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By Kyle Bove Chief Staff Writer

Former students share stories about life at University during Great Depression

Anne Howe attended the University when the Quad was a vast field of grass lined with dirt paths. The few cars on campus traveled down unpaved roads.

Incoming male freshmen were required to shave their heads.

And a scholarship then could only purchase a movie ticket

today.

Americans today live in paradise “I remember how cheap tu- compared to those in the Dust ition was then,” Howe said. “It Bowl days when society was dirt was $32 a semespoor and poverty

By Leslie Presnall ter, and I had a was rampant. $10 scholarship.”

Some conStaff Writer Howe — sider the curwho attended the University dur- rent recession the worst ecoing the Great Depression — said nomic downturn since the Great

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Depression, and as unemployment rates continue to soar, some question whether the economy is entering a second Great Depression.

Robert Outland, history professor, said despite how scary DEPRESSION, see page 5

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Robertson meets with Clausen to talk cuts

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Student Government President Colorado Robertson met with Commissioner of Higher Education Sally Clausen on Tuesday to discuss the unfinished performance-based funding formula, tuition increases and the looming budget cuts.

At a news conference Friday, Gov. Bobby Jindal proposed his executive budget and said he wants the $219 million cut to higher education’s state funding to be distributed based on performance, which could lessen the $45 million blow set to hit LSU’s main campus in Baton Rouge.

He said he wants to work with legislators to implement a performancebased funding formula that has been in the works for nearly two years.

Right now, the funding formula is based mainly on enrollment. The performance-based formula will also include factors like an institution’s ability to produce graduates in highdemand professional fields and research, Jindal said at the conference.

But the performance-based formula is being designed for increases in state funding, not cuts. The Board of Regents, along with Clausen, now BUDGET, see page 6

A FIVE-PART SERIES: STUDENT GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS

Small ticket ‘reigns’ over waste Staff Writer

Index

Editor’s note: This story is the second in a five-part series profiling each of the presidential and vice presidential Student Government tickets. The stories will run in alphabetical order based on the presidential candidates’ last name.

Sports ...................... 7 Opinion ................... 16 Classifieds ............... 18

Tune into KLSU 91.1 FM at 5:20 p.m. to hear if students plan to vote in the upcoming SG elections.

their own.

During his freshman year, Noel served on the Freshmen Leadership Council and as part of Cassie Alsfeld’s executive staff as director of Campus Development. Ginn, his running mate, has never served in SG. Noel said he chose the name of his campaign as a jab at SG, combining a popular song about excessive spending and another word for govern.

REIGN, see page 6

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Student Government presidential candidate Jeffrey Noel (right) and vice presidential candidate Ryan Ginn (left) talk with a student Tuesday in Free Speech Alley.

Noel and Ginn are running under the small-ticket Make it Reign.

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By Adam Duvernay

The Student Government campaign season is usually marked by expensive, high-profile campaigns headed by established candidates.

But this semester two students are making a low-key attempt for the presidential office.

The Make it Reign campaign, headed by mass communication students Jeffrey Noel and Ryan Ginn, is the smallest party running for the positions of SG president and vice president. With no established ticket, the pair has taken to campaigning on

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TUESDAY’S POLL RESULTS

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Bush: Won’t criticize Obama, ‘deserves my silence’ Poll doesn’t total 100 because of rounding.

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CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Former President George W. Bush says he won’t criticize President Barack Obama because Obama “deserves my silence,” and says he plans to write a book about the 12 toughest decisions he made in office. Bush’s speech Tuesday at a luncheon in Calgary, Alberta was his first since leaving office. He declined to comment about the Obama administration like former Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney said Sunday that Obama’s decisions are threatening the nation’s safety.

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YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI said condoms are not the answer to the AIDS epidemic in Africa and can make the problem worse, setting off criticism Tuesday as he began a weeklong trip to the continent where some 22 million people are living with HIV. Benedict’s first statement on an issue that has divided even Catholic clergy working with AIDS patients came hours before he arrived in Cameroon’s capital — greeted by thousands of flag-waving faithful who stood shoulder-to-shoulder in red dirt fields and jammed downtown streets for a glimpse of the pontiff’s motorcade.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Space shuttle Discovery arrived at the international space station Tuesday, delivering one last set of solar wings that should boost the orbiting complex to full power. The two craft linked up 220 miles above Australia. “Welcome to the space station, Discovery. We’re glad you’re here,” said Mike Fincke, the station’s skipper. Before pulling up, commander Lee Archambault guided Discovery through a 360-degree back flip so the station astronauts could photograph its belly. Fincke said even though the station residents didn’t hear the go-ahead to take pictures because of communication system trouble, they got some good shots, and the shuttle looked “clean, very nice.”

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The international space station closes in for docking Tuesday while orbiting Earth. Discovery is set to deliver one last set of solar wings.

La. lawmaker wants to La. police seize 600 birds from cockfighting ring triple tobacco tax (AP) — A state lawmaker wants to more than triple Louisiana’s tax on cigarettes but faces opposition from Gov. Bobby Jindal. Rep. Karen Carter Peterson said Tuesday she plans to file legislation that would add $1 in taxes per package of cigarettes, raising the per-pack state tax to $1.36. Peterson said the tax on cigars and other tobacco products would jump by 50 percent of their current level. The New Orleans Democrat said the tax increase would create $209 million in new annual revenue, helping to reduce the state budget deficit.

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(AP) — Cockfighting has been illegal in Louisiana since last year, but state police officials said they routinely get tips of the sort that led to a raid at a rooster-fighting club where officers seized 600 birds and nearly $60,000.

State Police Sgt. Stephen LaFargue said troopers on Saturday shut down the Little Bayou Club, in the southwest Louisiana town of Sulphur, and issued 37 misdemeanor citations for cockfighting, gambling and contributing to juveniles’ delinquency. LaFargue said investigators get a regular flow of tips about illegal rooster fights.

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ADMINISTRATION

Budget cuts dominate Faculty Senate meeting dialogue Class-time change resolution denied

By Lindsey Meaux Staff Writer

Faculty Senate members and Student Government representatives broke away from traditional teacher-student discussions Tuesday at the monthly Faculty Senate meeting.

While discussions of the programs being pioneered by the Office of the University Registrar, class schedules and the 2009-2010 Senate officers were plentiful, one issue loomed over the meeting — budget cuts.

The Senate had an extensive conversation on the prospect of the University receiving $45.4 million in budget cuts.

Kevin Cope, Faculty Senate president, said numerous administrators have consulted the Senate on several issues with regard to how the cuts should be handled.

“We’re now getting increasing calls for input,” Cope said. “The

[LSU System] is going to be the ultimate authority in this one way or another.”

The Faculty Senate maintained contact with Chancellor Michael Martin during the past month while opening the lines of communication with System President John Lombardi — including a recent meeting between the Faculty Senate presidents of all LSU System universities and Lombardi, Cope said.

Three major points discussed at the meeting were the consolidation among the LSU System’s 11 universities, the liquidation of Universityowned land not attached to LSU’s Baton Rouge campus and faculty preservation.

“The administration is every bit as confused as the faculty are,” Cope said. “Faculty preservation was at the top of [Lombardi’s] agenda.”

Cope said the letter circulated last week titled “A Letter to the Faculty on the Budget Debate” was an attempt to ensure the Faculty Senate is in the loop on budget discussions.

The letter, which extensively discusses the possibilities of financial exigency and furloughing, was paid for by Faculty Senate funds.

Campus Crime Briefs UNIVERSITY STUDENT ARRESTED FOR RESISTING AN OFFICER A University student was arrested for resisting an officer and underage possession of alcohol on March 8 around 3:17 a.m.

An LSU Police Department officer saw a man standing near the stop sign at the intersection of South Campus Drive at East Campus Drive.

The man nervously avoided eye contact with the officer and started to run toward Blake Hall after the officer tried to talk to him, said Sgt. Blake Tabor, LSUPD spokesman.

Levere Montgomery IV, 19, of 11 Mistletoe Drive, Covington, was eventually stopped beside the lake near Blake Hall and acted as if he was talking on his cell phone, Tabor said. After the officer took Montgomery into custody, Montgomery apologized for running and said he was afraid the officer thought he was trying to steal the stop sign.

Montgomery said he was not trying to steal the stop sign — he only wanted to see how it was attached to its post. He said he ran because he had alcohol and is underage. Officers found a bottle of Southern Comfort whiskey liqueur and Mount Gay Rum in Montgomery’s backpack, Tabor said.

Montgomery was issued a misdemeanor summons and released.

MAN ARRESTED FOR DWI A man unaffiliated with the University was arrested March 10 around 1 a.m. for driving while intoxicated, driving with a suspended license and

careless operation.

An officer was patrolling Highland Road when he saw a vehicle in front of him start to swerve into oncoming traffic. The officer slowed at the intersection of Highland Road and Nicholson Extension when the vehicle nearly hit the officer, Tabor said.

Officers eventually stopped Mourice Wilson Jr., 24, of 4850 Beech Street, Baton Rouge, in a parking lot on Gourier Road. The officer smelled alcohol on Wilson’s breath, Tabor said. Wilson said he was driving from the Varsity Theatre, where he had only one drink. Wilson then failed several field sobriety tests, Tabor said.

Wilson was arrested and transported to LSUPD, where a breath alcohol test showed a 0.124 grams

Robert Doolos, University registrar, discussed the relationship between the Office of the University Registrar and the faculty.

“I come here not to ask for support, but to tell you how we support you,” Doolos said. “Our foremost mission is to support the instructional mission of the University and to support [faculty].”

One particular program implemented by the Registrar, the Comprehensive Academic Tracking System, focuses on student retention rates.

The program will be particularly useful in light of budget cuts because any performance-based funding will likely take student retention into account, according to Doolos.

The Comprehensive Academic Tracking System is designed to ensure students take — and excel in — classes that are considered critical to their majors.

“We really have a lot of great hopes for this program,” Doolos said. “We hope to fully implement CATS for this coming fall.”

Doolos also praised the recently implemented wait-listing program, which he said has had tremendous success in helping students get into

percent blood alcohol content. Wilson was booked in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on charges of driving while intoxicated, driving with a suspended license and careless operation.

TWO UNIVERSITY STUDENTS ARRESTED AFTER FIGHT Two University students were arrested for fighting — one of whom was also arrested for driving while intoxicated — on March 13.

Officers responded to a complaint about a fight at Herget Hall around 2:35 a.m. The two University students involved in the fight — CRIME, see page 12

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Faculty Senate President Kevin Cope opens the monthly Faculty Senate meeting Tuesday afternoon. The issue of budget cuts dominated the meeting.

their classes of choice.

“It’s been a triple-win situation all the way around,” Doolos said.

“The number of courses we’re able to help students [enroll in] is going up.”

Student Government President Colorado Robertson was present to discuss Senate Resolution 09-01 — a resolution to change the start of classes to on the hour or on the half hour as opposed to 10 minutes after each.

“It was overwhelmingly voted

by the students in our survey to keep the current class time,” Robertson said. “It has become a part of LSU as well as a part of the common day for LSU students.”

After Robertson’s presentation and discussion among Senate members, the majority of Senate members voted against the resolution.

Contact Lindsey Meaux at lmeaux@lsureveille.com

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POLITICS

Conservatives plan Baton Rouge tax tea party in April Group to protest federal stimulus

By Nate Monroe Contributing Writer

A group of local conservatives joined the national debate about President Obama’s fiscal agenda with a Boston Tea Party-style protest scheduled for April 15 — Tax Day. The “Tax Day tea party” will protest the stimulus package and Obama’s broader domestic agenda.

Organizers went public last Wednesday with a Web site, www. batonrougeteaparty.net, while a simultaneous effort is underway to recruit members on Facebook.

The Facebook group has attracted more than 400 members.

“We’re hoping for thousands and expecting at least 500,” said

Robin Edwards, coordinator for the tax tea party.

Organizers are encouraging participants to make signs and bring bags of pork skins — “creating one large pile would emphasize wasteful govt ‘PORK,’” the Facebook group says.

Edwards said the tea party is part of a “grassroots” effort sparked

by CNBC anchor Rick Santelli.

Santelli became part of a media frenzy after he made derisive remarks during a Feb. 19 broadcast from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade about Obama’s Home Affordability and Stability Plan — an effort to help homeowners avoid foreclosure.

Santelli said the plan will “subsidize the losers’ mortgages,” and by doing so, the government is “promoting bad behavior.”

He also said he was going to organize a tax tea party.

“We’re thinking of having a Chicago tea party in July. All you capitalists that want to show up to Lake Michigan — I’m going to start organizing it,” Santelli said.

Since the Feb. 19 broadcast, several conservative groups have held tea parties across the country — with many claiming Santelli’s call to action on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade as inspiration.

One such tea party — a “tea party and anti-pork rally” — was held in Lafayette on March 7.

“Louisiana citizens will hold to account their elected officials, Sen. Mary Landrieu and Rep. Charlie Melancon, who voted for this monstrosity — and their constituents will not be silenced,” the event description said.

Edwards said participants will protest Obama’s stimulus package and his broader presidential agenda

— including funding for stem cell research — saying, “our heritage is at stake.”

She also said the tea party will express gratitude to Gov. Bobby Jindal and Sen. David Vitter “for standing against the stimulus package,” while protesting Louisiana politicians like Landrieu who voted for the stimulus, formally known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Landrieu “is not listening to her constituents and not voting the way people want her to vote,” Edwards said.

Scott Jordan, spokesman for the Louisiana Democratic Party, said the timing of the protest is unusual.

“I wonder if any of the protestors voiced similar concerns when George Bush was running up the biggest deficit in American history over the last eight years,” he said.

He also accused Jindal and Vitter of partisan politics with the stimulus.

“Jindal claims he’s against the president’s recovery plan but is taking the bulk of the funds to help address Louisiana’s budget shortfall.

David Vitter’s hypocrisy is equally transparent — he sponsored nearly $250 million in earmarks in the omnibus bill, including many he cosponsored with Sen. Landrieu,” he said.

Edwards said no outside groups are currently participating or helping to organize the tea party, but “conservative groups are more than welcome to participate.”

Contact Nate Monroe at nmonroe@lsureveille.com

TECHNOLOGY

TigerMail missing characteristics of standard Gmail Experts say lack of extras not all bad

By Steven Powell Contributing Writer

TigerMail, the University’s Google e-mail service that started this semester, does not have all the characteristics and qualities of the standard Gmail account, but experts say the lack of certain characteristics is beneficial.

One characteristic missing from TigerMail is the use of Gmail’s controversial “sidebar advertisements.”

According to Google’s Web site, Gmail uses an automated scanning system to find key words, prompting advertisements that specifically target the user. The ads are displayed on the right-hand “sidebar” and contain Web sites relevant to information in the e-mail.

“We believe in providing useful information to our users and relevant advertisements,” said Leon Kotlyar, Google public affairs associate, in an e-mail.

Richard Nelson, mass communication professor, said this practice, known as data mining, is legal but controversial, walking the line between legal and ethical.

Nelson said the practice of data mining is becoming a common trend.

“There’s a growing social market for e-mail,” he said. “Everyone in business is seeking to find an audience ... Lifestyles are changing and growing away from old types of media, such as television.”

Nelson said a common argument in favor of data mining is the utilitarian theory, which states “If we’re going to give them ads, we should give them something more useful.”

The arguments against data mining are based on foundational principles of privacy, arguing it’s wrong to look into people’s information to learn more about them, Nelson said.

Nelson said there is potential danger in data mining, such as scanning information and

punishing unconventional viewpoints or disqualifying people for health insurance based on health issues.

“Data mining is not totally benign,” he said. “There is a potential for harm ... As of now, this is legal.”

Kenn Barnes, business marketing sophomore, said he doesn’t mind the advertisements on his normal Gmail account but has never clicked on any of the links.

“It’s not really an invasion of privacy because it’s a computer, not a person,” he said. “But it still makes me feel a little uneasy.”

Steven Baumann, history sophomore, said he has clicked on Gmail advertisement links in his normal Gmail account and does not see them as an issue.

“They don’t really bother me,” he said. “As long as they don’t take away from my screen, it isn’t a problem.”

There are two editions of Gmail available for businesses — the Standard Edition, free and supported by advertisements, and the advertisement-free Premium Edition, which costs $50 per year per user, according to Gmail’s Web site.

Sheri Thompson, IT communications and planning officer, said the University uses the free edition of Gmail, despite TigerMail being advertisement free.

Other applications missing in TigerMail are Gmail Lab features, such as tasks and quick links and personalized Gmail themes.

Thompson said the features in TigerMail are packaged by Google Apps, leaving the University with few choices to make, though she said the University decided “not to bother with” some applications.

“It has everything that

completes the e-mail experience,” she said. “We selected everything that students would find important and necessary.”

Baumann said he only uses Gmail and TigerMail for the “bare essentials of e-mailing” and doesn’t notice the missing applications on TigerMail.

“The basic thing is that it’s a free e-mail service,” Thompson said.

“That’s what we went for.”

Contact Steven Powell at spowell@lsureveille.com

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Howe said the number of cars on campus is the biggest change the economy is now, it was much from the 1930s. worse in the ’30s.

“Very few cars were on “There’s so much uncertain- the campus,” Howe said. “We ty now, and it seems to be getting walked, and we got a lot of exerworse,” Outland said. “But the cise. I never did get fat.” economy was just savaged during Smiley Raborn, a 1939 enthe Great Depression.” gineering alumnus, said campus Historians often mark Oct. was mainly pedestrian-friendly 29, 1929 — or Black Tuesday — in the ’30s. Today, thousands of as the beginning students park their of the Depression. cars on campus, But the economy but Raborn knew had gradually only five students declined beforewho owned cars hand, Outland in his four years said. at the University.

The Great DeIn the 1930s, pression reached the University’s Anne Howe its depth in 1933 enrollment hovUniversity almuna and continued to ered near 5,000 affect American’s compared to nearlives well through the late 1930s ly 30,000 students and 5,000 facand into the early 1940s. ulty and staff today.

Today, more than 4.4 mil“[College] was not as comlion Americans have lost their mon as it is now,” Outland said. jobs since the recession began “Most people didn’t go to colin December 2007, according lege before the second world war. to the Bureau of Labor Statis- Plenty of people went to college, tics. In February alone, 651,000 but it wasn’t the typical thing to people lost their jobs, and the na- do.” tional unemployment rate rose to Today, many students spend 8.1 percent — the highest since their weekends at the bars in Ti1983. gerland, but Howe said students But while Americans today in the 1930s spent most of their are facing tough times, the U.S. spare time dancing. saw a 25 percent unemployment “We had wonderful rate at the climax of the Great Depression.

“I don’t think people now could imagine what it would be like to have 25 percent unemployment,” Outland said. “And people who were employed were working for drastically low wages. It was just terrible.”

Very few people prospered during the ’30s, he said. Few houses were built, and few automobiles were bought. The ravaged economy forced Americans to go back to the basics.

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‘I remember how cheap it was then.

It was $32 a semester.’

CAMPUS LIFE Howe, a 1941 English alumna, said her father lost his job during the Great Depression, forcing her mother to find work to support their family. Howe’s mother found an on-campus job, and a year later, her father landed a job working at the LSU Agricultural Center.

Howe is the 88-year-old granddaughter of Thomas Boyd, who served as the University president until 1927. Howe and her family lived with Boyd in a large house near the LSU Lakes during the ’30s.

Howe’s father drove Howe and her mother to campus every day in their family car.

Today, she spends the occasional afternoon riding around campus with her daughter, noting how campus has progressed since her days spent at the University.

fraternity and sorority dances,” Annie Boyd Hall, Evangeline she said. “We had some great Hall, Highland Hall, Louise dances in the Old Gym. I loved to Garig Hall, Paul M. Hebert Law dance. I can’t anymore since I’m Center, the Faculty Club, Student 88 years old, but I miss it.”

Health Center and the Music and Howe spent her leisure time Dramatic Arts Building, accordbetween classes in the Huey P. ing to Emmett David, Facility Long Field House playing bridge Services director. and drinking coffee with other “They were built with fedstudents. The Field House was eral money,” Outland said. “And the original Student Union — the Quad area was built with New complete with a Deal money.” ballroom, soda As campus fountain, post ofgrew and buildfice, beauty parlor, ings popped up, barbershop and a the legendary swimming pool landscape archithat was the largtect Steele Burden est in the country planted most of at the time. the campus’ sigRobert Outland “And I renature oak trees history professor member I used to during the 1930s, sit on the Indian according to the Mounds and watch people walk 1937 edition of the Gumbo yearby,” she said. “I just had a won- book. derful time.”

In the late ’30s, the Great Depression forced a zoo in Little UNIVERSITY GROWTH Rock to close from bankruptcy.

As the economy crumbled, The zoo sold off its animals, inthe University saw a time of cluding a $2,000 royal Bengal tigrowth and expansion, building ger cub who would soon become new facilities and increasing en- Mike I. rollment.

Athletic trainer Mike ChamMany historic campus build- bers collected 25 cents from each ings were built during the ’30s student to bring Mike the Tiger including Himes Hall, Nichol- to campus, according to Mike the son Hall, Howe-Russell Geosci- Tiger’s Web site. ence Complex, Grace King Hall, On the dawn of Nov. 21,

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‘[College] was not as common as it is now ... It wasn’t the typical thing to do.’

PAGE 5 1936, students organized a strike against classes to catch the first glimpse of Mike and greet him with the University’s hospitality.

He arrived by train, and the cub was mobbed by students and carried to Tiger Stadium as the band blared Tiger Rag, according to the 1937 Gumbo.

The University president declared it “Tiger Day” and gave students the afternoon off. They expressed their appreciation and danced around bonfires late into the night.

The state Legislature approved a $4,000 grant in the late ’30s to build a house for Mike that was on the same spot as today, only much smaller.

Tiger Stadium also lacked end zones, but that didn’t stop thousands of fans from flooding in every weekend during football season.

“We’d get dressed up to go,” Howe said. “We wore stockings and heels, and we never could even wear slacks to school. There was a great deal of difference between when I was there and now.”

Contact Leslie Presnall at lpresnall@lsureveille.com

PAGE 6 REIGN, from page 1 While other tickets have invested heavily in push cards and signs, Noel and Ginn have opted to avoid the usual SG campaigning strategies.

Operating only out of a modest table in Free Speech Plaza, the two members of the Make it Reign campaign have taken a minimalist approach to getting elected.

Like many other tickets, Noel and Ginn have made the students’ voices the most important part of their campaign. Unlike other candidates, however, they said they are already listening to the students by not forcing their campaign on them.

“It’s hard to win an election the way we’re doing it,” Noel said. “But it shows we’re listening to the students. Other tickets are saying they are going to listen to students but not until after the election.”

Noel said his campaign has only spent about $30 so far, much less than other campaigns and nowhere near the $5,000 spending limit imposed by the Election Board.

Ginn said he wanted the minimalism they have shown during the

BUDGET, from page 1 has to construct a performance-based formula for distributing reductions in state funding — a complicated task.

“We don’t think that it should be something done behind closed doors,” Robertson said. “We think that we should be involved, and we thank the [Board of Regents] for letting us come down today to be involved, but they still don’t have enough information really to even start conveying what their plans are.”

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campaign to be representative of the way they would govern if elected.

“If I had $5,000, it would be crazy to invest it in push cards students will just throw away and signs that will come down the day after the election,” Ginn said.

Though the Make it Reign campaign is small, Noel said they have a support base of close friends that is growing quickly every day through Facebook groups and word of mouth.

PROGRAMS “We’re really aware of the financial situation on campus, and we look at past tickets and just see empty promises,” Noel said.

Noel and Ginn have tried to avoid being associated with traditional SG campaign strategies and promises. Because they are not in the normal loop of ideas, they said they didn’t want to make campaign promises they could not keep.

“I really wouldn’t want to commit to anything,” Noel said. “I can say I want to change the priority points system because it’s something students want, but I can’t say how Robertson said he’s pleased with Jindal’s plans to distribute the cuts based on performance but wants to see the overall reduction in higher education state funding reduced.

“We applaud Gov. Jindal for trying to make some decisions and move toward a performance-based system,” Robertson said. “Now he needs to support that and even additional dollars in higher education. Reducing the overall cut would help.”

Robertson said he’s speaking with Clausen and other state lead-

we’ll do it until we’re in office.”

Ginn said other issues, such as parking on campus, should not be expected to be solved overnight. Ginn said the best an SG administration could hope for is to find small ways to fix big problems.

Noel said communication with students would be the primary focus of their potential administration, using student opinions to guide any decisions they would make.

“You have to find a way to contact students other than the Web site,” Ginn said. “You need more personto-person contact.”

By using media outside the SG Web site, such as Facebook, PAWS and advertisements in student media, Noel said his administration could improve communication between SG and students.

“We have to learn to adapt to the media students are using, not force them to go out of their way to visit the Web Site,” Noel said.

Contact Adam Duvernay at aduvernay@lsureveille.com ers to make sure students know how much their tuition and fees will increase because of the budget cuts before fee bills for the summer and fall 2009 semesters appear on their PAWS accounts.

Robertson will meet with LSU System President John Lombardi — along with other System Student Government presidents — on Friday to discuss the budget cuts.

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 2009

FOOTBALL

Fullback Ridley out for spring practice

By Rachel Whittaker Sports Writer

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LSU coach Les Miles said Tuesday that sophomore fullback Stevan Ridley is out for spring practice with a knee injury, and the team is exploring its options in the backfield.

Ridley will likely return for the fall, but in the meantime, Miles said former center Richard Dugas got repetitions at fullback.

“We threw a ball to Dugas at fullback toLog on to day,” Miles said. see a video “The guy looked of coach pretty exciting, and he’s done a Les Miles’ remarkable job press in four practicconference. es.”

Miles said senior running back Charles Scott will also see playing time at fullback, but he said Scott will play the roles of both a tailback and a fullback.

Miles said another option for the spring is true freshman Drayton Calhoun to go with Scott, senior Keiland Williams and junior Richard Murphy at running back.

“With four tailbacks, we should be in good shape,” Miles said.

Miles said quarterback Russell Shepard has seen time only at quarterback so far this spring, but Miles acknowledged what a weapon the

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’Nother Nail Biter

Gibbs walk-off hit earns Tigers a 2-1 win against Northwestern State Demons LSU sophomore catcher Micah the game-winning hit.

Gibbs showed up at Alex Box Sta“On the bench, you can really dium on Tuesday to learn that junior watch the pitchers and how they Sean Ochinko would be the team’s handle the batters,” he said. “I recatcher against Northwestern State. ally paid attention to how the righty So with a night pitchers faced the

By Casey Gisclair off at his disposal, lefty batters and Gibbs took to the vice versa because Chief Sports Writer batting cages to I am a switch hitter, work out some of the troubles at the but little things like that help keep plate that have plagued the Pfluger- you into the game.” ville, Texas native.

Gibbs was not the only strugGibbs showed off some of the gling Tiger to come through in the things he worked on earlier in the ninth inning for the Tigers. day with the score tied at one in the Junior outfielder Blake Dean bottom of the ninth and ripped a 2-2 led off the inning with a single. pitch into center field, allowing se“I’ve been around Blake Dean nior Derek Helenihi to score from for two, almost three years,” Mainthird base to secure a 2-1 LSU win. ieri said. “That kid’s one of the best “Micah Gibbs cares so much kids I’ve ever coached, and I will that sometimes he just holds on too never give up on Blake Dean.” tight,” said LSU coach Paul MainThings looked promising for ieri. “I had every confidence that he the LSU offense early on as the was going to come through there for Tigers struck for a first-inning run us, and maybe that will be a big lift off Demons junior pitcher Ryan for him that will vault him into the Zimmerman to take an early 1-0 rest of the season.” lead.

Gibbs said he studied how the LSU junior outfielder Jared Demons’ pitchers were challenging Mitchell led off the game with a the Tiger batters in the first eight inBASEBALL, see page 15 nings, and that helped him collect

photos by MAGGIE BOWLES / The Daily Reveille

[Above] Freshman pitcher Chris Matulis pitches during Tuesday’s game against Northwestern State. [Left] Junior Outfielder Jared Mitchell bats during the Tigers’ 2-1 win over the Northwestern State Demons.

MILES, see page 13

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

SEC well represented in NCAA tournament Seven teams to chase Final Four goals

By Casey Gisclair Chief Sports Writer

WADE PAYNE / The Associated Press

Tennessee coach Pat Summitt and the Lady Vols celebrate Monday in Alcoa, Tenn., as they find out they’ll play Ball State in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

With names like Sylvia Fowles, Candace Parker and Tasha Humphrey gone from the Southeastern Conference this season, most expected the SEC to be poorly represented in the NCAA tournament.

But with seven bids — including four teams with a No. 6 seed or better — the conference that has produced five Final Four bids in the past three years is well represented again in the Big Dance.

LSU is an underdog in its the Phoenix, they will gain back quest to advance to a sixth-straight in playing in the PMAC. Final Four. The Lady Tigers are a “It’s a great thing to have No. 6 seed in the the tournament Raleigh region here,” Hightower and will play No. said. “[The fans] 11 seed Wisconalways give us sin-Green Bay an energy boost, on Sunday in the and that is exactly PMAC. why we love playThe Phoeing for them.” nix come into the LSU freshAllison Hightower Big Dance having man forward Lawon 21-straight Sondra Barrett LSU junior guard games. said after dealing Wisconsin-Green Bay is the with a 1-3 start and a few injuries opposite of LSU in terms of expe- throughout the season, the Lady rience with four starting seniors.

Tigers are a better team than they But junior guard and first- were earlier in the season and team All-SEC selection Allison are equipped to make another Hightower said what the Lady TOURNAMENT, see page 13 Tigers give up in experience to

‘‘

‘[The fans] always give us an energy boost, and ... we love playing for them.’

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NBA

Rockets forward Carl Landry wounded in shooting

By Chris Duncan The Associated Press

HOUSTON (AP) — Hours after arriving home from an important victory in New Orleans, the Houston Rockets awakened to news that forward Carl Landry had been shot overnight near his home.

Landry, 25, sustained a minor wound to his left calf and is expected to miss only one to three weeks.

The team said Landry was treated at a hospital and released.

The shooting occurred about 2:30 a.m., a few hours after the Rockets returned from a 95-84 win over the Hornets that kept them in third place in the Western Conference. The team returned to Houston about 12:30 a.m., then started hearing about the shooting in the early morning.

The Rockets practiced in the afternoon, after many had talked to Landry.

“I’m thankful, and I think everyone is thankful, that Carl is safe,” forward Shane Battier said. “It’s a scary situation. I don’t know the details and I’m not going to speculate on them. The most important thing is that Carl is safe and he’s OK.” Houston police said Landry was driving his sport utility vehicle southbound on a city street, when a northbound car swerved into his path and collided with his vehicle.

Landry and the driver of the other vehicle made U-turns and the vehicles collided again and Landry’s SUV hit a utility pole.

Police spokesman Kese Smith said Landry got out of his SUV to inspect the damage, and was shot by one of the two occupants of the car.

The suspects then fled the scene, while Landry ran to get help, police said.

Smith originally said the incident occurred about 4 a.m., but said later that was the time authorities were notified. Smith did not know if Landry was the person who called police.

Landry had a female passenger in his SUV, and she was not injured, police said.

General manager Daryl Morey visited Landry at the hospital and said he sustained a surface wound that was no worse than a calf strain.

“We’re just happy Carl is OK,” Morey said. “By what we can understand, he was very lucky — obviously unlucky to have this situation happen to him, but very lucky that he came out without anything major.”

The 6-foot-9 Landry has become a valuable player off the bench for the Rockets, averaging 9.3 points and five rebounds in his second NBA season. He had 12 points and six rebounds in Monday’s 95-84 win that kept Houston

in third place in the Western Conference standings.

Houston coach Rick Adelman said he had not talked to Landry since the shooting. Point guard Aaron Brooks, one of Landry’s closest friends on the team, first heard about the shooting about 5 a.m.

“He just sounded happy, blessed,” said Brooks. “It was a situation that pretty much anybody could’ve been in. He’s just blessed to be OK, blessed that he’s alive and that he’ll be back and be Carl again.”

Adelman said Landry’s injury could mean more playing time for

Chuck Hayes and Dikembe Mutombo, who played 25 minutes on Monday’s victory.

“Obviously, it hurts us,” Adelman said of Landry’s absence. “But on the other hand, it’s going to give other guys the chance to step up and play. We’ve got to have that from everybody else. It’s going to hurt us, but he’ll be back and the rest of our group has to try to step up and win games.”

Landry was drafted by Seattle in the second round in 2007, then traded to Houston for a future second-round pick and cash. He averaged eight points and 4.9 rebounds

in 2007-08.

In Game 3 of a first-round series against Utah, Landry blocked Deron Williams’ layup try with 3.4 seconds left to preserve Houston’s 94-92 victory. Landry also lost a tooth in that game after taking an elbow from Utah’s Carlos Boozer.

“Carl has been great for us,” Battier said. “His energy and punch off the bench has been outstanding.

But it’s ironic that other guys will get a chance to step in, much like he got a chance to step in and give us a lift last year.

“We’re not worried about Carl from the basketball standpoint.

That’s the least of our worries. We just want him to get healthy and deal with this episode.”

Before Tuesday’s practice, Adelman talked to his players about staying vigilant when they’re out on their own.

“Hopefully, lessons learned,” Adelman said. “Anybody who goes through a situation like that, you’ve got to look at what’s going on in the world. We all could be thrown into situations.”

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SOFTBALL

Tigers hope to stay in division hunt vs. Tide LSU rained out seven times in two weeks

By David Helman Sports Writer

LSU softball coach Yvette Girouard is probably a little tired of dodging raindrops.

With heavy rains passing through Baton Rouge last weekend, Girouard may finally have clear skies for LSU’s doubleheader tonight against No. 2 Alabama (232, 3-0).

Girouard and No. 21 LSU (156, 2-2) have been forced to cancel seven games in the past two weeks because of bad weather.

“We’re in the middle of March Madness right now, and March Madness has certainly hit our softball team,” Girouard said.

The state of Georgia has been particularly unkind to the Tigers in that stretch. LSU didn’t play a single game of the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Leadoff Classic in Columbus, Ga., from Feb. 27 to March 1 because of rain.

And LSU dropped a 6-5 contest last weekend to Georgia in Athens before rain caused the second two games of the series to be canceled.

“In the second game, we had the bases loaded in the fourth

inning with one out,” Girouard said. “We never got to complete [the game] and never saw the field on Sunday. It’s been a pretty frustrating start already in conference competition.”

A series win against the Crimson Tide could keep the Tigers on pace in the Southeastern Conference Western Division. LSU is third in the division at 2-2. Arkansas is first with a 4-0 record, and Alabama is second at 3-0.

“It looks like we’re going to have fantastic weather for a team that’s ranked No. 1 or No. 2 in

every poll in the country,” Girouard said. “Alabama and Florida are picked to win the league ... This is a fabulous team coming in. They have pitching, they have speed and they can hit it out of the park.”

Girouard said LSU and Alabama are the only SEC West teams to win the division since the SEC split into East and West divisions.

“We have a long history together ... and it’s always a war on the field between the Tide and the Tigers,” Girouard said. “We’re looking for a fabulous crowd [tonight] because this is about as good

ERIN ARLEDGE / The Daily Reveille

Freshman infielder Juliana Santos hits a single for LSU on March 11 in the Tigers’ 4-3 win against Baylor in Tiger Park.

a team as you’ll see in college softball and as great an atmosphere as, hopefully, we can produce out there.”

Girouard will likely get a good student turnout if nothing else. The LSU Athletic Department designated the Alabama doubleheader as a student priority point game.

Students who swipe their student IDs at Tiger Park will receive priority points for away-game football tickets.

Contact David Helman at dhelman@lsureveille.com

Round 1: March 19 - 20 (1) Louisville (16) Morehead St. (8) Ohio St. (9) Siena

Round 2: March 21 - 22 Sweet 16: March 26 - 27

Elite Eight: March 28 - 29

Final Four: April 4 Elite Eight: March 28 - 29

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BRACKET

2009

Sweet 16: March 26 - 27

Round 2: March 21 - 22

Round 1: March 19 - 20 (1) Pittsburgh (16) E. Tenn. St. (8) Oklahoma St. (9) Tennessee

(5) Florida St.

(6) UCLA

(13) Portland St.

(4) Xavier

(5) Utah

(13) Cleveland St.

(4) Wake Forest

(12) Wisconsin

EAST Boston

(12) Arizona

MIDWEST Indianapolis (11) VCU

(6) West Virginia (11) Dayton

(3) Villanova (14) American

(3) Kansas (14) N. Dakota St.

(10) Minnesota

(15) Binghamton

(2) Duke

(15) Robert Morris

(1) North Carolina (16) Radford

(9) Butler

(8) LSU

(9) Texas A&M

(12) Western Ky.

(4) Gonzaga (13) Akron

(11) Utah St.

(3) Syracuse

(11) Temple

(6) Arizona St.

(3) Missouri

(15) Morgan St.

(2) Oklahoma

(10) Michigan

(7) Clemson

(14) S. F. Austin

(6) Marquette

(13) Miss. St.

(4) Washington

(12) Northern Iowa

(5) Illinois

(8) BYU

(16) Chattanooga

(1) Connecticut

(12) Michigan St.

(10) USC

(7) Texas

SOUTH Memphis

(5) Purdue

WEST Glendale

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(7) Boston College

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(14) Cornell

(7) California (10) Maryland

(2) Memphis (15) CS Northridge

Round 1: March 19 - 20 (1) Louisville (16) Morehead St. (8) Ohio St. (9) Siena

Round 2: March 21 - 22 Sweet 16: March 26 - 27

Elite Eight: March 28 - 29

Final Four: April 4 Elite Eight: March 28 - 29

NCAA TOURNAMENT

BRACKET

2009

Sweet 16: March 26 - 27

Round 2: March 21 - 22

Round 1: March 19 - 20 (1) Pittsburgh (16) E. Tenn. St. (8) Oklahoma St. (9) Tennessee

(5) Florida St.

(6) UCLA

(13) Portland St.

(4) Xavier

(5) Utah

(13) Cleveland St.

(4) Wake Forest

(12) Wisconsin

EAST Boston

(12) Arizona

MIDWEST Indianapolis (11) VCU

(6) West Virginia (11) Dayton

(3) Villanova (14) American

(3) Kansas (14) N. Dakota St.

(10) Minnesota

(15) Binghamton

(2) Duke

(15) Robert Morris

(1) North Carolina (16) Radford

(9) Butler

(8) LSU

(9) Texas A&M

(12) Western Ky.

(4) Gonzaga (13) Akron

(11) Utah St.

(3) Syracuse

(11) Temple

(6) Arizona St.

(3) Missouri

(15) Morgan St.

(2) Oklahoma

(10) Michigan

(7) Clemson

(14) S. F. Austin

(6) Marquette

(13) Miss. St.

(4) Washington

(12) Northern Iowa

(5) Illinois

(8) BYU

(16) Chattanooga

(1) Connecticut

(12) Michigan St.

(10) USC

(7) Texas

SOUTH Memphis

(5) Purdue

WEST Glendale

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(14) Cornell

(7) California (10) Maryland

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TENNIS

Tigers go for biggest win of season against S. Florida Women’s team hosts doubleheader

By Sean Isabella Sports Contributor

LSU men’s tennis coach Jeff Brown said today’s match is by far the most important of the season for his team.

The Tigers (5-5, 1-3) host No. 27 South Florida (9-4) at 3 p.m. at W.T. “Dub” Robinson Stadium.

“To date, this would be our biggest win,” he said. “The NCAA committee is looking — when they go to selection — looking at your eight best wins, so this would be one of those that would probably be in that group.”

LSU is coming off a weekend during which it won its first Southeastern Conference match Friday, defeating Vanderbilt, 4-3. The Tigers were shut out by then-No. 21 Kentucky, 7-0, on Sunday.

Brown said South Florida, which rides a five-game win streak into today’s match, has an SEC-caliber team.

“They would probably be the eighth- or ninth-ranked SEC team right now,” he said. “They’re good — they are ranked ahead of half the SEC.” Brown said he needs more

NFL

Pres. names Steelers owner Irish ambassador

By Kimberly Hefling The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Obama selected Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney to be U.S. ambassador to Ireland on Tuesday, turning to a lifelong Republican who provided the Democrat critical campaign support during the White House race.

Rooney, 76, endorsed Obama over Hillary Rodham Clinton during Pennsylvania’s contentious Democratic primary; Clinton won the contest last April. Rooney later campaigned for him in Steelers country in western Pennsylvania, and Obama went on to win the state last November.

In the 1970s, Rooney, the grandson of an Irish immigrant, helped found the American Ireland Fund, an organization that has raised millions for advocacy of peace and education in Ireland.

His legacy is reflected in a Steelers-themed bar in a disused linen mill in one of the roughest parts of northwest Belfast.

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production from some of the more experienced players.

“We can get more out of [senior James] Cluskey and [sophomore Julien] Gauthier,” Brown said.

Cluskey, a Dublin, Ireland, native, has struggled in singles competition lately, losing his last four matches.

“It’s really difficult to get out of a slump in the SEC,” Brown said. “There’s not a lot of easy wins to get that confidence. So we’re going to try, before we get to the SECs and NCAAs ... to hopefully get him some confidence going into those bigger events.”

Cluskey said his struggles are not from a lack of focus, and it’s only a matter of time before he gets on track.

“I’ve been going through a rough patch. A couple of the guys have been going through a rough patch. That’s life,” he said.

WOMEN’S TEAM HOSTS DOUBLEHEADER The No. 23 LSU women’s tennis team hosts Tulsa (15-3) and Grambling (1-3) today in a non-conference doubleheader.

The team will host Tulsa at 11 a.m. at W.T. “Dub” Robinson Stadium, but the 4 p.m. matchup with Grambling will be held on

CRIME, from page 3

James Dustin Naquin, 19, of 15210 Silver Oak Drive, Prairieville, and Gerald James Domingue III, 18, of 71174 Ketch Place, Abita Springs — left the residence hall before officers arrived. Witnesses gave descriptions of the men, who they said were fighting about a woman they both had feelings for, Tabor said.

Naquin drove by Herget Hall after the officers arrived. Officers identified Naquin based on witness descriptions, pulled him over and questioned him about the fight. Officers noticed he was intoxicated, and after he failed several field

the practice courts to accommodate the men’s team.

The Lady Tigers (8-4, 1-2) upset then-No.13 Kentucky, 4-3, on Sunday for their first SEC win.

LSU women’s coach Tony Minnis said he’s impressed with his team’s ability to overcome hardships this season.

“We’ve had a lot of adversity, a lot of personal things, a lot of injuries and stuff,” he said. “I’m just impressed they’ve been able to overcome it and put themselves into a position where we are right now.”

Minnis also said he’s looking forward to getting freshman Whitney Wolf back to full strength.

Wolf has battled mononucleosis the past few weeks but has finally recovered.

“Getting Whitney back is big,” Minnis said. “She’s a phenomenal player.”

Senior Megan Falcon, the No. 15-ranked singles player in the NCAA, said the team is lucky to have Wolf back in the lineup.

“It gives everyone else more confidence at the other positions,” she said.

Contact Sean Isabella at sisabella@lsureveille.com sobriety tests, Naquin was transported to LSUPD around 4:56 a.m. He refused to take a breath alcohol test, Tabor said.

Naquin was charged with driving while intoxicated and disturbing the peace through fistic encounter and was booked in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

Domingue was arrested around 8:46 p.m. in Herget Hall for disturbing the peace through fistic encounter. He was issued a misdemeanor summons and released, Tabor said.

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Freshman Mark Bowtell reaches to hit the ball March 6 during a men’s tennis match against Auburn. LSU lost to Auburn, 4-3.

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tournament run.

“I have always been told it is not how you start, it is about how you finish,” Barrett said. “With all of those obstacles we have faced throughout the season, we have learned from them, and that will make us stronger.”

The winner of Sunday’s game will take on the winner of No. 3 seed Louisville and No. 14 seed Liberty.

TWO-TIME DEFENDING CHAMPS IN AWKWARD POSITION Tennessee’s position is similar to the Lady Tigers’, as the Lady Vols also had to replace all five starters from its 2008 national championship team.

The Lady Vo l s had ‘Ten growing pains losses, t h r o u g h o u t and now the season and ended up rewe’re ceiving a No. seed — their going to 5lowest seed in [play to] program hiswin it all.’ tory.But not bePat Summitt ing the favorite to cut down Tennessee coach the nets isn’t a problem to Lady Vols coach Pat Summitt, whose team will face No. 12 seed Ball State in the first round Sunday.

“It doesn’t really bother me,” Summitt said following the NCAA Tournament Selection Show. “A four seed would have been good, but as I look at the bracket, I don’t see where it’s a big deal.”

The Lady Vols’ bracket would presumably have them facing No. 4 seed Iowa State in the second round of the NCAA tournament before playing No. 1 seed Duke in the Sweet 16.

The Blue Devils beat the Lady Vols, 62-54, on Feb. 16 in Knoxville.

Having a team with 10 losses is not unfamiliar territory for Summitt.

The Lady Vols finished the 1997 regular season with 10 losses, and that season, Tennessee ended up winning the national championship.

“I keep thinking about that,” Summitt said. “Ten losses, and now we’re going to [play to] win it all.”

AUBURN GETS TOP NCAA SEEDING AMONG SEC TEAMS For most of the season, it looked like Auburn would lock up a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament.

But a pair of losses to Vanderbilt down the stretch forced Auburn into a No. 2 seed in the Oklahoma City Region where they will take on No. 15 seed Lehigh.

The players on Auburn’s current roster got their first taste of the NCAA tournament last season and made the field of 64 as a No. 11 seed before losing to Georgia Washington, 66-56 in the opening round.

SEC Player of the Year DeWanna Bonner said last season’s tournament experience

will aid the Lady Tigers in their quest to reach the Final Four.

“I think we have the advantage now,” she said. “You kind of have the little jitters the first time you get to the NCAA tournament, and now it’s not jitters. Everything is just flowing right now.”

OTHER SEC TEAMS IN THE FIELD: Vanderbilt - No. 4 seed in Raleigh Regional. Will face No. 13 seed Western Carolina in the opening round.

Florida - No. 8 seed in Trenton Regional. Will face No. 9 seed Temple in the opening round.

Georgia - No. 11 seed in Trenton Regional. Will face No. 6 seed Arizona State in the opening round Mississippi State - No. 11 seed in Berkley Regional. Will face No. 6 seed Texas in the opening round.

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MILES, from page 7

true freshman is on the field.

“We haven’t moved him much today,” Miles said. “But with a guy with that kind of skill, you’re constantly looking for opportunities to get the ball in his hands.”

On special teams, Miles said junior kicker/punter Josh Jasper is handling kickoffs and extra points in spring practice. Jasper played in all 13 games in 2008, often filling in for former LSU kicker Colt David. “[Jasper] was a guy who could well have competed more effectively [last season] if we so needed him to, but he’ll be fine for this fall.”

At placeholder, Miles said junior punter Derek Helton has stood out to him.

“Derek Helton is a really good holder, maybe the best holder we’ve had,” Miles said. “We’ll also look at Jarrett Lee and Jordan Jefferson and some of those quarterbacks.”

With LSU’s new defensive coaching hires, Miles said certain tactical differences are in place for the spring.

“We probably won’t be substituting as frequently, and we’ll leave the three linebackers on the field at

MAGGIE BOWLES / The Daily Reveille

LSU football coach Les Miles discusses spring practice and the upcoming season Tuesday at a press conference.

times,” he said. “There will be the opportunity to make more common adjustments, and less personnel variation will make it less confusing.”

Miles said the secondary is filled with veterans who are reacting well to the coaching transition, and he said junior Chad Jones is stepping up at safety.

“You look at some guys who are prospering like Chad Jones, who

is making a heck of a difference in the center of our secondary,” Miles said. “And Patrick Peterson is ready to play at a different level. I think the secondary, being veteran, is ready to take some steps and play excellent.

They will be something special.”

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Pluckers wing bar Trivia at 8. $4 34 oz Mother Plucker Mugs.

If you don’t like our wings, we’ll give you the bird.

Mellow Mushroom pizza Bakers Trivia and Karaoke Night 5-10pm: $5 Domestic Pitchers, $6 Abita Pitchers

9-10:30pm Appaloosa 12:00-1:30pm W. 3:00-3:30pm The Manship Show 7-8:30pm Pride and Glory

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NFL

Saints agree to terms with DL Spicer, OL Leckey

By The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Saints have agreed to terms on a one-year contract with free agent defensive lineman Paul Spicer.

Team spokesman Greg Bensel announced the deal Tuesday. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Spicer started in 10 of 16 games last season for the Jacksonville Jaguars.

His signing will reunite him

BASEBALL, from page 7

single. Mitchell stole second and third base in the inning before scoring on a sacrifice fly by Dean.

The Demons added a run of their own in the top of the second on a sacrifice fly by sophomore catcher Miles Parsons.

That run was the only one allowed by LSU freshman pitcher Chris Matulis, who pitched five innings and allowed six hits and struck out seven hitters.

Matulis’s effort earned him a no decision and snapped the Boynton Beach, Fla. native’s three-start win streak to open the season.

But Zimmerman was just as dominant as Matulis and allowed just four hits in his five innings of work.

Neither team recorded a hit from the sixth through eighth innings as the team’s bullpens were just as dominant as their starters.

Sophomores Daniel Bradshaw and Jordan Nicholson combined with freshman Matty Ott to pitch four perfect innings of relief for LSU. Ott was on the hill for the first time since surrendering a ninth-

with Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, who had the same job with the Jaguars last season.

Spicer, 33, has also played for the Detroit Lions during his 10-year NFL career.

The Saints have also agreed to terms on a one-year contract with free agent center Nick Leckey.

Financial terms of the deal announced Tuesday were not disclosed by the team.

Leckey has played for the

St. Louis Rams and the Arizona Cardinals since the Cardinals picked him in the sixth round of the 2004 draft.

The 27-year-old started at center for the Rams’ first 10 games in 2008 before a broken bone in his foot ended his season.

In five seasons, the former Kansas State player has started 32 of 57 career games.

inning home run last week to break a tie game against Louisiana-Lafayette.

Ott said with his second chance in a tie game, he wanted to show he had not lost his confidence.

“After that guy hit the home run last week, I finished the inning well,” Ott said. “But [tonight] gave me a good feeling again.”

The Tigers return to action tonight at 6:30 p.m. to take on

McNeese State at Alex Box Stadium.

The Cowboys come into play with a 9-7 record, but McNeese State has lost four-straight games, including being swept last weekend in a three-game series by Southeastern Louisiana.

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OUR VIEW

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 2009

Independent ticket shows courage by not campaigning SG elections are less than a week away, and, as usual, this election features an independent ticket with an unconventional platform.

The “Make it Reign” ticket, headed by mass communication students Jeffrey Noel and Ryan Ginn, is taking a more humorous approach to Student Government elections this season.

We do not endorse any particular

ticket, but we would like to acknowledge the efforts of this campaign.

“Make it Reign,” constructing its name to poke fun at SG, is running with no established ticket and a minimal amount of campaigning. In fact, the only spot you will find the two candidates before the election is at a small table in Free Speech Alley.

And while other tickets associate their campaigns with strategies

backed by $5,000 spending limits, the “Make it Reign” ticket has barely made a dent in their spending, using only $30.

The ticket’s mission statement breaks down its reasons for not campaigning.

“We don’t have a ticket and don’t want to owe anyone any favors because they helped us get elected,” the mission statement says. “We are

not going to push our own agenda or our own issues.”

Not pushing themselves on students is a bold move considering other tickets’ campaign strategies.

Taking the low-key approach to getting elected takes a lot of determination and courage. We applaud Noel and Ginn for taking the initiative and getting involved.

Considering this election has

four other established tickets, the chances of the “Make it Reign” ticket seeing a victory are slim, evidenced by last year’s independent ticket’s loss.

But it’s good to see involvement in student issues, especially from both sides of the student body spectrum.

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BURNS AFTER READING

Sleep in a Box doesn’t give hope to homeless people

During the past few months, you might have noticed a small group of activists in Free Speech Alley promoting an event known as Sleep in a Box. Its mission, according to the group’s organizational Web site, is to “raise awareness and funds for homeless adolescents through school spirit and community involvement.”

To encourage support, organizers have asked students to take part in a night of actually sleeping in selfconstructed cardboard boxes.

The event is scheduled for March 28 from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. the following day at a cost of $10 per student.

Contestants will build their boxes out of cardboard and duct tape, and various prizes will be awarded for the most creative boxes. The night will also include dinner, snacks, drinks and breakfast, as well as possible music performances by local artists.

The event will support The Lataro Foundation, a homeless awareness foundation intended to promote and aid Louisiana youth.

Sleep in a Box started in 2007 at Lafayette High School. The event accommodated more than 500 participants and raised more than $8,000 for the Homeless Education Programs at public school systems in Louisiana, according to the student organization Web site.

Sleep In A Box at LSU has more than 240 confirmed members thus far with nearly 500 guests listed as “maybe attending,” according to the group’s Facebook event page.

Rising homeless rates have been a disturbing trend in recent years.

Even before Hurricane Katrina, researchers estimated 45,000 homeless people resided in the state.

Louisiana presently has the highest rate of any state for child

homelessness, according to a recent report by the National Center for Family Homelessness. Some surveys indicated as many as 38 percent of the homeless are under 18.

In 2006, the Interagency Council for the Homeless devised a plan touted as a “ten year plan to end homelessness.”

But as usual, government efforts to curtail Scott Burns these numbers have failed.

Columnist And with increased cost of living and inflationary standards still on the rise, many experts believe homeless rates will continue to increase.

Certainly there is an admirable motive behind Sleep in a Box. But good motives don’t always

ensure good results.

With all the festivities taking place, the event has morphed into more of a social event than an event for social change.

Students realize homeless people exist, so raising awareness won’t really accomplish anything. Further, sleeping in a customized box doesn’t offer any tangible aid to vagrants on Chimes Street.

The way to legitimately help is through self-sacrifice.

While Sleep in a Box is taking place, hundreds of living quarters will be available for the entire night by student activists.

Ergo: Why don’t the participants offer homeless people a chance to stay in their homes?

There’s no better way to help others than to truly give an altruistic gift with an actual impact.

A participant who doesn’t want

to engage in this trade isn’t helping anyone. They’re just acting like a giant Dick in a Box. For now, their impracticality is easy to do. Just follow these 3 steps: 1: Poke some holes in a box.

2: Stuff your junk in the box.

3: Accomplish absolutely nothing.

Good Samaritans don’t merely raise communal awareness.

They take action.

If the organizers of Sleep in a Box can’t think of a better idea than what they’ve offered, they’ll find themselves sleeping in boxes for a long, long time.

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

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COMMON CENTS

Like Santa Claus and his elves, God is impossible Unlike the 500 students who helped promote the evangelical ministry at the Cox Communications Center last Thursday, I don’t agree with Critter.

God is logically impossible and thus cannot exist.

This column is not written for committed theists. If you think it is a “cardinal virtue” to proclaim belief in the unbelievable, you have excused yourself from intellectual discussion.

There is nothing to say to those who proclaim faith to be a virtue.

But for those outside the cult, a rational discussion of God’s existence can help us bury one of humanity’s oldest, most destructive fantasies.

The scientific method is the only reliable way to separate truth from fiction. If another method arose, it would demonstrate its reliability through repeated tests and falsifiable claims.

Reason validates itself. Others

can — at best — use reason to validate themselves.

For a theory to be considered valid, it must be logically consistent and empirically verifiable. First, it must make sense and then fit the facts.

If God is logically consistent but remains unseen, then we can remain agnostic until an amputee is healed.

But if God is logically inconsistent by definition, then he is as fictional as a square circle.

The Bible defines God as an omniscient, omnipotent entity — a definition with which any Christian, and most monotheists, would agree.

By definition, this God would know everything, including its future actions. But if it knows its future actions, it is powerless to change them and thus not all-powerful.

Therefore an all-knowing, allpowerful entity is a square circle.

An all-powerful being would —

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by definition — be capable of doing anything. There would be no lock it couldn’t pick.

By definition, an all-powerful being could create absolutely anything — including a lock even it could not pick.

To avoid this conundrum, there must be Daniel Morgan limits on what it Columnist could create or what it could do with its creations.

Either way, an all-powerful entity is a married bachelor.

It is theoretically possible gods exist outside the universe in a fantastic, undiscoverable realm where 2 + 2 = 5, existence equals nonexistence and error equals non-error.

But this is a God that would be completely unknowable to humans.

Divorced from our realm of reason, He could not perform miracles, care about your prayers or send His son to be brutally killed on a cross to cleanse you of a sin you never committed.

And any person who claimed knowledge of Him would be as mistaken as Muslims, Mormons, Scientologists, high priests of Tenochtitlan or the devotees of any of the other 10,000 gods humanity has invented throughout its history.

At best, God is an absolutely unknowable figure the intellectually honest cannot comprehend and thus cannot speak of.

When we subject our beliefs to reason and evidence, intellectual discourse and growth become possible.

When we assert nonfalsifiable opinions out of the necessity of a false virtue, we can only change the minds of others through propaganda.

The inspiration, explanation, consolation and exhortation-based

morality people value in religion has secular counterparts based on reality.

Science, philosophy and psychology have advanced far since the Bible was penned, and the confidence we place in the false certainty of our priests has shielded society from these advances like amber shielding a prehistoric mosquito.

Step outside of your cultural religion and view the world with curious rationality.

After all, it is only through reality we connect with others.

In fantasy, we are left within the lonely confines of our own imaginations.

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

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Pope, Catholic leaders unfairly pressure politicians The pope is one of the most influential people in the world.

He is the unquestioned head of one of the largest and oldest institutions on the planet, and to millions of Catholics, he is a living conduit to God. Generally, the pontiff uses his widespread influence to promote a Catholic social agenda, most commonly concerning the ever-raging abortion debate.

By speaking to his flock, he indirectly raises support for — or against — political policy.

But sometimes His Holiness takes a more direct approach.

Recently, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi met with the Holy Father in a very private meeting at the Vatican. The conference between the two was uncharacteristically sparse — the Vatican usually makes a show of visits by high-profile politicians and invites photographers and reporters to attend.

In this case, the two met for a

mere 15 minutes, in a session closed to the media.

The reason for the pope’s understated, low-profile approach to Pelosi’s visit is no secret. Pelosi, a Catholic, is also an unabashed abortion rights advocate.

During the meeting, the Bishop of Rome — who has repeatedly called for Catholics, especially those with political power to “create a just system of laws capable of protecting human life at all stages of development” — reminded Pelosi of the church’s belief in “the dignity of human life from conception to natural death.”

In short, the pope called Pelosi out for supporting a system that he believes — and he believes that she should believe — is murderous.

The pope’s cold reception of Pelosi is not novel. Some of his predecessors and Catholic leaders have historically criticized Catholic public figures for their support of abortion rights. Sometimes, these leaders call

for such politicians to be excommunicated or denied communion.

During his presidential bid, Sen. John Kerry faced heavy criticism from American bishops, who debated routinely to deny him communion.

In one case, devout CathoMatthew lic businessman Albright Douglas Kmiec, Columnist a staunch Republican who worked for Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, was denied communion after he publicly supported Barack Obama for president — despite his personal opposition to abortion rights.

The fatal flaw the pope and the bishops make when they pass such judgments on politicians is rooted in a misconception held by many anti-abortion rights advocates — especially of the religious variety. It is

rooted in a failure to separate support of abortion rights from personal preference.

A person can be against abortion but a supporter of abortion rights. In all of the cases mentioned previously, and for most Catholics who support abortion rights, the politicians were personally against abortion — they merely support the right of a woman to choose and support efforts to reduce or eliminate the number of abortions through non-legislative means.

It would be one thing if the Vatican were attempting to “correct” a Catholic politician’s stance on abortion if that stance had no qualms about the act of abortion itself. Catholic doctrine states that life begins at conception, and thus abortion is murder. This belief is perfectly valid and, most importantly, does not in any way affect non-Catholics – merely those that profess that particular faith.

However, by failing to remove

personal beliefs from the equation, and instead focusing on a politician’s stance on legislation to outlaw or limit abortions, the church is beginning to interfere in issues that affect non-Catholics as well as Catholics.

The church has no business dictating whether a politician who believes abortion should be halted by legislative means. It is absolutely legitimate for a person in power to believe that, although they may personally have qualms about abortion, using their power to curb its practice would be enforcing their views on an entire nation.

And that is a belief nobody — even the Pope — should try to dissuade.

Matthew Albright is a 20-year-old political science sophomore.

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LOUISIANIMAL

Pranks reveal deficit in execution, excess in legislation Any third grader could tell you how much fun prank calling a stranger is. But with modern technology, the same phone pranks we played as kids could have severe, potentially deadly consequences if action isn’t taken soon.

Modern phone spoofing applications, like iSpoof, can change caller ID numbers, disguise voices with a real-time voice changer, record and replay calls, and place calls straight to voicemails (resulting in a missed call without any actual ringing), among other things.

The application provides free, unlimited national and international calls with no registration required — provided calls are limited to two minutes and preceded by a nine second advertisement. The application also provides integration, which means it can incorporate user and victim telephone address books.

For example, as a 2006 Associated Press story noted, users can make calls to any number from any number, including typical favorites from the likes of Satan (666-6666666), pi (314-159-2653), Hollywood (555-555-5555) or Tommy Tutone (867-5309).

But the program isn’t all fun and games — it can sometimes lead to life-changing, even life-threatening consequences.

Though its intended use is aimed at law enforcement agencies, private investigators and collection agencies, it has been predictably abused by deceivers of various sorts.

Reportedly, thieves have used the service to activate stolen credit cards, hackers have used them to access celebrity voicemail boxes, telemarketers have used them to evade identification and pranksters have used them to disguise themselves.

An extreme example, called swatting, involves engineering a fake hostage situation by calling the police with a victim’s phone number.

This results in police officers bursting into innocent people’s homes — and has occurred hundreds Daniel Lumetta of times nationOpinion Editor wide.

In 2006, Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa, became the service’s most prominent victim. Prior to an upcoming election, his congressional office began receiving calls from constituents claiming they had received calls from Murphy’s office belittling Murphy. He later found out his telephone system had been hit by a flood attack cloaked by a spoofing service.

This technology has been around for some time, but the added danger lies in the unfamiliar ease with which the technology can now readily be applied. Caller ID spoofing technologies make it simple to bypass the appropriate equipment and experience previously required to engage in such deception.

As the AP noted, a solution to combat the problem exists, but revolves around a difficult and laborious process.

Lawmakers have also set their sights on the technology through legislation.

Murphy introduced a Senate bill making it illegal to pose as someone else to obtain phone records.

An Alaska state representative introduced a bill to make spoofing a misdemeanor.

Later, the FCC opened an investigation into caller ID spoofing

companies.

The evidently adverse public reaction against the service seemingly produced effective legislative action.

Accordingly, since the issue first gained notoriety in 2006, it has largely faded from public awareness. But awareness is only half the battle.

The public recognized a familiar political dance and closed the case on the issue.

Because, in politics, perception is reality. And as long as it looks like they’re cleaning up problems, then

everyone is happy.

Fraud is already illegal — by proposing and enacting similar legislation, politicians and the public accept the easy way out. Redundant legislation isn’t the answer, as Wired noted.

Because, hypothetically speaking, what’s to stop all iPhoners from iSpoofing state legislators right now?

If this legislation weren’t redundant and actually carried weight, then three years after legislation was

first proposed, the spoofing service wouldn’t still function with impunity.

Efficient government and execution of the law is what is necessary. Accountability is what is lacking — not legislation.

Daniel Lumetta is a 22-year-old mass communication senior from Metairie.

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