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TRENDS La. Art and Science museum hosts display of purses through history, page 3.

ONE MORE WIN

NEWS Scientist believes obesity may be caused by ugly staircases, page 3.

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AHEAD in the count Texas had LSU up against the ropes late in the first game of the teams’ best-of-three College World Series championship round.

But trailing by two runs and down to their final out, the Tigers came roaring back and even-

tually took the series opener in extra innings.

To read about how the Tigers clawed out the 1-0 series lead and postion themselves one game from a sixth national championship, SEE PAGE 5.

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Third baseman Derek Helenihi scores on a two-run single by DJ LeMahieu against Texas on Monday in the ninth inning of Game 1 CWS finals, in Omaha, Neb.

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Jindal aims to compromise by restoring $200 million to health care, higher education spark a compromise between the bickering House and Senate.

Since the session started two Rivaling the smoldering Ba- months ago, disagreements on ton Rouge heat, debate over what how (or if) to restore money to to do with the state higher education budget is reaching have run rampant its boiling point in at the Capitol. the last few days Jindal’s origiof the 2009 legisLog on to read more nal $28.7 billion lative session. spending about budget cuts in state Gov. Bobby budget had higher the budget cut blog.

Jindal said at a education taking a news conference $219 million cut in Monday he is willing to restore order to make up for an expected $200 million to next year’s bud- $1.3 billion drop in revenue next get for health care and higher education — a move that may FUNDING, see page 7

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Gov. Bobby Jindal addresses a news conference at the state Capitol, June 11.

Senators confer with Senate Chief Budget Analyst Sherry Phillips-Hymel, center, and Senior Budget Analyst Heather Clark, right, on Wednesday.

LEGISLATURE

Restaurant license bill passes House

By Joy Lukachick Contributing Writer

The bill clarifying a restaurant license in the state passed through the House on Monday with a majority vote.

Sen. Lydia Jackson’s bill is aimed to clearly define the requirements for a Restaurant “R” permit while giving restaurants more leeway with alcohol sales including live music and drink specials at night as long as the state requirements for sales are met.

“We’re just clarifying existing law,” Rep. Jeff Arnold, DNew Orleans, told the House of Representatives on Monday.

Several local Baton Rouge restaurant owners have been in support of the bill since it’s introduction including Chelsea’s owner, Dave Remmetter. On Remmetter’s Web site, Chelsea’s supporters were encouraged to call their legislators and show support for the bill.

In the House Judiciary Committee hearing last Wednesday, Jackson said the bill does not change local zoning laws but helps with keeping the laws consistent.

“This bill really just establishes a level playing field [for restaurants],” Jackson told the committee.

The lawmakers want a ZONING, see page 7

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INTERNATIONAL

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Riot police use tear gas to halt protest in Iran

DC transit train smashes into another, 6 killed

CAIRO (AP) — Riot police cracked down anew on demonstrators in Iran’s capital on Monday hours after the feared Revolutionary Guard threatened to crush any further post-election protests. A witness described an “air of sadness” marked by people wailing prayers into the night. Security forces used tear gas and fired live bullets in the air to break up a group of about 200 protesters paying tribute to a young woman whose apparent shooting death was captured on video and circulated around the world, witnesses said. The show of force came as the country’s highest electoral authority, the Guardian Council, acknowledged some irregularities in 50 districts — including more votes being cast than registered voters. But the council insisted the result of the June 12 presidential election was not affected. President Barack Obama defended his cautious approach with Iran’s leadership.

WASHINGTON (AP) — One Metro transit train smashed into the rear of another at the height of the capital city’s Monday evening rush hour, killing at least six people and injuring scores of others as the front end of the trailing train jackknifed

violently into the air and fell atop the first. Cars of both trains were ripped open and smashed together in the worst accident in the Metrorail system’s 33-year history. Rescue workers propped steel ladders up to the upper train cars to help survivors scramble to safety. Seats from the smashed cars spilled out onto the track D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty said six were confirmed dead. Fire Chief Dennis Rubin said rescue workers treated 76 people at the scene and sent some of them to local hospitals, six with critical injuries.

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District of Columbia Fire and Emergency workers at the site of a rush-hour collision between two Metro transit trains in northeast Washington, D.C. on Monday.

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LSU-Tulane fight intensifies over N.O. hospital (AP) — A battle intensified on Monday between LSU and Tulane University over a new teaching hospital in New Orleans, after the LSU System Board of Supervisors proposed a plan that would boost LSU’s clout on the hospital’s governing board.Tulane officials quickly rejected the LSU board’s version of a preliminary plan that would give LSU five appointees on an 11-member hospital board. Tulane’s Board of Trustees last week approved a plan giving LSU four seats on a 12-member board. LSU board members amended the plan after voicing frustration that LSU would not have significant control over a project in which the school would be responsible for backing $400 million in bond debt for the 424-bed hospital, estimated to cost $1.2 billion.“We’re the ones taking all of the financial risk,” board member Rod West of New Orleans

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Purse exhibit explores Scientist: Unattractive stairs generations of women may be to blame for obesity Steps provide convienint exercise

By Xerxes A. Wilson Contributing Writer

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Elizabeth Tadie, marketing director of LASM discusses the different era purses in “The Purse and the Person: A Century of Women’s Purses” on Monday.

Trends change throughout decades

By Mary Walker Baus Contributing Writer

As women’s clothing has evolved from gowns with corsets to business skirts and push-up bras, their purses have evolved with them, accommodating the style and function of women throughout the 20th century.

“The Purse and the Person: A Century of Women’s Purses” exhibit at the Louisiana Art and Science Museum features 167 purses and their contents from the early 1900s to modern times. “[The exhibition] shows the progression of women’s roles,” said Alyce Howe, assistant art curator of LASM. “You can see that progression in the purses and its content.”

The purses of the “Edwardian Matron” are small purses made of leather. The contents within each purse include a small container for aspirin, calling cards, a handkerchief and a mirror for the small amount of makeup women wore.

“As different as the contents are [between the different eras], there are always contents that tie the eras together, like the aspirin and the [makeup] compact,” Howe said.

The exhibit’s next stop is the Roaring ‘20s. Pictures of flappers with short hair and skirts come to mind as the exhibit showcases beaded and gold-chained purses with old-fashioned cigarette holders inside.

“Most purses [in the ‘20s] were

handmade, which is expensive,” said Elizabeth Tadie, marketing director of LASM. “A person with this purse would be well-off. The contents inside the purses from the ‘20s show status.”

Howe and Tadie both said purses in the early 1900s were more for style purposes rather than function and that the function of a purse came into play in the WWII or “Rosie the Riveter” era when women had to carry their money, keys and war bonds around while they went to work in the factories.

“This is when you see how the size of purses increased,” Howe said. “You see the size increase and the rise of the purse being functional and stylish.”

The rest of the exhibit travels through the post-war ‘50s “Homemaker” era with matching gloves, sunglasses and purses, the “Counterculture” of the ‘60s and ‘70s where purses made both political and care-free statements, the “Superwoman” era of the late ‘70s and ‘80s where women carried not only their necessities but their children’s necessities as well, and PURSES, see page 4

In a state where nearly 30 percent of the population is considered obese by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, University researcher Ishak Mansi partially blames the unattractive design of stairs for America’s growing problem.

A report authored by Mansi focuses on how making stairs more attractive could result in a long-term solution for obesity.

Encouraging people to use stairs GRANT GUTIERREZ / The Daily Reveille instead of escalators or elevators is Biological sciences freshman Carolina De la Pena and her family walk up the a practical way to increase physical stairs in the Student Union on Monday afternoon. output, but the unappealing design of stairs keeps people from using them building instead of having elevators put — like taking the stairs at work fancy in the middle of the entrances — will yield much greater results in on a regular basis, Mansi said.

“In my area of work, I don’t of the building. We can make stairs the long term.

“It’s ironic that people have the mind using the steps, but I usually the nice part of the building with mucan’t find them,” Mansi said. “They sic and lights and really make them actual stairs in front of them at work, are usually hidden under a fire exit. cheerful so people will want to use and they don’t chose them,” Ishak them.”

Mansi said. “But then they go home If you do find them, Ishak Mansi or to a gym and pay for something they are very steep explained that lei- that simulates the stairs.” and uncomfortable, sure time activities Nardine Mansi argues that local they have no air— like exercising and state authorities should reward conditioning and you Log on to see — only make up 5 building owners that design their can’t get your cell staircases percent of people’s buildings to be friendly to physical phone to work on around campus. daily physical out- health, similarly to how state authorthem.” put, while the other ities give tax incentives to energy efIshak Mansi’s 95 percent of a per- ficient building. wife, Nardine Mansi, is an architect and co-authored the son’s physical output is related to jobs and conducting mundane tasks. report.

Complying with government So making changes that moderately Contact Xerxes A. Wilson at regulations on multi-story building increase a person’s daily energy outxwilson@lsureveille.com design usually results in stairs being located in obscure parts of the building with elevators being a central feature of the design, Nardine Mansi said.

“There needs to be a cultural change in the mind of architects and owners,” said Nardine Mansi. “We need to increase the area of steps to make them more comfortable and make them the focal point of the

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Campus Crime Briefs WOMAN ARRESTED FOR DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED LSU Police Department arrested a woman unaffiliated with the University at 2 a.m. June 18 for driving while intoxicated.

LSUPD arrested Mary Phillips, 20, of 512 East Main St., New Roads La, after a bicyclist reported seeing her throw beer glasses from the vehicle, said LSUPD spokesman Russell Rogé.

The officer stopped Phillips on Nicholson Road and reported seeing beer glasses from inside the vehicle, Rogé said. The officer conducted a sobriety test after the driver appeared to be drinking.

Phillips was transferred to LSUPD where she declined to take the breath alcohol test and was booked in East Baton Rouge Parish prison, he said.

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the “Fashionista” era of the ‘90s, which began today’s fascination with designer labels.

“I think women have moved away from buying purses based solely on function,” Howe said.

“Function has taken a back-burner to fashion.”

The exhibit will be on display at LASM through Sept. 13. LASM also currently features an exhibit of Judith Leiber’s famous handbags. Admission for nonmembers into the exhibits is $6.

Elizabeth Weinstein, LASM art curator, will give a “Fine Art, Fine Wine” tour of the exhibition Thursday, June 25, from 5 to 7 p.m.

Admission for nonmembers is $10.

Later this year, Pamela RabalaisVinci, curator of the LSU Textile and Costume Museum, will give a tour of the exhibit and discuss the evolution of women’s fashion on Sunday, Sept. 6, at 2 p.m.

“The exhibition provides a fun, easy to relate to, very visual history lesson,” Rabalais-Vinci said in an e-mail. “Purse style evolved through the century as women’s fashion preferences and needs evolved from small decorative pouches to the large satchelstyles fashionable today, so helpful as we multi-task throughout our varied activities daily. And, thanks to Prada, Chanel, Coach ... or knock-offs of these popular labels, purse preferences today go beyond providing basic storage needs to reflecting the wearer’s fashion knowledge and social/financial status.”

Contact Mary Walker Baus at mwbaus@lsureveille.com

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Tigers come back to win 11-inning thriller and take first game of College World Series championship series With the victory, LSU is now 2-0 in extra inning games this season with both wins coming in the postseason.

OMAHA, Neb. — LSU had more than just a monLSU coach Paul Mainieri said it was the bigkey on their back the entire game gest win he has ever been a part of. against Texas on Monday night — “That was the most courageous, they had a gorilla. never-say-die resolve I have ever But the Tigers refused to allow seen out of one of my teams in my the same “gorilla ball” they road to 27 years of coaching,” the Southa 3-0 start in Omaha to knock them eastern Conference Coach of the to their knees.

Year said.

A two-run ninth-inning comeMahtook had not exactly had an back capped by a two-out double by All-American night entering his at Paul Mainieri LSU sophomore second baseman DJ bat in the 11th inning, though.

LeMahieu and an 11th-inning single LSU baseball coach The Lafayette native had struck by freshman center fielder Mikie out three times and grounded into a Mahtook carried the Tigers to a 7-6 victory in game double play in his first four at bats but came up with one in the best of three championship series in front a single in the 10th inning that he said got him feelof more than 23,000 screaming fans. ing better about his night.

He had also cramped up earlier in the game after a twisting catch on a deep fly ball in the sixth inning.

With the heat index at near 110 degrees at the start of the game, both teams were feeling the effects.

Texas catcher Cameron Rupp Log on had to change jerseys multiple to see a times in the game, and Texas startslideshow er Chance Ruffin had calf cramps from the — although he said after the game Tigers’ that the cramps were not the reason extrahe exited the game after throwing innings 87 pitches and striking out 10 LSU victory. batters in 5 2/3 innings. Mahtook’s cramps forced him to get an IV between the sixth and seventh innings.

But the LSU freshman said he and the trainers caught the cramps before they got too bad.

“The older guys told me ... to be patient because I would still have a chance to come up and get a big hit,” Mahtook said of his early at bats. “So I kept my head up, and I got the base hit.”

Then freshman closer Matty Ott, who came on ERIC FRANCIS / The Associated Press in relief the ninth inning, shut down the Longhorns LSU sophomore second baseman DJ LeMahieu screams after in the bottom of the 11th to get the win to the roar of

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‘That was the most courageous, neversay-die resolve I have ever seen ...’

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LSU senior third baseman Derek Helenihi celebrates after scoring the tying run in the ninth inning of the first game of the College World Series best-of-three championship series on Monday. The Tigers went on to win the game, 7-6, in 11 innings.

driving home the tying run in the ninth inning of the Tigers’ 7-6 College World Series win against Texas on Monday.

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GOLF

Glover holds on to capture U.S. Open crown Unlikey champ edges Mickelson, Duval

By Doug Ferguson The Associated Press

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Lucas Glover steadied his hands for a 3-foot par putt on the 18th hole, an anticlimatic finish to five dreary days at a U.S. Open filled with more delays than drama.

The unlikely champion turned to soak up a beautiful sight beneath gathering clouds Monday at Bethpage Black.

“I just looked at the scoreboard to make sure this was really happening,” Glover said.

Some 24,000 fans, speckled with mud from a long walk soiled, could surely relate.

Glover never lost the lead during the final 12 holes, even though

the attention was always on someone else. The stage belonged to Phil Mickelson, as it usually does in New York.

Mickelson charged into a share of the lead with a startling bid to finally win the Open, his final event before a summer of uncertainty as his wife battles breast cancer. But a fairy-tale finish turned all too familiar, as he missed two par putts on the last four holes to finish second for a record fifth time at the Open.

“Certainly I’m disappointed,” Mickelson said. “But now that it’s over, I’ve got more important things going on.

Next came David Duval, out of nowhere. Winless in eight years, he ran off three straight birdies on the back nine to tie for the lead as the No. 882 player in the world tried to show why he was No. 1 a decade ago.

His hopes ended with a 5-foot par putt on the 17th that spun 180

degrees out of the cup, and his silver medal was no consolation.

Glover didn’t have a compelling storyline, just the kind of golf that wins a U.S. Open in any conditions.

He made only one birdie in the rain-delayed final round, and it could not have been timed any better. Tied for the lead with three holes to play, he sat on the fairway with 173 yards left to the hole at No. 16.

It was a smooth 8-iron, and it landed 6 feet from the cup.

“The putt was all you could ever ask for under pressure,” Glover said.

His caddie, Don Cooper, helped him with the read and told him, “There’s no way we’re missing this.”

“It would have went in a thimble,” Cooper said.

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Lucas Glover (left) hugs his caddie Don Cooper (right) after winning the U.S. Open Golf Championship at Bethpage State Park’s Black Course in Farmingdale, N.Y., on Monday.

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the crowd’s overwhelmingly loud “Geaux Tigers” chants.

In all, the LSU relief pitching trio of sophomore Chad Jones, junior Paul Bertuccini and Ott combined for five innings of no-hit baseball while striking out four and walking two.

“They were all great tonight,” Mainieri said.

The Longhorns never made it easy to shake that gorilla off, though, as they cranked five solo home runs, all coming off LSU starting pitcher Louis Coleman.

The senior had gotten off to a solid start at the beginning of the ball game, throwing less than 40 pitches in the first three innings with two three-up, three-down innings.

LSU junior left fielder Ryan Schimpf opened the scoring with his own solo home run in the top of the first inning.

But a trio of home runs in the fourth inning gave Texas a 3-1 lead.

The first two long balls, hit by second baseman Travis Tucker and designated hitter Russell Moldenhauer, were eerily similar to the two the Longhorns hit in the ninth inning to defeat Arizona State to reach the championship series.

Tucker’s landed in left-center field while Moldenhauer’s home run hit the Virginia flag pole above the batter’s eye in centerfield.

The Texas cleanup hitter entered the game as a .233 hitter

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with one home run on the season but finished 3-for-3 with two RBI on two solo homeruns in his 24th start of the season.

“I was feeling good and relaxed at the plate,” Moldenhauer said. “I was putting a good swing on it.”

The third home run was a two-out shot to left field by right fielder Kevin Keyes.

The three home runs was the most in one inning in a College World Series game since June 1, 1998, when LSU did it against

Mississippi State.

In all, Texas finished with five home runs off Coleman, who went six-plus innings, giving up six runs on nine hits while striking out six.

The final pitch Coleman threw landed about 10 rows up in left center field.

The previous record for home runs by one team in a game of the championship series, a format which began in 2003, was three

by Fresno State last year against Georgia. The Longhorns’ five

home runs also tied the record for most home runs in any College World Series championship game set by USC in 1998 against Arizona State.

“It was an incredible game between two teams that were doing unbelievable things to win a game,” said Texas coach Augie Garrido. “The team that lost the game was going to feel the wrath of baseball. We were that team tonight.”

Garrido said freshman pitcher Taylor Jungmann will get the

Tuesday, June 23, 2009 start for the Longhorns in Tuesday’s game two after throwing six straight balls in relief Monday.

Mainieri said he’d “sleep on it” before making a decision on the Tigers’ starter.

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year.

The state Senate sought ways to restore the cuts to public colleges and universities, proposing the use of the rainy day fund and dollars generated from an income tax break delay to fill the gaps.

The Louisiana House, meanwhile, proposed the use of a tax amnesty program to restore only part of the cuts, forcing the state to tighten its belt and review its expenses.

Jindal vowed last week to strip $278 million from the state’s budget because the money is tied to the passage of legislation he doesn’t agree with.

Among that legislation is SB 335, which would delay a planned income tax break to generate $118 million to restore a large chunk of higher education’s expected cuts.

Senate President Joel Chaisson, D-Destrehan, recently proposed a resolution that would

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take $256 million out of the state’s rainy day fund — formally known as the Budget Stabilization Fund — and spread the funds across three years for budget relief.

But Jindal’s plan only uses $86 million from the rainy day fund and draws the rest from other places — including $75 million from the expired Louisiana Incentive Program fund, $20 million from the Medicaid Trust Fund for the Elderly, $18.5 million from incentive money the Shaw Group vowed to return to the state and $5 million in unused money from a college scholarship fund.

Jindal said he wants to use the one-time funds to restore $70 million to higher education, making their cuts $149 million if the plan is supported by the House and Senate.

The session ends Thursday at 6 p.m.

The University’s budget plan is expected to be released this

week, but a bill that increases graduate school tuition gained two-thirds Senate approval Monday, sending the legislation to the House for final approval. The University supports HB 872 .

The bill, by Rep. Hollis Downs, R-Ruston, allows colleges to raise tuition by up to $30 dollars per credit hour. That means a student taking 15 hours per semester may see a $900 hike in tuition starting July 1.

Under the bill, veterinary school tuition at the University would increase by up to $1,500 a year and the state’s master’s of business administration programs by up to $2,000 a year. Dentistry and law school programs are not included in the bill, but the LSU Health Science Center is included.

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restaurant to be shut down if it isn’t functioning as a restaurant, Jackson said. The bill would not aid illegal behavior but help the Alcohol and Tobacco Control interpret the law fairly.

ATC Commissioner Murphy Painter told the committee that establishments that have come under scrutiny by the ATC didn’t comply with the state’s law requiring restaurants food sales to be more than 50 percent.

The bill passed, 68-31. But opponents tried to kill the bill in earlier committees and tried tacking on two amendments including one that would exempt New Orleans from the proposed law.

Rep. Walker Hines, D-New Orleans, proposed the amendment, saying the bill would destroy the “fabric” of New Orleans neighborhoods.

“We have restaurants in quaint beautiful neighborhoods that we don’t want to turn into nightclubs,” Hines said to the House. “All we’re asking you is to please allow New Orleans to not abide in this.”

Hines argued that the “overwhelming” majority of New Orleans neighborhood groups, including French Quarter residents, the St. Charles Avenue Association and The Times-Picayune,

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PLUCKERS WING BAR Monday: $14.99 All you can eat wings and $3 Pluckers Lemonades Tuesday: $2.50 Mexican Beers and Margaritas Wednesday: Trivia at 8. $4 Mother Plucker Mugs Thursday: $15.99 All you can eat wings. $4 Mother Plucker Mugs. $3 Margaritas and Pluckers Lemonades.

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Chelsea’s employees get ready for the dinner shift June 9. Chelsea’s is one of the restaurants that will be affected by the outcome of a restaurant licensing bill.

were against the bill.

The amendment failed with only 21 lawmakers in support after the vote.

Arnold, who is a New Orleans Representative, said the amendment suggests New Orleans is better than the rest of the state and protested that the bill would not

cause any significant change to the area.

“Existing zoning laws supersede anything in this bill,” Arnold said to the House.

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TRAVEL

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Colorado Springs is great, but it’s not Louisiana

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — My front door steps are the Rocky Mountains.

A quick walk onto my third-story balcony, and I’m standing next to the Rockies.

A look to my left reveals Cheyenne Canyon covered with an assortment of Cottonwood, Douglas Fir and Pine trees that fill the air with aromas like no place I’ve ever been.

A glance to my right reveals downtown Colorado Springs. On a clear day, you can see four to five miles. At night, the downtown area is blanketed with a sea of yellow, white and blue lights.

Life couldn’t be better — or could it?

Though there’s next to no humidity and the temperature has yet to reach 90 degrees, there’s no place like stiflingly-hot home.

I’ve been in Colorado Springs for six weeks now and seen dozens of deer, two rattle snakes, and a bear, but it can’t beat the alligators, red fish and crawfish we have down South.

I’ve hiked more than 30 miles of trails paved with the shadows from trees and giant rock formations. But I wouldn’t trade any amount of dirt trails for the paved interstates you see in Louisiana.

People may think I’m crazy for not thinking this is the best place to live, but you don’t realize the true beauty of the South until you leave it.

By the time I finish my summer internship and leave this wonderful place, Jay St. Pierre I will have lived in the Springs for Columnist 12 to 13 weeks.

And that’s long enough for me.

Don’t get me wrong, I love Colorado. It’s a great place to live, but

not for an extended period of time — at least not for me.

I’ve white water rafted down some of the fasted rapids in the Royal Gorge. I even got the pleasure of enjoying an ice-cold Coors Light while sitting on the Rockies.

But come August I know I’ll be ready for a pot of seafood gumbo, a cheeseburger from Chimes and a bottle of Abita’s strawberry ale.

I’m not greedy or unappreciative of the opportunity I’ve received while living out here, but you miss home cooking when the place you’re staying doesn’t have great food.

I love this place. I’m going to

gosky diving, attending a Rockies game and planning of finishing an “Around the World”-type beer tour before I leave, but let me leave you with a piece of advice when planning your next trip to a place not well-known for its food: Bring Tony Chachere’s seasoning.

‘Cause it ain’t Louisiana unless you bring a little Tony’s.

Contact Jay St. Pierre at jstpierre@lsureveille.com

SOCIALLY SIGNIFICANT

Online housing rental information lacking overall It’s pretty well accepted that the economic downturn killed the housing market in 2008.

Few people will take issue with the idea that the recession has damaged the housing market. Most analysts and media have focused their attention on construction and home purchasing markets as opposed to rentals.

But the state of the rental market is fairly important in a college town like Baton Rouge, and renters must deal with more than inflating rental rates — they must also face a lack of information and the dreaded Craigslist scam.

The housing recession was one of the first areas — outside of layoffs — that people really started thinking seriously considering the realities of an economic downturn.

USA Today reported in early 2009 that the number of new housing permits issued in 2008 decreased by 36 percent compared to the 2007 numbers. The same report also showed 2008 had the lowest number of new homes constructed since 1959.

Several major news outlets have published similar stories In the last year or so about the state of the housing market, but have rarely published information on rentals.

The truth is it’s easy to find information on new construction and housing sales.

These sections of the housing market are easy to track and often involve financial dealings that are notarized or recorded.

Information on housing rentals is not scarce because it’s unimportant or a minor issue — data from the 2005-2007 U.S. Census American Community Survey shows more than 36.5 million Americans rent their homes.

But rental information is difficult to find and collect.

The most pressing reason is that a large portion of the people renting are transients that are difficult to track in general and in some circumstances don’t want to be tracked at all.

However a large portion of those who rent their homes are not transients. They’re average people

who currently are not in a position to purchase a home or don’t really see the utility purchasing a home.

College students happen to fall into both of these categories. Given that rental information is often hard to find, many students are forced to look Skylar Gremillion for rental inColumnist formation in only a few select ways.

Local newspapers used to be a great resource for finding real estate information, but people are using the Internet to post real estate information more and more frequently.

The theoretical benefits of rental information online are pretty impressive. Interested renters can browse advertisements, look at pictures and even find ratings of various apartment complexes and landlords.

I was a little surprised to find the amount of rental information online was somewhat limited.

Sure there are some newspapers that post their classified ads online, and those sites were pretty solid.

There were also a few sites dedicated to aggregating rental information — such as the highly advertised Apartments.com — but their listings were primarily limited to large scale complexes and the reviews were not as fleshed out as one would hope.

With that in mind, I, like many other potential renters, turned to the popular online classifieds site Craigslist.com.

I was surprised to find a vast sea of rental information, and I was even more surprised to see how much of it was completely false.

Just like the old Craigslist furniture scams, the new housing scams tempt renters with the promise of a great deal. Many of them list prices significantly lower than the local average and use pictures that are clearly not local. One picture even featured a scenic mountain backdrop — I challenge anyone to find a scenic mountain backdrop in Louisiana.

These scams are pretty transparent. But given how poor online

housing rental information is, it’s fairly easy to see why people would be taken in.

I’m one of those people who like to use the Internet for anything I can, but the ease of Internet searching has yet to really enter all aspects of life.

Despite the large number of renters in the United States, rental information — online or other —is still difficult to find and probably won’t be any better for a while.

In the mean time, it looks like the old fashioned ways of word-ofmouth advertising, newspapers and just driving around may be the best source for rental information.

It’s also important to remember that old adage, “if it looks too good to be true, it probably is”.

Skylar Gremillion is a 26-year-old sociology graduate student from Plaucheville.

Contact Skylar Gremillion at sgremillion@lsureveille.com

SNAPSHOT

Mike the Tiger is mightier than all other mascots GEAUX ... TIGERS. I would venture to say we hear the phrase at least once a day, and cheer it multiple times at the top of our lungs during sporting events.

But few students realize that the Tiger nickname comes all the way from the Civil War era.

The first president of LSU, Maj. David French Boyd, fought with Louisiana troops — nicknamed the “Tigers.” And since most collegiate teams at the time were named after vicious animals, the name stuck.

LSU’s first live mascot was bought in 1936 with money gathered from students. His habitat was built a year later, and Mike took up residence on campus.

Many of us walk by his habitat on game day or even just going to classes, and don’t give much attention to this fierce animal. This may be because he is often asleep or lounging in the shade. But can you blame him in this heat?

But if you happen to have an 8:30 a.m. class, I would recommend

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seeing if Mike is awake. I had one every day during the fall, and saw Mike pacing around every time I was rushing to class.

I started getting up a little earlier — no easy feat for me Ellen Zielinski — to be able to Managing Editor watch him for a couple minutes every day.

He is almost always out at that time of day and watching his contained power helped me gain even more pride in my school.

We respect Mike so much that we have Mike I on display in the LSU Museum of Natural Science.

He is still pretty intimidating, even being stuffed.

There aren’t very many live animal mascots left in the SEC or even in the country, and personally, I think Mike is the best.

I mean, entering Death Valley

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is scary enough for visiting teams, but hearing the roar of the tiger before the game starts can’t be good for their nerves.

Put Mike up against any of the other mascots in the SEC and see how they fare. There is even a sign that warns against bringing dogs near Mike’s habitat. Watch out, Uga.

Contact Ellen Zielinski at ezielinski@lsureveille.com

QUOTE OF THE DAY “There’s no place like home.”

Judy Garland Acrtress June 10, 1922 — June 22, 1969

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God and evolution aren’t mutually exclusive

In the constantly raging debate about the origin of life — an especially fierce debate in Louisiana ever since Governor Jindal signed the Louisiana Science Education Act, which some critics believe opens the door for creationism to be taught in schools — those that argue for both sides tend to lose civility.

One of the primary reasons the debate is so impassioned is because it is largely framed in the wrong terms.

Any student who has taken an Intro to Philosophy course at the University is aware of the logical fallacy of “false dichotomy.” This fallacy arises when an argument is posed in which only two options are made available, when in fact more exist.

In the quest to determine where life comes from, a thinking person is often faced with a false dichotomy. Either they must accept evolution and discard the belief in a creator God, or they must maintain faith in creation and ignore the findings of science.

But there are more than just these two options.

Although it is true to a cer-

tain extent that evolutionary theory casts a shadow of doubt on the notion of a world created in six days, the two are by no means completely incompatible.

Just because you are a rational, scientific person does not mean you must immediately disqualify your faith.

Just because the beings that inhabit the earth today weren’t created in exactly the forms they present themselves now doesn’t disprove creation by God. It’s just as possible that God is as responsible for the evolutionary process as he would be for a sixday creation.

It is entirely possible for someone to believe in God and evolution at the same time.

If we, as a nation, could grasp this simple fact, we could avoid a great many of the problems that have resulted from the debate.

Most importantly, we could pursue the debate with an air of civility we currently lack.

As it is now, too many who claim to be “defending reason” look scornfully upon people of faith as ignorant, while some religious people see evolution as an

atheistic assault on their beliefs.

There are actually some among the ranks of the religious that do, in fact, challenge the very facts of science. Some creationists go as far as blaming evidence for evolution found in the fossil record — and the perceived assault on their faith that has resulted — on supernatural tests proctored Matthew Albright Columnist by either God or Satan.

And, on the opposing side, there are militant atheists who view evolution as the final nail in the coffin of God. Although both sides are, of course, entitled to these opinions, they each lie at the far ends of the ideological spectrum. There are a great many rational people who live in a happy intellectual medium.

As Einstein famously said, “Science without faith is lame, religion without science is blind.”

How could Einstein, an un-

paralleled scientific genius and a man of no religion, believe such a thing?

How could Charles Darwin himself marry and live with a devout Christian for his entire life?

Darwin’s wife, Emma, “believed firmly in a heaven and a hell. And she believed you had to accept God to go to heaven. She married Charles Darwin,” according to a January article in the LA Times.

The Darwins had a marriage of openness. When he returned from his famous five-year voyage, in which he formulated the ideas that would rock the scientific and religious world, he spoke frankly with his then-fiancée.

And, in an extraordinary act of openness, she married him anyway.

The two would remain married until Charles’ death. Emma would speak honestly with her husband on her fears that they would be separated in eternity, and Charles agonized over it as much as she did. She would proofread and edit his drafts of “Origin of the Species,” helping to strengthen the argument against some of her deeply held

beliefs.

They would both die with their beliefs, but those beliefs had been irrevocably changed.

Charles’ logic and science was tempered in the mystery of Emma’s faith.

We, as a nation, can learn much from the Darwin’s marriage.

Perhaps there is a way to reconcile evolution and God. But the only environment in which this can occur is one of openness, where we do not dismiss each other as heretics or fools.

Maybe if we learn to discuss the origin of life in an environment of mutual respect instead of haughtiness or distrust, we’ll discover that God vs. Science is — and always was — a false dichotomy.

Matthew Albright is a 20-yearold mass communication student from Baton Rouge.

Contact Matthew Albright at malbright@lsureveille.com

VIEW FROM ANOTHER SCHOOL

Iran’s citizen journalists right to continue protests Editorial Board University of Nebraska

LINCOLN, Neb. — Since the June 12 election in Iran, loudly decried as fraudulent, that delivered an overwhelming victory for incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the protests have continued despite the government’s best efforts to squelch them. These efforts include tight new restrictions on journalists, including bans on photographing or filming the protest marches.

The Los Angeles Times reported June 21 that at least 24 journalists have been arrested and more have had their credentials revoked or been told to leave the country entirely.

Despite this crackdown, information about the protests continues to flow both within Iran and throughout the world, thanks in large part to what the media is calling “citizen journalists.”

These are ordinary men and women equipped with computers and digital cameras and video recorders, often just the limited kind that come standard in most mobile phones. They are using the Internet, including such wellknown sites as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Flickr to get the word out.

Iranian authorities have been doing their best to block access to such sites, but for every roadblock they throw up, computer

techs the world over find a way around. Iran has tried to restrict access to social networking sites such as Twitter, but by using proxies, friendly networked computers worldwide, citizens can send updates without ever logging on to the blocked site.

The U.S. State Department even requested that Twitter delay a scheduled maintenance shutdown, which would have occurred in the middle of the night at their San Francisco headquarters, in order to prevent a service interruption in Tehran.

Some say the influence of such sites in the current protests is being overhyped. That may be true, but the courage of the citizen journalists using whatever means they can to keep the information flowing, both within Iran and without, cannot be doubted.

We salute the brave people who are working to ensure that what is happening in Iran now will never be swept under the rug.

Other totalitarian regimes, some much more autocratic than Iran, are no doubt quaking in their boots over the possibility of Iran’s situation being emulated in their countries.

This may not be as simple as it sounds. Two-thirds of Iran’s population is younger than 30, they are tech-savvy, and cell phone and Internet usage is widespread.

Amongst other things, this mean that a government’s inability to censor its citizens is only going to grow over time as this new generation comes into its own. They may feel forced

to take more drastic measures to squelch dissent.

We at the DN wish the very best to Iran’s citizen journalists and hope that this new harnessing of technology encourages

governments to become more transparent, inclusive and accountable.

Contact The Daily Reveille’s opinion staff at opinion@lsureveille.com

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