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STUDENT GOVERNMENT

SG begins new outreach campaign for organizations

By Adam Duvernay Staff Writer

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“The Kiss” sculpture, created by French sculptor Auguste Rodin, is on display at the LSU Museum of Art. This is one of his most famous creations.

Lithographer: More than half are fake

By Kyle Bove Chief Staff Writer

The new Rodin exhibit at the LSU Museum of Art boasts more than 60 of the sculptor’s bronze pieces, but one Florida artist claims more than half of them are fake.

“Rodin: A Magnificent Obsession,” an exhibition provided by the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, is on display through April 19 and features bronze statues by re-

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nowned French sculptor Auguste Rodin. His famous works include “The Thinker” and “The Kiss.” More than 50 pieces in the exhibition were produced after Rodin died in 1917, raising the question of what makes a piece of art original.

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This Rodin-made figure depicts a man about to sacrifice his life defending Paris in the Hundred Years War.

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When Shannon Bates ran for Student Government office last spring, part of her campaign was the promise to be a proactive force for improving communication between student organizations and SG. But during her first semester as SG vice president, Bates fell short of her goal when she was only able to speak to about 20 of the University’s 250 student organizations. Attributing the failure to miscommunication with the newly-seated organization leaders, Bates has reorganized this semester to resolve those past difficulties.

Bates is joining forces with the SG Senate to organize a new outreach program designed to make SG officials more visible and accessible to University students.

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An original signature appears on Rodin’s “The Kiss.” He signed his wax molds before they were cast in bronze allowing them to be repeated on other sculptures.

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Michael Angle envisioned owning a business that would allow students to watch their professors’ lectures online. But when he presented the idea to his management class, his professor ripped him apart.

The 2007 business graduate said he remained optimistic after the feedback and laughed as he compared his story to Todd Graves, owner of Raising Cane’s.

Angle was given the chance to prove his business model, Classes on Demand, when the University’s incubator accepted him into the program.

The Louisiana Business and Technology Center’s incubator program helps new businesses become recognized and offers office space for the companies at South INCUBATOR, see page 5

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Obama tells Muslims US is ‘not your enemy’

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The money sent home by Mexican migrants fell in 2008 for the first time on record, Mexico’s central bank said Tuesday — part of a global trend that could worsen as emigrants from developing countries lose jobs in the global financial crisis. Remittances, Mexico’s secondlargest source of foreign income after oil, plunged 3.6 percent to $25 billion in 2008 compared to $26 billion for the previous year, the central bank said. The percentage drop is nearly twice what the government had expected for the year.

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — President Barack Obama chose an Arabic satellite TV network for his first formal television interview as president, part of a concerted effort to repair relations with the Muslim world that were damaged under the previous administration. Obama cited his Muslim background and relatives, practically a taboo issue during the U.S. presidential campaign, and said in the interview, which aired Tuesday, that one of his main tasks was to communicate to Muslims “that the Americans are not your enemy.” The interview aired on the Dubaibased Al-Arabiya news channel.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday “we are lost” unless the United States can find a way not to kill so many civilians in the pursuit of militants in Afghanistan, and that flooding the chaotic country with U.S. troops would be a disaster. Gates, the only Republican Cabinet member whom President Barack Obama asked to stay on, told a Senate panel that the Pentagon could send two more brigades to Afghanistan by late spring and a third brigade by late summer to try to salvage a war that has ground to a grim standoff with entrenched and resourceful militants. The U.S. is considering doubling its troop presence in Afghanistan this year to roughly 60,000, still less than half the number currently in Iraq.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday.

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Economic mood darkens FBI tapes played for Ill. impeachment trial as more jobs vanish NEW YORK (AP) — This is one recession Americans aren’t going to spend their way out of. The Conference Board said Tuesday its Consumer Confidence Index edged down to 37.7 this month, a record low, from a revised 38.6 in December. It stood at about 87 just a year ago. Americans are battered by headlines about massive job cuts, including thousands at Home Depot, Corning, General Motors and Caterpillar in just the past two days, and are still watching the values of their homes and retirement funds dwindle.

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ADMINISTRATION

Faculty Senate seeks to begin, end classes 10 minutes earlier Resolution to resolve time conflicts

By Ryan Buxton Contributing Writer

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If a class is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m., University students know their professor won’t begin lecturing until 9:40, the actual start time of the class.

But a resolution in the Faculty Senate is seeking to synchronize the schedule and change the start time of class, meaning the professor would begin the lesson promptly at 9:30.

Faculty Senate Resolution 09-01, sponsored by Log on to Construction see what Management students and Industrial think Engineering about the Senator Fereypossible doun Aghazatime deh, aims to change. change the University’s class schedule so that classes begin on the hour and half past the hour, rather than 10 minutes after the scheduled start time. Classes would then end 10 minutes earlier.

For example, a 9:30 class currently begins at 9:40 and ends at 10:30. Under the Faculty Senate

proposal, that class would begin at 9:30 and end at 10:20.

Aghazadeh could not be reached for comment on the resolution. But according to Faculty Senate President Kevin Cope, the motivation for the idea lies in time conflicts that arise because of classes ending on the hour and half-hour.

“Most meetings and events, other than classes, start precisely on time,” Cope said. “This creates an awkward situation.”

Cope said students or faculty members may be late to meetings that begin on the hour because they are getting out of class at the same time the meeting is set to start.

The resolution was presented at the Faculty Senate’s January meeting, followed by a short discussion and debate. Cope said seven senators spoke on the issue, six in favor and one opposed.

The resolution will be voted on at the senate’s next meeting Feb. 19.

If the resolution passes, the University registrar’s office would begin work on adjusting the schedule.

Registrar Robert Doolos said his only concern is making the class schedule as efficient as possible.

“I neither support [the resolution] or not support it,” Doolos said.

“We’re here to serve faculty and students. We can make that change with respect to the schedule.”

Doolos said assuring everyone is on the same timetable is the most important part of implementing the

policy.

“As long as we make it definite so everybody knows when their class starts, there’s no ambiguity,” said Doolos. “That’s the important thing.”

Doolos acknowledged there would be a period of adjustment for all involved. He said he understands beginning class 10 minutes earlier would take time to get used to.

Patrick Carson, economics freshman, said the change would not be a drastic one.

“I wouldn’t mind that,” Carson said. “I could adjust.”

But other students are unhappy with the shift of the 10-minute transition period.

“When I’m coming to school, I have a grace period to wake up late,” said Josh Carley, mass communication junior.

Amy Townsley, history junior, said she needs the time before class to get her children to day care.

Jonathan Rayfort, general studies senior, said starting class earlier could be harmful to students.

“If your first class is at 8:30 a.m., you’ll probably be late,” said Rayfort. “You would only benefit if you have back-to-back classes.”

It is unclear exactly when the new schedule would be implemented if the resolution is passed.

Contact Ryan Buxton at rbuxton@lsureveille.com

LAW CENTER

Cold cases of 1960s reopened Program combines journalism, law

By Kristen Higdon Contributing Writer

Emmitt Tills’ mother wanted an open casket at her son’s funeral so the nation could see the injustice placed on her black son for talking, possibly whistling, at a white girl.

Today, Tills’ life serves as a key event that started the civil rights movement and as an incentive for those who further investigate cases that have yet to give victims’ families the satisfaction of justice.

The Paul M. Hebert Law Center’s Pugh Institute presented The Cold Case Justice Initiative Program on Tuesday, which is a collaborative effort started by two Syracuse University law professors in which journalist and law students try to find the common link between 1960s civil rights murders.

Paula Johnson and Janis McDonald, co-directors of the program, built the class at Syracuse Law School for investigation of 1960s civil rights murders from the ground up.

Since then, it turned into both

a volunteer and educational effort beyond the classroom.

“The killings that have happened during this time period are not isolated,” Johnson said. “They really are a part of one whole scheme.”

The Cold Case Justice Initiative follows the mantra, ”the past is not the past,” describing the mentality in which the students at Syracuse University and CIVIL RIGHTS, see page 4

Amy Townsley

Patrick Carson

Courtney Labat

history junior

economics freshman

biological sciences sophomore

‘It’s not [a good idea] for me. I have two children to get to day care before school.’

‘I wouldn’t mind [the time change].

I could adjust.’

‘If I had a morning class and was running late, it would bother me.’

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RECREATION

$1M insurance policy keeps motorcycle club unofficial Education for new riders is essential

By Mary Walker Baus Contributing Writer

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The smell of gasoline and burning rubber doesn’t appeal to most people, but the members of the Motorcycle Club of LSU live for it.

Dressed like regular students in polos and jeans rather than stereotypical biker clothes, the members of the motorcycle group socialized before taking off for the weekly Tuesday communal joyride followed by a group dinner, which usually takes place at George’s Restaurant.

This group of University students, “a brotherhood of motorcyclists” along with its Log on one female to see a member, origivideo of nated three years members ago as a way for students to gain of the advanced learnMotorcycle ing and experiClub of ence with the LSU. machines they ride in a “controlled environment” of both experienced and new riders.

“We got together mainly to find more riders on campus,” said Mark Duplessis, communication studies senior and vice president of the group. “As a club, we try to promote safety, organize communal rides and hang out, basically. No one wants to ride by themselves.”

The motorcycle club has 30 members, with nine members joining this year.

Though the motorcycle club has more than the five necessary members to become a registered organization with the University’s Campus Life, the self-proclaimed Motorcycle

Club of LSU is not officially affiliated with the University, mainly because of a $1 million insurance policy the University’s Office of Risk Management and Campus Life would require the club to have.

“When we have groups that may bring risks to students, we work with the University’s Office of Risk Management to assess the risks and other requirements they need to meet,” said Michelle Lowery Eldredge, associate director of Campus Life.

“Basically, [the group] would have to work with an insurance company to get a policy, and I would imagine there would be a monthly fee that the club members would pay. The club would have to show proof of that policy to the University.”

This group of motorcycling students isn’t the first to experience such an expensive setback to become an official organization registered with Campus Life. Eldredge said a group of students interested in firearms said in its Campus Life application it wanted to travel as a group to the shooting range. To make those trips, Eldredge said, the group had to get the same $1 million insurance policy because of the risk and liability involved with group trips to the shooting range, a move the group opted not to take.

The motorcycle club submitted a charter to Campus Life based on the Baton Rouge Motorcycle Club’s waiver, but the charter was declined, and the group was told to get the insurance policy.

“There’s no point in having a motorcycle club that doesn’t ride together,” said Kevin Goodlett, sociology senior and the group’s retention officer. “It’s a lot safer to ride as a group. It’s hard to see just one motorcycle, but it’s easy to see a large group of motorcycles. Also, the exhaust is a safety feature because people can hear us coming from far away.”

Eighteen percent more students

have purchased motorcycle permits this academic year than last year, according to Gary Graham, director of the Office of Parking, Traffic and Transportation. There are 205 students and 75 employees with motorcycle permits.

“Several new riders on campus have told me they’ve never rode a bike before in their life,” said Aaron Wascom, electrical and computer engineering freshman. “These new riders get a bike when they go to college, and you can tell they don’t know what they’re doing, stopping and stuttering on the bike.”

Goodlett said the club advertises at the beginning of each semester but cannot attend the organizational fair put on by Campus Life.

Education for new riders is a main part of the club’s mission, which states, “We believe that with brotherhood among motorcyclists, we can learn how to care for and modify our bikes and learn good safety techniques on how to stay alive on the ride.”

The group meets every Tuesday at 6:15 p.m. in the Lockett parking lot.

Contact Mary Walker Baus at mwbaus@lsureveille.com

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other organizations throughout the country follow.

“In order to have integrity in the law, we have to heal certain wounds,” McDonald said. “Therefore, we still have an obligation to them.”

Initiative participants conduct investigations and research unresolved cases. The program serves as a clearing house to share and receive information on active cases.

The initiative was founded in response to the 1964 murder of Frank Morris in Ferriday, which remains unsolved.

“The interdisciplinary work has led to roughly 50 cold cases being reopened,” Johnson said.

None of these cases has been solved, but the point of the investigations is to find the link between these civil rights murders, Johnson said.

The course taught at Syracuse Law School involves weekly meetings, legal and journalistic investigation methods, journal entries and legal and journalistic ethical cannons.

“This has completely revitalized investigations by combining the journalism profession with law in a joint effort to solve not current crimes, but crimes committed in the ‘60s,” said Law Center Clinical Director Robert Lancaster.

The forum began by showing the efforts of students at Syracuse to solve these cases.

“We are trying to create a structure that incorporates

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‘In order to have integrity in the law, we have to heal certain wounds.’

Janis McDonald

co-director of The Cold Case Justice Initiative Program

everything in the course with volunteer efforts,” McDonald said.

“We as professors see growth and excitement from the students, which in return causes them to come out of this changed. That is a great aspect of law school.”

First year law student Jennifer Hull said she wishes that more humanitarian courses would be offered at the Law Center so students can get more investigative experience.

“I really thought that what they presented was different and interesting,” said Hull.

The Emmitt Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act was recently passed and promises the necessary resources to local government and FBI agencies to help solve civil rights murder cases.

The Pugh Institute provides support for research, educational and pro bono activities that promote justice.

Contact Kristen Higdon at khigdon@lsureveille.com

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POLITICS

Web site: Obama pledges to help rebuild New Orleans Site criticizes Bush’s response to Katrina

By Nichole Oden Staff Writer

After President Obama’s inauguration, his team of advisers updated his Web site and posted his plans to rebuild New Orleans.

They refered to the Bush administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina as a “catastrophic failure.”

“President Obama will keep the broken promises made by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast,” his advisers said on the Web site. “The federal government will never again allow such catastrophic failures in emergency planning and response to occur.”

Chuck Fontenot, College

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Campus.

Charles D’Agostino, LBTC executive director, said the program supports 21 businesses, including four who joined in January.

“It’s critical [to help] small businesses to get started,” D’Agostino said, explaining that local businesses help keep the community thriving.

Classes on Demand began as Angle’s idea from the classroom — to create a program where students can view class lectures online. He said the company is piloting the program in a classroom in Dodson

GEAUX, from page 1

difficulties reaching the active leaders of student organizations kept SG from fully interacting with the University’s various student groups last semester.

“By creating Orgs2Geaux, I’m hoping to lay a lasting foundation that facilitates communication for students to SG,” Bates said.

Though Bates sent out an email to foster communication with the leaders of student organizations last year, she said it was sent out too early in the semester to be effective.

SG officials said the new program should substantially increase direct communication between those organizations and the senators who represent them.

“What I learned from last semester is that this semester is going to be key,” Bates said.

The first step toward their goal will be taken today when a new email will be sent to an updated list of student organization presidents.

After meetings are scheduled, the senators corresponding to each of the University colleges and organizations will be dispatched to meet with those students.

“I feel like we need to go to students and that they shouldn’t only have to come to us,” said Amanda Gammon, SG Government Relations Committee chair and co-founder of the Orgs2Geaux program.

Senators from the University College Center for Freshman Year will be responsible for organizations not affiliated with any college.

“Senators will become more

Republicans president, said he doesn’t feel calling the response a “catastrophic failure” is correct. Instead, Fontenot said Obama should have acknowledged the mistakes made by Bush and the mistakes made by state and local government.

“Hindsight isn’t a solution,” Fontenot said.

Kirby Goidel, mass communication and political scienceprofessor, said recovery efforts were not handled effectively.

“Katrina was the turning point for Bush,” Goidel said. “He had very high approval ratings before Katrina.

Post Sept. 11, people thought Bush would be able to take care of them.”

Regina Lawrence, political communication professor, said Bush’s response to Katrina should have been more timely. She said his advisers didn’t understand the extent of the issue.

Obama has been paying a lot of attention to New Orleans and the people who were affected by the hurricane. He has already introduced new legislation requiring disaster planners to take into account the needs of low-income hurricane victims, according to his Web site.

Though Obama is addressing his post-Katrina views online, he only briefly referenced the storm in his inaugural address.

“It is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break,” Obama said.

Though Obama made promises to New Orleans, some are leery of whether it will be a top priority.

“He has many commitments,” Goidel said. “Relative to health care, the economy and other issues, it won’t be a top priority.”

Auditorium, and students can pay $3.50 per lecture to view the video. “[The business] takes a whole new approach to distance learning,” Angle said. “Once you purchase [the lecture], you can still view it all semester,” The University is going to test the company’s system after Classes on Demand begins filming. Angle said the equipment is functional in the classroom, but the company is waiting for approval from professors and departments. The program should begin in the next month, he said. “[We’re] hoping to start in one

classroom and then expand into multiple classrooms,” Angle said.

Student Government is putting together a focus group to help get student feedback about distance learning, he said.

D’Agostino said the four new businesses will offer new resources to the community because of their unique business models.

“Each [new business] plan to add five to ten jobs in the next year,” D’Agostino said.

visible to the students they represent,” Gammon said. “It helps to get our names out there so we’re not just an e-mail address on a Web site.”

During these meetings, SG senators will speak to their respective organizations about the program’s goals. Afterward, they will listen to student concerns, both as individuals and as parts of larger organizations.

The increased visibility and access to senators may provide student organizations with a more direct way to deal with issues such as funding

for special events and equipment.

“Student organizations sort of get the run-around from a lot of campus administration,” said Rob Dowie, Tiger Band drum major and president of Kappa Kappa Psi, Beta Gamma chapter. “When SG gets involved, it almost forces the administration and the staff to cooperate.”

Contact Joy Lukachick at jlukachick@lsureveille.com

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Ellis Sandoz, political science professor, said he wonders if Obama will be able to keep all his promises.

“We’ll see if this is a top priority,” Sandoz said. “Words are cheap.

What actions is he taking?”

Fontenot said it would be wise for Obama to rebuild New Orleans.

“New Orleans is one of the jewels of the South,” Fontenot said. “He understands the importance of New Orleans not only for the state, but for the entire nation.”

Goidel said criticizing the Bush administration on Obama’s Web site was appropriate.

“It’s politics,” Goidel said.

“Certainly that’s fair game.”

Lawrence said she thinks this was a technical error.

She said when his advisers were moving information from the transition Web site, which had many of his campaign platforms, they simply moved the information to the White House site without editing it.

“This wasn’t a calculated attempt to defame Bush,” Lawrence said.

Contact Nichole Oden at noden@lsureveille.com

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RODIN, from page 1 lithographer and gallery owner, has been critical toward the Cantor Foundation’s Rodin exhibitions, which have made appearances in numerous museums across the country for nearly a decade. Arseneau claims because the majority of the pieces were created after Rodin died — one as late as 1995 — they should be disclosed as “reproductions” rather than “originals.”

“Simply put, the dead don’t sculpt,” Arseneau said.

Tom Livesay, LSU Museum of Art executive director, said Arseneau’s accusations can be dismissed after hearing the conditions of Rodin’s will, where the sculptor authorized the French government to continue casting his work after his death. The French government gave Rodin’s production rights to the Musée Rodin in Paris. The Musée Rodin holds many originals and issues authorized posthumous casts.

“The casts after his death are made from Rodin’s original moulds, assembled according to his instructions, and are therefore originals,” Livesay said in an Oct. 15 news release.

During Rodin’s lifetime, master sculptors commonly created their work first in clay and then had craftsmen create replicas in any size in stone or metal through a pointing process, Livesay said.

Judith Sobol, Cantor Foundation executive director, said Rodin most likely didn’t see most of his finished pieces. The bronzing process was left to artisans, not artists.

“In [Rodin’s] day, the artist

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Rodin artwork is displayed at the LSU Museum of Art located in the Shaw Center.

The gallery, located in downtown Baton Rouge, will run until April 19.

didn’t see the finished work,” Sobol said.

Sobol said Rodin was not only a brilliant artist, but a savvy businessman who tried hard to sell as many pieces of his artwork as he could.

Rodin would take orders according to size and color, having his skilled craftsmen recreate his works for the masses. Sobol said when casting in bronze, multiple originals can be made in any size. “[The sculptures] were all Rodin’s — Rodin saw them equally,” Sobol said.

Arseneau has, in a way, made his mission in life to expose the majority of Rodin pieces in the Cantor Foundation’s exhibitions as fakes, contacting media across the country when the traveling exhibit premieres.

He has been featured in numerous newspapers since he began voicing

his opinions in 1999.

By touting the pieces as “original,” the Cantor Foundation and the LSU Museum of Art are misleading the public into thinking they are seeing an original Rodin, Arseneau said.

“I go where the facts lead me,” Arseneau said. “They go where the money leads them.”

Sobol and Livesay both said Arseneau fails to understand Rodin’s art-making process and original intent.

“When he touched the clay it was the same thing as a photo negative,” Sobol said. “It is not a work of art — it is the beginning to a work of art. A stage.”

Assistant art history professor Darius Spieth said the issues Arseneau brings to attention are philosophical, often without an answer.

“It’s like black and white for [Arseneau],” Spieth said. “The reality is more of a gray area.”

Spieth said an estate can legitimize multiples of a work posthumously, like the Musée Rodin.

Having studied Rodin copyright law, art history and the Cantor Foundation extensively, Arseneau said he has made his opinion known through many media outlets, including newspapers and television.

Arseneau said Sobol and other museum officials across the country have never contacted him to refute his numerous claims against the Cantor Foundation, several national museums and the Musée Rodin. He said these officials don’t debunk his assertions because the art world would virtually collapse if the Cantor Foundation said most of the exhibit’s pieces were reproductions.

“Instead of going head-to-head with me, they call me the ‘Rodin Chaser,’” Arseneau said.

Livesay said no one in the art world supports Arseneau’s claims.

An April 1999 article, “Cummer curator fired,” published in The Florida Times-Union, said otherwise.

wednesday, january 28, 2009 Robert Torchia, former curator for The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens in Jacksonville, Fla., was fired three days after he wrote a letter questioning the authenticity of sculptures in a Rodin exhibit entitled “Rodin’s Monument to Victor Hugo.”

The letter was written to Arseneau.

Torchia, who was supposed to leave The Cummer at the end of the week anyway, wrote, “Although this is an extremely complex issue, I have to admit that I am in basic agreement with your objections concerning this work’s originality and degree of authenticity. Certainly the words ‘posthumously cast’ ought to be used in order not to lead the public astray, the term ‘reproduction’ seems a little too strong in this context, but it may well prove applicable.”

The same exhibit and firing was later written about in The Wall Street Journal in July 1999. Arseneau’s opinions were also featured in a January 2008 article, “What is an original?” published in The Boston Globe.

Contact Kyle Bove at kbove@lsureveille.com

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BASEBALL

Sports

Fresh on the Court

Mainieri undecided on Chad Jones

Lady Tigers experience ups and downs of a freshman-heavy roster

By Amos Morale

By Casey Gisclair

Sports Contributor

Chief Sports Writer

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The LSU baseball team’s season opener is less than a month away, but uncertainties still surround both the team’s roster and playing facilities.

LSU coach Paul Mainieri addressed the status of two dual-sport athletes — sophomore Chad Jones and junior Jared Mitchell — during a Tuesday afternoon press conference at WalkOn’s.

He said Jones is practicing with the Log on team but has not to see a officially made video of the roster. MainPaul ieri added he has Mainieri’s been impressed press

by Jones on and conference. off the field.

“It’s aweinspiring what he does some days,” he said. “He’ll take three swings in a row and hit three in a row over the scoreboard.”

Mainieri said he expects to make a decision on Jones before the team’s final rosters are due on Feb. 19 — a day before the season opener against Villanova.

If Jones stays with the team, he will be available for the first 14

When LSU women’s basketball coach Van Chancellor took over the Lady Tigers in April 2007, he had every coach’s dream.

Chancellor had a roster comprised of 10 players who had been to the Final Four.

He also had eight seniors who won a total of 94 games in their careers and advanced to three-straight Final Fours.

LSU’s hall of fame coach also inherited three of the Top 19 picks in the 2008 WNBA Draft — center Sylvia Fowles and

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guards Erica White and Quianna Chaney.

But with only four returning players this season, the Lady Tigers are experiencing the ups and downs of a Southeastern Conference schedule with a group of players who were busy playing high school basketball at this time last season.

“The season has not been long at all,” Chancellor said. “But it’s been frustrating that I cannot get the simple things. We’re running less [plays]. We’re running less things because I cannot get the ball where I want it.”

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MAINIERI, see page 11

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LSU freshman forward LaSondra Barrett takes a free throw Nov. 16 during the Tigers’ 62-53 loss to Notre Dame in the PMAC. Barrett leads all freshmen on the team in scoring, averaging 11.3 points per game.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Tigers face tall task at Tenn.

Johnson: Containing Smith key to win

By Amos Morale Sports Contributor

JERIT ROSER / The Daily Reveille

Senior guard Garrett Temple hustles for a rebound in the Tigers’ 68-56 win against Nicholls State on Dec. 17 as junior forward Tasmin Mitchell looks on.

After the Tigers’ 80-70 loss to then-No. 15 Xavier on Saturday, LSU men’s basketball coach Trent Johnson joked that his team wouldn’t bounce back, would all quit and turn in their jerseys.

None of the Tigers quit, but they have taken a lesson from the game.

“It’s one of those situations where you have to put it behind you and understand now we’re back into league play,” Johnson said. “We have 12 games before the SEC tournament. We have six on the road and six at home, and you have to compete at a high level

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‘It’s hard to find something wrong with Tyler Smith.’

Trent Johnson

LSU men’s basketball coach

like we did against Xavier.”

Tonight’s game against Tennessee at 7 p.m. at Thompson-Boling Arena will be the Tigers’ first opportunity to bounce back.

“The best thing is that we see where we are now, and it wasn’t a conference game, so we are still on top of the West,” said LSU senior guard Garrett Temple. “That will send a message when we go to Tennessee this Wednesday.”

The Volunteers have the SEC’s top offense, averaging 81.2 points

per game.

“They are capable of going off on large scoring spurts if you’re not defending at a high rate,” Johnson said.

Leading Tennessee’s offense is junior forward Tyler Smith, who is No. 7 in the conference in scoring with 17.7 points per game.

“It’s hard to find something wrong with Tyler Smith,” Johnson said. “Probably the biggest compliment I can give a player like him is he probably impacts more than any other player in our league ... maybe in the country.”

LSU junior forward Tasmin Mitchell will have the task of guarding Smith.

“Tyler Smith likes to drive the ball,” Mitchell said. “I’m just going to play, back off of him a little bit, play the drive and keep him off the offensive boards.”

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Hoops fans come out in full force Students wants ‘the glory days’ back

By David Helman Sports Writer

Students are expected — if not demanded — to flock to tailgates around campus during the football season.

It’s late January, more than a month after the end of the home football schedule. Yet sure enough, last Saturday, there they were.

Dozens of LSU tailgates dotting the area surrounding Tiger Stadium, preparing not for football but for the men’s basketball team’s showdown with then-No. 15 Xavier.

Unlike LSU’s hot and humid home football games, fans braved 45 degree temperatures and a perpetual rainy mist to prepare for what was undoubtedly the biggest LSU basketball game in more than a year.

“This has been in the working since earlier in the week. We’ve been to South Carolina and Mississippi State, and they’ve been playing great,” said Jansen Wagner, marketing senior. “If it rains, we’ll get in the trucks and hang out.”

Wagner and his friends aren’t the only ones putting their hoops fever on display. As anyone waiting outside the PMAC on Saturday can attest, the throng of LSU students decked in purple and gold stretched from the front doors to Mike the Tiger’s habitat.

The fanaticism may be too much for even the Man of Steel. Cody Salomone, marketing junior and the purple and gold Superman at the forefront of every football student section, found himself well short of the front row on this particular evening.

“We’ve been here since 4:45 [in the afternoon], and we didn’t think the line would be this crazy,” Salomone said. “Actually we’re a little disappointed we aren’t a little further ahead in line ... In my three years at LSU, I’ve never seen a basketball crowd like this. After the Final Four, we were excited, but never to the point where they had barbecuing, tailgating and stuff before the game.”

At the center of it stands Caleb McKenzie and Co., the unofficial orchestrators of this Tiger basketball mania. You might recognize McKenzie, an agriculture business senior, as the jersey-wearing, sign-holding fanatic standing front and center at the PMAC’s student section during every basketball game in recent memory.

“I’ve been here for nine years.

My brother stuck me in the student section when I was in eighth grade,” McKenzie said. “This is the first time we haven’t been winning before the crowds started showing up ... it feels good to have that kind of atmosphere around here.”

McKenzie and close friend Jason Lynch, business management senior, got to the PMAC at 2 p.m.

Saturday but said the earliest arrivals got in line at 10 a.m. for the 7 p.m. tipoff.

“I played basketball. I refereed it. I just came from a basketball family. Pistol Pete [Maravich] is my hero,

man,” McKenzie said. “What makes me happy is that all of the students want to get in and participate.”

If their passion wasn’t evident enough, consider the fact McKenzie is no longer a student. He graduated in December but is “finishing off” the season.

He often uses his friend’s IDs to gain entrance to games but has made enough friends to ensure himself a seat.

“In nine years I have made friends with pretty much every cop, marshal and PMAC administrator,” McKenzie said. “They all know I don’t intend on doing this forever, and they like the idea that there will always be at least one lunatic trying to make things exciting.”

The excitement made an impression on visiting fans. Although their numbers were small, the Xavier fans sitting across from the students came away impressed with the LSU fans’ efforts.

“The student support is amazing, we don’t see that in a lot of places,” said Xavier alumnus Scott Kimball. “When LSU is playing well it’s about as loud as it can get. And I love ‘Neck.’ You can quote me on that.”

The madness couldn’t quite carry over to the team, as LSU lost, 80-70, to the Musketeers.

But for students who just seem happy to have a reason to get excited about basketball, “the support is for the season, not just tonight,” Lynch said.

“Just because we have a loss to a top-13 team, I don’t think we’ll abandon it,” McKenzie said. “I would like to see it get back to the glory days of the ‘80s when it really was the ‘Deaf’ Dome before I fade into non-student spectating.”

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University students shake newspapers during Xavier’s introduction to the game Saturday. The Tigers lost 80-70 in front of the largest PMAC crowd since 2006.

LSU students pack the PMAC during the Tigers’ 80-70 loss Saturday against Xavier. The 12,806 fans in the arena were the largest crowd since 2006.

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NFL

Warner resurrects career, team with Cardinals QB leads team to first Super Bowl

By Bob Baum The Associated Press

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Four years ago Kurt Warner was having a hard time finding a job.

No matter that he had been to two Super Bowls and won one of them, or that he’d been an NFL and Super Bowl MVP. The perception was that he was washed up, finished, that his storybook career was approaching an ignominious end.

Then the 37-year-old quarterback wrote the most amazing chapter of all with a season that might cement him a spot on football’s Hall of Fame, especially if he can lead the Arizona Cardinals, of all teams, to a Super Bowl victory Sunday over the Pittsburgh Steelers.

“Hopefully, it would recognize him for exactly what he is — one of the best players to ever play his position,” his coach, Ken Whisenhunt, said.

Warner’s story is rooted in a deep faith and a persistent drive to be the very best he can be as a person and a football player.

“My approach is hoping that every player that I’ve played with, every place that I’ve been, that in some way, shape or form, I leave my stamp on those people and those places,” he said at the Super Bowl media day on Tuesday. “That’s what I want my legacy to be. The football stuff, that’s all gravy.”

The football stuff impresses his Pittsburgh counterpart, Ben Roethlisberger.

“He’s gone through so much and done so much,” Roethlisberger said. “To me, I love watching him play. He throws an unbelievable pass and — you know what? — I have a lot of respect for him and the way he plays the game.”

Warner’s return to the top is a dominant theme leading up to this

Super Bowl, just as it was in his 1999 season.

“Most times when you do something great, it’s not overnight,” he said. “It’s not something that comes easy. It comes with a lot of hard work, a lot of time, a lot of commitment.”

The comment pretty much sums up his life.

Warner played for Northern Iowa, but didn’t start until he was a senior. Then he tried out for the Green Bay Packers, but was quickly released. So it was back to Cedar Rapids, where he got a job stocking shelves for a supermarket.

His route from there to the NFL included three seasons with the Iowa Barnstormers of the Arena Football League and two years with the Amsterdam Admirals in NFL Europe.

Before the 1999 season, Warner was a backup with the Rams when starter Trent Green was injured. Coach Dick Vermeil turned to Warner, and the result was one of the most prolific offenses in NFL history.

In the next three years, despite missing five games because of injury, Warner threw for 12,612 yards and 98 touchdowns. There was the Super Bowl championship season and the near-miss against New England in 2001.

But injuries to his finger and hand in 2002 signaled the beginning of the end of his days in St. Louis.

He lost the starting job to Marc Bulger and was released by the Rams after the 2003 season.

“I never felt like the physical part of my game ever disappeared,” Warner said. “I felt like that was always there. The one question I had when I left St. Louis was would I ever get the opportunity to display that again.”

He signed a one-year deal with the New York Giants, but was replaced by rookie Eli Manning 10 games into the season after an awful game against the Cardinals.

At 33, Warner found no

serious offers, except from the lowly Cards, perennial doormats in the NFL. Even in Arizona, success never came easily.

“I worked my butt off this year to try to prove they made the right decision, not only this year but when they signed me four years ago,” Warner said, “to try to pay back as much as I can for what they’ve given me.”

Warner was limited by injuries to 10 starts in 2005. In 2006, thencoach Dennis Green made Warner the starter after training camp, but again he was replaced by a rookie — when Matt Leinart took over five games into the season.

Whisenhunt replaced the fired Green in 2007, and Warner had to prove himself all over again.

“This league is so much built on what someone’s perception of you is,” Warner said. “I know that even when this coaching staff came here ... that they really felt that this guy is on the tail end of his career, he’s just kind of hanging on.”

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Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner [left] and defensive end Antonio Smith [right] smile as the team arrives at Tampa International Airport on Monday for Super Bowl XLIII.

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GYMNASTICS

Jackson invaluable to Tigers Junior won vault championship in ‘08

By Andy Schwehm Sports Contributor

LSU junior Susan Jackson was only 3 years old when her mother started her out in gymnastics as a way to keep the energetic toddler from seriously injuring herself.

“I would run on the backs of the couches and ... scare my mom,” Jackson said. “Then I would swing from the shower rails and closet rails. My mom thought I was going to kill myself, so she decided to put me somewhere where there were mats around me if I fell.”

Jackson hasn’t stopped tumbling since.

One of the nation’s top elite level performers in club — the highest level in gymnastics — and a fourtime member of the USA National Team, Jackson came to LSU as one of the most highly sought-after recruits in the nation.

LSU gymnastics coach D-D Breaux said she started recruiting the Spring, Texas, native as early as possible.

“I recruit Texas a lot,” Breaux said. “I knew her coach real well, and some kids that were previously on my team had their children in the same gym that she trained at. [Former Olympic gold medalist] Mary Lou Retton was at the gym, and I’m friends with Mary Lou, so I was very much in tune with what Susan was doing.”

Jackson said she chose LSU over numerous other schools, including nine-time national champion Georgia, because LSU’s coaches were personal in the recruiting process, and it was close to home.

“I was getting recruited by everybody, and it was between Georgia and LSU,” she said. “The coaches came to see me so many times, and Georgia’s coaches never came to see me. It was just like they don’t have to recruit people — people just go there.”

So far, Jackson has proved to be a valuable asset to the Tigers.

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Junior Susan Jackson awaits her score Jan. 16 with gymnastics Coach D-D Breaux during LSU’s loss to then-No. 8 Georgia. Jackson posted a 9.85 score on the floor to tie for second and a 9.85 on the vault, tying for fourth.

She helped lead LSU to the NCAA Super Six last season, with season averages of 9.880 on vault, 9.695 on bars, 9.784 on beam, 9.852 on floor and 39.186 all-around.

She concluded the season as an All-American on the beam, floor, vault and all-around, and she captured the national championship on vault with a score of 9.8563.

“She’s powerful, she has natural upper body flexibility and she has good kinesthetic understanding,” said LSU vault coach Bob Moore.

“She’s like a cat. You turn her upside down, throw her off a five-story building and she would land on her feet. She has things that you just can’t coach.”

The junior said her favorite event is beam, despite her vaulting national championship.

“I’m terrified of [vault],” Jackson said. “When I was a junior in high school, I was going to do a really big vault . . . and I was going really hard. When I got to the hurdle part, I tripped and went face first into the metal pole that sticks up. So now whenever I go I’m tentative, and it worries me that I will do the same thing.”

Jackson said she was fine, but the event still scares her.

The 2008 All-Southeastern

Conference selection has picked up where she left off last season, winning an all-around title, a floor title and a vault title in four meets this season.

She has also helped keep the Tigers on track despite injuries to senior Lauren Klein and sophomore Nicole Lyons.

“Susan has a lot of experience,” Breaux said. “She came in as an elite-level gymnast, which puts her a cut above. Susan just has a tremendous amount of competitive spirit and determination. She’s very focused in what she wants to do with her gymnastics. She plays a major role in readiness and pacing herself to be ready.”

LSU senior Ashleigh ClareKearney said the Tigers have much to look forward to with Jackson around for another year after this season.

“She’s very valuable,” ClareKearney said. “D-D always says we are a great one-two punch because we are the last two on each event, and we are both capable of scoring 9.9s. The team is very lucky that she is still here next year because she is very talented.”

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games of the season and the last 18 games because of spring football commitments.

“What I will have to do by Feb. 15 is make the decision whether or not that’s worth it,” Mainieri said.

Mainieri also said junior outfielder Jared Mitchell will not participate in spring football to concentrate on baseball. He said LSU football coach Les Miles gave Mitchell permission to miss football’s spring activities.

“My dealings with Les since I have been here have been off the charts,” Mainieri said. “That guy has got so much integrity, so much honesty. He cares about the kids. He is just a phenomenal person to work with. I think we both felt it was the right thing to do to give this kid every opportunity to be the very best baseball player he can be this spring.”

Mainieri said Mitchell ran into problems on the baseball field last season that were difficult to deal with because of his lack of practice.

“That won’t be an excuse for him this year,” he said.

The status of the Tigers’ new ballpark was also brought up during

VOLS, from page 7 The Tigers’ defense, which is No. 3 in the SEC allowing just more than 62.1 points per contest, may have to defend junior forward Wayne Chism without one of its best defenders.

Johnson said Monday that Thornton was having a problem with his Achilles tendon, and he was unsure whether Thornton would make the trip to Tennessee.

Thornton leads the Tigers bench in minutes played, averaging just more than 15 per game.

But the Tigers’ starting big man, senior center Chris Johnson, said the Tigers are up to the challenge of trying to stop the Volunteers’ versatile post presence.

“We just need to make [Chism] uncomfortable, try to make him do some things that he doesn’t want to do and keep him off the offensive boards,” Chris Johnson said.

The Tigers may find success against the SEC’s worst defense, which allows 74.3 points per game.

“They are not pressuring as much because they may not be as quick or have as many athletes or speed,” Temple said. “Their pressure has lightened up a little bit, but that may be because of the two teams they played last. Defensively, they don’t take as many chances, but they are still a fast-break team.”

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the 40-minute press conference.

Associate Athletic Director Eddie Nunez said both the new Alex Box Stadium and new Tiger Park should be completed by opening day.

“Right now, everything is going the way we would like it to,” Nunez said.

Nunez said the team facilities in Alex Box Stadium are 99 percent complete, the field is about 98 percent complete, all the seating is complete and the suites are about 90 percent complete. He said severe rain would be the only deterrent of the completion of the stadium. He said some of the parking lots need to be finished, and rain would make that impossible.

Mainieri said he hopes to begin practice in the new stadium Tuesday.

“That’s our plan right now,” he said. “That’s what we hope to do as long as everything continues to go well. The contractor has done phenomenal work. I just hope our team plays as well as the park will look.”

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FRESHMEN, from page 7

LSU retooled its roster in the offseason and had the No. 4-rated recruiting class in 2008, according to recruiting Web site hoopgurlz.com.

Freshmen account for 34.4 points per game for LSU, or 57 percent of the team’s offense.

That number ranks No. 2 in the Southeastern Conference behind only Tennessee, whose freshman class accounts for nearly 70 percent of the Lady Vols’ points.

LSU forward LaSondra Barrett is leading the way for the Lady Tigers’ freshman players.

She has averaged 11 points and nearly six rebounds per game.

Forwards Ayana Dunning and Courtney Jones have become regulars in LSU’s starting five in recent weeks and have contributed a combined 13.5 points and 9.8 rebounds per game this season.

But while the Lady Tigers’ potential has been displayed to the nation, their inexperience has also been evident at times this season.

In LSU’s 38-36 loss to Mississippi State last Thursday, the

Lady Tigers turned over the basketball 19 times and shot just 23 percent from the field for the game.

After the game, junior guard Allison Hightower said some of the team’s younger players were not playing loose enough to win an SEC basketball game.

“We were holding back a little bit,” Hightower said. “We have to just go back to practice, rebuild and tell ourselves that we can’t have another game like that.”

Barrett agreed with Hightower’s outlook and said the team was not at ease against the Lady Bulldogs.

“It wasn’t comfortable,” she said. “It wasn’t relaxed. We were playing to not mess up or to not make a mistake, and we were hurting ourselves because that’s not playing our natural game.”

Despite the peaks and valleys of having seven freshmen this season, most agree the dominance the Lady Tigers experienced the past five seasons will return when LSU’s current roster gets a few seasons under its belt.

Texas Southern coach Yo-

PAGE 11 landa Wells-Broughton recruited most of the team’s newcomers last season while serving as an assistant coach for the Lady Tigers.

Following LSU’s 61-30 win against Texas Southern on Dec. 1, Wells-Broughton said the freshmen Lady Tigers are further along than she expected.

“They’re going to be fine,” she said. “There are going to be problems, especially on the road.

But there isn’t any less talent in the locker room than they’ve had in years past. They just need to take what they have and get those players the experience the past teams had.”

Chancellor agrees with his former assistant coach and said with a few more pieces in future recruiting classes, the sky is the limit for the current LSU freshmen.

“We’re going to be a really good team,” he said. “We’ve got to add another piece or two to this puzzle. We’ve got to add another playmaker, then another shooter.”

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OUR VIEW

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2009

Proposed change unreasonable in these turbulent times The Faculty Senate is proposing a policy change that would begin classes at the time listed on the schedule, on the hour and halfhour, and conclude 10 minutes earlier.

The Senate argues the current system is inconvenient for faculty members, who are often late for meetings scheduled immediately after the classes they teach.

We oppose this resolution.

Teaching classes should be the

faculty’s No. 1 responsibility. If they miss five or 10 minutes of a meeting because they were doing this primary job, so be it.

Many students rely on the 10-minute period as breathing room for planning their schedules.

Students who live off-campus benefit from having the leeway to make their commutes, given the variability of traffic they encounter.

And students who work require those 10 minutes to get to

class; students who work after class have always been able to plan their schedules accordingly.

If students can make it to other responsibilities after a class, then surely faculty members can as well.

Besides, the Faculty Senate has more important things to deal with: the massive budget cuts facing the University.

The Senate should be focusing its efforts on minimizing the

impact these cuts will have on students. They should be taking every possible step to prevent cut classes and increased fees.

Why attempt to change a system that has functioned well for years? By the Senate’s own admission, changing the start times will require adjustments not only from students and faculty, but also from administrators and support staff.

These changes could possibly take place beginning next fall — right

when the budget cuts will be causing the most havoc.

Creating this upheaval while drastic downsizing fosters confusion seems foolhardy.

We strongly oppose this resolution, and call for it to be tabled — at least until less turbulent times merit its reconsideration.

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WALK HARD

The Daily Show, Colbert Report too big to fail

Every night at 10 p.m. in dorms, apartments and houses across campus, DVRs begin recording and TV sets flicker to life. An influx of wit, humor, and pithy critiques of everything from politics to the media to pop culture is inundating the minds of the young and impressionable.

For the last eight years, Jon Stewart has elicited laughter from his predominately college-aged audience. Former President George W. Bush would often throw slowbreaking curve balls that hung up in the strike zone, allowing Stewart to knock it over the left field fence night after night. “The Daily Show” host has more home runs than Barry Bonds.

But all that is about to change.

Stewart is a political humorist and satirist. Unlike “The Soup” host Joel McHale, Washington, not

Hollywood, is his bread and butter.

For all President Obama’s talk about creating new jobs and helping the economy recover, he overlooks the likes of Stewart and his protégé Stephen Colbert.

Bush’s speeches were equitable to a toddler attempting Beethoven.

Obama doesn’t make up words that find their way into the vocabulary of every politically conscious 20-something. He doesn’t come up with lines that are completely incoherent and are still categorically wrong.

Obama is smooth like Miles Davis’ “My Funny Valentine.”

This competency may lead to the creation of jobs in other sectors, but “The Colbert Report” is lacking sufficient aid.

President Obama seems satisfied subjecting the young voters, who

voted overwhelmingly in his favor last November, to the tired ramblings of Wolf Blitzer and the rancor of a former ESPN sports anchor.

Stewart and Colbert’s shows attract viewers who are younger and smarter than average, according to a study conducted by the Pew Research Drew Center. Statistics Walker from the study Columnist show 54 percent of regular viewers of the comedy news shows qualify for the “high knowledge group,” which is defined as people who are able to correctly answer “at least 15 of 23 questions about politics and world affairs.”

Only 41 percent of regular CNN

viewers are put in the same category by the study.

The Pew study also noted, “The … comedy news shows attract younger-than-average audiences.”

This proves viewers of “The Daily Show” are younger and smarter than average. Stewart and Colbert have an attentive, educated audience. Obama came into office with the promise of change. He said in his inaugural address, “the ground has shifted” — and the high ground belongs to the young.

One of the greatest changes Obama could affect would be stoking the passions of the young by keeping them involved and engaged through the use of new media outlets like “The Daily Show.”

The younger generation is often derided for being apathetic, but this recent election shows that’s an unfair

characterization.

The influx of intelligence and self-reflection brought about by Obama’s ascension will make things significantly more difficult for Stewart and Colbert. With this difficulty looming over the continued success of the two anchors, Obama may need to include job re-training in his proposed economic stimulus package so they can host “Good Morning America” and “The Today Show.”

For the past eight years we have known where to go for news fit to ridicule. We also knew there would be no shortage of material.

But times seem to be tight everywhere, and the satirical news media appears to be no different.

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VIEW FROM ANOTHER SCHOOL

We should change habits to curb climate change

By Andrew Cross Daily Vidette, Illinois State University

NORMAL, Ill. — Climate change.

Global warming. The impending catastrophic assault on the innocent lives of cute, cuddly, polar bears.

Call it what you want, it’s received a lot of attention lately.

But a poll conducted earlier this month by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found global warming at the bottom of a list of 20 items Americans listed as a “top priority.” The economy, of course, grabbed the number one spot, followed by unemployment, terrorism and social security.

Although many think the issue of climate change has been sensationalized by the media and advocacy groups, there’s no doubt the choices we make have a profound impact on

our surroundings.

According to many so-called “experts,” climate change involves a varying pattern of warming and cooling trends.

Personally, I’m a bit more concerned about the cooling trends after the temperatures we had a week or two ago. I even recall hearing students utter something to the effect of, “Global warming my butt,” on the Quad several times over the past few weeks.

I don’t believe our atmosphere is going to turn into a pastry oven any time soon, and I’m not sure I advocate a return to the Little House on the Prairie lifestyle, but it is our duty to protect and preserve the world we inhabit.

And we can’t wait to follow Uncle Sam’s lead.

With a struggling economy and

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an ever-increasing national deficit, our government needs to make responsible spending a top priority.

With more taxpayer money going to the banks, less money will be available to start new “green” initiatives. Therefore, it’s our job to be conscientious consumers by making the daily decisions (i.e. recycling) that make a difference.

When the integrity of an issue is in question, look no further than its poster boy. As much as Al Gore has done to increase awareness about global warming, he has probably caused a good number of people to turn a blind eye to the issue altogether.

Sure, he’s got a Nobel Prize, but Gore falls somewhere between Tony the Tiger and the Freecreditreport. com guy on my list of image characters I would go to for advice Gore has been selling his position

on climate change for years, but as a whole, it seems we aren’t buying it.

A number of Americans have the perception that “saving the planet” should be left up to a marginalized segment of society known as the “tree huggers,” a fantastical group of leathery-skinned botanists with unkempt hair and an inexplicable phobia of the fellow man.

I’ll give you that some of the planet’s staunchest defenders haven’t done much to help out their cause.

I’m mostly referring to the group of New York college students who made news a few days before Halloween last year when they decided to protest global warming on a day with freezing cold temperatures. That’s called a poor decision in my book.

And in February of 2007, a hearing in the House of Representatives on the warming of the planet was

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cancelled due to a snow storm. Sometimes you have to appreciate irony.

It’s pretty unlikely the scientists and environmental gurus will ever reach a consensus as to the exact cause of global warming, or what it means for future generations.

But with the planet’s population at 6.7 billion and growing (according to the U.S. Census Bureau Web site, 250 people were born in the time it took me to click the ‘refresh’ button), our impact on the planet is undeniable.

So whether it means using public transit or tossing an empty bottle in the blue bins, we have the responsibility of looking out for our home.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

“For me, to use the word ‘queer’ is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.”

Derek Jarman British film director and author Jan. 31, 1942 - Feb. 19, 1994

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Louisiana higher education makes you queer With the state and the LSU System in severe financial trouble, a movement to protect students’ interests will have to quickly establish an identity and voice to have any positive effect.

The gay and lesbian rights movement offers some interesting lessons in organization.

Terminology is a perennial problem here. “Gay rights” implies the movement only exists for homosexual men. “Gay and lesbian rights” at least includes women, but leaves out anyone who isn’t strictly gay or lesbian and ignores transgender people.

The standard political solution is to pile on as many labels as possible and create increasingly complicated acronyms.

The White House Web site talks about “LGBT” civil rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. The Human Rights Campaign and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, two major lobbying organizations, both use LGBT in their mailings and resources.

There will always be people who find themselves absent from any finite list of adjectives — or worse, people who find all the provided adjectives demeaning.

In Tony Kushner’s play

“Angels in America,” a fictionalized version of infamous conservative attorney Roy Cohn muses, “A homosexual is someone who, in 15 years of trying, can’t get a pissant anti-discrimination bill through City Council.

They are men who know nobody, and who nobody knows.”

Cohn was obsessed with keeping his sexual relationships with men hidden to maintain his prestige in conservative political circles. For him, as for many others, the old labels — homosexual, gay, sodomite — still connote personal weakness and political irrelevance.

In the early 1990s, activist groups hit upon a solution to the problem. Rather than continue to add to the alphabet soup, they would claim one word, one identity.

Queer.

The militant group Queer Nation popularized this blanket term with the famous slogan, “We’re here. We’re queer. Get used to it.” In a widely distributed manifesto, the group elaborated on their rationale for this bizarre choice.

“Using ‘queer’ is a way of reminding us how we are perceived by the rest of the world.

It’s a way of telling ourselves we don’t have to be witty and charming people who keep our lives discreet and marginalized in the straight world.”

Many first experience “queer” as an insult, but in fact this derogatory nature gives the concept its power.

Heterosexual society has to feel pretty strongly about this perceived “deviance” to have invented a special epithet for it.

If a sexual identity shocks Matthew Patterson m a i n s t r e a m society enough Columnist that it must be shoved “out of bounds,” this transgressiveness becomes a potent defining force against a heteronormative majority.

“Queer” also has a wonderful flexibility. These LGBTQRSTUV acronyms can often be confining — for example, only men who have sex with men are really “gay.”

But anyone can be queer.

The Queer Nation manifesto insists on the universality of the word, saying, “Being queer is

‘grass roots’ because we know that everyone [sic] of us, every body, every cunt, every heart and ass and dick is a world of pleasure waiting to be explored.”

Far from reinforcing divisions, “queer” unites many disparate groups, celebrating every single identity that falls “outside the margins” of normal society.

A queer identity gives any socalled “deviant” a space beyond society’s boundaries in which to grow and prosper.

This concept of strength in deviance doesn’t just apply to sex.

Consider again those infamous budget cuts.

As Chancellor Michael Martin warned in a Jan. 16 broadcast e-mail, the LSU System is preparing for funding reductions between $44 million and $71 million for the fiscal year beginning July 1. This comes after an already severe mid-year $29 million cut announced on Jan. 6.

Because the state constitution protects the budgets of most other programs, higher education and health care are always the first against the wall when an economic crisis hits. The political will to fix this problem doesn’t yet exist.

This isn’t surprising. Barely 20 percent of Louisiana adults age 25 or older have earned bachelor’s degrees or higher, according to a 2007 report by the Census Bureau.

People with University educations therefore constitute a vastly outnumbered minority in Louisiana, and the state government continually exercises its budgetary power to make life harder for us.

Instead of bemoaning our fate, we celebrate our deviance from the norm, knowing our advanced degrees will bring us economic successes not enjoyed by the majority of the population.

Many of us plan to leave the state after graduation, some to deliberately widen our horizons, others because the careers and opportunities we long for simply aren’t available within these borders.

The conclusion is inescapable.

All of us, straight or otherwise, have become Louisiana queers.

Contact Matthew Patterson at mpatterson@lsureveille.com

NIETZSCHE IS DEAD

The Bible has many interpretations, no less power You do not believe the Bible is 100 percent literally true.

No one does.

You may claim the Bible is the unerring, verbatim word of God. You may firmly believe the Bible’s commands, the holiest of laws, are to be followed to the letter.

That’s fine. You still do not follow all of its commandments.

How do I know this? Because you’re reading this article.

Matthew 18:9 says, “And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.”

Matthew 5:28 says, “But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”

It seems few LSU students really take these words as law.

If they did, there would be far fewer guys sporting eyeballs on campus.

And all you devout women — do you like participating in church?

1 Corinthians 14:34 commands that: “Women should

remain silent in the churches.

They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the Law says.”

This makes “get back in the kitchen” look progressive in terms of gender equality.

Most of us believe slavery is wrong. Yet 1 Timothy 6:1-5 insists that “all who are under the yoke of slavery ... who have believing masters ... must serve all the better since those who benefit by their service are believers and beloved.”

If anybody really believed this passage, we’d view Harriet Tubman and Fredrick Douglass in a completely different light.

This is just from the New Testament. The arcane laws, personal behavior commandments and exhortations to genocide the Old Testament contains are enough to make even the most literal-minded theologian question its utterly inerrant applications to our lives.

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with believing the Bible, taking its commands as law, and following its guidelines as a way to live your life.

The Bible is full of some of

the most beautiful language in history. It contains calls to human compassion, self-sacrifice and love for your fellow man that are as applicable to the age in which we live as the age in which it was written. It’s as good a book as any to take advice for living your life.

But the book was written centuries ago.

Unless you believe Matthew the writers Albright received the Columnist words verbatim from the spirit of God — word for prophetic word — it seems impossible to deny that the times have changed.

If the Bible were a simple rule book, most major denominations wouldn’t require a doctorate in divinity before they can preach on it. When consulting the Bible on almost any issue, there are arguments to be made for and against, either in direct quotes or through contextual analysis.

The issue of biblical literacy is just as relevant now as it has

ever been.

Those who oppose gay marriage — or in extreme cases, gay rights at all — often find justification within the pages of the Bible for their arguments.

Likewise, those who oppose the teaching of evolution in school point to the creation story in Genesis as evidence that the theory is untrue.

Because opposition to these issues, among others, is so vocal among some Christian communities, it can begin to seem like all Christians take the same stand on them.

This is the simple truth: We don’t.

It is entirely possible for a Christian to believe that gays should get married. It is certainly possible for a Christian to believe in evolution.

The Bible is not a list of formulas. It is not a physics textbook, providing in concise, unquestionable language the method for solving each problem.

It is more like a law textbook. Within the huge volumes of its prose, different interpretations can and do occur on almost

any of the subjects on which it speaks.

Don’t believe Christianity is a religion of lock-step conformity, where bibles and priests move the flock like drones.

On the contrary, there are churches of all stripes. There are churches that welcome gays, even churches with gay pastors.

There are churches that teach evolutionary theory alongside the story of Adam and Eve. None of these place any less reverence on the Bible than their contemporaries who march at funerals, yelling, “God hates fags.”

The Bible is a wonderful book, one that has stood the test of time and is still a guiding compass for millions around the world.

It is not such a book because of indoctrination, but because it is a book that speaks to everyone — and speaks to everyone differently.

And don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

Contact Matthew Albright at malbright@lsureveille.com

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