The Daily Reveille - June 12, 2012

Photo Story: Red Stick Animation Festival thrills Baton Rouge, p. 3

Legislature: State art programs see heavy cuts, p. 4

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Baton Rouge locals paddleboard around the LSU lakes shortly after sunrise Wednesday.

Water activities bring new trends to LSU Lakes

Marylee Williams Contributing Writer

As the summer heat weighs heavy on runners and cyclists, more people are turning to the water in both conventional and unconventional ways.

Outdoor activities have taken float with more people canoeing, kayaking and stand-up paddle boarding in Baton Rouge and other areas along the Panhandle.

Devin Drouant, Massey’s kayak demo manager, said canoeing is more of a family water activity than kayaking.

Native Americans in arctic regions first used the kayak, but freestyle kayaking didn’t become popular until the 1970s.

Joshua Rivet, an avid kayaker since 2005, said he discovered the sport while competing in an adventure race. Now he kayaks competitively.

“There are a lot of little races around,” he said. “People just don’t know about them.”

The Phatwater Kayak Challenge is a popular competition where participants race from the Grand Gulf to Natchez, Miss.

Rivet said he has noticed water sports have become more popular in the last two years around Baton Rouge.

For Rivet, kayaking is about fitness and leisure, but not everyone uses a kayak to work out.

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HEALTH

Students conduct eye health study College nutrition can affect sight

Taylor Schoen Contributing Writer

photo courtesy of MIKE BUCK

Nutrional sciences senior Emily Nickens [left] looks in a macularmetrics densitometer machine while student researcher Markita Lewis [right] oversees the test.

Imagine not being able to see clearly through the center segment of your field of vision.

This is the reality for many people living with a condition called age-related macular degeneration, but members of the LSU School of Human Ecology, Division of Human Nutrition and

Food, have been conducting a three-year study focusing on how nutrition in college-aged students may impact their eye health later in life.

The Mayo Clinic defines macular degeneration as “a chronic eye disease that causes vision loss in the center of your field of vision. Macular degeneration is marked by deterioration of the macula, which is in the center of the retina — the layer of tissue on the inside back wall of your eyeball.”

The disease primarily affects adults age 50 and older,

especially those with a high body mass index.

Louisiana is the fifth most obese state in the country, and the adult obesity rate is slightly above 31 percent, according to a 2010 study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Macular degeneration continues to grow in America in correlation with the obesity rates.

It’s a widespread illness with no cure; the only way to combat it is through prevention and detection.

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INTERNATIONAL

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

NATIONAL

STATE/LOCAL

Nobel Foundation to cut prize money by 20 percent

KKK group in Georgia aims to adopt highway for litter control

Arbitrator: Goodell can discipline Hargrove for bounties program

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — The Nobel Foundation has decided to reduce the prize money of each of the six Nobel awards by 20 percent this year to $1.1 million to help safeguard its long-term capital prospects.

The board of directors said Monday it wants to ensure the potential for achieving a good inflation-adjusted return on the Nobel Foundation’s capital during the next several years.

The decision came after the average return on the foundation’s capital fell short of the overall sum of all Nobel Prizes and operating expenses.

Nine young elephants find new home in Mexican zoo

ATLANTA (AP) — A Ku Klux Klan group is trying to join Georgia’s “Adopt-A-Highway” program to clean up litter on a mile-long stretch of road, creating a quandary for state officials hesitant to acknowledge a group with a violent, racist past on a roadside sign.

The KKK group applied last month to adopt part of Route 515 in the Appalachian Mountains. The Georgia Department of Transportation is meeting with lawyers from the state Attorney General’s Office on Monday to decide how to proceed.

NEW YORK (AP) — An arbitrator ruled Monday that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has the authority to discipline former Saints defensive end Anthony Hargrove for the New Orleans bounties program.

University of Pennsylvania professor Stephen Burbank reserved judgment last week on Hargrove’s case until the NFL provided more information why Hargrove was suspended for eight games. But Burbank now has ruled that he has no jurisdiction over Hargrove, either.

Burbank cites a letter from the NFL that attributes “the vast majority of (Hargrove’s) eight-game suspension to lying ... and obstruction.”

Feds to set critical habitat in La., Miss., for endangered frog

PUEBLA, Mexico (AP) — Nine African baby elephants were orphaned after their parents were poached, but by a wild game park in Latin America where they could wander around, wide-eyed as they munched on tortillas and donned sombreros in their new home.

Except that Namibia, where they came from, says it didn’t happen that way.

The nine elephants were the result of a commercial sale. Despite reports to the contrary, the creatures had never been truly, fully free, and their mothers were not poached.

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Nine elephants from Namibia needed a new home, and the owner of a 900-acre wildlife preserve in central Mexico jumped at the chance to buy them.

French book publishers drop lawsuit against Google PARIS (AP) — Internet search giant Google and a group of French book publishers say they’ve resolved a long-running dispute over Google’s book scanning and indexing efforts.

Google and France’s National Publishers Association said in a joint statement Monday that Google will propose a “framework agreement” to French publishers containing guidelines for the digitization of out-of-print books. French publishers and authors have agreed to drop their suits.

Items resembling human lungs found on LA County sidewalk LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say something that looks like lungs have been found on a south Los Angeles County sidewalk.

Sheriff’s Sgt. Robert Dean tells the Los Angeles Times that a citizen called Sunday evening to report organs on a sidewalk.

He says he doesn’t know what they are but deputies turned them over to coroner’s officials.

Coroner’s spokesman Ed Winter says a doctor has not yet looked at what was found. He says an examination will be conducted Monday or Tuesday.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is designating nearly 6,500 acres in Mississippi and Louisiana as critical habitat for the endangered Mississippi gopher frog — the only endangered or threatened frog in the Southeast.

The land includes about 1,600 acres in St. Tammany Parish, La., with the rest of the designated land being in Mississippi’s Jackson, Harrison, Forrest and Perry counties.

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BUDGET CUTS

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LSU System will see $28M in cuts

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Higher education in Louisiana will be cut around $66 million from last year’s budget, despite a legislative resolution allowing the use of $204.7 million in “rainy day” funds to cover gaps in the state’s $25.6 billion budget.

Of that $66 million, about $28 million affects the LSU System, with slightly less than $19 million specifically cut from the University.

That reduction is offset by $24 million in self-generated funds — nearly 9 percent more than last year — bringing the total operating budget of the University to $446.4 million, up from last year’s by about $5 million.

But that isn’t cause for celebration.

The University uses a number called Direct Student Impact (DSI) to show, in dollars, the effect of budget actions on a student’s experience.

While the operating budget has increased, the DSI for fiscal year 2013 — beginning July 1 — is down $34.1 million.

Eric Monday, Vice Chancellor and CFO, said this decrease is due to non-recurring funds used in last year’s budget and other expenditures.

“None of that is good,” Interim LSU System President William

Jenkins said. “As these budget reductions occur, they’re harder and harder to deal with because the state’s economy has been in a slump for a while, state general fund availability has been reduced and there are only certain areas of the state budget that can be cut.”

In addition to the forecasted cuts for FY 2013, there is still a $10.6 million cut to the LSU System that must be settled by June 30.

Faculty Senate President Kevin Cope said these cuts don’t only affect the University.

“It’s estimated for every dollar that flows through the University, that’s about $10 in the local economy,” Cope said. “So say they end up yanking $10 million out of the budget, maybe $100 million will go out of the economy in this area. That’s going to put a lot of people out of business, which means fewer taxes paid, and the situation will only get worse — the classic downward spiral.”

Cope also criticized Governor Bobby Jindal’s insistence on no new taxes and said a half-of-a-cent tax on natural gas would “probably wipe out the deficit and the lack of money in higher education.”

“If [Jindal] did that, he would do a great service for his people at absolutely minimal cost to people in Louisiana,” Cope said. “But he’s running for national office, so he’s willing to take the people hostage.”

Another issue that makes reducing cuts difficult are the mid-year cuts issued in recent years. Associate Vice Chancellor Bob Kuhn said

it’s difficult to plan for the year when funding promised at the beginning of the fiscal year is cut.

One way to combat these cuts is increasing tuition, which the University has done. But according to Jenkins, that reaches a level of diminishing returns, at which point students can no longer afford to attend college.

Provost Jack Hamilton said increasing tuition should improve education, not “replace general appropriations money.”

Jenkins acknowledged he’s concerned for the future of the University.

“I think we’ve now reached the brink of being able to deal with this,” Jenkins said. “Another series of cuts like this would have very serious consequences.”

But there are ways students can combat these cuts. Jenkins suggested students begin talking about their financial situation.

“When classes resume in the fall, start having some seminars with students and go over these financial predicaments,” he said. “There’s no secret in the numbers.”

Hamilton said calls to legislators can be very meaningful and urged students to contact them.

“I am surprised students are paying more but not complaining,” he said.

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Spiderman makes an appearance [above], a girl receives airbrushed stencil art of a scorpion [right] and two girls listen to karaoke after having their faces painted [bottom] during the 7th Annual International Red Stick Animation Festival at the Manship Theatre on Saturday.

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LEGISLATURE

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Both small, large arts support groups suffer cuts Taylor Balkom Staff Writer

The University isn’t the only thing to be affected by next year’s budget.

Decentralized Arts Funding (DAF) and Statewide Arts Grants (SAG) for the state were cut to $1 million each, down from the $2.5 million both had received in 2009.

SAG supports larger organizations, while DAF feeds smaller, grassroot ones.

Without funding, these groups could be forced to close, according to Gerd Wuestemann, executive director at Acadiana Center for the Arts in Lafayette.

Wuestemann said the cuts are

serious because of the arts’ cultural significance to the state.

“Culture is arguably our greatest tourist attraction, our biggest quality of life producer and is one of the biggest revenue makers,” Wuestemann said. “People travel here for the cultural experience.”

These experiences include things like seeing a performance from the Baton Rouge Little Theater or Of Moving Colors Productions, both of which are supported

by DAF funds, according to Laura Larkin, grants director for the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge.

The DAF and SAG also fund exhibits put on by the LSU Museum of Art and supported bringing Ellis Marsalis to the LSU

Theater in 2011.

“All events put on by these organizations we fund will be struggling,” Larkin said.

Wuestemann said the cuts have been so severe that Festival International, an annual music festival in downtown Lafayette, has stopped applying for grants because “there’s so little to gain” from applying.

These cuts also affect the local economy, according to Wuestemann.

“We estimate for each dollar invested in arts funding, [that’s] $24 in the local economy,” he said. “People come to a show, buy a ticket, have a drink beforehand, have dinner after and maybe stay

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in a hotel overnight. All those feed back into the local economy.”

Wuestemann also said the arts are one of the best tools to “keep our best and brightest in the state” by attracting businesses to the area.

“It contributes to economic development on all levels,” he said.

While that may be true, art isn’t seen as a priority around the state, if the cuts are any indication.

“Art and culture are considered a luxury that happen after everything else is taken care of,” Wuestemann said.

Sara Granados, graphic design junior, cited the condition of the Art and Design building on campus as an example of the lack of concern for art.

SG election code, filing system to change

Kristen Frank Contributing Writer

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Engineer foreman Greg Vanveckhoven, who has worked at the University for 36 years, monitors equipment in the Power House.

Power House keeps University cool Parker Cramer

Contributing Writer

Even on the hottest days, the team at the Power House keeps campus cool and comfortable.

The Power House, first erected in the 1920s, does exactly what its name says — produces power.

It’s operated by a team of 13 Facility Services employees, consisting of operating engineers, mechanics and a superintendent, according to Peter Davidson, Energy Services director for the University.

The team produced 65 percent of the University’s power from May 2011 to April 2012, Davidson said.

The Power House also supplies approximately 90 percent of the campus’s air conditioning and roughly 95 percent of its heating, according to Davidson.

The University saves 20 percent of the cost of power it would otherwise have to purchase, according to Davidson.

“It’s almost always cheaper to make [power] ourselves,” Davidson said.

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STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Senate looks at other universities’ SGs

University saves making own power

“It’s run-down and nasty,” Granados said. “It’s just not very popular, even at LSU. A lot of people don’t want to major in art.”

But she agreed art is crucial to Louisiana’s culture.

Wuestemann urged everyone to contact their respective elected officials to show their support for the arts.

“I think it’s important to hear from us,” he said. “Students should be at the forefront of this.”

The Power House control room is monitored by teams of two employees working in modified 12-hour shifts. The teams, along with an array of computers, monitor the chilled water output, generator output and steam output for the campus.

While many problems can be detected remotely and electronically, a team member physically checks the equipment every hour to ensure it’s running properly.

“You can actually hear a change in equipment by the sound,” according to Greg Vanveckhoven, an engineer foreman who has worked at the University for 36 years, primarily in the Power House.

The Power House, like other power plants, suffers from inevitable equipment breakdown.

“Bad storms are our worst problems,” Vanveckhoven said.

In the past, Electrical strikes during thunderstorms have knocked out the Power House’s generator.

If the Power House isn’t operating normally, the University may have to purchase more power than usual.

As for the employees, they have a vested interest in the condition of the University.

“[The Power House team] takes it personally if they can’t deliver,” Davidson noted.

Davidson said his team strives for complete efficiency, thereby saving the University money and keeping the campus population comfortable.

The jet engine generator is able to run on diesel or jet fuel, but are instead run on natural gas.

Natural gas prices are at a 10-year low. It also burns clean and the heat is recycled for other Power House operations.

“If we’re doing our job right, you don’t notice us,” Davidson said.

Contact Parker Cramer at pcramer@lsureveille.com

Student Government set out to make changes to the Election Code in its meeting Monday night, a task that became the focus of the week’s planning.

The SG Election Code is 26 pages long and details how the three branches of SG should go about planning and executing student body elections.

Lane Pace, pro tempore, opened the meeting by showing Committee members three other Election Codes from other colleges’ SGs. The Codes exemplified what other colleges are doing and how the University’s SG could change their code to better suit the needs of students and increase voter turnout.

Danielle Rushing, chief justice, said the code must be changed regarding the Election Board, the committee responsible for holding student body elections.

Rushing said there is not a good process regarding filed complaints. The Election Board gets anonymous emails that don’t specify any evidence.

Therefore, the complaints go to either the Election Board in the Executive Branch or

University Court in the Judicial Branch, another faction where complaints can be filed.

Examples of complaints are academic dishonesty and withdrawal status exemption.

According to the Constitution of SG, the Election Board can only disqualify election candidates and oversee elections, nothing else. It has recently been treated as a trial court, complete with hearings and extraneous evidence, Rushing said.

To alleviate this problem, Robert Cavell, College of Business senator, suggested the Election Board can decide if there is merit to the complaint, then make the appropriate action after that.

Rushing also suggested the Election Board be moved from the Executive Branch to the Judicial Branch because the Judicial Branch has no bias against it.

The meeting came to a close before a decision could be finalized.

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FACULTY

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WACKY NEWS

College of Art and Wallenda to take on Niagara Falls Design selects dean The Associated Press

Tsolakis to assume position Jan. 2013

Joshua Bergeron Staff Writer

After a lengthy search, the University’s College of Art and Design named Alkis P. Tsolakis as its new dean on Friday.

The college has been without a permanent dean since David Cronrath officially became dean of the University of Maryland on July 1, 2010. Tsolakis will assume the position in early January 2013, pending approval by the Board of Supervisors. Current Interim Dean Ken Carpenter will remain in the position until then.

Tsolakis’ resumé is diverse. He is currently a professor of architecture and acting director of the art department at Drury University. His background also includes stints at three universities and two positions directing summer programs in Europe for Tulane and Drury. He also served as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Oregon.

However, he was not the only qualified candidate considered for the position, according to Christopher D’Elia, dean of the School of the Coast and Environment and head

of the search committee.

“The finalists either submitted their own credentials or were nominated by others,” D’Elia said. “Alkis Tsolakis impressed us as a creative individual who has impressive administrative credentials and will be a good fit with LSU and our community.”

D’elia added that the role of the search committee was to screen the candidates and make a final list of applicants to invite for a campus visit. Provost Jack Hamilton made the final selection.

Aside from teaching, Tsolakis served as a project architect for the National University of Athens in Greece. He has also practiced sculpture for nearly 40 years.

Although the search committee narrowed down the pool of applicants, Hamilton made the final choice, but thanked the members of the search committee for providing a highly qualified group of candidates.

“Their engagement in the process and thoughtful consideration of the needs of the college resulted in the success of the search,” Hamilton said in a press release.

Contact Joshua Bergeron at jbergeron@lsureveille.com

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — Nik Wallenda can’t visit a new place without envisioning a wire strung high above his head: Linking buildings, landmarks, nations.

Even as a 6-year-old at Niagara Falls with his parents, he pictured walking a tightrope over the raging, whitewater maw.

Now 33, he’s ready to live out that childhood fantasy when he attempts Friday to become the first person ever to walk a tightrope directly over the brink of Niagara Falls.

“It’s just natural,” Wallenda, a seventh-generation member of the famed Flying Wallendas, explained. “When I drive into a city, I’m always thinking, ‘It would be cool to do a walk there.’ It’s just the way I think and always have.”

The daredevil is youthful and athletic, solidly built from gym workouts and a lifetime of training. But it’s the mental element, trusting in his skill and tuning out the potential danger, that can mean the difference between success and failure.

“You can either talk yourself out of doing something or you can talk yourself into doing something,” he said.

Since first stepping on a wire when he was 2, Wallenda, who lives in Sarasota, Fla., has earned six Guinness records. His family has been performing for audiences

at circus-style shows for more than 200 years.

The Niagara Falls walk set for Friday night, above a nearly 200foot drop and through potentially high winds and vision-obscuring mist, will be unlike anything he’s ever done. Because it’s over water, the 2-inch wire won’t have the usual stabilizer cables to keep it from swinging. Pendulum anchors are designed to keep it from twisting under his elkskin-soled shoes on the 1,800-foot walk from the U.S. shore to Canada.

“The thing about this cable, it’s unique to me even, and because of that I’ll be very, very focused on it,” he said.

A born-again Christian, Wallenda said he stays calm on the wire by talking to God, quoting scripture and praying. He also stays in touch with his father and chief rigging engineer, Terry Troffer, through an earpiece.

And unlike his usual antics — Wallenda’s been known to make phone calls and lie down on the wire mid-walk — he may be more inclined to get from one side to the other as quickly as possible, a request from his 11-year-old son.

“You can tell he is a little bit nervous about it,” said Wallenda, whose three children are normally so comfortable with what he does that he once spied his two boys playing Nintendo games while he walked 200 feet above them over the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh.

Wallenda’s acrobat wife, Erendira, traces her own circus blood eight generations deep on her mother’s side and seven on her father’s.

“I always give (the kids) a hug and a kiss before I do anything,” said Wallenda, “but they’re used to it in a lot of ways.”

About a dozen other tightrope artists have crossed the Niagara Gorge downstream, dating to Jean Francois Gravelet, aka The Great Blondin, in 1859. But no one has walked directly over the falls and authorities haven’t allowed any tightrope acts in the area since 1896. It took Wallenda two years to persuade U.S. and Canadian authorities to allow it.

That it will be a Wallenda attempting the history-making walk only adds to the allure.

The Wallendas, the first family of the high wire, trace their fearless roots to 1780 Austria-Hungary, when ancestors traveled as a band of acrobats, aerialists, jugglers, animal trainers and a bit later, trapeze artists. The family has been touched by tragedy: Notably, Nik’s great-grandfather and the family patriarch, Karl Wallenda, fell to his death during a walk in 1978 in Puerto Rico.

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Mike Buck, dietetic nutrition senior, Emily Nickens, nutritional science senior, and Holiday Durham, post-doctoral researcher, are research associates and conductors for the University’s study.

“No one has looked at college-aged students, so this is the first study where we’re looking at a younger ‘We want to demographic,” bring attention Nickens said.

The parto people and ticipants in the how yor diet study are asked now can affect to keep a 24hour journal of you later everything that in life.’ passes through their lips. This Holiday Durham journal is propost-doctoral researcher cessed by a machine called Nutrition Data System for Research that yields the student’s results.

This information is then processed to determine the student’s macular thickness, or the macular pigment optical density. High MPOD scores indicate that a person will have a lesser risk of developing AMD. The key nutrients for which the study is looking are omega-3 DHA, a fatty acid, and the antioxidants, lutein and zeaxanthin.

“These nutrients play a protective role in the eye and can be preventative to age-related macular degeneration,” Durham said.

Notable foods that contain the beneficial nutrients are spinach, kale and Atlantic salmon.

“We want to bring attention

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Aaron Cherry, Facility Services sheet metal master, said kayaking is about leisure.

“It is a different way to enjoy the outdoors,” he said. “Grew up on the water my whole life. You have a kayak, personal flotation device and paddle, and you’re ready to hit the water.”

Students passing the lakes may have noticed the kayaks but wondered about the stand-up paddle boards.

A stand-up paddle board is larger than an average surf board, and riders stand on it with a paddle to propel them through the water.

The sport originated in Hawaii as stand-up paddle board surfing, but within the last few years it has made it way to the LSU Lakes.

Baton Rouge native Jeff Archer founded YOLO Boards, a stand-up paddle board company that manufactures and sells the boards.

His brother, Troy Archer, Baton Rouge resident and sales representative for YOLO Boards, has held stand-up paddle board demos on the LSU lakes for about three years.

“I got a lot of funny looks bringing these boards to the LSU Lakes,” he said.

Stand-up paddle boarding isn’t confined to the South; it’s a nationwide trend. On June 2, stand-up paddle boards from across America competed in the Hobie-Hennessey World Paddle

to people and how your diet now can affect you later in life,” Nickens said. “Especially kids our age, we don’t always think of the long term effects of choices. You can start taking roles now to live a healthier life.”

According to the studies, women have the highest risk for getting macular degeneration, due to having children.

Durham said the number of children a woman has directly correlates with her risk of developing AMD. This is mainly caused by the fetus depleting its mother of the nutrient DHA. Using this information, the group decided to backtrack before pregnancy to see if other factors may cause AMD. Although the study is not yet complete, researchers hope to find a connection between MPOD rates and BMIs. Another variable that has been taken into consideration is eye color, according to Buck.

“Those with darker eyes often have higher macular density scores,” Buck said. “This is because the darker the pigment of the eye, the more protection it provides from damaging things, such as the sun.”

The study has about 120 students enrolled thus far, but to draw more accurate findings, the group is hoping to recruit another 120 students in the next year.

More information can be found by e-mailing eyehealthstudy@gmail.com.

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These photos demonstrate the effects of macular degeneration to vision. [Left] A person without macular degeneration’s sight is unaffected. [Right] Macular degeneration causes the person to have diminished sight in the center field of vision.

Contact Taylor Schoen at tschoen@lsureveille.com Association U.S. Paddle Championships.

Archer said he is hoping to introduce more people to the adventures a stand-up paddle board can provide, and this year, he and Walker Higgins, sales representative for YOLO Boards, sold about a dozen total.

The boards come in a variety of shapes and sizes and are used for leisure, fitness and competition.

Higgins said the activity is a unique fitness opportunity, and he sees the trend growing in Baton Rouge.

He acknowledged most people are worried about falling off, but when they try the boards, the stability surprises them.

“This year, we hope to sell a good bit of boards, so you can see up to 15 people on the LSU Lakes,” Higgins said.

Although stand-up paddle boarding has grown in Baton Rouge, Rivet said he doesn’t think it will overshadow kayaking, but that the trend could pass.

Higgins described the market for canoeing, kayaking and stand-up paddle boarding as “coexisting more than competition.”

“We are the little guy in this thing,” he said. “We just try to sell our boards and share the love.”

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Sports

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Stony Brook denies LSU a CWS berth, ends Tigers’ season with super regional romp Chandler Rome Sports Writer

The motto for Stony Brook baseball during this postseason has been “shock the world.”

Mission accomplished.

Exploiting a putrid LSU offense using three starting pitchers — who surrendered nine hits over 25 innings — Stony Brook rolled through the Baton Rouge super regional to reach the College World Series for the first time in program history with a 7-2 win Sunday.

“I am a little overwhelmed because I think I do know the magnitude of this,” said Stony Brook coach Matt Senk. “It’s just an overwhelming feeling.”

Seawolves reliever Frankie

Vanderka threw a complete game three-hitter, while Travis Jankowski and William Carmona continued their abuse of LSU pitching with a combined seven hits to ensure Sunday night’s victory.

Junior Mason Katz showed the only sign of offensive life for LSU with a towering solo home run in the bottom of the first to even the score at one and rile up the Tiger faithful.

The crowd would fall silent for the remainder of the evening as sophomore starter Ryan Eades was chased after only 2 2/3 innings, giving up seven hits and four runs.

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[Top] LSU second baseman JaCoby Jones consoles catcher Ty Ross following the Tigers’ 7-2 loss to Stony Brook on Sunday. [Bottom Left] Jones rounds third base during the Tigers’ 5-4 win against Stony Brook on Friday. [Bottom Right] Stony Brook celebrates its first College World Series appearance.

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Duncan, Lady Tigers claim titles at NCAA outdoors Men place 2nd in close finish Mike Gegenheimer Contributing Writer

For an NCAA-best 15th time, the LSU women’s track team sprinted away from the NCAA outdoor track and field championships with a national title.

The Lady Tigers finished with a 76-62 lead against Oregon to claim LSU’s first outdoor national title since 2008.

This was coach Dennis Shaver’s second national championship with the Tigers after taking

the reigns from legendary former LSU coach Pat Henry in 2005.

“It was a dominating kind of performance,” Shaver said.

“They were in a position on Saturday to just keep pouring it on.

So it is great to come away with such an impressive result.”

Sprinter Kimberlyn Duncan wrapped up her stellar junior season with another highlight-reel performance.

The Bowerman Award finalist for the nation’s best male and female track athlete defended her 200-meter crown (22.86) Saturday, beating Auburn’s Kai Selvon by .3.

Duncan also anchored the women’s 4x100-meter relay to

victory (42.75), clinching LSU’s fifth sweep of the men’s and women’s competitions in the event. No other school has ever accomplished the feat in the same season.

“Coming in first place means a lot to me and the team,” Duncan said. “Our main goal was to come out and get a title, and we accomplished it.”

The men’s side didn’t see quite the same level of success, but still finished second to Southeastern Conference rival Florida by a 50-48 total.

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Kimberlyn Duncan anchored the Lady Tigers to a national title in the 4x100-meter outdoor relay and claimed her second straight 200-meter dash national championship.

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LSU junior outfielder Mason Katz (8) celebrates with junior outfielder Raph Rhymes (4) Friday after hitting a home run in the Tigers’ 5-4 victory against Stony Brook.

“Bash Brothers” return for senior season Chandler Rome Staff Writer

When the MLB draft unfolded last week, junior Mason Katz never heard his name called.

And he couldn’t be happier.

The New Orleans native told scouts he had every intention of returning to school with fellow classmate and “bash brother” Raph Rhymes.

“For me to leave such a great university and such great guys, it would have had to be something out of the ordinary,” Katz said. “ [Scouts] understood that, and I told them I wanted to come back to school.”

Rhymes, who was taken in the 30th round by the New York Yankees, left little doubt of his decision in the hours after he was drafted.

Bombarded with questions on his Twitter account about his future, the Monroe native calmed any fears Tiger fans may have had.

“Huge honor to be drafted by the Yankees. Not ready to leave just yet tho…staying at LSU to make a run at it next year #geauxtigers,” Rhymes tweeted to his more than 3,000 followers.

Like Katz, Rhymes said he informed scouts that he intended to return to LSU for his senior season, but scouts were unable to ignore his flirtation with a .500 batting average throughout the season.

Jonathan Mayo, senior writer and MLB draft expert for MLB.com, said while Rhymes’ numbers may have warranted an early draft pick, many prolific college hitters like him

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have struggled in the pros.

“There have been countless guys that hit well in college, but then it doesn’t translate well,” Mayo said.

Still, Rhymes said it was painful to see his teammate and selfproclaimed “bash brother” not get selected.

“I was shocked [that Katz didn’t get drafted],” Rhymes said. “He’s a first round guy in my book.”

Katz, on the other hand, said he was relieved to avoid the hassle of negotiations and scouts.

“My dream is to play major league baseball, but not right now,” Katz said. “I’m happy as can be that I didn’t have to go through that process.”

After pacing the team with 13 home runs this season, Katz returns as the Tigers’ lone power presence in the lineup, while Rhymes, who currently leads the nation with a .431 batting average, will look to rebound from a late season slump that pushed him well below .500.

The duo will look to return the Tigers to Omaha for the first time since claiming the national championship in 2009, a goal that Katz said he plans to achieve before he moves on to the major leagues.

As for Rhymes, he’s just giddy to come back with a familiar face.

“We’ve just been calling it the return of the bash brothers,” Rhymes said. “I’m excited to come back with Mason next year.”

Fresh off a plane from Tuscaloosa, Patrick Murphy walked into the LSU Athletic Building on June 9, 2011 with a painted-on smile and a promise to bring LSU softball back to national prominence.

A year later, his dreams were realized with the Lady Tigers’ first berth in the Women’s College World Series since 2004.

Too bad he didn’t stick around to see it.

After Murphy and his assistant Alyson Habetz had a “change of heart” and returned to Alabama, Athletic Director Joe Alleva promised to find someone who — unlike Murphy — would “wear the purple and gold with pride.”

He found it in Beth Torina.

That’s right, Beth Torina — a name that would’ve challenged even the savviest of softball fans last year, and with credentials a far cry from those of the legend she replaced, Yvette Girouard.

Now a year later, no conversation about Southeastern Conference softball would be complete without mentioning the 33-year-old who vaulted herself into national acclaim by orchestrating a dazzling postseason run.

Plucked from the perceived bowels of collegiate softball at Florida International, Torina took this veteran Lady Tiger squad to heights no softball experts predicted.

It’s hard to think of an LSU coach who experienced this much postseason success in his or her first season. Football’s Les Miles 2005

squad got throttled in an SEC Championship game, and then he watched his team brawl with Miami (FL) after a dominant Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl victory. Baseball’s Paul Mainieri couldn’t even guide his maiden Tiger team to regional play in 2007.

Make no mistake, though, this past season didn’t come without its bumps in the road and numerous doubts from “average Joes” like me.

Torina and the Tigers faced a daunting schedule that included 11 ranked teams on its regular-season schedule, highlighted by back-toback road series against fellow WCWS participants Alabama and Tennessee.

She fielded criticism for LSU’s seven one-run losses and an anemic offense that made the Tigers basketball team look prolific. Torina maintained confidence in her dynamic pitching duo even as the team limped into postseason play at the College Station Regional to face the same Texas A&M team that ended Yvette Girouard’s final season.

Three weeks and five wins later, Torina was on top of the college softball world after re-energizing a team that I wouldn’t have blamed for giving up after a disastrous end to the regular season.

Soft-spoken and low-key, Torina lets her accolades speak volumes.

A standout pitcher for Florida in the late ‘90s, Torina amassed 60 wins in her career, including consecutive 20-win seasons and a 1998 SEC Championship.

That point isn’t just used to pad her resumé.

Take LSU’s super regional win over Missouri, for example. I’m convinced that Torina’s ability to mimic Missouri ace Chelsea Thom-

as’ tendencies in the circle during batting practice was a catalyst in her team’s triumph against their future SEC foe.

However, I believe one of Torina’s off-the-field endeavors far outweigh an impressive first year on the diamond.

Instituting a Teal Game to “strike out ovarian cancer,” a disease that struck her mother in November of 2010, brought awareness to an oft- forgotten illness and drew more fans out to Tiger Park.

It’s not all serious business with Torina, either, as the Lady Tigers are obviously having the time of their lives.

In the College Station regional, I remember seeing senior Heidi Pizer with a parking cone on her head, all in efforts to rally her team.

Or in the super regional, when another teammate tossed a large salad bowl on her head, all to ask for more rally magic. Between the salad bowl, the deafening chants and the ear-to-ear grins coming from the LSU dugout, it didn’t seem like the Lady Tigers were playing for their season.

It’s obvious Beth Torina accomplished much more than LSU’s first WCWS appearance since 2004.

She won over a skeptical fanbase, brought LSU softball back to the limelight and adequately filled Girouard’s legendary shoes.

After Patrick Murphy backed out on June 12, Joe Alleva said his ideal coach would be one who wouldn’t “rock the boat.”

Sorry, Joe, Beth Torina rocked the boat.

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Scrappy Seawolves impress Tiger fans Chandler Rome Staff Writer

Stony Brook came into Baton Rouge and Alex Box Stadium largely unknown and mostly overlooked, but 29 innings and two wins completely changed that.

After Stony Brook dismantled LSU in the final game of the Baton Rouge super regional, it was evident that the more talented team was going to Omaha, according to most fans.

Biological engineering sophomore Austin Daspit said that while LSU showed flashes of sound baseball, Stony Brook was “a lot better” than the Tigers. “[LSU had] alright pitching and a few instances of clutch hitting,” Daspit said. “Other than that, they were subpar.”

Daspit said the Seawolves’ plate discipline and ability to make contact with most pitches was LSU’s ultimate downfall.

Matt Fabacher, general business junior, agreed the Seawolves showed a lot of poise and were the better team.

While Fabacher lauded the

pitching depth and pro prospects that the Seawolves had, he said he does not like Stony Brook’s chances once it reaches the College World Series in Omaha.

“I think they’re a pretty good team,” Fabacher said. “I think Florida State or Florida or South Carolina has a better shot [for the national championship].”

While trips to Omaha are almost expected for the LSU baseball program, elementary education senior Tiffany Griffin lauded the team’s improvement from last season.

Griffin admitted to only watching a few games, and was disappointed with the errors she saw from the LSU defense when she did tune in.

“They were missing balls everywhere,” Griffin said. “They almost got there [to Omaha], that was pretty good compared to past seasons.”

After watching the Seawolves, Griffin said she has a different prediction on their national championship quest.

“We were pretty good, and they beat us pretty well,” Griffin said. “They may get very far.”

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Stony Brook pitchers frustrated senior Tyler Hanover and the LSU offense all weekend, holding the Tigers to just nine hits and eight runs in three games.

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befuddle Tiger hitters, striking out junior Alex Edward to end the game, sending the Seawolves into a dogpile behind the pitcher’s mound as stunned Tiger fans looked on.

“The suddenness is just awful,” said LSU coach Paul Mainieri. “I am sure that in time we will look back on the season and dwell on the positives.”

The Southeastern Conference champion Tigers (47-18) only mustered six hits in the final two games and never led a full inning through all three games as the Seawolves dominated to continue their Cinderella run.

Mainieri said he had every expectation of getting his team back to Omaha, but his team was

simply outplayed.

“They came down here and played great baseball, and they deserved to win this super regional,” Mainieri said. “It’s hard for me to find weaknesses in their team.”

The Seawolves wasted no time asserting themselves in Baton Rouge, flying out to a 2-0 lead in Friday’s first game, and bringing a 2-1 lead into the ninth inning.

A steady dose of “Alex Box magic” resurrected LSU’s anemic offense as sophomore outfielder JaCoby Jones launched a solo home run in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game at two.

After Stony Brook reclaimed the lead in the tenth, freshman infielder Tyler Moore, down to his final strike, sent another tying

solo shot to right field, sending Tiger fans into a frenzy.

Stony Brook answered once again in the eleventh to take a 5-4 lead. Then, Katz cranked an improbable third solo home run into the left field bleachers to tie the score at five, again shocking the Seawolf faithful.

Torrential downpours forced the game to be resumed at 10:05 a.m. on Saturday. After sophomore ace Kevin Gausman sat the Seawolves down in order, Katz singled home Moore in the bottom of the twelfth to put LSU in the driver’s seat with a 5-4 win.

Gausman would return for game two less than an hour later, but would be trumped by Seawolves ace Tyler Johnson, who scattered only three hits and one run in a complete-game performance to spur a 3-1 Seawolves victory to even the series.

Stony Brook is only the second No. 4 regional seed to advance to the College World Series, and the first team to beat LSU in a super regional at home since the current playoff format was adopted in 1999. LSU is now 5-1 in super regional series at home and 5-4 overall.

The loss also ends the career of five Tiger seniors — Austin Nola, Tyler Hanover, Beau Didier, Grant Dozar and Jordy Snikeris.

“We left everything out on the field, and we have no regrets about the year,” Nola said. “I enjoyed every bit of it.”

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LSU team members celebrate on the field after winning the women’s title at the NCAA outdoor track and field championships in Des Moines, Iowa.

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I have ever seen our men have,” Shaver said. “They were in the hunt right down to the last race.

They bonded together as a team and really pulled for each other.”

Freshman sprinter Aaron Ernest put the men’s side in position to win the title after his fifthplace finish in the 200-meter dash lifted the Tigers to second place with 37 points.

However, it was senior hurdler Barrett Nugent who put the Tigers in the lead — 42-40 against Florida) — with one event left after finishing fourth in the 110-meter hurdles, an event he won a year ago in the same meet.

The men’s title came down to the final event of the meet in

the 4x400-meter relay.

LSU’s team, consisting of freshman Quincy Downing and seniors Robert Simmons, Ade Alleyne-Forte and Riker Hylton, came in third by .6 in the 4x400meter relay.

If the Tigers had placed second in the event, they would have tied Florida for the national championship.

“We definitely scored a lot more points than really anybody projected,” Shaver said. “I’m sure not many people even thought we would be here in the mix for the team title.”

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Bonnaroo music festival again proves divisive but worthwhile WELCOME TO THE SHIRE CHRIS ABSHIRE Managing Editor Bonnaroo has become synonymous with the outrageously drug-fueled, sun-kissed party on a farm that it admittedly is.

But it might as well be a synonym for unpredictable, too, and I found that out this year for a third time.

From the unsurprisingly blazing performances to the unseasonably chilly weather, Bonnaroo again proved this past weekend why it’s the most divisive music festival in America.

The experience is large-scale and grassroots all in one, making the 700-acre farm feel like New York City and the Ra Shop decided to smell like a Porta Potty and only wear ironic t-shirts for 96 hours.

There’s a cliche line just waiting to be said here: “Bonnaroo isn’t for everyone.”

For some — including one of my next-door camping neighbors — it clearly wasn’t. Four days of sleeping in humid tents, rubbing elbows with people somehow even greasier than you, fighting intoxication of all kinds and dropping $10 for a corn dog usually isn’t.

But the thrilling part about Bonnaroo is immersing yourself in the positivity that reigns throughout the grounds.

For “Parks and Recreation” fans out there, Bonnaroo is the Chris Traeger of music festivals.

It’s not a place for the cynicism that worrying and full-tilt responsibility can entail.

And while that sounds like the mind-set of a deluded hippie, the Bonnaroovians, as the patrons are called, actually make it possible.

Forget about your cell-phone charge, how much that enormous burrito costs or the hours of sleep you won’t get.

You will be repaid with a camaraderie unique to the festival,

one that reaches mass audiences but requires personal connection.

Strangers hug you — or offer you any number of drugs — men cry at shows and water bottles are shared as communal wealth.

There are also hot dogs and bratwursts wrapped in bacon with scallions and green peppers.

None of this even touches on the music, which is as diverse as the festivalgoers who cheer all of it with an exhaustingly zealous gusto.

Radiohead brought their own audiovisual set to the main stage and used trippy camera work, their grandiose stylings and woozy electronica to chilling effect.

It alienated some, left others feeling cold, but reached the gut of many, including myself.

And Thom Yorke and co. might have been the most universal band at the festival.

A Ludacris set bumps right up with a performance from indie siren St. Vincent.

Bluegrass virtuosos the Punch Brothers can take the stage

mere minutes before comedian Donald Glover’s Childish Gambino hip-hop persona at the same stage and no one blinks.

Bon Iver can slot between the Beach Boys and Phish without disturbing the peace.

It’s only disorienting if you’re close-minded, musically and beyond.

One particular experience from my weekend encapsulates why Bonnaroo rewards, even when it takes you out of your comfort zone.

Since the festival is notorious for its warm temperatures, packing for cold weather is a waste of space.

Except this year. It fell into the low 50s the first night, waking me up at 3:30 a.m. because a tent-mate had pilfered my sheets.

Shivering and desperate for warmth, I just started walking around, hoping to escape the aggravating frigidity.

Luckily, warmth took the form of R. Kelly. In a stroke of impromptu genius, the festival

screened his entire “Trapped in the Closet” saga in the Cinema Tent during the wee hours.

Stumbling in and watching exhausted stoners react to every plot twist and turn in the goofy soap opera — with welcome interludes of Kelly’s “normal” music videos — felt like living in a surreal film.

Surreality is Bonnaroo. Is it for you?

Chris Abshire is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter @AbshireTDR.

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Republican state convention exposes party turmoil MANUFACTURING DISCONTENT

DAVID SCHEURMANN Columnist When Republicans convened in Shreveport on June 2 for the Louisiana Republican State Convention, they planned on voting for 46 delegates for the Republican National Convention in August and going home.

Instead, a Republican rumble ensued between Ron Paul supporters and state party leaders, highlighting the inner-party tension between its libertarian-leaning members and establishment officials.

The struggle began when Paul supporters, who made up nearly two-thirds of the convention, filed a motion to remove convention chairman Roger Villere and elect a new chairman in his place.

However, supplementary rules passed on the eve of the convention by state party officials made it tougher to remove the chairman and lowered the quorum required to vote on delegates in case the Paul supporters walked out.

When the majority-elected chairman, Henry Herford, attempted to take control of the convention, off-duty Shreveport police officers were summoned to remove Herford from the premises.

In response, the Paul supporters turned their chairs away from Villere and the convention split in two.

The majority continued with their vote as if nothing had happened, electing 27 delegates to send to the National Convention.

Meanwhile, a group of state party officials convened in a corner of the room to elect delegates of their own.

Thus, the convention became a showcase for the libertarian cause as Paul supporters found themselves facing the authoritarian control of state party leaders.

Using their positions of power in order to accumulate more authority, state party leaders gave the Paul supporters in attendance no choice but to fight for their rights.

The showdown should come as no surprise.

The libertarian position at its basic level calls for the defense of personal freedom and civil

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liberty. That they defended the majority opinion and democratic process from a small group of elites only shows how committed they are to their worldview.

Yet, state party leaders have argued that they changed the rules so that delegates would be allocated fairly and in proportion to the votes received during the primary and caucuses that occurred earlier in the year.

They feared Paul supporters would co-opt the delegates won by former presidential candidate Rick Santorum and current presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

However, this seems like punishing the Paul supporters for playing the game correctly. They did not design the way the Louisiana system works, they simply had the audacity to show up and participate in the process.

Still, these same fears have been expressed by Republican party leadership throughout the country, as struggles between Paul supporters and establishment leaders have occurred in various conventions during this election cycle.

In Maine and Nevada, Paul similarly came out ahead with a majority of delegates in their

respective state conventions.

In Massachusetts, Paul supporters decried the party’s decision to possibly invalidate ballots won in its caucuses – caucuses won overwhelmingly by Paul.

The Massachusetts Republican branch eventually decided the ballots would be counted.

Nonetheless, there is a definite pattern here, and it does not look good for the Republican party.

Libertarian-leaning Republicans are still a constituent base of the party, and are especially prominent among younger Republicans.

The crowds that gather for Paul on various college campuses, including this one, are a testament to that.

Alienating such a young and growing constituency may not be such a good long-term strategy.

As the years go by, the younger libertarian-leaning Republicans will begin to hold more sway over the party, especially if Paul continues to attract supporters.

Libertarian voters may even play a prominent role in the upcoming presidential election. Libertarian candidate Gary

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Johnson has a strong chance of taking a sizeable chunk of votes from the Republican presidential candidate.

Meanwhile, the votes Johnson takes from Obama may be negligible due to Obama’s strong ratings among the youth.

However, accepting libertarians can be beneficial.

Libertarian positions can help the Republican party win over much of the youth vote that is so firmly held by Democrats, especially Obama.

Though if Republicans fail to court libertarians, I would not be surprised to see if the Libertarian party rises as the years go by.

David Scheuermann is a 20-yearold mass communication and computer science junior from Kenner. Follow him on Twitter at @TDR_dscheu.

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“At Bonnaroo, you feel that instead of playing music for people, you’re playing music with people.”

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What I learned in lost-and-found with a dog named Cheech THE PHILIBUSTER PHIL SWEENEY Columnist It was May and already summer, for all intents and purposes.

School was out for most University students, and downtown Baton Rouge was infected with their blissed-out, donezo rabidity. For my own part, I was disappointedly immune to the disease, to the happiness, having failed to fulfill the requirements for graduation — having failed College Algebra.

It was summer all right, the summer of my life — and the dog days, at that. At twenty-five years old, I wasn’t a puppy anymore. My spring was nearer my tail than my muzzle, and youth was suddenly lost in sevens, seemingly. In dog years.

I’d been burned this semester, at any rate, burned an even black in life’s rotisserie: I was reeling from a robbery, a wreck, a job resignation and a real good ass-kicking at F&M Patio Bar in New Orleans.

My mother had died in December,

and I’d since been lost without her, an orphan, an Oliver Twist.

Puncher’s Sports Bar was where I found myself one night in May, alone and with friends for one’s birthday, collared to a barstool, choke-chaining a maddog of disillusion and chain-smoking unfiltered carcinogenic thoughts, waiting for a last call — the bar’s or my own didn’t much matter to me.

But it was then that life called off the dogs and threw me a bone.

There are incalculably many millions of animals on America’s streets, avenues and boulevards, according to the ASPCA. In Baton Rouge, Park Boulevard is one such thoroughfare. And that night, one of these strays was a dog. We nearly put the pup to sleep on our way home from the bar, slamming on the brakes by the slimmest of margins to skew to a stop beside the lucky dog.

The pooch was a canine caricature, almost. Pitiful-precious, like Droopy Dog. Schmaltzysweet, like Huckleberry Hound.

A mutt’s mutt, by all accounts: a beagle-skunk mix with a bark like

a black sheep’s bleat and a potbelly that scrubbed more asphalt than a Chicano lowrider.

“Cheech,” I dubbed the collarless CatDog, naturally — petting her paunch until the car horn’s honking halted me.

“Get along,” I begged.

Nothing. Cheech maybe mustered a jiggle, at best.

“Get lost,” I bade her after a beat.

Nothing. The ugliest pair of puppy eyes I’d ever picked out, perhaps. And nothing more.

“What?” I finally barked — though I knew all too well what the homesick hound wanted, knew exactly what was afoot. And if I didn’t, Cheech proceeded to prod me with a pudgy paw: she was lost, and she was lonesome.

Me, too.

That night, beer-goggled and tail-spun, I fell in love with the good girl I brought home from the bar. It wasn’t to last, I knew — puppy love never does. And collarless though she was, Cheech was primped, preened and potty-trained — and she pulled back at the very utterance of the word “bath.”

Cheech was another man’s best friend.

The morning after, I had a bowl of Cheerios for breakfast — Cheech did, too. And with a slurred “alrighty, then,” like a hungover Ace Ventura, I began to sleuth about for Cheech’s owner.

It was a game of Blue’s Clues, as Cheech and I designated it, and our search began on craigslist.com, abruptly ending when a shrewd anonymous gumshoe tipped us off to the Lost Pets of Baton Rouge (LPBR) Facebook page, a jointenterprise of four local saints, themselves “a mix of people that volunteer heavily” with animal rescue efforts, said LPBR co-chairman and University alumna Mindy Brooks.

“A pet is part of your family,” she said. “It’s very rewarding to help reunite families.”

Indeed.

Largely through the LPBR community and its resources, I successfully located Cheech’s owner, a University student who came to pick her in a beat-up, rundown hoopty of a car whose thrumming engine rang clear outside my

apartment complex.

As I waited for him with Cheech, and as his car jalopied closer, not yet visible but audible, nonetheless, her ugly-as-ever puppy-dog eyes became as wide as saucers — flying saucers, flying platters, in fact.

Cheech — of Lucy, as it turns out — was found.

I didn’t have the heart to ask him for a reward: I had already received one, in truth.

And in the lost-and-found with a dog named Cheech, this old dog learned a new trick.

Life.

Phil Sweeney is 25-year-old English senior from New Orleans. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_PhilSweeney.

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Intoxication spray will create issues with college students The Lantern, Ohio State University As if our generation needed another excuse or pathway for intoxication, French-American scientist David Edwards has released a spray, which, when ingested,

causes brief intoxication with no after-effects. No puking. No headaches. You can even pass an alcohol test.

Designed by Philippe Starck, instant delirium (or should I say “poison”) has been neatly

packaged in a sleek aluminum tube. I can see this new product taking off with the 18-25 demographic like no other. In fact, it’s a common stereotype that most college students spend four years’ worth of weekends in a drunken

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stupor. Congratulations to Edwards for inventing a product which takes away any and all effort required by individuals to make complete fools of themselves.

With headlines such as “Finally, A Spray Which Gets You Instantly Drunk In A Few Seconds” or “This Spray Will Get You Instantly Drunk – But Only For A Few Seconds”, the WA|HH Quantum Sensations spray is asking for various cases of irresponsible overdose. Although the product is first releasing in Europe, Jacob Kleinman at the International Business Times puts it best, “If the product ever makes it to America’s shores, it will surely mean an epidemic of spray overdoses at colleges across the country.” This is something scientists and medical analysts should have taken into consideration well before proceeding with the product’s development.

While the tube is priced at $26, each dose comprises of .075 milliliters of alcohol. It would take approximately 1,000 sprays to reach the equivalency of the effects caused by a single drink. However, each tube is good for only about 21 hits. A consumer would need about 48 tubes to equate to one drink.

This means consumers would be spending about $1,248 on their new addiction. According to some reports, the alcohol’s effects are intensified in an aerosol form, leading to the temporary drunkenness.

Still, the product seems inefficient to me.

Not only is this product

inefficient from a functional perspective, but also from an economic angle. My other problem with this product is that the concept of an oral spray is far from novel. Why waste time creating a technology which is nowhere close to being a new idea? Many breathfreshening sprays have already been introduced into the market.

Edwards himself previously created additional flavored sprays which consumers can use to stimulate their taste buds.

When I first read about the WA|HH Quantum Sensations spray, I was surprised that someone would have spent enough time and effort to manufacture a product which would be detrimental at all levels. Shouldn’t scientists be working toward societal advances, not hindrances? To me, it seems as if scientists would be making better use of their time by focusing their attention on real problems. such as reducing the use of pesticides in agriculture or working with more innovative medication. Working to create new addictions is an abuse of a chemistry degree.

Some might call this creation sheer brilliance, I call it sheer stupidity.

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