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PropMaster Jim Bussolati builds anything and everything behind the scenes of LSU Luke Jones

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e is a sculptor, painter, teacher, animal handler and firearms expert. He scours junkyards and thrift shops for materials that bring stories to life. He’s an ex-military man who owns a boa constrictor named Daisy.

Jim Bussolati is a prop master.

“A prop master must have many qualities — resourcefulness, artistic training, and broad knowledge of artistic and organization aspects of the theatre, and most of all, the ability to understand and translate the director’s vision into reality,” said Laurence Kaptain, dean of the College of Music and Dramatic Arts.

Bussolati joined the LSU Theatre Program in 2003 after receiving his bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern Mississippi and his MFA in Design and Production from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

“The best part about my job is the creativity I get to use,” Bussolati said. “We use anything we can to build the props you see on stage. … I can spend three days on a piece that is only used in production for five seconds.”

PROPS, see page 4

REORGANIZATION

LSU’s merger under fire

by AAUP Plans may violate academic principles McKenzie Womack Staff Writer

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Jim Bussolati, a professional-in-residence and the properties master for the LSU Theatre Program, poses Tuesday in front of props from the University’s theatre productions in the Music and Dramatic Arts Building.

Check out a video of Bussolati at lsureveille.com.

University faculty members concerned about the lack of professor involvement regarding recent and future changes to the University have asked the American Association of University Professors to evaluate the reorganization’s process.

“A month or two ago, a group of faculty contacted our office with concerns about what the Board of Supervisors had done in consolidating positions and also concerns about restructuring of the system,” said B. Robert Kreiser, associate secretary for the Department of Academic Freedom, Tenure and Governance. “In both of those areas, concerns were that they were acting without consultation to the faculty.”

Based on their review, AAUP’s members are preparing a letter to the Board of Supervisors and the MERGER, see page 4

DEVELOPMENT

Plans to renovate Nicholson Apartments on agenda Students report poor conditions Jonathan Olivier Staff Writer

On-campus housing on the west side of Nicholson Drive is slated for a massive facelift as part of the Nicholson Drive redevelopment project, which has been proposed to be included on the Board of Supervisors’ Feb. 1 meeting agenda.

Danny Mahaffey, director of Facility Planning, said possible plans include replacing the existing

family and graduate housing. director of Residential Life.

The apartments extend from Other developments on the the University’s North Gates along table at the February meeting will Nicholson Drive to the site of the include selection of the master deold Alex Box stadium. veloper, the way the proj“It’s a very big and ‘It’s a very big ect will be financed and important project for the and important final plans to the design of University,” Mahaffey project for the the structures. said.

A final estimate of the University.’ project’s The February budget cost is unknown, meeting is only meant to said Mahaffey. approve the master plan Danny Mahaffey “We have some very Director of Facility concept. Mahaffey said rough ballpark figures, but Planning any other developments the final figures have not will return to the Board at a future been determined yet,” Mahaffey date for approval. said.

“Approval of the master plan Waller said the plan’s is the first step, followed by several more steps,” said Steve Waller, NICHOLSON, see page 11

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Plans to renovate the apartments on Nicholson Drive have been made as part of the Nicholson Drive redevelopment project, which the Board of Supervisors will discuss Feb. 1.

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INTERNATIONAL More than 80 people killed in blasts at Aleppo university in Syria BEIRUT (AP) — Twin blasts ripped through a university campus in Syria’s largest city on Tuesday as students were taking exams, setting cars alight, blowing the walls off dormitory rooms and killing more than 80 people, according to anti-regime activists and a government official.

The opposition and the government blamed each other for the explosions inside Aleppo University, which marked a major escalation in the struggle for control of the hotly contested commercial hub.

Race is on for Europe’s $1.3 billion science project funding opportunity BERLIN (AP) — Call it Europe’s Got Talent for geeks.

Teams of scientists from across the continent are vying for a funding bonanza that could see two of them receive up to €1 billion ($1.33 billion) over 10 years to keep Europe at the cutting edge of technology.

They include a plan to develop a massive data-crunching machine to simulate social, economic and technological change on our planet; an effort to craft the most accurate computer model of the human brain to date; and more.

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In this photo from the Syrian official news agency SANA, damaged cars line the street Tuesday after an explosion hit a university in Aleppo, Syria.

Elements used in tech devices found in Jamaica’s red mud deposits KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica may be able to benefit from newly found deposits of rareearth elements that are key ingredients for smart phones, computers and numerous other high-tech goods, the Caribbean island’s top mining official said Tuesday.

Science, Technology, Energy & Mining Minister Philip Paulwell said Japanese researchers believe they have found “high concentrations of rare-earth elements” in the country’s red mud, or bauxite residue.

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STATE/LOCAL

Gunman wounds man, himself at downtown St. Louis business school

Private school tuition voucher program can continue in Tangipahoa

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A part-time student strode into the office of a longtime administrator at the Stevens Institute of Business and Arts in St. Louis on Tuesday and shot the man in the chest, creating panic in the school before turning the gun on himself, police said.

Both men went into surgery at St. Louis University Hospital. Police Chief Sam Dotson said he was optimistic both would survive, but a hospital spokesman declined to discuss their conditions.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that the state can continue its private school tuition voucher program in Tangipahoa Parish, despite the local school board’s claim the program could affect a decades-old desegregation case.

U.S. District Judge Ivan Lemelle in November had blocked the voucher program in Tangipahoa. But a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans issued a stay of the judge’s order.

NY passes first U.S. gun control law since Connecticut school massacre ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Jumping out ahead of Washington, New York state enacted the nation’s toughest gun restrictions Tuesday and the first since the Connecticut school massacre, including an expanded assaultweapon ban and background checks for buying ammunition.

Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the measure into law less than an hour after it won final passage in the Legislature, with supporters hailing it as a model for the nation and gun-rights activists condemning it as a knee-jerk piece of legislation that won’t make anyone safer and is too extreme to win support in the rest of the country.

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Police respond to the report of a shooting at the Stevens Institute of Business and Arts in St. Louis on Tuesday.

Trafficking charge dropped in case against man with underage sex slave KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man accused of torturing a young woman he kept as a sex slave pleaded guilty Tuesday to having sex with her when she was underage, but more serious charges including sex trafficking were dropped.

Edward Bagley, 45, had been facing 11 federal charges accusing him of enticing an underage girl to be his sex slave, torturing and mutilating her, and allowing others to view the torture sessions either in person or over the Internet.

Freezing rain, sleet in north La. closes schools, Interstate 20 ramps SHREVEPORT (AP) — Freezing rain and sleet closed Grambling State University early, canceled flights, sent drivers skidding and broke power lines in north Louisiana.

Police in both Shreveport and Monroe closed ramps onto Interstate 20.

Grambling sent students home at noon Tuesday, but Louisiana Tech stayed open. Northwestern State canceled evening classes.

Ouachita, Richland, East Carroll, Madison, Union, West Carroll, Morehouse parishes and Monroe city schools were closed Tuesday.

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LSU SYSTEM

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BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY

Students Plans to revamp Riverfront include bike path push for Work set to begin as early as April merger input Jonathan Olivier Staff Writer

McKenzie Womack Staff Writer

As the leaders of the LSU System push toward re-aligning the group of institutions in the system, students are pushing back against their lack of input in the process.

The University’s Transition Advisory Team consists of CEOs, lawyers and professionals, but no students or faculty members sit on the team.

“I have received a number of emails from students as well as had several students come meet with me about their concern of lack of representation,” said Student GovernAYLOR COX ment President TSG president Taylor Cox. “Some of the people on the team have no background in education.

Why would you have them over faculty, staff or students?”

Board of Supervisors member Justin Mannino said students will have involvement opportunities on the sub-committees, which are charged with analyzing specific areas and recommending changes.

“There will be a big push to make sure there is student involvement,” Mannino said. “Each chair will make sure he solicits the right students … to inform the team.”

According to the University’s Office of Budget and Planning, tuition and fees consist of more than 60 percent of LSU’s operating budget.

“If I’m paying more than 50 percent of something, my voice will be heard,” Cox said.

J Ryan Hudson, the 20102011 SG president, said students on the sub-committees are there to appease the LSU committee.

“The sub-committees are just generating ideas,” Hudson said.

“There is no binding piece that says students’ input will be in the report generated by the advisory team. … There is no student or faculty on that team fighting for their ideas.”

Mannino said the issue needs to be evaluated.

Hudson and Cox said involving students and faculty has no disadvantages.

“We offer a diversity of opinion,” Cox said. “We come here to be thinkers and motivators and people who change things and make a positive impact, and they’re not letting us do that.”

Contact McKenzie Womack at mwomack@lsureveille.com

Downtown Baton Rouge is set to undergo more changes as early as April, as a result of the Riverfront development plan overseen by the Downtown Development District.

The projects include a bike path, more Riverfront access via Florida Boulevard and changes to the Louisiana Art and Science Museum. The Riverfront master plan, part of the Plan Baton Rouge Phase Two master plan, has been in progress on projects to revitalize the areas surrounding the section of River Road near the River Center, leading north to Florida Boulevard.

Starting in early 2013, the area will become more fully developed. “[There’s] a whole new improvement on River Road, linking the town square with access to the top of the levee. There will be a passageway with lighting and seating, then an entry way for those that walk, jog or bike,” said Davis Rhorer, executive director of the Downtown Development District.

The Riverfront master plan is projected to cost $20 million and is expected to be completed around 2016 or 2017.

rendering courtesy of DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT

The revitalized Riverfront master plan features a bike path, more Riverfront access via Florida Boulevard and changes to the Louisiana Art and Science Museum. The $20 million project is expected to be completed around 2016 or 2017.

Rhorer said the bike path on the top of the levee will be more than six miles long, stretching from downtown past the University and will allow students an access point to downtown.

“It’s a great experience and it removes bikes from the road,” Rhorer said.

The Louisiana Art and Science Museum, located on River Road, will undergo external improvements as well.

“In front of the museum itself, we are going to put a walkway and remove some of the onstreet parking. There will also be a series of trees that will continue to Repentance Park,” Rhorer said.

At the southern end of the LASM, a plaza will act as a staging area for children using the museum.

Repentance Park, located near the River Center, redevelopment has been in progress since last year. The park will contain

various landscaping and include a walking path to connect the town square with the River Road and LASM. “We want a lot more to happen down here,” Rhorer said.

The levee access point project will go out to bid March 15 and is set to begin around April or May. The project will cost around $1 million, funded by competitive federal grants.

The levee bike path is also a part of a larger greenway plan to add multiple biking paths throughout Baton Rouge. The Downtown Greenway project, once completed, will connect the downtown area with different outlets, including parks, communities and different recreational facilities.

Business administration senior Katie Deshautreaux said the bike path is a good idea.

“I think a lot of people would use it. It sounds like it will be a

lot safer than riding on the street,” Deshautreaux said.

Lizette Landry, marketing senior, agreed with Deshautreaux that the path would enable students to easily visit downtown via bicycles safely.

“It’s always a good thing to have safer bike routes like this,” Landry said.

Rhorer said he hopes the new projects will attract more people to the area, to visit as well as live.

“I’m committed to creating cool green spaces for [people] to live downtown, as well as if you’re here to just enjoy the area,” Rhorer said.

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Whether he is carving an elaborate throne used in a production of “King Lear” or scraping and stuffing a dead coyote, Bussolati is always busy finding and producing a variety of objects.

“Most people think that the props we used are bought, but we actually make almost everything used on stage,” Bussolati said.

In addition to furniture and smaller items, Bussolati is also a firearms expert. He spent three years in the 82nd Airborne Division of the U.S. Army as a medic, which allowed him to gather experience with an assortment of weaponry.

Bussolati not only handles props, but also leads one of only six Property Management MFA. programs in the country.

“Professor Bussolati is perhaps one of the few members of the entire LSU faculty whose job includes searching junk yards, visiting consignment shops, passing through jewelry stores and other businesses in search of physical objects that transform and extend the message of the playwright and the vision of the director,” Kaptain said.

While he functions professionally as a properties master, Bussolati is also a professional-in-residence, teaching students to follow in his footsteps.

Bussolati often serves as properties master or designer for local productions. Recently, he has worked on productions such as “Sister’s Christmas Catechism,” “The Magic Flute,” “Hansel and Gretel” and the Krewe of Iduna’s Mardi Gras Ball scenery. He has also worked on Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre’s production of “The Nutcracker — A Tale from the Bayou” every year since 2003.

“Professor Bussolati has a wide range of skills, including woodworking, furniture building, sculpting and painting,” said Kristin Sosnowsky, associate professor and chair of the Department of Theatre and senior associate dean of the College of Music and Dramatic Arts.

“Some of the more memorable props that Professor Bussolati has created include a life-sized replica of a penguin which was sculpted from Styrofoam and used in our production of ‘Heist!’ and a version of the Mae West lips couch.”

In addition to working within the school, students studying props have the chance to benefit from the University’s direct association with the professional equity theater company Swine Palace.

“Props should be regarded as a profession rather than an afterthought,” Bussolati said. “A set is floor and walls. We’re everything else.”

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CAMPUS CRIME BRIEFS

affiliated with the University, according to Lalonde.

Student arrested after attempting to hide marijuana by eating it

Two break into Lod Cook Hotel, charged with criminal trespassing

A University student was eating his marijuana when police pulled him over for a stop sign violation, according to LSU Police Department Spokesman Capt. Cory Lalonde.

Joshua R. Seitz of 3262 Wyoming St. was pulled over for running a stop sign at the corner of Aster Street and Gov. Claiborne Drive and refused to exit the vehicle. When the officer advanced to the door, he smelled marijuana and witnessed Seitz chewing what was believed to be marijuana, Lalonde said.

Seitz, 22, was booked in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

Two uninvited guests at the Lod Cook Hotel had their stay cut short when maintenance discovered their intrusion.

LSUPD was called to the hotel Dec. 7 due to two individuals breaking into and staying in a room, Lalonde said.

Upon the arrival, LSUPD officers smelled marijuana and found a small amount still in the room.

Brandon K. Hughes, 1567 Groome Road, and Melony N. Taylor, 1701 Duane St., were arrested Dec. 9 for criminal trespassing, L alonde said.

Hughes was arrested for burglary, criminal trespassing, criminal damage to property and simple possession of marijuana and booked in the EBR Parish Prison, Lalonde said.

Taylor was arrested for criminal trespassing, issued a misdemeanor summons and released.

Taylor and Hughes are not affiliated with LSU, Lalonde said.

Student calls in false robbery, arrested for criminal mischief A University student was arrested Dec. 7 for criminal mischief after reporting a false robbery to LSUPD, Lalonde said.

On Dec. 6, Bianca Geneva Chappel, 3526 Pittari Place, New Orleans, called LSUPD and said she had been robbed. After investigation, LSUPD found no evidence to support her claim, and the next day, Chappel admitted to reporting a false crime, Lalonde said.

Chappel, 19, was issued a misdemeanor summons and released, Lalonde said.

Man booked for possession of crystal meth and illegal firearms LSUPD arrested Brandon M. Andre, 10705 Highway 411, Maringouin, La., on Dec. 15 for possession of crystal methamphetamine, Xanax and Adderall without a prescription and illegal possession of a shotgun and a hunting rifle, Lalonde said.

Andre was pulled over for speeding on Nicholson Drive when police saw 1.5 grams of crystal meth, the guns, pills and $500 cash, Lalonde said.

Andre, 30, was booked in EBR Parish Prison. He is not

MERGER, from page 1

University’s administration about the “extent to which the Board appears not to be acting in conformity with generally accepted standards of governance,” Kreiser said.

Board of Supervisors Chairman Hank Danos did not return The Daily Reveille’s phone calls Tuesday.

The AAUP cannot force LSU to comply with the principles and practices that are widely accepted in the academic community, Kreiser said.

“But when it doesn’t, the public — especially the academic public — becomes aware the degree of respect the University and the administration pay to the principles,” he said. “At LSU, it doesn’t seem like much.”

Faculty Senate President Kevin Cope said the public should know how the University is handling the merger and reorganization.

“The public needs to be put on notice that LSU is not doing its business according to the national standards, best practices and widely accepted professional norms,” Cope said.

Student arrested for setting off fire alarm of Miller residence hall A University student was arrested Jan. 9 for setting off the fire alarm in Miller Hall by discharging a fire extinguisher.

LSUPD was called to Miller Hall in response to a fire alarm, and, upon investigation, found evidence that Kaitlin Garret, 568 Waterford in Shreveport, set off the alarm, Lalonde said.

After multiple attempts to get Garret, 19, to come in for questioning, police obtained a warrant for her arrest, and Garret turned herself in Jan. 9, Lalonde said.

Garret was arrested for criminal mischief and booked in EBR Parish Prison.

Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at news@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @TDR_news The University is already on the AAUP’s list of censured administrations because of the firings of Deputy Director of LSU’s Hurricane Center Ivor van Heerden and tenured senior professor Dominique Homberger, according to Kreiser.

“With the censure, job notices in many fields are listed with asterisks saying if they go to LSU, they will be going to an institution that does not show respect to academic freedom and tenure,” Kreiser said.

The situation does not reflect well on higher education in Louisiana and “the way in which the authorities — including political authorities — show their respect for higher education,” he said.

Cope said the Board of Supervisors has “blown LSU out of the water.”

“Why is it that suddenly it became an urgent matter to reorganize the institution?” Cope asked. “...The Board is acting on an obsession and an irrational act of faith.”

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Flipping for faith

Sports

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Roar Corps needs to take some lessons

Sophomore gymnast channels religion in her performances Catherine Threlkeld Sports Contributor

Hands pointed to the sky, Lloimincia Hall begins her floor routine amid palpable anticipation.

Moments later, her powerful tumbles and spontaneous dance moves send the PMAC into a frenzy.

Hall’s personality and energy makes her one of the LSU gymnastics team’s highest scorers and biggest crowd-pleasers. Hall’s floor routine against No. 3 Florida, which earned a near-perfect score of 9.95, provided the knockout blow in the final performance of the upset. She finished second overall in the meet with a score of 39.45 and is nationally ranked No. 10 all-around.

Behind her performances is one goal — showing her devotion to Christ. She closed her Florida floor performance by bringing her hands together in a prayer pose before transitioning to Tiger claws.

The Florida meet came just days after she traveled to Gary, Ind., to watch her grandfather be laid to rest after battling heart failure. She said she used his death as

motivation to do better.

Hall grew up in a religious household. Her father and grandfather were pastors, and she danced in her church’s gospel group. When selecting music for this season’s routines, she chose gospel songs

by Kirk Franklin and Mary Mary.

“How would my grandfather look at this situation?” Hall asked of her motivation before Florida.

“He would look at it as an opportunity to express Christ to others.”

And express she did. The crowd was so loud during her routine that Hall couldn’t hear her music and had to improvise.

“She doesn’t need her music,” LSU coach D-D Breaux laughed.

“She improvises all the time. We never see the same routine in practice that we see in competition.”

At the Florida meet, Hall’s repertoire included a springing bounce to the floor and a “dicethrow.” She continues to incorporate parts of her freshman routine featuring the music of the movie “Drumline.” While she wanted to steer her sophomore routine more toward gospel music, Hall wanted GYMNASTICS, see page 7

MIC’D UP MICAH BEDARD Sports Columnist There’s nothing worse than an unintimidating, unorganized student section. And that’s exactly what the Roar Corps is.

When I first got the email from LSU Athletics introducing the “new student section for men’s basketball,” I couldn’t help but chuckle. Slapping a new name on an old dog doesn’t mean it will be able to learn any new tricks.

Trust me, the Roar Corps hasn’t.

I don’t get the name change from the Maravich Maniacs to the Roar Corps. It makes sense this season because of the “Stand Right Up and Roar” marketing campaign for Tiger Athletics for the 2012-13 athletic year, but what happens next year when the mantra changes? Are they going to change the name every season?

My freshman year during

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LSU sophomore gymnast Lloimincia Hall points upward at the beginning of her floor routine Jan. 11, during the Tiger’s win against Florida in the PMAC. Hall aims to demonstrate her Christian faith in all of her performances.

This isn’t all Micah has to say about the Roar Corps.

Watch his video blog at lsureveille.com.

ROAR CORPS, see page 7

MEN’S BASKETBALL

USC coach still adjusting to football-obsessed SEC Martin hails from Big 12 Conference Chandler Rome Sports Writer

His patented icy glare pierces downcourt and his booming voice rattles his players from the bench.

All seems commonplace for a Frank Martin-coached team.

Just don’t accuse the first-year Gamecock coach of intimidation — no matter how crinkled his face becomes.

“It has nothing to do with intimidation,” Martin said in an interview with The Daily Reveille Tuesday. “The fans have fun with it, the people outside the program have fun wit h it because they’re not around me or my players.”

Transplanted from the basketball-crazed Big 12 to the footballobsessed Southeastern Conference,

Martin has undertaken the challenge of rebuilding South Carolina, an SEC cellar dweller in the last two seasons under previous coach Darrin Horn.

The former high school math teacher crafted household names like Michael Beasley and Jacob Pullen while in Manhattan, Kan., consistently demanding aggressive defenses en route to a 117-54 record through five seasons at Kansas State – complete with four NCAA Tournament appearances.

But rumors swirled that the Miami native would leave the Wildcats in 2012 when the hometown Hurricanes were in search of a new coach.

Instead, Martin shocked the basketball landscape to embrace what he’s undertaken his whole life — a challenge to resurrect South Carolina basketball in a footballcrazed region “I like challenges,” Martin said. “That’s who I am. ... Since I

was a kid back in the early ‘80s, the SEC has had as good of players and as good of coaches as any league in the country.”

Now saddled with the task of rebuilding South Carolina to the form it was when it won back-toback NIT championships in 2005 and 2006, Martin has brought his intense defensive style to the SEC, catching the attention of the rest of the conference.

LSU coach Johnny Jones, who faced off against Martin in the NCAA Tournament when he coached at North Texas, gushed about Martin’s in-your-face style and had no doubts that the rigid regimen Martin employs would translate well into the SEC. “I think if you take his system, how he coaches and his mentality and you put it on a team, I don’t care what conference that you’re in,” Jones said. “He’s going to be COACHES, see page 7

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South Carolina basketball coach Frank Martin shouts to his team in the first half of its game against Mississippi State in Starkville, Miss., Jan. 9. Mississippi State won, 56-54.

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LSU, South Carolina looking for first SEC win Tigers, Gamecocks 0-2 in SEC play

being poised, handling the pressure, being patient and making plays,” said LSU coach Johnny Jones.

South Carolina lost its first two SEC contests to Mississippi State Marcus Rodrigue and Auburn by a combined five Sports Contributor points, and Jones acknowledged The LSU men’s basketball that the Gamecocks and first-year team will try to get its season back coach Frank Martin could easily be on track when it faces South Caro- 2-0 in the conference.

Sophomore forward Johnny lina tonight in the PMAC. The Tigers (9-4, 0-2 South- O’Bryant III’s lingering leg injury eastern Conference) and the Game- has proven problematic for the Ticocks (10-5, 0-2 SEC) come into gers. As O’Bryant’s minutes have the matchup in similar positions. dwindled, Jones has turned to seThough both squads produced in nior center Andrew Del Piero and their pre-conference schedules, junior forward Jalen Courtney to neither team has secured an SEC fill the void in the post. win this season.

“It’s kind of a war Next up for “We had two bad zone in this league in games already, so we the paint area,” Jones the Tigers: can’t keep having bad said. “That’s where a games,” said sopho- Who: LSU (9-4, 0-2) vs. lot of games are won more guard Anthony South Carolina (10-5, 0-2) between those lines.

Hickey. “It’s good to When: 7 p.m. tonight It’s important that we have them early, so get Johnny [O’Bryant] we can get going on Where: PMAC back or someone has this run right now. … Watch or listen at home: to really step up and play a special role for We’re just going to ESPN3.com, 98.1 FM us.” keep playing together.

South Carolina’s junior guard Our best basketball is yet to come.”

LSU opened conference play Bruce Ellington has already taken with a loss at Auburn and a blow- the Tigers on once this year, as he out defeat at the hands of No. 10 hauled in four passes for 38 yards and a touchdown as a wide receiver Florida.

One of the contributing fac- for the football team.

Ellington has shown explotors of the Tigers’ weak play is their decline in field goal percent- siveness on the court as well. In the age. They shot 45.4 percent in non- Gamecocks’ loss against Auburn conference play, but they have only on Saturday, Ellington dropped 18 converted on 34.8 percent of their points and added five assists. attempts in SEC action.

“To see a guy that is able to “We’ve just got to make sure come off the football field and that we get back to executing, come out and transition as quickly

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LSU senior guard Charles Carmouche passes the ball Saturday during LSU’s 52-74 loss against Florida.

as he has, it says a lot about his ability,” Jones said. “He’ll continue to get better. He’s a guy that we’ll definitely have to watch.”

Senior guard Charles Carmouche said while the Tigers must learn from their losses, they have to put those defeats behind them.

“If you think about those

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Wednesday, January 16, 2013 ROAR CORPS, from page 5

the 2008-09 season, it was a privilege to be a part of the Maravich Maniacs. You had to arrive at the arena early to get a wristband to be guaranteed a spot in the standing-room-only part of the student section.

Of course, that was the season when former Tiger star Marcus Thornton led LSU to a regular season Southeastern Conference Title and its last NCAA tourney bid. But the lack of a winning team is no reason for a student section to get as pathetic as it has in recent seasons.

Instead of packing the Roar Corps’ area right under the basket, students are more content to sit in the seats above the lower level just so they can watch the game in peace and not be part of some of the terrible attempts at rattling the Tigers’ opponents.

And I can’t blame them.

“Hey No. 1, I bet your GPA is lower than your jersey number,” and when all 15 strong in the student section started singing “Brick, Brick, Brick” to the “Jeopardy!” theme song are only a few of the gems the Roar Corps came up with when LSU took on Bethune Cookman on Jan. 5.

But two of the funniest gaffes of the student section came when the Florida Gators visited the PMAC last Saturday.

Toward the end of the game when the Gators had it in the bag, guard Kenny Boynton was fouled going to the basket and let an expletive fly. The Roar Corps then began to chant, “Watch (or wash) your mouth” — I couldn’t really tell.

Either way, it was horrible.

This is Louisiana State University, not junior high.

Then, Gators forward Erik Murphy fouled out with eight seconds left in the second half, and the student section attempted the “Right, Left, Right, Left, Sit Down” chant on Murphy as he made his way to the bench.

Only problem was, Murphy didn’t take a seat. He waited until the clock read zeros then turned to the student section and shuffled his feet so fast the Roar Corps couldn’t keep up.

Murphy: 1. Roar Corps: 0.

The lack of the Roar Corps’ basketball knowledge doesn’t help matters either.

The goal of a student section isn’t to furiously yell at the referees for every call that doesn’t go your team’s way. If you don’t know the rule, don’t boo just for the hell of it.

Until things change, the only roaring you’ll hear in regards to the student section is the laughter coming from people watching them make fools of themselves.

Micah Bedard is a 22-year-old history senior from Houma.

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page 7 GYMNASTICS, from page 5

LSU sophomore gymnast Lloimincia Hall finishes her floor routine Jan. 4, during the Tigers’ win against North Carolina State in the PMAC. Hall’s routine netted a 9.95 from the judges, the second-highest score of the night. She received the same near-perfect score in the Jan. 11 meet against Florida.

to keep with her roots from her freshman season routine, which earned her an All-American title in her first year at LSU. Ashleigh Clare-Kearney, a five-time All-American and twotime national champion as a former LSU gymnast, is a volunteer coach at LSU and choreographs the gymnasts’ routines. She said choreographing for Hall is easy because she “goes out there and does it on her own.”

“She puts a little something different every time she does it,” Clare-Kearney said.

Whereas some gymnasts like sophomore Rheagan Courville are more ballet-oriented, Hall has a powerful dance style. When choreographing routines, ClareKearney accounts for each gymnast’s personality and the way she moves. This mindset is especially true when choreographing for Hall.

“There’s a mentoring level to what Ashleigh Clare-Kearney does with Lloimincia … that may not ordinarily go on,” Breaux said.

When Clare-Kearney competed for LSU, she was the 2009 NCAA champion in the floor

is nowhere to be found.

“He’s a tremendous guy who you really enjoy visiting with,” Jones said. “But when you get between those lines, he’s a very intense person.”

Now both coaches will go against each other, each going for his first conference win, each showcasing a unique, passionate brand of basketball – with his mindset reflected on the floor.

As serene as Jones may seem and as livid as Martin may seem to

become, the two have one common goal, according to Martin.

“The beautiful thing of this world is we’re all different and have all different personalities,” Martin said. “As long as our mission is the same, which is to help kids, we can be excited about what we’re doing.”

And as for Martin’s adjustment to football country? The man some call stern but players admire looked no further than his co-workers for affirmation in his jump to the SEC.

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COACHES, from page 5 able to compete and have success.”

Although polar opposites in their demeanors on the bench, both first-year SEC coaches face the same uphill battles as their teams each started 0-2 in conference play riddled with mediocre shooting percentages and turnover issues.

Jones called Martin a great personality with a remarkable sense of humor. However, when game time rolls around, Jones said joking

See more photos from the gymnastics meet at lsureveille.com. routine and vault.

“Ashleigh may have done a few things in her [2009] routine that she choreographed into Lloimincia’s routine,” Breaux said. “[They have] kind of the same performance level and the same feeding off the crowd and certainly the same power in their tumbling.”

Hall said Clare-Kearney is one of her role models and paved the way for her type of floor routine.

“When you look at how she used floor as some showing of expression … it’s like taking gymnastics and switching it to showing who you are,” Hall said.

Contact Catherine Threlkeld at cthrelkeld@lsureveille.com “[Football coach] Steve Spurrier could have hand-picked any job in the country and he picked South Carolina,” Martin said. “Same with [former baseball coach and current athletic director] Ray Tanner. If it’s good enough for all those people, it’s good enough for me.”

Contact Chandler Rome at crome@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @Rome_TDR

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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Killer characterization trend doesn’t reflect issues FRIED PHILOSOPHY AARON FRIEDMAN Columnist “[He] brings a great deal of intellectual and emotional maturity to the classroom.”

That’s a fine compliment, and I wish it were about me. But it’s not — it’s a blurb from one of James Holmes’ letters of recommendation for graduate school that CNN published following the Aurora shooting.

I probably don’t need to qualify his name with any description for you. You know who he is, you know what he did and you’re most likely aware of his extensive academic background.

But why would you ever need to know anything about that part of his life?

It’s just a piece of a subtle new trend in describing shooters and mass murderers.

“Smart guy” has become the new “good kid.”

Today, as news about Holmes and the shooting continues to pour in, nearly every publication covering the tragedy and court case prefaces its description of Holmes with some variation of “former graduate student” or makes some reference to his academic tenure at the University of Colorado.

The world saw the same type of characterization of Adam Lanza after the Newtown, Conn., shooting. The

photo courtesy of The Associated Press

Before the July 20 shooting, alleged Aurora shooter James Holmes studied neuroscience at the Anschutz Medical Campus (pictured above), which is part of the University of Colorado.

Associated Press was sure to include a quote from a former classmate saying, “[Lanza] was probably one of the smartest kids I know.”

Similarly, news sources included firsthand accounts of Andrew Engeldinger as an “intelligent” man after he killed five people in Minneapolis last September. Finally, 16-year-old Bryan Oliver, who shot a classmate accused of bullying him last month at his school in Taft, Calif., was called a “genius” in a Yahoo! News article.

Does it matter? I suppose these brief mentions of intelligence may serve as some sort of concise portraiture, but what are we learning?

What is intended by the inclusion of these details?

No matter how I analyze it, it’s not good.

In one scenario, there’s an unfair judgment of value that implies these killers were smart and thus had potential.

Should we consider their crimes more tragic?

That would be akin to admitting an uneducated killer’s life was somehow worth less from the getgo, simply because he or she wasn’t a “genius.”

On the other hand, the mention of their intelligence might be used to heighten the killer’s perceived evilness, like mad scientists or the shark that ate Samuel L. Jackson in “Deep Blue Sea.” Are we, however, supposed to

instantly associate Holmes’ plot with his education?

There are plenty of intricate murders carried out by unlettered individuals and many — hopefully all — LSU grad students would never fathom killing someone.

Maybe I’m overthinking it, but this need for understanding is exactly what media outlets are appealing to when they ply us with these factoids.

People think if they can just understand a little bit of the killer’s mind, know his background or what his mother’s like, they can rationalize or contextualize a piece of the madness.

The truth is that people find comfort in establishing structure

after the chaos seen in the wake of shootings like Aurora or Newtown.

There are the candlelight vigils, the group prayers, the wakes, the funerals — all of this funneling us forward through the days and months when we would otherwise be paralyzed by fear or the echoing hollowness of loss.

But over time, these structures inevitably and unceremoniously fall apart around us. There are no more events to attend, national attention wanes and the phone calls and care packages become less frequent.

After the attention stops, little bits of characterization may make us feel closer to truth and understanding. However, they provide little and draw attention away from the issues truly worthy of consideration. These killers weren’t just smart — maybe they were mentally imbalanced, abused at home or bullied at school.

Intelligence or education has nothing to do with it. But for some reason, when my eyes skim over the word “smart” or “genius,” my brain wants to register it as useful information.

Instead, let’s treat these facts like candy — nice, but without substance and unhealthy for everyone in large amounts.

Aaron Friedman is a 22-year-old Spanish senior from Destrehan.

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TigerTV, Reveille to increase online presence, convergence LSU STUDENT MEDIA RYAN BRUMLEY TTV Station Manager Two great things happened in the world of television this week.

First, “Johnny Bravo” will be on Netflix soon (whoa momma) and second, TigerTV has kicked off its 24th year of programming.

This year, we have spearheaded online convergence with The Daily Reveille to combine our award-winning TV station’s video capabilities with one of the best college newspapers in the country while incorporating KLSU radio and LEGACY magazine into the

media mix.

Think of it like “The Avengers,” except even more awesome.

By working with The Reveille, we hope to improve our news coverage to better inform you, the students, about what’s happening at the University.

You can catch our news show, “Newsbeat,” at 5 p.m. Tuesday though Thursday. We will also be posting extended interviews with key figures around campus as often as possible, so be sure to check those out.

Also, on The Reveille iPhone app, you can watch our daily mobile updates. Monday and Friday will focus on sports, while Tuesday through Thursday’s updates will recap the day’s news.

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We hope to bring you the most in-depth coverage of LSU sports in this area. We will strive not only to inform you about basketball and baseball, but all of the teams on campus.

From 6 to 6:15 p.m. Tuesday though Thursday, on our show “Sports Showtime,” you can find sports coverage that focuses on detailed analysis, quality feature stories and a tolerable amount of debate (we can only embrace so much).

TigerTV is also working with LSU Athletics to produce “Inside LSU Gymnastics with Coach D-D Breaux.”

This will not only air on TigerTV, but also regionally on Cox Sports Television and Comcast

Sports South, reaching more than 10 million homes across the country.

Finally, TigerTV prides itself on having quality entertainment shows. Whether you are looking for political satire, celebrity-bashing or just general pop culture discussion, be sure to check out “The Update,” “The Ramen” and “The Hot Spot.”

We are always looking for additional content. Feel free to send your short films, show ideas and whatever else you think students would want to see. We may have a new format, new shows and even new people in charge, but we still have that same commitment to solid journalism, creative entertainment and to the University that we were built on.

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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Opinion

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U.S. needs to follow French example and raise taxes SHUT UP, MEG MEGAN DUNBAR Columnist Imagine if President Barack Obama made a speech today in which he said, as French President Francois Hollande famously did in a televised interview, “I hate the rich.”

Glenn Beck would probably fact-check something for once, to make sure his boundless glee could carry his voice righteously into the crazed ears of so many Fox Newstrusting Republicans.

What if Obama proposed even higher tax rates, the likes of which former President Bill Clinton enforced or higher, which may be the answer to paying off the national debt in the end?

If Beck could tear himself away from talking about the government stealing our guns for two seconds, maybe he’d address it angrily and suggest a mob march on Washington.

Instead of knee-jerk anger, we need to stop, take in the facts and rationally think about the possibility that the country could be better off with higher taxes.

The most recent measure of our GDP growth is an abysmal 1.7 percent, according to World Bank.

Compare this to the late 1940s and ’50s when the annual GDP growth rate for the United States was 4.2 percent — an astronomical number.

It’s no coincidence the time of highest taxes in the United States corresponds with the country’s

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French President Francois Hollande has stated he hates the rich and imposed a 75 percent tax on France’s wealthiest citizens.

greatest economic growth.

During the time of our booming economy, the highest tax bracket paid a marginal tax rate around 90 percent, according to a study by the Congressional Research Service analyzing top tax rates through an economic lens.

Marginal taxes mean a person pays the 90 percent only for money earned above a certain level, not his or her entire holdings.

Currently, the same bracket that once paid 90 percent now pays 39.6 percent in marginal taxes, according to the study.

The top brackets in 1950

applied to households bringing in $1.8 million, when adjusted for inflation.

For 2013, the top bracket includes any single person who makes upward of $400,000 a year and couples who make $450,000.

Taxing income so it only affects half of what it used to is imbecilic, especially when the nation is about to try to negotiate its way out of hitting another debt ceiling.

This lack of GDP growth and economic stability is not just a U.S. problem.

France has the exact same GDP growth of 1.7 percent, but

instead of promising to cut taxes like Obama, Hollande promised the French a 75 percent tax on the super-rich, or those making more than 1 million euros per year, which translates to $1.3 million.

His idea makes more sense than that of the United States, which seems to be to keep the super-rich content, supposedly starting businesses and spending more money because they have more.

Evidence has shown this type of trickle-down economics does not work.

Following former President George W. Bush’s tax cuts in 2001

and 2003, the budget surplus turned quickly to a deficit in just a year.

Despite review and denial of the proposed tax’s validity by the Constitutional Council, Hollande said he would rework the tax rate to something more agreeable to all the French, not just the popular support of those excluded from the highest tax bracket.

There were issues with his initial idea, such as the decision to word it so the indivdual would be taxed and not households.

However, it is something for the United States to consider.

We don’t have wiggle room to go back and forth on previously tried ideas that have not worked in the past or untested, hare-brained schemes that will turn the United States into even more of a laughingstock.

While the nation has spent time vilifying France and renaming fast food to serve this purpose, freedom fries and America-centric thinking will not get us out of this mess.

Maybe our government just needs to tweak some items in the tax code — anything at all — to prompt a response and eventual change.

Our tax code currently requires more than 16,000 convoluted pages. The French have fewer than 2,000. Much simpler.

Megan Dunbar is a 19-year-old English junior from Greenville, S.C. Contact Megan Dunbar at mdunbar@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @TDR_mdunbar

Obama must be held accountable for Bush-era politics MANUFACTURING DISCONTENT DAVID SCHEUERMANN Columnist President Barack Obama’s re-election was heralded as a resounding victory for liberalism in America.

The Nation’s Ari Melber called his re-election “the most decisive mandate for an assertive, progressive governing model in well over a generation.”

Joan Walsh, editor-at-large for the online magazine Salon. com, called it a “victory for the Democratic ideal of activist government and a mandate for more of it.”

Yet, a passing glance at the Obama administration’s record reveals many policies that should make most liberals, especially those who paid attention during the Bush administration, quite uneasy. In fact, Obama has made outright efforts to expand some

of the most abusive policies from former President George W. Bush’s administration.

The Obama administration’s love affair with the use of drone strikes as its chief counter-terrorism strategy has been actively documented. As of September 2012, Obama had authorized six times more drone strikes than Bush, resulting in four times as many deaths, according to CNN’s Peter Bergen and Megan Braun.

Similarly, warrantless wiretaps and surveillance can be expected to continue as Obama has now extended both the Patriot Act and the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (FAA), and indefinite detention language – which could apply to American citizens – was codified by the administration with the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act. Just two weeks ago, The Washington Post revealed that the Obama administration is continuing to use secret renditions — the process in which terrorist suspects are detained and

interrogated overseas — although the administration has halted the Bush administration’s use of torture.

And finally, John Brennan, Obama’s nominee for CIA director who worked for the CIA under Bush, has supported Bush’s torture program, extraordinary renditions and the FAA. His instrumental role in shaping Obama’s drone program should alone give any self-described liberal a pause.

Yet, time and time again, Obama is lauded by liberals and progressives as their man in Washington.

This isn’t to say the president hasn’t adopted many traditionally progressive ideals.

Obama’s embrace of samesex marriage, his stalwart support for ending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and his most recent commitment to enacting some form of gun control legislation are all policies diehard liberals can rally around.

However, I fear many

left-leaning Americans have been so content to accept these tiny victories that they have overlooked Obama’s more disreputable policies due to a fear that there is no viable alternative in the Republican Party.

Consequentially, liberals, so passionately fueled by anti-Republican sentiment, managed to enthusiastically re-elect a centerright Democrat who has done more to institutionalize more egregious, neo-conservative policies than any Republican so far.

Some progressives may argue that Obama’s presidency is a compromise and that his domestic policy has been more focused on what one might call a liberal agenda.

Yet, even ObamaCare, the President’s most celebrated victory that is often held up as the defining legislative win for liberals during his presidency, took many of its cues from the Heritage Foundation, a popular conservative think tank.

In fact, this discrepancy calls

into question the political divide that has grown exponentially since Obama’s election to the presidency.

Given these facts, how sincere can the conservative antagonism toward his policies be?

Similarly, how uninformed is the liberal adulation?

With Obama’s second term secured, progressives and liberals need to challenge the president’s continued use and expansion of Bush-era policies or else we can expect the country to continue in a more authoritarian direction.

And the legacy of the Bush administration will endure, whether a Democrat or Republican occupies the oval office.

David Scheuermann is a 20-yearold mass communication and computer science junior from Kenner.

Contact David Scheuermann at dscheuermann@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @TDR_dscheu

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Wednesday, January 16, 2013 NICHOLSON, from page 1

developers goal is to fund the project through a public/private partnership.

Biology graduate student Mukesh Maharjar moved into one of the Nicholson Apartments at the beginning of the spring semester and found multiple problems with the outdated units.

“The cockroaches are terrible,”

Maharjar said.

Maharjar also referred to the state of his air conditioning unit as “not proper.”

Chu Chuihui, computer science graduate student, has lived in the Nicholson Apartments for two years. Chuihui also said his air conditioning unit was not suitable, as one unit is not enough for his whole apartment.

Maharjar and Chuihui said

The Daily Reveille they hope the Nicholson master plan passes at the meeting, to get the ball rolling on the process to redevelop the aging apartment complex.

Mahaffey said, if passed, parts of the master plan could begin in 2013.

Contact Jonathan Olivier at jolivier@lsureveille.com

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