The Daily Reveille - July 22, 2010

GULF OIL SPILL

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REVEILLE RANKS

Read reviews of “Inception” and other popular releases, page 4.

MEDIA DAZE

SEC Media Days begin in Birmingham, page 5.

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Volume 114, Issue 156 – Thursday, July 22, 2010

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Where Stately Oaks... Poster OIL SPILL

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Matthew Jacobs

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Senior Staff Writer

[Right] Fred Fellner, assistant director of the University’s Landscape Services, stands alongside an oak tree Wednesday that had been struck by lightning on the Parade Ground. [Top] A new live oak stands in the circle rotunda by the Journalism Building. It replaced the palm trees that stood there before.

delivering Ò the core functions of teaching and research,Ó while Level One cuts are those Ò indirectly relatedÓ to that core.

Landscape Services fell in the Level One reductions and with Custodial Services will account for $2.15 million in cuts including 88 staff positions. Ò From what IÕ m hearing the administration say, we have no reason to doubt this cut will happen,Ó Fellner said. Ò WeÕ ve already been operating with a small crew for years. Landscape Services is not fat,

Several University art students will soon be part of a project designed to provide relief for fishermen affected by the oil spill.

The Great Oil Leak Poster Project invited artists, graphic designers and illustrators to submit posters that artistically illustrate messages related to the environmental disaster.

The project Ñ which stopped accepting entries June 19 Ñ received more than 140 submissions from around the world, including entries from Canada, South America and Iran, according to Jeff Lush, cocurator of the project and University of Louisiana at Lafayette art professor.

The submissions were judged, and about 50 entries will be displayed at the various exhibits, according to Lush. Ò We as the people of Louisiana need to stop and consider how oil really affects the lives of people who live here,Ó Lush said. Ò A lot of artists are very upset at what is going on, and now is the time to try to be able to do something about this.Ó Bricks & Bombs on Hearthstone Drive in Baton Rouge will see the exhibit’s first public opening

OAKS, see page 7

POSTERS, see page 7

Campus oaks, arborist crew at risk of facing impending budget cut eliminations Nicholas Persac Staff Writer

Immortalized in the Alma Mater and fixed in tailgaters’ memories, the more than 12,000 live oak trees shading campus are some of the UniversityÕ s most recognizable features and are at risk because of impending budget cuts.

These oaks line the streets, fill the Quad and encircle the Parade Ground, where a brick path splits the field. The two trees nearest that walkway and Highland Road were both struck by lightning but tell different stories.

One of those oaks gives a full circle of shade Ñ arborists saved a large Ò leader,Ó or limb, swooping from the trunk toward the ground, by adding a pole beneath the branch to add support. But the second treeÕ s shade is like a pizza with one slice missing Ñ a leader there was left unattended and broke from the tree.

The second treeÕ s story could be repeated in coming years if anticipated budget cuts are made a reality because Ò the arborist crew, which cares for the ... live oaks valued at approximately $50 million will be eliminated,Ó according to a proposal Chancellor Michael

Martin recently submitted to the LSU System. Ò In one year, there will be more dark spots on campus [at night], more dead wood in trees and more potential for structural failure,Ó said Fred Fellner, assistant director of Landscape Services.

JUSTIFYING THE CUTS The LSU System faces a $133 million deficit, $46 million of which will come from the Baton Rouge campus. Martin proposed a three-level plan of how the cuts would impact the University.

Level Three cuts are made to units

Mike VI to celebrate fifth birthday on Friday Tiger has grown to 460 pounds Nicholas Persac Staff Writer

He wonÕ t open presents, blow out candles or eat cake, but itÕ s still his birthday. Mike VI, the UniversityÕ s live tiger mascot, turns 5 years old Friday. Ò Mike the Tiger has been a part of the University for more than 70 years, and the fact that weÕ re the only university to have a live tiger on campus is very special,Ó School of Veterinary

Medicine spokeswoman Ginger Guttner said. Ò To me personally, he really symbolizes LSU Ñ heÕ s beautiful, heÕ s strong and heÕ s impressive.Ó A Bengal-Siberian mix, Mike came to LSU when he was 2 years old and was introduced to the University community in his campus habitat on Sept. 1, 2007.

Great Cats of Indiana, a nonprofit facility, donated the 320-pound tiger, then named Ò Roscoe,Ó to the University.

Now the tiger is known as Mike VI and weighs 460 pounds. By his sixth birthday, Mike could weight 600 pounds, according to a School of

Veterinary Medicine news release.

Guttner said an estimated 100,000 people or more visit MikeÕ s habitat annually. Jessamyn Stidham, who has lived in Baton Rouge for eight years, visited Mike on Wednesday afternoon with her two children, her brother and niece, who were visiting the city. Ò This is my second time in two weeks to come with people from out of town,Ó Stidham said.

Visits to the LSU Dairy Store, to see Mike and to pose in front of the tiger statue near his BIRTHDAY, see page 7

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THURSDAY, JULY 22, 2010

Nation & World

INTERNATIONAL

NATIONAL

Moscow accuses US of kidnapping pilot in drug smuggling case

2 bodies found in foreclosed Reno home that burned

MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian Foreign Ministry accused the U.S. on Wednesday of “kidnapping” a Russian pilot in the West African country of Liberia several weeks ago for alleged drug smuggling.

Konstantin Yaroshenko, 41, was arrested in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital, in late May.

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Police in Reno say two people who were found dead in a home that burned had heavily fortified the house after its foreclosure, apparently anticipating the sheriff’s deputies who came to evict them.

The deputies who showed up Tuesday morning heard gunshots when they announced themselves, then noticed the house was on fire and took cover.

Neighbors reported hearing gunshots or small explosions as the fire grew.

Lost Kafka writings resurface, trapped in Israeli court JERUSALEM (AP) — It seems almost Kafkaesque: Ten safety deposit boxes of never-published writings by Franz Kafka, their exact contents unknown, are trapped in courts and bureaucracy, much like one of the nightmarish visions created by the author himself.

The papers, retrieved from bank vaults where they have sat untouched and unread for decades, could shed new light on one of literature’s darkest figures.

EMT with ‘fireman’s key’ accused of New York City sex attacks NEW YORK (AP) — A city emergency medical technician who had special access via a universal “fireman’s key” has been arrested on rape and other charges in the armed sexual assaults of five women and girls since 2001, police said Wednesday.

Angus Pascall, 33, was arrested Tuesday in Brooklyn after a victim provided police with the license plate number of a car he was driving. The name of his attorney was not immediately available.

The 20-year-old victim told investigators that an assailant forced her into a car at gunpoint on Monday afternoon and raped her.

‘Barefoot Bandit’ returns to Wash. state for court appearance SEATTLE (AP) — The alleged “Barefoot Bandit” is back in Washington state, where authorities say he started a multistate crime spree.

Colton Harris-Moore arrived Wednesday afternoon from Miami on a U.S. Marshals plane and was promptly transferred to a federal detention facility in SeaTac, Wash., according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

U.S. Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Emily Langlie said HarrisMoore is scheduled to make his initial court appearance Thursday.

LATEST OIL SPILL NEWS BRIEFS — T-shirts with slogans like “Drill Baby Drill” and “No Moratorium” were common sights Wednesday as thousands of people rallied against the federal moratorium on deepwater oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

About 15,000 people packed the Cajundome on the campus of the University of Louisiana-Lafayette as Gov. Bobby Jindal and a stream of speakers blasted the six-month moratorium declared after BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

— A storm brewing in the Caribbean brought the deep-sea effort to plug the ruptured oil well to a near standstill Wednesday just as BP was getting tantalizingly close to going in for the kill.

Work on the relief well — now just days from completion — was suspended, and the cap that has been keeping the oil bottled up since last week may have to be reopened, allowing crude to gush into the sea again for days, said retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government’s point man on the crisis.

— Scientists studying the massive BP oil spill are turning to a vast collection of preserved animals at the Smithsonian to see what kind of changes the oil spill may wreak among life forms in the Gulf of Mexico.

The museum and research complex in Washington holds the most complete set of invertebrate species from the Gulf, offering scientists studying the spill’s effects a look at life before the gusher began.

— Big Oil is trying to assure Washington it’s prepared for the next big oil spill.

ExxonMobil, Chevron Corp., Conoco Phillips and Shell Oil said Wednesday they’ve agreed to pool $1 billion to form a new company that would respond to offshore oil spills at up to 10,000 feet underwater. The system would deploy equipment that could arrive at a spill within days and be fully operational within weeks, the companies said.

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FOOD

‘Shrimp crawfish’ could be commercialized, boiled in fall Researchers study species at University Ryan Buxton Staff Writer

Legions of Louisianians dream of crawfish boils during football season, and now a University researcher may hold the key to making that a reality.

LSU AgCenter aquaculture specialist Greg Lutz is researching a species similar to crawfish that he said could be commercialized and made available for crawfish boils during the fall.

The creature’s scientific name is orconectes lancifer, but it’s better known as a “shrimp crawfish,” so named for its similarities to both the shrimp and crawfish species, Lutz said.

Several shrimp crawfish are often found mixed in with regular crawfish harvests, and Lutz said their taste is strikingly similar to their close relatives.

“We’ve only tasted a few, but they taste just like regular crawfish,”

Lutz said. “If anything, they might be a little sweeter.”

The shrimp crawfish are good candidates for consumption in the fall months because their growth cycle differs from that of regular crawfish, Lutz said.

Crawfish typically lay eggs from August to November, and their offspring grow throughout the spring, eventually burrowing back into the ground around June, Lutz said.

But shrimp crawfish lay eggs in February that hatch mostly during March. The critters grow during the summer and reach their full size around October or November.

Lutz said harvesting shrimp crawfish later in the year could be much more successful than attempts to extend the regular crawfish season.

“All the efforts we’ve made over the last several decades to try

photo courtesy of TOBIE BLANCHARD

Greg Lutz, AgCenter aquaculture specialist, evaluates a shrimp crawfish for a summertime crop at LSU AgCenter Aquaculture Research Station in Baton Rouge.

TECHNOLOGY

Site allows for publication of government documents, data WikiLeaks gaining popularity, conflict Matthew Jacobs Senior Staff Writer

A website created in 2007 that allows Internet users to post government-related documents and information is meeting a cluster of controversy upon its boost in popularity.

WikiLeaks is a nonprofit site founded by a group of volunteers called The Sunshine Press. It is “designed to protect whistle-blowers, journalists and activists who have sensitive materials to communicate to the public,” according to the “About Us” portion of the site.

WikiLeaks aims to increase government transparency by allowing users to submit political-minded information to the site anonymously.

Submitted documents are screened by the site’s owners and verified for authenticity.

The founders claim the publication of the information will lead to “reduced corruption, better government and stronger democracies.”

But some political pundits doubt the beneficial nature of the site, claiming another incident similar to the Pentagon Papers could occur.

The Pentagon Papers was a topsecret set of documents containing inside information about the United States’ involvement with the Vietnam War. The papers were leaked to the front page of the New York Times in 1971, bringing about an onslaught of protest, controversy and legal battles.

Now the site is accumulating a wave of skepticism concerning its national security implications after a video was posted in April showing a U.S. helicopter attack in Iraq killing a dozen civilians, according to a July 7 story by CNN. Regina Lawrence, political science and mass communication professor, said the site poses both positive and negative political

opportunities.

“It’s in some ways a bit of a hybrid of capabilities between new social media and traditional journalism,” Lawrence said. “It’s not necessarily a bad thing to have a website that is dedicated to bringing whistleblowers’ information to life.”

Lawrence said people being WIKILEAKS, see page 7

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to extend the crawfish season later or start it earlier have been hit or miss,” he said. “We’re trying to force those animals to reproduce outside their natural annual cycle. The idea for using [shrimp crawfish] was just to work within the natural life cycle of the animal.”

The shrimp crawfish also have another benefit — they contain more meat per pound than regular crawfish.

“You would probably get 20 or 25 percent more meat per pound of animal than traditional crawfish,” Lutz said.

Lutz said he didn’t know how much that difference would affect the final marketplace price for shrimp crawfish.

Lutz’s interest in the shrimp crawfish species was sparked in the CRAWFISH, see page 6

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REVEILLE MUSIC

Ranks

Mountain Man, “Made the Harbor”

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To a new listener, it’s hard to predict what the first full-length album by a band called Mountain Man would sound like. It’s not totally surprising to find the band makes folk music — but that it’s an all-female trio and it’s mostly acapella? As offbeat as it sounds, that’s exactly what Mountain Man delivers with “Made the Harbor.” The music is about as bare bones as you can ask for, as the three heroines deliver their captivating tunes with just basic guitar accompaniment — and sometimes not even that. What’s more, the album was apparently recorded in an abandoned ice cream factory, so the vocals for each track bounce around and slightly echo, making for a more beautiful, and even haunting, experience.

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Sheryl Crow, “100 Miles from Memphis”

A&M

Sheryl Crow’s seventh studio album is 100 miles away from country music, or so it may seem to anyone who’s never heard the nine-time Grammy award winner’s sultry voice. Delivering much more soulful and sexy sounds, Crow’s powerful vocals convey an array of emotions that will drive listeners to the songstress’ small “community-oriented, God-fearing” hometown that inspired the album. At times a bit churchy, the album is definitely full of passion and drama and sets Crow apart from other famous Nashville stars.

JULIAN TATE

The Books, “The Way Out”

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Temporary Residence

“The Way Out,” the fifth LP by eclectic New York duo The Books, continues the band’s penchant for pairing voice samples with distorted layers of acoustic guitar and wailing melodies. While previous Books albums tended to err on the side of noise-rock, “The Way Out” is more mellow and pensive, as the voice samples form collages for the band’s eerie soundscapes. While the album often thrills through serenity, nearly half the songs seem to confuse tranquility for interesting music.

Still, The Books have created an album that is easy to get lost in — sometimes too easy.

CHRIS ABSHIRE

Marc Cohn, “Listening Booth: 1970”

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Marc Cohn, the folk singer-songwriter best known for the 1991 hit “Walking in Memphis,” released this week his fifth full-length studio album, “Listening Booth: 1970.” The 13-track album is a collection of covers of songs released that year. And successfully tackles Eric Clapton’s “After Midnight” and Van Morrison’s “Into the Mystic,” but falls flat on others, like Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Only Living Boy in New York.” The slow, smooth renditions rely heavily on Cohn’s voice, making for a sometimes boring album that peaks during a few songs, like the cover of Bread’s “Made It With You” that features India.Arie.

NICHOLAS PERSAC

“Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work”

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MOVIES

IFC Films

This candid documentary provides an insightful look into the more complex than expected life of Joan Rivers. The 77-year-old comedienne is a showbiz legend, but her decades in entertainment have reduced her image to a shallow, shrill shtick. “A Piece of Work” makes Rivers human again and shows how she has been affected by going so far down the Hollywood rabbit hole. Personal loss, the hunger for success and the fear of losing it all are among the film’s themes, but the best part is realizing how much Rivers understands about herself. She knows what people think of her, but she only hopes they keep thinking.

RYAN BUXTON

“Inception”

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Warner Bros. Pictures

“Inception,” the latest film from “Dark Knight” director Christopher Nolan, is an audacious film plastered with bold cinematography, grandiose special effects and a mind-numbingly extravagant plot that involves entering people’s dreams to steal secrets. Nolan also crafted the script for the film, which provides audiences with more than two-and-a-half hours of action shadowed by a darkly omnipresent score by Hans Zimmer. “Inception” is a majestic film, but its action is sometimes lost by failed attempts to inject emotionality into the story, which leaves the characters sadly underdeveloped. Despite this disillusioning aspect, however, “Inception” remains elegant and likeably complex.

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THURSDAY, JULY 22, 2010

Sports

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FOOTBALL

Times set for first three LSU games Michael Lambert Contributing Writer

season as “defending a title.”

“We’re not really defending a championship,” Saban said. “The championship is part of history … We really can’t look in the rearview mirror.”

Alabama returns junior running back Mark Ingram, the 2009 Heisman Trophy winner, along with senior quarterback Greg McElroy. The Crimson Tide faces an uphill battle with the loss of 11 starters, including eight on defense.

With the high turnover in college football, schools league-wide face challenges in replacing players. This year’s challenge is particularly large after NFL teams drafted an SEC-record 49 players.

Some of those include Florida

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The times and television schedule for LSU’s first three games were made official Wednesday at the Southeastern Conference Media Days.

LSU’s season opener against North Carolina on Sept. 4 for the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game is scheduled for 7 p.m. on ABC. The Tigers will then travel to Vanderbilt on Sept. 11 to take on the Commodores at 6 p.m. on ESPNU. LSU’s home opener against Mississippi State in Tiger Stadium will also air on ESPNU at 6 p.m.

LSU’s games against Vanderbilt, UL-Lafayette and Louisiana Tech were on ESPNU last season, and the Tigers won each of those games.

Eleven of LSU’s 13 games last season were on national television.

The North Carolina game will be LSU’s first appearance on ABC in a regular season broadcast since playing Virginia Tech in 2002.

Four LSU players were named to the pre-season All-SEC First and Second Teams on Tuesday before SEC Media Days.

Junior cornerback Patrick Peterson and senior linebacker Kelvin Sheppard made the first-team defense.

Seniors offensive tackle Joseph Barksdale and Drake Nevis earned spots on the All-SEC second-team.

Peterson had a breakout year

MEDIA DAYS, see page 6

SCHEDULE, see page 6

Coaches prepared for increased league parity at opening of SEC Media Days Katherine Terrell Contributing Writer

photos by BUTCH DILL / The Associated Press

[Top] Alabama coach Nick Saban talks to the media Wednesday during the Southeastern Conference Media Days in Hoover, Ala. [Above] Alabama junior running back and 2009 Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram addresses the media at Media Days.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Alabama coach Nick Saban began Southeastern Conference Media Days by addressing reporters with some questions of his own.

“I want to make sure I’m in the right year. I want to be in the moment here today. Is it 2010? Am I right about that?”

Saban asked. “Because everything I hear has always been about last year.”

It is in fact 2010, and Saban’s Crimson Tide reigns as the current national champion. But just around the corner is the start of a new football season.

SEC players begin reporting to campuses as early as Aug. 1 at Georgia and Aug. 4 for LSU. Saban said he doesn’t look at this

FOOTBALL

Gators, Tide ready for Tigers as season approaches RB Ingram predicts tight game with LSU Michael Lambert Contributing Writer

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The questions aimed at Alabama coach Nick Saban carried a familiar tone at this year’s Southeastern Conference Media Days.

Saban graced the podium Wednesday, six and a half years after winning a national championship with LSU and five months

removed from hoisting the crystal ball with Alabama.

The fourth-year Crimson Tide coach once again had to respond to questions about the challenge of repeating and the raised standards that come with success.

“They do have high expectations,” Saban said about Alabama fans. “I really wouldn’t want to coach any place that they didn’t have high expectations for what they wanted to accomplish.”

Saban said he has learned how to deal with the pressure after going through it at LSU. “We loved the people in Loui-

siana,” Saban said. “We had a great experience there, a special experience that we’ll never forget in terms of what we were able to accomplish.”

Alabama junior running back Mark Ingram has positive memories of LSU, as he had his way with the Tigers last season at BryantDenny Stadium.

Ingram steamrolled past the Tigers for 144 total yards and converted five first downs to lead Alabama to a 24-15 win.

This season the reigning HeisCOMPETITION, see page 6

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Alabama junior linebacker Dont’a Hightower speaks with the media at Media Days.

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1980s when he first collected some during his work as a graduate student.

“I thought they had some potential for culture because in the natural habitat out in the basin, you often find them in shallow, very hot water,” Lutz said. “I was impressed with their tolerance of hot water and low oxygen.”

Several years ago, a renewable natural resources student at the University collected about 40 shrimp crawfish, which Lutz began using to establish a population of the species that could be studied.

Researchers spent last summer increasing the population’s numbers, and Lutz said the AgCenter

MEDIA DAYS, from page 5

quarterback Tim Tebow and center Maurkice Pouncey, who has recently been the subject of an NCAA investigation.

“I see probably the two teams that lost the most just on paper is probably Alabama and Florida, who played in the championship game last year,” Saban said. “I think there will be more parity in the league.

And it will be more difficult week in and week out.”

Replacing Tebow won’t be easy, but Florida coach Urban Meyer said he has faith in junior quarterback John Brantley because of his

SCHEDULE, from page 5

in 2009, starting all 13 games and finishing with 52 tackles.

The 6-foot-1-inch, 211-pound cornerback from Pompano Beach, Fla., was timed with a 4.37 40yard dash during spring practices

COMPETITION, from page 5

man Trophy winner will face LSU in Tiger Stadium.

“I love going there,” Ingram said. “[It’s] one of the best atmospheres to play in college football.”

LSU fell victim to Alabama in two of the three seasons since Saban has taken over in Tuscaloosa.

“That game has been tough every single year,” Ingram said.

“The first year we went into double overtime. Last year we went into crunch time. That is a game I look forward to every single year.”

Ingram said the Crimson Tide

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now has more than 5,000 specimens, which allows for complex research designs.

The shrimp crawfish population is held in 60 research pools at the AgCenter Aquaculture Research Station, located off Ben Hur Road. Lutz is using them to study the effect of population density on the harvest’s yield.

“With crawfish production, typically you get a situation where there is always a trade-off between the overall yield and the size of the animals,” he said.

Lutz is also researching various types of vegetation that could be placed in ponds to begin the food cycle that would sustain the shrimp crawfish.

If the research proves success-

ful and the shrimp crawfish could be commercialized, Lutz said the species could be advantageous to crawfish farmers who already have the resources to harvest crawfish and could extend their work to shrimp crawfish.

But seafood lovers hungry for shrimp crawfish still have a while to wait. Lutz said there is still plenty work to be done before commercializing them becomes realistic.

“In terms of the entire process, we’re probably only about 35 percent of the way down the road,” he said.

experience.

“Instead of all the focus being on John, it’s certainly not our focus, we’re very well aware what he can do,” Meyer said. “One common characteristic of a great quarterback is the personnel around him. I think we have it, but it’s not been identified yet. So it’s going to be a big job for us in training camp.”

Florida center Mike Pouncey, Maurkice’s twin brother, said the offense won’t change much, minus a little less running by the quarterback.

“We’re not going to run our quarterback as much. He’s not as big as Superman was,” Pouncey said

with a laugh. “But we’re looking for great things out of our offense.”

Expectations are sky high for every school in the SEC West from Alabama, whose fans expect another national championship, to Mississippi State, who had a 5-7 record last season.

“We’re coming off a 5-7 season, not a national championship season last year,” Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen said. “But our fans have really bought into our program and the future that they see that we have to build a championship program.”

The Bulldogs finished their season with a 41-27 pounding of Ole Miss, which Mullen referred to as

“that school up north.” Mullen said he hopes to carry the energy of that finish into this season, hopefully culminating in a trip to Atlanta for the SEC Championship Game.

“Our guys believe, how we played last year, they can compete with any team in the league,” Mullen said. “How we finished the year off, I believe they now believe they can beat any team in this league.”

A winning attitude is something rookie head coach Joker Phillips hopes to bring to Kentucky. Phillips has had a whirlwind offseason since being hired as the Wildcats’ head coach.

“Not only am I a letterman,

alumnus, a Kentuckian, for me to be able to lead the program I truly love, I’m living the dream and carrying it out,” Phillips said.

Phillips said he has introduced something called “Operation Win” to Kentucky, which emphasizes winning in the classroom.

“Has everybody bought in?

No,” Phillips said. “But the ones that haven’t bought in, they will either be no longer with us or they’ll be the best conditioned player on our football team.”

and benches 335 pounds.

Sheppard brings veteran leadership to the LSU defense after playing in 40 career games.

The senior linebacker led the team with 110 tackles last season, fourth best in the SEC. Sheppard also added 8.5

tackles for loss, one sack and one interception.

Barksdale will make the move to left tackle this season after anchoring the right side of the line for the past two seasons.

The Detroit native has played in 40 career games with 26 starts.

Barksdale led all offensive linemen with 784 plays from scrimmage in 2009.

Nevis is coming off a strong 2009 season in which he landed 50 tackles, including 11 for losses and four sacks.

Alabama had the most mem-

bers on the All-SEC first-team, while Florida had a league-high 10 total selections.

and Tigers stack up fairly equally this season and will make for an exciting game when they meet Nov. 6.

“They play tough,” Ingram said. “They play hard-noised football. We play tough and hardnoised football.”

Saban said LSU and the SEC West will provide tight competition for Alabama in its attempt at a repeat national title.

“LSU has a lot of good players,” Saban said. “They’ve always had pretty good players and done a good job coaching them.”

The SEC has claimed the past

four national championships, with Florida taking two and Alabama and LSU each winning one.

“The SEC as a league just keeps getting better because I think the national exposure we get as a league really helps us all get more national recruits,” Saban said.

Florida coach Urban Meyer didn’t bring up his team’s Oct. 9 showdown against LSU, but he did comment on his former wide receivers coach Billy Gonzales, who is now LSU’s passing game coordinator.

“He was a great coach,” Meyer said. “He’ll do a great job at LSU.”

Florida senior defensive back Ahmad Black said the Gators lost a great coach on the offensive side of the ball.

“Just seeing him around and the way he talked to the wide receivers at Florida — he’s a good coach,” Black said.

Black, who is a seasoned veteran with 136 total tackles in his career, said Gonzales will add character to the Tigers.

The Lakeland, Fla., native said Gonzales’ life revolves around coaching.

“He was always coaching,” Black said. “We’ll be during

warmups, and he’ll be coaching.”

Black is expecting a competitive game against LSU coming off last year’s matchup in which the cornerback contributed five tackles in Florida’s 13-3 victory.

“It’s always been a great game, regardless if it’s at our place or theirs,” Black said. “I know Coach Miles will bring a great team into the Swamp. We just have to be ready for them.”

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LSU AgCenter aquaculture specialist Greg Lutz examines shrimp crawfish in a crawfish trap at the AgCenter Aquaculture Research Station in Baton Rouge.

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THURSDAY, JULY 22, 2010 POSTERS, from page 1

Aug. 6 at 7 p.m.

The exhibit will move to Lafayette on Aug. 14, where it will be on display for two weeks at the Acadiana Center for the Arts.

Attendants will be able to purchase prints of the posters for a Ò nominal fee,Ó according to Lush.

Sixty percent of the proceeds will go to Gulf Aid Acadiana, a fund established to provide relief to those affected by the catastrophe in the Gulf. The remaining 40 percent will be given to the artists and will help cover the technical costs of the project.

Lush said he hopes to see the exhibit travel throughout other areas of Louisiana and that a gallery in Pennsylvania has already contacted him hoping to display the works.

Rod Parker, director of the LSU

OAKS, from page 1

but weÕ re not in the classroom or supporting that mission directly, so from an administrative standpoint it makes sense weÕ re on Level One.Ó Fellner said the arborist crew is typically comprised of a manager, two licensed arborists and two helpers who care for the oaks in addition to more than 5,000 other large trees on campus. This crew, he said, Ò gives us the ability to stretch out the lives of the treesÓ and isnÕ t Ò the average guy who picks up a chainsaw because they have nothing else to do.Ó Martin said in an email the oaks Ò are a distinction and unforgettable feature of the LSU campus,Ó and though he hopes the trees will be protected for future generations “no firm guarantees can be offered” considering the budget situation. Ò The only explanation is that we have to care for people first during fiscal crises such as this,” Martin said in the email. Ò If we donÕ t have faculty and students, the campus is irrelevant.Ó MISSING SERVICES Fellner said the arborist crew

BIRTHDAY, from page 1

habitat for pictures are part of every visitorÕ s tour, she said.

Kevin Welsh, first-year law student, was on campus Wednesday to buy textbooks and stopped to visit Mike for only his second time. Ò I think heÕ s great,Ó Welsh said. Ò I know this [facility] is about as good as it gets, and Mike adds to the mystique of the team.Ó

WIKILEAKS, from page 3

given the opportunity to create their own news is not new. Ò The last two presidential cycles have been elections in which candidates have had to deal with someone who put something out on the web,Ó she said. Ò The difference about this is that in some cases itÕ s information the government doesnÕ t even want released.Ó Johanna Dunaway, an assistant professor of political science and mass communication, said websites like WikiLeaks present the opportunities for news organizations plagued by budget and staff cuts

School of Art, said the project offers a good opportunity for students to express their reactions to the disaster. Ò [Artists] often feel a lot of things and want to express a lot of things based on whatÕ s happening in the world,Ó Parker said. Ò This was an opportunity for people to do something and take an action rather than just sit there and stress about it.Ó Anna Boyer, graphic design senior, was one of seven University students and alumni whose work was selected for the exhibit, according to a University press release.

Boyer said she became involved with the project through a digital art class she is taking this summer. Ò Because the project is benefitting local fishermen, I wanted my poster to show the effect of oil on wildlife,Ó Boyer said in an email to The Daily Reveille. Ò I created an image that shows the deadly impact

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of the oil spill on fish. The poster is gruesome. I wanted it to be as real as possible.Ó Courtney Barr, an assistant professor of graphic design, said she encouraged her students to participate in the project, and two of her studentsÕ entries were accepted. Ò This competition gives students an opportunity to use their talents to voice their concerns about the oil leak and to offer support to Gulf Coast fishermen,” Barr said. “It is important for LSU art students to understand that art doesnÕ t happen in a vacuum. Art is often inspired by world events, but it can also have an influence and create change.”

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monitors campus to keep the oaks functioning with the world around them Ñ pruning branches with traffic clearances and lighting obstructions in mind and monitoring for dying branches over walkways and parking areas. Trimming also ensures the treesÕ resources Ñ light and water Ñ are not limited. Ò ItÕ s a safety risk to take away your arbor crew without replacing it with something,Ó Fellner said.

Fellner said unattended trees Ò compound as a problem over time,Ó and annual hurricane seasons could pose increasing risks for the trees each year without an arborist crew. Hurricane Gustav, which blew through campus in 2008, knocked down one of the QuadÕ s oaks.

The crew also installs lightning protection systems in live oaks.

These systems can be installed in one day by the crew and cost about $1,500 per tree. Fellner said these systems should be installed on every oak, but already limited funding prevented that goal Ñ only six of the QuadÕ s 13 live oaks have such systems Ñ and coming cuts will only make the situation worse.

The arborist crew is also working to build a website indexing

every campus oak. The site, Fellner said, is beneficial in comparing trends like disease and growth among trees. The crew uses the site to run maintenance queries while the public can find specifics about trees on campus.

The crew also gives trees “quick fixes” like bursts of irrigation when needed, and Fellner said what his crew does in a week could take months for some contractors to complete.

The crew also plants 200 to 300 new trees each year, with 20 to 30 percent of those being live oaks.

The crew recently removed a palm tree from the traffic circle near the Cox Communications Academic Center for Student Athletes and in its place transplanted an oak from a farm in Lafayette. Though that tree cost more than $3,000, Fellner said most plantings cost closer to $200, and in 10 years, the oak is worth $10,000.

Welsh said he enjoys seeing Mike during football games and thinks the live tiger intimidates opposing teams. Guttner said she expects Mike to attend most home games this season, though she added if he doesnÕ t willingly get into the cage, he wonÕ t be forced and may decide on his own accord to skip a game. Ò Mike VI is an important mascot and symbol at LSU,Ó Chancellor Michael Martin said in an email. Ò He represents

strength, cunning, beauty and fearlessness Ñ all characteristics we associate with LSU and all who are part of it. I wish Mike Happy Birthday and many more.Ó Guttner said no special events, treats or presents are planned, but Ò We hope everybody comes Friday and tells him happy birthday.Ó

to receive easy access to important news without having to do extensive investigations.

“It fits in with the whole idea that journalism is now much more interactive,Ó Dunaway said. Ò Audiences are no longer passive, and citizens can have just as much voice as anyone else. In this case, a citizen who works for the government maybe sees something untoward, and this gives them another outlet.

Communication streams are much more two-way.Ó The site provides a strong conduit for whistle-blowers to be able to publish worthwhile news thanks to its guaranteed anonymity.

WikiLeaks has received moderate attention for having published former vice presidential candidate Sarah PalinÕ s personal emails, as well as manuals from the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, according to CNN. Ò Because whistle-blowers are not protected and often punished, I canÕ t help but think it might be a good opportunity,Ó Dunaway said. Ò We just have to be cautious about when WikiLeaks becomes WikiRumors.Ó

ENDOWING THE FUTURE The LSU Foundation sponsors the Ò Endow an OakÓ program, and about 160 campus oaks are endowed. Money from this program is split Ñ half goes to the Oak

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Graphic design senior David Achee discusses his project with assistant professor Courtney Barr. Achee will be featured in the Great Oil Leak Poster Project next month.

Endowment, and half goes into an account for immediate use.

Quad oaks cost $50,000 to endow, Parade Ground oaks cost $10,000 and oaks elsewhere on campus cost $4,000. Fellner said the endowment has about half a million dollars right now, and if the

account hit closer to $2 million, a full-time Ò Live Oak Preservation CrewÓ could be dedicated to ensuring the oaksÕ longevity.

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FANNING THE FLAMES

ThursdAy, july 22, 2010

The pros and cons of a moratorium on deepwater drilling White House Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar issued a new moratorium July 12 on deepwater oil drilling.

A federal judge in New Orleans had issued an injunction against the original moratorium June 22, blocking the moratorium’s enforcement and allowing drilling to continue for deepwater oil rigs with sub-sea wells at 500foot depths.

The new moratorium contains supplementary information the first had lacked to aid Salazar’s case and justify what District Court Judge Martin Felman had initially dismissed as “a blanket moratorium with no parameters.”

In the Secretary of the Interior’s decision memorandum, Salazar acknowledged the unlikelihood of another blowout immediately following Deepwater Horizon but forbade drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf until Nov. 30.

Salazar expressed distrust

of offshore rig safety regulations prior to the BP oil spill, noting Deepwater Horizon had passed all inspections prior to its explosion, and emphasized the exact causes of the Deepwater Horizon spill remain unknown.

“The lack of knowledge about the root cause in and of itself poses a present and unacceptable risk to the extent that we have no guarantee that operators would not be engaging in the very same activity that led to the BP oil spill,” Salazar wrote in the statement.

The American Petroleum Institute, a powerful special interest group for the oil industry, criticized the moratorium in a statement by CEO and president Jack Gerard.

“It places the jobs of tens of thousands of workers in serious and immediate jeopardy and promises a substantial reduction in domestic energy production,” the statement read.

Gerard argued the

government has imposed strict safety regulations in the wake of the BP oil spill, and deepwater drilling operations could resume under federal purview without hazard.

Salazar ’s 22-page document explained the inadequacies of the oil industry’s current subsea Blowout PreTrevor Fanning venters.

“In a nutColumnist shell, the ability to contain a deepwater spill effectively and quickly when a subsea BOP stack fails does not exist,” Salazar wrote.

The memorandum states that subsea BOPs are less accessible to response crews than those at surface level, and the remote control system for deepwater BOPs is more elaborate than its surface level counterpart.

Low temperatures and high

pressures in the deep sea also pose a problem for spill control.

Engineers failed to anticipate methane hydrate crystals forming on the 98-ton steel and concrete containment dome they attempted to lower onto the leaking well, and the containment dome strategy was aborted.

Salazar invoked congressional testimony of oil industry executives, who admitted “many of the containment methods attempted had been improvised and were untested.”

Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) has suggested that the moratorium on deepwater floating oil rigs will have a more devastating effect on Louisiana commerce than the oil spill. Gov. Bobby Jindal has warned that the moratorium will discourage drilling companies from operating their rigs in Louisiana waters, citing two rigs that have already been relocated to foreign countries.

The debate on the drilling moratorium is stalemated

between Louisiana’s environmental sanctity and its commercial solvency. The prudence of our public officials requires them to take the necessary steps to prevent another oil spill just as the Gulf Coast struggles to recuperate from the BP oil spill.

The inevitable downsizing of the state’s petroleum industry, on the other hand, would devastate thousands of oil industry workers and cripple Louisiana’s economy.

The choice is between the unlikelihood of an envrionmentally-catastrophic sequel to Deepwater Horizon and the certainty of grave injury to “oil and gas production quite simply elemental to gulf communities,” as Judge Felman wrote.

The outcome for Louisiana could be a dual tragedy — first of environment, and then of industry.

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L’IL BITS

Cooking is a better alternative to college diets Some people underestimate the schedule of college students.

We are expected to attend class every day, study to make decent grades, maybe have a job and all while maintaining a strict social calendar.

But let’s not forget, we have to find time to eat and sleep, too!

For many, the college experience is the first time they are on their own and have to fend for themselves, cooking included.

So most college students don’t budget the time to prepare a wellbalanced dinner, and some just don’t care about it, which leaves students with few options.

There will always be Ramen Noodles, everyone’s favorite last choice dinner. Or, you can either fill the freezer with frozen dinners and fill the pantry with canned soups or order take out from various locations in Baton Rouge.

And let’s not lie, at some point, we have all done the latter.

But there comes a time in everyone’s life where they have to learn how to cook. I’m not talking about a five course meal, just something that you can throw

together to survive. Simple meals like chicken and vegetables or pasta and sauce will not only fill you up but also save your money.

Americans spend over $110 billion each year on fast food, with each person spending about $1,800 each year, according to financialnut. com. Think of all the things you could buy BriTTany Davis with that, or Columnist if you want to continue being financially responsible, you could save it.

The key is learning the basics. If you can press the buttons on the microwave or boil water, you can put so many different meals together.

If you really want to get crazy, you can turn on the oven or the stove. It’s really not as scary as it seems.

Just make sure to turn everything off when you’re done, which seems to be the part most people forget about. Just because

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the cooking is done doesn’t mean the appliances stop working.

Don’t forget to season the food with a little salt and pepper and maybe some Tony Chachere’s for this Southern girl.

Another great advantage about staying in and cooking is that it’s healthier. Everyone knows about the plague of the freshman 15, and the dining halls certainly don’t help. But avoiding fast food restaurants will definitely help slow the weight gain.

Also, don’t think you have to follow a recipe to cook a meal.

As much as I hate to admit it, I have gotten used to winging it.

I like plans and schedules, but that is one thing I have learned while being in college.

Don’t think you need a stocked pantry and refrigerator to make a meal. Sometimes it’s actually fun to whip up a meal just by using random ingredients you find throughout the kitchen.

As cheesy as this is, cooking also brings people together. Try cooking for your roommates one night or grilling some food by the pool. If everyone contributes, it’s something different to do, and it

saves money in the process.

As easy as it is to have your mom cook for you for the rest of your life, it’s not possible.

Being able to cook is just another part of growing up and being independent. Besides, you don’t want to be “that guy”

who orders from Plucker’s every night.

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QuOTE OF ThE dAy “Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world ”

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Apple diverts attention from iPhone antenna issue

The iPhone 4.

It’s sad when I can sit down to type a column and not even have to worry about coming up with a fancy, eye-catching lead.

All I have to do is type “iPhone 4,” and all of a sudden you’re hooked.

That’s all it takes for my web hits to explode. Twitter will unleash its infamous fail whale because of all the retweets, and Steve Jobs will come after me because he’s not going to like what I have to say.

As I’m sure you know — unless you live under a rock — the iPhone 4 released nearly a month ago, and release it did.

It crashed servers, caused riots, required people to stand in line for 10 hours and made some people very rich on eBay. The iPhone 4 launch was so successful Apple sold 3 million units of the “Jesus Phone” in only three weeks.

The phone has a gorgeous display, high-definition camcorder, LED flash, gyroscope and improved accelerometer, fully equipped with iOS4 and boasts two cameras with the ability to use “FaceChat” to visually talk with the person on the other line.

I personally can’t wait for the ChatRoulette app to be released, but I digress.

With all the amazing features Apple boasts about its newest iteration of the iPhone, it seems to have forgotten one important detail: It’s a phone — it needs to make phone calls.

However, because the phone’s external antenna band, holding the phone certain ways causes lost reception and dropped calls.

Many outraged customers called Apple/AT&T support, while others sent furious emails to Apple’s main man Steve Jobs.

After some time without hearing from the turtleneck-wearing CEO, Jobs told irate iPhone owners to simply “avoid holding the phone that way.”

To be fair, Jobs is well known for being blunt in his email responses. But this time it’s a little ridiculous.

It was obvious there was a big design flaw in the phone — how many other cell phones have an external antenna so users can touch it?

Oh yeah, none.

Instead of admitting there was a mistake, it appeared Apple just

danced around the issue instead of informing users a fix is in the works.

Some users reported Apple stores were supplying a free iPhone Bumper — a rubber case which surrounds the edge of the phone, helping with the antenna issue — to all those with deAdAm Arinder fective phones, on a case-byColumnist case basis.

This obviously wasn’t enough.

Soon lawsuit after lawsuit began to be filed against the iConglomerate.

Again, instead of admitting to the design flaw and properly doing something to correct it, Apple claimed everything can be fixed with a software update.

Now I’m no programmer (I only have one semester of computer science under my belt), but I didn’t understand how a hardware problem could be fixed with a software update. However, I decided to play along.

Consumer Reports unveiled its review of the iPhone 4 last Monday.

Unfortunately for Jobs and the rest

of Apple, Consumer Reports stated they could not suggest the new Jesus Phone to customers due to its antenna issues. To drive the nail deeper, the magazine announced after thorough testing, the problem could not be solved by a mere software update as Apple suggested.

With all this heat bearing down, Jobs announced a press conference would be held regarding the iPhone 4.

This was it, I thought — time for Apple to admit its mistakes and fix everything. Replace all the defective phones and provide upset users with a brand-new handset.

Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, that’s because it is.

During Apple’s iPhone 4 conference last Friday, instead of admitting there was a major design flaw in the build of the phone, Jobs got on stage and explained how all phones have antenna problems, not just the iPhone.

After spewing off other stats and bragging how great Apple is, Jobs announced all iPhone 4 owners would be entitled to a free Bumper — as long as it’s requested before Sept. 30.

That’s it — a free case.

No admitting a design flaw. No taking back phones that don’t work — although he did explain unhappy customers have a 30-day return policy. No recall. Just a free case and a knock at the competition.

It’s reported the free Bumpers will cost Apple upward of $175 million. Given the amount of units already sold in the first month, along with what will sell in the future and the fact anyone will buy anything if they see the word “free,” $175 million is chump change for Apple.

While the iPhone 4 is a damn good phone (if held correctly), this antenna issue cannot be ignored with the amount of complaints filed against it.

I’m sure Apple is correcting the problem behind closed doors as we speak. So, honestly, it may be better to hold off before buying your new Jesus Phone so Apple can get all the kinks worked out.

But if you do decide to jump the gun, don’t forget to go to Apple’s website to get your free piece of rubber to make your phone work. And don’t say I didn’t warn you.

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COX COMMUNICATIONS

Louisiana music in need of a major amphitheater Louisiana is known for its musical offerings. New Orleans is world renowned as the birthplace of jazz.

Influential blues guitarist Buddy Guy hails from Baton Rouge. Bob Dylan named his classic album Highway 61 Revisited after Airline Highway.

Yet in a strange twist, Louisiana has recently gotten the short end of the stick when it comes to concerts.

Year after year, tour after tour, bands constantly skip over Louisiana on their schedule, especially during summer months.

Not only do they skip Louisiana, but also the Gulf states of Mississippi and Alabama. Most tours go straight from Texas to Florida or vice versa.

The grand majority of the live music industry takes place during summer months. Baton Rouge does indeed have the River Center, which holds up to 12,000 people for concerts. But there is just something about having a cool breeze through open air while you boogie down.

The only outdoor venue Baton Rouge really has is at Blue Bayou/ Dixie Landin’. Unfortunately, the only artists that place attracts are emo has-beens like Good Charlotte who are just trying to make quick cash off pre-teens who have spent a little too much time in the wave pool.

I absolutely stay away from country music with its alcoholic lyrics and overall repetitiveness of its twangy guitar, but I did like the idea of the Bayou Country Superfest that was held in Tiger Stadium earlier this summer.

Obviously I wasn’t in attendance but heard from camouflage and cowboy hat-wearing revelers that it was a great time. My only concerns for future events in Death Valley are the treacherous heat and less-than-stellar acoustics.

We need a real amphitheater. A place the heavy hitters like Radiohead and hell, even Miley Cyrus, can go do their thing in front of thousands of fans.

Amphitheaters go back to the Roman days, when Pompeii was home to the world’s first amphitheater.

An amphitheater in Louisiana would have great cooperation with the weather. Of course it rains like an Indian Cory Cox monsoon here Columnist every summer.

The modern amphitheater nearly always has a roof covering a pavilion, however. The pavilion generally seats a few thousand patrons.

Beyond the pavilion is a roofless lawn section that can provide space for even more guests.

The closest major amphitheater to Baton Rouge is the Cynthia Mitchell Woods Pavilion in the Woodlands neighborhood near Houston. Atlanta boasts two such venues in the legendary Lakewood Amphitheater and the brand new Verizon Wireless Amphitheater at Encore Park.

An amphitheater is a major con-

struction project. It would require a decent amount of land to occupy.

Traffic after concerts would also be a concern, so a smart choice would be to put the amphitheater in a suburban or somewhat remote area located near a metropolis.

Several areas in southeastern Louisiana could serve as a host to this project. North Baton Rouge

seems to fit this bill. That particular area currently lacks any entertainment worth driving to. Another possible location could be in eastern New Orleans near the old Katrinastricken Six Flags park.

The construction of the amphitheater would create jobs. More jobs would be available once the amphitheater opens, such as stage

production, ticket sales, concessions, health and management staff. The transportation industry would also benefit, as shuttles and taxis would see much business bringing customers to and froth the venue.

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For Sale TOWN HOUsE FOR sALE 2 bed 21/2 ba. off Coursey & sherwood. Close to I-10 & I-12, Chimes East, Walk- Ons & Happys. $110,000

FsBOTOWNHOME PH(318)730-1260 sIEGEN LANE/ qUAIL HOLLOW 2BDRM; 2 1/2 BATH;WsHR AND DRYR FIREPLACE; 2 CAR COVERED PARKING HOME WARRANITY(1YR) $129,500 7MI FROM LsU

For Rent NEAR LsU 3 BEDROOM HOUsE 3 BR-2 bath, house washer, dryer and lawn service - 1388 Harwich - off of Brightside $1,350/ mo.

- email momancuso@atvci.net or call 985.518.6673 L s U Walk to Campus -pool- 2BR all appls. inc w/ d $695 1BR $495 studio inc ul’s $445.

2BR near BRCC $595. 766-5511 WALK TO LsU from Les Petite Apts. 3313 Iowa st.

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ThursdAy, july 22, 2010 1BRUN all electric central A/ C washateria $450 call 225-938-3999 or 225.766.0579

lakesidevillaapts.com or call us at 225-7514300.

BRightside Brightside three bedroom for lease paid water, sewer and cable with new w/d. Call Lynn @ Lewis Co (225) 235-3224 or (225) 766-8802 225.766.8802

BRightside PARK toWNhoMes LARge 2BR 2.5 BAth W/ d, PooL, Pets oK, 1757 s.

BRightside VieW. $850 MoVe iN sPeCiAL. 588-3070 southlandpropertiesinc.com

3BR/2.5BA 1500sqft $1125/MoNth south Brightside View drive: on-site Manager, flexible Leasing terms, Washer & dryer, Ceiling fans, Central A/ C, Near Bus stop, small Pets Allowed, Master Bedroom has it’s own Bathroom and Walk-in Closet 225.978.7400

WhoA! 3BR/2BA Condo w/ appliances, computer & breakfast nook, master bedroom @ bath for $1395 a month in summerwood Villas gated Community. 225.385.4310

NeAR LsU Carlotta/ ivanhoe $385-$505 588-3039 highLANd ANd Lee 175 Burgin Ave, 1br/1ba, w/d on site, w/s included. $589/mo, $400 deposit. 225.252.3163 BLox @ BRightside 3br 1 1/2 bath all amenities, gated, pool, workout area, bus stop, $1000 a month 225.485.5515 1-2 Bed-APts, $450-550/month near LsU, hot water included. Call Wang 225.278.6622 1,2,3 BR CoNdos iN BRightside / shARLo $650-$1000. 955-6480 southlandpropertiesinc.com

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Large 2 BR 1 B in gated complex..772-2429 mckproperties.com

1726 BRightside MANoR Beautiful 2br on Bus Rt. washer/dryer, fenced patio, wat/sew pd. $850 Move in special 588-3070 WoW! Lovely 3BR/3BA 2 story townhome!

Upgrades, Built-ins, Appliances, 2 Balconies, garage, gated Community, $1500 onepropleads@gmail.com 225.385.4310 qUAiNt CoNdo. 2BR 1BA, large LR/dR. College drive at Webb Park. 1000/mo.

225.436.0363 225.769.4373 iVy CoNdos 223 West Parker Blvd.

1BR,2BR flat,2BR town homes, W/ d included Call 225-572-9002 RooMAtes Needed 2 Roommates needed for house near LsU. Rent $500 (negotiable) plus utilities. girls preferable. Call for details 225.247.0804 LsU AReA, 2 Bed Room 1 1/2 bath townhome with washer and dryer, on LsU Busline, $650

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per month. Call 225-802-1961 NoRth gAtes of LsU studio apts avail iowa at W. Roosevelt $395-$475/ mo. www.tommackeyproperties.com for pics 225.751.8847 shARLo toWNhoMe 2BR/2BA possible 3rd BR or gameroom. New paint, new windows, covered parking, fenced deck area. $1,100/m call 225.769.3888 2Bd/1.5BA CoNdo Brightside. All appl, W/d, refinished tub, private patio, end unit. $915/ mo 225.772.3283

Roommate Wanted feMALe RooMAte Needed to share 3BR/2Bath condo, on LsU bus route, $500+utilities/mo. Call heather 337.780.9159 or 225.767.8830 MALe RooMAte WANted Non-smoking. $375/ month includes all utilities, cable, and laundry.

15 minutes from LsU. 225.266.0132 RooMAte WANted 3BR 2.5Bath hUge corner townhouse in heatherstone off Brightside dr, fully furnished common areas, pool access, all utilities included $600/ month. 443-928-4112 or LPeter1@students.towson.edu.

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3BR/2BA, Walk to LsU, gated, pools, W/d $1350/mth 281.468.4342 AVAiLABLe AUgUst 1st Brightside estates 3 bdrms,2 baths gated Community on LsU bus route, all appliances, W/d, balcony, pool.

No Pets/sMoKiNg1200 month/at least 1 yr. lease.900 deposit.504-450-2622 or 504.822.1500 sPeCiALs NoW AVAiLABLe Lake Beau Pre homes & townhomes, Arlington trace & summer grove Condos All Appliances included 2 & 3 bedroom floorplans dean flores Real estate 225.767.2227 Lg 1 BR APts. AVL oN AUg 1st & 15th. WALK to LsU 278-6392 / 266-8666 gAtes At BRightside - 3BR/2Bath Near LsU, gated, Newly Painted, includes Appliances, on Bus Route, Reserved Parking, Pool. $1500/ Month 504.319.1626 CANteRBURy sqUARe APts 1 and 2 bedrooms $455-$545 NoW LeAsiNg graduate and part-time students 3003 River Road 225.343.2466 1 Bd RM AVAiL AUgUst 1st. 4065, 4118 and 4243 Burbank. from $475. 978-1649. $300 deposit. Near Walk-ons and Mellow Mushroom. www.lsubr.com for pictures and floor plans. highLANd RoAd houses 3 br 2 ba available Aug 1st $950-$1200 225.769.1079 1BR CoNdo foR ReNt Brightside drive - on LsU busline - gated complex with pool - $525/ mo - call Robert 937-5046 hoUse foR ReNt garden dist. 3BR/2BA. 1624 Belmont. Cent A/ C, new carpet, tile, W/ d. $1200/ mo. No smoke/ pets.

225.768.9838 WALK to CAMPUs duplex has wood flrs, gas stove, fridge. 2BR/ 1BA $650/mo. www.tommackeyproperties.com for pics 225.751.8847

LiVe oAKs LUxURy APts

Live oaks is offering gReAt student and faculty specials and discounts! Please visit us at www. liveoaksapartments.com or call us at 225 752-8668.

BeAUtifUL hoUse iN Nicholson Lakes, 2yrs. old, 4bedrms/2ba, double garage, fenced yd. $1750.per mo.+util.with 1yr. lease 504.717.5188 LAKeside ViLLAs is offering gReAt student specials and discounts! Please visit us at

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