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DOWNPOUR DOMINATION

LSU braves rain in 35-21 victory against Auburn

Mike Gegenheimer Sports Writer

It’s part of LSU football lore.

As the Tigers line up for the opening kick off against that week’s opponent, PA announcer Dan Borné’s voice erupts throughout Death Valley, declaring the chance of rain in Tiger Stadium: never.

Those words once again echoed through the stadium Saturday night as LSU opened up Southeastern Conference play against division rival Auburn, but this time they rang out amid a torrential downpour soaking all who braved the torrential elements.

Just don’t tell that to LSU coach Les Miles.

With his jacket still wet after the game, Miles denied it ever rained during the game, but did acknowledge some slight weather rolling through the area at the time.

“It would be far for me to say it ever rains on Saturday night in Tiger Stadium,” Miles said. “But it was very close to rain, if not a very stiff dew out there.”

Despite what Miles might claim after the fact, the rain did come down during the first half of Saturday night’s 35-21 victory for LSU. The field at Tiger Stadium was drenched as splashes of water shot

UNION THEATER

Univ. loses $45k on Edwards interview

Gordon Brillon Staff Writer

lining up against Auburn and the rain coming down and the ground torn up and everybody is covered in mud — that’s football to me.”

Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards may have served his prison sentence for corruption, but he isn’t done costing the state money just yet.

The University Union Theater lost more than $45,000 when it hosted a live interview between Edwards and television talk show host Larry King on Sept. 8.

Union Theater Director Michael Derr said the deficit was caused by a lower number of ticket sales than the theater board anticipated. Less than half of the 1,256 seats in the theater were filled, Derr said.

King was compensated $66,400 for his appearance, while Edwards was paid $6,000 and given 10 tickets to the show, Derr said. King’s two-night, $600 hotel stay was also paid for by the theater, bringing the theater’s total expenditure on the speakers to $73,000.

The theater sold about 440 tickets to the interview at $60 each, bringing the total ticket

RAIN, see page 15

THEATER, see page 11

CONNOR TARTER / The Daily Reveille

LSU sophomore running back Jeremy Hill (33) evades multiple defenders Saturday during LSU’s win against Auburn in Tiger Stadium.

up with each pounding step from the hulking athletes battling for conference bragging rights.

It was messy, it was wet, it was dirty and LSU junior defensive end Jordan Allen loved every second

of it.

“To me, that depicts the image of a rough SEC play game,” Allen said, his long mane of hair still wet with rainwater and sweat. “If you were to take a snapshot of us

AGCENTER

University, AgCenter dairy programs to consolidate Olivia McClure Contributing Writer

The LSU AgCenter ’s and the University’s separate dairy programs will consolidate, causing some operations at the campus dairy farm on Gourrier Avenue to downsize and move to the AgCenter’s Southeast Research Station in Franklinton, La. Phil Elzer, AgCenter associate vice chancellor and program leader for animal sciences, said

there is a need to expand dairy teaching and research, but the University’s Baton Rouge campus dairy is landlocked. Most dairy research will be transferred to the Southeast station, which will require moving the 90 milk cows currently at the campus dairy to the station this spring, he said.

The herd at Southeast, which produces the milk used in ice cream and other products at the LSU Dairy Store, will grow to

about 300 cows, Elzer predicts.

The campus dairy will maintain a small herd of cows and stay open for teaching.

Elzer said the idea behind consolidating is to have “one dairy in two locations,” whose teaching element will remain primarily at the campus dairy.

Consolidating research to Southeast will prevent splitting resources between two locations, DAIRY, see page 11

GRACE STEINHAUSER / The Daily Reveille

The LSU AgCenter’s and University’s separate dairy programs are consolidating, which reduces the number of cows and teaching opportunities at the farm on Gourrier Avenue.

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INTERNATIONAL Most remaining al-Qaida hostages rescued, Kenyan forces say NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s military said late Sunday it had rescued “most” of the remaining hostages held by al-Qaida-linked militants in an upscale Nairobi mall after launching a major operation to end a two-day standoff that had already killed 68 people.

The assault, which began shortly before sundown, came as two helicopters circled the mall, with one skimming close to the roof. A loud explosion rang out, far larger than any previous grenade blast or gunfire volley.

Egyptian draft constitution expected by early November; protests continue CAIRO (AP) — A 50-member panel tasked with amending Egypt’s Islamist-drafted constitution will complete its work by early November, a spokesman for the body said Sunday, wrapping up the first step of a military-backed road map in place since the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi.

Despite interim authorities pushing ahead with the transition, opposition to Morsi’s ouster has continued, with hundreds protesting the July 3 coup Sunday at schools and universities.

Nation & World

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Relatives help a woman Sunday at the Nairobi City Mortuary after she identified the body of a victim of the Saturday attack at a mall in Nairobi, Kenya.

Russia to send observers to Syria, begin removing chemical weapons MOSCOW (AP) — Russia is ready to send military observers to Syria to ensure security for efforts to eliminate its chemical weapons, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

But the Russian official said his country is not considering sending a full military contingent.

Under a U.S.-Russian plan, Syria is to give up its chemical weapons. Security is one of the plan’s major challenges, including how to prevent theft of the weapons.

Monday, September 23, 2013

NATIONAL

STATE/LOCAL

Fla. ‘hiccup girl’ guilty of first-degree murder, sentenced to life in prison

Hit-and-run collision with minivan brings horseback race to an end

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman famous for her uncontrollable hiccupping was found guilty of first-degree murder Friday night and will serve life in prison without parole.

In 2010, Jennifer Mee lured Shannon Griffin, a 22-year-old Wal-Mart worker, to an abandoned home under the pretense of buying marijuana. Once there, two of Mee’s friends robbed Griffin at gunpoint — but he struggled and was shot four times.

She hiccupped briefly during one day of her murder trial.

Late WWII soldier’s letter reaches daughter almost 70 years later

Pope’s blunt remarks on controversial topics pose challenge for bishops

OPELOUSAS (AP) — It was a hitand-run accident where the offending party rode away on his horse.

Opelousas police continue to investigate a Wednesday horse race through the center of this town of 16,000, reports The Daily World. It ended with one rider racing through a stop sign and colliding with a minivan on a busy street.

Witnesses say two young men were racing when one hit the minivan. The van’s driver wasn’t hurt.

“They passed right in front of our school,” said Julius Alsandor, assistant principal at South Street Elementary School. “They were flying just like if they were racing at Evangeline Downs.”

NEW YORK (AP) — Pope Francis’ call to focus less on divisive issues poses a challenge for U.S. bishops.

Roman Catholic leaders in America have adopted a more aggressive style of defending the faith in recent years. They said they had to because society was moving so far from traditional beliefs on marriage and other issues.

But on Thursday, Francis said the church was putting too much emphasis on abortion, gay marriage and contraception. The pope said it’s driving people away.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Investigations into New Orleans gangs have brought another indictment, this one against a dozen alleged members of an 8th Ward gang called Ride or Die. The indictment accuses 12 of conspiring to distribute cocaine, heroin and marijuana. Three are also charged with murder.

It’s among a number of groups targeted by the Multi-Agency Gang Unit led by New Orleans police.

RENO, Nev. (AP) — A World War II soldier’s heartfelt letter to his daughter has finally reached her, seven decades after it was written.

Peggy Eddington-Smith received the letter penned by her father, Pfc. John Eddington, as well as his Bronze Star and Purple Heart medals during an emotional ceremony Saturday in Dayton, Nev., about 40 miles southeast of Reno.

The father she never met wrote the three-page letter shortly after she was born and shortly before he died in Italy in June 1944. He sent it while stationed in Texas.

SCOTT KEELER / The Associated Press

Jennifer Mee enters the courtroom Friday for her trial. Mee and two men are charged in the death of Shannon Griffin, a 22-year-old Wal-Mart worker.

Federal charges brought against 12 alleged members of 8th Ward gang

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acADEMICS

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Landscape arch. program sees long-term success Zach Carline Contributing Writer

The faculty and students in the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture know what it takes to be the best. The school is currently ranked number one in undergraduate landscape architecture and the number three graduate program in the country.

Lake Douglas, associate dean of research and development of the school, said the rankings were published by Design Intelligence, the most widely accepted measure within the design professions.

Douglas said the school is consistently ranked as one of the best in the nation, and he believes it is because of the unique travel opportunities the students can experience as part of the advanced topic studios the school offers.

The advanced topic studios are offered to fifth year undergraduates and third year master of landscape architecture students and aim to give them hands-on experience in

the field.

Fifth year undergraduate Chip Beyt is currently participating in an advanced topic studio that works with responsive systems and synthetic landscapes in Oakland, Calif. in order to advance the overall quality of the city. He said these studios contribute to the school’s success.

Bradley Cantrell, director of the school, said the interaction between faculty, students and alumni allows the school to maintain its elite status.

“The same way our students are great when they’re here, they’re great when they leave,” he said.

Cantrell said the school has many successful graduates with their own practices who will come back to the school and assist the current students.

Beyt said it was because of an alumnus that he received an internship in Costa Rica, something that is true for many landscape architecture students.

Fifth year undergraduate Christine Johnson said she has had three internships since her third year in the

CHARLES CHAMPAGNE / The Daily Reveille

LSU seniors Chip Beyt and Christine Johnson discuss their summer internship projects Sept. 17 in the University Design Building.

program. She said she has participated in an advanced topic studio in the Dominican Republic and an internship in Sydney, Australia.

Johnson said the faculty are also

useful resources for the students, helping them with job placement and internships.

“Teachers will help you out,” she said. “I got [my internship]

through connections with teachers.”

Douglas and Cantrell said Robert Reich’s legacy has positively influenced the school.

Reich had a spirit of bringing people from all over the globe to Louisiana and then taking people from the state and showing them the world, an idea that still resonates within the school, Cantrell said.

Douglas said Reich was a paternal figure who understood every student had something to offer and would often help them locate jobs.

Reich believed in an atmosphere of acceptance of new ideas, Douglas said.

Cantrell said although the school pushes research and travel opportunities, there is a balance between architectural theory and research that gives students a well-rounded education and lets them graduate ready to practice landscape architecture.

Contact Zach Carline at zcarline@lsureveille.com

ENVIRONMENT

SEPTEMBER

Program spurs recycling efforts Gabrielle Braud

EVENT CALENDAR

Contributing Writer

As another game day comes and goes, so does the blanket of trash that remains from Saturday tailgates. Yet, somehow, it all disappears by Monday morning.

The efforts of the University’s Campus Sustainability department, born out of student demand in 2008, is largely behind this extensive clean-up effort from week to week and throughout the year.

At the Keep Louisiana Beautiful state conference held Friday in downtown Baton Rouge, Tammy Millican, the assistant director of Facility Services at the University, highlighted student and faculty efforts to keep the University’s campus and community clean.

After receiving a $10,000 grant from KLB in 2012, the University purchased 1,000 new large recycling bins to help implement sustainability programs on game days and throughout the year.

At the conference, Millican highlighted the achievements of the Recycling Tigers, a group of student volunteers who visit with tailgaters on game days, educating them about recycling and passing out recycling bags to tailgates.

The response to the Recycling Tigers who spoke with tailgaters last year on America Recycles Day was positive, Millican said. She said tailgaters were impressed with their efforts and many agreed to make recycling part of their tailgating and practice at home.

“We are changing the social norm,” Millican said. “People are teaching litter awareness earlier in schools, and soon they [students] are only going to know a time when throwing a piece of trash on the ground is a big problem.”

Millican said the KLB grant has led to other campus clean-up

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GRACE STEINHAUSER / The Daily Reveille

LSU Administrative Assistant Director Tammy Millican talks about the Geaux Green Campus Initiative on Friday at the Kean Miller Law Firm.

projects led by students like the Krewe D’Bris, which is made up of a group of volunteers who help pick up campus on Sundays.

The University also participates in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Game Day Challenge, a friendly competition among universities across the country that promotes waste reduction during one home football game a year. LSU has been number one in the SEC for the past three years.

Other sustainability efforts include Unplug LSU, which is a national competition that challenges residential communities on campus to conserve energy and water; Spring Greening Day, a day in which students, faculty and staff work together to improve the University grounds; Fall Fest, where students are educated about recycling; and Project Clean Plate, which encourages the reduction of food waste in the dining halls.

These programs and many more are part of the University’s goal to

create and maintain a better campus environment for future generations.

“This generation is amazing and passionate about the things on this earth,” Millican said. “These students can speak with other students about litter awareness, and we are thankful for the amazing things that have come from these projects.”

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FACULTY

Anthropologist reflects on 30-year career in new book

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Alexis Rebennack Staff Writer

The University’s one and only Bone Lady has been doing a lot more than digging through remains.

Anthropologist and Director of the LSU FACES Laboratory Mary Manhein is back with her fourth book, “Bone Remains: Cold Cases in Forensic Anthropology,” which hit shelves earlier this month.

Manhein’s new book reveals some of her wildest cases in the 30 years she’s spent in forensic anthropology.

“One of the hardest parts about writing this book was choosing which cases to use,” Manhein said. “I wanted a variety of different cases that represent the gambit of what we do.”

Manhein said that “Bone Remains” details her time in the field and the different cases she has worked on throughout her career.

“Bone Remains” is Manhein’s fourth published story and her third nonfiction work.

This book is different because it focuses mostly on the missing and unidentified individuals in cases and on the FACES lab’s success in getting federal funding for a database used to help identify and solve Louisiana’s unresolved missing persons’ cases.

Manhein and the scientists at a Louisiana criminalistics laboratory are responsible for pushing House Bill 1140 Act 227, which allocates state funding for the Louisiana Repository for Missing and Unidentified Persons Information Program through the legislature.

“This database is the most comprehensive state database of its kind in the country,” Manhein said.

Manhein said her favorite part about writing this new book was getting the word out about this database and letting people know it’s available.

“This book is just another avenue to make it known to the public,” Manhein said. “And there’s a chance we could solve more cases if people are more aware of the database.”

Manhein also said when it came time to pore over her past

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MARIEL GATES / The Daily Reveille

LSU forensic anthropologist Mary Manheim smiles Thursday during an interview about her new book in her office in the Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex.

cases for the book, her emotions from previous cases came flooding back, especially, cases that dealt with children.

“We get very few children’s cases, but I hate all of them, in terms of what people do to others,” Manhein said.

She said cases with children tend to stay with her longer than she would like.

“The reality of this job is that there is no such thing as closure.

I hate that word,” Manhein said.

To push through the more emotionally taxing cases, Manhein said it is important to remind herself that the work she does helps people and that dwelling on the case is bad for her soul.

Having compassion in this field is extremely important, but so is remaining objective, Manhein said.

“In the beginning of my career, I sometimes worked seven days a week,” Manhein said.

The puzzle of the mystery and the lack of help in the lab kept her intrigued and motivated.

Now, Manhein said she works alongside a handful of wonderful women who are passionate about the job.

Manhein went on to say that of all her 30 years in anthropology, her favorite time in her career is right now.

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“I am able to look back on my career and on the things we’ve done, and all of the people we’ve helped and the database and the wonderful women who work with me, and I am just so pleased,” Manhein said. “I’m happy for all of the people we’ve helped and for the state of Louisiana that now has a unique database surpassed by none.”

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Sports

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TIP-TOP TACK LERS Linebackers shine in soggy SEC opener

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Tiger fans disgraced themselves Saturday THE SMARTEST MORAN JAMES MORAN Sports Columnist

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LSU senior linebackers Lamin Barrow and Tahj Jones collaboratively tackle Auburn junior running back Tre Mason on Saturday during the Tigers’ victory against Auburn.

Marcus Rodrigue Sports Contributor

Less than a minute into the third quarter of No. 6 LSU’s 3521 victory against Auburn, junior linebacker D.J. Welter read the pulling guard and diagnosed an off-tackle run to his left.

After initially overpursuing

Auburn junior running back Tre Mason, Welter quickly changed direction and nimbly skirted a pile of grounded players. Welter chased Mason all the way to the numbers before wrapping him up short of the first down marker to force a third-and-two.

Welter’s relentless pursuit of Mason was indicative of the

performance of LSU’s (4-0, 1-0 Southeastern Conference) linebacker corps during Saturday night’s rain-soaked contest, as the team’s top three tacklers were linebackers.

Welter and senior Lamin Barrow tied for a team-leading 11 stops, and sophomore Kwon Alexander — who didn’t start the

game — registered 10 tackles.

Welter and Alexander also recorded one tackle for loss apiece, while Barrow recovered a fumble on Auburn’s (3-1, 1-1 SEC) opening drive.

“We were filling our gaps and cutbacks were being made LINEBACKERS, see page 10

On Saturday night, I learned the true meaning of the Tiger Stadium traditional saying, “chance of rain: never!”

It’s not because Death Valley is a hallowed ground, immaculately blessed by the football gods with the ability to avoid precipitation whenever the Tigers take the field. It’s because whenever water falls from the sky on a game day in Baton Rouge, the purple and gold faithfuls don’t show up.

The paid attendance was announced at 92,638, but there were never more than 80,000 people in Tiger Stadium on Saturday night.

Even more embarrassing than the no-shows, more than half the crowd jumped ship as the rain subsided at the half.

It’s even more disgraceful because of what was honored Saturday night.

As LSU recognized the 25th anniversary of the Earthquake Game, a night when Tiger fans were loud enough to move the earth, fans were chased from the EMPTY STADIUM, see page 10

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SOCCER

Tigers down Commodores 2-1 to open SEC play Pina’s Golden Goal garners team glory Chris Abshire Senior Reporter

The LSU soccer team saved its first Golden Goal of the season for the foe clad in black and gold.

Sophomore midfielder Fernanda Pina headed home a free kick from senior Alex Ramsey in the 95th minute, clinching a 2-1 overtime victory for LSU against Vanderbilt (3-4-2, 0-1 Southeastern Conference) Saturday night in Nashville.

The goal sent LSU home with a crucial win to open conference play and guaranteed an offensive onslaught didn’t go

to waste.

The Tigers (5-3-1, 1-0 SEC) posted 28 total shots and 15 on goal for their highest output this season in both categories.

“That was probably our best full-game performance of the year so far,” said LSU coach Brian Lee. “To put up that many shots and shots on goal against an SEC opponent early in conference play is very encouraging.”

The wave of shots was LSU’s most since posting 30 shots — 15 on goal — against Mississippi State in a 6-2 win Oct. 17, 2010.

“That’s probably going to be one of the top outputs in the league all year,” Lee said. “It was just non-stop movement for us.”

That movement paid off in the final sequence.

After nearly earning the game-winner several times in regulation, the Tigers opened overtime by pressing the issue even more.

When Ramsey earned a free kick around midfield near the 94-minute mark, LSU had its golden opportunity.

Ramsey floated a ball near the 6-yard box, and Pina outleapt a swarm of other Tigers to head home LSU’s first walk-off winner of the season.

“I thought, ‘This is my opportunity or the team’s opportunity to win it,’ and it came right to my head, and I just flicked it in,” Pina said in a news release.

“We were probably unlucky not to finish them. … We deserved to win [Saturday].”

SOCCER, see page 10

GRACE STEINHAUSER / The Daily Reveille

LSU sophomore midfielder Heather Magee (12) fights for possession of the ball Aug. 27 during the Tigers’ 6-0 victory against ULM in the LSU Soccer Stadium.

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VOLLEYBALL

Monday, September 23, 2013

Tigers rebound, win Flo Hyman Collegiate Cup Dimitri Skoumpourdis Sports Contributor

The LSU volleyball team bounced back from its first loss of the season in a big way as it grinded out victories over North Texas, Baylor and Houston on its way to winning the Flo Hyman Collegiate Cup this past weekend in Houston.

The Tigers (10-1) placed a special emphasis on discipline as they refocused from losing their first game of the season against Miami two weeks ago. That focus showed as the weekend saw LSU prevail in two five-set matches.

The team kicked the weekend off with a tough five-set victory against North Texas (25-27, 25-11, 25-13, 22-25, 1614) which improved its record in five-set decisions to 3-1 on the season. Despite freshman Briana Holman’s 17 kills and a .452 hitting percentage, LSU coach Fran Flory felt the team could have played better.

“I think we escaped with this win, and I’m not very happy

with how our team played,” Flory said in a news release. “It could have been a bad point for us, but I credit our players for coming through to make some big plays when it counted most in the fifth set.”

LSU continued the weekend with a matchup against Baylor.

The team’s focus on discipline once again proved to be key as the Tigers rallied their way back from an early two-set deficit to prevail in a second consecutive five-set match (26-28, 18-25, 25-16, 25-18, 15-8).

The team relied heavily on career days from Holman and sophomores Katie Lindelow and Khourtni Fears. Holman set a career high in kills with 19, while Lindelow turned in her second career double-double with 18 kills and 13 digs. Fears reached double-digit kills for the first time in her career with 12 in the match.

“I can’t say enough about the resiliency our team showed,” Flory said. “With that being said, we can’t continue to keep falling

behind by two sets.”

The Tigers moved into the final day of the tournament with a matchup against Houston looming and the tournament title on the line. LSU saved its best performance for last as it rode junior Malorie Pardo’s dominating performance to a 3-1 victory (25-17, 22-25, 25-19, 25-19).

Pardo compiled 45 assists, 15 digs and five blocks on her way to being named tournament MVP. “This was a great finish to the tournament schedule for our team,” Pardo said in a news release. “We’ve had a long three weeks on the road, but I’m very happy that our team was able to pull together and fight as a unit.”

The Tigers will return home next Friday and face their first Southeastern Conference opponent of the year in Georgia.

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Contact Dimitri Skoumpourdis at dskoumpourdis@lsureveille.com

Sophomore Khourtni Fears (1) and junior Malorie Pardo (14) volley Aug. 30 in the Tigers’ 3-1 victory against Texas San Antonio.

MEN’S TENNIS

Junior Chris Simpson loses in tournament semifinals Unranked doubles team falls to No. 13 Trey Labat

Sports Contributor

LSU’s top-ranked men’s tennis player, junior Chris Simpson, was eliminated today from the Southeastern Conference Fall Classic after advancing to the semifinals.

The sophomore, who is ranked No. 29 in the nation, was defeated in straight sets by the No. 67 player in the nation, Harrison Adams of Texas A&M.

Simpson will attempt to parlay some of his momentum into a strong performance at the International Tennis Association All-American event, according to coach Jeff Brown. “[Simpson] had a good tournament, and he was just outplayed today,” Brown said in a news release. “He will carry a great deal of confidence into the All-American event.”

Simpson got to the semifinal by running a gauntlet of conference opponents from Texas A&M and Florida.

On Saturday, Simpson defeated No. 56 Shane Vinsant of

Texas A&M in straight sets in the quarterfinal match.

Brown said Simpson’s superior conditioning played a big part in the victory, as the match was Simpson’s fourth of the tournament to that point.

“At this point in the tournament, fitness can be the difference, and Chris Simpson has himself physically and mentally fit,” Brown said.

On Friday, Simpson defeated A&M’s Frankie Colunga and Florida’s Florent Diep.

The match against Diep was particularly spirited as both sets went into tiebreakers before Simpson was able to pull out the victory. “[Simpson] played a mature match against a talented opponent,” coach Jeff Brown said. “It is good to seem him rewarded for his practice habits.”

The Tigers were also successful in the doubles portion of the tournament.

The Tigers’ unranked duo of Simpson and freshman Boris Arias pulled off a shocking upset of the No. 4 pairing in the nation composed of Kentucky’s Tom Jomby and Kevin Lai.

Simpson and Arias defeated the Kentucky duo 8-6, but the result wasn’t all that unexpected, according to Brown.

“Chris Simpson and Boris Arias were playing well together at the end of last season, so this was not unexpected,” Brown said. “Overall, the team played hard, and we saw some good things.”

The duo then prevailed over Hayes Brewer and Stuart Kenyon of Alabama in the next round before their run was ended Saturday, falling to the No. 13 pairing in the nation of Ryan Lipman and Gonzales Austin from Vanderbilt.

Simpson and Arias didn’t

go down without a fight, though.

They were able to bring the match into a tiebreaker before falling 8-7(2).

The Tigers will continue the fall season Sept. 28 at the ITA All-American event held in Tulsa, Okla.

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Brees, Saints cruise past Arizona Cardinals, 31-7 The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Drew Brees pulled himself up in the end zone after his diving touchdown scramble and held both arms high, basking in the cheers pouring forth from the rollicking Superdome crowd.

It has only been a year since the Saints were 0-3, shrouded in scandal and going nowhere. It might as well have been a lifetime ago.

Brees passed for three touchdowns to go with his scoring run, and the Saints beat the Arizona Cardinals 31-7 on Sunday to improve to 3-0 for the first time since 2009, when they won the Super Bowl.

“Hopefully, we can just continue to get a little bit better, and gain confidence and momentum and keep the train rolling,” said Brees, who connected twice with tight end Jimmy Graham for scores and once with Robert Meachem. “I’m very happy to be 3-0, 2-0 in the (NFC South) division, 3-0 in the NFC. All those things are significant.”

Defensively, New Orleans couldn’t ask for much more. The Saints allowed a single-season record 7,042 yards a year ago.

This season under new coordinator Rob Ryan, New Orleans has allowed four TDs in the first three games. The unit produced four sacks and two interceptions of Arizona’s Carson Palmer.

Saints defensive end Cameron Jordan sacked Palmer twice.

Outside linebacker Junior Galette added another, as did rookie defensive end Glenn Foster.

“It was all just pressure everywhere,” said Jordan, who exchanged high-fives with fellow defensive lineman Akiem

Hicks in the locker room afterward. “When you’re part of a D-line like that, I mean, it’s a party.”

First-round draft choice safety Kenny Vaccaro made his first career interception, and Keenan Lewis, acquired in free agency last offseason, had his first interception with the Saints.

Coach Sean Payton, who looks to be building another contender after returning from last season’s bounty ban, summed it up as a “really good afternoon.”

“We finished this game the way we like to,” Payton said.

“I’m proud of our guys.”

Arizona (1-2) had a 7-0 lead after driving 80 yards on the game’s opening possession, with Alfonso Smith scoring on a 3-yard run. After that, the Cardinals didn’t score.

“They can rush the passer.

There’s two really good pass rushers that people don’t know a lot about,” said Palmer, who was 18 of 35 for 187 yards. “Cameron Jordan is really good. He showed that today. Junior Galette is really good. They are physical guys.

They stop the run. They rush the passer and are a really good combination.”

Brees was 29 of 46 for 342 yards. He was intercepted once

by New Orleans native and former LSU star Tyrann Mathieu.

That ended a scoring threat, but only delayed the inevitable on a day when Arizona’s shorthanded defense was little match for the prolific Saints passing attack.

Arizona, whose defense was missing four starters by early in the second half, had no answer for the 6-foot-7 Graham, who caught nine passes for 134 yards, one week after

catching 10 passes for 179 yards in Tampa Bay. “We had critical injuries, and some young guys had to chip in and play,” Cardinals coach Bruce Arians said. “They didn’t handle it as well as I hoped.”

The Saints responded quickly to the Cardinals’ opening score with Brees’ pinpoint 27-yard pass to Meachem.

New Orleans took the lead in the second quarter on Brees’ 16-yard, back-shoulder throw to Graham, who went up high and twisted to make a grab that safety Yeremiah Bell was powerless to stop.

“It’s just run, jump and get it,” said Graham, a former college basketball power forward.

“That’s just what we do.”

Brees’ TD scramble made it a three-score game early in the fourth.

Vaccaro’s interception thwarted the next drive and started the series that culminated with Graham’s second TD on a quick 7-yard pass over the middle.

“Today was a huge step for us,” said Saints middle linebacker Curtis Lofton, who joined New Orleans as a free agent in 2012, only to be part of the first Saints team to miss the playoffs in three seasons. “Last year, I don’t know what that was, but this year is what I definitely expected. I love being here.”

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New Orleans Saints running back Darren Sproles (43) rushes against Arizona Cardinals defensive end John Abraham (55) on Sunday in New Orleans.

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New Orleans Saints tight end Jimmy Graham (80) pulls in a touchdown reception over Arizona Cardinals strong safety Yeremiah Bell (37) on Sunday in New Orleans.

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CROSS COUNTRY

AP and Coaches Polls Meet canceled due to weather AP Rank/Team/Record

Coaches Rank/Team/Record

1. Alabama

3-0

1. Alabama

3-0

2. Oregon

3-0

2. Oregon

3-0

3. Clemson

3-0

3. Ohio State

4-0

4. Ohio State

4-0

4. Clemson

3-0

5. Stanford

3-0

5. Stanford

3-0

6. LSU

4-0

6. LSU

4-0

7. Louisville

4-0

7. Louisville

4-0

8. Florida State

3-0

8. Florida State

3-0

9. Georgia

2-1

9. Texas A&M

3-1

10. Texas A&M

3-1

10. Georgia

2-1

11. Oklahoma St. 3-0

11. Oklahoma St. 3-0

12. S. Carolina

2-1

12. Oklahoma

3-0

13. UCLA

3-0

13. S. Carolina

2-1

14. Oklahoma

3-0

14. UCLA

3-0

15. Miami (Fla.) 3-0

15. Miami (Fla.)

3-0

16. Washington

16. Northwestern 4-0

3-0

17. Northwestern 4-0

17. Michigan

4-0

18. Michigan

4-0

18. Baylor

3-0

19. Baylor

3-0

19. Florida

2-1

20. Florida

2-1

20. Washington

3-0

21. Ole Miss

3-0

21. Ole Miss

3-0

22. Notre Dame 3-1

22. Notre Dame

3-1

23. Wisconsin

23. Fresno State

3-0

3-1

24. Texas Tech

4-0

24. Wisconsin

3-1

25. Fresno State 3-0

25. Texas Tech

4-0

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Staff Reports Inclement weather didn’t stop the Tigers from taking on Auburn in Tiger Stadium on Saturday, but it did halt a home coaching debut down the road.

Saturday’s downpours canceled the LSU Invitational at Highland Road Park, which was set to be the Baton Rouge debut of new cross country coach Khadevis Robinson.

LSU announced the meet would not be rescheduled or made up.

Robinson’s Tigers were fresh

off an eighth place finish at the 26-team Mountain Dew Invitational in Tampa Bay, where junior Philip Primeaux paced the team with a 35th place finish in the 8k race. Junior William Wiesler and sophomore Travis Pope weren’t far behind, finishing in 55th and 60th place, respectively.

The Lady Tigers were hoping to improve on a tenth place finish in Tampa Bay, where they were led by junior Andria Aguilar, who finished the highest of any LSU runner in 20th place.

Freshman Jenna Walker made

a splash in her debut as she finished behind Aguilar in 71st place, good enough for the second highest finish by a Lady Tiger.

Now with an unintended extra week of rest, both the Tigers and Lady Tigers will prepare for the McNeese Cowboy Stampede, to be held in Lake Charles on September 28.

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RALLY THE TROOPS

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LSU junior defensive tackle Ego Ferguson (9) participates in a pre-game huddle routine before the Tigers’ 35-21 victory against Auburn in Tiger Stadium on Saturday.

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building by what coach Les Miles called “a very stiff dew.”

Twenty-five years ago, 80,000 Tiger fans could cause an earthquake. Now, 80,000 of them can’t stick it out through some inclement weather. Oh, how far the “greatest college football fans on earth” have fallen.

Leaving at halftime may be acceptable against the UABs and Kent States of the world. I’m willing to cut fans slack if they don’t want to stay the full 60 minutes against those proverbial rent-awins where teams are paid handsomely to come into Tiger Stadium and take a beating.

But Saturday was Auburn.

Not just the Tigers’ Southeastern Conference opener, not just a matchup of undefeated teams, but a bitter rivalry game. Leaving such a game at halftime is unacceptable.

The game was 21-0 at halftime. A three-score lead is nowhere near game over in college football.

Auburn played much better in the second half. Quarterback Nick Marshall and running back Tre

LINEBACKERS, from page 5

here and there,” said junior defensive end Jordan Allen. “Tackles were not necessarily being missed, but guys were just sliding off in the rain. The rain might hurt an offense, but it hurts a defense too whenever you just can’t grip somebody. Our linebackers swarmed to the ball every time, and that goes for our defensive line and secondary, too.”

Coming into Saturday night’s game, there were concerns about whether the linebackers would be capable of running sideline-tosideline with the athletes littering Auburn’s up-tempo spread offense. Though not known for his speed, Welter exhibited the ability to cover the entire field, and Barrow was quick to recognize his teammate’s skills.

“What gives [Welter] an edge is his knowledge,” Barrow said.

“He does a great job of studying film and knowing the playbook and knowing where everybody is supposed to line up. He’s a great play-caller — he gets those calls in fast. Just to have him out there on the field is a great help.”

LSU coach Les Miles said Auburn played into Welter’s strengths, and the junior linebacker echoed his coach’s words.

SOCCER, from page 5 The goal was Pina’s teamleading fourth this season, tying the career-high she set as a freshman last year. “[Fernanda] made a big commitment over the last nine months in terms of her strength and conditioning,” Lee said. “This quick start as a sophomore down to her own personal effort in the offseason. She was actually a little unlucky [Saturday] to not get two or three goals.”

LSU jumped on top in the 27th minute as sophomore Heather Magee headed home freshman

Mason moved the ball and scored three touchdowns. The LSU offense answered two of those touchdowns, and the defense kept Auburn from getting closer than two scores. But Auburn fought hard until the end, and it turned into a pretty entertaining half of tackle football.

It’s just a shame there were only about 25,000 people there to enjoy it.

One student told me via Twitter that I didn’t get it. Because I watched the game from the press box, I didn’t understand how cold the rain-soaked fans in the stands were. I grew up a Giants fan in New York. Since I was about 5 years old, I’ve stood in snow and freezing rain in the swamps of New Jersey watching football games. And until recent years, I watched the Giants get spanked and never once left a game at halftime.

So to leave when your team is leading 21-0 against a rival because of “stiff dew,” a slight breeze and a temperature that never dropped below 70 degrees is garbage. If those elements are too tough, shell out the extra money for Saints tickets and

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The upper portion of Tiger Stadium’s student seating is left mostly vacant Saturday toward the end of the Tigers’ victory against Auburn.

go watch some indoor football instead.

LSU fans have always prided themselves on being as raucous and intense a fan base as there was in any sport. What I saw Saturday night was neither raucous nor intense; it was soft, plain and simple.

Credit the fraction of the crowd that stayed. They were

loud throughout the game and made Death Valley about as alive as 25,000 people could make it.

But isn’t the fact that we have to credit people for not leaving early from a two-score game against an SEC rival pretty damn sad?

LSU fans need to look themselves in the mirror before the next home game. Do better, or

give your ticket to someone who will.

Welter said he enjoys defending an acceptable tally for LSU’s dethe run and physically engaging fense, considering it allowed 19 opposing offensive linemen and points per game heading into the running backs. contest.

LSU finally broke through in Mason gouged LSU’s dethe turnover department, causing fense, scoring twice while amassthree turnovers against Auburn ing 132 yards on 26 carries. Howafter forcing only three through ever, Mason’s longest run was as many games this season. In ad- only 17 yards, and junior wide redition to Barrow’s fumble recov- ceiver Odell Beckham Jr. said the ery, senior safety Craig Loston linebackers did an excellent job and sophomore cornerback Jalen of wrapping him up to prevent a Mills each picked off Auburn ju- long-yardage touchdown. nior quarterback Nick Marshall.

Auburn scored all of its points “It’s something that [defen- and gained 333 yards in the secsive coordinator John Chavis] ond half, while Marshall exploited stressed before the the LSU secondary ‘We’re a team that’s on completions of game,” Barrow said. “We’re a team 42 and 52 yards to been known for that’s been known sophomore receivfor takeaways over takeaways over the er Sammie Coates. the years. Coming years. ... It’s something “We made it out and getting a halfway through we’ve got to build the third quarter fumble recovery and a couple of [Auburn] bareoff of and keep going.’ and interceptions felt ly had any yards, good. It’s someand then they hit us Lamin Barrow thing we’ve got for a couple of big LSU senior linebacker to build off of and plays,” Welter said. keep going.”

“We’ve just got to minimize those Despite shutting down Au- and stay focused on what we’ve burn’s offense during the first half, got to do this week.”

LSU surrendered 437 yards to the LSU will face its first true visitors, nearly 170 yards more road test this Saturday when it than its season average. But Au- travels to Athens, Ga., for a ranked burn’s effectiveness in moving the matchup with No. 9 Georgia. chains resulted in only 21 points, Sophomore running back Todd

Gurley, who averages 125.6 yards per game, leads the potent Georgia offense, and the LSU linebackers will have to step up again if the Tigers hope to leave Athens with a victory.

“I think we’re all adjusted to the SEC style of play because the competition is a little bit higher

and the game is a lot faster,” Allen said. “Now that we’ve already settled in, dug our feet in, we’re going to be great coming in this week.”

Emma Fletcher’s winding corner kick.

But the Tigers came out sluggish in the second half, allowing the Commodores to even the sheet at 1-1 on freshman Simone Charley’s 51st-minute header, setting up the overtime theatrics.

Though it took extra time to down the Dores, Lee said the one-game weekend — part of the SEC’s new scheduling format — benefited both LSU and the quality of overall play in the game by ensuring fresh legs.

“It’s great, and Vanderbilt coaches would agree that

quality of game for the entire way was very high and enjoyable,” Lee said. “That’s the way soccer is designed to be played, once a week. In a perfect world, we’d play one game for 18 straight weeks. It should create a more accurate final standings.”

For now, LSU is atop those standings, though a two-game weekend awaits LSU with a battle against NCAA Tournamenthopeful Tennessee on Friday.

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Monday, September 23, 2013 DAIRY, from page 1

one of which cannot expand, he said.

“The true dairy science student is going to have more opportunities with this large dairy operation than they would in a small one,” Elzer said.

Some courses, he said, are currently offered only one semester per year because milk cows have to “dry out” — but a larger herd would permit rotational lactation and the ability to offer those courses year-round.

Faculty and graduate students will have more cows to use in research, making replication of studies easier, he said.

Without milk cows at the campus dairy, students will no longer have class labs in the milk parlor or perform projects involving lactating cows unless they travel to Southeast, according to dairy science professor Cathy Williams.

Williams said three courses use the campus dairy farm for their lab component, which gives students important hands-on experience and the ability to routinely observe cows.

“We teach them about it in class or show pictures or videos, but to actually be able to come out and put the ear tag in the calf’s ear, feed it colostrum or actually milk the cow and see how it all works puts it into a better perspective,” Williams said.

The cows are milked twice a day — at 3 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Staff handle the early morning session while undergraduates do the afternoon milking. Some students also have jobs at the farm doing chores and caring for the animals.

Williams said calves are taken away from their mothers the day they are born, so students “are their mamas.” That kind of experience is invaluable to many students who grew up in urban areas and would never otherwise get to interact with cows, she said.

Franklinton is a less-thantwo-hour drive from Baton Rouge, but the dairy teaching program will have to adapt to having distance between its lab — the dairy farm — and classrooms. Field trips to Southeast are relatively

THEATER, from page 1

sales to $26,637, Derr said.

The average attendance for Union Theater events in the 2011-12 season was 487, according to University Media Relations.

The event was offered to University students free of charge, and Derr said about 100 students were also in attendance.

According to a statement from Media Relations, no state money is used to fund any of the Union Theater’s programs.

“All Union Theater performances hosted by the Student Union are historically funded through self-generated funds through ticket sales and student fees,” the statement read.

easy to make, though, because dairy science classes are small, Williams said.

Gary Hay, director of the School of Animal Sciences, said the consolidation will bring students closer to the AgCenter’s research and extension efforts.

Southeast is located in the Florida Parishes, where Louisiana’s dairy industry is concentrated.

This offers students a chance to converse with producers at extension field days and producer meetings, he said.

Hay said the Dairy Store may also benefit from increased milk production at Southeast.

More products may be offered at the store, and they may be served at more LSU Dining locations on campus.

There has been a working dairy farm on the University’s campus since 1904, when the original farm was located next to Swine Palace. The dairy moved to Gourrier Avenue in 1955 and over time has become surrounded

by University developments, including a golf course and the new Alex Box Stadium.

Elzer said the Southeast Research Station is only 12 years old and is situated on 850 acres of land in the heart of Louisiana’s dairy-producing region.

The AgCenter operated three dairies until 2006, when the dairy at Hill Farm in Homer in northern Louisiana closed because there were few producers left in the area, Elzer said.

Hay said the number of dairy producers in Louisiana has declined by 80 percent in the last 20 years because prices have not gone up as fast as costs and dairy-producing areas such as the Florida Parishes have urbanized significantly.

He said a dairy science degree is still valuable, though, because dairy and other livestock industries are growing in states such as California, Texas and New York, making the real-world experience students gain from a dairy farm critical.

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The University and AgCenter’s dairy program consolidation will reduce the cows and teaching opportunities at the campus farm.

Contact Olivia McClure at omcclure@lsureveille.com Derr said it’s not unusual for speaker fees to exceed revenue from ticket sales and that money from other activities in the Student Union is used to make up the difference.

The theater also constantly solicits funds from donors and alumni, according to the statement.

Derr said the committee in charge of scheduling and coordinating speakers for the theater expected King and Edwards to draw a bigger crowd, and said the theater had increased its usual marketing efforts to get the word out about the interview.

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Forbes’ shows wealth inequality reaches dangerous highs Mr. Fini Joshua Hajiakbarifini Columnist Every six months Forbes releases a list displaying the top 400 richest Americans, and this year it hit an all-time record of total net worth. Although this may motivate some to start the next Facebook, the reality is that this list signifies a threat to democracy: rule by the wealthy is gaining traction.

The recent edition of Forbes 400 put the total net worth of these 400 at a record $2 trillion, which is more than the bottom 150 million people combined. Being a billionaire isn’t even enough to be on the list. Sixty-one billionaires don’t make the cut.

With all of this growth in wealth and more than 30 years of trickle-down economics, indebted students may wonder

if all of this wealth has trickled down to them. It hasn’t.

Since 2009’s recession, 95 percent of all new income has gone to the top 1 percent.

This is not a recovery. For college students, this means there is no guarantee of a comfortable middle class life after college.

With student debt at a historic high of $1 trillion, wealth inequality increasing almost past the 1920s level and the middle class phasing out, our future looks grim.

Class mobility will be a thing of the past. With so many holders of a bachelor’s degree and a shrinking job market, what we dive into so much debt for is worth nothing more than a high school diploma.

While I criticize wealth inequality, you may ask yourself what’s a better solution.

Before Reaganomics, when Nixon was president, the top 1 percent only controlled 9 percent of the wealth. At that

time, the top income tax rate was 70 percent and the rich were still rich. In that period, the middle class grew instead of shrunk as it is doing today.

The minimum wage was $1.60 per hour in 1968, that’s $10.64 per hour in today’s dollars. All of this change in public policy isn’t by accident of some natural political evolution, but the growing influence the affluent have in Washington.

This problem of wealth and income inequality doesn’t just affect economics, but politics.

Especially since the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling in 2010 which allowed for unlimited political contributions to Super PACs, the influence of the top 1 percent over politics has increased drastically.

The more wealthy that support politicians, the more their views will become public policy. Take the budget battle.

Based on polls conducted by the Russell Sage Foundation, the elite

believe that the problem with the economy is the deficit while the general public believes that it’s jobs.

Since current government policy reflects the views of the donors, it doesn’t surprise me that the deficit is a top priority instead of job creation.

These polls show a paradox in our society and makes one wonder about democracy in America. If the government is supposed to represent the people, then it is failing.

So far, especially in the past 33 years, the interest of Wall Street and the affluent seems to be priority while everyone else is left behind with the decline in wages, the loss of benefits, the slashing of pensions, the rise of tuition, the cuts in welfare and the gutting of public services.

If the trends continue, there may only be two classes in the near future. According to a leaked Citigroup memo in 2005, this country isn’t even a democracy

anymore but a “plutonomy” with a “managerial ruling class” owning 40 percent of the wealth, which is more than the bottom 95 percent of Americans combined.

This level of wealth and income inequality hasn’t been seen since the Roaring ’20s and we all know how that ended.

This level of political power by the top 1 percent echoes what former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once said, “We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.”

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

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Sexism and inequality: problems worth addressing GATES OF REASON Mariel Gates Columnist It’s 2013 and women and men should be completely equal, but they most definitely aren’t.

This past week at my place of employment, I had three different men make sexual remarks to or about me, and I could do nothing to defend myself. Of these three men, ironically, two of them were police officers.

I was behind the counter, mostly hidden from view, and was cleaning. I felt their eyes on me so my ears perked up to hear what they were discussing. One of them was telling the other the sexual things he’d like to do to me and wondering aloud how young I was. The officer who was listening got up to go to the bathroom so I looked up for a moment and the one who was talking about me was staring right at me, with a look of disgusting hunger on his face.

The sad truth is that I’m used to it. All women get used to it by a certain age.

I’m used to carrying around a can of pepper spray in my purse.

I’m used to being hollered at on the street, in a store or around campus.

I’m used to altering the way I dress or act in certain social situations to keep myself safe.

And I’m used to the fact that most guys just don’t get it.

We can vote, we can own property, we can get jobs, we can own our own things and our own lives but the gap is still there.

There’s the wage gap, where on average full-time working women get 77 cents to every dollar that men earn.

There’s the gap with women in power. There has never been a female president of the United States. The U.S. is 51 percent female, but only 17 percent of U.S. senators, three of the nine Supreme Court justices and six governors of the 50 are women.

These low numbers continue at the state level, with only 23.6 percent of elected representatives being female.

There is the one-sided taboo of a female’s sex life. If a man sleeps with 10 women, he is seen as a stud and is respected by his fellow men.

But if a woman sleeps with 10 men, the words “easy,” “slut” and “whore” get thrown around and she is seen as less valuable.

It blows my mind how this constant feeling of fear and precaution is ever present in most women’s

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lives and how this issue doesn’t get talked about enough.

I am sick of seeing pictures of rallies for women’s rights and seeing it mostly being women. I am sick of rape victim blaming. I am sick of this idea that women must do things to avoid being raped rather than men just being told not to rape.

Most of all, I am sick of feeling like I can’t succeed as much as my male counterparts for the mere fact that I have a vagina and they do not.

There needs to be a movement, and it needs to be co-ed.

Men need to stand next to us because violence and hatred against women also affects the men that love them.

The next time a man decides to degrade a woman, it could be your mother or your sister. We need to stand together not as men and women but as unified people and fight for equality.

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

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Monday, September 23, 2013

Opinion

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HEAD to HEAD Should France ban child beauty pageants?

Yes. It’s a forceful step to changing social views of women and girls.

SHUT UP, MEG MEGAN DUNBAR Opinion Editor As college students, we hear all about the necessity of dressing for the job we want.

We need to start checking career aspirations off of our lists, and the best way to do this is to look the part.

That phrase makes me wonder about the underlying message in child beauty pageants, which France moved one step closer to banning last week.

If society tells young women the part for which they need to dress starts with pancake makeup and heels — which these pageants do — how much of a chance does that offer these girls to grow up well-rounded?

I know some girls enjoy prancing around in flouncy dresses with their mother’s makeup on, because I was one of them.

Had it ever evolved into joining one of the 250,000 pageants that make up the modern worldwide circuit, school would have been secondary to dressing up like a princess and winning money.

That doesn’t seem like a decent tradeoff.

The pageant industry seems to me like a way to introduce ever-younger children to today’s social norms of beauty, wealth and fame, and since it centers on young girls, a primer in adjusting to society’s watchful eye.

Maybe I sound like a conspiracy theorist, but take a second. While pageants don’t always focus on looks, a majority do, and when this happens families go all out. In most cases, the girl becomes a status symbol onto which the caretaker can project their own body image.

You’ve probably seen “Toddlers and Tiaras,” so you know what I’m talking about.

Then the jewelry and dresses have to come from somewhere. That’s the kind of wealth issue this promotes. If we as a country ever expect to be financially on our feet again, we need to stop glamorizing all the glitz.

Pageants are a perfect microcosm.

Spend so much on this outfit and hairdo and your child will win. She will be a public princess. All you have to do is pay up.

As far as fame goes, pretty much everyone has heard of Honey Boo Boo and JonBenét Ramsey. They’re not every pageant contestant, but they do embody the fame that exists for the taking of the next gorgeous child star.

Some worry this is not a government’s battle, that legislation shouldn’t poke around in personal matters. This isn’t a personal choice or a matter of a consenting adult making an educated choice.

This is a child, and as soon as pageantry leaves the home, it becomes a public issue.

Children have the right to choose hobbies, and if that involves pageantry, more power to them. Some governmental urging toward school plays and away from the catwalk will do France good, though.

Sometimes, sexualization can mean power over one’s image for a consenting woman. Six-year-olds aren’t women yet. As much as I believe humans have the power to do as they wish with their own bodies, children still need some protection.

This opposition shouldn’t center on individual liberties, because this is about the health and well-being of young women.

Parading pre-teens around in $1,000 dresses and wigs doesn’t promote either of these ideals. An official law against such will hopefully turn child pageants into a thing of the past, if only in France.

The pageant promoters won’t go down easily though. The head of France’s minimiss pageants, Michel Le Parmentier, said he would consider moving the pageant to Belgium, close enough to the French border for the girls to still compete.

What a boom for the Belgian princess dress industry.

Megan Dunbar is a 20-year-old English senior from Greenville, S.C.

Contact Megan Dunbar at mdunbar@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @TDR_MDunbar

No. France should focus on changing the image of sexuality in children.

THE BOX DOES NOT EXIST JANA KING Columnist

My niece’s favorite activity as a child was to play princess. That means she would dress up in my dresses, high heels and jewelry to parade around the house doing her princess wave and smile.

I might find that a lot more disturbing if she wasn’t then sitting her little brother down to play teacher.

Don’t get me wrong, I worry about my niece and how she will grow up in a world where she’s told she is beautiful more than she is told she is smart. But I also see that she has a love of learning.

She also happens to like dressing up and being the center of attention sometimes.

Stopping little girls from wearing a swimsuit on stage at the age of 8 isn’t going to solve the actual issue at hand — the unhealthy image of sexuality in children.

Last week, France voted to ban child beauty pageants, with a vote of 196 to 146.

Their reasoning was that it promote the overly competitive sexualization of young girls.

Former Sports Minister Chantal Jouanno said the competitions promotes unhealthy body images for children, with parents perpetuating it, placing importance on their child’s beauty.

My question would be, why aren’t we focusing on the parents who are saying what is important is to be beautiful?

Children face the first stage of puberty, adrenal puberty, between the ages of 8 and 10 years old, contrary to the thought that puberty doesn’t hit until middle school. At this stage, we experience hormonal changes and often have our first experience of sexual expression. Instead of approaching this with resources to teach children about their newfound sexuality, we teach them to keep it quiet, unless it is in the name of competition.

Why are the little girls in France so inclined to parade around in swimsuits to be told they are beautiful?

It is because they are being taught by their parents, teachers and society.

There are females who benefit from the pageant system — those who learn professionalism, healthy competitiveness and win scholarships and monetary prizes that they otherwise wouldn’t have access to. Those females shouldn’t be punished because the entire system is wrong.

This law, should it pass National Assembly, will prohibit any beauty competitions for anyone under the age of 16.

Violators would face up to two years of jail time and $40,000 in fines.

Alternative solutions that would actually benefit society and change the concept of beauty pageants entirely include: 1. Efforts to educate young females on healthy, age-appropriate body image and expression.

2. Changing regulations of beauty pageants to promote natural beauty.

3. Providing talent-based competition alternatives to regular beauty pageants.

4. Dealing with other issues of child sexualization happening in your country, such as child sex slavery, the growing rape culture and teen pregnancy.

“Ban this” and “ban that” reeks of Orwell’s “1984” dystopian society, and I can’t put myself behind that.

Banning things only works if it is an issue of universal morality. For example, most of humankind would agree that walking up to someone and killing them is wrong. Because of that, the law against murder is justified.

The proposed law against child beauty pageants isn’t.

There is nothing wrong with finding value in how you present yourself to the world. As long as it is not the only way you value yourself, it shouldn’t be harmful.

Young children should be presented with the means to express themselves wholly, not just appearance.

And no activity should be banned because we can’t deal with the larger issue at hand.

Jana King is a 19-year-old women’s and gender studies sophomore from Ponchatoula, La.

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Contact Jana King at jking@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @jking_TDR

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RAIN, from page 1

Allen went as far as to say he thinks he plays better in the rain. The West Monroe native only produced two tackles and a sack against Auburn, but the LSU defense looked solid during the first half as it shut out Auburn and limited the productivity of coach Gus Malzahn’s uptempo offense.

Senior linebacker Lamin Barrow led the team with 11 tackles and a fumble recovery against Auburn, but didn’t quite agree with Allen’s view of playing in the rain. Barrow said the rain didn’t necessarily hurt his unit, but it didn’t make things any easier.

“I would prefer the field to be dry because you’re much faster and you stick a lot more plays,” Barrow said. “We missed a lot of

tackles — not really due to the rain, but just from it being slippery out there. If it would’ve been dry, we could have put on an even better performance.”

The LSU offense had its own set of problems as the rain fell on its revamped passing attack.

Senior quarterback Zach Mettenberger said LSU practices for inclement weather and offensive coordinator Cam Cameron preaches being a weather-proof offense.

Mettenberger threw for a seasonlow 229 yards and a touchdown Saturday.

Conditions weren’t much better for either team’s receivers during the game. Early in the first quarter, Auburn wide receiver Jaylon Denson appeared to slip on a wide-open pass near the LSU 20-yard line and was subsequently carted off the field

page 15 from an apparent left leg injury.

Auburn officials later reported Denson took X-rays at the stadium, but there was no official word of the results.

LSU junior wide outs Jarvis Landry and Odell Beckham Jr. had struggles of their own during the game.

“I don’t know how it may have looked, but it was pretty bad — it was challenging,” Landry said. “For guys like me and Odell who rarely catch the ball with our body, it was just kind of different letting the ball get up on us trying to make catches.”

Despite the added difficulty of

the weather, Landry still posted 118 yards and a touchdown, while Beckham chipped in another 59 yards on five receptions. But more than that, Landry said he just had fun playing football in the rain.

“Early on in pregame, I kind of thought about it and I felt like a little kid again. Just having a chance to play in the rain and sliding everywhere,” Landry said.

Contact Mike Gegenheimer at mgegenheimer@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @Gegs1313_TDR

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