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“The Virginity Hit” holds advance screening in BR, p. 11 Students, police chief hurt at UNO student budget cut protest, p. 2

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Volume 115, Issue 9

RESEARCH

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Independent researchers face problems with oil spill studies Matthew Albright Staff Writer

As Louisiana begins the long recovery from the Deepwater Horizon disaster, scientists have rushed to the Gulf Coast, looking to answer burning questions about the impacts of the spill and its cleanup.

But some University professors

say efforts by independent scientists to quantify those impacts are being hampered by pressures from BP and the federal government. And in the rush to build legal cases in the storm’s aftermath, they say the truth may be at risk of getting pushed aside.

Linda Hooper-Bui, an entomologist with the LSU Ag Center

studying the effects of the spill on the area’s food web, said her research has been directly hampered.

Hooper-Bui said one of her graduate students was collecting ant samples in coastal Alabama when he was accosted by a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officer. Hooper-Bui said the student was told he wasn’t authorized to conduct research in

the area because he did not have approval from the Deepwater Horizon Response Unified Command — the organization jointly run by the federal government and BP responsible for the clean-up effort.

The official confiscated the ant samples — after weeks of preparation, site selection and collection.

Hooper-Bui said those samples

are still sitting in an office somewhere in Alabama.

“Having to start all over is pretty inconvenient,” she said.

Hooper-Bui’s case has since gone public — she has written oped pieces in The New York Times and The Scientist and has been a RESEARCH, see page 5

Alcohol not allowed outside Ga. Dome Grace Montgomery Contributing Writer

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BR biking community grows, offers diverse events GRANT GUTIERREZ / The Daily Reveille

Critical Mass riders wait at a stop light on Perkins Road on Friday to finish their ride to the state Capitol. Critical Mass is held the last Friday of every month.

he Baton Rouge biking community has environment, so why not go out and get a bike?” taken University students by storm, and said Jenny Byrd, natural resource ecology and it has never been easier to jump on the management junior and co-president of ECO at bike-riding bandwagon.

LSU. Tour de Coffee, Pub Roll, Bike Polo and Among riding’s many benefits, riders parCritical Mass are just a few on a long list of ticularly enjoy not having to deal with campus options students have to get to traffic and parking.

By Cathryn Core know fellow rollers and get in“Biking is a very efficient Entertainment Writer volved in Baton Rouge’s world way to get around,” she said. of biking.

“You get around faster, you From bike rides to bike maintenance and don’t have to worry about parking or parking safety, Baton Rouge and University organiza- fines, and there are bike racks everywhere.” tions strive to hold events that strive to keep bikByrd said she enjoys participating in Critiers safe. cal Mass, a moderately paced bike ride that ocThe Environmental Conservation Organi- curs the last Friday of each month. zation at LSU, an on-campus organization dedi“You make a lot of cool friends,” she said. cated to issues like alternative transportation and “And afterwards, we all hang out, go to the sustainability, promotes the benefits of biking North Gate Tavern and party.” and participates in local bike rides.

BIKERS, see page 6 “It’s healthy for you, and it’s healthy for the

Biking Events in BR • Critical Mass — Held the last Friday of the month at 5:30 p.m.

— Meet at the Memorial Bell Tower • Training Race — Held Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5:30 p.m.

— Meet at Farr Park

• Beginner’s Ride — Held the first Saturday of the month at 9 a.m.

— Meet at Webb Memorial Park • Tour de Coffee — Held Saturdays and Sundays at 7:30 a.m.

— Meet at Goodwood Park

Students traveling to Atlanta this weekend for the LSU-North Carolina football game have more to remember than just packing their tickets.

Alcohol is not allowed outside of the Georgia Dome, according to Atlanta Police Department spokesman R. Stanionis.

Aside from drinking, parking may be a challenge on game day.

Students are encouraged to find a legitimate parking lot instead of parking on streets.

Students may encounter residents selling parking spaces in front of their homes for a small fee, but that’s illegal, Stanionis said.

“Try not to get scammed,” Stanionis said. “No private citizen can charge you to park on the street in front of their homes.”

Taking the MARTA, or Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority — which does not allow alcohol — or a taxi is an option to get to and from hotels, Stanionis said. Students should also be aware of different driving laws when passing through Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.

Georgia recently passed a law in which all passengers in a pickup truck must wear a seat belt, Stanionis said.

“Traveling in what most states consider Labor Day weekend, students should expect increased law enforcement looking for DUIs and aggressive driving, which includes speeding,” said Alabama Department of Transportation spokesman Tony Harris.

Contact Grace Montgomery at gmontgomery@lsureveille.com

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Nation & World

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STATE Port Allen mayor, police chief indicted on racketeering charges

UNO police chief hurt, 2 arrested in student protest scuffle

(AP) — Port Allen’s mayor and police chief have been indicted on federal racketeering charges for allegedly taking bribes from businesspeople.

The charges against Mayor Derek Lewis and Police Chief Frederick Smith in Wednesday’s 22-count indictment include violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, mail fraud and wire fraud.

The indictment claims Lewis and Smith accepted around $20,000 in cash and other items of value in exchange for using their positions to benefit businessmen in more than $5 million worth of transactions.

Lewis allegedly took bribes to promote a “conceptual” product, a garbage can cleaning service called “Cifer 5000.”

Smith is accused of fraudulently providing confidential law enforcement information to businesspeople, corruptly dismissing traffic tickets and agreeing to commission one of the businesspeople as a police officer.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two people were arrested and the University of New Orleans campus police chief was injured Wednesday in a scuffle with members of a crowd that refused to leave the administration building after a student protest against deep budget cuts.

Police Chief Tim Harrington left the scene in an ambulance, grimacing in pain, ice packs around his right ankle.

Chancellor Timothy Ryan said Harrington was injured when he tried to prevent students from coming up a stairwell to offices on the second floor of the administration building.

UNO spokesman Adam Norris said Peter Reed, currently a student, and Matthew Smith, a former graduate student not currently enrolled, were arrested by campus police and will be turned over to New Orleans police. He said they would be charged with battery on a police officer and resisting arrest. Norris said he had no

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Earlier Wednesday, about eight students at UNO — which, like other state colleges and universities is facing possible budget cuts of up to 35 percent — barricaded themselves in a classroom building for about two hours.

They then led a class walkout and outdoor rally which eventually attracted about 150 of the school’s 8,600 undergraduates. But instead of going directly to an amphitheater where campus police had set up a sound system for them, they went to the administration building, carrying banners that read “OCCUPY,” ‘’STRIKE” and “RESIST” and clogging the hallways.

Once there, most remained peaceful — even walking quietly by Ryan’s office at the request of campus police.

But police apparently used a chemical spray on at least one student who was put into a squad car, his hands cuffed behind his back. They poured water on him, apparently to wash the chemical off, as he sat

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outside the administration building.

Classes continued after the fracas but guards were posted at the administration building.

NATION Police shoot and kill gunman at Discovery Channel building A gunman who stormed the Discovery Communications building in Maryland and was shot by police has died, according to law enforcement officials on the scene.

The gunman took three people in the building hostage, and he was reportedly upset over the channel’s programming. The hostages were all able to escape.

“In coordination with Montgomery County, Md., Police, an evacuation procedure was executed for all persons in the building,” David Leavy, Discovery Communications Executive Vice President Global Communications and Corporate Affairs said in a statement.

The money spent on advertising is a relatively small proportion of BP’s total expenditures of about $6.1 billion so far on the oil spill, said Scott Dean, a spokesman for BP. BP spent $93M on advertising after Gulf of Mexico oil spill WASHINGTON (AP) — Oil giant BP says it has spent more than $5 million a week on advertising since the Gulf Coast oil spill — more than three times the amount it spent on ads during the same period last year.

BP PLC told the House Energy and Commerce Committee that it spent a total of $93 million on advertising from April to the end of July. The company says the money was intended to keep Gulf Coast residents informed on issues related to the oil spill and to ensure transparency about its actions. The increased spending was largely targeted at TV, newspapers and magazines. A small portion was directed to the Internet.

Maryland State Police troopers, walk near the Discovery Channel network building in Silver Spring, Md., Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. Police shot and killed a man upset with the network’s programming.

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Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010

OIL SPILL

La. seafood still tasty, safe to eat Experts provide facts for skeptics Nicholas Persac Contributing Writer

Boiled shrimp, fried oysters and grilled fish from the Gulf of Mexico and Louisiana still make delicious — and safe — meals despite a national misperception steering buyers away from local products.

“For the most part, or almost 100 percent, the seafood [from Louisiana] looks really good and clean,” said LSU AgCenter nutritionist Beth Reames. “There’s not really any indication of contamination [from the oil spill], so they’re opening those waters and we’re enjoying the seafood as fast as the fishermen can get out there and get them.”

Industry leaders, University researchers and politicians say Louisiana’s seafood is not just safe to eat, but it also comes from “the most tested food source in the world right now.”

“The question now is how do we get people to understand this product from the Gulf is American, it’s close by and has great flavor,” said Jon Bell, a professor in the Food Science department and an AgCenter researcher. “All the reasons they were buying it before are still true. It’s still safe, and there actually extra levels of assurance now to keep it safe.”

Ewell Smith, executive director of the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board, said additional testing and screening are underway not because the integrity of the seafood is in question but to reassure the public the food is safe for consumption.

Smith said his board will meet with BP officials Friday to ask for money for a national marketing campaign to ensure buyers know the food is safe. The board is asking BP for $30 to $40 million a year for as many as the next five years to spread that message using an array of TV and print commercials, some of which will feature celebrity chefs showing the seafood is safe to cook.

“They trampled on our brand, and now we need them to help repair our brand,” Smith said. “I don’t know if we’re going to walk out of that meeting with something or walk out with nothing.”

Smith said it took “at least five years” for the public to trust Alaskan seafood after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, despite a large amount of money being spent to ensure its quality.

Smith said most varieties of seafood are readily available despite a 20 to 30-percent decrease in the number of fishermen harvesting seafood. He said he is “generally optimistic,” partly because “80 to 90 percent” of commercial fishing areas in the state are open and safe, “the highest number we’ve seen since the spill.”

Bell said numerous federal and state agencies conduct both sensory and analytical tests of the seafood and fishermen are required to prove all catches come from open waters. Smith said these agencies have collected more than 27,000 samples since the spill began.

Monitoring and testing efforts — including preliminary measures — were immediately implemented and have increased since the spill began, Bell said.

Another common misperception about seafood, Bell said, is eating oil-tainted products once will be harmful. The oil doesn’t affect seafood like mercury does, and the risk comes from multiple exposures to seafood with high levels of contaminants during a long period of time.

“The idea of getting sick from one serving is wrong,” he said.

“It would have to be completely soaked in oil, and your nose would keep you from eating that. The risk is in long-term consumption of seafood with more contaminants, but there are no concerns or high levels in commercial harvests.”

Contact Nicholas Persac at npersac@lsureveille.com

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STUDENT GOVERNMENT

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Student government senators listen to the ideas for the coming semester.

Senate backs change to SG Election Codes General spending limits decreased Celeste Ansley Staff Writer

Student Government Senate revised the SG Election Code on Wednesday to prohibit campaigning within 20 feet of University buildings and decrease campaign spending.

The Summer Planning Committee worked on the revisions to the election code this summer and approved them at Wednesday’s meeting.

“We made a lot of much needed change to allow the document to serve us much more efficiently in the spring,” said Brooksie Bonvillain, Speaker of the Senate.

Major changes to the election code took place in article seven, regarding spending limits.

The general election spending limit decreased by $500 per ticket president and vice president candidates. The limit is now $1,000.

Presidential and vice presidential candidates not running on a ticket’s spending limit is $2,350.

New rules were also passed regarding campaigning. Candidates may not campaign within 20 feet of any University building and the quad except on election days.

The old rule stated no campaigning could take place within 10 feet of University buildings, except on election days, and did not include the quad.

“We want people to be able to avoid campaigning,” Bonvillain said.

David Jones, External Affairs Committee Chairman and member of the Summer Planning Committee, said the committee got a wide range of ideas for the election code from every aspect of the SG branches.

“I think that all of the work in revising the election code that was done by the Summer Planning Committee will not only benefit elections immediately during the 2010-11 elections, but future elections,” Jones said.

Bonvillain, Jones, UCAC Sen. Cody Wells, College of Basic Sciences Sen. Brandon Jones and Speaker Pro Tempore Aaron Caffarel worked with SG President J Hudson and Vice President Dani Borel on the revisions.

“We want to do what’s right to make sure our elections are smooth, fair and uphold our integrity,” Jones said.

The Department of Student Outreach will host a letter writing campaign.

“Students from all different ages can write a letter, and we will deliver it to the state Capitol for them,” Borel said.

Borel said there will be two types of letters — one written solely by the student, and the other letter will be a letter format personalized by the student.

Contact Celeste Ansley at cansley@lsureveille.com

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PROFILE

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New CCELL director uses volunteer experience in service-learning Lima organized 20 charity playgrounds Sydni Dunn Staff Writer

Room 159 of the E.B. Doran building is not the average office — it’s painted bright yellow, and the walls are covered with framed photographs, awards, art and even a ribbon-laced pair of hedge clippers.

The office is unique and energetic, much like its owner.

The space belongs to Marybeth Lima, a former professor of biological and agricultural engineering and the new director of the Center for Community Engagement, Learning and Leadership.

Lima succeeds retiring director Jan Shoemaker, whom Lima called a pioneer of service-learning at the University. “[Jan Shoemaker] taught me everything I know about service-learnBRIANNA PACIORKA / The Daily Reveille ing,” Lima said. “She made serviceMarybeth Lima, new director for the Center of Community Engagement, Learning learning happen in a big way at LSU, and it is such an honor to follow in and Leadership, speaks Aug. 19 about the LSU Community Playground Project. her footsteps. If I make half the progress that she made, I will be thrilled.” public school with the help of a com- objectives in classes by working Lima began her career at the munity partner. At the end of the with community partners to address University 14 years ago as an as- course, they work together to con- critical community needs, Lima said.

Service-learning is available in sistant professor of biological and solidate ideas into one and work on every college and school, and the agricultural engineering. She later funding the projects.

Once the money is raised, vol- University is nationally recognized became an associate professor and unteers are recruited. More than 500 for its efforts in civic engagement then a professor.

She was first introduced to ser- students have completed the course, with awards like the President’s vice-learning by Ed Zlotkowski, a and the project has generated more Community Service Honor Roll and the American Association of Uniguest speaker who lectured on ser- than 1,500 volunteers, Lima said.

The next playground construc- versity Administrators Outstanding vice-learning. After hearing his presentation, “the light went off,” Lima tion will take place this fall at How- Model Award.

Lima has plans to continue the ell Park Elementary said.

Faculty Scholars Program to target School.

Lima was “I would say faculty in departments that have no teaching a freshI started out doing service-learning courses. She is also men-level class playgrounds because working to launch a type of proposal in biological enI thought it would be writing institute that will train stugineering at the better for my students, dents and faculty alike in proposal time and wanted but the playgrounds writing for funding. to host a projLima said she eventually hopes picked me back,” ect that could Lima said. “I feel com- to create a Community Engaged involve each mitted to making sure Student Leader program, a funding member of her Marybeth Lima that every single one stream for students to carry out projdiverse group of new CCELL director is awesome. It has be- ect ideas through CCELL. students.

CCELL, along with Commucome my passion over “I tried to nication across the Curriculum, is the past 12 years.” find something Lima’s passion is contagious, also organizing a fall workshop for everyone would know and understand and would have an appeal to a said Michael Lee, a former student students applying to the National of Lima’s and biological engineering Science Foundation scholarship probroad interest base,” Lima said. gram.

Her selected project was play- sophomore.

“Marybeth has been actively “I think it’s amazing for one grounds, a passion that earned Lima the nickname “The Playground person to spend so much time on involved in CCELL for many years, something that is to no direct benefit and she has national recognition for Lady.”

It started with one playground to her,” Lee said. “She is helping out the role she has played in bringing at Beechwood Elementary School in not only the kids but the commu- service learning to campus,” said Stacia Haynie, vice provost of AcaBaton Rouge, designed in 1998 and nity.”

As director of CCELL, Lima demic Affairs.“She brings a breadth built in 2000.

“I didn’t initially set out to do will take this dedication to a new of experience, and we are so excited to have her.” all of the playgrounds in the public- level.

The students have a lot to learn CCELL facilitates learning school system. I set out to do one,” partnerships for an influential and and a lot to give, Lima said.

Lima said.

“I’ve learned again and again But one led to another and has constantly expanding program of the that we can accomplish extraordisince resulted in the construction of University, service-learning.

In conjunction with the Univer- nary things when we do ordinary 20 local playgrounds.

The LSU Community Play- sity’s commitment to community, things together,” she said. ground Project is dedicated to ensur- service-learning courses have proing equipment is safe, fun and acces- vided students with a new method sible, Lima said. The project allows of instruction during the past deContact Sydni Dunn at students to work in small groups cade. This hands-on curriculum alsdunn@lsureveille.com to design a playground for a local lows students to achieve learning

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RESEARCH

Pennington Research Center receives $7.5M grant Program will study effects of botanicals Celeste Ansley Staff Writer

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a five-year, $7.5 million grant to the Pennington Biomedical Research Center’s Botanical Research Center.

The grant awarded about $1.5 million per year starting in

September to five institutions, including Pennington’s Botanical Research Center.

The Botanical Research Centers Program, composed of the five national dietary supplement centers, studies the effects of botanicals on human heath. The Office of Dietary Supplements and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine jointly fund the program, and both are part of the National Institutes of Health.

The Botanical Research Centers Program started in 1999.

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Dr. Linda Hooper-Bui, entomology professor, displays an ant Tuesday morning in the Fire Ant Lab. Her research has been hampered by problems with access to the Gulf Coast.

RESEARCH, from page 1

guest on NPR’s “Science Friday.”

“My life has been insane,” said Hooper-Bui, who said she has been flooded with media requests in the past few weeks.

Hooper-Bui said her complaints have resonated with a number of similar researchers.

“It became really kind of a common theme,” she said.

In the Times piece, entitled “A Gulf Science Blackout,” HooperBui argued that problems with access, funding and “secrecy contracts” have hampered scientific efforts to determine exactly how damaging the spill has been — and what needs to happen to clean it up.

As BP and government officials struggled to clean up the oil washing ashore in the months after the rig sank, officials blocked off huge swaths of territory from public access for health and safety reasons.

But Hooper-Bui said the restrictions, which still persist in some places, are preventing independent scientists like her from collecting the data they need.

“If there’s not equal access, the results are going to be skewed,” she said.

Hooper-Bui said the problems with access were eased when Unified Command began scaling back the scope of the restricted areas. But “it’s still happening,” she said.

“Last week somebody told me

they were blocked,” Hooper-Bui said.

Hooper-Bui said her team is planning an expedition to the coast in the near future for more sample collection.

“We are not confident we’ll get access,” she said.

But Hooper-Bui’s complaints aren’t universal. Gregory Stone, director of the University’s Coastal Studies Institute, said he hasn’t been hindered.

“I’ve been down there quite a bit, and I haven’t had any problems,” Stone said of the Gulf Coast.

Stone oversees the Wave-Current-Surge Information System for Coastal Louisiana, or WAVCIS, program, which uses a network of stations throughout the Louisiana coast to gather data on the makeup and movement of water in the Gulf.

Stone said two of his monitoring stations have been out of commission for most of the disaster, and he can’t repair them because Unified Command required his divers to get hazardous materials training before going below the surface.

But Stone said the safety requirement — while it prevents him from fixing the stations and retrieving valuable data — is necessary.

“This is a terrible incident, and I’m not going to put my divers in danger,” he said.

The training costs $25,000.

Stone said he was able to get the money from Shell.

Pennington’s Botanical Research Center is led by Dr. William Cefalu.

PBRC, the University of Illinois at Chicago and Wake Forest University Health Sciences also received the grant in the 2005 to 2010 cycle.

“There are five centers. Each chooses a specific disease,” Cefalu said. “Our center studies pre-diabetes.”

Cefalu said PBRC studies how specific basic mechanisms lead to disease and what natural compounds may help prevent disease.

“We were funded the first five years to study how components of plants and supplements can prevent diabetes and obesity,” Cefalu said.

PBRC will continue to advance studies on botanical supplements to prevent metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome, as a pre-diabetic condition, can result in diabetes and heart disease.

A certain species of tarragon, St. John’s wort, hoodia and blueberries are some of the natural compounds PRBC studies, Cefalu said.

The new grant will be used to

gain new information on the safety and effectiveness of natural supplements.

Cefalu warned that over-thecounter natural supplements might not be effective.

“These supplements advertise to prevent disease,” Cefalu said.

“Just because it’s natural doesn’t mean it’s effective.”

But not everyone is so fortunate in finding funding. Hooper-Bui said independent scientists like her must often operate on meager budgets provided by their institutions and grants obtained from outside agencies.

The funds pale in comparison to, for example, the huge corporate funds BP can muster or the money flowing into the government’s Natural Resource Damage Assessment program, aimed at quantifying the damage caused by the spill.

“We’re operating on a shoestring here,” Hooper-Bui said.

But those BP and government contracts don’t just come with funds — they also come with confidentiality agreements that prevent contracted researchers from talking to anyone, including the larger scientific community, about their findings, both professors say.

Both the government and BP are trying to build legal cases for the inevitable onslaught of litigation that will continue far after the immediate crisis is done.

The consequences of those lawsuits will be drastically affected by the quantifiable damage each side can “prove” the spill caused.

“It’s all about building a case,” Stone said.

Stone, who has worked in conjunction with both BP and the government, said he has been approached to sign on as a contractor. He refused.

“I don’t want to have my information tied up for three years,” Stone said.

Stone also doesn’t want to get involved in the likely ferocious legal battles that are sure to hinge on that research.

“I’m not going to take the state that has funded so much of my research to court,” he said.

Hooper-Bui said the problems with these “secrecy agreements” extend beyond simple inconvenience.

She said they are problematic from a scientific standpoint.

“The way science is done, it’s done out in the open,” she said.

Hooper-Bui said most independent research is peer-reviewed — before publication, most of her articles are reviewed by two experts at the University and two experts at other institutions. That means the methods and findings have undergone open, rigorous scrutiny.

Hooper-Bui said the information under secrecy agreements doesn’t necessarily go through the same process. And it isn’t open to access by the scientific community at large.

She cites the Exxon Valdez oil spill, where similar agreements prevented the science from undergoing peer review and led to nebulous conclusions about the spill’s effects.

Hooper-Bui also said because sequestered researchers’ work is sought to support a legal argument, the conclusions reached from that work may be tainted — which is why independent researchers are so important.

“We have no agenda,” the

professor said. “[Our conclusions] could go one way, they could go another.”

Unified Command officials did not respond to inquiries about their policies concerning the confidentiality agreements.

Contact Celeste Ansley at cansley@lsureveille.com

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The benefits of participating in biking events go beyond the environment, Byrd said.

“I think they’re a really good bonding experience,” she said. “I learn a lot about my bike. Friendly, knowledgeable people will point out things you need help with.”

The LSU Cycling Club, an organization that gives students the opportunity to compete in road bike racing, is another option for bike lovers.

“It’s sort of like Tour de France-type said ‘It’s healthy racing,” Mark Primefor you, and aux, history and it’s healthy senior co-founder of for the LSU Cycling. environment, “We train and compete toso why gether for colnot go out legiate racing.”

Though and get a members must bike?.’ meet qualifications to comJenny Byrd ECO at LSU co-president pete, Primeaux said anyone can join the club as long as they are willing to put in the work.

“It’s a competitive, social and service club, so there are a lot of other aspects to the club beyond racing,” he said.

Dustin Drewes, history major and co-founder of LSU Cycling, said the club was kick started last year by members of the Triathlon Club interested in being healthy, biking and having fun.

“We really don’t push the racing ticket so hard as we do try to get people to get on their bikes,” he said. “We just like having a good time, and it’s a way to stay in shape and kind of keep that freshman 15 off for a while.”

LSU Cycling encourages all interested students to try road bike racing at open training races held Tuesday and Thursday evenings on River Road before diving into the club.

“It’s all people from around the Baton Rouge area that like riding their bikes and riding their bikes fast,” Drewes said. “It’s a good way to see if they like the sport.”

The club also promotes awareness and offers bike maintenance classes.

“We don’t really have all the time in the world to stand in front of the Capitol and wave a sign around, but we’re on board with just supporting bike advocacy,” Drewes said. “It’s important to educate all people on the law.”

If training hard and riding fast don’t sound like a good combination, there are plenty social bikerelated events in the area, Primeaux said.

“You don’t have to be a bike racer to have fun on a bike,” he said. “There are groups, festivals and big events put on by the [Baton Rouge Advocates for Safe Streets] everyone can enjoy.”

Alise Vedrenne, communication disorders sophomore, said she enjoys group rides because they make her feel safe.

“I just started riding my bike, and I’m excited these events are promoted because I feel like when I ride my bike around campus alone, I’m going to get hit by a car,” she

said.

The events make an important bike awareness statement, Vedrenne said.

“They promote sharing the road and show other people that a lot of people ride bikes,” she said.

Adrienne Johnson, library

and information sciences graduate student, recently moved to Baton Rouge from Washington and said she likes the easy-going Critical Mass ride because it’s available all over the country.

“I used to do [Critical Mass] back in Washington state,” she

Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010 said. “My favorite part is getting to meet people that I wouldn’t otherwise normally meet, and of course getting exercise.”

Though cruiser bikes are a fad right now, Johnson said she prefers her diamondback mountain bike.

“People make fun of me for

my mountain bike,” she said. “But I’m like, ‘Yeah, but I can ride it up a hill too. Can you do that on your cruiser?’”

Contact Cathryn Core at ccore@lsureveille.com

Sports

Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010

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Offensive line seeks to protect, defensive front aims to bring pressure and get more sacks

Protection & Pressure Michael Lambert Sports Contributor

Daily Reveille file photo

LSU junior offensive guard Josh Dworaczyk faces off against the Mississippi State defensive front Sept. 26, 2009.

LSU junior defensive end Ken Adams hasn’t perfected his potential celebration for bringing down North Carolina junior quarterback T.J. Yates this Saturday.

San Diego Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman performs his “Lights Out” dance after bursting through an opposing offensive line and sacking the quarterback. The late New Orleans Saints defensive lineman Norman Hand commended sacks with the famous “Big Wiggle” dance.

But Adams is undecided on what moves he might pull out Saturday.

“I don’t have one yet,” Adams said about his possible celebration.

“I might have a little something, though.”

Based on LSU’s performance last season, it would seem like Adams may not get much of a chance to dance this season.

The Tigers were tied for eighth in the Southeastern Conference with 21 sacks last season, averaging only 1.62 per game.

But LSU’s defense will get a SACKS, see page 10

2003

2004

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2006

Peterson injures foot, out for opener Rachel Whittaker Chief Sports Writer

JOHN FROSCHAUSER / The Associated Press

LSU senior defensive tackle Drake Nevis hits Washington senior quarterback Jake Locker on Sept. 5, 2009.

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DWINDLING SACKS BY YEAR The Tigers had 44 sacks in the 2003 season, the year they won the national championship. Sack numbers have fluctuated since then but were unusually low in 2008 and 2009 with 28 and 21, respectively. graphic by STEPHANIE GIGLIO / The Daily Reveille

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LSU has some shuffling to do at tight end for its season opener Saturday against North Carolina.

Junior Deangelo Peterson will not make the trip to Atlanta with the team, as he suffered an injury that was “foot in nature,” LSU coach Les Miles said Wednesday night in his final address to the media before the Tigers and the Tar Heels square off in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game.

Miles said the offense will use junior Mitch Joseph and sophomores Chase Clement and Tyler Edwards in Peterson’s absence, and he would not say how long Peterson will be out.

“It should not keep him out in an extended way,” Miles said.

“There’s a tight end less in the rotation. It’s not a personnel group we can be in for any length of time.”

On the North Carolina side, Tar Heels senior defensive tackle Marvin Austin is suspended indefinitely and will not play Saturday.

North Carolina coach Butch Davis said the decision to suspend Austin was not a result of the ongoing NCAA investigation surrounding the team.

“Marvin has violated team rules and has neglected his responsibilities to the team,” Davis said in a news release.

The 6-foot-3, 310-pound SUSPENSION, see page 10

SOCCER

Freshman Eggleston shines with 2 goals, 3 assists in debut

Four-star recruit played across world Rowan Kavner Sports Writer

It was unclear which freshman would rise to the LSU soccer team’s forefront after the Tigers signed the No. 1-ranked recruits from Florida, South Carolina and Louisiana and four of the top 15 recruits from Texas this offseason.

Now former Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Week Addie Eggleston is leading the charge.

The Houston native scored two goals and notched three assists in her regular-season debut against South Alabama and was named to the TopDrawerSoccer.com Women’s

College Team of the Week.

Her brilliant play so early in the season surprised even Eggleston herself.

“I wasn’t really expecting that,” Eggleston said. “We came out really well and connected passes. I obviously wouldn’t have gotten that award without the rest of my team because they assisted my goals and finished the balls I got in the box for them.”

The quick start is even more outstanding considering she was a late arrival to club soccer. Eggleston said basketball was her first love, and she had played on a church league soccer team before playing club ball.

“When I started club, I really liked it,” Eggleston said. “I think I started club in seventh grade, and in eighth grade I switched to a

higher-level club.”

Once joining her club team, Eggleston became a soccer star. She played for the Region III Olympic Development Program Team from 2007 to 2009, traveling across the globe.

“I’ve been to Costa Rica twice, Italy and Portugal with the team, and we would go to Florida every year to Boca Raton,” Eggleston said.

“That was a regional camp. We’d go to state ODP in the summer, and from there they’d choose a regional pool, and from that they’d choose a regional team, which is the team that would travel to the international trip.”

She said her favorite trip was to Costa Rica her senior year because the soccer was competitive, and she EGGLESTON, see page 10

DAVID LYLE / The Daily Reveille

LSU freshman forward Addie Eggleston, right, dribbles Aug. 22 past South Alabama freshman defender Tatum Perry, left. The Tigers shut out the Jaguars, 8-0.

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Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010

SWIMMING AND DIVING

Athletes take part in summer national, international meets Kendall and Trepp finish in top 20 Katherine Terrell Sports Contributor

Members of the LSU swimming and diving teams spent their summers away from the usual drudgery of class and work.

They traveled across the globe to take part in major swim meets. LSU swimmers placed in the 2010 USA Swimming National Championships, the 2010 European Championships and the 2010 AT&T Diving National Championship.

Sophomore Amanda Kendall led the pack of six LSU swimmers with a 23rd-place finish in the 100-meter butterfly at the USA meet in Irvine, Calif.

Kendall said she had

significantly improved since going to the USA Junior Nationals in the same place four years earlier.

Seniors Kannon Betzen and Clint Hallum also swam in the meet, along with sophomores Sara Haley, Audrey Lawson, Jana Ruimerman and Chelsea Griffiths.

Kendall said she had been itching to get back to work after having surgeries to remove her tonsils and a cyst on her wrist.

The surgeries came with orders to stay out of the water for a while.

“I was cut off,” Kendall said.

“No water, no swimming. But once I got the okay I swam my butt off until California.”

Kendall described the meet as “awesome,” both in her performance and in the general environment. ESPN televised some of the races, and a few big names showed up ­— notably 14-time

Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps, three-time gold medalist Ryan Lochte and backstroke specialist Aaron Peirsol.

“Everyone was there,” Kendall said. “Michael Phelps was there. It makes it exciting.”

Kendall said the famous swimmers energized the atmosphere and gave her a chance to watch and learn.

“Even if you don’t make it back to finals, it makes you want to go back and just watch them swim,” Kendall said. “You can learn a lot from watching someone swim.”

Junior diver Brian Gemberling had a similar feeling in his first experience at the USA Diving Nationals. Gemberling competed in both the 3-meter and the 1-meter dives, although he just barely made the cut in the 1-meter.

Gemberling said he was not

SOCCER

Team gains new assistant coach Dempsey boasts 16 years’ experience Ryan Ginn Sports Contributor

LSU soccer’s loss of three defensive starters who had compiled 233 career starts was bad enough.

The Tigers’ already-young defense took another hit in July when assistant coach Daniel Brizard accepted a head-coaching position at Tennessee Tech.

However, LSU coach Brian Lee already had a replacement in mind: Kevin Dempsey, head coach at College of Charleston.

The two coaches have a long history, coaching against each other in the Southern Conference when Lee was at Furman. Both also worked together with the Region III Olympic Development Program team for a number of years.

“I tried to keep a running list of people we would consider for assistant coaching positions if something came open, and Kevin was on a short list of two or three people from across the country,” said Lee. “We were fortunate when the job came open that he was interested, and we were able to hire him pretty quickly.”

For Dempsey, the benefits outweighed what some would see as a demotion, given his years of head coaching experience.

“My ego is in check,” he said.

“The opportunity to coach at a school like this was a big part of the decision. I don’t have any worries about that.”

Dempsey spoke modestly, but when asked about what he could contribute to the program, he didn’t hesitate.

“In 16 years as a head coach, I’ve seen it all,” he said. “I have the perspective of experience.”

Dempsey, who never served as an assistant before, admitted to looking over the job with a careful eye

before accepting.

What he saw was a bunch of familiar faces. Most of the players in the freshman class have played on the Region III ODP team at some point in their careers.

“I’ve known Brian for a long time, and I respect him,” he said.

“Also, I knew the talent level [of LSU] from coaching ODP.” In Dempsey, Lee saw a coach who could provide valuable leadership while giving the Tigers one of the most experienced staffs in the conference, if not the country.

Along with Dempsey, fellow assistant coach Debbie Hensley was the head coach at Western Carolina for six years before coming to LSU with Lee. “I think we have three coaches on staff who are all capable of being head coaches in the SEC,” Lee said.

For now, though, Dempsey is

focusing on the job at hand instead of worrying about future ambitions.

The back line is a formidable project, as the Tigers start freshmen Alex Ramsey and Emily Cancienne, as well as junior Taryne Boudreau, who moved to defense from midfield.

It didn’t take long, though, for Dempsey to win over the players he’d be coaching.

Senior defender and team captain Courtney Alexander recalled meeting Dempsey when he interviewed for the job.

“I thought he was a great guy,” she said. “I really liked what he stood for and what he was saying, as well as his tactics and what he’s about as a person.”

Contact Ryan Ginn at rginn@lsureveille.com

sure what to expect in a meet with three Olympian divers.

“Just like any sport, if you see an Olympian, you get nervous,” Gemberling said.

The Levittown, Pa., native came out of the quarterfinals of the three-meter event in fifth place, but dropped to 17th after balking (walking to the end of the board and stopping) on his fourth dive.

In the men’s one-meter event, Gemberling placed 23rd.

“I was pretty happy with how I did overall,” Gemberling said.

Sophomores Rebecca St. Germain and Jesse Lyman also participated in the meet. Germain placed 28th in the women’s onemeter but Lyman had to withdraw from the competition with an injury.

A few thousand miles away, LSU senior Jane Trepp and sophomore Andrei Tuomola competed

in the European Championships in Budapest, Hungary.

The two swimmers represented their native countries of Estonia and Finland, respectively.

Trepp spent the summer cutting down the intensity of her practices and preparing for the meet. The five-time All-American finished 17th in the 50-meter breaststroke and 20th in the 50-meter butterfly.

She was disappointed.

“I had really high expectations for the meet since December,” Trepp said.

Tuomola swam in five races, placing 38th in the men’s 50-meter breaststroke.

Contact Katherine Terrell at kterrell@lsureveille.com

The Daily Reveille

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Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010

SWIMMING AND DIVING

Athletes take part in summer national, international meets Kendall and Trepp finish in top 20 Katherine Terrell Sports Contributor

Members of the LSU swimming and diving teams spent their summers away from the usual drudgery of class and work.

They traveled across the globe to take part in major swim meets. LSU swimmers placed in the 2010 USA Swimming National Championships, the 2010 European Championships and the 2010 AT&T Diving National Championship.

Sophomore Amanda Kendall led the pack of six LSU swimmers with a 23rd-place finish in the 100-meter butterfly at the USA meet in Irvine, Calif.

Kendall said she had

significantly improved since going to the USA Junior Nationals in the same place four years earlier.

Seniors Kannon Betzen and Clint Hallum also swam in the meet, along with sophomores Sara Haley, Audrey Lawson, Jana Ruimerman and Chelsea Griffiths.

Kendall said she had been itching to get back to work after having surgeries to remove her tonsils and a cyst on her wrist.

The surgeries came with orders to stay out of the water for a while.

“I was cut off,” Kendall said.

“No water, no swimming. But once I got the okay I swam my butt off until California.”

Kendall described the meet as “awesome,” both in her performance and in the general environment. ESPN televised some of the races, and a few big names showed up ­— notably 14-time

Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps, three-time gold medalist Ryan Lochte and backstroke specialist Aaron Peirsol.

“Everyone was there,” Kendall said. “Michael Phelps was there. It makes it exciting.”

Kendall said the famous swimmers energized the atmosphere and gave her a chance to watch and learn.

“Even if you don’t make it back to finals, it makes you want to go back and just watch them swim,” Kendall said. “You can learn a lot from watching someone swim.”

Junior diver Brian Gemberling had a similar feeling in his first experience at the USA Diving Nationals. Gemberling competed in both the 3-meter and the 1-meter dives, although he just barely made the cut in the 1-meter.

Gemberling said he was not

SOCCER

Team gains new assistant coach Dempsey boasts 16 years’ experience Ryan Ginn Sports Contributor

LSU soccer’s loss of three defensive starters who had compiled 233 career starts was bad enough.

The Tigers’ already-young defense took another hit in July when assistant coach Daniel Brizard accepted a head-coaching position at Tennessee Tech.

However, LSU coach Brian Lee already had a replacement in mind: Kevin Dempsey, head coach at College of Charleston.

The two coaches have a long history, coaching against each other in the Southern Conference when Lee was at Furman. Both also worked together with the Region III Olympic Development Program team for a number of years.

“I tried to keep a running list of people we would consider for assistant coaching positions if something came open, and Kevin was on a short list of two or three people from across the country,” said Lee. “We were fortunate when the job came open that he was interested, and we were able to hire him pretty quickly.”

For Dempsey, the benefits outweighed what some would see as a demotion, given his years of head coaching experience.

“My ego is in check,” he said.

“The opportunity to coach at a school like this was a big part of the decision. I don’t have any worries about that.”

Dempsey spoke modestly, but when asked about what he could contribute to the program, he didn’t hesitate.

“In 16 years as a head coach, I’ve seen it all,” he said. “I have the perspective of experience.”

Dempsey, who never served as an assistant before, admitted to looking over the job with a careful eye

before accepting.

What he saw was a bunch of familiar faces. Most of the players in the freshman class have played on the Region III ODP team at some point in their careers.

“I’ve known Brian for a long time, and I respect him,” he said.

“Also, I knew the talent level [of LSU] from coaching ODP.” In Dempsey, Lee saw a coach who could provide valuable leadership while giving the Tigers one of the most experienced staffs in the conference, if not the country.

Along with Dempsey, fellow assistant coach Debbie Hensley was the head coach at Western Carolina for six years before coming to LSU with Lee. “I think we have three coaches on staff who are all capable of being head coaches in the SEC,” Lee said.

For now, though, Dempsey is

focusing on the job at hand instead of worrying about future ambitions.

The back line is a formidable project, as the Tigers start freshmen Alex Ramsey and Emily Cancienne, as well as junior Taryne Boudreau, who moved to defense from midfield.

It didn’t take long, though, for Dempsey to win over the players he’d be coaching.

Senior defender and team captain Courtney Alexander recalled meeting Dempsey when he interviewed for the job.

“I thought he was a great guy,” she said. “I really liked what he stood for and what he was saying, as well as his tactics and what he’s about as a person.”

Contact Ryan Ginn at rginn@lsureveille.com

sure what to expect in a meet with three Olympian divers.

“Just like any sport, if you see an Olympian, you get nervous,” Gemberling said.

The Levittown, Pa., native came out of the quarterfinals of the three-meter event in fifth place, but dropped to 17th after balking (walking to the end of the board and stopping) on his fourth dive.

In the men’s one-meter event, Gemberling placed 23rd.

“I was pretty happy with how I did overall,” Gemberling said.

Sophomores Rebecca St. Germain and Jesse Lyman also participated in the meet. Germain placed 28th in the women’s onemeter but Lyman had to withdraw from the competition with an injury.

A few thousand miles away, LSU senior Jane Trepp and sophomore Andrei Tuomola competed

in the European Championships in Budapest, Hungary.

The two swimmers represented their native countries of Estonia and Finland, respectively.

Trepp spent the summer cutting down the intensity of her practices and preparing for the meet. The five-time All-American finished 17th in the 50-meter breaststroke and 20th in the 50-meter butterfly.

She was disappointed.

“I had really high expectations for the meet since December,” Trepp said.

Tuomola swam in five races, placing 38th in the men’s 50-meter breaststroke.

Contact Katherine Terrell at kterrell@lsureveille.com

The Daily Reveille

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Austin earned Second-Team AllAtlantic Coast Conference honors in 2009 and is a projected firstround pick in the 2011 NFL Draft.

Miles reiterated his message this week that suspensions will not affect the way LSU prepares to face North Carolina.

“I’m sure it will be the same style of defense,” Miles said.

“They will have a guy who lines up inside, and we’ll have to block him. I don’t care which 11 show up [for North Carolina]. I really don’t.

I’m not taking attendance.”

In the absence of junior linebacker Ryan Baker, who broke his jaw in four places during practice Aug. 13, Kevin Minter and Lamin Barrow are waiting in the wings.

Miles said he expects the redshirt freshmen to rise up to the challenge. “[Their mentality] is great,” Miles said. “Those young guys will be excited when they go onto the field. It may take a couple of plays to catch their breath, but after that, I look forward to the way they play.”

Miles said sophomore defensive tackle Josh Downs will be 100 percent Saturday after missing some practice time with injury.

Miles also said senior offensive tackle Joseph Barksdale has developed a leadership role on the offensive line this season as the oldest of the group.

“He really has embraced his role,” Miles said. “He wants them to be a closer group. His personality is starting to wear on them.”

When Miles was asked to provide one final thought to get fans excited for the season opener in two days, he gave dynamic remarks, saying he is excited to see the loyal fans who support the team both near and far from Baton Rouge.

“This is a fact: Every place we play, when we pull up and we see purple and gold, that bus catches fire,” Miles said. “I can’t tell you how many away trips I’ve been on and saw that purple and gold greet the bus, and the smiles on our kids’ faces when they get off the bus …

That pocket of purple and gold is what everybody’s after. That’s what we want to get.”

Contact Rachel Whittaker at rwhittaker@lsureveille.com

SACKS, from page 7

chance to put last season’s low sack numbers in the past once the 2010 season begins Saturday against the Tar Heels in the Georgia Dome.

Adams, a junior college transfer, will surely soak in the glory of clinching a game-changing play.

The 6-foot-5-inch, 255-pound defensive end has secured a starting spot on the defensive line after joining the Tigers last spring.

“I feel like I have a lot to prove coming from junior college in my first game,” Adams said. “I just want to show the coaches and my teammates that I can be the player they want me to be.”

Senior defensive tackle Drake Nevis, who had four sacks in 2009, will anchor the defensive line next to senior tackle Lazarius Levingston.

“In order to be successful on passing downs, you have to be able to sack the quarterback,” Nevis said.

“They make a huge difference.”

Nevis said the defense is eyeing a goal of four sacks per game and 40 sacks this season.

Those lofty numbers would put LSU closer to its marks during the national championship seasons of 2003 and 2007 when the Tigers recorded 44 and 37 sacks, respectively.

“We’ll have a number of pass rushers that may provide a little more speed than in the past,” said LSU coach Les Miles. “They have shown the ability to get to the passer.”

Miles and Defensive Coordinator John Chavis have reiterated speed as the main difference in this season’s defensive ends compared to last year’s underachieving group.

“We are going to rush the passer with speed, and when you start looking at a couple of those young defensive ends like [redshirt freshmen defensive ends] Sam Montgomery and [Barkevious] ‘Kiki’ Mingo, then certainly you’re talking about speed,” Chavis said at the team’s media day.

Montgomery, who made a name for himself during spring practices, will line up opposite Adams.

“We’re combining a lot of speed and power and working out on our pass rush and our screens,” Montgomery said. “The first 20 minutes [of practice] we work on nothing but pass rush.”

Montgomery had two sacks in LSU’s spring game and earned the Toby Caston Performance Award for outstanding performance in spring drills. “[Montgomery] gave us headaches on offense,” Miles said. “We

couldn’t wait to get him to the other side of the field.”

LSU also struggled on the opposite end of the spectrum — sacks allowed.

Only 10 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision teams gave up more sacks per game than LSU last season.

The Tigers gave up 2.85 sacks per game, 105th in the country and 37 sacks overall, tied for last place in the SEC. “We would definitely like to see zero or one [per game],” said sophomore offensive guard Alex Hurst.

“We were one of the last offenses in the country last year, and that’s something us five can prevent.”

The offensive line has worked with assistant coach Greg Studrawa and graduate assistant Ben Wilkerson, a former Tiger standout center, to improve pass protection.

“We’ve worked blitz pick-ups more last spring and this fall camp,” Hurst said. “It should carry over this year.”

Junior quarterback Jordan Jefferson was often seen running away and folding under an onslaught of opposing rushers in 2009.

Miles, a former offensive lineman at Michigan, said Jefferson needs to trust his preparation and read defenses more efficiently to get the ball out of his hand quicker.

But even with what Miles said, the offensive linemen put the blame on themselves.

“It’s all on us,” said senior left tackle Joseph Barksdale. “It’s our job to keep Jordan clean.”

Miles and the offensive linemen have singled out chemistry as the reason the players in the trenches will improve this season.

“I like this line,” Miles said.

“This line is working hard and coming together. This offensive line has real good chemistry.”

Barksdale said off-field bonding has translated onto the field.

“It all comes down to the chemistry,” Barksdale said. “When guys are excited to come to practice and are excited to work with each other, they are going to perform better.”

The offensive line eats together at least once a week and watches shows like “South Park,” “The Simpsons” and “Family Guy,” Barksdale said.

“It’s a lot easier to communicate,” Barksdale said. “We even know what plays each other struggles with.”

Contact Michael Lambert at mlambert@lsureveille.com

Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010 waiting a long time to play with this group of kids, and she’s loved it. got to do community service. Egg- She’s really clicked with the team.” leston has also assisted her own LSU coach Brian Lee said he community, interning at the Institute was excited to reel in Addie Eggfor Rehabilitation and Research at leston, the No. 33-ranked recruit in Memorial Herthe country, to his almann Hospital ready highly-ranked in Houston. recruiting class. Lee is Eggleston making the transition helps her teamfrom a senior-heavy mates find the squad last season to a net, but off the gifted group of young pitch she also athletes in 2010. assists people “[Addie’s] one Brian Lee in need. Her of the top kids in the LSU soccer coach mother, Melissa country,” Lee said.

Eggleston, said “We always felt like Addie participated in a three-week she was underrated. She’s a great kid internship her senior year of high who’s going to get better and better. school working with patients with She’s got plenty of talent, but she’s spinal cord injuries. also got all the intangibles you look “It’s at a big rehab hospital over for in a person.” in the medical center, and she signed Lee said the learning curves up and decided she wanted to do it,” for freshmen vary. Some need more her mother said. “She really enjoyed time in the weight room or condigetting to do that.” tioning or adjusting to college life, Melissa Eggleston said Ad- while others can jump right in comdie had always been faster than her fortably. teammates and opponents on the After her home debut, it seems field. Addie’s family got to witness Eggleston is already prepared. the speed firsthand as she wowed “[Addie] has a good personalthe crowd against South Alabama ity to come in and step in right away with her three-assist, two-goal per- and contribute,” Lee said. formance.

“We’re thrilled for her because Contact Rowan Kavner at this is a dream come true for her,” rkavner@lsureveille.com Melissa Eggleston said. “She’s been

EGGLESTON, from page 7

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‘[Addie Eggleston’s] a great kid who’s going to get better and better.’

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Entertainment

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Your First Time The Daily Reveille asked...

Dacia Fernandez

Nick Romero

Daniella Bryant

What’s your worst hookup experience?

“The Virginity Hit” actress

construction mgmt. senior

mathematics junior

“Then he’s like, ‘You know, I was gonna hold back, but I can’t anymore. I love you.’ And I’m like, ‘what?’”

“Her mom showed up at my house ... and caught [my friend and her daughter] in the bathroom.”

“It happened for [my friend], but I was stuck with the lame guy. ... I had to entertain him while she got the cute one.”

Will Ferrell-produced film ‘The Virginity Hit’ receives special BR screening, catches attention Kittu Pannu Entertainment Writer

A fleet of eye-catching billboards has popped up near campus, posing on interesting question — “Still a Virgin?”

The ads — which offer a toll free number virgins can call “for help” — are part of the marketing campaign for “The Virginity Hit,” a new comedy film co-produced by Will Ferrell and filmed in New Orleans.

The billboards have drawn many responses, according to Adam McKay, co-producer of “The Virginity Hit.” “We’ve been getting lots of calls from curious people,” McKay said. “It has caused a big stir in many places.”

For the film’s marketing campaign, producers tried more innovative methods to coincide with the unique combination of fiction and scripted reality, McKay said.

Many students’ first reactions to the ads were shock and confusion.

“I was in disbelief,” said Joshua Hamburg, undeclared freshman.

“I didn’t know what to think. I was shocked by it, surprised.”

Other students thought the billboards were more serious.

“I thought it was a rape or domestic abuse poster, trying to bring awareness to those issues,” said Vincent DiBella, finance freshman. “I wasn’t clear on what the ad was. … I wasn’t sure it was for a movie or just a joke.”

Marketing professor Danny Weathers believes the signs represent shockand-awe marketing.

“It makes public a topic that is typically very private, so people are shocked when they see these signs,” Weathers said in an email to The Daily Reveille.

The film, a comedy about a character trying to lose his virginity, was screened Wednesday at Rave Motion Pictures. days before its official Sept.

10 release.

“We chose Baton Rouge because we wanted to do it in a college town, and LSU is a happening campus,” said Tammy Terrio, junior account executive of Moroch Agency, which worked on promoting the film.

Many students were drawn to the screening by the creative marketing.

“I heard that Will Ferrell produced the movie, so I was interested,” said Daniella Bryant, mathematics junior.

“I saw a trailer on someone’s Facebook wall, and it looked cool.”

Residents of Brightside Drive received free passes for the private screening, said Hannah Connelly, mathematics junior.

“I saw the ads everywhere, and I finally called the number. It was hilarious,” Connelly said. “I found the free pass on my door, and it seemed cool, so I’m here.”

The film’s guerrilla ad campaign is VIRGINITY, see page 14

photos by ZACH BREAUX and LYNDSI LEWIS / The Daily Reveille

A Campus Crossings Brightside billboard advertises the film “The Virginity Hit,” made in New Orleans. The movie was screened Wednesday in BR.

MUSIC

Local rap group creates officially licensed song ‘Tiger Bait’ Record could be played at games Andrew Price Entertainment Writer

In just two short days, the ears of every North Carolina fan will be bombarded with the relentless fury of Death Valley natives shouting “Tiger Bait” with reckless abandon in every direction.

But local rap group Da Future has crafted its own hip-hop song based on the chant.

The song is titled “Tiger Bait” and was written by Da Future, comprised of former University students Eron Rousell, Brian

McCollum and Tony Smith. The band wrote the song during the 2009 football season.

Rousell said the surging popularity of New Orleans Saints football-themed songs inspired the group to write a unique song for LSU. “Everybody had all these Saints songs and things like that ...

What if we wrote one for LSU?” Rousell said.

The song features popular football chants, and it samples the Tiger Band.

Smith believes the song’s originality sets it apart from any other LSU-related songs, like popular mash-ups of Tiger Band songs with other hip-hop songs like “Crank That.”

“We did the same thing, but we actually made a song that has to do with the LSU name ... so people can actually sing the words,” Smith said.

The group has been hard at work promoting the single, which has been officially licensed by the University.

Rousell hopes the song will eventually have a fan base large enough to have the song played in Tiger Stadium.

“There has to be more of a fan base asking for it before they can start playing it at the football games,” Rousell said. “That’s what we hope to accomplish.

That’s what I really want to do SONG, see page 14

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LSU alumni rap group Da Future discuss their recently licensed single “Tiger Bait.”

The trio hopes to have the song played at LSU football games this fall.

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MUSIC

Local cover band Sue Johanson’s plans to continue rocking Members deal with limited availability Ferris W. McDaniel Entertainment Writer

Popular local cover band Sue Johansons planned to break up as its members began to graduate college and enter the real world, but the members have decided to continue rocking venues around Baton Rouge.

The band — made up of current University students and alumni — briefly considered splitting up after its members began their separate paths for their own life aspirations.

The band’s availability quickly became limited after lead guitarist Rusty Sanchez began medical school, rhythm guitarist Ryan Beadle left for school to be a physician’s assistant and other members began their real-world jobs.

The band’s last gig was scheduled for Aug. 13, but the members decided they didn’t want to disband if they had a choice.

The Sue Johanson’s made a vow to never speak about the taboo subject of disbanding again, said Bennett Roman, bassist and keyboardist.

Roman said each member’s

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Paul Barrios, lead singer of Sue Johanson’s, performs during a show at Reggie’s.

The band planned to split up after graduation but opted to continue playing.

schedule was considered, and the band decided to cut the number of shows it played from five or six per month to only two a month at most.

The amount of fun the band has together justifies the sacrifices everyone has made, Roman said.

Ashley Allen, finance junior, said she would be upset if the band stopped playing shows.

“They bring something that other bands can’t bring because they are LSU college students, and we can relate to them,” Allen said.

The band has been playing at

venues in Tigerland and surrounding areas like Reggie’s, JL’s Place, Mike’s Daiquiris and Grill, Shady’s, Bogie’s, Varsity Theatre and Cadillac Cafe for two years.

“Sue Johanson’s have developed a diverse following by playing Tigerland bars and LSU Greek social events,” said Chris Lundgren, Varsity Theatre talent buyer and marketing director. “By playing bars and venues with a built-in crowd, in other words a soft ticket venue where the bar itself is the focal event, a band can expose themselves to a wide va-

FASHION

Ethical collegiate garb to arrive Morgan Searles

Entertainment Writer

When students walk through campus, they often show pride for their chosen University — most recognizably in the form of standard collegiate apparel.

Rachel Weeks, the 25-year-old founder of School House, LLC, is bringing her socially responsible collegiate clothing to the University.

With a greater focus on style and an ethical approach to production, Weeks is launching designs this month in universities across the nation.

The first pieces of the collection have already been delivered to the LSU Bookstore in the Student Union and will also be sold through the bookstore’s website.

The line available at the University includes a sweater, hooded sweatshirt, T-shirt and T-shirt dress, and more items are expected to arrive as students give input and the collection expands.

While visiting Sri Lanka in 2007, Weeks studied socially responsible clothing design and began creating her company as a model for better payment and working conditions in factories.

“Workers often live in poverty,” Weeks said. “But [School House] pays labor premiums for products.

Our factories nearly triple the wages previously paid to employees. This is the first step, but that’s not all.”

Weeks said she hopes customers will appreciate the ethics behind the clothing, but that they will also value the products for their designs.

“Our line is first and foremost not just about living wage, but trying

to bring the college apparel market closer to design trends,” she said.

Weeks personally visits the universities where her products will be sold to better understand what students are looking for in collegiate clothing.

“This company is really my baby, and rather than hire sales associates, we hired people at our home office so that I could travel and meet with students,” she said. “We hope that LSU students approve the collection and are able to add their own ideas.”

Weeks said a goal of the company is to pull collegiate fashion back from behind the times and closer to the league of the fashion world.

“There is a balance between customization and high price tags,” Weeks said. “We try to bring fashion elements in while keeping in line with the way students live.”

Weeks said she looks forward to further tailoring designs to the UniContact Morgan Searles at msearles@lsureveille.com

riety of people.”

Lundgren said that after a cover band builds it identity it can branch out to venues like the Varsity and play a hard ticket show, meaning a ticket is required to attend, and the band is the main event.

“Tigerland is our bread and butter,” said Sue Johanson’s drummer Trent Ciaccio.

The band covers songs familiar to many students, such as Bon Jovi’s “Living on a Prayer,” Rage Against the Machine’s “Guerrilla Radio” and Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline.”

Sometimes mixing things up by playing humorous songs like the “Team America: World Police” and “That ’70s Show” theme song is another way to get the crowd involved, Roman said.

“There’s something for everybody at the show,” Roman said. “It’s going to be hard not to have a good time.”

The band likes to get everyone involved — even the people in the back, said singer and general studies senior Paul Barrios. This is accomplished by occasionally giving the audience a choice between two songs, ranging from Taylor Swift to Rage Against the Machine.

Along with playing music that everyone can get into, the band is

dedicated to putting on a spectacle, often dressing up in ridiculous costumes.

“The last thing we do is take ourselves too seriously,” Ciaccio said.

Hilary Maurin, communication disorders senior, agreed the band is fun and upbeat and said band members seem to enjoy their shows as much as the crowds do.

The band members collectively decided that having the opportunity to play music and create strong bonds between bandmates are the most rewarding aspects of being in a band.

The band members said if they were to break up, they would miss their relationships with each other and their ritual of shooting a bottle of Jägermeister before gigs.

Breaking up is not in the Sue Johanson’s immediate future, and the band would like to be around for at least a few more years, Roman said.

“We aren’t going to stop rocking just yet,” he said.

Contact Ferris W. McDaniel at fmcdaniel@lsureveille.com

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LITERATURE

‘The Southern Review’ creates anthology of LSU fiction University faculty contribute to book Ferris W. McDaniel Entertainment Writer

During 150 years of history at the University, many great literary figures have inhabited and studied in Allen Hall.

These same literary figures’ stories are now being taught year after year to each new wave of faces at the University.

Authors like Robert Penn Warren, Walker Percy and James Wilcox are featured in the book “Best of LSU Fiction,” a collection of fiction by authors connected to the University.

The idea for the anthology arose when creative writing instructors and “Best of LSU Fiction” editors Judy Kahn and Nolde Alexius wanted a collection of stories for

their students to use, take notes in and hold instead of an electronic version, Alexius said.

Students were inspired by learning their literary history, which includes great writers who attended the University, sat in the same classrooms and took the same English classes, Alexius said.

“I lived in these stories for so long,” Kahn said. “It’s wonderful to have. It turned out so beautiful.”

“The Southern Review,” a literary journal published by the University, published the book in March 2010.

“The Southern Review” was founded by Robert Penn Warren, who Alexius called the University’s greatest contribution to literature.

Warren’s reputation as an editor and writer continues to draw writers and people who enjoy literature to the University, Alexius said.

Not only is Warren the founder of “The Southern Review,” but his story “Blackberry Winter” is the

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opening work in the collection. As the book progresses, each author draws influences from his or her predecessor beginning with Warren.

Although each author influences the next, the writers stay true to their own voices and styles, Wilcox said.

With James Gordon Bennett’s contemporary view of Baton Rouge,

HURRICANE KATRINA

New Orleans tribute album available Chris Abshire Entertainment Writer

It took a hurricane to land a New Orleans album at No. 1 on the Amazon digital download charts.

“Dear New Olreans,” a compilation album featuring artists such as OK Go, My Morning Jacket, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, Steve Earle and more, was released last week to commemorate the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and stayed at No.1 on the digital album downloads chart for two days on Amazon.

Air Traffic Control, a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization that promotes social activism among musicians, coordinated the album’s production and release, with all proceeds going to New Orleans area nonprofits.

While not all songs on the compilation are directly about New Orleans, ATC Special Projects Director Deyden Tethong said all the tracks were “in some way inspired

by the city” through the artists’ experience with the town and its musicians.

Since 2006, ATC, along with the Future of Music Coalition, have co-hosted artist activism retreats during which musicians experience and connect with New Orleans’ community leaders and the city’s musical traditions.

“Every artist on this compilation has attended these retreats at some point in the last five years, and all of them have been greatly affected by the connection they felt with the city’s people and music,” Tethong said.

The album is available for download for $12 from iTunes, Amazon or dearneworleansmusic. org and contains 31 tracks.

“I think that an album like this is something pretty special to show appreciation for all the musicians and the culture around music in New Orleans, but it’s also something I’d be interested to listen to,” said Indya Williams, engineering

sophomore.

The album bursts with fusion of sounds that South Louisiana is famous for, as sharp brass blasts combine with funky guitar riffs and rhythmic percussion to produce some thrilling arrangements over the course of the album.

According to a news release for the compilation, the album was a musicians’ response to Chris Rose’s emotional letter “Dear America,” which was published in The TimesPicayune a week after Katrina’s landfall.

Tethong said ATC and the artists felt strongly that New Orleans itself deserved a similar love letter.

“The people [in New Orleans] want to move on and many have, but we felt that it was appropriate to show the city that we still care and appreciate the way they have embraced all of us,” Tethong said.

Contact Chris Abshire at cabshire@lsureveille.com

Olympia Vernon’s beautiful poetic language and the realism of Moira Crone’s story, the book provides much diversity and variety, Wilcox said.

“Anybody associated with LSU in any way will be thrilled to see the wild variety and collection of memories that is bound to touch them in different ways,” Wilcox said.

The book should serve as an inspiration to students in any field of study and offer knowledge of the University’s literary heritage, Alexius said.

“The students don’t know about it,” Kahn said. “They know that we have a great football tradition. They know that we have great science departments. I don’t think enough attention is paid to LSU with the humanities.”

Wilcox, director of the University’s creative writing program, wrote the introduction to the book and has a story in the book called “Camping Out.”

The story is a fictional account of a family, similar to Wilcox’s, that is on a camping trip somewhere similar to the Tangipahoa River. Different ideas were put together to get a sense of what Louisiana is like when you are in the countryside, Wilcox said. “‘Best of LSU Fiction’ shows a little-known side of Louisiana and its flagship university,” Alexius said.

Alexius said a second volume of the book is definite for the future, but her main concern now is marketing the first volume.

Alexius and Kahn hope “Best of LSU Fiction” will serve as inspiration for University students to reach for great achievements and realize that greatness in any field is possible with hard work.

Contact Ferris W. McDaniel at fmcdaniel@lsureveille.com

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MUSIC

Miranda Lambert tops CMA Awards with 9 nominations Chris Talbott The Associated Press

NASHVILLE (AP) — Miranda Lambert made history Wednesday morning when she was nominated for nine CMA Awards, the most for a female country music artist.

She'll be celebrating with close friends Lady Antebellum and fiance Blake Shelton. Lady A earned the second most nominations with five and Shelton was next with four, tied with Zac Brown Band.

The year 2010 is taking on fairly tale qualities for the fiery

VIRGINITY, from page 11

the brainchild of the cast and crew of “The Virginity Hit,” said Zack Pearlman, star of the movie.

“Our producer, Owen Burke, he’s the man behind all the funny stuff. ... We had all pitched ideas for the phone line, but he came up with most of it,” Pearlman said.

When one calls the phone number listed on the billboards, a recording of Pearlman asks the caller to “press 1 if you’re a virgin … 2 if you’re trying to help a friend out.”

The recording includes advice like, “Stop referring to yourself as your online avatar … and memorize all the lines from that vampire

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with the song.”

Assistant Athletic Director for Marketing Craig Pintens, who approves what songs are played in Tiger Stadium, said the ultimate goal in selecting songs for football games is audience approval.

“We want to play songs that are going to resonate with the fans and the players,” Pintens said.

“We have to play songs that are going to be loved by everyone in the stadium.”

Pintens also said stereo tracks will always take a backseat to the Tiger Band.

“Canned music to us is no substitute at all for the Golden Band from Tigerland,” Pintens said. “That’s always our first choice.”

Texan, who won three Academy of Country Music Awards in March, got engaged a few months later and has much to look forward to the rest of the year.

"I don't think it gets better than this," Lambert said in a phone interview with The Associated Press. "It's been a dream, and it's not even over with. I'll be sad when 2011 comes because this year has just been one blessing after another. It's just incredible. I don't know what it is about now that all this is coming to a head, but I don't care. I'm just glad it is."

Lambert and close friend

Dierks Bentley announced nominations in five categories Wednesday morning on "Good Morning America." The first seven categories were announced Tuesday in Nashville.

Lambert, Lady A, Zac Brown Band, Brad Paisley and Keith Urban were nominated for entertainer of the year, the Country Music Association's top award.

Should Lambert win entertainer of the year she'll continue a girl-power trend at country music's two top awards shows. Taylor Swift became just the third female winner of the CMA's top award last year, and Carrie

Underwood made history in April as the first woman to win the ACM Awards' entertainer of the year twice.

Women also figure prominently in several CMA categories this year.

"It's definitely something that's been needing to happen for a long time," Lambert said.

"I think it's been turning slowly, but it's finally starting to show through with the girls being really strong right now in country music."

Lambert, whose last album "Revolution" was widely hailed by her peers and critics, fell just

short of Alan Jackson's overall record of 10 nominations, set in 2002. Merle Haggard is the only other artist to receive nine or more nominations.

She also earned nominations for female vocalist of the year, album of the year, single of the year for both "White Liar" and "The House That Built Me," song of the year for "White Liar," musical event for "Bad Angel" with Bentley and Jamey Johnson, and video of the year for both "White Liar" and "House."

movie” to get a girlfriend. wanted something more immediThe film and its tongue-in- ate and real,” McKay said. cheek advertisements come from Scenes in the movie were shot the founders of “Funny or Die,” in the style of a YouTube video, a comedy video website where McKay said. comedians can “The charshowcase new acters are actual material. McKay people, and a lot and Ferrell are coof the movie was founders of that improvised.

It website. made the movie McKay said flow better,” he the marketing said. campaign was The film was Adam McKay inspired by the shot in New Ororiginality of the co-producer of ‘The Virginity Hit’ leans because of movie. the city’s charac“The marketing campaign ter, McKay said. came out of the fact that the mov“We decided to shoot in ie is so unique and unusual. We New Orleans because we wanted

to show people being people,” McKay said. “Everyone saw the images from [Hurricane] Katrina, and we wanted to show that people are still living their normal lives.”

Pearlman said the film’s highprofile producers made the experience memorable.

“Working with [Will Ferrell] was like a dream come true,” Pearlman said. “Even though he was super busy, he was very involved in the whole process and

gave notes on everything.”

Weathers said the film has succeeded in creating big buzz.

“My preacher mentioned the signs during her sermon last Sunday,” he said. “They’ve done a great job of creating word of mouth.”

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‘The characters are actually people, and a lot of the movie was improvised.’

Rousell said Da Future has no intention of muscling in on the Tiger Band, and though they are pushing for the song to be played in the stadium, they don’t want to take anything away from the band.

Rousell hopes the song may eventually be popular enough to merit collaboration between Da Future and the Tiger Band.

“We could do a halftime show one game performing the song with the band playing,” Rousell said. “It’s something different that hasn’t been done at the school before.”

Mary Carole, Spanish junior, said listening to the song makes her feel excited.

“It’s a little corny, but the song would definitely get me in the mood for game day,” Carole said.

Katelyn Wood, English and Spanish junior, also said she thinks the song is catchy and could definitely see the song played on game days.

“It reminds me a lot of the songs that came out about the Saints last year,” Wood said.

Ni Tyjah Thigpen, linguistics graduate student, said she could see the song catching on beyond football games.

“It’s got a dance beat you can move to,” Thigpen said. “So I could see somebody requesting it in a club and everybody dancing.”

Contact Andrew Price at aprice@lsureveille.com

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MUSIC * MOVIES * BOOKS * TELEVISION

Mockingjay

Ra Ra Riot

Scholastic Press

Barsuk Records

Fidelity

“Mockingjay,” the final installment of The Hunger Games series, continues with the story of Katniss Everdeen and her struggles to rise above the ashes of the rebellion she made a reality as she is catapulted into the realization that she’s stuck in the same game with different players. Except this time there’s no way out of the arena. With the use of simple language and complex ideas, Suzanne Collins succeeds at creating yet another enjoyable piece of fiction up until the end of the book, where the story loses steam and eventually dies out in a disastrous cliché.

After riding in on a wave of Vampire Weekend comparisons with their 2008 debut album “The Rhumb Line,” Ra Ra Riot has managed to create a more thrilling baroque-pop sound on “The Orchard.” For its sophomore effort, the band has incorporated some ’80s synth influences and settled on a sweet compromise between sophisticated chamber pop and urgent anthemics.

Frontman Wes Miles’ passionate vocals forcefully engulf the listener in his touching melodies while punchy bass lines and rhythmic violins seamlessly complement lovelorn lyrics. On “The Orchard,” Ra Ra Riot has created a more complex, resonant album all around.

Chrissie Hynde from The Pretenders linked up with young Welsh artist JP Jones to form the band JP, Chrissie & The Fairground Boys and create “Fidelity,” the band’s debut album. The music is just as much fun as the band name implies.

With driving and spirited tracks, the odd pair blends vocals and melodies to chronicle the love between an older woman and a younger man — a story Hynde insists is purely fictitious. The sound is a strange mix of rock, pop and folk, but the effect is pleasing and fun. Though not making much of a splash on the charts, “Fidelity” is definitely worth a listen.

CATHRYN CORE

CHRIS ABSHIRE

MORGAN SEARLES

Katy Perry

Matthew Dear

The Last Exorcism

Capitol Records

Ghostly International

Beginning with the title track, Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream” is sprinkled with radio-friendly pop songs, ensuring her spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 for a year.

Twelve tracks long, “Dream” starts with sugary grooves but dips into musical masterpieces.

Fans of “Thinking of You” but not “California Gurls” will be content. Tracks like “Firework” and “Not Like The Movies” fill the lyrical void. The album doesn’t deviate from Perry’s last, with lyrical and melodic references to her previous works. All in all, she shows fans and critics she is going nowhere, making herself comfortable at the top.

Electropop artist Matthew Dear’s new album “Black City” is an escape to a sleek and engrossing world. The album’s beginning is dark, and its heavy, grinding beats conjure images of underground nightclubs and dreary alleyways. The brooding opening track “Honey” sets the album’s mood with distortion and chilling vocals, while the nine-minute track “Little People (Black City)” starts with a synth line that begins a disco adventure. The remainder of the album is lighter, and beats are less harsh. Dear uses pulsating synths to produce an alluring album.

Much like a bad first date, “The Last Exorcism” opens with lots of promise, only to leave its audience confused, disappointed and wondering why they spent money on it in the first place.

The movie creates some interesting plot lines, introducing its main character, the Rev. Marcus Cotton, as a preacher making a documentary exposing much of his profession as a sham. It’s a promising start, but unfortunately there are too few possession scenes to make the film scary, and then it abruptly ends.

Nothing is resolved, and most of the original plot lines are abandoned by the movie’s end.

KITTU PANNU

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ANDREW PRICE

Suzanne Collins

The Orchard

JP, Chrissie & The Fairground Boys Rocket Science Records

[B-] [B+] [A]

Teenage Dream

Black City

Lionsgate

[B+] [B+] [D]

Editor’s Pick Eels Tomorrow Morning Vagrant Recrods

Indie rock band Eels, the project of singer-songwriter Mark Oliver Everett, delivers its third album in two years with “Tomorrow Morning.” Everett’s distinct, raspy vocals breathe life into this collection of love songs that, at 18 tracks, feels slightly bloated. Despite its length, the album’s easy arrangements and simple lyrics make for a relaxed, enjoyable listen. It isn’t groundbreaking, but standout tracks “This Is Where It Gets Good” and the bluesy “Looking Up” make it worthwhile.

RYAN BUXTON

Entertainment Editor

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THE BOTTOM LINE

Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010

LSU: Prepare to kiss your foreign languages goodbye

This is bad — real bad.

The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures told The Daily Reveille on Tuesday that four language programs — Russian, Portuguese, Japanese and Swahili — will be cut completely.

I’m a lover of languages, and an intense believer in their benefit. I’ve experienced firsthand how learning another language can have innumerable benefits for any learner.

It’s really tough to blow up or shoot the same people that helped you work on your irregular verbs.

Really, tough.

The profound benefit of being immersed in a new culture,

experiencing other ways of life and gaining a relationship with friends who become so close they become your family should be more than enough.

But I’m realistic, and as a business management major I understand I’ll need more than Devin Graham anecdotes and Columnist poetry to convince you.

A study done by Rosetta Stone in 2005 showed that if you know just one foreign language, you will make, on average, $10,000 more

per year.

Interested yet?

I once saw an offer for a job, only several years ago, offering a $650,000 salary to someone who knew Russian, given they were willing to move to Russia and had several years of experience with their degree.

Military pay also goes up significantly — up to $1,000 per month for those who know a second language, and up to $500 per month for those in the Reserve and National Guard, according to Military.com.

Friends and colleagues, I’m hard pressed to think of a single student I’ve met who hasn’t taken

a class they strongly believe they’ll never use, and not once has it been their language class.

I was fortunate enough to take Greek and Hebrew here, and I can say their benefits to all my other classes cannot be understated. It’s no wonder Greek and Latin have been a part of classical education since its inception. You studied the maths and sciences, but you were also expected to know Socrates, Plato and what the word eudaemonic means. It’s on the same level, and I have no idea where the University’s priorities lie now if not with the full education of its students.

Let’s be honest with ourselves. If you want to learn French

or Spanish, you can buy language tapes and make a couple of new friends. If you think you can pick up Russian or Japanese without a teacher, though, you’re sadly mistaken.

Sayonara, Japanese.

Paka, Russian.

Adeus, Portuguese.

Kwaheri, Swahili.

Devin Graham is a 21-year-old business management senior from Prairieville. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_dgraham.

Contact Devin Graham at dgraham@lsureveille.com

SHOCKINGLY SIMPLE

All the girls in the bar get much prettier at closing time

Have you ever picked up an 8 out of 10 at 2 a.m. only to wake up with a 2 out of 10 at 8 a.m.?

If so, you should be comforted by the knowledge you are suffering from a scientifically documented phenomenon — beer goggles.

There’s been a surprising amount of research done on the subject. Papers with titles like “Beer goggles: blood alcohol concentration in relation to attractiveness ratings for unfamiliar opposite sex faces in naturalistic settings”, and “Whales Tales, Dog Piles, and Beer Goggles: An Ethnographic Case Study of Fraternity Life” appear in peer-reviewed journals. Even the Mythbusters have weighed in, subjecting three team members to judging random portraits while sober, buzzed and drunk.

No matter the specific experimental setup, the result always agrees with what everyone already knows to be true: Drinking alcohol can lower your standards.

In one study, researchers from Australia’s Bond University went to local bars and parties and asked students to rate a stack of portraits by attractiveness. The students were tested for blood alcohol content and grouped by BAC, and their average scores were tallied. Overall, subjects with moderate to high BAC perceived the pictures to be more attractive than their sober counterparts.

Aside from making studying abroad in Australia sound like an even better idea, these researchers

obviously didn’t make any earthshattering discoveries. They set out to show drinking makes you more generous with those around you, and they succeeded.

But let’s be honest. The guy who got a grant for this study approved may in fact be Andrew Shockey a genius, but he’s not exactly Columnist curing cancer.

Another team, operating out of London’s prestigious Roehampton University (why does all of this research happen so far away?) tried to find out what exactly causes this impaired judgment.

Their experiment focused on one effect alcohol has on the brain — loss of facial appreciation. Human beings have large portions of their brain devoted to analyzing and interpreting faces. As a social species, we have a lot to lose and a lot to gain by correctly decoding subtle emotional cues in people’s faces.

Alcohol can obviously make these sorts of delicate operations basically impossible, but it can also affect you in a more unusual way. According to this study, drinking alcohol can affect your brain’s ability to tell whether or not a person’s face is symmetrical.

Other studies have shown facial symmetry is one of the few truly universal indicators

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of attractiveness. No matter a person’s age, sex, creed or race, we are all more likely to prefer a symmetrical face to an unsymmetrical one.

Keeping this in mind, the researchers from Roehampton collected 20 pairs of portraits of similar attractiveness and then digitally altered half of them to be slightly asymmetrical. They also randomly modified half of another stack of 20 pictures and went out for a night at the pub.

There they asked people who had been drinking to pick the more attractive picture from each pair, and then to determine

whether the other 20 mug shots were symmetrical or not.

Most of the sober participants preferred the symmetric faces and were able to determine whether a given face was symmetrical or not. People who had been drinking were less picky and had considerable difficulty determining if a face was symmetrical. Interestingly enough, inebriated men were better at identifying symmetry than inebriated women.

Obviously, symmetry is not the only reason beer goggles work. Research has shown alcohol consumption can stimulate the release of dopamine, the

hormone governing sexual arousal and lust.

Maybe it’s dopamine, maybe it’s symmetry, maybe people just get desperate as the night comes to a close. But whatever the cause, remember beer goggles are real, and they aren’t picky.

Andrew Shockey is a 19-year-old biological engineering sophomore from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_Ashockey.

Contact Andrew Shockey at ashockey@lsureveille.com

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THE C-SECTION

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North Gate development kills Baton Rouge’s uniqueness One thing my dad told me when I transferred to the University in spring 2010 was “Chris, since football season’s done, you’ll be bored in Baton Rouge. I bet you’ll be home every weekend.”

I didn’t understand what he meant. I could only think about how much fun the capital city could be. So when I asked why, he told me because “Baton Rouge is New Orleans’ culturally deficient relative.”

I had heard this before, and I didn’t believe him. But once I moved in to the city, I realized he was right.

There is no French Quarter.

There is no Uptown. Bars close at 2 a.m., and there isn’t much diversity between them.

Moreover, the streets of Baton Rouge aren’t lined with privatelyowned, local restaurants — the city is dotted with boring, corporate-owned chains catering to college students’ needs. And anyone willing to argue with that statement can post a derogatory comment, or at least send me a threatening email — I’ll also pay someone to count the number of fast

food restaurant chains surrounding campus.

And while I was disgusted with the lack originality around campus, I did notice one locale that stood out from others — the North Gate area.

To me, Chimes Street was the closest thing to New Orleans’ Magazine Street. And though small in scale, the area provided me with some relief from my culture shock — well, lack of culture shock, that is.

The area wasn’t full of chain establishments.

The Varsity, Highland Coffees, The Chimes and numerous other businesses graced the area with their originality and creativity.

But a major setback now threatens to ruin this area and blend it in with the corporate dullness that marks the rest of Baton Rouge. This setback is conveniently titled College Row. The remarkable — and Campus Apartments owned — College Row is bringing in some much-needed chains to the area.

CVS, PJ’s Coffee, Pita Pit, Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt and Buffalo

Wild Wings will occupy College Row and offer their oh-so-unique products to students.

This is all very good because another pharmacy, yogurt vendor and some nationally recognized restaurant chains are exactly what Chris Grillot the unique area Columnist needs. Oh, the PJ’s Coffee is necessary as well, though Highland Coffees sits within walking distance.

Actually, College Row will not only attempt to ruin the North Gate area, but will continue the corporate trend that dominates Baton Rouge.

And with this trend, Baton Rouge will continue to blend in with the rest of America’s culture-lacking cities, and the city will continue to be known for one thing — the University.

I’m not saying College Row should have been barred from opening, and I’m not a corporation-hating

pretentious hipster who only shops at thrift stores and eats at obscure cafés — I enjoy Wendy’s and Starbuck’s as much as the next guy. I am simply saying more individualism needs to be promoted through local establishments in the area.

More chain companies, though they are bound to make a ton of revenue, are not what the city needs.

These corporate businesses will only procure money that might have been spent at local businesses, thus taking funds out of the local business owners’ hands and putting them into corporate hands, which will then allow them to open more and more chains, keeping students more and more bored.

Though Dan Bernstein, Campus Apartments Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer, previously told The Daily Reveille that bringing in local business wasn’t possible, as Campus Apartments needed companies that could pay off their leases, Campus Apartments should have considered the area they were planning to commercialize and tried

harder to find local businesses to move into the company’s new building.

If this had been done, the only original area of Baton Rouge may not be in jeopardy of becoming as diverse as the look-alike women of sorority row.

So now, almost a year into my career at the University, I have completely understood what my dad told me before I left. Baton Rouge is relatively boring, and it doesn’t seem to be getting better.

And once football season comes to end, another thing my dad told me is certain — I’ll be going home on the weekends.

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

Contact Chris Grillot at cgrillot@lsureveille.com

DON’T BELIEVE THE HYPE

Higher enrollment: more students, more bicycles, more idiots Chancellor Michael Martin would like to see the University’s enrollment near 32,000. Incoming freshman enrollment is about 5,000 this semester, compared to 4,779 last year.

What does this mean?

Campus is getting tight. There are more parking permits being sold, which equals a harder time finding a parking spot.

The new Tiger Trails bus system still sucks. The wait time for a Tigerland bus can be 30-45 minutes. Every bus stop on the route gets packed so when the bus finally shows up, it’s already filled to capacity.

How are students getting to school and around campus?

They are riding bikes. According to the a survey by the League of American Bicyclists, from 2000 to 2008 American bike commuters increased by 43 percent. The University picked up on the increasing number of bike commuters and added 700 new available spots for bikes around the busy areas of campus.

More biking on campus seems like a good solution for all. There is ess pollution, less vehicle traffic and more students exercise.

But this has created a huge problem — we now have an absurd amount of idiot bicyclists wheeling around campus.

Do the words NEXT, Mongoose, Diamondback, Trek or Pacific sound familiar? These are some of the common brands that you might see on bikes grazing two inches from you as you walk on the sidewalks to class.

Not only are these morons rid-

ing on the sidewalk, they are doing it in between classes, aka the busiest time on campus. Why the hell would you think it’s OK to ride through the middle of the quad on a huge, oversized beach cruiser complete with a large basket on the front at the busiest time of the day?

D o e s Michael Sandoz weaving beColumnist tween crowds of people walking on the sidewalks near HoweRussell and the Art and Design building honestly sound like a safe way to get to your next class? Do you really think you should ride one foot behind someone who’s walking, on your rusted-out bike with screeching, barely functional brakes?

The University Environmental Conservation Organization and Student Government has made campus even more unsafe by selling abandoned bikes at cheap prices to students at the University’s annual bike auction. This just increases the number of people who have no idea how to ride a bike, causing more traffic problems.

Hint: You can spot these people by their ridiculous cards still clipped to the handlebars from when the Office of Parking initially marked their abandoned piece of junk.

Need more proof of new, irresponsible bike riders?

Sit on the corner of Tower and Stadium drives near Tureaud Hall and watch the madness. You will

see riders of all shapes and sizes: the skater kid wearing a backwards cap on the freestyle bike with huge pegs on both wheels, the hippie on a rusty cruiser with barely inflated tires, the exercise enthusiast, sporting an oversized T-shirt and Nike track shorts on her first Schwinn and the hipster, who thinks bright colored, vintage road bikes make him an OG. You will observe all these morons riding on sidewalks, not stopping at intersections, cutting in front of cars and nearly hitting crowds of students using the crosswalks.

The craziest thing is that most

of these people are riding wearing headphones blaring their tunes.

Perhaps Lance Armstrong’s comeback inspired you to try cycling. But before trying to be like him, check Baton Rouge’s laws and the University’s regulations for bicycles.

Here’s a quick rundown: Sidewalks and crosswalks are for pedestrians, not bikes.

Bike on the right side of the road, not on an adjacent sidewalk, on a lawn, or through the Quad.

Use hand signals for turning and stopping.

Obey all traffic signals. You

have the same responsibilities as automobiles.

If riding at night, put a light on the front and rear.

And always remember to lock your bike properly.

Nevermind, bike theft isn’t always a bad thing.

Michael Sandoz is 27-year-old nutritional sciences junior from Mandeville. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_MSandoz.

Contact Michael Sandoz at msandoz@lsureveille.com

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