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University to slash $45.4M next year “It will be like the Flagship Agenda never happened ... It’s very disheartening.”

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Michael Martin, University chancellor

Jindal’s proposed reduction for state higher education to total $219M

By Kyle Bove • Chief Staff Writer The University is set to take a $45.4 million budget cut next fiscal year, according to LSU System documents released Tuesday based on Gov. Bobby Jindal’s proposed executive budget.

“It will be like the Flagship Agenda never happened,” Martin said in a University news release. “The cut will likely cause us to fall back to where we were eight or 10 years ago. This kind of cut — 20 percent — would be a major setback for LSU.” The budget cuts call for about 20 percent of state funding to be reduced from each academic campus. System Spokesman Charles Zewe said the proposal on how to distribute the budget cuts is not “across the board.”

According to the documents, the System will implement a performancebased support fund of $347,865 for LSU’s main campus to help subdue the $45.4 million budget cut.

Jindal is expected to propose on Friday a $219 million budget cut in higher education state funding for the fiscal year beginning July 1 — meaning a $34.8 million cut for the University. The total cut includes the now permanent $10.3 million mid-year budget cut for fiscal year 2008-09.

“We will do all we can to minimize the adverse impacts, but this will clearly do real harm to a great university,” Martin said in the release.

BUDGET, see page 6

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University Chancellor Michael Martin discusses budget cuts Tuesday in front of the Memorial Tower.

TRANSPORTATION

University sends bid invitations for new bus system

By Brianna Paciorka Contributing Writer

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University students board a Capital Area Transit System bus Monday outside the Journalism Building. Officials are awaiting bids on the new bus system proposal.

Tune into KLSU 91.1 FM at 5:20 p.m. to hear a report about the addition of Tiger Bytes II.

Prospective bus companies received an invitation Friday to bid on the University’s new bus system, which includes plans for a GPS system, new routes and buses.

Gary Graham, Office of Parking, Traffic and Transportation director, said prospective bidders will have until March 31 to submit a

bid.

Because of Louisiana state law, the University had to prepare an invitation to bid rather than a request for proposal, which gives a company more latitude, for the bus system.

“We have to be very specific, and that is what’s taking so long,” Graham said. “We had to make sure all the t’s were crossed and all the i’s were dotted. We couldn’t leave it to interpretation.”

The winner will be whichever company provides the lowest bid while meeting the University’s specifications.

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Companies have March 31 deadline

“If they’re the lowest bid, but they’re not meeting our specifications, then they’ll be disqualified, and we’ll go to the next lowest bidder,” Graham said.

Among the University’s specifications are a GPS locator system, new routes and additional buses, all of which would modernize the University’s bus system as well as recognize the results of a survey done in November.

“We were really far behind in our advancement of the system. All BIDS, see page 6

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DHARMSALA, India (AP) — Life for Tibetans under Chinese rule has been “hell on earth,” the Dalai Lama said on Tuesday, attacking Beijing in a speech to mark 50 years since the failed uprising that forced him into exile. The unusually harsh rhetoric from the Nobel Peace laureate, who accused the Chinese government of treating his people “like criminals deserving to be put to death,” highlighted the widening gulf between the two sides since last year when violence engulfed the region and talks broke down.

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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An influential former Iranian prime minister said on Tuesday that he will run in the upcoming presidential election, posing what could be a serious pro-reform challenge to the hard-line president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Mir Hossein Mousavi, who announced his intention to run in a statement given to The Associated Press, is well remembered by many Iranians for managing the country during the 1980-88 war with Iraq. His revolutionary credentials also could help him siphon votes away from Ahmadinejad’s base. Iran’s reformers favor improving ties with the West and loosening restrictions at home.

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The self-professed mastermind and four other men charged in the Sept.

11 attacks declared they are “terrorists to the bone” in a statement that mocked the U.S. failure to prevent the killings and predicted America will fall like “the towers on the blessed 9/11 day.” In a rambling response to the government’s case, the men also sought to justify the attacks, citing a violent interpretation of Islam and a series of grievances against the U.S., including support for Israel, the Iraq war and abuses at Abu Ghraib prison and in Guantanamo. “To us, they are not accusations. To us they are badges of honor, which we carry with pride,” the men wrote in the six-page document, which was released Tuesday by a military judge.

In this courtroom sketch, the Sept. 11, 2001, attack co-defendants sit during a hearing Monday at the U.S. Naval Base in Cuba.

Third suspect jailed for Mardi Gras shooting

Senate ready to clear huge spending bill

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Officials say 19-year-old Gerard Gray turned himself in to authorities Tuesday in connection with the attempted murder of seven people on Mardi Gras. The shooting, which happened on the main parade route as floats were passing, left seven people with gunshot wounds. Only two were seriously injured.

Police say they have since left the hospital. Police say investigators identified Gray as the third suspect. The other two suspects, 20-year-old Mark Brooks and 19-year-old Lazone Lewis, were arrested moments after the incident.

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TECHNOLOGY

Tiger Bytes II to replace outdated online file storage system More storage space, features than original

By Steven Powell Contributing Writer

Information Technology Services implemented Tiger Bytes II this semester to replace the outdated Tiger Bytes I, a PAWS service allowing students and faculty to upload files for online storage.

“Tiger Bytes II is the newer, faster and better storage resource for students and faculty,” said Sheri Thompson, IT communications and planning officer.

Thompson said Tiger Bytes II contains a full gigabyte of storage, as opposed to the original Tiger Bytes’ 250 megabytes.

Tiger Bytes II is still in the early stages, as the University has only purchased 5,000 of the

needed 30,000 licenses, Thompson said. She said the University is required to have a license for each Tiger Bytes user.

Thompson said the first 5,000 licenses were purchased through Xythos, but Tiger Bytes II is in the bidding process. The University is looking for the best deal to buy additional licenses. ITS estimates having all 30,000 licenses in eight weeks, she said.

Thompson said Tiger Bytes II, paid for through student tech fees, will cost more than the original. She is unsure how much more.

The limited number of licenses and inconspicuous placement in PAWS makes Tiger Bytes II virtually unknown among students. Thompson said only 1,500 licenses have been used, though the option of signing up is available to all students.

“We aren’t really advertising it until we have the space,”

Tiger Bytes • 250 MB storage • Only private storage

Tiger Bytes II • 1 GB storage • Private and public storage • Ability to create Web pages Thompson said. “We don’t want all licenses to fill up and then have to choose who gets it and who doesn’t.”

Unlike Tiger Bytes’ prominent placement at the top, left corner of the PAWS account page, Tiger Bytes II is located under the

HEALTH

Computer Services menu.

“I’ve never used the new one,” said Jason Giamanco, agricultural business sophomore.

“I didn’t even know there was a new one.”

Harriet Blackburn, political science junior, said she uses Tiger Bytes frequently but had not heard about the new Tiger Bytes.

“I find Tiger Bytes is more convenient to upload files,” she said. “You don’t have to buy external hard drives or USB drives and carry them around with you.”

Though some students find Tiger Bytes convenient for uploading files, not all students prefer the service, opting for other methods of file storage.

“I only used it once and then couldn’t get it to work last time I tried it,” said Kristie Larson, communication studies and Spanish sophomore. “Every time someone tries to bring things up

on Tiger Bytes in class, it never works.”

Larson said she prefers a USB drive or e-mailing documents to herself.

Some of the differences between Tiger Bytes II and the original include more storage space, sharing documents with others and the ability to create web pages, Thompson said.

Thompson said ITS plans to eliminate the original Tiger Bytes once Tiger Bytes II is running smoothly, though the process will be gradual, allowing students to transfer stored data.

“It will be life cycled out,” she said. “It won’t be like ‘We’re turning it off tomorrow’ sort of thing.”

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IN OTHER NEWS ...

Study: One drink per day could Pet store expects fish increase cancer risk in women shipment, gets corpse More than 1 million included in test

By Joy Lukachick Staff Writer

By drinking one alcoholic drink per day, women could be increasing their risks of cancer, according to a seven-year study conducted by researchers at the University of Oxford.

The million-woman study showed low-alcohol consumption could account for almost 13 percent of breast, liver, rectum and upper aero-digestive tract cancer in • Total number of m i d d l e - a g e d women women. participating in “[We’ve] study: 1,280,296 just started to realize how • Total number of toxic alcohol is,” said Kathy women who developed cancer Saichuck, Wellness Education after drinking an c o o r d i n a t o r average of one at the Student Health Center. drink per day: N a o m i 68,775 Allen, lead researcher, conducted the study, “Moderate Alcohol Intake and Cancer Incidence in Women,” in the United Kingdom.

After more than seven years, 68,775 women had developed invasive cancer after consuming fewer than 21 drinks per week and an average of one per day.

“Consuming alcohol has risks to it,” Saichuk said. “[Women] don’t process alcohol as well as men.”

Women have about 10 percent less water in the body than men,

The study is alarming because allowing the break down of alcohol to happen slower, she said. Women the results show risks for moderate also have less enzymes in the stom- drinking that doesn’t account for ach, which break down the contents binge drinking, she said. Collegeaged women don’t usually drink there, Saichuck said.

Because of the lower level of moderately, she said.

The study counter-argues the enzymes, women have greater toxic levels of alcohol in their systems idea that one glass of wine per day decreases the risk — which leads to of heart disease. more health probSome studlems, Saichuck ‘This should be an ies have shown a said.

The study fo- alert to to all women moderate amount wine can reduce cused specifically to reduce their alcohol of the risks of heart on the health risks disease, Myhand of one alcoholic consumption.’ said. Any of the drink per day. ConJudith Myhand benefits would be suming larger levhuman ecology professor outweighed by the els of alcohol can health risks from be dangerous for the new information in the study, both men and women, she said.

The study also showed for ev- she said.

One type of drink does not ery additional drink consumed in a day, the estimated health risk was seem to be more harmful than an11 cases of breast cancer for every other kind, Myhand said, but a drink 1,000 women and a total of about 15 can be more harmful if consumed quickly. cases of cancer per 1,000 women. “[Sometimes they] don’t realThe bigger the population of a study, the more credible it becomes, ize what the affects are going to be said Judith Myhand, human ecol- until later,” she said. ogy professor. The study was also peer-reviewed, which gives it more Contact Joy Lukachick at reliability. jlukachick@lsureveille.com A woman’s genetic makeup affects how alcoholic consumption affects her, Saichuk said. Some women have greater chances of developing cancer because of hereditary factors, she said.

The study did not show what affects alcohol has on younger women.

“We’ll have to keep watching to see if younger women would have risks from cancer,” Myhand said. “This should be an alert to all women to reduce their alcohol consumption.”

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By The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Employees of a Philadelphia pet store expecting to get a shipment of tropical fish and salt water by air cargo ended up getting a human body instead.

Mark Arabia owns the Pets Plus store in Northeast Philadelphia where the mix-up was discovered Tuesday.

He said he eventually learned that the body he got was that of a 65-year-old San Diego-area man who died of early onset Alzheimer’s Disease.

The body was supposed to go to a laboratory in Allentown, Pa. so samples could be taken for medical research.

US Airways released a statement saying the problem was caused by a “verbal miscommunication between a delivery driver and the cargo representative.”

The airline said it’s deeply sorry.

Arabia said he believes the fish died as a result.

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ADMINISTRATION

University office cancels Disability Awareness Week Staff shortage, cuts force cancellation

By Joy Lukachick Staff Writer

The Office of Disability Services has canceled Disability Awareness Week because of staff shortage and the upcoming budget cuts.

The University has had an organized week in the past, normally the second week of March, to inform students about disability needs on campus, said Wendy Devall, disability services assistant director.

“This [week] would have been the 15th year for the awareness week,” Devall said.

The reason for the awareness week was to give students “a snapshot” of what a student with a disability experiences at the University.

The event is designed to increase student sensitivity, Devall said.

With budget cuts looming, the office did not have the resources to promote the week, Devall said. Further compounding the problem, the

department scheduled the week im- and at Bocage Village handing out mediately after midterms. fliers, Eagan said.

Though the event is canceled, a “Anyone who brings flier to the group of public relations students are restaurant ... will give 10 percent to working on raising The Arc,” she said, disability awareexplaining 10 perness in their mass cent of client’s bill communication will go to the orga“Public Relations nization on Monday Campaigns” class, nights in March and MC 4005.

April.

Lindsay EaThe Arc serves gan, one of the five about 500 children Paige Gagliano students working on and adults with inthe project, said the The Arc Baton Rouge director of tellectual cognitive assignment started development and communication disabilities a day, as a semester-long said Paige Gagliaassignment to promote an organiza- no, The Arc Baton Rouge director of tion. The group picked The Arc, a development and communication. non-profit organization for people The organization helps children with intellectual and development with their speech, and one of the prodisabilities. grams sends care-givers to children’s In the original survey the group homes to help care for them, Gagliaput together, 80 percent of people no said. Another program helps place had never heard of the organization, disabled adults in jobs, she said.

Eagan said.

About 100 adults are in the program.

The group is promoting $5 “We have people we have placed membership for The Arc during in the community who have been at the campaign through April 27 and jobs for 30 years,” Gagliano said. working on another campaign with In April, University students Portobello’s Grill on Jones Creek can volunteer to help at the inclusive

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GOVERNMENT

Obama plans to lift military gay ban Siegen Lane location and U.S. Army public relations officials in New Orleans declined to comment on the issue.

Patterson doesn’t feel men being openly gay in the military should

By Nichole Oden be uncomfortable for anyone.

Contributing Writer “When you’re out in the field, President Barack Obama has you’re not thinking about someone’s begun consulting his advisers about sexuality,” Patterson said. “You lifting the ban on gays serving open- have more important things to worry ly in the military. about.”

The current “Don’t ask, don’t Not everyone agrees with Pattell” policy, law Section 654 Title terson, though. Darren Lucy, chemi10, states a memcal engineering ber of the U.S. sophomore, said it Armed Forces will ‘The current policy would make him be released if he or uncomfortable. she participates in assumes no one can “It would add homosexual behavdiscomfort the control themselves, workplace,” toLucy ior or if he or she states they are a ho- and that’s insulting ...’ said. “I think it mosexual. The law would take my Matthew Patterson was passed by both mind off the task at University Spectrum president parties of Congress hand.” in 1993.

Patterson said Matthew Patterson, former he thinks people should be able to Daily Reveille opinion columnist work together without problems and president of the University’s because the military has strict comgay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, mand and order. queer/questioning and straight/sup“The current policy assumes porter organization, Spectrum, said no one can control themselves, and he thinks it’s definitely time for the that’s insulting to everyone,” Patterban to be lifted. son said.

“This is our country, too,” PatJames Cottrell, mass commuterson said. nication sophomore, points out that Philip Pugh, Battalion Com- not many people want to join the mander of Army ROTC at the Uni- military right now, and he thinks versity, said the Army will imple- anyone who wants to shouldn’t be ment whatever legislation lawmakers turned away. Kurt Dichiara, kinesidecide. Congress has the power to ology sophomore, agrees with Cotraise and support armed and naval trell. forces, according to Article I Section “If someone is ‘beast-mode’ 8 of the U.S. Constitution, therefore enough to make it through all the giving congress the power to make training, then it shouldn’t matter [if regulations for the military and forc- they’re gay],” Dichiara said. ing the army to follow the decisions Pugh said, historically, the army of congress, Pugh said. has been effective in implementing U.S. Army recruiters at the change. For example, the army was

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a leader in race relations and easily became integrated during the civil rights movement.

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recreational events, she said. Kids with disabilities get the opportunity to play sports with other kids, she said.

The organization is worried about the state budget cuts affecting the programs because about 80 percent of the funds are from government money, she said. The group of public relations students are working

to create a larger membership base, Gagliano said.

“The more [members in the organization] ... the more power in the legislation when cuts come down, she said. “It gives us a larger voice.”

Contact Joy Lukachick at jlukachick@lsureveille.com

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NATION

One in 50 American children experiences homelessness Texas, Louisiana get low rankings

By David Crary The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — One of every 50 American children experiences homelessness, according to a new report that says most states have inadequate plans to address the worsening and often-overlooked problem.

The report released on Tuesday by the National Center on Family Homelessness gives Connecticut the best ranking. Texas is at the bottom.

“These kids are the innocent victims, yet it seems somehow or other they get left out,” said the center’s president, Dr. Ellen Bassuk.

“Why are they America’s outcasts?”

The report analyzes data from 2005 to 2006. It estimates that 1.5 million children experienced homelessness at least once that year, and says the problem is surely worse now because of the foreclosures and job losses of the deepening recession.

“If we could freeze-frame it

now, it would be bad enough,” said Democratic Sen. Robert Casey of Pennsylvania, who wrote a foreword to the report. “By end of this year, it will be that much worse.”

The report’s overall state rankings reflect performance in four areas: child homelessness per capita, child well-being, risk for child homelessness and state policy and planning.

The top five states were Connecticut, New Hampshire, Hawaii, Rhode Island and North Dakota. At the bottom were Texas, Georgia, Arkansas, New Mexico and Louisiana.

Reflecting the disarray caused

by Hurricane Katrina, the report said Louisiana had the most homeless children per capita in 2006, followed

by Texas and California.

However, Bassuk — a psychiatry professor at Harvard Medical School — said many states fell short in regard to policy and planning.

Only six were praised for “extensive” planning to curb child homelessness. Twenty-four states received an “inadequate” grade.

Ken Martin, executive director of the Texas Homeless Network, said the large number of homeless

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children in Texas was predictable.

“It’s not surprising when you don’t put money into human services that you have issues come up,” said Martin, who expressed hope that improvements are forthcoming.

The Texas Interagency Council for the Homeless is fine-tuning a plan for curbing homelessness. Lack of such a plan earned the state an “inadequate” rating in the report.

Michael Gerber, executive director of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs and chairman of the interagency council, said officials are assessing how to use $41 million in federal stimulus money Texas expects to receive for homeless programs.

The report said homeless children are far more likely than other

STATE

Senator pushing to override Jindal LaFleur aiming to accept stimulus money

By Melinda Deslatte The Associated Press

BATON ROUGE (AP) — A Democratic state senator asked lawmakers Tuesday to override Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal’s refusal to accept nearly $100 million in federal stimulus money to expand unemployment benefits.

Sen. Eric LaFleur sent a letter to his colleagues requesting support for a resolution that would notify the federal government that Louisiana intends to take the $98.4 million in unemployment dollars.

“If we reject these funds, Louisiana taxpayers will be paying to subsidize and support unemployment compensation in states such as California, where Gov. (Arnold) Schwarzenegger has already signaled his intention to accept the funds,” LaFleur, D-Ville Platte, wrote.

The money would give unemployment benefits to thousands of people who normally wouldn’t be eligible for them, like some parttime workers. It would also expand benefits to some others, including those with dependents.

It would require a change in state law to let those individuals get the benefits. Jindal said that would cost businesses more in taxes, but LaFleur disagrees.

Overriding the governor would be difficult, requiring not just legislative approval of LaFleur’s resolution but also of a bill to change the state’s unemployment law — and a two-thirds vote

of lawmakers if Jindal vetoes the bill, which the governor has said he would do.

“That’s no small task,” said Rep. Gary Smith, D-Norco. Smith said lawmakers should look at the stimulus money before agreeing with the governor’s rejection of any of it, though he hasn’t said whether Jindal’s decision should be overridden.

It’s unclear when the resolution would have to be passed for lawmakers to override Jindal. Several Democratic lawmakers said they would support the resolution, but Republican lawmakers recently issued a statement backing

Jindal’s stance on the stimulus.

Despite being an outspoken opponent of the stimulus bill, Jindal has indicated he intends to tap into at least $2.4 billion of Louisiana’s share of the stimulus. The unemployment money is the only stimulus money Jindal has said Louisiana won’t accept, though he said state agencies still were reviewing the restrictions on many other stimulus funds the state can receive.

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children to experience hunger, suffer chronic health problems, repeat a grade in school and drop out of high school.

It stressed the long-term damage that can result from disruptions to friendships, health care and family routines.

“These factors combine to create a life-altering experience that inflicts profound and lasting scars,” the report said.

Ending homelessness for all U.S. children within a decade is possible, despite the recession, said the report, which Bassuk’s center issued

to launch a campaign pursuing that goal.

“If we fail to act,” the report said, “the consequences will play out for years to come as a generation of lost children grow to adulthood.”

Associated Press writers Linda Stewart Ball in Dallas, Daniel Shea in Little Rock, Ark., and Dionne Walker in Atlanta contributed to this report.

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PAGE 6 BUDGET, from page 1 In addition to the cuts, the state will not continue to fund several grant and dual-enrollment programs, as it previously pledged, the release stated. Martin said the University will honor promises made to students and will pick up the costs not covered by the state this semester, totaling as much as $1.1 million.

LSU broke into the top tier of U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges” list in August, an accomplishment that makes the budget cuts even more painful, Martin said. He said the ranking is a result of the Flagship Agenda — a plan to make the University nationally competitive by 2010 — and the Legislature funding LSU at the Southern regional average during the past two years.

Martin said in the release he wants to see the Univerity rewarded for its high levels of performance.

The University will work with the System to develop strategies to maintain the core mission of the University — educating students and continuing research for Louisiana.

Zewe said it is important to re-

BIDS, from page 1 other schools, even in the SEC, have a far better system,” said Brandon Boyd, Student Government transportation director. “We really took to heart what the students really wanted.”

The GPS system would allow students to locate their bus in real time on the Internet, campus monitors and possibly on cell phones, said SG President Colorado Robertson.

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member the governor’s budget is a proposal and the numbers may change. The decision is ultimately left with the Legislature, whose session begins April 27.

System President John Lombardi told System chancellors and the Board of Supervisors in an e-mail sent Tuesday there are many options for dealing with the cuts, including consolidation, reorganization of programs and layoffs.

“We will request ... authorization to implement the 5 percent tuition increase authorized by the Legislature in the last session,” Lombardi said in the e-mail. “We understand the governor’s ... budget will include funding for the TOPS costs associated with the increase.”

Lombardi, who declined further comment Tuesday night, stressed in the e-mail the importance of approaching these cuts as if they are permanent.

Zewe said the federal “stimulus” funds for Louisiana higher education are expected to be about $219 million. But the federal money, which will significantly reduce the impact of the state budget shortfall on higher education, is only good for two years,

meaning the cuts might be worse come 2012.

“Even with a substantial recovery of the economy over the next two years, we are likely to need to manage within constrained budgets for some period beyond the current two-year funding of the federal stimulus package,” Lombardi said in the e-mail.

The full impact of the budget cuts on state higher education would be about $400 million without the stimulus money.

While talk of consolidating System institutions is rampant, administrators won’t know exactly what steps to take next until the Legislature decides on a final budget.

“What every institution needs to do is preserve its core mission,” said David Manuel, LSU at Alexandria Chancellor. “That’s the only way we can serve the state.”

Commissioner of Higher Education Sally Clausen and all four college System presidents met with Jindal and his staff to discuss the budget Friday.

With the state’s numerous public colleges and universities, the possibility of consolidation and restructuring will be considered, Clausen said

at a Senate Finance Committee meeting in February.

The Legislature voted in 2001 to convert LSUA from a two-year institution that granted associate degrees and certificates to a four-year institution that grants bachelor’s degrees.

The change required extra funding and, in the face of budget cuts, some want to see LSUA convert back to a two-year institution.

Sen. Mike Michot, R-Lafayette, said recently it could be time to reconsider the 2001 change.

“We are absolutely planning on maintaining the campuses,” Zewe said.

But some are looking to evaluate all the college systems in Louisiana rather than just some of its parts, an idea Zewe said the System is open to discussing.

State House Speaker Jim Tucker, R-Terrytown, said Friday he plans to file a bill to form a commission to examine higher education in Louisiana.

With a recession and shrinking budgets affecting colleges and universities, now is the perfect time to ask if Louisiana’s higher education systems are “spread too thin,” Tucker said.

“I understand that there’s pain

and suffering in the economy, but I’m still convinced the flagship is part of the solution, not the problem,” Martin said.

Other System chancellors are also preparing for large budget cuts and hoping for the best.

LSU at Eunice Chancellor William Nunez said his campus enrollment has grown nearly 9 percent during the past year and remains a vital fixture in central Louisiana.

“We’re fulfilling our role, scope and mission,” Nunez said. “To get kicked in the hiney for doing well is really disappointing.”

Under a 20.2 percent reduction, LSUE would face budget cuts of about $1.7 million.

Nunez said the System is only as strong as the sum of its parts. He said LSUE is vital to the people of central Louisiana — just as LSU here in Baton Rouge is vital to its residents.

“The important thing is to not splinter the System, but improve the System,” Nunez said.

the library, the Union and also potentially the bus hubs,” Robertson said.

Boyd said the University is aiming for a GPS system similar to the one the University of Alabama uses for its bus system, the Crimson Ride.

“The software, of course, is up to the winner of the bid,” Boyd said.

The specifications also call for new routes going to the Garden District and downtown, but Graham

said the routes are not finalized. Additionally, the Greek routes will be renamed to “purple” and “gold” to reflect that the routes are not just for Greeks.

“It’s not just a Greek route,” Robertson said. “It’s an intra-campus route, and that’s what we need to highlight. The route will go out to the Greek areas, but it also should be used for intra-campus and getting out to parking lots.”

Robertson said there are also outlines to allow student organiza-

tions to contract the buses for travel, as well as airport transportation services for students during the holidays.

“We’ll now have the capacity to do airport transportation,” Robertson said.

Though the new system will be in place this fall, the new and larger buses asked for in the specifications take 10 to 12 months to manufacture, Graham said. The winning bidder would have to supply a temporary fleet of buses to use until the new

buses arrive at the University.

“We made a commitment when we got elected that there’ll be new routes, better routes and on-time scheduling, and we feel that this contract will make all those things happen and even more,” Robertson said. “It’s going to be fun to see it actually done.”

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FAME-OUS FACES [Clockwise from top left] Former basketball and baseball coach Harry Rabenhorst, former football and track coach Bernie Moore, former softball pitcher Britni Sneed, and former track and field sprinter Esther Jones. Photos courtesy of

LSU Athletic Department.

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[Middle] LSU coach Les Miles presents former defensive tackle Anthony McFarland with his Hall of Fame plaque.

Six former LSU greats inducted into University’s Athletic Hall of Fame

By Rachel Whittaker Sports Writer

They are the best of the best.

They form a special fraternity of sorts.

LSU men’s basketball legend and 1990 LSU Athletic Hall of Fame inductee Rudy Macklin began the 2009 induction ceremony with these words to honor the six newest

members of the LSU Athletic Hall of Fame.

Former defensive lineman Anthony “Booger” McFarland, former softball pitcher Britni Sneed Newman and former track and field HALL OF FAME, see page 11

BASEBALL

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Tigers bounce back from loss

Thornton, Johnson bring home conference awards

By David Helman

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Sports Writer

Log on to see what Johnson and Thornton had to say about their awards.

Being named the Southeastern Conference’s Coach of the Year would be cause for celebration, right?

Not for LSU men’s basketball coach Trent Johnson, who didn’t seem too concerned Tuesday with the attention directed toward him.

Johnson was named the SEC’s Coach of the Year after his first season in the league, and he

reacted to the news with all the enthusiasm of a weather report.

“It is what it is,” Johnson said. “I’ve inherited a good group of players who are good people, and I don’t have a good staff — I have an excellent staff.”

LSU’s two-game losing streak to end the regular season may have something to do with Johnson’s evasive maneuvers, but his team didn’t seem so JOHNSON, see page 11

By Casey Gisclair Chief Sports Writer

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LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri wanted clutch hitting earlier this season.

Last weekend, he wanted consistent hitting.

But on Tuesday, at Southeastern Louisiana, Mainieri got all of the above as nine LSU players recorded hits and seven players drove in a run to lead the Tigers to a 16-5 victory.

LSU junior outfielder Blake Dean did his part to snap out of an early-season slump in the opening inning and hit an RBI single to center field to score sophomore shortstop DJ LeMahieu.

BASEBALL, see page 11

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SOFTBALL

Mack takes over starting role in place of injured Hofer Freshman leads team in strikeouts

By Andy Schwehm Sports Contributor

This was supposed to be the year senior Dani Hofer and junior Cody Trahan were the one-two punch in the circle for the LSU softball team.

But things didn’t work out as planned.

Hofer, who has a career 1.77 ERA with 623 strikeouts in her four seasons at LSU, has been sidelined lately because of a wrist injury that has hampered her since last season.

Into the picture stepped freshman Brittany Mack.

Mack has 13 appearances with four starts in the Tigers’ 19 games so far this season. In her 44.1 innings pitched, she has given up 15 earned runs, giving her a 2.37 ERA. Mack also leads the team with 60 strikeouts and has a five-inning no hitter against Texas State on Feb. 21 in LSU’s 8-0 victory.

“We didn’t expect her to have

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LSU freshman pitcher Brittany Mack winds up for a pitch Wednesday during the Tigers’ 8-0 win against Nicholls State in Tiger Park.

to step in like she has,” Trahan said.

“Having five pitchers on the squad, we thought we were set. But with the injuries we’ve had, she had to step up, and she’s done a great job.”

LSU coach Yvette Girouard said Mack has looked good so far

this season and the team would be in a “heck of a mess” without her.

“She’s going to be a great talent for the Tigers,” Girouard said. “Her work ethic is unquestionable.”

The Round Rock, Texas, native came to LSU from Westwood High, where she compiled a 60-16

SOFTBALL

Hall of Fame pitcher returns Baylor transfer reunites with team

By David Helman Sports Writer

The LSU softball team’s schedule isn’t getting any easier, even when it’s not against Southeastern Conference competition.

The No. 20 Tigers (14-5, 2-1) travel to No. 8 Georgia this weekend, but they must first deal with Baylor (18-9) tonight at Tiger Park.

The Bears are the National Fastpitch Coaches’ Association’s leading choice to enter the Top 25 despite a current five-game losing streak.

“They have a reputation of speed and the short game, and they’ve had some good pitchers in the past,” said LSU coach Yvette Girouard. “[Baylor freshman pitcher Whitney Canion] is a lefty who throws hard, and I don’t know that we’ve seen that yet. It’ll be a different look for us.”

Girouard said the Tigers will once again operate with a “makeshift” lineup. Freshman infielder Ashley Langoni injured her hand Saturday against Kentucky and will miss her second consecutive game.

The Bears serve as LSU’s last non-conference game before a brutal SEC stretch that features backto-back series against the nation’s No. 2 and No. 8 teams in Alabama and Georgia, respectively.

The Tigers will once again host a homecoming celebration after welcoming back a slew of old faces to the grand opening of the

new Tiger Park.

Baylor coach and former LSU coach Glenn Moore makes a return to Baton Rouge after compiling a 117-25 record with the Tigers.

Moore led LSU to SEC championships in 1999 and 2000, amassing a 53-7 conference record.

“They have a very good team and a very good pitcher,” Girouard said. “They’ve got some kids from the Baton Rouge area — obviously Glenn Moore has some huge connections to LSU.” Moore is bringing a piece of LSU softball history back with him. Britni Sneed Newman, who

serves as Baylor’s pitching coach, pitched for LSU under Moore. She was inducted into the LSU Hall of Fame on Tuesday night, becoming the first softball player to join the elite club.

“We have a ton of respect for Britni and what she did for this program,” Girouard said. “She put it on the College World Series map ... She is a favorite daughter of LSU softball.”

Sneed Newman totaled a 12025 record with a 0.89 ERA while at LSU. She was named the 2002 SEC BAYLOR, see page 10

record during four seasons with a 0.54 ERA. She had 338 strikeouts in her senior season and three perfect games in her career.

“She’s got the mentality of just bring it, and she will take care of it,” said Mack’s high school coach Tiffany Gates. “She didn’t have the hitters here that she has now. She carried a lot of the weight on her shoulders, so she’s used to pressure situations.”

Mack has only lost one game all season, a 1-0 decision against Sam Houston State on Feb. 15.

So far, the pressure of being a freshman starter has not gotten to Mack’s head.

“I’ve always liked pressure situations,” Mack said. “Back in high school, if there was ever a basesloaded situation, I would always get myself out of it. So it’s good to know that the coaches can count on me in pressure situations to get the job done.”

Mack looked like an ace in her last few appearances heading into the second game of a double header Saturday against Kentucky.

She was strong on the mound in the first six innings, giving up

only two runs on two hits.

But Mack surrendered the tying runs in the seventh and was pulled after getting only one out and giving up three more earned runs and two hits.

“She ran into a road block where everything was just off,” Girouard said. “But we ... are working real hard this week to get her back on track.”

Mack ended up throwing 129 pitches in the game.

But she hasn’t been fatigued yet with the amount of pitches she’s thrown — Mack threw 21 innings and struck out 39 batters in one high school game.

But her teammates have been warning her to take it easy.

“I’ll get stronger as the year goes on,” Mack said. “All the girls are warning me to be careful because my arm could get tired. So I’m being cautious and making sure I’m not pitching too much in warm up.”

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FOOTBALL

Five recruits commit early to LSU’s 2010 class Davis, Jacobs, Simon join Tigers

By Michael Lambert Sports Contributor

On the heels of one of the best recruiting classes in LSU history, LSU football coach Les Miles has already picked up five early commitments for the 2010 class.

Wide receiver Mike Davis, tight end Nick Jacobs, defensive back and wide receiver Tharold Simon and fullback Brandon Worle committed after attending LSU’s second Junior Day. Linebacker D.J. Welter committed soon after.

Committing early is becoming more common at the college level, according to Rene Nadeau, college football analyst for ESPN and TigerVision.

“It’s a trendy thing now,” Nadeau said. “More kids are seeing other kids do it.”

If a recruit knows where he wants to go, committing early relieves pressure, Nadeau said. He said recruits can focus on their senior season instead of answering questions about college plans.

MIKE DAVIS Davis was a star at Skyline High School in Dallas. The 6-foot-1-inch wide receiver caught 1,138 yards and 16 touchdowns his junior season and 469 yards and 4 touchdowns his sophomore season.

“I know he’s been a good receiver for us here at Skyline,” said Skyline coach Reginald Samples. “He’s got a lot of talent, and I think he can help [LSU].”

The Dallas native was an AllState player at Skyline, running a 4.55-second 40-yard dash.

“He’s fast, and he adjusts real fast to the ball,” Samples said.

“He’ll do some good things.”

The receiver has been the highlight of the early 2010 recruits. Davis also had official offers from Oklahoma, Florida, California, Texas Tech and Texas A&M, among others.

“The biggest grab [LSU] got in this 2010 class is Mike Davis,” Nadeau said. “Everybody wanted him.”

The receiver was recruited

by LSU receivers coach D.J. McCarthy.

“For LSU to be able to go in and get an early commitment from him ... that speaks volumes of the recruiting efforts of D.J. McCarthy,” said Sonny Shipp, Louisiana recruiting analyst for Scout.com.

NICK JACOBS Jacobs is a 6-foot-5-inch tight end who has also played defensive line at Many High School.

Shipp said Jacob’s potential position at LSU is uncertain.

LSU noticed the 243-pound tight end, who also plays basketball, at an LSU camp this past summer.

“You get him in the weight

room and only focus on football,” Shipp said. “They can get him up to 280-285,” Shipp said Jacob is big, athletic and quick.

“He just tore people up [in high school],” Shipp said.

receiver.”

Simon caught 18 passes for 227 yards as a receiver and recorded five interceptions his junior season.

“He’s been our leading receiver since midway through his freshman year,” Trosclair said.

THAROLD SIMON “He’s also led interceptions the Simon plays defensive back last few years.” and wide receiver for Eunice The 6-foot-4-inch athlete High School. runs a 4.45-secThe recruit ond 40-yard dash. led Eunice to a He also plays basNo. 1 ranking in ketball and track Louisiana’s 4-A for Eunice. class and an 11-1 “He doesn’t record in 2008. have the burning “He can be a speed, but he’s got big time player in enough speed to Rene Nadeau the secondary,” be able to stretch college football analyst, said Eunice High it vertically,” ESPN and TigerVision School coach Paul Shipp said.

Trosclair.

“He Simon made plays for both sides of the ball.” big catches and interceptions at Shipp said the Eunice native Eunice, and Trosclair said Simon could play either safety or wide will make a smooth transition to receiver at LSU. the college level.

“If he plays defense, he’ll “He looks like a college end up playing safety — proba- player,” Trosclair said. “I see him bly strong safety,” Shipp said. “If making that jump pretty easy.” he plays offense, he’ll play wide

‘‘

‘The biggest grab [LSU] got in this 2010 class is Mike Davis.’

BRANDON WORLE Worle is a 6-foot-1-inch, 240-pound fullback from Troup County High School in LaGrange, Ga. “For a guy his size, he has great hands,” said Troup County High School coach Bubba Jeter.

“He can catch a ball out the backfield.”

The fullback took a backseat role in 2008, but Jeter plans to utilize Worle more in 2009.

“He’s a good blocker; he’s unselfish,” Jeter said. “When he gets the football, he’s a great runner.”

The Tigers are looking for a fullback after the departure of senior Quinn Johnson.

“I think his impact [at LSU] can be big,” Jeter said. “He can do anything you want a true fullback to do.”

Shipp said LSU wanted to sign two fullbacks in the 2009 class but only signed three-star recruit Dominique Allen.

D.J. WELTER Welter was the fifth commitment of the 2010 class. The Crowley native recorded 128 tackles in his junior season at Notre Dame High School.

Shipp said the 6-foot-1, 220-pound linebacker is not as big as some other linebackers, but Welter plays well in space.

“He makes up for that with his instincts,” Shipp said. “He’s got a real high football IQ.” Nadeau said Welter may be utilized on special teams.

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GYMNASTICS

Injuries keep Klein stranded to bars in her final season Senior was mainstay on three events

By Andy Schwehm Sports Contributor

The balance beam hasn’t exactly been senior Lauren Klein’s best friend.

Klein has missed a total of 17 meets since her junior season because of two separate injuries on the apparatus.

The Woodlands, Texas, native injured her right ankle last season in a Feb. 1, 2008, meet against Kentucky and competed only once the ‘She’s ... rest of the seaShe postgood about son. ed a 9.625 on keeping my the floor in the head in the NCAA Super right place Six. “I was up... I try to do set because I the same was doing rewell and for her.’ ally successfully Kayla Rogers competing in three events,” LSU junior Klein said. “So that one was upsetting, but I knew I had another year.”

Klein injured her other ankle while warming up on the beam in the Tigers’ first meet this season in Cancun, Mexico.

“When I got hurt in Cancun, I was really upset because I just didn’t understand why it happened,” Klein said. “I was like, ‘I’m being punished.’”

Klein’s absence in the lineup has been a noticeable loss for the Tigers.

The 2007 second-team AllSoutheastern Conference selection was a mainstay for the Tigers on the vault, beam and floor her sophomore season.

Klein has career highs of 9.975 on the floor, 9.900 on the

BAYLOR, from page 8

Player of the Year, and she left LSU with school and conference records for single-season strikeouts.

Baylor’s visit will also be a reunion of sorts for junior outfielder Kirsten Shortridge. Shortridge played two seasons under Moore at Baylor before transferring to LSU. “We’re both good competition for each other,” Shortridge said.

“It’s exciting — no hard feelings.

I’m very thankful I went down that path, and it will be good to see everybody.”

Shortridge said the Tigers can expect an offensive mindset from her old team.

“Coach Moore is very aggressive on the base path,” she said.

“He’s going to be getting people on and moving them around in whatever way he can ... I’m not sure what he does with the new lineup, but I know the veterans. I bet it’ll all be the same.”

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vault and 9.800 on the beam. She averaged a 9.843 her sophomore year on the floor – ranking her third nationally with a regional qualifying score of 9.93 – and was averaging a 9.725 last season before her first ankle injury.

She also earned 10 scores of 9.900 or higher on the floor her sophomore year.

The Tigers average a 48.887 on the floor this season, well

below their 49.158 average last season.

“Not having her presence on [the floor] has been a real contributing factor to us struggling on the floor,” said LSU coach D-D Breaux. “She was a real consistent performer for us on that event.”

Klein has had limited action this season because of the injury she suffered in Cancun. She has

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Senior gymnast Lauren Klein performs an uneven bars routine Saturday night during the Tigers’ last home meet of the season, a win against NC State. Separate injuries on both ankles have limited Klein’s involvement.

only competed three times for the Tigers, all on bars.

Klein said bars has always been her biggest struggle, so the one upside to the injury is it forced her to work on her weakness.

“If you would have asked somebody if I could compete [on] bars in college, they would have laughed at you,” Klein said.

“I’ve come a long way.”

Though Klein is not able to help the team on the floor this season, she has contributed by supporting and helping her teammates through their struggles.

LSU junior Kayla

Rogers took over Klein’s spot in the lineup after her injury last season. She said the two have worked together by supporting each other.

“That’s the only thing that gets us through practice, through the meets, is being supportive and yelling and screaming for each other,” Rogers said. “She’s really good about keeping my head in the right place, so I try to do the same for her.”

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 2009 HALL OF FAME, from page 7 sprinter Esther Jones were the three living inductees honored Tuesday night, adding to the now 112-member hall.

Former head athletic trainer Dr. Martin J. Broussard, former LSU track and field and football coach Bernie Moore and former baseball and basketball coach Harry Rabenhorst were inducted posthumously.

McFarland was a four-year starter from 1995-1998. When he arrived, LSU had just finished its six straight losing season.

“I was just a part of that class who turned LSU from a struggling team to a national powerhouse,” McFarland said. “There needed to be a change, something different around here. The class of 1995 did that.”

McFarland and fellow LSU Athletic Hall of Fame member Kevin Faulk helped lead the Tigers to three consecutive bowl wins for the first

BASEBALL, from page 7 Dean was just 1-for-10 in LSU’s weekend series against Illinois.

Southeastern Louisiana’s powerful offense fired back in the bottom half of the inning on a single by Josh Cryer that plated two runs. One of the two runs occurred because LSU sophomore outfielder Leon Landry made an error throwing the ball back into the infield, allowing another runner to score.

After scoreless second and third innings, LSU broke through and took advantage of errors and walks by Southeastern in the fourth inning and scored six runs to take a 7-2 lead.

JOHNSON, from page 7 deflective when asked about their coach’s new distinction.

“It’s pretty good to see coach come in his first year and do a heck of a job with us,” said sophomore guard Bo Spencer. “He’s in the race for national coach of the year too, and it’s just outstanding for him.”

Johnson even interrupted his players’ praise to say, “Coach Johnson doesn’t play, and he doesn’t rebound.” But he didn’t have such a problem with the slew of postseason awards his team amassed.

LSU joined Kentucky as the only SEC schools to name two players as first team All-SEC — senior guard Marcus Thornton and junior forward Tasmin Mitchell.

Thornton also brought home the conference’s top honor when he was named SEC Player of the Year.

“It’s gratifying because of the caliber of players in this league that were mentioned for that award,” Johnson said of Thornton’s player of the year award. “It speaks volumes to what the coaches in this league think of him as a player and how he’s developed ... I’m very proud of him.”

Thornton won the award as the SEC’s second-leading scorer, beating out the likes of Kentucky’s Jodie Meeks and Florida’s Nick Calathes to become LSU’s seventh player to earn the honor and its third in five seasons.

“It was nice to beat [Meeks] with all the hype between me and him,” Thornton said. “Any time you’re mentioned with Shaq and Pete Maravich is always great, but I’m just trying to be humble and take it all in stride. That part of the season is over with.”

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time in program history. McFarland was named Southeastern Conference Freshman Co-Defensive Player of the Year in 1995, and he was a FirstTeam All-American and All-SEC defensive lineman in 1998.

McFarland was drafted in the first round by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1999. Log on to see a He won Super video from the Hall Bowl champion- of Fame induction. ships in 2002 and 2006 — the second one with the Indianapolis Colts.

Sneed Newman is the first softball inductee to the LSU Athletic Hall of Fame. She decided to play her collegiate softball career at LSU in 1999 rather than Louisiana-Lafayette, where current LSU softball coach Yvette Girouard was head coach.

“I was devastated when I called her that night and she committed to LSU because she was going to be 60

miles down the road from me, and I knew what she was going to mean to college softball,” Girouard said.

“Then I got really lucky and got the job [at LSU] two years later. Britni will always be the standard for LSU softball.”

Sneed Newman finished her LSU career in 2002 as the winningest pitcher in SEC history. She was SEC Player of the Year and led the Tigers to their first appearance in the Women’s College World Series in 2001, when LSU finished third.

“I have so many wonderful moments, but going to the College World Series was definitely the most memorable individually and for our team and our program,” Sneed Newman said.

Sneed Newman is now an assistant coach at Baylor, which faces

The Lions walked five hitters in the inning, allowing LSU to have a large inning despite only recording two hits.

The insurance runs were all LSU freshman pitcher Chris Matulis needed as he shook off early troubles and pitched scoreless second, third and fourth innings before allowing another run in the fifth inning.

LSU put the game out of reach in the fifth inning and scored two more runs capped by an RBI single by senior infielder Derek Helenihi to push the lead to seven runs.

Landry added his eighth home run of the season in the sixth inning.

Junior first baseman Sean Ochinko

also continued his dominant start to the season in the inning and hit a two-run home run. Junior outfielder Jared Mitchell also hit a solo home run in the LSU rally.

Sophomore Daniel Bradshaw pitched a scoreless seventh inning for the Tigers. Mainieri said Bradshaw would work in the bullpen after being ineffective as a starter.

LSU hopes to build on its momentum tomorrow night against Louisiana-Lafayette in Alex Box Stadium.

Johnson gave some greater perspective to his leading scorer’s modest words.

“That was one of his individual goals that he mentioned to me, going way back to the field house when I’d only been here a month,” Johnson said. “He mentioned that to me after we had talked about being in the situation of playing in meaningful games.”

Thornton has certainly had his chance to play in meaningful games this season, and he cited that as the reason for his new hardware.

“Last year I put up similar

numbers, but we weren’t winning,” he said. “This year I put up the same amount of numbers and we won. I give credit to [my teammates]. Without winning the games I probably wouldn’t be in the conversation.”

Senior guard Garrett Temple and senior center Chris Johnson also received awards. The two gained SEC All-Defensive team honors. Temple was named second team All-SEC.

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LSU at Tiger Park tonight. But Girouard said Sneed Newman will always be remembered for her dominance in the circle.

“She put LSU softball on the map,” Girouard said. “There could be no other first softball inductee.”

Jones came to LSU on scholarship, and she said she was grateful LSU “took a chance” on her.

“Every time I put on my uniform, I wanted to win for [the LSU community],” Jones said.

Winning was one thing Jones did best.

She was a 21-time All-American, and she led LSU to six national championships during her career from 1988-1991. Jones also won individual titles in the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes and two titles in the 4x100-meter relay on her way to

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Broussard, who died in 2003, was LSU’s head athletic trainer from 1948-1993 and was a founding member of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association.

Moore coached LSU track and field and football from 1930-1947.

LSU’s track and field stadium was named in his honor in 1971, four years after his death.

Rabenhorst, who died in 1972, brought LSU men’s basketball to new heights when he led the 1935 team to a national championship.

He also coached LSU baseball for 27 years, leading the program to two SEC titles.

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OUR VIEW

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 2009

Across-the-board budget reductions unfair to University Documents released by the LSU System late Tuesday indicate the total cuts to the System next fiscal year will total $131.2 million, with total cuts to the System’s main campus totaling $45.4 million.

The budget reductions are, for all intents and purposes, across- the-board, with the System’s 11 institutions being dealt

cuts between 17.2 and 23.3 percent.

These cuts are a fundamental contrast to the performance-based cuts advocated by University Chancellor Michael Martin.

A few weeks ago, we supported a performance-based cut because we felt it was a more appropriate method for reductions.

And after seeing the numbers

run on the across-the-board cut, we again stand firm in our conviction that a performance-based cut is undoubtedly the fairer answer.

It’s absurd and unfortunate that this campus will be dealt such a crippling blow.

In the past 10 years, the University has strived to become one of the most respected institutions in the South and in the U.S.

Through various programs and initiatives — like the Flagship Agenda — the University broke into U.S. News & World Report’s list of top-tier colleges last fall.

And it’s a shame the System is allowing that hard work to fall by the wayside so soon.

Once again, we’re calling on System President John Lombardi

to reconsider the System’s proposed budget cut plan. And we implore University faculty, staff, students and alumni to back the performance-based cut method.

That’s the method we want.

That’s the method this University deserves.

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NIETZSCHE IS DEAD

‘Moral rehabilitation’ case violates rights, laws Every aspect of a prisoner’s daily life is put under intense scrutiny and regulation. Everything from meals to showers is scheduled; everything is done when and how inmates are told to do it. This is an essential part of the process — it’s a form of punishment, and it’s a step toward rehabilitation.

But, in some aspects of a person’s life, the government has neither the interest nor the right to interfere — namely, in religion.

A recent example is gaining national attention — from our own backyard.

The Louisiana chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is filing a lawsuit on behalf of two prisoners in Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, claiming the prison staff is violating their religious rights.

The lawsuit names as a defendant Angola warden Burl Cain,

whom the ACLU is accusing of forcing his beliefs on the prison population. Cain is a proponent of a style of prison management he has called “moral rehabilitation,” which employs Christian teachings.

The process is highly controversial — supporters point to evidence the program is highly effective, while critics lambast the apparent proselytization.

Cain himself has spoken openly about his involvement in his inmates’ spiritual lives.

“I didn’t worry about what he must have been experiencing in the hours before his death. I didn’t go to his last meal, and I didn’t share Jesus with him,” Cain said, speaking about a prisoner executed at his facility.

As the man died, Cain “felt him go to hell as I held his hand.”

“I decided that night I would never again put someone to death

without telling him about his soul and about Jesus,” the warden intoned.

Though Cain’s intentions are noble — and though faith is capable of providing extraordinary means of comfort in even the darkest situations — there is a difference between trying to comfort somebody through shared faith and forcing that faith Matthew on them.

Albright The lawsuit Columnist claims the prison’s televisions are locked on channels airing Baptist church services.

Death row inmate Donald Leger is suing to be allowed to watch Catholic services instead of Baptist ones.

Meanwhile, inmate Shawn Anderson is suing to be allowed to receive

literature from the faith he practices — Nation of Islam.

It is important to note neither of these demands will incur cost to the state. They are merely requests to be allowed to practice the faith of their choice.

If Cain and his administration were really using faith as a way to comfort prisoners before death, as they claim, then there would be no issues with allowing these inmates to turn to the faith of their choice.

Yet by restricting television access to only Baptist programming, the warden seems to be more interested in conversion and proselytization than providing comfort.

But whatever the moral issues involved with the case, the law seems certain — the ACLU is right to bring the case to court. According to the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, “No

government shall impose a substantial burden on the religious exercise of a person residing in or confined to an institution,” a decree upheld by the Supreme Court decision Cutter v.

Wilkins in 2005.

The law states the religious rights of prisoners cannot be obstructed. Limiting television access and restricting incoming mail obviously constitute a substantial burden.

Whatever your stance on “moral rehabilitation” is, it’s virtually impossible to deny that, in this case, the prison’s policy is in violation of the law.

Matthew Albright is a 20-year-old English and political science sophomore from Baton Rouge.

Contact Matthew Albright at malbright@lsureveille.com

COMMON CENTS

Our universities: Over-funded and over-attended

The threat of budget cuts has brought home the drama of the recent fiscal feeding frenzy to students.

These retrenches are almost as universally opposed as not “supporting the troops.”

It’s easy to imagine a world where none go to college. Without four years of general training, many companies would have to absorb the additional cost of training their employees. Many professional careers in engineering, medicine and law would face deficits, and many would miss out on a well-rounded liberal arts education.

But it’s also easy to imagine a world where almost all go to college.

In more subtle ways, this would be just as corrosive to the standard of living.

As college degrees became more pervasive, individual degrees would no longer function as career signals.

Because very few jobs require four

years of general training, universities would have to offer majors unrelated to their students’ future.

As the number of teachers and students increased, public universities would suck up more and more of the country’s resources. All else held equal, an investment in human capital is a good thing.

However, because the federal government is relying on deficit financing, all new government expenses come at the direct expense of private investment. Every dollar spent in a university is a dollar not spent on infrastructure, new technology or rehabilitating the broken “rust belt.”

Somewhere in the middle of these two extremes lies a socially optimal level of college attendance.

Anywhere to the left or right of this inverted-U would represent a waste of resources. It certainly appears as though we are to the right of the optimal enrollment level.

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KYLE WHITFIELD TYLER BATISTE GERRI SAX DANIEL LUMETTA MATTHEW ALBRIGHT TRAVIS ANDREWS ERIC FREEMAN JR.

Editor Managing Editor, Content Managing Editor, External Media Opinion Editor Columnist Columnist Columnist

Think about your personal experiences.

Students, I am sure you’re ambitious, hard-working and making the most of your liberal college curriculum. But you’ve probably noticed many of your classmates lack drive, motivation or a meaningful major. It should be no surprise grade inflation is Daniel Morgan the norm in nonColumnist technical fields.

Professors, I am certain your classes are engaging, instructive and relevant. But you’ve probably noticed many of your coworkers are uninvolved, disinterested and have nothing left to strive for except tenure. And you can probably think of at least one redundant administrator.

After examining the incentives

in education, Adam Smith, the father of modern economics, wrote, “In the university at Oxford, the greater part of the public professors have, for these many years, given up altogether even the pretense of teaching.” I hope this 18th century critique doesn’t apply to the modern university.

For students seeking technical jobs, investing in a college degree is worth the corresponding debt. But for others, a college degree is only worth its cost after government scholarships and federal student loans.

Rather than seeking knowledge, most university students are merely seeking a credential. Only 55 percent of the fall 2008 graduating class found a job in a field directly related to their major, according to Career Services. The national figures probably aren’t that different.

Instead of wasting time in an unproductive college experience, these students could have spent these

productive years interning in their field.

Widespread college degrees have had an especially perverse effect on those who cannot afford a degree even after taxpayer help. Many companies will simply rely on college performance. This puts the less affluent at a significant disadvantage.

In Griggs v. Duke Power Co., the Supreme Court made many uses of aptitude tests illegal. This made college credentials an attractive alternative, according to economist Lowell Gallaway.

Contrary to the consensus, the world might be a better place if universities were less well-funded.

Daniel Morgan is a 21-year-old economics junior from Baton Rouge.

Contact Daniel Morgan at dmorgan@lsureveille.com

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Cosmetic titillation deflated during boob, bust cycle Say what you will about the past eight years. But one positive did emerge through the diplomatic carnage left by the Bush Administration.

Boobs got bigger.

Between 1992 and 2003, the number of breast augmentations in the U.S. burgeoned 657 percent, according to The American Society of Plastic Surgeons.

The past few years those numbers have remained substantially high. Nearly 11 million cosmetic plastic surgery procedures were performed in the U.S. in 2006, according to The Daily Beast.

More recent breast augmentation statistics indicate the demand for implants rose the past few years, despite soaring surgery costs, which range from $4,000 to $10,000.

Yet in 2007, the ASPS reported American consumers spent more than $12 billion on cosmetic surgery with women ranging in age between 18 and 85.

But, evidently, what goes up must come down.

Recent empirical evidence indicates the economic slowdown has grabbed a hold of boobs and appears poised to further burst our inflationary boob bubble.

So far, the ASPS reported a 62 percent overall decrease in cosmetic surgery from 2007 to 2008.

Now that financial collapse has struck, economic resources and nourishment in the sagging boob sector have been sucked dry.

Investors who stuck their stock in breast bonds have been struggling to squeeze anything out of the limp market.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

LSU 360 to serve students’ interests LSU Student Body, I would first like to thank Jasper Holland for giving me this opportunity to address several concerns. Since my freshman year when I joined Student Government, I have always been fiscally conservative, looking for every way we can save the students money.

I personally voted against spending almost $40,000 on new furniture for the new Student Government Offices, which two of my opponents voted in favor of. I always have and will continue to keep the students’ interests at the forefront of every decision I make.

We have put together a 25 initiative plan called LSU 360. Twenty of our issues will cost absolutely nothing to implement.

The three issues Holland brought up will cost nothing. The first point of inquiry, computerbased testing, is an exciting and promising technology, and we would never seek to compromise

The less money the system collects, the less silicone it pumps out. Many factors can be attributed to this trend.

The most salient is Americans have the lowest rate of savings of any populace in the developed world, currently hovering around Scott Burns zero percent.

Columnist Because of this, many families will simply be forced to cut back on extraneous expenses — breast implants included.

This morphing trend will become increasingly apparent on college campuses.

Researchers predict, with economic stagflation at its highest level in decades, parents will be less likely to finance their daughters’ breast augmentations.

Instead, the income will presumably be allocated to most critical factions, not towards raising the bra.

But perhaps that isn’t such a bad thing.

OK — I redact — maybe it’s cataclysmic, after all.

But it’s unquestionable that in the past few years some parents have gone way too far by placing a premium on physical perfection.

Across the nation, surveys indicated the most popular high school graduation present for young girls in the past few years wasn’t a new car, but money for breast implants.

In Arizona a preacher was

fired because he allegedly used church funding to finance his wife’s implants in the mid ’90s.

Across the pond, a British family fought authorities to get their 15-year-old daughter the breast implants she had been pleading for since she was 12.

Until the financial crisis hit, cosmetic surgery encountered virtually no obstruction from medical health professionals or media enablers.

Now the greatest threat the industry faces isn’t medical restriction.

It’s consumer destitution. The

the efficiency its use allows.

Our concern lies with only one small aspect: mathematics and accounting examinations.

As a student who has taken both accounting and calculus exams on a computer, I can tell you that the difficulty of the course lies in learning all the signs and symbols associated with the program, rather than the actual course material itself.

It is our stance that traditional paper-based formats of math and accounting tests should be made available to students whose classroom performance would be hurt by the electronic format.

This issue deals more with academic performance, rather than simply saving paper.

As far as the Tiger Cash issue goes, their Web site will still exist to transfer money and manage accounts. All we want is the opportunity for students to check their balances on PAWS through a simple link.

The last issue brought up is that of the Student Government House of Representatives, which will assemble a diverse group of some of the most motivated

students on campus and allow them to fully evaluate what happens in SG. One of SG’s biggest complaints deals with spending money, and this program would directly allow more outside oversight on SG finances.

They will have advisory control of the budget, and will be able to represent Student Government to their respective organizations and the student body as a whole.

The House is an exciting opportunity for non-SG campus leaders to get involved by bringing new ideas to the table and — in conjunction with the newly-elected administration — invigorate Student Government to be a more efficient and responsible institution of student advocacy.

The House of Representatives will promote, not undermine, fiscal responsibility and accountability, and will, like all our other initiatives and candidates, take LSU to The Next Level.

consumer market is less sclerotic and perky. And now, so are our boobs.

Even someone like the late Anna Nicole Smith, whose cosmetic implant investments are still supple as ever, can understand empty wallets equal empty bras.

No matter what President Obama does to stimulate the economy, chances are his breast will never be good enough.

That means, for the next few years, Americans will likely endure small, sagging, disproportionate breasts.

That’s not change we can

believe in.

Obama claimed he believed America would soon find a cure to cancer. But so far, his policies have given us financial breast cancer.

Americans aren’t ready to let go of their boobs. And if you’re not willing to do something about it, Obama, you can suck my tits.

Boobs.

Scott Burns is a 19-year-old political science and business sophomore from Baton Rouge.

Contact Scott Burns at sburns@lsureveille.com

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Firearm rules hurt lawful gun owners Although “schools” are firearm free zones, campus officials cannot legally restrict anyone from having a firearm in his or her vehicle. As per state law, your vehicle is an extension of your home, and “carrying a concealed weapon” does not apply.

How many murderers, drug dealers and rapists follow the law?

These people will not hesitate to shoot someone if they feel the urge. Even if guns are outlawed, criminals by definition will break the law.

The only people who are adversely affected are law-abiding gun owners.

This law is also vague when stating no person may carry a concealed weapon in a “school” zone. “‘School’ means any elementary, secondary, high school, secondary vocational-technical school, postsecondary vocational-technical school, college or university in this state,” according to HB27.

It would be easier to remove “postsecondary vocational-technical school, college and university” from this law than to add subsections and extra legal talk to the law.

If this law is to pass, you should feel comfortable that those with licenses have had the training to handle weapons.

Many instructors will tell you that, when practicing, you do not simply aim and shoot.

Practice pulling your weapon from its holster and then hitting the target. If you should need to use your weapon for self defense, this will increase your chances of survival.

To buy from a licensed dealer, you must pass a background check from the FBI. To legally carry a concealed weapon, you must take a class with a licensed instructor and pass a background check by the federal government.

Richard Mansur electrical engineering senior Send letters to the editor to editor@lsureveille.com

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