The Daily Reveille - July 9, 2009

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NEWS University, Baton Rouge plan to add more bike paths, page 3.

Former outfielder Jared Mitchell signs contract with Chicago White Sox, page 5.

SPORTS Baseball team’s academic rates continue to climb under Mainieri, page 5.

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Budget details sent to LSU System Plan will affect most campus departments

By Kyle Bove Senior Writer

The LSU System will release its initial plan for cutting more than $50 million from its operating budget today.

LSU A&M in Baton Rouge is facing $9 million in cuts after having to slash about $10 million in January.

LEGISLATURE

Chelsea’s charges dropped for now

Going into the legislative session two months ago, the University was expecting a cut of about $45 million. Lawmakers managed to reduce cuts to higher education in Louisiana by more than 50 percent.

“It could’ve been a lot worse and for that we are grateful,” said Chancellor Michael Martin.

But Martin said tough choices still have to be made, and the University’s preliminary budget plan — submitted to the System on Wednesday — will affect most departments on campus.

Martin originally agreed to meet with

members of the media on Wednesday to discuss the budget, but System officials cancelled the meeting at the last minute — saying they wanted to wait until today to release the information on all System campuses at one time.

During a phone interview Wednesday evening, Martin said the University’s budget plan for the 2009-10 fiscal year reduces funding to all academic units by an average of 3 percent and all non-academic units by about 5 percent.

BUDGET, see page 7

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Chancellor Martin discusses the budget June 3 in his office.

Many charities losing funding Statewide nonprofit organizations forced to stretch budgets to cover all services

New law could protect restaurants

By Kyle Bove Senior Writer

Alcohol and tobacco control charges against Chelsea’s Cafe were dropped on Wednesday.

The Louisiana Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control cited the popular Perkins Road restaurant in February for failing to maintain qualifications as a restaurant and improper conduct.

Since then, an intense legal battle between Chelsea’s and ATC Commissioner Murphy Painter has ensued.

Gov. Bobby Jindal recently signed a bill into law intended to help restaurants like Chelsea’s.

It says restaurants must primarily serve food, sell more food than alcohol and keep their kitchens open every day — which Chelsea’s owner David Remmetter and attorney Brandon Brown say the restaurant abides to.

The law doesn’t go into effect until August 15.

Painter decided to drop the charges for now after discovering an inconsistency in the dates written on the restaurant’s ticket and its report.

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[Top] Mike Johnson moves a pallet Wednesday at the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank. [Bottom] Members of Volunteens, a volunteer group, pack boxes.

By Steven Powell Contributing Writer

With the state budget running tight and a national loss of wealth, nonprofit organizations and charities are left to pick up the pieces — with a shrinking budget of their own.

Mike Manning, president and CEO of the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank, said total funding for the state’s five food banks was cut from $5 million to $500,000 for

the next fiscal year despite the food banks asking the state for $18 million.

Manning said the food banks, representing Shreveport, Monroe, Alexandria, New Orleans and Baton Rouge, collectively asked for $15 million during the last two years, but needed more funding this year after seeing a 20 percent increase in demand for the first half of 2009.

FUNDING, see page 7

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INTERNATIONAL

THURSDAY, JULY 9, 2009

NATIONAL

Chinese troops flood streets after riots

House Dems look at surtax on the wealthy

URUMQI, China (AP) — Thousands of Chinese troops flooded into this city Wednesday to separate feuding ethnic groups after three days of communal violence left 156 people dead, and a senior Communist Party official vowed to execute those guilty of murder in the rioting in western China. Long convoys of armored cars and green troop trucks with riot police rumbled through Urumqi, a city of 2.3 million people.

Other security forces carrying automatic rifles with bayonets formed cordons to defend Muslim neighborhoods from marauding groups of vigilantes with sticks. Military helicopters buzzed over Xinjiang’s regional capital, dropping pamphlets urging people to stay in their homes and stop fighting. Special police from other provinces were called in to patrol the city. The crisis was so severe that President Hu Jintao cut short a trip to Italy, where he was to participate in a Group of Eight summit.

WASHINGTON (AP) — An income tax surcharge on highly paid Americans emerged as the leading option Wednesday night as House Democrats sought ways to pay for health care legislation that President Barack Obama favors, several officials said. As discussed in the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, the surtax would apply to individuals with adjusted gross income of more than $200,000 and couples over $250,000, they added. In addition, key lawmakers are expected to call for a tax or fee equal to a percentage of a worker’s salary on employers who do not offer health benefits. Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev., a member of the panel, said the proposed surtax on high-income taxpayers appealed to her and others as a way to avoid a “nickel-and-dime” approach involving numerous smaller tax increases. She added that other earlier options had fallen away, including an increase in the payroll

STATE/LOCAL tax. Berkley and others cautioned that no final decisions have been made, either by the tax-writing committee or by the Democratic leadership, which hopes to have legislation drafted by Friday and through the House by month’s end.

Aside from Berkley, officials discussed the private discussions only on condition of anonymity. The developments stood in contrast to the Senate, where Democrats edged away from their goal of passing ambitious health care legislation by early August amid heightening partisan controversy over tax increases and a proposed new government role in providing insurance to consumers. “I think the ultimate goal is to have a bill by the end of this year” that is signed into law by the president, Sen. Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., said in an interview with The Associated Press. He said Democrats would make “every effort to stick to the timetable” that included initial Senate action by August.

Separately, Republicans who met with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he expressed flexibility on the timetable, indicating he was willing to allow more time before legislation is brought to the floor.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Former NFL star Steve McNair was shot dead in his sleep last week by a 20-year-old girlfriend distraught about mounting financial problems and her belief that he was seeing someone else, police said Wednesday. Sahel Kazemi “was spinning out of control” when she shot McNair four times as he dozed on a sofa early Saturday, then turned the gun on herself, Police Chief Ronal Serpas said. Interviews with friends revealed that she was making payments on two cars, her rent was doubling and she suspected the married McNair was having a second affair with another young woman.

She told a friend on Friday that “My life is a ball of s--- and I should end it,” Serpas said. Police earlier had labeled McNair’s death a homicide, but waited for further tests and the revelations about Kazemi’s personal problems before concluding that she pulled the trigger of a 9 mm semiautomatic pistol in a condominium McNair rented with a friend.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal began a statewide tour Wednesday that will take him to all 64 parishes this summer, to talk about the state’s economy and to hear from voters. “I think it’s important to get out to talk, especially during these tough economic times for our country, talk about some of the things we’re doing in Louisiana to create jobs,” Jindal said. His first stop of the “Louisiana Working Tour” was at the Rotary Club of Baton Rouge, where he told a packed luncheon that job creation and retention continue to be the top focus of his administration. He touted ethics law changes, business tax breaks and a revamp of the state’s labor department and job training programs and listed an array of new economic development projects announced since he took office in January 2008. The governor said those projects will create an estimated 30,000 jobs when they are completed in the coming years.

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TRANSPORTATION

Baton Rouge, University bike facilities to be expanded Easy Streets II to add more paths

By Xerxes A. Wilson Contributing Writer

The commute to campus will become a little less scary for bikers as Baton Rouge triples its amount of roads and paths designated for bikes available for the coming year.

Through efforts by the city, the University and BREC, the amount of bike trails in the city will increase from 23.4 miles to 67.6 miles with many new bike paths focused in and around the University.

East Baton Rouge MayorPresident Kip Holden announced the plans as part of his Healthy BR initiative this summer.

The plan calls for 3.7 miles of new bike lanes and 1.2 miles of shared lanes on and through the campus as a part of the second phase of Easy Streets.

“Easy streets II is looking at shutting down streets, making some streets one way, and a part of it is bike routes as well,” said

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A cyclist bikes down Tower Drive on Monday. The next phase of Easy Streets calls to add more bike routes to campus and shut down some streets.

Gary Graham, Parking, Traffic and Transportation director. “We are going to have defined bike routes as part of this system, and we will have shared roads as well.”

Shared lanes are defined as traffic lanes which have a biking area designated on the right side.

Bike lanes are defined by a separate lane beside traffic lanes for bikes to use.

Graham explained the new paths on campus have not been defined yet because additional studies are needed to obtain accurate

measurements of pedestrians during the fall semester. The new bike routes could be implemented during Christmas break or during the spring semester, after a third party consulting group gets accurate measurements in the fall.

The mayor’s plan also outlines projects that will connect student neighborhoods and campus.

New paths include more than 7 miles of shared lanes on Burbank Drive and 2 1/2 mile shared lane on Highland Road connecting downtown and campus.

UREC

Gym construction underway Reopening set for early November

By Natalie Roy Contributing Writer

While University students continue to stay active outdoors despite the summer’s blistering heat, many will be glad to hear construction in the University Recreational Student Complex’s indoor gym is finally underway.

The indoor gym, which closed after experiencing major roof and floor damages after Hurricane Gustav hit in September 2008, is expected to be ready to reopen in early November, said University Recreation Director Tamara Jarrett. “[The construction] is about us getting back to where we were before the hurricane,” Jarrett said.

“It will begin by … rebuilding and weather-proofing the roof, so we can then start reconstructing the floors. The goal is to be able to get back in [the gym] for the fall semester and play some basketball, as well as get back all the activities we had prior to the hurricane.”

In addition to the roof and floor reconstruction, the canopy at the entrance of UREC will be replaced.

“The other major repair will be to the locker rooms, where all water-damaged lockers are being replaced,” said Michael Giles, University Recreation associate director of projects and management. “This will take place towards the end of the project.”

The construction’s comple-

tion date is a few weeks later than the original projected deadline of October 12 because of a delay in the construction process.

“We know faster is always better, but we wanted to make sure [the students] have a quality gym,” Jarrett said. “And we’re really pleased with how it’s progressing so far.”

But while the indoor gym progresses toward its reopening, other facilities like the indoor track must close. “[University Recreation] is working on the schedule to make sure that there’s as little inconvenience as possible,” Jarrett said.

“But right now it looks like the indoor track will be closed until the end of construction, just because it’s a hazardous area to be in.”

University Recreation hopes to have the indoor track open sooner than November, but until then Jarrett said construction should not interfere with any other activities or space available to students.

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Moshe Cohen, mathematics graduate student, commutes to school and around town on his bike and said bike paths will be a major improvement because they connect the paths Baton Rouge already has in place.

“All of this is to be completed within the next fiscal year,” Cohen said. “That’s just amazing. Baton Rouge has about 23 miles of bike facilities in town, but they are disconnected where you have to cross major streets to get to other facilities ... But now they are tripling the facilities and connecting them.”

Graham said the University will also be creating new defined bike areas around the quad for people to park their bikes, and the new buses will have improved racks to encourage students to use both modes of transportation.

Mark Martin, University associate librarian and chairman of Baton Rouge Advocates for Safe Streets, said he hopes the new paths

will raise awareness about biking commuters and that it is a first step in more plans underway to expand bike facilities in Baton Rouge.

Along with raising awareness, Graham said, more bike facilities will lead to less motor vehicle traffic in and around campus.

“Traffic is not going to get better if you make Highland Road four lanes because more people will drive there,” Cohen said. “You make traffic better by taking cars off of the road, and you do this by making it easier to get people where they are going without driving. To do this, you invest in other forms of public transportation and making it easier for people to bike to their grocery store, to work and to their friends house via a nice safe bike route.”

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BASEBALL

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Jared Mitchell signs professional contract with White Sox Outfielder due to Class A affiliate Thursday

By Staff Reports LSU outfielder Jared Mitchell agreed to a contract with the Chicago White Sox on Wednesday.

The 20-year-old New Iberia native will forego his senior season with the Tigers and join Chicago’s Class A affiliate in Kannapolis, N.C., on Thursday.

Mitchell was the first Tiger selected in last month’s Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft when the White

Sox chose him No. 23 overall.

“We’re very pleased that he was in our program for three years and developed into a first-round draft choice,” LSU coach Paul Mainieri said in a news release. “He was vital to our success, and he will always be a part of our program.

All of us at LSU wish him the best during his professional career.”

Mitchell and fellow outfielder Chad Jones became the first two student-athletes to win both a BCS national championship and a College World Series when the LSU baseball team won the title two weeks.

LSU first baseman and catcher Sean

Ochinko signed with the Toronto Blue Jays last week.

Junior designated hitter Blake Dean, junior infielder and left fielder Ryan Schimpf and sophomore infielder DJ LeMahieu were also selected in June’s draft and could forego their remaining eligibility by reaching terms on contracts before August 15.

Pitcher Louis Coleman was the only Tiger senior selected in the draft.

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Former LSU outfielder Jared Mitchell dives for a ball hit to right field in the Tigers’ loss to Texas on Tuesday, June 23.

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Paul Mainieri continues raising LSU baseball team’s academic success rates out of danger of probation

By Andy Schwehm Contributing Writer

LSU coach Paul Mainieri has taken the baseball team back into the spotlight since arriving on campus in 2006 with a national championship and numerous All-American and AllSoutheastern Conference performers.

But the splash his studentathletes are making in the classroom has him just as excited.

He takes such great pride in his graduating seniors that the team held a special ceremony for six members of the team in their hotel in Starkville, Miss., before a game against Mississippi State, since the day of graduation fell during the road trip.

Former Tiger Nicholas Pontiff said Mainieri did the same thing at Notre Dame for the

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graduating seniors if they were on a road trip. He added that Becca Hubbard, associate director in the Cox Communications Academic Center for StudentAthletes and the baseball team’s academic advisor, gets a lot of credit for heading the ceremony.

Hubbard said from an academic standpoint, that day was her Omaha.

“It’s tough for anyone to earn a college diploma, but for a student-athlete, it can be tricky,” Hubbard said. “When you are ranked No. 1 in the country and you have a brand new stadium and there are all these expectations, it’s even more exciting when they get to that point where you can be the best athletically and the best academically.”

Mainieri had a lot of pressure coming into LSU, and he inherited an Academic Progress

APR Calculation:

How to get points:

actual points = APR Rate possible points What the numbers mean: 1000 or above = Perfect 925 or above = Satisfactory 900-924 = Academic Probation 900 or below = Possible ban from postseason and cut in games and practice time

­ Each player can earn up to — four points in a year —Transfer players and draftees can earn up to three points —Two points are earned in each semester: one for being eligible and one for enrolling in class —LSU’s possible points is 108 because they have 27 players on scholarship (27*4 = 108)

Rate from former coach Smoke Laval that had the Tigers in academic probation.

APR judges a program’s ability to keep a player academically eligible and enrolled in school each semester until they graduate.

In 2006, Laval’s last season, LSU had an APR rate of 867 and a historical rate (a combination of the past four APR rates) of 905, meaning the program was under the 925 mark and thus on probation.

If a program goes below 900, then it runs the risk of postseason ban and a 10 percent cut in practices and games. But, if a school loses a player to the pro draft, the program isn’t penalized as long as the player was eligible at the end of the spring semester The rate has risen since Mainieri’s entrance as coach.

LSU got above 1,000 last season thanks to two former players — Jonathan Wilhite and Brett Sager — coming back and graduating.

LSU had a historical rate of 922 heading into this season. It will move up to a 938 historical after this season with a 982 for the season according to Mainieri’s calculations, moving LSU out of probation, although that will not be official until two weeks into the fall semester.

Once Mainieri finishes up next year, four years will have passed since he arrived, so the historical APR rate for LSU will be his own and won’t include Laval’s rates. The rate will be well above the 950 mark if the trend continues for Mainieri.

Mainieri graduated 71 of 71 seniors at Notre Dame in his 12 seasons as head coach there.

He also graduated 11 of the 12 juniors who left for the major leagues. The only junior that hasn’t graduated is closer Brad ACADEMICS, see page 6

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Lidge, who Mainieri said is 12 hours of credit from graduating.

“He cares more about what kind of person you are going to be when you leave the program,” Pontiff said.

“You may be great or average, but your career is going to come to an end eventually. He instills in us that if you get the degree, it opens doors in life.”

In addition to APR, each program also has a Graduation Success Rate, which measures graduation rates at Division-I institutions and includes students transferring away from the institutions, according to the NCAA’s Web site.

The GSR also allows institutions to subtract student-athletes who leave their institutions prior to graduation as long as they would have been academically eligible to compete had they remained.

LSU’s baseball GSR in 2008 was a 45 percent while the SEC average was 64.3 percent and the national average was 68 percent. In 2007, LSU had a GSR of 44 percent.

Hubbard, who has worked with the team since January 2008, handles anything academic that comes up with the players. She said this rate isn’t quite as telling as the APR, so they don’t focus on it as much.

“Although this rate is important, it doesn’t reflect the good work that the student-athletes are doing,” Hubbard said. “At a program like LSU, we have quite a few students who have the opportunity to play professional baseball and who do not have the opportunity to come back and finish their degrees immediately.”

While LSU’s rising APR and GSR have Mainieri and Hubbard happy, one growing academic trend does have Mainieri concerned — the lack of a college degree among professional players.

A recent study by the Wall Street Journal found that 26 of the 1,042, or roughly 2.5 percent, current major league players and managers have college degrees. Two of those 26 are Mainieri’s former players — Jeff Samardzija and Aaron Heilman.

Mainieri said the number doesn’t surprise him. The main reason for this, he said, may have to do with the growing number of foreignborn players entering the league and the number of players who jump straight to minor league ball without ever stepping foot on a college campus.

However, with high school prospects such as Bryce Harper, who has chosen to forego his final two years of high school to enter a junior college and then get selected in next year’s draft, the low number of college degrees may continue.

There are even a few cases of high school kids skipping their senior season to graduate early and join a college program a year early to be draft eligible a year earlier than normal.

“I’m kind of split on my feeling on that because you hate to see kids hurry through life,” Mainieri said.

“But at the same time, if they gave up their senior year and enrolled in college in January, it keeps them from signing out of high school … it allows them to be eligible for the draft at a younger age … and going to college will help them with their development.”

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Thursday, June 9, 2009 FUNDING, from page 1

Manning said while the Baton Rouge Food Bank’s cut of the $5 million was $775,000 for the past two years, they will only receive $100,000 at most next year.

“It’s going to be a dramatic reduction in the amount food we purchase,” [People] can he said. “Especan only go cially at a time we’re seea couple when ing an increase of missed in need because paychecks of the economic before they downturn.”

Manning start to said the recession is causing hurt.’ more people to Mike Manning seek emergency president, CEO of the assistance as Greater BR Food Bank more jobs are cut. He said more people are looking for help in periods between jobs.

“The reality is more people are now living paycheck to paycheck,” he said. “They can only go a couple of missed paychecks before they start to hurt.”

Michael Acaldo, president and CEO of St. Vincent de Paul, a charity organization, said larger contributions in the $10,000 to $25,000 range have decreased since the recession started, though smaller contributions — $25 to $100 — have remained constant.

Acaldo said St. Vincent de Paul does not receive state funding, though it does receive federal funds, which have remained steady because of the stimulus package.

He said federal funds accounted for approximately $1 million of their $9 million budget last year.

“Though we always appreciate the smaller gifts, missing out on some of the larger gifts and contributions has created hardships,” he said.

Acaldo said St. Vincent de Paul is working harder to find funding sources and is managing their budget more tightly, but he said they have not yet had to make any tough decisions.

“So much wealth has been lost because of the stock markets,” he said. “Supporters tell me they can’t give money they no longer have.”

Manning said the food bank’s contributions have not decreased, but they are hoping to receive more contributions this year to make up for the loss in funding.

“Our contributions are holding their own,” he said. “We’re hearing about other organizations that are losing major contributions, but so far we’ve been fortunate.”

Angela Noble, Here Today Gone Tomorrow thrift store associate, said they’ve seen a decrease in contributions — mostly in furniture, their biggest seller.

“Our income has decreased since the recession,” she said.

“Clothes are still being donated, but not as much as in the past. Furniture has been the biggest loss.”

Noble said the thrift store has had fewer customers since the recession started — something the employees found surprising.

“We expected the amount of customers to increase, since a lot of people don’t know what’s gonna happen with their job — if they have a job,” she said.

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Association of Nonprofit Organizations president and CEO, said many nonprofit organizations are feeling the impact of a loss of funding and are looking for ways to manage funds — including sharing costs with similar organizations.

Williamson said two years ago Governor Bobby Jindal and the legislature created criteria nonprofit organizations must meet to receive state funding: the organization’s work must advance the priority of a state agency; the organization must complete the proper disclosure form; their work must be openly presented and discussed during legislative committee hearings; and their work must have a regional impact.

“With greater challenge comes opportunity,” she said. “We’re sure these times will pull out the best in everyone to really evaluate their work with greater discipline and

continue to move forward.”

Acaldo said St. Vincent de Paul has a “wait and see” approach to budgeting for next year, trying to stretch a smaller amount of money to cover all of their services. He said he expects to make cuts, but doesn’t know what will be affected.

Though times may be tough, Acaldo said this setback isn’t the worst hardship St. Vincent de Paul has faced. The organization was active in Baton Rouge during the Great Depression, managing to help those in need despite trying circumstances, he said.

“Charities are being challenged,” Acaldo said. “They have to meet a higher need for services with what little funding is available.”

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BUDGET, from page 1

Specifics on the cuts won’t be available until each individual college decides where best to make the cuts, Martin said. Academic program eliminations are not likely, he said.

“Deans are working diligently to put their cuts into their own context,” Martin said.

Funding for University programs like LSU Press and the Rural Life Museum will also see a significant loss of funding, Martin said. The University’s goal for those programs — which are run partially on University funds — is for them to become entirely self sufficient, he said.

“This is, in any instance, a phase out,” Martin said.

While the programs enhance the learning environment of the University, Martin said they are not essential to what he calls the “academic core,” or the “integrity” of the relationship

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Martin said some layoffs are expected, and furloughs — unpaid time off — for civil service and professional staff are being considered.

Because faculty members can’t be furloughed without the University first declaring financial exigency — or academic bankruptcy — Martin said he will voluntarily take a furlough as well. He said employees at the lowest salary level will be exempt from furloughs.

More specific details on the University’s budget cut plans will be released today and, after the System reviews them, will be finalized within the next couple of weeks, Martin said.

Contact Kyle Bove at kbove@lsureveille.com

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OUR VIEW

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Mainieri sets example, pushes academics and athletics

Student-athletes don’t have the best track record with academics.

Rumors spread each year about athletes being lazy students or simply not being smart enough to perform both in the classroom and on the field.

Many students and administrators believe athletes are here for winning championships exclusively and that academics come a distant second.

That’s why LSU coach Paul Mainieri’s ability to bring up his

team’s academic numbers has been such a pleasant surprise — we’re just not used to hearing good things about athletes’ academic prowess.

Through a combination of hard work and positive motivation, Mainieri managed to increase his team’s Academic Progress Report, graduate many students and put them on a great track to an even more successful future.

Mainieri is proud of his team, and it’s fair to say most University students are equally proud of their

accomplishments.

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves here and congratulate them too heavily — this is just the first step to producing an academically competitive Athletic Department.

It’s trite, but student-athletes truly are both students and athletes.

They are, or should be, expected to perform as well at their academics as they do at their sports.

It’s tough, and student-athletes have an uphill battle against the

stigma cast by their predecessors.

Previous coaches and administrators treated graduation as a bonus. As long as the athletes brought home championships, they were allowed to slide under the wire.

Coach Mainieri’s success proves that line of thought to be flat out wrong — student-athletes can find the balance between academic success and athletic prowess.

But with success comes higher expectations. Graduation is no longer a bonus, and substandard per-

formance is no longer acceptable.

So congratulations to coach Mainieri and the LSU baseball team. Your hard work has paid off.

But remember, this isn’t the end of the line — you’ve got to keep it up.

Contact the Editorial Board at editor@lsureveille.com

METAIRIE’S FINEST

Take some advice while navigating the job market I wanted to fly.

Not like Superman — though if it were offered for anything less than my soul, I’d probably take the ability.

No, I wanted to fly airplanes, jumbo jets, mechanical birds, 747s, Sky Buses. I wanted to cruise the skies, skimming the clouds going about 500 miles per hour about 34, 675 feet in the air.

Then I realized that flying an airplane puts you, well, about 34, 675 feet in the air at about 500 miles an hour. That’s horrifying.

So I learned how to sit behind a keyboard and type. Carpel tunnel sure beats a fiery crash into a mountain.

And here I am, a month away from leaving the sanctuary of LSU, about to venture into a world replete with things like responsibilities and taxes and bills that consist of more than Keystone Light and peanut butter (though I hope these things still exist in abundance when I leave these gilded halls).

So I’ve been shopping around for a job in the incredibly lucrative field of writing while my brother gets to pack his toiletries into a bag and ship off to Vanderbilt for four years. And as I see all these freshmen heading off to orientations around our campus, I can’t help but get nostalgic for a time when everything seemed so easy, when I had the option to be an airplane pilot or a surgeon or, well, anything.

Now, looking for a job as a writer is just semi-soul-crushing.

The economy’s rocky, sure. And looking for a job isn’t easy, sure.

I’ve actually written about that one before. But the experience only gets more terrifying as things progress.

I recently flew to Washington, D.C. for a job interview. Exciting, right? No. Wrong. Horrifying.

Nerve-racking.

You know when you go on a first date and nothing is really clicking in your head the entire time because you are simply trying to figure out what’s going through your date’s

head? No? Just me?

Well, regardless. It’s like that.

But, now having tackled a couple interviews, I have a few bits of advice to offer to anyone looking for a job.

1) Smile.

Seriously. Smile.

Smile. Smile. Travis Andrews Unless you are Columnist applying to be an executioner, you should probably have your face stretched to the point that it looks like you fell facefirst into a vat of Botox — teeth out, shiny and glimmering in the fluorescent lights. If you are not fun to be around, no one will want you there.

2) Pretend it’s a date. In every way possible. Save for maybe when it’s wrapping up. That means eye contact, constantly. Ask the interviewer about themselves if the conversation allows. Making them like you is as simple as being friendly.

So often, job interviews are seen as cold, faceless evaluations of potential employees. And they are, I suppose, to a point. But that doesn’t mean you have to play into it. Remember, you’re gunning for a second date here. Maybe a long-term relationship. Hell, maybe even a marriage. So act like it.

3) Check your fly. Seriously.

Check it 20 times. Zippers are not the greatest invention this century, because ZIPPERS DON’T ALWAYS WORK. So check yours. Gorilla Glue if necessary.

4) Posture. They say body language speaks much louder than anything you say. So sit up, head held high, shoulders rolled comfortably back. Own the place without looking bored or expectant.

5) I know you’ve heard it. A hundred times. A thousand times.

I know it’s cliched and boring and honestly the worst way to end a column of advice about getting people to like you enough to hire you. But I’m going to say it anyway, because

it is too often thrown away as cliched and boring advice that no one really buys: Be yourself. Unless you suck. But if you got that far, hopefully you did it by putting yourself into your work, a reflection of self, rather than by distancing yourself from what you want to do. Because if you aren’t yourself, if they like some boring persona, how long before it cracks?

Then again, I haven’t the slightest clue if I’ll have a job come August. So I could be totally wrong.

Just remember the words of Fleetwood Mac: “Go your own way.”

You’ll be fine.

Travis Andrews is a 21-year-old English senior from Metairie.

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SNAPSHOT

Give me food and cheap alcohol, or give me death

Most of the best colleges, at least socially speaking, seem to have areas just off campus where students can find tight clusters of bars, restaurants and other shops.

LSU students are lucky enough to have two places that kind of fit this.

One’s a pretty obvious college hotspot in name if nothing else — Tigerland.

Some people aren’t so hot on the collection of bars on Bob Pettit Boulevard — JL’s, the recently closed Tiger Bar, the daquiri place formerly (and briefly) known as Heisman’s Pizza Pub, Fred’s and

of course Reggie’s.

You might as well just toss Rotolo’s into that mix too. It’s moved over the train tracks and across Nicholson Drive, but it’s still a nice place to grab a cold glass — or a giant glass tube — of beer.

And critics can say what they will about Tigerland, but enough people enjoy it that all those bars fill up with 20-somethings like sardines in a crushed tin box.

And why not? The drink specials — including free drinks on Fridays — are delicious.

Speaking of specials, Fred’s

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Summer Invitational is tonight.

Geaux get some, party people — but I digress.

Getting back on track, a quick trip across campus to the North Gates provides its own enjoyment.

Last week, I touched upon my love for The Jerit Roser Chimes and Editor Louie’s Cafe.

The neighborhood also boasts restaurants and bars like The Varsity Theater,

Serrano’s, Reginelli’s, Cane’s, Slinky’s and North Gate Tavern to name several.

The North Gate area provides more food and shopping — Tiger District, Blockbuster, Chimes Textbook Exchange, etc. — than Tigerland, but it’s not slouch when it comes to night life.

I became an instant fan of the $2 pitchers at Reginelli’s when it opened less than two years ago.

Also, a few bars in the area even partook in a pub crawl this spring — a very exciting prospect for the future.

As willing as I’ve been to go

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to pub crawls in downtown Baton Rouge the last couple years, the North Gate area provides an added convenience I just can’t resist.

I hope to see them continue, but these places and the Tigerland bars can likely continue to consider me a frequent patron.

What can I say? I’m a sucker for good food and cheap alcohol.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY “Baseball is 90 percent mental.

The other half is physical.”

YOGI BERRA Former baseball player May 12, 1925 —

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Group finds how a dollar a day keeps the baby away

Ever wondered what it would be like if someone actually paid you for acting sensibly?

Well, based on the work of one particular youth organization, your wish might come true.

College Bound Sisters is a program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro that aims to keep teenage girls in school and baby-free. The organization, which has been promoting teen abstinence and sex education since 1996, is funded both through private donations and governmental grants and targets girls between the ages of 12-18.

Participants in the program attend 90-minute meetings every week during which they receive lessons in abstinence and the use of contraceptives — and they receive $7 every week they do not get pregnant, according to Fox News. If the girls choose not to take their earnings immediately, their money can be deposited into a savings fund that’s collectible when they enroll in college.

Though College Bound Sisters has existed for more than a decade, it has only recently attracted media attention. Since coverage began, the program has provoked a wide-range

Alumnus talks about Mike I

of opinions regarding its ethical value and efficiency. But the one thing virtually everyone agrees on is that, whether the program is truly beneficial or not, people have to start looking for more efficient and innovative ways to prevent unplanned teen pregnancy.

The nation’s teen birth rate, after declining for 14 consecutive years, has increased during the last couple of years and now stands at 7.2 pregnancies per 1,000 teenage girls, according to the national census. Furthermore, recent studies also indicate that three out of 10 women become pregnant by age 20, and the costs associated with teen pregnancies exceed $9 billion annually.

Despite garnering support from some citizens, many North Carolinians have expressed concern over the fact that a small portion of their tax-payer dollars might fund a program that does not effectively reduce teenage abortions, but rather might implicitly encourage participants to seek abortions from less reliable sources.

Far more skeptics worry that paying young girls to act sensibly sends the wrong message to to-

day’s youth, namely that virtue can be bought at a price and that integrity should always comes with an alluring cash reward. These mixed signals, they say, primarily serve to confuse young people rather than providing them with some sort of reliable moral compass.

This concern, merited or not, does present a potentially potent argument: Do programs such as College Bound Sisters attack the root of today’s problems, or do they merely throw money at them?

Certainly any group or organization that intends to prevent unplanned teen pregnancy Scott Burns Columnist while also encouraging girls to attend college should be applauded for its good intentions. But, to be fair, we must also analyze what sort of long-term effects this sort of methodology will have on future generations, especially when public funding is involved.

Once we take some of these ob-

jections into account, we should be able to recognize that the underlying problem isn’t necessarily the mere existence of teenage pregnancies, but rather the lack of a reliable and consistent ethical standard that points out the rewards of virtue rather than merely recompensing good sense.

As critics rightly contend, young girls should be groomed to expect the greater reward of sound ethics rather than the immediate imbursement of blind obedience. Over time, this lesson will yield far more practical benefits for society as a whole.

Besides, unplanned pregnancy is, generally speaking, a second-hand consequence of the absence of sound leadership and positive influence.

What teenage girls need, more than cash incentives or petty bribes, are reputable mentors who provide positive examples of the true virtue of sexual maturity.

The fundamental lesson young girls need to be taught isn’t that avoiding pregnancy pays, but rather that it pays to act responsibly and take into account the future consequences of present decisions.

Once girls start to understand the intangible rewards of account-

ability, they won’t have to be bought off by immediate tangible rewards.

The best way to provide real incentive is by illuminating the longterm virtue of responsibility, not by hastily rewarding those who act sensibly. If young girls, as well as all young people in general, are more focused on immediate benefits rather than long-standing results, their maturity will only be stunted by a lack of judicious foresight.

Practical wisdom should be the goal, not blind obedience. For today’s younger generation to truly progress, they must first realize there is an immaterial value in wise decision-making that cannot simply be measured in small cash rewards.

If our focus isn’t on instilling strong moral values, our society will only wind up creating more needy children than it prevents.

Scott Burns is a 20-year-old history and business major from Baton Rouge, LA. Contact Scott Burns at sburns@lsureveille.com

BEST AND WITTIEST

The article “Mike the Tiger is mightier than all other mascots” brought back many memories.

I was a freshman in 1936, and yes, many of us contributed $0.25 to help pay for Mike I. Total cost, as I recall, was about $600.

When Mike arrived in October, 1936, the students thought it was in order to declare a holiday even though President James Monroe Smith apparently didn’t favor it. So we blocked the entrances to the campus and prevented the faculty from entering the campus. Mission accomplished.

I was not aware of the origin of Tiger nickname, but let me explain how “Mike” came about. The LSU athletic trainer was the very popular Mike Chambers. All knew him as “Mr. Mike.”

When an injury occurred on the field he would run out, drape the injured on his broad shoulders and trot to the LSU bench. Everyone would stand and applaud. Players back then rarely weighed 200 pounds.

The University leased a train once a year to take the Cadet Corps, the band and cheerleaders to a game away. I remember going to Birmingham to play Auburn and to Knoxville to play Tennessee. On Saturday morning we would parade downtown led by “Mike the Tiger” (in his traveling trailer), the Cadet Corps, the band and cheerleaders.

Thought you would enjoy learning a little bit more about Mike I. Warren E. Savant, 1940 alumnus Photo courtesy of KING FEATURES SYNDICATE

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