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CRIME

Police issue 20 MIPs on Saturday

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By Kyle Bove Senior Staff Writer

The LSU Police Department and the Louisiana Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control issued 20 summons for minor in possession of alcohol Saturday.

Police issued 71 MIPs on Sept.

19, the day of the Louisiana-Lafayette football game. Detective Jason Bettencourtt of LSUPD said fewer summons were issued Saturday because officers were focused on stopping the sale of counterfeit tickets.

“It hindered our ability to give out MIPs,” Bettencourtt said.

LSUPD arrested four people for selling counterfeit tickets Saturday, Bettencourtt said.

About 150,000 people were on campus for the game against Florida on Saturday. The same amount of people tailgated and attended the Florida game in 2007.

Bettencourtt said counterfeit tickets were a big problem in 2007.

He said officers were able to stop several ticket scalpers early in the day.

Despite the Gators-Tigers matchup being high-profile, crime level was about the same as every other game day, Bettencourtt said.

“The only thing different was the counterfeit tickets — they were much more prevalent,” Bettencourtt said.

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[Left] Jeremy Bernard, Animal Control officer, releases a raccoon down River Road on Tuesday, Oct. 6.

[Above] A captured raccoon sits in a cage before being released by Facility Services on Tuesday, Oct. 6. Facility Services’ Animal Control branch handles the safe release of creatures found lurking around campus.

Two-man Animal Control team watches for campus critters, releases them on River Road

By Adam Duvernay Staff Writer

When bat guano starts piling in the cracks of the Student Union balcony, cleaning it out is simple, but getting rid of the source requires specialists.

Those specialists come from a

two-man branch of the Office of Facility Services — the Department of Animal Control.

David Perault and Jeremy Bernard grew up hunting and fishing across Louisiana, and those skills are being put to use on campus every day.

Bernard said he’s gotten pretty

good at catching the bats roosting inside a crack on the Union balcony. He’s already taken more than 500 of them back to his property in Livingston.

Bernard said he traps the bats by attaching a metal pan beneath them while they sleep. When the bats drop from their perches to fly away, they

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Students surveyed on Groovin’ act Voters have option to nominate headliners

By Xerxes A. Wilson Staff Writer

Students will have their say on which genre and artists they would like to see their student fees spent on at Groovin’ on the Grounds this

spring.

But Student Government will have about $9,000 less to spend on talent this year because of an overdraft from last year’s Groovin’ festivities, said SG President Stuart Watkins.

Former SG President Colorado Robertson said everything was in order the last time he saw the budget.

Michelle Eldredge, SG advis-

er, said she didn’t know why the account was overdrawn but speculated it could be because of unexpected expenses for which SG had not budgeted.

SG is gathering student opinion by survey on PAWS advertised through a broadcast e-mail sent Monday.

The survey allows students to SURVEY, see page 11

fall into the pans and can’t escape.

“Most hunters can raise their animals, take care of them and understand them,” Perault said. “It’s about knowing what’s out there, not just going around and killing things.”

Perault said any day on the job CRITTERS, see page 11

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Three guns were found in the LSU lakes during an investigation Monday, one of which was falsely suspected to be part of a May murder case.

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NATIONAL

Fourth attack in days kills 41 in Pakistan

California governor signs gay marriage recognition bill

Yale University holds memorial for strangled graduate student

La. officials tour high-security juvenile prison

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Militants from the heart of Pakistan teamed up with Taliban insurgents from the remote Afghan border region to carry out the bold weekend assault on army headquarters, the army said Monday — an ominous development as the fourth major attack in just over a week killed 41 people at a northwestern market.

North Korea fires five short-range missiles

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill recognizing gay marriages sanctioned in other states during the nearly five months such unions were legal in California.

Schwarzenegger says the action is consistent with a state Supreme Court ruling upholding the marriages of same-sex couples who tied the knot in California before voters approved Proposition 8.

Proposition 8 is a constitutional amendment passed in November that limits marriage to a man and a woman.

The bill signed by the governor late Sunday also says gay and lesbian couples who were married in other states after Proposition 8’s passage have the same rights and benefits that California grants domestic partners.

The bill was sponsored by Democratic Sen. Mark Leno of San Francisco.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Yale University has said its formal goodbyes to Annie Le , the 24-year-old graduate student found strangled last month behind a wall in a medical school building’s laboratory.

Classmates, professors and others gathered Monday at the university’s historic Battell Chapel for a memorial service that was open only to members of the Yale community.

University President Richard Levin remembered Le as a model student, a child of immigrants who was at the same time bright, caring, loving and spontaneous.

Le, originally from Placerville, Calif., worked on a team that experimented on mice as part of research into enzymes that could have implications for treatment of cancer, diabetes and muscular dystrophy. She disappeared on Sept. 8 and her body was found five days later.

MONROE (AP) — Louisiana’s juvenile justice oversight panel has completed a tour of a youth prison criticized recently for having too many prisoners and too little staff.

Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu, chairman of the Juvenile Justice Implementation Commission, on Monday led lawmakers and other visitors on the tour of the prison known as Swanson. Landrieu and others quizzed staff, teenage prisoners and parents about safety, education and other conditions.

Critics of the state’s juvenile justice system have complained that Swanson needs more teachers and counselors.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired five short-range missiles off its east coast on Monday, news reports said, even as South Korea proposed working-level talks with its communist neighbor.

South Korea’s Yonhap news agency, citing an unidentified South Korean government official, said the North test-fired two short-range missiles on Monday morning and three others on Monday afternoon from mobile launch pads.

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PHILANTHROPY

Two University students provide aid to Uganda orphans UEP encourages students to give back

By Kristen M’lissa Rowlett Contributing Writer

Zachary Stewart said he feels like a celebrity when he arrives in Uganda — but instead of being surrounded by paparazzi, he is greeted by hundreds of orphaned children.

Stewart, biology sophomore, and Jonathan Brothers, political science sophomore, want to make a difference in the lives of the children of Uganda through their organization Uganda Education Project.

After visiting Nansana community primary school — a school for children orphaned by AIDS located a few miles outside of Uganda’s capital — during the summer of 2008, Stewart knew he had to do something.

Stewart started the nonprofit organization, UEP, last summer so he could provide aid to the Nansana school and orphanage — which provides about 400 children with an education and about 75 with a home.

The mission of the organization “is to provide funds, materials and human assistance to the education, care and maintenance of the orphans and vulnerable children of Uganda,” according to the group’s Web site.

The UEP will maintain the lowest administrative fees — as opposed to the $1,000 fee Stewart paid when he first traveled to Nansana — so a majority of the money will be allocated to the needs of the Nansana school and orphanage, Stewart said.

The UEP raised about $6,000 dollars, Stewart said, but he would like to raise much more.

Once Stewart realized he could receive large amounts of money from donors, he said he wanted to

get a nonprofit status so donors could write off donations on their taxes. The UEP’s nonprofit status is currently pending with the IRS, he said.

Brothers said he thought about starting a nonprofit organization to aid in humanitarian work. He met Stewart through a mutual friend and became involved in the UEP’s cause.

Stewart and Brothers said their next step was to reach out to students at the University and encourage them to donate their time to help UEP’s cause.

The UEP became an official University organization two weeks ago, Brothers said.

Brothers said the organization’s ultimate goal is to set up a base in Nansana where students could volunteer at the school by building new facilities and teaching the children basic English, math and science.

Stewart said he is currently

FOOTBALL

Students unhappy with offense Fans upset about high ticket prices

By Amos Morale Sports Contributor

Gabrielle Riggins, like many other students, paid much more than face value for a ticket to Saturday’s matchup between No.1 Florida and then-No. 4 LSU — $150.

But the psychology junior left the game during halftime.

“I was disappointed with how LSU played,” Riggins said.

“I didn’t feel the need to watch anymore.”

Riggins is among many students who felt the Tigers’ offense had a poor showing in their 13-3 loss to the Gators.

“It was definitely a disappointment,” said Lauren Nyman, international studies and political science sophomore. “Our offense sucked. I didn’t expect us to win, but we didn’t really put up a good fight.”

Glenn Smith, finance senior, has student tickets and only paid face value, but said he would have been more upset if he paid some of the prices he heard tickets were selling for.

“If I would have paid $200or $300, for a ticket I would have

been furious,” Smith said.

Students felt different facets of the offense were to blame for the poor performance.

“I was a little bit upset that I paid $150 to see the team basically throw the game away,” Riggins said.

Amber Jessie, marketing sophomore, said she watched the game in the PMAC and didn’t get a ticket to the game because she did not want to pay hundreds of dollars for a ticket to a game she thought LSU would lose.

She said the offensive line is the problem with the team.

But Justin LeGros, biology senior, said the play calling was the issue.

“We couldn’t run the ball very well. We couldn’t throw the ball down field at all,” Justin

LeGros said. “Florida is a good defense, but we should still get a little more than 150 yards of total offense.”

Many students agreed the Tigers’ defense played well but that effort was negated by the offense’s inability to run the ball.

“It’s just not possible to win a game with 44 yards of total offense in the second half against the No. 1 team in the country,” Smith said.

Jessie said the Tigers had plenty of chances to win the game but couldn’t execute on offense.

“If you’re not scoring, you’re not winning,” she said.

Contact Amos Morale at amorale@lsureveille.com

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Zachary Stewart [back] poses with children at the Nansana community primary school in Uganda during the summer of 2008. Stewart founded the Uganda Education Project in order to give back to orphaned children at the school.

trying to set up a study abroad program, in which University students can receive course credit from Makerere University, located in the capital of Uganda and volunteer at the Nansana school and orphanage.

Stewart said he would like to

raise at least $10,000 more, as well as send 15 volunteers to Nansana during summer of 2010.

Contact Kristen M’lissa Rowlett at krowlett@lsureveille.com

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BABBLING BROOKS

Poor coaching to blame for loss

If someone told me Saturday morning Florida senior quarterback Tim Tebow would start and LSU would hold the Gators to 13 points but the Tigers would still lose the game by double digits, I would have called him a liar.

But he would have been JOHANATHAN telling the truth — Saturday BROOKS Sports Columnist night’s contest met all three of these conditions.

Tebow did start and showed no real signs of the concussion that knocked him out of Florida’s game against Kentucky two weeks ago and made him miss more than a week of practice.

LSU’s defense did play well enough to hold the explosive Florida offense to its lowest point total since a 31-3 loss against Alabama in 2005.

And LSU did indeed lose the game by 10 points, scoring its lowest point total since 2006. It was the fewest points any LSU team had scored in Tiger Stadium since a 31-0 loss to Alabama in 2002. Who would have thought?

LSU only amassed 162 yards of total offense in Saturday’s loss, and numbers like those could derail any team’s hopes of being a legitimate contender for the Southeastern Conference title or any other meaningful accolades, for that matter.

LSU’s offense looked terrible for about 80 percent of the time it had the ball Saturday night, and tough sledding could be ahead for the Tigers if they don’t make some changes.

This junk just will not cut it. Offensive coordinator Gary COACHING, see page 7

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On a Mission

Hitt helped set up medical clinics in the Dominican Republic

said. “Despite their poverty ... us coming over there just meant the world to them.”

What the Hitt brothers saw was Dominicans afflicted with a myriad of illnesses, including malnourishment, sinus colds and occasionally more serious injuries such as broken bones.

“Some of them had been there for a month or so, and they just couldn’t get help,” Lyle Hitt said. “We even found a tumor on a person.”

Mason Hitt said it was CLINIC, see page 6

JEFFERSON, see page 7

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Chief Sports Writer

Lyle Hitt’s most special experiences this year have not all come on the football field.

The LSU senior offensive guard took a medical mission trip to the Dominican Republic in May, and he said spending five days with the natives and treating them for various ailments helped him put his own life in perspective.

“We went to Santo Domingo and set up medical clinics in different villages,” Hitt said. “The

trip left a big impact on my life.”

Hitt and his two brothers, Mason, 21, and Tucker, 16, signed up for the trip through Crossroads Community Church, a Baptist church in Ruston where Mason Hitt plays defensive tackle at Louisiana Tech.

Lyle Hitt said about 80 people attended each clinic for treatment, and he said he sensed the impact all the clinical workers had on the residents’ lives.

“It’s one of those things where you don’t know what you have until you see something like that,” Lyle Hitt

Get off Jordan Jefferson’s back

Jordan Jefferson’s getting less respect than Rodney Dangerfield.

And it’s really unfortunate.

Don’t get me wrong — I’m not campaigning for LSU’s sophomore quarterback to make any All-America teams. I just think the LSU fan base needs to ease off the young man’s JERIT ROSER back and cor- Managing Editor, rectly place the Content blame for the Tigers’ struggling offense — on the offensive line.

I left Saturday’s 13-3 loss to No. 1 Florida thinking about how frustrated with the offensive line’s lack of production the LSU defense must have been after a stellar performance.

But at least the fans aren’t trashing the defense. Jefferson went 11-of17 for 96 yards and an interception on what looked to be a miscommunication with junior wide receiver Terrance Toliver (not sure whose fault that one was). All-world Florida senior quarterback Tim Tebow finished 11-of-16 for 134 yards, an interception and a touchdown on what should’ve been an offensive pass interference call.

Jefferson did pretty well matching the guy getting a lot of praise for the win, despite needing to dance around an instantly crumbling pocket almost all night and getting sacked five times. And it was all just to be thrown under the bus by LSU fans — mainly because he didn’t throw enough long balls.

But I’d imagine the more than 93,000 fans in Tiger Stadium that night would’ve found deep passes

LSU senior offensive lineman Lyle Hitt blocks Florida junior defensive end Justin Trattou as LSU sophomore Jordan Jefferson drops back to pass on Saturday during the Tigers’ 13-3 loss to Florida in Tiger Stadium.

By Rachel Whittaker

RETURN OF THE MACK

FOOTBALL

Offensive play calling under scrutiny of media, fans Auburn kickoff set for 6:30 on Oct. 24

By Andy Schwehm Sports Writer

The LSU football team didn’t run many plays on the offensive side of the ball (47 to be exact) because of a lack of third- and fourthdown conversions (2-for-12) and time of possession (23 minutes, 30 seconds) Saturday against Florida.

But the few plays the offense did

run came under much scrutiny by fans, media and LSU coach Les Miles.

A post on TigerDroppings. com depicting a fictional playsheet of LSU offensive coordinator Gary Crowton mimicked the play calls by having such notes as “run up the middle” on basically every situation, “what is this?” under “Red Zone Offense.” The audibles were PlayStation controller buttons.

The predictably unpredictable plays LSU ran against Florida were a capstone to what has been a lack of offense this season for the

Tigers, leading Miles to question his own decisions on certain called plays.

Specifically, Miles said he should have gotten the ball in the hands of senior running backs Charles Scott and Trindon Holliday more often. Scott and Holliday averaged 4.1 and 6.5 yards per rush average in the game, respectively.

“You think to yourself that maybe you should hand those guys the ball a little more,” Miles said.

FLORIDA, see page 6

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Florida junior linebacker A.J. Jones tackles LSU sophomore quarterback Jordan Jefferson on Saturday during the Tigers’ 13-3 loss to Florida in Tiger Stadium.

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“Then you get behind two scores, and 10 points in a game like that with few possessions, it seemed like a lot of points.”

But Miles blamed the execution rather than the play calling for the lack of success in the offense.

“What we have to do is execute,” Miles said. “It’s a much shorter game when you play a quality opponent ... You have to bring your best stuff, you can’t wait for the next drive. It’s got to be things you can execute, and we didn’t do that.”

Senior wide receiver Brandon LaFell kept a little optimism.

“We’re really close but not close enough,” LaFell said. “We need this bye week. We need to go in there and focus, watch film together and get better.”

DEFENSE SHINES BRIGHT If anything stood out as a positive in the mind of both the LSU players and Miles, it was the play of the Tiger defense.

The defense allowed 327 yards with a 5.1 yards per touch average against the Florida offense, but it only allowed 13 points to a Tim Tebow-led Florida team.

“I don’t think anybody else is going to hold them to 13 points this year,” said junior cornerback Jai Eugene.

Miles also lauded the play of his defense.

“Our defense played like heck and played hard,” Miles said. “We held a team that was scoring a lot of points and moving the ball routinely and held them down.”

Junior safety Chad Jones wasn’t ready to give the defense a pat on the back quite yet.

“Obviously it wasn’t good enough,” Jones said. “We definitely played well, and we feel good about how we played, but we also could have played better.”

AUBURN KICKOFF SET FOR 6:30 P.M. The Southeastern Conference announced Monday the LSU game against Auburn in Tiger Stadium on Oct. 24 will have a 6:30 p.m. kickoff on either ESPN or ESPN2.

The network will have a decision between putting either the LSU matchup or the Florida at Mississippi State matchup on ESPN. That decision will come after this upcoming weekend’s games.

The game will mark the fourth time this season LSU has played on the ESPN family of networks.

The Tigers are 3-0 this season on the network.

Contact Andy Schwehm at achwehm@lsureveille.com

CLINIC, from page 5

“eye-opening” to be immersed in the culture and living conditions of the Dominican Republic.

“For every kind of sugar cane they harvested, they’d get about $2,” Mason Hitt said. “Once I saw this little boy made a kite out of this plastic grocery bag he found.

It was sad he couldn’t go to the store and buy one.”

Mason Hitt said seeing the smiles on the patients’ faces made the work worth it for him, Lyle and Tucker.

“Having air conditioning in those houses is like us buying a car that flies in space — it doesn’t happen,” he said. “Knowing we had a hand in helping these people was truly an amazing thing.”

Lyle Hitt said he plans to pursue a career in medicine and likely go to nursing school. He said the mission trip benefited him not just morally, but also intellectually in his understanding of the medical field.

Lyle Hitt said he has gained valuable experiences playing football at LSU, but being involved in faith-based activities off the field

truly enriches his life.

“It’s imperative to get a wellrounded understanding of athletics, take academics seriously and be active in other groups,” Lyle Hitt said. “You can mix with different people and places and not just get trapped in your comfort zone so you can understand who you are.”

On the field, Lyle Hitt switched from defensive tackle to offensive guard as a redshirt freshman, a change junior offensive tackle Joseph Barksdale also went through as a freshman.

“It’s hard, especially when you played a position in high school, and you’re learning a whole new way of playing football,” Barksdale said. “[The offensive line] is the most unified position on the team. You’re a wall, so you definitely have to work together so nobody gets through the wall.”

Barksdale said Lyle Hitt “lights a fire under the offense,” and the two linemen are good friends away from football.

“I was at Lyle’s house a couple of weeks ago,” Barksdale said. “His parents cooked really

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LSU senior offensive lineman Lyle Hitt (left) surveys the defense as sophomore center T-Bob Hebert (right) prepares to snap the ball Saturday during the Tigers’ 13-3 loss to Florida in Tiger Stadium.

good pastalaya.”

Senior running back Charles Scott described Lyle Hitt as a “laid-back guy and a great leader.”

“He’s not a guy that whoops and hollers — he leads by example,” Scott said. “Lyle came

in and hit the ground running to learn all he could as fast as he could.”

Contact Rachel Whittaker at rwhittaker@lsureveille.com

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 JEFFERSON, from page 5

hard to deliver with Brandon Spikes, Jermaine Cunningham and company on their heels as soon as the ball was snapped. LSU senior running back Charles Scott took some of the blame for not doing a better job helping in pass protection when his linemen missed blocks. But that’s just the sort of thing senior leaders are supposed to say after tough games.

But blocking defensive front sevens is just the sort of thing, let’s say “capable,” offensive linemen like LSU’s are supposed to do.

Then again, at least the line gave Jefferson a chance to avoid thirdand-longs on those sacks and hurries — albeit a slight chance. Jefferson didn’t even get to touch the ball when the line was false starting like Steve

COACHING, from page 5

Crowton and coach Les Miles need to step back, reassess things and make changes accordingly. The changes may need to start with the play calling.

The LSU offense has been called “vanilla” pretty much all season because of its bland and unimaginative play calling.

Many thought the “vanilla” approach was the result of a simplified approach to the start of the schedule most teams employ. The prevalent reason behind it is to avoid showing all of the different wrinkles the offense possesses.

“Vanilla” is fine for a few weeks, but there doesn’t seem to have been much flavor added to the Tiger attack. It’s almost as if the

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Urkel with ants in his pants. He just got unfavorable positions the penalties put him in — positions to fail.

The problem isn’t new. LSU just happened to face a great defense this week. The LSU defense was on the field almost the entire third quarter against Georgia because the Tiger line couldn’t give Jefferson any time.

The poor kid’s been sacked 18 times already through six games — an average of three times a game. The only other Southeastern Conference teams to have allowed double-digit sacks this season are South Carolina and Vanderbilt.

Five SEC teams average one sack or fewer allowed per game. All this comes despite Jefferson being quick enough to avoid more potential sacks than plenty of other quarterbacks. And fans want Jefferson to

feel comfortable dropping back for a long pass knowing that kind of pressure’s coming at him?

Sure they do — because they’re as ridiculous as their expectations.

The fans begged and pleaded for Jefferson last season. Everyone knew Jefferson would save the Tigers from the errant arm of Jarrett Lee. Now they’ve got Jefferson, and they’re slowly starting to ask for Lee and freshman Russell Shepard.

Lee actually racked up some pretty nice numbers last season for a freshman SEC quarterback. He completed 53 percent of his passes and notched 13 touchdowns and 16 interceptions on his way to a 115.7 passer rating.

Former Georgia quarterback Matthew Stafford completed 53 percent of his passes and threw seven

touchdowns and 13 interceptions en route to a 109 passer rating his freshman season. Things worked out pretty well for Stafford — No. 1 overall NFL draft pick well. Point being, quarterbacks don’t just come out of high school ready for SEC defenses.

The adjustment takes some time.

The criticism of the starter and the cry for the backup aren’t as loud or widespread as it got last season, but it’s still early. Let’s see how things go throughout the rest of the SEC schedule.

Jefferson has better statistics so far this season, his first as a fulltime starter, than Lee or Stafford did — 63 percent completion rate, seven touchdowns, three interceptions and a 133.4 passer rating.

And he’s done it despite already being sacked almost as much

as both Lee and Stafford combined in their freshman seasons (Lee was sacked eight times all last season, while Stafford was sacked 12 times in 2006).

So get off Jordan Jefferson’s back — it’s not strong enough to carry the misplaced criticism of 93,000+ overzealous fanatics. But Jordan, you’ve got the Alabama and Ole Miss defenses coming up shortly after Halloween, so I’d start thinking about asking for some pass protection and a little respect when you go trickor-treating.

They’re two things a quarterback really needs, and they’re two things you’re getting little of right now.

coaches are content with running a low-risk/low-reward style of offense which features runs out of spread formations, a bastardized version of the option and an almost nonexistent vertical passing game. That obviously didn’t work Saturday, as LSU was unable to sustain drives or pick up any semblance of momentum.

Stats don’t lie. Sophomore quarterback Jordan Jefferson was 11-of-17 passing for only 96 yards and an interception, and LSU’s leading rusher was senior running back Charles Scott, who gained 53 yards on 13 carries.

One of the coaches’ biggest play-calling blunders was a fourthand-short situation in the fourth quarter when LSU was trailing by 10.

Instead of lining up with a couple of tight ends and sending

Jefferson, who is 6 feet, 5 inches tall, right up the middle for a possible fourth down, someone decided it was a good time to line up in a shotgun formation and attempt a pass. Jefferson was eventually sacked, and the ball was turned over on downs.

They seemingly didn’t put Jefferson in a situation where he could have succeeded. And they do this a lot. I’m so accustomed to seeing the read option to Scott on first and second downs, I could potentially run the play myself if need be.

Another issue which seems to be hurting the offense is personnel decisions. Senior running back Keiland Williams has seen his touches reduce drastically as of late. Williams rushed for 184 yards and two scores on 36 carries in LSU’s first four games, but he has all but disappeared in the

contests against Georgia and Florida.

He only has five carries for four yards in those two games.

I don’t get it. Another player who needs to see the ball more is freshman quarterback Russell Shepard, who hasn’t thrown a pass all season — but the kid sure can run.

He has 17 carries for 106 yards — a 6.2 yard per carry average — in the four games in which he’s played.

The freshman didn’t see the field at all Saturday night.

There’s no reason he shouldn’t have at least been given a go at it, considering nothing else they tried in the game seemed to work too well.

Aside from play calling and personnel, LSU has other problems on offense space limitations won’t let me delve into. For instance, the Tigers are dead last in the SEC in total

offense and sacks allowed and No. 11 in scoring offense.

These things need to be fixed, coaches. It’s a shame athletes are getting thrown under the bus because of things they have no control over.

It’s the coaches who are at fault for a large chunk of the poor offensive production.

Luckily for LSU, it has a bye week coming up in which the coaches can address this stuff. Hope for a great season is by no means lost.

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FREEMAN OF SPEECH

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Obama’s Peace Prize Award is shared by all Americans Amid what never happened Saturday night, a piece of Friday news provoked the worst of American politics.

It wasn’t the release of a controversial policy or a scandalous affair.

The President of the United States of America was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Rush Limbaugh, ever the patriot, abandoned his country (again) and sided with the Taliban and Iran in his disapproval. Glenn Beck argued it should have been given to the “tea partiers,” of which he remains the biggest champion and promoter. Former UN Ambassador John Bolton implored Obama to reject the award.

Bill Kristol argued he’s done just as much for peace as Obama.

News flash: Editing a conservarag doesn’t merit the Nobel Peace Prize.

Most of the naysayers argue Obama won for reasons ranging

from “not being Bush” to “giving great speeches” to even “being a black president.”

The truth is Obama could have won for a plethora of reasons.

Not being Bush, while not the reason, could be feasible.

Obama’s predecessor was ultimately responsible for, among many things, politicizing the Justice Department, outing a CIA operative, “enhanced interrogation techniques” as a euphemism for torture, allowing our veterans to suffer in lackluster military hospitals, stifling science with a ban on stem cell research, hindering the efficient management of emergency services after Hurricane Katrina and, most of all, provoking and selling a war with a country that had absolutely nothing to do with the worst attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor.

That said, “not being Bush” is neither good enough nor the reason Obama won.

Obama was awarded the Nobel

Peace Prize because of the Americans who voted for him.

If decided by slogans, we were given two choices as a country last November: “Change” or “Country First.”

That we as a nation were able to recognize and allow other countries’ opinions into our decision making Eric Freeman Jr. was nothing Columnist short of remarkable. We were faced with a decision about how we saw the world and ourselves, and we decided eight years of Texas-style nationalism would not help us solve increasingly global problems.

Obama never sang a joke song about wanting to bomb Iran. Obama didn’t predict we’d be in Iraq for 100 years.

That was McCain.

Instead, we voted for the candidate who best exemplified leadership on a global scale, not just for the problems facing America. We saw in Obama the candidate who had the vision for a world where other countries aren’t barriers to progress, but the keys to breaking down barriers.

Instead, the Republicans called Obama’s travels abroad an “apology tour,” as it should have been.

Our image in the world during the last eight years has been complacent above all else. Instead of reacting more fiercely and challenging the Bush Administration to better define the objectives of a war in Iraq, we sat back, comfortable with the powers that be perpetuating lies about being “greeted as liberators” and not wanting “the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.”

They were all lies, and our demeanor as a country reflected a desire to change through our election of Obama.

In all, the Nobel Committee awarded the Peace Prize to Obama for his vision of strengthened diplomacy and a renewed commitment to nuclear disarmament.

But the five Norwegians on the panel saw in Obama a nationwide reaction after eight years of failed leadership.

As President Obama represents all of us, the Nobel Peace Prize is similarly awarded to and thereby represents all of us.

Pat yourself on the back, America.

You’ve committed yourselves to peace, Republicans be damned.

Eric Freeman Jr. is a 22-year-old political science senior from New Orleans. Follow him on Twitter @ TDR_efreeman.

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JUXTAPOSED NOTIONS

Obama received prize for rhetoric, not achievement President Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize last Friday for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people,” despite currently leading two wars in the Middle East.

This is not an award — just a reactionary endorsement that feels like a throwback to the adolescent

euphoria generated by the rhetoric of his presidential campaign. That’s the only possible explanation, because Obama hasn’t actually done anything yet to merit the award.

Granted, he’s been in office for less than 10 months, and nobody can expect foreign policy miracles in such a short amount of time. He’s hardly close to crossing the finish

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But if it’s strange to give someone a prize before they have crossed the finish line, it’s stranger still to even consider awarding them before the race has begun. At the latest, Obama was nominated for the award only Linnie Leavines Columnist 12 days after he took office; this year’s nominations closed that day.

Must’ve been a stellar first week, I suppose.

The truth is, he only won because he talks pretty and, more importantly, because he’s not George Bush. Then again, America elected him on this basis, so his receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for these same reasons shouldn’t surprise anyone.

In addition to congratulating Obama for not being George Bush, the Nobel committee also wanted to commend him for his “vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.”

I suppose this means the committee members haven’t heard of the recently discovered nuclear facilities in Iran, but whatever, it’s the “vision” that counts, anyway.

I can’t help but wonder what

sort of effect this cited reason for endorsement will have on the war in Afghanistan. It’s rather ironic this prize has been bestowed upon Obama right as he prepares to decide how to continue the operation in Afghanistan; currently the Obama administration has its hands tied with General McChrystal’s request for a minimum of 40,000 more troops.

Now that the peace prize is involved, waffling over McChrystal’s request has become a lose-lose situation. There’s a chance the prize may play a part in furthering Obama’s tendency to dismiss McChrystal’s plea for additional troops, which might smooth the feathers of the world and simultaneously displease a large portion Obama’s constituency.

But if Obama decides to heed McChrystal’s request, worldwide finger-pointing will ensue at what an failed “pacifist” the newest laureate is, therefore highlighting the obvious, vicious irony.

The committee should’ve foreseen a quandary like this. To award an essentially untried politician for rhetoric rather than action is a maneuver that risks the reputation of both the committee and the recipient, especially considering Obama still has war to contend with.

I would have much more respect for them had they waited until the viability of his peace initiatives

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were tested, rather than basing their decision solely on a candidate’s tendency to wax eloquent about world peace.

Despite all these reasonable objections, some still argue the prize is good for America’s reputation, deserved or not.

There is no pride in receiving an undeserved award. What good is to be found in reinforcing the fact that our leader is only admired for his oratory rather than his action?

Simply because the world is now hearing “America” and “peace” in the same sentence doesn’t mean antipathy will suddenly evaporate – unless one assumes the world is populated with children incapable of seeing past simple word association.

Rather, the world should see “America” and “peace” manifested in together tangible action and practical results.

To suggest the global community can be placated by less is patronizing and naïve at best – and terribly ignorant at worst.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY “The possible ranks higher than the actual.”

Martin Heidegger German philospher September 26, 1889 – May 26, 1976

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Corporate sponsorship could end budgetary drought A cold wind is blowing. The flagship agenda is flying halfmast. Florida won.

And now we have midterms brought to you by Popeye’s Chicken!

That’s right: As LSU continues to suffer the national recession, it needs to get a little creative. Let’s open the door to some flagrant corporate sponsorship!

Chancellor Martin has been diligent in his pep rallies, downplaying our budgetary hemorrhage.

But in times like these, money does the talking. Sure, we’ve got the Cox Center for Large Groups of Uninterested Underclassmen.

And there’s a nice little AT&T logo near the writing lab of the Journalism building. It’s about the size of a tissue box.

But who does Mike the Tiger endorse? Surely we can find some white-collar opportunists eager to trade names. Doritos Mike and his

Cool Ranch roar are poised to terrify the next generation of Southeastern Conference athletes.

The traffic department farts around campus in their F-250 trucks. Their stop-and-go driving probably flushes more money down the toilet on gas than they recoup on tickets. In times like these, the Kohler Force sounds better.

College kids’ attention spans can be short, so PowerPoint has emerged as a great natural sleep aid. I propose a 10-second commercial spot for every 20 PowerPoint slides. Any sort of audiovisual cues would re-engage even the most disinterested of students.

Podiums. When’s the last time you actually looked at one?

Well, you might if it told you when Transformers 2 was coming to Blu-Ray. Considering some students are still drunk the morning of their midterms, are “Scantrons by Bud

Light” so inappropriate?

Maybe once a day – just once – the bell tower could play McDonald’s’ “I’m Lovin’ It” jingle.

Of course, there are ethical implications.

A few logos here and there may tempt students with the fruits of adulthood, like spending money and Jack Johnson leaving their Columnist dorms. It may compromise the sanctity of higher education, unlike Facebook and wireless Internet during class.

Few of my professors from 2008 work here anymore.

We’re already hit with thousands of ads every day. Are we saying a few more aren’t worth the potential millions lost on keeping our naming rights “classy” and “prestigious”?

True, our renowned stake in the chemical engineering game has earned us support from petrochemical companies.

You might recognize Exxon, Chevron and Shell. What about our lesser known supporters, Gaylord Chemicals and Vulcan Materials?

In times like these, “Death Valley” is getting a bit stale. I’m thinking the mighty “Gaylord Vulcan Coliseum.”

It’s fresh. It’s so Gaylord.

None of this has to be permanent – just long enough to get us out of the hole.

We wouldn’t be “whoring ourselves out.” I’d just say it’s more like stripping. Because figuratively, like strippers, we’ve got some kids to take care of.

We’re working two jobs, trying to get through school and make ends meet.

We’ve all got winter clothes.

It’s been hot long enough.

The school’s not going any-

where – Flagship will be back in some form or another.

Our football team will be fine – we’re in the SEC, and you still had fun this weekend, right?

Midterms will be finished soon enough too. Your grade won’t matter in 20 years, but your ability to make a crap salad will.

The point is if you don’t have your sense of humor, you don’t have much else. In times like these, sarcasm is a comfortable refuge.

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Jack Johnson is a 23-year-old mass communication junior from Fort Worth, Texas. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_jjohnson.

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Choice of Alleva as athletic director still puzzling

By Stephen Wolf Special to The Daily Reveille

EDITOR’S NOTE: Stephen Wolf is a guest columnist for The Daily Reveille; his views do not represent those of the paper or its staff.

When LSU hired Joe Alleva as athletic director despite widespread doubt over his integrity and abilities, it struck me as a bit strange. Joe Alleva heading a supposed first class athletic department made as much sense to me as Jerry Springer: The Opera.

The two seemed incompatible.

When Joe Alleva was named vice chancellor due to title consolidation stemming from budget cuts, it struck me as very strange.

Joe Alleva holding a significant position of power in the academic hierarchy at a supposed “firsttier” university made as much sense to me as porn star Stormy Daniels running for U.S. Senate.

“Duke’s last president, Nan Keohane, made a terrible choice when she selected Alleva as athletic director in 1998,” wrote well-respected sportswriter John Feinstein in a 2007 column for the Washington Post. “Everyone at Duke knew that Alleva was a pleasant man whose next original idea would be his first, someone whose main asset when applying for the job was the fact that his racquetball partner was Mike Krzyzewski.”

LSU was given an additional 10 years to see just how incompetent Alleva is, and they still hired him.

Perhaps Alleva’s most egre-

gious mishandling of his job of athletic director at Duke was the lacrosse team scandal. The levels of hypocrisy on Alleva’s handling of this case left many wondering if it all stemmed from savvy damage control or frightening cluelessness.

When rumors about the lacrosse team’s propensity for outof-control partying reached Alleva, no action was taken. Once Duke players were accused of rape, the tide turned, and accused players were thrown under the bus prior to the inevitable conviction — that never came. Alleva was quoted as calling the dropping of the rape charge as “another step in establishing the entire truth in this matter.”

Alas, it was too late for Duke lacrosse coach Mike Pressler, who by all accounts had done nothing wrong, yet was the scapegoat for the entire case. Rather than admitting Duke’s Athletic Department had failed to heed warning signs of the team’s out-of-control behavior, blame was placed squarely on Pressler, and he was forced to resign.

What disturbs me most about Alleva’s handling of the scandal is his lack of accountability. His stubborn refusal to admit any fault and his witch-hunting mentality sets a scary precedent.

Joe Alleva’s bio on LSUSports.net is a riot.

“Alleva, 56, is well-respected for sustaining high standards of excellence and integrity in athletic programs, hiring the finest coaches in the country and the high level of success achieved by student-athletes.”

Does that include hiring Ted Roof, who went 6-45 while heading the mockery of a football program under Alleva’s watch?

What about Bill Hiller, who led Duke Baseball to a 121-214 record after Alleva hired him?

It’s no secret Alleva hires cronies with whom he has connections over qualified coaches.

“Under Alleva’s direction, all 20 LSU sports competed in NCAA post-season play for the first time in school history, and it culminated with the baseball team winning the national cham-

pionship.”

Yes, because we all know the impact Joe Alleva had on these programs’ performances in his first year as AD. In typical Alleva fashion, he takes credit for things he does not deserve and refuses blame when it is warranted. Alleva’s track record of “success” is filled with strong academic performances by his athletes at Duke, as if Alleva spent his weekends tutoring these athletes.

I’ve gotten this far, and I have not even mentioned mul-

tiple former Duke athletes accusing Alleva of encouraging them to use steroids.

Alas, in today’s day and age, a phony smile, a cheesy combover, and a mastery of the “cover your ass” philosophy trump a track record of substance.

Stephen Wolf is a mass communication sophomore from Deerfield, Illinois.

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starts with a phone call reporting animal activity, usually inside or underneath some campus building. He said his department doesn’t respond unless the animal poses some problem to the University.

Those problems come in all sizes, shapes and smells — from squirrels chewing wires in an attic to skunks feeding on peanuts underneath the old Alex Box Stadium.

Perault said he hasn’t encountered anything he couldn’t handle in 15 years of work. He said his main goal is keeping students safe.

“We have aggressive animals on campus, but no one ever got bit — no one ever got hurt,” Perault said.

“We’ve just been lucky, I guess.”

Perault said the biggest issue with most animals are fleas, especially when it comes to feral cats.

Once the flea-infested animals are gone, Perault said the University usually contracts Bayou Cajun Extermination, a local pest control agency, to get rid of the fleas.

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himself with cats if they become a nuisance or if they’re spreading fleas.

Some of the bigger animals — raccoons, possums and skunks — need a little more attention.

“Anywhere we think the animal will be a hazard to the students, we’re going to set up traps to catch and replace them,” Perault said. “I buy a lot of tuna.”

When a call comes in, Bernard is dispatched with those cans of tuna and a couple of animal-safe traps.

He’ll puncture the cans, but only enough to lure a hungry rodent to the trap.

They’re then loaded into the back of a Facility Services truck and taken off campus. Bernard said he usually releases them on River Road near Ben Hur Road.

“We take them down to the farms where they can run around and hopefully not get caught again,” Bernard said.

Contact Adam Duvernay at aduvernay@lsureveille.com

SURVEY, from page 1

choose which genre they would most like to hear and which genre they would least like to hear as the Groovin’ headliner.

SOT has lists of possible artists separated by genre, and the winning genre will be used to select a headliner, Guidry said.

The survey also gives students the opportunity to suggest artists for country, hip-hop, pop and rock genres and lend ideas on how to improve the event.

Groovin’ is paid for by a $3 fee assessed on students’ fee bills during the fall and spring semesters, Eldredge said.

Guidry said the Groovin’ fund is about $66,000, and SG is projecting to receive about $70,000 more in the spring semester. This is a projection because enrollment numbers shift every semester.

SG is also looking into the possibility of using sponsorship money and other SG funding, Eldredge said.

This year SG is looking for a headliner in the $40,000 to $60,000 range, Eldredge said.

Last year SG spent $75,000 on Akon, $25,000 on Corey Smith and $31,000 setting up the event, Eldredge said.

Guidry said SG will release the most popular genre or top two genres from the survey next week.

HOLIDAY SHUTTLE The Office of Parking, Traffic and Transportation released a survey Monday to gauge the optimal days to provide students with a holiday shuttle bus to and from airports in Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

SG Director of Transportation Noah Miller said the goal is to have the shuttle running by Thanksgiving.

The survey is meant to determine the logistics of when students would want to leave, how many buses would be needed and how many trips to and from the airports would be necessary, Miller said.

Watkins said costs for the shuttle service would be determined by the results of this survey.

The most difficult parts of organizing the project are determining how much students would use a shuttle to New Orleans and considering a possible $10 to $20 fee for the trips to New Orleans, Miller said.

CAMPUS TRANSIT The Office of Parking, Traffic and Transportation will release a survey to gather feedback on the new bus system.

Miller said the purpose of the survey is to ask what students want to change and to gather feedback on driver performance.

Contact Xerxes A. Wilson at xwilson@lsureveille.com

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