Today In Print: 07-14-11

Joplin: Cameron Parish community reaches out to tornado victims, p. 3

Art Melt: Popular in-state art fest and contest to attract thousands, p. 5

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CRIME

Armed robbery suspect booked

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Hurricane donations reach Ala.

T.N. King

Morgan Searles

The Baton Rouge Police Department has arrested a suspect in the Capital One bank robbery that occurred at 1:54 p.m. Tuesday on Highland Road near the north gates of the University, according to Sgt. Don Stone, BRPD spokesman.

Twenty-one-year-old Brendan Coughenour of 4733 Y. A. Tittle Avenue was charged with armed robbery and booked at East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on Tuesday, according to a BRPD news release.

Stone said security cameras provided an image of Coughenour’s car.

“We started riding in the LSU area, thinking he may be a local,” he said. “We located [the car] in the Tigerland area.”

The suspect entered the bank carrying a handgun and demanded money from the teller before fleeing on foot, according to a BRPD news release.

Witnesses described the robber as six feet tall, wearing black pants, a black hooded sweatshirt with the word “Nike” and black loafers, according to Tuesday’s release.

Stone said BRPD does not know if Coughenour is a University student.

PHILANTHROPY

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Governor Bobby Jindal explains the updated LA GRAD Act 2.0 at a press conference Tuesday at Lod Cook Alumni Center.

Morgan Searles Staff Writer

Governor Bobby Jindal signed the LA GRAD Act 2.0 into law Tuesday at a press conference at the Lod Cook Alumni Center.

This second round of improvements to Louisiana’s higher education system includes three updates on the original legislation.

The LA GRAD Act 2.0 will help institutions prioritize aspects of student performance, or metrics. Of the nearly 52 metrics, institutions will focus on increasing the number of graduates, improving retention rates and boosting completion rates.

This includes six year graduation rates, year-to-year retention rates and overall completers. Adopting these metric priorities will be required, as the state believes they are key components of professional success after college.

The act will also give Louisiana colleges operational autonomies in personnel, purchasing, facilities and investments. This framework presents a rewards system, wherein institutions gain more freedom to save money by making more efficient decisions when students do well.

Bill supporters expect the tiered autonomy system will improve academic outcomes and LA GRAD ACT, see page 11

After a month’s delay, items donated to the Tigers for the Tide relief effort were shipped to Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Tuesday.

The collected items were packed at 9 a.m. Tuesday at Tiger Stadium and delivered to the University of Alabama on Wednesday morning, said Josh Dean, assistant director of Campus Life and Volunteer LSU adviser.

Dean, who was in charge of overseeing the transportation of donations to the University of Alabama, would not comment on the delay.

Dean told The Daily Reveille on June 23 the group was waiting on an available truck and “[hoped] to have it there by July 18.”

Student Government President Cody Wells said on June 23 all supplies were sorted as far as he knew.

“I am disappointed the items were not shipped in a timely manner, but many people will still reap the benefits,” Wells said.

Tigers for the Tide was a relief effort to aid tornado victims at the University of Alabama and in the Tuscaloosa community. The tornado ravaged the Tuscaloosa community on April 27.

Donated items included clothing and toiletries.

Contact T.N. King at tking@lsureveille.com

FLOOD

Final Morganza gate closed, levees stable Floodwater levels surprisingly low Laura Furr Staff Writer

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers closed the final floodgate to the Morganza Spillway last Thursday.

The Corps started opening the

floodway, located about 35 miles northwest of Baton Rouge, on May 15 — for the first time since 1973.

The number of gates open on the Morganza peaked at 17.

The gates, built in 1954, were designed to divert water from the flooding Mississippi River into the Atchafalaya River Basin, which empties into the Gulf of Mexico.

MORGANZA, see page 11

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Water levels continue to rise May 11 at a levee near Nicholson Drive. Though lower than anticipated, high Morganza Spillway floodwaters warranted the mandatory evacuation of hundreds of Atchafalaya Basin residents.

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INTERNATIONAL

Nation & World

Thursday, July 14, 2011

NATIONAL

STATE/LOCAL

Dutch legal adviser rules ‘no toking’ signs banned in Amsterdam

Group of atheists, agnostics sues to stop Texas governor’s prayer day

Expert: Bullet from body matched to officer’s gun in post-Katrina shooting

AMSTERDAM (AP) — After a legal reverse, the city of Amsterdam said Wednesday it will likely have to stub out the “no toking” signs it introduced in a crackdown on marijuana-smoking youth.

The Dutch government’s top legal adviser ruled that the city had no right to establish official zones where smoking weed is banned, since it’s already theoretically illegal in the Netherlands. In practice, possession of small amounts of the drug is allowed, and it is sold openly in designated shops.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A group of atheists and agnostics filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday seeking to stop an evangelical Christian prayer event next month that was proposed and is endorsed by Texas’ governor.

The Freedom from Religion Foundation argues in its lawsuit filed in Houston that Republican Gov. Rick Perry’s day of prayer and fasting would violate the constitutional ban on the government endorsing a religion. The event, which is called The Response and is billed as Christian-only, is scheduled for Aug. 6.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A bullet removed from the body of a teenager gunned down on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina matched an assault rifle used by a police officer charged in the deadly shootings, a firearms expert testified Wednesday.

Patrick Lane testified as a government witness in the trial of five current or former officers, now in its third week. He said a bullet that ricocheted into the back of 17-year-old James Brissette matched an AK-47 rifle that Sgt. Kenneth Bowen fired on Danziger Bridge less than a week after the 2005 storm.

Lane, who works in the Louisiana State Police’s crime lab, examined several other bullets and buckshot pellets removed from Brissette’s body but couldn’t definitively match them to any of the guns fired by officers on the bridge.

Federal prosecutors say police shot and killed Brissette and 40-yearold Ronald Madison and wounded four other people without justification. Michael Hunter, a former officer who has pleaded guilty in the case, has testified he saw Bowen lean over a barrier where Brissette tried to find cover and randomly sprayed unarmed people with AK-47 gunfire.

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez expects chemo or radiation therapy CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez said for the first time Wednesday that he expects to undergo chemotherapy or radiation treatment, providing the clearest picture yet of his prognosis three weeks after undergoing surgery that removed a baseball-sized tumor.

Chavez provided new details about both his June 20 surgery in Cuba and his post-operation treatment, suggesting he anticipates a long road to recovery from cancer that could include physically taxing treatments in the coming months.

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A sign prohibiting the smoking of marijuana on the street is seen in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Such signs have been banned.

Ireland unveils new report on child abuse within Catholic Church DUBLIN (AP) — A new investigation into the Catholic Church’s chronic cover-up of child abuse found Wednesday that a rural diocese and its bishop ignored Irish church rules requiring all suspected molestation cases to be reported to police — and the Vatican encouraged this concealment.

Soon after, Justice Minister Alan Shatter pledged to pass a new law making it an imprisonable crime to withhold knowledge of suspected child abuse.

Gingrich: Nation needs new energy policy, drilling for natural gas CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Former House Speaker and Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is calling for a new national energy policy to include drilling for natural gas off the South Carolina coast.

Gingrich, campaigning in earlyvoting South Carolina, told about 120 executives of the state’s electric cooperatives in Charleston the nation’s energy policy needs to be reset to develop the country’s gas and oil supplies. He said natural gas could provide a new industry for the state.

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CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS In the Tuesday, July 12 article “Celebrity softball game draws 1,600 fans, raises money for military organizations,” The Daily Reveille incorrectly reported that the Red, Rock & Blue Celebrity/Sorta Celebrity Softball Game raised $15,000 last year.

It raised $25,000. In a photograph with the story, former LSU wide receiver Demetrius Byrd was misidentified as former LSU running back Joseph Addai.

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CHARITY

Student joins Joplin relief group

photos courtesy of KORY DAHLEN

Joplin residents affected by the tornado that hit in May enjoy food brought by the South Cameron Alumni Association on June 23.

During the trip, relief workers visited with residents and elected officials, handing out LSU shirts Seven hundred pieces of fish, and hats.

225 pounds of rice, 75 gallons of “The majority of the city coungreen beans and 50 gallons of gum- cil was sporting purple and gold,” bo were donated by one community Bourriaque said. with one mission. In the spirit of Other items donated by the giving, a University student trav- LSU community including clotheled with Cameron Parish residents ing, cooking items and drinks were more than 13 hours on five trailer distributed to tornado victims. trucks to aid tornado victims in JopDetermined to make a differlin, Mo. ence, Cameron From June 24 Parish residents to 26, construction plan to visit to Jomanagement seplin again from nior Kory Dahlen August 19 to 21 to and a crew of 16 cook more Louimen from South siana meals and Cameron Alumni participate in the Association and Adopt-A-ClassCameron Parish room program served more than to benefit Joplin 3,200 dishes of schools.

Ryan Bourriaque Louisiana cuisine “We visited to the Joplin com- South Cameron Alumni Association with school offimunity. cials and [teachers] president and LSU alumnus Ryan Bourriat a high school to aque, South Camfigure out what is eron Alumni Association president of the most need,” Bourriaque said. and LSU alumnus, said the people The majority of monetary doof Joplin appreciated the volunteers’ nations collected will be used to spirit, enthusiasm, food and music.

“One lady offered to move our head chef in with her,” he said. “We taught them how to jitterbug, waltz and, of course, do the alligator.”

Dahlen said Joplin residents have already emailed him asking when the group will return. He said residents were inspired by stories of communities rebuilding after natural disasters in Louisiana.

The trip went smoothly, Dahlen said.

“We had just enough food and volunteers,” he said. “Every day we cooked all the planned food, and if all the food was not served at our location, we bought the leftover food to the cleanup crews or to shelters for displaced Joplin residents.”

Many volunteers described the trip as the most rewarding experience of their lives.

Dahlen said he was proud to see Louisianians sacrifice their summers to help those in need. It reminded him of volunteer efforts following hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

T.N. King

Contributing Writer

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‘If you are afforded the opportunity to assist with a cause that you believe in, take advantage of it and make time.’

sponsor one of the classrooms in the city’s temporary school facility. The money will purchase chairs, desks, computers and bookshelves.

Bourriaque said its impossible to know when tragedy will strike a state or community.

“Never underestimate the importance of paying it forward,” he said. “If you are afforded the opportunity to assist with a cause that you believe in, take advantage of it and make time. It will be well worth it.”

Contact T.N. “King” at tking@lsureveille.com

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CHARITY

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Celebrity softball game raises $60,000 Steven Powell Editor-in-Chief

Red, Rock & Blue, an annual weekend-long charity event for veteran organizations, raised $60,000 last weekend, according to Jacques Doucet, WAFB sports anchor and event organizer.

About 70 to 80 percent of the funds will be donated, the rest going to cover costs for the event, he said.

“It was a record-shattering event,” he said.

This year’s total almost doubles last year’s amount of $38,000.

Doucet said he was able to donate $25,000 after costs last year.

“I got more determined than ever this year,” he said.

Red, Rock & Blue was a multievent weekend, featuring a Celebrity/ Sorta Celebrity softball game Friday

night, a concert at the Varsity Theatre Saturday night and weekend-long softball and kickball tournaments.

Celebrities at this year’s softball game included current and former professional athletes Doug Thompson, Marcus Thornton, Joseph Addai and Kevin Faulk, in addition to wellknown faces, such as stars from the TV show “Swamp People.”

This year was the second to include a celebrity softball game. Past years have only included a softball tournament.

“Last year we had a good list,” he said. “This is the biggest and best event I’ve ever done.”

Contact Steven Powell at spowell@lsureveille.com

SPORTS BRIEFS Football: 2012 home game against Washington moved to Sept. 8

Baseball: Former LSU pitcher earns save in MLB All-Star Game

LSU’s 2012 home game against the Washington Huskies has been moved up three weeks to Sept. 8, according to an Athletic Department news release.

The game was originally scheduled for Sept. 29 but was moved to the second week of the season following an agreement of both teams, the release said.

The Tigers will open the 2012 season at home, facing off against North Texas. The Tigers’ 2012 home schedule will include eight games rather than the usual seven.

The last time the Tigers faced off against the Huskies was the 2009 season opener on the road in Washington. The Tigers won, 31-23.

Former LSU pitcher Brian Wilson earned a save for the National League in the Monday night’s Major League Baseball AllStar Game. The National League topped the American League by a score of 5-1.

Monday night marked Wilson’s third All-Star game appearance since 2008.

Wilson made headlines last fall when he helped the San Francisco Giants to a World Series victory. Wilson pitched at LSU from 2001-03.

Football: Three LSU players on award watch lists LSU cornerback Morris Claiborne is on the watch list for the Bronko Nagurski Trophy, awarded annually to the nation’s best defensive player.

The list will be narrowed to five finalists Nov. 17. The award ceremony will take place Dec. 12 in Charlotte, N.C. Claiborne finished the 2010 season as a second-team AllSoutheastern Conference selection and ranked fourth in the SEC with 11 passes defended. He intercepted five passes, ranking third in the league.

Claiborne is also listed as a potential candidate for the Bednarik Award, an annual award given to the best collegiate defensive back. He joins teammates cornerback Tyrann Mathieu and linebacker Ryan Baker, also on the watch list.

Former LSU cornerback Patrick Peterson took home the award last year at the ESPN College Football Awards.

Women’s Basketball: Caldwell to host meet and greet next week Nikki Caldwell, LSU women’s basketball head coach, will host “Lady Tiger Lagniappe,” a chance for fans to formally meet the new coach, on Tuesday, July 19 at 6:30 p.m. in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.

Fans will have a chance to get autographs from coaches and players and will hear an address from Caldwell about the future of the program.

The event is free, but the Athletic Department is asking attendees to RSVP through the Department of Marketing.

Contact The Daily Reveille’s sports staff at sports@lsureveille.com

EMILY SLACK / The Daily Reveille

Former LSU football player Joseph Addai swings at the ball in the Celebrity/Sorta Celebrity benefit softball game at on Friday.

Entertainment

Thursday, July 14, 2011

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MUSIC

Sales show increase from 2010 Laura Furr Staff Writer

For the past seven years, Art This is only the second year the Melt has brought together thousands event has hosted an intimate preof people in the dying heat of Loui- view party, where the winners of the siana summer evenings. juried art competition will be anLouisiana State Museum will nounced. host the eighth annual Art Melt on Scott Higgins, Art Melt chairSaturday from 5 to man, said artists who 10 p.m., featuring participate in the Morgan Searles about 70 pieces from competition receive Staff Writer local Louisiana artseveral benefits. ists.

“In a galleried show you’ll get The free event will also feature maybe a hundred people there, but an outdoor art market, food trucks at Art Melt there are 5,000 people and catered food, bands and perfor- to walk through and see your art,” mance artists, vintage cars and an Higgins said. “The fact that we use anticipated crowd of about 5,000 nationally ranked jurors is appealpeople. ing to many people. This event has The 2011 Art Melt is kicking off launched the careers of some local with a preview party tonight at the artists.” museum. With a paid ticket of $75, The winners of the juried art attendees can see and buy the art- competition receive cash prizes. The work before the general public. first place winner receives $2,000

Music sales are up for the first time since 2004.

According to the Nielsen SoundScan midyear report, overall music sales ­— including albums, singles, music videos and digital tracks — have increased 8.5 percent in the first quarter from $756 million in 2010 to $821 million.

The top selling album at this point in 2011 is Adele’s “21,” selling more 2.5 million copies. In second and third place were Lady Gaga’s album “Born this Way” and Mumford & Sons’ “Sigh No More,” respectively.

In the running for top selling song were Katy Perry’s “E.T.” and Adele’s “Rolling into the Deep,” with Perry selling a marginal 31,000 units more.

Electronic, new age, rap, rock and classical genres increased in sales, while others — ­ like country and R&B ­— declined or stayed the same.

Many credit the sales increase to the recent shutdown of illegal downloading hubs such as LimeWire.

After ten years of operation, the peer-to-peer file sharing application was issued an injunction in New York Court and shut down in

ART MELT, see page 7

SALES, see page 7

Art Melt competition, market draws crowd

photos by MORGAN SEARLES / The Daily Reveille

[Top] Sandy Parfait, community gallery curator for the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, hangs artwork for Art Melt on Wednesday at the Louisiana State Museum. [Bottom] A flier advertises Art Melt 2011 on Saturday.

CULTURE

Irish Film Festival includes movies, dancing, music Event spans three days, multiple locations Kaitlin Torke

Contributing Writer

Louisiana residents will get a taste of Irish culture this weekend during the third annual three-day Baton Rouge Irish Film Festival, featuring popular Irish movies, traditional Irish dancers and well-known Irish musicians.

The film festival begins at 11:45 a.m. on Saturday at the Manship Theatre in downtown Baton Rouge.

Kicking off the festival on Saturday are the Na Cait Dubh bagpipers and New Orleans-based group the McTeggart Irish Dancers of Louisiana.

The O’Neill sisters, a pop/folk group from Ireland, will perform at 3:15 p.m. The O’Neill sisters have travelled from Ireland exclusively for the event.

Three popular films about Ireland will be shown, including “The Boys and Girl of County Clare,” “An Everlasting Piece,” and family-friendly “Into the West,” starring Gabriel Byrne and Ellen Barkin.

Laura McDavitt, chairman of the event and president of The Baton Rouge Irish Club, said the purpose of the festival is to promote Irish culture.

“We aim to keep the Irish culture alive,” she said. “We want to let Americans know that Ireland is receptive to Americans. So many Irish natives living in Louisiana are so excited for the event.”

Celebrities will also be attending the festival. “CSI: NY” actor and Ireland native A.J. Buckley will host a Q&A session following a screening of the short documentary “The Historic Pubs of Dublin,” starring Frank McCourt.

Celebrations continue Saturday at 10:30 p.m. at Red Star Bar downtown, featuring music by Pete and Chris.

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Members of Na Cait Dubh play traditional Irish music on the bagpipes July 19, 2010, in front of the Shaw Center during the second annual Irish Film Festival. This year’s festival takes place downtown this weekend.

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Reveille Ranks

“Transformers: Dark of the Moon”

Paramount Pictures

Shia LaBeouf is at it again with his host of jolly metal giants in the latest installment of “Transformers.” The greatest downfall of “Dark of the Moon” is the shallow, confusing and nearly non-existent plot, which finds planet Earth in jeopardy once again from evil space robots. Tall, dark and beautiful Megan Fox has been replaced by an equally beautiful British blond female lead, who reads as an incapable damsel in distress through the film, as evidenced by her constant screaming. The real stars here are the special effects, which believably depict a live-action apocalyptic city, complete with crumbling buildings and vaporized pedestrians. CGI junkies unite! Just don’t expect an intelligent storyline.

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MORGAN SEARLES

“Rubber”

Magnolia Releasing

While surfing Netflix Saturday I strolled upon a peculiar movie about a tire that kills people with its psychological powers. I knew instantly I had to watch it. Fortunately for me, “Rubber” didn’t disappoint. While the overview of the plot sounds like a dumb, drug-induced concept, the point of the film actually goes much deeper. In the opening monologue the viewer learns the movie’s purpose is to satirize the pointless happenings in Hollywood films audiences are expected to just take for granted. For example (and to quote the movie), why do the main characters in romantic comedies fall in love? “No reason.” We’re expected to accept that said boy and girl are an instant match without ever being told why. Likewise, Rubber features a tire that rolls around blowing up peoples’ heads. Why, you ask? “No reason.” Though on the surface the movie is just another stupid comedy, the deeper meaning behind it makes it a pop culture commentary worth watching.

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“Rocco’s Dinner Party”

STEVEN POWELL Bravo Television Network

World-renowned chef and author Rocco DiSpirito brings a little television competition to his celebrity-filled dinner parties.

Three contestants aim to plan the best themed dinner party for DiSpirito’s guests. They must design a unique party concept as well as a three-course meal for celebrity guests like Joey Fatone, Christine Ebersole, Kelly Choi and Padma Lakshmi. This show is for the viewer who likes a little bit of healthy competition, a little bit of an appetite for food and a little free time. A college kid can’t help but marvel at the deliciousness of the food creations on each plate. This show is definitely worth watching to wind down from a rough day.

Pour yourself a glass of wine and sit down with “Rocco’s Dinner Party,” airing every Wednesday at 10 p.m. on Bravo Television Network.

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KAITLIN TORKE

Beyonce, “4”

Columbia Records

The most bootylicious person the world has ever seen, Beyonce Knowles, is back and better than ever with her new album “4.”

The album is typical Beyonce with killer dance songs such as “Countdown” and “Run the World (Girls).” But more so than her other albums, the songs “1+1,” “Start Over” and “I Care” remind us of one of Beyonce’s most overlooked asset: her voice.

With “4,” Beyonce shows us an even more powerful soul-inspired side of her that fans have never seen before, perfectly fusing Destiny’s Child and Aretha Franklin. In case anyone had any doubt, Beyonce has proved once again that she flat-out awesome.

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Washed Out, “Within and Without”

LAURA FURR Sub Pop Records/Weird World

Ernest Greene is moving on up in the indie music scene.

Greene, better known as Washed Out, has been recording sultry “chillwave” tunes since June 2009 in the rural town of Perry, Georgia. But his debut album is earning him well-deserved recognition from music snobs and celebrities alike. Notoriously choosy music website Pitchfork.com rated “Within and Without” an 8.3/10 and named it “Best New Music.” Actress Jessica Alba tweeted about his track “Life of Leisure,” calling it a “groovy tune.” But does Washed Out’s album live up to the hype? I saw him open for Beach House at The Spanish Moon last year, and I can attest his music now has a more full, developed sound than his debut track “Feel It All Around.” The album’s opener, “Eyes Be Closed,” kicks off with Washed Out’s familiar ’80s synth meets abstract pop sound, invoking similar acts like Memory Tapes and Toro Y Moi. But Washed Out, unlike other artists, does not let his vocals overpower his instrumentation. His voice blends and soars with his rhythmic, harmonious dance beats. The album was produced by Ben Allen, who worked on Animal Collective’s crowd-pleasing “Merriweather Post Pavilion,” and this abstract pop influence can be clearly heard in tracks like “Amor Fati.” At worst, Washed Out’s debut is a predictable move toward the overly-simplistic “chillwave” moniker critics disparage. But “Within and Without” is a calming, blissful experience and a step up in Greene’s music aesthetic.

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STEPHANIE GIGLIO

The Daily Reveille

Thursday, July 14, 2011

FOOD FURR THOUGHT

Conclusion of ‘Potter’ films bittersweet As just about everyone ages 10-40 knows, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part Two” is being released at midnight tonight.

When the credits roll this time, the story that has enchanted our generation will officially come to a close.

There will be no more installments of Hermoine ranting, Ron’s endearing red hair, weird Dumbledore quotes or Harry duk- LAURA FURR ing it with Lord Staff Writer Voldemort to avenge his parents and save the entire world.

During the premiere, Tom Felton, more commonly recognized as Draco Malfoy, reminisced about growing up with castmates Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson.

“It has been incredible, from the early days when we were really young to here we are as young adults. It feels really strange,” Felton told The Associated Press.

Fans seem to be reacting the same way.

I won’t name names, but there are people in this city who cried so hard that they vomited when they finished the final book in the summer of 2007 and realized there would soon be no more Harry. I can only imagine what the reaction will be after the film.

Some might say, “It’s just a series. All the hype is too much. The books and movies just aren’t that good.”

And maybe this is true. It seems fans aren’t judging the series with a critical eye anymore.

The film has already received a 97 percent ranking on Rotten Tomatoes, the highest a film in the series has ever earned. Critics have never been overly enthused with the films.

Radcliffe announced recently that he has a drinking problem, but no one seems to care. He’s Harry; it’ll be okay.

The boy wizard has been with us longer than many of our friends, girlfriends, boyfriends and pets.

Our parents and relatives are the only people that can top Harry, and most are familiar with his adventures themselves.

Since the series began in 1997, there have been seven Olympic Games and three U.S. presidents.

The first film, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” was released just two months after 9/11, and the phenomenon has lasted as long as the U.S. has been at war.

We’ve grown up and the world has changed, but Harry is still as popular as ever. Other fads have come and gone, but for some reason Harry remains.

Maybe our generation’s devotion to the series can be credited to author J.K. Rowling’s mastery of storytelling. Her characters are relatable yet inspiring, the plot line adventurous yet touching.

Or maybe seeing the magical world we imagined before our eyes on screen pulls us into the story even more: a luxury generations before us

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[From left] Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and Daniel Radcliffe are shown in a scene from “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part Two,” which arrives in theatres Friday.

did not always have, especially to such a realistic degree.

Or maybe it’s Daniel Radcliffe’s acting … but I seriously doubt this.

Whatever the reason, it’s hard not to love Harry.

It seems that nothing can go wrong for Deathly Hallows — the world has invested into the series what, for most people our age,

amounts to a lifetime. We all know the wizards, witches and spells as if we attended Hogwarts ourselves.

I’ll be there along with the rest of the world to bid my bittersweet goodbye to “The Boy Who Lived.”

Contact Laura Furr at lfurr@lsureveille.com

Thursday, July 14, 2011 SALES, from page 5

May 2010.

The company was charged with intentionally encouraging infringement on a “massive scale” by allowing 50 million monthly users to share thousands of copyrighted materials.

Biology senior Alyssa Lanier said she has felt the effects of LimeWire’s closure.

“Now that LimeWire is out of the picture I have been forced

to buy more of my music,” she said.

Lanier said her favorite album of the year was Adele’s “21.”

Kinesiology sophomore Andrew Lunceford said there are still ways to get music.

“I never used LimeWire anyway. I buy most of my music on iTunes,” he said. “But I also know there are ways of converting YouTube videos into music files, and artists put a lot of their music out there for free.”

The Daily Reveille Lunceford said his favorite album was KiD CuDi’s “Man on the Moon II.” Other popular albums and songs included “Dirt Road Anthem” by Jason Aldean, “Crazy Girl” by Eli Young Band, Britney Spears’ “Femme Fatale” album and Kanye West’s “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.”

Contact Laura Furr at lfurr@lsureveille.com

ART MELT, from page 5

and a spot in local gallery Ann Connelly Fine Art. The second place winner will receive $1,000, and the third place winner will receive $500.

Sandy Parfait, community gallery curator for the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, worked with other curators to coordinate the museum show.

“It’s one of the largest juried exhibitions in the state, and I think it’s a really great opportunity for artists,” Parfait said. “And it really highlights Baton Rouge as an art capital and also as a place where art happens. I love being a part of it from an Arts Council standpoint, but there are so many people who make it happen.”

Three nationally ranked jurors scored the pieces and chose the overall winners — jurors included Rachel Wolff, Brooklyn-based critic, writer and editor; Benjamin Hickey, curator of collections and exhibitions at the Masur Museum of Art in Monroe; and Kelli Scott Kelley, University associate professor

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Sandy Parfait, community gallery curator for the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, labels artwork Wednesday at the Louisiana State Museum for Art Melt.

of painting.

Higgins said the event is only open to Louisiana artists.

“The sole purpose is to promote the local culture and the local artists, so it’s an incredible platform,” Higgins said. “It great to do something for the

community and then to have these artists get promoted and for people to see the artwork.”

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Military feature film “The Fighting 69th” will be shown Sunday at 1 p.m. at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall. Following the film, singer Rocky Saxon will perform.

The final event begins at 7 p.m. Monday at Phil Brady’s Bar and Grill. “Perrier’s Bound” will be shown, and one dollar burgers will be sold.

Last year, net ticket sales were between 250 and 300 tickets. Plans have been made to continue the event in 2012.

“We include all the arts like music, dancing and film,” McDavitt said. “It should be a great time for families and young people.”

Tickets are $8.50 plus handling fees and taxes for each feature film and include a short film, complimentary refreshments and cash bar access.

Tickets can be purchased at manshiptheatre.org or by calling 225-344-0334.

Contact Kaitlin Torke at ktorke@lsureveille.com

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Relief effort commendable, but follow through falls short On April 27 a deadly tornado devastated Tuscaloosa, Ala., prompting an outpouring of generosity by the LSU community.

Students, faculty and staff donated more than 50 boxes of toiletries and clothes to the Tigers for the Tide relief effort, a collaboration of many campus organizations. However, as of July 12, two and a half months after the storm, the donated items remained in Baton Rouge, almost 350 miles away from the victims in need.

On June 9, The Daily Reveille reported the donated items had already been shipped, as we were

told by members of Tigers for the Tide. However, on June 15 Student Government Senate Speaker Aaron Caffarel told The Daily Reveille not only had the items had not been shipped, but some donations still needed sorting.

SG President Cody Wells told The Daily Reveille June 23 the items were finally fully sorted, however Josh Dean, Volunteer LSU adviser, said in the same story Tigers for the Tide was still waiting on a truck to ship the donations. On Wednesday, two and a half weeks after the sorting was reported complete, the donations

finally shipped.

While a relief effort such as this one takes time to plan, organize, collect and sort, two and a half months is too much time to send aid to victims literally left homeless, especially considering the items were shipped two months after the deadline to drop-off donations.

While sorting does take manpower and time, five weeks is a long time to box donations. And the two weeks the sorted items sat idle in Baton Rouge is simply inexcusable.

Where was the hold

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up? Was it the Athletic Department, who was supposed to donate the truck? Was it poor planning on the part of Tigers for the Tide? Caffarel said SG was only responsible for sorting and Dean was in charge of shipment. When asked by The Daily Reveille about the delay in shipping, Dean would not comment. Why couldn’t Tigers for the Tide find a truck?

Mississippi State donated a UHaul truck a week after the storm to the Mississippi State University Student Association, which was able to get relief items to Tuscaloosa almost immediately. Why did it

take LSU more than two months to produce a truck?

We commend the generosity of the LSU community and the dedication and hard work of volunteers. Putting together a relief effort as big as Tigers for the Tide is a tremendous task — and to organize and work during finals time is even more admirable. But at some point, someone dropped the ball, and victims in Tuscaloosa are the ones to suffer the consequences.

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SCUM OF THE GIRTH

Affirmative action ruling wrong Cutting off manhood never a good solution Once again federal judges have promoted activist causes rather than the law and the preservation of our political structure of government.

On July 1 a federal appeals court struck down Michigan’s Proposal 2, a constitutional amendment voted on by Michigan residents banning the discrimination of prospective students based on race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin.

The court majority said the amendment burdened racial minorities. Because universities weren’t allowed to let minorities take the easy way out under the proposal, they were placing “special burdens” on the groups.

To say that requiring minorities to have the same merit as the majority is a special burden is either completely absurd or inherently racist.

As the dissent aptly argued, “Proposal 2 is constitutional under a traditional equal protection analysis,” noting the obvious — “it lacks a discriminatory purpose.”

Instead of doing its job, the majority furthered activist causes by claiming the burden on minorities was underrepresentation.

Moreover, the majority dictated what it thought was morally correct by arguing diversity benefits everyone. Whether diversity is good is irrelevant. The point is that judges have no right to decide what is moral for us.

If nothing else, the majority essentially said minorities aren’t smart enough to get into colleges by themselves.

It would have been different if the court claimed minorities could still gain equal representation in

the future, but the majority gave no time frame whatsoever.

The court thought it was acceptable to tell minorities that they will always need extra help getting into college. But somehow liberals wail about how conservatives are racists for wanting to prevent racial discrimination.

Furthermore, if we are truly going to eliminate racial stereotypes, as the majority supported, then courts need to stop treating minorities as handicapped.

Besides the argument that Proposal 2 burdens minorities, the court ma- Austin Casey jority claimed Columnist the amendment “reordered the political process.”

This is an important precedent judges use when assessing laws involving race, so laws regarding affirmative action must pass this test.

In Michigan, a board of 8 members is elected for each of the state’s three public universities set out by its constitution to govern the universities. Basing its argument on the accounts of members of the state universities, the dissent noted the boards have “fully delegated the responsibility for establishing admissions standards” to specific administrative bodies of the institutions.

The problem is that people who disagree with the admissions policies have no way of changing them because the faculties of universities aren’t elected. As a result, the admissions faculties aren’t accountable to any higher power.

They have unchecked power to

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make whatever admissions decisions, regardless of what the people of Michigan want.

The dissent’s support for our political system of checks and balances exemplifies what judges are supposed to do: preserve our system of government.

It’s pointless that the majority claimed it didn’t matter that faculties were the ones making admissions decisions because “in theory” the elected boards of governors could change the policies.

This is like saying in theory the government could make separate but equal facilities for minorities.

To say that the people of Michigan reordered the political process by passing a constitutional amendment is incorrect. The people had no voice on any level in the admissions process in the first place.

Thus, nothing was reordered.

The dissent’s upholding of our unique system of checks and balances should serve as an example of what our judges should be doing, because respect for the principles behind our system is the only way to get rid of affirmative action and promote true equal opportunity under the law.

Austin Casey is a 19-year-old medical physics junior from Mandeville. Follow him on Twitter @ TDR_austincasey.

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Last week in a quiet Los Angeles suburb, a man lost his penis.

The alleged perpetrator, Catherine Becker, 48, of Cal., is accused of drugging her estranged husband’s dinner, tying him to the bed and cutting off his penis. Parker Cramer Becker then alColumnist legedly placed the detached member into the garbage disposal, successful destroying whatever was left of her husband’s manhood.

When questioned, Becker said, “he deserved it.”

What could this man have possibly done to deserve being drugged and de-penised?

He could have cheated on her.

If Becker were rational, she may have filed for divorce and likely taken half of what he owns. It’s possible he could’ve beaten or raped her, in which case he got what was coming to him.

The most frightening scenario is Becker cut off his penis because he was bad in bed. Is it possible that she became so sexually frustrated from the absence of orgasms that plagued her day to day life that she felt it necessary to teach her husband a lesson?

Men are notorious for being early to “finish,” leaving their partners disappointed.

I want men everywhere to beware — the women of this country are becoming ever more fed up with male sexual inadequacy.

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It’s the change Obama was talking about. Not economic change, not social change, but a change in the attitudes of average Americans.

Fixing the economy begins in the bedroom. If American wives are happier, they’ll spend less of their husband’s money, lessening the burden on the middle class.

Fixing health care begins in the bedroom. Studies have shown sexually active people with strong libidos are usually healthier than celibates. “Sexercise” has replaced the treadmill.

Stopping terrorism also begins in the bedroom. Those guys wouldn’t be so angry if they got laid every once in a while. Let’s withdraw our troops from Afghanistan and replace them with prostitutes; that’ll draw the Taliban out of their caves. Bringing the troops home will also save us some money in this time of budget cuts. It will also make military spouses very happy.

The bottom line is men need to step up their game, in and out of the bedroom. Let’s treat our women better, not just our significant others. Because if we aren’t, it could end tragically for us and our girths.

Let this be a lesson to all men out there. Happy wife, happy life.

Unhappy wife, no penis.

Parker Cramer is a 20-year-old animal science junior from Houston. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_ pcramer.

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Quote of the Day

“A man always has two reasons for doing anything; a good reason and the real reason.”

J.P. Morgan American businessman Apr. 17, 1837 — Mar. 31, 1913

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If Uncle Sam can’t pay the bills, the US will pay the price

According to federal law, Congress must allow the government to borrow any money that is needed to pay for programs Congress passes — which sounds pretty fair to me.

Occasionally, spending will be so high and revenues so low that we will dangerously approach our spending limit — currently Devin Graham set at a meager Columnist $14.3 trillion.

Our solution? Well, if we ran our government like Americans do their finances, we’d live high on the cheap-credit hog, buy more bling and crap from QVC than we could ever need, then default on the debt.

And that’s pretty much the plan. Our elected officials have essentially abused our poor budget so thoroughly that we now face a crisis situation — massive

spending changes or a default on the U.S. debt.

To be clear, a default on U.S. debt means people whom the government owes cash — U.S. bondholders, foreign investors and the like — won’t get their money, or at least not when expected.

Reining in spending is not terribly difficult, not in concept at least. Bring more money in, typically through higher taxes, or spend less, namely through cuts.

But American politics has a way of actively working against this system. Voters elect politicians into office who make big campaign promises, usually to fix a current economic woe, eliminate “unnecessary” spending and lower taxes.

Politicians, in response to the people’s own desperate cry for fiscal death, lower taxes and increase spending.

And who wouldn’t be excited to hear that? It’s like your boss telling you to work less, and make more — but it isn’t sustainable.

So, now that previous

generations have lived a borrowed debt, benefitting from a higher standard of living, we’re left to foot the bill.

There are several plans being passed around Congress right now.

The Ryan Plan, so-called because it was spearheaded by Republican Representative Paul Ryan, would settle voters’s nerves by keeping taxes unchanged, while making massive cuts to programs like Medicare, which would be replaced by a system where the elderly would buy private insurance with less coverage, according to a recent New York Times article.

As it turns out, the Ryan plan doesn’t look like it’s winning the hearts and minds of Americans, mostly because it doesn’t deliver the impossible — free stuff.

Again, we’d like to be able to spend more than we have, feed every mouth, give top-level care to every American, fight injustice around the world and do it all without having to foot the bill.

It just isn’t possible.

Taxes must be raised, spending curbed or some combination of both. If we ignore the problem, we will inevitably face the doomsday situation — a default on U.S. debt.

And the impact of a U.S. default cannot be understated. Ben Bernanke, chairman for the Federal Reserve, warned that a U.S. default would be a “recovery-ending event.”

John Chambers, Standard and Poor’s managing director of sovereign ratings, clarified in an interview with Bloomberg, “If any government doesn’t pay its debt on time, its rating goes to D. Now, having said that, we do think that the government will raise the debt ceiling.”

When asked about the implications of a U.S. default, Chambers warned that it would be far worse than September 2008, the infamous month when Lehman Brothers collapsed and the economic outlook spiraled downward.

Left alone, U.S. debt will continue to climb, eventually

becoming so massive that not even our money-printing Uncle Sam can afford the bill, and we will default, resulting in massive economic loss — far worse than the late 2000s recession.

Like it or not, our only feasible option is to raise the debt ceiling to avoid default, and quickly put together a plan to cut spending and raise taxes until we reach a sustainable balance.

And if not, maybe Ethiopia will be willing to send back some of the food and water aid we’ve been providing — we’ll need it more.

Devin Graham is a 22-year-old economics senior from Prairieville. Follow him on Twitter @ TDR_dgraham.

Contact Devin Graham at dgraham@lsureveille.com

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Supreme Court ruling protects games under First Amendment

Working in the gaming department at Best Buy for nearly two years introduced me to some interesting people and strange stories.

While I could probably write an entire book about some of the interactions I’ve had, I’ll share only one today — my favorite, which involves a little kid and “Call of Duty.”

One day, a kid no older than seven came in with his grandmother and asked if he could preorder the new “Call of Duty” Adam Arinder game.

Columnist “Call of Duty” is rated M for Mature by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, which means it’s intended for people 17 years old and older.

I’m not one to play parent or refuse a sale on a game, so I did my duty as a salesman and fellow gamer to explain what game ratings actually mean, like I always do when a young kid inquires about a Mature-rated game.

On our way to the pre-order boxes, I was trying to explain the ratings to the kid’s grandmother, since her permission would be needed to buy the game.

However, as I was almost done explaining the game’s rating, the kid looked up at me and proudly proclaimed, “My dad lets me play with him online on his PSN [PlayStation Network] account sometimes.”

And it was that statement that

made me drop my speech, hand him the pre-order box and say, “Here’s your preorder. Have fun, kid!”

For years, clueless parents and ignorant politicians have attempted to raise all kinds of holy hell on the video game industry, claiming these “overly violent” games are corrupting today’s youth.

Yet these parents and politicians fail to see that the gaming industry has a self-regulating system when it comes to rating and classifying games.

Since the ESRB was formed in 1994, it’s been reviewing and classifying games into the appropriate age categories.

After the game is rated and released, it’s up to the parents to decide if a game is “overly violent” for their child.

If a game has excessive violence, it will most likely receive the “M” rating.

At Best Buy, along with many other stores, employees must verify that the customer is 17 or older before purchasing an “M” rated game or an “R” rated movie. If an “M” rated title falls into the hands of an 8-year-old, it’s either the fault of the kid’s parents or the store — not the company who made the game.

However, the gaming industry has been constantly under attack though the years by politicians and the media.

And instead of trying to understand how the industry works, they jump to conclusions and start hollering for bans on violent games and fines for stores that sell these games to children.

Fortunately it’s no longer a

problem, thanks to a Supreme Court ruling last month.

In an unprecedented 7-2 ruling, the Supreme Court struck down a California law that banned the sales of violent video games to children, claiming it violated the First Amendment.

“Like the protected books, plays and movies that preceded them, video games communicate ideas — and even social messages — through many familiar literary devices (such as characters, dialogue, plot and music) and

through features distinctive to the medium (such as the player’s interaction with the virtual world),” Justice Scalia wrote. “That suffices to confer First Amendment protection.”

This decision is a monumental victory for workers and fans of the gaming industry.

For once, it is being taken seriously as an entertainment and communications medium, and not seen as something solely for children.

And for all those politicians trying to make a name for

themselves by sticking their noses in things they don’t understand, I have one thing to say to you — game over.

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

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institutional functionality.

The University estimates the new flexibilities will allow administrators to save more than $52 million over the first five years of implementation.

Another goal of the act is to boost data and transparency, requiring officials to monitor individual credits and offer early warnings when students fall behind.

Jindal said the amount schools spend per student varies widely, but spending is not clearly related to student performance. However, the new legislation will help the state identify debt practices for investing higher education dollars wisely and share these techniques with other institutions.

Jindal said the revisions will cut red tape and make state oversight less bureaucratic and burdensome.

The first LA GRAD Act was a foundation for improving outcomes in higher education. Jindal said the future may see even more progress, noting a change in the Board of Regents funding and continued measures toward excellence in Louisiana’s higher education institutions.

“The legislation we will sign into law today takes the next step by operationalizing key components of last year’s framework,” Jindal said.

“It cuts through state micromanagement in campus operations, allowing institutions to achieve their potential and [giving] them more and better streamlined data.”

Chancellor Michael Martin said he is pleased leaders in the state have

committed to improving higher education.

“This act will give us the chance to adopt ... practices that in many instances have been well tested across the country,” Martin said. “We can be as competitive on the operational side of this institution as we are on the football field or the basketball arena. ... I can commit to you on behalf of my colleagues across the state that we won’t let you down.”

Despite state efforts, Louisiana’s six year graduation rate of 37 percent is still below the national average of 52 percent. Louisiana has the 13th highest number of dollars spent on students who drop out within a year.

Jindal said he believes this act will transform student outcomes for the better by giving campuses the flexibility and tools they need to improve graduation rates and performance.

“For too many years we’ve paid schools simply to be bigger, simply to offer more degree options whether they were needed or not,” Jindal said.

“To instead change the incentives to say now we’re really going to be focused on rewarding campuses based on completion rates, retention rates, graduation rates and the success of students post-graduation truly is changing the culture and will change the performance of higher education in Louisiana.”

Contact Morgan Searles at msearles@lsureveille.com

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The Bonnet Carre Spillway was also opened to protect New Orleans from floods May 9, diverting river water into Lake Pontchartrain and relieving pressure on levee systems downriver.

Ultimately, 330 of the spillway’s 350 bays were opened before the Corps began closing them June 12. The last 20 bays were closed June 20.

The Mississippi’s water levels reached record heights of 45 feet in Baton Rouge in May. This was three feet below the primary levee line but five feet above what is considered a “major” flooding stage.

It was predicted that the levees around Baton Rouge could not withstand this pressure. The Old River Control Structure was built after the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 to withstand water pressures in Baton Rouge of 1.5 million cubic feet/second. Officials feared pressure would top this, forcing them into action.

The Corps debated three scenarios. Regardless of choice, the Atchafalaya Basin had to be flooded to ensure the safety of levee systems in Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

In May, Governor Bobby Jindal predicted that 2,500 residents and 2,000 structures would be impacted by the opening of the spillway.

Local officials ordered mandatory evacuations for hundreds of residents in the Atchafalaya

Basin, but flooding in those areas was significantly less severe than initially expected.

The Corps estimated water would flow from the gates at 114,000 cubic feet/second at the Morganza Spillway when it was first opened.

Though results were less dramatic than anticipated, the state faced several setbacks because of the flood.

According to The Associated Press, the Bonnet Carre Spillway carried the Mississippi’s fresh water into brackish Lake Pontchartrain, and from there into the Gulf, for six weeks. The fresh water could cause problems for oyster harvesters, whose coastal beds depend on salt water. The beds have been fragile since last year’s BP oil spill.

Another byproduct of the spring flood has been the deposits of silt carried down from the midwest and deposited near the river’s mouth south of New Orleans. Dredges have been working to keep the channel clear for shipping.

The port complex between Baton Rouge and New Orleans is among the world’s busiest. The silt caused an oil tanker to run aground near the mouth of the river in June, but it was eventually freed from the muck.

Contact Laura Furr at lfurr@lsureveille.com

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The Daily Reveille

Thursday July 14, 2011