The Daily Reveille - August 21, 2012

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LSU Dining restructures meal plans LSU grad Meals allotted per week, not semester

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Caitlin McCord Contributing Writer

Get them while they’re hot — meals may disappear faster than a few swipes can take away.

Students will no longer be allowed to use all of their meals at the end of the semester, but they will still be allowed to swipe others into the dining halls.

This year’s meal plans now consist of a set number of meals per week instead of a set number of meals per semester.

Students can choose to have 12, 15 or 19 meals per week. The number resets each Sunday, so at the beginning of each week, students have a new batch of meals to use, and the clock starts ticking over again.

Unused meals expire at the end of each week and students will no longer be able to access them.

“This system allows students to manage their meals much better, and it’s a lot less wastage in terms of them using their meals or rushing to use them all at the end of the semester,” said Dean Samuels, LSU Dining marketing director.

Though the total number of meals per semester has not changed, the price of the meal plans has.

Samuels said the prices increase by a few percent each year, but the change has never been more than 5 percent.

“The prices usually change each year,” Samuels said. “Of course, the cost of kitchens, the cost of food, the cost of gas — all these things affect the cost of a meal.”

He said the change stemmed from LSU Dining looking into how other universities’ meal plans

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worked and realizing that there was an opportunity to provide a better service for the students.

Both dining halls, the 459 Commons and The 5, are now open Monday through Thursday from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and will be open on weekends from 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Dining halls were previously closed on weekends.

“At the end of the day, we get the best value to be able to give to the students by having a seven-day per week program,” Samuels said.

He said students will still be allowed to swipe others into the dining halls, but it may not be in the student’s best interest because there’s a set amount of meals per week. The University discussed the issue and realized that a student being able to swipe someone else in to the dining halls helps to build community, Samuels said.

Students may use their allotted weekly meals whenever they want, but once the meals for the week have been used, they must wait until Sunday for more.

Student Government President Taylor Cox and SG Speaker Pro Tempore Lane Pace said they expect students to be upset with the changes.

“We don’t think our meals should be dictated

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LSU Dining workers swipe students’ Tiger Cards to deduct from meal plans. Out of pocket, breakfast costs $7.25, lunch is $10.85 and dinner goes for $11.75.

by [LSU] Dining,” Cox said.

Pace said SG plans to fight the changes made to the meal plans if students have a negative reaction.

Contact Caitlin McCord at cmccord@lsureveille.com

Nonprofit promotes locally grown produce Austen Krantz Entertainment Writer

Steaming humidity often clings to the Red Stick Farmers Market on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, but it’s not unbearable for the vendors who spend their days away from the market tending to farms across the state.

Organizing, traveling and vending at these markets takes time away from farmers’ field work, but for many, these events prove critical for sales. They present an opportunity for farmers to meet the local community and demonstrate the importance of buying

local produce.

Galen Iverstine, a political science senior, runs a pasture-based livestock operation that cares for beef cattle, Berkshire hogs and pasture-raised chickens. Though leaving his work in Kentwood takes time and effort, he said these events generate about 60 percent of his sales.

“I’m a solo operation, so it’s a full-time just getting here and getting back to manage the farm,” Iverstine said. “But it’s important to be out here.”

At these farmers markets, vendors sell products directly to customers rather than selling to grocery stores, produce stands or other vendors. As a result, farmers receive more profits directly PRODUCE, see page 4

Family advocates for blood donations Chris Grillot

AGRICULTURE

Farmers market is three days a week

paralyzed after car collision

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Jynell Glaser of Glaser’s Produce Farm sells fresh peppers to shoppers Thursday at the Red Stick Farmers Market on Perkins Road.

University graduate Lauren Hoft was in a traffic incident Friday night that resulted in the left side of her body becoming paralyzed, and now her family is asking the University and the community for support.

Hoft, who earned a bacheHOFT lor’s degree in biological engineering in May, hit the side of a vehicle whose driver lost control while merging onto Highway 411 around 7:50 p.m. Friday, according to her sister Ashley Hoft Autin.

Doctors at Our Lady of the Lake Medical Center determined that Hoft suffered a shattered right knee, two broken ankles and five broken ribs.

When doctors saw she couldn’t move her left hand, they discovered blood flow to the left side of her brain had been cut off, Autin said.

Doctors removed part of her skull Sunday to alleviate the brain swelling that began Saturday.

“It went from her going to be able to walk in three months to being on an hour-by-hour basis,” Autin said.

The Hoft family is encouraging students to donate blood to The Blood Donor Center, located at Our Lady of the Lake Medical Center.

For each donation given “for Lauren Hoft,” she will receive credit to lessen her hospital bill.

Hoft’s blood type is A positive, but donors do not need to match her type, Autin said.

The family has also set up a website through giftcards.com for monetary donations.

Autin said her family is experiencing a “roller coaster of emotions,” but they are optimistic.

“She’s a fighter— a real LSU Tiger,” Autin said. “She doesn’t give up.”

Contact Chris Grillot at cgrillot@lsureveille.com

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Nation & World

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

INTERNATIONAL

NATIONAL

STATE/LOCAL

Mali announces new government five months after military coup

Ponderosa wildfire burns to edge of three small towns in California

Officials hope to build Livingston Parish airport for private planes

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali’s interim leaders announced a new government late Monday, months after a military coup unleashed political chaos that allowed an Islamist takeover of the north and forced nearly half a million people to flee their homes.

The government has 31 ministers, including five who are viewed as close to coup leader Capt. Amadou Sanogo, who nominally handed over power to a civilian interim government months ago.

Argentina wants 16-year-olds, foreigners to vote as human right

MANTON, Calif. (AP) — A huge wildfire sparked by lightning in Northern California burned three small towns on Monday, threatening thousands of homes as fearful residents sought safety miles away at an emergency shelter.

“All we can do is pray,” evacuee Jerry Nottingham told reporters.

The fast-moving Ponderosa Fire was one of many burning across the West, where lightning, dry temperatures and gusting winds have brought an early start to fire season.

Missouri congressman Todd Akin fights to save GOP Senate bid

WALKER (AP) — Livingston Parish has contacted state and federal aviation authorities about building an airport.

“A general aviation airport is deemed highly feasible from the parish perspective,” according to the study by LJC Poole LLC. The Advocate reports Parish President Layton Ricks has requested inclusion of the proposed airport in the Louisiana Airport System Plan.

The study says the airport would require at least 200 acres, but states that 500 acres would be ideal.

The airport would accommodate small private planes.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina is rethinking what it means to be a citizen, proposing radical changes that would have both 16-year-olds and foreigners to determine who should run the country.

President Cristina Fernandez’s legislative powerbrokers say the proposed electoral laws will enhance democracy and challenge the world to treat voting as a universal human right. Opponents call it a naked attempt to prolong the power of a decade-old government that has showered public money on migrants and young people.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Rep. Todd Akin fought to salvage his Senate campaign Monday, even as members of his own party turned against him and a key source of campaign funding was cut off in outrage over the Missouri congressman’s comments that women are able to prevent pregnancies in cases of “legitimate rape.”

Akin made no public appearances but went on former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee’s national radio show to apologize. He vowed to continue his bid for higher office.

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Firefighters monitor the Ponderosa Fire Sunday, from Rock Creek Road near Viola, Calif. Thousands of residents have been told to leave their homes.

Humorist Phyllis Diller dies at 95 in Los Angeles, cause not released NEW YORK (AP) — Diller, the cackling template for Joan Rivers, Sarah Silverman and so many others, died Monday in her Los Angeles home at age 95. She faced the end, “with a smile on her face,” said longtime manager Milton Suchin.

Diller, who suffered a near-fatal heart attack in 1999, was found by her son, Perry Diller. The cause of her death hasn’t been released.

“We lost a comedy legend today,” Ellen DeGeneres tweeted. “Phyllis Diller was the queen of the one-liners. She was a pioneer.”

Heat-caused bacterial infection killed fish at Alexandria zoo ALEXANDRIA — Officials say a highly contagious bacterial infection called Columnaris disease killed 600 fish at the Alexandria Zoo. The Town Talk reports the spread of the disease likely was caused by the summer heat.

Most fish are susceptible to the disease, and they are more likely to get it after they have experienced some type of environmental stress and when the water rises.

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Water gets churned up at the end of a dredging pipeline connected to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ dredge on the Mississippi River on Monday.

Family of 22-year-old Deeric Bailey killed by police wants FBI probe (AP) — Jimmerlynn Glover told The Times that police have yet to provide the family with details of what led to the death of her 22-yearold nephew, Deeric Bailey. Glover said two witnesses report Bailey was defenseless as officers opened fire on him along Interstate 20.

“The girl who was in the car with him said she remembers one shot being fired during the chase,” Glover said. “Then the witness on the TV, we don’t even know him, said Deeric stopped and the officers then riddled the car with bullets.”

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MILITARY

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Freshmen cadets practice ROTC fitness drills Shannon Roberts Contributing Writer

It’s 5:45 on a Friday morning, and a group of freshmen is crowded outside of the UREC instead of asleep in bed.

This group of nearly 30 freshmen participated in Army ROTC orientation, which included an Army physical fitness test comprised of sit ups, pushups and a two-mile run.

This year’s orientation is different from previous years, which just included scholarship recipients, said Captain William Conger, scholarship and enrollment officer. The orientation changed so it would no longer separate the scholarship recipients from other cadets, but would give them the opportunity to foster relationships, he said.

By 6 a.m., the students began the first phase of the physical fitness test: two minutes of pushups.

After the pushups, students did two minutes of sit-ups, followed by a two mile run. The purpose of each test was to evaluate endurance and determine which freshmen will be joining the program.

The exercises are a way to discover what needs improvement with each cadet, said Sheena Poole, a senior cadet majoring in renewable natural resources.

While the freshmen performed each exercise, they were graded and encouraged by senior cadets who also gave the freshmen advice on how to improve the exercises.

“This is not boot camp,” Conger said.

Lucas Mehrtens, sociology freshman, said the encouragement from the older cadets was “pretty cool.”

“There’s definitely a lot of camaraderie already,” Mehrtens said.

Julia Malozovsky, biochemistry freshman, said she feared the senior cadets would yell at the younger class. She said she was surprised by the number of females participating, which eased her fears of being a target of the cadets.

Poole said seeing the freshmen go through the test reminded her of her accomplishments and how far she has progressed throughout the last few years.

Mehrtens said he decided to try ROTC because being in the military is a family tradition.

Mehrtens’ grandfather and uncles have been in the military.

“Nobody in my generation of my family has done [ROTC] yet,” he said. “It’s kind of a big deal for me.”

For Mehrtens, the two-mile run was the hardest part of the fitness test.

“The run killed me,” he said.

Malozovsky said she worked out prior to Friday’s test to prepare herself. She said she also found the running portion to be the most difficult.

Because her family is from Russia, Malozovsky did not tell her parents at first about her plans to participate in the ROTC.

In Russia, women are not usually looked upon as being fit enough to join the Army, she said.

“They didn’t believe me the first few times I told them,” she said. “Then finally they found one of my ROTC forms, and it was just total chaos.”

Her mother wanted her to join the Air Force instead, but Malozovsky said the Army would provide her with better training for the medical field.

“Now they’re OK with it,” she said.

Mehrtens said being a freshman can be difficult, but being a part of ROTC makes for different experiences than other college students.

Malozovsky said Mehrtens is helping guide her through the process.

Poole’s advice for the incoming freshmen is to stay motivated, listen and learn from their superiors, maintain their grades, and remember that they represent the military.

Both Mehrtens and Malozovsky said participating in the ROTC would help them achieve their career goals. Mehrtens dreams of driving a tank in an armored division and Malozovsky wants to work as an Army medic.

Conger said by opening the orientation to all incoming freshmen, the Army ROTC is helping the University remember its roots as a military school. He said the University has stepped away from its original purpose, but with the incoming freshmen, the

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Electrical engineering freshman Tyler Courtney does sit-ups Friday during ROTC freshman orientation.

program will have the opportunity to be reinvigorated.

“A new class of cadets are coming in to carry on that tradition,” he said.

Lt. Col. Lawrence Burns said his job is to commission leaders and officers, but students should focus on keeping their grades up so they can be commissioned.

Master Sgt. Clay Usie advises freshmen and all ROTC cadets to follow the seven core Army

values: loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity and personal courage.

“At the end of the day, if you follow those seven core Army values, good things are going to happen,” Usie said.

Contact Shannon Roberts at sroberts@lsureveille.com

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STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Moodle 2 email notifications among completed initiatives SG officials combat higher ed. cuts Wilborn Nobles III Senior Contributing Writer

Students can expect several changes on campus this year, as 17 of 26 of Student Government President Taylor Cox’s initiatives have been completed or are currently in progress.

Cox said students frequently complained of being unaware when grades and assignments are posted because they don’t regularly check Moodle, but with Moodle 2, students will receive email notifications informing them of when homework or grades are updated.

Cox and other SG officials said they stood up for education during the summer by emailing state lawmakers a message containing a news release and a YouTube video expressing their distress over higher education budget cuts.

“We did it at a time where ob- were some instances where things viously we were all just elected, went differently than expected. but summer had just kicked in, SG planned to have off-camand we knew the best way to get pus recycling and to place bins attention was through media,” Cox in apartment complexes, but the said. “We actually campus recycling had several of our director told them Initiatives of note: legislators who they lacked the emailed us back • Moodle 2 email notifications for funds and manand said thank grade and assignment updates — power to mainyou.” tain those efforts. complete SG is current- • Late-night Tiger Trails route to SG responded by ly working to pro- Tigerland area — in progress reaching out to vide a nighttime • Install recycling bins in off-camthe complexes and route to the Tiger- pus student housing — revised asking them if the land area that will organization could run until 2:30 a.m. provide students in response to an incident in which with the option to recycle where a young man was severely injured they live. in the Tigerland area late at night.

“LSU students really do care When Cox heard about the about being green. We want to be incident, he requested a meeting sustainable not only on our camwith Gary Graham, LSU director pus, but within our community,” of Parking, Traffic and Transpor- Cox said. tation, to discuss safer options for students who leave the area late at night or early in the morning.

Contact Wilborn Nobles III at Though only a few initiatives had to be changed, Cox said there wnobles@lsureveille.com

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from buyers.

Charles and Jynell Glaser grow vegetables in New Roads and attend two farmers markets a week.

Charles said most profits come from these markets, while wholesaling would only allow them to sell their produce for half its regular price, at best. The two also run a roadside stand at their farm, but 15 years with local farmers markets has generated 70 percent of profits.

“And that’s only two days a week, whereas at our farm, we’re open five days a week,” he said.

“It’s much, much better. It’s really kept us in business.”

Iverstine said farmers markets allow farmers to meet and create relationships with customers. Customers often learn about the benefits of buying local as well, which Betsy Fazekas, a Big River Economic and Agricultural Development Alliance local food outreach manager and University alumna, said includes health, environmental and economic advantages.

“It’s fresher, it tastes better, it has more nutritional value than what you find at a grocery store,” Fazekas said. “The produce you buy in a grocery store is coming from hundreds to thousands of miles away.”

BREADA is a nonprofit organization that helps organize these Red Stick Farmers Markets.

BREADA’s standards of local include produce grown within a 100mile radius of its purchased location. This generally includes most of Louisiana and the border of Mississippi. Much of the produce for BREADA’s farmers markets

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Anna Marie weighs fresh shrimp Thursday at the Red Stick Farmers Market on Perkins Road.

arrives from Hammond, Ponchatoula and New Roads.

Fazekas said local produce is bought fresh, whereas items from far away are refrigerated for transportation and can lose freshness and even some nutritional content before the time of purchase. Iverstine’s farm, for example, uses a multi-species, rotational grazing system, which allows for a cleaner, more natural product.

“The cows go in and graze the grass down, and then the chickens come behind them and fertilize and sanitize the pasture behind them, too,” he explained. “They eat any parasites that would attack our cows. That allows us to eliminate the usage of any chemicals, wormers or fly sprays or anything like that.”

Iverstine, Fazekas and Glaser each said they’ve noticed a growing support and demand for local

produce over the course of their work. A 2010 USDA grant to promote healthy eating for low-income families now allows buyers to use food stamps at these events, and Fazekas said farmers markets generally offer competitive prices with exception to some specialty items.

In addition, the markets have seen more restaurants buying their items since BREADA began allowing buyers to purchase tokens, which are used to buy produce.

This allows restaurants to pay with credit cards or checks and receive receipts on their buys. Glaser noted Louisiana restaurants and chefs, such as Juban’s restaurant and John Folse, who have purchased from the market.

However, with a higher demand, farmers are ultimately asked for more participation in these markets, but this often requires too much time away from their own farms.

“The growing demand is a good thing, but at the same time, we’re kind of getting a catch-22 — we don’t have enough farmers,” Fazekas said.

He said these events attempt to convey the idea that farming is a practical source of sustainability and income.

“What we really need is more farmers,” Fazekas said. “That’s what we’re trying to do is help [farmers] sustain themselves and help people realize that, by coming to a market, you can be a small farmer and make a living out of it.”

Contact Austen Krantz at akrantz@lsureveille.com

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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

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SOCCER

Arlitt nets OT win in opener Tigers conquer recent road struggles Chris Abshire Sports Writer

“One play during a game in his junior year, he had the ball and was just determined to make a touchdown,” Robertson said. “He faked left, faked right, and then he went up the middle and he made that touchdown. And I thought to myself, ‘This boy is bad.’”

Robertson wasn’t the only one who noticed Loston’s greatness. The scouting service Rivals.com rated Loston as the No. 1 safety prospect and the No. 20 overall prospect in the Class of 2009. USA Today named Loston a second team All-American, and he participated in the Under Armour All-American Bowl.

Loston’s outstanding high school career

The LSU soccer team shook off last season’s road woes sooner rather than later.

It still took 108 minutes.

Sophomore midfielder Alex Arlitt buried a 20-yard goal off a rebound in the second overtime, breaking a scoreless tie to push LSU (1-0) past the Oklahoma Sooners (1-1), 1-0, in an exhilarating season opener.

With both teams running on fumes after missing numerous scoring chances and only seven minutes remaining in the match, Arlitt didn’t let her opportunity go to waste.

“The ball was played out wide right, and [freshman midfielder] Fernanda Piña hooked it back across the box,” LSU coach Brian Lee said. “Alex was waiting and she crushed it. The keeper didn’t have much of a chance.”

It was just the third goal of Ariltt’s career after starting all 22 games last fall in the defensive third.

For the Tigers, it was a decidedly different tone to kick off their defense of its 2011 SEC Western Division title.

Memphis hammered LSU 3-0 last season, jumpstarting the Tigers’ woeful 2-4

LOSTON, see page 7

SOCCER OPENER, see page 7

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LSU senior safety Craig Loston stops a run by an Ole Miss player Nov. 20, 2010, during the Tigers’ 43-36 win against the Rebels in Tiger Stadium.

After years of battling injures, the senior safety is poised to start for the Tigers Marcus Rodrigue

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he LSU football team is accustomed to having big-time defensive backs year in and year out.

But this year, the Tigers may receive a significant contribution from a player that has flown under the radar recently.

After spending his first three years as a special teamer and backup, senior safety Craig Loston is finally getting a chance to start and play a serious role.

What separates Loston from the superstars that came before him is his aversion to the public eye. Though he would prefer to do his job quietly, Loston understands that

playing for a school as prestigious as LSU makes dodging attention difficult.

“I’d rather [make plays] outside of the spotlight,” Loston said. “But if it’s a good play, it’s going to come into the light.”

Loston’s quiet mentality can be traced back to his childhood. He grew up in Houston, Texas as one of four children. Loston’s mother, Jackie Robertson, said Loston was “very busy” as a child.

He began playing football at age six, and he was also involved in soccer and basketball.

Though Loston was a multi-sport athlete as a child, he limited himself to track and football at Eisenhower High School.

Loston’s mother soon saw the flashes of potential in her son.

FOOTBALL

Tiger offense returns deep running back corps Four veterans hit the field in 2012

The Tigers return four running backs who scored at least seven touchdowns last season including juniors Spencer Ware, Michael Ford and Alfred Blue Spencer Hutchinson and sophomore Kenny Hilliard.

The Tigers also return sophSports Contributor omore wide receiver and running Editor’s Note: This is the back hybrid Terrance Magee who second part in an eight-part saw limited action for a commitseries previewing each position tee that rushed for almost 3,000 heading into 2012. yards in 2011.

While Coach Les With the addition Position Miles might not have of four-star running any problem decidback Jeremy Hill, the Preview ing whose name will 2012 running back sit atop the quarterbacks corps could be one of the depth chart, he may face a dilem- deepest in LSU history. ma narrowing his abundant list of Miles said his vision for the running backs. group this season is to select two

guys to establish the running game and to save the others for late game situations, rather than naming one do-it-all starter.

If two primary backs are what Miles desires, he won’t have any trouble picking a productive back. Ware, Ford, Blue and Hilliard all averaged at least four yards per carry last season.

With such a crowded backfield and only so many plays in a game, keeping everyone happy might be a struggle, but Miles said the guys have bought into the system.

“When we win, we all win.

And victory is the first goal,” RUNNING BACKS, see page 7

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LSU junior running back Michael Ford outruns an Oregon defender Sept. 3, 2011, during the Tigers’ 40-27 victory against the Ducks.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

VOLLEYBALL

Godfrey released Mannari gains confidence from A2 wins fifth from letter of intent LSU consecutive medal Tigers have nine scholarship players

he was dismissed from Iowa State in 2010 for marijuana possession.

After leaving the Cyclones, Godfrey went on to average 12.6 points and seven rebounds per game Chandler Rome at Howard as he led the Hawks to a 23-8 record, shooting 62 percent Sports Writer from the field.

The first five months of Johnny Sports Information Director Jones’ “dream job” have been any- Kent Lowe said Jones and his staff thing but ideal. are working to fill Godfrey’s roster After the abrupt resignation of spot immediately. his longtime assistant coach Shawn “The coaching staff will be Forrest and the deworking to try to ‘These things parture of veteran find someone to LSU basketball that spot on the happen sometimes in fill players Ralston roster as quickbasketball, ... and our ly as possible if Turner and Justin Hamilton, Jones they can,” Lowe staff will adapt and learned Monday said. “If not, these that Howard Colthings happen move forward.’ lege transfer Calsometimes in basKent Lowe vin Godfrey did ketball, ... and our Sports Information Director not meet academic staff will adapt and requirements and was released move forward.” from his letter of intent.

Godfrey’s dismissal leaves the Godfrey, who transferred with Tigers with only nine scholarship Howard teammate Shavon Cole- players and three returning startman, looked to be a sizable 6-foot- ers from last season’s squad that 8-inch forward who could comple- advanced to the NIT. ment sophomore Johnny O’Bryant III and give the Tigers critical minContact Chandler Rome at utes in the post. crome@lsureveille.com; Instead, he’ll be searching for Twitter: @Rome_TDR his fourth school in three years after

NFL

Saints linebackers could miss opener Team completes trade for Ruud The Associated Press

METAIRIE (AP)- Linebackers Curtis Lofton and David Hawthorne represented two of the Saints’ most important acquisitions in free agency and quickly took over starting roles in their first preseason with New Orleans.

Now both are injured — Lofton with a high ankle sprain and Hawthorne with torn cartilage in his knee — and it is unclear if either will be ready to return when New Orleans opens the regular season Sept. 9 against Washington.

“We certainly think Curtis is going to be ready for the first game.

The diagnosis on David is encouraging,” assistant head coach Joe Vitt said, noting that Hawthorne kept playing in Friday night’s preseason game against Jacksonville even after his injury.

Vitt added that he was happy with the linebackers remaining on the roster, but general manager Mickey Loomis wasn’t about to wait and see if Lofton or Hawthorne would return in time for Week 1.

He traded an undisclosed draft pick Monday night to Seattle for a former nemesis, linebacker

Barrett Ruud.

Ruud, who is entering his eighth season, started 68 games over his first six season for NFC South Division rival Tampa Bay before moving in free agency last season to Tennessee, and then in April to the Seahawks.

Ruud has 642 tackles, 23 passes defended, seven interceptions, six forced fumbles and five fumble recoveries in his career.

“Our pro personnel people do an outstanding job in acquiring talent for us,” Vitt said.

Vitt said Hawthorne was having surgery to repair a meniscus tear on Monday. He declined to say which leg Hawthorne or Lofton hurt.

Contact The Daily Reveille’s sports staff at sports@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @TDR_sports

Alex Cassara Sports Writer

After playing with the best collegiate players in the country this offseason, things could get a little easier for LSU volleyball’s senior libero Meghan Mannari.

Mannari returns to LSU from this offseason’s USA Volleyball A2 Program in Columbus, Ohio, with a silver medal and a boosted confidence in both herself and the team.

“That was a great experience,” Mannari said. “I can’t thank my coaches and my team enough for not only preparing me in the offseason, but they were there in Columbus actually supporting me.”

Collegiate players not asked to join the U.S. National Team after open tryouts are eligible for the A2 program. Mannari was one of 48 elite collegiate players and eight liberos, or defensive specialists, to train and compete together from June 26 to July 4.

Mannari started at libero for the Gold Team, which finished 2-1 in pool play before taking the semi-final match in five sets.

Her team dropped the gold-medal match in three sets by a total of eight points.

The Tigers are certainly familiar with the program — it was the fifth consecutive year LSU has brought back an A2 medal.

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LSU senior defensive specialist Meghan Mannari serves the ball Aug. 18 at the Purple and Gold Scrimmage in the PMAC.

Former Tiger Tonya Johnson, who played for LSU in the late ’80s and is now the head coach at Georgia Tech, coached Mannari.

Johnson said she talked to Mannari about the traditions and history of LSU and was impressed with Mannari’s patience and versatility.

“Most liberos, they’re either solid passers or solid defenders, and I thought she was solid in both,” Johnson said. “It’s rare when you find a libero who can pass well and defend well.”

LSU Coach Fran Flory won a gold medal as head coach in last season’s program and attended it with her assistant coaches this year to watch Mannari compete.

She said she liked what she saw and that the confidence gained during the program is invaluable for young players. “[You’re] playing at that level, with those players in the country that you’ve maybe looked up to forever, and now all of a sudden you’re on the court with them and you’re able to make plays,” Flory said. “You train for 10 days against them or with them, and the experience is second to none for collegiate players in our country. There’s nothing else that can replicate that.”

Flory pointed to former Tiger Brittnee Cooper as an example of how the program can lead to marked improvement. Flory called Cooper’s confidence level “amazing” when she returned from her second A2 experience, after which Cooper won SEC Player of the Year the following season.

“I think Meghan has a chance to be SEC defensive player of the league this year,” Flory said.

“Will that happen? I don’t know, and that’s certainly not the pressure I’m putting on Meghan, but Meghan’s going to play as hard as she can every play for our team.”

Contact Alex Cassara at acassara@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @cassaraTDR

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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

LOSTON, from page 5

RUNNING BACKS, from page 5 Miles said. “I think our running backs understand that.”

Hilliard reiterated his coach’s thoughts, saying the depth and competition in practice is welcomed among the group.

“The running back group is deep, but we really come out and push each other. Whoever is in the game, we push them to do well,” Hilliard said. “The carries are limited, but we are not putting that wear and tear on our bodies.”

Early signs point to Ford and Ware, who each gained more than 700 yards last season, retaining their roles as the primary backs.

The 6-foot, 231-pound Hilliard also looks to return to his primary role as the bruising goalline back. Meanwhile, Hill and Blue could be the “fresh legs” Miles is looking for at the end of games.

Offensive coordinator Greg Studrawa praised the group’s performance in late game situations last season.

“There wasn’t a game [last season] where we weren’t better in the second half because you wear people down,” Studrawa said. “The backs keep coming at you, and you get tired of tackling.”

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LSU junior running back Spencer Ware runs the ball during the Tigers’ 21-0 loss to Alabama on Jan. 9, 2011, in the Allstate BCS National Championship.

Despite the Tigers’ success running between the tackles last season, Studrawa said he wants to mix in more variety this season.

“We were really good at running up the middle, but we want to add some new things like misdirection or go outside,” Studrawa said.

Zach Mettenberger may be garnering attention to a potentially revamped Tiger passing attack, but with proven running backs galore, the rushing attack won’t be ignored.

But OU senior forward Renae Cuellar squandered three non-conference road mark. close-range looks late in the half, Early in the action, OU and LSU swung the tide for the seemed poised to deliver another final 53 minutes. debut beatdown on LSU, as the LSU junior goalkeeper MeSooners tallied gan Kinneman’s six shots and five ‘Her passing was sharp, services were still corner kicks in despite and she was the leader necessary a dominant firstthe Tigers’ imhalf effort. for most of our chances.’ proved second“They were half effort. She just sharper than saved five Sooner Brian Lee us in that initial shots and swatLSU coach 45 [minutes],” ted away two sure Lee said. “You could tell they had goals late in regulation. a game under their belt already.

Pina led the gradual push toIt’s hard to replicate game speed ward Arlitt’s golden goal, tallyin the preseason.” ing three of LSU’s five shots on

goal in the match and setting up the clincher.

“She was probably our best player out there tonight,” Lee said. “Her passing was sharp, and she was the leader for most of our chances.”

With a dramatic 1-0 start under its belt, the Tigers return home for a monthlong, 10-match homestead, beginning with Rice on Friday night.

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had many college football powerhouses seeking his commitment.

Loston originally wanted to attend Texas A&M, but late offers from Clemson and Oregon threw a hitch into his decision.

Loston picked a school based on its competition to determine how good of a football player he really was. He knew he had to test his skills and play against the best.

“I always wanted to play where the toughest football was,” Loston said. “I decided to come to the closest SEC school, which was LSU.” Loston immediately earned a role as a special teamer in his true freshman season, but he injured his wrist after the third game. He was granted a medical redshirt and did not play for the rest of 2009.

He resumed his role as a special teamer in 2010. Loston also earned two starts, including one against Texas A&M in the Cotton Bowl where he recorded five tackles for the Tigers.

But Loston saw more of the same in 2011, as he battled injuries and continued to fight to find his niche on the team.

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injuries and LSU’s depth, Loston slowly worked his way up the depth chart.

And he was just fine with that.

“I knew that [when] coming to LSU, they were also recruiting other big time players,” Loston said. “I [played] special teams, trying to provide for my team.”

LSU Coach Les Miles noticed Loston’s willingness to contribute on special teams and the experience he has gained.

“Loston is a hard-hitting young guy who appears to be taking his experience and playing with it,” Miles said.

LSU Defensive Coordinator John Chavis has also kept a keen eye on Loston’s progression.

“Loston made a big step in practice,” Chavis said. “He was set back a little by injury, but right now he is having a great fall camp.”

Though Loston said injuries have held him back, he understands they are a part of the game and feels that they have only made him stronger.

“I really believe that everything happens for a reason,” Loston said.

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Entertainment

Pie on the Fly

Romanian native finds passion in making specialty pizza Joey Groner

Entertainment Writer

Most people probably don’t think much about pizza. For many, it’s something cheap to eat after a night of drinking or a cost-effective way to feed a group of people.

But for Chef Bogdan Mocanu, pizza is a way of life.

Mocanu owns Dolce Vita, one of the newer additions to the Baton Rouge food truck scene. He operates the eatery entirely by himself, from dough-making to dressing and baking pizzas on a wood-fired oven.

Dolce Vita is the end of a long journey for Mocanu — one that began in his home country of Romania.

After completing school, he started a job that only paid about $500 per month — a wage Mocanu attributes to the country’s political situation.

Following the advice of friends, he worked in a cruise ship’s restaurant. When Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in August 2005, the ship’s crew docked PIZZA, see page 11

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Chef Bogdan Mocanu tosses pizza dough in his food truck, Dolce Vita, on August 14. He’s from Romania.

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Shark Week has 25th premiere Hot dogs, horses, vending machines and Black Friday stampedes cause more deaths per year than sharks do, but those haven’t held the nation’s attention for 25 years.

The Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, a fiveday frenzy of shark-related JOSH NAQUIN time Entertainment Writer prime programming, celebrated its 25th anniversary last week. The annual series also garnered distinction as cable’s longestrunning programming event.

Situated in a month devoid of holidays, Shark Week is August’s best celebratory occasion. The program was especially well-timed this year, as it helped ease the disappointment of the fleeting Olympic games.

Sharks still fascinate audiences after a quarter-century’s study because of their abilities to evoke a range of responses from viewers.

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MUSIC

Curren$y gains popularity, forced to walk to BR show David Jones Entertainment Writer

Editor’s note: This article contains explicit language.

Curren$y’s latest project may have landed him in a major-label studio, but nothing can compromise the rapper’s hazy, homestyle approach to hip-hop music.

Not even the Baton Rouge police.

The New Orleans-based artist was forced to walk to his Friday performance at The Varsity Theatre after the police detained his vehicle and charged him with possession of an illegal substance.

A seemingly unphased Curren$y took the stage later that night and set the crowd ablaze, inciting cheers and a collective “Jet Life” chant from enthralled concert-goers.

Living up to his herb-heavy persona, Curren$y shared an onstage smoke with an eager fan.

The concert’s set list was

comprised of both past hits and new tracks from his first major-label studio album, “The Stoned Immaculate,” which was released in early June.

Even with seven albums, 18 mixtapes and a brief stint as a member of the 504 Boyz and Young Money Entertainment, Curren$y said he regards his latest work as his first “real” album. He said most of his other projects were made in his own home.

The change in venue didn’t have much of an effect on his writing process, he said, since his lyrical spontaneity remained. “[I wrote] the same way I do [for] mixtapes and shit. ... I just wrote all that shit on the spot,” he said.

Curren$y said his inspiration behind the album was the famed musician Jim Morrison and his life as it was depicted in the 1991 film “The Doors.” The iconic frontman, who is suspected to have died of a heroin overdose, was known for his abilities as a lyricist and spontaneous poetry

sessions during live shows.

Although Morrison may have served as Curren$y’s personal muse, he said his fans should find their own meaning in his music. Just as a work of art, he said music should be left up to individual interpretation.

“Music is an art,” he said. “It’s really whatever [fans] want.”

Surprisingly, Curren$y said he’s not a fan of his own music — mainly because he doesn’t listen to it.

However, he said he is an avid hip-hop fan, listing Pharrell, Snoop Dogg, Biggie, Jay-Z, Slick Rick and Soulja Slim among his favorite rappers.

But music is only one passion of the burgeoning mogul.

Curren$y teamed up with skateboarder Terry Kennedy to create the clothing company Fly Society around 2007, but after personal and legal disputes, both parties decided to cut ties.

In 2011, Curren$y signed with Warner Bros. Records and started his own imprint, Jet Life Recordings,

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New Orleans-based rapper Curren$y performs at the Varsity Theatre on Friday.

which is comprised mostly of his friends in the rap industry.

“It’s hard to make friends in the game anyway,” he said. “Everybody who I ended up genuinely being cool with, we all hustlin’ together.”

Despite a run-in with Baton Rouge police this weekend, Curren$y said he will continue to hustle. The first thing on his agenda

Friday was to find a way to New Orleans, and the second was to fly to Los Angeles and perform at the 2012 Rock The Bells Festival series.

In the near future, Curren$y said he plans to work on new projects “with a few of the homies.”

Contact David Jones at djones@lsureveille.com

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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Party like it’s still summer with back-to-school events

Taylor Schoen Entertainment Writer

With the start of a new semester, students are pouring back onto campus still in a summer haze.

Those who want to continue partying as if classes don’t exist may be in luck, as several venues will host back-to-school events.

Spanish Moon was the first bar to welcome students back with a bang, hosting the third annual Naughty School Girl Party and costume contest Monday night.

Some of the event’s specials included a free cover, $1 “Principal’s Office shots” and awarding a winner of the costume contest a $30 bar tab.

Justin Bourgeois, general manager of Spanish Moon, said that this back-to-school tradition is a rehash of old-school theme nights that were popular at the Moon in the ‘80s.

“Our intentions are to have a more classic school girl, as opposed to wearing a bikini top and some fishnets,” Bourgeois said. “We prefer more tongue-in-cheek and a little less trashy.”

He said the past two winners of the school girl costume contest were not, in fact, girls. Bourgeois hoped

that a female would walk away with the coveted bar tab this year.

He said he thinks syllabus week is prime time for bars to host events.

“The beginning of the semester is the best time to throw an event because everybody’s back,” Bourgeois said. “Whether they’re happy to be back, or mad that they’re back, or discovered they’ve taken on too much and are stressed.”

Splash Nightclub is also in the spirit of back-to-school specials with its annual Back 2 School Foam Party, which will be on Saturday, Aug. 25.

Quentin Little, bar manager, said cover is $10 for “a night of bubbly fun.” Doors open at 9 p.m.

Little said that this year is set to be bigger than ever, with up to four foam machines ready to amp up the good times.

DJ Jayskee will also be bumping out beats to help students get down for the evening, Little said.

“We host a back-to-school party for everyone to have a huge event and to be united with their friends again,” Little said. “It’s like a kickoff of the school year, something special for a welcome back.”

Students looking to stay dry on Saturday can head over to Fred’s

Bar or Reggie’s Bar for Roux Loux, an outdoor music festival.

Encore Entertainment is helping to put on the fête, and partners of the New Orleans-based promotions company wanted to give students a weekend of fun while waiting for football season to begin.

Matthew Chatelain, Jonathan Brisbi, Nick Puipuro and Ryan Roach are four childhood friends who decided to bring their party to the Red Stick.

“We wanted to bring something to Baton Rouge, specifically Tigerland, because it’s an on-tap resource, and it’s never been done before,” Brisbi said. “The students haven’t had a chance to experience something like this.”

The partners said they strived to rake in mainstream names for Roux Loux.

The lineup will consist of a blend of genres, including hip-hop and rock, but with an emphasis on electronic music.

Luke St. John, Force Feed Radio, Super Mash Bros, Cobra Starship and Krewella will take the stage equipped with LED screens for light shows.

Chatelain said lesser-known DJs will be playing in the bars

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during the breaks between sets to help attendees keep cool.

Puipuro said he hopes to make the event a Tiger tradition for years to come.

“We’re hoping that it becomes a thing for freshmen to do at LSU and that it becomes an annual syllabus week staple,” Puipuro said.

Roux Loux’s gates will open at

3 p.m., and the shindig lasts until a little after midnight. Online tickets are $20 with an LSU or Greek Life promotional code, $25 at the door.

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Summer 2012 was a lucrative time for film studios. Almost every major studio had a huge hit, leading to box office receipts that dwarf previous year’s results.

The Daily Reveille’s entertainment staff broke down the summer movies down by genre to let you know what was great, what was awful and what you can wait to rent.

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Tuesday, August 21, 2012 SHARK, from page 9

How can these animals simultaneously channel notions of fear, beauty, mystery and power?

One of this year’s shows, “How ‘Jaws’ Changed the World,” explains how sharks captured a generation’s attention. Steven Spielberg debuted his blockbuster, “Jaws,” in 1975. His tale of a rogue great white shark hunting human prey off the Atlantic Coast was a runaway hit.

“Jaws” is beloved for its nowhackneyed chase scene anthem and surprisingly realistic carnage. I’ve never felt more vulnerable than when I watched the film’s seemingly defenseless human swimmers get gobbled up.

The film not only inspired terror, but also scientific intrigue, which was parlayed into perilous

PIZZA, from page 9 in Port Allen to assist in hurricane relief.

The next day, Mocanu met the woman who would become his wife aboard the ship, which housed hurricane refugees.

“I was the maître d’ at the restaurant onboard, and of course we had rules we had to follow to act professional,” Mocanu said. “But when I saw my wife, I was like, ‘Screw the rules.’”

Mocanu was fired after his employer discovered he was dating a guest. He then made his way to New York City, where his uncle was living at the time.

He worked in Little Italy at an Italian restaurant called Florio’s.

Mocanu said his cooking skills improved immensely during that time.

“New York and Little Italy are amazing,” Mocanu said. “I learned so much from that job; it helped me out a bunch.”

Mocanu then moved back to Louisiana and married his wife, but he was sent back to Romania for a year to complete his immigration process.

In 2009, he returned to Louisiana and enrolled in the Louisiana Culinary Institute in Baton Rouge.

“I had done a lot of cooking at places like the cruise ship and a couple of restaurants, but I wasn’t professionally trained,” Mocanu said. “After being trained there, I wanted to work for the best.”

Mocanu was hired at Nottoway Plantation before he left for a job at Domenica, a John Besh restaurant in New Orleans. He said this experience was more beneficial than almost anything else.

“It was there that I learned the technique of wood-firing a pizza,” Mocanu said. “They taught me a lot of other stuff too, like putting the cheese on a pizza before the sauce and just drizzling the sauce over the toppings to complement the rest of the pizza.”

Following his eight-month stint at Domenica, Mocanu moved back to Baton Rouge and worked for the Hilton Hotel downtown. He was then the executive sous chef at the University dining hall, The 5.

But Mocanu soon found himself itching for something else.

“The LSU job was great — they paid me well, and I really enjoyed the job,” Mocanu said. “But I really wanted to work not for an institution, but for myself.”

research and eventually the whale of a series that is Shark Week. Documentaries have since debunked “Jaws” themes such as sharks’ reputed dietary preference for human flesh and interest in the apex predators persists.

With many areas of research for contemporary sharks exhausted over the years, “Sharkzilla” took viewers back to the age of giant prehistoric sharks called megalodons. The “Mythbusters” team built Sharkzilla, a fearsome replica of the shark’s Jurassic predecessor, to test various bone-crunching hypotheses.

Shark Week also branched out to include more social media involvement this year. Twitter and Facebook fans voted nightly in the Shark Week Chompdown to have their say into which object Despite the advice from his friends who said his idea for a pizza food truck wouldn’t work, he had a truck built from the bottom up, customizing it with everything he would need to make wood-fired pizzas.

“I’m really proud of this truck because when I bought it, it was just a flatbed trailer,” Mocanu said.

“The coolest thing is the stone from my oven — it comes straight from Napoli in Italy because that was the stone from which I had the best pizza I’ve ever tasted.”

Mocanu opened Dolce Vita early in 2012 and was soon brought into the circle of Baton Rouge food trucks by the owners of Curbside, the burger food truck.

“The guys from Curbside were great. They tried my food without telling me who they were because they wanted to see if it was good enough for them,” Mocanu said.

“After they tried it, they invited me to join them at the round-ups on Wednesday, which was a huge boost for my business.

But Mocanu can typically be found downtown at the corner of Fourth and North streets. His day begins early there, with his business opening at 10:30 a.m., but he must arrive at 6 a.m. to begin preparing the food.

Mocanu prides himself on his own creations. He serves the classic pepperoni and cheese pizzas, but he largely prefers his specials, such as the roasted duck with tangerines and a Jim Beam honey glaze.

“I make my specials simply based off of what I want to eat or just whatever pops in my head,” Mocanu said. “I’ll just take a bunch of great ingredients and throw them on a pizza to see how it tastes. If it’s good, then I’ll make that a special.”

While many restaurant owners focus on how to expand their business for more profits, Mocanu said that for now, he’s content with things staying the way they are.

“Right now, I’m making enough money to support my wife and our 17-month-old, which is enough for me,” Mocanu said. “My business has been growing steadily, and there’s nothing I would change.

I’m perfectly happy with the way things are.”

Contact Joey Groner at jgroner@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @TDR_entertain

The Daily Reveille Sharkzilla would sink his seveninch steel teeth.

A foosball table was the best item to hit the chomping block.

Sharkzilla snapped through the table as effortlessly as a person biting a tortilla chip.

While Shark Week programmers exercised their imaginations in recreating an extinct species, no imagination was needed to view the crisp details of a Shark Week staple — gore.

The carnage was best exemplified with shark encounter reenactments and tales of survivors.

“Adrift: 47 Days With Sharks” told the tale of two war veterans who crash into a shark-infested portion of the Pacific during WWII. The two survive attacks from sharks and Japanese fighter pilots while staving off thirst and hunger

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With decades of programming, Shark Week has built a solid fan base. Many twenty-somethings like myself grew up with the shark programming and have a loyal dedication to the series. Shark Week’s imaginative fans and indoctrination into pop culture have yielded a drinking game, a seemingly inevitable development.

Similarities in TV specials over the years have lent themselves to game rules like “every time a person is declared a ‘shark expert,’ drink.”

Cheers to Shark Week — the booziest, bloodiest good time on television.

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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Reveille multimedia outlets strive for visibility, changes REVEILLE CONVERGENCE OLIVIA GORDON Radio Director As The Daily Reveille’s new Radio Director, I came into my new position well aware of the section’s legacy of anonymity.

Reveille Radio only started in the past decade, making it a relatively young branch of the more than 100-year-old Reveille. It may be because of this that we have not developed quite as many devoted followers as our print counterpart.

But thanks to the numerous exciting improvements being made here, I can happily remind you that the Reveille is more than words in print — we’re online, we’re on the radio, in your hands, eyes and ears.

In addition to our five daily broadcasts on KLSU, we have provided in-depth, long-format stories to provide more angles and voices to accentuate what is published in the newspaper. The radio format also allows the opportunity to broadcast consistently updated information to breaking news stories.

During Hurricane Gustav, for example, Radio Reporters announced frequent updates on school closures and city evacuations.

But the radio section is not the only broadcast opportunity at the Reveille.

The videographers of the Reveille Multimedia team capture striking moments on camera to add an extra element to visually appealing stories.

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This semester the newspaper is also teaming up with the other outlets of student media to bring a more comprehensive multimedia approach to the upcoming website renovation.

Tiger TV, KLSU and The Daily Reveille will all share their

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Curious about our sources?

You’ll be able to follow links embedded in our online stories. Puzzled about our figures? We’ll supply interactive graphics to better explain the data.

With this collaboration, the best of the best from every outlet

will be featured prominently on the Reveille website. The most beautiful photo galleries, informative articles and engaging videos will all be offered in one place. Music, sports and news will continue to stream live from KLSU on the new website.

My six semesters of experience with Radio — the socalled red headed stepchildren of the Reveille — allows for great

collaborations between The Daily Reveille and KLSU. I’m looking forward to developing more partnerships, crafting more material and providing more interactive platforms for our audiences.

“Gee where was this attitude of being in control of the team last season when the team was out after curfew and then they got in trouble? LSU football is a joke.”

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“LSU’s football team is still number 1 regardless of Mathieu’s foolishness. We’re bringing back another trophy this year for sure!”

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obviously feel that this limits you for producing a juicy story. Get over it and try and respect someone’s privacy as they attempt to deal with their problems.”

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get the linebackers on their heels for the best RB tandem in football to make large gains. If Mett does not panic and does not release the ball before the receivers are ready, or throw into double and triple coverage, he will be fine. The best thing he can do is to not lose the game, but keep a steady hand and allow the passing to roughly equal the rushing so defenses cannot key just on the rushing. My family and I are looking forward to a good and very entertaining season.”

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Check out what other readers had to say in our comment section: In response to the sports story “Heisman finalist Tyrann Mathieu kicked off LSU football team,” readers had this to say: “What a shame, he is a great player.

I’m glad to see, though, that LSU is making good on the claim that the team is more important than the player.”

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“I am a Buckeye fan and have never been a fan of Miles, who is a Michigan player and coach. Despised him at times. After the way Miles handled this incident, I admire him. I wish all coaches were this way and did not try to cover up a player’s behavior and then lie about it. I think the team will cement better now and will perform better as well. This serves notice to all players not to mess around and be serious.”

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In response to the editorial “LSU Athletics Department lacks transparency,” readers had this to say: “Forget Tyrann Mathieu. Try to pry any kind of financial information out of the athletic department and you won’t even get a lame excuse.”

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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

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Muslim hatred on the rise as economy begins to tank BLUE-EYED DEVIL NICHOLAS PIERCE Columnist Two weeks ago, Wade Michael Page walked into the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., armed with a bicep full of racist tattoos and a Springfield 9mm semiautomatic handgun.

Page proceeded to shoot down six Sikh worshipers in cold blood before putting a bullet in his own head.

Whether Page chose his victims based on their traditional turbans or because they were several shades darker than his self-professed Aryan ideal is unclear and frankly immaterial.

What couldn’t be more apparent is that this was an act of pure, unadulterated hate.

Prejudice is once again on the rise in America, and a recent Applied Research Center study shows that hatred may have more to do with economics than ideology.

According to the Los Angeles Times, religiously motivated

hate crimes have surged back to an all-time high after reaching a post September 11 low.

This is evidenced by a dramatic spike in attacks against Muslim-Americans during this past month’s Ramadan celebrations.

In the last 30 days, seven mosques across the U.S. were targeted by vandalism, shooting and one successful act of arson which reduced a Joplin, Mo., mosque to nothing but cinders and ash.

As we enter an 11th consecutive year of war abroad, our economy continues its slow grind sideways. The largest drought since the Dust Bowl has lain waste to the American Midwest, Europe is collapsing and the list goes dismally on.

But this spate of violence and terror hasn’t been brought about by genuine anger.

It’s a much more insidious emotion that has settled into our collective psyche: fear.

And while it may be difficult to solve the problems we face, it is much easier to produce an ephemeral enemy — an enemy

who looks differently and speaks differently and who stands out from the majority — and direct that fear toward them.

In Medieval Europe, when famine and plague would wipe out a kingdom’s crop, political and religious leaders would lay the blame on local Jews for poisoning the water.

And while these lies didn’t resurrect the wheat, they did unleash pogroms that killed thousands of European Jews centuries before the holocaust.

The same sort of actions were perpetrated against Christians in Muslim lands, and acts of violence against our African-American countrymen reached epidemic proportions during the Great Depression.

That is why within days of Congressman Joe Walsh’s (RIll) recent anti-Muslim tirade at a Chicago town hall meeting, two mosques in his district were targeted—one by a homemade acid bomb.

“There is a radical strain of Islam in this country…trying to kill Americans every week. ... It is a

threat that is much more at home now than it was after September 11,” Walsh told his constituents.

Despite the fact that not a single American civilian has been killed by Islamic extremists on U.S. soil since September 11, this false narrative is being pushed into the media stratosphere.

Right-wing Political Action Committees have sent out antiMuslim propaganda to more than 28 million American homes, and bus ads in San Francisco have declared calling Muslims “uncivilized” and “savages.”

It is easier to hate something with a face — insidious foreign interlopers are far more palatable, far less scary — than our actual problems.

It’s easier to throw a Molotov cocktail at the house of an innocent Muslim family in Tampa, Fla., (Aug. 15, as reported by the Sacramento Bee) than it is to grapple with a failing economy and rapid social change.

Why? Because those things can’t be dealt with on an individual level. There isn’t anything we can do to bring all those dead

crops back. There isn’t anything we can individually do to create more jobs.

There are a slew of statistics to support the correlation between hate crimes and tough times, but the circumstances of the Sikh shooter are telling in and of themselves.

Page was unemployed, uneducated and the frontman of a white supremacist rock band nobody cared about or listened to.

Page, like many Americans, needed a solution but was given someone to blame.

So he found an enemy — a group of people he never met and knew nothing about — and he massacred those people because that was easier than facing his real problems.

Nicholas Pierce is a 22-year-old history senior from Baton Rouge.

Contact Nicholas Pierce at npierce@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @TDR_nabdulpierc

Pope OKs condoms, why do Catholics agree?

SCUM OF THE GIRTH PARKER CRAMER Chief Columnist No glove, no love — from God. In a recently published interview with Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican leader announced the Church’s new stance on condom use: it’s all good in the hood.

Yes, faithful Catholics, sheath your members with pride. It’s time to pop bottles and order Trojans by the truckload.

The asterisk in the “condoms okay” memo states that disease prevention, specifically regarding the HIV virus, is the only moral justification for wearing a condom.

The Pope described this measure as a “first step in a movement toward a different way, a more human way, of living sexuality.”

The Vatican’s new stance on prophylactics has been applauded by the Untied Nations AIDS program, although just last year on a visit to Cameroon, the Pope said condoms could help bolster the AIDS virus.

Condom use merely as contraception is still not condoned.

Sorry, AIDS-free Catholics.

It seems the Church is remaining stubborn when it comes to condom use as a means of preventing pregnancy, but this is still an unprecedented change of position — like going from missionary straight into a hard core, dominatrix session.

What the Church fails to

acknowledge is that every time people have unprotected sex, there is a risk of spreading or contracting disease or infection.

Even married people cheat.

Massage parlors are visited and a burning sensation shortly follows.

Only among strictly monogamous, disease-free couples is there no risk — so probably less than 1 percent of all the world’s sex.

If condoms are only OK to prevent disease and every sexual partner is a potential gonorrhea playground, then it follows logically that condom use is always OK. I only have one problem with this whole situation, and it’s not with the Pope. The Vatican is making baby steps towards progress—what’s not to like?

My problem is with the Catholics who are ready to alter their religious beliefs so radically.

I have heard Catholics condemning all forms of contraception thousands of times, especially and including condoms.

Condoms were sinful, and the people who believed it did so fervently. Now, those beliefs may have taken a 180, just because one man said so.

He’s the leader of the Church, but he’s still a man. He’s not God. Just a super-fly dude in red leather loafers.

Religious beliefs should be formed on an individual, personal basis — not because some homie in Rome says so.

I want Catholics to change their minds, I want them to realize condom use is necessary and healthy, especially as a

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family planning resource for married couples.

However, this will be at the price of making their previous beliefs seem paper thin.

Sex should be enjoyed, especially by married couples who have made a promise to one another not to have sex with anyone else.

Thus, every romp around the bedroom doesn’t need to be followed by a child.

Despite what the Church tells

you, natural family planning is not a form of birth control. It is the absence of birth control.

Having to plan sex with your wife around her ovulation period tends to take away from the romance.

That’s annoying. And will lead to a staggering increase in masturbation among devout Catholic men.

What’s wrong with choosing when to have children? Families will be better prepared, both

mentally and financially.

And Moses said, “Let my people decrease sensitivity.”

Parker Cramer is a 21-yearold political science senior from Houston.

Contact Parker Cramer at pcramer@lsureveille.com; Twitter: @TDR_pcramer

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