the lead and never looked back.

Despite making the change to freshman pitcher Carley Hoover (11-2) after Aldrete’s homer, LSU couldn’t shut down

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Junior catcher Kellsi Kloss (77) celebrates after a home run March 21 during the Tigers’ 10-2 victory against Oklahoma in Tiger Park.

“I don’t think we had a very the Lady Vols’ lineup.

In the fourth, Tennessee’s good game today, but it’s diffijunior left fielder Lexi Over- cult to keep an offense like that down for three street hit her fourth homer of ‘I don’t think we had a very games,” Torina the season. The good game today, but it’s said.

Although the Lady Vols added difficult to keep an offense lineup has detwo more runs pended on Bell on RBI singles to like that down for three games.’ and Jaquish for extend their lead long balls this to 8-3.

BETH TORINA, season, Kloss The Tigers LSU softball coach emerged as ancut Tennessee’s other power lead with a sacrifice fly in the sixth, but they threat, hitting three homers couldn’t complete the comeback and four RBIs in the series. “[Kloss] did a great job of after Kloss’ second home run of the game in the seventh. De- looking for her pitch and really spite the rotation’s struggles in making things happen,” Torina Game 3, the Tigers shut down said. the Lady Vols in the first two games, tallying 18 strikeouts You can reach Morgan Prewitt on Twitter @kmprewitt_TDR. and only four walks.

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Students should be more actively involved in politics SMASH THE HATE JAMES RICHARDS Columnist I squealed with joy last Tuesday when Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., announced his candidacy for president. I immediately ran to my closet shrines to the libertarian gods and paid my respects for offering up such a wonderful candidate for the White House.

Such a racially-conscious, reform-minded candidate deserves some serious support from college students. He’s already been maligned by poor coverage from snarky news outlets such as Vox and Slate, prompting passiveaggressive comments from my various social media accounts.

I immediately thought of ways I could support his candidacy. If my vote alone couldn’t do much, then I needed to rally my peers to the cause. He’ll need all the help he can get in this state after the fiasco at the 2012 Republican state convention.

For those not acquainted with GOP drama, that was the year when leadership strong-armed Ron Paul, favoring delegates out of their spots to the national

convention to nominate a presidential candidate. It left a lot of libertarians in Louisiana disillusioned with the Republican Party.

Of course, Rand Paul isn’t the only Republican in need of support. Ted Cruz announced three weeks ago and probably isn’t polling well with college students, much like the lack of success he’ll have with the rest of the nation.

Marco Rubio’s announcement is inevitable, and the U.S. congressman is going to be headto-head with none other than the third-most popular of the Bush political clan: former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

Even Democratic shoo-in Hillary Clinton kicked her campaign into gear and announced her presidential bid yesterday, despite having no serious competition on the horizon. Her announced opponents are a conspiracy theorist, the former Savannah State University football coach and joke candidate Vermin Supreme, who takes pictures with a rubber boot on his head and wants to give every citizen a free pony.

Despite the plethora of people looking to seduce the nation, college students probably won’t bother turning out to vote, let alone supporting candidates in other ways.

Hillary Clinton

College students are stereotypically the laziest when it comes to politics, and it’s getting worse. As much as millennials like to sign online petitions about issues and share videos and articles about the latest political screw-ups, they don’t do much substantive political action.

According to a U.S. Census Bureau report on young adult voting in presidential elections, less than half of eligible 18- to 29-yearolds voted in 2012. The number of 18 to 44-year-old voters dropped more than 3.5 million from 2008 to 2012.

College students as a slice of the population are a bit better, voting at rates two times higher than other young adults. In an attempt to ease some of the structural barriers that plague student voting, Student Government passed a resolution to push for allowing Tiger Cards as valid IDs, but there’s no formal legal protections for students trying to vote.

So what’s a politically disaffected Tiger to do? Even if you do vote, you’re part of the smallest age bloc in the nation, so it’s unlikely politicians will pander to your interests.

By the time somebody actually gets in office, they’ll have forgotten all the promises they made in their stump speech.

Believes climate change is most urgent global and national issue, supports using Clean Air Act to curb carbon emissions

Ted Cruz

Very skeptical of climate science, doesn’t support policy action to slow down climate change

Rand Paul

Acknowledges climate change exists, doesn’t support policy limits on carbon emissions

Marco Rubio

Doesn’t think humans caused drastic climate change, supported policy action to handle effects of climate change

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Chandler Rome Erin Hebert Rebecca Docter Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez Quint Forgey SidneyRose Reynen

Editor in Chief Co-Managing Editor Co-Managing Editor News Editor Deputy News Editor Opinion Editor

Looks to close corporate and inheritance tax loopholes and cut tax rates for middle class

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

You can reach him on Twitter @JayEllRichy.

Backed Obama airstrikes against the Islamic State, thinks supporting Syrian rebels would’ve stopped its rise

Wants to make supporting the Islamic State an effective renunciation of American citizenship

Advocates abolishing the IRS and establishing a flat tax

Plan claims to propose the largest tax cut in history, with across the board cuts

Tax plan leaves top tax rate at 35 percent and gives extra tax credits for children

The answer is to get more involved with other people in politics. Studies show that even cursory discussions of politics with others make you more knowledgeable and motivated than those who rely on news media. Maybe you can even convince them to vote for the candidate you support next time around.

Heck, if you’re fanatically supportive, you can donate some of your free time to helping out a candidate’s local campaign. There’s no better way to get some of the most well-connected and influential people in the country to like you and what you stand for than by working for them for free.

It’s really easy to get involved, too. On the Rand Paul 2016 site, for example, you can get all kinds of info about joining the blogger network, supporting him on social media, calling people or even bugging your neighbors about him.

What I’m trying to say is, get off your lazy butt and do something to change the world. You’ll thank me later.

Wants congressional approval before war, including against the Islamic State, supported scaling back military efforts in past

Supports actively fighting the Islamic State to curb Iranian power in the region

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Monday, April 13, 2015 LETTER TO THE EDITOR

A call to action for Louisiana students Today the Louisiana Legislature convenes for the 2015 Regular Session. This is an especially critical time for LSU and higher education in Louisiana. By now, I’m sure you’ve heard the narrative that has been repeated since late last year: our public higher education institutions are in peril and are facing as much as an 82 percent cut overall in state funding.

That’s an astounding $608 million in cuts, which would have a devastating impact on Louisiana’s public colleges and universities. Tuitions and fee hikes are inevitable, faculty and staff members would be laid off, LSU would lose invaluable research funding, and–perhaps most distressing–the state would have minimal investment in its flagship university.

It is not only imperative that we–as students–participate in this legislative session. It is absolutely critical.

Quite literally, we are the most impacted stakeholders in this debate. We are the ones bearing the increased tuition and fees. We are the ones who will lose respected academic programs, classes and professors. We are the ones who will face increasingly dismal economic prospects as our state continues to dismantle Louisiana’s institutions of higher learning.

It will take a united coalition of Louisiana students to overcome this threat to our colleges and universities. I urge all Louisiana students– Tigers, Ragin’ Cajuns, Jaguars, Warhawks, Demons, Bulldogs, whatever college or university you may belong to—to play an active and insistent role this legislative session. Call your legislators. Email them. Request one-on-one meetings. Visit the Capitol. Attend education and budget committee meetings. As LSU President F. King Alexander put it, “Be annoying.”

Bradley Guin, State Capitol Adviser LSU Student Government

Quote of the Day

‘It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.’

Henry Ford founder of Ford Motor Company July 30, 1863 — April 7, 1947

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Despite flaws, Nicholas Sparks movies offer unique perspectives SMALL THINGS CONSIDERED ALEX MENDOZA Columnist With the release of “The Longest Ride,” Nicholas Sparks season is upon us.

Yes, Nicholas Sparks season — when couples flock to theaters and boyfriends hope the sight of Channing Gosling-Efron’s washboard abs will set them up for more than just a goodbye kiss.

It’s the time of year when Snapchat stories fill up with “ironic” pictures of ticket stubs that belie the fact you secretly enjoyed the film. We all know you did. You’re not fooling anyone.

In the interest of full disclosure, you should know I have not seen “The Longest Ride.” But I’ve seen enough Nicholas Sparks movies — I was a teenage boyfriend and have a Snapchat — that I can guess the general direction in which this film is going.

An impossibly attractive, relatively well-off to stinking rich, white, heterosexual, vaguely

Southern couple fall in love. They have an earth-shattering first kiss which may or may not lead to tepid sex, probably after getting soaked by rain.

Next, a tragedy of epic proportions drives the couple apart.

Maybe the lead actress’s father hates our protagonist because he’s whiter and more charming than dad will ever be. Maybe there’s some hilarious misunderstanding that could easily be solved with a quick conversation if you would just — oh, you’re just going to run away hysterically. That works, too.

But as we all know, love eventually overcomes the odds. Our couple ends up reunited, whiter and more attractive than ever, and the audience’s hearts grow three sizes. And by the audience’s hearts, I mean Nicholas Sparks’s wallet.

By now, and at the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man who hates love, it’s probably obvious that I’m not what you would call a fan of Sparks’ movies.

My problems with Nicholas Sparks movies are nothing new.

There’s a comical lack of diversity in his films. They tend to portray stories in which

the lead characters face easily solvable, shallow problems — a case of mistaken identity or an easily-gotten-over death.

Most of the films portray the lead male as a brooding, muscular caricature of masculinity, while the female lead is an ethereal, waif-like being who threatens to evaporate entirely at the slightest hint of conflict.

They portray exclusively heterosexual, same-race relationships between impossibly attractive people for whom money is rarely an issue. I think Liam Hemsworth being too rich was actually a point of contention in “The Last Song.”

And there is something decidedly unromantic about the obvious monetization of love by an 11-film series based on one author’s books.

But here’s the thing — excluding that last point, I could easily have been pointing out the flaws in Christopher Nolan’s “Batman” trilogy.

Despite these flaws in the movie industry as a whole, it seems that a disproportionate amount of scorn is heaped upon Nicholas Sparks films and teen romance in general.

One explanation is that, as a society, we find it easier to make fun of something we see as meant for teenage girls.

Let’s face it: pointing out the flaws in a Nicholas Sparks movie is like shooting fish in a barrel.

But so is finding problems in action films — superhero films in particular. Yet, rarely do you read the same kinds of hostile, borderline contemptuous reviews that you find aimed at teen romances. I certainly haven’t written any.

But there is another explanation, one that you may be unprepared to hear. Sparks and his movies are so widely scorned, so universally reviled, that they offer us an untainted lens through which to view every other movie ever made.

The Sparks universe, to many viewers, represents a cinematic world untainted by nostalgia, devoid of any of the emotional tricks used by marketers to, say, convince full-grown men and women to buy tickets to a movie about talking martial arts turtles. Perhaps this is why it is so much easier to point out flaws in “The Lucky One” than in “Spider-Man.”

It is therefore possible to use the accusations leveled at teen romances to construct honest, unbiased critiques of movies we love.

It may not be until you laugh out loud in a crowded theater at the lack of diversity in “Dear John” that you begin to notice the same problem in films that you love — I know it opened my eyes. The same could be said for the heteronormativity and rigid gender roles that pervade Nicholas Sparks films.

I’m no scrooge: I prefer to cast Sparks and his movies in this more forgiving light. Though almost assuredly unintentionally, he’s given me a truly unbiased way to examine my own prejudices and point out the imperfections in movies that I love.

A younger me would find this unthinkable, treasonous even.

But for offering me that opportunity — as well as many dates and Snapchat stories — I have to thank Nicholas Sparks.

Alex Mendoza is a 22-year-old political science and international studies senior from Baton Rouge.

You can reach him on Twitter @alexmendoza_TDR.

Students need to know more about personal finances are you

financially literate?

Test your financial knowledge with this quick quiz, created by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Investor Education Foundation.

1.

Suppose you have $100 in a savings account earning 2 percent interest a year. After five years, how much would you have?

A. More than $102 B. Exactly $102 C. Less than $102

3.

If interest rates rise, what will typically happen to bond prices? Rise, fall, stay the same, or is there no relationship?

A. Rise B. Fall C. Stay the same D. No relation

5.

Buying a single company’s stock usually provides a safer return than a stock mutual fund.

A. True B. False

2.

Imagine that the interest rate on your savings account is 1 percent a year and inflation is 2 percent a year. After one year, would the money in the account buy more than it does today, exactly the same or less than today?

A. More B. Same C. Less

4.

A 15-year mortgage typically requires higher monthly payments than a 30-year mortgage, but the total interest over the life of the loan will be less.

A. True B. False

Answers: 1. A 2. C 3. B

4. A 5. B

JAY TALKING

JAY CRANFORD Columnist In 2012, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Investor Education Foundation performed a nationwide study on financial competency in the U.S., expanding on a previous 2009 study.

As part of the study, FINRA developed the five-question quiz to the left of this column. Take the quiz now, then continue reading to find out how well you did compared to the rest of the country and to find out the explanation for the correct answers.

If you answered all five questions correctly, then congratulations! You’re a part of the 14 percent of Americans who are money management pros.

But don’t worry if your score wasn’t perfect. The national average is 2.88 correct answers, and in Louisiana, it’s only 2.67.

This simple quiz tests several areas and concepts of personal money management, but most Americans won’t pass the quiz.

Question one tests your knowledge of compounding interest.

After year one, your savings account will have a balance of $102 because you earned $2 interest.

Compounding interest means you will now earn interest on the $102 in your savings account, and during year two, you will earn $2.04.

If you continue this for all five years, your balance will be $110.41.

Question two continues with the concept of interest, throwing

in inflation — the rate by which prices for goods and services increase. You can also think of it as the value of the dollar decreasing. We call this your purchasing power.

In the question, inflation is greater than the interest you’re earning by one percent. Inflation has outpaced interest, so your purchasing power has gone down.

Let’s visualize this in a scenario where your savings account has $100 in year one.

With one percent interest, you’ll have a balance of $101 in year two. But two percent inflation means your $101 has the buying power of $98.98 in terms of year one’s dollar amount.

Question three sees if you understand the basics of how bonds are priced.

Bonds are agreements where you loan money to either the government or a corporation and are generally very safe investments.

Interest is the amount of money you will be paid when you purchase a bond. When interest rates go up, you’re being paid more to buy a bond.

This makes older bonds worth less because their interest rates are lower, so you get paid less.

Bond price and interest rates always have an inverse relationship.

Question four tests you on mortgages. The two most common mortgages are 15-year and 30-year loans. In mortgages, most of the money you pay goes toward interest on your loan rather than the price of your house.

In a mortgage of $150,000 and six percent interest, a 30-year mortgage monthly payment costs

less. However, over the life of the mortgage, the 30-year loan will cost around $100,000 more than a 15-year mortgage.

The final question tests your knowledge of investing in stocks.

Mutual funds are managed investment funds that operate by the theory, the more money available to invest, the more opportunity there is to make money. If you buy shares of a mutual fund, you’re buying a share of a large investment fund.

In a mutual fund, you’ll be buying shares of multiple stocks and diversifying your investments.

Diversification means you are invested in different areas of the economy. This is favorable because if one section of the economy goes down your losses are offset by other sections that are not declining.

If you buy just a single stock, all of your eggs are in one basket. If the stock goes down, all of your investments lose money.

This makes buying mutual funds a safer option.

Now you’re able to ace this quiz and show everyone you know more about finances than 86 percent of the population.

If you missed any questions on the quiz, I encourage you to read up on the areas you got incorrect.

These questions were designed to test you in areas of personal finance that are relevant in everyday life, so you won’t be wasting your time.

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

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winner since 1976.

If the record-low numbers weren’t enough, Spieth also overcame some old demons on his road to this year’s Masters title.

Only a year ago, he held a share of the 54-hole lead with Bubba Watson and lost a two-stroke lead during the final round.

Spieth stood a short distance away as Watson finished off the tournament a year ago.

To stand on the same course one year later and perform the way Spieth did this week is nothing short of incredible.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS How many of us can even stand to look at our teacher Jordan Spieth celebrates after a birdie after failing a test? on the 15th hole during the fourth At the same age, Spieth round of the Masters golf tournament stared his 7,435 yard monster April 12 in Augusta, Ga. square in the face for hours at a time until he achieved the to add Spieth’s name alongside unthinkable, becoming the Woods, Phil Mickelson and youngest Masters champion Rory McIlroy as the biggest since Woods names in golf. won the tournaTo do what ment in 1997 at he has done 21 years old.

It’s time for the casual the past two It would fan to add Spieth’s name years at such a almost be too alongside [Tiger] Woods, Phil young age and cliché to call Mickelson and Rory McIlroy on such a difthis tournaficult course ment a passing as the biggest names in golf. makes him of the torch, but more than it was exactly deserving of that. such an elite Woods isn’t going to domi- recognition. nate the PGA Tour like he used to.

Brian Pellerin is a 21-yearHe’s just not at that point in old mass communication his career anymore. junior from Kenner, LouisiBut Spieth can. ana. You can reach him on It’s time for the casual fan Twitter @Pellerin_TDR.

time to promote the men’s team. “I’ve seen the coaches and the players talk to strangers for hours about the game of tennis. That’s the kind of thing you want to be a part of.

I know the crowd appreciates that, too. Who wouldn’t support something that’s so personal?

“It’s not football, where it’s 100,000 people. It’s maybe 500, maybe 300, but it’s personal.”

Along with passionate fans, the Dub once offered its own external intimidation factor, as LSU women’s tennis coach Julia Sell, who played collegiately at Florida, remembered with a laugh.

“What I remember is when the softball team’s [original Tiger Park was located nearby],” Sell said. “I remember the foul balls would come on the court.

I remember being scared my entire time. But I remember how amazing all the fans were and how into they were.”

While the Tigers haven’t had to worry about projectiles from the softball field since 2008, a ceiling, or indoor facility, is exactly what both tennis programs needed.

LSU’s new tennis facility, which broke ground on Gourrier Avenue in May 2014, will allow the Tigers and Lady Tigers to keep their regular routines without being sidetracked with cancellations or postponements due to inclement weather.

With both programs still having much to play for this

ting streak to 20 games with an RBI single, and McCord gave up another run on a wild pitch to make it 5-0.

A fielding error by Deese allowed another runner to score and pitted Auburn in a 6-0 hole it never climbed out of.

“We tried to get out in front early, and we did that,” Laird said.

“We had some runners in scoring position that we didn’t drive in … but our bullpen pitched great.”

BASEBALL, from page 5 the ball.

LSU sophomore right-hander Parker Bugg relieved Person to start the fourth and gave up one run in a season-long four innings.

Freshman pitcher Jesse Stallings replaced Bugg to begin the eighth and allowed three hits and a run before retiring the side in the ninth to wrap up the series win for LSU. While Mainieri’s pitchers took care of business on the mound, his batters started the game with a bang.

LSU tallied three hits in the first inning — half of what it had in a full nine against ace Keegan Thompson the day before.

Sciambra and Laird both delivered doubles, and Laird’s drove in the game’s first run. Junior first baseman Chris Chinea then picked up his 29th RBI of the season on a groundout to short that put LSU ahead, 2-0, after one.

Auburn had a chance to even the game in the second. After Person hit a batter with one away, sophomore third baseman Kyler Deese singled to centerfield to move a runner to scoring position. But Person got consecutive batters to fly out to Laird in right field to end the threat.

LSU put the game of out of reach in the third. McCord gave up a single, walked a batter and hit another to load the bases before the inning’s first out.

LSU senior catcher Kade Scivicque then extended his hit-

You can reach David Gray on Twitter @dgray_TDR.

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PHOTOS BY JAVIER FERNÁNDEZ / The Daily Reveille

The LSU tennis teams played their final matches at W.T. ‘Dub’ Robinson Stadium the week of April 5. season, they’ll keep the memories of matches at comfy confines of the Dub with them and embrace the future.

“We’ve had a good run

with this place,” Brown said.

“We’re going to go forward in our Taj Mahal.”

You can reach James on Twitter @JamesBewers_TDR.

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