Today in Print - October 15, 2010

University alumnus plays in United States Marine Band, p. 3

Reveille McNeese QB Jacob Bower balances family life, school, sports, p. 7

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LSU sophomore wide receiver

Hunter Paniagua Sports Contributor

Appalachian State shocked Michigan in 2007. James Madison University stunned Virginia Tech in September.

Both games involved a ranked Football Bowl Subdivision team pitted against a supposedly inferior Football

ADMINISTRATION

Klei named interim vice chancellor Staff Writer

‘We are one of the premier teams in the country. If we want to stay like that, we need to treat McNeese like ... it’s another big game.’

Russell Shepard

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Matthew Albright

LSU enters Saturday with full force to avoid McNeese State upset

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FACES conducting research on woman’s skull, p. 5

LSU junior quarterback Jarrett Lee throws a pass Oct. 2 in LSU’s 16-14 win against Tennessee. Lee went 16-for-23 throws for 185 yards in the win and has connected on 75 percent of his passes this season.

Championship Subdivision team.

And both games ended with the same result: David defeated Goliath.

No. 9 LSU hopes to avoid a similar letdown when it hosts McNeese State (2-3, 1-1) on Saturday. Sophomore wide receiver Russell Shepard knows that if the Tigers (6-0, 4-0) want to stay undefeated, they can’t get caught

looking past the Cowboys.

“If you look at the win-loss columns, we are one of the premier teams in this country,” Shepard said. “If we want to stay that way, we need to treat McNeese like this is a Florida game — like it’s another big game. If we want to be 7-0, we need to go out there and handle our business.”

McNeese State comes to

Death Valley one week after the Tigers’ narrow victory against No. 22 Florida. The past two years, LSU nearly fell to non-BCS opponents following games against ranked Southeastern Conference teams.

Last season, following a loss to then-No. 3 Alabama, the Tigers MCNEESE, see page 6

Veterinary medicine professor Thomas Klei will serve as interim vice chancellor for research and economic development, according to a memo Tuesday to faculty and staff.

“As a Boyd Professor in the School of Veterinary Medicine and member of the LSU community for 35 years, Tom brings the highest level of expertise and vision to this important position,” Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Jack Hamilton said in the letter.

Klei will assume his duties Nov. 1. The memos said a search for a permanent vice chancellor will begin early in the next academic year.

Klei has a joint appointment with the Department of Pathobiological Sciences, the School of Veterinary Medicine and the Department of Veterinary Science in the LSU AgCenter. He teaches lecture and lab classes.

Klei is currently the associate dean for research and advanced studies in the Vet School.

Contact Matthew Albright at malbright@lsureveille.com

HALLOWEEN

BRPD only allowing Friday permit for Carlotta party Competing Facebook pages emerge for party Catherine Threlkeld Staff Writer

The Baton Rouge Police Department is not permitting the popular Carlotta Street block party to be held the Saturday before Halloween weekend, breaking a 35-year tradition.

Currently, there are two parties planned with two separate Facebook events, one for Friday, Oct. 29, and one for Saturday, Oct. 30. But BRPD is only allowing a permit for the party to be Friday night.

The Facebook event for the

Saturday-night party has more than security for the night.

“That’s really the problem we’re 1,450 “attending” guests, and the having,” Price said.

Friday-night party “It’s about the way has nearly 700. we’re being han“There’s no dled.” doubt in my mind Sgt. Don Kelif there’s a party on ly, BRPD spokesSaturday, the cops man, said the sewill come and shut curity costs for the it down,” said Jared permit are less for Loftus, North Gate Friday night beMerchants AssociaJared Loftus cause more on-duty tion president. “The North Gate Merchants officers are availcops are very much Association president able then. aware of what’s go“On any other night of the week ing on.”

Jay Price, an advocate for the the permit holder would be required Saturday party, said if BRPD has to hire many more off-duty officers enough officers and time to shut at their own expense,” Kelly said in down the Saturday party, then they should have enough time to provide CARLOTTA, see page 6

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‘There’s no doubt in my mind if there’s a party on Saturday, the cops will come and shut it down.’

Daily Reveille file photo

Students don costumes at the 2008 Carlotta Street block party. The Baton Rouge Police Department is only allowing the party to be held the Friday before Halloween.

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INTERNATIONAL Ready, set, snore! Spain holds siesta contest in shopping mall MADRID (AP) — Some clutched pillows or stuffed animals, others fought back giggles as they sought to take a siesta in public — all in the name of plugging a quintessential Spanish custom endangered by the demands of modern life.

Amid the bustle of a shopping mall, with babies wailing and pop music piped in overhead, clutches of people tried to snooze Thursday in what was billed as Spain’s first siesta competition.

The goal — to promote Spain’s cherished post-luncheon nap — is no joke, although the costumes of some who participated may be.

Contestants in groups of five were given 20 minutes to lie down on garish blue coaches and timed by a doctor with a pulse-measuring device to determine how long they spent snoozing. They could win extra points for snoring, adopting goofy sleep positions or wearing outlandish night wear in plain view of gawking

shoppers.

Their sofas were lined up in parallel numbered lanes like those of a track and field meet, and eight rounds were being held per day.

Tourist killed in Mexico may have been a victim of mistaken identity

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The American tourist who reportedly was shot and killed by Mexican pirates on a border lake may have been a victim of mistaken identity, a U.S. consulate official said Thursday.

Tiffany Hartley, of McAllen, Texas, says that on Sept. 30, she and her husband, David, were returning to the U.S. from Mexico where they went to photograph a historic, halfsubmerged church.

They were crossing Falcon Lake on Jet Skis when pirates who patrol the Mexican half of the lake opened fire, shooting David in the back of the head. Tiffany Hartley says she barely escaped with her life after vain attempts to save her husband while men on three speedboats pursued them, firing their guns.

PAUL WHITE / The Associated Press

Competitors sleep a siesta during the first Siesta Championship in Madrid on Thursday. The participants win points for the first person to fall asleep, the loudest snorer, best original sleeping position and best dressed sleeper.

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NATIONAL

STATE/LOCAL

Ole Miss picks black bear for new, un-Confederate mascot

New Southern University chief proposes merging with UNO

Jury awards Ohio tourists $650K in Katrina false imprisonment lawsuit

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — It took seven years, but the University of Mississippi has a substitute for a beloved and reviled mascot who brought the Confederacy to mind. The new guy is still a rebel, only cuddlier.

“Rebel Black Bear” won 62 percent of the vote in a final poll, the school announced Thursday. Its athletic programs will keep the Rebels nickname.

Phoenix police officer charged with on-duty murder of unarmed suspect

(AP) — Southern University’s new president says it might make sense to merge the University of New Orleans into the Southern University System.

Ronald Mason Jr. made the suggestion Wednesday to the Rotary Club of Baton Rouge.

But Mason told The Advocate later that racial issues likely would derail any such plans, and he hasn’t decided whether to make a formal proposal.

He said consolidating the two universities would strengthen urban public education in New Orleans in the face of budget cuts.

Previous talks of merging UNO and Southern University at New Orleans have resulted in protests from SUNO alumni and students. But such discussions never involved putting UNO in the Southern University System. UNO is currently regulated by the LSU System.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal jury on Thursday awarded more than $650,000 to two Ohio tourists who were arrested in New Orleans on public drunkenness charges two days before Hurricane Katrina and jailed for more than a month in the storm’s chaotic aftermath.

The jury unanimously concluded that Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman falsely imprisoned Robie Waganfeald and Paul Kunkel Jr., both of Toledo, Ohio, and awarded them a total of $459,300 for those claims.

The seven jurors also found that one of Gusman’s chief deputies, William Hunter, was “deliberately indifferent” to the men’s constitutional rights to call an attorney or relative after their arrest.

For that violation, jurors awarded them $200,000.

The two friends hugged each other after the verdict was read.

PHOENIX (AP) — A Phoenix police officer has been indicted on a second-degree murder charge for the on-duty shooting of an unarmed suspect during a violent encounter in which he also shocked the victim with a stun gun and killed his dog, officials said Thursday.

Officer Richard Chrisman was served a summons on the indictment and was not taken into custody, said his defense attorney Craig Mehrens.

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CONTESTS

Musicians to compete for Groovin’ on the Grounds opening act Battle of the Bands to be held Saturday Celeste Ansley Staff Writer

Musicians will show their stuff Saturday at Battle of the Bands for a chance to be the opening act at Groovin’ on the Grounds in the spring.

Students on Target, a department of Student Government, is hosting the event, which will take place from 1 to 3 p.m. at Free

Speech Circle. crowd reaction, musicality, origiPushing Pandas will perform nality and overall score. first, followed by Suffern said The Broken RubNick Boudreau, ber Band and WinKLSU station manbourne. Stone Rabager, Johnny Palabits will close the zzotto, producer competition. of Baton Rouge Beverly SufBlues Week and fern, SG director of a member of the programming, said Louisiana Music Cullen Davezac the bands will be Commission, Bill The Broken Rubber judged in five catKelley, recordBand lead singer egories. The judges ing engineer at the will rank the bands on a scale from School of Music and Jonas Spira, one to five on stage performance, night disc jockey for 104.9 The X,

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‘The big umbrella we are under is rock, but we have no limits.’

will be judges at the competition.

Cullen Davezac, The Broken Rubber Band’s lead singer and rhythm guitar player, said the group’s style of music is what will set it apart from the other bands.

The band’s music contains jazz, blues and classical influences.

“The big umbrella we are under is rock, but we have no limits,” Davezac said.

While most of the bands competing fall into the rock genre, Dane Monic, guitarist and vocalist of Pushing Pandas, said all the groups have a different sound.

Monic said Pushing Pandas’ rock sound covers both the heavier and lighter sides of melody and groove.

Khristen Jones, assistant director of programming, said 20 bands applied for Battle for the Bands.

Students on Target judged the bands at a listening party, and the top four highest-scoring bands were selected to perform at the competition.

Contact Celeste Ansley at cansley@lsureveille.com

MUSIC

Marine Band plays in Union Theater LSU alum performs with military group Catherine Threlkeld Staff Writer

It’s been 17 years since Master Sgt. Chris McFarlane played his bassoon at the University, but now he’s back playing in The President’s Own United States Marine Band.

The Marine Band held a concert Thursday in the reopened Union Theater in front of a sold-out house. CHRIS MCFARLANE McFarlane Master Sgt. graduated in 1993 with a master’s degree in music and played in the LSU Symphony Orchestra and Baton Rouge Symphony. After graduating, he auditioned for the opening bassoon spot in the Marine Band and was selected.

He went to the recruiting office and enlisted, and has since played across the country, including in Arlington Cemetery and for the president.

McFarlane said the band would play orchestras regularly during President George W. Bush’s administration.

Among musicians from performing arts schools like The

Juilliard School, McFarlane said he holds his own coming from the University’s School of Music.

“There’s a surprising range.

We have people from all over,” McFarlane said.

McFarlane said he reminisced on the bus ride into Baton Rouge and when he saw his old apartment complex.

“It was a good place to be a student,” McFarlane said. “I like the faculty that was here.”

Dawn Arevalo, assistant to the dean for personnel and production in the College of Music and Dramatic Arts, said former Director of Bands Frank Wickes has been trying to get the Marine Band to come to the University for years.

“It’s truly amazing because this band is loved the world over,” Arevalo said.

Arevalo said all of the tickets were handed out as of last Friday. Per Marine Band policy, any extra seats available before the show starts are given out for free.

Although the Marine Band is self-sufficient and brings its own

equipment, Arevalo said they require more security than the Union Theater’s usual productions.

“The Marine Band is described to me as basically an extension of the White House, so their security is very high,” Arevalo said.

The Marine Band played 10 pieces, ranging from marches to suites. It played the march “Semper Fidelis,” composed by former Marine Band director John Philip Sousa.

Maj. Jason Fettig, assistant director of the Marine Band, said the band tries to please everyone.

“Some come to hear symphonic repertoire. Some are former Marines,” Fettig said. “Some come to wave the flag.”

Fettig said the band plays about 300 times a year, ranging from performances by the full ensemble to a soloist. They play traditional American tunes, but have a repertoire to play for any guests who come to the White House.

Contact Catherine Threlkeld at cthrelkeld@lsureveille.com

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BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY

Bike path along levee to be extended toward New Orleans Program promotes healthier lifestyles Rachel Warren Contributing Writer

City officials broke ground Thursday on the space that will soon accommodate an extension to the existing bike path atop the levee along River Road.

Peter Newkirk, Department of Public Works director, addressed the crowd at the groundbreaking and said the 9,500-foot extension is expected to take 185 days to complete.

Newkirk said the bike path is continuing toward New Orleans, and a path is being built from New Orleans toward Baton Rouge. The two paths will meet eventually.

He said the extension, which is being built near the intersection of River Road and Skip Bertman Drive, is part of East Baton Rouge Mayor-President Kip Holden’s plan to make East Baton Rouge Parish more bike-friendly.

Holden said with the help of Sen. Mary Landrieu, the city received $980,000 in federal appropriations to build the extension.

Bruce Wickert, Baton Rouge Bicycle Club president, said the safe environment of the bike path encourages people to ride bicycles and walk more.

“It’s just another way for Baton Rouge to be healthier,” Wickert said.

Wickert also said it was easier and cheaper to construct the bike path because the area atop the levee was already clear from traffic.

“Baton Rouge has come a long way over the years,” Wickert said.

“This is just another link in the chain.”

Holden said the 1.8-mile extension has been in planning for more than two years. The original bike path was started more than six years ago and was done in increments.

The bike path is important because it runs along River Road, which he called one of the most dangerous roads in the city, Holden said.

Holden said he hopes more bike paths will encourage residents to

use their bikes instead of their cars, which is better for their health as well as the environment.

“Roughly 30 percent of Louisiana is obese,” Holden said. “This is a step to reduce that dangerous number.”

Holden said the existing bike path became popular quickly, he expects the same result once the extension is complete.

“This is already a popular space, and we hope to see a lot more people here as this progresses,” Holden said.

Joe Morales, civil engineering junior, said convenient bike paths, like the one on the levee, encourage him to ride his bike recreationally more often.

He also said he worries about his friends who often ride bikes along River Road, and the bike paths help alleviate his concerns. graphic by CAITLYN CONDON / The Daily Reveille

Contact Rachel Warren at rwarren@lsureveille.com

EDUCATION

Obama pushes to extend tax credit Funds go to families with college students Matthew Albright Staff Writer

President Barack Obama is urging Congress to extend the American Opportunity Tax Credit, which provides $2,500 in breaks annually to families paying college tuition.

In a Wednesday press conference, Obama pushed for legislators to make the tax permanent. It is currently scheduled to expire in January.

“We’ve got to make sure that, in good times or bad, our families can invest in their children’s future and in the future of our country,” Obama said.

Obama said the tax would help middle-class families who might otherwise struggle to send their children to college.

He also said higher education is important from an economic perspective. He defended spending money to buttress colleges and universities even during budget cuts and lean economic times.

“The unemployment rate for folks who’ve never gone to college is almost double what it is for those who have gone to college,” Obama said.

Obama also said education is essential for the country to compete internationally.

“When countries that out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow, offering our children a world-class education isn’t just a moral obligation — it’s an economic imperative,” he said. “There’s an educational arms race taking place around the world right now — from China to Germany to India to South Korea. Cutting back on education

would amount to unilateral disarmament.”

Obama cited a recent Treasury Department report as evidence his administration’s policies are helping students get to college.

That report indicated tax cuts for higher education have increased by 90 percent, making education available to more than 12 million American students.

Obama also criticized congressional Republicans for their education policies.

“They’ve proposed cutting back on education by 20 percent,” Obama said. “That means reducing financial aid for 8 million students and leaving our community colleges without the resources they need to prepare our

students for the jobs of the future.”

Obama said the cut should be paid for by tax cuts on businesses and wealthy citizens the administration proposed in their last suggested budget.

Obama shared the Rose Garden stage with three families with college-age children. “Mary Ellen O’Mealia is a single mom who’s been working hard to put each of her four kids — Sean, Kelly, Leigh Anne and Tom — through college,” he said. “And it hasn’t been easy, but it’s been a little easier thanks to what we’ve done.”

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP

SeNSE creates hub for businesses Frederick Holl Staff Writer

He may not be Mark Zuckerberg, but Sean Simone created a social network as a University student, and it’s finding success.

SeNSEbr.org is a website and organization for Baton Rouge entrepreneurs to meet, share ideas and build the foundations of business relationships, Simone said.

“When I got here three years ago, there was no place for local people interested in entrepreneurship to talk,” Simone said.

Simone, an agricultural business senior, said the idea was born out of admiration for similar networks in other cities.

“I saw New Orleans. I saw Austin. I saw all these other cities with

cool organizations,” Simone said.

Little more than a year after its creation, the website has grown to more than 200 members.

Members on the website can locate other entrepreneurs by the type of businesses they run. When they find a member they want to contact, they can send that person a message or write on his or her wall through SeNSE. However, the most important aspect of SeNSE takes place away from the keyboard, Simone said.

“We have monthly meetings where we hope to do three things: connect, innovate and inspire,” Simone said.

At this point, the biggest SeNSE events are the “pitch nights,” when local entrepreneurs from various phases of business have 10 minutes

to pitch their business models to a panel and a gathering of SeNSE members, Simone said.

The panel is composed of two local venture capital business leaders, an official from a local business incubator and a local “celebrity entrepreneur” like Todd Graves, who sat on the panel previously.

While the group started with the reputation as being student oriented, Simone estimated the membership was now “35 percent students, 65 percent professionals.”

“The students bring the youth and excitement, and the older crowd brings the money and experience,” Simone said.

Contact Frederick Holl at fholl@lsureveille.com

FORENSICS

FACES Lab receives skeletal remains Bones belong to unidentified female

Sarah Eddington Staff Writer

The team at the FACES Lab is currently analyzing the remains of a young female found Saturday in the woods of Catahoula Parish.

The Forensic Anthropology and Computer Enhancement Services Laboratory, or FACES Lab, provides identification services for law enforcement by using age-progression technology to help identify missing or unidentified children and adults.

Mary Manhein, FACES Lab director, said she received a call from the Catahoula Parish Sheriff’s and Coroner’s offices Friday night asking for her team’s assistance with identifying a human skull found by a hunter in the woods near Harrisonburg.

Manhein said she and the team drove to Harrisonburg on Saturday morning and spent the day searching for the rest of the remains, which were located in the same general area as the skull.

“Sometimes you don’t find everything,” she said. “In this case, we were able to find most of the remains.”

Manhein said the team brought the remains back to the University where they did further testing and discovered they belonged to a young white female.

“We know she’s been dead from anywhere between three weeks and four to six months,” she said. “She was also between the ages of 12 and 16 years old.”

Manhein said the team discovered the girl was shorter than 5 feet 4 inches, had thick brown hair and wore braces on her teeth with pink rubber bands.

Little is known about what may have happened to her, Manhein said.

“Nobody knows who she is. We put out bulletins, but no one’s been reported missing in that area,” she said. “We don’t know if she was a

photos by ADAM VACCARELLA / The Daily Reveille

LSU’s FACES Lab uses facial reconstruction to help identify bodies. The lab provides identification services for law enforcement by using age-progression technology.

runaway or if she was abducted.”

But Manhein said they were able to determine from the victim’s dental records that she had a gap in her smile.

“That’s a real identifier,” she said. “Because she has such good dental work, we can tell she was well taken care of.”

If the victim is not identified

within the next few weeks, Manhein said the team will conduct DNA tests on the remains and enter them into a national online DNA database for all missing persons and unidentified remains.

Contact Sarah Eddington at seddington@lsureveille.com

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page 6 back from a letdown of his own after his disappointing game squeaked past Louisiana Tech, 24- against Florida. The Heisman 16. In 2008, following an over- hopeful muffed a punt and missed time loss to a top-ranked Crim- the last three defensive series with son Tide team, LSU trailed Troy cramps. His health issues continue 31-10 in the fourth quarter before to be a concern for LSU coach Les Miles. mounting the larg“We are est comeback in working on it,” LSU history and Miles said. “I can winning, 40-31. tell you that. It “We were doesn’t necessarcoming off a big ily appear to be a game,” said sehydration issue. nior linebacker We are trying to Kelvin Shepput him in a posipard, who was a tion where he can sophomore for the get to the back end Troy game. “Guys of games and have probably didn’t the same energy hype themselves and flow that he up as much as for Les Miles has at the beginother games. They ning.” came in here and LSU football coach But even stunned us and alwhen cramps force Peterson off most won.”

In both of those games, LSU the field, the Tigers’ defense — was outgained by its opponents, which ranks atop the SEC in total but McNeese State doesn’t ap- defense — doesn’t seem to miss pear to pose the same threat. The a beat. The defense has received Cowboys return only four starters major contributions from freshfrom an offense that averaged 35 man cornerback Tyrann Mathieu points per game a year ago. But and sophomore cornerback Morthis year’s squad ranks only sixth ris Claiborne, who leads the team in the Southland Conference in with three interceptions.

“Those guys continue to play scoring offense with 20.2 points big,” Peterson said. “We have so per game.

“We want to go into this game many guys that can go out there with another dominant game plan and contribute to this team. [Deand hopefully shut those guys fensive backs] coach [Ron] Cooout,” said junior cornerback Pat- per has trust in them, and I have rick Peterson. “That’s the whole trust in them, as well.”

The speed and athleticism defensive goal we go into each of the LSU defense has certainly and every other game with.”

Peterson hopes to bounce garnered the attention of McNeese

MCNEESE, from page 1

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‘Certainly the community and the rest of the state will enjoy filling Tiger Stadium and enjoy watching two teams from this state square off and play.’

State coach Matt Viator.

“It’s amazing to me what [defensive coordinator John] Chavis has done on defense, what he has put together,” Viator said.

“I’ve never seen anybody do what they do on defense. They continue to run good players in down after down after down.”

The LSU offense doesn’t want to experience a letdown of its own against a McNeese State defense that has allowed 380.4 yards per contest. The Tigers’ total offense has increased from 299.8 to 409.5 yards per game since committing to a dual-quarterback system, featuring juniors Jordan Jefferson and Jarrett Lee, against Tennessee.

“I think [offensive coordinator] Gary [Crowton] is finding out exactly what is best for both guys in a pretty routine basis and trying to give us a competitive advantage there,” Miles said. “I think he is doing a heck of a job.”

According to Miles, the state of Louisiana will certainly not be let down when these two schools face off for the first time.

“I recognize that McNeese State is a very talented team,” Miles said. “I know they will play their best, and the state will turn out for this game. Certainly the community and the rest of the state will enjoy filling Tiger Stadium and enjoy watching two teams from this state square off and play.”

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Friday, Oct. 15, 2010 CARLOTTA, from page 1

an e-mail. “It’s just that the security costs to the permit holder would be significantly less on a Friday night.”

Loftus said it would cost $13,000 to pay for the 40 needed police officers for Saturday night.

Loftus wants the neighborhood to get what it wants, but he is an administrator for the Facebook group advocating the Friday party.

“We’re only interested in helping to facilitate a safe, sanctioned party in the neighborhood,” Loftus said. “If they want it on Saturday, we want it to be on Saturday. The issue is whether the city will allow for a party on Saturday.”

The 5,000- to 10,000-attendee block party is a community-based event. Price, who has lived in the area for 12 years, said partygoers are welcomed into Carlotta Street residents’ homes.

Price said he is the “de facto representative” of the Saturday party.

“It’s going to happen Saturday regardless of what I have to say about the issue or what anybody says

about the issue,” Price said. “Probably 300 to 400 will show up Saturday regardless of what we do.”

Price said the party date has only ever changed days eight times when there were LSU home football games. He said there has never been conflict or a history of violence.

Kelly said the Carlotta Street party got out of hand a few years ago.

“Since then we have worked closely with area residents and the North Gate merchants to do everything we can to help facilitate a safe, legal event, and we’re doing so again this year,” Kelly said.

Kelly said BRPD has no objection to the event but is obligated to make sure it is conducted lawfully and safely.

Price, Loftus and BRPD officers will meet Monday to discuss the event.

Contact Catherine Threlkeld at cthrelkeld@lsureveille.com

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

O’Bryant commits to Tigers on Thursday

Sports On a Mission

Jacob Bower brings football, life experiences to McNeese State Rachel Whittaker Chief Sports Writer

McNeese State quarterback Jacob Bower is more than just a football player.

He’s a faithful Mormon, a husband and a father who has been through junior college and Football Bowl Subdivision football, and now he is a graduate student studying exercise physiology and quarterbacking the Cowboys.

It’s no wonder McNeese State coach Matt Viator found Bower appealing as a veteran to bring to the Cowboys’ offense.

After originally committing to Hawaii under former coach June Jones, Bower went on a two-year Mormon mission to Wisconsin before playing as the starting quarterb a c k

Staff Reports LSU men’s basketball coach Trent Johnson is back at it.

Johnson, fresh off reeling in a top-20 recruiting class for 2010, might have landed his most impressive prospect yet when post player Johnny O’Bryant committed to LSU on Thursday.

ESPN tabs O’Bryant as the No. 1 center in the 2011 class and a five-star recruit. Scout and Rivals both have him as a four-star prospect.

The Cleveland, Miss., native picked the Tigers over a host of schools, including Alabama, Georgia Tech, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Miami and Maryland.

Reportedly, O’Bryant’s decision came down to LSU and Ole Miss.

O’Bryant became the second recruit in the 2011 class, joining Pickering guard John Isaac.

Known for his physical presence, ESPN’s Reggie Rankin compared O’Bryant’s physique to a ‘young Dwight Howard.”

ESPN lists O’Bryant at 6 feet 10 inches and 260 pounds, while Scout lists him at 6 feet 9 inches and 245 pounds. Rivals measures him at 6 feet 9 inches and 235 pounds.

O’Bryant will join current LSU freshmen and former AAU teammates Andre Stringer and Jalen Courtney in Baton Rouge.

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at Bakersfield (Calif.) Junior College in 2007. He also spent two years as the backup at Tulsa before graduating and embarking upon graduate school at McNeese State this year.

“We were going to be really young at the quarterback position,” Viator said. “We were looking for someone to bridge the gap. I was more intrigued with him as a person than anything else. He’s an outstanding young man.”

Bower, a native of Meridian, Idaho, saw McNeese State as a welcome opportunity for him and his wife, Rachel, to settle down. The couple had their first child, Wayne, on June 30.

Rachel and Jacob met on their first day at Bakersfield in 2007, and they married that following November. Rachel said her husband’s character was most attractive about him.

“He’s very humble. I adored that about him,” she said. “He’s the kind of guy who would give you the shirt off his back. He taught me a lot about giving and helping others.”

Bower said his Mormon BOWER, see page 11 BRAD PUCKETT / American Press

McNeese State quarterback Jacob Bower (12) drops back for a pass Oct. 2 in the Cowboys’ 24-7 win against Northwestern State in Natchitoches.

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VOLLEYBALL

Tigers travel to Oxford for SEC play Team tackles three matches, midterms Mark Clements Sports Contributor

The LSU volleyball team has been busier than ever this past week.

Three Southeastern Conference matches in six days has been the icing on the midterm week cake for the Lady Tigers.

The team has stepped up to the challenge so far, defeating both No. 22 Tennessee and Arkansas at home earlier this week.

But LSU coach Fran Flory said the toughest challenge lies ahead as the team travels this weekend to Oxford, Miss., to take on Ole Miss (12-5, 6-2).

“Ole Miss is a tough, tough match on their home court,” Flory said. “We’re going to have to be an awful lot better Friday night than we were [Wednesday] on our home court.”

Nearly halfway through the SEC schedule, the Tigers hold an 8-1 conference record and sit atop the SEC Western Division.

The Rebels are nipping at the Tigers’ heels in the West with a 6-2 conference record and sit third overall in the SEC. Ole Miss enters the match coming off three straight shutouts of conference foes, including Kentucky, Auburn and Georgia, VOLLEYBALL, see page 11

MEN’S BASKETBALL

LSU aims to erase memories of last year’s 11-20 season Tigers set to begin practice Friday Luke Johnson Sports Contributor

The LSU men’s basketball team has plenty of fresh faces on the roster this year, and maybe that’s a good thing.

After slogging through an 11-20 season last year, the Tigers sounded eager for a new beginning at media day on Wednesday.

“Everybody wants to come in here and gain our respect back,” said junior guard Chris Bass.

“With the way last year went, we’re just glad for a fresh start.

Hopefully we’ll turn this thing around this year.”

After weeks of individual drills, the Tigers ‘We’re just will kick off the glad for a 2010-11 season with their first fresh start. team practice toHopefully day.

“I’m very we’ll turn excited about this thing this basketball around this team,” said LSU coach Trent year.’

Johnson. “For Chris Bass the first time LSU junior guard since I’ve been here, we’ve got a group of guys that the fanbase and you can grow with. Our team is going to be in place for two or

three years, so that’s exciting.”

The Tigers have four freshmen who figure to make an impact on the team this season.

Freshman guards Andre Stringer and Ralston Turner and forwards Matt Derenbecker and Jalen Courtney are all in the mix for playing time this season.

“I am optimistically cautious, because when you go up against competition, you have to find out how guys are going to react,” Johnson said. “But I think Stringer will react at the college level like he did at the high school level. I think Turner and Derenbecker will be the same way.”

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LSU men’s basketball Trent Johnson discusses the role the new freshmen will play during LSU’s media day on Wednesday. Johnson and the Tigers start practice today.

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SOCCER

Tigers look for first road win this weekend against Ole Miss Goalie Kinneman continues solid effort Rowan Kavner Sports Writer

The LSU soccer team is trying to do something twice this weekend it hasn’t done the entire season.

The Tigers (5-6-3, 2-2-2) have the opportunity for their first road win in their first October road game of the year Friday against Ole Miss (5-8-2, 1-4-1) before traveling to Mississippi State on Sunday.

Junior defender Taryne Boudreau said the Tigers need two wins this weekend while fighting for a spot in the Southeastern Conference tournament. LSU has made the tournament every year since the 2006-07 season.

“If we don’t win these next two games, we’re not going to go to conference, and that’s a big thing for us since we’re defending [SEC] West champs,” Boudreau said.

The Tigers haven’t lost a regular season game to Mississippi State (7-8-0, 0-6-0) since the 2001-02 season. But the same can’t be said for Ole Miss. LSU tied the Rebels, 0-0, last year and

lost to them in the regular season in 2008 before beating them in the SEC tournament.

“From watching film on Ole Miss and from last year, they like to spread the field, and they like to go at you,” Boudreau said. “They man mark. All we’ve got to do is pass and move against them.”

But that’s easier said than done. It’s no secret the Tigers have had trouble finishing scoring chances this year.

Freshman goalkeeper Megan Kinneman and junior goalkeeper Mo Isom haven’t allowed more than one goal in any of their last 11 matches, yet they’ve won only four of those games.

The Tigers have only seven goals in their last 11 matches, and before they can worry about anything else they have to focus on scoring.

“We’re still trying to mesh well,” Boudreau said. “People are moving positions. We’ve got to click this weekend and make it happen and find the net and score.”

Freshman forward Addie Eggleston said coming together as a unit will be the key to LSU’s success the rest of the season.

“We started connecting a little better, but we still need to actually finish the ball and just connect our defense to midfield and midfield to forward,” Eggleston said. “We

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LSU freshman Addie Eggleston (2) attempts a shot Sunday during the Tigers’ game against Vanderbilt. The Tigers lost, 1-0.

need to all play well together.”

Boudreau said there is no excuse for losing Sunday’s matchup against Mississippi State, which is winless in the SEC. “I know if we just play our game against them they won’t beat us,” Boudreau said.

LSU coach Brian Lee said it’s essential the Tigers are mentally prepared and physically fit when they play the Bulldogs. LSU lost

its Sunday match last week against Vanderbilt, 1-0.

“Physical recovery in the 48 hours is really hard,” Lee said. “It will come down to effort level and intensity and who finishes their chances.”

Despite the lack of points, Lee said the freshmen-laden team has picked up its intensity this week.

“You start to realize, ‘I’ve only got five games left, and then

I won’t play a meaningful game again for nine months,’” Lee said.

“Compared to their old club schedules, that’s really, really different.”

Lee said the Tigers are excited to travel after two weeks at home.

“It’s an opportunity for some team bonding,” he said.

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FOOTBALL

New ‘Mustang’ formation helps improve third-down defense Team only two sacks shy of last year Cory Boudreaux Sports Contributor

This season the LSU defense has made great strides in its sack totals and third-down defense thanks to a new wrinkle in its playbook.

Second-year LSU defensive coordinator John Chavis has utilized his defense’s speed in third-and- long situations with a new personnel package known as the “Mustang,” which features three defensive linemen, two linebackers and six defensive backs.

The new package has LSU players booming with confidence.

“I don’t see any offensive lineman trying to block our blitzing package,” said junior outside linebacker Ryan Baker.

The Mustang has helped vault the Tigers to the top of the Southeastern Conference rankings in total defense. The LSU defense has allowed more than 250 total yards in only two of six contests in 2010.

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Junior linebacker Ryan Baker (22) trips Tennessee quarterback Matt Simms (2) on Oct. 2. The Tigers beat the Volunteers, 16-14, in Death Valley.

“The play speaks for itself,” said senior middle linebacker Kelvin Sheppard. “When you put speed and athletes on the field, with the defensive coordinator we have who’s putting us in the right positions to make plays, the film doesn’t lie.”

The stats don’t lie either.

LSU is tied with South Carolina for the SEC lead with 19 sacks. In 2009 the Tigers needed 12 games to record 19 sacks and finished the season ranked 87th nationally with 21

sacks.

LSU has managed at least one sack out of the Mustang in five games this year, including two in the season opener against North Carolina and three against Tennessee. LSU recorded four of its five interceptions against Mississippi State through calls in the Mustang.

Chavis has also made a habit of pressuring opposing quarterbacks from every possible angle with the formation. Sixteen players have

CROSS COUNTRY

LSU to face toughest test Saturday Ryan Ginn

Sports Contributor

With only one meet left in the regular season, the LSU cross country teams can already see the postseason on the horizon.

Both teams have enjoyed some measures of success this season, collecting a combined five runner-up finishes in six chances, but they acknowledge that streak will be tough

to continue.

Saturday marks the University of Arkansas’ annual Chile Pepper Festival, widely regarded as one of the toughest meets in the country. To steal a recent metaphor, it’s the cross country equivalent of trying to score on a defense with, say, 13 players.

While a typical meet contains somewhere around 10 teams, Chile Pepper usually attracts between 30

and 40 schools, many of whom are nationally ranked. Additionally, the men’s race will be the only time this season the Tigers don’t compete at the 8K distance; instead, races will be 10K.

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recorded a tackle for loss, and eight players have recorded at least one sack.

“Coach Chavis is definitely going to bring pressure from all around the field,” said junior cornerback Patrick Peterson. “We have so many different blitz packages that a lot of offenses are not going to know what to do.”

LSU’s ability to create confusion and disguise blitzes through the Mustang has resulted in significant improvements in its third-down defense. The Tigers rank fifth in the SEC in third-down conversions allowed. Last year LSU finished ninth in the conference in that category.

But the Mustang has been most effective in third-and-long situations.

Opponents have only converted eight third downs of eight yards or more in 38 attempts against the LSU defense this season. The Tigers also rank fifth nationally with 26 3-and-outs.

“I contribute a lot of our [thirddown] success to our Mustang package because once that package gets on the field, there’s not much the offense can do because they’re not sure where we’re going to come from,”

said junior strong safety Brandon Taylor.

Chavis installed the new package during the offseason as the players grew more familiar with his scheme. Sheppard first learned about some of the new calls during the offseason in talking with fellow Georgia native and former Tennessee safety and current Kansas City Chief Eric Berry, whom Chavis coached during his 14-year tenure as defensive coordinator at Tennessee.

“We were sitting down talking, and he just started naming all these things and showing me what they did at Tennessee,” Sheppard said. “And I said to myself, ‘Hey, we never did any of that.’”

But the new additions to the defensive playbook have become second nature to the LSU defense, and players know what to expect when they get a Mustang call in the huddle.

“Once you hear, ‘Mustang, Mustang,’ you know something big is coming,” Baker said.

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FOOTBALL

No. 25 West Virginia beats South Florida, 20-6, Thursday Starks nabs fourth TD in two games John Raby AP Sports Writer

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Geno Smith threw two touchdown passes and No. 25 West Virginia held South Florida to a season-low for yards in a 20-6 victory over the Bulls on Thursday night.

The Mountaineers (5-1, 1-0 Big East) made the most out of their limited scoring opportunities in a game where neither offense thrived.

The nation’s seventh-best defense held South Florida (3-3,

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the most intriguing prospects of the group. The diminutive 5-foot9 guard was named Mississippi’s Gatorade Player of the Year twice and averaged 26 points per game with nine assists during his time at Forest Hill High School.

Johnson was effusive in his praise of Stringer.

“Stringer has a chance to be special,” Johnson said. “I think he was about 6-foot-1 when we

0-2) without an offensive touchdown for the second straight game.

Quarterback B.J. Daniels found no room to roam and the Bulls were outgained 298-202.

South Florida’s previous low for offense was 219 yards in a 13-9 loss to Syracuse last week West Virginia jumped ahead 17-3 at halftime and ate up clock time after that in posting its 12th straight home win.

Both teams crossed midfield twice in the second half and managed only a field goal apiece.

Last year Daniels went through the Mountaineers for 336 yards of offense in a 30-19 win, but West Virginia had a better plan for him this time.

Daniels ran 14 times for just

4 yards and completed 20 of 30 passes for 119 yards before being replaced late in the game. Daniels was sacked four times and his three interceptions gave him 10 this season, surpassing his total for all of 2009.

South Florida was successful in slowing down Noel Devine for the second straight year. Devine led the Mountaineers with 13 carries for 29 yards. His longest run was 13 yards.

Instead, the Mountaineers relied on Smith for an arsenal of mostly short, controlled passes.

He was 24 of 31 for 219 yards.

West Virginia forged ahead with an unusually imbalanced approach, throwing on 23 of its 33 first-half plays.

Brad Starks had his fourth

TD catch in two games, grabbing a 31-yarder with no defender near him in the first quarter for a 10-0 lead.

After that, there was little movement from either offense.

Smith completed eight straight passes at one point but for little gain. The teams punted on seven straight possessions in the second quarter.

Robert Sands provided a spark for the Mountaineers just before halftime, stepping in front of a pass from Evan Landi and returning the interception 27 yards to the South Florida 7.

On the next play West Virginia executed a hook-and-lateral in tight quarters.

Smith threw a screen pass behind the line of scrimmage to

Sanders. He immediately flipped the ball behind him to Devine, who went around right end for the score and a 17-3 lead.

Keith Tandy caught a tipped pass early in the fourth quarter for his fourth interception in three games.

Brantwon Bowser had his first career interception for the Mountaineers.

West Virginia coach Bill Stewart earned his second win over the Bulls in three tries and the Mountaineers evened the alltime series at 3-3.

signed him. Now he’s about 5-foot-5. That is the only thing I don’t like about him right now.”

Stringer is in the running to split time with Bass and sophomore guard Daron Populist in the backcourt.

But the biggest addition to the team may be 6-foot-9 junior forward Malcolm White, who will be playing for the Tigers this season after transferring from Ole Miss.

The Baton Rouge native

averaged 7.2 points and 5.7 re- plus for us,” White said. “I think bounds per game this year we’ll be with Ole Miss really tough induring his sopho- ‘We seem to have a side. We know more season and what our roles are will team with better flow with each and what our jobs fellow junior for- other. We’re a little are.” ward Storm WarWhen asked ren to provide more comfortable.’ whether the team an athletic fronthas a different feel Garrett Green court. to it heading into LSU junior forward “With [Warthis year than it ren] and I being did last year, most inside, it’s going to be a really big players mentioned the family-

type atmosphere of the team.

“The camaraderie of the team is completely different,” said junior forward Garrett Green. “We seem to have a better flow with each other. We’re a little more comfortable, and the more we play the more we find out about each other’s strengths and weaknesses.”

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and the team is looking to keep the shutout streak alive.

“It’s exciting to be in this position of playing at home against a top-15 team in LSU,” said Ole Miss coach Joe Getzin. “It will be a tough match with LSU having only lost one match coming into the weekend, but we match up well with them statistically. It should be an exciting match.”

The Tigers and Rebels match up well indeed.

Both schools are in the top five in the conference in several major statistical categories, including assists, kills, opponent hitting percentage and digs.

The Tigers received a

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mission, which he began at 19 years old and spent in Milwaukee, Green Bay and Madison, Wisc., helped him realize how blessed he was to have the opportunity to play football and to never take family for granted.

“I was one of those in a white shirt and tie who go around on bikes knocking on your door,” Bower said. “There’s nothing like ... getting the door slammed on you or getting stuff thrown on you by the side of the road. It’s brought me a lot of happiness in my life ... something I wanted to give back to God.” Rachel has some athletic background of her own, playing junior college volleyball in Oklahoma last year. Now she attends as many McNeese State games as she can while taking care of the Bowers’ 3 1/2 month old-son.

“I know [Jacob] loves [football], and I love to support him,” Rachel said. “It’s got its ups and downs for sure.”

One of those “down” moments came Oct. 9 against Stephen F. Austin, when Jacob suffered a concussion in the first half and did not return. He has played in all five games this season, completing 60-of-99 passes for 803 yards with three touchdowns and six interceptions.

Bower underwent evalu-

recent boost in the offense with the outstanding level of play from sophomore outside hitter Madie Jones.

“Madie is on a high right now,” Flory said. “Madie is doing her job, taking great swings and smart shots, and she’s finishing. If we can continue that rhythm with her she’s going to put up some nice numbers the second half of the season.”

A quiet hero so far this year, Jones sits No. 3 on the team in both points and kills, and was a bright spot in the rather dull outing the Tigers had against Arkansas.

“I definitely think we have to play better than we did [Wednesday] to beat Ole Miss,”

Jones said. “We have two days to get ready for it so I think we’ll do the best we can. And I’m really excited about playing Ole Miss and hopefully we can pull out another win.”

Flory agreed, saying the play must improve, but said the team will be ready come game time.

“It’s certainly a concern walking off the court, but this team has stepped up to challenges throughout the season and hopefully they will continue to do that,” Flory said. “We’ll get back to business on Friday.”

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ations this week, but redshirt family life and school. freshman Cody Stroud will start.

But Rachel said it has been a Bower may successful transidress out, but he tion to the Louiwould only play siana weather and in an emergency, culture, and Jacob Sports Informais an avid outtion Director doorsman and deLouis Bonnette voted family man confirmed Thursoff the field. day. “ H o n e s t l y, Stroud said we’ve never Rachel Bower he and Bower wife of McNeese QB Jacob Bower been to a place help each other with such nice in practice and in people,” she said. games, as they both are in their “Football may come and go. But first season on the field at Mc- [Jacob] finds passion in other Neese State. things that make him happy.”

“We hang out on and off the field,” Stroud said. “In the film room we help each other study, and on the sideline on Saturday night, if he’s confused about something or I’m confused about something, we’ll talk it over.”

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WEB COMMENTS

As usual, the Opinion section of our website, lsureveille.com, has been absolutely buzzing with reader comments. Check it out today, and let your voice be heard.

In response to Kelly Hotard’s recent opinion column, “Student section too obsessed with sex, needs to clean up act,” readers had this to say: O---weee---oohhhh Get over it. You’re talking about the age group of 18-23. What do you expect? Sorry we can’t be as classy and sophisticated as you?

Get over yourself, please.

-Otis People are always gonna do what they want no matter what.

Not playing the song is not gonna stop it just like what happened with the o wee oh chant. I agree with Otis. This is 18-23 year olds and this is a time to enjoy life and have some fun. I don’t plan on growing up anytime soon.

I usually agree with most of your articles but I can’t say I feel the same for this one. And also I love how all the people saying they’re embarrassed and telling people they should be more mature are too much of a child to not even put a name to their thoughts. Why don’t you grow up and take some credibility for what you say?

-Taylor H.

towards a win. Be happy. You can’t eliminate childish behavior inside the stadium when people outside are getting wasted before the game. Or a better argument would be that being explicit is an art form and our technique is our Artistic License and you just can’t silence that.

Bam! I can make up a class outta that. “Studies in the Art of Game Day Lewd Behavior”.

-Taco

Hey 6-0 is 6-0 right? That’s what Coach Miles says after he stumblin and fumblin us

I can’t agree with the author’s assertion that “The ‘Neck’ chant is one of the most

The people who start this crap are the same losers leaving in the 3rd quarter of a tie game.

-Anonymous

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awesome aspects of our Louisiana Saturday nights.” Neck bleauxs. Whatever it takes for the administration to get rid of that SWAC nonsense is fine with me.

Otis...you should aspire to having class and sophistication instead of denigrating those who do have it.

-Anonymous I am embarrassed to go to this university. No wonder the rest of the country thinks LSU is a crappy school filled with morons, when in reality that’s only part of it.

- Anonymous

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The Jindal Count

Days Bobby Jindal has ignored our concerns:

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Will higher education hold any priority with the administration in the coming budget crisis?

Would the governor support a constitutional amendment to protect higher education and allow for more “across the board” cuts?

What message would the Governor’s Office have for students, faculty and administrators faced with this crisis?

THE C-SECTION

LSU must look to UNO to learn how to fight budget cuts

University of New Orleans students held a protest Oct. 6 against imminent budget cuts.

Students signed petitions, emailed legislators, acquired legislators’ phone numbers to make calls and handed out bumper stickers and posters to spur action in opposition to the $20 million projected to be cut from UNO. This was the second protest UNO has held — the first resulted in several arrests.

Fast forward to Oct. 8. LSU’s Faculty Senate Chris Grillot organizes a jazz Columnist funeral for higher education. Students and faculty marched around half of the Parade Ground holding protest signs — perhaps not as effective.

Why aren’t LSU students nearly as riled up as UNO students?

The answer isn’t as simple saying “LSU students haven’t been affected yet” or “LSU students are uninformed” — it’s different from that.

The reason why LSU students haven’t made a stand against the cuts is simple — LSU students aren’t worried about their education as much as their social lives.

That being said, I’ve attended both LSU and UNO, and by no means is UNO a social campus, which is the reason I transferred.

From my experience, UNO’s students separate school from the rest of their lives. Most of the students leave campus and go home

as soon as class lets out. Most aren’t caught up in extra activities at UNO. They are simply there for education.

Because their minds are solely set on education while at school, UNO students get pissed when their school starts to fall apart.

Contrasting UNO, LSU’s students’ social lives are rooted in the University. It seems most students overshadow the University’s purpose as an educator with the social services it provides.

Simply put: Until someone messes with the social realm of the University, we won’t take action. The real reason why we’re here — education — can be threatened endlessly to no effect.

I’ll use a hypothetical situation to explain: Say the Chancellor’s Office sends an e-mail to every student saying, “Tailgating has been banned from campus.”

I don’t think I’d even have to explain the amount of rioting that would go on.

Consider this: The Chancellor’s Office sends an e-mail to all students saying, “$62 million could be from the University’s budget.” Sounds inflammatory, right? Apparently not at LSU. As a matter of fact, it seems most students can’t tell you how much the University is planning to see cut. I polled 30 students in the Quad asking if they could tell me the monetary value the University is preparing to cut, or even if they could give me a general idea.

Most didn’t have the slightest notion. They guessed “around

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a million,” and some just said, “I think it’s supposed to be bad.”

Only one student knew the answer — and he was involved with Student Government.

To the 29 who were ignorant, the answer is $62 million. And I use the word ignorant because every student at the University received an e-mail informing them of the cuts, and the pages of the paper you are reading right now publishes the number almost every day.

But why didn’t they know?

I doubt all of these students were far too busy with school to read and e-mail or check The Daily Reveille. I have a feeling their social lives and personal tribulations have overshadowed their care for the academic aspect of the University.

To prove LSU students are far less concerned about the budget crisis, I asked Alexander Johnson, English junior and writer for UNO’s student newspaper, The Driftwood, to do a similar poll.

Johnson polled 20 people, asking if they could tell him the percentage expected to be cut from UNO’s budget. Eleven out of 20 knew — significantly higher than LSU. Now for another example of LSU students putting academics behind social life.

Take a look at The Daily Reveille’s website, lsureveille. com. As of Thursday, only two of the top seven most popular pages regard budget cuts. Now look at the remaining five. Two refer to sex in their titles, two are sports

stories and the last has the word “drunk” in it.

Now back to social lives. I don’t think it would be stupid of me to say that sex, drinking and sports are huge aspects of many of the University’s students’ social lives.

And once again, tell the students they can’t do one of those, and they’ll freak out more than if they had to find new majors because theirs had been cut.

In the end, we need to applaud UNO students for their vastly superior efforts to fight cuts.

But while we applaud, we must also look to them as an example as to how we can make a mark on our legislators, who

determine our University’s fate.

And the first thing students need to do is stop the mentality of, “It’s OK if the University suffers — I’ll still be having fun,” and become more aware that if the Flagship takes a big enough cut, she’ll start to sink. And the students will be left drowning.

Chris Grillot is a 19-yearold mass communication and English sophomore from New Orleans. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_cgrillot.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

BRCC student disappointed by recent criticisms What are you doing, Daily Reveille? At one point in time I admired your paper. I went so far as to suggest to the BRCC Today that we try to emulate you. I considered the Reveille a beacon of collegiate journalism. I was wrong.

You have continued to harass not only Baton Rouge Community College but the entire Louisiana Community College and Technical College System. Our two systems aren’t even in competition. We’re

not even in the same game. The Reveille, and LSU by association, seem to be suffering from a selfesteem issue. Our college doesn’t serve the same purpose as your institution, although our professors do go through the same accreditation process as yours. Although many of our professors teach in your classrooms as well. Although most of our professors hold MBAs or PhDs in their chosen fields.

BRCC and our sister colleges in the LCTCS exist to afford underprivileged students and working adults the opportunity to advance in their career fields, or get certified in a technical/vocational area. But I don’t suppose we need nurses or petroleum technicians or construction managers. Just engineers and philosophy majors,

churned out at 40K-60K a pop.

100 percent of our nursing students have passed their certification exams, by the way, two years running. About 120 of them in all, only 120 because that’s all our program can handle. (There are about 400 applicants per semester.

It’s quite competitive.)

I made a 28 on my ACT, but I was raised by an uncle who took me in after my parents died and had to work 40 hours a week starting sophomore year of high school. I wasn’t exactly bringing home straight A’s. BRCC has given me the opportunity to schedule my classes around my working life, and now I’m at a college I can afford with class sizes that allow my professors to give me their undivided and personal attention.

What the Reveille has printed over the past few weeks and months, characterizing our schools as “loop hole colleges” and “degree machines,” is frankly asinine and offensive to all the people working full-time jobs and struggling to better themselves through higher education. The last thing we need is the LSU bourgeoisie leaning out of their purple and gold and not quite ivory towers, sneering down at the people who didn’t get dealt the same cards in life as most of your 20 something frat-tastic trust fund set.

And I know I’m generalizing. There are a lot of hardworking people at LSU who struggled to get where they are, but those aren’t the people I’m addressing right now. I’d give

page 13 them the respect they deserve any day of the week, but I’m pissed, and justly so.

But it’s all good, Reveille.

Your “Flagship” University is taking on water and sinking fast.

Our community college tugboat?

We’re chugging right along, and while a big portion of your graduating class is searching for work, our graduates will be laboring humbly away in our hospitals and chemical plants, not exactly bringing in six figures, but giving back to the community none the less.

Nicholas Pierce Op-Ed Editor, BRCC Today Contact The Daily Reveille’s opinion staff at opinion@lsureveille.com

VIEW FROM ANOTHER SCHOOL

Upcoming election: witches, Nazis and Tea Party lunatics Paul Thompson University of Alabama

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (UWIRE) — Every time someone does something to restore my faith in humanity, the Tea Partiers destroy that hope.

It’s something new every week with these people. I mean, really, just when you thought they couldn’t go any further off of the deep end of the crazy pool, they do.

And just to get this out of the way up front: Yes, Tea Partiers, you are a lunatic fringe group.

Yes, there are crazy people among you, and yes, you are exactly what’s wrong with this country.

Allow me to prove it.

Before I start my rant, let me concede the fact that every political party has a lunatic fringe and crazies within its ranks. I understand that, but it seems to me, and quite a few other people, that the average percentages of lunatics and fringe groups are much higher when considering the Tea Party.

Enter Christine O’Donnell and Rich Lott.

O’Donnell is a Tea Party GOP candidate for U.S. Senate from Delaware and is most definitely not a witch. She’s you, if you once “dabbled” in witchcraft, anyway.

And Lott, well, he’s almost completely sure that he’s probably not a Nazi, but on weekends, sometimes, he dresses up like one and re-enacts WWII. Oh, yeah, he’s another Tea Party GOP candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio.

O’Donnell is flailing trying to defend herself at this point, but surely reasonable people will see through that, right?

This is the woman who said, “One of my first dates … was on a satanic altar, and I didn’t know it.

I mean, there’s little blood there and stuff like that. We went to a movie and then had a midnight picnic on a satanic altar.”

More recently, she released a campaign ad saying, “I’m not a witch. I’m you,” which “Saturday Night Live” did a hilarious remake of last week. It seems to me, though, that O’Donnell is very little like the rest of us. I mean, I don’t know about you, but I’ve never been to a satanic altar, let alone had a “midnight picnic” on one, if that was really what she was doing there anyway. Seems like a strange place to picnic. At midnight.

Which brings us to Lott, who, apparently, has a great deal of fascination with Nazi German soldiers from WWII. In fact, as reported by CNN, Lott has so much

interest in WWII Nazis that he spends his free time re-enacting battles from that time.

Admittedly, he’s doing something right — he hasn’t been forced to publicly deny that he’s a witch. It’s hard to say which is worse, though. Witch or Nazi?

Lott says, “We need to constantly educate and remind people of the horrible tragedy that happened years ago.” Doesn’t that sound great?

I think most sane people would suggest a trip to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. instead of some bone-headed militia-types taking to their Nazi combat gear and re-enacting

one of — if not the most — horrific wars in human history.

Lott isn’t even trying to distance himself from his Nazi affiliation, either. He freely admitted in an interview on CNN that he got his son involved with his re-enactments, too.

Because that’s definitely what the world needs. A new generation of Nazi Tea Partiers.

In all seriousness, though, where are we supposed to start with these people? Surely they’re all not like that, right? If they’re not, though, why do they support candidates who are as certifiably insane as Lott and O’Donnell?

Why are pretend Nazis and

once-upon-a-time witches running for national office? Where’s the logic in voting for a candidate with that kind of background?

I defy anyone to justify his or her reasons for supporting either Lott or O’Donnell.

Maybe someone could write in and explain it to the rest of us.

I know I’d love to read someone’s defense of Lott and O’Donnell.

Read more at http://www.cw.ua. edu/2010/10/14/witches-nazisand-tea-party-lunatics/ Contact The Daily Reveille’s opinion staff at opinion@lsureveille.com

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