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Renovations to the MARS truck will allow students to bring space exploration to Louisiana schools from pre-K to high school.

Student organization renovates truck to visit schools and teach astronomy BY jose alejandro bastidas jbastidas@lsureveille.com A University student society hopes to inspire future generations to shoot for the stars using an old truck.

With funding from physics professor Gregory

Guzik’s research, the Society of Physics Students is renovating the Mobile Astronomy Resource System — MARS — truck to kickstart an outreach program aimed at teaching children and young adults about science.

see mars, page 11

Whether you get your information from live streams, TV shows, Twitter, fax machines or word of mouth, National Signing Day is a day of star gazing.

Just before you picked up or clicked the link to this issue, you probably read about a fourstar defensive end flipping his commitment to a rival school or watched a five-star quarterback decide to stay close to home. No names needed — just stars.

For fans and media members, recruiting revolves solely around stars.

We rank classes, project next year’s rankings and even award recruiting national championships based on star values. But what’s the value in a star? Is the difference between the No. 1 and No. 2 offensive guards that significant that they should be on different tiers?

Sometimes yes and sometimes no.

Regardless of whether a player is a five-star or a twostar, he’s still a player. He con-

see stars, page 11

Faculty

CMDA Dean strikes a chord with dedication to art

BY Emilie Hebert ehebert@lsureveille.com

The right side of the College of Music & Dramatic Arts Dean Todd Queen’s brain — the side associated with creativity — has little time to stay active lately.

But these days the left side of his brain — the side related to critical thinking — is doing double

the work, bombarding Queen with thoughts of organization, budgets and the lives of about 500 students.

Before Queen was named Dean of the College of Music & Dramatic Arts last April, he already boasted a successful opera career, participating in several regional companies and symphonies around the world.

Queen was 17 when he heard

his first opera. “[I] went and saw ‘Carmen’ my freshman year at BYU and came home that night and said, I want to be an opera singer,” he said.

Queen was thrilled to take the job at the University, which has one of the oldest university opera programs in the country.

He began his tenure as dean of the CMDA on July 1, 2014. He said

his first mission was to conduct one-on-one interviews with faculty and staff.

After nearly 100 discussions, Queen said he began restructuring the college to create a more united staff. He brought the faculty under a collective college umbrella instead of having isolated staffs for the School of Music and the Department of Theatre.

Queen then turned his focus to the students.

At a faculty retreat in January, talks of a curriculum change began. He wants a more flexible program that provides students multiple skill sets and embraces technology.

“The big question that we

see queen, page 11

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UK moves toward making babies from DNA of 3 people THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — Britain moved Tuesday toward allowing scientists to create humans from the DNA of three people.

The technology aims to liberate future generations from inherited diseases, but critics say it crosses a fundamental scientific boundary and could lead to “designer babies.”

The U.K.’s House of Commons voted 382-178 in favor of legislation to license these experiments. If approved in the House of Lords, Britain would become the world’s first nation to allow genetic modifications in human embryos.

“This is a bold step to take, but it is a considered and informed step,” Health Minister Jane Ellison told the Commons.

The technology is completely different from that used to create genetically modified foods, where scientists typically select individual genes to be transferred from one species into another. But critics say it crosses a red line, since changes made to embryos will be passed on to future generations, with the potential for unforeseen consequences.

While this legislation was drafted specifically to grant permission only for certain specified techniques, critics fear it will encourage scientists to push for other experiments in the future.

The protests are “about protecting children from the severe health risks of these unnecessary techniques and protecting everyone from the eugenic designer-baby future that will follow from this,” said David King, director of the secular watchdog group Human Genetics Alert.

The technology altering a human egg or embryo before transferring it into a mother with defects in her mitochondria, the energy-producing structures outside a cell’s nucleus. These genetic defects can result in diseases including muscular dystrophy, heart, kidney and liver failure and severe muscle weakness.

Scientists would remove the nucleus DNA from the egg of the prospective mother and insert it into a donor egg from which the nucleus DNA has been removed. The resulting embryo would have the nucleus DNA from its parents but the

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Members of Parliament backed mitochondrial donation techniques aimed at preventing serious inherited diseases Tuesday in London. mitochondrial DNA from the donor. This can be done two ways — before or after fertilization — in the techniques approved by the Commons.

Scientists say more than 99 percent of the DNA in the resulting child would come from its parents, with a tiny fraction coming from the donor egg.

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Britain has long been a leader in reproductive technology; the world’s first baby from in vitro fertilization, Louise Brown, was born in the U.K. in 1978.

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DENVER — Marijuana use by pregnant or nursing women might seem like a no-brainer of a bad idea, but a proposal in Colorado to step up such warnings is raising concern because of limited or inconclusive research on the dangers.

Pot users in Colorado and Washington already receive warnings that the drug shouldn’t be used by pregnant and nursing women. But a Colorado bill facing its first hearing Tuesday proposes going further by requiring pot shops to post signs saying that maternal marijuana use poses risks to unborn children.

“It’s important to have notification that there is risk,” said Republican Rep. Jack Tate, sponsor of the bill.

The proposal is controversial. Some pregnant women use marijuana to ease nausea, and a marijuana industry group fears the warnings don’t acknowledge limited research on pot use by mothers-to-be.

Tyler Henson, president of the Colorado Cannabis Chamber of Commerce, called the proposal “another attempt to discredit and ignore the popular public opinion of

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A Colorado health report issued this week notes that marijuana’s psychoactive ingredient, THC, is passed to children through the placenta and breast milk. But the doctors who compiled the survey of existing research also noted that the health consequences of that THC exposure aren’t fully understood.

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Honors College student gives back through ESL tutoring BY rose velazquez rvelazquez@lsureveille.com Biochemistry freshman Florencia Scaglia Drusini said she can remember what adapting to a new language was like after moving to the U.S. from Uruguay. That’s why she decided to become an English as a Second Language tutor for students in the East Baton Rouge Parish School System.

“I was about 3 when I moved to the United States, and I remember being helped as a young child,” Scaglia Drusini said. “I just wanted to give these kids the same opportunity and be a part of it like someone helped me when I was younger.”

The Roger Hadfield Ogden Honors College began recruiting students as ESL tutors in August 2014 after being contacted by EBRPSS to address the increase in unattended minors coming from Central American countries.

“Basically, their parents were sending them up here because of the violence, and specifically in Guatemala and Honduras, and there have been a lot of students that have come into the East Baton Rouge Parish School

System,” said Honors College Associate Dean Granger Babcock.

“They needed help with this.”

The Honors College worked with EBRPSS on a similar project two years ago and welcomed the opportunity to fulfill a need in the community, Babcock said.

EBRPSS coordinator of instruction for English language learners Tassin Idewu said the need for ESL instructors has varied over the years, but this school year, there was a greater need than in previous years.

“Sometimes, it’s very difficult for teachers to give the extra support that’s needed in the classroom when they have a classroom of 30 kids,” Idewu said.

Even though the rush of incoming ESL students has calmed down since the fall 2014 semester, the need for tutors remains, Idewu said.

Being a tutor gives Honors College students an opportunity to give back to their community and allows students studying Spanish or working toward a degree in education to practice their skills and understand how to work with those who have special instructional needs,

Babcock said.

“They also get a chance to learn about students from another community and students who are basically coming here unattended. They get to learn about their situation,” Babcock said. “It sort of expands their horizons.”

After going through an orientation process, showing them tips and strategies for teaching and communicating with ESL students, tutors work with students on basic assignments like vocabulary and understanding the English alphabet and its sounds, Idewu said.

Tutors are taught simple tactics for working with ESL students like slowing their speech, using visuals and engaging students in hands-on activities.

Scaglia Drusini works with a group of sixth grade students from Westdale Middle School during their English class, which is currently focused on developing vocabulary and reading comprehension skills. She is fluent in Spanish and is able to point out key words and phrases to students that may be more difficult for them to understand.

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Biochemistry freshman Florencia Scaglia Drusini volunteers as an English as a Second Language tutor in East Baton Rouge Parish public schools. when they understood something that they didn’t understand before and getting to experience these Central American kids who obviously have a passion to learn,” Scaglia Drusini said.

Scaglia Drusini said when she works with students, they often allow her to help them with a few examples before asking to try applying a concept on their own. She said it’s refreshing to see young students who are so

determined to learn.

While it is beneficial for tutors to be able to speak Spanish, it is not a required qualification, Idewu said.

“It helps if a student is bilingual, but it is not necessary that you speak the language of the student that you’re working with,” Idewu said. “As long as you take the time to use visuals or just to point out, just to simplify the instructions, it helps.”

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Smash Club hosts tournaments, workshops for Nintendo BY william taylor potter wpotter@lsureveille.com

Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. series is considered a game among most students, but some spend hours honing their skills on the joystick.

The University’s Smash Club is hosting a tournament as part of its monthly competition series in the Atchafalaya Room of the Student Union on Saturday.

Doors will open around 11:30 a.m. with the final competition ending between 10-11 p.m.

Smash pits two players against each other in attempt to knock the player out as their favorite video game characters.

The matches can be governed by time and lives, and players can use a variety of items as weapons.

The club is also putting on a workshop Thursday from 5-10 p.m. in 117 Tureaud Hall. The events are geared towards expanding the Super Smash Bros. community, said communication studies sophomore and club president Tyler Causey.

“We’re trying to get our message out to everyone that wants to hear,” Causey said. “We’re always trying to advertise and do everything we can to grow Smash. We love the game, and we don’t want to see it die out.”

Smash has been growing on college campuses, particularly in the Northeast, Causey said.

He hopes to see participation increase on southern campuses as well.

Causey is anticipating 50 to 60 entrants for the tournament. The event is split into different versions of the game with separate brackets.

The events draw diverse crowds, Causey said. The competitive Smash community covers a broad range of personalities.

“You see people come from all different walks of life,” Causey said. “There are diverse social groups that come together just for the love of the game.”

Though the competitors are typically well-behaved, Causey said there are moments when members get a little intense.

“There’s not much on the line, so it has a relaxed and fun atmosphere,” Causey said. “There’s always going to be competitive moments. There’s going to be moments when people get hype, and people will feed off of those responses.”

Members are still able to compete after elimination, and the club has areas set up for friendly matches while the tournament continues.

Both the workshops and the tournaments provide members with opportunities to improve, Causey said. It allows them to meet others who can help them learn the game.

“It really is a communal experience,” Causey said. “You experience all kinds of different ways to experience the game.

No two people are going to play the same.”

The workshops are not the only way for students to learn the game, Causey said. He and other members are available to teach anyone interested.

Training typically focuses on teaching strategy and advanced techniques that beginners may not know about. Causey said the skills depend on what character a person uses and the game played.

“The character that you start playing with the most influences how you view the game,” Causey said. “That influences how you play with other characters too, even if they don’t handle the same.”

Though club members try to help each other whenever possible, Causey said their friendliness does not stop them from being competitive.

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“We’ve never had anyone go violent or just screaming expletives,” Causey said. “There are times when a player will get salty, and that happens pretty often.”

The competition gets fierce, but they still enjoy recruiting new members, Causey said.

Expanding the community is a priority.

Causey said their rule is almost the opposite of Fight Club.

“I would say that the first thing is to talk about Smash Club,” Causey said. “We’re always trying to tell people about it and get the word out.”

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Students can nap in Middleton with no penalty gathered around him taking photos as he was stretched out in a chair, said Brittany Jackson, Each level of Middleton Li- pre-pharmacy sophomore.

“It was pretty funny, but he brary is quieter than the one below, and with soft chairs on ev- was unbothered just sleeping ery floor, students may find the his life away,” Jackson said. building to be a good place to “But I’ve never fallen asleep rest their eyes between classes in there. I’ve spent long nights in there, but I’ve never fallen and before exams.

Director of Library Commu- asleep in there.”

The library opened its botnications and Publications Sigrid Kelsey said Middleton has tom floor 24/5 this school year, no policy about students sleep- allowing anyone with a Tiing at desks or among the rows ger Card to stay in Middleton overnight. of books.

During the library’s extend“I think we had to ask someone to move that was sleeping at ed hours, most people have been a computer once and taking up in the building between mida space, but no, I don’t think it’s night and 3 a.m., Kelsey said.

Mitch Fontenot, information a problem,” Kelsey said. “I’ve worked in three college librar- literacy and outreach services ies, and I think it kind of goes librarian, said he has never along with being a college stu- had to wake up any sleepers in the library and didn’t think dent.”

Petroleum engineering people slept in the library very sophomore Zachary Clay said often.

“There was once a gentlehe fell asleep for a few hours on the second floor one morn- man who we believe was homeing last semester before he took less. He was out on a bench there for a significant his chemisstretch of time,” Fontry final. He ‘I’ve worked in three tenot said. “I don’t put his head college libraries, and think I’ve ever woken down on his I think it kind of goes up anyone who fell desk and got some shut along with being a college asleep at a computer student.’ and so forth.” eye.

Middleton Library “I was at sigrid kelsey, is one of few libraries the library at 11 a.m. the director of Library Communications in the Southeastern Conference availand Publications day before, able to students for and I had 24 hours a day. Texas studied all day and all night,” Clay said. “I A&M University’s on-campus passed [out] from like 5 a.m. to library is open 24/5, and the 8 a.m. I woke up in the library University of Alabama’s is and had to go take my test. My open until 2 a.m., according friend didn’t say anything, he to both school’s websites. The University of Mississippi’s lijust let me sleep.”

Once, an older man fell asleep brary is also open until 2 a.m. in the library, and students on weekdays.

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ResLife uses new matching service

BY Carrie grace henderson chenderson@lsureveille.com As many students know firsthand, sometimes roommates just don’t mesh. But with Residential Life’s new matching service, a few clicks of a mouse could ensure a more favorable outcome.

StarRez, the University’s new vendor for housing, is operating and handling everything from housing applications to roommate matching, said Catherine David, associate director of communications and development for ResLife.

Upperclassmen may remember a similar service offered to them when they first applied for housing, but the service was not available to incoming freshmen and students who returned to oncampus housing in fall 2014.

“We’d offered it previous to that a year or two, and then we just didn’t go back with that vendor,” David said. “We were trying to get a new vendor up and running, and it didn’t come to fruition last year.”

Biological engineering freshman Andre Miller said he would use the service to find a roommate if he lives on campus again next fall but did not think the matching would be foolproof.

“Some things even a roommate selective service wouldn’t really catch,” Miller said. “If you have a roommate that’s bad with drugs, I don’t think you would be able to know that.”

Incoming freshmen who have begun the application process can fill out a short questionnaire to find students with similar likes and interests.

The program is set to go live for current students Feb. 11, according to the ResLife website.

“It just asks them about their likes and dislikes, schedules, routines, things like that,” David said.

“We have it scheduled to go live for [current students] next week, and so we’ll email them so they can hop on there and try to find roommates.”

For incoming students who indicated a certain type of housing on their initial application, the

program will match them with others in the specified residence hall.

According to the StarRez website, students can search eligible roommates, view their lifestyle profiles and message one another.

The previous service matched athletic training sophomore Terradys Bonney with her roommate in McVoy Hall her freshman year.

“I live off campus now, and she goes to a different school, but she still comes and visits,”

Bonney said. “I would definitely use it again if I didn’t know people I was going to live with.”

Returning students will have from Feb. 11-18 to begin their application and search for roommates before the contract renewal dates, and all roommate requests must be mutual to be honored.

Students who want to live in East or West Campus Apartments will renew from Feb. 23-26, and those who want to live in residence halls will renew from March 9-13.

What do you think about a roommate matching service?

‘I would definitely use it again if I didn’t know people I was going to live with.’

Terradys bonney athletic training sophomore

‘Some things even a roommate selective service wouldn’t really catch.’

andre miller biological engineering freshman

‘I think it’s really helpful because when I’m moving to The Exchange next semester, I’m not going to know anybody. So, having a roommate matching service would be really helpful.’ michaela guillaume marketing sophomore

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Kurpius a finalist in Missouri School of Journalism dean search BY chandler rome editor@lsureveille.com The Missouri School of Journalism announced its four finalists in its search for a new dean Monday, and a University vice chancellor is among those still in contention. kurpius David Kurpius, Associate Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Management at the University, will be on

the Columbia, Missouri, campus from Feb. 15-18 for interviews and will participate in an open forum on the Missouri campus, according to the Missouri School of Journalism’s website.

Kurpius came to the University in 1997 as an assistant professor of journalism at the Manship School of Mass Communication. He became a tenured professor in 2003 and in May of that year, became the interim director of Student Media, a position he held until 2005.

In 2005, Kurpius was named

the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Admissions at the Manship School, where he served for five years before taking his current title in 2010.

Kurpius received his bachelor’s degree from Indiana, followed by a master’s degree and Ph.D from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Loyola University’s Sonya Forte Duhé, Missouri’s Esther Thorson and Kent State’s Thor Wasbotten are the other three finalists for the position.

Interviews for all four candidates are scheduled through Feb. 28.

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SEC standings in log jam behind Kentucky

Once-dormant conference has new life

BY JAMES BEWERS and DAVID GRAY jbewers@lsureveille.com dgray@lsureveille.com

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LSU sophomore catcher Sahvanna Jaquish (left), sophomore pitcher Baylee Corbello (center) and sophomore outfielder Bailey Landry look forward to their start of the Lady Tigers softball season on Friday at Tiger Park.

THE SEQUEL Trio of sophomores looks to continue success from freshman season BY jack woods | jwoods@lsureveille.com In many cases, freshmen brought in to a team aren’t expected to contribute right away. They are given the chance to grow for the future before being thrust into action.

This wasn’t the case on the LSU softball team last season.

As a freshman, pitcher Baylee Corbello, outfielder Bailey Landry and infielder Sahvanna Jaquish needed to stand out in 2014. They did, and now, they are aiming to sustain that success during their sophomore campaigns.

LSU coach Beth Torina said the achievements from last season’s freshmen have provided

reasons to be optimistic about the future.

“Some big things out of that freshman class really made us excited about what was to come,” Torina said.

Corbello quickly became a name the team could count on in the circle. She compiled a 19-9 record, 188 strikeouts and a 3.16 ERA. Corbello started in, appeared in and went the distance in more games than any other LSU pitcher last season.

Landry said she knew she faced an uphill battle to earn a starting position and gain significant playing time.

“I came in and, I definitely wanted to earn a

see sophomores, page 7

The Southeastern Conference is more than just No. 1 Kentucky.

Entering this season, the national perception of the football-dominated league was that the uber-talented Wildcats would storm through the competition on their way to a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

Kentucky has lived up to the hype, but others in the SEC have awoken, giving the oncedormant basketball conference new life and relevance.

Entering Tuesday’s round of games, Kentucky sat atop the SEC at 8-0. Just behind the Wildcats was surprising Texas A&M, but following the Aggies was a cluster of teams — six squads were tied for third in the SEC at 5-3, including LSU. With nearly half the conference season over, it’s time to see how the top teams in the SEC have performed this season.

Kentucky (21-0, 8-0 SEC): Kentucky coach John Calipari has pieced together one of the most talented teams in recent memory — nine former

see standings, page 6

men’s basketball

Tigers experience close calls, feel prepared for tight games BY david gray dgray@lsureveille.com Not all teams can properly manage close games.

When every possession becomes more important than the last, some teams wither away, while the others find ways to win.

The LSU men’s basketball team has played in those scenarios plenty this season, mostly coming out on top.

“It’s certainly safe to say we’ve been battletested,” said junior guard Keith Hornsby.

The Tigers (16-5, 5-3 Southeastern Conference)

have played 21 games this season, but only eight of those were decided by more than 10 points and with little headache.

LSU’s 13 other games were seemingly determined by a few timely buckets, a momentumswinging run near the end and whether the Tigers or their opponents made crunch-time mistakes.

LSU has mostly survived those battles, going 8-5 in games determined by less than 10 points.

As much as he’d like to see his team win more comfortably, sophomore forward Jordan Mickey

said playing in tight ball games is a necessary evil the team must endure and overcome if it hopes to contend in March.

“You need some close games like that to see who you can count on in the end and what they can do,” Mickey said. “These close games have helped us out, and they’ll help us more in the long run.”

But when the games are tighter, LSU has turned up its play. In games decided by five points or less, the Tigers are 5-2. No other team in the SEC has more

see experience, page 7

LSU sophomore forward Jarell Martin (1) dribbles past an opponent during the Tigers’ 64-58 victory against South Carolina on Jan. 28 at the PMAC. Javier Fernández /

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Team sustains success with emphasis to physical fitness BY christian boutwell cboutwell@lsureveille.com The No. 3 LSU gymnastics team has figured out the most important element to sustaining success this season after its season-high team finish of 197.425 at the Metroplex Challenge on Jan. 31 — physical fitness.

Paying attention to detail is something LSU has found to be important in its progress this season. The Tigers benefit from being comfortable with their physical fitness and being able to solely focus on their technical details.

“We are on the right track,” said LSU senior all-arounder Rheagan Courville, who is second in LSU history with 23 career all-around titles. “We can use this past weekend to get better. There is nothing major that we need to fix, we just need to work on details. We have so much trust in each other that we can put any one person on an event and feel comfortable with that decision.”

Courville said she believes maintaining flexibility, strength

standings, from page 5 McDonald’s All-Americans on a 16-man roster. The result has been the nation’s most intimidating defense. With enough length and athletic ability to make any NBA scout drool, the Wildcats lead the nation in field goal percentage defense at 32.6 percent and are second in points allowed per game with 50.7. Kentucky also leads the nation in scoring margin at plus-23.4 points per game.

Texas A&M (15-5, 6-2 SEC): The Aggies may be as hot as any team in the SEC. Since losing a double-overtime thriller, 70-64, to Kentucky on Jan. 10, Texas A&M reeled off six consecutive wins going into its tilt against Ole Miss on Tuesday.

One of those victories came against LSU, which lost despite holding a 13-point, second-half lead against the Aggies. But Texas A&M will be tested plenty down the stretch. Six of the Aggies’ last 10 opponents had a 5-3 record after eight SEC games.

Arkansas (16-5, 5-3 SEC): Arkansas leads the SEC and ranks 12th in the nation in points per game at 80.4. However, the Razorbacks have cooled off recently. In its last three games, Arkansas has failed to crack the 70-point mark, including a 57-56 loss to Florida on Jan. 31. But the Razorbacks still sit behind Kentucky as the SEC’s second-highest RPI team (No. 22) with three top-50 RPI wins against SMU, Dayton and Georgia.

LSU (16-5, 5-3 SEC): The Tigers are still trying to put the pieces together, but

and endurance throughout the season will continue helping the Tigers develop as a team.

“We have a goal to be the most prepared team, the most fit team,” Courville said. “We have a terrific program that works for us in order to keep our flexibility and strength all at the same time.”

The team follows a weekly schedule alternating between core work, circuit training and yoga to keep themselves as to being the most fit team in collegiate gymnastics.

“Every Sunday and Wednesday mornings, the team gets together to do yoga,” Courville said.

“Followed by circuit training every Monday, which consists of a lot of abs and drills that really help for each event. It is not a lot of running or pounding. It is just enough for us to stay in shape.”

The Tigers have to stay smart about how much physical exhaustion they put themselves through this season. LSU coach D-D Breaux knows how important it is for her team to be physically

conditioned to stay on pace for the expectations she has set for her team this year.

“It is critical,” Breaux said.

“We cannot at any point let what we are doing with our yoga program and the program we have with our condition coach be confused with what we do in the gym. [Physical fitness] is just as important as to what we do with our nutritionists, academic counselors and coaches here on the apparatus.”

Breaux has seen what a physically conditioned team can bring to the national championship competition. During her term at LSU, Breaux has accumulated 10 individual national titles, 146 All-American honors, 116 Scholastic All-Americans and 54 All-Southeastern Conference awards.

“Their physical fitness is by far the most important part of what we are doing right now,” Breaux said.

they’ve enjoyed some success along the way. LSU is second behind Kentucky in the SEC with four top-50 RPI wins, including a 74-73 victory at No. 15 West Virginia in early December. But two crushing losses to lowly Missouri (No. 153 in RPI) and Mississippi State (No. 183) could prove fatal to the Tigers’ tournament hopes if they can’t string together some wins before the end of SEC play.

but they also have a signature win against No. 22 Butler. But after a promising 4-1 start in league play, Tennessee has dropped two of its last three games. With a home-andhome against LSU, trips to Ole Miss and Georgia and a home matchup with Kentucky still on the horizon, the Vols have their work cut out the rest of the way.

Georgia (14-6, 5-3 SEC): After five straight league wins, Mark Fox’s club took a step backward in a 17-point road loss to once-sliding South Carolina on Jan. 31. Despite an experienced roster and a No. 27 RPI ranking, the Bulldogs are currently without senior leading-scorer Marcus Thornton, who is battling concussion symptoms. With an unranked Seton Hall being the most quality nonconference win, there’s not much room for error in Athens during SEC play.

Ole Miss (14-7, 5-3 SEC): Much like the rest of the conference, the Rebels are a difficult team to figure out. Ole Miss coach Andy Kennedy has the best free throw shooting team in the nation to go with an experienced roster. Still, Ole Miss’ only top-50 RPI wins were against unranked Cincinnati and Arkansas, but it does get four of its toughest remaining games — Texas A&M, Arkansas, Tennessee and Georgia — at home.

Tennessee (13-7, 5-3 SEC): The Volunteers have one bad loss — an eight-point defeat to a Marquette with a 1011 record — on their resume,

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Florida (12-9, 5-3 SEC): This isn’t one of Billy Donovan’s championship teams of old, but a top-20 strength of schedule could have a lot to do with early-season struggles.

But the Gators have rebounded from losses to Georgia, LSU and Ole Miss by collecting wins at Alabama and against Arkansas. However, Florida still plays both Kentucky and Texas A&M twice and LSU once more before the SEC Tournament.

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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 But there have been times this season when 40 minutes wasn’t enough for LSU and its opponents to settle things. The Tigers have played four overtime games this season, which tops the conference, and are 3-1 in those games. No other team in the league has been tested in overtime more than twice.

However, those extra lessons in highly-contested games didn’t benefit the Tigers much during their 73-67 loss to Mississippi State on Jan. 31.

The Tigers led the Bulldogs, 57-54, with 4:18 to go. But a

experience, from page 5 than four such wins, and eight have records of .500 or less.

While other squads may fret in those situations, sophomore forward Jarell Martin said his team looks forward to them.

“I feel like we’re calm because we know what we have to do to get the victory,” Martin said. “We’re not trying to put any pressure over our heads.

It’s just go out there and do it. Everybody knows how important it is, so we go out and play together.”

The Daily Reveille quick 6-0 spurt by Mississippi State changed the game’s complexion, and battle-tested LSU couldn’t respond to the late challenge.

Hornsby said LSU may have looked past the feisty Bulldogs, something he added can’t occur again.

“Honestly, I feel like we might’ve [overlooked Mississippi St.] a little bit, and that just can’t happen,” Hornsby said.

“Not in this league. It showed and we can’t do that, especially on the road. Hopefully, another lesson learned in that category.”

page 7 The Tigers will have plenty of time to make up for the puzzling loss to the Bulldogs. LSU has 10 SEC games remaining in the regular season, and a paramount three-game homestand is next on the horizon.

Every game is meaningful now, said sophomore guard Tim Quarterman, and the Tigers can’t afford to look past any team no matter the record.

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“Down the line, it gets even harder and even rougher,” Quarterman said. “Just being in those situations where you know what to do with six seconds left on the clock or the final possession of the game. Being experienced helps, and since we’ve been in it multiple times, we have that experience when the time comes again.”

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sophomores, from page 5 starting spot,” Landry said. “I definitely knew that I had my work cut out for me, and I feel like my results were really well.”

The result of the work was 43 hits and a .368 batting average, best on the team per 100 at bats.

During her freshman season, Jaquish hit 17 home runs to break the team’s single-season record. She also finished with the highest slugging percentage, most total bases and most RBIs on the team.

The trio’s achievements didn’t go unnoticed. All three players were named to the Southeastern Conference AllFreshman Team, and Jaquish went on to be named first team All-SEC and second team AllAmerican.

With all three players making waves the opposition can’t ignore, they’re tasked with the challenge to perform again this season.

Torina said her sophomores face pressure they didn’t see last season because people will recognize the once unfamiliar names on the lineup. Now, the opposition is familiar with them, Torina said the sophomores must work on their weaknesses and develop them into strengths.

Corbello is aiming to do this by working not only on her pitching but also her mental game.

“I’ve been working on getting stronger and more spins and a different strikeout pitch other than a changeup,” Corbello said.

“But I feel like my mental game, the entire approach to the game, has changed and [I stopped] giving the batters so much credit.”

Jaquish said she is focusing on maintaining the high level of play she displayed throughout last season.

“Now that they know my strengths and my weaknesses, I feel like I just have to perform to my best ability and just play the game that I’ve always played,” Jaquish said.

The team will be tested, playing 24 games against teams ranked in the National Fastpitch Coaches Association preseason top 25 poll, but Torina is confident that her sophomores are ready to go, and they’ll be successful again this spring.

“I think they’re prepared and they’re ready ... They’re so talented, they’re going to succeed,” Torina said.

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THE CERULEAN CONCILIATOR JUSTIN DICHARIA Columnist A plane disappeared in the Pacific Ocean, and I woke up to CNN “breaking” the news on conspiracy theories for months.

A dud of a snowstorm hit New York, and panic-inducing news coverage exaggerated it to apocalyptic lengths.

Michelle Obama chose not to wear a headscarf in Saudi Arabia, and the media became the political fashion police.

To American news networks, if a story bleeds, it leads. And if it doesn’t bleed, just stab it until it does.

As cable television and the Internet gained ground in the 1990s and 2000s, broadcast television news programs lost large percentages of viewers, and newspaper circulation declined rapidly.

Americans stopped watching Walter Cronkite and tuned in to Bill O’Reilly or Bill Maher.

They canceled subscriptions to The New York Times and The

Wall Street Journal and looked to Drudge Report or their local conservative wacko-fest, The Hayride.

The age of the politically moderate ended, and the age of extreme partisanship began.

When MSNBC and Fox News began airing shows like The Rachel Maddow Show and Hannity in a sly news-like format, the networks picked up partisan audiences, creating a bubble of political extremism.

When people are told what they want to hear, they keep going back for more, killing any chance for consuming a diversity of news coverage.

NBC, CBS, ABC and CNN found it difficult to hold viewers. Desperate times called for desperate measures.

Broadcast news began clawing and scratching for any story that would glue viewers to their programs. During the Malaysia Airlines fiasco in 2014, CNN’s viewership skyrocketed. Why cover hard news if covering a seemingly unsolvable mystery for months on end brings in millions of viewers?

While the news hysterically covered the missing plane, political pundits passed off their

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opinions as fact, and no one was there to correct them.

Budget cuts and layoffs at newspapers and broadcast media have muffled watchdog journalism’s bark. The only way to take off the muzzle is to increase media literacy among our citizens.

Americans need to differentiate between political pundits voicing opinion and news anchors reporting hard news.

Shepard Smith produces hard news on Fox News. Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity do not.

Bill Maher from HBO and Scott McKay from The Hayride do not produce hard news. They produce their opinions.

McKay, O’Reilly and Maher don’t mask their true identities as political commenters, but their viewers go to them for news anyway, which has only inflamed American political polarization.

Last week, McKay wrote a piece calling LSU students idiots for practicing their freedom of speech during Bobby Jindal’s prayer rally. McKay pointed to them, along with two of my fellow columnists, as the reasons why legislators will not

have a hard time cutting the University’s budget.

Quoting an angry citizen who believes the American Family Association’s hateful position on homosexuality and Islam are ideas protesters should relax about, McKay portrays LSU students as heathens who hate Christianity and support terrorists.

This is how pundits exacerbate the polarization and degradation of American political culture — they take their opinions, deflate the opposition and close the minds of their followers, keeping them in a perpetual loop of identical political ideas.

McKay fails to mention that the University Presbyterian Church held its own prayer gathering in opposition to Jindal’s politically motivated rally. He fails to mention that the Unitarian Church also prayed outside of the PMAC in opposition.

The AFA creates propaganda that does a shoddy job of differentiating devout Muslims from radical Islamist terrorists. McKay chooses not to mention that protesters held signs opposing Islamophobia, not defending radical Islam.

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Commentators like McKay, O’Reilly, Maher and Rachel Maddow denounce opposing opinions as idiotic, digging deeper holes in a faltering political culture.

I do not produce hard news.

As a columnist, I write opinions, as blatantly stated on the letterhead. I synthesize facts and make a subjective argument.

But the front pages of The Daily Reveille allow readers to gather the facts in hard news pieces before they reach my column in the opinion section.

If you want news, read The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal or any other page of The Daily Reveille. If Americans continue to look for news on sites like The Hayride, which spews ultra-conservative propaganda, or MSNBC, which dispenses intensely liberal ideologies, the political climate will never cool down.

The flames of divisive and hateful politics will heat up and devour our nation.

Justin DiCharia is a 20-yearold mass communication junior from Slidell, Louisiana.

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Quote of the Day ‘I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.’

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‘SLUT: The Play’ brings new meaning to slut-shaming LSYOU, BUT DEFINITELY NOT ME LOGAN ANDERSON Columnist I was first called a slut in 8th grade.

I was waiting for the bus when a group of girls I didn’t recognize walked past me. One of them whispered something while staring at me, and the group began laughing.

As they passed me, one girl stopped, looked directly in my eyes and delivered the insult.

They continued walking, laughing to themselves over some joke I wasn’t in on.

It’s a strange feeling, being called a slut for the first time.

It felt even stranger to me because, at that point, I hadn’t had any male contact at all.

I was chubby, awkward, nerdy to a fault and kept to myself. I didn’t even have friends that were guys. I didn’t know what I did to earn the hateful label.

But among the hurt and confusion, I also felt another emotion — pride. At a time when Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie were championing the “slut” moniker for preteen girls everywhere, something about the label felt validating.

Even though it was meant as an insult, it made me feel like I must be doing something right.

These girls had noticed me, and maybe even envied me, because I apparently had sexual power I hadn’t yet realized.

The dance women do between feeling shamed by sexual insults and feeling empowered by them is the focus of “SLUT: The Play,” an indie show developed for middle schools, high schools and colleges that will be released later this month.

“Across the country, in middle schools, high schools and on college campuses, ‘slut’ is a word to live or die by,” says the show’s website, sluttheplay.com.

“It’s simultaneously a badge of honor and the scarlet letter — and young women everywhere struggle to walk the line.”

Developed by The Arts Effect All-Girl Theater Company, “SLUT: The Play” takes the true stories of young women across the country and combines them into a single narrative, telling the story of a high school girl who, after a drunken night out with friends, has to contend with the phrase and all it means.

The show, touted as “The Vagina Monologues for Millennials,” is gaining national attention for its message.

Accompanying the play itself is the “StopSlut” movement, a roundtable discussion created by the women who wrote the play. The discussion normally takes place after students have viewed the show, and gives them an opportunity to examine the way the word has affected their own lives.

LSU has a slut-shaming problem. The volatile mixture of Southern respectability politics and the “party hard” culture the University is known for has created an environment in which no woman is safe from

the label.

The term is used both viciously and teasingly, comes from both men and women, and goes so far as to label entire groups of people.

“Slut” is one of the most harmful words used to insult women. All at once, it reduces women to purely sexual creatures, shames them for having sexual desires, paints them as outcasts and forces them into the mold of a “loose woman.”

It doesn’t matter what the person the insult is hurled at has done. The term can be deployed by anyone at any time to make someone else feel like lesser than a person.

Students know that slutshaming is wrong. Progressive organizations such as Planned Parenthood, Feminist Campus and URGE: Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity have done everything in their power over the last few years to make sure that society understands the issue that accompany demonizing a woman for her sexual behavior.

But just because students know something is wrong doesn’t mean they’ll stop doing it.

Instead of just telling people that slut shaming is wrong, “SLUT” picks through the every iteration of the phrase — from shameful label to empowering symbol of female sexuality — and explains why people should think twice before tossing around the insult.

LSU could benefit from having “slut” broken down in real terms. “SLUT: The Play” may be able to help the campus stop using the term so nonchalantly, ultimately benefitting not just the women on campus, but the community as a whole.

I know that a play like this would have helped me immeasurably in 8th grade, and I know it could help women here at LSU, too.

Logan Anderson is a 21-yearold mass communication major from Houston, Texas.

You can reach her on Twitter @LoganD_Anderson.

Death penalty is archaic, cruel, unusual and should be abolished ENTITLED MILLENIAL cody sibley Columnist The Supreme Court is giving America another chance to start a conversation about the death penalty and hopefully abolish it for good.

The Court decided to hear a case from Oklahoma that could ban the use of midazolam, a drug some states use to sedate death row inmates before they execute them.

Most people argue that midazolam doesn’t actually sedate inmates.

Last year was the first time Oklahoma, or any part of the United States, used midazolam.

The inmate they used it on, Clayton Lockett, was reported clenching his teeth and writhing in agony. After about 40 minutes, he was declared dead from what appeared to be a heart attack.

Two other executions happened with this drug last year.

Both of those executions were also botched.

These three inmates were the guinea pigs for this failed experiment. They faced cruel and unusual punishment, and their Eighth Amendment right was violated.

If the Supreme Court finds midazolam unconstitutional, states like Oklahoma would either have to find another drug or abolish the death penalty altogether.

The most humane and rational thing to do would be getting rid of capital punishment.

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Demonstrators protest the death penalty Jan. 27 outside the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Studies from Death Penalty Focus and Death Penalty Information Center already have shown life in prison without parole is cheaper than execution.

Prosecutors seeking the death penalty often have to go through longer trials. The extended time increases the legal fees for both parties. For victims and their families, a longer trial also means it’ll take longer for them to make peace.

States that used this drug would have to find a new drug to sedate inmates. They’ll have to take valuable resources away from state programs in order to create a new sedation drug.

Instead of building new

roads or funding health care and education, money would be funneled into a drug to assist killing people.

Why not instead just invest in programs to rehabilitate criminals and halt crimes? That would create more productive members of society while also lowering crime rates.

More importantly, the death penalty is an archaic form of punishment with irreversible consequences.

According to a recent study by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, about four percent of people sentenced to death from 1973 to 2004 were

proven innocent.

Four percent is a small number, but that’s still 340 lives taken.

And those people don’t have the chance to be freed or get their lives back.

The death penalty also doesn’t deter crimes. People are still fighting and killing one another.

Harvard research showed that mass shootings have tripled since 2011. The threat of the death penalty clearly doesn’t stop anyone.

Look at New Orleans, one of the murder capitals of the world.

Louisiana supports and practices the death penalty, but we’re still one of the most dangerous states in the nation.

Globally, the United States is

consistently more dangerous than most of Europe. However, every European country except one doesn’t have capital punishment.

If the point of the death penalty is to deter crimes, it’s not doing a good job. And if the death penalty isn’t supposed to deter crimes, then what’s the point of having it?

Constitutionally, we’re supposed to be protected from cruel and unusual punishment. Maybe the death penalty wasn’t considered cruel and unusual back in the 19th and early-20th centuries.

But today, we have resources for mental health and an infrastructure that can keep people locked up for life. When we have all those resources available, the death penalty is barbaric.

Unless we’re talking about Hitler or Kim Jong Un, no one deserves the death penalty.

Most countries see it that way.

Nearly all of Europe, Canada, Australia, Mexico, Russia and parts of South America and Asia have abolished the death penalty.

America, on the other hand, stands with countries like Afghanistan, China, Iran and Iraq on this issue. We consider these countries to be archaic and inhumane, but we continue their custom of having the death penalty.

The death penalty is a barbaric practice that does more harm than good. It’s time for America to become civilized and do away with this law.

Cody Sibley is a 19-year-old mass communication freshman from Opelousas, Louisiana.

You can reach him on Twitter @CodySibley.

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“The main goal of the project is to promote [Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics],” said research associate Bethany Broekhoven. “We want to reach out to younger kids and make them see that science is fun.”

Society members will use the MARS truck to bring space exploration to Louisiana schools from pre-K to high school free of charge.

The MARS truck will carry a portable planetarium, telescopes the children can use, large projectors to show NASA videos and neat kits — small experiments the children can do themselves for a more hands-on experience, Broekhoven said. “[In] most of the outreach programs that I’ve gone to, the kids just sit there and watch while the people do the demos,” Broekhoven said. “With these neat kits we can actually have the kids involved. They do their own experiments, do their own little research and collect their own data. This makes the experience more special.”

The MARS truck was first introduced in 2004. Another institution had control of the truck, but the vehicle remained stationary for many years until Guzik’s team asked to bring it back to the University, Broekhoven said.

Physics junior Andrew Edmonston spent the last month helping with the renovation of the truck, building shelves where the equipment will be placed and replacing parts that were broken over time.

Physics seniors and SPS officers Jordan Ball and Sarah Morvant will collaborate with Guzik’s team to train club members on proper usage of the truck’s equipment. They also will coordinate with schools around the Baton Rouge area that are interested in having the truck visit their student body.

“I wanted to get involved in research, but the professors I asked didn’t have the funds or the space to let me on board,” Edmonston said. “Working on this truck will not only open more doors for me, but once it’s done we will be able to transport all kinds of equipment so we can give the kids experience with the awesomeness that is astronomy.”

The truck needs a headlight replaced before it can pass its inspection, but Edmonston and Broekhoven believe the vehicle will be up and running in less than two weeks.

Even though volunteering for the MARS truck is strictly for SPS members, Broekhoven said further funding in the future could expand the number of volunteers.

Morvant encourages students who are not physics majors but are interested in physics to join the student organization.

“We want people to spread the word about our program,” Broekhoven said. “We want to show kids that STEM fields are fun and not as hard as [some] think it is. People are willing to teach and educate you. We also want to make it a fun experience.”

tributed enough to his high school or junior college team to make recruiting services or coaches notice him. When one of the two notices, the other soon follows.

If the LSU coaching staff or any other sees enough potential in a player, regardless of star rankings, he has the opportunity to be elite in the college or pros. Out of the last five Heisman Trophy winners, only former Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston was a five-star recruit.

But that’s just the most prestigious award. Those highly-recruited five-star players probably fill out the All-American team, right?

Wrong.

On this past season’s AP All-American Team, only four players were five-star recruits on 247sports.com’s composite rankings. By comparison, one player was a two star — Arizo-

queen, from page 1 really all answered was ‘What are the needs of the 21st-century artist?’” Queen said. “What do we need to give our students? What kind of information, what kind of skills, what kind of experiences ... to make them successful in the 21st century?”

Theatre studies senior and president of the Undergraduate Theatre Alliance Jordan Campbell said previous deans have seemed more interested in the School of Music but Campbell notices Queen and the staff taking note of students’ complaints and suggestions.

“We’ve lost a lot of faculty, and it’s been this place of constant change in a lot of ways. There is this big sense that they’re setting everything up long-term,” Campbell said. “These seem to be really transitional years for the theatre

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na linebacker Scooby Wright — and two were unranked — Utah punter Tom Hackett and TCU linebacker Paul Dawson.

The stars don’t mean players are more NFL-ready than other prospects, either. Of the last seven Super Bowl MVPs, three were before the age of stars, three were three-star recruits and one, Seahawks linebacker Malcolm Smith, was the only four-star of the bunch.

These stars don’t matter, but bringing in as many highranked players as possible is crucial to a team’s success.

Southeastern Conference football has enjoyed one of the longest tenures of dominance in sports history over the last decade largely due to recruiting.

From 2012 to 2014, the conference signed 302 players ranked in the ESPN 300, almost 200 more than any other conference. In terms of the famous five-star recruits, 21 belong to the SEC while the rest of the

conferences have brought in 16 combined.

Of the last three season’s top five recruiting classes on ESPN.com, the SEC has 10 of the top 15 classes, with all three No. 1 classes belonging Alabama. In addition, Alabama had nine more ESPN 300 players on its roster last year than any other team. It’s proof that what’s important is the quantity of higher ranked players, not just a handful of highly touted prospects.

The stars don’t matter.

The difference between recruit No. 35 and No. 36 isn’t as vast as the difference between a five-star and a four-star sounds.

When the recruit’s name and star count appear on your Twitter feed or fax machine today, support them. Thank them for picking your team.

Most importantly, hope they put in as much time at developing what they do as those two and three-star All-Americans.

department, I think.”

Queen knows big changes require money. As the former chair of the Department of Music, Theatre and Dance for Colorado State University, he brought in more than $2 million in gifts and pledges.

He hopes to exceed this number at the University through fundraising trips and private donors. Though possible budget cuts threaten every college on campus, Queen said he will continue to make plans and hopes “they will figure it out.”

Piano pedagogy sophomore Kiersten Baker said Queen met with students during their recital hours and informed them of changes he was making.

“Charismatic guy. He sounded like he knew what he was doing,” Baker said.

She acknowledged the need for

new equipment, updates to some practice rooms and 24-hour keycard building access, but she is pleased with the initiatives Queen has taken so far.

Though Queen is not performing anymore, his artistic outlet is now running Opera Orvieto, an Italian summer opera festival for students.

Queen, whose wife is a Louisiana native, said the warm, welcoming nature of the South made his transition from Colorado easy and enjoyable.

“I married a Southern belle, so

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LSU freshman receiver Malachi Dupre (15) was one of the top recruits heading into National Signing Day last season.

Brian Pellerin is a 20-yearold mass communication junior from Kenner, Louisiana.

You can reach him on Twitter @Pellerin_TDR. I knew what I was getting myself into. I love the culture, love the food, love the people,” Queen said.

Future curriculum changes and more than 300 annual performances are exciting happenings in the CMDA, but Queen said the world-class faculty is the greatest resource the college offers. Queen hopes to put the University in the top tier of arts colleges.

“I expect our college to be one of the top recognized performing arts colleges in the nation,” Queen said. “That’s what LSU expects, and that’s what I expect.”

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