The Daily Reveille - July 7, 2009

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ENTERTAINMENT Some students say they are shaken by recent celebrity deaths, page 3.

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Louisiana sees decrease in crop production

By Steven Powell Contributing Writer

Donald Schexnayder is feeling the negative effects of recent dry weather and awaits the coming harvest to know exactly how much of his crops he has lost.

“We know we have a yield loss in corn and soybeans, but don’t know how much,” the West Baton Rouge and Pointe Coupee Parish farmer said. “It may only be 5 percent, or it may be as high

as 35 to 50 percent.”

Mike Strain, commissioner of agriculture and forestry, said planting and production has decreased in almost all crops statewide, with cotton and rice totaling a combined 110,000 less acres in production than 2008.

Strain said he predicts the cotton harvest to be between 210,000 and 230,000 acres — the lowest harvest in a century.

CROPS, see page 6

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(Left) Whitney Kiehn waters plants in a greenhouse on campus Wednesday.

(Above) Tomatoes wait to be harvested in the LSU agricultural garden.

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TECHNOLOGY

Illegal downloads fine begins Aug. 1

By Robert Stewart Contributing Writer

College students may think the $50 fine they’ll soon face for illegally downloading music is a lot of money, but the alternative could be much ‘There are worse.

Beginning places that Aug. 1, the have University will fine students actually $50 for illeshut off the gally sharing and download- ability to do ing files on the any sharing LSU network of files.’ in accordance with the Digi- Sheri Thompson tal Millennium IT officer Copyright Act. The Recording Industry Association of America has the legal authority to take offenders to court where they could face up a minimum of $750 per song for civil penalties, according to its Web site. Criminal penalties can run as high as $250,000 and five years in prison.

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LEGISLATION

Bill signed to protect bikers from motor vehicles University regulations routinely broken

By Xerxes A. Wilson Contributing Writer

University Associate Librarian Mark Martin has not owned a motor vehicle for the past 20 years. An avid bicycle advocate, Martin rides his bike to work, the grocery store, the movie theatre and virtually everywhere else he goes.

Martin is a part of a growing group of commuters who rely on their bicycles not just for leisure purposes but as their primary mode of transportation.

Commuters like Martin and many students who make the trek to campus via

bicycle will see some welcome changes as the city implements various incentives to make bicycling throughout Baton Rouge easier.

Governor Jindal signed House Bill 725 into law creating the “Colin Goodier Protection Act.” The bill mandates motor vehicles leave at least 3 feet of “safe space” between vehicle and bike when passing a bicycle on the street. Under the new law, violators of will be fined no more than $250.

Martin is the chairman of Baton Rouge Advocates for Safe Streets, a Baton Rouge bicycle advocacy group, and said 3 feet is a safe distance depending on the speed at which cars are traveling.

“When cars are going at high speeds, they need to [move over to] pass in the other lane,” Martin said. “I often drive my

bike to Winn Dixie on Burbank, and cars need to pass [bicyclists] in the other lane because they are just traveling too fast.”

Moshe Cohen, mathematics graduate student, commutes on his bike to campus daily. Cohen said cars often pass bikes so closely and at such fast speeds that it makes bikes temporarily lose control often leading to a crash.

“There shouldn’t be a specific amount of feet for a car to leave when passing,” Cohen said. “If you are driving on a country road and want to pass a tractor there are laws for passing that slow moving vehicle.

The same rules that apply for cars passing a slow moving car should apply for cars passing a slow moving bike.”

Cohen said he has had multiple BIKES, see page 5

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A bike rider in the quad splits through pedestrians Monday.

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INTERNATIONAL

TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2009

NATIONAL

Big nuclear cuts in sight, Obama, Medvedev declare

Slain S.C. serial killing suspect had long rap sheet

MOSCOW (AP) — Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev confidently committed to a yearend deal to slash nuclear stockpiles by about a third on Monday, but the U.S. leader failed to crack stubborn Kremlin objections to America’s missile defense plans — a major stumbling block to such an agreement. Both men renewed pledges to pull U.S.-Russian relations out of the dismal state into which they had descended during the eight years of the Bush administration.

And to that end, they signed a series of agreements and joint statements designed to enliven and quicken contacts on a broad range of issues — including cooperation on Afghanistan, a key Obama foreign policy objective. Obama said the leaders both felt relations had “suffered from a sense of drift. President Medvedev and I are committed to leaving behind the suspicion and rivalry of the past.”

GAFFNEY, S.C. (AP) — The serial killer who terrorized a South Carolina community by shooting five people to death before police killed him Monday was a career criminal paroled just two months ago, authorities said. Patrick Burris, 41, was shot to death by officers investigating a burglary complaint at a home in Gastonia, N.C., 30 miles from where the killing spree started June 27.

Ballistics tests showed his gun matched the one used to kill residents in and around Gaffney over six days last week, said State Law Enforcement Division Chief Reggie Lloyd. Investigators did not have an address for Burris.

While evidence left no doubt he was the killer, they still had no idea why he did it. “He was unpredictable. He was scary. He was weird,” said SLED Deputy Director Neil Dolan. Burris had a long rap sheet filled with con-

STATE/LOCAL victions for larceny, forgery and breaking and entering in states across the Southeast, including Florida, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland. He had been paroled from a North Carolina prison in April after serving nearly eight years for felony breaking and entering and larceny. “Look at this,” Lloyd said, waiving a stapled copy of Burris’ criminal record. “This is like 25 pages. At some point the criminal justice system is going to need to explain why this suspect was out on the street.” Gaffney farmer Sam Howell, 61, was among dozens of people from Cherokee County who came to the news conference where authorities identified Burris. “My prayers were answered.

He got what he deserved,” Howell said. “He scared the hell out of everyone. I guess we can feel better but we’ve lost some of our innocence.” The mystery ended in Gastonia early Monday after Mike and Terry Valentine called police to report a suspicious sport utility vehicle in their neighborhood. They were on edge because the Gaffney serial killer was just a short drive away.

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Initial jobless claims down BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Unemployment insurance claims for newly laid-off workers in Louisiana fell more than 25 percent for the week ending June 27, the Louisiana Workforce Commission reported Monday. For the latest week, there were 4,655 new initial claims for benefits. That compares with 6,113 such claims for the week ending June 20. But there was an increase in the number of continued benefit weeks, which is an indicator of whether those laid off are getting new jobs. As of the latest tally, those weeks increased to 59,504 from the previous week’s total of 57,408. The Workforce Commission said the transportation equipment sector had the largest increase in continued weeks. That sector includes the General Motors Corp. plant in Shreveport, which is on a production shutdown, and fueled the previous week’s increase of 19 percent in first-time claims.

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ENTERTAINMENT

Some students in shock from recent celebrity deaths Several stars have died this summer

By Kyle Bove Senior Writer

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Michael Jackson fans gather at the flower- and message-covered gated entry of the late pop star’s former residence, Neverland Ranch, in Los Olivos, California.

Campus was abuzz with Michael Jackson sentiments Monday — just as it has been since the icon’s death on June 25. Lots more buzz, and media coverage, is expected today as Jackson’s massive memorial service is held in Los Angeles.

Jackson is one of several public figures — including actress Farrah Fawcett, pitchman Billy Mays, former NFL quarterback Steve McNair, TV personality

Ed McMahon, actor David Carradine and ex-defense secretary Robert McNamara — to die since June, and University students are reacting to the news differently.

“I was most shocked about ...

Michael Jackson,” said Hannah Coe, mathematics freshman. “To me, he represents an era.”

More than 1.6 million people registered for free tickets to Jackson’s 10 a.m. memorial service at the Staples Center, which will be broadcast live worldwide, according to The Associated Press.

A total of 8,750 people were chosen to receive two tickets each.

Stevie Wonder, Mariah Carey, Usher, Lionel Richie, Kobe Bryant, Jennifer Hudson, John Mayer and Martin Luther King

III are participating in the ceremony.

Coe said she is a big fan of The Jackson 5, and has watched the coverage of Michael’s death for nearly two weeks since his death. “[The media coverage] is really repetitive,” Coe said. “I love MJ, but I’m getting sick of it.”

Others feel similarly, like Baton Rouge resident Kris Wilson.

“People make too much out of celebrity lives and celebrity deaths,” Wilson said. “Don’t we have our own lives?”

The California native said she is used to the draw of Hollywood, but that stories like JackCELEBS, see page 5

ART

History of Standard Oil on display at Hill Library Exhibit features photos from 1909

By Mary Walker Baus Contributing Writer

When John D. Rockefeller expanded his Standard Oil company, he changed the image of big business, became the country’s richest man and set the foundation for the city of Baton Rouge.

The exhibit “A Century of Standard Oil in Baton Rouge” on display at Hill Memorial Library lets visitors explore life in Baton Rouge before, during and after the establishment of the Standard Oil company, which is now ExxonMobil. “[The exhibit] gives people a real window on what it was like here 100 years ago,” said Elaine Smyth, head of Special Collections at Hill Memorial Library.

“You can see how people lived.

The pictures are interesting ...

They show a glimpse of the history of Standard Oil and how it changed Baton Rouge as well.”

The exhibit features reproductions of photographs taken in 1909 by Standard Oil of Louisiana accountant John Adam Bechtold. These photos were donated to the exhibit by Bechtold’s granddaughter Marna Shortess of Baton Rouge. “[The exhibit] gives [viewers] a sense of the history of how much Standard Oil meant to Baton Rouge and how much it’s helped Baton Rouge evolve,” said Shortess. “Way back then, everyone had a connection with Standard Oil.” Bechtold photographed his fellow employees, the Standard Oil headquarters, the railroads, the commotion on payday and the construction of the company in Baton Rouge.

“We thought it was appropriate to mark the 100th anniversary of the company in Baton Rouge,” Smyth said.

The exhibit also features

items from the University’s Special Collections, such as old newspaper clippings about Standard Oil and two maps of Baton Rouge that show the progression of the city and growth of subdivisions around the refinery. Smyth said these subdivisions housed Standard Oil employees and made it an easier commute for the workers.

“Baton Rouge, around 1900, was a relatively small place.

It was a river port,” said Paul Paskoff, history professor. “When Standard Oil came in 1909 ... it transformed Baton Rouge almost overnight into a high-tech center.

It’s been essential to the economic development of the state.”

Paskoff said companies like Standard Oil changed how Americans identified themselves in society. He said people began to define themselves by what they did and for whom they worked in the early 1900s.

The photographs depict this sociocultural change of big busi-

ness in America in the early 20th century. Some of the pictures show the refinery employees doing calisthenics in the field in their white button-down shirts, ties and pants. The Standard Oil company of Louisiana also had its own baseball team and marching band, which played at the dedication of the University’s current campus in 1926.

“For people going to school here, especially for LSU students from Louisiana, this is the corporation that transformed this state and certainly Baton Rouge and Southern Louisiana from being a predominately agricultural region into a vital and the crucial source of petroleum products, refining and shipping of petroleum in the U.S.,” said Paskoff.

The exhibit will be on display at Hill until August 15, 2009.

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“A Century of Standard Oil in Baton Rouge” is on display in Hill Memorial Library.

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Campus Crime Briefs MAN ARRESTED FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE A man unaffiliated with the University was arrested on July 1 for domestic violence at about 1:14 a.m. near East Laville Hall.

LSU Police Department Spokesman Sgt. Blake Tabor said Graylin L. Hammond, 20, of 4446 Sycamore Street, Baton Rouge, was arrested after reportedly choking his girlfriend in her

West Campus Apartment room.

The girl’s roommates called LSUPD after they heard the disturbance. Tabor said Hammond barricaded the door and choked the girl after the two had an argument in her room.

The roommates eventually got into the room and told Hammond to leave.

Officers arrested him near East Laville Hall.

Hammond was booked in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison for false imprisonment and simple battery in the course of domestic violence.

TWO MEN ARRESTED FOR PUBLIC DRUNKENNESS Two men unaffiliated with the University were arrested for disturbing the peace by public drunkenness on June 30 at about 6 p.m.

John Wesley Graves, 45, of 25085 Greenwell Springs Road, Baton Rouge, and Kevin Carlock, 34, of 25093 Greenwell Springs, Baton Rouge, were kayaking in University Lake when Graves fell into the water and lost his kayak, Tabor said.

Two witnesses who were also kayaking said Graves appeared

TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2009 intoxicated and called LSUPD. When officers arrived, Carlock had brought Graves to shore, Tabor said.

Graves and Carlock were uncooperative with the officers and were both arrested for disturbing the peace by public drunkenness, Tabor said.

The two were each issued a misdemeanor summons.

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STUDENT LIFE

Students spend time researching off the Gulf Coast Water and sediment samples studied

By Elizabeth Miller Special to The Daily Reveille

GULF OF MEXICO — While some university student lab jobs entail hours of scooping rat droppings or entering statistics into databases, other research assignments have students jumping off the deep end — literally.

Graduate student researchers at Louisiana State University weave their way through the coastal wetlands of Louisiana into the northern Gulf of Mexico on monthly research trips, aboard “The Pelican,” a 116-foot research vessel, to collect water and sediment samples. They use the samples to study everything from temperature and salinity to pollutant toxins in shellfish.

The Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON), an organization composed of the 20 Louisiana colleges and universities that provides research and educational facilities on the Louisiana Gulf Coast, organizes the two- to three-day trips with university scientists. Students begin their journeys with late-night departures at the consortiums research labs in

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Ana Cristina Garcia, oceanography graduate student, pulls a net from the water after completing a net tow where to get a concentrated sample of seawater.

Cocodrie, La. The Pelican’s six-person crew steers the boat to the first research station, about seven hours offshore, while students and researchers catch a few hours of sleep in the ships dormitory style rooms below.

The boats follow a transect of stations located within 50 miles of the coast. At each station researchers use methods varying from throwing a bucket overboard to collect water samples to employing an onboard crane to gently lift and pull specialized machinery in and out of the Gulf waters. Even with

strict safety standards including a no tolerance alcohol or drug policy to wearing hard hats and life jackets on deck, students say the time spent on the boat is a nice break from long days spent inside labs back on the Baton Rouge campus.

Ana Christina Garcia, oceanography graduate student, said she enjoys trips on the boat because she is able to interact with other researchers on the water. The Atlanta native is studying pollutant toxins in shellfish uses the time between stations “napping, eating small snacks, catching up on homework

and gossiping.”

The researchers say they don’t get seasick, almost chuckling at the idea because of the amount of time they spend on the water, but one crewmember said researchers new to the boat and visitors often spend more time in bed below deck then conducting research.

But with meals at 6 a.m., noon and 6 p.m. cooked by a gourmet chef, veteran researchers and crew say the long hours and hard work are worth it.

Depending on their studies and the type of equipment used, some researchers have more work than others while on the boat. Jennifer Lasseigne, Ph.D student, is hoping to study a historical timeline of one of the fastest growing threats to Louisiana’s gulf coast – hypoxia.

Hypoxia, commonly known as the dead zone, forms each summer in some layers of the Gulf when oxygen levels drop too low to support most life. It occurs because algae growth stimulated by Mississippi River pollutants that are released upstream and flow into the Gulf. The decomposition of the algae consumes oxygen faster than it can be replenished from the surface, thus decreasing levels of dissolved oxygen in the water which is crucial to the habitats of fish, shrimp and other marine wildlife.

Lasseigne uses a box core, a

metal machine that drops to the bottom of the sea, which pushes itself into the mud and uses a trap door to collect samples of the ocean floor. She collects foramphonifera, a microscopic animal that leaves a shell behind as a fossil. The fossils are analyzed to indicate oxygen conditions or past environmental conditions.

“We use it to see what species are alive right now in the Gulf and hopefully use that to reconstruct some historical timelines of the species,” Lasseigne said.

The Pelican cost about $8,000 a day to operate, but according to LUMCON’s director, Nancy Rabalais, the marine operation is funded by grants from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research. Rabalais says the boat is but “a small part compared to the technical staff that I have to put on board, and the post laboratory work and data management.”

However, because of the specialized research done on Louisiana’s coast, the consistent results and the research experience gained by students, she calls the cost “priceless.”

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FESTIVALS

Bill Cosby draws crowd to Essence town hall Comedian lectured on family values

By Chevel Johnson The Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hundreds packed a huge hall at the Morial Convention Center on Saturday to hear from comedian, activist and educator Bill Cosby, a featured speaker at the Essence Music Festival’s annual gathering of leaders charged with finding solutions to problems facing urban America.

Cosby, who’s often criticized for his scolding tone when discussing ills facing the African American community, was warmly received, drawing applause and other positive reactions throughout his nearly 90-minute conversa-

tion.

Moderator Wendy Wilson, editor of Essence.com, noted that statistics show that every school day, some 7,000 children drop out.

“Are you sure it’s every day?,” Cosby asked, as audience members laughed. “Because if you go from September to July, at that rate, we’d have no one left to teach.”

Using his trademark storytelling humor, Cosby said curbing the nation’s drop out rate starts with educators who love what they do.

He asked the audience if they remember Mr. So-and-So or Ms. Whoever, who taught them biology or algebra and they didn’t want that teacher because “they gave too much work” but then “you were crying tears after graduating from that class, thanking that teacher for giving them so much work.”

“Our children need us,” he said. “We’ve got to get people into the system who want to teach. We need principals who want to train teachers. In the name of God, or anyone else you believe in, 420 students need more than one counselor. Our children deserve better.”

“Those who are teachers, don’t give up,” Cosby implored. “This is your civil rights issue now.”

Cosby also touched on the tendency of some in the community to “play the blame game” instead of searching for a solution to whatever problem was at hand.

“If something bad is happening in the community, why do we just keep on talking about it?” he said. “We’ve got to get our people to believe in themselves again, to value themselves and stop waiting for Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to fix it.”

Eric Wesson, of Kansas City, Mo., said he thought Cosby’s comments were on point.

“I think he did a phenomenal job bringing issues we face daily to the forefront,” he said. “I also think he may have been preaching to the choir because most of those in this arena already have a bit of social consciousness and the question remains on whether they can take it back to the community. He was more of a motivator in that regard, to get people out and working in the community.”

The town hall’s host, political commentator Roland Martin, gave the audience homework assignments, asking them to write down one thing they would do over the course of the next year to fix a problem in their home town.

“How do we move forward with the issues facing our community? What will you do to change

where you live?,” he said.

Regina Saiz, of Gilbert, Ariz., said Cosby was interesting as always.

“I think his reiterating that we’ve got to do it on our own really hit home and he was able to make his point using humor,” she said.

Benjamin Todd Jealous, national president and chief executive of the NAACP, also addressed the crowd and asked for their help in tackling issues facing America, among them, universal health care, racial profiling, the No Child Left Behind act and unions for small businesses.

“We need your help,” he said.

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Tuesday, July 7, 2009 BIKES, from page 1

experiences where cars ran him off the road by passing too closely and pointed out that by law bikes are, “to be to the right of the road as practical.”

“This doesn’t mean the bike has to be in the gutter or riding in the ditch,” Cohen said. “Because a bike doesn’t normally take up a whole lane cars often pass them up in the bike’s lane running the bike off the road ... so the big thing about this law is to give bikers this buffer zone.”

The Colin Goodier Protection Act also makes it unlawful to “harass, taunt, or maliciously throw objects at or in the direction of any person riding a bicycle.” Violators could face a fine of no less than $200 or could face up to 30 days of jail time. “[Being harassed by a motor vehicle] is not a daily occurrence, but it happens enough to be considered regular,” Martin said. “I guess because people are in such a hurry and they think they should be the only ones on the road. And for the last six decades that is pretty much what the city has done [by advocating] nothing but automobile traffic.”

The bill was introduced by Rep. Michael Jackson, Ind.-Baton Rouge. Jackson said the bill is a part of a citywide and nationwide effort to make streets more safe for residents who choose to bike for their commute.

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Sidewalk Road Rage Seeing a bicycle illegally blow through a crosswalk or zoom down a narrow sidewalk into the quad is a common complaint among University pedestrians and vehicle commuters.

University policy specifically prohibits bikes riding on sidewalks and the quad. Lt. Jeffrey Metzger leads LSUPD’s mountain bike force and said students that ride their bikes in unauthorized areas could be subject to a fine of $5 to $7.

“Especially around the quad, bikers come around the corners really fast and are inconsiderate,” said Mary Hodgkins, chemical engineering freshman. “If I had a bike I would want to ride it around, but they really should realize that they need to slow down.”

Metzger said the LSUPD mountain bike unit set up in the quad and issued warnings to bikers illegally riding last year. Although it is against University policy students commonly ride through the quad and on sidewalks because they don’t see any harm in it.

“I ride my bike through the quad because I am not just going to get off my bike just to walk a little and get back on,” said Mark Duplessis, communication studies senior. “Most of the time I walk around campus and bikers are not a problem to me ... people [who complain about bikes] just want to find something else to bitch about.”

Another complaint involving bicyclists on campus is that they

dangerously weave through traffic and blow across pedestrian sidewalks as if they were walking.

“When a biker rides across a crosswalk, it is [considered] the same as driving a car through a crosswalk,” Metzger said. “However if they get off of their bike and walk across, they are considered pedestrians.”

Metzger explained that if a bike gets into an accident with a motor vehicle while using a pedestrian crosswalk the bike is legally blamed because it is not legally allowed to ride across the crosswalk.

Although specific statistics are not available, Maj. Helen Haire of LSUPD said two to five accidents typically occur on campus during a semester.

Metzger explained that bikes need to act like motor vehicles and motor vehicles need to treat bikes as motor vehicles to commute properly.

I think [bikes and cars getting along] is completely dependent on behaviors on both sides,” Martin said. “People who ride bikes need to ride properly need to pay more attention and need to not blow through crosswalks because they are not pedestrians. But I think a lot of people do that on bikes because they are scared to be in the road.”

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New legislation signed will help protect bicyclists from motor vehicles.

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CELEBS, from page 3

son’s death take attention away from bigger issues like health care and poverty. She said while her thoughts go out to his family, the amount of coverage is unfair.

McNair and his girlfriend were found shot to death in a Nashville apartment Saturday afternoon. Police are calling McNair’s death a homicide.

Mfon Ubaha, finance freshman, said he was just as shocked and saddened to hear of McNair’s death as he was of Jackson’s. He is a fan of both the stars. “[Jackson’s death] was pretty sad,” Ubaha said. “I was a big fan of his early career.”

Ubaha said he has kept a close eye on the McNair media coverage.

“I’m a huge football guy,” Ubaha said. “I watched him play a lot.”

McNair’s death is still under investigation.

Robert Schmidt, psychology junior, said he has followed Jackson’s death coverage the closest.

“Hopefully people will remember him for his music and not the child molestation cases,” Schmidt said.

Jackson was only 50 years old — a chilling fact that has stuck with Schmidt. He said while the media circus surrounding Jackson’s death is a bit crazy, it’s nothing new.

“It’s a little overboard,” Schmidt said. “But it’s always been that way with Jackson.”

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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.

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Slawomir Maniecki stands on his father’s back while he signs a large poster at the Staples Center in Los Angeles where Jackson’s memorial service is scheduled today.

Thursday: $15.99 All you can eat wings. $4 Mother Plucker Mugs. $3 Margaritas and Pluckers Lemonades.

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Sheri Thompson, IT planning and communications officer, said she understands a typical RIAA subpoena to be $4,000.

She said the University wanted to fine students an amount that was enough to deter them from illegally sharing files but wouldn’t be an overwhelming burden. “$50 isn’t $4,000 and isn’t debilitating and going to be the difference between them being able to live their life fully,” Thompson said.

Thompson said the fine became necessary when the number of violations increased despite the University telling students

CROPS, from page 1

The cotton industry has scaled back production since last year because of high input costs — such as fertilizer — and are looking to alternative crops, such as soy beans and corn, which have lower input costs, he said.

Strain said farmers battle a number of factors each year, such as droughts and hurricanes. This year, farmers have dealt with significant droughts and hailstorms, damaging nearly 60,000 acres of cotton, he said.

In addition to storms, Strain said farmers lose an average of 24,000 acres per year to urban encroachment.

Schexnayder said his company lost 330 acres of corn and 200 acres of wheat from a hail-

THE DAILY REVEILLE “this is not the way to go.”

“This is costing us money whenever a violation occurs,” she said. “It was really becoming a burden.”

Thompson said there was a decrease in the number of violations on campus a couple of years ago before rising back to about 200 last year.

“It had gotten down to probably about 100, but it was still too many,” Thompson said.

Thompson said the RIAA monitors ports to see if they have left any music files that belong to the RIAA open to the public.

“When you transfer files, they’re called packets, and these packets can be identified as to

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what they are,” Thompson said.

“Usually it’s through things like BitTorrent, or through LimeWire, or any other things that are shareware, where people put up stuff illegally or make it available illegally.”

Thompson said many universities have been working in cooperation with the RIAA for several years. “[The RIAA has] a list every year that comes out of the top offenders,” Thompson said. “Fortunately we have not been on that list, and we don’t want to be on that list. But there are places that have actually shut off the ability to do any sharing of files because they were getting so many com-

plaints from the RIAA.” Thompson said students aren’t the only ones illegally downloading music on the LSU network.

“Faculty and staff are doing it,” she said. “You just don’t get those notifications very often.”

Thompson said a first offense warrants a fine and the shutdown of a student’s port, while a second offense sends a student to the Dean of Students’ office.

“With multiple offenses, you do face expulsion,” Thompson said.

The RIAA can also pursue legal action if it decides a student’s actions are severe.

Thompson said she is not

aware of the RIAA suing any University students in the past for an offense.

She said the University would have to send the student a letter if the RIAA wishes to subpoena them.

“We don’t tell the RIAA who you are. They have to get a subpoena for that,” Thompson said.

“Once they get a subpoena, they say ‘OK, person X, you’ve done this, now that’s $4,000 for our time.’ And you have 28 days or something ridiculous to pay it. If you don’t pay it, the fine goes up from there.”

storm last year, but have not sufLawrence Johnson, agriculfered damage from major storms ture professor, said Louisiana this year. has been reducing cotton acreage In Louisiana, cotton pro- each year for the past few years. duction decreased from 300,000 “Historically, cotton has acres in 2008 to 240,000 acres been a pretty good enterprise,” he in 2009. Rice lost said. “Most of the a total of 50,000 cotton went to doacres between Crop Production Numbers mestic mills and a 2008 and 2009, from 2008 to 2009: small portion was while corn has • Cotton - down 60,000 acres exported. Howevincreased from • Rice - down 50,000 acres er, foreign compe520,000 acres to • Corn - up 180,000 acres tition has closed 700,000 acres. • Sugarcane - down 5,000 acres many domestic Sugarcane harvest mills, and most of • Soybeans - same has dropped from the cotton is now 405,000 acres in exported.”

2008 to 400,000 acres in 2009.

Strain said the decrease in Soybean production remained cotton will have an adverse effect flat, with 1,050,000 acres in pro- on the state economy. duction both years, according to “I would say the total overall the U.S. Department of Agricul- impact of a 130,000 acre loss is ture. about a $70 million direct impact

on our economy,” he said.

Strain said farmers are taking a hit from the decreased production. Some farmers will have to dip into savings or find other means of income, he said.

Johnson said many farmers are turning to other enterprises, such as soybeans and corn. However, as cotton gins and warehouses close and deteriorate, it causes financial problems for farmers and investors, he said.

“The switch to exporting is good for consumers because of the lower prices on clothes, but bad for farmers,” he said. “Some farmers still have investments in machinery, which puts them in a bad financial situation.”

Schexnayder said crop loss takes a toll on surrounding economies as well.

“It has a huge impact on rural communities,” he said. “All the money lost from the community because of a smaller harvest really takes a toll.”

Strain said there are many factors affecting the decrease in production, one of which is a result of the economic recession.

“Overall, the lower availability of capital and lower commodities have contributed to the loss of harvest,” he said. “Also, the storms have had a major negative impact this year.”

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TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2009

MINOR LEAP “He knows the game so well. He’s got me so much more relaxed behind the plate. From where I was my freshman year to where I am now, it’s two totally different people, and that’s all because of him.”

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[Top] LSU assistant coach Javi Sanchez looks on during LSU’s 9-7 win against Alabama in Baton Rouge on April 6, 2008. [Above] Sanchez coaches third base during LSU’s 9-5 win against Virginia on June 13 in Omaha, Neb.

By David Helman Contributing Writer

JAVI, see page 10

JERSEYS, see page 10

Sanchez leaves minor league baseball to coach Tigers LSU assistant coach Javi Sanchez was sitting at an Applebee’s in 2007 during a stint in class-A ball when he got a phone call from LSU coach Paul Mainieri.

He decided to let it ring three times before he answered it because he knew what it was about – quitting playing to coach for the Tigers for the upcoming season.

After finally answering the phone, Sanchez had a 30-minute talk with Mainieri before telling the LSU skipper he would call him back. It took three weeks to make the decision, but he decided he would join Mainieri at LSU as a volunteer coach for the 2008 season.

“I never thought I would end up coaching under [Mainieri] so soon or for that matter I never even thought I would get into coaching,” Sanchez said. “[Mainieri] was pretty much the only guy I would consider coaching

Tigers to add ‘LSU’ to front of uniforms

under.”

Sanchez and Mainieri were no strangers to one another before the call — Sanchez played four seasons under Mainieri at Notre Dame from 2001-2004 before being drafted after his senior year in the 14th round of the 2004 MLB Draft to the Minnesota Twins organization.

The now second-year coach for the Tigers averaged a .280 batting average as a catcher and middle infielder for the Fighting Irish, driving in 96 runs with an on-base percentage of .350 while helping lead the team to a 2002 College World Series berth.

Sanchez — the first player Mainieri recruited from his high school alma mater of Christopher Columbus Catholic High School in Miami — started at shortstop his sophomore season due to a pair of injuries to two shortstops just nine games into the season.

photo courtesy of Steve Franz

By Andy Schwehm

FOOTBALL

Just in case anyone forgot who they’re rooting for this fall in Tiger Stadium, the LSU football team is adding one more reminder.

The Tigers have made a minor change to this season’s uniforms, adding text to the front of the jersey.

“We did indeed add ‘LSU’ to the uniform just under the neckline,” said Michael Bonnette, LSU sports information director.

The new text will feature the University’s primary logo just above the chest number. It will appear in white on the Tigers’ purple home jerseys and in purple on the team’s famous white uniforms.

“There’s nowhere on the actual uniform that actually says ‘LSU,’” Bonnette said. “The idea was to have ‘LSU’ more visible.”

The change catches the Tigers up with the rest of the Southeastern Conference. LSU was the only team in the SEC that didn’t feature some variation of its name or logo on the front of its uniform.

Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi State, Tennessee and Vanderbilt all feature the school’s logo on their jersey front, while Auburn, Arkansas, Kentucky, Ole Miss and South Carolina display some variation of their school name or mascot.

LSU fans have been known to be passionate about the team’s threads, especially with the legend of the home whites hanging in the balance.

The belief that the Tigers play

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TRACK AND FIELD

Thompson qualifies for Worlds Six former Tigers headed to Berlin

By Robert Stewart Contributing Writer

Richard Thompson’s win in the 100-meter dash at the Trinidad and Tobago national championships was impressive considering the circumstances that surrounded him.

The former LSU star sprinter was involved in a car accident in January, setting his training routine back several weeks.

And now Thompson is one

of six former LSU track and field athletes who will compete in the 2009 IAAF World Championships on Aug. 15-23 after picking up his first career Trinidad and Tobago national title June 21.

“We were worried about whether or not we would be able to catch up,” said LSU coach Dennis Shaver, with whom Thompson still trains. “While I still feel he’s a little bit behind, certainly for him to give that kind of an effort in Trinidad, both he and I were very pleased with it.”

Shaver said the former LSU athletes who qualified for the World Championships will begin training

in Baton Rouge in late July before heading to Berlin.

He said some of the athletes will participate in competitions in Europe for several weeks until they return to Louisiana.

“There’ll be about probably an eight to 10 day period there that they’ll be here kind of resting a little bit from running in Europe and will be training here,” Shaver said.

Thompson had a whirlwind 2008 season, winning the NCAA championships in the 60- and 100-meter dashes as well as the silver medal in the 100-meter dash at QUALIFYING, see page 11

TODD J. VAN ERNST / The Associated Press

LSU sprinter Trindon Holiday, left, and former Tiger Richard Thompson, right, run in the 100-meter dash May 18, 2008 in Auburn, Ala., during the SEC Outdoor Championships. Thompson won the race, and Holiday finished second.

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TENNIS

Federer sets record with No. 15 Roddick loses in five-set heartbreaker

By Howard Fendrick The Associated Press

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — So many milestones and never-beendone-befores arise seemingly every time Roger Federer steps on court.

The 2009 Wimbledon final against Andy Roddick was no different, and not merely because they played a 16-14 fifth set and 77 games total, records for any Grand Slam championship match.

Federer’s victory gave him 15 Grand Slam titles, one more than the career mark he once shared with Pete Sampras. It came in Federer’s seventh consecutive title match at the All England Club and 20th major final, two more records. It gave Federer six Wimbledon championships, one shy of the record. It returned Federer to No. 1 in the rankings.

It’s enough to make a guy’s head spin. Even Federer’s.

“It can freak you out,” Federer said Monday, reclining on a leather couch at the All England Club during a brief interview with The Associated Press.

“It’s a test, and that’s why I like to go over these records: ‘What’s on the line? OK. No problem. I’ve heard them now.’ You read them quickly for a few minutes, and then you know,” he said.

So here, then, is what Federer does: He finds out about the various important matters — historymaking matters — at stake heading into a particular match. He does this homework a day or so ahead of time, absorbs it all, then does his best to put it out of his mind when the ball is in play.

“You think about it for the rest of the day. But then the shock’s gone, at least,” Federer explained. “And then, maybe the next day, when the match comes around, you’re all right, focusing again on forehands and backhands and serves.”

No one ever has managed that last part better at as many major tournaments.

That he can repeatedly summon the stamina — he and Roddick played for 4 hours, 16 minutes — and strokes to keep winning, day after day, tournament after tournament, is all the more impressive when you consider the expectations that come with being Roger Federer.

And he knows about those expectations, and his achievements, as well as anyone.

“It’s important to face it, not say, ‘Oooh, I don’t want to hear about it.’ Because it’s there. It’s reality,” Federer said. “And I always say, ‘You’ve got to be able to handle it.’”

He’ll make passing references to his various bona fides, pointing out before Sunday’s match, for example, that it would represent his sixth consecutive Grand Slam final. Or noting Monday that he’s participated in 16 of the past 17 Grand Slam finals.

To some that might seem arrogant. But it isn’t if you can back it up.

Which Federer keeps doing,

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Wimbledon champion Roger Federer holds his championship trophy during the Champions Dinner at the Hotel Intercontinental in London on July 5.

at a remarkable rate: Sampras’ 14 majors were won over a span of 12 years; Federer’s 15 have come in a six-year span.

Against Roddick, Federer smacked a career-high 50 aces, but he had the toughest time trying to break the American’s vaunted serve.

He simply couldn’t do it. Federer was able to win the second and third sets thanks to tiebreakers, but Wimbledon — unlike the U.S. Open — doesn’t use tiebreakers in fifth sets.

So heading into that final set Sunday, Federer knew that he had to break Roddick to win.

“It played on my mind,” Federer said. “Going into the fifth, I knew, ‘Well, this is not where a tiebreak is going to save me here, Rog.’ I knew I needed to break him eventually. ...

And you’re, like, ‘How am I ever

going to get a break point? He’s serving massive.’ He really made it difficult for me.”

Roddick held serve in 37 consecutive games. Only in the 38th, and last, of Roddick’s service games did Federer break him.

“He was having trouble picking up my serve today for the first time ever,” 2003 U.S. Open champion Roddick said Sunday after falling to 2-19 against Federer. “You didn’t even get a sense that he was even really frustrated by it. ... He gets a lot of credit for a lot of things, but not a lot of the time is how many matches he kind of digs deep and toughs out.”

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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

DOG DAYS: SUMMER SPORTS BLOG

Voters got MLB All-Star rosters right for most part Well, the people have spoken, and the MLB All-Star lineups have been announced. One thing seems to be for sure — people are tired of steroids.

Two huge names were left off the lineups in Yankee third baseman Alex Rodriguez and Dodgers left fielder Manny Ramirez, both the subject of much steroid scrutiny.

The fans got something right.

They need to keep these guys off the rosters, and, to be honest, anyone who has been suspended from the league for performance-enhancing drugs should be left off the ballot completely, as in the case of Ramirez.

The voters were also right by making Cardinal first baseman Albert Pujols the highest vote getter ever. The St. Louis slugger is having his best season ever, batting .337 with a .460 on base percentage to go along with 30 home runs and 77 RBI. He is even slugging at a whopping .745. Insane.

And to go a bit off topic really quick, let’s hope for baseball’s sake Pujols isn’t one of those on steroids, as many people want to speculate that he is.

But back to All-Star roster stuff, the fans did get one thing

wrong on the NL roster — starting catcher.

Braves catcher Brian McCann should start. With a .310 average and a nearly .400 on base percentage. While the named starter Yadier Molina may have better defensive statistics (.996 fielding percentage and .462 caught stealing rate) compared to McCann (.989 fielding percentage and .250 caught stealing rate), the starters in the All-Star game are voted on, typically, based on offensive statistics. Unless voters are becoming way more informed, then this is simply a “name that Molina” game, and the fans are voting for the best Molina to make the roster. Doubt it. Simply name recognition.

Molina is batting only .281 this season with a .347 on base percentage. With those subpar batting numbers, it’s McCann to get the start, if you ask me. But whatever.

The rest of the starting lineup looks all gravy to me, although it’s going to take extra innings to get the three backups to Pujols into the game. It’s pretty funny that Prince Fielder, Adrian Gonzalez and Ryan Howard are all in the NL to back up Pujols, all three of whom are possibly better than the AL starter Mark Teixeira, even though he makes tons more money than all three combined.

My starting pitcher would probably be Tim Lincecum, the Giants’ ace, who holds a 2.37 ERA in 114 innings pitched with three complete games.

As far as the AL roster goes,

former Tiger Aaron Hill, who has been having a Gold Glove year at second and a solid bat to go along with it after missing 108 games in 2008, should have gotten the start over 2008 AL MVP Dustin Pedroia.

The Red Sox second baseman, though, has the name recognition.

But it’s nice to see that for the most part, the voters got it all right, which I like about MLB All-Star voting. With other sports, it’s all about names, but the MLB voters tend to get it right. They missed a few, but nailed the rest.

Andy Schwehm Contributing Writer

Phillips is former Tiger most likely to win gold So most countries’ trials for their respective national track and field teams should be done with by now. And if you look at the field, six former LSU athletes made the cut.

Two made the Jamaican squad (Nickiesha Wilson and Isa Phillips), two passed the U.S. trials (Walter Davis and Muna Lee) and two will represent Trinidad and Tobago (Kelly-Ann Baptiste and Richard Thompson).

So of these six, who’s got the best shot of winning a title at the

World Championships in Berlin in mid-August?

My nod goes to Isa Phillips in the 400-meter hurdles. He’s run some of his best career times this year, and his performance of 48.05 seconds at the Jamaican national championships is No. 2 in the world this year.

It’d be easy to say Richard Thompson would be one of the favorites in the 100-meter dash after winning the silver medal in the event at the Beijing Olympics. But his competition will be a little different this time around.

Jamaican superstar Usain Bolt will more than likely run away with the title this year like he did at the Olympics. Let’s just see if he can.

And then there’s Asafa Powell, the other Jamaican star sprinter. He finished fifth at the Beijing Olympics, but he used to hold the world record at 9.74 seconds.

Did I mention that American Tyson Gay will actually compete in this meet? Gay, who missed the Olympics with a hamstring injury, currently holds the American record at 9.77 seconds.

His fellow Trinidad and Tobago countrywoman, Baptiste, probably has a better chance than he does. Her feet are on fire right now after setting a new national record with a 10.94 second time that is the fifth-best in the world this season.

And running a 10.94 among women gives you a much better chance to win than running a 9.81 among men, which is Thompson’s career best.

PAGE 9 Lee does have a season PR of 10.78 seconds, but that was in a wind-aided performance at the USA championships. She is one of the better all-around American sprinters out there, but she’ll have a tough time dealing with teammates Allyson Felix and Lauryn Williams, as well the trio of Jamaican sprinters that swept the medals in the 100-meter dash at the Olympics.

Davis actually won the gold medal in the triple jump at the 2005 World Championships. But he only won the bronze at the 2007 championships and didn’t even make the trip to Beijing last year.

All six of these athletes certainly have a chance to medal, except perhaps Wilson, who hasn’t run a career-best in the 400-meter hurdles in two years (53.97 seconds).

But then again, that time came at the last World Championships in 2007 in Osaka, Japan.

Track is a sport of luck — athletes have to get through several rounds of competition just to make the final, where they can run their best time only if everything goes right. I dare you to find somebody who expected Thompson to win the silver medal in Beijing a year ago.

Let’s just see if we can find another Richard Thompson at this year’s world meet.

Robert Stewart Contributing Writer

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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

CYCLING

Armstrong moves to third place Seven-time champ climbs from 10th

By Jamey Keaten The Associated Press

LA GRANDE-MOTTE, France (AP) — If age is Lance Armstrong’s enemy, then experience is his friend.

With a savvy sense of the pack and a touch of luck, the 37-year-old Texan surprised some of the younger Tour de France contenders Monday to move within striking distance of the yellow jersey.

He made up for what his legs lack in power with road smarts during the breezy third stage along the Mediterranean, rising from 10th to third place.

Armstrong hitched a ride with a breakaway group led by old sidekick George Hincapie’s Team Columbia.

Mark Cavendish, a Columbia rider from Britain, won the stage for the second straight day.

Race leader Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland kept the yellow

JERSEYS, from page 7 better when wearing white is fastly held by LSU fans. LSU wore purple jerseys at home from 1983 to 1994, and many fans would be loath to return to those days.

But the small nature of the change didn’t elicit much response from students.

JAVI, from page 7 “It shows that if you maintain a positive attitude and keep working hard that when your opportunity comes, you are ready to take advantage of it,” Mainieri said. “Javi is a living example of that.”

He was then converted into a catcher in the offseason with the return of Matt Macri, now a major leagues shortstop for the Minnesota Twins, for the upcoming season. He had never played catcher before, but his willingness to do whatever it took to help out his team is part of what Mainieri said made him a great player.

“We made him a catcher going into his junior year, and in typical Javi Sanchez fashion, he worked as hard as anyone could work and made himself into an excellent catcher,” Mainieri said.

But after Tommy John surgery sidelined him for the 2006 season in the minors, he didn’t see as much time on the field.

Sanchez platooned for the Fort Myers Miracle, the Twins’ class-A affiliate, in the 2007 season, catching one game, being a designated hitter in the next and then sitting for the next two games.

Then Mainieri made the call.

Mainieri said Sanchez’ loyalty, dedication, work ethic and his knowledge of baseball made Mainieri believe Sanchez would be a great coach.

“I called Javi, and I said, ‘Javi, I am not trying to encourage you to retire as a player ... but if you are thinking that your days are numbered, I would have kicked myself in the rear end if I hadn’t at least

jersey for a third day in a row. The Swiss rider with Saxo Bank extended his lead and is ahead of Columbia rider Tony Martin of Germany by 33 seconds and Armstrong by 40.

Most of the favorites were trapped by the wind during the 122-mile ride from Marseille to La Grande-Motte. Sensing the gusts were playing havoc ahead of a turn with about 18 miles to go, Armstrong simply stayed in front, outfoxing riders like Alberto Contador of Spain, the 2007 Tour winner and favorite this year.

“Good positioning, experience, a little bit of luck,” Armstrong said.

“Just before that corner I was 20 guys back and I decided just that idea to move up enough to be on their wheel. And there it went.”

“Whenever you see a team lined up at the front like that, you have to pay attention,” he added.

“You know what the wind’s doing, and you see that a turn’s coming up, so it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that you have to go to the front.”

But Contador didn’t. Nor did

Levi Leipheimer of the United States or Cadel Evans of Australia or 2008 Tour champion Carlos Sastre of Spain. All lost 41 seconds to Cavendish, Armstrong and Cancellara.

Contador dropped from second to fourth overall, 59 seconds behind Cancellara. Leipheimer, Armstrong’s Astana teammate, slipped from sixth to 10th, and is 1:11 back.

“I was moving up with a teammate and we ended up in no man’s land,” Contador said. “I’m not going to evaluate the team strategy because everyone will draw their own conclusions anyway. In any case, the Tour won’t be decided by what happened today.”

Armstrong, a seven-time champion coming out of retirement, agrees.

“Gained valuable time but most likely minor in scheme of 3 weeks,” he wrote on his Twitter account. The race finishes July 26 in Paris. “Onward.”

Armstrong said it was “not my objective” to gain ground on Contador, insisting he was “just trying to

stay up front and out of trouble.”

But he may have delivered a psychological blow in this stage, leaving rivals to wonder what other opportunistic strikes await. In any case, now they have to catch him.

Tuesday’s stage is a 24-mile team time trial that starts and finishes in Montpellier. Astana will have

an edge by riding last and seeing how riders fare. The teams set off at seven-minute intervals in a race against the clock.

“I’d say I don’t really care because it’s such a small difference,” said Sean Murphy, psychology senior. “I like it actually — I didn’t notice it wasn’t there before, but now that it’s there it definitely doesn’t bother me.”

Trevor Cella, engineering freshman, said the lettering actually makes the uniform look better.

“It definitely spiffs it up,” he said. “It adds ownership to [the uniform] ... I’m glad they went with ‘LSU’ and not ‘Tigers.’”

The new jerseys are available on several Web sites, although the LSU Bookstore does not yet sell them.

Some fans don’t think the jersey needed to be changed.

Shadell Williams, kinesiology senior, and friend Courtney Canyon, biology sophomore, said the change is “unnecessary.”

“It doesn’t look any different,” Williams said. “I just hope it didn’t cost a lot to change.”

Bonnette said the change will last through the 2009 season, but the team is allowed to make altera-

tions to the uniform after that.

“We have a long-term contract with Nike, but we do make minor changes from time to time,” he said. “We’ll see how it goes.”

called you,’” Mainieri said.

Sanchez just finished his second season as a coach for the Tigers.

He was promoted to a full-time assistant coach after just a season as a volunteer coach — meaning he can actively recruit players with associate head coach David Grewe, the coach that helped Sanchez transform into a catcher at Notre Dame.

He is the Tigers’ primary hitting and baserunning coach, where he helped coach the Tigers to 95 steals in 2008 and 114 this season, the most steals by an LSU squad

since 1996.

The former catcher also works extensively with LSU sophomore catcher Micah Gibbs and helping Gibbs allow only four passed balls all this season.

“He knows the game so well,” Gibbs said. “He’s got me so much more relaxed behind the plate. From where I was my freshman year to where I am now, it’s two totally different people, and that’s all because of him.”

Sanchez’ also coaches at third base, where he gives the Tiger bas-

erunners the red or green light to go home after rounding third base.

The Miami native said coaching third base comes natural to him, especially given his knowledge of Mainieri’s base running philosophy.

“I know when he likes to take chances, and I know when he likes to be conservative,” Sanchez said.

“When I’m making decisions, I don’t have to worry if coach is going to agree with it or not because 99 percent of the time, I’m doing what he would be doing.”

And with a protégé tree that

includes Virginia coach Brian O’Connor and Central Florida coach Terry Rooney, to name a few, Sanchez may soon be among the ranks of Mainieri assistants to get a head coaching job.

“He’s got a very bright future in this business,” Mainieri said.

“I know his loyalty is beyond reproach, and any victories we have at LSU, he is a big part of.”

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American seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, right, and his teammate Alberto Contador of Spain, left, ride Sunday during the second stage of the Tour de France. Armstrong is now in third place overall.

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Tuesday, July 7, 2009 QUALIFYING, from page 7 the Beijing Olympic Games.

Despite the rough start to 2009, Thompson’s bounce back to win the 100-meter dash championship in 10.01 seconds, 0.02 seconds ahead of second-place finisher Aaron Armstrong, surpassed his 2008 finish.

“It was a very exciting time for him because last year, he was unable to accomplish that,” Shaver said. “He was the runner-up.”

Shaver said he doesn’t think Thompson is feeling any lingering effects from the accident.

“Part of the reason is because we were very cautious about how we progressed,” Shaver said. “We really didn’t even let him get under a squat rack until about eight weeks after the wreck.”

Shaver said Thompson should focus more on training and preparation before the World Championships instead of competing in meets.

“He did the rehab work that he needed to over that eight-week period so that we could get back to work,” Shaver said. “As a result, that’s what’s given him a chance I guess now to actually be able to possibly run right at a PR again.”

Thompson wasn’t the only former LSU athlete to shine at the Trinidad and Tobago national championships.

Kelly-Ann Baptiste, the 2008 NCAA champion in the 100-meter dash for the Lady Tigers, won the women’s 100-meter dash with a Trinidad and Tobago record-time of 10.94 seconds. Her time also

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ranks No. 5 in the world this year.

“It was I think a tremendous breakthrough for her in her first year out of the collegiate system and becoming a professional,” Shaver said. “I’m extremely happy with the progress that she’s continued to make training here with us.”

Former Tiger hurdler Isa Phillips also won a championship of his own in Jamaica on June 27.

He beat out four-time defending champion Danny McFarlane for the 400-meter hurdles title with

a 48.05-second time, No. 2 in the world this year.

Shaver said both Baptiste and Phillips would benefit from competing in several more meets before heading to Berlin.

“They’re going to be running a couple competitions a week, starting this next week over in Europe, and training what little they can in between those competitions,” Shaver said. “I think that’s the best thing for them.”

One former Lady Tiger who will compete for the U.S. at the

World Championship is Muna Lee. Lee, a 20-time All-American at LSU, finished second at both the 100- and 200-meter dash at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships on June 25-28.

Shaver said Lee will not participate in very many competitions before the World Championships because she is competing in both the 100- and 200-meter dashes.

“That’s eight races that you’re going to run probably in about five days, six days at the most,” Shaver said. “You’ve got to go into that

PAGE 11 competition fairly rested and feel really good or you’re not going to be able to perform at your highest level in both events when you reach that final.”

The other two former LSU athletes who will compete at the World Championships are Walter Davis of the U.S. (triple jump) and Nickiesha Wilson of Jamaica (400-meter hurdles).

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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Prague taught me how to party like never before PRAGUE, Czech Republic — I thought I, a 20-year-old college student, knew what it meant to “go out,” have a “crazy night” and really party hard.

Well, until 6 a.m. Sunday morning, I thought wrong.

I’m studying abroad in Prague, and we decided to scope out the night life here. Little did we know, we would be in for the most ridiculous outing of our lives.

As we approached Karlovy Lazne, the enormous 4-story night club our hotel receptionist suggested, the only thought that came to mind was, “Oh my god.” Even from the outside, the place was a freaking

technicolor light show.

Before we could enter, big guys dressed in all black passed metal detectors across our slightly nervous bodies, then waved us into the madness.

The first floor was American pop. The DJ blasted the beats of Britney Spears, the Black Eyed Peas and Justin Timberlake.

I decided to make my way to the techno floor next. Although techno has never been my favorite genre of music, I couldn’t help but stand in awe as I watched curtains of smoke, which came from the smoke machines that hung from the ceilings and walls, blow onto the flailing

crowd.

The second floor was a blur of limbs, lights and the craziest colored hair I’ve ever seen. I was impressed, but intimidated to no end. So, I quickly observed, appreciated and moved up to the floor I later began to refer to as “heaven on earth” … the Cathryn Core disco floor.

Columnist From the moment I laid eyes on the dance floor of neon lights, I was in love.

There were lights above and be-

low us and tunes from artists we’ve known our whole lives — the Beach Boys, Michael Jackson and the Rolling Stones — and movies like Saturday Night Fever and Dirty Dancing that kept us going for hours until our clothes were drenched and we could barely breathe.

Our night peaked when we were taking a break at the foot of the stairs where huge statues of Elvis and Marilyn Monroe had simulated rain pouring down around them, and Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” began blaring from the speakers. We lost our minds.

What was really amazing was all the people sang the chorus along

with us with different accents from across the world.

No one really knew the rest of the song, but when the chorus came along, The Boss united the world on the disco floor.

After that, we climbed down four flights of stairs and stumbled back to our hotel, smiling in delirium that we had found our home away from home and the best time of our lives.

Cathryn is a 20-year-old English major from Crowley.

Contact Cathryn Core at ccore@lsureveille.com

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Obama’s choice of church provides sad lesson in privacy Nobody has to face more intrusive paparazzi than the President of the United States.

Whether it’s the much-publicized “date night” that President Obama and his wife took a few months ago or his March Madness tournament bracket, the man can’t go anywhere without being followed by a mob.

This can cause all kind of problems, particularly when it comes to deeply private matters — even something as personal as his family’s religious observations.

Obama and his family have faced a great deal of difficulty in finding a place to worship. It’s nothing new — a president’s choice of church is a highly public, deeply politicized ritual that occurs every time a new one is sworn in.

Because the president is under absolute scrutiny at all times, a president must choose a church that will offend as few people as possible.

No one knows this better than Obama, whose long-time member-

ship in Trinity United Church — pastored by the inflammatory Rev. Jeremiah Wright — put him in hot water during the grueling campaign that elected him to office. Obama was forced to leave the church and distance himself from Wright to minimize his connection to controversial comments the pastor made.

So it’s no surprise that Obama would only choose a new church after a great deal of scrutiny.

After months of deliberation, Obama announced that his family will attend Evergreen Chapel, a nondenominational church at Camp David, the military base that serves as a country retreat for the president. It is very isolated, and one of the president’s few relatively quiet refuges.

During the first months of his presidency, Obama and his family attended several congregations in Washington D.C. Each time, the church they visited was flooded with sight-seers hoping to catch a glimpse of the president in a “natural” setting.

Aside from obviously creating an awkward worship environment — people would snap shots of Obama on camera phones as they walked down the aisle to take communion — the mass of newcomers prevented many long-time congregation members from attending their weekly service. In addition, large, public congregations translate into significant costs for maintaining security.

It eventually became Matthew Albrightobvious that no Columnist congregation in the city could provide a meaningful worship environment for either the Obamas or anyone they were around.

Evergreen Chapel provides a perfect solution. The 150-seat chapel has an average Sunday congregation of 50-70 people, and is in a secluded environment not vulnerable to inva-

sion by sight-seers.

And Obama will almost certainly not have to deal with controversy in regards to his pastor. Lt. Carey Cash — great-nephew of legendary musician Johnny Cash — is a Southern Baptist who served a tour as Marine chaplain in Iraq.

Although it seems Obama has found a politically bullet-proof church, the very fact that all of this must be considered at all is disheartening.

It’s understandable that the President must sacrifice much of his private life upon taking the oath of office. But what is not understandable is that so many rubberneckers would lack enough respect for such a deeply personal and meaningful part of his life that he is forced into hiding just to go to church.

It’s true that Obama has a group of ministers that serve as his spiritual counsellors. But a few people, no matter how qualified, are a poor substitute for the nurturing environment provided by a congregation with

which a family is deeply attuned.

This isn’t to say that Evergreen is a poor congregation. But the odds of the church of political convenience also being the church with which the Obamas find some deep connection aren’t good.

Besides, they can only attend when they are at Camp David — a luxury the president’s hectic schedule largely prevents.

It’s a shame we, as a nation, are so obsessed with the personal details of our leaders’ lives that we cause their spiritual lives to suffer.

The president is under more stress than perhaps any human being, and the solace provided by a real church home is something that we should have the decency to allow him.

Matthew Albright is a 20-year-old mass communication major from Baton Rouge.

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Rain provides the perfect excuse for skipping class

Yesterday it rained.

That may seem like a pretty obvious statement, but for those of you who have been around Baton Rouge this summer, you know that this is a pretty big deal.

I was initially excited about the chance to wear my new rain jacket when I woke up for school.

But as I started getting dressed, the hassles of walking from the parking lot to Lockett overwhelmed me, and I went back in bed and laid there for a couple more hours.

Now, my parents are probably going to read this and be mad — “It’s just water, Ellen. It won’t kill you,” — but I’ve held fast to my “don’t go to class in the rain” rule for the three years that I have attended the University.

The weather in Baton Rouge is predictable enough to where this doesn’t hamper my schooling too much. Of course the one day it snowed, I had a final at 8:30 a.m. Go figure.

I know many other people who have the same feelings on

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this matter — staying dry is much more important than listening to professors.

But most of my friends who do trudge through the puddles come back whining and complaining about walkEllen Zielinski ing through the Managing Editor rain and getting their shoes wet, and it’s just not worth it to me.

Of course, there are teachers who give extra credit or quizzes on rainy days to spite people like me. And the people who go to class fully deserve the extra points.

But for some reason, to me, bad weather is a valid excuse not to go to class. If I skip a class on a normal day, I feel guilty about it for at least a few hours, but this morning brought no sign of remorse.

The University gave us a week off during Gustav — al-

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though this is somewhat of an extreme example — but that just furthered my beliefs that class is not necessary during storms. I’m sure they didn’t mean to, but there it is.

Ellen Zielinski is a 21-year-old communication studies major from Baton Rouge.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY “The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow American poet Feb. 27, 1807 — March 24, 1882

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Al Franken’s election making a joke of politics

By Ed McPhee University of Michigan

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Al Franken is a funny guy. He is also intelligent and seems to understand the needs of his constituents. And Franken seems earnest in his desire to be a U.S. Senator. But despite all this, he should not have run for the position in the first place.

Celebrity status like Franken’s clearly has an impact on an election because it shrouds what’s most important — the issues. It gives stars an unfair advantage compared to other politicians who don’t have the same exposure to the public eye. The star power of celebrities is nearly impossible to beat, especially when the star is in public favor. Celebrities need to stay out of political office so that America can elect the best people to serve in office — not the most famous.

Franken is merely the latest in a

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Jackson death’s coverage hints at scary future In the days following Michael Jackson’s death, glad-faced news personalities stood on their soap boxes and constantly made reference to the egregious amount of news coverage the post-death drama received.

I’ll agree that the news coverage of the Michael Jackson death procession is getting pretty ridiculous. But instead of complaining about it and returning to our ADD news cycle, we need to sit down and question what about our collective identity makes us so prone to accepting it.

Everyone from Jon Stewart to Anderson Cooper has been calling for an end to the Jackson coverage and a return to regular news. But is that any better than the Jackson coverage?

Our news cycle moves so fast that most people don’t have the time to sit down and think about what any of our national news even means.

Several talking heads have pointed out how the Jackson circus has attracted attention away from the affair of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford — that’s true, but what’s left of that story for CNN or MSNBC? Are they going to squeeze another week or two of constant coverage out of it?

Nobody is going to talk about what effect the news cycle or the media may have had on his rise to fame, or the way this is being handled.

Instead of legitimate discussion or a candid interview, Glenn Beck will cry on camera and get

line of celebrities who have become major politicians — a group that includes Ronald Reagan, Sonny Bono, Jesse Ventura, Jack Kemp and Arnold Schwarzenegger. And Franken is following in the footsteps of a set of civil servants who have produced uninspired results.

This is not to say Franken has no shot at becoming a good — or even great — senator. He’s an intelligent man. He graduated cum laude from Harvard in 1973 with a degree in political science. But talking and writing about politics is very different from holding political office, and only time will tell if he can be successful. And he’s going to have to break a strong trend of mediocrity that his celebrity predecessors have created.

Unfortunately, the failures of elected celebrities have yet to turn off Americans to the idea of electing them. Instead, Americans have actually come to embrace the idea of celebrities in politics. Franken is the

one step closer to Jimmy Swaggert.

Then maybe Nancy Grace can yell and scream about the lack of morals demonstrated by our leaders while constantly looping footage of Jackson’s body being wheeled into the morgue.

Nobody says anything because the people we are listening to are part of the problem.

These media personalities are now bigger than the news, and it is subservient to their opinion.

Talking heads spew bite size pieces of opinion disguised as news or facts and sensationalize everything.

Honestly Cooper and Stewart aren’t any different. At least Stewart knows it’s comedy.

It’s not going to get any slower either.

Twitter, Facebook and cable news all push a fast-paced agenda that encourages us to consume everything as quickly as possible.

In my book, the best thing we can do is talk about it with each other.

Very little real dialogue has ever happened on TV. That goes for individuals as well as cultures.

Asking friends and family how they feel about issues is a great beginning — just getting people to think about things critically and outside of repeating the tired lines of our scripted news personalities might help break the spell.

Even if it doesn’t, it’s a good first step. At this rate I’m terrified of what things will be like in 10 years.

latest proof of that, winning by the narrowest of margins in last year’s Minnesota Senate race. Franken isn’t an A-lister like the Governator or Sonny Bono, but his notoriety as an author and comedian was doubtlessly a factor in his win over incumbent senator Coleman.

Ironically, Norm Coleman was no stranger to facing a celebrity in an election. Coleman lost Minnesota’s gubernatorial race to former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura in 1998.

Coleman then defeated former vice president and one-time Minnesota senator Walter Mondale to win his Senate seat in 2002.

In the Senate, many considered Coleman a very capable politician.

He sat on important committees, including the Committee on Foreign Relations. Coleman’s term was widely regarded as a successful one, and his work on legislation for renewable energy and rural infrastructure helped serve the needs of Minnesotans. The

Rep. King unfairly condemns Jackson, coverage On July 5, Rep. Pete King, RN.Y., called the media to wipe out the “psycho-babble” on Michael Jackson and instead turn their attention toward what he considers to be more pressing issues.

“He was a child molester. He was a pedophile. And to be giving this much coverage to him day in and day out, what does it say about us as a country?” King said Sunday at the American Legion Hall in Wantagh, New York. “We’re too politically correct. No one wants to stand up and say, ‘We don’t need Michael

voters hardly had reason to remove him from office — but they did, and they replaced him with a celebrity.

Something’s wrong when Coleman was able to defeat a former vice president, but not a comedian.

The first celebrity governor, Ronald Reagan, started this trend for awful celebrity politicians back in the 1960s. His star power eventually led him to run for president, where America decided that it was in fact a good idea to elect a red-scare xenophobe.

Reagan eventually launched a failed defense program called “Star Wars” and advocated an inherently flawed economic system.

As expected, Ventura and Schwarzenegger’s reigns as governors have not been without controversy and criticism. The media attacked Ventura at nearly every turn for his absurd number of vetoes and odd political viewpoints. Their relentless criticism is largely considered a reason why he lasted only one

term in office. And Schwarzenegger’s performance has been inconsistent at best, with his notable failure occurring when all four ballot measures he sponsored in a 2005 special election were defeated.

From Reagan to Schwarzenegger to Ventura, America has given celebrities their chance to try and positively impact government. For the most part, they’ve failed miserably. While Franken provides another chance for a celebrity to succeed, any success of his will only encourage another knucklehead to become the next celebrity politician — like NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley, who continuously declares his desire to run for governor of Alabama.

The U.S. voters need to stop falling for these gimmicks and elect those who truly can serve our nation.

Jackson.’

“He died, he had some talent.

Fine. People die every day.

“There’s nothing good about this guy,” King continued. “The bottom line is, would you let your child or grandchild be in the same room as Michael Jackson. What are we glorifying him for?

Instead, King urged that Americans should focus their praise toward the police officers, firemen and schoolteachers who help sustain our country rather than a “pervert” like Jackson.

King’s callous statement, in a very vivid way, embodies the true disconnect between conservative leaders and American values.

If Republicans want the media to cover what they are doing, they need to start attracting the attention of American citizens. Unfortunately,

the party has lost so much credibility during the last decade that it seems most Americans, whether for better or worse, have tuned the GOP out, even despite some of the monumental decisions being made on Capitol Hill.

There will always be those who claim that Jackson was a “pedophile” based on flimsy allegations.

But at least Jackson didn’t rape the constitution then demand others be held accountable by it once his term ended.

Given the choice between a dead pop hero and a dead political party, Americans will choose the former every time.

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

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