Today in Print - October 12, 2010

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Toliver, Lee share special bond on football field, p. 5

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Volume 115, Issue 36

Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010

Higher education budget to receive Drunk student most significant portion of state cuts STATE DISCRETIONARY FUNDS

Matthew Albright Staff Writer

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As public furor grows over the developing budget crisis, many students are left with one burning question: Why higher education?

The answer is a complicated one with no clear solution.

Because of a maze of budget restrictions, higher education — and thus the University — is being cut significantly more than other programs throughout the state.

The process for determining how the state distributes money starts with determining how much the state has to spend. That number is calculated by the Revenue Estimating Conference.

The conference includes Gov. Bobby Jindal, Senate President Joel Chaisson, Speaker of the House Jim Tucker and University economics professor James Richardson.

Those numbers are then compared to estimated state spending, as detailed by the state commissioner of administration, to determine the balance.

The state will have an estimated deficit of $1.6 billion next fiscal year. Because the state’s total budget this year is $25.5 billion, that’s a deficit of about 6 percent.

Louisiana law requires a balanced budget. Because Jindal and many influential state legislators have repeatedly said they will not raise taxes, the only way to find that

A University student was arrested Saturday night after drunkenly crashing into nine parked cars before slamming into Koi Sushi restaurant on 217 W. State St. Anne Wallace, 18, of 3004 Concord Place, Tyler, Texas, was arrested around midnight for DWI and failure to maintain control of her vehicle, said Cpl. L’Jean McKneely, Baton Rouge Police Department spokesman.

Darren Deng, Koi Sushi manager, said witnesses saw Wallace back up her vehicle at full speed, where she hit four cars. She then proceeded to drive forward into five more cars, Deng said.

Deng said Wallace drove into a parked truck with enough force to send the truck into the wall of the restaurant, and her car followed after.

The wreck put a 5-foot hole in the building and knocked down several concrete blocks

BUDGET CUTS, see page 11

DRUNK, see page 11

graphic by MATTHEW JACOBS / The Daily Reveille

Driver crashes into 9 parked cars Sarah Eddington Staff Writer

ADVOCACY

University students start protest organization Proud Students Group to march on Capitol on Nov. 10 Catherine Threlkeld Staff Writer

University students are finding their callings to fight against budget cuts in the new grassroots organization Proud Students.

Proud Students co-founder Bradley Wood said the name originated last semester when he was writing commentary about biology professor Dominique Homberger’s removal from teaching because of

students’ abnormally low grades.

Wood, biology and philosophy senior, said what started out as a sarcastic phrase to express disapproval for the University’s decision turned into actual pride for his education.

Wood and his girlfriend, biology senior Claiborne MacKnight, started the group when the contracts for the “foreign language 14” were not renewed. Wood and several other students went on a study abroad trip with German instructor Angelika Roy, one of the foreign language 14.

“When she was fired, it really hit me personally,” Wood said.

“That’s when we really decided to

do something more.”

Women’s and gender studies senior Hollis Carter went on the trip to Germany with Roy, and she said the professors have a big influence in her decisions after graduation.

Carter said her younger brother will not have the same opportunities she had because teachers are getting fired.

Proud Students’ first event was a “jazz funeral” march around the Parade Ground last Thursday. More than 300 faculty and students attended, and it garnered statewide and nationwide attention.

PROTEST, see page 11

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Bradley Wood, biology and philosophy senior and co-founder of student protest organization Proud Students, speaks Oct. 6 at the University of New Orleans.

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INTERNATIONAL 2 foreigners tied to adulterer stoning case arrested in Iran CAIRO (AP) — Iran said Monday it arrested two foreigners as they were interviewing the son of a woman whose death sentence by stoning on an adultery conviction ignited international outrage.

Judiciary spokesman Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi said the two foreigners had entered the country on tourist visas and did not have documents to prove they were journalists.

Dramatic end nears for 33 trapped Chilean miners after 2 months SAN JOSE MINE, Chile (AP) — They’ll come up one by one in green overalls bearing their names on their chests — first the fittest, then the weakest, twisting in a steel cage that proved itself with four flawless test runs deep into the earth.

The dramatic endgame hastened Monday for the 33 Chilean miners who have braved two

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Nation & World months underground, with rescuers reinforcing the escape shaft and the 13-foot-tall rescue chamber sliding, as planned, nearly all the way to the trapped men.

If all goes well, everything will be in place late Tuesday to begin pulling the men out, officials said.

The lead psychologist for the rescue team recommended the extractions begin at dawn Wednesday, but no official decision had been made.

On Monday, the Phoenix I capsule — the biggest of three built

by Chilean navy engineers, named for the mythic bird that rose from ashes — made its first test run after the top 180 feet of the shaft was encased in tubing, the rescue leader said.

Then the empty capsule was winched 2,000 feet, just 40 feet short of the shaft system that has been the miners’ refuge since an Aug. 5 collapse.

“We didn’t send it [all the way] down because we could risk that someone will jump in,” said Mining Minister Laurence Goldborne.

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NATIONAL

STATE/LOCAL

NYPD: Employee finds explosives while working in cemetery

Local officials continue oil spill fight with Coast Guard, BP

Lafayette man lying on tracks at night killed by train in Jennings

NEW YORK (AP) — Police say an employee doing gardening work dug up a garbage bag containing military-grade explosives at a historic Manhattan cemetery last year but left it at the site. It remained there until a volunteer told authorities about it on Monday.

Florida couple unknowingly buys real human skeleton at yard sale

(AP) — Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser says local officials continue to regularly fight with U.S. Coast Guard officials and BP representatives about the response to the Gulf oil spill.

Nungesser says oil continues to appear in the marshland and on the shores of his parish.

But Nungesser said Monday he’s concerned federal officials and oil giant BP PLC are trying to ratchet down the response efforts and equipment available for oil cleanup.

“We continue to fight more with the Coast Guard and BP than we do with the oil,” Nungesser told the Press Club of Baton Rouge.

Nungesser says he doesn’t think the federal government is better prepared to respond to another oil spill. He says there’s still not enough sense of urgency or a clear chain of command.

JENNINGS (AP) — Jennings police say a man lying on the railroad tracks at night was hit and killed by a train.

Police Chief Todd D’Albor told The American Press that 43-year-old Russell Anthony Carrier of Lafayette was hit about 2 a.m. Sunday by a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train.

Detective Jean Cooley said the conductor saw something on the tracks but was unable to stop.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida couple thought they were buying a Halloween decoration at a yard sale, but they actually bought a real human skeleton. Judith and Mitchell Fletcher paid $8 for what they thought was a box of scary holiday decorations.

When they got home, they realized they had bought real bones.

Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office detectives took the bones to the medical examiner, who determined they came from a professionally prepared human anatomical skeleton.

Judge orders pit bull killed for biting 12-year-old boy’s thigh THIBODAUX (AP) — A Lafourche Parish judge has ruled that a pit bull that bit a 12-year-old boy without provocation must die.

The dog named Duke bit the boy’s thigh Sept. 27 as he rode his bicycle in Larose. The boy’s mother, Jaime Estay, says her son underwent surgery at Children’s Hospital in New Orleans, and doctors expect a full recovery.

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Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser speaks Sept. 27 about the BP oil spill response and impacts at a National Commission on the BP Spill and Offshore Drilling meeting.

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FACULTY

BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY

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LIBRARIES

Ajmera Library extends hours named ECE to 2 a.m. for midterms interim dept. chair Sydni Dunn Staff Writer

Long-time professor replaces Aravena ADAM VACCARELLA / The Daily Reveille

East Baton Rouge Mayor-President Kip Holden speaks Monday at EBR Parish City Hall about the new “Gas For Guns” program to help lower crime in EBR parish.

Matthew Albright Staff Writer

The mayor’s office, law enforcement agencies and Circle K are joining forces to curb violent crime in the city by trading firearms for fuel.

East Baton Rouge MayorPresident Kip Holden announced Monday the “Gas for Guns” program, which provides Circle K gas cards worth $50 to $200 in exchange for unsecured guns with no questions asked.

“Unsecured guns can pose a real danger to the entire community,” Holden said in a news release. “Every year crimes are committed with unsecured guns that have been stolen or used without the owners’ permission.”

The program offers cards of increased value for bigger guns.

A handgun smaller than .380 caliber is worth $50, a .380 caliber or larger gun is worth $100 and an “assault style” rifle is worth $200.

The city is offering a total of $400,000 of gas, using funds provided by a donation from Circle K and matching state funds from police drug and asset seizures.

The guns can be traded in on Oct. 23 at four local churches: Greater Beech Grove Baptist Church, Mt. Zion First Baptist Church, Greater Sixty Aid Baptist Church and Healing Place Church.

The exchanges will occur from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. or until the gas cards run out.

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Officers will accept the guns without asking for names or how the weapons were acquired.

There is a two-gun maximum.

Other cities across the country, including Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., have pursued similar programs.

Those uncomfortable with turning in guns at one of the churches can call either the Baton Rouge Police Department or East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office for home pickup, although they will forfeit the gas cards.

“Getting illegal guns off the street is one step our community can take together to reduce violent crime in Baton Rouge,” District Attorney Hillar Moore said in the release. “Programs like this have been highly successful in other cities, and we hope anyone with an unsecured weapon will take advantage of this opportunity to turn it in.”

Professor Pratul Ajmera has been named interim chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Ajmera and computer engineering faculty were asked to consider serving as interim department chair after the death of former chair Jorge Aravena on Sept. 17.

Ajmera nominated himself for the position and was chosen by College of Engineering Dean Richard Koubek.

“Pratul brings many years of experience in the department and on Faculty Senate,” Koubek said in an e-mail to electrical and computer engineering faculty.

Ajmera received his bachelor’s degree in electronics and electrical communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India, and earned his master’s and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University in the ’70s.

Ajmera has taught in the University’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department since 1982.

“His awareness of the University operations, long ties with the alumni and keen interest in seeing the department move forward will serve us well as we navigate through what looks like quite challenging fiscal times,” Koubek said.

Contact Matthew Albright at malbright@lsureveille.com

Contact Julian Tate at jtate@lsureveille.com

Mayor, Circle K to offer ‘Gas for Guns’ No questions asked during exchange

Julian Tate

Middleton Library is helping to students prepare for midterm exams by extending its hours this week.

The library will stay open until 2 a.m. each day through early Friday morning.

Nancy Colyar, assistant dean of libraries, said the first and second floors of Middleton will be open late, but the rest of the library will continue to close at midnight.

Colyar said the Hill Memorial Library has also extended hours until 8 p.m. this week to accommodate student research.

“Other than finals week, this is our busiest week of the semester,” Colyar said. “We are pleased that we can provide students a place to study and use the computing labs in

a safe, quiet environment, especially while the Student Union is not fully reopened yet.”

CC’s Community Coffee House, located on the first floor, will remain open until its usual 11 p.m. closing time.

Student Government worked with the library in 2008 to extend hours until 2 a.m. permanently, but Middleton returned to the midnight closing time because of budget constraints.

SG passed a resolution the following year supporting extended hours during concentrated study periods such as midterm and final exams weeks.

Contact Sydni Dunn at sdunn@lsureveille.com

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OIL SPILL

Poll: Gulf Coast residents suffer emotionally after BP blowout LSU students not showing symptoms Nicholas Persac Contributing Writer

The April 20 BP well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico has not yet affected University students enough to make them seek counseling from the Student Health Center’s Mental Health Service, but one national poll found Gulf Coast residents are emotionally worse off after the BP accident.

“These findings provide supporting evidence of the need for enhanced psychological assistance for residents of Gulf Coast-facing counties, and for the targeting of these efforts to residents living along the coastline itself rather than all residents living in the affected

states,” a Gallup poll released Sept. Katrina-related stuff for a couple 28 indicated. of semesters,” Vincent said. “When Drayton Vincent, Mental the reality of how Katrina affected Health Service director at the Uni- peoples’ lives in the long term set versity, said none in, then we saw of his clients have some students come yet “identified the in around those isoil spill or ecosues. Same thing is nomic issues as a true with this situaproblem.” tion.”

Vincent said The Gallup poll students are likeused the Galluply still affected Healthways Emoby the oil disaster tional Health Index but may not come during the 15 weeks to Mental Health after the BP exploService until sion to measure the long-term efoverall decline in fects are seen and emotional health other avenues for among Gulf Coast Drayton Vincent relief — like talk- LSU Mental Health Service director residents. It meaing with family sured respondents and friends — are exhausted. before the accident, from Jan. 2 “When we went through to April 20, and after the blowout, [Hurricane] Katrina, we didn’t see from April 21 to Aug. 6.

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‘When the reality of how Katrina affected peoples’ lives in the long term set in, then we saw some students come in ... [the] same thing is true with this situation.’

“Residents of Gulf Coast-facing counties experienced a decline in their overall emotional health ... [while] those living in inland counties in the same Gulf of Mexico states showed no such drops in emotional health in the oil spill’s aftermath,” the poll says.

Gallup questioned residents about daily worries, stress, sadness and clinical depression. Gallup found these areas reporting 25 percent more clinical diagnoses of depression after the BP accident, and it found these residents had declining views of their communities after the oil spill.

“The magnitude of these worsening daily emotional experiences, however, may be more modest than some might expect, given the severity of the oil spill itself and the extensive damage to local communities,” Gallup indicated in its findings.

Gallup completed nearly 2,600 interviews in Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Texas and Louisiana, which included the parishes of Orleans, St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, St. Charles, Lafourche, Terrebonne, St. Mary, Iberia, Vermilion, Cameron and St. Tammany.

Mental Health Service aids students “in their personal growth and development and by enhancing their mental and emotional well-being,” according to the department’s website.

The Mental Health Service is accredited by the International Association of Counseling Services, Inc., and it is available to full-time students who paid the Student Health Center fee.

Contact Nicholas Persac at npersac@lsureveille.com

BUDGET CUTS

Faculty Senate launches letter-writing campaign Goal of program to increase mail to reps Sydni Dunn Staff Writer

The University’s Faculty Senate initiated a faculty letterwriting program last week in a grassroots effort to combat the ongoing budget ‘The crisis.

The camproblem we paign, which face is that kicked off the Oct. 4, is askeach facLegislature ing ulty member seems to to write at least underesti- two letters — to the legmate the one islator from impact their individual higher district and one the chair of education to the Louisiana has on all House or the Sencitizens.’ Louisiana ate Education Committee.

Kevin Cope Faculty Faculty Senate President Senate President Kevin Cope said sample letters were distributed at the recent Faculty Senate meeting and also posted to the Faculty Senate website.

“There are many reasons why this is effective,” Cope said.

“Attention on the crisis of higher education has been focused on the cities in which universities are located, but people live and have connections in all parts.”

The goal is to increase mail flow to senators and representatives, to extend the range of letterwriting and to highlight the fact that the University “belongs to everybody, and the faculty is concerned,” Cope said.

Cope also recognized the state is responsive to quantity, but

few letters have been sent.

Sen. Dan Claitor, R-Baton Rouge, said he received fewer than 10 letters and e-mails from the University’s faculty and students about cuts in funding.

“The letters to me amount to preaching to the choir,” Claitor said. “However, I am collecting them and intend to share with other legislators and the Governor’s Office, as appropriate.”

Claitor said there is no “best way” to communicate concern, but letters and e-mails are good.

He said letters to state-wide newspapers and the Governor’s Office are also effective.

“Appearances at the Capitol by those affected and other organized events bring attention to the matter as well,” Claitor added.

“It needs to be a multifaced campaign that alerts government that

LSU is important to voters.”

Cope said.

Cope said the faculty may “The governor is not behavonly be a small set of people but ing in a way that makes him a has the potential to make an im- presidential hopeful,” he said. pact as voters and “He is demontaxpayers, referstrating he is ONTACT YOUR ring to them as a barely qualified EGISLATOR “force to be reckto work in the oned with.” dog shelter, let Gov. Bobby Jindal: “The probalone run the 225-342-7015 lem we face is country.” that the Legis- Louisiana State Superintendent But the lature seems to faculty is not of Education Paul Pastorek: underestimate the only group 225-342-3602 the impact higher speaking out. education has on Cope comSen. Dan Claitor: all citizens,” he mended the stu225-342-2040 said. “But in this dent body for case, they are in EBR Mayor-President Kip Holden: its involvement, jeopardy if they noting the suc225-389-5203 don’t respond.” cess of the “jazz The state government is los- funeral” procession Thursday, ing legitimacy for not having the and he said the faculty “hopes University’s best interest at heart, the momentum will continue and

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produce a greater outpour.”

“Students are citizens as well as taxpayers and voters,” he said.

“I think students could have a double impact.”

Contact Sydni Dunn at sdunn@lsureveille.com

Sports

Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010

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Toliver’s Travels

Receiver Terrence Toliver and quarterback Jarrett Lee have special bond on field Rob Landry Sports Contributor

LSU senior wide receiver Terrence Toliver has been dreaming of this moment since high school.

Toliver, a five-star high-school recruit out of Hempstead, Texas, was torn between signing with Florida or LSU in 2007 when he saw another Tiger commitment play — Jarrett Lee. Though the two never squared off on the field in prep ball, they befriended each other during a recruiting trip to Baton Rouge and wanted to stick together.

“I just saw him in high school, the way he threw the ball, and I wanted a quarterback like that,” Toliver said.

Four years after their recruiting trip, the two connected again.

This time they etched their names in Tiger football lore when they hooked up Saturday on a 3-yard touchdown as time dwindled down to give LSU a 33-29 victory against Florida.

Toliver worked his way past Florida sophomore cornerback Jeremy Brown in the corner of the end zone on a fade route and lassoed Lee’s pass while tip-toeing inside the white lines to stay in bounds.

“I just felt like I didn’t want to be denied,” Toliver said.

LSU wide receivers coach and passing game coordinator Billy Gonzales had been telling Toliver all week to expect man-to-man coverage and even showed him extra videos of wide receivers beating the coverage.

“I took much pride in my preparation last week,” Toliver said. “I beat man-to-man coverage, and it worked out for the best.”

The Tigers appear to have found a go-to receiver in Toliver, who in the past two weeks has hauled in five fourth-quarter receptions for 84 yards and a touchdown.

Toliver’s recent clutch receptions have

PHIL SANDLIN / The Associated Press

LSU senior wide receiver Terrence Toliver runs past Florida junior cornerback Janoris Jenkins for a 38-yard TOLIVER, see page 7 touchdown pass Saturday during the first half of the Tigers’ game against the Gators in Gainesville, Fla.

SCHWEHMMING AROUND

How the call for the fake happened It’s hard to play Tuesday morning quarterback.

What do I say that hasn’t been said about last weekend’s Florida game? It’s been three days since the game, so it’s been dissected from start to finish.

LSU should have won by a lot more than it did.

Then again, LSU would have lost the game if it weren’t ANDY SCHWEHM for a fortuitous Sports columnist bounce of a ball that was nearly a forward pass.

Even if it were a closer game than needed, LSU wouldn’t have needed to score a touchdown if it weren’t for that stupid two-point conversion failure.

With the win, Les Miles and his coaching staff went from being more hated than BP in Louisiana to being slightly less hated than BP. It’s an improvement, I suppose.

All of these things have been said to some extent. The only thing that we may never fully know is what exactly went on in the minds of the coaching staff when it decided to call that fake field goal.

Can you imagine how that play call even came to be?

Think about it. We all know Josh Jasper can kick a 60-yard field goal if asked. A 53-yarder wouldn’t be that hard.

So why risk it? Why call a fake when you could kick the field goal?

If Jasper misses a field goal, FAKE, see page 7

FOOTBALL

Miles pleased with two-QB system Jefferson, Lee had more ‘swagger’ Sat. Rachel Whittaker Chief Sports Writer

Junior quarterback Jarrett Lee came through Saturday in the clutch against Florida and engineered the final four plays that won the game for LSU. LSU coach Les Miles said poise and leadership are integral at the quarterback spot, and he said he liked the way Lee and fellow junior Jordan Jefferson

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‘[Lee and Jefferson] are really pulling for the other, and both understand they each have a contribution that needs to be made.’

Les Miles

LSU football coach exhibited their skills in LSU’s 33-29 victory, except for Jefferson’s interception that led to a Florida touchdown.

“We are operating two quarterbacks in what appear to be the best possible scenarios,” Miles said Monday. “Both guys are really pulling for the other, and both understand they each have a contribution that needs to be made.”

Miles said offensive coordinator Gary Crowton is “doing a heck of a job” in deciding when to play Jefferson or Lee in games.

As far as how the rest of the

See a video of Miles’ press conference at lsureveille.com.

QUARTERBACKS, see page 7

SHAINA HUNTSBERRY / The Daily Reveille

LSU senior safety Jai Eugene (4), football coach Les Miles and freshman wide receiver Armand Williams celebrate Saturday after LSU’s win against Florida.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010

SEC

LSU expected to get Nevis, Jones win conference honors second 2011 recruit Luke Johnson

Sports Contributor

factor into his decision.

“He has a great relationship with those guys at LSU, and I’m sure they showed him a great time,” Daniels said.

Even as a highly touted reHunter Paniagua cruit, O’Bryant does not pose a Sports Contributor risk to make an early jump to the LSU’s men’s basketball re- NBA, Daniels said. He still has cruiting class of 2011 may only things to improve before he can have one member at the mo- make the professional leap. ment, but the Tigers could see a “He’s certainly got the posubstantial increase in the class’ tential to be an early leave kind of quality by the end of the week. guy,” Daniels said. “But he needs Scout.com recruiting ana- to find a balance position-wise, lyst Evan Daniels and I think he said elite power needs to continue forward Johnny his post skills and O’Bryant will ofget better at scorficially announce ing inside.” his commitment O’Bryant Thursday, and would join threeLSU ranks high star shooting on his list. guard John Isaac “Johnny has as the Tigers’ secapparently made ond commitment his decision but from the class of hasn’t gone pub2011. Isaac comEvan Daniels lic with it,” Danmitted to LSU in Scout.com recruiting analyst iels said. “EvMarch 2009 but eryone seems to missed his entire think that LSU is in pretty good junior season because of a torn shape.”

ACL. Rivals.com reported last Even though the class lacks week that O’Bryant will com- quantity, the addition of O’Bryant mit to LSU, choosing the Tigers could signify a positive trend in over Ole Miss and Maryland. The recruiting for LSU coach Trent Cleveland, Miss., native ranks Johnson.

No. 13 in ESPN’s recruiting “It’s a big step in the right dinumbers and received a five-star rection,” Daniels said. “O’Bryant rating from is thought of pretty highly in bas‘O’Bryant Scout.com. ketball recruiting circles, and he’s At 6 feet a heck of a talent. Any time you is thought 9 inches and can go out and grab a guy of his of pretty 235 pounds, caliber it means a lot.”

With a wealth of youth on highly in O ’ B r y a n t ’ s i n t i m i d a t i n g their roster, Daniels believes the basketball presence in Tigers may be done on the rerecruiting the post could cruiting trail for this class.

“If they get Johnny, they’ll circles, and play an early impact in the be pretty close to being done,” he he’s a heck Southeastern said. of a talent.’ C o n f e r e n c e , Daniels said.

Evan Daniels O’Bryant recruiting analyst made an official visit to Contact Hunter Paniagua at LSU on Sept. 18, and relationships made during that visit could hpaniagua@lsureveille.com

Player to make decision Thursday

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‘He has a great relationship with those guys at LSU, and I’m sure they showed him a great time.’

LSU football senior defensive tackle Drake Nevis and volleyball sophomore outside hitter Madie Jones each received Southeastern Conference Player of the Week honors for their performances this past weekend.

Nevis was a major force Saturday in the Tigers’ 33-29 win against Florida. The senior tallied 4.5 tackles for loss and 1.5 sacks in the win, bringing his season totals up to 10.5 tackles for loss and five sacks.

The LSU defense is leading the SEC in total defense and sacks and is third in the SEC in scoring defense.

Nevis is tied for second in the SEC with five sacks this season.

Nevis’ disruptive play was good enough to get him named the SEC Defensive Lineman of the Week — the third time he has received the award this season.

Jones received Offensive Player of the Week honors after her contributions to the Tigers’ 16-1 start — their best start since 1991.

BRIANNA PACIORKA / The Daily Reveille

LSU sophomore outside hitter Madie Jones (6) goes for a kill Sunday in the Tigers’ win against Tennessee. Jones won SEC Offensive Player of the Week.

The volleyball team knocked off both Kentucky and No. 22 Tennessee in the same weekend, joining Florida as the only SEC teams to accomplish that feat this season.

Jones had nine kills against Kentucky and 16 kills against Tennessee.

“We had so much faith in our defense today,” Jones said after the

Tennessee match. “Everyone in the back row played great digging all those crazy balls; so did everyone in the front row with the blocking.”

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Saints offense inconsistent to 2009

Brett Martel The Associated Press

METAIRIE (AP) — The Saints’ once-prolific offense is lacking its usual punch, and coach Sean Payton sees a troubling pattern of fundamental breakdowns as the main cause.

“We’ll put a quick drive together, move the ball with efficiency and the very next sequence, we’ll have a penalty or a minus play or a turnover,” Payton said Monday after reviewing video of the Saints’ 30-20 loss at Arizona on Sunday.

Everyone expected more from the defending Super Bowl champs, who’ve had the NFL’s leading offense for three of the past four seasons.

“There’s an expectation level that we get accustomed to when we perform at a high level,” Payton said.

“When you don’t meet those expectations, certainly there’s disappointment.”

Nearly a third of the way into

their Super Bowl title defense, the Saints (3-2) have yet to produce on offense at a pace remotely close to that of last season, when they led the NFL in both yardage and scoring.

In winning all of their first five games in 2009, New Orleans piled up 22 offensive touchdowns, or more than double the number of TDs (10) they have so far in 2010.

For all of last season, Brees averaged 8.5 yards per passing attempt, which ranked third in the NFL. So far this season, he averages 7.1 yards, which ties him for 13th with Tampa Bay’s Josh Freeman and Tennessee’s Vince Young.

The Saints won all of their first six games by double digits last season. Their three victories this season have been by margins of five, three and two points.

The Saints have lost two of three games since Reggie Bush fractured a bone in his lower right leg. Pierre Thomas, who was the Saints’ leading rusher last season, has missed

the past two games with a left ankle injury.

Other mistakes such as penalties and missed assignments have stalled drives close to opponents’ end zones.

The Saints have had to settle for six short field goal tries — one of which was missed — in the past two games.

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also caught Lee’s attention.

“Terrence is a big playmaker for us, and the confidence level between me and him is there — it’s always been there,” Lee said.

“He’s a playmaker, and he’s going to make plays, so it’s just about us getting the ball in our playmakers’ hands.”

LSU was determined to get the ball to its playmaker as Toliver had his number called on the play before the touchdown when the pass fell incomplete.

The same situation occurred last season at Ole Miss when the

Tigers threw to Toliver on consec- second one was the same kind of utive plays. The first fell incom- throw to the outside, and I didn’t plete, and the secmake that play. I ond drew a pass had it on my mind interference call. that I was going to But the memmake the play this ory of a lost optime.” portunity struck a Toliver finchord with Toliished Saturday’s ver. game in the “I didn’t Swamp with six make that play [at receptions for 111 Ole Miss], and I yards and two Jarrett Lee felt real bad about touchdowns.

LSU junior quarterback that,” Toliver said.

The two “During the Ole Miss game, they scores tied a career high in a game threw it to me twice, and I got the for Toliver, and the 111 yards fell interference call there. But the just 8 yards short of the career-

high 119 he set in 2007 against Louisiana Tech.

LSU coach Les Miles said he likes to use all of his weapons on offense, but Toliver is a guy on whom he knows he can rely.

“Don’t get me wrong; I think we can go to [sophomore wide receiver] Rueben Randle, and [sophomore wide receiver] Russell Shepard doesn’t in any way scare us,” Miles said. “We just felt like Terrence had a hot hand, and we liked the matchup there.

Frankly, if we had another shot, we would have taken it to him as well.”

Frankly, Toliver relishes the

fact that his number gets called when the game is on the line.

“You have to have a beastly type mentality,” Toliver said.

“You are out there like no one can stop you. That’s how you have to be when you are going to get the ball the majority of the time, and that’s how I felt on Saturday.”

QUARTERBACKS, from page 5

FAKE, from page 5

close one. Sorry about that, guys.

I certainly wanted to kick the field goal and get the clock stopped, but I didn’t want to waste our timeout, and Sam Montgomery will not play in this game! He was chop blocked!”

Jasper: “Wait. What?”

Crowton: “No doubt.”

Les: “Let’s fake it. I like this team’s chances. This is a hard-nosed bunch of kids. Jasper, run this one into the end zone.”

Jasper: “Coach, I can make this kick.”

Les: “I call bullshit on this team. Run ‘Tiger.’”

Jasper: “Coach, let me kick it.”

Les: “I don’t know if this is such a good idea. Gary, what do you think? Gary? Gary, you there?”

Crowton: “Sorry, Les. I was packing my bags up. Isn’t this game over yet? Have we been fired yet?”

Les: “You know what? Kick the field goal.”

Then special teams coach Joe Robinson was shown on ESPN going over to Jasper. He said something. Here’s what I imagine he said: “Run ‘Tiger.’ I triple dog dare you.”

Jasper: “No, coach. No.

You didn’t.”

Robinson: “I did.”

Then Jasper ran over to holder Derek Helton.

Jasper: “He triple dog dared me to run ‘Tiger.’”

Helton: “Crap.”

The triple dog dare. Classic.

Andy Schwehm is a 21-year-old psychology and English senior from New Orleans. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_ASchwehm.

TOLIVER, from page 5

season will pan out, Miles was less committal, saying it is important to have both the run and the pass as a threat on the offensive side.

“It’s a work in progress, certainly, but one game certainly helped,” Miles said. “Now, hopefully we’ll go quickly through the next games, and the ease of how we play them will continue to manifest itself. If at one point in time, the balance were to swing where the contribution is not equal to the number of reps, then certainly we’ll give thought to playing them differently.”

Miles said Jefferson and Lee showed more “swagger” at the quarterback spot. On Saturday, though, it was Lee who spiked the ball to stop the clock on first-andgoal from the Florida 3-yard line.

“Everybody kind of understood that we were going to get it clocked,” Miles said. “I don’t think that there is anything magical necessarily about [Lee] getting it done quickly. Certainly that’s what we needed to have happen because we had the downs. We just needed some more time on the clock.”

Miles was asked Monday about wide wide receivers coach/ passing game coordinator coach Billy Gonzales’ relationship with Florida coach Urban Meyer.

Gonzales abruptly resigned from Florida in December 2009 and returned to the sidelines at his former school for the first time Saturday.

“The only thing I can tell you … is how Coach Gonzales represented Urban Meyer and his time at Florida with great respect, enjoyed it fully and in a simple way was looking for a change,” Miles said. “He had little impact on game plan [for Florida]. He knew personnel, and that’s really all he shared with us.”

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‘‘

‘Terrence is a big playmaker for us, and the confidence level between me and him is there.’

Miles at least won’t have to shoulder all the blame (just the vast majority of it).

If the fake fails, Miles is dead to all Tiger faithful. LSU would lose its undefeated season at the hands of Florida for the third straight year, heads would roll and there would be riots all over Baton Rouge.

If the fake works, they still have to drive the field to score. Miles regains his “Mad Hatter” status, but fans still hate him for doing it.

There was no real way to say going for it would do any good.

This is probably how the call went down, starting from when running back Stevan Ridley lost 2 yards on third-and-1 with the clock running.

Les: “Alright, the clock is stopped, right?”

Crowton: “No! I think we have one of those timeouts left. Maybe we should use it here.”

Les: “No, let it run. Send out the field goal team. Let’s kick it.”

The play clock runs down.

Les: “Timeout! That was a

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Writing skills necessary for future success Financial crises will force this University to make difficult decisions.

The necessity of budget cuts, however, does not excuse insane decisions, and terminating English instructors is academic insanity.

I majored in English at this University, and I owe so much

of my post-graduate success to skills I developed because my amazing professors had time for me.

I would fear to see the result if the University is unable to recruit or retain quality English personnel when professors are unable to pursue their fields of expertise, saddled instead with scores of now-teacherless mandatory freshman and second-year writing classes.

Not an English major?

Don’t worry — the impact of these terminations will extend far beyond the English Department.

The University’s academic

future is only as secure as the futures of the students it graduates.

Students with insufficient research and writing skills will not make it in the job market.

For the majority of the student body, those skills are only really developed in the instructor-driven English 1001 and 2000 classes.

This economic climate is unfriendly, and the job candidates who are effective writers and communicators will win every time over their peers who are not.

I’m not an economist; I’m simply an University graduate whose prospective employers

routinely ask for writing samples prior to interview.

English instructors have a difficult and absolutely imperative job.

As an undergraduate, I was a student worker in the English Department.

I spent years copying and filing students’ evaluations, and I’ve seen what this student body has had to say, particularly about instructors like Martha Strohschein.

Sometimes they hated the class and left still hating reading and writing.

But they learned how to do

Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010 it anyway, and they loved their instructors.

Freshmen, sophomores and all future incoming students will be affected by this decision.

College ends sooner or later. Students, I encourage you to stand up for your education.

You’re going to need it.

Laura Springer English major, class of 2009 LSU Law, class of 2012

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CAMPUS-RESIDENT ALIEN

A clown in Brazil’s Congress makes a metaphor too real A clown has just been elected to Congress in my home country of Brazil.

And I’m not talking in a figurative way.

I’m not sure if this makes me love or hate my picturesque country.

Brazil has once again given the world a lesson that is ambiguously entertaining and polemical.

And this time, it’s not soccer-related.

A couple of weeks ago, a nationally Marcelo Vieira famous clown Columnist named Tiririca, real name Francisco Oliveira Silva, received the most votes to represent the state of Sao Paulo.

With more than 1.3 million votes, he doubled the number of votes that former Rio de Janeiro state governor Anthony Garotinho received.

The metaphor — or lack thereof — in this “funny” fact of Brazilian politics immediately brings out some reflections that are begging to be taken for granted, but shouldn’t.

“There are so many metaphorical clowns in Brazil’s Congress. Why not send them a real one?”

You’d hear a lot of my ignorant and opinionated peers say this if you walked anywhere in Brazil right now.

But the much less funny results of this election pair up with Tiririca’s imminent nomination ceremony.

Other than him, elected candidates include politicians

that underwent serious accusations of corruption some years ago, and even some still being charged for stealing stratospheric amounts of public money.

There’s more to Tiririca’s election than a fake critical sense of humor wants to point out.

It’s easy to appear opinionated when you’re making fun of something, but understanding the process and existence of what is being criticized is an entirely different story.

I’d love to believe Brazilian people are politicized and conscious enough to send out such a collective and articulated message to our politicians.

However, I don’t think that is the case.

Tiririca, the clown, is not known to be funny in the sense of a usual clown.

His humor — if we can identify that — comes from him acting like an ignorant, poor man who can barely articulate words or finish a sentence.

He’s known for surreal and eschatological songs that mean nothing and for hosting a TV show.

This tragicomic side of his persona is a good portrayal of a country with an abysmal gap in education.

One of the actual messages here calls for the attention of compulsory voting advocates.

I’ve seen it with my own eyes — a mass of people with no information, no education and no will to vote getting out of their homes in an election weekend and causing serious damage.

More than a lesson to be learned, Tiririca’s election teaches at least a couple of

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convenient truths that bear no national denomination.

Ignorance is not bliss, and funny is not always funny.

Both in Brazil’s rising economy and in the budget-cut filled U.S., education should be the greater treasure to be preserved and warranted as an insurance for present and future lives.

But it doesn’t seem like candidates and administrators nationwide remember that.

There are proposals for cutting education budgets all across

America, and the current situation our University is encountering, with projected state funding shortages for who knows how many years to come, reflects that.

Clowns are supposed to be funny.

The utmost purpose of these funny characters that populate people’s imaginations is to remind us how life can be turned upside down and backward.

They make us realize how healthy and entertaining a constant review of values can be.

But watch your clowns closely, my friends.

Running freely in all corners of today’s society, they may end up in Congress.

Marcelo Vieira is a 32-year-old jazz cello graduate student from Brazil. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_MVieira.

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Quote of the Day “When you are through changing, you are through.”

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POP GOES THE CULTURE

Opinion

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Student section too obsessed with sex, needs to clean up act Let’s talk about sex.

Actually, let’s talk about the way we talk about sex in the student section every Saturday night.

You may have noticed certain fan favorites missing from the Golden Band From Tigerland’s playlist at recent games.

Or perhaps you didn’t realize their absence until a fellow columnist recently Kelly Hotard pointed it out.

Columnist I guess awareness of such things depends on how wasted you get while tailgating.

But anyway, since the “OhWee-Oh” routine’s removal weeks ago after students continued ad-libbing “you suck,” the north end zone has simply been chanting it without musical accompaniment.

This column isn’t about the Athletic Department’s authority to censor the Tiger Band.

True, it’s disappointing to have a student section staple disappear, but even worse is the childish response of resuming it “a cappella” and perverting as many of the remaining cheers as possible.

The “Neck” chant is one of the most awesome aspects of our Louisiana Saturday nights.

But it’s a little incongruous when people get an earful of “suck that Tiger d!*k, b!#@h!” right before a commercial showcasing our prestigious University and majestic mascot.

I’d hate to see “Neck” become the Athletic Department’s next item of contraband and yet another victim to voyeuristic, juvenile stubbornness.

The same goes for “Hey Baby.”

Serenading opponents with an offer to “be our b!*ch” is one thing.

But this ritual, already offensive to some people, goes a step too far with the increasingly popular ending, “suck my d!*k.”

Will more Tiger traditions bite the dust because of blatant immaturity?

The student body’s fixation with male genitalia isn’t confined to Tiger Stadium.

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve walked into classrooms and seen variations of the term scrawled across the chalkboard — sometimes with an illustration.

I used to think indecent activities like randomly shouting “penis!” in the hallway was limited to a high school-level sense of humor.

Unfortunately, I stand corrected.

I just don’t get the amusement.

Maybe it’s because I don’t have the body part in question.

Or maybe it’s because I expect a little more class from

supposedly adult classmates.

I already know sophistication is too much to ask from the mysterious graffiti miscreants around campus, but as a collective voice, our student section should be a bit more dignified.

By no means does this suggest sitting quietly in the stands — it’s our duty to make “Death Valley” more than a nickname.

But the “12th man” isn’t nearly as fierce without constant backup from the band.

One could even argue vice versa — the Tiger Band is the highlight, while we provide vocal reinforcement.

And as long as we continue to act like 12-year-olds in their first anatomy class, fascinated with euphemisms for genitalia, we’ll be treated accordingly by the Athletic Department — and the student section’s flagship feature will be silenced more and more.

Dear fellow fans, especially those near the crowd microphone

this Saturday: Grow up.

At the very least, taunt McNeese State and future rivals with something other than sex and bestiality.

We can be intimidating without being explicit.

Also, don’t mock the band’s addition of “Poker Face” and “Bad Romance” — can you blame them for selecting two songs we can’t sexualize more than they already are?

Heaven forbid we actually take the only foolproof approach to avoiding undesirable consequences: Changing our behavior.

Yeah, that’s what she said.

Kelly Hotard is a 19-year-old mass communication sophomore from Picayune, Miss. Follow her on Twitter @TDR_khotard.

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PRESS X TO NOT DIE

Streaming TV online will overtake standard cable Like the typical college student, I enjoy coming home after a long day of class, crashing on my couch and watching TV. Like the typical college student, I also come home after a long day of class and have to worry about homework and quizzes, working two jobs and studying for all of these damn midterms.

Needless to say, TV seems to have taken a back seat this semester for many college students like me.

With so many great shows on every night — as well as a necessity to feed my daily fix of “SportsNation” and host Michelle Beadle — the invention of the digital video recorder has helped me maintain my busy work schedule while not missing my favorite shows.

However, every month my cable bill comes in, I cry a little because the rates are so outrageous.

A fee for basic cable, a fee for expanded cable, a fee for high definition, a fee for my premium channels, a fee for the DVR — and all of that on top of my Internet charges.

I’ve learned the hard way that entertainment comes with a price. And a hefty price at that.

Yet, with the advancement of technology, many alternatives may eventually lead to the end of cable TV as we know it.

Although beginning as strictly a service for renting movies, Netflix has taken the world by storm in the past few years in the way it provides its service to customers.

Originally, Netflix offered nothing more than subscriptionbased DVD rentals.

The company has now taken over home entertainment consoles with its “Watch Instantly” video streaming option.

“Watch Instantly” provides customers with unlimited streaming on a variety of devices — any iOS device, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, many Blu-ray players, cable Adam Arinder boxes and certain TV models Columnist — and features more than 17,000 movies and recorded TV shows.

“Watch Instantly” includes many popular shows like “The Office” or “Dexter.”

The only downside is Netflix, as of right now, does not offer streaming of the current seasons.

That’s where Hulu comes in.

While many major TV stations offer streaming of new episodes on their websites shortly after they air live, Hulu crams all of these latest episodes and more together in one place.

Hulu — a joint venture of NBC Universal, Fox Entertainment Group, ABC Inc., and Providence Equity Partners — is a free (as of now), ad-based service that provides users new episodes of current TV shows the day after they air on their respective networks.

For those not interested in subscription-based services, devices such as Apple TV or the

newly released Google TV both add a variety of options to consumers over cable.

While Apple TV and Google TV have many features separating them from each other, they both have the ability to stream YouTube and Netflix to users.

Both also allow users to pay for full TV seasons, individual episodes or movies and have them streamed wirelessly to TVs. With all of these options available and more, it almost seems silly to continue paying for things I don’t watch.

To me, it would almost make more financial sense to cancel my cable subscription and just watch my select shows on Hulu and stream movies via Netflix.

I can even get my ESPN fix with the new ESPN3 service on my Xbox 360.

Yet others, like my dad, may like to pay for every movie channel offered by Cox and tell me they think Netflix and other streaming services are a waste of money.

It’s just the kind of world we live in.

However, it’s safe to say online streaming is the future, and cable companies better watch out.

Netflix has already caused Blockbuster to declare bankruptcy — it’s only a matter of time before others follow.

Adam Arinder is a 21-year-old communication studies senior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_aarinder.

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balance is to cut from state programs.

At first glance, 6 percent may not seem like much, said Robert Keaton, special assistant to LSU System President John Lombardi. But the state can’t cut that money across its entire budget because the budget consists of several different sources of funding — and most of those sources can’t be easily cut.

The largest piece of the budget pie is $11.5 billion of federal funds, or 45 percent of the budget. Those funds are dedicated by Congress for specific programs — the state can’t choose to redirect that money to other purposes and has little control over how those funds are spent.

The second piece of the budget pie is $4.6 billion of dedications, or 18 percent. These funds are raised directly from certain taxes, fees, mineral and gambling revenues and other sources of revenue.

The money raised from these revenue streams are, by law or constitutional amendment, dedicated to certain programs, so that money can’t practically be cut.

The third piece of the budget pie is agency fees worth $1.7 billion, or 7 percent. These funds are raised by state agencies and are used specifically by those agencies to fund their budgets.

The only piece of the pie to

which the Legislature can practi- of the total cut, causing disprocally make cuts is the State Gen- portionately huge cuts to those eral Fund worth $7.7 billion, or programs. Other programs suffer 30 percent of the budget. significantly less or no cuts.

Higher education and health This is the part of the budget funded by most taxes, and it in- care make up the most significludes a hodgepodge of services cant percentage of discretionary spending. Higher not funded by the education makes three other revup 37 percent; enue sources. health care makes But even up 29 percent. within the General Fund, there’s Other discreonly so much tionary spending programs are money the state much smaller; can touch, Keaton they include the said.

Department of Two-thirds , Agriculture, the or $5.1 billion, of Robert Keaton Department of the General Fund special assistant to LSU System Labor, most of is marked “nonthe State Civil d i s c r e t i o n a r y, ” President John Lombardi Service and most meaning that, over time, the Legislature has of the Executive Branch, among attached protections to sections others. of the General Fund — usually The end result of this maze through changes to the constitu- of restrictions is that 90 percent tion. of the state’s budget is protected That leaves only $2.6 billion from cuts. So higher education of the General Fund marked “dis- and health care suffer massive cretionary,” or available to be cut. funding decreases when times When the governor and get rough, while most other prothe Legislature create the cur- grams suffer few or no cuts whatrent budget, the vast majority soever. of the $1.6 billion possible cut For example, the state’s must come from that $2.6 bil- Minimum Foundation Program, lion discretionary section of the which doles out funding to primary and secondary programs General Fund.

So instead of evenly dis- statewide, has not suffered a cent tributed cuts across the board, of cuts during the most recent discretionary General Fund pro- crisis. grams have to absorb 61 percent The MFP costs more than $3

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‘The 2011 Regular Session precedes a state-wide election year, and this makes all decisions more difficult.’

lars, and his business will be closed for at least a week. from the adjacent retaining wall.

“We are having the insurance Tables and booths were flipped people look at it,” he said. “The over inside the restaurant, Deng whole wall has to be replaced.” said.

Deng said he Deng said he doesn’t plan on is glad no one was pressing charges hurt, but it was a unless his insurclose call. ance can’t cover “It was comthe cost of the repletely out of nopairs. where. The peoM o r g a n ple at that table Kerns, biochem[against the wall] istry and microbihad just left,” he ology junior who Darren Deng said. “We didn’t works at Koi, said manager, Koi Sushi even put down she is concerned new plates yet.” for the livelihood Besides the hole in the wall, of the restaurant’s staff. electrical lines and pipes were “Several of the waiters work also broken. multiple shifts during the week, Deng said the damage is and they depend on that for likely to cost thousands of dol- paying bills,” she said. “That’s

their job.”

Deng said he is mostly concerned about the damage this will do to his business.

“Customers will come and see we are not open, and then when they come back again, they’ll see that we’re still not open,” he said. “We’ll lose potential and existing customers due to this incident. It’s very unfortunate. We want to serve our customers.”

Wallace tested with a 0.137 blood alcohol content and was booked in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, McKneely said.

MacKnight said the University of Louisiana-Lafayette, University “Our intention was to basically of New Orleans and Southeastern garner attention to budget cuts,” Louisiana University will particiWood said. “We considered it a suc- pate in the protest.

Wood said he cess because it got looks forward to national attention.” working with facProud Stuulty organizations dents is having like the new faculan organizational ty union LSUnited meeting Friday at 4 and Student Govp.m. at Coffee Call ernment on their to delegate responprotest efforts. sibilities.

Wood SG President J said the task is getHudson said he met ting too big for two with MacKnight full-time students and Wood. Hudson to handle. and SG Vice PresiProud StuJ Hudson dent Dani Borel dents will have a SG president have also been protest Nov. 10 working on a letterat the State Capitol, and the group will continue its writing campaign that combines letletter-writing campaign to local ters, e-mails, a blog and other opportunities with which students can newspapers and state legislators.

get involved.

“Dani and I have been working on this campaign, and I think it’s going to be a success when it’s unleashed at the end of October,” Hudson said.

DRUNK, from page 1

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‘We’ll lose potential and existing customers due to this incident. It’s very unfortunate.’

PROTEST, from page 1

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‘Dani and I have been working on this campaign, and I think it’s going to be a success when it’s unleashed at the end of October.’

Contact Sarah Eddington at seddington@lsureveille.com

Contact Catherine Threlkeld at cthrelkeld@lsureveille.com

page 11 billion and makes up about 60 percent of the state’s non-discretionary general fund budget. Because this sizeable program can’t be cut at all, programs like higher education have to take the brunt of the budget cut burden.

There is a constitutional “trigger” that would let some protected programs get cut if the official forecast for the next year is less than the current year. That will not be the case for fiscal year 2011-12.

Keaton said relieving budget pressure on higher education doesn’t necessarily require raising taxes or sending more funding — it might just mean more even distribution of budget cuts.

Many of the protections on certain programs are constitutional — removing those protections would require a two-thirds vote of the Legislature and a vote of the people. But some protections require a less politically difficult solution.

Keaton said $1.4 billion of non-discretionary funds is not protected by the constitution but by more easily overturned rules.

If that money were moved to the discretionary spending pool, the amount the state could cut would increase to $4 billion — that means those programs, including higher education, would deal with 39 percent of the cut instead of 61 percent.

Keaton said such a change would be useful because discretionary-funded programs have been suffering cuts for three years now, and thus have “little slack left to absorb additional cuts without significant reductions in services.”

Additionally, the discretionary spending makes up a smaller portion of the General Fund as it shrinks — which Keaton says exposes it to even bigger cuts.

Keaton also mentioned that “the 2011 Regular Session precedes a state-wide election year, and this makes all decisions more difficult.”

Contact Matthew Albright at malbright@lsureveille.com

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The Daily Reveille

Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010