The Daily Reveille - September 9, 2013

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FOOTBALL: Mettenberger’s newfound mobility poses a fresh threat, p. 5

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OH DAMN, ODELL

Beckham’s performance puts him in special company

Megabus launches BR routes today Alexis Rebennack

Tommy Romanach

Staff Writer

Sports Contributor

After his performance Saturday night, LSU junior receiver Odell Beckham Jr. put his name on the list of the famed and exclusive club already occupied by Tiger greats Kevin Faulk, Tyrann Mathieu, Josh Reed and Patrick Peterson.

It’s been more than a decade since fans saw the type of performance Beckham had in LSU’s 56-17 victory against UAB, as he amassed 331 all-purpose yards through receptions, rushes, returns and even a missed field goal. No LSU player has gained more all-purpose yards since Reed netted 338 yards against Alabama in his Biletnikoff Awardwinning 2001 season.

“Honestly, I don’t know what to say, but it was in God’s plans for me tonight,” Beckham said. “I prayed before the game for a big game and it finally came through.”

The game could not have gone better for Beckham, who owned the night until LSU coach Les Miles took him out in the third quarter.

Beckham collected a career-high four touchdowns — three of which

TRANSPORTATION

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LSU junior wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. runs a missed field goal for a touchdown Saturday during LSU’s 56-17 victory against UAB.

were receiving touchdowns, making him the first LSU receiver to catch three since Terrence Toliver in the 2011 Cotton Bowl.

The most discussed score, however, came through special teams as Beckham caught a missed UAB

field goal in the back of LSU’s end zone and ran it back 100 yards for the final touchdown of the night.

“When I went to the right and saw the whole team go right, I made a cutback left … and there was just

a huge wall of everybody blocking,” Beckham said. “[The blockers] led the way all the way to the end zone.”

Miles said the team had BECKHAM, see page 15

At a time when filling up the tank breaks the bank, Baton Rouge is receiving a bonus.

Megabus, the popular city-tocity express bus company, begins its daily service to and from Baton Rouge today. The bus travels round trip to New Orleans and Houston from the Capital City.

Fares for Megabus travel start as low as $1 every day and increase as traveling dates draw nearer.

For customers coming from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, the cheapest fare and earliest departure is 12:15 a.m., followed by 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. The earliest bus from Baton Rouge to New Orleans departs at 4 a.m., then at 12:45 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. The prices vary daily.

While some commuters believe Megabus will do a lot for the commuter struggle, others disagree.

“The roundtrip between New Orleans and Baton Rouge would cost MEGABUS, see page 11

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UNION

Larry King interviews former governor on campus Edwards gives rare joke-filled interview Elizabeth Thomas Contributing Writer

In a once-in-a-lifetime event, Larry King interviewed former Gov. Edwin Edwards and author Leo Honeycutt about Edwards’ legal troubles, his marriage to a woman 50 years his junior and the artificial insemination process Edwards went through to have his most recent child.

King, a two-time Peabody

award winner known mainly for his years on television and radio, sat down in the Union Theater with Edwards and Honeycutt on Sunday afternoon for an hour-long interview.

“I am glad to be at LSU,” King said.

The interview was full of jokes and laughter from the audience as King asked Edwards questions about his personal and political life that has led him to be one of the most well-known Louisiana political figures.

“I am not using this forum to convince anyone that I am innocent or not guilty, but I will point

some observations,” Edwards said when asked if he believed that he was railroaded during his trial.

Edwards was convicted in 2001 of extortion and money laundering and finished serving his eight years in two federal prisons in 2011.

“It’s history. This will never happen again,” Honeycutt, who wrote Edwards’ biography, said.

Edwards went on to explain the situation relating to his 2001 conviction. He discussed his previously friendly relationship with former San Francisco 49ers owner Edward LARRY KING, see page 11

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Larry King (left) interviews former Gov. Edwin Edwards (center) and Leo Honeycutt (right) on Sunday in the LSU Union Theater.

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INTERNATIONAL 100,000 attend Syria peace vigil and protest military action VATICAN CITY (AP) — Tens of thousands of people filled St. Peter’s Square for a four-hour Syria peace vigil late Saturday, answering Pope Francis’ call for a grassroots cry for peace that was echoed by Christians and non-Christians alike in Syria and in vigils around the worwld.

The Vatican estimated about 100,000 took part in the Rome event, making it one of the largest rallies in the West against proposed U.S.-led military action against the Syrian regime following the Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack near Damascus.

Royal mix-up: U.K. police order former prince to identify himself LONDON (AP) — Two days after an intruder was discovered prowling around Buckingham Palace, police confronted Prince Andrew, the second son of Queen Elizabeth II, in the royal residence’s garden and demanded he identify himself.

London’s Metropolitan Police said in an email Sunday that they had apologized to Andrew, also known as the Duke of York, and the royal responded with humor.

“I am grateful for their apology and look forward to a safe walk in the garden in the future,” he said.

Nation & World

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A man wearing a Syrian flag prays during a 4-hour-long vigil for peace, attended by Pope Francis, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Saturday.

Tokyo wins bid to host 2020 Summer Olympics in less risky pick BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The International Olympic Committee went for a familiar, trusted host, selecting Tokyo for the 2020 Games and signaling that playing it safe was preferable to more risky picks like Sochi and Rio. With Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reassuring IOC members on the Fukushima nuclear crisis, Tokyo defeated Istanbul 60-36 Saturday in the final round of secret voting. Madrid was eliminated earlier after an initial tie with Istanbul.

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NATIONAL

STATE/LOCAL

Report: Port Authority pays to use World Trade Center naming rights

New flood control approach in metro New Orleans could manage floods

WOODLAND PARK, N.J. (AP) — The public agency that owned the World Trade Center sold its naming rights to a nonprofit in 1986 for $10 and now has to pay to use the name.

The Record newspaper of New Jersey reported Sunday that the Port Authority pays $10,000 a year to use the words “World Trade Center,” including on merchandise it plans to sell in the new World Trade Center it’s constructing.

Those sales could bring $23 million to $28 million annually.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A 25acre site unused since Hurricane Katrina is among seven in Orleans, Jefferson and St. Bernard parishes chosen as laboratories for an ambitious $6.2 billion proposal to keep water inside levees instead of pumping it out.

Supporters say the Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan could slow the sinking of dry land and manage floods.

The Times-Picayune reports that the sites would be demonstration projects and help illustrate different approaches to water management.

The proposal was unveiled Friday at the Port of New Orleans.

Man tries to enter U.S. via truck’s commercial red chile shipment COLUMBUS, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say an immigrant suspected of entering the country illegally attempted to make his journey in an unusual but hot place — a shipment of red chile.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at a New Mexico border checkpoint said the man was discovered Thursday face down among a commercial load of the spicy stuff.

Columbus Port Director Robert Reza says a bottle of tequila was next to the “highly intoxicated” 35-year-old.

Museum plans to fund permanent exhibit on Sulphur’s history SULPHUR (AP) — The Brimstone Museum is more than halfway to its goal of securing funding for a permanent exhibit on Sulphur’s history.

Thom Trahan, Brimstone executive director, told The American Press that about $120,000 of the estimated $212,000 needed to complete the project has been secured.

The estimated cost includes development, construction and production costs.

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A teddy bear lies at the base of a marker for the 17th Street Canal Floodwall in New Orleans on Aug. 27, 2012.

Miss. man knows the best way to bring a gator hunter to tears: propose CANTON, Miss. (AP) — Jimmy Greer of Madison proposed to Elizabeth Ratcliffe of Canton during preparations for her family’s annual alligator hunt. Titan, their dog, helped. Around Titan’s neck was a sign reading, “Will You Marry My Daddy?”

“I started crying. I was shocked,” Ratcliffe told The Clarion-Ledger.

She said the two had been discussing marriage, but she thought he might propose on the opening weekend of archery season.

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Alumnae perform to raise money for opera program Zach Carline Contributing Writer

Daniela Mack and Lisette Oropesa, professional opera singers and University alumnae, performed at the Crowne Plaza hotel Sunday as part of gala concert banquet to raise money for the University’s opera program.

University students and community members gathered to dine, listen to the two performers and participate in a silent auction.

Chair of voice and opera in the School of Music Robert Grayson said the gala could raise $30,000 to $40,000, funds which will support young singers participating in the opera program.

The money raised will translate into graduate assistantships for the program, with five new already

created this year. Grayson said these assistantships allow the program to continuously produce successful professionals, having sent a singer to the New York Metropolitan Opera every decade since the ‘30s.

Mack and Oropesa were chosen because they stand among the top graduates from the opera program and are young and relatable to the current students, he said.

Oropresa said she met with some of the current vocal performance students on Thursday and shared some of her experiences with them to help them prepare for life in the professional field.

The ladies performed two acts, and chose pieces they felt would be recognizable to people who may not be familiar with opera, they said.

The two agreed spreading the

beauty of opera was something they felt passionately about. They said they hope to get youth more involved in music education.

“We’re trying to unveil the mystery a little bit and realize opera singers aren’t all big, old people with horns,” Oropesa said.

Masters student in vocal performance Rebecca Kremer said events like the gala help students understand what awaits in the professional world and supports the program financially.

“I’m really grateful,” she said.“I wouldn’t have been able to come her if it weren’t for the scholarship money that I got.”

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LSU alumnae Lisette Oropesa (left) and Daniela Mack (right) belt out their repertoire Sunday at a gala concert banquet held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.

administration

AgCenter’s, College of Agriculture’s missions united

Richardson named VP for agriculture Olivia McClure Contributing Writer

The Board of Supervisors approved the administrative consolidation of the LSU AgCenter and the College of Agriculture Friday, uniting the AgCenter’s research and extension missions with the College of Agriculture’s teaching mission.

The consolidation created a new vice president for agriculture position filled by William “Bill” Richardson, chancellor of the AgCenter since 1997. He will also serve as dean of the College of Agriculture beginning Oct. 8 when the current dean, Kenneth Koonce, retires.

Richardson said consolidation is a positive step because the AgCenter internally reorganized to unite research and extension in the spring. The separate vice chancellor positions, whose occupants directed either research or extension, were eliminated, transferring those duties to Richardson.

Having everything under one person and not dividing the AgCenter’s programs along research and extension lines has been one of the best things the AgCenter has done because it “has people thinking as one now, not two,” Richardson said.

The AgCenter was created as a separate campus to house research and the cooperative extension service in 1972, divorcing those two missions from the College of Agriculture’s teaching program and creating joint appointments between the two campuses for faculty. Putting the AgCenter and College of Agriculture back under the same administrative umbrella will promote efficiency and eliminate duplication of services and paperwork, Richardson said.

While the AgCenter will retain its budget autonomy from the University, the consolidated

administration will now have a single agriculture budget to invest in teaching, research and extension, Richardson said. Previously, each mission had a separate budget, which sometimes caused skirmishes that Richardson had to referee as chancellor, he said.

Consolidation means the AgCenter will now have to consider how teaching fits into its broader mission.

“That was never a discussion at this table before,” Richardson said.

“Occasionally, it would come up — well, that may impact their teaching program — but that was the dean’s problem, not ours.”

The AgCenter currently has four program leaders in charge of family and consumer science, plants, animals and 4-H who consider their areas in terms of both research and extension, he said. With consolidation, teaching will be added into the mix.

“Now we’ve got a situation where we’re going to have all the

missions of the land grant system sitting at the same table,” Richardson said.

Ken McMillin, meat science professor and chair of the AgCenter Faculty Council, said faculty members are generally excited about the consolidation because they have been hindered by bureaucratic division in the past. Having a common goal for agriculture at the University will make it easier for faculty to serve their clientele, which includes the University, Louisiana and the international scientific community, he said.

Extension agents, research station directors and other AgCenter employees located outside of Baton Rouge will feel less distant, McMillin said, integrating them, and their expertise, further into the University’s agriculture efforts.

Richardson said the College of Agriculture has teaching needs that can be met by people with research and extension appointments. Consolidation may allow well-qualified

AgCenter employees to join the graduate faculty, which was previously impossible because of Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) accreditation, he said.

Richardson, who was associate dean of the College of Agriculture from 1986 to 1992 and dean from 1992 to 1997, said he is looking forward to interacting with students again. He also said the AgCenter will become valuable to the University’s recruiting efforts, especially among

Bill Richardson was named vice president of agriculture on Friday. He will also take charge of the College of Agriculture as dean.

Contact Olivia McClure at omcclure@lsureveille.com

SEPTEMBER

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Youth 360 - Gus Young Park

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Essential Life Skills for Children Renaissance Baton Rouge Hotel Sarah McCoy's Oopsie Daisies The Spotted Cat Music Club

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Chicken and Waffles - The Maison

6:00 PM

College of Engineering Networking Reception Lod Cook Alumni Center Dominick Grillo - The Spotted Cat Music Club

7:00 PM

Sunflower City - The Maison

9:00 PM

DJ QT's Music Video Overload - George's Place Andrew's Extravaganza - George's Place

9:30 PM

The New Orleans Super Jam - The Maison

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minorities, because extension agents work with 4-H students throughout the state, 43 percent of whom are African-American.

McMillin said the AgCenter’s statewide presence would help improve geographic diversity as well because the University does most recruiting in a seven to eight parish area.

Glen David Andrews - D.B.A. Kristina Morales - The Spotted Cat Music Club

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BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

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LSU faculty, staff salary increases approved Friday Yarborough and Duplessis sworn in Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez Staff Writer

After four years of salary freezes, LSU System unclassified employees and faculty members will finally see their salaries increase following the LSU Board of Supervisors approval of the 2013-14 operating budget.

Also, during the meeting, Chairman Robert “Bobby” Yarborough and Chairman-Elect Ann Duplessis were sworn in for the upcoming year, and the administrative positions of the LSU AgCenter and College of Agriculture were consolidated.

On July 26, LSU President F. King Alexander announced the first system-wide pay raises after a four-year salary freeze. The operating budget passed at Friday’s meeting, making salary increases for unclassified employees and faculty official.

Deans will receive 4 percent of employees’ base salaries to distribute the increase based on cumulative merit, according to Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Stuart Bell.

The University will follow civil service guidelines for classified employees, and they will receive their raises Oct. 1.

Additionally, the salaries of employees earning more than $125,000 were approved separately in the meeting.

ANGELA MAJOR / The Daily Reveille

[Left] Chairman Robert Yarborough was sworn in at a Board of Supervisors meeting Friday in the LSU Systems Building. [Right] LSU President F. King Alexander attends a Board of Supervisors meeting Friday in the LSU Systems Building.

Bell said employees will be notified of how much they will receive as early as next week, but implementation dates will start later.

Raises for nine-month employees will begin Sept. 12. Twelvemonth employee raises will start Aug. 7.

Since the raises were scheduled to start before the operating budget was approved, faculty will receive payment retroactively once the pay raises are implemented.

Robert Kuhn, vice provost and associate vice chancellor for budget and planning and interim CFO, said coming up with the $8.3 million for the raises was a great priority for the administration. He said

funds for the raises were “cobbled together” from various sources including refinanced bonds, position vacancies and increased enrollment.

At the meeting, the Board found that about 69 percent of the operating budget is spent on personnel services, and 48 percent of this money will go to salaries.

Board members were also presented with the unrestricted expenditures of the budget and found that the greatest amount – 30 percent – is spent on instruction.

The Board also saw a change in leadership after Hank Danos’ 21-month term concluded and Yarborough was sworn in as chairman.

Yarborough previously

served as chairman-elect and is the CEO and co-owner of Manda Fine Meats. He will serve as member at large until June 1, 2014.

At the meeting, Yarborough expressed his optimism for the upcoming year.

Last May, The Daily Reveille reported a loss of 330 faculty members from the AgCenter since 2008 that led to Chancellor William “Bill” Richardson’s plans to eliminate administrative positions.

On Friday, the Board approved the administrative consolidation of the LSU AgCenter and College of Agriculture. The consolidation will allow them to merge their educational and outreach efforts.

Board member Ronald Anderson said this merger will have a tremendous, long-term impact on the University. Anderson said he visited with farmers and others in the agricultural field in the state to discuss the idea and only received positive feedback.

Alexander also stressed the importance of this merger for the economy of the state.

“We will be able to reach more families, help more people and do more for the citizens of Louisiana,” Alexander said.

Contact Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez at fsuarez@lsureveille.com

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Sports

Monday, September 9, 2013

In His Pocket Mettenberger nabs touchdown record, shows off mobility

Chris Abshire Senior Reporter

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LSU senior quarterback Zach Mettenberger (8) scrambles in the open field Saturday during the

As recently as 10 days ago, “elusive” was a term only applicable to LSU quarterback Zach Mettenberger’s ongoing legacy at LSU. Whether it was his much-hyped “Mett-siah” status, a brilliant 2012 Alabama game or a maddening finish to the season after a strong November push, Mettenberger’s been tough to pin down for critics and fans alike.

Defensive rushers are having trouble pinning down a more nimble Mettenberger who has been seen in his first two games of the season extending plays and airing it out — on Saturday to the tune of 282 yards and a school-record five touchdowns against UAB. The Blazers couldn’t sack him and TCU only got to him on two corner blitzes.

The lanky Mettenberger has even shrugged off his reputation as an immobile figure by earning a first down with his legs in each of the first

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Mett’s success transcends numbers THE SMARTEST MORAN James Moran Sports Columnist

two games.

“A lot of times last year we got sacks that weren’t any fault of the offensive line; it was my fault,” Mettenberger said. “That’s something [offensive coordinator] coach [Cam] Cameron and I have been working on since he first got the job — setting a good end point in the pocket and being able to feel pressure. So far, so good.”

No one is suggesting the senior is the next Michael Vick. But with Cameron’s increasing insistence on a vertical passing game, Mettenberger’s newfound ability to subtly evade the pass rush has already helped LSU pile up nine completions of 20 yards or more.

Few on LSU’s roster know more about eluding defenders than Odell Beckham Jr., who caught three of Mettenberger’s touchdown tosses and already has three kick returns of 50 yards or more this season. Even the speedy junior wideout has noticed his quarterback’s new moves.

Tiger fans finally got to see the Zach Mettenberger they dreamed about since the massive-armed quarterback first committed to transfer from Blinn College three years ago.

Mettenberger arrived in Baton Rouge with the promise of providing a passing attack LSU lacked with Jordan Jefferson and Jarrett Lee under center. We saw flashes of his potential during his first season as a starter, but accuracy issues kept Mettenberger from consistently playing well.

Potential materialized into brilliance Saturday. Mettenberger threw a school-record five touchdowns while only playing two-anda-half quarters in the Tigers’ 56-17 bludgeoning of UAB. He accomplished what no LSU quarterback ever had. JaMarcus Russell, Matt Flynn, Rohan Davey and even Hall-of-Famer Y.A. Tittle never threw five touchdowns in one game, and Mettenberger needed just 19 attempts to do it.

I was thoroughly impressed with what I saw last night, but not because Mettenberger put up record-setting statistics while shredding a putrid Blazer pass defense.

METTENBERGER, see page 9

NUMBERS, see page 9

SOCCER

LSU knocks off No. 13 USC Marcus Rodrigue Sports Contributor

Sophomore midfielder Heather Magee taking a punch to the back of the head might have been the best thing to happen to the LSU soccer team this weekend.

The sucker punch resulted in a red card and ejection for USC senior midfielder Jordan Marada in the 28th minute, giving the Tigers a one-player advantage for the final 62 minutes of their 1-0 victory against No. 13 USC at the Minnesota Gold Classic in Minneapolis, Minn.

“It really helped us when it came to ball movement and being able to keep possession on their end,” said LSU coach Brian Lee. “They’re a very good team,

so having an extra man was very helpful.”

The win ended a two-game losing streak and came two days after LSU (3-2-1) lost a 2-1 match against Minnesota.

“It was a difficult loss on Friday night, and for us to respond like this is a really good way to get us going for the rest of our games,” said senior goalkeeper Megan Kinneman. “If we can carry this game through the rest of the season and build off of it, we’ll do very well.”

LSU cashed in on the advantage in the 65th minute when Kinneman scored on a penalty kick awarded to the Tigers after senior defender Addie Eggleston was taken down in the box.

“We were playing behind them, and Addie was overlapping

on the right wing,” Lee said. “It was a 50-50 ball with the goalkeeper, and the keeper came out feet first into Addie, so it was a pretty easy penalty call. And then Megan stepped up and smacked it in.”

Though Kinneman plays goalkeeper for LSU, she is also the team’s regular penalty kicker.

Lee said she has the composure and temperament to be effective in that position.

“I knew that was definitely an opportunity for us, and I needed to put it in for the team,” Kinneman said. “The goalkeeper was jumping around a lot, but I still had to put it in.”

Lee expressed his pleasure with his team’s level of SOCCER, see page 9

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LSU senior midfielder Alex Ramsey tries to steal the ball from TCU midfielder Madeline Hamm on Aug. 30 during the Tigers’ victory against TCU at the LSU Soccer Stadium.

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NFL

Monday, September 9, 2013

Defense, Brees propel Saints to 23-17 victory The Associated Press Sean Payton’s return to the sideline is one game old and already the Saints are celebrating a dramatic victory over a presumed title contender.

They’re alone in first place, too.

Drew Brees passed for 357 yards and two scores, Roman Harper intercepted Matt Ryan’s tipped fourth-down pass in the end zone, and New Orleans held on for a 23-17 victory over the Falcons on Sunday.

“I was hoping our defense would pull one out, and man, did they ever,” Brees said.

Last season, while suspended in connection with the NFL’s bounty probe, Payton watched helplessly from afar as the Saints fielded one of the worst defenses ever, yielding a single-season record 7,042 yards.

One of his first moves upon reinstatement was to hire Rob Ryan as defensive coordinator.

Payton put the new product on the field right away, electing to kick off when the Saints won the coin toss.

“Sean sent the defense out first, which you would never have seen in the past,” Harper said. “So just a whole different feel and the things that we’re trying to accomplish, this is just one step in the right direction.”

Brees’ first touchdown went to Marques Colston, who made a diving, 25-yard snag for his 533rd catch, setting a franchise record.

“That’s just vintage Marques Colston,” Brees said. “I have so much trust and confidence in him.

He knows the ball’s coming to him and he’s going to make that play.”

Brees also hit tight end Jimmy Graham for a 7-yard score in the third quarter to give the Saints the lead for good.

“It was just important to get the first win,” Payton said. “You try to compartmentalize each week, each game, and we played a good team. ... We fought hard, especially late.”

New Orleans’ day got even better when Tampa Bay and Carolina lost, leaving the Saints atop the NFC South.

Atlanta’s Ryan passed for 304 yards and touchdown passes to Tony Gonzalez and Julio Jones. In the final three minutes, Ryan quickly drove Atlanta to the Saints’ 3-yard line before the New Orleans’ defense stiffened.

“When we play the Saints, it’s usually hard-fought, and it turned out that way again,” Atlanta coach Mike Smith said. “We have to protect the quarterback a lot better.”

Steven Jackson rushed 11 times for 77 yards in his Atlanta debut, including a 50-yard run.

New Orleans’ defense gave up two 50-yard plays, the other on Harry Douglas’ reception, but also produced pressure regularly.

Ryan was sacked three times —

by Junior Galette, Akiem Hicks and Parys Haralson — and threw balls away several times, including on an early third down that forced Atlanta to settle for a field goal.

The group also produced a momentum-changing turnover when Malcolm Jenkins stripped Jones and Harper recovered, setting up Colston’s TD, which tied the game at 10 in the second quarter.

Colston finished with five catches for 68 yards. Darren Sproles caught six passes for 88 yards.

Douglas caught four passes for 93 yards, including a 20-yarder to the New Orleans 7-yard line on Atlanta’s final drive. But that turned out to be Ryan’s last significant completion on a drive which started with connections of 17, 16, 7 and 13 yards.

On third-and-goal, Ramon Humber broke up a pass for Jackson at the goal line.

“I dropped the ball,” Jackson said. “It wasn’t the easiest catch, but I’m not a person to make excuses.”

Then rookie safety Kenny Vaccaro tipped Ryan’s fourth down pass for Gonzalez in the end zone and Harper dived to catch it before teammates piled on him while the Superdome crowd erupted.

“The ball was up in the air and I liked my chances, but we were just a fingertip away,” Gonzalez said. “So for that, give them credit.”

Smith said the drive was wellexecuted “until we got inside the 10yard line. ... The final play is going to be analyzed 5,000 times in the next three days.”

Before kickoff, Payton helped former special teams standout Steve Gleason, who has Lou Gehrig’s disease, initiate the Superdome crowd’s traditional pregame “Who dat!” chant.

Fans stood and cheered passionately as Payton held up Gleason’s arm with his left hand and held up

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Atlanta Falcons’ quarterback Matt Ryan (2) is sacked by New Orleans Saints’ defensive tackle Akiem Hicks, left, on Sunday.

his own right arm, then lowered both to initiate the chant by fans eagerly awaiting a matchup between the past two teams to win NFC South.

It didn’t translate to a good start for the home club, though.

The Falcons struck for the first big play on Douglas’ 50-yard catch and run to the New Orleans’ 10, setting up Ryan’s 7-yard TD pass to Gonzalez.

Atlanta later stuffed running back Mark Ingram on fourth-andshort near midfield, and quickly drove for a short field goal and a 10-0 lead. Garret Hartley’s 48-yard field goal in the second quarter made it 10-3.

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New Orleans Saints’ strong safety Kenny Vaccaro (32) breaks up a pass intended for Atlanta Falcons’ tight end Tony Gonzalez (88) in New Orleans on Sunday.

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GOLF

Wrestling back in rightful place Two Tiger golfers place in top 5 CHROME IS BURNING

CHANDLER ROME Sports Editor

As I stumbled out of bed Sunday morning, fumbled around for my phone and tried to recuperate from the first game day of the season, one tweet on my timeline made the weekend worthwhile.

“WRESTLING IS IN !!!!,” USAWrestling tweeted from its account.

There will be Olympic wrestling in 2020.

It was validation. Not that I needed it, but after the Olympics’ oldest sport was callously axed last February, I felt like the five years I had spent on the mat were for naught.

First, there were some hurdles to clear. The sport that was a part of the original Olympiad in 708 B.C. was pitted against the discontinued sports of baseball/softball and Olympic hopeful squash for inclusion.

And, as it should, wrestling dominated with 49 of the 95 votes from the International Olympic Committee delegates.

But it should never have come to this.

Fed up with the so-called antiquated style and “dull matches” permeating the arenas, the IOC crushed the dreams of thousands who tirelessly toil over takedowns and reversals, taking away the 2016 competition and their chance to take their place in history.

I’ve written about my displeasure before, so I won’t go into

another diatribe with the specifics.

But an Olympic gold medal is the pinnacle for any wrestler.

It’s what the up-and-coming Midwest middle schoolers strive for and what the college wrestlers who’ve hit a wall use as motivation to power through a practice where it seems everything goes wrong. Gold medals have molded men into folk heroes, women into national icons and given faces to an otherwise under-the-radar sport.

So, according to the IOC, because the sport didn’t have the folding chairs, performance enhancing drugs and nicknames that surround the WWE or TNA, it wasn’t worthy to showcase on a national stage.

No, the truth is, the wrestlers lucky enough to qualify for the Olympics aren’t about to take any chances on the mat. They’ve honed and refined skills for endless hours to get to the top of their sport — a sport so tactical and requiring so much finesse that a single step or finger out of place could result in disaster.

With this in mind, I have to forgive the man who isn’t willing to try the big throw just to woo the crowd.

Or the woman who is wrestling in the Olympic quarterfinals who won’t try the flashy pinning combination she learned a few weeks ago.

Don’t get me wrong, the adjustments the international wrestling’s governing body made were needed.

Going from three, two-minute periods to two, three-minute periods was brilliant. Now, wrestlers have more time to develop moves and notice tendencies in their opponents, making counter attacks more prudent and matches more tactical.

Also, the shift takes the decision out of referees’ and judges’ hands, giving wrestlers the chance to dictate their pace and create opportunities, something FILA president Nenad Lalovic said was “impossible in two minutes.”

The beauty of these changes lies in the fact that the integrity of the sport isn’t tarnished. Moves will be the same, pageantry will continue and the best wrestlers in the world will still showcase to the world their years of dedication.

Changes were needed, but this wasn’t the way to get them. Threatening to discontinue such a revered sport in the world’s premier sporting event was downright wrong. Sure it was a wake-up call, but other means could have been employed.

Either way, there are winners and losers here. The losers are the wrestling purists who have to wait seven years to see their sport back in the limelight. Or the older, fringe athletes who were holding out hope for one last shot at glory in Rio de Janeiro.

But, as a whole, the often overlooked but always vocal group of athletes that call themselves wrestlers can rejoice. The ultimate prize is again ahead of them and nothing should stop the pursuit of it. Training should get tougher and desires should be unmatched, for your voices have been heard.

Loud and clear.

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

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Hot-handed junior Stewart Jolly and senior Smylie Kaufman led the LSU men’s golf team to a thirdplace finish with an even par 864 at the 25th-annual Carpet Capital Collegiate Classic over the weekend.

Kaufman went on a tear in the third round of the tournament on Sunday. He rocketed up the leaderboard from his starting position of 23rd overall to his fifth-place finish after shooting a 5-under-par to end his weekend at The Farm Golf Club in Rocky Face, Ga. Jolly stayed in contention all weekend, cracking the top 10 in the opening round Friday by shooting even par. He pushed into the thirdplace spot Saturday with a 4-underpar second round and concluded his tournament with a 1-under-par to secure a third place finish.

Senior Andrew Presley, junior Curtis Thompson and freshman Zach Wright rounded out the five-man team that helped LSU start the season with a top-three finish.

Thompson tied for 23rd place with a 3-over-par, Presley ended tied for 37th at 7-over-par and Wright concluded at 10-over-par, tying for 48th place.

The Tigers started the tournament strong Friday, finishing tied

for sixth. Along with Jolly and Kaufman’s hot starts, Thompson tied for 33rd place at 3-over-par, Presley added a 4-over-par to tie for 43rd place and Wright wrapped up the Tigers’ scoring with a 5-overpar to tie for 49th place on Friday afternoon.

Jolly and the Tigers heated up on Saturday moving into fifth place and in good contention for their final round on Sunday. Thompson improved his performance with an even-par 72 to move into a tie for 23rd place with Kaufman who shot 1-over-par on Saturday.

Presley tallied on a 2-over to tie for 44th place and the freshman Wright shot 7-over-par to finish the day in the 70 spot.

Along with the hot clubs of Kaufman and Jolly, the other three Tigers took a step forward on Sunday to finish the championship in third place.

Wright ended strong with a 1-under-par to leap 22 spots on the board. Thompson followed up with another even-par and Presley jumped up seven spots on the leaderboard after a 1-over-par.

The Tigers will head to Iowa next weekend to compete in the Golfweek Conference Challenge.

Contact Nic Cotten at ncotten@lsureveille.com

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VOLLEYBALL

LSU sweeps Rice Invitational Tigers lose only one set at tournament Dimitri Skoumpourdis Sports Contributor

The LSU volleyball team (6-0) continued its pursuit of a program-best start in Houston this past weekend as it swept Arkansas-Little Rock, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Rice at the Rice Invitational.

The Lady Tigers got a chance to display all of their strengths throughout the three matches as they marched toward breaking the current program record start of 13-0 set by the 2010 team.

Junior setter Malorie Pardo guided the team’s season-best hitting percentage of .385 against Arkansas-Little Rock, which allowed

sophomore Cati Leak (13 kills), freshman Briana Holman (10) and junior Madi Mahaffey (10) to accumulate double-digit kills in the match.

“I thought Malorie did an unbelievable job and found the right swing for the right person,” said coach Fran Flory in a news release. “At the same time, you have to credit our first-contact ball control.”

The 3-0 sweep against Arkansas-Little Rock (25-18, 2512, 25-23) marked LSU’s first win outside of the friendly confines of the PMAC. The Lady Tigers recorded their second consecutive sweep (25-16, 25-22, 25-20) of the weekend against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on the back of a defensive performance that was just as strong as the offensive outburst in the first match.

LSU collected 13 blocks and held the Islanders to a meager .086 hitting percentage. Sophomore Haley Smith made her first start at libero and recorded 16 digs and two assists.

“I was extremely proud of our blocking effort especially early in the match to set the tone,” Flory said. “Our front row changed the complexion of the match.”

The team saved its most balanced game for its closest matchup against Rice in a four-set victory (26-28, 25-15, 25-19, 31-29) to close out the tournament.

Holman and sophomore Katie Lindelow led the team with their first career double-doubles.

Holman turned in 10 of the team’s 19 blocks as well as 15 kills while Lindelow registered 11 digs to go along with 10 kills, which were vital in leading the Tigers back from an unsuccessful first set.

“Katie decided that she was going to be an offensive factor for us late in the fourth set,” Flory said. “We knew it was going to take her some time for her to find an offensive rhythm, but we’re glad she found it tonight.”

Both Lindelow and Holman took home All-Tournament Team honors.

LSU continues its road trip next weekend in Miami, where it will face off against the Hurricanes in hopes of building on its first undefeated start since the 2010 season.

Contact Dimitri Skoumpourdis at dskoumpourdis@lsureveille.com

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LSU sophomore middle blocker Khourtni Fears (1) warms up Aug. 31 before the Tigers’ 3-1 victory against UC Davis in the PMAC.

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AP and Coaches Polls AP Rank/Team/Record

Coaches Rank/Team/Record

1. Alabama

1-0

1. Alabama

1-0

2. Oregon

2-0

2. Oregon

2-0

3. Clemson

2-0

3. Ohio State

2-0

4. Ohio State

2-0

4. Stanford

1-0

5. Stanford

1-0

5. Clemson

2-0

6. Texas A&M

2-0

6. Texas A&M

2-0

7. Louisville

2-0

7. Louisville

2-0

8. LSU

2-0

8. LSU

2-0

9. Georgia

1-1

9. Florida State

1-0

10. Florida State 1-0

10. Georgia

1-1

11. Michigan

11. Oklahoma St. 2-0

2-0

12. Oklahoma St. 2-0

12. Michigan

2-0

13. S. Carolina

1-1

13. Oklahoma

2-0

14. Oklahoma

2-0

14. S. Carolina

1-1

15. Miami (Fla.) 2-0

15. Nebraska

2-0

16. UCLA

16. Northwestern 2-0

1-0

17. Northwestern 2-0

17. UCLA

1-0

18. Florida

1-1

18. Wisconsin

2-0

19. Washington 1-0

19. Miami (FL)

2-0

20. Wisconsin

20. Florida

1-1

21. Notre Dame 1-1

21. Notre Dame

1-1

22. Baylor

2-0

22. Baylor

2-0

23. Nebraska

2-0

23. Washington

1-0

24. TCU

1-1

24. TCU

1-1

25. Ole Miss

2-0

25. Ole Miss

2-0

2-0

Monday, September 9, 2013 thought the LSU record was “seven or something crazy like that.”

“Rohan [Davey] was here to“It’s crazy. I never expected Zach to be scrambling around like day, and I know he had some big that, but he’s moving around and games and so did JaMarcus, Matt looking to make plays that he might Flynn, Bert Jones, even coach have taken sacks on last year,” [Steve] Ensminger,” Mettenberger Beckham said. “It allows you to be said in a deadpanned voice. “I’ll be giving coach Ensminger a lot of more patient in your route.”

It’s all been part of an un- hell this week. It’s definitely somedeniable change in Mettenberg- thing special. Go me, I guess.”

His sarcastic self-cheerer ’s pocket presence, with fewer leading aside, throws coming off his back foot while ‘I think Odell stole the M e t t e n b e r g e r remained adarecording the highshow, the spotlight mant that nothing est completion in his game has percentage of his Saturday.’ changed, deflectcareer with a 16ing credit to his for-19 effort.

Zach Mettenberger offensive line and “If you watch LSU senior quarterback recieving corps.

Zach throw a foot“I don’t know ball, he’s throwing a football with so much confi- what exactly you guys are seeing, dence,” said LSU coach Les Miles. but it’s just everyone maturing “He knows where it’s supposed to in good ways. I feel the same as go. I would have to say there are ever,” Mettenberger said, before two throws he’d like to have back. mixing more sarcasm with more ... Other than that, he took the ball modesty. “I think Odell stole the where it was intended to go and show, the spotlight [Saturday]. I don’t even know why you guys are threw pretty well.”

Mettenberger ’s five touch- talking to me.”

But with Mettenberger throwdowns put him in rarified air, cementing his legacy in a small way, ing for 215 yards or more in six of no matter how his senior season his last seven games (five of them pans out. First overall NFL draft above the 250-yard mark) and pick JaMarcus Russell never even etching his place in the LSU rethrew four touchdowns in a game cord books Saturday, there’ll be no evading the spotlight this fall. at LSU, let alone a handful.

In his typical nonchalant demeanor, Mettenberger said realizaContact Chris Abshire at tions like how his name may somecabshire@lsureveille.com; day fit in the Tiger record books are “pretty cool” before admitting he Twitter: @Abshire_Chris

METTENBERGER, from page 5

The Daily Reveille NUMBERS, from page 5 I was impressed with how he did it.

Mettenberger was a much more accurate passer than I ever saw last season. Throws came out on time, and aside from a couple of underthrown deep passes, every throw was exactly where it needed to be.

Odell Beckham Jr. and Jarvis Landry have emerged as dynamic weapons on the outside and Saturday proved what can happen when Mettenberger is able to get them the ball in stride.

At Southeastern Conference Media Days in July, Landry told me the biggest improvement he’d seen in Mettenberger under offensive coordinator Cam Cameron was his anticipation. He said he thought Mettenberger was doing a much better job of throwing his receivers open than he ever did in 2012.

His analysis rang true against UAB. Mettenberger’s first two touchdown passes came on post routes to Beckham. On both plays, the ball was in Beckham’s hands for easy touchdowns the second he broke on his route. I know the coverage will be better when LSU begins SEC play, but if Mettenberger can continue to put the ball on his receivers that well, it won’t matter.

The ability to anticipate and throw receivers open is the difference between an average and a great quarterback.

We’ve always known

page 9 Mettenberger had the talent to make all the throws, and if he’s improved his anticipation, then Cameron really has helped his quarterback elevate his game to another level. If Mettenberger can continue playing at this caliber, he can lead this team to an SEC championship.

I have one reservation about Mettenberger. The only thing we’ve yet to see is how he responds to a defense that can put pressure on him in the pocket.

TCU and UAB failed to rush Mettenberger and both teams got torched through the air. However, we’ve yet to see a defense that forces him to move his feet and make throws on the run.

He struggled to throw on the run at times last season and was noticeably less accurate on the move, often overthrowing his receivers.

But if Mettenberger has improved this weakness as much as he’s improved his anticipation, he truly can join the class of elite signal callers in the SEC. He’s going to have to, because I don’t think Alabama or Florida is going to let him sit in the pocket and effortlessly pick them apart like UAB did Saturday night.

SOCCER, from page 5

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

competition against tough opponents in the nonconference schedule. Lee said the pre-Southeastern Conference slate serves as a good tool to measure the strength of his squad.

Though LSU’s offensive productivity has dropped since its 6-0 romp against Louisiana Monroe two weeks ago, Lee said he’s happy with the team’s tempo and movement.

“We’re creating loads of chances, though,” Lee said. “On another day, we might have had two or three ‘We’d like to goals, and on day, keep creating another USC might more and have had more chances two or three. against good We’d like to creatteams, but we keep ing more and feel good about more chancour attacking es against movement.’ good teams, but we feel Brian Lee good about LSU soccer coach our attacking movement.”

LSU will continue its road trip Friday when it travels to Nacogdoches, Texas, for a showdown with Stephen F. Austin.

Contact James Moran at jmoran@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @James_Moran92

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CULTURE

Gospel choir celebrates civil rights achievements Sense of community unites students William Morris Contributing Writer

When the LSU Gospel Choir began more than three decades ago, the University was a different place. On Friday night, members of the choir and the A.P. Tureaud Sr. LSU Black Alumni Chapter gathered together at the Manship Theatre in downtown Baton Rouge to celebrate and commemorate the changes that have taken place in Louisiana over the years.

Nicknamed “The Soul of Louisiana,” the choir proved worthy of the title with heartfelt performances throughout the celebration.

The night was dedicated to the memory of several important trailblazers for civil rights at the University and in the state of Louisiana. Figures like famed civil-rights lawyer A.P. Tureaud Sr., the University’s first AfricanAmerican undergraduate student A.P. Tureaud Jr. and first AfricanAmerican homecoming queen Reneé Boutte Meyer received recognition for their achievements.

Throughout the night, the choir

MEGABUS, from page 1

$54 — about $27 each way, which is completely ludicrous,” said biology instructor Adam Hrincevich, who commutes twice a week from New Orleans to Baton Rouge. “Then, you run into the issue of still having to take a taxi between the drop-off location and LSU campus, which would probably be about $8 each way. So, a roundtrip fare comes out to about $70 a day.”

Hrincevich said that the drive is his “down time,” and a chance to catch up on world news, music and look through his lecture notes when there is traffic.

The bus company offers stateof-the-art, green-certified, doubledecker buses with free Wi-Fi, restrooms and wheelchair accessibility.

The arrival and departure location is at the old State National Life Building at 224 Florida St. “The bus would be helpful for people like me, whose families live in New Orleans or have work in New Orleans during the week,” said child and family studies sophomore and New Orleans Saintsation dancer Kate-Lyne Hecker. “It sounds great for out-of-state students who don’t have cars and want to visit the city, too.”

Megabus Vice President of Marketing and Public Relations Mike Alvich said the company is excited to become a part of Baton Rouge and to help residents who are looking for ways to stretch their dollars even further because of increasing gas prices.

Contact Alexis Rebennack at arebennack@lsureveille.com

served as an integral part of the the class.” festivities.

Everrett Parker, founder of Laurence Hebert, University the choir, addressed the crowd alumnus and choir director, said Friday night and spoke about what the choir, which students can take the choir means to the University as a class in the School of Mu- and to the members who have sic, had to work hard in a short passed through it. amount of time to prepare for the “Over the course of time, I event. came to realize that the LSU Gos“I came in bepel Choir is not ing the new Gos- ‘[The choir] is not just just an organizapel Choir instrucbut a living an organization, but a tion, tor, and because organism with a it was a new year personality, heart living organism.’ and a new class, and soul, as well we put everything as emotional, soEverrett Parker together in about cial and musical LSU Gospel Choir founder two weeks,” Hesinews that set it bert said. apart and make it unique,” Parker Despite limited practice time said. and the obstacles that come with Parker even noted that there a new school year as students were many in the audience, now shuffle in and out of classes, the married and raising families of choir was able to come together their own, who had met and gotten and deliver a memorable show. to know each other in the choir.

Hebert attributes their success to Passionate performances the unique emotional connection like Friday night’s reinforce the that comes with being a part of the feeling of community within the LSU Gospel Choir. choir, Hebert said.

According to Hebert, the “We bond because we have to Gospel Choir is a class unlike any perform,” Hebert said. “We hope other. it is something that you can come “We become more of a back to years later.” community,” Hebert said. “I don’t know of any class you can take where 10 years from Contact William Morris at now you have people that come back and still want to take wmorris@lsureveille.com 1997 when he realized that there LARRY KING, from page 1 was a possibility that he would go Debartolo Jr., who claimed during to prison, he got sperm removed the trial that he paid $400,000 in and stored because he knew there exchange for Edwards’ assistance would come a time when he could no longer perform sexually. in obtaining a casino license.

Currently 86 years old, EdEdwards stated the money was given to him to assist with getting wards defended his decision to a bill passed that was necessary for have a child with Scott — who is Debartolo to gain his license. He 50 years his junior — so late in his said that Debartolo testified against life.

“Maybe it is unfair to him to him because the Louisiana governor at the time told Debartolo that, bring him into the world with no if he didn’t testify favorably to the prospect of his father seeing him governor, his license and casino graduate, but is that worse than not bringing him at all?” Edwards said. business would be in jeopardy.

Edwards also took a few shots Edwards also talked about his time spent in federal prison in at current Gov. Bobby Jindal during his inFort Worth, View the entire interview at terview with Texas, and Oakdale, La. lsureveille.com/multimedia/videos. King.

“I just The former governor said while serving as don’t understand the man,” Edchief librarian during his time in wards said. “He’s a different sort Oakdale, he helped inmates write of person.”

The interview concluded with their letters and assisted six of his fellow inmates with getting their King and Edwards telling the audience two different jokes that had GED. He told the story of marrying the audience erupting with laughhis current wife, Trina Scott, dur- ter.

An invite-only meet-and-greet ing his time in prison. He and Scott became pen pals during his time in followed the interview on the first prison after she read Honeycutt’s floor of the Union Theater.

Edwards currently spends biography on Edwards.

Edwards joked that with his his time traveling and giving wife, a long-time Republican, he speeches. He and his wife will finally found something good to star in an upcoming A&E realuse the Republicans for: sleeping ity television show called “The Governor’s Wife.” with them.

Edwards has recently become a five-time father with the birth of his new son with Scott, named Eli Wallace Edwards. King asked Edwards if donated sperm was used, Contact Elizabeth Thomas at and Edwards confirmed that, “Yes, ethomas@lsureveille.com I donated it.” Edwards said that in

photos by ANGELA MAJOR / The Daily Reveille

[Top] The LSU Gospel Choir sings Friday during rehearsal in the LSU School of Music Building. [Bottom] LSU Gospel Choir Director Laurence Hebert plays the piano.

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Monday, September 9, 2013

The billionaire who affects the products we use every day MR. FINI Joshua Hajiakbarifini Columnist As college students, we all enjoy our Netflix subscriptions, Dell computers and Apple products. So what do they all have in common?

The same activist shareholder: Carl Icahn.

Icahn is a corporate raider who goes into a company and buys up a large stake, changes the company, makes a quick profit and then leaves.

He has been doing it for decades, and tech companies are not immune.

Icahn, who was once considered the inspiration for Gordon Geck (the protagonist of Oliver Stones’ film “Wall Street”) is a legendary hedge fund manager worth around $20 billion, making him the 19th richest American and the epitome of a corporate power broker. To give you perspective, he can lose Jay Z’s net worth 35 times and still be a billionaire.

Today, he is considered a hero to shareholders because of the “Icahn lift.” Whenever Icahn has an interest in a company and he starts buying up shares, the stock price for all other shareholders increase in value, hence the lift.

He also has the ability to influence company policy. Not too long ago, Netflix tried to split the company in two and hiked up subscription fees.

Icahn jumped in and bought 10 percent of the entire company for $321 million and strong armed Netflix to change its move to split the company. Today, the company is still in one piece and Icahn’s stake is worth just north of $1.7 billion — a nice, quick $1.4 billion profit on paper.

Another major raid he made was in Dell. Over the summer, CEO Michael Dell offered his shareholders a buyout deal in order to take the company private. Dell believed the company had fallen far behind its competitors and needed to innovate with risk without the cold feet of speculative public shareholders.

Before Dell finalized the deal, Icahn bought $2 billion worth of shares of Dell and tried to block the buyout. So far he has delayed the deal to go private.

Icahn’s most recent raid is in a company most of us use on a daily basis.

In what could be considered one of the most valuable tweets in history, Icahn revealed on Twitter that not only does he have a large stake in Apple, but he believes that the company is extremely undervalued.

Since the tweet on Aug. 13, the company stock has jumped nearly 7 percent, translating to the value increasing by $30 billion.

When was the last time one of your tweets made $30 billion?

Icahn is just the latest and probably most influential shareholder to push for Apple to do what is called a buyback.

When a public company has high profits, often it offers a buyback deal for its shareholders in order to share the profits and push the price back up.

Currently, Icahn wants Apple to offer a $150 billion buyback in order to push its stock price back to its historic $700 peak in August 2012. Buybacks are common for many companies on Wall Street, but no tech company has ever leveraged itself to push the stock price up. Some worry that this deal could hurt Apple by limiting its capital for innovation.

Luckily for Apple, the company is massive and has a market value of more than $450 billion. Icahn’s stake is less than 1 percent, and he can’t use leverage against the Apple board like he could with Dell.

But Icahn’s influence on Wall Street may sway other shareholders to push for the buyback.

This buyback can potentially change not only the culture

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Carl Icahn, a billionaire investor, voices his concern about rising stocks during the World Business Forum in New York on Oct. 11, 2007.

of Apple but of Silicon Valley as a whole. Apple has been a leader in Silicon Valley for many years, and now it might lead the rest into a more Wall Streetlike model instead of what Apple has always been known for: thinking differently.

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

Contact Joshua Hajiakbarifini at jhajiakbarifini@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @JoshuaFini

Louisiana town welcome signs you’ll never see University mass communication students create “honest” mottos about their hometowns

Monroe

Baton Rouge: At least you Monroe.

Covington: Your secret’s everyone.

St. Francisville Baton Rouge Gonzales Lafayette New Iberia Erath

Covington St. Amant New Orleans

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Gonzales: Who needs heaven when you have a Cabela’s?

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St. Francisville: Where the ghosts are real and the people are fake.

skulls their

Lafayette: Culture, cooking and crossbreeding.

aren’t safe

New Iberia: Where politicians’ are thicker than accents.

Monroe: Where the fun don’t go.

St. Amant: God, guns and we wish we had football.

New Orleans: The city that never sobers.

Erath: No, it’s not misspelled.

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Quote of the Day “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your actions.”

Dalai Lama XIV July 6, 1935 — Present

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HEAD to HEAD

Is negativity necessary?

Yes, negativity can be absolutely necessary. No, we should be kind and positive to others.

THE CHARD TRUTH JUSTIN BLANCHARD Columnist As humans, we naturally strive to be happy.

Yet, when given some actual thought, being positive all the time is not happiness.

It’s called mania.

Mania is experienced by someone suffering from bipolar disorder — a condition where some can only experience one emotion at a time, such as happiness, despite all external experiences.

There is nothing worse in the entirety of the universe than an overly positive person.

People who have their heads so far up their own back end that they are close to self-asphyxiation make me want to asphyxiate myself.

The world is balanced, and it is so for a great reason. For every good, there is a bad, and for every negative, there is a positive.

I am sure you are familiar with this concept. Yin and yang.

How could we know what it is to be happy if we are never sad?

Humans have a wide range of emotions, and it’s only natural for us to feel them — when they are appropriate to the experience.

One should be happy when spotting the last double chocolate chip cookie at The 5 and sad when some punk snatches it right before you can get your hands on it.

By no means am I saying that we should constantly be negative.

Yes, sometimes we are negative when we shouldn’t be, I agree.

But rejecting negative emotions isn’t healthy. It’s called repression, and it can lead to some serious mental problems.

People may argue that negativity is inherently selfish, and in turn, negatively affects others.

This does have some truth in it. Negativity does affect others, but expecting people to always be nice to you is selfish.

We aren’t children who need people to curb their negativity just to spare our precious little feelings.

By no means should we expect people to be nice with us just because not being nice may hurt our feelings.

Your mother may have told you once, “If you don’t have something nice to say, then don’t say anything at all.”

This advice is completely ridiculous.

It is the epitome of childishness and doesn’t promote a creative environment.

If I am being rude, I hope that someone would stop me, realize the necessity of negativity and say, “Hey, you are being mean.”

A world where everyone is always positive would be miserable.

In fact, it is.

My friends were being nice when they allowed me to strip the color from my hair.

As the bleach turned my hair from

a light shade of brown to blond, my friends’ comments turned from “It isn’t that bad” to “Wow! The bleach is working really well.”

Now I walk around looking like some real life version of Johnny Bravo, resulting in my negative feelings toward not only myself for making this stupid decision, but also toward my friends as well for allowing me to do it.

Before you go and bleach your hair or allow your friend to bleach his or her hair, take this article to heart.

Essentially, we are humans and we have feelings both positive and negative.

It’s not our duty, however, to care about everyone’s feelings.

It’s our duty to make sure we express ourselves appropriately.

So save your friend from looking like a cartoon character, and be negative when necessary.

Justin Blanchard is a 19-year-old international studies sophomore from Harahan, La.

Contact Justin Blanchard at jblanchard@lsureveille.com

GATES OF REASON

MARIEL GATES Columnist We live in a world where negative energy is impossible to abolish. There will always be death, people will always have hatred and wars will always rage, whether in our homeland or oceans away.

We must learn to coexist with the bad things life throws at us. But in this coexistence, it is too frequently that I see people embracing the negative sides of things and spreading them like germs.

Since school started two weeks ago, every single conversation I’ve overheard in my classes and around campus has been negative. I stop the music on my iPod a few minutes before class starts to prepare my mind for the lecture. In those few minutes, the people I’m sitting around assault my ears by spewing negative thoughts and mean words.

When I overhear these foul conversations, I think of this quote by Shirdi Sai Baba: “Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it true, is it necessary, does it improve upon the silence?”

If I were to ask people if their conversations fit the requirements of the quote, none of them would be able to truthfully say yes.

The other day while walking through the Quad, I overheard a phone conversation that was a perfect example of this ego-obsessed existence many people have. A girl was on the phone, ranting to the person on the other end. She was telling them how one of her friends had a bad day and then proceeded to go off about how her day was way worse than her friend’s. She was being selfish and self-absorbed, unable to understand that people’s strife can’t be compared.

Everyone’s battles are unique to them.

Humans are creatures of survival. Our bodies and minds will do anything they can to fight off death. In the way society has evolved, we also feel this need to survive socially. People put down others in order to raise themselves up. Pleasure is derived from control, control means you have power and power drives the ego.

I’m asking everyone to take a moment here and think about the quote. To be kind is to be friendly, generous and considerate. To be truthful is to base what you say off of hard facts, not judgments and negative assumptions. Most importantly, when you speak, does it improve upon the silence?

Negativity will always exist, and to a certain point, it complements positivity.

Without the bad things, people would never be able to properly appreciate the good.

I can’t stop people from gossiping and unfairly passing judgment. Rather than feeling like prisoners to this energy, we should learn to flow in its wavelength without falling prey to its effects. We should acknowledge that it’s there and always work to reverse its effects on people by doing our best to be good and spread positive vibes.

I simply ask that we all reflect on our words before we let them exit our mouths.

The thoughtless words of one can have the ability to ruin the day of another. The gift of speech and the power of words are our most powerful attributes as humans. We can hold things with opposable thumbs and we can express ourselves through writing and conversation.

Why not use this amazing gift to try to change the way people think? Let’s spend some more time complimenting people even if we have nothing to gain. Let’s try to understand why people do what they do and believe what they believe before writing them off and immediately judging them.

All the energy you put out into the world shapes your life and will eventually come back to greet you. For this reason alone, why not spend your days spreading the love rather than passing on the hate?

Mariel Gates is a 19-year-old mass communication sophomore from Baton Rouge.

RYNE KINLER / The Daily Reveille

Contact Mariel Gates at mgates@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @mgatesj_TDR

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practiced a similar situation before with special teams coordinator Thomas McGaughey. He said that most players on a field goal unit are not fast and less likely to catch a skill player like Beckham.

Beckham recorded his second consecutive 100-yard receiving game, and was a large contributor to senior quarterback Zach Mettenberger’s LSU-record five passing touchdowns. Beckham remains Mettenberger’s most productive target, accounting for 254 of his 533 passing yards through the first two games.

“The guy’s a special athlete.

Third all-time in all-purpose yards is special with all the talent that’s come through here is impressive,” Mettenberger said. “I’m proud to call him

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Fellow junior receiver Jarvis Landry contributed to the offensive explosion, hauling in five receptions for 71 yards and two touchdowns.

Senior linebacker Lamin Barrow praised Landry and Beckham, saying the duo are the best route runners he’s ever seen.

This season continues to be a large improvement from Beckham’s previous seasons, as he recorded just two 100-yard games and only six total touchdowns during his freshman and sophomore seasons.

“Focus was one of the biggest things for me [in the offseason],” Beckham said. “Throughout the summer, I just focused on everything: the small details, catching, running to the end of the routes, just everything. Just try to fine-tune it,

and I still have a lot more learning and growing to do.”

When asked what the most exciting part of the night was, Beckham said getting to see younger guys on the team come in late in the game and gain some Tiger Stadium experience.

But while Beckham remains modest, some teammates have big expectations for what is to come for Beckham’s year.

“He’s a freakish athlete and you can start the Heisman campaign on him,” Barrow said. “He’s a humble guy and he’s not saying that. If he’s not saying that, then I’ll say it for him. I think he can do this week in and week out.”

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