Obama aims for highest proportion of college grads by 2020, p. 3
Reveille Miles takes blame for Saturday’s error in clock management, p. 7
The Daily
Volume 115, Issue 31
Montgomery injured in Saturday’s game, p. 7
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Heisman Hype Businesses, students rally for Patrick Peterson to win Heisman Trophy
Catherine Threlkeld Staff Writer
The LSU campus has been abuzz with the prospect of having a second Heisman Trophy winner from the University. After a school record-setting 257 all-purpose yards in LSU’s football opener Sept. 4 against North Carolina, junior cornerback Patrick Peterson entered into conversation as a Heisman hopeful. “I don’t know the validity, honestly, of making a guy a Heisman Trophy candidate because that’s something that happens over the course of time,” said LSU coach Les Miles after the UNC game. “I would say, very honestly, that he had the kind of night tonight, on a national level, which would put him in line for any national award, including the very highest.” Peterson struck the famous Heisman pose in the end PETERSON, see page 15
photos by ZACH BREAUX and SARAH HUNT / The Daily Reveille
[Above] A student holds a cutout of Patrick Peterson doing the Heisman Trophy pose Saturday before the Tennessee game. [Right] A sign in front of Ninfa’s Mexican Restaurant on Constitution Avenue supports Peterson for the Heisman Trophy.
Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010
CRIME
Student arrested for rape, false ID Sarah Eddington Staff Writer
A University student was arrested Friday for rape and possession of fraudulent identification, according to an affidavit of probable cause obtained from the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office. An unnamed witness called the sheriff’s office Friday night after he saw Austin Lawley, 19, of West Laville Hall, committing what he believed to be a rape outside the witness’ East Baton Rouge apartment, the affidavit said. The witness reported seeing Lawley, who was partially nude, having oral sex with a partially naked woman on the hood of a black car. The witness said the unidentified female appeared to be in a stupor, the affidavit said. The witness said Lawley then moved the victim onto the ground and began to have vaginal intercourse with her while she appeared to be unconscious, the affidavit said. When the witness approached Lawley to ask him what was going on, Lawley said he was trying to ASSAULT, see page 15
FACULTY SENATE
Senator, provost urge campus involvement with lawmakers Property-naming policy revised Frederick Holl Staff Writer
Sen. Dan Claitor, R-Baton Rouge, and University Provost Jack Hamilton urged the campus community’s involvement in the budget crisis in the State Legislature at the Faculty Senate meeting Monday. Claitor told the assembled faculty senators he’s sympathetic to the budget crisis, but other members of the legislature and the
governor don’t have the state’s flagship university high on their list of priorities. “They have folks out there in the hither lands that don’t view LSU the same way you and I do,” Claitor said. But the University is important to the entire state, and it’s up to the University community to get that across, Claitor said. “The [state legislator] that says, ‘I ain’t got no LSU where I come from,’ needs to understand that LSU is important where he comes from,” Claitor said. Claitor said it’s time to stop arguing and start figuring out a way to get the attention
of legislators. “It’s not about who bleeds the most deep hue of purple, it’s about what we can do,” Claitor said. Claitor, who is an interim member of the Senate Finance Committee, also criticized the Jindal administration for not having a plan to help higher education at a committee meeting last week. “What was the Jindal administration’s plan for higher education and especially LSU, and what were we told? Zero,” Claitor said. But as the Jindal administration figures out a way to help the state’s universities, Claitor said BUDGET CUTS, see page 15
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Sen. Dan Claitor, R-Baton Rouge, speaks Monday to members of the Faculty Senate in the Student Union. Claitor said budget cuts are not the state government’s priority.